11-15-24 FULL SHOW - Managing Holiday Stress, Plus Ask Me Anything

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 5 (00:26):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Friday edition of the show.
All together. Now, that's right. We will take you right
up until three. I hadn't introduced you yet. I am
Mandy Connell. I'll be here until three o'clock, will be
I haven't gotten to you yet. I'll take you right

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up to three, not stop, right up until three o'clock
when we turn the station over to KAA Sports, joined
of course by my trigger finger producer Anthony Rodriguez, you
can call him a ron. We also have Zach in
the house today. Is it public that Zach's here?

Speaker 6 (01:06):
Ok?

Speaker 5 (01:07):
There we go. That's that's Zach's that's Zach's airhorn. That's
it because he's training.

Speaker 7 (01:13):
There you go, that's good.

Speaker 5 (01:15):
I'll just say, give me the Zach airhorn from now on.
And what will I get? Oh gosh, I love those
are never gonna get old, and and I love all
of you who made those, the three people that sit
them in But they're all they're all wonderful, and I'm
super excited about that. We have so much stuff on
the blog today and it's Friday. You know, have you

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ever had one of those weeks? You guys that when
you get to Friday, you just think to yourself as
you're getting ready for work, TG I F and you're
just so grateful. I am having one of those Fridays.
Today is one of those Fridays. This has just been
a whole bunch of stuff happened off the air that
really is not important to you. Just a lot. There's
just been a lot, and I'm just so happy Friday.

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So we're gonna have fun today because I'm just I'm
feeling lighter since the election. And here's the thing, regardless
of who had won, I would have felt lighter after
the election because it was over. But I feel lighter
because I'm starting to feel like things are going to
be okay. You know, things are going to be all right.

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I cannot tell you how excited I am about the
potential of the Department of Government Efficiency, because if anyone
can make that work, it is Elon Musk. And let
me tell you this right now, if Elon Musk can
pull this off and can ratchet back government spending, because
here's what has happened historically in the modern era. When

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the government really contracted government spending, the economy booms because
the government, which creates nothing, right, they don't create anything
to add to the economy. That is not the role
of government. If they are creating something to add to
the economy, they're doing it wrong. Private industry, but government,
the more they are, the more the more of those

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dollars they suck up. That's money that could be being
invested in the private economy to hire people, create you know, products,
create new marketplaces. I mean, there's so much that it
can be done in the private sector by design that
should never be done by government. So if they can
pull that off, I'm not hopeful. This has so little
to do with Donald Trump other than he is delivering.

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Now I take that back, I guess it does have
everything to do with Donald Trump. I'm still not convinced
it's all going to happen. I remain skeptical that they're
all going to be able to pull this off. But
if we can ratchet back government spending, if we can
get it back under control, if we can just get
to a balanced budget, right, that would inject all of

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that money back into the economy, a couple of trillion
dollars to juice the economy, you know, I mean that's
really significant. If we can do that, then we can
begin to check away at the debt. I know it
sounds crazy and people think I over emphasize this, but
I am significantly worried about our debt right now, and

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I can't believe that everybody else isn't. And it's just
because I don't think anybody else really realizes what that
looks like. When we get to a point where we
cannot pay our bills, no one wants to buy our debt,
and we start just printing money to get out of it,
and the rest of us are left in a hyperinflation situation.
There's only a few ways this can end. So I'm
starting to feel lighter. I'm happier because I feel like

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there are people that are at least going to be
thrust into the public eye to make the argument that
this must happen. And that's gonna be key. The people
are gonna have to understand there's gonna be short term pain,
but it's for long term gain. You just have to
keep your eye on the price. You just have to. Anyway,
I didn't mean to go off on that tangent. I
meant to do the blog. Find the blog by going

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to mandy'sblog dot com. That's Mandy's blog dot com. Look
for the latest post section, and then look for the
headline that says eleven fifteen twenty four blog Managing Holiday
Stress plus ask Me Anything. Click on that and here
are the headlines you will find within. I think it's listening.

Speaker 8 (05:11):
Off with half of American all with ships and equipment
of Savona Press.

Speaker 5 (05:13):
Plans today on the blog the holidays can be stressful.
It'sn't asked me anything sort of day. Why are Republicans
looking backwards in Colorado? This as Democrats have lost their
supermajority in the House. Will the Supreme Court agree to
force medication? Has the left learned its lesson on woke?
The Onion buys info Wars the best places to celebrate

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this holiday season. You can't sue Lime if you get
clocked by one of their scooters. Chris Bryant's Lambeau busted
a car theft ring. Maybe there is hope for scientific
American scrolling. Iranian lies led to devastating attacks. Credit cardette
hits record highs Angry left wing women are thinking of
killing their husbands. Now, hey, crazy ladies, this is what

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real oppression looks like. Cannabis use cause birth defects and cancer.
When the flight is ninety nine percent full, the new
James Bond will be mail and in his thirties? What
be he said? She was oppressed by a bakery. The
Sacramento King's mascot needs a word. I've got your full
list of Christmas movies for you. Maybe the Rays can
fill this stadium, some super crazy ripe flags in people's

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homes and listen to me on my brother's podcast this weekend.
Those are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com.
And uh I am just going to start by reading
a text from the Common Spirit Health text line and
it says, Mandy, the podcast with your brother was great.
Thanks Rocky Mountain Bronx Bill from Pinecliffe and Rocky Mountain

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Bronx Bill from Pinecliffe. You are a listener of the
week because I asked you to do me a solid
and just go and listen to my brother's podcast or
watch it on YouTube, just so I will be the
highest listen to podcast that he's ever had. Now, you
have to understand, he's had some real heavy hitters on
his show with massive social media followings. So I am

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going to need every single part. I hardly ask you
guys for anything, ay, Rod, do I ask the audience
to do anything? Really, don't shut up. You are not helping.

Speaker 7 (07:14):
I'm sorry. What's the first thing in your first segment
every show?

Speaker 5 (07:18):
The blog?

Speaker 7 (07:19):
And what do you ask people to do?

Speaker 5 (07:22):
Go read the blog?

Speaker 7 (07:22):
That sounds like you're asking something to do.

Speaker 5 (07:24):
Okay, you know what, You're just You're now, You're just now,
you're just pursing hairs right now, You're just you're being picky.

Speaker 7 (07:29):
The words you're looking for are telling the truth.

Speaker 5 (07:32):
Okay. So second, okay, I hardly ever ask you. Okay,
daily I ask you. But this is a new ask,
and I hardly ever make a new ask. I make
that same ask every day. Point taken. But today I'm
asking you to go listen to this podcast. And first
of all, it's very entertaining. I haven't listened to the
whole thing yet. I haven't had time to.

Speaker 7 (07:49):
Actually, uh, I've jumped around it entertaining.

Speaker 6 (07:52):
Now you did, it.

Speaker 7 (07:53):
Is yes, well excellent, highly encouraged man.

Speaker 5 (07:56):
Yes, all the way down to the bottom.

Speaker 9 (07:58):
You can listen to my brother on the headline, and
then you will find that very great podcast exactly.

Speaker 5 (08:04):
Just a link to it on Spotify or Apple, just
you know, giving you some also on the blog today,
everybody can just say, wow, Amanda, you're amazing. Thank you
for posting this. I stole it from someone else. But
it is the Christmas movie streaming chet Sheet, Prime Video,
Disney Plus, Hulu and Netflix all of the Christmas movies

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that they are airing that they that you can watch
any time. And I'm just gonna give Hulu the crown
right now. Hulu has all of the good movies, I
mean all of them. Listen to this lineup on Hulu.
And this is not a commercial for Hulu. It should be,
but it's not. This is the lineup of Christmas movies
on Hulu. A Christmas Carol, of course, a classic, A
Cinderella Christmas, eh, a Country Christmas Story, Don't.

Speaker 7 (08:46):
Care, Tenderella Christmas. What the hell is that?

Speaker 5 (08:48):
Oh, there's so many dumb Christmas movies, so many furry
little Christmas. Let's see the Nutcracker in the four Realms.
Oh that's a ballant is this.

Speaker 9 (08:56):
The worst Christmas movie list ever? Because I think you
found the wrong article.

Speaker 5 (09:01):
Wait wait, we're getting there. Then we get to elf
Red Clause Home Alone, Threeck Crost on thirty fourth Street,
Christmas Vacation, Polar Express and uh and that's like the
best list so far.

Speaker 9 (09:15):
Oh, I mean there's my first some some of the
goats on there, but but weighed down by what the hell.

Speaker 7 (09:21):
Was half of that list?

Speaker 5 (09:23):
The Armies free three? Ask me Prime video? Do you
want to hear? Let's hear's Prime Videos? Crappy list right,
twelve Days of Christmas? They have a Christmas story?

Speaker 7 (09:37):
Where's the year without a Santa Claus?

Speaker 5 (09:39):
Uh didn't make the cut.

Speaker 7 (09:40):
Yeah, well this list sucks.

Speaker 5 (09:42):
Well those maybe still have deals with the networks, don't
They still show those I don't know and the networks
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
This is trash, just.

Speaker 9 (09:50):
Like every list that tries to get people to do
exactly what we're doing right now, we'll just talk about it.

Speaker 5 (09:55):
Well, if you like Christmas movies, they're all on this
one dot com. Christmas it's not the Christmas trash is
an oxymoron. Christmas trash is wrapping paper left over on
Christmas Day. That's Christmas trash. And if you were my grandmother,
it was not trash, and I would wrap up and
throw it in the real trash. No, stop it. If
you have more than one streaming service, which I happen

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to have. Now, all of.

Speaker 7 (10:18):
These name the name the services again.

Speaker 5 (10:21):
Let's see Prime, Dockey Plus and Netflix, got it?

Speaker 7 (10:24):
Got it?

Speaker 9 (10:25):
And Max and Paramount Plus and yeah, all of them, yeah,
all of them.

Speaker 5 (10:33):
I do not see emmett Otter in the Jug Band Christmas.
You've never seen emmitt Otter and the Jug Band Christmas?

Speaker 7 (10:40):
Ever heard of it?

Speaker 8 (10:41):
Wow?

Speaker 5 (10:42):
That is uh, that's kind of surprising.

Speaker 7 (10:46):
Up the Christmas movie.

Speaker 5 (10:47):
Slive that and you're gonna see him and you'll go, oh,
emmett Otters Jug Band Christmas. So I did share the
links to my brother's podcast.

Speaker 7 (10:58):
It's also on YouTube, Escape being the Drift.

Speaker 5 (11:02):
You've never seen it?

Speaker 6 (11:03):
Then a night?

Speaker 5 (11:05):
Oh no, it's not. They're really cute, very cute.

Speaker 7 (11:09):
They're fine, thank you.

Speaker 9 (11:10):
Rather watch the Muppets And that's telling you something because
I don't like the Muppets.

Speaker 7 (11:16):
Oh wait, look they've done stuff with the Muppets.

Speaker 5 (11:19):
What yeah, what do you mean they've done.

Speaker 9 (11:21):
So there's a there's a movie and it honors jug
Bam Christmas and it has Kermit on there too.

Speaker 5 (11:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (11:28):
Oh so they are muppets.

Speaker 5 (11:29):
Yes, they are muppets.

Speaker 7 (11:30):
Oh then then it's yeah yeah, mm.

Speaker 5 (11:36):
Hmm, Mandy. The one thing I'm not gonna miss is
Biden's press secretary. I'm hoping Trump's press secretary will be better. Plus,
I hope Trump will make more press make more press conferences.
You guys. Trump spoke to the media all the time
during his presidency. I mean all the time. He would
just wander into the press room and start talking. So yeah,
I guess so, Mandy, I will go to your blog

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and listen to your brother's podcast, so I don't make
an ask of myself. Thank you, Sean, you too are
listener of the Week.

Speaker 9 (12:03):
Did you see the name that people want some people
want to be press secretary? Who no absolute, no substance
to this or to eight traction that I'm aware of,
But the name that I've seen people float around carry Lake.

Speaker 5 (12:18):
Now, she has a television background. Did you know that
as she came from TV news. No, it's not the
worst choice. Now, would I want her out in front
of my messaging. No, because she's I don't know she
well maybe I don't know. I don't know. She certainly
looks the part, and she certainly has the like stones
the size of cantalope. To pull that off, you've got

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to be tough to be in that job, and she
is tough. I mean, I may think she's delusional and
kind of crazy, but she is tough. So yeah, Ernest
Saves Christmas. Not on the list either, die.

Speaker 7 (12:52):
Hard Knock on the list.

Speaker 5 (12:54):
Hey guys, I'm just to pass through. Okay, I'm just
to pass through. I told you I stole it from
somebody else. I didn't even make the list myself. So
you can talk you with somebody else, argue with someone else.
It doesn't ask me anything. Kind of day today because frankly,
I do have a ton of stuff on the blog,
and I have a really good column by Jimmy Segeberger,

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who's going to come on at two thirty to talk
about it. We also have doctor Helen mckibbon coming on.
Her new book, Drop Making Great Decisions is full of
strategies based on neuroscience to help you get through the
holidays without being buried by the stress of it all.
And I have all kinds of other stuff on the
blog that I find kind of interesting, not all of it.

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It probably interesting to you, but maybe not, maybe not.
So let me do this. You can ask me anything
by texting five sixty six nine zero that's five sixty
six nine oer. And you can ask any question you
want about the election, about I don't know, cooking, you
can ask. You can ask me parenting advice, although you

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do so at your own.

Speaker 9 (14:00):
Peril, And no, the answer is no relation. Sorry, I
thought I was on the text line is Diehard Chrismas movie?

Speaker 2 (14:05):
Again? Sorry?

Speaker 5 (14:06):
Bet No, we were not doing that today, not on
this watch, not today, Satan, not on this show. Anyway.
I do have some stories on the blog that I
want to get to. My favorite story of twenty twenty
four occurred yesterday, Anthony yesterday yesterday Alex Jones of Info Wars,

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And you have to understand, if you're a fan of
Alex Jones, you need to reassess this. The man is
a complete liar, and he is a huckster. That what
a perfect word for him. He's a huckster, He's he's
not a good person. He deserved to get that billion
dollar judgment by the Sandy Hook families. He deserves everything

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that he got. And I'm going to say this because
I find him to be a stain on my profession.
I hate Alex Jones because he is doing the same
job I am, but he has casting dispersions on me
through his very egregious, horrible actions. That being said, imagine
my delight when I saw a video of him on

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x yesterday yelling and angry because as part of his
judgment where he has an over billion dollar judgment against him,
he has to liquidate his assets, including his network, Info
Wars and guests who bought it, The Onion. The Onion,

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the satirical newspaper whatever hasn't been funny in years, but
this is the ultimate troll. Now, imagine my unhappiness this
morning when I see that the current deal where the
Onion bought Info Wars has been paused because there are
questions about how the auction for this took place, and

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the the Onions says that they want it fair and square,
but they're going to have to sort this out. But
this is the greatest troll in the history of trolls.
It truly is, and I love it so much. God,
I love it. I love stuff like this because it's
so passive, aggressive and amazing, just amazing, and couldn't happened

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to a nicer guy. Really, I cannot stand the guy.
I think again. He makes the rest of us that
are behind the microphone look bad and it really makes
me mad. Mandy, Lol. Wait, Carrie Lake is delusional and
Trump isn't Trump, you remember, has now admitted that he
didn't win the election. But does it matter? No, it doesn't. No,

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I was speaking of Carrie Lake this time, this go
around where she's last I checked, and I don't know.
Let me see Arizona Senate. Last I checked, she was
losing at a pretty good amount to Ruben Diego. They've
called the race for Ruben Diego, and let me see here.

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He won by fifty point one percent to forty seven
point seven percent, so he won by a pretty good margin.
And she is now saying that this election was stolen.
So it's like, you know, I actually think this election,
the twenty twenty four election was the most watched election

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in my lifetime in the sense that there were pole
watchers of both parties at all poll locations. I mean,
usually we have some kind of news story saying, hey,
we need poll watchers because no one volunteers. I have
friends who were pole watchers this year. My son was
a pole watcher this year. I feel like this was
the most watched election in the modern era. And if

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someone did cheat, they're gonna have to be damn good
at it because there was a lot of eyeballs on
this process and all those people volunteered to do that.
By the way, thank you to all of you who
volunteered to go and be a poll watchers. It's an
important job and I'm glad somebody volunteered to do it.
Mandy is invertase record? What does that mean? I don't

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know what that means. Oh gosh, I got some good
questions here. I heard someone say, Roseanne bar for press secretary.
No no, no, no, no, no no no. I am
looking right here trying to find this out. Mandy. How
much longer is your current contract with iHeart for? What
are you hoping for in your next contract? Oh? Part A.

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I'm in under contract through April of twenty twenty six.
So what are you hoping for in your next contract?
That they'll keep paying me to do this job. That'd
be good, that'd be really good. How much wood could
a wood chuck chuck? If a woodchuck could chuck, would
I'll mul that over and have it for you maybe
on the other side of the break. Keep it right

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here on KOA. Are you going to watch the fight?
Talking about the Jake Paul and Mike Tyson fight, I'm
gonna try. But honestly, depending on how there's seven undercard fights,
so depending on how long they go. If it's like midnight,
I'm not gonna lie before that.

Speaker 9 (19:07):
I saw it should be probably like in the nine
o'clock hour.

Speaker 5 (19:11):
Okay, Yeah, so I mean, okay, that's good to know.
If it's nine o'clock, I'll make it that far. So
there you go. It's on Netflix tonight. I'm rooting for
Mike Tyson.

Speaker 7 (19:20):
Did you watch aude?

Speaker 5 (19:23):
I was like, do you think Jake Paul walked backstage?
It was like, dang, like that was just an open
hand slap.

Speaker 7 (19:29):
Yeah. Now I'm not naive I heard it.

Speaker 9 (19:32):
I heard a talking head say, well, so obviously this
thing is very much fixed. We all know it. It's
just a matter of which way it's gonna go. But
I had a pretty uh, a pretty good comment made
by by a streamer that said Jake wouldn't agree to
this if he were going to lose, because he didn't
want him losing. Takes takes and takes it all out

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for him because.

Speaker 5 (19:55):
The fix cannot be in all of these bets. All
of these bets cannot be on a thing. You can't
say we all know the fixes in because you don't.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
You don't.

Speaker 9 (20:04):
But if you're Jake Paul, you don't agree with this
unless you are guaranteed you're winning, because because then everything
every fight he's in after that, because everyone's watching to
watch Jake get the you know what beat out of him,
so he finally loses, the allure of Jake Paul fights
is lost from now for the rest of you.

Speaker 5 (20:21):
But you could say that about any fight.

Speaker 9 (20:22):
No specifically, people want to see Jake Paul get destroyed,
and if he finally does, then every fight moving forward
that luster is like, well, we've already seen him lose.

Speaker 7 (20:31):
And you can say that.

Speaker 5 (20:32):
About anybody that when you walk into any fight, that
is the possibility that you're going to get your ass kicked.
I mean, that's that's why we have boxing.

Speaker 9 (20:38):
Paul Specifically, people can't stand so people.

Speaker 7 (20:42):
Want to see him get destroyed.

Speaker 5 (20:44):
They would sign up to see him get destroyed again, right,
And that's the thing I mean.

Speaker 7 (20:48):
And after that first time, not as much.

Speaker 5 (20:50):
You have to understand, back when Cassius Clay was becoming
Muhammad Ali, and after he became Muhammad Ali, he was
wildly unpopular in this come like wildly. And if you
weren't alive during that time, and you only got to
see when Muhammad Ali was kind of like, you know,
adored by everyone, then you don't realize how much people hated.

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And yet every single fight the man was in, it
was must see TV. Everybody wanted to see it.

Speaker 7 (21:17):
Breaking news.

Speaker 9 (21:18):
Mandy Donnell compares Jake Paul to Muhammad Ali.

Speaker 5 (21:21):
Twent wire no no in reputation, reputation only. Okay, so
if it's up late, if I'm up late, I will
watch it. Uh, Mandy, do you know what happened with
gas prices not increasing with the California rules applied in Colorado?
I like you expected to see us get much higher prices.
I just looked this up because someone else asked the

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question and I didn't know the answer. A couple of things.
Number one, sun Core Energy spent forty five million dollars
on the Commerce City refinery, so they could make and
store the blend that we needed. And they supply anywhere
from thirty five to forty percent of the gas in
call Doroto, So even if you're importing gas from somewhere else,

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you still have to either come very close or meet
those prices. So that helped depress our gas prices, and
hopefully we'll continue to see that. We shall see or
we'll see if the EPA under Donald Trump is more
a meanable to giving us a waiver for other people's wildfires.
That would be fantastic. All right, Moving on the k

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Ramaswami Press secretary, Nope, he is already a co head
of the Department of Government Efficiency. What do you think
Jered Polis is going to do when his term is
up and their seats up for reelection until Michael Bennett
has done I think he's running for president in twenty
twenty eight. He's already doing it. He started this ridiculous
Governor's Saving democracy, Like there's some kind of you know,

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rack Adoodal Justice League where they're all going to swoop
into DC wearing capes to stop Trump if he does
something bad. I mean, y'all come on, come on. Oh
the answer to how much wood would would chuck chuck?
If a wodchuck could chuck wood? Another texter sent that
to me, and the answer the answer is, hang on,

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I gotta find it a woodchuck. Answer is a woodchuck
woodchuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if
a woodchuck could chuck. Would thank you person who texted
that in, because I never would have pulled that off
without you. Hi, Mandy, what are your thoughts about Matt
Gates and his ethics investigation? It feels so off to
me that the right is worried about government and elite
petals but seem to ignore Matt's behavior. I've said it before,

(23:29):
I'll say it again, worst pick ever. And I do
think that the ethics investigation is going to come out,
so I will hold my fire until that happens. It
will either be released by the House or it will
be leaked during his confirmation hearing. So there you go, Mandy,
go to instant pot crock pot meal. I gotta tell you,
my favorite thing to make in an instant pot is

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anything like chicken broth in chicken stock, because chicken with
bones you put it. I did it last night. I
made delicious chicken vegetable soup, used chicken thighs, put them
in the crockpot with veggies and you know, brof and everything,
and then I pulled it out. Oh you know what
I did last night though, just going to share this
with you, and you're welcome in advance. So when you
put thighs, whole thighs in the instant pot, when you

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pull them out, the skin is gross, It's like soft,
and you know, and everybody knows that the skin is
the best part of the chicken. So I pulled the
skin off, and then I broke up the chicken to
make my chicken soup. And then I took my cast
iron skillet and I fried the chicken skins until they
were nice and toasty brown on both sides. Little salt,
little pepper, m so good, so good. I could eat

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that every day. My favorite press secretary was Dana Perino.
She is one of my top two. The other airy
Flesher he was the looks he would give. Such a
great great guy, Mandy, do you still have the Christmas
ornament we got you from my deployment to Jordan. We
absolutely do, and this weekend it will be going up
on my tree. So thank you very much for that.

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Cod's mom here apologizing for raising such a smart ass.
Haja her to call you out for asking your listeners
to do something for you? Want me to pay him
back and ask him to do lots of things for
me when he's here at the house again, Yes, I
would a Rod's mom. Do we side.

Speaker 7 (25:16):
Run that? I mean, I'll read the tags. You can
just sap me a second.

Speaker 5 (25:19):
Nothing gonna be nothing? Yep, nothing, Mandy. I've seen this
circulating on the internets. Do you feel bad for Whoopee
that a bakery wouldn't sell her cupcakes? She claims it's
because of her liberal views. Bakery says it's because of
an equipment breakdown. She needs Sota, not cupcakes. How hard
is it for a multi millionaire without being a complete,

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entitled blank word? I saw this. I actually have this
on the blog today in case you were wondering. You guys,
Whoopy Goldberg is oppressed. And not only is she oppressed,
she is just like us, struggling to make her bills
on a day to day basis. She's really stepped in
it a couple of times. So what this text is
are referring to is Whoopy called a bakery in Staten Island.

(26:04):
Staten Island is very conservative, and it's Halterman's Bakery, and
one of their specialties is a Charlotte Rooss, which is
a little pastry with whipped cream and whatever. It was
her mother's favorite, and she ordered this bakery because it
was she wanted Charlotte Roost and this bakery is supposed
to be the best, right, So she calls the bakery
and said, look, I need sixty Charlotte Roos. And at

(26:24):
the very moment she calls, the bakery is having a
boiler issue. Now, the building is old, the boiler is old.
They're trying to fix the boiler, but they don't know
when the boiler is going to be fixed. They can't
make anything until they get the boiler fixed. And that's
what she told the Whoopie. I can't do it right now.
I've got so many things going on with my boiler.
So that's what she tells Whoopy. Then Whoopy goes on
the view and says, they did not sell me Charlotte

(26:44):
Roost and it probably was because of my liberal views.
What just give me a break?

Speaker 6 (26:51):
Ms.

Speaker 5 (26:52):
Goldberg explained, No, let me explain. They said that their
ovens had gone down, but folks went and gotten anyway,
which is why I'm telling you who who made them.
It's not because I'm a woman, but perhaps they did
not like my politics. You know what, But that's not
something that people on the right who own businesses do. Really,
we really don't. It's so stupid. This on top of

(27:14):
earlier this week she said, you know, she understands the
times are really tight. She's a working woman too, she knows.
She knows. Mandy News Nation was the best one for
coverage during the election. They didn't mess around. They did
a great job. I did not even tune in. I
was flipping back and forth between CNN and MSNBC because
it got fun. Not gonna lie, it got super fun. Okay,

(27:38):
I'm doing one more segment of these because you guys
have some really good questions in this really good questions.
Will wrap up or ask me anything Friday right after this,
keep it on. Koa Fred says, Mandy. There's a Christmas
movie that has a very interesting history. The producer sold
it to three different studios and so it's in limbo.
The only place to view twenty ninth Street starring Danny

(27:58):
alo Is on YouTube tube, and it's great that from Fred. Mandy.
Do you see a conflict of interest with SpaceX receiving
government money and Musk looking at reducing spending? Yes? Actually,
and I'm not sure how to fix it though he's
not actually working for money for the government and volunteering
is time. So I think we're in uncharted territory right now.

(28:20):
So I don't have a good answer for that, Mandy.
Who was the worst dead US president? Why hw taff
introduced the first corporate tax rate? He has my vote.
I know this is going to be extremely controversial to
our older listeners, but I think Franklin Delano Roosevelt is
the worst dead president because he began the beginning of

(28:41):
the welfare state mentality in this country. And so I
put him as the worst dead president. And you can't
tell me I'm wrong, Mandy. I would tape every press
conference if George Carlin or Gilbert Godfried were press secretary.
How about you? I can't listen to Gilbert Godfrey's voice
a lot of you saying some version of Tyson all
publicity and dumbass people are feeding straight into it. It's fine,

(29:04):
you cranky whatever, cranky crazy people, Mandy. Two questions on
bag fees and tax as I see on my receipt
that it's called a bag tax, I don't recall voting
on this tax. Is this a taber violation? Yes, it is.
Number two. Bags probably cost a half cent. Who pockets
the extra nine and a half cents? Government? There you go, Mandy.

(29:28):
Doesn't it seem silly to have two heads of an
office called Department of Government? Efficiency doesn't seem that efficient,
does it? Except they're both working for free. That's thing
number one. And if they can cut twice as fast
with two people, I'm all for it, especially these two people. Mandy.
Who do you think will run for governor of Colorado
in twenty twenty six? On the Democrat side that would

(29:49):
be Attorney General Phil Wiser And the Republican side. I
have no idea on the Republican side, No clue none, Mandy.
If you were to pick one restaurant for your last meal,
and it wasn't dependent on the view or the people,
but only the food, what would you choose? Chuck and
I went to this restaurant in Switzerland on the last
night we were there, and it was absolutely sublime. It

(30:14):
was so good. I can't remember the name of it,
but I can find it on a map. I guess
I would have to look that up. And I had
liver and onions, which I know you're saying, what, but ugh,
it was so good. It was so so good. Mandy.
How old were you the first time you saw snow?
My parents took us to the North Carolina Mountains when

(30:35):
I was like seven or eight, so probably then. I
maybe saw it fall in my hometown when I was younger,
but it didn't stick.

Speaker 6 (30:43):
You know.

Speaker 5 (30:44):
We were in northern Florida, so it just fluttered. So yeah,
probably seven or eight, but didn't see it a lot
until I was an adult. Late question, Mandy, did you
get the pieces you wanted it from the Affordable art sale?
I did not, but only because I don't have anywhere
to hang them right now.

Speaker 7 (30:59):
Man.

Speaker 5 (31:00):
My go to answer in the woodchuck question is all
of it? Those are ambitious woodchucks. Mandy, the press secretary
will be hot. Hot girls can get away with being snarky,
don't I know it? Mandy? When you see your husband,
do you ask what's up?

Speaker 6 (31:14):
Chuck?

Speaker 5 (31:14):
And then I immediately respond vomit. That's why he doesn't
love it. This person says, I recently learned Woopy's first
name is Karen and this last one. As a conservative
and small business I love taking liberals money. Smart smart person,
smart person. All right, we are gonna take a quick

(31:36):
time out when we get back. How do you deal
with holiday stress? I've got a guest who's actually written
a book about how to use neuroscience to stop freaking
out and be able to enjoy the holidays, Doctor Helen
mckimnon coming up next. Keep it righty here on Koa Koa.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
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Speaker 3 (32:01):
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Welcome to.

Speaker 5 (32:21):
The second hour of the show. And I don't need
to tell you guys this, but I think it's like
forty one days till Christmas or forty days until Christmas,
and we all know that it goes like this Labor
Day happens and then all of a sudden it's New
Year's and we're like, what happened for the last six months.
Joining me now is a clinical psychologist, doctor Helen McKinnon,

(32:41):
to talk about how to get through the holidays without
losing your mind from the stress of it all. She
has a book out called Drop Making Great Decisions. Doctor McKinnon,
Welcome to the show.

Speaker 10 (32:53):
Thank you for having me.

Speaker 5 (32:55):
So let's talk about just overall, how the holidays get
so overwhelming. I mean it just for kids, it's great,
but for adults maybe not so much. How does that
stress all start?

Speaker 6 (33:08):
That stress starts because whenever we're anticipating a holiday or
buying a gift or travel or expenses for the holidays,
what the brain does is it triggers memories of every
time we've been through that before, what worked for us,
what did not work for us, what the finances were.

(33:31):
And if your listeners don't take the time to notice
their stress, and that means they wight up and sit
back with themselves long enough to use those prior memories
to decide what to say or do differently, then the
stress just builds and overwhelms us, and you make reactive

(33:51):
decisions and are missible during the holidays. But if for example,
you're cuge, you're triggered and you yourself and say, well,
next time I'm not going to say or do this
with Uncle Harry, or next time I'm not going to
go over my budget and then be there and worry
about money the entire holiday season, using prior memory and

(34:16):
experience to re decide what to say or do differently.

Speaker 10 (34:21):
And why is that so important, Mandy?

Speaker 6 (34:23):
Because if you make a decision about something you're worrying
about about the holidays, relative money finances, if you make
a decision of what you'll say or do differently, or
say or do in general, it resolves that worry for
the brain, and the brain stops bringing up the memories
that triggered you in the first place.

Speaker 5 (34:44):
So are you talking about being.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
Sort of.

Speaker 5 (34:49):
Using preventive decision making for lack of a better way
to put it, Like, you know that you're going to
see a relative that drinks too much or says the
wrong thing, or you've already so you have to like
sort of catch yourself before you even go to this
event and say, how am I going to respond differently?

Speaker 6 (35:08):
And the brain is designed to catch it for us
by every time we're triggered thinking about a person or
a situation, every time we felt that way before naturally
jumps on board if you miss the queue by lighting
up that those memories are there from the previous. People
who don't pause with themselves and listen to those prior

(35:30):
memories keep doing the same thing over and over again,
and they feel miserable.

Speaker 10 (35:35):
If you catch.

Speaker 6 (35:36):
Yourself when you're having a memory and sit back with
yourself long enough to get that memory and decide what
you'll say or do differently, it resolves the stressor and
you don't keep stressing yourself out physically or emotionally, and
you make good decisions.

Speaker 5 (35:52):
What about people who are naturally hot reactors, you know,
and they have a difficult time catching themselves Because for me,
I've been in situations where I am able to manage
my own emotional and I can regulate my emotions. But
then there's other people that I'm around on occasion that
it's more challenging because they know exactly the right buttons

(36:13):
to push, They know exactly how to be the most
irritating person on the planet. So how do you make
sure that even in those situations where it's definitely a
more tense situation to begin with, how do you catch
yourself and not be a hot reactor?

Speaker 10 (36:29):
It's a wonderful question. You're going to be surprised at
what I say.

Speaker 6 (36:33):
We have no control over other people, but we can
have memory, recall about what it felt like before interacting
with them, and be sure that we predecide what we're
going to say or do or not say or do
again with them.

Speaker 10 (36:51):
And there's one more variable with people who overreact.

Speaker 6 (36:54):
They are trying to control us because they're running from
their out of control feelings or memories of the holidays.
They're not attending to themselves. So if you take your
time and pause before you respond to them or initiate
that idea that you make, you know, three months ago,

(37:15):
and it comes up and you said, oh, that's right,
I'm going to do this.

Speaker 10 (37:19):
If you say or do it, they see that they
can't push your buttons and.

Speaker 6 (37:23):
Knock you off balance, because if you light up physically
and you drop till you're a neutral and then make
a decision, they.

Speaker 10 (37:30):
Don't see the cues that they're used to. They know
who they can disrupt and who they can't.

Speaker 6 (37:35):
And that's even people we love, relatives, situations, someone who's
drinking too much, and we make decisions based on what
we've been through before with family dynamics to maybe leave
the room if someone's drinking too much.

Speaker 10 (37:49):
Or you know, go ahead and take a walk.

Speaker 6 (37:52):
But you make decisions prior and then you don't worry
about it and stress about it and have that build up.

Speaker 5 (37:59):
I think that this is a great strategy for people
who are going into a politically divided home, especially for Thanksgiving.
I think it would. I think it would probably be
a good idea. I'm just going to give people my
little dimestore analysis here. I think that if you're going
into a politically divided house, you should make the choice
to be the person who doesn't bring up politics, and

(38:20):
when someone does bring up politics, have an answer that
is non political, to say, this is not why we're here.
But go ahead and work through that with exactly what
doctor mckimmon is saying. Because I think that's going to
be the biggest problem at this Thanksgiving is you're going
to have tables that are going to have people that
are unhappy versus people who are very happy. I mean,

(38:43):
is am I on the right track here?

Speaker 10 (38:45):
You are absolutely on their right track?

Speaker 6 (38:47):
And for your listeners, I'm going to give you one
more clue that will be really helpful. If someone's triggering
you and they start talking about politics, you may.

Speaker 10 (38:56):
Have previously decided what to say or not say.

Speaker 6 (38:59):
That be sure that when you speak with them that
you sit back with yourself, and when you respond, if
you sit back with yourself through the stress, your voice
is very strong. And be sure that you use the
word you hear in yourself, not react to anything they're
saying right right, Then.

Speaker 10 (39:17):
They know that you are in control.

Speaker 5 (39:20):
They aren't. Doctor Helen McKinnon is my guest. She's got
a new book called Drop Making Great Decisions. You can
find it online. I linked to her website as well,
so if you want more information or you'd like to
try some of this stuff in your life, you can
find it there. Doctor mckimbon, thank you so much for
your time today. Thank you so much. Mandy, all right,
thank you.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
You know.

Speaker 5 (39:40):
I guess this is one of those times for having
a small family is a benefit because I don't really
have to worry about this at all. And if I did,
if I was going to have, you know, Thanksgiving dinner
with a mixed crowd, I would have no problem saying
I don't want to talk about that. You know, I

(40:01):
have talked to people who have said I have said
to other people, I don't want to talk about this,
and they keep talking about it, and that is super frustrating.
But if you just keep saying I'm not going to
talk about this, I'm not going to talk about this.
I'm not going to talk about it now. If you
want to get into a knockdown drag out of Thanksgiving,
that as your prerogative. But I sure hope that's not

(40:22):
the way it goes. I really and truly hope that's
not the way it goes, because that's just it's unnecessary.
Find a reason to be grateful for each other. Throw
that at him. You know what, Let's talk about why
we're grateful. We're family, we're relatives, we're cousins, we're at
the same table. Let's talk about gratitude instead. So this
is exactly what I'm working on an attempt to reconcile

(40:44):
with my daughter, says this Texter. Yeah, it's our familial
relationships I think are the most difficult relationships because we
don't get to choose our family, and everyone and within
a family is different, you know, and sometimes it makes
it challenging. Mandy, I don't give a darn about sore

(41:08):
loser liberals. If they want to ruin the holidays, that's
on them. I'm not going to baby them like their
media does. You're going to be a pantload of find
at Thanksgiving. I hope you're having your own Thanksgiving and
you're not going to someone else's Thanksgiving to ruin theirs.
I mean, come on, you guys, come on. I have
set a guy on fire on the text line because

(41:32):
of an exchange that happened earlier when I said that
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was my least favorite because he started
the welfare state in this country. And this Texter said,
our Medicare and social Security, well welfare, And I said,
as they are currently set up. Yes, because Medicare and welfare,
you're going to get way more out of it, most
of us than you are. Not necessarily Medicare, but with

(41:54):
social Security. If you live to be average agent, you
accept Medicare, you're going to take out more than you
put in. The way the government created the program was
so bad that it is a Ponzi scheme. And if
our you know, if our birth rate drops below the
replacement rate and stays there, we're not going to have
enough people to pay into this. So, yeah, the way

(42:16):
the government set it up made it a welfare program.
It's not right, and I'm not mad at anyone for
taking it. I'm not mad at a single person, because
everybody that is on Social Security or will be on
Social Security is paid into it. But what the government
should have done instead was to create basically a four
to one K program where your money from the first
day you went to work got invested in a four

(42:38):
oh one K like account. Imagine what you'd have right now,
Texter if you had been able to do that with
your Social Security instead of the government squandering it on
other programs. So it becomes a welfare program going forward.
I mean, you know that's I'm not mad at. Yeah,
I'm not mad about I'm mad that Franklin Delano, who
was about in his administration, set it up this way.

(43:00):
It was very short sighted and assumed a couple of things.
Number One, it assumed that most people would die before
they ever took it. Look at the look at life
expectancy versus when Medicare payouts started when they created it,
but they didn't index it to life expectancy. If they
had indexed it to life expectancy. It wouldn't kick in
till we were like seventy eight years old, now, you know.

(43:24):
And so yeah, the program is set up. A private
company that set up a program like this in the
same way would be charged with a crime. That's how
bad it is. But it's what we have and we're
all used to it. We've got to figure out some
way to fix it. So anyway, we've got a lot
of stuff on the blog today, nothing better than this

(43:45):
news right here. Colorado House Democrats have lost their super
majority and this is great news, and I mean great news.
I want to read to you a tweet from Peglie,
she is the House minority leader, and she said, I

(44:07):
am incredibly proud to call my friends and I've got
to find out Rebecca Kelty and Daniel woug the newest
representatives for House Districts sixteen and nineteen. The people have
spoken and broken the supermajority in the House. The voters
have chosen common sense leaders, and I can't wait to
see the great work they will do for our state.

(44:27):
So we have two more Republican members in the House,
and that means that not only did the Democrats not
get their supermajority in the Senate that they were hoping for.
They actually lost a seat in the Senate at least one,
if not two, and now they have lost their supermajority
in the House. This means we have a functioning opposition again.
It means that the Republicans can actually say, hey, you

(44:50):
gotta pay attention to us, which is nice slowly but surely, slowly,
but surely so. That is super good news for the
state of Colorado. I have bad news for people who
are well, who really love, you know, woke pronouns and

(45:11):
stuff like that, because I think I think we have
an indication that those days are behind us, because none
other than Alexandria Acassio Cortes, she's removed her pronouns from

(45:32):
her bio on Twitter. Now I know that you're like,
oh my gosh, stop it, Mandy, this can't be true,
but it is. Two years ago she did a video
apologizing for not having her pronouns on her bio and
you know, throwing herself on her own petard and reminding
everyone to put their pronouns in their bio. And then

(45:52):
she just quietly just after the election was over, and
everybody said, we're sick of woke all of a sudden,
just just gone, just gone. So the good news that
is on its way out, that's a positive thing, a
very positive thing, so much so that I want to

(46:13):
address the story on the blog today about Scientific American.
And I meant to talk about this the other day,
but got distracted by something shiny, so we didn't get
to it. So Scientific American I used to use a
lot when I first started doing my show in two
thousand and five, because I could always go to Scientific
American and you could get really good articles that were
written by scientific writers that took the scientific study language

(46:37):
and made it digestible, right, So you could go to
Scientific American and you could learn about all kinds of
stuff that was being investigated. It was great publication. I
actually subscribed to it for many years, and it was expensive.
It was not a cheap subscription, and I still subscribe
to it. Well. A few years ago, maybe ten years ago,
I started to notice that Scientific American started to do

(47:01):
dumber stories. I mean, I mean they were just non
i'll call them, for lack of a better way, And
this is going to make some people mad. But they
went from being a hard science magazine to being a
soft science magazine. Now, the heart sciences are your your physics,
your biology, your you know, nuclear sciences, heart sciences where
you're dealing with atoms and things like that that are

(47:23):
real and we can absolutely see them. Soft sciences are
going to be your ologies, your psychology, your sociology, things
of that nature, where you're studying human behavior and other
stuff that's a little harder to sort of pin down.
There's no definitive answer in soft sciences. And I started
to notice that there was a lot more soft science
on Scientific American than there had been before, and I

(47:46):
was like, what is going on? And then I didn't
know her name at all. I didn't know Laura Hellmuth
had taken over as editor of Scientific American. But Laura
Hellmath was an absolutely disaster for Scientific American. She's the
reason they endorsed Joe Biden in twenty twenty. They enjoyed

(48:06):
Kamala Harris in twenty four the first time the magazine
had ever endorsed a political candidate, and it was under
this idiotic woman. So thankfully, after Trump's reelection, she went
absolutely bananas on Twitter and said all of these horrible
things about Trump supporters, just like really nasty stuff. And

(48:27):
though she went back and e raised him, the internet
is forever, and frankly, we were not in a mood.
We were not in a mood to let this woman
get away with this. Well, she came out with a
groppling apology a couple days ago, and everybody was like, whatever,
and now she has resigned. Word on the street is

(48:47):
that she was basically like, let's make you an offer
you can't refuse. You're gonna quit, or you're gonna get fired.
What are you gonna do? And she was like, under
careful consideration, I've decided to step away or whatever it is.
But then she put she linked on her Twitter account,
which is private, but thankfully someone screen rabbit as they should.
She puts some of her favorite stories she has worked on.

(49:08):
And if there's ever been a you know, a resume
that clearly delineates why she just got fired after destroying
the Scientific magazine, it's these stories that she's the most
proud of. Headline gender affirming care for trans kids is
good healthcare. Headline rapid onset gender dysphoria is not a thing.

(49:34):
This one and the first trans clinic was destroyed by Nazis,
of course, always Nazis. Then she says, in mind and Brain,
here's how gaslighting works, how trauma extends across generations, and
how to cope with grease. Racial justice is a science story?
Is this headline? Environmental justice is a science story. Reproductive

(49:56):
justice is a science story, except they're not. It's this
kind of clap trap. And this is what has happened
at so many institutions across the country. They've been ideologically
captured by these people that want to deny the science
of men and women, by people who are so invested

(50:17):
in making sure that medical communities can do experiments on
little children whose parents are so desperate for attention that
they decided that their three year old was going to
make permanent, life altering decisions for themselves, and nobody was
going to ask any questions about it. I mean, good gravy,
good gravy. If there's ever been an argument to not

(50:38):
put women in charge, it has been the last two years.
Look at the Ivy League schools. What has happened there
when we put women in charge. We put women in
charge of Scientific American and all of a sudden, we're
talking about how trans science is what what are we doing?
And the fact that Scientific American wrote an article saying

(50:59):
that trans healthcare wait a minute, what was it. I
want to make sure I got this right, because it's
to me, the most unsgender affirming care for trans kids
is good healthcare. There is not any good science that
displays that shows that. And if she really cared about

(51:19):
the reputation of Scientific Americans, she would have never published
any of this clap trap, but she did, and it
is just that it is clap trap. So I'm hoping.
I haven't looked at Scientific American in probably five years,
and I think I've talked about it on the air before.
It's just like when you see something that you've always
relied on to be just like kind of boring, right

(51:42):
there on the straight and narrow, just you know, just
like doing the thing and not having to worry about
getting in there and seeing a bunch of propaganda of
some sort, and then when you see it start to happen,
you're just like, what, It's kind of like CBS Sunday Morning.
I'd rather give it up then see it continue down

(52:03):
the path it is going. It's too heartbreaking for something
that I've loved so long. I didn't love Scientific American
as much as I love CBS Sunday Morning, so it
was easier to give up. Plus the subscription was very expensive.
But it's just disappointing to see this happen. I'm hoping
they put a real scientist back in charge of Scientific
America and the first thing he or she does is

(52:24):
write an essay saying, we lost our way, but we're
back on track because they got to do something. They've
just really wrecked a really great, great magazine about science. Okay,
we're gonna take a quick time out when we get back.
There is such an interesting tale about one of the
sites that Israel bombed when they bombed Iran, and why

(52:47):
Iran can't complain. Well, i'll explain. It's such a soap
opera tale. You're really going to want to hear this.
Keep it on, Koa, You've got to hear this story.
So remember the Israeli attack on Iran in late October. Well,
they were told or asked by the Biden administration. Biden
administration was like, yo, Israel, we know we're gonna bomb them,
just don't bomb any of their nuclear facilities because that

(53:10):
would force probably an escalation of a wider war, and
we just don't want to get into a war thron.
So if you could just leave the nuclear facilities off
the target list, that would be great. And Israel was like,
we got you boo, no problem. So Israel bomb's a
site that is the research facility in Persian Persian Persian,

(53:35):
I'm gonna say Persian, and destroyed part of that facility.
I mean absolutely destroyed it. And here's why this is
all fun. And by fine, I mean you know, this
is just absolutely fantastic. The Persian military complex is about
twenty miles southeast of Tehran, and the Taligan II facility
in that complex was one of the targets of the

(53:57):
Israeli strike. Now, the facility was used as part of
Iranian and mod nuclear weapons program until Iran halted its
military nuclear program in two thousand and three. So this
particular facility was used for testing explosives that you needed
to set off a nuclear device, because a nuclear device
needs a delivery system, it needs something that's going to

(54:20):
set off the nuclear explosion, and then it needs the
nuclear warhead needs all three of those things. So after
the Iranians said that they were not conducting any research
at Battaligan to facility. It became rapidly apparent as of
fairly recently that they were indeed beginning to do research

(54:41):
at Parshan earlier this year, including Iranian scientists conducting computer modeling, metallurgy,
and explosive research that could be used for nuclear weapons.
But the Iranians had denied that there was any kind
of nuclear nonsense going on at this present facility. So
when the Israelis blew it up, the Iranians only had

(55:02):
two choices. They had to pretend like it wasn't an
incredibly important part of their nuclear research facility, or they
were going to have to admit that they had been
lying about doing nuclear research, which, by the way, not
just US intelligence officials, intelligence officials around the world have

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stopped saying that the Iranians are not working towards nuclear
weapons development. The Wall Street Journal reported in August that
a d and I report to Congress didn't include a
sentence that had appeared in intelligence assessments in recent years,
which said Iran is not currently undertaking the key nuclear
weapons development activities necessary to produce a testable nuclear device. Again,

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it was absent from the August DNI report to Congress. Now,
Israel says that by taking out this particular facility, they
have absolutely crippled the Iranian nuclear research program. So I
love this story for a million different reasons, not the

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least of which the Iranians got their stuff blown up,
and I'm pretty excited about that. A US official said
the strike was a not so subtle message that the
Israelis have significant insight into the Iranian system, even when
it comes to things that were kept top secret and
known to a very small group of people in the

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Iranian government. This is what I love about what Israel
is doing to Iran, from taking out Hamas leaders in
Iran to blowing up a facility that wasn't supposed to
be a nuclear facility, but indeed it was a nuclear facility.
Israel keeps telling Iran over and over and over again,
we know everything about you everything, and all we have

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to do is whatever we want because we know everything.
I absolutely love this, love it. Mandy. Would you please
contact Jason Crow's office to pick up their signs. It
is ridiculous that they are still up and it's been
more than a week. One thing, you know, do you

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guys realize that Colorado's rules about picking up your campaign
signs are not normal. This is the only state that
I've ever lived in that had rules about when to
pick up campaign signs. In my hometown, you'll see campaign
signs like the next year until they get taken out
by a mower or something. They just never go away ever.

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So yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that's a great law.
But I do think it's fair to call his office
and say, hey, you got a bunch of signs out
here littering. Could you have somebody to come out and
pick them up. I think that's a legitimate use of
your time in theirs. You don't have to be a
jerk about it, but just say, hey, just in case
you didn't know, becase because maybe a volunteer put him

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out you didn't know, but you guys can come pick
these up. I don't think that that is uh, that
is completely crazy. There was something I was gonna I
wanted to talk about, and I was going to talk
about it after the conversation just then, and I can't
remember what it was. Cannot remember what it was, Dad Nabbitt,

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Dad Nabbott, you know, I've got a story on the
blog today and it is a really interesting question and
I'm very interested to see if the Supreme Court of
the United States is going to take this case up.
The man accused of shooting up a planned parenthood in
Colorado Springs Robert Deere. Clearly, this man is seriously mentally ill.
He has been declared by the courts unable to stand

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trial because he is so severely mentally ill. But at
one point the judge ordered that he'd be medicated so
he could uh participate with his own defense. And now
his attorneys are asking this Supreme Court to rule if
it is constitutional to force a mentally ill people person

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to take medication in order to stand trial. And I
believe that this has happened before, and I don't know
what they're sort of basing this on now, but it
is a fascinating case. This guy is clearly, clearly significantly
mentally ill. So I just I think this is going

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to be a very very interesting thing to watch. And
you know, we have changed some laws in Colorado, and
I just got an email from someone about this the
other day and I'm going to be following up with
them shortly. Colorado has changed the rules around allowing or

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getting or at least policemen are interpreting the rules around
getting a mental health hoold on someone differently than they
used to be interpreted. And I'm saying it like that
very specifically because I don't know exactly how all this
goes together, but I will find out how it all
goes together. But it seems that now if a family member,

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and when you have a family member, a brother, a son,
a daughter, who is an adult who is mentally ill,
there's almost nothing you can do to help them, almost
nothing like when everybody says, you know, when they see
someone obviously completely out of their mind on the streets
and someone's like, where's their family? You have no idea

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what families go through trying to help these people. But
because they are adults, there's almost nothing you can do.
And one of the few things that family members could
do was ask for a temporary mental healthhold. And there's
a variety of reasons for asking for this. Maybe someone
is having a really difficult psychotic break. Maybe somebody is
in a position where you need to get in and

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just clean their house so it's habitable. I mean, there's
a lot of reasons to need one of these three
day breaks. And it used to be that police or
the sheriff would go and pick the person up and
take them in for a three day hold, and the
family members could have a break. I hate to say
it like that and get things done on their behalf,
but I'm being told that law enforcement is now shying

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away from that because they don't want to be accused
of forcing someone who does not want to go. And
now they're going to people who are mentally ill, mentally
ill enough that a family member was able to go
to a judge, right, they went to a judge to
ask for a three day you know, evaluation, So someone

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signed off on this, and then the law enforcement shows
up and says, do you want to go for a
three day evaluation? And they say no because they don't
want to go because if they did go, then they
could actually maybe get some help, get some medication to
help with at least part of what's going on. I mean, yeah, yeah,

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I just I don't know about that. And are we
making it even harder for family members to help people
that are severely mentally ill?

Speaker 6 (01:02:03):
You know?

Speaker 5 (01:02:03):
I love to think of myself as a libertarian, small
L libertarian. I've been a big L libertarian and the
party is useless, so I like to think of myself
as a person who leans into liberty, even if liberty
is difficult.

Speaker 9 (01:02:15):
Right.

Speaker 5 (01:02:16):
The one area where I am anti liberty, and I'm
just gonna have to call myself out as anti liberty
is when it comes to the treatment of mentally ill
people or lack thereof. I'll explain this on the other
side of the break. Keep it on KOA Robert Deer,
the guy who I have to say alleged because he
has not been convicted, but Duke totally shot up the
planned parenthood and he's also insane, so his lawyers are

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trying to get the US Supreme Court to weigh in
on whether or not he can be forcibly medicated so
he is competent to stand trial. And it led to
a bigger conversation about things that are happening in Colorado
where family members are worried about someone who may be
suicidal or maybe having some I'm kind of really stressful

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situation who is mentally ill. And now whereas they used
to be able to get law enforcement to go pick
them up and take them in for a seventy two
hour hold at least an evaluation, and now law enforcement
is asking them if they want to go, and if
they say no, they're just like okay, And I said,
you know, I try to be very libertarian. I always
lean into liberty as often as I can. But the

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one area where I turn my back on liberty is
when it comes to people who are seriously mentally ill.
Because seriously mentally ill people are not capable of making
rational decisions based in their own interests. They're simply and
I'm talking severely mentally ill people. And not every mental

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illness is what I'm talking about. Okay, mental illness is
a big blanket, but I'm talking specifically about schizophrenic people
who are detached from reality. I'm talking about people who've
had psychotic breaks. I'm talking about people who, in order
to manage their mental health issues, have now self medicated
with so many drugs that they have no idea what's
real or what's not. And I have a very unlibertarian

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position towards what we as a society owe those people.
And I don't think it's okay to allow people to
live on the streets like feral animals. I do not
think that's okay. I don't think allowing people to live
in encampments, you know, in the middle of winter is humane.

Speaker 6 (01:04:21):
It's just not.

Speaker 5 (01:04:22):
And we as a society have to recognize that what
we're doing now is failed. It's absolutely abjectly failed. The
Big Pharma told lawmakers back in the from the fifties
on that they could solve the mental health crisis with medication,
never asking the question what if people don't continue taking
their medication, which is what we have in situations like
Robert DearS. And I'm not making excuses for him, because

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there are lots of severely mentally ill people who never
kill anyone, right, I'm not making excuses for what he did.
But what I'm saying is we have to recognize there
are some people in our society that are never going
to be able to take care of themselves ever because
they are broken, their brains do not operate on the
same plane hours due and we have to make sure

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that those people are taken care of. And there's no
perfect solution here. That's the thing everybody's looking. Everybody will
look back to one flu over a Cucko's nest and say, well,
state run hospitals were horrible, and you know what a
lot of them were, But is what we're doing now better?
And I'm asking that question genuinely. Do you think those
people walking around the Denver streets like bent over in

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half because of the combination of mental illness and drug
addiction that they're struggling with. Is how is that better
than not having a lot of you know, at least
a place that can be checked and inspected. And we
do the best we can, but we've got to do
something other than what we're doing today. So, yeah, he's

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obviously insane, or we'd have tried to shoot doctors. He's
talking about the plan pair. I just don't think you
get into planned parent and I think that's why he
didn't do more damage. Mandy. If a person is incompetent
to stand trial, wouldn't it stand a reason that he
was incompetent when he committed the crime. What's the point
of making someone competent to stand trial for a crime
he committed while incompetent. Okay, let me just walk this

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through for just a second, because that's a great point.
The legal standard to prove that you are not guilty
by reason of insanity is incredibly high, incredibly high, And
there's an argument to be made that if someone is
judged incompetent to stand trial, then they are not competent
to participate in their own defense, and in pursuing an

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insanity defense, it is very, very hard to get a
guilty verdict. I mean, I think if anybody ever had
a shot, it's this guy. So, yeah, it's a great question.
When we get back, I'm going to do a little
two minute drill and I'm going to talk a little
bit more about the Brownie James issue. Now if you
don't know what's going on, and the reason I'm talking
about it isn't because I care about the NBA. It

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is just such a perfect example of setting a kid
up to fail in life. That's what's happening to Bronni
James right now. So we'll do all that. A little
two minute drill coming up next, Keep it right here
on KAA.

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Speaker 5 (01:07:40):
Yeah, welcome to the third hour of the show. That
voice you might have just heard Jimmy Sengenberger joining me
today because this morning I was beruising the Denver Gazette,
as I'm prone to do as a subscriber. You should
do just saying. And Jimmy has a great, great or
column in the Denver Gazette today dueling partisan dramas play

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voters for fools, and he draws an analogy between the
ridiculous and absurd governor's saving democracy, Oh, sorry, safeguarding democracy.
They're not saving it yet, they're just safeguarding it yet.
That Governor of Illinois JB. Pritzker and our own governor

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Terry Polis started today in a desperate bid to keep
their name id up nationwide. So he was comparing that
to a meeting that just took place with the Colorado
Republican Party, a zoom call where the Colorado Republican Party
decided to look backwards and instead of doing the smart thing,
spent the entire day talking about how they should not

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certify the election where Republicans just did incredibly well in
Colorado for the first time in a long time, but
they should not certify those because a cybersecurity expert says
everything has been breached and compromised and they're just looking backwards.
First off, Jimmy, great analogy.

Speaker 7 (01:09:02):
Hey, thank you.

Speaker 8 (01:09:02):
Yeah, there's a lot of gamesmanship and theater going on
on both sides right now.

Speaker 5 (01:09:08):
So let's talk about the Colorado GOP first, and then
we're gonna come back to this governor's safeguarding democracy. It's
like the Justice League of Governors there. I bet they
all have costumes, you know what I mean, Like, they're
not gonna let us see their outfits, but they've all
got like spandex and they've got capes.

Speaker 8 (01:09:23):
Didn't police already wear like the Jedi master Guard the
other day or over Halloween?

Speaker 7 (01:09:29):
I think I saw, So maybe that's his euro past.

Speaker 5 (01:09:31):
I have no idea, but he is going to safeguard democracy,
dang it, whether we like it or not. What are
your thoughts on this organization, on.

Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
The police organization, the.

Speaker 5 (01:09:44):
Governor's safeguarding We have to say it like this, Jimmy,
promise me, Okay, promise me. From now on, We're not
just going to say governor's safeguarding democracy or GSD. We're
gonna say it like this governor is safeguarding democracy every
time we say it.

Speaker 8 (01:09:59):
Well, governor safeguarding democracy is a shame. I mean, look,
this is a circumstance where they're both eyeing a run
for the presidency, and never has it been more transparent
than right now, Because in four years from now it's
going to be a wide open field.

Speaker 7 (01:10:18):
Who's going to break out?

Speaker 5 (01:10:19):
Well, they like JB.

Speaker 8 (01:10:21):
Britzer, would like himself, Derrek Polis would like himself. But
what I really was getting act to the extent I
talked about this aspect in my piece, is that they're
trying to build this organization Mandy as though it is
non partisan, because when it's Democrats doing it, it's somehow
non partisan.

Speaker 7 (01:10:41):
I mean, they have an organization as well, that's.

Speaker 8 (01:10:44):
Just I think it's all under the same umbrella GOV
Act Governors Safeguarding Democracy, and the Reproductive Freedom Alliance altogether.
The Reproductive Freedom Alliance is supposedly nonpartisan two and it's
got twenty three Democrat governors and zero or Republican governors.

Speaker 7 (01:11:01):
So really this is just a front for them to
get out there and be heroes, yeah, and.

Speaker 8 (01:11:07):
Get some attention and basically do what Jennet Griswold has
failed to do in Colorado. You know, nationally she's been
known as this fulk hero for voting rights, even though
it's nothing of the sort when it comes to reality, Well,
Paulus seems to be wanting to do something like that
on the national level for his presidential.

Speaker 5 (01:11:26):
You know, here's the thing about this whole thing. I mean,
are they going to get satin jackets? We don't know.
This to me is just clearly an effort by these
two governors to continue to keep themselves in the news cycle.
And that's all it is. And I don't know if
you've you've well, of course you have it so obvious
it's ridiculous. But Jared Polus, the guy who has overseen

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the chipping away of gun rights in this state, of
the ability to drill for oil on your own property
unless you're close enough to his vacation home that he
finds it offensive, in which case you cannot exploit your
own mineral rights. He has stripped away the ability of
parents to decide whether or not their kindergarteners are going
to learn about sex work. He has allowed school districts

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and not intervened in getting in between their parents and
their children. But he's got to rebrand himself as Captain
freedom safeguarder of democracy. I want to see his outfit.
I truly like, should we have AI make him an outfit?
We should? We should have AI. Yes, somebody needs to
do that that knows how to use AI.

Speaker 6 (01:12:27):
I do not.

Speaker 5 (01:12:27):
So other than that, what exactly have they indicated at all?
Have you seen what they're actually going to do to safeguard?
Are they building a wall? What are they doing?

Speaker 8 (01:12:39):
They might be building a wall around Colorado and Illinois
to keep Republicans out of those states for apps, I mean,
that's that's what they do. No, I don't know what
tangibly they want to do, except maybe set up some
means of pushing back when they think that the government
under Trump and his administration is going too far on

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gas enforcing immigration laws, forward change, or you know, actually
affirming that states have the rights to determine their direction,
which apparently Colorado's loved on abortion versus having the federal
government get involved. Like Democrats are the ones.

Speaker 7 (01:13:16):
Who want to do, not the Republicans.

Speaker 8 (01:13:18):
I don't know exactly, but I do know that they
would probably be called subversive or insurrectionists if they were
Republican corrects doing this against Biden or Harris.

Speaker 5 (01:13:29):
Correct one hundred percent on that. Let's get to the
Colorado Republican Party. We only have a couple of minutes left,
so they had a meeting. They brought in a cybersecurity
expert to talk about the purported election consequences of bios
password leads from Colorado election systems. Now, talking about election
security is perfectly fine, legitimate, But here's what I want

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from the Colorado Republican Party. Who are you fielding to
run for secretary of state? Who are you fielding right now?
What candidates are we going to put forward that are
electable across the entire state? Because if you want to
ensure election integrity, get someone in there who thinks it's important.
I mean, that's how you make sure that Colorado has

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safe and fair elections. You get people in there. And
by the way, this could be a Democrat who really
thinks that election security and integrity is important. I don't
care about your party. I just want you to make
sure that we have the safest and securest elections we
can have.

Speaker 7 (01:14:26):
Well, that's all well and good and important. I would
agree with you there, but I would also say it.

Speaker 8 (01:14:30):
Begins by stopping the push to delegitimize election outcomes that
actually derailed the Democrats' supermajority in the state House, and
that allowed Republicans to flip from the blue to the
red column the eighth Congressional district with that tremendous victory
of Dave Evans. But the reality is that the likes

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of Dave Williams and others that are part of his brigade,
itn't get passed. The stolen election narrowatives that they have
built their last several years on. Everything they have done
has been based on delegitimizing electoral outcomes. And so now
they are even encouraging in the boards locally and the
Republicans to de certify or to not certify the election results.

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And that is the surefire way to put Republicans backwards.
If you want to say, we wanted you to get
in the vote, we celebrated the victories, but we want
to toss your votes aside like they were.

Speaker 5 (01:15:29):
Not exactly and ultimately, the real reason behind all this
is this is the only way that Dave Williams has
been able to raise money. It is the single way
he has been able to get checks to the Republican Party.
Is scaring Republicans about election integrity, threatening to all these
lawsuits that they filed that none of them have been founded.
They've just spent a ton of money on this stuff

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with no real results because it's the only thing he
has left to fundraise on. So let's be clear about
why it's happening. Jimmy, it's a great column. I urge
everybody to go to the Denver Gazette. If you don't
already subscribe, what are you waiting for? Everybody complains about
news media in this town. We finally have a paper
that does a great job on the news side. They
have a great editorial page, and they have great column
lists like Jimmy Sangeberger. Just subscribe already, Jimmy, great column man.

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I'll talk to you again soon. Hey, thank you. All right.
That is Jimmy's sang and Berger, and you should read
his columns because they're really good. We'll be right back.
Keep it on, Kowa. You're just joining me in this hour,
and I haven't told you to go look at the blog.
We got some really good stuff on the blog today,
very good stuff on the blog, including a list of
all the Christmas movies showing on various streaming services, news

(01:16:36):
about the Tampa Bay Rays, They may be able to
fill their seats this season coming up, but only because
they're playing in the quite small stein Rennerfield in Tampa.

Speaker 9 (01:16:45):
And guess who opens their twenty twenty five season. Get
out is that the Rockies see Colorado Hockey. I might
go down for that.

Speaker 5 (01:16:54):
Game just because this is where the Yankees play spring
training in stein Rennerfield, and it is a it's a
nice little stadium, but you're right on top of the players,
like you're right there. It's a good, good stadium. It's
gonna be miserable in July.

Speaker 9 (01:17:07):
Wait a second, Yeah, I thought I saw on social
but this schedule March April.

Speaker 7 (01:17:12):
A's who lied to me? Hold on? Oh, hold the phone.

Speaker 9 (01:17:18):
Someone might have lied to me, because it looks like
the Rockies open the schedule. Is it spring training?

Speaker 5 (01:17:24):
Spring training should start in March. That should be the
month of March. It's usually opening day somewhere around the sixth.

Speaker 7 (01:17:33):
That makes it look like we open against the A's.
Now I'm all confused.

Speaker 2 (01:17:37):
Please hold hole, please.

Speaker 7 (01:17:38):
Because I saw it somewhere.

Speaker 5 (01:17:40):
I gotta tell you. If you are planning to go
to a Sacramento Kings game, they have just unveiled the
most vaguely like like subtly threatening mascot i've ever seen.
He's called roy Owl. Get it, roy Owl Royal for
the Kings.

Speaker 6 (01:17:58):
Get it.

Speaker 7 (01:17:59):
That's bad.

Speaker 5 (01:18:00):
He looks like a basketball mixed with a peach. That's angry,
and he has shoulder pads. So I don't know how
I feel about that. That pictures on the blog today.
You need to see that.

Speaker 8 (01:18:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:18:16):
I also have some things on the blog that I
think the women who are freaking out on the left
in this country are, in my opinion, some of them
are demonstrating why people think women are crazy and why
they think women are overly emotional and all the negative

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stereotypes about within being too much or whatever. Because now,
in addition to the movement that we talked about yesterday
where women have decided they're not going to date, have sex,
or get married or have children.

Speaker 9 (01:18:52):
Oh so they're going to dialogue, we have confirmation. What
March twenty seventh, regular season Game one at Tampa. Oh yeah, yep,
I'm going.

Speaker 5 (01:19:02):
I'm going. It's happening.

Speaker 7 (01:19:04):
It's all.

Speaker 9 (01:19:06):
We have the first two so you play the Rays
in Tampa. We've got the Phillies and then our home
opener is against the A's April fourth. But yeah, we
start the regular season at uh we should Steiner.

Speaker 5 (01:19:19):
We should go down there for that opening game in
Steinbrenner Field because we might actually be able to get
some of the players because they're standing right next to you.
It's a great venue, great venue. So although you know what,
I've bet they've rebuilt it since I've been there. Surely
the Yankees have updated that stadium. I mean, everybody else
is updated their spring training stadiums in Florida. No, I'll
continue about this. The other movement that is happening right

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now is the MOTGA movement. M A t GA or
make Aqua Tafauna great again. Now you might be asking
what the deuce is aqua tafauna? Glad you asked, because
this is really batpooh crazy, and I do mean absolutely
batpooh crazy. So so, aquatafauna is a person that used

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to make poison for women that were in abusive marriages.

Speaker 4 (01:20:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:20:12):
Yeah, in the sixteen hundreds, this is when this took place.
So now these crazy women are now saying that they
need to make poisoning men who disagree with them. They
need to bring that back again. So well done, well done.
Julia Tafana is the woman who used to make up
an lickxir with ingredients like arsenic and belladonna. She would

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put it in a perfume jar and then give it
to the wives. The poisonous mixture left no trace post
mortem and no taste, was typically concealed in everyday cosmetic containers,
allowing unsuspecting husbands to remain oblivious to their approaching to
my eyes. And now you have these lunatic women on
the left that are saying things like we need to

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make Aquatafana great again. So I here's the thing. And
just so you know, not that I have any plans
to kill my husband, not even in you know, like
even when we're fighting. I still I don't really want
them dead. That being said, if I were to move
in that direction, the last thing I would do is
put on the internet that I was bringing poison back.

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You know, I mean, what is happening. But I just
want to take this opportunity to share with these women
what actual oppression looks like, because I'd like to direct
your attention to Iran. The Iranian state has said it
plans to open a treatment clinic for women. What are
they going to be treating these women for They're going

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to be treating these women for the disorder of taking
off their he job. The heat job Removal Treatment Clinic
was announced by the Women and Family Department of the
Tehran Headquarters for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of
Vice Department. The clinic's going to offer scientific psychological treatment
for women who walk around with their hair hut covered.

(01:22:06):
But please tell me how oppressed you are in the
United States of America. We'll be back right after this.
Keep it on. KOA got a lot of things on
the blog, but something just passed over my ex account,
and that is that the House Ethics Committee canceled the
meeting about the Matt Gates report, whether or not to
release the Matt Gates Report. And somebody said, yesterday, how

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are we supposed to trust the House Ethics Committee. It
is a Republican committee.

Speaker 3 (01:22:36):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:22:37):
What is going to be super interesting to see is
how much of this report is leaked in the next
twenty four to forty eight hours. ABC News reported yesterday
that one of the witnesses for the House Ethics Committee
was a woman who is now in her twenties who
testified that she had sex with Matt Gates at a
party fueled with drugs and alcohol when she was seventeen

(01:22:59):
years old. So they're already reporting some of the things
that were done in this. They subpoenaed his former girlfriend
for testimony. She said that she gave a list of
the men who were at this party in twenty seventeen
where drugs were president and this seventeen year old was

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running around naked, and so she had sex with Matt Gates.
She listed Matt Gates as being at that party. So
we'll see, we shall see. We all know that he
the house can't keep a secret. Big Time. Would still
like your thoughts, Mandy from the text line police is
evil Mandy. This was in Yesterday's New York Times. Any thoughts.

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Democratic governor's former group to oppose the Trump administration. The
group's leaders, Governor's JB. Pritzgrove Illinois and Jared Pulis of Colorado,
are ambitious Democrats likely to try and fill up the
party's looming leadership Voye. We literally talked about this story
at two o'clock with Jimmy Sangenberger's I mean it's open
for mockery. I would love if any of you know
how to use the graphics AI program. Please make a

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series of Jared Polis Governor's Safeguarding Democracy Justice League costume.
What would it look like? A rod? What would you
put the governor in?

Speaker 1 (01:24:14):
Like?

Speaker 5 (01:24:14):
What do you think like? What colors? Let's start with
what should we go? Should we just go all in
and make it a rainbow colored outfit? He is the
first openly gay governor in in in the United States.
I believe he's leaned into that before. I mean, do
we go full like rainbow regalia? Does he have a cape?
That's a big question. No capes, No capes, I know,

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but but think about it. I think he would want
a cape, you know, I mean, especially JB. Pritzker, he's
gonna need a little cover. He's a he's a larger fella.

Speaker 2 (01:24:44):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:24:44):
If we're gonna put him in spandex, okay, he's he's
gonna need a little you know, a little something something
to give him a little cover there if he's if
he's wearing spandex, I'm just throwing.

Speaker 7 (01:24:57):
That I got nothing for him.

Speaker 2 (01:24:58):
Gonna let you.

Speaker 5 (01:25:00):
Uh to the gentleman who says uh, this says. They
opened the season in Philadelphia and he sent talking about
the Rockies. He's it's a ticket buyer. They just announced
where they were playing their games, talking about the Tampa
Bay Rays. This year, they're going to play in the
Steinbrenner Field, which is where the Yankees have spring training.
It is an outdoor stadium. They just announced that today,

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So no tickets are for sale yet.

Speaker 7 (01:25:23):
And they opened in Tampa.

Speaker 9 (01:25:24):
It's in Tampa Steinbrenner Field in Tampa and then and
then the Phillies home opener. But it's the second series
for the Rockies in Philly.

Speaker 5 (01:25:33):
Do you think I could like glom along and be
Jack and Jerry's, you know, like sidekick.

Speaker 7 (01:25:40):
They need a sidekick into Jesse Thomas's luggage and be.

Speaker 5 (01:25:44):
A probably carries a lot of luggage. I feel like
I got a shot there.

Speaker 7 (01:25:48):
You will co produce with Jesse to co.

Speaker 5 (01:25:49):
Produce, yes, yeah, Jesse to assistant to the assistant to
the assistant's producer or a producer's assistant.

Speaker 7 (01:25:58):
No, I don't have that many people. You're just the
assist to Jesse to the I'd.

Speaker 6 (01:26:02):
Like to use that.

Speaker 5 (01:26:03):
Yeah. Oh, how about a Darth Polis. Look, somebody's just
pointed out Darth Police like that like black, maybe a
big helmet, you know, but then he would kind of
look like the guy from Spaceballs too at the same time. Yeah,
just throwing that out there. Hey, bad news you guys.
If you've got credit card debt, there's a lot of it.
One point one seven trillion dollars. That's what Americans do

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on their credit cards right now. And do you know
what your interest rate is on your credit.

Speaker 9 (01:26:31):
Cards at this All of them are in the upper twenties.
The credit card companies hate me because I never leave
a balance.

Speaker 5 (01:26:39):
Okay, here's the thing. I'm listening to Pat Woodard, who
is one of the greatest news men I've ever met,
so I trust him. But he says, credit card average
credit card rates are in is twenty percent. So that
means there's some that are higher, but it also means
some that are lower. Where are these unless they're counting
all of the zero percent offers If people are coming

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in for two percent, you know, roll up balance transfers
zero percent for two years. Unless that zero percent is
queuing the average, it has to Yah, that's what I'm saying.
I mean, I have incredible credit in My lowest credit
card rate is seventeen percent I have. I have almost
literally perfect credit, like a perfect credit score. Same so
the fact that I'm paying seventy and by the way,
I'm like a rod I don't leave a balance nothing,

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I don't pay it card.

Speaker 6 (01:27:25):
I hate me.

Speaker 9 (01:27:25):
They knew, they knew what I did, they would send
me no offers in the mail. But I'm so glad
they still do.

Speaker 6 (01:27:30):
Yes, But.

Speaker 7 (01:27:34):
Of people use it and just rack it up and
rarely pay it off, pay the minimums.

Speaker 8 (01:27:39):
I am.

Speaker 7 (01:27:39):
You and I are the one percenters in this fashion.

Speaker 5 (01:27:41):
Do you feel well I was not always a one
percent or I will tell you, oh no, I'm either.
I have put myself in a credit card debt massively
twice same and paid off every single dime of it.
But I'm wondering, like what I'm asking our listening audience,
what are your credit card rates right?

Speaker 3 (01:27:57):
Like?

Speaker 5 (01:27:57):
What are they? Are they in the high If you're
I have a department store credit card, you're probably at
twenty nine percent right now, twenty five twenty nine percent.
Never get a department store credit card even to get
the discount. I'm just letting you know, don't do.

Speaker 6 (01:28:09):
It, do not do it.

Speaker 5 (01:28:13):
But how are we getting twenty percent.

Speaker 9 (01:28:15):
I just don't.

Speaker 5 (01:28:16):
I don't get it. Ooh capes. Yes, at least one
governor needs to be a hammer and sickle red.

Speaker 9 (01:28:22):
I like that.

Speaker 7 (01:28:22):
I repeat again, nuckings, no kIPS.

Speaker 5 (01:28:26):
Hey, Mandy, I know it's not asked me anything free
for all Friday?

Speaker 6 (01:28:29):
Yes it is.

Speaker 5 (01:28:30):
If you saw the blog, you would know that I'm
doing free for all. Ask me anythings on I like them.
They've been really fun. The first hour of the show
has been a lot of fun for the past couple
of weeks. Maybe I should move it to the two
o'clock hour. Hi, Mandy, it's but off political topics. Did
you purchase a Bosh dishwasher not long ago and have
you been happy with it? And would you do it again?
I'm in the market and appreciate your suggestions. I have

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been very happy with my Bosch dishwasher, very happy, no
complaints at all. It does a great job, consistently does
a great job washing the dishes, no campaigns. Not all
dishwashers can do that. I'm still sitting with this. I'm
sitting with discovery nine percent. Oh that's good. Nine percent.

Speaker 7 (01:29:10):
Who discovers nice?

Speaker 5 (01:29:10):
Maybe that deals that. Maybe I'll get a Discover card
match for the first year.

Speaker 7 (01:29:16):
Really oh yeah, I I cashed.

Speaker 5 (01:29:19):
The percentage is that like, what percent? What are we
looking at like for cash back?

Speaker 9 (01:29:24):
Oh, they do upwards of they every three months they
change what they give five percent back on.

Speaker 5 (01:29:29):
Shut up now, then I got to pay attention to
when I'm spending night.

Speaker 9 (01:29:32):
It's easy, it's easy. Every three months it changes and
it's really easy. And for the first year, Mandy, I
don't even mind saying on there. For the first year,
that first year cash back match, we meet like a
grand cash Oh.

Speaker 5 (01:29:43):
Wow, that's fantastic, amazing. It's like me and Costco. I
get I get a kickback because I have I paid
for the executive membership. It's one hundred and sixty bus
a year. We easily get three hundred and fifty four
hundred back at Costco. At the end of the year.

Speaker 9 (01:29:55):
We're doing our first card and I won't do it
too often, but it has the the yearly yes, yeah,
but I'm making it back and double in the bonuses
for that first year.

Speaker 7 (01:30:07):
So I have a.

Speaker 5 (01:30:10):
American Express Platinum card. I have the Gold The fee
on that, the Platinum card fee is like five seventy
five s no, but wait, every month you get an
Uber credit, I do to. So you get an Uber
credit and can get UH. They pay for our streaming
for like two different streaming platforms. We get our plan
membership at the airport.

Speaker 4 (01:30:31):
We get.

Speaker 5 (01:30:33):
Tsa pre check. I don't do all that. Tsa pre
check and UH and Global entry.

Speaker 7 (01:30:38):
We did both of those. They paid for all that
after the Gold year. Might have to move up to Plan.

Speaker 5 (01:30:42):
Yeah, yeah, it's I mean you have to make sure, though,
you have to make sure that you use all of
those bonus benefits to make sure that you are paying
for for sure that fee or otherwise it's just not
worth it. I love that card though, because it just
gets you. It gets your priority in the priority clubs
at the airport where you get free food and drinks.
I mean, come on, you almost pay for that and
four trips at the airport for me and Chuck. I mean, realistically, Mandy,

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did Trump want to cap credit card rates at ten percent?

Speaker 8 (01:31:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:31:11):
Yeah, a lot of you are. A Belco credit union
apparently has a nine point nine percent credit card. I
have over fifty thousand in credit and own nothing, pay
it off monthly. My interest rates well over twenty percent.
That's what I'm saying. My score is north of eight hundred,
says this texter. I missed my first payment at thirty
years last month by two days. They charged me a

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twenty nine dollars fee and interest. Of course they did
because you didn't live up to us side of the bugain.
The good guys understand no capes. The villains they haven't
gotten the message, which is why he needs a cape. Hey, Mandy,
just thinking how Polus and Pritzker want to force their
state to keep illegals and continue to force we the taxpayers,

(01:31:54):
to pay for illegals without our permission.

Speaker 7 (01:31:56):
Man, we have confirmation.

Speaker 9 (01:31:57):
Uh oh. On a previous topic, Jesse Thomas, executive producer
of the Rockies Radio Network here on ka Mandy can
be my headphone technician.

Speaker 5 (01:32:07):
Yay, I can handle like. I don't even need training.
Put me in coach. I know exactly what to do there, Jesse,
hear your headphones. See, I'm like a natural. I'm a natural.
Credit card company, says this text. Or make money on
every purchase you make, even if you pay off your
balance every month. They charge business as a percentage every

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time one of their cards is used to pay for
their product or service. That is absolutely true, but that
cost is spread among all the shoppers, not just me.
So there you go, there you go, keep cash alive.
I love that text s. Did you just say American
Express charges five hundred and seventy five years per year
for their fee. It's the Platinum cod the Platinum CAD.

Speaker 7 (01:32:50):
I have a gold one.

Speaker 5 (01:32:52):
I have not paid five to seventy five for my
Platinum card ever. I have gotten the bonuses that they
give you, and I have used all of them, and
I have paid that off same. So there you go,
there you go. Anyway, that was not According to debt
dot org, about fifty percent pay credit card balance is

(01:33:12):
off in full, and about five percent only pay the minimum.
I have no idea what my interest rate is because
I pay it off weekly.

Speaker 7 (01:33:19):
Say I pay every single day.

Speaker 5 (01:33:22):
That's crazy, every day, every day crazy.

Speaker 7 (01:33:25):
I do not let it stack up one day. Every
day there's a balance day car.

Speaker 5 (01:33:28):
He handles all that stuff. I mean I know how
to do it, yeah, but he handles all of the
bill paying and a goll as do I and I
do it every day.

Speaker 7 (01:33:37):
I don't mess around. I let no balances stack up.

Speaker 5 (01:33:39):
You know the big danger in college, and they don't.
I don't think they do this anymore. But when I
went to school in nineteen eighty seven, like you get
to campus. I got to Florida State. Here I am
this bright eyed, you know, dumb ass from the sticks.
I have no nothing of nothing, And the first day
on campus you're hit. You're walking through the quad and
all of a sudden, there's like one thousand people like, hey,
do you what a free teach? How about an umbrella?

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Want this free thing? How about this? And you're like yeah,
and they're like, just sign up for credit cards. And
we signed up for credit cards. And then then this happened.
So you go out to dinner with your friends, like
you're getting pizza and stuff, and everybody's like, oh, I
only have cash, and I'm like, oh, just give me
the cash and I'll put it on my card and
then I'll pay it off. Did I pay it off? Narrator?

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She did not, Mandy. What does a headphone technician do?
Is that as hard as being a US senator? Very close?
See it goes like this, Jesse takes his headphones off
and I hold them and then when it's time for
him to have them back on again, I hand them
back to him. Headphone technician, Mandy, the two governors look
like they'll eat you well one of them. Isn't weird

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for me to say. I don't think j. D. Pritzker
has a chance because he's fat. I think Chris Christy
really proved that, although he's also got an embrace a
personality to go along with his heft. I don't think
America wants to look at the White House and see
a chunky guy. I really don't. I think one of
the reasons that Jade Vance is vice president is because
he lost weight and he looks great. I just don't

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know if we're ready for that, Mandy. We have a
Shields credit card and you get gift cards for every
hundred bucks spent. Great for kids, birthday, kids, friend's birthday presence.
That is a really good idea zero credit card since
two thousand, zero percent. Credit cards can be a nightmare,
but they can also be your friend. Credit cards pretty
much paid for my vacation to Switzerland.

Speaker 9 (01:35:31):
Oh most most of the time my vacations are paid
for with credit card points. Yeah, everyone, by.

Speaker 5 (01:35:35):
The credit card points, that's what we're saying, not the
actual credit card. So I mean but they're very dangerous
as well. If you don't have the discipline that a
rod has, If you don't have discipline to make sure
that you pay them off, they can be a terrible
slippery slope, a terrible slippery slope. All right, Where are
they todayon? Oh my goodness, gracious, I forgot. The boys

(01:35:57):
are out and about there at the Verizon on Yo
Si over by Park Meadows. They got tickets to the
Chiefs game, which is gonna be a humdinger because it's
gonna be the revenge game and all that stuff. But
right now, Ryan Edwards is out there. Who else is
coming out there to see you Ryan today?

Speaker 7 (01:36:13):
Well, Todd Davis is gonna be here.

Speaker 5 (01:36:15):
Actually, he's calling me right now.

Speaker 7 (01:36:16):
Do you mind if I s go ahead?

Speaker 5 (01:36:18):
Just to make yeah, go ahead? He broadly has no
idea where he's going. He's you know, mad with power
kind of thing. We'll talk to him in just a second. Anyway.
In any case, everybody's in credit card debt, but good news,
defaults are not going up, so that is a positive thing.
One last story before Ryan pops back on, so we

(01:36:38):
can do of the day.

Speaker 3 (01:36:40):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:36:41):
The Barbara Brockley, who is the producer of the James
Bond franchise. She has clearly come out to put to
rest those awful, horrible rumors that there may be a
female James Bond. Who gross, No, James Bond must always
be a man. She says, the next James Bond will
be in his thirties. He will be male, and that's

(01:37:03):
pretty much where the limits are right there. That's it.
And this actor, whoever it is, will have to commit
to ten years of filming and ten years of James Bond.

Speaker 9 (01:37:15):
So there you go.

Speaker 5 (01:37:16):
Uh, he could play James Bond. He's Ryan Edwards.

Speaker 7 (01:37:19):
Oh, I'd be good, he'd be good. I don't know
a bearded James Bond.

Speaker 5 (01:37:25):
Just hell, yeah, James Bond can totally have a beard.

Speaker 9 (01:37:30):
All of a sudden, flannel courteur is going to be
uh yeah, would be the first James.

Speaker 7 (01:37:37):
Bond bearded since Sean Connery.

Speaker 5 (01:37:40):
Thinking, yeah, Roger Moore a facial hair.

Speaker 9 (01:37:43):
Yeah, Craig had kind of yes, shadow shadow yeah shadow yeah,
not Pierce.

Speaker 5 (01:37:49):
So hopefully we'll find out of them soon who the
next James Bond will be. But I don't know what
I was going to say just then. It was very clever,
but then I read and Cavell dreamy Henry Cavill's too
old though they were in their early thirties.

Speaker 7 (01:38:06):
Pascal please, no, no, I love Pedro Pascal.

Speaker 5 (01:38:12):
He is all wrong for James.

Speaker 7 (01:38:13):
Love him?

Speaker 5 (01:38:13):
Yeah, now I like him a lot wrong for James Bond.

Speaker 7 (01:38:17):
Bryan Edwards got it.

Speaker 5 (01:38:18):
We'll talk about this on Monday, maybe or maybe not,
we don't know. But now it's time for the most
exciting segment on the radio of its kind in the
world of the day. I love making Ryan do that
in a Horizon store. Nothing made me happier than Ryan
yelling in the store.

Speaker 1 (01:38:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:38:38):
People their phones like, oh god, yeah, we go right,
dad joke? Okay, what kind of bagel can travel? And
I don't know a plane bagel?

Speaker 5 (01:38:57):
Oh wow? Tim d Dalton did have a beard. A
textra pointed out Tim Dalton had a beard be in Bond?

Speaker 7 (01:39:07):
Was he before Sean Connery? Oh no, he was after, No,
he was after he was after But which one?

Speaker 5 (01:39:13):
I don't think he did it for a full full
uh movie. But I'm trying to know which one.

Speaker 2 (01:39:21):
We'll find out which one.

Speaker 5 (01:39:22):
We'll look into it, all right, what is our dad joke?

Speaker 9 (01:39:26):
Adverb adverb cap a pee, c a p dash a
dash pie cap a pee?

Speaker 5 (01:39:37):
What what is the origin? Is that like French or something?

Speaker 7 (01:39:40):
Origin is it? Doesn't say?

Speaker 5 (01:39:43):
I have no idea adverb looks like French?

Speaker 7 (01:39:46):
French?

Speaker 5 (01:39:47):
Okay, what is it?

Speaker 7 (01:39:48):
We don't know from head to foot.

Speaker 5 (01:39:51):
Well, there you go. Where where in the world can
you find the bridge? To know where the railway bridge
that sits in the middle of a meadow, disconnected from
any real line.

Speaker 9 (01:40:00):
You said, We're in the world. So it's going to
be San Diego and it's along with Carmen done.

Speaker 6 (01:40:03):
No, I do know?

Speaker 5 (01:40:03):
This is in you know?

Speaker 9 (01:40:05):
Do you know? Ryan?

Speaker 6 (01:40:06):
I do not.

Speaker 5 (01:40:08):
It is in Latvia, the er Lavist village in the
Latvian countryside. Built in nineteen forty, the bridge was intended
to be part of a new rail line, but development
came to a halt when World War Two broke out.
So there that's the thing, you know?

Speaker 7 (01:40:20):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:40:21):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (01:40:22):
What is our jeopardy category?

Speaker 7 (01:40:24):
I feel likes and ravers likes? Okay and ravers.

Speaker 9 (01:40:29):
In twenty sixteen, this social network sextupled the ways you
can react to a posting, adding emojis.

Speaker 5 (01:40:36):
Yes, what is Facebook?

Speaker 2 (01:40:38):
Correct?

Speaker 5 (01:40:39):
Okay?

Speaker 9 (01:40:40):
In twenty seventeen, Netflix went from a rating system using
stars to a simpler one using body parts.

Speaker 5 (01:40:46):
Mandy, what is thumbs correct?

Speaker 9 (01:40:50):
Jane Lynch leads a cast of comedians in an audiobook
reading funny review from this shopping site.

Speaker 5 (01:40:58):
Mandy, what is Amazon Direct?

Speaker 2 (01:41:01):
Hold On?

Speaker 8 (01:41:02):
Hold on?

Speaker 9 (01:41:02):
I must be on a delay because I said that
way before, Mandy. That's okay, yeah, yeah, Mandy, next time
you gotta wait, okay. Commending at midgame, this four letter
site suggests detailing your favorite dishes when writing restaurant reviews on.

Speaker 5 (01:41:15):
It Mandy, Mandy, what does he help?

Speaker 7 (01:41:19):
Correct?

Speaker 9 (01:41:19):
And finally, online h slash t is short for these
two words. A way to express gratitude, Ryan, Ryan, Hat tip, hat.

Speaker 7 (01:41:30):
Tip to you, Ryan, because that is correct. But many guess.

Speaker 11 (01:41:32):
All right, yeah, I mean a couple of those that
chimed in and it just didn't.

Speaker 7 (01:41:36):
I think the delay.

Speaker 2 (01:41:37):
That's all right?

Speaker 5 (01:41:38):
Yah though, yeah sorry, yeah yeah. Have fun at Horizon.
Go see those guys at Park Meadows. We'll be back
on Monday. Just keep it ready here in the meantime,
on Koa