11-21-24 FULL SHOW - Comedian JP Sears, Plus The High Cost Of A Welfare State

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
No, it's Mandy Connell and Don.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
On KOA ninety one FM.

Speaker 4 (00:15):
Got Way, I want to syntyre Mandy Connell, Keith Baking,
sad Day, Welcome up, Welcome.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
To a What day is the Thursday edition of the show.
It is Friday for a Ride, but we'll be here
without him tomorrow. It's okay, it's okay, okay, today just.

Speaker 5 (00:42):
To make up for tomorrow that you're not going to
be here, all right, No problem, don't don't remind Zach.
Let him know you already did it for tomorrow. It'll
be fine, It'll be fine, Okay, you guys. I don't
normally open the show talking about what I'm about to
talk about, but here's what I'm doing right now. I
am on koa website, which is where you're going to
find Mandy's blog. Mandy'sblog dot com redirects you to my

(01:04):
page on Koa's website. And we have these boxes of
advertising on the right hand side of the page. And
I don't know who controls those boxes of advertising. I
have no idea who actually sells the advertising that goes
in those boxes. But currently in my sponsored content on
my Koa Colorado page, there appears to be some sort.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Of sex toy.

Speaker 5 (01:25):
And I'm thinking to myself, this is where we are
in America today. What yeah, I mean, that's what it
looks like. What's say it says? Well, I don't want
to talk about that on the air. It just looks
like it's signed to help women with a with a
with some you know, dryness issues. Yeah, I'm yeah, wow,

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and I'm just a little bit. We got one for neuropathy.
We got a derma planing tool. So obviously they know
the demographic that I'm in here because all of these
are like, oh you know what, getting older, I'm getting older,
these are gonna be I don't mind that so much.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
I really don't care. I just don't care about that part.

Speaker 5 (02:07):
I was like right there, like right now, if you
come into the iHeartMedia Lobby, there's a big window behind me,
you could see me and it looks like I'm looking
at a phone.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
JP saw that, and he's canceled, right, Oh no, he didn't.
He did not. Yeah. The one person that wouldn't did not.

Speaker 5 (02:22):
It is JP Sears, isn't it I have the wrong
a wrong name once again, I rod. I went back
and looked to see when I first interviewed JP Sears.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Do you know when I did? When dinosaurs were on
in the no hau hau hau. I'm sorry. I was
just playing until the ad that was on the blog
A game right.

Speaker 5 (02:41):
Back in twenty nineteen, almost when dinosaurs will rolled me
the Earth.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
I was an early adopter.

Speaker 5 (02:46):
Do you think you'll be grateful today when he comes
on the show and be like, you know what it
all took off after that February twenty nineteen interview with you, Mandy? Yes, okay,
I'll make sure, yes, mention. I'll remind him multiple times.
I let another holification he's canceled. Let's talk about what's
on the blog, and I'd love to know what comes
up in your sponsored content box on your desktop if

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you go to our page on kay Colorado, they.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Mind getting Colorado Gibs day mentioned that's what you have
in the sponsored content Yeah, right on the right. Oh wait,
oh wait, no, that's above that, so right there, I have.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Looks like something about a spy assassin past or movie. Okay, okay,
something about two and a half men. Wait the show
Charlie's Girlfriends or something. Drone captures something human no human
has ever seen. Well, yours are far more in the mind.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
Men.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Oh there's yours.

Speaker 5 (03:42):
And again I have no idea where that content comes from. Yeah,
no clue, far far away.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
I can assure you of that.

Speaker 5 (03:48):
So whatever comes up, you can always text us at
five six six nine. Oh, and let me know what
weird commercials you have in your sponsored content section, because
they're all different. You guys, what we do with the
internet now is absolutely credible. They know who you are,
they know how old you are, they know what conditions
you are likely to have at your age.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
A lot of people don't like that. Actually I actually
like that.

Speaker 5 (04:11):
Well, see I'm not saying I just want people. Have
you been watching the Social Smarts with Agnes series that
I keep posting on the blog.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
It is so good.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
They're like nine minutes long.

Speaker 5 (04:20):
And she teaches you all this stuff about how you're
being tracked constantly on the web. It is fascinating, really fascinating.
So people are also making more recommendations for your New
Orleans trip. He rode Nola tomorrow Dragos for chargirled oysters.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Do you eat oysters? He doesn't eat oysters Rocky Mountain once. Yep,
katies for shrimp and grits. Do you eat grits? You know?

Speaker 3 (04:42):
I actually just tried grits, I think for the first
ever time at the Broncos game.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
They had it in the in the in the press.
Shrimp and grits are just grit just grits. Yeah, did
you like them at all? Well? They were weird. Okay,
here's the thing about grit Like, here's the thing about grits.
You need to have. I have entry level grits, Like.

Speaker 5 (04:59):
When I make a dish for brunch, I have this
grits casserole that I make well because it's full of
cheese and they're fluffy and they're really light. So that's
your entry level grits, right, because they've got a lot
of stuff in them that kind of doll up the flavor.
And then once you have entry level grits, then you
can move on, like I would recommend a cheese grit
step down, Like a cheese grit is a mid level

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grit and then you want to go to regular plain grits,
which is butter and salt and pepper lasts, because that's
your hardcore grits. You gotta work your way towards them.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
They were in the middle of the first two you mentioned.
They were very very very fluffy and very cheesy. Okay,
so those were cheese you got. You gotta we gotta
go back.

Speaker 5 (05:36):
I'll bring in a grit's cast role and you will
try that on the heir. Well, we'll just try it.
We'll try you know what, the next time the wine
you he comes in, maybe we will have some sort
of grit tasting as well. It's corn, It's just ground corn.
Grits are the cousin of polenta. So polenta is a

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finally more finely ground grit that the Italian and make
right with a little bit of chicken broth and cheese
and stuff. But grits you just salt water grits. That's
how you make grits, and then you add stuff to
them as they go. I love grits, Mandy. I still
remember where there was the first where I was the
first time you interviewed JP and I had you ask

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him a dumb question because I thought he was a
different guy.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Lol.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yikes, Yeah, Mandy, shrimp and grits. Yes, indeed, yes, yes, indeed,
let's see here, let's do the blog.

Speaker 5 (06:30):
Let's get into the show. Let's just barrel through. It's
I know it's Thursday. Well, let's barrel through the show today.
Let's get a rod to the airport on time. Yes,
it turns the place on three.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Sh We're gonna make it have a sense of urgency. Okay,
I wish sense of urgency here, I should have.

Speaker 5 (06:48):
All right, find the blog by going to mandy'sblog dot com.
Then you can text me what is on the sponsored
content of your page.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
On your computer, look for the headline that.

Speaker 5 (06:56):
Says eleven twenty one twenty four blog comedian J plus
the high cost of a welfare state. Click on that,
and here are the headlines you will find with.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
It anybon office, half of American, all with ships and
clipments of say that's going to press plant.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
Today.

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I'm the blog comedian JP Sears is a funny guy.
Canada is squandering its future. Matt Gates bows out, Pete
Hegseth has plausible deniability. Alaskans keep ranked choice voting. Europe
is warned its welfare state is not sustainable. Thanksgiving travels
gonna be messy. Parents should be part of mental health

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voters want public safety, Excel leaves, low income evy buyers,
hanging dems, get ready to pay back unions, Boulder Valley
Band cell phones in school. Thanks to all who've donated
at our food drive yesterday. A rotten bus driver has
been fired. Plan family fun for this holiday season. DPD
says violent crime is down, but residents aren't buying it.

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Mayor Mike draws a red line with Trump. Lake and
Riley's murderer will stay in the US. Russia watches ballistic
missiles at Ukraine. Biden's HHS secretary can't explain how children
were pimped with their help. The workers are restless. The
Chris Kandel market is worth a visit. Things to do
in Denver this weekend, A fantastic explanation of why re

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refrigerate eggs. You maniacs can buy Nick ribsauce now, and
Israel offers a massive reward.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Those are the.

Speaker 5 (08:21):
Headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
So be sure and check them all out there till
we got some ones. Thank you, Manny. You know you
know Nancy.

Speaker 5 (08:32):
We haven't talked about Nancy lately. Of course, I'm speaking
of speaker emeriti. Nancy Pelosi, she gave herself a made
up title. There has never been a speaker emeritus.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (08:44):
Do you know what when someone says president emeritus, Okay,
you know what that means. But not just not just
every president does not.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Become a president emeritus.

Speaker 5 (08:54):
To become president emeritus, you have to have a significant
impact on whatever you're leading, and every he has to
decide you deserve.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
This time hall of fame.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
We have to wait a certain time to get that
time to get it immediately after Trump as presidents after
his first No, that's.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
Not presidents don't do this.

Speaker 5 (09:11):
This is more for like people who are in boards
or leading universities or leading.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
You know your time, you'll be host emeritus. I hope so, okay,
and I hope I know so Okay.

Speaker 5 (09:21):
Dave Logan is going to be Mike rosen koa host emeritus.
I mean, he's got the odd in any case. Nancy
Pelosi made herself Speaker emerita because well, nobody's ever.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
Done that before. But she's not willing to stop.

Speaker 5 (09:35):
You know, she is living under the illusion and I
say that very purposely right now that she is still
in charge of the Democratic Party. But Here's here's what's
super cool to watch, you guys. We are getting to
watch karma in action. Because it was Nancy Pelosi who
called up Joe Biden and when he answered the phone,

(09:55):
she reached around to stab the knife into his back.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
It is widely believed that she is the one who.

Speaker 5 (10:01):
Said we will we will use you know something against
you if you don't step down, she threatened him. He
stepped down, tried to get the knife out of his back.
But guess who is on the other end of that
knife now, Nancy Pelosi. Younger Democrats in the House are
basically telling her to sit down and shut up because
now they blame her for another four years of Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
This is all part of the.

Speaker 5 (10:25):
Insane blame game that is going on on the left
right now. I had the video on the blog. We
didn't get to it yesterday, but I had the video
of a sink wigger from the Young Turks. He he's
he's so close to being red pilled right now, like
so close to making the full eye opening conclusion that

(10:46):
the party he's been a part of for so long
is just an unmitigated disaster. But he was on with
Piers Morgan and Alan Lichtman is the insufferable professor who
was everywhere before the election with his keys to the
White House. I know who's gonna win, and it is
Gamala Harris. Well, go back to yesterday's blog. You can

(11:07):
find that by going to Mandy's blog and going to
latest posts and scrolling over to the right until you
see yesterday's blog and click on that. There they get
into a knockdown, drag out fight on Piers Morgan.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
It is magic. But what's happening is nobody.

Speaker 5 (11:24):
Wants to believe that they have gone too far, because
what the Democratic Party did before this election was wrapped
themselves in a shroud of self righteousness.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
Right.

Speaker 5 (11:37):
They were the ones that were going to save democracy.
They were the ones that were going to stop black
people from.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Being thrown back into chains. They were the ones that
were gonna prevent gay marriage from being illegal again. They
were the ones who were gonna do all these things
that are not gonna happen anyway.

Speaker 5 (11:53):
And they ran around telling everyone that Trump was a Nazi,
Trump was Hitler, Maga was a basic the second coming
of the Gestappo. And then right after the election you
have Joe Biden and Joe Biden smiling widely while they're
meeting with Donald Trump, who just a little time earlier told.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
You was the biggest threat to democracy in the nation's history.
And so the people on the left, they don't want
to believe that they're not still in their morals shroud, right,
but they don't.

Speaker 5 (12:23):
They don't want to consider the fact that Americans got
tired of being scolded by them. Americans got tired of
being told that they were the problem and if they
didn't behave in the right way according to the Democratic Party,
then they should have everything in their lives stripped away
through cancel culture. They don't want to think about that
because then they have to realize that the reason people

(12:44):
didn't vote for them, many people is because they became
the exact same thing they accused Republicans of doing. And
there's there's a big sort of sort of struggle for
the soul of the Democratic Party happening right now.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
It is significant, and.

Speaker 5 (13:03):
I hope, I hope, I hope that logical cooler heads
prevail and that people who have the ability to move
the direction of the party recognize that nobody wants to
be told what pronouns they.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Have to use or over it. We're over it. We're
not going to do it. We're not going to participate.

Speaker 5 (13:21):
Nobody's going to be told that there's five hundred different genders.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
We're over it. We're over it.

Speaker 5 (13:28):
I've started trying to impart the following when it comes
to gender. When I hear a young especially it's all girls,
by the way, it's all girls that are like, I'm
just going to go by they them, and I'm like, okay,
why what is it about being female that you think
you're doing wrong that you have to take the female
out of your pronouns? Legitimate question like what are you

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doing wrong in being a woman? And then when you
point out to them that they're simply subscribing to the
same labels that they want to eskew by deciding they're
the wrong kind of woman, And it's just like, I'm
not gonna do that. You're a woman, You're whatever kind.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
Of woman you are.

Speaker 5 (14:06):
You are a woman, and it's okay, you don't have
to be like anybody else. We have done so much
to the mindset of young people when it comes to
this stuff. It is absolutely insane, completely insane. You have
all these kids in high school that are in no way, gay,
no way.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
Don't get me wrong.

Speaker 5 (14:26):
Some of these kids are gay, but a ton of
them are not gay at all. But now they're like,
I'm bisexual. Have they ever had a same sex relationship?

Speaker 1 (14:33):
No?

Speaker 5 (14:34):
But you know what, when they're celebrating gay people in
schools and not celebrating straight people, which group do you
want to be in?

Speaker 2 (14:41):
I did not mean to go down this entire tear.

Speaker 5 (14:43):
I had no idea. I started with sex toys on
the block. I have no idea what's going on right now.
I apologize for that.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
Mandy got some good.

Speaker 5 (14:50):
Lines on the text line already are a common spirit
health text line.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
You can reach it by going to five six six nine. Oh, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (14:57):
I can't stand Bill Maher, but he let the Democrat
have it. I'll send a leak full video, not say
for air. I love Bill Maher, and here's why. Bill
Maher is a true classical liberal. He believes in minding
his own business, he believes in allowing people to make
their own choices, and what he calls out the Democratic
Party for is only its worst instincts.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
I love him.

Speaker 5 (15:20):
I don't agree with him on everything, but I love
him absolutely. Mandy my candy bar. Pronouns are her she,
that's a good one.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
I like it. I like it a lot. Ay Rod
how fun? In New Orleans, that's New Orleans for you
Yankee types. That's from rank.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
Also, I have been told multiple times to not say Nolans.
Apparently people there. Hey, well, everybody that I know that
is from.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
New Orleans calls it Nola. Everybody, okay, see New Orleans
or but yeahs. Yeah, you'll get You'll hear locals do it,
but usually it gets.

Speaker 5 (15:56):
It's like when you go to Louisville, Kentucky, and everybody's like,
oh no, you say Louisville.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
They're like, no, Louisville over.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
If I meet someone from there, as Knowlins, then I'll
say Nolins and say, hey, a local said that, so
shove it.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah, I don't.

Speaker 5 (16:10):
I don't think it's fine. Don't worry about It's fine. Mandy,
the knife was in the front. You are probably correct,
believe it or not, says this Texter. Biden will be
entitled to be referred to as President Biden until the
day he dies, especially if he's still in office.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
No, I still call former President's president whatever President Obama,
President Trump, President Carter. I mean, it's just an.

Speaker 5 (16:33):
Honorific that goes on, so you are a correct Texter.
He doesn't need the emeritus Mandy. Another Colorado DEM senator resigns,
Janet Buckner resigns effective the day after the twenty twenty
five session starts.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
What the hell is going on?

Speaker 5 (16:48):
I don't know, but part of it is these freaking
vacancy committees where they know that party insiders are going
to get to replace them in the legislature. That that
vacancy committee business has got to be stopped. There's got
to be another way to do this, because it is
not acceptable to have so many of our quote elected
representatives being appointed by party insiders.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
That's not okay.

Speaker 5 (17:10):
And I think that is going to take a citizen's
initiative to get that voted on because.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
They're never going to change it. They love it.

Speaker 5 (17:18):
Mandy, I have no sponsored content. When I look at
your blog, what does that signify?

Speaker 3 (17:23):
Well?

Speaker 5 (17:23):
Are you looking at it on the desktop or your phone?
You don't get that if you're on your phone.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
No, let me double check. I think you might A
crab meat po boy is the best.

Speaker 6 (17:32):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
Let me just say this.

Speaker 5 (17:33):
Last night, somebody told me that there is a new
Cajun restaurant in Parker and I went to it last night,
Jesse's Smoke and Nola, And they have a shrimp po
boy on the menu and an oyster po boy on
the menu, and I said, can you make me a shoyster?
I want to have shrimp half oysters on the same sandwich.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
I do have multiple po boy restaurant recommendations on the
list ready to go.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
Poe boys are just really good sandwiches.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
I actually also just had my first little mini po
boy at the same place I had the grits up
in the broncos.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Oh they had going on, which is is kind of funny,
but it's a there's a puny little po boy. It's
pretty good. Yeah, it was not bad. Big po boys
really good. But I like seafood po boys. I either
get drimp, I get oysters or crap.

Speaker 3 (18:17):
Yes, I know you city, Well, you know why I'm
going for the fun Because it's Vegas two point zher Okay,
because Vegas has stupid f one going so leave me alone.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
That's why I'm going to New Orleans in the first place. Okay,
wait a minute, it's not Vegas at all. It is
not at all.

Speaker 5 (18:31):
Oh no, there's one main reason why it is, Well,
because of the drinking on the street. But even on
Bourbon Street, it's a much better atmosphere than in Vegas.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
Yeah no, I'm yeah, it's literally the only other place.
Is there only two in the entire United States that
you can open carry? Isn't that the only alcohol? So
when I say in Vegas, that's the only reason why
I'm ready for everything. Else New Orleans, You're give me
all the New Orleans, give me everything. I'm ready for all.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
What's the weather going to be like for you? Beautiful?
Like sixties. That's fantastic. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Well Mandy
ad blockers for the win. Well, I'd hate to have
to do that on my computer at work that I
have to share with everyone.

Speaker 5 (19:09):
Oh, on the phone, you have to scroll to the bottom,
So just scrolling, scrolling and then see what it is.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Mandy, just curious.

Speaker 5 (19:16):
About how the left is actually acting like they lost
a dang football game and not the nation. They're blaming
the refs for the bad calls. Oh, perfect analogy.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yeah, sixty three, sixty seven, seventy six, seventy nine, seventy five.

Speaker 5 (19:29):
Remember it is a damp cold though, so it seems
like it's gonna be you might want a light chacker.
It feels colder, Okay, damp cold goes through a little bit,
so maybe a light jacket.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
Done. Just taking it with you, done, you know, just
getting that done, all right, you guys.

Speaker 5 (19:43):
I've got news of the rather large sort. But I
also have a couple of guests. I'm super excited. JP
Sears is making a return visit to the show first
visited in twenty nineteen, and now he's like a superstar
and performing at comedy works. We're also going to talk
to a and I don't know how to say her
last name. I'm going to find out when we talk
to her. She is currently Communications and Youth Programming advisor

(20:07):
for the Montreal Economic Institute.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
We're gonna have like a little nerdy.

Speaker 5 (20:10):
Conversation with her at one about how Canada's taxing and
spending are ruining young people's opportunities to have the same
level of success as their parents. And I also have
a story on the blog today about how the central
market in Europe in the EU has now come out
a central bank has now come out and said Europe's

(20:31):
social system is no longer sustainable, little economics and little
nerdy stuff. But when we get back, Matt Gates has
dropped out and Pete Hegsett's police investigation has been released.
We'll talk about those right after this. When I said
there is no way that Matt Gates is going to
get confirmed, well now we're not even going to have

(20:53):
the chance to find out if he would get confirmed
because he has dropped out of the race.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
And this is there's so many layers to this, it's
not even funny.

Speaker 5 (21:05):
First of all, when he was nominated to the Attorney
General's race, he immediately dropped out of Congress with some
lay mass excuse about how Florida had to have time
to do a special election and they wanted him to
be seated before the next session.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
Started, so he had to drop out right away. That
was an absolute lie.

Speaker 5 (21:25):
Because Marco Rubio, who's been nominated to be Secretary of State,
has not left his position in the Senate.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
He's from the same state, the same rules apply.

Speaker 5 (21:38):
What actually happened there is that Matt gets resigned from
the Senate a couple of days before the House Ethics
Committee was supposed to release its investigation into his super
creepy behavior with women and paying them for sex at
allegedly drug fueled parties.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
So he dropped out of Congress. But but this is
so this is so oh so important.

Speaker 5 (22:02):
He could be seated in the next Congress because he
just got re elected. So he dropped out as a
member of the current Congress that is seated now that
Congress will be replaced by the next Congress in January,
and Matt Gates could be a part of the next Congress,
except that would then reopen the House Ethics Investigation, and

(22:27):
nobody at this point wants to see that the issue
with the House Ethics Investigation being released. I would love
to see it released. But I do think that Mike
Johnson has a very good point in that once someone
leaves Congress, the Congress has no.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
Jurisdiction over that person.

Speaker 5 (22:47):
Right just like after Trump lost the election and the
Democrats decided to impeach him again even though he was
lame duck and only had a few months out left
in his in his tenure in office, it was just
designed to ensure that he would be so tainted going
forward that he could never get re elected again. That
was an Nancy Pelosi strategy. And we all see how
that worked out. So with Matt Gates, there was a

(23:10):
rumor on the web and I could not see where
it was coming from, so I did not include a
link to that. And I just don't know if I
see this happening. People are saying Ron DeSantis should appoint
him to Marco Rubio's seat once Marco Rubio is confirmed
as Secretary of State, and I have no reason to
believe at this moment in time that Marco Rubio is
going to have any problem being confirmed as Secretary of State.

(23:33):
I think he's going to walk through his confirmation hearings.
I think he's He's widely liked by people, and he
has a good reputation as being a solid guy. He
has not had any scandals pop up in in his history.
I'm sure they would have come up by now, but
I think he's going to sail through. So there's going
to be a vacancy in his seat that has to

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be filled, and Ron de Santis is going to appoint
someone to that seat, and there were some rumblings.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
That he would have point Matt Gates. I politically for Ron.

Speaker 5 (24:03):
DeSantis, I just don't see that happening because in Florida,
Matt Gates is a lot like Lauren Bobert is here
and that in his district people love him. But outside
of the northern part of the state, which is hard
core Trump country, like northern Florida from maybe like right
above Orlando up is hard core Trump country, like there's

(24:27):
no no chance that a Democrat's gonna win up there.
But south of that you have all of these urban
centers Orlando, Tampa, Miami.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
They went for Trump in this election, but that does not.

Speaker 5 (24:38):
Necessarily mean that they are lockstep Republicans.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
And a lot of those people do not like Matt Gates.

Speaker 5 (24:43):
And I'm talking about Republicans in those areas.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
Don't like Matt Gates.

Speaker 5 (24:49):
They don't like the fact that he blew up the
House with the motion of akate with no clear plan
on what to do next. It's like, if you want
to blow things up, at least tell us where you
want to go.

Speaker 2 (24:59):
He had no such plan.

Speaker 5 (25:01):
He was disruptive without being constructively disruptive. Now, I would
argue that I actually like Mike Johnson better than I
like Kevin McCarthy.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
But I didn't hate Kevin McCarthy.

Speaker 5 (25:12):
He was dealing with unruly children, and that's why a
lot of people don't like Matt gets so from Ron
DeSantis's position. Now, Ron DeSantis is term limited out as
Florida's governor after this election cycle. So he just won reelection,
so I think he has another four years. I'm pretty
sure he has another four years, and then after that

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he can't run for governor, but he certainly could run
for Senate. And Rick Scott I believe is going to
put himself in the presidential race in twenty twenty eight.
He was running for leadership in the Senate and did
not get it, but I think he's going to jump
into the race in twenty twenty eight. I see that
Rick Scott is a very very ambitious guy, and he's

(25:54):
currently one of the senators from Florida. So there's a
lot of different machinations going on there.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
I don't know. Matt Gates.

Speaker 5 (26:03):
I don't think could win a statewide election in the
next senatorial race that he would have to run in
if he was appointed to fill Marco Rubio's seat. It's
still competitive in Florida for Democrats at the state wide level.
It's competitive, but not you know, like here. I don't
even feel like it's competitive for Republicans right now. I mean,

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they have such a long slog to kind of do
over their image in this state, and they don't seem
to be making those moves necessarily, So lots going on there.
We certainly haven't heard the last of Matt Gates. My
prediction is he ends up on a Fox couch for
a while and then figures out his next step. And

(26:45):
I mean that as like a regular host or recurring
guest or whatever. I just I don't know, but he's
not going to be Attorney general. And now we'll have
to find out who Trump is going to pick next.
It is widely a rumored to be Matt Whitaker, who
was previous acting Attorney General before the President picked Bill
Barr to be the Attorney general. He is a Trump loyalist,

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which is so important to Trump. And I understand why,
you know, everybody's like Trump on standpoint and loyalists to
the DJ. Well, of course he does, because the DOJ
was weaponized against him from the moment he entered the.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
Race in twenty sixteen through now, so I get it.

Speaker 5 (27:24):
I would want the same thing he learned the last
time with Jeff Sessions when Jeff Sessions didn't force fully
shut down the Russian collusion nonsense that came from the
Clinton campaign, So I.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
Get why he wants a loyalist. Will have to see
who comes next.

Speaker 6 (27:37):
Now.

Speaker 5 (27:38):
Interesting story about Pete Hegsath, who has been nominated to
be the Secretary of Defense. I said yesterday about this.
I think I said it on air. I might have
just said it to ross every single person that I
know that served recently in the military. It loves this nomination,
loves it across the board, just loves Pete had cess

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nomination because he's been in combat recently and he loves America,
no doubt about it. And they want him to get
all the woke crap out of the military, and I
think that would happen. But he has now had to
deal with the rise of a situation that happened in
twenty seventeen, and the police was released by the City

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of Monterey, California, the police report, and I read what
media I covered in this report. It's twenty two pages
long and it ended with no charges being filed against
Pete Hegseath. And I read this report and this is
one of those you guys, I don't know what happened
between these two people, I do not know, but I

(28:46):
understand why the police did not charge because this is
a classic he said, she said, And this could be
a situation where an intoxicated man took advantage of another
woman who believes she was drubbed. But if that's what happened,
I would fully expect other women at some point in

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the near future to come forward because guys who do
stuff like that, they don't do it once. They do
it over and over again. It's a pattern of behavior.
And this happened back in twenty seventeen, so surely this
has happened before or after to someone else.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
If that occurred.

Speaker 5 (29:21):
But I could also believe beate Hegsth's version of events,
which is I had consensual sex with this woman and
then in order to save her marriage, she made up
a lie to tell her husband because she regretted it
once she did it. I can absolutely see that happening.
So I don't know what happened here, but I do
think that heg Seth does have plausible deniability and it

(29:44):
should be treated as such until we have anything.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
By the way, police talk to witnesses at the.

Speaker 5 (29:50):
Hotel, saw them together, saw them arguing there's her version
of events doesn't make sense because if I'm dealing with
a very drunk person that I had to intercede between
him and other women that he was aggressively flirting with
and asking them to come back to his room, that
did happen. That's not in dispute. He was getting a divorce.

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So say what you want about single men being aggressive,
trust me, that happens a lot. But I'm not going
into that person's room. I may if it's my job
to walk them back to their room, but I am
not entering that threshold. I am not crossing that threshold.
And I don't understand why this woman would have done
that in this situation, so that gives me pause. Again,

(30:35):
I don't know what happened. She could be telling the
truth one hundred percent, but we're never really gonna know.
But the police decided there wasn't enough there there to
file charges, and I think that he deserves that plausible
deniability until proven otherwise I will put myself in the
camp of I think Pete hadseth has plausible deniability in
that case.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
Will this sideline his confirmation? I don't know.

Speaker 5 (30:59):
All I can think of is you know, they tried
to sideline Brett Kavanaugh by bringing a woman who's even
the people she said were witnesses denied what occurred, and
yet many women on the left still think that she didn't.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
She told the truth.

Speaker 5 (31:14):
So you remember, believe all women as long as they're
accusing Republican men. But if they're accusing Democratic men, then
you know.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
You have to view it with a little little suspect.

Speaker 5 (31:28):
Hey, ay Rod, when you get down to New Orleans,
if you should have any interaction with the New Orleans
Police Department, please be respectful.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
In nineteen seventy one, wait a minute.

Speaker 5 (31:36):
In nineteen seventy one, in the spring, I was seventeen
years old and drunk in New Orleans. Through a case
of mistaken identity and my own stupid behavior, I was
charged with six felonies and five misdemeanors. The charges were
eventually dropped for lack of evidence, but it taught me
a very important lesson. Do not be respectful to the
New Orleans Police Department. Not do not be disrespectful. Okay,

(31:58):
disrespect do not be dis respectful. I absolutely will not.
I am very good to the police.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
I know they do great to work for US across
the entire United States of America.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
Get ready for me, New Orleans. There you go, because
I'm a coming, uh Mandy.

Speaker 5 (32:15):
When in New Orleans you have to go to Malatates,
the original Cajun restaurant, and get their muffaletta.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
It blows all poor boys.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
Wait.

Speaker 5 (32:21):
The muffalletta, though, is an advanced sandwich, and a rod's
not ready for a MUFFLETTA.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Muffletta is usually like this.

Speaker 5 (32:28):
You're not advanced enough for the sandwich. What has olive
topa nat on it is? Do you even like olives?

Speaker 1 (32:34):
No?

Speaker 2 (32:34):
Okay, that's what I'm saying. It's an advanced sandwich for you.

Speaker 5 (32:37):
You're not ready for the muffaletta, Anthony.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
It's just your years ago on olive sandwich. It's got olives,
it's got like what is is it capacla ham olive spread?

Speaker 3 (32:51):
What else is on a mufflett I haven't had one
of a touched half of those ingredients so far you mentioned, So.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
I'm telling you right now, let's see a muffle that's sandwich.

Speaker 5 (33:00):
A genuine muffle letta should be made with oven fresh
round Italian bread loaves topped with sesame seeds. The spicy,
tangy olive salad is what sets it apart. The meat
and cheese in this are Let's see, you got cheese,
mozzarella and provolone.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
You got those olive salad. You've got the homemade olive
salad is green.

Speaker 5 (33:25):
And black olives, pepper and chini, pickled cauliflower, cocktail, and
is garlic, caper, celery, carrots, onions chopped up into.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
A fine, a fine dice.

Speaker 3 (33:33):
And then you have meat.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. This little advance sandwich.

Speaker 5 (33:38):
It has Genoa salami ham mortels. It's a hard salami.
It's where it's from in Italy, Genoa, Italy, okay. And
then it has cooked ham mortidella. Mortidella is like a
a softer cured meat that has little pockets of fat
in it.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
And it's delicious, so sophisticated. I'm telling you it's an
advanced sandwich. I was high required. I'm just saying, you're
not ready for the muffaletta. Just not ready.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
Let's go through a trial of taste, blood testing to
make sure you are ready for the buffaletta.

Speaker 5 (34:13):
It's an advanced sandwich. Saying it's kind of like out
of you have an advanced sandwich, like like a muffaletta.
Have you ever heard of mulligatani soup?

Speaker 1 (34:21):
No?

Speaker 2 (34:21):
I did.

Speaker 5 (34:22):
Mulligatani is an actual soup, but it's an advanced soup.
You don't start with mullagatani. You start with chicken noodle,
you know what I mean. You start with your basic
level soups, and then you work your way up to mulligatani.
It's an actual soup, but it's in advance. There's a
lot of flavor profiles going on there. No look it up, mulligatani.

(34:43):
Stay it in your phone to turn SyRI on and
let me just say, mulligatani.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
I found it. Okay, that spelled interestingly. Yeah, ew great,
that's an advanced soup. Another yebrow required. Work your way
up to mulligatani. You know this is not an entry
level soup. It's advanced.

Speaker 5 (35:06):
I'm telling you this's just like this is an advanced sandwich, Mandy.
Apparently they have a parade department and for a small fee,
a rod can have a parade throne for him. You
should have looked into that. It's your birthday weekend and
you're not having a parade. I am the parade exactly.
He is the parade, ladies and germs.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
You heard it here.

Speaker 5 (35:25):
When we get back, I am very excited to talk
to a young woman who is with the Montreal Economic
Institute that's one of Canada's leading economic and public policy
think tanks.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
She wrote a great column about listen to.

Speaker 5 (35:38):
This, how Canada's high taxes are destroying opportunity for young people.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
Imagine that crazy. We're going to talk to her next
stick around.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
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Speaker 2 (35:55):
No, it's Mandy Connelly. Condo, kam.

Speaker 4 (36:05):
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Speaker 5 (36:18):
Why don't I turn my microphone on and try that again? Welcome, Welcome,
Welcome to the second hour of the show. I am
a trained professional Mandy Connell. Do not try this at home.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
Join, of course, by Anthony Rodriguez. You can call him
a rod Thank you Anthony.

Speaker 5 (36:31):
And we're also joined by a young woman named Samantha Diegris,
who is with the Montreal Economic Institute that's one of
Canada's leading economic and.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
Public policy think tanks.

Speaker 5 (36:42):
She just wrote an outstanding column in Canada's Financial Post
and the headline of it is declining tax competitiveness is
failing Canada's young people.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
Samantha, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 6 (36:57):
Thanks so much for having me.

Speaker 5 (36:58):
So tell me what inspired this particular column about how
high taxes and high spending in Canada are squelching the
opportunities for young people.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
Sure, so, the.

Speaker 6 (37:11):
Tax Foundation comes out with its annual tax competitiveness rating,
and what my colleagues and I realized was that we
were getting bumped too spots compared to last last year.
Last year we ranked fifteenth and this year seventeenth, and
we wanted to know why. And the Tax Foundation basically
came out and said that Canada's decision to increase the

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capital gains inclusion rate. So capital gains is the profit
you make on stocks or if you buy a if
you sell a second property, say, our government decided to
raise that from fifty percent to sixty six point seven percent,
and this is why we dropped.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
So I just want to be clear. I want to
understand that I just heard you properly.

Speaker 5 (37:53):
If you make a profit, the government is going to
take more than half of it, just for the privilege
of being in Canada.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
Well, not exactly.

Speaker 6 (38:06):
So the inclusion rate means that on that profit, say
you make one hundred dollars, fifty percent of that was taxable.
Now sixty six point seven percent is taxable. But when
you compare it to the States, I know you guys
have one hundred percent inclusion rate, but your effective rate
is actually much lower. I think it's about fifteen to

(38:27):
twenty percent, depending on where you find yourself. In Canada,
it's about thirty three percent minimum.

Speaker 5 (38:33):
Well, so you're going to be tax thirty three percent
on sixty five percent, So that's pretty significant. And why
are these taxes so high? What are you guys getting
for those taxes? And what has been happening lately with
Canadian government spending.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
Well, the irony of.

Speaker 6 (38:51):
All this, Mandy is that our government will tell us
it's all for intergenerational fairness. It's the rich in Canada
have gone by without paying their fair share and this
is retribution for that, when in reality, what this did
was it sparked a one time fire sale of assets,
and our Parliamentary Budget Office, which reviews spending and tax revenue,

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that this money after the first year is not going
to get us as much in terms of tax revenue
as the government predicted. So basically it's it's ideological. They're
saying that this is, you know, a way to balance
the scales for young people who are essentially boxed out
of the housing market as it is, But in reality,

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it's not going to get us a whole lot of money,
and in fact, it's going to deter investment.

Speaker 5 (39:41):
This is very similar to the same tales that I've
been talking about for a long time here in the
United States, and that government spending is now sucking up
so much of the economy that it is very, very
difficult to have the extra extra money laying around to
expand a business or hire an employee or.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
Do any of those things.

Speaker 5 (40:00):
But you're looking at this from the perspective of the
future of the young people in Canada. I had no
idea that young Canadians are the unhappiest group of people
in the G seven.

Speaker 2 (40:10):
That's kind of crazy to me.

Speaker 6 (40:14):
Oh, it's it's, you know, and honestly, it's not super surprising.
If you look at a bunch of metrics on healthcare,
one in every four young Canadians, so Canadians under thirty
five don't have access to a doctor, a primary care physician,
which means whenever we get sick, we either have to
pray or we go to an emergency room. Young Canadians

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have stalled having children, getting into the housing market, and
so this just seems like another, you know, another impediment
to success and you know, living well in Canada. They
want to make it harder for us to start a
business and you know, build something of ourselves in our communities.

Speaker 2 (40:53):
I worry where are things now? I know that Justin
Trudeau is having some different cult tea. Are are Canadians
pushing back against the sort of grandiose social engineering plans?

Speaker 6 (41:06):
Are they?

Speaker 2 (41:06):
Are they sick of it?

Speaker 4 (41:07):
Yet?

Speaker 2 (41:08):
I guess is what I'm asking.

Speaker 6 (41:12):
Yeah, I think that we are seeing the Conservatives in
Canada pull about twenty points ahead the federal Liberals, which
is quite surprising. They're performing extremely well amongst younger cohorts,
and of course it's a reaction to the fact that
again by every single metric, we're doing worse and will
do worse than our parents, and the fact that they've

(41:34):
just made it harder for us to build a business.
Fifty percent of Canadians are employed by small and medium enterprises.
One point twenty six million Canadians will be tax and
an extra rate now because of this. And it's not
like we're flushed flush with businesses. Twenty years ago Canada
had one hundred thousand more entrepreneurs than we did today.
So you know, we see the trends.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
We see that.

Speaker 6 (41:57):
You know, we're lower on business.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
We're lower on business.

Speaker 6 (42:01):
Business investment per worker in Canada is about ten thousand
dollars less than per worker.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
In the US. Holy cow.

Speaker 5 (42:09):
I just got a text message on our listener text
line Mandy As a Canadian who left asked her about
the price of beer in Ontario. Lord tundering Jesus talk
about tax to death seventy dollars for twenty four cans
of beer.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
Insane.

Speaker 5 (42:24):
I didn't expect beer to make an appearance. But isn't
that sort of indicative of what everything is like now?
I mean, are all the taxes that high? Oh?

Speaker 6 (42:35):
Absolutely, I'm not sure what it is in the States,
but in Canada a lot of our provinces have liquor
boards and you can, until very recently in Ontario specifically,
only buy alcohol through the state. In Quebec, it's the
province where I'm from, it's essentially the same. You can
buy beer and wine at the corner store, but liquor

(42:57):
and anything you know, very nice you have to go
through the government. Marijuana, it's the same same way through
the government, and the reason is because they the markup
is substantial when that when the government comes in. And
not to mention also inter provincial trade of alcohol, so
you're it is very very difficult to say, you know,
you want to buy a nice wine from British Columbia,

(43:17):
I want to order it online to Quebec. Not allowed
because the government stands in the way of trade so
that they can benefit from it.

Speaker 5 (43:25):
So we have a lot of people in the state
sort of wax poetic about especially the healthcare system. And
I thought that was interesting that you brought up the
healthcare system as a specific example. Do you think that
if there was a vote, would Canadians vote to partially
privatize or maybe fully privatize that system in the hopes

(43:45):
of getting better care.

Speaker 2 (43:46):
Is there any polling date on that.

Speaker 6 (43:51):
Yeah, a growing number of Canadians, I would say a majority,
but a growing number of Canadians are open to allowing
kind of more independent actors into our private into our
our public health care system, because what we're seeing now
is just, yeah, it's unconscionable. You know, the healthcare, the
public and universal healthcare system in Canada used to be
such a point of national pride. But now that six

(44:11):
point five million Canadians don't have a family doctor, people
are ending up bottlenecking emergency rooms. People are delaying surgeries
that are way outside what is medically recommended. Some provinces
are having to actually send patients to the United States
and paying for it there because they can't get treatment
in Canada. And growing up, you know, the American healthcare

(44:34):
system was a huge fear mongering point amongst Canadians. You know,
we hear horror stories about people having to sell their
homes to receive treatment. And of late, Mandy, I've not
heard anything negative about the American healthcare system from in
Canada at least.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
Samantha Digress is my guest.

Speaker 5 (44:51):
You really should read her column from the Financial Post
in Canada. She's with the Montreal Economic Institute. I appreciate
the work that you're doing, Samantha. Keep up the great
job and hopefully we'll talk again.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
In the future.

Speaker 7 (45:04):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
So much many, all right, That is Samantha Digress. And
you know the reason I do stories like that is.

Speaker 5 (45:09):
Because it kills me when young people point to socialized
medicine in Canada or the UK as an example. The
UK right now, in their socialized medicine program has the
longest waiting list they've ever had for people to get service.
People with cancer are getting a diagnosis and then waiting
four to six months to start treatment, and that's after

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they already waited six seven months to get the diagnosis.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
I mean, this is not it is not a good situation.

Speaker 5 (45:39):
And when you talk about Scandinavian social systems, I've got
a story about that today that is absolutely nuts and
should go far to dispel the notion that somehow we
need European style socialism in our country. Now, when I
say European style socialism, that is high levels of service
and very high taxation, but.

Speaker 2 (46:00):
It's not high enough.

Speaker 5 (46:03):
The problem is is that, oh dag nabbit, I just
got Paywald from how I thought this.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
Didn't know this story was Paywald. You guys. I try
really hard not to give you.

Speaker 5 (46:13):
Guys a Paywald story, but sometimes they sneak through, and
this is one of them. But it's so important that
I want to make sure we get this story because
oh gosh, I'm gonna have to find it.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
It's so good.

Speaker 5 (46:25):
Okay, I'm gonna do this for memory, and I'll find
the story as we go on. The EU Bank has
now come out and said that the European style socialism
that they enjoy, they take for granted, they kind of
look to and expect, is completely unsustainable, completely unsustainable, and

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they have to convince people that they are.

Speaker 2 (46:55):
Going to fix it somehow.

Speaker 5 (46:58):
But they can't fix it because at the same time
that the system is unsustainable, it is also incredibly expensive,
and European business is.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
Falling way behind, and I mean way behind when it
comes to how to pay for this.

Speaker 5 (47:17):
It's the typical socialist story and that socialism is great
until you run out of other people's money, right, And
that's what's happening.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
They're running out of other people's money.

Speaker 4 (47:29):
So it is.

Speaker 5 (47:32):
A perfect example in real time. This is why I
talk about things. When I got my first show in
two thousand and five, I used to talk about Venezuela
all the time. Now, at the time, Hugo Chavez was
still in charge, he was still the guy making the decisions,
and I told people, like, this is going to end badly.

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There's no way it can't end badly because socialism, communism
it always and badly with people being oppressed, people starving,
people not being able to provide for their families because
central planning fails every single time it's tried. So I
started watching Venezuela and I kept telling people, I know,
you don't care about Venezuela because Venezuela is far away.

(48:14):
Maybe you want to go visit there one day, but
you're not moving there.

Speaker 2 (48:16):
People don't care.

Speaker 5 (48:17):
But this is our chance to see this stuff just
have its natural death in real time. And that's kind
of how I feel about European socialism. We're going to
watch its death in real time. And don't get me wrong,
I don't want people to suffer. But the reality is

(48:37):
is that they have declining birth rates, just like we
have declining birth rates here.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
They have that exact same situation in Europe, even worse, and.

Speaker 5 (48:46):
They have more people who are aging into the pension
system that are being born to pay for the pension system.
And the problem that they're having now across Europe. Whenever
a politician comes in and says, look, we got to
make some changes or we're going to.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
Be bankrupt and we can't afford to do anything.

Speaker 5 (49:03):
And by the way, the only reason that European nations
have been able to create these giant welfare systems is
because they haven't been paying for their own defense. I mean,
that is the reality of that situation. They're simply not
paying for their own defense, and that means that the
United States has been paying for it for them. I

(49:27):
got a lot of you texting in on the Common
Spirit Health text line five six to sixth nine to oh,
that's five sixty sixth nine.

Speaker 4 (49:32):
Oh.

Speaker 5 (49:32):
I had a condo in Portavarta and half the vacationers
were Canadians getting knee replacements.

Speaker 2 (49:38):
My favorite story.

Speaker 5 (49:39):
About the Canadian healthcare system comes from Southwest Florida, Naples, Florida,
to be specific. So I met this doctor at a
charity function I was at and we had a long conversation.
He only worked from November to April. He had a
clinic in Naples that only did hip replacements, and he
had a small hotel that he owned right next to

(50:01):
this clinic in Naples, and from November to April he
did nothing but hip replacements for cash from Canadians. They
would come down, they would stay in the hotel for
a week while they recovered, then they would go home
and they would pay cash because if they had to
wait for that in Canada, it could be years before
they got a hip replacement.

Speaker 2 (50:22):
And I said, well, why don't you do them the
rest of the year. He said, I don't have to.
On the day seated surgery, he did like fourteen hip
replacements in one day. In one day.

Speaker 5 (50:35):
The man was a hip replacement machine. So he literally
took six months off a year because he didn't have
to work.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
He made a fortune.

Speaker 5 (50:43):
And by the way, he had other surgeons in his
practice that did work those other years, but he chose
not to. He just worked six months a year only
cash pay. Most aced ninety five percent of the people
he worked on were Canadian. I just found that absolutely
just fascinating. Mandy, your Canadian guest, represents about why we,

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the unruly revolutionaries, chose to kick the Brits out of
the country. We may have slipped a bit, certainly half
of us have, but still exactly right. We fought a
war over it. They still have the King on their
coins Mandy, Am I hearing this?

Speaker 3 (51:20):
Am I hearing this?

Speaker 5 (51:21):
Issue with taxes in Canada? This is not exactly on point,
but we are staying in Vancouver for two days next August.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
Before our cruise to Alaska. The taxes and.

Speaker 5 (51:33):
Fees my wife had to pay was over two hundred
and twenty bucks. First of all, Yeah, that is Canadian.
That's Canada for you. They really really go after the
tourists to pay more than their share. But Vancouver's worth it.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
I love that town, Just love it, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (51:49):
Would government price controls on pharmaceuticals and healthcare be sustainable?

Speaker 2 (51:53):
The Dems want to do it with food.

Speaker 5 (51:55):
Price controls only create scarcity, period, That's the only thing
they do because we are the like, here's the thing
about pharmaceutical prices in the United States, we subsidize pharmaceuticals
for the rest of the world, we really do. We

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are paying the big prices because they don't. Now here's
the difference when you go and we'll talk about the
national healthcare system and I wish I had these numbers
in front of me, but I don't. I'm just doing
this for memory, and I don't have the actual numbers, so.

Speaker 2 (52:28):
I'm not going to give them. But if you need
an MRI in the United States, you look at.

Speaker 5 (52:33):
How many MRI machines are available for every person in
a given area, right the per capita number of MRI machines.
In the United States, it is not difficult to find
an MRI. If you want a cash pay, you can
get an MRI very very quickly, very quickly. In the
UK they have like one MRI machine for one hundred
thousand people. It's some crazy numbers. So if you need

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an MRI, you got to get in line. Because hospitals
don't make as much money on an MRI. They don't
have that many machines. Those machines are expensive. Our healthcare
system is far more available. You can have cheap, you
can have quality, or you can have wait a minute, cheap,
quality or fast. You can't have all three, right, we

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have quality and fast, we don't have cheap. Which would
you prefer? Which you will like healthcare that is in
theory free but you can't get it, Or you have
health care that's in theory free but it's substandard. Or
you have health care that is fast and efficient but
you got to pay for it. I mean, I know

(53:41):
what I would choose Mandy Beer Canadian up here again,
thanks for that interview. So many think the healthcare system
up there is utopia. It's not for emergency sure in
and out, nothing out of pocket, almost nothing now anything
that is a non emergency get in line.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
Were point.

Speaker 5 (54:03):
There are lots of Canadians who don't have a primary
care physician, and that is something we all take for granted.
But price controls have never made anything better.

Speaker 2 (54:14):
Ever.

Speaker 5 (54:16):
This is like Ross was telling a story. I heard
him telling a story about this, and it was so perfect.
He was in Russia at some point and they were
out of gas where they were, and they said, well,
can we go over to that place over there and
buy gas? And the guy said, well, it's really expensive
over there, and he said, okay, well let's get gas here.
Well we don't have any gas here, but it's cheap gas,
but we don't have any If you want cheap prices

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for drugs you can't get then, yeah, price controls work great,
really really great. And that is sarcasm. Now, when we
get back, I have a lot of stuff on the
blog that we've not gotten to. We talked about Matt
Gates bowing out. We talked about Pete Hegsath ooh ooh,
I have an update on rate choice voting in Alaska.

(54:58):
Oh boy, this Alaskan returns election returns take forever because
they have to bring in ballots from the hinterlands. They
have to let people mail their balance and then bring
them in from the hinterlands, and ranked choice voting takes longer.
But I want you guys to hear first of all
the results of this election in Alaska with ranked choice voting,

(55:23):
and then I'm going to tell you what they did
with ranked choice voting right after that. Hey, if you're
traveling for Thanksgiving and you're flying, the weather.

Speaker 2 (55:34):
Report next week is bad. They're having a huge storm
on the West coast. They're having storms on the Eastern corridor.

Speaker 5 (55:42):
So if you're planning on flying for Thanksgiving, consider this
your PSA.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
Do two things.

Speaker 5 (55:47):
Number one, check your flight status before you leave for
the airport.

Speaker 2 (55:51):
That's thing number one. Thing number two bring your patients
to the airport.

Speaker 3 (55:55):
Ooh.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
Pro tip number three.

Speaker 5 (55:57):
If your flight gets canceled, do not stand in line
waiting to talk to an agent. Stand in line with
your app open on your phone and find yourself another
flight and book it. Don't wait book the other flight.
If you can get on the same airline, great, you
can just say cancel that. Let's do this because it's

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gonna be nuts and there's gonna be a lot of
people in line. But and if you get stuck somewhere
in a layover, like they cancel your flight, you have
to stay overnight.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
If you're like me, I don't want to sleep on
the floor, so I.

Speaker 5 (56:31):
Immediately first as soon as I say your flight's canceled,
the first thing I do is go and find a
hotel room, and then I handle everything else. So there's
a little pro tips for flying through weather that is
less than nice. We are going to talk about Alaska
ranked choice voting. How did that turn out? I've got
the answer for you.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
Right after this.

Speaker 5 (56:47):
It's not going anywhere in Alaska. The move to repeal
rank choice voting has failed. Now they have not officially
certified their election, but they have pretty much counted all
the ballots. There are a couple races that are going
to have to go to a recount, so the complete

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certification of their election will probably be November thirtieth.

Speaker 2 (57:13):
And before you're like, what the heck?

Speaker 5 (57:17):
They use ranked choice voting and it takes longer to
count the votes.

Speaker 2 (57:21):
That's just the reality of it.

Speaker 5 (57:24):
So there was a lot of money spent on the
side to not repeal ranked choice voting, and it worn't
and it worked by just barely a squeaker. And when
I say barely a squeaker, the final count in the
unofficial results had one hundred and fifty nine thousand, nine

(57:44):
hundred and fifty five Alaskans in favor of repealing ranked
choice voting and one hundred and sixty thousand, six hundred
and nineteen people said.

Speaker 2 (57:56):
We want to keep it, a six hundred and sixty
four vote margin. Now let's talk about how ranked choice
voting worked in Alaska this time.

Speaker 5 (58:05):
Well, the big scuttle butt about ranked choice voting was
that a lot of people said, look, ranked choice voting
is why Alaska had a Democrat sent to Congress for
the first time in like seventy years, because it has
been right leaning for a lot.

Speaker 2 (58:21):
I mean, you don't move to.

Speaker 5 (58:22):
Alaska because you're a conformist, you know what I mean.
You're not going to pick up and move up stakes
because you want.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
To be like everybody else.

Speaker 5 (58:29):
So Alaska is full of people, rugged individualists who don't
really care for government interventions, so you would think it
would be a natural for Republicans, and normally it has been.
But in the first ranked choice election, Nick Begich and
Sarah Palin went after each other with such viciousness in
the primary that Beggage's voters would not vote for Palin

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number two and Palin's voters would not vote for Beggage's
number two. So a Democrat, Mary Pelton, actually won the
House of Representatives race last time when right choice voting
was first in put in play. This time, Republican House
candidate Nick Begich defeated Mary Peltola quite easily. Now Peltola

(59:16):
has not conceded the election as of yet, but Beggage
was ahead by more than eight thousand votes, and all
of the ballots have been cast right, all of the
ballots have been counted. It's not like they have a
bunch of outstanding ballots. So these are the election results.
They just have to be certified and made official by
the end of this month. So Nick Begich is going

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to be the member of the House. He's one of
the Republicans who swung a Democratic House seat, which is
a pretty big accomplishment though in Alaska should have been.

Speaker 2 (59:47):
A no brainer.

Speaker 5 (59:48):
Now I am going to reach out to Nick Baggage
and have him come on the show to talk about
how he changed his strategy between the last election and
now when it comes to campaigning and ranked choice voting.
I'm very interested in this because ranked choice voting is
not going away. They're going to come back with different messaging.

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They're going to come back and figure it out because
they believe the people behind this that this is the
way to take some of the nastiness out of politics.

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
Now, it does have issues, but once you.

Speaker 5 (01:00:20):
Learn the game and learn how to play the game,
and the game seems to be if there's more than
one candidate in the same party, they better run like
they need everybody's vote, and you can't demonize somebody in
the same party. You just have to set yourself apart
in such a way that makes their voters who are
going to vote for them first say, you know what,

(01:00:41):
if I don't get in, I'm okay with that other
candidate from the same party or the parties are going
to have to figure out how to get everybody to
drop out and not appear on the ballot at all.

Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
It's a very interesting thing.

Speaker 5 (01:00:54):
It never ceases to amaze me how quickly people figure
out how to game the system.

Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
And there is no perfect system, none whatsoever.

Speaker 5 (01:01:02):
So Alaska is now with a Republican member of Congress
who came through the rank choice voting process and one.

Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
And they decided to.

Speaker 5 (01:01:13):
Keep the ranked choice voting just barely in state senate races,
three incumbents, one, some Democrats, some Republicans, and that seems
to be pretty standard in Alaska's state house politics.

Speaker 2 (01:01:28):
So I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:01:31):
I wonder if Alaskans are going to come back and
try and repeal it again. I don't know, but it's
going to be very interesting to see how this plays
out going forward. But I just wanted you guys to
know what happened. Today was the first day that I.

Speaker 2 (01:01:42):
Saw Okay, the unofficial results.

Speaker 5 (01:01:45):
Are in, so that was the first day that I
actually saw that happening, and I just wanted to share
that with you guys. So a couple of stories that
I want to or a couple things on the blog
I want to point out to you real quick. George Brockler,
who is now the new DA of the twenty third
district that was just created. He wrote a great column

(01:02:06):
in the Denver Gazette. I mean absolutely fantastic column in
the Denver Gazette. And it is about whether or not
the Colorado Democrat dominated General Assembly is going to pay
attention to what voters asked for, which is public safety.
Three ballot measures, Amendment one no veil for Murderers, Proposition

(01:02:27):
one twenty eight Truth and Sentencing that it requires violent
felons to serve a majority of their time, more than
a majority of their time. And Prop one thirty the
back of the Blue Initiative. They all passed and passed handily,
you know handily. So what is the legislature going to
do with this? And I love this part on this

(01:02:49):
I love this part he talks about Los Angeles voters
issued a decisive rebuke to criminal justice reformer and incumbent
Democrat d A.

Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
Gascon.

Speaker 5 (01:02:58):
He was on the ballot for a second after moving
south from San Francisco. He was the poster child for
Soros funded das who subscribed to the Hugs for Thugs
approach for prosecution. Most recently, he's been contemplating the release
from prison of the parent murdering by shotgun Menendez Brothers.

Speaker 2 (01:03:15):
Voters rejected him forty.

Speaker 5 (01:03:17):
To sixty percent in favor of former federal prosecutor Nathan Hawkman.
Now we know that voters just voted to give a
large cash infusion from the general Fund to law enforcement
across Colorado, a chunk of money that is designed to help.

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
With recruitment and retaining good.

Speaker 5 (01:03:39):
Cops, also providing a payout for first responders who are
killed in the line of duty for their families, and
I hope goes a long way to bringing back, you know,
being a police officer as a desirable profession for good people,
because we need good people who want to be cops. Mandy,

(01:04:01):
what about Cali still counting votes? I California, Arizona. If
people in the United States in the lower forty eight
are still counting votes, the voters in those communities need
to say, why are our people incompetent?

Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
And they need to do something about it.

Speaker 5 (01:04:17):
But right now, what happens in Maricopa County, I don't
care what happens in California.

Speaker 2 (01:04:21):
I don't care. I really don't.

Speaker 5 (01:04:24):
I know that in you know, some of these places,
they're trying to find the votes to make sure.

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
That the Democrat wins.

Speaker 5 (01:04:29):
But I don't know if you're going to find the
votes this time because there's too many eyeballs. Remember when
Trump asked to find the votes and it was absolutely
the worst thing ever. And then we have Pennsylvania officials
just randomly deciding to take invalid ballots because their god
was losing.

Speaker 2 (01:04:44):
But that's you know, that's just politics.

Speaker 5 (01:04:47):
They didn't take those ballots, by the way, which is
why Bob Casey is out and David McCormick is now
the Senator from Pennsylvania, so we have that.

Speaker 3 (01:04:55):
Going for us.

Speaker 2 (01:04:56):
I just find this really interesting.

Speaker 5 (01:04:58):
The column is great by George, and he points out
something that I did not realize. So we all voted
to give the law enforcement this chunk of money, a
goodly chunk of money, and it can't raise taxes, has
to come from the general fund, but he pointed out
the legislature gets to decide when they give that money
to the cops. And right now we're getting a bunch

(01:05:19):
of poor mouthing from the members of the General Assembly
about how we have to make all of these budget cuts,
and to them, I say, I do not care cut
the budget.

Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
I do not care about your spending problem.

Speaker 5 (01:05:32):
Because they have more money from Colorado taxpayers than they
have ever had before. Ever, as they used to stay
on Project Runway, they can make it work. Make it
work because I don't want to hear about your problems
when people in Colorado are living in a state that
is constantly being made more expensive by the same people

(01:05:54):
who are now probably going to tell us they need
more of our money.

Speaker 2 (01:05:58):
And I'm not buying it. I mean, I'm just I'm
not I'm not doing it, are you. I'm I'm just
gonna say no. But they'll just pass more fees. What
has happened to our great state?

Speaker 5 (01:06:13):
Okay, if you guys been hearing about Blue Sky, which
is all the where all the left wingers are going
over to create their own urged social media, well I
wouldn't just grab my you are I grab my name
a platform?

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
I know, but it's it's common hole.

Speaker 5 (01:06:27):
This is this is exactly what happened when everybody, all
the righty's left Twitter to go over to truth Social,
and true social.

Speaker 2 (01:06:34):
Has never had the same juice that the Twitter has.
How's your threads account doing?

Speaker 5 (01:06:39):
I don't have threads because you can't take threads off
without basically deactivating your whole Instagram account. And I'm just
the only reason I do this because I figure if
I go to Threads, I get to keep at the
Mandy Connell.

Speaker 2 (01:06:52):
They're not going to make me get a new handle.
This you have to get a new handle.

Speaker 5 (01:06:55):
And I like, I have a truth Social account that
I got just so I could have at Mandy card
and I just got a blue sky count at Mandy Candle.

Speaker 2 (01:07:03):
But it looks exactly like Twitter.

Speaker 5 (01:07:06):
Like Twitter should sue them for copyright infringement or something because.

Speaker 2 (01:07:11):
It looks exactly like Twitter.

Speaker 5 (01:07:15):
It's just except they just want to make sure that
you don't see anything that might hurt you because you're
not nice.

Speaker 2 (01:07:23):
Oh gosh, gosh.

Speaker 5 (01:07:28):
It has cutting commentary like this should have listened to
Anita Hill.

Speaker 2 (01:07:34):
Uh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, how about this one, Aaron.

Speaker 5 (01:07:43):
Remember in the movie Aliens when no one listened to
the woman and then everyone died.

Speaker 2 (01:07:48):
That's what the vibe feels like right now. I love
this one.

Speaker 5 (01:07:55):
The part that I find comical about Joe and Mika
is that they really think this is just a fa
and viewers will come back wait till to find out
this phase is gonna last forever, cancel the show now,
and then what will these people watch?

Speaker 2 (01:08:09):
And I mean that genuinely.

Speaker 5 (01:08:11):
So you're all butt hurt because your favorite show realized
that they now have to deal with the president for
the next four years. And instead of just deciding to
try and continue doing what they're doing, which is failing wildly,
they thought, hey, you know what, maybe we'll go in
a different direction. And now they're viewers are super mad,
and so they're gonna stop watching.

Speaker 2 (01:08:30):
So they get canceled, and.

Speaker 5 (01:08:31):
Then what is going to be put in their place?
I mean, MSNBC has always kind of been an afterthought.
Remember when don iMOS was their morning show for forever
and he was already like one hundred. Don't get me wrong,
don iMOS in his prime was radio magic. But don
iMOS on MSNBC was a lot of mumbling.

Speaker 2 (01:08:49):
Aaron eron, er let me eron, what are you talking about?

Speaker 5 (01:08:57):
If I ever sound like that, listeners, I hope you
you work to get me fired. I hate that kind
of stuff anyway. Now, by the way, I did I
had this on the blog yesterday. I don't have it
on today, but I'm gonna tell you so. Now NBC Universal,
which owns NBC and Universal Studios and Universal Studios meaning
the theme park and the movie anyway, So they're gonna

(01:09:21):
spin off a bunch of their cable networks.

Speaker 4 (01:09:25):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:09:25):
They're not spinning off Bravo because that's extremely successful. They're
not spinning off Peacock because that's making the money. They're
just gonna spin off MSNBC USA. I'm old enough to
remember when USA used to make shows that were super entertaining.
Do they still make original programming on USA anymore? All

(01:09:47):
I ever see is Law and Order repeats or something.

Speaker 2 (01:09:49):
But they used to have a show. They were all
kind of cheesy, right, They were.

Speaker 5 (01:09:53):
Never your top tier shows, but they were like they
were like candy for your brain.

Speaker 2 (01:09:59):
They were entertain as hell. They were fluffy.

Speaker 5 (01:10:02):
Nothing bad ever really happened, but they solved crimes and whatnot,
and it was glorious. Mandy, I just got at the
real Mandy Connell.

Speaker 2 (01:10:10):
On Blue Sky. That's hilarious, really really funny, very very funny.

Speaker 5 (01:10:18):
Yeah, this texterter said, I'm stunned at what Johnson stated
talking about Mayor Mike Johnson.

Speaker 2 (01:10:24):
We're going to get into this after the top of
the hour. Kyle Clark and Chris Vanderveen went to Blue Sky.
You guys, of course they did. I mean, if you're
if you're a journalist.

Speaker 5 (01:10:39):
And you go and you take yourself off Twitter and
you go to Blue Sky, you are simply confirming what
every person on the right knows about you, which is
you are a left winger who doesn't give a crap
about right wing opinions.

Speaker 2 (01:10:52):
That's all that does. Now.

Speaker 5 (01:10:54):
I don't know if Kyle left, I mean, did Kyle
leave Twitter. I pay attention to him tangentially, but not
like every day. Let me see, let me see Kyle.
Somebody is now selling I got blocked by Kyle Clark shirts,
by the way, which I think is genius.

Speaker 2 (01:11:10):
No, he's still on Twitter. He's still on here.

Speaker 7 (01:11:13):
Let me see.

Speaker 2 (01:11:13):
The last time he posted was like three hours ago.

Speaker 6 (01:11:16):
See.

Speaker 5 (01:11:16):
I don't have a problem with people being on both,
not at all. If you leave Twitter to go to
Blue Sky, then yeah, you've pretty much said, Yep, what
you think about me is true. That's not what happened here.
So Kyle has not left X and he's just I
guess doing both.

Speaker 2 (01:11:34):
So there you go.

Speaker 5 (01:11:39):
When we get back, I am going to get into
mayor Mike Johnston's comments about what will happen in Denver
should Trump really go forward with the mass deportation thing.
I also want to talk about why I don't think
that Trump is going to necessarily need to move forward

(01:12:00):
with mass deportations. He just has to move forward with
the appearance of mass deportations. I'll explain all of this stuff.
I'll be the Trump translator when we get back. But
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Speaker 5 (01:12:43):
I am your host, Mandy Connell, and I am joined,
of course, by Anthony Rodriguez. He is got the short
timers real bad because he's leaving no tomorrow. Now you're
back on Wednesday, assuming you don't disrespect the New Orleans
police and get arrested.

Speaker 2 (01:12:58):
Correct, Okay, assuming assuming.

Speaker 5 (01:13:02):
One should not assume that the Denver government will do
anything to help with any sort of mass deportations that
are being discussed by the Trump administration. A tweet took
cold earlier today and did I, oh, super frustrating, Dad Nabbitt,

(01:13:22):
I didn't link. I put the wrong link in the article,
so I don't have the full article in front of you,
so but I'm going to share with you. There was
a Texter tweeter who tweeted this out earlier. The Democrat
mayor of Denver, Colorado, Mike Johnston, has challenged Trump to
try to deport any illegal immigrants from his city, saying
he would deploy this Denver City police and volunteers from

(01:13:45):
the local community to use force against federal forces trying
to deport illegals. Now, in the actual news story, that
is not what he's saying. Uh Okay, he says these words.
I'm gonna read the quote, but it's more of a
I'll explain after I.

Speaker 2 (01:14:03):
Read the quote.

Speaker 5 (01:14:05):
The quote is more than us having dpds stationed at
the county line to keep them out. You would have
fifty thousand Denver rights there. It's like the Tieneman Square
moment with the rose and the gun. You'd have every
one of those Highland moms who came out for the migrants.

Speaker 2 (01:14:21):
You don't want to mess with them.

Speaker 5 (01:14:23):
So it's being read here as he is going to
have DPD waiting at the county line.

Speaker 2 (01:14:28):
That is not what he said.

Speaker 5 (01:14:31):
He was just saying that we are not going to
cooperate with anything that the FEDS do in terms of deportation. Now,
what's interesting about this is that, and George Brockler pointed
this out on X a little while ago, Denver police
officers swear to uphold and protect the constitution.

Speaker 2 (01:14:51):
Yikes, that does put them in odds with what's going
on now.

Speaker 1 (01:14:55):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:14:56):
I thought about this earlier and Mayor Mike, with his
affable person his likable face, his complete inaccessibility to the media,
he is is hell bent on letting everyone know that
Denver is the most welcoming city in the world, and
we're doing everything in our power to help these people
work and we want them all. So here's what I

(01:15:18):
think should happen. I think that he should continue down
this path. He should tell all the illegal immigrants throughout
the country that in Denver they're going to be safe,
and we all know what would happen next. We would
get even more immigrants from all over the country who
knew that if they came to Denver.

Speaker 2 (01:15:35):
They were not going to be hunted down because Denver's
mayor was going to prevent the friends from finding them
no matter where they were.

Speaker 5 (01:15:43):
So after we're completely flooded with illegal immigrants who have
come to Denver in Colorado because of the sanctuary status,
the Trump administration should just say any city that is
a sanctuary city, any state that is a sanctuary state,
will receive no federal dollars to assist with anything that's
going on when it comes to illegal immigration, and then

(01:16:04):
let Denver figure it out.

Speaker 2 (01:16:07):
The problem is that they are they are not being
for it.

Speaker 5 (01:16:14):
I mean, you know, Denver rights are being forced to
it with you know, increasing stories of very sophisticated theft
rings that are developing, and people dealing with people running
up to their cars in an intersection and scorting them
with dirty water or whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:16:29):
I mean, we're all dealing with it, right, We've all
just got have been dealing with it.

Speaker 5 (01:16:32):
But what about if another seventy thousand illegal immigrants show
up in Denver because we've declared ourselves absolutely safe for
people who are in the country illegally.

Speaker 2 (01:16:40):
What happens?

Speaker 5 (01:16:41):
Then we already know from people on the border that
illegal immigrants wanted to come to Denver because of our
sanctuary satus, because we were so welcoming, because we laid
out the welcome bagant I mean, we put up a big,
big sign immigrants welcome during the Hancock administration. So what

(01:17:01):
happens when everybody shows up at our doorstep and there's
no federal government to bail us out on any of it.
There's no art of funds left over, there's no funds
to dip into. The state is telling us that they
are six hundred and eighty million dollars short this year
already because of all the money they've spent, all the

(01:17:21):
employees that they've hired.

Speaker 2 (01:17:23):
So what happens then? Now, I don't really think we're
going to need mass deportation. And I'll tell you why.

Speaker 5 (01:17:31):
When I lived in Southwest Florida in two thousand and
eight during the big immigration debacle, right, the big immigration
debacle where you have the Gang of Eight trying to
come up with immigration reform, which we desperately need, but
they put security of the border way down at the bottom,
and all the people who got fooled back in nineteen

(01:17:51):
eighty seven who voted on immigration reform before the border.

Speaker 2 (01:17:54):
We're secured.

Speaker 5 (01:17:55):
We're like, nah, I'm not doing that again. And it failed, thankfully. Well,
all this time, I'm on the air in southwest Florida,
and we did. In southwest Florida. There was a march
in Southwest Florida by like seventy to eighty thousand, most
of them illegal immigrants, down the streets of Fort Myers,
demanding legal status, just demanding it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:19):
They just they'd gotten here illegally, but boy, they.

Speaker 5 (01:18:22):
Demanded to be made citizens. So in response, I came
up with the Carl March. The Carl March was the
Criminals Against Restrictive Laws March. And I knew that since
all of my people had jobs and you know, businesses
and families, that they wouldn't actually have time to show
up for a march on a workday. So we let
them rent chairs, right, and on every chair we hung

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a sign that said I'm working, I'm legal, and I vote.
And we hung these up and we had our Carl March,
and it was fantastic, and the pictures from it are
just so good.

Speaker 2 (01:18:55):
But we made our point right well.

Speaker 5 (01:18:57):
When that bill failed, and not only the bill failed,
but the state of Florida said Yeah, we're going to
crack down on employers. We are going to come and
we are going to do random checks of your employees.
We are going to find out who's here illegally.

Speaker 2 (01:19:11):
You know what happened?

Speaker 5 (01:19:12):
All the illegal immigrants left now there turns out, turns
out there was a bunch of legal immigrants who had
been brought over on farming visas and other legal ways
that stayed.

Speaker 2 (01:19:24):
And did the work. But all of the illegal immigrants
self deported. They just left. They went home.

Speaker 5 (01:19:30):
I don't know if they went home, back to their
home country, but they definitely left the state of Florida.

Speaker 2 (01:19:35):
It was like a mass deportation.

Speaker 5 (01:19:37):
And I think what Trump is doing now is encouraging
people to deport themselves. I saw a story I don't
know if it was a New York Post or if
it was it might have been, might have been the
New York Times, I don't remember.

Speaker 2 (01:19:51):
And it was a story or a column rather not
a story. It was a column.

Speaker 5 (01:19:54):
It was an editorial column. Somebody wrote it and they
were complaining that in the midst of this progration crisis
that we're having right now, that immigrants had decided they
want to go.

Speaker 2 (01:20:04):
Home and to this writer that was a crisis. I'm like,
that's not a crisis.

Speaker 5 (01:20:09):
That's a solution, that is solving a problem, And to me,
I'm okay with it. If we want to assist people
in returning to their home country or whatever country they
want to go to, I am all for that. Make
it easy, make it comfortable, and make it safe for
people to return home wherever that is.

Speaker 2 (01:20:29):
I think that is what we're seeing right now.

Speaker 5 (01:20:32):
I don't think there's a feasible way to do mass deportations.

Speaker 2 (01:20:36):
I really don't. I just don't see it.

Speaker 5 (01:20:38):
But what I do see is if there's ever any
sort of path to legality, it is going to be
filled with hurdles that people must jump over before they
even have a shot at any kind of status that
gives them voting rights. And that is all way way
way away, way long time away, long far away.

Speaker 2 (01:20:58):
After the border is to here. I don't want to
hear anything.

Speaker 5 (01:21:02):
I truly believe that we have to have must not negotia.
We must overhaul the immigration system to make it easier
for people who want to come here and work and
be a part of our country and grow our economy
and invest.

Speaker 2 (01:21:16):
In the American dream. I want all those people here.

Speaker 5 (01:21:19):
But if you don't have anything to offer this country,
and you're coming here to commit crimes, or you're coming
here to live off someone else's largest through the welfare system,
you can stay home. Give us your best and your brightest,
keep your criminals and slackers at home. Every other country
in the world operates like this, and there's no reason

(01:21:40):
that we shouldn't do the exact same thing. We'll be
right back. Keep it on, Kiowa Love, says this texter
about what you just said about immigration. My parents are
immigrants and work their tails off to make a better
life for me and my siblings. Now, my mom specifically
tells me not to sponsor my cousins because they just
want to come to the US and live off the government.

(01:22:00):
I take her advice because she knows how much work
it is to be a true American and contributing member
of society.

Speaker 2 (01:22:07):
That is absolutely fantastic.

Speaker 5 (01:22:10):
So, uh, there's a texter here yelling at me and
like in all in all caps.

Speaker 2 (01:22:16):
So I just emailed.

Speaker 5 (01:22:17):
I just texted back, why are you in? Why are
you typing in all caps like an a hole? And
and now I'm being called a let's see a Oh no, no,
that's Trump. Yeah, you guys, the level of this kind
of anger about Donald Trump, like sir, room, Adam.

Speaker 2 (01:22:37):
Let it go, Let it go. It'll it'll liberate you.

Speaker 5 (01:22:42):
It'll free you from the kind of anger that makes
you rage text at people.

Speaker 2 (01:22:46):
You don't even know.

Speaker 5 (01:22:48):
He's going to be president, assuming no one shoots him
before then, and since we all know that, you guys
on the left, he probably got shot out by people
who type in all caps. I'm just throwing that out.
There's just I'm just spitballing. But he's going to be
the president for the next four years. In two years,
Democrats will have the ability to make the argument that
he is out of control or done all these wildly
horrible things, and work to win back the Senate and

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the House.

Speaker 2 (01:23:11):
And in four years you'll have the.

Speaker 5 (01:23:13):
Chance to vote on Jared Polis And guess what, the
world is going to continue turning between now and then.
I mean, the world is going to keep moving forward.
Your level of anger is sad.

Speaker 2 (01:23:28):
It's just sad.

Speaker 5 (01:23:29):
It makes me sad for you, because even when Biden won,
I wasn't angry. I was disappointed. I knew he was
going to be a dumpster fires.

Speaker 2 (01:23:36):
President.

Speaker 5 (01:23:38):
Mission accomplished, But I wasn't rage texting people.

Speaker 2 (01:23:42):
In all caps and calling him.

Speaker 5 (01:23:44):
Let's see, he called spy, and I'm gonna assume it's
a het because women.

Speaker 2 (01:23:48):
Usually are this ridiculous.

Speaker 5 (01:23:49):
On the text line, he calls Trump a spineless, treasonous insurrectionist,
convicted felon fraud.

Speaker 2 (01:23:56):
Puke bitch.

Speaker 5 (01:23:59):
That's what is passing right now for high intellectual You know, feedback,
and I always welcome from people. But you know, if
that's what you got to do, if that makes you
feel better, if that makes your day a little bit better,
and I'm fine.

Speaker 2 (01:24:18):
I can take it.

Speaker 5 (01:24:18):
I've been called way worse by better. I can assure
you doesn't really bother me at all. Oh, you know
what I just said, The world is going to keep
moving forward. I could be totally wrong. Apparently World War
three has started now because after President Biden, who remember
Bob Gates said, never made a correct decision about foreign
policy in his life. After he gave permission to send

(01:24:41):
American missiles into Russia, Russia fired back intercontinental ballistic missiles
at Ukraine.

Speaker 2 (01:24:48):
We still, as of this.

Speaker 5 (01:24:49):
Morning, when I wrote that, we didn't know how bad
the damage was, but this is definitely an escalation by Russia.
So now we have the incompetent aduled Joe in the
White House. Still he is still the president, let's remember,
still the president. But now he's going to be making
decisions about American involvement in war around the world that

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whether how involved do we get what has to happen,
you know, what.

Speaker 2 (01:25:18):
Needs to go on there.

Speaker 5 (01:25:20):
Because Ukrainian generals are saying World War three has begun,
that's wishful thinking because Ukraine.

Speaker 2 (01:25:27):
Needs the world on their side.

Speaker 5 (01:25:30):
What's funny is Gallup has been polling in Ukraine since
the beginning of the war. For the first time since
the beginning of the war, more Ukrainians say they would
like a negotiated peace than not. A slight majority of
Ukrainians are saying we want peace, we want it negotiated.
So yeah, no, they didn't call me that, Texter. They

(01:25:52):
called Trump that. But that's that's where we are. So
I hope, sir madam, I hope your day is better.
I hope you're feeling that are inside.

Speaker 2 (01:26:01):
Because of that, I do. I hope all of that.

Speaker 5 (01:26:04):
Dave Logan's just wandering around like he owns the place
or something, just walking right in the studio like he's
mister somebody.

Speaker 2 (01:26:11):
He kind of is.

Speaker 5 (01:26:11):
I really can't say anything negative because I mean Dave really,
actually secretly does own the station. He plays it down
on the radio. He wants to feel like one of
the common man. But Dave's king of the world. Don't
kid yourself, king of the world.

Speaker 2 (01:26:25):
A couple of things on the blog.

Speaker 5 (01:26:26):
There's fun things to do this weekend, Ay, Rod, do
you do any of the stuff, like, like, what do
you planning to do over the Christmas holiday?

Speaker 2 (01:26:32):
Are you doing anything holiday ish? Christmas y Ish, Viva
l Mexico. Oh yeah, well that's so yeah over there, Yeah, celebrate. Yeah,
for sure.

Speaker 5 (01:26:41):
There's some actually really cool stuff that I've never done
around Denver. So I'm trying to make a list because
I'm staying home for Christmas this year, which is nice,
and Chuck's like, let's go do a bunch of stuff.
So we already got our tickets to the Botanic Gardens.
We already got those tickets. We're gonna go down to
the big Tomato cage downtown. You know, the big Christmas
tree that looks like a tomato cage to me. We're
gonna go look at that. We're gonna go to Union Station.

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Check that out. I need to know from listeners. You
can either five six, six, nine, oh, text me. Just
don't text in all caps, you know, because these are
happy things for the holidays. Text me some suggestions. I
want to know where people are going, because, man, go
see what's it called? The show we had on last year.
I went to go see what's a call?

Speaker 2 (01:27:23):
Oh my gosh, Trance Siberian Orchestra. No around Christmas time,
Christmas Carol.

Speaker 1 (01:27:29):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:27:29):
But the other one the Nutcracker. The Nutcracker. So I'm
telling you, I'm telling you in person. I've seen it
in person multiple times. We'll go again.

Speaker 5 (01:27:40):
I left at halftime in the last one. I just
ballet does not move me.

Speaker 2 (01:27:46):
It just does a movie. It's not like, oh it's
one form that and opera. I just have I just
you know, I love the score when it comes on the.

Speaker 5 (01:27:55):
Christmas music station. That I have to say to we
went Leslie already. I listened to the whole thing is
I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:28:00):
Want to watch it. I'm just saying, when we get back,
I'm turkey tried.

Speaker 3 (01:28:04):
I don't know what it means. By the way, turkey trot. Yeah,
you said on the show with Rob it's like the
five k.

Speaker 5 (01:28:09):
Races that people do on Thanksgiving before they go home
and cook all the food and eat it.

Speaker 2 (01:28:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:28:14):
No, well that's kind of where I am. We're going
to be right back with JP Sears. Looking forward to
that conversation. Keep it right here. On KOA twenty nineteen,
when there was a young scamp.

Speaker 2 (01:28:23):
Coming to town.

Speaker 5 (01:28:24):
He had this little YouTube channel that was growing by
leaps and bounds as he made fun of people doing
yoga and eating vegan.

Speaker 2 (01:28:31):
Food, and I thought he was hilarious. Well I was right.

Speaker 5 (01:28:35):
America now knows that JP Sears is hilarious and he's
back to go to comedy works.

Speaker 2 (01:28:41):
Awaken with JP es Awaken.

Speaker 5 (01:28:43):
That's an awfully full of yourself sort of title to
give your program, like I'm here to open your eyes.

Speaker 8 (01:28:50):
Well, you know, I maybe I'm a narcissist, and if so,
it's a condition and I need people to cater to
my condition. I'm a victim, even though narcissus victimize other
So yeah, I'm pretty great, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (01:29:03):
I see that on your YouTube channel consistently. You're very
consistent with your own greatness. But I want to ask
you a question about how you evolved over time on
YouTube because when you started, as I said, you would
kind of pick a topic and a lot of times it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:17):
Was like the sensitive, snowflaky kind of thing. But you've really.

Speaker 5 (01:29:20):
Evolved into giving really sharp but very funny political commentary
is part of what you do.

Speaker 2 (01:29:26):
How did that process happen?

Speaker 8 (01:29:29):
Yeah, it's it's really a dramatic evolution and none of
it was planned and basically it just happened. Like the
shortest answer is what was most important to me was changing.
So when I was doing like the New Age making fun.

Speaker 2 (01:29:46):
Of this spiritual stuff, you know, that's what my life was.
I was very in that.

Speaker 8 (01:29:51):
I lived in southern California for a while, spend a
fair bit of time in Boulder.

Speaker 2 (01:29:55):
Oh gosh.

Speaker 8 (01:29:57):
I was immersed in that kind of New Age life,
and after a while I realized that there's a lot
of b es in it. There's a lot of egotistical
nature that hides behind these like better than thou hiding spots.
So even though I was getting a lot of value
from that kind of community, I said, well, nobody's calling
out this like shadows side. So I'm gonna do I

(01:30:18):
see the shadow side and me, I'm gonna do that,
and I want to make it funny. And then, you know,
a little time goes on and COVID happens, and I
think a lot of people changed with COVID. We woke
up to different things, and part of that was I
woke up to what's most meaningful to me. And for
the first time in my life, I realized, well, freedom

(01:30:39):
is my number one value. I didn't know that before
because I just always taken it for granted. That's part
of the blessing and living such a beautiful country. But
I was ignorant to it. And then with COVID, I'm like,
I'm not taking this for granted anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:30:54):
And I had never been.

Speaker 8 (01:30:55):
Remotely interested in politics, but you know, freedom and so
many other things, like literally everything became a political issue.
So wanting to use my comedy as a way to
speak what I see as truth, it just so happened
to be, Well, the political arena is where that's at
right now. So thus in twenty twenty, I kind of

(01:31:17):
woke up and found myself. I guess I'm interested in
politics right now.

Speaker 5 (01:31:22):
You know, there's an old saying that even if you're
not interested in politics, politics is interested in you.

Speaker 6 (01:31:26):
Right.

Speaker 5 (01:31:26):
So it's always funny when I especially young people, when
I meet them and they're like, I just don't follow politics,
and I'm like, you know what, that's your prerogative, but
know that someone right now, somewhere else is making decisions
for your life that you don't get to participate in
because you don't have time to follow politics. It's sad
because it's such a kind of thing to have to follow,
but it's so incredibly important.

Speaker 8 (01:31:47):
I agree, and I think, you know, you can see
I have more gray here heres on my beard than
I used to.

Speaker 2 (01:31:52):
But even just five years ago, I would have thought.

Speaker 8 (01:31:55):
The same thing, like a politics that doesn't affect me, right,
you know, I don't see a difference based on who's president,
where the senate's at, where the House is, and what's
going on.

Speaker 2 (01:32:04):
And that's because I wasn't seeing the difference.

Speaker 8 (01:32:06):
I wasn't looking for it, but realizing, you know, the
government's spending They don't spend their money because they don't
have money, they're spending our money, and laws and regulations
like a new one passed. You probably don't notice that,
but it moves things an inch in one direction or
better or worse. So when that happens over and over

(01:32:27):
and over again, you realize things have slid a mile.

Speaker 2 (01:32:31):
Yeah, and it's happened so slowly. I haven't paid attention.
So I do very much value the idea of whatever
age you are.

Speaker 8 (01:32:39):
Don't lose yourself in politics, don't take it too seriously correct,
don't get self identity with being with one group, but
pay attention and get involved in a way that you
can sustainably do, because you know we're we the people
shape the course of this country.

Speaker 5 (01:32:57):
It must have been I'm sure you've lost some friends,
friends along the way as you were part of this
sort of spiritual awakening, sort of holistic community. Have you
lost friends over this? Have there been things that you've
done where they just said that's it, that's too far.
I haven't in that shock.

Speaker 2 (01:33:13):
Soh that's fantastic though. That's good to hear. And there's
you know, all of my close friends.

Speaker 8 (01:33:18):
What I got to realize during this weird divided Olympic
cycle we went through since twenty twenty is all of
my friends they were heart based relationships. They weren't based
on this superficial. We have to agree with each other
to be in proximity with each other. But certainly what
I did lose is like people on the periphery were

(01:33:40):
you know, a friend'll say, hey, you know so and
so they're saying bad things about you, and I'm like,
I actually I don't care, and that's okay.

Speaker 5 (01:33:49):
And so are you getting text messages in all caps JP?
Because that's really when you know you've you've driven someone
absolutely crazy. What are some of the topics that you've
fine just get incredible.

Speaker 2 (01:34:01):
Engagement either positive or negative.

Speaker 8 (01:34:03):
Yeah, for a good while, Like men competing in women's
got incredible engagement, you know, talking about the you know
the shots that everybody was trying to push on you.
That was getting incredible engagement. And you know the unfortunately
during the time over the summer when assassination attempts were

(01:34:25):
coming at Trump, those were getting incredible engagement.

Speaker 2 (01:34:29):
And the common.

Speaker 8 (01:34:30):
Denominator I find with like any given topic that gets
really good engagement is that's the topics that are most
emotionally provoking for people. So you get you know, parents
and they whether they have a daughter or not, they
can imagine having a daughter because they know that parental
feel an idea of a grown man changing in the

(01:34:51):
locker room with them, let alone, potentially creating physical harm
and at the very least taking away opportunity for them
in the sporting world.

Speaker 2 (01:34:59):
Parents can really to that and they get a it
is a visceral type emotion. Yeah, so a lot of emotion.

Speaker 8 (01:35:05):
And then you know, with assassination attempt, I mean that
is very emotionally provoking. You realize this is a man,
a human being, a father, a grandfather they just tried
to kill, let alone, a president, let alone the front
runner for the next presidency. So anything that really universally
moves people. And then there's little things that interest me

(01:35:29):
and I'm like, well, I want to do a video
on this, or I stand up on this. It's not
like the mega emotional provoking thing, but.

Speaker 2 (01:35:37):
I call it my self indulgences. I have them on
the show as well.

Speaker 5 (01:35:41):
I have been following Venezuela since two thousand and five
on my radio programs all over the country because I
knew we were going to I knew what was coming,
and we were going to get to watch it play
out in real time.

Speaker 2 (01:35:50):
And I'm not happy about what's happened. To Venezuela.

Speaker 5 (01:35:53):
But I tell people all the time, I'm like, you
want to see the end result of what some of
the people in this country want. It just happened and
then people are eating zoo animals. So that's what you want,
like by your year long past to the zoo, because
you're gonna need it to get into the monkey cage
to get a snack at some point if you pursue this.

Speaker 2 (01:36:09):
Yeah, I love that.

Speaker 8 (01:36:10):
You know, Venezuela wasn't on my map until a few
years ago, but I love that because you had it
on your map, and it is a preview. Is unfortunate
what happens to those people, but it's a preview for
what will happen if certain political ideologies in this country
get extrapolated.

Speaker 2 (01:36:29):
So what are your what are your self indulgences? My
self indulgences? Jeez? You know most recently that Jake paulm
Mike Tyson.

Speaker 8 (01:36:37):
Oh my god, Okay, nothing, there's no meaning in it,
no purpose, but it was so fascinating.

Speaker 2 (01:36:44):
Okay. So, first of all, I love boxing.

Speaker 5 (01:36:47):
I have enjoyed it since I was a kid when
my parents used to watch the Muhammad Ali fights on
Like you know, Sunday, Sunday Wild Sunday, what is it
Wide World of Sports on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:36:56):
Yeah. But and did you watch the undercards? I did
were fantastic. Those were two phenomenal fights.

Speaker 5 (01:37:05):
But the Jake Paul Like Tyson thing, I just felt
like I was watching somebody beat up somebody's grandpa and
it was awful.

Speaker 8 (01:37:10):
It was it was like, it was awful. It didn't
surprise me. I was truly blown away by the undercard fights,
and especially.

Speaker 2 (01:37:18):
The women's fight. Holy lower.

Speaker 5 (01:37:20):
I wasn't sure about chick fighting, like because I saw
enough of that in high school. I grew up in
a redneck high school. A lot of chick fighting where
I grew up. But they were They beat the crap
out of each other.

Speaker 3 (01:37:30):
They did it.

Speaker 2 (01:37:31):
I mean, man, I'm sure the misogynists love it. They're like, well,
they both deserve it. But it was a hell of
a fight.

Speaker 8 (01:37:38):
And one of the things that fascinates me about Mike Tyson,
Jake Paul natchup is just the mysterious thinking behind it.

Speaker 1 (01:37:47):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:37:47):
They first of all masterful marketing. Yep.

Speaker 5 (01:37:51):
The numbers I hear, sixty million is what Netflix reported
right well, for the people that could actually watch it.

Speaker 2 (01:37:57):
Yeah, see a lot of buffer.

Speaker 8 (01:38:00):
And apparently, from what I hear, Jake Paul walked away
with forty million, Mike Tyson twenty million, and good for them,
they deserve it.

Speaker 2 (01:38:09):
This is a free market. Amazing for them.

Speaker 8 (01:38:12):
And I think it relied on unethical marketing because you know,
it was hyped to be a certain thing.

Speaker 2 (01:38:19):
What was delivered was far from what it was hype
to be.

Speaker 8 (01:38:23):
I don't think anybody on the inside would have thought that, yeah,
we're going to deliver a real fight, having a twenty
seven year old guy fight a fifty eight year old guy.

Speaker 2 (01:38:34):
There's an ethical question. Again.

Speaker 5 (01:38:36):
It was consensual, it was good, but that was like
watching somebody beat up your grandpa, and it was it
was just I at one point I was texting with
my husband.

Speaker 2 (01:38:46):
He was somewhere else. We were watching it together, far apart,
and I was just like, I this hurts me to
watch this.

Speaker 5 (01:38:52):
And it was Hopefully Jake Paul did hold up. He
could have beaten the crap out of an old man.
He really did, and it would have been awful.

Speaker 8 (01:39:00):
And the thing that fascinates me the most, like Jake
Paul kind of universally got a lot of hate for that,
I think, and that works for Jake Paul because now
more people are interested. Yep, I want to see what
he does next. So I get that's exactly what.

Speaker 2 (01:39:14):
Ja Paul wants. He's the consummate villain.

Speaker 8 (01:39:17):
And the other thing that fascinates me is, you know,
the world's showing love for Mike Tyson, just wanting him
to do well, and nobody remembers he's convicted of one
of the most vile crimes imaginable he has had.

Speaker 5 (01:39:33):
He's one of those kind of tragic anti heroes almost
in our culture. And his backstory, I think a lot
of people, you know, his backstory is just so sad,
and the fact that he's pretty much been exploited as
a brute since he was like fifteen years old.

Speaker 2 (01:39:48):
Yeah, a horrible time.

Speaker 5 (01:39:49):
Yeah, you know, I think that, you know, in America,
I think we want to forgive people. We want we
want to see them do better, we want to see
them kind of rise above. And I feel like there
was a lot of that at Mike Tyson in that situation.
What can people expect from the show, Like we're just
chatting about the news, but what can people expect when
they come to see you at Landmark Comedy Works this weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:40:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:40:09):
Well, first off, Comedy Works the best club in the country.

Speaker 8 (01:40:12):
I always love being here. I think this is my
fourth or fifth time Denver. The crowds are always the best.
Denver's always treated me well.

Speaker 2 (01:40:19):
Because everybody's high. Everybody, Yeah, everyone's high. That's all it is.
Just make a pot joke and they're like, Okay, there
you go. Yeah, they so you can expect one stupid
pot joke. That's all. There you go, No excuse me.

Speaker 8 (01:40:32):
I'll be doing an hour long stand up performance and
there's comedy on some politicals topics naturally, and then you know,
I'm a father.

Speaker 2 (01:40:41):
I've got a four year old boy, so there's some
of that. Around five is the best age for children,
like if we can freeze them because they have no
edit button, right, they just have no edit.

Speaker 5 (01:40:52):
But but they're also old enough to form their own
independent thoughts for.

Speaker 2 (01:40:55):
The first time.

Speaker 5 (01:40:56):
Loved that age for my daughter. So I'm jealous of
you because you've just her dead four to five years right.

Speaker 8 (01:41:01):
My little boy. What he's doing now that amuses me
the most is saying the F word with no idea
what it means. He's saying it in the cutest, happiest way,
and I'm doing my best to not like make a
big deal.

Speaker 2 (01:41:15):
Of it, like feed in.

Speaker 7 (01:41:16):
Yeah, yeah, I just say it's better to not use
that word. Yeah, is there, I am a hypocrite, Like
where do you learn that? Well, I because I'm on
the radio. I have this ability to flip that switch,
the cursing switch. So I've never cursed around my daughter ever.
Now she's fifteen, that has changed.

Speaker 5 (01:41:34):
Because now on occasion I will have to unfurnil the
phrasing that gets her attention.

Speaker 2 (01:41:40):
Let me just say that. And the first time I
actually cursed, she was like, oh oh, you know, and I.

Speaker 5 (01:41:45):
Was proud at that moment. My husband, on the other hand,
doesn't have that switch, so we have those same situations. Well,
we have freedom of speech, so I know, but I'm
not the government. But I can't shut you down in
my house. So that's that's the rules, mom rules. JP
is gonna be at Comedy Work and Landmark all weekend long.
You got shows Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

Speaker 2 (01:42:03):
Yeah, okay. I've got a link on the.

Speaker 5 (01:42:05):
Blog for people to buy tickets if you want to.

Speaker 2 (01:42:08):
Actually, and this is one of those things where most
of the time.

Speaker 5 (01:42:13):
I would say, I don't want to speculate that, I'd
say eighty five percent of comedians lean left. And I
will sit in a show and eventually there's that one
joke that I'm like, Okay, that's that's my shot.

Speaker 2 (01:42:25):
You know you're gonna take it. It's nice to know that.

Speaker 5 (01:42:27):
They are funny people out there that are making fun
of everyone. Yeah, and it's just nice to know that
I'm probably not going to be viciously.

Speaker 2 (01:42:35):
Insulted when I come to your show. Yeah, you'll be
insulted because you know that's what you do. Lean right
as well.

Speaker 8 (01:42:41):
But if I can't make fun of myself from what
I believe my side, then I'm a hypocrite. And so
I think that self deprecating my own views. That's important too.
And of course, you know plenty of punches thrown to.

Speaker 2 (01:42:55):
The other side too.

Speaker 5 (01:42:56):
Are you talking at all about some of the cabinet
picks that President Trump has made, because some.

Speaker 2 (01:43:00):
Of these have been I raising eyebrow raising, Yeah, say,
they're fascinating to me. And obviously the Matt Gates saga,
that's all leads out now.

Speaker 5 (01:43:11):
I don't know if you saw he did pull himself
out of contention, which I thought was going to happen.

Speaker 2 (01:43:15):
Yeah, I probably with a lot of people. Elon fascinates
me the most because.

Speaker 8 (01:43:21):
Here's the guy a lot of us look at him
like a savior. You know, we're living in a world
where we're afraid of these globalists like taking too much
control over people.

Speaker 2 (01:43:30):
So here comes Elon.

Speaker 8 (01:43:32):
He's done so much for free speech, and you know,
he controls a major portion of the automobile industry with Tesla,
major corner of free speech with Twitter. He controls space
travel with SpaceX, human health with Neurlink. And now he's
got a major position in the government, giving this man

(01:43:52):
all that control to save us from the people that
just want to control us.

Speaker 2 (01:43:56):
We need to think about that.

Speaker 5 (01:43:57):
I have a massive non sexual crush on Elon Musk,
like he he is my dream interview because I just
want to know what is it in him that makes
him have no fear of failure? Think about everything He's
thrown against the wall like crak. Some dude goes, you
know what, I think we should have a private space
company that uses reusable rockets.

Speaker 2 (01:44:15):
Elon Musk is the guy that goes, let's do it
like rock and roll, you know.

Speaker 5 (01:44:19):
And I'm dying to interview him, to talk to him
about that aspect of his personality because if you can
explain that, teach it or harness it alone, you'd be
the richest person in the world, because that's what so many.

Speaker 2 (01:44:31):
Of us lack. Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 8 (01:44:33):
And if you look at like an extreme sports guy
like Travis Pastron, a motocross guy doing flips on dirt
bikes just and.

Speaker 2 (01:44:40):
Make my sound the card, I can't watch that.

Speaker 8 (01:44:41):
And so they've looked at him and apparently he lacks
like the stimulation in the brain center that should feel fear.
That's why he does all this crazy stuff. But I
would speculate maybe Elon like has that disconnect too, like
the amount of risk he takes yep, And not only
the failure that could happen, but the guy's gone through
so many failures, which you hear about the successes.

Speaker 5 (01:45:04):
JP is going to be at Comedy Works this weekend
at Landmark JP. Every at the end of every show,
we play this really dumb game. Can I throw you
on the spot and you play the game with us?
You're not gonna win, but nobody ever does.

Speaker 2 (01:45:16):
On the first try.

Speaker 5 (01:45:17):
Okay, And I've been playing this for twenty years, and
now it's time for the most exciting segment.

Speaker 2 (01:45:21):
On the radio of its guide, World.

Speaker 4 (01:45:27):
Of the Day.

Speaker 2 (01:45:27):
All right.

Speaker 5 (01:45:28):
In this segment, we do a couple of things. First,
we do dad joke of the day a rod which
you don't have to laugh. If it's just bad, you
can say it's better. Yeah, what is our dad joke?

Speaker 4 (01:45:37):
Well?

Speaker 2 (01:45:38):
What did the earthquake say when it was done? I
don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:45:43):
Sorry, my fault, all right, And that was not one
of the better ones that we have on the show.
Sometimes they're actually a little bit better than that. I'm
just I'm letting you know.

Speaker 9 (01:45:53):
What is our word of the day, and we guess
the definition adjective adjective edentate ed e n t A
t E waiten t d e and t a t
not that that helped me out et tate what adjective
adjective edentate.

Speaker 5 (01:46:10):
I'm gonna say that that is something blissfully wonderful.

Speaker 2 (01:46:13):
It's a kind of wrong. Think the opposite. Okay, what
I think the opposite? I'm getting like crotch energy from
the garden of Eden. Take that's where I was going.

Speaker 3 (01:46:24):
That's not an adjective though, you know, like the name
of the dragon from How to Train Your Dragon, it
means toothless or having only a few teeth.

Speaker 2 (01:46:32):
I'd rather just say toothless. Now in this section, JP,
we played Jeopardy okay with our fake Jeopardy music, so
we can try a question first, Oh, trivia question? Can
get hell? I have a calendar for all right. Today's
trivia question is.

Speaker 5 (01:46:48):
In eighteen eighty five, the American Kennel Club registered.

Speaker 2 (01:46:52):
Its first beagle. What was the beagle's name? I'm gonna
go Snoopy because why not? I mean, you know, you
want to take a shot. I got a sam. Oh, well,
we're all.

Speaker 5 (01:47:02):
Wrong Blunder, which is kind of a good name for
a dog. Beagles were first imported to the United States
from Europe in the years after the Civil War.

Speaker 2 (01:47:10):
There you go, okay.

Speaker 5 (01:47:11):
Now in this you have to say your name if
you want to answer the question, and then you answer
the form of a question, just like in Jeopardy. But
we don't wait till the end of the question. It's
a bloods you have because it's his first time.

Speaker 2 (01:47:21):
I will I will wait till the end of the
question because you're a guest, and I'm nice. All right,
here we go. What is our category?

Speaker 3 (01:47:26):
Category is four letter friends, four letter answer, four letters,
four letters musically cool had one?

Speaker 2 (01:47:36):
Mandy, what's a gang? Cares?

Speaker 9 (01:47:38):
See?

Speaker 2 (01:47:38):
Now you're getting a yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:47:39):
Huh yeah, we love your best vs. Also where flowers
spring from?

Speaker 2 (01:47:47):
We love you? What's a four letter word? Mandy? What
is dirk?

Speaker 4 (01:47:51):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:47:53):
What are buds?

Speaker 6 (01:47:54):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:47:55):
But buzz? Mandy? I thought a four letter word. Well,
you're doing greats for idiots? I does that make you
feel better? I identify as literate? Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:48:05):
Milwaukee's MLB team is sometimes referred to as the.

Speaker 2 (01:48:09):
Brew This, Mandy, what is the crew? Correct? Rest easy?
Tunisia's on our side.

Speaker 3 (01:48:16):
In twenty fifteen, it was even designated as a major
non NATO this.

Speaker 2 (01:48:22):
Non NATO JP ally correct. I don't give it to you,
even though you did not say it in the form
of a question. That's okay because you're a guest. No,
you're what's what's your what's the score? It's one to zero?

Speaker 7 (01:48:33):
Right now?

Speaker 2 (01:48:33):
You go one zero. He's not a chance right now.

Speaker 3 (01:48:37):
This word for a friend can also mean bait to
attract sharks.

Speaker 2 (01:48:43):
Mandy, what is correct? And that's it JP is such
a pleasure. I'm you're you in person.

Speaker 5 (01:48:51):
I hope you have a fantastic weekend and we'll see
you next time you come to don Thank you man,
You're We're gonna leave it with Waste Sports right now.
We'll be back tomorrow