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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 4 (00:26):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Wednesday edition of the show.
I'm your host for the next three hours, much to
the chagrin of the hate listeners out there. Mandy Connall
joined by Anthony Rodriguez.

Speaker 5 (00:39):
Much to the chagrin of that one guy on the
text line is his name?

Speaker 4 (00:46):
And we will take you at two three pm today
with a show that is going to be simply magnificent.
I've got to start with something that I didn't put
on the blog because, uh, you options when people are
in the midst of a natural disaster like the one
that is happening in California, where people are having their

(01:09):
entire lives and homes wiped out in a matter of
hours in these horrible fires. And I just heard Leland Vinner,
who I really really like, I really like him on
News Nation. I think he does a very very good job.
And I heard him and he was sort of going
through the litany of ways that California has failed these residents,

(01:32):
and that's really what it is.

Speaker 5 (01:33):
It is a failure of government to take care.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
Of the most basic necessities in favor of doing things
that are not basic necessities. They're luxury items designed to
help people feel good about themselves while blowing through hundreds
of millions of taxpayer dollars. And there's a lot of
that in California. But I just I want to shy
away from that today because I'm just not comfortable. I thankfully, blessfully,

(02:02):
I've never had a house fire. We've never dealt with
that in our in my family's history, but very good
friends of mine have lost everything in a house fire
and it was one of those situations where everybody left
for work or school and then lightning and then they
come home and their house is gone. So I know,

(02:22):
looking from the outside, it's horrible. It's just a horrible
thing to go through. And unlike in some other natural
disasters where you have the ability to maybe pick through,
you know, to find if there's anything left, it's just harder.

Speaker 5 (02:36):
It feels like the.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
Destruction is more complete. So I just I know that
the people in California can't hear me, but just for
my own edification as a human being. I don't want
to talk about all of those things today. There's going
to be plenty of time. But what's going on right
now is just a tragedy of massive proportions. And just
because it's happening in Malibu, where you know, rich people live,

(02:59):
or whatever you want to think of about it, it
doesn't make it any less tragic.

Speaker 5 (03:02):
So we'll get into that.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
I'm sure, as I said, there's going to be plenty
of time to dissect that, and I think that, uh,
it will be a conversation worth having because as we
deal with the effects of a warming climate here in Colorado,
we have huge swaths of forests that are dead standing wood,
and we've got to figure out what to do to

(03:25):
manage that situation before we start to have a fire
so catastrophic that we cannot put it out.

Speaker 5 (03:31):
I mean, you know, Uh, So we're.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
Just we've got a lot of these same problems. So
we're gonna have to have that conversation at some point,
but it's just not going to be today. So we
have a lot of stuff to talk about that isn't that,
And we can start by finding the blog at Mandy's
blog dot com. That's Mandy's blog dot com. Look for
the headline that says one eight twenty five blog Weather

(03:54):
Wednesday and Kyle Clark attacks a new Republican.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
Click on that and here are the headlines you will
fine within.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Anybon's listening office.

Speaker 6 (04:01):
Half of American all with ships and clipments of SASA
press plat.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
Today on the blog, Fox thirty one's Dave Frasier has
the latest on the Polar Vortex. Michelle Zelner joins us
to kick off twenty twenty five write, Kyle Clark plays
cute with immigration law, and Gabe Evans scrolling Scrolling. Colorado
has another unelected senator.

Speaker 5 (04:23):
It's time to get back to work.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
Don't rock the dysfunctional school board vote. It's a great
time to own a gas station in Denver. It's amazing
what happens when you make crime illegal. You've got some
new nonstops out of DIA. Of course, mail has a
twenty five dollars hot chocolate. Littleton residents show the power
of showing up. A program to allow illegals to skip

(04:45):
the immigration line refunds money. Why shouldn't a nine year
old get a tattoo?

Speaker 5 (04:49):
Chick fil A robots say it's their pleasure to squeeze lemons.

Speaker 4 (04:53):
The Babylon b posts the best of Facebook fact checks.
Could a defamation case put CNN under Could Milt stuf
Up help bowel cancer? A self driving car traps a
man by going in circles. Mel Robbins talks about how
to tackle the day. If you gain the system, don't
brag about it on social media.

Speaker 5 (05:10):
I would do this forget.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
Smartphones, ar glasses are in schools now. Trump talks about
taking over Canada.

Speaker 5 (05:17):
Hey, look at all these eggs.

Speaker 4 (05:19):
In South Carolina. Those are the headlines on the blog.
Who I'm dizzy right now? There's a lot of headlines.
There's a lot of scrolling, Scott a lot. Scott told
me scrolled along with me. When I say scrolling, scrolling,
he scrolls and I and you know, I am actually scrolling.

Speaker 5 (05:37):
It's a very long blog. We have a lot of
really good videos on the blog and we're going to talk.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
About so many of them today, but we've got to
start with a self driving car. So yesterday, if you
missed yesterday's show, when we talked to Thomas Fry, our futurist,
about robots and some of the hurdles that have to
be overcome before robots are widely accepted. And this story
is one of those stories that's gonna make me go
yeah about those self driving cars. So this video is

(06:06):
of a guy and he's gonna I think he's in
a Wago car.

Speaker 5 (06:08):
Was it a Wago a rod? Do you remember?

Speaker 4 (06:10):
I think Wago is the main company that's doing these
self driving taxis or whatever.

Speaker 5 (06:16):
You want to call them.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
And the car is just driving around in a circle
in a parking lot, and the guys like, I'm trapped
in a self driving car and I have a flight.

Speaker 5 (06:27):
Spoiler alert. He did make his flight because the company.

Speaker 4 (06:31):
He called the company and they overrid, overrode, overrid, overrode
what overrode?

Speaker 5 (06:37):
JK with the overrid I knew what it was, don't
judge me.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
So they had to override it and eventually the car
stopped and the guy got to the airport. But that's
one of those stories that makes you think twice about
getting into one of those vehicles.

Speaker 5 (06:51):
I already have reservations.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
I think any normal human has reservations, don't you. Is
there anybody in this listening audience you've feels like texting
the Common Spirit Health text line at five six six,
and I, oh, and tell me that you have no
reservations about getting in a self driving car.

Speaker 5 (07:09):
I don't know. I'm not ready for that, not ready
for that.

Speaker 4 (07:18):
Oh, my friend Elizabeth, who's gone on several Mandy Caudal
adventures with us, she and her husband have decamped and
they've moved to Florida, and she's just taunting me with this.

Speaker 5 (07:29):
Mandy.

Speaker 4 (07:30):
We have crystals about two miles away. What do you
recommend there? I recommend the cheese crystal and the corn
pups and go ahead and take a little ant acid
before you eat it.

Speaker 5 (07:41):
Oh, it's the food of my youth. Oh it's way mo.

Speaker 4 (07:43):
Thank you sir or madam on the text line for
correcting me.

Speaker 5 (07:47):
It's way mo.

Speaker 4 (07:49):
Nonetheless, that this video is one of those things that's
going to keep me from, you know, advancing with society
for far longer than it should take. We have three
guests coming up on the show today. We have Fox
thirty one's Dave Frasier for Weather Wednesday.

Speaker 5 (08:06):
We'll find out more about.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
The polar vortex. But diggity, dangity, it's cold out there.
It was so cold last night, and of course my
dog's outside I have a Saint Bernard.

Speaker 5 (08:17):
If you didn't know that, she won't come in.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
You know, they're always like, yeah, if they're called your cult,
if you're cold, they're cold, bring them in.

Speaker 5 (08:24):
Yeah. No, it doesn't work like that. Lady. She doesn't
want to come in till her drool is frozen on
each side of her face, and then she wants to
come in.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
She's living her best life. He's going to talk about
what is happening with the weather, not just here but
across the country, because it is kind of bad in
a lot of places where it's normally not this cold.
You know, we're ready for it for the most part.
There's a lot of places where they're not.

Speaker 5 (08:47):
Michelle Zelner is joining us at two thirty.

Speaker 4 (08:49):
We're going to talk about her annual Virtual Vision Board party.
And I know lots of you scoff at the woo
woo nature of the vision Board, but uh, if it's
something you've thought about or something you're interested in, or
you're just kind of tired of drifting along, not knowing
where you're gonna go, and getting from January to December
and feeling like you didn't accomplish anything, you.

Speaker 5 (09:10):
May want to check it out.

Speaker 4 (09:12):
It's all you can do it from the comfort of
your own home, and it's just a really cool event.
She's gonna come on at two thirty to talk about that,
And just confirmed by Anthony Rodriguez, We're going to talk
to Gabe Evans at one o'clock. And somebody posted this.
I missed it the first time.

Speaker 5 (09:30):
So Kyle Clark did a number on Gabe Evans. And
I don't you know, I have my differences with Kyle.
I almost there's part of me.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
That starts I've started to feel like a like a
wartz towards Kyle, you know, like, oh, it's just Kyle
being Kyle. I mean, like, you know, like the way
people feel about Joe Biden. I don't know, I'm getting
a little like a tingle, That's all I'm saying. But
he really did a number on Gabe Evans here. He
tried to pin him down on answering how he would

(10:03):
vote on a piece of legislation that has not been
proposed yet, and and that is that is I mean,
that's just such a ridiculous thing to do. First of all,
when we talked to Congressman Gave Evans, I will be
selling don't ever ever answer on a hypothetical. Ever, your
answer should always be when legislation is presented, I will

(10:27):
read it, and I will make a decision based on
its merits, based on the on what it does from
the people of my district.

Speaker 5 (10:34):
That's what you say. But it's just in this In
this story, Kyle also.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
Did something that was intellectually dishonest in that he leaned
on the letter of immigration law in Colorado and looked over,
just looked away from a lot of other aspects of
what our sanctuary state status has done in order to
imply that law enforcement is free to work with immigration

(11:04):
and customs enforcement. But that's not at all accurate because
now the ACLU is going after Aurora for sending trendy
Aragua members to immigration and customs enforcement.

Speaker 5 (11:18):
I mean, we've it's just crazy town. And y'all say
what I will.

Speaker 4 (11:22):
About Kyle in his politics and my frustration that he
attacks the right far more and far more viciously than
he attacks the left. But he usually does good journalism
when he's not attacking Republicans. So this just feels super sloppy,
like he lost a bet maybe and they're like, Okay, you.

Speaker 5 (11:44):
Got you gotta go after Gave Evans. I mean, I
don't know. I'm just bitballing here. I don't know, but
I'm excited.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
Just first of all, I'm gonna get to welcome Congressman
Gave Evans back to the show, or to the show.

Speaker 5 (11:55):
He's been on as just candidate Gabe Evans. Now he's
coming back as Congressman Gave Evans. And you know what,
I bet when I say welcome to the show, Congressman,
that's gonna sound really good to him. I think so. Mandy,
it was so cold last night, says this texter. I
answered to a knock on my door at around three
a m. It was the lawn.

Speaker 4 (12:14):
Asking to come in rimshot. Yep, Mandy get in his
self driving car?

Speaker 5 (12:21):
Are you kidding me? I won't even take an Uber.
I love Uber.

Speaker 4 (12:27):
I love any service that allows me to not have
to drive in park. You know, if you'll know, you'll
know you people. If you ever wonder if I'm rich,
I will have a driver. I will pay someone to
be at my beck and call and drive me around.
That will be the lap of luxury for me. That
would be amazing, amazing. What ay Ron, if you could

(12:49):
have one extravagance, like one straight out rich people thing.

Speaker 7 (12:54):
What would it be teleportation? Oh no, no, no real.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
That's superpowers. No, we want real like I would honestly
probably be I would probably either have a full time
chef or a full time driver, and I think i'd
probably do full time driver.

Speaker 7 (13:08):
I like to drive.

Speaker 5 (13:09):
I don't know, Yeah, you know.

Speaker 4 (13:11):
Something like that, something really in your mind rich people have.

Speaker 7 (13:17):
That's really hard question.

Speaker 5 (13:20):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (13:20):
I mean maybe I just have watched more fancy television
than you have.

Speaker 7 (13:25):
I mean, give me a private plane, I guess.

Speaker 5 (13:26):
Oh, yeah that would be.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
That would be awesome, like a private plane that you
didn't have to pay the expenses on.

Speaker 7 (13:32):
Yeah, charter.

Speaker 5 (13:32):
Yeah, oh that's a good one. Dang it.

Speaker 7 (13:35):
Do I go with driver or do I go with
how you got to go with the charter?

Speaker 2 (13:40):
Come on?

Speaker 5 (13:40):
Yeah, that's an excellent suggestion.

Speaker 6 (13:43):
Yeah, anywhere, anytime pilot on standby.

Speaker 7 (13:47):
Yeah, yeah, got a real good pilot though.

Speaker 5 (13:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (13:52):
I have friends that I flew with at Delta who
went on to be charter private charter flight.

Speaker 7 (13:57):
Attendants make that money.

Speaker 4 (13:58):
Yeah, it's a fine and you get to go all
over the country.

Speaker 5 (14:02):
So that's something that's very very nice. All right, you guys.

Speaker 4 (14:04):
I got a couple of things on the blog that
we're going to get to now.

Speaker 5 (14:09):
One of them.

Speaker 4 (14:10):
We have another unelected senator in the Colorado Senate Matthew Ball.
He is currently the director of policy for the City
of Denver, was chosen by a whopping one hundred and
seven people to be the representative for whatever district he's in.
And I'm not mad at them, you guys. I have
absolutely no dog in this fight. It was a Democratic district.

(14:33):
He was replacing a Democrat. You know, in Denver, most
Democrats are pretty interchangeable in terms of policy and what
you're going to get, right, So I'm not mad at him,
but man, this system sucks. A quarter of the people
in the Colorado Legislature were put into office initially. Now
they may have won re election since then, but twenty

(14:55):
five percent of them We're not elected to be representatives
by the people. They were elected by a tiny group
of people called a vacancy committee. I mean, this is
not a good system. If it only happened once in
a blue moon that someone ran for reelection and then
immediately dropped out. We just had two Democratic senators do
that By the way, if it just happened once in

(15:18):
a blue moon, then maybe the vacancy committee idea is
a good one.

Speaker 5 (15:21):
But this is happening all the time.

Speaker 4 (15:23):
Apparently the Colorado Legislature is the most toxic place to
work in the entire world because no one stays there.
I mean, man, the turnover there is insane, absolutely insane. So,
like I said, I'm not mad at Matthew Ball, there's
some noise being made around the gold Dome that they're

(15:45):
going to try to.

Speaker 5 (15:46):
Do something about it.

Speaker 4 (15:47):
I don't have a lot of faith in the people
who have a vested interest in remaining in control of
that situation, because it is a whole lot easier to
convince one hundred and seven people of backing a candidate
of your choice than it is to convince everyone to

(16:08):
back the candidate of your choice in an election that
would surely have an incredibly small turnout. So, you know,
there's not a lot of perfect solutions here, but at
a bare minimum, I would love it if this legislature
actually commissioned a six month study to find out what

(16:29):
is the most efficient system for this. You know, when
someone drops out of the legislature, we have fifty different
you know options, there are fifty different states.

Speaker 5 (16:40):
Surely somebody has figured.

Speaker 4 (16:42):
Out a better way, or at least we would have
a clear picture of what the options are and then
you know, you make a decision from there.

Speaker 5 (16:49):
But what we're doing now is horrible. I hate it.

Speaker 4 (16:53):
I don't care if they're replacing people I like with
people I like. It just feels very undemocratic, and we
have to figure out how to fix that. So that
is that's happening. By the way, I didn't know this yesterday.
See what does anybody watch nine News? I mean a
Kyle Clark spotter.

Speaker 5 (17:11):
I need that.

Speaker 4 (17:13):
Any of you guys voluntarily watch nine News that would
be willing to be my spotter, because, like I'd love
to know if Kyle talked about Iman Joda it was
just elevated from the House in Colorado to the Senate
in Colorado, and as you talked about her anti semitism,
as he talked about her support for Hamas. Because it

(17:33):
seems like there's a lot of target rich environments there.

Speaker 5 (17:35):
I'm just throwing this out there.

Speaker 4 (17:38):
Vacancy Committee is awesome if you're on it, says this Texter,
it's good to be the King, isn't it.

Speaker 5 (17:44):
And that's my point that I don't necessarily trust.

Speaker 4 (17:48):
The people who are profiting from the current system. And
I don't mean cash wise, I just mean profiting in
some other way by by you know, inserting people that
they prefer. But this vacancy committee gave us Tim Hernandez
to the people overwhelmingly rejected. You know, so this is
the system is just incredibly incredibly broken. Ad title appointed

(18:13):
to the senator's title, Power of the Press.

Speaker 5 (18:16):
That would be interesting. It would be very interesting.

Speaker 4 (18:21):
Ooh, this person's rich person dream, Mandy. I would have
my own cobbler for shoes and a seamstress to make
clothes for every size I happened to be at the moment.

Speaker 5 (18:31):
That would be amazing. That would be very very good.

Speaker 4 (18:38):
I would go with a private driver too. I'm a
truck driver. If I was super rich tomorrow, I would
never drive again. Ay Rod, every man needs a maid, no, no, no,
men can take care of themselves.

Speaker 5 (18:52):
Mandy.

Speaker 4 (18:52):
I am rich. I have a full time driver known
as my husband. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Mandy. I would like
a private valet. Wall valet concept is a little weird
to me, like you're supposed to stand their naked and
somebody put your clothes on.

Speaker 5 (19:08):
I mean, in certain situations it's not bad. But hmm.

Speaker 4 (19:12):
Fox thirty one's chief meteorologist Dave Frasier. Dave, it's winter,
A winter's here.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yes, it is. Welcome to twenty twenty five.

Speaker 5 (19:23):
Let's kick the doorian on winter. So what are we
looking at right now?

Speaker 4 (19:26):
And how much of our weather is polar vortex or
just cold, just.

Speaker 8 (19:31):
Cold, just cold.

Speaker 3 (19:33):
As a matter of fact, you probably saw the reports
there the big storm earlier in the week that just
left us last weekend, that was our Saturday storm and
then rolled literally straight down I seventy all the way
to the east coast and just weak havoc all the
way through the Midwest and into the Ohio River Valley.
They got the you know, the polar vortex and the

(19:53):
repulst of it. We were on the western fringe. But
our pattern definitely switched. We knew that a little more
than a week ago. The week get into a little
bit of a colder pattern that's certainly going to trend
through about next Tuesday before we start to warm back
into the forties. So we'll just kind of stay in
the thirties. And we got two chances for snow one
tomorrow that one could accumulate the one to two inches

(20:15):
during the day, and then we've got a chance of
a few flurries or light snowshows on Saturday that one
doesn't look to do much. So that's certainly a more
active pattern. But the good news we're ahead for snow
for where we are in the month of January and
for the here yay.

Speaker 5 (20:28):
That's awesome.

Speaker 4 (20:30):
You know, as they say, we need the moisture, we
need the moisture. Speaking of needing the moisture, boy, what's
happening in California right now is really scary. How much
I mean, is there any relief coming for them that
you can see over those one hundred mile prior hour
winds that they're facing that are just driving these fires.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
Later this afternoon and later tonight, the wind should start
to relax. So we were actually tracking that last night
our sister station KTLA and Los Angeles, we were taking
their feed. It's an unfortunate situation. The san and the
winds were howling. Future cast wind speeds were going to
keep the speeds at the seventy plus mile per hour

(21:12):
all night last night and should start to relax a
little bit today. Now the wind's not going to go calm,
but those stronger gushs should start to relax through the
day to day. But we all know, unfortunately here in Colorado,
what that can mean. The Marshall Fire obviously the most
recent one. Once you start to burn with that kind
of a wind in neighborhoods with natural brushes and grasses

(21:34):
and trees, it becomes you can't defend it. Winding roads up,
kurvy terrain, eat kills and it's just impossible. And you
feel for the homeowners and the people who had to
flee and literally running from their cars, a lot of
their cars and running because the traffic was so bad
they felt like they just needed to keep going. It's
just a horrible situation. It's literally hell on earth. And

(21:57):
I feel for them.

Speaker 4 (21:58):
I am I shut or to think what this is
going to do, because these are this is going to
be so catastrophic financially. This is going to be devastating financially,
and it is. It is probably going to be almost
impossible for these people to rebuild and expect to get
homeowners insurance.

Speaker 3 (22:18):
Well, that's a that's a conversation. We were actually having
last night because I think you know, you've seen that
in parts of Florida when when hurricanes you know, hit
certain areas over and over again, the insurance companies just
pull out. They're like, nope, we're not insured in that
area again because the loss is just is too much.
And I agree with you if you if your home

(22:39):
is burned, first of all, and you don't have insurance,
what do you do if you do have insurance, how
quickly can you get the funds? Do you want to
rebuild in this area? And you try and sell the property,
the land, the charred land, who's going to buy it?

Speaker 5 (22:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (22:53):
I mean the views are going to be magnificent again
at some point. But it's not like they get a
lot of rain to re populate that area with greenery.

Speaker 5 (23:01):
This is just it's devastating what's happening right now. I
didn't mean to go down that road.

Speaker 4 (23:06):
But so are they Is there any like a further
weather relief that they can expect? I mean, what is
their precipitation situation?

Speaker 3 (23:14):
You know, I haven't looked beyond that. What we what
would love to be able to do is talk about
you know, the old the Pineapple Express or an atmosphere,
river or something that would point the fire hose towards
the west coast and help them out. I don't see
anything like that that. The pattern right now is more
Pacific northwest and across Colorado and the Rockies and onto
the east than it is from the southwest and in

(23:36):
their direction. So hopefully they can get some relief, you know,
sometime soon. But yeah, I think the overall pattern, you know,
this is that dry part of the year. Unfortunately, when
those winds pick up out there, all it takes is
a small spark, and it always seems to happen. Unfortunately
when the winds are roaring.

Speaker 4 (23:56):
Dave Fraser, I didn't even look to see if we
had weather questions. Hang on, let me open up the
e Commons sperel jack line five to sixty six nine.

Speaker 5 (24:01):
Oh, this question for you, Dave.

Speaker 4 (24:04):
When you say the Santa Ana winds last night on
your weather broadcast, did you say they come down from
the east side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
Yeah, they blow. They blow from the mountains to the
west towards the Pacific Ocean. So what happens is high pressure.
The wind around high pressure goes clockwise and so high
pressure builds on the east side of the sand of
the Sierra Mountain range, and the wind flows around that
down the face of the Sierras, goes through some of

(24:35):
the lower elevations and the desert areas. It compresses, it heat,
it picks up the dry air. Then it continues to
roll over the higher terrain in the cliffs and the
ledges towards the west coast and down into those communities,
and it blasts out through the canyons, and so the
canyon's funnel and strengthen the wind. We see that here
all the time. We talked on your show many times

(24:57):
about downsloping wind and how it's a dry So as
you move the air here in Colorado from the mountains
in an easterly direction down towards Denver, that downward motion
is like turning on a hair dryer. It compresses, it heats,
and it drives the air. And so we end up
with that, and we see at times when the wind
is funneling through, like say Cole Creek Canyon, you can

(25:17):
get a blast of wind out along Highway ninety three
between Boulder and Golden that is just, you know, just
unbelievable flipping trucks over, so they're dealing with it. It's
just going the other way. It's going west towards the ocean.
As matter of fact, those fires were driven right up
to the Pacific Coast Highway and the next stop was
the ocean.

Speaker 4 (25:36):
Okay, I got one more question for you, Dave. This
one about something I know about and hate. Out of
all of our weather things that you can endure on
a regular basis, ice storms are the worst. And I
experienced them in Kentucky.

Speaker 5 (25:50):
And I have a listener who just moved.

Speaker 4 (25:52):
To Kentucky who said back this question, Mandy, ask Dave
how a snowstorm can turn to an ice storm when
the temperature on the ground doesn't change. First, Kentucky ice
storm wasn't really fun. And ice storms are horrible.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
So that that part of the country I'm familiar because
I lived in Cincinnati. So that's the ice belt area
from say Saint Louis across you know, across the Midwest
Saint Louis over towards you know, say Cincinnati and parts
of Kentucky. And what happens is you have a shallow
layer of cold there at the ground. The temperature doesn't
need to change it's just cold enough that as the

(26:30):
moisture comes through, it's not freezing overhead, so it's not
coming as snow, it's coming as rain. It gets into
that cold, shallow layer close to the ground and it
freezes on contact. So you know, it's just one of
those situations where everything in the lowest part of the
of the atmosphere at ground level is cold enough that

(26:51):
any moisture that hits it freezes instantly, and so you
don't you're not going to get a lot of temperature.
Now if it was if it was colder, then you
would be dealing with all snow as the snowflakes fall
to the ground, but you're not. You're dealing with warmer
air a lot hitting colder air at the surface, and
it just turns into a sheet of ice and accumulating
ice and it is nasty and.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
It hangs on your power lines and then they snap
and it is just the most miserable experience to just
get through it. It's so awful. Anyway, Yeah, go ahead.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
We'll take six inches of snow over a tenth of
an inch of ice.

Speaker 5 (27:26):
Amen to that, my friend, Amen to that. Dave Fraser,
good to talk to you as always.

Speaker 4 (27:30):
We will chat again next week. Happy twenty twenty five,
my friend.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
Yeah, let's hope it's a good one.

Speaker 5 (27:36):
Will be well willing to be.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
We'll do the assumed clothes, all right, Dave, there you go.
So that is Dave Frasier and that the pictures out
of California. You guys, they are just wow, I mean wow,
how oop? Am I still on the air?

Speaker 5 (27:55):
I don't know. Let's find out. Let's just keep talking.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
We just lost power in the building, but I still
have my computer and my microphone is on.

Speaker 5 (28:02):
Everything appears to be on, all the stuff. Okay, there
you go.

Speaker 7 (28:07):
Never know, everything stayed on in terms of the station.

Speaker 5 (28:10):
Yeah, anybody who's listening. Did we just go away? Text
us five six six.

Speaker 6 (28:14):
Lines, but all the radio equipment staying on. Yeah, so
I think we're good. The WiFi not looking good though,
Oh yeah, oh no, that might not be a good sign.

Speaker 4 (28:25):
Uh yeah, that doesn't look like a good song.

Speaker 9 (28:29):
We don't know.

Speaker 5 (28:31):
We don't know because our WiFi is out.

Speaker 6 (28:33):
My computer is yeah, I can't even look let me okay,
logging on the text line on.

Speaker 4 (28:38):
My phone, yeah no, That's what I'm doing right now,
is logging out of the text line of the phone.

Speaker 7 (28:41):
Hey, wait, we're staying on the area.

Speaker 5 (28:44):
We're on the air. We're just we're just dragging everybody
through this. Uh together, that's all. We're up there we
go still hear you got it? All right? Never mind,
and the wifi's back there we go, there we go.

Speaker 7 (28:55):
People say, we're good.

Speaker 5 (28:56):
Listen to this. I'm Andy.

Speaker 4 (28:58):
In twenty ten, my wife's grandmother sold her half acre property,
an outdated house in Palisades for six million dollars. It's
easy to imagine the cost of the fires is going
to be in the billion. Oh, no doubt. It's going
to be in the billions, no doubt. There's so much
to talk about. Jack, our salesman, Jack, you're on the air.

(29:20):
Thank you, Jack. That's why you're my favorite. Anyway, let's
do this to take a quick time out. We'll regroup.
We'll be back to normal when we get back. Keep
it righty here on ka, Mandy. If you're asking why
I do a four hour drive without the bad weather,
it was the customer visit and the CEO of the
company wouldn't postpone the trip. If the roads are open,
you can drive it. Hey, no good, no boyo. That's

(29:44):
why I want my private driver. Anyway, coming up in
about to ten ish minutes, we're gonna have the chance
to speak with brand new minted Congressman Gabe Evans. He
is the first Republican to serve for the eight congressional
district in Colorado, the newest congressional district that we have,
and he found himself and I can't wait to hear

(30:08):
his side of the story because ultimately, when you do
an interview with anyone, except a live interview on my show,
you are unedited on this show, so everybody hears everything.
But when you do a TV interview, they're gonna edit
you and they're gonna only show certain sound bites, so
we don't get to know.

Speaker 5 (30:24):
The rest of the story. So we're gonna get to
hear the rest of the story.

Speaker 4 (30:27):
About how Congressman Evans had to end it out talking
to Kyle Clark about a piece of legislation that doesn't
exist yet. So that's super fun. It was very sloppy
by Kyle, first of all, and I'm gonna kind of
run through this, and Kyle's not entirely wrong when he
leans on the fact that Colorado law is it doesn't

(30:55):
prevent people. Wait, let me think of how to say this.
I'm just going to play Kyle.

Speaker 5 (31:01):
Let me do that real quick, and then we'll play
Gabe when he hits back. Let me just play this
real quick.

Speaker 10 (31:05):
Newly sworn in Republican congressman gave Evans deft questions today
about whether he will support one of his party's top priorities,
a bill that would strip federal funding from the state
of Colorado over its immigration related policies. Evans is the
first Republican to represent the two year old eighth Congressional district.

Speaker 4 (31:22):
By that way, that legislation hasn't been proposed yet at all,
and we don't know of anyone I guess, proposing it.

Speaker 10 (31:29):
So far, which stretches from Thornton up to Well County.
He's a former law enforcement officer who made immigration his
top campaign issue that aligns with the priorities of President ELEC.
Donald Trump and the Republican majority in the House, which
is tied up a vote soon on a bill that
would strip federal funding from the state of Colorado because
Colorado limits cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration agents.

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I asked Evans today how stripping federal funding would impact
his district and whether he supported the idea.

Speaker 11 (31:58):
He said this again, I think we need to make
sure that American tax payer dollars are going to American
taxpayers under those folks that are committed to lawfully following
our laws.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
First.

Speaker 10 (32:08):
When pressed again on whether he's going to vote for
this bill, whether he would support pulling federal funding from
Colorado over immigration policy, Evans falsely claimed that Colorado law
bans all cooperation between local police and federal immigration agents.

Speaker 11 (32:23):
In Colorado, it is illegal for anybody any state of
local law enforcement, regardless of the level of infraction, whether
it's a head light out or whether it's somebody that's
committing crimes and taking over apartment complexes and Aurora.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
None of that is.

Speaker 11 (32:38):
There's no coordination that's allowed between state and local law
enforcement and federal authorities.

Speaker 10 (32:43):
Evans has claimed that there's no coordination is false. Colorado
law does block local law enforcement from detaining or holding
somebody just because of their immigration status, but cooperation between
the locals and the Feds does happen. Evans referenced Venezuelan
gang members in some of them are in federal custody
after they were arrested by local law enforcement exactly because

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of the cooperation that happens in Colorado.

Speaker 4 (33:08):
Now that was Kyle Clark several days ago. And the
problem is is that technically he's right when he says
Colorado says they can't hold them on a civil infraction,
but he ignores the fact of what that law has
practically done in Colorado. John Fabricatory, a former iceman himself,

(33:30):
took to x to reply and part of it says, yes,
technically HP nineteen eleven twenty four does allow cooperation between federal, state,
and local for criminal investigations. But the reality is is
that Denver refuses even to fall that. The before I retired,
he says, I had DPD and Denver city leadership remove

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my agents from a heroin task force because.

Speaker 5 (33:54):
They refused to work with ICE.

Speaker 4 (33:57):
I had DPD failed to provide backup on a federal
crime a warrant because ICE was serving it. Also, nineteen
one one two four prohibits a probation officer or Probation
Department employee from providing an individual's personal information to federal
immigration and employees. That means people who only deal with
people who are already in the system on probation or

(34:20):
are on parole, are not allowed to let ice know
that they are there illegally. And that's what Kyle ignored.
We're going to talk to Gabe Evans next.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
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Speaker 12 (34:40):
KOA NMA, god you want to study and the nicety
through three Vany Connell, Keith real sad being welcome, Welcome,
Welcome to the second hour of the show.

Speaker 4 (34:58):
And I am pleased as punch to welcome newly minted
Congressman Gabe Evans to the show.

Speaker 5 (35:04):
I was going to say, back to the show, but
you were candidate.

Speaker 4 (35:06):
Evans last time, and now you're Congressman Evans. How does
that still give you a little tingle when somebody says,
Congressman Evans, how are you today?

Speaker 8 (35:16):
Manny? First of all, it's great to be back with
you on the show. And yeah, you know, parts of
this are still surreal. Every time I step outside my
office and I think to myself, my goodness, I have
an office in the Longworth House Office Building, a room
twelve twenty nine. If you guys are ever in the
DC area and want to stop by, and I look
up at the National Capital and I think to myself,
just how incredibly honored I am to be the voice

(35:38):
of Colorado's eighth Congressional district. And you know, toward that end,
just working as hard as I can to fulfill those
things that are so critically important to the district, like
public safety, like securing the border, like getting the cost
of living under control.

Speaker 4 (35:50):
Well, and then of course you know you're in politics
because Kyle Clark comes knocking, Hugh.

Speaker 5 (35:56):
And I just want to get your sort of version
of events of what happened in that interview. And you, guys, this.

Speaker 4 (36:03):
Is typical of me whenever I try to be super
snarky and imply that someone else should make an apology.

Speaker 5 (36:08):
I make a mistake.

Speaker 4 (36:09):
I sent on my blog today that legislation had not
been filed.

Speaker 5 (36:12):
Oh no, I don't know if it has or not.

Speaker 4 (36:14):
Has legislation been filed about withholding federal funds for I
thought I made mistake, But now I realized I've made
two mistakes, which makes it even better. No, there hasn't
been a bill filed to withhold money from sanctuary cities
or states.

Speaker 5 (36:29):
Has there.

Speaker 8 (36:29):
Do you know now, So I'll tell you exactly what happened.
One of the first things that a new Congress, so
you know, we are now in the one hundred and
nineteenth Congress, and so one of the first things that
a new Congress has to do is basically packaged, to
excuse me past, the rules package that will govern how
we do business for the next two years. And so

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one of the things that can be included in that
rules package is a directive to the committee or committees
having jurisdiction over a particular issue to work on something.
And so one of the things that was in the
rules package that was passed on Friday, again, like the
after electing a speaker, it's the very next order of
business because without those rules, the House can't function for

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the next few years. So one of the things that
was in that rules package said to the committees having
jurisdiction that they need to work to provide a bill
similar to House Resolution fifty seven to seventeen from the
one hundred and eighteenth Congress, which is that that resolution

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is called the No Bailout for Sanctuary Cities Act, which
passed the House actually with bipartisan support last year and
so the bill hasn't been written. There's been similar bills
in previous Congresses that have been discussed and have had
bipartisan support. But now for the one hundred and nineteenth Congress,
all this is saying, Hey, these issues that we were

(37:57):
working on a couple of years ago, we need to
bring them back and continue to work on them in
order to ensure that we are not handing out American
taxpayer dollars to folks that are illegally present in the country.
And we have to be very specific with this. The
only federal funds that are in discussion right now are
federal funds that might go to illegal immigrants. We're not
talking about any other federal funding. It is only federal

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dollars two or that might be going to illegal immigrants
that are in question here. And so really the two
things the two takeaways from this are no, there is
no bill, The bill hasn't been written. This as merely
a directive to the committees having jurisdiction to continue to
work on something similar to last Congress's bill, which again

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passed with bipartisan support, saying that American taxpayer dollars should
go only to Americans and to law abiding folks.

Speaker 4 (38:46):
Well, I mean, you know the situation here in Denver.
They've spent tens of millions of dollars on illegal immigrants
from Venezuela. We're seeing some negative impacts from that, definitely
with crime, and Aurora in.

Speaker 5 (39:00):
A very difficult situation.

Speaker 4 (39:01):
So Kyle Clerk really tried to pin you down by
the way I think Denver brought all that on themselves.

Speaker 5 (39:07):
To be clear, I realized that's sound a kind of sympathetic.
I have no sympathy.

Speaker 4 (39:10):
I have sympathy that people are being used as pawns,
but ultimately, Denver has created this situation for themselves. And
Kyle was trying to get you to say that you
either would vote for or would not vote for legislation
that stripped Denver of federal dollars. But the explanation you
just gave seems that they would be things like the
last I looked at the bill from last year's Congress

(39:32):
and I just realized it was last year's Congress and
they were stripping economic development dollars from sanctuary cities. Because ultimately,
all money is fungible, right, I mean, you could say
we're not going to give you any money that's going
to go to illegal immigrants. But they've been using ARPA
dollars for this stuff. They've they've been using, you know,
dollars that were supposed to be for COVID and and
now they're housing illegal immigrants without money. So it's it's

(39:56):
is it just performative or there is there real teeth
there in.

Speaker 5 (39:59):
Your in your.

Speaker 8 (40:01):
Well Again for the bill that's developed in the one
hundred and nineteenth, obviously that hasn't been written yet, and
so that's going to be the conversation, and so it'll
probably be written a little bit differently, given that in
the one hundred and eighteenth, yes, the Republicans controlled the House,
but you still had a Democrat Senate and a Democrat
president that you had to get any legislation by. Whereas
this year, with you know, the voters being sick and

(40:21):
tired of the failed policies of the left, we now
have an opportunity with unified control to actually make some
some substantive change to make folks lives better in the
area of public safety, in the area of border security,
and again in the area of good stewardship of American
taxpayer dollars not being used to fund illegal immigrants and

(40:42):
illegal immigration, you know, but all of that is at
this point, again just considerations because the bill hasn't been
written yet.

Speaker 3 (40:50):
Right.

Speaker 8 (40:51):
One other thing that I do want to mention, because
you've mentioned Denver a couple of times, you know, and
this came up a little bit in the conversation that
you're referencing with Kyle, is this is actually state law
in Colorado. And there's three relevant state laws here, and
there's a quick sequence to how these happened. An ice
immigration detainers where Immigration and Customs says, hey, would that person,

(41:16):
you know, whoever, that illegal immigrant that they're interested in
that we need that person. We don't know where they are,
but we need that person, so they can put what's
called a detainer. If law enforcement contacts that information, Hey
contacts that person, Hey hold them for us. In twenty nineteen,
Colorado passed a state law, so this doesn't apply just
in Denver. This applies across the state of Colorado. Passed

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the state law that said Colorado will not honor ICE
immigration detainers. So local law enforcement contacts somebody that's wanted
by ICE for drug trafficking, all sorts of other stuff.
Colorado law enforcement cannot honor that ICE immigration detainer. Certain
law enforcement agencies found a work around to that. So
in twenty twenty one, the State of Colorado again doubled

(41:59):
down with Senate built twenty one point thirty one doubled
down and said state and local law enforcement. State and
local governments are not allowed to share any personal identifying
information for the purposes of anything related to immigration with ICE.
So what that means is it is against the law
for Aurora PD to pick up the phone and call

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Immigration and Customs and say we have a gang of
illegals here that are causing problems in apartments. That phone
call is illegal for Aurora PD if it transmits any
sort of personal identifying information for the purposes of any
sort of immigration enforcement. And so the result of that
is that the State of Colorado has sanctuary state policies
that are attracting people. It's why we saw one of

(42:41):
the highest influxes in the nation of illegal immigrants. And
with that comes cartels, transnational criminal organizations, and other gangs
that are specifically selecting Colorado to be their regional or
their national headquarters because they know that state and local
law enforcement can't talk to ICE. To get them out
of our communities.

Speaker 4 (42:59):
And people may not know this, but Denver has long
been a crossroads for drugs in the United States coming
out of Mexico.

Speaker 5 (43:05):
This is a very what's sort I'm looking for.

Speaker 4 (43:09):
It's a commonplace where drug dealers will run things through
Denver because seventy goes east and west. You know, you
can continue on from here to reach a lot of
places pretty quickly in the grand scheme of things.

Speaker 5 (43:20):
So we've just added another layer to.

Speaker 4 (43:22):
That, or rather taken a layer of law enforcement ability away.
Now I have to ask you when you talk to
Kyle about this, did you share these things with him?
Because he certainly gave the impression to his viewers that
you were wrong on the level of cooperation that was
available between law enforcement of Colorado and ICE.

Speaker 8 (43:45):
Well, I mean, I was a cop for a little
over ten years. I don't think he was. And I
can tell you what the law and the day to
day actual practical operating procedures are boots on the ground
in Colorado, and it's that you cannot call ICE to
share personally identifying information if it's any thing that could
be related to immigration. Again, anybody who's listening that doubts
me on this. Go google it, you can look it up.

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Colorado Senate Bill twenty one, So that means it was
passed in twenty twenty one. SB twenty one DASH one
thirty one, one hundred and thirty first Senate bill introduced
in Colorado in the year twenty twenty one. Senate Bill
twenty one one thirty one is the bill in question
here that says you can't show that information with ICE
for immigration related purposes. If you do, then bad sanctions happen.

Speaker 5 (44:27):
That's what I was going to ask.

Speaker 4 (44:28):
Somebody on the text line said, ask him what the
retribution to the city of Aurora will be if they
violated that law. Because the ACLU is already making noises
that the Americans Civil Liberties Union is making noise that
the illegal immigrants were being treated unfairly as they were
committing their crimes.

Speaker 5 (44:48):
I mean, it's mind blowing to me.

Speaker 4 (44:50):
But what happens to Aurora if it is found that
they did call immigration because these guys are now in
immigration custody.

Speaker 8 (44:58):
Yeah, so potentially one of the sanctions is get cut off.
The law enforcement agency gets cut off from Colorado Department
of Motor Vehicle Data.

Speaker 5 (45:05):
I wait, so wait a minute.

Speaker 4 (45:07):
Okay, So Colorado is supposed to be immune from any
sort of repercussions from the federal government, but they themselves
impose repercussions on people who do not do what they
want them to do.

Speaker 6 (45:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (45:22):
Absolutely, and again that goes back to what we were
talking about.

Speaker 3 (45:25):
In Colorado.

Speaker 8 (45:26):
Unfortunately, state and local law enforcement have been handcuffed by
state law from being able to work with the federal
immigration authorities to get violent criminals, to get folks like
trendy arguas, to get folks like cartels out of our communities,
and the result of that. I mean, there was some
news I don't know, maybe a month or two ago,

(45:47):
where information came to light that said trendy Argua was
looking at Denver, Colorado specifically because of these soft on
crime laws and specifically because state and local law enforcement
can't work with the federal authorities. Trendy Arguau was looking
to set up their national headquarters in Colorado because of
these laws. This is why we are, unfortunately the third

(46:09):
most dangerous state in the nation. I mean, among many
other reasons, but this is a significant contributing factor. Just
being the third most dangerous states in the country right
now more dangerous than California and New York State, Illinois, Oregon, Washington.
Denver's homicide rate is higher than San Francisco's homicide rate
by a significant percentage.

Speaker 4 (46:28):
So let me ask you this, Congressman, and I'm not
trying to put you into agatcha situation, but what would
a piece of legislation in any way shape or for
dinging sanctuary cities or states?

Speaker 5 (46:40):
What could you support in that way?

Speaker 4 (46:42):
Because I got to tell you, I think that nothing
will change until the federal government does something punitive two
states and cities like Denver and Colorado, because I don't
want to live in a sanctuary state. I don't want
to live in a place that flouts one of the
true things that is the sole purview of the federal government,
and that is immigration. We should not be involved in

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this at all, you know, we should simply be following
the law and going about our lives. But now we
have people who are flouting the law.

Speaker 5 (47:13):
So there is there any.

Speaker 4 (47:14):
Version of this that you think you could support?

Speaker 8 (47:18):
Well, again, I you know, without having a bill written,
you know, it's difficult to give any sort of concrete
answer there. But I think that most folks. So, you know,
we saw this in a pretty clear mandate by the
American people and how they voted this last election cycle.
We saw that they believe that American taxpayer dollars should
go to people who are following the law and to

(47:40):
American citizens. We should not be subsidizing illegal immigrants who
are living off of the American taxpayer, and so finding
you know, the details and the very you know, well
thought out policies to actually achieve that end is why
you know, in this rules package we had a broad
directive to continue to look at this issue because that's

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you know, that's the work that we have to roll
up our sleeves and do over the next two years
to figure out how do we make sure that American
taxpayer dollars are going to people who are law biding
and who are American citizens.

Speaker 4 (48:11):
And Gabe, lets anybody get the vapors about the federal
government flexing its financial muscles to force states to acquiesce
to what they were doing. They've done this since the
beginning of time. Remember when the speed limit was forced
upon US fifty five miles per hour, fifty five arrive alive,
drive fifty five and they blackmailed states with transportation dollars

(48:32):
withholding them if they did not acquiesce and change their
speed limits. So for anybody who wants to pretend like,
you know, the government is the pure as the driven
snow on issues like this, they have forever used the
power of the purse to get their way, and I
think that in this particular measure, I support that because
those are my tax dollars.

Speaker 5 (48:50):
I'm getting double dinged.

Speaker 4 (48:52):
You know, Colorado has been using ARBA dollars to pay
for illegal immigrants. I am my state tax dollars are
going to support this.

Speaker 5 (48:59):
It's like it's enough. It's enough already.

Speaker 4 (49:01):
I feel a lot of compassion for the people who
want to come here, but I feel more compassion for
the people that are just barely getting by, who are
getting crushed by inflation, and I'd love to.

Speaker 5 (49:12):
See them get a break.

Speaker 4 (49:13):
And I don't see that as long as government is
spending like maniacs.

Speaker 5 (49:17):
Congressman, I'll let you have the last word on it.

Speaker 8 (49:19):
Yeah, I appreciate that. Yeah. So for me, I mean
to two real quick thoughts. You know, first of all,
I am the grandson an immigrant from Mexico, so you know,
we know that the United States. It's one of our
national models. Equer of us soon I'm out of many one.
You know, we don't begrudge anyone who wants to come here.
We just say that if you're going to come here,
you've got to follow our laws, and you have to
do it legally, and you have to do it the

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right way. The second thing is, you know, for me
is a small government, constitutional conservative. You know, I look
at a couple of things in the Constitution as my
guiding light in these discussions. The first is the Preamble
to the Constitution, which lays out what is the proper
jurisdiction of the federal government. And it's real simple six things.
For I'm a more perfect union. Establish justice and sure

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domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare,
and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity.
That is the scope of jurisdiction for the federal government
has laid out in the Preamble of the Constitution. And
then you go look at Article six of the Constitution,
which says that in those areas the Constitution and any
laws made in accordance thereof are the supreme law of

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the land. It's called the supremacy clause. And so the juxtaposition,
you know, putting those two things together, I think says
that when you have states that blatantly ignore federal law
in this area of immigration, in this area of enforcing
the law for people who are not legally present in

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the country, you know, I think that ties back to
a lot of the frustrations that American people, the American
people have with the open border and again with their
tax dollars flowing to folks whose first act in coming
here was to break the law.

Speaker 5 (50:57):
I could God agree with you more.

Speaker 4 (50:59):
I'll give you my You don't have a very simple
way of looking at any piece any policy, any piece
of legislation, and just put it through this filter. Does
it make me more free or less free? Start there
and the rest source itself out. Congressman gave Evans, feel
free to use that as you're congressing or whatever the verb.

Speaker 5 (51:15):
For being in Congress is. So it's a pleasure to
talk to you.

Speaker 4 (51:18):
Have you back on the show, and congratulations and welcome
to the Congress. You just remember you asked for it, mister,
you asked for it, Okay, So I remember that when
you're frustrated and ready to pull your hair out.

Speaker 8 (51:30):
Well, after twenty two years in the military and law enforcement,
this is just the next challenge. And again, super honored
to be here. Gave Evans. Dot House dot gov is
the official website for anybody that needs assistance Gave Evans.
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Speaker 4 (51:49):
All right, Congressman, I appreciate your time today. Take care,
all right, I have a good one.

Speaker 12 (51:53):
You know.

Speaker 5 (51:54):
It's see this is this is.

Speaker 4 (51:57):
The going back to the whole Kyle Clerk treatment of
Gabe Evans on this It's just unnecessary, That's what I really.

Speaker 5 (52:07):
It's hard for me to.

Speaker 4 (52:09):
Even entertain the notion that Kyle Clark is not incredibly
biased against conservatives when he does stuff like this. I mean,
this is just unnecessary, That's what I said. I felt
like he lost a bet or something. I you know,
it was somehow had to like you know, the guys
from Impractical Jokers.

Speaker 5 (52:27):
I'll go after this, Congressman.

Speaker 4 (52:28):
I bet oh yeah, okay, I mean, anyway, when we
get back Okay, So this is kind of a weird
story because I don't know who this is. So someone
text into the text line and immediately became apparent to
me that it is someone working with a TV crew
in California.

Speaker 5 (52:47):
So aroon, I want to call this.

Speaker 4 (52:49):
Guy on the text line because I think he's working
in TV news at the fire and this is one
of the text messages.

Speaker 5 (52:56):
I asked him.

Speaker 4 (52:57):
I said what city are you? And he said the
once habitable La County, Cali takes Caxus from thirty nine
million people, income, gas, property sales below middle of the
pack in education ranking, I personally rank as fiftieth. In
common sense, you have to stare at the ten feet
of road in front of you to not get axle
damage from crap roads from Alameda to so far from
Santa Monica Boulevard down to Imperial and everything around the

(53:20):
one ten. It looks like the scene out of Judge Dread.
This city is collapsing. So yeah, we're gonna call this person.

Speaker 7 (53:27):
Why not?

Speaker 4 (53:28):
I don't know who they are. Their last text on
the text line a rod right there. Well, no, never mind, anyway,
I'm just I want to know what this person is doing.

Speaker 5 (53:41):
It's the three two three number. So yeah, anyway, Oh shoot,
what did I just sit?

Speaker 3 (53:50):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (53:51):
Oh geez, oh come on.

Speaker 7 (53:54):
What if I?

Speaker 4 (53:55):
Oh I somehow managed to close all of it. When
it's technology, it's technolog you know as old people in technology.
Oh do you want to hear something absolutely ridiculous?

Speaker 5 (54:07):
Now?

Speaker 4 (54:07):
A Rod makes fun of me all the time about
my lack of technology skills, and as I tell my daughter,
my brain is full.

Speaker 5 (54:14):
Okay, my brain is full. I don't need any more nonsense.

Speaker 6 (54:18):
I realize even though with it being full, you can
still come up with so many excuses.

Speaker 5 (54:22):
I'm not saying there's no excuses, but you're not full
of that.

Speaker 7 (54:27):
Just everything else, you can always come up with excuses.

Speaker 5 (54:29):
Yeah, yeah, pretty much. I mean just about technology.

Speaker 4 (54:31):
As I tell my daughter all the time, I'm like
the section of my brain devoted to learning things like
new technology, it's full. It actually has a rolodex and
a filing cabinet.

Speaker 5 (54:42):
It doesn't even have a desktop.

Speaker 4 (54:43):
Okay, it's full of manuals and PDF files and it's
no morse going in there.

Speaker 7 (54:52):
Old click down to trash, recycle, open up some space. Okay.

Speaker 5 (54:56):
Actually, you would have been proud of me, I did
clean out my computer over the you know, els, I
cleaned out my spice cabinet.

Speaker 6 (55:04):
Who am I all of a sudden, let me check
in on hell is y?

Speaker 5 (55:08):
Yeah? And if you were in the market for some coriander.

Speaker 4 (55:10):
That expired in twenty sixteen, I could have been your girl,
but I threw it away.

Speaker 5 (55:13):
We'll be right back.

Speaker 4 (55:14):
There's a big difference between having a kid who maybe
they graduated from college, maybe they've been out in the
workforce for a few years.

Speaker 5 (55:23):
Maybe they say, hey, would you guys be cool.

Speaker 4 (55:25):
With me moving back home for a couple of you know,
six months or a year or two years or whatever,
so it can save money to buy a house.

Speaker 5 (55:32):
In that situation, you know that you have an end date.

Speaker 4 (55:35):
You have a kid that is working, and they're coming
back home to serve a very positive purpose in their
forward development, right.

Speaker 5 (55:43):
I Mean, that's one kind of situation.

Speaker 4 (55:46):
That is entirely another when you have an adult child
who is able bodied, who is not in the workforce,
and the numbers are pretty ugly. In late twenty twenty
four or fourteen percent of American able bodied men were
opting out of work. This is double the rate from
the nineteen fifties. Now part of that is going to

(56:09):
be made up of stay at home dads, and I
realized that some of you are like stay at home dads.

Speaker 5 (56:14):
Let me tell you something.

Speaker 4 (56:16):
If Chuck had not agreed to be a stay at
home dad when we came out here to Denver, there's
no way I could have been able to put as
much effort into what I do here at the station
than I do.

Speaker 5 (56:27):
So that has been a real benefit for our family.

Speaker 4 (56:29):
It has worked fantastically for us. So that's part of it,
but probably not very many. How are you an able
bodied man or even an able bodied woman and you
just decide to opt out of work. I heard someone,
and I know this person, but I wasn't part of
the conversation, so you won't give any other identifying details.

(56:50):
But I heard someone say that their daughter had decided
to tell her live in boyfriend. Now they're in their twenties,
like mid twenties, she had decided to know her live
in boyfriend that she didn't want to work anymore, she
just wanted to be a stay at home girlfriend. I
was like, that girl has stones the size of candalopes.

Speaker 5 (57:13):
Like, no I for a girlfriend. No, No, no, No.

Speaker 4 (57:21):
Now more and more people are opting to have one
member of the couple's stay home, whether it's a stay
at home mom or a stay at home dad, which
I think is great if you can make it happen,
if you're willing to make the sacrifices that you have
to make, I highly recommend that. But sacrifices have to
be made. But that being said, are we a little
bit outdated in our thinking when it comes to adult

(57:45):
children living with parents longer with a goal in mind? Again,
that's the important part. A time and a date, you know.
Doctor Lauris Lessinger. One of her things was these girls
would call her to ask for advice about their baby
mama and they would say or their baby daddy. And
then they would say saything like, oh, we're engaged, And

(58:05):
she said, do you have a ring and a date?
Because if you don't have a ring and a date,
you're not engaged. If you just said you're engate, note
ringing a date, that's what makes it happen. Well, this
is kind of what you have to have with your
adult children. You got to have that exit date.

Speaker 5 (58:18):
What is your plan? How are you doing with the plan?
Because the exit date is a firm date, because ultimately, you, guys,
what are we doing to these people by allowing them
to stay in an infantilized state, by by never forcing
them to make the hard decisions that people have to

(58:39):
make to become an adult. You really think, I mean,
does it? Did anybody?

Speaker 4 (58:44):
There's certain things you look forward to when you're a kid, right,
I look forward to being thirteen because then you're a teenager,
Like that's you're a teenager. That's your first Like, hey,
I've graduated from being a kid. Now I'm a teenager.
And then you look forward to turning eighteen you get
to vote. Then of course you look forward to turning
twenty one and after that. You know, I don't know

(59:05):
what you're doing there, but what we're doing to these
people is we're just keeping them in this arrested state
of development where they never have to choose to do
the hard things that you never look forward to in life.

Speaker 5 (59:17):
Does anybody?

Speaker 4 (59:18):
Did anybody leave home for the first time and was like, yes,
I can't wait to pay rent, I cannot wait for
my power bill to come in. Yes, no, no one
does that. Those are the things that you have to
accept as part of the trade. Off for living an
independent life, and some people have to be forced into it,

(59:39):
and that's your responsibility as a parent. And sometimes the
conversations have to go like this, you have to get
out of my health. And again, if you have an
adult child who has, you know, developmental issues or some
kind of dependent thing that is going to require them
to live with you, I'm not talking to you. I

(59:59):
hope you know that. I'm talking about people who have
adult children with no plan.

Speaker 7 (01:00:07):
And no end date.

Speaker 5 (01:00:13):
Yeah, yeah, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (01:00:16):
Because people are not taught and effing work ethic in America.
I actually agree with that. I think we have a
problem with work ethic now. I think part of the
pushback that we're getting now is that there have been
times and there's still certain industries that will chew you
up and spit you out without giving it a second thought.

(01:00:37):
And because that kind of and frankly, I'm going to
say this, the grind grind, grind mentality for most people
is pretty toxic.

Speaker 5 (01:00:48):
For people that love it, great, I hope it works
for you.

Speaker 4 (01:00:51):
I hope you grind yourself and don't grind yourself into
an early grave. Hope it works for you. But younger
people are just rejecting that. But they're also rejecting actual war,
which is a problem because actual work is important. It
gives you a sense of purpose. And when people decide
they're not capable of doing any work, that does not
vote well for our future. Well, I just got a

(01:01:12):
text message that I want to share with you guys.
This person said, Mandy my Cousin is an idiot. I'm
assuming I can read this because they're probably not listening
to this show after reading this text, Mandy my Cousin
is an idiot. These were as examples of what we're
going to look forward to with Facebook changing to a
community notes system for fact checking instead of the handpicked

(01:01:34):
fact checkers that were so blatantly biased.

Speaker 5 (01:01:37):
Lol.

Speaker 4 (01:01:38):
And it says, so would you say that a person
selling you a used car should.

Speaker 5 (01:01:44):
Be able to show you and describe.

Speaker 4 (01:01:45):
You a BMW then after you pay, they go out
back and drive up with a Ford focus.

Speaker 5 (01:01:51):
They lied, But that's okay because it's free speech.

Speaker 4 (01:01:54):
Does free speech mean that travel agent can sell you
a week in Bora Bora that give you a week
in Toledo? The lies that go unchecked on the internet
are horrific as well. They need to be identified as lies,
or people will get four years like we're about to
get okay, forget the last statement.

Speaker 5 (01:02:11):
We won't even talk about that.

Speaker 4 (01:02:13):
If you're not on Twitter X, you probably don't know
what community notes are. The community notes are fantastic because
the hive mind of the Internet is what creates community notes.
So things that I've forgotten, but a Rod might remember
about a certain episode or incident, he can provide context

(01:02:34):
on one part. I can provide context on another. It
is far more effective to have millions of minds using
their ability to have input on a community note. And
the community notes on x dot com are outstanding. Some
of them are just simple clarifications where someone gets a

(01:02:55):
number wrong or whatever, community notes says the actual number
is this. Sometimes they give context that is really necessary,
and sometimes they kind of blow whatever's being said out
of the water.

Speaker 5 (01:03:07):
They fact check it so.

Speaker 4 (01:03:08):
Hard that it completely neuters whatever the false information is.
It is an extremely effective system, and Mark Zuckerberg knows this.
Do you think when Mark Zuckerberg or when Elon Musk
heard that Facebook was going to copy him with community notes,
do you think he was like, of course they are.

Speaker 5 (01:03:29):
Zucks, my bitch, I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:03:32):
You know what, if I were Elon Musk, I would
be I would send Mark Zuckerberg a sweatshirt that just
said I'm elon'sbiet.

Speaker 5 (01:03:39):
That's what I would say. I think that would be fantastic,
Absolutely fantastic. Oh, here's one Mandy.

Speaker 4 (01:03:47):
I used to work as a third party fact book checker.
Zuck's comment about the political behavior of his fact checkers
isn't entirely honest. We were limited by Facebook as far
as to what sources we could use to fact check
or verify the of a post. These sources were entirely
left leaning sites like Snoopes, WAPO, New York Times, et cetera.
As someone on the right side of things politically, I

(01:04:09):
found it extremely frustrating.

Speaker 5 (01:04:11):
I fooled myself into.

Speaker 4 (01:04:12):
Believing that perhaps there was another group doing the same thing,
with a cadre of authorized right leaning sources of their
own to use.

Speaker 5 (01:04:19):
Who knows.

Speaker 4 (01:04:20):
Suffice to say that the fact checking that most envision
wasn't without guardrails that pushed things in a desired direction
by Facebook.

Speaker 5 (01:04:29):
So there you go, there you go. It's just.

Speaker 4 (01:04:38):
To think that a small group of people of quote
experts should be relied upon instead of and don't get
me wrong, there's a difference between polling and community notes
or fact checking. Polling is entirely stupid way to decide
what we should do, and this is one of the
reasons that Angela Merkele, it was wildly popular when she

(01:04:59):
was in charge in Germany, is now being given the
side eye because she did pretty much whatever the polls
told her to do and so people loved her. Oh,
she's listening to us.

Speaker 5 (01:05:10):
The public makes very bad.

Speaker 4 (01:05:11):
Decisions about big issues, that's for sure. But when the
community notes, the sort of open network nature of it
means that it's kind of hard for a bad actor
to change the narrative. It's a great system, absolutely fantastic.

Speaker 5 (01:05:29):
But this is a perfect example.

Speaker 4 (01:05:31):
Of the elitist pseudo intellectual mentality that the people are
too stupid to be trusted. Instead, we have to rely
on our chosen experts, who we say have no bias,
but the rest of you clearly can see clearly do so. Yeah,
that's what's happening there. When we get back, we are

(01:05:52):
going to talk. I got a lot of stuff. It's
a great time to own a gas station in Denver.
More on that, guys. What happens when you make car
theft illegal. We'll touch on that. Hey, Ron, how much
would you pay for hot chocolate, just hot chocolate.

Speaker 5 (01:06:08):
No booze or anything in it? How much? What's your
upper end? Max?

Speaker 7 (01:06:13):
Comfortably five bucks?

Speaker 4 (01:06:15):
I would go seven, but that's like gotta be. There's
a twenty five dollars hot chocolate and veil. Well, we're
gonna talk about that next.

Speaker 1 (01:06:23):
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Speaker 2 (01:06:28):
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Speaker 3 (01:06:41):
Night, and.

Speaker 5 (01:06:52):
Say, wow, that is fantastic.

Speaker 4 (01:06:56):
I had not heard that until right now. It was
sent to A by a guy named Justin Renaud.

Speaker 5 (01:07:04):
What do you think? R? E N A U D
Justin Renault silent?

Speaker 4 (01:07:08):
Maybe Renault, I don't know, but man, that is spectacular.

Speaker 5 (01:07:12):
Just for the stalk show. That is so excellent.

Speaker 7 (01:07:16):
He said he recorded this in the basement. A.

Speaker 4 (01:07:20):
No, this is fantastic, absolutely fantastic. Justin you are the man.
We got to reach out and get him on the
show tomorrow. I love my creative listeners. You guys continue
to amaze me every single day.

Speaker 6 (01:07:33):
That's excellent, just excellent.

Speaker 4 (01:07:38):
Of course, mail has twenty five dollars hot chocolate. And
this is such a silly story. I have to say,
did you look at the picture of it?

Speaker 5 (01:07:45):
Aron? Did you go to the bat It looks pretty amazing.

Speaker 4 (01:07:49):
And apparently they use this chocolate lattice that they put
on top of the cup of cocoa, and on top
of that you have a mark a square.

Speaker 5 (01:07:57):
Homemade see what I mean that?

Speaker 4 (01:08:00):
And then they pour the hot chocolate, so you're really
paying for the performance of the hot chocolate.

Speaker 5 (01:08:06):
They pour the hot chocolate over the.

Speaker 4 (01:08:08):
Marshmallow and the chocolate lattice, so everything falls into the
cup as they're pouring the hot chocolate.

Speaker 5 (01:08:13):
Neat trick.

Speaker 7 (01:08:13):
Okay, that's what.

Speaker 5 (01:08:15):
Would you pay? Twenty five bucks? I paid twenty five
bucks once? Yeah, just once, just one time, one time.
The experience, Yeah, and then it's it's kind of like
those Have you ever had the the donut croissant things
that they have in Aspen at the Hotel Jerome?

Speaker 4 (01:08:29):
No, oh, good lord, those things are delicious.

Speaker 6 (01:08:33):
What's the banana thing they do? Table side in New Orleans?

Speaker 5 (01:08:36):
Bana's Foster?

Speaker 6 (01:08:37):
The table is this cheap of us at the nice
fancy restaurant we went to. Yeah, the table next to
us did it, so we just like enjoyed their experience
and then didn't get it because I didn't really have
an interest.

Speaker 7 (01:08:47):
In eating it.

Speaker 6 (01:08:48):
But listening to the experience in the history, I would
have paid for that.

Speaker 7 (01:08:51):
Don't really need to actually eat it. Yeah, So bananas.

Speaker 4 (01:08:54):
Foster is like the simplest thing to make at home
if you really want.

Speaker 5 (01:08:57):
It's so easy, but it's spectacular when you have it
done at a bougie restaurant.

Speaker 7 (01:09:01):
So now that I've seen a picture of.

Speaker 5 (01:09:02):
That, yeah, I don't know if I need it now.

Speaker 4 (01:09:05):
Well, what I'm thinking is, I'm pretty sure I could
replicate all of these pieces.

Speaker 6 (01:09:09):
Because what if it tastes good, then you're gonna want
more of it, and then that's gonna.

Speaker 2 (01:09:12):
Down I make.

Speaker 4 (01:09:13):
There's a couple of things that I braggadocious about.

Speaker 5 (01:09:15):
Want to make very very good hot chocolate, coffee very
good hot chocolate, And I make great popcorn. Those are
really my I mean, I cook a lot of stuff,
but those.

Speaker 7 (01:09:23):
Are kind of not so much. On the latter, it stinks, No,
you only.

Speaker 4 (01:09:28):
Didn't like the kind with a nutritional yeast on it.

Speaker 7 (01:09:32):
That no, No, then don't make it with that.

Speaker 5 (01:09:35):
I didn't make it with it last time.

Speaker 7 (01:09:37):
I remember it stinking.

Speaker 5 (01:09:38):
It was no I brought it in so people could
use it. Yeah, yeah, that does. It is a little stinky,
little dirty feetish, so I don't want to spend a
lot of time on that. I'm wondering if any of
you have had the hot chocolate.

Speaker 4 (01:09:49):
Actually someone did say, Mandy, I've had that hot chocolate
at the Four Seasons and Veil and it just re
it is so worth it, so so good, Mandy, twenty
five dollars. Isn't that price gouging or price gouging as
Carmelo would say. I mean, it's not gouging if people

(01:10:11):
will pay it, and they're not raising the rates just
because the weather got pad.

Speaker 7 (01:10:15):
Mandy.

Speaker 5 (01:10:15):
The country version of.

Speaker 4 (01:10:16):
Your theme song goes well with your Twitter mustache.

Speaker 5 (01:10:19):
Ooh ooh, maybe I'll have.

Speaker 4 (01:10:20):
The guy who did my Twitter mustache picture at a
cowboy hat for the Stalk Show.

Speaker 5 (01:10:25):
Yes, I gotta, I gotta find him.

Speaker 7 (01:10:27):
I just recently saved that picture.

Speaker 4 (01:10:29):
Oh that picture is magical. It's one of my favorite
things a listener ever made for me. And if you
if you don't follow me on Twitter, you are missing
out because I have the I have the you know
ron Burgundy mustache.

Speaker 5 (01:10:39):
It is fantastic. I love it makes me so happy. Mandy.
I was traveling a couple of months ago.

Speaker 4 (01:10:46):
I got a double tall vodkatonic thirty three bucks. Do
you know what is the most you've ever paid for
a drink? And did you know it was gonna cost
that much before you ordered it? Because I have accidentally
ordered one drink that costs thirty two dollars And.

Speaker 5 (01:11:02):
This was like eight years ago. This was not now.
This was I almost had a heart attack. I mean
thirty two dollars for one drink.

Speaker 4 (01:11:13):
And it wasn't even like an ancient you know of
aged wine or port or anything like. No, it was
just a straight up cocktail.

Speaker 7 (01:11:21):
I didn't remember what it was like, single drink or
a bottle.

Speaker 5 (01:11:24):
One single drink.

Speaker 4 (01:11:26):
And I'm not talking about a fish bowl right like, no,
I'm not talking about some ginormous split it.

Speaker 6 (01:11:30):
With three people from h probably in the high teens,
low twenties for like a big time margarita.

Speaker 7 (01:11:34):
Yeah somewhere.

Speaker 5 (01:11:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:11:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:11:36):
I don't know how much they are at rios. They're
pretty cheap, but they have been pricey I think in
the past, and they're huge though.

Speaker 5 (01:11:41):
Huge, like a gallon of margarita.

Speaker 4 (01:11:43):
And you're, yeah, I love that about Mexican restaurants. Never changed,
Mexican restaurants, Oh, never change.

Speaker 5 (01:11:48):
Don't do it, do not do it.

Speaker 4 (01:11:51):
All right, guys, I want to talk about what happens
when you make crime illegal. Now, what is it that
to tell you? You were going to think too as
I'm telling you this. Well, of course that's how it went, Mandy,
of course, except when all of this was going down
and people like me said to the Colorado legislator, as
they were about to make stealing a car under a

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certain amount of money a misdemeanor, we all.

Speaker 5 (01:12:16):
Sat around and said, hmm, this is a really bad idea.

Speaker 4 (01:12:21):
And the Democrats assured us that in the name of
racial equity or something or something, we had to do this,
and we were gonna be a leader a later.

Speaker 5 (01:12:32):
And you know what was gonna happen. The criminals were
just going to be like, you.

Speaker 4 (01:12:36):
Know what, they're so nice to us, Let's just stop
stealing stuff because they care about us. They want us
to succeed in life, so let's not steal anymore. I
don't know if that was the full thought that was
going on, but that's kind of how it came across.
And guess what people like me were right. Listen to
this though, listen to these statistics. We are down since

(01:12:58):
the high of twenty twenty two. We are down forty
one percent in car thefts. Do you know what happened
in twenty twenty two? They changed the law again to
make stealing car stealing cars something that you actually went
to jail for.

Speaker 5 (01:13:16):
El Arod, give me my computer for just one second.

Speaker 4 (01:13:18):
This is Attorney General Phil Wiser, who is now running
for governor on the Democratic ticket. He is running in
the primary. I should say he's not secured the nomination,
but this is what he had to say about people
who stole cars.

Speaker 13 (01:13:32):
So after someone commits a third or fourth car theft
in say three months, they should be kept in with
a really high bond, because you got a sense they're
gonna get out, they're gonna commit more crimes.

Speaker 4 (01:13:46):
Now, did we really get a sense Why didn't we
get a sense after the second car theft? Why didn't
we get a sense after the first car theft when
we could send a strong message that would maybe dissuade
some of them from.

Speaker 5 (01:14:01):
A future life of crime.

Speaker 4 (01:14:03):
But that's not what we did in Colorado and everybody's
car got stolen. People's catalytic converters were being cut out
at the airport on the daily basis. Denver International Airport
was one of the biggest hotspots for car theft in
the country for a good bit of the time because
people decided to put criminals ahead of citizens, law abiding citizens,

(01:14:28):
and that's what happened. But thankfully, now that we've recriminalized crime,
we've turned the flag and we turned the corner. Isn't
that amazing? I mean, who would have who would have
possibly seen that coming?

Speaker 6 (01:14:42):
Who?

Speaker 5 (01:14:43):
Who?

Speaker 6 (01:14:45):
Who?

Speaker 5 (01:14:45):
Such a mystery an a rinder.

Speaker 4 (01:14:47):
Is it just people my age that have been saying,
you know what, twenty twenty five is going to be
a great year. Are your friends at thirty optimistic?

Speaker 7 (01:14:56):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (01:14:59):
I think so? It seems like it. Yeah, No, I
had to think about it because I don't really had
anyone say one way to.

Speaker 4 (01:15:04):
Ye, You've had conversations with people that just there is
a feeling of optimism. And I'm not just talking about
people on the right, who are you know, Republicans or
Trump supporters. It's not that I have friends who are
on the left who are saying, you know what, I
just feel very positive about twenty twenty five. I feel
like everybody wants to believe that we're finally going to

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leave the COVID area fully behind, because it's just been lingering,
not you know, completely, and we're never going to be
rid of COVID, so that's never going to happen, but
the existential dread over COVID, we're letting to just leave
it behind. People are optimistic about the economy. People on
the right are optimistic that maybe we're going to do

(01:15:47):
something about government spending. We'll see, but my friends and
family are relatively optimistic.

Speaker 5 (01:15:54):
So there you go. Let's see here. Oh this story is.
That's one of my favorites. I don't know what the
big deal is.

Speaker 4 (01:16:04):
The headline from the Daily Mail UK outcry as Arizona
tattoo shop ink's girl nine years old who wanted a
picture of Trump on her neck.

Speaker 5 (01:16:17):
I'll just read this story to you.

Speaker 4 (01:16:20):
An Arizona tattoo artist has been slammed after inking a
nine year old girl who asked for a portrait of
Donald Trump on her neck. An artist at the Black
Onyx Empire tattoo shop in Yuma shared on his Instagram
that the girl had traveled to Arizona with her parents
to get the ink of the president elect, but the artist,

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who shared video of the inking process, said he convinced
her to do something more patriotic instead a US flag
on her arm, told her in a year if she
still wanted the Trump then to get it, but to
think on it.

Speaker 5 (01:16:59):
The artist, who goes by the name Kutsosa.

Speaker 4 (01:17:02):
Wrote on Instagram, client came back one year later saying
I'm ten now can you touch up the red? She
had also changed her mind on the Trump portrait. One
year later, the girl apparently traveled to Arizona for the tattoo,
as the state allows kids to ink themselves if they
have parental permission. The artist said he even tried to

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scare the girl's parents away by pricing the tattoo at
five hundred dollars, even though it was worth eighty.

Speaker 5 (01:17:32):
The parents were undissuaded, because you know what, if this
little girl knew in.

Speaker 4 (01:17:37):
Her heart that she wanted to be a person with tattoos,
who are we to not believe her? We should all
be affirming children who want tattoos.

Speaker 5 (01:17:47):
And this this.

Speaker 4 (01:17:50):
Bigoted tattoo artist who had the nerve to deny her
innermost feelings of getting a Trump tattoo.

Speaker 5 (01:17:58):
On her neck. What is this problem? What kind of
idiot is this moron? He should be outed. We should
make sure he never works again.

Speaker 4 (01:18:09):
And you know what, let's make it illegal for states
to take it for anybody to prevent a kid whose
parents support this from getting a permanent mark on their body.
It's fine, right, It's all reversible.

Speaker 5 (01:18:20):
I mean, you can.

Speaker 4 (01:18:21):
Remove a tattoo after many sessions of extremely painful laser treatments.

Speaker 5 (01:18:26):
But it's fine. I mean, kids should be able to
express themselves as they see fit.

Speaker 4 (01:18:31):
So all these people who are salty about this tattoo
situation need to look in the mirror at their own bigotry.
You need to make sure and check your privilege while
you're at it, because this little girl is just being
true to herself and at the age of nine. Come on,

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she absolutely knows everything about her Oh wait, that Trump
tattoo is a bad Never mind, she changed her mind.

Speaker 5 (01:19:01):
I mean, don't get me wrong, I think this is crazy,
absolutely crazy. And here's the thing. These parents think they're
being the cool parents.

Speaker 4 (01:19:10):
But I guarantee you, at some point in the future
that tattoo will be thrown in their faces by an
angry young woman who should have had someone say no
to a lot of stuff a lot sooner. But hey,
it's their kid. I mean she'll have to deal with
a repercussion. She is would have plenty to tell her
therapists amount later, Mandy. I bet if they wanted to

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remove her giblets, they would be all over a proud
and brave wagon.

Speaker 5 (01:19:36):
Uh huh uh huh, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:19:38):
I would have sworn the tattoo story was out of Florida.
Florida does not allow children to get tattoos. Fifty states
have statutory laws banning under eighteens from getting tattoos, but
some make an exception.

Speaker 5 (01:19:52):
For children who get parental consent. Others, like New York
and New Jersey, have a blanket ban on miners being
in even if they have parental permission.

Speaker 4 (01:20:04):
I just I don't even know what to do with this.
They probably got her a tattoo so she could become
an Internet celebrity. Go ahead and fill out your parents
have the ear ballots now for this family so much
to look forward to, so brave, so proud they must be.
I hope you guys since the sarcasm here. I mean,

(01:20:25):
I really hope, so yeah, really really hope. So uh,
I'm trying to forty dollars whiskey.

Speaker 5 (01:20:37):
That's a lot.

Speaker 4 (01:20:38):
Here's one Mandy, my wife and I paid fifty bucks
a shot for some tequila at the Tequila Bar and
the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas.

Speaker 5 (01:20:45):
I don't know if I was hammered or not. Probably was,
but it was worth it.

Speaker 7 (01:20:49):
Yeah, that might be the reason I can't remember. You know,
I wouldn't pay I.

Speaker 5 (01:20:52):
Wouldn't pay twenty five bucks a shot or fifty bucks
a shot for a shot because the SHOT's like boom,
it's gone liquid gold. Yeah. No way.

Speaker 4 (01:21:00):
When we get back, Michelle Zelner joins us, we go
from shots to let's talk about making twenty twenty five
your year, ladies and germs. We're doing that next. I
was in pe class when the Jane fond of Revolution hit.
That was a little bit before your time, Michelle Zelner,
our health and fitness guru.

Speaker 9 (01:21:16):
Yes, I think I was. Denise Austin.

Speaker 5 (01:21:18):
Oh, I love her too. But what's funny about this?
So yester.

Speaker 4 (01:21:21):
This past weekend, I was looking for a thirty minute
calistenics workout that I could do on the days that
I'm not lifting weights, and there's so many of them.

Speaker 5 (01:21:29):
But as I'm watching.

Speaker 4 (01:21:30):
Them, I was like, this is pretty much the Jane
fond of workout from like nineteen eighty.

Speaker 14 (01:21:36):
I mean, there's really not a lot of variation that
you can do with a body, right, A body is
a body.

Speaker 4 (01:21:42):
Yeah, And so basically we're rehashing now for their they
think they invented it, and I'm like, no, go back
and watch Jane with her high cut leotards and her tights.
And you know, we brought Michelle on today to talk
about twenty twenty five, and you just heard me talking
about the sort of optimism that people are feeling. And
I think it's part willfully like willing it into being

(01:22:04):
because we're all so tired. Nobody wants to talk about
what's gone on for the last six years, right.

Speaker 14 (01:22:10):
Yeah. I definitely get the sense that people are just
ready to move on, ready to actually be active participants
in their lives again, where maybe for a lot of
people they kind of stood back and just did what
they were told to do because that's what they felt
like they were supposed to do, right, And I definitely
see that kind of energy shift as well.

Speaker 5 (01:22:27):
Well. I hope so, because it's a terrible position. And
I kind of said this earlier in the show.

Speaker 4 (01:22:32):
To be drifting through life is a terrible way to
go through life. And I don't care if you're a
person of faith or not. This is true. We get
one spin on the big blue marble, right, this is it.
This is the life that you.

Speaker 5 (01:22:45):
Have been given.

Speaker 4 (01:22:46):
I happen to believe you were given to it, given
it by a creator. Don't waste it just drifting through life.
And one of the ways that you can avoid drifting
through life is to take a little little moment, a
little couple hours of introspection and really you sort of
drill down on what you want twenty twenty five and
beyond to be. And Michelle does this virtual vision board party,

(01:23:07):
and I'm going to let you tell people what is
a vision board?

Speaker 9 (01:23:11):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (01:23:11):
Well, I mean it's just a visual representation of either
what you say is important to you or things that
you want to achieve and accomplish an experience, whether it's
for the year or it's like a particular event that
you're excited about. It's that way to get it out
of your head. And get it into the real world,
which is in front of you.

Speaker 2 (01:23:29):
Right.

Speaker 9 (01:23:30):
And you know, I know I've shared this before.

Speaker 14 (01:23:32):
But I used to roll my eyes at the whole
concept of a vision board. Right, Really, you're just going
to put some pictures and words on a poster board
and then poof, your life's amazing. Well, that actually isn't
the way it works, But there's science behind it. The
fact that when you get clarity, when you declare something
out loud, when you have it in front of you,
it's accountability focus.

Speaker 9 (01:23:54):
It's focused exactly.

Speaker 14 (01:23:55):
It's the reminder of what you say you want to
do so that you don't get to the end of
the year or a decade or your life and you say, oh,
well I wish I would have, or yeah, I probably
should have, or I guess I could have.

Speaker 5 (01:24:08):
One of the things that.

Speaker 4 (01:24:09):
I think my mistakes have been is a put too
much ambition onto one board.

Speaker 5 (01:24:14):
And so now I am.

Speaker 4 (01:24:16):
Working on focusing on a few things that are really
important and not so much on the things that are
you know, maybe they're long term sort of pie in
the sky. If it happens, it happens, but if it doesn't,
not a big deal. But really because I want to
bring that kind of intention and that kind of focus
to the things I want to accomplish this year.

Speaker 14 (01:24:35):
Yeah, I think that's a great way to look at
I think too often we do put those big pie
in the sky things and we feel like if we
don't accomplish something big, well then we didn't do anything right.
And there's so much in the day to day, right,
The day to day is very mundane, and yet it's
the day to day consistency that is going to determine
your outcome for a lot of things. And I know

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that's one of the big roadblocks for people is we
want this instant result with little to no effort, and
so we're all gung ho in January and then come
February we're like, oh, well, you know, I tried.

Speaker 4 (01:25:06):
And did you see that there was a gym I
don't even know where it was there was not accepting
new members in January. I love that he was literally like, look,
we don't need you to clog our hallways. We don't
need you to come here for the four weeks. Go
to a different gym for your one month of working out.
And I thought, first of all, it's pretty ballsy, but
if you want to join a serious gym, you know

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where to go.

Speaker 14 (01:25:28):
Yeah, And I'm never going to discourage anybody from trying
and from getting started, because sometimes it is that one
time that maybe I wasn't successful before, but this time
is different. And that is something I always ask people.
If they've been down the road before and you're attempting
to do the same thing you've done before, what is
different about it this time that is going to help
you succeed? Right, And if you haven't ironed out what

(01:25:50):
is different that's going to help you succeed this time,
you're probably not going to succeed this time. So I
think there's there's so many steps to actually be successful
you have to do right. You can't just hope or
wish or put a vision board together or read.

Speaker 4 (01:26:04):
The Four Agreements or the Secret or whatever, and they
just hope and pray that fabulous things are going to
happen to you. I think that is one of the
most important parts of this whole thing, is that a
vision board without action or more, let me say this differently,
a vision board without actionable.

Speaker 5 (01:26:19):
Steps to achieve those goals is just a picture you made. Yes,
that's what that is.

Speaker 9 (01:26:24):
Yes, and there are people.

Speaker 14 (01:26:25):
I mean, I've hosted vision board workshops for going on
seven or eight years now, and there are people who think, well,
I'll just put it on a board and then it'll
all happened, right, And I'm not sure where that's not witchcraft, right,
it's not witchcraft.

Speaker 4 (01:26:39):
It's a way to present yourself. And there's a lot
of different ways. And our mutual friend, the win Yogi
hers is not a traditional vision board. It is actionable
steps she wants to take, because for her, she wanted clarity,
like what are those steps I'm going to take in
these different directions, rather than just having an aspirational like
I want a new kitch, so I'm going to put

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this kitchen. I what are you going to do to
make that happen?

Speaker 3 (01:27:04):
Well?

Speaker 9 (01:27:04):
And I like to use my board.

Speaker 14 (01:27:06):
So my pictures and words and phrases are things that
matter to me. So they are my goals, my values,
my priorities, how I intend to spend my energy and
my time, my money. And then on the back of
the board, I write the actionable steps to make each.

Speaker 9 (01:27:19):
Of these things happen.

Speaker 5 (01:27:20):
Right.

Speaker 14 (01:27:21):
So, when I was writing my book, okay, yes, I
had a picture of the cover of my book.

Speaker 5 (01:27:25):
On my vision board.

Speaker 14 (01:27:25):
Okay, well when am I going to write this book?

Speaker 5 (01:27:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (01:27:29):
Right, And I knew, like I need to have set time.
I can't just do a couple hours here and there.
So it's on the board and this August that year,
like this August, these three weeks that is drilled down
I'm writing that book. So you get a lot of clarity.
But you you do have to have some discipline. You
have to have a plan, you have to follow through
on the plan, be flexible with your plan. I mean,

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you really have to be a very active participant in
the process.

Speaker 9 (01:27:54):
To your point.

Speaker 14 (01:27:55):
You can't just kind of wing it or fritter about,
as I aus I call it. Right, things only happen
because you did things to make them happen.

Speaker 5 (01:28:03):
Right, right.

Speaker 4 (01:28:04):
I Mean there are people who appear to stumble through life,
but ultimately they're ready for the opportunities when they appear.
And that's kind of what we're doing here now. The
virtual vision board party is something you do from the
comfort of your own home. You sit in front of
your computer. I in the past, when I did my
vision board, I have actually gone to the internet and
printed out photographs that I use.

Speaker 5 (01:28:26):
On my vision board.

Speaker 4 (01:28:27):
I have seen other people do the entire thing in
a in a you know, Canva slide or whatever that
it's really whatever works for you. But I will say this,
don't do something so big and elaborate that you don't
want it out in your house, like you don't want
to do this, and then put it in.

Speaker 14 (01:28:45):
A closet and you actually have to have visual yes
ease on it, you have to look at it.

Speaker 4 (01:28:50):
One of the best places to put it if you
have the spaces in your closet because then you see
it every day. That sounds so dumb to say put
it in your closet, but I'm talking about the closet
where all of your clothes are that you go in
you every single day. That's a great place to put
it because then you see it early in the morning.

Speaker 6 (01:29:04):
You know.

Speaker 9 (01:29:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:29:05):
And if people have a hard time, I've had people say, well,
I don't really have anything that I want to work
on this year, or I don't have any goals, or
you know, I always do this and it never works out,
so why bother doing it again. To that, I will say,
just give yourself a little gut check. Are you one
hundred percent happy? With every single thing in your life.

Speaker 9 (01:29:24):
And if you are great, then don't change a thing.

Speaker 14 (01:29:27):
But if there's anything that you are not totally satisfied
with and there is something you are willing and able
to do about it, well.

Speaker 9 (01:29:35):
Then why not do that one thing?

Speaker 6 (01:29:37):
Right?

Speaker 14 (01:29:37):
And maybe you make that list of the things that, yes,
I would like to improve or level up or expand
or whatever. You make that list of those things, and
and then you think, okay, there probably is something on
here that if I'm intentional I dedicate time and effort
to it, it will give me benefit. Right, And that's
a really important piece of it. This has to be

(01:29:57):
something that matters to you. You know a lot of
times people will set goals or you know, make things
on their vision board because that's what everyone else is
doing or that's what somebody thinks you should be doing. Well,
if it isn't something that really adds value to your life,
the likelihood that you're going to invest the time or
energy to do it is pretty slim. And then you're
going to say, well, you know, I tried, and I

(01:30:19):
find how they're doing it again.

Speaker 4 (01:30:20):
Right, I understand that, but it's just I guess as
I've gotten older, and I think this happens to everybody
as they get older. It's not that I'm feeling my
mortality and I'm not buying any green bananas. But I'm
fifty five years old, so you realize that you're like, Okay,
let's assume, just for the sake of this conversation, that
I remain in really good health until I'm eighty. That's
only twenty five years. So I got a lot of

(01:30:42):
stuff to do in twenty five years. I've got a
lot of stuff I want to accomplish, and I don't
want to get to eighty and look back and say,
why didn't I do That's That's.

Speaker 5 (01:30:51):
The thing, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:30:52):
I've talked to so many older people when I sold
insurance to older people. I would sit and ask them
all kinds of questions, just chatting with them, and the
regret for the things they didn't do was always it
was palpable. Of the things, Well, I wish I'd gone
back to school, I wish I'd done this, I wish
I'd started a business.

Speaker 5 (01:31:12):
I wish, I wish, I wish.

Speaker 4 (01:31:14):
Don't be sitting there looking back and saying, oh, I
wish I had done all this stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:31:18):
Now let's talk about the actual party.

Speaker 4 (01:31:19):
Because you think to yourself, why do I need Michelle
to lead me through going to the internet and cutting
out fixtures.

Speaker 5 (01:31:26):
It's so much more than that.

Speaker 4 (01:31:27):
She has these great speakers, absolutely fantastic.

Speaker 5 (01:31:30):
Tell me who's going to be speaking about what?

Speaker 9 (01:31:33):
Oh gosh, I mean.

Speaker 14 (01:31:35):
I have been so lucky to have all of these
incredibly evolved humans from all ages. I have some very
young ones and I have somewhere a little more seasoned
that just give insight and inspiration in all different ways.

Speaker 9 (01:31:47):
I have a couple of fitness related people.

Speaker 14 (01:31:50):
I have a healed mindset coach. I have a mindset coach.
I have a money mindset coach. So I really try
to think about, you know, the different areas where people
are maybe struggling, want to make changes, and I try
to align speakers who can speak on that topic. So
all I can say is they're incredible and you're not
going to want to miss any of them. All the
information is posted in the event details, so you can

(01:32:11):
look up who they are and what little nuggets of
wisdom they're going to share.

Speaker 9 (01:32:14):
But yeah, it's a four hour event.

Speaker 14 (01:32:16):
If you can't do the whole thing, it's recorded, so
you get a link to the recording. As long as
you've registered, you can dip in and out. You can
you know, you're all on mute, so you're working on
your board while you're listening to the speakers.

Speaker 9 (01:32:28):
I chime in with a few things here and there.

Speaker 14 (01:32:31):
We have some you know, tools and different kinds of
assessments and evaluations that can really be a helpful kind
of blueprint for someone who maybe doesn't really know like, oh,
well what should I be doing?

Speaker 9 (01:32:43):
Or I, you know, I'm absent of any kind of.

Speaker 14 (01:32:45):
Ideas, So even just an evaluation to get a good
sense of really where are you with your health and happiness.

Speaker 4 (01:32:51):
I will tell you that if you are feeling like
this is you know, silly, or you're feeling like this
is ridiculous, but you're also feeling like you don't have
these intentions and these goals, these speakers are going to
rattle you and probably move you in a positive direction
in some way. Now, maybe all of them don't resonate

(01:33:13):
with you, but you are going to hear something that
is going to make you reflect and think about a
way to make your life better. And that's they're They're
absolutely fantastic I wasn't.

Speaker 5 (01:33:23):
The first time you brought in the speakers. I was like, okay,
let's see.

Speaker 4 (01:33:27):
They were just You'll leave the day feeling so much
better about where things are going in the future.

Speaker 14 (01:33:33):
And that is the number one piece of feedback I
get every year I do this. Wow, I had no
idea how much I didn't know until you know this
particular speaker, Maybe look at things from a different perspective
or open me up to this new idea that I
didn't even know existed. And I think that is part
of the process, right, being willing to be open to possibility,
being willing to to learn what you don't know, and

(01:33:55):
to learn that you don't know things. And yeah, and
in this is a place to anybody who wants to
make the most of their life, right, And that's the thing,
Like you said, we have limited time, and if you
are very intentional with what you're doing day by day,
week by week, month pay month, you're gonna get the
most out of.

Speaker 9 (01:34:15):
Life that you can.

Speaker 5 (01:34:16):
How much is this event?

Speaker 9 (01:34:18):
There's no set ticket price.

Speaker 14 (01:34:19):
I encourage people to donate any amount they want. I
have everything from one dollar to one hundred and fifty
dollars donations so it's truly whatever you want to give.

Speaker 4 (01:34:27):
All right, this is happening Saturday July, or excuse me,
Saturday January eleventh, this Saturday, from ten am to two pm.
And again, you don't have to be there for the
all four hour event. If you want to dip in
or dip out anytime, you can do that. I put
a link on my blog today to that event right event.
But if you forget about the blog, you can also
just search Michelle Zelner on event right and it will

(01:34:49):
take you to this event.

Speaker 5 (01:34:51):
Here's one, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (01:34:52):
I've always wanted a pretty girlfriend, so I put up
pictures of pretty women, but my wife made me take
them down. So maybe on your vision board you should
have a microphone so you could be a comedian, sir?
How about that? How about that this person, Mandy. I've
always been a firm believer of pray then act. Now
there's action behind prayers. I feel the exact same way,

(01:35:13):
and this is just a more secular version of that
intention followed by action and actionable steps. Michelle Zellner. I
joy to see he was always happy twenty twenty five.

Speaker 9 (01:35:22):
Thank you man.

Speaker 5 (01:35:22):
I'll see it out for Douglas Murray I'm excited.

Speaker 4 (01:35:24):
All right, we're gonna swap Michelle out and then look
who's coming into play. Everybody, it's gated our track. News
man is coming in to have I'll see you later.
We're going to see Douglas Murray tonight at the Paramount,
which I'm super excited about.

Speaker 5 (01:35:38):
Do you know who Douglas Murray is?

Speaker 7 (01:35:40):
I do not.

Speaker 4 (01:35:40):
He is a British scholar commentator, super smart guy, very
dry and really really smart, and I'm super excited.

Speaker 5 (01:35:50):
I'm gonna nerd out tonight and watch him. So it's
like a college lecture. Uh yeah, pretty much, only with
a much I mean, my version much cooler.

Speaker 7 (01:35:57):
That's going.

Speaker 5 (01:35:57):
Oh you know, so I know this is what you know.

Speaker 4 (01:36:00):
Other women get together and go out with their friends
like sex in the city style and drink Cosmos and
you know, get wasted. We go watch nerdy conversations together.
So that's what we do. So, yeah, you guys have
been covering this fire in California. I mean this is
you Were you here for the Marshall fire. Did you
live in Colorado?

Speaker 7 (01:36:20):
I moved just after.

Speaker 5 (01:36:21):
Yeah that was a terrible day.

Speaker 15 (01:36:24):
But I'm from southern California, so I care yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:36:26):
Do you still have friends and family that live out there?

Speaker 15 (01:36:28):
I do, Yeah, yeah, some of them have been evacuated,
but most are on the eastern side of La County.

Speaker 7 (01:36:34):
So we kind of avoid that.

Speaker 15 (01:36:36):
But I mean, it's you know, it's kind of the
risk of living out there, you know.

Speaker 5 (01:36:40):
But it's still so horrible when these pictures are just
burning to the ground in such a short period of time.
It's it's going to be really uh, it's going to
be pretty interesting to see what's left of Pacific Palisades,
which honestly is one of the prettiest parts of California.

Speaker 2 (01:36:57):
It really is.

Speaker 15 (01:36:58):
And I think the toughest part too, is a winds
or so odd the Santa Ana winds that.

Speaker 5 (01:37:02):
They came from. They're gonna the winds are supposed to
drop this afternoon. That's good, So hopefully that will happen.

Speaker 4 (01:37:08):
Because now it's time for the most exciting segment all
the radio.

Speaker 5 (01:37:11):
Of It's kinde hit a Canaan in the world.

Speaker 4 (01:37:15):
Not bad of the day, all right, now, that is
what is our dad joke?

Speaker 6 (01:37:21):
Please, Anthony, what did the atheist beaver say?

Speaker 2 (01:37:25):
Wait?

Speaker 5 (01:37:26):
What you started with?

Speaker 4 (01:37:27):
An atheist beaver? Okay, just want to make sure yep
you heard right.

Speaker 6 (01:37:32):
Okay, what did the atheist beaver say when he died
and went to hell?

Speaker 5 (01:37:37):
Atheist beaver?

Speaker 2 (01:37:38):
Damn, damn.

Speaker 5 (01:37:42):
Good one. What is the name or word of the day? Please?

Speaker 6 (01:37:46):
Adjective adjective jelid G E L I E.

Speaker 4 (01:37:50):
I just saw this word in a book and I
had to look it up, and I don't remember what,
but sandwich jelid.

Speaker 5 (01:37:56):
Yeah, it means.

Speaker 4 (01:37:57):
It's something that's sort of solid but kind of soft.

Speaker 6 (01:38:00):
Something described as jellets, such as the weather or a
person's demeanor is literally or figuratively extremely cold or icy.

Speaker 5 (01:38:08):
Oh, just look that up and I still didn't know
the answer.

Speaker 15 (01:38:11):
I'm gonna try and mix that in on a newscast.

Speaker 2 (01:38:15):
You know what.

Speaker 5 (01:38:15):
We should have a key newscast word show. You're doing.
It's not really no.

Speaker 4 (01:38:20):
I used to have a listener in Florida that every
day at five point thirty would send me the word
he wanted me to use during that.

Speaker 5 (01:38:26):
Show, and some of them were ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (01:38:28):
But I managed to slide him in as naturally as possible.

Speaker 15 (01:38:31):
As long as they don't violate any fccies can't do
dirty works.

Speaker 4 (01:38:35):
And there were words like super califragilistic xbling notions things
like that.

Speaker 5 (01:38:39):
You know, things like.

Speaker 4 (01:38:41):
Ruda bega or some you know, random things that he
but it was fun. I love the word category. It
is a good word. Okay, what is our jeopardy category?
We do have a tribut hang on. What is the
name for the dead wood at the center of a
tree that provides support for the rest of the tree.
I didn't know, Oh there was deadwood in the center
of a tree until right now.

Speaker 5 (01:39:02):
Oh it's heartwood.

Speaker 4 (01:39:04):
Although it's dead, it doesn't decay as long as the
tree's outer layers are intact. There's a thing I didn't
know about trees. I thought they were alive all the
way through learning a lot. Yeah, this is why we
do it, keenan, this is why we do it. What
is our jeopardy category?

Speaker 6 (01:39:16):
I hope you guys are players because the game is
board games?

Speaker 2 (01:39:20):
Oh yes, board games?

Speaker 9 (01:39:22):
All right.

Speaker 6 (01:39:22):
It's the board game in which you could be ordered
to go directly to jail.

Speaker 5 (01:39:27):
What is monopoly?

Speaker 9 (01:39:28):
Correct?

Speaker 6 (01:39:29):
It's the popular game invented in nineteen forty eight. And
what do you mean trebek isn't allowed? What is jeopardy game?
I guess interesting in this checkers game. The board is
a six pointed star and every player starts with ten marbles.

Speaker 4 (01:39:48):
Oh really, I think I know what it is, but
I'm not sure is Mandy is a Chinese checkers?

Speaker 7 (01:39:52):
That is correct?

Speaker 5 (01:39:53):
Okay?

Speaker 6 (01:39:53):
Well, the object of this game with a four letter
name is to occupy every injury.

Speaker 5 (01:39:58):
What is risk? Never ending board game.

Speaker 6 (01:40:01):
Finally, we've only got five minutes each to make all
all of our moves in this game with a two
word name.

Speaker 5 (01:40:08):
Five minutes each to use to use all.

Speaker 6 (01:40:11):
Of our what to use to make all our moves
in this two word game game?

Speaker 5 (01:40:17):
M hmm, what's timed with five minutes?

Speaker 7 (01:40:20):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:40:21):
I have no idea time halfway home? I don't know
what is speed chess? Okay, so Florida half point?

Speaker 5 (01:40:32):
Yeah, okay, Florida to a half point? Will you keenan?

Speaker 4 (01:40:34):
Thank you so much for coming into play now. Tomorrow
on the show, we've got a Thursday show, looking forward
to it.

Speaker 5 (01:40:41):
I'll have a full report.

Speaker 4 (01:40:42):
On tonight's speech by Douglas Murray. If you don't know
who he is, look him up. He's absolutely outstanding.

Speaker 5 (01:40:47):
Tomorrow. I'm a little conflicted about.

Speaker 4 (01:40:51):
Tomorrow, ay Rod, because Tomorrow is the national day of
Morning for Jimmy Carter, and I respect the man he
was the president of the United States of America, but
I don't particularly care.

Speaker 5 (01:41:04):
For the man.

Speaker 4 (01:41:05):
I think what he did in terms of habitat for
humanity has been outstanding. I think he is a godly
man who tried to do the right thing. But I
think some of the stuff he did after he left
office was downright subversive when it came to other administrations
he didn't like, and I don't like him for that, and.

Speaker 5 (01:41:25):
I think he was a terrible president.

Speaker 4 (01:41:27):
So I think I might just keep my yapper shot
about that tomorrow, because you know, and where I'm from,
you're not supposed.

Speaker 5 (01:41:33):
To say anything if you can't see anything nice, don't
see anything at all, don't speak ill of the dead.

Speaker 4 (01:41:38):
All of that stuff rattles around in my head. But
I think we're going to be playing at least part
of the funeral tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (01:41:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:41:44):
And of course, Britta Horne has announced that she wants
to be the next Colorado chair of the Colorado GOP.
We're going to talk to her about that tomorrow, But
right now, we got some guys who are coming on
they're going to talk about all kinds of stuff because
I don't know if you guys know this, but Denver
Broncos are in the playoffs again. Yeah, all that coming
up next on Gaway Sports.

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