01-09-25 FULL SHOW - Brita Horn Wants To Lead the Colorado GOP

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Through three Andy Connell sad thing. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to
the Thursday edition of the show. I am your host,
Mandy Connell, joined of course, by Anthony Rodriguez. We call
him a rod And if you are in the south

(00:43):
of Denver or Douglas County or Elbert County, I'm right
there with you because we had a freaking blizzard today.
I mean it was nuts. The snow's blowing sideways. I
just ran to my window because I'm broadcasting from Southern Command.
I ran on my window to see if it was
still snowing. It looks like it has stopped, but I
have like two feet of snow in my driveway. I
have two and a half to three feet on my

(01:05):
back deck that is covered because it was just blowing
in sideways. And apparently all you Denver rights are like, oh,
it's a little dusting, little here, little there. What'd you
get at your house? Ay, Roder, You probably didn't even
bust out the snowblower.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Did you whole lot of nothing?

Speaker 4 (01:19):
You didn't get any snow at all?

Speaker 2 (01:20):
No, nothing from nothing?

Speaker 5 (01:22):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, just the other.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
Day weather is amazing, isn't it?

Speaker 1 (01:25):
All Right?

Speaker 2 (01:26):
I'll go home, you drunk, you crazy?

Speaker 4 (01:27):
No, I actually have a weird it's not really a
weather story that it is a weather story. It's about
renewable energy. But we're gonna get into that a little
bit later in the show. We got a lot of
stuff to talk about, So let's jump into the blog.
Because I started out with one guest today super excited
to talk to Britta Horn about her running for the
chairmanship of the Colorado GOP. But then I added a

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couple more people and we'll talk to them as well.
Go to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look
for the headline in the latest post section. This says
one nine to twenty five blog Britta Horn wants to
lead the Colorado GOP. Click on that and here are
the headlines you will find within an.

Speaker 5 (02:09):
Even listen to the office half of American all with
ships and clipments of state. That'scona press plant.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
Today on the blog, Britta Horn wants to try and
write the ship. There's an inaugural ball in Denver. Why
didn't dougco call off school? These California fires feel apocalyptic.
Don't blame state farm for canceling policies. Government does have
a role in preventing wildfires. Denver restaurant licenses dropped by
twenty two percent. The stock Show parade will start at

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one today. ARII is having trouble. The Colorado Legislature is
in session. John Caldera calls out the smoke filled rooms
of the legislature about Trump and Greenland looking for romance.
Shooting up in Denver is easier than filling up lots
of animals eat poop. Germany hit sixty two point seven
percent of its energy from renewables. Apparently these men got

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out of this home. Nora mel Robin's wisdom, being in
shape is more important than being skinny. Another great reason
to move your body. I'd like to report a murder.
Von Miller still loves Bronco fans. Gavin Newsom shows just
how incompetent he is. Hollywood is about to find out
about the Red Cross. Those are the headlines on the

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blog at mandy'sblog dot com. Okay, so I've got textures
already on the Common Spirit Health text line. Hey Mandy,
no snow in Ravana. I grew up in Castle Rock
and I missed the crazy snows there, Mandy, Northern Springs
is a blizzard. Downtown Springs nothing and this part what
part of the country are you in? I'm in Parker

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and maybe have four inches. I have so much because
of the blowing snow. The way my house is situated,
it just and I normally only get it on one
side or the other, but today we were lucky. I
guess my deck ugh, because I'm in charge of clearing
the snow on the deck. You know, that's my responsibility
when the qu'es not home, although I may make her

(04:02):
do it. This afternoon, the deck has like a foot
and a half of snow on it, and I'd already
made Mount Jinksmis out of snow from the last snow.
I shove all the snow to this one part of
the deck that's in the shade, so Jinks my Saint
Bernard can go lay on it, and I made Mount Jinksmis.
It was huge, absolutely huge, And now I'm just going
to add to Mount Jinksimmis as well as shoveling off

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the deck and yes, I do shovel off my deck.
I do because it's above my hot tub and if
I don't, I sit in the hot tub and I
get dripped on, which is not fun. No bueno, not
going to do that. Coming up. At twelve thirty, I
reached out to Superintendent of Schools Aaron Kin for Douglas County,
and I wanted to have her on. I know everybody
doesn't live in Douglas County, but I think this is

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very useful information. She is going to talk about the
process that they use to decide when to delay a
school opening or cancel school altogether. And it's pretty standard
from school district to school district, but the Douglas County
School District is getting absolutely clobbered on next door. So
I figured, hey, I would go ahead and bring her

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on and let her explain the situation and hopefully people
will have a better understanding of what's going on. So
I reached out to the queue at her school and said, hey,
how many kids are in your classes right now? She said,
my homeroom, which has thirty eight, had ten, and none
of my classes have had more than half the students
in them. So a lot of people just said Nope,
cannot do it. Not gonna make that happen. So they

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turned around and went home. We're going to talk to
Superintendent Aaron Kane. At twelve thirty. Britta Horn has decided
to put her face into the woodchipper. And I'm just
gonna tell you, guys, if you don't know Britta Horn,
she is like a little walking, bright light kind of person.
She's not fluffy, she's not, you know, unseerious, but every

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time I see her, she's got a smile on her face.
She's what I would describe a happy warrior. So I
don't know who else is going to put their name
in the running to take over the chairmanship of the
Colorado GOP, but I'm going to talk to all of
them if they'll come on the show, I'm going to
talk to every single one of them, because we've got
to get better leadership in the Colorado Republican Party. There
are so many opportunities in Colorado right now for Republicans

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and we need leadership that can capitalize on those. So
Hey Mandy, dusting of snow with a lot of wind
in eastern Aurora. Eric In Parker said, I got at
least eight inches with two foot drifts. This is crazy, Mandy.
I only got flakes. The only flakes I got in

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Westminster were cornflakes in my serial bowl. Mandy. We live
close to Elizabeth and our boys go to school in
Highlands Ranch. The commute was awful. It was really bad
this morning. A drive that normally takes me fifteen minutes
round trip took me twenty five minutes. And that doesn't
sound like a lot more, but it is. It's not
very far. Think of us. Pray for us. Down here

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in the southern part between Denver and Colorado, springs were
being buried. We may not get out alive. Oh, speaking
of that, these California wildfires, you guys, holy Macarny, this
is just just I mean, the the pictures look like

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it's the apocalypse. And now the stories are coming out
about all of these Hollywood celebrities who have lost their
homes and lost everything. And don't get me wrong, I
don't have I don't have any more or less sympathy
for them than I do the normal average people who
just lost everything in a house fire. And I saw
a picture this morning. It wasn't I couldn't put it

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on the blog because it wasn't from our approoved source,
our you know that we work with, but it was
a neighborhood that looked to be about well, the picture
was about three kind of neighborhood streets, right, so you
have a street and then house house, a street house, house,
a street house house. They were all burned to the ground.

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It was very reminiscent of the Marshall fire. And I'm
guessing that some of you who suffered a complete catastrophic
loss in the Marshall fire are probably having a little
bit of anxiety and PTSD right now because this is
the kind of stuff that you know, brings it all
up again. So it's it's definitely something that we in

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Colorado need to pay attention to because we have similar
wildfire issues and government cannot prevent a wildfire. Okay, let's
just I will just stipulate that it is ridiculous to think,
let me let me rephrase that that government can prevent
every wildflower, that wildfire, flower, fire, wildfire. We want to

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encourage wildflowers and discourage wildfires, but there are so many
things that government can do, and this is something we
need to have conversations about in Colorado because we've had
beagle kill that has destroyed large swaths of forests on
some of our mountains, in in our in our forests,

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and so we could very well find ourselves in a
situation much like California's dealing with. We occasionally have those
Chinook wins that are incredibly strong, and that's really what's
fueling these fires in California. They're Santa Ana wins. So
what are we going to learn from this? And it's
I realize it's so so early, and the fires aren't

(09:32):
even out yet, and we don't even know the extent
of the damage. But I was thinking about this last night.
You know, we saw here in the Marshall fire how
long it took for people to be able to rebuild,
and people were out of their homes for eighteen months,
two years. Some people still have not fully rebuilt. And

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this is the area where government has the opportunity to shine,
and they never do. Because in my Gavin Newsom, I
have a video of him today on the blog and
I'm just going to play it for you. It's not
very long. He's talking to his bff Anderson Cooper, and
listen to this exchange about the fact that fire hydrants
are running out of water. What is the situation with water?

Speaker 6 (10:14):
Obviously in the palisage ran now last night and the
hydrants I turned the firefighter in this block they left
because there was no water in the hydrant here.

Speaker 7 (10:20):
The local folks are trying to figure that out. I mean,
just when you have a system there, it's not dissimilar
to what we've seen in other extraordinarily large scale fires,
whether it be pipe electricity or whether it just be
the complete overwhelm of the system. I mean, those hydrants
are typical for two or three fires, maybe one fire.
You have something at this scale. But again that's going
to be determined by the local.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
So basically he was punting a responsibility for this. But
let me explain the fire hydrant situation. In California. They
have reservoirs and then they have storage tanks that they
fill up from the reservoirs to then power the fire hydrants.
So they don't have truly an con tinuous way of
refilling fire hydrants once those storage tanks run out. Now

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I don't know how big the storage tanks are. I mean,
are they massive underground aquifers? I have no idea, But
they refilled all of those storage tanks last week. The
problem is is that they are being depleted far faster
than they can be refilled, and that is creating situations

(11:26):
where there's no water in the fire hydrants. And if
I'm Gavin Newsome, I don't sit there and say the
local folks are going to figure that out. I mean,
wouldn't you if this is what I thought of right away?
So I read the story and I have it on
the blog today about how the fire hydrants are attached
to these storage tanks and they were all refilled last
week and they cannot refill them fast enough. So if
I am governor of California, I look at the people

(11:49):
who are trying to refill these tanks and say, what
do we need to do? What kind of pump system
do we need to bring in? Do you want to
need to call the Army Corps of Engineers. They surely
have some massive pumps that will speed up this process
and allow us to refill some of these hydrants. Now,
some of the hydrants are in places where they cannot
get to the storage tanks to refill them. They can't
get there. So my thinking is this California has done

(12:14):
such a lousy job planning for something that was entirely
predictable based not only on their landscape, the drought and
the drought cycles that they live with all the time.
California has always had massive drought cycles, just like we do. Right,
they have done nothing to manage the extremely flammable brush

(12:34):
many many years ago they brought in and I was
about to say eucalyptus, but that's wrong. It might be eucalyptus.
So they imported a tree and I think it is eucalyptus.
I'm gonna double check now that I said that from Australia,
and they grow fast, they provide low brush cover, but

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they are incredibly flammable. So what they need to do
is declare that invasive species and work to replace it
with something native that is not as flammable. But they
haven't done any of this. They haven't done a single
bit of this. And that's where government failures come into place.
And that's why I keep saying, like we in Colorado,

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we need to pay attention. We need to be asking
our leadership what are the chances that this could happen
in Colorado? What are the chances and if so, what
are we going to do? And I'm gonna ask Rinda
Horn about this because she has firefighting experience. So I
just there's so many ways that people are being let

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down right now, and the destruction is just just incredibly,
incredibly scary, and my heart breaks for all of the people.
And you know what, I don't care if they're Hollywood
celebrities that I think are complete idiots when it comes
to politics. They're human beings and they're losing. I can't

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even imagine. Right now. I'm in my Southern Command studio
and you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna go
and I'm gonna video everything hanging on my walls and
around my desk, and it's gonna look chaotic. But these
are all things that listeners have made for me, that
people have given me over the years, and they are
all things that can't be replaced right now, all of

(14:20):
these things, I mean, what would you pick up and
take in a fire? What would you grab a right
if they come to your knock on your door and
say you gotta go, what are the things you would take?

Speaker 1 (14:29):
Well?

Speaker 4 (14:29):
Have you thought about it? You've got to think about it,
you know, you go, here's the thing, Here's what I
would grab. I would grab our external hard drive. We
have a massive Terrorbye external hard drive. I would probably
grab my CP unit. And then there's four pieces of
artwork that were done my family members that I would take,
and other than that, and we have two huge bins

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right now of all of Chuck's family photos, like from long, long,
long ago. I would probably say, let's grab those, because
you gotta think of the stuff that absolutely could never
ever ever be replaced in any way, shape or form,
and do that. You've got to try that anyway. People

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are checking in on the text line Mandy, three one
million gallon storage tanks were emptied exactly, so I mean
people are saying they didn't refill the reservoir, but they did,
and they did refill the tanks, but they didn't think
what if everything catches on fire at once? And unfortunately,

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that's what you have to plan for. You have to
plan for absolute worst case scenario and then hope it
doesn't come right. Even if you're not going to have
enough tanks buried to provide water for all of those houses,
but you should be able to figure out a way
too quickly and I mean quickly refill them if you
only have that many in case of catastrophic failures. Mandy,

(15:54):
there were water pumping stations that did not work in
the Marshall fire. Yes, exactly, Mandy. I was listening to
the scanner for the eating fire and they have four
hundred gallons of fuel and no power and they have
to use a handpump.

Speaker 5 (16:08):
Ugh.

Speaker 4 (16:10):
Oh my god, thank you, Ralph. It is eucalyptus trees.
I appreciate you. There's so many things that need to happen,
and I'd love to have the chance to ask Jared
Polis what he's learning from this, what our leadership in
Colorado is looking at now and saying, there, but for
the grace of God, go I right. I mean, it

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could be Colorado. It was Colorado a few years ago.
Luckily that was more contained than this is. But man,
somebody asked, did you see what Keith Olberman said about
conservatives that lost houses? I stopped pretending that Keith Olberman
was worth following years and years and years ago. He
is the angriest person on the planet. Like genuinely, the

(16:57):
man is never not angry, nasty, horrible. He has something
happened to him in his life that made him into
just a miserable excuse for a human being. And I
don't care what Keith Olberman said anybody who had negative
things to say. Again, there's gonna be plenty of room

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to dunk, There's gonna be plenty of room to point fingers,
there's gonna be plenty of room to do all of
this stuff. But right now, California is still on fire,
and we can wait and do all of that stuff later,
right we truly truly can. It's absolutely it's I don't know,
it's kind of gross. It's kind of gross that people

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would want to, at someone's lowest moment, take to social
media to pile on. And yet here we are. When
we get back, Superintendent of Douglas County Schools, Aaron Kane
is joining me. We're gonna talk about how school districts
make a decision to close the district because today Douglas
County go crushed, but the schools were still open. We'll

(18:02):
talk about that next Keep it right here on KOA.
A surprising amount of snow, really bad roads, and no
text message from the district telling them that schools were
delayed or canceled, And I brought Superintendent Aaron kin on
to talk about it because you guys are getting the
crap beat out on of you on nextdoor right now.
I just want you to know that Aarin, that's what's happening.

Speaker 8 (18:21):
And thank you for having me.

Speaker 4 (18:23):
So let's talk about how those decisions are made, because
this is consistent for every school district, not just Douglas County.
But what happened this morning, last night, sure.

Speaker 9 (18:31):
Well this morning we so first of all, let me
talk generally about how the decisions are made. We have
an entire team that is out on the roads overnight,
so we have operations folks that are evaluating our parking
lots in our ninety two schools for what needs to
happen and can we get it done on time.

Speaker 8 (18:49):
We've got people out driving.

Speaker 9 (18:50):
Buses to check the road conditions with the buses. We've
got people out driving cars to check and think about,
you know, what that car commute is going to look like.
So there are lots of people in Douglas County schools
that are up at the wee hours of the morning
and out in snow trying to assess the situation across
our eight hundred and fifty square mile district. This morning

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we had and then we it all culminates in a
in a call, in a phone call at about four
o'clock in.

Speaker 8 (19:18):
The morning, where.

Speaker 9 (19:20):
The team gives me all of the information and all
of the data that they've gathered. We also have a
direct line to a direct line to the Weather Services.
Skyview is the one that we use, and so they
give me all the information and give me a recommendation
and then I you know, we make a decision together.

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And this morning on the four am phone call, the
Weather Services had actually just downgraded the storm. They were
saying it was going to be less than a half inch.

Speaker 8 (19:51):
It was going to happen.

Speaker 9 (19:52):
Around seven thirty in the morning or so, which meant
that a delayed start wasn't super helpful because it would just.

Speaker 8 (19:58):
Be setting people out right when it was.

Speaker 9 (20:00):
Snowing, and and it was going it was supposed to
be very little snow.

Speaker 8 (20:05):
So we did not cancel or delay school.

Speaker 9 (20:08):
We do live in Colorado, so we can't cancel school
every time there's an inch of snow on the ground.
Of course, I know people know that. And then around
seven am, everything.

Speaker 8 (20:19):
Turned and this storm sat right on.

Speaker 9 (20:23):
Top of Douglas County in particular, and just pounded us. Nobody,
none of the weather services were predicting that storm, and
once it was evident that it was happening, and I was,
you know, personally, I was out shoveling my driveway at
six point thirty in the morning, and I felt the

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change from you know, sort of spitting snow.

Speaker 8 (20:47):
To like seriously accumulating snow.

Speaker 9 (20:50):
And by that time, you've got buses on the way
to school, you've got staff already in our buildings, you've
got families on the way to school.

Speaker 8 (20:57):
So you know, once you get past that.

Speaker 9 (21:00):
Sort of six am, six thirty seven am timeframe, there's
nothing you can do.

Speaker 10 (21:05):
It just carries on.

Speaker 9 (21:06):
So that's that's what happened this morning. And I know
that a lot of people are frustrated. I'm frustrated, but
we can only do the best that we can with
the information that we have early in the morning. And
you know, if you think about it in reverse, what
if I had called a snow day and then not
a single drop of snow landed on the ground, I

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would also be hearing from everyone who didn't get to
go to work or didn't get to do whatever, and
they'll be like, you know, this is what it looks like,
and I'll let you talk, I swear, but the last thing.

Speaker 8 (21:40):
I'll say is I I for real.

Speaker 9 (21:42):
I have this recurring dream as a superintendent that I
called a snow day and woke up the next morning
and the birds were singing and.

Speaker 8 (21:49):
Those by it is blue, and the pavement is dry,
and everyone.

Speaker 9 (21:54):
It's just it's a really really challenging it's a really
challenging thing to do. But we take it very seriously.
We take safety very very seriously. But sometimes Colorado catches
us all by.

Speaker 4 (22:05):
Surprise, right, And I'd see this that we got an
email from the district today saying that if kids could
not make it to school, because sometimes people forget that
Douglas County is so big that we have a lot
of rural students and maybe they don't go to school
in Elizabeth, that they're driving into Parker or they're even
driving into Castle Rock. You know, they're driving to get
to their schools and their roads don't get plowed, you know,

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anytime soon. And I will say, the roads were really
horrible this morning. Because I think it didn't catch you,
Superintendent Aaron Kane, flat footed. It caught the city or
the county flat footed in terms of preparing for this
amount of snow. So, Aaron, I really appreciate it. I
just wanted to give you a chance. Is there like
a rubric that you guys use, like if we check

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this box, this box, this box in this box, we're
going to close Or is it more what you did
this morning as you described, where you're taking in all
this different data points and saying no, we got this,
or no this is not going to work.

Speaker 9 (23:01):
Yeah, you really have to look at the situation in totality.

Speaker 8 (23:05):
If you look at our website and for those of your.

Speaker 9 (23:07):
Listeners, it's dcsd K twelve and there's a link on
there about how we call snow days and Mandy, I'll
send it to you so you can post it on
your blog if you'd like. And so it does kind
of go.

Speaker 8 (23:20):
Through the things that we consider. But it isn't as easy.

Speaker 9 (23:23):
As if this then delay if not, because predictions are
just that, they are predictions, and so you know, we
have to look at the probability. Is two inches of
snow too much? If it's three inches, is that the threshold?

Speaker 8 (23:37):
It depends.

Speaker 9 (23:38):
It depends on what the temperatures are, It depends on
if the wind is also blowing.

Speaker 8 (23:42):
It depends on if.

Speaker 9 (23:44):
The roads are warm and it's going to melt into
the roads, or if the roads are really really cold.
So there's just so many factors that go into it
that it just can't be as simple as a rubric.
The other thing is sort of the human psychology element
of it.

Speaker 8 (23:57):
So if you think.

Speaker 9 (23:58):
About the first snow of the year, the first I
don't know if this is your experience, but it is
my experience even in Colorado, that the first snow of
the year, everyone's forgotten how.

Speaker 8 (24:08):
To dive on snow. Yeah, and no one can do
it well.

Speaker 9 (24:11):
And you may never call a delay start if that
was a circumstance in the middle of the winter, but
you might call a delay start if it's the first
snow of the year because you know that, you know, people.

Speaker 8 (24:20):
Aren't aren't remembering how to drive in the snow.

Speaker 9 (24:23):
So there really are a lot more factors than a
simple rubric. I do want people to know that that
one of those factors is wind chill, because we really
can't have kids standing at bus stops or little kids
outside when you know the wind chill is ridiculously low.
So there have been times when we've called a delay
start or even a closure when there's not very much snow,

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because it is just so cold that frostbite would happen
so fast that we've really got to think about that too.

Speaker 4 (24:52):
Douglas County School Superintendent Aaron Kine, I appreciate you coming
on today clarifying what goes into the decision to call
school off or not. And again, in case parents didn't
get that email that I got, if your kid didn't
make it to school today, it is an excused absence.
So I mean, is that kind of a rule of
thumb if you are struggling to get your kid to school,
is that an excused absence?

Speaker 9 (25:15):
Absolutely, Mandy, And we have had that policy, you know,
ever since I've I've been in place, because as you said,
we have a very large district and people, some people
are traveling to a school of their choice, so they're
traveling a much further distance. There's so many things in
individual situations. The weather in Highlands Ranch this morning wasn't
that bad until it was, But it wasn't that bad

(25:36):
early this morning, whereas in Parker we were getting just
pounded suddenly.

Speaker 8 (25:42):
At about six point thirty in the morning.

Speaker 9 (25:43):
So we know that we have this vast district, and
we have families that may have the roads plowed or
may not. So if you ever feel like it isn't
safe for you or your student to be on the road,
you always have the option to call in and have
it via a weather related excused APT since.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
All right, Eron kan thank you for your time today,
and I don't envy you having to make these calls.

Speaker 9 (26:06):
No, thanks, Mandy, And I do want to thank everyone
in the Metro area. And I know of all my
colleague superintendents are sitting in the same boat I am
where it's tipped them by surprise too. So I just
want to thank your listeners for their patients and understanding
that this is just not as easy as it.

Speaker 8 (26:24):
Might look from the ouse.

Speaker 4 (26:25):
All right, superintending Eron Kain, no problem, Thank you so much.
I'll talk to again soon. All right. That is Aaron
Kin this texter Ooh. I dislike the word rubric almost
as much as physicality, except rubric is an actual thing
that's been around for a long time. You know, it's
your chart of what you do. She answered it, well,

(26:46):
damned if you do, Damned if you don't exactly right text,
We'll be back. This is one that I thought the
exact same thing. Isn't La next to the next to
the ocean? Says this texter? Why are there fire hydrants
not connected to a pumping station? Weight scrolling? Hang on,
let me turn off my refresh heir so I can
read some of these before they update on me again.

(27:07):
Isn't la next to the ocean? Where? Why are their
fire hydrants not connected to pumping stations that pulls water
from the ocean? Can you not use salt water to
fight a fire? Maybe I'm just ignorant on this issue,
but it seems to me that should have been part
of city and county planning a long time ago. That
from Eric Eric, Here's I'm gonna take it one step further.
California deals with drought more often than not. They deal

(27:30):
with wildfires more often than not. Why is California not
a leading producer of des desalinized water. Why don't they
have desalinization plants all the way down the coast to
just constantly pump new water into their reservoirs, constantly fill
up all of their lakes, all of their tanks, all
of everything. California should be a wash in water now,

(27:54):
Florida has a completely different climate. Florida gets rained almost
every day, you know, especially during the summer. It rains
every day. At about three point thirty. It rains like
hell for like thirty five minutes and then it stops.
So Florida doesn't need this. The eastern seaboard doesn't need
this because they don't have the drought conditions that they
have on the western part of the country. So why

(28:15):
hasn't California gone to Israel? Fly over to Israel. They
have mastered this. Israel knows how to get every bit
of water they can out of salt water. It's not
rocket surgery, people, And I know why I mix my metaphors.
I just think it's funnier to say rocket surgery. So
why haven't they done this yet? I don't know. Now,

(28:36):
before we stop talking about the LA fires for a moment,
I a rod. Can you find out what I need
to do to report a murder? Because I need to
report a murder. Yeah, this murder took place when a
reporter found the mayor of Los Angeles at the airport.
And I just want to play this for you. Now.

(28:58):
You'll notice you're only going to hear one side of this,
and after you listen to it, I'll tell you why
you only heard one side of this.

Speaker 11 (29:06):
Do you owe citizens and apology for being absent while
their homes were burning? Do you regret cutting the fire
department budget by millions of dollars?

Speaker 3 (29:15):
Not?

Speaker 5 (29:15):
In there?

Speaker 11 (29:16):
She is standing there, mind you nothing to say today?

Speaker 4 (29:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (29:21):
Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today?

Speaker 4 (29:25):
Nope?

Speaker 11 (29:26):
Aylon Mosk says that you're utterly incompetent. Are you considering
your position?

Speaker 4 (29:32):
Literally standing there with a dull stare of the dairy
cow inter.

Speaker 11 (29:34):
Things, absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today here
dealing with this disaster.

Speaker 4 (29:39):
I mean literally nothing, nothing staring at him.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
I couldn't believe this, Just staring at.

Speaker 11 (29:44):
Him, no apology for them.

Speaker 4 (29:47):
So he's waiting for them to open the jetway door
so she can go out.

Speaker 11 (29:51):
Well, this was unfolding back home.

Speaker 4 (29:53):
Yeah, she's been a Ghana, by the way, Ghana which
gives away free property to black Did you know that
the Khana gives away free property to black people who
want to go back to the United States? And now
she's pushing her way up the jetway to get away
from this guy. She's literally running away from him. Never

(30:14):
answers his questions. Dude absolutely slaughtered her in the jetway
of an airplane when she finally found her way to
make it back to the city she is supposed to run.
She needs to just resign today, move aside, let more
capable people take care of such things. A couple of
you have sent some version of the next text message,

(30:35):
and I really want to make this known because I
agree one hundred percent. Hey, Mandy, can you do a
shout out to Denver homeowners that shovel their sidewalks like
they're supposed to to making it safe for those of
us who have dogs and bun babies to walk. Follow
that with a shame on you to those corner lots
who only shovel their sidewalks on the short side of

(30:58):
their property in the front, but leave the look long
side covered in snow, making us cross the icy streets.
Thanks to Denver snow removal, This also goes through true
in a lot of neighborhoods that are not in Denver.
I bet your hoa wants you to clear the sidewalk
in front of your house. We have a couple of
scofflaws in our neighborhood that really make me mad, And
I just assume for my own sanity that they are

(31:19):
elderly and infirm people who are also broke in their
two million dollar homes. Uh so, you know, and they
can't afford to pay someone to come shovel the walk,
shovel your driveway and your sidewalks. Please, those of us
who actually go outside appreciate you. What do they do
in your neighborhood? You're on the hoa board, You're gonna

(31:40):
be well, you didn't even get any Snow what am
I asking?

Speaker 9 (31:43):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (31:43):
No, we have it. And this was the one time
I didn't have time to shovel. Okay, the one.

Speaker 4 (31:49):
Time you're gonna do. Probably it won't melt maybe by
sat depending on how very fast. Yeah, we shall see good.
Uh Mandy, Hey, guys, love you. The fires are unbelievable.
But did you watch the beginning of the funeral for
President Carter where Obama was about the only person to
talk to Trump. Oh and when the Clinton sat down

(32:09):
next to w they did not even make eye contact.
Pretty pathetic. Just saying I'm just gonna say this, I
I'm without being disrespectful, I don't give a rat's ass
about Jimmy Carter's funeral. I mean, he was a president,
but I don't really care. So I didn't watch any
of it, and I don't intend to watch any of it.

(32:31):
I think I'm what. I'm just gonna be respectful and
leave it there. We are going to come back in
a moment. Bretta Horn is going to join us. She
wants to be the next chair of the Colorado GOP.
We're gonna ask you a bunch of questions about what
she wants to see happen, and we're gonna do that
right after this.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
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Speaker 2 (32:54):
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Speaker 12 (33:00):
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Speaker 3 (33:06):
Say the nicety bendycconnell keeping you're sad, babe.

Speaker 4 (33:16):
Welcome, welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show.
And you all know how I feel about the current
leadership of the Colorado Republican Party, so I'm excited about
the prospect of not having that leadership in place after
March and joining me now is a happy warrior who
has thrown her name officially into the ring to be
the next chairman of the GOP. Brenna Horn is on

(33:39):
the horn as they say, Hi, Britta, how you doing?

Speaker 13 (33:43):
Hello this Mandy, I'm doing great. How are you doing?

Speaker 4 (33:46):
I'm doing fantastic. And you know, Bretta, you I said
it earlier on the show. Whenever I see you, you
have a smile on your face. You're You're an upbeat,
optimistic person. Why in the world would you want to
take on this situation right now?

Speaker 13 (34:01):
Well, because I need, we need to unite the party.
I mean, right, We've got to talk about the things
that are important to me, which are relationships and resources
and responsibility, and it's about the future and delivering results
in twenty twenty six that we're going to start on
day one.

Speaker 4 (34:17):
So right now, the party has some significant issues. And
I'm not pointing fingers in anyone, but here are the
issues as I see them. Number one, to your point,
the current party leadership seems to want to run people
out of the Colorado Republican Party right at a moment
when people are moving towards the Republican Party across the country. So,

(34:40):
if you become chair of the Colorado GOP, first of all,
what do you do to moo back disaffected Republicans frankly
like me? And what do you do to convince Independence
that they need to join the party in Colorado.

Speaker 13 (34:55):
Well, exactly, you're absolutely right. We got to get the
independence back. We have to get the Republicans back. I mean,
right now, we know that only twenty two point seven
to six percent of voters are active, inactive or pre
registered as Republicans and the unaffiliated. It's just like you said,
forty nine point seven percent are unaffiliated. Sometime this year, Mandy,

(35:17):
we're going to the unaffiliates are going to be bigger
than both the Democrats and the Republicans combined in Colorado.

Speaker 4 (35:25):
So how do you fix it?

Speaker 3 (35:26):
What do you do?

Speaker 4 (35:26):
What's the outreach look like? What's the message?

Speaker 13 (35:29):
Okay, so the message is definitely I have, like you know,
all these things that I could have a background in
and fundraising and grassroots and building relationships. I have this
huge long history and I know you know this about
my successful organizing of volunteers and having putting my heart
in and my soul to help elect Republicans. I know
we can get all these We have all these different

(35:50):
groups out there. Everybody's doing their own thing, everybody's in
their silo. We're still all conservative in nature, but we'll
bring everything in silo and not good at putting it together.
So with maybe I go back to that happy warrior,
you know, getting everybody to come in and be a
part of the fold. And those are the majority of
the people. So we'll snuff out the negative nancies and
get work done. We've got to reply, you know, elect Republicans.

Speaker 4 (36:14):
Well, to your point about happy warriors, I think this
is one of the things that people sort of overlook
about why Ronald Reagan is so revered by so many people.
Not just because we had a booming economy and really
asserted ourselves on the world stage under Ronald Reagan, but
he himself. You wanted to be a part of whatever
movement he was a part of because he was a

(36:36):
happy warrior. He was upbeat and optimistic and shining beacon
on a hill. I mean, he had all of these things,
and I love that about you. But I wonder if
you're going to be able to convince the people who
are entrenched in the party you have been actively working
to get other people out of the party to put
down their arms and become happy warriors instead of angry

(37:00):
people that people don't want to be around.

Speaker 13 (37:02):
Well, I think the reason how it's gonna happen is leadership,
and we're not seeing that leadership. They wanted us trying
to follow that north star that econ. I love all that.
And Ronald Reagan was the first person I ever voted
for us, and as I turned eighteen, and at the
time in Chicago where I grew up, I was a Democrat,
I thought my parents would kill me. So thank you
for that for Ronald Reagan. But the thing is they're

(37:25):
looking for leadership, though, and this leadership is just firing down,
fining down, getting smaller and smaller by the minute. Because
I'm every day Mandy. Every day people are coming up
to me, people who have been Republicans for generations. I've
been around here since nineteen eighty nine, and they're saying,
we're thinking of going independent because we don't want to
be any part of this anymore, which is only going

(37:47):
to make that group bigger. They're my independence. We have
to keep them. So leadership and something positive and working
towards the greater good, there's something about that. And did
we not see that?

Speaker 4 (37:58):
Whatever it was?

Speaker 13 (37:59):
Shut up and we've voted for Trump. How hand over
fist did we were able to.

Speaker 4 (38:04):
Do that I don't disagree with you on that, but
here's here's my concern. I'm concerned that the current leadership
will somehow maintain control. So what is the way to
get more optimistic and upbeat people like you elected? What
needs to happen? What are Republicans who are out there

(38:26):
listening right now who say, you know what, I like
Britain's attitude, maybe I'd like to vote for her. What
is that process and how can they get involved?

Speaker 13 (38:32):
Oh, it's definitely getting welled into their county and going
to their reorganizational meeting in February. So first three Saturdays
in February, it's the first of the fifteens. It all
happen on weeknights two in some of the smaller counties,
and you have to go in and you have to
be a bonus member. You have to be able to
be there, bet a chair, the vice the secretary. There's
three votes right there and the rest of the votes
are come from the bonus members based on the number

(38:54):
of population of your county. So small counties like Summit
en Route will only have three, but bigger counties, you know,
even bolder, you know, has eight bonus members and you
have to be involved. You can't just be on the sideline.
If you really want to make this happen, You've got
to put your time in and put your effort in
and saying we want to make this change. And we're
having people every day saying we want to join, we

(39:17):
want to join, what do we need to do? And
as going to your county parties finding out when they
are and going and making sure your voice is heard.

Speaker 4 (39:25):
I think Brenda Horne, who wants to be the next
chairman of the GOP, that's who I'm speaking with. I
think there's a lot of opportunities right now in Colorado
where the Republican Party could make really good arguments that
the path we're headed on and the policies that have
been adopted have been disastrous. I mean, the Colorado that
I moved to, wait how many years ago now I

(39:46):
didn't even know, is not the Colorado that we're living
in now. So, as the party chair, what issues do
you think would be winning issues for the Republican Party
in Colorado?

Speaker 13 (39:56):
Well, that much major in the majors that we could
all agree on. Obviously, rule of law. We all want
rule of law again, and that could be a plethora
of things, rule of law. We're following the rules and
being good citizens. The second one is cost of living.
To call it economic, but we're everybody's having a tough
time even finding eggs. I mean, how are we going
to make sure we have you know, cost of living
is taken care of. And third, I think it's now

(40:18):
education the you know, like I said, the sorry, the
curtain has been pulled back and said that somebody's trying
to call me I apologize. And we're finding out what's
really going on in the public schools that I never
had when I was in a public school. We never
saw that in Illinois. I don't know about you. They
have totally changed. So we really need major in the

(40:40):
majors and then where we define our differences to stay
in your corner and we'll figure out where to go
and make sure we're getting the right constituents having the
right to the candidates to run in their area to
win as a Republican.

Speaker 4 (40:55):
Well, Brenda, I'm I'm rooting for you, like I said before.
If there's anybody else that's running, I'm going to give
them airtime as well, because I just want I just
want good leadership for the Colorado Republican Party because the
state is going to continue to move in the wrong
direction when you look at the agenda items that the
Democrats have already put forth, more gun control, easier union,

(41:17):
forced unionization. I mean, there are things that are going
to make Colorado an even worse business environment, that is
going to continue to chip away at our gun rights.
I mean, things are not going well. We have to
have not just a functioning Republican party, but a robust
Republican party, and I want someone like you. I believe
that you can do it, and I hope that the

(41:38):
Republicans choose wisely in this go round. Britta Horn, I
appreciate you coming on the show today.

Speaker 13 (41:44):
Thank you very much for your time.

Speaker 7 (41:45):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (41:45):
All right.

Speaker 4 (41:46):
Hopefully, hopefully we'll talk to you after and I'll be
able to say, Chairman Brinta Horn, We'll see, all right, Brenda,
thank you. All right, that is going to happen. I
don't know if anybody else has thrown their name in
the hat. I've spoken to people off the air who
have sort of been mulling it over, but at least

(42:08):
one of them said that, and this is so sad
to me. One of them said that there is a
group of people in the Republican Party that are so
insistent that if you don't believe everything that they believe Lockstep,
then you are, you know, a horrible person or a rhino.

(42:33):
I went in a rics socle last night. He and
I were both trying to get on the Rhino Wall
of shame, but they won't put us there. I just
want to be able to make T shirts sell them
for a good cause. Anyway, we'll see how that goes,
and of course we'll have an update about that as well. Now,
we got a couple of things on the blog today,
by the way, a rod On X on the break,

(42:55):
I saw a post by the governor, excuse me, the
mayor of LA and she's like, I just got off
the phone the president. I'm like, no, you just need
to step aside, step aside, just go away. Her career's over.
I saw an interesting post by Michael Schellenberger. Michael is

(43:15):
a fascinating guy. He's the guy who wrote San Francico.
By his own admission, he moved to California to be
a California radical, but then this thing happened and he
grew up, and so now I'm not saying he got
red pilled, and he's this rock rib conservative. Socially he's
very liberal, but he is disgusted with what has happened
to California. And he said today that he went to

(43:36):
candidate forums. There was another candidate running for the mayor
of Los Angeles and he was running to shore up
the fire department because he was concerned about the possibility
of a fire like this. And Michael Schellenberger's in this
candidate forum or whatever, I don't know where he is.
And he said, white liberals said, well, we can't vote

(43:56):
for him, he's a white man. We have to vote
for the black woman instead. So you basically voted for
someone who was proving themselves to be pretty incompetent so far.
I mean, maybe she pulls it out of the ditch
at some point, I don't know, got the hiccups. Maybe
she does. Maybe she does it. Let me move that here.

(44:19):
Mandy is a wavering r. Give me an example, Give
me an example of current model Republican elected official in
the Colorado legislature. Let me tell you something. We've got
some great Republicans in the legislature. Rose Paglici, absolutely fantastic
she's amazing. Now that you asked me, I'm gonna look

(44:41):
it up on a break because now my mind is
going to completely blank. But we have some stellar, stellar
Republicans in the House. We have stellar Republicans in the Senate.
We just don't have enough of them. They are hopelessly,
hopelessly outnumbered.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
You know.

Speaker 4 (44:59):
Now they have a few few more seats, they want
a few Bob Kirkmeyer, she is absolutely outstanding. I'm literally
my mind is just white noise right now trying to
think of these great Republicans. And there are great Republicans.
There's so many good people working at the local there's
great Republicans on city council and county commissions. There's so

(45:19):
many great people working. It's just the leadership of the
party has been so alienating that you forget that there
are people fighting every day to prevent the worst instincts
from coming true. In Colorado. They're up there every day
at the Gold Dome making the case that allowing the
unions to do away with the second vote is going

(45:39):
to be detrimental to the business environment again in Colorado.
So yeah, there's great Republicans out there there, really truly is.
And when you go to like party meetings, you meet
the nicest people in the world. They've just been kind
of cowed into silence. They have been rendered ineffective at

(45:59):
the leg because of their numbers. But they're doing the
absolute best job they can do. And I mean, of
course there's, of course there's a dud here and there
right certain county commissioners. I'm not a fan of just
saying I've got a story that's that's Let me do
this real quick though, and I'll say I'm a Colorado

(46:20):
legislature thing for just a moment. There's nothing that the
Colorado Democrats are proposing in the first ten bills that
is going to do anything significant to lower costs, and
they are going to make the business environment worse. So, uh,
listen to this one. Senate Bill one, the Colorado Voting

(46:43):
Rights at It prohibits any political subdivision, including county or
municipal governments, special districts, and school boards, from creating a
quote material disparity for electors of protected classes. What does
that even mean? Under the measure, this disparity can apply
to voter participation or the ability to participate in the

(47:06):
political process. The bill also clarifies voter registration and election
access provisions for Indian tribes, and expands existing requirements for
creating multi lingual ballots for municipal elections. Why do we
need that? I mean, has anybody proposed Jim Crow laws? Anyone?
Anyone at all?

Speaker 3 (47:26):
No?

Speaker 4 (47:26):
I didn't think, so send it. Bill three. It toughens
the penalties in the law banning large capacity ammunition magazines
by regulating the manufacture and purchase of certain semi automatic firearms,
primarily those with a detachable magazine. This is their sideway

(47:47):
of going in trying to pass another assault weapons ban,
which failed spectacularly last year when Democrats he had even
more numbers. Tom Sullivan, who suffered a tremendous track when
his son was killed in the Aurora movie theater shooting,
is a single issue legislator. I don't know that he

(48:08):
does anything else. He might, he might be a phenomenal legislator,
but the only things I hear him doing are trying
to limit the gun rights of everybody else. That's another example.
Senate Bill five eliminates that second election when you when
a company votes to unionize, there is the initial election
that says yes, we'd like to do this we think
we'd like to do this. There is then a second election,

(48:29):
which requires a seventy five percent yes vote for workers
in a unionized company, and that allows the union to
take money from people who say they don't want to
be in the union. So the unions want to steal
their money, and right now it requires a second vote
to do that, and the union wants to do away

(48:51):
with that second vote, and this is going to make
our business environment even worse. Senator Bill or Senate Bill
four limits the amount of child care facility could charge
for an application or wait list. I don't even know
why that's super important, But here we are Senate Bill nine,
recommended by the American Indian Affairs Interim Study Committee, authorizing

(49:12):
state courts to recognize arrest warrants issued by tribal courts.
And Senate Bill seven, which is from Wildfire Matters Review Committee,
sets up a process for claims due to prescribe burn.
So these are the big priorities of the Democrats. In
the initial comments from the leadership in both the Senate

(49:35):
and the House, there was a lot of talk about
abortion rights. I don't know what else Democrats are planning
to do. I mean, maybe they're just going to now
force everyone to have an abortion. Like, if you get pregnant,
you don't even get a choice. You have to have
an abortion. Because Colorado Democrats are so pro choice they
want to abort everyone. Abortion has been decided in Colorado.

(49:57):
We just passed the most obscene abortion law in the country.
It's now in the constitution. Not only can anybody have
an abortion up until the moment of birth with no restrictions. Oh,
you want your twelve year old child to have to
come to you before they get an abortion, can't do
that in Colorado anymore, no restrictions whatsoever. And oh, by

(50:18):
the way, taxpayers are not going to pay for that.
So I don't know why we're even talking about abortion.
I really don't. Democrats seem to have nothing else going
on but making sure people can kill children. I don't understand.
It's a level of obsession because they think it is
a political win for them and so far. Yeah, Mandy,

(50:40):
that sounds a lot like a bill that Democrats would propose.
The sun shall rise in the east and fall in
the west. There you go, hey, Mandy. As soon as
the little Darling gen Z crowds started to unionize, all
of these tech companies that Robert Smith brought to Colorado,
you will see a change in unionization. Tech leaders have
fought union unization. Anybody where a company fights unionization. Back

(51:04):
in the day, unionization was necessary because workers were horribly mistreated.
But now we have a forty hour work week, we
have time off, we have paid family leave in Colorado,
we have a ridiculous minimum wage in some parts of Colorado.
What is a union left to do whether than skim
off the top. And there are trades unions that actually

(51:27):
do a really good job. I want to be clear.
They have training, they help people get into the trade,
all of that stuff. There are good unions who do
good things. But too many unions are just a waste
of time. They're just opportunities for the union power to
shore up their power base and make even more money. Mandy,
those who are afraid of the true Americans having guns,

(51:48):
or the commies who know they will be the first
in their sights, that's a very aggressive statement that I'm
not going to agree with entirely. Don't get me wrong.
I had to protect my family, absolutely, we do it.
But I'm not looking to get into some kind of
you know, gunfight with people I disagree with politically, that

(52:10):
sounds horrific, Absolutely horrific. Mandy, I believe there were actually
a couple of seats that did not get a single
candidate put up for it, even though they are right
leaning seats, because the Colorado GOP dropped the ball that
jackass Dave Williams need to be fired. That's I didn't
say that. This texter said it to the texter who said, Mandy,
if you say I am not a fish, your hiccups

(52:31):
will go away instantly. Trust me, does not work. I've
tried it all. Please don't send your hiccup. Please know,
for the love of God, this is my weird little
physical thing that I've had my entire life. They come
and go, but once they come the first time, they
don't have them off and on for the next three days.
Really bad. But they're only there for like thirty seconds
or forty seconds or a minute at a time. But

(52:52):
unfortunately on the radio when they happen, we're gonna take
a quick time out. When we get back, I want
to talk about a couple of things. One we got
to talk about Greenland and the Panama Canal, two things
that I didn't necessarily have on my bingo card as
right out of the shoot Trump things. But here we are.

(53:13):
We're going to do that next. But first news trafing weather,
keep it on KOA. I want to talk about Greenland
and the Panama Canal because so this is now on
everybody's radar screen and from what I know about Donald Trump,
and I think that we all have seen Donald Trump
in action. And if you just pay attention to this

(53:34):
series of events as they occur, they go like this,
to start with flattery, and then you go to dismissiveness,
and then you go to poking them in the eye. Okay,
that's the Donald Trump arc of diplomacy. He did it
with you know, the North Korean dude whatever. And I
honestly believe this sort of saber rattling about Greenland and

(54:00):
and the Panama Canal is directly a poke in the
eye to China. And I think he is making these issues.
Do I think He's gonna go to war with Denmark
to get Greenland? No, No, I don't, But I think
he's using this sort of these threats to bring Denmark

(54:21):
to the table because Greenland is incredibly strategically important, just
as the Panama Canal is and the Panama Canal has
been getting more and more controlled and controlled, not in
the sense that they've taken it over, but they have
contracts to run the ports on both ends of the

(54:43):
ports right. And China is getting a little too close
and a little too hands on in the Panama Canal,
and I think Trump is putting them on notice that
that's not okay, and putting Panama on notice that's not okay.
Could you imagine if the United States of America would like,
you know what, we want our stuff back, We're just
gonna come take our stuff back out of the Panama Canal,

(55:05):
and we just go in and start ripping out all
the sides, just like tearing it down, like oh, you know, no,
it's not ours. We're just gonna take We're gonna take
the stuff we paid for, and we're just gonna take
it with us. So Greenland is not only strategically important
for us to be able to kind of keep an
eye on Russia, it is also full of rare earth minerals.

(55:25):
It is very very mineral rich. It is almost uninhabited
for the size of the continent. I mean, they have
like fifty eight thousand people in Greenland, and it's massive,
so you could probably do a lot of rare earth
mining there and not disturb a single soul. So we
need to access other people's rare earth minerals because environmentalists

(55:47):
will not let us dig up our own rare earth minerals.
We're gonna let countries that have terrible records for environmental issues,
We're gonna let them mine for rare earth minerals. But
then we're gonna be able to claim that we're all
about green energy because we're using those rare earth minerals
to make solar panels. I mean, it's just the lack
of depth of thinking sometimes of people is astounding to me.

(56:11):
But nonetheless so the people that are sort of getting
the vapors about this. Because I saw somebody on the
news on one of the talking head shows yesterday, and
I don't even know who this guy was. He made
me turn the channel, but he was almost breathless, and
Trump threatned military action deadmark. Did he really, I mean,

(56:33):
did he really? Did he call up the generals and
say go ahead and start massing the forces. I mean, no,
he didn't do that. The thing about Donald Trump is
he talks in order to begin a negotiation well before
the negotiations actually begin. And I don't think world leaders
are used to that. I don't think they're used to posturing.

(56:55):
I don't think they're used to this. We obviously know
that the news media doesn't understand it at all. And
here's the thing. I'm not opposed to it. I would
rather set the bar so high and then, you know,
drop it back to the middle, negotiate it down to
the middle, then start the bar in the middle and
negotiate it down to nothing. So Mandy, don't forget renaming

(57:17):
of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
Can we even do that? This is a question I have.
What international body decides what these massive bodies of water
are called. Who are the deciders? I mean, I know
in some countries they just rename stuff, but those are
usually those are usually dictators. So I find the Greenland

(57:42):
and Panama City conversation extremely interesting. But I think we're
at the beginning of very long conversations that I've got
to tell you, I feel like are going to end
up being much better for the United States of America
than what we current have. I don't understand how much

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China has embedded themselves in Latin America. They have built
stadiums for soccer many of these small third world countries.
Their entire telecommunications system is Chinese, run by Chinese people.
That's what they do. They come in and say, hey, look,
we want to build this giant new soccer stadium for you,

(58:24):
But none of your people are going to be employed.
None of your people are going to get jobs. We
are in Costa Rican. I've told this story before, but
it blew me away when I saw this thing. There's
a giant soccer stadium in San Jose, Costa Rica. And
Costa Rica is a really beautiful country, but they're just
above a third world country in many ways. Right, They're

(58:47):
not a wealthy country. So when somebody says we're gonna
build this fancy new soccer stadium, they're like.

Speaker 2 (58:51):
Heck yeah.

Speaker 4 (58:52):
But immediately I thought, what a great way to give
people jobs and they can learn new skills. Noe, not
a single Costa Rican worked on the stadium. They brought
in all Chinese workers. They built a village for the
Chinese workers, so they weren't even part of the community
while they were there. And they built the stadium, which
also happens to look like a giant satellite dish. I'm

(59:14):
just saying, and the Chinese people come back and maintain it,
and they live in their little Chinese village. So they're
not trying to integrate, they're not trying to, you know,
become friendlies or actual friends. They just want to be
able to have access to what what do they want
to have access to in Costa Rica with their giant

(59:34):
soccer stadium that just happens to look like a satellite dish.
I can't imagine. So, yeah, we've got to do something.
We've got to do a little saber rattling back at China.
And I think this is just what it is. Mandy,
Winston Churchill used the same tactics when he was Prime
Minister of England that Trump uses today. Well, you know what,

(59:55):
Winston Churchill did a pretty good job during World War Two.
We're gonna have give him that, Mandy. The Saudi's called
the Persian Gulf the Arabian golf. Oh, there you go,
there you go. Mandy. Trump is going to rename the
moon space America. That would be cool. I'd buy a

(01:00:15):
sweatshirt that said Space America on it. That would be neat, Mandy.
If we can take Mount Evans and change its name
to Mount Blue Sky, why can't we rename the golf
Because we don't own the golf. That's that's the thing
where we don't own it. You know, we have maritime
rights and all that stuff, but we don't. You know,
nobody owns it that I know of. I mean, maybe

(01:00:36):
we could just declear we I don't know. Let's take
a quick time out when we get back. I kind
of love this next story. There's a new kind of
bookstore coming to town. And you're saying to yourself, Mandy,
I thought bookstores were on the way out. Well, if
you happen to love romance novels as a Rod does,
you will love this new bookstore in the river north

(01:00:56):
against You're you're a big romance novel guy, right, Yeah,
I know a lot of bodice ripping, heavy breathing, that
kind of stuffs. God, I gotta tell you, guys, I
have friends, and I have friends that are honestly way

(01:01:16):
smarter than I am, like hyper intelligent. They're scientists. They
have very important jobs and they do very important things,
and all they read is romance novels and I'm I.
Sometimes you just want to escape, and now there's a
new place to escape in the River North District. I'm
going to tell you about it next. Keep it right
here on KOA.

Speaker 5 (01:01:37):
We have.

Speaker 4 (01:01:39):
My friend Lynn Cottrell's She's coming on. There is an
inaugural ball put on by the Lincoln Club to celebrate
President Donald Trump's reinauguration, and Lynn's gonna join us in
the next hour to talk about that how you can participate.
But first, I gotta tell you about the sweetest little bookstore.
I'm actually gonna go visit. Even though I don't read
romance novels, just I should say I do read chick lit.

(01:02:05):
Chick lit is what that's called chick literature. But it's
different than romance novels. Romance novels have a very specific
plot type and it's all about you know, finding love
and your you know whatever, you're solidate, and there's a
lot of very delicately explained sex scenes. I mean, it's just,

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you know, it's a certain genre. And now if you
love that genre, you have a place to go. The
Spicy Librarian is opening in Denver this month. It will
become Colorado's first romance novels genre bookstores. These actually have
been popping up across the country, but if you want
to go, they're scheduled to open on January eighteenth at

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thirty forty Blake Street as in three four to oh
Blake Street, and they have a wide breadth of romance literature,
spanning for romantic comedies, fantasy epics, LGBTQ centered stories, to
classic love novels. It also has a hidden bookshelf door
opening into the vault, a secret intimate wellness room filled

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with well products, primarily geared towards women. It's a nice
little combo there. Read the books, get a little randy,
you know. I think this kind of stuff is great.
I love niche stuff like this, you know where Somebody's like,
I love comic book stores for this reason. I don't
read comic books, but I love comic book stores because

(01:03:34):
you walk into a comic book store and you know
that you're going to be surrounded by people who have
passion for one thing. I mean, they may have passion
for other things, but they all have passion for comic books.
And I feel like this is going to be this
kind of gathering place.

Speaker 7 (01:03:47):
Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
The smell of glory, dirty socks and nerd. I love it.

Speaker 4 (01:03:51):
Yes, yeah, that is a comic book store.

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
Is there anything more America?

Speaker 4 (01:03:55):
I know, but I feel like this is like a
chick version of a comic book store, because, let's be real,
you don't generally see a ton of women in comic
book stores. It's kind of like going to a Rush
concert daring it's yeah girl, Oh no, a rod. I
went to a Rush show I think in Louisville. Yeah,
it was in Louisville, and I got to do the

(01:04:16):
VIP meet and greet afterwards. So I walked back and
I'm in a line full of dudes and me and
Chuck is there, and Geddy Lee and Alex liifsoner there.
Neil Parrett never did meet and greets. They're there and
they saw me and you could see their faces light up.
And I don't think it's because they were like, oh,
she's so hot. I'm like, she's a girl. And when

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I got up there to the front of the line,
they were like, hey, you know, we don't get a
lot of women at our meet and greets, which I
found really funny.

Speaker 14 (01:04:43):
I'll ask for all your listeners, what was the dynamic yesterday,
your little event that you and Michelle went to.

Speaker 4 (01:04:48):
Oh wow, it was a lot of fun. I shouldn't
have said it like that, but it was. It was
interesting to see. We went to see Douglas Murray last night.
He's a war correspondent who has done a lot of
reporting from Israel. He is unabashedly pro allowing Israel to
finish this fight and defend themselves. And he's charming as

(01:05:10):
I'll get out. And the Paramount Theater was absolutely filled
with people who came to see and hear Douglas speak
about his coverage in Israel the day after October seventh,
and he showed some videos. He asked to be taken
to the kibbutz near Gaza where many many people were

(01:05:32):
murdered and many many people were kidnapped from and at
that kibbutz, they took him into rooms that people ran
into to try and escape, and they were blood splattered
all the walls and there was just pulled blood where
they had dragged bodies through it on the floor. It
was not that I need a reminder, but it was
a good reminder of what actually happened that day on

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October seventh and the barbarity displayed, and it reaffirm my
belief that though I really want to think that human
beings are innately wired to simply want good things for themselves,
their families and the people they love, I don't believe
Hamas is cut from that same cloth. So it's a

(01:06:17):
good reminder that not everyone is the same as I am,
and so we have to be careful. And this is
something Douglas touched on last night. You have to be
careful about projecting your value system onto someone else who
doesn't share it. And that's kind of where we are now.
It was very outstanding, but I had a great dinner first,
so you know, anyway, had dinner at Earls on sixteenth Street,

(01:06:38):
and that is still a disaster down there. But you
know what I didn't see last night. I didn't see
one single homeless person. That felt like a Christmas miracle.
Let's take a quick time out. We will be back.
And when we are, if you want to celebrate President
Trump's reelection with a bunch of like minded people, like

(01:06:59):
a big Trump comic book store, there's gonna be one
of those. The night he is going to be reinaugurated,
We're gonna talk to Lyn Coxwell about how you can
join it next Keep it right here on KOA.

Speaker 1 (01:07:09):
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Speaker 14 (01:07:35):
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Speaker 4 (01:07:36):
Welcome to the third hour of the show. And I
gotta I gotta respond to something I just heard in
the news, the governor saying we've got to find out
why no one's building condos. How about the stupid construction
defects law. You guys passed you Nimrod, you signed it.
Oh go anyway, Now we're not gonna talk about something better.

(01:08:01):
If you don't follow me on Facebook, you really should,
because I posted a video earlier. We were talking about
things to grab if you were told to evacuate in
these you know, we're thinking about fires, and I was
talking about memorabilia, like you would not grab the memorabilia.
And I did a kind of a long survey of
my wall in my office. So if you've ever wanted

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to know what a very small part of Southern Command
looks like, you can check it out at my Facebook page.
But first I got to bring my friend Lynn Cottrell
on the show. Lynn she is the energizer bunny of
events and doing amazing things for amazing people. And Lynn,
you're ready to party to celebrate this inauguration coming up,
aren't you.

Speaker 5 (01:08:43):
Oh amen to that, Mandy, this is so exciting. You know,
we had an inaugural ball eight years ago for Trump
and it was pretty big. It's sold out, but this
year it's even more historic. So we're figuring it's going
to sell out. But it's going to be such a fun,
exciting event. We're all celebrating not just Trump, but also
it's the Colorado Republican victories as well.

Speaker 4 (01:09:06):
So tell me a little bit about the event itself.

Speaker 5 (01:09:09):
Okay, Well, it's Monday, January twentieth, at the same time
the balls are going on in DC. It's from six
to eleven as the Marriatt Denver Tech Center, and it's
going to be so fun. We're in a three course meal,
nineteen piece big band, my O High big band, complimentary champagne,
toast the cash far with cocktail specials. I think we

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might have a mega rita.

Speaker 4 (01:09:35):
Oh that's fantastic, and free.

Speaker 5 (01:09:40):
Parking of course, live feet from the Washington DC Ball
so you'll be able to watch those going on and Trump.
Actually we'll have a live auction and maybe some video
greetings from some special guests in DC. We're working on
that now. We will have a little Trump photo booth
where you can have your picture taken with Donald Trump,

(01:10:01):
not actually him. He won't be there, but we'll we'll
cut out of him. So it's going to be a kick.

Speaker 4 (01:10:07):
It sounds like a blast. I wish I could be there,
but I told you I'm going to be out of town.
But you've got my secred favorite EMC. I am my
first favorite EMC, but my second favorite MC is my
friend Deborah Flora and she is going to do a
dynamite job for you guys.

Speaker 15 (01:10:22):
Oh she will.

Speaker 5 (01:10:23):
She will have been fun to have both of you
up on stage.

Speaker 4 (01:10:26):
I know, I know next time, next time we'll do it.
So how much your tickets? How do people get tickets?
Let's talk about it, because you've got to buy your ticket.
Buy what like in the next couple of days.

Speaker 5 (01:10:36):
Sunday, Yeah, Sunday is our cutoff date. Yeah, this is
Lincoln Club of Colorado is presenting it. And you can
go to Lincoln Club of Colorado, non Lincoln Club of Colorado,
Lincoln Club Colorado, Dog or there you go. And that's

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tickets are up one hundred and fifty dollars or fifteen
hundred for a table of ten, or if you really
want a good seating and the special treatment at two
hundred and fifty dollars for a seat the VIP and
twenty five hundred dollars to the table. We're really trying
to keep the costs down here at hotel costs are outrageous,
so we're trying to underwrite it with some sponsors, and

(01:11:20):
we still have some of those available. We could do
some many sponsors and someone to sponsor a bar, or
sponsor the vand or one of those things.

Speaker 4 (01:11:29):
We'd love that, okay, Lynn. I also put a link
on my blog today to make it easy for people
to go and find more information about this event. But
you got to buy your your tickets by Sunday. But
this just sounds like a really great night to put
on a fancy dress or a nice suit or even
black tie and go celebrate if you are so inclined,

(01:11:50):
and I know so many people that are already going
to this. It is going to be an absolute blast,
and I'm just sick that I'm missing it.

Speaker 5 (01:11:57):
Well, we're sorry too, but you're going to have fun where.

Speaker 4 (01:11:59):
You Yeah, I think I will. I think I will.
Maybe we'll see you on the well, no, maybe maybe, Lynn,
cultural I appreciate everything you do to keep conservative spirits
alive here in Colorado, and I know you're gonna have
a great event.

Speaker 5 (01:12:15):
Thanks, Mandy, appreciate it again. No freaking club off Colorado
dot org.

Speaker 4 (01:12:20):
Right, and I got it linked on the blog at
mandy'sblog dot com. Thanks Lynn, Thank you, Mandy. All right
that I know so many people are going to that
it's gonna be like a super fun nerd conservative party.
As a matter of fact, I'm just gonna tell you
guys this. I would say, if you're looking to meet
other like minded people, that maybe you live in an

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area where a lot of your neighbors are more liberal
than you are, and you'd like to get to know
some new friends. This would be a really fun way
to do it, because you're gonna be at big tables
with other people and you might meet some really nice
people that you didn't know before. I'm just saying a
big band, Mandy sounds like the average age is not
my conservative crowd. Well, smarty pants, I happen to love

(01:13:06):
a big band very very much. Do you think, says
this texter? Ross will let you on tomorrow at nine
so we can hear polus crapis pants on air. So
I guess the Governor's going on with Ross tomorrow. Alrighty,
then on that let's do the the No, I don't.

(01:13:26):
I only have a minute. Let me see what I've
got here, uh Aro? Do you buy outdoor stuff?

Speaker 3 (01:13:32):
Do you?

Speaker 4 (01:13:32):
I mean do you? I don't know how outdoorsy. I
know you guys have started camping a little bit and
things like that.

Speaker 2 (01:13:38):
We got a solid collection, but we don't, you know,
go outdoors too often?

Speaker 4 (01:13:42):
Know Well, when I first moved here, I did with
everybody who moved to Colorado.

Speaker 1 (01:13:46):
Dad.

Speaker 4 (01:13:46):
I went to ARII and I bought some stuff at
ARII and was like, oh my god, outdoor stuff is
so expensive. But I really enjoyed the customer service experience
there because I think their people at ARII are very
very no knowledgeable. And now when I need to buy
something for the outdoors that I don't know what it
does or I'm not sure what I'm looking for. In whatever, Like,

(01:14:09):
when I need to hiking shoes, I go to ARII
if I already if I'm not just replacing the shoes
that I already have, which I love, with another pair
of the same. But I went to aria I was like,
here's the kind of hiking I do. Help me find
some shoes, and they did a great job. ARII has
lost money two years in a row. They think they're
going to be back in the black in twenty twenty four.
But if you like me, see those ARII expeditions and

(01:14:30):
think to yourself, wow, that looks awesome. I should do
that someday. But you never do well. We've missed our
chance because they've canceled the Expedition Program Experience Program excuse me,
not Expedition Experience Division. They have disbanded it because, as
they said, it has never been profitable. Mandy Trump is

(01:14:50):
at the height of his popularity. Now once his term begins,
in the avalanche of tweets and the ballooning deficits occur,
he will blame everyone but himself. This sad part is
that he was better than the alternative. You know, I
don't think you're entirely wrong, but there's a part of
me that has been watching him since his re election

(01:15:14):
and watching the speed and clarity with which he is
doing things which indicate to me that he learned a
lot from his first term. And I'm interested to see
if that's accurate or if that's just wishful thinking on
my part. But we'll I'll find out together, won't we.
How rich do you have to be to pretend you're poor?

(01:15:36):
Ah camping, that's pretty funny. We're gonna take a quick bank.
We'll be right back. This is how this is what
a rock star life I lead. Okay, So I saw
an article about Germany hitting sixty two point seven percent
of their power generation was from renewable sources wind or solar,
and then I looked up German energy prices. They have

(01:15:58):
the highest energy prices in the EU. So then I
was like, well, wait, Spain was also doing a lot
of stuff with renewables, and honestly, that's exactly what I said.

Speaker 14 (01:16:09):
So then I.

Speaker 4 (01:16:09):
Googled Spain renewables. Spain creates about sixty percent of its
renewable energy from hydro because they have good hydro, wind
and solar, but their energy prices are some of the
lowest in the EU, and I was like, what, so
I'll be going down more of that rabbit hole. But

(01:16:31):
there's what it comes down to. From what I'm looking
at from the outside looking in, it is all about
German over regulation. That's number one. Number two is imagine this,
Germany in the winter is cold and gray with no wind.
Spain in the winter is windy and sunny and they

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have a lot of sun and wind, whereas Germany does not.
So between trying to use renewable sources in places where
they don't have wind and sun throughout the winter and
then having to supplement with natural gas and coal. And
they did have nuclear, but they're shutting down the nuclear
power plants because I don't even know why. But it's

(01:17:18):
fascinating because overregulation is a huge part of why renewables
cost more in Germany than they do in Spain. But
ultimately it comes down to you can build solar and wind,
but if you don't have wind and sun, you're wasting
a tremendous amount of money. And these are lessons that
we have to be paying attention to. In the United States,
like the state of Ohio, in the middle of winter,

(01:17:42):
they see the sun for like thirty minutes. I mean
it's awful, and I mean not because the sun doesn't rise.
It rises, but there are so many clouds the entire winter.
We call it the dead Ohio sky. And I'm not
knocking Ohio. I'm knocking their weather just be clear. So
they could not have solar in the winter, and they

(01:18:04):
don't have a lot of wind. So we've got to
be real about where these things can actually work, because
if we're not, we're gonna end up Germany instead of Spain.
Everybody wants to me Spain, but you know we're gonna
end up Germany. Now got that On the blog today
you can read a little more deep dive. I also
have a great story there's finally been and I forgot
to put the link. I'll go back and put the

(01:18:25):
link at the end of the show. There has been
a study of studies. There are studies where they're actually
studying people or things or whatever, and then there are
studies of studies where they gather up all the studies
on the thing and then they crunch all of the
numbers together and try to glean data out of it.
And one of those studies of studies has found pretty

(01:18:45):
convincingly that being fit cardiovascularly is far more important than
being thin. You can be overweight and still reduce your
chance of overall mortality dramatically compared to people who are
what they call skinny fat. And those are people who
don't do any exercise and they don't have great cardiovascular health.

(01:19:09):
Their pulse rate's probably really high even though they're thin.
Listen to this. Obesity, as expected, was strongly associated with mortality.
Men and women with obesity, if they were also unfit,
were about three times more likely to have died prematurely
than fit people whose BMI was normal, but poor fitness

(01:19:30):
had its own hazards. In fact, people of normal weight
who landed in the bottom twenty percent of fitness were
about twice as likely to have died young as people
with obesity who qualified as fit. From a statistical standpoint,
fitness largely eliminated the risk of early death from obesity. Now,
the problem is that it's very hard to be very

(01:19:53):
overweight and still exercised properly as you get older. When
you're young, you can do it because you're still young
and your joints aren't worn out. But if you're really
overweight as you get older, your joints become a problem
and it gets harder to exercise. So I found this fascinating.
I'll put the link to the rest of the story
on there as well, and then I have a video

(01:20:15):
that Arod sent me that is so the reason that
I train with weights. It's about stress relief. If you
are constantly walking around bound up and stressed, you can't
sleep at night because you're worried and you're constantly rolling
things over in your head. You walk around angry all
the time and wanting to punch something, but you know
you can't. You need to lift weights. You need to

(01:20:38):
move your body. I call it I don't murder someone
work out and it's worked very very well. Now when
we get back, my friend Kathleen Chandler from the Independence
Institute teaches these really cool classes about how to get
involved with your community. If you want to be more
involved with your city or your town or even state government.

(01:20:59):
Maybe you in visioning yourself taking on a specific issue
and becoming more involved. They have a class at the
Independence Institute. We're going to tell you about it next.
We'll be right back on KOA. Kathleen Chandler's class that
is coming up at the Independence Institute. It's not at
the Independence Institute. It is a zoom class, to be clear.
So you could sit in your jammi's at home and

(01:21:19):
take this wonderful class about how to get involved as
a citizen. It's part of their citizen Involvement project, and
Kathleen is here to talk about it. First of all, Kathleen,
how did you dip your toe in the first time?
Like what brought you to be the civic involved minded
person that you are now?

Speaker 14 (01:21:39):
Well?

Speaker 16 (01:21:40):
At age eighteen, I got involved in my first campaign
in Colorado Springs.

Speaker 4 (01:21:45):
Back in the day.

Speaker 16 (01:21:46):
Someone was running for mayor and I thought, Mayor, I
can help with that, and so I got involved with
her campaign. And ever since then, I've just been keeping
my self abreast of what's happening in my community.

Speaker 10 (01:21:58):
I got a degree science.

Speaker 16 (01:22:00):
I'm a Colorado Native, like I want my state to
be good. I want my state to be what do
they say, Colorado again? You know, make Colorado Colorado again.

Speaker 10 (01:22:11):
And so over time, John Caldera about eight years ago.

Speaker 16 (01:22:15):
Now sat down and said, hey, we want to try
to figure out how to start taking.

Speaker 10 (01:22:20):
Back Colorado one little bit at a time.

Speaker 16 (01:22:24):
Because we didn't get here overnight, and we're not going
to get out of this overnight. So we set out
a strategy of trying to help people understand that they
are the actual reason and way to stop the.

Speaker 10 (01:22:37):
Overreach of government. And so I came up with a
way to kind of infiltrate.

Speaker 16 (01:22:42):
These boards and commissions and help people to understand that
they can actually.

Speaker 10 (01:22:47):
Have an effect on government without being elected.

Speaker 16 (01:22:51):
And I've been placing people and strategically around the state
in you know, in very specific places, with the hopes
that maybe one of them would be lit on fire
and decide to run for office, because not everybody should.

Speaker 10 (01:23:06):
Not everybody can run for office. And in the end,
it's not really the be all and all be all.
It's about cultural change.

Speaker 16 (01:23:13):
And so what we really want to do is have
a cultural change of citizenship is really important, and running
for office happens to be an outgrowth of that citizenship.
But it's really about just realizing, you me, all of
us really need to be good citizens and be involved.

Speaker 4 (01:23:29):
You know what's funny is that when citizens do show up,
it has a powerful effect on what happens. We just
saw this happen in Littleton, where there was zoning changes
that were going to be put through, and the citizens
showed up in force, and now they've tabled to measure indefinitely,
and it really had looked like it was going to
coast a passage, no problem. So what you're doing is

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critically important, especially in an era where I feel like
there are in the Metro area a variety of different
levels of government that are really working double hard to
obfuscate everything. They're doing, the legislature exempting themselves from certain
aspects of Quora, you know, school boards creating policies to

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be between parents and their children. So we need people
to be paying attention. We need people to be pushing
back and be engaged. So what can people expect from
this class? How long does it last? Give me all
the details first?

Speaker 10 (01:24:24):
Sure, Well, the details are.

Speaker 16 (01:24:26):
It's going to be held on Tuesday, January fourteenth at
six thirty pm. As you mentioned, it is by zoom.
There's a link on our website. Go to thinkfreedom dot org.
Think Freedom dot org and at the very top there's
a little thing for the Citizen Involvement Project and there's
a a how to register for the class. There is
a ten dollars fee that'll give you the link to

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the class. It just helps us to kind of keep
trek of who's in the class so that I can
do some follow up. But this is an opportunity for
a couple of hours for you to get step one,
Like what do I do? I find most people just
don't realize what step one is. They want to do
step five. But I'm going to help you get to
step one. And if you can get to step one,

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and I'll coach you in two and three and four,
And if you want to get to step five and
run for office, fantastic, I will be happy to help.

Speaker 8 (01:25:12):
You there too.

Speaker 16 (01:25:13):
But the point is, we need good people on the
Water Commission, the Citizen Advisory Commission, the Fair Commission. We
need good people on all levels of government in all
areas helping advise so that the best happens for the
most people.

Speaker 4 (01:25:29):
You know, Kathleen, one of the things you don't talk
about is actual like partisan politics.

Speaker 8 (01:25:34):
Here.

Speaker 4 (01:25:34):
I noticed there's not any mention of that.

Speaker 16 (01:25:37):
No, we really aren't about partisanship, right. This is about freedom.
This is about the best ideas for the most and
that obviously means that some people are inadvertently left behind.
But that's where we believe charity picks up a lot
of that, but once we let government in, we are
less charitable.

Speaker 10 (01:25:55):
So our idea here is government needs to be small
so that charity and people are big.

Speaker 16 (01:26:00):
So if we can get good people in there that
always are asking is this the role of government? Should
government be doing this or that? Then it allows people
to go you know, maybe government shouldn't do that.

Speaker 10 (01:26:10):
Maybe government can.

Speaker 16 (01:26:11):
Do this and do this well, but the rest should
be left up to charity. And that's not a right
or a left issue.

Speaker 10 (01:26:17):
It's not a blue or red. It's an issue that
makes people good.

Speaker 16 (01:26:22):
At heart and allows people to flourish in their God
given capacity.

Speaker 4 (01:26:27):
So when do people have to sign up by to
do this? January fourteen zoom call.

Speaker 16 (01:26:32):
It is unlimited number of people. It's a statewide obviously
even nationwide. I have people that have attended from California.
Because of the format, zoom is available for all, so
there's really no sign up time. I usually cut it
up about three o'clock on Tuesday, just because I want
to get a roster together. But you're more than welcome
to sign up as late as the link is available
on the website till about three o'clock on Tuesday, January fourteenth,

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and the classes at six point thirty that evening.

Speaker 10 (01:26:58):
I'd love to have you attend just so that you
can see why should I be involved? How do I
get involved? Kind of the nuts and the bolts and
the why.

Speaker 4 (01:27:07):
Well, I think it's uh. The one way to put
this is like, if your involvement curious, like you're not
ready to take the leap, you think maybe there's some
issues that you might want to engage it the do
the class because it's it's not very much time. It's
it's a measly ten bucks, which at this point is
you know, a cup of coffee at the rate we're going.

(01:27:27):
But do the class and at least then you'll have
a clear picture. Because the reason I'm encouraging that, Kathleen
is twofold one. I think that people don't realize that
there are things you can do without a ton of effort,
okay without without a you don't have to like commit
forty hours a week right away. There's there's ways to
make a difference that are kind of low barrier, and

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I want people to know about that. To do what
you can do, you know, maybe you're never going to
run for office?

Speaker 10 (01:27:56):
Yeah exactly?

Speaker 16 (01:27:57):
Is it your freedom worth two hours a month or
four hours every couple of weeks.

Speaker 10 (01:28:02):
I mean I look at it that way. Yes, I'm
not going to run for office.

Speaker 16 (01:28:06):
I may, I may not, But isn't my freedom? We're
sitting in and listening to a meeting. We don't have
enough reporters, local reports, hyper local stuff.

Speaker 10 (01:28:15):
And so when you hear something weird going on, nobody
knows about it. So why don't you know about it and.

Speaker 16 (01:28:21):
Then be nosy if you want put it on next door,
But at least have an opportunity instead of waiting until
it becomes a problem.

Speaker 10 (01:28:30):
I guess that's when people tend to get involved.

Speaker 4 (01:28:32):
Yep, I just got this text message. I took this
class last year, even though I didn't put it to
work as much as I had hoped. This year, I
got step one covered and know what to expect and
look for when I get my kids into school and
I have a little more time.

Speaker 16 (01:28:45):
Great class, excellent, Yay, Okay, success story.

Speaker 4 (01:28:49):
See that's it.

Speaker 16 (01:28:50):
I mean, I think just educating citizens on what their
responsibility is. I mean, because we cannot have a civil
society without the citizen being involved and whole accountable each
other and the elected officials.

Speaker 10 (01:29:03):
Right, thank you for attending my class. Tell your neighbors.

Speaker 4 (01:29:07):
Kathleen Chandler is wonderful and she's doing a great job
at II, and we'll be doing a great job on
the RTD board. Newly elected rt D board member. So
the class is January fourteenth, Kathleen, thank you for making
time for us to talk about it today.

Speaker 5 (01:29:21):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 10 (01:29:22):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (01:29:23):
Mandy, all right, that is Kathleen Chandler from the Independence Institute,
and I do take the class. Do take the class.
We've got to happen when she says, great people. And
that's why I pointed out the nonpartisan nature of this.
As a matter of fact, a friend of mine has
expressed interest in running for our office in another state,
and I am going to have him take this class,

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even though he is a Democrat, because I think it
would be very useful. Everybody needs to know listen to
Mandy and Ross on king Away every day and just
try not getting excited and involved. I double dog date ya, Yeah,
I double dogg dare you so? Yes? I mean that's
not that's not We're We're not just trying to fire

(01:30:05):
you up all the time. So I saw this earlier
on X and this is actually is it wrong for me?
I think I think I'm developing affection, like genuine affection
for John Fetterman. He has agreed to go meet Donald

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Trump at mar A Lago, the first sitting senator to
do so, and when asked about it, he said, I
think it's pretty reasonable that if the President would like
to have a conversation or invite someone to have a conversation,
to have it, and no one is my gatekeeper. You
guys have it like a I'm not saying I have

(01:30:51):
a crush on the man, but I'm I'm far less
annoyed by the hoodies than I was before. And John
Fetterman come sponsored the Lake and Riley Act. I mean,
you guys, you guys listen to this exchange from Fox News.

Speaker 6 (01:31:14):
Like it's really common sense. And I'd like to remind
everybody that we have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of
migrants here illegally that have convicted of crimes, and I
don't know why who wants to defend to allow them
to remain in our nation. And now if you're here
illegally and you're committing crimes and those things. I don't

(01:31:37):
know why anybody thinks that it's controversial that they all
need to go. Do you think that this was one of,
if not the biggest issue for this election. Well, I
think if we can't. You know, there's forty seven of
us in the Senate, and if we can't pull up
with with seven votes, and if we can't get at
least seven out of forty seven, and if we can't,

(01:31:59):
then that's a reason why we lost.

Speaker 2 (01:32:01):
That's one of them. That's one of why we lost.

Speaker 4 (01:32:02):
Time in part great if you think about that, I mean,
that's what he's saying, like it's really common s that's uh,
that's John Fetterman. I don't I don't know what happened.
I mean, I don't know the stroke shook something loose
in there? Maybe not sure, but yeah, yeah, I have

(01:32:23):
a lot of video from this fire on the blog today,
including I don't know if you guys have seen this,
the video from inside a house where a guy is
talking to someone else and you're talking to their dog
and they're just filming the fire. A rod Did you
send this to me? Didn't you? This morning?

Speaker 2 (01:32:39):
I think so?

Speaker 4 (01:32:40):
Yeah? You did? You did and did you not see
this and go, what the hell are those guys doing?
I mean, wasn't that your first thought, like, why aren't
you leaving?

Speaker 2 (01:32:52):
Yeah, that's intense.

Speaker 4 (01:32:54):
It is very intense. And according to the Daily Mail,
they did get out, they were able to evacuate. But
people like this, if we've gotten, if we've gotten sort
of the news that whoever these people are had ended
up dying. Honestly, I would have been like, you just
died for clicks, You died for what views? For three
million views on TikTok. I just I don't understand that.

(01:33:17):
I don't understand people who decide they're going to be
a hero in a natural disaster. It makes no sense.
Fire is going to win most of the time. It's terrible,
absolutely terrible. I hate it when people don't take stuff
serious enough. Just hate it. Anyway, there's so much good
stuff on the blog today. We're gonna I'm trying to

(01:33:38):
figure out what else I need to get in here.
We got that, oh we forgot about her. We got
to play a little audio from Mayor Karen Bass, who
is beginning to look like the ultimate diversity higher of

(01:33:58):
all time. And hang on, I gotta pull this up
and a rod watched a video and what did you say?

Speaker 14 (01:34:06):
I can't remember exactly what I said now, but I
basically it was just stunned that like, yeah, this is
this is this is the air, this is it.

Speaker 4 (01:34:12):
Okay, okay, here we go. Let's let's uh.

Speaker 17 (01:34:15):
This Firestone firestorm is the big one in magnitude. Hurricane
force winds are usually accompanied by rainstorms, but these are
hurricane force winds that are combined with extremely dry drought conditions.
To provide context, at ten twenty am yesterday, the Palisades

(01:34:38):
fire was at ten acres.

Speaker 4 (01:34:42):
Twelve minutes later it was at two hundred acres. She
was trying to read and not doing a very good job,
but at least she looked like she was not on drugs,
which is how she looked in that video of a
report assaulting a reporter, absolutely firing questions at her. And
she said nothing, nothing at all. It was very strange.

(01:35:07):
Michael Schellenberger has said on X he is a guy
who lives in California, has written extensively about the decay
in California and has pretty much turned on the Democratic
Party because of it. And he said he was at
a party and people were like, Oh, we can't vote
for the guy who wants to shore up the fire
and police because he's white. We have to vote for

(01:35:28):
the black woman. And this is what you get. This
is what you get bad governance because you voted for
the wrong reasons. I feel the same way. I don't
know if many of you have seen. The Rotterdam case
has reared its ugly head again. And this was a
situation about ten years ago now maybe longer, where the

(01:35:48):
authorities in Britain ignored a gang of Pakistani and Arab
men who were grooming and raping little girls, ignored them
because they didn't want to be seen as racist. And
now it's all come back and I think it's gonna
bring down the Prime Minister because he was a huge
part of that. But this is the same thing when

(01:36:11):
you vote for someone based on nonsense that has no
substance and then they fail miserably when everything happens, This
is kind of what you get, you know. Please anyway,
So who am I playing today, Anthony?

Speaker 2 (01:36:25):
You have two contestants in the studio, Ryan and Ben.

Speaker 4 (01:36:30):
And now it's time for the most exciting segment on
the radio of its kind in the World.

Speaker 2 (01:36:38):
Of the day.

Speaker 4 (01:36:39):
I've never heard, Ben do.

Speaker 2 (01:36:41):
I always get the wrong part?

Speaker 1 (01:36:46):
Do it?

Speaker 2 (01:36:46):
Do it again? That's gonna do it, Mandy, go do it.

Speaker 4 (01:36:49):
And now it's time for the most exciting segment on
the radio of its guy of the day. I'm not bad, then,
that was not bad, that was respectable?

Speaker 2 (01:37:00):
Which part to say?

Speaker 4 (01:37:01):
A moral victory? That was a moral victory, right there, Ben,
I have so few of those. What is our dad
joke of the day? Please, Anthony?

Speaker 14 (01:37:10):
What do you call two monkeys who share an Amazon account?
I'm not talking about Ryan and Ben.

Speaker 4 (01:37:15):
Two monkeys that share an Amazon account. Yes, I do
not know.

Speaker 12 (01:37:21):
Primates well the doo doo his What is today's word
of the day?

Speaker 2 (01:37:35):
Gamut g A m U two.

Speaker 4 (01:37:37):
That's easy, Yeah, range of outcomesbers everything, you cover everything
with the games?

Speaker 2 (01:37:43):
Correct the entire scale or range? Correct?

Speaker 4 (01:37:46):
All right? Trivia questions. Sonic the Hedgehog, film based on
the popular video game character, was released in twenty twenty.
Who voiced Sonic the titular blue.

Speaker 14 (01:38:00):
I just lost it. I feel stupid. It's O god.
What's his name, Ben Schwartz? Yes, you so good, so good?

Speaker 15 (01:38:13):
I know the character on Parson Wreck because Sean Paul Raffo.

Speaker 2 (01:38:15):
Yeah, I couldn't think of his name.

Speaker 4 (01:38:17):
It's good.

Speaker 11 (01:38:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:38:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:38:20):
The third one, by the way, for knowing that cares,
the third one is the best one so far. I'm
just saying, yes, it is incredibly I don't care. It
is no fun and awesome anyway, man, what is.

Speaker 4 (01:38:30):
Our Jeopardy category?

Speaker 15 (01:38:32):
Now?

Speaker 4 (01:38:32):
Do they have to wait since I'm broadcasting from the
Southern Command to know?

Speaker 8 (01:38:35):
They?

Speaker 7 (01:38:35):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (01:38:35):
Don't you get this is your game? You win it anyway?

Speaker 14 (01:38:40):
Ryan, you keep saying that you haven't lost her in
a while. So here that's a five week dumb answers
is the category. Dumb answers. Don't give dumb answers. The
category is dumb answers. As the saying goes, do this
to me once, Sha, I think I got I don't
know who got that?

Speaker 3 (01:38:59):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:39:00):
I mean I'm gonna Ryan Ben saying.

Speaker 4 (01:39:04):
Ryan, what is ful?

Speaker 1 (01:39:05):
Me?

Speaker 2 (01:39:05):
Correct?

Speaker 14 (01:39:06):
Opposite of keene. It's often found compared to dishwater.

Speaker 2 (01:39:14):
Nice.

Speaker 14 (01:39:15):
This compound Avian term says you don't have one single
idea on your tiny mind. For it rhymes with a
synonym for fast, but describes a person empty of interest
or originality.

Speaker 2 (01:39:35):
I want to say.

Speaker 14 (01:39:38):
Yes, wait again Okay, and I'm gonna give you the
synonym after that. It rhymes with a synonym for fast,
but describes a person empty of interest or originality. Okay,
I'm gonna give you the word that rhymes whether you're ready, rapid, Ben, Mandy, rapid?

Speaker 2 (01:39:55):
Correct?

Speaker 15 (01:39:56):
What is it?

Speaker 8 (01:39:56):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (01:39:56):
One?

Speaker 2 (01:39:57):
One who's got the two? Okay? All right?

Speaker 14 (01:40:00):
Also a Jethrow Toll album title. This foreword rhyming phrase
includes a building material.

Speaker 15 (01:40:10):
Quiet, get, throw to acceptable and stupid? What is thick
as a break.

Speaker 4 (01:40:23):
Breaking in? I couldn't remember anything else, but I still
want it, I know, but I wanted to get that
right too, and it make it be a complete domination
of both Ryan and Ben. Take that, kids, take that.
I'll take my moral Victoris murder exactly. All right, you
two lunatics. What's coming up there on KA Sports? Well,

(01:40:43):
what's going on? Did you see the video of von
Miller at the press conference that it wore my heart?
I have it on today's blog and I just was like,
we love you too, buddy.

Speaker 2 (01:40:53):
Yep, we love you too. We're gonna have Julia McLoughlin
right off the top.

Speaker 14 (01:40:57):
Broncos starting running back, and we'll get into tonight's final
four game with college football Playoff.

Speaker 2 (01:41:03):
Will be a lot of fun, all right.

Speaker 4 (01:41:05):
That is all coming up next tomorrow, we have another,
if I do say so myself, whizbang show for you,
because that's what we do here. We're gonna be talking
about therapy, psychedelic assistant therapy tomorrow because this is now
becoming a thing, and I figured I'd reach out to
a provider who's already using cannabis and ketamine to find

(01:41:26):
out about that, and then psilocybin will enter the chat later.
And we're also going to find out about a brain
trauma at Marcus Institute for Brain Health at CU and
shoots and some of the stuff they're doing to help
returning soldiers and others who have suffered brain trauma. It's
going to be a really good show right now. KA

(01:41:46):
Sports coming up next, Keep it on KOA