01-13-25 FULL SHOW - A New Film About Detransitioners Raises Questions

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 4 (00:27):
We welcome Q a Monday edition of the show. I'm
your host for the next three hours. Mandy Connell, joined,
of course, by my right hand man, Anthony Rodriguez. Come,
we call him a rod You can call him whatever
you want.

Speaker 5 (00:42):
Anyway, Well, you know, within reason.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
Well, I mean, be nice by emmy. Don't call him
late for dinner. That's the old adage there late. We
have a lot. You're really never, never late, and I
like that about you. I have a hard time with
perpetually late people. I'm related to some, and I always
feel like, why is your time more valuable than my time?

(01:04):
It ain't exactly exactly right. Can we just have a
conversation because I didn't even put it on the blog
today about yesterday's Broncos loss at the Bills. I know
Broncos fans, it did not end the way we wanted
it to. But as I said on Twitter last night
or x dot com, at the beginning of the season,
we were all like, no, it'd be pretty cool if

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we went like eight and eight with the rookie QB.
So I think that this was a disappointing end to
a season that over delivered. If I may, yes, five
and a half.

Speaker 5 (01:35):
Five and a half.

Speaker 6 (01:36):
That is the win loss over under that Vegas had
for the Denver Broncos in twenty twenty four, So we
have perspective we overperformed most Bowl.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
Here's what I'm excited about. Here's what I'm excited about.
That loss yesterday was.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Bad.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
I mean, the Bills are just a damn good fit
places in the NFL. They really are a damn good
football team, and I just feel like we never got
our feet under us, partially because they are so disruptive
on these heads.

Speaker 6 (02:03):
Bigger picture two dead cap galore thanks to the Russell
Wilson contract, a roster that needs an uptick in some talent.
They're gonna get it. They're gonna have a fifty million
in cap space. They're gonna have twenty million more to
play with than they did this year thanks to the
Russ dead cap. They're gonna have a good draft. Bo's
gonna have year two in a very complex, very very

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difficult to learn high verbiage offense with Sean Payton, everyone
estimated that we would be half as good as this.
The future is bright, and ladies and gentlemen, for the
first time in a decade, we have our franchise quarterback.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
Correct.

Speaker 5 (02:38):
The future is bright. You gotta feel good.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
The Bills chose quarterback who went into Buffalo for an
absolute buzzsaw experience that, though difficult when it was happening,
is such an incredible learning experience for a brand new quarterback.

Speaker 6 (02:52):
Josh Allen. The Bills were awful his rookie year. They
weren't very good his second year. Yeah, he was a
million times worse than where Bo is now. Okay, So, patients,
it takes time. We are in a great path.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
One thing I will say, did you watch the Washington
Next game last night? Yes, dude, that young quarterback to Washington.
He is something.

Speaker 5 (03:11):
He's the next super he is something.

Speaker 6 (03:13):
He's probably gonna be the best quarterback in this class
when it's all said and done.

Speaker 5 (03:15):
As of right now, I mean, I.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
Have to say he's a very impressive young man. Yeah. Yeah,
And so we've got some really good young quarterbacks in
the lead right now, and I feel like it's been
a while since we've had a lot, yeah, of young quarterbacks,
and I don't necessarily mean rookies, I mean young.

Speaker 5 (03:32):
Yeah, we've got that.

Speaker 6 (03:33):
We've got that tier of the quarterbacks of Josh Allen,
Pat Mahomes, Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson going for a Decadeyeah.

Speaker 5 (03:39):
Those, that's that tier.

Speaker 6 (03:41):
And then we've got that next young group coming up
right behind him, that Bo Nix is firmly in.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
Yeah, we'll put them in this ge. We'll call it
this generation of quarterbacks, the quarterbacks you just named, and
then the rookies this year. I feel like we're coming
into a renaissance. As they say of NFL quarterback.

Speaker 6 (03:57):
We don't have Tom Brady anymore. We all Peyton Manning anymore,
when all have Drew Brees and here we're all Philip
Rivers anymore. That is now Alan Mahomes, Burrow.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
Jackson, and now that our next tier bo is in.

Speaker 6 (04:06):
And you gotta feel damn if you feel anything other
than optimistic and great about the Denver Broncos right now,
you need to.

Speaker 5 (04:13):
Rewatch the whole season.

Speaker 6 (04:14):
Repay attention, because I'm telling you that was a fun,
awesome season with a bright future as yep, and so.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
That is fantastic where you know, obviously the game was
hard to watch. I mean it was frustrating as all
start great start. I mean that was such a where
is it possible? I know, I know, so money is
worse than none at all. I mean it was just
but Buffalo was I think Buffalo was like, wait what
after we scored the time, but we wait what now

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we're now we're now we're playing. We were just kidding
about that other part.

Speaker 5 (04:44):
Yeah, that's all right, that's okay.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
We feel I'm happy to be a Broncos fan right now.

Speaker 5 (04:48):
Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
I mean, after the last few years, it is just
it has been such a slog and so ugly to watch.
It has been so awful to hard to look ahead. Yeah,
and with no hope on the horizon. So this is
definitely a new year.

Speaker 6 (05:04):
And uh, you don't think people across the country, uh,
in NFL for agency want to come play with bow
Knicks and Sean Payton and the Denver Broncos.

Speaker 5 (05:11):
The only thing draft easing.

Speaker 6 (05:11):
I'm excited to be a part of this we have
going forward like this is a destination already is because
people love Denver, people love the organization.

Speaker 5 (05:18):
Now we're good. Yeah, watch out, NFL, watch out.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
Indeed, I wish you could reach out to the Broncos.
I want to sit down with Bonnicks for like an
hour for a recorded video. Yeah, and everything we'll plant
the day after. Coach Prime I think is gettable. I
think Coach Prime is not gettable. I think bo Nicks
is gettable.

Speaker 6 (05:36):
Between those two, I would say Coach Prime would be
just a bit more gettible.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
You think so, Yeah, I don't think so. I mean
I think that bo Nicks would be more amenable to
do in a long sit down with me than about
an hour.

Speaker 5 (05:51):
I don't know about an hour. I think. I think
I can lock down both for a segment. This would
be great.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
You know what, what don't you outs for an hour
and let them say no, correct, Okay.

Speaker 5 (06:02):
We can do fifteen minutes.

Speaker 4 (06:03):
Okay, okay, fine, we'll take it. But I'd like to
talk to him about all kinds of stuff, not just football.
I'd like to talk to him about, you know, uh,
his first year in Denver, just overall as a human being,
not just a football player. I'd like to have a
life conversation with a well he certainly, he certainly showed
the naysayers wrong, you know what I mean, So well done.

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So hats off to the to the Denver Broncos, and
we are excited for next year, and that is not
something I've been able to say for a long time. Now,
let's do the blog because holy crap, it's ginormous. And
I don't even have anything about the LA fires on
this because you know, the LA fires are an ongoing

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news story, and and until the fires are at all contained,
then the story is going to be everything in California
is on fire. So once that is all contained, we'll
be able to do a deep dive and have longer
conversations about the failures of California government. I read a
great article and I'll share it. Like I said, I

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didn't put anything about the California fires on the blog today,
but I will share that article from Quillette dot com
q U I L L E T t e dot
com and it basically says, look, you know, the left
is blaming climate change, and that's not all together right
or wrong. The right is blaming blaming bad governments, and

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that's not all together right or wrong. It's a much
more complex situation. So I think that we'll have those
conversations later, but right now we are going to talk
about the blog, which you can find at mandy'sblog dot com.
That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline. It says
one thirteen to twenty five blog. A new film about

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d transitioners raises questions. Click on that and here are
the headlines you will find within.

Speaker 6 (07:58):
I think listening, office happening and all with ships and
clipments of say that's a press plant.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
Today on the blog Identity Crisis is an important film.
Two murders on the sixteenth Street. Mall this as office
leases are finally going back up that when there are
no volunteers for the volunteer fire Department. How do we
break down the stigma about mental health? The egg case
was full at my King Sooper's yesterday. Governor confused about

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who signed bills he signed. It's time to stop will
Free introduction. Dave Williams continues to try to destroy the
Colorado GOP. Yes, we are a sanctuary state. I'm sure
this gun law is going to make crime drop. You
should go to the stock show. Glucose spikes make you
feel bad. CNN is so screwed Hamas can end the war.

Speaker 5 (08:48):
Today.

Speaker 4 (08:49):
US treasury debt is not attractive anymore. Our brains are
always working. The six p's of evacuation. Take your graduation
year off your resume. About the TikTok band. Those are
the headlines on the blog at Mandy's blog dot com.
And I got a lot of stories to talk about.

(09:10):
Somebody just asked this question on our Common Spirit Health
text line though, and it says, Mandy, can you find
out what happens to all those electric vehicles that melted
in California?

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Has not?

Speaker 4 (09:22):
Question mark? That is one of the one of the
issues that we will be able to address once these
fires are at all under control, because they are not
at all under control. I mean hundreds. At last I
saw there was one hundred and eighty thousand people evacuated
from their homes. This is this is just a a

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an urban disaster of the likes we haven't seen in
a very long time.

Speaker 6 (09:47):
Not just the evs, all the building materials and all
the old materials in those houses yep up in the air.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
Have you seen some of the photos of the houses
that were built to firewise standards and they're just a
house standing in a completely burned out neighborhood. It's pretty amazing.
And they were built with things like metal roofs or
concrete tile roofs. They were built with the essentially like
James Hardy fiber cement and I don't know if it's

(10:14):
James Hardy brand, but fiber cement siding on the houses
that are not as flammable. I guess they can burn,
but they generally don't from a spark or anything like that.
It's pretty amazing. It's pretty amazing. So we're going to
get into all of that once the once the fires
are under control. Mandy, I knew that Broncos were doomed

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when the field goal was missed. That was the dink.
That was a stab in the heart of all Bronco fans.
Trust me, dress me, Mandy. I want to talk about this.
We've got to talk about the Sixteenth Street mall. So
over the weekend and did they announce Wait a minute,
let me let me go to one of our TV partners, KADIVR,

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and see if they've announced. Yes, So Saturday, people are
walking down the Sixteenth Street mall, which is all torn
up and under construction. I was there last week as
a matter of fact, last Wednesday night, but I was
with two friends, so perhaps that kept us from being
stabbed in the street. Three separate people were stabbed on Saturday,

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one of them an American Airlines flight attendant on a layover.
She later died from her injuries. And Sunday, another man
was stabbed on the sixteenth Street Mall and he died.
So we have two people that survived their stabbings and
two people that did not. Last Sunday night, a man

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or last night was arrested, twenty four year old Elijah
Caudill and they I'm trying to scroll down here as
I do this, because they had not released his name
before they did it. They don't believe that this guy
had any to the stabbing victims. He was just indiscriminately
stabbing people as he was walking around. We don't have

(12:08):
any real information. They just released his name and that's it.
That's all we know about this guy. We have a
mugshot of him and that's pretty much it. My guess
is is that he is a mentally ill, homeless person

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who was just walking around stabbing people. Because I don't know,
maybe maybe he thinks Jesus told him to stab people.
I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
This.

Speaker 4 (12:42):
This has got to stop. This has got to stop.
You guys, we're spending millions and millions of dollars to
renovate the Sixteenth Street Mall. It's driven most businesses out
of the mall. The businesses that are left are I
don't even know how they're getting by. And now we're
gonna spend millions and millions of dollars of eating Civic
Center Park, which no one wants to go to Civic

(13:04):
Center Park, certainly not in the you know, at night.
Oh my god, no way. And this I have seen nothing.
Maybe I'm missing it. Has anybody seen comments from the
mayor of Denver about this? Have you seen any kind
of indication that he has come out with forceful words
about it?

Speaker 2 (13:24):
Anything?

Speaker 4 (13:25):
Oh, let's see now, do better. Denver of course, has
has already done it.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Let's see.

Speaker 6 (13:34):
Do better.

Speaker 4 (13:35):
Denver has figured out Wait a minute, let me do this.
Elijah David Caudill. He has a long criminal history, I guess, And.

Speaker 7 (13:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (13:54):
I'm trying to find out. I'm trying to get to
the right thing.

Speaker 5 (13:57):
Here.

Speaker 4 (13:58):
Oh, maybe I'll put it on next There we go
let me go to a platform that's easier to use.
The sixteenth Street murderer is alleged murderer is twenty four
year old Elijah David Caudill. Unsurprisingly, he has a long
and violent criminal record. It looks like he was out
on a one hundred dollars bond, that's ten dollars bond
for a sexual contact no consent charge from January of

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twenty twenty four, Saturday and Sunday, Elijah killed two innocent
bystanders and stabbed two more. Mayor Mike Johnston is about
to spend a half of billion dollars to renovate and
vacate a vacant and unsafe downtown. No one wants to
visit downtown Denver, and they are not wrong, not wrong

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at all. So this call, Oh my goodness, this Caddill
guy has been arrested all over the place, and multiple times,
I mean for a ton of stuff in Denver, in
other cities. Failure to appear. I think if you have

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a failure to appear on your record, you should be
held without bond because you've already demonstrated you can't be
trusted to show up. So if you have a failure
to appear. You should just be You should not be
able to get out of jail while they're waiting for
you to get trial. That's just not how it should be. Mandy,
we should ban knives. Great idea text he that'll do it.

(15:27):
I know you're being sarcastic. I'm looking at the guy's
rap sheet. It is seven pages long. See four of seven.
Oh oh, I'm sorry, yeah, yeah, theft, sexual contact, no permission,

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all kinds of stuff. It seems like a neat guy,
a really neat guy, a guy that has been in
and out of the system over and over and over
and over again, and yet here he is just had
the chance to murder two people. Now I want to
do when we get back at twelve thirty, I'm going
to do a press conference. I realize that I am
part of the press, but I'm going to do an

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imaginary press conference where I would tell you what I,
as mayor of Denver, would be doing today. This would
be happening today if I were mayor of Denver, and
I'm sure you'll be surprised that it is things that
are not happening currently. What more has to happen before

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the leadership in Denver and law enforcement in Denver. And
when I say law enforcement, I'm not necessarily just talking
about police officers, because police officers remain frustrated because they
keep arresting people and then they keep getting back on
the street like this guy. I'm talking about leadership. I'm
talking about the District Attorney's office. I'm talking about a

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mayor who demands that safety be at the forefront of
what we're doing in Denver. Somebody just said, if a
gun was used, you better believe it would have been
a national story. Oh, my friends, this is a national story.
A flight attendant on a layover from Phoenix was murdered
in downtown Denver. American Airlines immediately moved Cruise all cruise

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out of downtown Denver to an airport hotel immediately, and
essentially we're like, nope, We're not doing this again. A
Rod's mom, b Rod, sent me this. This is from
an aviation page she follows, and it just says this,
this is so sad. Dude went around and stabbed three people,

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killing this flight attendant, all just because I despise that
Denver layover. I avoid it because the quote mental health
is just way too much on the streets. I've been
an EMT for fourteen years, and so I pay attention
to the very small details on the layovers of the homeless,
mental illness, et cetera. Denver was a no go as
soon as I stepped out of the hotel. This is heartbreaking,

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they continue, and they're absolutely right. Senseless crime, truly sad.
Everyone be extremely careful out there and have your heads
on a swivel. Don't wear earbuds when you're walking. If
something feels off, chances are it is. I wish we
were allowed to carry something with us, to give us
a chance to protect ourselves for the ones who aren't
able to do without it. I mean, you, guys, this

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is a national story. You think that the story about
the Venezuelan gang in Aurora is bad nationally, Wait until
flight attendants, just minding their own beeswax walking down the
street get stabbed and murdered in downtown Denver. What is
that going to do to our tourism. We can rebuild
the sixteenth Street mall, like we could pave the streets

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with gold. We could line it with shops where they
gave away things for free, and people would not go
back downtown. Come on, just come on this tector said,
I'll never go to Denver and never not carry I
don't care if it's illegal. Amen, brother or sister. Amen.

(19:19):
So uh, Mandy, only seven pages long. Got to pump
up those numbers. Yeah, I guess, I guess, Mandy. This
sits close to home. The flight attendant was seventy one
years old and been flying for thirty five years. Her
throat was slit execution style that from flight attendant Drew.
I will tell you when I was a flight attendant,

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or in my early twenties, one of the things I
really appreciate about that job is it taught me how
to go do things by myself. Because a lot of
times the crews that I would fly with, they've been
flying for forever and we'd get to a town and
they're like, God, I've been here a million times. I
don't want to leave my room. So if you want
to take advantage of the best parts of being a
flight attendant, which is seeing the world, you better get

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used to doing things by yourself. So this is exactly
something I would have done. I would have walked around
by myself. I wanted to see Denver. I wanted to
see what was going on. I don't want to stay
in my hotel room. I want to go spend some
money in the communities that I'm in not anymore. What
kind of warnings are they going to be giving flight
attendants now about Denver, we had during our five weeks

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of flight attendant training, we had like two full days
on safety on layovers, I mean really specific stuff like
never tell a passenger where you're laying over. That kind
of stuff, like really specific stuff. But nobody ever said
don't walk by yourself because you might get stabbed. And
guess what, that's what Denver is telling people. Now, that's

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what Denver is telling people. You know what, if you're
gonna go downtown, don't be downtown by yourself. Listen to this.
Chief Thomas, chief of the police department, said this. Thomas
said during a press conference Sunday evening that the suspect
was indiscriminately stabbing people, but said all the victims had

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been on their own before the violence. He asked anyone
heading downtown to bring someone with them or to remain
vigilant if they had to be alone. You guys, when
we get back my fake press conference, as I pretend
to be mayor of Denver. That's coming up next.

Speaker 6 (21:35):
All Right, ladies, lady and gentlemen, please sit said please,
can we get ready here? Okay, everyone take a seat. Okay,
please down, Okay, all right, lady and gentlemen. Now, thank
you for joining us for this a little press conference
we got here. We have Denver, Denver mayor. How you
know mayor she is?

Speaker 5 (21:50):
She's Mayor Mandy Connell of somewhere.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
Mandy, Ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
I called this press conference today because of the violence
that occurred at the Sixth Street Mall over the weekend.
We lost to people to senseless violence perpetrated by a
man with a very long rap sheet. And I'm here
to tell you, as mayor, that today is the day

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that this stops. From now on, I'm directing the police
of From now on, I'm directing the chief of police
to arrest everyone for everything. And what I mean here
is we will no longer tolerate quality of life crimes.
We will be holding people who live on the streets
accountable for the havoc that they are reeking. We will

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not be doing any more investment into Civic Center Park
or any other improvements into downtown until we are certain
that Denver and everyone in Colorado and beyond can feel
safe coming to downtown Denver. This kind of violence is
no longer tolerable, and we will no longer tolerate it
in the process of us cleaning up Denver. We appreciate

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your help by calling us. I'm letting us know where
people are creating problems, where people are openly using drugs,
lighting fires that they should not be lighting, or otherwise
creating a problem for the citizens and taxpayers that deserve
to have a vibrant Denver downtown that they can safely
visit without worrying about their car being stolen or windows

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being smashed, or being stabbed indiscriminately on the sixteenth Street mall.
I'm here to tell you it stops today today, is it, Denver?
We hear you, Denver, We will no longer tolerate you.
There will be no questions because I have said everything
that needs to be said. Thank you very much, no
question questions. Thank you for coming to my press compe.

Speaker 5 (23:42):
Thank you for joining us. We will put potentially bout
a release otherwise get out. Thank you, yeah, thank you, No,
thank you, no.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
Thank you, thank you no.

Speaker 4 (23:50):
By the way, the actual mayor. Mayor Mike Johnston is
going to be having a press conference this afternoon, and
if he says anything less than what I just said,
then he doesn't deserve to have the job anymore. Full stop.

Speaker 8 (24:05):
I mean, he.

Speaker 4 (24:06):
Has spent Could you even imagine, could you even imagine
if all of the money that we've spent on illegal
immigrants had been spent on public safety, hiring and retaining
police officers, making sure that they're properly trained, making sure
that we have the support systems in place so Denver

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people and people around the state and the world could
actually be in downtown Denver and not worry about crime.
We just went to see Douglas Murray last week at
the Paramount Love the Paramount. What a beautiful, beautiful theater,
such a jewel in the crown that is Denver. And
yet I went with two other women and we decided
that we were going to park at one woman's house

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so we didn't have to park a car downtown because
we really didn't feel like coming out and finding out
our car being broken into or tolen. These are the
calculation that are now going into effect, and it's ridiculous.
It's absolutely crazy. When I first moved here. I will
never forget Chuck and Hi. We went on a date

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that was planned by a friend of ours and we
ended up walking great distances through downtown Denver in the
middle of the night. We even walked right by the
Denver Mission, which is outside If you've never seen the
Denver Mission, the homeless shelter down there at night, it's
just there's teams of homeless people around it. We even
walked through there, and I didn't feel like I was
going to get killed. And I've walked through a lot

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of cities where I was pretty sure I was going
to get killed, but not Denver. But now, yes, Denver,
Now yes, Mayor Connell. Do you feel like you have
blood on your hands since you have done nothing to
prevent this type of crime. Well, I don't know about you,
but I just took office today, so and I didn't
actually take office. I was just trying to make the point.

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So no, I do not fe guilty about this. This Texter, right,
just call the police communication center, sit on hold for
an hour and a half, then while they figure out
if you need Spanish, English or whatever, and then maybe
you'll get to talk with somebody. Now, what if we
had taken the billions of dollars billions. I guess that's wrong. Millions.

(26:20):
Sorry about that millions. For a second there, I switched
millions and billions in my head, but I was like,
it's not that much money. It is forty seventy five
million dollars and reinvested that into our nine to one
one services so you could actually talk to a person
in a timely fashion. Mandy, I hope you're running for

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Denver mayor soon. The problem is is that people know
that I lean right and Denver rights reflexively hate anyone
who could actually get something done. I'm just saying what
I think.

Speaker 3 (26:52):
Man.

Speaker 4 (26:53):
You guys and gals who live in Denver are running
around feeling good about yourselves because you're part of the
command compassionate community. Well except you don't have much compassionate
compassion for the family of the flight attempt that was
just murdered in downtown Denver. Something's gonna change what we're
seeing in California right now. It could be the end

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of Democrat domination in California. It really could be. And
this isn't me going ooh yay, that's not what I'm
talking about. I'm trying to look at this dispassionately. But
if I live in California right now and I've seen
the absolute dumpster fire that is passing for leadership right now,
do you know what Gavin Newsom did over the weekend?
The governor of California put up a website that is

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not a state website. It is a campaign website. Any
directs people to get donations. Now, of course he says,
all of that money will be sent. Well, I don't
believe you. Why would I believe anything you said? It's
just ugh Mandy. I was a regular visitor to Denver

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for restaurants, festivals, and activities. Today I warn my twenty
two year old son, big Kid, the two nice like
I was at one time, to be very careful. Over
New Years. He was with six young drinking age women
who were confronted by a guy who sounds like the
alleged murderer on the Denver sixteenth Street Mall. This deranged

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alleged man made untoward statements towards two of the women.
My son did what most normal men do and protected them.
Deranged guy then challenged my son, who felt threatened by
deranged guy. The deranged guy back down I'm proud of
my son, but I sure don't want him to die
for failed policies. What does our weak governing whips do

(28:43):
receive greater wages every year because they are not accountable? Ever,
California is burning. Perhaps it will have a silver lining
and burn out the overgrowth of unwanted and destructive behaviors.
What will it take in Denver say no to destructive government?
That from David, I'll tell you what it's gonna take

(29:04):
in Denver. It's gonna take a really compelling independent candidate
who can clearly articulate that public safety must be before
all else it's not compassionate. Public safety is not a
compassionate thing unless you're the one on the wrong side
of it. Right then you're wondering where your compassion is. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Mandy,

(29:33):
What to Comedy Works on Saturday? Had prepaid parking. We
couldn't get to because the road was closed for the stabbing,
asked the cop where to go, and your other text
didn't come through texture, So I don't know what that
last part is. Anyway, it doesn't matter. We're shifting gears
when we get back. I don't know if you heard,
but just for the stock Show. One of my listeners
re recorded our theme song with a country vibe. We're

(29:56):
not only gonna hear it, We're gonna talk to him
next right after this, sad Babe. This is the stock

(30:25):
show version of the theme song that we will use
every year going forward as the Stalk Show takes hold
in Colorado. And joining me now is the guy who
went into his basement, Justin Renault and recorded this song. Now,
is that you on the steel guitar, Justin?

Speaker 9 (30:42):
You know we can get into the steel guitar. That's
not But first off, thank you for having me. I
can't believe I'm here right now.

Speaker 4 (30:49):
Well, I'm excited to meet you and and Justin. If
you guys could see him, you would see he's got
a very fancy microphone. You play a lot of music,
but this isn't like what.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
You do for a living.

Speaker 7 (30:59):
It's not you know. I kind of worry doing music
professionally might make it a little less fun.

Speaker 10 (31:05):
I do.

Speaker 7 (31:06):
I just I love doing it for for the passion
behind it.

Speaker 9 (31:10):
That being said, you know, you never know what the
future may hold, you know, Usually Mandy, this time of day,
I'm sitting in my truck eating my lunch listening to
your show and.

Speaker 7 (31:20):
Now I'm on the show, so well he knows.

Speaker 4 (31:22):
Yeah, a guy can dream. So tell me about when
you started in music. First of all, when did you
start playing? Was it something you've always done?

Speaker 2 (31:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (31:31):
Yeah, at a young age. My my grandfather played guitar
and he kind of showed me the ropes. And really
most musicians will tell you it's a it's a lifelong
passion and journey and a relationship that you have with music.
And so that's always been, you know, part of my identity.
But I haven't really found a way to, you know,
turn it into a profession, so to speak. But really

(31:53):
all my life just playing in local bands and stuff
and now here we are.

Speaker 4 (31:56):
Well, I want to commend to you on the quality
of this. First of all, how did you create the
stock show version of the Mandy Connell theme?

Speaker 9 (32:03):
Well, you know, I remember when you first got your
theme song, and I was I was kind of like,
wait a minute, you mean to tell me you can
just record a theme song for your because my understanding
was that was listener submitted.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (32:16):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (32:16):
Yeah, it was raight. It was submitted by a guy
named Ty who made it using AI and he wrote
the lyrics but used AI to make the music and everything.
And I was just like what again, like you, I
was like, I didn't even know you could do that,
But he gave his permission to use it, so now
it is a part of the show.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (32:34):
Well see, I didn't know it was AI.

Speaker 9 (32:35):
I first heard it and I thought it was another
guy like me who recorded it in his basement. And
I thought, you mean to tell me you can record
a theme song for your favorite talk show host and
just email it to them and then they'll play it forever,
you know, immortalizing you and the lore and the culture
of the Mandy Connall Show forever.

Speaker 7 (32:51):
And I was like, oh man, he beat me to it.

Speaker 9 (32:54):
So when I knew this stock show was coming, I
was like, maybe this is my chance to do the
country version of what are we gonna call it?

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Rule in the Day? Yeah, there you go, Rule in
the Day.

Speaker 4 (33:04):
That's a great country music song. Actually title so is
country music the genre that you prefer nowadays? It is?

Speaker 9 (33:12):
But it's funny because it's a new thing for me,
to be totally honest. I'm born and raised in Aurora, Colorado,
so it's.

Speaker 7 (33:20):
Not very rural and I'll be honest, when you listen
to the song, I didn't know you were going to
have me on.

Speaker 9 (33:26):
I thought I could be an anonymous country voice, so
I really turned up the country twang on.

Speaker 7 (33:32):
My voice, thinking, you know, maybe people will just think
this is who I am. But truthfully speaking, you know,
I'm not a country boy. I just love country music.

Speaker 4 (33:40):
I love country music because at this joketure, like this
moment in time especially, and it's always been this way
for me, it's the most Americana form of music right.
And don't get me wrong, there are other American forms
of music. Jazz is a specifically American form of music,
Blues is a specifically American form of music, but I
put the country music in the Americana version because, especially

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in radio, if you know the history of radio, including
KOA Radio, it was built on the backs of these
families that came in to the studio and they played
country and Western music and that's what built radio stations.
So it's also the most pro American form of music
out there and feels the most patriotic so often. So

(34:24):
that's why I love it. And I was thrilled to
get this version of your song. Now Justin and I
were talking before he came on the air, and he said, Manny,
I've done a little bit of a parody song. Can
I do it now? He did a parody song that
is a parody of a commercial that is despised by
most and I'm not even gonna give the name, but

(34:44):
it sounds like Mars for kids. Okay, but here's the deal, Justin,
I don't want to play it on the air because
I've been ravel rousing about that particular commercial for so long.
I don't want to bring anything down on my head.
But you put that on social media and I will
be more than happy to share it across all of
my platforms because I really want to hear it.

Speaker 11 (35:04):
I really want to hear it.

Speaker 7 (35:05):
I can't wait to share it with you.

Speaker 9 (35:07):
I had my guitar and my harmonica ready to go,
so that'll just be a teaser for us and we
can we can.

Speaker 7 (35:14):
You know, I'll be happy to share that version with
you and not get you in any any kind of trouble.

Speaker 5 (35:19):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (35:19):
Do you too have a love for the harmonica like
our friend Jimmy Singenburger does.

Speaker 9 (35:24):
I sure do, But I mean I don't hold a
candle to Jimmy's playing, and so you know, maybe maybe I.

Speaker 7 (35:30):
Could collaborate with him down the road.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
But I thought of him.

Speaker 7 (35:34):
I was like, man, I need Jimmy on this one.

Speaker 4 (35:36):
You need a little backup harmonica on this song. No,
I loved it justin. I can't tell you much I
appreciated it. You send me that parody song and we
will make sure it gets heard.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
We will make sure.

Speaker 9 (35:48):
But please, do you know, and and you know, kind
of going back to this not being my profession, I did.
I did think, you know, I can't let this opportunity
of being on Mandy Show, you know, pass me by.
So I did make a website where you can actually
listen to the Mandy Connor theme, so you can download it.

Speaker 7 (36:04):
For free there.

Speaker 9 (36:05):
The website is Colorado justin dot com, so pretty simple.
But please also email me. You know, I do want
to start a band, and it's not quite probably as
country as as what you're hearing, but I'm a songwriter
as well. I've got you know, probably eight nine songs.
I want to do an album. I want to put
a band together. So if you want to collaborate, please

(36:25):
go to Colorado justin dot com and let's get this
show on the road.

Speaker 4 (36:29):
And I think if it was all Mandy Connor listeners,
you can name the band the right stuff. I'm just
throwing that out there. I'm just throwing it out there.
Justin Renau, thank you so much for your time and
the song is fantastic. I will put your website on
the blog as soon as I get done talking to
you right now, and then people can reach out to
you if they want to get together and play some
music with you. I appreciate it, man.

Speaker 7 (36:48):
Thanks so much for sharing it.

Speaker 9 (36:50):
It was so much fun to make and the reason
I made it was because I'm a huge fan first.
So keep up the great Your show is awesome. We
love it, Mandy.

Speaker 7 (36:58):
To talk to you soon.

Speaker 4 (36:59):
It's a mutual wide ration society. Justin, I appreciate you
all right.

Speaker 7 (37:02):
Well, God bless you, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (37:03):
How great? Thank you Justin. That's Justin Renault. I'll get
his website up right now. We'll be right back.

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Speaker 4 (37:35):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show.
And this past Friday, I was perusing x dot com
and I saw on the daily Wires x Speed that
they were making available their latest documentary for free on
X this past weekend. And guys, I'm so sorry. If
I'd seen it before the show was over on Friday,

(37:57):
I would have let you know. I did post about
it on Facebook and Twitter so you could go watch
it for free. The new movie is called Identity Crisis,
and it addresses the phenomena of D transitioners, and D
transitioner is someone who has begun the process of switching
genders and then decided at some point, for a variety

(38:18):
of reasons, that they did not want to go forward
with this. And in this film they interview multiple people
who were transitioned and regretted it later and have now
de transitioned. And this is a bigger part of the
conversation in my mind when it comes to gender firming
care for children. And I want to be clear about this.

(38:40):
If you're an adult and you decide to change your gender,
I wish you well. I hope it makes you happy
and brings you joy and all of that good stuff.
I no issues whatsoever. Pursue whatever you want to pursue.
Go crazy. For me, it is that children who cannot
sign a contract, get a credit card, get a tattoo,

(39:02):
drive a car, any of these things are being allowed
to make permanent, life altering physical decisions at a very
young age, well before they can even remotely understand what
that means. And after I saw the film, I posted
about it again and Christian Toto waited in and was like, ahem,
I talked to one of the guys working on this film,

(39:24):
and I went back and watched your interview, And now
Christian has joining me to talk about it. Our man
Hollywood and Toto is his website, it is his podcast.
It is all about the entertainment industry, film and television
from a right leaning perspective. But Christian, you actually interviewed
this guy, and that interview I think was I think
it should be required watching after you watch the film,

(39:45):
because in and of itself is illuminating. So, first of all,
welcome back to the show.

Speaker 10 (39:51):
No thanks for having me back. You know, I'm happy
to talk about this movie and the conversation. And at
the same time, I feel I feel a little nervous
about talking about this because it's so off limits in
a way to defy the narrative in this regard to
one of the reasons why I think the film is
so important because it pushes past us and said, listen,
we need to talk about this.

Speaker 11 (40:12):
So yeah, I talked to James Lindsay, who's.

Speaker 10 (40:15):
A pretty critical player in this space, in this argument,
in this arena, and he was pretty blunt about that,
you know why he joined the movie and some of
his thoughts, and you really have to see the whole
film itself to kind of get the grasp and the
flow of it. But this is something we should be
debating in the open, in public. There should be multiple
voices in this situation. And the fact that even detransitioners

(40:37):
are rarely heard. Do they ever get interviewed in the
mainstream press?

Speaker 2 (40:41):
I suspect not.

Speaker 10 (40:43):
I think that's another just a terrible fallout from what's
going on and sort of the boundaries being put on
this debate.

Speaker 4 (40:50):
Well, and what's interesting is that I thought about this
last night as I was saying, this movie just stuck
with me, and I'm going to tell you something about
one of the things that a dear friend is on
the left set about this film because I think it's
important going forward. But something occurred to me about this movie.
And if you watch What Is a Woman? The Matt
Walsh documentary also put out by The Daily Wire, and

(41:12):
then you watch Identity Crisis, you are seeing the opposite
sides of the coin of trans healthcare that if you
watch these two films, and in Matt's documentary, he spoke
with people who are actively in the medical field doing
gender affirming care, so you hear from the medical professionals.

(41:32):
And one of the things that Matt does so brilliantly
is he just lets people talk, right, He doesn't argue
with them, he doesn't yell at them. He just asks
them a question and then lets him talk. And when
you hear from their perspective, and now you see the
other side of the coin from people who were either

(41:53):
rushed into transition or the most heartbreaking a former transman
she has now reverted back to being a female. When
she said she was suicidal as a teenager the day
she was getting a double miasectomy and they did it anyway.
That one I was like, wait a minute, what is

(42:13):
happening within our medical community? Christian, and I think to
your point, they're even more scared than we are to
talk about this.

Speaker 10 (42:23):
Yeah, I don't blame them, because there are there's blowback
if you take the wrong review. You know, part of
the issue that we don't get to hear about that
much is the kaching. This is a lot of money
for the medical community, and from one to understand. I
don't know if this is completely true, but part at
least partially true. They're creating lifelong patients in a way
who will need all the medications, the treatments, the upkeep

(42:46):
sort of speak physically to stay healthy for the rest
of their lives. It's so it's so important to explore
this issue and to let these people have their say
and yeah, the regret that they face and listen, there
may be people who go through the surgery and then
they end up being completely happy. I don't deny that
at all. But we need to have the full spectrum
of opinions on this, and we just don't. But I

(43:09):
think we're moving out of this area thankfully, where now
we can talk about things. Now we can joke about things.
Actress Justin Bateman famously said, I feel like I can
breathe again. I'm not walking on eggshells, you know, with
the Trump election, and it's not about Trumpet's about this
sort of shift in the culture. These are profound situations
we're dealing with. These are kids, this is their future,

(43:31):
and the fact that we can't have a debate in
the public space is exasperating. Why do we need an
upstart movie studio in Daily Wire to make this movie?
Other people should be making it. It should be on
Netflix right now. But you know we would never It'll
never land there, right And that's unfortunate.

Speaker 4 (43:46):
I mean, that's like I said, I feel like this
is the perfect companion piece to what is a woman
because it gives you both sides of this gender affirming
care coin. Let me share with you the conversation that
I had with my one of my dearest best friends
has been since childhood. She leans left and I usually
go to her and say, will you look at this

(44:07):
or will you, you know, give me your opinion because
I know that she's going to give it a thoughtful
opinion from the left. And I said, she's also a therapist,
And I said, you need to watch this film, Like
I don't ever say you need to watch this film.
But you're a therapist, right, you need to understand what's happening.
So she watched the film. To her credit, she watched
the film and her biggest takeaway was the film discredits

(44:29):
itself in my mind, because they essentially portray doctors and
people that are in this industry as evil. And she
didn't like that, and I thought to myself, and we
actually talked about this. She said, you know, I realized
it was very biased. And I said to her very frankly,
if I excluded biased material from my life, there would

(44:51):
be nothing left.

Speaker 5 (44:52):
Right.

Speaker 4 (44:52):
You have to understand that I deal with this every
single day of my life, and I'm still doing it. Right,
I'm still reading and I'm still consuming. I just know
where the bio this comes from. So use that filter.
Go Okay, this is biased in this direction, but there's
great information in there. And now we're kind of having
a back and forth about how persistent or how many
people actually detransition. And there's not a lot of real

(45:15):
scientific literature on this because a lot of times when
people decide to stop transitioning, they just stop and leave
their health provider behind, right because why go back? They
don't want to be shamed for detransitioning. There's a lot
of nonsense around this that needs to scientifically be looked at.
That's the frustrating part. The science doesn't back this stuff

(45:38):
up for kids at all. And that is one of
the things that I took away from this film. What
do you think was the most either shocking or illuminating
part for you?

Speaker 10 (45:50):
You know, I've been reading up on this a lot,
so I don't think there were a lot of shocking
revelations here.

Speaker 11 (45:56):
Just in to confirm what I've read. A couple quick thoughts.

Speaker 10 (45:59):
One is I don't think your friend's response is fair
because I mean, I think you.

Speaker 11 (46:05):
Could argue that some of these doctors are well intentioned.

Speaker 10 (46:07):
Some of these doctors haven't read the contrary points of view,
so you know, it's like saying, oh, my democratic friend
is evil or wrong. No, maybe he or she doesn't
have all the information, or maybe he or she is
not processing it properly. I don't think I don't think
the film is saying you're evil, but certainly casting blame
on this whole landscape and you know, letting people know

(46:28):
what's going on. I understand the bias angle as well.
This is a very one sided presentation, no doubt at all.

Speaker 11 (46:37):
But you also have to look at who's speaking, what
they're saying.

Speaker 10 (46:40):
And finally, you know, when it comes to these conversations,
I'm very suspicious when one side says quiet, shut up,
go away, or will punish you if you share an
opposing point of view and the other side saying, hey,
let me speak. I want to say something, right. I mean,
we've seen that on the free speech front, we're seeing
it here. How could you not be wildly suspicious of

(47:01):
people say I don't want to hear the other side. Well,
it sounds like a terrible point of view. It also
sounds like you don't have confidence in your in your perspective.

Speaker 4 (47:08):
Well, and ultimately she is now doing a deeper dive,
which is really what these documentaries are about. And to
the notion that this is a one sided documentary, of
course it is because the other side's been presented over
and over and over and over again, so of course
it's going to be contrarian. My question for you overall, Christian,

(47:29):
because you're covering all aspects of what's happening in Hollywood
right now, I want to take this in a different
direction instead of just talking about this film. Yeah, watching
what's happening in California right now, and now you're having
celebrities come out, and not just Dean Kine, Okay, not
just your standard right wing celebrities. You're having Chloe Kardashian
call out the mayor of Los Angeles. You're having celebrities

(47:52):
call out Gavin Newsom, You're having celebrities call out Democratic leadership.
You mentioned before we were that it feels like things
are starting to shift. What are you seeing in the
landscape prior to the fires that you were seeing a
little bit of a shift, And do you think the
disaster that is unfolding in California could push that a

(48:14):
little bit more?

Speaker 10 (48:18):
Well, the shift I was seeing was where President Electrump
is not the monster, the boogeyman, where you could have
a celebrity like Sylvester Stallone, who is aggressively a political
and has been for decades, coming out in support of
him and not.

Speaker 11 (48:30):
Fearing for his career. But I think what we're seeing
now is that when it comes to disastrous.

Speaker 10 (48:35):
Policies, if you're on the left and you vote for
the new Sumbers of the world, you can insulate yourself.

Speaker 11 (48:41):
You can say listen.

Speaker 10 (48:41):
I'm sure taxes are high, prices are high, gases high,
inflation is high.

Speaker 11 (48:46):
But you know what, I'm pretty well off.

Speaker 5 (48:47):
I can. I can.

Speaker 11 (48:49):
I could withstand the slings and arrows there well.

Speaker 10 (48:52):
When your home is burning on the ground and you
learn about the serial incompetence, Yeah, one party, one rule
has a.

Speaker 11 (49:00):
You can't dodge that anymore. At some point you have
to wake up.

Speaker 10 (49:03):
And you know, I'm surprised it hasn't happened sooner across
the urban landscape where crime is rising, drugs are rising,
illegal immigrations causing problems, and the people living in those
cities say, yeah, we're gonna kee voting for the same
people that did it time and time again.

Speaker 4 (49:16):
I mean, look at that thin When is it enough?
It's like Denver right now. I mean this morning, we've
already started talking. Two people got murdered on the sixteenth
Street mall this weekend. At what point do Denver say enough,
We've had enough. We want a leader that puts public
safety first before everything else until that's solved. It's very
very similar and very very disheartening.

Speaker 6 (49:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (49:39):
You know, when if you see someone who's been red
pilled for lack of a better phrase. It's often because
the situation has touched them directly. Yep, Adam doctor Drew Pinsky,
He's watched the medical community say no, shut up, sit down,
don't have an opposing point of view. You can't argue
for this, And then he got red pilled. Jillian Michaels
applied for a job and they said, well, you're not
the right skin color for this particular g No matter

(50:00):
that you bring a wealth of expertise to the fitness world.
When people get directly impacted by it, all of a sudden,
they start to wake up.

Speaker 11 (50:07):
And I hate that that's the reality.

Speaker 10 (50:09):
But often you know, people are gonna have to come
face to face with what's going on to say, hey,
something is deeply wrong here. And I think one party
rule in any situation, left or right is disastrous.

Speaker 4 (50:20):
I agree with you on that. And this film, getting
back to Identity Crisis. The movie, by the way, you
can still see it at daily wire dot com. I
put a link to it, but now you got to
pay for it. So again, if I'd seen this on
Friday before the show was over, I would have shared
it with you guys, But I stumbled across it on
x dot com. Let me ask you about like distribution wise,
is this a good move for Daily Wire? Because this

(50:43):
is our what is a woman did really really well
for a documentary? Do you think this is to chin
up the kind of word of mouth that we're now
giving them right now on the radio by letting me
see it for free and now we're gonna come out
and talk about it more. This is a different strategy.

Speaker 10 (51:01):
Yeah, I mean this is a split strategy. It's for
free for three days. I think goes behind the paywall.
I understand whether the Daily Wire wants to put anything
behind the paywall. They've got to get subscribers. They've got
an app, you know, they've got a revenue base, they've
got to build up. It's it's just it's just survival
one oh one. But if you do want to impact
the culture and change hearts and minds on a grand scale,
you've got to let people see it in other means.

(51:21):
So putting it for free on X for a couple
of days was exactly that. And they just had am
I rating syst in theaters and it became the biggest
documentary hit the last decade, I believe.

Speaker 11 (51:30):
So I think there's got to be some.

Speaker 10 (51:34):
Compromise here where a company makes a film where they
need to make a profit, where they need to kind
of get subscribers.

Speaker 11 (51:39):
But also you can't just make this in a vacuum.

Speaker 10 (51:42):
You know, most Daily Wire subscribers will probably not along
as they watched this in horror, but many other people
wouldn't and they're the ones who really need to see it.

Speaker 4 (51:49):
That's I was talking to a friend of mine about
this different friend of mine about this, and she said,
are they going to try and get it on other
streaming platforms? And I said, I have no idea about
what their plans are in the future. But you're right
if you're just preaching to the choir, if you're only
talking to the membership that is paying the money for
your conservative website, or is it worth doing? Is it

(52:12):
worth doing long term? I'm with you. I would love
to see them. I mean, keep it behind to pay
well for six months, right, and then get it in
front of people, make it available for people.

Speaker 1 (52:21):
You know.

Speaker 4 (52:21):
Stephan Tubbs, my friend in yours, has done such a
phenomenal job making documentaries that are incredibly important. But Stefan
makes them free because it's not about making money for him.
It's about making sure that people can see what's going
on in these documentaries. And I'm hoping that the Daily
Wire keep it, you know, keep it back for six months,
do whatever you got to do. But then you've got

(52:44):
to let people see these movies. And if I were them,
I would start unting out theaters around the country and
doing a double feature of what is a Woman and
Identity Crisis. That would be I would sign up for that.
I mean, it's better than Barbenheimer, right Like, I would
totally do that. So that's what I'm hoping. So we
just need to get the word to the Daily Wire
about my strategy for them. I feel like it's a winner.

Speaker 10 (53:08):
Yeah, I agree, And you know this, this is just
an unfolding strategy for the Daily Wire and other platforms
are making this kind of counter culture are you know.

Speaker 11 (53:16):
By the way, one of the things I'm noticing is.

Speaker 10 (53:17):
That a lot of critics will avoid these films, not
review these films, not given the oxygen that they deserve.
I checked recently. I don't know if anyone has reviewed
Identity Crisis. I know when am I Racist? Came out,
the vast majority of film critics said, Nope, not going
to review it, not going to touch it, not going
to go near it, in part because that gives it publicity.
One of the reasons why publicists reach out to me

(53:40):
to have me see their films is because it's letting
people know the films exist, right, and if you don't
review the film, you're helping it get buried.

Speaker 11 (53:47):
And that's another part of this conversation, Tay.

Speaker 4 (53:50):
So hopefully we'll be able to see this film and
others because ultimately, and as I said before, for me,
this film is not about adults changing their gender. For me,
this is about the medical community who though and I'm
going to give him a grace on this, though I
do believe they are they think they are doing the
right thing. I think that the amount of money that

(54:12):
they are making from this allows them to be willfully
ignorant a little bit longer. And that's the distasteful part
for me, like if I were chopping off, how fond
oh go ahead.

Speaker 10 (54:24):
One of the things we didn't mention is that one
of the people in the film is Buck Angel, who
is a transman, has been trans for many many years now,
and he's against this situation, you know it really kind
of I mentioned this in my review, it cuts the
whole argument. This is just big a tree one on
one offut in these.

Speaker 4 (54:41):
Yeah, exactly. Christian Toto. You can find his work. I
put his interview where he includes the conversation with James Lindsay.
I put that on the blog today so people can
watch that. I watched it this morning. It's very good.
You can also find his work and movie reviews and
all kinds of stuff at Hollywood intoto dot com.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
We got to get you.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
You know.

Speaker 4 (55:00):
The Golden Globes just happened, and I had actually seen
some of the shows that were honored at the Golden Globes.

Speaker 5 (55:06):
I was shocked.

Speaker 4 (55:07):
I was shocked. Are they going to nominate films for
the Oscars that people have actually seen this time? That
would be neat.

Speaker 10 (55:17):
The pickens are this year are pretty indie, artsy exclusive. Okay,
so we'll have to wait and see. By the way,
those announcements have been just been delayed again. I think
January twenty third.

Speaker 4 (55:26):
Oh wild fires.

Speaker 11 (55:28):
Yeah, on the chaos in Hollywood.

Speaker 10 (55:30):
A real quick note, I am watching and loving Land Man.
It's on Paramount Plus. I have to just promote that
as much as I can. Billy Bob Thornton. It's a
spectacular series. If you get a chance to check that out,
please do.

Speaker 4 (55:41):
Did you see The Lioness? Did you watch lions as well?
Another tailor share it Enjoint.

Speaker 11 (55:44):
Oh that's next. I'm binging this right now.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
Let me just give you.

Speaker 4 (55:47):
I'll give you a little a little advice about The Lioness. Okay,
don't poke at the plot too much. Okay, don't poke
at it. Just lean in. Just just let the plot
be what it is. Okay, just like, just accept it.
It's outstanding. It's outstanding. But I have an issue with
Taylor shared. It's writing. We can talk about after you
watch it.

Speaker 11 (56:09):
Sounds good.

Speaker 4 (56:10):
That's Christian Toto. Find him at Hollywood in Toto both
the podcast and the website. Christian, We'll see again. So
sude my friend?

Speaker 10 (56:19):
Right?

Speaker 4 (56:19):
Thanks, all right, that's Christian Toto. Everybody, and uh, let's
do this. Let's take a very quick time out. I
uploaded justin if you heard our interview with the guy
who did the stock Show country version of my song.
I uploaded his website. So if you're interested in starting
a band with him, you can do that right there.

(56:39):
When we get back, though, I want to talk for
just a minute about a couple of things, one of
which is volunteer fire departments. Now, I know what you're thinking, Mandy. Really,
volunteer fire departments are critical across the across the rural

(57:02):
areas here in Colorado when it comes to fighting fires
and they are dying. I'll explain why next, What was
that noise you just told me? What did you just say?

Speaker 5 (57:13):
Just a little bit of breaking news.

Speaker 6 (57:19):
Thanks to our amazing, fantastic, epic and dedicated listeners of
The Mandy Connell Show, The Mandy Connell Show, Kieren Kowa
just hit five million lifetime downloads.

Speaker 5 (57:33):
Yeah how about that?

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And you guys, as fast as I can download them,
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(57:57):
And I can't even believe that that's insane.

Speaker 6 (58:01):
Five mili that's insane, five million downloads that's incredible.

Speaker 4 (58:06):
I have more breaking news, Ay, Rod, go ahead and
give me a breaking news sounder. Yep, yeah, breaking news.
Yesterday morning I went to King Soupers and the egg
the egg display was full. I figured I've been giving
so much crap about them being empty. It's just you know,
I will go ahead and give them credit. I got
up yesterday because we were out of eggs. I got

(58:27):
up yesterday at seven o'clock in the morning on Sunday
and was like, you know what, I'm going into early
King Soupers. I'm gonna get what you got. And they
were full full case. It was glorious.

Speaker 5 (58:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (58:38):
I remember when I told you that I got sixty
eggs for no sorry, yeah, sixty eggs for was it
thirty dollars?

Speaker 3 (58:45):
No?

Speaker 5 (58:45):
No, no, no, it was worse than that.

Speaker 6 (58:46):
It was sixty eggs now, yeah, sixty eggs for thirty dollars, right,
I think right?

Speaker 4 (58:52):
I think so well.

Speaker 6 (58:53):
I got thirty six eggs yesterday. Yeah, twenty one dollars.

Speaker 11 (58:58):
Nice?

Speaker 5 (58:59):
No, even more more, the.

Speaker 4 (59:01):
Great egg Apocalypse may be over.

Speaker 11 (59:02):
Worse.

Speaker 5 (59:03):
That's worse.

Speaker 4 (59:03):
Although, oh that's worse. Wait a minute, because they just
killed three million chickens in North Carolina because I got.

Speaker 5 (59:10):
Okay now and math is off. But that's that's worse.

Speaker 4 (59:13):
Well, I actually paid less. I got eighteen packs of
my Happy Eggs. They're normally like seven ninety nine for
an eighteen pack, and I got an eighteen pack yesterday
for eight forty nine. I will take it all day long,
all day long, I'll take it.

Speaker 2 (59:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (59:28):
So yeah, the first time, sixty eggs, I got the
big sixty egg bucks the flat Yeah, for thirty bucks.

Speaker 4 (59:36):
It was fifty cents an egg.

Speaker 5 (59:37):
Yeah, fifty cents.

Speaker 6 (59:38):
But yesterday twenty one dollars for almost like nearly half
that thirty six dollars.

Speaker 5 (59:46):
Now, thirty six eggs.

Speaker 6 (59:47):
For twenty one dollars. That is, to figure out how
much that is per egg, I think that's moor. Yeah, Mandy,
that's funny.

Speaker 4 (59:54):
I went to my chicken coup yesterday and it too
was full of you, smarty pants, smarty smart to go
into the party.

Speaker 5 (01:00:01):
That's hard.

Speaker 4 (01:00:02):
It is hard. That's why we're in radio.

Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
Anyway.

Speaker 4 (01:00:04):
I want to talk about volunteer fire departments, and I
know you're thinking, Mandy, wow, this is an exciting topic.
When I was a kid growing up in northern Florida.
We had a fire department for my hometown. Okay, but
where I'm from in Florida, it's very rural. There are
lots of counties that are very small and sparsely populated.

(01:00:25):
At least when I was growing up, there were sparsely
populated and they don't have the tax base to have
a full time fire department, so they would maybe have
a fire chief and one part time firefighter and then
the rest of it would be a volunteer fire department.
And I knew multiple guys in my senior class that
volunteered with a volunteer fire department. And they were all

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kids whose parents own farms. They were farm kids, right,
so they had this sense of responsibility. And I first
found out about volunteer fire departments in my senior year
when one of my one of my classmates walked up
in he had a pager. This is well before pagers
were really a thing, but he had like a like

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a kind of pager I don't even know what it
was now, and it went off and he went up
and told the teacher that he had to leave, and
he just left and he came back the next day.
I was like, dude, wait, to get out of class.
He's like, no, I had to go fight a fire.
And I went what, and he's like, yeah, I'm part
of the volunteer fire department. So volunteer fire departments have
been around since society was formed. In the United States

(01:01:28):
of America, having a professional fire department is a relatively
new development. By relatively new, I mean like one hundred
years kind of thing, one hundred and fifty years. So
they weren't always professional firefighters, and volunteers had to fill
the role. In a lot of places, especially rural places
in Colorado, still rely on a volunteer fire department, and

(01:01:49):
they're getting absolutely crushed by a couple.

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
Of things now.

Speaker 5 (01:01:52):
Some of them.

Speaker 4 (01:01:53):
I can't help them with the ownerous over regulation coming
from the federal department in the state and everything else.
I can't help them with that. But what striking is
fewer and fewer people are actually signing up to be
volunteer firefighters, and this goes to a bigger decline in
our society of people joining organizations. I read this, yes,

(01:02:16):
a couple days ago, and I have no idea what
article I was reading when I read this, but it
was an article about the decline of civic organizations. Now,
when I was a kid, everybody in my hometown was
either in Rotary or Lions Club, or they were part
of the Elks lodge. They all belonged to some sort
of civic organization. And every parade we had and every

(01:02:39):
civic event, they were all out there with man in
their booths and providing food and all this stuff, and
everybody was part of some sort of civic organization. And
now membership in those civic organizations has gone from like
seventy five or eighty percent at its height, down to
like twenty percent of people being engaged in one of

(01:03:00):
these civic organizations. And where we're here in a time
when young people especially are feeling sort of a drift.
They don't feel like they have purpose, they don't feel
like they're making a difference, they don't feel like they are,
you know, being heard or being a constructive part of

(01:03:21):
this world. What a perfect way to get them involved
have them go work for the volunteer fire department. If
you have a young person, male or female, guys, it
does not have to be just men. Fighting fires has
traditionally been a male job because of the physical requirements
for it, but there are ways to serve even if

(01:03:44):
you don't meet those physical requirements, because guess what, not
all guys are going to meet the physical requirements. One
of the things I'm staunchly against is any kind of
lowering of standards for firefighters because their job is so
physically hard. They have to wear incredibly heavy equipment, they've
got to carry incredibly heavy equipment, they have to carry

(01:04:05):
people out of buildings. But people can serve. And you know,
for the volunteer fire departments that are in these rural areas,
they're just running out of people because the young people
are leaving our rural areas because there's not a lot
of opportunity. And I get it. I left my hometown
because there wasn't a lot of opportunity. But I wonder how,

(01:04:28):
I mean, what could they do to inspire people to
want to be a part of these organizations, because without them,
it means that there's no one there, no one there.
If you're out on the planes and you're in an
accident on I seventy, some of these rural fire departments
are like, look, you know what, we can't afford to
service I seventy anymore because I seventy doesn't bring in

(01:04:48):
tax dollars, and I seventy crashes are a drain on
our resources. I don't doubt it for a second. And
I wouldn't blame if they just said, you know what,
from now on, we're just going to service our people
who live here. We're just going to respond and more
and more in rural communities, and specifically they use Elizabeth

(01:05:10):
as an example, and Elizabeth is a great example. Although
Elizabeth is growing, it leaps and bounds right now. It
is like so much growth in Elizabeth, but they have
an aging population and a vast majority of their calls
for service are medical related. So it's just a really
difficult situation. And it's something that I wish if young

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people are looking for a way to make a difference,
look into becoming a volunteer firefighter. Somebody just pointed out
Rinna Horne. We talked to her last week. She wants
to be chair of the GOP. She is a volunteer firefighter.
She's I love Bretta, I really do this. One said,
volunteer fire department is great until you have to pull
a body out of it, out of a septic tank. Yeah, yep, yep, yep.

(01:05:58):
Mandy you were talking about valllunteer fire departments. Check out
a Rapa hoose rescue patrol all high school students. That's excellent.
Until about two thousand and three, the Aravada Fire Department
was all volunteering, was the nation's largest volunteer fire department. Now, Arvada,
I'm guessing has enough funding because funding for fire departments

(01:06:19):
comes from property taxes, and when you're out in a
rural area, you don't have the same density that you
have in a city, and it gets really hard to
go back to those sane people who are already paying
all the property taxes and saying we need you to you,
we need you to pay more. Mandy, when I first
started dating my wife in nineteen ninety, we've been married

(01:06:40):
for thirty three years now. Her little brother just started
as a volunteer fireman for the Arvada Department. He advanced
his career and became chief of the department. Some of
my favorite people in my lifetime are firefighters. First of all,
let's just be real. Firefighting that is a manly job,

(01:07:00):
and I mean man manly job, and that, my friends,
is attractive. I'm just saying you, ever wonder I saw
something on X yesterday that it's hilarious and I'm gonna
ask a rod if it's true. It has to do
with the way men think, the way men are wired.
I feel like I've been handed the keys to the
kingdom on this one. I'll explain after this. Over the weekend,

(01:07:22):
I was perusing X and I saw a video on
X dot com and it's a woman just saying, ladies,
here's all you need to know about men. And in it,
she posits that if you want your man to be happy,
understand that men love quests. Okay, and the examples that

(01:07:43):
she's given are very simple. She says, Look when your
man says hey, When you say hey, could you get
me a glass of water and the man's like, yes,
let me do it, that is a quest. Right doing
something for your girlfriend or spouse that involves going and
doing something to make them happy. That is your own
little version of a quest. Now it's a much longer video,

(01:08:03):
it's I retweeted it on X dot com, But ultimately
it comes down to this. Men love to feel like
they are accomplishing something that makes their loved one happy.
How much stuff do you do for your wife? Little things?
I'm not talking about grandiose things like how much stuff
do you do around the house for her? And it's
as small as when Chuck gets up when we're watching television.

(01:08:27):
He says, do you need anything? And I say, could
I have glass water or whatever? He's like, yes, I'll
take care of it. That's a little mini quest. So
how much of those how much time do you spend
doing little quests that really are just designed to make
your wife happy?

Speaker 6 (01:08:40):
As much as I can exactly if you use the
word quest, it's more likely I'm going to do it
because I'm a nerd and I think a lot of
guys are nerds, and to be put on a quest, yeah,
like as long as there's you know, a golden chalice
at the end, or gratitude or gratitude.

Speaker 5 (01:08:54):
Yeah, yeah, so golden chalice in some Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:08:56):
And her point in this, after breaking it down and
giving multiple examples of men going on quest, was that women,
you are responsible for appreciating the quest. Yes, right, You
are responsible for saying, wow, thank you so much. I
really appreciate that. That is one of the things both
Chuck and I both do. When I do something for him,
he shows appreciation. He doesn't just take it for granted,

(01:09:19):
and when he does something for me, I show appreciation.
And you, guys, it's so easy to be kind and
polite to the person that you are supposed to be
in love with. Whenever I see a couple and they
don't show any kindness towards basic just cut basic kindness
towards towards someone else. When someone does something, goes on

(01:09:40):
a minor quest and gets nothing from their spouse. Have
you ever seen this where somebody says, can you get
me a glass of water? And they walk up the
water and they just take the water out of their
hand and don't even acknowledge it. Now you've not acknowledged
the quest, and you're not being a good mate. I mean,
there's so many little things you can do to make
your relationship happier, and if you do nothing else, just

(01:10:01):
be kind to one another. If you and your spouse
are having a rough patch and I don't know anybody
who's been married any length of time that has not
had a rough patch, or you're sniping at each other
and you're, you know, just getting on each other's nerves.
You all know what I'm talking about. Just look at
your spouse and say, you know, what I know that
we're having a little bit of a weird thing. We're

(01:10:22):
not connecting right. Things are you know, a little crazy.
Let's just start by being basically kind to one another,
by being appreciative of one another. And when you do
something for me, even if it's you do all the time,
I'm gonna say thank you, and I'm just gonna let
you know how much I appreciate all the little things
you do to make my life better. I'm telling you
it will change the dynamic in the relationship if both

(01:10:44):
of you do it. If only one of you agrees
to be kind and the other one is not, then
you're stuck in a dynamic that is not the best.
But I loved her perspective that men just need quests,
and they don't have to be big and noble quests.
They just need to be a quest. And here's the thing.
Men don't like quests that they didn't want. If your

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man is comfortably sitting on the couch doing something he enjoys,
watching TV, watching football, looking at his phone, and all
of a sudden you want to shove a quest onto him, Hey, bib,
can you go get my car washed? That is terrible
and he's not going to like that quest. But if
a man offers to do something for you, it's because
he's looking for a quest. The key is to communicate

(01:11:28):
which quests are actually helpful and other quests that are
maybe not as desirable as others. I just I love
the whole concept. And there was a lot of guys
underneath her video going, oh my god, I just learned
more about myself in this video than I've learned in
the last thirty years. And I was like, right on, dude.
So if you want a happy marriage, be kind to

(01:11:50):
one another and let your husband do quests and then
appreciate them. I'm not saying it's that simple, but that's
a big part of it.

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Speaker 4 (01:12:24):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the third hour of the show.
Lots of you wait in on the men loving quest thing,
and some of these are really really funny. Uh Man,
As a man, I can tell you how we're wired
women food, women, food, et cetera. Yeah, Kina, kinda let

(01:12:46):
me see. Let me find this one. Here's one. I
make sure her car is warm every morning before she
leaves to work. I carry her luncheon bag out there
to give her a hug and whisper a little something
into her ear. Sir, you are getting it right, Mandy.
I've said for a long time, if you haven't plotted
your spouse's murder, you're not really married. And I've told
this story on the air before where I used to

(01:13:07):
sell insurance, told people I was a licensed health life,
long term care and Medicare supplement insurance agent, and I
would sit in these people's houses that have been married
like sixty years, and I'd always ask, what's the secret
to your long marriage? And the men would laugh and
they'd say, oh, you got to learn how to say yes, dear,
or something like that. And then the men would leave
the room and the women would go, you have to

(01:13:29):
understand you're gonna lie in bed and plot his murder
for sometimes years at a time, but it goes away.
It just gotta stick with it, it goes away. I
took that to heart. One text I want to share
about the current situation with firefighters in Colorado is very interesting.

(01:13:50):
Check this out, this texter says. He said, check this out.
I chose the job as a firefighter going into the
Air Force, specifically to leave the Air Force fully trained
to still have the job that I in the civilian sector.
Very good plans, sir, Very good plan. He continues. I'm
a Colorado native and it always planned to move to Colorado.
After my military contract, I started to apply for civilian

(01:14:12):
firefighting positions, and lo and behold, every department said I
was not qualified. I attended Lewis Apgarland Fire Academy, also
known as the DoD Fire Academy, which is widely considered
to be a top tier government fire academy. The only
reason I'm not quote qualified is because my training and
certifications are DoD Department of Defense and not Colorado's certifications.

(01:14:37):
I maintain a higher level of training, licenses, and certifications
than the average four year civilian firefighter. Moral of the story,
Colorado would have more firefighters if they allowed DoD firefighters
to join once they finished their military contracts. God, you're
absolutely right. That would help. Somebody asked do women have
versions of quests? Yes, they do, but they all involve shopping.

(01:15:02):
I would say this, Men love quests, women love nests, right,
and that is a stereotypical sentence, but I stand behind it.
Women love to nest and make a happy home, and
that's how we show our love. You get home and
there's dinner there and your house is relatively tidy. That

(01:15:23):
is your wife showing you love, just letting you know,
want to keep your spouse. Don't get ugly. H yeah,
but don't we all.

Speaker 10 (01:15:34):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:15:34):
One of the great things about getting older together with
your spouse. Their eyesight goes at about the same time
yours is, so they can't even see the wrinkles. It's
really glorious. I mean, I'm relatively certain that when Chuck
doesn't have his glasses on, I'm not even sure it's
me right, Like he could be like, I'm gonna hang
out with my new girlfriend, take his glasses off and
bought a bing Bata boom. It's ready to go, all right.

(01:15:55):
So I've got a story and I've talked about it
a little bit. But you guys, this trial with CNN.
CNN is being sued by a veteran who his name
is Zachary Young, and Zachary Young got out of the
military and went into business as a contractor, specifically helping

(01:16:18):
people get out of Afghanistan. Okay, now, this is after
the Taliban took over, and getting out of Afghanistan isn't
as simple as hopping on a bus and getting out
of Afghanistan. It required a very specific kind of planning,
it required payoffs to different people. It's just very complicated
to get people out of Afghanistan. And this guy had

(01:16:40):
been working with another company doing this job.

Speaker 5 (01:16:44):
Right, So.

Speaker 4 (01:16:48):
CNN did a story where they absolutely blasted this guy.
Blasted this guy and basically implied that he was extorting
money from people who are desperate to get out of Afghanistan,
that he was breaking the law, which his contract with
the company he was working with very clearly said you

(01:17:08):
must follow all the laws pertaining to this, and he did,
and in doing so, they really created a lot of
problems for this guy, and he sued them, and it's
finally happening right now. The trial is happening at this
very moment, and it is not going well for CNN.
One of the hardest things to prove in a defamation
case is malice, meaning that you have to prove that

(01:17:32):
whoever defamed you did so with malicious intent, and that
is always incredibly difficult to figure out if you are
suing someone for defamation. It's the hardest thing to prove,
but CNN has made it so easy, according to messages
that have now been introduced in court. By the way,

(01:17:54):
this trial is taking place in Bay County in Florida,
that is part of Florida's pan Handle, which is extremely
conservative and Trump country one hundred percent, So I believe
that they probably have if it is a jury trial,
and I don't know. I think it is a jury trial,
not a bench trial. But they don't have any love

(01:18:15):
for CNN already CNN. CNN A senior a CNN employee,
referred to this Navy veteran as being a S word
in messages uncovered in the lawsuit. The trial came about
after Young appeared in a Jake Tepper segment in November

(01:18:36):
of twenty twenty one that he says destroyed his reputation.
CNN smeared him by implying that he was illegally profiting
from helping people flee Afghanistan, and more and more messages
have come out. There is a person named Tom Hogan
he's an editor and Elizabeth Wolfe, she was a reporter

(01:18:56):
at the network. The two in these messages called Hogan
multiple names. Wolfe wrote, Wow, this dude is promising them
legal status or refugee status. Yeah, he is a blank.
Hogan worked as a fact checker at the time when
the story aired, and messages uncovered between mister Hogan and

(01:19:18):
Tom Lumley, an editor, showed the pair discussed a digital
version of the story and they decided not to publish
the digital version. In response to that, Hogan wrote, feels
like a good character, but he only got three quarters
of the way through the toward the larger Every story

(01:19:39):
can be longer, talking about the reporter. He then went
on to approve the story, even though the digital editors
had said it was two weak to move forward with.
Evidence in the case also included text messages from the
network's journalist who describe Young as a blank bag and
an a hole, along with a text that said, we're

(01:20:02):
gonna nail this mffor all of these things prove malice.
This is he's suing for a billion dollars, you guys. No,
he's not gonna get a billion dollars. But could he
get enough to put the final nail in the coffin
of CNN. They have no viewers, they have expensive payroll.

(01:20:24):
At some point it's got to give. I don't know
if this is going to be it, but yeah, watch
this trial. It is very, very very interesting. When we
get back. Hamas has the power to end the war
with Israel. Today, I'll tell you about that. Next. Hamas
has a deal to end the war in Israel. A

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three stage deal to release the hostages held by Hamas,
Terras and Gaza has been reached and parties are awaiting
Hamas's response. The deal was reached after a midnight breakthrough
in talks attended by envoys of both show, who no
one listened to. I added that part and Donald Trump,
who everyone paid attention to. I added that part two.

(01:21:07):
The official said the text for a ceasefire release of
hostages was presented by Cutter to both sides in talks
at Doha, which included the chiefs of Israel's Masade and
Shinnbat spy agencies and Cutter's Prime minister. The official said
that the envoy who is there when Trump returns to office,
attended the talks and the next twenty four hours say,

(01:21:30):
officials will be pivotable, pivotal to reaching a deal. So
if anybody tells you that Israel is at fault for
continuing to vigorously defend themselves, we'll mind them that a
mosque could have ended this war a long time ago.
All they have to do is release the hostages. Just

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not that hard, not that hard at all.

Speaker 2 (01:21:58):
So we'll see.

Speaker 4 (01:22:00):
By the way, he has a new leader. So I
don't know who'd want that gig, because you know that
already Israel's like, oh yeah, Mohammed an War. Sin War's
brother has now stepped up to to run Hamas, And
I'm thinking, well, that's got you right there on the

(01:22:21):
wall of the IDF to make you feel uncertain. Since
the death of Y'ah sin War's in a beautiful drone strike,
as Trump would say, Hamas is now being run by
his brother, Mohammed Mohammed Sinhar, and he's trying to rebuild

(01:22:45):
the Milicin group back up, just trying to rebuild it. Now,
we've got a new generation of young men in Gaza
that will probably want to fight Israel because Israel has
destroyed Gaza. But I think it will do well to
remind them over an over again, that if they attack
Israel one more time, we're going to do this all again.
Any Palestinian deaths that happened from today on, actually, let

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me rephrase that, more Palestinian deaths will be on Hamas's head,
because all these Palestinian people who have been killed in
this war would be alive had Hamas not decided to
launch a brutal, disgusting, barbaric attack against innocent civilians in
Israel on October seventh. But they did, and they didn't

(01:23:28):
care about the outcome. Although I've been reading more and
more analysis from people who cover the Middle East studiously.
I cover it casually, they cover it studiously.

Speaker 10 (01:23:39):
And.

Speaker 4 (01:23:41):
It seems that Hamas did not get the go ahead
from Iran before launching those attacks on October seventh, and
leadership in Hamas really believed that once they attacked Israel,
then Hesbalah was going to go ahead and arm up
and roll into Israel from the north, and then a
Ron was gonna send weapons and they were going to

(01:24:02):
destroy Israel as we knew it. Only Iran was like
nuh uh, and Hesbula was like, oh, we'll throw some
rockets over there, but we don't really want to We're
not gonna, like you know, do that, We're not gonna
go in there. And they hung a moss out to dry.
I couldn't be happier about that. So it remains to
be seen what happens here. But as I said, even

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more civilian deaths will be on Hamas's head if they
don't accept this deal and release the hostages. It really
is that simple. When people talk about the complexity of
the Middle East, it is complex, but there's no complexity
about this. The complexity ends when the hostages are released.
You want to stop fighting, you want to stop getting
people killed, release the hostages. It's there's ah, there you go.

(01:24:49):
We'll see if they're smart enough to figure that out.
I don't know if they are. A couple things when
we get back. Number one, great column by Dick Wadhams
about the on going Malfeasan's by Dave Williams and the
leadership of the Colorado Republican Party. They are about to
try and change the Colorado bylaws to exclude Colorado Republicans

(01:25:11):
who have actually gotten elected here from being able to
vote in the Central Committee. And that's beyond absurd. We'll
talk about that next we got noticed by Barrett Media.
Barrett Media is kind of a radio industry website. They
talk about news in the industry and everything. Jason Barrett
has done a phenomenal job filling a void that was

(01:25:34):
left by another publication that stopped publicizing. But they just
named Colorado's KOA you may have heard of it, were
the number thirteen radio station in the country for news talk,
according to Barrett Media. And I have to agree with him.
Thank you, Jason. It's a nice fellow too.

Speaker 10 (01:25:51):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:25:52):
I just look, ay Rod, do we have that dead
horse so I can beat it one more time about
the Colorado Republican Party. Drag it out. The just drag
out the dead horse. So in March there will be
elections for new leadership of the Colorado Republican Party. And
Dick Wadhams has written yet another scorcher about the malfeasans

(01:26:14):
of the current leadership. And I said this today on
the blog, and I mean this. If Democrats decided to
engage in some school duggery in Colorado and they got in,
you know, behind closed doors in a smoke filled room,
and decided how to destroy the Colorado Republican Party, this
is what they should see. This is what they they

(01:26:35):
would say. They would say, you know what, we need
to find someone who says all the right maga things
and says all the right you know, little little catchphrases
and claims to love freedom and liberty, but actually he's
on our payroll. And then we use a series of
you know, uh threats and whatnot to get him elected

(01:26:56):
to the Colorado GOP chairmanship and then we just like
him burn it all down from the inside. If they
had done that, Dave Williams is the guy they would
have chosen. He is essentially the Manchurian candidate at this point,
and you will never convince me he's not. You will
never convince me his goal is not to destroy the
Republican Party in Colorado because he and his little cabal

(01:27:19):
of name callers, you're not Republican in that for me.
What exactly is a good Republican we don't know, but
you're not it. He and his little cabal of name
callers have now alienated huge swaths of the Republican Party
here in Colorado. They've made it embarrassing to be associated

(01:27:40):
with the Republican Party. They have worked to destroy any
hope of bringing new people who might be gay, I
know into the party. They just destroyed that, and now
he is trying to change the bylaws, not even doing
it in normal order. Nope, nope. Listen to this from

(01:28:03):
the column The Colorado Republican or I'm sorry. The Colorado
Republican State Central Committee is supposed to meet in March
to elect new officers after all sixty four counties elect
their committee members in February, so this is coming up.
Every county has an automatic three votes. Larger counties get
two additional members for every ten thousand votes they cast

(01:28:27):
for President Donald Trump. Historically, Republican statewide elected officials, US senators,
members of Congress, state legislators, district attorneys, members of the
state Board of Education, and members of the University of
Colorado Board of Regents are all automatic members of the
Republican Committee Central Committee. And there are elected officials that

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successfully ran in Colorado with zero help from the state party. Zero.
I've now specifically asked multiple successful candidates how much help
they got from the state party. The answer is zero
or they got to use a mailing list that was
the only actual, quote unquote support that they got. So

(01:29:14):
now instead of waiting for this process that has happened.
I don't even know how many decades now to go through.
Harre Williams, the Manchurian candidate, is now holding an unprecedented
online meeting of the outgoing Republican Committee on January thirtieth
to vote on sweeping destructive by law proposals which would

(01:29:35):
be imposed on the new Central Committee in March. What
are they proposing. Rather than all four members of Congress
Republican members of Congress serving as voting members in the
Central Committee, only one member would be a member. Same
thing for other offices. Only one of twenty two state
representatives would have a vote, Only one of twelve state

(01:29:58):
senators would have a vote. Only one district attorney, only
one member of the state Board of Education, and only
one member of the Board of ce Regents would have
a vote on the Central Committee. So let me just
let me just break that down for you. Okay, So,
under Dave Williams leadership, we already know because we're beating
this dead horse one more time, we already know that

(01:30:21):
every almost everyone, no, I'll say it like this, everyone
he backed in the primary, which was in and of
itself unprecedented. Everyone he backed in a competitive race lost,
so now they want to exclude the people who actually
won from the central Committee so he can stack it
with more losing minded people like himself. Because I firmly

(01:30:45):
believe Dave Williams and his little cabal of name calling
people they want to burn it all down and rule
over the ashes. They don't give a crap if they
ever win another election as long as they can run
around with their name badge that says whatever position they
hold in the party that is the party of nothing,
the party of no One, the party of losing, because

(01:31:08):
that's what they are now, and they're about to make
it even worse when you consider the fact that we
finally had some a small, a tiny right word shift
in Colorado and they want to eliminate the ability of
the people who actually won an election to have a

(01:31:30):
vote and an impact in the Republican Party. It tells
you all you need to know. Dave Williams is working
for the Democrats. He's taking money from the Republicans. Oh,
he always finds money to pay himself, even though the
fundraising is so anemic under his quote unquote leadership that
it's pathetic. I bet if A Rod and I went
and stood in front of a King soupers. We could
collect more money in a few weeks than Dave Williams

(01:31:53):
is brought in in the last year. I'm not even kidding.
He's doing the work of the Republican Party, you guys.
And if you're in the Central Committee now, although many normal,
you know, right thinking Republicans have been driven out of
the party in the Central Committee and you vote to

(01:32:14):
make these changes, you need to look in the mirror
and recognize that you too are a useful idiot for
the other team. And that's you know, okay, you can
you can drag the dead horse back into the closet,
a rod. I'm finished beating it again right now now.
I mean there's a little bit left, but I'm just

(01:32:35):
gonna keep on beating that dead horse when I need to.
Just you know, there's a new gun ban that is
being bandied about at the Capitol. Even though in Colorado
we have had, oh, I don't know, let's see here,
twenty gun control bills passed in the last five years. Incredibly,

(01:32:56):
we still have gun crime, but that won't stop them
from trying van even more. And now the newly filed
assault weapons semi auto firearm bill will ban all rifles
and shotguns that except detachable magazines, along with many semi
automatic pistols that accept detachable magazines. If it acted, the
Colorado Attorney General would have the power and authority to

(01:33:18):
further define the nuanced and often contradictory bill language. So
more gun control garbage. We'll see what happens there. So
I want to direct your attention to a couple of
things on the blog. I've discovered a new uh, a
new I don't know what to call her health influencer.

(01:33:41):
She's also a biochemist, so she's not some hack out
there the glucose goddess and all she talks about. She's
a French biochemist. All she talks about is the havoc
that glucose spikes creek on our body. Now, what is
a glucose spike? A glucose spike is what happens after
you eat, and if you eat a balanced meal of protein, fat,

(01:34:05):
and fiber, you are going to have a glucose spike.
That is a healthy glucose spike because as you take
in food, your body has to mitigate that and we
create glucose to deal with the glucose molecule. Excuse me,
to deal with the extra molecules that are floating around
our body. They either get burned as fuel or they
get stored as fat. That's what happens. That was a

(01:34:27):
really bad explanation. But if you watch the glucosse Gottess
she'll explain it further. That was terrible explanation actually, but
not altogether inaccurate, just not very clear. She talks about
the fact that when your glucose spikes go way up
outside that healthy range, which happens when you eat a
standard American diet, or you drink a soda, or you
eat a sugary item with nothing else, these massive spikes up.

(01:34:50):
Because what goes up must come down, so you have
these massive up and down spikes. And in her research,
she's been researching this for a couple of decades now,
she has found glucose spikes, severe glucose spikes can be
connected to a whole bunch of other stuff, including polycystic
ovarian syndrome, including acne, including skin conditions including irritability, depression, anxiety.

(01:35:15):
And she has ten very simple things you can do
to mitigate those glucose spikes, and she did a pretty
decent sized study of people who said, look, we're going
to go ahead and do this, and in a month
of people doing these glucose hacks that, by the way,
are so ridiculously simple. It's like you don't have to

(01:35:36):
buy a bunch of expensive stuff. These are really simple
things to do. She helped people overcome infertility. She helped
people get rid of their acne. She got rid of
their depression, their anxiety. All of these things that we
suffer from on a daily basis eating the standard American diet,
they can be mitigated by managing your glucose spikes. So
I have two videos on here that if you just

(01:35:57):
watch them, you're going to get everything you need. And
then you can print out the ten hacks that will
change your life. And I printed them out this morning
and I'm going to be using them in my life.
If you have cravings, if you get exhausted in the afternoon,
I mean, there's a lot of things that happen because
your glucose is all over the place. I saw her, Aron,
I have a mission for I have a quest for you.

(01:36:18):
I want to interview Stephen Bartlett from Diary of a CEO.
He has this is my favorite podcast. It's I like
it better than mine. If I could do a show
like Steven Bartlett is doing on the Diary of a
Ceo where he does deep dive conversations for like an
hour and a half two hours sometimes two and a
half hours with one person, one hundred percent, I would
do this. He does an amazing job. And I saw

(01:36:41):
her on Diary of a CEO, and I'm telling you,
we can do this, people, we can do this. We
can we can learn things that can help us lead
a happier, healthier life. And what's funny is glucos spikes
are mitigated by what protein, fat, and fiber, the same

(01:37:03):
things Michelle Zelner has been preaching on these airwaves for
so long, but this woman makes them even easier. And
she's delightful and she has a little bit of a
French accent, so that's charming as well. That is on
the blog today as well, so you can check that
out there if you're wondering about mortgage rates. I know
I'm doing a lot in this segment, but I got
a lot of stuff on the blog and I just

(01:37:23):
want to get it in before we do of the day.
The US Treasury prices are going up, and that is
not good news. We have a couple things happening right
now in the economy, and I know I've been a
real negative Nelly. I've been waiting for the recession that
never came. But there are a couple things happening right
now that we have to pay attention to. One of
them is no one wants to buy our debt in

(01:37:45):
the United States right now. Now I say no one.
Of course, people are buying our debt, but it is
costing us more to entice them to buy it.

Speaker 1 (01:37:55):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:37:55):
If we don't get spending under control, this is only
going to get worse. And when treasury yields go up,
and that's what's happen happening right now. Treasury yields are
the money you make when you buy a bond that
is basically treasury debt. Right the United States wants to
borrow a fifteen other five hundred trillion dollars or whatever
we're blowing through, and then you buy a bond that
says they're going to pay that debt back to you,

(01:38:16):
but they're going to use your money that you just
spent to buy whatever it is they're buying. And usually
Treasury bonds are really seen as a safe haven because,
especially in the United States of America, government's not going
to default on those. They're not going to default on
that debt. But here's the problem. Paying those treasury yields

(01:38:37):
at a higher rate means that paying back or supporting
our debt is now costing even more than it was before.
And as we continue to borrow money at insane rates
and having to pay higher yields on treasuries, it's only
going to get more and more difficult. Is going to
eat up more and more of our economy, creating more
debt that creates the debt spiral that leads to a

(01:38:58):
financial crisis and the downfall of our entire society. But
I'm sure it'll be fine. Positive, it'll be fine. I'm
not positive at all. I'm being sarcastic, and I hope
you get that. The other part about treasury bonds going
up is that mortgage rates are directly tied to treasury
bond yields because mortgages are not held by the whoever

(01:39:19):
writes your mortgage, whoever gives you a mortgage. They don't
hold that mortgage, they don't hold that debt. They package
it up with a bunch of other mortgages and they
sell it as a commodity on the stock market. So
because it is a commodity in that way, mortgage rates
are tied to treasury rates, and this means that we're
not going to see mortgage rates going down anytime soon,

(01:39:40):
and that's terrible for the overall economy. Now, I keep
waiting for people to understand that six percent mortgages are
going to be the new normal. I know it's a
tough pill to swallow. If you missed out on a
two or three percent mortgage, I'm so sorry for you,
but this is kind of where we are now. The
other thing we need to watch out is that we
have seen more corporations file for bankruptcy since two thousand

(01:40:07):
and eight, right before the financial crisis, and that is
not good. But this could be worse because I'm wondering,
and there's just me spitballing here. I'm wondering how much
of this is just a reaction to behaviors that had
been changed during COVID and appear to have more stickiness

(01:40:29):
than we anticipated. And a perfect example of that is restaurants.
People are not going to restaurants as much. And if
your food is not food that travels well, then you
have been hard hit by this. A lot of restaurant
chains are going under. Party City declared bankruptcy, Sparit Airlines

(01:40:49):
declared bankruptcy, even Stolely Vodka. How do you lose money
on a vice? This is like when you your casinos
going under. You're like, really, the entire thing is stacked
in your favor, and yet you still couldn't pull it out.
So let me see here, let me train find the

(01:41:11):
numbers here. In twenty twenty four, six hundred and eighty
six companies filed for bankruptcy. That's up eight percent from
twenty twenty three and almost more than twenty twenty one
and twenty twenty two combined. That is not good news,
not at all. Gregory Dacho, chief economist, said, the persistently

(01:41:34):
elevated cost of goods and services is weighing on consumer demand,
and it's hitting lower income families the most. While the
federal reserves started lowering interest rates, relief for businesses will
be limited. Forecasts only suggests a half point rate cut
in twenty twenty five, keeping pressure on struggling companies. This

(01:41:58):
is a little bit a little bit. Nerve a little bit.
It's a little it makes me a little nervous. I
feel really good about twenty twenty five. The businesses that
I work with or are optimistic for the most part
about twenty twenty five. It might be forced optimism, it
may be delusional optimism. I don't know. I just feel
like we're finally, like the Broncos, moving in the right

(01:42:20):
direction instead of moving in the wrong direction, which is
somehow how it feels. Yeah, yeah, look's in the play
of the day. Everybody, it's our second favorite produce. Well note,
well sorry, you're fourth right now among the yeah you

(01:42:42):
made you made the wall. Zach our our producer Zach
is in because it's about that time. So let me
do this, let me close that, and now it's time
for the most exciting segment all the radio of its
kind of the day was Nick Ferguson ask, that was

(01:43:04):
Nick Ferguson esque, So yeah, what is Oh wait, I
got a dad joke? What do you what do you
call a Frenchman wearing sandals?

Speaker 3 (01:43:17):
What?

Speaker 4 (01:43:18):
Philipe Philippe.

Speaker 2 (01:43:20):
I love that.

Speaker 4 (01:43:20):
I thought that was very funny.

Speaker 5 (01:43:21):
I just heard that.

Speaker 4 (01:43:22):
I thought, what that was a good one. Okay, okay,
what is the real dad chick?

Speaker 6 (01:43:27):
In three thousand and twenty six years, life will either
be really good or really bad.

Speaker 5 (01:43:34):
It's fifty to fifty. Yeah, I just thought that.

Speaker 4 (01:43:39):
It's twenty twenty five.

Speaker 5 (01:43:40):
A rod, Yeah, I did the math wrong anyway.

Speaker 4 (01:43:42):
You know, math has been a struggle for you all
day to day.

Speaker 6 (01:43:45):
What is our word of the day plates It's an adjective, adjective, doctrinaire.

Speaker 4 (01:43:51):
Oh, this is one of those words that I usually
have to look up when I see it. Doctrinaire. Doesn't
that mean like the like sort of the standard you're
following the standard?

Speaker 5 (01:44:06):
God, how do I define zach?

Speaker 10 (01:44:07):
Would you like to guess I'm just like a lengthy
hunk of text, Like that's a big no.

Speaker 2 (01:44:13):
Doctrine.

Speaker 6 (01:44:14):
Yeah, dogmatic about others, acceptance of one's ideas.

Speaker 4 (01:44:19):
Wow, doctrinaire is definitely a word we could use now.
Today's in physics. We all know physics. What is the
equation for determining an object's momentum? Oh uh, nothing, mastime's velocity.
The object multiplied by the velocity is expressed by the

(01:44:41):
formula p equals envy, in which puss momentum. I know
We're not gonna let Zach play anymore if you can
bust off the physics answers. My goodness, did you take physics?

Speaker 5 (01:44:54):
Uh in high school? But I'm a baby, so I
think that too.

Speaker 4 (01:44:58):
But I could not tell you a single thing that
I learned because my high school was a lot, a
lot further away than your high school. All right, what
is our jeopardy category?

Speaker 6 (01:45:09):
L L Animals? Every animal has double L in the name.
When a crocodile.

Speaker 4 (01:45:16):
Shuts its mouth, what is an alligator?

Speaker 5 (01:45:19):
Correct?

Speaker 6 (01:45:20):
A saddle of graying hairs gives this primate moniker.

Speaker 2 (01:45:27):
Gorilla.

Speaker 4 (01:45:27):
Correct.

Speaker 5 (01:45:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:45:30):
Unlike the streamlined heads of most sharks, the hammerhead sharks
head protrudes laterally. The front of the type of the
hammerhead resembles a type of mollusk's shell, so it gets
this adjective. Mollusk shell gets this adjective.

Speaker 5 (01:45:48):
Double L ends with a p.

Speaker 4 (01:45:52):
Many salop. Correct. Okay.

Speaker 6 (01:45:55):
Prior to the lyrical direction to tie me hangaroo down,
you're asked to watch this breed feed Corrected. The Saudi
and Queen of Siva types of this antelope proved not
so swift, as they're now extinct.

Speaker 8 (01:46:16):
I did not know anach zach ibetsullet. That's what it says, because.

Speaker 4 (01:46:37):
So that you're you're okay, guys. Uh, We've got Kia
Sports coming up next, because they were going to talk
about yesterday's heartbreaking loss by the Broncos.

Speaker 7 (01:46:47):
But if you heard the.

Speaker 4 (01:46:49):
Beginning of the show, we are optimistic. Absolutely, we are
bol leavers. We believe that this is the beginning of
something beautiful. So do not just spare Broncos face. Did
any of the teams that, all of the teams that
I rooted for in the last this whole weekend lost,
The Bucks lost.

Speaker 5 (01:47:05):
Yeah, I want to see Baker go a little bit.
But Jayden Daniels man, that was and I have.

Speaker 4 (01:47:10):
To say, Jade Daniels, that last drive down the field
was super impressive.

Speaker 5 (01:47:14):
I think we're all rooting against the Chargers of the Texans.
I was a good win for them.

Speaker 4 (01:47:17):
Oh I forgot that.

Speaker 5 (01:47:18):
Yeah, I forgot the lost one.

Speaker 2 (01:47:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:47:21):
And tonight, you know, my my hometown, my my my hometown,
fam l A Rams taking on the Vikings tonight.

Speaker 4 (01:47:28):
I don't know who I like in that game. Might
I'm inclined to go Well, you know what, though, I
have a soft spot for the Minnesota Vikings because I
went met more in Moon one time, even a delight.
He was an absolute delight in Arizona. Made me have
a soft spot for I gotta cheer for Arizona because
all of my nieces and nephews and my brother all
alive Aona.

Speaker 6 (01:47:47):
Kudos for Arizona Cardinals given their home field to the
to the Rams. They even put like the Rams like
field out for him.

Speaker 5 (01:47:53):
Yeah, I thought that was.

Speaker 4 (01:47:53):
Really nice, really nice. Okay, so more football talk coming
up next. I don't think we're going to are the
mayor's press conference at five, but I know I'm gonna
be seeking it out because if you miss my press conference, Mayor,
Mayor Johnston, feel free to just steal everything I said
in my.

Speaker 6 (01:48:09):
Press conference and make Kylae newsroom will have updates of course,
top and bottom.

Speaker 4 (01:48:12):
Of resolutely every single time. All Right, guys, we'll be
back tomorrow. Keep it on, KWA