01-20-25 FULL SHOW - Celebrating Inauguration Day and What We Want From Trump's Second Term

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
A Monday edition of the show. I am your host,
Mandy Connell, and today I am lucky enough to not
be in the bitter cold that is Denver, Colorado. I
am broadcasting live from beautiful San Juan, Puerto Rico. And
I know what you're thinking. You're like, Mandy, what the
heck are you doing in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Well, many, many,

(00:20):
many of you actually know. Let me do this. Let
me do the blog first, and then we're gonna talk about,
of course, the inauguration. We have so much stuff to
dive into. But let me do the blog and then
I'll tell you what the heck I am doing in
San Juan, Puerto Rico and why. I gotta tell you, guys,
kind of a nice place to visit. I mean, I'm
not I don't hate it right now at all. So

(00:41):
let me do this. Find the blog at mandy'sblog dot com.
That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline this says
one twenty twenty five blog Happy Inauguration Day. Click on that,
and here are the headlines you will find within anyone's
listening office.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Halpen I reckon all with ships and clipmas and say
it today on the.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Blog welcome back President Trump is so my current situation.
Paulis's march to his presidential run continues. Does anyone care
that Michelle Obama isn't there? It's a wee bit nippy outside.
Trump saves TikTok. Let's hope they don't eat livestock A
who knew Lauren Sanchez couldn't afford a shirt? DA is

(01:26):
getting more security cameras, so COUNTI rustling is a big deal.
Watch Trump's inauguration speech? So what comes next? Happy? Martin
Luther King Junior Day MLK Junior was a Zionist veterans,
pay attention to this VA change, Biden Price preemptively pardons
some scumbags, and scrolling. Those are the headlines on the

(01:48):
blog at mandy'sblog dot com now this morning. The blog
is a little thin because I watched a lot of
the inauguration this morning, and a whole bunch. I mean
a lot. I gotta tell you, guys, I found myself
surprisingly happy today. And I say this because it would

(02:09):
be disingenuous for me to pretend that I am a
long time Trump supporter, unabashed, with no questions at all.
But I am not, and It's been really well documented
on this program by me, so I want to get
into that in just a moment about I was surprisingly
happy to see President Donald Trump take the oath of office.

(02:31):
I was happy to see jd. Vance take the open
of oath of office. No reservations there, but it's an
interesting day for the United States. And if you didn't
hear the inauguration speech, which I understand we did play
in its entirety, then we're going to talk a little
bit about what was in it. But first I got
to tell you what am I doing in San Juan,

(02:51):
Puerto Rico. So are longtime clients American Financing. You've heard
us talk about them and how Gabby and Damien started
in nineteen ninety nine and they built it into a
mortgage powerhouse that is not just in Colorado. They are
a Colorado based company, but they have built this just amazing,
amazing business. And as part of that, Damien originally from

(03:14):
Puerto Rico and an avid kite surfer. I know, just
bear with me. It all goes to one place here.
Damien wanted to open a kite surfing school. But as
he does and as Gabby, his wife does, they don't
just open a kite surfing school, they open a beach hotel,
a kite surfing school, and Puerto Rico's only beach bar.

(03:36):
So they invited us to come down because not only
have they done that, they are trying to help revitalize
Puerto Rico and bring people down to Puerto Rico to
show them what the island is all about. And I'll
say this, last night we landed and Chuck and I
immediately got in an uber and headed down to a
festival in Old San Juan. And the festival was outstanding,

(03:59):
I mean absolutely outstanding. But it's just a wonderful island.
And they got a little grief during the you know,
from the comedian at a Trump rally. And so as
part of this, they have built a content creator studio
basically for people who do podcasts, for people who have

(04:21):
large followings who record podcasts to come down and record
their podcast talk about Puerto Rico and bring people down
to the island. And so they wanted to try it out,
and they haven't tried it out yet, so they brought
me and two of my colleagues Will he Be from
KBPI and NERF from ninety three to three down to
kind of check it out and experience it and bring
it back to you, And hopefully we're going to be

(04:43):
able to talk a little bit to some of the
people that work on the island and in tourism about
what they're doing in Puerto Rico. Now they have a
new governor. She seems to be pretty squared away, and
hopefully we're going to get her on the show this week.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Now.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
I'm joined today by Zach in the studio. He's going
to keep us on the air and get us ready
to go. But the obvious big story today must be
that we have another president. And I can't say a
new president because we don't. We have the old president back.
Today was the day that Donald Trump was inaugurated again

(05:18):
the second time, and I found myself I was just
gonna have it on the background right as I was
doing my show prep. But I really got sucked in
by the president's speech, and I wanted to ask you guys,
if you saw the speech, I would love to know
what your thoughts, your immediate thoughts on the speech were,

(05:40):
because I have immediate thoughts. This texture on the common
Sphirit health text line, where you can always text me
at five six six ' nine to zero and then
send your text said I'm so upset he didn't put
his hand on the Bible. I don't know. I did
not even notice that. I realized that. I know that
after they pointed out that that was his mother's Bible.

(06:04):
So I don't know about that. I'll go back and
check it out. But boy, things happened today that were fascinating,
absolutely fascinating. Several people are very very upset on the
text line from the end of Jimmy Show about Joe

(06:24):
Biden pardoning so many people, including his own family, including
Mark Milly, General Mark Milly, who behind President Trump's back,
called China to do some kind of backroom deal with
his counterpart in China, which is clearly a violation of

(06:45):
so much and a pardon for doctor Anthony Fauci, the
man who shut the entire country down for COVID, destroyed businesses, destroyed,
family lives destroyed, had old people dying in the hospital alone,
and now he will never be held to account, although

(07:05):
in his own snotty way, I don't think I get
anything wrong, but I appreciate the pardon. This is appalling,
It is so bad, and had a Republican done it
and we'll let's see, We'll have to wait and see
how this gets covered. Because even Mark Penn, Mark Pen,
you may remember, is Hillary not yeah, it is Hillary

(07:28):
Clinton's longtime polster, and I mean long time, reliably democratic.
He is not at all, in any way ever going
to be considered anything but a Democrat. He took to
X and let fly today he called it the last straw,
which is kind of bold, I mean really kind of bold,

(07:50):
and for some reason I can't pull it up on
my blog. So let me do it this way, very
very quickly, because I want to read the whole thing.
When you've lost Mark Penn as a Democrat, you've lost
quite a bit, quite a bit. And this is what
he had to say on EPPS. The last straw, last

(08:10):
minute pardons for Biden's political accomplices were the plan all along.
The pardons for drug dealers and commutations for murderers were
just cover for the main act of these pardons and
his son, all done after elections have passed. The only
administration trying to jail political opponents was not Trump's but Biden's,
and it was the voters who rejected it with their votes.

(08:32):
There were legitimate questions on whether Fauci lied about his
funding of Gain and Function research, whether Miley broke the
chain of command and had unauthorized communications with the Chinese,
or whether the January sixth committee coached witnesses. They may
have all been right and truthful that there were questions,
and they will all go unresolved now. But Biden was

(08:53):
elected lying to the public about his son's business, which
was eventually uncovered, sought to win reelection, hiding his infirmities
which were also eventually uncovered, and genuinely abused his office
in the closing days of his presidency as his low
ratings sink even lower. So that's pretty damning. I mean,

(09:15):
that's like, no, that's pulling no punches at all. So
it is going to be super interesting to see how
all this shakes out. But I got to tell you,
here are things that I noticed about this inauguration Number one.
When I turned it on this morning, the first thing
I saw, literally the first image that I saw was

(09:36):
Mark Zuckerberg, his wife, whose name I believe is Paula,
but I can't remember. I know her last name is Chan,
and I should remember her first name, and I cannot
remember her first name. Zuck and his wife, Jeff Bezos
and his fiancee Lauren Sanchez, who, by the way, apparently
I'm thinking about starting a GoFundMe for Lauren Sanchaz because
I don't know if Jeff has her budget too tight,

(09:59):
But she showed up for the inauguration not actually wearing
a shirt, So I think we should do a GoFundMe
to buy Lauren Sanchez a shirt because she showed up
at a presidential inauguration with a blazer and a visible
bra on under it. So I'm guessing it's because they
don't have the cash for a shirt. So that was
the first, the very first thing that I saw Zuck,

(10:22):
Bezos and Musk on the stage together, and I was like, well,
isn't that interesting? Isn't that something? Jeff Bezos owns The
Washington Post, Mark Zuckerberg owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. They
own a tremendous amount of the content that is seen

(10:43):
by society. And there they are up on stage with
a man that not to in the distant future or
a distant past. They tried to make sure that they
did everything they could to suppress information that could either
help him or hurt his political opponents, even when it
was accurate. That was very interesting, very interesting. It was

(11:04):
like a billionaire's murderer's row, you know what I mean.
And they're all up there on the stage together, and
I think that everyone looked great. I thought everyone looked great, Malania.
Can we talk about Malania's hat for just a second.
She was bringing there's a new Sheriff in town vibe
so hard, like I kept waiting for the good, bad,
and the Ugly soundtrack to play as she was walking out.

(11:27):
I didn't hate it, but it was obviously I think,
designed for an outdoor inauguration and just looked a little
a little odd. But let me just say this about
Malania Trump. I think that Priscilla thank you, Priscilla Chan
is Mark Zuckerberg's wife, Thank you, text messager. I think
Milania Trump is suffering no fools this time around. She's

(11:50):
not that she did last time. Remember her I don't
care jacket when she was they were in the midst
of the immigration situation and she wears that I don't care, Jacket.
I think we're gonna see more of that. I think
we're gonna see less toleration of anybs coming from Malania Trump.
But everybody, I mean everybody looked great. And then Donald

(12:12):
Trump started talking. And I'm gonna say this, I love
it when he stays on script. I hate it when
he begins rambling off like he did at the RNC
for an hour and a half. And I guess he
finally must have learned because he stayed on script. The
speech was an absolute repudiation of everything of the last

(12:35):
four years. And it was not subtle. It was He
could have just stood up and said, hey, everybody, whatever
happened in the last four years, we're doing the opposite
starting today. And he could have stopped talking, but he
delineated many, many, many places and ways that he was
going to roll back with executive order. In otherwise, I

(12:57):
despise rule by executive order. It's stupid because it's only
as good as long as a president is in office, right,
and then after that it's like, oh, yeah, we don't
We're just gonna go and roll all that back. So
I despise any kind of move via executive order unless
it is too undo prior executive orders they're bad. And

(13:18):
that's basically what Biden did to Trump, and now Trump
is going to do it to Biden. But all that
being said, I got to tell you, guys, you know
how I feel about Donald Trump. I didn't want him
to be the nominee. I wanted somebody else. I thought
that January sixth was so bad that I could not
imagine a day when I would welcome the site of

(13:40):
Donald Trump taking the oath of office. And yet today
I found myself going, Wow, maybe, just maybe we can
write this ship in such a way that we can
move people forward where everybody feels like they are part
of the same country, everybody feels like they have opportunity

(14:01):
in the United States, that we are the nation of
optimism and hope, in the American dream and all of
that stuff, and that we can achieve and try and
create without being crushed under the thumb of government. That's
what I heard today, and that's what I really was
kind of like, Yes, I found myself cheering inside. I
was like, oh, yes, this is fantastic. So now it

(14:25):
remains to be seen how all this gets put into policy,
whether it's drill baby drill, or It's interesting that he
says the federal government will only recognize two genders. I
actually think that that is a smart move, but the
genie is not entirely out of the bag on that. Now,
a couple of things have happened that I think that

(14:47):
are going to be sort of political game shifters that
I want to talk about real quick. And one of them,
he didn't even I don't even think he mentioned TikTok
and his speech. But he's already promised to save TikTok
the executive And that brings all of those youngs full
of all those skulls full of mush that all they
do is sit around watching TikTok videos all day. They're

(15:08):
gonna be able to do that because Trump saved it.
Mandy Malania's outfit, including the hat, is old school class.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
Oh it was sharp.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
She looked good, But I mean, didn't you feel those
there's a new sheriff in town vibes from Malania. Mandy
and Malania rocked it. She looks fabulous. This text here,
let me see here, uh this texterter, it's called bending
the knee and begging the king for forgiveness. It's a
very unattractive look. They could just do better from now on.

(15:38):
I agree, But here's you, guys. If I get invited
to go to a presidential inauguration, and there's like, you know, Mandy, like,
let's just say, let's just say that when Governor Jared
Polus runs for president, he wouldn't. Let's just say for
the point of this, the purpose of this argument. And
all of a sudden, he calls me and says, Mandy,
I'd really love you to be at the inauguration. I'm going.

(15:59):
I'm absolutely going, in the hopes that maybe I can
talk some sense into him. Mandy, I agree with you
on the speech. The last ten minutes he was starting
to go off script, so I'm glad someone must have
gotten him my signal and he finished up. Harry Underwood
was fabulous. Not very many singers could put off an
acapella in the heat of the moment. I will say,

(16:22):
good for good for Carrie Underwood, good for Snoop Dogg,
good for these artists for crossing the red line we'll
call it the Democratic red line and performing at the inauguration.
By the way, coming up in about ten minutes, we're
gonna talk to Ryan Schuling. Ryan is in DC. He
stood in the bitterly freezing cold, blow zero temperatures for

(16:46):
four hours to get into the arena to be able
to watch the swearing in because obviously they moved it
from the mall where they have it every time inside
because the colds, the temperatures are so bitter. So we're
gonna talk to Ryan in a little bit about what
he's experienced. And then Heidi Ganal also in DC. We're
gonna talk to her. She went to a couple of

(17:07):
balls last night. We're going to talk to her about
what she's experienced, and just the vibe there. It's gonna
be a lot different because of the weather, but it
is definitely it's an amazing day, Mandy. His oath of
office was rushed by the Chief Justice. His family was
not even around him. Milania did not have a chance

(17:28):
to get into position. You are absolutely right about that.
You are one hundred percent right about that. And I
noticed that when had happened, but I didn't make a
comment about that. Even the Biden pardonees have to testify
before Congress. If they don't or lie, then it's jail time. No, no, no,
only Republicans go to jail for lying to Congress. We
don't learned this yet. Come on, people, come on a

(17:52):
little bit later in the show. I've got to tell you, guys,
if you have not watched the Martha Stewart documentary on Netflix,
and I know that, you're like, what are you talking
talking about? Mandy? Why are you talking about Marcus Stewart
right now? In the Martha Sewart documentary they go through
her whole trial and all of that stuff. And I
bet you right now if I ask you, hey, what
did Martha Stewart go to jail for? You would say

(18:14):
insider trading? But no, she did not. She went to
jail for lying to the FBI. And guess who the
FBI agent was that prosecuted the case. James Freakin' Comy.
Oh yeah, oh yeah. The entire documentary is worth watching
just for that part. It's actually really really good, Mandy.

(18:36):
A couple of things. Trump's family was rushed when he
was giving his oath. Millennia was not in place yet.
That's why he didn't put his hand on the Bible.
His kids were still getting close to him when it
already started. Second, why do you have to pardon people
if they're not guilty of something? Fauci said he was
not guilty of anything due to COVID Innocent, innocent, innocent,
So why does he need to be pardoned, saying with
the Biden family, if they're not guilty of anything, why

(18:59):
do they have to be pardoned? And that's the super
ironic part of this entire thing. President Joe Biden, who
has overseen an administration that has dragged thousands and thousands
of people out of their little communities and into court
because they attended a rally on January sixth, whether they

(19:19):
did anything violent or wrong or that, he has dragged
them all and investigated them all. And he actually said,
I'm doing these pardons because an investigation can ruin someone's life. Really,
you don't say, Joe, you don't say. When we get back,
Ryan Schuling is going to join us. He is live
in DC. We're gonna get his feelings and thoughts and

(19:41):
what the vibe is and all that good stuff. Coming
up next live from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Keep it
right here on KAWA. All right, guys, it is inauguration day.
And if you missed President where I'm taking the oaths
giving a speech. Somebody who did not miss it is

(20:03):
Ryan Shuling, who fruses little took us off this morning
trying to get into where now, Ryan, where were you
because obviously they moved to swearing in indoors. And where
did you end up watching the inauguration? Tell me how
all that changed, bro.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
I actually was able to whether the elements shells, so
to speak. And nobody that's inside Capital One Arena right
now is faint of heart. It was four hours mid
of them wait in line, because when I got there
at about five twenty am steering time, we three twenty
am mountain times, there was already a gaggle of people,

(20:41):
several hundred. I would say that we're in line in
front of me that had spent the night outside camping
out in sub twenty degree temperatures. I know it's older
than that and Denver right now, but you stand there,
you're wind it through like you're waiting for a ride
at disney World, and four hours does not go very quickly.
And finally we made it through security into the arena.

(21:02):
There are twenty thousand strong here right now as I
speak to Charlie kirk Is on the stage, we are
waiting the arrival of newly inaugurated Vice President Lady dance
on the forty seventh President the United States, Donald Trump.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
What was the mood like as you were waiting in
line with all of these other people, excited, freezing. Tell
me about that.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
Part of it. It's just people that are really committed,
obviously to that kind of wait, to that kind of
line in that kind of weather. I had a chance
to interview a fascinating a sixteen year old from Long
Island and he has never voted obviously, but he has
followed Donald Trump. He said here eight years old. He

(21:46):
was at the defeatse that Donald Trump had with Hillary
Clinton way back when, or somehow this young man remembers
that he is right. He is very well spoken, articulate,
and just a fascinating young man with a very ethnic background,
very big fan of Donald Trump. And he gave me
about a three minute interview that I think was posted

(22:06):
either on Tailway's website or on social media. And being
a young man like that gave me hope for the future.
I got to tell you.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
Now, you were inside the Capitol One Center with all
of these other people. What was the moment like when
Trump did the oath of office? So I'm guessing they
had that on the big screen. What is that?

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Was that?

Speaker 1 (22:28):
Correct? They had it up on the big screen so
you guys could.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
Watch absolutely right. There is a big screen monitor here,
much like you would encounter at Ballerina. For those of it,
you would have been to Nugget or Avalanche games. This
is where the Capitals and the Wizards play, formerly known
as the Bullets, and it set up much like that.
We were given tickets to get in that were for

(22:50):
a particular section, but not specific seats. So you went
to the section, you got the best scene you could.
Everybody gathered in here, I think if we're leader to
be out of the told. But the energy was off
the charts. And when they would show Donald Trump on
the fig screen, when he would introduced her sat a
white house that everybody got to their feet hearing, kind

(23:13):
of encouraging one another. And certainly, like you said, when
he took the oath of office, it was absolutely electric
in here. It's unlike many atmospheres I've ever seen. And
I call the red winks when the family cuff, Tim
person at Tamus Arena issues out the two.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
Now, I'm not a detroiter, but even I know how
significant that is. For you to compare it to that,
it's a pretty big deal. So now let's talk a
little bit about Trump's speech because I'm guessing there were
so many applause lines that you probably missed parts of
it because boy howdy, did he just come in scorched
to earth and essentially say, whatever just happened in the

(23:50):
last four years, we're doing the opposite.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
I mean, is that how it came across? It did?
It was as red meat of a speech as you'll
ever hear in a nut uration address. But I think
it fit the moment, and it definitely fits him. Donald
Trump won for many reasons, and I think one of
those was his authenticity and his very raw, visceral style politics,

(24:13):
and the brawler in him came out. The people in
this arena responded to that. It was. It was everything
they wanted to hear, and like you said, he did
not pull back, not one bit. I'll not say that
I was surprised either, And he wanted to give the
people I think that supported him, that voted for him,
you know, encouraged her that he was going to do

(24:34):
what he said he was going to do. You know, promises,
they promise, that sort of thing, and he confirmed that
after he addressed several other gathered attendees that were outside
of the rotunda. So he's gone from the rotunda to
that group. He just signed a few executive orders. There's
a resolute desk set up here, Mandy, with a chair
and the presidential seal. But I believe he has scheduled

(24:57):
to sign some more executive orders here in the arena
in front of the people assembled, and they're just having
a series of speakers now, I think while the new
forty seventh president gets lunch and then you'll come to
the arena with that.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
So let me ask you specifically, were there any parts
of that speech that got a louder response or anything
that you thought stood out as particularly noteworthy to the
crowd that you're with.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
Yes, you're in the chance of USA right now here.
As Charlie Kirk finished his speaker for Donald Trump, there
was certainly anything to do with the border, and kind
of interestingly when he said there was only two genders
and that's how it was going to be in the
federal government. They're going to hand all the hiring based
on gender or race. And I'm going to say this, Mandy,

(25:48):
I you've noticed a lot of the first attendees here
today he thinks blacks and Hispanics specifically in his speech,
there are a lot of Easian participants here as well,
and there is an enthusiastic as anybody. So those are
really the biggest line that got the biggest reaction.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
Is I mean, you know, I think that even and
you know the polling data as well as I do, Ryan,
it crosses party affiliation that now. And I think that
we all have to credit Ronda Santas for this and
Greg Abbott for this. All of a sudden, people across
the country are going, wait a minute, we can't have
all this illegal immigration coming across the border. So I
think that is a great place to sort of start,

(26:28):
because that issue, even for people who want to you know,
like tick tick their tongues or whatever and try to
act like it's the wrong thing, they're secretly grateful because
too many communities are facing too many issues because of
the influx of people. So that doesn't surprise me at all.
I will ask this question. Was there any conversation among

(26:48):
the people that were there about the pardons that Joe
Biden issued on his way out the door?

Speaker 2 (26:55):
Oh? Yes, In fact, we were in line waiting when
the announcement the FAUCI came down. In general Milly and
added over very well with those that were in line
to attend this event, and then while we were in
the arena, we got notification that's basically Joe Biden had
part in his entire family. And I think we're just
confirmation what everybody here suspected and what Donald Trump was

(27:18):
alleging for so many years of the Biden family and
riched themselves with nefarious business deals overseas, using Joe Biden's
suffision of power and influence as a senator, as Vice president,
even as president to gain a fortune for the family.
So I think it's telling. I think it's damning. I
think it's incriminating. I think it's pathetic, and I, like

(27:39):
just about everybody in this arena, I think would say
the same.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
Well, I think it does put to bed any notion
that Joe Biden is just a nice old man, you know,
and that he was just you know, he's just a
great fellow of high character. I think there's no way
you can make that argument.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
Now if he had just.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
Pardoned Fauci and Milly had left his family out of it, maybe,
but no, this was such a naked abuse of power
to protect his family who have been doing shady stuff
for decades. We really should feel sorry for them, Ryan,
because their grift is officially over. There's no way to
trade on the Biden name anymore. Joe Biden is never
going to have any impact on anything ever again, and

(28:18):
these people are going to have to get real jobs. Ryan,
Perhaps we should worry about.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
That great point. And I think Joe Biden is going
to disappear more quickly and more completely than any president
we've seen in modern history, leading Jimmy Carter. Nobody the
Democratic Party wants him anywhere near them more their campaign,
anybody that's unning for president in twenty twenty eight, they're
not gonna want Joe Biden around. And I think the

(28:42):
important thing to remember is the timing of the pardon
for his family members. It was the very last work
thing yet it was literally in the last hours, even
minutes of his presidency, and I think the timing of
that says a lot as well.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
Amen to that, my friend. One last question before I
let you go, what were the thoughts on Malaney is
there's a new sheriff in town.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
Hat. I got two messages from people comparing it to
something out of the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,
the Clint Eastwood type get up there, go ahead.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
And make my That's what I said.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
I found it was more along the lines perhaps of
like a princess. Diana was very classy. I think people
received it well. But yeah, I think it was definitely
an output of intent.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
Oh yes, she said a message, and it just remains
me seeing what that message is. All right, Ryan, go
have fun. We'll chat when you get back. Or you
going to any balls tonight? What are you doing tonight?
Because that's what all the fun happens.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
I might crash a couple. I know, John Taber, Victoria
and I had joked and we were going to get
the orange and powder blue tuxes from Dumb and Dummer
and maybe Selda poor Berry and Lloyd and one of these.
But that's a TVD. I haven't missed today. That's been
a problem, and I'm starving. But I'm trying to get
the East Coast seafood, and our own Rob Dawson has

(30:05):
helped me, I think direct me the right way on that.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
Yeah, well, be careful. Rob gives terrible directions, I know
from experience. Anyway, Good to talk to you, man, Have fun, Ryan,
and stay warm.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
Thanks many.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
All right, that's Ryan shuling. We'll be right back after
this his inauguration day, and President Donald Trump is now
back in the White House and we never have to
think about Joe Biden again. So I'm super excited about that.

(30:40):
I did see something kind of funny. I thought it
was funny. I don't think it was intentionally funny, but
it was funny. And one of the talking heads on
MSNBC was sort of, maybe it was a view. It
might have been the View. Actually I think it was.
And of course we know I don't watch the View
because I don't need to lose any more IQ points.
So he've popped up on social media. But they were

(31:00):
arguing about Joe Biden recovering from his record low approval ratings, right,
and they one of the blah blah people on the
panel there on the View said something to the effect of, well,
you know, Jimmy Carter was very unpopular when he left office,
and look what's happened to him now. He just died
and everybody couldn't say enough nice things about him. The

(31:22):
difference there is that we had fifty years almost to
forget what a bad job Jimmy Carter did, and in
the interim, he is well known for his humanitarian work
he created or helped. You know, I don't know if
he actually created Habitat for Humanity, but he certainly was
instrumental in making it the powerhouse organization that it is today.

(31:43):
So people have very fond thoughts of Jimmy Carter for
that kind of work. Nobody's ever looking back at the
Carter administration going god, those were the good old days,
because they clearly weren't. I mean, it was an everything
was a disaster. So he had forty five years to
recover his image. Joe Biden, and I do not wish

(32:04):
this as I say it, I just want to. I'm
gonna say it. Joe Biden appears to be at a
place in his life where if he lives three more years,
I'll be shocked. And it's not that I wish him
ill or I wish he would die, That's not what
I'm saying. But we've all seen what this decline has
been during this presidency, and I just don't if you've

(32:26):
ever watched your own grandparents or your own parents go
through those last few years of aging. I mean, it's
not like I'm saying, don't buy any green bananas. But
I'm just saying I don't think he's going to have
time to recover any sort of warm and funny, fuzzy
legacy that he thinks he left behind. And now it's

(32:46):
been further besmirched by the pardons of everyone, including his
own family on his way out the door. And I
just think, granted, his legacy was over the minute that
he got stabbed in the back by Nancy Pelosi and
Chuck Schumer Barack Obama, it was pretty much done. He
now goes out in a cloud of shame. So yeah,

(33:09):
speaking of pardons, I hope you are equally horrified when
Trump partons actual criminals who harmed police officers and are
serving jail time for those crimes. You know, I have
been against I've been against the pardoning of anyone who
got violent on January sixth. However, seeing these preemptive pardons

(33:30):
by Joe Biden really made me angry. And now, if
Donald Trump decides to do a blanket pardon of everyone
who's been prosecuted by the federal government for their role
in January sixth, that is his prerogative. Do I think
it's fair or right now? But I don't think what
we've done to this, I mean the Grandmaine Monument is
a perfect example. She went to the Capitol to pray.

(33:55):
She walked through the Capitol without disturbing anything, without taking
a sheet of paper, without yelling, without screaming, and then
left and they put her in prison. That is an
injustice that must be undone. Now, she says, by the way,
she doesn't want a pardon because she wants to take
this to the Supreme Court, which I think is noble.

(34:17):
But anyway, Andandy Biden will be fondly remembers when he's
dead too. Never speak ill of the dead. We're all
going there. Yeah, they never speak ill of the dead
is only when Democrats died, because let me tell you,
when Republicans die, just go to Twitter and you can
see all kinds of people speaking all kinds of ill
about all kinds of dead people. I want to know

(34:38):
from you guys in this next hour. We're going to
talk to Heidigan all at one point thirty. But I
want to do in this next hour very specifically, what
do you want to see happen from the Trump administration?
And I don't want you to just say move for
you to let's get I want specifics. We heard a
lot in his speech, and I mean there was a
lot specific thing is the most important to you. I

(35:03):
will tell you what that is for me and why
when we get back to keep it right here on KOA,
I time to talk to my little booth thing right now,
hiding and all. She is in DC at the inauguration
of Donald Trump, Heidi, And so give me a scale

(35:27):
on the vibe in DC compared to the vibe at
the r n C, which I also know you visited.
What is the difference for one of the similarities.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
Oh, I mean, it's been so fun.

Speaker 4 (35:40):
I wish you could be here. Everywhere you go, people
are just super excited, energized, very hopeful, very cold energized. Yeah,
we're just having a blast all the balls. There's events everywhere,
and for those that didn't.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
Have like tickets to events, there's lots of kind.

Speaker 4 (35:56):
Of just random get together at a bar restaurant. People
are just very very happy to be here.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
I got to tell you, I wish I could be there.
I bet it is exciting. What are the kind of
things that people keyed in on. First of all, where
did you watch the inauguration? Because obviously moved inside so
you can't go to the National mall and watch it.
Where did you watch it?

Speaker 4 (36:20):
So we actually just watched it at our hotel. We're
pretty born out, Annie, I'm a little old to be
shann out till three am and then I was on
the Channel four UK station doing a commentary with a
very very liberal person and arguing about the inauguration speech
this afternoon.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
So that was fun.

Speaker 4 (36:40):
But getting ready to go to the liberty ball in
just a bit.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
So when you, oh, I got to hear this about
So you're on channel four in the UK? Is that
BBC Channel four?

Speaker 2 (36:53):
Yes? Yes?

Speaker 1 (36:56):
So what did they take the most issue with? Because
I got to tell you, I I love the fact
that Trump did not hold back and he just laid
out every single aspect of the Biden administration that he
was just going to roll back, and I thought that
was really compelling. So so what did you what were
they the most upset about? What did they take issue with?

Speaker 2 (37:16):
They take issue with.

Speaker 4 (37:17):
The fact that we just can't understand how bad January
sixth was and how bad they are going to be
treated now. They're terrified that the tables are going to
be turned and a lot of the conversation was about
which retribution going to be like, and I loved what
Trump could. He said, success is my retribution.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
Yep, exactly right. And I think that the isn't it
funny to see how people on the left are all
screaming about the potential of retribution while they sat and
watched actual retribution and for the last few years take place.
I just it amazes me sometimes, like the Cojones on

(38:00):
on people like this and the fact that that's what
they he did on out of everything he said in
the speech, that's kind of crazy. That just seems paranoid
to me.

Speaker 4 (38:10):
It was I actually laughed when she said it. I
was like, wait a minute, that's what you're going to
talk like, that's your best talking boy about what happened today.
You know, there were there were so many bright, cool
spots in that inauguration speech. I loved the black pastor
he was at.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
The R and C.

Speaker 4 (38:25):
I believe too, he was amazing. Harry Underwood just handled
her situation with grace and just did a wonderful job.
That offer singer was awesome.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
I would I want to hear your thoughts so.

Speaker 4 (38:36):
Many on Melania's outfit.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
It almost looks like him that was like like, I'm
here to be curious.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
I said, it gave me. It gave me there's a
new sheriff in town vibes. The thing I didn't like
about the big hat was how low it came down
on her eyes. I'm going to be perfectly frank, the
way it the way it basically covered her face, and
a lot of people online have said it was giving
spy versus spy sort of vibes, you know, but I

(39:07):
think it was It was an assertive choice, and it
kind of said to me that Millennia is not going
to be kind of kicked around and disabused like she
was the last time by the media. I mean, not
to go all like girlely in this conversation, but apparently
people were falling all over themselves to dress her for
this after no one would dress her previously. So it's

(39:30):
an interesting turn of events. And I think she's basically saying,
I don't give a rat's ass about any of you.
I mean, that's kind of how the vibe I got
from it. What did you take away?

Speaker 4 (39:39):
Yeah, I agree, and I agree with that hat. She's
so beautiful.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
I wanted to see.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
Her face and.

Speaker 4 (39:45):
I was a little disappointed that way, but she did look.
I mean, she looked awesome and beautiful. I do think
I just read her book, and her book's really good.
It actually gives some insights into how things played out
and things that she got to defend herself in the
book about what happened in the last time. But the
book finishes up right after he was the assassination attempt,
so before he won the election. But I'm following her

(40:08):
pretty closely and kind of interviews and what she's saying,
and I do think she is very well prepared to
come in this time and she is not going to
take the same approach to being first lady.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
YEP. One thing that I was a little taken aback by,
not in a bad way, just shocked as soon as
I turned it on this morning, Heidi, I see Mark Zuckerberg,
his wife Priscilla, Jeff Bezos, his fiancee, wearing her underpants
under a blazer, and Elon Musk. It was like a
billionaire's murderer's row, right, And I was a little I

(40:41):
was kind of surprised by that. Did anybody where you
were like notice the same thing?

Speaker 4 (40:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
They actually asked me about that on Channel four and
they said, what do I think about that, and I said, well,
as long as everybody stays focused on making America prosperous
and safe and fair again, then I'm.

Speaker 4 (40:58):
Cool with it. But you know, we certainly don't want
to hand over any power control to them, so they
get to decide, you know, how things are going to
play out in DC on that part of the game.
I think Trump had him there for a reason. He
always has some dratevy, I think in how he does things,
and I think there was a message to be sent there,
but I'm not quite sure.

Speaker 1 (41:17):
What it was. See For me, it was a message
of they've kissed the ring, like it was almost and
not Elon Musk so much because he's been on board
for months now and we all knew it. But like
Zuckerberg and Bezos. Bezos owns the Washington Post, which I mean,
nobody is going to say that the Washington Post has
anything kind to say about Donald J. Trump, and yet

(41:39):
there's the owner of the Washington Post up on the stage.
I just thought it was to your point, It definitely
felt like it was it was Trump flexing that they
had kissed the ring a little bit and letting the
people on the left who had been so good at
censoring social media to keep you know, good things out
and bad things off. I think he's put them on

(42:00):
notice that this is a whole new administration and a
whole new way of business being done. I mean, that's
kind of what I took away from it.

Speaker 4 (42:06):
Yeah, I think you're right, man, he got a great point,
and I do believe. I do believe he's going to
try and work with them and try and bring a
little bit of unity around, you know, free speech and
getting things back on track. Maybe through the bully pulpit.
But you know, one of my other other things I
noticed about the inauguration that was really cool was Usha

(42:28):
Vant and her holding her little girl, the little girl
like the three bandies on it was a trouble was
this message like this is about our families, this is
about our kids. And Baron Trump man.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
He is so impressive. I can't wait to see.

Speaker 4 (42:43):
What that kid does in his future life.

Speaker 1 (42:47):
I will tell you he's a good looking kid. I mean,
he's a tall, tall young man. And what kind of
pressure is on Baron Trump. But if you look at
you know, from all of Donald Trump's person foibles, right,
and he's obviously got many documented personal weal foibles. His
kids have turned out incredibly well and Hei to your parent,

(43:11):
I'm a parent. That's really the best we can hope for, right,
is that our children turn into wonderful people and who
are productive and get things done. And I have to
give Donald Trump a lot of credit. He seems to
turn out really good kids, regardless of whatever his personal
issues would be.

Speaker 4 (43:29):
Yeah, I agree many.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
I mean, those kids are very impressive.

Speaker 4 (43:32):
And even look at the grandkids that are growing at
Kai Trump, She's a little rock star. She's going on
a schollarship I think Miami and getting a big social
media following. But I'm really impressed with how the family's
handled everything with such grace and boy, I mean, they
should be terrified to be back in DC and having
to deal with all the things they did over the

(43:53):
last four years, but they seem hopeful and optimistic and
joyful to be there. That really came through today.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
Heidi Ganal is my guest. If you're not checking out
her latest project, Rockymountain Voice dot com, you're just not
doing it right. They're doing great aggregation and news coverage
and all kinds of stuff that's happening there. Heidi, I
really appreciate you making time for me from the inauguration today.

Speaker 4 (44:16):
Thanks, Manny.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
Wish me luck that I can stay awake for Chris
Ball tonight.

Speaker 1 (44:21):
I believe in you, Heidi. You are representing women of
a certain age. Okay, so we are living vicariously through you.
So have some coffee, buck up, go have a blast
and tell me all about it when you get home.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
I will.

Speaker 4 (44:36):
Thanks, Mandy, have a great time there too in Porto Rico.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
You too, all right, that's Hidi Ganal. We're gonna take
a quick time out when we get back. I've got
some really good responses about what you guys want to
see out of the Trump presidency. Will do that next.
It's time. Actual celebrities agreed to participate in the inauguration,

(45:00):
and one of those celebrities was Carrie Underwood, who had
a bit of an issue as her accompanying track did
not play. Let's let's just go ahead and roll roll
that tape, Zach, and see what this sounded like at
the inauguration.

Speaker 3 (45:16):
Ladies and gentlemen performing America the Beautiful, Please Welcome the
Armed Forces Chorus and Carrie Underwood.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
And about now is when music is supposed to start
so everybody's staring, everybody's ready, everybody's sort of you know,
looking around, and Carrie Underwood is like, okay, we're any
minute now, we're gonna go. She's a trained professional, so
she maintains her composure and looking around a little bit,
trying to figure out what's going to happen next. And

(45:48):
this went on for about a minute and it was
super awkward, and everybody's like, what's happening, But Carrie Underwood
just was like not she was unflappable, unflappable ladies and gentlemen.
And now she is being lauded across the country far
and wide for her performance of America the Beautiful, which

(46:09):
you're gonna hear in See. This is how long and
in media, this this amount of time is forever. It's
you're like, I'm gonna die because this dead air is
going on too long. And yet this is how long
it took, because it was about a minute before they
actually got everything going, and and the video is still
playing right now, by the way, I'm just vamping through

(46:31):
this part. I'm just vamping over this part until wait, ready, okay,
So and here finally they got it together so so.

Speaker 5 (46:39):
She could sing in just a second horse Sa just guys.

Speaker 1 (46:50):
For boom, wave up for I love that you can
hear everybody singing along with her.

Speaker 6 (47:03):
Peez Oh, what a song for everybody to sing along with.
Gosh fun.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
And I bring old from seed to shine and then
you can bring it down, Zach. I don't know she
does another pair, another, another stanza, but you know, it

(47:47):
was just a lovely moment at a moment where everybody
who learned that song where we were kids. Because honestly,
that should be I think America the Beautiful should be
the national anthem, because first of all, you can sing it.
Little children in a choir can sing it, grown ups
can sing it, unlike the Star Spangled Banner, which you
have to be some kind of you know, actual singer

(48:07):
to be able to do that. So that happened, and
and she just went right through it. And now everybody's like,
you know what, of course Carrie Underwood could do that.
Of course she did absolutely, And she did not did
not waiver this text message Mandy, my goddaughter ships off
for the army tomorrow. And I was really impressed with

(48:28):
what Trump said about doing away with all the DEI puke.
It makes me feel so much better knowing that our
America first President Trump is commander in chief. And I
will say, if Pete Hegseth gets confirmed, which at this
point I believe he's going to, it's going to be
a whole new military. And I got to tell you
that is not a bad thing. It's what's going to

(48:49):
be interesting to see is if the Trump administration can
walk back some of the idiocy at our nation's universities,
the Naval Act, me, the Air Force Academy West Point,
because I have friends now who went to the Air
Force Academy and said there's no way I would ever

(49:10):
let my kid go there. And that, my friends, is
a sign of decay that we have to get past.
To all the people hitting the text message that brought
tears to my eyes or I got goosebumps. You're out alone, Mandy,
and my daughter and myself were talking between each other.
The announcer sounds like that guy who does the high
school marching band's competitions here in Colorado. I wonder who

(49:31):
the announcer was.

Speaker 2 (49:32):
Was that roach?

Speaker 1 (49:35):
I think I would have noticed if it was a roach,
or maybe I didn't notice because there's roach. I mean,
all the all the best voice jobs go to Alan
Roach and he is the voice of KOA. When we
get back, I want to talk about some other stuff
that's going on right now. I know you're shocked, right
I do want to talk a little bit more about
some of the things that are happening here, by the way,

(49:55):
on the blog today at mandy'sblog dot com. If you
didn't hear the president's speech, I put you the speech
on the blog, and I think that everyone should watch it.
Not because I'm like, oh everybody should a doore Donald Trump,
but you should understand the speed with which things are
about to happen in the first one hundred days. We're
gonna get into that and more when we get back.

(50:17):
Keep it right here on KWA.

Speaker 7 (50:22):
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Speaker 7 (50:30):
Donda live from the American Financing Content Creator Studios and
stand on Puerto Rico.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
Here's Mandy Condall's.

Speaker 1 (50:43):
And Connelly sad thing. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, into the third
hour of the show. We have replaced Zach with Grant.
Will anyone notice we don't know we don't know. I
am broadcasting live from Juan, Puerto Rico. What am I
doing down here? Long story short, it goes like this.

Speaker 8 (51:06):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (51:06):
Damian Maldonado, one of the founders of American Financing, after
building them into being a powerhouse in Colorado, has now
gone home to his native Puerto Rico to do some
more business. And he is an avid kite surfer. Grant,
have you ever been kite surfing?

Speaker 6 (51:23):
No?

Speaker 3 (51:23):
Kitesurfing is terrifies.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
So you're kind of you have a board strapped to
your feet, kind of like a snowboard, but only for water.
And then you're hanging on to a basically a parachute, right,
not a full parachute, like a half parachute, and you
are propelled across the water at rapid speed with the
board attached to your feet, holding on to this to
this parachute is it shoots you across the water. And

(51:48):
apparently this is fun. Other people have told me that
it is fun. I'm going to take their word for
it because I've I've aged out I think of kite surfing,
but Damien loves it and he wanted to start a
hights surfing school here in San Juan but he can't
just do that because he's Damien and he you know,
he's always empire building, even with a kite surfing skill.

(52:08):
So they bought a hotel, the Numero Uno Beach Hotel,
and a beach bar, and then they bought another property
where they've been using it to incubate other businesses in
San Juan. And as part of that, they built this
beautiful podcast studio so content creators can come down, they
can learn about Puerto Rico, they can do their shows.
For me, it's just it's really outstanding, and they had

(52:30):
not had anybody in yet. So we're in here kind
of like, you know, hey, we're we're breaking the seal
on the podcast studio, and I'm pretty excited to be
here and I'm not sad about missing this weather, so
happy to be here to promote what Damien's doing down
here and seeing a little bit of Puerto Rico. We're
actually working right now on getting the Governor of Puerto Rico.

(52:52):
I hope that we can make that happen, but also
the head of the Tourism department or someone from the
tourism department to come here and talk a little bit
more about it. So if you ever wanted to go
to vacation, Puerto Rico should be on your list. It's
been quite nice to be down here now. A lot
of stuff obviously happening today with the inauguration, but there's

(53:14):
also other stuff. Grant, did you watch any of the inauguration?
Did you watch any of it?

Speaker 8 (53:18):
I watched a zero percent of it, but I heard
it was a pretty good speech from Trump.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
It was a very good Trump speech, and he stayed
on teleprompter, so there was no just like wild rambling
that I absolutely hate. It was a very good speech
where he clearly laid out exactly what he's going to do,
and it's pretty much whatever Biden did, we're doing the opposite.
He's adopted the George Costanza model, which is, you know,
my life is a living hell, so I'm just going

(53:43):
to do everything the opposite of what I normally do.
And we all know George started working for the Yankees
right after that, So there you go. You got that
going for you. But it was a good speech. But
there were things that I think some people should not
have been shocked by. But they were the fact that
it happened on Martin Luther King Day. Somebody sent me
a text earlier that said, seeing some of the hostages

(54:07):
released in Israel, because some I believe a dozen hostages
have been released, like one hundred Palestinians have been released,
because they're going to get a thousand over a thousand
people back just so Israel can have the dead bodies
of their hostages back, which is never fair, but that's
what it's like to be in Israel and to have
it happen on Martin Luther King Day, where Martin Luther

(54:30):
King Junior, of course known as a man who wanted
to move past our racial differences and to judge people
by the content of their character. He wanted every person,
regardless of skin color, to have the same opportunities, to
have the same treatment as other people, and to not
be mistreated because of the color of their skin. And

(54:51):
what we've seen over the last I don't even know
how many years now is this hyper focus on the
color of people's skin, as if that's the only thing
that mattered. And people are tired of it. People are
tired because it doesn't ring true. It rings so false
to say that we live in a society where people

(55:11):
should be judged on an immutable characteristic that they have
no control over. And so today you have Donald Trump
essentially saying that's over. It's done. We're done with DEI
programs in the federal government. We're done with fifty genders
in the federal government. We're back to just saying, you
know what, we're all the same people and we'll figure
it out. Grant, glad you have a new podcast out,

(55:33):
says this Texter. Haven't got a chance to listen to it.
Was afraid you may have pod faded. Glad you have not.

Speaker 3 (55:40):
I'm back.

Speaker 1 (55:41):
Just needed a little break.

Speaker 3 (55:42):
He's back, and then I feel revitalized.

Speaker 1 (55:47):
This person, aware that Willy B from KVPI is also
down in Puerto Rico, said, no pictures of Willy B
and Speedo's none that I'll share, Ladies and gentlemen, none
that I'll share. He's actually down here with his wife
and kids. Were so adorable. I want to talk about
Martin Luther King day for just a moment, because you know,
we learned about that I was young, learned about Martin
Luther King Junior, or learned about his murder, learned about

(56:10):
the impact that he had in his short life and
how important the things that he's done were not just
important when he did them, they were important still to
this day. But one of the things I did not know,
and I have to thank Douglas Murray for this. Douglas
Murray writes a Sunday column at the Free Press dot Com. Again,

(56:34):
if you are not subscribing to the Free Press, you're
missing out on so much great journalism and so much
great content, including the Sunday column from Douglas Murray where
he his column is called things worth Remembering, and it's
about speeches that were given or moments in time that
he thinks we need to pay attention to, right and
he's not entirely wrong actually ever, But this one is

(56:59):
about Martin Luther King, Junior. And I want to share
part of this with you because he goes on to
talk about the things that we know about Martin Luther
King Junior. One, he was an incredibly gifted speaker, and
we're very familiar with some of his most powerful speeches.

(57:19):
And the second is that doctor King was committed to
reforming America, to elevating the status of black people to
a level of equality with everyone else, and doing so
without violence. That makes it much different than what we've
seen in the modern era right, But Douglas Murray points

(57:40):
out there are parts of his legacy that people do
not know about, and one of them was his absolute
support for the nation of Israel. He often stated that
Israel's right to exist as a state is incontestable. Douglas
Murray rights he looked with great favor on Israel's democh
institutions and consistently resisted the Black Power movements drift towards

(58:04):
anti Semitism. He also highly valued the contribution of Jewish
leaders to the civil rights movement, and just over a
week before his death, on March twenty fifth, nineteen sixty eight,
doctor King spoke at the annual convention of the Rabbinical
Assembly in the Catskills, where he was introduced by Rabbi
Abraham Joshua Heschel, a progressive rabbi who three years earlier

(58:28):
had marched with King in Selma, Alabama. King accepted the
introduction gracefully, told the assembled religious leaders, I've looked over
the last few years being involved in the struggle for
racial justice, and all too often I have seen religious
leaders stand amid the social injustices that pervade our society,

(58:50):
mouthing pious irrelevancies and sanctimonious trivialities, as he did so often.
He then elegantly reinforced his point with a short, memorable
sentence rich in his imagery. He said, all too often
the religious community has been a tail light instead of
a headlight. He also believed in examining his own movement.

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After all, King was visiting the Rabbinical Assembly to answer questions.
In his opening remarks, he therefore said modestly, I'm not
going to make a speech. We must get right to
your questions. But then he issued a brief warning for
the ages. He said, I simply want to say that
we do confront a crisis in our nation. We see

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on every hand the restlessness of the comfortable and the
discontent of the affluent. And somehow it seems that this
mammothship of state is not moving toward new and more
secure shores, but toward old, destructive rocks. Our priorities are
mixed up, Our national purposes are confused, our policies are confused,

(59:56):
and there must somehow be a reordering of prioritiesase and purposes.
And then the rest of the column by Douglas Murray
is absolutely fantastic, but I mean, at this stage where
we are right now in the United States of America,
with the level of discontent not from the affluent but
from working people who feel like they've been left behind,

(01:00:18):
it's rather prescient, you know. I find it interesting that
Joe Biden in his Fine where Final Farewell addressed to
the nation as President that I did not watch. I
did finally go back and read the transcript. I find
it fascinating that Joe Biden talked about the military industrial complex,
but he didn't talk about the scientific industrial complex, when

(01:00:41):
on his watch, the scientific industrial complex, under the guise
of doctor Anthony Fauci, did more damage to this country
than anyone could possibly imagine. We shall see, we shall see.
Hopefully Trump declassifies the MLKA documents. You guys. This is

(01:01:04):
one of those like throwaway campaign promises that Donald Trump
made that I am so excited to think about the
possibility of I'll explain that after this when we get
back on KOA. Someone said, hopefully Trump declassifies the MLK documents.
You guys. The president is promising to release everything. Now

(01:01:27):
will he actually do it? But to this Texter's point
on the Common Spirit health text line, Mandy's speaking of
releasing files, do you think the Epstein files will be released? Now,
let me just say this, if Donald J. Trump releases everything, like,
don't you really want to know the whole deal about
Area fifty one? I mean, don't you really want to

(01:01:50):
know all the Although they did kind of release this
over the last year. Oh yeah, aliens are a thing
we just didn't want to tell you guys, But don't
you want to know about the Kennedy assassination? Don't you
want to know about all of that stuff? Because I
sure as shine o, wll what do so if he
does that, and then of course he saved TikTok, so
all over the United States of America bring dead. People

(01:02:11):
who can't get by without watching an endless scroll of videos,
are like, oh my god, Donald Trump is the best.
He's so great. They'll go down as the greatest president
in history. But here's the thing. I don't think they'll
let him release it. I don't know if he has
a kind of power. And that to me, and I'm
being deadly serious when I say this. Think about that

(01:02:34):
for a second. When I say I don't know if
the president has the power to release these documents, that
tells you all you need to know about our bureaucracy. That,
my friends, the thought that the president could not release
these things is the ultimate in just indictment of the
current state of bureaucracy. If you want to know what

(01:02:57):
that looks like, then there you have it. But oh
my goodness, I would love Mandy. Today's Americans can't handle everything.
They've been so indoctrinated. You know, I used to think
we couldn't handle it until a couple of years ago,
when all of a sudden, there's all these hearings on
UFOs and all these people from the Air Force and
the Navy came out and they were like, yeah, you know,

(01:03:18):
we changed the name to UAP, but we have no
idea what that is. We got no clue. They could
be coming from whatever planet. We have no idea what's
going on there. And America literally like we all together
in the middle of COVID we were all like, yeah,
that's probably right, we have no idea. Just you know what,
if they show up with an aircraft the shape like

(01:03:38):
that one in Independence Day, let's just let's shoot that
one down. But otherwise it's fine, It's absolutely fine. Mandy lmfao.
The old media has wasted no time. CNN is claiming
Musk did not see salute during his speech. In reality,
if you watched a few seconds past when he did

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this posed salute, he mentioned that he was throwing his
heart out to the people. And there's also a constitutional
lawyer drawing up papers to open an impeachment acquiry against
Trump for the way he took his oath. Are you
kidding me? Are you joking me? I mean, come on,

(01:04:23):
just come on. Somebody released it about JFK and Marilyn Monroue.
Is there anybody who doesn't know that both JFK and
RFK were both having sex with Marilyn Monroe? Does anybody
not know that? I thought that had been a just
all that had been. That's a long time ago.

Speaker 3 (01:04:36):
I mean, can you blame him, Mandy?

Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
No? No, well, I mean, yeah, no, I'm not sure
that I wouldn't have. I'm just saying I'm not saying
i'd hit that, but you know, I always just thought
that was I don't know, and great, you're a dude.
I want to ask you a way too far into this,
but like brothers sharing a woman, that's there's an ick factory.

Speaker 3 (01:04:59):
Yeah I agree with that.

Speaker 1 (01:05:00):
Yeah, I mean yeah no, but those Kennedy's boys being
boys and all that stuff. Anyway, we're gonna come back
in just a moment. I'm gonna rip through some of
the stuff that's on the blog. The blog is great today.
If you want to see the President's speech, you can
see it at the blog and so much more. We'll
get to you right after this. Keep it on Kiowa. Yeah,

(01:05:22):
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(01:05:46):
be here all week. But in the meantime, I've got
a couple of things that I want to hit on
the blog. Somebody just asked on the text line said,
are you sure you want to see the Epstein files. Oh,
I can assure you. I want to see the Epstein files.
I want, I mean, I don't want to actually see
seal them right, I don't need to see, like, because
I honestly believe that there's video floating around of all

(01:06:09):
kinds of powerful men in Epstein's New York apartment that
were probably videotaped. Like, I don't need to see the
app but I just want to know what it is,
don't you. A lot of people are said, like this
guy said, Reddit is freaking out over the salute thing.
I don't know what that is. I don't know what
that is. Uh, Mandy, no hand on the Bible. And

(01:06:31):
we talked about this. Right at the beginning of the show,
Coate or Justice Roberts rushed his him taking the oath
of office because none of his family was in place.
If you watch what happened when Brett Kavanaugh gave the
oath to jd Vance, they walk up, Jade Vance gets there, Usha,

(01:06:52):
his wife joined him, picked up their cute little girl
who had little bandages on her fingers. It was so cute,
and then they gave the oath. Well, Don Trump walked up.
Milania is walking up, all the kids are walking up
to and Justice Roberts started the started the whole thing.
Milania is supposed to hold the Bible, so Malania wasn't
in place before he started giving the oath of office.

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And I don't think you can hang that on Trump.
I just think that that was bad. I don't know
what was happening with Justice Roberts, but I don't think
that that moment for Trump was no big deal. I mean, really,
I think no big deal. So I've got a couple
of things. One I am enjoying the internet reacting to

(01:07:33):
Jeff Bezos's fiance Lauren Sanchez wearing a blazer with a bra. Now,
I don't mean like, oh you could see a little
peak of her bra when she was no I mean
she was wearing a bra with no shirt and a
blazer and you could clearly see the bra. And you
know what, more power to her. She works really hard
on her body. She's apparently a real gym rat, and

(01:07:57):
I admire her for like rockin' her rock and body
that I apparently Jeff does not give her enough of
an allowance to buy a shirt. So I'm thinking about
starting a GoFundMe. I haven't decided, but I may do
a GoFundMe. Actually, wait a minute, I bet somebody's already
beat me to this. Hang on, go fund me Lauren

(01:08:18):
Sanchez shirt. Let's see what we got here. Let's see
if somebody else has already beat me to the punch.
Apparently not. This is my chance to shine. We can
get her a shirt, I mean, maybe even something that
would cover up part of her cleavage. And again, more
power to you, Lauren. You get it girl, when you're

(01:08:40):
not on stage at a presidential inauguration, that look is
super hot. And I'd like to Rob Dawson sent me
this text earlier and I'd forgotten about it, and it's
so perfect to describe the situation that I'm gonna share
it with you. He said. I was at the mariaide,
but Bezos's wife was Sue Ellen Mishki from Seinfeld, who

(01:09:00):
wora blazer with no shirt. Yes, she's Sue lm miskeid
at the inauguration. A couple of things on the blog
today that I wanted to make sure you saw. One
is that Jared Polis attended the presidential inauguration. Yes, our
Democratic president attended the inauguration as the chairman of the

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National Governor's Association. And that in and of itself could
be a thing.

Speaker 2 (01:09:25):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:09:26):
I've never looked to see if the National Governor's Association
went to every inauguration. I have no idea, but the
reason I bring this up is simply because, at some
point in the very near future, as Jared Polis is
running for president, Because he is running for president in
twenty twenty eight, mark my words, this is going to
be used as an example of his willingness to reach

(01:09:46):
across the aisle and work with the other side. Trust
me on this. This is exactly what's going to happen.
A notable absence today Michelle Obama. I don't care that
Michelle Obama wasn't there, actually, because depending on what you're
reading in the tabloid newspapers, she and Barrock are on

(01:10:08):
the verge of a divorce, in which case I'm sorry
for their family or and I think this is far
more likely than the divorce situation. I just I don't
see them getting a divorce. I think they're kind of
the same power couple along like Bill and Hillary are
the same power couple, and power couples just don't get divorced.
Rich people don't get divorced.

Speaker 6 (01:10:27):
You know why.

Speaker 1 (01:10:27):
Couldn't cost too much, It just does. But I do
think it's more likely that she didn't come because she
just didn't want to put on a fake smile.

Speaker 3 (01:10:34):
And I actually kind of admire her for.

Speaker 1 (01:10:36):
That, because I'm not good at my face not showing
how I really feel in a situation. I can, like,
I can, you know, I can say certain things that
would make me feel you know, I could give you
the impression that I felt one way when I actually
felt another way. But if you look at my face,
you're gonna know what I'm saying is not accurate. And

(01:10:56):
I feel like Michelle Obama's kind of on that vibe
do so she wasn't there, but I don't think anybody
really really cared about that at all. Now, I want
to say something. Last week I made a snarky comment
about the Governor Polis's State of the State address, and

(01:11:16):
in it he said, we are going to tackle cattle wrestling,
and I was like, wait, what what are we tackling? Well,
the Denver Gazette has a story today about the fact
that cattle rustling has apparently become rampant, rampant on the
Western Slope, and let me just share this one little part.

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Cattle rustling is a tale at least as old as
Colorado itself. When poverty and drought turned desperate people into thieves.
And now, thanks to the high price of cattle and
uneven enforcement of branding laws across the surrounding states, ranchers
say rustling is back in a big way on the
western slope. And then the Colorado Cattleman's Association has been

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around since eighteen sixty seven, and they said, look, there
was a large cattle wrestling ring around Denver where the
gang would steal cattle then go across the border into
Kansas and Oklahoma and sell them. One hundred and fifty
eight years later, we are still dealing with the same issue. Apparently,
in the last few months the number of cattles stolen

(01:12:24):
has gone up dramatically, oddly as the price of cattle
at auction has gone up dramatically. So they did this
whole thing. So I just had to eat my words.
I just have to say, well, I made fun of
that because it seems so absurd, but apparently this is
a big deal. And whether it's cattle being stolen or

(01:12:45):
cars being stolen, or a burglary had a business, these
are attacks on independent business people and they are stealing
their inventory. That's what it is. A cattle wrestling. Apparently
it's huge on the western slope because of the summer
grazing pastures that are public land. And I guess these

(01:13:08):
cattle thieves just roll up with their their big uh
you know, cattle trailers and steal them. In a normal year,
cattle rancher has experienced an annual two percent to six
percent depredation loss. Now that could be something killed your cattle,
somebody stole your cattle. In Montrose County it is ten
to fifteen percent. That is crazy. The majority they say

(01:13:34):
are of the stolen or missing cattle or calves. And
while price per head varies, the estimated loss is three
hundred to four hundred thousand dollars. So I have to
walk this back and say, I hope Governor Polis does
make this the focus of his administration because obviously this
is a really big deal and a really big day,

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really big crime. Grant, I have a quid question for you, what,
Steve Grant is there? Oh, there he is there, he
is what so, Grant, You're young, still full of youthful exuberans.

Speaker 3 (01:14:10):
Kanda, what do you what do you?

Speaker 1 (01:14:13):
If anything, have you given any thought to what the
next four years of Trump is going to look like,
and if so, what do you want him to do
or not do?

Speaker 8 (01:14:21):
Honestly, I've given it zero thought. My only thought is
that I hope, I hope that everyone can just stay
calm and realize that it's just another four years of
a president in office and hopefully it doesn't affect my
life or anyone I love too much.

Speaker 3 (01:14:37):
And hopefully he does some good stuff.

Speaker 8 (01:14:38):
I mean, his first presidency, for how crazy and off
the cuff he was, he did some really good things
for our country financially.

Speaker 3 (01:14:46):
So I just hope he can stay.

Speaker 8 (01:14:48):
I hope he can stay on prompter like he was
during that speech today. Yeah, and I.

Speaker 3 (01:14:53):
Hope he does some good things. I really do.

Speaker 8 (01:14:55):
I mean, he's he's my president, so I hope he
makes our country better over the next four years.

Speaker 1 (01:15:01):
I love that attitude, and I hope everybody has that attitude.
And you know what, when Joe Biden got elected, I
think I'm pretty much said the same thing. It's just
another it's another president, right, I mean, and there's gonna
be things that happened that people like. There's gonna be
things that happened that people don't like. But here's what
I want from any president. And this is genuine. Okay,
I don't care if you're a Democrat or Republican, independent, Green, Party, constitutional,

(01:15:24):
I don't care if they just made decisions with this
standard of is this gonna make the American people better
or worse?

Speaker 2 (01:15:32):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:15:32):
But that's my standard, right, I just is this good
for the American people or bad for the American people?
And if the answer is no, it's bad for the
American people, then then we should not be doing that.
But if the answer is yes, it's gonna be good
for the American people, then yes, we should be doing that.
And I just we've lost that standard. And I feel
like this for some odd reason, and it doesn't seem

(01:15:55):
like Donald Trump should be the standard bearer. But I've
we now had the chance to interview people who have
been in the room with him while he's met with
auto executives or he's met with different you know, lobbyists
or corporations, and they've all said the same thing that
when these corporations are lobbyists finished making their pitch, Donald
Trump will say, how is this good for the American people?

(01:16:17):
You know, tell me how this is good for the
American people. So maybe that standard will be upheld. I
don't know. I do not know. I have a big
text who doesn't feel that way, though it says this.
Today is a day of mourning. Today is the day
that our democracy died. Today is the day that the
rule of law died. Today is the day that a
common hood a grifter, or a convicted fellon, an insurrectionist,

(01:16:40):
and a convicted rapist takes over the office of the
presidency technically not a convicted rapist, just letting you know.
I certainly hope the seventy million stupid people who are
duped by Donald Trump's lies enjoy living under a dictatorship,
because that's happening. I hope every Trump voter suffers more
than they've ever suffered before. Because of all, the Trump
voters are all traitors to this and the Troop voters

(01:17:01):
had made the rich get richer, the Trump voters have
destroyed the lower and middle class.

Speaker 3 (01:17:06):
Can I say one more thing about that?

Speaker 2 (01:17:08):
Sure?

Speaker 3 (01:17:08):
Go ahead, Uh, that's just like living under a rock.

Speaker 8 (01:17:12):
Like I've had to have this conversation with a lot
of my friends, and I like to think I'm somewhere
in the middle politically, but a lot of my friends
have that same sentiment, and I think you have to
understand that the majority and the electoral college both went
to Trump, like this is not a minority way of
people thinking. This is the majority of people that are

(01:17:33):
sick of the way things have been done in politics
for so long, so they're willing to maybe put aside
some of their moral values for a guy like Trump.
And I think that's hard for people that are constantly
fed certain ways of thinking on the.

Speaker 3 (01:17:45):
Left to really grasp.

Speaker 1 (01:17:49):
Well. I think that you have to ignore everything that
happened in the first administration in order to come to
these conclusions. Right like it or not. The Trump tax
has helped everyone. If they're not extended, everybody's saxes go up,
every single tax bracket goes up. The economy did really
well under those policies. So you have to kind of

(01:18:09):
decide to be willfully ignorant of the four years of
history that we actually have in order to believe everything
that this texture just said. And I think that's kind
of sad. And that's why the day after the election,
I just said, I am not going to pile on.
I think there are a lot of people in this
country who are truly terrified because of the media that
they consume of what's going to happen next, and that

(01:18:29):
just makes me really sad. So the only thing we
can do is hope that things move in a positive
direction because honestly, we don't know. I mean, I'd love
to say here and be, you know, super swag confident
that everything's going to be, you know, coming up roses
for the for the future, but the reality is we
don't know what's going to happen. I mean, who saw
COVID coming, right, you know?

Speaker 8 (01:18:48):
Yeah, And I think you have to have that positive
mindset because it scares me too.

Speaker 2 (01:18:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:18:52):
But what else scared me was that the government can
basically tell us that we can't go outside when COVID
has So, I mean, I think there's things to be
scared of on both sides of the aisle, And I think,
like you said, you have to have that optimistic view
of the future.

Speaker 1 (01:19:09):
And ultimately, if the President of the United States is
affecting your personal mental health, no matter who it is,
you're really doing life wrong right. Your priorities are askew.
You need to reorient yourself towards things that a you
can control and b matter on your day to day life,
and quite frankly, the president of the United States should

(01:19:30):
not matter that much in your life. This to me
is always like you begin to understand when you talk
to small government people, because I'm a small government person.
The fact that people are so emotionally invested in one
person that's in the White House says that the federal
government is far too large and is doing far too much,
and that's the biggest part of the problem. You should

(01:19:51):
not it should not matter when iota who is president.
It should not mean one thing in your daily life.
It matters way more who's on the school board, who's
a your town council, who's on your county commission, who's
in your legislature, who's in your your You know your
state legislatures because they're the ones that are making rules
and laws that deeply affect you on a daily basis.

(01:20:13):
Nandy Biden just pardoned his entire family. Practically, what does
that text think about that? The most interesting thing is
I got a text earlier and I didn't address it then,
but I'll address it now. So whoever Biden pardoned, does
this mean they can kill their spouse and get away
with it. Does this mean they can run red lights
and get away with it. What does that mean? It's

(01:20:33):
federal crime, so they would have to kill them in
a federal crime sort of way. It's it's a little
bit unnerving to think what does that cover? At what
point does that? Does that protect them from things they
should not be protected from. I don't know. I don't
know a lot of you weighing in. I'm looking forward
to how Kyle Burgundy Clark covers Donald Trump's presidency. We

(01:20:56):
shall see, we shall definitely see. By the way, good
news to people who love little baby cows getting eat.
And we got more wolves fifteen more. These are from
British Columbia, though, so I don't know when they howl.
Do they go ooh a? I don't know what Canadian
wolves sound like. I'm not sure. Maybe. Thank you. I

(01:21:17):
was waiting for the rimshot that was not coming. Thank you, Grant.
I appreciate that. Appreciate that a lot now. I you know,
just thought i'd throw in the wolf story at the
very end. All right, So tomorrow we will be broadcasting
live here again from beautiful San Juan, Puerto Rico. And
thanks to our friends at American Financing who have a
I'm gonna call it a side hustle down here. That's

(01:21:38):
like a gross oversimplification, but it is what it is.
And we are going to talk to a couple people.
One we're going to talk to Deborah Flora. They're an
organization in Douglas County is trying to do a forum
where they're bringing potential leadership of the Colorado Republican Party
to answer questions and things like that. They're trying to

(01:22:00):
get everybody on board. We'll have a detailed update about
that and some more stuff. It's gonna be a really
fun day. Do we have somebody to play out of
the Day?

Speaker 3 (01:22:08):
We sure do.

Speaker 1 (01:22:09):
Are you playing out the day?

Speaker 2 (01:22:10):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:22:10):
My god, Shuck is playing of the day? And you
know what you're supposed to yell? I know exactly what
I'm supposed to yell. Okay, Okay, you know what you're
gonna yell. Here we go, and now it's time for
the most exciting segment on the radio of its kind.
Oh God of the day? I know, But you don't
speak the Spaniel, babe, you don't speak the spaniel.

Speaker 3 (01:22:32):
Can we get his mike turned up a little?

Speaker 1 (01:22:34):
Yeah? Is Mike's got to be turned up there? Uh?
Oh there you go. That sounded better. Yeah, I can
hear you now. Okay, there all right? What is our
dad joke of the day, please grant.

Speaker 3 (01:22:44):
Dad joke of the day.

Speaker 8 (01:22:46):
I posted a photo of myself at the gym and
it was flagged and removed as fake news.

Speaker 1 (01:22:54):
I like that one. I like it a lot. What
is today's trivia or today's word of the day, please, grahat.

Speaker 8 (01:23:00):
The word of the day today is an adjective inimitable.
I nima b l e inimitable, inimitable.

Speaker 1 (01:23:10):
Doesn't that mean like unsurpassed, kind of like a best
like inimitable, indestructible.

Speaker 8 (01:23:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:23:17):
I think I'll give that to you.

Speaker 8 (01:23:18):
Something that is impossible to copy or imitate.

Speaker 1 (01:23:23):
Yes, okay, here we go. Today's trivia question aviation history.
The world record for a transatlantic airplane flight was set
in nineteen seventy eight when a Concord airplane flew from
Paris to New York in what time? Give it closest
to the nearest half hour? What do you mean is it?
You're going four hours? I was going to go four

(01:23:45):
and a half.

Speaker 3 (01:23:45):
What do you got, Grant three and a half?

Speaker 1 (01:23:48):
You are correct? Grant wins on the price's right rules
because you did not go over three. Chuck and I
were actually in that concord. It's sitting on the USS
Intripid in New York's Harbor, and you can sit in
the concord. It is tiny. It is like the tiniest
little plane you've ever sat and in your life. It's crazy,
all right. What is our Jeopardy category?

Speaker 8 (01:24:09):
Grant Jeopardy category for today, Herbs and spices. Okay, I
thought Chuck would appreciate this one. It's been said that
sneeze wart used as this to induce sneezing cleanses the
head of tough slimy humors.

Speaker 1 (01:24:31):
What is mucus?

Speaker 8 (01:24:32):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:24:33):
Incorrect?

Speaker 1 (01:24:34):
Dang it.

Speaker 8 (01:24:36):
Incorrect. I've never heard of this. It's a snut. Is
it a snuff?

Speaker 3 (01:24:43):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:24:44):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:24:44):
Okay yea a triple stump.

Speaker 3 (01:24:48):
Right there, next one.

Speaker 8 (01:24:51):
Bittersweet is known as woody this, and Bella Donna is
also known as deadly this. Bitter sweet is known as
woody this, and Bella Donna is known as deadly this.

Speaker 1 (01:25:10):
I feel like I should know this, and I don't shop.
Already got minus one, so I'm just gonna sit here quietly, nightshade.
What is it. Oh, dang, it makes sense.

Speaker 3 (01:25:21):
Start here all right. Next one.

Speaker 8 (01:25:23):
This type of garlic, grown mainly in California has huge
cloves averaging one ounce.

Speaker 3 (01:25:29):
Mandy, Mandy, what is elephant garlic? Correct?

Speaker 1 (01:25:33):
What is it? Yay? Back to zero? No, I'm back
in zero. It's not exactly a banner day of the day.

Speaker 3 (01:25:39):
Next to one.

Speaker 8 (01:25:41):
Its seeds are found on rye bread and its essential
oil is any Mandy?

Speaker 1 (01:25:47):
What are caraway seeds?

Speaker 2 (01:25:48):
Correct?

Speaker 8 (01:25:50):
Now we're on the board, all right, Final one, Come on, Chuck.
The name of this flowering herb also means wolf like, oh.

Speaker 1 (01:26:00):
Like flowering RB.

Speaker 3 (01:26:04):
I don't know, Jasmine, what is jazzine? And correct?

Speaker 1 (01:26:07):
That's not an This is why I don't Okay, what
is what is the answer? I'm sitting on one right now?

Speaker 2 (01:26:15):
What is it?

Speaker 3 (01:26:15):
Lupine?

Speaker 1 (01:26:16):
Lupine?

Speaker 2 (01:26:17):
Those? Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:26:18):
Yes, you do?

Speaker 1 (01:26:23):
Is that it? Are we done?

Speaker 3 (01:26:24):
Yes? Thank God?

Speaker 1 (01:26:26):
The most painful category for us right now. Okay, I'm
gonna make room for another colleague of mine to take
over on a different radio station, but I will be
back tomorrow. In the meantime, keep it right here on
KOA