01-31-25 FULL SHOW - AG Phil Weiser Is On, Plus Plan For Valentine's Day - The Mandy Connell Podcast

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 3 (00:15):
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Speaker 4 (00:27):
Welcome to a Friday edition of the show altogether now
and we will take you right through a Friday afternoon.

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It is going to be a fun day. The wine
Yoki making a return appearance. Yesterday she talked about flying
an airplane. Today we're talking about Valentine's chocolate.

Speaker 5 (00:59):
Oh yea.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yes, yes, indeed, Valentine's Day right around the corner. If
you haven't made your dinner reservations and you want to
go out on Valentine's Day, do it today, friends. Open
table app is amazing. Do use open table? Eric? Do
you use that to make a reservation? Are you in
the reservation stage of your life? Like I rarely go
out if I don't have a reservation, And then I

(01:23):
use my joke when I get into a place that
I don't have a reservation, They go, oh, do you
have a reservation? I said, I had some reservations, but
I came here anyway. And most of the time they
don't get it, but I laugh inside where it counts.
Let's talk about the blog for a moment, because it's
a humdinger. Go ahead and find it by going to
mandy'sblog dot com. Mandy'sblog dot com No Apostrophe. Look for

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the headline that says one thirty one twenty five blog.
I legit cannot believe that today is the last day
of January.

Speaker 5 (01:52):
It's been the longest January. What are you talking?

Speaker 6 (01:54):
Maybe because I went to Puerto Rico.

Speaker 5 (01:56):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:58):
Fast you were in Mexico with Christmas?

Speaker 5 (02:00):
I know. It just feels like an eternity ago.

Speaker 6 (02:02):
Oh no, this month has flown by. Been busy. I've
been getting a lot of stuff done.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Me too, five like a boss.

Speaker 5 (02:09):
Yeah, it's been a long month.

Speaker 6 (02:11):
I'm tired, but anyway, move on.

Speaker 5 (02:12):
Is it Christmas yet?

Speaker 6 (02:14):
It is right on the corner. Starts your shopping now.
Ag Phil Wiser is on plus plan for Valentine's Day.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
Click on that and here are the headlines you will
find within tech teven.

Speaker 5 (02:27):
In office half American, all with ships and climas and
say that's going to press platch.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
Today on the blog Colorado just got another opioid settlement,
a new film without Joe Lieberman.

Speaker 6 (02:37):
The wine Yogi talks Valentine's Day? What the heck is
wrong with? Appliance is now holy cow?

Speaker 7 (02:43):
Cash?

Speaker 4 (02:43):
But tell there's life in the dead horse. Scrolling Scrolling
the DNC isn't much better right now? Scrolling another criminal
gets deported. We may be able to vote in sanctuary states.
Oh wait a minute, we may be able to vote
on sanctuary status. Supers workers are going to strike. Welcome
to the Year of the Snake. Where are Denver rents

(03:05):
the highest sushi or pizza?

Speaker 6 (03:07):
How about both?

Speaker 5 (03:08):
Ish?

Speaker 4 (03:08):
I don't get Holocaust deniers, good news progressives, notice the
national debt.

Speaker 6 (03:13):
Sometimes science and senators are wrong.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
Tgif everybody private union membership hits an all time low,
the gender fever has broken. Bingo could add beers. Mit
a minute, Bingo could add years to your life. Not beers,
I mean you could anyway. No, Tolcy Gabbert is not
a Syria apologist. Now Paramount is looking to settle with Trump.
Another cash matel moment for the Archives, Ran Paul lays

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out why Americans don't trust government on vaccines, stop negative thoughts,
why Super Bowl parties suck rfk Ann's Bernie Sanders. Those
are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com.

Speaker 6 (03:53):
And yesterday, on my way home.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
I listened to a bunch of the Cash Betelu confirmation hearing.
I'm gonna be perfectly frank. I didn't know a lot
about Cash, Buttel I.

Speaker 6 (04:05):
Knew vaguely who he was.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
I knew he was involved in Trump's defense. I knew
he spent a lot of time calling out the FBI
and rightly so I knew all of that, but I
did not know what the man was capable of. And
he was out standing yesterday, like outstanding, so good, so

(04:27):
so good, and I loved it.

Speaker 6 (04:31):
I absolutely loved it.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
I heard Ross talking about Tulsa Gabbard's testimony.

Speaker 6 (04:34):
I watched a little bit of that this morning.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
She has been struggling, and she's struggling partially because there's
no seriousness in these confirmation hearings.

Speaker 5 (04:46):
They're just It's.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
Like so often she would be asked a question by
a Democrat and she would start talking there they would
just yell over her and it was just, hey, you
know whatever. I don't know how I feel about her
as the director.

Speaker 6 (05:00):
Of National intelligence. I really don't.

Speaker 4 (05:03):
I'm sort of holding my opinions on all of these
people because I don't know any of them. Ross is
right in that Telsey Gabbert has said some crazy stuff
in the past, but she's also said crazy stuff that
has turned out to be true. And that's one of
the points that RFK Junior has made in his confirmation hearings.
When he was asked if he was a conspiracy theorist,
he pointed out the many ways where conspiracy theories turned

(05:24):
out to be true, like, hey, that vaccine isn't going
to prevent transmission and it's not going to stop you
from getting it.

Speaker 6 (05:31):
Hey, masks don't work. All of these things that were
said and then turned out to be true.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
I mean, at what point do you move it from
conspiracy theory into the oh yeah, that's right column.

Speaker 6 (05:44):
Just letting you know now.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
Phil Wiser, Attorney General is the State of Colorado, is
going to come on the show today at two o'clock.
Why because Colorado just won another giant settlement, not as
big as the other one's, but still a sizable chunk
of money from Purdue Far because of their role in
lying to pir or lying to doctors and patients about
the addictability of oxy codone and oxy cotton and all

(06:09):
of those oxy drugs that got so many people hooked
on drugs. So I want to talk to Attorney General
Phil Wiser about that money. I mean, we've gotten almost
a bill or we are on track to get a
lot of money. I almost sent almost a billion, but
I don't know if that's correct. I think it is,
and he'll have that information when he comes on the show.

Speaker 6 (06:27):
But where's that money going?

Speaker 4 (06:29):
Do we already have it?

Speaker 6 (06:30):
Has it already been spent?

Speaker 4 (06:32):
Why aren't we spending it on long term treatment facilities
for people that are currently living on the streets. That's
and I don't know if Filweiser doesn't determine the budget,
but he probably knows where the money went. So we're
gonna talk to him at two o'clock about that. There's
a new film about Joe Lieberman. Rob Schwartz is the
director of Centered.

Speaker 6 (06:52):
Joe Lieberman.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
It's Centered Joe Lieberman, and I was watching this film
this morning. I watched about thirty five of it, and
I was just struck by the feeling that a Joe
Lieberman politician could not get elected today because Joe Liberman
was very pragmatic about national defense. He was very pragmatic

(07:16):
about a lot of things that conservatives take very seriously.
But he was very much a social liberal. He worked
very hard to get don't ask, don't tell overturned in
the military. I mean, he's socially very but also some
very conservative positions. I'm like, where does he fit in
the modern party? Where does in either party?

Speaker 6 (07:34):
Where would he sit?

Speaker 4 (07:35):
And that just depressed me, realizing that the tribalism that
we have right now would prevent a very pragmatic, smart
man like Joe Lieberman from even being able to participate.
So we're going to talk to Rob about that. At
twelve thirty the movie is available as part of the
Denver Jewish Film Festival.

Speaker 6 (07:52):
And I'm just going to say this, I find it
kind of funny.

Speaker 4 (07:55):
I'm not knocking the film festival in any way, shape
or form when I say this, trust me, it's funny
to me that we have to have a Jewish film
festival considering that Jews built Hollywood, I mean, they built
the entire machinery, and yet now we have to have,
you know, a Jewish film festival to focus on on
predominantly Jewish themed films. But I just thought that's kind

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of ironic considering how much of Hollywood exists because of Jews.
And then two point thirty Valentine's Saving right around the corner,
The win Yogi and I have done some snooping on
your behalf. As a matter of fact, a rod do
you know what? On the win Jogi's blog today, she
has made me a cub reporter for her The win Jogi.
We've got a lot of stuff to talk about. We

(08:37):
shown one list, not a rhino yet.

Speaker 7 (08:38):
But you know, you know, oh gosh, did any Oh wait, wait,
I don't mean to No, Okay, there's.

Speaker 4 (08:45):
Life in the dead horse based on what happened last night,
looks pretty damn dead.

Speaker 6 (08:49):
No, just give it some water, it'll be fine.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
It's like, what are those sponges you buy when you're
a kid that looks like a dollar bill and then
you put it in a water turnas you must.

Speaker 5 (08:55):
Be referencing the.

Speaker 4 (08:55):
Snelskit, I thought, no, not that, okay, yeah, no the
snl SK Yeah yeah on a Thursday.

Speaker 6 (09:02):
Yeah, so last night.

Speaker 5 (09:03):
Was someone drunk in there? Because IM pretty sure someone
was drunk. Do you know what?

Speaker 4 (09:06):
Wait, I'm gonna say this on the air right now.
I want to thank Representative Lauren Bobert for trying to
bring some sense to that meeting last night. So last night,
let me just give your break down on what happened
last night. First of all, I wasn't paying attention. I
did not watch the meeting.

Speaker 6 (09:21):
I did log in, what didn't care.

Speaker 4 (09:23):
And then an insider started sending me information and I
was like, oh, dang it, I wish I was there.

Speaker 6 (09:30):
So after an hour and a half.

Speaker 4 (09:33):
Where nothing got done because Chairman Williams wanted you just say, look,
if you're on the meeting, you obviously have credentials and
you can be here, and the people in the meeting
were like, no, we want to.

Speaker 6 (09:45):
Check ID and there was no process to do that.
So they argued about that for an hour and a
half and then they voted on whether or not.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
Just to take everybody's word for it, essentially, and that
got voted down. And at that point Dave Williams saw
the writing on the wall. He's like, I didn't bring
enough of my people here and all these other people
are going to vote against me, and he just adjourned
the meeting. It was just the most spectacular public fail
I have seen in so long.

Speaker 6 (10:17):
You know what it reminded me of.

Speaker 4 (10:18):
It reminded me of like the boring political meeting version
of those wipeout videos where all it is the people
falling down and running into walls, an anvil falls on
their head.

Speaker 6 (10:28):
Whatever.

Speaker 7 (10:28):
Do you believe the conspiracy theory that other guy and
they kept getting you know, muted.

Speaker 6 (10:33):
I'm just saying, I am just.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
Art, which, by the way, if you follow me on
x dot com at Mandy cart good because.

Speaker 6 (10:43):
Stop doing that.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
Because there was representative Weinberg was trying to make some
points last night and he was talking and then this
kept hawking, and then he would get mad. Your people
keep turning my microphone, and then I just ad it
was It was just a colossal dumpster fire. But the
good news is I think we are seeing the end

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of the divisive leadership that currently exists in the Republican
Party in Colorado.

Speaker 5 (11:10):
Currently is not malfunctioning.

Speaker 6 (11:11):
Am over joy.

Speaker 5 (11:12):
That was intentional.

Speaker 6 (11:13):
That was intentional to show you what was going on
last night.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
They kept getting muted.

Speaker 5 (11:17):
It was so.

Speaker 7 (11:19):
So you see his eyes in the active speaker screen
keep going to start talking to looking down they see,
unmuted again, unused again.

Speaker 4 (11:26):
Yeah, it was absolutely hilarious. Watch it, absolutely hilarious. And
I have by the way, you can watch the whole meeting.
I mean, if you've got an hour and a half
that you don't have anything else in the entire world,
like you know, clipping your toenails or watching paint.

Speaker 6 (11:42):
Dry, you can watch this meeting.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
But no, no, no, it is clear that Dave Williams
has lost the support of the congressional delegation and many
elected Republicans here in Colorado. And now we're going to
have to see who gets to lead the party in
the next cycle that should be coming up in March.

(12:06):
We should have new leadership.

Speaker 6 (12:08):
So there you go, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (12:09):
Seriously, Patel and Gabbard are as pathetic as nominees as Gates,
heg Seth and RFK, and your response is to attack
the confirmation process. You are a shill, lady. I love
Cash Betel straight up, Tulsi Gabbard. Either Tolsi Gabbard and
RFK or both are going to be sacrificed to the Democrats.
And you know, I don't really have an opinion on

(12:34):
that either way. I truly don't the RFK thing. I'm
super glad that he was nominated in the first place,
because he has started a conversation about our.

Speaker 6 (12:41):
Food supply in the United States of America.

Speaker 4 (12:43):
That needs to happen, and I'm hoping that whoever follows him,
if he does not get confirmed, continues to have that
conversation about food safety, what's in our food, and making
sure people understand what's in our food before they eat it.
I'm really happy that Williams the Weasel is stemied. Yeah,

(13:03):
there you go. Oh this person said, I enjoy muting
my colleagues when we're on teams meetings.

Speaker 5 (13:08):
You can do that.

Speaker 4 (13:08):
I mean, I'm guessing you're leading the meeting just muting people. Wait, no,
don't mute me again. You're just You're gonna get in trouble.
I'm gonna have to Jordan and I have a show
to do, mister, I have a show to do. Let
me just I put, by the way, the video that
Amrod's talking about that someone put on Twitter with Representative Weinberg.

Speaker 6 (13:31):
And him being muted and then unmuted and muted and unmuted.
I mean, it was just.

Speaker 7 (13:36):
Like SNL's fiftieth anniversary shows coming up. If they recreated that,
it would be a hit, only it would just.

Speaker 6 (13:42):
Sound like this.

Speaker 4 (13:43):
Okay, Now we're going to vote on whether or not
to accept that everybody is who they say they are,
and so we're just going to vote on that.

Speaker 5 (13:57):
And then Thompson down somebourbon. So he sounds like Dave,
did he?

Speaker 7 (14:01):
There you go?

Speaker 6 (14:02):
Yeah, that was a very down beat Dave last night,
very down beat.

Speaker 5 (14:06):
Good there, down beat Dave.

Speaker 6 (14:09):
Down beat Dave. I'm okay with down beat Dave.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
I prefer down beat Dave to not down beat Dave,
because to have not down beat Dave implies that he
is upbeat Dave, and I don't.

Speaker 6 (14:18):
Want him to have anything to be upbeat about.

Speaker 5 (14:21):
I just don't know. Is he getting worn down? Maybe
he's getting worn down. I don't know. We can only help, yep.

Speaker 6 (14:29):
If the dead horse is alive, my friends, like his leg.

Speaker 7 (14:32):
Is twitching, that's it. I mean, gotta put him out
of his misery for his own good. Yeah, lordy, Yeah,
it's tough.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
Now coming up at twelve thirty, we're gonna talk to
Rob Schwartz. But I've got a lot of stuff on
the blog, but I have to talk about something extremely
important because I am so beyond frustrated. Okay, check and
I read it. Our kitchen completely to the studs. Everything new,
new appliance is everything ten years ago. Okay, so ten
years ago. That's how long we've had all these appliances.

(15:04):
Since then, I have spent one thousand dollars on my
double ovens, I have replaced the refrigerator completely, and yesterday
I realized my dishwasher is crapping out. Do you know
how much the dishwasher repair is going to cost?

Speaker 6 (15:20):
Anthony?

Speaker 5 (15:23):
Nine hundred dollars?

Speaker 6 (15:24):
Very close, only seven hundred dollars. Do you know how
much a new.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
Bosh dishwasher costs right now? Twenty four hundred, one thousand
and fifty. So guess who's buying a new dishwasher instead
of repairing the old dishwasher. But I, and this is
let me just put on my ancient, old crusty.

Speaker 6 (15:40):
Hat right now.

Speaker 4 (15:41):
Back in my day, the entire my entire childhood, we
had one dishwasher, one refrigerator, one stove. That's it, my
entire eighteen year childhood. Nothing changed in the kitchen, naughty.

Speaker 6 (15:56):
And they were all avocado green. You people know what
I'm talking about. So what is with appliances. Are they
just built like crap?

Speaker 3 (16:04):
Now?

Speaker 6 (16:05):
Can I What I'd love to buy.

Speaker 4 (16:07):
Is just a refrigerator and a freezer without all the
other crap. I'd like to buy just a dishwasher that
doesn't have eighty racks and some kind of computer that
is going to tell you what you had for dinner
last night.

Speaker 6 (16:19):
I don't want any of that.

Speaker 5 (16:21):
Just wait, it'll be a monthly subscription to use those.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
No.

Speaker 7 (16:25):
No, should I reel that back in from the ether,
because that sounds like a money make an idea?

Speaker 5 (16:31):
No no, no, no hep refrigerators off. You didn't replenish
the subscription to keep your food good? No no.

Speaker 4 (16:39):
This is one of the reasons that there are certain
car models that I will not purchase. BMW is going
to a point where you have to have multiple subscriptions
to get multiple.

Speaker 6 (16:49):
Features on that car. No, I'm not doing that. I'll
go back and drive a VW thing. I don't care.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
I can go zero to sixty and twenty three seconds.
By the way, a listener sent me in article about
the VW thing. That is the actual zero to sixty
times twenty three point six seconds in the VW thing.

Speaker 5 (17:06):
What yeah, what's that engine?

Speaker 3 (17:09):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (17:09):
It is actually basically a couple of Gerbils with roller skates.

Speaker 7 (17:13):
That's what the VW two cylinder inside those two cylinders,
two Gerbils.

Speaker 6 (17:17):
Wait exactly, but does anybody else had these problems? Five six,
sixth nine. I was the text line.

Speaker 4 (17:24):
I mean, is there a brand that you love that's
worked really well? We're going We're We're now going up.
We're going up to Bosh. We had a kitchen age
washer or a dishwasher that I've had multiple problems with
and wash at ten years old. Now ten years old.
So yeah, Mandy, Mandy.

Speaker 6 (17:44):
We're all your appliance is Bosh. They're not.

Speaker 4 (17:46):
They are about to be, because slowly but surely, we
replaced our old fridge with a Bosh fridge. Now we're
going to replace our dishwasher with a Bosch dishwasher. When
I got the appliances for our kitchen remodel, I didn't
buy an appliant suite. I did what I thought was smart.
I went to Consumer Horse. I look for the most
reliable appliances you could find.

Speaker 6 (18:04):
And what did I get? Apparently reliable means nine years Mandy,
we haven't had.

Speaker 4 (18:09):
A dishwasher, since Thanksgiving of twenty twenty two, by choice.
It's faster to do them by hand, and you know
they're clean.

Speaker 5 (18:15):
No, I'm not doing that fast.

Speaker 4 (18:17):
I'm past the point in my life where I want
to wash the shoes by hand. I just and right
now I have a teenager, so I don't have to
clean the kitchen. Her chor is to clean the kitchen
every night.

Speaker 5 (18:26):
Does she get money for chores?

Speaker 4 (18:27):
No, she gets to stay in the house rep free.
That's her recent regardless of chores. No, no, no, But
I mean if she wants so asks for something and
wants it and gets it, well, it depends on what
it is. Sometimes she gets a yes, sometimes.

Speaker 5 (18:39):
She gets a no. If she wants a horse, I
got the dead horse right now.

Speaker 4 (18:42):
Well, you know, Mandy, they don't last long because they're
foreign made and the old appliances were overbuilt.

Speaker 6 (18:48):
Yeah, get the extended warranty. We did.

Speaker 4 (18:54):
It lasted seven years, and everything broke literally the second
it ran out.

Speaker 5 (19:00):
They knew, of course they knew, they knew. Of course
they knew.

Speaker 4 (19:05):
Gee Whirlpool best reliable appliances. My ge cook top has
problems as well.

Speaker 5 (19:10):
Just letting you know.

Speaker 6 (19:12):
Just lettings were electric uh gas, the knobs are now.

Speaker 4 (19:17):
The knobs on the ge Cafe cook top are made
out of plastic, so about every year or two they
all break and they are twenty five dollars apiece to replace,
and they are.

Speaker 6 (19:27):
Made out of plastic. Murk, I am.

Speaker 4 (19:29):
I'm turning into the old crotchety person. When we get back,
Rob Schwartz has made a movie about Joe Lieberman and
it's called Centered for a reason. We're going to talk
to him about that next. Already, the wine yogi's here
for Diabetes Day on the Mandy Connell Show. And ay, Rod,
you're super strict right now, aren't you, so you can't
you can't try any of this stuff.

Speaker 5 (19:47):
Nope, Okay, So I.

Speaker 4 (19:48):
Just want to give you guys a little look of
what's coming up.

Speaker 6 (19:50):
In a couple hours.

Speaker 4 (19:51):
We've got crow nuts, We've got mochet donuts, We've got
cream puffs. We've got so many truffles that it's not
even funny because I bought truffles.

Speaker 6 (20:01):
She bought truffles. We love the truffles.

Speaker 4 (20:03):
And then we're gonna be talking about some non alcoholic
I know.

Speaker 6 (20:06):
We both Okay, a lot of these are dark chocolates.
So they don't have a lot of sugar. I don't care,
just letting nothing, just letting you know, No, it's fine anyway.

Speaker 4 (20:15):
I do have other stuff on the blog that I
want to talk about.

Speaker 5 (20:17):
But maybe we dance in the corner with the food please.

Speaker 6 (20:20):
She's trying, She's trying.

Speaker 4 (20:21):
The cronaut, which is what I want to try, which
is a courssalt made into a donut. Found under Mandy's
blog under posts mixed in with recorded shows. Yes, Latest
Posts not only has latest shows, it also has the
blog that is not my preference.

Speaker 5 (20:36):
Thing.

Speaker 6 (20:37):
They did not ask me, so you've got to kind
of scroll over sometimes.

Speaker 4 (20:43):
Mandy, we have a Bosch dishwasher that smelled bad when
it was new, smelled for over a year and they
had to replace the pump twice at about three fifty
a pop.

Speaker 6 (20:50):
Was it cylinder warranty?

Speaker 4 (20:51):
The only thing that has saved us, especially with my
double ovens that I have spent one thousand dollars on.
Because here's a fun fact. When you use a frigator
oven's self cleaning feature, it fries the motherboard. Now you
would think they would have figured that out before it
left the factory, but no, no, a lot of you

(21:12):
were weighing in with your stuff. I had Samsung French
door bottom freezer. It got declared lemon after four repairs.
I love my LG French door bottom freezer ice water
and it does not have to fight with refrigerator temperature.
I will tell you I got great advice from someone
that just said never buy an appliance from a company
that makes TVs, and it really is good advice. Mandy

(21:35):
picked up a double even range on the curb fifteen
years ago. It's probably thirty plus years old, but awesome.
One oven is smaller than the other. Our dishwasher was
existing when we moved in fifteen years ago. I have
no idea how old is it is, but it works awesome. Mandy,
what are your symptoms of your washer? If you were
chuck or handy, you can usually buy parts and fix
them at a fraction of the cost of the service technician.

(21:58):
The part to fix my dishwasher is five hundred dollars.

Speaker 5 (22:02):
The part.

Speaker 4 (22:05):
Already looked it up because I have fixed my fridge before.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
I'll go on.

Speaker 4 (22:09):
I'm not afraid to use the YouTube, but this is
a much more complicated repair. And if the part's five
hundred bucks. I can buy a new dishwasher for a
grand and have it at least for another seven years.
Super super frustrated Mandy. I used Consumer Reports to buy
my washer and dryer in nineteen ninety four.

Speaker 6 (22:27):
I've moved it three times since and they still run great.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (22:32):
My Boss dishwasher is eleven years old this month and
in great shape.

Speaker 6 (22:35):
Yeah. We're going with Bosh because I have loved my
Bosh fridge.

Speaker 4 (22:38):
We have a Bosh French Store bottom freezer. Love this fridge.
Chuck will tell you that he hates it because there's
not enough room inside. But it's just because I've been
too lazy to reconfigure the shelves. I mean, legitimately, that's
the only issue. Currently, got a Montgomery Ward freezer still
going strong fifty five years. Okay, I gotta tell you
guys the story of the box freezer in my house.

(22:59):
First of all, boxe. Can we all agree that box
freezer suck because you have to dig through them to
get whatever you need? But why do we have one
if I think they suck? Because many years ago, before
you even met me, my husband bought a house and
as part of that negotiation, he negotiated to get the
damn box freezer, and when they went to move in,

(23:21):
the box fraser was gone, and Chuck had to get
into a fight with the people who sold in the
house they were getting a divorce. He fought with the husband,
the husband said I don't have the box raizer, then
had to fight with the wife finally got the.

Speaker 6 (23:32):
Box freezer back. I hate the box fraezer with the fire.

Speaker 4 (23:34):
Of a thousand sons, and we still have it because
Chuck's like, I don't know, I had to fight for
that box razer, like he was fighting the Nazis for
the box razer, and now I'm stuck with it and
stuck with it, I mean stuck with it.

Speaker 6 (23:46):
Hate a box razer.

Speaker 4 (23:47):
We came up with that idea is unless you're gonna
cram a dead body in there, what do you need
a box razer for? Just saying, may I never connect
the ice maker, I have the recipe to make my own.
I despise ice trays with the fire of one thousand suns.

Speaker 6 (24:01):
It reminds me of being poor. I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 4 (24:04):
It reminds me of all those years where I lived
in apartments where we didn't have an ice maker, and
we didn't have a dishwasher. We didn't have anything. And
when you live with roommates, this is inevitably what happens.
You the responsible roommate. You take the time and you
fill up five ice trays and you put them in
the freezer so they will be ice. And then when you,
the person you just filled up all the ice trays,

(24:25):
goes to get your ice, you know what you find
five empty ass ice trays. That is why I hate
ice trays never ever again. I'll just go iceless if
my ice maker breaks. Mandy, I agree that appliances are
not made like they were before. If your energy supplier
is XL Energy, they have an appliance protection plan that
has worn't great for me since twenty thirteen.

Speaker 6 (24:47):
Your appliances don't need to be new to join.

Speaker 4 (24:49):
Its insurance coverage on each appliance you choose, and it's
included in your monthly bill. When your appliance isn't working
and they come out with a service fee and fix
them if they're repaarable. If they're not repaarable, they give
you allow towards the new appliance. I am not an
Excel customer. So that is not available, Mandy. Maybe you
can find a reputable used appliance salesman who could sell
you old school appliances that are still repairable and dependable,

(25:11):
but they're also ugly, Dan. So, I mean, let's be real.
I designed my perfect kitchen. I love my kitchen so much.
I love everything about it. I designed everything about it.
Even as the person that I was working with was
telling me that my design was wrong and that the
flow wasn't great. I was like, Nope, this is what

(25:31):
I want, but I also want it to be somewhat pretty.
I know, I know I should just be just happy, Mandy.
Ice and water tastes funny out of a refrigerator.

Speaker 5 (25:42):
You know what.

Speaker 4 (25:43):
We have a filter in our refrigerator and it tastes great.
I mean, I don't really drink bottled water because I
think it's wasteful. Does everybody have one of those things
that everybody else does? But you're just like, I'm not
doing that because that seems wasteful. Bottled water to me
is like incredibly wasteful. Water is free, right, I mean,
it comes out it's not free, I mean, you know

(26:04):
what I mean, though, comes out of the tap for
almost nothing, and we got people running around drinking out
of bottles.

Speaker 6 (26:09):
I just don't get it. I do not get it, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (26:13):
Box freezers are a box freezer will hold half a
dead cow and nothing else. I don't even think ours
would hold a full dead cow. Ours is small. It's awful, Mandy.
The biggest problem with dishwashers nowadays is the federal regulations
about how much water they can use. Everything is restricted
and causes greater wear and tear. And I think more

(26:34):
likely the fact that everything in a dishwasher is plastic. Now,
every single bit of a dishwasher is plastic. There is
no metal in the dishwasher. Remember the arms used to
be metal, Not anymore, Mandy, didn't know you were talking appliances.

Speaker 6 (26:48):
Oh yeah, appliances left and right.

Speaker 4 (26:52):
Because I have to buy a stupid new dishwasher because
fixing my old dishes dishwasher is just a bad financial decision.
What's funny about this is I have a car. My
car is at twenty fifteen, and I was talking to
a friend of mine the other day. She's getting the
process of buying a new car, and she said, well,
what what year is your car? I said, it's a

(27:13):
twenty fifteen, she goes, well, what are you gonna get
a new car? I was like, why do I want
a new car? My car runs perfectly well, I have
a fantastic mechanic. I'm gonna drive my aunt's paid off, right,
I don't want a new car.

Speaker 6 (27:26):
I don't need to shop for a new car. I
don't need you.

Speaker 4 (27:28):
If you don't like me anymore because I drive an
older car, I don't want to be your friend anyway.
Straight up, I realize that cars for some people are
a status symbol. For me, they are a comfortable way
to get from point A to point B. And as
soon as I spend more than eight thousand dollars in
one year on my car, I will talk about getting
another car. So with cars, I'm like, ah, now I'm

(27:50):
gonna keep repairing that. But my dishwasher goes out. I
was like, oh God, the biggest problem with all the
dishwashers is all that talking. And here I thought you
were gonna say the loud music they play in the
back of the house. Have you guys been watching these
confirmation hearings? How engaged are you? Because here I'm on
the radio, so I sort of have no choice right.

(28:11):
I constantly am watching this stuff and hopefully bringing enough
of it too. But there's it's been so much the
last week that I can't possibly consume everything that I
need to consume, So I've had to pick and choose.
But that being said, two questions. Number one, how closely
are you following it? If at all you can text
me at five six six, I know. Number two, how

(28:35):
much do you care? And I mean this genuinely because
you know, Ross was talking about he didn't believe that
Tolcy Gabbard had the chops too or should be allowed
to be the head of the of National Intelligence because
of her past commentary and lack of experience. And he
said the same thing about Pete Hegseth and his ability
to run a large, massive organization like the Pentagon. Now,

(28:58):
as far as the Pete heggset thing goes, the current
eggheads that are at the Pentagon lost eight hundred and
sixty billion dollars that could not be accounted for in
the last audit. I genuinely need it when I say
could he do worse?

Speaker 6 (29:15):
Could he do worse? And the thing I like.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
About peak aheadset because I don't think any Secretary of
Defense is the guy pouring over the budget and going
into quick books and putting stuff in you know what
I mean, that's not happening. All he's doing is managing
everybody else. The CEO of any company doesn't do a
lot of the actual work. They're managing other people as
they do the work that the executive, the vision that

(29:39):
the executive wants them to execute. Same thing with the
secretaries of whatever. I'm not worried at all about Pete
Hegseth and the finances of the Pentagon, because what we've
got now is garbage. So I'm just wondering, are you
guys even paying attention? Are you even engaged? Hi, Mandy,

(30:04):
I've been watching the confirmation hearings just to see how
crazy of questions and remarks the Democrats have been making
to these candidates.

Speaker 6 (30:11):
It's amazing how hateful they are.

Speaker 4 (30:13):
Yeah, Mandy, I've been looking for a dishwasher for years,
but none of them want to get married.

Speaker 6 (30:18):
Ha ha, good one, good one.

Speaker 5 (30:24):
Mandy.

Speaker 6 (30:24):
Ross's a Trump pater. He says that about everyone.

Speaker 5 (30:28):
You know.

Speaker 6 (30:28):
Here's the thing, you know, I don't love Trump, but.

Speaker 4 (30:31):
I gotta tell you, I have been absolutely gobsmacked by
everything he has done in the past ten days, twelve days,
whatever at thirteen days, because he has done more for
conservative causes than Republicans in the past thirty years combined. Now,
none of it's going to stick if Congress doesn't get

(30:52):
to legislating. And this is something that I think I
wish that Congress would pay attention to. The speed with
which Donald Trump unveiled all this stuff has essentially got
the Democrats caught flat footed. That's why they're talking about
egg prices. That's why they're attacking these nominees, a vast
majority of whom are really not going to have.

Speaker 6 (31:13):
A problem getting confirmed.

Speaker 5 (31:16):
Mandy.

Speaker 4 (31:16):
The Democrats are butchering all of Trump's choices and the
Republicans are acting stupid. I just know exactly where you're
coming from, Texter and your political bias by that statement,
because that is not at all how it has appeared
to people who are excited about a Trump administration.

Speaker 6 (31:35):
These trials are always stupid.

Speaker 4 (31:36):
Anyway, when it's a Democrat who's trying to get their
secretarial nominations confirmed, the Republicans do the same stuff.

Speaker 6 (31:43):
I want to be clear about that. So where's not
in charge.

Speaker 4 (31:47):
Is going to go on the attack. So this is
not new in any way, shape or form. It just
really makes you realize how stupid the whole process is.
Nobody seems to want to get real answers to significant
questions when it comes to these Senate confirmation hearings. They
seem very content to show boat and get their little

(32:10):
sound bites in that they can send back to their
constituents and talk about how.

Speaker 6 (32:15):
Tough they were and all that stuff.

Speaker 4 (32:18):
Mandy, our ruling class selections since World War Two have
done nothing but waste our treasure and spill our blood.
That's why I don't listen to Ross anymore. Well, that's
not funny, Mandy. Ross is biased, and I don't blame him.
If I was a Jew, I would be too. I
also feel like Ross is kind of an elitist. I
love listening to him, and I love listening to you both.

Speaker 5 (32:35):
You know, here's the thing.

Speaker 4 (32:36):
Ross and I's views on Israel and the Jewish right
to protect themselves are exactly the same.

Speaker 6 (32:42):
And I am not Jewish.

Speaker 4 (32:45):
I just believe that Israel has a right to fight
its war, and Israel has a right to defend itself,
and more importantly, Israel has a right to exist. Something
that Hamas refuses to do. Mandy, I get my confirmation
hearing information from you. The humor of Gutfeld that is smart,
very smart. Closely following says this texture Dems look like

(33:07):
hateful freaks. And I do care no nuance and no
interest in actual change. I want Trump's picks all about transparency.
That is one thing that every single one of these
picks has talked about that every time they do.

Speaker 6 (33:18):
I applaud it when.

Speaker 4 (33:19):
They talk about telling the American people the truth and
by not allowing these these people to hide behind classifications. Golly,
it gives me that. I get all excited about that.
When we get back. Now, we're going to talk to
Rob Schwartz about a new film about Joe Lieberman. That's
all coming up next.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
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Speaker 6 (34:04):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show.

Speaker 4 (34:07):
And I'm pleased as bunch to have Rob Schwartz in
with me. He has got a new film about Joe
Lieberman called Centered Joe Lieberman it's going to be showing
this weekend at the Denver Jewish Film Festival, which has
been going on this week and into next week.

Speaker 6 (34:22):
And first of all, Rob, welcome to the show.

Speaker 5 (34:24):
Andy, thank you for having me.

Speaker 6 (34:25):
So I said this earlier on the show, and I
just said it to you.

Speaker 4 (34:28):
But I was watching the first half hour of this
documentary on Joe Lieberman and I was struck that I
don't think he could get elected today.

Speaker 6 (34:37):
How did you What were.

Speaker 4 (34:38):
Your thoughts about Joe Lieberman before you started this and
are they the same after you finished this project.

Speaker 5 (34:46):
Well, I met him over forty years ago when I
served as as chief of staff.

Speaker 6 (34:51):
Oh wow, so you got inside knowledge here.

Speaker 5 (34:53):
So I've been a friend of his for over forty years,
ran a couple of his campaigns, and so I had
a front row seat as a young man to see
the character, attributes and values that the world came to know.
And so what I would say is for those people

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who are going to come and see the movie, you're
going to see a balanced, very honest and candid review
of a great man. But all great men also make mistakes.
So it's an honest and frank documentary about the successes
and some of the speed bumps in his career, but

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there's a whole lot more good than not good in
his career. He was a man of incredible integrity and
honesty and.

Speaker 4 (35:46):
A pragmatist, very much in a profession where pragmatism is
not rewarded.

Speaker 5 (35:51):
Yeah, and someone who dealt with people politically in a
very civil manner. Are those, particularly in this day and age,
who believe that the politics is a contact sport.

Speaker 4 (36:06):
Yes, like you need a helmet to be a polo,
which you gotta led me the comment I made, do
you think Joe Lieberman could get elected in today's environment?

Speaker 5 (36:14):
I think it would be challenging. For that matter, I
don't know if John F. Kennedy to get a Democratic
nomination in this world. Yeah, if you watched how his
nephew was treated, Yeah by his fellow Democrats at the
hearing in the Senate. It's a tough, tough environment.

Speaker 4 (36:31):
I mean, we're not going to go down the rabbit
hole of what's going on with RFK. But to your point,
this is a guy who's been a reliable Democrat for
so long you would think there would be a little
grace there. But it's almost like it's they're going after
him more viciously because of his history.

Speaker 6 (36:47):
That's just my speculation. Let me ask you about the man.

Speaker 4 (36:49):
Yeah, And I think this really comes across in the
documentary what you just said that he.

Speaker 6 (36:55):
Was a good person. He was just a good person.

Speaker 4 (36:59):
Tell me a little bit about or tell the audience
a little bit about his history. How he became that
person that, in this very ugly business of politics, always
seemed to be able to rise above the fray for
the most part.

Speaker 5 (37:10):
Well, I think your listeners should know that he came
from a very lower middle class family in Stanford, Connecticut.
His dad, who only had a high school diploma, owned
a little liquor store. They were observant Jews, Orthodox, and
he grew up in a very religious family. And he

(37:32):
was very smart as a young man and got accepted
to Yale and I think that that was an opening
for him in terms of intellectually saying a whole different world.
And went to Yell undergraduate, was an honor student, then
went to Yale Law School and truly became one of

(37:53):
the top law students at Yale. And that's he says
in the documentary when as an undergraduate he ran for
student office. He said, quote something was brewing.

Speaker 3 (38:05):
Ah.

Speaker 5 (38:07):
I think public service and elective office was always there,
and I don't think the documentary says that the election
of John F. Kennedy was clearly the key trigger to
get him moving in that direction.

Speaker 6 (38:23):
He never seemed to.

Speaker 4 (38:24):
Be motivated by the things that sometimes motivate people to
seek office that are not about public service, that are
more about personal service. And I think we can all
think of politicians from every party that fit that mold.
Was he truly looking at it from a public servant perspective,

(38:44):
very much so.

Speaker 5 (38:45):
And I think one of the key things that I
knew about when I worked with him, but didn't totally
appreciate as I became a bit older and I became
more religious his study of the Torah of the Ripures,
and he studied with a number of rabbis that clearly

(39:05):
influenced his values and how we looked at life and
how we looked at politics. He truly had a different
touchstone in terms of what guided him, and I saw
it when I worked for him, but it was really
later in life that I really came to appreciate how

(39:26):
much he studied the Bible influenced him.

Speaker 6 (39:30):
Was being a Jew ever a problem in his political career.

Speaker 4 (39:33):
Never see, that's heartening because I wonder if now it
is a bigger problem. I mean to talk about the
arc of where we are now, and we're in such
a sort of an ugly space.

Speaker 3 (39:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (39:43):
You know, Connecticut had a huge Roman Catholic electorate and
he was beloved in the state. And it was only
until later when really left wing Democrats turned on him.

Speaker 6 (39:58):
I was going to ask about that.

Speaker 4 (40:00):
That didn't make it there in the documentary head And
I want to know he eventually became an independent.

Speaker 5 (40:05):
He did. He ran for his third nomination and loss
to Ned Lamont, who is now the governor. He wasn't
happy with that outcome and decided that he was not
just going to walk away. He decided he'd run as

(40:25):
what he called himself, an independent Democrat. He never changed
his registration. He always remained a registered Democratic. I did
not know that, neither did I. To be kunted.

Speaker 6 (40:36):
He never left the party, but the party.

Speaker 5 (40:38):
Really did leave him, They really did. And you know,
just a little anecdote. When I went to work for him,
he was the state Senate majority leader in the Connecticut
State Senate, and that was the key position that really
ran the show. And the first thing he asked me
to do was to travel the state and me with

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all elements of the Democratic Party and to listen to them.
And he particularly encouraged me to meet with left wing
Democrats in the Greater New Haven area where we lived,
and it was an eye opener for.

Speaker 6 (41:14):
Me in that way.

Speaker 5 (41:16):
Well, they didn't like him, nor did they trust him.

Speaker 6 (41:19):
Even because he was too moderate.

Speaker 5 (41:22):
He was. It was a part of it.

Speaker 6 (41:27):
He didn't moderate on a lot. I mean, no, do
you look at it.

Speaker 4 (41:30):
He held some very conservative i would say conservative positions
when it came to national defense and things of that nature.

Speaker 6 (41:36):
But then he was also very socially liberal.

Speaker 5 (41:39):
He voted with the Democratic Party ninety percent except on
foreign policy, and they wouldn't cut him a brake candidly,
you know, he had to be one hundred percent on board,
and he viewed what was happening in the Middle East
as a direct threat, particularly after nine to eleven. He

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felt that we had a lead with strength and that
he wasn't going to allow politics to be the cause
of him not backing the Bush foreign policy, which he
agreed with. And the other part was you know, his
best friend in the Senate and really his kindred spirit
was John McCain and they voted very, very alike in

(42:25):
terms of foreign policy. So so you know, personally, I
think the Democratic Party in Connecticut made a huge mistake
by turning on him. But you know that's history now,
and the documentary tells the story.

Speaker 4 (42:42):
So going back, because this was how many years ago
that Democrats thought he wasn't democratic enough?

Speaker 5 (42:48):
Thirty?

Speaker 4 (42:49):
I mean that's you think this is a relatively new development,
like the kind of polarization that we've seen within the parties.
And it's not just the Democratic Party, but I mean
here in Colorado you have leadership of the Colorado GOP
that seems hell bent on blowing apart any sort of coalitions.

Speaker 6 (43:04):
And now you're telling me.

Speaker 4 (43:05):
Thirty years ago they were suspect because he dared to
break on foreign policy.

Speaker 6 (43:10):
That's just it's kind of depressing.

Speaker 7 (43:12):
Rob.

Speaker 5 (43:13):
I agree with you. You know, the people who would agree.
I'm going to use John Fetterman as an example.

Speaker 6 (43:23):
I got to tell you I have a.

Speaker 4 (43:24):
Little bit of a crush, a political crush on him
right now. If he would just not I can't with
the hoodies and the Jim Schwartz, but he's kind of
taken this position of I'm going to say what I think.

Speaker 5 (43:35):
Is right, and he went to mar A Lago and
met with Trump. You know, if you don't sit and
listen to each other, which was a major message from
Center and Lieberman to me. He urged me to spend
as much time in the Senate Republican caucus as I
did in the Democratic caucus.

Speaker 6 (43:55):
All that dog wall hunt now, will it?

Speaker 7 (43:57):
I mean?

Speaker 5 (43:58):
But I spent a considerable amount of time and develop
close friendships with Senate Republicans so that when Joe was
running a bill where the Democrats were and they wanted bipartisan,
they were willing to sit and talk right, they were
treated with respect, and that you know with the cancel

(44:18):
culture now, you know, people do not want to cut
each other if you will a break, to sit down,
listen with respect, truly listen, yep, and then to have
a civil discourse.

Speaker 4 (44:33):
You know what's interesting, Rob is you know, I'm on
X all the time, the social media platform, and I
have a very diverse group of people that I follow. Right,
so I have people on the hard left, mid left, center,
you know, same on the right. There's there's a bubbling
up right now on social media.

Speaker 6 (44:49):
Of people that are saying, I've had enough.

Speaker 4 (44:53):
I've had enough. I can't can't do this anymore. I
can't run around hating people anymore.

Speaker 6 (44:58):
I can't do it.

Speaker 4 (44:59):
I am actually a little bit hopeful that I don't
think politicians will ever do it, but the people will
do exactly what you're talking about and take the time
to listen to their friends and neighbors that maybe they
disagree with politically and not just cut people off. So
maybe that maybe the pendulum is swinging back in the
other direction. I feel like it has to, though.

Speaker 5 (45:19):
I'm hoping that people who will come and see this movie,
and while it's at the Denver Jewish Film Festival Sunday,
it's open to anyone of any religion to come and see.
We're bringing it to churches, to secular organizations all across
the country, and our hope and the other key thing

(45:42):
we're doing is creating a curriculum that will be linked
to a shorter version of the movie. And the reason
that Joe agreed to do this was that we committed
to bring a curriculum to secondary schools throughout the United
States for free I.

Speaker 4 (45:58):
Was going to ask you, I know that the senator
passed away, what maybe last spring till last March?

Speaker 5 (46:04):
Okay, so he was involved though he saw ninety percent
of the film right before he fell and passed. In fact,
I spoke with him two days before he was coming
in August to Aspen. We were going to do a
private screening there, which we did. Unfortunately it was just
his widow, Adasa who came. But the plan was to

(46:26):
come and spend four or five days with me and
my wife and really kick off the showing of the documentary.
How long were he at hadassa Mary five decades? You know?

Speaker 4 (46:39):
This is I think when you see this and I
put the trailer on the blog today and you also
were in wider distribution coming up so people will be
able to see it in wider distribution, it does make
you a little bit nostalgic for the days. And I
was a child when Tip O'Neill was Speaker of the
House and Ronald Reagan was president, and we've all heard
the stories of them.

Speaker 6 (46:57):
Duking it out about policy issues.

Speaker 4 (46:59):
And then going and how dinner right and maintaining a
very close friendship even though politically they were on the
other side of the aisle, and when you look at
Joe Lieberman, he almost feels like the last of those statesmen.

Speaker 6 (47:11):
Because I can't I was thinking about this this morning.

Speaker 4 (47:13):
I can't think of a single person in Congress right
now that I would say fits this mold.

Speaker 5 (47:20):
He was special, very unique, and I used to just
love sitting on the side watching him interact with other senators,
other elected officials. He had a very disarming way about himself.
He also had a great sense of humor, and I
think when people come and see the movie, they'll come

(47:45):
away with even a greater appreciation of what he brought
to the American politic.

Speaker 4 (47:51):
So when he lost, when he and al Gore lost
in two thousand, because that was like, in my mind,
the beginning of what I call the modern election controversies, Right,
how did he personally take that loss and manage that
and then still continue to come back and say, I'm
going to you know, continue to be involved.

Speaker 5 (48:13):
Well, he was able to go back and serve in
the Senate, So that was a degree of solace if
he will, he could throw himself back into the work.
But secondly, I think his religion gave him or a
real sense of I guess this wasn't meant to be
and other things are out there for me, And so

(48:34):
he didn't cry over spilt milk. He moved on and
that was, in and of itself, very impressive. He had
offered me a job to go with him to the
White House, and so I was watching that election very.

Speaker 6 (48:51):
Closely, and you're on their campaign in your little heart out.

Speaker 5 (48:55):
I still have nightmares when I hear the word Chad.

Speaker 1 (49:00):
Well.

Speaker 6 (49:00):
I hate to say it to you.

Speaker 4 (49:01):
I actually lived in Florida in two thousand and I
voted for Ralph Nader to vote for the viability of
a third party candidate. I would have died if Ralph
Nader had won, but I had a bigger strategy in mine.

Speaker 5 (49:11):
But he's in the documentary too, by the way, Oh,
I haven't got there yet.

Speaker 6 (49:15):
So let me ask you this.

Speaker 4 (49:17):
After he left politics, what did he do with his time?
Because he was in really good health until he fell, and.

Speaker 5 (49:23):
He was straordinarily busy. He was the founder of no Labels,
Oh Wow with Nancy Jacobson, and he was in the
media a lot because there were people in the Democratic
Party and the Republican Party who were really part of
my French pissed off Adham that they were going to
run a third party candidate. He was the chair of

(49:45):
an organization that was trying to make sure that Iran
did not set near nuclear weapons. He was incredibly busy.
His last speech that I helped arrange, he gave a
talk at the New World Trade Center, the Liberty Building
to the top one hundred executives in customs and immigration.

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Oh wow. And I'm glad I was there because they
gave him a rousing standing ovation. He was the first
chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, which was created
after nine to eleven, and they loved them, and they
really had so he was busy. He was over in

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China number of times. I was amazed at eighty two
how he was going, and he loved it.

Speaker 4 (50:41):
Well. I just got this text message that said, Mandy,
I've always believed if McCain had had selected Lieberman to
run with him instead of Palin, we would have never
had to suffer through the Obama years.

Speaker 6 (50:51):
I'm not as optimistic.

Speaker 4 (50:52):
I think Obama was such a once in a lifetime
sort of candidate that checked so many boxes on so
many different issues for people that had nothing to do
with his qualifications that I don't think anybody could have
beaten him, but I think that's a nice sentiment.

Speaker 5 (51:06):
So the person who texted you, if you can somehow
come and see the movie. We addressed that in great
detail in the documentary. John McCain's wife was interviewed to
talk about it, and a number of other Republicans on
the inside agreed to talk about it. And because Joe

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was a pro abortion, oh yeah, that was what the
hang up was. And the Republican leadership basically said the McCain,
he's unacceptable, and so there's somebody. The movie gets a
few laughs, and one of the big laughs in the
movie is that someone says, so we took another risk,

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and outwalks Sarah Palin and the thing and I've been
to tense greetings now in the movie theater. It's very funny.

Speaker 6 (52:03):
That's funny.

Speaker 4 (52:04):
Before we ran out of time, I want to ask
you this question, why did you decide now.

Speaker 6 (52:08):
To make this film?

Speaker 5 (52:10):
Well, the honest answer is that it was not my decision.
The director, who I had hired to make the first
English language documentary in the life of Prime Minister Monachem
began wanted to make a documentary on Lieberman because he
thought he brought something very special given the vitriol. I

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turned him down twice, and he finally called me and said,
why don't you want to talk to Joe? I said, listen,
I love the guy and if he says no, it's
going to hurt my feelings. I don't want to be rejected.
So your ego get My ego got in the way.
So finally he said, will you please do it? So
I called Joe. Joe helped me create or not for

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profit organization, hit Light Institute, and he loved the Bagan
movie and we had a number of discussions and I
told him why I thought he should do it, and
the number one reason, as I mentioned before, was that
CIVIX is not being taught to young people in this country.
That is dangerous for a democracy. That was the reason

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Joe said, yes.

Speaker 6 (53:14):
You know what A giver. To the end, Rob Schwartz
is my guest.

Speaker 4 (53:18):
His new movie centered Joe Lieberman is going to be
part of the Jewish Film Festival this weekend. I meant
to look and see if it was already sold out,
because a lot of these films, no, it was great,
so a lot of the films already sold out.

Speaker 5 (53:30):
Sunday evening, there are still about seventy five tickets left, okay,
and there'll be a beautiful celebratory reception after the movie's over.

Speaker 4 (53:39):
Well, it is all happening. I've got a link to
the film. I've got a link to the Denver Jewish
Film Festival, so you can also watch the.

Speaker 6 (53:46):
Trailer on the blog today.

Speaker 4 (53:48):
I'm going to watch the rest of this this afternoon,
just because it really did. It really drives home how
bad things have gotten to be perfectly frank, you think to.

Speaker 6 (53:59):
Yourself, of course, we all know it's bad.

Speaker 4 (54:01):
When you see how he handled himself and comported himself,
it really makes you long for a more civilized time,
and maybe it will inspire a more civilized generation of
politicians to come up. So we'll appreciate the movie very much.
Back to Luck, I know you're in other film festivals,
and I hope you have tons of success with all

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of that. We're going to take a quick time out
check the news, traffic, and weather, and I have so
much stuff on the blog today to get to, so
stick around right after this. In this the Year of
the Snake, some details about the horrible crash in DC are.

Speaker 6 (54:37):
Emerging, along with a lot more video than we had
seen previously.

Speaker 4 (54:43):
A lot of people dashboard cam video is now coming out,
closer video to the actual crashes coming out. We know
that the air traffic control team was both understaffed, but
they warned the helo about the plane.

Speaker 6 (54:56):
It's just I genuinely.

Speaker 4 (54:59):
Believe, Eve, we're never really going to know what happened here,
and I am more inclined to believe that it was
a horrific accident than anything purposeful. But boy, howdy, people
on the internet. My favorite thing I saw all day
yesterday and my favorite, I mean dumbest thing ever. I
saw someone on Twitter say a variation of the following.

(55:19):
Does anybody think it's weird that this happened while RFK
was being confirmed? The implication, of course, being that the
federal government killed sixty seven people on an aircraft or
sixty seven people in an aircraft accident in order to
somehow obfuse skate from RFK Junior's positions on vaccines. And
when I see stuff like that, I have two things

(55:41):
on the blog today I don't even have. Actually I
didn't put that guy on the blog because I was like,
this is too stupid. I don't want my audience's IQ
to drop because they're already getting thirteen percent smarter just
reading the blog every day, and I don't want to
drop their IQ. But I have a story on the
blog today about a featherweight MMA fighter who just started
a new podcast. Oh boy, it's the podcast we've all
been waiting for. In the first episode, he declares Hitler

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a good guy who was just quote kicking the greedy
Jews out of his country.

Speaker 6 (56:11):
He also, this is my favorite denies the Holocaust.

Speaker 4 (56:15):
Now, if we were talking about something that occurred in
the eighteen hundreds where there were just still ten type
photographs to document what happened, maybe I would not think
that a Holocaust denier was the dumbest person ever. But
because we have actual movies of what the people look
like at Auschwitz and other concentration camps when they were

(56:39):
liberated by the Allied forces, we have seen what happened
in those camps. And you have to be an unmitigated
dumbass to believe.

Speaker 6 (56:49):
That the Holocaust is not a thing. You just have
to be that stupid.

Speaker 4 (56:54):
And that's how I felt when I saw that guy.
I'm like, you know, I love against conspiracy theory.

Speaker 6 (56:58):
I have fun with them.

Speaker 4 (56:58):
I think some of them were hlarious to me. Some
of them eventually come true. You know, when man's conspiracy
theory is tomorrow's man's history, right, But when people just
just show you how dumb they really are, I think
it is incumbent on us to pay attention. Big disappointment

(57:19):
to me that UFC Chairman Dana White has not said
anything about not letting this guy fight. Because here's the
thing he is. He owns a private company. The UFC
is a private it's a corporation, and as the head
of that corporation, he has the right to decide who
participates and who doesn't. And by having someone who is

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espousing vile anti semitism and Holocaust denialism fighting on his platform,
he's tacitly endorsing it.

Speaker 6 (57:53):
In my opinion, and I don't like it. I would
feel the same way.

Speaker 4 (57:57):
Could you imagine if there was an MMA fighter that
came out as a white supremacist, like straight up white supremacist, like,
you know what, white people are better than black people,
Black people are nothing better than animals. What if someone
espoused those views and Dana White said, yeah, those views
are horrible.

Speaker 6 (58:13):
He did come out and say those views are.

Speaker 4 (58:15):
Beyond He's beyond disgusted by this guy's views. But yet
is this guy getting me in the ring again? And
I'm not one of those people that says, you know,
if you say something I don't like, you should lose everything.
I'm not that person because I've had people come at
me like that and I don't like it. But I
also think that as a private industry, private business, you

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have a responsibility to make note of who is out.

Speaker 6 (58:39):
There representing your company.

Speaker 4 (58:41):
I mean, if I sat here in these radio waves
and said anything remotely like any of this crap this
guy just said on a podcast, I would not have
a job. I would be shocked if I got to
the end of the show because I have a responsibility
as an iHeart employee to represent the company in a
certain way. I'm not representing their viewpoints in terms of politics,
but I am a representative of the company right just

(59:04):
how I live my life. If I go out and
get a DUI and get super wasted and kill three people,
I'm going to be fired because that makes I hurt.
Media look bad, even if they had nothing to do
with it. So I don't understand this stance by Dana White.

Speaker 6 (59:18):
I really don't.

Speaker 4 (59:19):
And I haven't watched an MMA fight since, like UFC
number four, because I just think they're too violent for me.

Speaker 6 (59:26):
I like boxing, but man, I don't want to.

Speaker 4 (59:28):
Watch somebody get knocked out on a regular basis. I
don't want to watch somebody's arm get broken.

Speaker 6 (59:32):
I don't want to watch that.

Speaker 4 (59:34):
I don't want to see the barbarians at the gate.
So maybe I'm in the wrong demographic. But back to
what we're finding out about this crash. We also found
out that a lot of the people on this plane
were young people, young ice skaters, and that is heartbreaking
to me.

Speaker 6 (59:51):
Don't get me wrong.

Speaker 4 (59:52):
It's not like if a seventy year old dies in
an accident, it's any less tragic, But in a way
it is then when an eleven year old gets killed
in an accident. There was an eleven year old figure
skater and her mom on this flight, Because then you
look at it and you go, God, they had their
whole life ahead of them, and this is this is
how they go out just it's just a horrible situation.
But the speculation, the sort of rampant you know, spitballing about.

(01:00:18):
I've seen people say, well, obviously that black hog pilot
just flew right into that that airliner.

Speaker 6 (01:00:24):
I I don't. I don't believe that to be the case.

Speaker 5 (01:00:27):
I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:00:28):
There's no evidence as of yet that this helicopter was
somehow engaged in terrorism or any kind of terrorist activities.
These were experienced pilots on this helicopter, and even experienced
pilots make terrible mistakes, and that's what it seems to be.
And Trump tweeted out today or send a message out

(01:00:49):
today that said the helicopter was playing well above the ceiling,
which it was. But I don't think that's helpful for
the president to sort of pile on these little details now,
don't give me. I think he's right to say, we're
not going to wait three years to release the results
of this investigation. But I also think it's not wise
to feed into a narrative that somehow there was malfeasance

(01:01:11):
or there was a purposeful act. And when you say
things like they were flying way above the ceiling, that
is technically accurate, but we have no idea why they.

Speaker 6 (01:01:18):
Were flying way above the ceiling.

Speaker 4 (01:01:20):
I heard a helicopter pilot last night, and Chris, well,
as I know you were fixed wing, you didn't fly helicopters.
But I heard a helicopter pilot on a different show
last night say that in varying conditions, the wind can
move you one hundred and fifty feet in a matter
of seconds in a helicopter.

Speaker 6 (01:01:37):
So we don't know what happened.

Speaker 4 (01:01:39):
I don't know if it's ever going to be a
satisfactory answer. One thing I will say is that this,
in no way, shape or form makes me reluctant to fly.

Speaker 5 (01:01:50):
I mean, I will not.

Speaker 4 (01:01:52):
Even think about it for one second, because this is
as much of a freak accident as the guy getting
hit by a hammer toss in Colorado Springs last week
and getting killed, or a woman who happened to be
driving down the wrong road when kids decide to throw
a brick into her windshield and she dies. And I'm
not trying to be, you know, like a negative Nelly,

(01:02:16):
but there are no guarantees in life that you get tomorrow.
There's no guarantees in life that you're going to make
it home today. And I don't want you to be
scared of it, because being scared of it doesn't prevent death,
it just prevents you from living your life. But the
realization that you cannot control all outcomes is kind of glorious.

Speaker 6 (01:02:33):
It's the stoic way, like.

Speaker 4 (01:02:35):
You control what you can control, but beyond that, you
can't get bent out of shape about what you have
no control over. But I just want to say that
I know people. Some people are really scared to fly.
I've never understood that. I love being up in an airplane.
I love looking out the window. I love seeing this
beautiful world that we live in from the sky. So
don't let this make you.

Speaker 6 (01:02:58):
Cautious or reluctant anything.

Speaker 4 (01:03:01):
This particular incident is going to increase air traffic control scheduling.
It's going to increase the number of qualified air traffic controllers.
It's going to put a spotlight on that particular aspect
of it in a way that's gonna end up being
very positive for the flyers and frankly the air traffic
controllers because they're going to get more people. Apparently they

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were understaffed. There was one air traffic controller that was
doing fixed wing and the helicopter, and normally that's handled
by two.

Speaker 6 (01:03:28):
Different people, so you know, was that at fault.

Speaker 4 (01:03:31):
I have no idea, I really don't, but we do
know the air traffic controllers warned the helicopter or tried to.
So it's it's just a big mess. It's just terrible,
really really terrible. Have you ever been asking what to
get for dinner and somebody goes, you want pizza? How
about sushi? How about pizza and sushi? Ish One Colorado
restaurant has gone viral for just that. Mandy Dana White

(01:03:55):
did strongly condemn that fighter's hitler take on his podcast,
called it some ignorant bland, but he won't kick him out,
citing the First Amendment.

Speaker 5 (01:04:04):
Here's the thing.

Speaker 6 (01:04:05):
The First Amendment only applies to government.

Speaker 4 (01:04:08):
If I hurt media comes in and says, you can't
say that, I can't sue I hurt media for violating
my First Amendment rights. This goes back to whether or
not as a private company, whether or even a publicly
traded corporation, what responsibility do you have to make sure
that the people in your product.

Speaker 6 (01:04:24):
Representing you are not Holocaust?

Speaker 5 (01:04:27):
And I scumbacks.

Speaker 4 (01:04:29):
I think it's a cop out by data White honestly,
and I realized, and I'm a free speech absolutist when it.

Speaker 6 (01:04:33):
Comes to government.

Speaker 4 (01:04:34):
But I'm also very protective of a private.

Speaker 6 (01:04:38):
Company's right to decide how to handle who works for them.
I mean, I feel very strongly about that.

Speaker 4 (01:04:47):
Mandy heard a next military pilot on a show this
morning who said, perfect storm for a bad result. Only
one in the tower so said watch traffic, but didn't
give direction. The choppers saw the plane taking off and
didn't know about the one landing. If they were training,
they might have been doing night goggles where two hundred
feet is the floor and you can fly because of

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the limited visibility, not the ceiling. So it all combined
for the collision. That's right, I mean, it does feel
like a perfect storm of things that went wrong.

Speaker 5 (01:05:17):
Mandy.

Speaker 4 (01:05:17):
What blows my mind regarding Holocaust deniers as there are
still living, breathing survivors with tattoo ID numbers among us.
The other thing is the complete denial of all the
individual military members who saw the camps in person. My
grandfather was an MP in the Third Army and helped
cut the gates on Docou. He later stayed behind in

(01:05:38):
the Occupation Army and helped transport the Nazi war criminals
back and forth. To the trial at Nuremberg, and we
had pictures of him standing in the background during the
hearings in uniform. My cousin has his issued Billy Club.
I agree with you one hundred percent.

Speaker 5 (01:05:56):
I agree with you.

Speaker 4 (01:05:56):
I put these people in the same category as people
who don't believe the moon landing. But there's the moon
landing people are just I mean, there's just in a
category by themselves. But the Holocaust deniers, they're just anti Semites.

Speaker 6 (01:06:13):
They just hate Jews.

Speaker 4 (01:06:15):
They don't want to believe that six million Jews were murdered,
and in order to do that, they have to deny
the Holocaust.

Speaker 6 (01:06:22):
It's just so Jew's whining. Mandy.

Speaker 4 (01:06:24):
Was there evidence of any evasive maneuvers by the two aircraft?
If not, that meant they did not see each other, Bob,
from what I can tell, and we're seeing a lot
more video coming out of dash cams and things like
that that have a better view of the actual accident,
I don't even know if there was no evasive maneuvers made.

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I don't know if the planes saw the helicopter in time.
I don't know if the helicopter ever saw the plane.

Speaker 6 (01:06:51):
I don't know. And I don't think again, we're ever
really going to know. So we shall see what just flying.

Speaker 4 (01:06:59):
Way the ceiling, I mean the ceiling you have two
different two different ceiling is the top that an aircraft
is allowed to fly. If you have a two hundred
and fifty foot ceiling, that means a helicopter is not
supposed to fly any more than two hundred and fifty
feet above the ground. If you have a hard deck,
that is the lowest that you are supposed to fly.

(01:07:21):
So I'm gonna use Top Gun Maverick as a great example.
So if you didn't see Top Gun Maverick, first of all,
freaking great movie. It was so good and it made
you so proud to be an American once again. But
in that movie, they spend a lot of time talking
about the hard deck because Tom Cruise being Maverick, kept
breaking the hard deck in the training. I was just
you know, So those are the different kinds of things

(01:07:43):
that you can see. That's what Trump was talking about. So, Mandy,
apparently you don't remember those army commercials, those DEI Army commercials,
because in one of them, the guy said, you don't
have to be a genius to be a pilot. That
sounds like something a marine would say to an Air
Force person. Come on, come on, Mandy, The DC Holocaust

(01:08:04):
Museum is heartbreaking. The DC Holocaust Museum is the best
museum I've ever been to in my entire life.

Speaker 6 (01:08:11):
Now, if you're going to d C and you want.

Speaker 4 (01:08:13):
To go see it, and you should, everybody should see
that museum, schedule it for one afternoon where you don't
have anything planned for that night, because it will suck
the life out of you when you see the depths
of depravity that human beings.

Speaker 7 (01:08:28):
Are capable of. And mang get on a plane headed
New Orleans World War Two Museum. Oh fantastic, unreal. So yeah,
also whole day, Yeah, all.

Speaker 5 (01:08:40):
The whole day.

Speaker 4 (01:08:41):
So the text story keeps asking what was the wine
Yogi's scariest flight and has her plane been shot at
We'll talk to her at two thirty about that and
about all of this chocolate.

Speaker 6 (01:08:50):
I am over here.

Speaker 4 (01:08:51):
I'm going to do a social media post on my
Facebook right now so you guys can see. Of course,
did we take pictures before we destroyed the chocolate? No,
we did not, because we just jumped right in like
the pros we are. But it's Valentine's Day and we
went to chocolate shops, so you will get a full
review of those chocolate chops.

Speaker 6 (01:09:11):
When I'm so jacked up that I'm I'm like, ah, you.

Speaker 4 (01:09:14):
Know anyway, Oh, I didn't even do the Littleton story.

Speaker 7 (01:09:17):
Dang it.

Speaker 4 (01:09:17):
Okay, this really fast rice bistro and sushi is. They're
on South Santa Fe and Lyttleton and they have all
kinds of stuff. They have all kinds of sushi. They
have a big fan following, and a couple of months
ago their regulars were like, look, we just want to
buy a whole bunch of sushi, right, we just want
to have a whole bunch. We got a big family
which want to hold that you would normally get like
in the boat when you're in the sushi restaurant. They

(01:09:40):
put it in a pizza box and now it's all
over the internet. Kind of genius. And if I were
a sushi shop, I'm not telling you how to live
your life, but I want a box full of of sushi.
I want a pizza box full of sushi for dinner tonight.

Speaker 6 (01:09:52):
Just throwing that out there. There you go.

Speaker 4 (01:09:54):
We will be back after this, and when we get back,
I have a great news about the national debt.

Speaker 6 (01:10:01):
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Speaker 4 (01:10:35):
I'm your host for the next fifty six minutes, Mandy Connall,
and I'm very pleased to have our next guest on
the show to Oh, sorry about that, I gotta I'm
messing up my zoom call so we can talk to
our next guest one moment. Please let me do this
because I am a trained professional.

Speaker 6 (01:10:49):
Do not try this at home.

Speaker 4 (01:10:51):
Our next guest is the Attorney General of the State
of Colorado, Phil Wiser.

Speaker 6 (01:10:54):
Welcome to the show.

Speaker 8 (01:10:55):
First of all, it's great to be with you, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (01:10:58):
We're here to talk.

Speaker 6 (01:10:59):
About something that I've think is actually.

Speaker 4 (01:11:00):
Really really great news, and that is the latest in
a long line of opioid settlements from Purdue Pharma. Because
a lot of people may not realize that, I don't
think and you can correct me if I'm wrong here.
I think it's been established beyond a shadow of a
doubt that Purdue Pharma lied about the addictability or addictive

(01:11:23):
nature of oxy cotton and oxycotone as they were promoting
it to doctors, And now states like Colorado and other
states around the country are trying to hold them responsible
for their role in what has become a nightmarish addiction issue,
which is now graduated to methamphetamine and fentanyl and all
of these other things. But the foundation of this addiction
crisis really was oxy So tell me a little bit

(01:11:46):
first of all about kind of the history of these
opioid settlements, if you could.

Speaker 9 (01:11:52):
I'll just take a minute, Mandy and pick up the
story you've just told. In the nineteen nineties later nineteen nineties,
it is exactly as you say, ar run by. The
Sackler family had a plan to lie to people, and
they said, don't worry about these opioids, you'll treat your
pain and you'll.

Speaker 8 (01:12:07):
Never get addicted.

Speaker 5 (01:12:09):
That was a lie.

Speaker 9 (01:12:09):
They need a lot of money by lying to people
promoting this among the medical establishment, and so many people
for back pain or other issues end up getting hooked.
That was the first wave of this opioid crisis. What
happened then is Cartel saw an opportunity to promote heroin
and that became the second wave. The third wave, you nailed.

(01:12:30):
It is fentinalist synthetic. It's not from the poppy plant.
It's fifty times more potent than heroin is. And all
this crisis has roots in the boardroom at Purdue Pharma.
One of the first things I did, is Attorney General
on this crisis, was to sue the Sackler family individually.
And we've been at this and now callousing. There around

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seventy million from a settlement with Purdue Pharma and the
Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family. That brings the total
number of settlements to eight hundred and sixty million dollars.

Speaker 8 (01:13:02):
And just to give you a sense, the number of
companies that.

Speaker 9 (01:13:05):
Followed in the lead of the Sacklers making decisions about
how can we make money and we'll worry about the
people we harmed later.

Speaker 8 (01:13:13):
Includes Mackenzie and Company who advised Perdue Pharma.

Speaker 9 (01:13:17):
Includes a PR firm who advised Perdue Pharma, include Johnson
and Johnson who also did this. Includes distributors who shared
these dangerous drugs and includes those in pharmacies who provided
prescriptions in some cases and communities more.

Speaker 8 (01:13:32):
Than every person there in terms of opiod So this has.

Speaker 9 (01:13:36):
Been a crisis that has played out over the last
several decades. The amount of harm that's happened to so
many Coloradens who've lost their lives to overdose, families and
communities who've been devastated.

Speaker 8 (01:13:46):
It is such a tragic story.

Speaker 9 (01:13:47):
And the eight hundred and sixty million is at least
some measure of accountability these companies are have to pay.

Speaker 8 (01:13:52):
And we're now in a position to use this money
to address and abate this crisis.

Speaker 4 (01:13:56):
So that's one of the things I was going to
ask you, is do we have these hundreds of millillions
of dollars and if so, one of the things that
I would like to see as a citizen of Colorado.
We all know that there is a huge addiction problem
that is directly correlated with the homelessness issue here in
Denver and the metro area especially.

Speaker 6 (01:14:13):
Are we looking at using this giant pile of money.

Speaker 4 (01:14:16):
To build facilities to help people overcome their drug addictionary
or maybe even get inpatient mental health care, Because I
think that's the foundation of the issue of homelessness. Those
two things, addiction and mental illness often hand in hand.
What are we spending this money on? Do we even
have it yet?

Speaker 8 (01:14:37):
Mandy, There's a couple of answers that I want to
lay out.

Speaker 5 (01:14:39):
First.

Speaker 8 (01:14:39):
A lot of these settlements are over a multi year period.

Speaker 9 (01:14:42):
I was comfortable with that because we're not necessarily set
up to spend at all eight once, so having it
come in over years was sensible. Depending on the settlement,
it will come in over a different amount of time.
The longest runway is an eighteen year period. We're now
in year three of that eighteen year perio. And what
I also can say number two is every single dollar

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that we spend, and I'll get to a minute, how
it's being spent.

Speaker 8 (01:15:08):
We've put it up publicly on our website.

Speaker 9 (01:15:09):
So one of the things when I got this challenge
in front of you is I said, a public needs
to know how this money is getting spent. You can
go look at COAG dot gov, backslash opioids, and you
can look at the dashboard we created. The next thing
is we did this in a bottom up fashion. I
wanted to make sure the money as you put it
well with Denver is spent close to where the harms are,

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the San Leuis Valley, where I learned about this crisis
and how I was having such a devastating effect there.

Speaker 8 (01:15:35):
They now have a new treatment center that they've built
with some of this money.

Speaker 9 (01:15:39):
You can go online and see the valley as a region,
how much money they've spent. They've applied for some of
the state money, but ninety percent of the money is
local money spent at the local and regional level. We've
set up nineteen regional councils. Denver is its own region,
The sam Leis Valley is its own region. You can
go across the state. Look at that cog dot gov

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back slash opioids and see the regional map. The point
you also made, I just want to lift this point up.
When people are struggling with addiction, it is going to
destroy their lives. When I went to Calder Springs and
we were doing town hall, someone came and said he's
here with his son because they lost his wife. Her mother,
who had a master's degree, got addicted first to pills

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and then moved to heroin, ended up homeless and ended
up dying of an overdose, and then he related he
lost another one of his sons, also an overdose. This
has been such a cruel crisis that has harmed so
many and I've heard countless numbers of these stories of
parents losing kids, losing parents, losing siblings. It's been devastating,
and we have not had enough treatment, and we need

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more treatment for people who are struggling. We're starting to
build more as you as to answer your question the
specifics on Denver, you'd have to go to look at
their regional council. How are they spending the money? Colorado,
as you know, is a very local control state, and
we wanted this money to be spent at a local level.

Speaker 4 (01:16:57):
Who is making up these local I mean, I think
that's maybe I should talk to them about some of
these spending priorities, because there's two things.

Speaker 6 (01:17:07):
Obviously, we want to.

Speaker 4 (01:17:08):
Stop drug dealers, which would fall more under your purview
as Attorney General, but it would seem to me that
if we can attack the demand side a little bit
as well, then we could use those two things hand
in hand. So, as the AG, what funds are you
using for what to tackle? What you can tackle?

Speaker 8 (01:17:28):
Thank you, Mandy.

Speaker 9 (01:17:29):
I want to lift up both your points, demand side
and supply side. The supply side is a problem. Fentanyl
is cheap to produce the porousness of our border, allowing
fentanyl to come over from Mexico is a failure of
our national governance. There's fentanyl scanning equipment that was basically

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funded in twenty nineteen. It still hasn't been instituted effectively
to better pick.

Speaker 8 (01:17:58):
Up fentanyl coming over the border, so there's a lot
of it.

Speaker 9 (01:18:01):
We do a lot of drug interdictions you noted, working
with the DEA and other partners to take down cartels
and other rings who are pushing these dangerous drugs. We're
also pushing legislation around social media companies who made it
too easy to order fentanyl online. For teenagers who are skilled,
they can find fentanyl online is easy, they can order pizza.

(01:18:23):
It's a real problems, so we have to work to
make it harder to get access to Your point's also right,
how do we help people recover? And one thing that
we've done, this is an important point to answer your question,
is to ensure we're providing medication addiction treatment for people
when they go to jail or they go to prison, all.
Often they're there because they start with addiction, they commit crimes,

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they end up in jail prison. Are they going to
get well so they're stopping using and they're instead living
in recovery well? That depends are they getting treatments. We've
made a real priority for the money that we have
at the state level, which is ten percent of the
total to fund Medicaid addiction treatment, whether it's in jail
or prisons. I've also met parents who've lost kids who

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went to jail and said I want treatment, and we're
told you don't have any, and then they leave and
they overdose because their bodies change, they can't take the
same dosin before. We're fixing that in Colorado, and our
money's helping.

Speaker 4 (01:19:17):
Attorney General Phil Wiser, I am out of time, but
I will say this. This is one of those things
that cuts across every socioeconomic barrier, every ethnic barrier, everything.
This problem affects so many people in Colorado, and for me,
it seems like this should be like basically a state
emergency until we can figure out how to do what.

Speaker 5 (01:19:40):
We can do.

Speaker 4 (01:19:41):
Some people you're never going to be able to help
or fix. They don't want to be helped or fixed,
but the people that we can I'd like to see
those investments in that. I look forward to seeing how
some of this money is spent as it continues to
come in. I appreciate your time today, Attorney General Phil Wiser.
Thanks for coming on the show.

Speaker 8 (01:19:55):
It was great. We'll come back and talk more about
in the future.

Speaker 4 (01:19:58):
All right, thank you, sir, and we will be back
right after this. Let me get these stories in before
we get to our Valentine's Day segment. By the way,
the Wineyoga has now started something that is very important
for all of you out there who listen to us
talk about wine.

Speaker 6 (01:20:12):
She has started wine store reviews.

Speaker 4 (01:20:16):
So if you're looking for a wine store and you
want to know if they have knowledgeable staff, if they
have a wide selection, what they've got there, she is
going to take it upon herself on her blog to
do more of these wine store reviews. So if you
have a wine store near you that you would like
to have reviewed, or you'd like to know, like, hey,
I live in Monument or hey I live in Denver

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in this area, just send her an email and she'll
do a little investigating for you.

Speaker 6 (01:20:42):
So a couple of things I want to get in
here first, one of them.

Speaker 4 (01:20:47):
Republicans have a real opportunity to do something about deficit spending,
because progressives just found out that we're running one point
seven trillion dollar deficits.

Speaker 6 (01:20:59):
And here's why they're concerned.

Speaker 4 (01:21:01):
Their concerned because debt service has grown at such a
level that it is now impacting their ability to spend
money on their dumb projects.

Speaker 2 (01:21:14):
Listen to this.

Speaker 4 (01:21:15):
Progressive economists and budget wonks, who have often dismissed finger
wagging about debt levels as a pretext for slashing spending
on programs for the poor, are starting to ring alarm
bells as well.

Speaker 6 (01:21:27):
What's changed, they say.

Speaker 4 (01:21:29):
In large part, long term interest rates look unlikely to
recede as quickly as had been hoped, forcing the federal
government to make larger interest payments, and the Trump administration
has promised to extend and expand its twenty seventeen tax cuts,
which will cost trillions if not matched by spending reductions.
Jared Bernstein, who led the Council of Economic Advisors in

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the Biden administration, said, I find it easier to stay
calm about this threat when I think the interest rate
is low and steady, and I think in the past
year or so that steadiness has been dented. If one
party refuses to raise revenues, which is, raise taxes, and
the Democrats go along more than its fiscally healthy. That's

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also a big part of the problem. Now, the real
irony here is that the interest rates that we are
seeing right now are the direct result of the FED
pumping too much money into the economy. And the Democrats
know this, and you know why the Fed continue to
print more money and pump more money to the economy

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so the Democrats could keep spending. And by the way,
they did this with all the help from the Republicans.
The Republicans don't have a leg to stand on when
it comes to spending as far as I'm concerned.

Speaker 6 (01:22:42):
All that small government. We don't like spending.

Speaker 4 (01:22:45):
It's a lie when they're in power. So here's an
opportunity if you can get the Progressive Caucus on board.
By the way, Elon Musk says that he thinks they
can cut a trillion dollars.

Speaker 6 (01:22:56):
Out of spending out of the budget.

Speaker 4 (01:22:58):
If they can do that, you will see a slight
downturn in the economy as everybody resettles, and then you
will see a boom in this economy, and you will
see interest rates go down because once we show we're
serious about doing something about our debt, our bonds become
much more attractive options for investors and we don't have

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to pay as much, and interest rates come down and
mortgage rates come down. It's not rocket science, people, it's
called economics. We're going to take a quick time out.
And when we get back, chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate,
and an alcohol free prosecco because it is still dry

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January today's the last day. That is quite delicious, and
an alcohol free Cabernet that I'm.

Speaker 6 (01:23:46):
Like, nah, but you know you might like it. We'll
do all that next. This is interesting.

Speaker 4 (01:23:50):
I want to share this real quick. Julie Kelly on
at dot com. If you don't follow Julie Kelly, she is.
She has been doing some reporting and everybody called her
a kook. But let me tell you the stuff people
called her at kook about everything has come true, right,
everything has been proven.

Speaker 6 (01:24:08):
So now I follow her and she.

Speaker 4 (01:24:09):
Has stuff way before other people have stuff. CNN now
reporting that dozens of FBI agents who worked on January
sixth US capital attack and Trump related investigations are being
evaluated for possible removal as soon as the end of Friday.
Agents who worked the investigation of Trump's alleged mishandling of
classified documents and those who investigated the roughly sixteen hundred

(01:24:30):
rioters charged or convicted have been concerned they could face retribution.
Many agents initially had qualms about being assigned to the
Capital Attack and Trump cases, viewing the prosecutions as heavy handed,
people familiar with the matter say some Justice Apartment lawyers
leading January sixth complaces complained that they believe agents sometimes

(01:24:51):
throw wopped some of their work.

Speaker 6 (01:24:53):
So it has begun.

Speaker 4 (01:24:55):
That's not what we're talking about for the next twenty
minutes or so. Because why Yogi and I we have
gone chocolate shopping. Oh yes, and I'm adage, you get it.

Speaker 7 (01:25:02):
We just ate.

Speaker 4 (01:25:03):
If you follow me on Facebook, you can see the
amount of chocolate that we just plowed through.

Speaker 6 (01:25:10):
And some pastry. Yeah, yeah, for sure, lots of stuff.
So where did you go? First of all?

Speaker 10 (01:25:16):
So I went to several different places. I went to Chiacol.
It's here, which is over at Park Meadows.

Speaker 6 (01:25:22):
That's a small chain. It's like chain up here in Denvera,
so you can. There's several locations.

Speaker 10 (01:25:27):
I hit a chocolate shop down in downtown Colorado Springs.
I think it's another kind of I think it's cacao chemistry.
I also went to Paris Baguette because a new one
just opened near my house, so I was very excited
about that.

Speaker 6 (01:25:42):
But there are also Paris Bagottes in Parker and Aurora.
I went to Honeybees Macarone. I can tell you that
my career is that place that's over in Highlands Ranch.

Speaker 10 (01:25:54):
And then I also hit up the wine shop at Tony's,
which is by Tony's Market over Instant and y'all off
of Dry Creek and yeah, just a lot of different places,
a lot of good, yummy foods and.

Speaker 6 (01:26:06):
Then all bad for us.

Speaker 4 (01:26:08):
I went because you guys know, I love the chocolate therapist, right,
I love the chocolate chair.

Speaker 6 (01:26:12):
We want to give Julie love.

Speaker 5 (01:26:13):
And the block.

Speaker 4 (01:26:15):
Yes in Littleton, you cannot go wrong there, but we
wanted to branch out and give some more of the
smaller chocolate shops some love. I went to Dieters, which
is near right by du I mean it's like on
the campus almost They are handcrafted Bavarian artisanal chocolates. So far,
so good because I try to but we tried a

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bunch of their their truffles. I bought the cutest thing
for Chuck and Q for Valentine's Day. And Chuck, if
you're listening, I need you to turn the radio off
for just a little bit. Okay, ear mummuffs. Put the
ear muffs on. And they have these little heart shaped boxes.
They're a little like they almost look like a jewelry box,

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but they're made out of chocolate.

Speaker 6 (01:26:59):
And they have either three truffles if you get the
big one, or one truffle if you get the little one.

Speaker 4 (01:27:03):
It is the cutest thing. And I put this on Facebook.

Speaker 10 (01:27:07):
But I mean now and all of these places are
now coming out, like Paris Baggett is releasing all of
their Valentine's Day pastry options that you can get as
well that are beautiful, and then several the other two
places that I went are starting to do like taking
orders for their you know, strawberry dipped strawberry chocolate strawberry right.

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And also they're different truffles and things like that, and
you don't have to just do sweet.

Speaker 6 (01:27:33):
Chocolate milk chocolate. I got a lot of.

Speaker 10 (01:27:36):
Dark sugar free chocolate, dark icy, you know, with a
little bit of heat in them as well.

Speaker 6 (01:27:43):
So if you're sweetheart or your.

Speaker 10 (01:27:46):
Group of friends, if you're doing gallantines, maybe aren't interested
and necessarily more of the sweet side of things. There's
definitely some, definitely some rich on the bitter side type
of chocolates that can be enjoyed as well.

Speaker 4 (01:27:58):
You know what's funny when you go to Europe, they
don't have dark chocolate. They just have milk chocolate. But
the milk chocolate in Europe tastes so much different than
our milk chocolate here because it doesn't have a bunch
of crap in it. But I had someone say to me,
and you're up there, like, what what is it with
Americans in dark chocolate? I'm like, we're bitter people.

Speaker 6 (01:28:13):
I'm a bitter woman. I've always loved dark chocolate more.

Speaker 4 (01:28:16):
I used to trade in my Halloween bag for the
special bar special bars, and so I was like the only.

Speaker 6 (01:28:22):
Kid that liked dark chocolate. And now dark chocolate is
fully having a moment.

Speaker 5 (01:28:26):
It is.

Speaker 6 (01:28:26):
It is everywhere, and it's delicious and I love it, And.

Speaker 10 (01:28:30):
Especially if you're Keto and you're really trying to watch
your sugar intake. You can still enjoy that chocolate treat
because I can't consume a lot of sweets anymore. Anyway,
anyone's sitting like right now, I'm kind of.

Speaker 4 (01:28:41):
Like we're like literally drunk from the amount of chocolate
the week.

Speaker 10 (01:28:45):
Yeah, dry January, and I've been doing a low carb
this whole time. I just finished up a five day
mimicking fast, so I've not had a lot of sugar
of any kind. I definitely do not have pastry, and
so I'm just I barely had like three or four bites,
and I'm like, okay, that's an yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:29:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:29:01):
So I want to say this, if you are wanting
to get some really delicious chocolate for someone that you
love for Valentine's Day, do not wait until the day before.
I'm going to tell you what happened to me at
the chocolate therapists and Littleton and Julie, the owner is
so squared away, so I don't want what I'm about
to say should not be an indictment on her. I
went to buy chocolate and there was nothing left in

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the store, and so I was chatting with Julie and
she's like Mandy, I can't even get more ingredients to
make more chocolate.

Speaker 6 (01:29:29):
If you want to.

Speaker 4 (01:29:30):
Get good chocolate, get it soon and have it for
Valentine's Day.

Speaker 5 (01:29:34):
A lot of them.

Speaker 10 (01:29:34):
You can pre order now, Yeah, pay for it now,
and then you'll go pick it up within a period
of time, so you're not like necessarily having to pick
it up right now and then try to hide it
from you know whoever.

Speaker 6 (01:29:43):
You can, you know, make arrangements with.

Speaker 10 (01:29:46):
These different chocolate tears and yeah you can. I'm going
to pick it up on the twelfth through the thirteenth,
Julie's having wine and chocolate peering classes. Unfortunately Valentine's is
sold out, but my birthday the day.

Speaker 7 (01:29:57):
After is not.

Speaker 10 (01:29:58):
And if you really want to treat your your sweetheart
to a wonderful Valentine's a weekend, plan to come to
Urray and do the Urray Wine Festival with me and
my husband, and you can hear all about our fun
flying stories there.

Speaker 6 (01:30:08):
You get plenty of them there you go.

Speaker 4 (01:30:09):
So I want to ask a question about wine pairings
with chocolate, because you did bring in a quite tasty
persecco that is alcohol free that I was that that
wine really impressed me as an alcohol real I think
you could serve that to someone and they may not
know that it was alcohol free.

Speaker 6 (01:30:24):
I definitely think it could pass. Yeah, for sure. The
caberne I didn't.

Speaker 10 (01:30:27):
I didn't love, but I do because I had the
gorgeous tannons that so many non alcoholic reds lack, and
it just was not not my favorite.

Speaker 4 (01:30:35):
But that being said, if you wanted to get someone
a really nice bottle of wine to go with their
box of chocolate, what do you recommend there?

Speaker 5 (01:30:41):
See?

Speaker 10 (01:30:42):
You know, wine and chocolate pairings, that's kind of a
classic thing, and so many people will say, oh, well,
champagne with chocolate, you know, dipped strawberries. That's less about
the chocolate, more about the strawberry that you're pairing with
that dyampaign.

Speaker 6 (01:30:54):
So if you're such.

Speaker 10 (01:30:56):
Does feel very romantic, then you know what I mean,
And so so those I tend to, You know, I
would probably if it's me and I had champagne and
I had chocolate covered strawberries, I probably would take a
bite of all of that together, and I would kind
of save that champagne for the strawberry portion, or I
would do white chocolate but if you're looking more into
your darker chocolates, that's when you can get into some

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big old reds. They classically pair, especially if you have
red wines like a Charras that has or Sarrah that
has a lot of that BlackBerry, a dark jammy fruit
component on it, because what happens is it will start
pulling out some of those notes out of that chocolate itself,
and then the umami and the tannins from the chocolate

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and the red wine I will start to kind of
bounce off of each other.

Speaker 4 (01:31:43):
I like a dark chocolate with a bold red, a
mall bag, a tempernios, something that's got a lot going
on in there.

Speaker 6 (01:31:50):
Because I love the way if.

Speaker 4 (01:31:52):
You have a really good piece of chocolate, and here's
a chocolate and wine tasting tip, put a little piece
of chocolate in your mouth and just let it melt,
don't chew it, just let it melt and then sip
your wine.

Speaker 6 (01:32:03):
I love that.

Speaker 5 (01:32:04):
Well.

Speaker 10 (01:32:05):
This weekend I was telling you about the baby Ammarone,
I'm going to be pouring at the wine galleries more
avino wine and food perty class. It's all going to
be focused on Valentine's Day. It's all Italian wines. But
I'm making up a chocolate mouse and easy moose that
I'm preparing with a luxado cherry drizzle and cherry. So
those are the Italian cherries. Like if you're familiar at

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all with old fashions, that's the drizzle or the cherry
that kind of goes into it.

Speaker 6 (01:32:30):
It's an Italian cherry.

Speaker 10 (01:32:33):
It would be Gettin cherry, but it's not the chemically
red Die number five. These are smaller, more intense cherries
that have kind of a truer cherry flavor that are Italian, okay,
and you'll often see them used in cocktails, right, But
I'm going to use it actually in with this chocolate moose,

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and then I'm pairing it with.

Speaker 6 (01:32:54):
Valpolo cello so corvina grape.

Speaker 10 (01:32:56):
And they've sun dried it on these mats and dried
it out and turn them into raisins, and then they've
crushed it that first.

Speaker 6 (01:33:02):
How much liquid do they get out of a dried
Is that why it's so expensive why I am marone
is pretty expensive? Okay? But then when you have they'll
do what's called rapasso, and that's.

Speaker 10 (01:33:13):
The second passing, So they'll crush them again and they'll
extract even more juice and then they'll ferment that and
then that's typically called va palicello rapasso, which is what I'm.

Speaker 6 (01:33:22):
Going to be serving.

Speaker 10 (01:33:23):
It has a very raisin component to it, like a
brown sugar, and I'm pairing that with this seventy five
percent coco chocolate bar that I'm mixing in with whipping
cream that I'm making, and then with that Lexardo cherry,
and that's going to be kind of our dessert, kind
of show how wine and chocolate compare together. After we've
had several different courses of your very Italian type foods, I.

Speaker 4 (01:33:47):
Want to spend just a second hang on and secondly
grab this card. So of the stuff that chocolate tears
are doing with truffles is pretty amazing. I remember the
first time I ever had a truffle. I went to
a little chocolate shop. And this was I was maybe
twenty one, and I went in a little chocolate shop
and this lady had like five she had five options.
She had chocolate, she had dark chocolate, she had a
coffee truffle, and then like two other that they were

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fruits somehow, So I would pay attention you go now like,
I've got the card, the cheater card from Deaters that
they gave me, and they're extraordinary. First of all, they're beautiful, Okay,
the works of art, they really are. But the cinnamon
honey truffle that was quite interesting and quite.

Speaker 10 (01:34:27):
Delicious, and it definitely had that nice cinnamon finish, which
was which pairs lovely with well.

Speaker 6 (01:34:32):
Obviously cinnamon honey is fantastic, but cinnamon.

Speaker 10 (01:34:35):
Most of people don't think about cinnamon and chocolate, and
it's kind of funny. Europeans consider cinnamon to be a
savory item, whereas we Americans, you know, we put cinnamon
and sugar on buttered toast down that was my classic,
you know, on wonderbread.

Speaker 6 (01:34:48):
That was what I grew up in, and so we
all we often associate cinnamon.

Speaker 10 (01:34:52):
Here in the US with all of our sweets, right,
But I love it with dark chocolate because it does
and I love caps since I loved the heats.

Speaker 6 (01:35:01):
There's an astach I was going to get to the
aztech a little bit of heat to it.

Speaker 10 (01:35:05):
I love that with chocolate because it brings complexity to it.
And so that's what I think truffles themselves. Eight works
of art that be because you can do things not
only with the shell of chocolate that's going to go
around it, that tempered chocolate, but your fillings. You have
such a wide variety that you can explore to kind
of create these beautiful pairings.

Speaker 6 (01:35:27):
The cherry balsamic truffle that.

Speaker 4 (01:35:29):
I'm going to tell you that was something I was
not expecting to enjoy. It was fantastic and it tasted
like a cherry balsamic chocolate, which those three things did
not sound like they were going to go together for me,
but it was extraordinarily good. And the reason I bring
this up is, don't be afraid to experiment. Don't be
afraid to get something that maybe sounds interesting but you're

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not sure, because some of these things are just a
revelation and so different and unique, and just what a
wonderful way to try and expand your palette on Valentine's
Day by getting one of these beautiful boxes full of
beautiful candy from one of these these shops.

Speaker 10 (01:36:06):
And what I really like about going to an actual
chocolate heer versus just going to your your grocery store
and picking up your standard right, So, yeah, your standard
assorted box, not that there's anything wrong with a lot
of those. I love, you know a lot of those
chocolates as well, But you can just pick out one
or two or every and it's in the perfect little box.
And I don't eat a lot of sweets anymore. It
will take me forever to work through anything that's, you know,

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more than four little morsels of deliciousness. And then if
you've actually picked them out for your loved one or
for your friend, then it's just that extra little step
that shows, Yeah, you're you're showing how much.

Speaker 6 (01:36:41):
You care about me, and you really a lot of
thought went into this.

Speaker 4 (01:36:43):
I feel like, much like wine has come of age
in the past twenty years, thirty years, I feel like
chocolate in the United States has come of age. I
was lucky enough to meet a guy in Southwest Florida
named Norman Love. He is a very famous chocolate here now,
but when I met him, he was like a twenty
two year old, twenty three year old kid who literally said,
I love chocolate more than anything else in the world,

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and I want to bring that through my love for chocolate.
And I'm making these chocolate creations because this, for me
is love. And I just thought that's what you got
to do if you're a chocolate here.

Speaker 10 (01:37:16):
And it is amazing watching them if you have the chance,
these these artists, because they are some of the chocolate
creations and sculptures and things like that that you can make.

Speaker 6 (01:37:26):
It is it's amazing. It's my blow head is okay.

Speaker 4 (01:37:29):
Last question before we do of the day, and that
is tell the audience at anytime you were flying a
plane and either got shot at or almost died quickly
got I was.

Speaker 10 (01:37:39):
I was shot at flying in Operation Southern Watch. Saddam
was doing some experiments and we were targeted, So that
was fun. And then I almost had my own mid
air and I mentioned it yesterday on air. We were
out over the Atlantic. It's very dark and there's not
a lot of light out there. There was no moon,

(01:37:59):
and so yeah, we had fighters pass within a couple.

Speaker 6 (01:38:02):
Of feet of us.

Speaker 10 (01:38:03):
And well, anytime you're I saw the kind of plane
I fleos an airfueling tanker. And one of our warnings
and our tech data is flying in close proximity to
an another aircraft is inherently dangerous. And we're connecting on
to another aircraft behind us.

Speaker 6 (01:38:19):
And I had dragonfly. Yes, well, well, no, we have
a boom.

Speaker 7 (01:38:22):
You do have that.

Speaker 6 (01:38:23):
That's something else at the drogue.

Speaker 10 (01:38:25):
But we have a boom that will lower down and
the boom operator flies it around. But some of these
bigger aircraft can really push us around. And I've had
some interesting happenings with aircrew type communication and during air
refueling that have not been pleasant and have been kind
of scary. But for me, my husband has better stories
than I do. So I was pretty vanilla when it

(01:38:47):
came to my flying experience.

Speaker 6 (01:38:49):
Okay, got to ask you, uh this one?

Speaker 5 (01:38:51):
I missed it.

Speaker 4 (01:38:52):
What chocolate goes with tempornello and suggestions for a good temporaneo.
I have to think dark chocolate goes better with red wine,
but I have friends whould do or milk chocolate with
red wine as well. I think red wine and chocolate
chocolate period. But do you have a good tempornio.

Speaker 10 (01:39:05):
I tend to like Rioha just because I think Rioha
itself the tear wire brings a little funkiness to the tipernio.

Speaker 6 (01:39:12):
But I mean, honestly, you just can't go wrong. Get
a good quality, find a.

Speaker 10 (01:39:16):
Good Spanish wine, a store that has a good Spanish selection,
and just start looking at your your your different types
of tempts that are out there, because there are plenty,
and work your way through it until you find you're
the one that you've.

Speaker 6 (01:39:28):
Like, I'm the one that makes you happy.

Speaker 4 (01:39:30):
All right, guys and gals, you can find all of
this information, including to the texter who just texted me.

Speaker 6 (01:39:36):
You can find the name of the non.

Speaker 4 (01:39:38):
Alcoholic prosecco and the non alcoholic cabernet on the blog
that I posted on my blog, and you can see
that the Wineyo, you made me a cub reporter today
because I went to.

Speaker 10 (01:39:47):
Deaters to get tried, and the reviews of the wine
shop at Tony behind Tony's Market over on Centennial.

Speaker 4 (01:39:54):
And you should just follow her blog anyway, because she's
doing this stuff all over the place.

Speaker 5 (01:39:57):
Anyway.

Speaker 4 (01:39:58):
Now it's time the most exciting segment on the radio.

Speaker 6 (01:40:01):
Of its kind in the world of that day. All right,
what is our word of excuse me? Dat to day?
Jump it ahead.

Speaker 7 (01:40:12):
A dunge beatle walks into a bar. Oh God, he
asks one sile question, is this steel taken.

Speaker 6 (01:40:22):
Fantastic?

Speaker 5 (01:40:24):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:40:24):
I gotta love that joke, can't.

Speaker 4 (01:40:26):
We just told my grandkids that joke. That's gonna they
get it because I don't know what it's done. What
is a But then I have to explain the joke
and then no, no, but then you just explain what
dunge is and means they're eight and six.

Speaker 6 (01:40:38):
Yeah, but then you circle back later everything later. All right,
here we go. What is our word of the day
the days of verb?

Speaker 5 (01:40:45):
Hey, counter poise.

Speaker 4 (01:40:47):
Counterpoise, verb, counterpoise. I am going to say it is
uh making a coh. You're an argument against something.

Speaker 10 (01:41:03):
So you know, poise is how you carry yourself and
conduct yourself. I would say it's probably misbehaving.

Speaker 7 (01:41:11):
To balance by an opposing weight or to counteract by
an opposing force.

Speaker 6 (01:41:16):
Okay, okay, that's the word I learned now.

Speaker 2 (01:41:18):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 6 (01:41:18):
I won't be using that in the future. No, probably not.

Speaker 4 (01:41:22):
It just seems a little too complicated. Today's trivia question
is what is the full name of the rapper and
record producer known as Tyler the Creator.

Speaker 6 (01:41:33):
There's a zero percent chance I'm gonna know.

Speaker 5 (01:41:35):
I don't even know.

Speaker 4 (01:41:37):
I've never even heard of who that is. Yeah, Tyler
isn't his real name, Tyler something. It is Tyler A coonema.

Speaker 6 (01:41:45):
Yeah yeaheah, okay, something else I won't be using. There
we go. I didn't say they were all winners, okay,
I just there, we're going to learn them. There you go.
What's our jeopardy category?

Speaker 7 (01:41:54):
Going pro Each answer starts with p r O going
pro ten word for the owner of an establishment.

Speaker 6 (01:42:03):
Many what's a proprietor.

Speaker 5 (01:42:06):
Profusely productive? Like some authors?

Speaker 6 (01:42:11):
Crystal? What is prolific?

Speaker 5 (01:42:12):
Correct? Well done?

Speaker 7 (01:42:14):
This gas used primarily as a fuel, is also called
crystal is propellant?

Speaker 5 (01:42:20):
I know?

Speaker 4 (01:42:24):
Oh wait, I was not the answer manny, what is
profane correct?

Speaker 7 (01:42:29):
I'm really glad you didn't make me pronounce the other word.
This Titan was the father of do callaian.

Speaker 5 (01:42:37):
Yeah, I don't know. P r oh, just think of
a titan.

Speaker 4 (01:42:39):
P r oh.

Speaker 6 (01:42:42):
Islander one. But I'm up to to zero protheus that
is correct? There you go?

Speaker 7 (01:42:47):
Only really I think one. An in print of your
foot can determine if you have a normal.

Speaker 6 (01:42:51):
Hi, what is prolapse?

Speaker 5 (01:42:53):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:42:55):
Normal?

Speaker 6 (01:42:56):
What's the pronation.

Speaker 5 (01:42:59):
Pronating? Yeah? Yes, but you win either way?

Speaker 2 (01:43:02):
Yeah yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:43:03):
Hold on, oh, and I.

Speaker 6 (01:43:05):
Did want to announce if you want to come to
one of my classes.

Speaker 3 (01:43:08):
I have.

Speaker 10 (01:43:08):
I have two spots open at the Wine Gallery one
thirty on Sunday for more Avino wine and food pairing.
If you call the Wine Gallery at seven one nine
four three nine nine four six three, tell him you
heard about.

Speaker 4 (01:43:19):
It on the Mandy Connell Show and White Gallery in
Colorado's friend Crystal makes all the food I do.

Speaker 6 (01:43:24):
I'm just saying, so worth it. You need to dial
it up right now and take those last two spots.
All right.

Speaker 4 (01:43:29):
We will be back on Monday. I want everyone to
have a very happy and safe weekend. There's no football
to watch this weekend, I know, I know. And then
next week we're sending a Rod to the super Bowl.

Speaker 6 (01:43:39):
So we'll be back on Monday. All kinds of good
stuff happen, and keep it right here on Koa

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