02-04-25 FULL SHOW - Canada, Mexico Capitulate To Trump's Demands

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tuesday edition of the show. I'm your host for the
next three hours, Mandy Coddle. I'm joined today in the
control room by Zach Seegers in for A Rod, who
is at the super Bowl right now. Now you can
hit that air horn. Yeah, I'm excited to be here.
Thanks again. Yes, A Rod will be on the show
a little bit later. But we've had a lot of

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stuff to talk about. Oh crime, Andy, hang on, my
computer just did something weird. We've got a lot of
stuff to talk about, so let's jump to the blog,
which you can easily find by going to mandy'sblog dot com.
That's mandy'sblog dot com. Once you get to the AAA page,
you can look for latest posts. If you go later
in the day to look at the blog, you're gonna
have to scroll over a little bit because we also

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upload all the podcasts on the latest post scroll which
I hate, but they didn't ask me. So you got
to go to the latest posts and look for the
headline that says two four twenty four blog AI avatars
and Canada and Mexico Cave. Click on that, and here
are the headlines you will find within as.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Listening office atlin ergon all with ships and climmas and
say that's a press plan.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Today on the blog, our Futurist is talking avatars about
that swastika window? Can you sure of the music down
to say here? Yeah? Both Canada and Mexico crumble? What
are the values of Colorado? Representative Crow Denversity Council didn't
override Johnston's veto this King super strike already feels different.
Adam Frisch is deied out of the DNC race. A

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challenger has declared for the eighth Congressional district. Senator Faith
Winters apologizes. Joe Biden gets an agent financial advice from
people who made mistakes. Johnston supporters madd he's not fixing homelessness.
This washbark shooter doesn't seem very stable. Democrats lose their
minds over USA and El Paso. Democratic ad Vice chair

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urges violence. Jimmy Sangenberger beats the dead horse. Wikipedia bands
conservative sources one of my guilty pleasure Internet things. Time
to play for the Greeley Stampede, y'all, Buffy is coming back.
The Fantastic Four is back. That time Robin Williams was
on Whose line is it anyway? And just like that
the first transaction actress gets shoved aside is the Department

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of Education on the way out, pets doing dumb stuff
people tweet about, and now British kids try American serial
one more. AOC says Elon Musk is stupid. Those are
the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. And
yes indeed, my friends, Yes indeed. And I'm just gonna

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start the show by playing this snippet. Can I have
my audio please zact for my computer. I just want
you to hear Representative Alexandria Acossio Cortes, who before getting
elected to Congress was a bartender. Now there's nothing wrong
with bartending. I paid my way through college as a bartender.
But it's not like she had some great career doing

(02:59):
important things before she got into Congress. But listen to
what she has to say about Elon Musk.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
The suit is probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires
I have ever met or seen our witness, which you know,
you can probably even glean that from watching these people
on TV.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Anyways, all anyways, she says, which is grammatically incorrect. After
she talks about Elon Musk being an unintelligent millionaire. But
I'll let her finish.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
That is to say, is that they don't do their homework.
Clearly like they're putting nineteen year olds in at the Treasury.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
This suit is not smart, and.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
The danger is not in the lack of intelligence and
the lack of expertise that Elon has. I mean, the
skuy is one of the most morally vacant but also.

Speaker 5 (03:58):
Just least knowledgeable about.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
These systems that we really know of.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Now. My question is isn't that what we signed up for?
By the way, one of the nineteen year olds that
she's disparaging created an AI computer program that was able
to take severely burned ancient scrolls from Pompeii. You remember
the volcano and Pompey. You've heard about this. So they
had they found these ancient scrolls and they were burned

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so badly that they could not in any way, shape
or form unroll them. So using an AI program, this
nineteen year old that she says is not intelligent enough
to manage the federal government stuff that he's doing now,
actually came up with a computer program that, using a
CT scan of the scrolls, used an AI program that

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actually sort of digitally unrolled them so they could be
read for the first time. And former bartender Alexandria Acossio
Cortes is disparaging this young man's intelligence because he is
only nineteen. Kind of rich from someone who got into
Congress when she was barely out of college. Just mearely,

(05:12):
you guys, what's happening right now watching the left wing
meltdown over USAAID. USAID is an organization that was supposed
to fund programs in developing nations around the world to
help them become more than a developing nation. Right in theory.

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In theory, it sounds great, right, it sounds like, you
know what, what if we went into these African countries
and we set up clean water systems and we help
people have access to a decent amount of medical care
and things like that. USAID, if it was just doing that,
nobody would talking about getting rid of it. But what
they've done instead is become a basically a slush fund

(05:58):
for mostly left wing causes, not all left wing causes,
but mostly left wing causes. And some of the stuff
that our tech, my tax dollars, Zach's tax dollars went
for is insane. I'm sure you've heard about the Peruvian
trans comic book that we paid for, or the thirty
nine thousand dollars we invested in an opera about gay

(06:20):
people in some other country. I mean, the lists that
we're starting to see of the things that they have
funded has gone well beyond anything that any American would go. Yeah,
I think my money should go for that, But because
it is a slush fund for left wing causes and
left wing people. By the way USAID's budget, a vast

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majority of it is just salaries and entertainment, not a
vast majority of about fifty five sixty percent. That was
the last number I saw yesterday. We can absolutely do
without this organization with no problem. It's Zach, are you
gonna be up to find out that we're not funding
any more comic books for trans people?

Speaker 2 (07:04):
No?

Speaker 1 (07:05):
That seems Uh, that doesn't seem it seems absurd, doesn't. Yeah,
it seems absurd, And yet we've been we've been doing that,
but they're freaking the blank out. I did not. I
almost say it. I I almost started, but I didn't.
I didn't. So, Uh, it's been it's been fascinating to

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see just how reliant on the federal government all of
these left wingers are Now I've already known this, You've
already known this, but the fact that so many people
at the local level are freaking out about this, of
all things, you guys, I just want to make sure
everybody in this listening audience understands. Inflation occurs because the

(07:52):
Federal Reserve, in an effort to allow the federal government
to keep barring way more money and spending way more
money than they're bringing in, they just flood the market
with new currency, and in doing so, they dilute the
value of your dollar. Right, I saw I had I
actually I retweeted it on x Thomas Massey explaining the

(08:14):
concept of dilution, and he took a glass of iced tea,
and then he took a picture of water, and he
poured the water into the half glass of iced tea
and he said, look, you can now see it's diluted.
When you add more money to the circulation of money,
every dollar has less value. So we are seeing prices

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still twenty percent higher than they were a few years ago.
So we could pay for a comic book for trans
people in Peru.

Speaker 4 (08:43):
That's how I.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
Want you to think about this stuff. This isn't an
abstract number. This is not an abstract bit of spending.
This isn't some kind of you know, hard to understand thing.
We have a crisis with our budget. We have a
crisis with our debt, We have a crisis with our
ongoing massive spending that we have no business making. And

(09:06):
for everybody who says it, ll EUS eight is less
than one percent of the total federal budget. It's such
a drop in the bucket situation. You know what, one
percent plus one percent plus one percent and pretty soon
you're talking serious money. So don't give me the l
It's so small. We should be worried about it. We

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should be worried about all of it. And the fact
that there are a bunch of young guys who are
some of the best programmers in the world who are
trying to make the federal government more efficient and more effective.
I am down with it, Mark me down. And Alexandria A.
Cassio Cortes has has a lot of cojones to talk

(09:50):
about how they don't have enough experience. She's in freaking Congress,
and she's an idiot talk about lack of experience for
the job. But shit, doesn't this tell you everything you
need to know about these organizations. Doesn't it tell you
that we can absolutely live without it? Doesn't it tell you?
And you, guys, we haven't begun to see the effect

(10:12):
of these sort of slash and burn tactics. I just
saw on x that a thousand people at the EPA
were told that they were being let go, But I
don't know if that's fact or not. I just saw
one tweet, and I don't know if that's accurate because
the show started and I couldn't look it up. So
all of these cuts, everything that's happening right now signals

(10:33):
to the rest of the world that the United States
of America is finally serious about spending and that here's
what happens after that. People look at our debt, the
debt that we still have to buy because we've still
got this massive budget deficit. We look at that, and
all of a sudden, people investors say, well, maybe their
debt is okay, maybe their treasury bonds are all right.
And as soon as treasury brond yields dip, that means

(10:57):
mortgage rates dip. And I'm telling you right now, the
housing market is primed for an explosion because everybody's sitting
on the sidelines waiting for interest rates to go down.
I'm just gonna say it again, if you are ready
to buy a house, do not wait until interest rates
go down, because it's gonna be a feeding frenzy out

(11:19):
there and you're gonna end up getting into bidding wars
for houses that you could have bought for seventy five
thousand dollars less if you had just bought them. Now,
buy the house, marry the house, date the rate. It's
an old adage, but it's very true. I fully believe
that when these things happen, when the market starts to
respond to the kind of cuts that we are seeing now,

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And granted they're insignificant in the total picture, but they
are cuts. They're real, live government cuts, which is something
I've never seen in my lifetime. Whenever they talk about quote,
cutting the budget, they don't cut the budget. They may
cut the amount that the budget increases, they don't ever
cut the budget. They never have a smaller number the

(12:03):
next year than they had the year before. And all
the politicians like to walk around and go, oh, we
had to and we're seeing it in Colorado right now.
Colorado is poor, mouthing everywhere right now. Oh, because of tabor,
and because of this, we're gonna have to cut We're
slashing the budget. We have to save six hundred and
eighty five million dollars. We don't know what we're gonna do.

(12:28):
You know what? They in Colorado at least effectively dropped
our oil and gas production thirty percent. That means the
tax revenues from oil and gas, one of our most
productive industries when it comes to tax revenue, is cut
by thirty percent. Now you're gonna turn around, tell me
it's my fault and I have to make it the difference.
No thank you, no thank you. Are borrowing along with

(12:53):
the inflation is a tax on the poor. It's a
tax on everyone. Inflation is the hidden tax. That's the reality.
So when you see all of these people apoplectic about
cutting aid for people around the world that none of
us would think was worthy. And by the way, don't
even get me started on the corruption. Okay, there is

(13:14):
a woman on x and I've got to find her
page really quickly because I want to give you her name.
I just started following her and all she does is
crunch spreadsheets and go through all of these pseudo government organizations.
It's called data Republican, meaning data data Republican all one word,

(13:40):
and all she does is crunch the numbers of federal
government spending. I just saw one about grants to night
Roby that went through right before Biden left office. Do
we even know where that money is going? No offense
is to the African continent. But if you want to
see where they're as a general rule has so much

(14:01):
corruption in it and we're just shoveling money at them.
I did see a very interesting response video on x
as well from a young African woman who said, you
guys say you want to break the shackles of colonialism,
then why are you freaking out when the white man
isn't giving us more money? And I was like, that's
kind of a good point there, young lady. She pointed
out that the money rarely goes to the services that

(14:22):
it's promised to. It gets caught up in the bureaucracy
and the corruption and skimmed off the top, and it
never actually gets to the people that it's supposed to
get to. And do you think the USAID organization is
checking that? No? No, Once they give the money away,
it's gone because they get to be Santa Claus. I mean,
wouldn't you love a job where your job was to

(14:43):
give away money? Sign me up. Oh wait, even better,
I'm giving away somebody else's money. Heck yeah, I'm in
one hundred percent. So it is Uh, it is just
fascinating to watch everybody lose their minds. I guess a
bunch of Democrats showed up at the USAID office, where

(15:05):
they are not allowed to be because they were told
to stay out of the office, and decided to storm
the building. I've got it now. Yeah, they broke into
the building without permission. Yeah, they're breaking in It looks
very insurrection y, extremely insurrectiony. I sure hope these people
get two to five years in jail for breaking into

(15:25):
a building that they didn't have permission to be in.
Super insurrection me. I mean, I understand people fighting for
their jobs, I get it. But if I were a
federal employee working with one of these agencies, I'd already
be looking for another job because if it doesn't happen today,
it's gonna happen and they're gonna starve you to death. Now,

(15:46):
one thing I will say, the Republicans in the House
of Representatives better get moving because all of this stuff
that Trump is doing, if it's not codified into law,
it will all be undone in the next you know,
a non Republican presidential cycle, all of it. And so

(16:06):
Congress has a lot of work to do, and Congress
has a lot of things to get working on. It's
going to be challenging to get some of them done.
There's some scuttle butt on the street because you know,
I love scuttle butt. Scuttle butt on the street about
Trump having an executive order that would require the Department

(16:27):
of Education head who has not been confirmed yet. He
has nominated Linda McMahon and she has not had a
confirmation hearing. He is going to order her to come
up with a plan to unwind the Department of Education entirely.
Everything of value in the Department of Education can be
moved to another department. But most of what the Department
of Education has done is oversee a massive collapse of

(16:51):
our educational system throughout the country where our kids cannot
read on grade level, like we're in a third world country.
You know, Back when I was a kid in the seventies,
we used to have these reports because there was a
whole plan called RIFF Reading is Fundamental? Was that gone
before you were a kid, Zach, you've ever heard of
rith The Reading is Fundamental? So that was the seventies,

(17:13):
and we used to get these reports from around the
world and you get a report and I'm not even kidding.
One of them was like Bolivia. In Bolivia, only twenty
percent of Bolivian's are literate. And I don't know if
that stat is exactly correct, but it was, you know,
it was along those and we would all be like, oh,
oh my gosh, that's terrible. Now we are giving Bolivia
a run for its money. We're graduating kids from high

(17:37):
school that don't even have a basic level of reading comprehension.
And that, my friends, is what the Department of Education
is overseen. Has there ever been a bigger failure of
a department than the Department of Education? I don't think so.
So all of this, I get up every morning and
I sit down at the computer and I'm like, Okay, Trump,
what you do now? And not in a bad way.

(17:59):
I'm just saying, what do I have to wrap my
head around before noon? Because everything is happening so fast.
I'm actually okay with it when we get back. First
of all, we have a big day to day. We've
got Thomas Frye coming up. He is our futurist. I
want you to go to our website though, before Thomas
comes on, and check out his two videos. One of
them is about the founders of Silicon Valley, Super interesting

(18:22):
run the way. I didn't know anything about it at
all until I watch this video, and then one about
whether robots have the right to defend themselves. But what
you're watching in this video is Thomas himself or should
I say Thomas not himself. I'll explain when Thomas comes
on at one o'clock. When we get back. I have
an update from the swastika Windows situation. I got a

(18:45):
message back, Zach from the property manager. I will give
you an update on that, but it's not gonna be
as easy as you think it's going to be. We'll
talk about that after this. EPA tells one thousand employees

(19:09):
that they may or may not be retained. They may
be subject to immediate firing. That email was sent by
EPA Mission support official Kimberly Patrick. Notifies impacted employees that
they are likely on a probationary or trial period. As
a probationary trial period employee, the agency has the right
to immediately terminate you. There are fifteen thousand employees in

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the EPA, and the EPA folks are screaming already, or
at least the union leadership is screaming already, and they're
basically saying, if you fire these people, we're all going
to drink out of lead filled pipes and things of
that nature. See. The problem with that argument is that
is a legitimate function of the EPA, right to monitor

(19:54):
drinking water, legitimate function, and yet they failed at it
over and over and over again. And in the meantime,
they have over extended their own power so far that
they want to come and have say over the puddles
that form in your yard. Thankfully that was overturned by
the courts, but they have overreached. And this is what

(20:15):
all of this is about. I want to read this
text message, and I promise I'm gonna give you an
update on the Swaska thing. But I got a really
good text that I want to respond to. It says Mandy,
I don't have a problem with getting rid of USA,
the Department of Education, etc. I'm good with cutting most
of the federal budgetment, However, what is your take on
how it's being done? Seems like a reach for executive

(20:35):
branch to go about it in the way they are authoritarian,
which I don't want either side to have this much power.
This would have been better if they simply did their
assessments of the spending now and then tell Congress what
bill Trump would be willing to sign, and if they
don't listen, he just vetos the spending bill. Would like
your analysis on this things. How has that worked out
in prior years? And I'm being genuine because I've been

(20:58):
alive for fifty five years, and since Ronald Reagan took
over in the nineteen eighties, after the period of terrible
inflation and gas price and just a real mess of
an economy, the debt has been growing at a very
quick rate. Well, it really started when Richard Nixon took
us off the gold standard, because then once we have
fiat currency, we can say it's worth whatever we want, right,
so we can spend s Ben's Ben's men's spend and

(21:19):
not have to worry about that pesky gold standard. There
was really raining us in before that. So since then
the debt has exploded, and I've heard Republicans, I've heard
them talking for years about we're really going to go
at it nuke Kingrich had a little bit of success
with Bill Clinton with a Republican Congress where they managed
to balance the budget in seven years, and then what

(21:43):
happened right after that, We went right back to the
drunken monkey spending because the size of government is so
large that it's just going to continue feeding itself. One
thing I think Donald Trump learned last time is that
government per normal is ineffective for what he's trying to do. Now.
I've said over and over again, all of this stuff

(22:04):
can be undone in the next administration very easily. And
the real kicker here about Trump and everybody on the
left saying things like he doesn't have the power to
do this. Congress over the last forty years has abdicated
more or abdicated more and more of their responsibilities to
the president. They've given the president's much more power, mostly

(22:27):
when the Democratic presidents were in power. Well, guess what,
you don't get to pick all the time who's president.
And guess what, Now there's a guy you don't like
wielding all of that power that Congress ceded to the
office of the President of the United States, and he's
damn sure going to use it. I think that he

(22:47):
looked at the landscape of DC and how business is done,
and decided that the best play was shock and awe
to do as much as he could and then see
what sticks, see what Congress has the stones to get passed.
So I wish there was another way. I wish, like you,
that we could have had a slow and normal conversation

(23:09):
like you know you have about your budget at home.
I wish we could have done all of that. I
wish we could have been doing that all along. But unfortunately,
the members of Congress are so invested in making sure
that their districts get the gravy and that their donors
get paybacks that there's no real will in Congress to
reign and spending. And the only way to do it
significantly is to slash and burn the size of government,

(23:31):
and that's what Trump is doing.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
Now.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
There's going to be a florry of lawsuits at some point.
There's going to be all kinds of you know, courts
are going to be hearing stuff left and right. But
at least some of it is going to get through.
I think that's why he's doing so much so fast,
because there's too many there's too many like front lines
to defend right now if you're the Democratic Party, which

(23:55):
is why I find it fascinating that they have chosen
us eight as they're hill to die on. That's out
of everything that's been passed, out of every executive order
that's gone down, that's the one they're the most salty about.
Doesn't that strike you as odd? Struck me as odd?
So yeah, I like you text her. I wish there

(24:16):
was a better way to do it, but I don't
see one, So we shall see, Mandy. Ideally the results
will be indisputable, so it won't all get undone, Mandy.
Executive orders now, then have Congress codify it. That's what
has to happen. All of this, and I'll call an
executive order. It's like a pie crest promise, easily made,
easily broken. That's what executive orders are. They're four years.

(24:39):
They have a four year shelf life, or if they
pass them in the middle of their administry, you know
what I'm saying, they have an end date. So yeah, Mandy,
you really think Trump is behind any of this. You
give him way too much credit. He just wants the office,
so it's fine he lied about Project twenty twenty five.
You text her are about as bright as Alexandria Cossio
Cortez right now, because Alexandria Cossio Cortez calling Elon Musk

(25:04):
the most unintelligent billionaire she's ever seen is patently absurd.
When you look at the track record, and I think
people like you, Texter, you underestimate how smart Donald Trump is.
He did not become Donald Trump by not being incredibly smart,
being able to read the room, and I think that

(25:26):
a lot of these things he has.

Speaker 4 (25:27):
Talked about for years.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
So yeah, sorry about that. But if usingk Trump is
stupid or just in there to be in the office,
you're mistaking him with Joe Biden, who literally was just
like a paperweight in the Oval office right didn't even
know half the time where he was. But Donald Trump,
I mean, you can say you don't like him, You

(25:50):
can say that he has has many, many moral failings,
and that would be fine. But to say he's not
bright enough to drive these policies directives forward, you're doing
yourself a disservice, and it just goes to show that.
And I don't know if this person who's texting as
a Democrat, I don't know, but this is what Democrats
say about every Republican who's beating them.

Speaker 4 (26:11):
They said it.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
About George W. Bush, they said it about Ronald Reagan,
they said it about Donald J. Trump, who came back
and whooped their asses in twenty twenty four, didn't He
sucks to lose to a dumb guy. But here we are.
Do not underestimate the intelligence of Donald Trump. Do not
underestimate the intelligence of Elon must That's for AOC to

(26:33):
say that he's on intelligence. It's just so stupid and
patently absurd. I mean, come on, the guy has started
how many companies that have been literally game changing for
the world. But whatever, AOC, I'm sure you're right. Okay,
let me get into this Swasta windows story that we
talked about yesterday. So there's a building at Congress Park.

(26:57):
It's at Colfax and Josephine, And if few weeks ago
there was a news story because so many a tenant
had put a swastika in one of the windows in
the upstairs apartment, and someone throw a rock through the
window and before he can even fix that window, Homewood
puts a swastika up in a window right next to it. Now,

(27:20):
yesterday we were talking about this and I asked a
very simple question. I was like, who owns the window,
because seems to me that they would be able to
do something about it. Well, excellent producer Zach got onto it.
He found the property manager. He reached out to them yesterday.
They emailed me a response this morning, and I'll tell

(27:41):
you what they said when I get back. Talking about
the building in Congress Park where someone put a swastika
looks like it's made out of tape on one of
the windows upstairs, Well, the neighbors did not take too

(28:03):
kindly to that. And lo and behold, somebody bust to
maicate it said window with a rock or a brick
or something. Window remains broken, covered up with a plywood board,
and uh, Saint Tenant's throws up another swastika on one
of the windows. So I had Zach trucked down the
property manager of the building, and this is what they

(28:24):
had to say. We are aware of a resident displaying
a hateful symbol in their window, which violates our least agreement.
This symbol is unacceptable and has no place in our community.
We are working with law enforcement to address this situation
and remove the resident from the property. We do not
tolerate any form of discrimination or hate speech. We are

(28:45):
doing all we can legally to address this matter and
appreciate your patience and understanding during this time. So the
problem here, and I've reached out to a law firm
that handles addctions in Colorado. Them here as I see
it is that it is exceedingly hard to evict someone

(29:05):
for being an a hole. I mean, Colorado's made it
really challenging. So we're going to try and get this
law firm on tomorrow to get more information. But if
you live in that neighborhood, the property manager is ware
and they are trying to take care of it, but
of course they have to work through the Colorado eviction process,
which can take up to six months. So yeah, that's

(29:26):
the fun of being a landlord. Your renter can just
stop paying and it takes forever to get them out,
forever in a day to get them out. So that
is the latest on that. But you know, here's the thing,
Like what somebody emailed me and said, look on Reddit
or next door. I can't remember which one. Somebody said,

(29:49):
this guy is crazy. He's like I want to be Nazi.
Uh you know, and he's nuts. But when you rent
you you better like check yourself. Zach, you're still in
the renter phase of life. I'm guessing right, you're a
young man. Yes, let me give you a little piece
of advice.

Speaker 4 (30:06):
Don't get a.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
Dog on the aggressive breed list. Number one, because it
is impossible to find. I had a chow shepherd mix.
Do you have any idea what a bad choice that
was when I got the dog before the aggressive breed
list started being added to Lisa's and it became an
unmitigated nightmare just to find a place to live with
my dog. So, uh yeah, it was. It was because

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the chow and a shepherd both on the aggressive dog breedlist,
And so number two like, if you find a good landlord,
do everything you can to stay there. Be the best
tenant ever. We relandscaped a house one time because our
landlords were so good. We're like, you know, this kind
of looks like crap. Would you mind if we fixed
it up? We fixed up the whole front of the house.

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We'd stay there for like three years. It was great.
If you have a good landlord, that's where you want
to stay, because there's nothing worse than a bad landlord.
And I've had those who, Boy have I had those
in various areas over my lifetime. Mandy, good for ross
involved responding and promising action. That's the property manager. But
are they afraid to name the offense and say the

(31:11):
word swastika in their statement? I, you know, I don't think.
I wouldn't read too much into that. I really won't, Mandy.
I wonder if they can have a trans flag in
the window. That flag represents the mutilation of children, not
to everyone. And by the way, lots of trans people
are adults, and I want to be clear because there's

(31:32):
some stuff happening right now where I'm getting increasingly uncomfortable
for adult trans people. If you turn eighteen and you
want to, you know, have thirty five plastic surgeries to
look like a lizard, that is entirely your choice as
an adult. I support you in that freedom. I think
those are all dumb decisions, but I support you in

(31:52):
the freedom to make bad decisions.

Speaker 4 (31:54):
Right.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
A free society requires that we have to decide that
at some point people have to be responsible for their
own actions.

Speaker 6 (32:00):
Right.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
My concern with trans kids is that children do not
have the ability to make good choices. That's why we
don't let him sign contracts or get face tattoos. Anyway, Mandy,
they're gonna have to go after everyone who has anything
in their window or its discrimination. I don't know how
their lease is written.

Speaker 4 (32:19):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
This is one of the reasons I'm trying to get
the eviction attorneys on the show, Mandy. People who have
believed it's all stacked in favor of landlords. Has never
been one. Oh no, no no, in Colorado. I'm a
landlord in Colorado. It's it is. It's so stupid, you guys.
If I decide to evict my tenant, and thank god,

(32:41):
I have an amazing tenant right now, a young man.
I hope he stays there till he dies. Just great kid,
perfect tenant, Just great. But if I decide to a victim,
I have to pay into a fund so he can
tap into that fund to pay for his defense. So
now I have to pay for both sides of an eviction.

(33:03):
I mean, you guys, what the hell, what the absolute hell? Anyway, Mandy,
don't let bad renters know it can take six months
to a victim. Oh, trust me, they know one hundred
trust me, they absolutely know that. When we get back
our futureist, Thomas Frye joins us, and I want you

(33:24):
to take a second in the next break, if you
have it already, to go to mandy'sblog dot com and
right at the front top of the video there are
two videos at the top of the blog. There're Thomas
Frye videos. I want you to just start them and
then look at Thomas Frye, because that's not really Thomas Frye.
It's an ar avatar that just happens to look exactly
like Thomas Frye. Like, I'm thinking about, how could I

(33:48):
make this avatar situation work for me so I could
just do less at my job. I'm just kidding. I'm
never gonna do less. Maybe the guys a Native American,
the swastaka has a lot of differ meanings. The swaska
in the Native American culture is reversed. This is not
that swastika. And if it was a symbol of peace,
why would you put up another one when someone broke

(34:10):
your window for the first one. That's not very peaceful.
I like your willing to give him the benefit of
the doubt. But yeah, no, no, we'll be right back
with Thomas Frye, said Mandy, just letting you know. The

(34:32):
deficit is thirty three to thirty six trillion. No, that's
the national debt. The deficit is what we overspend every year,
and in twenty twenty four we overspent one point eight
trillion dollars. Currently, as of this moment, our national our
deficit for this year is eight hundred and thirty six
billion dollars. So I mean that's progress, I guess. But

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the debt is the total number. The deficit is the
annual number. So that is where that I just want
to clear up in confusion there. And speaking of confusion,
if you go to the blog today and you look
at either of the extremely interesting videos that my friend
Thomas fry put together, you may be confused thinking you're
seeing the man in those videos. But it is not
the man. It is an avatar of Thomas Frye. And

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now the real Thomas fry or is it Are you
the real Thomas Frye? Am I just talking to an avatar?
I can't tell. Thomas. Welcome back to the show.

Speaker 5 (35:29):
This today to change the topics that you've been.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
Talking about, and we're going to talk about AI avatars.

Speaker 5 (35:36):
Wow, this is a fun topic.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
What is the explain Let's start at the very beginning,
because you know, there's a lot of people in my
listening audience like me who are basically Luddites, right, So
what is an AI avatar and why would one have one?

Speaker 5 (35:50):
Well, an AI.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Avatar you can create one of yourself, and you can
use other ones that are already made that are in
the system, but you can actually create one of yourself
so it looks like you, it'll talk like you.

Speaker 5 (36:05):
Same manners and gestures and things.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
And then and then you can use this to create
your own videos. So then if this eliminates the need
for doing lots of fancy lighting and getting camera guys
and editing people up every.

Speaker 5 (36:22):
Time you want to create a video, you can create
a video just.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
On your own using your avatar, and all you have
to do is feed in the text and the scene
changes and stuff, and you can actually produce some pretty
interesting videos that way.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
Now, Thomas, you did this with a program called Synthesia,
and you told me how much did you spend on this?
Because I'm going to make this point here in just
a second. How much did you spend on creating your
own avatar that you can use to do these videos?

Speaker 2 (36:54):
Two hundred and sixteen dollars and it enables you to
create actually three personal avatars if you.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
I was selling Thomas off here that I have a
friend who does training courses and she paid a company
like four years ago about fifteen thousand dollars to do
this very thing, and your avatar is better than hers.
I know I shouldn't say that, but if I didn't
know you and I, you know, you and I were
face to face for these interviews that we do, I
could tell it was not you. But if I didn't

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know you, I'm not sure I would have been able
to tell how you. I mean, you have to be
pleased with the way it came out.

Speaker 5 (37:33):
Yeah, I thought it. I thought it.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
It's kind of funny because the avatar actually sounds to
me more like me than like my kids.

Speaker 5 (37:42):
They'll say it doesn't sound like you at all.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
Oh no, I think it sounds like you very much.
I think it very well. Hang on, let's just do
this right now. So let me just let me have
my audio there. Zach Real quick on my computer.

Speaker 6 (37:55):
I'm a creator is eight the eight people who were
the behind the scenes founders of Silicon The story of
Silicon Valley starts with the invention of the transistor in
nineteen forty.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
I mean, it sounds like you're reading, but it does
sound like you, I think, and that was Theari avatar.
So what are you using this for? What would a
normal person use this for?

Speaker 2 (38:19):
You can use this for training videos, you can use
this for promotions. There's just a thousands of things you
can do. I mean, if you want to become an
influencer on social media, this is a perfect tool to
us to do to.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
That well, And that's kind of what I'm looking at.
Ask okay here, I'm a personality I hate doing social
media videos just I hate it. I don't enjoy being
on camera. I never have. And so this for me
would be perfect to be able to upload my content
which I'd love to share, but not actually have to

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do hair, makeup and all those other things. I might
create an a I'm handy this afternoon. I don't know
how long did this process take.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
So it'll have you when you're going to create your
own avatar, it'll have you get on camera and then
read through a script. You want to make sure you're
well lit and you have a good background and everything,
or you can just have a green screen behind you
if you want, But then it'll have have you read
through this script, which is about, I don't know, two

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and a half three minutes long, and then and then
you'll send it in and it takes like a day.

Speaker 5 (39:34):
For them to get it back to you.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
But you can also use your avatar to speak in
something like eighty different languages.

Speaker 5 (39:43):
That's hilarious.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
Actually, wait a minute, so your avatar could actually be
smarter than you.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
Yeah, a lot smarter and well much more well versed
in other languages.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
That actually, I mean, so basically, what you're telling me
is that I could take over the entire world, is
what you're telling me, because I could translate my thoughts
into languages that could be seen and heard all over
the world. I mean, why not? Why wouldn't I do that?

Speaker 5 (40:14):
I think you should.

Speaker 1 (40:16):
One thing I will, I will say, Thomas, when I
saw this this morning, the entire Hollywood strike that had
that happened fairly recently royally became understandable watching this video.
Because if Hollywood had the opportunity or the rights to
use someone's voice and image in perpetuity like they were

(40:38):
asking for, they could create entire masterpieces. I mean, I
feel like we'really a few years away before our first
AI movie becomes a thing, right, I mean pure AI
movie where Thomas Frye is starring in this movie with
Mandy Connell, and they'll have us in all these action
scenes and stuff.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
Yeah, there's there's actually some pretty tight security on this
to make sure that you're using your avatar yourself and
not somebody else's using it. So there, I think they're
pretty cautious about that that thing actually happening. But I mean,
this is just one company. There's other companies doing the

(41:19):
same thing. I don't know how this ranks. There might
be some better ones out there. I tried this one.
It seemed easy enough to use, and so.

Speaker 5 (41:31):
I went with it. Each one of these will have.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
A learning curve, and once you learn it, then you
want to stick with that company.

Speaker 1 (41:39):
Now, are you able to do videos through this company's synthesia,
because I'm thinking, like, imagine if you were a small
business owner and you were trying to scale your business,
but you want to make sure that your values are
being shared with new employees.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
Right.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
One of the hardest parts of scalability is making sure
that new employees know what your vision and your values
are all about. If I'm the owner of the company,
I don't have time to talk to each individual employee.
But if I could go and create a current like today,
you know, some sort of current situation that I could

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bring home to drive home those values, I think there's
real there could be a real value in that. So
trying to think outside the box on who could use
this technology? Now, are you aware, like you mentioned before,
it's using for training and stuff like that. Are you
aware of people using it for other purposes that maybe
seem off the beaten path.

Speaker 5 (42:37):
I'm not aware at the moment.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
But they do have a provision for uploading a PowerPoint
presentation into it, so you have that capability. I think
you can add your own video in the background. In fact,
you can take your avatar off and just have the

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video playing if you want, And you can have your
own narration in the background too.

Speaker 5 (43:05):
So there's lots of capabilities here.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
Now, if you racked up too many minutes, then there's
an up.

Speaker 5 (43:13):
Charge for that.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
Okay, you probably have to move to another level, But
I'm still kind of new finding out all the ways
to use this. Well.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
I think it's super cool. And by the way, the
videos that you made with it, one about the traitors
eight the founders of Silicon Valley. I knew absolutely nothing
about the founding of Silicon Valley until this morning when
I watched this video and the other one. Should robots
have the right to defend themselves? They're great videos? And
is this just an opportunity to reach a bigger market
for you or a bigger audience that maybe you're not

(43:45):
reaching without putting in as much work? Because how long
does this kind of video take you versus filming yourself,
editing yourself, all of that stuff.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
Yeah, video like this probably take a couple hours to
put together. Now there's a limit. You can't do a
video longer than five minutes. I think that's the limit. Anyway,
the columns that are right, I've written over five hundred
columns throughout the years.

Speaker 5 (44:19):
I can take any one of those columns.

Speaker 2 (44:21):
I can just shrink it down to roughly six hundred
words or something like that, and then feed it into
this and then I can create a video pretty quick.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
Well, I have to tell you. I mean, I think
this kind of stuff is super cool but also super
dangerous because when I see this, I'm thinking to myself,
how far away are we from having a major election
up ended by a video that is completely fabricated of
one candidate where they are saying awful things or they
appear to be doing something that's illegal or something along

(44:57):
those lines. I mean, how close are we to that
kind of a already? It's ai, do you.

Speaker 5 (45:01):
Think, well, we're I think we're already there.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
Uh, you can't do it with this program, but with
some of the other ones I've seen. I've seen quite
a few videos that have been fabricated, and uh, at
this point, it's fairly easy to spot the one set
of the bad ones. But that's we're going to across

(45:29):
the line where you can't tell me are.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
There any cheap Are there something that we as consumers
can look for? They're just going to be so sophisticated,
we're not going to be able to tell.

Speaker 2 (45:50):
Yeah, it's I don't know. Maybe it comes down to
the smell test. I guess, Uh, with a person like that,
with that character, or actually say something like that or
do something like that.

Speaker 5 (46:05):
I mean push comes.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
To show people will do a lot of really strange things.

Speaker 5 (46:10):
If somebody's trained.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
To harm your family, you're likely to take out a
gun and shoot somebody. You would not normally do that.
So so what's don't I don't know how to how
to actually protect us from something like this.

Speaker 5 (46:28):
I think that's going to be.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
That's going to be a tough issue coming up over
the coming years.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
Well, especially because whatever rules you put in place, bad
actors are going to ignore them, right, I mean that's
pretty much how it goes with anything that you limit.
So it's going to be fascinating to watch. And this
is happening so fast, Thomas, that you know my point.
Four years ago it was fifteen thousand dollars for a
mediocre avatar, and now it's two hundred and sixteen dollars

(46:55):
for an avatar that looks pretty dang good. So well played,
by the way, wording to the Internet, Synthesia is the
best best site for AI avatar digital editing. So you
are you're starting at the top and going from there, Amandy,
this textter said, do you think I would be able
to loan my avatar for a movie and get paid
for it? That was one of the things that they

(47:16):
were trying to sort out in this last Hollywood contract situation.
So I don't know the answer to it. I don't
know the answer to that at all. We shall see.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
Let me see here, right, go ahead situation where companies
will buy.

Speaker 5 (47:33):
Buy an avatar or.

Speaker 2 (47:37):
Partner with you to do presentration training videos, that sort
of thing. Oh yeah, that I think would be more
likely than Hollywood.

Speaker 1 (47:47):
Instead of I mean, but you know, I guess, oh,
that would be great. I would rent out my avatar
for training videos. I don't know if you know this, Thomas,
and I don't know why you would. My very first
paid acting gig, ever, I played a computer chip for
IBM in a in an inside instructional video for IBM employees,
some of my proudest moments. I made two hundred dollars,

(48:09):
which was a lot of money for me at that moment,
and I just had to stand and read as if
I were a computer chip. So obviously it was the
role I was meant to play. Thomas rye uh. One
more question. Did you hear about the AI mayor who
ran in Cheyenne, Wyoming? Did you hear about this? I
did not hear about this.

Speaker 5 (48:29):
Oh, I haven't heard about that one.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
I'm gonna pull it up right now first aid.

Speaker 5 (48:37):
Yeah, on all the news.

Speaker 1 (48:40):
Of it, trust me, Thomas, I know no. Cyanne Wyoming
rejected the AI mayor and and actually elected a real
uh person. There was a guy, Victor Miller, who said
he planned to ride run Cheyenne using chat GPT. So
not quite the AI mayor that we're talking about, but
definitely something that is probably already happening. I mean chat GPT,

(49:04):
These chat clients, they're changing everything. What do you think
about this new Chinese chat client? Have you looked at
that at all?

Speaker 5 (49:14):
Veep seek?

Speaker 2 (49:15):
Yeah, yeah, I've been watching that quite closely.

Speaker 5 (49:21):
I don't think it's ready to take over just yet.

Speaker 2 (49:25):
There's there's a few few flaws in some of the
programming on it, and it's it's biased quite a bit
towards China.

Speaker 1 (49:33):
No way some of the answers, Yeah, no way, just
asking about Tanneman Square anyway, We shall see.

Speaker 5 (49:40):
Yeah, huh.

Speaker 1 (49:41):
Thomas Fry can be found at futureist speaker dot com.
You really should watch these videos, Thomas. Now you've given
me something else to try and learn that I'm not
going to be able to some thanks for that.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
I think you'll have it down by the next time
we meet. You'll have a down perfect.

Speaker 1 (49:59):
I like your confidence in me, Thomas, for I like
your confidence. All right, my friend, I'll see you next month,
all right, thank you? All right, thanks Thomas. I mean,
you know, maybe i'll see him next month. Maybe he'll
just send his avatar. Did you look at these videos?
Did you look at him shot? I'm not kidding. I
mean I talked to the man once a month, I
see him face to face, and these avatars are amazing.

(50:21):
I seriously am going, what should my ar avatar do?
Like what I mean? Because here's the thing. I would
do more social media video, but I just don't like
being on camera. I don't like having to film myself
because the lighting sucks and I look, you know, my age,
which is never good. So if I got an AI
avatar and I could just upload AI Mandy stuff, do
you think people would think that was cool or dorky

(50:43):
or both. By the way, I'd like to think my
one cameo client that I got before the Holidays, I
wish a gentleman. I'm Mary Christmas on my cameo feed,
so I am officially a paid cameo artist. If you'd
like me to, I wish you a just go to
camp and look at Mandy Connell. Mandy, it's reassuring that
a dog can get elected as mayor, but an AI can't. Technically, technically,

(51:10):
he wasn't actually an AI mayor. That would be like
Max Headroom running for mayor. Now, Zach, did you even
get my Max Headroom reference? Do you even know who
Max Headroom is?

Speaker 5 (51:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (51:19):
Yeah, And then I'm familiar with him also from the
famous like Chicago TV takeover a thing that.

Speaker 4 (51:25):
Happened in the eighties or nineties.

Speaker 1 (51:27):
Wow, I'm impressed. Max Headroom was probably the original avatar,
although he wasn't a high tech like these Mandy. So,
in other words, cutting the annual deficit isn't going to
pay off the national debt. I guess eventually it will.
Eventually it will because as spending goes down, we are

(51:49):
continuing to grow. Our economy is still growing, right, So
we're not looking at a static piece of pie. We're
not looking at a pie where we have the same
number every single year that we're gonna deal with. Here's
what I think will happen if you can get spending
under control. If you can significantly reduce the amount of
money that's fed has pumped into the economy, then then

(52:15):
you can start to see deficits come down. But it's
going to be a long haul before anything happens with
our national debt. And by the way, I don't mean
to be a negative Nelly. I currently have zero confidence
in US not coming to a debt crisis at some point.
Zero zero confidence because every massive empire before us has
done the exact same thing that we are doing right now,

(52:38):
and none of them have been able to avoid the
negative repercussions, none of them. Mandy, your AI avatar should
chug a bottle of wine after every news story. You know,
I don't wanna. I don't wanna. I decided a long
time ago that I would never endorse alcohol products because
alcohol is very destructive to so many people's lives. So yeah,

(53:00):
they won't. Maybe chug some nice fizzy water with a
giant bilch at the end of it. Hey, Mandy, I
don't know if your avatar would be dorky or not,
but it would be not real. I should have missus
roper as my avatar says this to No, It's got
to be me it's gotta be me. If you keep
saying aar avatar, the Colorado Dems will make sure it
gets banned. Okay, that's funny, very very funny. AI avatar

(53:24):
a I avatar. So we'll see. Maybe I'll make myself
an avatar. That seems like a lot of work. Mandy
Vanity over fifty is the first sign of sinility. Aged
with grace sixty five toll toils listener, I don't believe
in aging with grace. I think aging with grace reminds
me of old ladies and moo moos with their hairs

(53:46):
in a bun. At my age, when I was a kid,
fifty five year old women in my hometown all had
gray hair, and they all wore it up in the
same bun, and they all had sensible shoes in flax. No, Nah,
I'm not going out without a fight. I'm just not.
I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm not rushing to

(54:07):
have plastic surgery or anything like that. But a lot
of the stuff I do at downtowns or redn Revolution
has to do with keeping my face looking good. Seriously,
when you're in the media, it all feels a little
bit different. Trust me, Trust me on that. Okay, we're
gonna take a quick time out. When we get back.
We got to talk about Canada's capitulation and Donald Trump

(54:27):
using tariffs as a bludgeon. We'll do that next. Holy macaroni,
what has happened with tariffs? We've got tariffs threatened and
everyone fightd out. Did you guys see on Sunday the

(54:50):
markets were all like, oh my god, all the futures
were way down. It was a disaster. But then my
Monday morning, when Mexico was like, oh yeah, we're gonna
work with you, the markets were like, eh, eh, it's fine.
That being said, I want to share with you what
was posted by lame duck Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. You know,

(55:10):
I'm not gonna get tired of saying those words lame
duck Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. This is what he posted
on his X feed. I just had a good call
with President Trump. Canada is implementing our one point three
billion dollar border plan, reinforcing the border with new shoppers,
technology and personnel, enhance coordination with our American partners, and

(55:34):
increased resources to stop the flow of Fentinel Nearly ten
thousand frontline PEP personnel are and we'll be working on
protecting the border. In addition, Canada is making new commitments
to a point a fentanyl zar. We will list cartels
as terrorists, ensure twenty four to seven eyes on the border,
launch a Canada US Joint Strike Task Force to combat

(55:56):
organize crime, fentanyl and money laundering. I have also signed
a new intelligence directive on organized crime and fentanel and
we will be backing it with two hundred million dollars.
Proposed tariffs will be paused for at least thirty days
while we work together. That is what's known as a capitulation.

(56:18):
That is what's known as justin Trudeau recognizing that he
had way more to lose than the United States does.
And don't get me wrong, I love Canada. It's I mean,
I've been to all of the provinces in Canada at
this point in my life, all of them, and it's
a beautiful country that people are lovely. The leadership is awful,

(56:39):
absolutely awful. But that being said, I don't want to
punish the Canadians just like I don't want to punish Americans.
Uh does that? Get ready to vamp for a minute.

Speaker 2 (56:48):
I go.

Speaker 1 (56:51):
That means you're supposed to turn on the mic and
start talking because I had to sneeze. Never mind, you
miss it. I sneeze already, it's over. That's okay. I
mean very sneezy lately, and I don't know why. And
multiple sneeze is in a row. I've never been a
multiple sneezeer in a row. My husband, on the other hand,
he can sneeze like fifteen twenty times. I'm not even kidding,
like fifteen or twenty times in a row, so much

(57:13):
so that I don't say God bless you on the
first one. And when we're out in public and he sneezes,
in inevitably somebody says God bless you. I'm like, oh,
just wait, just wait till the end of the sneeze
parade that is about to happen. But lately I've been
doing the multiple sneeze thing too. I don't know what's
up with that. In any case, let's review. Mexico has

(57:35):
already announced they're sending ten thousand troops to the border.
They are also going to be working closely with the
US government to keep both people who are trying to
migrate and cross the border illegally out of the United
States and also aggressively combat drug trafficking over the border.
At the same time, they have asked the US to
work on making sure our guns don't end up in

(57:57):
the hands of a cartel as well. I mean, aside
from Eric holders, you know, giving them guns during Operation
Fast and Furious. Oh wait, was that hurricane crossfire? I
can't remember the name. I think it was a hurricane
crossfire where we gave a bunch of guns to cartels
to see what would happen. Hey, news slash they use
them to kill people, super smart. That was awesome. Another

(58:20):
big hit by the federal government. I am now back
to giving Trump more latitude completely because I believe that
these tariffs are all about leverage. They are all about bludgeoning.
They are all about the threats of force in order
to extract an outcome that you would like to see.

(58:42):
And all of these people on the left, all the
people on the text lines talking about how you know
Donald Trump's you really think he's doing any of this now?
Just because we came through four years of a pet
rock president doesn't mean that we have one.

Speaker 5 (58:56):
Now.

Speaker 1 (58:57):
All you have to do is watch him talk to
people the press. Imagine that we have a president who
actually talks to the press. Right now, I'm watching a
snippet on Fox News. He's talking about a ron cannot
have a nuclear weapon, and reporters are asking him questions.
And instead of his team shoving all the reporters out
the door, like Biden's team, remember them, thank you, thank you,

(59:19):
you can go, and they walk through their arms.

Speaker 5 (59:21):
Thank you, thank you, you can go, you can thank you.

Speaker 1 (59:24):
It's how are no questions? As Joe Biden stared vacantly
off into the distance, trying to remember what he was
doing in the first place, or why he was even there.
Donald Trump's happening back and forth with the press. So
so save all that because it's not going to work.
I said earlier in the show. If your big slam
as you think Donald Trump is stupid, it's the same

(59:45):
slam that has been levied against every Republican president in
my lifetime. And it's just it's tired. It's just tired.

Speaker 4 (59:53):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (59:54):
I got the local stories that I want to get to.
I want to say good job to the Denver City Council.
Yes you heard me right, well, good job, and that
they decided not to try and override Mike Johnston's veto
on expanded paraphernalia distribution. I've decided I'm not going to
call it needle safe needle exchanges. I'm gonna call it

(01:00:15):
paraphernalia distribution because that's what it is. We are handing
out drug paraphernalia so drug addicts they don't have to
find it anymore, they don't have to reuse needles. Bless
their hearts, So we are no longer. We're not gonna
have unfettered drug paraphernalia. We're not going to have that.
We're still going to have drug paraphernalia give out locations,

(01:00:38):
but they're not going to be everywhere. And for all
of the people on the Denver City Council who voted
knowing that in the first place, the reason they didn't
try to override the veto is they didn't have the votes,
but they just decided to just let it ride. And
I'm fine with that now. I also have a story
on the blog today about Mayor Johnston. You guys, I'm
kind of feeling sorry for him right now, not completely,

(01:01:00):
but he volunteered to take on this incredibly difficult job,
ran hard for it on a platform of distributing homeless
people throughout the city. So we's got to feel kind
of shocked when people take to the news media to
complain that there are homeless people throughout the city. Case
in point, there is a story today on Denver seven

(01:01:22):
and the headline, I'll just read the headline to you,
Denver leaders respond to businesses, neighbors along South Broadway fed
up with homeless uptick. Let may we do this one
little part from the story. It's pretty dismaying sometimes that
we have really rallied and been very open and transparent

(01:01:43):
about what it is that we need, the support that
we need, and still maintaining a very clear agenda of sympathy.
We really are empathetic people and we want to help,
but we also want to feel safe. So I don't
understand where the disconnect is. She continued, I know Mike Johnston.

(01:02:04):
Mike's been in my house for dinner, and I would
tell Mike that he has not cleaned up our streets.
It has not gotten better, and we need to do better. Okay,
let me break this down, let me unpack this. As
they say, it's one of my least favorite jargon phrases.
That's out right now, let's unpack this. Let's not because
I didn't pack it in there, I'm not unpacking it. Okay,

(01:02:28):
this is another example. We've had multiple examples of people
who first of all, want to let you know that
even as they are sick to death of drug addicts
crapping literally on the doorstep of their business, they also
want you to know that they have compassion and empathy
and that they want to compassionately lose these people somewhere else.

(01:02:53):
Their compassion ends with the poop in the in the
doorstep of their business. When when are they going to
make a different choice. When are they going to elect
a different person or party that promises to actually get
tough on crime, that actually says we're going to prosecute
all of these crimes. My guess is never, Because it's

(01:03:15):
so important to them to be seen as empathetic that
they're really not that invested in solving the problem, which
is going to require tough love and a lot of it.
But is that empathetic? I don't know, and I certainly
don't know if she thinks it thinks it's empathetic, but
I'm sure you know, well, I'll tell you about it

(01:03:36):
in the next segment. I want to give kudos to
a member of the Colorado Legislature that politically I think
is wrong on pretty much everything. Could not be more
diametrically opposed to me politically, ever, But there is something

(01:03:58):
that happened in the in the capital the other day
that I think is important and I hope this member
of the Colorado Legislature keeps moving forward in this one way.
And I'll tell you all about that next positive vibes.

(01:04:23):
That's the best I'm gonna do. And congratulations to a
member of the Colorado Legislature that I generally think is
wrong about literally every single thing she does. However, Senator
Faith Winters has had.

Speaker 4 (01:04:36):
A rough year. Last year, she.

Speaker 1 (01:04:39):
Was accused of showing up at a meeting with citizens
drunk and it led to an ethics investigation. It is
my understanding for multiple people at the Capitol this was
not the first time she had appeared drunk at an
official event, and she, because of all of that, entered
rehab and just took to the of the State Senate

(01:05:01):
to apologize to the Senate and her constituents for her
past behavior. And I think this is something that, first
of all, I've known enough people going through the program,
as they call it, that making amends is a very
important part, and part of making amends is admitting what
you've done right, and admitting what you've done on the

(01:05:22):
floor of the Colorado Senate and making a public statement
like this must have been very difficult for her, but
I commend her for making her ongoing journey of sobriety
a public issue of discussion, because I think that there's
a lot of people out there who think, because of
their job or whatever they have going on, that now

(01:05:43):
is not the time to go to rehab. And I
can't take the break for my job. You guys, there's
a million reasons not to get sober if you have
an alcohol or drug problem, but none of them are
valid in the grand scheme of your life. None of
them matter. And I'm just going to use this as
an example. The Great Rush Limbaugh, after becoming addicted to

(01:06:07):
painkillers after a back surgery, admitted on the radio he
was an addict and went to rehab for six weeks.
And for six weeks, I, along with many of you,
listened to fill in hosts, some that were good, some
that were not good. Well, he went and took care
of that problem, and what's interesting is yours. Truly. I
had to take an entire month off work. It was

(01:06:27):
the longest time that I had off work since I
was fourteen years old after I had vocal cord surgery.
And it was not something that I could not do.
It wasn't an option. And for me, having her stand
up and take this take responsibility for her choices is
a very positive thing. And though I'm probably going to
continue to think she's wrong about every single thing that

(01:06:50):
she wants to do politically, I wish her very much
continued success in her journey of sobriety, and I hope
that she as long as her as long as her
constituency wants her in that position, or she's not termin
limited out, she can continue to serve her district. And
just wanted to let you know, Mandy, did you take

(01:07:10):
a COVID test? I didn't hear and wonder no. I forgot.
I was so tired yesterday and so somebody else sent
me a text message yesterday that said, you know, one
of the biggest symptoms of my leukemia was exhaustion that
never went away. I'm like, okay, let's slow that roll. Okay.
I don't think I have leukemia. I think I have
some kind of bug. No, I forgot, and today I
feel fine, and I took the dog for a walk

(01:07:32):
and everything this morning. So I don't know what it's like.
A little eh, it was a bug. It was a bug, Mandy.
My boss sneezed in threes. Coworker sneezed like a horse naehing,
and another coworker always sneezed at three decibels. Me I
seize one set one hundred and forty decibels, and my
chest always hurts after.

Speaker 2 (01:07:55):
U.

Speaker 1 (01:07:56):
Okay, So guns to Mexico underholder was Operation fast and
thank you. Text her thank you very much. This text.
Are very upset. They were hoping for a free bong
handout as part of the free paraphernalia situation there. My
husband told me, bless you for the rest of your life,

(01:08:16):
like two years ago, high five to you, Chuck.

Speaker 6 (01:08:18):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:08:18):
I like saying God bless you. It's one of those
little social contract things that I enjoy, like saying hello
to people, Hello, how you doing, good morning, have a
good day. Little things like that. I enjoy that and
saying God bless you when someone sneezes. Even though really,
the basis of it is pretty idiotic. I don't care
I'm blessing someone. I'm basically the Pope at that moment.

(01:08:41):
I'm just dispensing blessings left and roh, seize bless you,
seize over your bless you. I'm like Oprah given out cars,
only I'm given out blessings because they can't afford cars.
I once had a friend and this is how she sneezes.
I'm not even exaggerating. It sounds exactly like this, so
much so that with the first time she sneezed, I

(01:09:02):
was like, what what was that? She it was a sneeze.
I'm like, no, no, that's not how anyone in the
world sneezes. She snees like this, and this is exactly
what it sounded like. Tee two, tee two, tee two.
I'm not kidding. And I was like, how does anything move?

Speaker 5 (01:09:21):
Like?

Speaker 1 (01:09:21):
When I sneeze? I want action, you know what I mean.
I want to I want to come out of that
sneeze on the other side, being able to breathe a
little bit better, maybe getting some some stuff going so
I can blow my nose and you know, clear things out.
But what does that do tee two. Yeah, it's not
doing anything. I want to feel like I've expelled something
to you exactly, knock out the evil spirits, that's what

(01:09:42):
you want to do, all right? Coming up in the
next hour. First of all, we're gonna talk to a
Rod later in the hour. He is going to join
us from New Orleans. He asked Travis Kelcey a great question,
and I loved Travis Kelcey's answer, y'all. I just I
think Travis and Taylor are going to go the distance.
And that's the much does I care about that? Also, guests,
who has an agent?

Speaker 5 (01:10:03):
Yeah, not me.

Speaker 1 (01:10:04):
But when I tell you, I bet you're gonna laugh
out loud like I did. Going on, we've now reached
a place in our society where a washed up shell
of a man who used to be president has now

(01:10:28):
signed with one of the biggest talent agencies in the country.
That's right, Joe Biden has signed with Creative Artist Agency
for representation. This is what the co chairman of CAA said.
I don't think he giggled while he said it, but
he may have had to do like Free takes to

(01:10:49):
get it all out. President Biden is one of America's
most respected and influential voices in national and global affairs.
His lifelong commitment to public service is of unity, optimism, dignity,
and possibility. We are profoundly honored to partner with him again. Yeah. Yeah,

(01:11:12):
I'm not sure what they're going to be trying, you know,
getting him to do. I mean, obviously, whatever he does
is going to have to do it between ten am
and four pm, right when he's actually functioning. So yeah, wow, yeah, So,
I mean, if you want to hire the president a

(01:11:33):
former president, he's available. By the way, the same agency
reps Barack and Michelle's Obama's Higher Ground productions, as well
as Joe Manson, Susan Rice, Beto O'Rourkes. Wow, whatever happened
to Beto O'Rourke. Dude lost like four elections in a
row and he just fell off the map. Didn't he fake? Hispanic?

Speaker 4 (01:11:57):
Dude?

Speaker 1 (01:11:59):
I know, I'm Medallion and Irish, but I'm gonna name
myself Beato to bring in the Hispanic vote. They won't know.
Those Browns aren't that bright. I'm just kidding. I don't
know if he actually said that last part. What I mean,
really trying to trick people with your name. Come on,
come on now, better and bigger news out of Hollywood.
This story, you guys, I might have squealed with excitement

(01:12:21):
last night about this, and this is gonna give you
a little window into the world of former Mandy. Buffy
the Vampire Slayer is very close to getting a reboot done,
and I am so excited. Buffy the Vampire Slayer was
the show that I watched every episode start to finish.
As soon as they made the DVD set available, I

(01:12:42):
bought it. I loved that show. It was perfect for
that moment in time. It was, of course ridiculous because
you have a teenage girl who's fighting demons and monsters
and vampires and everything else until she falls in love
with a torture vampire and angel. It was just such
a good show. It was like half soap opera, half

(01:13:03):
fighting monsters. So how could you not love that. As
a matter of fact, Supernatural has totally just stolen that
whole gig, right, the show Supernatural, same thing they stole
it from Buffy. For years, people have been asking Sarah
Michelle Geller as she would consider a reprise of Buffy. Now, obviously,
she's like forty seven I think she's in her late forties,

(01:13:25):
so she will not be playing the fresh faced slayer.
And that was the genius of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
because part of the story was that you could have
more than one slayer, right, you could have multiple teenage slayers,
and that was kind of a great way of perhaps
spinning off whatever. But she will pay a character who

(01:13:48):
will become a regular sort of back and forth, but
maybe not in all the time. Described as the next
chapter in the Buffy Verse. The new incarnation is executive
produced by gellerw and it's all female because the other
part about Buffy the Vampire Slayer that was so ugly
is that the creator, Joss Whedon, was accused of creating

(01:14:08):
a hostile environment on the set by many women who
worked in that cast. Many He is in no way
connected to this. Here's something I didn't know though. Executive
producing the pilot is Dolly Parton, whose company sand Dollar
was a producer on the original. I'm super excited about this,
and it just got me to thinking, what show that

(01:14:30):
you loved in the past would you like to see
comeback in some form or fashion, assuming they're not going
to ruin it and that's altogether possible. They could totally
ruin it, and that would make me incredibly sad.

Speaker 6 (01:14:45):
But what show?

Speaker 1 (01:14:45):
I mean, are there shows that you would like to
see come back? And would you watch them? Because I
was super excited for a hot minute about the Dallas reboot,
and then when I started watching it and I was like,
I don't really like this anymore. There was nothing wrong
with the show, It's just that Dallas was such an
eighties moment and it was so perfectly eighties that to

(01:15:06):
go back to that same kind of show just felt
I don't know, I'm just extremely excited about this, extremely
excited about this. Mandy. You know the character will be
a black trainny. I don't know that, but we'll see Mandy.
At first, I was thinking of Christy Swanson instead of
Sarah Michelle. Christy Swanson of course in the movie, and
the movie was kind of schlocky and a little bit silly,

(01:15:28):
but I loved it. But the character is so good
Green Acres, Yo, we could make a Green Acres reboot.
But who would play the role of Jejacques bor right now,
Sidney Sweeney? Okay, work with me, go with me right now? Okay,
Sidney Sweeney is a fancy socialite who somehow falls in
love with a farmer and moves to the country. Chaos

(01:15:50):
and shenanigans in Sue. That would be fantastic tears if
they didn't ruin it. I don't know, though, Cheers feels
like a moment where that cast was so perfect. Buffy
had a great cast like the Scooby Gang, and Buffy
was so good. Some of them have gone on to
struggle mightily, some of them have done really well. But

(01:16:12):
the Cheers, there was so much perfect chemistry in that cast.
I don't know if they could redo that justified then
they destroyed it. We got a new dog, the name
she came with as Buffy. We kept it. We call
her Buffy the Cushions Slayer. That's funny, Mandy. I'm watching
the og Buffy series for the first time. I love it.
I always wanted to watch it when I was in

(01:16:32):
college before DVRs, so I always missed it. We need
Grim to come back. I love Grim. Grim was sort
of in the same vein. Did you ever watch Grim, Zach,
I'm familiar with it. He was fighting monsters and everything,
but not as cool as Buffy was. Because Buffy wasn't
just about fighting monsters or soap operas with vampires. It
was also like all of these different sort of pop

(01:16:53):
culture references throughout the entire show. And as a matter
of fact, Texter that's watching it for the first time,
how do those things up?

Speaker 2 (01:17:02):
Mandy?

Speaker 1 (01:17:02):
Bring back wild on E with Jules Asner or Brick Burke.
I've never watched that, Mandy. They should continue Bones. They
I've read that Emily, Emily d Chanel and David Brianis,
who also coincidentally played Angel in Buffy, they are open
to a Bones reboot and I would love that. I
love that show too, Mandy. I don't know how they

(01:17:24):
would pull it off. But a reboot of Married with Children, updated,
updated for today's time. Can you imagine you, guys? Instead
of having Christina Applegate's character be like kind of the
slutty girl of the family, she would be the uptight
Jen Alpha who would be correcting everyone else for misgendering
people and not using the right pronouns. It would be insufferable.

Speaker 2 (01:17:49):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:17:50):
No, retired Joe Biden could not play Arnold the Pig.
I don't think he can remember lines. Mandy Three's Company
another one that I don't think you could make today
because that was all about Susanne Summer's jiggling boobs. That
was Jiggle TV, the original and let's be real, y'all.
The entire premise of that show was that Jack Tripper

(01:18:14):
needed a place to live, but the landlords would not
let him live with two women unless he was gay,
so we had to pretend to be gay around his landlords.
I mean, I don't see how that would fly. Not
at this point, No way, Mandy. I heard they were
going to reboot the Goonies. Don't mess it up. Do
not mess it up.

Speaker 2 (01:18:35):
Do not.

Speaker 1 (01:18:37):
Buffy's special effects are terrible. Yes, there's not a lot
special about their special effects. Imagine what they can do now.
Several people wish they would bring back Firefly. That show
was gone too soon. Quantum Leap was a reboot that
I liked, but it was it's gone, I think. Ooh, Mandy,
Xenia Warrior Princess. Yes, now we're cooking with gas. First

(01:19:10):
of all, the Jeffersons and Archie Bunker would never get
made today. All in the Family was a scandal when
it happened in the seventies. It would never, ever, ever,
ever get made today, here's one. What about that show
with the chick with the boobs that talks to ghosts? Unfortunately,
I know you're talking about Jennifer love Hewitt, but I
don't know the name of the show. That's before my time,

(01:19:34):
and I was so lost. No, no, I mean Jennifer
love Hewitt. In that timeframe, in the nineties, she was
renowned for her rack among many of my male friends.
I'm just gonna say it. I mean, I could be classy,
but they weren't. Anyway, Get Smart. I would love to
see a reboot of Get Smart. I love that show.
You know another show I loved when I was a kid,

(01:19:55):
Wild Wild West and Wild Wild West. You've got to see.
I'll see if I can find it and put it
onto tomorrow's blog. Director Kevin Smith has a story about
Wild Wild West, but it's more about Superman. He's a
huge Superman fan. He got the chance to pitch a
script for Superman and he had to go to this

(01:20:17):
producer's house and it is literally one of the funniest
things I've ever seen in my life. But that movie
was pretty terrible. But I loved Wild Wild West and
Get Smart. I like anything with gadgets. That's one of
the reasons I love Bond movies so much. It's gadget,
you know. Anyway, let me see, Oh, I wanted to

(01:20:38):
get one down here, and I don't know where it went.
Northern Exposure. That was another great, great show, really great show.
Mandy Soap Soap was an interesting show. It was a
soap opera, an evening soap opera that was meant to
be a soap opera, but they also dealt with a

(01:20:59):
lot of really serious issues. Fun fact, I think that's
where Billy Crystal got his start, was on soap, but
I don't remember exactly. And thank you to the Texters
who corrected me. It was not Jajah Gabor in Green Acres.
It was Ave a Good Bore her sister, So I
got that backwards. Um, Mandy in Green Acres. Lisa once

(01:21:20):
said her two talents were speaking Hungarian and imitating Jajah Gabor.
That was a great show. That would have been funny.
Dukes of Hazard. Could you imagine any network putting a
General Lee type vehicle on television with the big Confederate
flag on the roof right now? Ah? Yeah, yeah. The

(01:21:40):
Ghosts with Burr starred the chick with the boobs. There
you go, there you go. Um, Joe Biden is mister magoo.
Stop it, stop it right now. The nineteen seventies had
an entire catalog of shows you could never do today.
Samson and Sons are definitely not happening. Sanford and Son,

(01:22:03):
not Samson, Sandford and Son probably right. Tales of the
Gold Monkey. Oh, I love that show. That was a
total Indiana Jones ripoff. Who starred in that show? Look
up Tales of the Gold Monkey. For me, it was good.
It was like an adventure show. Totally again, a ripoff
of Indiana Jones. But it was so good, so so good.

(01:22:24):
Uh Mandy, remember how if you don't fire your taxes
on time you can get penalized. Shouldn't that apply? What's
his name?

Speaker 7 (01:22:31):
Jeff McKay, Jeff McKay. It also had Stephen Collins. Stephen
Collins as the guy was trying to remember he played the.

Speaker 4 (01:22:38):
Star John Calvin.

Speaker 1 (01:22:40):
No clue who that is, no clue at all. Yeah,
let me find that text. Hey man, do you remember
how if you don't fire your taxes on time you
can get penalized. Shouldn't that apply to the state of Colorado,
since we can't even file our taxes with the state
yet because they don't know what they're doing. That would

(01:23:00):
be adorable if we held them to account, But it's
not really going to happen, Mandy. A reboot of my
favorite Martian with today's special effects would be cool and
the little Antanna's A lot of you were saying, mister
Ed and I'm just gonna say it, do we really
think a talking horse is gonna sell right now? I
don't know. I don't know if I've ever seen an

(01:23:22):
episode of mister Ed. It predates me, so yeah, perfect
casting for a Get Smart reboot. Steve Carell from the
Office who played there was a Get Smart movie. Hang on,
Gets Smart movie. Oh, so there you go. You're you're
absolutely right. It was such good casting that he already
did it, So there you go. X Files, Yes, on

(01:23:44):
the X Files bring it back. Although they did and
it wasn't as good. I think one of the things
that made the X Files so good was it was
so original and so surprising. The creativity that they had
in the writer's room at the X Files was just
next level. It was so so good, so so good.
Mandy in Today's Hollywood, A revised Dukes of Hazzard would

(01:24:04):
be an electric car with a big old gay Pride
flag on the roof.

Speaker 5 (01:24:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:24:12):
No, Netflix is going to do Little House on the Prairie.
Holy cow, Please don't screw that up. That's like a
secret program, and y'all one of my biggest disappointments as
a parent. I tried to show it to Q and
she was just like, eh, so uninterested and for some
reason that hurt my feelings. I don't know. Ooh, the
love Boat. They did bring that back for a while.

(01:24:34):
When we get back a little more Hollywood. Before a
rod gets on. In a stunning reversal, the first trans
woman nominated for Best Supporting Actress seems to have already
admitted she will not be getting the award. I'll explain
it after this. Welcome Anthony Rodriguez to the show live

(01:25:03):
from New Orleans. First of all, to the person who
said a modern version of Hogan's Heroes or McHale's Navy
could be made to be pretty funny. Did you guys
ever wonder what that pitch meeting was like for Hogan's Heroes?
It was like, hear me out a comedy set in
a concentration camp. And then I was watching the movie

(01:25:24):
I cannot remember what the name of the movie is
with Miles Teller about the making of The Godfather.

Speaker 2 (01:25:29):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:25:30):
It was so good. It was a really good short series.
But in that series, Miles Teller plays Robert Evans, who
was the producer of Hogan's Heroes, and they wanted to
pitch something else and the studio hated it. So Miles Teller,
just his character Bob Evans, was like, let me just
tell you, I got this other idea and they were like,
love it. And the sixties were wild because of that.

(01:25:54):
Amelia Perez is a very well nominated movie. I still
have a watch the rest of it. But it was
sort of controversial when they nominated a trans woman in
the Supporting Actress category. And now we don't have to
worry about a person born as a boy winning a

(01:26:16):
female category because unfortunately, text messages have appeared, not text messages, tweets,
and there might have been some anti Islam stuff and
maybe some racist type stuff in the actress's Twitter account.
And now she is expected to fly. She is no

(01:26:36):
longer expected to fly from her home in Spain, but
she has basically realized she's not going to win. And
something you guys have to realize about this Oscar stuff
is Oscar nominations, Oscar campaigns. Oh, it's the offer, Thank you,
Miles Teller. The offer such a good show. These Oscar

(01:26:59):
campaigns that are back by the studios. There's a lot
of money involved, and there's a lot of backbiting and
backstabbing as people try to torpedo the nominations of other people.
And I feel like, you know, but if you've got
racist stuff, like my Twitter feed has some stuff that
is out of context, looks ridiculous. Like one of my

(01:27:20):
tweets from way back in the day was one of
my callers had just called me a member of the
KKK first something I don't even know what, and I
just said, can I wear my white sheet after Labor Day?
Obviously funny joke, right, But if people go back and
see that and think that makes me a racist, I
would burst out laughing at this point. But if you

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do have actual racist stuff, you probably need to scrub
it out before this. But now she will not Mandy.
I wouldn't call Hogan's hero as a concentration camp. It
was a pow camp. My bad, My bad, Hey, hear
me out. Comedy based in a pow camp still sounds ridiculous,

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completely ridiculous. Laverne and Shirley. Yes, yes, Laverne and Shirley.
And where did you get to do it?

Speaker 6 (01:28:10):
All?

Speaker 1 (01:28:10):
Right now? Our man covering the Super Bowl live from
New Orleans, one mister Anthony Rodriguez joining us now, So
a rod are you already tired?

Speaker 4 (01:28:23):
Exhausted?

Speaker 8 (01:28:23):
Is probably a better explanation, So like times a thousand,
but yes, long answer, yes, So tell me.

Speaker 1 (01:28:29):
Your day right now? What has happened? Uh since you
got there? Like walk me you got off the plane
and tell me what you've done since then?

Speaker 8 (01:28:38):
Well I am I'm still reeling with a big giant grin,
but reeling in exhaustion. Nonetheless, from opening a night last night,
it was just just insane. First of all, this is
my first media week. I've covered the NBA Finals, I've
covered the Standing Cup Final, covered March Madness. Right from
the jump, I immediately knew this is a totally different ballgame.
I intended because this is football, this these are super known.

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Opening night was just a mad house. I mean I've
heard tails obviously, people not just countrywide but across the
entire globe come to this event. I mean hundreds of
people at each podium for these star players.

Speaker 4 (01:29:17):
In the opening night, I mean to give you an.

Speaker 8 (01:29:19):
Example, I spent about an hour, give or take, getting
one question into Eagle's superstar running back Saquon Barkley. I
think I probably yelled Saquon's name at least one.

Speaker 4 (01:29:31):
Hundred times trying to get his attention.

Speaker 8 (01:29:34):
And you know, it didn't help that they didn't have
the greatest set up in the world at each podium
with the Molt box for audio right there at the front,
with all the cameras in the front, So the reporters
had to like try to peek their heads through all
the tripods, including my own, to try to get in
there and get a question. But Opening night was just
a whirlwind. I did get a chance to ask the
question into Pat Mahomes. I pissed off all the Swifties

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yesterday with my question that Travis Kelsey your question.

Speaker 1 (01:29:58):
I thought he knocked it out of the bark I thought.

Speaker 8 (01:30:01):
Well, here's the thing Ross asked me earlier in terms
of how NFL players typically are kind of top of
the list of getting getting coach speak and players, Oh yeah.
And then when I asked Travis Kelsey, you know, hey,
give me your pitch for NFL fans that are non Swifties.
I was expecting the full can you know response that
you would hear from a boyfriend of a Taylor swift
And instead of getting that canned response that I had

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that I was anticipating and going to be a good
social bit, he just hits me with, who's not a Swiftie?

Speaker 4 (01:30:28):
And I mean I was a techno.

Speaker 1 (01:30:30):
It was a perfect boyfriend response, it really was. It
was so good and he looked at you like you
were an idiot, which made it even better.

Speaker 4 (01:30:38):
I love it.

Speaker 8 (01:30:39):
Yeah, no, bringing on, I just want a little bit more,
but you know that's perfect.

Speaker 4 (01:30:42):
I'll take it. Well.

Speaker 1 (01:30:43):
Tuesday night is the big media day. That's what a
Rod's talking about right now, and that's the media kickoff.
And now what have you been up to today though?
Because are you going to be able to make it
to any of the parties that are happening because there
are parties every night.

Speaker 8 (01:30:55):
Yeah, so yeah, so Monday night last night was the
big was really the only big thing at Caesars Superdome
when the game is actually going to be played which
is obviously the opening night with all the podiums. Like
I mentioned, the rest of the week kind of varies
from different spots.

Speaker 4 (01:31:08):
So most of today I have been here at.

Speaker 8 (01:31:10):
The Convention Center, which is about five or ten minutes
away from Caesar Superdome. Kind of it's really ten minutes
away from everything, and this is just where it is.
The whirlwind inside of Convention Center. I mean, it's an
endless hall of monster setups. I'm looking right now, FanDuel
from NBC Sports, Sirius XM. I mean, just everybody is here,
the who's who. I've been walking around different athletes, differ celebrities.

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As the week rams up, I've been hearing that, you know,
the celebrity level will increase, at professional athlete level will increase.
But today it's for me, it's kind of walking around
Radio Row. I already got a chance to do a
one on one with longtime NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf. I
chalk to talk to legend legendary Titans running back, you know,
one on one CJ two K about about elite running backs.

Speaker 4 (01:31:52):
In the NFL. And so I've been doing a lot
of different stuff.

Speaker 8 (01:31:54):
But yes, to answer your question tonight is the big
massive media part that I've got it that I've got
a ticket to, so I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go
check it out. Bro Bronco's Super Bowl champ Todd Davis,
who's here with DNVR and he's been on with us
as well.

Speaker 4 (01:32:09):
He told me no cameras, so I think he.

Speaker 8 (01:32:11):
Kind of teased that he knew that I was probably
thinking of, you know, bringing something and chatting with people.

Speaker 4 (01:32:15):
But I'll probably just go there.

Speaker 8 (01:32:16):
I'm able to have my phone in hand if someone
wants to chat with me, you know, do my job
instead of just party hardy. But I will say this
in terms of the whirlwind that I've been a part of,
Todd Davis and Ryan Koenisberger do a good job of DMVR.

Speaker 4 (01:32:28):
They had to remind me.

Speaker 8 (01:32:29):
Because I said, oh, well, I'm gonna go to the party,
but you know, dry January, and they both look at
me to go it's February. I'm like, oh my god,
you are right. That is how much I've been caught
up in the whirlwind.

Speaker 1 (01:32:39):
Well, and what's interesting is how close are you staying
to Bourbon Street? Like how close do you do the stadium?

Speaker 4 (01:32:45):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:32:46):
From Bourbon Street? On maybe like a five to seven minute.

Speaker 1 (01:32:49):
Well that's fantastic because because I've covered multiple Super Bowls
doing the same thing that a Rod has done when
I worked in sports radio and always be ready, like
I mean, you know, you know, like we were at
the DNC and the RNC because I caught so many
people walking to and fro right just walking down the
street and I would just sigle up to him and say, hey,
you got a second, I'm ready to go. And that's

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where we got some of our best interviews, just like
off the cuff, because the media events are cool, but
you get a lot of those canned answers, right, And
I love talking to the guys that were not playing anymore,
the veterans who were in for the game, because they're
just there to have fun and they're there to talk
sports and football and see their buddies. So it's lucy
goosey and super fun. So tonight you're not going to

(01:33:33):
see any of those people at the media party, have
you Like tonight? This is your job, a Rod. Your
job is to say, okay, so where are the good
parties this week? Because used to be back in the day,
Aea sports had a massive party like massive Playboy had
a massive party. Obviously that's not happening now. But like
every night, there's a different good party, and you just

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got to figure out who to ask to get into
those parties because that is where the athletes are, that's
where they all are.

Speaker 4 (01:34:00):
Yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna give it a go.

Speaker 8 (01:34:02):
Like I said, I'm I'm taking dry January and kind
of making a bit of a dry February as well.
And so I think a lot of the people that
are gonna be a little more loosey goosey at those
parties probably would encourage to to indulge a little. But
but but man, I was I've been telling everyone obviously,
you know, I was just here in New Orleans in November.

Speaker 4 (01:34:20):
I mean, I'm I'm I'm business tripping this thing. I
barely need.

Speaker 8 (01:34:24):
I'm not even doing any of the food scene that
I did November. Probably not gonna, you know, enjoy a
beverage or two.

Speaker 4 (01:34:30):
I don't know. I mean, I'm down to hit the
party scene.

Speaker 8 (01:34:32):
Like I said, we'll see, we'll see what the media
party kind of stems into for the rest of the
week with who I chat with and what they're up to.
But I'm all business. I mean, you see in the
work I'm putting out on social media, I'm worgan, I know, and.

Speaker 1 (01:34:41):
You're doing a great job. You need to follow kaa
social media on Twitter, on Facebook, on TikTok if you've
given your soul to the Chinese government, because A Rod's
got all kinds of stuff that he is putting out
up there. So a Rod, let me ask you this, like, well,
there's no storylines right now out of the super Bowl.
There's no like board material, there's no you know, anybody's

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talking out of there, you know, out of their behind.
Are there any stories in New Orleans that we're not
hearing about?

Speaker 4 (01:35:11):
In terms of what you're not hearing about?

Speaker 8 (01:35:12):
Well, I will say this, the only event, like I
mentioned that was that Caesar Superdome though that at least
that I'm aware of, and I'm pretty aware of it
is the is the last night was the opening night.
But I gotta tell you mentioned the rn C and
the DNC. I've been chatting with other folks about how
that uh, that experience around the Superdome and how long
it took me to walk out. That reminds me of
the security perimeter, not as vast really so reminded me

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of the security perimeter that we saw in Milwaukee and Chicago.

Speaker 4 (01:35:38):
I mean, the they are not messing around. It's very, very.

Speaker 8 (01:35:41):
Evident that New Orleans is now tied with Miami for
hosting the most of these bad boys with eleven and
they clearly are experienced in doing so. So I don't
know about in terms of the storylines we're not hearing
because that that's that's really notable. And and then like
you said, with the with the game, I think you know,
on the field, the one thing I know, like Travis
Kelsey said yesterday, someone asked him what would be the

(01:36:03):
question you would ask in the media, and he said,
why are you guys leaning in so much to this
referee stuff that we're getting the calls and whatnot? So
I think, well, it is, it is, and it isn't
because there's some numbers out there that suggests they maybe
don't get as many calls you think, but they kind
of get him into the bigger moments, which is I
think what makes people more talk about that more. But honestly,

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I'll say this. Andy Reid, head coach of the of
the Chiefs, last night was talking about how you know,
this team really hasn't leaned in to the talk of
three p talked it lean into the talk of a dynasty.

Speaker 4 (01:36:37):
Even Pat Mahomes.

Speaker 8 (01:36:39):
Has said that that Andy Reid doesn't even say threep
unless he's talking about it in reference to a question
from a reporter, and at any rate said that they
respect the Eagles. So I think there's a lot of
probably stretched enforced storylines when it comes to making the
Chiefs the bad guy. And I know in Bronco's country,
we've already discussed how I've already gotten a bunch of
flak from my preciation of the greatness that is Pat

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Mahomes and the Chiefs. But but honestly, they're they're leaning
in the right way. They are not taking any chances
of giving the Eagles bullets and bore material and anything
they said last night. I will say this though, Manny,
in terms of storyline, I know we hear in the
last few minutes storylines for the for the Denver Broncos
talk about good bolts and barred material.

Speaker 4 (01:37:18):
Because I made it.

Speaker 8 (01:37:19):
A point to ask Andy Reid, to ask Pat Mahomes,
to ask star defensive tackle Chris Jones to ask Isaiah
pa Checko running back for the Chiefs, all about the
Broncos and all about Pat Mahomes, and you want to
talk about the opposite of that stock answer. They all
had glowing remarks about bow knicks and what the what

(01:37:40):
the Broncos were able to do. They all said the
Broncos were an incredibly talented team essentially with the bright future.
Steve spag No, the DC of the Chiefs, couldn't even
really hold back his appreciation, said that how much bo
Nix impressed him, especially from matchup one to matchup two.
So if there's anything to glean from the current team
that's in this big game that's you know, could potentially
win the third in a row, is that they think

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the Broncos have what it takes is to maybe be here.
I mean Ian Rappaport our NFL network inside or even
said the same thing to me, said he doesn't think
they're that far off. I mean, you add some playmakers
to this squad. So I think there's a there's a
good chance the next couple of years that we're covering
this bad boy and our Denver Broncos are in that thing.
So talk about bolts and bor Matlia for the Broncos
in a positive way.

Speaker 1 (01:38:19):
Well, I loved your little interview with Sama jp Ryd
where he said, I'm so sorry we couldn't get a
championship for Broncos fans. But now, of course he's playing
for the Kansas City Chiefs, so he has a chance
to get a ring right now. You know what's interesting,
by the way, a Rod, when you're reporting on the
super Bowl, you can call it the super Bowl. We
just can't call it the super Bowl when we're not

(01:38:39):
reporting on the super Bowl.

Speaker 4 (01:38:41):
When you're reporting, it's newsworthy.

Speaker 1 (01:38:43):
Yeah. Yeah, oh, you guys wouldn't believe. And I don't
want to go into it all, but there's you cannot
use the word super Bowl in a commercial. You can't
use them in a promo. It's it's all copyrighted and
the NFL is.

Speaker 4 (01:38:54):
Well yeah, let me just check.

Speaker 8 (01:38:55):
Actually, I just got an email and there is my
invoice for saying three p thanks to pat Riley.

Speaker 4 (01:39:02):
So I'll make sure to send that to Dave Tepper
program driver. There you go.

Speaker 1 (01:39:05):
Just it just expensive, Just put it on the expension.
It'll be fine.

Speaker 5 (01:39:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:39:08):
So I know you're on your your diet, but I mean,
are you gonna have any kind of indulgences, you know,
like a nice platter of steamed oysters have almost no calories.

Speaker 8 (01:39:18):
Yeah, that would that would that would suggest that I
would ever want steam oysters, and that would be a
hard never. There is one, uh, the wife told me,
I am, I have the ability to indulge once, and
that would be at Molly's Rise and Shine, which is
an amazing breakfast restaurant that puts Brennan's to shame. That
is a sister restaurant of Turkey and the Wolf, which
Dave Tepper put me onto back in my first trip
in November. So probably tomorrow morning I'm gonna indulge there.

(01:39:40):
But other than that, I've had it all here in
New Orleans back in November. So that lets me have
the ability to, uh to not have to indulge this
time around. But I feel good. Am I getting up
at six in the morning working around? Yes, I am
the hotel and I'm not indulgent and I feel a good.

Speaker 1 (01:39:55):
Well there you go, Nerd. Anyway, now I'm just kidding.
I'm just kidding. I do want to hear, like like
get some intel about any good parties, even if you
can't get in. I want to know because I was
actually at the nightclub where Ray Lewis did not kill
those people the night that that all that happened. I
left right before that, No, actually the night before, but

(01:40:15):
in that bar a rod I saw, I walked directly
into Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky, they were together. I
talked to Jerome Bettis, I hung out with Sean Salisbury
and Dan Patrick from ESPN. So it's just like a
great cool way to run.

Speaker 4 (01:40:30):
Those are important people well.

Speaker 1 (01:40:32):
Back in the day too, Like you know, Jerome Bettis
was still playing. So yeah, anyway, and Michael Jordan and
Wayne Redsky will always be anyway. Here we go, ladies
and gentlemen. Now it's time for the most exciting segment
on the radio of its kind in the world. You
went out on me because you're in public in New

(01:40:53):
Orleans and you didn't walk the stream. What is your
dad joke of the day, please, Zach Dad joke of
the day? Another a groner for you here. How do
you make an egg roll? How do you make an
egg roll? I don't know? You push it? What?

Speaker 5 (01:41:17):
Oh? Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:41:17):
Yeah, that goes right along with how do you make
a clean nex dance, Zach. You put a little boogie
in it. See there you go?

Speaker 5 (01:41:25):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:41:26):
What is our word of the day please?

Speaker 7 (01:41:27):
Word of the day much tougher than yesterday's. Zaftig is
the word of the day.

Speaker 1 (01:41:32):
That is, someone who is large and beautiful zaftig like rubenesque.

Speaker 7 (01:41:39):
I think it is. Yeah, that's that's pretty perfect. Someone
described as zaftig has a full rounded figure, or in
other words, is pleasingly plump.

Speaker 1 (01:41:48):
There you go, yeah, raft dig all right. What is
our trivia question? It is this how who rather was
the first woman selected to run as vice president on
a major party ticket in US politics? I believe I
know it?

Speaker 7 (01:42:02):
Unless a good back even further, No, is it Madeline Albright?

Speaker 4 (01:42:06):
Nope?

Speaker 1 (01:42:07):
It is Geraldine Ferraro, who ran with Walter Monbridle back
in nineteen eighty four against Ronald Reagan. It was a
herculean effort to beat that man at that It was yesterday. Yeah,
and well I actually remember it. So there you go.

Speaker 4 (01:42:22):
Well, you know, dinosaurs, you know, watch.

Speaker 1 (01:42:24):
Yourself many Okay, what is our category please, Zach? I
think I got a better one for you, thank you?

Speaker 7 (01:42:32):
All right, we're looking at twenty first century movie moments.

Speaker 1 (01:42:35):
Okay, but a remote so you have to not on switchblade?
There's no delay? Yeah no, there's not.

Speaker 4 (01:42:47):
Just said go ahead.

Speaker 7 (01:42:49):
A street brawl between rival news teams was to be
cut from the rod.

Speaker 4 (01:42:54):
Yes, what is Anchorman?

Speaker 1 (01:42:56):
That is correct?

Speaker 7 (01:42:58):
There we go right somehow Javier Bardem is Anton Shagor
made tossing to coin seem malevolent in this.

Speaker 1 (01:43:06):
Film, Manny, what is no Country for Old Men?

Speaker 4 (01:43:09):
That is?

Speaker 1 (01:43:11):
He was such a great villain in the ending of
that movie, the first ending ever. Go ahead.

Speaker 7 (01:43:16):
Melissa McCarthy's memorable moments in this twenty eleven film include
hitting on an.

Speaker 8 (01:43:21):
Air Yo, no, no, I don't got it out.

Speaker 4 (01:43:27):
What is spy? Even though that's wrong?

Speaker 1 (01:43:29):
I have no idea? Ooh, no clue.

Speaker 7 (01:43:32):
A Grant is upset with you guys in the production booth.
Here the answer is Bridesmaids.

Speaker 1 (01:43:36):
Oh a rock? It's is zero donut?

Speaker 5 (01:43:39):
Wait all right?

Speaker 1 (01:43:40):
So what nothing Mandy to lead here?

Speaker 7 (01:43:43):
Another Day of Sun was a song and dance number
on a ramp from the one oh five to one
ten freeway.

Speaker 1 (01:43:50):
What is Oh my god? What is la story? Ooh
what is it? It's not it's not La Confident do
you want.

Speaker 5 (01:44:01):
To go or you know?

Speaker 4 (01:44:02):
I want to know. I'm hold tight.

Speaker 1 (01:44:03):
La la, lamps close?

Speaker 4 (01:44:06):
Okay, were zero to zero now HEREO.

Speaker 7 (01:44:09):
What does I drink your milkshake have to do with
oil drainage? We learned from Daniel day Lewis in this
two thousand and seven film.

Speaker 4 (01:44:19):
Sorry, that one was punk waited wear?

Speaker 7 (01:44:20):
What does I drink your milkshake have to do with
oil drainage? We learn from Daniel day Lewis in this
two thousand and seven film.

Speaker 1 (01:44:29):
You can picture it perfectly. I can't remember the name
of it.

Speaker 4 (01:44:32):
I got nothing. What is it?

Speaker 3 (01:44:37):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:44:37):
It was a low ass movie?

Speaker 4 (01:44:40):
What was No?

Speaker 1 (01:44:40):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:44:42):
There will be blood, yes, tybreaker?

Speaker 5 (01:44:45):
All right, this was not great? Okay?

Speaker 1 (01:44:48):
This morse visiting Germany?

Speaker 7 (01:44:50):
Remember there's no there actually are speed limits on about
what is the autumn?

Speaker 5 (01:44:56):
That is correct?

Speaker 2 (01:44:57):
Nay?

Speaker 1 (01:44:58):
Another overtime?

Speaker 4 (01:45:00):
What was that category?

Speaker 5 (01:45:01):
Food?

Speaker 1 (01:45:02):
We who knows categories? Mandy can win with anyway, Anthony,
We will talk to you tomorrow. Get all the details
about the party scene there and BC me in New Orleans.
Eyes on a swivel, my friend, eyes on a swivel.

Speaker 4 (01:45:13):
Okay, all right, we will.

Speaker 1 (01:45:15):
Be back Tomorrow, we got weather. Wednesday, we're going to
talk to Mary Rook from the Daily Caller about her
scorcher of a column on people freaking out about USA
being cut. We'll do all that and more, But right now,
I got the team from KOA Sports practically breathing down
my neck trying to get in the studio, ready to
talk about the game coming up this weekend and so
much more so. In the meantime, keep it right here

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