02-10-25 FULL SHOW - It's Been A Big Week In Women's Sports!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
No, It's Mandy Connell, Andy conn on KLA.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
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Speaker 4 (00:22):
Andy Connall, Key.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Sad Babe, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Monday edition of
the show. I'm your host for the next three hours,
Mandy Connall, joined by my right hand man.

Speaker 5 (00:34):
I call him Anthony Rodriguez.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
You can call him.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
A Rod. May not like us, And let me.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Just say this right now, A Rod is fired up
about the halftime show and I wish I had remotely
the same emotion about it. We'll get into that a
little bit later. Let's just say I said it on
Ross's show. A super Bowl that across the board from
me under delivered. The game was terrible unless you hate
the Chiefs see which game it was amazing, and the

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commercials were mostly meh. There was a few standout commercials,
and for me, the halftime show was boring when you
don't understand a single word that is said. And the
whole point of having this artist is because they're such
a lyrical genius.

Speaker 5 (01:18):
Completely lost on me and.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Many many, many, many many many, many, many, many.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Other people, except none of the ones I saw. But
it's fine. Everyone loved it, even.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Though look at that any news media coverage about about
how people responded. Most people are not most.

Speaker 5 (01:34):
I don't know how many.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
I don't know how evenly divided we are. Try to
be fair, and I'll be the first to admit not
in the demo, but I.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
I want the platforms you say to go look for
those Twitter. No, no, that's what you said.

Speaker 6 (01:46):
You didn't say Twitter, you said all the news outlets, Oh,
news outlets.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Okay, I mean I can let me see. Let's see here,
because yeah, they all loved it. Uh huh, yeah, you
know they're talking about and I'm glad the target demo
was served. Yeah, so that a lot of people were
left out by that, by that halftime show.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
And that's okay, it is, you know.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
I'm sure when the Rolling Stones came and all the
youngsters were like, we don't want to see those old people,
and I get it, I mean I really get it.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Even the older folks sometimes say that too, well, they're
too old.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
I think we've just been spoiled by truly amazing halftime shows,
and that one was not remotely in the same stratosphere
as most of them.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
It's okay, they not like us.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
I think that the super Bowl should be a spectacle.
The halftime show should be a spectacle, and last night
did not feel like a spectacle.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Well, then I'll tell you my idea for next year.

Speaker 6 (02:37):
What a somehow either trio or quartet combination of Sabrina Carpenter,
Olivia Rodrigo, eh Billie Eilish and Chapel Roone all together.

Speaker 5 (02:48):
Now that feels like a lot of estrogen on Wednesday.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
That sounds awesome.

Speaker 5 (02:52):
I mean, that's a lot.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
That is a lot of young.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Pop girls, right, Yeah, different, be different.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
But I don't know if that is is right.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
You can just say you like.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
It, but I don't know. But here's the thing, like
in my mind and Ross and I were just talking
about this, like the super Bowl halftime and the super
Bowl itself is a uniquely American shared experience. And it's
not that there's not people around the world watching it,
but this is our super Bowl. Even if you're not
an NFL fan, you're aware of it, right you're you're
you're you know that it's coming up and you see

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all that all this stuff in the grocery store where
everything's all It's kind of like this weird non holiday
holiday for us, right that we all share collectively.

Speaker 5 (03:34):
And I just think that the.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Best super Bowl halftime shows are the ones that sort
of cut across every demographic and it doesn't matter who
you are or what you love or what you're doing,
you watch it and go, damn.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
That was good.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah you were talking about is my favorite.

Speaker 5 (03:49):
Mar's elite, perfect example. He's a showman.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
He gets out there and he performs for everyone.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
And m Jack lub.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
I was yearning for the days. Up with People. That
is a joke for people of.

Speaker 5 (04:02):
A certain age.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
And y'all thank you, thank me for that, because that
song is going to be stuck in your head for
the rest of your life. Up up with People? You
meet him, if you go, oh yeah, what the hell is?
The seventies were glorious. Look up on YouTube. No, they
were back in the day. They were in the super
Bowl halftime show one time.

Speaker 5 (04:22):
Oh yeah, continued, I saw hope with people.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
I was being sarcastic about bringing back count of people,
but that was a joke for people of a certain age.
If you can text me on the common Spirit health
text line if you got that joke five six six
nine ozer five six six just.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Got humbled yesterday. Dare I say it?

Speaker 3 (04:39):
Randy? We actually said during the halftime show, can we
turn on close captioning because we have no idea what
he's saying.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah, my mom said the same.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
They can't do close captioning on a live broadcast. It
lags too far behind. Anyway, let's do the blog and
then we'll get back to this and other stuff because
we got a lot of stuff going on. I got
a guest coming up at one. I'm super excited to
have a back on the show. Why don't you go
to meny'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for
the headline that says two ten twenty five blog, it's

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been a big week in women's sports. Click on that
and here are the headlines you will find within tech
two A winner. I think it's in office half of
American all.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
The ships and clippers and say that's going to Press Platt.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
Today on the blog the Battle of best female sports
ad is over scrolling scrolling That super Bowl wasn't what
I expected. The latest eight to Z breaks down the
Super Bowl. I thought the commercials suck too, the racism
of RTD, the bad gun bill in Colorado is on
the rocks. Some Colorado campuses say they'll continue to embrace DEEI.

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When crappy roads damage your car, good luck. The GOP
wants to let probation officers work with ice. Parents want
schools to teach the basics. Defending USAID spending is suicide
for Dems. CBS News says Americans like what Trump is
doing the best commercials of the Super Bowl. Switzerland says
no thank you to enviro wackos who will start in

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early Bird club in Denver? What happens when you don't
make the money? Homeless people aren't happy with the way
things are. The Aurora city councils trying to work with protesters.
King Supers is sue in the Union. A nice feature
on Daniel Jorinsky take a nice long walk.

Speaker 5 (06:20):
That was some anthem.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
This was more my jam. Should we be sending men flowers?
How does your credit score rank? Cars with the cheapest
insurance ranks? How did rich people become rich? Those are
the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com.

Speaker 5 (06:37):
I am just everybody.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
Who is texting in about my up with people joke,
I'm high five and all of y'all so good, so good.
Mandy saw up with people more than a few times
in the seventies, pretty darn middle of the road, easy
listening music. Yes, it was. I saw them when I
was like in fifth grade. Okay, up with people a rod.
It used to be a group. There were like a
singing and dancing group of young college ye people, and

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they would come to small towns and they would do
these fun things and everybody got up and sang, and
it was all supposed to bring us together, and I
loved it.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Sounds a little culty a little bit, but it was.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
It was like a college thing that people did. And
I wanted to bet up with people so bad when
I got old enough. And then and then they disbanded
before I was away.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
People drink this poison, you'll find.

Speaker 5 (07:20):
No, No, that's not quite how I went.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
Although they were similar dresses, Yeah, similar dresses. Anyway, Today,
at one o'clock, we are going to talk to Jen
Jennifer Say Gen Say is a former Levi's executive who
realized that she was no longer welcome at Levi's after
she had the nerve to question some liberal dogma around education.

(07:44):
When the schools were closed, she left and has now
formed a new sportswear company, Xxxy.

Speaker 5 (07:52):
And she has gone full face into.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
The wood chipper when it comes to protecting women's sports.

Speaker 5 (08:00):
Was a college gymnast, an elite.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
Athlete herself, and she was behind President Donald Trump last
week when he signed in executive order protecting girls sports.
And we're gonna talk to her at one o'clock now.

Speaker 5 (08:13):
Just conveniently, two things.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
Happened in the past well, one thing happened in the
past twenty four hours. Jen released a new commercial last
week and they just showed it on x because they
can't afford Super Bowl prices, and so I shared it
on here. And it's just about girls being athletes and
being you know, doing all the things that it requires

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an elite athlete to do in order to participate, and
essentially says, why should all this be wiped out because
a man decides he wants to play?

Speaker 6 (08:46):
Right?

Speaker 3 (08:47):
So Jen has been at the forefront of this fight.
And last week you should see her face. I've got
the picture of her behind President Trump and she's just
grinning ear to ear. It's a really, really great picture.
So yesterday Nike enters the Chat with their version of
a female athlete empowering ad, and it's so freaking condescending

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and patronizing it's almost I mean, it's straight out of
nineteen seventy eight, and it's basically like it's all of
these stereotypes that I honestly believe have been completely just
blown out of the water, especially in the last ten

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years when it comes to women's sports, because people are
starting to take women's sports seriously. Look at how many
people showed up to see women's hockey here in Denver
and they're chanting, we want a team, we want a team.
We have now got a women's soccer league coming to
Denver because people demanded eleven thousand people already bought season tickets.

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I think that women's sports is being taken seriously for
the first not for the first time, but but definitely
with a great later level of seriousness than in my
lifetime for sure. So when I see this kind of
trotting out these old tropes, they're just that they're old
tropes and they need to be put to bed, and

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they need to be put to rest. One of the
commercials I really liked yesterday was the one on girls
flag football, except it tried to tell us that girls
are better at football than boys. And I'm sorry, I
just I don't believe it. I just I don't believe it.
I have played co ed football, I have played powder
puff football, I have played varying kinds of football, and

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girls are not better at it than boys are.

Speaker 5 (10:39):
That was my only beef.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
But I love the fact that the NFL is all
in on professional women's flag football, which I'm not sold
on myself as a spectator, but you know, I'm willing
to give it a shot. I watched the heck out
of women's rugby during the Olympics. I don't see why
I wouldn't just switch over to that anyway. So Jen

(11:01):
is gonna join us at one. I didn't mean to
go on about that right then, So last night, can
we just talk about the game for a second, Anthony,
Because it seems that Philadelphia's game plan was punched pat
Mahomes in the mouth as often as possible, and it
seemed to be extremely effective.

Speaker 6 (11:19):
Ready for the stat of the day, Oh please, zero blitzes?
What zero blitzes?

Speaker 3 (11:26):
All of that pressure was just from an offensive line
just collapsing.

Speaker 6 (11:30):
Yes, for the front four of the Eagles being that
damn dominant and just wow, man handling the Chiefs. No
blitzes were sent by the mastermind bless his soul, we
know him here in Denver, Vic Fangio with a masterclass
on defense as a defensive coordinator for the year.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
It really was just unbelievable, and he destroyed them.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
And they they just looked. I was talking to somebody
today who had not seen it, didn't watch the game,
and they said, well, what happened? I said, it just
looked like Kansas City had never played before.

Speaker 5 (11:56):
They were all at a sink, you know.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
Pat Mahomes was throwing the ball behind his receivers. I mean,
it's just it just did not look like the Kansas
City Chiefs of old. So hats off to the Philadelphia Eagles.
I saw that the Philadelphia Eagles fans only burned down
part of Philly last night, so I guess that's something.

Speaker 5 (12:15):
Didn't burn down the whole city.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
Andy. Thank you. Actually, he says, I do read your blog.
Then if you read the blog, you will understand what
the actually was about. So now we enter the time
of the year or I like to call it the
dead zone because I'm not a big NBA fan. I

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realize that's blasphemy to say, but I'm just not a
big NBA fan. I much prefer college basketball if I'm
gonna watch basketball. I got the college basketball bug when
I lived in Louisville, Kentucky, because those people freaking love
their college basketball. You're gonna be UK or you ale?
That's what Alaska. You gonna be UK you ale? When
you get to Kentucky. It's like you have to check

(13:01):
which team are you gonna follow?

Speaker 5 (13:04):
Anyway?

Speaker 3 (13:08):
Up with People still exist?

Speaker 5 (13:10):
Oh no, really?

Speaker 3 (13:11):
Oh ay Rod, we got to get somebody from Up
With People on the show. Yes, yes, maybe the super
Bowl was not much of a competition, but I'm happy
for the Eagles, who had a good game and haven't
won the super Bowl before in a long time. I
remember Up With People. Kendrick Lamar put on a great
dance show, but I couldn't understand any of the words
to his music.

Speaker 5 (13:33):
Commercials were funny but hard to follow their purpose.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
See, I gotta tell you, I'm one of those people
that love Super Bowl commercials.

Speaker 5 (13:39):
I have loved Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
Commercials since they really became a thing right, and this
new trend of releasing them ahead of time, I hate.
I want to see them during the game, and last night,
I I don't think I saw one. I really really
loved until like halfway through the second half.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
The cel one was really funny.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
I thought that was creepy.

Speaker 6 (13:59):
I love the song Fast and Furious the guys eat
ice cream and.

Speaker 5 (14:02):
I thought was kind of cute.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (14:03):
Other than that, probably one of the worst years of
commercials I liked.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
I gotta tell you, I liked the Men of the
cul de Sac with Post Malone and Peyton Manning.

Speaker 5 (14:13):
I just thought it was funny. I like the Matt
Damon and David Beckham commercial.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
I thought that was good. I liked the Budweiser commercials
that they brought the Clyde Steals back. Yeahs. I like
the slots as well.

Speaker 6 (14:25):
But again all yeah, it was just very mad.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
There was nothing that you had to rewind and.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
Watch as was kind of man.

Speaker 6 (14:32):
It was kind of funny when the Aliens finally stole
the Douredos and then the ufl.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
Blew up and it'd done a lot better.

Speaker 5 (14:38):
I agree.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
Very mid year.

Speaker 5 (14:41):
Yeah, that's a good way to put it.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
Very mad and I I've just decided watching drug commercials
during the super that just annoys me. The fact that
Pfizer ran spots and the artists ram spots.

Speaker 5 (14:51):
I was just like, don't get the my sports.

Speaker 6 (14:54):
The Tom Brady and Snoop Dog one didn't hit. I like,
I I generally really liked the message, but it.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
Did not La.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
It was scoldie and why didn't they wag their fingers
at us at the end? I mean it was that
was awful.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
Tom Brady's a robot was okay.

Speaker 5 (15:08):
I actually thought that was kind of clever.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, that's pretty good.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
And I have no idea what it was for. Was
it for the batteries?

Speaker 2 (15:13):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (15:13):
Okay, Yeah, I thought that was kind of him poking
fun at himself.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah, a little bit.

Speaker 6 (15:18):
And I liked these are all a handful of commercials
that the idea was there, the delivery.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
Did not land.

Speaker 3 (15:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (15:25):
The common thread with a lot of these like okay.

Speaker 3 (15:28):
Someone's dad was in up with people in the eighties.
Oh my goodness. A lot of the castmates live in
Denver too. We should stage your reunion on the Mandy
Condall Show. Texter. Send me an email Mandy Connell at iHeartMedia.

Speaker 5 (15:40):
Dot com. We're gonna have it up with people reunion
right here on the show.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yes, this is my chance. Cannot wait. That is so
excited this person. Flag football commercial was terrible. They shouldn't
be promoting girls playing flag football in high school because
they know they're better than boys, which as we know,
is not true. It should be because there's a demand
for it.

Speaker 5 (16:02):
It was more trope rules are being held back by
the boys.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
I agree with that sentiment, but I thought it was
cool to show girls flag football. I liked it. I
liked it a lot, So whatever, it's fine. It's fine.
Mandy a good marching band. They were in Nola. There
was a lot. What did you think of the national anthem?

Speaker 5 (16:25):
I didn't hate it.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
I realized that everybody is supposed to hate it, but
it was a very New Orleans sort of version.

Speaker 5 (16:32):
Yeah, I'm the national anthem.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
I actually it's he did.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
A little riffing, which I gotta tell you. I'm a
traditionalist with the anthem. Like if they could just replay
the Whitney Houston anthem for till the end of time
every year at the Super Bowl, I would.

Speaker 5 (16:47):
Be so happy with that.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
That's just a class by itself, and but he it
because it was in New Orleans. I'm giving him a
little bit of grace. But a lot of people are like,
don't do anything with the anthem, and I kind of
a agree with that.

Speaker 5 (17:01):
I didn't love it, didn't hate it too much.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
Up with People is headquartered in Denver.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
Oh my god, lord, I'm.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
Going on a tour. I'm getting a media tour of
the Up with People headquarters. It's happening.

Speaker 5 (17:15):
It's happening, Mandy dead season.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
Turn on some lacrosse better yet? Uh oh, that's just updated.
Better yet. Go to some college and pro games on
the front range. I my son played lacrosse in high
school and I very much enjoy watching it. But I
don't mean another sport in my life. Okay, I'm I'm
tapped out right now, guys. I'm I'm at maximum capacity
for leisure time activities in my life.

Speaker 5 (17:42):
No room for anything else.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
Be training camp in two seconds, it.

Speaker 5 (17:44):
Will be trained. The draft is right around.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
The corner, combine and all the good stuff.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
Yep, we'll be. And then we have Summer League US.
Who what is that league in the summer? Is that
an NFL thing?

Speaker 2 (17:56):
Or is that is that?

Speaker 7 (17:58):
What it is.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
Yeah, Fox promoted in the commercial.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
I know, and I couldn't remember who.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
I've lost track. When's the XFL coming back?

Speaker 5 (18:03):
I just is that a thing again?

Speaker 2 (18:05):
There's so many leagues now, I know, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (18:07):
And God knows.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
Based on the quarterbacks that we have in the current NFL,
there's not a lot of talent around to spread around,
if you know what I mean. When we get back,
we have so much stuff to talk. By the way,
when did you guys record this eight to Z podcast?

Speaker 8 (18:24):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (18:24):
Morning?

Speaker 5 (18:25):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
So it's wait, hang on, fresh smells fresh.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
It is very fresh.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
I means, yeah, it's like it just came out of
the oven.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (18:33):
We debated what Ryan Edwards put out there yesterday essentially,
did the Eagles just do to Cam? Did the Eagles
do to Mahomes? What the Broncos defense did to Cam
Newton kind of break them a little bit. I gotta
tell you it's broke. I gotta tell you.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
I you could tell how rattled he was the entire game.
He never looked like he was on solid footing.

Speaker 6 (18:56):
Well, and now the now the Mahomes Chiefs are in
the same conversation as the Broncos you either win it
or will you get blown out in one because now
Mahomes the two losses he has gotten destroyed.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (19:05):
First with by the way, I do like the fact
that really when Tom Brady's either in the house or
playing against Mahomes, it doesn't do well exactly.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
Yeah, I gotta tell you Tom Brady as a color guy,
I am not.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
Sting with that.

Speaker 6 (19:19):
He's getting better. The critiques were really rough early on.
He's getting better.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
There was First of all, that's a hard game to
call when it's a total blowout. Yeah, that's a hard game.
Just it's hard to keep it interesting. But boy, he
blathered on too much about his own stuff and his
own like during his career, and I just was like, okay,
I got it, Tom.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
You played the blow up and the blowout in this favor.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
Though.

Speaker 6 (19:40):
I actually don't think it was as miserable as you
would think a normal blowout would be, because everyone's like,
oh my gosh, like this is really happened the Chiefs.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
Oh, they're down ten. They've always been down ten. Is
when I got to know it's getting worse.

Speaker 6 (19:50):
Oh my god, they really aren't going to come back.
And they did it without Saquon going off.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
Like it was.

Speaker 6 (19:54):
It was actually still pretty is entertaining a blowout probably
could be?

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Does that make sense?

Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yeah? I guess so.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
But it was still Tom Brady's first Super Bowl and
his first major blowout and the Super Bowls. I just
I'm not in love with Tom Brady, you know. But
I'm picky about people who do play by play, which
is why I just put on Kowa on the Broncos
plant listen.

Speaker 5 (20:12):
To our team because they're better.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
Let me tell you where the bad Gun Bill is.
Some stuff happened last week that gives me hope, but
we'll see what happens next. I went to Upwithpeople dot org,
which is still an organization.

Speaker 5 (20:24):
Good news, Anthony.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
Up with People weekend April fourth through the sixth, Denver, Colorado.
Oh boy, we're gonna join them for Up with People's
sixtieth birthday celebration. You gotta get them on the show.
I'm sending you this email right now because this is
the kind of thing we need more Up with People
in our lives, because it was just like the happiest,

(20:49):
most wonderful thing in the entire world. And now that
we know they have some big to celebrate. We got
to have them in the studio to sing some stuff,
do some dance moves, whatnot. Yeah, the whatnot, lots of whatnot.
I had no idea. Now I'm kind of upset because
I didn't. I'm sitting hanging on up with people there.

(21:13):
I send it to you right now so you can
call and get them on about their sixtieth anniversary. That
is just amazing. That is just amazing. Number one way
for women's sports to outdo men's make them easy to
find and watch. NFL's close to the best. There's always
a game over air to watch, and I can always
watch the home team. That has been a huge part
of the problem is that. And I'm just gonna call

(21:37):
ESPN out although they have gotten so much better over
the years. But I actually had a conversation. So let
me think of what year this was, nineteen ninety eight
or ninety nine. I was at not the Masters. I
was at the Bayhill Golf Tournament in Orlando, at the
Arnold Palmer or Bayhill Golf Tournament, Arnold Palmer Invitational, that's

(21:58):
what it was at the time. I don't know what now.
And I was chatting with an executive from ESPN whose
name I honestly do not remember, and we just had
a conversation about women's sports because he said, oh, you
call women's basketball. I was like, no, I don't call
sports at all. I just work on a morning show.
And we had a conversation about women's sports. And it
was one of those things where like we're like, we're
gonna put it on the air, no one's gonna watch,

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But then no one's watching because they don't know any
of the players and they're not invested, and it becomes
this push and pull. And ESPN has gotten a lot better.
You can find women's sports on ESPN and local college
networks and stuff like that, whereas fifteen years ago you
just couldn't. So I think women's sports is having a
moment and I'm here for it, you know. I think

(22:44):
it's interesting and I think it's good, and I think
it's a positive thing that young girls can grow up
and see that women can make a living playing sports,
so they too can have dreams that will never come true,
just like little boys. Anyway, Hopefully Senate Bill twenty five
three will also not come true. That is the horrible

(23:06):
gun bill making its way through the Colorado Senate.

Speaker 5 (23:09):
Well, on Friday, they.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
Were supposed to have the first vote on the floor
of the Senate, and all of a sudden vadabing lada boom,
it got postponed. According to coloradopeakpolitics dot com, word is
that Senate Democrats won't start voting on this wildly unconstitutional
bill until the end of next week as they work
behind closed doors with Governor Polis to make it more

(23:35):
palatable to his liking. Polis says he does not like
any kind of gun bill that specifically names models of firearms,
and I'm guessing that Polis is indicated he may veto
this bill. And if this bill fails, I'm going to

(23:55):
give Governor Jerry Polis credit, whether he deserves it or not,
because if any of this is true, then he he
has definitely thrown up a massive speed bump. The Democrats
don't feel like they can get over and that's absolute.

Speaker 5 (24:07):
I don't care why.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
You know, all of the people that went and testified
that were sumarily ignored by the committees where these bills
were heard. I knew that they weren't going to make
an impact. But hopefully Governor Jared Poulis and his reluctance
to sign this bill as it is now is an
indication that the bill is on shaky footing at least.

(24:28):
And my fear here is that they will quote water
it down into something that's also viable but is allegedly
more acceptable. But I don't see how the way this
bill is written, I don't see how they can water
it down and still have anything with teeth and still

(24:49):
meet the governor's needs to not specifically mention certain kinds
of firearm, because this entire bill is predicated on how
a weapon operates, specifically how it operates, and you know
that specific firearms, and that's what the governor says.

Speaker 5 (25:04):
You know he has a problem with.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
So fingers crossed, Fingers crossed, not gonna lie. Many can't
have things being too transparent in these bills. Love you, Jared,
that's not Jared Polis different chart.

Speaker 5 (25:19):
I know, I know the.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
Jeep commercial with Harrison Ford. I liked that one too.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
I was good. They spent a lot of money on
that very.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
Good Jeep commercial. I really really it almost made me
want to buy a Jeep. And then I was like,
but you've written in a jeep, why would you do that?

Speaker 6 (25:33):
Eight million for the thirty second spot, and I think
I saw somewhere they spent over like thirty million on
that ad.

Speaker 3 (25:38):
Well, I think that AD's gonna have legs. That's one
of those ads that you can show forever, right, I
just think it was a really great ad. We all
love Harrison Ford. I can't believe he's as old as
he is, but he did sound old in that commercial.
He's starting to sound old, but he's like eighty two
the block I know, I know, hang on how I
think and younger him and Tom selleck I, they'll always.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
The Red Hole.

Speaker 3 (26:03):
Okay, Yeah, he's eighty two years old.

Speaker 6 (26:05):
He's about to be eighty three and about to be
in a Marvel movie coming out this Friday. I know
which one the Red Hulk. He's the Red Hulk in
the New Captain America. He's the one replacing William Hurd.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
Who is What is Red Hulk's Hulk's background?

Speaker 6 (26:18):
What is that I've forgotten? Okay, well, you're familiar with
the actor will was it?

Speaker 1 (26:23):
No?

Speaker 3 (26:23):
The storyline of the Red Hole?

Speaker 6 (26:25):
No, I know, I'm just telling you who he's replacing,
William Hurt, who passed.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
He was one of the main soldiers. For the I'm
doing a terrible job explaining this.

Speaker 6 (26:34):
William Hurt Hurt is now that guy.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
Oh god, well, no offense. I mean, but do you
really want to replace a guy who just died with
another guy who's you know.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
I mean getting up there.

Speaker 6 (26:47):
He plays He plays Thunderbolt Ross, who's like one of
the head honcho soldier guys. All right, yeah, so he's
replacing that actor Mandy.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
This gun bill is a soft pitch for polists to
hit it out of the park to strengthen his cred
for a presidential bid. You know what, if if Tom
Sullivan was not as like a reliably an ideologue on
this issue for good reason, I would say maybe. But
Tom Sullivan wants to disarm all of Colorado because his

(27:18):
child was killed in the Aura Theater shooting. I understand
why he's doing it, but he would if he could
like snap his fingers and make every gun in Colorado
go away, he would. I truly believe that. So I
don't think he was going to just do something for
the sake of it. When Harry met Sally Dad, I

(27:38):
liked it, but I don't think me. I don't think
Meg Ryan captured her performance. And maybe they had to
tone it down because it was going to be in
a family audience and you don't have to explain that
to your kids. But I didn't love that one. That
wasn't my favorite. Mandy, uh oh, it's just updated, you

(27:59):
know what. I love the fact that you are all
texting about up with People. It's happening on the show.
You guys, they're coming on this show. They don't even
know it yet, they have no idea how much they're
coming on this program. And they're coming on this program.
I have faith, and Anthony's gonna make it happen for
me and make my dream come true when we get back.

(28:22):
I have Well, now I'm gonna do that. At the
top of the hour. I do want to talk really quickly.
Have you ever hit a pothole really really hard that
you knew you threw your alignment out, Maybe you got
a flat tire, maybe your car was damaged. Shouldn't the
state pay for that? You think so, But oddly the
answer is mostly no. We'll talk about that after this.

Speaker 7 (28:53):
Just and the junger high up the feet and then
in every window, every single.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
I reccized people, I have every oh yes, this.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
Is up with People. So the text here, oh yeah,
bring it up, just last ar and a lot look
people who can't Oh yeah, oh yeah, that is up
with people. I already remember, Oh I made a Super
Bowl up with people joke, and the text was like
I missed it, what's up with people? And then I
found out since I talked about this musical group that's
been around since like the late sixties, they're being here

(29:51):
in Denver. So excited.

Speaker 5 (29:54):
I am so excited, Mandy.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
They Garrison Ford commercial was well done, but my problem
with it was where was the sentiment three years ago?
Exactly right? So I have to give credit to Colorado
Public Radio for this next story because it's one of theirs.
They did a story on what happens when your car
gets all bust imicated up because of a road situation
in Colorado. Now we all know what it's like to

(30:22):
be driving down I seventy and you're, you know, moving
along at a decent pace and all of a sudden,
there's a you know, sinkhole in front of you in
the form of a giant pothole. Your car hits it, bam, bam.

Speaker 5 (30:35):
You may be a blow attire.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
It's just an absolute disaster. But and Colorado has a
whole process you can go through to actually claim that
they should repair whatever repairs whatever's broken on your car.

Speaker 5 (30:49):
And you can do it. You can go through the
whole process.

Speaker 3 (30:53):
But if history is any indication of future performance, do
not expect the State of Colorado to pay you back. Now,
what's hilarious to me is that in this argument, or
excuse me, in this article, not argument. Harry Surtin, professor
of law at the University of Colorado, said, the laws
are used to balance accountability for the government against the

(31:14):
financial hardship a large number of claims or lawsuits would create.
And then this is a quote. Every time the state
pays out a claim, it's actually all the other taxpayers
who are paying for it. If we were to live
in a world where every time somebody popped a tire
from a pothole, that would effectively require raising taxes on
all the other taxpayers, or it would require the Department

(31:37):
of Transportation to do its damn job, which is now
what's happening now. Our Department of Transportation, along with Governor
Jared Polis, doesn't give a rats ass about the damage
to your car because they want you out of their car.
And onto their mass transit. Green Dreams honestly believe they

(32:01):
want to make driving in Colorado so miserable that you'll
actually consider getting on light rail with someone smoking meth.
It might they're trying to make it so bad that
you'll be like, yeall get on a bus and maybe
get stabbed.

Speaker 5 (32:15):
It's fine, I'm sure I'll make it.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
I mean that hardly. Ever, it's exceedingly rare, right for
people just thought one time, okay, a couple of times
someone got stabbed to death on the oh oh one
of them was waiting for the oh that's right. How
could I forget? And it's super frustrating because until we
have a change in the Governor's mansion, we will not
have a change at Sea Dot.

Speaker 5 (32:36):
And right now, all of the road money that.

Speaker 3 (32:38):
Is supposed to be going to fix this stuff is
actually being spent on making it easier for buses to
transit down Colfax Avenue. Have you been through the Coax
construction corridor? I have now in like four days in
a row. I was supposed to meet somewhere someone to
do or meet someone somewhere to do something, and they

(33:00):
ended up being horribly late because of the whole construction
on COLFAX. I mean, they're really trying to make us
hate it. They're trying to make us beg for something different,
the same way Obamacare was specifically designed to make us
all beg for single payer because it's so bad and
didn't do what it was supposed to do. This too,

(33:21):
if we make it bad enough and then don't pay
them when our crappy job of taking care of the
roads destroys their car, eventually they'll give up and just
get on mass transit. Like I said, the day I
find out that Shashshonahlu, the executive director of c DOT,
only travels on mass transit and does not own a
vehicle anymore, then I will consider changing my habits. But

(33:44):
until then, I'm going to be in my car. Yep,
there you go. Yep, Mandy and a Rod. I went
to what is known today as a Title nine High school.
When we had a school event with up with people.
It was a much needed ray of hope for many
of us. Then that's what they did.

Speaker 5 (34:03):
They were so good, so good.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
Now this text a wow, Mandy, I understood every word
on that clip.

Speaker 5 (34:11):
Yep, there you go, Mandy.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
I just talked to up with people. They won't come
on the show till you update your profile picture on
the website. You guys, that is turning into the biggest pain.
You have no idea. There's like multiple departments that I
have to loop in. Ah, so frustrating. When we get back,
Jen Say is going to join us. We're going to
talk about women's sports and condescending advertising right after this.

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Speaker 3 (35:01):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show.
And my next guest has been part of a movement
that has been pushing this rock up a hill and
pushing it up a hill, and pushing it up a hill.
And last week they got to what I'm just going
to call a fall summit. We'll get back to that
in just a second. But joining me now, former Levi's
executive and now founder of sportswear company xxx Y Jennifer

(35:24):
Say joins me because she was front and center last
week as President Donald Trump signed in executive order protecting
women's sports. I asked her offh the air. Was that
just a surreal moment and it probably had to be.

Speaker 8 (35:40):
It was crazy. Thanks for having me, Mandy, nice to
see you. Talk to you.

Speaker 4 (35:45):
Well, first of all, I had no idea how anything
like this would work. But I got the invitation about twenty.

Speaker 8 (35:52):
Four hours before I had to be there.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
Oh my god.

Speaker 4 (35:55):
So I get this invitation in my email inbox and
I'm like, oh my gosh, do I go? And I
did ask myself that. I mean, I got kids, I
got substitute. You know, we were having a we have
been having a great week with our business. I don't
know if you saw, but JK. Rowling shared our ads
on social media and to her fourteen million followers, and
the business has been crazy. So I just had a

(36:16):
lot going on and a lot to do. But I
got the invite and I decided, of course, but I
needed to be there.

Speaker 8 (36:23):
I had no idea what it was going to be like.
But I got a plane that night and.

Speaker 2 (36:29):
I got there.

Speaker 4 (36:29):
I guess the signing was it around three and you're
supposed to get there at around two, and you're ushered
in and there were a lot of people there and
a lot of women. I knew, because you know, we're
all in this fight together, so I've gotten to know
them over the last year. But right before he came in,
rather than Trump and the signing happened, someone on his
steps sort of like moved me right right behind it,
which was the craziest thing.

Speaker 8 (36:49):
So you can see me in a lot of the photos.
And in fact, at one point, after he.

Speaker 4 (36:53):
Had thanked all of the senators in Congress, people that
he was supposed to thank, he turned around and he said,
can someone.

Speaker 8 (36:58):
Hold my papers?

Speaker 4 (37:00):
And I was the closest person, so I grabbed the papers,
which is a list basically of just people that he
had to thank.

Speaker 8 (37:07):
Everything he said was off the cuff. He had no
written s oh wow, which I think you know he
does that.

Speaker 3 (37:12):
But it was really cool to be there.

Speaker 8 (37:14):
I mean, it was an honor to be invited. Of
course I was going to go. It was an honor
to be there with so many women who have fought
so hard for so long.

Speaker 4 (37:22):
I was laughing to myself as I was standing up there,
thinking about my you know, friends or former friends biking.

Speaker 8 (37:28):
What a horrible, disgraceful person I am for being there
for that, And then I was.

Speaker 4 (37:32):
Just thinking sorry, it's a long answer that you know,
this is a huge first step, but we're not done yet.

Speaker 8 (37:37):
There's still work to do, and I know you have
some thoughts on that as well.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
Our question, well, I was calling you a false summit
because for a moment you're pushing that rock up hill
and pushing it uphill, and for a moment you got
it right to the top, and you're like, oh, I
can take a breath. But an executive order is not
the way that this stuff gets done right. It's not
the way to ensure that girls are protected going forward.
And I know that Protect Kids Colorado is going to

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run another Save Girls Sports initiative as they did last year.

Speaker 5 (38:06):
They learned a whole bunch last.

Speaker 3 (38:07):
Year and back to take another bite at the apple
this year. And I'm hoping that this signing my President
Trump will not dilute support of actual legislation that we
need to have certainty going forward, even after Donald Trump
is in president.

Speaker 8 (38:24):
Yeah, yeah, I think these are all tremendous points.

Speaker 4 (38:28):
I think, you know, just so everyone understands, an executive
order is temporary, the next president can come in and
sign one that's exactly the opposite.

Speaker 8 (38:35):
It also only immacs the.

Speaker 4 (38:37):
Sports played within federally funded institutions, so K through twelve
schools and universities, but two times as many athletes compete
outside of that and what I would call, you know,
private clubs in the Olympic movement.

Speaker 8 (38:48):
I was an e lade gymnast for many, many years.

Speaker 4 (38:50):
I never once competed in my seventeen years as a gymnast,
I never once competed under.

Speaker 8 (38:55):
The auspices of Title nine.

Speaker 4 (38:58):
Everything I did was outside of that and US the USOPC,
which is also here in Colorado, as you probably now
in Colorado Springs, they don't have to follow.

Speaker 8 (39:07):
This executive order. They are not a federally funded institution.
So there's a lot of issues with it. There are
states who've already said they are not going to go along,
that they.

Speaker 4 (39:15):
Have state law that's Trump's, you know, the executive order
that in these states gender ID rules the day.

Speaker 8 (39:22):
So we need national legislation, we need state legislation.

Speaker 4 (39:26):
I you know, am onboard with with Rich and with
Aaron Lee, and we are going to be pushing for
support of this ballot initiative and trying to get people
to understand why it is necessary and how this executive
order is not the endgame.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
Well, the good news is that the polling data is
very very clear on this particular issue that even a
majority of Democrats who say, you know, trans women are women,
they still say people who were born male and have
gone through mail puberty should not be allowed to compete
in girls sports with a healthy majority. So this feels
like you on the right side of it. And hopefully

(40:02):
they can get enough signatures. Last year they got started late.
As I said, learned a bunch. It's going to be
a much different situation this time, Jennifer, I want to
get into I called it the war of the ads,
and you didn't even know it was going to be
a war of the ads when last week or a
couple of weeks ago, you guys put out just a
stunning ad that just speaks to the kind of work

(40:26):
that female athletes at an elite level put in. It
even not at an elite level, but just the work
just as male athletes put in that work. It's such
a great ad because it just speaks to the fact
that the people that say things like you should have
trained harder instead of complaining about swimming against a dude, right,
And it really is a great spot to en point.

Speaker 2 (40:48):
JK.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
Rowling shared it and then did you happen to see
the Nike ad that played in yesterday's Super Bowl?

Speaker 6 (40:56):
Well?

Speaker 2 (40:57):
Quick, I did, girl.

Speaker 4 (40:58):
I was watching just for the ad. I'm an old
time ad person, so you know, I was watching for
the ads and I Can had announced they were going
to run an out I think the first in twenty
seven years something like that. It's been many, many years
to stay run ad during the Super Bowl. And I
can't remember the line they The whole line was so dumb,
The whole concept for the ad was so dumb. I

(41:20):
was kind of astonished.

Speaker 3 (41:22):
It was something.

Speaker 4 (41:22):
I'm going to get the line wrong. Maybe you remembered
up the top of your head. But it's basically they
say you.

Speaker 8 (41:28):
Can't win, so win.

Speaker 3 (41:29):
Yeah, that's where they say win.

Speaker 4 (41:31):
So when the idea that women and girls are discouraged
from playing sports and everyone's against you, but you just
have to go out there and win anyway. And it
features a host of you know, female star athletes, most
notably Caitlin Clark Jordan Child, who's a gymnast one gold
this summer. Is also featured a bunch of others.

Speaker 8 (41:53):
I'm not going to remember all their names anyway.

Speaker 2 (41:56):
It's so.

Speaker 4 (41:59):
Value because you know, they probably spent two million dollars
on it and another ten to fifteen to run it
during the Super Bowl.

Speaker 8 (42:05):
But the message is so dated.

Speaker 4 (42:06):
It's felt straight out of nineteen ninety To me, it's
tilting it windmills that don't exist. You know, the threat
to women and girls is not people telling them you
can't play, you can't compete, you can't win.

Speaker 8 (42:19):
Everybody's supportive of that that the world has changed. The
threat to women's sports is men sealing their trophies.

Speaker 4 (42:27):
So they're trying to do this thing where they stand
up for women and girls, but they're avoiding the elephant
in the room. They're not willing to take a stand there,
and they ended up making something that I think.

Speaker 8 (42:36):
Just feels so dated and pathetic. That was my take.

Speaker 4 (42:41):
I also did feel one quick thing started because we
put out an ad in October last year called Deer Nike,
which basically called out their hypocrisy, and it's gotten i
don't know, fourteen million views in social media and it
basically called them out for pretending to stand up for
female appletes, oftening off of that, but failing to take
a stand in this particular issue, and I believe call

(43:04):
me whatever you want to call me. This ad was
a response to that without actually directly addressing the fact
that they were responding to us, and that you know,
they didn't address the issue in the room. The only
thing where the women are told they can't do right
now is stand up for themselves the production of protection
of their sports and space. That's it.

Speaker 8 (43:25):
No woman or girl is discouraged from playing sports. That's ridiculous.

Speaker 5 (43:29):
Well, and to your point, I mentioned this earlier.

Speaker 3 (43:32):
This commercial was so tone deaf because it ignores the
sort of explosion of support and popularity.

Speaker 5 (43:40):
That women's sports are having.

Speaker 3 (43:41):
We're getting a having soccer team here, there was a
there was a female female hockey game the damn near
sold out ball arena. So women's sports are having a moment.
The fact that I know Jordan Child's name and not
one name of one dude on the men's team should
tell you what you need to know about women's progress.

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So I thought the ad was ridiculous and really patronizing
and condescending, and it felt like it was trying to
gin up this sort of anti guy, macho sort of
stereotype that was just it seems really dated right now
to your point, well, and all the.

Speaker 8 (44:20):
Press on it.

Speaker 4 (44:20):
Todays, I'm reading all the press books that like sort
of ad press, which I still look at, but also
the mainstream newspapers, and they're all like, oh, the ad
is a triumph. I mean, they're all basically printing Nike's
press release. They're not paying any attention to what people
are actually.

Speaker 8 (44:34):
Saying about it, and some women bought it. They're not
really paying attention. But there's a huge controversy about it being.

Speaker 4 (44:41):
Toned up, and of course none of the press covers that.
But I have to just add something, Mandy, which was
the triple ad play between that terrible Nike ad and
then the NFL ran a women's flag football ad, the
concept of which was women are better at football than men,
which might be the dumbest.

Speaker 8 (45:01):
Ad I've ever heard of.

Speaker 4 (45:02):
And clearly Nike was involved in that one too, because
there was Nike branding all over it, I mean, Nike's
sponsor of the NFL to court, but literally, the direct
concept of the ad was women are better at football
than men, which is stupid, and it sort of suggested
gets it's something you know that is in our ad
real Girl's Rock, which is if you can't win against men,

(45:24):
then you need to work harder, which is often what
the feedback is.

Speaker 8 (45:28):
So that's ridiculous. That's the dumbest ad ever made.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
And then you had the Dove one.

Speaker 3 (45:34):
Did you see the Hello, I did not see the
Dove ads so, but the Dove ads of the last
few years have been so they're so you know, I understand,
I get it.

Speaker 5 (45:43):
I just kind of it's to the point of ridiculousness.

Speaker 4 (45:48):
Well, there are the Dove and the Nike one were
sort of similar, except the Dove one featured a little
girl who was sort of just you know, she liked
doing sports, but as she got older, she was discouraged.

Speaker 8 (45:57):
This doesn't happen anymore. Women's sports are more popular than
they've ever been.

Speaker 4 (46:03):
It's not just I mean, yes, this year in the
last year or two have been a huge moment, but
it's been building over the last twenty years. This whole
idea that the you know, the enemy are these sort
of this nebulous, like evil sexist people who discourage girls
from playing.

Speaker 8 (46:18):
Sports and want them home barefoot and regit. I don't
even know it's just so dumb, it doesn't happen, and
they all taxfully or not so tactfully avoid the real issue, which.

Speaker 4 (46:30):
Is men cannot be women and men cannot play in
women's sports, but they don't want to say anything.

Speaker 8 (46:34):
They want to sort of stay kind of semi woke.

Speaker 4 (46:37):
So it was the sort of those three ads together
that for me, I just was like, oh my goodness,
none of them are getting it.

Speaker 3 (46:44):
Still, they're so out of touch.

Speaker 5 (46:46):
I said earlier in the show.

Speaker 3 (46:47):
I love the fact that they were promoting flag football
for girls, but the notion that women are better at
men in football is just stupid. So they could have
just done an ad on flag football. That would have
been awesome, right because I watched the heck out of
women's rugby during the Olympics, right, So I'm I'm down
for those kind of things. But that part was just
it was just a really, who's making these ads, Jennifer?

(47:11):
Is it just I just have this I tell you
sixteen now, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (47:16):
It's a bunch of ad creatives in places like Los Angeles, New.

Speaker 8 (47:20):
York and Portland.

Speaker 4 (47:22):
For the Nike They're all in Portland at Wyen and
Kennedy they're super woke.

Speaker 8 (47:27):
They don't realize the world has changed. They think people
like us are you know.

Speaker 3 (47:31):
All right fashions.

Speaker 8 (47:34):
They're completely out of touch with the fact. Look, the
Democratic Party many right now is taking a side of
the eighteen.

Speaker 4 (47:41):
Percent minority that thinks men should be able to compete
in women's sports.

Speaker 8 (47:45):
That's how out of touch the party. The party is
thirty percent approval rating right now.

Speaker 4 (47:49):
So the party in that thirty percent are all these
creative directors in Portland.

Speaker 8 (47:55):
San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York. They're just really
really out of touch with the culture and what actual
people think. And quite frankly, you know, look, I've worked
with these people for many, many years.

Speaker 4 (48:06):
These creative directors, they're out of touch with actually what
works to drive a business too, So take the culture
out of it.

Speaker 8 (48:12):
They're totally out of touch. When I talked to creative directors,
it's typically one of the things I used to ask
them was what was your what's your favorite Levi's add
of all time?

Speaker 9 (48:21):
Because I know every Leviz made's in the sixties, right,
and I've made half of them because I was the
one leading and making them throughout the you know, twenty
and twenty tens, they all every creative director.

Speaker 4 (48:33):
Inevitably they say the same ad, which was a colossal failure.
It's not when I made, and it's actually the reason
I became the chief marketing officer because.

Speaker 8 (48:41):
The CEO agreed it was bad, but they all liked
the worst one.

Speaker 4 (48:44):
It's dark and moody and terrible and doesn't drive the business.
So I don't take their opinions very seriously. My creative
director at xxx Y, I take his opinion seriously, but
he was canceled by that world, So you know, that
just goes to show what their judgment is.

Speaker 3 (48:58):
Since your commercial, let me ask you what you thought
of the Snoop Dogg Tom Brady ad where they were
yelling at each other trying to show the rest of
us how racist and bad we are. I thought that
was an interesting choice.

Speaker 8 (49:18):
Yeah, it wasn't my favorite. It ran more than once, too,
didn't it.

Speaker 3 (49:23):
I don't know it ran twice, Yeah, Roger said it
ran twice.

Speaker 8 (49:26):
I think it ran twice. Yeah, I think it ran
at the beginning and the end.

Speaker 6 (49:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (49:31):
I like Snoop Dogg and anything, so I'm not going
to complain about Snoop. We used to work with him
a lot of Levi's. I don't know, it just seems
sort of dumb to me.

Speaker 8 (49:41):
You can say what works best in the Super bowls humor, Yes, yes,
that's what works best. I've done a few Super Bowl ads.

Speaker 4 (49:49):
I have failed in most of those instances because I
didn't make a funny ad.

Speaker 8 (49:54):
Leavius typically doesn't do funny ads, and they just ring
the I think the.

Speaker 4 (49:58):
Best ad, the most will ad of the night, was
the michelob Ultra light with because it was funny a
fight and it's sort of, you know, was culturally.

Speaker 8 (50:07):
Relevant because pickleball is so popular and old people like pickleball,
which was sort of the conceit in the ad, like
you need a joke in there. I don't know. I
just think sort of heady, serious stuff. The super Malos
fun it's a fun cultural moment, like don't bring us down.

Speaker 3 (50:22):
Amen to that, Jennifer say, I very much appreciate your time.
I will see you February nineteenth for the event that
we spoke of, and we'll talk again. Is we get
this initiative off the ground to really protect girls' sports
in Colorado and not not have to be reliant on
any executive orders or anything like that.

Speaker 5 (50:39):
Jennifer, thanks so much for making time for me today.

Speaker 8 (50:44):
Thank you, Mandy Ce.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
All right, that is Jennifer say xx x y sportswear.
You can check her out online. They do have very nice,
good quality sportswear. So there you go, and lots of
stuff going. Mandy. Didn't Snoop Dogg do song praising killing
cops or putting a cap in somebody's you know what.

Speaker 5 (51:05):
Yes, he did when he was a young man, and
they live on.

Speaker 3 (51:09):
But now he's everybody's favorite grandpa and he writes songs
about empowerment for children. So yeah, humor and chicks in bikinis.
I'm so glad. This texter just brought up the Frank
Asar commercial. Did you see this, the Frank Azar commercial yesterday?

Speaker 2 (51:26):
Yes.

Speaker 5 (51:26):
Frank As are, of course very well known personal injury attorney.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
He manages to make a commercial with girls in bikinis
in it.

Speaker 5 (51:34):
Now, I know what you're thinking, Mandy.

Speaker 3 (51:37):
Why would a personal injury attorney have a commercial with
girls in bikinis. The only answer is because Frank Azar wanted.

Speaker 5 (51:45):
Girls in bikinis in his ad.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
He's strong.

Speaker 3 (51:48):
It wasn't good, it was patently just sort of in
a really blatantly kind of sexist way, like, here's chicks
and bikinis. Work with me and you'll get laid. I mean,
isn't that what we're supposed to extrapolate out.

Speaker 5 (52:03):
From chicks and bikinis.

Speaker 3 (52:05):
It was ridiculous, I mean, really really ridiculous. Look at
the stats. Teenage girls are less physically active than boys.
There continues to be body image issues that lead to
a decrease in participation in sports.

Speaker 5 (52:22):
That is exactly right, but that has more to do with.

Speaker 3 (52:25):
Cultural expectations of physical form and the internalization that girls
do about those societal expectations. It's not mean men telling
them they can't play sports, which is what some of
these commercials are implying. So anyway, you guys, I'm gonna

(52:46):
say this as a former teenage girl and now the
mom of a teenage girl, the brains of teenage girls
can with great speed internalize a single comment that someone
makes to them in passing. Maybe they were trying to

(53:07):
be mean, maybe they weren't, and that single comment can
set that girl's direction in certain ways, whether it's pursuing sports,
or whether it's to continue singing, or whether it's to
wear shorts or whether it's to try out for cheerleading,
in such a way that it's almost impressive how they
can internalize that and make it me a part of

(53:28):
their core belief instantly. I mean, it's pretty amazing. And
I don't think because of now been the mom of
teenage boys, so I have that experience, So I have
not been a teenage boy. Other than boobs. I don't
think boys focus like that on things that girls do.

Speaker 5 (53:44):
And I'm not saying they don't.

Speaker 3 (53:46):
I'm not trying to downplay the emotional struggles of teenage boys,
because they are also there. They exist, but they're so
different than the emotional and internal struggles of teenage girls.

Speaker 10 (53:57):
It's just not comparable by the way guys in a
big way. This is a compliment, you know, because I.

Speaker 3 (54:07):
Would love to have the ability that I've seen young
men have to sort of be a little more resilient
and not take things to heart. Until I got this job,
I was very sensitive, and I mean that, I mean
I was very sensitive. My feelings got hurt fairly easily
by people that I should have given no power to

(54:28):
hurt my feelings, yet they did. Being in this job,
as long as I have, and not even when I
was in this job. I was in prior jobs where
I would get such nasty, horrible.

Speaker 5 (54:39):
Awful hate mail.

Speaker 3 (54:41):
I am grateful for that now because now I truly
don't care. So when I get the odd random you're
the worst thing ever, I hope you die email or
someone sends a text. This should be wildly offensive. I
genuinely mean it when I say I really don't care.
It doesn't affect me at all. No marks are left,

(55:04):
no craps are given. It is glorious, but man, it
took me a long, long, long time to get here.
You know, a lot has been made of, hopefully the
death of the EI, and it's funny to hear people
defitting diversity, equity inclusion because they are defaulting back to

(55:25):
the sort of.

Speaker 5 (55:27):
It sounds so good when you put it that way.

Speaker 3 (55:31):
To be clear, the issue about diversity, equity and inclusion
is not that it wants people to be treated equally
and it wants to make make sure that everybody has
equal opportunity. That is something that we should all aspire to. Right,
everybody gets the same opportunity. But as soon as you
put equity in there, that's where things start to go

(55:52):
off the rails, and this is what people have found
so objectionable. The Colorado Sun did a story on how
different colleges and universities in Colorado are confronting the executive
Order about diversity, equity, and inclusion. I love this. While

(56:13):
Trump's attack on DEI has sent a chill across Colorado campuses,
higher education leaders say their institutions will continue to stand firmly,
buying their focus on DEI for the moment. They remain undeterred,
even as many questions loom about whether they could jeopardize
federal dollars they receive, and as campus officials try to

(56:34):
debunk what they see as mischaracterizations of DEI.

Speaker 2 (56:39):
Listen to this.

Speaker 5 (56:42):
What I think the opponents of DEI do is.

Speaker 3 (56:45):
Start first by turning the intention of DEI efforts on
their head. They say it's about trying to advance certain
groups over others at the expense of merit, and saying
we care more about diversity than merit.

Speaker 5 (56:59):
What we care about is ensuring.

Speaker 3 (57:01):
That people from diverse backgrounds have the opportunity to demonstrate
their merit and advance based on it. And of course
in this country, Historically that's not always been the case.

Speaker 5 (57:13):
Now, what's funny about this.

Speaker 3 (57:16):
Is the part where he says they first turn the
intention of DEI efforts on their head. No, no, we
turn the reality of what DEI efforts are doing on
their head. And if it's such a merit based system,
then why do we have it in the first place.

Speaker 5 (57:37):
What DEI has done across.

Speaker 3 (57:39):
The country, it has seen high schools do away with
advanced classes and what they call, you know, leveling kids
with other kids of this city. You basically have created
an educational system where advanced students are just sitting in
classrooms board and behind students are sitting in the same classrooms,

(58:01):
hopelessly lost in the name of diversity, equity and inclusion,
because when you believe that if there are not enough
black and brown kids in an AP class, that's a
sign of racism instead of fundamental differences between how kids
are being raised. And I want to use Asian kids

(58:21):
in a very stereotypical way here, but I now know
multiple Asian families and guess what, all of their kids
are successful in school.

Speaker 6 (58:32):
Do you know why?

Speaker 3 (58:34):
Because they're Asian? Parents consistently drive home the importance of
education and they do not accept anything but best effort
from their children, to the point of parenting when it
comes to school. In a way, most Americans are no
longer comfortable parenting, and I find myself not parenting for

(58:56):
grades the way my parents did. I mean, when I
was a kid in our house, you were expected to
be a straight A student.

Speaker 5 (59:04):
That was the expectation.

Speaker 3 (59:07):
And I could end my dad a report card full
of all a's and one B and my dad would
look at the report card and all he would say
is what happened with the bee. That's the level of
expectation that I was raised in, and it sucked. It
absolutely sucked, because not everybody is straight a's all the time,

(59:27):
and getting a bad grade would send me into an
absolute tailspin because there was a feeling in my family
that you're worth was also tied to your grades. And
I decided, I'm never going to do that to my kid.
But you know, the Q is a great student. She
tries really hard, she stays on top of things, but

(59:49):
you know, if she doesn't get straight a's, so.

Speaker 10 (59:51):
What, so what?

Speaker 5 (59:54):
I just can't buy into that anymore. It's too stressful.
And anyway, I didn't mean to go off on that tangent.

Speaker 3 (01:00:00):
What we have now though, and I have a story
linked on the blog today about UCLA's medical school that
is incredibly concerning, and I mean incredibly concerning. UCLA medical
students have been.

Speaker 5 (01:00:18):
Let's just see helped and I'm going to put helped
in air quotes right there.

Speaker 2 (01:00:22):
Work with me.

Speaker 3 (01:00:23):
Up to half of UCLA medical students now fail basic
tests of medical competence. You know why, because they're letting
unqualified minority students into medical school instead of letting more
qualified white or Asian applicants into UCLA's medical school. When

(01:00:47):
it came time this is a little paragraph from the
story for the admissions committee to consider one such student
in November of twenty twenty one, a black applicant with
grades and test scores far below the UCLA average. Members
of the committee felt that this particular candidate, based on
the available evidence, was not the best fit for the
top tier medical school. According to two people present for

(01:01:09):
the committee's hearings, their reservations were.

Speaker 5 (01:01:12):
Not well received.

Speaker 3 (01:01:14):
When an admissions officer voice concerned about the candidate, the
two people said, the Dean of Admissions, Jennifer Lushera, exploded
in anger she asked the admissions officer, did you not
know American women? African American women are dying at a
higher rate than everybody else. We need people like this
in the medical school. And because of allowing people who

(01:01:40):
happen to be the right race but who are well
below the standards of UCLA's medical school, now they have
people who are failing basic questions, basic doctor questions. And
I gotta tell you, guys, I always looked you aroon.
When you go to a doctor, do you look at
their degree to see where it's from?

Speaker 1 (01:02:01):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:02:02):
I do every time, every single time.

Speaker 3 (01:02:05):
Not because I'm going to storm out in a fit
of peak if I don't like where they went to school,
but because I just want to know. And now, if
I see UCLA in the last five years, I'm gonna
be like, uh yeah, my way for somebody else, regardless
of their color. This is how DEI has effectively been done.

(01:02:25):
So don't talk to me about Oh, they're trying to
change the intent. No, I am trying to change the execution.
And much like as we talked with Jennifer Say in
the last segment, you know Nike is making sports that
talk to women's experiences, twenty five years ago, this notion
that somehow we're just misinterpreting what DEI is actually doing,

(01:02:48):
when we already know that high performing Asian students and
white students are being kept out of ivy League schools
by students who are less qualified, who are of a
different race. And by the way, guess who's not cutting it.
Guess who's not graduating from college. Guests who's just being
saddled with a bunch of debt because they got into
a program or a school that they were not prepared for.

(01:03:11):
You're not doing anybody any favors with any of this,
So you can read the article. Essentially, it says that
Colorado universities are going to keep doing this crap until
they don't, meaning until the federal government says to colleges, hey,
by the way, that federal dollars that we're talking about

(01:03:31):
includes financial aid payments.

Speaker 5 (01:03:35):
The universities are going to keep doing whatever it is
they want to do, and we're gonna have more clap.

Speaker 3 (01:03:39):
Trap and more idiocy and more people thinking we are
a hopelessly racist nation, when in reality, most of us
are feeling like things were pretty good until we started
being told that we're racists every five minutes. Where's you down?

Speaker 5 (01:03:52):
After a while, Where's you down.

Speaker 3 (01:03:56):
When we get back. I have some very interesting polling
data about how parents voted in this last election cycle,
and it shows a significant shift on an issue that
I think is the defining civil rights issue of our generation.

Speaker 5 (01:04:13):
I'll share with that next.

Speaker 3 (01:04:14):
I've got this very interesting story from Real Clear Education,
RealClearPolitics dot com. RealClearPolitics dot com is a great aggregator site.
But then they also have real Clear Policy, Real Clear Investigations,
Real Clear Health, Real Clear Environment. I mean they have everything,
so I have different aggregators. This came from Realclear Education

(01:04:36):
dot Com and it has to do with the promises
that Donald Trump made to parents. He has been delivering
on promises when it comes to things like school choice
and codifying school choice and putting school choice back at
the forefront of the conversation. This is great for two reasons.

(01:04:59):
Number one one, more and more people are starting to
ask the question, why are my children trapped in failing schools? Now,
in Colorado, we have an extremely robust in most districts,
a robust school choice system, and it is fantastic. It
allows parents to put their kids in a school that

(01:05:20):
they feel is going to be a better fit than them,
even if it's not their neighborhood school. And it comes
with some responsibilities. I mean, you got to get your
kid to school. You don't have bus service, stuff like that.
But it is wonderful and we enjoyed a robust school
choice in Florida. And when my boys, who are eighteen
months apart, when they were in high school, one went
to one high school and another one went to a

(01:05:41):
completely different high school and it was glorious for both
of them. There were much different students. So I love
school choice. I've been a charter school advocate for years,
not because I.

Speaker 5 (01:05:52):
Hate traditional schools, but I know that there are.

Speaker 3 (01:05:57):
Things about the traditional system as they exist now that
I don't like as a parent, and I'm glad I
got to choose a charter school for my kid because
of the curriculum. They taught a whole bunch of different things.
And I want everybody to have that opportunity. And I've
talked about the fact that back in Louisville, I worked
with a group of mostly single moms who were trying

(01:06:18):
to bring school choice to Louisville. And it was years
after I left before they even could get a smidge
of a charter school built.

Speaker 5 (01:06:27):
Okay, listen to this.

Speaker 3 (01:06:28):
This is a poll commissioned by Parents Defending Education. Ninety
percent of parents agree that focusing on core subject areas
such as math, reading, writing, science, and social studies would
improve the quality of public education. We just want them
to teach the kids the stuff that we learned when

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we were in school, I mean, with updates to things
that you know may have changed since then. Seventy seven
percent of parents, regardless of part affiliation, oppose allowing males
who identify as females to use female bathrooms and locker rooms,
and vice versa. Even fifty eight percent of Democratic parents
think that that is just wrong. Parents are not on

(01:07:14):
board with gender policies that allow students and staff to
self identify as the opposite opposite sex.

Speaker 5 (01:07:20):
These policies, by the way, are now the norm in
most schools.

Speaker 3 (01:07:25):
The concept of equity seemed reasonable to most parents until
how it was applied instead of fairness in eliminating honors classes,
doling out different disciplinary consequences based on race, and giving
credit for schoolwork that was never even turned in. Eighty
two percent of parents believe disciplinary consequences should be the

(01:07:46):
same for all students, period. And parents shifted significantly to
the right because the Democrats are still in bed with
the teachers unions, the same teachers unions that kept schools
closed way longer than was necessary after we knew with

(01:08:08):
a great deal of certainty that children were the least
likely to be badly.

Speaker 5 (01:08:12):
Negatively impacted by COVID.

Speaker 3 (01:08:16):
So Democrats have two huge political problems, and this is
the second part. The first part is parents want schools
to go back to teaching the basics. They want their
kids to be able to read, write, and do math.
And they don't want somebody sitting there telling a four
or five year old that if they want to, they
can choose their gender, because that's a lie. It's just
a lie. So parents have sort of made their selves

(01:08:40):
heard in this one, and Democrats are now in the
unenviable position of being aligned with a union that people
are increasingly blaming for the learning loss that children suffer
during extended COVID shutdowns demanded by the leadership of the
unions and granted by the Biden administration. The tides they

(01:09:01):
are turning, there's a shift, a big shift, and I'm
here for it.

Speaker 1 (01:09:05):
I like it.

Speaker 5 (01:09:07):
I like it a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:09:08):
And if it means that more children will have more
options going forward, I am one hundred percent in favor
of that. So now, if we can just get the
legislation done to end the Department of Education, I would
I'd be down with that. There's a couple of things,
and we can talk about this on the other side
of the break. Two things that I'm excited about the

(01:09:30):
possibility of getting rid of. Number one, the Department of Education.
They've overseen the greatest malaise and decline in our education's history.
They need to go. And number two, a nationalized version
of FEMA. And we'll talk about that when we get back.
Even though I don't even have it on the blog,
I meant to talk about it last week and for God,
so now it's a thing for this week that's coming
up next.

Speaker 1 (01:09:50):
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Speaker 2 (01:09:55):
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Speaker 3 (01:10:03):
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Welcome to the third hour of the show.

Speaker 5 (01:10:20):
I'm your host, Mandy Coddle.

Speaker 3 (01:10:21):
A rod right over there in a bright orange Tennessee
volunteer yellow or orange sweatshirt. That is a Tennessee volunteer
orange sweatshirt.

Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
I don't care oranges. Orange is for the Bronx.

Speaker 3 (01:10:31):
You gonna mess out rocky top right now. For some reason,
that just looks more volunteer than it does Bronken.

Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
I mean a little, but it's for the Broncos.

Speaker 5 (01:10:38):
God, I'm just saying.

Speaker 2 (01:10:40):
I'm well.

Speaker 3 (01:10:42):
One of my new favorite five facts when I had
to live in Orlando, when University of Tennessee was in
the Citrus Bowl for like six.

Speaker 5 (01:10:49):
Years in a row.

Speaker 6 (01:10:50):
Now hard is to find cool hoodies and sweatshirts. Can
you not ruin this for me?

Speaker 3 (01:10:54):
I'm sorry, I didn't realize you were so sensitive about
your sweatshirt. I am so talking about things we want
to eliminate, and I said the Department of Education, and
that set a couple of people off. Not talked about
the State Department of Education. And I'm not talking about
the state Department of federal or emergency management, not federal
but emergency management. What I'm talking about is are bloated

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federal government is doing things that it should not do, and.

Speaker 5 (01:11:20):
One of them is the Department of Education.

Speaker 3 (01:11:23):
Now, the things that are good about Department of Education,
and I'm putting good in air quotes because I could
argue against all of these programs. One of them, the
federal loans and grants program that you know, are one
of those things that sounded super good in practice, But
as soon as a third party payer started paying, the

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cost of colleges has skyrocketed well beyond the rate of inflation.
Because when people are not responsible for what they're doing.
I mean, don't get me wrong, they're responsible, but they're
not responsible at that moment. They're spending money that they
don't have and that they hope to have in the future.

Speaker 5 (01:12:02):
It has allowed the cost of college to get to a.

Speaker 3 (01:12:04):
Point that is absolutely ridiculous, just stupid, stupid. But nonetheless,
people like those programs and it helps a lot of
people go to college that otherwise we'd not be able
to go to college. We can move those somewhere else.
But what else does the Department of Education do? Nothing?
Since the Department of Education was created in the late seventies,

(01:12:24):
we have done nothing but stagnate or even fall backwards
in some measures. Every single state in the Union has
a Department of Education. Why do we need a federal
Department of Education when we have a state department of education. Now,
if the government wants to give us money, sure, but
we don't need the Department of Education to give it
to us. And let's talk about FEMA for a moment.

(01:12:47):
I've said this for a very long time. Living in Florida,
you deal with FEMA a lot, and FEMA has no
idea what's going on? And I'm going to use North Carolina.
What's happening right now in North Carolina? You guys are
still people living in tents in North Carolina from the
hurricanes this past summer. Do you know who's fixing the
problem right now as we speak, homaged people. Homage people

(01:13:10):
are building tiny homes for people in North Carolina because
the federal government has done such a garbage job with
any assistance whatsoever. A lot of those people that were
wiped out were people in poverty. They don't have the
money to rebuild. They're exactly the kind of people that
we talk about a social safety net for. But the
federal government could dole out grants to state run emergency

(01:13:33):
management operations who have a much better take on what
the people in that area need.

Speaker 5 (01:13:42):
There's no reason to involve the federal government.

Speaker 3 (01:13:44):
Cut out that bureaucracy and just send block.

Speaker 5 (01:13:47):
Grants to the states.

Speaker 3 (01:13:48):
Call it a day. You can do it through housing
and housing and urban development. Let people pay for their
own stuff. If nothing else comes out of the Donald
Trump administration, and all of these executive orders are about
as good as the Trump presidency is long unless Congress
acts and get some of this stuff codified into law.

(01:14:09):
But at least we're having a conversation. And what's been
super fascinating to watch is watching the Democrats paint themselves
into a corner by supporting things that a vast majority
of Americans are like, I'm sorry, we're spending money on what?

Speaker 5 (01:14:25):
And if I see one.

Speaker 3 (01:14:26):
More person on the left say something like it's less
than one percent of the total budget, we got to
start hacking away one percent at a time. We can't
just end our defense budget, we can't just stop Medicare
and Social Security. So we got to go after what
we can. And I think the rest of us are
sitting out here and fly over country and we're talking about,

(01:14:48):
you know, tightening our own belts. I was talking to
a friend of mine, a couple of weeks ago. Now
about how much our habits have changed. How often we
used to go out to dinner versus this is how
often we go out to dinner now. I just bought
sixty or excuse me, twenty four eggs at King Super
and it was sixteen dollars. You know, those were the

(01:15:09):
pasture rows were Those are like nice, But even the
cheap eggs were like six fifty. It's like, dude, what
are we doing? So when all of these people inside
the beltweh are freaking out that we're not spending money
to the government of Liberia to work on diversity, or
we're not sending money to Sri Lanka to promote the

(01:15:32):
rights of some minor class that we don't even know about,
We're not here in America going yeah, about damn time.
I can't even go out to dinner anymore. It's about
damn time you guys did something about that. What I
have seen is a lot of pulling data that says
things people are mad that Donald Trump hasn't done more
about inflation. I'm gonna explain this one more time, and

(01:15:55):
I really want you guys to remember this because I
think I'm gonna be right, and I want you to
run me if I'm wrong. Okay, I think what is
going to happen, and I don't know the timeline. That's
where I'm missing right now. I'm missing the timeline on
when this is gonna occur. Okay. So if everything keeps
going like it is, and DOAT keeps going scorched earth,
and we start finally getting rid of some of this

(01:16:16):
excess spending and we really force Congress to explain why
they've squandered so much of our money, what's going to
happen if we see inflation or if we see spending
actually decrease. Right now, our deficit for twenty twenty five
is about eight hundred and seventy billion dollars, so we're
under a trillion, which is good. We're making progress right,

(01:16:37):
baby steps. But if we can get that down to
maybe point two trillion or maybe maybe or excuse me,
what point two billion? You know, maybe make it something reasonable,
then what happens is the market responds, and the market
responds by lowering the bond rate, because then our debt, well, look,
the Americans are finally getting you know, smart about their debt.

(01:17:00):
They're finally looking serious about raining this in and all
of a sudden, our debt looks more attractive, so we
don't have to keep paying such high interest rates. And
then when those rates go down, mortgage rates go down too.
And I'm telling you right now, you guys, when mortgage
rates drop in this country, it is going to unleash

(01:17:21):
a footing of just a feeding frenzy in the real
estate market. And there is so much peripheral spending that
goes along with that. When people buy a new house,
they need services. They want to get paint, they want
to get carpet, they want to get new furniture, they
want to get new betting. Maybe windows need to be
replaced before you sell a home, or right after you
buy one.

Speaker 5 (01:17:41):
You maybe your furnace needs to be tuned up.

Speaker 3 (01:17:43):
Maybe you failed an inspection. There's all of this other
stuff in the economy that happens because of housing, and
when that happens, all bets are off, everything is unleashed,
The economy explodes, and we all can take a breath,
because then in Flame is truly tamed. Now, one thing

(01:18:03):
I'd like to see, and we need to see, I
need to find out, is somebody could make this case
about egg prices, because I swear to you. If we
can get egg prices down, everything will get so much easier.
I've been looking into the policies that are in place
right now if you own a egg laying chicken facility,
and what happens if a bird tests positive for bird flu.

(01:18:26):
Now something has to be done, you have to take
care of it. But right now they're requiring the destruction
of all of the birds, even if they're not howsed together,
even if they've never been near each other. And if
they could just fix that, egg prices come down, and
people are like, wait a minute, things are starting to happen.

Speaker 5 (01:18:48):
That's what I'm predicting.

Speaker 3 (01:18:49):
I hope I'm right. We'll see. We'll know soon enough ish,
because it's either going to happen soon or I'm totally wrong,
which either could be true.

Speaker 5 (01:18:58):
This texture said Mandy. Oh wait a minute, hang on, Mandy.

Speaker 3 (01:19:03):
Does that mean certain red states go back to pre
evolution theory, creationism, Bible heavy and fact light if that's
their prerogative.

Speaker 5 (01:19:11):
Yes, absolutely, See.

Speaker 3 (01:19:15):
We live in a federalist system where each state gets
to self determined what they do within that state. They
can determine whether or not their educational system is going
to prepare their residence for a future that is bright
and competitive in the world, or if they want to
go back in time and not do that, that's not

(01:19:36):
my problem except in Colorado.

Speaker 1 (01:19:40):
And I.

Speaker 3 (01:19:41):
You know, much like the abortion you know, overturning Roe
versus Wade was the shot heard around the country where
we got a lot of states, most of them working
to codify abortion into their constitution in some way, shape
or form. I think that you would see parents on

(01:20:03):
a local level get far more involved and make sure
that their kids were getting a quality education, because a
quality education isn't just about the kids. It's about whether
or not you have a vibrant environment that would attract businesses.
Because nobody wants to say to their employees, hey, guess what, guys,
we're moving to Mississippi where they're number fifty in education.
Nobody wants to do that. And again, if states want

(01:20:27):
to go down that path, more power to them. I
don't think any states should get to dictate what another
state does full stop. And if you don't like it, you.

Speaker 5 (01:20:37):
Can either work within your state to change it or
you can leave. Those are the two things that you
need to know, Mandy.

Speaker 3 (01:20:47):
I love how you're talking about Elon throwing sunlight on
the misspending. But I just got our property tax bill
and it exploded fifteen hundred bucks more for six months
than last year. What are Colorado citizens supposed to do
on a.

Speaker 5 (01:20:59):
Fixed income wanting to move north?

Speaker 3 (01:21:02):
And remember, every time you see the governor of this
state saying that Democrats are working to save you money,
they believe they cut your property taxes because after letting
them go up exorbitantly and dramatically, because they didn't do
anything after we cut out the property tax formula which

(01:21:24):
needed to be tweaked, but they threw it out and
said and then they didn't do anything to take action.
So let's just review democrats who run the state, every
branch of government. They did not fix the problem. And
now they're trying to tell us because they let our
property taxes go up dramatically and then gave us a
tiny little break, they're trying to tell us they saved

(01:21:45):
us money on our property taxes. That's how stupid they
think you are.

Speaker 5 (01:21:50):
So I'm big. I'm a big waterfowl hunter.

Speaker 3 (01:21:58):
Two years ago, bird flu was out of control in
the snow goose population. What I'm noticing is that there
are very few birds I've seen with it. So my
suggestion for the chickens is to quarantine them instead of killing,
and start breeding off the new hatchlings from the survivors
of that flock, Mandy, aren't the majority of chicken flocks
kept indoors and isn't bird flu spread by migratory birds?

(01:22:20):
If so, how are our indoor flocks getting infected with
bird flues?

Speaker 5 (01:22:24):
Steve, I don't know, and I'd love to tell you.

Speaker 3 (01:22:26):
I've never been to a chicken farm, but I have
My high school boyfriend worked at an egg farm, and
I know exactly how they're set up. And most of
the time they're in separated houses. They don't have any
contact with one another. And at the place he worked
way back in the day, this was like in the eighties.
They each had a set of boots, like you know

(01:22:46):
what I mean. I don't know what those boots are
called in Florida. I've heard them called many things. Matt
leache reebox was my favorite, the big white just rubber boots.

Speaker 1 (01:22:58):
What are they?

Speaker 5 (01:22:59):
They have a name and I can't remember the actual
name of it.

Speaker 3 (01:23:01):
But they had their own set of boots outside of
each house, so they didn't even walk into each house
with boots from the other house. So I don't know.
I do not know, Mandy ar the majority of chicken
flocks skip already read that one. Sorry sorry, And he
campaigned on lowering prices for the average American. What a sham,

(01:23:22):
you guys. I'm sorry. He's been in office for three weeks.
I know it feels like a lot for those of
us who were used to government moving at a snails pace,
but three weeks not a lot of time to undo
the damage of the last I don't know thirty years.

Speaker 5 (01:23:39):
And I'm clear about that.

Speaker 3 (01:23:41):
The inflation that we have seen is not just because
of Joe Biden and Democrats. It is because of Republicans
as much as it is because of Democrats. That is
one of the reasons why I think Donald Trump figured
he had to do what he's doing right now because
he knew he couldn't even back his He knew his
own party I wouldn't have his back if he tried

(01:24:02):
muck boots.

Speaker 5 (01:24:03):
Thank you, thank you, Texter muck muck boots.

Speaker 3 (01:24:08):
So I think he knew the only way to do
this is to do what he's doing now, which is
basically like shock and awe, Like, oh my gosh, just
sit back. It's going to be absolutely crazy. But it
sure has been interesting to watch, hasn't it. I mean, wow,
when we get back. I don't know if any of
you have ever owned an Oh wait a minute, let's

(01:24:28):
see if we get Ross on the phone a rod
he used to own a night club. I have an
idea that we need to bring to Fruition right here
in Denver. And I'm so excited as a gen xer
who's now old. I'll explain after this if he were
anything like me in my twenties, are Friday? Actually I
would lie I was gonna say Friday or Saturday night,
But we pretty much we went out every night of
the week. We had a different place, different destination to

(01:24:52):
go out partying. But I remember clearly back in those days,
starting to get ready to go out at ten pm,
like beginning the process with my girlfriends of getting ready
to go out. And imagine my delight when I saw
a story about a group of women who started something

(01:25:13):
they call the Early Birds Club, and I'm here for
it now. In my zeal to get someone to do this,
I went to the guy that I know at some
point ran a nightclub and joining me. Now Rosskominsky of
the Ross Kominski Show, heard here on Kawa from nine
to noon every weekday. So Ross, hear me out. Okay,

(01:25:34):
just settle in.

Speaker 5 (01:25:36):
You used to own a nightclub.

Speaker 3 (01:25:38):
We're old. We need a nightclub that happens maybe a
little bit early, maybe six to ten pm. I mean,
I think this has legs. Everything's done, we roll up,
we go home, we're all in bed by ten thirty.

Speaker 5 (01:25:52):
But we can go out and dance like we used
to be cool. What do you think, Ross, Let's make
it happen.

Speaker 3 (01:25:58):
Yeah, I think that's awesome.

Speaker 11 (01:25:59):
I don't own a club anymore, but it used to
be like, you know, you would start having fun at
the time that you know. Now you and I want
to be done.

Speaker 5 (01:26:09):
Look, I'm pushing it to get to ten.

Speaker 3 (01:26:10):
Okay, I just I was thinking nine thirty, but then
that seemed a little lame, like I should make it
to a double digit number at ten pm, you know.
But no, there's there's women that have been doing this
in Chicago, and they do them kind of as like
a like a one off, a pop up experience. But
now you've admitted you're not a great dancer, right.

Speaker 11 (01:26:30):
Oh, that's yeah, that's putting it kindly.

Speaker 3 (01:26:33):
I mean, did you ever try, Did you ever like
try to learn maybe get somebody to help you with
your moves?

Speaker 11 (01:26:38):
No, I never tried. I never was that was never
going to be the guy girl still, so I didn't try.

Speaker 3 (01:26:46):
No.

Speaker 11 (01:26:46):
By the way, I'm I'm a bad spot, so I.

Speaker 12 (01:26:49):
Might lose you.

Speaker 5 (01:26:49):
No, that's okay.

Speaker 3 (01:26:50):
Now you're married. You're happily married, so it's not about
getting the hicks like it used to be.

Speaker 2 (01:26:55):
There you go this.

Speaker 3 (01:26:58):
We need to make this happen. Maybe we make it
a listener event, just me and you, and we'll find
some place to have an early bird dance club. And
there's got to be like a DJ that we can
pull out of retirement that plays all the cool music
that they used to play when we were in the club.

Speaker 2 (01:27:13):
Well you are, So what did you just say?

Speaker 5 (01:27:17):
You cut out right there at the important part.

Speaker 11 (01:27:18):
Oh, I said, I know you love yacht rock, so
that seems like a good fit.

Speaker 3 (01:27:22):
No, but yacht rock's not club music. You got to
have proper club music from back in the nineties, the
late eighties, you know, that kind of thing, because the
club music was bumping. Yacht rock is for now. Now
that is me partying when I'm listening to yeat rock.
So I want to relive my my personal when I
was cool.

Speaker 11 (01:27:42):
Yeah, and nails, Yes of Mercy, Yes, a.

Speaker 3 (01:27:50):
Little win in Rome, you know, a little like all
of those old wave bands. All of that stuff is
so good for dancing. Okay, Ross, we're doing it. I
know you're in a bad cell service, but I'm committing
to something. I don't know what yet, but you're committed.

Speaker 11 (01:28:04):
Well, let's say Kristen will be committed.

Speaker 3 (01:28:07):
No, you can wear your nightclub shirt from when you
own your nightclubs.

Speaker 5 (01:28:09):
You can bust it out and be cool again.

Speaker 2 (01:28:11):
See yeah that.

Speaker 11 (01:28:13):
Let me tell you one other thing I saw. I
went to comedy show on Saturday. I has, you know
a lot of fans who are kind of our age.

Speaker 3 (01:28:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:28:25):
And the Saturday shows were at six pm and a
fifteen Yeah, And he said, he said, how many more
people there were for these shows than for the late
show on a Friday night, which was like nine forty five?
He said, nobody showed up in the suburbs. Of course,
the suburbs.

Speaker 3 (01:28:45):
Yeah, because we all need to be in bed by
then that's a little too outside of my comfort zone.
All right, Ross, I'll talk to you later. I'm gonna
loop in rick Lewis. I feel like Rick Lewis would
be a good person to do this with too.

Speaker 11 (01:28:55):
Oh me too. He could be the DJ.

Speaker 8 (01:28:57):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (01:28:58):
All right, I'll be in.

Speaker 5 (01:28:58):
Touch your people. My people will make it happen.

Speaker 2 (01:29:01):
All right, all right, thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:29:02):
Okay, so listeners, I just need to know real quick,
like who would come out for a dance party, and
I mean serious dance party. We're not just standing around talking.

Speaker 2 (01:29:10):
About how our hips hurt.

Speaker 3 (01:29:11):
Okay, We're not gonna sit there and talk about, you know,
the job that Gravinus Windows Center did on our windows.
We are gonna relip our coolness, our hipness, and you
know what. I might even take pictures and video just
to show my daughter. Look, indeed, I still got a
little bit of cool left in me, just a tiny bit,

(01:29:33):
not that much. But this is I actually do kind
of love this now, of course. It was founded in
Chicago by two friends in their forties. The Early Birds
Club is a party designed for women and trans and
non binary people who have jobs and responsibilities to start
early in the morning, but who still want a chance
to dance crazily with their friends. Now, uh, there's no

(01:29:56):
reason to keep men out of this. If you can dance, Hey, ron,
I that you can dance.

Speaker 2 (01:30:01):
Of course I can.

Speaker 5 (01:30:04):
You should have seen his head snap to answer that question.

Speaker 2 (01:30:06):
Of course, of course, of course I can solid moves.

Speaker 8 (01:30:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:30:11):
I wonder if we would have to, like, now, here's
the thing.

Speaker 3 (01:30:13):
Do you have to bust out the running man at
this dance or can you just like do an age
appropriate dance for now?

Speaker 2 (01:30:19):
I go whatever feels right in the mident, right you do, you.

Speaker 3 (01:30:22):
Have sprinkler, a little sprinkler going on, any of that.

Speaker 2 (01:30:24):
That will never ever you usually feel right in the moment.

Speaker 3 (01:30:27):
That's rarely, if ever right in the moment. I mean,
if really you got to have a right set of circumstances. So, yeah,
what's funny is they make this about women.

Speaker 6 (01:30:37):
Dudes?

Speaker 5 (01:30:37):
Would you come out to this or are your days.

Speaker 3 (01:30:40):
Going to the club where they strictly reserved for trying
to hook up with said women? And now that you're
married or older and you're not, I'm just curious, Mandy,
I would love an early nightclub. This fifty five year
old guy would so go oh, you guys, come on,
let's do it now. If I could get my perfect DJ.

Speaker 5 (01:31:00):
This goes back in time to the city of.

Speaker 3 (01:31:02):
Orlando in the glory days of the nineties. That was
when Orlando Downtown was emerging. It was sort of this
brand news situation where all of these bars and nightclubs
were opening and we were participating in all of them.
And there's a DJ there called DJBMF and he used
to play. He did Fat and Jazzy phat Fat and

(01:31:26):
Jazzy on Tuesday nights at Sapphire supper Club. Then it
became the Social Supper Club. Wow, it's amazing how much
of is I can remember, and I can't remember what
I had for breakfast yesterday. Anyway, he was so cool,
like bringing him or just some of the Oh there's
so much to do, bringing back the white man's overbite,
says this texter. Yep, yep, I am gonna call Rick Lewis.

(01:31:48):
I feel like this is something he'd be in on, so,
you know, I just I'm tired of not spending time
with other people.

Speaker 6 (01:31:59):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:31:59):
I like that short notices. If I have too much
time with other people.

Speaker 5 (01:32:02):
Then I don't like it. But I would like to
just be able to go do fun things. I told
my daughter.

Speaker 3 (01:32:07):
I was like, hey, there's a lot of movies coming out,
and teenagers are supposed to go to movies with their friends,
so let's make that a thing that you do. And
she was like what, And I thought about it. Do
you guys realize teenagers today they came of age during
rather they were children as COVID. But even if they
had older brothers and sisters, they're older brothers and sisters

(01:32:28):
were prevented from doing all of those normal things like
going to the movies. So now this next generation of teenagers,
they have no idea how to act. I've decided I'm
just gonna start telling my daughter. Nope, there you go,
that's what teenagers do these days. You're gonna do it.
I don't care if anybody else does it, Mandy, as
long as there's parking for all the walkers and wheelchairs. Hey, hey,
watch yourself, dexter. I don't need that kind of aggression, Mandy,

(01:32:54):
old school breakdancing nights, okay, respectfully text, but I'm a
gen exer. I'm fifty five years old. The men in
my life who used to break dance do not need
to be breakdancing at this point, They're all gonna look
like that woman from Australia in the Olympics at this point.

Speaker 5 (01:33:14):
I mean, there's some things you know that you need
to leave in the past.

Speaker 3 (01:33:19):
Because I'm not gonna be responsible for somebody's medical bills
because they decide to bring out a refrigerator box and
try and spin on their head. Mandy. I would like
to hear the pop music the Billboard one hundred from
the eighties. I don't know any of the music groups
you and Ross spoke about. That's because there were club songs.
There's club songs, and then there's you know, pop music.
And don't get me wrong, some pop music is does

(01:33:41):
work as a club song. But the kind of dances
you know that you just get in there, just dance
for hours, Manda. They used to have a nightclub like
that many years ago. It was called the heart Throb
Early Bird Club with Sisters of Mercy Cure, Nick Cave
and the Bad Seas, Susie and the ban Cheese m
FDM depeche Mode. I'm fifty two and totally down. You

(01:34:04):
gotta throw in a little more sort of old way
for my taste. But yes, Mandy, MTV videos everywhere. Yes,
now we're cooking with gas. We are so cooking with gas.
And we will figure out someplace for the walkers in
the and the oxygen tanks, although we're not quite there, right, Mandy,

(01:34:25):
can you have the early nightclub in the suburbs and
near to some coffee shops with snacks?

Speaker 6 (01:34:30):
You know what?

Speaker 3 (01:34:32):
That is a high bar, but not so high that
I won't try to achieve it. How about we have
how about we have the early Bird nightclub with an
attached coffee shop with good snacks?

Speaker 4 (01:34:45):
Right?

Speaker 5 (01:34:46):
Are you picking up what I'm laying down?

Speaker 1 (01:34:48):
Now?

Speaker 3 (01:34:48):
We're just gonna and then and then on one side
a place for foot massages. Okay, let's just make this
into the big base just most wonderful things ever, Mandy,
that would break a hip dancing, Yes, break a hip
dancing instead of breakdancing.

Speaker 5 (01:35:04):
Well done, Mandy, This gen xer is game.

Speaker 3 (01:35:07):
Let's go back to the music from Denver's former clubs
Rocks in Rock Island, Norman's and Paris twenty three.

Speaker 5 (01:35:13):
I'm in, I'm in, Mandy.

Speaker 3 (01:35:16):
Make sure your club has pretty of outlets to plug
in their rascal stooters. Now again, we don't need that
kind of hate speech. No, No, I'm telling you, Djslave
one is your DJ. I will find out break dancing
makes my fifty five year old knees hurt thinking about it. God,
we were cool back then, weren't we flatling around on

(01:35:37):
the ground and doing stuff like that? Mandy the Viewhouse
off I twenty five could accommodate this Sades night, but
it's really an eighties evening.

Speaker 5 (01:35:48):
I just want to be clear.

Speaker 3 (01:35:49):
I don't want to be I don't want there to
be I don't want people to show up at nine
thirty thinking that they're gonna dance the night away, when
we are gonna roll the carpet up at ten ten
pm that we're going home home. It's kind of like
when you have a party. This is one of the
reasons that I stopped having parties with some regularity, one
of many, and that is getting people to leave at
the end of the night. And don't get me wrong,

(01:36:12):
I'm good at the subtle cues.

Speaker 6 (01:36:13):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:36:14):
I will clean up my entire house very subtly with
people still there. I will wash all the dishes, I
will start the dishwasher. I will give you every hint
in the world but they're always those people. They're having
a great time. To our credit as party throwers, they're
having a fantastic time. They don't want to go home.

(01:36:34):
I get it. We're amazing at throwing parties, but it's
sometimes you just got to tell people it's time to go.

Speaker 5 (01:36:41):
Wait a minute, Ryan Edwards just walked in the studio.

Speaker 3 (01:36:44):
Ryan, what do you think about getting the band back
together for our early Bird night club?

Speaker 5 (01:36:49):
Okay? Hear me out six to ten pm. Okay, and
then it's over.

Speaker 12 (01:36:55):
You want to hear some funny Actually, my bass player
is a massive Eagles fan, and we haven't talked for years.

Speaker 2 (01:37:02):
I honestly, I think we haven't talked.

Speaker 3 (01:37:04):
Well, bass players don't really talk anyway, right, I mean
they just stand in the back, nod slightly, and play
the bass.

Speaker 2 (01:37:10):
Yeah and look handsome.

Speaker 11 (01:37:11):
Yes.

Speaker 12 (01:37:11):
And that's exactly what he did a lot as a
bass player. Actually, yeah, the drummer was the one that
talked all.

Speaker 2 (01:37:16):
The time, of course.

Speaker 12 (01:37:17):
Yeah, but anyway, so yeah, I actually reached out to
him last night when the Eagles won and reconnected with
him for the.

Speaker 2 (01:37:23):
First time in probably five six years, maybe longer, and
he was like, yeah, we should reconnect He's like, I
listened to you all the time. I love the show,
and I was like, let's go.

Speaker 3 (01:37:31):
We'll get the band back together in the studio to
kick off our early Bird night club. This is honestly, like,
here's this and I don't know how long you've been
married at this point, but this is Chuck and Icy.

Speaker 5 (01:37:41):
We're gonna go out on a date. We're gonna go
out on a date.

Speaker 3 (01:37:43):
We're gonna go to dinner, and.

Speaker 5 (01:37:44):
Then we're gonna go out listen to some live music.
It's gonna be amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:37:48):
We're totally home by like eight forty five, right, We're
in every time, like, I'm tired, I had a great meal,
I'm good. All that aspirational thinking earlier, But imagine if
you knew you could go to a bump at night
club right then at like seven thirty and there'd be
people there.

Speaker 2 (01:38:04):
Yeah, I think, not like the olden days. Okay, you're
on something when we.

Speaker 3 (01:38:08):
Got ready at ten pm, which sounds I say that now,
and I'm like, who was I like, what what was
I think? One night when we were in Miami.

Speaker 5 (01:38:15):
This is a true story.

Speaker 3 (01:38:16):
So we're in Miami and we're staying at a friend's
parents' house and we're going out in Miami Beach.

Speaker 5 (01:38:21):
We started getting ready to go out at like ten
forty five. We did not leave the house until midnight.

Speaker 2 (01:38:27):
See, I mean, what the so that that's foreign to
me too?

Speaker 12 (01:38:31):
When we go to the Corenna with the combine in
two weeks and I go with Ben and Ben has
got this thing mapped down to the tee and it's
the same deal, and it's so weird to me. You know,
we'll wrap up the show at eight o'clock Eastern, right,
and I'm like, all right, let's go grab some dinner
and then we'll head out. And He's like, dinner, yes,
but not heading out because if you head out now,

(01:38:52):
you will not make it.

Speaker 2 (01:38:52):
Till three or four o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 3 (01:38:54):
I don't want to make it to three and four
aspiration do that, but.

Speaker 12 (01:38:58):
That's part of the deal, is like, No, we head
out around eleven PM and then you just you carry
that out.

Speaker 2 (01:39:04):
In fact, even eleven's kind of on the early side.
He's like, real stuff doesn't happen till after midnight.

Speaker 3 (01:39:08):
Yeah, I'm so past the point. My parents always said
when I was a kid, nothing good happens after midnight.
And there were so many times in my life where
it was like four o'clock in the morning where I
was like, you know, no, parents always said nothing good.
It happened after midnight.

Speaker 5 (01:39:23):
I'd like to reevaluate that statement.

Speaker 3 (01:39:26):
I mean, just nuts so long. And here's the thing
about girls in college, right, we would spend two and
a half hours getting ready to go out, and we
would be out. We go dancing for forty five minutes,
leave and go home. And that was the night because
it was more fun to just like to get dance
and play music and hang out and get ready to
go out. And then we would actually go out and

(01:39:47):
it was like, Okay, drinks are more expensive here, yes, yeah, exactly,
we're just gonna go.

Speaker 10 (01:39:53):
God.

Speaker 3 (01:39:53):
I just I rarely, if ever looked back at that
part of my life with like a wistfulness.

Speaker 6 (01:40:00):
Right, did it?

Speaker 8 (01:40:01):
Got the T shirt?

Speaker 3 (01:40:02):
Probably threw up on the T shirt. Don't really want
to do it again. But going out dancing, I do
miss that, and it just doesn't feel like I would
not go into a club at this age. I'm not
going to be that person that I used to see
when I was in my twenties. Like seriously, what are
they doing here? Not going to be that person? No

(01:40:23):
third night club.

Speaker 2 (01:40:26):
I think it's Jeff, did you the Super Bowl yesterday?

Speaker 10 (01:40:29):
What was that?

Speaker 2 (01:40:29):
Did you enjoy the Super Bowl?

Speaker 1 (01:40:30):
Ah?

Speaker 3 (01:40:32):
Not gonna lie. I was pretty much underwhelmed. Didn't like
the game, thought, I mean it was I was good
in the sense you're like, well, they figured out the Chiefs,
didn't they.

Speaker 2 (01:40:41):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (01:40:41):
They had the Chiefs off their footing from the jump.

Speaker 12 (01:40:44):
I think a lot of Broncos fans enjoyed watching the
chief get their buzz kicks.

Speaker 3 (01:40:48):
Yeah. And I found the halftime performance underwhelming. I realized
I'm not in the demo there. I thought it was boring.
And then the commercials were a big letdown, big big hits. Yeah,
just underwhelming for me this year.

Speaker 5 (01:41:01):
Don't get me wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:41:02):
I still made amazing wings and I made some caramelized
onion dip that you slapped your mama for so good.

Speaker 5 (01:41:06):
Wow, just saying, got a lot of it left, I'll
bring you some ton we'll container Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:41:12):
And now it's time for the most exciting segment all
the radio of its guying. Nice one Ryan of the day.
All right, what is our dad joke of the day?

Speaker 6 (01:41:24):
Please, my neighbor was saying, you can't pay his water bill.
I sent him a get well soon car.

Speaker 3 (01:41:33):
That was a good one. That's a keeper.

Speaker 6 (01:41:35):
All right.

Speaker 3 (01:41:35):
What's the word of the day. Please?

Speaker 2 (01:41:37):
It is a noun, and it is vestige V E
s T I G E.

Speaker 3 (01:41:43):
Best white is the sort of leftover vision of something
that's not.

Speaker 12 (01:41:50):
Like you're in the ballpark, I remember fondly, like I
don't know, like last vestages.

Speaker 3 (01:41:57):
A memory or something I don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:42:00):
That's it a trace mark or visible sign left by
something lost or vanished.

Speaker 3 (01:42:05):
There we go? Okay? Which Romantic era poet wrote the
following famous line, Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
I'm not gonna pretend I know my poets. I'm gonna
go keys.

Speaker 2 (01:42:18):
I'm gonna go.

Speaker 3 (01:42:19):
Keys because he's the only one I can think. Oh,
I'm wrong, Piercy's Shelley. The line comes from his eighteen
twenty one essay A Defense of Poetry. There you go
like that, Well you have to, don't. My pinky was
out too? Did you not see my picky out? At
the same time, I was like, poetry, Yes, okay, here
we go. What is our jeopardy? Category.

Speaker 2 (01:42:39):
Please, it is the mar the Marrier, So every answer
has M A R mar the Marrier. Can't you see it?
Your name up on the light?

Speaker 5 (01:42:48):
Nanny? What's the marquis.

Speaker 6 (01:42:51):
Made from sugar and almonds? It's used for decorating cake, Nanny,
pan to relegate someone to lesser status, it sounds like
pushing them.

Speaker 5 (01:43:02):
What's marginalized?

Speaker 3 (01:43:03):
Right?

Speaker 6 (01:43:05):
It's one of Morocco's for imperial cities, Mandy? What is Marrakesh?

Speaker 2 (01:43:10):
God bless and for this week?

Speaker 6 (01:43:12):
For the name of a French military officer, it's anyone
who demands strict adherence to rules.

Speaker 2 (01:43:19):
I don't know about this one.

Speaker 3 (01:43:23):
I have a guess I'm gonna take it, Mandy. What
is a martialist? No, dang it, I think you pronounce
it Martinette. Oh, Martinette. I was in the right vicinity,
but made up my own word.

Speaker 2 (01:43:34):
Man. Work by you?

Speaker 3 (01:43:37):
What do you guys? What are you guys going to
talk about today?

Speaker 12 (01:43:39):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:43:39):
You know what I just saw on Twitter that I
thought was kind of interesting. It was an African American
man who pointed out that we had two black quarterbacks,
and it was so inconsequential that no one thought to
mention it, which was progress and I do. It didn't
even occur to me that that would be worth mentioning,
and I feel like that is worthy of you know,

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it does get.

Speaker 2 (01:44:01):
Brought up, and it used to be brought more. But
you're right, that wasn't interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:44:06):
They're just the best quarterbacks that came out of the
AFC and the NFC.

Speaker 5 (01:44:10):
And there we go.

Speaker 3 (01:44:12):
So I guess Philadelphia only burned down like half the
city last night.

Speaker 12 (01:44:15):
Oh boy, that was Oh man. I love how they
tried to get out ahead of it and say, hey,
you know, leave her light posts alone. It's like, oh,
come on, come on, the fact that you have to say.

Speaker 3 (01:44:23):
Leave our light posts alone tells you everything you need
to know about Philly fans. Don't get me wrong, some
of my favorite people are Philly fans, sure, but wow,
what an obnoxiously base.

Speaker 2 (01:44:34):
Absolutely so many levels.

Speaker 12 (01:44:36):
I can deal with them, and only because again I
mentioned my bass player, like, I can deal with them
to a certain extent. It's it's the Patriots, you know.
Boston fans. York fans are sometimes a little bit harder
on me. But yeah, I mean that was a mess
last night. You knew it was going to be ms,
but you know what, what what a cool thing? And
again Chiefs losing here in Broncos country and not getting

(01:44:57):
Oh my goodness, I am so glad. I told after
this a moment ago, I'm so glob I don't spend
the next four or five months talking about the three
peat of the Kansas City g correct, because.

Speaker 5 (01:45:06):
That is not what you're talking about today.

Speaker 3 (01:45:07):
But I'm sure they'll find some way to fill the
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