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And then we got to get to a.
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Couple stories right out of there, just a big story
out of Jefferson County that is appalling, So let's do it.
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and say that's ConA press.
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Williams is my own personal Veterans Affairs office. Colorado Dems
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happened to a legislator.
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Spending federal money on these things? Stop dead naming the
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Men are room more romantic than women. The truth about alcohol.
Pokemon go is still a thing, and now at baseball
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A penguin hops into a boat leave it reminds the
press of their place. Late addition, oh wait a minute,
the F one fifty is dethroned, and late audition Jeff
Goo's Schools helps.
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The kid commit a crime and then covers it up.
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Those are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com.
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So here's what we got going on right now.
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What we have going on right now is that we're
going to start at the very bottom of the blog,
which we normally don't do.
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And oh boy, there's some good stuff on the blog.
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My friend Rob Williams of the Day, Rob coming in
today because he's got all kinds of stuff about veterans nonprofits.
We're going to talk about good stuff happening out there
for veterans. But in the meantime, we have to talk
about this story that was done on CBS four. This
is appalling and I'm just going to start the show
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by playing the audio of this story. Done by CBS
four because it deserves to be heard. They deserve to
get all the credit for covering this because I was
aware of some of these things, but it wasn't aware
of the whole narrative. But it's even worse than I thought.
And if I were a Jeff Co voter, I would oh,
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hang on, sorry about that, immediately demand of the school
board that they fired Tracy Dorland, the superintendent.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
She is just let me just let this play, Okay,
here we go to get her.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Sean Boyden covered documents the show's school officials helped an
underage student declare herself homeless so she could move in
with a teacher.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Sean Boyd joined us now to talk more honest than Sean.
She was not homeless, no, and the.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
School district admits that those involved knew that. Yet they
helped a student fill out a federal form that said
she was homeless, then hid it from her parents so
she could move in with a teacher.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
And that's just the beginning.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
There's like this icky feeling that something's wrong, and then
as it progressed, it only got worse.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
Heather McCormick says there were red flags at Columbine High School,
long before the school district hired investigators who found teacher
Leanne Karney had been grooming a female student. McCormick is
friends with that student's mother, and.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
There wasn't one person who stood up and was like,
something doesn't seem right and reached.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Out to the parents instead.
Speaker 7 (04:59):
School emails obtained through an open records request show counselors
purposefully kept the parents in the dark while they helped
their daughter fill out a federal form declaring herself homeless
so she could move in with a teacher.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Now, I'm going to say something here that Sean Boyd
is not going to say because she's a journalist and
she doesn't have to worry about such things. But how
is it not a crime to help a child lie
on a federal form? And by the way, this federal
form is attached to federal dollars in the form of
FAFTSA and financial aid their forums specifically for that, So
that means that's fraud.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
So the Jefferson County.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Public schools helped a teenager commit federal fraud, so ther
her female tea.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Oh, I'll I'll just let I'm so fired up, y'all.
Let me just let me, let Sean tell you the
rest of the story.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Here we go.
Speaker 8 (05:51):
I think it's really scary that we can take teenagers
or children of any age and just say whatever you
say is truth. We're not going to investigate it. We're
going to take big steps to declare you homeless without
notifying your family.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Investigators say Principal Scott Christy also knew about the girl's
plans and didn't tell her parents. McCormick says the mom
stumbled upon the homeless document while cleaning her daughter's room
and later found a letter describing her daughter kissing Carney,
along with thousands of calls and texts between the two.
She says she sent Carne a message warning her it
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needed to stop, and then took the calls and text
to the principal, who, she says, dismiss them, telling her
miss Carney takes interest in helping kids navigate their sexuality.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
So let me just translate that into normal person talk.
Because again, Shan Boyd, incredible journalist, cannot say things the
way that they need to be said. The Jefferson County
Public Schools supports this lesbian teacher in grooming young girls
at school.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
That's what I just heard.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
I mean, isn't exactly what it said, But I mean,
isn't that what you heard? I'll let Sean finish the story.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
You think the school would have reacted differently had Carney
been a male teacher.
Speaker 9 (07:14):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (07:14):
Absolutely, Carney quit, but it would take two years and
pressure from the mom before she lost her teaching license.
McCormick says her friend lost far more when her daughter
turned eighteen, she moved out of state with the teacher.
Speaker 8 (07:29):
It's really scary to think that there are schools and
teachers and administrations that are working behind your back, not
in the best interest of your child.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
Jeffco's school district sent me a statement saying, obviously the
student did not meet the criteria to be considered homeless,
and the staff involved in this isolated incident were addressed
as part of the investigation as the proper channels in
place were not followed. While we have taken every step
to remove this former employee from jeff Co and prevent
her working in another educational set, we recognize this is
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of little comfort to the family. We deeply regret how
profoundly this violation has affected the family.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Now we deeply regret how profoundly this violation has affected
their family. Is that in any way, shape or form
an apology for the role that jeff Co employees played
in helping air commit federal fraud before allowing her to
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be groomed by a teacher who lied to the government
in order to allow this girl to come live with
her so she could then take her out of status
as soon as she turned eighteen. You better believe if
this was a man, this would be a much different situation.
And you know what, we've seen school district after school
district in our area. Unfortunately, this is happening with great
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regularity these days. Where female teachers who prayed on male
students have been held accountable as well they should, Why
should a female teacher who prayed on a female student
be any different.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
It's not okay.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
And for jeff Co's schools to be so blase as
to apologize for the feelings of the family instead of
apologizing for creating a culture in jeff Co schools where
parents have been marginalized and the school district has decided
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that they will be the arbiters of what is right
for your child. Oh, your child decides they want to
become another gender and they want to be addressed by
a completely different name instead of pronouns at school. We're
not going to tell your parents sorry, oh oh yeah,
We're going to allow a quote trusted adult to.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Groom your child. And even after showing being shown.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Evidence that there was a sexual relationship going on, we're
still going to blow it off. What the blank is
going on at jeff Coo. I mean, this should be
the biggest scandal in the country right now. This is
beyond crazy. I'm sure there's way worse stuff somewhere else
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in some other school district, but I can't find one
in my cursory. You know, Look, Mandy isolated incident. Is
this a peek into a wider culture at jeff co
or perhaps elsewhere? This is jeff COO's schools under Superintendent
Tracy Dorlnd. She wishes, I think, honestly, every parent would
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just die so then she and her teachers can make
the kids be do whatever it is they want them
to do, because they don't want parents in the classroom.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
They don't want parents input.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
God forbid that parents should say, you know, maybe our
kids should be back in school. I know the Teachers'
union is telling, you know, but maybe the science is
there to say they should be not in Jeff Coo,
they didn't care.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Nope, they do not care.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
It is outrageous and I truly don't understand parents that
are just sitting by and letting it happen. If this
was happening in Douglas County, I would be like right
there at every school board meeting demanding that this superintendent
be fired, because if you don't think this can happen
to your kid, I mean, come on, you know we
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like to think that her kids are smart and we
have a good relationship with them. But they're in a
school building with these people eight hours a day. Are
you spending eight hours a day with your kid?
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Because I'm not.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
She's a teenager. She doesn't want to spend eight hours
a day with me. The fact that they are so
let me just read that to you again. Let me
read their statement again. They're a nonpology. I coined the
phrase non apology years ago when I wasn't being forced
to give an apology to someone I did not I
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ow an apology to. I was asked to give an
apology to someone, and I simply said, I'm terribly sorry
that what I set upset you, which is in no
way an apology. It's a complete gaslighting of someone else's emotions.
You cannot apologize for how someone feels. And yet jeff
Co Public school sends out this. We recognize this is
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of little comfort to the family. We deeply regret how
profoundly this violation has affected their family. That is the
biggest non apology in the history of non apologies.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
I mean, guys, this has gotta stop.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
This is this is so incredibly important, especially now. If
Trump succeeds in eliminating the Department of Education, and please, please,
for the love of God, let that happen, then every
school district will be free of every asinine edict from
a Department of Education that has done nothing but oversee
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a complete malaise and decline in education in the United
States of America.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
It's it's inception. So I'm ready for that. But boys,
these school.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Boards they matter. They're gonna matter more than ever. And
right now in Jefferson County schools, we have idiots running
the ship.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
We truly do idiots.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Who one more time, if you're just joining me, what
I'm going on about is a story by CBS for
as Seawan Boyd about the fact that jeff Co Public
Schools certain members of the school district who, by the way,
I'm assuming, have not been disciplined or fired for any
of this. There was no indication that these people, except
the teacher who prayed on a girl, she was fired,
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but school district employees helped the girl lie on a
federal government form to declare herself homeless so she could
move in with her teacher who was grooming her for
a sexual relationship, and.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Jeffco's schools just glossed over it. I mean, it's what
a nightmare. What a nightmare? Who are the adults in
Jefferson County Public Schools? Mandy?
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Do you know what they're doing in Douglas County. The
Department of Justice is investigating Douglas County.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
You know, I do know.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
I know everything that they're looking at right now, and
I've said before, when that investigation is done, I am
going to expect Douglas County to address any issues that
are found to have merate. So we'll wait and see
what happens when the investigation is done. Mandy, please explain
grooming because it sounds like a positive term. Okay, Grooming
is very simple grooming is where a person, an adult,
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or someone in a power position, then uses that position
of respect and authority in order to ingratiate themselves on
to someone that they wish to have at some point
a sexual relationship with. Maybe it's a child, maybe it's
a teenage girl, maybe it's a teenage boy.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Maybe it's their secretary.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
And they proceed to ingratiate themselves with gifts and compliments,
and pretty soon.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
It advances to, oh, let's just have a little.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Peck on the cheek, and pretty soon it's full blown
sexual relationship. And that's what this teacher did with this girl,
to the extent that she got her to lie and
commit fraud so that she could move in with a teacher.
And now there's a big question for me in all
of this, like where were her parents? That's a big
question I have. I mean, how do you allow someone
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to move in with it? I don't understand that. I
really don't.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Mandy.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
You certainly started your show today getting your audience salty. Yes, yes, indeed, Mandy,
if the Doge goes away and Colorado runs their own schools,
situations like Jeff co would continue in Colorado. My hope
would be that we would have more people who would
which just rational thought processes. What we have now a
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lack of doodle ideologist who care more about making sure
that kids think they can be another gender just by
deciding it. Or maybe they want to make sure that
drag queens have access to little children, or maybe they
want to make sure that there's books in the library
that show graphic pornographic scenes of sex.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Oh, but they're animated, so it's not it. Oh, it's fine.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
I mean, how are students doing. Jeff Co is a
very good school district. It has been for a long time.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
That is it now?
Speaker 6 (16:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
I haven't looked at their recent scores.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
What they're doing is is using their power to indoctrinate
an entire generation of children to the insane beliefs that
they themselves have.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
And where are the parents and jeff Co saying that's
not okay? It's not okay.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Again, People in positions of trust gone, Yes, what school
was this? I don't uh, Columbine Columbine High School. Yeah,
a lot of you are weighing in, Oh for the
person who just sent Mandy, Whose side are you on?
Whose side are you on? I'm on the side of
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kids and parents in Jefferson County who are being underserved
by their current school board representatives and superintendent. That's whose
side I'm on.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
But that was a good one. That was a good one.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Texter Mandy, you know that Columbine thing was okay because
they were lesbians.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
If did it have been a male teacher, things would
have been quite different. Exactly.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Wow, three children all graduated from Columbine. This textas says
that sure doesn't sound like the Scott Christie I knew.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Unreal. This is why we moved to Florida after my
last graduator from Columbine, we had to leave.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
I gotta say, I hope that the superintendentism is suitably
shamed by this story and then he has the decency
to feel bad about it. That's the part I don't
get because in my experience, and I have a lot
of friends who are teachers, and I mean a lot,
and to a person, most of the teachers that I've
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ever met been around with any consistency. They got into
teaching because they really wanted to make a difference for kids,
right like they really wanted to help develop the next
generation into a a better thinker and a better citizen.
I mean, they really go in with that idealism. And
at what point do you get so jaded that when
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a parent brings you text messages showing that a student
of yours is being preyed upon by an adult in
your school, you blow it off as she's just helping
her explore her sexuality. What what happened to you to
make you think that's okay? And somebody, if you can
make me, if you can make me understand why that
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would be okay, hit the text line. I'd love to
see it five sixty six nineer, but I just think,
I mean, my goodness, Oh.
Speaker 10 (18:49):
Here's one.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
The Jefferson County superintendent is just asked for a pay
raise although they're in over their heads financially, currently making
over three hundred K. I don't know why any of
this is okay Jefferson County residents. I don't know how
many listeners we have in jeff Co. And I mean,
I'll be perfectly honest, like we have a pretty good idea.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Of stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
But I mean Jefferson County is reliably Democrat at this stage.
I mean, you look at the political politics as you
have Republicans that come out of Jefferson County, but it's
pretty democratic. But at the same time, why would this
story be okay with Democrats?
Speaker 4 (19:27):
That's what I'd like to know.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Why would this story be okay with any parent, regardless
of their political affiliation. And why would inserting a school
in between parents and kids who are gender confused be
okay either? And yet Jefferson County does both of these
and they seem to do it with impunity.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
So I don't know. I really don't know, Mandy.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Yes, they get jaded when the Union gets their hooks in,
I guess so.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
I guess so, Mandy. I'd really like to know more
about how.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
The Department of Education dismantling by DOGE is actually going
to change the states and how they're going to be run.
I still feel like it'll be the same wackos in charge.
To a certain extent, it will be, But you guys
have to understand how much time schools deal with federal
edicts that come from the Department of Education that have
done nothing to improve the quality of education. You know,
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people talk about administrative bloat, how the administration and education
has grown far outpaced students or teachers. The administration part
of that is having to deal with the edicts that
come from the federal government and the edicts that come
from the state, you know, and it's as simple as
state testing things.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Of that nature.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
But the reality is is that if we got rid
of the Department of Education, you would have states that
will continue to perform at a very high level, like Massachusetts, who,
by the way, fun fact, Massachusetts does so well because
they actually did something other states are afraid to do.
They raised the standards for their kids. And you know
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what happened the kids method Huh. It's like a miracle
reaction from this Jeff Co school story. And they start
with from the very bottom, should all be in jail
for child abuse by a person in trust?
Speaker 4 (21:13):
I think you could make the case there. Man a
just went to El Poyo Loco to.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Get lunch and dinner day it dang you same reason
democrats like slave wage.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
I don't know what that's in response to.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Is it Columbine the high school where two high school
kids who were neglected by their parents committed mass murder?
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Yeah, but I don't think that has anything to do
with his.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Same Jeffco that has the little girls share a bed
with a boy on a school trip. Correct same jeffco
whose third in command of the district was under investigation
for possessing child pornography before he committed suicide in December.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
I mean, one of.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
These things is bad enough. You put those things together,
you now have a clear pattern of behavior. I don't
know who behavior, but there's obviously something about this district
some what's the word I'm thinking of culture in the
district that either attracts people who have these ill intentions
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or turns a blind eye when things start.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
To look weird and sketchy. That's certainly what happened in here.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
In the story that we were talking about, if you
are just joining us, Sean Boyd covered a story from
Jeff Coo Schools about how school district employees helped a
young woman, a girl teenager, lie on federal forms to
declare herself homeless so she could move in with her
lesbian teacher who was grooming her. And we know she
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was grooming her because as soon as she turned eighteen,
teacher and girl moved out of the state. Yeah, nothing
says that's entirely too suspicious. More than that, it's appalling.
It's absolutely appalling. And what I don't understand is why
Jefferson County parents aren't like at every school board meeting
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demanding that someone be held accountable for this stuff.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Yeah, they finally fired the teacher finally, but I think no,
actually I think she quit. That's what I heard. She quit.
They didn't even fire her. Jeffco parent here.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
I worked two jobs in the wife part time so
my elementary kids can go to private school. We have
an elementary school in our neighborhood. You know that is
so incredibly sad.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
But good on you.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Good for you for not accepting your fate and you know,
not going quietly, Mandy, Just to put the lighter side
on you today, best commercial super Bowl with Harrison Ford
selling Jeeps. Yes, that was one of my favorites as well.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Mandy.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
I'm a retired teacher, also a Republican. I was always
in the minority. It's crazy liberal culture. Oh no, I
was always in the majority, says this person.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
I don't know if she was wrong. I don't know.
That doesn't make sense, Mandy.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
When I moved to Colorado in nineteen ninety nine, Jefferson
County was a prelude to Douglas County and was a
conservative stronghold no more. All the Denver Libs moved north
of C four seventy and ruin that area. Republicans moved
to Douglas and Olpaso.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Counties for a better life. Yes, maybe, Mandy.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
I'm a dad, put three daughters through Jeff co I'm
a coach, so I could be in the schools, so
I could do more than just complain.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
I have a full time job outside of the schools.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
I don't have a lot of interaction with teachers. But
the district is admin top heavy. They are also running
scared because of the administrator who was accused of inappropriate
conduct and then committed suicide. We are being told we
can only communicate with our athletes and parents via the
jeffco email system because that sounds like a way to
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control what's being sent and heard.
Speaker 8 (24:50):
Right.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Nothing says we deserve your trust more than monitoring your communications.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
But Jeff Coo is getting some.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Awful this this pr advice absolutely awful because they're just
making it look worse and worse and worse and worse.
As a survivor of the shooting at that school, it's
zero surprise that the corrupted regime continues to allow the
faculty to keep operating without ethics. They operate like a
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spoiled toddler that keep pushing the limits, so blanking glad
they have a highly funded football program, so they can
sweep all their true operations under the rug. And I
cannot vouch for any of that with any I just
want to be clear you guys, when you say something bad,
I read it because a lot of this stuff I'm
reading on the fly anyway, But you can't take any
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of this stuff as gospel. This is one text anonymously
texting behind a keyboard.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
I just want to make that clear.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
And by the way, I don't necessarily know if they're wrong.
Certainly don't want to make it seem like I'm defending
the undefensible. But when you hear stuff when it's a
text message, I want you to be clear as I
read a text message that is not an endor, because
I have no way of knowing if any of that
is true. May I find it interesting that now that
the student is an adult and has moved out of state,
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that this story sees the daylight.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
When did the student arrive at the school.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
How long did it take for management to question the
motivations of the teacher I'm hoping.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
I mean, wouldn't you have already sued the Jefferson County
School District? I would have. I would have been in
court the day that I found out that someone had
helped my daughter commit fraud.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Because be clear, when you fill in a form for
the federal government and lie about it, that is fraud.
Now we learn from Hunter Biden that you can totally
get away with it, but I doubt she would. They
facilitated a crime, and the response when it was brought
to their attention was like, eh, well, you know, eh,
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it's fine, Mandy. My children went to home school in
charter schools in jeff Coo. My youngest is twenty eight.
This so we tried fixing our jeff Coo school board.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
It didn't go well.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
Okay, then find better candidates, start giving them money, start
having fundraisers. Now, I'm telling you, guys, this is the
battle ground where the rest of our history is going
to be fought because these young people, especially this and
this is no offense to Generation Z or even you know,
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the millennials really started getting it hard. But they really
don't understand many of them, many of them do.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
They really don't.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
Understand why the United States of America is special and
we're not perfect. I mean, I'm not an idiot, but
we're not like other places, and we're not like them
in some of the worst ways, but also in the
absolute best ways. And they're being taught that we're founded
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on hatred and violence and slavery and the very worst
of our country. Absolutely, that's a part of our country's history,
but so is the war that we fought to end
those atrocities against ourselves.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
But the kids aren't getting that part.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
They're not getting the celebration that we did something about
the horror that we allowed to go on far too long.
And we're raising kids in the United States of America
that think socialism and communism sound like a good idea.
Where do you think that's coming from. It's coming from
the educational system as it stands now. If conservatives don't
start getting serious, and I don't mean we're going to
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get in here and bring the Bible back into the classroom,
that's absurd, It is not helpful. It is simply destructive
and bringing politics back into the classroom. But if we
don't get people who are willing to say it is
important that our kids learn, yes, about the bad parts,
but they need to understand that what we're doing in
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the Great American Experiment is special among history. There are
very few civilizations that have self managed the way that
we have self managed.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
It's a remarkable story. And if we don't make sure
that crazy people who would rather protect a predator so
she could pray on her prey, then teach kids that,
you know what, the United States of America, we have
not always lived up to our ideals, but those ideals
are worth striving for. We don't need to throw them away.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
So it's there's support jeff co kids first, please so
many Texterter just said, Lindsay dak Co has been exposing
this for months.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Support jeff co kids first.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
Join jeff Co kids first, talk to their people, find
out what they're about.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Don't listen to what other.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
People say about them, because they're the ones that are
They're absolutely at the forefront of this and this is
worth fighting for. If you believe the American Experiment is
worth fighting for, stop writing on Facebook they were headed
for civil war and start engaging on education.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
That's what we need to be doing. I'm mad about
that story and I don't want to talk about it anymore, not.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
Right this second anyway. Okay, here's a funny story. This
is not funny, ha ha, but I found it funny.
So remember, a few years ago, went against my better wishes,
the people of Colorado decided that we were going to
be part of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, this
bit of dumb assery. And I still believe it's clearly unconstitutional.
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It's just disenfranchise. Oh, anyway, we'll talk about that.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
What it is.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
What it does.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Is if we get enough states to make two hundred
and seventy electoral college votes, and Colorado is signed on
to this compact. Right, they're currently they are sixty one
votes short of the two seventy needed. But if they
reach that two seventy threshold, then all of the states
that have signed on to this dumb ass compact agree
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that they are going to give their electoral votes to
whoever wins the national popular vote. Now, all the Democratic
states passed this when they were pretty sure that they
were never going to lose the national popular vote. Again,
those dumbaster Republicans look at them over there, But lo
and behold what happened in this last election cycle. Donald
Trump wins the national popular vote, which means that if
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this compact had been in effect, we Colorado would have
had to give all of our electoral votes to Donald Trump,
even though Kamala Harris won the state by twelve points.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
You know, it's that it's so stupid.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
So a couple of Republicans are like, hello, three Republicans,
to be clear, decided to try and repeal the twenty
nineteen law, and they brought this bill up that would
have taken them out of this compact, and the Democrats
took it to a committee and killed it eight to two.
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They're gonna indefinitely postpone the Dell's.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
That's basically like, you're dead. Nothing will ever come of this.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
Nothing would have made me happier in this last election
cycle than if we had been part of the National
Popular Vote Compact and it had been in effect, and
the leadership of the Democratic Party would have had to
give their electoral College votes to Donald J.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Trump. It would could you even imagine? Could you imagine?
Speaker 5 (32:27):
Okay, you guys have all seen the meme of the
guy standing in a puffy vest and he looks like
he's in a basketball game and he's just standing staring.
He has dark hair. He's just standing staring with kind
of a scolded look on his face.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
I love that meme. It's one of my favorites because
his look just says it all. It would be all
of the Electoral.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
College voters on the left just standing there looking like
that as they gave their vote to Donald J.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Trump. The National Popular Vote Compact is just it's idiotic.
It is absolutely idiotic.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
It essentially said to the people of Colorado, Hey, yeah,
we know you guys all came out and voted, but
we're gonna let all these people in these other states decide.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Where we're gonna give our votes.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
I mean, in what world would that be acceptable except
by Democrats who think they're going to have a permanent
win on the national popular vote.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
I also saw some.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
Very interesting polling data in the last couple of days,
and honestly, right now I'm trying to remember where I
saw it so I can find it again. But African
American men their view of Donald Trump right now forty
nine percent approval rating with African American men.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
That is huge and terrible news for Democrats. I mean
absolutely terrible news for Democrats. If the Democrats don't change
significantly and move away from their identity politics where everybody's
racing to be the bottom of the victim pyramid. I
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don't know what men will want to be associated with
the Democratic.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
Party before too long. They're wildly anti mail in a
lot of ways. If you look at the leadership of
the party and you look at the people who are
at these rallies, it's all like middle aged white women,
you know, they angry looking. It's like, at what point
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do men just go? You know what, I don't think
they like me? So yeah, I don't want to give
him any of more money, and I'm not going to
give him my vote when we get back. I you
know what, now that I said I was gonna I'm
going to do a quick scan of the transcript and
see if I can play it. Matt Tybee, who was
a writer.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
For Rolling Stone.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
He now writes on his own stuff and his own substack.
Great journalist, very interesting dude, and he actually testified before
a House subcommittee and he let fly with an absolute
scorcher of an opening statement. And I'm gonna play as
much of it as I can. I might just play it,
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and I'll just don't if I have to dump. But
I don't think he curses because it is in Congress
and he did have some respect for that, even though
they didn't have any respect for him. We'll do that
when we get back. And I have so much other
stuff on the blog today that is not even funny.
The AP gets called out for dead naming the Gulf
of America. Oh, did charts being banned begin to spell
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the end of masculinity?
Speaker 4 (35:31):
I can make that argument.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
And for gen xers, you guys, I have a story
that hit my gen x heart so hard. And it's
also a story of warning for those of us at
a certain age, have your affairs laid out well before
you need it.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
We'll get into all that in the next hour.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
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Speaker 4 (36:16):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show.
And I have so much stuff to talk to you about.
Speaker 5 (36:23):
Thank you to the Texter who sent me an article
about the National voter trend poll that I was talking about.
And let me just give you more of the takeaways
for this. Black men love Trump. Forty two percent of
black men approve of the job Trunt's doing. Four in
ten have a favorable opinion of him. Top issues now
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inflation and the economy. You know why, because we all
feel like illegal immigration is heading in the right direction. Finally,
only forty percent of voters have a favorable image of
Democrats in Washington, compared to fifty four percent who hold
an unfavorable view of the caucuses led by Chuck Schumer
and a King Jeffries. Favorability of congressional Republicans forty seven
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percent favorable, forty eight percent unfavorable. Two thirds agree that
COVID nineteen came from.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
A lab Will Duh and Vibe Jeck.
Speaker 5 (37:16):
People are way more optimistic in just a month since
their latest national voter trends.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
Who say the country is.
Speaker 5 (37:23):
On the wrong track have plummeted fourteen percent since last month.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
So there you go. Here are other areas where Trump
has had a big win in this polling.
Speaker 5 (37:33):
Two thirds sixty four percent believe government should hire based
on merit and experience instead of racial and gender identity.
That also included fifty percent of Hispanics and forty one
percent of Democrats. So fifty six percent Trump support Trump's
executive order to declassify files relating to the JFK, RFK
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and MLK assassinations.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
What in the world is the other forty four percent
doing here? What in the world? What in what world?
Speaker 7 (38:06):
Is no?
Speaker 4 (38:06):
Keep it a secret the better answer?
Speaker 6 (38:09):
Come on.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
Fifty three percent support Trump's actions on stopping illegal immigration
and bolstering border security. Fifty five percent of post sanctuary
cities and forty six percent of folks support Elon Musk's
efforts to reduce government bloat and spending, including forty four
percent of swing voters and forty one percent of independence
So there you go, and there you have it. Oh
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another interesting development. Remember when everybody freaked out last week
when Trump said, yeah, I'll take over Gaza and make
it the Rivira of the med And I was like,
you know, I don't think that's the endgame of where
we're going. It turns out that after Trump said to
the other Middle Eastern nations around Israel, Hey, we're going
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to do this thing and we're going to displace all
these Palestinians, and you guys need to take care of it,
all of us, and Egypt's like, you know what, We've
got you, we will We're totally in Saudi arabi Is like,
you know, I think we can be involved. Jordan's like,
I think we can make something happen in Gaza. Just
you wait, just you wait. That's the intended result. I
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said this to my mom the other day. I'm like, mom,
donald Trump gets these other nations to do what he
wants them to do by proposing the worst possible outcome
for them.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
And the worst possible.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
Outcome for all those Middle Eastern countries is to have
Donald Trump take over Gaza and rebuild it and make
it into something fabulous while displacing all of the Palestinians
at the same time.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
That's the worst possible outcome. So we just lays it
out there, you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna
do this thing that's gonna be absolutely awful for you,
And all of a sudden, they're like, oh crap, we
don't want the awful thing. Should probably do something, and
they do it. It's amazing.
Speaker 5 (39:53):
By the way, he had another press conference in the
White House today. I believe that this and I'm not
even kidding When I say this, I believe that at
this point in his administration, he has done more back
and forth exchanges with the press than Joe Biden did
in his entire four years. And I'm not even being sarcastic.
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And he's sitting behind the resolute desk in the Oval
Office and reporters are firing questions at him about Taiwan.
Now he's going after Taiwan in the ship business. I mean,
it's just gosh, we actually have a commander in chief.
It's pretty good, pretty good. And I'm just gonna say this,
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I'm gonna this is me falling on my sword. I
didn't want Donald Trump to be the candidate.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
Nope, you all know this. I voted for Nicky Haley
in the primary, even though Trump had already.
Speaker 5 (40:46):
Locked it up by the time I got to Colorado
because I just didn't want him back.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
In the Oval Office. And I am here to tell
you I am so glad I'm wrong.
Speaker 11 (40:56):
Now.
Speaker 5 (40:56):
That doesn't mean I agree with everything he's doing. I
think some of the stuff he's doing is work, and
some of it's not gonna get done. But there's zero chance,
zero chance that any other Republican, including Republicans that I
really like would have gotten the kind of action that
Donald Trump has gotten internationally.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
I mean, we're at a point.
Speaker 5 (41:20):
Oh the other thing, by the way, I alse to
have this on the blog today, Gaza little turn of
events in Gaza, because remember a couple of days ago,
Hamas says, Israel isn't living up to their terms of
the of the agreement and so we're not releasing any
more hostages. And Donald Trump, in one of his press
conferences in the Oval Office, said, you know, if it
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were me and they didn't release all the hostages by
noon on Saturday, we'd.
Speaker 4 (41:46):
Be back at it. And today Hamas was like, oh wait, look,
we checked our watches. We are going to be able
to release three hostages on Saturday as we originally had scheduled.
So you're gonna get three back on Saturday. I mean,
this is this is upset so much stuff. The diplomacy.
Apple cart has been kicked over and all the apples
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have been squashed onto the ground. But it's been effective,
and I think eventually it's going to have it's going
to stop. I mean, people are going to stop responding
in kind because what's happening is he's putting all these
nations in a defensive posture really quickly, and he puts
these super tight deadlines. Right, He's like, oh, in thirty days,
we're going to do this. And then the countries are like, oh, crap,
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we only have thirty days, and they inevitably make a
really bad deal for themselves. So it's just it's been
kind of amazing to watch. Speaking of amazing to watch,
there was another meeting. Hang on one second, let me
go back to the beginning of this so I can
get back the front page. I can give you the title.
Speaker 5 (42:46):
The Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government
had another meeting. Now, if you don't know what the
Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government is, well,
they are ones that have looked into all kinds of malfeasance.
And they had invited a guy named Matt Tybee to
speak to them at one of their prior meetings, and
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they invited him to come back. Now, Matt used to
be a reporter for Rolling Stone. I've liked his writing
for a very very long time. Even on the subjects
that he was tackling where I disagreed with his conclusions,
I still like the way he goes after a story.
He's a very dogged reporter. That's the phrase that I
think of when I think of Matt Tybee. And he
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left traditional media to start his own product, which you
should subscribe to on substack. It's called racket News. But
he was asked to come back and testify again, and
I just want to play for you his testimony about
what he knows about USAID and their role in censoring
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the information that you and I are getting on a
regular basis. This is Jim Jordan first is the first
force you're gonna hear, and then you're in here Matt's
testimony right after that.
Speaker 6 (44:04):
If your recolaest we find mis pitch your microphone, hit
your microphone him. Thank you, mister Chairman.
Speaker 2 (44:14):
Is on.
Speaker 9 (44:16):
Two years ago, when Michael and I first testified before
your Weaponization of Government Subcommittee, Democratic members called us so
called journalists, suggested we were bought off scribes, and questioned
our ethics and our loyalties. When we tried to answer,
we were told to shut up, take our take off
our tuninfoil hats, and remember two things. One there is
no digital censorship, and two, if there is digital censorship,
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it's for our own good.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
I was shocked.
Speaker 9 (44:41):
I thought the whole thing had to be a mistake.
There was no way the party that I gave votes to,
my whole life was.
Speaker 6 (44:46):
Now pro censorship.
Speaker 9 (44:48):
Then last year I listened to John Kerry, whom I
voted for, talked to the World Economic Forum speaking about disinformation.
He said, quote our First Amendment stands as a major
block to our ability to quote hammered out of existence.
He complained that it's really hard to govern because people
self select where they go for their news, which makes
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it quote much harder to build consensus. Now, I defended
John Kerry when people said he looks French, but Marie
Anchoinette would have been embarrassed by this speech.
Speaker 6 (45:18):
He was essentially.
Speaker 9 (45:19):
Complaining that the peasants are self selecting their own sources
of media.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
What's next letting.
Speaker 9 (45:24):
Them make up their own minds. Lastly, building consensus may
be a politicians' job, but it's not mine as a
citizen or as a journalist. In fact, making it hard
to govern is exactly the media's job. The failure to
understand this is why we have a censorship problem. This
is an Alamo moment for the First Amendment. Most of
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America's closest allies, as both Rippa and Michael have pointed out,
have already adopted draconian speech laws. We are surrounded the
EU's new Digital Services Act as the most comprehensive censorship
law ever instituted in a way. Democratic Society ranking member raskin,
you don't have to go as far as Russia or
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China to find people jailed for speech. Our allies in
England now have an Online Safety Act, which empowers the
government to jail people for nebulous defenses like false communication
are causing psychological harm. Germany, France, Australia, Canada and other
nations have implemented similar ideas. These laws are totally incompatible
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with our system. Some of our own citizens have been
harassed or even arrested in some of these countries, but
our government has not stood up for them. Why because
many of our bureaucrats believe in that these laws take usaid.
Many Americans are now in an arp or because they
learned about over four hundred million dollars going to an
organization called Internews, whose chief Genie Borgeaux boasted to Congress
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about training hundreds of thousands of people in journalism but
her views are almost identical to Kerry's. She gave a
talk once about building trust and combating misinformation in India
during the pandemic. She said that after months of a
really beautifully unified COVID nineteen message, vaccine enthusiasm rose to
eighty seven percent, but when quote mixed information on vaccine
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efficacy got out, Hesitancy ensued, we're paying this person to
train journalists, and she doesn't know. If the press does
not exist to promote unity or political goals like vaccine enthusiasm,
that's propaganda, not journalism. Boorgelle also once said that to
fight bad content, we need to work really hard on
exclusion lists or inclusion lists, and quote really need to
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focus our ad dollars toward what he called the good news.
Speaker 5 (47:43):
This again is Matt Tybee, journalist speaking to the House
Committee on the censorship industrial Complex, and I'll let him finish.
Speaker 4 (47:50):
She's almost done again.
Speaker 9 (47:53):
If you don't know the fastest way to a road
trust in media is by having government sponsor exclusion lists.
You shouldn't be getting a dollar in taxpayer money lit
alone four hundred and seventy six million of it, and
USAID is just a tiny piece of the censorship machine.
Michael and I saw across that long list of agencies. Collectively,
they've bought up every part of the news production line, sources,
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think tanks, research, fact checking, anti disinformation, commercial media scoring,
and when all's fail, straight up censorship. It is a
giant closed messaging loop whose purpose is to transform the
free press into exactly that consensus machine. There is no
way to remove this rot surgically. The whole mechanism has
to go. Is there right wing mis information? Hell? Yes,
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it exists in every direction. But I grew up a
Democrat and don't remember being afraid of it. At the time,
we figured we didn't need censorship because we thought we
had the better argument. Obviously, many of you lack the
same confidence. You took billions of dollars from taxpayers and
you blew it on programs whose entire purpose was to
tell them they're wrong about things they can see with
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their own eyes. You sold us out, and until these
rather times tiresome questions are answered, this problem is not fixed.
Speaker 6 (49:09):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (49:10):
So that is him talking about the basically the government
conspiring via usaid aid, two trained.
Speaker 4 (49:18):
Journalists who are more likely going to the party line
and that's terrible.
Speaker 5 (49:25):
I mean, this is the kind of this feels very
kind of Soviet style. And I love the fact that
he called out John Kerrey, the French looking John Kerry.
Speaker 4 (49:34):
Still he is too, isn't he?
Speaker 5 (49:36):
Although as he gets older his jaw keeps getting bigger.
It's just pretty soon it's just gonna be just one
giant jaw. So, Matt Tybee, who's in this every day?
You should read the follow up post. I can't read
the follow up post in its entirety, but I will
share this part of you, or this part with you.
Speaker 4 (49:55):
The beginning.
Speaker 5 (49:55):
He made notes while he was at the House hearing
today and it starts out like this. Hours into my
latest turn as a witness in Jim Jordan's House Judiciary Committee,
I tried to pass the time by playing a game.
Every time a Democratic member described digital censorship as a
joke or a non issue, I scratched a notation.
Speaker 4 (50:15):
By the end of it. By the end, I had
a notebook full of entries.
Speaker 5 (50:20):
And he writes down bs distractions, wasting time, induces insomnia, dumb,
a waste of time, and then he goes on to
talk about how badly the Democrats are swinging and missing
on this issue. He said the Democrats on the committee
had three themes, Musk, Trump, and the price of eggs.
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I think it is absolutely hilarious that Democrats, who just
discovered that X costs a lot of money are now
rushing to pint it on the guy who's been in
office one month.
Speaker 4 (50:54):
One month. And if you think that anyone has the.
Speaker 5 (50:58):
Ability to shift the in a whole new direction in
one month, then perhaps you shouldn't vote in the next
election because you're just not bright.
Speaker 4 (51:07):
Enough the economy. Think of the economy as an.
Speaker 5 (51:10):
Aircraft carrier, and we'll see how fast they can turn
the aircraft.
Speaker 4 (51:14):
Carrier on a dime. I will say this. I saw
a tweet by Elon Musk the other day, and I
don't think I retweeted it.
Speaker 5 (51:21):
He specifically talked about bringing down the yield on the
bond rate, which is what I've been talking about.
Speaker 4 (51:29):
So they just got a high inflation.
Speaker 5 (51:30):
Number, but they're going aggressively after bringing the yield on
the bond rate now, and that requires cutting spending. That's
why we're hearing about everything that Doge is doing. Oh
I have a story about that. Listen to this, you guys.
This is why Americans are like, we spent money on
what what? Why Americans are getting hip to the fact
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that doge is not just necessary. It is like doge
in government right now is like if all of us
were in government, only smarter. Because let me just give
you this article from the Denver Gazette today headlined five
hundred and seventy million frozen. Here's the list of Colorado
programs officials say are impacted following Trump's freeze. Now, I
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got an email before I get into this article from
a guy who works in research and for like a
day their research project was shut down. But then they
went to the internet and resubmitted their proposal and it
was immediately approved and they got their they got their money.
Speaker 4 (52:31):
So all that incredibly important research is going to just
fall by the way It's not falling by the wayside.
But let me tell you what is So the bulk
of Colorado.
Speaker 5 (52:41):
Programs who's funding, according to local officials, remain inaccessible as
a few days ago, deal with energy, climate resilience, and
electric vehicle infrastructure. Let me tell you what the dollars
are that are frozen right now in Colorado, And I
just want to You can text me your response at five.
Speaker 4 (53:03):
Sixty six nine zero. Which of these things must be saved?
Speaker 5 (53:07):
Okay, one hundred and fifty six million dollars for expanding
solar energy.
Speaker 4 (53:17):
Where what does that even mean? Who gets that money?
Speaker 10 (53:21):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (53:21):
But there's more.
Speaker 5 (53:23):
We have twenty five point six million dollars and I'm
just gonna round these numbers up to make it simple.
Grid Resilience formula funding from the US Department of Energy.
That's twenty five point six million dollars. Seventy point two
million dollars for home energy efficiency rebate programs, two point
eight million dollars for a state Energy program formula funding
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formula State Energy program formula funding.
Speaker 4 (53:49):
I don't even know what that is. That can go
State Energy Program.
Speaker 5 (53:53):
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law from the US Department of Energy six
point nine million dollars unless the Energy Department is building
new roads, that money can go. Home Electrification and Application
Rebate Program from the US Department of Energy. That's seventy
million dollars that can go ARECI Advancing Building Performance Standards
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from the US Department of Energy. Two point five million
dollars that can go RICI. Colorado Advanced Energy Code Adoption
and Enforcement Program that's two point five that can go.
Three million for the CPRG Climate Pollution Reduction Planning Grant,
twenty two point six million for Weatherization Assistance program that
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can go.
Speaker 4 (54:40):
Oh, I'm sorry, another fifty million for that.
Speaker 5 (54:43):
So a total of like seventy two seventy three million
for weatherization assistance programs. Energy Efficiency Revolving Loan Fund from
the Department of Energy, one point six Energy Efficiency and
Conservation Block grant, two millionaire Training for Residential Energy Contractors,
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two point five million solar for all from the EPA,
one hundred and fifty six million Climate Pollution Reduction Implementation Grant,
one hundred and twenty nine million IRA codes competitive a
word collaboration twenty million. All of this can go, every
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bit of it, and see they put it out there
like our Democratic senators are telling.
Speaker 4 (55:28):
Us that this is a crisis and it's absolutely terrible. Now,
don't get me wrong, I do think there's.
Speaker 5 (55:36):
An issue when you've already got people working on projects
that have already invested because they thought they were getting
paid for those projects. That may fall into a different
camp for me. But how much of this stuff is
any of the business of the federal government.
Speaker 4 (55:50):
None of it.
Speaker 5 (55:52):
Absolutely nothing on this list should have ever come out
of the federal government's coffers in the first place, not
one single thing. This is what dogs doing. And the
more people see this stuff, they're like, wait a minute,
what T hack Man? And I do think the American
people grasp that inflation is a government spending problem, not
anything else. There may be mitigating factors, but every period
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of high inflation has been preceded by a level of
high government spending. It's not rocket surgery to put those
two things together.
Speaker 4 (56:22):
People. And yes, I know I mixed my metaphors. I
did it on purpose because I think it's funny.
Speaker 5 (56:27):
When we get back, gen X, I got a story
for you, and I gotta tell you, like, very rarely
do I see a story that kind of ooh, kind
of gives me a gut check. This one gave me
a gut check for so many reasons. And if you
were a fan of MTVS one hundred and twenty minutes
like I was, you're gonna want to hear this one.
But I want to share this one because I think
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it's probably a point.
Speaker 4 (56:49):
A lot of people feel.
Speaker 5 (56:51):
Hi, Mandy, I agree with finding the fraud and corruption,
but don't you think the correct way to go about
it is through the House and the Senate, not the
executive branch. Aren't they setting a president in the next
political party that wins the White House? That is, if
Trump leaves after his term. Okay, Trump's gonna leave after
his term, first of all. Second of all, that's the
way it's always been done, right, Republicans run on, you know,
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man handling spending under control, and we're really gonna do
it this time, and they never freaking do And Donald
Trump clearly understands how intractable government really is.
Speaker 8 (57:22):
Now.
Speaker 4 (57:23):
Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 5 (57:24):
As I've said a million times, every single executive order
is like a pie cress promise, easily made, easily broken.
So they have a lifespan. Right, So yeah, Congress is
gonna have to do something. But I think what Donald
Trump is doing now with DOGE is forcing the issue
in a way no one in the executive branch has
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ever forced the issue ever.
Speaker 4 (57:48):
Nobody's ever said, you know what, I'm just gonna go
ahead and cut the stuff that I'm in charge of.
Speaker 5 (57:52):
Nobody's ever said that, because nobody ever really wants government
to get smaller.
Speaker 4 (57:58):
They just don't.
Speaker 5 (58:00):
All right, I've got this story I got to share
with you as a gen xer. This one's kind of like.
Speaker 4 (58:04):
Hit me today.
Speaker 5 (58:07):
Family members of veteran radio and TV personality Matt Penfield
have filed an opposition to a conservatorship request from his daughter.
Penfield suffered a stroke in early January, which was followed
by his daughter Jessica seeking a conservative ship, claiming her
father was instable but poor physical health and incapable of
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making cognitive decisions or physical movements. In the filing, the
daughter claims she was protecting her father's finances and property
from his girlfriend, now identified as Kara Brown, who had
access to his accounts. Now Brown and Penfield's brother Glenn
alleged that Jessica is attempting to isolate Matt from the family.
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So here we have a family fight about who is
going to take over for Matt Penfield. And I got
to tell you, Matt Penfield for me when MTV first starts,
and kids today just don't even understand how crappy MTV
is now, because MTV was the first time in my
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recollection that there was a network that felt like it
was created specifically.
Speaker 4 (59:14):
For young people. It wasn't made for old fuddy dadies.
Speaker 5 (59:18):
It was made for young people, and they were doing things,
and they were making videos, and it was like all
of these little artistic movies.
Speaker 4 (59:25):
All day long.
Speaker 5 (59:26):
And then you'd have these shows on MTV that were
more niche and niche however.
Speaker 4 (59:31):
You want to say it.
Speaker 5 (59:32):
And Matt Penfield was the host of one hundred and
twenty Minutes along with a bunch of other stuff. He
did so many shows on MTV. Matt Penfield was one
of those like walking encyclopedias of knowledge when it.
Speaker 4 (59:44):
Comes to music. And when I read dude had a stroke.
Speaker 5 (59:48):
Now, let me just tell you about my day today, okay,
And if you're of a certain age like I am,
you're gonna absolutely.
Speaker 4 (59:53):
Understand what is about to happen here.
Speaker 5 (59:56):
So normally I get up, I get right to work,
I jump into my works on the computer. But then
at some point I'll go up and I'll make myself breakfast,
and while I eat breakfast, I will then take that
moment to Peru's Facebook for a few minutes my personal Facebook.
This morning, on my personal Facebook page, which is inhabited
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by a lot of people. I went to high school
with a lot of friends who are my age. So
we're talking about, you know, anywhere in your fifties kind of,
that's where my most of.
Speaker 4 (01:00:25):
My people are.
Speaker 5 (01:00:27):
And I'm scrolling down and one of my friends has
posted a picture of him in recovery.
Speaker 4 (01:00:31):
He just got a hip replacement.
Speaker 5 (01:00:32):
And I was like, oh, hope you you know, send
a little prayer for speedy healing, because that's what I do.
And then I'm scrolling a little further lo and behold
a second friend of mine had a hip replacement yesterday
as well, and I was.
Speaker 4 (01:00:45):
Like, well, what are the chances of that? Keep on
scrolling saying, oh the little prayer brather. I keep on scrolling.
Speaker 5 (01:00:53):
And then and then a third, a third of my
friends had a hip replacement, and I was like, my god,
how old am I?
Speaker 4 (01:01:02):
What is happening? Did I get fastwarded in an old age?
Speaker 5 (01:01:06):
No one asked me, no one asked my permission, And
all of a sudden, all my friends are having hip replacements.
And then I see Matt Pinfield had a stroke, and
I'm like.
Speaker 4 (01:01:15):
Oh my god, I'm ready to just pack it in.
Speaker 7 (01:01:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:01:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:01:24):
MTV now has reruns a Big Bang Theory in France.
I understand it's the person who said MTV was always garbage,
shut your mouth.
Speaker 4 (01:01:30):
Much like the Kendrick Lamar.
Speaker 5 (01:01:32):
Entire halftime show was meant for a different generation, so
was MTV when it started, and now it's trash.
Speaker 4 (01:01:40):
So uh yeah, uh, I just felt really old today,
so be kind.
Speaker 5 (01:01:47):
But the other reason that I'm bringing this story up
is because if you have not figured out end of
life stuff, you need to sit down and make it happen.
This doesn't require a lot of effort. You can go
to Trustinwills dot com and do it there. If you
can't afford an attorney, that's fine. You don't have to
spend a million dollars. You just have to make sure
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it's done right. You need a power of medical attorney decided,
and you need to understand that that person, if you
are incapacitated, is going to make your medical decisions for you.
And if you don't think your spouse is capable of
making good medical decisions, you better loop somebody else in
and put.
Speaker 4 (01:02:25):
It on paper. I'm not saying that's why my dad.
Speaker 5 (01:02:29):
Died after his stroke, but the person making his medical
decisions was not me or my sister, and we would
have made much different medical decisions. And Matt Pinfield is
not even that old. He should have already had this
stuff locked up. And now you've created chaos and havoc
between the girlfriend and the daughter. He needs ongoing get
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it was just a complete mess, a mess that can
be avoided by having a really uncomfortable conversation with your
loved ones to sort this stuff out. Make sure everybody's
on the same page, make sure everybody understands your wishes.
And guess what, you guys, after you die, the people
in your life can just ignore those wishes and create havoc.
Speaker 4 (01:03:11):
I have lived through that, and I do not recommend it.
Speaker 5 (01:03:15):
Nothing like a good lawsuit among family members to really
really destroy what's left. And I've been through it, and
so I saw this, and first of all, I was
the gut check because here's somebody that you know, I
don't think if Matt Penfield as being old. He's one
of those people that for me, will always be young
and one hundred and twenty minutes. And at the secondary,
they've got a tale of woe, you've got a complete
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explainer of what not to do. What's funny is, Chuck
and I have already gone through and had these conversations,
and we've got everything squared away, written out, all that stuff,
and yet talking to my oldest son about it because
he is is, he's involved in a lot of it,
and you know, if something happened us right now, we
have to have Q taking care of him, just all
of that stuff. But when we try and talk to
him aout it, he's really like, I'm glad you guys
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are talking, are doing this, but I don't want to
hear about it.
Speaker 4 (01:04:02):
Like you have no choice.
Speaker 5 (01:04:03):
You have no choice but to think about this and
understand this and make sure that everybody is on the
same page before we have to try and figure it out.
When someone is ill, everyone is emotional, that's the worst
time to sort this stuff out. So please please use
Matt Penfield as a stern warning and don't put yourself
and your family in that position. Get your estate stuff
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taken care of because it's trust me, Trust me on
this man, Trust me. What generation was Apple music targeting?
Even my millennial children didn't like it. I got to
tell you my millennial children did.
Speaker 3 (01:04:40):
So.
Speaker 5 (01:04:41):
Yeah, Mandy, you may feel old, but you don't look
at because your podcast picture is years behind Illinois farm Boy.
You know, what Illinois farmer, You figure out how to
change that picture, because I can't, and I hate it
that that picture is still there and it's so old.
I hate it because it's just false advertising. Right, somebody
meets me, like, Lord, she looks terrible in real life.
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They just went for that picture to now, you know,
the drum beat of time marches on, et cetera, et cetera,
that kind of nonsense. When we get back, I want
to talk a little bit about Valentine's Day because I'm
not going to be here tomorrow. I'm taking tomorrow off
to make the three day weekend a four day weekend.
And I saw an interesting thing on Facebook the other day.
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It was one of those paragraphs that somebody had written,
but it was actually kind of cute. Cute in the
sense that it was asking people the small gestures that
people who love each other make that over time, meet
a whole lot more than the grandiose flowers on Valentine's
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Day or a fancy gift or I mean, not that
there's anything wrong with those things, but those those grand
romantic gestures they wane as you go through a relationship.
But that doesn't mean that the relationship itself can't be
a wonder full place to be. I don't want to
ask you long connected, long relationship people to weigh in
on that. Next maybe you're planning something romantic or some chocolate,
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or just to give certificate to bovissage. I'm telling you
you cannot go wrong with that. But I saw something
today or not today.
Speaker 4 (01:06:17):
It was a couple of days ago on Facebook, just
one of those cheesy paragraphs of people right, And this
cheezy paragraph was essentially saying, look, you know, everybody can
do the grand gesture, but in a long term, long
haul relationship, it's all the small gestures that mean so much.
And it's so true.
Speaker 5 (01:06:35):
This is one of the things where when I have
had friends that have been going through a rough patch
in their marriage, and you know what, everybody has gone
through rough patches in their marriage.
Speaker 4 (01:06:44):
Chuck and I've had times.
Speaker 5 (01:06:45):
When things have not always been smooth sailing, but we're
both very committed to our commitment, so we worked through it.
You know, I drive him crazy, he drives me crazy,
et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 4 (01:06:55):
Repeat, you know, but in those.
Speaker 5 (01:07:00):
Little moments of kindness, those are the things that can
help you get through those hard times. And one of
the things I always say to friends who are having
a just a challenging time. And I'm not talking about,
you know, serious issues like addiction or betrayal. I'm just
talking about those times when the person that you love
is driving you crazy. And everybody has those times. I
don't care who you are. Maybe they're short for you,
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maybe they're long, it doesn't matter. The thing I always
say is, look, sometimes when things are not going well,
if you both just say, hey, you know what, why
don't we just be a little more kind to each other.
Why don't you just work on just being nicer to
each other, Because it's very easy to sort of fall
back into your corners of snarkiness and sniping. And sometimes
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it is as simple as remembering to thank the other
person for the little things that they do every day
that make your life easier.
Speaker 4 (01:07:50):
That that can get you through a really rough patch.
Speaker 5 (01:07:53):
And I have to say, this is an area where
I think my husband and I both do a really
good job. It's just appreciating thing like yesterday, I'm down
in the basement, he's upstairs. The toilet paper is in
the basement where I am, and he calls me downstairs,
and he says, hey, when you come upstairs, can you
just bring some toilet paper? Sure, no problem, no skin
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off my nose, right, So I forget when I go upstairs.
But before I left for work, I went back downstairs
to the basement, got the toilet paper, took it back
upstairs because I said I would do it, and then
I forgot. So I did it anyway, and I left,
and then like twenty minutes later, he sends me a text, Hey,
thanks so much for bringing up the toilet paper. Now,
the whole situation was just me following through on my
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responsibility that I told him I would do, but then
him taking the time to appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (01:08:40):
It was just like a nice exchange. Those are the
kind of things that I think matter.
Speaker 5 (01:08:45):
A lot in a long term relationship. And I think
it's the little things that people do. And I got
this email from someone.
Speaker 4 (01:08:52):
Who obviously read the blog as he should and let
me wit. Let me find his email here it's nope,
hang on, one second, where is it?
Speaker 8 (01:09:03):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (01:09:03):
Here we go.
Speaker 5 (01:09:04):
This is from Dennis. He said, Hi, Mandy pers your
request on today's blog. My wife and I will be
married forty years this March. We show each other love.
We gave up the traditional Valentine's Day decades ago as
we don't need a specific day to demonstrate our ever
growing affection for one another. So here's just a few
things we do. Her makes me delicious meals almost every night.
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Holds boards when I'm making long cuts on the table,
saw massages my hands when they hurt. Puts lavender oil
on my pillow to help me sleep me start her
car and brush the snow off of it. Buy her
daffodil bulbs her favorite flower each fall. Make her peppermint
water by using fresh peppermint from our garden. Do household
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chores without being asked us. Hold hands everywhere we go,
watch movies together, play backgammon in bed, keep things spicy.
I think a lot of young people have this idea
that long married couples like that boring or somehow marriage
is too constricting. It is the exact opposite when you're
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married to the right person, and marrying the right.
Speaker 4 (01:10:10):
Person is critically important.
Speaker 5 (01:10:12):
I will say that as one who married a wonderful
person who was the wrong person initially, only to find
out later that I finally found my person, and that's
what I have now. I've got a lot of text
messages five six, six nine zero coming in.
Speaker 4 (01:10:26):
I love this stuff, love it so much, Mandy.
Speaker 5 (01:10:31):
I've been married to my wife for thirty four years.
I never give my wife flowers on the customary holidays,
but throughout the year, when she least expects it. She's
commented to me many times that this small sign of
affection means more than any other card or gift. Still
hot and heavy after thirty four years, Mandy, After twenty years,
I still open the doors for my wife, cook dinner
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when I have time, and warm up the car and
shovel the snow off her car.
Speaker 4 (01:10:55):
Enjoy your weekend.
Speaker 6 (01:10:57):
You're getting it right.
Speaker 5 (01:10:59):
This is interesting, going back to our conversation from just
a minute ago, Mandy, Amazon has a.
Speaker 4 (01:11:04):
Knock box next of kin.
Speaker 5 (01:11:06):
The kit contains file folders, envelopes, and directions how to
organize all the important information needed by family when you
become incapacitated. There's also an organization death cafe, where people
can come together, usually in coffee shops or libraries and
just talk about death.
Speaker 4 (01:11:23):
Yes, that subject we don't.
Speaker 5 (01:11:24):
Want to talk about, but it's going to happen to
all of us. I don't mind talking about death, because
I know this isn't the end. I think this is
just one tiny little speck in a brand adventure. We
only get to know parts about it at a time.
When we get back, I'm going to read some more
of these. Feel free to text me your things that
you do to show your spouse that you love them
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that aren't necessarily grand romantic gestures.
Speaker 4 (01:11:47):
We'll do those when we get back.
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Please? Can we get a breaking new We've got some
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Speaker 10 (01:12:25):
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Speaker 4 (01:12:28):
This is you guys. If you're standing, please be seated.
If you're driving, you.
Speaker 5 (01:12:32):
May want to pull off on the side of the
road because I know you thought it was forever. But
Kanye West and his naked wife Bianca sen Story have
gone their separate ways. It is expected that they will
file for divorce shortly, where she is expected to get
a predetermined five.
Speaker 4 (01:12:48):
Million dollar payoff for their short marriage.
Speaker 6 (01:12:54):
Wait, Kim, look like will he target next? I? I?
Speaker 4 (01:12:58):
You you know what if he immediately finds another woman
to date him.
Speaker 5 (01:13:02):
After his disgusting and vile rants and anti Semitic stuff,
and some other woman steps in, it proves exactly what
Donald Trump said when he said, when you're rich, you
can walk up to women and grab them in that you.
Speaker 4 (01:13:15):
Know what and they'll let you. That's what that proves.
Speaker 5 (01:13:19):
Anyway, moving on to better things, because a lot of
you and our audience have sent the sweetest things ever.
When I ask long term couples, what are the little
ways that you show someone else how much you love them?
Are you ready for this one? Because I'm not ready
for this one. My husband and I says this Texter
were married fifty four years before he passed away in
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twenty twenty. There were so many small things that I
didn't realize we did for each other, and that would
mean so much after he was gone. When one of
us would be gone on a trip without the other,
right after we would get back, the other.
Speaker 4 (01:13:51):
One would say, I'm so glad you're home. I miss that.
Speaker 5 (01:13:55):
I never realized how many times at night one of
us would just roll over and just touch the other.
Now the bed is empty and cold. Almost every day
something else comes up and I yell, Ernie, I need you,
things like changing a light bulb, which I'm too short
to do and get on ladders anymore, or changing the
batteries and something like the chirping alarm in my house.
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I never realized how good I had it for those
fifty four years.
Speaker 4 (01:14:18):
Do come on, bro, God have.
Speaker 10 (01:14:24):
The rest of the work we need to get through
without a broken heart.
Speaker 6 (01:14:27):
Man The clem damn.
Speaker 4 (01:14:31):
Mandy kind of different.
Speaker 5 (01:14:32):
But my wife of forty one years loves a certain
eatery that I basically can't stand. Yet I often take
her there on my own accord because I know how
much she likes it and it means to her. That's
just one way after forty one years. There are too
many to enumerate here. I got it, I got it
before you go.
Speaker 6 (01:14:47):
I gotta get mine.
Speaker 10 (01:14:48):
In so all the mannerisms we have, I think that's
one of the stronger things, just because we have so
many little phrases, little pet names, little like fun like
verbal have your shared language share that that's kind of
what starts everything for us. But yeah, it's the little things.
It's always the pleas and the thank yous, even though
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we know we don't really have to, we want to.
It's kind, it's kind general, just constant love, always like
calling when we'ren Way's home.
Speaker 6 (01:15:17):
It's just those are the little things that come to mind.
Speaker 10 (01:15:19):
It's the little things that fill in all the little
gaps of all the big things that you do for
each other.
Speaker 4 (01:15:23):
Yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 5 (01:15:25):
B Rod and c Rod'd been married almost thirty nine years.
It's nice to have your person that from a Rod's
parents Mandy married fifty eight years. I tell her daily
that I love her very much and that my friends,
I mean it.
Speaker 6 (01:15:40):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (01:15:41):
I'm trying to think of how to say this without
sounding judging, and I'm not meaning to sound judge.
Speaker 4 (01:15:44):
At all, because every relationship is different.
Speaker 5 (01:15:46):
But when I'm around people who never express that they
love each other like I, I mean, maybe they do privately,
and maybe I'm just our privy to it, but it's
just I don't know. It's it's strange to me because
we have a lot of love in our family. Her
Skimp on the I love yous in our family.
Speaker 10 (01:16:01):
I'm gonna give you some personal here, and it's gonna
make your heart mouth a little bit. Every single morning
we get up together to go work out, she will
not get up unless I give her up ups and
buy up ups. I mean, I like uncover, take her
out of bed and give her some love, give her
a big old hug, give her a kiss. The morning
doesn't begin, she says, unless she gets her up ups.
Speaker 4 (01:16:21):
Oh that's fantastic.
Speaker 6 (01:16:22):
Yep, you're all love it. You're welcome, this one says.
Speaker 5 (01:16:25):
I bring home flowers for my wife almost every month
on Valentine's I go a little bit extra and get
her a nice arrangement. I like Valentine's Day because it's
a holiday that gives us a reason to express our
love and celebrate our love, even though we do things
year round on trips, go on dates, squad to dinner.
I like Valentine's Day and I always celebrate it every
year with my wife. Don't make excuses. Why not celebrate
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Valentine's Day. You can die eggs anytime of the year,
but you do it around Easter.
Speaker 4 (01:16:51):
So I yeah, a lot of people.
Speaker 5 (01:16:53):
And here's the thing, If that works for you and
your wife loves it, that's great. I'm super happy, but
I'm terrible membering holidays and anniversaries. And Chuck is far
more romantic than I am. And I actually had an
article yesterday yesterday or today yesterday that said men are
more romantic than women. But I do think there is
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a bit for some men of that. Well, I've conquered
her now she is my wife, so I don't require
as much effort. And there are women who get married
and say, well, I've got him now I don't require
as much effort, And I think that's sad, really really sad.
Speaker 4 (01:17:33):
So don't be that person. Thirty eight years here says
this text.
Speaker 5 (01:17:35):
Or my husband is working on Valentine's Day so we
can both go to our grandson's birthday on Sunday. It's
not about a single day exactly. This person said I'll
marry him for five million, talking about Kanye, And that's
what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (01:17:49):
Mine.
Speaker 10 (01:17:51):
Practicing practice sat our nephews, Oh Captain America, so very nice,
practicing for kids we're.
Speaker 4 (01:18:00):
Doing, Mandy.
Speaker 5 (01:18:02):
I write love notes and hide them in different spots
for my wife to find. Often always start warmer car
in the winter. A lot of you guys talk about that,
and I got to tell you I thought about this
the other day.
Speaker 4 (01:18:13):
I've had my car now for let's see my car.
I've had my car for six years. Four years. I've
had my car for four years. I could not tell
you how to put washer fluid into my car, no clue.
I have no idea.
Speaker 6 (01:18:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:18:27):
I know what size win Schall wipers. I have no idea.
Speaker 5 (01:18:32):
They just magically get changed every so often. I don't
know anything about.
Speaker 4 (01:18:37):
The operation of my vehicle that I should know because
I don't have to do it because.
Speaker 10 (01:18:40):
My husband is like, I got that. I gotta thank
you for part of my operation. As a as some
love language. I take the snow Joe you got me,
and I clean off both cars.
Speaker 5 (01:18:50):
There you go, There you go, Mandy. I say you
a talk back about an hour ago. We got a
talk pack. Check it out. I've been married twenty two
years in counting, and remind my wife frequently that it
seems longer than that. And you know what, sometimes I
say that to my husband as well. Sometimes I do.
It's the little things like when I forced her to
wear a sea through dress and a major awards ceremony
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signed Kanye that's a good one, Jake. Mandy Hap and
I have been married for thirty one years. Every time
he walks into the room where I am, he loudly says,
missus D. Now there is no D in our name,
but it comes from a long Peter Boyle story we
heard on the radio when we were first married. Sometimes
he scares me when he says it. Sometimes it irritates me.
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But if he wasn't here any longer, I would miss
it terribly. By the way, I call him mister D.
And I know who exactly this is, and they are
quite the couple.
Speaker 4 (01:19:44):
Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (01:19:45):
Ditto for the lady who's husband passed away that was
married fifty four years. My exact experience right now, after
my husband and I were married forty six years and
he passed in twenty one.
Speaker 4 (01:19:56):
You know, I've been thinking.
Speaker 5 (01:19:57):
About this because, statistically speaking, chances are chucks to die
before I am. First of all, he's a man. Second
of all, he's five years older than me already. So
I actually, in an effort to buffer my impending grief,
I think about the things that I would like to
do that I don't do now because I'm married to Chuck,
like how I would decorate my house, or what kind
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of car I would drive, or any of these other
things where I've made a little concession to him.
Speaker 2 (01:20:24):
You know it.
Speaker 4 (01:20:26):
Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 5 (01:20:27):
It's not like my life sucks because I've made all
these concessions. But when you're married, you have to make concessions.
That's part of the deal. Well, let me just change that.
If you're happily married, you have to make concessions. If
you don't make concessions, you will not remain happily married
for very long.
Speaker 4 (01:20:40):
I'm just letting you know that.
Speaker 6 (01:20:41):
Mandy.
Speaker 4 (01:20:42):
We just celebrated our thirtieth in January.
Speaker 5 (01:20:44):
He turns down the bed and lights multiple candles every
night and gets up extra early to make us breakfast,
which is extra important right now because we're on week
six of soda. Congratulations of week six of soda, and
you got.
Speaker 4 (01:20:57):
To keep her there. Mandy has been passed away at
fifty six. Not expected.
Speaker 5 (01:21:02):
It was a week before our thirty fifth anniversary. I
Am not trying to be sad or anything, but you
never know what you miss until they're gone.
Speaker 4 (01:21:10):
He was my best friend. I'm telling you we're.
Speaker 5 (01:21:12):
Gonna make marriage great again. We're gonna show these kids
who somehow think that marriage is a ball in chain.
Speaker 4 (01:21:20):
Or an anchor or a social construct that they don't need,
that they're wrong.
Speaker 5 (01:21:29):
A strong society is built on the backs of families,
and great families are based on marriage.
Speaker 4 (01:21:35):
I firmly believe that, because I've.
Speaker 5 (01:21:37):
Just seen I'm now old enough to have seen what
happens when you do it another way, and it's never
as good.
Speaker 4 (01:21:43):
It just isn't.
Speaker 11 (01:21:44):
All right.
Speaker 5 (01:21:45):
We'll be back in a second. I got so many
other stories that I wanted to get to. Let's see,
we got Matt Penfield story on there, got to make
park reservations for your stuff this summer?
Speaker 4 (01:21:54):
We got Matt Tybee. Should we talk about Ooh, you
know what I'm gonna do next.
Speaker 5 (01:22:01):
We're gonna dip our toe into a Twitter thread that
a Rod sent me.
Speaker 4 (01:22:05):
The reality of alcohol and it's not pretty, not at all.
Speaker 2 (01:22:10):
Now.
Speaker 5 (01:22:10):
A Rod sent me this very interesting thread about alcohol,
and I want to a Ron. I want to bring
you into this because is this information new to you
at this moment.
Speaker 6 (01:22:22):
At the level of that of what it is. Yeah, yeah,
that level of it is relatively new.
Speaker 5 (01:22:27):
Yes, and it's a long thread and I don't even
know the guy who put it up here, but it
is about alcohol. And he starts it by saying, the
biggest scam in the world alcohol and alcohol is is
very can be incredibly, incredibly damaging and dangerous, but it
can also be a social outlet for some people who
are not comfortable being out and about without it. So
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I just from my point of view, you've got to
make educated decisions. And at this state in the game,
I don't really drink anymore, but not for atty big
medical philosophical reason other than it me from sleeping for
a really long time, and at fifty five, I'd rather
have the sleep than the cocktail for the most part.
Now that doesn't mean I won't occasionally have a beverage,
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but I factor in my lack of sleep that's going
to happen because of it.
Speaker 6 (01:23:13):
That's where we are.
Speaker 4 (01:23:14):
But alcohol is incredibly damaging. Does this change your viewpoint?
Speaker 5 (01:23:18):
Because I know you like to go out with your
friends and get your drink on or have every people over.
Does it change your attitude or thinking about alcohol in
any meaningful way knowing that it can be really, really
bad for you, especially long.
Speaker 4 (01:23:30):
Term, long term alcohol abuse does horrible things to your brain,
to your body. It's really hard to recover from the answers.
Speaker 10 (01:23:38):
No, it doesn't change anything for one reason because I'm
already very rare, very responsible and aware that, yeah, too
much of it is absolutely not good.
Speaker 6 (01:23:46):
To that level, I did not know.
Speaker 10 (01:23:47):
But it doesn't change anything for me, just because I
already have those restrictions for myself to never really go
too crazy. Yeah, it's only typically a few and it's
usually only in like social settings.
Speaker 4 (01:23:56):
Do you know what's going to be interesting for you?
Speaker 5 (01:23:58):
Because I think everybody, And my friend Rob's coming in
here in just a minute, we'll ask him. I think everybody,
after you hit a certain age, you have had that
friend that never got it under control. And at this point,
I probably have a handful of people that I've watched
go through full blown alcohol addiction. A couple of them
have pulled it out, one of them has not, and
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two of them died in detox. Yeah, because detox is
brutal on your body. I'm not saying don't do it.
I'm just saying don't do it without a doctor, because
when you are truly alcohol dependent, your whole body is
alcohol dependent.
Speaker 6 (01:24:30):
It's rough.
Speaker 4 (01:24:32):
I mean it's really rough.
Speaker 5 (01:24:34):
So watching this kind of stuff, it's just it's interesting
how normalized alcohol consumption is in our society, as if
there are no downsides at all other than drunk driving.
We all know drunk driving is the worst thing ever,
should not do it. We should absolutely make that not
a thing. But nobody talks about should you be going
out to a bar and having fourteen drinks in one night.
Speaker 4 (01:24:56):
That seems like maybe we should be having more of
those conversations.
Speaker 5 (01:24:59):
I do think the pendulum on alcohol consumption has shifted
quite a bit, but I think that it's only because
people perceive pot to be safer in a way. I
think a lot of people say, well, you know, I
don't drink anymore, but I'm, you know, smoking a joint
to go to bed at night or whatever it is.
So we sort of shifted one mind altering substance for another.
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And I don't think that's uncommon. But as far as
damage to yourself, your body, your community, your relationships, alcohol
is far worse than pot. Pot still can have very
negative impacts, but it is not nearly.
Speaker 4 (01:25:36):
As bad as alcohol. And yet one is normalized and
one is not.
Speaker 5 (01:25:40):
I have a friend who is a wonderful human being
but loves and enjoys a glass of bourbon at night.
It just maybe even two, maybe even three on occasion,
But boy howdy does he look down on people who
smoke weed?
Speaker 4 (01:25:54):
And I was like, you know, not for nothing.
Speaker 5 (01:25:57):
Nobody's judging you for drinking a bourbon at night. Don't
be so judging about people have chosen another, you know,
kind of mind altering substance than you did.
Speaker 4 (01:26:05):
So okay, when we get back my friend Rob, I call.
Speaker 5 (01:26:07):
Him my own personal veterans Affair office because.
Speaker 4 (01:26:10):
When any of you send me emails that.
Speaker 5 (01:26:14):
Are about a veteran in crisis, and you would not
believe how many times that actually happens.
Speaker 4 (01:26:18):
But when you send me an email, I need this,
I need help, any.
Speaker 5 (01:26:21):
Whatever, the first person I call is Rob because he
knows more than anybody else about veterans causes.
Speaker 4 (01:26:26):
We're going to talk about that next. Keep it right
here on KOA.
Speaker 5 (01:26:29):
Rob Williams is my guest, and you guys may remember
him from his long stint as of the Day Rob,
where he came in for a daily beating. Well he
had a job that allowed him to do such. Now
he has like a real job, and they're like, you
got to go to the office and you got to
do work and stuff.
Speaker 12 (01:26:44):
How are you going to talk trash on the blog
about how you're going to stop me into a mudutle today?
Speaker 5 (01:26:48):
No, I just might have mentioned that you will be
playing of the Day as well today and because you're
out of practice, it should be a massacre.
Speaker 6 (01:26:56):
Really, just letting you know.
Speaker 12 (01:26:57):
I love that you placed that gigantic TV directly behind
you to distract me.
Speaker 6 (01:27:01):
Too, So you know what, that was not my idea.
Speaker 5 (01:27:03):
Okay, so I can't help the giant TV in the
lobby that you can't control yourself and not look at it.
Speaker 4 (01:27:08):
You're like a moth to the flame of the TV.
Look at that. It's like there's boobs on there or something.
Speaker 12 (01:27:13):
It's Billie Eilish's jumping up and down, and now I
have to look out the windows.
Speaker 5 (01:27:19):
Roup is actually my veterans resource and he is connected
and supports all of these different veterans nonprofits, and I
thought it would be fun to have him in because
one of the things we have in Colorado, I feel
like and correct me if I'm wrong. There is a
nonprofit veterans organization for every situation.
Speaker 6 (01:27:39):
There very much.
Speaker 12 (01:27:41):
So across the nation there are forty four thousand veteran
based nonprofits aimed at the veteran community. It's kind of insane, actually,
if you ask me about it, that it.
Speaker 5 (01:27:51):
Would best maybe we can get some that have a
similar mission to join forces, you.
Speaker 4 (01:27:57):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (01:27:57):
And that's exactly so.
Speaker 12 (01:28:00):
Because of you, we were able to establish about face Radio,
which has now become about Face Media, all because of
you and your huge support.
Speaker 6 (01:28:11):
Yeah, for exactly that reason, and because of you, it morphed.
Speaker 12 (01:28:17):
We started off with just a simple radio station and
you know, it became you know, sixteen to twenty DJs.
Well that has morphed and now they've we've started they
started doing documentaries, writing books, all kinds of crazy stuff.
Speaker 6 (01:28:31):
So we had to change the name.
Speaker 12 (01:28:32):
Yes, it's more than just a radio station now and
now it's it's become just such a beast.
Speaker 6 (01:28:37):
It's incredible the things that people are creating in producers.
Speaker 4 (01:28:40):
All of these content creators are veterans, yep, every single
one of them.
Speaker 2 (01:28:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (01:28:44):
As people are exiting the military or exiting their job
as a first responder, we hand them a laptop and
a microphone and say hey, tell your story, and it's
become an incredibly.
Speaker 6 (01:28:53):
And beautiful thing.
Speaker 12 (01:28:54):
And yeah, and again, like we talked about, there are
forty four thousand veteran based nonprofits across the nation, which
is just incredible to me that and yet veterans suicide
continues to rise, which just blows my mind. So Seth
and I sat down at the beginning of the year
and kind of talked it through, and clearly, what we
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as a veteran community are doing, it's not fixing the problem.
We're not doing it right. We're failing in our mission.
And so we kind of talked it through and we're
going to take more of a leadership role in our community.
And so we're being very very deliberate in what we're
doing for twenty twenty five in the veteran community, and
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we're seeing we're taking a role and where we had
just a few weeks ago, we had a lady on
who was a beekeeper, and so now Seth and I
we're going to get some bees and we're you know,
we're talking about veterans taking over farms and ranches and
things like that and doing ranching all kinds of stuff.
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Basically taking leadership roles in your community, picking up the
ball and involving other veterans and what it is that
you're doing, and it's it's been pretty powerful. The response
has been extremely, extremely powerful, and it's because of your
support and your leadership, and we sincerely appreciate it.
Speaker 10 (01:30:15):
I have done.
Speaker 4 (01:30:17):
I just pushed the ball down the hill.
Speaker 5 (01:30:20):
Just push the ball down the hill, and you guys
have just kept pushing and now you're miles away from
where you started.
Speaker 4 (01:30:25):
But let me ask you a question.
Speaker 5 (01:30:26):
Because you're a veteran, you work with a lot of
veterans and some of them have struggled mightily through, you know,
through various issues in their lives. What do you think
is not connecting with the message that we have forty
four thousand veteran nonprofits that literally cover every interest you
could possibly have, that many of them their sole stated
purpose is to reduce veterans' suicide.
Speaker 4 (01:30:48):
Why are we not.
Speaker 5 (01:30:50):
Getting through to these men and women that they matter,
that they're important, that they were put here by God
because God, that they were important. Why is that message
somehow not getting to people because we talk about it
all the time, and yet to your point, veterans suicides
are still rising.
Speaker 4 (01:31:06):
We're not even cap the number yet. What what do
you speculate?
Speaker 12 (01:31:10):
That's a it's a it's an amazing question. I wish
I could I had a good solid answer for you.
And you know, we've lost more service members now to
suicide back home than we have to combat.
Speaker 6 (01:31:27):
And it's just a catastrophic thing.
Speaker 12 (01:31:29):
And we've done everything we can as far as engaging
veterans by way of outdoor activities, from fly fishing to
hiking to skydiving, motorcycle riding with a motorcycle relief project,
everything you can possibly think of, and we're still losing
our peers. It's a it's a loss of identity because
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if you think it through, when a lot of service
members join the military, they you know, for just myself
for example, you know, I drop out a high school.
Someone hands you a hat, says congratulations, you're a soldier now,
or a service member, airman, whatever it may be. A
couple of years later, four years later, eight years, twenty years,
whatever it may be, somebody hands you a sheet of
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paper and says, you know, hey, you're done. Now, You've
done your time. All you've done is delay something for
a couple of years. You really don't know what is
my identity now? For a while there, you had an unidentity.
Speaker 6 (01:32:23):
What am I now? Where do I go with my
life now?
Speaker 12 (01:32:25):
And a lot of service members struggle when they exit
the military. They don't know where to go next?
Speaker 10 (01:32:31):
What am I now?
Speaker 12 (01:32:32):
And so that's why they you know, they use their
GI bill and they go and get a degree or
something to that extent. And most service members, you know,
they get their first job and they leave their first
job because they think it's going to be the perfect
thing and they find out it's not the fit that
they hope that it was.
Speaker 6 (01:32:49):
Combine that with, you know, they struggle.
Speaker 12 (01:32:52):
On their marriages because now that that loss of identity,
they don't know where to go with that.
Speaker 4 (01:32:57):
It creates tension in their marriages. They've lost camaraderie.
Speaker 12 (01:33:01):
Camaraderie is the number one thing you lose those that
those friendships.
Speaker 6 (01:33:06):
It's a very, very very real struggle.
Speaker 5 (01:33:09):
And it's sad to me that that all of these
members of the military still must feel wildly alone when
they're all having probably a very shared experience.
Speaker 6 (01:33:18):
And exactly right, and and.
Speaker 12 (01:33:22):
We're not built to sit on foldable chairs around cold
coffee and have group therapy and kind of hash it
out together in the in a circle and talk it through.
Speaker 6 (01:33:33):
That's just not how we're built. We're built for.
Speaker 12 (01:33:37):
We coalesce around group suffering, around group, you know, doing
things together. You bond with your squad and your peers
and your teammates around pt around you know, mutual suffering.
Speaker 6 (01:33:53):
When it sucks the most, that's.
Speaker 12 (01:33:55):
When your team comes together, right and and and that's
you have or rediscover that in soil.
Speaker 4 (01:34:01):
I'm gonna start.
Speaker 5 (01:34:01):
I'm going to start a nonprofit called when it Sucks
the Most. I mean, it's a great No, I'm not
gonna start enough.
Speaker 4 (01:34:07):
I've already been down that road.
Speaker 5 (01:34:08):
And when you're a talk show host, people try to
accuse you of less than kind.
Speaker 4 (01:34:12):
Intentions the most.
Speaker 6 (01:34:14):
I think you just named show. There you go.
Speaker 5 (01:34:17):
But I mean, if we could just get the word
out that when it sucks the most, there's so.
Speaker 4 (01:34:20):
Much help out there and support for you.
Speaker 6 (01:34:22):
I'd love to find the right answer. I mean, look
what the cat trag did.
Speaker 4 (01:34:26):
Look at what's happening over here.
Speaker 5 (01:34:28):
It's a lot everybody been all right, Nick Ferguson, And
I'm gonna let you introduce yourself, young man.
Speaker 6 (01:34:37):
Smith.
Speaker 4 (01:34:39):
I love his voice, That's why I wanted him to
do it on mine.
Speaker 13 (01:34:42):
Yeah, get up right here with the MICAO real quick, Rob.
I don't know how familiar you are with the Heroes
thank You promotion that we run here. This is the
seventeenth doing it, my sixth year doing it, and it
means a lot to me as a veteran and you
as as a veteran. Normally, around this time we give
a check to to somebody who needs it or needs
some money, veteran who needs someone around the that This
year it was a little bit different. We got to
give it somebody who deserves it for their work with
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veterans this year. And I don't know how familiar you
are with this, but we solicit nomination letters and Mandy's
going to read your nomination letter right now.
Speaker 4 (01:35:12):
I might have written this myself.
Speaker 5 (01:35:14):
Rob spends so much of his life helping other veterans
by volunteering his time at numerous veteran organizations, starting an
internet radio station programmed by veterans, and attending pretty much
every veteran fundraiser and event in town. I have no
doubt he will donate any money you give him to
a veteran cause, though I'm hoping he uses it to
expand the internet radio station. When I need to connect
a veteran with a specific service, he is the first
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person I call because he knows about them all. He
never stops trying to end veterans suicide and make sure
that all who serve get the help they need somehow,
some way.
Speaker 4 (01:35:48):
He is the veterans who never stop serving his brothers
and sisters in uniform and is a fantastic human being
to boot he truly deserves to be recognized.
Speaker 13 (01:35:58):
That's my friend, rob Well, rob On behalf of our
partners here with common Spirit, Rod Smith, Nick Ferguson, former Broncos,
and myself. We want to present you with this check
for twenty five hundred dollars and if you don't mind
the fellows I think they'd like to say a few
words here.
Speaker 4 (01:36:12):
Dude, you get a giant cardboard check. How cool is that?
Speaker 6 (01:36:16):
Always wanted a.
Speaker 11 (01:36:17):
Cardboard check as an individual who my family has a
long standing tradition of being in the military. It is
great to be about part of this campaign and I'm
thankful for what it is that you do and what
you provide to the community, because veterans are people too.
Speaker 6 (01:36:33):
And they need an outlet. So thank you for providing
that outlet. Sincerely, thank you.
Speaker 14 (01:36:37):
Yeah, no, I'm just looking at you. I'm looking at you.
And he completely called him off guard and you can
tell what he does. He does it from his heart, yep.
And that's all that really matters. Every word I was
going to say, I'm changing it, I ain't gonna say
anything because I'm just watching you. That's what our world
should be about, people like you who are going out
there to make sure, like you say, that rate for
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the trans the soul Salvador, whatever you want to call it,
goes down dramatically because the people like you it will.
Speaker 15 (01:37:07):
Sincerely thank you well as a better of myself the
service that you provide for for us, you know, and
you know how as we come back, you're looking for purpose,
you're looking for things to do, and you provide people
with incentive and with reasons to wake up every.
Speaker 6 (01:37:21):
Day and do the next thing, spread that and put along.
Speaker 13 (01:37:23):
And so I'm thankful that this year, not just are
we giving it to people in need, but we're giving
it to people who deserve it, who can put this
money toward helping other.
Speaker 6 (01:37:30):
People in need. So thank you.
Speaker 12 (01:37:31):
You really set up a lot of veterans for success
with that. Thank you, sincerely, yep, very sincerely.
Speaker 4 (01:37:37):
I HA gotcha you.
Speaker 6 (01:37:40):
We're gonna have a word.
Speaker 4 (01:37:44):
To totally.
Speaker 2 (01:37:45):
We will give you a real check.
Speaker 14 (01:37:46):
Please don't try to go to the bank with so.
I'll tell everybody, of course we all want that one,
but no, they'll give you a real check.
Speaker 4 (01:37:52):
I've always wanted a big cardboard check.
Speaker 5 (01:37:54):
I don't know why, just like one for like thirty
bucks would be great, Just a big cardboard check.
Speaker 4 (01:37:58):
No, I mean Rob, here's the thing. I brought Rob
in here.
Speaker 2 (01:38:01):
Rod.
Speaker 5 (01:38:02):
It was easy because I said, hey, you want to
come on the show on Thursday and talk about veteran stuff.
Literally that was my invite. And guess who's here to
talk about veteran stuff. And that's exactly why I nominated him.
Because his heart is bigger than his brain sometimes, but it's.
Speaker 4 (01:38:17):
Definitely bigger than his wallet. So this is going to
be a big help to do something big and wonderful.
And do we need to think our sponsors?
Speaker 6 (01:38:25):
Sincerely? Wow? Yeah? Absolutely.
Speaker 13 (01:38:27):
First of all, Common Spirit Health eighty and eight Heating
and air Conditioning at Credit Union They've been great this
year in helping us to continue this promotion and honestly
my favorite thing we get to do here at this
radio station.
Speaker 6 (01:38:38):
So wow, you guys, I can't thank you enough.
Speaker 4 (01:38:42):
You've really Yeah, so what do you want to talk
about now?
Speaker 3 (01:38:45):
Rob?
Speaker 6 (01:38:46):
Now there's not enough tissues in this freaking up desk.
Speaker 4 (01:38:49):
You guys get this amazing revamp and there's no tissues
in the air.
Speaker 6 (01:38:52):
Really, I mean, we're.
Speaker 4 (01:38:53):
Pretty macho station. I don't know if you know about this.
Speaker 13 (01:38:55):
Yeah, I understand you may put some of that back
into the but you are under orders to go at yourself.
Speaker 6 (01:38:59):
Gift you stake dinner with some of that money.
Speaker 14 (01:39:02):
You know what, you just you do deserve to treat
yourself because sometimes when you you know, you have that
thankless work because some people they can't thank you enough,
so they don't say anything, but just do something for you.
Do please do a little something for you and that'll
refuew you to continue to do the stuff that you're doing.
Speaker 6 (01:39:20):
We just appreciate it.
Speaker 14 (01:39:22):
Like I said, Nick and I we've been doing the
last couple of years with him, and I was doing
it like two years before that. We would go to
people's houses and surprise them at their home. And it
was easy getting you here.
Speaker 13 (01:39:33):
It sure beats the worry of having the police get
called as a bunch of us creep through the neighborhood
trying to bring us check to somebody's Doorstones you need, you.
Speaker 4 (01:39:39):
Need the publisher's clearinghouse, balloons.
Speaker 6 (01:39:41):
They think that that's after they figure out the word yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:39:44):
They think it's.
Speaker 5 (01:39:47):
You know, yeah, Wow, guys, thank you so much for
coming in let me doing this on the show. It
is a Broncos Country Tonight promotion and they do such
a great job every year with this, so I'm just
happy I could glom on and thank you for a warning, Rob,
because I truly mean it. I meet so many people
and I'm I'm so blessed to meet a lot of veterans,
and a lot of them do something to give back,
but nobody does it like Rob does. Nobody does it
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with the same level of passion and excitement every single day.
And that's why I wanted you to have some money.
Speaker 6 (01:40:19):
Well, now I'm gonna.
Speaker 4 (01:40:20):
Whoop you out of the day. Anybody else want to
jump in for up the Day's like, no, I'm going Dan,
you always do well on of the day. So yeah,
they're gonna take.
Speaker 5 (01:40:30):
Some pictures of you getting the big check over here,
and I will I will remind you guys of a
couple of things that happened on the show today. If
you missed the very beginning, you may want to go
check out the podcast because there was a there's a
terrible story out of Jefferson County Public Schools that I
covered in the first hour, especially if you live in
jeff COO. What's happening in the school district there is
absolutely insane and it involved the school district essentially assisting
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a teacher in grooming a student lying on a federal
form so she could groom her and for out of
state when she turned eighteen. I mean, it's just it's
like a Lifetime movie, only it happened in jeff Co
Public schools. You can find that podcast right after the
show today, So if you want to hear that, I
don't normally tell you guys to go listen to the podcast,
but that story needs to be amplified.
Speaker 4 (01:41:14):
And I'm not gonna be here tomorrow. Take it along
four day.
Speaker 5 (01:41:16):
Weekend, so don't mess up Valentine's Day, Okay, kids, don't
mess up Valentine's Day.
Speaker 4 (01:41:24):
And you don't need reservations at Black Eyed Peace for
Valentine's Day. I'm just letting you know that.
Speaker 5 (01:41:28):
Oh it's not time yet. You gotta wait till Arod
goes back in the studio over there. Yeah, Arod's got
a participate, are you in Benham? Well, that's how I
get my best competitors is through shaming them at the
at the outset. Because now it's time for the most
exciting segment on the radio of It's kind Rob in
the World of the Day, all right, you just don't
(01:41:51):
put your back into it.
Speaker 6 (01:41:54):
The world of the Day.
Speaker 13 (01:41:54):
I'm of the day and I am not emotionally prepared.
Speaker 4 (01:41:58):
You should probably listen to the show.
Speaker 6 (01:42:00):
Don't even give my down prepared.
Speaker 4 (01:42:01):
So don't even give me that I'm too emotionally unprepared
for this.
Speaker 5 (01:42:04):
No, I'm gonna whoop you anyway, and I want it
to be a square deal win anyway.
Speaker 4 (01:42:08):
All right, what is our our dad joke of the day? Please?
Speaker 10 (01:42:11):
Did you hear about the archaeologist that got fired? Kay Al,
I just got fired. No, Well, whether you heard of
him or not, his career is now in ruins. Word
of the day is an interjection, Oh, will go.
Speaker 4 (01:42:32):
W I l c O will go?
Speaker 6 (01:42:34):
Is pull signer? Will comply?
Speaker 4 (01:42:37):
That's what I was gonna say. But is there a
different it's.
Speaker 6 (01:42:39):
Also a band.
Speaker 4 (01:42:41):
Is there a different other than will come time?
Speaker 2 (01:42:42):
Is there?
Speaker 6 (01:42:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:42:44):
I thought it was will comply.
Speaker 6 (01:42:45):
No, there is not.
Speaker 10 (01:42:46):
Inkay, it's that a message just received, will be complied with.
Speaker 4 (01:42:49):
Okay, there we go.
Speaker 10 (01:42:50):
All right?
Speaker 4 (01:42:51):
Why do chefs hats have pleats so you can hide
your mouse? Why do chefs have I don't know, I
mean joke because I'm cassidy to give it a little
stand up.
Speaker 6 (01:43:03):
I don't know. I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (01:43:04):
Oh oh, well, this is fancy.
Speaker 5 (01:43:07):
The story goes that the polats originated as a way
to signify a chef's experience.
Speaker 4 (01:43:11):
The more polats than the hat, the more experienced the shif.
Speaker 6 (01:43:14):
Well that's like the habachi. The higher the hat, the
more rate.
Speaker 4 (01:43:17):
Yeah, yes, we need to have a show habi, like
we should go have the habachi one night.
Speaker 6 (01:43:23):
On air in here for a mobile unit.
Speaker 4 (01:43:26):
Can they do that? No, just fill the studio with smoke.
We can't do that.
Speaker 3 (01:43:29):
All right?
Speaker 5 (01:43:29):
What is our Jeopardy category? By the way, I'm getting
absolutely killed on Tournament of Champions repeats these days not good,
not good at all.
Speaker 10 (01:43:36):
Need to do our own Tournament of the of the
day here, okay, category today. That's some strong language and
they swear words are not the answer. Please, don't get
some strong language. Adjective for a great sized oak or
morphine power rangers.
Speaker 4 (01:43:51):
What is mighty?
Speaker 6 (01:43:51):
That is correct?
Speaker 10 (01:43:53):
It can describe the powerful effect of a drug, or
for us, certain potables and potent Oh has that been to?
Speaker 6 (01:44:03):
Okay? Strong and yurdy? Or a dark brew made from
roasted mandy?
Speaker 4 (01:44:08):
What is stout? Correct?
Speaker 11 (01:44:10):
Rob?
Speaker 6 (01:44:11):
Yeah, Rob's just going on. It's it's fine. He's gotta get.
Speaker 4 (01:44:16):
Cardboard checks, so it's still winning.
Speaker 10 (01:44:17):
Right, Let's play Detective Boys. It means strong enough to endure.
Speaker 4 (01:44:23):
Corrects love the hardy boys.
Speaker 5 (01:44:25):
It is three for Mandy, one for Ben, zero for Rob.
The donuts for robnuts.
Speaker 10 (01:44:31):
Adjective for a muscular young man can also mean rob.
Speaker 6 (01:44:35):
What is rob?
Speaker 4 (01:44:38):
That's them?
Speaker 2 (01:44:41):
What is trapping?
Speaker 4 (01:44:43):
Scrapping scrapping young man? All right, okay, we got that
going for us. What are you guys doing on Broncos
Country tonight?
Speaker 6 (01:44:51):
I don't know, grants fille and infamated. That I'm on
the Sportshow here with the fellows.
Speaker 4 (01:44:54):
The Sports Show.
Speaker 6 (01:44:55):
What they tell me to do.
Speaker 4 (01:44:58):
You're just the You're just what are you the arm
can of the show.
Speaker 6 (01:45:01):
I'm there to make jokes, you know, be the face.
This was the A Team, I would be the face man.
Oh uh huh, probably okay.
Speaker 4 (01:45:07):
I like our confidence, Ben, I'm probably if we're being
I like your confidence and being face on the A
team there. Anyway, On that note, I will leave you guys.
Speaker 5 (01:45:17):
Jimmy Singingberger is gonna fill in tomorrow, so you're gonna
be in really good hands. Don't forget Valentine's Day is tomorrow, okay,
bo Asage skincare and spawfree commercial, because really that's all
you have to get. Just get a gift certificate, call
it today. Don't stress. Pick up some flowers at Kings
Soupers in the morning because they'll all be gone at
the night. You know, if you didn't get a card,
get it today, they'll all be gone tomorrow. I'm just
here to help. I will be back on Tuesday though,
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because Monday is a holiday and we will not be here.
But on Tuesday it's going to be an amazing show
and I have no idea what's going to happen, because
I haven't really looked that far ahead. Nothing, just nothing happen.
On Tuesday, We're just gonna sit quietly for three hours.
You know, maybe I'll start working on When Things Stuck
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the Most? Is that the new name of.
Speaker 4 (01:46:01):
The show, When Things Suck the Most?
Speaker 6 (01:46:03):
It is now?
Speaker 3 (01:46:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:46:04):
There you go, Rob, Good to see you, my friend.
I know, I'm so excited we pulled that off. That
makes me very very happy. Stick around k O Sports
coming up next. Keep it right here on ko A
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For me, it's a Friday, but for you it's a Thursday.
So it's a Thursday that feels like Friday, but only
for me. More on that in a moment, because it
is the Mandy Connell Show, and I am Mandy Connell.
Crazy how that thing went together like that. I'm joined,
of course by Anthony Rodriguez.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
We just call him a Rogers for.
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And we will take you right through till three pm today.
And a couple things just happened, and well, I'm gonna
I'm gonna do this and we'll take care of it
and do the blog that is.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
And then we got to get to a.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
Couple stories right out of there, just a big story
out of Jefferson County that is appalling, So let's do it.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Mandy'sblog dot com. Mandy'sblog dot com. Then just look for
the headline.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
It says two thirteen to twenty five blog veterans nonprofits
doing good work in Colorado.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Click on that and here are the headlines you will
find within.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
Anyone in office half of American all with ships and clipments,
and say that's ConA press.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Pledge today on the blog Happy Early Valentine's Day, Rob
Williams is my own personal Veterans Affairs office. Colorado Dems
want to vote for Trump. Thank goodness. A horrible thing
happened to a legislator.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Do we really need to be.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Spending federal money on these things? Stop dead naming the
Gulf of America a devastating bit of collateral damage. Banning
Jerks was the beginning of the end. A super sad
story about why you need your affairs in order?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Can we leave Lauren Bobert's personal life alone?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Is Colorado ready for nuclear Do bike lanes really safety?
It's time to make your park reservations for this summer.
That Denver Zoo is updating its water main. One Denver
restaurant made the Yelp top top one hundred. Matt Tybee
lights up the USAID nonsense? What did jen X drink
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the eight most affordable and reliable car brands? What Ukrainian
peace might look like? Hamas is going to honor the agreement.
Men are room more romantic than women. The truth about alcohol.
Pokemon go is still a thing, and now at baseball
stadiums it's been pointed out.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
I have a very talented doppelganger.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
A penguin hops into a boat leave it reminds the
press of their place. Late addition, oh wait a minute,
the F one fifty is dethroned, and late audition Jeff
Goo's Schools helps.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
The kid commit a crime and then covers it up.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Those are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
So here's what we got going on right now.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
What we have going on right now is that we're
going to start at the very bottom of the blog,
which we normally don't do.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
And oh boy, there's some good stuff on the blog.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
My friend Rob Williams of the Day, Rob coming in
today because he's got all kinds of stuff about veterans nonprofits.
We're going to talk about good stuff happening out there
for veterans. But in the meantime, we have to talk
about this story that was done on CBS four. This
is appalling and I'm just going to start the show
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by playing the audio of this story. Done by CBS
four because it deserves to be heard. They deserve to
get all the credit for covering this because I was
aware of some of these things, but it wasn't aware
of the whole narrative. But it's even worse than I thought.
And if I were a Jeff Co voter, I would oh,
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hang on, sorry about that, immediately demand of the school
board that they fired Tracy Dorland, the superintendent.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
She is just let me just let this play, Okay,
here we go to get her.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Sean Boyden covered documents the show's school officials helped an
underage student declare herself homeless so she could move in
with a teacher.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Sean Boyd joined us now to talk more honest than Sean.
She was not homeless, no, and the.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
School district admits that those involved knew that. Yet they
helped a student fill out a federal form that said
she was homeless, then hid it from her parents so
she could move in with a teacher.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
And that's just the beginning.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
There's like this icky feeling that something's wrong, and then
as it progressed, it only got worse.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
Heather McCormick says there were red flags at Columbine High School,
long before the school district hired investigators who found teacher
Leanne Karney had been grooming a female student. McCormick is
friends with that student's mother, and.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
There wasn't one person who stood up and was like,
something doesn't seem right and reached.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Out to the parents instead.
Speaker 7 (04:59):
School emails obtained through an open records request show counselors
purposefully kept the parents in the dark while they helped
their daughter fill out a federal form declaring herself homeless
so she could move in with a teacher.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Now, I'm going to say something here that Sean Boyd
is not going to say because she's a journalist and
she doesn't have to worry about such things. But how
is it not a crime to help a child lie
on a federal form? And by the way, this federal
form is attached to federal dollars in the form of
FAFTSA and financial aid their forums specifically for that, So
that means that's fraud.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
So the Jefferson County.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Public schools helped a teenager commit federal fraud, so ther
her female tea.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Oh, I'll I'll just let I'm so fired up, y'all.
Let me just let me, let Sean tell you the
rest of the story.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Here we go.
Speaker 8 (05:51):
I think it's really scary that we can take teenagers
or children of any age and just say whatever you
say is truth. We're not going to investigate it. We're
going to take big steps to declare you homeless without
notifying your family.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Investigators say Principal Scott Christy also knew about the girl's
plans and didn't tell her parents. McCormick says the mom
stumbled upon the homeless document while cleaning her daughter's room
and later found a letter describing her daughter kissing Carney,
along with thousands of calls and texts between the two.
She says she sent Carne a message warning her it
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needed to stop, and then took the calls and text
to the principal, who, she says, dismiss them, telling her
miss Carney takes interest in helping kids navigate their sexuality.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
So let me just translate that into normal person talk.
Because again, Shan Boyd, incredible journalist, cannot say things the
way that they need to be said. The Jefferson County
Public Schools supports this lesbian teacher in grooming young girls
at school.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
That's what I just heard.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
I mean, isn't exactly what it said, But I mean,
isn't that what you heard? I'll let Sean finish the story.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
You think the school would have reacted differently had Carney
been a male teacher.
Speaker 9 (07:14):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (07:14):
Absolutely, Carney quit, but it would take two years and
pressure from the mom before she lost her teaching license.
McCormick says her friend lost far more when her daughter
turned eighteen, she moved out of state with the teacher.
Speaker 8 (07:29):
It's really scary to think that there are schools and
teachers and administrations that are working behind your back, not
in the best interest of your child.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
Jeffco's school district sent me a statement saying, obviously the
student did not meet the criteria to be considered homeless,
and the staff involved in this isolated incident were addressed
as part of the investigation as the proper channels in
place were not followed. While we have taken every step
to remove this former employee from jeff Co and prevent
her working in another educational set, we recognize this is
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of little comfort to the family. We deeply regret how
profoundly this violation has affected the family.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Now we deeply regret how profoundly this violation has affected
their family. Is that in any way, shape or form
an apology for the role that jeff Co employees played
in helping air commit federal fraud before allowing her to
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be groomed by a teacher who lied to the government
in order to allow this girl to come live with
her so she could then take her out of status
as soon as she turned eighteen. You better believe if
this was a man, this would be a much different situation.
And you know what, we've seen school district after school
district in our area. Unfortunately, this is happening with great
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regularity these days. Where female teachers who prayed on male
students have been held accountable as well they should, Why
should a female teacher who prayed on a female student
be any different.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
It's not okay.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
And for jeff Co's schools to be so blase as
to apologize for the feelings of the family instead of
apologizing for creating a culture in jeff Co schools where
parents have been marginalized and the school district has decided
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that they will be the arbiters of what is right
for your child. Oh, your child decides they want to
become another gender and they want to be addressed by
a completely different name instead of pronouns at school. We're
not going to tell your parents sorry, oh oh yeah,
We're going to allow a quote trusted adult to.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Groom your child. And even after showing being shown.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Evidence that there was a sexual relationship going on, we're
still going to blow it off. What the blank is
going on at jeff Coo. I mean, this should be
the biggest scandal in the country right now. This is
beyond crazy. I'm sure there's way worse stuff somewhere else
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in some other school district, but I can't find one
in my cursory. You know, Look, Mandy isolated incident. Is
this a peek into a wider culture at jeff co
or perhaps elsewhere? This is jeff COO's schools under Superintendent
Tracy Dorlnd. She wishes, I think, honestly, every parent would
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just die so then she and her teachers can make
the kids be do whatever it is they want them
to do, because they don't want parents in the classroom.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
They don't want parents input.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
God forbid that parents should say, you know, maybe our
kids should be back in school. I know the Teachers'
union is telling, you know, but maybe the science is
there to say they should be not in Jeff Coo,
they didn't care.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Nope, they do not care.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
It is outrageous and I truly don't understand parents that
are just sitting by and letting it happen. If this
was happening in Douglas County, I would be like right
there at every school board meeting demanding that this superintendent
be fired, because if you don't think this can happen
to your kid, I mean, come on, you know we
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like to think that her kids are smart and we
have a good relationship with them. But they're in a
school building with these people eight hours a day. Are
you spending eight hours a day with your kid?
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Because I'm not.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
She's a teenager. She doesn't want to spend eight hours
a day with me. The fact that they are so
let me just read that to you again. Let me
read their statement again. They're a nonpology. I coined the
phrase non apology years ago when I wasn't being forced
to give an apology to someone I did not I
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ow an apology to. I was asked to give an
apology to someone, and I simply said, I'm terribly sorry
that what I set upset you, which is in no
way an apology. It's a complete gaslighting of someone else's emotions.
You cannot apologize for how someone feels. And yet jeff
Co Public school sends out this. We recognize this is
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of little comfort to the family. We deeply regret how
profoundly this violation has affected their family. That is the
biggest non apology in the history of non apologies.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
I mean, guys, this has gotta stop.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
This is this is so incredibly important, especially now. If
Trump succeeds in eliminating the Department of Education, and please, please,
for the love of God, let that happen, then every
school district will be free of every asinine edict from
a Department of Education that has done nothing but oversee
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a complete malaise and decline in education in the United
States of America.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
It's it's inception. So I'm ready for that. But boys,
these school.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Boards they matter. They're gonna matter more than ever. And
right now in Jefferson County schools, we have idiots running
the ship.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
We truly do idiots.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Who one more time, if you're just joining me, what
I'm going on about is a story by CBS for
as Seawan Boyd about the fact that jeff Co Public
Schools certain members of the school district who, by the way,
I'm assuming, have not been disciplined or fired for any
of this. There was no indication that these people, except
the teacher who prayed on a girl, she was fired,
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but school district employees helped the girl lie on a
federal government form to declare herself homeless so she could
move in with her teacher who was grooming her for
a sexual relationship, and.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Jeffco's schools just glossed over it. I mean, it's what
a nightmare. What a nightmare? Who are the adults in
Jefferson County Public Schools? Mandy?
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Do you know what they're doing in Douglas County. The
Department of Justice is investigating Douglas County.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
You know, I do know.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
I know everything that they're looking at right now, and
I've said before, when that investigation is done, I am
going to expect Douglas County to address any issues that
are found to have merate. So we'll wait and see
what happens when the investigation is done. Mandy, please explain
grooming because it sounds like a positive term. Okay, Grooming
is very simple grooming is where a person, an adult,
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or someone in a power position, then uses that position
of respect and authority in order to ingratiate themselves on
to someone that they wish to have at some point
a sexual relationship with. Maybe it's a child, maybe it's
a teenage girl, maybe it's a teenage boy.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Maybe it's their secretary.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
And they proceed to ingratiate themselves with gifts and compliments,
and pretty soon.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
It advances to, oh, let's just have a little.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Peck on the cheek, and pretty soon it's full blown
sexual relationship. And that's what this teacher did with this girl,
to the extent that she got her to lie and
commit fraud so that she could move in with a teacher.
And now there's a big question for me in all
of this, like where were her parents? That's a big
question I have. I mean, how do you allow someone
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to move in with it? I don't understand that. I
really don't.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Mandy.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
You certainly started your show today getting your audience salty. Yes, yes, indeed, Mandy,
if the Doge goes away and Colorado runs their own schools,
situations like Jeff co would continue in Colorado. My hope
would be that we would have more people who would
which just rational thought processes. What we have now a
(15:46):
lack of doodle ideologist who care more about making sure
that kids think they can be another gender just by
deciding it. Or maybe they want to make sure that
drag queens have access to little children, or maybe they
want to make sure that there's books in the library
that show graphic pornographic scenes of sex.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Oh, but they're animated, so it's not it. Oh, it's fine.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
I mean, how are students doing. Jeff Co is a
very good school district. It has been for a long time.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
That is it now?
Speaker 6 (16:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
I haven't looked at their recent scores.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
What they're doing is is using their power to indoctrinate
an entire generation of children to the insane beliefs that
they themselves have.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
And where are the parents and jeff Co saying that's
not okay? It's not okay.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Again, People in positions of trust gone, Yes, what school
was this? I don't uh, Columbine Columbine High School. Yeah,
a lot of you are weighing in, Oh for the
person who just sent Mandy, Whose side are you on?
Whose side are you on? I'm on the side of
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kids and parents in Jefferson County who are being underserved
by their current school board representatives and superintendent. That's whose
side I'm on.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
But that was a good one. That was a good one.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Texter Mandy, you know that Columbine thing was okay because
they were lesbians.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
If did it have been a male teacher, things would
have been quite different. Exactly.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Wow, three children all graduated from Columbine. This textas says
that sure doesn't sound like the Scott Christie I knew.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Unreal. This is why we moved to Florida after my
last graduator from Columbine, we had to leave.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
I gotta say, I hope that the superintendentism is suitably
shamed by this story and then he has the decency
to feel bad about it. That's the part I don't
get because in my experience, and I have a lot
of friends who are teachers, and I mean a lot,
and to a person, most of the teachers that I've
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ever met been around with any consistency. They got into
teaching because they really wanted to make a difference for kids,
right like they really wanted to help develop the next
generation into a a better thinker and a better citizen.
I mean, they really go in with that idealism. And
at what point do you get so jaded that when
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a parent brings you text messages showing that a student
of yours is being preyed upon by an adult in
your school, you blow it off as she's just helping
her explore her sexuality. What what happened to you to
make you think that's okay? And somebody, if you can
make me, if you can make me understand why that
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would be okay, hit the text line. I'd love to
see it five sixty six nineer, but I just think,
I mean, my goodness, Oh.
Speaker 10 (18:49):
Here's one.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
The Jefferson County superintendent is just asked for a pay
raise although they're in over their heads financially, currently making
over three hundred K. I don't know why any of
this is okay Jefferson County residents. I don't know how
many listeners we have in jeff Co. And I mean,
I'll be perfectly honest, like we have a pretty good idea.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Of stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
But I mean Jefferson County is reliably Democrat at this stage.
I mean, you look at the political politics as you
have Republicans that come out of Jefferson County, but it's
pretty democratic. But at the same time, why would this
story be okay with Democrats?
Speaker 4 (19:27):
That's what I'd like to know.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Why would this story be okay with any parent, regardless
of their political affiliation. And why would inserting a school
in between parents and kids who are gender confused be
okay either? And yet Jefferson County does both of these
and they seem to do it with impunity.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
So I don't know. I really don't know, Mandy.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Yes, they get jaded when the Union gets their hooks in,
I guess so.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
I guess so, Mandy. I'd really like to know more
about how.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
The Department of Education dismantling by DOGE is actually going
to change the states and how they're going to be run.
I still feel like it'll be the same wackos in charge.
To a certain extent, it will be, But you guys
have to understand how much time schools deal with federal
edicts that come from the Department of Education that have
done nothing to improve the quality of education. You know,
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people talk about administrative bloat, how the administration and education
has grown far outpaced students or teachers. The administration part
of that is having to deal with the edicts that
come from the federal government and the edicts that come
from the state, you know, and it's as simple as
state testing things.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Of that nature.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
But the reality is is that if we got rid
of the Department of Education, you would have states that
will continue to perform at a very high level, like Massachusetts, who,
by the way, fun fact, Massachusetts does so well because
they actually did something other states are afraid to do.
They raised the standards for their kids. And you know
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what happened the kids method Huh. It's like a miracle
reaction from this Jeff Co school story. And they start
with from the very bottom, should all be in jail
for child abuse by a person in trust?
Speaker 4 (21:13):
I think you could make the case there. Man a
just went to El Poyo Loco to.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Get lunch and dinner day it dang you same reason
democrats like slave wage.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
I don't know what that's in response to.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Is it Columbine the high school where two high school
kids who were neglected by their parents committed mass murder?
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Yeah, but I don't think that has anything to do
with his.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Same Jeffco that has the little girls share a bed
with a boy on a school trip. Correct same jeffco
whose third in command of the district was under investigation
for possessing child pornography before he committed suicide in December.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
I mean, one of.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
These things is bad enough. You put those things together,
you now have a clear pattern of behavior. I don't
know who behavior, but there's obviously something about this district
some what's the word I'm thinking of culture in the
district that either attracts people who have these ill intentions
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or turns a blind eye when things start.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
To look weird and sketchy. That's certainly what happened in here.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
In the story that we were talking about, if you
are just joining us, Sean Boyd covered a story from
Jeff Coo Schools about how school district employees helped a
young woman, a girl teenager, lie on federal forms to
declare herself homeless so she could move in with her
lesbian teacher who was grooming her. And we know she
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was grooming her because as soon as she turned eighteen,
teacher and girl moved out of the state. Yeah, nothing
says that's entirely too suspicious. More than that, it's appalling.
It's absolutely appalling. And what I don't understand is why
Jefferson County parents aren't like at every school board meeting
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demanding that someone be held accountable for this stuff.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Yeah, they finally fired the teacher finally, but I think no,
actually I think she quit. That's what I heard. She quit.
They didn't even fire her. Jeffco parent here.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
I worked two jobs in the wife part time so
my elementary kids can go to private school. We have
an elementary school in our neighborhood. You know that is
so incredibly sad.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
But good on you.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Good for you for not accepting your fate and you know,
not going quietly, Mandy, Just to put the lighter side
on you today, best commercial super Bowl with Harrison Ford
selling Jeeps. Yes, that was one of my favorites as well.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Mandy.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
I'm a retired teacher, also a Republican. I was always
in the minority. It's crazy liberal culture. Oh no, I
was always in the majority, says this person.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
I don't know if she was wrong. I don't know.
That doesn't make sense, Mandy.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
When I moved to Colorado in nineteen ninety nine, Jefferson
County was a prelude to Douglas County and was a
conservative stronghold no more. All the Denver Libs moved north
of C four seventy and ruin that area. Republicans moved
to Douglas and Olpaso.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Counties for a better life. Yes, maybe, Mandy.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
I'm a dad, put three daughters through Jeff co I'm
a coach, so I could be in the schools, so
I could do more than just complain.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
I have a full time job outside of the schools.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
I don't have a lot of interaction with teachers. But
the district is admin top heavy. They are also running
scared because of the administrator who was accused of inappropriate
conduct and then committed suicide. We are being told we
can only communicate with our athletes and parents via the
jeffco email system because that sounds like a way to
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control what's being sent and heard.
Speaker 8 (24:50):
Right.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Nothing says we deserve your trust more than monitoring your communications.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
But Jeff Coo is getting some.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Awful this this pr advice absolutely awful because they're just
making it look worse and worse and worse and worse.
As a survivor of the shooting at that school, it's
zero surprise that the corrupted regime continues to allow the
faculty to keep operating without ethics. They operate like a
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spoiled toddler that keep pushing the limits, so blanking glad
they have a highly funded football program, so they can
sweep all their true operations under the rug. And I
cannot vouch for any of that with any I just
want to be clear you guys, when you say something bad,
I read it because a lot of this stuff I'm
reading on the fly anyway, But you can't take any
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of this stuff as gospel. This is one text anonymously
texting behind a keyboard.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
I just want to make that clear.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
And by the way, I don't necessarily know if they're wrong.
Certainly don't want to make it seem like I'm defending
the undefensible. But when you hear stuff when it's a
text message, I want you to be clear as I
read a text message that is not an endor, because
I have no way of knowing if any of that
is true. May I find it interesting that now that
the student is an adult and has moved out of state,
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that this story sees the daylight.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
When did the student arrive at the school.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
How long did it take for management to question the
motivations of the teacher I'm hoping.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
I mean, wouldn't you have already sued the Jefferson County
School District? I would have. I would have been in
court the day that I found out that someone had
helped my daughter commit fraud.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Because be clear, when you fill in a form for
the federal government and lie about it, that is fraud.
Now we learn from Hunter Biden that you can totally
get away with it, but I doubt she would. They
facilitated a crime, and the response when it was brought
to their attention was like, eh, well, you know, eh,
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it's fine, Mandy. My children went to home school in
charter schools in jeff Coo. My youngest is twenty eight.
This so we tried fixing our jeff Coo school board.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
It didn't go well.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
Okay, then find better candidates, start giving them money, start
having fundraisers. Now, I'm telling you, guys, this is the
battle ground where the rest of our history is going
to be fought because these young people, especially this and
this is no offense to Generation Z or even you know,
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the millennials really started getting it hard. But they really
don't understand many of them, many of them do.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
They really don't.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
Understand why the United States of America is special and
we're not perfect. I mean, I'm not an idiot, but
we're not like other places, and we're not like them
in some of the worst ways, but also in the
absolute best ways. And they're being taught that we're founded
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on hatred and violence and slavery and the very worst
of our country. Absolutely, that's a part of our country's history,
but so is the war that we fought to end
those atrocities against ourselves.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
But the kids aren't getting that part.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
They're not getting the celebration that we did something about
the horror that we allowed to go on far too long.
And we're raising kids in the United States of America
that think socialism and communism sound like a good idea.
Where do you think that's coming from. It's coming from
the educational system as it stands now. If conservatives don't
start getting serious, and I don't mean we're going to
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get in here and bring the Bible back into the classroom,
that's absurd, It is not helpful. It is simply destructive
and bringing politics back into the classroom. But if we
don't get people who are willing to say it is
important that our kids learn, yes, about the bad parts,
but they need to understand that what we're doing in
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the Great American Experiment is special among history. There are
very few civilizations that have self managed the way that
we have self managed.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
It's a remarkable story. And if we don't make sure
that crazy people who would rather protect a predator so
she could pray on her prey, then teach kids that,
you know what, the United States of America, we have
not always lived up to our ideals, but those ideals
are worth striving for. We don't need to throw them away.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
So it's there's support jeff co kids first, please so
many Texterter just said, Lindsay dak Co has been exposing
this for months.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Support jeff co kids first.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
Join jeff Co kids first, talk to their people, find
out what they're about.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Don't listen to what other.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
People say about them, because they're the ones that are
They're absolutely at the forefront of this and this is
worth fighting for. If you believe the American Experiment is
worth fighting for, stop writing on Facebook they were headed
for civil war and start engaging on education.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
That's what we need to be doing. I'm mad about
that story and I don't want to talk about it anymore, not.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
Right this second anyway. Okay, here's a funny story. This
is not funny, ha ha, but I found it funny.
So remember, a few years ago, went against my better wishes,
the people of Colorado decided that we were going to
be part of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, this
bit of dumb assery. And I still believe it's clearly unconstitutional.
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It's just disenfranchise. Oh, anyway, we'll talk about that.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
What it is.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
What it does.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Is if we get enough states to make two hundred
and seventy electoral college votes, and Colorado is signed on
to this compact. Right, they're currently they are sixty one
votes short of the two seventy needed. But if they
reach that two seventy threshold, then all of the states
that have signed on to this dumb ass compact agree
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that they are going to give their electoral votes to
whoever wins the national popular vote. Now, all the Democratic
states passed this when they were pretty sure that they
were never going to lose the national popular vote. Again,
those dumbaster Republicans look at them over there, But lo
and behold what happened in this last election cycle. Donald
Trump wins the national popular vote, which means that if
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this compact had been in effect, we Colorado would have
had to give all of our electoral votes to Donald Trump,
even though Kamala Harris won the state by twelve points.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
You know, it's that it's so stupid.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
So a couple of Republicans are like, hello, three Republicans,
to be clear, decided to try and repeal the twenty
nineteen law, and they brought this bill up that would
have taken them out of this compact, and the Democrats
took it to a committee and killed it eight to two.
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They're gonna indefinitely postpone the Dell's.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
That's basically like, you're dead. Nothing will ever come of this.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
Nothing would have made me happier in this last election
cycle than if we had been part of the National
Popular Vote Compact and it had been in effect, and
the leadership of the Democratic Party would have had to
give their electoral College votes to Donald J.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Trump. It would could you even imagine? Could you imagine?
Speaker 5 (32:27):
Okay, you guys have all seen the meme of the
guy standing in a puffy vest and he looks like
he's in a basketball game and he's just standing staring.
He has dark hair. He's just standing staring with kind
of a scolded look on his face.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
I love that meme. It's one of my favorites because
his look just says it all. It would be all
of the Electoral.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
College voters on the left just standing there looking like
that as they gave their vote to Donald J.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Trump. The National Popular Vote Compact is just it's idiotic.
It is absolutely idiotic.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
It essentially said to the people of Colorado, Hey, yeah,
we know you guys all came out and voted, but
we're gonna let all these people in these other states decide.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Where we're gonna give our votes.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
I mean, in what world would that be acceptable except
by Democrats who think they're going to have a permanent
win on the national popular vote.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
I also saw some.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
Very interesting polling data in the last couple of days,
and honestly, right now I'm trying to remember where I
saw it so I can find it again. But African
American men their view of Donald Trump right now forty
nine percent approval rating with African American men.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
That is huge and terrible news for Democrats. I mean
absolutely terrible news for Democrats. If the Democrats don't change
significantly and move away from their identity politics where everybody's
racing to be the bottom of the victim pyramid. I
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don't know what men will want to be associated with
the Democratic.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
Party before too long. They're wildly anti mail in a
lot of ways. If you look at the leadership of
the party and you look at the people who are
at these rallies, it's all like middle aged white women,
you know, they angry looking. It's like, at what point
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do men just go? You know what, I don't think
they like me? So yeah, I don't want to give
him any of more money, and I'm not going to
give him my vote when we get back. I you
know what, now that I said I was gonna I'm
going to do a quick scan of the transcript and
see if I can play it. Matt Tybee, who was
a writer.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
For Rolling Stone.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
He now writes on his own stuff and his own substack.
Great journalist, very interesting dude, and he actually testified before
a House subcommittee and he let fly with an absolute
scorcher of an opening statement. And I'm gonna play as
much of it as I can. I might just play it,
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and I'll just don't if I have to dump. But
I don't think he curses because it is in Congress
and he did have some respect for that, even though
they didn't have any respect for him. We'll do that
when we get back. And I have so much other
stuff on the blog today that is not even funny.
The AP gets called out for dead naming the Gulf
of America. Oh, did charts being banned begin to spell
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the end of masculinity?
Speaker 4 (35:31):
I can make that argument.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
And for gen xers, you guys, I have a story
that hit my gen x heart so hard. And it's
also a story of warning for those of us at
a certain age, have your affairs laid out well before
you need it.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
We'll get into all that in the next hour.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
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Speaker 4 (36:16):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show.
And I have so much stuff to talk to you about.
Speaker 5 (36:23):
Thank you to the Texter who sent me an article
about the National voter trend poll that I was talking about.
And let me just give you more of the takeaways
for this. Black men love Trump. Forty two percent of
black men approve of the job Trunt's doing. Four in
ten have a favorable opinion of him. Top issues now
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inflation and the economy. You know why, because we all
feel like illegal immigration is heading in the right direction. Finally,
only forty percent of voters have a favorable image of
Democrats in Washington, compared to fifty four percent who hold
an unfavorable view of the caucuses led by Chuck Schumer
and a King Jeffries. Favorability of congressional Republicans forty seven
(37:06):
percent favorable, forty eight percent unfavorable. Two thirds agree that
COVID nineteen came from.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
A lab Will Duh and Vibe Jeck.
Speaker 5 (37:16):
People are way more optimistic in just a month since
their latest national voter trends.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
Who say the country is.
Speaker 5 (37:23):
On the wrong track have plummeted fourteen percent since last month.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
So there you go. Here are other areas where Trump
has had a big win in this polling.
Speaker 5 (37:33):
Two thirds sixty four percent believe government should hire based
on merit and experience instead of racial and gender identity.
That also included fifty percent of Hispanics and forty one
percent of Democrats. So fifty six percent Trump support Trump's
executive order to declassify files relating to the JFK, RFK
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and MLK assassinations.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
What in the world is the other forty four percent
doing here? What in the world? What in what world?
Speaker 7 (38:06):
Is no?
Speaker 4 (38:06):
Keep it a secret the better answer?
Speaker 6 (38:09):
Come on.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
Fifty three percent support Trump's actions on stopping illegal immigration
and bolstering border security. Fifty five percent of post sanctuary
cities and forty six percent of folks support Elon Musk's
efforts to reduce government bloat and spending, including forty four
percent of swing voters and forty one percent of independence
So there you go, and there you have it. Oh
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another interesting development. Remember when everybody freaked out last week
when Trump said, yeah, I'll take over Gaza and make
it the Rivira of the med And I was like,
you know, I don't think that's the endgame of where
we're going. It turns out that after Trump said to
the other Middle Eastern nations around Israel, Hey, we're going
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to do this thing and we're going to displace all
these Palestinians, and you guys need to take care of it,
all of us, and Egypt's like, you know what, We've
got you, we will We're totally in Saudi arabi Is like,
you know, I think we can be involved. Jordan's like,
I think we can make something happen in Gaza. Just
you wait, just you wait. That's the intended result. I
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said this to my mom the other day. I'm like, mom,
donald Trump gets these other nations to do what he
wants them to do by proposing the worst possible outcome
for them.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
And the worst possible.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
Outcome for all those Middle Eastern countries is to have
Donald Trump take over Gaza and rebuild it and make
it into something fabulous while displacing all of the Palestinians
at the same time.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
That's the worst possible outcome. So we just lays it
out there, you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna
do this thing that's gonna be absolutely awful for you,
And all of a sudden, they're like, oh crap, we
don't want the awful thing. Should probably do something, and
they do it. It's amazing.
Speaker 5 (39:53):
By the way, he had another press conference in the
White House today. I believe that this and I'm not
even kidding When I say this, I believe that at
this point in his administration, he has done more back
and forth exchanges with the press than Joe Biden did
in his entire four years. And I'm not even being sarcastic.
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And he's sitting behind the resolute desk in the Oval
Office and reporters are firing questions at him about Taiwan.
Now he's going after Taiwan in the ship business. I mean,
it's just gosh, we actually have a commander in chief.
It's pretty good, pretty good. And I'm just gonna say this,
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I'm gonna this is me falling on my sword. I
didn't want Donald Trump to be the candidate.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
Nope, you all know this. I voted for Nicky Haley
in the primary, even though Trump had already.
Speaker 5 (40:46):
Locked it up by the time I got to Colorado
because I just didn't want him back.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
In the Oval Office. And I am here to tell
you I am so glad I'm wrong.
Speaker 11 (40:56):
Now.
Speaker 5 (40:56):
That doesn't mean I agree with everything he's doing. I
think some of the stuff he's doing is work, and
some of it's not gonna get done. But there's zero chance,
zero chance that any other Republican, including Republicans that I
really like would have gotten the kind of action that
Donald Trump has gotten internationally.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
I mean, we're at a point.
Speaker 5 (41:20):
Oh the other thing, by the way, I alse to
have this on the blog today, Gaza little turn of
events in Gaza, because remember a couple of days ago,
Hamas says, Israel isn't living up to their terms of
the of the agreement and so we're not releasing any
more hostages. And Donald Trump, in one of his press
conferences in the Oval Office, said, you know, if it
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were me and they didn't release all the hostages by
noon on Saturday, we'd.
Speaker 4 (41:46):
Be back at it. And today Hamas was like, oh wait, look,
we checked our watches. We are going to be able
to release three hostages on Saturday as we originally had scheduled.
So you're gonna get three back on Saturday. I mean,
this is this is upset so much stuff. The diplomacy.
Apple cart has been kicked over and all the apples
(42:08):
have been squashed onto the ground. But it's been effective,
and I think eventually it's going to have it's going
to stop. I mean, people are going to stop responding
in kind because what's happening is he's putting all these
nations in a defensive posture really quickly, and he puts
these super tight deadlines. Right, He's like, oh, in thirty days,
we're going to do this. And then the countries are like, oh, crap,
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we only have thirty days, and they inevitably make a
really bad deal for themselves. So it's just it's been
kind of amazing to watch. Speaking of amazing to watch,
there was another meeting. Hang on one second, let me
go back to the beginning of this so I can
get back the front page. I can give you the title.
Speaker 5 (42:46):
The Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government
had another meeting. Now, if you don't know what the
Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government is, well,
they are ones that have looked into all kinds of malfeasance.
And they had invited a guy named Matt Tybee to
speak to them at one of their prior meetings, and
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they invited him to come back. Now, Matt used to
be a reporter for Rolling Stone. I've liked his writing
for a very very long time. Even on the subjects
that he was tackling where I disagreed with his conclusions,
I still like the way he goes after a story.
He's a very dogged reporter. That's the phrase that I
think of when I think of Matt Tybee. And he
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left traditional media to start his own product, which you
should subscribe to on substack. It's called racket News. But
he was asked to come back and testify again, and
I just want to play for you his testimony about
what he knows about USAID and their role in censoring
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the information that you and I are getting on a
regular basis. This is Jim Jordan first is the first
force you're gonna hear, and then you're in here Matt's
testimony right after that.
Speaker 6 (44:04):
If your recolaest we find mis pitch your microphone, hit
your microphone him. Thank you, mister Chairman.
Speaker 2 (44:14):
Is on.
Speaker 9 (44:16):
Two years ago, when Michael and I first testified before
your Weaponization of Government Subcommittee, Democratic members called us so
called journalists, suggested we were bought off scribes, and questioned
our ethics and our loyalties. When we tried to answer,
we were told to shut up, take our take off
our tuninfoil hats, and remember two things. One there is
no digital censorship, and two, if there is digital censorship,
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it's for our own good.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
I was shocked.
Speaker 9 (44:41):
I thought the whole thing had to be a mistake.
There was no way the party that I gave votes to,
my whole life was.
Speaker 6 (44:46):
Now pro censorship.
Speaker 9 (44:48):
Then last year I listened to John Kerry, whom I
voted for, talked to the World Economic Forum speaking about disinformation.
He said, quote our First Amendment stands as a major
block to our ability to quote hammered out of existence.
He complained that it's really hard to govern because people
self select where they go for their news, which makes
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it quote much harder to build consensus. Now, I defended
John Kerry when people said he looks French, but Marie
Anchoinette would have been embarrassed by this speech.
Speaker 6 (45:18):
He was essentially.
Speaker 9 (45:19):
Complaining that the peasants are self selecting their own sources
of media.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
What's next letting.
Speaker 9 (45:24):
Them make up their own minds. Lastly, building consensus may
be a politicians' job, but it's not mine as a
citizen or as a journalist. In fact, making it hard
to govern is exactly the media's job. The failure to
understand this is why we have a censorship problem. This
is an Alamo moment for the First Amendment. Most of
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America's closest allies, as both Rippa and Michael have pointed out,
have already adopted draconian speech laws. We are surrounded the
EU's new Digital Services Act as the most comprehensive censorship
law ever instituted in a way. Democratic Society ranking member raskin,
you don't have to go as far as Russia or
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China to find people jailed for speech. Our allies in
England now have an Online Safety Act, which empowers the
government to jail people for nebulous defenses like false communication
are causing psychological harm. Germany, France, Australia, Canada and other
nations have implemented similar ideas. These laws are totally incompatible
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with our system. Some of our own citizens have been
harassed or even arrested in some of these countries, but
our government has not stood up for them. Why because
many of our bureaucrats believe in that these laws take usaid.
Many Americans are now in an arp or because they
learned about over four hundred million dollars going to an
organization called Internews, whose chief Genie Borgeaux boasted to Congress
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about training hundreds of thousands of people in journalism but
her views are almost identical to Kerry's. She gave a
talk once about building trust and combating misinformation in India
during the pandemic. She said that after months of a
really beautifully unified COVID nineteen message, vaccine enthusiasm rose to
eighty seven percent, but when quote mixed information on vaccine
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efficacy got out, Hesitancy ensued, we're paying this person to
train journalists, and she doesn't know. If the press does
not exist to promote unity or political goals like vaccine enthusiasm,
that's propaganda, not journalism. Boorgelle also once said that to
fight bad content, we need to work really hard on
exclusion lists or inclusion lists, and quote really need to
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focus our ad dollars toward what he called the good news.
Speaker 5 (47:43):
This again is Matt Tybee, journalist speaking to the House
Committee on the censorship industrial Complex, and I'll let him finish.
Speaker 4 (47:50):
She's almost done again.
Speaker 9 (47:53):
If you don't know the fastest way to a road
trust in media is by having government sponsor exclusion lists.
You shouldn't be getting a dollar in taxpayer money lit
alone four hundred and seventy six million of it, and
USAID is just a tiny piece of the censorship machine.
Michael and I saw across that long list of agencies. Collectively,
they've bought up every part of the news production line, sources,
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think tanks, research, fact checking, anti disinformation, commercial media scoring,
and when all's fail, straight up censorship. It is a
giant closed messaging loop whose purpose is to transform the
free press into exactly that consensus machine. There is no
way to remove this rot surgically. The whole mechanism has
to go. Is there right wing mis information? Hell? Yes,
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it exists in every direction. But I grew up a
Democrat and don't remember being afraid of it. At the time,
we figured we didn't need censorship because we thought we
had the better argument. Obviously, many of you lack the
same confidence. You took billions of dollars from taxpayers and
you blew it on programs whose entire purpose was to
tell them they're wrong about things they can see with
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their own eyes. You sold us out, and until these
rather times tiresome questions are answered, this problem is not fixed.
Speaker 6 (49:09):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (49:10):
So that is him talking about the basically the government
conspiring via usaid aid, two trained.
Speaker 4 (49:18):
Journalists who are more likely going to the party line
and that's terrible.
Speaker 5 (49:25):
I mean, this is the kind of this feels very
kind of Soviet style. And I love the fact that
he called out John Kerrey, the French looking John Kerry.
Speaker 4 (49:34):
Still he is too, isn't he?
Speaker 5 (49:36):
Although as he gets older his jaw keeps getting bigger.
It's just pretty soon it's just gonna be just one
giant jaw. So, Matt Tybee, who's in this every day?
You should read the follow up post. I can't read
the follow up post in its entirety, but I will
share this part of you, or this part with you.
Speaker 4 (49:55):
The beginning.
Speaker 5 (49:55):
He made notes while he was at the House hearing
today and it starts out like this. Hours into my
latest turn as a witness in Jim Jordan's House Judiciary Committee,
I tried to pass the time by playing a game.
Every time a Democratic member described digital censorship as a
joke or a non issue, I scratched a notation.
Speaker 4 (50:15):
By the end of it. By the end, I had
a notebook full of entries.
Speaker 5 (50:20):
And he writes down bs distractions, wasting time, induces insomnia, dumb,
a waste of time, and then he goes on to
talk about how badly the Democrats are swinging and missing
on this issue. He said the Democrats on the committee
had three themes, Musk, Trump, and the price of eggs.
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I think it is absolutely hilarious that Democrats, who just
discovered that X costs a lot of money are now
rushing to pint it on the guy who's been in
office one month.
Speaker 4 (50:54):
One month. And if you think that anyone has the.
Speaker 5 (50:58):
Ability to shift the in a whole new direction in
one month, then perhaps you shouldn't vote in the next
election because you're just not bright.
Speaker 4 (51:07):
Enough the economy. Think of the economy as an.
Speaker 5 (51:10):
Aircraft carrier, and we'll see how fast they can turn
the aircraft.
Speaker 4 (51:14):
Carrier on a dime. I will say this. I saw
a tweet by Elon Musk the other day, and I
don't think I retweeted it.
Speaker 5 (51:21):
He specifically talked about bringing down the yield on the
bond rate, which is what I've been talking about.
Speaker 4 (51:29):
So they just got a high inflation.
Speaker 5 (51:30):
Number, but they're going aggressively after bringing the yield on
the bond rate now, and that requires cutting spending. That's
why we're hearing about everything that Doge is doing. Oh
I have a story about that. Listen to this, you guys.
This is why Americans are like, we spent money on
what what? Why Americans are getting hip to the fact
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that doge is not just necessary. It is like doge
in government right now is like if all of us
were in government, only smarter. Because let me just give
you this article from the Denver Gazette today headlined five
hundred and seventy million frozen. Here's the list of Colorado
programs officials say are impacted following Trump's freeze. Now, I
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got an email before I get into this article from
a guy who works in research and for like a
day their research project was shut down. But then they
went to the internet and resubmitted their proposal and it
was immediately approved and they got their they got their money.
Speaker 4 (52:31):
So all that incredibly important research is going to just
fall by the way It's not falling by the wayside.
But let me tell you what is So the bulk
of Colorado.
Speaker 5 (52:41):
Programs who's funding, according to local officials, remain inaccessible as
a few days ago, deal with energy, climate resilience, and
electric vehicle infrastructure. Let me tell you what the dollars
are that are frozen right now in Colorado, And I
just want to You can text me your response at five.
Speaker 4 (53:03):
Sixty six nine zero. Which of these things must be saved?
Speaker 5 (53:07):
Okay, one hundred and fifty six million dollars for expanding
solar energy.
Speaker 4 (53:17):
Where what does that even mean? Who gets that money?
Speaker 10 (53:21):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (53:21):
But there's more.
Speaker 5 (53:23):
We have twenty five point six million dollars and I'm
just gonna round these numbers up to make it simple.
Grid Resilience formula funding from the US Department of Energy.
That's twenty five point six million dollars. Seventy point two
million dollars for home energy efficiency rebate programs, two point
eight million dollars for a state Energy program formula funding
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formula State Energy program formula funding.
Speaker 4 (53:49):
I don't even know what that is. That can go
State Energy Program.
Speaker 5 (53:53):
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law from the US Department of Energy six
point nine million dollars unless the Energy Department is building
new roads, that money can go. Home Electrification and Application
Rebate Program from the US Department of Energy. That's seventy
million dollars that can go ARECI Advancing Building Performance Standards
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from the US Department of Energy. Two point five million
dollars that can go RICI. Colorado Advanced Energy Code Adoption
and Enforcement Program that's two point five that can go.
Three million for the CPRG Climate Pollution Reduction Planning Grant,
twenty two point six million for Weatherization Assistance program that
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can go.
Speaker 4 (54:40):
Oh, I'm sorry, another fifty million for that.
Speaker 5 (54:43):
So a total of like seventy two seventy three million
for weatherization assistance programs. Energy Efficiency Revolving Loan Fund from
the Department of Energy, one point six Energy Efficiency and
Conservation Block grant, two millionaire Training for Residential Energy Contractors,
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two point five million solar for all from the EPA,
one hundred and fifty six million Climate Pollution Reduction Implementation Grant,
one hundred and twenty nine million IRA codes competitive a
word collaboration twenty million. All of this can go, every
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bit of it, and see they put it out there
like our Democratic senators are telling.
Speaker 4 (55:28):
Us that this is a crisis and it's absolutely terrible. Now,
don't get me wrong, I do think there's.
Speaker 5 (55:36):
An issue when you've already got people working on projects
that have already invested because they thought they were getting
paid for those projects. That may fall into a different
camp for me. But how much of this stuff is
any of the business of the federal government.
Speaker 4 (55:50):
None of it.
Speaker 5 (55:52):
Absolutely nothing on this list should have ever come out
of the federal government's coffers in the first place, not
one single thing. This is what dogs doing. And the
more people see this stuff, they're like, wait a minute,
what T hack Man? And I do think the American
people grasp that inflation is a government spending problem, not
anything else. There may be mitigating factors, but every period
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of high inflation has been preceded by a level of
high government spending. It's not rocket surgery to put those
two things together.
Speaker 4 (56:22):
People. And yes, I know I mixed my metaphors. I
did it on purpose because I think it's funny.
Speaker 5 (56:27):
When we get back, gen X, I got a story
for you, and I gotta tell you, like, very rarely
do I see a story that kind of ooh, kind
of gives me a gut check. This one gave me
a gut check for so many reasons. And if you
were a fan of MTVS one hundred and twenty minutes
like I was, you're gonna want to hear this one.
But I want to share this one because I think
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it's probably a point.
Speaker 4 (56:49):
A lot of people feel.
Speaker 5 (56:51):
Hi, Mandy, I agree with finding the fraud and corruption,
but don't you think the correct way to go about
it is through the House and the Senate, not the
executive branch. Aren't they setting a president in the next
political party that wins the White House? That is, if
Trump leaves after his term. Okay, Trump's gonna leave after
his term, first of all. Second of all, that's the
way it's always been done, right, Republicans run on, you know,
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man handling spending under control, and we're really gonna do
it this time, and they never freaking do And Donald
Trump clearly understands how intractable government really is.
Speaker 8 (57:22):
Now.
Speaker 4 (57:23):
Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 5 (57:24):
As I've said a million times, every single executive order
is like a pie cress promise, easily made, easily broken.
So they have a lifespan. Right, So yeah, Congress is
gonna have to do something. But I think what Donald
Trump is doing now with DOGE is forcing the issue
in a way no one in the executive branch has
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ever forced the issue ever.
Speaker 4 (57:48):
Nobody's ever said, you know what, I'm just gonna go
ahead and cut the stuff that I'm in charge of.
Speaker 5 (57:52):
Nobody's ever said that, because nobody ever really wants government
to get smaller.
Speaker 4 (57:58):
They just don't.
Speaker 5 (58:00):
All right, I've got this story I got to share
with you as a gen xer. This one's kind of like.
Speaker 4 (58:04):
Hit me today.
Speaker 5 (58:07):
Family members of veteran radio and TV personality Matt Penfield
have filed an opposition to a conservatorship request from his daughter.
Penfield suffered a stroke in early January, which was followed
by his daughter Jessica seeking a conservative ship, claiming her
father was instable but poor physical health and incapable of
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making cognitive decisions or physical movements. In the filing, the
daughter claims she was protecting her father's finances and property
from his girlfriend, now identified as Kara Brown, who had
access to his accounts. Now Brown and Penfield's brother Glenn
alleged that Jessica is attempting to isolate Matt from the family.
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So here we have a family fight about who is
going to take over for Matt Penfield. And I got
to tell you, Matt Penfield for me when MTV first starts,
and kids today just don't even understand how crappy MTV
is now, because MTV was the first time in my
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recollection that there was a network that felt like it
was created specifically.
Speaker 4 (59:14):
For young people. It wasn't made for old fuddy dadies.
Speaker 5 (59:18):
It was made for young people, and they were doing things,
and they were making videos, and it was like all
of these little artistic movies.
Speaker 4 (59:25):
All day long.
Speaker 5 (59:26):
And then you'd have these shows on MTV that were
more niche and niche however.
Speaker 4 (59:31):
You want to say it.
Speaker 5 (59:32):
And Matt Penfield was the host of one hundred and
twenty Minutes along with a bunch of other stuff. He
did so many shows on MTV. Matt Penfield was one
of those like walking encyclopedias of knowledge when it.
Speaker 4 (59:44):
Comes to music. And when I read dude had a stroke.
Speaker 5 (59:48):
Now, let me just tell you about my day today, okay,
And if you're of a certain age like I am,
you're gonna absolutely.
Speaker 4 (59:53):
Understand what is about to happen here.
Speaker 5 (59:56):
So normally I get up, I get right to work,
I jump into my works on the computer. But then
at some point I'll go up and I'll make myself breakfast,
and while I eat breakfast, I will then take that
moment to Peru's Facebook for a few minutes my personal Facebook.
This morning, on my personal Facebook page, which is inhabited
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by a lot of people. I went to high school
with a lot of friends who are my age. So
we're talking about, you know, anywhere in your fifties kind of,
that's where my most of.
Speaker 4 (01:00:25):
My people are.
Speaker 5 (01:00:27):
And I'm scrolling down and one of my friends has
posted a picture of him in recovery.
Speaker 4 (01:00:31):
He just got a hip replacement.
Speaker 5 (01:00:32):
And I was like, oh, hope you you know, send
a little prayer for speedy healing, because that's what I do.
And then I'm scrolling a little further lo and behold
a second friend of mine had a hip replacement yesterday
as well, and I was.
Speaker 4 (01:00:45):
Like, well, what are the chances of that? Keep on
scrolling saying, oh the little prayer brather. I keep on scrolling.
Speaker 5 (01:00:53):
And then and then a third, a third of my
friends had a hip replacement, and I was like, my god,
how old am I?
Speaker 4 (01:01:02):
What is happening? Did I get fastwarded in an old age?
Speaker 5 (01:01:06):
No one asked me, no one asked my permission, And
all of a sudden, all my friends are having hip replacements.
And then I see Matt Pinfield had a stroke, and
I'm like.
Speaker 4 (01:01:15):
Oh my god, I'm ready to just pack it in.
Speaker 7 (01:01:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:01:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:01:24):
MTV now has reruns a Big Bang Theory in France.
I understand it's the person who said MTV was always garbage,
shut your mouth.
Speaker 4 (01:01:30):
Much like the Kendrick Lamar.
Speaker 5 (01:01:32):
Entire halftime show was meant for a different generation, so
was MTV when it started, and now it's trash.
Speaker 4 (01:01:40):
So uh yeah, uh, I just felt really old today,
so be kind.
Speaker 5 (01:01:47):
But the other reason that I'm bringing this story up
is because if you have not figured out end of
life stuff, you need to sit down and make it happen.
This doesn't require a lot of effort. You can go
to Trustinwills dot com and do it there. If you
can't afford an attorney, that's fine. You don't have to
spend a million dollars. You just have to make sure
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it's done right. You need a power of medical attorney decided,
and you need to understand that that person, if you
are incapacitated, is going to make your medical decisions for you.
And if you don't think your spouse is capable of
making good medical decisions, you better loop somebody else in
and put.
Speaker 4 (01:02:25):
It on paper. I'm not saying that's why my dad.
Speaker 5 (01:02:29):
Died after his stroke, but the person making his medical
decisions was not me or my sister, and we would
have made much different medical decisions. And Matt Pinfield is
not even that old. He should have already had this
stuff locked up. And now you've created chaos and havoc
between the girlfriend and the daughter. He needs ongoing get
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it was just a complete mess, a mess that can
be avoided by having a really uncomfortable conversation with your
loved ones to sort this stuff out. Make sure everybody's
on the same page, make sure everybody understands your wishes.
And guess what, you guys, after you die, the people
in your life can just ignore those wishes and create havoc.
Speaker 4 (01:03:11):
I have lived through that, and I do not recommend it.
Speaker 5 (01:03:15):
Nothing like a good lawsuit among family members to really
really destroy what's left. And I've been through it, and
so I saw this, and first of all, I was
the gut check because here's somebody that you know, I
don't think if Matt Penfield as being old. He's one
of those people that for me, will always be young
and one hundred and twenty minutes. And at the secondary,
they've got a tale of woe, you've got a complete
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explainer of what not to do. What's funny is, Chuck
and I have already gone through and had these conversations,
and we've got everything squared away, written out, all that stuff,
and yet talking to my oldest son about it because
he is is, he's involved in a lot of it,
and you know, if something happened us right now, we
have to have Q taking care of him, just all
of that stuff. But when we try and talk to
him aout it, he's really like, I'm glad you guys
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are talking, are doing this, but I don't want to
hear about it.
Speaker 4 (01:04:02):
Like you have no choice.
Speaker 5 (01:04:03):
You have no choice but to think about this and
understand this and make sure that everybody is on the
same page before we have to try and figure it out.
When someone is ill, everyone is emotional, that's the worst
time to sort this stuff out. So please please use
Matt Penfield as a stern warning and don't put yourself
and your family in that position. Get your estate stuff
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taken care of because it's trust me, Trust me on
this man, Trust me. What generation was Apple music targeting?
Even my millennial children didn't like it. I got to
tell you my millennial children did.
Speaker 3 (01:04:40):
So.
Speaker 5 (01:04:41):
Yeah, Mandy, you may feel old, but you don't look
at because your podcast picture is years behind Illinois farm Boy.
You know, what Illinois farmer, You figure out how to
change that picture, because I can't, and I hate it
that that picture is still there and it's so old.
I hate it because it's just false advertising. Right, somebody
meets me, like, Lord, she looks terrible in real life.
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They just went for that picture to now, you know,
the drum beat of time marches on, et cetera, et cetera,
that kind of nonsense. When we get back, I want
to talk a little bit about Valentine's Day because I'm
not going to be here tomorrow. I'm taking tomorrow off
to make the three day weekend a four day weekend.
And I saw an interesting thing on Facebook the other day.
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It was one of those paragraphs that somebody had written,
but it was actually kind of cute. Cute in the
sense that it was asking people the small gestures that
people who love each other make that over time, meet
a whole lot more than the grandiose flowers on Valentine's
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Day or a fancy gift or I mean, not that
there's anything wrong with those things, but those those grand
romantic gestures they wane as you go through a relationship.
But that doesn't mean that the relationship itself can't be
a wonder full place to be. I don't want to
ask you long connected, long relationship people to weigh in
on that. Next maybe you're planning something romantic or some chocolate,
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or just to give certificate to bovissage. I'm telling you
you cannot go wrong with that. But I saw something
today or not today.
Speaker 4 (01:06:17):
It was a couple of days ago on Facebook, just
one of those cheesy paragraphs of people right, And this
cheezy paragraph was essentially saying, look, you know, everybody can
do the grand gesture, but in a long term, long
haul relationship, it's all the small gestures that mean so much.
And it's so true.
Speaker 5 (01:06:35):
This is one of the things where when I have
had friends that have been going through a rough patch
in their marriage, and you know what, everybody has gone
through rough patches in their marriage.
Speaker 4 (01:06:44):
Chuck and I've had times.
Speaker 5 (01:06:45):
When things have not always been smooth sailing, but we're
both very committed to our commitment, so we worked through it.
You know, I drive him crazy, he drives me crazy,
et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 4 (01:06:55):
Repeat, you know, but in those.
Speaker 5 (01:07:00):
Little moments of kindness, those are the things that can
help you get through those hard times. And one of
the things I always say to friends who are having
a just a challenging time. And I'm not talking about,
you know, serious issues like addiction or betrayal. I'm just
talking about those times when the person that you love
is driving you crazy. And everybody has those times. I
don't care who you are. Maybe they're short for you,
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maybe they're long, it doesn't matter. The thing I always
say is, look, sometimes when things are not going well,
if you both just say, hey, you know what, why
don't we just be a little more kind to each other.
Why don't you just work on just being nicer to
each other, Because it's very easy to sort of fall
back into your corners of snarkiness and sniping. And sometimes
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it is as simple as remembering to thank the other
person for the little things that they do every day
that make your life easier.
Speaker 4 (01:07:50):
That that can get you through a really rough patch.
Speaker 5 (01:07:53):
And I have to say, this is an area where
I think my husband and I both do a really
good job. It's just appreciating thing like yesterday, I'm down
in the basement, he's upstairs. The toilet paper is in
the basement where I am, and he calls me downstairs,
and he says, hey, when you come upstairs, can you
just bring some toilet paper? Sure, no problem, no skin
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off my nose, right, So I forget when I go upstairs.
But before I left for work, I went back downstairs
to the basement, got the toilet paper, took it back
upstairs because I said I would do it, and then
I forgot. So I did it anyway, and I left,
and then like twenty minutes later, he sends me a text, Hey,
thanks so much for bringing up the toilet paper. Now,
the whole situation was just me following through on my
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responsibility that I told him I would do, but then
him taking the time to appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (01:08:40):
It was just like a nice exchange. Those are the
kind of things that I think matter.
Speaker 5 (01:08:45):
A lot in a long term relationship. And I think
it's the little things that people do. And I got
this email from someone.
Speaker 4 (01:08:52):
Who obviously read the blog as he should and let
me wit. Let me find his email here it's nope,
hang on, one second, where is it?
Speaker 8 (01:09:03):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (01:09:03):
Here we go.
Speaker 5 (01:09:04):
This is from Dennis. He said, Hi, Mandy pers your
request on today's blog. My wife and I will be
married forty years this March. We show each other love.
We gave up the traditional Valentine's Day decades ago as
we don't need a specific day to demonstrate our ever
growing affection for one another. So here's just a few
things we do. Her makes me delicious meals almost every night.
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Holds boards when I'm making long cuts on the table,
saw massages my hands when they hurt. Puts lavender oil
on my pillow to help me sleep me start her
car and brush the snow off of it. Buy her
daffodil bulbs her favorite flower each fall. Make her peppermint
water by using fresh peppermint from our garden. Do household
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chores without being asked us. Hold hands everywhere we go,
watch movies together, play backgammon in bed, keep things spicy.
I think a lot of young people have this idea
that long married couples like that boring or somehow marriage
is too constricting. It is the exact opposite when you're
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married to the right person, and marrying the right.
Speaker 4 (01:10:10):
Person is critically important.
Speaker 5 (01:10:12):
I will say that as one who married a wonderful
person who was the wrong person initially, only to find
out later that I finally found my person, and that's
what I have now. I've got a lot of text
messages five six, six nine zero coming in.
Speaker 4 (01:10:26):
I love this stuff, love it so much, Mandy.
Speaker 5 (01:10:31):
I've been married to my wife for thirty four years.
I never give my wife flowers on the customary holidays,
but throughout the year, when she least expects it. She's
commented to me many times that this small sign of
affection means more than any other card or gift. Still
hot and heavy after thirty four years, Mandy, After twenty years,
I still open the doors for my wife, cook dinner
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when I have time, and warm up the car and
shovel the snow off her car.
Speaker 4 (01:10:55):
Enjoy your weekend.
Speaker 6 (01:10:57):
You're getting it right.
Speaker 5 (01:10:59):
This is interesting, going back to our conversation from just
a minute ago, Mandy, Amazon has a.
Speaker 4 (01:11:04):
Knock box next of kin.
Speaker 5 (01:11:06):
The kit contains file folders, envelopes, and directions how to
organize all the important information needed by family when you
become incapacitated. There's also an organization death cafe, where people
can come together, usually in coffee shops or libraries and
just talk about death.
Speaker 4 (01:11:23):
Yes, that subject we don't.
Speaker 5 (01:11:24):
Want to talk about, but it's going to happen to
all of us. I don't mind talking about death, because
I know this isn't the end. I think this is
just one tiny little speck in a brand adventure. We
only get to know parts about it at a time.
When we get back, I'm going to read some more
of these. Feel free to text me your things that
you do to show your spouse that you love them
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that aren't necessarily grand romantic gestures.
Speaker 4 (01:11:47):
We'll do those when we get back.
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Please? Can we get a breaking new We've got some
breaking news from the Mandy Carnle Show.
Speaker 10 (01:12:25):
Yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 4 (01:12:28):
This is you guys. If you're standing, please be seated.
If you're driving, you.
Speaker 5 (01:12:32):
May want to pull off on the side of the
road because I know you thought it was forever. But
Kanye West and his naked wife Bianca sen Story have
gone their separate ways. It is expected that they will
file for divorce shortly, where she is expected to get
a predetermined five.
Speaker 4 (01:12:48):
Million dollar payoff for their short marriage.
Speaker 6 (01:12:54):
Wait, Kim, look like will he target next? I? I?
Speaker 4 (01:12:58):
You you know what if he immediately finds another woman
to date him.
Speaker 5 (01:13:02):
After his disgusting and vile rants and anti Semitic stuff,
and some other woman steps in, it proves exactly what
Donald Trump said when he said, when you're rich, you
can walk up to women and grab them in that you.
Speaker 4 (01:13:15):
Know what and they'll let you. That's what that proves.
Speaker 5 (01:13:19):
Anyway, moving on to better things, because a lot of
you and our audience have sent the sweetest things ever.
When I ask long term couples, what are the little
ways that you show someone else how much you love them?
Are you ready for this one? Because I'm not ready
for this one. My husband and I says this Texter
were married fifty four years before he passed away in
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twenty twenty. There were so many small things that I
didn't realize we did for each other, and that would
mean so much after he was gone. When one of
us would be gone on a trip without the other,
right after we would get back, the other.
Speaker 4 (01:13:51):
One would say, I'm so glad you're home. I miss that.
Speaker 5 (01:13:55):
I never realized how many times at night one of
us would just roll over and just touch the other.
Now the bed is empty and cold. Almost every day
something else comes up and I yell, Ernie, I need you,
things like changing a light bulb, which I'm too short
to do and get on ladders anymore, or changing the
batteries and something like the chirping alarm in my house.
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I never realized how good I had it for those
fifty four years.
Speaker 4 (01:14:18):
Do come on, bro, God have.
Speaker 10 (01:14:24):
The rest of the work we need to get through
without a broken heart.
Speaker 6 (01:14:27):
Man The clem damn.
Speaker 4 (01:14:31):
Mandy kind of different.
Speaker 5 (01:14:32):
But my wife of forty one years loves a certain
eatery that I basically can't stand. Yet I often take
her there on my own accord because I know how
much she likes it and it means to her. That's
just one way after forty one years. There are too
many to enumerate here. I got it, I got it
before you go.
Speaker 6 (01:14:47):
I gotta get mine.
Speaker 10 (01:14:48):
In so all the mannerisms we have, I think that's
one of the stronger things, just because we have so
many little phrases, little pet names, little like fun like
verbal have your shared language share that that's kind of
what starts everything for us. But yeah, it's the little things.
It's always the pleas and the thank yous, even though
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we know we don't really have to, we want to.
It's kind, it's kind general, just constant love, always like
calling when we'ren Way's home.
Speaker 6 (01:15:17):
It's just those are the little things that come to mind.
Speaker 10 (01:15:19):
It's the little things that fill in all the little
gaps of all the big things that you do for
each other.
Speaker 4 (01:15:23):
Yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 5 (01:15:25):
B Rod and c Rod'd been married almost thirty nine years.
It's nice to have your person that from a Rod's
parents Mandy married fifty eight years. I tell her daily
that I love her very much and that my friends,
I mean it.
Speaker 6 (01:15:40):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (01:15:41):
I'm trying to think of how to say this without
sounding judging, and I'm not meaning to sound judge.
Speaker 4 (01:15:44):
At all, because every relationship is different.
Speaker 5 (01:15:46):
But when I'm around people who never express that they
love each other like I, I mean, maybe they do privately,
and maybe I'm just our privy to it, but it's
just I don't know. It's it's strange to me because
we have a lot of love in our family. Her
Skimp on the I love yous in our family.
Speaker 10 (01:16:01):
I'm gonna give you some personal here, and it's gonna
make your heart mouth a little bit. Every single morning
we get up together to go work out, she will
not get up unless I give her up ups and
buy up ups. I mean, I like uncover, take her
out of bed and give her some love, give her
a big old hug, give her a kiss. The morning
doesn't begin, she says, unless she gets her up ups.
Speaker 4 (01:16:21):
Oh that's fantastic.
Speaker 6 (01:16:22):
Yep, you're all love it. You're welcome, this one says.
Speaker 5 (01:16:25):
I bring home flowers for my wife almost every month
on Valentine's I go a little bit extra and get
her a nice arrangement. I like Valentine's Day because it's
a holiday that gives us a reason to express our
love and celebrate our love, even though we do things
year round on trips, go on dates, squad to dinner.
I like Valentine's Day and I always celebrate it every
year with my wife. Don't make excuses. Why not celebrate
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Valentine's Day. You can die eggs anytime of the year,
but you do it around Easter.
Speaker 4 (01:16:51):
So I yeah, a lot of people.
Speaker 5 (01:16:53):
And here's the thing, If that works for you and
your wife loves it, that's great. I'm super happy, but
I'm terrible membering holidays and anniversaries. And Chuck is far
more romantic than I am. And I actually had an
article yesterday yesterday or today yesterday that said men are
more romantic than women. But I do think there is
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a bit for some men of that. Well, I've conquered
her now she is my wife, so I don't require
as much effort. And there are women who get married
and say, well, I've got him now I don't require
as much effort, And I think that's sad, really really sad.
Speaker 4 (01:17:33):
So don't be that person. Thirty eight years here says
this text.
Speaker 5 (01:17:35):
Or my husband is working on Valentine's Day so we
can both go to our grandson's birthday on Sunday. It's
not about a single day exactly. This person said I'll
marry him for five million, talking about Kanye, And that's
what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (01:17:49):
Mine.
Speaker 10 (01:17:51):
Practicing practice sat our nephews, Oh Captain America, so very nice,
practicing for kids we're.
Speaker 4 (01:18:00):
Doing, Mandy.
Speaker 5 (01:18:02):
I write love notes and hide them in different spots
for my wife to find. Often always start warmer car
in the winter. A lot of you guys talk about that,
and I got to tell you I thought about this
the other day.
Speaker 4 (01:18:13):
I've had my car now for let's see my car.
I've had my car for six years. Four years. I've
had my car for four years. I could not tell
you how to put washer fluid into my car, no clue.
I have no idea.
Speaker 6 (01:18:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:18:27):
I know what size win Schall wipers. I have no idea.
Speaker 5 (01:18:32):
They just magically get changed every so often. I don't
know anything about.
Speaker 4 (01:18:37):
The operation of my vehicle that I should know because
I don't have to do it because.
Speaker 10 (01:18:40):
My husband is like, I got that. I gotta thank
you for part of my operation. As a as some
love language. I take the snow Joe you got me,
and I clean off both cars.
Speaker 5 (01:18:50):
There you go, There you go, Mandy. I say you
a talk back about an hour ago. We got a
talk pack. Check it out. I've been married twenty two
years in counting, and remind my wife frequently that it
seems longer than that. And you know what, sometimes I
say that to my husband as well. Sometimes I do.
It's the little things like when I forced her to
wear a sea through dress and a major awards ceremony
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signed Kanye that's a good one, Jake. Mandy Hap and
I have been married for thirty one years. Every time
he walks into the room where I am, he loudly says,
missus D. Now there is no D in our name,
but it comes from a long Peter Boyle story we
heard on the radio when we were first married. Sometimes
he scares me when he says it. Sometimes it irritates me.
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But if he wasn't here any longer, I would miss
it terribly. By the way, I call him mister D.
And I know who exactly this is, and they are
quite the couple.
Speaker 4 (01:19:44):
Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (01:19:45):
Ditto for the lady who's husband passed away that was
married fifty four years. My exact experience right now, after
my husband and I were married forty six years and
he passed in twenty one.
Speaker 4 (01:19:56):
You know, I've been thinking.
Speaker 5 (01:19:57):
About this because, statistically speaking, chances are chucks to die
before I am. First of all, he's a man. Second
of all, he's five years older than me already. So
I actually, in an effort to buffer my impending grief,
I think about the things that I would like to
do that I don't do now because I'm married to Chuck,
like how I would decorate my house, or what kind
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of car I would drive, or any of these other
things where I've made a little concession to him.
Speaker 2 (01:20:24):
You know it.
Speaker 4 (01:20:26):
Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 5 (01:20:27):
It's not like my life sucks because I've made all
these concessions. But when you're married, you have to make concessions.
That's part of the deal. Well, let me just change that.
If you're happily married, you have to make concessions. If
you don't make concessions, you will not remain happily married
for very long.
Speaker 4 (01:20:40):
I'm just letting you know that.
Speaker 6 (01:20:41):
Mandy.
Speaker 4 (01:20:42):
We just celebrated our thirtieth in January.
Speaker 5 (01:20:44):
He turns down the bed and lights multiple candles every
night and gets up extra early to make us breakfast,
which is extra important right now because we're on week
six of soda. Congratulations of week six of soda, and
you got.
Speaker 4 (01:20:57):
To keep her there. Mandy has been passed away at
fifty six. Not expected.
Speaker 5 (01:21:02):
It was a week before our thirty fifth anniversary. I
Am not trying to be sad or anything, but you
never know what you miss until they're gone.
Speaker 4 (01:21:10):
He was my best friend. I'm telling you we're.
Speaker 5 (01:21:12):
Gonna make marriage great again. We're gonna show these kids
who somehow think that marriage is a ball in chain.
Speaker 4 (01:21:20):
Or an anchor or a social construct that they don't need,
that they're wrong.
Speaker 5 (01:21:29):
A strong society is built on the backs of families,
and great families are based on marriage.
Speaker 4 (01:21:35):
I firmly believe that, because I've.
Speaker 5 (01:21:37):
Just seen I'm now old enough to have seen what
happens when you do it another way, and it's never
as good.
Speaker 4 (01:21:43):
It just isn't.
Speaker 11 (01:21:44):
All right.
Speaker 5 (01:21:45):
We'll be back in a second. I got so many
other stories that I wanted to get to. Let's see,
we got Matt Penfield story on there, got to make
park reservations for your stuff this summer?
Speaker 4 (01:21:54):
We got Matt Tybee. Should we talk about Ooh, you
know what I'm gonna do next.
Speaker 5 (01:22:01):
We're gonna dip our toe into a Twitter thread that
a Rod sent me.
Speaker 4 (01:22:05):
The reality of alcohol and it's not pretty, not at all.
Speaker 2 (01:22:10):
Now.
Speaker 5 (01:22:10):
A Rod sent me this very interesting thread about alcohol,
and I want to a Ron. I want to bring
you into this because is this information new to you
at this moment.
Speaker 6 (01:22:22):
At the level of that of what it is. Yeah, yeah,
that level of it is relatively new.
Speaker 5 (01:22:27):
Yes, and it's a long thread and I don't even
know the guy who put it up here, but it
is about alcohol. And he starts it by saying, the
biggest scam in the world alcohol and alcohol is is
very can be incredibly, incredibly damaging and dangerous, but it
can also be a social outlet for some people who
are not comfortable being out and about without it. So
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I just from my point of view, you've got to
make educated decisions. And at this state in the game,
I don't really drink anymore, but not for atty big
medical philosophical reason other than it me from sleeping for
a really long time, and at fifty five, I'd rather
have the sleep than the cocktail for the most part.
Now that doesn't mean I won't occasionally have a beverage,
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but I factor in my lack of sleep that's going
to happen because of it.
Speaker 6 (01:23:13):
That's where we are.
Speaker 4 (01:23:14):
But alcohol is incredibly damaging. Does this change your viewpoint?
Speaker 5 (01:23:18):
Because I know you like to go out with your
friends and get your drink on or have every people over.
Does it change your attitude or thinking about alcohol in
any meaningful way knowing that it can be really, really
bad for you, especially long.
Speaker 4 (01:23:30):
Term, long term alcohol abuse does horrible things to your brain,
to your body. It's really hard to recover from the answers.
Speaker 10 (01:23:38):
No, it doesn't change anything for one reason because I'm
already very rare, very responsible and aware that, yeah, too
much of it is absolutely not good.
Speaker 6 (01:23:46):
To that level, I did not know.
Speaker 10 (01:23:47):
But it doesn't change anything for me, just because I
already have those restrictions for myself to never really go
too crazy. Yeah, it's only typically a few and it's
usually only in like social settings.
Speaker 4 (01:23:56):
Do you know what's going to be interesting for you?
Speaker 5 (01:23:58):
Because I think everybody, And my friend Rob's coming in
here in just a minute, we'll ask him. I think everybody,
after you hit a certain age, you have had that
friend that never got it under control. And at this point,
I probably have a handful of people that I've watched
go through full blown alcohol addiction. A couple of them
have pulled it out, one of them has not, and
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two of them died in detox. Yeah, because detox is
brutal on your body. I'm not saying don't do it.
I'm just saying don't do it without a doctor, because
when you are truly alcohol dependent, your whole body is
alcohol dependent.
Speaker 6 (01:24:30):
It's rough.
Speaker 4 (01:24:32):
I mean it's really rough.
Speaker 5 (01:24:34):
So watching this kind of stuff, it's just it's interesting
how normalized alcohol consumption is in our society, as if
there are no downsides at all other than drunk driving.
We all know drunk driving is the worst thing ever,
should not do it. We should absolutely make that not
a thing. But nobody talks about should you be going
out to a bar and having fourteen drinks in one night.
Speaker 4 (01:24:56):
That seems like maybe we should be having more of
those conversations.
Speaker 5 (01:24:59):
I do think the pendulum on alcohol consumption has shifted
quite a bit, but I think that it's only because
people perceive pot to be safer in a way. I
think a lot of people say, well, you know, I
don't drink anymore, but I'm, you know, smoking a joint
to go to bed at night or whatever it is.
So we sort of shifted one mind altering substance for another.
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And I don't think that's uncommon. But as far as
damage to yourself, your body, your community, your relationships, alcohol
is far worse than pot. Pot still can have very
negative impacts, but it is not nearly.
Speaker 4 (01:25:36):
As bad as alcohol. And yet one is normalized and
one is not.
Speaker 5 (01:25:40):
I have a friend who is a wonderful human being
but loves and enjoys a glass of bourbon at night.
It just maybe even two, maybe even three on occasion,
But boy howdy does he look down on people who
smoke weed?
Speaker 4 (01:25:54):
And I was like, you know, not for nothing.
Speaker 5 (01:25:57):
Nobody's judging you for drinking a bourbon at night. Don't
be so judging about people have chosen another, you know,
kind of mind altering substance than you did.
Speaker 4 (01:26:05):
So okay, when we get back my friend Rob, I call.
Speaker 5 (01:26:07):
Him my own personal veterans Affair office because.
Speaker 4 (01:26:10):
When any of you send me emails that.
Speaker 5 (01:26:14):
Are about a veteran in crisis, and you would not
believe how many times that actually happens.
Speaker 4 (01:26:18):
But when you send me an email, I need this,
I need help, any.
Speaker 5 (01:26:21):
Whatever, the first person I call is Rob because he
knows more than anybody else about veterans causes.
Speaker 4 (01:26:26):
We're going to talk about that next. Keep it right
here on KOA.
Speaker 5 (01:26:29):
Rob Williams is my guest, and you guys may remember
him from his long stint as of the Day Rob,
where he came in for a daily beating. Well he
had a job that allowed him to do such. Now
he has like a real job, and they're like, you
got to go to the office and you got to
do work and stuff.
Speaker 12 (01:26:44):
How are you going to talk trash on the blog
about how you're going to stop me into a mudutle today?
Speaker 5 (01:26:48):
No, I just might have mentioned that you will be
playing of the Day as well today and because you're
out of practice, it should be a massacre.
Speaker 6 (01:26:56):
Really, just letting you know.
Speaker 12 (01:26:57):
I love that you placed that gigantic TV directly behind
you to distract me.
Speaker 6 (01:27:01):
Too, So you know what, that was not my idea.
Speaker 5 (01:27:03):
Okay, so I can't help the giant TV in the
lobby that you can't control yourself and not look at it.
Speaker 4 (01:27:08):
You're like a moth to the flame of the TV.
Look at that. It's like there's boobs on there or something.
Speaker 12 (01:27:13):
It's Billie Eilish's jumping up and down, and now I
have to look out the windows.
Speaker 5 (01:27:19):
Roup is actually my veterans resource and he is connected
and supports all of these different veterans nonprofits, and I
thought it would be fun to have him in because
one of the things we have in Colorado, I feel
like and correct me if I'm wrong. There is a
nonprofit veterans organization for every situation.
Speaker 6 (01:27:39):
There very much.
Speaker 12 (01:27:41):
So across the nation there are forty four thousand veteran
based nonprofits aimed at the veteran community. It's kind of insane, actually,
if you ask me about it, that it.
Speaker 5 (01:27:51):
Would best maybe we can get some that have a
similar mission to join forces, you.
Speaker 4 (01:27:57):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (01:27:57):
And that's exactly so.
Speaker 12 (01:28:00):
Because of you, we were able to establish about face Radio,
which has now become about Face Media, all because of
you and your huge support.
Speaker 6 (01:28:11):
Yeah, for exactly that reason, and because of you, it morphed.
Speaker 12 (01:28:17):
We started off with just a simple radio station and
you know, it became you know, sixteen to twenty DJs.
Well that has morphed and now they've we've started they
started doing documentaries, writing books, all kinds of crazy stuff.
Speaker 6 (01:28:31):
So we had to change the name.
Speaker 12 (01:28:32):
Yes, it's more than just a radio station now and
now it's it's become just such a beast.
Speaker 6 (01:28:37):
It's incredible the things that people are creating in producers.
Speaker 4 (01:28:40):
All of these content creators are veterans, yep, every single
one of them.
Speaker 2 (01:28:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (01:28:44):
As people are exiting the military or exiting their job
as a first responder, we hand them a laptop and
a microphone and say hey, tell your story, and it's
become an incredibly.
Speaker 6 (01:28:53):
And beautiful thing.
Speaker 12 (01:28:54):
And yeah, and again, like we talked about, there are
forty four thousand veteran based nonprofits across the nation, which
is just incredible to me that and yet veterans suicide
continues to rise, which just blows my mind. So Seth
and I sat down at the beginning of the year
and kind of talked it through, and clearly, what we
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as a veteran community are doing, it's not fixing the problem.
We're not doing it right. We're failing in our mission.
And so we kind of talked it through and we're
going to take more of a leadership role in our community.
And so we're being very very deliberate in what we're
doing for twenty twenty five in the veteran community, and
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we're seeing we're taking a role and where we had
just a few weeks ago, we had a lady on
who was a beekeeper, and so now Seth and I
we're going to get some bees and we're you know,
we're talking about veterans taking over farms and ranches and
things like that and doing ranching all kinds of stuff.
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Basically taking leadership roles in your community, picking up the
ball and involving other veterans and what it is that
you're doing, and it's it's been pretty powerful. The response
has been extremely, extremely powerful, and it's because of your
support and your leadership, and we sincerely appreciate it.
Speaker 10 (01:30:15):
I have done.
Speaker 4 (01:30:17):
I just pushed the ball down the hill.
Speaker 5 (01:30:20):
Just push the ball down the hill, and you guys
have just kept pushing and now you're miles away from
where you started.
Speaker 4 (01:30:25):
But let me ask you a question.
Speaker 5 (01:30:26):
Because you're a veteran, you work with a lot of
veterans and some of them have struggled mightily through, you know,
through various issues in their lives. What do you think
is not connecting with the message that we have forty
four thousand veteran nonprofits that literally cover every interest you
could possibly have, that many of them their sole stated
purpose is to reduce veterans' suicide.
Speaker 4 (01:30:48):
Why are we not.
Speaker 5 (01:30:50):
Getting through to these men and women that they matter,
that they're important, that they were put here by God
because God, that they were important. Why is that message
somehow not getting to people because we talk about it
all the time, and yet to your point, veterans suicides
are still rising.
Speaker 4 (01:31:06):
We're not even cap the number yet. What what do
you speculate?
Speaker 12 (01:31:10):
That's a it's a it's an amazing question. I wish
I could I had a good solid answer for you.
And you know, we've lost more service members now to
suicide back home than we have to combat.
Speaker 6 (01:31:27):
And it's just a catastrophic thing.
Speaker 12 (01:31:29):
And we've done everything we can as far as engaging
veterans by way of outdoor activities, from fly fishing to
hiking to skydiving, motorcycle riding with a motorcycle relief project,
everything you can possibly think of, and we're still losing
our peers. It's a it's a loss of identity because
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if you think it through, when a lot of service
members join the military, they you know, for just myself
for example, you know, I drop out a high school.
Someone hands you a hat, says congratulations, you're a soldier now,
or a service member, airman, whatever it may be. A
couple of years later, four years later, eight years, twenty years,
whatever it may be, somebody hands you a sheet of
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paper and says, you know, hey, you're done. Now, You've
done your time. All you've done is delay something for
a couple of years. You really don't know what is
my identity now? For a while there, you had an unidentity.
Speaker 6 (01:32:23):
What am I now? Where do I go with my
life now?
Speaker 12 (01:32:25):
And a lot of service members struggle when they exit
the military. They don't know where to go next?
Speaker 10 (01:32:31):
What am I now?
Speaker 12 (01:32:32):
And so that's why they you know, they use their
GI bill and they go and get a degree or
something to that extent. And most service members, you know,
they get their first job and they leave their first
job because they think it's going to be the perfect
thing and they find out it's not the fit that
they hope that it was.
Speaker 6 (01:32:49):
Combine that with, you know, they struggle.
Speaker 12 (01:32:52):
On their marriages because now that that loss of identity,
they don't know where to go with that.
Speaker 4 (01:32:57):
It creates tension in their marriages. They've lost camaraderie.
Speaker 12 (01:33:01):
Camaraderie is the number one thing you lose those that
those friendships.
Speaker 6 (01:33:06):
It's a very, very very real struggle.
Speaker 5 (01:33:09):
And it's sad to me that that all of these
members of the military still must feel wildly alone when
they're all having probably a very shared experience.
Speaker 6 (01:33:18):
And exactly right, and and.
Speaker 12 (01:33:22):
We're not built to sit on foldable chairs around cold
coffee and have group therapy and kind of hash it
out together in the in a circle and talk it through.
Speaker 6 (01:33:33):
That's just not how we're built. We're built for.
Speaker 12 (01:33:37):
We coalesce around group suffering, around group, you know, doing
things together. You bond with your squad and your peers
and your teammates around pt around you know, mutual suffering.
Speaker 6 (01:33:53):
When it sucks the most, that's.
Speaker 12 (01:33:55):
When your team comes together, right and and and that's
you have or rediscover that in soil.
Speaker 4 (01:34:01):
I'm gonna start.
Speaker 5 (01:34:01):
I'm going to start a nonprofit called when it Sucks
the Most. I mean, it's a great No, I'm not
gonna start enough.
Speaker 4 (01:34:07):
I've already been down that road.
Speaker 5 (01:34:08):
And when you're a talk show host, people try to
accuse you of less than kind.
Speaker 4 (01:34:12):
Intentions the most.
Speaker 6 (01:34:14):
I think you just named show. There you go.
Speaker 5 (01:34:17):
But I mean, if we could just get the word
out that when it sucks the most, there's so.
Speaker 4 (01:34:20):
Much help out there and support for you.
Speaker 6 (01:34:22):
I'd love to find the right answer. I mean, look
what the cat trag did.
Speaker 4 (01:34:26):
Look at what's happening over here.
Speaker 5 (01:34:28):
It's a lot everybody been all right, Nick Ferguson, And
I'm gonna let you introduce yourself, young man.
Speaker 6 (01:34:37):
Smith.
Speaker 4 (01:34:39):
I love his voice, That's why I wanted him to
do it on mine.
Speaker 13 (01:34:42):
Yeah, get up right here with the MICAO real quick, Rob.
I don't know how familiar you are with the Heroes
thank You promotion that we run here. This is the
seventeenth doing it, my sixth year doing it, and it
means a lot to me as a veteran and you
as as a veteran. Normally, around this time we give
a check to to somebody who needs it or needs
some money, veteran who needs someone around the that This
year it was a little bit different. We got to
give it somebody who deserves it for their work with
(01:35:03):
veterans this year. And I don't know how familiar you
are with this, but we solicit nomination letters and Mandy's
going to read your nomination letter right now.
Speaker 4 (01:35:12):
I might have written this myself.
Speaker 5 (01:35:14):
Rob spends so much of his life helping other veterans
by volunteering his time at numerous veteran organizations, starting an
internet radio station programmed by veterans, and attending pretty much
every veteran fundraiser and event in town. I have no
doubt he will donate any money you give him to
a veteran cause, though I'm hoping he uses it to
expand the internet radio station. When I need to connect
a veteran with a specific service, he is the first
(01:35:36):
person I call because he knows about them all. He
never stops trying to end veterans suicide and make sure
that all who serve get the help they need somehow,
some way.
Speaker 4 (01:35:48):
He is the veterans who never stop serving his brothers
and sisters in uniform and is a fantastic human being
to boot he truly deserves to be recognized.
Speaker 13 (01:35:58):
That's my friend, rob Well, rob On behalf of our
partners here with common Spirit, Rod Smith, Nick Ferguson, former Broncos,
and myself. We want to present you with this check
for twenty five hundred dollars and if you don't mind
the fellows I think they'd like to say a few
words here.
Speaker 4 (01:36:12):
Dude, you get a giant cardboard check. How cool is that?
Speaker 6 (01:36:16):
Always wanted a.
Speaker 11 (01:36:17):
Cardboard check as an individual who my family has a
long standing tradition of being in the military. It is
great to be about part of this campaign and I'm
thankful for what it is that you do and what
you provide to the community, because veterans are people too.
Speaker 6 (01:36:33):
And they need an outlet. So thank you for providing
that outlet. Sincerely, thank you.
Speaker 14 (01:36:37):
Yeah, no, I'm just looking at you. I'm looking at you.
And he completely called him off guard and you can
tell what he does. He does it from his heart, yep.
And that's all that really matters. Every word I was
going to say, I'm changing it, I ain't gonna say
anything because I'm just watching you. That's what our world
should be about, people like you who are going out
there to make sure, like you say, that rate for
(01:36:59):
the trans the soul Salvador, whatever you want to call it,
goes down dramatically because the people like you it will.
Speaker 15 (01:37:07):
Sincerely thank you well as a better of myself the
service that you provide for for us, you know, and
you know how as we come back, you're looking for purpose,
you're looking for things to do, and you provide people
with incentive and with reasons to wake up every.
Speaker 6 (01:37:21):
Day and do the next thing, spread that and put along.
Speaker 13 (01:37:23):
And so I'm thankful that this year, not just are
we giving it to people in need, but we're giving
it to people who deserve it, who can put this
money toward helping other.
Speaker 6 (01:37:30):
People in need. So thank you.
Speaker 12 (01:37:31):
You really set up a lot of veterans for success
with that. Thank you, sincerely, yep, very sincerely.
Speaker 4 (01:37:37):
I HA gotcha you.
Speaker 6 (01:37:40):
We're gonna have a word.
Speaker 4 (01:37:44):
To totally.
Speaker 2 (01:37:45):
We will give you a real check.
Speaker 14 (01:37:46):
Please don't try to go to the bank with so.
I'll tell everybody, of course we all want that one,
but no, they'll give you a real check.
Speaker 4 (01:37:52):
I've always wanted a big cardboard check.
Speaker 5 (01:37:54):
I don't know why, just like one for like thirty
bucks would be great, Just a big cardboard check.
Speaker 4 (01:37:58):
No, I mean Rob, here's the thing. I brought Rob
in here.
Speaker 2 (01:38:01):
Rod.
Speaker 5 (01:38:02):
It was easy because I said, hey, you want to
come on the show on Thursday and talk about veteran stuff.
Literally that was my invite. And guess who's here to
talk about veteran stuff. And that's exactly why I nominated him.
Because his heart is bigger than his brain sometimes, but it's.
Speaker 4 (01:38:17):
Definitely bigger than his wallet. So this is going to
be a big help to do something big and wonderful.
And do we need to think our sponsors?
Speaker 6 (01:38:25):
Sincerely? Wow? Yeah? Absolutely.
Speaker 13 (01:38:27):
First of all, Common Spirit Health eighty and eight Heating
and air Conditioning at Credit Union They've been great this
year in helping us to continue this promotion and honestly
my favorite thing we get to do here at this
radio station.
Speaker 6 (01:38:38):
So wow, you guys, I can't thank you enough.
Speaker 4 (01:38:42):
You've really Yeah, so what do you want to talk
about now?
Speaker 3 (01:38:45):
Rob?
Speaker 6 (01:38:46):
Now there's not enough tissues in this freaking up desk.
Speaker 4 (01:38:49):
You guys get this amazing revamp and there's no tissues
in the air.
Speaker 6 (01:38:52):
Really, I mean, we're.
Speaker 4 (01:38:53):
Pretty macho station. I don't know if you know about this.
Speaker 13 (01:38:55):
Yeah, I understand you may put some of that back
into the but you are under orders to go at yourself.
Speaker 6 (01:38:59):
Gift you stake dinner with some of that money.
Speaker 14 (01:39:02):
You know what, you just you do deserve to treat
yourself because sometimes when you you know, you have that
thankless work because some people they can't thank you enough,
so they don't say anything, but just do something for you.
Do please do a little something for you and that'll
refuew you to continue to do the stuff that you're doing.
Speaker 6 (01:39:20):
We just appreciate it.
Speaker 14 (01:39:22):
Like I said, Nick and I we've been doing the
last couple of years with him, and I was doing
it like two years before that. We would go to
people's houses and surprise them at their home. And it
was easy getting you here.
Speaker 13 (01:39:33):
It sure beats the worry of having the police get
called as a bunch of us creep through the neighborhood
trying to bring us check to somebody's Doorstones you need, you.
Speaker 4 (01:39:39):
Need the publisher's clearinghouse, balloons.
Speaker 6 (01:39:41):
They think that that's after they figure out the word yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:39:44):
They think it's.
Speaker 5 (01:39:47):
You know, yeah, Wow, guys, thank you so much for
coming in let me doing this on the show. It
is a Broncos Country Tonight promotion and they do such
a great job every year with this, so I'm just
happy I could glom on and thank you for a warning, Rob,
because I truly mean it. I meet so many people
and I'm I'm so blessed to meet a lot of veterans,
and a lot of them do something to give back,
but nobody does it like Rob does. Nobody does it
(01:40:09):
with the same level of passion and excitement every single day.
And that's why I wanted you to have some money.
Speaker 6 (01:40:19):
Well, now I'm gonna.
Speaker 4 (01:40:20):
Whoop you out of the day. Anybody else want to
jump in for up the Day's like, no, I'm going Dan,
you always do well on of the day. So yeah,
they're gonna take.
Speaker 5 (01:40:30):
Some pictures of you getting the big check over here,
and I will I will remind you guys of a
couple of things that happened on the show today. If
you missed the very beginning, you may want to go
check out the podcast because there was a there's a
terrible story out of Jefferson County Public Schools that I
covered in the first hour, especially if you live in
jeff COO. What's happening in the school district there is
absolutely insane and it involved the school district essentially assisting
(01:40:54):
a teacher in grooming a student lying on a federal
form so she could groom her and for out of
state when she turned eighteen. I mean, it's just it's
like a Lifetime movie, only it happened in jeff Co
Public schools. You can find that podcast right after the
show today, So if you want to hear that, I
don't normally tell you guys to go listen to the podcast,
but that story needs to be amplified.
Speaker 4 (01:41:14):
And I'm not gonna be here tomorrow. Take it along
four day.
Speaker 5 (01:41:16):
Weekend, so don't mess up Valentine's Day, Okay, kids, don't
mess up Valentine's Day.
Speaker 4 (01:41:24):
And you don't need reservations at Black Eyed Peace for
Valentine's Day. I'm just letting you know that.
Speaker 5 (01:41:28):
Oh it's not time yet. You gotta wait till Arod
goes back in the studio over there. Yeah, Arod's got
a participate, are you in Benham? Well, that's how I
get my best competitors is through shaming them at the
at the outset. Because now it's time for the most
exciting segment on the radio of It's kind Rob in
the World of the Day, all right, you just don't
(01:41:51):
put your back into it.
Speaker 6 (01:41:54):
The world of the Day.
Speaker 13 (01:41:54):
I'm of the day and I am not emotionally prepared.
Speaker 4 (01:41:58):
You should probably listen to the show.
Speaker 6 (01:42:00):
Don't even give my down prepared.
Speaker 4 (01:42:01):
So don't even give me that I'm too emotionally unprepared
for this.
Speaker 5 (01:42:04):
No, I'm gonna whoop you anyway, and I want it
to be a square deal win anyway.
Speaker 4 (01:42:08):
All right, what is our our dad joke of the day? Please?
Speaker 10 (01:42:11):
Did you hear about the archaeologist that got fired? Kay Al,
I just got fired. No, Well, whether you heard of
him or not, his career is now in ruins. Word
of the day is an interjection, Oh, will go.
Speaker 4 (01:42:32):
W I l c O will go?
Speaker 6 (01:42:34):
Is pull signer? Will comply?
Speaker 4 (01:42:37):
That's what I was gonna say. But is there a
different it's.
Speaker 6 (01:42:39):
Also a band.
Speaker 4 (01:42:41):
Is there a different other than will come time?
Speaker 2 (01:42:42):
Is there?
Speaker 6 (01:42:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:42:44):
I thought it was will comply.
Speaker 6 (01:42:45):
No, there is not.
Speaker 10 (01:42:46):
Inkay, it's that a message just received, will be complied with.
Speaker 4 (01:42:49):
Okay, there we go.
Speaker 10 (01:42:50):
All right?
Speaker 4 (01:42:51):
Why do chefs hats have pleats so you can hide
your mouse? Why do chefs have I don't know, I
mean joke because I'm cassidy to give it a little
stand up.
Speaker 6 (01:43:03):
I don't know. I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (01:43:04):
Oh oh, well, this is fancy.
Speaker 5 (01:43:07):
The story goes that the polats originated as a way
to signify a chef's experience.
Speaker 4 (01:43:11):
The more polats than the hat, the more experienced the shif.
Speaker 6 (01:43:14):
Well that's like the habachi. The higher the hat, the
more rate.
Speaker 4 (01:43:17):
Yeah, yes, we need to have a show habi, like
we should go have the habachi one night.
Speaker 6 (01:43:23):
On air in here for a mobile unit.
Speaker 4 (01:43:26):
Can they do that? No, just fill the studio with smoke.
We can't do that.
Speaker 3 (01:43:29):
All right?
Speaker 5 (01:43:29):
What is our Jeopardy category? By the way, I'm getting
absolutely killed on Tournament of Champions repeats these days not good,
not good at all.
Speaker 10 (01:43:36):
Need to do our own Tournament of the of the
day here, okay, category today. That's some strong language and
they swear words are not the answer. Please, don't get
some strong language. Adjective for a great sized oak or
morphine power rangers.
Speaker 4 (01:43:51):
What is mighty?
Speaker 6 (01:43:51):
That is correct?
Speaker 10 (01:43:53):
It can describe the powerful effect of a drug, or
for us, certain potables and potent Oh has that been to?
Speaker 6 (01:44:03):
Okay? Strong and yurdy? Or a dark brew made from
roasted mandy?
Speaker 4 (01:44:08):
What is stout? Correct?
Speaker 11 (01:44:10):
Rob?
Speaker 6 (01:44:11):
Yeah, Rob's just going on. It's it's fine. He's gotta get.
Speaker 4 (01:44:16):
Cardboard checks, so it's still winning.
Speaker 10 (01:44:17):
Right, Let's play Detective Boys. It means strong enough to endure.
Speaker 4 (01:44:23):
Corrects love the hardy boys.
Speaker 5 (01:44:25):
It is three for Mandy, one for Ben, zero for Rob.
The donuts for robnuts.
Speaker 10 (01:44:31):
Adjective for a muscular young man can also mean rob.
Speaker 6 (01:44:35):
What is rob?
Speaker 4 (01:44:38):
That's them?
Speaker 2 (01:44:41):
What is trapping?
Speaker 4 (01:44:43):
Scrapping scrapping young man? All right, okay, we got that
going for us. What are you guys doing on Broncos
Country tonight?
Speaker 6 (01:44:51):
I don't know, grants fille and infamated. That I'm on
the Sportshow here with the fellows.
Speaker 4 (01:44:54):
The Sports Show.
Speaker 6 (01:44:55):
What they tell me to do.
Speaker 4 (01:44:58):
You're just the You're just what are you the arm
can of the show.
Speaker 6 (01:45:01):
I'm there to make jokes, you know, be the face.
This was the A Team, I would be the face man.
Oh uh huh, probably okay.
Speaker 4 (01:45:07):
I like our confidence, Ben, I'm probably if we're being
I like your confidence and being face on the A
team there. Anyway, On that note, I will leave you guys.
Speaker 5 (01:45:17):
Jimmy Singingberger is gonna fill in tomorrow, so you're gonna
be in really good hands. Don't forget Valentine's Day is tomorrow, okay,
bo Asage skincare and spawfree commercial, because really that's all
you have to get. Just get a gift certificate, call
it today. Don't stress. Pick up some flowers at Kings
Soupers in the morning because they'll all be gone at
the night. You know, if you didn't get a card,
get it today, they'll all be gone tomorrow. I'm just
here to help. I will be back on Tuesday though,
(01:45:39):
because Monday is a holiday and we will not be here.
But on Tuesday it's going to be an amazing show
and I have no idea what's going to happen, because
I haven't really looked that far ahead. Nothing, just nothing happen.
On Tuesday, We're just gonna sit quietly for three hours.
You know, maybe I'll start working on When Things Stuck
(01:46:00):
the Most? Is that the new name of.
Speaker 4 (01:46:01):
The show, When Things Suck the Most?
Speaker 6 (01:46:03):
It is now?
Speaker 3 (01:46:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:46:04):
There you go, Rob, Good to see you, my friend.
I know, I'm so excited we pulled that off. That
makes me very very happy. Stick around k O Sports
coming up next. Keep it right here on ko A
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