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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Host for the next twelve fifty six minutes. You heard
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me right, folks. It is the first baseball preemption of
the year. Wah wah, wah wall And I got a
big blog for you today.
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But I'm I'm going to do the blog.
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But then I'm starting out the show on what they
call a downbeat note because some things have been coming
out on X that are so horrifying to me that
I'm going to make sure you know them too, because
everybody needs to know what am I talking about?
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Hamas.
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But first, let's talk about the blog. Find the blog
at mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for
the headline that says two twenty one twenty five blog
WELP Baseball season is upon us. Click on that and
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Today on the.
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Blog spring training is on in Arizona. When politics keeps
you out of a job, there will be a right
to work ballot initiative to vote on CSU students protests
for safe spaces, the far reaching impacts of the CBI debacle.
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And those are the brief headlines on the blog at
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the Common Spirit health text line with sentiments like this, Mandy,
I eight baseball preemption season.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I gotta tell you guys, normally I do too.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
It's super frustrating, you know, because and this year, though,
I told one of my coworkers yesterday, I'm like, this
year I kind of feel like, whoo, I get a
breather because.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
There's just been so much going on. Speaking of so.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Much going on, I don't have all of this on
the blog, but I do have one story on the
blog about the bodies that were just returned by Hamas
to Israel. And not only were they returned, they were
returned after being paraded around with fun music playing, with
propaganda on the outside and the inside of the coffins.
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But we find out today that the Israeli government has
announced that the body that was supposed to be the
mother of the two babies that were murdered by Hamas
was not actually in the coffin, and the DNA of
that body doesn't match any of the hostages. It's just
a random dead person that I'm shoved in a casket
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and gave back.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
But that's not even the worst of it. No, oh God, no,
that's not the worst of it. Nope.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
The worst of it is being is coming out right now.
The worst of it is that we now know that
Ariel and Kafir Bibas they were not shot when they
were murdered. One of them was nine months old, one
of them was four years old. I believe when they
were murdered, they were strangled to death by Hamas, and
then Amas mutilated their bodies after they were dead to
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make it look like they died some other way.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Who strangles a baby to death? Who kills little who
takes little babies hostage? Who does that? You know their
war is disgusting? Can we all just agree?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
It is honestly the worst of human nature come to life.
And yes, I'm one of those people that believes that
some wars are justified.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I believe the Civil War was a just war.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
It ended a horrific, immoral situation in slavery, and it
had to be done because the South wasn't gonna give
up their slaves unless they were defeated.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
So there can be a moral war.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
But the notion that there can be a war that
is anything better than the worst parts of humanity being
being set out as weapons, I don't know what it is.
But even in war, even in Nazi Germany, where they
were literally marching Jews into gas chambers before throwing them
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into mass graves, after taking their hair so they could
sell it to use to stuff furniture, even those Germans
had enough decency to feel shame. Not Amas, Oh no, no, no,
not Hamas. They amplify everything. They trot out the dead
bodies of Arali Israelis, so they're citizens, not Amas soldiers.
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Their citizens can cheer with delight, delight. It is getting
harder and harder and harder to not wish every form
of evil on every single Palestinian when you see stories
like this, these.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Beautiful little red haired babies and that's how they died.
I mean, at least the baby.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
You think we don't know, but at least the baby
wasn't cognizant enough maybe to realize what was going on.
The toddler certainly had an experience at an awareness. But
I don't even want to talk about the people in
the Palestinian territory who support Hamas, because they still have
their supporters. I want to talk about the people in
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the United States. I want to talk about college students
taking to campuses to support people who murder babies.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
With their bare hands. What kind of what happened to
these people?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
What broke them so severely that they would want to
align them with the monsters who are committing these atrocities.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
And please do not talk to me about Israel's war crimes.
Please do not.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Save your breath, because at this point, I am increasingly
and this is not a good thing to be. And
I talked yesterday about, you know, my internal struggle to
be the best person that I can be, and how
forgiveness comes into that and all of these other noble
and wonderful things. When today I see this and if
I could pick up a gun and shoot everyone that
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was involved in the death of these children, I probably would.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
And that's not me, I mean, that's not me.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
It's just it's so vile and so disgusting that anyone
would march or camp or demand any kind.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Of quote justice for people who do this.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
What you know what justice would be if little children
strangled all of Hamas to death with their bare hands,
that would be justice.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
But that's not going to happen.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
So as much as we've been talking about Ukraine, as
much as we've been talking about you know, that war,
can we not forget that this war is still going on.
Oh and by the way, four buses blew up yesterday
in Tel Aviv.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
No one was hurt.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Because honestly, Hamas sucks at warfare. All they do is
hide behind people, strangle little babies, and unsuccessfully try to
murder mass murder Israelis. There was also a bomb found
at a children's water park yesterday, a children's water park.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
It didn't go off. I mean, uh uh.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
And I didn't mean to like come out of the
you know, but I just saw this stuff right before
the show started, and it's so disgusting and vile and inhumane,
and it makes me just not want to help any Palestinian.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
It makes me just want to.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You begin to understand why Egypt doesn't want them, Jordan
doesn't want them. Why would you want someone who is
capable of this on any level in your can unity.
I mean, if you found out that your neighbor down
the street murdered a baby with his bare hands because
he disagreed with the faith of that person, does that
give you comfort? Would you want them in your neighborhood?
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Of course not, of course not. And all of those
people that say things like the Palestinian people are victimized
just as much the Palestinian people voted these people into office.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
The Palestinian people civilians we know for.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
A fact, for malice ssages kept hostages in their homes.
At least in Germany you had Germans who were brave
enough to risk their own lives to save the Jews
that they knew were going to be murdered if they
didn't do anything.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
And are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
The Palestinian people they line up to clap over the coffins.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I don't understand. I don't know what to do here.
I don't know how to fix it. I really don't.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I don't think that there is any hope of the
Palestinian people settling peacefully anywhere near Israel.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
And I don't think they should be allowed to. If
this doesn't disqualify.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
It, if this doesn't break people who want to tell
me that, oh, no, it's really Israeli aggression that's the problem.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
No, it's not.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
It's the inhumanity of the monsters and scumbags that are
doing things like strangling babies to death with their bare hands.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I don't have.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Anything to say or anything to do for those people.
I really don't.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I want them.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
All to be completely wiped off the face of the
earth in the most painful way possible.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
And I'm not really a vengeance person. I'm really not.
I mean, I'm really not.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
But this is just pushed me beyond my reasonable limits,
and I hope it pushes everybody beyond their reasonable limits.
That's why I started with this in the show in
the first place. I mean, say what you will about
Ukraine and Russia being hopelessly corrupt and doing terrible things.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
As far as I.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Know, none of them have set about to kidnap little
babies so they could strangle them with their bare hands.
So at least they're better more than that, right, I mean, hey, hey,
maybe I'm missing the mark, maybe I'm too upset, but
I just I don't think so. I don't think so.
This sexter no wonder why anyone no one wants Palestinians.
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Exactly exactly, Ralph says, as a NORAD officer, if we launched,
we knew children would die, but strangling a baby to death,
we'd have shot anyone who gave that order. I think
the college students need to be sanctioned in some way
if foreign deport them with prejudice.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
No, you know what I think. I think every.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
College student should have to be forced to explain why
it's okay to strangle a ten month old baby with
your bare hands after kidnapping them while you're murdering and
raping women and killing people indiscriminately at a music festival.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I would love for them to be able to explain why.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Those actions of resistance are okay, that's what I want
to know. Force them to defend it, because they can't.
It's indefensible, absolutely indefensible, this texter said. The Grand Mufti
of Saudi Arabia has spoken about what unfolded in Gaza
today of Palestinians cheering on the coffins of the bibas
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and oh dead lift shits. What we saw today in
Gaza is a disgrace to Islam, an act of blasphemy
against Allah. The Grand Mufti of Dubai, Ahmed A La
Dad reportedly stated after watching the scenes of dead Israeli
babies being paraded in coffins in Gaza, Hamas has brought
shame to Islam on a level never seen before. Well,
I'm glad they're saying it so I don't have to,
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but I gotta tell you, I'm a lapsed Catholic.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
But if Catholics were doing this, I would be at
the front of the parade to denounce everything they were doing.
So yeah, there you go, there you go. Anyway, what's
other fun stuff We're gonna talk to send the students
to live there.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Says this texter.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Yeah, that would be an eye opening experience, wouldn't it,
wouldn't it Coming up at twelve thirty, Jimmy Segenberger wrote
a column today. I am doing everything in my power,
and I think I'm not going to speak for Jimmy
because he'll be able to speak for himself. I'm doing
everything in my power to keep maximum pressure on jeff
Co schools because if you're a jeff Co parent and
you are not paying attention to what an absolute disaster
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your school district has become, then I'm going to keep
shoving it down your throat until you pay attention and
show up at every school board meeting because what is
happening in that.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
District is just First of all, we had a teacher
that successfully.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Groomed a student who, at the age of eighteen, she
moved out of state after the school helped her commit
fraud on FAFSA applications by declaring her homeless when she
was not at all homeless, not at all, and.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Then blew off parents who were concerned about it. Just
blew it off.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
No, it's no big deal, she's not here anymore. We
don't need to worry about that, And today we've got
a story that's completely different but totally on brand. A
band with decades of teaching experience was trying to get
hired at jeff Co for a part time online position.
Everything was going great, everything was fantastic. He essentially got
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everything but an offer. It was essentially hey, called me back,
will work out the details kind of.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Thing, and then he got ghosted.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Why because they realized that he had done Freedom of
Information Act requests to find out which teachers walked out
in jeff Co and they didn't give him the job.
Kenny Sue, that's where it gets interesting. He's just a
white man, so you can answer the rest of the question.
But Jimmy wrote a great column on it today and
the Denver Gazette.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
We're going to talk to him.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
At twelve thirty, and I have a bunch of other
stuff on the blog today. Speaking of college students, I'm
doing a three hour show in one hour, just in
case you hadn't noticed, because I got a three hour
show and I have an hour to do it. So
there was a story CSU students protest for safe Spaces,
and I just realized that I did not link to
the actual story. What they were actually protesting was that
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CSUS committee to follow federal eat and.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Do away with DEI programs.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Now DEI programs focus on division instead of unity, and
as a federally funded university, CSU had no real alternative.
These programs are garbage, by the way, They're absolute garbage.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
But this is the line that caught my eye.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Ellis Smith, a student organizer, spoke about the significance of
these programs for CSU's campus culture, and this is a quote.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
These programs are.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Important because they help ensure that students are able to
find spaces where they feel safe before they graduate. College
is not where you go to find a space where
you feel safe before you graduate, because you.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Know what happens after you graduate.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
You go and you work for somebody who may or
may not give a crap about your feelings. You're going
to go into a corporate environment where they don't.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Need to hear that you're having a mental health problem.
They just want you to show up and work. We
have coddled the kids so severely that it is absolutely
insane what passes for maturity at the college level. And
here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I think some of these students were probably more mature
before they got to college then after they got there.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Oh this text message.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
If roasting infants alive doesn't move these college morons, nothing
will do. You know what I saw on X and where,
of course we're talking about hamas in the attacks of
October seventh. So when it was discovered that babies were
put into ovens and roasted alive, which actually happened, somebody
sent out like like dozens of babies were roasted alive,
when in reality, I think it was maybe one or.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Two that lie.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
That misstep, that exaggeration gives all of these idiot students
the ability to say that wasn't true, even though it
was true for a couple of babies, just not forty babies.
And that's absolutely infuriating. Force the students to listen to baseball. Well,
that wouldn't be such punishment because Jack and Jerry do
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do a very good job along.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
With my friend Jesse Thomas Mandy nine month old baby.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
When the word's been going on for fifteen months, that
baby was born into a hostage situation. Poor baby was
never free. Set No, the baby was nine months old
when it was murdered. After it was kidnapped.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
So yeah, yeah, Mandy.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I don't like Rockies. Baseball sometimes cuts into your show.
But sure, glad we're turning a corner on our way
to spring. But are we really?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Winter is just messing with us at this point.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I just got finished helping Chuck shovel the driveway and everything.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I was just like, Oh, what is this gonna be over?
What is this gonna be over? Let me continue. A
lot of people are pointing.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Out about abortion, and you know what, guys, I don't
feel the need to bring abortion into every argument because
what I'm talking about is is even worse than abortion,
I think even worse.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
So I appreciate it. I've got one texter.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
All he cares about is abortion, all all he cares about,
and everything comes back to that, and it's exhausting and
it's not helpful.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
And you can stop anytime, sir. Remember a couple.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Days ago, and I think it was a couple of
days ago or yesterday, even when I was like, whatever
happened to Mayor Michael Hancock. I'd love to talk to
Mayor Michael Hancock again. I enjoyed our visits. You know,
we didn't agree on a lot, but he always came
on the show and we had a good conversation, and
you guys would get so mad because I, you know,
I wouldn't, you know, press him to the wall about
stuff that we disagreed on.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
But I always liked talking to him.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Well, today in the Denver Gzette, here we go call
him by Michael Hancock, and I was like, oh my gosh,
my my psychic powers are strong. I mean, I'm just
letting you know, but he wrote a really good column
and I want to talk to him. So again I'm
still looking for his contact information. Now I do have,
I have a connection. I'm going to reach out to
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today and see if I can get him. He's part
of the Aurora Consent to Creed Monitors Community Advisory Council,
and he wrote a column about and he doesn't say
it like this, but he's basically saying, look, this Community
Advisory Council had a very specific role and that was
to basically be a conduit of information between the department
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and the citizens, and the citizens and the department. But
it seems to me from this column that some members
of the CAAC are trying to politicize it and use
it as an advocacy organization when that is not at
all what.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
It was meant to do. So that's a great column
by Michael Hancock on the blog today.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
And when we get back, we're going to talk a
little bit. We're going to talk to Jimmy Sangenberger first,
but after we talked to Jimmy, there's very interesting stuff
going on about Ukraine and how Republicans are sort of
falling on both.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Sides of the issue.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
But you know what's happening, there's some incredible debates going
on right now. Some of them are happening on X
jd Vance. I just want to take a moment here.
Jd Vance is better at explaining Trump's policies than Donald
Trump is, and he's kind of been a in a
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Twitter battle with Nile Ferguson, a historian that I love.
I love non Ferguson. I think he's amazing.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
But they've been.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Going back and forth and it's it's fascinating because instead
of just you know, arguing into the ether or yelling
at each other, they're going there's substantial points being made.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
It's been super fascinating.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
So we're gonna get into that, but first we're gonna
talk to Jimmy Singenberger right after this.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Keep it on KOA and I never have a short
day on Friday. I forgot to do this at the
beginning in the show altogether. Now, whoa, that's right, My bad, Sorry,
I forgot about that.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
So joining me now, my friend Jimmy Singenberger is joining
me to talk about a story that is one of
those things where you're like, you just.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Kind of get the ick a little bit about it.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
But I'm gonna let Jimmy unfurl the sad tale of
Kyle Walpole.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
At jeff Co Schools. What happened?
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Jimmy, Hey, Mandy, thanks for having me. This is one
of those things where you hear about discrimination based on politics.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
We hear it happening in the school system.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Here and there, and then you wonder is it actually
happening in a way that you can demonstrate? And I
think Kyle Walpole might be in that circumstance. He is
a twenty year veteran even longer than that, educator in
Jefferson County Schools and the Platte Canyon School District, and
he applied last fall for a temporary position as a
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social studies teacher at Jefferson Virtual Academy, an online school
for Jefferson County schools, and it seemed on the up
and up. In mid November, he seemingly nailed his interview,
had two performance tasks he's completed, and he got a
call at about one thirty pm from the principal of
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the school, Renee Williams, on November fifteenth, saying, Hey, give
me a call.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
I really loved your interview. I'd like to talk with
you about it.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
And then he ended up not getting a call back
when he returned to her.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Call an hour and fifteen minutes later.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
And it seems that that was because two emails were
circulated showing that in twenty fourteen, when teachers walk out
of Jeffco's schools in protests of what was then a
conservative school board, he had sought the names of the
teachers from his daughter's school using an Open Records Act request,
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And then several years later he published an obed that
was critical of HOWDI was being implemented in Colorado schools,
and those emails were circulated, and then after that boom,
he did not get the job, and eventually they canceled
the position and claimed, oh that's why you didn't get it,
even though the position was canceled weeks after.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
They told him, we're pursuing other candid you know.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
And this is the kind of stuff that I know
there and I'm trying to think of a way to
not make this about me, but it's it fits here.
There have been situations where I have no that I
was invited to be on a board. For instance, and
I'm not going to name any names because I still
like the organizations and the work that they do, but
I was invited to be on a board. There was
this big email like, oh, we'd love to have you
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come in and talk to us and everything. So I
respond back, Oh, I love what you do, blah blah blah,
And then I got one email back that didn't have
the whole group, the whole board on it, right. I
got one email back saying, oh, I'm so sorry, we
sent that to you an error, okay, And I thought, okay,
that's weird, but okay, no big deal. Found out from
the other another board member who had suggested me as
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a potential member of the board that three of the
other board members threw an absolute conniption fit because of
my political views and therefore I was iced out.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
But what am I gonna do?
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Right?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I still like the organization's work.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
You know, I'm not gonna let three people who are
ales stop me from supporting somebody who's doing good work.
But yeah, this stuff happens all the time. Now here's
the problem for Kyle. Kyle, unfortunately, is a white, straight male.
If he were gay, or he were black, or he
were Hispanic, he would he would be able to sue.
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I mean, when you think about the former superintendent of
Douglas County suing about losing his job because he said
he was discriminated against racially because he was advocating for
black students, I mean, it was so absurd. But the
reality is white males don't have any protection.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Yeah, this is this is the thing that they said
is you're not part of a protected class. At least
that was what was said in an email to the investigator.
From the investigator to the school principal. Don't worry, good news.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
He isn't word good news. He's not part of a
protected class, So you don't have to worry about this.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
But what's really interesting, Mandy is that Kyle and a
friend of his who's an attorney emailed and had exchanges
with the school district's general council Julie Tolison. And it's
fascinating because when I reached out to Toulisen ask some
questions for my column in the Denver Gazette Today entitled
that one Jeff Go School Conservatives need not apply, she
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responded in part suggesting that I go look at the
email correspondence between Kyle Lopol's attorney friend William Iigols, and her,
and that did not support her case at all, and
it showed that either she was playing coy or she
didn't do her homework to actually look at the facts
and the timeline of events, which I clearly lay out
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in my piece that demonstrate, yeah, there is an op
at the very least appearance, if not pretty darn definitive,
that politics were at play here and there's no place
for that in our school system.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
And jeff Co is being run like garbage. They're being
run like hot garbage. The president of their school board
believes that every parent is abusing their child and that
every child needs to be told how to report their abuse,
even if it's just neglick. Can you imagine, let me
just say this Jimmy, you don't have kids yet. Okay,
let me just tell you what would happen if you
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empower children to say that they're being neglected anytime you
say no, you can't have dessert. The next day they
go to school, my mom would give me food. I mean,
children understand how to manipulate the system, even if they
don't understand the repercussions of that manipulation, right, I mean,
that's just the facts. Anybody who's ever been a child
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of divorced parents knows, you.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Know how to manipulate the system. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
You know how to play one parent against the other.
And they've they've got to be some changes in jeff Co.
Tracy Dooland has to go. She has to go.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
The superintendent of schools is terrible. She encourages just.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Putting the school district between parents and children over and
over again. She's probably excited that Kyle didn't get this job.
In Kyle's last name Texters Walpole. And you can see
this in Jimmy's column about this, But the entire district
is going down the crapper.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
One thing I want to know that I found really
impressive when I was talking with Kyle about this story
and doing my research is he was a teacher for
over two decades and clearly has a belief that politics
have no place in the classroom.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
He gave a story and I loved this.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
My favorite teachers were this way where he had parent
teacher conference and that evening, two parents, parents of parents
came in one after the other. First said, you're too liberal,
what's going on? The next, you're too conservative? What's going on?
Speaker 5 (26:55):
And that's exactly what it should be.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Were keep the students and the families guessing because you're
truly not being political.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
And yet that is the kind.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Of teacher that Jefferson County Schools had frozen out of
one of their schools for political purposes because he dared
to work with the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition, not
a conservative group by the way, to identify who these
teachers were as was and this color Supreme Court I
think affirmed this as is the right of the public
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to know when you have teachers walking out from the
school for protest, the public has the right to know.
And that's the reason one of the big reasons why
they went after this conservative teacher.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
At least that's what clearly appears to be the case, and.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
We'll see what happens if he does have a retaliation
claim move forward in court.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
We shall see.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Jimmy Seenberger's column is that the Denver is at today
as a twice weekly column that is always good reading
because I'm not even aware of anybody in the newspaper
field that's doing the kind of investigative stuff that you are, Jimmy.
I mean, and part of that is because you're an
independent guy and independent contractors, so you can go out
there and dig into the stories that you like.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
But like I said, I want to keep the pressure
on Jeffco.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
And it's really really important that Jeffco's parents wake up
and start showing up and demand better and more importantly,
And I'm hoping, and I don't know if you've talked
to anyone at Jeffco Kids first about this, I hope
they're getting candidates ready to run for school board. I
hope they have people that we can support and give
money to and get some decent people back on that
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school board. When I first moved here, Jeffco Schools was
they were great. They were absolutely fantastic. And then to
your point back in twenty fourteen, the unions came in
and they decided to put their little people on the
school board. And now here's where we are anyway. All right, Jimmy,
I appreciate you, man, and a great colin. We'll talk
to you again soon. That's Jimmy Sangerburgo. Everybody say you Jimmy.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Let's take a quick time out when we get back.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Fascinating discussions about Ukraine and the United States' role in
are happening within the Republican Party, and I got to
tell you I love it.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
We're going to talk about that next for a couple
of minutes.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
I don't have a lot of time left because Rockies
Baseball coming up at one.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
It's the first of our spring training games we do.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
We will not be airing all of them, but we
will be airing some of them, and today's the first
one of that. Great I'm just gonna say it, great
blog today by me. If I could pat myself on
the back, I would. There's a fascinating thing happening on
the right right now, and it has to do with Ukraine,
and it has to do with some other stuff too.
People are starting to stick their heads up a little bit.
I saw one member of Congress saying, you know, we're
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a little tired of these executive orders. And I'm like,
you're in Congress, do something about it, you know, start
doing this stuff yourself.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
But the biggest.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Discussions and arguments have been about Donald Trump's treatment of Ukraine,
and it's been fascinating to.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Watch and very educational.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
At the same time, Mark Levin went scorched Earth on
Trump's comments on ze Lenz yesterday and he went to
great links to talk about the fact that Zelensky He
sort of responded to those Zelensky was a dictator comments
by saying this Zelensky ordered martial law. That's what the
constitution they're compelled. Zelensky hasn't called for an election, That's
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what the constitution there compels. Now I'm waiting for the
first free election for Vladimir Putin. I mean, this is
almost comical in a sick way that Putin is demanding
an election and.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Then he goes on from there.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Now, Ferguson decided to drag George H. W. Bush into
the fray on X and JD. Vance responded in force
and I have links to all of this on today's blog.
It is worth going through and just reading the discussion
between JD. Vance and Nile Ferguson, which went on well
after the tweets that I've embedded. But then right before
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the show started, I saw this and Mark Rubio is
explaining here why Donald Trump is not exactly thrilled with Zelensky.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Just listen to this explanation. It's a couple minutes long.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
When President Trump posts that President Zelensky is a dictator
without elections, what are you thinking.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
I think President Trump is very upset at President Zelensky
in some case rightfully. So look, number one, Joe Biden
had frustrations with Zelensky. People shouldn't forget that there are
newspaper articles out there about how.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
He cursed at him in a phone call.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Because Lelensky, instead of saying thank you for all your help,
is immediately out there messaging what we're not doing or
what he's not getting. I think the second thing is, frankly,
I was personally very upset because we had a conversation
with President Zelenski, the Vice President and I to two
three of us, and we discussed this issue about the
mineral rights, and we explained to them, look, we.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Want to be a joint venture with you.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Not because we're trying to steal from your country, but
because we think that's actually a security guarantee. If we're
your partner in an important economic endeavor, we get to
get paid back some of the money the taxpayers have
given close to two hundred billion dollars. And it also
now we have a vested interest in the security of Ukraine.
And he said, sure, we want to do this deal.
It makes all the sense in the world. The only
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thing is I need to run it through my legislative process.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
They have to approve it.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
I read two days later that Zelensky's out there saying
I rejected the deal. I told him no way, that
we're not doing that. Well, that's not what happened in
that meeting. So you start to get upset by somebody.
We're trying to help these guys. One of the points
that President made in his messaging is not that we
don't care about Ukraine. But Ukraine is on another continent.
You know, it doesn't directly impact the daily lives of Americans.
We care about it because it has implications for our
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allies and ultimately for the world.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
There should be some level of gratitude here.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
About this, and when you don't see it, and you
see him out there accusing the president of living in
a world of disinformation, that's highly, very counterproductive. And I
don't need to explain to you or anybody else. Donald
Trump's not President Trump's not the kind of person that's
going to sit there and take that. He's very transparent.
You've got to tell you exactly how he feels. And
he sent the message that he's not going to get
gained here. He's willing to work on peace because he
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cares about Ukraine and he hopes Zelensky will be a
partner in that and not someone who's out there putting
the sort of counter messaging to try to, you know,
hustle us in that regard that that's not going to
be productive here.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
What's interesting about his comments is that yesterday and the
day before I saw a lot of very angry people
online saying the United States is trying to shake down
Ukraine to take their rare earth minerals. Well, when you
hear it explained by Marco Rubio as look, we want
to partner with you to give us a vested interest
going forward that would only increase your security, that makes
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a lot more sense rather than what Zelensky came out
and said, which was they demanded our rare earth minerals
and I said no. By the way, Europeans are also
questioning whether or not Zelensky can be trusted. You know,
I don't think there's any really good people in this war.
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I think Vladimir Putin is a dictator and authoritarian. I
think he's awful. I don't think Zelensky is a good
person either, especially when you are relying on another nation
to fund about sixty five percent of the war you're
currently in, and then you're going around and stabbing them
in the back after you have a conversation. That's easily behavior,
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and honestly, it just makes me think that Zelenski thinks
he's still dealing.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
With Joe Biden, which clearly he is not.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
All Right, my friends, I got to turn the station
over to Rockies Baseball. Spring training is upon us, and
we have to make room for that in the meantime, though,
definitely keep it right here on KOA
Host for the next twelve fifty six minutes. You heard
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me right, folks. It is the first baseball preemption of
the year. Wah wah, wah wall And I got a
big blog for you today.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
But I'm I'm going to do the blog.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
But then I'm starting out the show on what they
call a downbeat note because some things have been coming
out on X that are so horrifying to me that
I'm going to make sure you know them too, because
everybody needs to know what am I talking about?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Hamas.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
But first, let's talk about the blog. Find the blog
at mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for
the headline that says two twenty one twenty five blog
WELP Baseball season is upon us. Click on that and
here are the headlines you will find within an.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Even Where's listen in office?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Half American all with ships and clips as a press plant.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Today on the.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Blog spring training is on in Arizona. When politics keeps
you out of a job, there will be a right
to work ballot initiative to vote on CSU students protests
for safe spaces, the far reaching impacts of the CBI debacle.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I conjured up. Michael Hancock sides.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Are being taken in the pundit class about Ukraine scrolling.
If you read nothing else this year, please read this,
Hey veterans. Ronald er Oop dang, I gotta take that out.
Victor Davis Hansen names the counter revolution net zero by
twenty fifty is a complete fantasy. The California high speed
rail ripoff is over why the EU sucks In one story,
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nothing terrifying at all about this. Robot Children's hospital will
restart gender affirming care for kids. Kendrick Castillo will never
be forgotten. Sweden is done with mass migration. Hamas set
a random body back tgif everybody, Marco Rubio explains why Trump.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Is upset with Zelenski.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
And those are the brief headlines on the blog at
mandy'sblog dot com to those of you already taking to
the Common Spirit health text line with sentiments like this, Mandy,
I eight baseball preemption season.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I gotta tell you guys, normally I do too.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
It's super frustrating, you know, because and this year, though,
I told one of my coworkers yesterday, I'm like, this
year I kind of feel like, whoo, I get a
breather because.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
There's just been so much going on. Speaking of so.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Much going on, I don't have all of this on
the blog, but I do have one story on the
blog about the bodies that were just returned by Hamas
to Israel. And not only were they returned, they were
returned after being paraded around with fun music playing, with
propaganda on the outside and the inside of the coffins.
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But we find out today that the Israeli government has
announced that the body that was supposed to be the
mother of the two babies that were murdered by Hamas
was not actually in the coffin, and the DNA of
that body doesn't match any of the hostages. It's just
a random dead person that I'm shoved in a casket
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and gave back.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
But that's not even the worst of it. No, oh God, no,
that's not the worst of it. Nope.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
The worst of it is being is coming out right now.
The worst of it is that we now know that
Ariel and Kafir Bibas they were not shot when they
were murdered. One of them was nine months old, one
of them was four years old. I believe when they
were murdered, they were strangled to death by Hamas, and
then Amas mutilated their bodies after they were dead to
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make it look like they died some other way.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Who strangles a baby to death? Who kills little who
takes little babies hostage? Who does that? You know their
war is disgusting? Can we all just agree?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
It is honestly the worst of human nature come to life.
And yes, I'm one of those people that believes that
some wars are justified.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I believe the Civil War was a just war.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
It ended a horrific, immoral situation in slavery, and it
had to be done because the South wasn't gonna give
up their slaves unless they were defeated.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
So there can be a moral war.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
But the notion that there can be a war that
is anything better than the worst parts of humanity being
being set out as weapons, I don't know what it is.
But even in war, even in Nazi Germany, where they
were literally marching Jews into gas chambers before throwing them
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into mass graves, after taking their hair so they could
sell it to use to stuff furniture, even those Germans
had enough decency to feel shame. Not Amas, Oh no, no, no,
not Hamas. They amplify everything. They trot out the dead
bodies of Arali Israelis, so they're citizens, not Amas soldiers.
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Their citizens can cheer with delight, delight. It is getting
harder and harder and harder to not wish every form
of evil on every single Palestinian when you see stories
like this, these.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Beautiful little red haired babies and that's how they died.
I mean, at least the baby.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
You think we don't know, but at least the baby
wasn't cognizant enough maybe to realize what was going on.
The toddler certainly had an experience at an awareness. But
I don't even want to talk about the people in
the Palestinian territory who support Hamas, because they still have
their supporters. I want to talk about the people in
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the United States. I want to talk about college students
taking to campuses to support people who murder babies.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
With their bare hands. What kind of what happened to
these people?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
What broke them so severely that they would want to
align them with the monsters who are committing these atrocities.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
And please do not talk to me about Israel's war crimes.
Please do not.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Save your breath, because at this point, I am increasingly
and this is not a good thing to be. And
I talked yesterday about, you know, my internal struggle to
be the best person that I can be, and how
forgiveness comes into that and all of these other noble
and wonderful things. When today I see this and if
I could pick up a gun and shoot everyone that
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was involved in the death of these children, I probably would.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
And that's not me, I mean, that's not me.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
It's just it's so vile and so disgusting that anyone
would march or camp or demand any kind.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Of quote justice for people who do this.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
What you know what justice would be if little children
strangled all of Hamas to death with their bare hands,
that would be justice.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
But that's not going to happen.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
So as much as we've been talking about Ukraine, as
much as we've been talking about you know, that war,
can we not forget that this war is still going on.
Oh and by the way, four buses blew up yesterday
in Tel Aviv.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
No one was hurt.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Because honestly, Hamas sucks at warfare. All they do is
hide behind people, strangle little babies, and unsuccessfully try to
murder mass murder Israelis. There was also a bomb found
at a children's water park yesterday, a children's water park.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
It didn't go off. I mean, uh uh.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
And I didn't mean to like come out of the
you know, but I just saw this stuff right before
the show started, and it's so disgusting and vile and inhumane,
and it makes me just not want to help any Palestinian.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
It makes me just want to.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You begin to understand why Egypt doesn't want them, Jordan
doesn't want them. Why would you want someone who is
capable of this on any level in your can unity.
I mean, if you found out that your neighbor down
the street murdered a baby with his bare hands because
he disagreed with the faith of that person, does that
give you comfort? Would you want them in your neighborhood?
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Of course not, of course not. And all of those
people that say things like the Palestinian people are victimized
just as much the Palestinian people voted these people into office.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
The Palestinian people civilians we know for.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
A fact, for malice ssages kept hostages in their homes.
At least in Germany you had Germans who were brave
enough to risk their own lives to save the Jews
that they knew were going to be murdered if they
didn't do anything.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
And are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
The Palestinian people they line up to clap over the coffins.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I don't understand. I don't know what to do here.
I don't know how to fix it. I really don't.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I don't think that there is any hope of the
Palestinian people settling peacefully anywhere near Israel.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
And I don't think they should be allowed to. If
this doesn't disqualify.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
It, if this doesn't break people who want to tell
me that, oh, no, it's really Israeli aggression that's the problem.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
No, it's not.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
It's the inhumanity of the monsters and scumbags that are
doing things like strangling babies to death with their bare hands.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I don't have.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Anything to say or anything to do for those people.
I really don't.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I want them.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
All to be completely wiped off the face of the
earth in the most painful way possible.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
And I'm not really a vengeance person. I'm really not.
I mean, I'm really not.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
But this is just pushed me beyond my reasonable limits,
and I hope it pushes everybody beyond their reasonable limits.
That's why I started with this in the show in
the first place. I mean, say what you will about
Ukraine and Russia being hopelessly corrupt and doing terrible things.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
As far as I.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Know, none of them have set about to kidnap little
babies so they could strangle them with their bare hands.
So at least they're better more than that, right, I mean, hey, hey,
maybe I'm missing the mark, maybe I'm too upset, but
I just I don't think so. I don't think so.
This sexter no wonder why anyone no one wants Palestinians.
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Exactly exactly, Ralph says, as a NORAD officer, if we launched,
we knew children would die, but strangling a baby to death,
we'd have shot anyone who gave that order. I think
the college students need to be sanctioned in some way
if foreign deport them with prejudice.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
No, you know what I think. I think every.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
College student should have to be forced to explain why
it's okay to strangle a ten month old baby with
your bare hands after kidnapping them while you're murdering and
raping women and killing people indiscriminately at a music festival.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I would love for them to be able to explain why.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Those actions of resistance are okay, that's what I want
to know. Force them to defend it, because they can't.
It's indefensible, absolutely indefensible, this texter said. The Grand Mufti
of Saudi Arabia has spoken about what unfolded in Gaza
today of Palestinians cheering on the coffins of the bibas
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and oh dead lift shits. What we saw today in
Gaza is a disgrace to Islam, an act of blasphemy
against Allah. The Grand Mufti of Dubai, Ahmed A La
Dad reportedly stated after watching the scenes of dead Israeli
babies being paraded in coffins in Gaza, Hamas has brought
shame to Islam on a level never seen before. Well,
I'm glad they're saying it so I don't have to,
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but I gotta tell you, I'm a lapsed Catholic.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
But if Catholics were doing this, I would be at
the front of the parade to denounce everything they were doing.
So yeah, there you go, there you go. Anyway, what's
other fun stuff We're gonna talk to send the students
to live there.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Says this texter.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Yeah, that would be an eye opening experience, wouldn't it,
wouldn't it Coming up at twelve thirty, Jimmy Segenberger wrote
a column today. I am doing everything in my power,
and I think I'm not going to speak for Jimmy
because he'll be able to speak for himself. I'm doing
everything in my power to keep maximum pressure on jeff
Co schools because if you're a jeff Co parent and
you are not paying attention to what an absolute disaster
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your school district has become, then I'm going to keep
shoving it down your throat until you pay attention and
show up at every school board meeting because what is
happening in that.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
District is just First of all, we had a teacher
that successfully.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Groomed a student who, at the age of eighteen, she
moved out of state after the school helped her commit
fraud on FAFSA applications by declaring her homeless when she
was not at all homeless, not at all, and.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Then blew off parents who were concerned about it. Just
blew it off.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
No, it's no big deal, she's not here anymore. We
don't need to worry about that, And today we've got
a story that's completely different but totally on brand. A
band with decades of teaching experience was trying to get
hired at jeff Co for a part time online position.
Everything was going great, everything was fantastic. He essentially got
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everything but an offer. It was essentially hey, called me back,
will work out the details kind of.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Thing, and then he got ghosted.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Why because they realized that he had done Freedom of
Information Act requests to find out which teachers walked out
in jeff Co and they didn't give him the job.
Kenny Sue, that's where it gets interesting. He's just a
white man, so you can answer the rest of the question.
But Jimmy wrote a great column on it today and
the Denver Gazette.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
We're going to talk to him.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
At twelve thirty, and I have a bunch of other
stuff on the blog today. Speaking of college students, I'm
doing a three hour show in one hour, just in
case you hadn't noticed, because I got a three hour
show and I have an hour to do it. So
there was a story CSU students protest for safe Spaces,
and I just realized that I did not link to
the actual story. What they were actually protesting was that
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CSUS committee to follow federal eat and.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Do away with DEI programs.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Now DEI programs focus on division instead of unity, and
as a federally funded university, CSU had no real alternative.
These programs are garbage, by the way, They're absolute garbage.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
But this is the line that caught my eye.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Ellis Smith, a student organizer, spoke about the significance of
these programs for CSU's campus culture, and this is a quote.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
These programs are.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Important because they help ensure that students are able to
find spaces where they feel safe before they graduate. College
is not where you go to find a space where
you feel safe before you graduate, because you.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Know what happens after you graduate.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
You go and you work for somebody who may or
may not give a crap about your feelings. You're going
to go into a corporate environment where they don't.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Need to hear that you're having a mental health problem.
They just want you to show up and work. We
have coddled the kids so severely that it is absolutely
insane what passes for maturity at the college level. And
here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I think some of these students were probably more mature
before they got to college then after they got there.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Oh this text message.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
If roasting infants alive doesn't move these college morons, nothing
will do. You know what I saw on X and where,
of course we're talking about hamas in the attacks of
October seventh. So when it was discovered that babies were
put into ovens and roasted alive, which actually happened, somebody
sent out like like dozens of babies were roasted alive,
when in reality, I think it was maybe one or.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Two that lie.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
That misstep, that exaggeration gives all of these idiot students
the ability to say that wasn't true, even though it
was true for a couple of babies, just not forty babies.
And that's absolutely infuriating. Force the students to listen to baseball. Well,
that wouldn't be such punishment because Jack and Jerry do
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do a very good job along.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
With my friend Jesse Thomas Mandy nine month old baby.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
When the word's been going on for fifteen months, that
baby was born into a hostage situation. Poor baby was
never free. Set No, the baby was nine months old
when it was murdered. After it was kidnapped.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
So yeah, yeah, Mandy.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I don't like Rockies. Baseball sometimes cuts into your show.
But sure, glad we're turning a corner on our way
to spring. But are we really?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Winter is just messing with us at this point.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I just got finished helping Chuck shovel the driveway and everything.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I was just like, Oh, what is this gonna be over?
What is this gonna be over? Let me continue. A
lot of people are pointing.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Out about abortion, and you know what, guys, I don't
feel the need to bring abortion into every argument because
what I'm talking about is is even worse than abortion,
I think even worse.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
So I appreciate it. I've got one texter.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
All he cares about is abortion, all all he cares about,
and everything comes back to that, and it's exhausting and
it's not helpful.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
And you can stop anytime, sir. Remember a couple.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Days ago, and I think it was a couple of
days ago or yesterday, even when I was like, whatever
happened to Mayor Michael Hancock. I'd love to talk to
Mayor Michael Hancock again. I enjoyed our visits. You know,
we didn't agree on a lot, but he always came
on the show and we had a good conversation, and
you guys would get so mad because I, you know,
I wouldn't, you know, press him to the wall about
stuff that we disagreed on.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
But I always liked talking to him.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Well, today in the Denver Gzette, here we go call
him by Michael Hancock, and I was like, oh my gosh,
my my psychic powers are strong. I mean, I'm just
letting you know, but he wrote a really good column
and I want to talk to him. So again I'm
still looking for his contact information. Now I do have,
I have a connection. I'm going to reach out to
(18:03):
today and see if I can get him. He's part
of the Aurora Consent to Creed Monitors Community Advisory Council,
and he wrote a column about and he doesn't say
it like this, but he's basically saying, look, this Community
Advisory Council had a very specific role and that was
to basically be a conduit of information between the department
(18:27):
and the citizens, and the citizens and the department. But
it seems to me from this column that some members
of the CAAC are trying to politicize it and use
it as an advocacy organization when that is not at
all what.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
It was meant to do. So that's a great column
by Michael Hancock on the blog today.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
And when we get back, we're going to talk a
little bit. We're going to talk to Jimmy Sangenberger first,
but after we talked to Jimmy, there's very interesting stuff
going on about Ukraine and how Republicans are sort of
falling on both.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Sides of the issue.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
But you know what's happening, there's some incredible debates going
on right now. Some of them are happening on X
jd Vance. I just want to take a moment here.
Jd Vance is better at explaining Trump's policies than Donald
Trump is, and he's kind of been a in a
(19:21):
Twitter battle with Nile Ferguson, a historian that I love.
I love non Ferguson. I think he's amazing.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
But they've been.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Going back and forth and it's it's fascinating because instead
of just you know, arguing into the ether or yelling
at each other, they're going there's substantial points being made.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
It's been super fascinating.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
So we're gonna get into that, but first we're gonna
talk to Jimmy Singenberger right after this.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Keep it on KOA and I never have a short
day on Friday. I forgot to do this at the
beginning in the show altogether. Now, whoa, that's right, My bad, Sorry,
I forgot about that.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
So joining me now, my friend Jimmy Singenberger is joining
me to talk about a story that is one of
those things where you're like, you just.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Kind of get the ick a little bit about it.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
But I'm gonna let Jimmy unfurl the sad tale of
Kyle Walpole.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
At jeff Co Schools. What happened?
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Jimmy, Hey, Mandy, thanks for having me. This is one
of those things where you hear about discrimination based on politics.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
We hear it happening in the school system.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Here and there, and then you wonder is it actually
happening in a way that you can demonstrate? And I
think Kyle Walpole might be in that circumstance. He is
a twenty year veteran even longer than that, educator in
Jefferson County Schools and the Platte Canyon School District, and
he applied last fall for a temporary position as a
(20:57):
social studies teacher at Jefferson Virtual Academy, an online school
for Jefferson County schools, and it seemed on the up
and up. In mid November, he seemingly nailed his interview,
had two performance tasks he's completed, and he got a
call at about one thirty pm from the principal of
(21:17):
the school, Renee Williams, on November fifteenth, saying, Hey, give
me a call.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
I really loved your interview. I'd like to talk with
you about it.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
And then he ended up not getting a call back
when he returned to her.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Call an hour and fifteen minutes later.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
And it seems that that was because two emails were
circulated showing that in twenty fourteen, when teachers walk out
of Jeffco's schools in protests of what was then a
conservative school board, he had sought the names of the
teachers from his daughter's school using an Open Records Act request,
(21:52):
And then several years later he published an obed that
was critical of HOWDI was being implemented in Colorado schools,
and those emails were circulated, and then after that boom,
he did not get the job, and eventually they canceled
the position and claimed, oh that's why you didn't get it,
even though the position was canceled weeks after.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
They told him, we're pursuing other candid you know.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
And this is the kind of stuff that I know
there and I'm trying to think of a way to
not make this about me, but it's it fits here.
There have been situations where I have no that I
was invited to be on a board. For instance, and
I'm not going to name any names because I still
like the organizations and the work that they do, but
I was invited to be on a board. There was
this big email like, oh, we'd love to have you
(22:36):
come in and talk to us and everything. So I
respond back, Oh, I love what you do, blah blah blah,
And then I got one email back that didn't have
the whole group, the whole board on it, right. I
got one email back saying, oh, I'm so sorry, we
sent that to you an error, okay, And I thought, okay,
that's weird, but okay, no big deal. Found out from
the other another board member who had suggested me as
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a potential member of the board that three of the
other board members threw an absolute conniption fit because of
my political views and therefore I was iced out.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
But what am I gonna do?
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Right?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I still like the organization's work.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
You know, I'm not gonna let three people who are
ales stop me from supporting somebody who's doing good work.
But yeah, this stuff happens all the time. Now here's
the problem for Kyle. Kyle, unfortunately, is a white, straight male.
If he were gay, or he were black, or he
were Hispanic, he would he would be able to sue.
(23:33):
I mean, when you think about the former superintendent of
Douglas County suing about losing his job because he said
he was discriminated against racially because he was advocating for
black students, I mean, it was so absurd. But the
reality is white males don't have any protection.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Yeah, this is this is the thing that they said
is you're not part of a protected class. At least
that was what was said in an email to the investigator.
From the investigator to the school principal. Don't worry, good news.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
He isn't word good news. He's not part of a
protected class, So you don't have to worry about this.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
But what's really interesting, Mandy is that Kyle and a
friend of his who's an attorney emailed and had exchanges
with the school district's general council Julie Tolison. And it's
fascinating because when I reached out to Toulisen ask some
questions for my column in the Denver Gazette Today entitled
that one Jeff Go School Conservatives need not apply, she
(24:32):
responded in part suggesting that I go look at the
email correspondence between Kyle Lopol's attorney friend William Iigols, and her,
and that did not support her case at all, and
it showed that either she was playing coy or she
didn't do her homework to actually look at the facts
and the timeline of events, which I clearly lay out
(24:56):
in my piece that demonstrate, yeah, there is an op
at the very least appearance, if not pretty darn definitive,
that politics were at play here and there's no place
for that in our school system.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
And jeff Co is being run like garbage. They're being
run like hot garbage. The president of their school board
believes that every parent is abusing their child and that
every child needs to be told how to report their abuse,
even if it's just neglick. Can you imagine, let me
just say this Jimmy, you don't have kids yet. Okay,
let me just tell you what would happen if you
(25:29):
empower children to say that they're being neglected anytime you
say no, you can't have dessert. The next day they
go to school, my mom would give me food. I mean,
children understand how to manipulate the system, even if they
don't understand the repercussions of that manipulation, right, I mean,
that's just the facts. Anybody who's ever been a child
(25:51):
of divorced parents knows, you.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Know how to manipulate the system. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
You know how to play one parent against the other.
And they've they've got to be some changes in jeff Co.
Tracy Dooland has to go. She has to go.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
The superintendent of schools is terrible. She encourages just.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Putting the school district between parents and children over and
over again. She's probably excited that Kyle didn't get this job.
In Kyle's last name Texters Walpole. And you can see
this in Jimmy's column about this, But the entire district
is going down the crapper.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
One thing I want to know that I found really
impressive when I was talking with Kyle about this story
and doing my research is he was a teacher for
over two decades and clearly has a belief that politics
have no place in the classroom.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
He gave a story and I loved this.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
My favorite teachers were this way where he had parent
teacher conference and that evening, two parents, parents of parents
came in one after the other. First said, you're too liberal,
what's going on? The next, you're too conservative? What's going on?
Speaker 5 (26:55):
And that's exactly what it should be.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Were keep the students and the families guessing because you're
truly not being political.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
And yet that is the kind.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Of teacher that Jefferson County Schools had frozen out of
one of their schools for political purposes because he dared
to work with the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition, not
a conservative group by the way, to identify who these
teachers were as was and this color Supreme Court I
think affirmed this as is the right of the public
(27:25):
to know when you have teachers walking out from the
school for protest, the public has the right to know.
And that's the reason one of the big reasons why
they went after this conservative teacher.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
At least that's what clearly appears to be the case, and.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
We'll see what happens if he does have a retaliation
claim move forward in court.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
We shall see.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Jimmy Seenberger's column is that the Denver is at today
as a twice weekly column that is always good reading
because I'm not even aware of anybody in the newspaper
field that's doing the kind of investigative stuff that you are, Jimmy.
I mean, and part of that is because you're an
independent guy and independent contractors, so you can go out
there and dig into the stories that you like.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
But like I said, I want to keep the pressure
on Jeffco.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
And it's really really important that Jeffco's parents wake up
and start showing up and demand better and more importantly,
And I'm hoping, and I don't know if you've talked
to anyone at Jeffco Kids first about this, I hope
they're getting candidates ready to run for school board. I
hope they have people that we can support and give
money to and get some decent people back on that
(28:28):
school board. When I first moved here, Jeffco Schools was
they were great. They were absolutely fantastic. And then to
your point back in twenty fourteen, the unions came in
and they decided to put their little people on the
school board. And now here's where we are anyway. All right, Jimmy,
I appreciate you, man, and a great colin. We'll talk
to you again soon. That's Jimmy Sangerburgo. Everybody say you Jimmy.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Let's take a quick time out when we get back.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Fascinating discussions about Ukraine and the United States' role in
are happening within the Republican Party, and I got to
tell you I love it.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
We're going to talk about that next for a couple
of minutes.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
I don't have a lot of time left because Rockies
Baseball coming up at one.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
It's the first of our spring training games we do.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
We will not be airing all of them, but we
will be airing some of them, and today's the first
one of that. Great I'm just gonna say it, great
blog today by me. If I could pat myself on
the back, I would. There's a fascinating thing happening on
the right right now, and it has to do with Ukraine,
and it has to do with some other stuff too.
People are starting to stick their heads up a little bit.
I saw one member of Congress saying, you know, we're
(29:38):
a little tired of these executive orders. And I'm like,
you're in Congress, do something about it, you know, start
doing this stuff yourself.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
But the biggest.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Discussions and arguments have been about Donald Trump's treatment of Ukraine,
and it's been fascinating to.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Watch and very educational.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
At the same time, Mark Levin went scorched Earth on
Trump's comments on ze Lenz yesterday and he went to
great links to talk about the fact that Zelensky He
sort of responded to those Zelensky was a dictator comments
by saying this Zelensky ordered martial law. That's what the
constitution they're compelled. Zelensky hasn't called for an election, That's
(30:17):
what the constitution there compels. Now I'm waiting for the
first free election for Vladimir Putin. I mean, this is
almost comical in a sick way that Putin is demanding
an election and.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Then he goes on from there.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Now, Ferguson decided to drag George H. W. Bush into
the fray on X and JD. Vance responded in force
and I have links to all of this on today's blog.
It is worth going through and just reading the discussion
between JD. Vance and Nile Ferguson, which went on well
after the tweets that I've embedded. But then right before
(30:51):
the show started, I saw this and Mark Rubio is
explaining here why Donald Trump is not exactly thrilled with Zelensky.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Just listen to this explanation. It's a couple minutes long.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
When President Trump posts that President Zelensky is a dictator
without elections, what are you thinking.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
I think President Trump is very upset at President Zelensky
in some case rightfully. So look, number one, Joe Biden
had frustrations with Zelensky. People shouldn't forget that there are
newspaper articles out there about how.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
He cursed at him in a phone call.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Because Lelensky, instead of saying thank you for all your help,
is immediately out there messaging what we're not doing or
what he's not getting. I think the second thing is, frankly,
I was personally very upset because we had a conversation
with President Zelenski, the Vice President and I to two
three of us, and we discussed this issue about the
mineral rights, and we explained to them, look, we.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Want to be a joint venture with you.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Not because we're trying to steal from your country, but
because we think that's actually a security guarantee. If we're
your partner in an important economic endeavor, we get to
get paid back some of the money the taxpayers have
given close to two hundred billion dollars. And it also
now we have a vested interest in the security of Ukraine.
And he said, sure, we want to do this deal.
It makes all the sense in the world. The only
(32:07):
thing is I need to run it through my legislative process.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
They have to approve it.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
I read two days later that Zelensky's out there saying
I rejected the deal. I told him no way, that
we're not doing that. Well, that's not what happened in
that meeting. So you start to get upset by somebody.
We're trying to help these guys. One of the points
that President made in his messaging is not that we
don't care about Ukraine. But Ukraine is on another continent.
You know, it doesn't directly impact the daily lives of Americans.
We care about it because it has implications for our
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allies and ultimately for the world.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
There should be some level of gratitude here.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
About this, and when you don't see it, and you
see him out there accusing the president of living in
a world of disinformation, that's highly, very counterproductive. And I
don't need to explain to you or anybody else. Donald
Trump's not President Trump's not the kind of person that's
going to sit there and take that. He's very transparent.
You've got to tell you exactly how he feels. And
he sent the message that he's not going to get
gained here. He's willing to work on peace because he
(32:57):
cares about Ukraine and he hopes Zelensky will be a
partner in that and not someone who's out there putting
the sort of counter messaging to try to, you know,
hustle us in that regard that that's not going to
be productive here.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
What's interesting about his comments is that yesterday and the
day before I saw a lot of very angry people
online saying the United States is trying to shake down
Ukraine to take their rare earth minerals. Well, when you
hear it explained by Marco Rubio as look, we want
to partner with you to give us a vested interest
going forward that would only increase your security, that makes
(33:30):
a lot more sense rather than what Zelensky came out
and said, which was they demanded our rare earth minerals
and I said no. By the way, Europeans are also
questioning whether or not Zelensky can be trusted. You know,
I don't think there's any really good people in this war.
(33:52):
I think Vladimir Putin is a dictator and authoritarian. I
think he's awful. I don't think Zelensky is a good
person either, especially when you are relying on another nation
to fund about sixty five percent of the war you're
currently in, and then you're going around and stabbing them
in the back after you have a conversation. That's easily behavior,
(34:14):
and honestly, it just makes me think that Zelenski thinks
he's still dealing.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
With Joe Biden, which clearly he is not.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
All Right, my friends, I got to turn the station
over to Rockies Baseball. Spring training is upon us, and
we have to make room for that in the meantime, though,
definitely keep it right here on KOA
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