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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:26):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to this Tuesday edition of The Mandy
Connell Show. This will truly barrel because we only have
an hour spring training baseball coming up at one o'clock
and right now, I'm just saying the Rockies have been
winning in spring training, and I know, I know, I
know it's spring training and it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I know it.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
But let's just live the dream for a minute, y'all, Like,
let's take it.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Well, we can kind of thing. I'm your host, Mandy Connell.
That guy over there is Anthony Rodriguez. You can just
call him a rod and together we will take you
right up until twelve fifty five, when we will turn
the station over to the Rockies or someplace close.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
We're in there.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I've got a bunch of things on the blog, but
I swear to you I have to stop looking at
Twitter right before the show, because right before the show
I saw a post on libs of TikTok, and this
is what it says. And I just verified that this
is true, by the way, because I was.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Like, this cannot be true, but it is.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
The governor of Wisconsin is proposing, with a straight face,
some language changes to Wisconsin government. If previously they use
the word wife or husband, they want it change to spouse.
And I'm like, okay, spouse, I'm okay with that. I'm
a spouse, I'm a wife. I'm okay.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
That's fine.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Then it gets really well, it gets cuckoo for cocoa puffs.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
The word previously used mother.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
So what are we going to change mother into? As
a mother, I happen to think being a mother is
one of the highest honors of my life. And therefore
to say that I don't want to be called an
inseminated person.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
You heard that right. They want to change mother to
inseminated person.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Now what about mothers who adopted their children or mothers
that had children via surrogacy, because they themselves were not inseminated,
but they are no less a mother if the word
paternity had been used in Wisconsin. He wants a change
to patronage, which I don't understand the difference there.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Because they're both rooted in the male word.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Previously, where you use the word father, they want to
change it to natural parent.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
What about a mother? Oh, that's where it gets really good.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
If previously they would have said mother and father, they're
now going to say parent and parent and who gave
birth to the child. Again, very exclusionary for people who adopted,
or for women that had to use a surrogate. Very
exclusionary language. What hateful language. I gotta stop looking at Twitter.
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I gotta okay, let me go to the blog because
I just I can't even with that. Find the blog
at mandy'sblog dot com. Mandy'sblog dot com, no apostrophe. Look
for the headline that says two twenty five to twenty
five blog need to organize things if you die.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Click on that and here are the headlines you will
find within office half of American alwayships and clipments of
that's a press platch.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Today on the blog how to get your life together
for when you die? Baseball eats the show at one today.
If you've got ringing in your ears, another stabbing on
an RTD bus. Mayor Johnston prediccts illegal activity by a
fire chief. Let's let's drag Para into the light. Democrat
continue to make fentanyl dealing easy?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Are Dems making.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Polices run for president harder? Trump can still ban the
AP for now. Trump responds to Denver public schools. You
know you can eat roosters right. The Trump de dances
storming the nation. Why asking federal employees to answer a
question works? Denver could lose its SBA office. A great
speech by Constantine Kissen rip ROBERTA. Flack in defense of Reacher.
(04:27):
Would any of your would any of you put this
on a work group chat?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Ever?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
When fighting carbon is just performative stupidity. MSNBC's racism exposed.
Scott Jennings explains.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Why federal workers need to say what they're doing, and
that's it.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Those are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com.
I swear I added another story at the bottom. Maybe
I didn't publish that story. Guys have some great videos
on the blog because I know none of you, not
all of your baseball fans, so I wanted to provide
you with a extra entertainment for when baseball takes over.
And if you don't know who Constantine Kissen is, super
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fascinating guy. He was born in Soviet Russia before his
parents immigrated to the UK where he grew up. He
is as sharp an intellect as you will ever hear
in your life, and he's also hilarious.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
So I put his recent.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Speech to an organization whose name I'm going to get wrong,
so I'm not going to say it.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Let me pull it up on YouTube and I'll give
it to you. Need that.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
It was at the.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Dag Nabbitt.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Arc is theirs and it's the Alliance for Responsible Citizens.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I think that's it.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
It's something something responsible citizens, citizen ree whatever. But in
any case, he gave just a great speech. But in
it there's so much hope. There's so much hope that
we are turning the tide and all of this chaos,
all of this chaos that we're appearentencing now, is just
going to root out the worst parts of government. And
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that's not just here in the United States. Around the world,
people are choosing differently. You look at the elections in Germany,
although it would not surprise me if there wasn't another
election very very quickly, because in Germany, much like in
other European nations, there are certain external forces that can
cause a snap election, and that is that's what just
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happened in Germany. A snap election was called when the
former prime minister lost the confidence of his coalition, so
they called what they call snap election.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
The ruling party that is going to be leading the.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Coalition essentially refuses to work with the Conservative Party AfD.
That any newspaper that you pick up will tell you, oh,
these people are so right wing.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
They're so right wing.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Go look at what they believe in. They believe in
German sovereignty. They don't like the EU. They believe even
secure borders. They believe that people, if they immigrate there,
they should work to assimilate as well. You know, we
never talk about assimilation here in the United States because
we truly are the great melting pot. And now I
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know they use salad mould, which is so stupid. I'm
not even can even with that in the Wisconsin thing.
There's just too much stupid flying around right now.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
We truly are. If we're not the most diverse country
in the world, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Of another one that has more diversity than we have
here in the United States of America. And for a
very long time, assimilation was a key part of immigration
my mother's grandparents would not let their daughters speak Hungarian
in their home because they were American, they were born here,
they were American, they were going to speak English.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
So assimilations sort of took.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Care of itself, partially because people that came from other
places and didn't speak English were discriminated against it and
they couldn't work. But now that we have so many immigrants,
and we have these immigrant commune unities where large numbers
of immigrants from one place will settle in a region
of town, a city, whatever, and they will create their
own businesses and they'll create their own economy, and they're
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participating in the American dream. But because they have so
many people that speak their language and adhere to their
cultural traditions, they do not assimilate as well. And what
we're seeing around the world is like places like Sweden,
and I had this story on the blog and I
didn't get to it, and that makes me upset because
it was so interesting. Sweden allowed a massive influx of
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young people from the Middle East, most of them male,
and now Sweden is looking to repatriate them.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
They're offering up to thirty thousand.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Dollars for people to leave you know why because Malmo,
Sweden is now the rape capital of the world. And
last month in January, there was more than one bombing.
There was an average of like one point one bombing
per day in their capital city. That is not Swedish.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
That's not Sweden.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Sweden was a homogeneous Swedish society for a very very
very long time, and they moved in a bunch of
people too quickly in a way that they did not
assimilate and do not seem to be interested in assimilating.
I'm one of those people that believes if you want
to move to a foreign country, you better learn their language.
It's one of the reasons I haven't moved to a
foreign country. Let I'm like, God, I got to learn
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their language. We don't require things like that, and we
should because it is the things that are common among
us all that make the country great. It's not that
you know, a Mexican person is worse or better than
a person who's here from Tunisia or a person that's
here from the UK, because we all have differences, right,
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But it's the shared things that we share together that
have always made the country great. The belief that being
an American was an ideal and Constantine Kissen does a great.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Job in this speech.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
First of all, it's hilarious on sort of inspiring people
to uh to to feel like things are going in
the right direction. I also have a dance on the
blog today, Rod, I want your opinion on the Trumpty
Dance video because I love a good, really good song parody,
and they are so infrequent. Most song parodies that you
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see on the internet are terrible. This one is awesome
and it's for us gen Xers. It's for the gen xers.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
You know what a Rod? Now hold on, I would like,
I know, the Trumpty Dance or the Humpty Dance. Yeah, okay,
so you know that. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
This is for the gen xers out there. It's given
me the credits ahead of time because you know that
nobody will watch them after and there's no bad words
in it. I already checked.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
So here we go, And don't trump dance has become ridiculous,
like they're doing that serious dances. Just stop it because
I'm about to ruin the image of me that.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
You used to A look of money a king bee
making honey in the peach day. I hope you're ready
for me to an I'm the new sheriff in town.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
All my people right up your ground, I pick.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Up all the day Cookie got in his shell suggests,
let me introduce myself. My name is Trump Tea.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I like what that potato's love be fake news. Oh,
I would like the plump thing that little paper.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
On the clow tin.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
He took a shot, but he missed me.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
And you've got to watch the video that goes along
with this. It is so well done. So that is
on the blog today. I'm telling you the blog is
fire today.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
People.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
It is fire coming up at twelve thirty. I was
gonna say, speaking of fire, but I certainly don't want
anyone to die in a fire. That sounds horrible. Uh,
we've got the people. Somebody brought this to my attention.
It might have been a Rod's mom. Was it b
Rod that brought this up? I think it might have
been b Rod. And she told me about this thing
called knockbox. And knockbox is way beyond end of life planning.
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It is literally a box that you buy that has
all of this information. So if you die, everything is
in this box. You've got bank account information, you've got
mortgage information, you've got health insurance information. You've got everything
in this box in one place, so your next of
kin doesn't have to spend three weeks digging through your
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stuff in your desk trying to figure out how to
cancel your Netflix subscription.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Right.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I mean, when you think about all of the things
that we have in our lives right now that would
have to be dealt with, that is a huge, huge undertaking.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
This just makes it easy.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
We're going to talk to the founders of that company
at twelve thirty for a little bit and real quick,
I just want to remind people if you have tonightis
doctor Patty from Colorader Tonight's in Hearing Center has the
only FDA approved treatment for Tonight's at Colorado Tonight's in
Hearing Center, and she's having an event on Mark sixth.
I got the information about that on the blog. And
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then I want to talk about this. So we are
spending a ton of money in Denver, a ton ton
done of money in Denver, update the.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Sixteenth Street all it's get to be a daisy. And now,
oh my gosh, let's reduce say they Center Park. It's
going to the daisy. And then I see this story,
you know.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Another stabbing on RTD on a bus, because that's just
the thing that happens. Oh, it didn't happen at night,
by the way, around three pm, a person was stabbed
on an RTD bus near Colfax and Grant Street. The
victim was taken to a local hospital with non life
threatening injuries. No arrests have been made in this case.
You want to know what's wrong with downtown Denver, it's
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just that story right there. It's that story. And what's
super frustrating to me is that we have a mayor
and I have a story about the mayor on the
blog today, and I need any of you that work
for the Denver Oh geez, I put chief for police
and that's wrong Fire Department.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
I got to change that.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
So the Denver Fire Department, the chief there and several
higher ups or busted doing something completely illegal and fraudulent
in they would go to an event, a funeral or
an event that would be a normal event in the
course of their job, and then they would claim comp
time for it, like basically like, oh, I have two
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hours of comp time because I went to this thing.
And then at the end of the year they would
cash in that comp time for cash, and that's fraud.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
You guys, if it's part of.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Your job like that would be like me saying, okay,
if I have to come in early for a meeting,
which happens on occasion, well then you're gonna have to pay.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Me extra for that. No, it's not.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
It's part of my job. It may not be an
everyday part of my job that it's part of my job.
So as a result of that, the firefighters had a
vote about whether or not they still had confidence in
the fire chief, and that vote was sixty four percent
said no.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Layer Johnston did.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Not seem the least bit bothered by this and issued
this statement after the no confidence vote. I believe that
Chief Fulton is the right leader to continue that important work.
A risk afected leader has been a critical advocate for
making sure our fire.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Department looks like the community it serves.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I'm confident Chief Fulton will continue to serve with honor
and distinction. It's the same when you say, hey, Mayor,
we're spending a bunch of money on all this stuff,
but people don't feel safe downtown. He essentially just goes,
nah ah, look at the statistics.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Forget about the people that were murdered by a crazed
man with a knife.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Forget about that that hardly ever happens, exceedingly rare. We
don't have people in leadership that are willing to say
the hard things, which is, we've got a problem downtown,
and that problem is mostly related to homeless drug addicts.
And until we go after that really hard, we're not
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going to solve the problem. We right now have a
situation that is reminiscent, but not exactly alike, but reminiscent
of New York, New York City and Times Square in
the late seventies when it was an absolute cesspool. The
only people who went there were people who were looking
to commit a crime, people who had committed a crime,
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or people who were looking for hookers.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
That was Time Square in the seventies. And then Rudy
Giuliani came in and said, you know what, we're going
to prosecute those people.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
We're gonna arrest people for prostitution, We're gonna arrest people
for open drug daily, We're gonna arrest people for open
drug use. We're gonna arrest people who are breaking the law.
And guess what happened have you guys been to Times
Square in the past twenty five years. It's been absolutely incredible.
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Actually longer than that, forty years. I mean, my mom
went to New York to go on a theater trip
in the late seventies, and all of my little small
town friends they were like, is your mom gonna get murdered?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
And I was like, I hope not.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
But I mean the jury, we don't know. We'll see
if she makes it home again. But we don't have
people in charge that are that are saying, look, we
have a problem. We have a serious problem, and it
involves drugs, and it involves homelessness, and it involves mental illness,
and it has created a very untenable situation for downtown Denver.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
You know, the Denver Police Department.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Is not staffed at a level that is commensurate with
the size of the city. Meaning we should have raised
the authorized level of the authorized force level years ago
as our as our population.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Exploded, But we haven't. And I don't even know if
we are if we have.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Met authorized force levels right now, I don't even know
if we have the right number of police officers.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
But here's what we have to have, you know, here's
what we have to do.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
We have to go seriously and aggressively at taking care
of crime in downtown Denver. We have to go to
the District Attorney's office and say enough with turning these
people back out on the streets, threatened them with jail
time or treatment, and do that as many times as
it takes to get them into treatment. Okay to the
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text on the common SPHEARDELF text line that texted, I
have been able to get a hooker in twenty five years,
why would.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I go to Times Square?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Okay? Yeah, this textra pointed out, Hey, Mandy, sort of
like the Colorado Attorney General saying that car theft isn't
a problem until the third or fourth theft. Exactly right,
exactly right. And I'm super frustrating when I say, oh,
another stabbing on an RTD bus. They're about to rearrange
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RTD management. But unless the rearrangement includes people at the
top that say we will not rest until it is
safe to be on our buses and trains, what are
they gonna do? I mean, are you gonna get on
a bus? Oh and by the way, forget your concealed
carry permit or your weapon.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
There no not in Denver. No, not in Denver, Mandy.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I thought the mayor ran on a platform to get
the homeless off the streets in Denver. You're telling me
he didn't get that campaign promise done. Oh contrere, my friend.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
He'll tell you he did, because he got two thousand
homeless people off the streets in Denver, only to have
more show up. So there you go, Mandy. The people
of Denver voted for this. I say, let it all
fall apart. Guys.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
It's not just Denver though, it's every suburb around it.
They all get hit by this too. So we shall see,
we shall see. We're gonna take a very quick time out.
When we come back. We're gonna talk to Maria and
I'm not quite sure. I'm not gonna massacre. I think Frietta,
she's with knock Box. We're gonna talk about that. I
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just think it's so cool that I am. I wanted
to share it with you because you only have to
lose your own parents before you realize what a nightmare
you're leaving for your own you know, seriously, really seriously,
we will be back in a moment. Wait a minute,
Broken windows baby, says this Texter. Yeah, broken windows is right, Mandy,
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I voted no confidence in this situation years ago. All
of us who voted no confidence ended up being sued
face financial destruction.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
And loss of our jobs. So we dropped it. How
did they know?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Isn't it a secret ballot? I think it's a secret ballot.
If not, it needs to be, Mandy. I think it's
hilarious that people think they need a piece of paper
to let them so they can protect themselves. That's you know,
that's honestly how I feel about it. Give me my
little misdemeanor or whatever. I'll fight it, and then I'll
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walk in with every crime story from downtown Denver printed
out in a big pile and drop it in front
of a jury and say, there you go, that's why
I was carrying illegally. We'll be back right after this
on KOA and you drop dead and all of your
affairs are left to your children, and well, I'll tell
you what happens. It sucks, that's what happens. And joining
me now is a woman who wrecked nice. The suckiness
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of that situation has created a product to address it.
In knock Box. Maria Frietta, Welcome to the show. She's
the founder, the CEO, the inventor, the chief bottle washer.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
She is a lot of a lot of hats going
on over there at knock Box. Welcome to the show, Maria,
Thank you so much, thanks for having me. Where did
this idea come from?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Well, several years ago, about three and a half years ago,
my father passed away in upstate New York, and it
was relatively expected, and I went up there with my
two brothers, and he had a will and a box
full of things, and you know, we thought it would
all be fine, and we went up there to figure
out what to do next, and we learned we had
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no idea. You know, a will isn't quite good enough.
You know, you can't just start driving a person's car
or living in their house or you know, doing all
those things. So, you know, we learned how to operate
probate and how to make friends with the county clerk
and do.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
All those things.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
But in the meantime, I said, we've got to get
organized with this pile of papers that we've got, and
so I created a very small system to organize the
whole process, organize the key to the golf cart and
the snowmobile and all the things that he had, and
we divided all the work up in those folders and
went about our merry way and managed the estate, which
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did take, by the way, a full year for a
really small estate in New York.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
It was a lot.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
But then I got home and realized that if something
happened to me, my brother, who would be my next
of kin, who would come take care of everything, would
not have a clue how to start. You know, I
had a will, I have a trust, I have all
the things that I thought it was really prepared.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
You know, I thought, Wow, I've got this covered.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
And I thought he wouldn't know how to pay my
electric bill or take care of the dog, or drop
my daughter up at school, or you know, all those
things that we make up our lives that are complicated,
and all the things we have online. You know, I
was like, I could to get a handle on this,
and so I made my own kit, and then friends
wanted a kit, and then neighbors wanted a kit, and
I started making the kid and without me even trying,
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it turned into a business.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Well, let's be real, this is a topic.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
No one wants to talk about this, no one wants
to think about the fact that they're going to die someday,
even though we all are going to die someday. So
if you can just make an idiot proof, which it
looks like you have made this idiot proof, then people go, Okay,
I'm just doing a task.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I'm not thinking about what I'm going to die.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
I'm just doing a task that just happens to put
all this information in one place, So well, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Yeah, not only that.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
You know what people do is they go through the kit.
Is they realize I haven't done these life things I
need to do anyway. Yeah, so maybe they start going
through their insurance policies, and many people write us and say, wow,
thanks because I had my ex wife on my life insurance,
or you know, I have this coverage I don't need,
or you know whatever it is. It kind of requires
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you to go through every little aspect of your life,
and we don't take the time to do that either.
You know, I forget about dying someday. It's like you
still have to see when your car insurance is due next,
or when the registration's coming up, or manage the pins
on the different bank account cards, you know, all of
those different things.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
So the box really.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Helps with all of that as well, and sort of
districts you from the fact that you're preparing, yeah, for
you know, your ultimate demise.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Well, and I mean I look around my house and
like in my home office, I have all of this
memorabilia that listeners have sent me over the years, and
it's just full.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
To me, it means something. For my children, it's going
to mean a bigger dumpster, you know what I mean,
it's not right. So that's right.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
The last thing I want to do is leave them
trying to figure out how to cancel my Netflix account.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
So what kind of things are in.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
This box everything that you just said? You know, one
thing is our possessions that maybe mean something to you
and not to your next of kin. And we advise
you with some tips, you know, make a video of
those things and say verbally to your next of kin
you can throw this away, right so that they don't
hang on to it with guilt, you know. So we
sort of address that piece, and then we say, go
to all those subscriptions and sit down and figure out
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you know, we just did a cable all of those
subscriptions for TV, Netflix and all that stuff, you know,
put them on a list and find all the passwords
and get yourself organized and then you've got it. So
it's easy for someone else to cancel it. But again
it's also easy for you to manage.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Now, do you guys recommend that people sit down what
once a year just to update, make sure that everything
is still good because passwords change. They will not let
me just keep my password. I have to keep changing
it even though it's I have no passwords left in me.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Yeah, it's an ongoing process, just like our lives are anyway. Right,
you always have to change these passwords and that sort
of thing. We do suggest that you revisit the box regularly,
depending on which.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Section you know.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Maybe you've gone through those possessions and you don't need
to do that again ever, right, But maybe your I
don't know, your bank accounts change frequently, or you get
new ones or something like that. You know, as your
life gets updated or changes happen, we just say toss
a little of that information into the box.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Just asked, has Knockbox been on Shark Tank? Were you
on Shark Tank?
Speaker 3 (26:04):
No? You know, in the beginning, I wanted to, I
was going to apply and I was ready to go,
and it was covid was finishing and it was all online,
you know. But then as I kept going, we actually
don't need to you're doing it. Have any other investors
in the company. I don't really need any other investors
in the company, And you know, we've been super profitable
from day one, so I've never had to ask for money.
(26:28):
That is, and I don't really want to go on
shark tank. That's why I really wish I did. It
seemed like a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
But I see that you've got the basic box and
you also have a fireproof box.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
What is that fireproof box rated to?
Speaker 3 (26:43):
It is rated, you know, and we disclaim this. You know,
it is rated for a fifteen minute fire house fire.
It will not sustain neither will anything you can buy
really commercially or on Amazon or anywhere. A Colorado wildfire
where the cars melt right right, you.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Know, that that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
You need a big, heavy industrial something to withstand that
kind But it is it is rated for a kitchen fire,
you know, just something like that.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
So it gives you a little protection, yes, a little
bit of protection.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
But you know, we do say we have that product
because people want it and demand it, but we we say,
everything in that box, it doesn't need to be it's replaceable, right,
It's an index for your life. Like, here's where you'll
find this online, right.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Right, where you'll go for this. So it's you would
have to do the.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Box again, which is a lot of work, but the
information in it is replaceable. Right. It's not the olden
days where there's one copy of this one thing right, right,
you know, you're simply just again creating an index or
a paper trail for everything that you've got digitally. We
do give you a separate little bag to put things
like passports and birth certificates, things that are harder to reprice, right,
(27:49):
and we say take that bag, here's a list of
what goes in it, and put that in your safe
or somewhere really secure so that it's protected. But inside
the kit is it's like you're stack of bills, your
staff have online accounts, you know, just all those things
that we have. You know, I always seld people there
wasn't a need for this product twenty or thirty years ago.
(28:10):
It's because we live online now. You know, everyone says,
why isn't it online. I'm like, because because of online,
we sort of need this tracking system for everything that
we do have online, and that's why we're a paper
product rather than something digital somebody.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
And also, I think a lot of people are more
comfortable with a paper situation. They feel more secure, They
feel like that you know that they're gonna be able
to hand. Maybe you give it to your kids, you know,
if you live near your kids, you take it to
their house. Here you go, here's all our stuff. Somebody
just asked a good question with passwords, what do we
do with the password managers? So do you just sort
of say, here's my password manager account. I mean, because
(28:47):
that's like a whole, that's a horse of a different color.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
You can we We simply give people advice on different
ways to store passwords. Use a manager, use a password book,
put them here, put them there, you know, because everyone
wants to secure those in a different way. And your
next of can really you can give them your passwords legally,
should they be logging into your accounts without your permission,
they should not, you know, So that is up to
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you on how you want to convey that information to
your next of kin, And it's really a personal preference.
We do not say put every password in this box
because to your point, it's.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Hard to change.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Is they change? You may not. You may want it
to be a little more secure than that. So there's
all kinds of ways to track passwords. But what we
do do is we were we encourage you to reset them. All. Okay,
you're going to start the vehicle section now, so let's
think of every password you can think of for XM radio,
for a whole pass for your DMV log in account. Like,
(29:44):
go right now and do all those passwords today so
that you have them and you know that that section
of your life is under control when you do this action.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I have multiple people on the text line that are
making statements like this. Knock boxes a lot of but
so wonderful to accomplish. I love my knock box. Thank
you so much for talking about this. After friends have
lost parents or spouses. I know how important this is.
Thirty seven year old, and I tell my friends about
this all the time. Maria Frayetti, it's a great idea.
By the way, knock is n o ka box and
(30:17):
I told her this morning.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
A little light bulb went on my head.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
I bet that's next of ken box, and that's what
knockbox stands for. I put a link on the blog
today where you can go and find out more information. Maria,
I really appreciate you making time for me today. This
is just such a good idea. I know my listeners
need to know it, so thanks thanks for.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Coming up with it.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
This was great. All right, thank you. That is Maria
Frayetti with Knockbox, and we're going.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
To take time out be right back to wrap things
up before baseball starts it one. I love today's blog
and I'm very sad that i only have a few
minutes of show because there's so much good stuff that
I'd love for you to go see.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
And one story from Axios.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
That I've got on the blog today talks about the
pickle that well, they don't use the phrase pickle, but
I'm using the phrase pickle.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
They've put Governor Jared Pulis in a real pickle.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Because Democrats are going to pass this incredibly onerous gun
bill out of the House.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
I can't imagine it's not going to pass.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
And they look like they're poised to make it easier
for unions to extort money out of you if you
don't want to be in the union. Now, as a
self described libertarian, an image that he has been cultivating
very very very specifically for many years now as he
gears up for his twenty twenty eight run.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Both of these bills are extremely.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Problematic for Jared Polis, and I'm interested to know if
he's going to sign them, because if he signs them,
then that looks bad on his libertarian bona fides. But
if he just lets them go into law without a signature,
that is cowardly. And what's worse being a coward or
just you know, being a screaming left winger. If you
(31:58):
miss the beginning of the show, I'm so reeling over
the fact that Wisconsin wants to change the words, to
change the word from mother to inseminated person. It's like,
keep it up, Keep it up, guys, You'll never win
another election again with anyone, if that's what's important to you.
I have a story on the blog that I don't
(32:18):
even know how to talk about, but I'm not going
to get into the graphic details. But federal employees really
are a completely different vibe because there's an a work
chat platform that's used by federal employees, and they have
various subgroups within this chat client, and they have one
(32:41):
for LGBTQA plus and Christopher Ruffo, he now writes for
City Journal in the Manhattan Institute. He got some well,
he got some chat logs from the NSA's secret transgender
chat room, in which NSA, CIA and DIA employees discuss
(33:02):
such work related things as genital castration, artificial vaginas, fetishes, sex, polycules,
and gangbangs. Now here's the reason I'm bringing this up
because I'm trying to give a lot of grace to
people who are struggling with your a gender identity. I'm
(33:23):
trying not to assume you know that someone who is
transgender and may also have an attending mental issue.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
But in what world would you at your comp if.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
You work for the man in any way, shape or form,
in what world would you put that on a work platform.
I'm genuinely curious, because let me know, I'll tell you this, man.
I know for a fact that when I go to
my Mandy Connell at iHeartMedia dot com email address, that
(33:54):
I art Media is going to see every single thing
that is in there if they want to. And when
I do a teams meeting with a side chat, I
art media can see every single thing that is in
that team's meeting and in that side chat. So of
course I'm not going to be talking about my sex life.
I'm not going to be talking about personal stuff at all.
(34:15):
And yet, in the federal government there are people working
in high level probably with really high security clearances. Some
of these people probably have top secret or above clearances,
and I'm supposed to trust their judgment when this is
what they're doing on a work chat. And what the
(34:36):
hell is going on that it is assumed to be
okay to have these conversations during.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Work on a federal platform.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
I mean, I'm not getting into the details that are
in there because I would get in trouble. There's no
way to describe what they're describing without me doing something that.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Is a clear FCC violation.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Yet there are people in federal jobs who thought it
was okay to have these shots at work. I'm I'm
staggered by that, absolutely staggered. My worry here, and this
is a genuine worry. Initially was that we were going
to have to worry about people being blackmailed right there.
(35:20):
We have to worry about people being compromised and in
these situations. But if they're doing this at work, now
I'm thinking to myself, what the hell are they doing
in their off time on the internet.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Holy cow, it's just nuts, absolutely nuts.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
So that is on the blog today, along with the
Trumpty Dance, which is wildly entertaining. A very good explainer
by Congressman Thomas Massey about why Elon Musk's planned to
get that five second email about.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
What did you do last week?
Speaker 1 (35:53):
It was way more about about just checking in than
actually micromanaging people doing their shops.
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Connell Show. This will truly barrel because we only have
an hour spring training baseball coming up at one o'clock
and right now, I'm just saying the Rockies have been
winning in spring training, and I know, I know, I
know it's spring training and it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I know it.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
But let's just live the dream for a minute, y'all, Like,
let's take it.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Well, we can kind of thing. I'm your host, Mandy Connell.
That guy over there is Anthony Rodriguez. You can just
call him a rod and together we will take you
right up until twelve fifty five, when we will turn
the station over to the Rockies or someplace close.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
We're in there.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I've got a bunch of things on the blog, but
I swear to you I have to stop looking at
Twitter right before the show, because right before the show
I saw a post on libs of TikTok, and this
is what it says. And I just verified that this
is true, by the way, because I was.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Like, this cannot be true, but it is.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
The governor of Wisconsin is proposing, with a straight face,
some language changes to Wisconsin government. If previously they use
the word wife or husband, they want it change to spouse.
And I'm like, okay, spouse, I'm okay with that. I'm
a spouse, I'm a wife. I'm okay.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
That's fine.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Then it gets really well, it gets cuckoo for cocoa puffs.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
The word previously used mother.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
So what are we going to change mother into? As
a mother, I happen to think being a mother is
one of the highest honors of my life. And therefore
to say that I don't want to be called an
inseminated person.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
You heard that right. They want to change mother to
inseminated person.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Now what about mothers who adopted their children or mothers
that had children via surrogacy, because they themselves were not inseminated,
but they are no less a mother if the word
paternity had been used in Wisconsin. He wants a change
to patronage, which I don't understand the difference there.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Because they're both rooted in the male word.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Previously, where you use the word father, they want to
change it to natural parent.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
What about a mother? Oh, that's where it gets really good.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
If previously they would have said mother and father, they're
now going to say parent and parent and who gave
birth to the child. Again, very exclusionary for people who adopted,
or for women that had to use a surrogate. Very
exclusionary language. What hateful language. I gotta stop looking at Twitter.
(03:15):
I gotta okay, let me go to the blog because
I just I can't even with that. Find the blog
at mandy'sblog dot com. Mandy'sblog dot com, no apostrophe. Look
for the headline that says two twenty five to twenty
five blog need to organize things if you die.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Click on that and here are the headlines you will
find within office half of American alwayships and clipments of
that's a press platch.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Today on the blog how to get your life together
for when you die? Baseball eats the show at one today.
If you've got ringing in your ears, another stabbing on
an RTD bus. Mayor Johnston prediccts illegal activity by a
fire chief. Let's let's drag Para into the light. Democrat
continue to make fentanyl dealing easy?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Are Dems making.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Polices run for president harder? Trump can still ban the
AP for now. Trump responds to Denver public schools. You
know you can eat roosters right. The Trump de dances
storming the nation. Why asking federal employees to answer a
question works? Denver could lose its SBA office. A great
speech by Constantine Kissen rip ROBERTA. Flack in defense of Reacher.
(04:27):
Would any of your would any of you put this
on a work group chat?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Ever?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
When fighting carbon is just performative stupidity. MSNBC's racism exposed.
Scott Jennings explains.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Why federal workers need to say what they're doing, and
that's it.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Those are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com.
I swear I added another story at the bottom. Maybe
I didn't publish that story. Guys have some great videos
on the blog because I know none of you, not
all of your baseball fans, so I wanted to provide
you with a extra entertainment for when baseball takes over.
And if you don't know who Constantine Kissen is, super
(05:05):
fascinating guy. He was born in Soviet Russia before his
parents immigrated to the UK where he grew up. He
is as sharp an intellect as you will ever hear
in your life, and he's also hilarious.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
So I put his recent.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Speech to an organization whose name I'm going to get wrong,
so I'm not going to say it.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Let me pull it up on YouTube and I'll give
it to you. Need that.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
It was at the.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Dag Nabbitt.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Arc is theirs and it's the Alliance for Responsible Citizens.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I think that's it.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
It's something something responsible citizens, citizen ree whatever. But in
any case, he gave just a great speech. But in
it there's so much hope. There's so much hope that
we are turning the tide and all of this chaos,
all of this chaos that we're appearentencing now, is just
going to root out the worst parts of government. And
(06:06):
that's not just here in the United States. Around the world,
people are choosing differently. You look at the elections in Germany,
although it would not surprise me if there wasn't another
election very very quickly, because in Germany, much like in
other European nations, there are certain external forces that can
cause a snap election, and that is that's what just
(06:28):
happened in Germany. A snap election was called when the
former prime minister lost the confidence of his coalition, so
they called what they call snap election.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
The ruling party that is going to be leading the.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Coalition essentially refuses to work with the Conservative Party AfD.
That any newspaper that you pick up will tell you, oh,
these people are so right wing.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
They're so right wing.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Go look at what they believe in. They believe in
German sovereignty. They don't like the EU. They believe even
secure borders. They believe that people, if they immigrate there,
they should work to assimilate as well. You know, we
never talk about assimilation here in the United States because
we truly are the great melting pot. And now I
(07:14):
know they use salad mould, which is so stupid. I'm
not even can even with that in the Wisconsin thing.
There's just too much stupid flying around right now.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
We truly are. If we're not the most diverse country
in the world, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Of another one that has more diversity than we have
here in the United States of America. And for a
very long time, assimilation was a key part of immigration
my mother's grandparents would not let their daughters speak Hungarian
in their home because they were American, they were born here,
they were American, they were going to speak English.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
So assimilations sort of took.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Care of itself, partially because people that came from other
places and didn't speak English were discriminated against it and
they couldn't work. But now that we have so many immigrants,
and we have these immigrant commune unities where large numbers
of immigrants from one place will settle in a region
of town, a city, whatever, and they will create their
own businesses and they'll create their own economy, and they're
(08:11):
participating in the American dream. But because they have so
many people that speak their language and adhere to their
cultural traditions, they do not assimilate as well. And what
we're seeing around the world is like places like Sweden,
and I had this story on the blog and I
didn't get to it, and that makes me upset because
it was so interesting. Sweden allowed a massive influx of
(08:32):
young people from the Middle East, most of them male,
and now Sweden is looking to repatriate them.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
They're offering up to thirty thousand.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Dollars for people to leave you know why because Malmo,
Sweden is now the rape capital of the world. And
last month in January, there was more than one bombing.
There was an average of like one point one bombing
per day in their capital city. That is not Swedish.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
That's not Sweden.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Sweden was a homogeneous Swedish society for a very very
very long time, and they moved in a bunch of
people too quickly in a way that they did not
assimilate and do not seem to be interested in assimilating.
I'm one of those people that believes if you want
to move to a foreign country, you better learn their language.
It's one of the reasons I haven't moved to a
foreign country. Let I'm like, God, I got to learn
(09:25):
their language. We don't require things like that, and we
should because it is the things that are common among
us all that make the country great. It's not that
you know, a Mexican person is worse or better than
a person who's here from Tunisia or a person that's
here from the UK, because we all have differences, right,
(09:47):
But it's the shared things that we share together that
have always made the country great. The belief that being
an American was an ideal and Constantine Kissen does a great.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Job in this speech.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
First of all, it's hilarious on sort of inspiring people
to uh to to feel like things are going in
the right direction. I also have a dance on the
blog today, Rod, I want your opinion on the Trumpty
Dance video because I love a good, really good song parody,
and they are so infrequent. Most song parodies that you
(10:20):
see on the internet are terrible. This one is awesome
and it's for us gen Xers. It's for the gen xers.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
You know what a Rod? Now hold on, I would like,
I know, the Trumpty Dance or the Humpty Dance. Yeah, okay,
so you know that. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
This is for the gen xers out there. It's given
me the credits ahead of time because you know that
nobody will watch them after and there's no bad words
in it. I already checked.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
So here we go, And don't trump dance has become ridiculous,
like they're doing that serious dances. Just stop it because
I'm about to ruin the image of me that.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
You used to A look of money a king bee
making honey in the peach day. I hope you're ready
for me to an I'm the new sheriff in town.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
All my people right up your ground, I pick.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Up all the day Cookie got in his shell suggests,
let me introduce myself. My name is Trump Tea.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I like what that potato's love be fake news. Oh,
I would like the plump thing that little paper.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
On the clow tin.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
He took a shot, but he missed me.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
And you've got to watch the video that goes along
with this. It is so well done. So that is
on the blog today. I'm telling you the blog is
fire today.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
People.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
It is fire coming up at twelve thirty. I was
gonna say, speaking of fire, but I certainly don't want
anyone to die in a fire. That sounds horrible. Uh,
we've got the people. Somebody brought this to my attention.
It might have been a Rod's mom. Was it b
Rod that brought this up? I think it might have
been b Rod. And she told me about this thing
called knockbox. And knockbox is way beyond end of life planning.
(11:57):
It is literally a box that you buy that has
all of this information. So if you die, everything is
in this box. You've got bank account information, you've got
mortgage information, you've got health insurance information. You've got everything
in this box in one place, so your next of
kin doesn't have to spend three weeks digging through your
(12:18):
stuff in your desk trying to figure out how to
cancel your Netflix subscription.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Right.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I mean, when you think about all of the things
that we have in our lives right now that would
have to be dealt with, that is a huge, huge undertaking.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
This just makes it easy.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
We're going to talk to the founders of that company
at twelve thirty for a little bit and real quick,
I just want to remind people if you have tonightis
doctor Patty from Colorader Tonight's in Hearing Center has the
only FDA approved treatment for Tonight's at Colorado Tonight's in
Hearing Center, and she's having an event on Mark sixth.
I got the information about that on the blog. And
(12:52):
then I want to talk about this. So we are
spending a ton of money in Denver, a ton ton
done of money in Denver, update the.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Sixteenth Street all it's get to be a daisy. And now,
oh my gosh, let's reduce say they Center Park. It's
going to the daisy. And then I see this story,
you know.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Another stabbing on RTD on a bus, because that's just
the thing that happens. Oh, it didn't happen at night,
by the way, around three pm, a person was stabbed
on an RTD bus near Colfax and Grant Street. The
victim was taken to a local hospital with non life
threatening injuries. No arrests have been made in this case.
You want to know what's wrong with downtown Denver, it's
(13:33):
just that story right there. It's that story. And what's
super frustrating to me is that we have a mayor
and I have a story about the mayor on the
blog today, and I need any of you that work
for the Denver Oh geez, I put chief for police
and that's wrong Fire Department.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
I got to change that.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
So the Denver Fire Department, the chief there and several
higher ups or busted doing something completely illegal and fraudulent
in they would go to an event, a funeral or
an event that would be a normal event in the
course of their job, and then they would claim comp
time for it, like basically like, oh, I have two
(14:16):
hours of comp time because I went to this thing.
And then at the end of the year they would
cash in that comp time for cash, and that's fraud.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
You guys, if it's part of.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Your job like that would be like me saying, okay,
if I have to come in early for a meeting,
which happens on occasion, well then you're gonna have to pay.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Me extra for that. No, it's not.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
It's part of my job. It may not be an
everyday part of my job that it's part of my job.
So as a result of that, the firefighters had a
vote about whether or not they still had confidence in
the fire chief, and that vote was sixty four percent
said no.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Layer Johnston did.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Not seem the least bit bothered by this and issued
this statement after the no confidence vote. I believe that
Chief Fulton is the right leader to continue that important work.
A risk afected leader has been a critical advocate for
making sure our fire.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Department looks like the community it serves.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I'm confident Chief Fulton will continue to serve with honor
and distinction. It's the same when you say, hey, Mayor,
we're spending a bunch of money on all this stuff,
but people don't feel safe downtown. He essentially just goes,
nah ah, look at the statistics.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Forget about the people that were murdered by a crazed
man with a knife.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Forget about that that hardly ever happens, exceedingly rare. We
don't have people in leadership that are willing to say
the hard things, which is, we've got a problem downtown,
and that problem is mostly related to homeless drug addicts.
And until we go after that really hard, we're not
(15:50):
going to solve the problem. We right now have a
situation that is reminiscent, but not exactly alike, but reminiscent
of New York, New York City and Times Square in
the late seventies when it was an absolute cesspool. The
only people who went there were people who were looking
to commit a crime, people who had committed a crime,
(16:11):
or people who were looking for hookers.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
That was Time Square in the seventies. And then Rudy
Giuliani came in and said, you know what, we're going
to prosecute those people.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
We're gonna arrest people for prostitution, We're gonna arrest people
for open drug daily, We're gonna arrest people for open
drug use. We're gonna arrest people who are breaking the law.
And guess what happened have you guys been to Times
Square in the past twenty five years. It's been absolutely incredible.
(16:41):
Actually longer than that, forty years. I mean, my mom
went to New York to go on a theater trip
in the late seventies, and all of my little small
town friends they were like, is your mom gonna get murdered?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
And I was like, I hope not.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
But I mean the jury, we don't know. We'll see
if she makes it home again. But we don't have
people in charge that are that are saying, look, we
have a problem. We have a serious problem, and it
involves drugs, and it involves homelessness, and it involves mental illness,
and it has created a very untenable situation for downtown Denver.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
You know, the Denver Police Department.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Is not staffed at a level that is commensurate with
the size of the city. Meaning we should have raised
the authorized level of the authorized force level years ago
as our as our population.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Exploded, But we haven't. And I don't even know if
we are if we have.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Met authorized force levels right now, I don't even know
if we have the right number of police officers.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
But here's what we have to have, you know, here's
what we have to do.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
We have to go seriously and aggressively at taking care
of crime in downtown Denver. We have to go to
the District Attorney's office and say enough with turning these
people back out on the streets, threatened them with jail
time or treatment, and do that as many times as
it takes to get them into treatment. Okay to the
(18:08):
text on the common SPHEARDELF text line that texted, I
have been able to get a hooker in twenty five years,
why would.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I go to Times Square?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Okay? Yeah, this textra pointed out, Hey, Mandy, sort of
like the Colorado Attorney General saying that car theft isn't
a problem until the third or fourth theft. Exactly right,
exactly right. And I'm super frustrating when I say, oh,
another stabbing on an RTD bus. They're about to rearrange
(18:38):
RTD management. But unless the rearrangement includes people at the
top that say we will not rest until it is
safe to be on our buses and trains, what are
they gonna do? I mean, are you gonna get on
a bus? Oh and by the way, forget your concealed
carry permit or your weapon.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
There no not in Denver. No, not in Denver, Mandy.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I thought the mayor ran on a platform to get
the homeless off the streets in Denver. You're telling me
he didn't get that campaign promise done. Oh contrere, my friend.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
He'll tell you he did, because he got two thousand
homeless people off the streets in Denver, only to have
more show up. So there you go, Mandy. The people
of Denver voted for this. I say, let it all
fall apart. Guys.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
It's not just Denver though, it's every suburb around it.
They all get hit by this too. So we shall see,
we shall see. We're gonna take a very quick time out.
When we come back. We're gonna talk to Maria and
I'm not quite sure. I'm not gonna massacre. I think Frietta,
she's with knock Box. We're gonna talk about that. I
(19:45):
just think it's so cool that I am. I wanted
to share it with you because you only have to
lose your own parents before you realize what a nightmare
you're leaving for your own you know, seriously, really seriously,
we will be back in a moment. Wait a minute,
Broken windows baby, says this Texter. Yeah, broken windows is right, Mandy,
(20:08):
I voted no confidence in this situation years ago. All
of us who voted no confidence ended up being sued
face financial destruction.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
And loss of our jobs. So we dropped it. How
did they know?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Isn't it a secret ballot? I think it's a secret ballot.
If not, it needs to be, Mandy. I think it's
hilarious that people think they need a piece of paper
to let them so they can protect themselves. That's you know,
that's honestly how I feel about it. Give me my
little misdemeanor or whatever. I'll fight it, and then I'll
(20:38):
walk in with every crime story from downtown Denver printed
out in a big pile and drop it in front
of a jury and say, there you go, that's why
I was carrying illegally. We'll be back right after this
on KOA and you drop dead and all of your
affairs are left to your children, and well, I'll tell
you what happens. It sucks, that's what happens. And joining
me now is a woman who wrecked nice. The suckiness
(21:01):
of that situation has created a product to address it.
In knock Box. Maria Frietta, Welcome to the show. She's
the founder, the CEO, the inventor, the chief bottle washer.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
She is a lot of a lot of hats going
on over there at knock Box. Welcome to the show, Maria,
Thank you so much, thanks for having me. Where did
this idea come from?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Well, several years ago, about three and a half years ago,
my father passed away in upstate New York, and it
was relatively expected, and I went up there with my
two brothers, and he had a will and a box
full of things, and you know, we thought it would
all be fine, and we went up there to figure
out what to do next, and we learned we had
(21:43):
no idea. You know, a will isn't quite good enough.
You know, you can't just start driving a person's car
or living in their house or you know, doing all
those things. So, you know, we learned how to operate
probate and how to make friends with the county clerk
and do.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
All those things.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
But in the meantime, I said, we've got to get
organized with this pile of papers that we've got, and
so I created a very small system to organize the
whole process, organize the key to the golf cart and
the snowmobile and all the things that he had, and
we divided all the work up in those folders and
went about our merry way and managed the estate, which
(22:18):
did take, by the way, a full year for a
really small estate in New York.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
It was a lot.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
But then I got home and realized that if something
happened to me, my brother, who would be my next
of kin, who would come take care of everything, would
not have a clue how to start. You know, I
had a will, I have a trust, I have all
the things that I thought it was really prepared.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
You know, I thought, Wow, I've got this covered.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
And I thought he wouldn't know how to pay my
electric bill or take care of the dog, or drop
my daughter up at school, or you know, all those
things that we make up our lives that are complicated,
and all the things we have online. You know, I
was like, I could to get a handle on this,
and so I made my own kit, and then friends
wanted a kit, and then neighbors wanted a kit, and
I started making the kid and without me even trying,
(23:02):
it turned into a business.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Well, let's be real, this is a topic.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
No one wants to talk about this, no one wants
to think about the fact that they're going to die someday,
even though we all are going to die someday. So
if you can just make an idiot proof, which it
looks like you have made this idiot proof, then people go, Okay,
I'm just doing a task.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I'm not thinking about what I'm going to die.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
I'm just doing a task that just happens to put
all this information in one place, So well, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Yeah, not only that.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
You know what people do is they go through the kit.
Is they realize I haven't done these life things I
need to do anyway. Yeah, so maybe they start going
through their insurance policies, and many people write us and say, wow,
thanks because I had my ex wife on my life insurance,
or you know, I have this coverage I don't need,
or you know whatever it is. It kind of requires
(23:52):
you to go through every little aspect of your life,
and we don't take the time to do that either.
You know, I forget about dying someday. It's like you
still have to see when your car insurance is due next,
or when the registration's coming up, or manage the pins
on the different bank account cards, you know, all of
those different things.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
So the box really.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Helps with all of that as well, and sort of
districts you from the fact that you're preparing, yeah, for
you know, your ultimate demise.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Well, and I mean I look around my house and
like in my home office, I have all of this
memorabilia that listeners have sent me over the years, and
it's just full.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
To me, it means something. For my children, it's going
to mean a bigger dumpster, you know what I mean,
it's not right. So that's right.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
The last thing I want to do is leave them
trying to figure out how to cancel my Netflix account.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
So what kind of things are in.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
This box everything that you just said? You know, one
thing is our possessions that maybe mean something to you
and not to your next of kin. And we advise
you with some tips, you know, make a video of
those things and say verbally to your next of kin
you can throw this away, right so that they don't
hang on to it with guilt, you know. So we
sort of address that piece, and then we say, go
to all those subscriptions and sit down and figure out
(25:02):
you know, we just did a cable all of those
subscriptions for TV, Netflix and all that stuff, you know,
put them on a list and find all the passwords
and get yourself organized and then you've got it. So
it's easy for someone else to cancel it. But again
it's also easy for you to manage.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Now, do you guys recommend that people sit down what
once a year just to update, make sure that everything
is still good because passwords change. They will not let
me just keep my password. I have to keep changing
it even though it's I have no passwords left in me.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Yeah, it's an ongoing process, just like our lives are anyway. Right,
you always have to change these passwords and that sort
of thing. We do suggest that you revisit the box regularly,
depending on which.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Section you know.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Maybe you've gone through those possessions and you don't need
to do that again ever, right, But maybe your I
don't know, your bank accounts change frequently, or you get
new ones or something like that. You know, as your
life gets updated or changes happen, we just say toss
a little of that information into the box.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Just asked, has Knockbox been on Shark Tank? Were you
on Shark Tank?
Speaker 3 (26:04):
No? You know, in the beginning, I wanted to, I
was going to apply and I was ready to go,
and it was covid was finishing and it was all online,
you know. But then as I kept going, we actually
don't need to you're doing it. Have any other investors
in the company. I don't really need any other investors
in the company, And you know, we've been super profitable
from day one, so I've never had to ask for money.
(26:28):
That is, and I don't really want to go on
shark tank. That's why I really wish I did. It
seemed like a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
But I see that you've got the basic box and
you also have a fireproof box.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
What is that fireproof box rated to?
Speaker 3 (26:43):
It is rated, you know, and we disclaim this. You know,
it is rated for a fifteen minute fire house fire.
It will not sustain neither will anything you can buy
really commercially or on Amazon or anywhere. A Colorado wildfire
where the cars melt right right, you.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Know, that that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
You need a big, heavy industrial something to withstand that
kind But it is it is rated for a kitchen fire,
you know, just something like that.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
So it gives you a little protection, yes, a little
bit of protection.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
But you know, we do say we have that product
because people want it and demand it, but we we say,
everything in that box, it doesn't need to be it's replaceable, right,
It's an index for your life. Like, here's where you'll
find this online, right.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Right, where you'll go for this. So it's you would
have to do the.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Box again, which is a lot of work, but the
information in it is replaceable. Right. It's not the olden
days where there's one copy of this one thing right, right,
you know, you're simply just again creating an index or
a paper trail for everything that you've got digitally. We
do give you a separate little bag to put things
like passports and birth certificates, things that are harder to reprice, right,
(27:49):
and we say take that bag, here's a list of
what goes in it, and put that in your safe
or somewhere really secure so that it's protected. But inside
the kit is it's like you're stack of bills, your
staff have online accounts, you know, just all those things
that we have. You know, I always seld people there
wasn't a need for this product twenty or thirty years ago.
(28:10):
It's because we live online now. You know, everyone says,
why isn't it online. I'm like, because because of online,
we sort of need this tracking system for everything that
we do have online, and that's why we're a paper
product rather than something digital somebody.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
And also, I think a lot of people are more
comfortable with a paper situation. They feel more secure, They
feel like that you know that they're gonna be able
to hand. Maybe you give it to your kids, you know,
if you live near your kids, you take it to
their house. Here you go, here's all our stuff. Somebody
just asked a good question with passwords, what do we
do with the password managers? So do you just sort
of say, here's my password manager account. I mean, because
(28:47):
that's like a whole, that's a horse of a different color.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
You can we We simply give people advice on different
ways to store passwords. Use a manager, use a password book,
put them here, put them there, you know, because everyone
wants to secure those in a different way. And your
next of can really you can give them your passwords legally,
should they be logging into your accounts without your permission,
they should not, you know, So that is up to
(29:11):
you on how you want to convey that information to
your next of kin, And it's really a personal preference.
We do not say put every password in this box
because to your point, it's.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Hard to change.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Is they change? You may not. You may want it
to be a little more secure than that. So there's
all kinds of ways to track passwords. But what we
do do is we were we encourage you to reset them. All. Okay,
you're going to start the vehicle section now, so let's
think of every password you can think of for XM radio,
for a whole pass for your DMV log in account. Like,
(29:44):
go right now and do all those passwords today so
that you have them and you know that that section
of your life is under control when you do this action.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I have multiple people on the text line that are
making statements like this. Knock boxes a lot of but
so wonderful to accomplish. I love my knock box. Thank
you so much for talking about this. After friends have
lost parents or spouses. I know how important this is.
Thirty seven year old, and I tell my friends about
this all the time. Maria Frayetti, it's a great idea.
By the way, knock is n o ka box and
(30:17):
I told her this morning.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
A little light bulb went on my head.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
I bet that's next of ken box, and that's what
knockbox stands for. I put a link on the blog
today where you can go and find out more information. Maria,
I really appreciate you making time for me today. This
is just such a good idea. I know my listeners
need to know it, so thanks thanks for.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Coming up with it.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
This was great. All right, thank you. That is Maria
Frayetti with Knockbox, and we're going.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
To take time out be right back to wrap things
up before baseball starts it one. I love today's blog
and I'm very sad that i only have a few
minutes of show because there's so much good stuff that
I'd love for you to go see.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
And one story from Axios.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
That I've got on the blog today talks about the
pickle that well, they don't use the phrase pickle, but
I'm using the phrase pickle.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
They've put Governor Jared Pulis in a real pickle.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Because Democrats are going to pass this incredibly onerous gun
bill out of the House.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
I can't imagine it's not going to pass.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
And they look like they're poised to make it easier
for unions to extort money out of you if you
don't want to be in the union. Now, as a
self described libertarian, an image that he has been cultivating
very very very specifically for many years now as he
gears up for his twenty twenty eight run.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Both of these bills are extremely.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Problematic for Jared Polis, and I'm interested to know if
he's going to sign them, because if he signs them,
then that looks bad on his libertarian bona fides. But
if he just lets them go into law without a signature,
that is cowardly. And what's worse being a coward or
just you know, being a screaming left winger. If you
(31:58):
miss the beginning of the show, I'm so reeling over
the fact that Wisconsin wants to change the words, to
change the word from mother to inseminated person. It's like,
keep it up, Keep it up, guys, You'll never win
another election again with anyone, if that's what's important to you.
I have a story on the blog that I don't
(32:18):
even know how to talk about, but I'm not going
to get into the graphic details. But federal employees really
are a completely different vibe because there's an a work
chat platform that's used by federal employees, and they have
various subgroups within this chat client, and they have one
(32:41):
for LGBTQA plus and Christopher Ruffo, he now writes for
City Journal in the Manhattan Institute. He got some well,
he got some chat logs from the NSA's secret transgender
chat room, in which NSA, CIA and DIA employees discuss
(33:02):
such work related things as genital castration, artificial vaginas, fetishes, sex, polycules,
and gangbangs. Now here's the reason I'm bringing this up
because I'm trying to give a lot of grace to
people who are struggling with your a gender identity. I'm
(33:23):
trying not to assume you know that someone who is
transgender and may also have an attending mental issue.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
But in what world would you at your comp if.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
You work for the man in any way, shape or form,
in what world would you put that on a work platform.
I'm genuinely curious, because let me know, I'll tell you this, man.
I know for a fact that when I go to
my Mandy Connell at iHeartMedia dot com email address, that
(33:54):
I art Media is going to see every single thing
that is in there if they want to. And when
I do a teams meeting with a side chat, I
art media can see every single thing that is in
that team's meeting and in that side chat. So of
course I'm not going to be talking about my sex life.
I'm not going to be talking about personal stuff at all.
(34:15):
And yet, in the federal government there are people working
in high level probably with really high security clearances. Some
of these people probably have top secret or above clearances,
and I'm supposed to trust their judgment when this is
what they're doing on a work chat. And what the
(34:36):
hell is going on that it is assumed to be
okay to have these conversations during.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Work on a federal platform.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
I mean, I'm not getting into the details that are
in there because I would get in trouble. There's no
way to describe what they're describing without me doing something that.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Is a clear FCC violation.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Yet there are people in federal jobs who thought it
was okay to have these shots at work. I'm I'm
staggered by that, absolutely staggered. My worry here, and this
is a genuine worry. Initially was that we were going
to have to worry about people being blackmailed right there.
(35:20):
We have to worry about people being compromised and in
these situations. But if they're doing this at work, now
I'm thinking to myself, what the hell are they doing
in their off time on the internet.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Holy cow, it's just nuts, absolutely nuts.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
So that is on the blog today, along with the
Trumpty Dance, which is wildly entertaining. A very good explainer
by Congressman Thomas Massey about why Elon Musk's planned to
get that five second email about.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
What did you do last week?
Speaker 1 (35:53):
It was way more about about just checking in than
actually micromanaging people doing their shops.
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