03-07-25 FULL SHOW - Rep. Gabe Evans Today, And Have We Found The Fountain of Youth

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 4 (00:27):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Friday edition of the show Altogether. Now, yeah,
that's right, my friends. That is Anthony Rodriguez back from
his big adventure and we will hear more about that
because he just told me about a shot he had
that sounds ridiculous and and one of those that I'm like, why, why,

(00:50):
why would why would you do that? Anthony, let's start
the show. You just got back from a cruise. Tell
everybody real quick, like what you did on your summer vacation.

Speaker 5 (00:57):
Yes, went to Long Beach to pour out to Catalina
Island and in Sonata for a little four dayer that
felt way longer than that. Because Carnival is awesome. Let
no one tell you differently, including Andy Connell.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
It was amazing.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
All I've said is they have a certain clientele that
likes to get their drink on. You're in that stage
of life.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
That is true.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
I mean I'm not lying about that, and I am
not in that stage of life anymore. And I will
tell you the older I get, the less I want
to be around drunk people full stop. I hear you. Yeah,
I just no tolerance for it. If it's works, than
in any case that aside, you had a blast.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
It was so much fun.

Speaker 5 (01:34):
It was so much fun from seeing walking out far
enough on Catalian Island and seeing sea lions, which people
paid you one hundred dollars a person for an excursion
to do that. We got it for free because we
ventured out far enough, because we're those people that aren't
afraid to go beyond the little, you know, make shift
port cities that they do on these Yeah, it's a little.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
Fake where you can all buy the same jewelry that
you buy at every other port.

Speaker 5 (01:54):
I hate that every single store has the same T
shirt and everything that. So we venture out far enough.
But yeah, just once again Carnival. Just just great food,
great experience, great cruise director, just great drinks, great great
absolutely everything.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
What's up up there on the drinks and got the
drinks on the ship. Let's talk about this. First of all,
you can tell how old I am because a rod
just asked me. Apparently there's an entire chain of bars
called the shot Factory where they just have shots. And
what's funny about that is, back when I was in
my last decade, my friends and I always joked about
opening a bar where all they sold with shots. And

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obviously someone overheard our brilliant conversation. It is now probably
a gazillionaire for it. And you're welcome, sir or madam
for that. But tell me about this marvel Marlborough shot
that you did.

Speaker 5 (02:41):
Yes, well on that point, I had first heard of
shot Factory by one of my buddies. I told you
about Stephan, who moved here from Austria. He's been to
a German version of the shot Factory. It looks very similar.
You literally walk in and they have a giant menu
that takes up an entire wall, that has like one
hundred different concoctions. All are shots, and they all have
skull levels of how either brutal or strong.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
That they are.

Speaker 5 (03:04):
So, knowing me, naturally, I do not back down from
any challenge. I immediately wanted to go through the highest
level skull levels. So I'll start with the one that
wasn't as bad but was rated the worst. It was
called Labestia The Beast which is literally three absence mixed
together that when mixed together, it's a black, dark, black,

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depth black concoction.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
That actually wasn't too bad because I like abacynth.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
You like licorice, then I.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Actually don't, which makes no sense why I would like absinth.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
You like absent if you don't like liquoric I know, and.

Speaker 5 (03:39):
Black licorice is the worst, and that's what absence tastes like.
So imagine three mixed together. That was the Beast, which
was like seven red black skulls next to it.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
So that was raly the worst, but the worst.

Speaker 5 (03:50):
One which was like one or two skulls less, but
it should be the highest, as I told you, called
Marl Burrow. Yes, as in the brand of cigarettes, and
I don't even remember what alcohol it is. But they
literally have you swirl around this liquid in your mouth
that has these little particles in it that must be
some similar concoction to what pop rocks does and do
something because you switch this around your mouth long enough,

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then they have you swallow it and then you breathe
a certain way like I forget, I forget it was
in or out. But then all of the bartenders are
like with baited breath like mister Burns, hands like this
looking at you as it happens. Because then in a
millowsecond you get this this feeling from your top of
your head down into your fricking stomach where it just
feels like you just smoked an entire pack of cigarettes.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
And that was that was death.

Speaker 6 (04:35):
Death.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
I'm sorry you brought it on yourself. But it's a
good story, right, yes it is. It was no guy
getting swallowed by a whale story. But it's good. No,
it's good.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
No, but it is up there.

Speaker 4 (04:46):
Well, I'm glad you had a good time, but I had.
This is one of those things where even when I
did shots, which was not a lot and uh not
a lot of the time, I was still very like
a very clean shot doer. I was like on a
tequila you know, maybe just a couple of things, just straightforward,
nothing fancy, nothing crazy. So that sounds like there's a

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zero percent chance that would have ever passed my lips
ever ever ever.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah, but I see someone else do it first, and
then I still did it. That's all you need to know.
I saw their experience was like ooh, sign me up, yep.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
So shots cruise by the way was to en Sonata
and Catalina Island.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, Catalina Island is basically like like it is.

Speaker 5 (05:27):
I mean it's an extension of California, but just an
island form I think, only like thirty miles off the coast.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
I think a long beach. But it's beautiful. I mean
it's it's it's a lot of fun.

Speaker 5 (05:36):
It's a really cool, you know vibe, if you know,
like Shoreline Village in Long Beach is basically that, just
like I said, on island form thirty minutes away. Still
stupid expensive. I don't even heard the and of Ross.
Like I spent literally on ubers alone in the day
before in Long Beach, and the day we're waiting for
the flight the day after, hundreds of dollars an Uber alone.

(05:58):
I mean, damn, California we all know is expensive, but
that is just astronomically more than I thought it was
going to be.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
Well, and this is I told a Rod, and I
should have reiterated before you went. Always check in places
like LA and New York, always check the taxi apps
because the taxis are often often way cheaper, especially in
New York, and people always assume Uber's cheaper. Than a
cab or why doesn't everybody take a cab. Well, they've
now made it as easy to get a cab in
those cities as they have Uber, so always check that

(06:26):
app too, because the uber prices in some places with
surge pricing, sometimes it's insane. You just can't you can't
justify it.

Speaker 5 (06:33):
Yeah, but again just a footnote because I will say
this a PSA to wrap up the conversation on my
cruise is for those that are type A like me,
I will continue to book cruises, and I recommend anyone
else does because you can just book the cruise, book
the details, and then go on the ship and turn
your brain off, like, yeah, just four days the most
relaxing I can ever be because it forces you to disconnect,

(06:55):
It forces you to enjoy, not that you should be
forced to do so, but it really helps you take yourself, pause.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Your life for a moment and just enjoy and relax.
So I'm refreshed. Rush.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
Yeah, great, great advice.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
Specifically, let other people be typing for you for a week.

Speaker 4 (07:12):
This is what this is what I uh. One of
the places I recommend to people who can't unplug. If
you go to Bora Bora you. You have no choice
because there's nothing to do there except sit in a
chair on a beach and look at a volcano. And
it's glorious. It's forced relaxation and there's nothing you can
do to fight it, and it's what.

Speaker 5 (07:29):
Yeah, And after you do your first cruise, you can
disconnect faster on the second one. Like I told you
before the show, this was only a four day compared
to the six day cruise I did last year, But
this four day felt like almost twice as long as
the first one, because the second I got on the ship,
I knew how to immediately just go, Okay, how's the time, disconnect,
turn it off, relax and go. Before the last one
it was like maybe like the second to last day,

(07:50):
I was like, okay, I'm relaxing in it's over.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (07:54):
Anyway, let's talk about what's on the blog. It is Friday,
you guys, and holy cow has and this has been
a week a rod, you picked a fine time, You
picked a fine time to go on vacation. This week
it has been one barn burner after another the entire week.
It's been nuts. But it's Friday, and I am getting

(08:15):
on an airplane right after the show to go see
my grandsons this weekend. So I am stoked. I'm gonna
have them all to myself. I'm very excited about that. Anyway,
find the blog by going to mandy'sblog dot com. That's
mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline that says three
seven twenty five blog Representative Gabe Evans today and have
we found the fountain of youth? Click on that and

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here are the headlines you will find within tick tech toe.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Oh, I didn't the missing office half Americon all with
ships and clipmas and say that's going to press plat.

Speaker 4 (08:46):
Today on the blog, Representative Gabe Evans gave Mike Johnston
the business this week. A Sior regent puts her business
ahead of the university. Mike Rosen is all in on Trump.
Is the substance going to be a real thing? We've
got some stream speeders around here. Representative Jeff Craig tells
the SBA to come on down. If cops don't have immunity,

(09:07):
childcase workers surely don't. Trump Trump checks Elon and Doge.
There is a tariff pause again, scrolling now. Trump wants
to deal with ron AJ's Pitt barbecue has been seized.
What's your icon or epic pass gonna cost next year?
Does our lack of religion coincide with our suicide rates?

(09:27):
John Fetterman is heckling his own party. Straight Dude is
suing Starbucks for discrimination tgif everybody female athletes respond to
Nike's stupid Super Bowl ad. Hey, Rod has a great
point here. A fool and his money are soon parted,
poor Hunter Biden. Only you can prevent road accidents. The
US government is going to check your social before you

(09:49):
come in. Forget the parachute, these kids have hovercrafts. What's
for dinner? Free d printed meat? What a crabby jerk
of a flight attendant? Old man comedy is on point.
Those are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com.
So you guys, Arod sends me a video this morning
that I could not get to embed on the blog properly.

(10:11):
So I was super happy about this because I had
to find out who Andy Huggins was. Andy Huggins is
a seventy four year old comedian. He might be seventy
five now, and he is hilarious And I barey laughed
this morning watching this and all he does is make
old man jokes and it's freaking hysterical. He's my new
favorite comedian. Should we call mil at Comedy Works and

(10:33):
tell her that we've requested that she bring Andy Huggins in,
but do it soon because he's not buying any green bananas.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
We are talent acquisition for mel in this instance, and
we will make it happen.

Speaker 7 (10:43):
We will.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
We will direct her because and I'm sure it would
be a matinee, right, I mean, you know has to
be look at a two thirty show, because that would
be amazing. A two thirty show with coffee and maybe
some cake on the side. We don't know, we don't know.
We also have a video, you guys. It is so
easy to be pleasant in this world. Let me just

(11:05):
have a moment, because I am exceedingly pleasant in my
normal life. If you see me and I'm really, really
really angry, visibly angry, run away, run away, Because if
I am in public and I am visibly angry, something
has gone so sideways. You do not want to be
a part of this. Trust me. And I used to
be a flight attendant on Delta Airlines, and the things

(11:27):
I loved about that job were the cool things that
happened with the passengers, right, I mean I met so
many interesting people, and I heard interesting stories, and people
would share things that they were excited about. If they
were going to get an award, they would inevitably tell you.
And it's just like, in that respect, that part of
the job is some of the best parts of the job.

(11:47):
So this Delta Airlines flight attendant, there's a woman on
a Delta flight. It's sitting at the gate. It has
not taken off, it is sitting at the gate, and
she finds out that she's been nominated for two Grammy
Awards for her God Hospel record. And she tells her
fellow passengers because I mean, she's bursting with excitement and
she wants to tell somebody in there there. And then

(12:08):
they cut forward and she's singing a little bit and
the passengers are, you know, kind of sitting there listening,
and this flight attendant come out. He is like, you
need to stop singing. Hey, you need to stop saying
I am your I am your flight leader. He's that
flight leader. What that's not a thing. There's no flight
leader school. You don't do that. That's not even a title.
They don't even say that you're not a flight leader.

(12:31):
What does that even mean? This aggravated the crap out
of me this video, because it's so easy to be kind,
It's so easy to just let someone have a moment
when they're celebrating something wonderful, and he was just rotten.
And I certainly hope Delta Airlines. You know, when I
flew for Delta back in nineteen ninety one, they and

(12:51):
the flight attendants. Every group of flight attendants has a reputation.
And I mean like Italian flight attendants, the ones that
fly for all Italia. They would walk through the airport
with their jackets like, you know, slung over both shoulders,
smoking a cigarette because it was back you can still
smoke in the airport in Italy, and they'd smoke it

(13:11):
like they were a you know, Russian spy, and they
would all click through the airport at the exact same pace.
I mean, flight attendant groups have a reputation, and Delta's
flight attendant reputation was we were super friendly, y'all because
Delta was the Atlanta airline. This was before they bought
pan Am and became more of a global player. So
this is upsetting to me as a former Delta flight

(13:32):
attendant where we sort of prided ourselves on being the
friendly airline, fly the friendly skies, all that stuff. Right,
I was just aggravated. I fly so much that it's
so frustrating when I just see dour, unhappy, mad with power,
angry flight attendants on these planes. And don't get me wrong,
I understand the job. It is all about safety. It

(13:54):
is all about making sure your passengers safely go from
point A to point B. And oh yeah, we're gonna
throw a drink at you too.

Speaker 5 (14:00):
I get it.

Speaker 4 (14:01):
But man, it doesn't take very much to just be nice,
and there was not any nice happening there. So let
me tell you what's coming up on the show. We
have real stuff we're going to talk about. But it
is Friday, so I might veer into the absurd at
any moment, any moment. Mandy just wanted to share my
Friday song. Hey, mister DJ by Zaan, Now that's a

(14:22):
Friday jam. Hey, mister DJ, do.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
That one.

Speaker 4 (14:28):
I don't know see if we have in the system.
Let's find out, because I know I think I've heard it, Mandy.
That video is old. I think it's from last year.
Flight attendant Drew he works for Southwest, even though I
never see him on Southwest. Well, I should say he
allegedly works for Southwest, but I've never seen him on Southwest. Mandy,
Alaska is famous for its own shot, the Duck Farts. Wait,

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as best I can recall, says this texter. It's three
layers of Crown Royal, whiskey, Bailey's Irish Cream, Liqueur, and Kalua.
That's very so more to a mind eracer, but a
mind e racer has vodka on the top instead of
the Crown Royal.

Speaker 5 (15:04):
I was able to zoom in enough and figure out
what this Marlborough shot had. What was that tequila? Rustic
and contro?

Speaker 4 (15:13):
What is rustic?

Speaker 6 (15:15):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (15:16):
I don't know what that is.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
That's also a non rustic drink. They had told me,
uh a hard lemonade.

Speaker 4 (15:26):
Oh okay, yeah, this text made me laugh a little.
I used to work at a college bar. We all
think we're still twenty one until you hang out with
twenty one year olds. Amen. True at you made somebody
throw up in their mouth with that drink description. Texter.
Now see, wait a minute, we're just having a moment here.
We're having a Friday jam. It's Lucy Goosey. Things are

(15:49):
feeling good and then I get hate speech on the
text line like this, Mandy, don't forget to move your
clocks ahead this weekend. Ye Yep, thanks Texter, Yep, You're awesome.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
I'm just saying. I'm saying, but I'm not saying. Donald.
You want to get some people in your favor, you
know what to do.

Speaker 5 (16:06):
Get one of those eos, get your pen, show it
around the room that shows that you just got rid
of this damn thing. You'll get a lot of people
on your side real quick, Bud, Yep, exactly, come on,
don It's right there for you.

Speaker 4 (16:21):
And this textra pointed out Delta didn't buy pan Am.
Delta bought part of PanAm. United bought big pieces too.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Correct.

Speaker 8 (16:27):
Correct.

Speaker 4 (16:28):
I remember it well because all of those flight attendants
went above me and seniority.

Speaker 5 (16:31):
Trust me, I know Leonardo DiCaprio can't take off the
little PanAm things on the airplanes no more.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
If that movie was made today, exactly, no.

Speaker 4 (16:41):
No, that would never happen today.

Speaker 6 (16:43):
Trust me.

Speaker 4 (16:43):
Drew is fought back. Lol. Flight Attendant Drew is a
senior mom at the dead base and does it work weekends.
Good for you, Drew, but I'll believe it when I
see you work in a flight. All Right, when we
get back from this break for news, traffic and weather
and some stuff that I want you to go buy,
we're gonna talk to Jimmy Sangenberger. You know, he writes
a twice weekly column for the Denver Gazette. And I'm

(17:05):
here to tell you Jimmy is doing some of the
best investigative stuff out there. And he's been on CU
regent Wanda James for some time. She is the pot
store owner who was made a CU regent who has
now been revealed to be advocating for CU to lose
money to benefit her business. Oh oh, the tangled web

(17:25):
we weave that we're going to explain next with Jimmy.
Keep it on KOA. I got to call him that.
Mike rosen wrote that I'm gonna share in just a
moment because it is interesting. But can we talk about
John Fetterman for just a moment? Okay, because Fetterman is
carving out this space where he's just hurling bombs at
everybody and rhetorically, of course, but I want to share

(17:49):
a tweet that he just sent out. He is a
screen grab of an Axios headline that says Trump yank's
four hundred million from Colombia over allegations of anti Semitism.
Now you know what's been going on at Columbia University.
There have been outrageous protests where kids have taken over
classrooms and basically helped people hostage. Just really really outrageous stuff.

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And it's all been by kids who are anti Semitic,
and Colombia is allowed to happen. So John Fetterman grabs
that headline and he sends out this tweet. I can't
read the whole thing because there's bad words in it,
because I guess now everybody's cursing everywhere, and that's you know,
I love cursing. I don't know how I feel about
the politicians cursing on the internet, but I'll read it.

(18:35):
He says. Columbia let anti Semitism run a muck to
cater to lunatic fringe and paid provocateurs. Leadership allowed those
a holes to take over the campus and terrorized Jewish students.
Now Columbia pays for its failure, and I support that.
John Fetterman has been as staunch a supporter of Israel

(18:55):
as anyone in the US Senate, but he has been
on Democrats left and right. I don't think he's going
to change parties because he still holds very liberal positions. Right,
He's still a liberal guy, but he's definitely coming across
as more of a classical liberal than a progressive sort
of craziness, This Texter said, John Fetterman is trying to

(19:17):
build a brand for himself. By the way, you can
always hit the text line by texting five sixty six
nine to zero. I don't feel that from John Fetterman.
He might be building a brand, But unlike the Instagram
members of Congress I was talking about the other day
that I really do think are building a brand, trying
to build a brand. I think John Fetterman may just

(19:37):
be building a brand because he doesn't care. He just
doesn't care. His stroke. His stroke changed him. I mean,
it seems to have changed him in a pretty fundamental way.
Although I'm not going to pretend I knew a lot
about him before the stroke and his run for the Senate,
but he's certainly, compared to the positions he's held before,
has shown to be much more pragmatic, and it's almost

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like he just has zero blanks to give, if you
know what I mean, and so because he's I mean,
it's just been fascinating to watch. If you're not on X,
you really should be on X. Just follow politicians and
news media outlets and just use it for that. And
it's amazing because I'm telling you right now, so much

(20:22):
stuff is happening on this platform on a daily basis,
important stuff, world leaders making, you know, asking basically asking
for a deal. It's all happening on X. It's this
has been a democratization platform like none I've ever seen.
Mandy fun Friday question because I am not wanting to

(20:43):
work today, here's my question. There are a thousand grapes
in front of you. One of them is poisonous and
would kill you. Each grape you eat is worth fifty
thousand dollars. How many grapes would you eat? If you
eat a poisonous grape, you don't get any money. Well,
I would not eat one grape because grapes are like
eating eyeballs, and I'm not putting one in my mouth.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
The poison one kills you.

Speaker 4 (21:04):
Yeah, Oh yeah, I believe so, yeah, poisonous would kill you. Yeah. No,
I'm not a risk taker in that manner, I'm really not.
I would never play Russian roulette.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
I would not ever like the same one.

Speaker 8 (21:15):
Here.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
I'll throw you a different one. I've heard.

Speaker 5 (21:16):
It's really funny. You get I'll throw a big money
at you. You get ten million dollars. But if you
accept the ten million. There is a snail on earth
that slowly follows you everywhere you go, and if it
ever gets you and touches you, you die.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
But it's a snail. It's a snail, and it's just
randomly somewhere in the earth.

Speaker 4 (21:36):
You never know where it is.

Speaker 5 (21:37):
But if you come across it and it touches you,
you die. But you get ten million dollars for accepting
this risk. Do you take the risk?

Speaker 4 (21:44):
I know I don't want to have to keep an
eyeball out for the snails for the rest of my life.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
I just don't. It's just one snail, kill a snail.

Speaker 8 (21:51):
No.

Speaker 4 (21:52):
I was thinking about this the other day, and not
to get all philosophical on you guys, but I'm gonna
get philosophical on you guys. There are things in life
trade offs you make, you know, And as I get older,
I'm evaluating the trade offs that I've made in my
life a little more carefully. And my brother is extremely successful,
extremely successful and on his way to being very wealthy

(22:12):
right just he is going to die a very very
wealthy man. I know what he's put into that. I
know how hard he's worked, and he's earned every single
bit of it. He got nothing from anybody in terms of,
you know, freebies or inheritance or anything. But I just
look at his life and I think that's not what
I aspire to do. I look at the lines on
my face as a fifty five year old woman in

(22:32):
the media, and I'm like, you know, should I be
saving up to get something done? And I'm like, no,
because I'm saving up to take my kids to Alaska.
I'd rather do that. I'd rather have the wrinkles but
be able to take my family to Alaska. So it's
kind of weird. I don't know why I just started
going down this path.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
But I hear you one hundred million for the snail
to follow you.

Speaker 4 (22:50):
I just don't know. I mean one hundred million. I
don't want to snail following me. I don't want anybody
following me, Okay, I don't want to snail on my back.
I don't want to have to be looking out for
a snail. I don't want to accidentally never be able
to eat s cargo again, because what if the snail's
on my plate and I eat it and it kills me? No,
thank you, no thing. Yeah, as I'm bringing the fork

(23:11):
up to my mouth, it reaches out with its little
snail hand and touches my tongue and goes right before
I eat it.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Yes, dead.

Speaker 4 (23:19):
Hey, Mandy, speaking of cursing and cussing, do you have
a favorite curse word. I'm a situational cursor. I use
the F word like a you know, it's it's just,
it's a now and it's a verb, it's a modifier,
it's I use it a lot.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
That makes it more fun, like all the different variations.
Oh yeah, of it.

Speaker 5 (23:39):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 4 (23:40):
But it's weird because even when I'm home alone, there
are certain situations where I will not curse. I will
use one of my fake curse words, like mother Hubbard,
you know, one of those, even when I'm completely by myself.
But then, you know, I do use the F word.
I'm just I'm a I'm a contradiction.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
I'm a walking curter.

Speaker 5 (23:57):
It's good, like the one commercial I think was a
gum commercial maybe, or cleaning product commercial where they did
all the variations of words that sound super close right
swear words, or the or the ship my pants commercial,
Yes will ship your pants.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yes for free?

Speaker 4 (24:14):
It will ship your pants for free? Yes, exactly, Yes, Mandy,
we always have a snail following us. It's called death,
and eventually it will get us. Anyway, go darn tooting.
This one said I would take the ten million and
keep Morton Salt with me at all times. That's not
a bad idea, Mandy. As far as the snail goes,
she just simply moved to a desert. That's a very

(24:37):
good point, because deserts, deserts can't can't, they can't survive.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
Whenever you leave the desert, the snail will be waiting.

Speaker 4 (24:45):
I don't like living in a desert either. I'm not
crazy about our high desert climate here. I grew up
in humidity, and I hate humidity. But as I get
older and more pruney, humidity is starting to seem like
a pretty good idea. Yeah, they are so, they are so,
but it's you know, it's a snail coming for you.
I'm good. I always think hypotheticals were so until somebody

(25:06):
shows up with the one hundred and ten million dollars
in cash right there. I'm just gonna not worry about
wasting time on hypotheticals that are never gonna happen.

Speaker 5 (25:13):
One text made way too real, The slow Snail of Death.
It's Friday, damn it.

Speaker 4 (25:18):
What the hell. We'll just rejoin with that song again. Okay,
we'll do that because when we get back, Mike, No, not,
that's on the Friday Groove song. It's played earlier. Hey,
mister DJ, we'll come back with that and we'll get
back in the groove. We won't talk about spring forward
this weekend, and we'll just talk about Mike Crusin's column

(25:40):
and it's gonna be amazing. Zobody just said in Mother Forker,
that's a good one. I'm adding that to the collection.
My Oh no, I can't say that, Mandy. Every time
you mentioned your brother, it makes me compare your childhood
on the show Young Sheldon. It cracks me up. We
were not nearly as well as supervised as the kids

(26:00):
on Young Sheldon. Trust me, we'll be back right after this.
Keep it on, Koa. I'm excited I'm flying out right
after the show to go see my grandsons, so I'm excited. Excited.
We're gonna do all kinds of fun things and cook
unhealthy stuff. Anyway, I want to share some of a
Mike Rosan column that is in today's Denver Gazette. Mike,
you guys know, is probably the most staunch Republican Republican

(26:22):
I know, and I know a lot of staunch Republican Republicans,
and Mike is probably like the King, and I think
of him as what I'm now going to refer to
as a classic Republican. That's the Reagan Republican era, you know,
small government, free markets, less government intervention. But also we
love a War two right, it'll be real. But I

(26:46):
read this column today from Mike, and I didn't know
what I thought it was going to say, but I
was quite surprised by this. So I'm gonna share part
of it with you in the spirit of Mike Rosen,
who used to love to read columns on his radio show.
Early in the twenty twenty for Republican presidential nominating process,
he says, I wasn't enthused about Donald Trump. While I
approved of his accomplishments his president and his public policy agenda.

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I thought his brash style and the clumsy way he
ended his presidency would be a drawback, and that someone
like Ron DeSantis or Nikki Hayley was a more electable
and capable choice. As it turned out, I was wrong.
Not since FDR's election in nineteen thirty two has any
American president come out of the starting gate with such
a barrage of action as has Trump, which he began

(27:31):
as President elect even before his inauguration. This Trump bull
rush was essential, and I doubt anyone else would have
had the balls to do it. Trump anticipated the all
out opposition of congressional Democrats, Democrats, deep state viureaucrats in
the liberal media. He apparently learned a lot about governing
from his first term, and now he didn't even worry

(27:51):
about re election. A quick start in the first year
of a presidency is a must. By the second year,
the opposition digs in for the midterm election. That's already
happened with nitwit Democrat leaders like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren,
Adam Schiff, Maxine Waters and AOC making fools of themselves
hyperventilating at confirmation hearings and protest rallies in the streets.

(28:12):
Our founders creatively re engineered democracy, limiting government and fashioning
a constitutional republic driven by the energy of capitalism that
became the freest, most stable, and productive system of political
economy the world has ever known. In the process, it
delivered an unheard of standard of living to its populace.
By twenty twenty four, that vision was unrecognizable. The Biden

(28:35):
presidency in name only cemented Barack Obama's fundamental transformation of
America into a big government, intrusive, bureaucratic welfare state that
can't educate its kids or balance its books. Identity politics
has replaced individuality and divided the people, defining everyone by race, ethnicity, class, gender,

(28:55):
or disability. The Democrat progressive cartel that dominates public schools,
higher education, the media, and entertainment has turned many Americans
against our history, religion, values, and principles. The mission of
Trump and the Republican Congress is to roll all that
back and fundamentally restore America to its best self. The
agenda also includes cooling global warming paranoia, repealing the Green

(29:18):
New Deal, unleashing America's oil and gas resources, and expanding
nuclear energy, which will bring down consumer price inflation. The
newfound electoral coalition that swept Republicans into power in twenty
twenty four will be parleyed into an even bigger win
in the twenty twenty six midterms. Why are Democrats outraged
at Elon Musk for trying to make the government more

(29:40):
efficient because they don't care about efficiency. Government is they're
all powerful deity that all must always be enlarged to
solve all our problems. No, Musk wasn't elected, He was
appointed by Trump, just like thousands of other non civil
service federal officials. Every president is empowered to appoint without
Senate confirmation. Must DOGE investigators caught the public's attention by

(30:02):
exposing the US Agency for International Developments wasteful spending on
politicized progressive projects worldwide. But Democrats have asked the court
to block voge's access to this kind of information. On
the contrary, it's essential to restore accountability. USAID was created
during JFK's presidency to win the affection of underdeveloped nations.

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Obviously it hasn't. Most of those nations habitually vote against
the US interest in the UN General Assembly. Our generous
humanitarian aid worldwide goes largely unappreciated, although perhaps half the
world's population would love to come here as even as
I legal immigrants. It's preposterous that Democrats attacking Trump pretend
to represent the public when it was most of the

(30:44):
voting public that turned the Democrats out, rejecting their progressive policies,
choosing Trump over Kamala and giving Republicans control of both
sides of Congress. Trump is just delivering on his campaign promises,
as was to be expected. No, Trump isn't a threat
to democracy, as Democrats absurdly contend, but he is a
threat to their control of the country, and thank Heavens

(31:05):
for that. Colorado and Denver are microcosms of all this.
The democrats iron grip on government as californicated, our once
conservative state, The state legislature and Denver City Council continue
to pile on yet more intrusive big brother nannyist progressive
laws and regulations to mold our behavior, reduce our freedoms,
and raise our taxes. Next, they'll put a bicycle and

(31:28):
circled by ballard protester protectors on our state flag as
we watch California self destruct. It's hardly a model to
follow that, my friends from the great micros in in
today's Denver Gazette. Another great column in the Denver Gazette.
And see what I'm doing here now, a rod. I
know we're coming up to one o'clock, so I'm gonna
again preview the fact that Jimmy Sanenberger is going to

(31:51):
come on the show and talk about his column in
the Denver Gazette today. Firm thank you about Sea Regent
Wanda James, who, though ostensibly is on the Board of
Regents to advocate and watch out for the best interest
of the University of Colorado, seems to have a bit
of a conflict of interest. She is trying to get
money stripped away from the university, and it sort of

(32:13):
looks very much like she's doing it to benefit her
own business interests. I will have Jimmy on the show
next and then we are going to talk about that
coming up right after this on KOA.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
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Speaker 4 (32:40):
God can the noisy.

Speaker 5 (32:47):
Connell sad thing?

Speaker 4 (32:56):
I mean Arab. Why are you playing that we're not
supposed to talk to Jimmy Seinberg anytime, so.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
Tries Maybe No, I'm kidding, of course, because.

Speaker 4 (33:09):
I'm tried to talk to him twice already. Jimmy Sangenberg,
writes twice weekly column for the Denver Gazette, conveniently fills
in here for me on the show when I'm gone,
and also is a mean harmonica player as well. So
all of that together, and now he's joining us on
the show to talk about one of the CU regents
who may be putting her own, her own vested interest

(33:32):
in front of the interest of the CU that she
is supposed to serve. Jimmy, welcome back to the show,
my friend.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
Hey Mandy, thanks for having me.

Speaker 6 (33:41):
And yeah, this is a fascinating story to say the least.

Speaker 4 (33:45):
Well you know what I mean. It's okay. I'm gonna
let you explain it and then I will give you
my impertinent commentary on the story as you go. Because
I have words on this.

Speaker 6 (33:56):
I think it's worth setting a little context as to
who wanded James in as CENIU regent first, because she
has a reputation as being a black trailblazer in the
legal pot industry in two thousand and nine, she opened
a medical dispensary in twenty fifteen, first black owned pot

(34:18):
shop in the country that was legal for recreational purposes,
and she helped both Governors Hickenlooper and Polish shape marijuana
policy in the state. By the way, speaking of Polish,
she ran his first campaign for Congress back in I
think two thousand and eight. Not only that, she's a
self described pothead who gets elevated daily and is one

(34:41):
of the mentors of none other than Tay Anderson. Perfect
good sense of who Wanda James is.

Speaker 4 (34:49):
Okay, Now, that set the table quite beautifully for what
we're about to talk about now, Jimmy, there was a
story that came out what months two ago where h
the new campaign the tea on THHC from the Health Department.
She raised quite the stink, see your regent, Wanda James,
allegedly because she found it deeply, deeply racist that they

(35:13):
used an image of a black baby in the womb
as if to demonize all black potential mothers as pot smokers.
But it's my understanding there was also a white baby
in the womb in other images from the campaign.

Speaker 6 (35:26):
Correct, yes, and not just of babies, but various stages
of development, both black and white. And apparently the black
babies were offensive when simply, it seems to me the
campaign was trying to relate to multiple groups and put
out images that would reflect the communities that are within

(35:47):
her state. And to me, that's entirely reasonable. And it
is the Colorado University of Colorado's Inn Shoots School of
Public Health that is driving this project called Tea on TEAHC.
Didn't you a few months back interview a couple of
researchers from this program, so you know what they are

(36:09):
doing here is trying to educate the public about the
high potency of THHC today, which is multitudes what it
was twenty thirty years ago, and especially when it comes
to kids. And so Wanda James made a big stink
about this, saying, you know what, I'm a regent and

(36:29):
this is happening with the University of Colorado. I'm calling
it racist, and I'm going to take to LinkedIn and
not only that, but i am going to reach out
to Governor Polis and his office and say I want
to get the funding pulled for this because this while
it is a campaign of the School of Public Health

(36:49):
as well as the Public Benefit Corporation de Nishim Health,
it was mandated several years back, I think in twenty
twenty one by the state legislature, which said, we are
tasking the School of Public Health with doing this research
and an education campaign, and we're going to spend money
from the marijuana tax fund to do it, which seems

(37:12):
entirely reasonable for the application of that money, right, And yet,
of course Wanda James has to make us think about it,
because not only is she a regent, but she has
a hot shot of her own and a brand that
is personal to her that she has to maintain. And
that's what I think is really going on here.

Speaker 4 (37:34):
And we have some new.

Speaker 6 (37:36):
Developments as I report on in my column, but I'll
pause there.

Speaker 4 (37:39):
Well, I mean, it looks fairly obvious that she's merely
trying to protect her business model. But in your column,
you actually said, and this is a quote she claimed
the campaign quote pushed a false and dangerous narrative that
cannabis stunts brain development, demanding its website be taken down immediately.

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So she's arguing with the science that shows that much
like cigarette smoke can affect, you know, natal development. That
also cannabis smoke.

Speaker 6 (38:08):
Can do the same and for children as they get older,
like if a teenager were to start taking pot because
you're doing pot because you know it can affect brain
development is properately when you're under the age of twenty five.
But yeah, she's arguing that that has been debunked, and
yet does it provide any contrary evidence of What's striking

(38:30):
to me is these are researchers at her own institution
that are presenting the science and she has the audacity
to critique them on this to the point of saying,
I want to get the funding stripped. Which interesting, Mandy
is I actually got a response from Wanda to an
email I had sent asking several straightforward questions, and of

(38:53):
course she didn't directly answer any of the questions, but
you shared a lot of things, including calling it a
Republican led spe campaign, attempt to silence black leadership, and more.
But what really was interesting to me is that she
telled having produced real results because she'd managed to get
some apologies and to get the images removed. And I'm

(39:16):
sitting here wondering, Okay, if you managed to accomplish that,
then why did you take it the next step to
remove the funding and not just say Okay, I'm gonna
move on. And that's where the conflict of interest business
interests really seems to come into play.

Speaker 4 (39:33):
I mean, to advocate that money be stripped away from
the university that she's supposed to serve in and of
itself should be to throw everything into question that she's done.
Now do you know are they still funding this study?

Speaker 6 (39:46):
Yeah, as of now, nothing has changed. So there are
two developments that have happened. Once, the Governor's office did
send a request from Mark Farandino, the former Senate president
who's the budget director for Polis, send a letter that
included within it, and this is to the Joint Budget
Committee at the Legislature, a request to eliminate the funding

(40:07):
all together. Whereas back in oh November they said let's
just reduce it from two million dollars annually to one
million dollars. Then suddenly, just days after Wanda James makes
a big stink about it, the request is let's get
rid of the funding all together. That's development. One big development.
Number two is that fee regents started hearing from staff

(40:31):
from teachers, faculty members, from constituents about this, claiming or
complaining about it and saying, look, something's up here. Can
you look into this, what's going on? And so the
chair of the Board of Regents, Kelly Renaissan who's a Democrat,
and the vice chair of the Board of Regions, Ken Montera,
who's a Republican, put in a request to the university's

(40:54):
legal council and said, hey, can you look into this
and see if there are any policies or laws that
may have been violated here, And just last Friday, a
week ago today, he came back with a memo to
them saying, here are several policies relating to conflict of
interest on do influence things like that, and even several

(41:14):
statutes that she may have violated. And of course that's
where she went to say, this is ridiculous, this is
all racist, what is going on here, And yet it's
simply them doing their fiduciary obligation, as the two of
them told me to look into this as regents, and

(41:35):
she's forgotten that.

Speaker 4 (41:36):
Well, I mean, Jimmy, this is and the use of
the race card by her is so is so on
brand I mean, I hate to say it like that,
but it is so expected and really frustrating. And when
people talk about, you know, false accusations of racism that
make it really hard for people who are dealing with
actual racism. This is exactly what all of this is.

(41:57):
This is jindap take racism that she is using to
further her own business interests. And that's that's shameful. You know,
it's just not frustrating, it's it's just irritating and frustrating,
and nobody seems to be wanting to hold her to account.

Speaker 6 (42:14):
Well, And that's the thing here that's encouraging is the
chair and vice chair Renison and Monta clearly saw this
as something that needed to be examined. They've passed it
along to the Attorney General's office, although I don't expect
so Wiser will do anything on it. They've passed it along,
forwarded along to the State Ethics Commission. And I'm not
sure what level of district attorney. Does it have to

(42:36):
be in Denver, which is the area she represents. Could
it be elsewhere? But there could be a district attorney
who would say I'm going to look into this, in
part because Mandy, this is interesting One of the statutes
that the attorney for the university identified is a felony
a class for felony about attempt to influence a public servant. Recently,

(43:02):
Tina Peters was convicted and put to nine years behind bars,
and a bulk of that, a good chunk of that
with three convictions of that exact same felony.

Speaker 4 (43:14):
Wow. Wow, We'll see, We'll see if anybody takes it seriously. Jimmy,
great job reporting on all of this stuff. And it's
just I don't know if you know this, Jimmy, but
I created a snitch line and I've asked people my
listeners that if they know of any kind of shenanigans
or monkey business with their local government, their school district,

(43:34):
their whatever, I want them to email me at mandyconel
atiheartmedia dot com. And I've already gotten some really good leads.
So perhaps you and I can collaborate on some things that.

Speaker 6 (43:45):
Could be exciting. Can I say one more thing?

Speaker 4 (43:47):
Absolutely so.

Speaker 6 (43:50):
Not only does she want to pull the funding, but
as Westward reported, she wants the funding to get directed
Wanda James to marijuana business owners who quoquify for social
equity licenses. Now, this is important because her companies and
her organization were involved in creating these licenses for black

(44:11):
and brown business owners in the pot industry in twenty twenty,
and then the next year went about pushing for the
creation of a cannabis loan program that lo and behold
would only go to social equity licensees, which included Wanda James,
and she was one of the first two recipients. And

(44:32):
now she wants the funding to go from t on
THHC this educational program from Colorado School of Public Health
to social equity owned pot shops.

Speaker 4 (44:44):
Do we know how many social equity owned pot shops
other than hers there are?

Speaker 6 (44:50):
I don't know an exact number. There's I believe just
kind of a handful. It's not too many, but that's
a good question. I should look into that.

Speaker 4 (44:59):
Yeah, when you find out that this is all, you know,
nice work if you can get it right. I mean,
this is so this is one of the things that
the Democrats and people on the left have done really
really brilliantly, and we're seeing it now with some of
the insane spending that has been uncovered and the Environmental
Protection Agency literally giving climate grants of two billion dollars

(45:20):
to people who had never done anything in climate before.
Once you get into the government grift system and you
figure out how to grift while giving other politicians cover
by saying, look, they care about social justice, they care
about equity, they care about all that, and at the
same time they're just lining in their pockets. That, my friends,
is next level grift and the Democrats and the left

(45:42):
have mastered it, and the right. I don't want to say,
we need to learn how to do it better, but
we need to learn how to spot it sooner and
stop it before it has chance to take hold. Just
really infuriate.

Speaker 6 (45:53):
You've just explained Mandy why I made a point in
the beginning of saying she was one of kay Anderson's mentors.

Speaker 4 (46:00):
Yeph. It explains so much. Jimmy Sangenberger, you can read
his columns twice a week in the denverg Zette. Jimmy,
we'll talk to again soon, my friend.

Speaker 6 (46:11):
Thank you, have a great weekend.

Speaker 4 (46:12):
All right, you too? That is Jimmy Sangenberger. Hey, I
just this stuff is infuriating. What I was talking about
about that two billion dollar grant from the EPA. Let
me walk this back a little bit, because I talked
about it very briefly, and the story is just such
a perfect example of how to grift off the government. Okay, so,
James O'Keefe's undercover operation uncovered an employee at the EPA

(46:36):
saying that they were just throwing gold bricks over the
side as they were all leaving. Twenty billion dollars went
out the door of the EPA between the election and
Donald Trump taking office, twenty billion with a b. One
of those grants, two billion dollars, went to a nonprofit
in Atlanta, Georgia that had less than one thousand dollars

(46:59):
in its bank accou out when it was given a
two billion dollar grant to do something it had never
done before. It wasn't even really in the mission statement,
with no oversight. Two billion dollars. Do you know who
was on the board of that nonprofit none other than
failed candidate Stacy Abrams. What in the world was she

(47:22):
going to do with two billion dollars? But helped take
Georgia back? I mean, wasn't that. I just I have
no faith that all of these things are not just
money or laundering operations. This is the best part of
what Donald Trump has done all the chaos that's happened.
The best part is that people are standing in there going,
I'm sorry, we're doing what with our money? We're spending

(47:44):
what on what? And yeah, everybody loves to say that's
such a tidy part of the overall budget, but add
them all up and you're starting to talk about real cash.
So super super frustrating. We're super frustrating in any case.
The other grifter that I can get in real quick,

(48:05):
that I wasn't going to talk about very much. But
it's also such a shocking and upsetting story that I'm
sure you're gonna feel exactly the same way I did
when I read about Hunter Biden. I know, I know,
do we have a sad Violin? We can play a
Roderman some sad Violin type situation because Hunter Biden and

(48:25):
I know you guys, I know this is this is
going to be really upsetting for some of you. So
you may want to just sit down, take a deep breath.
Because one of the former first son is having trouble
finding work.

Speaker 1 (48:40):
Now.

Speaker 4 (48:40):
I know you're shocked, because I know if I was
looking to hire, I would immediately go for the guy
who's just been getting paid for doing literally nothing from
Ukrainian oligarchs. I know that he's right at the top
of the list, but I mean, then we forget Hunter
is such a talented artist. His artwork It's a Short

(49:00):
Time Ago, was selling for an average of fifty thousand dollars.
But Hunter has fallen onto very hard times. He told
the judge he had to drop his lawsuit against the
computer shop where he deserted his property and then was
outed as a disgusting drug addict who partied with hookers.

(49:21):
He had to drop that lawsuit because he had fallen
on tough financial times. Tough financial times. I feel terrible
for him. He told the judge. His rental house is
unlivable after the La fires, although his rental house appears
to be the only one on that street that is unscathed.

(49:41):
In his defense, I'm guessing the whole place smells like
a giant, you know, woodpile fire. So you know he's
It's sad, you guys. Should we have a go fundme
for Hunter?

Speaker 2 (49:55):
Really?

Speaker 4 (49:56):
Anyone anyone just want to donate for Hunter? Any Hunter Biden,
any one, anyone. The sad thing is he's an attorney
or he was, I mean, has he been disbarred for
all of his crimes. I don't know, I have no idea.
And just to make you feel better about the stupid
thing you bought. At some point we've all what was

(50:16):
the last stupid thing you bought? A rod just like
something where you were like that was I didn't need
that at all, but I bought it anyway.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
Two little figurines in en Sonata with Captain America and Thanos.

Speaker 4 (50:29):
For k There you go, see you know what? But
would you ever spend what was it eighty seven eighty
eight thousand dollars on a flaming hot Cheeto that shaped
like a lizard.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
That is that is a charizard? Thank you very much
Cheetos ord if I remember correctly.

Speaker 5 (50:46):
And for charizard hell no, Now for Squirtle, the other
pokemon that you can start with.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
Probably this is my favorite yeah.

Speaker 4 (50:55):
Yeah videos on the blog today. I had money Cheeto.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
Snail money, murist's snail money.

Speaker 4 (51:01):
No no, murderous snail money.

Speaker 8 (51:04):
No no.

Speaker 5 (51:05):
That's a call back to the first Hour, which of
course you can listen to on the very free to
use I Heart Radio app by searching Mandy Connell's set.
Mandy Connell as a preset on the free to use
iHeartRadio app when we get back.

Speaker 4 (51:16):
I have a serious question, and the question is does
our lack of religion in Colorado have anything to do
with our suicide rates. I have just some anecdotal stuff
I want to talk about, but I'm gonna say yes.
I'm just gonna say yes. We're going to talk about
that next. That story that Keenan just did about Trump
going to charge two hundred and fifty percent taxes or

(51:38):
tariffs on Canadian dairy. I just looked this up two
days ago, so I still had it in my history. Okay,
this is from twenty eighteen. This tariff is a perfect
example of what Trump was talking about the other night,
about the tariffs that are put on US products. And

(52:01):
the Canadian dairy market is so protected that there is
an allowable amount. There is a quota amount of US
dairy that is allowed into Canada, and once you hit
that quota, the tariffs are absolutely insane. Just nuts. Canada

(52:22):
has a quota system for imports, and above a certain volume,
it imposes high dairy tariffs ranging from two hundred and
one point five percent to three hundred and thirteen point
five percent. Before the quotas are met, dairy products enter
Canada duty free or subject to much lower rates. Now

(52:43):
listen to this from UH. This is from a thing
called check your Facts dot Com. Canada heavily regulates this
dairy industry with a supply management system that impacts production
and sets target prices for dairy products. As part of
that system, uses a tariff rate quota for imports. Dairy
products imported before a quota on product is met are

(53:06):
subject to low tariffs or no tariffs, while products imported
after the quota are subjected to tariffs from two hundred
and one point five to three thirteen point five. Now,
this is from SHAWNA. Morris. She's with Oh no, I
didn't want to read her quote. Sorry, let's give head
here from the vice president of the International Dairy Foods
Association their Comms department. Generally speaking, when it comes to

(53:28):
trade around the world, we get upset when there's a
ten percent tariff on something, let alone two hundred and
seventy percent. Canadian tariffs are so stiff and so punitive
it's just not worth it, so we look for other markets.
So this is one of those times. Only CNN didn't
really report it. That way. You know, they kind of

(53:50):
left that part out. This is the point that Trump
is trying to make. He's trying to make that we
we are not treated fairly by these nations when it
comes to tariffs. And it's again, you guys, I'm struggling
really hard trying to have some sort of bigger picture

(54:11):
come into focus. Because if Trump believes and I'm gonna
lay these scenarios out and let you guys ferret your
way through them as well, if Trump believes the tariffs
are a way to fund the government, then you can't
just do it willy nilly and not address all the
other issues that you're talking about, like getting rid of
the income tax and stuff like that. And you don't
back down. You levy them and let the chips fall

(54:33):
where they may. So if that's the case, then what
are we doing. And if you're trying to make the
point that other nations are not treating us fairly in
order to force them to the negotiating table or even
to drop or lower those tariffs to a more reasonable level,
that makes more sense. But then we have a story

(54:54):
today about Mexican and Canadian Canada and Mexico, both of
their negotiators are saying, we're really not sure what the
White House is looking for here. Now they could be
blowing smoke out of their kazoo. I don't know, but
I think there should be a clear set of demands
here and a clear understanding of what where we're headed.

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And I don't feel that yet. I'm not saying there's
not a clear plan. I'm not saying that there isn't
some kind of you know, direction that we're going that
I just can't see. But I don't see it. I
do not see it. And it can't just be make
America great again. I mean, don't get me wrong, I
want America to be great, but that can't just be
the overarching plan, like just general. I will figure out

(55:35):
the details later, we'll focus group it on the way.
It'll be fine, It'll be a okay, Mandy. I use
chat GPT to see if narcissists or are more susceptible
to suicide. It indicated that they are. That could explain
why suicide rates are exploding under liberal leadership. You know what,
We're gonna come back to that story, and no, I'll

(55:58):
start it right now because I've said what I have
to say about that about this entire situation with Canada
and tariffs. I have no idea how this is going
to end, by the way I wish I did. Other
talk show hosts are far more confident than I am
that they know what's going to happen here. Let me
go back to this story that I had today. So

(56:19):
suicide rates are very, very high in Colorado. It's the
eighth leading cause of death in Colorado. That's pretty significant.
And I'm looking at this map that I grabbed from
the story that I was reading, suicide rates by state,
and you look at the Western States, and you look
at Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, all the

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way up the Rockies, you have higher than average suicide rates.
Now I started thinking about this map in particular, and
I thought, you know what, I'm going to go find
a map of religiosity in states by states, basically, like
you know what states are the most religious. So I
found one that showed the percentage of population where we're

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religion is important. And the two maps they match up
quite a bit in terms of which parts of the
country have the lowest rates of suicide. They also have
the highest rates of religiosity. Now, not all of these match.
There are outliers. So this is and this is all

(57:21):
just me spitballing here. But every ill that we talk
about right now, you know, we have a we have
an epidemic of loneliness where people no longer have human connection.
We have suicide rates that are well above where any
reasonable state should be. You know, we have this kind

(57:42):
of general aggravation in society, and this so easily to
drop back into tribal positions and be really angry at
the people across the way from us, and all of
these things, All of these things in my life any way,
in my estimation, a lot of that stuff can be
handled by God. And I'm not even pushing a church
here because I don't attend church. I grew up Catholic,

(58:03):
I don't attend church. I've never been much of a
joiner anyway. I'm not really a person that joins things.
And I commune with God on a regular basis on
my own, so I'm good with that. And if I
need real spiritual guidance, then I can talk to Fither
Mike and he will send me in the right direction.
He's our personal priest. I mean, he's a priest for
other people too, but he's my personal priest. So I

(58:25):
start thinking about this, Stefan, how do you even begin
to have this conversation with people who have turned so
far away from anything that resembles a higher power without
seeming like some kind of You know, I'm gonna knock
on your door on Saturday morning at seven and be like,
can I talk to you about the Lord Jesus Christ?
You know I don't want to do that. Are people

(58:46):
having these conversations around you? Because I see little flashes
of hope. I see stories that finally the decline in
religion is finally seems to have bottomed out and started
to respond a little bit. I see stories about young
men going to church, not as part of a couple,
but young men are some of the fastest demographics in
churches now. And I think to myself, it's everybody's looking

(59:09):
for this stuff, right, They're searching, They're looking for something.
And I have another story on the blog that actually
sent me down this rabbit hole in the first place,
about something that is now called acute suicidality. And acute
suicidality is when someone with no prior issue, no prior concerns,
no prior suicidal ideation, It has never been a thought

(59:32):
in their head. They just have something happen and they
kill themselves. And that's where I think to myself. You know,
I grew up Catholic, where suicide is a mortal sin,
and I'm not I'm not wired in such a way
that I think I would ever take my own life.
I just don't think I would ever do that. I mean,

(59:55):
never say never, I guess, but I just don't see
myself ever being in a situation where I would not
be able to find some reason in my life to continue.
I mean maybe the apocalypse or whatever. You know, do
I really want to live in a post apocalyptic world?
I don't know. But nonetheless, that knowledge that this was
a mortal sin that would keep me out of heaven,

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it was a very powerful thing. And in the abstract,
I mean, you know, you could decide that sounds absurd,
but as a kid, as a young adult, it made
me aware of my responsibilities as a human. So we
are going to see I just wonder Mandy Capitalist yesterday
said there was a huge turnout for Ash Wednesday. Don't

(01:00:40):
know his source. So I have spoken or seen people
on my Facebook page, my personal Facebook page talk about
how many people were at church for ash Wednesday. I
always I never liked ash Wednesday because then you walked
around with ashes on your forehead the whole time, Mandy,
Ash Wednesday service was crowded. People need to believe in
something higher than themselves.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
A man.

Speaker 4 (01:01:00):
Hey, Mandy, my dad taught me church was the best
place to pick up girls. Now that could mean one
of two things. Your dad thought there was easy pickens,
or he wanted you to marry a godly woman. I'm
thinking it was probably the second Mandy. The RCIA class
at our church this year as multiple young men. I
don't know what RCIA is, so yeah, a lot of

(01:01:23):
you were weighing in. Do you talk about going to
church to people? I mean, can you do that without
being creepy. I've had people approach me about coming to
their church, and I'm always very flattered, and then I'm
I'm just not really a church person. It's just not
my jam for a variety of reasons. I wonder you

(01:01:45):
can always text us at five six six and I, oh,
that's the Common Spirit heal this Common Spirit health text line.
When we get back, I want to talk about a
story that's kind of I don't know, I'm gonna watch
this story, but it's about a dude suing Starbus for
the harassment he had to endure for being straight.

Speaker 2 (01:02:05):
Yeah, oh yeah, it's that good.

Speaker 4 (01:02:08):
I'll tell you the rest after this. I love this story.
It's gonna be fascinating to see what happens here. A
long time Starbucks manager is suing the coffeehouse chain for discrimination, retaliation,
and intentional infliction of emotional distress, accusing his bosses of
ignoring the extreme and outrageous harassment he claims he suffered

(01:02:30):
on the job because he is straight. Christopher Sevenson, a
heterotypical gender typical man in Rochester, New York, claimed supervisors
that his location treated him in a materially different manner
than employees who were not heterosexual or gender typical men.

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The suit, which was served on Starbucks in late February,
describes forty seven year old Thievenson as a model employee
who performed the essential functions of his employment in an
exemplary fashion. However, he contends his LGBTQ plus coworkers created
a hostile work environment due to his gender typicality and

(01:03:13):
sexual orientation and when he went to higher ups to complain,
they fired him. Reached by phone on Thursday, Evanson, a
person of color who now works at a bank, said
he was reluctant to comment before consulting with the attorney.
The attorney believes that his heterosexuality was weaponized against him

(01:03:37):
and then management was indifferent to his complaints. So, yeah,
we've got a couple of things going on right now.
One is a case of an Ohio woman whose suitor employee,
the state Department of Youth Services, because not only was
she denied a promotion because she is heterosexual, she maintains

(01:03:57):
she was also demoted and replaced by a gay man.
A state agency won the first the six US Court
of Appeals turned it over. She took her case to
the Supreme Court, and if they rule with her, it
could open the door for those from so called majority backgrounds,
such as straight white individuals, to sue on the versus

(01:04:20):
basis of reverse discrimination. I hate the word reverse discrimination.
It's stupid. Discrimination is discrimination, period. That's it. If you
don't do something, or work with someone, or invite someone
because of their ethnicity or who they are or whatever,
in any way, shape or form, for a specific reason

(01:04:42):
that has nothing to do specifically with them. That's discrimination anyway.
So I'm going to be watching this story very carefully.
I find this fascinating because if you're anti discrimination, everybody
should be all anti discrimination. There are a lot of people,
and I don't know what percent, but there's a good
chunk of people that don't want equality.

Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
They want revenge.

Speaker 4 (01:05:06):
And I get it. I get it. If you feel
like you've been treated unfairly for your entire life or
in any major situation, I wouldn't understand why you would
feel that way. But that doesn't get us any closer
to a truly equal society where people are truly treated
based on the content of their character, right where everything
else falls aside. And if you're a nice and good

(01:05:27):
person and you do the right thing, you're gonna get
good things. I don't know, I think we're a long
way away from there, by the way, last month, the
state of Missouri sued Starbucks, claiming it's DEI hiring practices
were actually slowing down orders, an assertion in the company
called inaccurate. Oh, I'd love to see that. I would

(01:05:50):
love to see that. By the way, back to this complaint,
It says the employees who worked at the store he
oversaw were members of the LGBTQ plus community. Starbucks management
along with store staff, we're a war. We're aware of
his gender, typicality and sexual orientation from the start. At

(01:06:13):
all relevant times he was harassed by the staff due
to his sex, sexual orientation, and or gender in the
course of his employment. Management had a duty to provide
him a safe environment in which to do his job
free of harassment, but they breached that duty. I can't
wait to see how this goes. I mean I cannot wait.

(01:06:37):
By the way, he was terminated in February of twenty
twenty two for genned up unspecified violations. They called him
pretextual and intended to hide the real reason he was fired.
So this is going to be the straight white guy sues.
Can you imagine being the jury in this if it
goes to a jury, I wouldn't send it to a jury.

(01:06:57):
I would just send it to a judge. Many variables
that could go wrong, too many people who would think, no,
that straight white dude doesn't deserve, you know, justice. So
we're seeking all kinds of stuff Mandy on the basis
of color doesn't specify which color. Sure, yeah, Mandy, exactly right.

(01:07:18):
Revenge is the usual motivation. Do two wrongs make or right?
I don't say it's the usual motivation because I don't
believe that anyone who is in a minority class of
any sort. I don't believe everyone is out for revenge.
If it sounded that way, that is not at all
what I was saying. But there's a chunk of those
populations that, yeah, they want they want to you know,

(01:07:39):
they want to feel like they got a little something.
And I get it, but it's not very helpful at all, Mandy.
I'm Greek, and when I was young, the older women
would ask, you should meet some nice Greek girl and
get married. I told them I would get married when
I met a bad Greek girl. Oh you naughty boy.
Naughty boy. Anyway, Okay, when we get back, I've got

(01:08:04):
so many things on the blog that I want to
talk about that I probably won't get to.

Speaker 2 (01:08:11):
Hmm.

Speaker 4 (01:08:14):
I think I want to talk about living forever because
I read a news story and I was like, is
the substance going to be real? You're nodding, Aye, Roger,
just wait, just wait. Science is moving closer to being
able to help people live longer. How close, well, I
don't know, but I'll share with what they're doing now.

(01:08:35):
It's kind of super cool. We'll do that when we
get back. Keep it on KOA.

Speaker 1 (01:08:39):
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(01:09:17):
hand man, Anthony Rodriguez. We call him a rod.

Speaker 8 (01:09:21):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:09:21):
In this hour, we got a couple of things. We
got Representative Gabe Evans coming up at two thirty. He
gave Mike Johnston the business on Tuesday. Oh boy, a
rod Have you seen any the clips of the mayor testifying? No, okay,
let me just say this. Out of the four mayors there,
he was the second best. He wasn't the worst. You

(01:09:42):
know what I'm saying, Like, he wasn't the worst. I
did get a lot of funny text messages for my
friends in other parts of the country. Likewise, OPI you're
mayor things of that nature. So it was good. But uh,
we've got Gabe Evans coming up to two thirty. We're
gonna talk about that and some more stuff in the meantime.
This science story is really cool. You know, everybody since

(01:10:03):
the beginning of time has been looking for the Holy Grail.
I mean, how many movies have been made about that
that very thing. And so now the search for the
Holy Grail has gone less of the mystic and more
of the scientific trying to find the Holy Grail. And

(01:10:24):
now it seems that researchers are onto something. But I
want to say this all with a caveat. I love
science news. I love medical news, and I've loved it
for a very long time. I have studied nutrition news
as a casual hobby since I was in my early
twenties when I had to go to the library and
actually look things up in the Periodical Guide to Literature,

(01:10:45):
you know what I mean. So I now know that
I have read, I don't even know thousands of stories
that told me about the next incredible, promising thing, but
it never happened, or we found out that they were
moving in a completely wrong direction, and none of the
stuff that we're working on there is turning out to
be true. We're kind of seeing that shift right now

(01:11:07):
in Alzheimer's research. For many, many years, they were chasing
the amyloid plaque proteins, you know, protein, that's where they
were going, and all the money was going there because
it seemed like the most rational thing. But now they're
finding out maybe it's more inflammation related, and the science
is beginning to shift. I talked to a scientist a
long time ago who said people would not believe how

(01:11:30):
hard it is to get a grant, because most science
is grant based, whether you know from foundations or the
government or whatever. They're getting grants to do this. Unless
you know you're a drug company and you're trying to
develop new drugs. They said, you wouldn't believe how hard
it is to get a grant for something that isn't
already something that people are working on. So if you

(01:11:51):
want to do something completely different, it is really hard
to get a grant for that because there's once this
kind of consensus around what seems like the best idea.
That's where all the money goes. So anyway, let me
get back to this now that I give you my
giant disclaimer of don't put too much stock in this story.
There there was an experiment in twenty sixteen at the

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Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, and it
is considered the experiment that changed everything. The experiment involved
mice born to live fast and die young. You want
to party with these mice? Okay? Bread with a rodent
version of progeria, a condition that causes premature aging. Left alone,

(01:12:34):
the animals grow gray and frail, and then die about
seven months later, compared to a lifespan of about two
years for a typical lab mouse. Now, the scientists decided
to change the animals aging. They injected them with a
virus carrying four genes that can reshape DNA and in

(01:12:55):
effect make every cell in the rodents' bodies young again.
The scientists could even control the genes from outside the mice,
turning them on and off to manage the safety and
potency of the genetic changes. Now, the first thing that
I thought of when I read that paragraph is, wait
a minute, they can turn off this stuff inside and

(01:13:17):
out like they what do they have an app for that?
That's a little unnerving, because what if they could put
something in us and turn it on and off. I
don't like that at all, but any I digress. The
experiment worked. The animals live thirty percent longer afterward. That
was a marked improvement, but not quite the normal mouse lifespan,
but it created a gold rush into this kind of research,

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and now segular reprogramming, as they're calling it, is hailed
as the most promising scientific approach to improving human health
spans and lifespans. So it kind of works like this.
It actually cleans off the debris that grows on the
on the DNA structure are cellular structure in our bodies.

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And there's a big explanation of it in this article,
and it's I'm not going to go into great detail
because the other thing you need to know is so
far they've only done this in mice, and it has
a few problems like creating giant tumors and sending some
to an early death. So there are some big issues

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that have to be overcome, big, big, big issues. They
call them the Yamanaka factors. By the way, their skin
cells or their cells that can change one cell into everything,
because what this does is it strips down an aging
cell and essentially turns it back into a stem cell,
and the stem cell then becomes whatever cell it is

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supposed to be. It's supposed to be an ear, it
becomes an ear, it's supposed to become a tooth, it
becomes a tooth, that kind of thing. But the problem
is is that those kinds of cells often don't get
them message that they're supposed to be a certain thing,
and they can create horrible, giant, benign tumors. I guess
there's something in the fact that they're benign, but they've

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got a lot of stuff to figure out before this
ever comes to human consumption. But all I could think
of was, oh, my gosh, this is the substance, isn't it.
I didn't even see the movie where Demi Moore or
injects this substance and then birth's another version of herself
out of her back or something. And then I started

(01:15:29):
thinking philosophically because I've been in my feels lately. I've
been thinking about all kinds of stuff lately, and I thought,
would I even want to live forever? I don't know,
because I'm a believer. Zipping back to our religion discussion
in the last hour, like don't get me wrong. I
don't want to die in time soon. I want to live,
have a happy, long life span and health span. I

(01:15:50):
want to be healthy until I die kind of thing.
But I don't want to stick around forever. I believe
this is just one part of a bigger adventure. But
I know that there are people out there who just
can't not bear the thought of not being here, because
they really do think after this, it's just the you know,
eternal dirt nap doesn't seem as much fun that way.
Regarding mice, you should have said, but I digress. I did.

(01:16:12):
Wait what, oh, oh, we have an update. We have
an update on the transgender mice situation. Remember how everybody
on the left was on their TikTok page going it's
called transgenic mice and they're used for research and how
dumb is Donald Trump? Well wait till I tell you

(01:16:35):
the dummy is now. We'll do that right after this.
Keep it on Koa, Hey, Rod, you were on the
cruise ship on Tuesday, weren't you? Were you? Okay? So
were people watching the speech? Did anybody talk about it
at all?

Speaker 8 (01:16:47):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:16:47):
Not really No.

Speaker 2 (01:16:48):
I saw a little bit like the highlights in my
room after.

Speaker 4 (01:16:51):
Yeah, and there were some good lines. I have to say,
there were some very funny, glib moments. But one of
the things he did that I really loved in that
speech there list all of the insane things that we
have spent money on, and in one of them is
like five million dollars for transgender mice. And over the

(01:17:13):
last few days there have been all these videos on
TikTok and Twitter of all these people on the left
that are like, Donald Trump needs to know those were
transgenic mice, and transgenic mice everybody knows are used for research.
He's a stupid See and end did a fact check

(01:17:36):
doge and transgender Mike mice. Trump falsely claimed that the
Department of Government Efficiency identified government spending of eight million
dollars for making mice transgender. And then they go on
to make the same excuse. But listen to what happened.
They had to do a little update, just a little

(01:17:56):
bit of update, and now the fact checks said as
the morning after Trump's speech, the White House provided a
list of eight point three million dollars in federal grants
to health studies that involve mice receiving treatments that can
be used in gender affirming healthcare. The White House lists
made clear what Trump in the speech did not. The

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studies were meant to figure out how these treatments might
affect the health of the humans who take them, not
for the purpose of making mice transgender, and then they
go on from there. So apparently, Karen, there are mice
that are being given cross sex hormones. But you know
what I find so appalling about that? Why are we

(01:18:41):
doing mouse studies on stuff that we're already giving to
human beings. Shouldn't we have done that first? I mean,
isn't that how the scientific process happens. You start by
doing you know, like here's in a peatriet dish. We
think is what's gonna happen. Maybe we use a little
AI tos you up, maybe tighten it up a little bit,
and then we're going to move on to a mouse study,

(01:19:04):
and then if we're lucky, we're gonna move on to
a primate study or even humans at that point. But
here we are, we're funding studies in mice to see
what might happen to them when we're actually giving it
to people already right now. I found that story to

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be fascinating. I saw that by the way, on X today,
I said it earlier, and I am not getting paid.
As a matter of fact, I pay Elon Musk to
have a premium account so I can edit stuff because
I make a lot of typos, and there is so
much stuff happening on that platform right now that I'm
just gonna say it. You need to be on X.

(01:19:45):
You don't have to engage, you don't have to you
don't have to like have a whole thing, you don't
have to argue with people. You don't have to follow
a bunch of people. But you should be following our
political leaders, our elected officials. You should be following people
in the federal government. You should be following news outlets
that at least the ones you like. And then you
got to follow people on the other side. There's so

(01:20:07):
much stuff coming out of everything out of DC, and
it's all happening on X. It's crazy. It's absolutely amazing,
and I am here for it. Absolutely. I have a
lot of other stuff on the blog today that I'm
not gonna get to. Oh, I do want to throw
this out real quick because we've got Representative Gabe Evans

(01:20:29):
coming up next. So Donald Trump has checked Elon Musk
and Doge, but did it in such a way that
Elon Musk was standing there going, yep, we endorsed this process.
So Trump stressed to his cabinet that they are in
charge of their departments and they will be making decisions
about who gets cut and who doesn't. And I think

(01:20:50):
that's a better approach. I've never understood somewhere from the
outside of whatever you're doing making cuts from people on
the inside, you cannot possibly know if you're cutting good
or deadweight. And in theory, the leaders of the agency
should understand that. Now when we get back, we've got
Representative Gabe Evans. He had the chance to question Mayor
Mike Johnston this week in DC and it was a

(01:21:14):
barn burner, an absolute barn burner, and we're gonna talk
to him, Naxie. I got to say. It was his
first Congressional Committee hearing and he did a fine job.
We'll do that well. I got a vamp here for
a second, a rod I'm early. I ran out of
things to talk about. Trying to read text messages, but
you people are texting terribly today and in terms I

(01:21:35):
can't read most of it. And if I do read it,
it doesn't make sense. Oh. Also on the blog today,
Trump wants a deal with Iran. Yep. Yeah. And for
all you skiers, I'm scrolling through the blog right now
to see what you need to go and check the
rates for Icon and Epic passes are out. And I

(01:21:55):
just want to say, bless all y'all who buy these because,
oh my gosh, they're expensive. Oh my gosh, skiing you
people with your expensive hobbies. We'll be right back with
Gabe Evans after this. What you might have missed when
the mayor testified in.

Speaker 8 (01:22:12):
Congress Denver six years ago in twenty nineteen, they didn't
even make the top fifty most dangerous states excuse me,
dangerous Cities in the country list this year in twenty
twenty four to twenty twenty five, US News and World
Report ranks Denver as the tenth most dangerous city in
the country. Denver has twice the homicide rate as San Francisco.

(01:22:33):
We've lost more than seven thousand Colorados to illegal drug
overdose deaths since twenty twenty, with a significant percentage of
that coming from illegal drugs like fentanyl. And we know
from criminal intelligence that in the Denver, Colorado area, almost
all of that fentanyl is being trafficked by illegal transnational
criminal organizations, the Hostco cartel and the Sinaloa cartel. We've

(01:22:55):
seen a massive increase that this is just a recent headline.
We've seen an increase in two, which is the drug
of choice of trendy atogua in the Denver metro area.
And we've seen headlines that show that overdose deaths in
the Denver metro area remained stubbornly flat despite falling in
pretty much everywhere around the country. In terms of violent crimes,

(01:23:18):
Denver's had over sixty four hundred violent crimes, So that's
including things like six hundred and eighty nine sexual assaults,
over twelve hundred robberies, over forty four hundred aggravated assaults,
and again, depending on which database you look at, anywhere
from sixty five to seventy one homicides, again double the
homicide rate of San Francisco. So the first question to
you is for those homicides, do you know how many

(01:23:41):
of those were committed by people illegally present in the country.

Speaker 4 (01:23:44):
Now I'm stopping it there to welcome Representative Gabe Evans,
who you just heard asking a question of Mayor Mike
Johnston when he testified this week on Capitol Hill. First
of all, well done on your first congressional grilling there,
Representative Evans. You did a really good job.

Speaker 6 (01:24:00):
Yeah, I appreciate it, Thanks so much, and thanks for
having me on.

Speaker 4 (01:24:03):
I will tell you that when I played that on
my show, because we were trying to air stuff as
quickly as it happened, we aired it on my show,
and when you said we have a murder rate bigger
than San Francisco's, both Grant, who was producing the show,
and I looked at each other and our mouths dropped open.
That was shocking, really shocking to see it put that way.

(01:24:25):
Have you gotten feedback from people who felt like, yeah,
I had no idea until he said that, kind of
like we did.

Speaker 6 (01:24:33):
That's pretty much the response I get everywhere. Unfortunately, Colorado's
crime problem is it hasn't really gotten out there as
much as I think it should, given how bad it is.
And that's very, very tragic, honestly, because these are the stories,
these are the lives, these are the tragedies that aren't

(01:24:53):
being told in this space. And as long as we're
not telling those stories, that continues to give the Democrats
for all of their failed policies.

Speaker 4 (01:25:02):
Well, you know, it has been really interesting to see
Mayor Mike Johnston and even Governor Polis simply try to
redefine what a sanctuary city is. Like they want to
argue about the definition of sanctuary city, when in reality,
it was really apparent under questioning that when forced to
answer questions about did in your case, did the police

(01:25:27):
fill out the nationality and immigration status on the FBI
fingerprint card that would very much make us seem to
be a sanctuary city, that it's blank. Is it frustrating
that they seem to be arguing about a definition and
you're talking about actually what's happening.

Speaker 6 (01:25:45):
It's been frustrating since I was a cop. You know
my background. I spent twelve years in the US Army
and the Colorado Army National Guard, another ten years in
law enforcement in the Denver metro area. That's why I
stepped away from law enforcement was because of all of
this gas lighting from leftist leaders that were claiming that
they wanted to protect public safety, but literally at every
turn they were handcuffing law enforcement, empowering criminals, and not

(01:26:09):
just empowering our own local homegrown criminals. They were opening
up Colorado to international criminal organizations with their sanctuary state policies,
and we see it even now. The governor and the
mayor continue to say till they're blue in the face.
Of course, we want to work with federal authorities to
be able to get people who commit crimes in our
community out of the community. Which was why I chose

(01:26:31):
that specific line of questioning to highlight how are you
going to get somebody who is illegally present in the
state or in the city. How are you going to
get that person out of the community if you don't
even ask them as is required by the FBI fingerprint card,
if you don't even ask them their nationality when they
are arrested for a crime, and when the mayor couldn't

(01:26:53):
answer that, it highlighted just the absolute gas lighting and
the two faced nature of what they say versus the
actual policies that they put in place, which protect criminals
who are committing crimes in our community from deportation because
even when they're in custody, the cops aren't allowed to
determine nationality.

Speaker 4 (01:27:11):
What would you like to see? I mean, you're in
Congress now, so you're kind of at arms length in
a way from state law in Colorado. What would you
like to see happen here? And do you believe that
sanctuary states or sanctuary cities should have things happen to
them like the SBA being pulled. Should they lose federal funding?

Speaker 6 (01:27:32):
So in this space, the question that comes up a
lot is what's the lawful role of the federal government. Well, fortunately,
we have a constitution that tells us what the lawful
role of the federal government. Did you go look at
the preamble and there's six things listed. The second one
is established justice and the fourth one is provide for
the common defense. Bentonll is the number one killer of
Americans ages eighteen to forty five. Every month we lose

(01:27:54):
more Americans to Fenton All in the entire death toll
of the September eleventh terrorist attacks by quite a actually,
and we know where fentanyl comes from. It comes from China,
it's traffic through Mexico, and it comes into the United States.
And so when we have a new administration that has
quite reasonably declared these cartels to be terrorist organizations, that

(01:28:15):
is clearly within the purview of the federal government under
the established justice, and to provide for the common defense
clauses in the preamble, and so I argue, this is
absolutely a place where the federal government has the lawful
authority and responsibility to weigh in and make sure that
we are protecting Americans from what are quite literally declared
terrorist organization. To help with that, I introduced, as promised,

(01:28:41):
last year, I introduced my first bill in Congress, the
Uplift Act, which uplifts public safety by unhandcuffing police to
locate and interdict foreign transgressors. There's a lot of things
in the bill, but one of the specific things that
it does is it basically holds harmless and indemnify any

(01:29:02):
state or local law enforcement officers who choose to do
things like completely fill out the FBI fingerprint card and
be able to work with their federal counterparts to be
able to get violent criminals out of their communities.

Speaker 4 (01:29:13):
Well, I just got a question on the text line,
and I think it's a good one, although I'm going
to massage it a little before I ask you now
to the point about the FBI cards. If it's federal
law to complete the FBI fingerprint cards in a certain way,
why have we put Denver police officers or have we
put them in a position where they're going to be
breaking state law or they're going to be breaking federal law.

Speaker 6 (01:29:36):
Yeah, honestly, and anyways they have. That's why I have
said for years now that state and local law enforcement
in Colorado has been handcuffed by these just horrible laws
at the state level and then these terrible ordinances at
the local and the municipal level. Because when you have
a cop that's not able to do what they're supposed

(01:29:57):
to do as required by the FBI and the fingerprint database,
of course they're putting them in a very very difficult position.
And so again that's one of the many things that
my Uplift Act does is it exerts that federal primacy
and says, look, if you're working to protect the public safety,
you're working to fulfill the oath that you took by

(01:30:20):
getting violent to legal criminals and drug dealers or the
dealers out of the community, the federal government will indemnify
you from any sort of punitive or retaliatory actions taken
against you by the state or the local government.

Speaker 4 (01:30:33):
I mean, that's incredibly significant. And I had a law
enforcement officer reach out to me via email, and he
said that with the decrease in excuse me, the qualified
immunity change in Colorado, there's a lot of fear among
law enforcement officers that if they violate state law, something happens,
they get sued under that qualified immunity, they're going to

(01:30:56):
be found to be not following state law, and therefore
they're going to be on the hook if a judgment.
I mean, it's like, you have to think about all
this now. If you're a cop, you know, you can't
just go out and do your job. You have to
think about whether or not you're breaking state or federal law,
and which of those is more likely to get you
sued if anything happens while you're on the job. I mean,
it's kind of a mess.

Speaker 6 (01:31:15):
It's a total mess. And that's why Colorado has absolutely
abysmal ratings when it comes to recruiting and retaining good
police officers. Nobody wants to do the job in Colorado
right now because of exactly what you said. The liability
is so high, and in fact, again another just horrible
decision by the ruling Democrats in Colorado, they actually put

(01:31:38):
into state law that anything that is not captured by
a police body camera, the courts are allowed to assume
misconduct on the part of the officer. So in state law,
cops in Colorado are actually presumed guilty and it's up
to them to prove their own innocence for anything that
was not within the field of view or not captured

(01:31:58):
by body cameras. Wants to work with that kind of
liability in an already very dangerous and stressful profession.

Speaker 4 (01:32:05):
Yeah, I agree with that wholeheartedly. The mayor was on
We have a SoundBite from him earlier saying, hey, they
moved the SBA, but we're not breaking any federal laws.
How is that going to get decided? Representative Evans, who's
going to be the decider on? Yes, even though you're
playing word games because you're not directly going against the
federal government. But they released a trendy IRAGUA member into

(01:32:28):
the streets with a warning to him of how to
handle ice if I showed up. I mean, come on,
how is that not running right up against the supremacy
of a federal law.

Speaker 6 (01:32:40):
Well, I mean, I think there's a couple of answers
to that. The biggest one was the American people spoke
about that on November fifth, when they gave a very
clear mandate to both President Trump and then also gave
him conservative majorities in the US House and the US
Senate to go to work with for the next two years.
So I think your first answer is right there, that
the American people are sick and tired of this and

(01:33:01):
they are ready for a change. And then the second
answer to that is as Trump's nominees continue to be
confirmed to the various different positions, and I think this
is something that you'll probably ultimately see litigated between the
states and the localities that continue to try to pretend
like they're not sanctuary jurisdictions. And I think that you'll

(01:33:22):
probably see some input on that from the DOJ, the FBI,
and some of these other federal agencies under the new administration.

Speaker 4 (01:33:32):
I have a question, could we pass a bill in
Congress that clarifies exactly what sanctuary status or sanctuary cities are,
because then you have a clear definition of which to proceed.

Speaker 6 (01:33:44):
You could potentially pass something like that. The problem with
the definition is you can't anticipate every single right to it,
and so you have a bunch of folks in places
like Denver that sit around and do nothing other than
dream up ways to try to advance their incredibly liberal
edgar and then say that they're not. I mean, look
at look at some of the statements that the governor

(01:34:06):
and the mayor have said. They said, we of course
work with with federal law enforcement when whenever there's an
actual crime committed. And through my line of questioning about
the fingerprint card, no, they very clearly don't. Through Representative
Cranks line of questioning where he was talking about releasing
a trend de Agua member in a parking lot, no,
they clearly don't. And so you know, that's just the

(01:34:28):
first thing that pops to my mind if we if
we define this is they're just going to tell you
they're not doing it anyway.

Speaker 4 (01:34:35):
Yeah, sad but true. I mean, I mean really sad
but true. Okay, Representative Evans, you're about to go into
your first like threaten shut down on the budget. Are
you ready for this? Are you ready? Are you ready?
I got to tell you, there's a lot of people
on my text line and me personally, I don't love
these giant budget deals. I know you're a freshman, but
what influence, if any, do you do you hope to

(01:34:56):
have on going back to some kind of normal order
for the budget.

Speaker 6 (01:35:00):
Yeah, so there's two things that are happening in the
budget space right now. The first is the continuing Resolution
that was passed in the one hundred and eighteenth Congress.
So we're in the one hundred and nineteenth now. The
one hundred and nineteenth took over on January third, when
we're all sworn in. So the government is currently being
funded by a resolution that was passed in the one
hundred and eighteenth and that resolution expires on March fourteenth. Now, obviously,

(01:35:24):
back in the one hundred and eighteenth, you still have
the Democrats controlling the Senate, you had Joe Biden in
the White House, and so that continuing Resolution was not
perhaps as favorable to the conservative viewpoints just because we
didn't control the Senate, we didn't control the presidency. And
so where we're at now is we're actually working twofold
Number one. We're working through you've heard President Trump talk

(01:35:46):
about the one big, beautiful bill and budget reconciliation, that
is the long term budget to be able to really
fix a lot of the problems that we're seeing in
the United States. But there's so much to fix. We're
not going to get that package put together by March fourteenth,
which is then where this CR, the Continuing Resolution comes in,

(01:36:10):
and then that is a short term fix to be
able to bias the time to be able to put
together this long term reconciliation package that I think is
going to be incredibly effective in terms of just cutting
out basics term the government.

Speaker 4 (01:36:26):
Well, I hope you're right. I am encouraged. When the
President said the other night during the speech that he
wanted to go to a balanced budget, I got a
little tingle. But we're one of those families deeds not words, Gabe,
I mean, you know, deeds not words. So I'm ready
for more, and I know a lot of my audiences
as well. Thank you so much for your time today.

Speaker 6 (01:36:46):
Of course, I'm always glad to be on with you.

Speaker 4 (01:36:48):
That is Representative Gabe Evans of Colorado's eighth congressional district.
Nice guy. I like him, you know, Brian, No, wait
a mint and is he there? And I'm here?

Speaker 3 (01:37:02):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:37:02):
So does he have to wait till the end of
the question.

Speaker 2 (01:37:04):
Nope. You never get that you're gonna win anyways.

Speaker 6 (01:37:10):
I don't know why you.

Speaker 2 (01:37:12):
Like Oh gosh, I'm only gonna win four one.

Speaker 4 (01:37:14):
You know what it is, Ryan, and I mean this,
and it's gonna sound like I'm blowing smoke, But I
like to feel like things are as even as possible. Well,
like the playing field is as even as possible. So
you perform at a high level. I perform at a
high level, and then you know, it's just we'll let
the best person.

Speaker 2 (01:37:32):
Host the games. I don't have to perform at a
high level.

Speaker 4 (01:37:34):
Well, no, you, I mean you perform at a different
way at high level. I'm just saying I'm like that
with like regular games too. You know it's it's I
just a very rules oriented, very rules oriented loney below
what you can ask my husband. I don't cheat. I
don't like people who cheat. When my kids were little,
I never let him win at candy Land.

Speaker 8 (01:37:54):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:37:55):
No, if you want to win, you gotta arn it.

Speaker 2 (01:37:57):
Well, I mean, listen, I'm in the same way.

Speaker 4 (01:38:01):
It's time for the most exciting segment on the radio
of its guy, the wild of the Day. Al Right,
well done, what is our dad joke of the day? Please?

Speaker 5 (01:38:14):
You know A friend asked me to film his wedding,
but the zoom button on the camera was broken.

Speaker 2 (01:38:21):
I'm just not sure how it's gonna pan out.

Speaker 4 (01:38:24):
Wow yeah, wow, wow wow, yep wow. What is our
word of the day? Please?

Speaker 2 (01:38:31):
Is a noun emollient E m O L l I
E n T emollient?

Speaker 4 (01:38:38):
Isn't that something that makes something smooth? Or it's in lotion,
isn't it? It's emollient?

Speaker 8 (01:38:46):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:38:46):
No, it's it's something very very smooth, like it's something
that makes your skin soft. I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:38:51):
Issue right, it's an old wooden ship. I don't know.
An emollient is something such as a lotion soothes?

Speaker 4 (01:39:02):
Nailed it? Okay? What musical artist one Record of the Year,
Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Best
New Artist at the twenty twenty Grammy New.

Speaker 2 (01:39:11):
Artist in twenty twenty twenty.

Speaker 4 (01:39:16):
Pop stars? Who's really famous?

Speaker 8 (01:39:21):
Then?

Speaker 4 (01:39:22):
Hey, it's not? What is without the Olivia? No, Olivia
Rodrigo didn't win Billie Eilish Robs.

Speaker 2 (01:39:27):
Yeah, yes, she won.

Speaker 4 (01:39:29):
Everything that year that was indeed her?

Speaker 2 (01:39:32):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (01:39:32):
Why yes? Oh my pen fell apart? What's happening? Gotta
get another pen?

Speaker 6 (01:39:39):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (01:39:39):
Ready, what's our Jeopardy category?

Speaker 2 (01:39:41):
Literary terms?

Speaker 4 (01:39:43):
Literary term?

Speaker 5 (01:39:44):
Yes, Okay, yes, Mandy, I'm tempted to just make you wait,
but I'll be nice. Just going ever a trite or
stereotyped phrase. It's literally French for stereotype nail printing term.

Speaker 4 (01:39:59):
What is a cliche?

Speaker 2 (01:40:00):
That is correct?

Speaker 5 (01:40:02):
Using a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite
of its literal meaning.

Speaker 4 (01:40:11):
I know this.

Speaker 2 (01:40:13):
Hint coming in three seconds? Oh the blank, Mandy?

Speaker 4 (01:40:18):
What is the irony?

Speaker 6 (01:40:21):
Dude? That was so?

Speaker 2 (01:40:22):
This a long narrative poem that tells of the.

Speaker 4 (01:40:26):
Damning what's epic?

Speaker 2 (01:40:27):
That is correct, man, I'm struggling.

Speaker 5 (01:40:29):
Parody makes fun of a literary style. This other six
letter term makes fun of human weaknesses.

Speaker 4 (01:40:36):
Satire that is correct.

Speaker 2 (01:40:37):
And for the sweep, it's.

Speaker 5 (01:40:39):
The usual lit crit term for prefiguring or hinting what
is to come later?

Speaker 2 (01:40:46):
Sorry? Ryan?

Speaker 5 (01:40:47):
What is foreshadows? Yeah, gentlewoman's what's coming up.

Speaker 4 (01:40:57):
On the old program today? Who's in today?

Speaker 2 (01:41:00):
Just just me, Dave, just hang it out nice. We've
got the trade deadline for the avalanche, very very very busy.

Speaker 4 (01:41:07):
That was very dramatic stuff happening right now with the
trade deadline. Yes, and then former ABS players a Rod
was bringing me up to speed on that kind of drama,
talk about the world's worst manager.

Speaker 5 (01:41:19):
I honestly, Oh, you're in Carolina. Heko's agent less than
Colorado in Carolina.

Speaker 4 (01:41:27):
I mean the guy overestimated badly and now his his
client is making less money because of it.

Speaker 7 (01:41:33):
Yeah, as an understanding that the ABS, we're willing to
go around twenty at twelve and a half, and he
could have gotten that for eight here and said he
got twelve. Now you will say that state taxes down
in Dallas versus here, he actually ends up netting more
than three million better on the deal because of tax
professional stick on a pig.

Speaker 4 (01:41:56):
Three million, I mean three million bucks is a lot
of money, and and screw the governments. That would be
my thinking on the whole thing. Anyway, what okay, so David,
then yeah, yep, And then we got of course, we
got the NFL.

Speaker 2 (01:42:08):
NFL free agency starts on Monday, so it's gonna be
a jam pack show.

Speaker 4 (01:42:11):
It's never ending, it doesn't stop, it's always moving along.
I was talking to a friend of mine, Ryan, who
said they watched the entire coverage of the NFL combines,
and I just looked at him and said, they've won
the NFL has now commodified every single aspect of the game,
and they've done it brilliantly.

Speaker 2 (01:42:30):
Yeah, for those that participate in the thing, just incredible.

Speaker 4 (01:42:35):
But now we have people watching guys running forties on
television and advertisers paying for it. It's genius.

Speaker 2 (01:42:42):
I love it, but I even I wouldn't watch every
minute of it.

Speaker 7 (01:42:45):
Like I love it, and I get into it obviously
because we're gonna we cover the NFL and then we
have the Draft coming up here in about a month
and a half, But I would never watch every second
of the combine, even though it's one of my favorite things.

Speaker 4 (01:42:57):
There you go, even though it's his favorite thing, and
Edwards will pass. Okay, Ryan, We'll see you Monday. Everybody,
have a great weekend. Join us here on Monday again
for another three hours of ridiculousness and frivolity. Keep it
right here in the meantime on KOA