03-28-25 FULL SHOW - Opening Day, But I'm Making The Most Of My 90 Minutes

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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No, it's Mandy Connell.

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Speaker 1 (00:26):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Friday edition of the show.
I'm your host for the next three hours. Mandy Connell,
joined of course by Anthony Rodriguez. Yeah, and we will

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take you right through what time airon one thirty today,
done thirty, one thirty because that's when Rocky's Opening Day
takes place, and today road to.

Speaker 6 (01:03):
One hundred and sixty.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
I am. They are still in the hut right now.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Damn right. I mean the Dodgers are already three and
oh but hey, it's fine.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
They did not start yesterday when all the other baseball
team started because literally Tampa.

Speaker 6 (01:19):
Has literally every other team.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah, oh yeah, every team played yesterday, but they had
to give Tampa another day because Trafficana Field was so
damaged in that hurricane that they can't play there right now.
So they're playing in their spring the Yankee spring training facility,
which is nice, but it is a spring training facility,
and they're trying to figure that out, not that it's
going to mean much to their attendance numbers, unfortunately, because

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unlike the Rockies, who still draw a crowd even if
they're terrible, because seeing a baseball game in Colorado is
just excellent, so good, Tampa does not have that same.
As a matter of fact, middle of summer. I'm not
going to a baseball game in the middle of summer
in Florida. It's miserable, absolutely miserables. Why I love Tropicana

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Fields too much. I'm like the person that loves it. Anyway,
we're gonna.

Speaker 7 (02:10):
Turn it over.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
As the Rockies open today at the Devil Ways. I
still call them the Devil Rays because that's what they
were when they first started. And the only upside to
this game today is that, as a former Devil Rays
fan who still follows along the team, I am going
to win either way today. Either way. Ay Rod has
on his purple, I have on my black with my

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Rockies logo. Today is the day that all baseball fans
start hopeful, and we'll see what happens from this point forward. Now,
got a lot of stuff on the blog because, as
I established the other day, I always overprepare because man
over prepare is something you need to do in radio.
So go to the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. That's

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mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the latest post section and
you may have to scroll over to the right because
because they put all kinds of stuff on that same line.
But look for the headline that says three twenty five,
twenty five blog opening day. But I'm making the most
of my ninety minutes. Click on that and here are
the headlines you will find within.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Listener pay attention tick tech twe a winner.

Speaker 6 (03:17):
One more time in case you missed it, tick tech twe.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Oh don't I didn't go to listen in office half
of American all with ships and clipments and say that's corn.
A press plant.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Today on the Blood Rocky's open today at the Tampa
Bay Devil Rays. I will be doing a little Facebook
Alive with my friend Deb today at four thirty. Colorado
legislators fixed the budget hole they created. Stealing is stealing,
no matter how you justify it to yourself. Why were
these coaches fired in Fort Collins? A great post on
deportations and more. Colorado's green dreams aren't feasible, Britain and

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France are going it alone. Colorado has screwed up family
leave and unemployment insurance. Book your hotel now for sundance
twenty twenty seven. Colorado Bears are waking from their slumber.
Do real women rock? Another Tesla vehicle is vandal Another
Tesla vandal is arrested. The unions love Trump now about

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defunding public broadcasting scrolling. The Rockies opening day lineup is
set scrolling. So if TikTok is TikTok banned or not?
Will tariffs be good for Tesla? Why government sucks? Don't dead?
Name the dead. Those are the headlines on the blog
matmandy'sblog dot com. I got the hiccups right in the

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middle of reading the blog. Sorry. Literally all the other
teams played yesterday, and this text as a point a
rod did Tampa play yesterday? No, literally all the teams
except Tampa.

Speaker 6 (04:47):
And the Rocky.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
I meant literally every other game possible, every other potential opponent.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Was playing yes, ye yeah, yeper. I mean there's a
smarty pants in every bunch. Normally it's me in next level,
and even for me in this case, it is a
Texter who is super smarty pants for the day. Today
it is Friday, and I just told Anthony I this
has been a lot. Like if I showed you guys
my calendar for this week, you would have been like, man,

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looks like you have a real job or something. Mandy,
I know, it's been nuts, absolutely nuts. So in addition
to this, I'm going to add the old ask us
anything in here via the text line the Common Spirit
Health text line at five six six nine oh five
six six nine oh. Go ahead and do that. You
can also text anything you want. But I got a

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lot of stuff on the blog today. Today at four thirty,
if you follow me at Mandy Connell on Facebook, we're
gonna do a little fun Facebook live me and my
friend Deborah and we're gonna chat about some stuff because
stories of the week blah blah blah, et cetera, et cetera.
So if you're bored later join us. It's gonna be
a lot of fun. I want to talk a little
bit about the budget, and I know what you're thinking, Mandy,

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please tell us all the details of the budget. Is
so exciting and I can hardly wait to hear it
on the radio. Well, you're not in luck, because I'm
not going detailed explanation. The only reason that I am
talking about this is because the budget hole, and I
put air quotes around the budget hole that we're facing

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here in Colorado was one hundred percent self inflicted by
the same legislators who are gonna want us to thank
them for fixing the hole that they created. So how
did they create this hole? Because you would think if
you heard that we had a more than one billion
billion with a b one billion dollars shortfall in our

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budget this year, you would immediately think we must be
in some kind of recession. But no, Colorado's economy is
chugging along just fine with our high inflation and all
the other so we're still chugging along just fine. So
why do we have one billion dollar hole? Well, that's
because the legislature has been spending money like drunken monkeys.

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I know that's your shocked face. But Mark Hillman wrote
a great column in the Denver Gazette, and as a
matter of fact, I must share part of it with
you here. Headlines from the state capitol might cause a
reader to believe Colorado is in a deep recession. Legislators
say they must cut more than one billion in spending

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to balance the twenty twenty five twenty six budget. Still,
state government has six hundred and eighty seven million more
to spend than last year in a nineteen billion dollar budget.
So why all the history onics about a budget crisis
because Colorado lawmakers practice fiscal tailgating. Tailgating on the highway

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is dangerous because when the drivers travel too fast and
follow too close to the car ahead, the tailgating driver
doesn't have time to react if the lead driver unexpectedly
breaks or swerves. Fiscal tailgating is much the same. Lawmakers
spend money as fast as it comes in. Then when
the economy slows, they face much harder choices than if
they had tapped the brakes. When a wash with money

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after COVID Congress inflated the money supply and passed out
trillions to states, Colorado raked in billions which lawmakers knew
would someday run out. Not long ago, veteran members of
the Joint Budget Committee, regardless of party, would stand firmly
against spending one time funds for ongoing programs because they

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knew they'd ultimately be forced to cut the new program
or cut something else ending a program. People have come
to rely on is never popular, but for the past
few years, the Democrat controlled legislature has done the opposite.
As one local news organization reported, the budget has actually
been out of balance for years. Infusions of one time

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federal funding during the pandemic helped pay for some of
the legislature's biggest priorities, like eliminating the K through twelve
funding shortfall, expanding mental health in early childhood programs, and
boosting funding to higher education. Now, this spending must be
funded from state taxes, which voters have chosen to limit.

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Federal funds, by contrast, are like free money because they're
exempt from spending limits. Some lawmakers claim constitutional spending limits
collectively known as the taxpayer's Bill of Rights, are the problem,
but the budget mess would be uglier without tabor. In
twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three, economic growth generated
over one billion dollars more than the legislature was able

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to spend. That money was refunded to taxpayers. Had the
legislators instead spent that money as freely as they spent
federal funds, the current budget hole would be much deeper.
Taber recognizes that voters have a right to limit how
much money their government takes from them. Taber then acts
as a break on government spending in good times by

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forcing legislators to s seek efficiencies. In the same way
competition forces businesses to be lean in hard times, tabor
doesn't affect government spending. After COVID profligate, federal funds allowed
lawmakers to take a holiday from reality. They use tax
dollars to pay for programs like free phone calls for

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prison inmates five million dollars, an energy efficiency program for
marijuana growers five hundred thousand dollars, food pantries a million bucks,
and diaperbanks five hundred thousand, healthcare for children of immigrants
here illegally nineteen million, and bailing out the new program
that provides free lunch for every public school student fifty

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to one hundred million. They also added eight thousand, six
hundred and sixty two state employees. These programs and others
like them certainly add up, but cutting them only makes
a small dent. The biggest expenditures are healthcare and Medicaid
five billion of thirty two percent of the general fund
through twelve, Education four point five billion, twenty nine percent

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of the fund. Higher education one point seven billion, eleven
percent of the fund, and Human Services one point two billion,
eight percent of the fund. Democrats have held the governor's
mansion and largely controlled the legislature since two thousand and seven.
Back then K through twelve education received forty two percent
of the general fund. Had K through twelve funding simply

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kept pace with overall budget growth, the education budget would
be one point five billion dollars more under Governor Bill Rinter.
Democrats created the budget Stabilization Factor to balance the budget
by reducing education spending while medicaid spending exploded. Last year,
lawmakers also created roughly one billion dollars in refundable tax

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credits for low and middle income families. These programs literally
write checks to families, including immigrants here illegally, that pay
little or nothing in taxes. A single parrot with four
children in less than fifteen thousand dollars in taxable income
could collect a check for fifteen thousand, two hundred and
fifteen dollars. A few years ago, when economists were predicting

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tabor surpluses exceeding three billion a year, lawmakers were lulled
into complacency. I recall similar assumptions in nineteen ninety nine
and two thousand, then came nine to eleven and the
bursting of the tech stop bubble economic euphoria was extinguished.
This year's predicament is unique because the economy isn't in recession.
The problem is unsustainable spending. I read that to you because,

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first of all, it's entirely accurate, and you need to
know that. The Democrats, their messaging in Colorado is Tabor
is the problem. We'd be able to do so much
more for the people if only we didn't have that
pesky Tabor to limit how much we can tax and spend.
They're going to tell you that you wanting to control
the size of government is the issue, when in reality,

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it's the stupid crap that they're spending on money on
and using one time funds to pay for ongoing expenses,
much like when you use syn taxes meeting taxes on
alcohol or pot or cigarettes to pay for ongoing expenses.
They're idiotic, and they knew it, and they did it anyway,
because here's what they're going to do. The Democrats are

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going to run in the next election cycle, and they're
going to run on a platform of if only Tabor
didn't hold us back, and they're going to tell you
that they would hire five million more teachers and eight
million more cops, and oh my goodness, we're going to
take even better of our outdoor space here in Colorado,
and we're going to fix the roads if only Tabor

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didn't get in our way. Do not buy it. I
want to take you right up to the top of
this column a very important piece of information. In the
year that we allegedly have over a one billion dollar
hole that needs to be fixed. The state government has
six hundred and eighty seven million dollars more to spend

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than last year. That is not an income problem. That
is a spending problem. That's like that friend you have
that has fifty thousand dollars in credit card debt and
just complains that they don't make enough money instead of
looking at their spending as being part of a problem.
I mean, that's exactly what it is. They just want
access to our credit cards. They just want to be

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able to do what they want to us without our permission,
and Tabor is the thing that stops them from doing it. Now,
I have any of you guys gotten your table refunds
this year, I'd like to know we know that the
state was having trouble getting refunds, you know, and and
income taxes process. Did you get your table refund do
you know? Aeron, No, because you get what you do taxes, right,

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you haven't done your taxes yet?

Speaker 6 (14:48):
No yet? Okay, probably wean yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
Yeah. This texture on the common spirital text line saying
that the Colorado legislature is spending like drunken monkeys does
a disservice to drunk monkeys. In my experience, drunken monkeys
never spend more than they have. These people are spending
like democrats. I'm not sure drunkenness is a factor. Very
fine point, Texter, and I do not mean to disparage

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any drunken monkeys that might listen to the show. I
don't know. We shall see. So now that the Department
of Education is getting torn apart and put in the
state's hands, they can now use the meat weed money correctly.

Speaker 5 (15:26):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
That's so funny, that's so so funny, so so funny.
Hey Mandy, When you listen to KOA in your car
or house, do you listen to the whimpy FM or
the app or on the AM signal? It depends on
where I AM because some parts of the city the
surrounding areas that the FM doesn't come in well, because
FM is a completely different animal than AM. So if

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I'm having trouble with the FM signal, then I go
to the AM signal, and last resort, I go to
the app. I'm just I'm not a digital person. I'm
not a digital native. So the app is is what
I use when I'm out of town, or the app
is what I use when I want to share a
podcast with someone that they might want to hear, because
sometimes the people say, oh I love that interview, I'd
love to be and I'll just go to my phone

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and text it to them. And so yeah, I use
the app for all of my other podcasts listening. But
I'm an over the air kind of girl. I really
am Mandy. I can't wait until the fed's cut off
Colorado for being a sanctuary state. Lol. I would think
it's coming, and I would think that if our university
system doesn't look and see what's happening with other university systems,

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that they would do well to go ahead and tighten
things up. I know they changed their DEI office into
the Office of Collaboration, the Office of collaboration at cu Bolter.
So good, so so good, Mandy. Just an FYI Desantas
sent surplus COVID money back to the Feds. Love that guy. Yeah,

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be nice, It would be really nice, Mandy. The date
on the blog is in crazy. It sure is. Sorry
about that texture. I shall fix it, Mandy. To be fair,
I actually got money from family leave, but I'm still
waiting on Workmen's comp. The story about family leave and
Workmen's comp is about the audit, the recent audit of
these two departments that found such disastrous bookkeeping that businesses

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have been overcharged and undercharged, and the process to maintain
this family leave. It's just a disaster. It's just another
example of why government sucks at so much stuff. It
really does, Mandy. Curious about what you and a Rod
think about the new Tiger Golf League. Have you heard
about this?

Speaker 6 (17:42):
No, I will watch golf.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
I don't mind. It reminds me of my dad. My
dad watched golfer. Well, have you heard about Tiger's new
business that he has?

Speaker 6 (17:51):
There's one which is because he needs to retire.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
No, it's pop shots. No, it is okay. Imagine you
know how top golf is like is like dry even
golf for drunk people, right, I mean that's what talk
golf is. Yes, I mean that's what it is. So
imagine a putt putt course. But it's not like it's
not like castles. It's like they look like greens. They
look like you're actually putting on the green. They have

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ungulations and things like that. That sounds terrible, No, it's
actually really really No. I like the ridiculous crazy sets. Yeah,
I like just the putting. I like that part. And
at every hole there's a stand and as a QR code,
and if you want to order a drink, you zap
the QR code, order the drink, they bring it to
you on the course.

Speaker 6 (18:32):
You need to go to Holy Mully downtown Denver.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
They don't have the QR code, but they literally have
beverage service at amazing putt putt sets.

Speaker 6 (18:39):
It's incredible.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
Well, this pop Shots, I'm sure is going to go nationwide.
And there's one in Phoenix and there's one in Vegas
right now, and I'm sure it's going to go nationwide.

Speaker 6 (18:47):
People like the eccentric craziness.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
Hey, Rod, when we were at pop Shots, when we
when we rolled up right, we roll up to this place.
It is jam packed with people. They have a sports
bar and a restaurant attached to it. So you've got
a sports bar, restaurant. Then you got the golf course.
When we came up and said, you know, we want
to play two thirty five bucks a person. First of all,
thirty five bucks, we pay the money, and then the lady.
Before we paid the money, the lady goes just so

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you know, on a busy night, like a Saturday night,
you're going to have to wait at every hole.

Speaker 6 (19:15):
And I was like, okay, oh, Mandy, only Moly is exactly.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
That, but that's what I'm saying. There was so many
people in line. Yeah that of course you're going to
buy more cocktails because you're standing there for forever. But
what was kind of fun is that like some of
the holes have a bank on the back, you know,
kind of delating, and people would line up on the
holes so as you were putting, you you were like
on the eighteenth green of some kind of golf tournament.

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People are cheering and throwing there.

Speaker 7 (19:41):
It was.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
It was actually super fun, as your resident putt putt
extraordinary and I am because we do it a lot, right,
That's already, it's already happening. Holy Moly and put Shack,
both downtown Denver, both so awesome, both really good bars,
both really good drinks, cheaper than thirty five dollars a person.
At least Holy Moly is like twenty five a person. Yeah,
and I think people like that crazy, big, immaculate.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
Oh No, I think there is space for both of
these things. I think both of these things are equally popular.
It just depends on what kind of vibe you're going for.
Because like, there was groups of guys there that played
every weekend because they brought their own putters and they
had their own balls, I mean, the whole nine yard.

Speaker 6 (20:21):
Do you think people want to be around those people more?

Speaker 1 (20:23):
No, I think that there's a place for both of
these There are people who want the clown knows that
they can pop with the ball, and then there's people
who want to go pretend that they're tiger Woods. There's
room for both of you, a lot of you. Somebody, Hey, Mandy,
could you say Taxpayers Bill of Rights in your NPR voice? Yes, yes,
I can. There you go. Today we're going to be

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talking about TABOR. That's short for Taxpayers Bill of Rights.
Then we're super excited about this and really hopeful that
we can take more money away from people and give
it to us. By the way, we're gonna talk about
NBR when we get back. By the way to the text,
he just asked, Hey, why isn't the podcast up from yesterday?

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That would be Grant Smith's fault. A Rod set him
up for success, and he just slapped off, which is rare.
So I won't give him too much of a hard
time about it. A Rod's fixing that now, so it'll
be up in a bit. If you did not see
the CEO of NBR testifying on Capitol Hill, it was,

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I mean, it was it was something. It was really, really,
really something. And I just want to skip ahead to
Congressman Hill ready to go buy Jim Jordan. That's James Comer.
James Comer, the congressman from Kentucky, actually busted out headlines

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about him that were demonstrably false. So this is Representative
Brandon Gill talking to Catherine mar the CEO of NPR.
Now you have to understand who Catherine Maher is to
really appreciate what you're about to hear here here here
here on anyway, she is the absolute personification of the

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white liberal woman. I mean one hundred percent. Just listen
to this exchange for more.

Speaker 7 (22:23):
You're back, Ms Maher. I want to start with you
just generally.

Speaker 8 (22:27):
Would you say you generally agree or disagree with the
following statement, The history of all hitherto existing society is
the history of class struggles.

Speaker 7 (22:37):
I would not say I agree with that. You know
that's good to hear.

Speaker 8 (22:39):
It's interesting because a lot of your thinking, as expressed
by your.

Speaker 7 (22:42):
Public statements, is deeply infused with economic and cultural Marxism.

Speaker 8 (22:48):
Do you believe that America is addicted to white supremacy?

Speaker 9 (22:52):
I believe that I tweeted that, and as I've said earlier,
I believe much of my thinking has evolved over the
last half decade.

Speaker 7 (22:59):
It is why did you tweet that?

Speaker 9 (23:02):
I don't recall the exact context, sir, so I wouldn't
be able to.

Speaker 8 (23:05):
Say, Okay, do you believe that America believes in black
plunder and white democracy?

Speaker 9 (23:11):
I don't believe that's, sir.

Speaker 7 (23:13):
You tweet it.

Speaker 8 (23:15):
It's reference to a book you were reading at the time,
apparently the Case for Reparations.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
It's my favorite part. I don't think I've ever read
that book, sir, you.

Speaker 7 (23:22):
Tweeted about it.

Speaker 8 (23:24):
He said you took a day off to fully read
the case for reparations with that on Twitter, and no, this.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
Is when this morning, I just burst out laughing. I
burst out laughing because what he's doing is he's calling
out her virtue signaling tweets that she sent out many
years ago, and then she's having to admit, oh, I
didn't actually.

Speaker 6 (23:44):
Read that book.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
Oh you tweeted that you took the day off work
so you could go ahead and fully consume it. So
he's just he's just going tweet by tweet by tweet.
I'm gonna play a little more and then we'll talk
about why this matters.

Speaker 7 (23:58):
January twenty twenty.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
I apologies.

Speaker 7 (24:01):
I don't recall that I did.

Speaker 9 (24:02):
Okay, I no doubt that your tweet there is correct,
but I don't recall.

Speaker 8 (24:07):
Okay, do you believe that white people and inherently feel
superior to other races?

Speaker 9 (24:12):
I do not.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
You don't.

Speaker 8 (24:13):
You tweeted something to that effect. You said I grew
up feeling superior. How white of me? Why did you
tweet that?

Speaker 9 (24:21):
I think I was probably reflecting on what it was
to be to grow up in an environment where I
had lots of advantages.

Speaker 8 (24:28):
It sounds like you're saying that white people feel superior.

Speaker 9 (24:31):
I don't believe that anybody feels that way, sir. I
was just reflecting on my own experience.

Speaker 7 (24:35):
Do you think that white people should pay reparations?

Speaker 1 (24:38):
I have never said that, sir.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
Oh, yes, yes you did. Yes, you have said it.

Speaker 8 (24:42):
In January of twenty twenty, you tweeted yes, the North, yes,
all of us, Yes, America, Yes, our original collective sin
and unpaid debt. Yes, reparations, yes on this day.

Speaker 9 (24:52):
I don't believe that was a reference to fiscal reparations, sir.

Speaker 7 (24:55):
What kind of reparations was it a reference to.

Speaker 9 (24:57):
I think it was just a reference to the idea
that we all oh much to the people who came
before us.

Speaker 7 (25:02):
That's a bizarre way to frame what you tweeted.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
And then he stops from there. But the reason I'm
bringing this up is she just got absolutely shellacked, not
just because of her tweets, but because of the column
by Uri Berliner, who then subsequently resigned from NPR where
he exposed the political bias of the newsrooms at NPR.
Meaning for I believe it was like eighty seven Democrats,

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not a single registered Republican, and yet this woman came
to Capitol Hill to maintain that NPR does not have
a bias. Well, of course, if everyone you work with
thinks the exact same way, of course you don't think
you have a bias. This is my biggest frustration with
journalists and journalism. And I know wonderful journalists that I

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have a great degree of respect for, but even the
ones that I respect will sometimes show their hand. My
favorite journalists are the ones that I have no idea
what their political affiliations are. No clue, Susan Wikin. You
know our former newswoman here, I had no idea what
our political affiliations were the all time, and we're friends.

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We don't really talk about politics. That's how journalism should
be done. And when you have someone who sits there
and basically downplay the fact that they work in an
echo chamber where nobody probably stands up and says, hey,
should we talk to the other side about this? Now,
I have a very personal vested interest in having NPR
and none cares so much about PBS because I'm not

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competing directly with them. But for all of the Democrats,
and it is almost all Democrats that want to continue
the funding, according to a Pew survey. The survey finds
a third of Democrats say they regularly get news from NPR.
That compares to just nine percent of Republicans. Nearly a
third of Democrats regularly get news from PBS. That's three

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times the eleven percent of Republicans who turned to PBS
for news. The survey also reveals that Democrats are more
likely than Republicans to trust NPR and PBS as sources
of news by wide margins. Forty seven percent of Democrats
trust NPR as a news source. Just twelve percent of
Republicans agreed. In fact, one in four Republicans say they

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distrust NPR. The numbers aren't much better for PBS six
and ten. Fifty nine percent of Democrats say they trust
PBS as a source of news. That's more than double
the twenty three percent of Republicans who feel the same way. Now,
I just want to point out that means fifty three
percent of Democrats did not say they trust NPR as
a news source. Doesn't mean they said they don't trust it,

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just says they didn't say that they do. Now, I
am ready to stop allowing my tax dollars to fund
the competition. I have no ill will towards Colorado Public Radio.
As a matter of fact, I have listened to public
radio across the country. I think it's important to hear
what's happening on the other and that's how I view it.

(28:01):
Just like there are liberals who listen to this show
because they want to hear opinions from the other side.
You've got to dip your toe into PBS, and honestly,
Colorado Public Radio is the most balanced of the PBS
or NPR stations that I've heard. That being said, they
can go out and sell ads, because that's what they're
doing now. They call them sponsorships, but they're fifteen second commercials.

(28:24):
You can hear them, which is in complete violation by
the way of how they're structured. But they can do
it on their own. All of these democrats who love
NPR and PBS can continue donating money, or they can
go out and sell commercials, but that would I'll tell you,
the commercial model that we have here in commercial radio
would prevent NPR from doing a lot of the stuff

(28:44):
that they do, sort of the long form programming. We
don't have that option here. We'll see, we'll see what happens,
but I'm all for defunding it. They would be just
fine without it. And if Catherine Marr had come to
Congress and said, boy, did we get a wake up
call when I read Uri Berliner's column. By the way,

(29:04):
she never spoke to Uri Berliner after he published that
column and before he quit that, according to Berliner via
Twitter yesterday, because she said, oh, I would have loved
to talk to him. Yeah, well he was there, you
were there, you could have chatted. If she had come
to Congress and said, look, what a wake up call
that was. We realized that that half the country doesn't

(29:26):
feel like we are serving them, and in some cases
actually don't like them, and we are working with these
steps to address this issue, I would say, eh, maybe,
but she came in in complete and utter denial. And
if someone won't recognize the problem, they are damn sure
not going to fix it. Five six six nine Ozho
five sixty six nine. Oh, Mandy, if you listened to

(29:48):
their podcast, so informative, so amazing, excellent storytelling, no liberal
bias that I can see, I'll gladly pay for your
share too. Better than the slop they call news these days,
which is literal proper. Let me just say this in
response to that text and another one that says this,
wait one moment, please let me find it very quickly,

(30:11):
because it was accurate and kind of goes with that
one up up uh buh, and it essentially says, oh,
come on, Mandy. It says, I'm an independent. This is
I'm just oh, I'm an independent, and don't listen to NPR.
It's hard to find unbiased news. I've turned to the
Gazette as of late. Let me just say this, you guys,

(30:34):
and I say this as a person who works in
the media. First of all, I am not the news.
I merely talk about the news. I am an opinion pundit,
and I am paid to have an opinion, not the opposite,
which journalist aer paid not to have an opinion. That
being said, every news organization has an agenda. It has

(30:54):
a specific kind of person that they are trying to serve.
And in Colorado we have nine News, which has done
a great job hyper serving liberal people. I mean, that's
why Colin Clark is such a star, because he serves
a very specific market and he does a great job
at it now KOA, at least for me and Ross,

(31:17):
we are definitely right of center. But overall we've got
sports and I do not believe for any moment that
our news department is a right wing bias station. But
to the people that are texting in things like NPR,
lean's left and KOA leans right. The big difference here,
and it's the really important difference in this conversation. KOA

(31:41):
doesn't get any money from the taxpayers. If KOA doesn't
go out and sell advertising to cover our nut, we
are not going to be around. We don't have any
fallback plan. We don't get to go on the air
and beg you guys for money. So it's a much
different proposition when the taxpayers are footing the bill. A
responsibility to be as straight down the middle as you

(32:02):
can possibly be. And that ship sailed at NPR a
long time ago, and for the CEO to deny it,
to come in and at oh no, we're non political,
we're non partisan. We don't know. That's such crap, and
everyone knows that it was insulting to the intelligence of
the people that we're watching. I do want to thank
my friend Ryan Schuling. You just reminded me that we

(32:25):
have a term for women like Catherine Marr, the CEO
of NPR, and it is awful, affluent white female liberal awful. Mandy,
do you randomly walk around and say darn Tuton since
you occasionally say it on KOA, we chuckle here in
Oklahoma every time you say it. The only reason I
say it is it keeps popping up on the text line.

(32:45):
And I'm faithful unless you have a bad word in there.
I will change a bad word, but I'm faithful to
what you people text in unless you're a grammatical nightmare,
which happens a lot on this text line. Trust me.
Mandy asked me anything on the Ross Show. He's been
trying to activate listeners Alexa or Siri over the radio
and doing so successfully from what I understand. I was

(33:07):
wondering if you played a doorbell on air, could you
get dogs to bark? Do we have a doorbell sound?
Can we do that?

Speaker 9 (33:13):
No?

Speaker 1 (33:13):
Because Poppy, you'll do it. Poppy, your dog will wark.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (33:17):
I know I'm not gonna be a menace like those two.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
Well that's a Rod's mad because they kept turning his
SERI on Yeah multiple times.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
Has he's been driving to work just one time, but
it was annoying enough and I'm not doing it.

Speaker 6 (33:27):
Not doing it. I'm not gonna be that menus. People
need to keep tuning into our show. Yes, I don't
want to tune them out.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
Yeah, wink wink, Mandy, can you do the whole show
in your NPR voice?

Speaker 6 (33:37):
Please?

Speaker 7 (33:37):
Don't?

Speaker 1 (33:38):
No, I can't. It's impossible, I Anthony. I think today
we're gonna take a very quick time out here. We've
got Kathy Walker, she's in the newsroom. Hi, Kathy, Hi, Mandy.
I liked at least three or four names always, so
I'm gonna be Mandy. I'm gonna go Mandy, Joe, Andy
Joe O'Connell. That's my middle name. Out Mandy Joe. And

(34:01):
then and Kathy Sue over there, Kathy, Kathy. Uh wait names.
I think you need to two last names, so we
need to talk slow and low. Mandy Connall awesome. That's
gonna be my name, Mandy Connall. We've hyphenated Connall and
awesome to make that happen. See, I can never get
a job at NPR because I can't rate it in.

(34:22):
I really can't. Don't you have you ever worked at
an NPR stage day. And I'm not I'm not hating here.
I'm genuinely because I just feel like when I get
going on the show, there's an energy that happens and
and a rod feels it, and it's just is everywhere
are they just like, Hey, how you doing? Would you
like some more decaf? Sure, I'll take some more decaff

(34:46):
and like decaf diet coke. At the NPR building, there's
no caffeine, there's no sugar. There's nothing that could accidentally
hop someone up on goofballs because it would break their
audience out. You would have no clue what to do
with that happening, exactly, like is the world coming to
an end? What's opening right now? Anyway? Okay, what's happening

(35:07):
is the news trafficking weather. We're gonna be back right
with Kathy right after this.

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Speaker 1 (35:39):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the last hour of the show.
Normally second hour of the show, but at approximately one
twenty seven to twenty five, I will be turning this
radio station over to the Colorado Rockies or their opening
day game against the Tampa Bay Rais. Yes Opening day
was technically yesterday, but today is opening day for the
Rays and the Rocky is now ay. Rod actually just

(36:01):
got a text message, Hey, Mandy, how about asking the
text line what listeners think the Rockies record will be
that season.

Speaker 6 (36:09):
That's funny. I did not text that.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
I heard the guys on KAA Sports yesterday talking about
the fact that, and Dave Lovian even said the bar
can't be just don't lose one hundred games, guys.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
That's my bar.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
It's laying on the ground. You don't even have to
lift your clet up all the way up the ground
to get over it. But that's my bar because I can't.
I can't. I just can't have another negative Nelly attitude.
I'm going to baseball games. I'm gonna cheer my heart out.
I'm gonna try and learn the names of these players,
most of whom I've never heard of. And I'm waiting
for Chasetlander to come up from the miners and zach

(36:44):
Vine and zach Vin we have to what is it
that you told me about the contract the other day.

Speaker 6 (36:50):
Well, it's a matter of arbitration.

Speaker 3 (36:52):
We gotta see if I think if zach Vian stays
down long enough that I think they earn another year
of ConTroll.

Speaker 6 (37:00):
I okay, I think. Uh.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
Sean Keeler at the Denver Post, I think over there
over there was was chatting about that.

Speaker 6 (37:07):
Potentially being a factor. I don't know, No one will know.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
I'm not sure, you know, especially with the struggles of
you know, keeping some of the talent here, I understand it,
especially with the guy that seemingly is promising as Zach Vine.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
You want to you want to keep him a lot.

Speaker 6 (37:22):
I want to keep him locked up.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
So if that's part of it, I understand, And if
it's only a couple of weeks, I understand that too,
because you want to see how the roster shapes out
and then see where Zach Vine can play in get
him some good work down in uh down in minor
league ball at the moment.

Speaker 6 (37:36):
So I get it. Chase do Lander.

Speaker 1 (37:40):
Really good control, Yeah, but.

Speaker 6 (37:43):
No shortage of talent. Mickey Mania.

Speaker 3 (37:45):
They just picked that number one overall pick from not
too long ago.

Speaker 6 (37:48):
They just picked up the Angels. Let him go now
he's in the outfield.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
Five six sixth nine. Oh, that's five six sixth nine.

Speaker 4 (37:53):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
Text, just your predictions for the Rocky season, and hopefully
they won't all be bad. I realize, guys, I get
it because I'm a baseball fan and I tell people
regularly the Rockies as of late have just about beaten
the baseball fan out of me. They really have. It's
been bad, but I've decided I'm just going to go in.
I'm you know what I'm doing. I'm channeling what's the

(38:15):
show on Apple with the guy who goes over and coaches.

Speaker 6 (38:17):
The soccer team, Ted Lasso.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
I'm channeling my inner Ted Lasso, maintaining that bright and
optimistic outlook, finding reasons to like it.

Speaker 6 (38:28):
Let's let's be real.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
At the end of the day, we all know in
the division the money that the Dodgers are spending. Everyone
in Major League Baseball knows that. But everyone in Major
League Baseball has the same capability to grow talent. There's
nothing that is keeping the Rockies and that staff and
that organization from growing talent. And they believe that they
have grown this talent in a way where they can

(38:50):
be competitive again, and they you know, I think a
lot of people have reference to what the Diamondbacks.

Speaker 6 (38:54):
Did a couple of years ago. It's possible. It is possible.

Speaker 3 (38:57):
If the Rockies can pitch and they find some ways
to come up with clutch hits with the young guys
that are up and coming and up and growing, they
can be competitive.

Speaker 6 (39:05):
I think. I think record aside, that's what I'm hoping for.

Speaker 3 (39:09):
That's my floor is to watch competitive baseball laid into
the summer.

Speaker 1 (39:13):
The issue that they have is they don't have any
depth at pitching, and so you get a couple pitchers
that are hurt at the same time. Now Chase Dolanders
and the Miners, they could bring him up. I don't
know of any other pitching prospects that are out there
for the Rockies.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
Their rotation looks as good as it has. I think
all want healthy, yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
And that's always the big key, right, That's the thing
you can't control. I mean, you can control part of
it with training properly and stuff like that, but you
can't control an injury. And it's They've been devastating to see.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
Zenzateela and Marquez going strong again. That's gonna be really
promising because it's been a couple of years since you've
really had this crop of guys going all at the
same time.

Speaker 6 (39:51):
But it's starts with Kyle Freeland today, man.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
And we'll see if Freeland can get you know, get
out of this start without an eight run inning.

Speaker 6 (39:59):
Well, that's what I've talked.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
He has good outings, but Kyle's bugaboo has always been
that one. He pitches well almost the rest of the game,
but the one bad inning he's been his buggaba and
kills him. Yeah, absolutely kills him. Today's not a course.

Speaker 1 (40:11):
We got eighty seven wins. I like that. I like that,
says this Texter. This person's sixty three and ninety nine.
You know what, my bars over exceeded.

Speaker 3 (40:20):
I'm going to use a word that I used with
the Broncos last year because it put a side record
as well. And I think obviously it's a tick down
and expectations are much higher now for the Broncos moving forward.
But growth, growth for the young guys with the Rockets.
I want to see the team grow.

Speaker 1 (40:34):
Yeah, because we remember at the beginning of the last
football season when we were all like, hey, you know
what if we go eight and eight and it just
so show out goods, that would be an excellent season.
And then they get to the playoffs and we're like, dang,
they lost him, Like hey, let's remember what we were
saying at the beginning of the season. So, Mandy, I'm
glad to know I'm not the only Rockies fan. As
a boy, I listened to the Bears with Grandpa. Baseball

(40:56):
was the only sport in his mind. He died long
before the Rockies got here, but I still listen with him.
That's very nice, very nice. Sixty eight wins would be
nice at this point, need the beef magnate to sell
to someone else.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
I think you have to hope for a ceiling of
five hundred baseball and growth, that is I think the best.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
I gotta say, five baseballs might be a stretch.

Speaker 3 (41:19):
I understand, you know, growth is more important. I would
you know what I would take. I would take ten
games under five hundred and a lot of a lot
of promise and growth. Then five hundred baseball, and you wonder,
what is the future of a lot of these guys?

Speaker 6 (41:34):
You know what also to big time and the Rockies
would say that.

Speaker 3 (41:37):
You the Rockies fans would say it, Chris Bryant's gotta
be healthy.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
I has there been a bigger disappointment. God is me
and I'm not. You know, I'm not mad at him
or anything, but man, the injury after injury after injury
after he's not getting any younger.

Speaker 3 (41:54):
So yeah, it'd be so huge from the middle of
that lineup. It'll let the young guys really blossom. If
pitchers have to pitch around at least somewhat, Chris Bryan,
let the young guys get a lot better pitches knowing
that Chris Brian is doing his thing maybe again like
he has in the past. That would be so big
for everyone on the team.

Speaker 1 (42:15):
Chris, Mandy, why do the Rockies keep hitting bottom? You guys?
I have long DYA tribe about that, but I keep
it to myself because I'm trying to get my joy
for baseball back into the text. Who said, Mandy, I
don't listen to this show for sports. That's what the
other shows on KOA are for, guys. I'm an actual
baseball fan. This isn't like some lady on the radio

(42:36):
sitting here and talking about this. Because I feel like
I have to because it's opening day. This is my
preferred sport. We don't talk about sports very much, but
this is the beginning of the season when all hope
springs eternal.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
Right.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
We're all in it right now, we're not out of
it yet.

Speaker 6 (42:51):
Remember what we used to say.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
I mean, the Rockies usually get off to really good
starts too, and that'd be really fun to have again,
especially for a team that wants to find that confidence
early and not getting a hole because if you're going
back to back hundred lost seasons with this youth and
you get in the hole again, that's so hard.

Speaker 6 (43:06):
To get out of.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
So a fast start. We've always said it for the
last decade. I mean as a Rockies fan growing up,
it's always talked about with the Rockies always start fast.
That's even not been the case, it feels like a
couple of years. So if they can do that again,
it'd be awesome.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
They haven't been able to get batting and pitching on
the same page at the same time. Yeah, yeah, the
lab games will they'll score nine runs, but then the
other team scores eleven runs, right, So you look at
some of the scores last year, it's like, Okay, now
guys are hitting, but we can't pitch to save our lives.
It's like we can't get all the pieces working at
the same time. And that's been a huge, huge frustrated health.

Speaker 3 (43:38):
Is there enough with the pitching and the hitting can
rely on them knowing that if we get the five
six runs, six four games, five, three games, we're not
asking for perfection. We're not asking for no hitters. We're
not asking for any of that. Just give the hitters
a chance.

Speaker 1 (43:55):
Yep, there you go.

Speaker 6 (43:56):
It's gonna take a while.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
I do have a couple of things I want to
direct your attention to on the blog because we're almost
out of time because we've got baseball coming up here.
There is a video on the blog and it's from
John Stewart's podcast and he's interviewing Ezracline. And I can't
play it on the air because there are multiple times
where John Stewart just yells out, oh am blanking God,

(44:20):
and Ezracline is explaining the process for tapping into the
forty billion dollars. Remember, in the Biden administration, forty billion
dollars was set aside to expand broadband in rural communities. Okay,
forty billion four years later, not a dime. Well, no,

(44:41):
I take that back, because I've been A dime has
been spent. I've been lots of dimes have been spent.
No broadband has been laid. And Ezra Cline lays out
for John Stuart the process created by Democrats in order
to get one of these grants to get the oral broadband,
and in it, John Stuart begins to wonder I hate government.
I mean, he begins to understand why I hate government.

(45:05):
And it's unbelievable, Mandy. When NFL teams do bad, wait,
hang on, coaches are fired quickly. Why are Major League
Baseball managers not fired quickly, especially after several years in
a row. That is a question you would have to
ask Dick Montford. And I hate saying that because Buddy
Black is honestly such a nice man.

Speaker 6 (45:27):
Bud Black is a fantastic manager, is he?

Speaker 3 (45:31):
It's just been so many issues after issues. He knows it.
He has had success what he did with the Padres
for years. Bud Black is a fantastic manager. He's not
the issue.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
I would also like to point out this Texter said Mandy.
There has been a bigger disappointment than Chris Brian. That
would be Ian Desmond correct. Oh and remember when during
COVID he was just like, I'm done. Yeah, I'm not
gonna play anymore.

Speaker 6 (45:52):
I don't know, I'm I.

Speaker 3 (45:53):
Think honestly, I think even Chris would admit he might
he might be higher than that. I think he's really
been disappointed with the injuries. He don't the problem that
I have.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
With these so quote high profile signings that the Rockies
have launched into in an attempt to be more competitive. Like,
let's be real, they signed these people because they thought
these guys would make them more competitive. They're they're hiring
guys that are already on the downslope in seats and
that's just an issue.

Speaker 3 (46:18):
The one criticism I think we've talked with him about
it out it out of Opening Day before a couple
of years ago Koe Sports did Dick momfrets spends money?

Speaker 6 (46:26):
Yeah, the Rockies spend money. It's just I mean, some serious.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
How are they spending it?

Speaker 6 (46:33):
Bad luck too with Chris's injuries. Yeah, they spend money. Yeah,
the ownership spends money.

Speaker 1 (46:39):
They're middle of the pack for spending when it comes
to payroll right now. Yeah, they're like fourteen to fifteen,
somewhere in that range. They're in the barrel by any stretch.
It's unfortunate though they're in the division with the Dodgers,
who spend more than any other team in Major League Baseball,
to the tune of like three times most.

Speaker 3 (47:00):
What the rocky is I think dig Momfert's response would be,
we paid Chris Bryant for what he was going to be.

Speaker 6 (47:06):
He needs to stay healthy. We paid the guy.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
But then my question would be who's making the decisions
about who we're signing for big money that maybe that
needs to be reevaluated. Is all I'm saying, Not that
I'm the person to make that decision. I'm just saying,
obviously there's a little bit of a disconnect there. Anyway,
I have another story on the blog that I want
to get to you today because I find this incredibly
interesting and also appalling. You know, a friend of mine

(47:34):
who went through sniper school in the Army said one
of the first things his instructor in sniper school told
him was, you can do anything if you can justify
it to yourself, meaning when you're an Army sniper, your
job is to go and kill someone that is your job,
and it can be a moral struggle for some people.
But if you understand that the person that you are
being sent to kill is a bad person because of this, this, this, this,

(47:57):
and this and and and you know the the outcomes
that are expected, although you don't normally get that depth
in depth of a conversation, then you could justify taking
another human life. In that setting. Liberals are justifying all
kinds of stuff to themselves right now. Listen to this
story from originally from Business Insider. Lee insists he's famously

(48:18):
a very good Catholic. He's a moral person. His mother
raised him right by his internal calculation, it's okay to
shoplift from Whole Foods? Why because of Jeff Bezos. From
about twenty twenty to twenty twenty two, Lee, a twenty
something communications professional living in the Washington, DC area, engaged

(48:38):
in what he describes as grand theft, autoing from his
local whole food store. He would cheat the scale at
the hot bar, pocket spices, or take home four lemons
in the self checkout aisle. While only declaring to Lee
is never shoplifted from anywhere else, not safe way, not
a local store. He's largely stopped taking from Whole Foods

(48:59):
because he moved. However, he told me there's one by
his gym he'll pop into and steal from from time
to time. Now, the article goes on to justify this behavior,
and it goes on to talk about how people are
just saying, listen to this lie says, if a billionaire
can steal from me, I can scrape a little off

(49:20):
the top two. Now, I'd like to know exactly from
Lee what Jeff Bezos has quote stolen from him, because
Jeff Bezos, from where I sit, has revolutionized shopping to
create a product where you can go to Amazon dot
Com and you can pretty much order anything that you

(49:42):
want to have and they will bring it to your
home sometimes the same day. Now, I don't know where
Lee thinks that that is stealing from him, but this
is the justification he's using for his bad behavior, the
same kind of justification that these nimrods who are keying
private citizens eslas are using for theirs. Oh Elon metsk

(50:03):
is a Nazi. I have to destroy someone else's private property.
As if that makes sense, what is that? By the way,
this article goes on, Practically speaking, it's a good moment
to be a billionaire in America? Has there ever been
a bad moment to be a billionaire anywhere? You've probably
got more tax cuts on the way, and the President

(50:25):
is nice to you as long as you're nice to him.
Maybe you're stuck so dan, but you're still a billionaire,
so it's fine.

Speaker 2 (50:33):
Guys.

Speaker 1 (50:34):
It's almost like they forget how Jeff Bezos got to
be a billionaire and let me just lay it out
for you. It's real simple. He came up with an
idea that no one had, and he launched it in
his garage, and he was selling books on the internet.
Remember that's how Amazon started. He was selling books on
the internet. And I was one of those people who
laughed and said, he wants to buy a book on

(50:55):
the internet, I want to go to the bookstore. I
want to have that experience. And when he was selling
a lot of books on the Internet and all of
a sudden realized, maybe I can sell other stuff on
this website as well. He was visionary enough to start
an entire fleet of electric vehicles to deliver his products,
to cut out the shipping expenses that he was paying

(51:17):
to FedEx or ups. He was visionary enough to start
delivering groceries, and then he was visionary enough to buy
whole foods to make the entire thing seamless. But in
Lee's opinion, he's being stolen from, so he can justify
stealing from whole foods. Now, if you and your family
are on the verge of starving to death and you

(51:37):
steal some food to feed your family, you may be
able to make a case maybe that in a case
of stealing or death, you were forced into an unfortunate
position of stealing. But even then, I sure hope you
would have the common decency to feel bad about it.
But people are justifying all kinds of bad behavior now

(52:00):
because oh.

Speaker 10 (52:01):
Yet Piesos is rich Eli mutsk. I don't like him,
and it's just petulance. And it indicates to me that
if you want to know people who don't believe in God.
And here's the thing, guys.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
Don't you don't have to be a Christian to understand
that the fundamentals of the ten Commandments are pretty solid.
You know, don't murder, don't steal, don't sleep with your
neighbor's wife or husband. I mean, it's pretty basic stuff
that if we all just follow the ten commandments. We'd
be in a pretty good position right now, culturally and cynically, right.

(52:37):
But those such admonitions are inconvenient when you want to
get an extra something something from the hot bar and
not pay for it, and then you can wrap yourself
in a shroud of superiority given to you by no
one but yourself and declare stealing a okay, as long
as you steal from the right people. Now, what would
be super interesting is if Lee came out of his

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apartment and someone had stolen his car because in the
communications job he has, they've decided he's spreading this information
and therefore he deserves to be stolen from. I'm guessing
he would have a much different view of that. So
there you go. There you go, And now Bezo's capitalized

(53:20):
on the laziness of his customers. Exactly same justification to
kill the healthcare CEO, says the sexter, exactly right. This
is why they glorify Luigi Mangioni. He murdered someone and
they're like, oh my god, he's so dreamy. He was
fighting the people's fight. Because the people on the left

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view every conversation as you are either oppressed or you
are an oppressor. And I guess for Lee, having to
pay for four lemons and Whole Foods makes him oppressed,
and Jeff Bezos is stealing from him. I just I
don't like this, and I think it's really foul that

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Business Insider wrote a very sympathetic article. I'm not reading
the rest of the article to you, but trust me
when I say that the person who wrote this article
is all like, fight the power and you go, Lee,
and they're probably shoplifting stuff from their Whole Foods right now.
I say, more power to you. You can do it
until you get caught, and then you can pay the price,
and you can be embarrassed and humiliated, and you can

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go before a judge and you can see that Jeff
Bezos and the judge will be like, what, what was
your family starving?

Speaker 9 (54:35):
No?

Speaker 1 (54:36):
Were you starving?

Speaker 4 (54:37):
No?

Speaker 1 (54:38):
You just wanted to steal from Jeff Bezos. Yes, okay,
go right ahead, But here's the penalty, Mandy. Every very
rich person I ever knew was nice. Why do they
have to be so nasty about? Why are they so hated?
Blind jealousy? I guess they're hated because people think that
we have a fixed economic pie and Therefore, if Jeff

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Bezo Peace is really big, then that leaves less for
everyone else. It ignores the dynamic nature of our economy.
It ignores the fact that if Lee, this idiot shoplifter
over here, it came up with an incredible idea that
was unique and different, and nobody else was doing it,
and he brought it to market and he invested in himself,

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Lee could become a billionaire. He doesn't have to take
away from Jeff Bezos. It's all lost because they've been
told that if people are rich, it's because they got
rich from stealing from other people, not from creating something
of value that then people love and adore and use
all the time. In their minds, it's he's rich, he's

(55:43):
got mine, and that's why I'm not rich. Instead of
going maybe I should shop at Walmart instead of Whole Foods.
I mean not for nothing, you guys. I don't shop
at Whole Foods because it's expensive. It's all get out.
So whenever I see I'm shoplifting from Whole Foods because
he's rich and I'm not, well, you're not rich because

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you can't afford to shop at Whole Foods and you
are stop it amy, Come on, Mandy matt at Bezos,
not me. I worked at his little book ordering store
for a year in the nineties. He didn't pay well,
but he gave us each one share of stock each week.
If you do the math on a free share of
Amazon that has split multiple times since the nineties, you

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can figure out he made a lot of uspeons into millionaires. That,
my friends, is an awesome story. I was once not
charged at Murdoch's for a cinch jacket, went back the
next day to pay for it. There's no way I
could wear something I didn't pay for. How would someone
eat or wear something they know they didn't pay for.
I don't get it, because this is their little active rebellion.

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It's like these idiots. I almost said a much stronger word,
but I rained myself in these idiots who are king
people's teslas. First of all, they're too stupid to know
other on camera. But why are they doing that? I
mean one of the guys that was charged with criminal
mischief in I don't remember where it was. He's like

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this CEO of a company. What exactly was he doing
destroying someone else's property in a fit of peak? You know,
I'm lucky. I'm very, very lucky because I get to
sit here and invent my spleen for three hours a
day until baseball season, and so I get my jayas out.
But I'm also not so egocentric as to think whatever

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I say on the radio is going to have any effect.
Trust me, I've been ineffective for so long that I
recognize that I reach a very small part of the
overall population, and I have a very small impact overall,
just because people are different doing different things, and I
can only reach so many people. So I get wanting
to feel important, But the ultimate thing is you're not king.

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Someone's car doesn't make you important, even if you run
and tell your friends about it after, it doesn't make
you matter any more than you matter right now. And
in fact, I think it makes you matter less because
now you're gonna have a criminal record.

Speaker 6 (58:10):
Mandy.

Speaker 1 (58:10):
If you want to punish bezos, don't use the services.
Want to punish Musk, don't buy his vehicles. That is
an excellent point, Mandy. If whole foods did not exist,
no one could steal from them. Here's the kicker about
whole foods. Whole foods, which has been called whole paycheck
for my entire adult life. The first Whole Foods that
I went into was in Seattle, Washington, and I was

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broke with a capital B, right, so I was in
the salad years, but not salad from Whole Foods, just
like salad like buy head of lettuce salad years. And
I went into Whole Foods with a friend of mine
and I was absolutely floored by the prices. Floored and that,
my friends, was before Jeff Bezos spotted more stuff on
the blog. I'm doing a Facebook live at four point

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thirty this afternoon at Mandy Connell on Facebook joined me there.
In the meantime, though, we've got opening baseball for the
hockey season. Hope Springs Eternal starting today. Keep it on
KOA