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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Bill and Pollock
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
No, it's Mandy Connell, Andy con On KOA ninety one
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
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Speaker 2 (00:27):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the short show.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Of the day today. We got about half an hour.
I'm your host for that big woppin' thirty minutes. Mandy
Connell joined, of course for his woppin thirty minutes Anthony
Rodriguez you can call him a rod and together we
will give you twenty three and a half minutes of
excellent content. Let's jump into the blog, which, of course
(00:52):
I did a full blog today because that's how I roll.
Go to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. No
apostrophe because you can't put an apostrophe in the URL,
and look for the headline in the latest post section
that says four thirty twenty five blog thirty minutes of
Mandy Today. Click on that and here are the headlines
you will find within tech two.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
A winner and even withs in office South American all
with ships and clipment of sy that's going to press
plant today.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
On the blog, DEM's want more of your money to
pay for illegal immigrant healthcare? Why I haven't been talking
about the legislative session much? Nine days left in the session.
A crazy man.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Is led out to kill his mother.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Why does the FBI ignore good guys with a gun's stories?
Aurora seizes almost one thousand cars.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Under a new program.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Latinos come out against Latino Superintendent Colorado. A. G. Wiser
files his fifteenth lawsuit against the Trump administration. The federal
funds fire hose for Denver has been shut off. Tom
Homan calls out the Biden ADMN for opening the border rip.
David Horowitz lit stuff to listen to today when I'm
(02:02):
not on Those are the headlines on the blog. Okay,
it's not a full blog at mandy'sblog dot com, but
I got a lot of good stuff for you to
keep you busy, including a brand new show for my
friend Leland Conway. And if you ever listened to Leland
when he was on k how you know that every
Friday he did the Twisted View where he brought on
(02:22):
three dudes and they drank bourbon and they talked about
the issues. Well, Twistedview has now become a part of
Independence Institute's IV and you can find it on YouTube.
I embedded it today on the blog. You should go
check it out. Today's episode features Ben Albright, Mark Major,
(02:42):
and Willie Bee along with Leland Conway. And I haven't
watched it yet because I didn't have time this morning,
but I'm gonna watch it later. But that's on the
blog for you to look at today. I also have
a link to my side project down there as well,
and I've got some video that is super interesting John Stossel,
And you know, John Stossel is truly a libertarian journalist
(03:04):
who covers all kinds of things from a libertarian perspective.
And he's got a video called good Guys with a Gun,
And like he does in all of his videos, he
breaks down the reality that is often ignored by gun
grabbers and used by gun grabbers to say, you know,
(03:25):
concealed carry perramid holders, they never really stop crimes.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I was kind of shocked by part of this video.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
And I gotta tell you, as a as a person
who spends all day every day watching and reading politics,
I'm very rarely shocked by something that I see. But
what John Stossel uncovers in this video in a conversation
with John Lott, who is a researcher who's been doing
gun research for decades now.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
He's probably the best in the business.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
John Lott asked the FBI why and John Stossel asked
the FBI why they ignore stories in their gun Vine
Island's database of good guys with a gun stopping a crime.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
And there are way more.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Of those than you might think. But they are only
local stories.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
If there's a mass shooting and there's twenty people that
are shot in an instance, that story is going to
be a national story. But if you've got a situation
where a mass shooting was stopped by a concealed carry
permit holder, that story is going to stay a local story,
and the FBI frankly doesn't want to add it to
their statistics. It is a great John Stoscil video, and
(04:32):
if you're a gun supporter or a concealed carry permit holder,
you're definitely going to want to watch this video.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
It's like five and a half minutes long. All of
his stuff's fairly short, but.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
It will give you ammunition pun intended to be able
to push back on people who say that concealed carry
permit holders do not have the ability to stop crime,
because they do over and over and over again, often
without firing a shot. And I say that knowing that.
One of the things that I think is one of
(05:02):
the most dangerous attitudes towards carrying a weapon as a
concealed carry permit holder is that you're just gonna brandish
your weapon and everything is going to be fine.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
That's not always how it goes. You should never just
plan on well. And I had a dear friend of
mine when she went back to school to go to
graduate school, and she was at the University of Florida
when there was a serial killer at the University of
Florida and his name was Danny Rawlings and he was
eventually arrested, but he she wanted to get a gun
(05:35):
because she was feeling unsafe, understandably so, because he was
praying on college students. So she wanted to get a gun.
And I've known this woman for so long, and I said,
wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute, are
you able to shoot someone?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Can you do that? And she was like no, And
I went, then why are you getting a gun? She said?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Well, if somebody comes in my house, I want to
be able to pull it out and aim it at him,
and I'm like, and then they're going to take it
away and shoot you with it. That's you have to
be prepared to use your weapon, not just brandish it,
but often brandishman is all that it takes to stop
a crime in its tracks.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I mean, most criminals are.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Cowards and they don't want to get shot. So that's
a great video that's on the blog today. I've got
a lot of stuff, news stuff that I have on
the blog today that we're probably going to get to
some of it tomorrow because some of it is kind
of a big deal. But last night I went to
this fantastic event put on my Douglas County citizenry about
(06:31):
home rule.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
In Douglas County.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
We're going to get into that tomorrow because there was
so much and I learned so much that was super
interesting last night. But I was talking to Kim Monson,
who was at the event, and I told her frankly,
I said, Kim, I haven't even been talking about the
legislative session because there are so many horrible bills that
(06:58):
are working.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Their way through legislature.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
And I truly believe that the cake is already baked
and they're going to pass. So there's no point in
me getting people super riled up about it when they.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Can't be stopped. They just can't be stopped.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Now today at the Capitol, there is a rally going
on right now and it was going on this morning
over HB thirteen twelve, which is so horrific in terms
of criminalizing speech of using a child's gender confusion to
take a child out of a home by the state.
(07:35):
I mean is it is beyond the pale. And a
lot of people. Three hundred people signed up to testify
for and against this bill today, and I still think
it's going to pass. We've seen pictures of Democrats as
people passionately testified against certain bills that they were unhappy about.
They're playing candy Crush on their phones. There one Democrat,
(07:57):
and I saved this image because I'm going to make
it a camp PA commercial against this one.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Democrat who I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I don't even know anything about her except she took
the petitions signed by people who signed the petitions against
the gun bill that they passed anyway, and she cut
little paper paper snowflakes out of them and then proudly
displayed it on social media to let everyone know exactly
what she thinks about what the people think about, you
know anything.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
The level of.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Disrespect, the level of complete dismissal of the other side
of Colorado has been really, really gobsmacking. But part of
me is like, Okay, if this is what it's going
to be, then all of these laws can go into effect.
And when people have to start living under these laws
(08:47):
and they start to get mad when they find out
they can't do what they want to do because the
Democrats have made everything incredibly difficult, horrible, and you know,
difficult to manage, then maybe, just maybe the people of
Colorado will wake up and vote differently. Maybe just maybe
the Republican Party can field candidates who can articulate why
(09:08):
they have better ideas about how to run things. Now,
I'd love to ask you guys, like, should I be
talking about these bills that we can't stop because and
before you say, Mandy, you've got to let us know
so we can we can go out and we can
be a part of the solution. I would say, like
today it'd be thirteen twelve. Is is happening today. A fraction,
(09:33):
a fraction of people, like maybe half of one percent
that listen to this show, will ever do anything.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
And so what's the point. What is the point?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Somebody asked on the text line the Common Spirit Health
text line, Mandy, So you like or don't like home rule?
I learned things last night that make me like it,
but I have concerns about the speed with Douglas County
is trying to do it. That is my overarching takeaway
of last night. I did learn a lot about home
rule and gonna I'm gonna talk about it because for me,
(10:10):
it's very, very interesting that more counties haven't gone to
a home real situation, especially the rural counties or counties
that lean right in this state. I don't know why
everybody's not home rule. It doesn't get you out of
a bunch of stuff. And we'll go into all this tomorrow.
It's not like you can ignore state law. But there
(10:31):
are benefits to having a home rule situation that in
a state like ours, where the Democrats are just shoving
more bad legislation and more bad legislation down our throats,
it would be nice to have the ability for the
county to push back. Even though the Colorado Supreme Court,
which I I don't know if they're the most overturned
(10:53):
Supreme court in the country, but they got to be close.
And ultimately they're going to rule on it shoes that
have to do with counties versus the state, and they're
never going to rule in favor of a home rule
county because they are so liberal. But hope springs eternal,
and it would give them an opportunity to make that happen.
Mandy I wrote testimony and submitted it on HB thirteen twelve.
(11:16):
I also contacted my senator to vote no. That would
be great. This person, why would you not even mention
the bill that makes taxpayers pay for baby murder?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Okay, great? Why what are you gonna do about it? Texter?
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
It already passed. There was a zero percent chance that
bill was not going to pass. So should I get
you all up in arms about it before it happens,
or should I wait until the end of the session
and say, oh, by the way, you're gonna be paying
for abortions?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Oh? Even more egregious.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
On today's blog, Democrats are trying to put a fee
on your health insurance premiums that could raise your health
insurance premiums up to one hundred bucks a month. And
do you know what they want to use that fee for?
It would allocate nineteen million to cover subsidies to offset
(12:07):
insurance for low income Coloradens.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
That's fine, twelve million.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
For reproductive and gender affirming care that means abortion and
gender affirming care, and six point five million for an
existing state enterprise to administer the program, along with a
crap ton of money fifty six million dollars to fund
insurance for illegal immigrants.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
So what do you want to do about that text?
Or what are you gonna do? You're gonna run down
to the Capitol right now? I doubt you are.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
What are you gonna do? So this is the thing,
This is the entire thing. So I have to say
it's it's like we can't fight it. And don't get
mad at the Republican Party. Okay, do not get mad
at the Republican Party because they simply do not have
the numbers to stop anything. They are so outnumbered right
(13:05):
now that they can't even stop a veto. It's amazing
that the governor's veto of a social media bill can
you you guys, The fact that that people are declaring
any kind of victory because a social media bill was
killed by the governor when all of the other crap
that's flying under the radar right now is coming out
(13:26):
is wild to me, Absolutely wild. Ugh. Hi, Mandy, I'm
an independent and I think Democrats in Colorado have moved
too far left. I can't vote for any election DENI ers,
so I always feel stuck.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
I can appreciate the sentiment, but you're voting for people
who are destroying the state because you don't want someone
who says, yeah, I think the election was stolen.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I think some of those people are nuts too, But
at what point does that stop being your one issue
when it's two in you know, expect and sift for
you to afford your mortgage because your property taxes are
so high, or you get to find out that you're
gonna pay an extra one hundred bucks a month for
your health insurance so you can pay for someone else's abortions.
I mean you guys, Yeah, Mandy, a fee on my
(14:15):
insurance to fund insurance for others is not okay.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
We voted on that one. You guys, we voted on that.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Yep, yep, Mandy, this is what Colorado wanted when you
reelected Polis by sixteen points. I did not vote for that, Mandy.
You know, if I think about it, I can't call
my confused child the gender he actually is in the
name I gave him. Would that not be a violation
of my freedom of speech? It absolutely is, And that
(14:43):
is what this bill is designed to do. It's not
designed to protect anyone. It's designed to control speech. It
is a control bill, not a freedom bill. It's you know,
it'd be the same thing like if you're going to
criminalize calling some of the wrong pronouns or something like that.
That is not about pronouns. That's about control. It's about
forcing everyone into the same belief structure that the wild
(15:08):
progressives in the Colorado legislature they themselves share, right, and
god forbid, you should say, wait a minute. I've known
my kid his or her entire life, and out of
the blue, they come up with this gender dysphoria, and
my only option in Colorado is to just go, oh, yes,
you're a different gender. It's insane, I mean absolutely insane.
(15:31):
So it's it's scary it's sad. I don't think things
are gonna go well. I think things are going to
continue to spiral out of control.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
So there you go, Mandy. Where can I see the.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
John Stoscil interview Mandy mentioned? You can see that at
mandy'sblog dot com. I embedded it on the blog. You
can check today's blog before thirty twenty five blog as
it's labeled.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Check it out there. So that is on the blog.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I have a story today that I find so incredibly
upset because it's so incredibly unnecessary, and it's about a
man in Longmont who was arrested after attacking, violently attacking
officers in a Loveland park. They were called to the
Loveland park because this guy was throwing rocks at a
(16:18):
woman walking in the park and she called the police
and they arrived and this guy is clearly, clearly not
mentally well okay, he mixes it up with police tells
him he's in the FBI, I mean, and to stand down,
and I mean.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
It was just it's nuts. You can watch the body.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Camera video on nine News. I linked to the story.
So he gets arrested. He's charged with a fourth degree
felony Class four felony, which is kind of serious. It's
felony assault on a police officer. That's what the guy's
charged with. Do you know what they let him out
of jail on. They let him out on a two
hundred and fifty dollars cash bond, two hundred fifty bucks.
(17:01):
So he gets out of jail, clearly mentally ill, clearly violent.
They let him out for two hundred fifty bucks, and
within a few days he murdered his mother, a mother
who had a restraining order against him because he was violent.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
And if he'd.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Just been kept in jail with a reasonable bond, he
would not have been able to murder his mother. Now,
the judge in this case, in his murder case, has
already said he is not capable of standing trial because
he is seriously mentally ill. And yet we our system
in Colorado is so bad that we have nowhere to
(17:41):
put people who are criminally mentally ill, you know, people
who've committed crimes but are in the throes of mental illness.
And to make it even worse, Hats off to nine
News and Chris Vanderveen for digging into these fourth class
felony bonds. Because in Colo, the average bond for a
(18:02):
felony fourth class is twenty seven thousand, six hundred and
seventy three dollars.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
That's the average.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
In Douglas County, it's fifty nine thousand, one hundred and
fifty eight dollars. In Denver it's fifty seven, four hundred
and sixty nine dollars. He got out for two hundred
and fifty bucks after attacking a police officer. What the
heck Larimer County. You know, this story is just it's
(18:29):
tragic from fifteen different ways you look at it. This
mentally ill man needed help, serious residential lock you in
kind of help because he was a danger to other
people and himself, and they didn't even keep him in
jail two hundred and fifty bucks, and he murdered his
(18:51):
mother and now he's going to be in prison for
the rest of his life with his mental illness, getting
no help, and he's just it's an absolute disaster. What
happens from mental illness in the state, or rather what
doesn't happen.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I guess I should say.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Interesting story out of Denver Public schools Afro Latino Bilingual
Superintendent Alex Morero. I had to say it like that
because soci Gaetan, who has demonstrated time and time again
that she cares more about diversity titles than student achievement.
That's how she describes Afro Latino Bilingual Superintendent Alex Morero.
(19:27):
I wonder if that's on his business cards the school board, which,
by the way, four seats are up for reelection in
the school board in Denver, and I sure hope that
there are some solid, good, moderate thinking candidates who are
going to be running for the Denver school Board because
they need new blood.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
And this board now.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Is thinking about extending the contract of Afro Latino Bilingual
Superintendent Alex Morero. Now, I just want to point something out.
Student achievement under Alex Morrero has pooped the bed.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
As the kids.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Say, he is absolutely terrible. And the only metric the
Denver Public Schools points to as a measure of success
is we have the highest graduation rate we've ever had.
Eighty percent of our students are graduating on time, except
they can't read or do math, and Latino students have
(20:22):
fallen even further behind, which leads me to this news
story about a group of very prominent Latino lawmakers education activists,
a bunch of people whose names you would recognize signed
a letter asking the Denver Public School Board to just
slow their role on a new contract for Alex Morero.
(20:43):
Excuse me, Afro, Latino bilingual Superintendent Alex Morero got to
get that in.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
This is from the letter. Listen to this.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
In school year eighteen nineteen, Latino students had proficiency in
English language and math of twenty nine percent and twenty percent, respectively.
Since then, the same outcomes have dropped to twenty four
percent and fifteen percent in school year twenty three twenty four.
During that same time, we saw our white students return
(21:13):
to similar performance levels from school year eighteen nineteen. We
request that you pause any consideration to reevaluate the superintendent's
contract before you can assess the progress he and his
team have made to increase the academic performance and well
being of Denver students. I got to tell you, hats
(21:33):
off to all the people who sign this letter. Hats
off for all these people saying fifteen percent of Latino
students can do math on grade level is not okay.
Twenty four percent of Latino students can read on.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Grade level, That is not okay.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
So the fact that the Denver Public School Board is
trying to extend the contract of Afro Latino bilingual superintendent
Alex Morero.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
That is a lot.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
That's a big mouthful of a title, and they're being
asked by prominent Latinos to just say, yeah, no, I
think that's fascinating. By the way, his contract expires in
June of twenty twenty six, so there is plenty of
time to see a new board and then have plenty
of time to do anything else, anything else. Mandy Longland
(22:24):
is in Boulder County. Yep, Yep, yep. What did I say, Boulder?
What did I say? I don't know what I said,
but people are correcting me, so I'm gonna assume you're
right because I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
What I said.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Mandy, when you leave today, I want you to contemplate
one hundred men versus one gorilla. Apparently this is going
around the interwebs right now, and I'm just gonna say it.
Gorillas are like fighting machines, and unless you had an
extremely coordinated attack by the one hundred men at the
(23:00):
exact same time, zero percent chance that the hundred men
are gonna beat the gorilla.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
And even then with.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
An extremely coordinated attack, my money is still on the gorilla.
I'm gonna be perfectly honest because gorillas are like a
billion times stronger than us and the bite force, oh,
Larimer County, Loveland, thank you, thank you, guys, I thank you,
appreciate you. The bite force that gorillas have can break
a human bone. So I'm gonna have to say I'm
(23:27):
going gorilla because you know, otherwise, I just don't think.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Hey, Rod, can one hundred men beat a gorilla?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Now, what's your take on that? I don't think so either.
I think it's crazy. Okay, Tomorrow we have a full show.
We're gonna be talking about a story that hit the
news today about Trump firing a bunch of scientists who
were supposed to make a climate report.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
But what exactly was that report.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
We're gonna dig into that and more right now, though
we're gonna release the Hounds, the Rockies will play. I
will be back tomorrow. Keep it right here on k
Away
The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Bill and Pollock
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
No, it's Mandy Connell, Andy con On KOA ninety one
am god.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Way want to say the noisy cut through three Andy Connell, Keithy,
no sad thing.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the short show.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Of the day today. We got about half an hour.
I'm your host for that big woppin' thirty minutes. Mandy
Connell joined, of course for his woppin thirty minutes Anthony
Rodriguez you can call him a rod and together we
will give you twenty three and a half minutes of
excellent content. Let's jump into the blog, which, of course
(00:52):
I did a full blog today because that's how I roll.
Go to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. No
apostrophe because you can't put an apostrophe in the URL,
and look for the headline in the latest post section
that says four thirty twenty five blog thirty minutes of
Mandy Today. Click on that and here are the headlines
you will find within tech two.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
A winner and even withs in office South American all
with ships and clipment of sy that's going to press
plant today.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
On the blog, DEM's want more of your money to
pay for illegal immigrant healthcare? Why I haven't been talking
about the legislative session much? Nine days left in the session.
A crazy man.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Is led out to kill his mother.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Why does the FBI ignore good guys with a gun's stories?
Aurora seizes almost one thousand cars.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Under a new program.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Latinos come out against Latino Superintendent Colorado. A. G. Wiser
files his fifteenth lawsuit against the Trump administration. The federal
funds fire hose for Denver has been shut off. Tom
Homan calls out the Biden ADMN for opening the border rip.
David Horowitz lit stuff to listen to today when I'm
(02:02):
not on Those are the headlines on the blog. Okay,
it's not a full blog at mandy'sblog dot com, but
I got a lot of good stuff for you to
keep you busy, including a brand new show for my
friend Leland Conway. And if you ever listened to Leland
when he was on k how you know that every
Friday he did the Twisted View where he brought on
(02:22):
three dudes and they drank bourbon and they talked about
the issues. Well, Twistedview has now become a part of
Independence Institute's IV and you can find it on YouTube.
I embedded it today on the blog. You should go
check it out. Today's episode features Ben Albright, Mark Major,
(02:42):
and Willie Bee along with Leland Conway. And I haven't
watched it yet because I didn't have time this morning,
but I'm gonna watch it later. But that's on the
blog for you to look at today. I also have
a link to my side project down there as well,
and I've got some video that is super interesting John Stossel,
And you know, John Stossel is truly a libertarian journalist
(03:04):
who covers all kinds of things from a libertarian perspective.
And he's got a video called good Guys with a Gun,
And like he does in all of his videos, he
breaks down the reality that is often ignored by gun
grabbers and used by gun grabbers to say, you know,
(03:25):
concealed carry perramid holders, they never really stop crimes.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I was kind of shocked by part of this video.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
And I gotta tell you, as a as a person
who spends all day every day watching and reading politics,
I'm very rarely shocked by something that I see. But
what John Stossel uncovers in this video in a conversation
with John Lott, who is a researcher who's been doing
gun research for decades now.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
He's probably the best in the business.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
John Lott asked the FBI why and John Stossel asked
the FBI why they ignore stories in their gun Vine
Island's database of good guys with a gun stopping a crime.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
And there are way more.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Of those than you might think. But they are only
local stories.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
If there's a mass shooting and there's twenty people that
are shot in an instance, that story is going to
be a national story. But if you've got a situation
where a mass shooting was stopped by a concealed carry
permit holder, that story is going to stay a local story,
and the FBI frankly doesn't want to add it to
their statistics. It is a great John Stoscil video, and
(04:32):
if you're a gun supporter or a concealed carry permit holder,
you're definitely going to want to watch this video.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
It's like five and a half minutes long. All of
his stuff's fairly short, but.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
It will give you ammunition pun intended to be able
to push back on people who say that concealed carry
permit holders do not have the ability to stop crime,
because they do over and over and over again, often
without firing a shot. And I say that knowing that.
One of the things that I think is one of
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the most dangerous attitudes towards carrying a weapon as a
concealed carry permit holder is that you're just gonna brandish
your weapon and everything is going to be fine.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
That's not always how it goes. You should never just
plan on well. And I had a dear friend of
mine when she went back to school to go to
graduate school, and she was at the University of Florida
when there was a serial killer at the University of
Florida and his name was Danny Rawlings and he was
eventually arrested, but he she wanted to get a gun
(05:35):
because she was feeling unsafe, understandably so, because he was
praying on college students. So she wanted to get a gun.
And I've known this woman for so long, and I said,
wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute, are
you able to shoot someone?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Can you do that? And she was like no, And
I went, then why are you getting a gun? She said?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Well, if somebody comes in my house, I want to
be able to pull it out and aim it at him,
and I'm like, and then they're going to take it
away and shoot you with it. That's you have to
be prepared to use your weapon, not just brandish it,
but often brandishman is all that it takes to stop
a crime in its tracks.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I mean, most criminals are.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Cowards and they don't want to get shot. So that's
a great video that's on the blog today. I've got
a lot of stuff, news stuff that I have on
the blog today that we're probably going to get to
some of it tomorrow because some of it is kind
of a big deal. But last night I went to
this fantastic event put on my Douglas County citizenry about
(06:31):
home rule.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
In Douglas County.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
We're going to get into that tomorrow because there was
so much and I learned so much that was super
interesting last night. But I was talking to Kim Monson,
who was at the event, and I told her frankly,
I said, Kim, I haven't even been talking about the
legislative session because there are so many horrible bills that
(06:58):
are working.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Their way through legislature.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
And I truly believe that the cake is already baked
and they're going to pass. So there's no point in
me getting people super riled up about it when they.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Can't be stopped. They just can't be stopped.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Now today at the Capitol, there is a rally going
on right now and it was going on this morning
over HB thirteen twelve, which is so horrific in terms
of criminalizing speech of using a child's gender confusion to
take a child out of a home by the state.
(07:35):
I mean is it is beyond the pale. And a
lot of people. Three hundred people signed up to testify
for and against this bill today, and I still think
it's going to pass. We've seen pictures of Democrats as
people passionately testified against certain bills that they were unhappy about.
They're playing candy Crush on their phones. There one Democrat,
(07:57):
and I saved this image because I'm going to make
it a camp PA commercial against this one.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Democrat who I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I don't even know anything about her except she took
the petitions signed by people who signed the petitions against
the gun bill that they passed anyway, and she cut
little paper paper snowflakes out of them and then proudly
displayed it on social media to let everyone know exactly
what she thinks about what the people think about, you
know anything.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
The level of.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Disrespect, the level of complete dismissal of the other side
of Colorado has been really, really gobsmacking. But part of
me is like, Okay, if this is what it's going
to be, then all of these laws can go into effect.
And when people have to start living under these laws
(08:47):
and they start to get mad when they find out
they can't do what they want to do because the
Democrats have made everything incredibly difficult, horrible, and you know,
difficult to manage, then maybe, just maybe the people of
Colorado will wake up and vote differently. Maybe just maybe
the Republican Party can field candidates who can articulate why
(09:08):
they have better ideas about how to run things. Now,
I'd love to ask you guys, like, should I be
talking about these bills that we can't stop because and
before you say, Mandy, you've got to let us know
so we can we can go out and we can
be a part of the solution. I would say, like
today it'd be thirteen twelve. Is is happening today. A fraction,
(09:33):
a fraction of people, like maybe half of one percent
that listen to this show, will ever do anything.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
And so what's the point. What is the point?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Somebody asked on the text line the Common Spirit Health
text line, Mandy, So you like or don't like home rule?
I learned things last night that make me like it,
but I have concerns about the speed with Douglas County
is trying to do it. That is my overarching takeaway
of last night. I did learn a lot about home
rule and gonna I'm gonna talk about it because for me,
(10:10):
it's very, very interesting that more counties haven't gone to
a home real situation, especially the rural counties or counties
that lean right in this state. I don't know why
everybody's not home rule. It doesn't get you out of
a bunch of stuff. And we'll go into all this tomorrow.
It's not like you can ignore state law. But there
(10:31):
are benefits to having a home rule situation that in
a state like ours, where the Democrats are just shoving
more bad legislation and more bad legislation down our throats,
it would be nice to have the ability for the
county to push back. Even though the Colorado Supreme Court,
which I I don't know if they're the most overturned
(10:53):
Supreme court in the country, but they got to be close.
And ultimately they're going to rule on it shoes that
have to do with counties versus the state, and they're
never going to rule in favor of a home rule
county because they are so liberal. But hope springs eternal,
and it would give them an opportunity to make that happen.
Mandy I wrote testimony and submitted it on HB thirteen twelve.
(11:16):
I also contacted my senator to vote no. That would
be great. This person, why would you not even mention
the bill that makes taxpayers pay for baby murder?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Okay, great? Why what are you gonna do about it? Texter?
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
It already passed. There was a zero percent chance that
bill was not going to pass. So should I get
you all up in arms about it before it happens,
or should I wait until the end of the session
and say, oh, by the way, you're gonna be paying
for abortions?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Oh? Even more egregious.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
On today's blog, Democrats are trying to put a fee
on your health insurance premiums that could raise your health
insurance premiums up to one hundred bucks a month. And
do you know what they want to use that fee for?
It would allocate nineteen million to cover subsidies to offset
(12:07):
insurance for low income Coloradens.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
That's fine, twelve million.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
For reproductive and gender affirming care that means abortion and
gender affirming care, and six point five million for an
existing state enterprise to administer the program, along with a
crap ton of money fifty six million dollars to fund
insurance for illegal immigrants.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
So what do you want to do about that text?
Or what are you gonna do? You're gonna run down
to the Capitol right now? I doubt you are.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
What are you gonna do? So this is the thing,
This is the entire thing. So I have to say
it's it's like we can't fight it. And don't get
mad at the Republican Party. Okay, do not get mad
at the Republican Party because they simply do not have
the numbers to stop anything. They are so outnumbered right
(13:05):
now that they can't even stop a veto. It's amazing
that the governor's veto of a social media bill can
you you guys, The fact that that people are declaring
any kind of victory because a social media bill was
killed by the governor when all of the other crap
that's flying under the radar right now is coming out
(13:26):
is wild to me, Absolutely wild. Ugh. Hi, Mandy, I'm
an independent and I think Democrats in Colorado have moved
too far left. I can't vote for any election DENI ers,
so I always feel stuck.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
I can appreciate the sentiment, but you're voting for people
who are destroying the state because you don't want someone
who says, yeah, I think the election was stolen.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I think some of those people are nuts too, But
at what point does that stop being your one issue
when it's two in you know, expect and sift for
you to afford your mortgage because your property taxes are
so high, or you get to find out that you're
gonna pay an extra one hundred bucks a month for
your health insurance so you can pay for someone else's abortions.
I mean you guys, Yeah, Mandy, a fee on my
(14:15):
insurance to fund insurance for others is not okay.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
We voted on that one. You guys, we voted on that.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Yep, yep, Mandy, this is what Colorado wanted when you
reelected Polis by sixteen points. I did not vote for that, Mandy.
You know, if I think about it, I can't call
my confused child the gender he actually is in the
name I gave him. Would that not be a violation
of my freedom of speech? It absolutely is, And that
(14:43):
is what this bill is designed to do. It's not
designed to protect anyone. It's designed to control speech. It
is a control bill, not a freedom bill. It's you know,
it'd be the same thing like if you're going to
criminalize calling some of the wrong pronouns or something like that.
That is not about pronouns. That's about control. It's about
forcing everyone into the same belief structure that the wild
(15:08):
progressives in the Colorado legislature they themselves share, right, and
god forbid, you should say, wait a minute. I've known
my kid his or her entire life, and out of
the blue, they come up with this gender dysphoria, and
my only option in Colorado is to just go, oh, yes,
you're a different gender. It's insane, I mean absolutely insane.
(15:31):
So it's it's scary it's sad. I don't think things
are gonna go well. I think things are going to
continue to spiral out of control.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
So there you go, Mandy. Where can I see the.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
John Stoscil interview Mandy mentioned? You can see that at
mandy'sblog dot com. I embedded it on the blog. You
can check today's blog before thirty twenty five blog as
it's labeled.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Check it out there. So that is on the blog.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I have a story today that I find so incredibly
upset because it's so incredibly unnecessary, and it's about a
man in Longmont who was arrested after attacking, violently attacking
officers in a Loveland park. They were called to the
Loveland park because this guy was throwing rocks at a
(16:18):
woman walking in the park and she called the police
and they arrived and this guy is clearly, clearly not
mentally well okay, he mixes it up with police tells
him he's in the FBI, I mean, and to stand down,
and I mean.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
It was just it's nuts. You can watch the body.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Camera video on nine News. I linked to the story.
So he gets arrested. He's charged with a fourth degree
felony Class four felony, which is kind of serious. It's
felony assault on a police officer. That's what the guy's
charged with. Do you know what they let him out
of jail on. They let him out on a two
hundred and fifty dollars cash bond, two hundred fifty bucks.
(17:01):
So he gets out of jail, clearly mentally ill, clearly violent.
They let him out for two hundred fifty bucks, and
within a few days he murdered his mother, a mother
who had a restraining order against him because he was violent.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
And if he'd.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Just been kept in jail with a reasonable bond, he
would not have been able to murder his mother. Now,
the judge in this case, in his murder case, has
already said he is not capable of standing trial because
he is seriously mentally ill. And yet we our system
in Colorado is so bad that we have nowhere to
(17:41):
put people who are criminally mentally ill, you know, people
who've committed crimes but are in the throes of mental illness.
And to make it even worse, Hats off to nine
News and Chris Vanderveen for digging into these fourth class
felony bonds. Because in Colo, the average bond for a
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felony fourth class is twenty seven thousand, six hundred and
seventy three dollars.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
That's the average.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
In Douglas County, it's fifty nine thousand, one hundred and
fifty eight dollars. In Denver it's fifty seven, four hundred
and sixty nine dollars. He got out for two hundred
and fifty bucks after attacking a police officer. What the
heck Larimer County. You know, this story is just it's
(18:29):
tragic from fifteen different ways you look at it. This
mentally ill man needed help, serious residential lock you in
kind of help because he was a danger to other
people and himself, and they didn't even keep him in
jail two hundred and fifty bucks, and he murdered his
(18:51):
mother and now he's going to be in prison for
the rest of his life with his mental illness, getting
no help, and he's just it's an absolute disaster. What
happens from mental illness in the state, or rather what
doesn't happen.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I guess I should say.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Interesting story out of Denver Public schools Afro Latino Bilingual
Superintendent Alex Morero. I had to say it like that
because soci Gaetan, who has demonstrated time and time again
that she cares more about diversity titles than student achievement.
That's how she describes Afro Latino Bilingual Superintendent Alex Morero.
(19:27):
I wonder if that's on his business cards the school board, which,
by the way, four seats are up for reelection in
the school board in Denver, and I sure hope that
there are some solid, good, moderate thinking candidates who are
going to be running for the Denver school Board because
they need new blood.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
And this board now.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Is thinking about extending the contract of Afro Latino Bilingual
Superintendent Alex Morero. Now, I just want to point something out.
Student achievement under Alex Morrero has pooped the bed.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
As the kids.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Say, he is absolutely terrible. And the only metric the
Denver Public Schools points to as a measure of success
is we have the highest graduation rate we've ever had.
Eighty percent of our students are graduating on time, except
they can't read or do math, and Latino students have
(20:22):
fallen even further behind, which leads me to this news
story about a group of very prominent Latino lawmakers education activists,
a bunch of people whose names you would recognize signed
a letter asking the Denver Public School Board to just
slow their role on a new contract for Alex Morero.
(20:43):
Excuse me, Afro, Latino bilingual Superintendent Alex Morero got to
get that in.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
This is from the letter. Listen to this.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
In school year eighteen nineteen, Latino students had proficiency in
English language and math of twenty nine percent and twenty percent, respectively.
Since then, the same outcomes have dropped to twenty four
percent and fifteen percent in school year twenty three twenty four.
During that same time, we saw our white students return
(21:13):
to similar performance levels from school year eighteen nineteen. We
request that you pause any consideration to reevaluate the superintendent's
contract before you can assess the progress he and his
team have made to increase the academic performance and well
being of Denver students. I got to tell you, hats
(21:33):
off to all the people who sign this letter. Hats
off for all these people saying fifteen percent of Latino
students can do math on grade level is not okay.
Twenty four percent of Latino students can read on.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Grade level, That is not okay.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
So the fact that the Denver Public School Board is
trying to extend the contract of Afro Latino bilingual superintendent
Alex Morero.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
That is a lot.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
That's a big mouthful of a title, and they're being
asked by prominent Latinos to just say, yeah, no, I
think that's fascinating. By the way, his contract expires in
June of twenty twenty six, so there is plenty of
time to see a new board and then have plenty
of time to do anything else, anything else. Mandy Longland
(22:24):
is in Boulder County. Yep, Yep, yep. What did I say, Boulder?
What did I say? I don't know what I said,
but people are correcting me, so I'm gonna assume you're
right because I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
What I said.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Mandy, when you leave today, I want you to contemplate
one hundred men versus one gorilla. Apparently this is going
around the interwebs right now, and I'm just gonna say it.
Gorillas are like fighting machines, and unless you had an
extremely coordinated attack by the one hundred men at the
(23:00):
exact same time, zero percent chance that the hundred men
are gonna beat the gorilla.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
And even then with.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
An extremely coordinated attack, my money is still on the gorilla.
I'm gonna be perfectly honest because gorillas are like a
billion times stronger than us and the bite force, oh,
Larimer County, Loveland, thank you, thank you, guys, I thank you,
appreciate you. The bite force that gorillas have can break
a human bone. So I'm gonna have to say I'm
(23:27):
going gorilla because you know, otherwise, I just don't think.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Hey, Rod, can one hundred men beat a gorilla?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Now, what's your take on that? I don't think so either.
I think it's crazy. Okay, Tomorrow we have a full show.
We're gonna be talking about a story that hit the
news today about Trump firing a bunch of scientists who
were supposed to make a climate report.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
But what exactly was that report.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
We're gonna dig into that and more right now, though
we're gonna release the Hounds, the Rockies will play. I
will be back tomorrow. Keep it right here on k
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