05-09-25 FULL SHOW - NOW NPR Says They Got It Wrong, Plus Ask Me Anything

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 4 (00:26):
Welcome, Welcome to a Friday edition of the show. I'm
your host for the next three hours. Mandy Connell join
of course, by my right and man, he's Anthony Rodriguez.
We call him a rock altogether many All right, my friends,

(00:55):
it is a Friday. We had a kind of a
goomy week, but this weekend is going to be spectacular.
I want to go ahead and say a big happy
Mother's Day to all you mother's out there. Sounds vaguely
threatening when I say it like that, doesn't it almost kid? No,
just kidding. What do you doing for your mom on
Saturday or excuse me, Sunday?

Speaker 5 (01:12):
Unfortunately? Nothing? Why I mean, they're down there, I'm up here.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
Your car don drive.

Speaker 5 (01:18):
Lots of things going on this week.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
Your car didn't just drive down the her car don't
not very far.

Speaker 5 (01:24):
She's sitting on her booty for the next probably month
after big surgery.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
Get well soon, beat rod get well soon.

Speaker 5 (01:31):
Unfortunately, can't meet up this weekend.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
Yeah, yeah, I am actually putting my entire family into
slave labor for the weekend. Looking forward to that.

Speaker 5 (01:41):
We're going into slave labor.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
Yard work. Yeah, we are planting my deck garden. Many
of you who in our situation we have deer that
eat everything, right, So deck I deck garden. And last
year I didn't plant it because we were traveling and
I was like, oh, this is horrible. It was so
boring and off all summer long. And it gives me
something to fiddle with when I get home from work.

Speaker 6 (02:04):
You know how I spent my morning do tell determining
the difference between Gold River rock and Platte River rock
so we could fill in the spots with the rock
that I currently have on.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
Oh you didn't just take some rock with you to
the rockyard?

Speaker 5 (02:15):
Exactly what we're doing tomorrow morning. Yeah. Yeahs it's one
of the two, and it could pass for either.

Speaker 6 (02:20):
But I know I'll get the wrong one if I
don't look first, and I know it'll bug me even
though it's the slightest difference.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
Make sure that the rocks are clean that you pick, well, yeah,
well no, because rocks get dirty and then it changes
our color, so you want to make sure the rocks
you get are clean, so they match the ones that
are going to be clean.

Speaker 6 (02:34):
I've got a really good picture of it, but like
some of it's in the shade, and then it looks
a little different than the ones that they've got and
the two they've got. One has a little bit more
red tones, was a little more gold tones. I can't
tell a damn different. So I got to go tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
Well that's okay, you're fine.

Speaker 5 (02:46):
Adult problems, I know.

Speaker 4 (02:47):
But I'm actually looking forward to it. It's going to
be in the eighties this weekend.

Speaker 5 (02:51):
Yeah it is.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
Well, yeah, I'm doing a little uh well, I'm not.
I have my good I have my aerration guy coming.
He does a fertilizer and then I'll do the the
weed and feed that. I'll do the weight stuff next
with sn chronosicity.

Speaker 6 (03:04):
Because Monday, are guys coming to do the leads and
this you tomorrow, we're clearing up all things ready for it.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
We have that that guy, he tells us. Yep, yep. Anyway, hope,
We've got a lot of stuff on the blog. It's Friday,
you guys. So it's a little mix of serious stuff
and then some ridiculous stuff and it's an ask me
anything kind of day. I'd love for you to go
find the blog. It's so easy to find. Just go
to mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline that says

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five nine twenty five blog Now NPR says they got
it wrong, plus ask me anything. Click on that and
here are the headlines you will find with it Tech
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That's going to press plant.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
Today on the blog. It's an ask me anything sort
of day. What that time NPR participated in the government
cover up? So exactly what ended up in the trans
write anti parent bill. Here's how Republicans try to save
you money this session. Some animals are more equal than others.
DIA edition. A door dash dummy is caught on camera.

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What's in DPS's hapless leader's new contract? Legislators cars are vandalized.
Polists will veto the bad labor bill. This is the
way to reach kids, to find the truth about our
fake libertarian governor is seeping out. Happy Mother's Day all
those mothers out there. The nefarious purpose of the free
lunch program the eighty eight drive in is open again.

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Why don't lollipops come with instructions? We are driving entrepreneurs
out of Colorado. Some Trump nominees are causing a flap.
Why are we bringing back the word retarded? Why not
bring back Kyle Hitler too? The most sorority girls space
moment ever. They are coming for Federman Light's expectancy in
the South isn't great. The federal retirement cave will be closing.

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Is there an ideal number of sexual partners? Harrison Ford
talks about roles he didn't get, Russell Westbrook makes funeral
planning easier, and Virginia goes after social media use by kids.
Those are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com,
and as you can see, we have a veritable cornucopia
of stories here. Coming up at one o'clock, my friend

(05:19):
David Strom from hot air dot com is joining us.
David I started reading him in earnest, specifically going to
hot air dot com to read David's work during COVID
because he was aggressive. He was right there with me
on the ridiculousness of masking and everything, and like me,

(05:40):
he was called every name you could possibly imagine. I mean,
you guys, I'm still waiting for an apology for the
person who told me I was an actual, literal murderer
because I told you that mask didn't do anything to
stop COVID, something that, by the way, is now not
in dispute. So a lot of people were coming after
people like him and me. And he's got a column

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and it was in the VIP section, meaning you had
to be a subscriber to hot air dot com to
got it. But just for you, guys, and just for today,
he took the VIP label off and at the top
of the story it literally says, Hi, Mandy Carddle listeners,
just for you, we have taken this post from behind
the paywall for a day, it will be VIP members alone.
Tomorrow you can sign up for hot Air VIP, which

(06:24):
I already pay for, which is why I saw it.
And it's about this is talk about a griff. You guys,
listen to this. I'm gonna make this a bigger conversation
because I find this fascinating. So the entire media complex
that actively work together to do the bidding of the

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Biden administration, especially when it came to COVID, working diligently
to suppress any stories that went outside the narrative. Question
vaccine side effects, Oh my gosh, you are not going
to get published in their papers talk about the Great
Barrington Declaration, which turned out was absolutely right. We can't
talk about that. It's amplifying misinformation. And now all these

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jokers who were doing that the whole time during COVID,
they're all writing books. They're writing books about how they
just missed the story about how frail and fable Joe
Biden was. How did we miss it? Now we have
a book from NPR talking about how maybe we should
have asked questions about why our schools stayed closed a

(07:29):
year longer than they did in Europe, And they're writing
books about it, and now they are going to profit
from their own mouth seasons. I mean, you guys, I
got to admire that level of just They are walking
around with stones the size of candle hoops over there

(07:50):
only schmollies. I wish I could figure out a way
to somehow profit from something I got spectacularly wrong. And
don't get me wrong, most of the time when I
get something spectacularly wrong and I do, I just apologize
and move on. Doesn't occur to me to write a
book about it.

Speaker 5 (08:06):
Dang it.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
This is why they're rich and I'm not anyway. But
David wrote a really, really good column that you can
read for free today and today only linked on the
blog about this interview between two NPR people. NPR host MEGANA.
Chakra Bata, I don't know how to say her name,
Chakra Barti, Chakra Barti, maybe Chakra Barty, I think so.

(08:32):
And David zwyg Zweig. I don't listen to these people,
so I don't know how to say their names. And
the headline that they've written with a straight face. Did
an abundance of caution during COVID do more harm than
good for America's students? You think? And there were people

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like me, people in the right wing media sphere that
we're looking at the data and saying this is not
dangerous for kids. There were people that actively worked and
moved so they could get their kids into districts where
kids went back to school, like Douglas County, which by
the way, has fully recovered from pre COVID numbers in

(09:13):
their test scores fully. But we're going to talk to
David about this at one o'clock. I would urge you
to read the whole thing. It is just it's stunning
to me, absolutely stunning. So that is coming up at
one o'clock.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
Now.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
I saw Rob Dawson earlier in the hall, our correct newsman,
Rob Dawson, and he said, Manny, I have been listening
to some sort of meeting that is about setting up
some sort of investigation at the Aurora campus into the
anti semitism of the protesters that were there doing damage
last year. And he said, and I said, boy, Rob,

(09:51):
you know how a party that actually happened. Right after
he said that's what he was doing, like, yeah, you're
not a party, Rob, get down with your bad self.
But then he started telling me some of the comments
about the Aurora camp that was set up and destroyed,
the quad there, and the way these people view themselves

(10:12):
is the most telling, incredible little window into the soul
of a narcissist. And it's going to be a fascinating conversation, right,
I said, Rob, get the goods and come in at one.

Speaker 7 (10:26):
So he is.

Speaker 5 (10:27):
Now.

Speaker 4 (10:27):
I want to jump into a couple of things. One
remember yesterday, a long long time ago, two days ago,
when we were talking about Bernie Sanders flying around in
a private jet, fighting the oligarchy.

Speaker 5 (10:40):
Now.

Speaker 4 (10:41):
Bernie Sanders, when asked about it, was completely unapologetic and said,
what am I gonna stand in line met United? Who's
gonna do that? I'm far too important. I've got thirty
thousand people waiting for me. I'm not going to stand
in line at the airport. Well, I fight the oligauchy.
I fly around in a private jet. Now you got
I didn't know how much it costs to fly a

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private jet. But first you have to rent the jet,
and then you have to pay for the fuel, which
is often twenty five thirty five, forty thousand dollars a day.
But hey, you know what, Bernie is important and some
animals are more equal than others, as George Orwell taught
us in the classic Animal Farm. I'm just going to

(11:24):
say this, if you have not read Animal Farm in
a while, please go back and read it again. It's
very short, it is not difficult. It is the easiest
read ever. But when you read it, there are sections
of this that are so reflective of what we are
dealing with right now in society. A man can have

(11:45):
a baby that's straight out of nineteen eighty four. Animal Farm,
on the other hand, just shows us exactly what we're
looking at.

Speaker 7 (11:55):
Now.

Speaker 4 (11:55):
Bernie Sanders flying private and now we have another story
straight out of Denver. So Denver International Airport decided to
take nine executives to Madrid, Spain for a three day
airport terminal conference. Okay, now that's fine, it's ridiculous. It's

(12:16):
excessive to take nine people overseas for a conference when
other major airport's sent two or three. But that's not
even where it gets good. Every one of them flew
either first or business class on every leg of the trip. Now, guys,
unless I was a airline employee that was flying as

(12:36):
a non revenue passenger, that was the only time I
got to go in first class and we were never
allowed to go in first class international. Now when I
fly overseas, now I book premium economy and I see
if I can get a cheap upgrade to business when
I get to the airport. Nowadays, you can't do it.
You're gonna be stuck where you are. Premium economy is

(12:58):
what first class seats used to be, the super fancy ones.
But when you want to sleep going overseas, they're fine enough.
They're perfectly fine. They're a fraction of the cost of business.
Why do I tell you this because all nine flying
first or business class. We're looking at tickets that were
just shy of twenty thousand dollars for one ticket. Another

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one was just short of sixteen thousand dollars. And I
want you to hear what the CEO of Denver International Airport,
Phil Washington, had to say about it. He said, international
travel is costly. In this case, the Madrid trip cost
for nine people one hundred and sixty five thousand dollars. Now, guys,

(13:42):
let me see here. Let me do this right now.
In the ear one sixty five I'm dividing on my
phone divided by nine, that is eighteen thousand, three hundred
and thirty three dollars for three days the Mandy call.
The per person the Mandy Canal adventure to South Korea

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and Japan is fifteen days total. And it was like
seven grand, nine grand. Excuse me, at what are they?
I mean you, guys, this is all in the taxpayer's dime.
This is why I am ready for things like doge
to keep. And this wasn't dogs related. I don't know

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why this all came out I think somebody ratted them out.
By the way, the flight website Kayaks showed round trip
tickets from Denver to Madrid can cost as little as
thirteen hundred dollars, and premium economy seats can be purchased
for around three thousand dollars. So what are we spending
almost twenty grand for one ticket? This is beyond crazy.

(14:48):
By the way, you know flies in first class international
because when I used to fly okay, I was a
flight attendant back in nineteen ninety one to nineteen ninety six.
Back then, an inner national first class ticket with six
thousand dollars. Now some of those tickets are twenty one,
twenty two thousand dollars, and you know what you're getting.
You're getting the CEOs of major corporations. And I realized

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Denver International Airport is a major corporation, but it's also
a pseudo governmental agency. I just found this to be
wildly irritating and a couple things. When asked about it,
Phil Washington also said that our policy allows us to

(15:32):
do that. Seems to me they need to be changing
some policies. He went on to say that first class
travel for him and his executive team is critical to
their productivity. You got to hit the ground running, he says.
You literally go from the plane to a meeting or
a conference or whatever. This is for those reasons. This
is allowed in our travel policy, and we did. But

(15:54):
the day that they flew in was the day before
the conference started.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (16:01):
Awkward, super awkward. The part I find the most irritating
is it when you were any kind of a public servant,
and if you work for the government, you are a
public servant. Even if you don't see yourself that way,
you are a public servant. That's just the nature of
the beast.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
You should be.

Speaker 4 (16:17):
More mindful of the fact that you're spending somebody else's
harder and money. But the exact opposite is true. I mean,
it's been shown over and over and over again, and
this is just human nature. This is an exclusive to
you know, government workers. But when you're spending your own
money on yourself, you are doing a good job with
your money. If you're spending your own money on someone else,

(16:39):
you're being even more thrifty. But if you're spending someone
else's money on something else, you start to get fast
and loose. And when you're spending somebody else's money on yourself.
Then you end up in first class going to Madrid.
By the way, though he did know about the policy
to buy first class tickets, Phil Washington said they did
not know there was a policy preventing government employees from

(17:03):
using work trips to springboard into lengthy vacations. One employee
did just that, that's the chief of staff. Yeah, so
there you go. That's another fun story of what's good
enough for me is too good for you. And some

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animals are more equal than others, which is of course
the entire theme of socialism and communism in the book
Animal Farm, when trying to explain away why leadership got
so much better conditions than the rest of them because
some animals are more equal than the others, Mandy, now
figure out how much they spent on hotel rooms. You guys,

(17:50):
when Chuck and I went to went to Switzerland, we
stayed in the nicest hotel that we stayed in. We
paid for points, and it was twelve hundred dollars. They
stayed there for three nights. That's not eighteen thousand dollars
a person, even with airfear. That's an insane number. They

(18:10):
should all be forced to reimburse for whatever the cost
of of premium economy is. I'll give them premium economy. Okay,
I get it. I want to be comfortable too, but
not on my dime. Super super irritating. All right, guys,
when we get back, I have an update on what

(18:31):
actually ended up in the SB twenty five thirteen twelve
bill that was supposed to be about trans rites and
got completely It should have been killed and rewritten if
they were going to bring it back as it is.
It is a mess. And Arnie Armstrong from the Independence

(18:51):
Institute and Common or Complete Colorado dot Com has a
great column that outlines exactly what ended up in the
bill and what did not. It still sucks, though, What
were you watching earlier, Rob? Because this is how Rob rolls.
He'll party on your behalf so you don't have to.

Speaker 8 (19:08):
Well, this was a hearing actually yesterday, but of course
we were busy yesterday, so we're looking at it. This
was a hearing with the Colorado Advisory Committee for the
US Commission on Civil Rights, Okay, and if we have
remembered this, I believe it was this commission where a
federal probe is going to look into anti semitism in

(19:29):
a lot of college campuses, and our understanding was the
Advisory Committee for Colorado was wanted to look at specifically
the area campus. And what happened when they said, I
voted unanimously to.

Speaker 4 (19:41):
Look into it.

Speaker 9 (19:41):
Yeah, oh good, to launch a probe into it.

Speaker 8 (19:45):
They allowed public comment on this, and members of the
protest from last year on the campus flooded the comment.

Speaker 4 (19:58):
Section to the course just because they have never met
a camera. They didn't want to get in front of right.

Speaker 9 (20:03):
Yeah, so, and their theme was.

Speaker 8 (20:07):
This is Jewish Voice for Peace, this organization who is
against what Israel is doing, and they say that zion
is it not Judaism.

Speaker 9 (20:15):
There's a difference between the two. Trying to do that, Okay.

Speaker 8 (20:18):
One of the women who testified had a take on
what the protests were, and I think you'll enjoy this.

Speaker 10 (20:28):
One of the first things I did when I arrived
at the very Incanment for Palestine was participate in some
public art making. I think for those who are not there,
this environment may have seemed very tense, it might have
seemed very aggressive, but I want to make clear that
this was largely just a bunch of students sitting in
a lawn sharing stories, making art and discussing, you know,

(20:50):
what is being done by American foreign policy and in
the name of Jewish people.

Speaker 9 (20:55):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (20:57):
So were they coloring.

Speaker 8 (20:59):
There was pain team going on of signs. There was
painting and going signs. Someone brought a ukulele, you know,
to you know, have people around.

Speaker 4 (21:07):
The weird thing, though, is that when I hang out
with my friends, I don't do four hundred thousand dollars
worth of damage. That's where it's different. That's where I
struggle with this, right, I.

Speaker 9 (21:16):
Mean, because it wasn't just the art making.

Speaker 8 (21:18):
It was well other stuff that was happening, including the
medic tent and just being on the campus where yeah,
the rules and regulations of the school that you.

Speaker 4 (21:29):
Go to, right right, yeah? Yeah? What else? What other
kinds of magic occurred from this group of folks were
just sitting around on some grass. They were just sitting
on the grass. Rob they were sitting on the grass,
and they were just hanging out with their friends, making art, coloring,
painting signs that sit down with the Jews, you know,

(21:50):
no big whoop, right, signs that said hal Hitler. No,
I'm kidding. They didn't really say either of those things
just felt like they did. Yeah, but what else do
we have here?

Speaker 8 (22:00):
Well, I mean they're the summary of basically a lot
of them was uh that Yeah, the Judaism Zionism separation.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (22:11):
One other thing they said, A lot of them or
one of them said, this is a distraction about trying
to dismantle higher education in general.

Speaker 5 (22:23):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (22:24):
Of course, every Republican is trying to dismantle higher education.
That's what we're trying to do. Nobody should be smarter,
rob nobody. I'm so tired of the ridiculous red herring
of if you don't agree with us, then that means
you you want everything destroyed and burned down?

Speaker 9 (22:45):
Right.

Speaker 4 (22:45):
If you don't, if you don't agree with this on
this issue, then every you hate everything. No, I just
don't like what you're doing. I disagree with you, right.

Speaker 5 (22:53):
And Uh.

Speaker 8 (22:54):
The other thing is that the Jewish people that said
that they were there on this call, on this public comment,
they said, oh, we were so accepted when we were there,
Jews and non Jews alike, and you know, people that
might be Muslim as well, were all coming together and

(23:14):
understanding everything, and there was no problem and there's no
anti Semitism, and again it was just a peaceful protest.

Speaker 4 (23:23):
Did all kinds of damage, but they were just hanging
out having snacks.

Speaker 8 (23:26):
Yeah, Jewish canceled Relations Committee of Colorado. They said Jewish
Voice for Piece doesn't really speak for mainstream Jews. Yeah,
they said they had to poll eighty five percent believe
that the US should support Israel.

Speaker 4 (23:39):
Yeah, it's interesting to me. There is And I cannot
remember this rabbi's name, a female rabbi, and I just
questioned her credentials as a rabbi because she's rabidly anti
Israel and I can't remember her name right now.

Speaker 9 (23:53):
Possible that she was one of the speakers at this thing.

Speaker 4 (23:55):
I'm guessing because talk about somebody who loves a microphone. Yeah,
that's it. And it's kind of I always feel like
when I see her, I always feel like it's kind
of like that episode of Seinfeld where Jerry's Dennis converted
to for the jokes. He just wanted to be able
to tell the jokes. Yes, exactly so.

Speaker 8 (24:12):
And the other thing about just Whattley didn't Whatley say
humor for three thousand years to sustain our people for
three thousand years? And Jerry said five thousand. I heard
three thousand years brought up in this. Now, is there
in the Jewish faith that and you have? Do you
have family or yes? Is there something about a difference

(24:35):
of when Judaism started either three thousand or five thousand
years ago? Or are there different areas of the Jewish
faith that have a differing start date.

Speaker 4 (24:43):
No, I think they all have the same start date,
and for some reason, I think five thousand is right.

Speaker 9 (24:47):
I think I think it is your fifty ever.

Speaker 8 (24:51):
But I heard three thousand years brought up, and I
immediately thought of Tim Wattley.

Speaker 9 (24:55):
That's all I thought.

Speaker 4 (24:56):
I'm not hilarious, So I'm glad I'm not the only
one who goes right to the Tim Wattley ref friends
for people that claim to be I mean. Don't get
me wrong, I know that there are Jews who don't
feel like our support of Israel is necessary. They have
for some god forsaken reason, and I genuinely don't understand this.

(25:16):
They are aligning themselves with people who want them dead,
and it is baffling to me. It is so utterly confusing.
I was talking with my sister in law and my brother,
and we were talking about travel, and I said, I'm
not going to a country where I'm considered a second
class citizen. I'm not going to go to an Arab nation.
I'm not going to the UAE. I don't care how

(25:36):
cool Dubai is. I'm not going. And I kind of
feel like where we are with this stuff. Now, why
in the world they would align themselves with the Palestinian
people who have been steeped in the hatred of Hamas
since two thousand and seven, relentlessly, the same organization that
is teaching their children, their little four and five year

(25:57):
olds how to for ten, they have a bomb belt
on so they can go kill Jews, and Jews are
aligned with that. I don't get it. I truly don't
get it.

Speaker 8 (26:04):
And then just real quick, the u Aria campus responded,
asked they've they've been giving this statement out to other
media outlets, but they said, we want to reaffirm that
the institutions on the i ARI campus and AHEC remained
committed to fostering an inclusive, respectful, and safe environment for
all members of our campus community. Hate and discrimination have
no place here. Big Talk just tells on what the

(26:28):
action was in the spring. And I know that's that
was a huge disappointment. I think that the administration of
the campus handled that so badly. In an effort to
bend over backwards to look sympathetic to the students that
were destroying Tivli Quad, they did not respond forcefully enough.
And I'm not talking about you know, Tannum and square tanks.
I am talking about what they ended up doing, which.

Speaker 4 (26:49):
Was forcibly removing the tents and forcibly removing the camp site.
And if you've just done that over and over and
over again, it would have sent a much stronger message
then we believe in respecting every blab blab that whatever
that was you just said. I'm frustrated because I know
how dumb college students are because I was once a

(27:10):
dumb college student. I look back now, you guys, I
if there was some kind of stupid left wing protests,
I was right there with my hippie skirt on and
my you know, my birken stocks. I like, I rocked
all that stuff. And I look back now and I go,
good grief, Manny, you complete what were you thinking? So

(27:30):
the notion that somehow administrations of universities of any stripe
should be cow towing to the very idiots that we
all know we once were. I mean, anybody who says
they weren't dumber in college than they are now is lying.

Speaker 9 (27:44):
You know, though they're smart.

Speaker 8 (27:47):
There's no way in college. I remember about waiting for
the next game. I wasn't interested in much of.

Speaker 4 (27:52):
This well when I uh, someone said this to me
a long time ago, and it's so true. There's no
one more confident of everything than a freshman at the
end of their freshman year in college. Yes, yeah, you
know what I'm saying like that, I no kid knows more.
No kid's parents are dumber than the year they get
back after their freshman year. And that is when all
those huge family conflagrations happen, and you just have to

(28:15):
get through. At kids nineteen, I fought with my dad
during the nineteen eighty four Republican National Convention over Bob
Dole's speech because I knew my dad was an idiot.
He's gotten a lot smarter as I've gotten older. Oddly,
even though he's dead, he keeps getting smarter every single day.
Rob Dawson, thanks for coming in, my friend, Thank you,

(28:36):
all right, we'll be back. It is about this guy.
He is invited to speak to a high school about
learning a language, and he decides to come on in
and give them a speech that well, it's in a
language that they can understand. He just talking about twenty himself.

(28:58):
This guy, he's wearing a bonn. Roomful of high school
students given me applause. Yep, there we go.

Speaker 5 (29:05):
Good morning everyone.

Speaker 11 (29:08):
It's a true honor to be here at Westown High
School for Languages Week. Your school invited me to give
a guest lecture about the importance of learning languages. But
it occurred to me that all of you are already
in some sense multilingual, whether you realize it or not.
And that's because you speak the gen alpha dialect of English,

(29:32):
a language so distinctly that I, an aging thirty four
year old millennial, genuinely cannot understand it, or at least
couldn't understand it before I spent weeks immersed in TikTok
videos studying your dialect to partial fluency. And because nothing
drives home the importance of learning languages better than hearing

(29:55):
someone else try to speak your own I'm going to
try to deliver the rest of this speech in your
very own native tongue.

Speaker 5 (30:03):
Jen Alpha.

Speaker 4 (30:08):
He also has subtitles on the video. So if you're
as lost as I was, because you'll be lost right away,
I want to see if you can tell me a ride.
What's some of these things?

Speaker 11 (30:17):
To facilitate the comprehension of my fellow elders on YouTube
watching this as a video, I'll also be including subtitles
in standard English, So without further ado, it's low key
a huge w to be vibing here at West Sound
High School for Languages Week.

Speaker 5 (30:34):
Like you wouldn't normally get it.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah, good chat, but chat, let's falk.

Speaker 5 (30:44):
Yeah, blocking with the chat streamer chat. Yeah, I love it.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
Now, I know it's getting to Lulu for this shoogy.

Speaker 5 (30:53):
Boomer delis crazy.

Speaker 4 (30:56):
Wait, it's getting de Lulu for this what for the
you be something? I don't know it, yeah, but it
feel with me.

Speaker 6 (31:06):
I'll put the fries in the bag and Jeff the
seven it's going to deliver a savage year.

Speaker 4 (31:14):
I can't understand what he's saying.

Speaker 11 (31:16):
As I was saying, no cap, I was dead as
pressed about understanding this language.

Speaker 4 (31:22):
And I'm gonna stop it there because he does say
a bad word a little bit later. It's it's not
a bad, bad word, but it's a word we can't
say on the radio. But I laughed so hard when
I watched this. Of course the kids ate it up.
They thought it was the funniest thing ever. But I realized,
you know, you always hear when you're young, like you know,
the old people are like, ah, what jed, what what
are you doing with your with your For us, it

(31:44):
was valley talk. Did your generation have a language as
specific and weird as this one? Or as social media
made this possible because it spread so fast?

Speaker 5 (31:54):
This is more potent, is the word I will use.
There's anything we had.

Speaker 6 (31:58):
We had some slang, but I think a lot of
it was adopted from the past one or two generations.

Speaker 5 (32:03):
We this is extreme.

Speaker 4 (32:04):
We had valley girl language, which I still engage in.
I said yesterday I was trying to not use the
word awesome so much. I've been using it for forty
years though, because there was a movie in a song
called Valley Girl, and it just went everywhere. I think
your generation kind of got caught in this gap where
there wasn't a means of distribution.

Speaker 5 (32:23):
We spoke English, It's not people talk.

Speaker 4 (32:27):
I love it that this is making millennials feel old.
I think that's very funny because I already felt old,
right and I just now I look at my My
daughter does not speak like this.

Speaker 9 (32:38):
She is not one of those.

Speaker 4 (32:39):
She's I've never heard her say skivity except to tell
her brother stop saying skivity because my oldest son is
thirty four. Wait you see thirty four. He's thirty four,
just turned thirty four. He'll throw this stuff at her,
and she's.

Speaker 5 (32:51):
Just like, no, Oh, I love meaning and making people angry.

Speaker 4 (32:54):
Stop it will.

Speaker 6 (32:56):
I will keep up with this with my nephews, and
they actually, I think they think I'm doing a pretty
good job.

Speaker 4 (33:01):
This sextor just ended this conversation perfectly. Pardon me, I
speak jive, which is what I have you. You seen
the movie Airplane, right, of course, okay, I was. We
we do need to have a potentially offensive movie film festival.
Do you think we could make that happen for the
Mandy Connell.

Speaker 6 (33:20):
Airplane, Blazing Saddle, nyl Tap, Yeah, all of them, all
of them.

Speaker 4 (33:25):
Best part about the movie this is spinal Tap, which
is a classic and for many years I almost knew
it verbatim because we watched it so awesome often did
you know? Yeah, so awesome. Do you realize that during
that throughout the movie, the band members have a cold
soar that travels from band member to band member. Yes,

(33:48):
And every time I see it, I just laugh. Eleven
exactly because these peop.

Speaker 5 (33:54):
Why don't you just have it be ten? Be the most?

Speaker 4 (33:56):
But this one goes to let's go to eleven?

Speaker 5 (34:00):
All right?

Speaker 10 (34:00):
Then?

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Speaker 4 (34:27):
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Good to see you again, welcome back to the show.

Speaker 7 (35:06):
Well, it's always a pleasure to be on and thank
god that we got this going because I didn't put
on my white makeup.

Speaker 4 (35:14):
There you go. You know, you and I I actually
really started reading your stuff, specifically on hot air during COVID.
And I mean it's not to say that I wasn't
reading it before, right, but I started paying attention because
you and I were on the same page. We were
very much on the same page, questioning, masking, questioning these
arbitrary spacing rules, questioning pretty much everything we were being

(35:38):
told about COVID. And you followed the media narrative pretty closely.
And this almost feels like we've almost come full circle
with the story that you have today. Give a better
overview of what's in this story that I was about
to do.

Speaker 7 (35:54):
Yeah, well, I mean I did something that very few
and a number of other people did as well, that
very few people in the mainstream or what I call
the props the media do, which is read around. I
read what the establishment people said and didn't assume it
was right or wrong. And I read what the critics

(36:15):
said and didn't assume it was right or wrong. And
one of the things that became absolutely clear to me
is that not only were the critics right on just
about everything, people like Jay Badikaria, who's now at the
National Institute of Health in a prosad who just got
hired on as well for the Trump administration, neither of

(36:38):
whom was a political person during COVID. But I started
reading around those guys, and what I found was that
you could discover any you know, the scientific facts, not
without too much difficulty, as long as you didn't trust

(37:00):
the mainstream media, which is parenting one side of the
story and really working extremely hard to debunk to slander
or anyone who disagreed.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
Yes, and.

Speaker 7 (37:17):
Now you're getting you know, it's not quite the same
thing as that. Now it can be told stories that
we're seeing about Joe Biden where the narrative is flipping.
But we're getting into that category now where people yes
the whole.

Speaker 4 (37:36):
And this is the one that got me because when
the Great Bearrington Declaration came out, I talked about it
on this show and I was like, look, this makes
perfect sense. This is our pandemic policy. As a matter
of fact, we veered so far away from our agreed
upon pandemic policies that had been sort of set after
years of studying about masks and do they work for

(37:57):
viral infections and all of this stuff. And now we
find out that not only did MVR not report on
it when they tried to, they essentially said we would
be amplifying misinformation, therefore making an editorial judgment about the
content of the story they should have been doing, and
then killing the story before it can get started. And

(38:17):
in all honesty, are they now trying to sell me
as like they're uncovering this news for the first time.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
That's insulting, David, Well, it is insulting.

Speaker 7 (38:27):
And this is what's happening on a number of issues
as it's become clear that you can no longer deny that, say,
the six foot social distancing was just made up out
of someone's nether region. The data on masking was pretty
clear before COVIDH. By the way, the Natural fun did

(38:53):
not sponsor one mass study double blinds. Yeah, no study
on maths, no studies on any of the controversial things
because they did not want to know. And you know,
here we're having on NPR this intellectual discussion with a
guy who wrote a book on how the media just

(39:18):
blew it, and MPR is saying, well, you know, we
were We actually did a pretty good job, although it
admittedly our editors didn't want us to cover certain things
because they didn't want to cloud the narrative, you know,
even allowing someone to say something that is true and

(39:39):
obviously true that contradicts what Fauci or Burke so the
CDC said, is giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

Speaker 4 (39:49):
I love the part of this interview that you blurb
in this story where they say, and that's what I
try to excluplate explicate in my book is that we
were living in a very misinformed sort of media bubble
in much of the United States. And then the interviewer says, so,
were you saying that outside those particular bubbles and you

(40:11):
could identify them in a minute, people had more accurate
sense as to what was going on, And he says, yeah,
I think that's right absolutely.

Speaker 7 (40:20):
I mean, dude, yeah, no. The look there is no
I mean, if you just spent fifteen minutes on x
or at the time, Twitter and read things around, I mean,
you could find you know, scientific studies for instance, the

(40:41):
Cleveland Clinic very early on it studies themselves on masks.
They have fifty thousand employees. They're at the number one
or number two medical institution in the country. They and
Mayo Clinic. So with a vaccine masks with masks, what
they found out was it is impossible, even in a

(41:07):
medical setting where you have doctors who are trained, to
get enough compliance even if the mask were for it
to make a difference. Even doctors would take you put
on masks, take them off, leave gaps, reuse the mask,
and you know, people wound up just because you can't

(41:30):
live life the way that they were doing it, not
being they just weren't able to use the mask. But
of course that was surpressed. I mean I read that study,
and yet it was never ever discussed in the mainstream.

Speaker 5 (41:45):
Meeting David, It's even.

Speaker 4 (41:47):
Worse than that the Danish mask study, which was a true,
you know, random controlled trial, and you have one group
of people that are committed to wearing a mask every
time they go outside and the other side says, I'm
never covering my face. And when that study came out,
there was a collective push by the media to discredit it.

(42:07):
For I still can't figure out how they thought they
were going to discredit it. It was an actual random
control trial, so it wasn't just not reporting on some stuff.
It was actively trying to torpedo the studies that did
show that masking didn't work. And then they propped up
that Bangladeshi idiot study that was horrible. It was just
all of this stuff was making me nuts. I think

(42:29):
you gave me flashbacks with this column. I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 7 (42:33):
Oh yeah, it's horrible. I mean another Cleveland Clinic study
shows that the more vaccinations you get against COVID, the
more likely you are to get it, and by quite
a bit. And they have done two studies with again
fifty thousand of their own employees. The show the ones

(42:54):
who got the fewest number of vaccinations got COVID the least.
And so you know, time and again and with the
Great Barrenton Declaration, obviously it came down from the top.
You were going to debunk this, you were going to
suppress it, and it went all the way from the
top science magazines. We're talking about the Lancet Nature, you know,

(43:22):
the New England Journalist Medicine put out the word that
you are going to trash this. You are going to
trash any descent. And there was a reason for that,
and there's a reason why the media collaborated with the
people at the top, and it boils down to this.

(43:44):
They think the American people are too stupid to make
their own decisions. And so what you need is this
very simple and absolutist message that goes out there. And
you could actually go and dig into the transcripts of

(44:04):
meetings that the CDC and the NIH where they will
talk about this and just say, well, yeah, we don't
really know this, but if we tell people that they
won't do what we want them to do, well, And
I was gonna.

Speaker 4 (44:18):
Say, I think there's an even more nefarious purpose to
the mask orders and the made up social distancing you
know orders. I think it's conditioning, you know. I think
they are conditioning us to do what the government tells
us to do. So much so, let me read this
text message I just got on the Common Spirit Health
text line at five sixty six nine zero, Mandy. They

(44:38):
use distancing during the Spanish flu pandemic of nineteen eighteen
masks as well, so it's been used before. Yeah, back
then they probably still bled people who were having certain
illnesses because medicine was so archaic. Guys, one more time.
I'm just give me a moment, David. I'm telling you
I'm having flashbacks right now. Give me a second. Because
we our own CD did studies during the Stars outbreak

(45:02):
in two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine,
and they proved that there was really no effect to
wearing a mask when you're talking about an airborne illness
like influenza, or an influenza like illness like COVID. Our
own doctors, our own studies had already showed this, but
because we were behind the eight ball and government had
to look like they were doing something, they pulled that

(45:23):
one out of thin air and went with it. And
it was so dumb and so frustrating. And this person
still believes that masks are effective.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (45:32):
Well, I had this conversation with my dad, who bought
every single narrative on COVID, and we did a trip
in twenty twenty one, and you know, he carried around
in ninety five masks in his pocket and he put
it on every time he went inside anywhere. And it
was the same nest and a lot of people did that,

(45:54):
and so I just asked them to do First of all,
you know the reason why I end ninety five maths
are used. They don't really work against viruses. They do
against certain things. But the only reason why they work
better than a surgical mask is because it's supposed to
be completely covered, tight around everything. Right. In fact, the

(46:17):
proper way to use them is to tape it to
your faith so that there are no gangs. And you know,
so I just asked them. So you know, you're walking around,
You got this thing in your pocket, you put it on,
you take it off, you handle it, and back and forth.
What's on the inside of that mask? You know, you

(46:39):
just handled that thing, you know, and your hand is
outside everything else. And you know, it really was pure conditioning.
He was told to wear a mask. This is a mask,
and you know, it never ever occurred to him that
he was actually putting the virus closer to his faith

(47:01):
with a higher than if you were just breathing. And
you know it, it really shows that what they were
trying to do was short circuit the rational mind. You know,
the constant repetition, the unanimity, all of those things were,

(47:22):
as you said, to condition people to obey ye. And
I think a lot of these people genuinely believed that
they were doing good. Some of them knew better, I
mean just absolutely new better. But you know, some of
them thought they were genuinely doing good. But it's based

(47:44):
upon the fundamental notion that human beings are stupid, irrational
beings that have to be ruled by technocrats who tell
them what to do, and the sheer arrogant. And by
the way, if you go and you read the ethics
statements of public health schools, it tells them exactly the

(48:10):
opposite that. You know, one of the things that's crucial
in public health context is be absolutely honest, give people
all the information costs and benefits, uh, and allow them
to make rational decisions because you know, otherwise what you're

(48:33):
doing is you're undermining the fundamental autonomy of human beings.

Speaker 4 (48:38):
And not only that, I mean, how many of us
if the government comes to us and says we have
another situation, all of us are just going to give
them the middle finger and not even entertain it, right.
I mean, it's like, how many times do you have
to fool us before we stop paying attention to what
you're saying, which undermines, you know, an actual public health
situation where we may need to do a excessive measures.

(49:00):
I can't imagine what that would be. But at the
same time, I don't trust him anymore.

Speaker 7 (49:05):
Well, and really, I mean at its most basic, you
hear the public health people really offend it.

Speaker 10 (49:13):
You know.

Speaker 7 (49:13):
RFK is in there and he's pushing vaccine skepticism. It's
like the people who push vaccine skepticism the most. Where
the people who lied to us again and again and
again about the COVID vaccine. Why should we trust you
on anything? And the answer is, well, probably we shouldn't

(49:34):
because you have a proven track record of lying.

Speaker 5 (49:39):
Yep.

Speaker 7 (49:40):
It makes you reconsider everything, and I think I encourage
people to reframe how they think about public health advice
and just reframe it in terms of what we're told
about nutrition and what we've been told about nutrition over time. Uh,

(50:02):
they're always wrong. Uh, the you know, the science is
generally bad. You know, ever since they've put together the
food pyramid, Americans have gotten fatter, yep, and less healthy diabetes.

Speaker 4 (50:17):
Okay, David that No, we're going to put a pin
in this because that is a whole You just hit
my pet project right there. I mean because those those
food pyramid crap was written by food manufacturers. It wasn't
written by nutritionists. It wasn't written it was written by lobbyists.
So you're to your point, why are we listening to
the government. I hate to be that person because I
want government to work. I mean, I know, you know,

(50:39):
I'm a small government person. But whatever the government is
that we have, I want it to work and be
reliable and serve the American people. We'll take up the
nutrition conversation at a later time, my friend.

Speaker 7 (50:51):
That sounds wonderful.

Speaker 4 (50:52):
Oh, by the way, I want to reiterate that today
and today only David made this whole article free. It's
normally for vi Tea members. I didn't even realize it
was a VIP because I am a VIP. I give
them money every month, not very much. But I love
Hot Air, I love its sister and brother sites and
use them all the time. So David Strong, keep up
the good work. My friend, will talk again soon.

Speaker 7 (51:14):
Sounds great, Mandy, All right, thanks buddy.

Speaker 4 (51:18):
When we get back, I want to get into the
Ari Armstrong story about what actually ended up in HB
thirteen twelve. The rather incredibly onerous call trands write, but
really attack on parental freedoms bill is what it is. Well,
we'll dip our toes into that next. The Independence Institute's

(51:38):
Complete Colorado dot Com has a really good column. And
Ari and I don't always agree on things. He is,
on one sense, far more libertarian than I am about
certain things, and then he airs on the side of
libertarian social issues, which are different the libertarian movement. And
I don't mean big al libertarians, I mean a small

(52:00):
l libertarians. There's a divide about certain things like abortion.
And of course you know, you have a large group
of libertarians who say, look, a woman should be able
to choose whatever she wants, that's the ultimate freedom. But
then there are libertarians on the other side that say,
well what about the human being? Insider so that apropos
of nothing. We don't always agree, but on this colony

(52:23):
he's done is so good because it does two things.
Number One, it clarifies exactly what is in HB thirteen twelve,
which I fully expect the governor to sign. The governor
has never shown any difference to parental rights in any
of the legislation that he has signed. I mean he
signed the owner his sex education bill. He signed so
much stuff that I think is designed to put a

(52:46):
wedge between parents and their kids. As soon as the
school district puts itself between kids and parents. I think
you've lost the mission right because there should be a
collaboration between parents and schools. But that's neither here nor there.
As well, I want to share parts of this. I'm
going to kind of skip around a little bit as
he talks about HB twenty five thirteen twelve, the now

(53:11):
famous infamous transgender bill, of which Representative Rebecca Stewart is
the primary sponsor. The bill is now in the hands
of the governor, and it is a convoluted mess. Rather
than admit the bill is just not working and go
back to the drawing board to try and get it
right for next year, the Senate saw fit to urgently

(53:31):
quote fix nearly every line of the original bill. The result, predictably,
is a convoluted mess that will require more fixing down
the road. That didn't prevent the legislature from lying about
an emergency to invoke the safety clause to prevent voter review.
You guys, they're here to tell you that trans people

(53:54):
are so endangered by you calling them the wrong pronoun,
that they had to prevent any voter review of the
bill to protect transgender people who are so damaged by
someone using the wrong pronoun that they needed legislation. But hey,
don't ask about the mental illnesses of people who may

(54:15):
be trans. Don't ask about the mental state that were
now passing laws designed to prevent someone from getting their
feelings hurt, because ultimately, that's all this bill is. But
I'll let him go on. From the perspective of crafting clear, meaningful,
necessary statutes, this bill makes little sense. But as a

(54:36):
social phenomenon, this bill is not fundamentally about the underlying
statutes it enacts. It's a piece of performance art. It
is largely about speaking out for transgender people in the
face of anti trans conservatives and the trans hostile Trump administration.
I agree, says Armstrong. I agree that defending transgender people

(54:56):
is a worthy cause, but this bill was not the
right pathway. It tries to do too much in one package.
He says, Let's talk about what actually ended up in
the bill, Because he's right. Almost every line was amended,
as I noted previously, says Ari Armstrong. To me, the
most concerning part of the bill is introduced was its
provision imposing outright censorship. Originally March twenty eighth, and still

(55:21):
by April sixth, the bill stated it is a discriminatory
practice and unlawful too with specific intent to discriminate, publish
materials that dead name or misgender an individual. The difference
between versions is that by April sixth, the House had
added an exception for any public entity, when required by law,

(55:43):
to use an individual's legal name. In other words, it
would be legal, indeed mandatory for government entities to dead
name and misgender people in certain contexts, but illegal for
private parties ever to do so because some people are
more equal than others. Perhaps, and seeing the absolute unconstitutional
disaster of this language, the Senate jettison day now by

(56:07):
May sixth. This version of the bills wants to reform
the public Accommodation's laws to apply to employment, housing, and
businesses open to the public. Existing statutory language protecting gender
expression is expanded to include a person's chosen name and
how the individual chooses to be addressed. That is code

(56:29):
for pronouns. The idea here is that in a public
accommodation's context, dead naming someone calling someone Joe instead of
Sue as they now want to be, or misgendering someone
could be considered a discriminatory practice. Now it goes on
from there. This bill is an absolute mess. This bill

(56:54):
is absolutely going to be challenged in a variety of ways.
And this bill does not, by the way, have the
worst parts of it in it. The part of the
bill that initially explanded the meeting of coercive control in
the context of custody disputes to include dead naming or misgendering.

(57:18):
Now Ari Armstrong says, although I do think some parents
can treat their transgender kids cruelly, I also think that
some parents approach to their child's claim to be transgender
with loving skepticism. The language was stripped from the May
sixth version of the bill. It also would have quote
protected Colorado parents from losing custody of their children based

(57:40):
on the policies of other states. Now the new language
confirms freedom of choice related to safely seeking healthcare services,
including gender affirming care. You know, I can't wait for
someone to ask the Democrats why when all of the
forefront of transgender care for children, which are all of

(58:03):
the Scandinavian states and Europe. Why, in light of the
news that they are all pulling back and backing away
because they found no long term benefit for this kind
of care, why are we doubling down. I don't understand
that this is We'll talk about that later. The only
thing that is the same is the handling a public

(58:25):
school policy. The bill says the dress code policy must
allow each student to choose from any of the options
provided in the dress code policy. So a transgender girl
or boy must be allowed to wear a dress if
the school lists a dress in its dress code policy.
They also tell the schools they must adopt a standard

(58:47):
policy with respect to any name that differs from a
student's legal name. Now I know a Republican tried to
insert an amendment here that said that parents must be
informed about a name change at school, and that was
killed along party lines. So there you go. It's not great,

(59:10):
but it's not nearly as horrible as it used to be.
But I fully expect that coercive control stuff, that language
that allows them to take your kid away if you
have the nerve to say, hey, kiddo, you know, I
don't know if you're really transgender, let's talk about it.
Because that's what they were trying to do, and they
just didn't get there far enough. There's a lot more

(59:31):
to this. I didn't want to just read everything to you,
but Ari does a great job of walking all the
way through the legislation. I would suggest that you go
ahead and read it so you have a better understanding,
especially if you have kids. I never thought as a
parent that, you know, when you have a kid, you
worry about everything right. You worry about whether or not

(59:53):
they're going to have friends. You worry about whether or
not they're getting enough exercise. You worry about whether or
not they're getting screen time. Are they going to be
smart enough? Do they have enough motivation? Are they going
to be able to get a job. Are they going
to go to college? What are they going to major
it in college? Or are they going to be able
to get a job after that? Are they going to
find someone to marry, Are they gonna have kids or
are they gonna be good parents? All of these things
that you automatically worry about. I never thought I would

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have to worry about a school district trying to come
between me and my kid, or a state government trying
to tell me how to raise my kid when I'm
not an abusive parent. I understand that we put limits
on parenting that preclude abuse. I get it one hundred percent.

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But I mean, we're now telling good parents that they're
doing it wrong, so we're gonna intervene. That's what this
kind of stuff is.

Speaker 7 (01:00:44):
A lot.

Speaker 4 (01:00:45):
If you are weighing in on the text line, Mandy,
this is as stupid as a law. That is against
the law to call someone miss or missus. Who cares
call me whatever you want, I will choose to respond
or not. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but
names will never hurt me. Of course, you're someone who
is so mentally upset at the thought of someone calling

(01:01:07):
you the wrong pronoun that you made up. By the way,
you could just make one up, and we're supposed to
all go, oh yeah, that makes perfect sense. It's when
you start outlawing hurt feelings. I had a story on
yesterday's short blog maybe it was the day before about
a woman in Britain who was awarded forty thousand dollars

(01:01:28):
by an employment tribunal. Do you know what happened to
this woman at the workplace. She was not in the
office and all of the other workers were taking one
of those online personality tests, like which Harry Potter character
are you? Oh, in this case, which Star Wars character
are you? And someone took it on her behalf and

(01:01:48):
it came back Darth Vader. So when she came back
in the office, they were all having a good old
time and told her she was Darth Vader, and she
didn't like that, and it hurt her feelings. And eventually
she says she had to quit that job because they're
feeling were so hurt, and she just got forty grand
for hurt feelings. You know what, if the Aliens come
and land on Earth right now, zero percent chance that

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we make it out alive.

Speaker 5 (01:02:11):
Zero.

Speaker 4 (01:02:13):
We have gotten way way too soft. Now, I am
a free speech absolutist. What does that mean. It means
I will defend your right to say offensive things till
I die. You know why, because you can't have a
free society if people are not free to speak. Now,
does that mean that I agree with people who say violent,

(01:02:34):
horrible things. Absolutely not. And I've always believed that good
speech is a great counterbalance to bad speech. There's a
couple of things that are happening in the world of
speech right now. That I want to talk about. First,
First of all, dang it, I get the hiccups. First
of all, Joe Rogan is bringing it back the word retarded,

(01:02:59):
and I get it. I mean, I understand the pushback
against the language police one hundred percent. I totally understand it.
But just because you can say something doesn't mean you should.
And I also have a story on the blog today.
Do you buy Kanye's new album yet? A rod? I

(01:03:20):
did watch his new video called Hile Hitler. Yeah, that guy,
that Hitler, And you know what the song's about. It's
about him losing his kids. And I was like, you know, Kanye,
not for nothing. Hell, but if a judge is going
to go to a custody hearing, I don't think a
song called Hyle Hitler is going to inspire him or

(01:03:41):
her to give you more time with your kids. And
his point is is that their censorship and all. I mean,
he's making a point, But you can't look at this
in a vacuum. With everything that Kanye West has done
over the last few years. I actually think Kanye West
has a severe form of bipolar disease. I think he
is severely mentally ill and it makes him make really

(01:04:02):
bad decisions and have grandiose sort of visions of himself
that encourage him to release a song called hal Hitler. Now,
I'm gonna defend Kanye West right to make the song. What,
I'm gonna sit here and say, it's just dumb. Anybody
who coz these up to Hitler in pretty much any

(01:04:24):
way is making a dumb and gross choice. Remember when
everybody was wearing those Chaka Air shirts everywhere. I got
to the point I was living in Southwest Florida and
I'd see a college student on the beach, especially college girls,
wearing a Shave of Gavera shirt and I would walk
up to them and say, why are you wearing the
shirt of someone who hated gay people? And they'd be like, what, Yeah, yeah,

(01:04:46):
Jacob Air used to murder gay people for being gay,
and they would they'd be appalled because they had no idea,
absolutely no clue. And Joe Rogan and other people on
the right wing a spear bringing back tarted and Joe
Rogan is quoted as saying, every time I see people
that disagree with anything that's happening, any gigantic world events,
it's one of those retarded shows where they're screaming. And

(01:05:10):
then he said, the word retarded is back. And it's
one of the great cultural victories that I think is
spurred on, probably by podcasts. Just because you can do
something doesn't mean you should do something.

Speaker 5 (01:05:25):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:05:26):
I'm just throwing that out there. I tell that to
my kids all the time. Just because you can, it
might be a better choice not to. But hey, you
know what, I'll defend your right, but i'll judge you
harshly at the same time. Both of those things can
exist in the same space.

Speaker 1 (01:05:42):
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Speaker 3 (01:05:56):
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Speaker 4 (01:06:06):
Sad babe, Welcome vocal, Welcome to the third hour of
the show. I'm your host, Mandy Connell. That guy over there,
Anthony Rodriguez, we call him a rod Thank you, little girl,
air horn, You're the best. Mother's Day is Sunday, and
I thought it might be interesting because this hour. It's
been a long week. You guys, we're getting to the

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end of the show. You got a big weekend going on.
I just wanted to ask you guys and gals, you
know a lot of people. I've been seeing this on
X a lot. I just answered one from this guy
on X who said, question, is chocolate okay for Mother's Day?
The answer is yes, as long as it's good chocolate.

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Don't buy your mama Snickers bar and walk in expecting
some got a big hug. Buy her something in a
fancy package from a fancy chocolate store. We got a
lot of options here in the metro Yah. So yeah,
But I was wondering. I thought about this because like
for Mother's Day we went to when we went down
to Albuquerque, we stopped in Santa Fe and I don't

(01:07:09):
know if you guys have seen all of the Native
Americans who kind of lay out their wares there by
the square, and I bought a necklace from one of
the people there, and I was like, Okay, great, that's
my Mother's Day gift. As Uck told me a couple
of days ago that every year for Mother's Day he
stresses trying to think of like the perfect gift to
get me for Mother's Day because he's a great husband

(01:07:30):
and he just is wonderful that way. And I'm very lucky.
But I always end up finding something right before Mother's
Day and go, oh, I'll take that for Mother's Day,
and I do. I do, And he actually said, but
then I don't have to stress anymore, So I'm okay
with it. This is one of the reasons. And this
is not necessarily a commercial for Bouvassage, but I mean,

(01:07:51):
I love Bouvassage, and I think a gift certificate for
pampering is an estellar idea. As a matter of fact,
I recommended that to someone else on X but I
wondered if any of you out there, or kids out there,
who have given your mother a unique, a special, a
weird and interesting gift, I'd love to know. One of
the funniest things I've ever seen, and I saw it online,

(01:08:13):
was adult children went back and re enacted every awkward
photo that they had ever had as children. They went
to J. C. Penny and they did a photo shoot
doing the same poses as all of these weird and
then they gave their parents a picture book of all
of them with the old photo and the new photo.
And I thought, wow, that's genius. I could never get

(01:08:35):
my brother and sister together enough to do that, But
that's Jesus thank you Santa Fean. It's applausea, not a
square it is square shaped. I do want credit for that,
So I'm wondering. I mean, if you, guys, ever gotten
something or given something that you just thought was best
gift ever? Five six six nine ozero is the text
line you can go ahead and text us there. And

(01:08:55):
it's also when asked me anything, our ask me interesting things.
You guys ask me dumb questions. As a matter of fact,
I'll give a prize that it doesn't exist to the
person with the dumbest question. I'm ready for you at
five six six, And I know I do have some
more stuff on the blog today. I do you ever
read a news story and you're like, who are these

(01:09:17):
people are that they're talking about?

Speaker 5 (01:09:18):
Here?

Speaker 4 (01:09:18):
I read this news story today New York Post from
the sex and relationship section of the paper, what's the
ideal number of sexual partners? Study reveals the sweet spot
And it's not what you think now immediately, this is
what I thought after reading that headline. The number is
higher for men than it is women, And I am correct,

(01:09:42):
absolutely correct. But listen to this, mathew. Guys, and I
don't know if it's the generation I grew up and
I don't know. According to the study featured in Social
Psychology and Personality Science, the magic number for guys is
four to five lifetime partners, with two to three of
them being casual hookups. The study also revealed that a

(01:10:06):
first time roll in the hay for men often happens
between the ages of eighteen and twenty. For women, the
magic number shrinks to two to three partners, with only
one or two casual flings. Their first romp often happens
between sixteen and eighteen. That originally reported by Vice No.
What's interesting about this is that another study found that

(01:10:32):
the average American has slept with fourteen people according to
a poll. So who are these people? Where are they
getting these numbers? Who decided that four to five was
the nice one with the perfect number? Who decided that?
I'm just curious And did anybody else hear those numbers
and go?

Speaker 3 (01:10:50):
What?

Speaker 4 (01:10:52):
Who are they talking to? Especially older people? God, talk
to somebody who got divorced when they were fifty? Holy macaroni,
what's going on in that age bracket right now?

Speaker 5 (01:11:00):
Now?

Speaker 4 (01:11:01):
Absolutely crazy? Mandy, what is your real name? My real
name is Princess Consueler. Banana hammock and that's all you're
getting out of me. No, my first name is Amanda,
but I'm not telling you my real name. Mandy Conna
was my real name at one point, it is not
anymore anyway. How long until Mount Evans souvenirs will be

(01:11:22):
worth historical value? Probably already, I still am calling it
Mount Evans, and I'm just I'm not going to change, Mandy.
I'm an electrical contractor in one mother's dais and a
guy over to fix my mom's parents pool light and
replaced a GFC outlet and took care of the bill
even though they have more money than I ever will.
And isn't that the problem is finding a gift for

(01:11:44):
parents when they're at that point in their life when
they have anything, and if they don't have it, they
can just go out and buy it. Mandy, why don't
you ever talk about your sister? Well, my sister's not
in the public eye. She's also very successful, but in
a different way. My brother's in the public eye. So
that's why it doesn't have anything to do with how
I feel about my brother and sister. Nothing nefarious, Uh, Mandy,

(01:12:04):
here's a dumb question. Comma it literally says, Comma, because
they did voice to text Mandy. Here's a dumb question, Comma,
why do people believe women about how many sexual partners
they've had in their lifetime? I get to tell you,
I'm way past the point where I care at all
about how many sexual partners somebody else has had. I

(01:12:26):
just I don't care. I don't care if you're a
dude or a woman. I assume you had a good
reason for it, right, I don't. It just does not
bother me. Now, if we're in a relationship together and
your number keeps going higher, then we have a problem.
But whatever you bring to the table, you bring it
to the table anyway. What does a rod think of

(01:12:52):
the andor series? Do you know what the and or
series is?

Speaker 5 (01:12:55):
What is that?

Speaker 6 (01:12:55):
I do and don't yell at me? It's the one
I haven't gotten around to watching, but it's on the list.

Speaker 4 (01:13:00):
What is the end or series? But don't even know
what that is?

Speaker 6 (01:13:02):
Another live action really highly recommended Star Wars live action
show sounds gibvty very very good.

Speaker 5 (01:13:08):
It is not skivity.

Speaker 4 (01:13:09):
Wait, I got that backwards, didn't I did. Mandy is
your friendly neighborhood swinger I don't even try that hard,
and I've had more than four or five in the
last couple of months. There you go, Why does a
house call itself a dog because it has a wolf?

Speaker 5 (01:13:25):
A woof stop.

Speaker 4 (01:13:27):
I just read the text as they come in a rod.
I can't help it. I'm sorry, help however, Thank you, Yeah, Mandy,
not a question, just a very late to the conversation.
A recommendation for my favorite Val Kilmer movie if it
did come up on air. I missed it. Thunderheart so good.

Speaker 5 (01:13:44):
I don't even.

Speaker 4 (01:13:44):
Remember that movie. What was that movie about?

Speaker 5 (01:13:47):
Never heard it?

Speaker 4 (01:13:49):
Mandy. What study did you reference today where they used
fifty thousand of their own employees to research the COVID
vaccine that would be and that was the vaccine that
was masks. That was a Cleveland study. And then there
was a healthcare study that just came out that showed
that if you got multiple vaccinations, you were twenty seven
percent more likely to get COVID. But that story came

(01:14:13):
and went in a hurry, so unpopular, so unpopular. This
is weird. I asked for garden flowers every year, daughters,
and they buy them and come plant them for me
every mother day. It's absolutely the best gift ever. Okay,
So I love this idea, But I also love and

(01:14:35):
maybe if I'm older and infirm, I would love it
if they would do it. I love planting my own flowers.
I love repotting stuff. I love having my hands in
the dirt. I love getting done and seeing what the
whole thing is going to look like when everything comes
in and gets big and beautiful. I love that whole process.
So I love that idea. That's really good, Mandy. I

(01:14:55):
got my wife a SPA package three years in a
row for Mother's Day and she never used any of
the WTF no more? And she doesn't say anything. Why
do you ask? No, they're good for five years? Why
don't you ask? Text? This is on you, my friend?
After she didn't use the first one, you should have said, hey,
bab I noticed you didn't use that spot gift certificate.

(01:15:17):
Is that not a good gift for you? You got
to do a little. It goes both ways there, Chief,
you should absolutely be of Oh this texter just said
I might be sort of slutty. Stupid Questions segment, What
is a woman an adult female? Mandy? Will you ever
pronounce a Raria campus? Correctly.

Speaker 5 (01:15:36):
You just did there we go time? He get my
campus right?

Speaker 4 (01:15:40):
I don't, of course a Rod being a proud Metro
State graduate. He's got his road Runner shirt on today. Mandy,
you and Phoebe Buffet. Thank you Buffet. I should say
she is Princess Knsuela Banana Hammock the original. Uh, Mandy,
I just found out from your show. I'm a man's
what the number is higher than your numbers? And you

(01:16:03):
know what, I'm just gonna say it. Most men's fluts
that I know are really good at sex. It's just
it kind of goes with the territory, really does, Mandy?
Ask me anything?

Speaker 5 (01:16:14):
Question for you?

Speaker 4 (01:16:15):
With two sheep flying, one yellow and the other headed right,
how much does a pound of asphalt cost? Given that
the cow is ten years old, that would be twelve
seventy five. Moving on, Mandy, here's my dumb question. Where
does the white go when the snow melts? I'm not sure,
but I'm positive it's racist. Next question, Mandy. It was

(01:16:39):
a Christmas gift, but it would have worked for Mother's Day.
My daughter got me a blanket with a bouquet of
all six of my children's flower of the birth month.
I didn't even know that there was a flower of
the birth month. Wait a minute, hang on, flower, birth flower.
I guess it would be called a birth flower flower.

(01:17:00):
Oh geez, I gotta break. I'll be right back after
I find out what my birth flower is. Now that
that's the thing. I got this from the New York Post.
Many of you are weighing in on that. Here's one.
It'sn't ask me anything kind of day, Mandy. What keeps
you up at night? Oh my goodness, it could be
anything like, what exactly are the tariffs going to do
to our economy? Is my kid going to get into
the right college? Did I forget to do something for work?

(01:17:24):
Or I mean just in my mind never stops. I
have a monkey mind so bad, Mandy, hang on, I
just lost my place. What are you most looking forward
to during your Asia trip? That from Chris? I got
to tell you. I am so looking forward to soaking
in Korean and Japanese culture because I don't know a

(01:17:47):
lot about it. I've been reading about it. I've been
getting up to speed on all I can about Japan.
I'm interested to go to the DMZ. We're supposed to
do that. We will find out if that's happening. But
we're supposed to do that a lot, and meeting listeners.
I always enjoy meeting these people on these trips. Mandy,
are you far sighted or near sighted? Or the glasses

(01:18:08):
for looks? Let me tell you something, sir or madam.
You will never see me wearing glasses for looks. I've
been wearing glasses off and on since the second grade.
And I used to have big, thick coke bottle glasses
because not only do I have far sightedness, I have
a stigmatism. I did have surgery when I was thirty
and I was glasses free for ten years until I

(01:18:30):
got pregnant with my daughter. And here's a fun fact.
When you are of advanced maternal age, as I was
at the ripe old age of thirty nine, things happen
to your body during pregnancy and they never go back
to normal. And one of those things is your eyeballs
change shape. Yeah, no one told me that, So I'm
back in glasses. There you go. I'm just gonna be

(01:18:53):
in glasses for the rest of my life. Mandy. We
used to wash my grandma's windows and screens inside and
out for Mother's Day. She had such a big house,
and she loved it. We always had such a great time.
That's wonderful, Mandy. What are we considering sex? Okay, Bill Clinton,
I didn't know you listened to the show. Mandy. Which
team will have more wins this year? The Broncos and

(01:19:14):
the Rockies. I know you're being funny, but I'm not
taking that bet. Mandy. If your friends jumped off a bridge,
would you jump off too? While Mom, stop texting the show,
Just stop it. There is no expiration date for gift
certificates in the state of Colorado, Boom to the text,

(01:19:36):
true complaint because his wife wasn't using the gift certificates
he bought her. He needs to find out why. And
if she's got more than one, why don't you volunteer
to go with it? Last one? Mandy? You're a Tom
Sellick fan? Yes I am. That is a fine hunk
man right there with Tom Selick. Have you seen his
sci fi movie from nineteen eighty five called Runaway? It

(01:19:58):
features him alongside Cynthia Richard Marx's X. It's a B movie,
but entertaining, and you know I have It's not a
good movie though, it's it's just not at all Mandy
went in Japan or any other oriental country. Don't stab
your food with chopsticks. It's offensive. Oh your girl, I
can use some chopsticks one hundred percent. All right, we

(01:20:22):
are going to come back. We'll do more. Ask me anything,
because these are fun. Today. You guys are getting it's Friday.
We'll also talk about a few more stories on the blog.
And you know, little this, little that last half hour.
Let's rock and roll through it. Mandy, we still have
three hundred dollars for an Amazon gift card from our
wedding and we haven't used it. What is wrong with
you people?

Speaker 5 (01:20:43):
I'll take it.

Speaker 4 (01:20:44):
I could spend three hundred dollars on Amazon in fourteen seconds.

Speaker 7 (01:20:48):
You know why?

Speaker 4 (01:20:50):
Are still some cool with it? Like a really nice
toaster of an air Frier combo? That's cool, I mean,
depending on what your cool is. It's what I'm Mandy.
With all the kerfuffle over miss Gendering, can I sue
my high school teacher for mispronouncing my name for four years?
I'm sure I still have emotional scars fifty plus years later,

(01:21:11):
and it derailed my career because of the emotional trauma.
You know what, why the heck not, sue everybody. Mandy,
what are your top three states to retire to? That
is an interesting question because Chuck and I have already
planned on going to Ohio because that's where our kids are.
Is it about moving to the state of Ohio.

Speaker 5 (01:21:33):
No, it is not.

Speaker 4 (01:21:34):
Although holy cow, you guys, real estate so affordable. Oh
h yeah, I will say, I, Oh, I don't do that.

Speaker 5 (01:21:41):
You gotta get used to that.

Speaker 4 (01:21:41):
No, I'm not doing that.

Speaker 2 (01:21:42):
Yeah, the nope V.

Speaker 5 (01:21:44):
Nope V Ohio.

Speaker 4 (01:21:45):
No, thank you. But I've already told Chuck I don't
do gray Ohio winter, and from like October to April
it's just a dead Ohio sky. That's what we call it,
the dead Ohio sky.

Speaker 6 (01:21:57):
Okay, so in those months, your top three place is
to escape too. That will change because I've already told
him that we will not be spending winter. But like,
as soon as I retire, the first place I'm going,
I'm spending two months in lows On, Switzerland. That's already
it's in my mind. It's done, just done, and so
and then every winter we'll find a new place to go.

(01:22:18):
I'm not one of those people.

Speaker 4 (01:22:19):
I don't want to buy a pure snowbird retirement house,
because I don't want to do that. I don't want
to maintain another property. I don't want to spend the money.
Is that what it's called a snowbird property? Yeah, second home,
snowbird whatever. Because they only show up, like in Southwest
Florida's a perfect example of snowbird culture because they all
show up between Thanksgiving and Christmas and they stay until Easter.

(01:22:42):
So you've got five months of like an additional two
hundred thousand people in the Fort Myers and Naples area.
But during a hurricane, it's really funny to hear the
mayor of Naples, Florida. He makes these annow and he's
on television. He's like, if you can stay at your
second home, go ahead and do that, you know, if
you just want to stay or other property. Just assuming

(01:23:02):
everyone in Naples, Florida has more than one home, I mean,
as one does, right, considering the local political landscape, what
keeps you here?

Speaker 2 (01:23:13):
This job?

Speaker 4 (01:23:15):
I love Colorado. My daughter's still in high school. A
lot of things, so you know, we'll see how long
I last. You never know. In radio, you could get
fired any day. It happens all the time. Mandy, what
eighties movie gave you nightmares. Pulson run Away from Me.
I will tell you the last, just to give you
an idea. The last horror movie that I paid money

(01:23:39):
to go see was Nightmare on Elm Street, which, if
I'm not mistaken, came out in nineteen eighty seven. I
did not sleep for like two months after that movie.
Oh Mandy, I go That movie was absolutely terrifying to me,
and it was the last horror movie that I voluntarily wanted.

Speaker 6 (01:23:58):
As a horror movie connoisseur. Yeah, man, they've gotten so much.

Speaker 4 (01:24:03):
You know what I'm doing, never knowing that that is
a genre I will never pay attention.

Speaker 5 (01:24:08):
Did you ever watch The Substance?

Speaker 3 (01:24:10):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:24:10):
No, no.

Speaker 4 (01:24:11):
My best friend told me flat out, you cannot watch
the last twenty minutes of this movie. She's like, you will,
You will hurl if you watch this movie.

Speaker 5 (01:24:20):
Robbed she got robbed a best actress. I agree.

Speaker 4 (01:24:24):
I agree. I hardly see the other movie, and I
was like, don't get me wrong, there was nothing wrong
with the actress in Honora's performance. Yeah, but there was
nothing remarkable about it.

Speaker 5 (01:24:34):
Full disclosure.

Speaker 6 (01:24:35):
I haven't even seen Anora, and I don't care no
matter what it is it cannot be better than what's
her name again?

Speaker 5 (01:24:41):
In the substance you get me more? Thank you, yeah,
robbed yeah of the Oscar.

Speaker 4 (01:24:46):
Mandy is a self appointed representative of your plain old listeners.
I must insist that from this day forward you refer
to us as your almighty listeners, you know, since we
do pay your salary, and not doing so as public
demeaning to us.

Speaker 7 (01:25:01):
All.

Speaker 4 (01:25:01):
Okay, so wait a minute. I've got a couple things
that I'm trying to commit to memory. One of them
being I always have to refer to Denver Public Schools
Superintendent as Afro Latino bilingual Alex Morero. That's one that
I'm trying to commit to memory. And now I have
to remember to call listeners almighty listeners. But here's the thing, Texter,
unless you are doing me as solid and using my

(01:25:23):
advertisers and telling them that you heard about it from me,
are you really doing your part? Are you really paying
paying my salary?

Speaker 7 (01:25:32):
Thank you?

Speaker 4 (01:25:34):
I would just like you all too. You know, I
don't do these commercials for my health. Well some of them,
I do, Regen Revolution. That's a big healthy thing. Anyway,
I digress, Mandy, I'm never donating blood again, too many questions?
Is this your blood? Where did you get it? Why
is it in a bucket? That's very funny. Nightmarre on
ELM Street came out in nineteen eighty four. Okay, that's
how long forty one years since I paid to see

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a horror movie.

Speaker 5 (01:26:00):
Since then, they're basically real now.

Speaker 4 (01:26:02):
I watched The Shining that also scared the crap out
of me, but I watched that on TV, like you know,
at home streaming. Those are the two last scary movies
that I think I've actually watched.

Speaker 5 (01:26:12):
Is it the the thrill or the gore or the both?

Speaker 4 (01:26:16):
Yeah, it's the It's the jump scares.

Speaker 5 (01:26:20):
Is the number one factor that you don't like the thriller?
Jump scares?

Speaker 1 (01:26:25):
It is.

Speaker 4 (01:26:26):
It is the same as I love a thriller, right
like I can do a thriller, so that's not a problem.
It's the jump scares and it's the gore. I can't
do it.

Speaker 6 (01:26:34):
Last note on the substance. What makes it so damn good?
The last twenty minutes. I think it is the goorious
twenty minutes of any movie I've ever seen. But it's
so damn captivating and thrilling, and well done that it
doesn't even like matter.

Speaker 5 (01:26:50):
I know this sounds dumb because the gore is rough, but.

Speaker 6 (01:26:52):
It's so there's so much dare I say, substance to
the substance that it's like it goes beyond being as
gory as it is.

Speaker 5 (01:27:00):
It's like it's just so damn good.

Speaker 4 (01:27:02):
Mandy, you aren't allowed to retire do your show from
Ohio if you get fired. You need a podcast. Guys,
if I get fired, I will have a podcast fired
up the next day. Let's just let's just see. That's
why you need to follow me on social media. Just
letting you know, always follow your favorite radio hosts on
social media because you will be the first to know
when we get escorted from the buildings. So there you go, Mandy.

(01:27:23):
If you get a chance, will you go to Ground
zero in Nagasaki or Hiroshima. Yes, we are, well, I
don't know. They have their their Peace Park at Nagasaki
and Hiroshima and they are like one of them is
built on ruins that were destroyed during the war. So yes,
we are going to all of those things and it's
going to be a nice bookend to our experience at

(01:27:45):
the Nuclear Museum outside Albuquerque. So I'm really, really really
looking forward to that very very much. So, Oh, I've
got a question I've been meaning to ask as this texter.
When listeners text messages come in, do they all come
in on one rolling prompt like a chat room or
do they come in separated by phone number like they
do on a cell phone. They come in on a grid, right,

(01:28:08):
So the grid has the number the call. It has
the phone number. Yeah, we know who you are. When
you send nasty text, we know who you are, exactly
who you are, yeah, and then it has the message.
One thing I will say about the text line. You
Apple users that hit return and it sends multiple those
do not come in in order. So a lot of
times if you send multiple text messages, they don't make

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any sense. So you got to try and get it
all in in one text.

Speaker 2 (01:28:33):
Oo ooh ooh.

Speaker 6 (01:28:34):
And the best part is when we get a hate text,
and then we can click on the phone number and
see the history, so we know you're really a jerk,
not just the one off.

Speaker 4 (01:28:43):
Yeah exactly, oh yeah, exactly, that you are a consistent jerk.
And sometimes we're like, oh, this person is a jerk
to every.

Speaker 6 (01:28:49):
Show exactly across the whole day, or we give them
a little more leeway if it's like a one off.

Speaker 5 (01:28:54):
But most of the time they're cool.

Speaker 6 (01:28:55):
It's like, Okay, you're mad about this one is digital topic,
totally fine, we understand, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (01:29:00):
I have a friend that moved to Arizona. He said, yeah,
there are three months you can't go outside, but the
other nine months it's just seventy five degrees outside. I
gotta tell you, guys. And maybe it's because I grew
up on the East coast, and I wonder if any
other transplants have this situation. The only thing I don't
like about Colorado's climate is when you get out of
the city, when you go down to the southern part

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of the state, like when you're driving down du Pueblo,
that high desert. I do not love that landscape. It's
just not something. I mean, I can look at it,
and I'm talking about like when you drive to Albuquerque
and you go over a retone pass. That's really pretty,
but I don't love it. It's not my favorite. So
you have to sacrifice things, right if you want to

(01:29:43):
have greenery, like on the East coast where there's humidity
and bugs, If you want to have a lot of greenery,
you're gonna have a lot of bugs. So other than
the Miller moth invasion, which I heard on Ross's show
is coming any minute now, we don't really have bugs here.
Like you can leave the door open and you don't
get bugs in your house. In Florida, if you leave
the door open, your entire house will be filled with

(01:30:05):
bugs in like thirty five seconds, especially if it's nighttime
and there's a light inside. You're done.

Speaker 5 (01:30:10):
We used to have those ear wigs here all the time.
I don't know where they went. I don't care. There
is the little things that have the pincers, the puny
little things.

Speaker 4 (01:30:18):
Oh I thought there were stink bugs. No, no, no,
what are stink bugs?

Speaker 5 (01:30:22):
Ear wig bugs? What's your favorite? They're called ear wigs.

Speaker 4 (01:30:27):
Okay, that's what stink bugs are.

Speaker 6 (01:30:28):
No, no, I'm saying earwigs are actually called earwigs. I
thought people just called them that.

Speaker 4 (01:30:32):
Oh no, do they go?

Speaker 6 (01:30:34):
I mean, I don't know. I would think they're ugly.
Everyone here in Colorado knows what they are earwigs, and
I don't see them anymore.

Speaker 5 (01:30:40):
They see them all the time. Growing up as a kid, well.

Speaker 4 (01:30:42):
It's kind of like in Florida, you don't see fireflies anymore,
or lightning bugs as we used to call them when
I was a kid.

Speaker 5 (01:30:47):
Tell me I'm not crazy. Text line.

Speaker 6 (01:30:48):
Earwigs. That was the thing here, right, Yeah, ear wigs
pincers on the end, puny little thing. They're like, they're
like the length of your pinky? Are your Yeah, you're pinky,
puny little buggers.

Speaker 4 (01:30:59):
All all passed at Mandy, What is your favorite lunch
meat and why? I like a really good rare roast beef.
If it's cooked medium, I don't want it. But if
it's rare roast beef, that is like the perfect sandwich meat.
You got a little bit of a Harvardi cheese. Maybe
some Swiss get a little horse radish, little mayo, good bread.

Speaker 5 (01:31:17):
What's wrong with you?

Speaker 4 (01:31:18):
It's delicious, But I don't ever buy it in a
sandwich shop because their meats always cooked too much. Well,
salami is terrible for you, is it?

Speaker 1 (01:31:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:31:29):
Really?

Speaker 4 (01:31:30):
Yeah, it's a process. It's just not not great for you,
and I love it. Earwigs look like centipedes. Yes, earwigs
are also called pincher bugs.

Speaker 5 (01:31:39):
That's what it is.

Speaker 4 (01:31:41):
Uh, they got them in Greeley. Yeah, did we ever
get Ross to laugh like Mike Tyson?

Speaker 1 (01:31:47):
Know?

Speaker 4 (01:31:47):
We got to make him laugh really hard? Can you
see the message history from other shows that use the
same text line? Yes, we can. Where in the world
is veto?

Speaker 6 (01:31:57):
I don't know?

Speaker 4 (01:32:00):
Am I nasty good or nasty bad? Either way? As hot?
I don't know what that means. I'm just gonna just
little roll past that one. Mandy, will you visit suicide
Forest in Japan? I don't know. I don't know about
this is well.

Speaker 5 (01:32:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:32:17):
Probably not, yeah, probably not? Five six to sixth I
oh is the text line number? We're taking your questions, Mandy.
We need a big old darn tooting on a Friday.
There you go, Mandy used your duck cleaning advertiser. They
did a good job. That would be duct works. Love them, absolutely,

(01:32:38):
love them. Earwigs are still a thing. I grow corn
and they love it a Mandy for show prep, how
far in advance do you book guests? Curious? Sometimes we
book them like a week or two. Those are the
ones that a Rod is in charge of. But like yesterday,
I read David Stram's column on Hot Air and I
didn't have a show yesterday, so I said, can you
come on tomorrow? So we kind of Some guests get

(01:32:59):
booked further.

Speaker 6 (01:33:00):
Some guests are more topics, sweet spots, like two weeks. Yeah,
I usually have the next week good to go, and
then we're booking things for that following week.

Speaker 4 (01:33:07):
It depends on what kind of guest it is too.
Are they talking about.

Speaker 5 (01:33:09):
A story that day but breaking news? Yeah, breaks it
all up all the time exactly. So we'll just get
Rob Dawson to talk about anything because he knows everything.

Speaker 4 (01:33:17):
He does know everything, and he's funny too, and.

Speaker 5 (01:33:19):
He's coming in in like sixty seconds. Nice because he's.

Speaker 4 (01:33:22):
Gonna do of the day here at a moment. And
me see, earwigs are the worst. We get invaded by
them every year. My dog likes to eat them.

Speaker 5 (01:33:30):
Ew.

Speaker 4 (01:33:31):
I mean maybe they still I don't know. You're not
moving to Ohio. I sure hope not. One of the
many of listeners will miss you. No, not for a while,
you guys. I wish I should retire right now, but
it's not gonna happen. I was just commenting last week
that I haven't seen any earwigs lately. A Star Trek
episode explains why they have that name. Why do they

(01:33:54):
have that name?

Speaker 6 (01:33:54):
I don't know, but the men and whoonies took them
the what are these little mythical creatures? And that whenever
you lose something right, you say, oh, the Manahune's got it,
but they always give it back. You just gotta be
nice and ask nicely. But no, no, no, that's one
thing the Manahunies can take. Keep What else could they take?
You're usually one sock, just one yep, the littlest things.

(01:34:19):
You don't know where it went, and it'll pop right
back up.

Speaker 4 (01:34:22):
I just found out that one of my friends from
college that I don't keep in close touch with, but
I talked to every so often, that as soon as
he got out of college and his mom stopped buying
his socks, all of his socks match. He doesn't have
any socks that are different, and he just has a
giant drawer full of chaos of all these socks that
are just shoved in there, but they always match. And
I was like, you know what, that's lazy, but very effective.

(01:34:45):
I do that you only have one kind.

Speaker 5 (01:34:48):
Of sock two, but two drawers for those two kinds
well three?

Speaker 4 (01:34:52):
So what kinds of socks do you actually have?

Speaker 5 (01:34:54):
Every day?

Speaker 4 (01:34:54):
And crews sock, a short sock, a dress sock.

Speaker 5 (01:34:57):
What are we looking at every day? The longer crew,
black socks, black fruit?

Speaker 4 (01:35:02):
No like, no shorties you got no?

Speaker 5 (01:35:05):
I got one drawer for those?

Speaker 4 (01:35:06):
Okay, so you got shorties and black cruise.

Speaker 5 (01:35:07):
Socks, another one for white long Oh wait?

Speaker 4 (01:35:10):
So how many sock dors do you have? Okay, so
you just added one here?

Speaker 5 (01:35:13):
Yeah? I got three?

Speaker 4 (01:35:15):
So I I my sister and my sister. My daughter
matches all of our socks. That's one of her tasks.

Speaker 5 (01:35:19):
I used to do that, but she was required to
do elsewhere.

Speaker 4 (01:35:22):
Rob Dawson, how many different pairs of how many different
kinds of socks do you own?

Speaker 9 (01:35:29):
Goodness?

Speaker 8 (01:35:30):
Uh?

Speaker 9 (01:35:31):
Like pears pairs of socks?

Speaker 5 (01:35:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:35:34):
How many different kinds of socks?

Speaker 8 (01:35:36):
All right, well, I have different colors, but twelve to
fifteen pairs total among the white, the black, the.

Speaker 4 (01:35:42):
Three kinds of socks.

Speaker 6 (01:35:43):
Twelve to fifteen total pears, pears p fifteen pairs A
disrespectful number of socks.

Speaker 5 (01:35:50):
So you have to laundry for socks every week and
a half.

Speaker 4 (01:35:55):
I mean, don't you do laundry every week.

Speaker 5 (01:35:57):
We Hell, No, I got so many clothes I don't
want to.

Speaker 4 (01:35:59):
Have, oh my gosh, specifically laund the same time.

Speaker 6 (01:36:04):
We went on so I bought so many that I
probably could go a month in between doing sock laundry.

Speaker 5 (01:36:11):
And I love that. Okay, so much easier.

Speaker 4 (01:36:15):
To the person who said, Mandy, do you speak any Hungarian?

Speaker 6 (01:36:17):
No, I do not.

Speaker 4 (01:36:19):
And when I went to Hungary, I was like, holy cow,
this is hard.

Speaker 5 (01:36:23):
You were hungry, really really hard.

Speaker 4 (01:36:26):
Last question, Mandy, if Chuck were a woodchuck, how much
wood could a chuck Woodchuck Chuck. If a chuck woodchuck
could chuck would much.

Speaker 5 (01:36:36):
Yeah, he wouldn't be as annoying as your woodpecker.

Speaker 4 (01:36:38):
By the way, the woodpecker situation has been taken care
of it a lot. So Chuck literally knocked the screen
out of our window, reached outside and placed a rubber
snake into the hole where the woodpecker had busted through.
And honestly, I wasn't that mad at this point because
the woodpecker's already in, but he was trying to bust
through the drywall on the inside of the house, and

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that's where it's like, Nope, but the Woodpecker's gone. We
have not heard him for the last few days. Is intact?
Oh starting only fans? Oh my god, nobody wants.

Speaker 5 (01:37:12):
To see that.

Speaker 4 (01:37:12):
Stop it. No, that's a whole other weird genre. Found
out about that from a friend of mine who's on TV,
and there's like a whole account on the internet.

Speaker 5 (01:37:22):
About her feet anonymity.

Speaker 4 (01:37:25):
I don't know, a Rod. What is your public social media?

Speaker 6 (01:37:27):
People can follow at Anthony Rod thirty three on x
formally known as Twitter, and at the Life.

Speaker 5 (01:37:33):
Of a Rod on Instagram.

Speaker 4 (01:37:35):
Okay, and I share a lot of stuff too, so
you can follow me and find it.

Speaker 6 (01:37:40):
Follow tonight because Grant and I will be covering Nuggets
game number three down at Ball tonight. Nuggets gotta bounce
back from a book kitten on all the socials?

Speaker 4 (01:37:50):
All right, Robb Dawson in the studio in the big chair,
and now it's time for the most exciting segment all
the radio. What are we doing? What's happening over there?

Speaker 5 (01:37:59):
There we go?

Speaker 4 (01:38:00):
Wow, it's time for the most exciting segment all the
radio of its God.

Speaker 3 (01:38:09):
Of the day.

Speaker 4 (01:38:10):
It's like Rob is the only one who's broken. He
runs out of steam there at the end. All right?
What is our dad joke of the day?

Speaker 7 (01:38:18):
Please?

Speaker 5 (01:38:18):
And time?

Speaker 2 (01:38:20):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (01:38:20):
Do you know what law enforcement is called in Vatican City?

Speaker 9 (01:38:27):
I love this.

Speaker 4 (01:38:28):
I don't know what is it the Pope? What is
the word of the day?

Speaker 6 (01:38:38):
Please?

Speaker 5 (01:38:38):
Is a verba gloss g l O S S gloss.

Speaker 4 (01:38:43):
Like to gloss over something. You could freeze past something
in a conversation.

Speaker 9 (01:38:47):
You can have a lot of details.

Speaker 4 (01:38:49):
That's just a you could put a shiny coat on something.

Speaker 5 (01:38:52):
To gloss.

Speaker 6 (01:38:53):
A word or phrase is to provide its meaning, in
other words, to explain or define it.

Speaker 4 (01:38:58):
Okay, deeply all right? What famous fictional detective does Kenneth
browna play in the twenty twenty two film Death on
the Nile.

Speaker 5 (01:39:08):
I know this Crue?

Speaker 4 (01:39:09):
No, Oh, come on, guys, it's her cute Pello, come on,
the Belgian detective invented by Agatha Christie. Come on, people,
nothing you've never watched Masterpiece theater. I can tell your
parents failed you just letting you know, apparently. Okay, what
is our Jeopardy category?

Speaker 2 (01:39:29):
What's my name?

Speaker 3 (01:39:30):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:39:30):
Bully ay Rod by the way, No, but the category
what's my name?

Speaker 2 (01:39:34):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (01:39:34):
Basically a cheeseburger on rye red blank.

Speaker 4 (01:39:37):
Mandy, what's a Patty Milt?

Speaker 5 (01:39:39):
That is Correctay, a policeman's night stick?

Speaker 4 (01:39:42):
Blank, Mandy, what's the Billy Club?

Speaker 6 (01:39:44):
I don't evenink I have to say the next part
popular in the nineteen twenties. It weighed almost ten pounds empty.
Blank gun, Mandy, what's the Tommy gun?

Speaker 5 (01:39:54):
That is correct? These are easy often used for pot roast.

Speaker 4 (01:39:58):
But Mandy, it's.

Speaker 5 (01:40:02):
A chuck ROAs that is correct. I'm going for the
five sweep, Rob.

Speaker 2 (01:40:08):
The game is we.

Speaker 4 (01:40:09):
Started Rob in the marine drunk again.

Speaker 6 (01:40:12):
That's what's going on right now, Marine Corps. It's also
called an E three blank corporal. I'm not giving hint
blank corporal correct.

Speaker 4 (01:40:26):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:40:30):
Is a lance.

Speaker 4 (01:40:34):
I just didn't want to say it because I thought
it was wrong anyway, I know, but I like this
week would have been great because I've been on a
losing strike.

Speaker 10 (01:40:42):
Rob.

Speaker 4 (01:40:42):
I don't know if you were told to take it
easy on me today, Go with that, all right, Just
go with that. I'm giving you an out, Rob, Okay,
jump on it, take it okay. Monday show. I already
have guest scheduled for Monday as a matter of fact.
And two of them, we have hope. Shefelman and Tom YORKLND.
They were disparaged by Britta Horn talking about the numbers

(01:41:04):
for the Colorado Republican Party and wrote a letter about it,
and I said, if you guys want to come on
the show and present your side of it, they're part
of the old leadership team, and I thought that was
only fair. So they're going to be on on Monday
to discuss that. But I want everyone to have the
best weekend ever. And if you are one of those
people that either doesn't have a great relationship with your

(01:41:26):
own mom, or you don't have kids, or feeling a
little out of sorts because of the focus on Mother's Day,
I'm going to tell you what some of my favorite
women have done. They've taken themselves out, They've gone out
with friends, They've made the day a fun day, a
special day. Instead of worrying about what they aren't, they

(01:41:46):
made it into something that celebrates what they are. So
if you fall into that category, please have a wonderful
day on Sunday. And if you do have your mom
and your life, or you are married to your children's mom,
just make sure you celebrate them in a big way.
And I'll be back on Monday. In the meantime, keep
it right here on KOA