07-02-25 FULL SHOW - Weather, The Mortgage Market, And Henry VIII's Six Ex-Wives - The Mandy Connell Podcast

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 4 (00:24):
Sad thing well local Welcome to a Wednesday feels like
Thursday because Friday is a holiday and tomorrow is only
a half hour show. After all that, I'm still Mandy Connell.
That guy over there is still Anthony Rodriguez. We call
him a rod. That is Peppy lap Hugh doing the airhorn.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Every time you say it's someone different, it's fog horn leghorn.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
I think it's more like Peppy LaPete say it's foghorn,
set us in son, come.

Speaker 5 (00:54):
On over here, it's the horn.

Speaker 4 (00:56):
Fog or leghorn was really one of the great bugs
money cartoon care ye. Out of so many, there's so
were there any Mandy O Wow, not bad, not bad
at all. I had no idea you had a little
porky pig in there.

Speaker 5 (01:13):
No clue. There you go.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
We got a lot to do today, so let's jump
in and do the blog. Because I've got three guests,
because I wanted to talk to all of these people
before the holiday weekend and super interesting. I do want
to say this. Last night, a Rod asked me what
I did last night?

Speaker 5 (01:28):
Hey, Mandy, what what'd you do last night?

Speaker 4 (01:31):
I went to the Astros game.

Speaker 5 (01:33):
Okay, yeah, that's what it felt like. Let's try that again.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
Nope, I went to the Astros game.

Speaker 5 (01:39):
You must be new here. Yeah, and that's not even
a division rival. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
I went to the Astros game because that's who was
in the stands last night at Course Field. It was
about Actually, if I'm honest, I think it was about
And I asked Jesse Thomas his view as well, and
we sort of, you know, deliberated about it. It was
about sixty five thirty five Astros for a non rival division,
you know, yea sixty five thirty five. And I walked

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around Chuck and I took a big lap during the
game around the stadium, and I was looking at the
various people, very few people in Rockies gear, right like
I had on my Rocky shirt. Check had on a
Rocky shirt. A lot of the people that were walking
around in the concourse when we were walking around. To
be clear, nobody was wearing Rockies gear. There was not

(02:30):
a Soul in any of the Rockies merchandise stores, and
I thought that was kind of telling. And they weren't
all in Astros gear, to be clear, they just were
not wearing Rockies gear. It's almost like everybody got free
tickets or something and they just kind of showed up.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
You know, well they didn't, and the money from the
Astros fans doesn't go to the Astros, I know, still
goes to the Rocky.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
I watched Chase Dolander come apart on the mountain last night.
His problems are not his arm. His problems are that
he gets the yips, and he gets he throws a
few bad pitches and you can see it start. You
can see him start to like it churns in his
head and then everything starts to fall apart.

Speaker 5 (03:12):
And he's young.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
He's a young guy with ups and downs. Because I
saw him a week ago and he puts pretty dang good,
you know, give up.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
A couple pulled him out the third And I'm just
gonna say this, Uh, the new coach, whose name I
haven't even committed a memory yet, the new man, thank you,
manager Schaeffer comes trot now.

Speaker 5 (03:30):
He one of the things I.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
Disagreed with Bud Black's management style on and I gave
him difference because as a former major league pitcher, the
guy knows the position way better than me, right, But
I did think he lets some of the younger guys
sort of struggle too long on occasion. And last night
Shaeffer comes in, pulls Dolander out before he could spiral

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completely out of control. And he like he came out
in the first inning like an all star and just
I mean lights out in the first inning. You're like, dang,
this is going to be great. By the third inning,
it was just he was in his own head. You
could see it happen. You could watch him on the mound,
you could watch his body language. So he's got to
work through all that stuff. But the kid has an arm,

(04:13):
I mean, man, he does.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
And it's really important with pitchers, most importantly young pitchers
in Colorado or keep their confidence up because it's I mean,
it's arguably the worst and hardest place to pitch, So
it's gonna be ups and downs.

Speaker 5 (04:26):
Like I'm looking at his gamelog right now.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Last last week, like I said, went over five innings,
only three runs against the Dodgers. Pretty good performance, but overall.
He gives up that two to three to four to
five runs. His era's over six. He's young, very talented patients.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
I just you know it would be if you could
crack that nut, the psychological nut of athletic sort of prowess.
And I always think like major league pictures, what other positions? No,
I'm going to do the blog. We got too much
to do to go off on a side Rockey anyway,
continue anyway anyway, Okay, here we go. Find the blog
by going to mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline
that says seven to two twenty five blog Weather, the

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mortgage market and Henry the Eighth's six ex wives. Click
on that and here are the headlines you will find within.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
I think it's in office South American on with ships
and clippers and say that's going to press plant.

Speaker 5 (05:13):
Today on the blog.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
Get your weather questions ready, let's talk about the mortgage market.
I saw a great show a Sunday night. I went
to the Astros game last night. If you don't want
to be called groomers, why not stop this? Mayor Johnston
ticks off labor. Why is the wiser fighting to keep
illegal immigrants on medicaid. Why is this guy out of
prison scrolling Jeffka residency? It's time to step up if

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you want to watch fireworks? Will how's fiscal Hawk's cave
penn strips? Leah Thomas of Records? Did you hear about
the app to nark on ice agents? Time for a
check on the socialist utopia of Venezuela. You can't outwork
a bad diet, but don't get hung up on BMI?
How is immigration faring these days? Trump sends people into

(05:58):
a tizzy. The under Around Music festival is having its
last hurrah? Where to find free in a lock zone?
The house loses another? Republican safety tips from women who
live alone? How about some commercials with your movie? I'm
not sure what this is exactly. Living near a golf
course could be connected to Parkinson's.

Speaker 5 (06:17):
The worst first dates ever?

Speaker 4 (06:19):
Those are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com.
I don't normally Oh sorry, Nancy, Sorry, Nancy did not
mean to interrupt. I don't normally start by asking a
rod on the air, A Rod, what's a deuce? Is
this Arnold Schwarzenegger video that you sent me?

Speaker 6 (06:37):
Why?

Speaker 3 (06:37):
What is it?

Speaker 5 (06:38):
Why did you make me watch it. One word, what art?
That's what that is.

Speaker 4 (06:44):
I I'm not sure that's what I would call it.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
I would, and I'll double it's beautiful art, and you're
welcome and ecome in.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
The same way that a black velvet painting that shows
up better under a black light is our art art
to some not necessarily art to others.

Speaker 5 (07:06):
You know, his art.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
But after you made me watch it, I was like, well,
it's going on the blog now that every I'm gonna
make everybody else watch it too. I'm not going to
be the only one we have seen that. Okay, we
got three guests coming up. We got Dave Fraser, Fox
thirty one's chief meteorologists coming up at twelve thirty is
going to tell us whether or not it's going to
rain on fourth of July. And you know, this is
the fourth first fourth of July in a long time

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where we haven't had to worry about fire everywhere.

Speaker 5 (07:31):
You know, the rain we've gotten, I mean, damn, my personal.

Speaker 4 (07:35):
Trainer and I were talking about this the other day.
This summer has been an oddity in Colorado. It's been humid.
You know, we've had like regular rainfall. We haven't had
those six weeks stretches of no rain in super odd temperatures.
It's actually been kind of interesting, I think different. I'm
not complaining, to be clear. I like everything not catching

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on fire. I want to be clear about that.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yeah, And outside of those that have kind of caused
some you know, minor damage, the storms had been wicked
and for me, kind of a storm nut really cool too.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
Would you ever go storm chasing?

Speaker 5 (08:08):
Hell?

Speaker 3 (08:09):
Yeah, oh god, I wanted to. That was one of
the first things I want to be, was a tornado chaser.
Oh my gosh, Oh yeah.

Speaker 4 (08:14):
I have a friend from high school and she and
her husband take their literally their two week vacation every
year in the middle of tornado season and they go
to Oklahoma and they wait for twisters, and.

Speaker 5 (08:24):
That's what they do.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
There are crews that I follow that do things like that,
and I have contemplated on numerous occasions joining them.

Speaker 5 (08:32):
I really have.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
But then I moved to Texas with my mom for
my first job out of college, and that pretty much
killed that for a good decade. Only now am I
peaking interest together because for ten years after, I mean
really driving through some of the most crazy storms tornado
filled that was traumatizing.

Speaker 5 (08:50):
So that killed that for a decade to me.

Speaker 4 (08:52):
Yeah, I can see, oh god, yeah, terrifying. And that's
why I don't want to do it.

Speaker 5 (08:56):
Do it pros or don't do it at all.

Speaker 4 (08:58):
I'm not running into I'm not running into a tornado.
It's not gonna happen.

Speaker 5 (09:02):
Mandy.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
I've not seen this Arnold video, but I think I
knew exactly which one it is. I. Well, you're gonna
see it now if you go to the blog, Mandy.
I and several people around me were wearing Rocky shirts
last night.

Speaker 5 (09:13):
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (09:14):
I don't want to make it seem like nobody was
wearing a Rocky shirt, but when we were walking around
the concourse, very few people were wearing Rockies gear, and
that's a huge source of income. I would love to
see the numbers on concessions and merchandise for the Rockies
this year. I would love to see it, because who's

(09:34):
going out and buying Rockies gear this year?

Speaker 5 (09:36):
Well for the food, I'll tell you this really surprising.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
When we were getting poured on and everyone in their
mother was on the concourse, the line still wasn't that
bad to get food?

Speaker 5 (09:46):
Everyone was just chilling. But not many people were in
the food line.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
Like nobody everyone in their mother mind you, not in
their seat a chance to get food. Still not much
of a line. Yeah yeah, got a good sime. My
dad liked this hot dog, so that's good.

Speaker 5 (10:02):
Hey, there you go.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
You know they look on the bright side. My hot
dog was I ate a hot dog last night. I
had a hot dog last night. This is not soda approved.
I'm just letting you know right now. So I ate
a hot dog last night, chicken tender, and then.

Speaker 5 (10:16):
I ate some of I will say this.

Speaker 4 (10:18):
We hosted the Sweet last night for the giveaway we
did the winners of the fundraiser that we did for
my daughter's criminal Justice club. We paid it off last
night with Liz and her friends and they were an
absolute delight. But we let them order the food for
the sweet, and they chose the macaroni and cheese with
brisket on it. Holy mother of God, it was. It

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was I could have eaten the whole pan I did.
I didn't show restraint. I did show restraint. I just
had a little bit. But last night we're driving home
and I.

Speaker 5 (10:48):
Was like, oh my god, I feel awful. Is this terrible. Yeah, carbs.

Speaker 4 (10:56):
So I got back up this morning and had my
unsugar bacon and my two eggs.

Speaker 5 (11:00):
You didn't okay, no, no, no, no, I didn't do that.

Speaker 4 (11:03):
All right, at twoint thirty, I have Casey Schwartz coffee.
He is with American Financing Right now. There's something happening
in the economy that is incredibly significant, and that is
the housing market is frozen. And it's frozen because there's
two things happening. Number one, the mortgage rates are hovering

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between six point five and seven percent. Now in light
of recent mortgage rates of two and three and four percent,
people are like, I'm not paying that. But the reality
is is that that is.

Speaker 5 (11:38):
The historical norm.

Speaker 4 (11:40):
The problem is with returning to the historical norm is
that when interest rates were at two percent, people were
offering a lot more money for homes because they could
afford a higher pay, They could afford a bigger price
tag because mortgage rates were so low, so they were
only paying three or four percent on a larger sum
of money. So it drove prices way up. And now

(12:02):
that mortgage rates are where they need to be, prices
are still really high now in some markets and I
had this story on the blog yesterday Cape Coral, Florida,
where I lived for five years, where I picked up
a husband and two sons.

Speaker 5 (12:13):
So it's not all bad.

Speaker 4 (12:14):
But Cape Coral, Florida in two thousand and eight and
two thousand and nine was the epicenter of the housing meltdown.
Cape Coral for eighteen months almost two years, was number
one in the country foreclosures per capita for two years
almost And now they are seeing price reductions happening. And

(12:34):
if you're looking for a home in Florida right now,
if you want a home in Florida, I am telling you.

Speaker 5 (12:39):
There are deals to be had right now.

Speaker 4 (12:43):
Because a lot of people moved to Florida during COVID
because they wanted to live in a free state, right
and I'm tired of the weather up north. I'm tired
of it, it's so called in the winter. I'm going
to move to Florida. So they sell everything they moved
to Florida only to find out a lot of Florida
is so flipp and hot and miserable. I mean, you guys,

(13:06):
whoof so humid, so hot? And people can't handle that
sometimes plus homeowners insurance. Do you think we have a
homeowner's insurance issue here in Colorado laughable compared to the
homeowners crisis homeowners insurance crisis in Florida. Right now, homeowners
insurance for some of my friends is eight thousand dollars
a year. Some of my friends are paying like fifteen

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thousand dollars a year in homeowners insurance. So homeowners insurance
is killing people. So now people are trying to sell
their houses and then do not buy a condo. Listen
to words that I'm saying. If you want a property
in Florida, I do not buy a condo because after
the collapse of the condo building in Fort Lauderdale a
few years ago, the Colorado legislature passed a law that said,

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every I think five years, condos have to do a
full structural inspection, which means if your structural inspection comes
back with a problem, you are going to be assessed
for the amount of fixed Now, in reality, that's pretty fair,
But the problem is you have a lot of older
people on a fixed income who bought their condos thirty
years ago.

Speaker 5 (14:08):
They don't have that kind of scratch. They just don't.

Speaker 4 (14:12):
So there's a lot of issues going on in the
housing market. And here in Colorado, we have more houses
on the market than we have had in probably seven
or eight years right now, but no one's buying them
because mortgage rates are really high. And I'm telling you
right now, if you want to sell your house right now,
it better be move in ready. Nobody's looking for a

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project because houses are too their price too high for
you to move in and have a bunch of projects.
So ed Pray there can help you with all that stuff.
This is one of my frustrations with the Big Beautiful Bill.
A huge frustration is that if Republican lawmakers understood this

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basic fact what I'm about to tell you, The basic
fact is this mortgage rates are tied to the ten
year treasury yield. That is what they're tied to for
a whole variety of reasons that I'm not going to
go into here, but it has to do with the
fact that a mortgage is a long term investment. It's
not a short term investment. So they can't just say, uh, oh,

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it's going to be this right now. It has to
be tied to something that is a longer term investment,
and right now, treasury yields are sitting at four point
two ninety six percent for the ten year treasury. The
only way to bring that yield down is for investors
to get a sense that Americans and particularly the government,
are serious about doing something about debt. And once they're

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serious about doing something about debt, our treasury bounds get
more attractive. We can lower the interest rate and still
sell them. The interest rate goes up because no one
will buy them because they don't think we're going to
be good for it, because of the way we're spending
like drunken monkeys. So if the Republicans in Congress actually
showed any sort of fiscal you know, fortitude here and

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really said we're going after We're just gonna go after
this deficit, the bond rate would drop in terms of yield,
and then mortgage rates would drop, and.

Speaker 5 (16:09):
Then you know what happens.

Speaker 4 (16:11):
The economy is absolutely unleashed because of everything that is
attached to housing. So frustrating, so frustrating. Mandy, I love
the old New York Jewish woman impression.

Speaker 5 (16:26):
That's just that.

Speaker 4 (16:27):
That that is also Hartford, Connecticut. In case you were
wondering back up north, this is how we do it.
We'll move back north. Then it's too.

Speaker 5 (16:36):
Cold up there. It's too cold. I can't do it.

Speaker 4 (16:41):
That's pretty much what Fort Lauderdale sounds like.

Speaker 5 (16:43):
And Boca.

Speaker 4 (16:44):
Forget about Boca anyway. Mandy on a one million dollar
house north northeast of Cheyenne, I'm paying about ten thousand
a year in homeowners insurance. Mandy, I currently like you,
but I would love you if you did the rest
of that show in that accent. I can, but I
will not because it will drive everyone else away.

Speaker 5 (17:02):
Mandy. I have a home in Florida and Colorado.

Speaker 4 (17:04):
My homeowners insurance in Florida is twenty five hundred per year.
In Orlando, my homeowners insurance in Colorado is sixty two
hundred per year. Depends on the location. You may be
one of the lucky few in Orlando that's not in
a flood zone, because that's what's killing my friends. My
friends live on lakes and things like that, and because
they're in a flood zone, they have to buy flood insurance.

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You know, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. How's the
weather in Miami? The first week of October could be
blazingly hot, it could be pleasant. You don't know what
you're gonna get. That's kind of a you pick them, Mandy.
They do know whose pockets that are are they in?
Our government doesn't care.

Speaker 5 (17:46):
But here's the thing.

Speaker 4 (17:49):
If the Republicans are in charge, when they unleash the economy,
then they get credit, and that means they stay in power,
and that is very appealing for politicians. So when we
get back, we've got Dave Fraser joining us. But later
on at one o'clock, I saw the best show on

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Sunday night. It's a show put on by a theater
group called the Student Theater Passion Project, and it was
a performance of the musical six, which I had never seen.
It's a delightful musical. The cast was all high school
or early college girls and it was basically in a
theater that's in.

Speaker 5 (18:28):
A garage, and I loved it so much.

Speaker 4 (18:31):
I walked up to the director, who looks like she's
about twelve to me, and I said, will you come
on my radio show? So Brooklyn Stevens from the Student
Theater Passion Project is going to join us at one o'clock.
It's going to be a fun and fast show, so
stick around. We're not going to waste well, no, I
mean always some of your time, but probably not all.

Speaker 5 (18:49):
Of it at all.

Speaker 4 (18:53):
So nine Republicans have voted, not voting on the big
beautiful bill. We'll see if it makes out of the house.
More on that in a bit, but first, Dave Fraser
coming up next. The best meteorologist I know, well, at
least the one on the phone with me right now.
I do know more than one meteorologist. And as I
said that, I was like, oh my gosh, what if
they hear me and I hurt their feelings? But you're

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my favorite day. I'll say it bye.

Speaker 7 (19:18):
How are you?

Speaker 5 (19:19):
I'm good. I'm good.

Speaker 4 (19:20):
So everybody wants to know what the weather is going
to be like for the fireworks on Friday. So let's
jump right into that first, shall we.

Speaker 6 (19:29):
Yep, I was anticipating that, like we talked about last week.
I just got through with updating our seven day forecast
and looking into the details for the afternoon in the
evening on Friday the fourth. And it's not bad news.
It's not dry, but it is a low chance for
scattered thunderstorms. And I have to underscore the words scattered.
There's been scattered storms the last few days here and there.

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There's many people who could probably listening to you right
now say I haven't seen the drop of rain, and
that's going to be the case on Friday. I think
this storm tomorrow Thursday come up a little later. Normally
we say two to six tomorrow. I think we may
have to wait till four to seven to see a
few scavenge songs. And then on Friday, I think it
is a traditional two to six in the front range.

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So'll think from Cheyenne, Wyoming, all the way to say
Castle Rock, Monument Hill in Colorado Springs. They'll come off
the foothills, they'll dot the landscape, they may have gusty wind,
they'll have some lightning, you might get some rain out
of them. Sometimes you get more wind than rain at
this time of the year. And then they move east
onto the plains. But even on the planes, it looks
like the timing is they're out of the state by
eight o'clock. So for evening fireworks displays, the professional ones,

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the community ones, I think we're looking good. I really do.
But if you have outdoor plans on Friday and you're
going to be near a body of water or you're
out camping or whatever, you just have to be listening,
watching the skies, and if something heads your away, just
give it a little time and wait about a half
an hour after the last rumble of thunder and go
back to whatever your festivities are.

Speaker 4 (20:53):
For the four Of course, you can always download the
pinfoint weather app that will give you lightning war sit
there in your area too. That's the easiest way to
do that. I want to ask you something. Aron and
I were talking about this at the beginning of the show.
I was talking to my personal trainer about this. And
she's a native Colorado and she's, you know, in her
sixties and she's been her entire life, and we were
talking about this summer is a little bit weird for Colorado.

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And I'm not saying bad because I love it. The
things are not catching on fire, right like, I'm enjoying
the heck out of that. But we've had a very
it's been humid, you know, We've had regular rainstorms and
thunderstorms and things like that. Is this a strange weather
pattern for us? Am I misreading this now?

Speaker 6 (21:34):
Actually? I think what it is is it's the short
term memory of the last couple of maybe three to
five summers of blazing heat and fire concerns. This actually
made was very good to us. As you know, we
were above normal for precipitation and the temperatures were just
a little below. June has actually been seasonal. I mean
what we experienced in June, we had stretches of slightly

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below normal temperatures but nothing cold, and we had stretches
of ninety plus degree heat. We got the ninety nine
a couple of days in a row almost one hundred degrees.
Didn't reach the century mark, but the month of June
actually only ended up zero point eight degrees, eight tenths
of the degree above normal. And it wasn't the highs
that averaged us up that eight tenths of degree. It

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was the morning loaves that pumped us up just beyond normal,
which was kind of interesting. So even though we had
those hot stretches, even though we had ninety eight, ninety nine,
ninety seven degree days, it was the lows that pumped
us just above average. And for Lois we ended up
a quarter of an inch ahead. The most we had
was one point three inches. That was a soggy I'm
trying to remember what day it was. It might have

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been a Saturday early in the month. So we're okay,
and here we are. You know, last night we start
the month of July. Yesterday we hit ninety three degrees
that's above average. Average right now is eighty nine, so
it's four degrees above. But we have a thunderstorm come
right up over the airport and it dumped three a
third of an inch. So here we are the second

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small and on the first day on a month when
we get two point one four inches of rain, we
already got a third of an inch.

Speaker 4 (23:06):
So that was fantastic to your point, though, not everybody's
getting the rain equally. What's what's fascinating. As I was
driving home on Sunday night from Aurora down into Dougco
and it was pouring in Aurora, I mean pouring, and
then by they it's like I crossed the doug Coot
line and nothing, nothing, It all stops and it's like, oh, okay,
well it's not raining here. So if people are not

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getting the kind of rain that we're talking about, you're
just unlucky, I guess.

Speaker 5 (23:31):
But overall, I mean it's been it's been a net positive,
but I don't recall it.

Speaker 4 (23:36):
It feels humid. Is our humidity higher? Am I just
having residual humidity attacks from Japan.

Speaker 6 (23:44):
Yeah. No, Actually, it's been right where we should be
at this time of the year. We tend to kind
of look out for the start of the monsoons, right,
So you and you and I've talked here on your
show many many times about the humidity and due point
and how humidity is a percentage of the moisture in
the air, where due point is an actual measurement of
the moisture. Generally, what we look for is due points

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that signal the start of the monsoon rains that are
going to be in the mid fifties. Right We've been
going back and forth from the upper forties to the
low fifties. We've had a few days that got in
the upper fifties, and those are the days that it
may have felt more humid and yielded us good rain.
But right now our due points are just about where
they should be. They're not high enough to be considered monsoon.

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They're not really significantly above what we would expect, but
they're high enough that the heating of the day, and
we're getting into the hottest part of the summer here
in July, that we can trigger storms as the landscape
heats up, so it's decent, but I wouldn't call it,
you know, for Colorado. I mean, you know, fifty sixty
percent humidity is like, oh my goodness.

Speaker 5 (24:47):
Well, yeah, that's it.

Speaker 6 (24:50):
But you've got to go to the Midwest, where, like
we look at due points in the mid fifties to
about sixty degrees to be considered Colorado humid. But you
can go into the Midwest and find those same due
points press ofly thick. Yeah, where you can drink the air.

Speaker 5 (25:03):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 4 (25:04):
I mean when I remember when I first came out here,
right after I got my job, so this would have
been like April May before. No, wait a minute, it
was August. I guess when I started out here. I
can't remember. The days were all jumbled together. So I
go to a baseball game with my boss and his
boss at the time, and we're sitting there. Now, I'm
coming from Louisville, Kentucky, where every day is a swamp

(25:25):
right to your point. Every day it's like eighty five
percent humidity. It's miserable every day. And we're sitting at
coursefield and I'm thinking to myself, this is glorious. This
is the greatest weather I have ever experienced in an
August in my lifetime.

Speaker 5 (25:40):
And they look at me and go, God, it's.

Speaker 4 (25:42):
So humid right now, because they're apologizing because it's not
normally and it was like forty percent humidity.

Speaker 5 (25:49):
Dave and I just laughed. I was like, you've got
to be kidding me. This is glorious.

Speaker 4 (25:53):
So I've got a couple questions from the text line
I want to get in before we run out of time.

Speaker 5 (25:57):
This one is Mandy. Sunday evening.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
We had a thunderstorm that had constant thunder and lightning rumbling,
but the lightning never appeared to come in contact with
the ground.

Speaker 5 (26:07):
Please out, Dave, explain this.

Speaker 6 (26:10):
It's cloud to cloud lightning, so that that is a
type of the strike that we can get and that
generally happens with what we call nocturnal storms. The storms
are still electric, but they're not as vibrant as they
would be during the day where they have a little
more electricity. And so we call that cloud to cloud
lightning that you see at night, and it is vivid
and it lights up the sky and it can be
continuous in that type of an environment. We also, I'll

(26:33):
just briefly touch on. You know, people in the Midwest
always refer to a lightning that they can't hear thunder
a heat lightning, because you know, it's on a warm,
humid night in the plans and you're looking off in
the distance, you can't hear the thunder, and people refer
to that as heat lighting. There's no such thing as
heat lightning. It's just a thunderstorm that's so far away
you can't hear the thunder. So got as long as

(26:55):
we were talking about lightning.

Speaker 4 (26:56):
Here's the possibly most ridiculous, but question I read want
the answer to. We've ever gotten how many different suits
does Dave have to wear for all his shows? Does
his closet look like Henry Hill from Goodfellas?

Speaker 6 (27:11):
You know, we rotate through them, we try an update
and it's like a typical wardrobe.

Speaker 4 (27:15):
You know.

Speaker 6 (27:15):
Here's the funny thing. I talk with guys that work
about this all the time. You know, women I have
to go on TV and they have to have numerous houses. Honestly,
a guy could wear a black suit with a white
shirt and change his kigh five days in a row,
and I guarantee you most people won't know it. And
there was a guy in Australia television newscaster in Australia

(27:36):
who did that for an entire year and nobody noticed,
of course that he was wearing the same one. And
there's some guys locally that do the same thing. I mean,
Jay Leno wears the same pair of jean shirt and
jean pants. He's got, like, you know, so many of them.
But it's the same thing every day. And there's a
couple of guys on Nightline on NBC that do the

(27:56):
same Watch them. They wear the same attire. It's the
same black guy shirt and black suit every single time
they're on.

Speaker 4 (28:02):
Well, you know, now I have my little side project.
I got this YouTube show with my friend Debra Flora
and we are literally like, oh my god, when can
we start repeating outfits because neither of us are what
you would call a clothes horse. And you know, I
work in radio, Dave, I mean, I barely wear pants
to the office most days, so it's.

Speaker 5 (28:19):
Like wearing clothes that people are going to see.

Speaker 4 (28:22):
That's like a whole new ball game that I'm not
quite sure what to do it. So I don't envy
that at all. For the folks working in TV, and
having that added pressure of having to look good too.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (28:33):
Well, and there's seasonal right, certain suits looking a little
better in different seasons than you rotate through. And then everyhow,
and then you know, every a couple of years you
go out and buy three or four suits and kind
of spice up the wardrobe. I really think it's the
tie that makes the difference, and I look for ties
that are bold but not flashy, that stand out against
a white shirt. I always wear white shirts. I think
white shirts are better than colored or striped or patterned shirts.

(28:56):
I think the tie pops on a white shirt. I
always wear white shirts. And I look for ties that
can cross over different color suits, so they you know,
the color stands out with a black suit, but can
also stand out with a gray suit, and so you
can get multiple uses out of ties with different setups.

Speaker 5 (29:11):
Dave gets my fashion. Dave Frazier gets it, baby. He knows.

Speaker 4 (29:15):
Dave knows what's up, and you can see and judge
his fashion accordingly as he gives you the most accurate
forecast on Fox thirty one.

Speaker 5 (29:24):
Dave Frazer, good to talk to you, my friend. I'll
talk to you next week.

Speaker 6 (29:27):
Happy forteen, Hey, Hey, Rod. Everybody over at the iHeart
and to all of your listeners and our viewers. Everybody
have a safe holiday.

Speaker 4 (29:34):
Hey you too, my friend. We'll talk to you next week.

Speaker 5 (29:36):
We will be right back.

Speaker 4 (29:38):
Jefferson County is asking residents to step up and volunteer
to be on some boards and commissions. And well, this
is still wrong. I swear I thought I fixed this earlier.
Oh hang on, let me refresh that and see if
I fixed it. I had flipped two of the links
I linked to the wrong story, and I went back
and fixed it thanks to the texter who not only said, hey,

(29:59):
I read the blog, but you screwed up these two links.
I can't tell you how much that means to me
that you actually went and clicked the links.

Speaker 5 (30:05):
Yes, I fixed it now.

Speaker 4 (30:08):
And the reason I'm bringing this up is because Jefferson County,
when I first moved here, was far more conservative in
the representation, whether it's the school board, the County commission,
anything than it is now. And I don't think it's
going in the right direction under the current leadership. And
right now, there are vacancies across twenty three of the
county's thirty one boards and committees, and you have to

(30:30):
apply to be on these boards and committees. You got
to apply by July twenty ninth. Evaluations are in August
and appointments are in September.

Speaker 5 (30:40):
Why would you want to do this?

Speaker 4 (30:41):
Well, everybody complains about it things are going in their community,
but they don't actually participate and volunteer to take on
the load of some of this stuff. And I'm going
to be honest when I say a lot of the
time when people volunteer for a boarder commission, it sort
of starts them down a path of being more and
more involved. A lot of people who end up running

(31:02):
for office. And I'm not saying if you're on a
boarder commission you're gonna run for office. That's not what
I'm saying. But a lot of people who eventually do
run for office do so because they've seen how the
sausage is made and they think, oh my gosh, I
can do better than that. Right now, the board currently
appoints three hundred citizens to serve on boards and commissions,
and the Vacancy's cover topics like the Board of Health,

(31:25):
the Airport Advisory Board, the Liquor License Authority, and the
Community Corrections Board. So there's tons of opportunities to participate,
and we need people right of center to start stepping
up and stepping into these roles.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
I know.

Speaker 4 (31:42):
One of the things about conservatives that makes it really
difficult sometimes is that we value our individualism and a
lot of people on the right are not necessarily joiners.
I'm not a joiner, no, don't get me wrong. Like
I love working and volunteering and being a cog in
the machine, I don't want to be in charge of
the machine. I just I'm an excellent volunteer I am.

(32:04):
I don't want to be in leadership. I just have
too much other stuff that I need to do. And
I'm sure a lot of you feel the same way.
Terms range from one year to as much as six
There's a website that you can go and check it out.
But certain boards do require some specific criteria, so make
sure you do that. But go ahead, and we're all complaining,
but do something, whether it's being a volunteer to be

(32:26):
a cog in the wheel, or stepping up and being
on one of these boards and commissions. I will tell
you this, when I retire, I fully intend to be
one of those people that retires and gets all up
in everybody's business on boards and commissions because I'll have
way more time then, So I'd love it if some
of you Jeff Coo folks would consider signing up for
some of these roles. Kathleen Chandler at the Independence Institute

(32:49):
does a great class on why participating in these boards
and commissions is so important. And you know, we all
talk about the presidential election, but it's these boards and
commissions that make rules at the local life that are
going to have a far greater impact on your life
than anything President Trump is going to do in the
new year term, right, I mean that's the reality. So

(33:10):
get involved, Jeff co You've got a great opportunity, and
maybe checking your own county to find out about being
on a board or commission yourself. Now, when we get back,
I mentioned this before. First of all, I think if
you've listened to the show, you know that I am
a failed theater major. I dropped out of college before
I graduated, but I was a theater major. I was
involved in community theater for all of my childhood because

(33:32):
my mom helped start the community theater in my hometown.
I love community theater, and when I say community theater,
I'm not talking about Broadway level performances. I'm talking about
people who have talent, who love to perform, who go
and give it their all and do an amazing job.
And Sunday night I went to a performance at the
Roaming Gnome Theater in Aurora, put on by a little

(33:54):
group called the Student Theater Passion Project, and I loved
it so much I stopped the director and you have
to come on my show and talk about this. And
we're going to do that next with Brooklyn Stevens.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Accident and injury Lawyers.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
No, it's Mandy Connell and Dona on KLA ninety four
one FM.

Speaker 5 (34:19):
S got Way.

Speaker 4 (34:23):
They us free, Many Connell, Keith sad Thing. Welcome, Welcome,
Welcome to the second hour of the show. I'm your
host for the next two hours. Now Mandy Connell, joined,
of course, by my right hand man. I call him
a rod you can call him Anthony Rodriguez. Oh, little
tiny baby here horn. It's my favorite. Okay, So Sunday night,

(34:45):
my daughter says, we have to go see my friend
Hayley perform in this play that they're doing in Aurora, and.

Speaker 5 (34:53):
You have to go with me, and let's go.

Speaker 4 (34:55):
And we went, and first of all, was a show
that I had not seen, and I had only heard
good things about out and they are all accurate. The
show is six. It is currently still on Broadway. It's
going to be coming. The Broadway version is going to
be coming through the DCPA this upcoming season. I'm relatively certain. Yeah,
I think it's coming this upcoming season. But the show
is about Henry the Eight's six ex wives, and I

(35:18):
don't want to give up too much, but it is
wildly entertaining. It's a musical. It's fun. The music is great.
And on Sunday night we went and saw performance put
together by a little student theater. Passion Project is the
name of the company in this little theater that looks
like it is a converted garage, and it is all
high school students or early college students. Six young women

(35:41):
on the stage doing the show. And the director of
the show is another woman who when I saw her,
I was like, I think she's twelve years old, but
apparently she's older than that. Her name is Brooklyn Stevens,
and she's joining me now to talk about her Passion project,
which is this theater group.

Speaker 5 (35:56):
Brooklyn, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 8 (36:00):
Hello, welcome, I'm so excited.

Speaker 5 (36:02):
Well Brooklyn, First of all, how old are you?

Speaker 8 (36:06):
I'm eighteen years old?

Speaker 4 (36:07):
Okay, okay, So I was not totally like that far
off that I was like, she looks like she's twelve.
Let's talk about First of all, we're going to talk
about the Student Theater Passion Project. Then we'll talk about
Roaming Gnome and what they do, because that's really cool too.
I had never heard of them, So we'll talk about
what they're providing for you. What is the Student Theater
Passion Project. What happened here?

Speaker 1 (36:28):
So?

Speaker 8 (36:29):
I was introduced to a student led production of Haitiestown
last summer, and I met a ton of amazing students
and people there who really became a family. And I
talked about the possibility of starting to direct my own show,
and so did a lot of other of the a
lot of other people a part of this production. And

(36:52):
then I just decided in like late November early December,
that I was going to direct sixteen editions throughout the
spring and summer of this year.

Speaker 4 (37:02):
Now, tell me the difference for people that don't know
about these teen Edition shows because they're not exactly like
the show, but they're very very close. How how how
do they differ from the show you might see on Broadway?

Speaker 8 (37:16):
It differs as like the script has changed a little
bit because of some perhaps an undos or some language.
But six is honestly a really family friendly show for
a lot of people. It's a lot different than let's say,
like Heather's teen Edition because that one's a lot darker,
so a lot of lyric changes have to go towards

(37:36):
that one. But six is pretty much the same show
for teens and for the adult actors on Broadway.

Speaker 4 (37:42):
So this is all teen actors. How do you How
did you find the actors? Did you have tryouts and
all that stuff? Tell me about that process.

Speaker 8 (37:50):
So this all started. I made an Instagram account after Thestcon,
which was in early December, and a lot of people
ended up it on Instagram when I sent out a
whole casting call, and then I had virtual auditions start
coming in, and then I gave everybody a callback for
at least one character and they all came to my house,

(38:13):
which honestly seems a little sketchy for somebody who've never
met I definitely have another plan for when I do
that again, as I know another little theater that I
could do callbacks at and such. So then I did
callbacks and then the rest is history. Casted the show
and now it's on.

Speaker 4 (38:32):
Well, to be clear, you casted the show twice. There
are two different casts that do this show. How did
that pan out? Why did you end up with two
different casts?

Speaker 8 (38:43):
I ended up with two different casts because I felt
like to have I had about thirty people audition and
I felt that just taking out of those thirty six
girls was not fair to a lot of these girls.
And so that's why I ended up doing two casts.
And there was also just so much talent to go around,

(39:04):
and I was just like so overwhelmed with so much
support and love.

Speaker 4 (39:08):
And yeah, well the show was dynamite on Sunday Night.
Now you're gonna have the I believe the Bolin cast
is coming up in the next few productions. Well, let's
talk about the Roaming Nome Theater. This little tiny space
that has a little set, It has a little snack bar.
I mean it has it's like a little miniature theater.
How what is the Roaming Nome Theater?

Speaker 5 (39:31):
Uh, Roaming Nome Theater.

Speaker 8 (39:32):
I've been a part of Roaming Home Theater since twenty
twenty three, when my mom found it out of the
blue on Google or like with her coworkers, and I
started doing shows there. My first show there was Footloose,
and that was a great production. Roaming Nome has really
been such a detrimental part to our success, and honestly,
I think if we had an even bigger space for six,

(39:55):
we wouldn't know what to do with the room, if
I'm being completely honest, because the show it was just
so good and it's so tiny. But it's like if
we had like a four hundred theater theater, I would
not know what to do. I would have felt so overwhelmed.
But Roaminggnome helps set up tickets for us. They're obviously
do they're doing the stack bar. They've really been just

(40:18):
so helpful, and they have summer camps going on like
every single day, so it's like they're doing summer camps
all day long, and then we'd come in at night
to come and rehearse and set up and do everything.
And I'm honestly just like so grateful for them, especially
Alex Oliver Boston. She's one of my favorite directors and
she's just like the kindest human soul.

Speaker 4 (40:38):
Now that's a big thing to step in and direct
a show. And is this the first time you've directed
a show yourself.

Speaker 8 (40:46):
Yes, this is the first time I've directed a show.
I plan to go into theater education at the University
of Northern Colorado, Go Bears, And I've met so many
people up there already, and so many people are actual
really interested in coming down and you know, doing a
show under me in the future up there already, and

(41:07):
so many people have already reached out to me, especially
after this first weekend, which the show was just going
to get better in my opinion, especially with two casts.

Speaker 4 (41:15):
And what I love about this is like our audience
was full of the friends and family of the girls
who were on the stage, so they were into it
and they were clapping.

Speaker 5 (41:25):
And having fun. It was just a blast.

Speaker 4 (41:27):
And I got to tell you the young women, how
old are How old is your cast?

Speaker 3 (41:32):
Like?

Speaker 5 (41:32):
What range do you have in this cast?

Speaker 8 (41:35):
So between both casts, the cast ranges from girls who
just finished their freshman year of high school to girls
who have just finished high school year high school and
are now going to college. So it's really like fourteen
fifteen and up, which is honestly so great. Yeah, our
youngest queen on that stage that is going to be

(41:58):
in the Blink cast is are and of Leaves. Her
name is Kiri Cantrell. She is the funniest human being.
And then it's like, then we've got a lot of
seniors in the show, so it's really great. A lot
of them are going into their senior year though.

Speaker 4 (42:13):
Oh but that's okay. Brooklyn Stevens is my guest. She's
with the Student Theater Passion Project. Now, Brooklyn, this is
the first year of the Student Theater Passion Project. Have
you chosen a show to do next time? You and
I were kind of talking off the air and you're like, well,
maybe we'll do a bunch of one acts or something
like that. Are you kind of trying to figure out
what you want to do next?

Speaker 8 (42:33):
Yes, I totally am. Next summer, I really really want
to do a Mama Mia. That is a show I've
been wanting to.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
Do for many, many years.

Speaker 8 (42:43):
I'm right now just depending on when those auditions and
stuff go out. Right now, it's looking like we'll be
at Roaming Home again and like do a lot of
fun things there. But it's like, if we get like
fifty people to audition, then then it's like I could
get an even bigger theater. And then I was talking
about maybe doing a one act festival with a couple people,

(43:07):
which I would be so excited to do because I
just love one act there. I find that the best
monologues come from.

Speaker 4 (43:15):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, because you got to do a
lot in one act. You got to tell the whole
story in one act. You know, there's a lot of
pressure on those one act shows to get that entire
story arc in very very quickly. Well, Brooklyn Stevens, I'm
a fan. I can't wait to see what you guys
do next. I need you to put out a newsletter
or something, or a Facebook group that I can join
and follow along so I can keep following. The next

(43:37):
performances of six at the Roamingnme Theater are July even, eleventh, twelfth,
and thirteenth, And I want to be clear for my audience,
this is community theater. You're not going to go there
and expect Broadway. That is unrealistic. But these girls that
I saw in this cast, and I'm assuming in the
other cast as well, are so talented, and they left nothing,

(43:58):
They left nothing on the stage. They just went all
out and I loved it. I thought the performances were
fantastic and for a first time director, hats off to you,
Brooklyn for such an amazing job.

Speaker 8 (44:11):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
That really means the world to me.

Speaker 5 (44:14):
Oh, it was great.

Speaker 4 (44:15):
I can't wait to see what you do next to
Maybe we'll have you on in the future to talk
about the next Student Passion Project production.

Speaker 8 (44:22):
Yes, that would be great.

Speaker 4 (44:23):
All right, thanks Brooklyn, Thank you all right. I've got
links on the blog for both things. I've got links
to buy tickets to the teen edition of six and
I also have links to the Roaming Nome Theater cutest
little theater you ever saw in your life. I just
I loved it, and they have all kinds of stuff
going on there. They're doing Twelfth Night with another theater company,
and we just I love people who love to perform.

(44:47):
I just I thoroughly enjoy it. I appreciate it, and
I personally believe that theater, more than most other art forms,
is something that translates into every other part of your life.

Speaker 5 (44:57):
Did you do theater at all?

Speaker 4 (44:59):
A rod because you should be a theater kid, like
you should have been a theater kid if.

Speaker 5 (45:02):
You're not face. I know what you're saying, Andy Connell.

Speaker 3 (45:05):
I know, of course I was in musicals, and I
was in one play I think in high school because
it was like a hybrid like musical plaything.

Speaker 5 (45:13):
But I almost went to I seriously consider going to
UNC for singing.

Speaker 4 (45:19):
Eh, it's so useful even if you're not pursuing any
kind of you know, path in theater. Number one, it's
the most fun thing you'll ever do in your life.
Number two, all of those skills being able to stand
in front of people, knowing what to say, being able
to engage with people, having spotlights in your face, and
not freaking out, all of those things are valuable going forward.

Speaker 3 (45:39):
So I very much agree. I don't even know what
stage fright means. Yes, exactly.

Speaker 4 (45:44):
Please ask her if the STPP is for female actors only.

Speaker 9 (45:47):
It is not. It is.

Speaker 4 (45:48):
There are boys in the crew, in the pit, in
the band. They had a band on stage, and this
particular show is six women only. That's the only people
in the show. So this particular show is for was
all female actors. This texter said Mandy. I think it's
awesome that you talked to the director afterward to express
your appreciation. I've been working to teach my son to
do a lot of that type of thing. I thanked

(46:09):
a judge at a recent competition for his work. His
response was, here are the blonde kids, dad, aren't you
hashtag winning? Let me just say this so on our cruise,
on our Japan trip, the cruise director of our ship,
the Celebrity Millennium, his name is Patrick. And I saw
Patrick one time and I said, oh, we've had that
guy on a ship before, because he was incredible. He's

(46:32):
one of those people that he's busy, he has a
million different things to do, but whenever a passenger stopped him,
he stopped everything he was doing and gave one hundred
percent of his attention to that passenger. They were the
most important person in the world to him, and he
did not rush them. He let them say. Plus, he
was funny as hell, very talented guy. And I walked
up to him like midway through the cruise, I said, Patrick,

(46:54):
I've had you on another cruise before.

Speaker 5 (46:56):
I remember you. He said, how do you know?

Speaker 4 (46:57):
I said, you are extremely memorable first of all, and
then we walked back his career and found which trip
we had been on a ship with him. But I
think everybody who does a good job you guys, nobody, I.

Speaker 5 (47:09):
Mean, just do it.

Speaker 4 (47:10):
You'll never regret walking up and saying, Wow, that was amazing,
what a great job you just did. First of all,
I love a good cruise director, Lee and Joey. I
remember both of them for our first two cruises, hopefully
our third and all the rest.

Speaker 5 (47:20):
We do continue that. But I don't do it only
because no one else does it.

Speaker 3 (47:24):
But it's a little factor as to why I make
a point, whether it be performers, cruise director like you
just said, bartenders, anyone at a restaurant, especially if they're
doing a phenomenal job, and a little bit more so
if I noticed that's going unrecognized, right, I make a
point to let them know, you guys are awesome, appreciate
everything you're doing.

Speaker 5 (47:43):
I would definitely want to come back because of you.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
Like letting those people know that those things and again
not a main point why I do it, but it
does become a factor.

Speaker 5 (47:53):
A lot of people don't do stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (47:55):
The next to the last night on the ship. They
have all the officers where you can go and get
picture taken with all.

Speaker 5 (48:01):
The officers for the ship. YEP.

Speaker 4 (48:02):
I walked up to this group of officers and I said,
which one of you is the hotel manager? And this
guy raises his vand I said, I don't know what
you are feeding these people. I don't know what's in
the water, but this staff that you have is literally
the most incredible staff I've ever had on any ship,
on any hotel ever before. I've never had better service
in my life than I had on that cruise ship.
So of course he sends a bottle of champagne and

(48:23):
chocolate cover strawberries to our room, and I was like,
that was not why I did that, but thank you.

Speaker 5 (48:28):
But yeah, tell people that are doing a great job.

Speaker 4 (48:31):
And it's such a small thing, and you can make
someone's days so easily, so easily.

Speaker 3 (48:37):
Especially on a cruise because if I had to agree
with just one, just one criticism of my favorite cruise
line and Carnival, it is that the other patrons are
not that friendly on a cruise too.

Speaker 4 (48:54):
Oh see, this is where this is where cruise lines matter.
And I'm just gonna say this, Not only was everybody
that we encountered delightful to the staff at one of
our one of the guys. Okay, so we were in
the retreat, which is the bougie area, and they have
their own lounge. So every morning I would get up
and I would go and I would have a cappuccino
with Jan the retreat lounge, you attendant. They were first

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thing at six o'clock in the morning. And I was
chatting with Jan at length one day and he said,
I worked for three different cruise lines and I will
never work for another company because all of the people
on Celebrity are the nicest people you ever meet in
your life.

Speaker 5 (49:31):
And that's been our experience. Everybody we met on that ship.

Speaker 4 (49:34):
And we met a ton of people on that ship,
they were all delightful, delightful people.

Speaker 5 (49:38):
In a good mood.

Speaker 4 (49:39):
I didn't see a single person be rude to a
single staff member the entire time we were on the ship.
Cruise line matters, and it's more of the cruise clientel
matters well.

Speaker 3 (49:49):
The clientele and our experience has been really good to
each other and great to us individually.

Speaker 5 (49:53):
It's just specifically to the staff. Yep, so good people.

Speaker 3 (49:57):
We've had great experiences, made great and ships and whatnot,
but the direct relationship between other patrons and staff makes
us go more above and beyond for the staff to
make up for the lack of from others. Correct, And
that just goes across the board, but really specifically on cruises,
it's a week long.

Speaker 4 (50:13):
Come on, Mandy, everyone wants to hear I see you.
And that's the truth, that's the truth. Appreciate you, yeah, joy,
Appreciate you.

Speaker 6 (50:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (50:22):
You're not just doing it for a paycheck. You're doing
it because you You are helping make this vacation phenomenal.
And I always think when I'm on a cruise ship,
like a vast majority of the staff is are from
countries that border line Third World, right.

Speaker 3 (50:37):
Months yeahs away from family, making money, months on end.

Speaker 5 (50:43):
Like, give them some respect, like appreciate them. Yeah, especially
on cruises. Man, that's right. I turn it up a notch.

Speaker 4 (50:51):
And when you get back, do you fill out the
questionnaire with everybody's names?

Speaker 5 (50:56):
Oh wait a minute.

Speaker 4 (50:57):
Okay, here's a fun fact. And this is true, and
it is critically important. When you go to work on
a cruise ship, you only move up through customer surveys. Okay,
so if you want to move to a better position.
You want to get a bonus, you want to get
a better gig within the cruise. It's all about customer surveys.
So on my phone starting day one, I have a

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list because I used to take pictures of name tags,
but then I couldn't remember where I knew them from.
So now I have a list on my phone starting
day one. If somebody does something, I write their name,
I wrote what they did, and then when I get
my survey from the cruise line, I give detailed like
I mean, I lay it out of why they were
amazing and why they should you know, the cruise ship
should appreciate them. It is how they move up in

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the company. I will important to Yeah, I.

Speaker 5 (51:44):
Love leaving good reviews. I do too, I really do.
I'm telling you right now one I really like to
leave good ones.

Speaker 4 (51:51):
The Celebrity Millennium service was ridiculous. I've never experienced anything
like it.

Speaker 3 (51:58):
It was well and that's much or props from me
for the carnival staff because of what they have to
put up with from time to time, but they're excellent
either way.

Speaker 5 (52:07):
It means so amazing. Yeah, seriously, I've.

Speaker 4 (52:11):
Got something on the blog that I want to talk about.
Only the entire tweet that I sent did not show.
It did not show the part that I was quote tweeting,
and I'm I'm gonna zipt if you click on it
on the blog, if you click on my tweet about it,
you can then see the accompanying video. We just came
out of Pride Month and Denver's Pride Fest just happened.

(52:35):
And at Denver's Pride Fest there was a stripper pole
where I guess little children were being encouraged to dance
on the stripper pole. Now, guys, I realized that now
pole dancing has become a popular workout and it's hard.
It's really hard. I get it, like I understand that.
But pole dancing is an inherently sexual activity. The fact

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that it's being used for fitness now does not change
the fact that it is usually accompanied by women wearing
very very little, and it is designed to sexually stimulate men.
And the reason I bring this up is I have
to ask a question. And maybe you're part of the
Pride executive team. I don't know, maybe you're not. Maybe

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you know someone, But there are so many accusations of grooming.
We have a whole thing gaze against groomers. As a
matter of fact, Lives of TikTok posted this, but they
grabbed it from Gaze against Groomers. And if you don't
want people to think you're trying to groom children, don't

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put children in inherently sexual situations like on a stripper
pole at Pride fest. But I'm not even mad at
the Pride organizers because how can they possibly be expected
to police every single aspect of their festival as.

Speaker 5 (53:56):
It's going on.

Speaker 4 (53:58):
What I'm confused about, and this is genuine confusion where
I'm from in the Deep South. You got two jobs
as a parent. If you're parenting a little boy your
two jobs are to keep them out of prison and
off of drugs.

Speaker 5 (54:14):
If you're parenting a.

Speaker 4 (54:15):
Little girl, it's keep her out of prison and keep
her off the pole. Who are the parents that are
encouraging their children to jump on the pole. That's what
I want to know Denver Pride, where they got little
children dancing on stripper poles?

Speaker 5 (54:32):
And here's my issue with this.

Speaker 4 (54:34):
My issue is if I know, if I know that
what I'm doing has been used as an attack against me,
as Pride events have been used against gay people right,
because we've had situations where wardrobe malfunctions expose fake breasts

(54:54):
of a drag queen that was performing. I mean, there's
just a lot that can go wrong. And if Pride
is truly about out just celebrating the progress of gay people,
then great, But why does every Pride celebration increasingly feel
like a festival of fetishes? Now, don't get me wrong,
I am not judging anyone's sexual fetishes. I don't care

(55:17):
what makes you got. I don't care what trips your trigger.
I don't care what butter's your biscuit. I don't care.
But do we need to see it in public? There
are some things that I know this is going to
sound crazy to the next generation who lives everything online.
There are some things in your life that you don't
need to share with everyone.

Speaker 5 (55:37):
You really don't.

Speaker 4 (55:39):
Not everybody needs to know that you like to dress
up like a pony in the bedroom.

Speaker 5 (55:42):
I don't care.

Speaker 4 (55:45):
But where it crosses the line is that now we
have these celebrations that were traditionally designed to first advocate
for equal rights for gay people, which I totally get,
but now we're kind of got equal rights for gay people, right,
they're a protected class, they have gay marriage. It's all
I mean, what else are we fighting for? So now

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we can move pride into a celebration of the progress
that's been had. But it's been increasingly taken over by
the fetish wing and it's just getting weird and creepy
and gross, because no matter what you do in your bedroom. Again,
I don't care what you do in your bedroom. I
hope it makes you happy. I don't care if you
do it all over your whole house. But you don't

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need to trot it out in public to show everybody
else your weirdness. Fly your freak flag at home, leave
it at home when you leave home.

Speaker 5 (56:33):
Is that too much to ask?

Speaker 7 (56:39):
Man?

Speaker 4 (56:40):
This texture said, if you're raising a boy, it's also
important for you to teach him how to respect and
treat with And absolutely, absolutely, I will say this. Someone
told me something, eh, when I had my daughter, because
we had the two boys of course before that, and
they said to you, when you have a boy, you

(57:02):
only have to worry about their penis. When you have
a girl, you gotta worry about everybody else's. And I
was like, wow, that's kind of sad, but true, isn't it. Yeah, this,
Dexter said. Still, it's the organizer's responsibility to go through
the booths, say do it on purpose. He says, they're
satanic pedophiles.

Speaker 5 (57:20):
Here's the thing.

Speaker 4 (57:21):
I don't think everybody involved in the gay community is
a satanic pedophile ban any stretch of the imagination. I
know so many gay people. It's not even funny.

Speaker 5 (57:30):
Guys. I was a theater major.

Speaker 4 (57:31):
Okay, some of my favorite human beings in this world
are homosexual, both male and female.

Speaker 5 (57:37):
That's just the facts.

Speaker 4 (57:39):
I know some of them that have known some of
them for thirty years. They're not pedophiles by any stretch
of the imagination. The thought of pedophilia makes them physically ill.
But that's the problem. When you do stuff like this,
it allows people to just lump every gay person in
with a freak show.

Speaker 5 (57:56):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (57:57):
I don't My gay friends are the kind of gay
friends who don't go to Pride. They're just like, ugh,
it's played out, it's gross. I'm not going. They just
want to live their lives and run their businesses and
enjoy their relationships, most of which are extremely long term.

Speaker 5 (58:11):
You know, this is it.

Speaker 4 (58:14):
This is the problem. I'm trying to help. Actually, I'm
really trying to help. If Pride wants to just be
able to go about their business, then Pride needs to
police stuff like this as soon as it happens. Pride
needs to say to sexually explicit businesses that might be around, hey,
you know what, make sure kids don't get caught standing

(58:34):
next to the adult toys that you've got displayed. I mean,
gay people are not just about sex, you guys. Gay
people are complex individuals with emotions and feelings and thoughts
and intelligence that have nothing to do with sex. And
yet Pride is increasingly just about sex. Mandy, there should

(58:57):
be a straight people fetish fest in public. Then see
they say no, ew, I don't want to.

Speaker 5 (59:02):
See that either.

Speaker 4 (59:04):
You know again, whatever your fetishes are, whatever your deal is,
whatever you love, whatever, whatever, I don't care.

Speaker 5 (59:10):
It's fine.

Speaker 4 (59:11):
Just go about your business, find other people that enjoy
that as well as you do, and spend time with
them and do whatever you want. But there's got to
be some kind of dignity in society at this point.
And I think the fetish part of it really came
straight out of San Francisco's Pride in the Castro District.
On Pride when they used to have the Pride marches.

(59:33):
When I was a flight attendant, we used to lay
over in San Francisco a lot. It's one of the
reasons that I love that city.

Speaker 5 (59:38):
I love San.

Speaker 4 (59:40):
Francisco, and what's happened to San Francisco is his heartbreaking
to me is what's happened to Denver. But in their
Pride parade in the Castro District, we were warned as
flight attendants that if we went to that Pride celebration,
we would see people performing sexual acts on each other.
And that's still, as far as I know, that's still
going on. And I don't want to see straight people

(01:00:04):
in the streets performing sexual acts on each other. I
don't want to see gay people in the streets performing
sexual acts on each other. I think that should be
the minimum of what we should reasonably expect, just some
basic decency. And all it does is make people who
already don't like gay people have more ammunition to continue

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not liking gay people. And it lumps all gay people
together with the fetish part of the gay community.

Speaker 5 (01:00:33):
And that's just not fair.

Speaker 4 (01:00:35):
And it's really, really, really frustrating. If gays don't come
out against grooming, then they are pedophiles. Well, why do
you think gays against groomors exist?

Speaker 5 (01:00:46):
Because the gays are fighting back.

Speaker 4 (01:00:48):
The gays have literally banded together in an organization that
is only made up of gay, lesbian, and transgender people
to say enough is enough. But if straight people don't,
you know, jump in here and say, guys, gals, just
take it back a hotch. It's just it's not productive,

(01:01:10):
it's not helpful. Nobody the gay community is helped by
any of this. I believe that, Mandy, while you're judging
the actions of gays, do you also judge street women
who prance around and see through summer dresses or skirts
so short everything is on display.

Speaker 5 (01:01:24):
I'm an uber driver.

Speaker 4 (01:01:25):
I see more huhas on a Friday or Saturday night
than in a tie brothel.

Speaker 5 (01:01:30):
If I see them, it's you know that.

Speaker 4 (01:01:32):
Old adage, if you see something, say something, Yeah, I do.
Nobody needs to see her. Who ha, Okay, nobody needs
to see it. This is one specific event, which is
why I'm talking about it. And frankly, I am not
out at night, so I don't see how people are
dressing or whatever. But I do think it's sad that

(01:01:54):
We've raised a generation of girls who seem to believe
that their only value is how they look and how
much skin they're showing. It just it makes me really
sad because as a fifty five year old woman, I'll
tell you that doesn't last.

Speaker 5 (01:02:10):
Very much.

Speaker 4 (01:02:11):
So, Mandy, this Pride issue started when it went from
accept us to you will respect us, and the exact
opposite is occurring.

Speaker 5 (01:02:19):
That's what I'm saying. This kind of stuff is counterproductive.
It really is.

Speaker 4 (01:02:22):
And the reason I'm calling it out is because the
pride organizers need to get their act together. And more importantly, parents,
why not take your don't take your kids to Pride fest.
Don't And if you do go and you see a
stripper pole, why not don't let your kid get on
the pole. I mean, what if the mom say, when

(01:02:43):
this kid gets off, Oh, you're gonna be such an
amazing stripper. I can't wait for you to take your
clothes off for money. God, it's gonna be amazing. Eh.

Speaker 5 (01:02:53):
I'm not knocking people.

Speaker 4 (01:02:54):
You choes stripping for a profession, But does anybody tell
their little girl when they're five and six, Mommy can't
wait for you to grow up and take your clothes off.
It's not what we dream of. People don't dream and
aspire of being a stripper. They fall into it because
they feel like they've run out of other options. I mean,
that's just the facts. The big beautiful bill it is

(01:03:14):
in the House, back in the House after the Senate
marked it up and raised the price tag, made some
pretty significant changes to some areas that have made House
fiscal hawks very very unhappy. But see, my level of
cynicism is extremely high right now because this is what
I think happens here. There is a test vote on

(01:03:36):
something some amendment. I don't know exactly what amendment is,
and right now it is deadlocked two seventeen to two seventeen.
We have nine Republicans not voting on this amendment. And
what I think is going to happen is that there's
going to be a lot of drama and a lot
of stirm and drawing, and then they're going to get
just enough of those Republicans to finally commit for some

(01:04:02):
grandiose reason that they're going to give and they're going
to end up passing the bill. Because we're up against
a holiday weekend. None of them want to be in
DC this holiday weekend. They want to get this bill
on the desk of the President by July fourth, and
so I can't help but think that this is just
another bit of theater before the bill ultimately passes. I

(01:04:26):
just don't know if the quote fiscal hawks in the House,
and I put that in quotes because there's no fiscal
hawks on this bill. There just isn't. So we'll see
what happens. Fox News has got pretty much wall to
wall on it right now. They did have the vote
count up. They're putting the vote count up every so often,

(01:04:49):
so you can kind of follow along there, and I
think it's going to get done. I just can't. I
had a story on the blog today from the Wall
Street Journal. By the way, here's a fun fact now
about the blog. The Wall Street Journal now offers a
gift a an unlocked version of this story. So if

(01:05:11):
I use that link, you should be able to read it.
It should open up for you and not paywall you.
But in this story from the Wall Street Journal, they
had one line in here that when I read it,
I was like, Oh, that's kind of where I live,
and that cynicism exemplifies by this line. It says this
skeptics on Capitol Hills said they have seen this film before.

(01:05:32):
Fisical conservatives and other Republican holdouts say.

Speaker 5 (01:05:35):
They can't support a bill, only.

Speaker 4 (01:05:37):
For most of them to fall in line when Trump
gets directly involved. Now you've seen what Trump has done
at Thomas Massey, Congressman Thomas Massey. He now says he's
going to support Thomas Massey's opponent in the primary. And
Thomas Massey essentially said.

Speaker 5 (01:05:53):
Bring it on. I don't care.

Speaker 4 (01:05:56):
He's been primaried a couple times in his district in
Kentucky and they have not even remotely made any progress.
And now you have Elon Musk saying, well, I'm gonna
support Thomas Massey in the primary, and Elon Musk will
send out a tweet to the Twitter bros. And then
they'll all support Thomas Massey. And I mean that that
district is going to be a high dollar district. And y'all,

(01:06:17):
it is mostly like country if Frankfurt is in there.
I mean, but it's it's like a most of its country,
so it's no other.

Speaker 5 (01:06:28):
And and here's the thing.

Speaker 4 (01:06:29):
If Thomas Massey got beaten, if he got bounced out
of office, it would not be any skin off his nose.

Speaker 5 (01:06:36):
He would not care a wit.

Speaker 4 (01:06:39):
He just he's not in it for the things that
people in Congress are normally in it. He's still an inventor,
he's still filing patents.

Speaker 5 (01:06:50):
The dude is a genius.

Speaker 4 (01:06:53):
So for him, he's he's very cavalier about it because
his entire identity is not being a US Congressman. That's
not Thomas Massey's like, that's not the most important thing
in his life.

Speaker 5 (01:07:04):
So if he gets bounced out of office, eh whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:07:08):
And that's why he can be principal. That's why you
can stand on principle because he doesn't care if Donald
Trump comes after him. A vast majority of people in Congress,
they don't have that luxury.

Speaker 5 (01:07:20):
Congress is their gig. They need Congress to.

Speaker 4 (01:07:23):
Stay their gig, and they're going to continue to try
and profit off that gig as long as they can.
That's the sad truth about that. Now, when we get back,
I've got I think it's a really funny story. Actually,
I might have time to get this in now, I do.
I got about a minute and a half. I'll just
throw it in right now. So did you hear about
the ice Block app. The ice block app is an

(01:07:47):
app that was a crowdsourced app that was designed to
warn illegal immigrants when there is ice activity. See n
N actually put it there on their station.

Speaker 5 (01:07:59):
Listen to this. Can I have my audio real quick? Aron?

Speaker 4 (01:08:03):
Let me just play this from CNN and my raise.

Speaker 9 (01:08:05):
And mass deportations. One tech developer is pushing back with
an app designed to track ice activity in real times,
called ice Block, And it's controversial to say the least.
Santa Claire Duffy is with us.

Speaker 5 (01:08:18):
Now, how does this work, Claire and.

Speaker 9 (01:08:21):
What are the legal implications?

Speaker 10 (01:08:23):
Yeah, John, I talked with Joshua Aaron, who is the
longtime tech worker who developed this platform, and he said
he really wants it to be an early warning system
for people about the location of immigrations and customs enforcement officers.

Speaker 4 (01:08:35):
So somebody stop her there you get the gist of it.
A funny thing happened, A really funny thing happened. People
started flooding the ice app with fake notifications of ice activity.
Somebody hit this on Twitter. It will keep a five
mile radius of you clear of illegals. Number one, Always

(01:08:58):
enter the addresses of any home, depot, lows, or other
building supply stores near your location. Enter all addresses of
Mexican restaurants, and enter all addresses of plumbing and electrical contractors,
and to all addresses of major shopping areas. Sit back,
drink some iced tea, and watch some fun. So they've
essentially rendered the app useless by making up all these
fake reports, and frankly, a little passive aggressiveness met with

(01:09:22):
a little passive aggressiveness.

Speaker 5 (01:09:24):
I'm on board.

Speaker 1 (01:09:25):
accident and injury lawyers.

Speaker 2 (01:09:30):
No, it's Mandy Connell and.

Speaker 4 (01:09:40):
Mt theyal sad babuncle, Sorry about that. That's my bad,
a rod, I just hit the wrong button because I

(01:10:00):
wasn't paying attention to what I was doing. I would
take my on button on a hit next event instead
like a ding No, sorry about that.

Speaker 5 (01:10:05):
He can fix it, though.

Speaker 4 (01:10:06):
He's brilliant. To the texture who said I'm so excited
that monster's family is getting deported, I got to tell you.

Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
I am too.

Speaker 5 (01:10:13):
I am too.

Speaker 4 (01:10:14):
I know she didn't toss Molotov cocktails in anybody, but
I'm sorry. If you're married to the man that's going
to do it, you've lost the privilege to be in
our country. It is a privilege to be in this country,
just like when I go to Japan, it is a
privilege for me to be in Japan. It is a
privilege for me to be in any foreign country that
lets me come visit. And guess what, I treat it

(01:10:37):
as such. I try to leave their country better than
it was when I got there. Okay, I'm kind of
kidding when I say that, but you know what I mean.
So yeah, I'm not sad about that at all. Not
even a tiny, tiny bit interesting story that I have
on the blog day, I got two about exercising. By
the way, I just got this text that says, uh

(01:10:59):
whoo whoop. Hang on, hey Mandy, it's Kurt from the
Canadian Rockies trip. I've lost one hundred and three pounds
on Sota. Thanks for the recommendation. I was like, dude,
send me a picture that's exciting. That's a lot of weight.
So there's a study today, from our story today, from
psychology today. And it's something that I have heard over

(01:11:20):
and over and over and over again. If you if
you've ever heard the phrase, you can't outwork a bad diet,
And this is about people who think that they can
just lose weight by exercise. You cannot just lose weight
by exercise. And now we've got data from thirty two
studies that have shown that the impact of exercise is

(01:11:41):
actually modest in terms of meaningful weight loss. It's what
goes in your mouth hole, people, That is everything. That
is That is what matters, what goes in your pie hole. Now,
just from personal experience, I'm going to say I exercised

(01:12:01):
for a couple of reasons. And I you know, I
remember doing shows when I was on the air in Louisville, Kentucky,
like twelve, twenty ten, twenty eleven, somewhere around there, and
I went on the air and I said, okay, listeners,
I need your help. I have got to start exercising
because I did no exercise whatsoever. I'd had Q in
two thousand and nine, and though I lost a chunk

(01:12:23):
of the babyweit, holy cow, did I gain a lot
of the babyweight. And I just was not feeling good.
I felt bad all the time, and I was like,
what do I need because I don't enjoy it and
I don't like it, and I need to get over this.
And everybody was calling with suggestions on how to, you know,
get into it. And this lady called and she gave
me the best rationale about exercise that I'd ever heard.

(01:12:45):
And I think about it so often when I get
up and I'm like, oh, I don't feel like doing anything.
But then I'm like, she said, for me, exercises like
brushing your teeth. Nobody gets up in the morning and
is like, yes, I get to brush my teeth twice
a day, but we all do it right. We do
it because we know that we need to keep our
mouth healthy and we don't want cavities, and we want
a nice smile, so we brush our teeth. She said,
for me, exercises like brushing my teeth. And you got

(01:13:08):
to find an exercise that works for you. And I've
been very lucky. I went out in Louisville and I
found a personal trainer. She was outstanding. Trisha was her name.
She was so, so, so good, and she really helped
me get over the mental part of exercise, because a
vast majority of us not getting something done is all mental.

Speaker 5 (01:13:27):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:13:28):
If you are not succeeding, if you're not moving forward
in your career, A big part of that might be
because mentally, you're not ready to do the things that
are necessary to move forward. Exercise is the exact same.
So started exercising and still hated it. I'd lie and
tell you I started exercising it immediately. No, it's been

(01:13:50):
an evolution for me. But now when I don't exercise,
I feel awful, I'm cranky.

Speaker 5 (01:13:57):
It affects my mood.

Speaker 4 (01:14:00):
And I realized that I call it. I don't exercise
for health. I exercise for murder. If I don't exercise,
I might murder someone. But one thing I will tell you,
you cannot exercise out exercise a bad diet. You just
can't do it. And this story today from Psychology Today
proves it. In a review of thirty two randomized controlled trials,

(01:14:21):
those are the gold standard. Remember they involved a total
of four thousand, seven hundred and seventy four participants with obesity,
so these are obese people. The average weight loss of
those who participated in a regular exercise routine as compared
to controls without exercise with small only about two kilograms.

(01:14:41):
Nationwide surveys show that forty three percent of Americans are
overweight by at least ten to fifteen kilograms, and the
authors concluded that the impact of exercise was modest in
terms of clinically meaningful weight loss. So why exercise at all?
That's the point I was getting to. When you lose
weight and you're not exercising and you don't have any

(01:15:02):
muscle mass, you just kind of look squishy, and it
could be mentally draining when you work really hard to
watch your diet and you lose a bunch of weight
and then you look in the mirror and you're like,
I'm squishy. You know, you probably got a little extra
skin floating around and you're squishy, And it's just I

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don't like to touch my body and have it be squishy.

Speaker 5 (01:15:27):
I'm anti squish.

Speaker 4 (01:15:29):
So if you watch your diet and you exercise a
little bit, you are going to have better results. Now,
with the Sota Plan, they don't want you to lift weights,
they don't want you to do any of that stuff.
They want you to walk thirty minutes a day.

Speaker 5 (01:15:42):
That's really all.

Speaker 4 (01:15:42):
They require you, thirty minutes a day because you have
to get your body moving to get your metabolism up.
But when you work out with weights, you're creating little
structural tears in your muscles. That's the whole point, and
those tears can then cause you to retain water and
so toa as part of the biological part. And this
is in a Sodo commercial. This is just really good science.

(01:16:05):
They're psychologically they don't want you to see the scale
not moved because you're working out and gaining muscle. So
they're like, look, just don't work out with weights, just
you know, walk and stuff. Although I continue to waight
train when I did soda, but the days that I
weight trained, it would slow my weight loss the following day,
but then I would make it up the next day,
if that makes sense. So more and more studies say, look,

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it's what goes in your mouth. You got to control
what goes in your mouth, and then you exercise to
build the muscles to do two things. One look better
and two keep your metabolism up. It takes more energy
to have muscles at rest than it takes to have
fat at rest. That's just the way it is. One
thing that I thought was super interesting about this was
that they showed obese people actually burn fewer calories from exercise.

Speaker 5 (01:16:54):
Listen to this. They're doing a study.

Speaker 4 (01:16:57):
As each person exercise, they did not burn and as
many total calories as expected. Most subjects burned only about
seventy two percent as many additional calories as would be
expected given their level of activity. The compensation was even
greater in obese adults. Their bodies tended to reduce by
fifty percent or more the actual number of calories burned

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by exercising. That is a paradox that is rather shocking.
Dragon just texted in, by the way, I one hundred
percent agree you cannot outwork a bad diet. And by
the way, Dragon, every single day on our trip worked out.

Speaker 3 (01:17:37):
I did not.

Speaker 4 (01:17:37):
I worked out a total of like five days.

Speaker 5 (01:17:40):
Every day.

Speaker 4 (01:17:41):
He and his wife got to Korea late, they didn't land,
they didn't get to the hotel until like eleven o'clock midnight.
Maybe the next morning. He got up at like six
o'clock and went down and worked out. That's the kind
of dedication that Dragon has. Mandy love your show. You
can out exercise your diet, but it would take extreme
amounts of exercise, but not really.

Speaker 5 (01:18:01):
More and more studies are showing that, especially for obese.

Speaker 4 (01:18:04):
People, get your food under control, go on a walk,
and then later start the big exercise. Amazing, we will
be back Mandy's sixty four year old woman here, I
lost thirty five pounds with soda. I exercised for muscle
and brain health after watching what my mom went through
as she aged. Amen to that that is exactly why

(01:18:26):
I do what I do. Oh, this is super interesting.
So Parkinson's disease is no fun. And I've watched a
couple of different people in my life suffer from it
and then ultimately pass away from it.

Speaker 5 (01:18:44):
And now there is a.

Speaker 4 (01:18:46):
Study that shows a connection, not causation, to be clear,
but there seems to be a connection between proximity to
golf courses and the likelihood of developing Parkinson's disease ease.
The research focused on residents in southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin,
where pesticide use on golf courses may be a key factor.

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It was led by the Baro Neurological Institute in Arizona
along with the Mayo Clinic. Its study analyzed four hundred
and nineteen Parkinson's patients with a control group. Data from
the Rochester Epidemiology Project between nineteen ninety one and twenty
fifteen helped researchers compare. Uh sorry, I just had to

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pop up, dear compare Parkinson's patients with a control group.
The greatest risk factor was seen in people living one
to three miles from a golf course and the expansive
lawns that come from it. Living within one mile of
a fairway was linked to a one hundred and twenty
six percent increase in the odds of developing Parkinson's. Those

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in water service areas that included a golf course had
nearly double the risk compared to areas without one. The
risk jumped eighty two percent for people living in underwater
service areas that also had vulnerable groundwater. Pesticides applied to
golf courses may play a role in the incidents of
Parkinson's disease for nearby residents. Researchers concluded, this is why

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my ex husband was a golf course superintendent.

Speaker 5 (01:20:16):
And that's when I play.

Speaker 4 (01:20:17):
When I play golf with people, and I haven't played
in so long at this point, i'd be afraid to
pick up a club. I know I would just embarrass
myself to death. But when I did play golf with people,
guys who loved to smoke cigars while playing golf, even
guys who never smoked cigars anywhere else They love to
smoke a cigar while they're playing golf, and they'll walk

(01:20:38):
up to the tea box with their cigar and they'll
drop the cigar on.

Speaker 5 (01:20:42):
The tea box.

Speaker 4 (01:20:44):
And I was like, do you have any idea what
kind of chemical dumpster fire you were putting back in
your mouth?

Speaker 5 (01:20:52):
Like the cigar itself.

Speaker 4 (01:20:53):
We all know what's in the cigar, right, We already
know about that, so we already know what that's going
to do to you. But do you have any idea
the number of caemicals that you just dropped the cigar
that you're about to put in your mouth.

Speaker 5 (01:21:06):
And guys, we get really mad at me. They're like,
oh you do.

Speaker 4 (01:21:09):
I'm I'm telling you I know what kind of chemicals
they put on this golf court. Do you think golf
courses look like that? Naturally, my goodness, you have to
be dumb as opposed to think that, But it just it.
And if you're one of those guys who drops your cigar,
I'm telling you that is a chemical dumpster fire like
you cannot believe. And now there may be just maybe

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a chance that it could also give you Parkinson's at
some point. We do know, we've known for a long
time that there is a much larger chance of you
having Parkinson's if you grow up in a farming community,
and likely because of the chemicals used past the sides
and things of that nature, and farming communities and golf

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courses use all the same stuff, I mean all the
same stuff. So it's time, people, it's time to stop
dropping your cigars on the golf course and be aware.
I just found this super interesting, I mean really really interesting.
So I thought maybe our golf playing guys and gals,

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how many of you golfers out there, and you can
tell me on your common spirit health text line how
many of you have dropped your cigar on the tea
box before but are not going to do it again
because I'm now made you smarter. You can hit the
text line five, six, six and nine oh back after this.
For most of us, our mortgages, our homes are going
to be the largest asset that we have, right that's
going to be the thing that that is going to

(01:22:34):
be our our our nest eag really, and so when
the market goes up or down, we want to know
what's what's happening there. But also the home market, the
housing market has so many ancillary businesses that rely on it.
That you know, I have a lot of home improvement
clients that that have told me, Look, you know, when
when people move into a new house, that's when they

(01:22:55):
spend money on things like new beds and things of
you know, fixing the place up or you know, making
it their own or whatever whatever you want to call it.
And right now our housing market is kind of frozen.
There's a couple of things going on. Number One, tons
of people have their houses on the market now here
in Denver, but mortgage rates are sitting six and a
half and just under seven percent. They've been going up

(01:23:16):
and down in that range, and so I thought it
might be useful to bring on Casey schwartzkof from American
Financing to kind of talk about where the mortgage market
is in terms of rates, what the forecasting is, and
what we might be looking at in the near term
in the long term.

Speaker 5 (01:23:31):
Casey, welcome the show. First of all, thanks so much
for having me.

Speaker 4 (01:23:36):
Well, I have to say, you guys can't see Casey. Casey,
you have an epic beard like that thing is amazing.
How long has that been a project?

Speaker 9 (01:23:46):
I appreciate about five years or so I've been grown
it up.

Speaker 4 (01:23:50):
You wear it well. You wear it well, my friend.
Let's get to the serious business right now. Where are
mortgage rates right now? And what kind of movement are
we seeing if.

Speaker 11 (01:23:58):
Any, Uh, they're all over the place. Like you said,
they've been going up and down depending on the program.
We do see some rates into the five and then
obviously up from there. Like you had talked about, there's
a lot of a lot of stuff that impacts that.

Speaker 4 (01:24:12):
So where are we looking in the near term forecast?
What are you guys seeing.

Speaker 11 (01:24:17):
If you look at what industry experts are saying, it's
kind of all over the place. The Feds do meet
again this month, but it's not projected that they'll be
doing any anything there. Then they medigain after that in September.
There is a projection sixty five percent chance that they
might go down then. But it just they look at
a lot of stuff that they look at all the
economic data with the inflation, you know, unemployment, jobless claims,

(01:24:40):
possibility of the war in Iran has been affected it recently.

Speaker 9 (01:24:43):
So there's just a lot of stuff and a lot
of uncertainty there.

Speaker 4 (01:24:46):
So in a time like this, what's your advice for
someone who's kind of sitting on the sidelines. Maybe they're
sitting on the sidelines about buying a new home, maybe
they're sitting on the sidelines about refining because of interest
raise what do you what are you telling.

Speaker 5 (01:24:59):
People right now?

Speaker 9 (01:25:02):
It's so hard to say.

Speaker 11 (01:25:03):
Everybody thought that the rates would have come down already,
and they have it, so will they come down probably eventually,
but it's it's hard to tell when as far as buying,
most most experts are thinking that it's a great time
to get into the house even worth where it rates
are right now is a seller i mean sorry, buyer's
market out there right now there, like you said, there's
a lot of houses on the on the market, so

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it gives you the ability to maybe get a little
bit better deal on a house right now. And then
if rates do come down in the future, like most
expect they will, you can always you know, look at
a refinding. If rates do go down, and uh a lot,
you're probably going to see housing prices jump up, which
you missed the boat at that time.

Speaker 9 (01:25:41):
So so now is a good time, in most people's
opinion to be buying.

Speaker 4 (01:25:45):
That is an excellent point that when the rates do
go down, every buyer on the sidelines is going to
jump into a pool at the same time, and it's
going to create a feeding frenzy and multiple offers and
all of the pressure that we had four or five
years ago. So if you're thinking about moving, now's the time.
The problem is is I think a lot of people
might be trapped in their current home. So we'll have
to come back to that later. I do want to

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ask you. You know, a lot of people are still
and I talk about it. This is what I advertise
for you guys. A lot of people are still using
reefies to deal with high credit card debt. And I
don't know if you guys saw, but we now crossed
a very dubious threshold in the United States. We've now
got record high credit card debt at one point two
to one trillion dollars. So when someone is sitting on

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a pile of credit card debt, how what helps them
make the decision about whether or not it's a smart
choice to tap into that equity with a refine versus
trying to manage that massive pile of credit card another way.

Speaker 11 (01:26:44):
Yeah, it all comes down to how much for the
cant but like you said, as a country as a whole,
right now, we have more than we've ever had before.
So most people are are setting with a decent amount
of credit card debt out there, and most people in
the Denver area have a lot of equity.

Speaker 5 (01:26:58):
In their home.

Speaker 11 (01:26:59):
So it is you said, their biggest financial asset that
we test financial tool that allows them to save money.
We are seeing on average right now about eight hundred
dollars a month in savings when people are looking at
consolidating that credit card debt. So we can definitely take
a look at it see if it makes sense to refinances.
We do have equity lens as well. Sometimes they make
more sense, but we take a look at the whole

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picture and just see what's available to get you in
a better spot.

Speaker 4 (01:27:23):
Well, we talk all the time that mortgage rates no matter,
and now at between six and a half and seven percent,
we're talking about historical norms. This is where historically mortgage
rates have been. We all just got super spoiled by
those low interest rates a few years ago. Do you
guys ever see three percent coming back? Because I'm honest, Casey,

(01:27:44):
I don't think that's ever coming back, not in the
near future, not for the next decades.

Speaker 5 (01:27:48):
Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 11 (01:27:50):
Yeah, that was probably a once in a lifetime kind
of thing. Could it happened, Sure, you never know.

Speaker 9 (01:27:56):
But those interest rates, like you said, are not the norm,
and we'll probably never sit in the again.

Speaker 4 (01:28:01):
Casey schwartz Cough from American Financing, I appreciate your time.
And if people need help either originating a new mortgage,
because I've done all these with American Financing. They make
it so incredibly easy, it's not even funny, just give
them a call three ZHO three six nine, five seven thousand,
or find them online at American Financing dot net. Casey,
I appreciate the check in, man, I appreciate you. Thanks
you all right, Oops, a great day. That's Casey schwartz

(01:28:24):
Cough with American Financing. And you know, this is my
frustration with the Big Beautiful Bill. If the Big Beautiful
Bill showed any kind a fiscal discipline at all, at all, anything,
just throw us a bone, right, then bond rates would
come down, and that would bring mortgage rates come down,
and then the economy explodes, absolutely explodes, because if we

(01:28:48):
can only shousing everything else, it's like a domino effect.
It just all happens after that, and man, that it's
just the shortsightedness is super, super frustrating for me. It
just it drives me crazy, absolutely drives me nus.

Speaker 5 (01:29:04):
I have an article on the.

Speaker 4 (01:29:06):
Blog today about horrible first dates, and I've never been
so grateful to be married in my entire life, ever
in my life. And I started thinking about this, and
I've really had it in the back of my mind
the entire show about how I had a first date
as bad as some of these first dates.

Speaker 5 (01:29:27):
I've had first dates that were just not good.

Speaker 4 (01:29:31):
Meaning you're on a first date with someone you realize,
like five minutes in, you have no interest in being
on a date with this person. But I'm a nice person,
I'm not a jerk, you know what I mean. So
you have to kind of try and find things to
talk about in that painful first date kind of way.
And I was pretty proud of myself that at the
end of one of those dates, I would be very honest,

(01:29:53):
I don't really feel a connection here, you know, because
I don't want that guy to waste his time thinking
that there's going to be a second date. But I'm wondering,
like if you're on the dating.

Speaker 5 (01:30:04):
See now this seems.

Speaker 4 (01:30:05):
Horrible, I mean really really horrible, like the worst thing ever.
This is one and I think this probably happens more
often than not.

Speaker 5 (01:30:17):
Went to dinner.

Speaker 4 (01:30:18):
She was on her phone the entire time, texting, even
when we were talking. Figured she was just in it
for a free dinner, because really, what's the point of
agreeing to a date if you're not going to get
to know the person exactly?

Speaker 5 (01:30:29):
And if I was on a date, guys, I think.

Speaker 4 (01:30:30):
It's perfectly fair on a date like this to say
to this woman, Hey, since you're not interested in being
on this date with me, why don't we go Dutch?
You can pay your way, you can pay for your half,
because obviously you're not going to go out with him. Again,
I did have a date like this one. She didn't
say anything like there's being nervous. And then there's that.

(01:30:52):
We were taking a film class together in school and
agreed to go see a movie together that counted for
extra credit. It became clear a few days beforehand that
it was turning into a full on date, so I.

Speaker 5 (01:31:02):
Just rolled with it.

Speaker 4 (01:31:04):
After the movie, I asked if we could get dinner
to talk about it. She seemed excited, but then dead
silent the entire meal, dead silent. Ryan Edwards is in
the other room. Ryan, have you had some bad dates?

Speaker 5 (01:31:21):
He's like, Oh.

Speaker 4 (01:31:22):
Yeah, what's the word? Come in here and tell me
your worst first date story. I actually had a worst
second date story.

Speaker 5 (01:31:30):
I went on on a guy.

Speaker 4 (01:31:31):
I went out with a guy that I met at
a Houston's restaurant back in the old days when you
had to meet people face to face in bars like
we all did.

Speaker 5 (01:31:39):
And the first date was amazing. We went to dinner, we.

Speaker 4 (01:31:42):
Had a glass, we walked all up and down a
winter park, and had the best date ever. Second date
lunch date. At the time, I had just gotten into radio,
so I was of course working a second chop as.

Speaker 5 (01:31:52):
A waitress and a bartender.

Speaker 4 (01:31:54):
And our waitress in this very busy restaurant at lunch
brings the check for our table and the check for
the table next to us at the same time. She
drops the wrong checks at the wrong table. And instead
of saying, hey, you dropped the wrong check at the
wrong table, because he had seen the entire thing happen
as I did, he proceeded to humiliate the waitress.

Speaker 7 (01:32:14):
Oh I hate that Ryan, Oh my god, I hate that.
And I was mortified, of course.

Speaker 4 (01:32:20):
And then we walk outside and he's like, oh, let's
get together and I was like, nope, absolutely, and he goes,
what happened? I said, that could have been me, that
you just did that right, because my second gig is
waiting tables. That could have easily been me, because I've
made that mistake before. And he was absolutely appalled. He
said flowers the whole night and I was like, no, no,

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you showed.

Speaker 5 (01:32:42):
Me who you were.

Speaker 4 (01:32:43):
And I start am paying attention. Tell me about your
worst date ever.

Speaker 7 (01:32:46):
I feel well, First of all, I feel like because
my wife has told me some of her worst first dates,
and I feel like this is a lot more common
for women to have bad dates, because I think for
men typically, unless there's like there's no chemistry or no
commed anything to talk about, we're kind of like, you know,
pretty good, going out lucky.

Speaker 5 (01:33:04):
I mean what I was dating, we have a checklist here,
so but but I was just saying like that, it's
it's a little bit different.

Speaker 7 (01:33:12):
But the one date that jumps out as you're talking
about that, it was somebody that So when I was
a musician once in a while, women want to go
on a date.

Speaker 5 (01:33:22):
With me just as music.

Speaker 7 (01:33:24):
They were like, oh yeah, this could be interesting, you know,
but we didn't really always have a lot in common
other than that. So once we got to talking and
I buy drinks and whatever like that and low expectations,
I'm not going into it like the but like we
had nothing to talk about. So I went on this
one date with with a woman in college and she

(01:33:46):
was a swimmer and that's all she wanted to talk about.
And nothing about swimming, like really Like I was like, oh,
my dad was a swimmer in college.

Speaker 4 (01:33:53):
And you're not particularly interested in swimming, but but she
like and she wasn't rude about it, and and I
was trying a single issue person, right, and I.

Speaker 7 (01:34:02):
Was trying to understand it. So I asked a lot
of questions, but she never she never really asked questions
about what. She just was like, why, you know, you're
a musician. So I thought, you know, yeah, this is
just gonna be really cool and you were going to
be like, you know, rockstar and everything.

Speaker 5 (01:34:15):
Yeah kind of, but not not like that. So I
want to get to know you. And she's like, I'll
like talk. I know is swimming.

Speaker 4 (01:34:21):
I'm like, Okay, that's that's tough. You should probably date
a swimmer then.

Speaker 7 (01:34:24):
Yeah, And we lived in the same dorm, so it
was really like awkward because I see her a lot. Yeah,
but she like after that one date, we didn't really
talk ever again.

Speaker 4 (01:34:33):
I actually have what's probably a worse first date, but
I put the cabbage on it before it even got started.
I walked out to the guy's car and it literally
looked like a horder lived in the car. Oh my gosh,
and there was like a space carved.

Speaker 5 (01:34:45):
Out for me. And I was like, Nope, that's what
I'm saying, Like, this is what your car looks like.

Speaker 4 (01:34:48):
What does your apartment look like? How do you go
through life like that?

Speaker 5 (01:34:52):
That's what I'm saying. I imagined like for women and
I and I'm saying this as a man. I understand.

Speaker 7 (01:34:58):
I think you guys have it way harder, way worse
in this case because men have such low standards for
themselves and they don't think about it like that until
they're around a woman that are trying to press.

Speaker 5 (01:35:08):
Like God, I am a slot.

Speaker 4 (01:35:10):
My problem is I don't do well with like small talk,
so I tend to like go in hard and deep
right right from the outset. But and some guys absolutely
cannot do that and it freaks them out. And I'm
not saying like tell me all if you're worth secret, No,
not like that. But I don't want to have surface conversations.
I don't want to know the thing what do you love? Like,

(01:35:31):
what makes you tick?

Speaker 1 (01:35:32):
One?

Speaker 4 (01:35:32):
Are the things that absolutely just light your fire? Like
I want to know those things. I don't want to
know what your favorite football team is, no offense, you know.
And some men cannot do that. They're they're just like
this person is too much for me. And generally speaking,
I probably was too much for.

Speaker 7 (01:35:46):
Them, you know. But but in fairness, you know, a
lot of that surface kind of stuff, it does seem
a little passe, right, I mean a little eventually it
just kind of like we could do that or against
chance to go to really know you, I think, But
yeah I didn't.

Speaker 5 (01:36:04):
It was funny.

Speaker 7 (01:36:05):
I went kind of relationship to relationship. I didn't date
a lot, so I was like long term relationship guy.

Speaker 1 (01:36:10):
For me.

Speaker 4 (01:36:11):
It was like I'm a serial monogamist as well.

Speaker 7 (01:36:13):
Yeah, So it was like I went from a long
you know, five year relationship to the next three year
relationship to now married.

Speaker 5 (01:36:19):
So I really was I didn't really do a lot
of like, yeah, let's just.

Speaker 2 (01:36:24):
Check out there.

Speaker 4 (01:36:24):
There was a two year period where I came off
of a really bad situation where I was like, eh,
you know what, I'm good, I'm good. I don't want
a serious relationship. And I for a year of that,
I was like, look, if someone decent asked me out,
I'm just gonna go. And often I would say, Okay,
if we're gonna go, let's all pay for my own stuff.
If I wasn't sure that there was any and I
made a lot of good friends that way. I made

(01:36:46):
guy friends that way, absolutely, but nothing significant came of it,
and and it was it was just but I did
go on, you know, a good share of first dates
during that time period on yeah, And I mean.

Speaker 5 (01:36:58):
You know what, here's the thing.

Speaker 4 (01:37:00):
If you're not remotely attracted to someone physically, it is
hard to move into a relationship phase with them.

Speaker 5 (01:37:07):
And a lot of the guys that would.

Speaker 4 (01:37:09):
Ask me out were guys I'd known for a really
long time and they're great guys and now they're married
to great women for them. But there was no physical
I never thought about them in that way at all,
and I just can't get past that. I just could not, like,
you know, yeah, I remember.

Speaker 7 (01:37:25):
I can't remember when I said I heard of this,
but I remember somebody said probably in a movie or something,
because that's most of my knowledge. Something like women know
within like the first thirty seconds or something, whether that
you're a person that they would be romantically attracted to,
or you're you're a friend zone, Like, well, can you
get out of that?

Speaker 1 (01:37:41):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:37:42):
Not really, not really. I mean maybe you.

Speaker 4 (01:37:45):
Was my friend before we started dating. It was my wife,
but when I met him, I was married to someone else,
and it was like I got hit by lightning. And
I know that sounds so ridiculous, but it's inconvenient when
that happens when you're married to someone else, right, that's
not the way you want to do it. And he
waited out my marriage, like literally waited it out. Just
was like the marriage wasn't in great shape. It wasn't

(01:38:07):
in great shape.

Speaker 5 (01:38:08):
I should say that. Yeah, I know, death to his part.

Speaker 2 (01:38:12):
Now, I will to wait that out.

Speaker 4 (01:38:14):
It was great shape for a lot of reasons that
I'm never going to go into. Because my ex husband
is a wonderful person. I don't want to say anything
negative about Sometimes you just marry the wrong person for you.

Speaker 5 (01:38:23):
And I am a lot like I.

Speaker 4 (01:38:26):
This is a lot, and and you got to have
the right kind of personality in order to control this.
You know over here it's it's tough. I mean, I
wouldn't want to be married to me for real.

Speaker 7 (01:38:37):
My wife was engaged and I was with somebody else
when we first met, some kind of same thing.

Speaker 5 (01:38:40):
We were friends, kind of just worked out that way.

Speaker 4 (01:38:43):
This text has an idea, always break the ice by
having sex before.

Speaker 5 (01:38:46):
The first day. Yeah, I'm interesting.

Speaker 4 (01:38:48):
I'm sure that works for you on all on every
date you go on, sir, I'm positive.

Speaker 5 (01:38:52):
Mandy first Internet date. She was a non.

Speaker 4 (01:38:55):
Smoker, but was always excusing herself from the table. It
turned later that she was stepping out for smokes. Her
profile said she liked to exercise, but she was out.

Speaker 5 (01:39:04):
Of breath walking from the parking lot to the restaurant.

Speaker 7 (01:39:10):
She says, exercise is walking outside the smoke and then
walking counts.

Speaker 4 (01:39:17):
At this stage of my life, smoking is an absolute
deal breaker. Nope, not going to be around it, not
going to do it. And I'm an ex smoker, So
that's kind of you know, we had so much more
tolerance for that, not anymore. Like I remember, you know again,
I used to.

Speaker 7 (01:39:30):
Be in a position putting bars where they're smoking, yeah,
and you know, it's just what you did. But then
when Colorado again, this was you know, the two thousands,
most of the world, but I remember we went on
tour in the mid two thousands and there were still
some states and cities that didn't didn't not lot like
bars could still smoke, yeah, And so it would be
the wildest thing to go into a bar, like what

(01:39:52):
is wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:39:52):
With this place?

Speaker 5 (01:39:53):
Do you guys? Are you trying to kill everybody here?

Speaker 7 (01:39:56):
You know, And it's just but you got used to
it until until you did it, and then you're like, well,
I don't even want to play here.

Speaker 5 (01:40:01):
Now I'm like, no, I can't. I can't do that.

Speaker 4 (01:40:03):
I mean, now I walk through a casino in Vegas,
the casino is so well I was smoking, and you're
just like, what is this? And then you go to
Europe and people are yeah, I mean it's but everybody's
skinny too. So there's that all right.

Speaker 5 (01:40:16):
Now it's time for the most exciting segment on the
radio of this guy the world of the day.

Speaker 4 (01:40:25):
All right, Ryan is on a bit of a tear
on of the day.

Speaker 5 (01:40:30):
Check him on this.

Speaker 4 (01:40:32):
Yeah, well whatever, it's fine. What is our dad joke
of the day, please, Anthony.

Speaker 3 (01:40:36):
As you get older, happen number one, your memory starts
to go, I can't remember the other night.

Speaker 4 (01:40:45):
That's unfortunately super accurate, so not as funny to me
as other jokes that you may have told that I
already forgot.

Speaker 5 (01:40:53):
What is our word of the day please? It's a
verb verb galump, galumph.

Speaker 4 (01:41:01):
Glumph means to kind of like.

Speaker 5 (01:41:05):
Kind of like trot along.

Speaker 3 (01:41:10):
But what's it called? Not trombone? The figure one tuba
following the yeah yeah, to move in a loud and
clumsy way.

Speaker 5 (01:41:20):
Yeah, all right. Today's trivia question.

Speaker 4 (01:41:24):
What distinguishes an annular solar eclipse from other solar eclipses?
And that annular is a N N U L A
R so not annual annular?

Speaker 6 (01:41:36):
Hm.

Speaker 5 (01:41:36):
I have no idea. I've never heard this word before
in my life. Okay, let's see. Wait huh, come on, okay.

Speaker 4 (01:41:43):
An annular solar eclipse occurs when the moon is farthest
from Earth. It's distance from Earth makes the moon appear smaller.
Rather than blocking the entire sun, the moon looks like
a dark disc superimposed on the Sun. There you go,
that's the thing we know.

Speaker 5 (01:41:56):
Now. What is our jeopardy category of the job? Every
job as gist? Oh gosh.

Speaker 3 (01:42:05):
Melissa Khan Stanzer is an on air one of these
experts for Aci Weather.

Speaker 5 (01:42:13):
That is correct.

Speaker 3 (01:42:15):
This medical specialist administers skin prick or scratch test.

Speaker 4 (01:42:20):
What is an allergist?

Speaker 5 (01:42:23):
Sun Zoo was a military one of these for the.

Speaker 3 (01:42:26):
Chinese State Strategist that is correct, issuing its first diploma
in nineteen forty eight, the program called Graduate.

Speaker 5 (01:42:35):
This specialist teaches how to grade diamonds. Ryan what is
gemologists is correct?

Speaker 3 (01:42:43):
Finally making NC doublea tournament picks for Brian Rex.

Speaker 5 (01:42:50):
That's right?

Speaker 4 (01:42:50):
You still but I forgot to tell you I went
to the Astros game last night.

Speaker 5 (01:42:55):
How did that go?

Speaker 9 (01:42:55):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:42:56):
It was the Astros game to be clear, Well, the
Great Slam was not a no And and I watched
Chase Dolander fall apart on the mount and just you
can see his issue is psychological. His arm is incredible.
He came out the first thing and just was like
lights out, And I'm like oh, this could be good.
And then you just watched him collapse in the third

(01:43:18):
and it was just And he's young, and I know
that he's got the talent. He just has to be
able to work through those things. You know, he's got
to be able to get through mentally, that part of it.
I don't know if he's there yet.

Speaker 7 (01:43:29):
Well, the mental aspect, especially pitching a corse ye has
ruined many a picture.

Speaker 8 (01:43:33):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (01:43:34):
And and so you know, we we don't talk. We
probably talk about enough. We don't talk about it enough.

Speaker 7 (01:43:38):
I mean, either way, he's very talented and he's going
to be part of the rotation. But the fact is, yeah, man,
I mean that that's that's kind of what happens. It's
like he looks sharp early on and then all of
a sudden that and you you literally can quite.

Speaker 4 (01:43:50):
Which you can watch him get frustrated and upset and
mad at himself.

Speaker 5 (01:43:54):
You see it happen, and it's like it hurt the
mom in me. I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 4 (01:43:57):
I just wanted to go out and go Okay, sweetie,
look like they should let me go out to the mount. Okay,
you know that last pitch didn't matter. It's you got
a whole new pitch coming up right now.

Speaker 5 (01:44:06):
Although in finding out how you like interview your dates, uh,
I don't know. Man, Like, what what do you what?
What are you passionate about?

Speaker 6 (01:44:14):
Jase? Like what what?

Speaker 7 (01:44:15):
What?

Speaker 6 (01:44:15):
What?

Speaker 5 (01:44:16):
What are you? What do you love? I mean, I
think that's your darkest secret. I don't go there yet.
That's State two.

Speaker 4 (01:44:22):
Anyway, I'll turn it over to Knaway Sports.

Speaker 5 (01:44:24):
Gave it right here on Koa

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