08-26-25 FULL SHOW - An Alternative To Planned Parenthood, Plus Green Energy Fails - The Mandy Connell Podcast

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him a rock. That's right. And today I am just

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going to clear the decks. Hey, d forget about the
giant blog that I did at Mandy's blog dot com.
We are just going to take Travis and Taylor react
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Hey, I'm rooting for those crazy kids. I am. I
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After, let's make this uh you know, any worthy show
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Com Tick Tech, toe pole winner.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yeah, Nancy knows. Obviously, the news about Travis and Taylor
had not broken by the time I posted the blog,
But I think we all know who we're talking about.
We're talking about none other than Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey.
Mm hmmm mm hmm. Mandy, I've been heading into work

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at one pm this week? Can you make the first
hour and hard? Wait? What what? Huh? I don't know?
Coming up at one o'clock. By the way, guys, I've
got the people from the Alternatives Pregnancy Center coming in.
Not only do they help women choose to save their babies,
they also provide women's healthcare and things like that. And

(03:49):
I want to let you guys know more about them,
so the pro life people in my audience know where
they can support and actually support women who are making
the choice to keep their babies. So, anyway, that is
coming up at one o'clock, Mandy, did you hear Pritzker's
speech yesterday? Someone has to do something to curb Trump's

(04:09):
ever widening overreach. You can't really be on board with
all the people innocent other than not being a citizen,
being arrested and imprisoned armed troops in the streets of
only blue cities. Okay, So we're gonna jump right to
a topic I was gonna get into, and that is
I don't think Trump should be sending troops into democratic cities.

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And hear me out because right now, the fact that
he has flooded the capital of the United States of
America with support for police officers in the form of
the National Guard, Border Patrol and other law enforcement agencies
to shore up the presence on the street. And in
the last two weeks there have been no murders in Washington,
d C. Which is pretty dang impressive considering what their

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murder rate was before. But and this is a massive, huge,
but Trump as president had some authority to step in
in Washington, d C. Now, you could decide whether or
not crime was such a problem and it constituted an emergency.
But I understood his thinking about this. He had the

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authority and he had the power. And it is the
capital of our nation. The capital of our nation should
be the crown jewel city of our nation. Every American
should feel safe and welcome in Washington, d C. I
mean you should a less Congress is in session, and
then I'm pretty sure your pockets being picked. So I
was okay with that flat out. Okay, I celebrate it.

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I still celebrate it because I've seen some stuff in Washington,
d C. That makes me think that children should not
go to d C. And that's wrong. Of the amazing museums,
the history, all of that stuff is in Washington, d C.
But this is the hard line for me. If a
city reached out to the federal government and said, we

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need help, we need we need to bring in the
National Guard to restore order on our streets for whatever reason.
Right if a mayor said, I don't care what the reason,
we need help. We need you guys to come in
help us restore order on the streets. I think perfectly, fine,
that's great, that's the way it should be. But if
they are not asking for help, and not only that,

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are actively saying we don't want you here, that is
a much different scenario. Now we know at part, in part,
maybe all, for some of these mayors and governors, we
know why they don't want to bring the National Guard
in because if their murder rate drops to zero while
this is going on, then it undermines their position that

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if you live in a big city, there's just a
certain amount of violent crime you have to accept. And
by the way, they've never said that. They've never come
out and said, if you live in a big city
there's a certain amount of violent crime you have to
accept as a citizen. But isn't that what they say
with their actions or lack thereof. So I understand and
the pushback from that perspective, and this is why I

(07:03):
think that Democrats are rooting for failure in Washington, DC.
You notice they've stopped talking about Washington d C. There's
no more panel discussions on CNN. Nobody's talking about how
it's beyond the pale. No, no, we've all moved on
because it's working. So now the same news media that
told you a few weeks ago that this was going

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to lead to bloodshed in the streets and it's the
first side of a totalitarian dictatorship and all that crap,
now that it's not happening and it's actually working, and
people are saying, Wow, feels really safe in the city
right now in DC. I don't believe that Democrats want
people in big cities to get hurt. I just want
to say that I don't believe they want them to

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get hurt. But I also believe that they are willing
to put up with enough that I think they shouldn't
be willing to put up with because I don't think
they see those statistics as real people. Because most the time,
and I'm gonna use some of the larger urban areas
this morning, I looked at two large urban areas, Chicago
and Baltimore, and both of them in the last couple

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of years have seen precipitous drops in the number of homicides.
I mean huge. Chicago in twenty twenty four had five
hundred and eighty one homicides. That is massive, more than
one a day, an average of twenty one point four
per one hundred thousand residents as of mid twenty twenty five,

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So through the first half of the year there were
one hundred and eighty eight homicides. That's a thirty two
percent drop compared to the same period last year. That's enormous.
But are one hundred and eighty eight homicides okay? I mean,
if you ask the people of Chicago, are they gonna say, yeah,
you know what, one hundred and eighty eight homicides through

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the year is an acceptable number. We're cool with that
as long as it doesn't go any higher. But the
reality is is these politicians are not hobnobbing its people
who are likely to be caught in gang violence or
be a part of a gang. They're not likely to
be in daily contact with people who live in scary
neighborhoods where people do get shot on a semi regular basis.

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So I think, to the Democrats in charge of these cities,
those are just statistics, right, and if you can get
the statistics low enough, and honestly, you guys, you cannot.
You can't really fudge homicide statistics unless you reclassified everything
as a suicide. You can't really fudge those numbers. You
may be able to fudge one or two, but you

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can't fudge those numbers when people are getting shot dead
in the streets. Right, So these are significant drops. But
where's the line? And this is the question that I
never see anyone on Meet the Face the Nation or
Meet the Press ask. And that question is when these
mayors and governors lean into the fact crime has dropped
thirty four percent? Great, what is the acceptable number of

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murders in your mind for the city of Chicago or
the city of Baltimore. I would like to know that number, Like,
is it one hundred? Is it? You know, if we
get down to fifty, will consider it a victory. Now,
I am not so naive as to think you're going
to get to zero murders for an entire year in
a large city. Like in a small town, no problem, right,

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But in a large city it's just really difficult. You
have too many people packed on top of each other,
and there's bound to be people who are willing to
do evil or people who are unable to control their emotions,
and you're going to have people being murdered. But what's
the number? Where's the floor? What looks like true success?
Because and I heard this. I heard this the other day,

(10:37):
and it's such a great analogy. If you have cancer
and they decide to do surgery and they eradicate thirty
percent of the cancer, you still have seventy percent of
the cancer. So what percentage are we willing to accept
as a part of living in a free society where
people have the freedom to make a really bad choice right.

Speaker 5 (10:57):
Now?

Speaker 4 (10:57):
I looked at Baltimore as well, because Baltimore has been
bandied about, and I think it was it was either
the Mayor of Baltimore or the governor of Maryland. It
was on one of the Sunday shows this past week
and he was saying, you know, crime has dropped dramatically
in Baltimore as well, and it really has, really has.
They're at their lowest crime rate, lowest homicide rate in Baltimore,

(11:19):
Maryland in about fifty years right now. But again, what success,
what is you know, what does success really look like?
Baltimore is sitting right now with a per capita per
one hundred thousand rate, Oh where is it? It's far
lower than it's than it's been before, and they're ahead

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of many many democratic cities. Now if the mayor of
Baltimore wants to ask for the National Guard to come
in and get those numbers down even lower. I think
that the President should be happy to fulfill that request
and make that happen, facilitate in any way they can
to help out with that mission. But you can't just
send National Guard troops into demmocratic cities with crime problems.
That's not how any of this is supposed to work.

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It's just not. I don't believe that the federal government
has a role in local crime policing. I just don't.
We don't have a federalized police force for a reason,
and that means that some states are going to do
a better job at protecting their citizens than others, and
some states are going to do a lousy job protecting

(12:27):
their citizens. But that is up to residents of that
state to fix and if they choose not to fix it,
what responsibility does a taxpayer here in Colorado bear for
the choices of voters in Illinois or Maryland or any
of those other places. You know, I'm tired of the

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like having to argue the point that the federal government
should not be involved in this kind of stuff. But
it's necessary, apparently because there are people out there who
think this is a swell idea, but they also view
this as just a massive dunk on democratic cities. What
I view it as is a massive waste of resources.

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It creates a hostility between a population and people who
have signed up voluntarily to go into the national guard.
That is absolutely unnecessary. I would much rather demonstrate success in.

Speaker 5 (13:19):
Washington, d C.

Speaker 4 (13:21):
For a longer period of time, and not just in
the tourist corridor. Let's go ahead and hit some of
those high crime areas. Let's go ahead and expand this
dragnet or whatever you want to call it into the
higher crime areas where people, you know, poor people live,
give them the same sense of security that people now
have on the mall. And once you demonstrate the efficacy
of this, then you make an entirely public pitch and says, hey,

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you know what, I know some of our larger cities
are struggling. We would like to be there to support you.
We feel like we've got a winning formula. Would you
like to take us up on it? And then allow
the politicians in those cities to go back to the
people who may be victimized every day and tell them, no,
we're not going to do it because of Trump. You know,
it's there's just a smarter way to do this, there is.

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I did not put it on the blog today because
I just saw it before I came on the show,
but I just re tweeted it. What are we saying again,
Anthony re what are we exting reposting? Oh dang it,
that's so boring. I just posted about my friend Dave
Strom's column today on hot air dot com and in it,

(14:30):
the headline is Democrats still can't wrap their heads around
the FO part of FAFO. And the point of this
column is that he is addressing the fact that many
liberals do not understand why Trump is moving so far
so fast, and they're like, how is he just scooping
up people interesting them and just throwing them out of
the country. And guys, I don't like it either. There's

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a story of a guy who is from Britain, but
he got popped with pot when he was a kid,
and now he's facing deportation. He's been here for like
thirty seven years. You know, I don't like hearing those stories,
but the reality is, and I'm gonna let David Strom
say This is from his column in hot air. I'll
probably put it on the blog tomorrow because it's that good.
He said before Joe Biden became president, illegal immigration was

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a very serious problem. Joe Biden made it an existential
threat that has to be addressed right here, right now,
and with little mercy. We're long past the point where
we can dawdle and to make things worse. The entire
Democratic Party establishment is fighting to keep every sex offender,
gang member, and human trafficker in the country and perhaps
to give them a sex change operation if they want it.

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Blunt instruments are the only ones that will address the problem.
Illegal immigration is the Stage four cancer of our country,
and radical surgery is the only solution. You may not
like having to watch the surgery. The President Trump didn't
let the problem metastasize. Liberals did. Don't complain about the
treatment after you let the problem because so dire. In

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other words, if you voted for Joe Biden, you voted
to make Republicans take harsh moves that are necessary. Now
you created the problem, and we are creating the answer again.
I sent that out on x. It's a great column,
but it kind of goes to exactly what we're talking
about here. I'm not crazy about everything Trump is doing.
And as a matter of fact, I believe that I

(16:23):
just spentt like ten minutes criticizing his sort of proclamations
he's going to be rolling National Guard troops into democratic cities.
I strongly disagree with that. I think it's a terrible thing,
and it's a terrible precedent, to be honest, but is
it a blunt instrument where one is required.

Speaker 5 (16:42):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (16:43):
I just think there's a better way to do this,
and I'd love to hear. If you have a better
way to do this, you can always text the Common
Spirit Health text line at five sixty six nine zero.
Check it out. A couple of you have already waited
in Mandy. The national Guard answer to the governor first.
Trump can't send the garden without federalizing them first. He's

(17:03):
just using it as a talking point. Perhaps he is.
I have been very good about holding my fire until
I really figure out what Donald Trump is doing. As
a matter of fact, yesterday I did not talk about
this new executive order on flag burning because I was like, Okay,
I'm missing something. Because a lot of the stuff that

(17:24):
he has done, even the stuff that's been challenged in court.
It was put out, and if you read the executive orders,
it's always put out with enough logic behind it that
you know they have consulted attorneys about things like free
speech and the First Amendment and things of that nature.
So today we're going to talk about it because I
had time to read the entire executive order. So I

(17:47):
try to give Trump a little bit of the benefit
of the doubt, because I just don't think we all
have a clear window into what he's gonna do next.
But just in case Hey means it, I I gotta say,
I just think it's wrong. It's the wrong thing to do.
It sends the wrong message, and it also set's a
very dangerous precedent. It's been kind of fascinating to watch

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right now. And I said this yesterday, but we're right
now in a position we've never been in before, right,
and that is Liberals spent four years attacking Donald Trump,
thinking they had vanquished him. But when he came back,
instead of rising above, turning the other cheek, doing all
of those things that Republicans have been so good at doing,

(18:32):
he is doing the exact same things to them, only
he's doing it better because they've left a trail of evidence.
It's kind of fascinating to watch all this stuff happening.
I've got a bunch of people weighing in on the
common Spirit health text line. We'll do that next. This
Texter said, very simply, No, why can't Trump be better
and not go after Dems like they did him, because

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then it'll never stop. Whoever the Republican candidate, whoever the
Republican president will be, will never stop. They will indict,
they will impeach, they will investigate, they will never ever stop.
The only way to stop that from happening, and to
have some you know, hopefully going after people who committed
crimes but not everything is another investigation, is to do

(19:16):
it back. This is a very simple version of what
happens when you try to deal with a bully in
one way and it didn't work, and then you realize
the only way to deal with this bully is to
punch him in the face. This is Trump's version of
punching the bully in the face. Now do I love it? No,

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But the more we find out about how the government
was weaponized during the Biden administration, and I can't even
say by Joe Biden, you guys, I bet he had
no idea any of this was going on. He doesn't
even know where he is. I bet he had no
clue this was going on. But we now know that
people working within a governmental organization weaponized the government. They lied,

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and they did it to stop someone they didn't like politically,
and that that's gotta be stopped. And the only way
to stop it is to punch a bully in the face.
So he's punching him in the face. Mandy. Did you
happen to read about the high school student who was
abducted while walking his dog. The masked ice thugs tied

(20:25):
his dog to a tree while they arrested the kid,
then let his dog loose to run into traffic. I
sent you an email, so I have not checked that
in my email, but I will. But again, that's the
blunt instrument. The time for precision, you know, scalpol like
precision is long past. Joe Biden oversaw the walking into

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the country of millions of people, millions, So yeah, I
unfortunately this is where we are, Mandy. So many people,
Congress included, are complaining about trump is legal immigration policies.
My question is, what if you done, proposed, or brought
forward in Congress to fix this issue. That is a

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very fair question. Texter obviously not talking to me, but Congress. Mandy,
It's Tuesday, not Monday. Lol. Coffee. My problem is is
I had way too much coffee this morning. Yikes, yikes,
Mandy newsguided not just say your English teacher and your
pe teacher getting married Peke. Nope, he did, because that's

(21:28):
what Taylor posted on her Instagram, and swifties are loving it,
loving it, Mandy. Trump didn't go after the Dems during
his first term, especially Hillary River Rodnam Clinton when he
had a chance, and they resumed their efforts as soon
as he was out of office. Exactly right. This Trump

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two point zero has almost nothing in common with Trump
one point zero. It's like they redid the entire operating system.
He learned a lot in his first time as president,
and he seems very determined to not let that happen again,
which is why his entire administration up to this point
has been one body blow after another to causes near

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and dear to the left that have ended up with
them arguing for very unpopular positions. Remember they're the ones
arguing to keep boys in girls sports. They're the ones
arguing that, you know, the horrible criminals are innocent victims.
There probably are some people who are being swept up

(22:32):
on this who are good people and probably don't deserve it.
But that's I agree with David Strom. Joe Biden's fault.
Shouldn't let everybody else walk across the southern border and
then expected the grown ups to clean up your mess. Uh, Mandy,
Obama weaponized the government. Yes, that is correct, Mandy. What
Biden did was wrong as far as immigration, but the
cruel and uneven response is reprehensible. You know what, Texter,

(22:54):
the fact that you would say what Biden did was wrong,
but this is reprehensible. So what you're saying is allowing
millions of people to walk across the southern border from
all over the world, including many countries where people regularly
chant death to America, is just wrong. But then actually
working to remove those people, to make sure that criminals,

(23:18):
people that have committed crimes, committed rapes, committed murders, driven
drunk over and over and over again, by making sure
that those people get deported, and unfortunately, other people who
have run a foul of our immigration laws are also
going to be swept up. That's reprehensible. But allowing us
to be invaded from the south is just wrong. It's

(23:42):
a problem well beyond what anyone could have imagined. And
don't get me wrong, you guys, My heart goes out
to some of these folks, it really does. I don't
want to see families separated. But the reality is you
violated the law, and now a bunch of other people
have violated the law as well, and unfortunately everybody who's

(24:03):
in that general category could possibly face consequences. And it sucks,
it really does. But again, if you want someone to blame,
blame the Biden administration and all the Democrats who did
those show trips to the border where they came back
and said, hey, there's nothing to see here. Remember aoc
the photograph of her standing at the fence, Oh, go

(24:27):
grave Dian. But then she was just looking into an
open field. It was so fake. They were perfectly happy
to let all kinds of people from everywhere walk across
our southern border, perfectly happy to watch that happen. But
now when somebody tries to clean up their mess, that's
the problem. This is just so ugh, what a gaslighting

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situation to be in, Mandy. They're not just deported, they're imprisoned.
Some of them are. Some of them are imprisoned in
other countries. I think that's jacked up. I'm not gonna lie,
but you know why they're there because their own countries
wouldn't take them back. Think about that for a second.

(25:11):
The country you're from is like, oh no, no, no,
that guy not coming back in here. We don't care
where you're sending him, not coming back in here. Not
that troublemaker. Forget about it, forget about it. I'm sorry
this is breaking your heart, but I don't remember you
text her, and I do remember your phone number texting

(25:31):
it about what a travesty it was for four years
when we were told, you know what, there's nothing we
can do about the border. Well, I guess there was,
because it's been done now, Mandy, what about the January
sixth people, I don't know what that question is. What
about we're not even talking about January sixth? What about them?

(25:52):
Be a little clearer, Mandy. Lumer and Trump just don't
get to violate the Constitution just because the Dems were stupid.
That's a rather trite excuse. Except all of their stuff
when it makes it up. The Supreme Court is kind
of being upheld. You got a little district in federal
judges that are issuing injunctions, and then the Supreme Court's like,
oh yeah, he can do that. Everybody acts as if

(26:14):
a federal or district court justice is the final word.
So all of these little podent judges that are that
are impeding what the administration has a right to do.
You know, they're they're being struck down. So it's I
hate it that it's happening this way. I truly do this.

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Texter makes a good point. They can always self deport
if they get before they get captured. I actually saw
a TikTok video of a woman who's self she didn't deport.
She's an American citizen, but she moved back to Mexico
with her husband, and she's like, our quality of life
is much different here, but at least we're together. There
are options. But unfortunately, this situation has been created by

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the Democrats and by the Biden administration, and now Trump
has promised he's going to fix it, and this is
what that looks like, because to do otherwise is simply impossible.
I love it when Democrats are spent four years telling
us that, oh, we just don't understand how complex this

(27:21):
is and how difficult this is and how challenging it
is to do something about the border. But then when
Trump's like, yeah, We're going to close the border and
depart people, They're like, wait a minute, you need to
go slower and with more precision, after they spent four
years telling us it couldn't be done. Mandy. I try
to listen, Mandy, and sometimes you make a little sense,
like at the beginning of today's show, but then you
do full ss like right now, no humanity FM, and

(27:45):
F judges he can do what he wants because Biden
America is dead. I hope you wake up someday. I've
got to turn you off again. So to be clear,
At the beginning of the show, I talked about how
I thought it was wrong for Donald Trump to send
National Guard troops to democratic cities where they were not
wanted or they had not been requested for help. Right,
But then I pointed out that the Democrats are running

(28:08):
around screaming about the way a problem that they created
is being handled, and it's kind of like you lost
your chance to weigh in when you didn't fix the problem.
That's just how it is. If you ever screwed something
up at work really really bad.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
I have.

Speaker 4 (28:25):
I'd love to tell you I haven't, but I have.
I have twice. I mean so bad that you remember
how badly you screwed stuff up. And both times I
went to my boss and I said, I have screwed
something up so badly, and here's what I did. And
what do you want me to do. Do you want
me to try and help fix the problem, because obviously
I don't know how, but I'm willing to be a
part of the solution. Or do you want me to

(28:45):
just step back and let someone else handle my screw up?
Both times my boss said, no, no, you got to
learn how to handle this. Be a part of the
solution kind of thing. Whatever. But ultimately, if you want
me to take you seriously, take respectibility. I've never heard
of Democrats say we should not have let all those
people walk across the southern border, never once. What very

(29:08):
interesting thing happening in Europe right now, And it's been
happening for a few years in certain countries, and now
it's starting to spread, and that it's dangerous if it
comes here. For the Democratic Party right now in the
UK in England, Brits are flying the British flag and

(29:29):
the flag of England. They're cute of the Union jack
for the UK, and then you have the flag of England.
They're flying the flag. They're not like us there. They
don't fly the flags. Normally, they'll fly fly them for
a holiday or something along those lines. But you don't
walk around. You don't see a ton of flags flying
in people's you know, in people's neighborhoods like you do here,
or maybe I just see that because they live in

(29:50):
Douglas County. I don't know. But they're flying the flag
again because they've been told by the government that flying
the flag is provocative. Two immigrants and you know what
they're doing. They're going, no, that is not okay. And
now you got moms that are like, look, my daughters
are being harassed by Muslim men in the streets and
that's not okay. And you're beginning to see this massive

(30:14):
backlash against the unfettered immigration that you're a plet in
that ended up being mostly military aged men from the
Middle East. I'm seeing more and more people comment about
things like, you know, having people in various Western countries
go on the Internet and say that we are decadent

(30:36):
and that Islam is the only true way and that
we must be made to submit to Islam. And I'm
thinking to myself, you know, they have countries where that's
the standard view, but you chose to leave there. Why
is that? I do I do go away from that place. Why?
Don't get me wrong. I welcome everyone for around the
world who wants to come and participate in the American

(30:58):
dream by becoming an am And that doesn't mean by
becoming white, by the way, because I know people of
every nationality that you can possibly think of who have
either their parents came here from their their you know,
distant heritage country and then their first generation American, or
they immigrated here themselves variety of reasons. The reasons are

(31:19):
all over the place, except they have this common thread,
and that common threat is I wanted to live the
American dream. I wanted to experience freedom. I wanted to
experience opportunity. I wanted to know that if I worked really, really,
really hard and made good choices, I could be a
success in the United States. Not every country can say that.

(31:40):
I have a great video on the blog today, there's
a woman named Magate Wade. It might be Wade, but
I think it's Wade, Magta Wade. She is Senegalese. She
is from the country of Senegal in Africa, and her
entire channel is dedicated to convincing people to stop giving
handouts to Africa and to start investing capital into Africa.

(32:04):
And at the same time she's asking for capital, she's
also begging Africa to turn away from socialism. It's fascinating.
But she came to the United States on the promise
of being able to do something and she has. That's
why people come here. I love every one of those people,
whether they are Christian or Jewish, or agnostic, or atheist
or Muslim. I don't care as long as you want

(32:26):
to be an American. But as soon as you move
here and start saying things like, this is a decadent
country and we have to go back to any form
of religious rule. And as much as atheists love to
tell you, the Christians in the United States are shoving
their faith down their throat. Sorry about your luck. That
ship sailed in like nineteen seventy. Okay, I'm not trying

(32:47):
to force any kind of ideology down anyone else's throat.
I want you to choose good because you choose good,
not because I made you anyway. When we get back,
totally different conversation. There is an alternative to planned parenthood,
but oddly the Colorado legislature I don't think gave them
any extra money to handle women's healthcare. It's the Alternative

(33:08):
Pregnancy Center and they are about helping women who want
to have babies do that, not in a fertility way,
in a hey you're pregnant, let's help you out kind
of way. We'll talk to them next.

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Second hour of the show. I'm your host for the
next two hours, Mandy Connell and joining me of course
every day. Anthony Rodriguez, yes we call him a rod
also in the studio with me now, is the executive
director of an organization that I want you to pay
attention to because we've talked about on the show before
that Colorado, like it or not, is a pro choice state. Okay,

(34:08):
full stop, there's no polling data the shows that it
is anything but a majority pro choice state. Does that
mean if your pro life you should just throw in
the towel and just call it a day. No, it doesn't.
But it means that any time energy or effort you
spend trying to limit abortion in Colorado is going to
be wasted. The only way to limit abortion in Colorado

(34:28):
is to give women an alternative that would support them
in a pregnancy that maybe they were not prepared for.
And that's why I have Ashley Graves in the studio
with me right now from Alternatives Pregnancy Center. First of all, Ashley,
welcome to the show.

Speaker 6 (34:41):
Thank you very much. I'm glad to be here.

Speaker 4 (34:43):
Well, I'm glad to have you, and I honestly vaguely
familiar with the Alternatives Pregnancy Center, mostly because things that
listeners have sent me. We have people that our listening audience,
we have a lot of pro choice people are in
our listening audience. We have a lot of pro life
people in our listening audience. And even I would think
that a vast majority of the pro choice people in
this listening audience would love to think that women truly

(35:06):
do have a choice right that it's not just the
choice part only means choosing an abortion. So tell me
a little bit about what alternatives Pregnancy Center does, what
you provide, and not just about abortion. You guys do
a whole bunch of stuff. Tell me about that.

Speaker 6 (35:21):
Absolutely.

Speaker 8 (35:22):
So we walk beside women and men that find themselves
in the complexity of an unplanned pregnancy. And like our
doctor's appointments are our nurse appointments, they're an hour long.
When was the last time you went to a doctor
and you got an hour long appointment? And we sit
with them and we look at the whole human being,
the whole person mentally, physically, emotionally.

Speaker 6 (35:43):
And spiritually. What is going on?

Speaker 8 (35:45):
How can we walk with them? We show them there's
other alternatives. We don't beat them into a decision. We
love on them, We give them information. The other thing
that honestly a lot of pro choice people have sorted
is we walk beside them till the baby's a year old.
We do mentoring, We have fatherhood mentoring.

Speaker 6 (36:07):
Wow, like that's been huge.

Speaker 8 (36:09):
And then we also have counseling after abortion, and that
those pieces, even pro choice people can't be upset about
because we're still walking with these individuals.

Speaker 6 (36:20):
We don't drop them off.

Speaker 8 (36:21):
We still love on them, and if they choose to
have an abortion, we still love them. We want them
to have counseling, healing all of them.

Speaker 4 (36:28):
You have them to be making an informed choice, absolutely,
and that is something and I've never had to make
this decision, and I'm very grateful that I never found
myself in this position. But boy, do I know a
lot of women that have found themselves in this position.
And in my friend group, I have women who have
made all different choices. I have had women who decided,

(36:49):
I'm going to have this baby, I'm going to keep
this baby. I have friends who have decided I'm gonna
have this baby and give it to a family that
can provide a better home. And I have friends that
have chosen to have an abortion. But what I find
the most striking is that all of them at some
point have talked about that decision, and the two that

(37:09):
actually gave birth to that baby have never regretted it.
And I'm not saying every friend I have just had
an abortion regrets it. That would be inaccurate, that would
be a lie. But the friends that have had it
more than one has said later that was the worst
choice ever made, right.

Speaker 8 (37:25):
But they didn't feel like they had a choice, and
they maybe didn't feel like there was someone to listen
or someone to talk out the process with, or maybe
even ten years down the road, did they find someone
to talk with. I personally was counseled to abort my
oldest child. She was testing high for Down syndrome right
And we were at Texas Tech Medical Center and in

(37:48):
genetic counseling, and she said, we're giving you this information
and so you have the information in case you want
to terminate their pregnancy. And my husband and I looked
at her in complete shock. And then we go for
the next set of testing. They offered us termination yet again.
And if she would have been Down syndrome, we would
have loved her completely and totally. That she has come

(38:10):
out this genius and this amazing woman of like that
we would have missed. We would have missed her voice.

Speaker 4 (38:16):
Because I was of advanced maternal age when I had
my daughter, and my husband was five years older than
I was. In our first meeting with our midwife, they said, okay,
do you want to do genetic testing? And I said, well,
you know I in the course of this, if we
find out there's something severely wrong, we can talk. But
if we have a child with Down syndrome, we've already
talked about it because we're older and we're okay with

(38:37):
that and we don't want to hear about termination again.
And our doctors, to their credit, said no problem, marked
it down, said we're not going to talk about this again.
But there is a tremendous amount of pressure now and
those tests are not always accurate.

Speaker 8 (38:49):
They are not they have and then I've heard recently
they're like, ashlely, the tests are better. But a young
woman that I've walked beside since she was fifteen years old,
she in the last two years got a FOSSPUZ And
I'm like.

Speaker 6 (39:01):
They're not that much better. You can't just trust that information.

Speaker 4 (39:05):
So yeah, now, when someone comes to the Alternatives Pregnancy Center,
walk me through that process. I've always thought, and maybe
I'm wrong about this. Are people that tend to gravitate
towards a place called Alternatives Pregnancy Center. Maybe they're already
questioning if they're going to walk that path on abortion.
Maybe they want to be talked out of it. Right,

(39:27):
is that accurate? Not always.

Speaker 8 (39:29):
Sometimes they come in very determined, like they have already
made their mind up.

Speaker 6 (39:34):
They want an abortion, okay, And they come to us.

Speaker 8 (39:37):
We sit them down and we do a medical grade
pregnancy test with our ends, and we talk through what's
going on in your life right now? What are you feeling,
what is happening? Why are you feeling anxiety about this
right now? We find out a lot of information, and
it's amazing how often we open the door for additional

(39:58):
resources know they could get. We are experts on what's
available in the counties and what resources are available to them.

Speaker 6 (40:07):
A lot of them may be I don't have housing,
how can I have this baby?

Speaker 5 (40:11):
Right?

Speaker 8 (40:12):
Let us open the door to some organizations that can help.
My partner is abusing me, how can I have this baby?
We aren't experts on domestic balance, but we know who
is yeah, and that is our goal to know who
are the experts that can walk with these women and
empower them so they don't feel so trapped.

Speaker 4 (40:30):
And a lot of people just in general don't recognize
or realize how many organizations exist and our organizations like
you that can kind of act as a clearinghouse to
help get over some of those big hurdles that people
are expressing and truly giving them a choice. I mean,
that's what this is all about.

Speaker 8 (40:48):
Because they feel so trapped, right, I mean they feel
trapped when they come to see us. Nine out of
ten times, if you look at them and say you
are not alone, We're here to walk beside you, immediately
we see tears.

Speaker 6 (41:01):
Yeah, because they feel so alone.

Speaker 9 (41:03):
Right.

Speaker 8 (41:03):
We even help them role play on how to talk
to their partner, how to talk to you. We had
a situation on how to talk to their parents. We
do role playing with them. We just give them the
dedicated time they need to process this information. One other
thing I didn't mention earlier is we do free STD
testing for women as well and treatment, and we follow

(41:26):
that up with STD counseling as well to kind of
educate and be like, why do we keep getting in
this situation?

Speaker 9 (41:33):
Right?

Speaker 6 (41:33):
What's going on behind you coming to see us so often?

Speaker 9 (41:37):
Right?

Speaker 8 (41:38):
Not ever a place from judgment, I can never judge anyone, right,
but from a place of love and hope, and we
want to help you find some answers.

Speaker 4 (41:46):
Right right, And you know, I mean ultimately in my mind,
and I know it sounds a little patronizing, but helping
someone learn how to make better decisions when they've been
making the same wrong decision over and over and over
again is really a powerful medicine itself. Yes, so do
you guys also offer well women care and things of
that nature?

Speaker 8 (42:04):
Or is this we are led towards it? Oh, we
are that is the long term goal. We are head
in that direction. But we are funded by individuals. Over
seventy five percent of our funding comes from individuals and churches,
so we do not receive any state or federal funding,
and that makes it difficult we have to fund raise.

Speaker 4 (42:25):
Why is that, without getting too deep into the weeds
on politics stuff, why is it that you do choose
not to take federal dollars because of the strings that
may be attached, Or is it federal dollars are not
necessarily flowing towards organizations that are focused on life?

Speaker 8 (42:42):
Well, the second one, for sure, they don't have many
flowing towards us. But secondly, a lot of times when
we apply for those, the second they find out we're
pro life, they don't want to work with us. And
I would also say a lot of times there's a
lot of hoops. I know some organizations that do receive
federal and state funds and they actually have to hire
another staff just to manage that, just for fulfillment.

Speaker 4 (43:05):
And then there's all kinds of every every piece of
tax money that is given out comes with strings. Absolutely,
and maybe they're they're blatant strings, but maybe they are
just pressure, or maybe they're pressure that doesn't even appear
for years. Yes, right as things change or shift, what
are you guys seeing? And I mentioned it right at
the beginning of the interview, and I'm talking right now

(43:26):
with Ashley Graves from the Alternative's Pregnancy Center. Colorado is
a staunchly pro choice state. They have indicated it over
and over and over and over and over again at
the ballot box. There's no question about it. So I
have often told my listeners who are frustrated pro lifers
who believe that a child is a child, no matter
if it's a you know, little tiny z eyegoat child

(43:48):
or a nine month old child that's ready to be born,
this is the kind of stuff that I would love
to have you direct your time and energy and your
money to, because the only way to slow down the
rate of abortion anywhere is to let women know that
there are alternatives. Absolutely, you know, what are you guys
seeing just on the landscape in terms of, you know,

(44:11):
do you feel like people's hearts are changing at all?
Because I try to gauge it and it's so hard.
I want to see the window that I want to
see the world through. Right Where are you guys seeing this?

Speaker 8 (44:22):
I would say the younger generation behind us is looking
at it. My daughter's generation, they're twenty and twenty five.
They are seeing some of the after effects of abortion
and especially the chemical abortion, yeah, and the trauma that
goes with that, and I think they're going to be
the generation to speak up and go, this is not okay.
This is actually doing more harm than good, and so

(44:46):
that is definitely I think the generations that are getting
more educated on the trauma. The abortion pill brings a
lot of trauma with it, and we don't need to
get onto that, but it does.

Speaker 4 (44:56):
It's a very dramatic process and people think it's no
big deal. I'm going to take this, and you know,
I don't know what they think is going to happen,
but it's a very dramatic process. It's not just a
no big deal type thing, as it's often made out
to be. I don't know, so, Ashley, how did you
get into this field?

Speaker 8 (45:16):
Honestly, I have always discipled young women. I've always walked
beside young women. I don't have the prettiest testimony. I
don't have the prettiest backstory. And there wasn't someone to
walk with me. And so we ended up in an
area and the pregnancy Resource center needed a director and
my husband was the one that said, you have to
apply for this. This is for young women, this is you.

(45:38):
And that's what I love about what we do because
to me, it's pro woman right, it's empowering women. And
I was an executive director in Texas for over eight
years and then I stepped out and became a consultant
to pregnancy resource centers because we were losing so many
great leaders due to burnout, right exhaustion, all the things.

Speaker 6 (45:59):
And then and a recruiter found me here for Denver.

Speaker 8 (46:03):
And I'm never in a million years but I would
leave Texas for Denver, Colorado. But my husband and I
have a saying, you go until you get a no,
and we just kept getting a yes after a yes.
And now in September eleventh, they'll be here a full year.

Speaker 4 (46:17):
That's fantastic, That's absolutely fantastic. You know, when you are
talking with young women, and you're obviously talking with young women,
maybe not you directly, but the people you have a
lot of different counselors and things of that nature. When
you're talking to these young women, I mean, I can
only imagine the fear that must come across. How do
you say to someone, I'm too scared to do this.

(46:39):
It's too frightening. There's too many barriers in my way.
How do you say on a one to one basis, Like,
what do you say to someone to say, I really
think you should have this baby. It's your choice, but
you gotta, you know, think it over.

Speaker 8 (46:51):
We actually say tell us what the obstacles are, so
we you will never hear one of our advocates say
we think you should do this, right, that's are going
to come out of our mouth. But I will say,
by in large, we're seeing housing.

Speaker 4 (47:04):
That's a yes. That's the biggest one.

Speaker 8 (47:05):
It's probably the largest one of how can I have
another child? I'm currently sleeping in my car or I'm
sleeping on someone's couch. How can I have a child?
Housing is a huge one, and so we look into
that and we're like, you know what, we partner with
some incredible organizations.

Speaker 6 (47:22):
Let's see if we can help you find how.

Speaker 4 (47:24):
I don't know if you guys partner with Catholic charities,
but I've seen their facility that they have for young
you know, moms and kids, and they stay for years
there until they can really get their feet under them,
and it's just such an impressive operation. And all of
this stuff kind of flies under the radar, and I
think part of it is because unfortunately this is so contentious, right,
it shouldn't be This should be a no brainer, like

(47:47):
why shouldn't we want women to have baby? I just
I don't understand why it's it's such a hateful conversation sometimes.
But you've got a couple of ways. I don't want
to I don't want to get too long without talking
about the gala and the golf tournament and everything else.
You guys are bringing in a well known pro life
advocate who has been very open with his mom about

(48:09):
the fact that he was counseled. His mom was counseled
to have an abortion and she just said no. And
that guy is Tim Tebow. Yes, tell me about him.
Coming into town.

Speaker 8 (48:18):
He is going to be here September fourteenth for a
gala out of the Gaylord Rockies Convention Center, and we
are going to have a live auction. You can even
buy table sponsorships to get into a VIP meet and
greet with Tim Tebow. And we had someone contact our
development director and said, what do I have to do
to meet Tim? He said, well, do I have a

(48:39):
package for you? Yeah, So he will be there on
Sunday night for that event, and then the next day
we are hosting a golf tournament and he is going
to be at Cherry Creek Country Club. They have partnered
with us, and that's fantastic in the day playing golf.
We only have three foursomes still available for that. So
the golf tournament is own most sold out, but we

(49:01):
still have tables for the galab well.

Speaker 4 (49:03):
I have all of this information on the blog today.
The gala is Sunday, September fourteenth, so it's in a
couple of weeks at six pm at the Gaylord Hotel.
How much your tickets for that?

Speaker 8 (49:14):
A table is twenty and twenty two hundred and fifty dollars,
An individual seat is two hundred and twenty five.

Speaker 4 (49:21):
Okay, so that is for that and you got four
I'm pulling up the fundraising on the website really quick.
And you only have four foursomes for the golf Is
it three seventy five a person? Yes, okay, I'm looking
right now. Just make sure so you probably won't go
ahead and do that now.

Speaker 8 (49:37):
Yes, if you want to play the golf tournament, Like
I said, Tim's going to be walking around, He's going
to spend the entire.

Speaker 4 (49:43):
Day with us.

Speaker 6 (49:44):
Get on there today, let's get it sold out.

Speaker 4 (49:46):
I have a couple of people that are texting in
right now. By the way. If you love what you're
hearing and you want to support this, you can set
up a five dollars a month donation. You can set
up a ten dollar a month donation. You can set
up a one time don't for five million dollars. You
do whatever you want to do. I mean, I just
feel really good about making that last offer in case

(50:07):
people don't think like that. I just want to plant
that seed. So whatever you can do, you can participate,
you know, and you can do this, or you could
just give a little money. Here's a couple of stories
I want to share though, I think it's fascinating. Mandy.
Twenty six years ago, my wife and I were forty
years old, found out we were pregnant unplanned. We had
an abortion appointment set up in the twelfth hour. I

(50:27):
changed my mind and it took a lot of prayers
and counsel with my wife to talk or into having
the baby. Put a real strain between us. We had
three children already went through with the pregnancy, and we
have a beautiful adult woman now I had to step
up to the plate and do most of the parenting
on the fourth child. Our marriage didn't survive, but I'm
glad we didn't abort this one as an adoptee born

(50:49):
during the early days of Roe Versus Wade, thank you
for bringing on a guest who shows actual choices and
not a single agenda. So yes, as a guy, this
guy says, I love this group, but it's hard to
have a position on abortion. It's really not you guys,
it's really not one of my I think one of
the most unfair things in the world are that women

(51:14):
have to do the brunt of growing that baby, because
it's really hard. But it's also unfair because men don't
get the really cool stuff about having a baby, little
feet kicking from the inside.

Speaker 9 (51:25):
Dude.

Speaker 4 (51:26):
There's literally nothing in the world like it. It's amazing.
But men should also get a.

Speaker 8 (51:30):
Say well, and I can speak to in my previous clinic,
there was one summer we had three young men different
pregnancy tests. All three of them were literally wailing in
our waiting room because she was determined to get an
abortion and he had no rights. He offered to support,
he offered to provide a place to live, he offered for.

Speaker 6 (51:51):
His parents to do it. In all three incidences, and
a man has literally no say.

Speaker 4 (51:57):
That's just really, really sad it is. Alternatives Pregnancy Center
is the place you want to put a link to
all of this on the blog today. I so appreciate you,
Ashley Graves and everyone involved with this, because it's really
irritating to me when I hear people, and I hear
this from friends of mine who are so staunchly pro
choice to the moment of birth that they don't even

(52:19):
want to hear that there are actual organizations who help
and support women not just in making that decision, but
also throughout the pregnancy after the baby is born, and
helping people get a start on life. They exist, but
they only exist because we support them. So yes, thank
you so much for coming in today. Thank you every
of you guys are going to have an amazing event.
And tell Tim, I said, Hill, all right, we'll be

(52:40):
back in just a few minutes. I got a lot
of stuff on the blog, and I also have a
lot of people weighing in on the text line right now.
But when we get back, yeah, I'm gonna do it.
In this segment, renewables are having a moment, and it's
not a moment that is good renewable energy. The scam
is about to collapse under the weight of things like

(53:03):
grid issues, and we have just as much Arctic ice
as we had in twenty twenty five. We'll do all
that when we get back. Keep it on, Kowa. I
don't know if you heard me. I said it multiple
times over the past couple of days about Trump's new
executive order banning flag burning, and I said, you know,
it's clearly unconstitutional. That was before I read the executive order,
and we'll explain that in just a second. But I said,

(53:23):
but maybe this is just a ploy to get Democrats
to burn flags. I'd like to take you to Reddit's
Seattle Thread Mass flag burning Sunday, eight thirty one, cal
Anderson Park, seven pm. With light of the new executive order,

(53:45):
a few buddies and I feel like it's time to
display our First Amendment rights to burn this rag. No,
we don't represent any organization, just a group of friends
who are sick and tired of this blank Feel free
to join us. It's like they don't learn. Just it's
a shame, isn't it. Okay, let's talk about green energy

(54:06):
for just a moment. Got a few stories that I'm
gonna put together all in one fell swoop for you
right here. Number one is a story that was in
the Guardian newspaper in the UK. The Guardian is a
left wing newspaper, and unlike in you know, the United States,
where our news organizations try to pretend like they have

(54:26):
some kind of you know, non biased journalism, in the
UK they just kind of own it. They're just like, yeah,
we're left wing. It's fine. The Guardian is left wing.
Let me just read the headline dramatics slow down and
melting of Arctic sea ice. Surprise it's scientist, and then
I'll get to the story by Damien Carrington, Environment Editor

(54:47):
the melting of sea ice in the Arctic has slowed
dramatically in the past twenty years, scientists have reported with
no statistically significant decline in its extent since two thousand
and five. The finding it's surprising, the researchers say, given
that carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning have continued to
rise and trap evermore heat over that time. They said

(55:11):
natural variations in ocean currents that limit ice melting had
probably balanced out the continuing rise in global temperatures. However,
they said this was only a temporary retrieve, and melting
was highly likely to start again at about double the
long term rate at some point in the next five

(55:31):
to ten years. Okay, so let me just review what
we've just read Arctic sea ice, which, by the way,
back in nineteen ninety six or ninety seven, when An
Inconvenient Truth came out, we were told that the Arctic
was going to be ice. Oh no, wait, that was
like two thousand and six, that an Inconvenient Truth came
out two thousand and six or two thousand and seven. Yeah,

(55:54):
Al Gore told us in his Warring movie that we
were going to be completely free of Arctic by twenty thirteen,
we would have no more snow. There'd be no more snow.
Remember when he said, no more snow. Sorry about your look,
no more snow. What are you gonna do? But like
climate scientists have been since really the beginning of the
climate science movement that started back in the nineteen nineties

(56:18):
in earnest with climatologists or excuse me, meteorologist Michael Mann's
famous hockey stick graph that showed that we were essentially
going to become an inhospitable ball of fire in a
very short period of time. Except it did not happen,
not at all. And then when we had a big

(56:39):
pause in the dramatic rise in temperatures, we were told
it was it's just it's any minute now, it's going
to be horrible, horrible, Like I don't even know how
horrible it's gonna be. So just in case we're wondering,
Doctor Mark England, who led the study while at the
University of Exeter, said, it is the prizing when there's

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a current debate about whether global warming is accelerating, that
we're talking about a slowdown. The good news is that
ten to fifteen years ago, when a sea ice loss
was accelerating. Some people were talking about an ice free
Arctic before twenty twenty, but now the natural variability has
switched to largely canceling out sea ice loss. It brought

(57:23):
us a little more time, but it's a temporary reprieve.
When it ends, it isn't good news, you guys. I've
said this before and I'll say it again. They have
been wrong over and over and over and over and
over and over and over and over again. So I'm
not going to pay attention anymore because models are not data.

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Why does this matter to us? Why do we care
about any of this stuff? Well, let's look at the
next thing we're going to talk about then, that is
electricity bills. When you look at the states that have
the highest electricity, what do they all have in common? Well,
you think they'd all have something in common other than

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high rates, but they don't. Hawaii, Connecticut, and Alabama had
the highest average monthly electricity bills, Utah, New Mexico, and
Colorado had the lowest. And this, by the way, is
from February of this year. Now, the reason I bring
this to your attention that right now, our average cost
per kilowat hour is fifteen point six cents. Okay, so

(58:31):
we're paying fifteen cents roughly per kilowat hour. Do you
know what they're paying in California? Hey, Rod, do you
want to guess if we in Colorado are paying fifteen
point six cents per kilo what hour? What do you
think California is paying per kilowat hour? Sixteen?

Speaker 2 (58:50):
You know what?

Speaker 4 (58:51):
You would be dead wrong. They are paying thirty one
point a six cents. And you, guys, now, let me
direct you to another story, this one from City Journal.
Joel Cutkin writes in City Journal, which is a fantastic
magazine put out by the Manhattan Institute, absolutely outstanding. The
next Californias, Colorado, Washington, and Oregon have adapted many of

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the policies contributing to the Golden States decline. Listen to
this the shift in migration patterns. I'm jumping right into
the middle where they had already talked about the fact
that we've gone from a huge amount of in migration
to a very tiny level of in migration and much
more out migration. The shift in migration patterns may be

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the clearest sign of the Three States Californication. Like California,
these states long attracted newcomers with their remarkable natural beauty.
People only began leaving California, still arguably the most beautiful
state in the continental US, with some of the most
pleasant weather on Earth when its political, economic, and cultural
climate became unbearable, especially for young families. Initially, as California

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began a hemorrhaging residents, Washington, Oregon, and Colorado kept growing
as destinations, but between twenty ten and twenty twenty, Colorado
gained more than three hundred and ninety thousand domestic migrants.
Since twenty twenty, that total has fallen below twenty four
thousand per the Census Bureau. What happened politics? Until the

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twenty tens, all three states boasted robust two party systems,
with liberal leaning metros and conservative tilting countrysides. No longer. Washington,
which is not elected a Republican governor this century, may
be the furthest along the progressive path, Neighboring Oregon not
far behind, But the biggest shift has taken place in Colorado,

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where Republicans were highly competitive as late as twenty eighteen.
Governor Jerry Poulis's image as a quote libertarian largely reflects
his positions on social issues. Polis comes from the ultra
progressive university town of Boulder, presides over a state with
the nation's sixth worst record relatory burden. The results of

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Colorado's leftward lurch are already evident. The centennial state, once
a leader in job and income growth, now ranks near
the bottom in these categories. Remarkably, it's now among the
least attractive states to outsiders. Colorado's business startup rate has fallen,
and business confidence is low, tied to concerns over rising regulations.

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Roughly half of business owners say the state is headed
in the wrong direction. Destroying an economy like Colorado's takes work.
But progressive have been busy, And there's a bunch more
in this story. But I wanted to read those parts
because when we go back to that bill, that story
that I just had, Colorado's average utility rates fifteen point
zero six percent, California's utility rates thirty one point eighty

(01:01:47):
six cents per kilo. What hour are you ready for
your power bill to double? Because that's where we're headed.
When we get back from this break, I want to
explain to you how all of this put which for
solar energy, actually has demonstrated that we are not spending
nearly enough money in the place that we need to,
and that would be on the grid. And because we're

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not spending money on the grid, we are finding ourselves
in a position that we will be either not having
the energy or we're going to have What happened in
Spain happened to us. What happened in Spain, I'll tell
you after this when the entire nation of Spain, in
a much Portugal which is attached to Spain, suffered a blackout,
series of blackouts, and when people came out and said,

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you know what the problem is. You get all this
solar energy, and once one of those things goes down,
it creates this weird cascade. Electrically, the system has to
operate in a state of stasis, like a state of balance,
meaning the grid system, I should say, the electrical grid.
And it's kind of finicky, but when you have energy

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being provided by a reliable resource like natural gas or
nuclear or something that ever stops even hydropower, right, you
have a consistent amount of energy that's being produced at
all times, regardless of demand. And it's that consistent level
of energy that stabilizes the grid. To make sure that
when you do have to put more energy on the grid,
it's already stable so it doesn't kind of throw everything

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into overload. Well, in Spain, the resulting surge in voltage
spread across a grid that was ill prepared to absorb it.
That trisk get triggered a cascade of failures and caused
a nationwide blackout that extended to all mainland Portugal. I'm
reading now from Doomberg. The vulnerability was amplified by the

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fact that they call it a photovoltic photo voltic energy,
that is solar energy. I'm just gonna call it solar
instead of PV just so people know what I'm talking about.
The vulnerability was amplified by the fact the solar accountant
for about sixty percent of total generation just before this surge,

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leaving the grid without any of the stable ing inertia
and voltage control typically provided by the large spinning turbines
of conventional power plants. They lost that stabilization factor. It
was obvious hours after this catastrophe what it likely transpired,
and as a matter of fact, people were talking while
it was still going on. This is probably what happened.

(01:04:19):
But Spain's pro renewables. Prime Minister was like, nuh uh,
I mean, he just said, anyone linking this to solar
energy is lying, except they weren't. So they did a
big investigation in Spain and the results of the investigation
are undeniable. The responsibility was pinned not on solar but

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on the grid operators who had failed to make the
necessary investments to handle the rapid influx of green electricity.
So there was an article in Bluebeard Green titled the
fix for solar blackouts is already here. But here's the problem.
We have spent a lot of money on wind and
solar capacity, but we we have not spent any money

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updating the grids. They're now saying for every dollar that
we spend on renewable energy, we have to spend a
second dollar updating the grids so this doesn't happen again.
We have to have synchronous condensers, grid forming inverters. We
have all these stabilization technologies, none of which have been adopted,
which means that every grid that relies mostly on renewable energy,

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which is also unreniwable energy, is subject to the same
kind of failure. In reality, while the marginal cost of
sunlight is zero. The true cost of integrating solar into
modern grid includes the heavy and ongoing capital expenditures needed
for transmission, stabilization, and balancing services. Without those, the electricity

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produced cannot be delivered reliably, making it far less cheap
than advocates claim, says Doomberg. And this is where we're headed.
And Jared Poulus does not care how much you want
to bet he as a generator on both of his homes.
I mean, if not, it's coming soon. And how expensive

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do you think this is? Because something you've got to understand.
Excel our biggest energy provider in Colorado. There are other
energy providers, but Excel's the biggest. They are capped on
how much they can charge rate wise. They can only
capture so much of what they pay for natural gas
by passing those costs plus some onto the consumer. Those

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are fixed prices. You know, Excel shows growth to their
rateholder or their shareholders. They show it by saying, look,
we've made all this extra money building out the capital products.
That's where they're making money. So first they're gonna build
out solar and wind, but they're not building out the grid.
And then they're gonna come back and say, oh my gosh,
we've built out all this solar and wind, but now

(01:06:50):
we have this stability problem, and now we need even
more money again to stabilize the grid. Now I'm not
saying that all of these problems not things that can
be solved. I'm sure they can. You got enough money,
you can solve any problem. But what I am saying
is that instead of making sure that we have reliable energy,
we're chasing this technology but not investing in the second

(01:07:13):
half of the technology yet. So as expensive as as
you know, energy prices are now and remember there's a
little over sixteen cents per kilowatt hour, we're very close
to heading to California prices which are just under thirty
two cents per kill awat hour. Do the math on that.
Green energy is a scam, an absolute joke. And now

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Excel is shoving through these projects even faster to take
advantage of tax credits, which is going to mean we
are going to pay even higher prices even faster. So
that's what green energy gets us. But I'm sure it'll
be fine. I'm sure everything is going to be fine.
Don't worry about that power bill. You can just turn
your air conditioning up to ninety on those hot days
and you'll be fine. Just ask them, they'll tell you

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you'll be fine.

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this past weekend and she said, absolute delightful and I
forgot to do that yesterday. So we got that going
for you. Ay Rod, you're Costco guy, right, Costco in SAMs,
but but Cosco Morse, you're used to it.

Speaker 5 (01:08:57):
Yes, when you leave Costco or SAMs, what do they
Douracy correct, rightfully.

Speaker 4 (01:09:03):
So, but apparently now this is terrifying for some shoppers.
This is one of those stories. That I saw and went, really,
it's that slow Steve Steger, no offense, Bud. Listen to
this headline on nine News. Some shoppers uneasy as King
Supers implements receipt checks by security guards. Yep, yep, and

(01:09:26):
this is how it started. Pillar Choppa said she's seen
a dramatic shift in the duties of the security guard
at her local King superstore. Recently. She said the guard
used to stand near the entrance of the in store
Starbucks watching customers enter the store. Now the guard stands
with his back to the entrance, asking every customer to
see their receipt. This is what ms Choppa had to

(01:09:49):
say about it. It just doesn't make sense to have
someone armed like that, intimidating customers on their way out.
Ms Choppa, they bring down for you, sister. If people
are not robbing and stealing stores blind right now in Colorado,
this would be an hon issue. So the fact that

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a security guard is there to check receipts, to put
people who might be in there to steal things on
notice that they were taking a more proactive role. That
means and according to Steve Steger, he was given a
number by the Retail Association that one billion dollars worths
of goods are stolen in Colorado every year. You let
me just repeat that a billion dollars worth of goods

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are stolen. Guess who pays for those stolen goods, me
and you in the form of higher prices. So you
better believe if I see that, not only am I
showing in my receipt, I'm a high five and the
dude on my way out, just like I do at Costco.
Although sometimes at Costco I'm like, can you make a
smiley face on my receipt? I'm just having a day.

(01:10:54):
Do they ever make smiley faces for you, a rod,
I think I've seen a smiley face or two when
you have kids, like my daughter thoughts. She was the
queen of Costco for the first five years of her
life because we would go there every Sunday morning and
basically a brunch right, just drive around all the little
sample things. She would sit on top of the toilet
paper in the cart and ride up there like she
was a Queen of Sheba, and so she would always

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get the smiley face. And then on the rare occasion
it would be super busy and the checker would just
put the line through. My little five year old daughter
would just stare at him, giving him the hairy eyeball
like what yeah, and just a lie.

Speaker 5 (01:11:29):
What I believe he also points out on that story
is you are contractually required at Costco to show your receipt.
It's part of the membership agreement, right, But not part
of any membership agreement at these other stories, which there
is none.

Speaker 4 (01:11:41):
Yeah, there's no membership agreement at all. But here's the thing, you, guys,
why is this even a story? Why would it even
bother you? Why? I mean, don't get me wrong, you
don't want a power that pustion of guilt. I get it,
one hundred percent, I absolutely get it. But I also
get one billion dollars worth of stuff as being stolen,
not just from King Souper, but for retail establishments all

(01:12:02):
over Colorado, and we, the consumers, are paying for it.
I'm happy to see stores being more proactive.

Speaker 5 (01:12:09):
I haven't seen it, but I could tell you it
would kind of bug me if any of our you know,
friendly loss prevention people became less friendly and went on
a power trip because they now get to.

Speaker 4 (01:12:19):
Do just like the people the TSA that are just
jerks because they can be jerks, right, although I will
tell you my last few trips to the Denver Airport,
the TSA experience has been a delight. I mean in out,
nobody gets hurt. Now, granted we have TSA pre check,
but the new security, the new security check checkpoint.

Speaker 1 (01:12:37):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:12:38):
The last time we went, we were traveling with people
who didn't have TSA PreCheck, so we were in the
normal line. It moved quickly. The TSA agents were an
absolute delight. It was like bada bing bada boom. I
don't know what happened. Is awesome. I'm not saying that
they have to because they do it for hours and
hours and hours and hours. Yep. But then I think
humor is always a nice plus exactly. But they are

(01:12:58):
law enforcement officers trying to keep us from being you know,
very true.

Speaker 5 (01:13:02):
But you know, yeah, but it's a little bit of brevity.
But definitely, please, for the love of God, don't go
on a power trip now.

Speaker 4 (01:13:08):
But if I'm walking out of a king like our
Walmart on occasion, will check receipts not all the time,
and I always walk by and the guy's like, hey,
you gonna see your receipt on't here you go. Don't
they do ask?

Speaker 5 (01:13:18):
Because I have a guy that stands there, looks like
he was wanting to and I just I have my
receipt visible, but I don't show it to him an
occasion only on.

Speaker 4 (01:13:28):
A there's always a person there's like the reverse greader.
Now at the door of the Walmart. Right used to
have the old dude who would stand up there be like,
well go to Walmart when they you know that, when
they pay people to do that. Now it's the reverse greader.
He's the exit ours ours. Seems like he's kind of
on a swivel.

Speaker 5 (01:13:42):
He does the receipt on the exit and also kind
of gives you, like at least a smile.

Speaker 2 (01:13:46):
On the way in.

Speaker 4 (01:13:46):
Yeah. So he's basically like your floor host. He's a
two for one. He's a floor host right there for
the Walmart. I don't mind that. Here's my receipt. I
didn't steal anything. I don't care. And if it keeps
you from raising the prices all the stuff I'm buying
because less people are stealing fewer people are stealing, then
my gosh, my golly, I'm all for it, And especially
if it keeps the self checkout lanes open. Well, let

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me just say this. Rod the first time I had
my receipt checked as I was leaving a self checkout lane,
I was like, first of all, you guys make me
bag my own stuff, but now you're telling me you
don't trust me. And the guy literally looked at me
like a deer in the headlights right, had no idea
what to do with me, and I was like, I'm
just kidding, man, here's my receipt. He literally was standing
next to me as I was checking out. I was
it the last self checkout He watched me check out

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my ten items. Yeah, you know, and then he's like
can I no? And he just was honestly like, I
don't know what to do.

Speaker 5 (01:14:35):
And if this somehow brings back Apple Pay, I'm also
all for it because our local Walmart doesn't have Apple Pay.

Speaker 4 (01:14:40):
Our Walmart doesn't have Touch to Pay like that either,
and I find that really annoying. Is very How quickly
did I go from I'm not doing that to now
being like put out if it's not an option, yeah,
you're technologically impairable with an asterisk. It's like something I'm like, yeah,
oh no, I signed up for a course on AI.
Look at you. It just goes to different platforms and

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things like that and teaches you how.

Speaker 5 (01:15:02):
To do so you'll be the AI expert. But figuring
something on your computer still wants to stop it.

Speaker 4 (01:15:05):
No, I don't know how to do that. Like something.
Somebody just responded to my Facebook post today of Today's
blog and said, man, I love your blog, but it's
not formatted well for my phone. It's too wide, and
I'm like, I have no idea how to fix that problem.

Speaker 5 (01:15:20):
Isn't a problem. Looks great on the phone. I compete
it on the magnifying sets.

Speaker 4 (01:15:25):
Yeah maybe.

Speaker 5 (01:15:27):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:15:29):
Yeah maybe uhh yeah looks better on the phone. I yeah,
I think so too. So I don't know. Maybe maybe
you just give it a little pinch and squeeze and
make it a tiny bit smaller. See what happens. But
that's the extent of my technical knowledge that I can
provide for people. You just I'm tapped out. I got
nothing when we get back. Southwest has made some changes
that I really don't like, But you know what, roll

(01:15:51):
with it. I'm rolling with it. I'm just you know,
I'm going to give them a chance not to screw
this up. That being said, they made a change in
an announcement today that I totally agree with. But now
people are getting all upset about. I'll explain it after this.
They're engaged, you guys, Travis and Tata forever. I'm actually
rooting for these crazy kids, I really am. I like them,

(01:16:13):
I do. There's a new policy with Southwest.

Speaker 1 (01:16:16):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:16:16):
You know that Southwest has gone away from the free
for all seating as I like to call it, that
I loved, and now they're going to have reserve seating
starting next year. And as part of that, they have
announced a change, an official change in policy that will
require travelers they call plus sized travelers who don't sit

(01:16:38):
within the armrests of their seat, to buy an extra
seat in advance. And it's all because there's going to
be a signed seating. Here's something I learned. I didn't
know this until fairly recently. I was on a Southwest
light and I sat down in the aisle seat next
to a girl who was a sizable young woman, and

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the middle seat was empty. But then someone came up
and said, oh, can I sit there? And she said no,
I purchased that seat as well. The old policy would
allow a plus sized passenger to pay for an extra
seat in advance at the gate. And here's the kicker.
If there are empty seats on that flight other than

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the empty seat they paid for, they can get their
money back. So as long as the flight is not
sold out, they can actually get the money back for
that seat. Now, if the flight is sold out, you
were going to pay for that seat, and you're not
going to get a refund. Now under the carrier's new policy,
a refund is still possible, but no longer guaranteed. So

(01:17:43):
this is a new update for Southwest. And already I'm
seeing these influencers on whatever and they're popping up like
this is so wrong. I'm going to tell you, guys,
the story I've told it on the air before. This
is the story of the most awkward day I have
ever had at work. And that says something, you guys,
because I've done things on the radio show that have

(01:18:04):
made me feel super awkward, but nothing as awkward as this.
I am the flight attendant in charge. It is a
seven to twenty seven flight, not the time, that's the plane.
I'm only telling you that because you know they have
three seats on one side of the aisle. Three seats
on the other side of the aisle. And as people
are boarding the plane, I see a businessman doing the
salmon swimming upstream thing where he's trying to get back
to the front of the plane. He walks up to

(01:18:25):
me and says, my seat is not there, and I said,
I'm sorry, and he goes my seat it's not there,
and I look at it and he has seat it's
like eleven B something. No, it was twenty one B.
And I know because we've been on this aircraft all
day that seat twenty one B is clearly there. So
I said, I don't understand what you mean. He goes,
just come with me. So we get into the stream

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of passengers and we walk back and we go back
to row twenty one and there is a couple who
have purchased seat A and seat C, and they are
both extremely large people, and they are where seat BE
used to be. So there is no seat B there.
This guy's correct, his seat is not there. It has

(01:19:07):
been consumed by the excess of the people in seat
A and seat C. Well, now I have no idea
what to do here. What am I supposed to say? Hey, guys,
fork it into your own seats. I had no clue,
so I said okay, and were now fighting our way
back upstream, back up the aisle, doing the salmon upstream thing.
We get off the plane. I walk out to the
gate agent. I said, we have a significant problem here.

(01:19:29):
She said, what is the problem, And I said, well,
this gentleman is in seat twenty one B, and there
are two very large people in twenty one A and
twenty one C, and there is no seat twenty one B,
to which she says, of course there is. And she
grabs me and the guy and we go walking back
onto the plane and she gets like halfway down the
aisle and seize the situation, turns around, says let's get

(01:19:50):
back off the plane. So now we're going back up
the aisle, you know, fish upstream. And we come off
and she said, sir, we will put you on a
later flight in first class. You will arrive at your
home destination at like five instead of six thirty. Is
that okay? And he said absolutely. But the whole thing
played out in such a way that the people in

(01:20:10):
twenty one A and twenty one C totally saw what
was going on, And guys, my heart broke for these people.
You could see the mortification on their faces. It was
actually a really sad kind of experience. But and this
is a big butt. Airlines sell two things. Well, now

(01:20:32):
they sell food and luggage and all this stuff, but ultimately,
back then in the nineties, when I was a flight attendant,
they sold two things. They sold you a seat on
the airplane, or they sold your space for your cargo.
That was the two things they sold. So when that
seat was not available for a customer because two larger
passengers were now touching in the middle, you have now
essentially said we're going to take more of your product

(01:20:54):
than we're paying for. We're each going to take one
and a half seats instead of one seat that we
paid for. So I am one hundred percent behind this
policy change, one hundred percent. By the way, a lot
of other airlines will also let you buy two seats,
and if there are seats available on the flight, you
can get your money back for that seat. It's not

(01:21:15):
every airline, but if you are a plus sized person
and you have to fly, it is worth checking into.
Although I will say this when I fly on Southwest,
I don't think I've been on a Southwest plane that
wasn't full in a long time, So if you're counting
on getting that money back, you have to understand you
may not. And this is not picking on heavy people.

(01:21:37):
This is making them pay for what they're using, and
unfortunately that is just the only way to sell that product.
So something to know, something to think about right there.
If you're flying on Southwest or any other airline and
you need a little extra space, we'll be right back.
Any who. A lot of you pointing out on the
text line that I made an accidental pun when I

(01:21:57):
said I have too big buts about the airline story.
I didn't even mean to do that. This texture asked,
can you pay for an extra ticket just because you
want extra space? Yes, you can, but at that point
you might be wanting to look at a first class ticket.
I'm just saying first class domestic is not as expensive

(01:22:17):
as people might think. First Class International wow, wow, business
class wow? Holy crap? Is that expensive? Now this one says, wait,
hang on one second, I want to find it. You
said the seat was consumed. I love all of you
fifth grade boys out there who were sending me this stuff.

(01:22:40):
I really do love you. I was just kidding. What
if everyone just sits on a giant couch like those
fancy movie theaters, says these Texters, let me tell you
my second story about my work life. So one time
I was trying to get from Los Angeles to Tallahassee.
I was in a wedding and all of the flights
all day long. I got in from a trip at
like eleven o'clock in the morning. I waited. All of

(01:23:01):
the flights to the East coast were full. They've been
a series of cancelations, absolute disaster. So I have to
get on the last flight of the night that's going
from LA to Atlanta, Georgia, and I'm in my uniform still.
I never changed clothes because I figured if I could
sit on a jump seat, I would do that. But
even the jump seats were filled. So I finally get

(01:23:22):
on this flight. I get the last seat on the plane.
I'm happy to be on the plane. And then I
go back to my seat and I am in a
center seat between two ginormous redneck men. Now, being from
a redneck part of Florida, I am well acquainted with rednecks,
and these were like if you close your eyes and
you think about two rednecks from Georgia that look corn fed,

(01:23:47):
if you know what I mean about that, and smell
like they had been drinking bush light for five days straight,
which is what they had been doing. I found out
one of them they had gotten a new tattoo on
his big ham arm that was Yosemite Sam, you remember
him of bugs Bunny fame. And he had two pistols
in his hands pointing up, and between those two pistols

(01:24:09):
was a banner that went between the two pistols like this,
and it said Bubba. The entire tattoo, because his arm
was so giant, was like a foot tall. And he
asked me if I thought his wife would notice it,
and I was like, I don't know how much attention
your wife faced. You to be clear. And I had
to sit in that seat for the well while we

(01:24:30):
took off, and I don't want to sit anywhere near
on a couch next to those guys. I don't ever
want to sit next to those guys again. Now, I
actually got up and worked the flight because it was
better than sitting in between those two guys, where I
literally had like ten inches of space in between them.
It was awful. So no, no big couches that is

(01:24:52):
not a thing that's not going to happen. I'm not
doing that, Mandy. We flew back from California on Sunday night.
There was a soccer team that appairs kept standing up,
and when we landed, the pilot and the flight attendant
said on the PA we will stop this plane. Sit down.
I always love that when the pilot gets tough. Anyway,

(01:25:13):
O listen to this A Rod coming full circle to
the biggest story of the day to day Mandy. Coincidentally,
my birthday is the same as Travis Kelce ten to five,
and my husband's birthday is the same as Taylor Swift
twelve thirteen. You're practically Taylor and Travis without the money.

Speaker 5 (01:25:31):
I think I would rather sit on the couch or
stand on a flight than be switched in between two people.

Speaker 4 (01:25:36):
No, then then hear more about this headline today. A
Rod is not excited about Travis and Taylor. What's that?
What's their name together? I mean it's on trailer Trailer's terrible,
Trailer Trailer's terrible. But then it would be Tavis Tavis Trailer. Yes, Tavis,

(01:26:02):
do you have to have a ship name? Hang on trailer?
What is Travis and tailor's trailer ship name. By the way,
the kids call a relationship the ship. We're gonna ship you,
We're gonna make you. Well. What if them is trailer
common ship names that were noticed? Uh swell? Say you
know what word usually goes after the trailer? See what

(01:26:24):
word usually goes after trailer? Before or after after trailer? Trailer?

Speaker 3 (01:26:28):
What?

Speaker 4 (01:26:29):
Park? Nope? What the other one? Tavis? No, word usually
goes after trailer. I always think park? No, what the
other one starts with a T tractor trailer? No trailer.
There you go, trailer trash, there you go. Rest my case,
I try to just disparage, you know, I try to
have to use the trailer trash moniker. I prefer mobile

(01:26:51):
home trash. Okay, just to class it up a little bit.
I'm just a little I know a lot of people
in my hometown that lived in trailers that were not trash,
So I kind of bristle at that one. Now, don't
get me wrong. House to do a lot of trash
the living trailers, but not all people. You guys, we'll plane.
Oh god, ay Rod. They proceeded to tell me a story.
I am a twenty something flight attendant. I am in

(01:27:12):
my uniform, and they told me a story about trying
to pick up a hooker in Los Angeles, and of
course they picked up a cop right So here they are.
They got busted in this motel room with this cop.
So the cops come busted in before anything significant happens.
Do you know why they didn't get arrested? According to them,
they said, we just kept saying to the cop, we're

(01:27:33):
from Georgia, Officer, we don't understand how things work in
the big city. We're from Georgia, and just kept saying
it over and over again, and the cops let them go.
And oddly, I was like, you know what, after hearing
these two guys, I actually believe that story. I believe
that the cops in Los Angeles could have looked at
these two mooses and said, I think they're too dumb

(01:27:55):
for us to arrest.

Speaker 2 (01:27:56):
I truly do.

Speaker 4 (01:27:57):
So this is after he tells me ask me if
if I think his wife is going to notice the tattoo.
I go, why were you trying to pick up a
hooker when you're married? And he was like, well, you
know how it is when you're in a strange city.
And I was like, I am in a strange city
every night, and yet I have never picked up a hooker,
never even tried. Never. And that's when I got up

(01:28:19):
and said, you know what, I'm going to work the
flight And I went up to the flight attendant charged
and said, I'm going to work with you because those
people are gross me out, completely grossing me out. God,
I've forgotten about that story too. I did make it
to the wedding on time, by the way, zero sleep
had a blast. It was awesome. I've got a story today,
two stories about children that I want to share with

(01:28:40):
you that are just so incredibly depressing. Listen to these statistics.
A Harris poll found that eight to twelve year old
children right now, they asked them a series of questions,
a question like this, eight to twelve years old, Okay,
they said, have you walked in a different aisle than
your parents at a store?

Speaker 5 (01:29:00):
Do you know what?

Speaker 4 (01:29:01):
Percentage of eight to twelve year old said they had
never walked in a different aisle than their parents at
a store. Forty five percent of twelve of eight to
twelve year old kids, sixty one percent have not made
plans with friends without adults helping them. Sixty two percent

(01:29:22):
have not walked or biked somewhere a store, park, school
without an adult. These are all eight to twelve year
old to twelve year olds. Sixty three percent have not
built a structure outside like a fort or tree house.
Seventy one percent have not used a sharp knife. You guys,
what do we doing to these kids? I'm gonna try

(01:29:44):
and get Lenor Skenese on about this. She's written incredible
books about free range kids. She's got a new one
coming out. She's got an organization called at Let Grow,
at Letgrow, dott door It, at let Grow Org. That's
what they are on X. But I read that and
I was stunned. What a miserable childhood these kids are having.

(01:30:06):
They have no adventures, they have no chance to fail,
they have no chance to just feel their own limits
and figure things out without some adult jumping in to
solve their problems. It's awful what we're doing to these kids.
And then I have this story. You know, there have
always been people who have wanted to innovate education, and
they always tell us the new way is the better way,

(01:30:28):
But is it really? We've been told for years that
having desks in rows, which is how I went through
K through twelve in a row in a desk. That
is what I did. That is what we did, and
guess what we all learned. But these progressive education people
are like, oh, it's like grave Yard. You have them

(01:30:49):
all lined up like that. It's so it just sucks
the creativity out of the room. And it's terrible and
it's awful, and we need to do something different, like
putting desks in groups. When I went to my daughter's
charter school, they had desks in groups, and I thought
to myself, how does that work. Well, we've got some
studies out and the answer is not at all. This

(01:31:11):
is a study that was done and here's the headline
of this study, Rose versus tables the effects of two
classroom seating arrangements on classroom disruption, rates, on tesk behavior,
and teacher behavior in three special school classes. So researchers
went to a school that was for behaviorally troublesome children

(01:31:33):
with moderate learning disabilities. So these are not your model students, right,
These are the kids that are probably going to cause
a little bit of a disruption, and they need to
be disrupted the least. They need the extra help. So
they did this. They were observed daily in four two
week phases. The first phase was seated around tables, then

(01:31:53):
the next two weeks they were in roads, Then the
next two weeks they sat them around tables again, and
finally they sat them in rows again. So then they
recorded the percentage of on task behavior, along with the
rate of pupil disruption and rates of teacher approval and disapproval. Okay,
in all three classes, on task behavior doubled from thirty

(01:32:17):
five percent to seventy percent when they changed from tables
to rows. But that's not all. Rates of disruption were
three times higher in the table conditions. Teach your behavior
was also affected. Positive comments increased during rose seating, while

(01:32:38):
negative comments decreased. You, guys, we do not need to
reinvent the wheel. When we need to teach children what
they need to know. Put them in rows, make them
learn phonics, make them memorize their multiplication tables. You know what,
it sucks to sit there and go one times one
is one, one times two is two, one times two,

(01:33:00):
there is three, But you know what, that's how kids
learn them. And then once they learn their multiplication tables,
they can easily do math at any level. But we're
not doing that anymore, and quote improving our educational system,
We've just created a system that doesn't work. So I
love stuff like this, And like I said, I'm gonna
get Lenoris Kinzy in here to talk about it, because

(01:33:25):
what we're doing to our kids right now, it's like
we're doing all of these experiments on children. And in
a hundred years when historians look back at this timeframe
and they're like, I'm sorry they did what to children?
They told them they can change gender, and they gave
them medication that kept them from going into puberty. What
that's like Nazi stuff going on right now? We're just

(01:33:45):
experimenting on children. Oh, and we took away an educational
process that it had great success for many, many years,
and we turned it into chaos because someone thought it
might be a better idea that might lead to more creativity,
and it just got adopted across the board like this
or what we need. And by the way, like I
was one of those nerds. I love school. I loved

(01:34:06):
it absolutely till I got to college. And then I
found out I liked work better than college. I like
going to work. I like making money better than I
like sitting in class. And that shows in my grades
from college. By the way, not good if you think
you're smart, but you dropped out of college like I did.
Don't order your transcripts. Just don't do it. Nick Ferguson

(01:34:29):
is in the studio right now, Nick, don't do it.
I remembered myself doing better than I did. Really. Yeah,
But I also, I mean when I say I found
out I like work better than school, at that point
I did. I worked in this Florida Senate. I managed
a restaurant. I was a bartender and a waitress and
all this stuff, and I just would rather be at

(01:34:52):
work than in the classrooms that I was in. At
that point in my life, I was just like, I'm done.
See I was different. Yeah, see I love being in school.

Speaker 9 (01:35:01):
But obviously, like a lot of people, I love certain
subjects more than others. Are all other professors that I
wanted to go to their classes other than certain professors.

Speaker 4 (01:35:13):
I made a terrible mistake in going to Florida State.
And it wasn't my choice. It was my dad said, oh,
your sister's at Florida State. You're going to Florida State too.
I wanted to go to a much smaller school, and
I think if I had gone to a much smaller school,
I probably would have had a far different outcome. But
I didn't do well in situations where you have a
class where there's five hundred people in the class. It
was not an environment that was conducive to me doing well.

(01:35:36):
And the hardest classes for me are math classes. And
I had taken high level math in high school. So
I get into college and I'm like, well, I'm going
to take business calculs. Oh, because I just came out
of Calculus, right, I mean I just came out of Calculus.
I took business calc same thing class with three hundred people,
a teaching assistant from Vietnam. And I'm not knocking Vietnam,
but I could not understand a single word that that

(01:35:59):
man said. His accent was so thick, like when you
say English as a second language. Dude, it wasn't even
the top ten for this guy. He was not He
was trying so hard, but nothing that came out of
his mouth was remotely English. And I'm in a class
with three hundred people. There was a zero percent chance
I was going to pass that class. But thanks to
my friend Bart, I cheated and got a seat. Okay,

(01:36:20):
not my finest moment, but I'm just straight up he
admitted that. And then I went and changed my major. Yes,
I literally went and changed my major. I went to
my advisor and said, what what can I major? And
then I never have to take math again? And she
jokingly said theater, and I was.

Speaker 1 (01:36:34):
Like, do it?

Speaker 4 (01:36:35):
Oh really, I was already involved in theater when I
was in high school and stuff, so it wasn't like
it was just crazy, but yeah, I was like, I
can't ever do that again. That was awful, I'll tell
you real real quickly. When I was at Georgia Tech,
there was also a great school, by the way, yes, but.

Speaker 9 (01:36:50):
Their their biology is entirely different from the biology that
I learned in high school.

Speaker 4 (01:36:56):
Well, you learned that by feel and then you got
to learn by the book, right, a little bit different.

Speaker 9 (01:37:01):
But I had a math class and had about five
hundred students in it, and there was about eight of
these white boards where the professor could move and he
spoke with a little headset right that told you, yeah,
how big it was. Big the course was. But he
would start at eight o'clock, turn his back right and
top and just slide the boards and that class was

(01:37:23):
about maybe about forty five minutes. So everyone was in
that class I had looking at one another.

Speaker 4 (01:37:30):
Like, what the hell is going on? And why is
he teaching himself?

Speaker 2 (01:37:33):
Right?

Speaker 4 (01:37:34):
So I know exactly what you're talking about. And then
I did have great professors at Florida State that I
really really loved. I had a religion professor named doctor
Manchell who would write notes on the overhead protector this
is how back in the day we were, and I
would say, take my notes down. Nick. He would use
words in his notes that I had no idea. I'd
never heard them before in my life, and I had
to go home and look up the words in the notes.

(01:37:55):
But he was challenging. His classes were hard, and he
would kind of throw out these philosophical questions like a
bomb in the middle of the classroom and then just
watch it burn as we're all arguing these really like
it was an incredible class. It was super hard, and
I think I made a B in that class. But
it's like you remember the professors that are really good,
and you remember the professors that are really bad. And

(01:38:18):
I had one of those professors, this history professor at
Florida State. Four hundred people in the class, and I
got there late the first day. So I'm in the
front seat, right front row of this auditorium. And how
quickly did you move home?

Speaker 3 (01:38:30):
Know?

Speaker 4 (01:38:31):
His TA wrote down who everybody was and that was
your assigned seat. That's how they took role. So I'm
in the front row. He hones in on me like
the first day, starts chatting me with me, finds out
where I work because I'm a waitress at the same time,
and then starts showing up at my work like, hey,
you should take an independent studies class from me. You'll
get an A I kid, you knock that preapy and weird.

(01:38:53):
And I only tell the story because sometime like maybe
two or three years later, he got super drunk at
the bar across the road from my bar, wandered into traffic,
guy hit my car and killed seriously, I mean, And
is it in a wonder that my grades are as
bad as they were?

Speaker 9 (01:39:09):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:39:10):
Yeah, yeah, anyway, yeah, but I think I turned out okay,
never stop learning. I just taught myself, which is the
way to do. I forgot what I was gonna say. Oh,
I finally told you about the case of Martinelli's that
Mercedes of Littleton yes, Matt told me to tell you,
and I kept, I kept forgetting to send you that text.

(01:39:31):
So that was the other thing I wanted to tell
Nick Ferguson. But now it's time for the most exciting
segment all the radio of its kinde the world. Nick
went rolling on that one. That was like a whole
fresh interpretation. That's like when they do Romeo and Juliet

(01:39:53):
stage as if they're in a post apocalyptic world like
mad Max. I gotta bring my flavor. Yeah, there you go.
That was It's fantastic. All right. What is our dad
joke of the day? Please?

Speaker 5 (01:40:03):
You know the name lance is uncommon now, yeah, yeah,
I know this. Yeah, but in medieval times people were
called lance a lot.

Speaker 4 (01:40:11):
Yeah yeah. In today's word of the day, please, it
is an adverb.

Speaker 5 (01:40:20):
Oh okay, betimes b e t I m e s
betimes the times betimes.

Speaker 4 (01:40:28):
My wife asked me to take out the trash. Betimes.
I don't how.

Speaker 5 (01:40:33):
About that, you know, actually it kind of works actually
with a real definition times.

Speaker 4 (01:40:38):
But that's that's okay, betimes. It means I means that
something takes longer than it should know.

Speaker 5 (01:40:46):
And Nick, your wife would be happy because betimes means
early or in good times.

Speaker 4 (01:40:50):
Oh nice, there you go. Okay, in what year did
the annual tradition of putting a Christmas tree in New
York City's Rockefeller Center begin nineteen fifty two? I'm gonna
say nineteen forty one, forty two, forty two? Right, what
did you say, nineteen fifty two sixty go earlier?

Speaker 2 (01:41:12):
Really?

Speaker 4 (01:41:12):
Yeah, I was gonna say it was a response to
the Wars, So I was on the right track. But
I was in the wrong year in nineteen thirty one,
at the height of the Great Depression, because I knew
they put up the first one to the kind of
want to bring joy to everyone, you know, and that's
why they started doing that. But I thought it was
real long shot fighting wars. Dad, Well, good, good plan.
I mean Donald Trump's trying. We'll see how that's gonna go. Anyway.

(01:41:35):
What's our Jeopardy category for food and drink?

Speaker 3 (01:41:38):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:41:38):
I feel good about that and drink? Oh yeah, what
is school lady question? Oh yeah, that's the coolader. No,
there's no ity that if I beat you, try harder.

Speaker 5 (01:42:01):
This pizza with simple toppings of mozzarella, tomatoes, and basil
was named in honor of queen.

Speaker 4 (01:42:07):
What is the neapolitan? Now?

Speaker 2 (01:42:10):
I says, what?

Speaker 4 (01:42:11):
No, in honor of the queen of dang it savoy,
I don't know. Mozzarella, tomatoes and basil nick is what pizza?
I don't she said the other one pizza like that?
So it is the margarita pizza is correct one.

Speaker 5 (01:42:30):
This hearty spicy tripe soup has been what is correct
hangover cure?

Speaker 4 (01:42:36):
I ate it before I knew what it was. What
is that?

Speaker 7 (01:42:40):
Yah?

Speaker 3 (01:42:40):
It is?

Speaker 4 (01:42:41):
And it's also a soup that has wrong over cure.
To make the tripe is a little spongy.

Speaker 5 (01:42:49):
To make a pink dakery, you'll need rum, powdered sugar,
lime juice, and this syrup made of red currants or pomegranates.

Speaker 4 (01:43:00):
It's gonna be a couple things, this syrup. I I
can't remember what it's called. I know exactly what the
bottle looks like. In my mind?

Speaker 1 (01:43:08):
It is?

Speaker 9 (01:43:10):
Is it?

Speaker 4 (01:43:11):
I think it's.

Speaker 5 (01:43:14):
But you didn't say you name. But we'll give you
the point because it's tired now. It's one, definitely not.
You had to he had minus one. I'm pretty sure
you don't.

Speaker 4 (01:43:21):
Know minus one minus one? You give minus answer for
you're tired. We're tied. One sauce is it rayferts? I
don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:43:36):
Sauce raffert made from this condiment is served cold as
an accompaniment to prime rib gross Man.

Speaker 4 (01:43:44):
What is the horse radish in Mayo? It's horse radish? Well,
how do you you said? You said two things, but
that's what it's made out of those ingredients. Okay, but
on one horse? What is horse radish? Correct? Okay, you
can't leave the witness. I didn't leave the way this is.
I said it was just one. Yes, we'll give her

(01:44:05):
a half point right, that's the ingredients of both of them.
That's what that is. Anyway, I'm not trying to do
you dirty the game? Did the game?

Speaker 9 (01:44:14):
Did?

Speaker 3 (01:44:14):
You?

Speaker 4 (01:44:14):
Don't hate the hat the game? I hate the game,
Nickerson for reason. KOA Sports is coming up next. We'll
be back tomorrow with another big fact show, so keep
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