11.18: Mandy Connell on Recent Elections and the Denver Broncos

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, let's bringer in our favorite nine to noon

(00:02):
host in the history of news radio eight forty whas
Mandy Connell? How are you and Denver? How are you doing?

Speaker 2 (00:09):
I am fantastic. We have had the most glorial fall
out here, Tony. It has been almost.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
As good as fall in Kentucky.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
It has just been beautiful fall. And now we're getting
a little little chill to the air to welcome in,
you know, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Life is good when the
weather is good.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
All right, we'll get to the serious stuff here in
a second, but I want to ask you because assault
Chok and the Denver Broncos and sports. This is why
we always argued to keep politics or in or anything
else out of sports, because it's supposed to be a
distraction from regular life BS. Now Denver is doing so well.

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How much is the city because it has its challenges?
How much of the football team being good been a
good distraction for everyone there?

Speaker 2 (00:58):
I don't know if you've noticed, but it's not just
the football team. We've got the Denver Douggas who are
burning it up on the basketball court, and then the
Colorado Avalanche will killing it on the ice, and then
you tap it off. It's like the Bronkers are like
the grand game of our sports franchises here, right, and
after this year, you know, last year was was rough,

(01:19):
but not as rough as the days before it, Right,
Like the seasons before that stayed Manning left have just
been a disaster and painful to sit through. But Tony,
if you watch these games, yeah, have you seen the
Waks are winning? It's been like one a heart attack
after another, and it has been glorious, absolutely glorious. We

(01:39):
are alive with the Orange and woe here in Denver.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
And you're leading the league in sacks and the defense
is knocking people out. I mean it's nasty, that's awesome.
I mean that's football, though. I mean that's why we
love football. It's gladiator sport. It's a man's sport. We
like it that way.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
I agree wholeheartedly. And what's been kind of funny is
there was just a survey that came out maybe a
couple of weeks ago about fan bases, right, and they said,
at the beginning of the season, they pulled all of
these different fan bases, and Denver fans are always the
most optimistic, Like we're always like, hey, cayall, we're going
to win a Super Bowl this year. Even though we
know we're the duck, right, We're always like, you know,

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we're going to do it, and this year we are.
We are seeing these things happen. We're seeing the games
we have lost, like over and over and over again
in the past few years, and now we're finding a
way to win. And it's so much fun to be
a part of. Although I will tell you at the
end of every game, I'm like in a flop sweat
in my chairs trying not.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
To have a heart attack.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
So it's definitely been an extremely exciting football season.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
I had to start out with that because that's the
good stuff. And I wanted to ask you because you
lived here for so long. I know that a couple
of tuesdays ago we had that crash out at UPS
and I didn't know how you followed that from Afar, thinking,
oh my god, that's my city.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Well I followed it very closely myself personally. I mentioned
it on my show and asked my listeners to say
a prayer for the people who were directly impacted. The
Holy cow Tony the first.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Thing I thought of, and this is so weird.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
The first thing you think of it is the Holy Cow.
I hope no one I know who has killed.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Or affected or somehow connected.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
But then I felt bad because regardless of when or
not I knew him, people died and it was just
such a horrible, just tragic situation. But then again, I
know Louville, so I know you guys rallied around and
I know you guys have lifted everybody up, involved in
prayers and properly financially in every other way. So it's

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almost like this horrible thing had to happen. But if
there's a town that is ready to rally, I feel
like it's through.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Though it was such a Louisville story with ups because
all the pilots live here. You know, they have three
thousand pilots, so it's the home base for most of
the pilots and a lot of the pilots, and it
was it was such a Louisville story. And then the
stories came out later of just you know, because those
businesses like oh, I'm you know, you can see someone
saying to their wife on the phone, Hey, I'm gonna

(04:12):
stop by there, and then I'll be I'll head home,
And that's what the stories were, but uh, we did
come together. I will say we undervalue these fire departments
because nationally, NTSB was like no other tragedy have we
been to that had it together like you all. I'll
give you an example, Mandy. Seriously though, so I said,

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I had the guys that were first on seen and
they looked like they were trying to keep these certain
tanks from exploding. And I said, you certainly don't know
what's in those things. I mean, why would you know that?
And they were like, no, we knew exactly what's in
those They had pinpointed that location as a possible issue.
They they knew what was in every single one of
those tanks on location. So homework done before, due diligence

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done before really helped the situation as they were trying
to control that insane fire. But we do not, we
do not appreciate what OKLHONA Fire and PRP and the
rest of them do around here locally. But I wanted
you to comment on that, but that's.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
That's part of I mean, Louisville is like the city
that's part of a small town, right, And I don't
think that I hope.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
It doesn't ever change.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
I mean I live in Denver. I was part of
the immigrant wave into Denver, and the that I moved
to is completely different than the place I live now,
and not in a good way, because of the influence
of so many people moving from all around the country
for various reasons, a lot of which involved drugs. Right, So,

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I've seen and growing up in Florida and dealing with
the influx.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
Of New Yorkers when I was a kid, and.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Seeing how they influenced the community. And it's not like
I'm saying build a wall around Louisville. I'm just saying,
peek your guard up, righte guard and protect that because
that is that that feeling, that small town feeling, even
as the city gets bigger and bigger, that is a
precious asset in the world today.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
I no question that.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Could be elated. And that's one of those times where
I'm not kidding though. It was like it had to happen.
I know that they're ready. I know that the community
is ready. They show it all the time.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
Okay, let's get to some of the politics that you're
talking about in Denver. I'm sure, Maldonnie and all that.
How did what were you saying on your on your show,
because we were just we knew what was happening. We
all knew that it was happening. We talked to Mary Walter.
She she came on because she's in Jersey, and uh,
and she knew what was going to happen. And she's
pissed because she thinks a bunch of New Yorkers are

(06:38):
going to move to Jersey but the wrong ones.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
Well, don't worry about it, Jersey, You're gonna be fine.
Your tax bas is about to go way up. Okay, Jersey,
don't shad it. You're fine. That being said. That being said,
it's insurprising, Tony. I mean, people are struggling, right, People
are genuinely struggling. The real estate market is really challenging.
It's always been challenging in New York City, but now

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it's challenging everywhere because we're all locked in with our
two percent mortgages and we're not looking to jump to
a six percent, right, so we're still in quick and
young people. I mean, out here, the median home pricet
meaning half fell above half cell below, is five hundred
and thirty five thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Wow, that's the leading I mean, entry level housing here
is four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Yeah, and that's garbage.
That's garbage housing.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
Oh and that yeah, that's a house that you walk
in and go, you want what for this?

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Nastically often there listening that I teeve you not is
a literal shock with like you know, like barely has
any flooring, it has one door where it's first to
three and it is two hundred and seventy five thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
Well, yeah, you walk into this room and you're like,
this is a shed. They're like, no, that's the extra
bedroom we listed.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
No, it's crazy. It's crazy, Tony, It's just crazy.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
But so what we've seen New York do this before,
and it took decades to recover from this. As the
as the shine already off Maldonnie, I mean, he's uh there,
you know, he's he sucked him in with a free everything.
But obviously he can't do that. So when will and
you saw with his acceptance speech even the libs were

(08:24):
on TV saying, boy, that's not the same guy that
ran for office. There he's screaming at people. How long
will this take before New York figures out they made
a mistake.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Well, I got to tell you first of all, when
I've said this on my show, if that dude is ugly,
this is not happening, right. But looking dude, he's got charisma.
He's either was president of the United States or a
cult leader. Right. There's no in twegue for this guy.
So it wasn't that surprising. But he has made so
many absurd promises that he absolutely cannot deliver on. And

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he's got a sitty I don't go to deal with
he's got he's got to persuade people to do with
the things that he said he wanted to do. And
here I am on the sidelines, like rooting for it, right,
because I think that in order for us to appreciate capitalism,
even if it's jacked up crony capitalism, from real, we
don't want to just be socialism in action, you know

(09:19):
what I'm saying, to have this fale a few times
so people remember.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
And I don't think he is successful.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
I hope the city council rolls over. I hope he
creates three grocery stores and they all fail. I hope
he gets everything he wants because I don't know if
you've ever heard the old HL nation coot and I'm
gonna paraphrase a little bit here. You get the government
that you wrote for, and you deserve to get it
good and hard.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
Yes, and that tries your city right now, but they
could and hard.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
I'm here for it.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
It's interesting Mandy Connell in Denver. It's interesting that the
way the Democrat Party is sort of handling him right,
Like there's a huge swath of Democrats that are like no, no, no, no, no, no,
hang on, they would not endorse him, right, so they
know what's coming and they don't want him to be
the new Democrat Party. I mean, they keep failing and

(10:12):
the approval ratings down to I think sixteen percent now
for dams across the board, but they keep failing up,
failing down.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yep. Yeah. And you know, as I said, I part
of me thinks he's not going to be able to
do half the stuff or even a quarter.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
No, he won't.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
We're just going to make the voters super.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
Mad at him. And I want to point out like
Trump is now.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Having that same problem because even though you're only what
nine ten eleven months into his four year term, people
voted for him because they wanted lower pricing. Well, it's
weren't translating at the cash register just yet. And you're
seeing younger people get super mad, and younger people, the
ones who voted for Mom Donnie, they don't have party allegiance, right,

(10:55):
they don't grow up like our parents did. Need the
way read it to a certain extent. And he is like,
you registered in his party, and you've died whatever you.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
Registered, right, you didn't change your party affiliations.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
They have no such party assiliation. Well, so when you
lose their vote, there's no expectation that you're going to
automatically get it again in the near future.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Well, they're saying, it's white middle class women, So what's
wrong with you all?

Speaker 2 (11:18):
What we call them offos, absolute white liberal women or
women liberals offus, that's what they're called. And they truly
my great father in law who I never met, who
had passed away before I met him. One of the
things Chuck always says is that he would have loved
to read the debate with his dad because his dad

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always said the country started going down the tubes when
women got the right to vote, because.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
And he said, I would have loved to have seen
you debate my dad.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
I'm like, I don't know that your dad was wrong
at this moment in time, Like, I can't. I can't
argue that in good faith. And it is the highly
educated women who, by the way, is that their standards
for their mate at impossible level. So they're going to
end up being a single that way, even though that
there's anything wrong with that. But it's a thing, and

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they have outside influence in the Democratic Party. I thought
it the DNC, and I think we're seeing it in
the kind of things that they're embraced and all of
these things, all.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
Of these socialism things that they're racing.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
They're embracing them because their social status is high en
us and their income is stata that they're not talking
about it for themselves. They're talking about it for other
people who aren't as fortunate as they are. But in
order to seem compassionate, they have to support all this
contract even though they are not the beneficiaries of it.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
And I can't wait till may have to start paying
the bills for it.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
Well, yeah, that's exactly right. They ruin it and then
they get to leave, and then the people that live
there are stuck there and that's I think the worst
part about the whole story is that they'll go, oh,
we're wrong about that, and then they get to move
on to the country club and have another glass of
wine exactly, you know, and then keep that out. Okay,
all right, so well, I appreciate your time today. Here's

(13:04):
the thing. Last thing we got Thanksgiving coming up. What
do you I know, what are you thankful for? Mandy
Connell and Denver?

Speaker 2 (13:12):
Oh my gosh, Tony, I have a list of things
that I'm thankful for that is so long. You don't
have enough time in your entire show. So let me
just to let me tell you I'm so thankful. I
almost sound like a jerk, right because I'm so thankful
because I just have so so many blessings. And I
hope in the next year that other people who are
having a tough time, because.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
I got to tell you cyclical.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
Right, Sometimes you're one shield. Sometimes you're above for those
people that didn't have a great year, that don't have
a big hall list of things to be thankful for.
I'm praying super hard that next year. Don't like me
and you have a list so long you can't even
begin to see the end of.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
It, No, man, I love it. Great answer. And when
are you coming back to Louisville. I know you say
you're going to do it all the time, and I
think you've lied to us almost every single time.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
So well, I've got a big list of travel next year.
We're going to kuh the Queue. My daughter is getting
ready to go to college.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
You can believe that, I know, but she no way,
no way.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
Takes some stuff out and that's up a lot of
vacation time. So I'm not sure.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
All right, Well, okay, you'll know, all right.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
Peru? Is that the Munchell Peach you whatever? Yeah, yeah,
yea yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
We actually have a dear, dear, dear friend who is
Peruvian and she has planned a whole trip press and
we're taking the kids, the grandkids, everybody, and we are
going to Peru for two weeks.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
Well how do you get up there? Do you helicopter up?
Or do you hike it up?

Speaker 2 (14:33):
No? No, you you actually go to a city called Cusco.
It is at eleven thousand and twenty one feet above
sea level. Boy, and I got to tell you it's
like right here. Or am I high in Denver and
my house for about sixty four hundred feet to a
little bit higher. So when I get over ten thousand feet,
I struggle. Man, I need oxygen.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
So I'm interested to see how this all plays out.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
But it is high. It is really hard. That much
to beat you, I think is like nine thousand feet,
which I'm okay with.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
That's like Colorader's I'm an older white guy. I've watched
so many documentaries on that place. I can tell you
the irrigation system of that place.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
I will talk to your detail photogra and just tell
you what you're looking at.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
All right, we miss you, We love you. Mandy Connall
you all right, Mandy Connall in Denver. I had to
say hi to her. Dwhite's out this week, and as
we roll through the rest of the week, we got
plenty for you. Basketball doing well. Football not so much

(15:36):
for U of L. Kentucky's. I don't even know where
their football program is. But we're gonna do some sports
segments coming up here to talk about that to keep
you up on it, because I know you're busy, uh,
and we're all cheering for our local sports because when
politics go bad. Just like when I mentioned to Mandy,
I wanted to talk to her because Denver's doing so well,
and I know that she has described Denver as just

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a hot mess. So how much do sports distract everybody
from those bad times and can ignore politics from it
and everyone come together because in the stands, most of
the time, in the stands of sporting events, politics don't exist.
You know, you're hugging, and you don't know if you're
hugging a liberal or a conservative. In the stands, just
everyone comes together to cheer on the team. So that's

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why we wanted to have her on. All right, I
am Tonyveneddie back after this on news radio eight forty
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