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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back News Radio eight forty whas Tony and Dwight Hill,
brought to you by the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety.
Dwight is out today. He is out at Bourbon and
beyond enjoying his day. Mandy Connell joined us now, formerly
of the seat I'm sitting in right now, Mandy. We
I had to call Dwight last night because you know,
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he tends to wear his emotions on his sleeve. I said,
do not let this ruin your four day weekend, and
don't drink too much tequila and start breaking things in
your house.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Well, I don't know if you can still feel my
butt heat in that chair that I used to share
with you.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
It's still warm, Tony, it's still warm.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I left it there for you. You know, I hope
he doesn't. But it's it's just challenging, Tony. I mean,
I got to tell you yesterday, you know, I start
my show and I was having a rousing conversation about
self planing toilets in Switzerland, which are amazing. I have one,
completely amazing Oh no no, no, these are public toilet, self
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cleaning toilets, I mean, really amazing. But that's neither here
Lord there, and then I start getting text messages from
my listeners that say, we have an active shooter at
Evergreen High School. And Evergreen High School is a high
school in the foothills that are between Denver and the
Rocky Mountains, so it's kind of a suburb, a very
smaller town. And I thought, oh God, here we go again,
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because we do these in Colorado on a semi regular basis,
and I had that kit of the you know, stomach feeling.
And then almost simultaneously, we got the news that Charlie
Kirk had been shot in Utah, and one of my
listeners sent me the close up video of him being shot,
and I stupidly watched it. I will never get over that.
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Please don't watch it. If you haven't seen it, just
don't watch it. It's horrible. And after seeing that, my
producer and I were both like, I don't think he
survives this.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
It was horrible.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
And now here we are, all right. I just heard
the news they've they've found the weapon, they've got fingerprints.
I find it hard to believe they're not going to
be able to track this person down. But God, Tony,
what is happening? Lo, what is happening right now.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
To me, this is a watershed moment and video changes
everything everything. If you read Charlie Kirk was assassinated on
the college campus in a newspaper online, you have one thing.
The video changes everything. So there has been a discussion today,
Mandy where a parent had called and said he has
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adult children and he encouraged his parents to watch it
because he was or his kids to watch it because
he was like, they have to see this to see
how awful this is. My son called me. He's in
the Navy in Charleston and he called and get ready
for this when your daughter gets older. He called and said, look,
I'm staying on the phone. I've sent you the video.
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I want to hear I want to hear your reaction
when you watch it. And I regret that I watched it,
but I said, but then again, Mandy, there is a
part of me that says and that's why all the
callers Mandy today and I don't know what time your
show starts, but all the callers today on w h
A f h AS has been stoic and thoughtful, and
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it wasn't the usual callers yelling about gun control or whatever.
You know, people get crazy. It was everyone was thoughtful
and took their time. There was pauses. You know where
you feel like there's a watershed moment. I mean I
think that is. I think that's where we're at right now. Today, well, you.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Know, not for nothing today also being the anniversary of nine.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
L correct, I just wrote a piece. I actually shared.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Part of it. I wrote it for my blog that
I do every day at mandy'sblog dot com Shameless Plug,
but I also shared it on Facebook and I shared
it on Twitter. And the similarities between where we were
twenty four years ago and how I felt yesterday in
terms of exactly what you're saying, right, and when nine
to eleven happened, and we had no idea what was
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going on, and we had no idea who was attacking us,
but we knew we were under attack, right, the United
States of America is under attack from someone somewhere. And
we were all Americans, and we were all united, and
we were all one people against these horrible people who
had come to our soil and launched such a devastating attack.
And yet yesterday, fast forward twenty four years, and we
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see it's the enemy from within now that we should
worry about and to your point about video changing everything,
I could not agree with you more. We've seen it
over the last week with the video of this horrible
murder of a young Ukrainian woman, and I see a
lot of stuff on social media, and I see African
Americans that I follow on both sides of the spectrum saying,
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of course people are paying attention to this because it's
a pretty white girl. And I'm like, no, it's because
it's on video and we all watched the person get murdered,
and this is the same. This feels very much to
me like I felt on nine to eleven, in the
sense that when nine to eleven happened, we knew that
fundamentally that day the world changed. Right, Yes, yesterday feels
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the same. Yeah, Honestly, it looks like one hundred years
from now, historians will look back at this day and
say that's the day it all went to.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Crap I For a couple of years now, I would
watch him speak and I and I would in my head,
I would say that guy's going to be president. One day,
I thought, Charlie Kirk, I thought, I said that dude's
going to be president. Went I said, he checks every box.
He talks to an entire generation of people, and and
we were just talking about it. If you said, mom, dad,
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two kids, and a white picket fence, people will looked
at you like you were putting other people down. If
you said that was your goal, and you were just like,
where am I living? But I will top you. I'll
top you you ready. Mayor green was just on our show.
And I don't know if you cover this at all,
but Mayor Greenberg two years ago was running for the
mayor's seat and a activist came in and shot it,
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emptied the clip on him and his staff and hit
no one, but it put a hole through his sweater.
That's how close it went. Yesterday. Yesterday, on the day
that Charlie was assassinated, Craig got the sweater back because
the police said, we don't need it any longer for evidence.
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So he was as much as he tried to keep
it together as a leader of the city, you could
tell in his tone that receiving that sweater with the
hole in it and watching the video of Charlie connected
with him and it messed him up.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah, I mean, that's that's one of those moments where
you literally say there, but to the grace of God,
go alive.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Right, I mean, that's a postcard from God. That's a postcard. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
You know, I have been concerned about this stuff for
a long time, and I will say this yesterday, between
the school shooting that we have here and that school
shooting we have, one of the victims has left the hospital,
so that's good. The other one is in critical condition,
and the shooter shot himself and succumbed to those injuries
and is dead. So I have that going on, and
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then I have this going on. And it was the
first time that I've ever had to stop and close
the microphone to gather myself right, because I wasn't sure
I was going to be able to hold it together.
You know what I'm okay with that.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
What I'm not okay with is the lack of humanity
that we're seeing from some quarters. And I'm not going
to sit here and play it's the Democrats fault. It's
the fault of the person who fired the rifle. Let's
be very clear, right, it's the fault of the person
who made that choice. But when I see people celebrating
death and I don't care where you are in the
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political spectrum. If you're celebrating death, you are fundamentally broken.
You need to examine very very carefully why you would
celebrate death in any way, shape or form. I mean,
this is it's just sad to me that this is
where our culture is and I don't know how to
fix it. I know how to be part of a solution,
a part of the problem.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I quoted. I don't know if you've ever seen Michael
Douglas in The American President where he plays a single
president and he does this this does this speech at
the end, and I read one of the lines he
starts with, America is advanced citizenship. You got to want
it bad, and you got to be able to listen
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to someone screaming at the top of their lungs something
you would fight a lifetime against. I mean, that's the line,
and he's right, America is advanced citizenship, and we're always
going to be seem like we're arguing with each other.
But the other reoccurring theme through the phone calls this morning, Mandy,
were the disappointment that they couldn't even do a moment
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of silence on the floor yesterday of our leaders because
this is the time we need leadership and we need adults.
And the disappointment in every caller to say that they
were so disappointed and embarrassed that they couldn't even do
a moment of silence yesterday.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
That's not surprising. I mean, I just I hate to
say it, but the the tone and tenor of the
members of Congress that we currently have, and I think
that there's rabble rousers on both sides of the aisle.
I'm going to be honest. I think that the fact
that and I'm trying to think of a careful way
to say this. Let me be really careful. Okay, this
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is a question I have when we talk today to
the left, because I have listeners on the left. Okay,
I truly do. The question that I'm asking is, are you, okay,
rank and file Democrats with your party becoming the party
of death? And it starts with the embrace of abortion
up until the moment of birth. It starts with people
mocking other people who have been killed, who left a
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life and two children behind. It's the culture of death
that says we need assisted suicide. It's the culture of
death that says, in big cities, hey, you know what,
it's a safe city if only seven people get killed
over Labor Day weekends. You know, the sort of disregard
for life at every stage is horrifying. And you know,
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I think most break and file Democrats don't embrace all that.
They don't want to be the party of death. But
how do you fix that? You know, how do you
fix that? I don't know?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Okay. So I thought a year ago that the Democrats
challenge was how to be relatable to normal Americans? That
was their question, that was their question out right. And
now I think the Democrats wish that was their problem.
I think that they've slid so far to the extreme
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image that they wish that was their challenges, just to
relate to a regular American. Look, you know, me, I
was a Democrat for a long time. They lost They
lost me, and they lost people in my family. And
it's I didn't change. Okay. So they people keep asking
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how did Trump get elected? Duh, It wasn't because of Trump.
It was because of the other side. And uh, and
there has to be the adults need to take over
in the DNC, and they need to start talking like
normal human beings and start to stand up to the
extreme on their side and say no, we're not gonna
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let boys and girls restrooms. No we're not gonna blow
up Title nine and something that was built for girls
and destroy that completely, by the way, which you didn't
see on any network and any news, and we're gonna change.
So I think again, I think adults need to take over.
And that's not me and.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
You now surely absolutely not. I mean, like I said,
I'm just trying to figure out how to be part
of the solution. They're not part of the problem, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
One of the most interesting things that I've seen today,
and there are several right wing sites that are now
on x and other social media sharing the social media
outbursts celebrating Charlie kirkstet Then all of these various people,
how many of them are left wing women? How many
of them are women? Tony? I mean, think about that person.
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What is wrong with some of these women that are
out there callously disregarding It's okay because they have the
power to create.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Okay, yes, but okay, okay, But Mandy, how many times
did you tell that generation of women man are bad,
man are terrible. You don't need him, You're going to
go get a college degree and get yourself a job.
And boys are bad anyway. Girls are great. Boys are bad,
and you told them all that, and they are trying
to find something, so they lash out that way. I again,
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this younger generation. And by the way, Charlie talked to
the boys. Charlie talked to the boy's side because the
boys have been sitting there no matter what color you are,
doesn't matter. Charlie talked to the boys because the boys
had to sit there and listen to this the last
twenty years and go, I'm the problem. What I'm bad?
What did I do? And they couldn't talk for the
last five years for sure, and Charlie was like, no, no, no,
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that's wrong, and I'm gonna give you a voice. And
that's why since to me, since Ronald Reagan, I haven't
seen anybody. They got that generation talking again.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
And the irony, the great irony if this does, if
the shooter does turn out to be someone on the
left with an axtra grind and we don't know yet,
they have not found the shooter. We can only guess
a motive, and we don't know the motive to be clear.
But if it turns out to be someone on the left.
The great irony here, tony is that they just made
Charlie kirkham martyr.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Yes, all of those young.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Boys and those college students, and his content is going
to be viewed at a level that he could have
only dreamed of because of this incident. So this decision
to shut down the speech of someone that you disagree
with is going to have far reaching of effects and impacts.
I said it yesterday. I think Charlie kirk is one
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of the reasons that young people are registering Republican for
the first time in a very long time. We're seeing like,
I don't want to use the word surge, but kind
of a surge in new voter registrations, even in Colorado,
even in like crazy hardcore blue Colorado, We're seeing an
increase in young people who are registering Republicans. So this,
this horrific action is going to backfire in such spectacular
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fashion and bring a whole new generation of people who
And by the way, he's one of them, right, He's
not an old dude. He's not Donald Trump getting shot.
He's not the president, you know, because we've had president's
shot before, and I don't mean to downplay what happened
to President Trump. But when that happened and he stood
up and put his fist in the air, that was
a much different situation. You have an elected official who's
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hated by people who didn't vote for him. This was
a guy, This was a man, This was a husband,
This is a father. This was someone who just wanted
to advocate for positions that were about liberty and freedom
and making sure that his kids had a country to
grow up in. And now you killed him. And I
think this is going to be a very, very bad mistake.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
The flip happened quicker than I've been saying for years.
Who do you think the junk bond salesmen were in
the nineteen eighties. They were the hippies in the nineteen
sixties that said, I don't want to be stinky anymore,
and I want to BMW in a high rise downtown.
Don't And they flipped hard. Now you look at the
guys that were spitting on the military as they came
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back from Vietnam. Who's waving the flag happier and prouder today?
Those same people they flipped. And I said, this generation
that you're grifting will flip. I didn't think it would
flip that fast. I mean, if you told my son
John Venetti in fifth grade that he would be a
naval officer at twenty two, you because that error of
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time was liberal crawling into his head and he said
crazy things. We had it out when he was in
grade school, and now he's a naval officer. It's just
that generation you're right flipped already.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yeah, and this is certainly not going to help, I know,
I just I can't stop thinking about his family, you know,
here in Colorado. I can't stop thinking about the three
families whose lives have been forever changed by yet another
young person who decided that death was the answer, right.
I mean, the culture of death is a huge problem
in this country, and I don't know how to address it.
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The only good news, the only good news on the horizon, Tony,
on that issue is that young people are not just
registering Republican. They're going back to church. They're going to
church for the first time. They are looking for something
bigger than politics. They're looking for something bigger than them.
And that is the generational shift that we need to
invest in in my view.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yeah, and and last thing for I'll let you go, Mandy,
and I appreciate your time today in your show in Colorado.
I encourage everyone to listen to it on iHeartRadio. I
did see video of the school, and you describe where
that was in Denver. It looks like paradise. I mean
I saw the schools.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Oh yeah, Evergreen is like this beautiful and we call
them the foothills. But like to you guys in Louisville,
they would be mountains, right, they would be mountains, So
we call.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Them the foothills before you get to the real mountain.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
And it's just this like beautiful community in the woods.
Their whole high school has nine hundred kids, you know,
so it's not large and stuff like this just it
doesn't happen there. Unfortunately, this happened in the Jefferson County
School District, which is the same district that Columbine High
School is also in. So to say that we have
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more than our share of experience here in Colorado with
school shootings as an understatement, that's a conversation for another day.
But in my mind, it's all about the culture of death.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
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Speaker 4 (18:11):
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I've been broadcasting for a long time after a lot
of national tragedies, even after I for some reason, I
remember broadcasting the moment Kirk Cobain's news broke, and it's
not obviously on this level, but for that generation at
that time, he was speaking for a lot of people.
Nine to eleven was a big one and trying to
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navigate those waters were crazy. I think giving people a
voice today was the right decision. And I'm glad my
bosses because I called last night my bosses and said,
we're taking calls tomorrow and people need to talk about this.
And I'm proud of all of the listeners. Sometimes when
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we do topics, they call, they scream, they yell, they
talk about rhetoric and all that. But every caller today
has made sense and talked about and they all sounded
like just concerned parents. I mean, that's what I heard.
So we're going to continue to do that. Before we
get out of here. We got about eleven minutes to go.
Five seven, one, eight, four, eight four. I got Tom
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and Graham on the line. Now let's hear what they
have to say. Let's go to line one first. Tom,
you're on news radio eight forty whas well.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Good morning, good morning, Good morning. A story about nine
to eleven. This is very emotional day for both my
wife and I. We were there at the World Trade
Center on business the week before it got imploded. We
left that Sunday. If they would have moved as if
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they would have moved that attack up one week, they
would have got us because we were in the marryout
on the sixteenth floor of the World Trade Center. So
we understand exactly this emotional thing for the people that lost.
We lost a lot of friends in the nine to
eleven So it's a tough day for the for the
country as a whole.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Yeah, and it but again happening on the day that
Charlie was assassinating. It connects the two because it was
the last time I feel like the country was all together,
uh and true and all and had one message that
we were we were going to be Americans, not Democrats
or Republicans. On that day.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
That is true. But you know, if you indulge me
for another second, if you really look at what goes
on with all these killings, it's like the lay they
got stabbed on the train, the first thing to come up, Well,
he's got mental issues. Most of all the killings. That
just amazes me that are leaders because everything runs downhill.
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Everybody watches TV. They see our leaders at address union
when Nancy Pelosi tore up the speech. They see all
this hatred on TV, and it just continues to roll down.
And the common thread is, in my opinion, the common
thread is is all these people they find out later
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where they had mental issues. They're not taking their medication,
they're not doing this. If you look back and you're
old enough to remember, and I hate to say insane asylums,
but that's where we put people like that. And we
put him there for a reason because they weren't fit
to be in society. And today they roam the streets.
They get guns one way or the other. And our
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Democrats and Republicans they don't seem to see this. All
they see is the hatred for the Democrats. The Democrats
hate the Republicans, and people watch.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
This every Yes, they're selling tickets. They're selling tickets and votes.
That's what gets them. Thank you for your call. I
appreciate it. Lots of good things there. Again, we need
good leaders. Everyone's changed. Teachers are different, coaches are different.
I mean, you talk to Jeff Brahm, He'll tell you
you can't yell at the kids anymody. He told me
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that ten years ago. Because I've known Jeff for thirty
years and was the interviewed Schnilburger so many times, I
can't tell you, but they were different kind of coaches.
He who's like Jeff, was like, dude, you can't yell
at these kids anymore. They'll they'll quit on you. You got
to be an advocate for him and doing it whatever.
And I'm not saying not to be an advocate for him,
but we used to listen. Someone said, hey, quiet, sit down,
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you sat down. I know it sounds like the old
guy yelling at the sky, but I'm sorry. That's where
we start. We need to put adults in charge and leaders.
If your coach changed your position, Venetti, what you were
lining up a wide receiver. You didn't talk. You just
of course he would never do that because I was slow.
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But but you just changed positions. It wasn't a negotiation.
Let's go to Graham. Graham, you're on news radio eight
forty whas.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Hey, thank you for letting me talk. I am thirty two,
so I am of the age of close to Charlie. Also,
I'm a Democrat, and I don't believe in shooting. Watching
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Charlie's videos, I've seen that he I was trying to
do what's right, trying to use dialogue, trying to talk
to people in debating, and that's what we need more
of in this country. We don't need the shootings. We
don't need the killings.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
I think there are a lot of people like you.
I haven't changed much, but the Democrat Party has, and
I'm not going along with it. And I think we
do need debate, and you have to be able to say,
you know what, I was wrong on that one. I
don't know how many times I watch and I appreciate
the call. I don't, Graham. I don't know how many
times I watched presidential debates from twenty years ago or
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fifteen years ago where one of the candidates said here's
where we agree, like it was an issue and one
would talk and the other one say, here's where he
and I agree on this. That never happens anymore. That's
a little crazy. We got about five minutes left and
we got Brian, Mike, and Phil. I'm going to roll
through these. Let's go to Brian online. Four you're on
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news ready Wait forty wuhs?
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Hey, how's it going good?
Speaker 1 (26:03):
How are you sir?
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Yeah? Good?
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Yeah, it's a terrible thing that happened. I mean, I
just doesn't seem real. But I woke up this morning
and you know, I'm all thinking about it. Cut in
my head. I was like, this seemed like it was
more like a professional hit, and I wouldn't would it pass.
It could be somebody from another country, you know, who knows.
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I'm just saying, everyone think it might be some crazy
Democrat or something, but you never know. I'm just I'm
sure they're looking at everything. But that's well.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
I will tell you this. There's some information that's come
in through the Wall Street Journal in some some of
the news that I'm not mentioning now because I want
to keep the conversation on what's happened, and and I
don't want to choose a side, to choose this I
did this or this I did that. I We'll do
that at a later time, but we've the video changes everything.
If you watch the video, it changes everything. Yep, thank you, sir.
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I appreciate the call. Let's go to Mike. Mike you're on.
Speaker 7 (27:06):
Hey, sir, real quick, I know you're short on time.
Thanks for taking my call. I just want to say
a couple a couple of things real quick. First of all,
you know, I have a fourteen year old daughter. I'm
forty six years old, be forty seven at the end
of this month, on the twenty ninth, And I think
it all goes back to our roots. It starts with
your parents and how you're raised, and like you said,
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a minting of your wrong trying to raise your kids
the best and discipline them. There's ways of the discipline
nowadays that you know, get through to kids a lot
differently than when we were raised. And stuff also too,
it's tragic convinced you know, pray for the Kirk family,
play for everybody, pay for nine to eleven, and also
to Today's a day that I will never forget because
it's not eleven, but it's also my mother's birthday.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
What's your name? So, what's your name? My name?
Speaker 7 (27:51):
My mom's name is Mickey.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Mickey, Happy birthday.
Speaker 7 (27:55):
I appreciate your brother. Keep playing for everybody, and we
wish every.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yes, sir, thank you. Let's go to Phil, last collar
of the day and we'll wrap things up. Phil.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Hey, I think you've had a lot of great suggestions
as to what may have caused this, but I think
it all stems back to nineteen sixty four when Medlan
Muria O Hare sued the Department of Education in Baltimore,
Maryland to take prayer and wrap Bible reading out of
the schools. And I think that's what's done this country
in It's.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Not a bad take. You got to have some sort
of moral compass as we move along and the war
on people that said we need more, we need more
of that in our education or our kids than that's
just wrong. People should be able to do what they
want to do. Thank you for your call. Today has
been a very hard day. It's been a tough day.
(28:47):
Several things came out during this show that jump out
at me. One Mayor Greenberg had this happen to him
without the outcome of Charlie. And yesterday he broke on
our show. Yesterday he got his sweater back from LMPD
with the hole and the sweater from the bullet hole
(29:07):
on the day that Charlie is happened to charge. So
he's watching the video Charlie and he's receiving his sweater
back postcard from God. That is crazy h And you
could tell in the tone of his voice that it
affected him. The people want to blame younger people. It's
not the younger people's fault. It's the people that raised
the younger people and the echo chamber that they were
(29:30):
caught in, especially during COVID where they were stuck at
home and all they did was the echo chamber and
listened top time and time and again to crazy thoughts.
And I warned these people that were doing the voice.
I said, they're gonna turn on you. They're gonna they're
gonna flip when they figure out all that stuff was
a lie, and when they get in the real world
(29:53):
and understand life is struggling, and the worst part about
being a parent is being hard on your kids, disciplining
your kids, and then walking away and let them soak
it in. Don't go back and hug them. Advice to you,
John Alden.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
I hear it.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
This has been a very strange day. You did a
great job on the calls and clearing all the calls.
I'm proud of all the callers.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
Really I am.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Thank you for everybody listening today. We'll be back tomorrow
for a Friday show. Be Safe, Everybody. News Radio eight
forty whas
Welcome back News Radio eight forty whas Tony and Dwight Hill,
brought to you by the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety.
Dwight is out today. He is out at Bourbon and
beyond enjoying his day. Mandy Connell joined us now, formerly
of the seat I'm sitting in right now, Mandy. We
I had to call Dwight last night because you know,
(00:20):
he tends to wear his emotions on his sleeve. I said,
do not let this ruin your four day weekend, and
don't drink too much tequila and start breaking things in
your house.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Well, I don't know if you can still feel my
butt heat in that chair that I used to share
with you.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
It's still warm, Tony, it's still warm.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I left it there for you. You know, I hope
he doesn't. But it's it's just challenging, Tony. I mean,
I got to tell you yesterday, you know, I start
my show and I was having a rousing conversation about
self planing toilets in Switzerland, which are amazing. I have one,
completely amazing Oh no no, no, these are public toilet, self
(01:02):
cleaning toilets, I mean, really amazing. But that's neither here
Lord there, and then I start getting text messages from
my listeners that say, we have an active shooter at
Evergreen High School. And Evergreen High School is a high
school in the foothills that are between Denver and the
Rocky Mountains, so it's kind of a suburb, a very
smaller town. And I thought, oh God, here we go again,
(01:24):
because we do these in Colorado on a semi regular basis,
and I had that kit of the you know, stomach feeling.
And then almost simultaneously, we got the news that Charlie
Kirk had been shot in Utah, and one of my
listeners sent me the close up video of him being shot,
and I stupidly watched it. I will never get over that.
(01:47):
Please don't watch it. If you haven't seen it, just
don't watch it. It's horrible. And after seeing that, my
producer and I were both like, I don't think he
survives this.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
It was horrible.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
And now here we are, all right. I just heard
the news they've they've found the weapon, they've got fingerprints.
I find it hard to believe they're not going to
be able to track this person down. But God, Tony,
what is happening? Lo, what is happening right now.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
To me, this is a watershed moment and video changes
everything everything. If you read Charlie Kirk was assassinated on
the college campus in a newspaper online, you have one thing.
The video changes everything. So there has been a discussion today,
Mandy where a parent had called and said he has
(02:35):
adult children and he encouraged his parents to watch it
because he was or his kids to watch it because
he was like, they have to see this to see
how awful this is. My son called me. He's in
the Navy in Charleston and he called and get ready
for this when your daughter gets older. He called and said, look,
I'm staying on the phone. I've sent you the video.
(02:56):
I want to hear I want to hear your reaction
when you watch it. And I regret that I watched it,
but I said, but then again, Mandy, there is a
part of me that says and that's why all the
callers Mandy today and I don't know what time your
show starts, but all the callers today on w h
A f h AS has been stoic and thoughtful, and
(03:21):
it wasn't the usual callers yelling about gun control or whatever.
You know, people get crazy. It was everyone was thoughtful
and took their time. There was pauses. You know where
you feel like there's a watershed moment. I mean I
think that is. I think that's where we're at right now. Today, well, you.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Know, not for nothing today also being the anniversary of nine.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
L correct, I just wrote a piece. I actually shared.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Part of it. I wrote it for my blog that
I do every day at mandy'sblog dot com Shameless Plug,
but I also shared it on Facebook and I shared
it on Twitter. And the similarities between where we were
twenty four years ago and how I felt yesterday in
terms of exactly what you're saying, right, and when nine
to eleven happened, and we had no idea what was
(04:08):
going on, and we had no idea who was attacking us,
but we knew we were under attack, right, the United
States of America is under attack from someone somewhere. And
we were all Americans, and we were all united, and
we were all one people against these horrible people who
had come to our soil and launched such a devastating attack.
And yet yesterday, fast forward twenty four years, and we
(04:32):
see it's the enemy from within now that we should
worry about and to your point about video changing everything,
I could not agree with you more. We've seen it
over the last week with the video of this horrible
murder of a young Ukrainian woman, and I see a
lot of stuff on social media, and I see African
Americans that I follow on both sides of the spectrum saying,
(04:52):
of course people are paying attention to this because it's
a pretty white girl. And I'm like, no, it's because
it's on video and we all watched the person get murdered,
and this is the same. This feels very much to
me like I felt on nine to eleven, in the
sense that when nine to eleven happened, we knew that
fundamentally that day the world changed. Right, Yes, yesterday feels
(05:15):
the same. Yeah, Honestly, it looks like one hundred years
from now, historians will look back at this day and
say that's the day it all went to.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Crap I For a couple of years now, I would
watch him speak and I and I would in my head,
I would say that guy's going to be president. One day,
I thought, Charlie Kirk, I thought, I said that dude's
going to be president. Went I said, he checks every box.
He talks to an entire generation of people, and and
we were just talking about it. If you said, mom, dad,
(05:46):
two kids, and a white picket fence, people will looked
at you like you were putting other people down. If
you said that was your goal, and you were just like,
where am I living? But I will top you. I'll
top you you ready. Mayor green was just on our show.
And I don't know if you cover this at all,
but Mayor Greenberg two years ago was running for the
mayor's seat and a activist came in and shot it,
(06:11):
emptied the clip on him and his staff and hit
no one, but it put a hole through his sweater.
That's how close it went. Yesterday. Yesterday, on the day
that Charlie was assassinated, Craig got the sweater back because
the police said, we don't need it any longer for evidence.
(06:33):
So he was as much as he tried to keep
it together as a leader of the city, you could
tell in his tone that receiving that sweater with the
hole in it and watching the video of Charlie connected
with him and it messed him up.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah, I mean, that's that's one of those moments where
you literally say there, but to the grace of God,
go alive.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Right, I mean, that's a postcard from God. That's a postcard. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
You know, I have been concerned about this stuff for
a long time, and I will say this yesterday, between
the school shooting that we have here and that school
shooting we have, one of the victims has left the hospital,
so that's good. The other one is in critical condition,
and the shooter shot himself and succumbed to those injuries
and is dead. So I have that going on, and
(07:21):
then I have this going on. And it was the
first time that I've ever had to stop and close
the microphone to gather myself right, because I wasn't sure
I was going to be able to hold it together.
You know what I'm okay with that.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
What I'm not okay with is the lack of humanity
that we're seeing from some quarters. And I'm not going
to sit here and play it's the Democrats fault. It's
the fault of the person who fired the rifle. Let's
be very clear, right, it's the fault of the person
who made that choice. But when I see people celebrating
death and I don't care where you are in the
(07:57):
political spectrum. If you're celebrating death, you are fundamentally broken.
You need to examine very very carefully why you would
celebrate death in any way, shape or form. I mean,
this is it's just sad to me that this is
where our culture is and I don't know how to
fix it. I know how to be part of a solution,
a part of the problem.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I quoted. I don't know if you've ever seen Michael
Douglas in The American President where he plays a single
president and he does this this does this speech at
the end, and I read one of the lines he
starts with, America is advanced citizenship. You got to want
it bad, and you got to be able to listen
(08:37):
to someone screaming at the top of their lungs something
you would fight a lifetime against. I mean, that's the line,
and he's right, America is advanced citizenship, and we're always
going to be seem like we're arguing with each other.
But the other reoccurring theme through the phone calls this morning, Mandy,
were the disappointment that they couldn't even do a moment
(09:01):
of silence on the floor yesterday of our leaders because
this is the time we need leadership and we need adults.
And the disappointment in every caller to say that they
were so disappointed and embarrassed that they couldn't even do
a moment of silence yesterday.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
That's not surprising. I mean, I just I hate to
say it, but the the tone and tenor of the
members of Congress that we currently have, and I think
that there's rabble rousers on both sides of the aisle.
I'm going to be honest. I think that the fact
that and I'm trying to think of a careful way
to say this. Let me be really careful. Okay, this
(09:43):
is a question I have when we talk today to
the left, because I have listeners on the left. Okay,
I truly do. The question that I'm asking is, are you, okay,
rank and file Democrats with your party becoming the party
of death? And it starts with the embrace of abortion
up until the moment of birth. It starts with people
mocking other people who have been killed, who left a
(10:06):
life and two children behind. It's the culture of death
that says we need assisted suicide. It's the culture of
death that says, in big cities, hey, you know what,
it's a safe city if only seven people get killed
over Labor Day weekends. You know, the sort of disregard
for life at every stage is horrifying. And you know,
(10:26):
I think most break and file Democrats don't embrace all that.
They don't want to be the party of death. But
how do you fix that? You know, how do you
fix that? I don't know?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Okay. So I thought a year ago that the Democrats
challenge was how to be relatable to normal Americans? That
was their question, that was their question out right. And
now I think the Democrats wish that was their problem.
I think that they've slid so far to the extreme
(10:57):
image that they wish that was their challenges, just to
relate to a regular American. Look, you know, me, I
was a Democrat for a long time. They lost They
lost me, and they lost people in my family. And
it's I didn't change. Okay. So they people keep asking
(11:17):
how did Trump get elected? Duh, It wasn't because of Trump.
It was because of the other side. And uh, and
there has to be the adults need to take over
in the DNC, and they need to start talking like
normal human beings and start to stand up to the
extreme on their side and say no, we're not gonna
(11:39):
let boys and girls restrooms. No we're not gonna blow
up Title nine and something that was built for girls
and destroy that completely, by the way, which you didn't
see on any network and any news, and we're gonna change.
So I think again, I think adults need to take over.
And that's not me and.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
You now surely absolutely not. I mean, like I said,
I'm just trying to figure out how to be part
of the solution. They're not part of the problem, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
One of the most interesting things that I've seen today,
and there are several right wing sites that are now
on x and other social media sharing the social media
outbursts celebrating Charlie kirkstet Then all of these various people,
how many of them are left wing women? How many
of them are women? Tony? I mean, think about that person.
(12:30):
What is wrong with some of these women that are
out there callously disregarding It's okay because they have the
power to create.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Okay, yes, but okay, okay, But Mandy, how many times
did you tell that generation of women man are bad,
man are terrible. You don't need him, You're going to
go get a college degree and get yourself a job.
And boys are bad anyway. Girls are great. Boys are bad,
and you told them all that, and they are trying
to find something, so they lash out that way. I again,
(13:03):
this younger generation. And by the way, Charlie talked to
the boys. Charlie talked to the boy's side because the
boys have been sitting there no matter what color you are,
doesn't matter. Charlie talked to the boys because the boys
had to sit there and listen to this the last
twenty years and go, I'm the problem. What I'm bad?
What did I do? And they couldn't talk for the
last five years for sure, and Charlie was like, no, no, no,
(13:25):
that's wrong, and I'm gonna give you a voice. And
that's why since to me, since Ronald Reagan, I haven't
seen anybody. They got that generation talking again.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
And the irony, the great irony if this does, if
the shooter does turn out to be someone on the
left with an axtra grind and we don't know yet,
they have not found the shooter. We can only guess
a motive, and we don't know the motive to be clear.
But if it turns out to be someone on the left.
The great irony here, tony is that they just made
Charlie kirkham martyr.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Yes, all of those young.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Boys and those college students, and his content is going
to be viewed at a level that he could have
only dreamed of because of this incident. So this decision
to shut down the speech of someone that you disagree
with is going to have far reaching of effects and impacts.
I said it yesterday. I think Charlie kirk is one
(14:18):
of the reasons that young people are registering Republican for
the first time in a very long time. We're seeing like,
I don't want to use the word surge, but kind
of a surge in new voter registrations, even in Colorado,
even in like crazy hardcore blue Colorado, We're seeing an
increase in young people who are registering Republicans. So this,
this horrific action is going to backfire in such spectacular
(14:43):
fashion and bring a whole new generation of people who
And by the way, he's one of them, right, He's
not an old dude. He's not Donald Trump getting shot.
He's not the president, you know, because we've had president's
shot before, and I don't mean to downplay what happened
to President Trump. But when that happened and he stood
up and put his fist in the air, that was
a much different situation. You have an elected official who's
(15:05):
hated by people who didn't vote for him. This was
a guy, This was a man, This was a husband,
This is a father. This was someone who just wanted
to advocate for positions that were about liberty and freedom
and making sure that his kids had a country to
grow up in. And now you killed him. And I
think this is going to be a very, very bad mistake.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
The flip happened quicker than I've been saying for years.
Who do you think the junk bond salesmen were in
the nineteen eighties. They were the hippies in the nineteen
sixties that said, I don't want to be stinky anymore,
and I want to BMW in a high rise downtown.
Don't And they flipped hard. Now you look at the
guys that were spitting on the military as they came
(15:49):
back from Vietnam. Who's waving the flag happier and prouder today?
Those same people they flipped. And I said, this generation
that you're grifting will flip. I didn't think it would
flip that fast. I mean, if you told my son
John Venetti in fifth grade that he would be a
naval officer at twenty two, you because that error of
(16:10):
time was liberal crawling into his head and he said
crazy things. We had it out when he was in
grade school, and now he's a naval officer. It's just
that generation you're right flipped already.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yeah, and this is certainly not going to help, I know,
I just I can't stop thinking about his family, you know,
here in Colorado. I can't stop thinking about the three
families whose lives have been forever changed by yet another
young person who decided that death was the answer, right.
I mean, the culture of death is a huge problem
in this country, and I don't know how to address it.
(16:46):
The only good news, the only good news on the horizon, Tony,
on that issue is that young people are not just
registering Republican. They're going back to church. They're going to
church for the first time. They are looking for something
bigger than politics. They're looking for something bigger than them.
And that is the generational shift that we need to
invest in in my view.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yeah, and and last thing for I'll let you go, Mandy,
and I appreciate your time today in your show in Colorado.
I encourage everyone to listen to it on iHeartRadio. I
did see video of the school, and you describe where
that was in Denver. It looks like paradise. I mean
I saw the schools.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Oh yeah, Evergreen is like this beautiful and we call
them the foothills. But like to you guys in Louisville,
they would be mountains, right, they would be mountains, So
we call.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Them the foothills before you get to the real mountain.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
And it's just this like beautiful community in the woods.
Their whole high school has nine hundred kids, you know,
so it's not large and stuff like this just it
doesn't happen there. Unfortunately, this happened in the Jefferson County
School District, which is the same district that Columbine High
School is also in. So to say that we have
(17:57):
more than our share of experience here in Colorado with
school shootings as an understatement, that's a conversation for another day.
But in my mind, it's all about the culture of death.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
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they can listen.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
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Speaker 2 (18:13):
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I've been broadcasting for a long time after a lot
of national tragedies, even after I for some reason, I
remember broadcasting the moment Kirk Cobain's news broke, and it's
not obviously on this level, but for that generation at
that time, he was speaking for a lot of people.
Nine to eleven was a big one and trying to
(19:57):
navigate those waters were crazy. I think giving people a
voice today was the right decision. And I'm glad my
bosses because I called last night my bosses and said,
we're taking calls tomorrow and people need to talk about this.
And I'm proud of all of the listeners. Sometimes when
(20:19):
we do topics, they call, they scream, they yell, they
talk about rhetoric and all that. But every caller today
has made sense and talked about and they all sounded
like just concerned parents. I mean, that's what I heard.
So we're going to continue to do that. Before we
get out of here. We got about eleven minutes to go.
Five seven, one, eight, four, eight four. I got Tom
(20:41):
and Graham on the line. Now let's hear what they
have to say. Let's go to line one first. Tom,
you're on news radio eight forty whas well.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Good morning, good morning, Good morning. A story about nine
to eleven. This is very emotional day for both my
wife and I. We were there at the World Trade
Center on business the week before it got imploded. We
left that Sunday. If they would have moved as if
(21:11):
they would have moved that attack up one week, they
would have got us because we were in the marryout
on the sixteenth floor of the World Trade Center. So
we understand exactly this emotional thing for the people that lost.
We lost a lot of friends in the nine to
eleven So it's a tough day for the for the
country as a whole.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Yeah, and it but again happening on the day that
Charlie was assassinating. It connects the two because it was
the last time I feel like the country was all together,
uh and true and all and had one message that
we were we were going to be Americans, not Democrats
or Republicans. On that day.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
That is true. But you know, if you indulge me
for another second, if you really look at what goes
on with all these killings, it's like the lay they
got stabbed on the train, the first thing to come up, Well,
he's got mental issues. Most of all the killings. That
just amazes me that are leaders because everything runs downhill.
(22:15):
Everybody watches TV. They see our leaders at address union
when Nancy Pelosi tore up the speech. They see all
this hatred on TV, and it just continues to roll down.
And the common thread is, in my opinion, the common
thread is is all these people they find out later
(22:38):
where they had mental issues. They're not taking their medication,
they're not doing this. If you look back and you're
old enough to remember, and I hate to say insane asylums,
but that's where we put people like that. And we
put him there for a reason because they weren't fit
to be in society. And today they roam the streets.
They get guns one way or the other. And our
(23:02):
Democrats and Republicans they don't seem to see this. All
they see is the hatred for the Democrats. The Democrats
hate the Republicans, and people watch.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
This every Yes, they're selling tickets. They're selling tickets and votes.
That's what gets them. Thank you for your call. I
appreciate it. Lots of good things there. Again, we need
good leaders. Everyone's changed. Teachers are different, coaches are different.
I mean, you talk to Jeff Brahm, He'll tell you
you can't yell at the kids anymody. He told me
(23:32):
that ten years ago. Because I've known Jeff for thirty
years and was the interviewed Schnilburger so many times, I
can't tell you, but they were different kind of coaches.
He who's like Jeff, was like, dude, you can't yell
at these kids anymore. They'll they'll quit on you. You got
to be an advocate for him and doing it whatever.
And I'm not saying not to be an advocate for him,
but we used to listen. Someone said, hey, quiet, sit down,
(23:58):
you sat down. I know it sounds like the old
guy yelling at the sky, but I'm sorry. That's where
we start. We need to put adults in charge and leaders.
If your coach changed your position, Venetti, what you were
lining up a wide receiver. You didn't talk. You just
of course he would never do that because I was slow.
(24:19):
But but you just changed positions. It wasn't a negotiation.
Let's go to Graham. Graham, you're on news radio eight
forty whas.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Hey, thank you for letting me talk. I am thirty two,
so I am of the age of close to Charlie. Also,
I'm a Democrat, and I don't believe in shooting. Watching
(24:54):
Charlie's videos, I've seen that he I was trying to
do what's right, trying to use dialogue, trying to talk
to people in debating, and that's what we need more
of in this country. We don't need the shootings. We
don't need the killings.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
I think there are a lot of people like you.
I haven't changed much, but the Democrat Party has, and
I'm not going along with it. And I think we
do need debate, and you have to be able to say,
you know what, I was wrong on that one. I
don't know how many times I watch and I appreciate
the call. I don't, Graham. I don't know how many
times I watched presidential debates from twenty years ago or
(25:37):
fifteen years ago where one of the candidates said here's
where we agree, like it was an issue and one
would talk and the other one say, here's where he
and I agree on this. That never happens anymore. That's
a little crazy. We got about five minutes left and
we got Brian, Mike, and Phil. I'm going to roll
through these. Let's go to Brian online. Four you're on
(25:57):
news ready Wait forty wuhs?
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Hey, how's it going good?
Speaker 1 (26:03):
How are you sir?
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Yeah? Good?
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Yeah, it's a terrible thing that happened. I mean, I
just doesn't seem real. But I woke up this morning
and you know, I'm all thinking about it. Cut in
my head. I was like, this seemed like it was
more like a professional hit, and I wouldn't would it pass.
It could be somebody from another country, you know, who knows.
(26:26):
I'm just saying, everyone think it might be some crazy
Democrat or something, but you never know. I'm just I'm
sure they're looking at everything. But that's well.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
I will tell you this. There's some information that's come
in through the Wall Street Journal in some some of
the news that I'm not mentioning now because I want
to keep the conversation on what's happened, and and I
don't want to choose a side, to choose this I
did this or this I did that. I We'll do
that at a later time, but we've the video changes everything.
If you watch the video, it changes everything. Yep, thank you, sir.
(27:01):
I appreciate the call. Let's go to Mike. Mike you're on.
Speaker 7 (27:06):
Hey, sir, real quick, I know you're short on time.
Thanks for taking my call. I just want to say
a couple a couple of things real quick. First of all,
you know, I have a fourteen year old daughter. I'm
forty six years old, be forty seven at the end
of this month, on the twenty ninth, And I think
it all goes back to our roots. It starts with
your parents and how you're raised, and like you said,
(27:27):
a minting of your wrong trying to raise your kids
the best and discipline them. There's ways of the discipline
nowadays that you know, get through to kids a lot
differently than when we were raised. And stuff also too,
it's tragic convinced you know, pray for the Kirk family,
play for everybody, pay for nine to eleven, and also
to Today's a day that I will never forget because
it's not eleven, but it's also my mother's birthday.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
What's your name? So, what's your name? My name?
Speaker 7 (27:51):
My mom's name is Mickey.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Mickey, Happy birthday.
Speaker 7 (27:55):
I appreciate your brother. Keep playing for everybody, and we
wish every.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yes, sir, thank you. Let's go to Phil, last collar
of the day and we'll wrap things up. Phil.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Hey, I think you've had a lot of great suggestions
as to what may have caused this, but I think
it all stems back to nineteen sixty four when Medlan
Muria O Hare sued the Department of Education in Baltimore,
Maryland to take prayer and wrap Bible reading out of
the schools. And I think that's what's done this country
in It's.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Not a bad take. You got to have some sort
of moral compass as we move along and the war
on people that said we need more, we need more
of that in our education or our kids than that's
just wrong. People should be able to do what they
want to do. Thank you for your call. Today has
been a very hard day. It's been a tough day.
(28:47):
Several things came out during this show that jump out
at me. One Mayor Greenberg had this happen to him
without the outcome of Charlie. And yesterday he broke on
our show. Yesterday he got his sweater back from LMPD
with the hole and the sweater from the bullet hole
(29:07):
on the day that Charlie is happened to charge. So
he's watching the video Charlie and he's receiving his sweater
back postcard from God. That is crazy h And you
could tell in the tone of his voice that it
affected him. The people want to blame younger people. It's
not the younger people's fault. It's the people that raised
the younger people and the echo chamber that they were
(29:30):
caught in, especially during COVID where they were stuck at
home and all they did was the echo chamber and
listened top time and time and again to crazy thoughts.
And I warned these people that were doing the voice.
I said, they're gonna turn on you. They're gonna they're
gonna flip when they figure out all that stuff was
a lie, and when they get in the real world
(29:53):
and understand life is struggling, and the worst part about
being a parent is being hard on your kids, disciplining
your kids, and then walking away and let them soak
it in. Don't go back and hug them. Advice to you,
John Alden.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
I hear it.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
This has been a very strange day. You did a
great job on the calls and clearing all the calls.
I'm proud of all the callers.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
Really I am.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Thank you for everybody listening today. We'll be back tomorrow
for a Friday show. Be Safe, Everybody. News Radio eight
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