01-02-26 FULL SHOW - I'm Back To Kick Off 2026!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock
Accident and injury Lawyers.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, no, it's Mandy Connell, Mandy Donda Kola.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Ninety one.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
M got way you want to study can then nicey
us through Fred Andy Donald keeping your real sad bab.

Speaker 4 (00:26):
Welcome, Welcome to a Friday edition of the show altogether.
Now whoo, that's right, it's me. It's Mandy. Back from vacation.

Speaker 5 (00:37):
I am so rested and ready for twenty twenty six
it's not even funny. I did forget that I had
to work today until like two days ago, and I
was like, dang it. But then, as I just said
to Grant, I didn't want to burn a vacation day
in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
I don't want to limit.

Speaker 5 (00:53):
Myself just to have one more day off to tack
on my vacation. Grant Smith in here with me today
for the very same reason.

Speaker 6 (01:00):
The exact say so, Grant when you text me and
said are you are you here or you at home today?

Speaker 4 (01:07):
And I was like, I was already in the office.
I have to tell you guys.

Speaker 5 (01:11):
Today at the iHeartMedia Studios, there's like what nine people.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
Here in the whole building. So whoever I saw it
was like we were the last two survivors after the
apocalypse who were like, hey.

Speaker 7 (01:26):
I pulled another parking lot like an hour ago, and
I'm like, there's four cars in the parking lot.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
Wait, so we're the idiots that came to work today, Grant,
thank you. That's what I was gonna say.

Speaker 5 (01:38):
Let's start by talking about something not on the blog
for a moment. Can we just talk about some of
the college football games that happened this weekend.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
I watched all of them.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
I did too.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
I was like, we Chef's Kiss.

Speaker 5 (01:51):
Last night's game was so flipping good, so flipping good.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
Do you cheer for.

Speaker 5 (01:56):
A team if you don't necessarily have a vested interest
in either team?

Speaker 4 (01:59):
Do you choose one?

Speaker 8 (02:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:01):
At the beginning of a game, okay, so yesterday this
is us, but before old miss Georgia, Chuck says who
do we like in this game?

Speaker 5 (02:08):
And I was like, okay, I had this whole thing
that went through my head. I am reflexively anti SEC,
but that doesn't matter.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
In this case.

Speaker 5 (02:15):
Correct both exactly, so that disqualifiers right off the table.
And then I thought to myself, you know, Georgia fans
are super annoying. And then I thought to myself, and
I know that because I've been to the world's largest
cocktail party multiple times in Jacksonville. Even though I'm not
a Florida or Georgia fan, it is a fun party. Okay,
don't judge. But then I was like, you know what.

(02:37):
One of C's nanny's in Louisville, her husband went to
Old Miss, So.

Speaker 4 (02:42):
Therefore, Hot Toddy, let's go. We cheered for Old Miss.

Speaker 7 (02:46):
I was rooting for Old Mess as well, but for
different reasons. I want to see them win after their
coach left them in the middle of the championship run, right,
I want to see them win because of that. But
then I started watching the game and George's quarterback gutter
stocked and just leaves it all on the field, and
I was like, I like this.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
And what a name.

Speaker 5 (03:04):
I looked at where the name came from, because I
was like, I bet his dad wanted to be a quarterback.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
So we named him Gunner. Right, totally wrong.

Speaker 5 (03:10):
Even better story, He's named after his great grandfather, who
was a World War Two pilot, and they called him
Gunner when they referred to him as in the local
newspaper that is, and his dad loved that, and so
they named him out. I was like, oh my god,
I like this kid even more now. That is great,
so many good stories. But what a high level of
football is being played in these games.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
I mean, and I'm not gonna lie. I love watching
Alabama lose.

Speaker 7 (03:33):
Yeah, and I'm a big Indiana fan for the same
underdog story. You know, like they were so bad for
so many years, the losing this program in college football history,
and now they got a cocky coach who just goes
out there and wins games and beat Ohio State, beat
Oregon in Oregon earlier this year, and now beating Alabama.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
I mean, it's a great story.

Speaker 5 (03:51):
Give me my audio for a moment, place grant. A
big reason Indiana is so darn lovable right now?

Speaker 4 (03:59):
Is this kid make more history this season?

Speaker 8 (04:01):
Why?

Speaker 4 (04:02):
What is so special about you in this group?

Speaker 9 (04:04):
Well, first of all, my team and I want to
give all the glory to God.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
What historic venue, the.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
Rose Bult one of the best venues in all of sports.

Speaker 9 (04:10):
It's such a great conglomerate of individuals coming together and
really forming complimentary football. Coach Schig has hit on us
no complacency, and especially when you have a pie, it's
tough to get in the rhythm of football.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
But once we got our feet on.

Speaker 9 (04:24):
The ground, we knew that we're gonna stick together and.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Come up with this.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
W It took you a second opening series. You get
sacked twice, you have to punt. I just saw Alabama
defensive lineman coming over and hyping you up about how
good you were today. How did you figure it out quickly?

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (04:38):
First of all, well, I mean, Alabama a super glassy program,
one of the most prestigious.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Programs in the SEC.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
Shout out to them.

Speaker 9 (04:44):
They did a fantastic job. However, it's us coming together
and like I said, he's a month off.

Speaker 4 (04:51):
It's kind of like, hey, we gotta get our feet wet.
Once we got our feet.

Speaker 9 (04:53):
Wet, once you get the ball rolling, brand would hit
it and shride and able to put plip plays together, put.

Speaker 4 (04:59):
You know, first down together, and then put points on
the board.

Speaker 5 (05:02):
I mean, how can you not love this kid, Fernando
Mendoza Heisman winning. He's like the most wholesome opie quarterback
that we have.

Speaker 4 (05:11):
Had in a very very long time, just like a
sweet boy.

Speaker 5 (05:15):
You just know that he calls his mom, you know,
you know, he calls his mom like every day, just.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
To check in, you know what I mean.

Speaker 7 (05:23):
And the coolest part at the end of that game,
because it was a blowout obviously, Yeah, they showed a
picture of him, Fernando Mendoza and his mother in the
crowd who's suffering from multiple scrolls.

Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yeah, and the little.

Speaker 7 (05:34):
Brother is a backup quarterback there he got a touchdown.

Speaker 4 (05:38):
You can see him both teared up.

Speaker 7 (05:39):
That his little brother and the youngest son where it
was playing in the rose ball.

Speaker 5 (05:43):
I gotta tell you, that is one of those things
that though you as a sportsman can appreciate it, grant,
I don't think until you're a parent you can appreciate
that feeling, because once you become a parent, you would
much rather see your kids succeed than you succeed, right, Like,
it is so much better for me now watching my
adult children do things and and you know, become these

(06:04):
incredible human beings and accomplish these things. And now my
oldest son is a dad, and he's such a great dad,
and you just that makes me happier than anything I
have ever accomplished myself.

Speaker 7 (06:14):
Can I play you the sound that I was filling
it on BCT a couple of weeks ago. And this
was the moment I fell in love with fer Naneomen
do you hit me?

Speaker 2 (06:22):
It sounds so beautiful.

Speaker 4 (06:23):
I want to give all the glory to God. We're
never supposed to be in this decision, But my glory God,
the great coaches, great Dama around us school, we were
able to pull this off.

Speaker 9 (06:32):
You never thought who would be here, Bernela Hons or
Flipping Chams let go.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
That was after they beat Ohio States. I've been there
on the show. It's just so so good.

Speaker 5 (06:40):
And guys, today is January two, twenty twenty six, first
day back, first day of the new year.

Speaker 4 (06:46):
I'm happy to be here, but I got to tell
you I don't really have my Clement work pants on today.

Speaker 5 (06:52):
Uh, I'm more in my let's just ride through this
last day of semi vacation for me and Grant kind
of pants day on right now? Now, I got my
new sneakers on. I got new sneaks. I was very
excited about that. These are the things in life that
I do want to acquire.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
New sneaks. Let's see him. Was it a Christmas present?
Now for myself. Oh I love that.

Speaker 5 (07:12):
Yeah, aren't they cool? I had to replace my sneakers.
I'm the straight version of Ellen degenerous when it comes
to sneakers. If I wanted to clarify, you know, I'm
not playing for Ellen's team anytime soon. Not that there's
anything wrong with that. It's perfectly fine. Let's do the blog,
shall we? Right now that we've squandered six or so
minutes of the show, Let's do it.

Speaker 4 (07:32):
The blog, though, is huge.

Speaker 5 (07:33):
I did jump right back on that horse this morning
at six am. Find the blog by going to mandy'sblog
dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline.
It says one two twenty five blog I'm back to
kick off twenty twenty six. Click on that and here
are the headlines you will find within.

Speaker 8 (07:49):
I didn't do with office half of America all with
ships and clipmas. That's going to press plach.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
Today on the blog.

Speaker 5 (07:56):
Happy New Year. Yes, I got the flu over my break.
Are you doing dry January?

Speaker 8 (08:02):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (08:02):
Look, Excel wants more of your money. Water, heater and
furnace prices are skyrocketing in Colorado.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
Expect more restaurant closures.

Speaker 5 (08:09):
In twenty twenty six, a fatal mountain lion attack in
Larimer County.

Speaker 4 (08:14):
Downtown Boulder is empty. International visitors are going to get
soaked at Rocky Mountain National Park.

Speaker 5 (08:19):
Trump punishes Colorado, but Tina's attorneys are at least creative.

Speaker 8 (08:24):
Guest.

Speaker 5 (08:24):
Democracy is under attack in Colorado. Democrats and Republicans try
to write the ships how to make changes that stick.

Speaker 4 (08:32):
Watch My year and review with deb This.

Speaker 5 (08:34):
Is just cool and John Stossel on capitalism versus socialism.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
The Mom Donnie era begins in New York.

Speaker 5 (08:40):
The kiffness is the real goat protests in Iran give
me hope? Did you know there's famine in the Middle East.
CBS News sets the tone. The years are long, but
the days are short. This is a great football stat
Jesus is having a great season.

Speaker 4 (08:55):
Venezuela is ready to chat.

Speaker 5 (08:56):
Colorado gives generous benefits to illegals. Those are the headlines
on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. Anyway, Nancy's off today,
By the way, Nancy is off.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (09:09):
Today's blog is, if I do say so myself, awesome.
Now we just played Hernando or Fernando Mendoza's postgame interview.
But Jesus is having an amazing season this year. Because
after the big win over Georgia in what has been
my favorite college football game of the year last night,
that was such a great game. This is old Miss

(09:31):
quarterback Trinidad Chambless. This has to be one of the
great quarterback names of all time. Though Trinidad Chambless quarterback,
Oh Miss, it could be just a quarterback. He could
be a superhatero with that name. I love the name. Anyway,
this is what he had to say.

Speaker 9 (09:46):
Got now you've won the Sugar Bowls to advance in
the college football playoffs.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
Jesus Christ, my Lord Savior.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
I got to face it out.

Speaker 8 (09:59):
Amazing journey, such an opportunity.

Speaker 5 (10:05):
Now I'm playing this not because we're gonna have God
for the next three hours. But there's an interesting thing
happening right now in that young people are unabashedly, unabashedly
seeking God in their lives. And I've said this before
and I will stand by this. I have now in
my many fifty six years, I have seen this same

(10:26):
scenario play out over and over and over and over again.
The people in my life of the strongest faith, And
it doesn't necessarily need to be Christianity. I have Jewish
friends who are very strong in their faith. I have
Christian friends who are very strong in their faith, and
they are the happiest people I know. Now, I don't

(10:47):
know any Muslims in my close personal group of friends,
not by design. It's just sort of played out that way,
so there could probably maybe they're the happiest people too.

Speaker 4 (10:59):
But the people.

Speaker 5 (11:00):
That have the strongest faith are the happiest people I know,
and the people with the least faith are the most unhappy.
And when we've got this young generation of people that
are coming up in the age of anxiety, where everything
has been you know, pathologized.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
And too you know, remember, Gret, back when.

Speaker 5 (11:18):
We were young, and you were young, much much less
long away than I was. That was a wordy way
to say. I don't know what happened there. I had
a little little brain fark. But when we were kids,
you always had well that guy's just weird, right, that
guy's weird, or she's odd. My mother's my favorite expression

(11:39):
for my mother. She would go, well he's just a
bit of an odd duck. I mean, what does that
actually mean anyway? But it was just I knew what
it meant, right, but now everything is like, oh, he's
on the spectrum. Well guess what we probably were too.
We didn't need a label for it. But all these
young people, they are just they're mired in anxiety and

(11:59):
depression and mental illness and they're all all they do
is they're on their phones, and it's making them even
more depressed. But younger people are starting to look for
different answers, and they're starting to look for things that
give them a feeling of purpose and a feeling of
mattering and belonging. And for many young people that is
turning into a religious path, and I think that's fantastic.

(12:23):
Very few people get worse because of religion. And for
those people out there, and this is a very common complaint,
and I've been pretty open. I haven't really gone into
depth because I've never really had a conversation about it.
But I was raised Catholic, but I was so put
off by the way the Catholic Church handled the sex
abuse scandals that are still ongoing. Although I have to

(12:44):
say now they're being at least transparent and they're taking
care of it when it happens. I was so put off,
but I didn't turn away from God because of that.
I may have turned away from organized religion to an extent,
but I've never used that as an excuse to to,
you know, let it interfere with my relationship with God,
because ultimately, religion is just man's version of what God

(13:06):
is telling them to do, right, It's just our interpretation.
So we have all of these young people that are
in this this sort of you know, you think about
everything this generation went through through their really formative years.

Speaker 4 (13:21):
And I'm going to tell you a little story. So
over the holiday, we went to Ohio to see my
older kids and my grandkids, and yes, I got the flu,
but I barely got it. And I'm going to talk
about that later because I got this witchcraftvoodoo cocktail from
natural Grocer, and I swear.

Speaker 5 (13:35):
To you I think it worked, just with the flu
being rampant. That will make an appearance in the show later,
not to be confused with actual medical advice. To be clear,
are all of that stuff being said? These kids are
are They've come through so much. And over the holiday
we got back and my daughter had a New Year's
Eve party, and Chuck and I sat upstairs and listen

(14:00):
into these teenagers laugh and scream and carry on and
just do teenager stuff. And it was like the most
heartwarming moment of my life, Like, Okay, maybe we didn't
break them completely. Maybe maybe they're they're gonna be okay
because we just we take for granted so much stuff,

(14:22):
so much stuff that we did when we were younger,
that is, that was just normal for us. You know,
we always were hanging out at someone's house when I
was young. We didn't have cell phones, right, so if
we wanted to talk to someone, we had to actually
be face to face with them, and that face to face,
those face to face interactions simply have not existed for
this group of young people.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
And I cannot even imagine.

Speaker 5 (14:44):
It's so hard for me to wrap my head around it,
even though I have a sixteen year old, so I
kind of have a front row to the whole thing.

Speaker 4 (14:51):
And here's the kicker, you guys.

Speaker 5 (14:53):
So we have a sixteen year old, and we have
a thirty five year old and a thirty four year old,
so we very we recently just went through the teen
years with them.

Speaker 4 (15:03):
So the difference is so stark.

Speaker 5 (15:06):
It's so stark, and I just I worry, But then
I meet all of these kids that my daughter had over,
and they're.

Speaker 4 (15:14):
Just the nicest. They're all so polite, they're just nice kids.
You kind of forget, like we focus on the what's
the matter with kids today, and you forget there's so
many just really good kids out there doing good kids stuff. Anyway, Mandy,
I got a lot of people ending up on the
text line. Let's get some of those by the way.

Speaker 5 (15:34):
A little bit later, we are going to take a
phone calls because I have a question for you, guys,
big philosophical question. Grant, I'm gonna ask it of you
as well, so you know, we do the vision board thing.

Speaker 4 (15:45):
As a matter of fact.

Speaker 5 (15:45):
Michelle Zelder my friend and my guru when it comes
to my mental and health fitness. She does this amazing
vision board event. And I've realized something about vision boards.
They don't work for me. It's not a tool that
works for me. But what does work for me? And
I don't set resolutions because why, I mean, come on,
how many years in a row do you have to
disappoint yourself before you just go?

Speaker 4 (16:07):
That's not the way.

Speaker 5 (16:08):
To go, right, So I want you to think about this.
What has worked for me is the word the word
of focus for the year. What is the word now?
Last year I had two words. Last year was trust God.
And I really worked on trusting God in those times
when I didn't have any clue about what was really
going on. I'm like, you know what, I gotta trust God.

(16:29):
There's got to be some thing here that I am
not capable of seeing. And it's been it's been a journey.
I will say that I do. I would not say
I'm done right. Yeah, anyway, today is still vacation. That's
completely acceptable. To phone it in today, Thank you, Texter.

(16:50):
I mean most days I phone it in, but today
I'll phone in an extra heart, extra heart Mandy, welcome
back and go chargers. Grant, can you go ahead and
report that person for hate speech on the text line?

Speaker 4 (17:02):
They're going to get the opt out keyword. Now, Yeah,
there you go.

Speaker 5 (17:04):
I'm not saying there's a thing, Mandy, Mandy, Mandy. I
bought the ninety nine year dad the battery organizer. He
loved it, and I got one for me. Great gift
ideas I got from you. See, Grant wasn't here when
I said what so I did a list of recommended
gifts for people just cool stuff that I thought, Okay,
if you don't know what else to get him, get
him is one of them was my mom got Chuck

(17:26):
a battery organizer like four years ago.

Speaker 4 (17:28):
Grant.

Speaker 5 (17:29):
He loves this thing so much, Like you cannot even
believe how happy this battery organizer makes Chuck.

Speaker 4 (17:35):
And we love it. We use it all the time.
I don't understand. It's just like a double as.

Speaker 5 (17:39):
It has a spot for everything, okay, and you're you're
all in there. Ours has foam so you can put
it all in there. You know what you got. And
then when you get low on your ce's or your
double a's, you just go ahead and restock.

Speaker 4 (17:49):
And you got them all right there, handy dandy, No
digg into a drawer or bag or whatever clutter mess
that you have. And I had no idea.

Speaker 5 (17:56):
That was the most polarizing gift idea in the history
of gift ideas. People loved it like this person, or
they hate it. Mandy, welcome back.

Speaker 4 (18:05):
Woo woop.

Speaker 5 (18:06):
We need a big old hearty darn tutan to start
twenty twenty six. There you go, There you go, Mandy,
welcome back. A couple weeks ago, I went to home
Depot and Cheyenne and bought seven Battery Daddies for all
seven of my kids as a stocking stuffer.

Speaker 4 (18:22):
They loved it, and the cashier looked at me and said,
you must listen to the Mandy Coddles show too. That
did not happen. That did not happen. That is hilarious
if it did. But I'm not buying what you're selling.
Holy cow, that's hilarious. Ooh, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (18:41):
It just drives me crazy though that winners thank the
Lord and Savior. But it does not mean that the
Lord and Savior turned his back on the losers who
were also praying to win, who were seconds away from
thanking the Lord and Savior for the win. Guys, as
I'll demonstrate in the next segment when i tell you
about how I got the flu over Christmas, sometimes the
answer to your prayer is no, I mean, and the

(19:05):
hardest thing in life is accepting that that no probably
benefits you Further down the road.

Speaker 7 (19:10):
One of my favorite songs of all time Garth Brooks
Unanswered Prayers. There you go find finding the silver lining
and not getting the answer you want.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
Yep, we are going to take a quick time out.

Speaker 5 (19:21):
We're going to come back, and I will tell you
about my voodoo witchcraft cocktail, because the flu has put
a record number of people in the hospital in Colorado.
It's not like horrible COVID, but it's a bad version
of the flu.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
And I'll tell you what I did.

Speaker 5 (19:36):
And I gotta say, even as I was taking it,
I didn't think it would work, But now I think
it kind of did.

Speaker 4 (19:42):
I'll explain after this.

Speaker 5 (19:45):
Over the holiday, right as we got ready to go,
my daughter got sick, like really sick, and I was like,
oh crap. Then Chuck got sick, really sick what I
now believed to be the flu. Now as Chuck was
coming out of it, we were planning on still going
because we had an airbnb, and I was like, look,

(20:07):
we'll separate, you know, be away from the rest of
the family. And I just told myself, grant, I don't
have time to be sick, so therefore I will not
get sick. But never one to take chances, I took
my happy behind over to the vitamin cottage, over to
the natural grocers, and I went into their little I
call the ladies who work their witches, not because they're

(20:28):
not good people, but because all of this health food
stuff is a little bit of voodoo, right, It's a
little bit of witchcraft. We all know it, but that's
kind of what it is. But they're also incredibly knowledgeable.
I love Natural Grocer's shop there all the time, and
if I have a question, they're always really good with
the information. They're not going to give you medical advice,
but they will give you information about what these things are,

(20:50):
you know, are supposed to help with. And I went
and I was like, look, I need some immunity stuff
right now. Everybody my house is sick. I don't have
time to be sick. She goes, Okay, I got and
I did this clinical immunity stuff and it had vitamin
C in it and zinc and let's see prebiotic gum acacia,
because you know that's what you need. Grant uh dried

(21:13):
yeast not from mune, which is mushrooms, an herbal blend
of stuff black elderberry so yes for a brief moment,
my daughter's mother did smell like elderberry, just for a moment.
And then some probiotics and it's you take six of
these capsules a day, and y'all, I was like, I
and I also was taking oil of oregano every four hours,

(21:35):
which is supposed to prevent mucus and all this stuff.
So I go blaze the trail. I went on Facebook.
I was like, you guys, say a little prayer for me,
Say a little prayer that I do not get sick,
because we're going.

Speaker 4 (21:44):
We're driving, We're doing it. We're going to Ohio.

Speaker 5 (21:47):
Every time I make that drive grant, I say never again,
never again, and yet then I did it again. And
the worst part about this one was it was my idea.
I actually said the words to Chuck. You know, we
got time, we should draw. But I was just being
cheap because the airline tickets were so expensive.

Speaker 4 (22:04):
I was like, ah, I don't want to do that.
We're not spending two thousand dollars to fly though, exactly.
So we spent a fraction of that. We did drive.
It wasn't horrible.

Speaker 5 (22:12):
We went up through Iowa because we were going to
stop and see Father Mike in Wisconsin.

Speaker 4 (22:16):
But we called him, and you.

Speaker 5 (22:18):
Know, we were driving up right before Christmas, and I
called Father Mike and I said, Father Mike, look, Q
and Chuck are still getting over whatever this is. And
I know this is like super Bowl week for priests, right,
because it's like Christmas and then you have in the
Catholic Church, you're not done until Epiphany. Like there's still
another week of stuff going on. And so we decided
not to stop and see Father Mike and drive in

(22:39):
and I'm perfectly well, I'm perfectly fine, having a great time.

Speaker 4 (22:42):
Christmas Eve, I wake up, I'm flat.

Speaker 5 (22:44):
On my back now. For two days, I did something
that I don't normally do. I laid in bed, but
I was in an Airbnb by myself.

Speaker 4 (22:54):
Grant. This was possibly the.

Speaker 5 (22:56):
Greatest thing that could have ever happened to me, because
you know, when you're in your.

Speaker 4 (22:59):
House, this is me.

Speaker 5 (23:00):
I'm not good at sitting still in my house, right,
There's always a million little things that I could be
doing in my house. When you're in an airbnb, what
are you gonna do tittle around somebody else's house.

Speaker 4 (23:12):
So here's what. I was only sick for two days.

Speaker 5 (23:15):
I would said Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, missed all the
family festivities those day. Woke up to twenty six and
was like, I'm perfectly fine. Never had a cough, never
had like bad sign of stuff. And I think the
witchcraft worked I really do. And with the flu season
being as bad as it is, and this flu season
has been really bad because the flu vaccine is not

(23:37):
very effective, if effective at all, against the current dominant
strain of the flu that is raging around, and this
strain of the flu is turning out to be really
hard for elderly people.

Speaker 4 (23:50):
Okay, so.

Speaker 5 (23:53):
You know, I saw one doctor yesterday is like, look,
this flu vaccine is not designed for this event. However,
if you are possibly at higher risk, if you have asthma,
if you are older, then go ahead and get the
flu vaccine. But I was only sick for two days.
It took Chuck and Q like ten days to get well.
So I'm just throwing that out there. Maybe you give

(24:15):
yourself a little immune support. My wife right now, like
two weeks, I am sold on oil of oregano as
a anti decongestent thing.

Speaker 4 (24:27):
Now you can only take it. You're not supposed to take.

Speaker 5 (24:29):
The oil of regano longer than ten days. So I
take it like every four hours until I feel like
I'm clear.

Speaker 4 (24:37):
It's amazing. You take the capsules or take the capsules.

Speaker 5 (24:40):
No, the tincture is very can be very very hard
on your stomach, and it can be highly acidic, which
is why you're not supposed to take it longer than
a certain amount of time. But if you're feeling that
congestion and that like the chest stuff going on, oil
of regano.

Speaker 4 (24:53):
Man, it's it's amazing.

Speaker 5 (24:55):
And I finally convinced my daughter if you have a
cough at night and you can't sleep, all.

Speaker 4 (25:01):
You need is a teaspoon of honey.

Speaker 5 (25:02):
It is as effective as any over the counter medication
you're going to get for a cough, and it doesn't
have any weird side effects and it's delicious.

Speaker 4 (25:12):
So there you go.

Speaker 5 (25:13):
It's weird that all of these sort of ancient ways
are coming back now.

Speaker 4 (25:16):
I found myself watching.

Speaker 5 (25:18):
A video, Grant, have you seen the video for the Firesider?

Speaker 2 (25:21):
Have you seen this?

Speaker 4 (25:22):
No? Oh boy.

Speaker 5 (25:23):
So it is a tincture that you make yourself using
things like onion, ginger roots, tumoric root, an orange something something,
and then you pour apple cider vinegar over it and
you let it scap and it's supposed to help with
your immune system. And I was like, you know what,
at this point, I'm just going to try it.

Speaker 4 (25:45):
I just you know, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (25:49):
Love listening to the show and reading Mandy's blog. Not
sure if anyone has pointed out, but today is one two,
twenty twenty six. I'm a proof reader by trade. These
kind of things jump out at me. You are correct.
Do you know what I just did? I did the
equivalent of writing a check back in olden times, grant,
when we paid for things with slips of money that

(26:11):
we signed to prove that we would pay for the
things that we're writing out the little slips of paper.

Speaker 4 (26:15):
Every year in January, I would.

Speaker 5 (26:17):
Misdate my checks for the entire month and write.

Speaker 4 (26:20):
The last year, and then I would laugh with the
cash here, and she would go, oh, everyone does it,
And that's what we did back in olden times when
we used checks. Did you ever have a checking account?
Is that a thing you had?

Speaker 8 (26:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (26:33):
I mean, but with actual checks. Yeah, we had to
use some checks in the home buying process. Oh that's true. Yeah,
there you go.

Speaker 7 (26:39):
We had to go to the bank and get some
checks because you don't just have them handy anymore.

Speaker 4 (26:46):
That's true.

Speaker 5 (26:46):
Well, we still have checks, I for you know, more
people are now going, you know what, I'll take your
check because Venmo's now reporting my income to the government.

Speaker 7 (26:53):
And when I had to register my new vehicle in Colorado. There, well,
it's seven hundred dollars less if you have a check like, well, okay,
then I'll go get a check, I guess since but
I did it.

Speaker 4 (27:05):
There you go. Mandy, sounds like you let Chuck and
q fen for their own health.

Speaker 10 (27:09):
Ha ha.

Speaker 4 (27:10):
I did.

Speaker 5 (27:10):
I heartlessly did. Let's see, here's the thing, you guys.
That immunity stuff is like thirty bucks. They were already sick.
I gave them the oil of regano. I did do that,
so I wasn't completely heartless.

Speaker 4 (27:22):
Mandy.

Speaker 5 (27:23):
The cashier at home depot in Cheyenne indeed did say
that about listening to your show. I was in Ohio
to and flew back home early on Christmas night because
I felt like crap and wanted my own bed. See,
I was so grateful to not be flying. Although by
the time we drove back I was fine.

Speaker 4 (27:39):
Mandy, did your.

Speaker 5 (27:40):
Natural grocer's witches flew brew also include eye of newt
You know what, I don't ask questions.

Speaker 4 (27:45):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (27:47):
I don't need to know, Okay, as long as it
works right, I'm fine not knowing what's in it.

Speaker 4 (27:54):
And what's not Mandy? Who drove?

Speaker 5 (27:55):
And did you do it in nineteen hours? Chuck drove
and we did it in a less than that. It
was like sixteen seventeen hours. I think no, no, wait,
I take that back. It was about it was about
eighteen hours.

Speaker 4 (28:06):
Ooh, you know what we did, go to Grant. We
went to the world's largest truck stop in Ames, Ohio sweatshirt.
I mean, I was flabbergasted. That was an Instagram post.
By the way, if you want to go back and
look at our visit to the world's largest truck stop
and why wouldn't you?

Speaker 6 (28:22):
It is actually really cool. Yeah, that's a great stop. Yeah,
Mandy of five little girls. We have sworn by oregano
oil for years. Literally the best thing ever.

Speaker 5 (28:34):
My kids call it spaghetti medicine because it tastes like spaghetti.
Just when they feel a cough coming on, they will
come to me and ask Mom, can we have the
skeetty medicine? They feel better before the day is over.
We also use it for our dogs as well, in
place of antibiotics. I'm telling you this stuff works, but
I'm not giving you medical advice, just I'm just throwing
out my own two cents and you can do what

(28:54):
you want when we get back.

Speaker 4 (28:56):
I have so much stuff on the blog, including guess
what who told you first?

Speaker 5 (29:03):
That your water heater and furnace prices are skyrocketing this year.
We'll talk about that when we get back season Vegas
for New Year's I can think of nothing I'd like
to do less, and you go to Vegas and New
Year's just really I yeah, I spent my New.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
Year's at home.

Speaker 5 (29:19):
It was delightful, nothing I didn't have to worry about.
How I was gonna give me your opinion.

Speaker 4 (29:26):
You're young, still an enthusiastic What did you guys do
for New Year's Eve? This year?

Speaker 7 (29:31):
We went to McDonald's and got snack wraps, and then
we went to a comedy show at Comedy Works Downtown.

Speaker 8 (29:38):
No great.

Speaker 4 (29:39):
We were home by nine thirty. Old people might.

Speaker 5 (29:45):
A lot of pressure put on New Year's Eve, and
I was talking to my mom about this. I was like,
you know what, I just I don't remember. I remember
a few spectacular New Year's Eves, but for the most part,
they were, you know, a disappointment. Now, if you listened
to the show last year, you already know about this
story that is going to happen, but interesting, our friends
at Fox thirty one did a story.

Speaker 8 (30:06):
Now.

Speaker 5 (30:06):
HVAC experts are warning about a significant price increase in
the cost of new furnaces and heaters in twenty twenty six.
Why government, I mean, they didn't say that.

Speaker 4 (30:17):
I did.

Speaker 5 (30:18):
On January first, that new law went into affecting Colorado,
tightening the emission standards on gas furnaces and water heaters.
Units manufactured beginning January first, twenty twenty six must meet
ultra low Knocks or energy Star ratings in order to
be sold and installed in Colorado.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
Now.

Speaker 5 (30:38):
The only reason I say this is because around town
experts are saying that the cost of equipment should go
up or probably will go up about forty percent and
could skyrocket to more than two hundred percent since lower
cost standard appliances will be unavailable and high efficiency appliances

(30:58):
will be in high demand. So there you go. Just
wanted to remind you of that. I will tell you this.
My friends at fix To twenty four to seven have
stockpiled a lot of the old units, so they have
some to get them through the first quarter. Just something
to remember. But hey, don't worry about that. I saw
this story, and I thought to myself, when is it

(31:20):
going to be enough? When are the people of Colorado
going to say, wait a minute, how does this keep happening?
X Energy is asking for another rate increase?

Speaker 4 (31:30):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (31:31):
Now they say they just want to raise bills seven
dollars and fifty nine cents a month. Just seven dollars
and fifty nine cents a month.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
That's nothing.

Speaker 5 (31:41):
You can't even get a value meal for that, right,
except how many of these ten dollars here, seven dollars here,
eleven dollars here?

Speaker 4 (31:50):
How many of these have we seen? A lot?

Speaker 5 (31:54):
Now, this is the part that really galls me, really
really galls me. Asking for this increase that would bring
in one hundred and ninety million dollars because they want
to pay for safety improvements, rising operating and maintenance cost
and investor returns. Now, I don't have a problem with
a publicly traded company, But I have a problem with

(32:16):
a publicly traded company with a monopoly putting the needs
of the rate payers ahead, excuse me, the needs of
the stockholders ahead of the needs of the rate payers.
There is inherent conflict there. There's nothing free market about
what we've got going on.

Speaker 4 (32:33):
There's nothing free.

Speaker 5 (32:34):
Market in this at all. You don't have the option
to get away from Excel. You're not given that choice.
And the Public Utilities Commission we talked about this last year.
I'm gonna keep talking about it until something changes. They've
been appointed by Jared Polis. They all come from the
green energy industry. They don't care about how much energy
costs here. They're all, I would imagine, quite affluent as

(32:57):
well as is the governor.

Speaker 4 (32:59):
They don't care. They believe that they have a better.

Speaker 5 (33:03):
Way for you to live, which is an all electric
state where we rely on quote renewable read unreliable energy sources,
and we allow Excel to have a tremendous amount of
power pun intended about when they can and cannot turn

(33:23):
the power off. I mean, we've given them just an
obscene amount of power. But the reason that when they
have such a close working relationship is because Xcel makes
money on infrastructure projects. They don't make money on delivering
energy to you and me, right, that's not how they
make their money. They make their money when they build
new stuff. And in Colorado, our government has not only
said we will allow you to build as much new

(33:45):
stuff as you want, and the rate payers will be
forced to pay for it. They are telling them they
have to build as much new stuff as they can
and the rate payers will pay for it.

Speaker 4 (33:53):
Of course they have a great and cozy relationship.

Speaker 5 (33:56):
The only thing that will change this is if we
get a governor who isn't trying to make this state
the most unaffordable state in the entire country. One thing
I did realize on my road trip across the country.
Our gas prices are super low. But if Governor Jared
Poulis and all of the other Democrats who are living

(34:17):
this green fantasy have their way, the two things that
make gas so cheap here the fact that we get
it out of the ground here and then refine it
at Suncore, they'll be gone and we'll be having higher
energy costs than anywhere else. Super frustrating that no one
is really looking out for the public. That's the part

(34:37):
that gets me considering Public Utilities Commission.

Speaker 4 (34:41):
It's in the name. You'd hope they do better, but
of course that that would be silly. When we get back,
I have a question for you, and maybe you've thought
about this, and maybe you haven't. If you had to
choose one word to focus on in twenty twenty six.
What would your word be, Grant, I'm making you say
yours when we get back to.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock
Accident and injury Lawyers.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
No, it's Mandy Connell.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
And Donne FM. Got way the nicety three.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
Many Connell keep no sad thing local.

Speaker 4 (35:28):
Welcome to the second hour of the show. I'm your host,
Mandy Connell. That's right.

Speaker 5 (35:32):
This is live in person because Grant, who is in
for a rod and I did not want to burn
a twenty twenty six vacation day, so we're here on
January second.

Speaker 4 (35:41):
Can't be using the earlier exactly. Gotta save those bad boys,
gotta make them count.

Speaker 5 (35:47):
So I asked this question at the beginning of the
show of Grant and I want to sort of let's
have a little Oprah segment.

Speaker 4 (35:53):
Okay, we're we're gonna talk about our feelings.

Speaker 8 (35:55):
No, we're not.

Speaker 5 (35:56):
It is the beginning of the year, and it's a
natural inclination to sort of want to, you know, maybe
take some reflection on what worked from last year, what
didn't work from last year, And I say, set some
intentions some goals, not necessarily resolutions. Resolutions are stupid, although
I do have a story on the blog today about
how to stick to your resolutions, and the key is

(36:17):
make it something that you don't hate, like start with that.
More on that later or maybe not. But I found
something I did vision boards for years. And as a
matter of fact, Michelle Zelener is coming on the show
next week to talk about her vision board.

Speaker 4 (36:32):
Event she does, which is fantastic.

Speaker 5 (36:33):
It is so, so, so good, and I'll probably go
to her vision board event, but I will not do
a vision board because for.

Speaker 4 (36:39):
Me they don't work.

Speaker 8 (36:40):
Now.

Speaker 5 (36:41):
My daughter, my daughter, my sixteen year old, has already
done her vision board for twenty twenty six grant.

Speaker 4 (36:46):
She loves it.

Speaker 5 (36:48):
And a vision board, if you don't know what this is,
it is literally collection of photographs and you put them
on a you know, a cardboard or whatever, and it's
sort of these are the things that you want to
make more intentionally in the next year, way to drive
your focus. And for many people they are a spectacular success.

Speaker 4 (37:04):
For me, not so much. I find them.

Speaker 5 (37:06):
Overwhelming and then everything I put on the vision board
just feels like pressure, right, So I've chosen instead last
year to try something different, and that different was I'm
just going to choose a word or a phrase and
that is going to be the thing that I work
on for the year. Now, this turned out to be
a spectacular success for me. Spectacular because I only had
to focus on one thing last year.

Speaker 4 (37:28):
Mine was trust God. That was my thing, Trust God.

Speaker 8 (37:31):
And that was it.

Speaker 4 (37:33):
Again work in progress.

Speaker 5 (37:35):
But there were times during the year when I had
to catch myself as I started to spiral into the
what if, what if and you just have to say,
trust God, like make good choices and trust God. That's
my life's mantra this year, started thinking about what my
word would be or my phrase or whatever, and it can't.

Speaker 4 (37:54):
Be like a sentence, it can't be. It was the
best of times, it was the worst of times. Where
you want to concise, you're tight.

Speaker 5 (38:02):
And one of the things that I'm working on really,
really hard is being more mindful, being more present in
whatever I'm doing.

Speaker 4 (38:09):
Because I realize that for the last few years.

Speaker 5 (38:12):
Honestly, like we kind of joke about it, like, oh,
it's January two, tomorrow it'll be Christmas, But it doesn't
it feel like that. Doesn't it feel like you're in
a car and the world is whipping past you so
fast that it's just a blur on either side as
you just try to get through the day. And I
want to stop that. I want to be aware of
the things that are around me and be more present

(38:33):
in my life. I've got one more year of a
kid at home.

Speaker 8 (38:36):
You know.

Speaker 5 (38:37):
My daughter's a junior, and not only does she want
to go away to college, she wants to go to
college in Europe.

Speaker 4 (38:42):
So I can't even like go crash her dorm if
I want to, you know.

Speaker 5 (38:46):
So I'm just trying to make this moment a little
bit more, you know, I want to feel it more.
So this year, my word is present, just be present
or presence however you want to look at it.

Speaker 4 (39:00):
Present.

Speaker 5 (39:01):
And I gotta tell you this might be harder than
trust God, because I find myself and I have a
very hard time controlling my mind in terms of like
just doing what I'm doing. And you see all these
people like, just be more mindful. Great, when I say
be more mindful, what does.

Speaker 8 (39:16):
That mean to you?

Speaker 4 (39:17):
Does that does that even mean anything?

Speaker 1 (39:19):
Not?

Speaker 8 (39:19):
Really?

Speaker 4 (39:20):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (39:20):
I thought it was gobbledygook too. I was like, Okay,
I don't even know what you're talking about. How am
I gonna do it if you don't? So then I
found I went on the internet and I used the
Google and I said, I need a mindfulness exercise in practice,
like give me something. And it was an exercise where
you just washed the dishes, and as you're washing the dishes,
you sort of do a little bit of a running

(39:41):
commentary in your head about washing the dishes.

Speaker 4 (39:44):
This plate is soapy, I'm cleaning the food off the plate.

Speaker 5 (39:49):
And it sounds so stupid and so inane until you
actually do it, and then you realize that you've sort
of become aware of what you're actually doing instead of
letting your mind wander and thinking about a thousand things,
And it does sort of slow everything down.

Speaker 4 (40:05):
And that's the purpose. That's my purpose of presence this
year is just to slow.

Speaker 5 (40:10):
Down the world. And if I miss something in the process,
I miss something in the process.

Speaker 3 (40:16):
Right.

Speaker 5 (40:17):
You know, we could be going to war with Iran.
I'm sure it'll be there when I dial in on that. Again,
we could be at war with it is. I'll just
dial in on that later. I'm kidding, of course. I mean,
my job requires a certain amount of you know, thinking
about things that I have to do. But in my life,
that's going to be my word now, Grant, I gave
you a whole hour to think about this while you
were doing fifty other things.

Speaker 4 (40:37):
What'd you come up with?

Speaker 7 (40:38):
I actually really like the presence and the mindfulness of
what you just said. But mine is growth, just continuing
to grow in all facets of life. Grow, family, grow myself, personally,
grow my mental capabilities. Just growth, not being scared to
try new things and seeing how they work out.

Speaker 5 (40:56):
On the other side, I'm done growing, No, But I
will tell you that trying to be more mindful feels
like a big growth situation.

Speaker 4 (41:05):
It really does. Mandy, did you have to lean into
trust God with your health issue last year?

Speaker 5 (41:10):
And I mean trusting God means trusting God. Trusting God
means you gotta trust God when something happens that you
don't like the way that went.

Speaker 4 (41:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (41:25):
We went to Ohio too, and boy, it was nice
on Christmas, even Christmas Day.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
I wouldn't know.

Speaker 5 (41:30):
I was literally in bed the entire day both of
those days. When Mandy is in Ohio, like on Christmas,
does she ever think to herself, Boy, I bet I
have some listeners from Colorado also in Ohio right now too.
Every single time text her every single time I think
that wherever I am, wherever I am, I think to myself,
I bet there are people who listen to this show.

Speaker 4 (41:51):
I'm just kidding.

Speaker 5 (41:52):
I don't even think there are people who listen to
the show in Colorado.

Speaker 4 (41:54):
Ha ha, Mandy.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
Normalcy.

Speaker 8 (41:59):
What a word.

Speaker 4 (42:00):
Word that's from a texture normalcy. I would love to
know more about that word.

Speaker 5 (42:08):
Conversely, if you don't have a word that you have
thought about or are thinking about now, and it's not about,
you know, trying to take over the world, I mean
maybe if you're starting a business, or you're like Grant
his you know, Grant's in a growth phase of his life.

Speaker 4 (42:24):
Maybe you want to start a business. Maybe your word
is focused.

Speaker 5 (42:27):
Maybe your word is you know, determination, Maybe your word
is whatever it is, but it has to be something
that resonates with you can't.

Speaker 4 (42:33):
It's like for years when I did a vision board.

Speaker 5 (42:36):
Every year, on my vision board, I would have some
variation of this thee I'm gonna run a marathon, y'all.
In my whole life, I am never going to run
a marathon. It is never going to happen. Number one,
I don't like running, like, let's start it from there.
So obviously after about six years, I was like this,
what am I even doing? Whose vision board is this?

(42:57):
So I dumped it off there. But it's got to
be stuff that works for you, only you being better,
right like Grant's growth, the only way to grow Grant.
When I turned forty, I made it a year of
saying yes, and whatever I got invited to do, I did,
which is how I had the opportunity to repel down
a building. Did not enjoy that at all, do not recommend,
do not like zero stars, would not do. But I

(43:22):
did all this stuff that I kind of stretched my
boundaries a little bit and I just added to the
list of things.

Speaker 4 (43:28):
I do not want to do well.

Speaker 7 (43:29):
And that's what I was going to say, is like,
it's a great way to show you what you want
to do with your life by trying things that maybe
you would have never tried if you didn't have that
yes mindset exactly.

Speaker 5 (43:39):
It has made me more open to things. I mean now,
I you know, and I've gotten to do so many
cool things because of this job that it's it's you know,
I have a lot of gratitude about that kind of stuff,
about the opportunities that I've had. But I'm curious five
six six nine zero. You can text us on the
common Spirit Helfchechs line, or I want to hear from
you one of two ways. I want to on one

(44:00):
of two topics. They're very similar, very related. One of
those is uh your word. If you have a year,
you have a word of focus for the year, what
is it and why? And number two, if you learned
something in the last year that will always be a
non starter from this point forward, like something you will
never put up with again. I'd love to know what

(44:22):
that is, because I got to tell you. The older
I get, the more I realize that the list of
things that you will not put up with in life
is far more important than your wants and desires, because
once you understand what you will not put up with anymore,
your life gets so simplified, really really simplified. You can

(44:45):
text five sixty six nine Oh, you can call Grant
Are you ready three oh three.

Speaker 4 (44:51):
Seven one three eighty five eighty five?

Speaker 5 (44:53):
That is the phone number three oh three seven to
one three eighty five eighty five, And we're only doing
this for one segment because I have situation with Rosskominski
and he's coming in at one thirty. We have some
negotiations that we're gonna do because y'all, I'm super excited
about this. Starting on Monday, Chad Bauer is going to
be our man in the newsroom, and that means I'm

(45:14):
going to try and get custody of one of the
greatest radio bits around, which is and now you know,
a segment that Chad does with Ross. But now they're
not working the same schedule, Shenanigans will ensue, Mandy. It
sounds silly, this texter said, but every morning I wake
up at three thirty, clean dishes and make my boys
school lunch.

Speaker 4 (45:33):
It's weird because it gives me a little bit of
peace for the day. It's not weird. It's not weird
at all.

Speaker 5 (45:40):
One of the things that I'm beginning to learn is
that the first moments when you wake up and the
last hour before you go to bed are incredibly important.
And I have been squandering my last hour of the day,
just squandering it, not making not making myself better. Mandy
Charity because we can make a difference in ourselves and

(46:01):
in others.

Speaker 4 (46:02):
Look up the definition. Oh I love that. I mean,
that's fantastic. Twenty twenty six. Roll the bones?

Speaker 5 (46:09):
Now, are we talking about orthopedic injuries? Or are we
talking about dice? What are we talking about? Roll the bones?

Speaker 4 (46:15):
Mandy?

Speaker 5 (46:16):
My word is no the most powerful word in the
English language, and one that far too many people do
not deploy enough, and a word that requires the most
amount of thought for such a short word. Hey, Mandy,
when did acclimate become acclimatize? Is a climatize a word

(46:38):
I've never heard us. I've never heard that word. Who
is saying that word?

Speaker 2 (46:42):
Did I say that?

Speaker 4 (46:43):
I did not say that word.

Speaker 5 (46:44):
It's not even a word I would have made up, Mandy.
Healing that one that has so many, so many ways
to look at it. And I wish you well, whether
it's physical, spiritual, or emotional. I wish you well in
your healing journey.

Speaker 4 (47:02):
Mandy. Wherever you are, be there.

Speaker 5 (47:04):
I'm working on it very much. So, Mandy, thank goodness
you're back. It was boring without you. My word is freedom.
I would like to have more freedom to go visit
my son in Florida. I would also like health freedom.
Health allows more freedom to do things momentarily allows me
to visit my son in Florida emotionally free, taking the
pressure off myself to please people, et cetera. You know what,

(47:26):
you should adopt that word no as well, because the
first trick to breaking the people pleasing cycle is to
just learn to kindly, gently, firmly say no. One of
the things I really admire and I'm actually super jealous
about Mike Rosen, is that Mike has no problem telling
you no. Mike is like, You're like, hey, Mike, would

(47:49):
you like to come do this charity thing. We're gonna
save kittens and puppies and babies, And he'd be like, yeah, No,
that doesn't sound like something I want to do.

Speaker 4 (47:55):
And You're like, dang, you know I love that. I've
been working on that. Yeah, exact.

Speaker 8 (48:03):
Oh.

Speaker 5 (48:03):
They're tremendous amount. You have power over your own life
again when you learn how to say no. Mandy, where's
Keenan going. Keenan is just moving to a different shift.

Speaker 2 (48:12):
He's not.

Speaker 4 (48:12):
Nothing bad is happening.

Speaker 5 (48:14):
This is just a shuffling, a restructuring of where the
news people are gonna be and who's gonna be doing
what Keenan is not going anywhere, is remaining a valuable
part of our team.

Speaker 4 (48:25):
Hi, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (48:25):
My word for twenty twenty six organize. I feel you,
whoever you are. Do you know what I did yesterday?
Actually grant what? I cleaned out my makeup drawer with
all my you know, my toilet, trees and everything clean
that out, threw away all the old expired stuff, got
it all super organized.

Speaker 4 (48:44):
Oh it's glorious. I hope it will. I hope it
will stay that way. Mandy.

Speaker 5 (48:52):
However, it is possible I will roll my bones skiing
and that's okay?

Speaker 1 (48:58):
Is that a thing.

Speaker 4 (49:00):
I don't know? Roll the bones is an approach and
a great rush song. Yes, it is, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (49:04):
Normalcy in my daily life. My husband was retired during COVID.
I also stop my part time job. Now the days
are long and hard to fill. I need to feel
productive again. So maybe my word should have been be
of service.

Speaker 4 (49:16):
Amen, find new ways to be in service, and you
will never be without purpose. Mandy. What's the definition of
normal and the eye of the beholder? Normal is what
one person sees as normal. Correct.

Speaker 5 (49:30):
Absolutely, Let me go ahead and grab some phone calls
before we run out.

Speaker 4 (49:35):
Of time because hey, Pam, you are on KOA. What's
your word for this year?

Speaker 2 (49:41):
Kindness?

Speaker 8 (49:41):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (49:42):
I love that, Pam. Do you mean for yourself or
how does that really translate into your life? What does
that look like? Kindness helping others?

Speaker 1 (49:50):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (49:50):
There you go. See that goes back to being of service.
It goes back.

Speaker 8 (49:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (49:54):
I mean whenever you're helping someone else and being kind
to someone else, you're gonna get that back in spades.

Speaker 4 (49:59):
I love it.

Speaker 8 (49:59):
Pam.

Speaker 4 (49:59):
Well check in in six months and see how it's going.
Thank you, all right, Pam, thank you. Hey Brian, you're
on KOA. What's on your mind?

Speaker 8 (50:09):
Hey Mandy. You know, I've been in coaching and life
coaching for a while and I just see a lot
of people whip themselves this time of year, and I
think if there's a couple of simple things they can do.
A quick story. I work out a lot, and I
had a buddy and I were talking to say, everybody's here.
It's first of January. This place is mob. I said, wow,

(50:31):
this is great. And the guy said to me, you know,
I'll give it two weeks and they're all going to quit.
I'm like, no, no, come on and after two weeks,
I said, you know what, you're right, Yeah, you're all gone.

Speaker 4 (50:41):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 8 (50:42):
And so I just I've found people have to get
in touch with what they can really do, yep, and
take steps toward it and do simple things. I like
the word idea. That's good, and I know your time
is so valuable, but the word thing is good. But
if they can take one or two things, make your
bed in the morning, you know, just do it. Everybody

(51:06):
can do it. Do one or two simple things and
get an accomplishment under your belt, and then throw all
the crap off your vision board that you know you're
not gonna do, and put one or two things on
that you're gonna do this year, not five years down
the road, but right now. And that builds a whole
different attitude. And I guess I'd like to impart that

(51:26):
to people. Don't beat yourself with all these should things,
but get a hold of one or two things that
are simple you can do, and then one or two
things that are really important this year that you can
do and go after them and do them, and don't
whip yourself with stuff you know you're not gonna do.

Speaker 4 (51:46):
I agree wholeheartedly.

Speaker 5 (51:47):
Brian and I just read an article, maybe probably a
week ago, that said, if you really want to find
out what your heart's desire is, sit down and write
a list of like thirty things, right, thirty things that
you would love to see happen or accomplish or in
your life. And then think to yourself, if I only
had one year, which one of these would I do?
And really start to drill down in that way, and
it's amazing what you might come up with, and you know,

(52:10):
maybe it is a few years ago, I had a
conversation with my friend Sarah about kind of like what
we want to be when we grow up, and she said,
I learned to.

Speaker 4 (52:16):
Love to make chocolate. And I said, I've got somebody
for you.

Speaker 5 (52:19):
I connected her with a chocolate maker and now she's
making her chocolate right. And I think sometimes it just
is it feels overwhelming. But I'm telling you, if you
just start making a tiny step in that direction, it's
amazing how fast that kind of stuff snowballs.

Speaker 8 (52:34):
Well, Manny, the key is one or two or three things,
all this six or eight or dah da da da.
It just beats people up and they quit and they
get back in their old Modeve then no good. I
can't win one or two simple things you can do
every morning, you know, I walk my dog, try to
do as many miles as I can. That's me. Make
the bed. It doesn't take much time to make the bed,

(52:57):
but you do it. And there's one victory. But some
of the things she said were good too, about getting
stuff out that's not important, but I love that word
kindness that she said. Positive. But get one or two
things and that's it that you're going to do this
year that are really important and they'll feel so much better,

(53:19):
Like I can do this exactly. Victory is really critical
because if they're not get victories subconsciously, just blow it
off like you did with your marathon.

Speaker 4 (53:31):
No, I never that was like the dumbest thing ever.
Yeah you know, yeah, no, no, no, you really don't understand.
I hate to run.

Speaker 5 (53:41):
Like, if you see me and I'm running, you should
just you should run with me, Brian, because someone is
chasing me with a gun. So I am never going
to enjoy running. I've finally given up and I'm okay
with that. I've come to peace without particular illusion.

Speaker 8 (53:54):
Oh yeah, it bangs a lot of people, maybe swimming something,
but walking is good, you know, and if people can
get little victories, that's the keys.

Speaker 5 (54:04):
Yeah, all right, I appreciate it very much, Brian. I'm
happy New Year to you, my friend. All Right, have
a good one. This text, Mandy, mine is two words kinder, gentler.
I like your word presence. Also, what was the cocktail
you got at Natural Grossers. It was hang on one second,
let me just grab it. It was uh bump bump boom,

(54:26):
clinical immunity, quick Start, the quick Start intensive and it's
ten days of six capsules a day.

Speaker 4 (54:33):
I'm telling you, I really think it did something. I
don't know, but maybe it did.

Speaker 10 (54:38):
Mandy.

Speaker 4 (54:38):
The Babylon be says.

Speaker 5 (54:39):
Planet Fitness is now offering a twenty twenty six two
week membership.

Speaker 4 (54:44):
Yes, indeedy, Yes indeedy. I'm just going to say this
about working out. I work out at home now.

Speaker 5 (54:50):
We just actually got more weights for our home gym,
and I find I don't mind working out at home
at all. I don't like working out in a gym.
I just don't, so buy some dumbells. You can do it, people, Mandy.
My word is increase, which means I can increase my finances,
increase my productivity, increase my gratefulness. It pretty much covers everything.

(55:12):
And one thing on my list that I'm not going
to tolerate this year is procrastination. Do a little investigating
into what procrastination is in your brain, and it makes
it so much easier not to procrastinate. Procrastination is just
your brain protecting you from something that it perceives to
be difficult, which therefore could be harmful. But once you

(55:32):
realize that your brain protecting you can tell your brain.

Speaker 4 (55:34):
To shut up like I do all the time. Shut up,
Nadine ros Kaminsky.

Speaker 2 (55:42):
I'm here to ruin your show.

Speaker 4 (55:43):
Yay, I miss you. Ross. Likewise, it's terrible what's.

Speaker 5 (55:48):
Happened to us, But I will say I'm enjoying the
heckcut of you and Gina's new show.

Speaker 4 (55:52):
Well, thanks me too. I don't get to.

Speaker 5 (55:54):
Listen very often, but when I'm in the car going
to an appointment, Yeah, that's what I'm listening, and I
think it The show is very entertaining.

Speaker 4 (56:01):
Thanks, We're trying.

Speaker 8 (56:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (56:03):
Somebody asked on.

Speaker 5 (56:03):
The text line is there a way to download Rosskominsky
and Genius podcast after the show?

Speaker 4 (56:07):
How do they do that?

Speaker 10 (56:08):
Ross just go to Rosskominski dot com, or you go
to a Kacolorado dot com and find the podcast page.

Speaker 4 (56:13):
Look for the podcast page.

Speaker 5 (56:14):
I go up after the show is over, just like
mine does, so you can find it there every single day. Now,
Ross came in for a very special reason. So today,
as I pull up in the parking lot full of
four cars and I'm getting out of my car, I
look over and there's one mister Chad Bauer getting in
his car and he said, have you heard the bad news?

Speaker 4 (56:35):
And I said, what's that?

Speaker 8 (56:36):
Chat?

Speaker 5 (56:37):
And trust me, when someone in iHeart media says at
the end of the year, have you heard the bad news,
it's usually really bad. So I kind of steeled myself
for a moment. I was like, what's the bad news?
He goes, I'm going to be your newsman starting Monday,
and I was like, what's the bad news chat? And
he said, well, there's no bad news then.

Speaker 4 (56:54):
But the first thing I said is does this mean
I could probably negotiate with Ross toy of?

Speaker 5 (57:01):
And now you know a great radio segment involving Chad
Bauer where Chad teaches us about some inane fact that
none of us actually know until Chad teaches it about it,
but it's Ross's bit. But now it's inconvenient, right, Like
it's gonna be hard because he's not he's not working
your shift anymore.

Speaker 4 (57:19):
So what do we need to do, Like, let's talk
trade here or Ross? Like you can't have of the
day that's got the franchise tag, right it does it?
Definitely does you have name not to franchise tag, So
we can't there's that cannot be on the table.

Speaker 8 (57:31):
See.

Speaker 10 (57:31):
So what this reminds me of a little bit is
more like a European soccer trade than an American.

Speaker 4 (57:36):
I am all familiar with American European soccer trades.

Speaker 10 (57:39):
Do look like those look like one team acquiring the
rights to a player that the other team has for
an immense amount of money.

Speaker 5 (57:46):
Okay, well that's not gonna happen because we work in radio. Okay,
so let's wrap to that back a little bit.

Speaker 4 (57:51):
Let's go back there to the NFL model.

Speaker 10 (57:53):
Okay, I can't trade you a player for a player,
so this will instead be more like one of those
NFL trade where you get a player now when I
get draft picks later, or a player or a.

Speaker 5 (58:05):
Bit to be named at a later date along and
you're a bit on the Mandy Connle Show.

Speaker 4 (58:10):
If you're like, oh, yes, I'll.

Speaker 10 (58:11):
Take that, I don't think you want to give me
that level of power to say I'm going to take
a bit from you if you do a bit that
I love it all.

Speaker 5 (58:19):
Honesty, though, Ross I am so my attention span is
so short with radio bits.

Speaker 4 (58:25):
There's a good chance that if you heard a bit
on this show, which I.

Speaker 5 (58:28):
Haven't really done a lot of bits lately, although I
have some brewing for the new year, Yeah, it'll be
the only time that I'm going to do it, so
you may as well just take it, you know.

Speaker 8 (58:36):
Make it.

Speaker 4 (58:37):
That's a thing. The other thing I need to figure
out is what's Keenan good at?

Speaker 10 (58:42):
Right, So we're Keenan is going to be my main
news guy now I believe that's right, yes, And I
need to know what Keenan is good. I know he's
very good at sports, but I don't think that's quite
got the vibe of well, now you know, and don't
forget when you do well, now you know at.

Speaker 4 (58:58):
The end, you got to put your thing like that.
But I do it in my car beginning.

Speaker 5 (59:03):
I do it, but only goes up to hear because
of the car. The car, because I don't open the
sun roof just to do that. Maybe I'll start when
the weather the weather is nice, so let's talk. So
I get Shad and so now you know, you get
Keenan and.

Speaker 4 (59:18):
A bit to be named later, to be named later, okay,
you know.

Speaker 10 (59:22):
Just to be clear, Mandy and I are not involved
in the decision as to who we get for our news.

Speaker 4 (59:28):
No, we just have to negotiate after the fact.

Speaker 5 (59:30):
We have to see what this is, what happened in
the draft, and this is where the you know, the
chips are where they may be.

Speaker 8 (59:37):
I am.

Speaker 4 (59:37):
I am happy with my chip. I believe you are
as well.

Speaker 3 (59:39):
I am.

Speaker 10 (59:40):
I'm tempted to trade you for food because you're a
good cook and a good baker and a good all
this stuff.

Speaker 4 (59:46):
Do you want to throw in a bit to be
named later and some sort of baked good yeah? Do
you want to bake.

Speaker 2 (59:53):
A quarterly?

Speaker 4 (59:55):
A quarterly bakes the one year of quarterly baked goods?

Speaker 3 (59:58):
Right?

Speaker 4 (59:59):
Okay, to remind me, because I'll forget, I'll remind you.
And and a bit to be named later and a
bit to be named later.

Speaker 5 (01:00:04):
Yeah, so I think that I think that's a satisfactory exchange.

Speaker 4 (01:00:07):
Are you okay with that?

Speaker 5 (01:00:08):
And now now the other part is like do you
remain do do I get the full rights or do
we have to make it Ross Kaminski's And now you know, kind.

Speaker 4 (01:00:18):
Of like it would be like Ruth Chris Steakhouse.

Speaker 5 (01:00:21):
You know why it's called Ruth Chris because she bought
Chris Steakhouse and put her name on the front Ruth's
Chris Steakhouse. Do I have to make it Ross Kaminski
And now you know, because then it would be Mandy
Coddles Ros Kaminsky's.

Speaker 4 (01:00:32):
And now you know, right, so no, my name is
my name does not need to be on it.

Speaker 10 (01:00:37):
What I do want to retain, okay, is the right
to have a well, now you know, segment on my
own show if on some occasion Chad happens to work
an early shift.

Speaker 5 (01:00:49):
Okay, I will accept those terms. That is the That
is fine, That is that is fine, Okay, I believe
that will work.

Speaker 4 (01:00:57):
All right. Do I need to do a memorandum of understanding,
We'll do an MoU Can I tell.

Speaker 10 (01:01:01):
You something, So, when I lived in Amsterdam many years ago,
there was a double volume set, a really beautiful two
book set of tribal arts which I used to collect.

Speaker 4 (01:01:12):
So it's one of these, you know, like a coffee
table book for his two books in one and and
and I was telling a friend of mine, I really
like that book is kind of expensive. I really like it.

Speaker 10 (01:01:24):
And and he he said, well, you know what would
you what would you trade for it? And you know,
like for him to buy the book for me. And
I said, well, he's kind of a religious guy.

Speaker 4 (01:01:38):
Yeah. And I said, well, I'll I'll sell you my
soul for it. Stop it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
So we did that, and we did.

Speaker 10 (01:01:49):
I did a contract. I did a whole contract. We
had our Dutch girlfriends, we each had a Dutch girlfriend
at the time, witness it. We like put a little
pin in ours and did thumb prints in blood. Sure,
And so I sold my soul and he bought me
that book. And then later some years later, when I
got married, he gave me back my soul as a
wedding present.

Speaker 5 (01:02:09):
You're a lucky guy. I mean, you don't know it
did work out that way for Robert Johnson.

Speaker 4 (01:02:13):
I'm just saying.

Speaker 10 (01:02:14):
So, I'm just saying, you and I could do a
contract with witnesses and thumb prints in blood.

Speaker 1 (01:02:19):
But it doesn't.

Speaker 5 (01:02:21):
I'm I'm not going to make myself bleed just to
do this. If that's if that's the term, I don't need.

Speaker 4 (01:02:27):
I don't need that. A witness is fine.

Speaker 5 (01:02:30):
Okay. I feel like we've got some witnesses. We've got
plenty of cass available for this.

Speaker 4 (01:02:35):
Okay, so let's let's get this straight. Quarterly baked good.
I have to remind you.

Speaker 8 (01:02:40):
I can.

Speaker 4 (01:02:41):
I can have a well now you know, segment.

Speaker 10 (01:02:43):
On my show if Chad happens to be like someone's
on vacation and Chad takes an early shift. Yes, you
do not need to attach my name to it anywhere,
and I have, yes, but that's more of a thing
just for the bit.

Speaker 2 (01:02:59):
That's not something you have to do for me.

Speaker 4 (01:03:00):
You would be letting down the bit and letting down chat.
You didn't do the favre. So there we go. So
now I like it.

Speaker 5 (01:03:06):
I like the way this is shaping up. Okay, what
day do you normally schedule this? I don't want to
make things too crazy. I want to keep it somewhat consistent.

Speaker 10 (01:03:13):
Yeah, I mean we've been inconsistent. It's usually a Wednesday
or a Thursday.

Speaker 4 (01:03:17):
So it's consistency. Is it's inconsistency? Is that what you're
telling me? That could be? It suits my life is whatever?
Does Chad usually come to you and say I got something?

Speaker 8 (01:03:27):
No?

Speaker 10 (01:03:27):
I usually go to him and because because we haven't
done it every week, but I think it would be
better if you did it every week. It's a fair
amount of work for him because he does a lot
of research and he finds he finds the concept right.
And like the last one was all these ancient jobs
that don't exist anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:03:43):
Very entertaining, very entertaining. You know, nobody wonders what happened
to the.

Speaker 5 (01:03:46):
Wagon wheel maker when we're talking about stuff like jobs
being you know, going away.

Speaker 4 (01:03:51):
But but the stool, the groom of the stool, right,
that one still is a little bit. Yeah, the guy
that was in charge.

Speaker 8 (01:04:01):
What was that?

Speaker 4 (01:04:02):
Was that the wiper of the king's body.

Speaker 10 (01:04:03):
You don't want the body dumped out the chamber pot.
But it was a prestigious job because you got to
spend a bunch of time with the king.

Speaker 4 (01:04:10):
I will pass on that one. I would say, do
it weekly.

Speaker 10 (01:04:14):
If you can understand that it's a fair amount of
work for Chad, and the other thing with Chad that
it's just a thing. This is not part of the deal.
But I'll just tell you how we've done it. Is
he doesn't tell me what it's about. Oh that's he
doesn't tell me what it's about. So so usually what
will happen is he before the segment, he'll go to
the producer.

Speaker 4 (01:04:34):
He'll the producer what it's about, and.

Speaker 10 (01:04:36):
Then the producer will lead in with some music that
relates to the topic. Ah, then the well, now you
know sounder, Okay, you don't put your finger up at
the beginning.

Speaker 5 (01:04:48):
At the end, Yeah, okay, Okay, I feel like I've
got this. Now, I feel like I've got it. You
want to stick around for another segment and just chat?

Speaker 4 (01:04:54):
Yeah, just chatting with.

Speaker 5 (01:04:55):
My friend Roskaminski. January second. I'm Mandy Connell. That's Grant Smith.
We didn't want to take a vaca. We'll be right
back Ross. I've gotten a couple of text messages to
this effect, Mandy. I love that Ross and Mandy are
negotiating over something. Neither one has to do any actual
work on the fair point.

Speaker 10 (01:05:11):
Fair point, right, but I mean makes it's such a
lovely low stress negotiation exactly.

Speaker 5 (01:05:16):
Although you know, the baked goods whatever, it's fine, throw
that in. And somebody else suggested that I use lots
of lots of blue cheese, and this was baked goods
for ross that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
Made me choke.

Speaker 4 (01:05:31):
Exactly. No, I actually like blue cheese, but I am
a I am.

Speaker 5 (01:05:35):
One of the greatest experiences of my entire adult life
was when I was a flight attendant and I went
to England for the first time and we flew into Heathrow,
but we didn't lay over in London. We laid over
in Oh my gosh, a support town right there. I
can't remember the name of Birmingham, maybe Bristol, one of
those I don't know. It started with a beat. So

(01:05:56):
we go there and we go to the hotel. It's
like in the middle of the port city, so it's
not nice and there's nothing. Bristol is where it was,
and there's nothing to do there except there was a
cheese store right next to the hotel. And I went
into the cheese store and I had I'm American, right,
And this is back in the early nineties. Cheese wasn't
really a thing here, like like it's always been in Europe.

(01:06:18):
I walk into the cheese store and it was like
angels were singing when I walked in. It was the
most amazing thing, and I must have looked a little
gobsmacked in The women behind the counter.

Speaker 4 (01:06:26):
Goes, oh, Love, you must be American to not have
ever seen this much cheese in one location, and I
was like, I haven't. It's beautiful.

Speaker 5 (01:06:37):
Rashie gave me a sample of pretty much everything in
the store. I was so sick from eating cheese. I
can't even begin to tell you how sick I was
from eating cheese. I tried everything. I took back like
five kinds of cheese that I had never seen in
my life, and I took them back into all my
roommates and I were like, it was the best experience ever.

Speaker 4 (01:06:56):
But that is cheese.

Speaker 5 (01:06:58):
I mean blue cheese, stinky cheese. Do you like camel beer?
Do you like any of those?

Speaker 10 (01:07:02):
Bear is not stinky, It's a little runny, but Kama
beer can be extremely stinky.

Speaker 4 (01:07:07):
Have you ever heard the money Python cheese shop post ketch?
Of course I have, of course you have. That's what
this reminds me of. It is I don't care how
haste anyway, no stinky cheese.

Speaker 5 (01:07:21):
By the way, I was telling my audience about the
voodoo witchcraft immunity stuff that I was taking and for
ten days I did smell of elderberries, So can you
have that going for her? I knew you would get
that reference. I knew you did roth What did you
What are you looking at? In twenty twenty six, I
asked my audience at the beginning of the hour to say, look,
if you.

Speaker 4 (01:07:41):
Have to, I use this word.

Speaker 5 (01:07:42):
It's my focus word for the year, and it just
is something that I kind of gravitate towards that I'm
looking to use as inspiration to.

Speaker 4 (01:07:50):
Be my best self. And my word this year is present.

Speaker 5 (01:07:53):
So I just want to be more present and more
mindful and see if I can slow down the world
which always feels like it is spinning out of control.
So I gave you at least a minute and a
half to think about this. And I want to know,
first of all, do you believe in any.

Speaker 7 (01:08:06):
Of that stuff?

Speaker 8 (01:08:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:08:07):
I do think you You can change your behavior for
the better if you're intentional enough about stuff. And I
don't know that I've come up with a word. I'm
going to say, I really really like yours. And part
of the reason is that I find myself multitasking way
too much, and to the point that my lovely bride, Kristen,

(01:08:27):
has said, Ross, you're doing too many things at one time.

Speaker 4 (01:08:30):
You need to stop. Like I'll be watching a TV
show with her and I'll be holding my phone.

Speaker 10 (01:08:34):
And doing something and she said, put that down, just
be here now, which is what you're talking about with
your word.

Speaker 8 (01:08:40):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:08:41):
And I need to do that more.

Speaker 10 (01:08:43):
It's somewhere between being more present and finding a way
to relax a little bit.

Speaker 4 (01:08:50):
I'm not very good at either.

Speaker 5 (01:08:52):
I've realized that for me, speaking specifically of relaxing and
you're talking about doing, I always have my phone in
my hand when I'm watching TV, like I'm watching football.

Speaker 4 (01:09:00):
Grant and I were talking about.

Speaker 5 (01:09:01):
We watched all the college bowl games yesterday and some
of them were fantastic, But the whole time, I have
my phone in my hand and I'm either playing a game.

Speaker 4 (01:09:09):
I'm literally playing a game.

Speaker 5 (01:09:10):
I'm watching the play, and then when the play is over,
I'm playing the game me too. Same thing that your brain,
our brain's I think we're damaging our ability to do
the kind of deep thinking that really, honestly, our culture.

Speaker 4 (01:09:24):
Needs right now.

Speaker 10 (01:09:25):
I think that kind of behavior will lead old people
like you and me to have the kind of attention
deficit problems that my seventeen year old has because he
spends so much time online and on his phone. I think,
I think, I don't want to go any further that way,
and I want to take my wife's advice and put
the phone away.

Speaker 4 (01:09:45):
And did you just say you want to listen to
your wife? I do. She's right a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:09:48):
She's right more than I am, as you know.

Speaker 4 (01:09:50):
Yes, she's smarter than I am. Yeah, I don't even
know why you're She chose you, but there you are.
You married up over.

Speaker 5 (01:09:57):
Lucky Mandy, welcome back and nice to year ross with you.
But isn't this past his new bedtime? What is your
new bedtime?

Speaker 8 (01:10:02):
Now? Do you nap?

Speaker 4 (01:10:03):
Are you an apper?

Speaker 10 (01:10:04):
I'm not an apper, And I usually go to sleep
around nine thirty or nine forty five and I usually
get up around four thirty or something like that.

Speaker 4 (01:10:13):
Pretty manageable.

Speaker 8 (01:10:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:10:14):
I had to set my alarm this morning for six,
and I was like, oh.

Speaker 10 (01:10:17):
Man, I woke up at six this morning, and I
was jumping for joy I cannot remember the last time
I slept that late.

Speaker 7 (01:10:24):
Slap that late.

Speaker 4 (01:10:26):
I slept till like seven thirty or eight. That's a
fantastic I know, it's miracle.

Speaker 2 (01:10:31):
I know.

Speaker 5 (01:10:31):
You want to stick around, do like news stuff in
the next or do you want to go do something
because you have to day?

Speaker 4 (01:10:35):
Hang out?

Speaker 1 (01:10:36):
Yay?

Speaker 4 (01:10:37):
Ross ruins the show. More of that coming up next.

Speaker 1 (01:10:41):
The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock
Accident and injury Lawyers.

Speaker 2 (01:10:46):
No, it's Mandy Connell. Mayn koam ninety.

Speaker 1 (01:10:54):
One am god.

Speaker 3 (01:10:59):
Can say conal.

Speaker 2 (01:11:05):
Sad bab Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to.

Speaker 4 (01:11:09):
A Friday edition of the show. And it's a very
today on a very special edition of The Mandy Connell Show.
Rosskaminski ruins the show. Ruins it, I tell you, ruins it.

Speaker 5 (01:11:20):
No, Ross, you had the day off but decided to
come in and hang out with me anyway, which is
so great. Let's talk about some news and stuff because
there has been some things of note in the couple
of weeks that I've been off. I don't know how
long you've been off, but a lot of stuff is
starting to brew right now in Colorado. The governor's race
is about to heat up. I would say we're at

(01:11:41):
that point now where people are going to want to
start talking about it. We've got to figure this out
by June. And it's been fascinating to me, and not
in a good way.

Speaker 4 (01:11:51):
I just want to be clear.

Speaker 5 (01:11:51):
Fascinating to me to watch how little Colorado Republicans seem
to have learned from prior elections. And we're gearing up
now to have another Tina Peters, conspiracy theorist in the race.
We've got Victor Marx, the Man of Mystery. I mean,
I what are you thinking about this now? I think
we're both sort of in agreement that it's going to

(01:12:14):
take it's going to be a herculean task for a
Republican to win in the state realistically.

Speaker 10 (01:12:20):
Yeah, I mean next year, I think the odds of
a Republican winning or one percent, Yeah, that might be
a little Jim might be a high.

Speaker 2 (01:12:28):
Little Jim might be a little high.

Speaker 8 (01:12:30):
You know.

Speaker 10 (01:12:30):
For me, just backing away from the Republicans for a second,
I think it's going to be interesting that there there's
gonna be fascinating primaries to watch on both sides, which
is not always the case. We're gonna have an open seat.
I mean, it's really only two real players on the
Democratic side.

Speaker 4 (01:12:45):
But that's going to be a really interesting fight, you know.

Speaker 10 (01:12:48):
And you would think that Bennett would have the advantage,
but I think Wiser is doing a little better with
the ground game.

Speaker 5 (01:12:54):
Wiser has been really masterful in using his office to
file lawsuits against the Trump administration to get his name
in the news absolute and over and over and over
and over and over again. And the only way Michael
Bennett pushes back against that is like, do you push
back and say.

Speaker 4 (01:13:11):
Well, how much are you actually doing for the people
of Colorado? How much?

Speaker 5 (01:13:15):
And whoever the eventual Democratic nominee will be, they should
be forced to answer specific questions about the issues in
Colorado that don't have anything to do with Donald Trump,
which I think for most Colorado's are far more important,
significant and matter more. But on the Republican side, I

(01:13:37):
already see this evolving into just nonsense.

Speaker 10 (01:13:41):
I mean, I think the only sort of the only
candidate who's sort of normal and credible is Barb Kirkmeyer
right there. I think Mark Beasley is basically a normal,
normal person.

Speaker 5 (01:13:53):
I was actually gonna say Mark's name as a reasonable
person who can speak fully and eloquently on the issues
in Colorado.

Speaker 4 (01:14:02):
Barbera can do the exact same thing.

Speaker 10 (01:14:04):
Yeah, I think he's an engineer or aerospace guy. Yeah,
he's a serious guy. But I just don't know that
he's I don't know if.

Speaker 5 (01:14:10):
He hasn't any name recognition at all. And though I
don't think Barb's name recognition is tremendous, I think it's
better than Marx. Yeah, And you know, when you get
down to the nitty gritty name, I d matters way
more than people think it does.

Speaker 4 (01:14:24):
It really does, for sure.

Speaker 10 (01:14:25):
And then you've got Scott Bottoms, who's unelectable, unelectable, and
Victor Marx and called a man of man of mystery,
which I think is kind. He's he's a very interesting cat.
He's like the guy you'd want to have a beer with. Yeah,
but that doesn't mean but here's here's the thing. And
you're probably more in touch with this grassroots stuff than

(01:14:48):
I am. Is it possible that the current state of
the Republican Party is so fringy right now and nominated
by you know, Tina Peters lovers that they would nominate
Victor Marx?

Speaker 4 (01:15:06):
He he wants us to think so well. And now
enter Joel Joe Oltman to the chat. Joe Oltman, who
is out of all of the unelectable candidate.

Speaker 5 (01:15:17):
And when I say unelectable, I don't mean in the Republican.

Speaker 4 (01:15:19):
College did running for governor.

Speaker 5 (01:15:21):
Oh I don't know if he's officially announced. I saw
like a tease or something. But here's the thing. Tina
Peters is the albatross around the Republican Party's neck that
they have voluntarily taken up and put around it.

Speaker 4 (01:15:34):
Right, they have voluntarily.

Speaker 5 (01:15:36):
Decided to make Tina Peters and whether or not you
would be you would pardon Tina Peters as some kind
of litmus test for these candidates, when in reality, the
forty nine percent of Independence that are going to be
critical to any winning coalition don't give a crap about
Tina Peters. They don't give a crap that she's in prison,

(01:15:56):
they don't give a crap if she gets out, and
they're they're gonna use who is that. That's going to
be the thing that the Democrats will be handed on
a silver platter to say, these Republicans don't even care
about the rule of law, and they've got a point
they do.

Speaker 2 (01:16:09):
I'll add one thing to that.

Speaker 10 (01:16:11):
In Colorado, more than in most places, elections in recent
years have been about Donald Trump, including in off years.

Speaker 8 (01:16:19):
Yep.

Speaker 10 (01:16:19):
And you remember the off year election in twenty eighteen
where Republicans got destroyed. It was an absolute blue wave.
And you know, one election that comes to my mind
was the election for a Rapahoe County sheriff. And the
guy who was the incumbent whose name escapes me at
the time, but a highly respected Republican but not firebrand,

(01:16:40):
just a very very well respected lawman, been in the
job thirty years. Just everybody had good things to say
about him, lost to a Democrat.

Speaker 4 (01:16:51):
With no important law enforce law enforcement experience.

Speaker 10 (01:16:55):
And I will say Tyler Brown has done a great
job since he won that election. I actually voted for
him in his re election, but it was at that
time it was just if you had an R by
your name, you lost in any election that had any
chance of potentially being closed.

Speaker 4 (01:17:12):
And I that's why I.

Speaker 10 (01:17:14):
Think Dems are going to keep trying to nationalize the
election and.

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
Then to tie it to what you're talking about.

Speaker 10 (01:17:23):
Trump is making this easier because he keeps talking about Tina.

Speaker 5 (01:17:27):
Peters now and now he's killed a water project for
southeast Colorado in retribution, and.

Speaker 4 (01:17:32):
I know Lauren Bolbert was mad.

Speaker 8 (01:17:34):
I read the.

Speaker 5 (01:17:35):
Veto's statement, and I do think he has a point
about local water projects being paid for by the federal government.

Speaker 4 (01:17:41):
But if you're only vetoing this.

Speaker 5 (01:17:44):
One, it gets hard to argue that it's fiscal responsibility
when all of these I guarantee you there's a bunch
of other local stuff that is being paid for. So
the reality is is now that is going to be
used to hang that around the Republican Party. And I've
got to I got to take a quick time out,
but I want to share this. This is from a
comment from a column about the Democratic National Committee doing
a post mortem on twenty twenty four and all of

(01:18:06):
this research they're doing, and I just want to share
this is from the head of the DNC. He said
this quote, here's our north star. Does this help us win?
If the answer is no, it's a distraction from the
core mission. That's what I'd like to see Republicans adopt
that standard.

Speaker 4 (01:18:21):
Does it help us win?

Speaker 8 (01:18:23):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:18:23):
Then put it off to the side, period and don't
talk about it. I don't want to hear about Tina Peters.
She is not going to help you win a single
race in Colorado.

Speaker 2 (01:18:33):
I'll just one quick thing. I know, we got to
hit a break.

Speaker 10 (01:18:35):
When you get into in a state like Colorado, like Oregon,
like Washington, very very democratic states where Republicans can't win much,
the Republican Party tends to end up being dominated by
the fringy coochs because the rational people have better things
to do with their time. And I fear that we

(01:18:57):
are drifting in that direction, or maybe we're already there.

Speaker 4 (01:19:00):
Well, let's take who.

Speaker 5 (01:19:01):
Quick time out text to us your thoughts five sixty
six nine.

Speaker 4 (01:19:04):
Er or give us you know a shoot, nope, no
or not? Five six six nine?

Speaker 8 (01:19:08):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:19:08):
Ross, and I back after this, Rosskominsky, who's just hanging
out with me today? I am really at at a
loss as a talk show host when it comes to
how to talk about some of the idiotic crap that
Donald Trump does. Well, let's see how we say that
exactly exactly a fabulous sound bite. He was trying to say,

(01:19:31):
a set of menifhin by the way, that's the word
he was slaughtering right there.

Speaker 4 (01:19:35):
And I don't you know, I should say this. I
don't think Donald Trump slaughters a lot of words.

Speaker 5 (01:19:39):
He's not exactly a wordsmith, Like his words are almost
like Doctor Seuss like in their simplicity, but he doesn't
mangle words.

Speaker 4 (01:19:47):
And that was the seed of Minifin.

Speaker 5 (01:19:48):
But my frustration is this, It's like every day I
see another story, like he tweeted out a nasty grant
at Governor Polis and the Republican Daho prosecuted Tina Peters, right,
and people are like, did you see this?

Speaker 4 (01:20:02):
And I'm like, yeah, I did, I did.

Speaker 5 (01:20:05):
What do you want me to say that he's he's
he's a small man who cannot let anything go with
any grace and dignity. What do you want me to
say about it? Like I I don't even want to
address it because it's just so insanely, ridiculously juvenile and
embarrassing that it's the president of the United States.

Speaker 10 (01:20:26):
First, let me just say my favorite Trump mispronunciation was
yo semite.

Speaker 4 (01:20:32):
Do you remember that one?

Speaker 2 (01:20:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:20:35):
Yeah, he did, he did. He said yo semite.

Speaker 8 (01:20:38):
I thought he was talking to me.

Speaker 4 (01:20:40):
I thought he was talking to me anyway.

Speaker 10 (01:20:44):
Look, so it's difficult with Trump to but you have
to separate actual policy from his behavior, and you it's
really important to separate them. So we're talking about two
different things in the sense, Okay, policy see's going to
affect your life, mispronouncing a word or even some of
his other vanity projects are not going to affect your

(01:21:05):
life very much.

Speaker 4 (01:21:06):
But people are going to vote based on both exactly.

Speaker 5 (01:21:09):
I honestly think Trump inspires less rational decision making.

Speaker 4 (01:21:14):
When it comes to voting.

Speaker 5 (01:21:15):
I think that people have people have such a passionate,
I agree, passionate response to the man that they're not
voting on policy.

Speaker 4 (01:21:22):
Now, if I were purely voting on.

Speaker 5 (01:21:23):
Policy, I would sit here all day and I would
have good things to say. I mean, I saw stat
this morning that blew my mind. But when you think
about it, there probably is a connection. Did you realize
that from twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five, and
although twenty twenty five numbers are not in yet because
overdose deaths are a lagging indicator because it takes so

(01:21:46):
long to do the toxicology, so we don't know the
total number of overdose deaths, but between twenty twenty four
and twenty twenty five they plummeted.

Speaker 4 (01:21:54):
I mean, really, plummeted, and.

Speaker 5 (01:21:55):
You've got Trump, who's policy on Venezuela. I have been
fascinated by because because unlike other people in governments, they,
you know, trying to negotiate with Nicholas Maduro, who's a
dictator and a horrible person. And he says, Okay, how's
this guy making his money. He's making it running drugs,
and he's making it sell a black market oil.

Speaker 4 (01:22:14):
So what does Trump do?

Speaker 5 (01:22:15):
He starts blowing up drug boats, he starts taking oil tanker.
Who takes an oil tanker?

Speaker 4 (01:22:20):
Ross from a foreign policy perspective, dude is a.

Speaker 5 (01:22:24):
Stone cold baller, And I gotta tell you I'm here
for it. I like both of those moves because you
know what, not one American soldier died in that.

Speaker 4 (01:22:31):
And now Maduro's like, hey, Trump, call me gotta talk.

Speaker 10 (01:22:35):
So I don't want to sound too precious here, but
does it matter to you if that stuff is legal.

Speaker 5 (01:22:41):
I've had a lot of struggles with as being extra judicious,
but I do think that the administration has plausible deniability
by designating these drug cartels as terror organizations. And when
you look at the level of mass destruction perpetrated by
drug cartels, not just here in the United States, but

(01:23:01):
in the mass murders in Mexico, you know, the kind
of devastation through Central and South America. I think that's
a legitimate point. And when you're dealing with terrorist a
different set of rules apply. And I you know, I'm
am I one hundred percent on board.

Speaker 4 (01:23:17):
No, I am not. But could I make the argument
somewhat compellingly that that we can do this. I could
probably do that too.

Speaker 10 (01:23:25):
The drug thing is interesting, and I'm not I'm not
expert on this, and it's been a while since I
did heroin.

Speaker 5 (01:23:30):
But the funniest part is ross is like the straightest
edge of the straight edge will have bourbon and that's it,
and only one usually sometimes a bell just you know,
if he's feeling it.

Speaker 4 (01:23:39):
Why.

Speaker 10 (01:23:40):
But my understanding is that not a lot of drugs
come to the US from Venezuela. They're mostly supplying Europe.
And also not much ventanyl comes from Venezuela. Our real
drug problem is Mexico, right, And it would be interesting
to see if Trump started, you know, taking out cartel
locations in Mexico.

Speaker 5 (01:24:00):
But this, for me, the stuff that's happening in Venezuela,
the blowing up of drug boats and the blowing up
of the port that the drug boats were using, like
he freaking blew up a port in Venezuela. It definitely
sends a message to the cartels that we are now
on different footing, and maybe that makes it easier for Mexico,
which is so rife with corruption. The entire country is

(01:24:21):
bought and paid for by the cartels, and these people
are living in grinding poverty.

Speaker 4 (01:24:25):
So I'm not going to sit in judgment of a
poor farmer who says, yes, I'll cooperate so you don't
murder my family.

Speaker 10 (01:24:31):
And then the mayor who stands up against them literally
finds his head on a spike.

Speaker 4 (01:24:35):
Somewhat exactly so.

Speaker 5 (01:24:37):
But I think it does put us on a different footing.
I think the war on drugs, as we've been fighting
it has been a colossal failure.

Speaker 10 (01:24:42):
Maybe we should legalize more stuff so that there isn't
so much profit in it, so that the cartels don't
have to kill so many people protecting you.

Speaker 5 (01:24:50):
We believed that until I saw what legalization of pot
has done to Denver. And I think that when you're
talking about drugs, especially highly addictive drugs like meth and
heroin and the stuff that that supplants your ability to
reason as a human being.

Speaker 4 (01:25:05):
What about cocaine, which I've never done and I don't
know that much about it. You know what, We'll talk
about that after this, as far as you now.

Speaker 5 (01:25:12):
Right before the break, if we were talking about legalization
and legalization of drugs, and for the longest time I
was pro legalization, but seeing what has happened here in
Colorado has really given me pause for a couple of
different reasons. Number One, after having an opportunity to talk
to so many recovering addicts, at this point, I feel
like I have a much better understanding of addiction than

(01:25:33):
I did years ago. And I think that when we're
talking about substances that supplant someone's ability to make reasonable
decisions for their own welfare, then they have to be
treated slightly differently. Plus, unless we were going to say, look,
we're gonna legalize everything, We're gonna put the cartels out
of business. You're gonna be able to go to a

(01:25:53):
state store, You're gonna be able to buy whatever drugs
you want. But we are not going to tolerate a
single quality of life crime that is going to affect
one other person because of your addiction. No open drug use,
no open drug dealing. No, if you get caught using
drugs in public, then you're going to jail. I mean,
it has to be that kind of draconian protection of
the rest of society before I would be comfortable with

(01:26:17):
giving a bunch of people whose brains are going to
be addled by addiction and they're not going to be
able to make good decisions, and that's going to have
a negative impact on me, property values, my children, all
of that stuff that we've seen in Colorado.

Speaker 4 (01:26:28):
So you've got to mitigate. You got to protect everybody
else Before.

Speaker 5 (01:26:32):
I would say, yes, the freedom there should exist because
to your point about libertarianism, we both said it a
million times. Your right to freedom, you know, your right
to the real punch ends at my nose right. So
you have to figure out how to strike that balance.
And I think we've done a really bad job in
Colorado doing that.

Speaker 10 (01:26:49):
Okay, there was a lot there, so first just on marijuana,
which is not really what we're talking about, but I
do think Colorado got the worst of that because we
were first and Washington State was soon after us.

Speaker 2 (01:27:04):
But a lot of people came here.

Speaker 10 (01:27:06):
Yeah, and if it had been legalized nationally all everywhere
or lots of places at the same time, we wouldn't
have gotten it as bad. But I share your view,
and I would love to see a situation where these
quality of life things are not allowed to happen, But
especially in blue cities, they're not going to clamp.

Speaker 2 (01:27:25):
Down that much. They clamp down a little.

Speaker 4 (01:27:28):
So then my question would be so two part question.

Speaker 10 (01:27:32):
Do you think that if some of these drugs were
legal that measurably more people would use them and become addicts?
Or are people who would do that already getting the
drugs whether they're legal or not. So it's not clear
to me that if heroin were legal that there would
be a lot more heroin users.

Speaker 4 (01:27:49):
Well, I think that I do think that.

Speaker 5 (01:27:52):
You know, the notion that marijuana is a gateway drug
is true in the sense that when you're dealing with
an illegal drug dealer, you're more likely to be offered
illegal drugs that go beyond pot. Right, So if you're
going to your friendly pot dealer and he also says, hey,
I got these oxy you do you want to try this,
then you're talking about that being a gateway drug right,
I do believe that is a pipeline to greater use.

(01:28:13):
So if you streamlined it to your point, maybe you
wouldn't have to worry about that. My issue is that
at some point we create or allow say I hate
to say allowed to be created, because that just flies
in the face of my belief that you should be
able to make bad decisions. My issue in the United
States overall is that we've created an environment where we
are subsidizing people's bad decision making. No doubt, like back

(01:28:36):
in the day, when you know, when somebody was a
drunk and they were sleeping on the street, there wasn't
an entire welfare infrastructure that was going to protect them
from the consequences of their bad decision making.

Speaker 10 (01:28:48):
Okay, two things, So first, even if there would be
more addicts if we legalized, maybe.

Speaker 2 (01:28:56):
It would be worth it.

Speaker 10 (01:28:57):
Just as an example, if you would go to a
government store buy whatever it is you're gonna buy, there's
not gonna be fentanyl in it, so you're not going
to have all these thousands and thousands of people dying
from poisoned drugs.

Speaker 2 (01:29:07):
That might be worth it, And.

Speaker 10 (01:29:08):
Then you would nearly eliminate the reason for these cartels
to exist and committed as auch as much violence as
they do to protect their profits, the same way that
al Capone committed all kinds of crimes and all these
during prohibition, Because this is just prohibition, but with a
different right, with a different substance. So I think that's,
you know, it's gonna be. It would be a hard

(01:29:31):
trade off for a lot of people to agree to,
but I think it's I think it's worth considering.

Speaker 5 (01:29:34):
I think we've also demonstrated that we've been unable to
shut down the black market.

Speaker 4 (01:29:38):
Yeah, and that was a sort of a promise made like, oh, we're.

Speaker 5 (01:29:42):
Going to be able to shut down the black market,
and we're going to be able to reinvest that money
in fighting other crime. Remember all these things we're part
of Amendmum sixty four. And the reality has.

Speaker 4 (01:29:50):
Been much different. And I don't know how thriving the.

Speaker 5 (01:29:55):
Weed black market still is in Colorado, but has it
merely been replaced by a f and old heroin in
meth market.

Speaker 4 (01:30:01):
So again I'm not expert. My understanding is two things.

Speaker 10 (01:30:04):
There's definitely a black market in Colorado, although a lot
of it is actually two supply marijuana to states where
it's not legal, but still even here in Colorado they
legalize it, but the regulations are so high and the
taxes two are so high, and then because it's still
Schedule one, you can't get all these tax deductions, so

(01:30:25):
they have to pay a much much higher tax rate.
So they've set up an economic system around the legal
stuff that makes the illegal stuff have a huge economic advantage,
and you probably sell.

Speaker 4 (01:30:35):
It at half the price or something. I'm not expert, you.

Speaker 5 (01:30:37):
Know, but I do think that people at this text
said ross, if cocaine were illegal, I would still give
it a try, and I'm pretty sure that's a bad idea.
I'm a recovering alcoholic, so I could be blindsided by
the addiction of a different drug.

Speaker 4 (01:30:49):
I will tell you this. I know of people that
never dealt.

Speaker 5 (01:30:53):
With any kind of marijuana in their entire lives, but
they have tried it just since it's become legal for
the first time. These are people in their fifties, in
their sixties, in their seventies who've never tried this stuff before,
and now they're using it on a regular basis instead of.

Speaker 10 (01:31:06):
Alcohol, which to me is all right, but it's not
the same as saying you're going to try heroin.

Speaker 4 (01:31:11):
Let me let me ask you a question.

Speaker 10 (01:31:12):
Should it be illegal to ride a motorcycle without a
helmet on?

Speaker 8 (01:31:17):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:31:18):
I don't.

Speaker 5 (01:31:19):
And ultimately that that single individual is going to be
the person that's going to pay the most significant price.

Speaker 4 (01:31:25):
Yeah, we'll all pay a price when they especially if
they're uninsured. But they go to the hospital whatever they.

Speaker 10 (01:31:30):
Passive medical bills, and then our insurance premiums go up.

Speaker 5 (01:31:33):
I'm more in favor of forcing them to have a
million dollar blanket im blanket policy, like you have to
carry a higher liability policy because you are engaging in
a higher liability activity.

Speaker 8 (01:31:43):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:31:44):
I think there's an analog for that, which I don't know.
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:31:48):
Anyway, let's get when we're in before we run out
of showide, Chuck and I will be Yeah, somebody asked
earlier if Ross is going to be holding the parabolic
mic on Sunday. He will be on one side and
Chuck will be on the other, looks for the big
man in the big vest, and he will be He's
so excited.

Speaker 4 (01:32:03):
He loves doing this.

Speaker 8 (01:32:04):
Me too.

Speaker 5 (01:32:05):
He's told me like five times in the past two days.
Remember I'm not going to be here on Sunday. I'm
gonna beat the Broncos game. Right, Yes, you're looking for
is Chuck is huge.

Speaker 10 (01:32:12):
I look like mini me when I'm standing next to Chuck,
And most likely I will be on the Chargers sideline
in the first half, in the Broncos sideline in the
second half, and Chuck will be on the Broncos in
the first half and the Chargers in second half.

Speaker 5 (01:32:27):
There you go, so you can look for them at
the game. I want to talk to you about zoron Mamdanni. Okay,
did you watch his speech?

Speaker 2 (01:32:33):
I caught ten minutes.

Speaker 5 (01:32:34):
So if people want to understand why socialism is appealing,
you need to go watch mum Donnie's acceptance speech.

Speaker 4 (01:32:43):
I put it on the blog today. It's like twenty
minutes long. It's not long.

Speaker 5 (01:32:47):
This guy is the future of democratic politics. I'm just
going to tell you that right now. He is incredibly,
incredibly engaging. He has great charisma, he's a good looking guy,
and boy can he spin yarn of crap about what
socialism actually is.

Speaker 4 (01:33:03):
He's like AOC with a brain.

Speaker 10 (01:33:04):
Oh god, yes, right, So yeah, he's good looking, he's smart,
he's charismatic and he's wrong about everything, but most people are.
I'm just gonna kind of sit back and watch, right,
I know what I can complain about in advance. He's
gonna do this. I'll think it's a bad idea, I'll
think it won't work. But really, I think the thing
to do is talk about it briefly when he says something,

(01:33:25):
and then just say we're gonna keep an eye on it.
We're gonna see how it plays out, which is kind
of like you got to do with Trump, right, you
just can't.

Speaker 8 (01:33:33):
Well, here's the other thing.

Speaker 4 (01:33:35):
I don't know whether I want him to succeed or fail. Okay,
that's where I.

Speaker 5 (01:33:38):
Was going with my next thing here, because he said
in his speech, listen to this sentence. We will replace
the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collective.

Speaker 4 (01:33:48):
So one of three things is going to go down here.

Speaker 5 (01:33:51):
Ross number one, he's going to be completely stymied and
not be able to get any of this stuff done,
which only elevates his status in the Democratic Party because
then he it's to make the argument that socialism we.

Speaker 4 (01:34:03):
Didn't even get a chance to try it. He totally
would have worked.

Speaker 5 (01:34:06):
Or thing Number two, he will get these policies passed
and New York will go into a.

Speaker 4 (01:34:11):
Spiral pretty quickly, but not quickly enough. And that leads
me to number three.

Speaker 5 (01:34:16):
He'll be successful on some of these things short term,
which will spring up a bunch of mushroom like candidates
all over the country. So we're going to run on
the exact same platform, and the platform, to be clear,
is life is too hard by yourself. Governments should be
there to help you. That is the entire platform of
Ziroon Mamdani. But if you don't think this guy won't

(01:34:37):
be a candidate for president someday and it could be soon,
you really aren't paying attention.

Speaker 2 (01:34:42):
I don't think he's eligible.

Speaker 4 (01:34:45):
Oh he was born in Oh that's great. He was
born in the United States to parents who were not Americans.

Speaker 2 (01:34:51):
He admits it.

Speaker 10 (01:34:52):
Yeah, so I don't think I don't think he admits its. Yeah,
so I don't think he'll be I don't think he'll
be president. But he's what I really appreciate about him,
right is how open he is about it.

Speaker 4 (01:35:06):
He's said in that speech, Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:35:08):
I ran as a democratic socialist and I'm going.

Speaker 2 (01:35:10):
To governor as a democratic socialist.

Speaker 10 (01:35:12):
And you know, I've got a sister and three nieces
who live in Manhattan, and I was born in Manhattan,
and you know, I want that place to do well.
But I really want him to crash and burn, because
I actually think your scenario number three is the most
probable one.

Speaker 5 (01:35:26):
Yeah, And that's what I'm the most afraid of, is
it'll work for a little bit. Because here's the thing
about any kind of socialist policies, they work for a
little bit until they get too burdensome and people find
out they can rip off the system, as we're now
saying in Minnesota, a fraud so vast that we have
not even begun to figure that out. But I need
it to not work right away. I need it to

(01:35:48):
create a huge housing problem. I need things to fall
into disrepair immediately, because this is just going to inspire
more people like him, young people who think they have
all the answer and no offense to young people. When
I was young, I thought I had all the answers too,
And now I look back in slight horror for what
I thought, you know, was these great ideas that we had.

(01:36:08):
But this guy, he's got it all. He's the total package.
He in my mind is immediately, you know, the key
player in the Democratic Party along with AOC, which is
mind blowing to me.

Speaker 10 (01:36:20):
Imagine what it says about American politics and American politicians
that the country elects Donald Trump and New York elects
are on Mom Donnie.

Speaker 2 (01:36:30):
They're both symptoms.

Speaker 4 (01:36:32):
More than they are causes, and they.

Speaker 10 (01:36:34):
Are symptoms of a system that has worked to benefit
the system, and politicians who have worked to benefit themselves
and their biggest donors and everybody finally realizing it now.
And Trump just ran against the system, and Mom Donnie
ran against the system.

Speaker 5 (01:36:49):
But you know what's interesting about both of these And
when people talk about you know, I get these emails
like you never talking about Trump's family's corruption. The big
difference between the way Trump is operating and the way
that Joe bid and operated is that everything Trump does
is public.

Speaker 4 (01:37:04):
They're not trying to pull through. They're just doing whatever
they want blatantly.

Speaker 8 (01:37:07):
Right.

Speaker 5 (01:37:07):
The Biden family hit everything that they did. The Trump
family's just like, here's what we're doing. Here you go,
here's what's happening. So Ron, Mom Donnie is doing the
exact same thing. It's just he's doing it on the
hard left, they're doing it all the right. It's like,
at least we all can see what's happening. The big
thing I have concerns about is that when you see
people in power just running roughshod over everything in order

(01:37:30):
to achieve their perception of how the rest of us
should live, it is very disheartening to be all of those.

Speaker 4 (01:37:36):
People in the middle going, I don't want to live
like that. That's not what I don't want that.

Speaker 5 (01:37:41):
I'm super super concerned about where we are, like this
inflection point in the country in terms of what we're
seeing in Minnesota and the scale of that fraud and
the message that it's sending to already disaffected young people
that it doesn't matter how hard you work, it doesn't
matter if you do the right thing, it doesn't matter
because you should have just started a Somali daycare right

(01:38:02):
You could have made millions if you just robbed from
the system that you're paying into like a sucker.

Speaker 4 (01:38:08):
I think these are huge, huge problems, and they could
go really bad, really fast, and it's really hard to
get back morality in a country when everyone decides that
everything is immoral.

Speaker 10 (01:38:19):
It's hard to imagine that that business model and By
the way, I love Somali daycare as a generalized yeah metaphor.

Speaker 4 (01:38:28):
Already it's already there, already there a ripoff right now.

Speaker 10 (01:38:31):
Yeah, but it's it's extremely unlikely that the Somali daycare
business model hasn't been replicated everywhere, everywhere, and especially in
blue states that make it so easy to get money.
We've known for a long time here in Colorado how
much money was stolen from COVID unemployment insurance stuff, you.

Speaker 8 (01:38:49):
Know, Russ.

Speaker 5 (01:38:50):
I mean, they just found out the City of Denver
can't account for one hundred and fifty million dollars that
they spent on homelessness.

Speaker 4 (01:38:58):
They don't know where it is.

Speaker 5 (01:39:00):
They have no idea who got it, They have no
idea if it was spend effectively. Like, how in the
world are voters in Denver okay with that?

Speaker 4 (01:39:07):
How is that okay?

Speaker 5 (01:39:09):
If you lose one hundred and fifty million dollars, I'm
sure you would get a much bigger.

Speaker 4 (01:39:12):
Reaction from your wife. If I lose one hundred and
fifty milion, I mean, it would be a huge issue.
City of Denver. Oh, we can't fight. We don't know
where it is, we can't account for it. Oh, okay,
what is that?

Speaker 10 (01:39:23):
Maybe people get the government they deserve. I don't know,
and get it good in heart, get it good heart.
But in Minnesota, it'll be, first of all, will be
very interesting to see whether Tim Walls survives in the Democratic.

Speaker 4 (01:39:35):
Ridw Dude, that guy right now?

Speaker 10 (01:39:38):
Mean Rod, don't you think even Democratic voters would probably
want a jettison like.

Speaker 5 (01:39:43):
One of those things outside the car dealership with the
floppy arms and then you know, I mean, oh that guy.

Speaker 10 (01:39:50):
And then can a Republican win as governor in Minnesota? No,
I don't think they can do with this.

Speaker 4 (01:39:56):
I don't think so. Yeah, I don't think so. I mean,
Minnesota is extremely.

Speaker 5 (01:40:01):
Blue, extremely blue. So the outside of Minneapolis Saint Paul,
it's really not. It's just that urban corridor is so
many people compared to the rest of Minnesota.

Speaker 4 (01:40:14):
That's As a matter of fact, this text said he's
starting his leering center this week. Did you see they
corrected the sign?

Speaker 5 (01:40:23):
I know, yeah, nobody noticed, but now they did. They're
going to take care of it anyway. Mandy, you're killing
me on this topic. What is it that has happened
with legalizing weed that has failed? In your mind, I think,
to Ross's point earlier, we were first, and we attracted
all of these people who came here to smoke pot.
And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with you if

(01:40:44):
you want to get high or whatever. But if that's
your your sole purpose in life, what what? You're not
going to be a productive member of society. It's not
most people's sole purpose in life. And you're I'm saying
that the pot migrants that all moved here to work
in the industry rendity beginning, a lot of.

Speaker 10 (01:41:00):
Them are just like twenty six year olds who didn't
want to get a real job. They just want to
lie around on sixteenth Street mall that we can't say
mall anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:41:08):
It's just sixteenth Street. Now that'll be one hundred thousand dollars.

Speaker 10 (01:41:11):
I don't but well, they need the money. They got
to find one hundred and fifty millions. But I don't
think it's fair to say that that Denver is a
good representation of what happens if you legalize marijuana, because
we you know what you're.

Speaker 4 (01:41:26):
Doing right now, you're doing this. Socialism has never been done, right.

Speaker 2 (01:41:29):
That's what you're doing.

Speaker 10 (01:41:30):
They'd been legalized in twenty in twenty states. No, I
agree with any states. It would have been so different.

Speaker 5 (01:41:38):
Legalize hard drugs in one place. It has to be nationwide,
or it has to be or you'll just get crushed.
Ross Minsky, I am so happy you came in today
because I didn't really want to work that hard, and
you took half the load off.

Speaker 4 (01:41:50):
So I appreciate that very much. Thanks for having me.

Speaker 5 (01:41:52):
Are you going to stick around for the franchise player
bit of the well I'm here, Yeah, I mean you're here,
So let's.

Speaker 3 (01:41:58):
Do it.

Speaker 8 (01:42:00):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:42:00):
It's time for the most exciting segment on the radio's gone.
Now you yell in the world, in the world of
the day. Not that, Ross, you've never done that before.
I don't take Have you ever done that?

Speaker 2 (01:42:14):
Not solo?

Speaker 8 (01:42:15):
No, you didn't.

Speaker 4 (01:42:16):
Group fine job, Mayby. Is it possible that my pillow
guy could be my governor guy in Minnesota? He's running?
Just leave it at that, all right? What is our
dad joke of the day? Please grant the dad joke
of the day.

Speaker 7 (01:42:30):
After an unsuccessful harvest, why did the farmer decide to
try a career in music? Ummm, I don't know, Ross,
I don't know, because he had a ton of sick beats.

Speaker 4 (01:42:46):
Wow, that is like, I feel like I need to
wipe that one off. That was I was on a
list of two hundred best dad jokes. I'd like to
speak to the judge. Yeah, what is today's word of
the day? Please?

Speaker 7 (01:43:01):
Word of the day is febrile? What febrile? F phoebe
r I l e yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:43:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:43:07):
Okay. Is that an adjective? It is an adjective.

Speaker 8 (01:43:11):
What do we do now?

Speaker 4 (01:43:11):
Do we say what it is? We say we think
it is? Yeah, do you know what it is? I
think so, okay, go ahead and say it. I'll tell
you if you're right now.

Speaker 10 (01:43:17):
I think I think it describes a person who has
a fever.

Speaker 2 (01:43:21):
Oh, very good, correct?

Speaker 4 (01:43:23):
Oh, I had no idea febrile now I know. Uh.
Today's tribut question.

Speaker 5 (01:43:28):
What was the name of the series of measures passed
by Britain in seventeen sixty seven the tax goods imported
to America, escalating tensions between the two sides, and that.

Speaker 4 (01:43:38):
Build up to the Revolutionary War.

Speaker 10 (01:43:40):
Boy, you know this one intolerable acts close the towns
acts towns and acts yea and townshend has an h
in it, right, Yes, it does, and I did not
know that until right now.

Speaker 8 (01:43:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:43:50):
I think it's pronounced Townsend but spelled town Shen. Well,
you know the Brits cans.

Speaker 5 (01:43:54):
I mean they say vacuum in a new Albuminium Aluminium
boy says that vac I think they just say vacuum.

Speaker 2 (01:44:02):
I daughter know, it's silly, all right.

Speaker 5 (01:44:04):
So, Ross Kaminski, Mandy Connell, what is our jeopardy category?
You know, to answer the question, you shout out your name, Ross,
and then you come to you and you answer the.

Speaker 7 (01:44:13):
Question in the form of a question, the form of
course category today medicine okay, used for heartburn.

Speaker 4 (01:44:21):
Tom's and Rolaids are two of these medications. What are
an ascids? Correct?

Speaker 8 (01:44:25):
Right?

Speaker 7 (01:44:27):
Like lime disease, rocky mountain, spotted fields?

Speaker 4 (01:44:30):
Ross? What as yeah? Correct?

Speaker 8 (01:44:33):
Yep?

Speaker 4 (01:44:34):
One one testing PSA levels? Ross? What is prosty cancer?
I'll take the rest of the question.

Speaker 7 (01:44:45):
Grant testing PSA levels as a standard screening method for
this type of cancer.

Speaker 4 (01:44:50):
Oh, I'm gonna take that's prostate cancer. He's said prostly cancer. Yeah,
the answer is just prosty. Yeah, that's final. I'll give
him that one. We'll let us slide. Yep, you're winning
right now? All right? Through rare? Oh though rare. This disease,
once known as the Black death, is still around. I
think it was Ross.

Speaker 2 (01:45:07):
What is the bubonic plague?

Speaker 7 (01:45:09):
Correct from Latin for to crush or bruise. It's an
injury caused by a blow that doesn't.

Speaker 4 (01:45:16):
Break the skin? Manny, what's a confusion? Correct? But Ross,
well done? Aren't you well die? I think that's the
first time I've ever beaten you.

Speaker 5 (01:45:28):
I mean, there's the first time foreverything like that? Yeah, yeah, Grain,
How do you make it?

Speaker 4 (01:45:35):
Is this where you shoot from?

Speaker 10 (01:45:37):
I go back to the glass and I miss all
the time, miss constantly. We're talking about throwing a bald
up piece of paper into.

Speaker 4 (01:45:44):
A trash can on the other side of the room
right now. Yeah, man, he's backing up. She's gone, all right,
you got to you gotta check check for the wind.
Nothing at all?

Speaker 8 (01:45:54):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:45:56):
A little short, can't it?

Speaker 8 (01:45:59):
When?

Speaker 4 (01:46:00):
One more time on this movie?

Speaker 8 (01:46:01):
This is radio?

Speaker 4 (01:46:02):
I know, hang on next time on the map. We've
got a mine doing card trips. There we go, Oh,
I want it al anyway? Ross, what you're You're back
on Monday?

Speaker 8 (01:46:15):
Right?

Speaker 4 (01:46:15):
All right? Now that we've established that I have custody
of and now you know, we Chad Bower, who will
be our newsman starting Monday. It's going to be a
great year coming in man.

Speaker 10 (01:46:24):
I really appreciate that I might like get occasional visitation
rights and come sit in.

Speaker 4 (01:46:30):
Well you do a well known I miss you friend,
I miss you too. All right, we'll be back on Monday.
Have a great weekend, everybody, keep it on Ka