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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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No, it's Mandy Connell and.
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Speaker 1 (00:26):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Tuesday edition of the show.
And if you thought we barreled on a Tuesday normally,
get ready buggle up because this show is twenty four
minutes long because at twenty nine past the hour and
thirty seconds, we are going to hand the station over
to the CU Buffs who are playing in the Pac
twelve Basketball tournament. Just so you know, if they win,
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they will play again on Wednesday. If they lose, they
will not play again this year unless they get invited
to the n or a different tournament.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
So we'll have to find out how they today.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
They just beat the crap out of TCU yesterday, I think,
and that's who they play today in the Pac twelve tournament,
so we'll see if TCU bounces back.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
But that's coming up. At twelve thirty. Let's do the blog.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I'm here Mandy Connell and I'm joined by hey Rod,
you can call him Anthony Rodriguez.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
By the way, TCU.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Even being beat by twenty as you just mentioned three
days ago, they are favored in this game by two.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
They have a much better record than CEU, So I mean,
like way better.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
They are sixty or fifteen. Yeah, they are four games
better SEEUOS twelve and nineteen.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
So in any case, that's happening today at twelve thirty.
But let's tell you what's on the blog. You can
find it by going to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog
dot com. Look for the headline that says three eleven
twenty five blog a big half hour before CU buffs basketball.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Click on that and here are the headlines you will
find within. Oh god, I think it.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
In office half of American all with ships and clipas
say that's going to press plat.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Today on the blog.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I was supposed to have Representative Thomas Massey on today
the Supreme Court, we'll hear bands on therapy for gender
confused children. Democratic legislators want to censor social media, and
they hate Government Transparency Act Blue maybe laundering money for Democrats.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Republicans are going to push too hard on trans adults.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Colorado loves bougie dog names, a new country bar comes
to the Ballpark district, and a new cracker Barrel's coming
to town.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
My love affair with Southwest is completely over now.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Kyle Clark interviews Dulph Darcy Schooning, COVID purchases we still
love and some we regret hate running Watch this.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
What does a good deal for Ukraine look like?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Those are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com.
And as you can tell, I gave you stuff to
look at at the blog that I did not spend
an exorbitan amount of time because the show is a
wopping half hour great video or interesting interview with Kyle
Clark and Darcy Schooning. Who is the she is running
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for the GOP chair position. The formatting, for some reason
is all screwed up. I'll fix that right after the show,
but it's a very good interview if you want to
find out about the people who are running for the
Colorado Republican Party chairmanship. I found some of her answers,
in my eyes, to be disqualifying, but that's just me.
I put it up here so people could make their
own decisions. She did handle some of the really tough questions,
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very very well.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
So I want to I want to.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
This is not a shell lacking but the answer she
gave I strongly disagree with some of them and for
me they would be disqualifying. But that is on the
blog as well.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Today.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I've also got a couple of videos, one from Diary
of a CEO about how to make sure that you're
running in a position that your body is going to
respond well. And at the very bottom, Constantine Kissen has
been He's the host of Triggernometry.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Super interesting guy.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
He's been a result loot supporter of the Ukrainian right
to defend itself and in this video he says, look,
what does a good deal look like for Ukraine? So
if you want to hear from someone who is a
supporter of Ukraine about a realistic view of what peace
for Ukraine with Russia might look like and what he
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considers to be a fair deal, I would strongly.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Recommend you watch the video.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
We're going to talk about it on tomorrow's show, assuming
that basketball doesn't eat the show tomorrow. Now back to
the top of the blog, because we are now a
third of the way through our show. So I'm super
bummed because I was supposed to have representative Thomas Massey
on today. He's a Congressman from Kentucky, but he is
proving to be a fly in the proverbial ointment when
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it comes to yet another ginormous Continuing Resolution with lots
of extra spending that all the Republicans have been excited
about canceling. It's now back in the Continuing Resolution. Thomas
Massi he has already come out and said, no, I'm
not going to vote for this now. I got to
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know Thomas Massey when I lived in Kentucky, and I, frankly,
I love the guy, absolutely love him. His problem is
he's extremely principled, and he's been in Congress for twelve
years now, and for twelve years he has been asked
to vote on giant crap sandwich continuing resolution after another,
And for twelve years the Republicans have been saying, hey,
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we just got to get this crap sandwich through because then,
really then we're gonna work on cut and spending.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
We're gonna cut the.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Budget, we're gonna slash and burn the size of government.
But all they've done is make the debt and deficit bigger.
So Thomas is done he's finished. He's like, Nope, I
am not gonna vote for the crap sandwich. And by
the way, this continuing resolution, you know how we've all
been kind of celebrating all of the wasteful garbage spending
in USAID and Marco Rubio comes out and he says, look,
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we've canceled a vestment already of the programs with the
USAID and we're going to bring the rest into the
State Department. Guess what has funding in this gigantic crap sandwich.
If you guessed USAID, you would guess correctly. That's why
Thomas Massey is opposed. Now his people are working on
helping me reschedule. But as you can imagine, getting Thomas
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Massey on right now is turning out to be something
of a nightmare because he's a very hot commodity as
he argues vociferously against more of these deals. So I've
got that on the blog today. I will defend Tom
and the reason I brought this up. I should say,
as I got an email from email or who emails
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me all the time.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
He sends me great stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
We have, you know, no no arguments really with this
this emailer, but he is so mad at Thomas Massey.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Twitter is so mad at Thomas Massey. Trump is so
mad at Thomas Massy.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
And if you want government to be smaller, you should
be applauding Thomas Massey and what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You should be.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Grateful that he is willing to take the slings and
arrows to call attention to the fact that Republicans have lied.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Over and over and over and over and over again.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
I mean, come on, you guys, Come on, Mandy, how
is it this sports is just not broadcast on either
the AM or FM side. Why wouldn't it be smart
to consistently have the shows on either the AM side
or the FM side, and that perhaps broadcasts those games
on the opposite frequency as well as online. It's because
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we don't split the signal, and that is technologically a
lot harder than you would think. So to say we're
gonna now send this over to this and this over
this requires a significant amount of tinkering on the back
end that simply isn't going to happen. Plus, our contracts
stipulate that we play on frequencies, so that is not
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an option.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
So there you go. So that is on the blog today.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
My defensive Thomas Massey will continue. Hopefully he's going to
be on the show next week. We're working on that
because dude is getting beaten up for standing on principle.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Stop it. Oh this person said, by the way, my
Twitter is all for him. Yes, yes, Mandy.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
It's the CRS and thousand plus page omnibus spending bills
in Congress that makes us need Doge in the first place.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Amen, But Thomas Massey is here to tell you that
whatever Doge has done, Congress is about to undo with
this giant cr But nonetheless, hopefully he'll be on next week.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
We'll make that happen.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
A couple big, big stories on the blog today, one
of which we'll talk about a little bit more a
little later. The US Supreme Court is going to hear
a challenge about the ban in Colorado. We have a
ban in Colorado that says that therapists are not allowed
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to do what's called gay conversion therapy or try to
counsel gender confused children into accepting their own gender. Both
of those things are banned in Colorado under the same
umbrella rule. So now the US Supreme Court has decided
to hear arguments about whether or not this violates the
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First Amendment rights of therapists.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
And I'm going to say I.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Strongly believe that these two things need to be split
into two separate things because gay conversion therapy, which has
been proven to not be effective.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
First of all, a lot.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Of the quote leaders of the gay conversion therapy movement
who claim to be ex gay have now come back
out as gay and have come out to say, yeah,
I said I.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Was cute, but that was ridiculous. I was just living
in the closet again.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Now, that is much different to try and convince a
gay person that they are actually straight.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
And some gay conversion therapy is horrific.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
It's been abusive physically, mentally, emotionally, it has been a
terrible situation and it's ineffective. But aside from the mental
damage that is done from gay conversion therapy, it is
nothing compared to the mental and physical damage that is
done by gender affirming care for children. Especially according to
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a study from the Netherlands, about eighty percent of children
who experience some kind of gender confusion will resolve their
gender confusion and remain wanting to be their born gender. Now,
if we even socially affirm a gender transition, then there
is like a ninety five percent chance that will move
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to medical transition. So just left alone or even with
some therapy to help them work through it. And and
you know, recognize that there's no right or wrong way
to be a girl or a boy.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Most people are going to clear up.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
And yet the law says, now in Colorado, you're not
even allowed to talk to a kid that says, you know,
I'm really struggling. I feel like I was born in
the wrong body, and a therapist says, okay.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Let's talk about that. What does that mean.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Well, let's talk about the right way or wrong way
to be a male or a woman. You know, let's
talk about these things. Let's talk You're not even allowed
to do that. If someone accuses you of trying to
quote change their gender identity, you are in violation.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Of the law.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
And that's crazy. That's absolutely crazy. So the Supreme Court
is going to hear this. They've already heard a case
out of Tennessee that they have They're going to hear
a case in Tennessee over whether state bans on treating
transgender miners via the Constitution, but they have yet to
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issue a decision. So yeah, x gay, says this Texter, Lol.
I thought they were born that way. And that's the point.
That's the point. We have a pretty long track history
now of conversion therapy failing since the late eighteen hundreds.
I looked up the whole history of gay conversion therapy.
We have a whole history of that failing. But yet
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we also have actual studies that have shown children will
grow out of this with the right kind of therapy,
can learn to accept their own gender, which saves them
from a lifetime of medicalization.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
So you know, these two things are different. I don't
think that gay conversion.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Therapy should be banned, but I think if it's abusive,
because some of the gay conversion therapy has been flat
out physically and mentally abusive, the stuff they do is horrible,
I don't think it should be banned. I think we
should definitely let people know it as a track record
of absolute failure. Mandy's speaking of Massy. Do you think
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Republicans have the backbone to actually do.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
What they say?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
That's the reason they lied over and over and over again.
They never have the backbone. Is Trump going to give
them the backbone? And this is exactly why Thomas Massey
is voting no because he's been lied to too, and
he knows he's part of the problem. He's not going
to be part of the problem anymore if we hit
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a point where our debt service strips away all because
right now, you guys, and I try to say this
as often as possible, our debt service, the amount of
interest we are paying on our debt is now larger
than the entire defense budget, the whole thing. So what
happens when the debt service gets larger than all of
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the spending that we do outside of entitlements. So what
happens then Thomas Massey will not be a part of that. Now,
I've got to talk about a story that is so
so infuriating, and I knew it was coming, and I'm
so upset. Southwest Airlines is now going to be charging
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for bags. I know, I know, I know, I know,
I am so well, you know what it is.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I'm sad.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I'm sad because I've been a Southwest customer, loyally loyal
Southwest customer for about twenty five years. And I've been
loyal to Southwest even though sometimes their prices are higher
than others, because you go Hey, I get my bags free,
I don't have to worry about that, So I'll buy
the slightly more expensive ticket on Southwest because I love Southwest.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I love their lucy goosey attitude.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I flew back from Ohio and Southwest on Sunday night
and the flight attendant was hilarious and entertaining and the
flight was great.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
But now they're just another.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Airline and that makes me sad because now I'm just
gonna shop on price, and I'm gonna shop on convenience,
and a lot of time, convenience is not what Southwest
does best. So I'm heartbroken and I'd love to know,
and you can hit the text line at five six
six nine. Oh, are you guys going to change your
airline habits? Do you have a favorite airline habit?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
And the others. Another person on the text line just
pointed this out and they are. Now they're gonna put
an expiration date on your airline credits. So if you
have to change a flight or cancel a flight, which
they've always been so good about, now that credit will expire. U. Yeah, well,
they in their defense on this one, they used to expire.
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I know because I've had some expire in the very
far far past. But during COVID they made they took
away the expiration date. So yeah, this show is moving
faster than a rolling Oh, says this Texa.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yes it is. I've got uh, well, eight more minutes.
I've got to make it count, gotta make it count.
I have a couple of things happening in the under.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
The gold Dome you should probably read about. I've got
a very interesting story a column from American Spectator or
spect American Spectator.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
So if you guys ever heard of Act Blue.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Act Blue is a fundraising platform for Democrats, hence.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
The name Act Blue. You donate to Act.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Blue for a cause, and then they distribute the money
to those various causes. Only now they are being looked
at because they appear, and I'm going to say a peer,
I don't know, they appear to have been laundering money
for a very long time for Democrats.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Listen to this.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
A practice known as smurfing is a kind of identity
theft whereby the names of small dollar donors are repeatedly
used without their knowledge to mask large dollar political contributions that,
by law must be reported to the Federal Elections Commission.
The website election Watch, which features a smurf search tool
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that allows users to search FEC data for implausibly large
numbers of political contributions attributed to individual donors. An examination
of the data, for example, indicates that a single Colorado
resident allegedly made fifty seven thousand, one hundred and thirty
eight contributions one transaction every one point three days, totally
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no less than two hundred and thirty four thousand, four hundred.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
And forty one dollars. And that's not all. That is
not all at all.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
This person said, Mandy, I'm not only going to shop flights.
I'm probably going to change my rewards credit card. Now.
If you have a Southwest Rewards credit card, if you
book using that card, then you get a free bag.
But frankly, they change their points program and.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
It sucks now.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
So I have switched all of my credit card usage
over to my American Express Platinum and my Chase Preferred,
Sapphire Preferred whatever. Those are the ones I use for
everything because their points are the easiest to move, and
American Express is not as easy as the Chase Preferred.
And I'm not a points and miles person. I'm not
gonna sit here and give some kind of dissertation on that.
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I'm just gonna let you know, yeah, yeah, Well, there's
not a single person on my text line that is
defending or saying they're going to stick with Southwest. Mandy,
I too have fallen out of love with Southwest. They're
now just another airline, Mandy. I'm in a United Explorer
card and get the first check bag free. See now
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I get airline credits from my American Express card up
to two hundred bucks per year to pay for those
bag fees and stuff like that, Mandy, like you, twenty
five year long time Southwest flyer, no more, I will
use up one hundred thousand miles which are worth less
now and move on by bye Southwest. I just you know,
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I don't want Southwest to go under. I want them
to make money. But this is an activist investor who
pushed them in this direction, and now we're.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Stuck with it, absolutely stuck with it. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Also on the blog today, I have a story that
I think is, you know, whenever there's a social movement
in the Republican Party, there are always people who take
it too far.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
And I think that we are going we're seeing that.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Now, when it comes to the very simple discussion about
whether or not trans adults should have limitations put on
them trans adults, in my mind, I'm a person who
believes in freedom right. I believe that when you are
an adult, you should have the right to make all
kinds of bad decisions. You should be able to destroy
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your own life if that's what you want to do,
but don't ask me to pay for it. Don't ask
me to be responsible for your bad decision making. So
under the context of that, I support people who want
to have plastic.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Surgery that makes them look like a lizard.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
I'm not talking about trans people here, or people that
want to have extreme piercings in their face or get
their full face tattooed. Now, do I think it's a
career limiting decision, Yes I do. Do I think it's
a bad choice, yes I do. But if you're an adult,
you have to live with the consequences of those actions.
So from that respect, when someone is eighteen and they
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decide they were born in the wrong body and they
want to transition, I am knock yourself out, go crazy.
And for the people out there who are saying, you know,
they're probably just mentally ill. Maybe they are, but that's
not a reason to keep someone out of the workforce.
It's not a reason to keep people from making choices
for themselves, you know. And there's an idiot Republican in
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Texas who is now proposed a bill and thankfully, I
think there's a zero percent chance and it's going to
come to fruition because.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
There's no co sponsors at all.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
He wants to make presenting yourself as the other gender
gender identity fraud and a felony, publishable by jail time.
This is stupid and another example of people taking things
too far. Last Eye Checked, we were talking about protecting
children who are not old enough to make decisions about
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physical alterations that are going to be permanent, not adults
who have the right to do whatever it is they do.
I don't know if you guys have ever seen these
women who go out and try to compete to see
who can get the biggest fake implants you can possibly get.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Now, don't get me wrong, guys, I know men like boobs.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I get it, I do, I understand, But there's a
point where it becomes like a pathological sickness. Right, But
they're an adult them go about their business, and those
people have jobs. Those people are in society. So can
Republicans just stop stop making things an issue that should
not be an issue.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
That's my thoughts on that. Good news.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Ay Roder, You're going to take a pilgrimage to Cracker
Barrel with me when it opens up in the Central
Park neighborhood, because I'm going.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
What wait, wait, wait wait, you obviously are not well schooled.
All the entire Cracker Barrell experience clearly enlighten me. First
of all, three words for you, hash brown cast role.
That's thing number one. Thing number two.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
The Country Store itself. Like you go into Cracker Bill,
you get to walk through the Country Store. You get
to see all this crap you never knew you needed
until you see it there. Useless stuff, useful stuff, old
Tommy candy. They have a huge selection of interesting soda
pops from around the world. I can't wait for this
Crackerbil because it's gonna be the closest one to my house.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Excited about where are the closest ones.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Now, there's one in North there's one in the Springs,
there's one in Preblo, and I can't remember where the
other one is because it's also far away, so this
is going to be the.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
One crazy North Lynn, Carlo Springs, Peblo, Loveland, Loveland.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Okay, none of those are close to me, so this
is going to be the closest one to my house.
So I'm I'm fairly excited about this. You can find
out more about that on the blog today. But I'll
meet you guys over there for a little bit of hash.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Brown cast role, make it happen? Do that all right?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Last thing on the blog that we're going to get
to today, that's kind of boring but important. Boring but important. Okay,
I've covered the whole blog in nineteen minutes. Some of
these stories we're going to dig into a little bit deeper. Obviously,
the Act Blue story, I think is a really big
scandal brewing, but yet another scandal where Democrats have gotten
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away with stuff for a decade before anybody went maybe
we should look at this and see if they're actually
taking money from the right people or if they're using
this platform to launder money into democratic causes.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
And that is exactly what it appears to do.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
So that is all happening tomorrow, assuming that the cu
buffs do not play during my show tomorrow and if
they win today, they will play again tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
We will be back with a full show as of
right now,
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No, it's Mandy Connell and.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Connall on KOAM ninety one Am God.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Stay the nicety's through three.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Mandy Connall, keeping your real sad day.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Tuesday edition of the show.
And if you thought we barreled on a Tuesday normally,
get ready buggle up because this show is twenty four
minutes long because at twenty nine past the hour and
thirty seconds, we are going to hand the station over
to the CU Buffs who are playing in the Pac
twelve Basketball tournament. Just so you know, if they win,
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they will play again on Wednesday. If they lose, they
will not play again this year unless they get invited
to the n or a different tournament.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
So we'll have to find out how they today.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
They just beat the crap out of TCU yesterday, I think,
and that's who they play today in the Pac twelve tournament,
so we'll see if TCU bounces back.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
But that's coming up. At twelve thirty. Let's do the blog.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I'm here Mandy Connell and I'm joined by hey Rod,
you can call him Anthony Rodriguez.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
By the way, TCU.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Even being beat by twenty as you just mentioned three
days ago, they are favored in this game by two.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
They have a much better record than CEU, So I mean,
like way better.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
They are sixty or fifteen. Yeah, they are four games
better SEEUOS twelve and nineteen.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
So in any case, that's happening today at twelve thirty.
But let's tell you what's on the blog. You can
find it by going to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog
dot com. Look for the headline that says three eleven
twenty five blog a big half hour before CU buffs basketball.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Click on that and here are the headlines you will
find within. Oh god, I think it.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
In office half of American all with ships and clipas
say that's going to press plat.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Today on the blog.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I was supposed to have Representative Thomas Massey on today
the Supreme Court, we'll hear bands on therapy for gender
confused children. Democratic legislators want to censor social media, and
they hate Government Transparency Act Blue maybe laundering money for Democrats.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Republicans are going to push too hard on trans adults.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Colorado loves bougie dog names, a new country bar comes
to the Ballpark district, and a new cracker Barrel's coming
to town.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
My love affair with Southwest is completely over now.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Kyle Clark interviews Dulph Darcy Schooning, COVID purchases we still
love and some we regret hate running Watch this.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
What does a good deal for Ukraine look like?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Those are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com.
And as you can tell, I gave you stuff to
look at at the blog that I did not spend
an exorbitan amount of time because the show is a
wopping half hour great video or interesting interview with Kyle
Clark and Darcy Schooning. Who is the she is running
(03:04):
for the GOP chair position. The formatting, for some reason
is all screwed up. I'll fix that right after the show,
but it's a very good interview if you want to
find out about the people who are running for the
Colorado Republican Party chairmanship. I found some of her answers,
in my eyes, to be disqualifying, but that's just me.
I put it up here so people could make their
own decisions. She did handle some of the really tough questions,
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very very well.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
So I want to I want to.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
This is not a shell lacking but the answer she
gave I strongly disagree with some of them and for
me they would be disqualifying. But that is on the
blog as well.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Today.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I've also got a couple of videos, one from Diary
of a CEO about how to make sure that you're
running in a position that your body is going to
respond well. And at the very bottom, Constantine Kissen has
been He's the host of Triggernometry.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Super interesting guy.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
He's been a result loot supporter of the Ukrainian right
to defend itself and in this video he says, look,
what does a good deal look like for Ukraine? So
if you want to hear from someone who is a
supporter of Ukraine about a realistic view of what peace
for Ukraine with Russia might look like and what he
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considers to be a fair deal, I would strongly.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Recommend you watch the video.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
We're going to talk about it on tomorrow's show, assuming
that basketball doesn't eat the show tomorrow. Now back to
the top of the blog, because we are now a
third of the way through our show. So I'm super
bummed because I was supposed to have representative Thomas Massey
on today. He's a Congressman from Kentucky, but he is
proving to be a fly in the proverbial ointment when
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it comes to yet another ginormous Continuing Resolution with lots
of extra spending that all the Republicans have been excited
about canceling. It's now back in the Continuing Resolution. Thomas
Massi he has already come out and said, no, I'm
not going to vote for this now. I got to
(05:06):
know Thomas Massey when I lived in Kentucky, and I, frankly,
I love the guy, absolutely love him. His problem is
he's extremely principled, and he's been in Congress for twelve
years now, and for twelve years he has been asked
to vote on giant crap sandwich continuing resolution after another,
And for twelve years the Republicans have been saying, hey,
(05:29):
we just got to get this crap sandwich through because then,
really then we're gonna work on cut and spending.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
We're gonna cut the.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Budget, we're gonna slash and burn the size of government.
But all they've done is make the debt and deficit bigger.
So Thomas is done he's finished. He's like, Nope, I
am not gonna vote for the crap sandwich. And by
the way, this continuing resolution, you know how we've all
been kind of celebrating all of the wasteful garbage spending
in USAID and Marco Rubio comes out and he says, look,
(05:58):
we've canceled a vestment already of the programs with the
USAID and we're going to bring the rest into the
State Department. Guess what has funding in this gigantic crap sandwich.
If you guessed USAID, you would guess correctly. That's why
Thomas Massey is opposed. Now his people are working on
helping me reschedule. But as you can imagine, getting Thomas
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Massey on right now is turning out to be something
of a nightmare because he's a very hot commodity as
he argues vociferously against more of these deals. So I've
got that on the blog today. I will defend Tom
and the reason I brought this up. I should say,
as I got an email from email or who emails
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me all the time.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
He sends me great stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
We have, you know, no no arguments really with this
this emailer, but he is so mad at Thomas Massey.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Twitter is so mad at Thomas Massey. Trump is so
mad at Thomas Massy.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
And if you want government to be smaller, you should
be applauding Thomas Massey and what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You should be.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Grateful that he is willing to take the slings and
arrows to call attention to the fact that Republicans have lied.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Over and over and over and over and over again.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
I mean, come on, you guys, Come on, Mandy, how
is it this sports is just not broadcast on either
the AM or FM side. Why wouldn't it be smart
to consistently have the shows on either the AM side
or the FM side, and that perhaps broadcasts those games
on the opposite frequency as well as online. It's because
(07:40):
we don't split the signal, and that is technologically a
lot harder than you would think. So to say we're
gonna now send this over to this and this over
this requires a significant amount of tinkering on the back
end that simply isn't going to happen. Plus, our contracts
stipulate that we play on frequencies, so that is not
(08:02):
an option.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
So there you go. So that is on the blog today.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
My defensive Thomas Massey will continue. Hopefully he's going to
be on the show next week. We're working on that
because dude is getting beaten up for standing on principle.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Stop it. Oh this person said, by the way, my
Twitter is all for him. Yes, yes, Mandy.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
It's the CRS and thousand plus page omnibus spending bills
in Congress that makes us need Doge in the first place.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Amen, But Thomas Massey is here to tell you that
whatever Doge has done, Congress is about to undo with
this giant cr But nonetheless, hopefully he'll be on next week.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
We'll make that happen.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
A couple big, big stories on the blog today, one
of which we'll talk about a little bit more a
little later. The US Supreme Court is going to hear
a challenge about the ban in Colorado. We have a
ban in Colorado that says that therapists are not allowed
(09:08):
to do what's called gay conversion therapy or try to
counsel gender confused children into accepting their own gender. Both
of those things are banned in Colorado under the same
umbrella rule. So now the US Supreme Court has decided
to hear arguments about whether or not this violates the
(09:31):
First Amendment rights of therapists.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
And I'm going to say I.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Strongly believe that these two things need to be split
into two separate things because gay conversion therapy, which has
been proven to not be effective.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
First of all, a lot.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Of the quote leaders of the gay conversion therapy movement
who claim to be ex gay have now come back
out as gay and have come out to say, yeah,
I said I.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Was cute, but that was ridiculous. I was just living
in the closet again.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Now, that is much different to try and convince a
gay person that they are actually straight.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
And some gay conversion therapy is horrific.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
It's been abusive physically, mentally, emotionally, it has been a
terrible situation and it's ineffective. But aside from the mental
damage that is done from gay conversion therapy, it is
nothing compared to the mental and physical damage that is
done by gender affirming care for children. Especially according to
(10:35):
a study from the Netherlands, about eighty percent of children
who experience some kind of gender confusion will resolve their
gender confusion and remain wanting to be their born gender. Now,
if we even socially affirm a gender transition, then there
is like a ninety five percent chance that will move
(10:58):
to medical transition. So just left alone or even with
some therapy to help them work through it. And and
you know, recognize that there's no right or wrong way
to be a girl or a boy.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Most people are going to clear up.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
And yet the law says, now in Colorado, you're not
even allowed to talk to a kid that says, you know,
I'm really struggling. I feel like I was born in
the wrong body, and a therapist says, okay.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Let's talk about that. What does that mean.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Well, let's talk about the right way or wrong way
to be a male or a woman. You know, let's
talk about these things. Let's talk You're not even allowed
to do that. If someone accuses you of trying to
quote change their gender identity, you are in violation.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Of the law.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
And that's crazy. That's absolutely crazy. So the Supreme Court
is going to hear this. They've already heard a case
out of Tennessee that they have They're going to hear
a case in Tennessee over whether state bans on treating
transgender miners via the Constitution, but they have yet to
(12:01):
issue a decision. So yeah, x gay, says this Texter, Lol.
I thought they were born that way. And that's the point.
That's the point. We have a pretty long track history
now of conversion therapy failing since the late eighteen hundreds.
I looked up the whole history of gay conversion therapy.
We have a whole history of that failing. But yet
(12:24):
we also have actual studies that have shown children will
grow out of this with the right kind of therapy,
can learn to accept their own gender, which saves them
from a lifetime of medicalization.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
So you know, these two things are different. I don't
think that gay conversion.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Therapy should be banned, but I think if it's abusive,
because some of the gay conversion therapy has been flat
out physically and mentally abusive, the stuff they do is horrible,
I don't think it should be banned. I think we
should definitely let people know it as a track record
of absolute failure. Mandy's speaking of Massy. Do you think
(13:05):
Republicans have the backbone to actually do.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
What they say?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
That's the reason they lied over and over and over again.
They never have the backbone. Is Trump going to give
them the backbone? And this is exactly why Thomas Massey
is voting no because he's been lied to too, and
he knows he's part of the problem. He's not going
to be part of the problem anymore if we hit
(13:28):
a point where our debt service strips away all because
right now, you guys, and I try to say this
as often as possible, our debt service, the amount of
interest we are paying on our debt is now larger
than the entire defense budget, the whole thing. So what
happens when the debt service gets larger than all of
(13:52):
the spending that we do outside of entitlements. So what
happens then Thomas Massey will not be a part of that. Now,
I've got to talk about a story that is so
so infuriating, and I knew it was coming, and I'm
so upset. Southwest Airlines is now going to be charging
(14:14):
for bags. I know, I know, I know, I know,
I am so well, you know what it is.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I'm sad.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I'm sad because I've been a Southwest customer, loyally loyal
Southwest customer for about twenty five years. And I've been
loyal to Southwest even though sometimes their prices are higher
than others, because you go Hey, I get my bags free,
I don't have to worry about that, So I'll buy
the slightly more expensive ticket on Southwest because I love Southwest.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I love their lucy goosey attitude.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I flew back from Ohio and Southwest on Sunday night
and the flight attendant was hilarious and entertaining and the
flight was great.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
But now they're just another.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Airline and that makes me sad because now I'm just
gonna shop on price, and I'm gonna shop on convenience,
and a lot of time, convenience is not what Southwest
does best. So I'm heartbroken and I'd love to know,
and you can hit the text line at five six
six nine. Oh, are you guys going to change your
airline habits? Do you have a favorite airline habit?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
And the others. Another person on the text line just
pointed this out and they are. Now they're gonna put
an expiration date on your airline credits. So if you
have to change a flight or cancel a flight, which
they've always been so good about, now that credit will expire. U. Yeah, well,
they in their defense on this one, they used to expire.
(15:45):
I know because I've had some expire in the very
far far past. But during COVID they made they took
away the expiration date. So yeah, this show is moving
faster than a rolling Oh, says this Texa.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yes it is. I've got uh, well, eight more minutes.
I've got to make it count, gotta make it count.
I have a couple of things happening in the under.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
The gold Dome you should probably read about. I've got
a very interesting story a column from American Spectator or
spect American Spectator.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
So if you guys ever heard of Act Blue.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Act Blue is a fundraising platform for Democrats, hence.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
The name Act Blue. You donate to Act.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Blue for a cause, and then they distribute the money
to those various causes. Only now they are being looked
at because they appear, and I'm going to say a peer,
I don't know, they appear to have been laundering money
for a very long time for Democrats.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Listen to this.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
A practice known as smurfing is a kind of identity
theft whereby the names of small dollar donors are repeatedly
used without their knowledge to mask large dollar political contributions that,
by law must be reported to the Federal Elections Commission.
The website election Watch, which features a smurf search tool
(17:04):
that allows users to search FEC data for implausibly large
numbers of political contributions attributed to individual donors. An examination
of the data, for example, indicates that a single Colorado
resident allegedly made fifty seven thousand, one hundred and thirty
eight contributions one transaction every one point three days, totally
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no less than two hundred and thirty four thousand, four hundred.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
And forty one dollars. And that's not all. That is
not all at all.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
This person said, Mandy, I'm not only going to shop flights.
I'm probably going to change my rewards credit card. Now.
If you have a Southwest Rewards credit card, if you
book using that card, then you get a free bag.
But frankly, they change their points program and.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
It sucks now.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
So I have switched all of my credit card usage
over to my American Express Platinum and my Chase Preferred,
Sapphire Preferred whatever. Those are the ones I use for
everything because their points are the easiest to move, and
American Express is not as easy as the Chase Preferred.
And I'm not a points and miles person. I'm not
gonna sit here and give some kind of dissertation on that.
(18:18):
I'm just gonna let you know, yeah, yeah, Well, there's
not a single person on my text line that is
defending or saying they're going to stick with Southwest. Mandy,
I too have fallen out of love with Southwest. They're
now just another airline, Mandy. I'm in a United Explorer
card and get the first check bag free. See now
(18:41):
I get airline credits from my American Express card up
to two hundred bucks per year to pay for those
bag fees and stuff like that, Mandy, like you, twenty
five year long time Southwest flyer, no more, I will
use up one hundred thousand miles which are worth less
now and move on by bye Southwest. I just you know,
(19:03):
I don't want Southwest to go under. I want them
to make money. But this is an activist investor who
pushed them in this direction, and now we're.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Stuck with it, absolutely stuck with it. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Also on the blog today, I have a story that
I think is, you know, whenever there's a social movement
in the Republican Party, there are always people who take
it too far.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
And I think that we are going we're seeing that.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Now, when it comes to the very simple discussion about
whether or not trans adults should have limitations put on
them trans adults, in my mind, I'm a person who
believes in freedom right. I believe that when you are
an adult, you should have the right to make all
kinds of bad decisions. You should be able to destroy
(20:01):
your own life if that's what you want to do,
but don't ask me to pay for it. Don't ask
me to be responsible for your bad decision making. So
under the context of that, I support people who want
to have plastic.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Surgery that makes them look like a lizard.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
I'm not talking about trans people here, or people that
want to have extreme piercings in their face or get
their full face tattooed. Now, do I think it's a
career limiting decision, Yes I do. Do I think it's
a bad choice, yes I do. But if you're an adult,
you have to live with the consequences of those actions.
So from that respect, when someone is eighteen and they
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decide they were born in the wrong body and they
want to transition, I am knock yourself out, go crazy.
And for the people out there who are saying, you know,
they're probably just mentally ill. Maybe they are, but that's
not a reason to keep someone out of the workforce.
It's not a reason to keep people from making choices
for themselves, you know. And there's an idiot Republican in
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Texas who is now proposed a bill and thankfully, I
think there's a zero percent chance and it's going to
come to fruition because.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
There's no co sponsors at all.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
He wants to make presenting yourself as the other gender
gender identity fraud and a felony, publishable by jail time.
This is stupid and another example of people taking things
too far. Last Eye Checked, we were talking about protecting
children who are not old enough to make decisions about
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physical alterations that are going to be permanent, not adults
who have the right to do whatever it is they do.
I don't know if you guys have ever seen these
women who go out and try to compete to see
who can get the biggest fake implants you can possibly get.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Now, don't get me wrong, guys, I know men like boobs.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I get it, I do, I understand, But there's a
point where it becomes like a pathological sickness. Right, But
they're an adult them go about their business, and those
people have jobs. Those people are in society. So can
Republicans just stop stop making things an issue that should
not be an issue.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
That's my thoughts on that. Good news.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Ay Roder, You're going to take a pilgrimage to Cracker
Barrel with me when it opens up in the Central
Park neighborhood, because I'm going.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
What wait, wait, wait wait, you obviously are not well schooled.
All the entire Cracker Barrell experience clearly enlighten me. First
of all, three words for you, hash brown cast role.
That's thing number one. Thing number two.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
The Country Store itself. Like you go into Cracker Bill,
you get to walk through the Country Store. You get
to see all this crap you never knew you needed
until you see it there. Useless stuff, useful stuff, old
Tommy candy. They have a huge selection of interesting soda
pops from around the world. I can't wait for this
Crackerbil because it's gonna be the closest one to my house.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Excited about where are the closest ones.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Now, there's one in North there's one in the Springs,
there's one in Preblo, and I can't remember where the
other one is because it's also far away, so this
is going to be the.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
One crazy North Lynn, Carlo Springs, Peblo, Loveland, Loveland.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Okay, none of those are close to me, so this
is going to be the closest one to my house.
So I'm I'm fairly excited about this. You can find
out more about that on the blog today. But I'll
meet you guys over there for a little bit of hash.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Brown cast role, make it happen? Do that all right?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Last thing on the blog that we're going to get
to today, that's kind of boring but important. Boring but important. Okay,
I've covered the whole blog in nineteen minutes. Some of
these stories we're going to dig into a little bit deeper. Obviously,
the Act Blue story, I think is a really big
scandal brewing, but yet another scandal where Democrats have gotten
(23:53):
away with stuff for a decade before anybody went maybe
we should look at this and see if they're actually
taking money from the right people or if they're using
this platform to launder money into democratic causes.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
And that is exactly what it appears to do.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
So that is all happening tomorrow, assuming that the cu
buffs do not play during my show tomorrow and if
they win today, they will play again tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
We will be back with a full show as of
right now,
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