03-17-25 FULL SHOW - Happy St. Patrick's Day, Erebody!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 5 (00:28):
To a Monday edition of the show. I'm your host
for the next three hours, Mandy Connell, and I am
excited because I am here in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona, where
we are for spring training for the Rockies. I don't
know if you guys listened to broadcast yesterday, but if
you did, you might have heard a guest color person

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on the Rockies broadcast with Jack Corgan, and she might
have sounded a lot like me. More on that later.
I'm joined from far far away by my right hand man,
Anthony Rodriguez. You can call him a rod You'll.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
Be able to hear those that missed it yesterday.

Speaker 6 (01:03):
I'm currently right now working on a little portion of
it for our listeners on social media here in the
next hour.

Speaker 5 (01:09):
I have gotten to do some cool stuff because of
this job, and I couldn't if I sat here and
listed everything I've gotten to do because of being on
the radio. You guys would be green with envy. He
really would. Because of this job, I've gotten to do
a lot of stuff, but I've never, ever, ever, ever
gotten to sit in the booth during a live sporting
event that was for a professional team. I don't care

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if it's spring training, I don't care, Okay, And I'd
like channeled in my inner Jenny Kavnar and I just
I had the best time. It was so awesome, and
Jack Corgan was just so kind and generous and with
his time, it was just so great. I was so excited.
The game itself did not go the way I wanted
it to go. But if you've never been to spring training,

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if you're a baseball fan, first of all, the stadium,
Holy macaroni. That stadium is super nice. The broadcast booth
is probably twice as big as the broadcast booth at
Coors Field. It is massive, and it's just a beautiful,
delightful stadium to sit and watch baseball in. And I
was super impressed. And it's my first time ever really

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in Arizona. I was trying to think about this. Chuck
and I were flying in and normally, you know, I
went a lot of places for small amounts of time
when I was a flight attendant back in the nineties.
But I was like, I don't think I've ever been
to Phoenix. I don't remember anything about Phoenix. I don't
remember being in Phoenix. I don't Usually I can remember
walking through the airport because that's how my brain works.

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I can remember what it looked like at the time,
walking through the airport and leaving the airport, no matter
where we are. But I have never been to Phoenix before.
And I was selling a rod off the air Everything
hears the same color. It's like, how many degrees of
beige can we have in one city? And I'm just wondering,
how do people give directions to their house here? It's like, Okay,

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go past four beige houses, and then at the ninth
beige house with the beige trim, go ahead and turn right.
That's gonna be your ninth beige house. And the landscape,
don't get me wrong, there's a certain kind of beauty
in a desert landscape with all the cactuses or cacti.
We went hiking the other day and it's so different

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than the hiking we do in Colorado. And I'm just
gonna be Frank. I could never live here. I could
never live here. The weather is absolutely gorgeous right now,
things are blooming. I mean it's you know, but you
built a city in the middle of the desert. What
are you thinking? At least with Colorado. You get to Colorado,
you get to Denver, and you look at the wall

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of the rocky mountains in front of you and you
can immediately understand. Like the first guy in the wagon
train was like, you know what, I see those mountains.
We're just gonna stop here right now. Yeah, let's just
stop here for a minute. My friend Greg said about
Phoenix because I was talking to him. I was like,
I've you ever been here? He said yeah. I thought
about the leader of the caravan of settlers who said
when they got here, this is it, this is the place.

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And how others must have said that there's no water
and nothing will grow. But the leader said shut up
an unpack. And that's Phoenix. And we have family out here.
And I always ask people. I asked my brother this
about Las Vegas too, And I know, Arod, you love
Las Vegas because you love the glitz and the light
and all that stuff, and it's super cool and it's
a great place to visit. But outside the city center,

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have you ever like driven around?

Speaker 4 (04:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (04:27):
I have.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
It's yeah, you know, it's okay.

Speaker 6 (04:31):
It's I'm trying to think which I would pick, Henderson
area or like Phoenix Tucson.

Speaker 5 (04:37):
I mean, well, Henderson is beautiful because they've installed a
bunch of grass that they're about to rip out now
because they don't have any water for it. Yeah, but
the reality is is like where do why do people
move to places like this?

Speaker 4 (04:46):
Right?

Speaker 5 (04:47):
What about this place drew you? So I've been asking
people why did you move to Phoenix? And all of
the younger people that I've talked to you said, when
I moved here ten years ago, fifteen years ago, it
was still very affordable, and now it's not. So Phoenix
has gone much the way that Denver's gone and has
just gotten really priced out for a lot of people.

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But I will say this, in terms of sprawl, we
got nothing on Phoenix, Arizona. Phoenix, Arizona is like five
hundred miles huge. It's massive. It just goes on forever
and ever and ever and ever. It's just it's it's huge.
And so it's just sprawling city here in Phoenix, but

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it's it's I not my cup of tea. Man, I
just I need things to be a different color. And
you know, a Rod, we Joe, you and I about Colorado? Colorful?
Colorado is not the most colorful place.

Speaker 4 (05:39):
Like what's your go to?

Speaker 5 (05:41):
Places with humidity and where they have where they have
a bunch of flowers. You're like color for Colorado. Kind
of an interesting little name there when in reality it's up.
But it's far more colorful than Phoenix. So that should
be our new tagline, Denver Colorado, more colorful than Phoenix.
That should be our start. But only for people west
of us to do marketing to, you know, bring them

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to our beautiful state. In the meantime, though it is
Saint Patrick's day, I am wearing my green shirt. Hey Rod,
please regale the audience with what you are wearing today.
Green wardrobe.

Speaker 6 (06:13):
Yeah, my green New Orleans sweatshirt, my green watch band
with the iPhone, iPhone, the I watch, my greenish hat,
my green shoes. Green's my favorite color, green, green, green.

Speaker 5 (06:27):
No pinching for me, No pinching because for whatever reason,
everybody is irish on Saint Patrick's Day, Let's talk about
the blog because I got a bunch of stuff about
Saint Patrick's Day on the blog. Just look for the
headline at mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look
for the headline that says three seventeen twenty five blog
Happy Saint Patrick's Day. Everybody click on that, and here

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are the headlines you will find within anything in.

Speaker 7 (06:52):
Office half of American, all the ships and clippas, and
say that's.

Speaker 4 (06:54):
Going to press platch.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Today.

Speaker 5 (06:57):
I'm the blog Happy Saint Patrick's Day. March Madness basketball
brackets are out. See you keeps hiring Democrat rejects. Watch
out for online loans with stupid high interest rates. Let's
talk about momou Khalil for a moment. Our party's dead
lady lesson for young women. Lady lessons for young women
when cash becomes national security. No oat milk is not healthy.

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Democrats on popular with checksnotes. Democrats are we headed for stagflation?
AOC and Bernie are coming to Denver and Greeley to
Tom or Lake's scare off BUCkies. Nuclear is green energy
in Colorado?

Speaker 8 (07:34):
Now?

Speaker 5 (07:34):
Three candidates for GOP chair answer questions. FEMA has questions
about how Denvers spent money, praise, Lefty attacks Cybertruck. Where
is Denver's Best Pizza? This seems shady new scam alert
great Now aluminum foil is bad? Those are the headlines
on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. And you know

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the video at the very bottom A rod. I just
need to say, I need you to not send me
any videos that tell me what else is bad for
me right now, because I'm overwhelmed with what's bad for me.
Because now apparently aluminum foil is bad for you.

Speaker 4 (08:11):
Yeah, yep, yeah.

Speaker 5 (08:13):
Who knew this dude in this video doctor Papa Health,
I don't know who he is. He says that the
aluminum leeches into our food while we are cooking. Does
that mean aluminum cookware also leaches into our food? I
hate aluminum cookware, by the way, I just hate it
doesn't deduct heat. Well, it's the cook where you buy
when you're young and you're broke and you don't have

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any money, and so you buy the cheapest cookwhere you
can find at the Dollar General and then it turns
out to be aluminum and it's horrible to cook on
and everything sticks to it. So not a fan, Not
a fan at all. Anyway, obviously, we have a lot
of stuff on the blog today, and I've got Sherry
Pie from Complete Colorado coming on at one o'clock to
talk about one story that I found very very interesting,

(08:57):
not surprising, but interesting, and I'd like to know a
little bit more behind this, and it has to do
with see you hiring people in newly created roles. In
the last two years, CU has created new positions that
have conveniently been filled my Democrat loyalists who have been

(09:21):
instrumental in government up to this point until they were
given to big fat jobs at CU. The two positions
amount for more than seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars
a year in salary and benefits. Cherry's going to join
me at one to talk about the latest one. She
wrote about it at Complete Colorado dot com. Oopscotch hiccups

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to you guys. Okay, that's fine. We also have let's
just talk about March madness for a second, a rod
because this is a time in America where you know,
we're a country that prides ourselves on our productivity, right,
American workers are highly reductive. We're always looking for ways
to increase productivity. But this is the one, Well, there's

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two times of year when nobody expects anybody to get
anything done right. The first is around the holiday season,
and we're talking about from Christmas straight through New Year's Like,
if you need anything between December twenty third and January first,
good luck, because a vast majority of people there are
still people out there working. Obviously, people in retail, obviously,

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people in you know they're doing online retail. They're working there.
Took uses off making sure the rest of us get
what we need. But in the normal outside shopping world,
everybody's kind of mentally checked out. The other time of
the year when we have an acceptable slowdown of productivity
is when the March Madness basketball brackets come out. It
is estimated listen to this that over the next couple

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of weeks we will lose about thirteen point one billion
dollars worth of work because of March Madness basketball brackets.
And the interesting thing and I grabbed a story from
Fox News. Although I read like four or five different
stories about this, the Fox Business story that I read

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I thought was kind of interesting because they didn't just
talk about lost productivity. They also talked about how it
is sometimes counterintuitive to try and crack down on bracketology
in the office because it increases camaraderie in the office.
It gives people a chance to sort of talk about
something that isn't work related. And even people who don't

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watch basketball still somehow get cajoled into filling out a bracket.
And then there are those people who fill out like
twenty brackets. I used to work with a guy who
filled out twenty different at least twenty, maybe even more,
twenty different brackets every year, and to my knowledge, never
won any of them. And I don't even know how
you do that, right, I don't even know how you

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can be that bad at picking a bracket that you
never even won any of if you did twenty, Now,
a Ron, how many brackets are you going to fill
out this year for March Madness?

Speaker 6 (12:04):
You said that guy filled out like twenty twenty. Yeah, yeah,
that guy filled out twenty more than I'm gonna do
this year. Oh wow, I could not tell you the
last time I cared less about March Madness.

Speaker 4 (12:18):
And I don't know what it is.

Speaker 6 (12:19):
I've been trying to think about it. I'll think about
on the drive in. Actually, because Shooling and Dragon we're
talking about it. I just don't care about March.

Speaker 4 (12:27):
This year. I just didn't watch very much college basketball.

Speaker 6 (12:30):
I'm already for those that don't know, like on big
sports nut, but I'm really just not a big college
sports guy.

Speaker 4 (12:35):
I never have been.

Speaker 6 (12:37):
I was when I was at Metro State, you know,
when I was calling the games, I was really into
our D two sports.

Speaker 5 (12:43):
But I think D two if you yeah, I'm just
gonna say it, and there are D two people out
there who are gonna tell me I'm wrong. I'm gonna
so the D two people that I know generally shift
their allegiance to a larger D one school at some
point because nobody shows D two school sports, you know,
nobody shows So if you enjoy college sports, and I
love college basketball because I lived in Louisville, Kentucky, where

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college basketball is king, there's no second, there's I mean,
it is college basketball, and then way down you have
college football and that's where it goes in Kentucky. And
it was such a great environment. It was like you
go to a Cardinals game in Louisville and it's twenty
two thousand screaming Louisville fans the entire time, and I

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imagine this year has been amazing because after a few
years in the doghouse, their new coach has them really
really competitive now, So it's fun to watch again. But
I like watching college sports because I know the name
and likeness stuff is changing all that. But it used
to be that they were in it for the love
of the game and a college education, and so it
had a certain purity to it that the NFL doesn't have,

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simply because we're told over and over and over again
it's a business, just like the NBA. It's a business, right,
so decisions are made on business. I'm going to go
to that team because business wise, it makes more sense.
In college you to be there was a little more
purity to the entire thing, I thought, and I still
remain a college basketball fan. I watched maybe four games
this entire season, but I will watch a ton of

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games during the tournament.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
Two big things for me.

Speaker 6 (14:12):
Number one, Metro State didn't have football, and I honestly
respect to college basketball. I think majority of the big
schools in the country, like I think it starts a
lot with their football program, and for me, we just
didn't have football, so that was kind of that. And
number two, I just every time I try to watch
a big like college football game, as an example of

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college sports, every single one is a blowout. It's born
as hell most of the time. Like if I if
I'm getting wound up in any college football, it's usually
in preparation for you know, for the NFL Draft, for
the guys I'm looking in terms of prospects for the Broncos,
especially when they were in the market for a quarterback
for oh I don't know a decade.

Speaker 4 (14:48):
That was a big reason for it.

Speaker 6 (14:49):
But with college basketball, I mean, honestly, I got really
wrapped up last week with with with listening and watching
you know what I was what I was producing here
in the studio for the Buffs. Outside of that, honestly, Mandy,
I I don't think I watched much called basketball at all.
And that's coming from a guy who like five years ago,
to have a little more fun with D one basketball.

Speaker 4 (15:06):
I decided I was going to do a pick of.

Speaker 6 (15:09):
D one team because I never had one, and so
everyone gave me crap because I jumped on being a
Duke fan.

Speaker 4 (15:14):
Still don't care, though, still don't care.

Speaker 5 (15:17):
They're a great, great team and that is a beautiful
beautiful school. I mean, I love Duke And when I
went to Duke. When I was in college, I was
at Florida State and we went up to watch Florida
State basketball play Duke in Duke, right, So we drove up,
and I thought, if I had seen this school before
I went to Florida State, I probably would have gone
to Duke instead, assuming I could have gotten in and
paid for it, which those two things, you know, being

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what they are, it probably worked out that I just
went to Florida State. But it's a beautiful school, and
it was such a traditionally great program. Why wouldn't you
pick that if you're just going to pick one team.

Speaker 6 (15:48):
Yeah, and I loved coach k which I really wanted
to pick a really good head coach. I knew they
would be there for a while. Of course, any retired
a couple of years after I picked Duke, but oh no,
I had some fun with that for a few years.
But outside of that, I just I'm.

Speaker 4 (15:59):
Trying to fake it. But I just don't care.

Speaker 6 (16:01):
Probably won't watch much, not gonna do any brackets, you know,
if it's on the on a TV wherever I'm at.

Speaker 4 (16:05):
Over the next couple weeks. Sure, don't think. I'm probably
gonna go to the games this week here in Denver.
We'll see. I don't know, But are you doing any brackets?

Speaker 1 (16:13):
You know what?

Speaker 5 (16:13):
I always do one just to keep it interesting. Like
as I'm watching all these games of these schools that
I've never you know, I've heard of them all, but
I didn't watch a single game of theirs, I have
no idea who their players are. Just to keep it interesting,
I'll do a bracket of just blind almost like almost
flip a coin. Not all of it, because there are
certain teams that I, you know, are in my heart
at like this whole North Carolina thing. North Carolina gets

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in and they get in on history and name recognition.
Let's be real, okay, let's be honest about why North
Carolina is in this tournament right now.

Speaker 4 (16:42):
Having a USY guy on the committee helped, Well, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 5 (16:45):
They got in on reputation, and there's always a team
that gets in on reputation. It just happens, just like
the NCAA football playoff is always gonna let Alabama in
if they deserve it or not. Anyway, moving on. So
it's it's just fun and it's fun to kind of
run smack at each other, and then you walk in
the next day after the Cinderella team wins and everybody's like, oh,
my bracket is buzzed.

Speaker 4 (17:07):
I like it.

Speaker 5 (17:08):
I think it's fun. I'm not a sports gambler, so
I'm not going to ever pay to do a bracket,
but if I can find a freebie, and I actually
put a link on the blog today for a printable
bracket if you just want to print out a bracket
and do it that way, you can do it that
way without having to log in or do any of
that other stuff. But I just think this is such
a uniquely American sport. It's a uniquely American event. We've

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elevated it to this status. It's almost like the super
Bowl of college sports in a way, you know, which
is funny because it's basketball. But the playoff system is
still pretty unwieldy in the sense that fans have not
quite gotten that in terms of turning out for these
games and stuff like that. So this is well attended

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no matter who's playing because the way they've set it up,
so you have different regions, right, and the regions are
always regions that love basketball. So the games sell out,
they're exciting, they're fun. I mean, there's just a lot
going on, and I'm curious. I want to know for
my listeners, and you can text us on the Common
Spirit Health text line at five six six nine zero.
I want to know from you crazy bracket masters how

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many brackets you are going to fill out this year?
And if you're one of those people that's over ten,
do you win? Do you win with your ten brackets?
That's what I want to know. Do you win? Because
like I said, I knew a guy every year he
filled out like twenty and he wasn't an idiot by
the way, he wasn't a sports dummy. He was pretty
smart sports guy in the sense of, you know, had

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a feeling for what was going on. And I don't
know if you ever, ever ever are going to get
past that. And this year we've got CSU coming off
a big mountain, west Wind, really really fun to have
the RAMS in there, and it's just going to be
a fun tournament. So yeah, I'm gonna fill out a bracket,
but I'm wondering why you guys. Oh this texter just said, OMG,

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I know KAOI is the bus station. But if you
not noticed that CSU has been one of the most
talked about teams to go to the NCAA. They have
a player who is literally the only player mentioned by
name during the bracket announcements, Nick Clifford, who is expected
to go in the first round to the pros. And
this is guys, I just want to point out this
show is not a sports radio show, so to say
that I have paid attention to the CSU rams before

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the Mountain West tournament would be a lie.

Speaker 4 (19:24):
So there you go.

Speaker 5 (19:27):
Don't sleep on the Mountain West. We'll see what happens
on that. But it's it's all SEC ball in this bracket.
So if you don't know anything about SEC sports, you're
gonna have a hard time filling out your bracket. All right,
text me five, six, six, nine. Oh, A lot of
you already texting anyone doing AI brackets? Ask this texter,
So wait a minute, texter, are you talking about me

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going to AI and having Let's do that a rod,
Let's do that, let's track with let's have AI. Okay,
here's what we're gonna do. We'll do this a little
bit later in the show because we've got plenty of
time today. We got a full show, which I'm super
excited about. Let's do that. Like in the last, like
two thirty segment, you can pull up chat GBT on

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your computer there that you can run through the board
and we can just ask chat GPT about well, upload
the bracket. You know how to do that, right, Just
cut and paste, upload the bracket, fill it out for
us and see what chat GPT does and then see
how it does. We'll do that in the two thirty segment.
I think that's a great idea. Is that cheating? I mean,
I don't think so, because there's a lot of times.

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Here's the thing. If that's cheating, the knee flipping a
coin is cheating because I'm getting outside help and there
are often games where I'm always looking for the Cinderella upset.
You know, there's always that one fourteen or fifteen seed
that beats a one or two, not always a one,
but a two or maybe even a three against the thirteen.
You gotta find that. You gotta figure out what which
one of those teams is gonna win if you want

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to win the whole bracket, and you gotta just roll
the dice and say, okay, I think that's gonna be
an upset. Just fun, just fun, basketball ball rings, says
this dexter. You spelled soccer wrong, sir or madam. Yeah.
Golfer Rory McElroy has won three PGA events on Saint
Patrick's Day. The luck of the Irish maybe now this

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texter holy cow. Isn't it funny how everyone can be
Irish on Saint Patrick's Day, but we can't all be
black in February? Fair point, when we get back, let's
talk a little bit about Saint Patrick's Day where it
came from. I got some good history stuff. I find
this fascinating, and I checked in with my favorite irishmen
to find out what the differences are between here and Ireland.

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We'll have that for you right after this. You know,
growing up a Catholic, which in my small hometown made
us super weird because we were surrounded by Southern Baptists,
But we had Irish Catholic nuns, and they taught us
how to do the Irish jig. They were so strict,
they were so scary. They were not as scary as

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the American nuns that they replace them with. But these nuns,
Sister Anne, our principal, she looked severe and I'm just
gonna say, if you understand when someone says, well, they
have a severe look about them. She looked like she
could shoot lasers out of her eyes and kill you.
She never did, to my knowledge, she never actually killed
someone with lasers out of our ice, but it could

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have happened. But there was one time of year when
she let her softer side out. She would come out
after lunch. We would all be out on the playground
and we would be playing and doing things, and she
would go to the basketball court and invite everybody to
come over and learn how to do the Irish jig.
So then we created a little troop of Irish dancers
and I got to Irish perform Irish dance at different places.

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I mean, it was it was not nearly as sort
of majestic as these real Irish dancers that you see
now that are leaping into the air like maniacs and
moving their feet so quickly. It's just it makes my
ankles hurt. I'm not gonna lie, but it was kind
of an interesting view into Ireland. And I remember asking her,

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even as a small child, I said, do you guys
celebrate Saint Patrick's Day in Ireland? And she said, we do,
but it's a day of feasting, it's a religious holiday. Now,
this was back in the nineteen seventies, right, so fast
forward to today, we all know that Saint Patrick's Day
for some reason. It's the same reason that we have
adopted Cinco de Mayo. Right, Cinco de Mayo isn't even

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like a really important Mexican holiday, and yet Americans are
all like, hey, yeah, Cinco de Mayo, We're gonna go out,
We're gonna have It's just because we've made it a
drinking holiday. That's part of it. I truly believe this.
But the second part of this is is that we've
had enough waves of migration to the United States of

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America from Ireland that about nine point five percent of
our population has some sort of Irish ancestry. That's a
pretty big number. I mean, you're talking about almost thirty
three million peace people, right, So we actually have more
people of Irish descent than Ireland has citizens. They got

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like I think it's like six million, roughly citizens in
Ireland right now. And so we have more people of
Irish descent in the United States. And just like everything
we do in the United States, we take something and
we make it big. We make it huge, because that's
what we do. You give us something, you give us
the coassault, We're gonna make the Chris sandwich, right, I mean,

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we're just gonna make it better. It's what we do
over here in America. And today the river is green
in Chicago. I'm still not quite sure how that happens.
And there are parties and festivities and parades and everything else.
And there was parade here over the weekend in Denver,
And I mean, we've just leaned in on this cultural moment.
And the reason I put it like that is because

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something that's really significant about Saint Patrick's Day. And I
read several articles about Saint Patrick's Day and how it
became such a huge thing in the United States, and
there's a couple different reasons.

Speaker 4 (25:01):
One.

Speaker 5 (25:02):
First of all, this is kind of interesting. The first
Saint Patrick's Day celebration was held in the United States.
Where do you think the first celebration was ever held?
A roder? Just take a guess what city held the
first Saint Patrick's Day celebration.

Speaker 4 (25:17):
In the US.

Speaker 5 (25:18):
Yes, Austin, You are not right, but that's a really
reasonable guess. The first Saint Patrick's Day celebration took place
in Saint Augustine, Florida in sixteen oh five. Yeah yeah,
because Saint Patrick. Just to give you an idea of
who this was, Saint Patrick is the patron Saint of Ireland.

(25:39):
He was actually a Welshman who was captured into slavery
back when the Romans. Actually the Roman Empire stretched all
across the United Kingdom, so that was all part of
the Roman Empire. He was kidnapped and taken to France
where he was made a slave for six years, and
then he was freed somehow where details are a little sketchy,

(25:59):
but he went back to Ireland and they were the
ones who captured him and sold him into slavery. But
he was like, you know what, I love you anyway, Ireland.
As a matter of fact, I'm going to come back
to Ireland and I'm going to convert all of these
people into Catholics because they were Pagans at the time,
because they were part of the Roman Empire. So he
is the one that proselytized, evangelized and turned Ireland into

(26:20):
the staunch Irish nation that it is. Well, it remains
an Irish nation, but I wouldn't say staunch Irish nation,
but it's an Irish Catholic nation for the most part.
And he is also credited with driving the snakes out
of Ireland, because they don't have snakes in Ireland. But
the reality is that was probably just a metaphor. That

(26:42):
metaphor he was running around in the sixth century, so
in the five hundreds around there somewhere, and by the way,
oh I'm sorry, fifth century, fifth century is when he
was around, and there was some question about whether or
not we're talking about actual snakes or if that was
just a metaphor for paganism, because he was so successful
in driving paganism out of Ireland, and they then refer

(27:05):
to paganism as the snakes. So Saint Patrick's starting in
about the twelfth century, was credited with driving the snakes
out of Ireland, but that might have just been a
metaphor for paganism. So we're not quite sure. By the way,
all of this stuff we think we know super dodgy,
we really don't know. It's not even clear that he
was actually a Catholic bishop. He claimed to be a

(27:28):
Catholic bishop, but the well, he might not have been.
But nonetheless, to your point, a Rod Boston, when a
lot of Irish immigrants showed up in Boston, they were
not necessarily treated very well. They were treated quite poorly.
No one wanted to hire the Irish. The Irish were
coming over and taking everybody's jobs. And that's why so

(27:49):
many irishmen became cops because they could get hired by
the police department at a time when it was very
difficult to get hired as an Irish immigrant. And Boston
had the first Saint Patrick's Day celebration as a way
to instill and share their pride with their country, of
their former country, with other Americans. And here's the kicker,
this is where it gets really good. They invited everyone

(28:11):
to celebrate with them, and they invited everyone to participate.
They invited everyone to embrace their stuff. That's why when
you see some guy it's clearly Hispanic in origin wearing
a kiss me on the Irish shirt today, no one
in Ireland gets mad. They just want to share the

(28:32):
celebration with us. We are going to take a quick
time out, be right back right after this. Mandy from
Ralph he said, Pagans are snakes. Lol, Hits, I'm not
a pagan. I'm becoming more Catholic each day. So and
somebody pointed out yellow dye in the Chicago River to
make it green. They live close to the Irish Heritage

(28:52):
Center in Chicago. Always went there often. Girlfriend was one
hundred percent Irish Coronell, Colonel in the Army, redhead with
blue eyes, gorgeous. We did drink a lot. You know,
there are certain stereotypes that are accurate, and Irish drinkers
is one of those things that is that is accurate.

(29:12):
It is definitely accurate. I have a question about something
for this short segment that I want to throw out
there because there was a very interesting article today. I
grabbed it on MSN dot com, but it was originally
from the Washington Post. Are parties dead now? Arod? I'm
gonna ask you to hold your fire because I know
you and your wife love to entertain So you are

(29:34):
currently on the outlier side of this conversation. Yes, the
headline party city is closing and champagne sales are down.
Are parties dying too? So listen to this. This is
the second paragraph. But the vibes are off. People say,
ever since the pandemic, parties are not what they used

(29:54):
to be instead of flitting from table to table, because
some guests cower with their phones in the corners. If
they show up at all, people seem more excited to
stay home than go out. A viral TikTok memes celebrates
the relief and delight of plans getting canceled at the
last minute. In nightlife hotspots like New York and London,
clubs are shutting down, Champagne sales are tanking, according to CNN,

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and those threatened to two hundred percent tariffs probably won't
make things better. In a rather on the nose development,
party City, once the go to sprite for party paraphernalia
like theme hats, paper napkins, goodie bag stuffers, and shimmery banners,
is going out of business and they're asking the question
is the party dead or is it just hibernating? And

(30:39):
I find this very interesting because I used to love
to throw a party. My mom was an excellent entertainer
in my childhood and as she said, back when she
was young and have young kids, and my dad was
a young lawyer. The wives in that group, they competed
by birthday parties, but it wasn't the extravagant things that

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we see now. As a matter of fact, I sent
myself a story on Friday I forgot to put on
the blog today about now parents are putting out a
tip jar at children's birthday parties, asking or on the invitation,
they send thing like, oh, if your child's going to
eat or play in the bounce house, we're gonna need
you to bring a little extra cash. And I'm thinking

(31:23):
to myself, this is not what parties are about. If
you can't afford that stuff on your own, don't do it.
You can have a kid's birthday party without a bounce house.
I know it's crazy, I know, but what we've done
is create the perception that you have to have this
over the top thing, when in reality, a great party
can be a pot luck where you're asking people to

(31:45):
bring over. Hey, bring over a side dish. We've got
the main course. You bring over a side dish, you
bring a dessert, you bring this a gathering of people,
a barbecue, whatever. But nobody's even doing that anymore, or
I'm just not getting invited.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (31:58):
Well, one of the reasons I said given parties is
because the parties got so big that it was exhausting
to plan them. And then when literally no one out
of the hundreds something people that were in your home
ever reciprocate in any way, shape or form, It's like,
why am I doing this? You know, why am I
doing this? So I don't know our party's dead. I'd
like to know. Six nine text me Katin going they

(32:21):
are alive And well, well, you guys are the outliers.
You mean you really are?

Speaker 6 (32:25):
Well it's well twofold number one. Yes, we are the outliers.
We like to host the big ones. But there is
a really valid point you make in terms of extravagance,
because people like us.

Speaker 4 (32:35):
Like to go all out.

Speaker 6 (32:35):
But if I know anything of the lost time when
my wife is going through all of the bookings and
quotes for their family business, everyone's still doing the big parties.
But again back to the point about extravagance, and they
don't mind because it makes it more of an expensive
party for the big gender reveals and all the.

Speaker 4 (32:54):
Fun parties are doing.

Speaker 6 (32:55):
But that is a valid point in terms of extravagance,
where it could be dialed back of the number of parties,
but dialed up in terms of the quality of the party.
So I think and also by the way it's marked,
so this article is like during the hibernation period during
the winter, because now everyone's coming out of the woodwork
again as it warms up.

Speaker 5 (33:12):
Well, the issue that I have with the big spectacular
party is two things. Number One, you have cost as
a factor. We threw a massive banger for Chuck for
his sixtieth birthday. It cost a fortune. There was one
hundred and sixty something people there and it was like
a wedding. I talked to everybody for two minutes.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
That was it.

Speaker 5 (33:29):
I don't like that. I don't like not being able
to have a conversation with our guests. I'm at the
point now where it's like I want smaller and quality
rather than bigger and no chance to talk to anybody
because there's so many people.

Speaker 4 (33:43):
We're getting there.

Speaker 6 (33:43):
We do the big bashes like you know, a couple
of times a year, but honestly, like the sweet spot,
like you know, got like four or five couples that
eight to ten is like perfect because you.

Speaker 4 (33:55):
Don't get that, because I'm glad you brought that up,
because I hate that too. When you have the big party,
you can't really talk to anyone for long.

Speaker 6 (34:00):
Ore time you said, oh I saw you for thirty
seven seconds and then I had to move on.

Speaker 9 (34:05):
It's like a wedding.

Speaker 5 (34:06):
I mean, when you get married, you talk to everybody
for four seconds.

Speaker 4 (34:10):
Yep, you know. Yeah, not about those you know, you
have to have them, you know, for a big birthday
like that or wedding.

Speaker 6 (34:15):
You have to have them, but you don't want to
have them in terms of like if you had the
preference of hanging out with people quality time, you know,
building relationships like that just doesn't work with those big ones.

Speaker 5 (34:25):
Nope. So I'm just wondering, do you do any of
you have parties? And if so, why haven't you invited me?
I mean I probably won't come. I probably won't come.
I'm just letting you know. I just want to be invited.
I don't actually want to show up. I just I'm
just asking.

Speaker 4 (34:38):
At Day Blower's birthday, can we have another Dave Blower birthday?
Because that was fun? Can we do that?

Speaker 7 (34:41):
Out?

Speaker 5 (34:42):
Was fun?

Speaker 8 (34:42):
We do?

Speaker 5 (34:42):
It was very fun. Well, you know he's got to
return my calls first. Anyway, awkward, we are going to
take your time out when we get back. Sherry Pie
from Complete Colorado has a fascinating story about two plumb
positions that were created at CEU, specifically for politicians or
politicos who are on the outs when they're parties out

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of power. We're going to talk to her about that next.

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Speaker 5 (35:37):
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I get to do the show from Talking Sick and
it is. That stadium is so nice. I get to
sit in the booth where Jack and Jerry sit, where

(35:58):
I sat with him yesterday. I'm gonna have Jesse Thomas
on the show. He doesn't know that yet. I got
to find out about his Waimo experience. These Wimo driverless
cars are everywhere. More on that now. But I want
to bring my friend and crack reporter from Complete Colorado
dot Com Sherrypife on the show today about her story
that I just realized I did not put the link on.

(36:19):
When I will fix that momentarily about some really interesting,
well let's just say, placements at CEU that have to
do with washed up politicos. Sherry, Welcome to the show.
How you doing.

Speaker 7 (36:35):
I'm doing great, Thanks, Mandy, how are you?

Speaker 5 (36:37):
I'm doing excellent. So I saw this story when it
came out Friday, and honestly, I wish I could say
I were surprised. I'm not, but the way this has
gone down is a little bit surprising in that it
seems rather uh gosh, what's the word I'm looking for

(37:00):
to blatant? I guess is the word that I'm looking
for that maybe they would have tried to hide the
fact that politicos are getting plush jobs at CU, but
they didn't so tell the listening audience what we're talking
about here.

Speaker 7 (37:14):
Well, and I think that's exactly it. I mean, I
don't think anybody would be surprised to know that when
CU does it's hiring, that they hire liberal, progressive folks
for those positions. I mean, that's just historically that's what
universities do, especially CEU. But what Connor I was when
the most recent vice chancellor was hired, and he was

(37:38):
a former sustainability officer in multiple different positions under the
Joe Biden administration, and then the timing of his job
at CU, which he was hired to do sustainability stuff
as well. The timing of his job at CU started
almost immediately following the ending of the Biden administration. Pub

(38:00):
but there was you know the good yeah, right exactly,
And it was a position that was created, So it
was a newly created position that started immediately after his
position ended under the Biden administration, of which he also
worked for Obama and Clinton as well. But not only
that was there was some there was some reports when

(38:22):
he was initially hired. There was some reports in some
other newspapers about some of the CU regents being extremely
frustrated because he was the only applicant that they brought forward.
So when they brought forward here's who we're going to
choose from, he was the only one brought forward. So
you add to okay, there was a newly adopted position
or a newly created position. The guy came from an

(38:45):
administration that just ended and he's making over three hundred
and fifty thousand dollars a year, I think is what
is in the story. It was that was surprising in
and of itself. But then the thing you know about
Complete Colorado is where owned by the Independence Institute and
people there have been there for a very long time,
so there's a lot of institutional knowledge going on. And

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somebody at I was like, you know, I think this
is what happened when Ed Pearl Mutters stepped down.

Speaker 4 (39:14):
Yep.

Speaker 7 (39:14):
So sure enough we went back and we looked. Sure enough,
when Ed Pearl Mutter decided not to run for reelection,
his chief of staff landed at CU for almost over
or actually for over four hundred thousand dollars a year
when you factor in benefits and everything. And that was
a newly created position that she started right after pro

(39:36):
Mutter was done, and you know, Britney Peterson was sworn
into that office. So now we've got two jobs in
a matter of two or three years, four years, however
long it's been. The pro Mutter has been out where
CU has created positions four people who are losing their
job in the in DC. And these are healthy positions.

(39:59):
I mean, the two jobs together are over seven hundred
and fifty thousand dollars a year.

Speaker 5 (40:05):
There's some of the highest I mean for jobs. What
I'm looking at is there's some of the highest paid
for someone who's not an admin. Right, I mean, these
are jobs that don't necessarily oversee any students or departments
or anything like that. These are these are I mean,
they're administrative positions, but they're not directly in the line
of educational purpose. Do you know what I'm You know

(40:27):
what I'm saying. They're they're working in the in a
different part of CU. Let me ask you this.

Speaker 7 (40:33):
They're an administration, Yeah, we're in administration. They're not they're
not contacting with the students. Yes, And I think the
gal that was hired from the pro minor administration. At
the time she was hired, she was the fourth highest
paid employee at CU Boulder, and she was like three
hundred and twenty five thousand dollars a year. Well, I know,

(40:53):
from having considered being going into positions with US congressional folks,
when I've looked at and talked to people about starting salaries,
guaranteed she was not making three hundred and twenty five thousand.

Speaker 9 (41:07):
Dollars as ed Pearlmetter's chief of staff.

Speaker 7 (41:10):
She was probably making around half that, maybe a.

Speaker 5 (41:13):
Little bit more, but not that.

Speaker 7 (41:16):
And so these people are coming out of these positions
and they're doubling for incoming in some cases for positions
that see you is creating, and it thinks of creating
for them, you know, because it just I'm not saying
they are because I don't know that, but when you
add it all up, that's what it looks like. And

(41:38):
then at the end of the day, when I'm calling
people that I know that are close to this situation,
going what is going on, I learned that they have
created another position that they have just opened up for
yet another guy who worked under Michael Bennett before he
went and worked under Michael Hancock, and now he's going

(42:00):
to be at VSU. Don't are at to you or
excuse me, I don't know what his salary and stuff was,
because that position is so new that when I called
to you, even the folks in the communications department had
not heard his name. Oh my god, guarantee he's been hired.
I guarantee he's been hired. Here is due to start

(42:20):
I think sometime middle of March, and I'm waiting to
find out because there's also a position in the media
in the communications department that is yet to be filled.
I'll be curious to see who fails that one, because
it's so clear that that.

Speaker 9 (42:35):
Is that's at least the pattern.

Speaker 5 (42:39):
So here's my question, Sherry.

Speaker 4 (42:40):
My question is this.

Speaker 5 (42:41):
You said only one candidate was presented to the committee.
Who decides which candidates get to that point where they
are then submitted to the committee, And does the committee
have the right to say, we're not hiring this person,
go find more candidates.

Speaker 7 (43:00):
You know, usually, and I can't speak for CEU, but
I can speak for experience in dealing with higher education, Generally,
when there's a position that is open, you'll have hiring committees.
So you'll have a committee of people that consists of
various department.

Speaker 9 (43:15):
Heads, faculty heads, even.

Speaker 7 (43:18):
Even just hourly staffers. They won't put together this hiring
committee so that when you go in, you do your
interview with them, and then that hiring committee gets back
together and they talk about all of.

Speaker 9 (43:29):
Their candidates, and they take a look at who they've.

Speaker 7 (43:31):
Got, and then they'll generally narrow that down to the
top two or three candidates who they will then send
on to the next phase of the hiring procedure, which
in many cases is the board of trustees, the board
of governors, whatever it is that oversees that particular college.
So in this case, if that's the way so you

(43:52):
handled it's hiring, then they would have narrowed it down
to just that one candidate and taken that one candidate
to the Board of Trustee and said this is who
we have to choose from. So you're telling me that
only one person to me, if you're going to only
take one application to the Board of Trustees or to
excuse me, to the CU regents, if you're only going

(44:12):
to take one application to the CU regents and say
this is what we have, you're telling me you only
have one application, because I would hope that you would
have more than one person for the regents to choose from.

Speaker 5 (44:23):
Exactly the application was the job publicized and if so,
this is how they do this, sary. And I was
told this by someone who worked for a different university system.
Not see you, but when I asked a specific question
about a certain job that had been filled by someone
that I thought was ill suited for the role, and

(44:44):
they told me that they coded the job posting incorrectly,
So say it was a job posting in accounting, right,
so instead of posting in an accounting they posted in engineering,
so no accountants would look for it in the engineering section.
But guess you did their preferred candidate. So that's how
they got around it. They quote posted it, but they

(45:05):
posted it in the wrong place where no one looking
in that place would apply.

Speaker 7 (45:11):
And if you remember correctly, because I remember being on
your show talking about another story a couple of years
ago when Ian Selveri landed that cock with Jefferson County,
So that is exactly how Ian Silvery landed that contract
was because the Jefferson County Department, the woman who's in
charge of posting those bids because those jobs have to

(45:33):
go out for bid, and the woman who was in
charge of posting that coded it incorrectly and posted it
in a position that in a spot on the thing
that nobody else would look for it. So at the
end of the day there was only two applicants and
one applicant, Ian Silveri's price came in way below the

(45:54):
other applicant, so that of course we're going to hire him. Yeah,
this is the motives apparandi of the Democrats. This is
how they do things. They post positions in places they're
not supposed to be posted. They can say they were posted.
And then there's a phone call made to somebody that said, hey,
you know, I don't wanted to check out this job.

Speaker 5 (46:13):
Did you talk to anybody at see you about this
or did you do any CORRA requests?

Speaker 7 (46:18):
To dig a little deeper, yeah, I did do a
corper request. Well, I did a CORPS request on the
chancellor's salary, the vice chancellor salary, because that was not
reported anywhere, and initially it took me forever in a
day to get a response back, and then I finally
got a response back with his salary and a request
that future CORPRA requests go to this particular position. And

(46:41):
then when I then inquired about the newly created position
with the Denver Metro Regional officer, I sent it directly
to where she had told me, and I'm sorry I
cannot remember her name, but I sent it to where
she had told me to send these previous requests. Immediately
responded back and said, I don't know who this person is.

(47:03):
I've never heard of them.

Speaker 9 (47:04):
You're gonna have to file a COORRA request.

Speaker 5 (47:06):
Well, okay, so the old switcheroo Sherry right, And actually I.

Speaker 7 (47:13):
Never filed initially. I never filed a quorra request because
the information that I was looking for is not something
that you're going to find in a quorra. I would
have had to korra like a contract or something. All
I wanted to know was how much he was making,
because at the end of the day, what his contract
says is irrelevant. Here's the job, Here's what he's making.
That's what the story was about. So I just asked

(47:35):
the question, can you tell me how much? So they
responded to that one, you know, after literally over a week,
and then told me to go here next time. So
I go where they told me to go the next time,
and I get a response back that says, you're gonna
have to file a CORA request or it's not a quorra.

Speaker 5 (47:52):
There's sary. Why can't we Why can't we quorra where
this was posted? I want to know where this job
you're telling me, For a job that make that kind
of money in a university system, you're telling me one
applicant apply, one one qualified applicant applied for these jobs.

Speaker 7 (48:08):
You know that's crazy and that core Yeah, that core
a request would be would would look very would So
if you filed that quarter request, which no, I did not,
but if.

Speaker 9 (48:19):
You filed that CORRA request, that core request could.

Speaker 7 (48:22):
Read something to the effect of, I want copies of
all of the applications that were submitted to see you
Boulder for this job. Yes, and that's what they would have.
Then they could then they would have to send you
the applications. That's going to be another fight on your
hands because then you're going to fight with CU over
what is legal and what's.

Speaker 5 (48:41):
Not legal to send you personal decisions.

Speaker 7 (48:43):
Courts, Yeah, courts have have ruled consistently that those are
open to the public. But in my past experience with CU,
getting information out of CEU is like pulling peace. It
just it just doesn't they find every Like I said,
you know, they sent me on a wild goose chase
just for this this small five hundred story, just to

(49:05):
let people know what's going on at se You now
a follow up story. It would probably take a month
of Sundays to get that elation out of them.

Speaker 5 (49:12):
If you got it, yeah, I need that is so
you know, This is so disheartening on so many levels, Sherry,
because you know, I want our universities to be sort
of these, these islands of academic freedom and bastions of
deep and robust discussions about difficult topics. But the more
that the administration is politicized, and when you bring in

(49:32):
nakedly partisan people who has made their entire careers supporting
candidates of one party, it gets harder and hard to
believe that that's even possible on these campuses. And this
is the kind of stuff that makes me crazy, because
there seems to be some kind of straight line between
democratic politics and CU Boulder, and I just want to

(49:53):
know where who started the straight line on the other.

Speaker 9 (49:56):
Side, right exactly?

Speaker 7 (49:58):
And I actually had that conversation with somebody when I said,
you need to know, please know that we would be
doing a story at Complete Colorado if all three of
these candidates that were hired were all three Republicans, and
all I had worked for as strategists for Republicans as well,
because nobody reads this story, can read this story, and
I don't care what side of the aisle you're on,

(50:19):
you can't read this story and go, oh, these are
just coincidences. No, they didn't hire just Democrats supporters. They
didn't hire just liberals. They literally hired people who had
just left their job as a Democrat strategist for an
elected official in Washington, d C. Even this guy that,

(50:44):
this Nigel, that has been hired for this other job
worked for Michael Bennett. Then he went and worked for
Michael Hancock. They are purposely hiring democratic strategists for these physicians.

Speaker 5 (51:00):
Yep. And that does not scream. You know, everybody has
the same academic freedom at CU Boulder. Cherry Price a
great story. I did fix the link so now it
is linked on my blog. You can always find her
work at Complete Colorado dot com. This is Sherry. There's
got to be a dartboard with your face on it
at many educational institutions at this point, between you and

(51:22):
Jimmy Segenberger, we're we're gonna yank this thing right before
too long, I hope. So man, Yeah, all right, thanks Sherry.
I appreciate the time today and the work on this story.
And again it's like, you know, I just had this
conversation with my son who was kind of pushing back
on the notion that universities have become echo chambers to

(51:44):
a certain extent. And he said, you know, I was
a libertarian at my school. I'm like, libertarian is much
different than conservative. And the reality is is that conservative
students are being cowed into silence, and for that matter,
centrist students, students who are just moderate, who just want
to go and get an education, they're being cowed into silence.
They're not allowed to express their opinions or their teachers

(52:06):
going to dock them a grade point. And frankly, these
kids are like not worth it. I'm just going to
keep my mouth shut, which creates an even more a
larger echo chamber when there's no pushback. I got an
email from someone whose kid is in a Jefferson County
high school and they said, in art class last week,
a teacher used the whiteboard. In art, teacher use the

(52:28):
whiteboard to write down all the bad things that Donald
Trump had done. And I'm thinking to myself in art class,
we have to fix that. First of all, kids are
not getting a good education right now, especially in K
through twelve. Look at the test results. But secondarily, we're
basically telling kids they have to believe this one way
or they're going to be penalized for it. That's not freedom,

(52:52):
that's not inspiring vigorous debate. That's extorting students to say
what you want them to say in order to get
a grade that they need to move forward. And it's
just it's kind of stop. We've ruined our university system.
Socrates is rolling over in his grave right now, rolling
over in his grave. I tell you, Okay, when we

(53:12):
get back, I want to do this story. I've got
a couple stories of like things to watch out for,
but one of these stories from I think CBS did
this story. It is about loans that are being offered online.
And if you are someone who's a little tight on
money and maybe you don't have great credit, maybe you'll
be tempted to look at some of these online lenders.

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Holy cow, don't do anything until you hear this next
story talk about taking advantage of people with bad credit.
We'll do that right after this. Keep it on. KOA.
So I saw this story today and I'm a little
bit horrified by this. And let me just say this.
I've been the person with bad credit who needed a loan,
who got absolutely crushed by interest rates. Like I've had

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that experience, and it seems patently unfair when you're the
person news broke, that you should have to pay higher
interest rates because you're broke, right, it seems counter into it,
But the reality is is that people who are broke
are more likely to default on a loan. It's just
the way it works out. But there should be limits
right about how much you can sort of snooker poor

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people for who need money. And this story is a
whopper and it's brought something to my attention I had
no idea about. So this is from our friends at
CBS four. A woman needed a couple of thousand dollars
to help buy a car. In February, she went online
and stumbled on a loan and went ahead and signed

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up for it. His daughters or She signed up for
a two thousand dollars loan with an online lender called
with You Loans WithU Loans. The payment schedule called for
her to pay more than eight hundred bucks per month
for nine months. That meant she was paying six thousand,

(55:09):
three hundred and seventy dollars and nineteen cents in interest
for her two thousand dollars loan. Now, if you can't
do the math, really quickly, as I can't do the
math really quickly. That is a five hundred and eighty
one percent interest rate for her two thousand dollars loan.

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And you know, honestly, people who live in poverty are
generally not good with financial things, right. They never really
understood compound interests. They've never really had this stuff explained
to them because most of the time they're coming from
poverty being taught by poor people how to manage money.
That's not very much there, right, So there's a whole,
whole like lack of stuff. Now what surprises me is

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that the guy that called CBS four is her dad,
and her dad has been a mortgage broker for thirty years.
And I will say this, and I've said it before
in the air, I love my parents. I absolutely love
both of them. But one area where they failed me
spectacularly was anything related to money management. So maybe this

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is a similar situation. But even I would not have
signed up for a loan like this. Now, how can
they do this? Because Colorado has a law that CAP's
interest rates at less than forty percent, okay, so anything
above that is considered usually, which is charging some of
an exorbitant amount of interest like the mob does, right,

(56:36):
I mean, you borrow one hundred bucks from the mob,
you're paying back a thousand kind of thing. I'm assuming
I've never actually borrowed money from the mob. I thought
about it, but I don't know any mobsters, so I
decided not to the with you loan. The online lender
is operated by the Otteau Missouria tribe, and as an

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Indian tribe, they are generally exempt from state laws that
prohibit exorbitant interest rates. What they're doing is perfectly legal,
So as long as you're acting as a tribal entity,
you're not subject to regulations of the state. I guess
this is just one way for the Indians to get
back to the white man. I don't know. I mean,

(57:17):
I'm not saying it's a bad way. But the reason
I'm doing this story is like, you probably need to
spread the word. We all know, we should know at
this stage in the game that things like payday loans,
you cash advanced loans, they are predatory. They're considered predatory
loans because the interest rates are so high. Now I

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already mentioned I understand why you have high interest rates
on people that have bad credit scores, because they are
far more likely to default on those loans. I don't
know how much more likely, but it's significant enough. But
I do think that there's a point when to charge
more than that is just wildly on ethic. And this

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is one of those things. I genuinely put this in
the same category as the scammers who spend their entire
days and nights from some little dark room in Nigeria
trying to part Americans from their money and ripping off
old people. This is kind of the same thing. I mean,
it's absolutely ridiculous. I don't even understand how you sleep

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at night, and I'm sure that they have. They have
couched themselves in the position of we are helping people
who could not get alone otherwise, which is a valid
a valid business plan. But charging forty percent interest annually,
not five hundred and eighty one percent interest annually, and
just some big native dude come over and beat you

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up if you don't pay it back. No, they just
further wreck your credit.

Speaker 7 (58:49):
You know.

Speaker 5 (58:49):
I'm all for people making money. I really am, Like
I'm a capitalist at heart. I feel really good about that.
I feel great about it.

Speaker 8 (58:56):
But this is the thing.

Speaker 5 (58:57):
Companies like this exist to feed on people who are
hopeless and feel like they have no other options, and
maybe they don't, maybe their credit is so bad that
this is the only option that they have. But charging
that much interest, I just find incredibly deeply immoral, and

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I just I don't think I could do it. I mean,
there's certain jobs that I personally could not do because
it would create a situation for me that morally I
would not be able to handle. This is one of them.
I could never work for a company that was blatantly
ripping people off like this, and blatantly because they can.

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And that's the kicker, right, I mean, they're only doing
it because they can. If they were under the laws
of Colorado, then they would be subject to a forty
percent cap now, Doctor Catherine spilled, I don't know if
that's how you say it, a California based professor who
specializes in American economic development, said tribal loans provide geographic
isolated tribal nations with revenue needed for housing, education, healthcare,

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and law enforcement. She said, I do think it's a
win win, especially when you think that the tribe what
the tribes are using it for. Based on that logic,
then anyone should be able to open, you know, an
online you know loan operation and charge whatever interest they
want to charge, as long as they do it for

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something that someone else deems valuable. So if I want
to create this this online loan situation and I want
to charge one thousand percent interest, but then I make
donations to the right charities, it still doesn't make it right,
regardless of what you're doing. By the way, the online

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review platform trust Pilot said seventy one percent of with
You Loans reviewers gave the service a five star review.
Eighteen percent gave it one star. One reviewer wrote, the
interest is so evil. You're flat out robbing people who
need help. You should be absolutely ashamed of your greed.
The Better Business Bureau in Oklahoma City has given with

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You loans in F grade. The BBB has received three
hundred and forty three complaints against the lender. In Colorado,
when resident filed complaint with a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
about an unnamed tribal lender, he said he took out
a tribal loan that carried a four hundred and forty
seven percent interest rate.

Speaker 7 (01:01:29):
Do not.

Speaker 5 (01:01:31):
Do not sign up for any online loan without a
full understanding of what you're signing up for. Now, I
consider you warned from this point forward, So now spread
the word. I mean, these are just these are just
really really bad news. Speaking of cash, what happens when

(01:01:51):
a country goes almost fully cashless sounds like utopia, but
in reality it's now become a national a national security issue.
I'll explain when we get back. Keep it on, Koa,
I've got this story and I have finally a rob
you'd be very proud of me. I am also exclusively
using my digital wallet when I travel now, like I

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don't even carry anything else. I've got my credit cards
loaded in there by being by a boom. Here's my phone,
let me pay. And now I even get like a
little bit salty when someone says, oh, we don't have
tap to pay, I'm like, what me too? What are
we even doing here?

Speaker 9 (01:02:25):
Right?

Speaker 5 (01:02:25):
So what's wrong with you people? And then I storm
out in a fit. No, I'm just kidding out of
do any of that. But listen to this. This is
this is really really interesting. In twenty eighteen, a former
deputy governor of Sweden's Central Bank predicted that by twenty
twenty five, Sweden would be completely cashless. Seven years on,
the prediction has turned out to be very much true.

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Just one in ten purchases are made with cash and
card is the most common form of payment, followed by
Swedish mobile payment systems Swish, launched by six banks in
twenty twelve and now ubiquitous. Other mobile phone payment services
are also growing quickly. In fact, according to the Central
Bank's Animal Payments Report published this month, Sweden and Norway

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have the lowest amount of cash in circulation as a
percentage of GDP in the world. So not only are
people not using cash, they don't even have cash. So
I guess they don't have the big bin of quarters
like I do. How much do you think you have
in your change jar right now? A rod? And you
better tell me you have a change jar.

Speaker 4 (01:03:28):
I'm going to qualify the little part in my car that.

Speaker 5 (01:03:32):
Is my change drawer that is so upsetting to me.

Speaker 4 (01:03:36):
Yeah, you know I have that.

Speaker 5 (01:03:37):
Certain years we just had to move my change bucket
into a bigger bucket because it was full of change.
I probably have one hundred and thirty bucks in that
change bucket right now. That's my guess. I'll take it
to one of the thing of the jiggy's and cash
it in and find out because I want to know
in any case. Now in Sweden this has become a
problem in the context of today, with the war end Europe,

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unpredictability in the US and the fear of Russian hybrid
attacks almost a part of daily life in Sweden. Life
without cash is not proving the utopia that perhaps it
was once promised to be, and then it goes on.
The Central Bank said, look, measures need to be taken
to strengthen preparedness and reduce exclusion so that everyone can

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pay even in the event of crisis or war. For years,
it says, efficiency has been the priority for payments, but
now safety and accessibility are at least as important. In December,
the government published the findings of an inquiry that proposed
that some public and private agents should be required to
accept cash, a recommendation that the Central Bank says the

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authorities should implement. So here's what they're worried about. They're
worried about something happening, a cyber attack that takes down
their system and all of a sudden, no one can
buy anything because no one has cash. This is one
of those things, like a rod you don't ever carry cash.
You we've talked about this before. You carry like fifty bucks.

Speaker 4 (01:05:04):
Is that what you're saying? Roughly?

Speaker 5 (01:05:05):
Yeah, I don't necessarily carry a lot of cash, but
I have access to cash. Let me just say that
we have cash available to us, because I don't want
to get into a situation. And I've experienced this after
a hurricane in Florida when nobody has power, but Publix
is still selling food because they have generators. But the

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credit card systems are down, right, so they can sell
stuff because they got generators in the store, but the
credit card lines are down. The only way to pay
us with cash. So I kind of have that mentality.
But I think younger generations they don't think about this
stuff at all, and I think that is a very
big problem. And this is what I'd recommend for young people.

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And even if you're broke, right, you're super broke. Every week,
take five dollars, take ten dollars. You put it in
an envelope, You hide it under your mattress or wherever
your super secret hiding place is, and every week you
add to it and add to it and add to it.
If you can't go out and afford to pull out
a few hundred bucks, you know, then do this a
little bit out of time. Now you've done two things.
You're making sure you have cash, but you're also saving money,

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so there's a win win there. So Norway's former Justice
and Emergencies ministers put it in clear terms. If no
one pays with cash and no one accepts cash, cash
will no longer be a real emergency situation once the
crisis is upon us. Take it to heart from the

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folks in Sweden. Get yourself some cash and call it
a day. We'll be right back to talk about two things.
Mahmud Khalil and him being kicked out of the country
and others being kicked out as well. And oat milk
it's not healthy. We'll do all that next. Keep it
on KOA.

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Speaker 5 (01:07:04):
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Speaker 5 (01:07:14):
Welcome to the third hour of the program. Time is
flying today on the Big Show. A couple of you
who hit the text line after that news Mandy do
so do judges have power over the president? And I
heard two things in the news that I want to
comment on, and then we're going to talk about Machwood Khalil.
One of them is all of this stuff that's happening

(01:07:37):
in the courts right now is going to end up
either being affirmed, rejected, or heard by the Supreme Supreme Court.
Right it's all of these federal judges that Democrats have
been listed to try and stop the Trump administration from
doing what the Trump administration is doing. They are going
to eventually have to be settled because I don't think

(01:08:00):
a circuit court judge has more power than the president
of the United States.

Speaker 9 (01:08:04):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:08:05):
Don't think I'm immediately taking Trump's side there, right, I'm not.
Because there are a lot of things he's doing that
I think are really sound and can be backed up,
especially if we have a regionalist justices on the Supreme Court.
But there's some things that he's doing that I'm like,
you know, I think we might be playing fast and

(01:08:25):
loose with that particular law. So it's gonna be sorted
out at some point. I do not think that a
circuit court judge should have the right to stop the
duly elected president of the United States from executing his
or her vision. So, I mean, I'm not sure. The
other thing is, can we just talk about California awarding

(01:08:46):
a fifty million dollars verdict because a guy got hot
coffee spilled in his crotch? Now, don't get me wrong,
that sounds horrible, Like I can't think of something worse
right now, other than, you know, noted forms of medieval
torture than having hot coffees building your lap. So there's

(01:09:07):
a we're staying at a resort in Scottsdale. I'm broadcasting
from Arizona right now, out here for some spring training
and looking having a lovely time. There's a Starbucks in
the lobby of the place where we're staying, and they
gave me coffee the other day that had just been rude,
And I still don't have a skin on the roof
of my mouth because I took a sip and it
was it was, oh, I'm sorry. I didn't want the

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boiling oil temperature, right, I just wanted normal coffee temperature.
But even then, I'm thinking to myself, fifty million dollars.
Fifty million dollars, that to me feels like a punitive
dig at Starbucks, and Starbucks somehow has fallen out of favor.
Starbucks used to be the lefties favorite. It started in Seattle,

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it has gone all over the country, but now the
lefties have turned against it. And I'm not sure what
happened there. What did I miss you guys? What did
I miss in the news? What did Starbucks do to
make all the lefties mad? I know a young left
leaner who is very upset. The Starbucks just fired a

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thousand people out of the I don't even know how
many tens of thousands they employ. And their decision was, well,
I'm not gonna shop there anymore. I'm not going to
Starbucks anymore. Okay, great, then more people are gonna get fired.
The logic sometimes the lack of logic is confusing to me.
But this just feels like these people did not like

(01:10:31):
Starbucks and they were gonna let it be known that
they did not like Starbucks. That's just ridiculous. And of
course Starbucks is going to you know, appeal, and of
course it's gonna get reduced. Mandy. This dude had third
degree burns on his junk. I know, I know, But

(01:10:52):
fifty million dollars. No, no, no, no, that's just crazy.
This is why we have limits on pain and suffering
in Colorado. This is why this kind of stupid, idiotic,
you know, verdict is just it. It's excessive to the
point of ridiculousness. And I gotta tell you, if I'm

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this dude, I whin right, I whind But if Starbucks
comes back and goes, look, dude, we're gonna give you
ten million, take it walk away. We're gonna call it
today or otherwise, we're gonna have it knocked down quite
a bit. I don't know if you guys followed the
lawsuit between Mark Stein, who I absolutely love. I love
Mark Stein. Hang on, I'm pulling this up so I
can get the real, the real details for you, because

(01:11:35):
it's so fascinating. So Mark Stein is a talk show host,
he's a former Canadian, and he said some things about
me not be climatologist Michael Mann, and Michael Mann the
climatologist was hey, going, I gotta get to a better

(01:11:57):
version of the story that it's not not here. Hang
on one second, I've got only the Washington Post has
it amazing only the Washington Post. Oh, here we go.
I found it in reason. So mark Stein and another
blogger said a few things about mark about Michael Mann,

(01:12:19):
the guy who created the hockey stick graft, which by
the way, has been proven to be spectacularly wrong. And
mark Stein said that michael Mann is the Jerry Sandusky
of climate science, only instead of molesting boys, he molested

(01:12:40):
the climate evidence, tortured it, and manipulated the data. Well,
Michael Man sued, and first he sued National Review and
everybody else, Competitive Enterprise Institute suit everybody. The judge threw
most of them out and allowed the case against mister
Stein to continue. And through the process of this lawsuit,

(01:13:01):
mister Stein lost the trial and was ordered to pay
michael Mann one hundred or excuse me, a million dollars.
Only the problem is is that he appealed, as one does.
And now the verdict has come down, and the verdict
came down in mark Stein's favor. Now they still found

(01:13:24):
him to have said mean things about michael Mann, but
they dropped the damage's amount to five thousand dollars, and
they ordered michael Mann to pay attorney's fees in some
of the other lawsuits to the tune of over half
a million. Dollars. So talk about a twist of fate.

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I mean, if I'm Mark Stein, I go to the
bank and I get five thousand dollars worth of pennies
and I put them in his many boxes, you know,
those flat rate boxes from the post office. I feel,
all all of those flat rate boxes with pennies, I'd
take as many as it would be worth to pay
the fourteen fifteen bucks to ship them wherever they needed

(01:14:07):
to go, and I would say, Okay, when you get
this last box, consider it settled. Here's your five grand
which I think is fantastic. I mean, that's just funny.
Keep it up. Oh, by the way, the judge reduced
the fee because he said that the fees the judgment
was so excessive and so ridiculous because Michael Man lied

(01:14:30):
during the trial about losing certain grants and the value
of those grants, and the award was based on the
amount of grants that he was supposed to get that
he said he didn't get, but he inflated their value
by like ten times. And the judge was like, sorry, pal, sorry, pal,
you lied in court. We're gonna knock this down. And

(01:14:50):
they did. M hm ha huh, We'll be right back.
But on KOA, I wanted to find this text message
from a little bit earlier, and I don't know what
inspired this text message, but I do want to respond
to it because I think it's an interesting question. Do
you know why China doesn't worry about climate change? Asked
this texter. There is, and just go down this rabbit

(01:15:14):
hole with me. I only have a couple minutes here,
so you're only gonna have to do the rabbit hole
for just a moment. There is a pretty good line
of connection between China funding environmental organizations in the United States.
Why would they do that because they want to cripple
the American economy by having us move off oil and

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gas and coal, because they are building coal fired power
plants natural gas fired power plants as fast as they
possibly can. And yet they are connected to and funding
green organizations in the United States who are urging them
to do things like bandfracking and essentially end inexpensive energy.

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So China can continue to rise and the United States
will eventually stumble because, as we're seeing in Colorado, green
energy costs more. It just does. Green energy is more
expensive because you not only have to have the green
energy you have to have a way to back it up, right,
So they're just sitting back and watching us destroy our

(01:16:18):
energy economy, and we're just stupidly going along with it
like kind of idiots. Hey, Mandy, I'm a maleman in
the small town of Olga Lala Old. I always say
this wrong?

Speaker 2 (01:16:32):
Is it?

Speaker 5 (01:16:32):
Ogalala? Ogalala? Is that how you say it? A rod?
Do you not to say og lala? Nebraska?

Speaker 4 (01:16:36):
I think you're saying it right, Ogalala.

Speaker 5 (01:16:38):
It is now Oka Lalla, Nebraska, population forty five hundred.
And I just heard another person listening to you shout
out to Neil, Neil, what's up? High five? I just
high five to you, Neil, even though I high five
myself and I did to you, I high fived over
my head. I also high five myself in addition to
talking to myself in the car. And I regret nothing,

(01:16:59):
nothing at all. Well, when we get back, I have
so many stories that I want to get to, but
I'm going to start off by talking about Mahmud Khalil.
I did not talk about this story last week because
when the story broke about a man who is here
as a permanent resident with a green card being arrested
and being deported. He's going to be deported. I genuinely

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didn't know what the best answer about that would be.
So I spent several days reading both sides of the issue.
Because people are duking this out online. Mostly Democrats are
staunchly in the corner of this guy. Mostly people on
the right are saying, kick his you know what out.
I'll tell you which side I have landed on when

(01:17:42):
we get back after the news trafficking weather, keep it on,
Kowa and I got a couple of stories I want
to knock out. First of all, I have a request
for the oat milk story. Y'all. Oat milk is not
good for you. If you're lactose intolerant and it's your
only option, you can't take anything else but just flip
around the curtain of oat milk. He has no nutritional value.
It's loaded with sugar. It's not healthy. Not everything that's

(01:18:06):
not milk is healthy. I just wanna share this with you.
Let's see here. Oh, come on. I love it when
I've read an article like fifty times and then it's like, hey,
you've got to give us this article. You've gotta share this,
give us your email address to get it. But ultimately

(01:18:27):
I don't even need to read the article because I
know that what I'm saying is accurate.

Speaker 1 (01:18:31):
It is.

Speaker 5 (01:18:32):
Oh jeez, Louise, I can't get to the article, so
sorry about that. Oat milk is just oats the word
up with uh with water and then the solids are
strained out, so you get all of the carbohydrates from
oatmeal and you get none of the fiber, which is
really the good part of oatmeal. It's not necessarily just
because it's darry and I realize that a lot of

(01:18:53):
people are lactose intolerant. I get it, but dairy is
actually much better for you than any of the fake milk.
Lactose intolerance aside, the rest of it is just it's
basically a highly processed food. So if you think oat milk,
if you can open it on my computer on your computer,
that'd be great. It's on the blog. If not, sorry
about that. But if you're drinking oat milk to be

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quote healthy, you are on the wrong track. Now I
want to talk about the story of Mahmud Khalil. It's
been such a hot topic. The subject is this. Mahmud
Khalil is a thirty year old who was born in
Syria to Palestinian parents. He arrived in the United States
on a student visa. He immediately I mean, based on

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the timeline, he must have immediately gotten married and applied
for a spouse's visa to get his permanent resident card,
because that process takes a really long time. And now
he's got a pregnant wife here. But he also has
permanent status. He has a green card, which has created

(01:20:03):
a lot of interesting conversations on the Internet about whether
or not the US can do what the US says
they are going to do, and that is detain him
by federal immigration authorities, pull his permanent status and green
card and deport him. Now, why are they doing this?
They're doing it because Mahmud Khalil has served as a

(01:20:28):
negotiator on behalf of students during Columbia University's twenty twenty
four pro Hamas and camp protests. He also has worked
with charitable organizations that seem to support support a link
to terrorism, but at a bare minimum that stuff aside

(01:20:49):
at a bare minimum. This guy comes to the United
States and starts leading protests, running down the United States
and demanding that hamas be our new best instead of Israel.
And Marco Rubio was on the Sunday shows defending this. Now,
if you look at the internet, you see a very

(01:21:11):
clear schism between Democrats on the left protecting Mahmoud Khalil
and saying this is the end of free speech and
what are we doing? And this is such a nightmare.
And it just goes to prove that they've never actually
gone through the immigration process themselves or have known anyone
who has gone through the immigration process, Because if you
do anything until you become a citizen, you can be

(01:21:36):
deported straight up. And Marco Rubio made the point really
well the other day, and I don't have that audio
now I show of grad it, but I forgot until now.
He made the point the other day that when you
come to the United States on any kind of visa,
you are in the United States with the permission of
the United States government. You don't have the same rights

(01:21:57):
as a citizen at that point, and if you do something,
if you commit a crime, you can have your status
revoked until you become a citizen. He is not a citizen,
he is prior to that act of becoming a citizen. Now,
if people have immigrated here in the past and they
have become citizens, then the entire issue becomes kind of moot,

(01:22:18):
because now you're a citizen, and you do have those
protections to say whatever vile thing you want to say
about the federal government or anything. You can do whatever
you want, right, But he's not a citizen. He just
has permanent status. And now they're pulling his green card
and they're going to deport him. And though I feel
terrible for his wife and baby who is on the way,
but I just want to point this out. Dude's been

(01:22:38):
in the country for two years. From what I can say,
he comes in the country, gets married, and immediately knocks
up his wife. If that doesn't sound like a calculated
series of events, I don't know what is. The Secretary
of State, by the way, is explained the thought process,
which he called very simple. When someone enters the United

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States with a visa, either as a tourist or a student,
they do so as a guest. Rubio said on face
the Nation, if you tell us when you apply for
a visa, I'm coming to the US to participate in
pro Hamas events. That runs counter to the foreign policy
interests of the United States of America. If you told
us you were going to do that, we would have
never given you the visa. So you know they have

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the right. They absolutely have the right to kick this
guy out. And for people on the left, I'd love
to know what would have to happen. What would this
guy have to do before they would say, yeah, he
doesn't deserve to be here anymore. What would he have
to say? Because I don't think that you have the right,

(01:23:48):
as a citizen of another country to come to the
United States of America and use that as a platform
to attack the country. I just don't. I don't think
you have the right to do it. Try and do
it in other countries and see how well that works out.

Speaker 8 (01:24:03):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:24:03):
I know other countries don't have our free speech protections,
but don't you think it's okay to ask people that
are coming to the country as a guest to simply
be supportive or shut their mouths about things that are
going wrong. I don't think it's that crazy. I actually
think more people should be excluded because of their views.

(01:24:23):
This is why when Trump's State Department said, you know what,
We're gonna start looking at people's social media before we
give them a visa. Mark me down for that. I'm
fine with that. We don't need to import any more agitators.
We've got people on the left paying them to go
agitate all over the place at Tesla dealerships. We don't
need to import them. But the notion that somehow someone

(01:24:44):
should have the right or the ability to come here
and agitate, and what if he ginned up? What if
he and this is a hypothetical, what if he got
those students so angry that they started to riot and
someone got hurt based on his commentation? Is that enough
to have him kicked out of the country for those
on the left, For me, one hundred percent. But I

(01:25:06):
just don't think you have the right to come here
and run us down. If you have a problem with
the country, go back to your own country. I'm sure
it's a paradise, absolutely a paradise. And of course I'm
being sarcastic because well, he's from Syria, born to Palestinian parents.

(01:25:27):
I don't understand. You guys have a story today about
Democratic polling. Right now, the Democratic Party is polling at
the lowest levels of popularity they've had, I think ever
in the modern era. And the sad part is they're
polling that low with Democrats. Now, of course Democrats like
them better than Republicans and independence, but the Democrats are

(01:25:49):
so unhappy with the leadership of the party and their
perception that the party is in utter and complete disarray,
and it is. It's absolutely a mess. I don't recall
in my life any political party being as much of
a mess other than the Colorado Republican Party as right
now the National Democratic Party brand is absolute disaster. But

(01:26:11):
that being said, they've now put themselves in a position
to argue that a young pro hamas Man is somehow
they're guiding light when it comes to free speech. They
keep adopting these policies that I think most Americans are

(01:26:31):
going to find really distasteful. And it's all because whatever
their policy is, it's like, oh, Trump wants this guy deported, Well,
we're going to fight for him. Misstay forget the fact
that he's you know, has ties or at least sympathy
for a terrorist organization and he's here on a visa.

(01:26:53):
I mean, is that a winning position for the Democratic Party?
Who are they winning with that? That's the question that
I have, Like, what part of your contingency other than
the we hate Trump contingency, which is really strong in
the Democratic Party. I get it, it's a big voting block.
I understand that. But shouldn't you be more thoughtful about

(01:27:15):
what hill you choose to die on when it comes
to this stuff, because right now there doesn't seem to
be any thought other than, oh, Trump wants to do this,
we're gonna we're gonna advocate for the opposite because the
last I saw, Trump's numbers are on the rise. And
if you just watch, if you look at the Drudge Report,
I don't know who owns Drudge now, but it is

(01:27:36):
just it. I wouldn't be surprised if the DNC wasn't
actually funding of the Drudge Report, which seems to be
an important page for people to go look at. And
now it's just blatantly anti Trump propaganda that isn't even
always accurate. It's like an arm of MSNBC. It's just
truly sad. So if you just go there, you think,

(01:27:58):
oh my god, everyone in the country hates what Trump
is doing, But then you look at other polling that
says no Americans are like, this is what we hired
him to do. We hired him to create border security.
We hired him to do something about illegal immigration, and unfortunately,
nice people are gonna get caught up in that. It's
just the reality. It's a terrible reality. But here we are,

(01:28:22):
and now we have a position where someone sued to
stop the deportation of a bunch of then is Whelan
gang members. Now, don't get me wrong. Procedurally, they may
have a point. They may have a point that Donald
Trump used an old law from eighteen hundred that requires

(01:28:43):
a declaration of war in order to use it to
deport people. But they're on the side of then is
Whelan gang members. Now, let me think about this. At
what point does somebody in the Democratic parties say, hey, guys,
let's just not respond until we can figure out if
we're responding as the good guys or if we're just

(01:29:05):
responding because we don't want to be seen to be
like Trump. I mean, it's it's kind of crazy some
of the stuff that they're coming out in support of.
It's really really very strange, Mandy. The Democratic Party's problem
is they no longer stand for anything. They're just against Trump.
And that's exactly what I'm talking about. That's not a

(01:29:27):
way to be because apparently in twenty twenty four. Trump
is a fascist dictator, hitler, boot liquor, putin lover wasn't
enough to win that election, was it? And yet there's
still still using the same playbook. So wondering, I'm guessing

(01:29:48):
because nobody has taken me out on the text line
just yet at five sixty six nine. Oh, I mean,
doesn't it seem logical then that if you come to
the as a guest and then you you espouse viewpoints
in support of an organization that the US has declared
a terrorist organization, that perhaps you should be escorted out.

(01:30:10):
I mean, to me, that doesn't seem crazy at all,
and I do not think it is the same as
a citizen having their right to support a moss abridged,
because I will fight for that right. I will fight
for these idiots on campus to walk around with their
masks on because they're not brave enough to actually show
their faces and hold their signs, as long as they

(01:30:30):
don't impede other students from going to class create illegal encampments.
I support your right to protest as long as you
don't disrupt and get in the way of other people
who've paid for that educational opportunity. To go experience what
they have paid for. I'll support your right. I'll think
you're a complete idiot for doing it, but I'll support
your right.

Speaker 6 (01:30:49):
But this is not that.

Speaker 4 (01:30:51):
At all.

Speaker 5 (01:30:53):
Mandy. Do you have Nazis save American astronauts on your
from space on your Bingo card?

Speaker 8 (01:30:59):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:30:59):
I did not, and I did see that Democrats are
demanding may be put back in space. There's what I'm
taken back. Nope, nope, Mandy, Why are you surprised the
Dems are in disarray? Biden was their leader who could
not move off of stage without seeming lost and confused.
But Biden was never the leader of the Democratic Party.
Biden was being pushed by the invisible hand of leadership

(01:31:22):
of the Democratic Party. Seriously, Mandy, did you happen to
watch sixty minutes about the Marine Corps band? This is
what Trump is obsessed with. I did not. I don't
watch sixty minutes anymore. Occasionally I'll watch one of the
stories after the fact, but I pretty much stopped watching
sixty minutes with any regularity when Dan Rather fabricated his
little story against George W. Bush. So it's been a while.

(01:31:44):
It's been a while. The Democratic Party's problem is they
no longer stand for anything. They're just against Trump. Yes, uh,
hey Mandy, I support free speech too, but the mask
wearing is such a tell. If you're wearing a mask,
you're a coward or an fd eye agent, and that
that is just sad, I mean really sad. Hey, Ryan Edwards,

(01:32:06):
I have a question for you, all right, have you
ever gotten to do color commentary for a major League
baseball game?

Speaker 8 (01:32:14):
Not baseball but high school football. I did see your
post on Facebook that you guys actually do the hat
that go.

Speaker 4 (01:32:20):
It was so awesome.

Speaker 5 (01:32:22):
I'm not gonna lie. It was one of the you
as I have probably gotten to do some things because
of your job that are just so amazing and cool, right,
I mean, just like the coolest stuff because of this job.
That for me is one of those things that I
never thought would happen. But I was talking to Jesse
Thomas and I said, Okay, we're gonna be here, We're
gonna pick up our credentials. He goes, why did't I

(01:32:42):
throw you on the air with check Ordinating? And I
was like, oh my god. I mean I put on
my Jenny Kavnar hat and I was like ready to go.
I was like, yeah, power, because you just die those opportunities.

Speaker 8 (01:32:55):
I even nerded out getting a chance to go inside
the booths last year, Like we just visited and it
was one of those like, I, you know, we're around radio.
I've been around radio for a very long time, and
even that was kind of like, this is it, This
is like the booth that it happens.

Speaker 5 (01:33:09):
This is so cool, exactly exactly right, got all kind
of nerded out about that. Anyway, college basketball, how many
brackets are you filling out? Ryan?

Speaker 4 (01:33:19):
I usually do maybe two, for sure.

Speaker 8 (01:33:22):
I obviously do one, but it's so tough because like
I'll play in fifteen different fantasy football leagues.

Speaker 4 (01:33:28):
Right my god, and I have no problem doing that.

Speaker 8 (01:33:30):
And even though I'm at times rooting against myself to
a certain level, I don't like rooting against myself and
certain picks in the bracket challenge. So I might fill
out too, just because you know, hey, if you fill
at one and what if it's really bad, then at
least you have another one going. But most of the
time I'm kind of like, you know, I I follow
college basketball. I like college basketball, but it's a lot
more casual of an observe than anything else. Right, everything

(01:33:54):
else I get really into. I have college basketball on
the background, I'm watching it.

Speaker 4 (01:33:58):
That type of thing.

Speaker 5 (01:33:59):
So I have watched maybe four games this entire year
that were all Louisville Cardinal games. And I take that back.
I probably watched five Florida State games knowing that they
weren't gonna make it into the tournament. But I still
do a bracket and I watched like the first two rounds,
you know what I mean, because we're rooting for some
Cinderella here or there. I can't wait to see what
UNC does after they got into the tournament on reputation only,

(01:34:23):
Holy cow, exactly exactly. There's always a scandal.

Speaker 4 (01:34:27):
It's always a scandal.

Speaker 8 (01:34:28):
Yeah, well, my Rams, my Rams versus Memphis and round one.

Speaker 4 (01:34:32):
Feeling good about that?

Speaker 5 (01:34:34):
There you go. Now it's time for the most exciting
segment on the radio of its guy Wild of the day.
All Right, what is our dead joke of the day, please, Anthony.

Speaker 6 (01:34:47):
At first, I was excited about my new job as
a hotel receptionist.

Speaker 4 (01:34:52):
Then I started to get reservations.

Speaker 5 (01:34:55):
I saw that on Twitter as well, and I love it.
That's actually one of my jokes When I walk into
a restaurant, They're like, Hi, do you have reservations? And
I'm like, I did, but I came here anyway, And
like ten percent of the hostesses get it. The others
just stare at me with a dull stare of the
dairy cow.

Speaker 7 (01:35:09):
Nice.

Speaker 5 (01:35:10):
Yeah, what is our word of the day? Please?

Speaker 4 (01:35:12):
It is a noun noun, quark, not quirk. Quark.

Speaker 5 (01:35:18):
Isn't that a measure of a tininess? It's like a
quirk is a or is it the other way?

Speaker 4 (01:35:24):
You're in the ballpark's parking lot?

Speaker 5 (01:35:28):
Okay, it's I don't know what it measures, but it's
a quark. It has Is it a computing term? Right?

Speaker 4 (01:35:34):
Anything? Carrious? Don't have anything to that one.

Speaker 6 (01:35:37):
It's a word used in physics to refer to any
of the one of several types of very small particles
that make up matter.

Speaker 5 (01:35:45):
You go, okay, I knew I was pretty up. We're
dancing around that but not actually getting it right. Okay.
Analysts claim the British mad cow disease has been caused
by cows which have eaten what.

Speaker 8 (01:35:59):
Isn't it?

Speaker 7 (01:36:00):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:36:04):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:36:04):
I mean I that would be animal byproducts and I
don't know if that's like animal flesh or poop or what.
So we're just gonna leave it at that. And now
we're just watching for cows eating anything other than grass
and not eating those cows. Okay, all right, all right,
what's our jeopardy category?

Speaker 6 (01:36:23):
Well, of course it's Saint Patrick's day, So the category
is greens. Yeah, a rare variety of barrel. This valuable
gem gets its.

Speaker 4 (01:36:37):
Grind from these small tartd green apples. Are name Mandy.

Speaker 5 (01:36:46):
Greenie smith apples?

Speaker 6 (01:36:47):
Correct?

Speaker 4 (01:36:49):
This national emblem of Ireland? Bryan, Bryan. What is a
four leaf clover?

Speaker 2 (01:36:54):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:36:55):
Is a trifoliate plant?

Speaker 5 (01:37:00):
Oh, Mandy? What is the shamrock?

Speaker 8 (01:37:01):
That is?

Speaker 4 (01:37:03):
Good?

Speaker 5 (01:37:03):
Job? Do you know what.

Speaker 8 (01:37:06):
In the thing?

Speaker 6 (01:37:06):
It says a couple of different answers, but it says
SHAMROCK's official But four leaf clover was borderlining id but.

Speaker 5 (01:37:14):
Now as shamrock is three leaves a four leaf special.

Speaker 4 (01:37:18):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (01:37:18):
In nineteen oh two, the Army adopted this drab as
camel band.

Speaker 5 (01:37:23):
What is olive?

Speaker 6 (01:37:24):
That's correct? What's the score? Three to one, three to
zero zero? This green color could also be called alligator pear.

Speaker 5 (01:37:33):
Collligator pair. Yes, I know, what alligators look like. There's
nothing green on them unless something's growing on their back.

Speaker 4 (01:37:41):
Well, this thing is called alligator pear here.

Speaker 5 (01:37:44):
I have no idea, right, what's the avocado?

Speaker 4 (01:37:50):
I was like the skin?

Speaker 9 (01:37:52):
Oh it just wow.

Speaker 5 (01:37:54):
Yeah, that's what's kind of nifty, kind of cool. What's
coming up on k Sports?

Speaker 4 (01:37:59):
Oh, we're gonna have a lot of fun.

Speaker 8 (01:38:01):
Obviously the bracket stuff will get into the little bit
that the Nuggets having a bit of a tough weekend,
the Broncos free agency continuing, What are they going to
do next?

Speaker 4 (01:38:09):
We'll talk about it, and plus Ian Rock report at
three thirty.

Speaker 5 (01:38:12):
I that's all coming up next. I will be back
tomorrow live from Salt Riverfield at Talking Stick and I
am so stoked to be sitting in the booth pretending
like I'm somebody and I can't wait to take you
guys with me. Keep it in the meantime on KOA