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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Tuesday edition of the show.
And oh my goodness, gracious, I wish that I could
let you guys see through my eyeballs right now, because
I am broadcasting live.
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From the broadcast studio at Salt River.
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Fields at Talking Stick, the spring troning home of the
Colorado Rockies, and there is not a soul in this
joint right now. The game tonight is at six forty
local time, so not even the groundskeepers are out here.
Jesse Thomas, whos got me up and running. We're going
to talk to him in a few minutes because one
of the things I have seen, well, not just I
like Jesse. That's one of the reasons we're talking to him.
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But another reason is one of the things in Phoenix
that has been kind of weird are these Waimo cars
that are driving around everywhere, these self driving cars.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
They have almost like a big brother feel.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
To them somehow, like or like if there was a
science fiction movie where cars were stalking people. I feel
like they would look like these Waymo cars, and I
put a picture of one of them on the blog
today because well, apparently a listener reached out to me
and said, did Jesse tell you his Weimo story yet?
And I was like no, but I told Chuck I
kind of wanted to try it out. But then I
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also googled Weaimo incidents.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
And I thought, maybe I'm gonna let.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Somebody else work the kinks out on this one before
I jump in.
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So here's what we're gonna do.
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We're gonna do the blog first of all, because as usual,
I got up early this morning to make sure that
you have plenty of content to look out while you
were doing other things and not listening to the show.
Find that by going to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog
dot com. Look for the headline that says three eighteen
twenty five blog Yes China is funding the Green Movement.
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Plus Jesse Thomas. Click on that and here are the
headlines you will find within tic Tech toe a winner.
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Anybody wants to listening Office Happen ergon all with ships
and clipments of that press Flint.
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Today on the blog Remember when I said China is
funding the climate movement? Rocky's broadcast engineer Jesse Thomas pops
in today, why does she still have no status? Frontier
Airline is trying to woo Southwest flyers. CBC management really
are slublrds. They can't stop the criminals, but at least
they can find your car. Jeffco Schools needs a man
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in leadership. Trump talks to putin today. Are we getting
the JFK files today? Is Trump breaking or fixing the markets?
Who will pick the crops?
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Robots? Scrolling? Scrolling?
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Why is the sphere so big? Scrolling? The court rulings
are coming in? Should we put trucks on trains? I
don't love the White House dunking Southwest gaslights at all
the new Rockies food this year is meh. When you're
trying to get the right kind of propaganda shot, so
you want a lightsaber? Josh Allen given rich Scholkes vibes.
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Trump gives Canada as a state vibes scrolling. Denzel drops
truth bombs to the bus football team. Trump morally sound
Ukraine strategy. Now everybody is saying COVID escape from a
Wuhan lab scrolling. You know why people are becoming increasingly
anti trans John Stossel does immigration. Those are your headlines
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on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com, and so much
good stuff on the blog today, including that video that
I was just talking about John Stossel. You know John Stossel,
I love him, but he is very much a libertarian.
In this video he kind of makes the case for immigration,
which I believe immigration is important part of our nation.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
I love of the.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Society that immigration has helped create in the United States,
which is entirely unique in the world. When you travel
and you start to visit places all over the world,
you realize how homogeneous other countries actually are. Like you
go to Asia, you only see Asian.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
People, right, that's it.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
You don't see this kind of diaspora that we have
here in the United States where people have come from
all over the world.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
I like that.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
I just want it to happen with some what's the
word I'm looking for, semblance of organization. I just want
to make sure that people who are not regularly chanting
death to America in their home country.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Are not walking across the southern border.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
So I think that it's interesting for him to do
this on immigration overall, but it still doesn't change the
fact that we've let far too many people in this
country who are completely unvetted, as evidenced by the complete
havoc that gang members from Venezuela have wrought in Aurora
and other part to the country, that honestly are just
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making it a lot harder for people who really do
want to come here and work and be part of
the American dream. So that video is on the blog today,
along with all the others that I'm going to talk to,
But I've got to get this text message in right
out of the chute. Mandy, your president is now the
king he always believed himself to be. Project twenty twenty
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five is alive and well and on its way to
destroying all that makes America the beacon of democracy and
a sea of tyranny. Trump and his cronies now believe
themselves above the law, no longer concerned with court orders,
while going after the judges and lawyers who they believe
wrongly persecuted them.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
If you're not afraid of what this lawless maniac is
capable of doing, perhaps hurting you are something or someone
you care about, you are sadly, unfrighteningly mistaken.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Now that is a dramatic reading of a text message.
I feel like I nailed it. I feel like right there,
just got the vibe right out of the chuote.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
But to this sector, I would say, where were you?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Where were you when the Biden administration was using the
Department of Justice like a personal political prosecutor and no offense.
If Trump is truly a dictator, he's the worst dictator ever.
As he rolls back the size of government that he
would need to enforce his dictatorial regime, and he is
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allowing people to have more freedom by rolling back the ridiculous,
absolutely nonsensical regulations that the Biden administration put in place
to limit our choices in our society.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I mean, worst dictator ever. And if one more person.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Is like Project twenty twenty five, guess what, guys, I
agree with a vast majority of what's in Project twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
So to me, it's not a boogeyman.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
To me, it's really sound policy positions put put up
by people who are super smart, who have been studying
this stuff for a really long time, and policy positions
by the way, which I might also point out when followed,
lead to great prosperity for our country. So if you're
anti prosperity, then I understand why you hate Project twenty
twenty five. The reality about Project twenty twenty five is
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is that every single presidential election, the Heritage Foundation is
put together a document just like Project twenty twenty five.
They called them things like Project nineteen eighty one or
Project nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Or you're starting to hit the message here.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
And the only reason you heard about it is because
the current leadership of the Heritage Foundation, which I am
not a fan of. I used to love the Heritage
Foundation because they were partisan only in the sense that
they encouraged conservative policy solutions, and now the new leadership
at Heritage is too political for my taste. They've decided
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to go all in politics instead of staying on what
their mission has been for a very long time. So
whenever someone on the left is like, ooh, Project twenty
twenty five, I'm like, so what. You don't think people
on the left have been created with similar documents. You
don't think people on the left have been creating plans
for presidents before they get in the office.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Are you crazy?
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Our last president duly elected by people like this Texter,
I'm guessing didn't even know where he was and where
were you on the text line saying Hey, I'm really
worried that we've got unelected bureaucrats running the country right
now because our guys only awake from ten am to
four pm?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Where were you? Texter?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
So sorry if I don't get the vapors along with you,
But you can save all the typing because I actually
laughed when I read this before the show started, So
well done.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Thanks for that.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Anyway, moving on to what I really want to talk
about today.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
First of all, our.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Man Jesse Thomas is joining us, and this is a
great opportunity. And I know this is going to be
mostly a dude thing, and that's okay. I like to
throw you dudes's a bona on occasion if you've ever
wanted to know what it was like to work with
or be a part of the broadcast team, which is
in the grand scheme of jobs, like if you're going
coolest job to not coolest job, like at the top
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has to be like astronaut, right, I mean that's I mean,
would you say, yeah, Jesse agrees astronaut top coolest job,
lowest coolest job. I'm just gonna let leave that to
your own imagination because I don't want to accidentally insult
someone if they do that job just because I think
it's horrible. But traveling along with a broadcast team with
a Major League Baseball franchise is definitely up there, like
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top ten cool jobs, right, So Jesse's gonna join us
at twelve thirty to talk about that so you can
text your questions to the Common Spirit Health text line
about what that process is like.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
And then he also has a story about those.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Way Mo cars. They're so weird, you guys. They're so weird.
They almost look like Big Brother cars. I don't know why.
It's like, do you remember the the slee Stacks from
Land of the Loss, like back in the day. Okay,
they're like the slee Stack of automobiles. And it's not
a great comparison, but it is because they're kind of
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creepy and they make it a little bit of a
noise and they have these things on the top. It's
been around super weird. This texter said, I'm scared to
get locked in Waymo. How the hell do you know
the doors will open when you arrive. My cousin's kid
uses them all the time. He's an ASU student. He says,
it's cool. Not for me, of course. How do I
know an uber driver won't lock me in?
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
And here's the kicker, you guys, they're not cheaper. I'm thinking, Okay,
you got this car without a driver. You've cut out
a major expense. This is gonna be a great deal.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Not so much. If you're going on a short haul,
it might be cheaper.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
But I checked twice yesterday when going from one place
to another, and WEIMO was more expensive both times. So
I guess you're paying for the uniqueness, or you're paying
to not have to talk to an uber driver.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
I don't know. I have no idea mand a Trump
maybe not.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
A dictator, but he's sneaky good at getting his people everywhere.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
It counts sneaky good by appointing.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Them to positions, as he's allowed to do by as
president of the United States. Yeah, that message, it was
probably sent for my sister. She signs everything your lip
tard daughter.
Speaker 8 (11:04):
Eh.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Maybe No, I think this is a dude, Mandy. It
sure is a parent to me that the liberal media
has such a bias. Barely a blip about Elon Musk
rescuing those two astronauts. If a DEM was in power,
this would be headline news. Not only that, a very
small blip was made when the astronauts themselves said we're
still stuck up here because of politics.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
They actually said that.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
And so, yeah, Elon Musk going and rescuing a couple
of people from space, that's like, oh, oh yeah, I
did it again. Whatever, it's not big news. I mean,
they're just not going to give this guy the win.
They are not going to let him have any sorts
of victories. As more and more people are now defacing, destroying,
and doing acts of vandalism two people's Tesla automobiles. But
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apparently Tesla's have cameras where people can't see them. So
the Teslas are filming people doing this, and I hope
they all get caught. But every time I see that
on social media where somebody posts them that can you
out identify this person because they keyed this Desla car,
and I'm like, studding brave, because.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Isn't that what we're all supposed to say? Stunning brave.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
So we've got Jesse Thomas coming up at twelve thirty,
and then at one o'clock today, well you've got Jimmy
Sengenberger coming up. I know he was just on for Ross,
but he wrote such a good column.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
And I am very.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Much trying to inspire people who live in Jefferson County
to gut their entire school board, fire the superintendent, and
get people who know what the blank they're doing running
jeff Go public schools because the clown show that is
over there now is like a little ball of hormones
because it's all females. And I said on the blog today,
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jeff co needs a man in leadership, and I need
it not because I think men are inherently good leaders,
but there's a reason that I don't do committee work
with women. And the article that CBS four has out
is a perfect example of why I don't do committee
work with women and trying to insult us. I'm one
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of us, but there are fundamental differences between the men
way men do business and the way women do business.
And I've been on committees, my last committee.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
This is a true story.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
I used to work with the charity and I did
all kinds of stuff with them in Southwest Florida, and
I loved it. I loved the mission, I loved the
people that were part of it, loved everything about working
with them.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
They were great.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Except one day they said, Mannie, can you be on
a committee on our upcoming gale. I'm like, absolutely, I'll
be on a committee. I don't know why I said that,
but I said it because I liked all the people
that were on the committee. I went to the first
committee meeting and we spent three hours talking about what
invitations should look like. Three freaking hours. And in that
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three hours, like four people got their feelings heard and
another person got upset and we had to stop and make.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Sure everybody was okay because there was so many feelings.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
At the end of the meeting, I went to the
woman who was in charge of the committee and I said,
I cannot do this. Give me a task and I
will handle it, but I cannot sit through another meeting
like this. This is not a thing I do and
it's not a thing I'm going to do. So she
gave me a list of stuff to do. I took
care of it. We moved on and I have never
been on a committee again, especially a committee with a
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bunch of women. Now, I've been on committees with men
planning a golf tournament. It went like this, Hey, guys,
what kind of beer should we have on the holes?
What kind of prizes do we need to get? Can
you get the prizes?
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Yet?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
You get some? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Okay, you do this, you do this, We're gonna put
this on this whole Okay, who wants to do it? Okay, great,
let's go get a beer. The whole meeting took thirty minutes,
and we play in an entire golf tournament. And when
you read some of the stupidity that has come out
of this alleged leadership of Jefferson County Schools, when it
comes to an issue that is so incredibly stunningly serious,
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and the response was so incredibly stunningly unseerious.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
This is why they need a.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Man in leadership, because apparently all these women got together
and they're like, I'm having feelings. What were they having
feelings about? They were having feelings because they're male chief
of schools. They let one guy in. Turns out he's
a pedophile. Great, so he gets investigated for child born,
he goes back, he gets fired, he goes back to
his family home in Pennsylvania and kills himself. Now, instead
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of being open and honest with the parents, who were
probably wondering, was my child victimized? Should we be looking
for victims among children that had a regular interaction with
this guy.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
They were like, I'm just so upset.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
I don't know what I can do, and oh my gosh,
if we do it this way, then people will find out.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
And will it just be even worse. It'll be terrible,
It'll make us look bad.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Oh my god, I just can't So Jimmy's got to
call him about that. CBS four has a follow up
story about a different story in Jefferson County, and this
one has to do with the teenage girl who was
groomed by a female teacher and with the help of
administrators that call him by and High, was declared homeless. Now,
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I said, when this first story came out, I'm like,
how how did they not commit fraud?
Speaker 4 (16:04):
This girl was not homeless and at least one teacher
knew absolutely she was not homeless because she was engaged
in an affair with her and yet the school multiple
people helped this girl fill the paperwork out to be
declared homeless. Which not only gets the school a lot
more money. If you have a homeless student, you get
more money. It also allowed the girl to claim being
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homeless on her FAFSA application for student aid, which is fraud.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Well, now they're being investigated, and I could not be happier.
What of you texting in about? Okay, I don't know
about this. That guy texture definitely sits to pee. We
don't know about that. And I don't want to confirm
or deny. Don't even care. But I just thought that
was funny. Maybe Trump is not a dictator. Oh wait,
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already read that, Mandy. It sure as a parent to
me that Oh gosh, Mandy, that message I already read
these best job is a fighter pilot. Okay, But a
lot of fighter pilots go on to be astronauts. So
basically being a fighter pilot is like an entry level
to being an astronaut. So I maintained, still astronauts, still
still cooler than fighter pilot.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Just doing that.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
I took a Waim to the airport last fall from
Tempe at three am to catch an early flight. It
was more dependable at that time in the morning and
was a quarter of the price fifteen bucks instead of
sixty for Uber.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Well, that worked out, Mandy.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
The real question is a coolest job versus profitable job
way harder to make it. On the media side, That
is absolutely true unless you're an astronaut.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Astronauts can make all kinds of money in the media.
I'm just saying the.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Left withholds wins from Trump and Elon and just it
keeps amassing ls by doing so. That is something that
I think they are miscalculating badly on the left, and
that is that a lot of these things are super
popular with people. You look at the polling day on
closing the border and expelling I legal immigrants, those things
are polling like seventy eighty percent.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
They're very, very popular, and for some reason, either no
one's showing the Democrats of this polling data. I have
no idea. I have no idea.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
By Mandy, you've gone so far right I can't listen anymore,
especially when you mock people that write in You've obviously.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Never heard the show before. Now if you're just.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Figuring out that I mock people, I'm sorry today was
your day. Don't forget SpaceX gets a lot of money
from the US government.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
It does get a lot of money from the US government.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
You know why because it started out privately and now
they have contracts with the US government.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Right. And here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
I love it when people are like, you know, Elon
has taken all this federal money to build all these
companies and he got rich because he used the federal government.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
And I'm like, exactly right, you could have done it.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
I could have done it, but we don't have the
vision he did. And he did it all legally. It's
not like he robbed a bank that was the federal government.
These all of these these things are available for you
and for me and all of this other stuff.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Why do you think I'm against any kind.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Of government sort of subsidies to encourage development or any
of that stuff. We saw it happen with solar, which
he had a solar company. We've seen it happen with
electric vehicles, which we have. He has an electric vehicle company.
I mean, we've seen all of these things where people
use government subsidies to build something amazing. But they're all
doing it legally. As I said, Texter, you could do
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it too, I just didn't neither. Did you love what
Musk is doing? Ari spacetech and much of doge. But
what I'd like him to concentrate on is the space stuff.
Just love that part. The good news is is that
he's such a whack a doodle genius. He can handle
more than one ball in the air at a time.
Weimo is the most experienced driver according to this Texter.
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According to their website, as a Weimo is way more
money than it should be according to this writer. Yeah, yeah, hey, Mandy.
With the rise of self driving cars, can we finally
get the Johnny cab for the movie Total Recall?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Didn't he only go but they only had Taco Bell?
Was that Total Recall? Were they only? Where was the movie?
It was a sliced alone movie where they only had
Taco Bell. What was that movie? But yeah, I'll take that.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
I actually think that all of the kind of storm
and drong that we're seeing right now across the country
when it comes to mass transit, yes, thank you, demolition
Man where they only had Taco Bell. I mean, demolition
Man Taco Bell really goes hand in hand.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
I think all.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Of the storm and drong about transportation we're seeing now
is going to just all go away when we all
lean in and use cars like Weaimo to get around,
But until I can get past the creep factor, I'm
not sure that's gonna happen when we get back. Jesse
Thomas is the man behind the men on the Rockies broadcast.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
He's gonna join me.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
We're actually gonna talk about Waimo a little bit because
apparently he had an experience and we're going to talk
to him about that and take your questions about what
it's like to travel with the Rockies. If you got any,
you can text him on the Common Spirit Health text
line at five six six, nine to zero and tell
him just keep it right here on kaway.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Here's fun fact.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
If you ever have the chance to go to any
sort of professional stadium, don't touch the grass. They get
super salty about that. So you've got to stay on
the outside track because if you put a toe on
on the grass, you're gonna get some kind of hairy
eyeball from somebody.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Jesse Thomas knows.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
He is the producer, the brains of the operation when
it comes to keeping jacket.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Yeah, well, I mean I was gonna right. That goes
without saying Jesse.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Come on, he keeps the guys on and keeps them
on track for the most part during the broadcast, not
just in spring training but also throughout the baseball season.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
And Jesse, how long have you been doing this?
Speaker 9 (21:52):
This will be my ninth season with the.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Rockies, but you've been doing this job for various sports
prior to that.
Speaker 10 (21:59):
So I've been engineering play by play broadcasts since two
thousand and two, right out of the only.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Job you've ever had. Has a grown up in terms
of like what you're doing.
Speaker 10 (22:07):
Yes, wow, So I've done thousands of play by play
events over my career.
Speaker 8 (22:12):
But yeah, I did.
Speaker 10 (22:13):
Nuggets in the Avalanche for a decade over at altitude,
came over with yeah, ay, Rod knows well about that,
and yeah, and then I came over when a position
opened and Jerry Shimill helped me out and here we are.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
So, what is your favorite sport to work in?
Speaker 8 (22:30):
Percent?
Speaker 10 (22:30):
It's a little because we get to see the cities
that we go.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
To, all right, because you have so much time in
each city.
Speaker 9 (22:35):
That's correct.
Speaker 10 (22:35):
We're not you know, going to the arena, getting on
a plane and going to the hotel, right, and then
you're flying in the middle of the night and all
that stuff. So being able to see the country and
experience all the ballparks and all that stuff has been.
Speaker 9 (22:47):
Priceless for me.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
So what is your favorite city other than Denver to
work in?
Speaker 9 (22:53):
Miami?
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Miami? Really?
Speaker 10 (22:54):
Yeah, I love Miami and I really like Anaheim. And
Milwaukee's super sneaky too. I got a Milwaukee is fun.
It's a sleepy but it's awesome.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
It's super cool. I told people this and the RNC.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
We went for the RNC, and they had because Trump
was almost assassinated the week before, so they expanded the
security perimeter and really cut off a lot of businesses.
It was really unfortunate what happened to Milwaukee during the RNC.
It was not at its best. But when Chuck and
I went to the Milwaukee I was like, this is
a great town.
Speaker 9 (23:26):
It reminds me of old Denver.
Speaker 10 (23:28):
Yeah, yeah, it really does, before Denver became what it
is now. And granted I'm there during the month of
good weather that they have, but it's it's pretty fun.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
I like it, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
So I'm wondering if you guys have any questions about
what it's like to travel with the team or be
in the play by play booth or any of that stuff.
Now's the time to text us on the common spirit
health text line five six six nine er. Somebody just
pointed out the steamroly thing. It's a baseball zamboni.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Yeah, it's the bambony, is what it is? Much like
the bambino.
Speaker 9 (24:00):
I dig it.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Yeah, I have a question.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
So listener text me and said, did Jesse share with
you his Waimo's story? So you got into one of
these big brothermobiles that are flying around?
Speaker 4 (24:10):
What was that I did?
Speaker 10 (24:11):
Eventually this is more of a Jesse's a bonehead story. Good,
but I'll be happy to share it because listen, why not.
So I'm staying in a compound down here off of
Scottsdale Boulevard Churches or Scottsdale Road, which is basically the
Colorado Boulevard of Scottsdale. Right, So I fire up the
old waymo app and I'm having a few cocktails. Headed,
gonna go downtown and do my thing right old town Scottsdale.
(24:32):
Pipe in the address, no problem. All the directions gave
him the gatecoat to get into my little complex, right,
uh huh, Well do you see the problem with that?
Speaker 4 (24:43):
There's no intendant in Yes, and.
Speaker 10 (24:46):
So I'm sitting on my patio and I put myself
another glass of wine.
Speaker 9 (24:49):
And all of a sudden I started thinking, well, Jesse,
you are dumb? How and oh man?
Speaker 10 (24:55):
So I started getting all these alerts from Waimo and
they said, sir, you will have to meet us out.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
On the curb.
Speaker 9 (25:01):
And I'm like, you are just dumb, Jesse. Goodness gracious.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
So I mean I was gonna ask, like, how does
the Waimo put in a gate code?
Speaker 4 (25:08):
So that's that's all it wasn't. Yeah, that's already a problem.
So have you done it since then?
Speaker 8 (25:12):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (25:13):
And it works fine.
Speaker 10 (25:14):
It's quite the experience once you get over the look
of it from the outside with all the spinning cameras
and the bells in the whistle.
Speaker 9 (25:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (25:22):
Now, there are some horror stories out there of people
getting locked in the weaymo and them honking uncontrollably and
stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
I just saw the one of the guy in the
parking lot and he just kept doing a donut in
a parking lot, but very slow speed.
Speaker 10 (25:34):
If you're smart enough to actually order one, which I
apparently am not, it's quite the experience and I recommend
doing it at least once everybody needs to ride with
our robot overlords.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Maybe we'll make that a part of our afternoon today.
We'll go take a Waimo ride somewhere just to say
we did it.
Speaker 10 (25:48):
Now, it's my understanding they are still monitored by humans
at all times, right, I don't.
Speaker 9 (25:53):
I think that's still the case.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
But that's like our alarm company. When our alarm in
our house goes off, like six hours later, somebody calls
and his like, hey man, and something happened.
Speaker 11 (26:02):
At your health Yeah, you're.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Like, oh good, okay, great, And.
Speaker 10 (26:05):
They'll only go certain in a certain area down here.
You can't just order one, and like if you're in
Paradise Value, you can't order one. You can only only
certain zip code.
Speaker 9 (26:15):
I think you can get away.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Well, I've heard that they cannot do interstate traffic yet.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Yeah, I think that's right because I guess it just
moves too fast or something. I don't know, But I
have to say a couple areas where Phoenix is superior
to Denver number one, very few homeless people, but I'm
guessing in the summer it's unbearably would probably yeah, I mean, well,
more people die from heat related stress than they do
cold related stress every year.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
That's a fact.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
But it's very clean, and the surface streets here are
very efficient.
Speaker 9 (26:45):
They are you.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Don't have to get on an interstate to get from
one side to the other. And Phoenix is geographically ginormous.
Speaker 9 (26:52):
It's huge, understand. Yeah, it goes on forever.
Speaker 10 (26:55):
It's like Houston, and this is the only place you
better get on it if you I've got passed by
old woman in a Bentley going there. There's eighty the
other day, you know what I mean, Like, yeah, there's
that's the.
Speaker 9 (27:06):
Tale two people that they're either going twenty.
Speaker 11 (27:08):
Yeah or eighty.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Well, I am.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
This whole area Scottsdale reminds me of Naples, Florida. A
lot of money down here, obviously, like a ton of
money in Scottsdale. I told Chuck today, I was like, dude,
don't want to go to a thrift store because I've
bet the thrift stores in Scottsdale.
Speaker 9 (27:22):
Are a little stuff uper coat.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Seriously, this is a thrift store tip for those of
you who may want to thrift at some point. If
you want to go to the best thrift stores, go
to the richest neighbor you could. You could find and
go to their thrift store, and you're gonna find.
Speaker 9 (27:34):
All kinds of Scottsdale's it.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Yeah, Scottsdale is it. Let's take a very quick time out.
I've got some questions for you. I took away mow
and the driver looked exactly like my dad. I'm not
sure you were in a way, mo, Texter, it could
have just been your dad's car. We'll be right back
questions with Jesse Thomas right after this.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Keep it on, KOA.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Can I just say a big thank you to all
of you who are riading the text line to give
me thrift store information in Scottsdale, because I am doing it.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Chuck's already like a oh God, here we go.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Mandy, I'm actually streaming you in North Scottsdale, O Cave Creek.
Moving here from Wyoming was the best move we ever made. Also,
we can easily pick up Kowa over the air at
night and early in the morning.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
That from Joel Mandy Jesse.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
Cars doing twenty or eighty sounds like super us.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
In the mountains to me. We used to have this
thing and when I lived in Southwest.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
Florida, you would just see like a car being driven
by knuckles and a white poof of hair.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Do you have that here as well?
Speaker 2 (28:28):
You do?
Speaker 9 (28:29):
Yeah, the sunhat, nothing but hands, yes, just the knuckles.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (28:33):
Sometimes when I get bored, I go out to the
supermarkets and watch all the old folks look for their.
Speaker 9 (28:37):
Base beauties, just for fun.
Speaker 10 (28:39):
That's good, good, good.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
Well.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
I used to joke that the Fort Myers Costco probably
like sold more brand products pound for pound per capita
than any other costco in the country.
Speaker 9 (28:52):
Ran in ointments are really big down here.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Yes, yes, big big ointments. I do have a question
from a guy who said, I have a question for Jesse.
I've tried to text the guys during a Rockies game,
but I never hear back. Why is that glad you're
on today with Mandy.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
You guys don't have the text line.
Speaker 10 (29:08):
No, we do not have the text line. The best
way to do that would be to tweet directly at me.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Yes. Yes, So if you have the Twitter, you can
text Jesse at broadcast Jesse broadcast Jesse.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
At Twitter, and then he will make sure the guys
get to it. Maybe they can actually address this on
the air. I have a question for you. Are you
a Denver guy? Because you work for the Abs, you
work for the Dunnets.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
So you're a Denver kid born and raised.
Speaker 9 (29:31):
Yep, So would you ever.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Be wooed away by another franchise?
Speaker 9 (29:35):
I've been fortunate enough.
Speaker 10 (29:36):
Most people that in this business have to do that
I've been for I mean, never say never, but I'm
happy where I'm at.
Speaker 9 (29:43):
So I've been blessed to work for the teams that
I grew up watching.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
So that's actually really cool.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Is it challenging for you as it is for the
fans when we have the last two seasons that we've had,
Does that just make.
Speaker 10 (29:55):
It kind of a different perspective doing what we do?
Like our you know, we just be professional no matter
what happens.
Speaker 9 (30:02):
Out in the field.
Speaker 10 (30:03):
And obviously you want him to succeed because you get
to know him and you travel with him, and you
eat with them, and you know all those things, and
so you have a rooting interest. But other than that,
we still try to stay as professional as possible.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
So who are your favorite players you've ever worked with
or gotten to know over the years that you've been
doing this.
Speaker 10 (30:19):
Charlie Blackman, you know, he is the best. Let's see,
Carlos Gonzalez was a pleasure to be.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Alga seemed like he was fun mm hmm.
Speaker 9 (30:28):
I mean he's like anybody, you know, it's it's like anything.
You know when to stay away from him, and you
know when they're two for.
Speaker 10 (30:33):
Their last seventeen yes you kind of you know, stay
away and keep your head down and all that stuff.
But yeah, there's really nobody that sticks out that has
been horrible asking.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
I was just like, who the favorites are the people
that you're always glad to see.
Speaker 10 (30:46):
Baseball players in particular, are a lot more friendlier than
the other two professional sports I worked with.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
Yes, you know my husband Chuck, who's here as well.
He worked for the Minnesota Twins franchise team in Fort
Myers and talked all the time about how, you know,
he would be carrying programs and guys would say, oh,
do you need me to sign those? And then just
stop in the hallway and sign a bunch programs. And
you don't necessarily have that same kind of access or
relationship with professional football players or professional hockey.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
It's just a different vibe. Why do you think that is?
Speaker 5 (31:18):
Is it the length of the season, is it the
boys of summer?
Speaker 10 (31:22):
What is it that's a good question and the link
to Obviously, baseball is kind of its own animal because
of the amount of games. Yeah, did you play and
get such a tight group? From the forty man rots
of to the traveling twenty five. Everybody's with each other.
And if you're part of that traveling group, like we're
blessed enough to be if you you better be nice otherwise.
Speaker 9 (31:41):
They won't keep you along to keep you around.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Yeah, I guess so.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
I mean that's is there anything that sticks out for
you as a moment that you will never forget because
you get to do this job.
Speaker 10 (31:51):
Yes, the wild card win at Wrigley in twenty eighteen,
I believe it was. Yeah, was incredible. They won it
in thirteen innings. It was freezing and to see all
the Wrigley faithful go home heartbroken?
Speaker 8 (32:05):
Was you know.
Speaker 10 (32:06):
I'm more of an agony of defeat guide than a
thrill of victory, in case you don't know that about it. Yeah,
So anytime we get to stick it to opposing fans,
I'm all about it.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
And I watch him cry.
Speaker 8 (32:15):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
I ask Jesse if he needs an assistant.
Speaker 10 (32:18):
Yeah, first, and says the technician, I'm taking applications for
headphone technicians headphone tech which does that just.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Involve being the finger to hang the head shittes.
Speaker 10 (32:27):
I balk my headphones in at the beginning of the
broadcast and unplug them at the end of the broadcast.
Speaker 8 (32:32):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
You know what's funny, Jesse, is that we get to
do this every day. I mean, you get to do
it here every day, but I get to do this
job every day. And whenever we bring people to the
Rockies games, we always have the opportunity to bring him
up to the booth.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
And when you do it every day, you forget how
cool this is.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
I mean, I guess you've seen people just come up
pie eyed and get to just live the experience.
Speaker 9 (32:53):
It's funny.
Speaker 10 (32:54):
People always ask me if the amount of visitors we have,
you know, interrupts us or No, it's the opposite. It
actually keeps me grounded and keeps me focused and really
makes me not take anything for granted. When especially the
little ones that come, Yeah, their eyes get so big
and it's the coolest thing they've ever done.
Speaker 9 (33:11):
And maybe we just got off of a twelve day road.
Speaker 10 (33:13):
Trip and won two games and all that stuff, and
you're a little tired it's great to get some perspective
with you know, yep, with the visitors.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
That's why I always try to remember when people are
coming to the studio and they're like, this is so cool.
You forget how cool it is when you don't do whatever. Lucky, Yeah,
we're very lucky.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
All right.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
When we get back, we're going to talk to Jimmy Sangenberger.
I'll let you talk later. Chucky's what did you.
Speaker 8 (33:36):
Want to have an input to that.
Speaker 12 (33:37):
We've brought people up here and our relatives and stuff,
and I have some of the best pictures with Jack
and Jerry and our friends are just like their eyes
are so big, it's like Christmas, you know.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
All right, hold that thought because I got Jimmy Segenberger
coming up next. Jeff Co Schools continues to just do
dumb thing after dumb thing after dumb thing, of which is.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Improving student achievement.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
We'll talk about the latest bit of Shenanigan's in Nonsense
with Jimmy right after this.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Keep it on KOA.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
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Speaker 13 (34:20):
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Speaker 5 (34:49):
This is like the bat signal that we play to
bring Jimmy Segendburger out of the woodwork to talk about
his latest work on the Denver Zets column that he
does twice a week. He's also filling in for Ross
quite a bit this week, so you're gonna get some
double doses like you are today. But when I read
his column this morning about Jefferson County Public schools, I
was like, oh, we.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Must chat, so joining me again.
Speaker 5 (35:11):
He's had a whopping a couple of hours off and
now he's bag a one hour off and now he's back.
Speaker 8 (35:16):
Hi.
Speaker 6 (35:16):
Jimmy, Hey Mandy, thanks for putting me back to work
on KOA today.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
You know what, We're gonna squeeze every single dime out
of you today. We paid you for part of the day.
We're gonna squeeze out as much of you as we can.
Don't think of this is iHeartMedia, Jimmy. Come on, we
gotta make you earn it. The column that you started today.
Let me start with the headline for a moment. Okay,
The headline is simply an erosion of trust in jeff
(35:42):
Co's school's leadership talk about barrying the lead. I mean,
this is like the biggest understatement of a headline I've
ever seen in my life, because if all the parents
in Jefferson County schools were really paying attention to what
is going on with leadership or what passes for leadership
at jeff Co Schools, I think that they would collectively
be horrified and mortified that they've let this go on
(36:05):
long enough. But I'm gonna let you kind of give
the thumbnail sketch of what you've got in today's column
for the listeners who didn't read it yet.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
So this really captures a story that goes back to
over the holidays. You'll recall that the third in command
for Jefferson County Schools, Chase of Schools, David Wife was
it was revealed, being investigated for child pornography, and he
was fired just after those revelations of an investigation came about,
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and two weeks later the district finally put out an
email to families after only the media had gotten anything.
Those of us in the media should not take precedence
over parents. I love when we get little scoops, but
that's not what you're supposed to do. But that's what
happened here, and there was a big discussion about what
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do we do and how do we approach the public
facing side of this in terms of letting parents know
what should the statements say, who should it be written by?
And from? And lo and behold. These discussions happened over
text message, not email, not something where they were like,
let's shape this into a kind of email message to
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parents that we want and having back and forth. It
was multiple different text threads that were going on with
sometimes pairs of school board members, with the superintendent Tracy Dorland,
with the chief of staff Lisa Ralou. However it was
they were doing these text messages and Jeffco Kids first
went and put in a couple of Open Records Act
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requests to obtain these text messages, and what they show
is a doozy well.
Speaker 5 (37:52):
And here's the part of it that I found the
most interesting is that David Weiss was just all of
a sudden fired from Jeffco Schools. We didn't know about
the investigation and we didn't know what was going on,
so he gets fired. And it was after that two
week period that we even began to understand. But he
had to kill himself first, right, I mean, and that's
a big part of the story. He goes back to Pennsylvania,
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he commits suicide, and then all of a sudden, people
are like, what the deuce is going on. At that point,
the story had broken that he was being investigated for
possession of child pornography.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
Now this is the part in December around the nineteenth
but he had been fired and was under some kind
of investigation or writing was happening.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
And when all that happened, when it came out that
he was being invested for investigative for child pornography, my
immediate response is the district has to immediately come forward
and say exactly what they know. He is being investigated
for a possession of child sexual assault material. And if
any parent suspects or wonders if their child had any contact,
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or or if there's something that students need to worry about,
they must contact us immediately.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
That's how you should have handled it. That's exactly what
should have been done.
Speaker 5 (39:00):
But what you see in these text messages as you
lay on in this column is a bunch of women
worried about their feelings and looking bad and all of
this stuff that has nothing to do with helping kids,
helping families and helping parents in Jeffco's schools.
Speaker 6 (39:15):
And if you go back to the message to families,
it was coldly bureaucratic. It even called this a personal
legal matter. Yeah, didn't have anything in terms of sympathy
for parents or expressions of concern, and which striking is
when you look at these text messages. The treasurer of
the board, Danielle Varda, and there's a lot to criticize
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her for in many different areas, but she makes it
very clear in some of these text messages that included
the president of the school board, Mary Parker and the
superintendent Tracy Dorln that quote it's no longer okay to
be silent. She called this a crime of enormous proportion
and one of the most heinous crimes against children, and
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chastized as the superintendent that we are not a ahead
of this and the board is in the dark of
your thinking is unacceptable. We cannot try to protect weis
or cover any of this up. Now, good for her,
that's like just the basics of what you should be
thinking about. But what does the superintendent say at the
end of that exchange.
Speaker 11 (40:16):
Your name isn't.
Speaker 6 (40:17):
On it, because she said, Varda said, I'm not going
to be a part of this statement. Let's just have
it be the president of the school board and the superintendent.
So dore Lynd goes again, this is the superintendent the schools.
Your name isn't on it, so please let us be
We've all had a difficult and challenging and very sad day.
Speaker 4 (40:38):
Oh being superintendent is hard.
Speaker 5 (40:41):
I mean, you know, I don't know if you know this, Jimmy,
but I'm a woman, so I feel like I am
in a good position.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
Yeah I am. I've been one my whole life. We're
not my whole life.
Speaker 6 (40:50):
What a woman is well, I have not heard a
good answer of what is a woman. I don't know
what the answer to that question is.
Speaker 4 (40:55):
I am an adult, female human. So there we go.
I am a.
Speaker 5 (40:58):
Woman, and this is one of my great frustrations with
my gender. Right, this should have been very cut and dried.
This should not have been a moment of discussion. They
should have come up with a statement that clearly said
we're aware of this investigation. We want to let you
know in case any of you have any concerns. So
you can reach out if you are concerned that your
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child was either around this individual too much or that
something might have happened, we need to let authorities know.
And instead they made it about them. They made it
all about their feelings and that they didn't want to
be perceived poorly by someone if word got out. The
thing about executive session really killed me explain that.
Speaker 6 (41:40):
So I found this striking because you'll remember we are
coming up this weekend on the two year anniversary of
the shooting at East High School right in Denver, and
the day after, the Denver Public Schools Board of Education
went behind closed doors and did an executive session about this,
and it was illegal. There's certain vironments that you must
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meet in order to have an executive session. So there
was a legal case brought by media outlets, including the
Denver Gazette, and they had to release the recording of this.
So I think that was in the back of the
mind of the district's attorney, Julie Tolisen, who warned against
an executive session when a couple of board members, including Varda,
had gone ahead and said we should do an executive
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session on this. Can't we do that? And her argument
Tolisen's argument wasn't about transparency, but because quote, if we
had an improper executive session, the media could get a
court order to access the recording, and she added that
it would be a new crisis to an all added
to an already horrible one. It's about the cya moment,
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as opposed to, oh, well we should be opening transparent
to the public.
Speaker 5 (42:51):
Well, it's basically, well, we can't hide this in executive
session because they'll find out about it, and then it'll
just look even worse, which is true, right if they'd
gone into executive session, we found out la much like
what happened to DPS when the record was finally out,
it was far worse than if they had just done
it all in public in the first place. But there's
a level of cowardice on display here that is unacceptable
in my mind. But it's indicative of the priorities of
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the Jefferson County School Board. They are not invested in
making sure that student achievement is at the highest level.
They're invested in protecting the people at the top who
have an agenda. And I believe that the president of
the school board genuinely thinks that every parent is an
abuser and genuinely thinks that children must be protected from
their parents.
Speaker 4 (43:34):
And I'm thinking to myself, if you.
Speaker 5 (43:35):
Believe that children were key here and that they need
to be protected, don't you think they should be protected
from the guy that you guys hired and made number
three in the district who was also being investigated for
possessing childborn?
Speaker 4 (43:49):
Do you think that would be a high thing?
Speaker 6 (43:52):
You would? But then again, you'd think that when this
comes anything involving students and teachers comes up, they would
very serious take issue with it. They wouldn't allow a
student or participate in declaring a student homeless so that
they could go live with their teacher, or take any
sort of that they would have to con it and
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report to the authorities, fire them, do something about it,
as opposed to time and time again allowing these kinds
of breaches to happen. Because I've lost track of the
number of cases now from a school social workers to
teachers to chief for schools who in Jeffco's schools are
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alleged to or have been found guilty of inappropriate relationships
with students or other kinds of sex scandal.
Speaker 5 (44:41):
One thing that people probably don't understand is that there
are so many cases of this within schools. Overall, children
are very I don't want to say very likely, that's
the wrong phrasing. Children are Well, let me just put
it this way. Pedophiles are going to get jobs where
the kids are, right, just like bank robbers rab banks,
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because that's where the money is. Pedophiles are going to
try and get jobs where the kids are, and that's
school districts.
Speaker 4 (45:07):
But to your point, Jenny, what do you think it
is about Jeff Co or about Jeff co.
Speaker 5 (45:13):
Leadership that gives the impression to people who may want
to prey on children that that's where they want to work.
Speaker 6 (45:20):
Well, for one, I would say that they have this
trusted adult policy and approach where they want teachers or
other staff to name themselves, to identify themselves as trusted adults.
And what that means is you're not developing trust with
the kid that I've written columns about this right, or
you're not developing that trust relationship with kids that for example,
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I have teachers to this day that I look back
fondly on that I could lean on for different things,
or would have very good working relationships as a student
with a teacher one comes to mind from high school
or even in middle school, and that comes about naturally
because you've gotten to know each other and be able
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to feel confidence in that trust. But what Jeffco's trying
to do is force students to identify trusted adults and
institutionalize that concept as opposed to allowing it to develop
as it should. And I think that provides a ripe
opportunity for predators to sort of work their way in,
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and that's why we're seeing a lot of these cases
happening more in Jeffco than even another school district.
Speaker 5 (46:31):
So, and it's my understanding that David Weiss was actually
head of that program, the Trusted Adult program.
Speaker 4 (46:36):
Is that accurate?
Speaker 6 (46:37):
Yeah, one of his responsibilities was for overseeing the implementation
of trusted adults in schools.
Speaker 4 (46:43):
Yeah, that's just so gross.
Speaker 5 (46:45):
You mentioned the Columbine situation where Columbine administrators, along with
a now former teacher, falsified documents to the clearest student
homeless so she could move in with the teacher who
was grooming her and having a sexual relationship with her.
Apparently there's now going to be some kind of investigation, correct.
Speaker 6 (47:05):
Yeah, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office and Sean Boyd, of course,
Sean Boyd at CBS Colorado, the one who will tackle these.
TV News brought this out last night that the Jefferson
County Sheriff's Office has opened an investigation into that case.
And I think that's important in two respects, not one, obviously,
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because this case is worth looking into. What happens there
is a grievous failure of justice and of accountability, to
put it mildly, But the second reason is it should
put jeff Co more on notice, perhaps than ever before,
when you have malfeasis from the top of the school
and other employees at the school engaged in these kinds
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of activities and circumventing parents in such a blatant way.
The district needs to hear that message and see, yes, okay,
there's actually something legally being on about this, even just
an investigation. It's not just a pr disaster. It could
be something criminal and we have to prevent that from happening,
because we're already having too much of that with our staff.
Speaker 4 (48:11):
Now, Jimmy, let me ask you this.
Speaker 5 (48:12):
Have you spoken reached out to the board to get
their thoughts on this or or said, look, I'm going
to do a column on this is Is anybody willing
to go on the record.
Speaker 4 (48:20):
With you on this stuff at all? Are they willing
to talk to anybody about it?
Speaker 6 (48:25):
Yeah, I have not seen one of the things that
I've seen has been And the texts even show this.
They directed the board members to simply reach out to
it with any request that they get, just forward them
on to the associate chief of communications in the district.
So there really is and you see this can happen
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a lot in place like Denver Public Schools or others
where there's an attempt to try and insulate board members
from these kinds of things. But then when I reach
out to the district with oftentimes jeffco doesn't even bother
responding to me in any sort of what it was
that there was a piece i'd written, the one that
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I wrote about that conservative teacher who didn't get hired
in Jefferson County Schools. The district never responded, even when
Jolie Tolas in that same attorney a forward is on
to this same exact person that they referred to for
the media in these text messages, and I never heard
a peep I've sent other requests. We never hear a
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peep from the Jeffco media folks. So there is definitely
an effort in Jeffco to try and avoid any sort
of communication with folks in the media as much as
possible when it's negative.
Speaker 4 (49:46):
Well, and it's unfortunate because the more they circle the wagons,
the more I think it's going to make them easier
to defeat in the next school board election, which has
to happen. It just has to happen.
Speaker 5 (49:58):
Jeffco is positioning itself in a place that is not
about educating kids.
Speaker 4 (50:05):
It's not about student achievement.
Speaker 5 (50:07):
They have carved out this space where they have decided
that they are going to put the district between parents
and their kids every opportunity that they get. And it's
gotten to the point now where it's like, if you're
a jeff Co parent, do you really know what's going
on at your daughter's or your son's school? Do you
really know what they're being taught or what clubs they're
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going to, or what teachers are talking to them about
what issues, Because I wouldn't trust any of it if
I were a jeff Co parent, and I frankly don't
understand why. You know, jeff Co Kids first has been
just doing yeomen's work, lifting and elevating all of this stuff.
And Jefferson County parents should be grateful for all of
the work that these all volunteers are doing. But when
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are they going to make a change, When are they
going to say enough is enough? I want our district
to focus on student achievement, not all this other crap.
And I want them to get out of the way
of my relationship with my kid.
Speaker 6 (51:00):
Yeah, that's the real question, Mandy is in Denver public
schools as another example, because I've covered Denver very closely
for years, that's another instance where in twenty twenty three,
after the East High School shooting that I mentioned before,
you had a groundswell of parents who suddenly became recognized
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how bad things were. They already weren't feeling comfortable, but
they realized the gravity of it all and that the
school board and leadership was just utterly failing. So they
got involved and they flipped. In that case, Unlike Jeffco
where there are five school board members, in Denver, there
are seven, and they flipped three of the seats, including
the one that was previously held by our good buddy
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Hey Anderson, and they expected that there would be real
change and guess what, there has not been, including a
superintendent that also like Tracy Dorilyn, has failed, failed, failed,
and has not focused on academics, let alone school safety.
And so the problem with this is you really need
to have a concrete effort to make sure that the
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average parent, the average voter who isn't a parent too,
he is aware of what's happening and why it's so
bad and there needs to be a change. And then, frankly,
you need a majority and a majority that is committed
to actually changing some of these core things, because if
you don't have that, then you may get some expectations,
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and those expectations, even the minimal ones, won't get met.
Speaker 5 (52:28):
As Denver shows amen to that, Jimmy, Jimmy Segenberger writes
to twice weekly column in the Denver Gazette, I believe
you're in for Ross on Thursday and Friday of this week.
Speaker 6 (52:37):
Correct, actually tomorrow and Friday, Ryan recovering on Thursday.
Speaker 4 (52:42):
Okay, tomorrow and Friday. You can hear Jimmy just before me.
Speaker 5 (52:44):
As Ross continues to lays away in the Galapagos, riding
tortoises and chasing dragons or whatever he's doing down there.
Speaker 4 (52:52):
Jimmy, I appreciate your time today, my friend. I'll talk
to you soon.
Speaker 6 (52:56):
Thanks man, DC tomorrow excellent.
Speaker 5 (53:01):
I I love that Jimmy now has a harmonica play
in and out of the segments that he joins me on.
Speaker 4 (53:08):
When we get back, I got a couple of things
that I want to talk about. One of them.
Speaker 5 (53:12):
Today is the day that we're supposed to be getting
the rest of the JFK files, right, So this is
one of those things that has kind of been like
hanging over America's head for the past fifty something years,
and I am not confident that we're going to find
out anything.
Speaker 4 (53:27):
I'm just gonna say it. We'll talk about that when
we get back. And is Trump breaking or fixing the markets?
Speaker 5 (53:33):
It depends on whether you have a short term view,
which is obviously yes, or a long term view, which
people like me and a columnist in USA today believe
is no.
Speaker 4 (53:44):
He's not breaking them. He's fixing them.
Speaker 5 (53:47):
But there's a little period of creative destruction that we
all have to live through to get to the other side.
Speaker 4 (53:51):
We'll do all that next. Keep it right here. On KOA.
Speaker 5 (53:53):
I find USA today to be reliably liberal, and I
just don't generally care. But I saw this headline and
I thought, Okay, I'll bite USA today. Don't panic over
the stock market. Trump is fixing holes in our economy.
This is written by a young woman, she looks young anyway,
named Nicole Russell.
Speaker 4 (54:13):
She's a mother of four.
Speaker 5 (54:14):
She lives in Texas, and she's got a weekly newsletter,
the Right Track dot Com to give you an idea
of her which way she's coming at this from.
Speaker 4 (54:22):
Okay, so you can take this with.
Speaker 5 (54:24):
A grain of salt if you'd like to, depending on
your perspective. But the stock market is royaled right now,
There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 4 (54:30):
And markets respond poorly to uncertainty.
Speaker 5 (54:33):
And the way that Trump has rolled out and then
pushback and then rolled out and then pushback tariffs has
been not giving any certainty to business in the market.
Speaker 4 (54:42):
So it's been really really hard on the stock market.
Speaker 5 (54:44):
But she makes this case, and I might disagree with
this opening line that says President Donald Trump has a
new title, stock market Master. When the markets go down,
it's his fault, according to democrats and legacy news media.
Speaker 4 (54:59):
But when they raw. As they eventually.
Speaker 5 (55:01):
Will, it won't be because of Trump. The US stock
markets have had a disastrous month. After recently hitting record highs.
The Standard of Poor five hundred fell into correction territory
a drop of ten percent or more on Thursday, before
recall recording a solid rebound Friday. The Nasdaq is off
about ten percent from its record peak in December. The
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Dow also is significantly down since Trump took office in
January of twentieth. It's undeniable that Trump's tarifform with Canada, China, Europe,
and Mexico has injected uncertainty and fears of recession into
the market, but his critics have pounced, have pounced with
disdain on the market's decline.
Speaker 4 (55:40):
Wall Street is turning back. It's back on Trump.
Speaker 5 (55:42):
A recent CNN headline blaired uncertainty is Trump's brand announced
to New York Or headline over Susan Glasser's piece blasting
his tariffs. Yet it's time for perspective, not panic. Stock
market corrections are common, necessary and healthy. For example, the
S and P five hundred drop more than twenty five
percent between January and October of twenty twenty two, the
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second year of Joe Biden's one term as president, but
the market's rebounded to set multiple record highs in twenty
twenty two, of twenty twenty three, and twenty twenty four.
There's good reason to think that the markets will bounce
back in similar ways this time. Tom Lee, co founder
of Funstrucked Global Advisors, told CNBC, I think it's very
possible that March April May could actually be one of
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those huge rally months where we're rallying ten to fifteen percent.
It's natural to feel anxious when the markets plunge. Nobody
wants to see their retirement accounts drop, especially if you're
near retirement age. I have empathy for people in that position.
But it's important to remember that a large swath of
the electorate didn't vote for Trump to make the stock
markets skyrocket. They instead want more opportunities for good jobs
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and a lower rate of inflation. And creating better jobs
in the US is the point of Trump's tariffs. The
easiest way for companies to avoid the tariffs is to
make more goods in this country, and that in turn
will drive up wages. Cutting inflation is the point of
another Trump initiative that continues to dominate the news.
Speaker 4 (57:08):
Under Biden, the.
Speaker 5 (57:09):
Federal government ran deficits of nearly two trillion dollars a year,
and the national debt soared past thirty six trillion. It's
imperative to cut the deficit, both to slow inflation and
to trigger interest cuts. Trump didn't promise that the stock
markets wouldn't dip. He promised to improve the economy through
the Department of Government efficiency and other initiatives.
Speaker 4 (57:28):
That will happen, but it will take time.
Speaker 5 (57:32):
There's another piece of the stock market panic horse mentioning
the egregious double standard of the left. For four years,
Biden made policy decisions that rapidly drove up prices on
items Americans need, from food to cars to homes. As
the Cato Institute reported last year, food prices rose less
than eighteen percent between January twenty ten and January twenty
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twenty two or twenty twenty one when Biden took office,
but they shot up twenty one percent in the first
three years of Biden's term. Where were the progressive protests
when millions of families struggled to buy milk and fruit
for their kids. The left might have amnesia, but I
don't Trump vowed to fix the economy, and he will.
Inflation will cool, interest rates will drop, and consumers will
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again regain confidence and stocks will rebound.
Speaker 4 (58:18):
Keep calm. She says, better days are ahead.
Speaker 5 (58:21):
So that's Nicole Russell, and I think she glossed over
some really important economic stuff that is I believe necessary.
First of all, you cannot undersell the importance of contracting
the size of government spending.
Speaker 4 (58:37):
If you contract the.
Speaker 5 (58:38):
Size of government spending, after we've seen government spending make
up such a huge part of the economy, it is
going to have an impact on GDP, at least in
the short term. It has happened every time we have
contracted government spending in the economy.
Speaker 4 (58:50):
But then think about after World War Two.
Speaker 5 (58:53):
After World War Two, we were running a GDP debt
to GDP ratio is one hundred and twenty eight percent
at the end of World War Two. Now, the government,
if they were today's government, would have just kept spending
like drunken monkeys, because we all saw what happened when
they plugged a bunch of government money into the COVID response.
All of that money's still in the budget, it's still there.
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They never peel it back. Well, after World War Two,
Eisenhower said, We're gonna pull it all back, and all
of these economists.
Speaker 4 (59:20):
Were like, you can't do that. You'll destroy the.
Speaker 5 (59:22):
Entire economy of the United States of America if you
do that, and he said, screw it, I'm doing it anyway,
And they did. And you know what happened the boom
of the nineteen fifties where all the gis came home
and they started businesses and they bought houses, and the
economy roared because we pulled back government spending. But in
the short term, it's going to have an impact. In
the short term this tariff.
Speaker 4 (59:41):
Situation, which I do believe will eventually be taken care
of with reciprocal agreements with these different nations to pull
back tariffs on United on American goods. And if they
don't pull back tariffs.
Speaker 5 (59:53):
On American goods, we've already seen multiple companies come up
with massive investments companies here in the United States. We've
already seen car makers moving production of cars from Mexico
back into Michigan where they lost so much car production.
So it's not as if all of these things are
just Donald Trump willy nilly deciding to do something crazy
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to wreck the stock market.
Speaker 4 (01:00:16):
And this is.
Speaker 5 (01:00:17):
Something I've said for the since he got back into office.
If you're judging Donald Trump now by the first Trump administration,
you are not doing it right. You're just not Trump
two point zero is an entirely different beast. Trump two
point zh has a very clear plan and I sent
it a couple of weeks ago, and I think this
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is a great analogy, and that is simply that you know,
the first administration.
Speaker 4 (01:00:42):
He had no idea what he was doing. And that's
not a knock on Trump.
Speaker 5 (01:00:45):
I don't think anybody becomes president for the first time
and is like I got this, I know where the
bathroom is. I don't need any help unless they're vice president.
So when you're a new president, he comes in and
I had no idea what was going on. I think
we're seeing the first entire series of dat Like in
an NFL game, those are already scripted before the game
starts by the coaches. What we're seeing are the scripted
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plays by Donald Trump that he had four years.
Speaker 4 (01:01:08):
To think about, four years to kind of roll around
in his brain.
Speaker 5 (01:01:13):
And if you're thinking that he's too stupid to pull
this off, you.
Speaker 4 (01:01:17):
Are doing yourself and him a disservice.
Speaker 5 (01:01:20):
It's kind of like the people who say you ont
is stupid, Like, yeah, he's the richest stupid guy.
Speaker 4 (01:01:24):
I ever met.
Speaker 5 (01:01:25):
I do want to do this right now. I want
to give away a pair of tickets to the Denver
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And I have so many clients there, Gravinus Windows Center
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Speaker 4 (01:01:46):
I don't know if Golden Spike's going to be there.
Speaker 5 (01:01:48):
Jimmy Keys and Keys, concrete coatings and gut Her Helmet,
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And we're going to give away two tickets right now
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Speaker 4 (01:02:00):
Three eight five eighty five.
Speaker 5 (01:02:01):
But if you go to Denver Homeshow dot com you
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head out there this weekend.
Speaker 4 (01:02:08):
But now, caller five, three oh three seven to one
three eighty five eighty five, let's take a very quick
time out. Text me your responses.
Speaker 5 (01:02:15):
I'd love to know what you guys think of what
is happening economically. Do you still have confidence if you're
a Trump supporter, that he is directing things in the
right way. If not, why not? And if you think
everything's a disaster because you don't like them, you.
Speaker 4 (01:02:29):
Can say that too.
Speaker 5 (01:02:30):
Five six six nine zero is the text line. We'll
be back right after this, Hi, Mandy. I think Trump
is doing a great job. All the naysayers are forgetting.
He's only been back in office for two months. He's
done more than Biden did in four years.
Speaker 4 (01:02:43):
We're winning.
Speaker 5 (01:02:44):
Doesn't feel like it if you look at the markets
right now, but I understand that feeling.
Speaker 4 (01:02:47):
I'm kind of with you. I think this is short
term pain for long term gain.
Speaker 5 (01:02:51):
Mandy, as an investor both managed accounts in my own
individually purchased stocks, I have long thoughtket the market was overvalued.
I would much rather prefer a slight contraction over a
complete crash. I'm waiting for the bottom of this market
adjustment so I can buy more this one. Fixing the
economy will take patience, Just like if you get yourself
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into financial trouble, you can't fix it overnight. Taking difficult
steps will be necessary and will eventually get you where
you want to be. I like this text message because
I think it taps into something that is incredibly important.
The economy cannot turn on a dime. Right, You've got
to think of the economy as the aircraft carrier of ships. Okay, Now,
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if I'm in a little speedboat, I can turn that
speedboat very very quickly. But if you're in an aircraft carrier,
you can't turn it on a dime. And the economy
has so many different aspects and so many different moving
parts to it, and it's almost ridiculous to think that
you can fix things extremely quickly. That being said, the
speed with which Donald Trump has done some incredibly significant
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things I also believe was necessary because of the intractable
nature of Washington, DC. Because what Trump one point o
learned that Trump two point oh is paying attention to
is that if you give Washington time to get into
a defensive posture, you're never going to get anything done.
You're just not You're not going to be able to
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fix anything. So why doing everything at once. He's essentially
ripping off the band aid instead of peeling it off slowly,
ripping off armhair after armhair, you know, and I after
watching politics. I mean, this has been my job. I've
had this job since two thousand and five. Okay, so
for twenty years. I have been watching politics. I've been
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watching Washington. I've been watching how Congress works. I've been
watching how Congress doesn't work. And this is why I
am hashtag pro team Thomas Massey, because he's been watching
it for twelve years and he seems the.
Speaker 4 (01:04:49):
Same thing that I see. Business as usual is the
preferred way of doing business for both Democrats and Republicans
who don't care about the things that we care about.
I firmly believe that.
Speaker 5 (01:05:01):
I know it sounds cynical and awful, but the ultimate
reality is do they really care about inflation the way
we care about inflation? Because they're not stopping spending when
we know Historically, hyperinflation has always followed a period of
a mass expansion of the money supply, and we just
did that during COVID.
Speaker 4 (01:05:19):
We added a third, one.
Speaker 5 (01:05:22):
Third of the money in our economy right now that
was printed was printed during COVID one third. We haven't
had an expansion like that in I don't even know
in the modern era surely not, but that inflation always
follows that. But if they weren't worried about getting their
special benefits for their friends and the contractors who support them,
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or whatever their little special interest group is, they would
really want to do something about it. And yet they
just passed a continuing resolution that funded all of the
Biden priorities for this.
Speaker 4 (01:05:54):
Year, every single one of them. Does that say we're serious?
Speaker 13 (01:05:58):
No?
Speaker 5 (01:05:59):
So, yeah, this has been a violent uprising, a violent
sort of disruption in Washington, DC. But I don't think
there was another way to do it. I really don't, Mandy.
I'm totally confident in Trump's economic plan. Tariffs are a
long term strategy, and after years of ballooning the debt
to thirty six trillion, change is going to take some time.
The money we are saving by cutting government spending will
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also be great in the long run. Even if this
administration stays even with thirty six trillion in debt, it's
still a huge win. Not for Marty and Loveland, only Marty.
They just passed a continuing resolution that will take it
up to forty trillion. So I love what you're saying,
but I'm sitting here like the harbinger of doom right
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on the radio, because I don't want you to think
that just because your team is in charge, that everything
is going the way that you think it should or
that you want it to. I will believe it when
we get twelve individual spending bills like we're supposed to.
I'll believe it when I see the recisions in the
spending bills that truly pull back spending. And I'll believe
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it when we get the national deficit in the national
debt to move in the right direction. Right now, I'm
too jaded to say it's going well.
Speaker 4 (01:07:12):
I think Trump wants it to go well.
Speaker 5 (01:07:14):
But unless and until he wrangles Congress under control, we're
gonna have more of the same kind of nonsense coming
out of DC.
Speaker 4 (01:07:22):
I'll let Jason have the last word on this. Mandy.
Speaker 5 (01:07:25):
I have a saying that goes along with what we're
dealing with now. It says I can fix stupid, but
it's going to hurt. You are correct, Jason, and right
now we're in the hurting part for sure. Anyway, we
are going to take a quick time out. When we
get back. Let's talk JFK files. Because the JFK files
are supposed to be released today, And does anybody really
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think we're gonna learn something new? You know, like LBJ
actually helped plan the Kennedy assassination. I'm not saying it's true,
like I don't have the details, but I'm just saying
it could be true. I've always heard it anyway. And
have you wondered have you seen the comments from people
on social media like, oh my god, what're throwing out
all the emigrats and who's gonna pick our vegetables?
Speaker 4 (01:08:09):
At our fruits? Now they're just gonna rot. We're all
gonna starve.
Speaker 5 (01:08:13):
I did a little digging today some of the tech
in farming super super cool.
Speaker 4 (01:08:19):
That's all coming up for the next hour. Keep it
right here on KOA.
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Welcome, Local, Welcome to the third hour of the show,
broadcasting the live from beautiful Salt River Fields. It talking
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I cannot recommend this place highly enough. And tonight we're
going to stay for the game, and then I'll be
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back in Denver tomorrow for the show, assuming that all
airline flights run on.
Speaker 4 (01:09:16):
Time because of the weather. But I'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (01:09:19):
But if you've ever wanted to do spring training, I
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But this is my first visit to the Cactus League.
And according to everyone that I had talked to in
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Cactus League and spring training. So if you have a chance,
I would definitely say come on out and check it out.
Now in this hour, I've got a lot of stuff
I want to talk about, but I want to address
the story about Jeanette Vizgera. She's the woman that has
now been arrested by Ice and all of the Democrats
are coming out to demand she'd be released. And oh,
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she's an immigration advocate and doesn't have a violent criminal record.
And all of this stuff, and we should let her go,
And why didn't they tell her that they were coming
to get her? Well, let me give you a little
bit of background, and then I have a question. I'm
not going to sit here and pretend that I know
every single thing about her case, but I have some information,
and then I have and then.
Speaker 4 (01:10:25):
I have a question.
Speaker 5 (01:10:26):
One of those pieces of information is that, according to
what I found, she does have a criminal record, not
a violent criminal record, but a criminal record, so that is,
and she has a deportioned deportation order from a judge.
Speaker 4 (01:10:38):
It was stayed by the Biden administration.
Speaker 5 (01:10:41):
But apparently now that stay has either been lifted or
there's a new deportation order. Whatever, there's a deportation order
for this woman. Why didn't they tell her they were
coming or they wanted her to turn herself in? Because
back in twenty seventeen, she walked herself in a Denver
church for.
Speaker 4 (01:10:56):
Three years, for three years to avoid being.
Speaker 5 (01:11:02):
Arrested for deportation. And you want to know why they
didn't let her know they were coming.
Speaker 4 (01:11:05):
I mean, you have to be kind of stupid to
even ask that question like.
Speaker 5 (01:11:09):
That, I know, But then here's my question that I
would like an answer to that. I've looked all over
the internet to find out this morning, because in a
lot of the stories, it says she's been here since
nineteen ninety seven. Okay first had a run in with
the law in two thousand and nine when she was
arrested after a traffic infraction. I don't know what the
traffic infraction was, but she was arrested then. So she's
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been here since nineteen ninety seven. She is a prominent
immigrant activist in our community, and all the stories that
she's been seeking status, can anyone clarify for me why
she's still after all these years, twenty twenty eight years
in the United States, still doesn't have some kind of
status that she's enough of an activist that the Biden
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administration interjected to keep her from being deported, but nobody
that worked through that process could help her get some
kind of legal status here.
Speaker 4 (01:12:03):
I'm genuinely confused by that.
Speaker 8 (01:12:05):
Now.
Speaker 4 (01:12:05):
Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 5 (01:12:05):
Our immigration system sucks. I've been over it before. We've
talked about it before. It's terrible, it's unwieldy, it's cumbersome,
all of these things.
Speaker 4 (01:12:12):
But she's already in the country.
Speaker 5 (01:12:14):
She's well known in politics, and you're telling me she
could not have gotten some kind of status before. Now,
I really would like to know the answer. If you
know the answer, you can text me at five sixty
six nine.
Speaker 4 (01:12:25):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (01:12:28):
Sorry, I had to sneeze. Here's another fun fact, day Rod.
I've learned at my time in Arizona. I'm allergic to
everything in Arizona. Apparently I've been sneezing my brains out
since I got here.
Speaker 11 (01:12:39):
So whatever it is, brain lets to do the show though,
So that's good.
Speaker 4 (01:12:42):
Barely, just merely.
Speaker 9 (01:12:44):
Now.
Speaker 5 (01:12:44):
If you know the answer to that question, please text
me at five sixty sixth nine. Oh, and why was
the church allowed to break the law? There was a
rule in place that said immigration enforcement would not take
place in a church. So that is how she lived
in the church for three years, and the church provided
shelter for her because there was a rule that said
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you're not coming in the church. But yeah, that's probably
why Immigration didn't make a phone call to give her
heads up. You know, Mandy just heard the news story
about the activists taken into ICE custody. Lots of gripes
about the rules that activists want ICE to follow interesting
that they require the compliance to the rules they want
followed while they blatantly ignore and disregard the rules fundamental
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to the story. Well, now you're asking people to be consistent,
and consistency.
Speaker 4 (01:13:34):
Is a bugaboo. It's a real bear. It's a problem.
And then this text takes me to my next story.
Mandy just heard.
Speaker 5 (01:13:43):
Wait, wait, we will never know all that is concerning
Kennedy's assassination.
Speaker 4 (01:13:48):
Kind of like death and dying.
Speaker 5 (01:13:50):
Until we're dead, and I mean permanently dead, we will
not know if there's anything to know.
Speaker 4 (01:13:56):
Maybe maybe not. But today, at some point, Donald.
Speaker 5 (01:14:01):
Trump says all of the files related to the nineteen
sixty three assassination of John F. Kennedy will be released
without any redactions. Now, he made the promise during his campaign,
and he says, promise is kept. You know, there you go.
His administration is releasing eighty thousand files. Although some of those,
many of those have already been made public, but I
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understand some of them have gotten to be have been
heavily redacted. So now he doesn't believe anything will be redacted.
He said, just don't redact. You can't redact. Many have
studied what's been released so far by the government say
the public shouldn't anticipate any earth shattering revelations from the
newly released documents, but there is still intense interest in
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details related to the assassination and the events surrounding it.
So I mean, what are we really going to find
out here? And I you know, Dave Howard used to
get so mad at me because I get sucked into
this stuff about the Kennedy assassination.
Speaker 4 (01:15:04):
But when something doesn't.
Speaker 5 (01:15:05):
Make sense, you kind of have to go, wait a minute,
it just doesn't make any sense. And I'll direct you
to another story on the blog today. Guess who is
now admitting.
Speaker 4 (01:15:14):
That they totally knew that COVID came from a Wuhan lab.
Now now everybody's doing it, by the way, you guys,
everybody's like, oh yeah, everybody knew this one hundred percent.
Let me find it on the blog today. It's from
Michael Schellenberger.
Speaker 5 (01:15:29):
Okay, the former head of the UK's Foreign Intelligence agency
m I six told Boris Johnson in early twenty twenty
that the COVID virus.
Speaker 4 (01:15:38):
Escaped from the Wuhan lab.
Speaker 5 (01:15:41):
That means the US, UK, Chinese, and German governments all
knew the truth, covered it up and spread disformation, disinformation.
Speaker 4 (01:15:50):
Case closed. Okay, this is why I'm not.
Speaker 5 (01:15:52):
Gonna believe anything that's in these documents about the Kennedy assassination.
I think that there was such a concerted effort. I
truly believe that lb had something to do with it.
Never trusted that guy, I mean, he was the one
that benefited. I've heard, and I don't know if this
is accurate. I wonder if any of you guys have
heard this too, that there was Champagne on Air Force
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one all the way back from.
Speaker 4 (01:16:15):
Dallas when there usually wasn't.
Speaker 5 (01:16:18):
Champagne on Air Force one, and they toasted LBJ after
they swore him in on Air Force one after John F.
Kennedy was murdered. Now, I don't know if that's accurate,
but I'm telling you I don't trust our government not
to cover things up and not tell us stuff, because
the urge to cya supersedes almost everything, and the urge
to protect oneself from harm is pretty significant. So, Mandy,
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I believe Howard Donahue was correct. Secret Service agent George
Hickey inadvertently discharged his weapon, killing Kennedy. The cover up
was to protect the Secret Service in Oswald was a
convenient patsy.
Speaker 4 (01:16:57):
But how did he how? I mean, but we've all
seen them with cruider tapes. We've all seen it.
Speaker 5 (01:17:05):
Anyway, Mandy, I'm waiting to see how Kyle Clark covers
the Jeanette Visgera story.
Speaker 4 (01:17:10):
He will probably halfway state the facts. I do not know.
Speaker 5 (01:17:15):
Oh, somebody said, now he's saying tomorrow, So I do
not know when this is going to be released.
Speaker 4 (01:17:21):
To the texter who said.
Speaker 5 (01:17:23):
This earlier, Nope, it's already fallen off. Somebody said Marilyn
Monroe faked her own death and is now living happily
with John F. Kennedy and Elvis in Mexico somewhere, And
I was like, seems legit to me.
Speaker 4 (01:17:37):
I mean, why not, right? Why not?
Speaker 5 (01:17:40):
Just doesn't Kennedy assassination? Did you see the video of
the driver shooting him?
Speaker 4 (01:17:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (01:17:48):
I've never heard that before. Now I have to look
at it. Yes, ay, rod Oh, got to take a break.
We'll be right back after this. We are giving way
more tickets to the Denver Home Show throughout the week,
So if you didn't win them today, go and do that.
Of course, you can go to Denver homeshow dot com
and buy him for two dollars.
Speaker 11 (01:18:02):
Off Roger one today, Roger.
Speaker 5 (01:18:04):
That Roger's going to the home show to the texter
who said cactus pallen making you sneeze. I don't know
if it's the cactus pollen, but holy macrol, I'm allergic
to everything here, and there's frankly, not that much foliage.
It's not like there's a ton of greenery here. I
mean the fields and the yards, they're the greenest ones
out there.
Speaker 4 (01:18:23):
Mandy the man who killed Kennedy. The case against.
Speaker 5 (01:18:25):
LBJ by Roger Stone will make you lose sleep. That
from Rocky Mountain Rocks. I'm telling you I think LBJ
had something to do with it, but I don't think
we're gonna find out in this document dump.
Speaker 4 (01:18:36):
That we have today. So we got to talk.
Speaker 5 (01:18:38):
About Frontier Airlines trying to win business, and I gotta
say I think this is a very smart move by them.
Frontier is now running a I guess an ad campaign
that says, hey, if you're having an airline divorce, we're
offering a free checked bag on select flights this summer.
So they're trying to woo away Southwest Airlines flyers, and
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I don't know if I would ever be wooed to
Frontier for one reason and one reason only, I hate
being nickel and dime to death, like I hate having
a bunch of little ticky tacky little charges here and there.
Oh you want to pay to get a seat, You
gotta pay to get a seat. You want to pay
for a carry on, You got to pay for a
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carry on. Oh you want to pay to get your
bag check pay for that too. Oh you want to
go to the bathroom, pay for that. Now, that's not
a thing yet, but it's coming, I bet you. I
just I can't so good on them for trying to
make things work.
Speaker 4 (01:19:34):
Ay, Rod, can you pull up.
Speaker 5 (01:19:35):
The video that you sent me of the Southwest CEO today.
It's on the blog if you just want to go
there and grab it, because I'd like to play this
audio because I'm already mad at Southwest, my airline of choice,
for changing pretty much the things that I loved about Southwest,
and that is the free bags, free two free check bags.
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And I'm one of those people who loved to pict
your own seat policy.
Speaker 4 (01:20:00):
I'm not gonna lie. I loved it.
Speaker 5 (01:20:02):
God that being said, Okay, so listen to this message
from the CEO of Southwest that I guess is supposed
to make me feel better, but go ahead and hit
it a.
Speaker 14 (01:20:12):
The short answer is that it's about securing our future.
We're announcing changes to our business that will help us
return to the levels of profitability we all expect and
to support our collective long term success. It's also about
adapting to what our customers want. Many things have changed
post COVID, the loss of short haul demand, arise in
premium demand, and a change in customer preferences. There are
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more than the logo on our planes. Our DNA isn't
open seating or even bags fly free as a dedication
to service and hospitality.
Speaker 5 (01:20:43):
You can stop it there, because I just want to
get to the problem. He actually said, our DNA is
not two free check bags. Well to me, it is
to Okay, maybe it's not your DNA, but it's your mitochondria.
Speaker 11 (01:20:54):
Which we all know not on everything everything.
Speaker 4 (01:20:58):
Yes, bags fly free is your DNA, sir.
Speaker 15 (01:21:01):
I'm really glad they have to spend so much money
like painting over everything and redoing everything that says that
because it is their identity.
Speaker 11 (01:21:10):
Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 5 (01:21:11):
Yeah, it's their mitochondria, if not their DNA. And now
it's gone, and I'm fascinated to see what happens to Southwest.
Speaker 4 (01:21:18):
And don't get me wrong, I'm not one of those
people that's like I held Southwest fails.
Speaker 5 (01:21:22):
I don't want fewer choices in airlines because the prices
will go up, right, I want competition.
Speaker 4 (01:21:27):
I want it to work. But I'm telling you right now.
Speaker 5 (01:21:30):
From this moment forward, I am shopping solely on price
and convenience because right now, when we fly to Ohio
to see our kids, guess where Southwest doesn't fly.
Speaker 4 (01:21:40):
It doesn't fly where I want to go.
Speaker 5 (01:21:42):
But often it's cheaper for us to fly into a
city that is two hours away, rent a car and drive.
But no more. Now I'm flying straight there because United
Airlines does fly there. And if I have to pay
for bags, I may as well just pay for them
on United, because why am I going to drive two
hours out of my way? Super frustrating, and I'll stop,
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I'll stop complaining.
Speaker 4 (01:22:04):
I'll stop. You do know it's foliage, right, yes I do,
But I just don't care. I can use big words, however,
I want.
Speaker 5 (01:22:12):
Texter keep your little corrections to yourself. You can say
it however you want on your radio show.
Speaker 4 (01:22:17):
I'll be right back. Keep it on KOA.
Speaker 5 (01:22:18):
I have a question for you guys about Southwest that
just occurred to me on the break. I have several
tickets booked already with Southwest that were booked before the
date where they say they're going to charge for baggage.
I think I'm going to make this my hill to
die upon. I am not paying for bags for those flights.
I'm not doing it, I agree, and I'm I may
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even cause U s think, oh.
Speaker 4 (01:22:44):
I know that's Chuck by the way, Oh.
Speaker 5 (01:22:46):
Yeah, no, Jesse Thomas, everybody, because I'm broadcasting live from
Salt Rivere talking stick, I'm not paying the bat.
Speaker 12 (01:22:52):
You've been loyal, and I mean extraordly loyal to Southwest
because you know they have the way we like doing it,
and now they're changing.
Speaker 8 (01:22:59):
I heard it everything you said earlier. I was irritated.
Speaker 4 (01:23:01):
So here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (01:23:02):
I think that because we purchased the tickets before they
change the policy, that I should not have to pay
the baggage fees on that. I think that that's perfectly reasonable.
Speaker 4 (01:23:12):
We get out West and you know, that's a good question.
Speaker 5 (01:23:14):
Let's make that happen, because the best everything that's done
on Twitter these days.
Speaker 8 (01:23:18):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (01:23:19):
Thank you to the text who said mandy trees are
pollinating and currently the pollen count is ten point three.
Speaker 4 (01:23:25):
On a twelve point scale. Check out pollen dot com
or weather bug tracks and it tells.
Speaker 8 (01:23:30):
You that she just has me. I can tell you.
Speaker 5 (01:23:33):
I can tell you what everything's doloming because my face
is exploding right now because of it. So, uh, how
do you think, I mean, do we just I'm trying
to think because here's ultimately, the people that I will
deal with at the airport are not the ones who
made this decision, right, So I always try to be
very careful about taking out my ironing. I'm someone who
had no control over whatever I'm mad about already exactly.
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And if you, I mean, if they created the problem,
well then all that's are off.
Speaker 4 (01:24:00):
But if they didn't have anything to do with it.
But I mean, I guess, oh, it's only for tickets
booked after five twenty eighth. Wait a minute, but when you.
Speaker 5 (01:24:07):
Say booked, I have a ticket booked for after five
twenty eight, I have tickets booked in June, I think
in July.
Speaker 4 (01:24:15):
Yeah we do and uh and I don't know. I'm
gonna tweet it.
Speaker 5 (01:24:19):
Southwest bag fees only apply to tickets booked after five
to one.
Speaker 4 (01:24:22):
Okay, there you go.
Speaker 12 (01:24:23):
Yeah, but that wording can be you know, if booked
is their magic word.
Speaker 5 (01:24:27):
There, We'll see, we shall see. I can't believe how
mad I still am about that. I just feel like
there's so few things in life and business that are
completely reliable when it comes to corporations.
Speaker 4 (01:24:43):
And I'll give you a few examples. When you go to.
Speaker 5 (01:24:45):
McDonald's, you are gonna get the best fountain coke you
can get straight up like, they have the best fountain
coke because it's always refrigerated. It's part of their contract
with exactly it's it's in canister as that's our deal
with Coca Cola. And I think they're the only ones
who do that. Yeah, so you're gonna a great coat. Now,
if all of a sudden, McDonald's goes to the bagged
syrup like everybody else uses, I'm gonna feel like they
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have violated their contract with me.
Speaker 4 (01:25:08):
Their contract.
Speaker 5 (01:25:11):
We're going to provide this excellent product and you are
going to buy it from us, And I feel like
a little bit like this, Like what do Southwest think
we were all flying them for?
Speaker 4 (01:25:20):
According to the CEO, he said, it's not in our
DNA to have free bags and choose your own. Well, yeh,
kind of is something like that. It kind of is.
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (01:25:32):
I'm trying to think of other corporations that have changed
the game to their detriment.
Speaker 4 (01:25:38):
I mean, the biggest, most obvious one.
Speaker 5 (01:25:39):
Is New Coke, Like New Coke is still taught in
business schools as the worst business decision ever made.
Speaker 4 (01:25:46):
And I feel like this is kind of.
Speaker 5 (01:25:50):
Like that, because they don't know why we fly them, Mandy,
don't go full bill O'Reilly on the gate agent, even
if they are rude or lie to you. Again, I'm
not mad at the gate agents. I'm not mad at
the customer service representatives. I'm not mad at any of them.
They did not make this decision, Mandy. I'm an employee
of Southwest here in Denver. It's not just the price
changes for customers. Just this week, they've taken away our
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earned points perk and cut eighty months of eighty bucks
a month in our bonuses and have cut completely the
bonus for being a trainer. Thanks Elliott Group. The Elliott
Group is the activist investors'n aron. I want you to
see if you can get somebody from the Elliott Group
on the show. They're gonna say no, but at least
let's ask that. Yeah, no, they're gonna say no, but
(01:26:34):
I'm gonna see if we can. I'm gonna just say,
what are you guys doing. I know you're trying to
maximize your returns, but do you not know what you bought?
That's the thing, like you bought the stock knowing what
Southwest was. And don't get me wrong, the whole scheduling
computer system meltdown. That happened, huge black eye for Southwest,
Huge black eye.
Speaker 4 (01:26:54):
It was awful. That needed to be fixed, right.
Speaker 5 (01:26:57):
They needed to modernize everything, they needed to make it
so they could get crew where they needed to get them.
Speaker 4 (01:27:02):
All that needed to happen.
Speaker 5 (01:27:04):
But I didn't fly Southwest because of their scheduling program.
Speaker 4 (01:27:08):
I just didn't.
Speaker 5 (01:27:09):
I mean, that's not why I did it. And now
they're taking the thing away that I like, But that identity,
it's it's not other DNA and Roger.
Speaker 8 (01:27:19):
I think she's fired up.
Speaker 9 (01:27:20):
I think she's a little I believe it's got her attention.
Speaker 4 (01:27:23):
It's like the fourth time I've talked about this. I'm
so annoyed by this, and this is true.
Speaker 12 (01:27:27):
You know, this happens, this conversation happens when there's no
microphone around.
Speaker 8 (01:27:32):
Chuck.
Speaker 4 (01:27:33):
Yeah, sure, I'm annoyed too.
Speaker 8 (01:27:35):
I mean we travel a lot. We travel.
Speaker 12 (01:27:37):
I mean we have five trips planned just this year
that we've already bought tickets to.
Speaker 4 (01:27:41):
Hey, Mandy, Southwest employees could get a bonus if they
charge you for bags. Well, their problem is.
Speaker 11 (01:27:46):
Not my problem.
Speaker 4 (01:27:47):
Oh no, I've got two different problems.
Speaker 11 (01:27:48):
I'm going to start with them now.
Speaker 5 (01:27:50):
No, no, uh Mandy uh. Southwest Bag policy note we
will not charge standard checked bag fees for your first
or second check bag checked bag for any reservation booked
or changed on or before May twenty.
Speaker 4 (01:28:06):
Five, regardless of your travel date. There you go, Okay,
So should we just book.
Speaker 5 (01:28:09):
All of our flights for the next two years. We're
just gonna plan for vacations we don't even have.
Speaker 8 (01:28:13):
Well I look at it this way.
Speaker 12 (01:28:14):
Let's plan and then Southwest does have a good thing
where if you change the flight, they don't You don't
get a penalty unless they're changing.
Speaker 5 (01:28:20):
That I know, but they are putting a limit on
how long your credits are good.
Speaker 15 (01:28:24):
I don't have credits fire the eight months to book
a trip longer than eight months out.
Speaker 4 (01:28:30):
You can book a.
Speaker 8 (01:28:31):
Trip a year out, a year out most if you
do it.
Speaker 4 (01:28:33):
Most of the time, credits are like.
Speaker 12 (01:28:35):
A like a like a gift card that you purchase,
you know if you expire.
Speaker 4 (01:28:41):
And this said Mandy, stupid Southwest.
Speaker 5 (01:28:43):
I would have continued flying them without even checking other airlines,
so they could have just raised ticket prices to cover
the baggage fees and I never would have known the difference.
There you go, Frontier flew it all the time before
they went cheap, says this Texter, Mandy, bud Light go
WoT Bote go book.
Speaker 4 (01:29:00):
Let me just say this about bud Light.
Speaker 5 (01:29:01):
Though they didn't change their products right, they made a
stunningly bad marketing decision that was made by somebody who
should have never been elevated to that position.
Speaker 15 (01:29:11):
Second to last, Texter hit up the Elliott Group. That
was a genius idea. Literally, just raise prices. People just said, hey,
south was getting price heer, someone said maybe, but then
not find any more of it exactly.
Speaker 12 (01:29:22):
So cheaper than a lot of the other airlines because
there's no bagagees.
Speaker 5 (01:29:25):
Coca Cola made that says this Texter are the two
worst business moves ever.
Speaker 4 (01:29:29):
They could have had Pepsi for a song.
Speaker 5 (01:29:30):
That's eliminating their competition. Then there was the new Coke debacle.
Somehow they recovered.
Speaker 11 (01:29:35):
From the Will Southwest go back on it?
Speaker 8 (01:29:37):
Though?
Speaker 4 (01:29:38):
You know, here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (01:29:40):
I know it's going to bring revenue in like because
everybody has been trained on other airlines that.
Speaker 4 (01:29:45):
This is what you do.
Speaker 5 (01:29:46):
So now people are gonna fly Southwest, It's going to
be just like every other airline. So now they have
to compete on price. Now they have to compete on destinations.
Now they have to compete on convenience, which is what
all the other airlines have been competing on.
Speaker 4 (01:29:58):
And they literally under cut the things that made them
unique and special.
Speaker 5 (01:30:03):
It's almost like in radio where they keep firing the
local personalities and then tell us that local radio is important.
I mean, I'm not bitter or anything. I'm just saying
it's the same thing, right, It's the same exact thing. Oh,
you can only book through December as far out now, hey,
United pilot here, welcome aboard. I will be flying United
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because they fly direct to date.
Speaker 11 (01:30:25):
No high United credit card. I was telling you about.
Speaker 5 (01:30:28):
I gotta tell you as in the points and we
got to talk about this on the show at some point.
A Rod Beca is so interesting. A Ron is deep
in the points in miles game right now. I've been
in for a while. Uh, and I find that I'd
rather have an unbranded credit card for a variety of reasons.
But I might get the Chase United card just to
get the free bags on United.
Speaker 11 (01:30:49):
Yeah awesome.
Speaker 12 (01:30:51):
Yeah, Well in Southwest, if you have a Chase Southwest card,
are they not giving you at least one bag?
Speaker 2 (01:30:57):
You get one?
Speaker 15 (01:30:58):
You get one there and then but two Yeah well
technically technically not two. In the United it's one, but
plus companion.
Speaker 11 (01:31:03):
So do the math. It's two brown drip.
Speaker 4 (01:31:07):
Yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:31:09):
So, I mean, especially like families, when you're talking about
traveling with a family and checking bags, you could easily add,
you know, two hundred bucks to your flight just from
checking bags.
Speaker 4 (01:31:19):
I just I hate this so much. Today flew Southwest
this weekend, says this Texter.
Speaker 5 (01:31:24):
And it was the first time in a long time
we had a delayed flight because the flight to bring
the crew wasn't there on time. We're super loyal customers.
I feel like the service is really going down. I
will say this, I have not seen a drop off
in the quality of the in flight experience in terms.
I think their flight attendants are still great. I've always
thought Southwest has always had like the happiest seeming flight attendants.
Speaker 4 (01:31:46):
And I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 5 (01:31:47):
When we flew on American during COVID, those flight attendants
were so mean.
Speaker 4 (01:31:52):
I swore off American.
Speaker 5 (01:31:54):
I was like, I do not want to be treated
like a criminal because I have my mask down and
my soda in my.
Speaker 4 (01:32:00):
Hand, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (01:32:01):
It was like and this woman all she did, it
was like a four hour flight.
Speaker 4 (01:32:05):
Where were we going, Chuck? We were going?
Speaker 5 (01:32:07):
It was like a long flight, like four and a
half hours. She walked up and down the aisle like
a prison warden.
Speaker 4 (01:32:11):
The entire time.
Speaker 5 (01:32:13):
She looked like a prison warden. And if anyone had
their masks down around their face or whatever, she was
yelling at people.
Speaker 12 (01:32:19):
And I was like, I'm not a coasty with me
because I'm big and these seats aren't and I was
sticking out a little bit, so she would like push
me into this thing. And then I'm eating peanuts so
I'm not putting my mask up. I'm not stupid. I
know how to, you know, avoid that. And she was
just like, you need to put it up between bites.
I'm like, no, make me come here and do it.
Speaker 4 (01:32:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:32:38):
She was my passive aggressive cousin's daughter. She would get
on the plane with a lollipop in her mouth yep,
and then that was her cover story for the entire
I was like, God, this passage.
Speaker 12 (01:32:50):
She remember, I bought lollipops and passed them outs everywhere
in our group.
Speaker 5 (01:32:53):
Uh huh, Mandy, I will continue to non rev on AA. Well,
if I could non rev on AA, I would totally
do that as well.
Speaker 4 (01:33:00):
Non rev is when.
Speaker 5 (01:33:01):
You work for the airline and you're a non revenue passenger.
It is the best perk of working for an airline.
Although as airlines have contracted their routes and planes have gotten.
Speaker 4 (01:33:11):
More and more full, it's almost impossible. It's hard to
non rev.
Speaker 5 (01:33:16):
When I was a flight attendant, there were so many
airlines and there were so many flights that you could
always get where you wanted to go, so it didn't matter. Mandy,
do you take two bags on every trip you go on?
Speaker 13 (01:33:24):
No?
Speaker 4 (01:33:24):
I do not.
Speaker 5 (01:33:25):
I'm a pretty efficient packer. We usually just take one
bag each.
Speaker 8 (01:33:28):
Well, we have great luggage thanks to.
Speaker 4 (01:33:30):
Yeah, we do, thanks to Paradise Bag. It's go check
them out. They're amazing. Well they didn't give it to us.
I mean we bought it, true, but still amazing luggage, Mandy.
Speaker 5 (01:33:38):
Southwest charging for bags is like Wendy's going with frozen beef.
Speaker 4 (01:33:41):
Amen.
Speaker 12 (01:33:42):
My friend to me, that's another one of those things,
change their meat, and that was I never went to
Wendy's again. Their original burgers were phenomenal and their fries
and they changed everything.
Speaker 8 (01:33:54):
I haven't been back since.
Speaker 5 (01:33:56):
You are a picky man. Now I'm getting credit card advice.
A Rod's City American Executive card is fantastic, This couple says.
My husband and I both have United cards. He has
the upgraded card that gets us into the United Club
and free bags for all companions. I have the non
upgrade card and it gets me one free bag when
I travel alone. This text are set up in every
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household expense on my Southwest credit card.
Speaker 4 (01:34:19):
My wife and I fly free. We do that with
the Chase preferred Sapphire or is that what it is?
Speaker 1 (01:34:24):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (01:34:25):
Because those miles when you go to get a miles
credit card. And by the way, if you're a person
who cannot or will not pay off your credit card
balance at the end of every month, do not do this, okay,
because carrying credit card debt to get airline miles does
not make any financial sense any way you look at it. Ever,
full stop, don't get credit cards if you cannot manage
(01:34:46):
them appropriately. That being said, also find out which cards
are easiest to utilize their miles across platforms in terms
of transferring over to a different platform, because maybe you
want to fly uh air LINGA to Ireland.
Speaker 4 (01:35:01):
Or Luftanza to Switzerland.
Speaker 5 (01:35:03):
You've got to be able to move those miles around.
So there's a lot to know about it. A Rod
slowly becoming an expert. If somebody said this, A Rod,
you should do a video on this on your top
ten channel.
Speaker 11 (01:35:13):
MM, yeah, it's a good one. I just might.
Speaker 15 (01:35:17):
It's so awesome all the travel we're doing, so much
of it knock them out of our pockets.
Speaker 4 (01:35:22):
Yep, you can't, baby, Mandy back it up.
Speaker 5 (01:35:25):
And go slower. Southwest Airlines has a woke marketing third
party firm. Wait what, I don't know what the woke
marketing third party firm is. I mean they don't need
a woke third party firm. They're screwing their airline up
all by themselves and you don't have to bring an
outside help at least but light you know, yeah, Ralph
and black Forest also in first class, the flight attendants
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treat you much better. You know why, because we know
you've paid an exorbitant amount of money to be there.
You should fly first class international. When I flew for Delta,
you went through six weeks of training. Now this was
back in nineteen ninety one, so we went through six
weeks of training, most of which was getting people out
of planes, first aid, safety, all that stuff. And then
you did like a week of actual service training out
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of the six weeks that you were there. So you
did a week about beverage carts and all that, and
we used to serve actual food. When I was a
flight attendant, we had a flight between Atlanta and Orlando
on an L ten eleven, which has three hundred and
seventy no, two hundred and thirty people in the back
and we did a soup and sandwich on an hour
and a half flight for all those passengers.
Speaker 4 (01:36:29):
It was ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (01:36:31):
But then you had to go back for training for
first class International, and that training alone was a week long.
We had a caviar and vodka service that we had
to do. We had like a ten course meal that
we had to serve.
Speaker 4 (01:36:46):
It was insane and I loved it. I loved it.
Speaker 12 (01:36:50):
I got a fly International first class. I got bumped
up when I was in the service and I was
in uniform. You're lucky doing an escort.
Speaker 4 (01:36:56):
Oh, you were escorting us.
Speaker 9 (01:36:58):
Yeah, I'd like to relate all this, but just fly private.
Speaker 4 (01:37:04):
Jesse Thomas. It must be so tough to hear US
pores talk about what it's like to travel around, Just Mandy.
Speaker 5 (01:37:12):
They should charge for the stupid carry on. Would make
boarding and disembarking much more efficient. I I what frustrates
me as a person who doesn't fly with a giant
carry on is when they come to me and say,
can I take your bag out of the overhead bin
and put it in front of you on the floor,
And I'm like, no, my legs are too long.
Speaker 8 (01:37:30):
I stand up whenever they do that. Do you think these.
Speaker 4 (01:37:33):
Legs can fit up there?
Speaker 5 (01:37:34):
No, this person got it right, aroon. It's a perfect analogy, Mandy.
Collecting credit card points is like Pokemon for adults.
Speaker 4 (01:37:43):
Oh, Pokemon that get lets you go places for free
and stay in fabulous hotels. So there you go, Manby.
Speaker 5 (01:37:49):
We have to chase United card and go to Hawaii
free every year which Chuck and I went to Switzerland.
We paid for probably three quarters of our trip with
airline miles and we stayed in a hotel so fancy
that I felt like the Beverly Hillbillies and that thing.
Speaker 4 (01:38:03):
Man, it was like.
Speaker 11 (01:38:04):
Wow, because first five apartments.
Speaker 4 (01:38:08):
All right, you guys, it is now to fifty.
Speaker 5 (01:38:11):
My husband Chuck is here as we wrap up our
broadcast in the beautiful Salt River fields. If you go
to my Facebook page, Mandy Connell, you can see a
picture of the view that I've had all day to day.
And we're gonna be joined by Jesse Thomas, who I've
all and told he was also playing of the Day.
Because now it's time for the most exciting segment on
the radio.
Speaker 4 (01:38:30):
Of its guy World of the Day. All right, here
we go, all right, Anthony, What is our dad joke
of the day.
Speaker 15 (01:38:43):
What is a home run hitter's favorite type of music?
Speaker 4 (01:38:47):
Run hitter, bass sing? Oh day Oh, that was a
good one.
Speaker 8 (01:38:55):
You have to telling them these are good ones.
Speaker 2 (01:38:57):
Okay, I think that's funny.
Speaker 4 (01:38:58):
I could tell you I like this. I thank the
ones for our grandkids. That's what I'm doing.
Speaker 15 (01:39:03):
Oh, here's another one, you know what, double dough. Since
you love that one so much, Chuck. Why are some
umpires overweight? I don't know, because they.
Speaker 11 (01:39:12):
Always clean their plates.
Speaker 4 (01:39:14):
Oh I love that one so good.
Speaker 8 (01:39:17):
That was better than the swing one.
Speaker 4 (01:39:18):
I'll thank you that that is so good.
Speaker 5 (01:39:21):
All right, Now we have our trivia question. According to
the US cost we don't Oh wait, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (01:39:26):
Word of today.
Speaker 11 (01:39:27):
It's a verb verb. Have we done this one before
going to do it again?
Speaker 4 (01:39:29):
Okay? Fame feign That means to fake something like you
pretend to be something you're not.
Speaker 11 (01:39:37):
That is correct, pretty much, all right?
Speaker 4 (01:39:40):
According to the.
Speaker 5 (01:39:41):
US Constitution, what is the minimum age for a person
to be elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington.
Speaker 8 (01:39:47):
D C?
Speaker 11 (01:39:49):
Twenty five?
Speaker 4 (01:39:50):
Yes, you are correct? Is it very good? Very good?
All right? What is our jeopardy category. Jesse.
Speaker 5 (01:39:56):
Here's how you play Jeopardy with us. It's a blood sport.
You don't have to wait till the end of the question.
You have to shout your name out, Jesse. I'll call
on you, and then you answer it in the form
of a question.
Speaker 11 (01:40:05):
Johnny has to wait.
Speaker 4 (01:40:06):
They do in Jeopardy. No, I don't right here.
Speaker 11 (01:40:08):
Jesse's never played.
Speaker 4 (01:40:09):
I don't care.
Speaker 11 (01:40:10):
It's our two rules.
Speaker 2 (01:40:11):
No win, the win.
Speaker 9 (01:40:13):
I'm just trying to stay out of the way.
Speaker 15 (01:40:15):
It's here too, I don't care. When there's a delayer,
someone new, you have to wait. No, yes, so you
have to wait for the word go.
Speaker 8 (01:40:21):
Hey, what if you could see her face?
Speaker 15 (01:40:23):
Jesse is gonna win because ladies and gentlemen, we're talking baseball.
Speaker 4 (01:40:27):
I'm not waiting then.
Speaker 9 (01:40:29):
For failures. All you did.
Speaker 15 (01:40:31):
In nineteen ninety six, the bottom of this imaginary rectangle
over home plate was moved from the top of the
batter's es Mandy.
Speaker 4 (01:40:41):
What is the strike zone?
Speaker 11 (01:40:43):
We're not gonna really not gonna wait?
Speaker 8 (01:40:45):
Huh, all right?
Speaker 11 (01:40:45):
Yes?
Speaker 15 (01:40:46):
Correct A baseball hat worn in an unusual way by
players or fans to inspire a comeback.
Speaker 4 (01:40:52):
What's the rally? Cap?
Speaker 9 (01:40:53):
I told you.
Speaker 6 (01:40:54):
We should have had.
Speaker 8 (01:40:55):
Her late telling, she added.
Speaker 15 (01:40:57):
As part of safety protocols in twenty two twenty all
half innings after the ninth now begin with an automatic
runner at Jesse's.
Speaker 11 (01:41:06):
Jesse second base, dumbas.
Speaker 15 (01:41:09):
This new stat that sounds like it's kept by NASA
is higher more than twenty degrees on average for a
fly ball hitner Jesse Jesse long angle correct.
Speaker 9 (01:41:20):
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (01:41:23):
Jesse first time.
Speaker 11 (01:41:25):
Chuck, Chuck.
Speaker 8 (01:41:26):
I'm good, I'm good. I'm watching these two try to kill.
Speaker 15 (01:41:29):
Also a soccer term for a lone back line defender.
Speaker 11 (01:41:33):
It's a pitch similar, Oh, Jesse correct.
Speaker 5 (01:41:41):
I didn't even need to give him an advantage exactly.
You're acting like Jesse doesn't know what he's doing. I
had faith in you, Jesse, not like that Arod soccer
to the bast We got.
Speaker 4 (01:41:53):
A handicapped man. He's so Jesse can win.
Speaker 6 (01:41:55):
No, we don't.
Speaker 5 (01:41:56):
All right, guys, I will be back in the studio tomorrow,
assuming that south US Southwest Airlines. Let's be board the
plane tomorrow morning after maybe hearing this show.
Speaker 9 (01:42:05):
But if you have a.
Speaker 4 (01:42:06):
Chance to come to spring training, do it. This is
absolutely beautiful out here. The weather is gorgeous and aside
from the cactus is blooming that's given me the allergies.
I highly recommend it. You should make the trip. We'll
be back tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (01:42:18):
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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Tuesday edition of the show.
And oh my goodness, gracious, I wish that I could
let you guys see through my eyeballs right now, because
I am broadcasting live.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
From the broadcast studio at Salt River.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
Fields at Talking Stick, the spring troning home of the
Colorado Rockies, and there is not a soul in this
joint right now. The game tonight is at six forty
local time, so not even the groundskeepers are out here.
Jesse Thomas, whos got me up and running. We're going
to talk to him in a few minutes because one
of the things I have seen, well, not just I
like Jesse. That's one of the reasons we're talking to him.
(01:01):
But another reason is one of the things in Phoenix
that has been kind of weird are these Waimo cars
that are driving around everywhere, these self driving cars.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
They have almost like a big brother feel.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
To them somehow, like or like if there was a
science fiction movie where cars were stalking people. I feel
like they would look like these Waymo cars, and I
put a picture of one of them on the blog
today because well, apparently a listener reached out to me
and said, did Jesse tell you his Weimo story yet?
And I was like no, but I told Chuck I
kind of wanted to try it out. But then I
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also googled Weaimo incidents.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
And I thought, maybe I'm gonna let.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Somebody else work the kinks out on this one before
I jump in.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
So here's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
We're gonna do the blog first of all, because as usual,
I got up early this morning to make sure that
you have plenty of content to look out while you
were doing other things and not listening to the show.
Find that by going to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog
dot com. Look for the headline that says three eighteen
twenty five blog Yes China is funding the Green Movement.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Plus Jesse Thomas. Click on that and here are the
headlines you will find within tic Tech toe a winner.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
Anybody wants to listening Office Happen ergon all with ships
and clipments of that press Flint.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Today on the blog Remember when I said China is
funding the climate movement? Rocky's broadcast engineer Jesse Thomas pops
in today, why does she still have no status? Frontier
Airline is trying to woo Southwest flyers. CBC management really
are slublrds. They can't stop the criminals, but at least
they can find your car. Jeffco Schools needs a man
(02:41):
in leadership. Trump talks to putin today. Are we getting
the JFK files today? Is Trump breaking or fixing the markets?
Who will pick the crops?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Robots? Scrolling? Scrolling?
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Why is the sphere so big? Scrolling? The court rulings
are coming in? Should we put trucks on trains? I
don't love the White House dunking Southwest gaslights at all
the new Rockies food this year is meh. When you're
trying to get the right kind of propaganda shot, so
you want a lightsaber? Josh Allen given rich Scholkes vibes.
(03:17):
Trump gives Canada as a state vibes scrolling. Denzel drops
truth bombs to the bus football team. Trump morally sound
Ukraine strategy. Now everybody is saying COVID escape from a
Wuhan lab scrolling. You know why people are becoming increasingly
anti trans John Stossel does immigration. Those are your headlines
(03:39):
on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com, and so much
good stuff on the blog today, including that video that
I was just talking about John Stossel. You know John Stossel,
I love him, but he is very much a libertarian.
In this video he kind of makes the case for immigration,
which I believe immigration is important part of our nation.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
I love of the.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Society that immigration has helped create in the United States,
which is entirely unique in the world. When you travel
and you start to visit places all over the world,
you realize how homogeneous other countries actually are. Like you
go to Asia, you only see Asian.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
People, right, that's it.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
You don't see this kind of diaspora that we have
here in the United States where people have come from
all over the world.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
I like that.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
I just want it to happen with some what's the
word I'm looking for, semblance of organization. I just want
to make sure that people who are not regularly chanting
death to America in their home country.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Are not walking across the southern border.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
So I think that it's interesting for him to do
this on immigration overall, but it still doesn't change the
fact that we've let far too many people in this
country who are completely unvetted, as evidenced by the complete
havoc that gang members from Venezuela have wrought in Aurora
and other part to the country, that honestly are just
(05:02):
making it a lot harder for people who really do
want to come here and work and be part of
the American dream. So that video is on the blog today,
along with all the others that I'm going to talk to,
But I've got to get this text message in right
out of the chute. Mandy, your president is now the
king he always believed himself to be. Project twenty twenty
(05:24):
five is alive and well and on its way to
destroying all that makes America the beacon of democracy and
a sea of tyranny. Trump and his cronies now believe
themselves above the law, no longer concerned with court orders,
while going after the judges and lawyers who they believe
wrongly persecuted them.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
If you're not afraid of what this lawless maniac is
capable of doing, perhaps hurting you are something or someone
you care about, you are sadly, unfrighteningly mistaken.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Now that is a dramatic reading of a text message.
I feel like I nailed it. I feel like right there,
just got the vibe right out of the chuote.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
But to this sector, I would say, where were you?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Where were you when the Biden administration was using the
Department of Justice like a personal political prosecutor and no offense.
If Trump is truly a dictator, he's the worst dictator ever.
As he rolls back the size of government that he
would need to enforce his dictatorial regime, and he is
(06:26):
allowing people to have more freedom by rolling back the ridiculous,
absolutely nonsensical regulations that the Biden administration put in place
to limit our choices in our society.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I mean, worst dictator ever. And if one more person.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Is like Project twenty twenty five, guess what, guys, I
agree with a vast majority of what's in Project twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
So to me, it's not a boogeyman.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
To me, it's really sound policy positions put put up
by people who are super smart, who have been studying
this stuff for a really long time, and policy positions
by the way, which I might also point out when followed,
lead to great prosperity for our country. So if you're
anti prosperity, then I understand why you hate Project twenty
twenty five. The reality about Project twenty twenty five is
(07:11):
is that every single presidential election, the Heritage Foundation is
put together a document just like Project twenty twenty five.
They called them things like Project nineteen eighty one or
Project nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Or you're starting to hit the message here.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
And the only reason you heard about it is because
the current leadership of the Heritage Foundation, which I am
not a fan of. I used to love the Heritage
Foundation because they were partisan only in the sense that
they encouraged conservative policy solutions, and now the new leadership
at Heritage is too political for my taste. They've decided
(07:48):
to go all in politics instead of staying on what
their mission has been for a very long time. So
whenever someone on the left is like, ooh, Project twenty
twenty five, I'm like, so what. You don't think people
on the left have been created with similar documents. You
don't think people on the left have been creating plans
for presidents before they get in the office.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Are you crazy?
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Our last president duly elected by people like this Texter,
I'm guessing didn't even know where he was and where
were you on the text line saying Hey, I'm really
worried that we've got unelected bureaucrats running the country right
now because our guys only awake from ten am to
four pm?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Where were you? Texter?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
So sorry if I don't get the vapors along with you,
But you can save all the typing because I actually
laughed when I read this before the show started, So
well done.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Thanks for that.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Anyway, moving on to what I really want to talk
about today.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
First of all, our.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Man Jesse Thomas is joining us, and this is a
great opportunity. And I know this is going to be
mostly a dude thing, and that's okay. I like to
throw you dudes's a bona on occasion if you've ever
wanted to know what it was like to work with
or be a part of the broadcast team, which is
in the grand scheme of jobs, like if you're going
coolest job to not coolest job, like at the top
(09:01):
has to be like astronaut, right, I mean that's I mean,
would you say, yeah, Jesse agrees astronaut top coolest job,
lowest coolest job. I'm just gonna let leave that to
your own imagination because I don't want to accidentally insult
someone if they do that job just because I think
it's horrible. But traveling along with a broadcast team with
a Major League Baseball franchise is definitely up there, like
(09:24):
top ten cool jobs, right, So Jesse's gonna join us
at twelve thirty to talk about that so you can
text your questions to the Common Spirit Health text line
about what that process is like.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
And then he also has a story about those.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Way Mo cars. They're so weird, you guys. They're so weird.
They almost look like Big Brother cars. I don't know why.
It's like, do you remember the the slee Stacks from
Land of the Loss, like back in the day. Okay,
they're like the slee Stack of automobiles. And it's not
a great comparison, but it is because they're kind of
(09:56):
creepy and they make it a little bit of a
noise and they have these things on the top. It's
been around super weird. This texter said, I'm scared to
get locked in Waymo. How the hell do you know
the doors will open when you arrive. My cousin's kid
uses them all the time. He's an ASU student. He says,
it's cool. Not for me, of course. How do I
know an uber driver won't lock me in?
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
And here's the kicker, you guys, they're not cheaper. I'm thinking, Okay,
you got this car without a driver. You've cut out
a major expense. This is gonna be a great deal.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Not so much. If you're going on a short haul,
it might be cheaper.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
But I checked twice yesterday when going from one place
to another, and WEIMO was more expensive both times. So
I guess you're paying for the uniqueness, or you're paying
to not have to talk to an uber driver.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
I don't know. I have no idea mand a Trump
maybe not.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
A dictator, but he's sneaky good at getting his people everywhere.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
It counts sneaky good by appointing.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Them to positions, as he's allowed to do by as
president of the United States. Yeah, that message, it was
probably sent for my sister. She signs everything your lip
tard daughter.
Speaker 8 (11:04):
Eh.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Maybe No, I think this is a dude, Mandy. It
sure is a parent to me that the liberal media
has such a bias. Barely a blip about Elon Musk
rescuing those two astronauts. If a DEM was in power,
this would be headline news. Not only that, a very
small blip was made when the astronauts themselves said we're
still stuck up here because of politics.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
They actually said that.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
And so, yeah, Elon Musk going and rescuing a couple
of people from space, that's like, oh, oh yeah, I
did it again. Whatever, it's not big news. I mean,
they're just not going to give this guy the win.
They are not going to let him have any sorts
of victories. As more and more people are now defacing, destroying,
and doing acts of vandalism two people's Tesla automobiles. But
(11:45):
apparently Tesla's have cameras where people can't see them. So
the Teslas are filming people doing this, and I hope
they all get caught. But every time I see that
on social media where somebody posts them that can you
out identify this person because they keyed this Desla car,
and I'm like, studding brave, because.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Isn't that what we're all supposed to say? Stunning brave.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
So we've got Jesse Thomas coming up at twelve thirty,
and then at one o'clock today, well you've got Jimmy
Sengenberger coming up. I know he was just on for Ross,
but he wrote such a good column.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
And I am very.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Much trying to inspire people who live in Jefferson County
to gut their entire school board, fire the superintendent, and
get people who know what the blank they're doing running
jeff Go public schools because the clown show that is
over there now is like a little ball of hormones
because it's all females. And I said on the blog today,
(12:40):
jeff co needs a man in leadership, and I need
it not because I think men are inherently good leaders,
but there's a reason that I don't do committee work
with women. And the article that CBS four has out
is a perfect example of why I don't do committee
work with women and trying to insult us. I'm one
(13:01):
of us, but there are fundamental differences between the men
way men do business and the way women do business.
And I've been on committees, my last committee.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
This is a true story.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
I used to work with the charity and I did
all kinds of stuff with them in Southwest Florida, and
I loved it. I loved the mission, I loved the
people that were part of it, loved everything about working
with them.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
They were great.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Except one day they said, Mannie, can you be on
a committee on our upcoming gale. I'm like, absolutely, I'll
be on a committee. I don't know why I said that,
but I said it because I liked all the people
that were on the committee. I went to the first
committee meeting and we spent three hours talking about what
invitations should look like. Three freaking hours. And in that
(13:44):
three hours, like four people got their feelings heard and
another person got upset and we had to stop and make.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Sure everybody was okay because there was so many feelings.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
At the end of the meeting, I went to the
woman who was in charge of the committee and I said,
I cannot do this. Give me a task and I
will handle it, but I cannot sit through another meeting
like this. This is not a thing I do and
it's not a thing I'm going to do. So she
gave me a list of stuff to do. I took
care of it. We moved on and I have never
been on a committee again, especially a committee with a
(14:13):
bunch of women. Now, I've been on committees with men
planning a golf tournament. It went like this, Hey, guys,
what kind of beer should we have on the holes?
What kind of prizes do we need to get? Can
you get the prizes?
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Yet?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
You get some? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Okay, you do this, you do this, We're gonna put
this on this whole Okay, who wants to do it? Okay, great,
let's go get a beer. The whole meeting took thirty minutes,
and we play in an entire golf tournament. And when
you read some of the stupidity that has come out
of this alleged leadership of Jefferson County Schools, when it
comes to an issue that is so incredibly stunningly serious,
(14:50):
and the response was so incredibly stunningly unseerious.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
This is why they need a.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Man in leadership, because apparently all these women got together
and they're like, I'm having feelings. What were they having
feelings about? They were having feelings because they're male chief
of schools. They let one guy in. Turns out he's
a pedophile. Great, so he gets investigated for child born,
he goes back, he gets fired, he goes back to
his family home in Pennsylvania and kills himself. Now, instead
(15:15):
of being open and honest with the parents, who were
probably wondering, was my child victimized? Should we be looking
for victims among children that had a regular interaction with
this guy.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
They were like, I'm just so upset.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
I don't know what I can do, and oh my gosh,
if we do it this way, then people will find out.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
And will it just be even worse. It'll be terrible,
It'll make us look bad.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Oh my god, I just can't So Jimmy's got to
call him about that. CBS four has a follow up
story about a different story in Jefferson County, and this
one has to do with the teenage girl who was
groomed by a female teacher and with the help of
administrators that call him by and High, was declared homeless. Now,
(15:57):
I said, when this first story came out, I'm like,
how how did they not commit fraud?
Speaker 4 (16:04):
This girl was not homeless and at least one teacher
knew absolutely she was not homeless because she was engaged
in an affair with her and yet the school multiple
people helped this girl fill the paperwork out to be
declared homeless. Which not only gets the school a lot
more money. If you have a homeless student, you get
more money. It also allowed the girl to claim being
(16:26):
homeless on her FAFSA application for student aid, which is fraud.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Well, now they're being investigated, and I could not be happier.
What of you texting in about? Okay, I don't know
about this. That guy texture definitely sits to pee. We
don't know about that. And I don't want to confirm
or deny. Don't even care. But I just thought that
was funny. Maybe Trump is not a dictator. Oh wait,
(16:51):
already read that, Mandy. It sure as a parent to
me that Oh gosh, Mandy, that message I already read
these best job is a fighter pilot. Okay, But a
lot of fighter pilots go on to be astronauts. So
basically being a fighter pilot is like an entry level
to being an astronaut. So I maintained, still astronauts, still
still cooler than fighter pilot.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Just doing that.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
I took a Waim to the airport last fall from
Tempe at three am to catch an early flight. It
was more dependable at that time in the morning and
was a quarter of the price fifteen bucks instead of
sixty for Uber.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Well, that worked out, Mandy.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
The real question is a coolest job versus profitable job
way harder to make it. On the media side, That
is absolutely true unless you're an astronaut.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Astronauts can make all kinds of money in the media.
I'm just saying the.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Left withholds wins from Trump and Elon and just it
keeps amassing ls by doing so. That is something that
I think they are miscalculating badly on the left, and
that is that a lot of these things are super
popular with people. You look at the polling day on
closing the border and expelling I legal immigrants, those things
are polling like seventy eighty percent.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
They're very, very popular, and for some reason, either no
one's showing the Democrats of this polling data. I have
no idea. I have no idea.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
By Mandy, you've gone so far right I can't listen anymore,
especially when you mock people that write in You've obviously.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Never heard the show before. Now if you're just.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Figuring out that I mock people, I'm sorry today was
your day. Don't forget SpaceX gets a lot of money
from the US government.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
It does get a lot of money from the US government.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
You know why because it started out privately and now
they have contracts with the US government.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Right. And here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
I love it when people are like, you know, Elon
has taken all this federal money to build all these
companies and he got rich because he used the federal government.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
And I'm like, exactly right, you could have done it.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
I could have done it, but we don't have the
vision he did. And he did it all legally. It's
not like he robbed a bank that was the federal government.
These all of these these things are available for you
and for me and all of this other stuff.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Why do you think I'm against any kind.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Of government sort of subsidies to encourage development or any
of that stuff. We saw it happen with solar, which
he had a solar company. We've seen it happen with
electric vehicles, which we have. He has an electric vehicle company.
I mean, we've seen all of these things where people
use government subsidies to build something amazing. But they're all
doing it legally. As I said, Texter, you could do
(19:33):
it too, I just didn't neither. Did you love what
Musk is doing? Ari spacetech and much of doge. But
what I'd like him to concentrate on is the space stuff.
Just love that part. The good news is is that
he's such a whack a doodle genius. He can handle
more than one ball in the air at a time.
Weimo is the most experienced driver according to this Texter.
(19:54):
According to their website, as a Weimo is way more
money than it should be according to this writer. Yeah, yeah, hey, Mandy.
With the rise of self driving cars, can we finally
get the Johnny cab for the movie Total Recall?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Didn't he only go but they only had Taco Bell?
Was that Total Recall? Were they only? Where was the movie?
It was a sliced alone movie where they only had
Taco Bell. What was that movie? But yeah, I'll take that.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
I actually think that all of the kind of storm
and drong that we're seeing right now across the country
when it comes to mass transit, yes, thank you, demolition
Man where they only had Taco Bell. I mean, demolition
Man Taco Bell really goes hand in hand.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
I think all.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Of the storm and drong about transportation we're seeing now
is going to just all go away when we all
lean in and use cars like Weaimo to get around,
But until I can get past the creep factor, I'm
not sure that's gonna happen when we get back. Jesse
Thomas is the man behind the men on the Rockies broadcast.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
He's gonna join me.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
We're actually gonna talk about Waimo a little bit because
apparently he had an experience and we're going to talk
to him about that and take your questions about what
it's like to travel with the Rockies. If you got any,
you can text him on the Common Spirit Health text
line at five six six, nine to zero and tell
him just keep it right here on kaway.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Here's fun fact.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
If you ever have the chance to go to any
sort of professional stadium, don't touch the grass. They get
super salty about that. So you've got to stay on
the outside track because if you put a toe on
on the grass, you're gonna get some kind of hairy
eyeball from somebody.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Jesse Thomas knows.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
He is the producer, the brains of the operation when
it comes to keeping jacket.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Yeah, well, I mean I was gonna right. That goes
without saying Jesse.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Come on, he keeps the guys on and keeps them
on track for the most part during the broadcast, not
just in spring training but also throughout the baseball season.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
And Jesse, how long have you been doing this?
Speaker 9 (21:52):
This will be my ninth season with the.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Rockies, but you've been doing this job for various sports
prior to that.
Speaker 10 (21:59):
So I've been engineering play by play broadcasts since two
thousand and two, right out of the only.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Job you've ever had. Has a grown up in terms
of like what you're doing.
Speaker 10 (22:07):
Yes, wow, So I've done thousands of play by play
events over my career.
Speaker 8 (22:12):
But yeah, I did.
Speaker 10 (22:13):
Nuggets in the Avalanche for a decade over at altitude,
came over with yeah, ay, Rod knows well about that,
and yeah, and then I came over when a position
opened and Jerry Shimill helped me out and here we are.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
So, what is your favorite sport to work in?
Speaker 8 (22:30):
Percent?
Speaker 10 (22:30):
It's a little because we get to see the cities
that we go.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
To, all right, because you have so much time in
each city.
Speaker 9 (22:35):
That's correct.
Speaker 10 (22:35):
We're not you know, going to the arena, getting on
a plane and going to the hotel, right, and then
you're flying in the middle of the night and all
that stuff. So being able to see the country and
experience all the ballparks and all that stuff has been.
Speaker 9 (22:47):
Priceless for me.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
So what is your favorite city other than Denver to
work in?
Speaker 9 (22:53):
Miami?
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Miami? Really?
Speaker 10 (22:54):
Yeah, I love Miami and I really like Anaheim. And
Milwaukee's super sneaky too. I got a Milwaukee is fun.
It's a sleepy but it's awesome.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
It's super cool. I told people this and the RNC.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
We went for the RNC, and they had because Trump
was almost assassinated the week before, so they expanded the
security perimeter and really cut off a lot of businesses.
It was really unfortunate what happened to Milwaukee during the RNC.
It was not at its best. But when Chuck and
I went to the Milwaukee I was like, this is
a great town.
Speaker 9 (23:26):
It reminds me of old Denver.
Speaker 10 (23:28):
Yeah, yeah, it really does, before Denver became what it
is now. And granted I'm there during the month of
good weather that they have, but it's it's pretty fun.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
I like it, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
So I'm wondering if you guys have any questions about
what it's like to travel with the team or be
in the play by play booth or any of that stuff.
Now's the time to text us on the common spirit
health text line five six six nine er. Somebody just
pointed out the steamroly thing. It's a baseball zamboni.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Yeah, it's the bambony, is what it is? Much like
the bambino.
Speaker 9 (24:00):
I dig it.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Yeah, I have a question.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
So listener text me and said, did Jesse share with
you his Waimo's story? So you got into one of
these big brothermobiles that are flying around?
Speaker 4 (24:10):
What was that I did?
Speaker 10 (24:11):
Eventually this is more of a Jesse's a bonehead story. Good,
but I'll be happy to share it because listen, why not.
So I'm staying in a compound down here off of
Scottsdale Boulevard Churches or Scottsdale Road, which is basically the
Colorado Boulevard of Scottsdale. Right, So I fire up the
old waymo app and I'm having a few cocktails. Headed,
gonna go downtown and do my thing right old town Scottsdale.
(24:32):
Pipe in the address, no problem. All the directions gave
him the gatecoat to get into my little complex, right,
uh huh, Well do you see the problem with that?
Speaker 4 (24:43):
There's no intendant in Yes, and.
Speaker 10 (24:46):
So I'm sitting on my patio and I put myself
another glass of wine.
Speaker 9 (24:49):
And all of a sudden I started thinking, well, Jesse,
you are dumb? How and oh man?
Speaker 10 (24:55):
So I started getting all these alerts from Waimo and
they said, sir, you will have to meet us out.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
On the curb.
Speaker 9 (25:01):
And I'm like, you are just dumb, Jesse. Goodness gracious.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
So I mean I was gonna ask, like, how does
the Waimo put in a gate code?
Speaker 4 (25:08):
So that's that's all it wasn't. Yeah, that's already a problem.
So have you done it since then?
Speaker 8 (25:12):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (25:13):
And it works fine.
Speaker 10 (25:14):
It's quite the experience once you get over the look
of it from the outside with all the spinning cameras
and the bells in the whistle.
Speaker 9 (25:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (25:22):
Now, there are some horror stories out there of people
getting locked in the weaymo and them honking uncontrollably and
stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
I just saw the one of the guy in the
parking lot and he just kept doing a donut in
a parking lot, but very slow speed.
Speaker 10 (25:34):
If you're smart enough to actually order one, which I
apparently am not, it's quite the experience and I recommend
doing it at least once everybody needs to ride with
our robot overlords.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Maybe we'll make that a part of our afternoon today.
We'll go take a Waimo ride somewhere just to say
we did it.
Speaker 10 (25:48):
Now, it's my understanding they are still monitored by humans
at all times, right, I don't.
Speaker 9 (25:53):
I think that's still the case.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
But that's like our alarm company. When our alarm in
our house goes off, like six hours later, somebody calls
and his like, hey man, and something happened.
Speaker 11 (26:02):
At your health Yeah, you're.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Like, oh good, okay, great, And.
Speaker 10 (26:05):
They'll only go certain in a certain area down here.
You can't just order one, and like if you're in
Paradise Value, you can't order one. You can only only
certain zip code.
Speaker 9 (26:15):
I think you can get away.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Well, I've heard that they cannot do interstate traffic yet.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Yeah, I think that's right because I guess it just
moves too fast or something. I don't know, But I
have to say a couple areas where Phoenix is superior
to Denver number one, very few homeless people, but I'm
guessing in the summer it's unbearably would probably yeah, I mean, well,
more people die from heat related stress than they do
cold related stress every year.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
That's a fact.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
But it's very clean, and the surface streets here are
very efficient.
Speaker 9 (26:45):
They are you.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Don't have to get on an interstate to get from
one side to the other. And Phoenix is geographically ginormous.
Speaker 9 (26:52):
It's huge, understand. Yeah, it goes on forever.
Speaker 10 (26:55):
It's like Houston, and this is the only place you
better get on it if you I've got passed by
old woman in a Bentley going there. There's eighty the
other day, you know what I mean, Like, yeah, there's
that's the.
Speaker 9 (27:06):
Tale two people that they're either going twenty.
Speaker 11 (27:08):
Yeah or eighty.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Well, I am.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
This whole area Scottsdale reminds me of Naples, Florida. A
lot of money down here, obviously, like a ton of
money in Scottsdale. I told Chuck today, I was like, dude,
don't want to go to a thrift store because I've
bet the thrift stores in Scottsdale.
Speaker 9 (27:22):
Are a little stuff uper coat.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Seriously, this is a thrift store tip for those of
you who may want to thrift at some point. If
you want to go to the best thrift stores, go
to the richest neighbor you could. You could find and
go to their thrift store, and you're gonna find.
Speaker 9 (27:34):
All kinds of Scottsdale's it.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Yeah, Scottsdale is it. Let's take a very quick time out.
I've got some questions for you. I took away mow
and the driver looked exactly like my dad. I'm not
sure you were in a way, mo, Texter, it could
have just been your dad's car. We'll be right back
questions with Jesse Thomas right after this.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Keep it on, KOA.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Can I just say a big thank you to all
of you who are riading the text line to give
me thrift store information in Scottsdale, because I am doing it.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Chuck's already like a oh God, here we go.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Mandy, I'm actually streaming you in North Scottsdale, O Cave Creek.
Moving here from Wyoming was the best move we ever made. Also,
we can easily pick up Kowa over the air at
night and early in the morning.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
That from Joel Mandy Jesse.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
Cars doing twenty or eighty sounds like super us.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
In the mountains to me. We used to have this
thing and when I lived in Southwest.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
Florida, you would just see like a car being driven
by knuckles and a white poof of hair.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Do you have that here as well?
Speaker 2 (28:28):
You do?
Speaker 9 (28:29):
Yeah, the sunhat, nothing but hands, yes, just the knuckles.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (28:33):
Sometimes when I get bored, I go out to the
supermarkets and watch all the old folks look for their.
Speaker 9 (28:37):
Base beauties, just for fun.
Speaker 10 (28:39):
That's good, good, good.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
Well.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
I used to joke that the Fort Myers Costco probably
like sold more brand products pound for pound per capita
than any other costco in the country.
Speaker 9 (28:52):
Ran in ointments are really big down here.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Yes, yes, big big ointments. I do have a question
from a guy who said, I have a question for Jesse.
I've tried to text the guys during a Rockies game,
but I never hear back. Why is that glad you're
on today with Mandy.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
You guys don't have the text line.
Speaker 10 (29:08):
No, we do not have the text line. The best
way to do that would be to tweet directly at me.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Yes. Yes, So if you have the Twitter, you can
text Jesse at broadcast Jesse broadcast Jesse.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
At Twitter, and then he will make sure the guys
get to it. Maybe they can actually address this on
the air. I have a question for you. Are you
a Denver guy? Because you work for the Abs, you
work for the Dunnets.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
So you're a Denver kid born and raised.
Speaker 9 (29:31):
Yep, So would you ever.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Be wooed away by another franchise?
Speaker 9 (29:35):
I've been fortunate enough.
Speaker 10 (29:36):
Most people that in this business have to do that
I've been for I mean, never say never, but I'm
happy where I'm at.
Speaker 9 (29:43):
So I've been blessed to work for the teams that
I grew up watching.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
So that's actually really cool.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Is it challenging for you as it is for the
fans when we have the last two seasons that we've had,
Does that just make.
Speaker 10 (29:55):
It kind of a different perspective doing what we do?
Like our you know, we just be professional no matter
what happens.
Speaker 9 (30:02):
Out in the field.
Speaker 10 (30:03):
And obviously you want him to succeed because you get
to know him and you travel with him, and you
eat with them, and you know all those things, and
so you have a rooting interest. But other than that,
we still try to stay as professional as possible.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
So who are your favorite players you've ever worked with
or gotten to know over the years that you've been
doing this.
Speaker 10 (30:19):
Charlie Blackman, you know, he is the best. Let's see,
Carlos Gonzalez was a pleasure to be.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Alga seemed like he was fun mm hmm.
Speaker 9 (30:28):
I mean he's like anybody, you know, it's it's like anything.
You know when to stay away from him, and you
know when they're two for.
Speaker 10 (30:33):
Their last seventeen yes you kind of you know, stay
away and keep your head down and all that stuff.
But yeah, there's really nobody that sticks out that has
been horrible asking.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
I was just like, who the favorites are the people
that you're always glad to see.
Speaker 10 (30:46):
Baseball players in particular, are a lot more friendlier than
the other two professional sports I worked with.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
Yes, you know my husband Chuck, who's here as well.
He worked for the Minnesota Twins franchise team in Fort
Myers and talked all the time about how, you know,
he would be carrying programs and guys would say, oh,
do you need me to sign those? And then just
stop in the hallway and sign a bunch programs. And
you don't necessarily have that same kind of access or
relationship with professional football players or professional hockey.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
It's just a different vibe. Why do you think that is?
Speaker 5 (31:18):
Is it the length of the season, is it the
boys of summer?
Speaker 10 (31:22):
What is it that's a good question and the link
to Obviously, baseball is kind of its own animal because
of the amount of games. Yeah, did you play and
get such a tight group? From the forty man rots
of to the traveling twenty five. Everybody's with each other.
And if you're part of that traveling group, like we're
blessed enough to be if you you better be nice otherwise.
Speaker 9 (31:41):
They won't keep you along to keep you around.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Yeah, I guess so.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
I mean that's is there anything that sticks out for
you as a moment that you will never forget because
you get to do this job.
Speaker 10 (31:51):
Yes, the wild card win at Wrigley in twenty eighteen,
I believe it was. Yeah, was incredible. They won it
in thirteen innings. It was freezing and to see all
the Wrigley faithful go home heartbroken?
Speaker 8 (32:05):
Was you know.
Speaker 10 (32:06):
I'm more of an agony of defeat guide than a
thrill of victory, in case you don't know that about it. Yeah,
So anytime we get to stick it to opposing fans,
I'm all about it.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
And I watch him cry.
Speaker 8 (32:15):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
I ask Jesse if he needs an assistant.
Speaker 10 (32:18):
Yeah, first, and says the technician, I'm taking applications for
headphone technicians headphone tech which does that just.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Involve being the finger to hang the head shittes.
Speaker 10 (32:27):
I balk my headphones in at the beginning of the
broadcast and unplug them at the end of the broadcast.
Speaker 8 (32:32):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
You know what's funny, Jesse, is that we get to
do this every day. I mean, you get to do
it here every day, but I get to do this
job every day. And whenever we bring people to the
Rockies games, we always have the opportunity to bring him
up to the booth.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
And when you do it every day, you forget how
cool this is.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
I mean, I guess you've seen people just come up
pie eyed and get to just live the experience.
Speaker 9 (32:53):
It's funny.
Speaker 10 (32:54):
People always ask me if the amount of visitors we have,
you know, interrupts us or No, it's the opposite. It
actually keeps me grounded and keeps me focused and really
makes me not take anything for granted. When especially the
little ones that come, Yeah, their eyes get so big
and it's the coolest thing they've ever done.
Speaker 9 (33:11):
And maybe we just got off of a twelve day road.
Speaker 10 (33:13):
Trip and won two games and all that stuff, and
you're a little tired it's great to get some perspective
with you know, yep, with the visitors.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
That's why I always try to remember when people are
coming to the studio and they're like, this is so cool.
You forget how cool it is when you don't do whatever. Lucky, Yeah,
we're very lucky.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
All right.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
When we get back, we're going to talk to Jimmy Sangenberger.
I'll let you talk later. Chucky's what did you.
Speaker 8 (33:36):
Want to have an input to that.
Speaker 12 (33:37):
We've brought people up here and our relatives and stuff,
and I have some of the best pictures with Jack
and Jerry and our friends are just like their eyes
are so big, it's like Christmas, you know.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
All right, hold that thought because I got Jimmy Segenberger
coming up next. Jeff Co Schools continues to just do
dumb thing after dumb thing after dumb thing, of which is.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Improving student achievement.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
We'll talk about the latest bit of Shenanigan's in Nonsense
with Jimmy right after this.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Keep it on KOA.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
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Speaker 5 (34:49):
This is like the bat signal that we play to
bring Jimmy Segendburger out of the woodwork to talk about
his latest work on the Denver Zets column that he
does twice a week. He's also filling in for Ross
quite a bit this week, so you're gonna get some
double doses like you are today. But when I read
his column this morning about Jefferson County Public schools, I
was like, oh, we.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Must chat, so joining me again.
Speaker 5 (35:11):
He's had a whopping a couple of hours off and
now he's bag a one hour off and now he's back.
Speaker 8 (35:16):
Hi.
Speaker 6 (35:16):
Jimmy, Hey Mandy, thanks for putting me back to work
on KOA today.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
You know what, We're gonna squeeze every single dime out
of you today. We paid you for part of the day.
We're gonna squeeze out as much of you as we can.
Don't think of this is iHeartMedia, Jimmy. Come on, we
gotta make you earn it. The column that you started today.
Let me start with the headline for a moment. Okay,
The headline is simply an erosion of trust in jeff
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Co's school's leadership talk about barrying the lead. I mean,
this is like the biggest understatement of a headline I've
ever seen in my life, because if all the parents
in Jefferson County schools were really paying attention to what
is going on with leadership or what passes for leadership
at jeff Co Schools, I think that they would collectively
be horrified and mortified that they've let this go on
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long enough. But I'm gonna let you kind of give
the thumbnail sketch of what you've got in today's column
for the listeners who didn't read it yet.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
So this really captures a story that goes back to
over the holidays. You'll recall that the third in command
for Jefferson County Schools, Chase of Schools, David Wife was
it was revealed, being investigated for child pornography, and he
was fired just after those revelations of an investigation came about,
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and two weeks later the district finally put out an
email to families after only the media had gotten anything.
Those of us in the media should not take precedence
over parents. I love when we get little scoops, but
that's not what you're supposed to do. But that's what
happened here, and there was a big discussion about what
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do we do and how do we approach the public
facing side of this in terms of letting parents know
what should the statements say, who should it be written by?
And from? And lo and behold. These discussions happened over
text message, not email, not something where they were like,
let's shape this into a kind of email message to
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parents that we want and having back and forth. It
was multiple different text threads that were going on with
sometimes pairs of school board members, with the superintendent Tracy Dorland,
with the chief of staff Lisa Ralou. However it was
they were doing these text messages and Jeffco Kids first
went and put in a couple of Open Records Act
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requests to obtain these text messages, and what they show
is a doozy well.
Speaker 5 (37:52):
And here's the part of it that I found the
most interesting is that David Weiss was just all of
a sudden fired from Jeffco Schools. We didn't know about
the investigation and we didn't know what was going on,
so he gets fired. And it was after that two
week period that we even began to understand. But he
had to kill himself first, right, I mean, and that's
a big part of the story. He goes back to Pennsylvania,
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he commits suicide, and then all of a sudden, people
are like, what the deuce is going on. At that point,
the story had broken that he was being investigated for
possession of child pornography.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
Now this is the part in December around the nineteenth
but he had been fired and was under some kind
of investigation or writing was happening.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
And when all that happened, when it came out that
he was being invested for investigative for child pornography, my
immediate response is the district has to immediately come forward
and say exactly what they know. He is being investigated
for a possession of child sexual assault material. And if
any parent suspects or wonders if their child had any contact,
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or or if there's something that students need to worry about,
they must contact us immediately.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
That's how you should have handled it. That's exactly what
should have been done.
Speaker 5 (39:00):
But what you see in these text messages as you
lay on in this column is a bunch of women
worried about their feelings and looking bad and all of
this stuff that has nothing to do with helping kids,
helping families and helping parents in Jeffco's schools.
Speaker 6 (39:15):
And if you go back to the message to families,
it was coldly bureaucratic. It even called this a personal
legal matter. Yeah, didn't have anything in terms of sympathy
for parents or expressions of concern, and which striking is
when you look at these text messages. The treasurer of
the board, Danielle Varda, and there's a lot to criticize
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her for in many different areas, but she makes it
very clear in some of these text messages that included
the president of the school board, Mary Parker and the
superintendent Tracy Dorln that quote it's no longer okay to
be silent. She called this a crime of enormous proportion
and one of the most heinous crimes against children, and
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chastized as the superintendent that we are not a ahead
of this and the board is in the dark of
your thinking is unacceptable. We cannot try to protect weis
or cover any of this up. Now, good for her,
that's like just the basics of what you should be
thinking about. But what does the superintendent say at the
end of that exchange.
Speaker 11 (40:16):
Your name isn't.
Speaker 6 (40:17):
On it, because she said, Varda said, I'm not going
to be a part of this statement. Let's just have
it be the president of the school board and the superintendent.
So dore Lynd goes again, this is the superintendent the schools.
Your name isn't on it, so please let us be
We've all had a difficult and challenging and very sad day.
Speaker 4 (40:38):
Oh being superintendent is hard.
Speaker 5 (40:41):
I mean, you know, I don't know if you know this, Jimmy,
but I'm a woman, so I feel like I am
in a good position.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
Yeah I am. I've been one my whole life. We're
not my whole life.
Speaker 6 (40:50):
What a woman is well, I have not heard a
good answer of what is a woman. I don't know
what the answer to that question is.
Speaker 4 (40:55):
I am an adult, female human. So there we go.
I am a.
Speaker 5 (40:58):
Woman, and this is one of my great frustrations with
my gender. Right, this should have been very cut and dried.
This should not have been a moment of discussion. They
should have come up with a statement that clearly said
we're aware of this investigation. We want to let you
know in case any of you have any concerns. So
you can reach out if you are concerned that your
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child was either around this individual too much or that
something might have happened, we need to let authorities know.
And instead they made it about them. They made it
all about their feelings and that they didn't want to
be perceived poorly by someone if word got out. The
thing about executive session really killed me explain that.
Speaker 6 (41:40):
So I found this striking because you'll remember we are
coming up this weekend on the two year anniversary of
the shooting at East High School right in Denver, and
the day after, the Denver Public Schools Board of Education
went behind closed doors and did an executive session about this,
and it was illegal. There's certain vironments that you must
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meet in order to have an executive session. So there
was a legal case brought by media outlets, including the
Denver Gazette, and they had to release the recording of this.
So I think that was in the back of the
mind of the district's attorney, Julie Tolisen, who warned against
an executive session when a couple of board members, including Varda,
had gone ahead and said we should do an executive
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session on this. Can't we do that? And her argument
Tolisen's argument wasn't about transparency, but because quote, if we
had an improper executive session, the media could get a
court order to access the recording, and she added that
it would be a new crisis to an all added
to an already horrible one. It's about the cya moment,
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as opposed to, oh, well we should be opening transparent
to the public.
Speaker 5 (42:51):
Well, it's basically, well, we can't hide this in executive
session because they'll find out about it, and then it'll
just look even worse, which is true, right if they'd
gone into executive session, we found out la much like
what happened to DPS when the record was finally out,
it was far worse than if they had just done
it all in public in the first place. But there's
a level of cowardice on display here that is unacceptable
in my mind. But it's indicative of the priorities of
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the Jefferson County School Board. They are not invested in
making sure that student achievement is at the highest level.
They're invested in protecting the people at the top who
have an agenda. And I believe that the president of
the school board genuinely thinks that every parent is an
abuser and genuinely thinks that children must be protected from
their parents.
Speaker 4 (43:34):
And I'm thinking to myself, if you.
Speaker 5 (43:35):
Believe that children were key here and that they need
to be protected, don't you think they should be protected
from the guy that you guys hired and made number
three in the district who was also being investigated for
possessing childborn?
Speaker 4 (43:49):
Do you think that would be a high thing?
Speaker 6 (43:52):
You would? But then again, you'd think that when this
comes anything involving students and teachers comes up, they would
very serious take issue with it. They wouldn't allow a
student or participate in declaring a student homeless so that
they could go live with their teacher, or take any
sort of that they would have to con it and
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report to the authorities, fire them, do something about it,
as opposed to time and time again allowing these kinds
of breaches to happen. Because I've lost track of the
number of cases now from a school social workers to
teachers to chief for schools who in Jeffco's schools are
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alleged to or have been found guilty of inappropriate relationships
with students or other kinds of sex scandal.
Speaker 5 (44:41):
One thing that people probably don't understand is that there
are so many cases of this within schools. Overall, children
are very I don't want to say very likely, that's
the wrong phrasing. Children are Well, let me just put
it this way. Pedophiles are going to get jobs where
the kids are, right, just like bank robbers rab banks,
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because that's where the money is. Pedophiles are going to
try and get jobs where the kids are, and that's
school districts.
Speaker 4 (45:07):
But to your point, Jenny, what do you think it
is about Jeff Co or about Jeff co.
Speaker 5 (45:13):
Leadership that gives the impression to people who may want
to prey on children that that's where they want to work.
Speaker 6 (45:20):
Well, for one, I would say that they have this
trusted adult policy and approach where they want teachers or
other staff to name themselves, to identify themselves as trusted adults.
And what that means is you're not developing trust with
the kid that I've written columns about this right, or
you're not developing that trust relationship with kids that for example,
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I have teachers to this day that I look back
fondly on that I could lean on for different things,
or would have very good working relationships as a student
with a teacher one comes to mind from high school
or even in middle school, and that comes about naturally
because you've gotten to know each other and be able
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to feel confidence in that trust. But what Jeffco's trying
to do is force students to identify trusted adults and
institutionalize that concept as opposed to allowing it to develop
as it should. And I think that provides a ripe
opportunity for predators to sort of work their way in,
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and that's why we're seeing a lot of these cases
happening more in Jeffco than even another school district.
Speaker 5 (46:31):
So, and it's my understanding that David Weiss was actually
head of that program, the Trusted Adult program.
Speaker 4 (46:36):
Is that accurate?
Speaker 6 (46:37):
Yeah, one of his responsibilities was for overseeing the implementation
of trusted adults in schools.
Speaker 4 (46:43):
Yeah, that's just so gross.
Speaker 5 (46:45):
You mentioned the Columbine situation where Columbine administrators, along with
a now former teacher, falsified documents to the clearest student
homeless so she could move in with the teacher who
was grooming her and having a sexual relationship with her.
Apparently there's now going to be some kind of investigation, correct.
Speaker 6 (47:05):
Yeah, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office and Sean Boyd, of course,
Sean Boyd at CBS Colorado, the one who will tackle these.
TV News brought this out last night that the Jefferson
County Sheriff's Office has opened an investigation into that case.
And I think that's important in two respects, not one, obviously,
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because this case is worth looking into. What happens there
is a grievous failure of justice and of accountability, to
put it mildly, But the second reason is it should
put jeff Co more on notice, perhaps than ever before,
when you have malfeasis from the top of the school
and other employees at the school engaged in these kinds
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of activities and circumventing parents in such a blatant way.
The district needs to hear that message and see, yes, okay,
there's actually something legally being on about this, even just
an investigation. It's not just a pr disaster. It could
be something criminal and we have to prevent that from happening,
because we're already having too much of that with our staff.
Speaker 4 (48:11):
Now, Jimmy, let me ask you this.
Speaker 5 (48:12):
Have you spoken reached out to the board to get
their thoughts on this or or said, look, I'm going
to do a column on this is Is anybody willing
to go on the record.
Speaker 4 (48:20):
With you on this stuff at all? Are they willing
to talk to anybody about it?
Speaker 6 (48:25):
Yeah, I have not seen one of the things that
I've seen has been And the texts even show this.
They directed the board members to simply reach out to
it with any request that they get, just forward them
on to the associate chief of communications in the district.
So there really is and you see this can happen
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a lot in place like Denver Public Schools or others
where there's an attempt to try and insulate board members
from these kinds of things. But then when I reach
out to the district with oftentimes jeffco doesn't even bother
responding to me in any sort of what it was
that there was a piece i'd written, the one that
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I wrote about that conservative teacher who didn't get hired
in Jefferson County Schools. The district never responded, even when
Jolie Tolas in that same attorney a forward is on
to this same exact person that they referred to for
the media in these text messages, and I never heard
a peep I've sent other requests. We never hear a
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peep from the Jeffco media folks. So there is definitely
an effort in Jeffco to try and avoid any sort
of communication with folks in the media as much as
possible when it's negative.
Speaker 4 (49:46):
Well, and it's unfortunate because the more they circle the wagons,
the more I think it's going to make them easier
to defeat in the next school board election, which has
to happen. It just has to happen.
Speaker 5 (49:58):
Jeffco is positioning itself in a place that is not
about educating kids.
Speaker 4 (50:05):
It's not about student achievement.
Speaker 5 (50:07):
They have carved out this space where they have decided
that they are going to put the district between parents
and their kids every opportunity that they get. And it's
gotten to the point now where it's like, if you're
a jeff Co parent, do you really know what's going
on at your daughter's or your son's school? Do you
really know what they're being taught or what clubs they're
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going to, or what teachers are talking to them about
what issues, Because I wouldn't trust any of it if
I were a jeff Co parent, and I frankly don't
understand why. You know, jeff Co Kids first has been
just doing yeomen's work, lifting and elevating all of this stuff.
And Jefferson County parents should be grateful for all of
the work that these all volunteers are doing. But when
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are they going to make a change, When are they
going to say enough is enough? I want our district
to focus on student achievement, not all this other crap.
And I want them to get out of the way
of my relationship with my kid.
Speaker 6 (51:00):
Yeah, that's the real question, Mandy is in Denver public
schools as another example, because I've covered Denver very closely
for years, that's another instance where in twenty twenty three,
after the East High School shooting that I mentioned before,
you had a groundswell of parents who suddenly became recognized
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how bad things were. They already weren't feeling comfortable, but
they realized the gravity of it all and that the
school board and leadership was just utterly failing. So they
got involved and they flipped. In that case, Unlike Jeffco
where there are five school board members, in Denver, there
are seven, and they flipped three of the seats, including
the one that was previously held by our good buddy
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Hey Anderson, and they expected that there would be real
change and guess what, there has not been, including a
superintendent that also like Tracy Dorilyn, has failed, failed, failed,
and has not focused on academics, let alone school safety.
And so the problem with this is you really need
to have a concrete effort to make sure that the
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average parent, the average voter who isn't a parent too,
he is aware of what's happening and why it's so
bad and there needs to be a change. And then, frankly,
you need a majority and a majority that is committed
to actually changing some of these core things, because if
you don't have that, then you may get some expectations,
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and those expectations, even the minimal ones, won't get met.
Speaker 5 (52:28):
As Denver shows amen to that, Jimmy, Jimmy Segenberger writes
to twice weekly column in the Denver Gazette, I believe
you're in for Ross on Thursday and Friday of this week.
Speaker 6 (52:37):
Correct, actually tomorrow and Friday, Ryan recovering on Thursday.
Speaker 4 (52:42):
Okay, tomorrow and Friday. You can hear Jimmy just before me.
Speaker 5 (52:44):
As Ross continues to lays away in the Galapagos, riding
tortoises and chasing dragons or whatever he's doing down there.
Speaker 4 (52:52):
Jimmy, I appreciate your time today, my friend. I'll talk
to you soon.
Speaker 6 (52:56):
Thanks man, DC tomorrow excellent.
Speaker 5 (53:01):
I I love that Jimmy now has a harmonica play
in and out of the segments that he joins me on.
Speaker 4 (53:08):
When we get back, I got a couple of things
that I want to talk about. One of them.
Speaker 5 (53:12):
Today is the day that we're supposed to be getting
the rest of the JFK files, right, So this is
one of those things that has kind of been like
hanging over America's head for the past fifty something years,
and I am not confident that we're going to find
out anything.
Speaker 4 (53:27):
I'm just gonna say it. We'll talk about that when
we get back. And is Trump breaking or fixing the markets?
Speaker 5 (53:33):
It depends on whether you have a short term view,
which is obviously yes, or a long term view, which
people like me and a columnist in USA today believe
is no.
Speaker 4 (53:44):
He's not breaking them. He's fixing them.
Speaker 5 (53:47):
But there's a little period of creative destruction that we
all have to live through to get to the other side.
Speaker 4 (53:51):
We'll do all that next. Keep it right here. On KOA.
Speaker 5 (53:53):
I find USA today to be reliably liberal, and I
just don't generally care. But I saw this headline and
I thought, Okay, I'll bite USA today. Don't panic over
the stock market. Trump is fixing holes in our economy.
This is written by a young woman, she looks young anyway,
named Nicole Russell.
Speaker 4 (54:13):
She's a mother of four.
Speaker 5 (54:14):
She lives in Texas, and she's got a weekly newsletter,
the Right Track dot Com to give you an idea
of her which way she's coming at this from.
Speaker 4 (54:22):
Okay, so you can take this with.
Speaker 5 (54:24):
A grain of salt if you'd like to, depending on
your perspective. But the stock market is royaled right now,
There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 4 (54:30):
And markets respond poorly to uncertainty.
Speaker 5 (54:33):
And the way that Trump has rolled out and then
pushback and then rolled out and then pushback tariffs has
been not giving any certainty to business in the market.
Speaker 4 (54:42):
So it's been really really hard on the stock market.
Speaker 5 (54:44):
But she makes this case, and I might disagree with
this opening line that says President Donald Trump has a
new title, stock market Master. When the markets go down,
it's his fault, according to democrats and legacy news media.
Speaker 4 (54:59):
But when they raw. As they eventually.
Speaker 5 (55:01):
Will, it won't be because of Trump. The US stock
markets have had a disastrous month. After recently hitting record highs.
The Standard of Poor five hundred fell into correction territory
a drop of ten percent or more on Thursday, before
recall recording a solid rebound Friday. The Nasdaq is off
about ten percent from its record peak in December. The
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Dow also is significantly down since Trump took office in
January of twentieth. It's undeniable that Trump's tarifform with Canada, China, Europe,
and Mexico has injected uncertainty and fears of recession into
the market, but his critics have pounced, have pounced with
disdain on the market's decline.
Speaker 4 (55:40):
Wall Street is turning back. It's back on Trump.
Speaker 5 (55:42):
A recent CNN headline blaired uncertainty is Trump's brand announced
to New York Or headline over Susan Glasser's piece blasting
his tariffs. Yet it's time for perspective, not panic. Stock
market corrections are common, necessary and healthy. For example, the
S and P five hundred drop more than twenty five
percent between January and October of twenty twenty two, the
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second year of Joe Biden's one term as president, but
the market's rebounded to set multiple record highs in twenty
twenty two, of twenty twenty three, and twenty twenty four.
There's good reason to think that the markets will bounce
back in similar ways this time. Tom Lee, co founder
of Funstrucked Global Advisors, told CNBC, I think it's very
possible that March April May could actually be one of
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those huge rally months where we're rallying ten to fifteen percent.
It's natural to feel anxious when the markets plunge. Nobody
wants to see their retirement accounts drop, especially if you're
near retirement age. I have empathy for people in that position.
But it's important to remember that a large swath of
the electorate didn't vote for Trump to make the stock
markets skyrocket. They instead want more opportunities for good jobs
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and a lower rate of inflation. And creating better jobs
in the US is the point of Trump's tariffs. The
easiest way for companies to avoid the tariffs is to
make more goods in this country, and that in turn
will drive up wages. Cutting inflation is the point of
another Trump initiative that continues to dominate the news.
Speaker 4 (57:08):
Under Biden, the.
Speaker 5 (57:09):
Federal government ran deficits of nearly two trillion dollars a year,
and the national debt soared past thirty six trillion. It's
imperative to cut the deficit, both to slow inflation and
to trigger interest cuts. Trump didn't promise that the stock
markets wouldn't dip. He promised to improve the economy through
the Department of Government efficiency and other initiatives.
Speaker 4 (57:28):
That will happen, but it will take time.
Speaker 5 (57:32):
There's another piece of the stock market panic horse mentioning
the egregious double standard of the left. For four years,
Biden made policy decisions that rapidly drove up prices on
items Americans need, from food to cars to homes. As
the Cato Institute reported last year, food prices rose less
than eighteen percent between January twenty ten and January twenty
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twenty two or twenty twenty one when Biden took office,
but they shot up twenty one percent in the first
three years of Biden's term. Where were the progressive protests
when millions of families struggled to buy milk and fruit
for their kids. The left might have amnesia, but I
don't Trump vowed to fix the economy, and he will.
Inflation will cool, interest rates will drop, and consumers will
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again regain confidence and stocks will rebound.
Speaker 4 (58:18):
Keep calm. She says, better days are ahead.
Speaker 5 (58:21):
So that's Nicole Russell, and I think she glossed over
some really important economic stuff that is I believe necessary.
First of all, you cannot undersell the importance of contracting
the size of government spending.
Speaker 4 (58:37):
If you contract the.
Speaker 5 (58:38):
Size of government spending, after we've seen government spending make
up such a huge part of the economy, it is
going to have an impact on GDP, at least in
the short term. It has happened every time we have
contracted government spending in the economy.
Speaker 4 (58:50):
But then think about after World War Two.
Speaker 5 (58:53):
After World War Two, we were running a GDP debt
to GDP ratio is one hundred and twenty eight percent
at the end of World War Two. Now, the government,
if they were today's government, would have just kept spending
like drunken monkeys, because we all saw what happened when
they plugged a bunch of government money into the COVID response.
All of that money's still in the budget, it's still there.
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They never peel it back. Well, after World War Two,
Eisenhower said, We're gonna pull it all back, and all
of these economists.
Speaker 4 (59:20):
Were like, you can't do that. You'll destroy the.
Speaker 5 (59:22):
Entire economy of the United States of America if you
do that, and he said, screw it, I'm doing it anyway,
And they did. And you know what happened the boom
of the nineteen fifties where all the gis came home
and they started businesses and they bought houses, and the
economy roared because we pulled back government spending. But in
the short term, it's going to have an impact. In
the short term this tariff.
Speaker 4 (59:41):
Situation, which I do believe will eventually be taken care
of with reciprocal agreements with these different nations to pull
back tariffs on United on American goods. And if they
don't pull back tariffs.
Speaker 5 (59:53):
On American goods, we've already seen multiple companies come up
with massive investments companies here in the United States. We've
already seen car makers moving production of cars from Mexico
back into Michigan where they lost so much car production.
So it's not as if all of these things are
just Donald Trump willy nilly deciding to do something crazy
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to wreck the stock market.
Speaker 4 (01:00:16):
And this is.
Speaker 5 (01:00:17):
Something I've said for the since he got back into office.
If you're judging Donald Trump now by the first Trump administration,
you are not doing it right. You're just not Trump
two point zero is an entirely different beast. Trump two
point zh has a very clear plan and I sent
it a couple of weeks ago, and I think this
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is a great analogy, and that is simply that you know,
the first administration.
Speaker 4 (01:00:42):
He had no idea what he was doing. And that's
not a knock on Trump.
Speaker 5 (01:00:45):
I don't think anybody becomes president for the first time
and is like I got this, I know where the
bathroom is. I don't need any help unless they're vice president.
So when you're a new president, he comes in and
I had no idea what was going on. I think
we're seeing the first entire series of dat Like in
an NFL game, those are already scripted before the game
starts by the coaches. What we're seeing are the scripted
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plays by Donald Trump that he had four years.
Speaker 4 (01:01:08):
To think about, four years to kind of roll around
in his brain.
Speaker 5 (01:01:13):
And if you're thinking that he's too stupid to pull
this off, you.
Speaker 4 (01:01:17):
Are doing yourself and him a disservice.
Speaker 5 (01:01:20):
It's kind of like the people who say you ont
is stupid, Like, yeah, he's the richest stupid guy.
Speaker 4 (01:01:24):
I ever met.
Speaker 5 (01:01:25):
I do want to do this right now. I want
to give away a pair of tickets to the Denver
Home Show. It is happening this weekend at the National
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Speaker 4 (01:01:46):
I don't know if Golden Spike's going to be there.
Speaker 5 (01:01:48):
Jimmy Keys and Keys, concrete coatings and gut Her Helmet,
they're going to be there so you can get everything done.
And we're going to give away two tickets right now
to caller. Excuse me, yes, caller number five at three
O three seven.
Speaker 4 (01:02:00):
Three eight five eighty five.
Speaker 5 (01:02:01):
But if you go to Denver Homeshow dot com you
can save two bucks, buy your tickets online and then
head out there this weekend.
Speaker 4 (01:02:08):
But now, caller five, three oh three seven to one
three eighty five eighty five, let's take a very quick
time out. Text me your responses.
Speaker 5 (01:02:15):
I'd love to know what you guys think of what
is happening economically. Do you still have confidence if you're
a Trump supporter, that he is directing things in the
right way. If not, why not? And if you think
everything's a disaster because you don't like them, you.
Speaker 4 (01:02:29):
Can say that too.
Speaker 5 (01:02:30):
Five six six nine zero is the text line. We'll
be back right after this, Hi, Mandy. I think Trump
is doing a great job. All the naysayers are forgetting.
He's only been back in office for two months. He's
done more than Biden did in four years.
Speaker 4 (01:02:43):
We're winning.
Speaker 5 (01:02:44):
Doesn't feel like it if you look at the markets
right now, but I understand that feeling.
Speaker 4 (01:02:47):
I'm kind of with you. I think this is short
term pain for long term gain.
Speaker 5 (01:02:51):
Mandy, as an investor both managed accounts in my own
individually purchased stocks, I have long thoughtket the market was overvalued.
I would much rather prefer a slight contraction over a
complete crash. I'm waiting for the bottom of this market
adjustment so I can buy more this one. Fixing the
economy will take patience, Just like if you get yourself
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into financial trouble, you can't fix it overnight. Taking difficult
steps will be necessary and will eventually get you where
you want to be. I like this text message because
I think it taps into something that is incredibly important.
The economy cannot turn on a dime. Right, You've got
to think of the economy as the aircraft carrier of ships. Okay, Now,
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if I'm in a little speedboat, I can turn that
speedboat very very quickly. But if you're in an aircraft carrier,
you can't turn it on a dime. And the economy
has so many different aspects and so many different moving
parts to it, and it's almost ridiculous to think that
you can fix things extremely quickly. That being said, the
speed with which Donald Trump has done some incredibly significant
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things I also believe was necessary because of the intractable
nature of Washington, DC. Because what Trump one point o
learned that Trump two point oh is paying attention to
is that if you give Washington time to get into
a defensive posture, you're never going to get anything done.
You're just not You're not going to be able to
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fix anything. So why doing everything at once. He's essentially
ripping off the band aid instead of peeling it off slowly,
ripping off armhair after armhair, you know, and I after
watching politics. I mean, this has been my job. I've
had this job since two thousand and five. Okay, so
for twenty years. I have been watching politics. I've been
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watching Washington. I've been watching how Congress works. I've been
watching how Congress doesn't work. And this is why I
am hashtag pro team Thomas Massey, because he's been watching
it for twelve years and he seems the.
Speaker 4 (01:04:49):
Same thing that I see. Business as usual is the
preferred way of doing business for both Democrats and Republicans
who don't care about the things that we care about.
I firmly believe that.
Speaker 5 (01:05:01):
I know it sounds cynical and awful, but the ultimate
reality is do they really care about inflation the way
we care about inflation? Because they're not stopping spending when
we know Historically, hyperinflation has always followed a period of
a mass expansion of the money supply, and we just
did that during COVID.
Speaker 4 (01:05:19):
We added a third, one.
Speaker 5 (01:05:22):
Third of the money in our economy right now that
was printed was printed during COVID one third. We haven't
had an expansion like that in I don't even know
in the modern era surely not, but that inflation always
follows that. But if they weren't worried about getting their
special benefits for their friends and the contractors who support them,
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or whatever their little special interest group is, they would
really want to do something about it. And yet they
just passed a continuing resolution that funded all of the
Biden priorities for this.
Speaker 4 (01:05:54):
Year, every single one of them. Does that say we're serious?
Speaker 13 (01:05:58):
No?
Speaker 5 (01:05:59):
So, yeah, this has been a violent uprising, a violent
sort of disruption in Washington, DC. But I don't think
there was another way to do it. I really don't, Mandy.
I'm totally confident in Trump's economic plan. Tariffs are a
long term strategy, and after years of ballooning the debt
to thirty six trillion, change is going to take some time.
The money we are saving by cutting government spending will
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also be great in the long run. Even if this
administration stays even with thirty six trillion in debt, it's
still a huge win. Not for Marty and Loveland, only Marty.
They just passed a continuing resolution that will take it
up to forty trillion. So I love what you're saying,
but I'm sitting here like the harbinger of doom right
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on the radio, because I don't want you to think
that just because your team is in charge, that everything
is going the way that you think it should or
that you want it to. I will believe it when
we get twelve individual spending bills like we're supposed to.
I'll believe it when I see the recisions in the
spending bills that truly pull back spending. And I'll believe
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it when we get the national deficit in the national
debt to move in the right direction. Right now, I'm
too jaded to say it's going well.
Speaker 4 (01:07:12):
I think Trump wants it to go well.
Speaker 5 (01:07:14):
But unless and until he wrangles Congress under control, we're
gonna have more of the same kind of nonsense coming
out of DC.
Speaker 4 (01:07:22):
I'll let Jason have the last word on this. Mandy.
Speaker 5 (01:07:25):
I have a saying that goes along with what we're
dealing with now. It says I can fix stupid, but
it's going to hurt. You are correct, Jason, and right
now we're in the hurting part for sure. Anyway, we
are going to take a quick time out. When we
get back. Let's talk JFK files. Because the JFK files
are supposed to be released today, And does anybody really
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think we're gonna learn something new? You know, like LBJ
actually helped plan the Kennedy assassination. I'm not saying it's true,
like I don't have the details, but I'm just saying
it could be true. I've always heard it anyway. And
have you wondered have you seen the comments from people
on social media like, oh my god, what're throwing out
all the emigrats and who's gonna pick our vegetables?
Speaker 4 (01:08:09):
At our fruits? Now they're just gonna rot. We're all
gonna starve.
Speaker 5 (01:08:13):
I did a little digging today some of the tech
in farming super super cool.
Speaker 4 (01:08:19):
That's all coming up for the next hour. Keep it
right here on KOA.
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Welcome, Local, Welcome to the third hour of the show,
broadcasting the live from beautiful Salt River Fields. It talking
stick in Arizona, Scottsdale. To be exact, it is an
absolutely gorgeous day here. If you were remotely a baseball fan,
I cannot recommend this place highly enough. And tonight we're
going to stay for the game, and then I'll be
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back in Denver tomorrow for the show, assuming that all
airline flights run on.
Speaker 4 (01:09:16):
Time because of the weather. But I'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (01:09:19):
But if you've ever wanted to do spring training, I
growing up in Florida, I had the opportunity as a
kid to go to a bunch of different spring training
games because there's so many in the Great Fruit League.
But this is my first visit to the Cactus League.
And according to everyone that I had talked to in
Phoenix or Scottsdale, Salt River Fields at Talking Stick is
the crown jewel of all of the facilities throughout the
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Cactus League and spring training. So if you have a chance,
I would definitely say come on out and check it out.
Now in this hour, I've got a lot of stuff
I want to talk about, but I want to address
the story about Jeanette Vizgera. She's the woman that has
now been arrested by Ice and all of the Democrats
are coming out to demand she'd be released. And oh,
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she's an immigration advocate and doesn't have a violent criminal record.
And all of this stuff, and we should let her go,
And why didn't they tell her that they were coming
to get her? Well, let me give you a little
bit of background, and then I have a question. I'm
not going to sit here and pretend that I know
every single thing about her case, but I have some information,
and then I have and then.
Speaker 4 (01:10:25):
I have a question.
Speaker 5 (01:10:26):
One of those pieces of information is that, according to
what I found, she does have a criminal record, not
a violent criminal record, but a criminal record, so that is,
and she has a deportioned deportation order from a judge.
Speaker 4 (01:10:38):
It was stayed by the Biden administration.
Speaker 5 (01:10:41):
But apparently now that stay has either been lifted or
there's a new deportation order. Whatever, there's a deportation order
for this woman. Why didn't they tell her they were
coming or they wanted her to turn herself in? Because
back in twenty seventeen, she walked herself in a Denver
church for.
Speaker 4 (01:10:56):
Three years, for three years to avoid being.
Speaker 5 (01:11:02):
Arrested for deportation. And you want to know why they
didn't let her know they were coming.
Speaker 4 (01:11:05):
I mean, you have to be kind of stupid to
even ask that question like.
Speaker 5 (01:11:09):
That, I know, But then here's my question that I
would like an answer to that. I've looked all over
the internet to find out this morning, because in a
lot of the stories, it says she's been here since
nineteen ninety seven. Okay first had a run in with
the law in two thousand and nine when she was
arrested after a traffic infraction. I don't know what the
traffic infraction was, but she was arrested then. So she's
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been here since nineteen ninety seven. She is a prominent
immigrant activist in our community, and all the stories that
she's been seeking status, can anyone clarify for me why
she's still after all these years, twenty twenty eight years
in the United States, still doesn't have some kind of
status that she's enough of an activist that the Biden
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administration interjected to keep her from being deported, but nobody
that worked through that process could help her get some
kind of legal status here.
Speaker 4 (01:12:03):
I'm genuinely confused by that.
Speaker 8 (01:12:05):
Now.
Speaker 4 (01:12:05):
Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 5 (01:12:05):
Our immigration system sucks. I've been over it before. We've
talked about it before. It's terrible, it's unwieldy, it's cumbersome,
all of these things.
Speaker 4 (01:12:12):
But she's already in the country.
Speaker 5 (01:12:14):
She's well known in politics, and you're telling me she
could not have gotten some kind of status before. Now,
I really would like to know the answer. If you
know the answer, you can text me at five sixty
six nine.
Speaker 4 (01:12:25):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (01:12:28):
Sorry, I had to sneeze. Here's another fun fact, day Rod.
I've learned at my time in Arizona. I'm allergic to
everything in Arizona. Apparently I've been sneezing my brains out
since I got here.
Speaker 11 (01:12:39):
So whatever it is, brain lets to do the show though,
So that's good.
Speaker 4 (01:12:42):
Barely, just merely.
Speaker 9 (01:12:44):
Now.
Speaker 5 (01:12:44):
If you know the answer to that question, please text
me at five sixty sixth nine. Oh, and why was
the church allowed to break the law? There was a
rule in place that said immigration enforcement would not take
place in a church. So that is how she lived
in the church for three years, and the church provided
shelter for her because there was a rule that said
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you're not coming in the church. But yeah, that's probably
why Immigration didn't make a phone call to give her
heads up. You know, Mandy just heard the news story
about the activists taken into ICE custody. Lots of gripes
about the rules that activists want ICE to follow interesting
that they require the compliance to the rules they want
followed while they blatantly ignore and disregard the rules fundamental
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to the story. Well, now you're asking people to be consistent,
and consistency.
Speaker 4 (01:13:34):
Is a bugaboo. It's a real bear. It's a problem.
And then this text takes me to my next story.
Mandy just heard.
Speaker 5 (01:13:43):
Wait, wait, we will never know all that is concerning
Kennedy's assassination.
Speaker 4 (01:13:48):
Kind of like death and dying.
Speaker 5 (01:13:50):
Until we're dead, and I mean permanently dead, we will
not know if there's anything to know.
Speaker 4 (01:13:56):
Maybe maybe not. But today, at some point, Donald.
Speaker 5 (01:14:01):
Trump says all of the files related to the nineteen
sixty three assassination of John F. Kennedy will be released
without any redactions. Now, he made the promise during his campaign,
and he says, promise is kept. You know, there you go.
His administration is releasing eighty thousand files. Although some of those,
many of those have already been made public, but I
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understand some of them have gotten to be have been
heavily redacted. So now he doesn't believe anything will be redacted.
He said, just don't redact. You can't redact. Many have
studied what's been released so far by the government say
the public shouldn't anticipate any earth shattering revelations from the
newly released documents, but there is still intense interest in
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details related to the assassination and the events surrounding it.
So I mean, what are we really going to find
out here? And I you know, Dave Howard used to
get so mad at me because I get sucked into
this stuff about the Kennedy assassination.
Speaker 4 (01:15:04):
But when something doesn't.
Speaker 5 (01:15:05):
Make sense, you kind of have to go, wait a minute,
it just doesn't make any sense. And I'll direct you
to another story on the blog today. Guess who is
now admitting.
Speaker 4 (01:15:14):
That they totally knew that COVID came from a Wuhan lab.
Now now everybody's doing it, by the way, you guys,
everybody's like, oh yeah, everybody knew this one hundred percent.
Let me find it on the blog today. It's from
Michael Schellenberger.
Speaker 5 (01:15:29):
Okay, the former head of the UK's Foreign Intelligence agency
m I six told Boris Johnson in early twenty twenty
that the COVID virus.
Speaker 4 (01:15:38):
Escaped from the Wuhan lab.
Speaker 5 (01:15:41):
That means the US, UK, Chinese, and German governments all
knew the truth, covered it up and spread disformation, disinformation.
Speaker 4 (01:15:50):
Case closed. Okay, this is why I'm not.
Speaker 5 (01:15:52):
Gonna believe anything that's in these documents about the Kennedy assassination.
I think that there was such a concerted effort. I
truly believe that lb had something to do with it.
Never trusted that guy, I mean, he was the one
that benefited. I've heard, and I don't know if this
is accurate. I wonder if any of you guys have
heard this too, that there was Champagne on Air Force
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one all the way back from.
Speaker 4 (01:16:15):
Dallas when there usually wasn't.
Speaker 5 (01:16:18):
Champagne on Air Force one, and they toasted LBJ after
they swore him in on Air Force one after John F.
Kennedy was murdered. Now, I don't know if that's accurate,
but I'm telling you I don't trust our government not
to cover things up and not tell us stuff, because
the urge to cya supersedes almost everything, and the urge
to protect oneself from harm is pretty significant. So, Mandy,
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I believe Howard Donahue was correct. Secret Service agent George
Hickey inadvertently discharged his weapon, killing Kennedy. The cover up
was to protect the Secret Service in Oswald was a
convenient patsy.
Speaker 4 (01:16:57):
But how did he how? I mean, but we've all
seen them with cruider tapes. We've all seen it.
Speaker 5 (01:17:05):
Anyway, Mandy, I'm waiting to see how Kyle Clark covers
the Jeanette Visgera story.
Speaker 4 (01:17:10):
He will probably halfway state the facts. I do not know.
Speaker 5 (01:17:15):
Oh, somebody said, now he's saying tomorrow, So I do
not know when this is going to be released.
Speaker 4 (01:17:21):
To the texter who said.
Speaker 5 (01:17:23):
This earlier, Nope, it's already fallen off. Somebody said Marilyn
Monroe faked her own death and is now living happily
with John F. Kennedy and Elvis in Mexico somewhere, And
I was like, seems legit to me.
Speaker 4 (01:17:37):
I mean, why not, right? Why not?
Speaker 5 (01:17:40):
Just doesn't Kennedy assassination? Did you see the video of
the driver shooting him?
Speaker 4 (01:17:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (01:17:48):
I've never heard that before. Now I have to look
at it. Yes, ay, rod Oh, got to take a break.
We'll be right back after this. We are giving way
more tickets to the Denver Home Show throughout the week,
So if you didn't win them today, go and do that.
Of course, you can go to Denver homeshow dot com
and buy him for two dollars.
Speaker 11 (01:18:02):
Off Roger one today, Roger.
Speaker 5 (01:18:04):
That Roger's going to the home show to the texter
who said cactus pallen making you sneeze. I don't know
if it's the cactus pollen, but holy macrol, I'm allergic
to everything here, and there's frankly, not that much foliage.
It's not like there's a ton of greenery here. I
mean the fields and the yards, they're the greenest ones
out there.
Speaker 4 (01:18:23):
Mandy the man who killed Kennedy. The case against.
Speaker 5 (01:18:25):
LBJ by Roger Stone will make you lose sleep. That
from Rocky Mountain Rocks. I'm telling you I think LBJ
had something to do with it, but I don't think
we're gonna find out in this document dump.
Speaker 4 (01:18:36):
That we have today. So we got to talk.
Speaker 5 (01:18:38):
About Frontier Airlines trying to win business, and I gotta
say I think this is a very smart move by them.
Frontier is now running a I guess an ad campaign
that says, hey, if you're having an airline divorce, we're
offering a free checked bag on select flights this summer.
So they're trying to woo away Southwest Airlines flyers, and
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I don't know if I would ever be wooed to
Frontier for one reason and one reason only, I hate
being nickel and dime to death, like I hate having
a bunch of little ticky tacky little charges here and there.
Oh you want to pay to get a seat, You
gotta pay to get a seat. You want to pay
for a carry on, You got to pay for a
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carry on. Oh you want to pay to get your
bag check pay for that too. Oh you want to
go to the bathroom, pay for that. Now, that's not
a thing yet, but it's coming, I bet you. I
just I can't so good on them for trying to
make things work.
Speaker 4 (01:19:34):
Ay, Rod, can you pull up.
Speaker 5 (01:19:35):
The video that you sent me of the Southwest CEO today.
It's on the blog if you just want to go
there and grab it, because I'd like to play this
audio because I'm already mad at Southwest, my airline of choice,
for changing pretty much the things that I loved about Southwest,
and that is the free bags, free two free check bags.
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And I'm one of those people who loved to pict
your own seat policy.
Speaker 4 (01:20:00):
I'm not gonna lie. I loved it.
Speaker 5 (01:20:02):
God that being said, Okay, so listen to this message
from the CEO of Southwest that I guess is supposed
to make me feel better, but go ahead and hit
it a.
Speaker 14 (01:20:12):
The short answer is that it's about securing our future.
We're announcing changes to our business that will help us
return to the levels of profitability we all expect and
to support our collective long term success. It's also about
adapting to what our customers want. Many things have changed
post COVID, the loss of short haul demand, arise in
premium demand, and a change in customer preferences. There are
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more than the logo on our planes. Our DNA isn't
open seating or even bags fly free as a dedication
to service and hospitality.
Speaker 5 (01:20:43):
You can stop it there, because I just want to
get to the problem. He actually said, our DNA is
not two free check bags. Well to me, it is
to Okay, maybe it's not your DNA, but it's your mitochondria.
Speaker 11 (01:20:54):
Which we all know not on everything everything.
Speaker 4 (01:20:58):
Yes, bags fly free is your DNA, sir.
Speaker 15 (01:21:01):
I'm really glad they have to spend so much money
like painting over everything and redoing everything that says that
because it is their identity.
Speaker 11 (01:21:10):
Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 5 (01:21:11):
Yeah, it's their mitochondria, if not their DNA. And now
it's gone, and I'm fascinated to see what happens to Southwest.
Speaker 4 (01:21:18):
And don't get me wrong, I'm not one of those
people that's like I held Southwest fails.
Speaker 5 (01:21:22):
I don't want fewer choices in airlines because the prices
will go up, right, I want competition.
Speaker 4 (01:21:27):
I want it to work. But I'm telling you right now.
Speaker 5 (01:21:30):
From this moment forward, I am shopping solely on price
and convenience because right now, when we fly to Ohio
to see our kids, guess where Southwest doesn't fly.
Speaker 4 (01:21:40):
It doesn't fly where I want to go.
Speaker 5 (01:21:42):
But often it's cheaper for us to fly into a
city that is two hours away, rent a car and drive.
But no more. Now I'm flying straight there because United
Airlines does fly there. And if I have to pay
for bags, I may as well just pay for them
on United, because why am I going to drive two
hours out of my way? Super frustrating, and I'll stop,
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I'll stop complaining.
Speaker 4 (01:22:04):
I'll stop. You do know it's foliage, right, yes I do,
But I just don't care. I can use big words, however,
I want.
Speaker 5 (01:22:12):
Texter keep your little corrections to yourself. You can say
it however you want on your radio show.
Speaker 4 (01:22:17):
I'll be right back. Keep it on KOA.
Speaker 5 (01:22:18):
I have a question for you guys about Southwest that
just occurred to me on the break. I have several
tickets booked already with Southwest that were booked before the
date where they say they're going to charge for baggage.
I think I'm going to make this my hill to
die upon. I am not paying for bags for those flights.
I'm not doing it, I agree, and I'm I may
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even cause U s think, oh.
Speaker 4 (01:22:44):
I know that's Chuck by the way, Oh.
Speaker 5 (01:22:46):
Yeah, no, Jesse Thomas, everybody, because I'm broadcasting live from
Salt Rivere talking stick, I'm not paying the bat.
Speaker 12 (01:22:52):
You've been loyal, and I mean extraordly loyal to Southwest
because you know they have the way we like doing it,
and now they're changing.
Speaker 8 (01:22:59):
I heard it everything you said earlier. I was irritated.
Speaker 4 (01:23:01):
So here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (01:23:02):
I think that because we purchased the tickets before they
change the policy, that I should not have to pay
the baggage fees on that. I think that that's perfectly reasonable.
Speaker 4 (01:23:12):
We get out West and you know, that's a good question.
Speaker 5 (01:23:14):
Let's make that happen, because the best everything that's done
on Twitter these days.
Speaker 8 (01:23:18):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (01:23:19):
Thank you to the text who said mandy trees are
pollinating and currently the pollen count is ten point three.
Speaker 4 (01:23:25):
On a twelve point scale. Check out pollen dot com
or weather bug tracks and it tells.
Speaker 8 (01:23:30):
You that she just has me. I can tell you.
Speaker 5 (01:23:33):
I can tell you what everything's doloming because my face
is exploding right now because of it. So, uh, how
do you think, I mean, do we just I'm trying
to think because here's ultimately, the people that I will
deal with at the airport are not the ones who
made this decision, right, So I always try to be
very careful about taking out my ironing. I'm someone who
had no control over whatever I'm mad about already exactly.
(01:23:57):
And if you, I mean, if they created the problem,
well then all that's are off.
Speaker 4 (01:24:00):
But if they didn't have anything to do with it.
But I mean, I guess, oh, it's only for tickets
booked after five twenty eighth. Wait a minute, but when you.
Speaker 5 (01:24:07):
Say booked, I have a ticket booked for after five
twenty eight, I have tickets booked in June, I think
in July.
Speaker 4 (01:24:15):
Yeah we do and uh and I don't know. I'm
gonna tweet it.
Speaker 5 (01:24:19):
Southwest bag fees only apply to tickets booked after five
to one.
Speaker 4 (01:24:22):
Okay, there you go.
Speaker 12 (01:24:23):
Yeah, but that wording can be you know, if booked
is their magic word.
Speaker 5 (01:24:27):
There, We'll see, we shall see. I can't believe how
mad I still am about that. I just feel like
there's so few things in life and business that are
completely reliable when it comes to corporations.
Speaker 4 (01:24:43):
And I'll give you a few examples. When you go to.
Speaker 5 (01:24:45):
McDonald's, you are gonna get the best fountain coke you
can get straight up like, they have the best fountain
coke because it's always refrigerated. It's part of their contract
with exactly it's it's in canister as that's our deal
with Coca Cola. And I think they're the only ones
who do that. Yeah, so you're gonna a great coat. Now,
if all of a sudden, McDonald's goes to the bagged
syrup like everybody else uses, I'm gonna feel like they
(01:25:07):
have violated their contract with me.
Speaker 4 (01:25:08):
Their contract.
Speaker 5 (01:25:11):
We're going to provide this excellent product and you are
going to buy it from us, And I feel like
a little bit like this, Like what do Southwest think
we were all flying them for?
Speaker 4 (01:25:20):
According to the CEO, he said, it's not in our
DNA to have free bags and choose your own. Well, yeh,
kind of is something like that. It kind of is.
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (01:25:32):
I'm trying to think of other corporations that have changed
the game to their detriment.
Speaker 4 (01:25:38):
I mean, the biggest, most obvious one.
Speaker 5 (01:25:39):
Is New Coke, Like New Coke is still taught in
business schools as the worst business decision ever made.
Speaker 4 (01:25:46):
And I feel like this is kind of.
Speaker 5 (01:25:50):
Like that, because they don't know why we fly them, Mandy,
don't go full bill O'Reilly on the gate agent, even
if they are rude or lie to you. Again, I'm
not mad at the gate agents. I'm not mad at
the customer service representatives. I'm not mad at any of them.
They did not make this decision, Mandy. I'm an employee
of Southwest here in Denver. It's not just the price
changes for customers. Just this week, they've taken away our
(01:26:12):
earned points perk and cut eighty months of eighty bucks
a month in our bonuses and have cut completely the
bonus for being a trainer. Thanks Elliott Group. The Elliott
Group is the activist investors'n aron. I want you to
see if you can get somebody from the Elliott Group
on the show. They're gonna say no, but at least
let's ask that. Yeah, no, they're gonna say no, but
(01:26:34):
I'm gonna see if we can. I'm gonna just say,
what are you guys doing. I know you're trying to
maximize your returns, but do you not know what you bought?
That's the thing, like you bought the stock knowing what
Southwest was. And don't get me wrong, the whole scheduling
computer system meltdown. That happened, huge black eye for Southwest,
Huge black eye.
Speaker 4 (01:26:54):
It was awful. That needed to be fixed, right.
Speaker 5 (01:26:57):
They needed to modernize everything, they needed to make it
so they could get crew where they needed to get them.
Speaker 4 (01:27:02):
All that needed to happen.
Speaker 5 (01:27:04):
But I didn't fly Southwest because of their scheduling program.
Speaker 4 (01:27:08):
I just didn't.
Speaker 5 (01:27:09):
I mean, that's not why I did it. And now
they're taking the thing away that I like, But that identity,
it's it's not other DNA and Roger.
Speaker 8 (01:27:19):
I think she's fired up.
Speaker 9 (01:27:20):
I think she's a little I believe it's got her attention.
Speaker 4 (01:27:23):
It's like the fourth time I've talked about this. I'm
so annoyed by this, and this is true.
Speaker 12 (01:27:27):
You know, this happens, this conversation happens when there's no
microphone around.
Speaker 8 (01:27:32):
Chuck.
Speaker 4 (01:27:33):
Yeah, sure, I'm annoyed too.
Speaker 8 (01:27:35):
I mean we travel a lot. We travel.
Speaker 12 (01:27:37):
I mean we have five trips planned just this year
that we've already bought tickets to.
Speaker 4 (01:27:41):
Hey, Mandy, Southwest employees could get a bonus if they
charge you for bags. Well, their problem is.
Speaker 11 (01:27:46):
Not my problem.
Speaker 4 (01:27:47):
Oh no, I've got two different problems.
Speaker 11 (01:27:48):
I'm going to start with them now.
Speaker 5 (01:27:50):
No, no, uh Mandy uh. Southwest Bag policy note we
will not charge standard checked bag fees for your first
or second check bag checked bag for any reservation booked
or changed on or before May twenty.
Speaker 4 (01:28:06):
Five, regardless of your travel date. There you go, Okay,
So should we just book.
Speaker 5 (01:28:09):
All of our flights for the next two years. We're
just gonna plan for vacations we don't even have.
Speaker 8 (01:28:13):
Well I look at it this way.
Speaker 12 (01:28:14):
Let's plan and then Southwest does have a good thing
where if you change the flight, they don't You don't
get a penalty unless they're changing.
Speaker 5 (01:28:20):
That I know, but they are putting a limit on
how long your credits are good.
Speaker 15 (01:28:24):
I don't have credits fire the eight months to book
a trip longer than eight months out.
Speaker 4 (01:28:30):
You can book a.
Speaker 8 (01:28:31):
Trip a year out, a year out most if you
do it.
Speaker 4 (01:28:33):
Most of the time, credits are like.
Speaker 12 (01:28:35):
A like a like a gift card that you purchase,
you know if you expire.
Speaker 4 (01:28:41):
And this said Mandy, stupid Southwest.
Speaker 5 (01:28:43):
I would have continued flying them without even checking other airlines,
so they could have just raised ticket prices to cover
the baggage fees and I never would have known the difference.
There you go, Frontier flew it all the time before
they went cheap, says this Texter, Mandy, bud Light go
WoT Bote go book.
Speaker 4 (01:29:00):
Let me just say this about bud Light.
Speaker 5 (01:29:01):
Though they didn't change their products right, they made a
stunningly bad marketing decision that was made by somebody who
should have never been elevated to that position.
Speaker 15 (01:29:11):
Second to last, Texter hit up the Elliott Group. That
was a genius idea. Literally, just raise prices. People just said, hey,
south was getting price heer, someone said maybe, but then
not find any more of it exactly.
Speaker 12 (01:29:22):
So cheaper than a lot of the other airlines because
there's no bagagees.
Speaker 5 (01:29:25):
Coca Cola made that says this Texter are the two
worst business moves ever.
Speaker 4 (01:29:29):
They could have had Pepsi for a song.
Speaker 5 (01:29:30):
That's eliminating their competition. Then there was the new Coke debacle.
Somehow they recovered.
Speaker 11 (01:29:35):
From the Will Southwest go back on it?
Speaker 8 (01:29:37):
Though?
Speaker 4 (01:29:38):
You know, here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (01:29:40):
I know it's going to bring revenue in like because
everybody has been trained on other airlines that.
Speaker 4 (01:29:45):
This is what you do.
Speaker 5 (01:29:46):
So now people are gonna fly Southwest, It's going to
be just like every other airline. So now they have
to compete on price. Now they have to compete on destinations.
Now they have to compete on convenience, which is what
all the other airlines have been competing on.
Speaker 4 (01:29:58):
And they literally under cut the things that made them
unique and special.
Speaker 5 (01:30:03):
It's almost like in radio where they keep firing the
local personalities and then tell us that local radio is important.
I mean, I'm not bitter or anything. I'm just saying
it's the same thing, right, It's the same exact thing. Oh,
you can only book through December as far out now, hey,
United pilot here, welcome aboard. I will be flying United
(01:30:24):
because they fly direct to date.
Speaker 11 (01:30:25):
No high United credit card. I was telling you about.
Speaker 5 (01:30:28):
I gotta tell you as in the points and we
got to talk about this on the show at some point.
A Rod Beca is so interesting. A Ron is deep
in the points in miles game right now. I've been
in for a while. Uh, and I find that I'd
rather have an unbranded credit card for a variety of reasons.
But I might get the Chase United card just to
get the free bags on United.
Speaker 11 (01:30:49):
Yeah awesome.
Speaker 12 (01:30:51):
Yeah, Well in Southwest, if you have a Chase Southwest card,
are they not giving you at least one bag?
Speaker 2 (01:30:57):
You get one?
Speaker 15 (01:30:58):
You get one there and then but two Yeah well
technically technically not two. In the United it's one, but
plus companion.
Speaker 11 (01:31:03):
So do the math. It's two brown drip.
Speaker 4 (01:31:07):
Yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:31:09):
So, I mean, especially like families, when you're talking about
traveling with a family and checking bags, you could easily add,
you know, two hundred bucks to your flight just from
checking bags.
Speaker 4 (01:31:19):
I just I hate this so much. Today flew Southwest
this weekend, says this Texter.
Speaker 5 (01:31:24):
And it was the first time in a long time
we had a delayed flight because the flight to bring
the crew wasn't there on time. We're super loyal customers.
I feel like the service is really going down. I
will say this, I have not seen a drop off
in the quality of the in flight experience in terms.
I think their flight attendants are still great. I've always
thought Southwest has always had like the happiest seeming flight attendants.
Speaker 4 (01:31:46):
And I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 5 (01:31:47):
When we flew on American during COVID, those flight attendants
were so mean.
Speaker 4 (01:31:52):
I swore off American.
Speaker 5 (01:31:54):
I was like, I do not want to be treated
like a criminal because I have my mask down and
my soda in my.
Speaker 4 (01:32:00):
Hand, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (01:32:01):
It was like and this woman all she did, it
was like a four hour flight.
Speaker 4 (01:32:05):
Where were we going, Chuck? We were going?
Speaker 5 (01:32:07):
It was like a long flight, like four and a
half hours. She walked up and down the aisle like
a prison warden.
Speaker 4 (01:32:11):
The entire time.
Speaker 5 (01:32:13):
She looked like a prison warden. And if anyone had
their masks down around their face or whatever, she was
yelling at people.
Speaker 12 (01:32:19):
And I was like, I'm not a coasty with me
because I'm big and these seats aren't and I was
sticking out a little bit, so she would like push
me into this thing. And then I'm eating peanuts so
I'm not putting my mask up. I'm not stupid. I
know how to, you know, avoid that. And she was
just like, you need to put it up between bites.
I'm like, no, make me come here and do it.
Speaker 4 (01:32:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:32:38):
She was my passive aggressive cousin's daughter. She would get
on the plane with a lollipop in her mouth yep,
and then that was her cover story for the entire
I was like, God, this passage.
Speaker 12 (01:32:50):
She remember, I bought lollipops and passed them outs everywhere
in our group.
Speaker 5 (01:32:53):
Uh huh, Mandy, I will continue to non rev on AA. Well,
if I could non rev on AA, I would totally
do that as well.
Speaker 4 (01:33:00):
Non rev is when.
Speaker 5 (01:33:01):
You work for the airline and you're a non revenue passenger.
It is the best perk of working for an airline.
Although as airlines have contracted their routes and planes have gotten.
Speaker 4 (01:33:11):
More and more full, it's almost impossible. It's hard to
non rev.
Speaker 5 (01:33:16):
When I was a flight attendant, there were so many
airlines and there were so many flights that you could
always get where you wanted to go, so it didn't matter. Mandy,
do you take two bags on every trip you go on?
Speaker 13 (01:33:24):
No?
Speaker 4 (01:33:24):
I do not.
Speaker 5 (01:33:25):
I'm a pretty efficient packer. We usually just take one
bag each.
Speaker 8 (01:33:28):
Well, we have great luggage thanks to.
Speaker 4 (01:33:30):
Yeah, we do, thanks to Paradise Bag. It's go check
them out. They're amazing. Well they didn't give it to us.
I mean we bought it, true, but still amazing luggage, Mandy.
Speaker 5 (01:33:38):
Southwest charging for bags is like Wendy's going with frozen beef.
Speaker 4 (01:33:41):
Amen.
Speaker 12 (01:33:42):
My friend to me, that's another one of those things,
change their meat, and that was I never went to
Wendy's again. Their original burgers were phenomenal and their fries
and they changed everything.
Speaker 8 (01:33:54):
I haven't been back since.
Speaker 5 (01:33:56):
You are a picky man. Now I'm getting credit card advice.
A Rod's City American Executive card is fantastic, This couple says.
My husband and I both have United cards. He has
the upgraded card that gets us into the United Club
and free bags for all companions. I have the non
upgrade card and it gets me one free bag when
I travel alone. This text are set up in every
(01:34:17):
household expense on my Southwest credit card.
Speaker 4 (01:34:19):
My wife and I fly free. We do that with
the Chase preferred Sapphire or is that what it is?
Speaker 1 (01:34:24):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (01:34:25):
Because those miles when you go to get a miles
credit card. And by the way, if you're a person
who cannot or will not pay off your credit card
balance at the end of every month, do not do this, okay,
because carrying credit card debt to get airline miles does
not make any financial sense any way you look at it. Ever,
full stop, don't get credit cards if you cannot manage
(01:34:46):
them appropriately. That being said, also find out which cards
are easiest to utilize their miles across platforms in terms
of transferring over to a different platform, because maybe you
want to fly uh air LINGA to Ireland.
Speaker 4 (01:35:01):
Or Luftanza to Switzerland.
Speaker 5 (01:35:03):
You've got to be able to move those miles around.
So there's a lot to know about it. A Rod
slowly becoming an expert. If somebody said this, A Rod,
you should do a video on this on your top
ten channel.
Speaker 11 (01:35:13):
MM, yeah, it's a good one. I just might.
Speaker 15 (01:35:17):
It's so awesome all the travel we're doing, so much
of it knock them out of our pockets.
Speaker 4 (01:35:22):
Yep, you can't, baby, Mandy back it up.
Speaker 5 (01:35:25):
And go slower. Southwest Airlines has a woke marketing third
party firm. Wait what, I don't know what the woke
marketing third party firm is. I mean they don't need
a woke third party firm. They're screwing their airline up
all by themselves and you don't have to bring an
outside help at least but light you know, yeah, Ralph
and black Forest also in first class, the flight attendants
(01:35:47):
treat you much better. You know why, because we know
you've paid an exorbitant amount of money to be there.
You should fly first class international. When I flew for Delta,
you went through six weeks of training. Now this was
back in nineteen ninety one, so we went through six
weeks of training, most of which was getting people out
of planes, first aid, safety, all that stuff. And then
you did like a week of actual service training out
(01:36:10):
of the six weeks that you were there. So you
did a week about beverage carts and all that, and
we used to serve actual food. When I was a
flight attendant, we had a flight between Atlanta and Orlando
on an L ten eleven, which has three hundred and
seventy no, two hundred and thirty people in the back
and we did a soup and sandwich on an hour
and a half flight for all those passengers.
Speaker 4 (01:36:29):
It was ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (01:36:31):
But then you had to go back for training for
first class International, and that training alone was a week long.
We had a caviar and vodka service that we had
to do. We had like a ten course meal that
we had to serve.
Speaker 4 (01:36:46):
It was insane and I loved it. I loved it.
Speaker 12 (01:36:50):
I got a fly International first class. I got bumped
up when I was in the service and I was
in uniform. You're lucky doing an escort.
Speaker 4 (01:36:56):
Oh, you were escorting us.
Speaker 9 (01:36:58):
Yeah, I'd like to relate all this, but just fly private.
Speaker 4 (01:37:04):
Jesse Thomas. It must be so tough to hear US
pores talk about what it's like to travel around, Just Mandy.
Speaker 5 (01:37:12):
They should charge for the stupid carry on. Would make
boarding and disembarking much more efficient. I I what frustrates
me as a person who doesn't fly with a giant
carry on is when they come to me and say,
can I take your bag out of the overhead bin
and put it in front of you on the floor,
And I'm like, no, my legs are too long.
Speaker 8 (01:37:30):
I stand up whenever they do that. Do you think these.
Speaker 4 (01:37:33):
Legs can fit up there?
Speaker 5 (01:37:34):
No, this person got it right, aroon. It's a perfect analogy, Mandy.
Collecting credit card points is like Pokemon for adults.
Speaker 4 (01:37:43):
Oh, Pokemon that get lets you go places for free
and stay in fabulous hotels. So there you go, Manby.
Speaker 5 (01:37:49):
We have to chase United card and go to Hawaii
free every year which Chuck and I went to Switzerland.
We paid for probably three quarters of our trip with
airline miles and we stayed in a hotel so fancy
that I felt like the Beverly Hillbillies and that thing.
Speaker 4 (01:38:03):
Man, it was like.
Speaker 11 (01:38:04):
Wow, because first five apartments.
Speaker 4 (01:38:08):
All right, you guys, it is now to fifty.
Speaker 5 (01:38:11):
My husband Chuck is here as we wrap up our
broadcast in the beautiful Salt River fields. If you go
to my Facebook page, Mandy Connell, you can see a
picture of the view that I've had all day to day.
And we're gonna be joined by Jesse Thomas, who I've
all and told he was also playing of the Day.
Because now it's time for the most exciting segment on
the radio.
Speaker 4 (01:38:30):
Of its guy World of the Day. All right, here
we go, all right, Anthony, What is our dad joke
of the day.
Speaker 15 (01:38:43):
What is a home run hitter's favorite type of music?
Speaker 4 (01:38:47):
Run hitter, bass sing? Oh day Oh, that was a
good one.
Speaker 8 (01:38:55):
You have to telling them these are good ones.
Speaker 2 (01:38:57):
Okay, I think that's funny.
Speaker 4 (01:38:58):
I could tell you I like this. I thank the
ones for our grandkids. That's what I'm doing.
Speaker 15 (01:39:03):
Oh, here's another one, you know what, double dough. Since
you love that one so much, Chuck. Why are some
umpires overweight? I don't know, because they.
Speaker 11 (01:39:12):
Always clean their plates.
Speaker 4 (01:39:14):
Oh I love that one so good.
Speaker 8 (01:39:17):
That was better than the swing one.
Speaker 4 (01:39:18):
I'll thank you that that is so good.
Speaker 5 (01:39:21):
All right, Now we have our trivia question. According to
the US cost we don't Oh wait, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (01:39:26):
Word of today.
Speaker 11 (01:39:27):
It's a verb verb. Have we done this one before
going to do it again?
Speaker 4 (01:39:29):
Okay? Fame feign That means to fake something like you
pretend to be something you're not.
Speaker 11 (01:39:37):
That is correct, pretty much, all right?
Speaker 4 (01:39:40):
According to the.
Speaker 5 (01:39:41):
US Constitution, what is the minimum age for a person
to be elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington.
Speaker 8 (01:39:47):
D C?
Speaker 11 (01:39:49):
Twenty five?
Speaker 4 (01:39:50):
Yes, you are correct? Is it very good? Very good?
All right? What is our jeopardy category. Jesse.
Speaker 5 (01:39:56):
Here's how you play Jeopardy with us. It's a blood sport.
You don't have to wait till the end of the question.
You have to shout your name out, Jesse. I'll call
on you, and then you answer it in the form
of a question.
Speaker 11 (01:40:05):
Johnny has to wait.
Speaker 4 (01:40:06):
They do in Jeopardy. No, I don't right here.
Speaker 11 (01:40:08):
Jesse's never played.
Speaker 4 (01:40:09):
I don't care.
Speaker 11 (01:40:10):
It's our two rules.
Speaker 2 (01:40:11):
No win, the win.
Speaker 9 (01:40:13):
I'm just trying to stay out of the way.
Speaker 15 (01:40:15):
It's here too, I don't care. When there's a delayer,
someone new, you have to wait. No, yes, so you
have to wait for the word go.
Speaker 8 (01:40:21):
Hey, what if you could see her face?
Speaker 15 (01:40:23):
Jesse is gonna win because ladies and gentlemen, we're talking baseball.
Speaker 4 (01:40:27):
I'm not waiting then.
Speaker 9 (01:40:29):
For failures. All you did.
Speaker 15 (01:40:31):
In nineteen ninety six, the bottom of this imaginary rectangle
over home plate was moved from the top of the
batter's es Mandy.
Speaker 4 (01:40:41):
What is the strike zone?
Speaker 11 (01:40:43):
We're not gonna really not gonna wait?
Speaker 8 (01:40:45):
Huh, all right?
Speaker 11 (01:40:45):
Yes?
Speaker 15 (01:40:46):
Correct A baseball hat worn in an unusual way by
players or fans to inspire a comeback.
Speaker 4 (01:40:52):
What's the rally? Cap?
Speaker 9 (01:40:53):
I told you.
Speaker 6 (01:40:54):
We should have had.
Speaker 8 (01:40:55):
Her late telling, she added.
Speaker 15 (01:40:57):
As part of safety protocols in twenty two twenty all
half innings after the ninth now begin with an automatic
runner at Jesse's.
Speaker 11 (01:41:06):
Jesse second base, dumbas.
Speaker 15 (01:41:09):
This new stat that sounds like it's kept by NASA
is higher more than twenty degrees on average for a
fly ball hitner Jesse Jesse long angle correct.
Speaker 9 (01:41:20):
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (01:41:23):
Jesse first time.
Speaker 11 (01:41:25):
Chuck, Chuck.
Speaker 8 (01:41:26):
I'm good, I'm good. I'm watching these two try to kill.
Speaker 15 (01:41:29):
Also a soccer term for a lone back line defender.
Speaker 11 (01:41:33):
It's a pitch similar, Oh, Jesse correct.
Speaker 5 (01:41:41):
I didn't even need to give him an advantage exactly.
You're acting like Jesse doesn't know what he's doing. I
had faith in you, Jesse, not like that Arod soccer
to the bast We got.
Speaker 4 (01:41:53):
A handicapped man. He's so Jesse can win.
Speaker 6 (01:41:55):
No, we don't.
Speaker 5 (01:41:56):
All right, guys, I will be back in the studio tomorrow,
assuming that south US Southwest Airlines. Let's be board the
plane tomorrow morning after maybe hearing this show.
Speaker 9 (01:42:05):
But if you have a.
Speaker 4 (01:42:06):
Chance to come to spring training, do it. This is
absolutely beautiful out here. The weather is gorgeous and aside
from the cactus is blooming that's given me the allergies.
I highly recommend it. You should make the trip. We'll
be back tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (01:42:18):
In the meantime, Koaite Sports picking things up right here
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