03-21-25 FULL SHOW - Ask Me Anything To End A Great Week!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 4 (00:26):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Friday edition of the show.
That was an extra welcome, welcome, Welcome for my Boulder
lesbian friend who is having her day brightened by those
welcome welcome welcomes. Got an email all together now I
was getting there.

Speaker 5 (00:43):
I mean, I just didn't know here now.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
And I'm here with Anthony Rodriguez. I'm Mandy Connall. Will
take you right up until three pm today, and it
is a Fridday edition of the show. I have had
and not to rub it in, but since last Friday,
when I left here to go to the airport to
flight Arizona to be able to go to spring training,
spend some time with family, did some hiking, drove around

(01:22):
extremely bougee Scottsdale, had an incredible meal that was also
gobsmackingly expensive. But then we flew back. I worked on
my side hustle, which we'll go live today if you
follow me on Facebook. Mandy connall, you will find out
what that is. It's just been a really great week,
a really great week, so I wanted to celebrate by

(01:43):
just declaring it and ask us anything kind of day
because there's so much stuff on the blog, which we're
going to get to in a second, but there's just
been so much news lately, so many things, so much
of the stuff that I figured today. If there's something
that we either haven't talked about or that you've noticed
and I didn't, because I've got to tell you, I've
just given up trying to follow everything. It's damn near impossible.

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And I read really fast. I can only imagine if
there are people who read really slowly. So, uh, whatever
you want to talk about, today's the day. It's ask
us anything. It is available via the text line at
five sixty six nine oh, five sixty six nine oh.
That is where you can text us on the Common
Spirit Health text line, and let's talk about what is

(02:27):
on the blog today. Trust me, I got plenty of stuff.
If nobody text messages right now, I can do a
whole show without you people. I mean, it would be
dumb for me to do it without you people, because
then I really am just sitting in a room by
myself talking to myself. At least I can labor into
the illusion that you're out there listening. All right, guys,
let's go to the blog today. Find the blog by

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going to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look
for the headline in the latest posts section I have
to include that now every time. Look for the headline
in the latest post section three, twenty twenty five blog
ask me anything to end a great week? Click on
that and here are the headlines you will find with

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a tic tech towe a winner.

Speaker 5 (03:11):
I didn't one's listening office half of America and all
the ships and clipments and say that's going to press plans.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Today on the blog. I'm tired of deciding what to
talk about. Today is the day the side hustle comes
to fruition. Why were public officials hiding messages about the
immigrant response? Denver is still not tracking how much homelessness
is costing taxpayers. Ah, the smell of socialism is in
the air about Jeanette Visgera. Here's your callerback. See you

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as investigating ooh sorry, fafo burning Tesla edition, See you
as investigating want to James, the purpose of a public
university has lost at SeeU. Time for more heroes? Thank you?
Why poor people stay poor? Scrolling? Oh Fort Myers? What
has gone wrong? The US fall on the happiness rankings?

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Smartphones are rotting our brains? Sixteenth Street Mall loses another restaurant.
Los Angeles has a homeless fire problem. How Republicans can
win in Colorado? A local hotel recognized by Time tgif
everybody a business owner talks about downtown Denver and what's
going wrong? Power Rangers are getting a reboot. Steve Bannon

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is an idiot. Our line's a good indicator of quality. Hey,
look a bomb thread on the sixteen Street Mall. There
is some cool stuff underneath the pyramids and gaza and
traditions that may be on their way out. Those are
the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. And
as you can clearly see, I don't need your help,

(04:43):
but here I want you to feel like it's our show, right,
our show, Mandy. I hear your side hustle is OnlyFans.
I would probably make more money on OnlyFans than I'm
making for my side hustle. But I have this thing
it's called it's called dignity. So therefore, I will not
be providing pictures of my feet or film videos of

(05:06):
myself eating large amounts of food, which is apparently like
a whole other genre.

Speaker 6 (05:11):
Where people pay I sitting on pie? Wait what that's from?
Better call saul. Okay, I'm not a weirdo fully clothed
sitting on a pie I have.

Speaker 4 (05:22):
I also saw another video of a woman in heels
walking on food.

Speaker 7 (05:27):
Oh that's a million dollars or you know what.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
I try not to judge other people's little you know,
kinks or whatnot. Right, if you're not hurting anybody and
you're not, I mean that doesn't want to be hurt
and you know anyway, if you're it's all consensual. Everything
is on the same page. More power to you. But
some stuff, I'm like, I am never gonna be able
to wrap my head around that one I.

Speaker 7 (05:48):
Would do for money. Nothing's off the table.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
Look for uh as OnlyFans where he will be walking
on pies while.

Speaker 7 (05:57):
Sitting only sorry booting business.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
All right, Okay, let's go back here. Let me see here.
I've already got you people texting in because it is
a free for all Friday. We don't have any guests today,
which I'm actually kind of happy about because we've had
a lot of guests lately trying to make up for
lost shows last week. But I do have one big
story I want to get to. It is about the

(06:25):
Denver Oh jeez, I forgot to put the link on
the story. I'll put the link on the story real quick.
But so in January of last year, when we started
being flooded with legal immigrants because they were flooding over
the Southern War because the Biden administration didn't actually do
anything to stop it. Oh, wait a minute, Wait a minute,

(06:47):
this is this year. So this year? Oh okay, I
got it. Wait a minute.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
Hang.

Speaker 4 (06:54):
On January fourteenth of twenty twenty five, Mayor Mike Johnston
convened what he called a strike introduction meeting. Strikeforce was
the name that this group of people working in his
administration gave themselves. They were dealing with the potential blowback
from Denver's sanctuary state policies. I mean, that's not what
the story says, but that's what they were talking about.

(07:18):
The following day, January fifteenth, Text messages obtained by CBS
News Colorado show Johnston's Director of Strategic Initiatives, Josh Posner,
sent an identical text message to multiple members of the
administration saying, and this is a quote, we are going
to use signal to communicate with strikeforce so that communications

(07:38):
remains encrypted and secure and messages auto delete. That last
part was not added by me. It was added by
the Director of Communications. So the strikeforce began to meet offline.
They began to meet on Signal, which is an encrypted

(07:58):
app that does delete your messages after a certain amount
of time. Now you can change the amount of time,
and they did eventually. But what's interesting is another line
from this article, they were specifically told, specifically told by
its own information security chief not to use Signal. In

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a December eleventh, twenty twenty four email from Denver Chief
Information Security Officer Merlin Namath shared with McLaughlin and several
other mayoral staff members and appointees name it discussed the
use of encrypted messaging apps and said in bold letters
they were for personal use only. Please avoid these applications
for city work. So that was a month before this

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telegraph or Signal group was started. So this was absolutely
one hundred percent done with the knowledge that they were
violating the law and having caught conversations about the people's
business outside the purview of the people, and then deleting
the evidence. I truly, I mean, can you imagine if

(09:08):
this was a Republican administration. Could you imagine could you
imagine if this was a Republican that was running Denver
and all of a sudden it comes out that they've
been erasing messages while talking about the immigrant response and
how they're going to deal with it with the Trump administration,
like we don't deserve to know. I mean, the outcry

(09:30):
it would be this is this has been Nixon tapes
too point oh, it would be everywhere, and we already
know that in Colorado. The Democrats have decided that allowing
the public to know how the business is being done
is bad. They have done everything in their power to

(09:50):
make it more difficult for anyone, journalists, citizens, whatever, to
get information about the work they're doing allegedly on our behalf.
And if I'm not mistaken, Mike Johnston ran on a
platform that included the word transparency. Promise made promise broke in,

(10:11):
much like the promise to come on this show once
a month. As prior mayors had been doing for thirty years,
even before I got here. Anyway, that's on the blog today.
Now let me get to some of these common sense
health text excuse me, common spirit health text lines. Common sense, oh,
common sense hardly ever comes out of this text line anyway,

(10:34):
man Da, I'd love to hear your thoughts on what's
going on in Jeffco Public schools with these children being
documented as homeless only to move in with teachers. I've
talked about this pretty extensively, and it is just it's
another indicator of the rot in jeff Co Public schools
in the leadership. Not only did that happen where a
teacher was not only allowed to groom a teenage girl

(10:56):
for a sexual relationship when the mother brought it to
the principal, well, the principal basically poop pooed the whole
thing and said she's just helping her navigate her sexuality
and did nothing. And then the teacher, with the help
of administrators, declared this girl homeless on federal government documents,
which means they helped the girl commit fraud. And the

(11:20):
school board superintendent, oh wait, one more, one more forgot
Chief of Schools number three in the district it gets
fired in early December. We find out later he was
being investigated for possession of child porn. He kills himself,
and rather than be straightforward and open and honest with
the parents in the district, they discussed how hurt they

(11:40):
weren't upset, and how they didn't want it to make
them look bad. I mean, you guys, that whole district.
Everybody on the board needs to go. There's one member
of the board that isn't completely insane. She was the
one that stood up and said this is not the
way we handle this. We need to be transparent, and
she basically was told to sit down and shut up.
Her name wasn't on the document. I mean, the whole

(12:01):
board needs to go. They have a culture in that
school district of putting themselves in between parents and students,
and that comes straight from the school board president. In
my opinion, she is a COSA volunteer. Costa is an
organization that is incredibly, incredibly valuable and worthwhile. But COSA

(12:21):
volunteers advocate for children who are in the child protective system.
They go to court, they meet with the kids, they
evaluate the situation, and they go in and tell judges
whether or not. You know, they believe either parents should
have the kid or why one parent should have the
kid based on their interactions with the family. They only
advocate for the kid. It is an incredibly valuable and

(12:42):
important organization, and I'm actually thrilled she's a part of it.
They always need more volunteers. But as part of that,
you go through a training that teaches you that essentially
you're already dealing with people that are accused of being abusive, right,
so the assumption is always that everybody's abusive. It's part
of the training. And I know that because my husband
used to do the training for that program in Florida.

(13:05):
So this now the school board president has the attitude
that parents are the problem, right, All parents are abusers.
She actually said, we need to teach kids to be
more vocal about the signs of abuse and look for
the signs of abuse. And I'm like, what I mean.
Don't get me wrong, some parents are horrible, awful, evil parents,

(13:25):
but a vast majority of us are not, and we
do not need to be assumed guilty when we have
done nothing to make that happen. So, yeah, I've talked
a little bit about it. As you can tell that
school district has big, big problems, and I don't understand
why the parents are not rioting at every single meeting.
Just you know, that's me. Maybe if everything was the same, job, climate, friends, family,

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except education, where would you rather live Colorado or Florida? Well,
if everything was the same, meaning humidity, no hurricane, lack
of bugs in Florida, I would probably want to live
in Florida simply because I still have roots there. But
I love Colorado. It's just getting too expensive to actually

(14:11):
live here in a retirement situation. Mandy Lindsay Datko has
been on different shows to speak on it. And now
a parent of an Olympic student has come forward with
their child claiming homelessness to move in with their coach.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah. Eight zero one six

(14:31):
same question, except for politics. Would I prefer Colorado or
Florida's politics? I would prefer Florida's politics one hundred percent.
Here's one. Will any age have the courage to prosecute
the mayor at al for the open records violations? Use
of signal app that is that is I mean it's

(14:52):
not gonna be so wiser. I mean that's not going
to happen. It's not going to be any of the
DA's in Denver. I mean the people Denver. This is
what they voted for, right, That's where we're told, this
is what they voted for. So I don't know how
who would even investigate that? But the answer is, currently
in this environment, no, nothing will happen, nothing at all. Mandy,

(15:15):
been thinking about you saying, Phoenix I heard was better atmosphere, clean, goodies,
et cetera. Is it run by a woman? Just a thought?

Speaker 7 (15:22):
No, we are.

Speaker 4 (15:23):
I don't know who runs their Arizona cluster. Actually I
don't know that snacks you guys, and a table tennis
table snacks anyway, Mandy, how would you have cut back
on costs and waste and government yourself? Could you have
avoided some of the chaos and unhappiness that is happening now?

(15:44):
I'll tell you exactly what I would have done. I
would have gone and said to every single agency and department,
I've got to cut ten percent from your budget. And
I don't mean cuts in future increases, I mean cuts
to your budget. We have one point eight trillion dollar
deficit this year, right, So I would give each department

(16:05):
the opportunity to do the exact same thing to everyone
in their downline command. They would go to every department,
every agency, every whatever that reports to them, and they
tell every single one of them, I need ten percent
of your budget now. The implied threat is, if you
don't tell me where to cut it, then I will
cut it for you. I have a friend who work
for a large corporation, not a multinational, but a large corporation,

(16:29):
and the owner of the company, the founder of the company,
was still the CEO and president, and they were going
through a really tough time, and that's exactly what he did.
He essentially had a meeting with all of the upper
management and was very honest and said, look, this is
where we need to be and we're not even close.
I need everybody to give me ten percent. But if
we can do this, if we can do this one thing,

(16:49):
it's going to They have like a debt situation that
had to be taken care of her. I don't remember
what the deal was, but in any case, he said,
when we get this done, then we can all share
in the rewards, right because the company will be on
much more solid footing. We'll be able to do some
raises and stuff like that. So then the middle managers
went back to all of their departments and said, where
can we cut ten percent? And for some it was

(17:11):
kind of easy because they had either unfilled positions that
they just said, we don't need those. For others, it
was more challenging, and some came back and literally said,
we don't have enough fat to give you ten percent.
But that was okay because everybody else came up with
ten percent. The reality was he needed five percent, and
when he got the almost ten percent from all of
those workers, he gave them the five percent back in

(17:34):
the form of a bonus for their hard work and dedication.
Now imagine if we go to government workers who are
at the front line of waste and abuse. I talked
to yesterday about an entire agency that was predicated on
waste and abuse. It was just an agency of nothing
but fraud. But there were people that came forward about

(17:54):
that agency. They just didn't k know anything about it,
And I would even go further. It's like I would
offer a bounty. We've talked about this before. I would
offer a bounty for people. If you know of a
fraudulent contract or whatever that the government is involved in
right now, you let us know what it is, and
you get a cut of whatever that amount of money

(18:14):
is that we just saved because of your tip. I mean,
I'm a favor of incentivizing all this stuff, but I
also understand why Donald Trump did it this way. He
got completely blocked in his first term, and he was
determined not to let Washington, DC have time to formulate
a defense. We're seeing it now. I mean, if I
see one more story, a sob story. And don't get

(18:37):
me wrong, you guys, I know federal work or some
of them are my friends, some of them are being
adversely affected. I don't want people to lose their jobs.
But what happens when this country goes bankrupt and we
hit a debt crisis of our own that destroys our economy,
which takes the entire world's economy down with it. That's
the future if we don't do something about spending, and

(18:59):
if it takes a shot to the system to get
us moving in that direction with some you know speed,
I'm all for it. There might have been a better way,
but you know what, I'm not president, so we will
find out.

Speaker 6 (19:11):
Now.

Speaker 4 (19:11):
We got some good questions coming in. We'll get more
of your ask me anything. It's going to be one
of those wild shows where we don't know what's coming
up next, so you have to keep listening. See what
we did there. I just saw this one and it says, oh,
dang it, stop updating? Where is it? Where is it?
Where is it? Where did it go?

Speaker 6 (19:32):
I have a question for you. How do you keep forgetting?
How to turn off the refresh?

Speaker 4 (19:35):
Because I like to I don't want to get it,
so I should probably just turn it off. Here find
this where I'm going? I know, yeah, I know how
to do it.

Speaker 7 (19:41):
How do you find the note? You find the text?

Speaker 4 (19:43):
I will right now. It was a little bit It
was a good question, but then it was a little
bit insulting after that. Yeah hang on, yeah, okay that one?
Yeah nope, yeah, maybe it fell off already. I don't know.
Comment to the effect of, hey, your OnlyFans ship sailed

(20:04):
a long time ago. So I did a quick Google search.
Guess how old the well, at least probably maybe the
oldest OnlyFans model that I could find the oldest how
old do you think the oldest?

Speaker 6 (20:18):
Yep, female, yep, seventy two, that is correct.

Speaker 4 (20:25):
What on the money? You were being smarty? Fancy and yeah,
no I wasn't and could be older ones. But that's
one that I that I just wanted. Yeah on the nose.

Speaker 6 (20:37):
Look up on a work computer, average OnlyFans model age.

Speaker 7 (20:41):
Okay, hang on, I'm.

Speaker 4 (20:41):
Not looking at average only fans model age.

Speaker 7 (20:49):
I want to say twenty or.

Speaker 4 (20:53):
And they don't really have an average. Significant portion of
the platform's traffic comes from users age twenty five to
thirty four.

Speaker 6 (21:01):
Now I don't believe Lion and the people on camera
that's the users, because I believe users average probably more.

Speaker 4 (21:07):
Lying male creole. I found it. Male creators have an
average age of thirty two, while females average twenty nine.

Speaker 6 (21:13):
Oh so there you go past the thing. Now past
the main twenties. Now they're like, now they're in it
for the money any better? Yeah, they understand what's what
they're getting into.

Speaker 4 (21:24):
Uh maybe too, Yeah, that's what I don't want to know. No, no,
I found an interview with her. I did not go
to all that shoe. Yeah, yeah, what do you think
she does? I don't want to know. Just thinking about
is making.

Speaker 6 (21:40):
My own no no no no no no no not obviously,
not obviously, but assuming she's seventy two.

Speaker 7 (21:47):
Yeah, it's probably not the normal stuff.

Speaker 6 (21:49):
You would see. It's probably some weird kink. So something
is appro so something appropriately. What do you think she
would do is seventy I am.

Speaker 4 (21:57):
Not going to even consider this. I'm going to read
another text message from the Common Spirit. Howect you tell stories?
I hear a lot of people blaming Trump for the
state budget deficit. There was already a deficit, and it
sure compounded the problem. How does the state go so
deep in a deficit? Property taxes, for example, did not
go down? Hmm, Well, let me tell you what's happened.

(22:19):
In twenty nineteen, Democrats completely took over everything in Colorado,
and since then they have been adding agencies, they have
been hiring employees, they have been creating new programs, and
many of those programs were funded with one time federal dollars.
A lot of that came from the COVID Relief Act,
and now all of those dollars are gone, so they

(22:40):
have expanded spending. They don't have the ability to just
raise taxes on us, which is why Democrats are screaming
about Tabor right now. It is like their main focus
is overturning Tabor. And for those of you and may
be new or to the state, you've heard the phrase tabor,
it is actually the tax payers Bill of Rights, and

(23:02):
it simply says that government cannot grow faster than population
growth and inflation combined, and any extra money over that
they have to give back to us, the taxpayers, and
they cannot raise taxes on us without asking our permission,
which is why in Colorado we are now the fee
state of Colorado, because legislators, with the help of a

(23:26):
liberal Colorado Supreme Court, have decided to call things taxes
and fees. Oh wait, not taxes, just fees. See you
know what I did that because taxes and fees are
the same thing. They're the same thing. So we have
so many taxes, Oh I'm sorry, fees now, but there's

(23:47):
still not enough. They've taken away our table refunds. They're
going to only be a few hundred bucks. They're not
gonna be like eight hundred like we used to get
because they've now given our money that is supposed to
be our money back to other people. They have spent
like drunken monkeys. And now the bills have come do
And I have been saying this for the last six years.

(24:09):
This is one of the reasons I've been pretty open
about talking about the fact I don't think we can
afford to retire here because ultimately, all of this giant
spending that Democrats are adopting right now, they're gonna have
to pay for it going forward. Someone is going to
have to pay for it. So here's my prediction. This
is my prediction of what's going to happen. They're going

(24:30):
to come out of this budget situation. They're gonna have
to cut. They're gonna have to cut education. And unfortunately,
education and Medicaid are probably the two biggest budget items
in the state budget, those two items alone. So when
you're talking about cutting a significant amount of money, you
really don't have a lot of choice. You have to
take something out of those And we've already dropped five

(24:52):
hundred thousand people off the Medicaid rolls, those being higher
income people that I don't believe should have been on
Medicaid in the first place. And we're gonna have to
do some more cutting, and so they're gonna cut education,
and then the Democrats are gonna run to repeal Tabor
and they're gonna do it because they're gonna say we
had to cut education instead of saying maybe we should

(25:13):
cut some of the sixteen agencies we've created, or maybe
we shouldn't have hired so many new state workers, or
maybe maybe we should try cutting the fat out of
the budget, or maybe I know this is like a
pipe dream. Maybe they could even do like a Colorado
version of Doge, But they won't. They just want to
be able to tax us on demand. And if they

(25:35):
did have that ability, we are taxes would be as
high as they are in California right now. I one
hundred percent believe that to be true, one hundred percent.
So that's that's how they That's that's how we get there.
Texts A great question, thank you can't wait wait a minute, Mandy,
did you get your way mow ride in Phoenix? Please

(25:57):
enlighten us your only fans ship sailed thirty years ago?
When is out of commission out there? It is, Mandy.
Maybe a journalist or Kyle will cover the mayor's story. Well,
Sean Boyd at CBS four is always the one who
is not afraid to cover their stories. She has covered
it on CBS four today. I never realized what a
joke Colorado is to the rest of the country until
I moved out. I don't know that to be true.

(26:19):
They do think we're all pot smoking hippies out here.
Uh Mandy, what spices, herbs, and hot sauces are you
using nowadays? That is a fine question. I've been keeping
it pretty simple as of late with my herbs and spices,
although I do have a pretty voluminous spice rack. I

(26:40):
really do your basics, your garlic, your onion, your paprika.
Actually I put my daughter says, paprika is our family
spice because I put it in everything. It's my Hungarian heritage.
It's what we do. But I've been dabbling a little
bit with the with the what is the Korean spice?
Go to gong whatever that is. Chili oil is my
new favorite. If you tried the chili oil air rod,

(27:02):
if you tried this chili oil, chili oil, you got
to stir it up and it's got chili, it's it's
It sounds weird, but it's flipping delicious and hot sauces.
I just got a new hot sauce, but I don't
remember the name of it, and honestly, I can't remember
where I got it now. I'm thinking I got it
probably at a restaurant or something, because I buy a

(27:22):
lot of restaurant hot sauces when they make it themselves,
not just like, hey, can I buy the chilula from
the table?

Speaker 7 (27:27):
I don't do that.

Speaker 4 (27:29):
Haven't been looking very much lately. Anyway, We're gonna take
a very quick time out and then we've got more
of these, including a quick question, Mandy, would you if
you were ever invited, would you be a guest on
a national podcast? I think you would do well on
Club Random and Bill Maher. Just imagine if you ever

(27:49):
went on Joe Rogan. It would be hilarious. If you
could go on Gavin Newsom anytime anywhere, I one hundred
percent would do that, but unfortunately no one asks. So
here we are. I gave credit to Sean Boyd at
cbsbour when in reality it was Brian Moss that did
the story about the mayor's office using signal to avoid

(28:12):
open records requests and also too high from the federal government.
I mean, that's the only reason they did it. And
the reason I'm so certain is that one of the
people who set it up said we're going to move
to signal it's encrypted and messages auto delete. Nothing says
transparency more than using an app with auto delete. So

(28:34):
thank you Texter for that correction. And uh, I'm sorry, Brian.
I gave credit to your colleague because she's normally the
one that does this stuff. But good on you for
doing such a good story. Anyway, Mandy, I understand that
you don't receive images, So in the interest of transparency,
I recommend the Silence got Dogwood letters number eight and

(28:54):
a couple of paragraphs in number ten beautiful articles published
in seven twenty two regarding government transparency and covering up
government abuse. I love the article. I will try and
remember the silence dog do good, Silence do Good letters. Okay, Mandy,
Happy Friday. Do you know by chance what big Al
is doing now? Did he sign with another station in town?

(29:16):
Or what I so missing with Dave in the afternoon?
Love all that you do. Thanks Eric from Parker. The
last time I talked to him, he was still traveling
quite a bit. He had not made any sort of decisions.
He's just kind of loving life. I mean, he's doing well.
I mean I would say, don't worry about about Alfred.
He's all right. He's doing okay, But as far as

(29:37):
I know, there's no movement one way or the other.
Right now, Hello, Mandy, what are your thoughts on Senator
Mark Kelly from Arizona selling is tesla, calling him an
a hole, and then buying a Chevy Tahoe. You know
what's the funniest to me about all these left wingers
going on and trading in their Tesla's that they bought
to virtue signal about climate change, then going out and

(29:58):
buying I mean, I'm assuming it was it a gas
Tahoe because they get like thirteen fourteen miles to the
gallon last I checked. That is that's really lets you
know how serious climate change really is, isn't it, Mandy.
When you're out of town, do you drive around and
listen to past radio and TV stations that are the competitors? No,
I don't.

Speaker 8 (30:18):
I do not.

Speaker 4 (30:19):
I find a station that I like and I listened
to it. I was just in Dayton, Ohio, and they
have the best like classic R and B station there.
I listened to that the whole time, the whole time.
Hey a Rod, did you remember to remind me of
something the other day?

Speaker 6 (30:37):
This Texter wants to know that was yesterday and you
reminded yourself.

Speaker 7 (30:41):
Thank you, But I did do it like twelve thousand.

Speaker 4 (30:43):
Yeah you dead, Yep you did.

Speaker 7 (30:45):
Yep, You're welcome, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
I found it hilarious that people in Colorado were potting
what they voted for. Wait, getting potting. It says potting.
Check your work people, if you're doing voice to text.
I'm just saying, oh no, somebody looked at the late
he's only fans ah.

Speaker 7 (31:02):
What's her name?

Speaker 4 (31:03):
I don't know, Christal Mandy Trump found out today that
Steve Deuce from Steve do see that the two astronauts
forgotten by Joey b We're only paid five dollars extra,
so he's going to get them some overtime paying for
their experience. Jeez, louise U, does Kowa pay your guests?

(31:23):
You know what I wrote back to that, A rod
ha ha ha. They barely pay their employees. That's what
I wrote back. I thought it was funny. I mean, Mandy,
do you have a good list of potential retirement states
for us to consider?

Speaker 8 (31:36):
You?

Speaker 4 (31:36):
Guys, there's so much on the internet about this right now.
We have several friends who've moved to Tennessee recently I
will be open about the fact that we are going
to be moving back to Chuck's home state of Ohio
because that's where our kids are now and our grandkids.
So we're actually looking to buy a place there sooner
rather than later and use it as a short term

(31:57):
rental until we're ready to actually go there at some
point when I retire. So yeah, but there's a ton
of stuff online, and you really My suggestion to you
would be this. When I lived in Southwest Florida, I
met so many people who came to Southwest Florida in
February and they thought it was the most glorious place

(32:18):
they'd ever been in their entire lives because they came
on vacation. So they moved down in May, and then
they're in summer and summer never ends, and they ended
up hating it. So if you're thinking about moving somewhere
for retirement, you've got to visit it in every season
to see what you're in for, at least summer and
winter height of both, to see what you're in for.

(32:40):
You can't just don't. Don't plan on moving to a
place blind. That's really hard, and then you've kind of
locked yourself in So there you go, Mandy. Since Colorado
was a liberal state, why are there no liberal radio stations? Oh? Man,
I could go on about that for days. So that
has to do with the fact that liberal radio doesn't work,
because ultimately, when I come here to do a show,

(33:01):
my goal is not to force you to see the
error of your left wing ways. It's not to sit
here and get people to agree with me, although I
hope I present my case in such a compelling way
that people will agree with me. My job here is
to entertain you, to inform you so you listen to
the commercial breaks and buy stuff. That's my job, right,

(33:23):
That's the whole job of a talk show host is
to get you to buy stuff. And by the way,
the more you support my advertisers and let them know
you heard about it from me, the more job security
I have. There's a direct correlation to those two things
going together. And they tried liberal talk radio. But let's
think about it. What are they going to sit on

(33:44):
the radio and rail against business? And then who are
they going to sell advertising to. Not to mention, every
bit of liberal talk radio that started on air America
was there to convince people that they should be left
wing to retain people. It was a very low bar
and they failed, and I'll be I'll be reallier. I

(34:07):
Art Media invested more in liberal talk radio than any
other radio company I am aware of. Maybe there's a
smaller one, but you know, they invested a ton in
liberal talk radio and it has failed every single place
that has been tried, even in San Francisco. Isn't that crazy?
Even in San Francisco. You think it would just sail

(34:28):
through there, But no, absolutely not. We will be back.
Someone's got a shrimp question and I don't know if
this is dirty or not, so I'm gonna look it
up on the break and see if I get a
you know, block on the computer.

Speaker 8 (34:41):
Here.

Speaker 4 (34:41):
You're gonna have to wait to see what that's all about.

Speaker 1 (34:44):
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Speaker 3 (34:58):
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Speaker 2 (35:05):
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Speaker 4 (35:10):
Well, the welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the
very very fun show for me. Sometimes you guys, I
like you to tell me what to talk about. In
today's one of those days. To the textur just sent
to the common spirit healths text line. But my mighty
millions raffle ticket good for you. You can do that
at mighty billions raffle dot com. This is an incredibly

(35:30):
important raffle. I got to do a tour of Children's Hospital,
and I know they've been in a little bit of
controversy lately as they try to figure out the gender
affirming care situation, and I know that upsets a lot
of people, but I need you guys to focus on
the fact that Children's Hospital is an incredible asset to
our community. We utilize them. My daughter is part of

(35:53):
the headache clinic there. They have a migraine clinic there,
and they have been instrumental and helping us get medication
for her that our insurance keeps turning down because it's
the only thing that works for her. And I have
nothing but good, good things to say about everything. They've
just been outstanding. And when you see the kind of

(36:16):
care that they provide, not just for children who are
in Children's Hospital, but also for the parents of children
who are battling long term chronic critical illnesses, I mean,
it is just it's incredible and we're the only thing
like this for like a thousand miles around, so we
pull families from all around to go to Children's Hospital
and the Mighty Millions Raffle is the raffle that gives

(36:37):
away the house every year. This year the house is
in winter Park, so tonight is one of their early
bird deadlines if you just missed the spot break because
somebody else is going to win a Bronco and a
trip to Whistler, British Columbia, which is spectacular up there.
I don't even ski, but I love Whistler, great Ski Village.
It is fantastic. In any case, it didn't mean to
give that extra commercial, but I love the cause, and yes,

(36:59):
this is the raffle where the house does get given away. Anyway,
a lot of people are pointing out some variation of
this about the liberal talk stations. Mandy public news talk
proved to be the format that progressives gravitate to, and
then he listens a bunch of stations. Correctly, he said,
they like speaking softly on the radio and then get

(37:21):
loud and release the rage on the streets. So basically,
a Rod, We're gonna do the rest of the show
like this, Okay, we are going to talk on our
NPR voices, and I really appreciate the texter who is
worried about us and our computers here at the office
being hopelessly out of date, to which I respond, welcome

(37:43):
to radio, hopelessly out of date.

Speaker 6 (37:46):
Yay.

Speaker 4 (37:47):
Yeah. Anyway, I do have the where's the one I
wanted to get to here one moment please, and that
is oh come on, And I even turned it off. Anyway.
A lot of you are talking about where you're retiring
to and it's kind of all over the place, Mandy.
I'll be retiring and moving to Texas within three weeks.

(38:09):
Cost of living as the main driver. Politics is second
that from Greg. This texter wants us to know Wyoming
is full. We here, Nebraska is nice. Smart move Wyoming.
Smart move though my art.

Speaker 7 (38:26):
Here and there. That's what we plan, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (38:28):
My daughter almost died last week. We ended up in
children's hospital. We've been there multiple times over her eighteen
years of life and they have awesome care. Christian Toto
said something on your show about hate towards artist. He said,
don't hate the art because of the artists. To apply
that to the hospital, don't hate the care because of
the idiot providers. Mandy I'm streaming you in spring Borough, Ohio.

(38:51):
I've lived in nine states. Ohio is my forever state.
So there you go, there you go. I got a
couple I got an update on a story that I
want to share with you because, you know, a couple
of days ago, we were talking about the fact that
some Republicans are calling for impeachment of justices who have
ruled in ways against Trump that they don't like. I

(39:11):
think that's a terrible reason to impeach a judge. Terrible,
absolutely terrible. You know, if they have a long track
record of bad decisions, and yeah, we can, we can
talk about that, but not just over political stuff. But
it's getting a little bit ridiculous. US District Judge Nina
Wang on Friday issued an injunction to prevent the removal

(39:31):
by Immigration and Customs Enforcement of Jeanette Visghera, the immigration
rights activist who was detained by ICE on Monday. Judge
Wang has asked the US government to quote show cause
or why she should not grant Visgha's release, sought in
a petition for a rit of habeas corpus against ICE,
the Department of Homeland Security, and US Attorney General Pam BONDI.

(39:54):
She's asking for a response by Monday. Visghara's attorneys have
also filed a petition with a tenth US Circuit Court
of Appeals arguing that ICE has never presented their client
with a valid order for removal from the US. Now
I heard John Fabrigatory filling in excuse me, h Ryan
Schuling talking to John Fabricatory, and John Fabricatory is like, no,

(40:16):
that is absolutely wrong. Vius Gharre's lawyer said no lawful
removal order exists and ICE would have known this for years.
If ICE proceeds with trying to remove her without legal authority,
it sends a chilling message. On Wednesday, the Denver Ice
Issue Office issued a statement saying this Ghara has a

(40:37):
final order of deportation issued by a federal immigration judge.
She illegally entered the United States near El Paso, Texas
on nineteen ninety seven, has received legal due process in
US immigration court. So I'm guessing they will provide that
order of deportation to this judge and this will be over.

(40:59):
This story really bugs me, and it bugs me for
a few reasons. One of the reasons is this, this
woman is probably the most famous illegal immigrant in the country.
She hid in a church for years to avoid deportation.
Her deportation was actually stayed by the Biden administration. Now

(41:21):
Joe Biden, on his way out of office, gave all
these people pardons. Why haven't any of the Democrats that
are now rallying to her side done anything to help
her get some kind of status before?

Speaker 6 (41:31):
Now?

Speaker 4 (41:34):
I want to know the answer to this question, because
if it's a matter of well, she was cited for
carrying a fake social Security number and a fake driver's license,
which is identity theft because they were somebody's social Security number, right,
that was somebody's number. She sold someone's identity, so she
was found to be in possession of those things. If

(41:56):
that's a state law, then you need to go ahead
and partner Governor Polis if that's the problem. If that's
what the issue is, why haven't the Democrats done anything
to help or get some kind of status after all
these years? Does anybody know the answer to that question?
I want to go back and answer the shrimp question

(42:19):
that I was going to answer since someone just reminded
me of that, and the question was simple, Manny, do
you eat a lot of shrimp? Yes? I do have
you ever velveted shrimp before? And I thought maybe velveting
shrimp was some kind of, you know, something crazy, but
it is not. It is actually a way to cook

(42:39):
shrimp by marinating them in a mix of cornstarch and
egg whites, so they get a nice crispy crust on them.
That's how shrimped and poor and Chinese restaurants comes out
so good. I have not tried it, but I just
looked it up and it looks delicious, absolutely delicious. Great
job on mocking public News and Talk still were forced

(42:59):
to fund in part NPR, most right wingers understand, but
certain show that while they complement NPR, they come from
other distributors or local shows. Wait, that again was a
grammatical mess. So, Mandy, what do you think about me
taking Akron today plus fourteen and a half versus Arizona?

(43:19):
I mean, don't put the rent on it that if
you want to swing an that's a big line take.
You know, why not it could happen. I mean it
could also not happen, but it could happens. That's pretty
much my gambling advice right there. Don't ever come to
me for gambling advice, you know, salespeople come to me
all the time and they ask me about endorsing certain things,

(43:41):
and if it's not a good fit, I just say
that is not a good fit. And when they ask
me anything about gambling, I'm like, oh, not a good fit,
not at all, because number one, I'm not good at
I don't get it, and I am not the person
you want to ask about. I mean, I don't get
why people getmble is just lost on me. Oh I

(44:02):
just saw in articles this morning that this year's a
record amount of money bet on March Madness. This I
view betting a lot of money on March Madness, or
you know, filling out a bracket or whatever you want
to do. This is kind of like the Kentucky Derby
of basketball, right, Like the actual Kentucky Derby race has

(44:23):
far too many horses in it to properly handicap unless
there's a clear winner. There's too many wild cards that
could go wrong. And real gamblers don't bet that race.
They bet the graces around it, but they don't bet
that race. They call it a loser's bet. Just letting
you know. Mandy Musk is an a hole. He called

(44:45):
Mark Kelly a trader for supporting Ukraine. I don't care.
You guys, You guys, at this point, does it matter
if someone calls anybody a name? I mean, oh, are
we Cindy Brady? I really don't care. I don't care
what democrats all Republicans anymore. I don't care what Republicans
call democrats anyway. I just don't care. I'm so sick

(45:06):
of it. It's just ridiculous, I mean absolutely ridiculous. Uh, Mandy,
what's your opinion on the app used by Colorado politicians
that the app that leads after time? We talked about
that story right at the beginning of the show. The
mayor's office, after being told not to use the signal app,
used it anyway to discuss their quote immigrant response after

(45:29):
Donald Trump became president because they were worried about what
was going to happen and Denver sanctuary policies, so they
put it on an app and deleted their messages in
clear violation of the law. But because they're Democrats and
the state's run by Democrats, and the attorney general's a
Democrat and the DA's a Democrat, I don't expect a

(45:50):
single thing to come of it, not one. Hey, Mandy
could you say the word staunch in your NPR voice. Staunch.
I don't know why I'm saying the word staunch, but
here we are staunch. You're welcome, Texter Manday. Not only

(46:13):
did Wyoming give the collar back, they also returned the carcasus.
This is another story from the blog today, and you, Texter,
get points for reading the blog. So apparently when they
brought wolves from British Columbia, they forgot to give the
wolves a little map and a little compass so they
would know where the state line was. Because one of
our wolves, well, he went to walking. He was looking

(46:35):
for food, he was looking for a girlfriend, and he
walked all the way up into northwestern Wyoming, where he
slaughtered a bunch of sheep. And because Wyoming is not
full of pansy, you know what, they killed the wolf.
And then when they killed the wolf, they go up
to the wolf the wolfstad and they're like, ooh, what's
that is that? Does that caller say, please return to Colorado? Yeah,

(46:59):
so they did. The headline on the blog today is
you can have your caller back. Just here you go. Guys.
I don't have a problem with this. I just don't.
I really don't if we want to reintroduce wolves to
Colorado because voters are stupid, that's one thing. But Wyoming

(47:19):
doesn't have to put up with our bad decision making.
They're an independent state. Mandy. The judges need to be
impeached because they have no actual authority in these orders
that they are giving. They have absolutely no power over
the presidency. That very may well be true, and we're
going to find out when the Supreme Court starts rolling
on all this stuff, and they will have to one

(47:39):
hundred will have to So let's see here, Mandy, this
is Dawn. What scares the heck out of me is
that you got the executive branch now calling out judicial judges,
even coming from the White House. That's terrifying to me.
Can we stop getting the vapors about this? Because FDR

(48:00):
was the first that I'm aware of. Maybe there were
some before that that really went after the Supreme Court.
He hated them so much he was going to stack
the court. Remember, he was going to expand it and
he was going to stack the court, and it didn't happen.
So I disagree with it. By the way, to be clear,
I think you know, we should all just go back
to our corners. But I understand the frustration that the

(48:21):
Trump administration fields towards the justices. First he had to
deal with Russian collusion in his first term, and now
he has to deal with Democrats using every lawyer in
America at every left leaning court to try and stop
everything he's doing. The good news is, once this is sorted,
it will be sorted, and we'll know exactly where the
limits are and those limits will be applied to the

(48:44):
next Democrat. So there you go. No, I am not
going to say schweaty balls in my NPR voice. I
mean the classic candy from that SNL skitch. You know
what I'm talking about. Go Wyoming, kill all the wolves,
says this Texter, And did you really invoke the Cindy
Brady classic? Love it? Guys. The last time I invoked

(49:07):
the Brady Bunch in popular culture, I was with young
people and it went like this. Somebody was complaining about
feeling left out, and I just went, oh, it's always Marcia,
Marcia Marcia, and I got the dull stare of the
dairy cowback, nothing not even a just not even a
flicker of recognition. And I realized after it was out

(49:29):
of my mouth that I was alone and none of
these people had ever seen The Brady Bunch. And then,
of course I have to make it worse by saying,
you guys have never seen the Brady Bunch. And then
they were like, no, I've kind of heard of it,
you know, And I was like, well, it was like
the best show in the seventies ever, and it was
on every day after school, even though I think it
only ran for like three seasons anyway, So I'm glad

(49:54):
you people got it. Thanks for that. I appreciate that.
Uh Mandy. One week to opening day and the Rockies
have been a eliminated from playoff contention. Let's go Mets, guys.
I have been so down on the Rockies for the
last few years because I love baseball. I mean, I
really love baseball. Out of I know this is blaspheming
and Broncos country, but out of all of the professional sports,

(50:15):
baseball is my favorite for a whole bunch of reasons.
And I've been really down, and I went to spring
training partially so I could get my mojo back with
the Rockies. We do have some really exciting young players.
We've got a couple really promising young pitchers and I'm
not saying we're going to be in the playoffs. I'm

(50:38):
not stupid, but I just don't. I can't believe we're
going to lose one hundred games again.

Speaker 6 (50:44):
I can't the starting pitching at least to start the season.

Speaker 7 (50:51):
It's a big improvement, it is.

Speaker 4 (50:54):
And what was fascinating when I was at the spring
training game on Sunday was watching Kyle Freeland come out
and get rocked in the second inning, just got rocked.
They ran up eight runs in the second inning, but
they pulled him out, sort of regrouped. He came out
after that and just pitched lights out. So you have
to get him over that hump of when he's getting
lit up. But the rest of the time he pitched

(51:16):
incredibly well. Kyle's had that little bit. He always had
one inning.

Speaker 6 (51:20):
Yeah, he puts together a strong performance otherwise, but every
now and then he has that one inning. But he
almost always seems to fight through it.

Speaker 4 (51:26):
Well, spring training they don't make you fight through it.
They put another guy in to finish out the inning.
They pull you out, talk to you and put you
back in. Yeah, because they can do that in spring training, apparently.
I was very confused when that happened, but it happened,
So I mean, there's there's positives. I just am tired
of not going to baseball games. I love going to
baseball games. It's such a great way to spend especially
in afternoon. You know, you go out there, you get

(51:49):
a beer, get some peanuts, yang out, you take your seat.
Now the game is over in like ten minutes, so
it's super fast. It's not like you have to be
there for four hours anymore. I just I love it.
And I'm trying to find new players to root for
because all of the players that I have rooted for
previously are gone. So I'm trying so hard to just
get Just don't let me down, Please smash my heart

(52:14):
into a million pieces again. Mandy. Question, have you ever
been to March powwow before? If not, you have a
chance this weekend over the Denver Coliseum, just saying I
have not, but I did go to the powwow that
they have at the Fort. And you might say to yourself, Oh,
it's not as big as this one. No, it's not
by any stretch of the imagination. But it was very,
very well attended by multiple tribes, and they did a

(52:37):
lot of the same stuff. They did, the dances, they did,
the ceremonies, they did a lot of that stuff. So
we got to experience that part of it. And so
I probably won't make it to the powwow this weekend,
But that's okay, Mandy. The American Legoste prefer fur babies
and other animals over other humans. They really hate their
own existence. You know, some people don't want to have

(53:01):
children for there's a lot of reasons. Some people are
selfish and they don't want to give up their lifestyles.
I get it. Some people do. Some people can't, though,
and some of both of those categories transfer those maternal
feelings to their animals, and unfortunately it's going to be
the downfall of our society when people stop having babies.
I get it, I get it. But people have to

(53:26):
use those emotions somehow, So try not to give them
too much crap. You just roll your eyes privately, that
would be the best way to handle it.

Speaker 8 (53:37):
Well.

Speaker 4 (53:37):
Colorado had the contest to slogan on Colorado's slogan signs.
Wyoming's sent in its offer just south of Paradise. Oh,
I like it, I like it. Instead, they went with
Colorful Colorado yay, Mandy, Happy Friday to you and a Rod.
I have two daughters who happen to hear your show
writing in our car. A debate ensued. Please out our debate.

(54:01):
What is the Q's name? I think, yeah, that's it.

Speaker 8 (54:09):
I know.

Speaker 4 (54:09):
I always tell people I named her after the Star
Trek character Q. That's it.

Speaker 7 (54:13):
No, it's Q to get in, QU to keep waiting
for us to say her name or.

Speaker 4 (54:16):
The blond Q. Now her her real name is Quinlan.
Oh yeah, no, she said it on the air last
time she was here. And I've always said the Que
because I wanted to give her plausible deniability and Quinlan's
a very specific name. So there you go. Mandy. What's
your opinion of Oak living in Oklahoma? I could not
tell you. I have never lived in Oklahoma and I
have never even spent any time in Oklahoma. So I

(54:39):
am wrong, wrong person to ask about that one. But
Michael Brown, he's the guy you want to ask. Our
compadre over there on KHAL check with him. He is
an Oklahoma guy. We will be back after this great
questions to the Common Spirit Health's text line by texting
five six six nine oh Thanks to this texture Mandy

(55:00):
jan this isn't about you five seasons actually, but the
sitcom started in late nineteen sixty nine actually, but yeah,
the Brady Bunch is the nineteen seventies. Yes in d
D Yes indeedy this question. Hey, Mandy, I'm wondering if
you're going to be broadcasting downtown again for the home
opener for the Rockies. I was too nervous to come

(55:20):
meet you last year, but after I met you at
Regen Revolution, I would love to come visit you down
there this year. That from Shannon the trash Lady. When
I say Shannon the trash Lady, what do you think
Shannon the trash Lady would look like? Hey, Rod, I mean,
what would you envision there? I'll tell you how.

Speaker 7 (55:35):
Goes on the spot.

Speaker 4 (55:36):
Well, I mean, here's the thing. I'm going to tell
you what she actually looks like. But I think when
you put trash lady behind your name, you already kind
of you know, cat not taking the carriage. She's like,
super fit, super cute, probably the cutest trash person in
the Metro. I'm just gonna say it, but when you
call yourself Shannon the trash Lady, kind of makes you
sound like it could go bag Lady Chic. It could
go like you know Large March from Baby's play Out

(56:00):
mar you don't remember. I pe Large Mark when I
was in I know Pee's Playoffs. I don't know Large March. Okay,
Large March was a truck drivery war flannel. She was
in Peewa's playhouse. I think she was in pee Wee's
Big Top. And when I was in college, I had
I was a theater major, and I had all of
these set construction classes, and I always came to set
construction classes wearing Levi's that I bought at the first

(56:22):
store from the men's department, and a flannel shirt because
it was really cold in there, and my combat boots,
and they started calling me Large March. I didn't like it.
It wasn't very nice. But you know what I did.
I didn't demand somebody sell their tesla because I didn't
like it. We'll get to that in a little bit. Mandy,
you say you've seen a lot of concerts. Have you
ever seen Steppenwolf? I don't believe I have, But Guys,

(56:47):
between my memory issues and how many concerts I've seen,
there is a chance that I have seen Steppenwolf's, but
I have no recollection of it. What's However, there are
things that pop up on my Facebook patient I'm like, oh, yeah,
I forgot about that concert, forgot I saw them, So

(57:08):
I'll say maybe I don't know. Mandy win in Ohio,
do you prefer going through the Dayton Dragons or Cincinnati Reds.
I have been to neither, so I'm going to be
trying that out very very soon. I love minor league baseball.
Minor league baseball is just fun. They're they're loopy, they're crazy,
it's entertaining, it's just fun. Go goats, the Yad goats,

(57:34):
that's right, the goats of the Yad hard for yard goats. Yep, Mandy,
I think Tesla's engineers should quickly code in a self
defense mode that allows the cars to run over anyone
trying to analyze them. What's funny about this? And I'm
sure you guys have seen the stories of these wack
a doodle left wingers who are keying Tesla automobiles. One

(57:57):
guy threw his dog's poop on a Tesla audomobile. Will
Tesla's have car cameras all the time, so all of
these people have been caught on camera, and then, of
course the Internet being the Internet, they blasted on X
until the person is identified and caught and now out
of Colorado. Remember our incredibly mentally stable trans person who

(58:22):
was throwing molotov cocktails at Tesla's in Loveland, Well that
person has now been charged with multiple serious crimes and
faces a good bit of time in prison, like up
to twenty years in prison. Those charges are also being
levied at other crazy people who have destroyed Tesla property
with Molotov cocktails or other stuff. And it's just you

(58:45):
just want to go, was it worth it? Was this
little fit of peak where you were going to have
absolutely no impact on anything. Isn't that I mean, isn't
that the irony of the situation? Because people do these
things because they want to feel important, They want to
be admired by their peer group of fellow crazies who

(59:07):
thinks stuff like this is super awesome and cool, and
they go ahead and they do these things. But they
don't have it in. They don't make any difference whatsoever.
Setting a Tesla on fire, throwing your dog's poop on
a Tesla is nothing but the fit of a toddler
and Unfortunately, you're breaking other people's private property and destroying it,
and now you are absolutely going to face some serious charges. Mandy,

(59:32):
Large Marge, the party barge. Large Marge was only in
the movie Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Okay, so I had
it wrong. Hi, Mandy, You're going to see Dead and
Company at the Spear. No, I'm not. I saw the
Grateful Dead when they were alive, and that was good.
I'm fine with it. I'm not a jam band person.
I get bored, I get distracted. I tried to go

(59:54):
see Blues Travelers on fourth of July a couple of
years ago, and one song lasted like sixty hours, and
I just was begging for it to be over. It's
just not my thing. I have good friends and wonderful
people in my life that love a good jam band.
I am not one of those people. So no, I
don't really want to, you know, go see that again. Uh, Mandy,

(01:00:17):
have you ever gotten so drunk that you didn't make
it into a concert parking lot for Jimmy Buffett allegedly
for me? No, I have not, but I am not one.
I've never been one to get super incredibly stupid wasted.
That's just not early on in my drinking life, which
happened started in earnest when I was, you know, nineteen

(01:00:41):
in college. I had some really stupid things happened to
me that were all self inflicted when I was drinking excessively,
and for some reason that mostly stuck. I mean, don't
get me wrong. I have drunk to excess after that,
but not nearly as often and as some people I know.

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So no, that's never happened to me. Trying to think
if I've ever gone to a concert and not made
it in I have gone to see a show at
a bar. And this bar in Gainesville, Florida. God, I
wonder if it's still there. Hang on, I gotta look
and see if it's still there. I don't think it is.
I think it finally closed. There used to be a
bar in Gainesville, Florida where University of Florida is called

(01:01:22):
Doves and Doves bar had been around since like God
created bars. Okay, it was this old, dirty bar. It
still had shag carpeting on the walls from the nineteen seventies. Now,
I just want you to think about this for a second.
Shag carpeting on the walls during a time when people

(01:01:47):
still smoked in bars. Oh yeah, oh yeah. It had
a life of its own. It was like its own
little micro biome on the wall in there. But they
always had touring classic rock bands and we went to
see Blue Oyster Cult and somebody else I can't remember
who else was playing in this bar and my friend Tricia,

(01:02:08):
my ex friend Tricia. For reasons like the ones I'm
about to tell you. By the way, we're all in
the bar drinking underage. Should throw that in there. My
ex friend Tricia gets mouthy with everyone and they basically said, Okay,
do you want to get arrested or do you want
to leave? And we just left, So, yeah, there you go.
That was my only time of not seeing a concert

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I went to go to. But that wasn't even my fault. Mandy,
what about the guy who's wiping his own poop on
the Tesla, Well, he is a special one, isn't he.
Generally speaking, I avoid touching my own poop for pretty
much every reason. I don't understand why some people think
that's a great way to insult someone else. Yeah, not gonna,

(01:02:56):
not gonna do it. If Tesla is insured, all the
vehicles will be placed in everyone's insurance rates will go up. Huh, yeah,
that's true. But don't expect the people that are trying
to burn down Tesla's to be smart enough to grasp
that simple concept. Mandy memory issues. You're one of the smartest,

(01:03:17):
really vivid memory persons I know of. I envy your memory. See,
but my brain only holds on to dumb stuff and
things that I read, the concerts that I went to,
movies that I've seen. Sometimes I'll watch an entire movie
and get to the end and go, oh, I think
I have seen this. I don't know what's wrong with me,

(01:03:38):
but thankfully it works for this job. We are gonna
be at opening day. Ross and I are going to
be combining our programs nine to noon. You'll have the
Ross and Mandy Show. We're gonna have all kinds of
fun stuff. And then yes, he answer is no, Oh,
I'm sorry. I thought you asked if I was gonna get
Rocking mountin Oysters again. No, you already did your time,
You've already paid your you've paid your dues.

Speaker 7 (01:03:57):
Okay, Roger got out there nothing for you.

Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
I had nothing to torture with. This year, we are
going to be actually at the corner of twentieth and Blake,
right in front of the stadium. If you're walking to
the stadium at the corner of twentyeth in Blake, you
know where that Toyota is up on the stand there.
We're gonna be right next to that. I'm super excited
about that. So if you're going to be an opening day,
plan on stop and buy Ross and I'll be there
from nine to noon and it's gonna be a lot

(01:04:23):
of fun. So check it out.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:04:26):
For some reason, we're talking about people throwing their own
poop on Tesla's and many of you on the text
line have expressed some distress about the thought of even
like handling your own business in that way. This person said, Mandy,
I've been procrastinating my colon cancer test because I don't
want to touch my own stuff. I can't imagine why

(01:04:48):
someone would voluntarily go that route to vandalize a car
because the President's friend might be an you know, jerk.
I'm with you, although I will say this, do the
colon test. Do it because if there is anything wrong,
you're gonna have to deal with way worse than that.
If you're you know, wait too long to take care

(01:05:08):
of that and that coal of guard tests. I've already
told Chuck, I've had three colonoscopies now nothing has been found.
They were mostly because of digestive issues stuff that I
was having. So I've had three colonoscopies. I'm done. When
the with the colonoscopy business. We don't have colon cancer
my family. It's it's not you know, we don't have
the hereditary gene whatever. So I'm just going to do
the coli guard and yes for the color guard. You

(01:05:30):
have to you know, you have to take care of business,
the number two business, if you know what I mean.
But it's better than not knowing. Trust me on that.
I have a video on the blog today that I
want to adress your attention to. It goes back to
the people vandalized than Tesla's. So a woman in Seattle

(01:05:53):
is driving, whoops, just over the wrong thing. A woman
in Seattle is driving and a guy whips in front
of her, slams on the brakes, gets out with a
mask over his face, because of course he does, and
proceeds to yell at her that she needs to sell
her Tesla. Now, nothing says freedom like demanding that someone

(01:06:18):
sell a car because you don't like the guy who
made it. I mean, remember during the Democratic National campaign,
the Committee, and all they talked about was freedom. When
we went to the DNC a ron, all the flags,
all the freedom talk, there was so much freedom. The
entire place smelled like freedom, smelled like a rotten freedom.
By the way, that smell of communism in the air today.

(01:06:40):
That is because Bernie Sanders and AOC are in town
having a rally right now up in Greeley somewhere, and
then they're gonna come down to Civic Center Park today
at five to tell you all how bad capitalism is.
So if you have the desire to buy into their
IDL based on greed and envy, knock yourself out. Go crazy.

(01:07:05):
So the I'm looking at the text today, you guys
have to go to the blog today, mandy'sblog dot com.
I have so much stuff on here that we're not
going to get to. I also want to make sure
we talk about this story. Okay, I've got a little No,
I don't have time right now. Coming up in the
next segment though, remember when we were talking about, Hey,

(01:07:28):
how much is the state and the City of Denver
spent on homelessness, and the Mayor's office was like, oh, yeah,
we don't have those numbers in front of us, but
we're getting it together. We promise it is anytime now.
We're getting it together. It's going to happen. Well, there's
been a new audit, and I know that you, like me,

(01:07:48):
are going to be shocked when you hear that the
City of Denver still has no idea how much it
is spent on its homelessness response. And the real kicker is,
in order to try and do a better job, they
made a team's tag, a Microsoft Teams tag. Now, it

(01:08:10):
seemed to me there should be some kind of awe
accounting code that that would be used here. Just I mean,
call me crazy, but as it stands now, despite agreeing
to implement all thirty six recommendations of an April twenty
twenty three audit, a follow up audit in March found

(01:08:30):
the city had only implemented six, partially implemented eleven, and
just failed to implement the remaining eleven. So yeah, yeah,
the auditor said. While some progress has been made over
the past four months, they note without documented practices, the

(01:08:52):
city could not fully be transparent about it spending on
encampment related efforts or adequately excess, whether the mon is
being spent in the right areas. It's oh no, I'm sorry,
a workday tag. They put a workday tag. They've asked
every city agency to let us know which of their

(01:09:13):
staff are primarily assigned to a homelessness response, so we
can now pull a report on that. We'll get into
it on the other side.

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Speaker 4 (01:09:50):
Welcome, let me try that more time. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome,
third hour of the show on a Friday. I'm your
host for the next fifty five minutes or so. Thatny
Rodriguez next to me. I'm Mandy Connell. Yes, that's right.
First of all, I when I talk about something that's
not on the blog, but you should go to the
blog at mandy'sblog dot com because the blog today is amazing.

(01:10:11):
Just go to latest posts and look for the headline
that has today's date in it with the word blog
behind it. That's the easiest way to find a blog.
The real easiest way is to look for pictures that
are different than my purple sweater picture. And yes, I
know I need to replace it, but I have no
idea how so whatever, it's fine. Anyway. Do you guys
have a table at your office where everybody brings in

(01:10:34):
baked goods. We have a table here in the newsroom.
I call it the Diabetes Sharing table. And there was
one day where there was vegetables on the diabetes Sharing
table and I was like, what is happening right now?
But the earth is healing and there are just two
random glazed donuts on the diabetes Sharing table right now.
So everything is okay. The veggies are gone. But does

(01:10:58):
every office have that space where uh, you know, the
food that's bad for you goes. I'm just curious if
it's just here in radio. Speaking of food, I have
a story that is the perfect example of why broke
people stay broke. This tweet hit Twitter yesterday. Door Dash

(01:11:24):
and Klarna have signed a deal where customers can choose
to pay for food deliveries in interest free installments or
deferred options aligned with payday schedules. So, just to be clear,
you can order McDonald's today and pay for it on Tuesday.

(01:11:45):
Now for those of you that get that joke, now,
I made a Brady Bunch joke earlier, but that joke
goes in the way back machine. If you get it,
text me at five six six I know about why
that joke is funny. First of all, just letting you
know this is the kind of stuff installment payments, even
if they're interest free. My question is, how does Clarina

(01:12:06):
make money on this? If it's interest free payments? How
do they make money on this? But you've got to
learn a little bit of what's the word that I'm
looking for, self control. If you continue to go through
life buying things that you can't afford because you can
pay for them later, you are going to be one
of those people that ends up with tens of thousands

(01:12:26):
of debt in credit card debt because you haven't learned
any discipline. This is one of the reasons I'm grateful
that we had lay away when I was a kid.
Lay Away was the best thing ever. Lay Away let
you pay for stuff before you got it and after
you made those six monthly payments on a pair of

(01:12:48):
Jordash jeans, And he asks, that is the thing that
I did because again, no interest right getting those genes.
There was no regret that it was like they handed
them to you in Jewels sung because you had already
paid them off. They were done, You paid, you basically
saved and you paid on It was wonderful, absolutely wonderful.

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And now we've got people ordering Starbucks and paying it
off in installments. What the data on who uses food
delivery apps is not flattering for the younger generations complaining
about not being able to buy a house. And don't
get me wrong, I know the costume of everything is
way more expensive proportionately. I'm not sitting here. I'm not

(01:13:31):
one of those people that are like, stop eating your avocado,
dost but this is the dumbest way to spend money.
Having food delivered you is the dumbest way to spend money.
It really is, And I get it. It's easy. There
are a lot of times I don't feel like driving.
But I told Chuck like a month and a half ago,
is like, this has got to stop. It's just not
a good use of funds. It's just not We need

(01:13:54):
to plan better, is what we need to do. Thank
you to all of you who got the joke. Wimpy
from pop By. If he would give you a burger today,
he would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today
from Popeye. There you go. Uh, yes, the seventy year
olds did get that.

Speaker 7 (01:14:12):
By the way.

Speaker 4 (01:14:13):
Anyway, we have a table in our breakroom and I
bring fresh eggs for my chickens and put them there.
Wait a minute, so we've got two random donuts. Nobody
in our office brings in chicken eggs, although I did
say that the vegetables were kind of shocking. On the

(01:14:34):
Diabetes Sharing table, Mandy, my mom would take a school
show's school clothes shopping in the beginning of summer and
they were paid off by school. Now here's my follow
up question text, what size did she make? You buy them?
One size bigger? Because your mom seems like she would
be like, no, it's okay, but you'll grow into them.
And then your mom would hem your pants and then

(01:14:56):
you would grow and then you would unhem the pants
and you'd have that white line on your pants where
the hem, the bottom of the hem had been, and
then you take the hem out and it's quite obvious
where they were hemmed prior who else anyone else had
that experience because that was my life because I got
tall really fast, really early. I bought my first leather
jacket on layaway, says this Texter, And wasn't it glorious?

(01:15:19):
It was so good. Many if it's interest free, if
you pay it off before this that date, otherwise it's
interest city. Oh oh okay. That makes a lot more sense,
because the kind of people who are gonna make a
horrible financial decision like this one and paying for their
Starbucks coffee on installments are often the people who are

(01:15:42):
not going to pay it on time, and therefore they're
gonna end up paying really high interest rates. And this,
my friends, is my poor people stay poor. This, my friends,
is why I broke. People stay broke. I have known
some rich people. I have known a rich person who
used to come to company me meetings and if they
were like a lunch meeting where they'd have trays of

(01:16:03):
sandwiches or something, he would take the sandwiches home at
the end of the meeting that no one ain'ate and
he was the wealthiest dude in that room. Rich people
are rich because they make good decisions. Very few rich
people are rich because they inherited a bunch of money
or won the lottery. Very few people fall into that category.
The rest of the people they earned their money. They

(01:16:27):
earned it by making good choices and decisions, and they're
not willing to give it up easily. Omg, the hemline. Lol,
you know exactly what I'm talking about, exactly, one size,
bigger and always Kmart. Yeah, there was no shame in
the kmart game. When we were kids, Kmart was like
the coolest place to be throwing a blue light special

(01:16:49):
and it's on, it is so on, or you add
additional fabric to the bottom of the pants. That never
happened in our household. We never added more fabric to
the bottom of the pants. And nothing came between you
and your Geordash. That from mailman Mike. You know how
I know that Brookshields. No, she was Calvin Klein. That
was Calvin Klein, not Jordash. Wasn't it. Nothing comes between

(01:17:12):
me and my Calvins in an ad campaign. That's straight up.
Let's be real. She was like fourteen and half naked,
and back in the seventies everybody was like, oh my gosh,
she looks so good. Not is this a little creepy
and pedophilia, Like, Hey, Mandy, what was the name of
that really good Italian restaurant in Parker? I don't know.
I don't eat in a lot of Italian restaurants because

(01:17:34):
Italian food is generally super easy to make it home.
Dad would buy this texture irregularly. VI's. Oh yeah, I
had a pair of those, not quite right, the seam
twisted a little around the front. You know, no one
knew about us. I mean, I'm assuming no one knew
what I don't know what he even said anything, Mandy.

(01:17:54):
I'm an army aviation and our diabetes table is alive
and well. Can't fly on an empty stomach. There's nothing
like a big handful of empty carbs to get you going. Girl,
animals sears.

Speaker 7 (01:18:05):
That's all that.

Speaker 4 (01:18:05):
Text says, And I know exactly what they're talking about
this text. Kmart Kangaroo brand shoes where you can put
your lunch money in a little pocket ziper pocket on
your shoes. Super cool. Those were super cool, Mandy. My
mom literally made my school clothes. It was cool up
until about fifth grade. Then it was embarrassing. We grew

(01:18:26):
up dirt poor. That's why I'm so frugal now that
from Game re golf. My mom made all of our
clothes too, but everybody else's mom did too, so it
wasn't like a big deal, Mandy. Amazon offers interest free
installments as a payment option for this or that, with
automatic payments every two to three weeks. You know, I guess,
But again, where these are the people who are gonna

(01:18:48):
end up in super debt at the end? You know
before too long? Delayed gratification is a powerful thing and
an important thing. Too many people are just not doing it, uh, Mandy.
My mom taught us about budgeting by having a Christmas
club accounts at the bank. Decide how much you would need,
deposit the budget amount each week, and at the beginning

(01:19:09):
of December you had all your shopping money. That's a
great idea, a great idea. Speaking of clothes, my mother
was so thrifty. That's where you yell out, hell thrifty
was she? She would buy my dad long sleeve shirts.
When he wore out the elbows, she would cut them

(01:19:29):
down to short sleeves from my brother. Would he wore
out the collars, she would fix that and give it
to me as pajamas. Life is good, y'all. Think about that.
Level of thriftiness. That's pretty amazing. That is a woman
who was in difficult financial circumstances and yet found a
way to take one shirt and make it three completely

(01:19:49):
different clothing items for three completely different people in her household.
That's like genius level resilience right there. We don't give
nearly enough credit to people for that kind of thinking
and the things that they did, because now we live
in an entirely disposable society. You buy any kind of appliance,
there's planned obsolescence in it. It's designed to fail after

(01:20:13):
so many uses because they want you to go out
and buy another one. Well, back in the day, that's
not how it was. Mandy, on this Ask You Anything Friday,
I was trying to think of a question. Then came
I was tidying up, and it came to me after
I vacuumed. How often does the Mandy Connell dump her
dust cup on our dice in vacuum once a week

(01:20:36):
or when it's full? When it's full? We have a
Saint Bernard. First of all, I don't have a dyce in.
They're too expensive because speaking of items that have a
short shelf life, when you have a Saint Bernard and
that amount of dog hair investing in an expensive vacuum
planterer just is not worth it because that dog and
that dog hair will wear out that vacuum planter. In

(01:20:59):
our house, a vacuum is a disposable item. We have
a shark which does a great job, really great job.
But that being said, sometimes I will empty the cup
after doing one rug the front rug right at the
front doors, where jinks our dog lays the most. That thing,
Holy macarony, looks like there's fifty dogs in there, at least, Mandy.

(01:21:21):
I thought that the trampoline came with tough skin jeans.
Toughskins were tough. They were made for rough and tumble
little boys and girls. This irregular Levi's know, one of
my legs wasn't longer than the other is slightly twisted.
I got the irregular discount jeans. Yeah, but they were
all seconds. That means there was something wrong with them

(01:21:42):
that their quality inspectors found but we didn't. But hey,
they were like half price. Mandy wouldn't do the interest
free loan for small purchases, but I will arbitrage zero
percent interest loans. That's a smart way to do it. Now,
you're moving inventory totally different, Mandy. I am so sick
and tired of subscription and payments. Just buy the blank

(01:22:02):
item and be done with it. We live mostly debt
free car payment house and that's about it. I got
to tell you, guys, Chuck just paid off his truck.
My car is paid off. Things in the household are
spectacular right now. And for those people who are like law,
do you drive a car from twenty fifteen? I will

(01:22:22):
drive that thing till the wheels fall off while I'm
driving to work, because no car payment's worth it completely.
When we get back, I get a lot of this
and that, a little bit of here and there. I
got to talk about my former home city of Fort Myers.
Oh what's happened? And the United States has fallen again
in happiness rankings, and I just think it's because we're ingrateful.

(01:22:43):
We'll talk about that next, Mandy. You do know what
a rainbow vacuum as I do not. That sounds like
it could be dirty. I don't know, Kirby. Vacuums will
last you a lifetime and you can pass them down
through the generations. They also weigh about a billion pounds,
don't they. I mean no offense. I got three story
in my house. I got a schlep a vacuum up
and down those stairs. Maybe I'm wrong about that. I

(01:23:05):
don't know. Mandy. I bought a dice in when they
first came out for five hundred dollars plus and it's
still working great. To my shock surprise, Mandy, Armando's in
Parker was the Italian restaurant. I still miss Armando's. Armando's
was my exception because he had the best rossotto ever.
I love rossotto, and so many restaurants do it so badly,

(01:23:27):
so so so badly. Mandy. I used to do Postmates
when it first came out, and it used to be
very lucrative for the driver because they would charge based
on distance too. This girl paid thirty two dollars for
a cinnamon roll because I delivered it to Centennial from downtown.
Someone else paid seventy dollars for dog food. The dog

(01:23:49):
food tip was better. Good lord, who are these people
made of money? Who? Uh? This text? Ra ass? How
much does it cost for a radio station to be on? iHeart?
I have no idea how any of that works. I
don't even know that it costs anything. I know it
doesn't cost iHeart stations. Well, no, I don't even know that.

(01:24:11):
I have no idea textor Because I am what's called
an end user of things, I don't need to know
how the sausage is made. I just need to know
that I can open up my entirely free iHeart Radio
app and click on my presets right at the top
for KOA and listen to the radio station from wherever.
As a matter of fact, if I want to listen
to my own podcast, that's preset number two, Boom boom.

(01:24:33):
Preset number three taking it for granted. Podcast pre set
number four Diary of the CEO, my other podcast I
listen to all the time. Umandy Kirby vacuum weighs about
two pounds per vacuum. You just got to put one
on each floor in They're about three thousand dollars each.
Of course, of course why wouldn't I, I mean nine

(01:24:58):
grand in vacuums.

Speaker 8 (01:24:59):
Po.

Speaker 4 (01:25:00):
It's all good, perfectly, okay, nothing to see here now.
I've got a couple of stories on the blog today. One, so,
I lived in Fort Myers for a very long time,
five years actually, and that's where I met my husband,
and so I will always have a warm place in
my heart for Fort Myers, Florida. But when I left there,
it was not inhabited by complete morons, but apparently that

(01:25:22):
has changed. I'd like to direct you and a Rod.
May I have my audio please? I'd like to direct
the audience to what can only be described as sniveling
coming from the Fort Myers City Council. Let me set
the scene for you. On your left, there's a woman
of Hispanic descent. She is a Republican, I understand. In
the center, there's a woman who is a Democrat. She

(01:25:45):
is from the liberal part of Fort Myers, because southwest
Florida is very, very very conservative. And then there's a
guy on the right who is literally sitting back with
his hand on his uh on his face, like like
you know, sitting with his face on his on his fist,
watching these two as they snibble their way through the
following discussion about the trauma of being forced to cooperate

(01:26:11):
with ICE. Just listen to this if you can even
hear it. And now it's buffering. Of course, I dramatically
hit it right at the moment that I wanted to play.
And the Internet is not going to cooperate, and now
it's just going to buffer because too many people are
watching this stupid thing on X. You know, my father

(01:26:31):
in law passed away before I married Chuck, and Chuck
Away said that his dad was one of those old
school guys who said that the country really went to
hell in a handbasket when women got the right to vote.
When I watched stuff like this, I'm inclined to agree
with him. Let's try this one more time. Still not

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going to participate correctly, So let's do this another way,
because I really really want you guys to hear this.
Even though at this point, okay, thank.

Speaker 2 (01:27:04):
You for what you said.

Speaker 4 (01:27:06):
Did you hear your comments?

Speaker 8 (01:27:08):
You cannot begin to me.

Speaker 2 (01:27:10):
I didn't have difficult for you.

Speaker 4 (01:27:11):
Now, if you think they're crying, you are correct. In
a city council meeting, and they're the city council member the.

Speaker 1 (01:27:17):
Argument, and I know there's no mal intend to it
that we would risk federal or state funding if I
don't sign up.

Speaker 4 (01:27:30):
I just I can't even I can't even, I can't
even do that. First of all, there's no crying at
city council. Okay, there's no crying. Second of all, these
are the same women that run around and probably say
things like we they are the same. We can do anything,
men can do well. Men can get through a city

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council meeting without crying. Why don't we start with that.
Don't get me wrong, I love a good cry. You know,
when you have a really crappy week or really crappy
day and you put on a sad movie, something that's
really gonna make you ugly cry, and you just have
at it, and then after it's over, you're like, you
wipe your you know, your nose on your sleeve and
go about your business. What movie aar? Do you ever

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watch a movie if you're sad specifically because it'll either
make you sadder that will then eventually make you feel better.

Speaker 7 (01:28:20):
Hell no, avoid them?

Speaker 6 (01:28:21):
No, No, Like if you're sad, if I'm having a rotten.

Speaker 4 (01:28:25):
Week, if I can watch Steel Magnoia's and just get
to that scene where Sally Field is at the graveyard.
And this is a spoiler alert. The movie's only been
out for forty years, with plenty of time. Oh it's
it's so so good. I think I actually could say
the words with the movie along with it. I've seen
it so many times, but there's a scene in the
cemetery where Sally Field, who's the mother of Julia Roberts's character,

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who has now died, okay, and she has this monologue
that is just gut wrenching. It just rips your heart
out and I cry like a baby every single time.
And then once that's over, I'm like, huh, I feel better.
I feel better. On Pass So Good and the Color Purple,
the Whoopi Goldberg version. That movie. Oh, that movie is fantastic.

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I'm no Whoopy political fan, but man, that movie is
just a perfect film on many, many, many levels. Just great. Mandy,
did you see Anora? I don't understand why I won
an oscar or anything. My personal trainer told me she
left the movie theater she was sort good. It was
one F bomb after another. That was the whole movie
was just f bombs. Oh no, not swearing. Well, you

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know what is it? Just so tedious? This is too
much for me? Yes, so much swearing? Yes, out of here,
I protest this much swearing. Well, I mean, but if
it doesn't move things, if it's gratuitous, you.

Speaker 7 (01:29:50):
Know, bring on the bombs.

Speaker 4 (01:29:51):
It's just gratuitous. So I no, I didn't did you
see Anorah. I didn't I have it. My son gave
me a USB stick with it on there. I just
haven't watched it yet. What that's not legal? What are
you talking about? I don't know what did I say.
I didn't say anything out loud.

Speaker 7 (01:30:12):
As you said, your own copy you had sent to
you from the director.

Speaker 4 (01:30:14):
That's what I meant. Yeah, on a USB stick thing
thumb drive, that's what they sent me.

Speaker 2 (01:30:20):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (01:30:21):
Anyway, I do want to say this, Mandy, don't know
if you already mentioned it, Well, should we say if
you're a CSU fan and you don't know the outcome
of the game, then just switch away for like a second, dude,
and switch back DVR sports. Come on, Oh, I know
a lot of people who do that. A lot of
people who do that. Okay, you don't know anybody who

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DVR sports? I mean, oh my gosh. I have a
friend who had to work every night during the World
Series when his favorite team was in it, and he
would DVR it and whenever anyone would try and talk
to it, he would scream and put his hands over
his ears and run away.

Speaker 7 (01:30:58):
There you go, you did say alert?

Speaker 4 (01:31:00):
I did?

Speaker 7 (01:31:00):
I did sixty eight sixty No sex.

Speaker 4 (01:31:03):
Or said we couldn't make it ten minutes watching it
last night, Anora, way to make me feel old, Mandy,
I saw Steel Magnoia's in the theater, as did I.
Let me see when that movie came out, Magnoyas this
came out in nineteen eighty nine. Holy crap, I was

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almost right. So what is that twenty thirty thirty six
years ago? How is that possible? Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:31:36):
By the way, seventy eight seventy I was close.

Speaker 4 (01:31:39):
Seventy eight seventy csu Yeah. Good for them, I mean
good for them. They've they've been on a really, really
good hot streak lately, won a lot of games recently,
and I hope they can keep it going. Still, Alice
and The Father made me brutally cry. Now is the
Father the one with Anthony Hopkins? That movie? Wait a minute,
let me just see if that's the one the Father? Yes?

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Oh did you see that?

Speaker 7 (01:32:02):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:32:02):
Oh, man, that movie gutted me, absolutely gutted me. It's
about First of all, Anthony Hopkins is beyond brilliant in
this movie. Beyond brilliant in this movie. He plays and
they don't explain anything at the top of the movie.
So in a way, what I'm about to say is
the spoiler alert. But it's not going to ruin the.

Speaker 7 (01:32:21):
Film for you if you see it.

Speaker 4 (01:32:23):
They don't explain it. But he is a man suffering
with Alzheimer's and the film is presented from his perspective,
with all the confusion. And I mean it is a
stunningly good film, but it gutted me as well. So yes, Lioness,
the show is good. Yeah, we already watched The Lions

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We've already started watching the third season of Reacher. So good.
So much action in this season, way better than last season,
way better. Uh, mandy Tons, what is this way?

Speaker 8 (01:32:57):
Way?

Speaker 4 (01:32:57):
When you guys send texts separately, they don't all come
in a row guys, So we don't know. I don't
know what you're talking about. Man, you've seen the movie flow.
It's amazing. No, I haven't let me see. I'm looking
all these up as you send them to me. I
wish I had the time and patience to actually watch

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movies now. Oh, it's an Oscar winner in twenty twenty four,
so it just won the Oscar maybe, and it's coming
to the Landmark at Greenwood Village in April, so no,
I have not seen it. Anyway, We're got a few
more things on the blog, including this in the twenty
twenty five World Happiness Report. We are in the lowest

(01:33:43):
spot ever ever, and I want to read what I
wrote about this today on the blog. It just says this.
I talked to my nephew and tel Aviv quite a
bit this week. He had to get his kids out
of bed to go to the bomb shelter in the
middle of the night because Moss was firing rockets at
his family. The kids can't play outside anymore for fear

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of being killed. He's armed twenty four to seven because
of the real fear of someone trying to kill him
and his family. This morning, I got up, had coffee,
played with my dog, got ready for the show, recorded
some commercials with Running Creek Dental, and no one tried
to shoot at me. Once. I have plenty of food,
gas for my car, and I can go to work
completely unfettered and free of the immediate fear of death.

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I say this all because the United States, which is
the richest country in the world, where even poor people
enjoy a standard of living higher than most people around
the world, including Europe has dropped in the happiness rankings.

Speaker 2 (01:34:39):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:34:39):
They say loneliness is part of it, but I think
a big part of it is that we are so
unaware of how good we have it. And if we
focus more with gratitude then envy and jealousy over what
we perceive other people to have, we would be a
much happier society. You know who's happy, Nick Ferguson most

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of the time. Anyway, I'm sure you get cranky sometimes, Nick.
I don't think I've ever seen you cranky.

Speaker 7 (01:35:05):
No, you've never seen me play football.

Speaker 4 (01:35:07):
Oh so football was what made you cranky. No, there
were things in life that made me cranky.

Speaker 8 (01:35:14):
But being a professional athlete I was able to work
out some of that crankiness on the field.

Speaker 4 (01:35:19):
Well, I'd see, this is one of the things. This
is a definite difference between men and women. I think
that especially little boys and even teenage boys, if you
give them the opportunity to get out some of that
aggression physically in a constructive way. I mean, they'll go
run around beating people up. But that's why boys play football.
That's why soccer is a contact sport. That's why lacrosse
is a contact sport, right, I mean, this is a

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way for men to get that physical stress and aggravation out.

Speaker 8 (01:35:45):
Well, that's one way to kind of look at Mandy.

Speaker 4 (01:35:49):
I didn't always approach.

Speaker 8 (01:35:50):
It that way when I was younger, which is something
to do, But as I grew older, I realized that
I was somewhat of a bad loser, a sore loser,
and learn how to take all the negative energy that
was inside of me and flip it into something really positive.

Speaker 4 (01:36:08):
For your fire.

Speaker 8 (01:36:08):
Well, it is is like even now, since I don't
have football as the outlet, anytime I get frustrated as stress,
the way that I deal with it is by working
out and being in his art.

Speaker 4 (01:36:19):
But that's the physical release that I'm talking about. It's
why when you watch little boys play, it is like
there you see arms and legs and jumping and hopping,
and my grandsons do not stop moving, right, and they're
constantly throwing things at each other and running into each
other and all that kind of physical nonsense. Little girls
don't have to do that because they don't have the
same level of energy. They don't have the same level

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of just you know, boyous.

Speaker 8 (01:36:43):
But see, this is why you know, when I was
growing up. Everyone will push you outside, right, like we
will always outside kids now nowadays, you know, and I
sound you know, I'm sound like I'm really old, But
they're not outside like we would be out playing curveball, sports, writing,
a bike, skating, all those outdoors type things.

Speaker 4 (01:37:02):
I mean, Nick, we were at a playground with my
grandsons and I saw all of this like the new
age of a parenting new age. One in one little scenario.
So kids are playing on one of those things that
you spin around. So of course one kid flies off,
another kid steps on him, standard procedure on those rides, right,
we all know this. Little kids starts crying and instead
of the kids negotiating a settlement like we had to do,

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you know what I mean, you stood there and you
knew you were like, dude, he didn't do it on purpose.
It was an accident. You have to get over it.
Are you okay? Okay, get back on, We'll push you.
That's how it worked. No, now it's run over to dad.
Kid that actually stepping on The kid runs over to
dad and the parents were like, go figure it out.
But their first instinct was to go get somebody to
help with the situation. Instead of let's just work it out.

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And that made me kind of sad for this generation
of kids. They don't have those opportunities to just work
it out.

Speaker 8 (01:37:51):
And we wonder when we look at ourselves in comparison
to other countries, why seem as though we are on
the downside of things? And I think for me, what
you're describing is something I've seen in sports where it's
kind of participation trophy base. Yeah, and I've never liked that.

Speaker 4 (01:38:08):
You're right there with me. And so you guys filmed
another Heroes Thank you this morning.

Speaker 7 (01:38:13):
Two of them, two of them.

Speaker 8 (01:38:14):
Big shout out to our sponsors, big shout out to
a Rod for always doing this. But it was great
and to be a part of a heroge, thank you.
It's it's great. We were up in where were Colorado
Springs yesterday and it.

Speaker 4 (01:38:28):
Was so emotional. Guy the guy cried. It took everything
in me for me not to cry.

Speaker 8 (01:38:33):
And if you are married significant other, uh, these stories
touched you in that particular way. It was a guy
who he drives uber and his family dealing with a
lot of issues. He works with the Boys and Girl
Club and he's a huge Broncos fan. I don't know
if a rod got a chance to get the picture.
But this dude showed me a photo. I thought it

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was a jersey, but it was his back.

Speaker 4 (01:38:57):
He has a full tattoo sleeve on back.

Speaker 7 (01:39:01):
Oh my god, jersey.

Speaker 4 (01:39:03):
And I was like, dude, we gotta get John Elway
to sign this. Yes, and that would be amazing. Yes, Wow, Wow,
that's super cool. I'm a little bit jealous of you guys,
but I'm glad that you guys have to pick not me.
I don't want to. I don't want that job from
all the entries. That's so rip your heart out. Now

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it's time for the most exciting segment all the radio
of its kind. Sound a little creepy there, Nick Ferguson,
all right, what is our dead joke of the day? Please?

Speaker 6 (01:39:40):
I put my phone under my pillow last night. When
I woke up, it was gone. There was a one
dollar dollar coin in its place. I guess it was
the Bluetooth fairy.

Speaker 4 (01:39:49):
Oh wow, I'd be mad if I only got a
dollar from my phone. Okay, what is the word of
the day please?

Speaker 6 (01:39:57):
It is an adjective urbane. You are b a n
e urbane.

Speaker 4 (01:40:03):
This is one of those words that I see and
I should know, but I don't. I think Urbane is
somebody something kind of droll, kind of.

Speaker 7 (01:40:14):
Nicks off.

Speaker 8 (01:40:16):
Well, for me, Urbane means you too urban.

Speaker 7 (01:40:21):
Just fancy.

Speaker 6 (01:40:21):
He's someone described as rbin is notably polite, confident, or
polished in okay, the opposite.

Speaker 4 (01:40:30):
Yeah. Today's today's trivia question. What was the first video
game console that could also play DVDs? I'm almost positive
it was a PlayStation, but I don't know which version
of Xbox Maybe no that I don't know. For some reason,
I am I remember somebody getting a PlayStation because well.

Speaker 6 (01:40:50):
For that, or Blu Ray though, because PlayStation did the
Blue Rain things.

Speaker 5 (01:40:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:40:56):
This is definitely DVD Sega Genesis. I don't think I
could play now, Isn't that that's too early? Probably PlayStation two.
Oh the two were released in two thousand, dang it.
I remember because a friend of mine actually bought when
it was like, hey, I can play DVDs on this too,
and I was like, good for you, good for you.
Let's play some Tetris, get it on the only game

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I know how to play. Anyway. What's our Jeopardy category?

Speaker 7 (01:41:20):
Home lines? Every answer has home somewhere in it?

Speaker 4 (01:41:24):
All right? These five words follow? Be it ever so humble?
It's so humble. I'm pretty sure I don't know. I'm
not guessing. There's no place like Oh, Mandy. I'm glad
I didn't answer. I would have gotten wrong.

Speaker 6 (01:41:44):
The seventeenth see play, The scornful lady speaks of kissing
until the divine action occurs.

Speaker 4 (01:41:52):
Okay, the seventeenth century. Okay, go ahead, try again.

Speaker 6 (01:41:56):
You got the seventeenth century. No, it's not century because
it sounds it's a song. The scornful lady speaks of
kissing until the this bovine action occurs.

Speaker 7 (01:42:06):
I have no.

Speaker 4 (01:42:08):
Mandy. What does the cows come home?

Speaker 7 (01:42:10):
That is correct?

Speaker 4 (01:42:11):
Okay, okay, how did you get that? From the key? There?

Speaker 6 (01:42:15):
Basketball gives us this expression about the psychological edge gain
from familiar Oh nick nick, maybe barely nick?

Speaker 4 (01:42:25):
Correct?

Speaker 6 (01:42:25):
Yes, a familiar saying is curses like chickens always do
this many?

Speaker 4 (01:42:31):
What has come home to rust? That is correct?

Speaker 6 (01:42:34):
And finally, Lady A has a song called this also
a proverb proverb about an emotional attachment to the place
you're from as home in it?

Speaker 4 (01:42:46):
I mean right there is it home?

Speaker 7 (01:42:48):
Sweet home?

Speaker 4 (01:42:49):
No, I like that though. Where the heart is damn
way did not do will Nick Ferguson. That was on
our finals performance. Jeez, Louise, all right, what's coming up on?
Are you doing kao sports? Senterges coming to hang.

Speaker 6 (01:43:06):
Out with me?

Speaker 7 (01:43:07):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:43:07):
I am so.

Speaker 8 (01:43:08):
I will be sitting in with Orlando Franklin and the
Great Dave Logan.

Speaker 4 (01:43:14):
So yeah, don't call him day, don't call him great.
I mean he's already got an ego the size of
what would him. I'm just kidding, mister Logan, That's what
I call him. No, I don't. All right, guys, I'll
be back on Monday. Have a happy and say beautiful weekend.
Get some yardwork done this weekend, That's what I'm doing,
and keep it right here on KOA