03-31-25 FULL SHOW - Big Half Hour Show Today Before Baseball

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five blog Big half hour show today before baseball. Click
on that and here are the headlines you will find
within Hi Tech two oh winnings list in office half
of American allarships and clipment of that corna press pledge
today on the blog Rockies at twelve thirty Colorado Republicans
embrace sanity. SB twenty five three is worth than initially thought.

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Corner crossing is now affirmed in Colorado. Another Democrat is
investigated for staff mistreatment. Colorado's glowing job numbers were a lie.
Aurora leads on crime fighting. We may have real construction
defect performed this year. The Sundance gravy train gets passed.
No deportation isn't because of speech. In this case we

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have the final four Colorado's anti car stance having the
intended effect on roads. How to not be exhausted every
night after work? Kennedy moves to blog soda purchases with
food stamps mostly peaceful Arson In New Mexico, the UAW
says tariffs will bring jobs back. The fact about vats
increase protein to save muscle mass advice from a ninety

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year old millionaire. What the ping pong pandemonium? Is this
the fastest way to get dementia? Those are the headlines
on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. And I know
that I want you guys to go to the blog
every single day. I truly do. I spend hours, literal
hours every day on the blog, but today I only

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have a half hour show, and there is so much
stuff that you need to know about on the blog today.
There's a lot of stuff about stuff that's happened in
the Colorado legislative session. There's more details by Dave Koppel.
He was on the show last week about SB twenty
five three. That's the gun bill. It is the worst
most restrictive gun law in Colorado and it just remains

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to be seen if governor or police will veto it.
And I'm kind of in a mood to set you
guys upon him. Tomorrow we'll be talking about that on
the show. I don't mean set upon him in a
negative way. I mean it is time to ring up
the governor's mansion. It is time to ring up the
governor's office and respectfully ask him to veto SB twenty

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five dash three, because if he doesn't, it's going to
become law. And Dave Koppel laid out how he would
be able to spin this in his run for the presidency,
and it makes so much sense that the only way
we are going to stop this is with overwhelming respectful
commentary to the Governor's office. So I need you to

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read this article today. You guys, the show is screwed
this week because of baseball, and all the time that
I've been having to deal with baseball, I've never had
it interfere with the program as much as it will
this week. And so there's so much stuff on here.
I'm basically begging you for your own benefit. Go to

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the blog. Look what's on there. Click through to the links,
because some of this stuff is super important, really really important,
and some of it's just really interesting, like the corner
crossing story. This is such a I'm like, I don't
even want to spend any time on this show because
I only have a few more minutes left. But if
you're a hiker, a hunter, some kind of sportsman who
uses public land, and you get to a point where

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there's four fences coming together and you've got two plots
of private land and then the other side of that
is a public land. The courts have now affirmed you
can operate over that fence and as long as you
don't land on private land, you're good to go. And
these kind of things are like they're a little bit
in the weeds. But if you are a person who
loves this state and loves the outdoors. There's a lot
of stuff on the blog today that you need to see.

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Incredibly great news. I cannot begin to tell you how
good the news is out of Saturday's reorganization meeting for
the Colorado Republican Party. I am absolutely thrilled that Britta
Horn was elected to the chairmanship and she was joined

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by Lee Feelin Senior, he's the vice chair, and Russ Andrews.
All of these guys, they are so focused on the
right things. That's all I want out of Republican Party leadership.
Just focus on the things that are going to make
a difference in this state and stop getting bogged down

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in all of this social noise. That doesn't matter because Colorado.
When you guys read some of the stuff that's in
this gun bill, if you are a person who has
thought about buying a firearm, I am telling you right
now you better go get it this week, because after
this thing goes into law, and I don't know what
the date is, it is going to be a full scale,

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overly expensive nightmare to buy a basic firearm. And this
bill covers almost all firearms that you would want to own. Handguns,
it covers all of them. It is going to be
so prohibitively expensive to just buy a weapon in Colorado.
I would expect your favorite gun stores to pack up
and move over the border to Wyoming. I mean I would.

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There's no way I would stay a gun store. I
would not in that kind of environment. It's insane, absolutely insane.
They are about to drive the cost of buying a
firearm through the roof. They're going to destroy competition, and
then when there's no competition left, they're going to raise
prices here because they can. And thank God that the

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Republican Party embrace sanity and elected Britta Horne and a
great team of leadership to run the Colorado Republican Party,
because we are at a perilous at a perilous rate.
We are going in a direction that we will not
be able to course correct from. I've got to call
them on the blog today by former Denver police chief

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and now fellow at the Common Sense Institute, Paul Pason,
and I don't think I bet you in the history
of Aurora, Colorado, at least in recent last thirty forty years,
I bet you, no one has ever said, you know
what we've got a problem with crime, we should do
what Aurora is doing. And yet that's what this column
is essentially about. But it was about so much more

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than that. It was about Aurora trying to do something
to get a handle on this car theft business and
increasing penalties in Aurora above what the state did for
stealing a car. And guess what happened. Car thefts dropped
even more dramatically in Aurora because of these measures. And

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yet we have people in the Gold Dome who are
hell bent on making crime easier for criminals. Lawbiding people
are having more and more hoops thrown in front of them,
more and more taxes and fees. I don't care what
you call. They're the same thing levied on their Second
Amendment rights. And there's a big difference between saying, look,

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you have to follow the rules when it comes to
owning a firearm and that, hey, you've got to pay
all of this money now for the right to have
the right to purchase a firearm in this state. I mean,
I have to think that this thing is going to
be bounced out of corporate What happens in the meantime,
how many gun stores go under in the meantime, and

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that's really what they want to have happened, Mandy. What
broke the Williams stranglehold on the party? Says this Texter.
I got to say, I don't know, because I have
not spoken to all of the people in the Central
Committee who voted to go in a different direction. But
I have to believe that the divisiveness of that leadership

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group was so bad that people started to recognize that
that was not the way to run a political party
and to conduct a political party. And I really think
for a lot of people, it was the endorsing in
the primaries and they endorsed a slate of losers. It

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was Dave Williams saying or refusing to step down from
the chairmanship when he decided to run for the fifth
congressional district. I think there's a lot of things. Maybe
there's different reasons for everybody, but I'm just grateful. I
am thrilled, absolutely thrilled. Mandy. Let's protect gun rights, but
not talk about murdering children in the womb. Okay, then, dude,

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you got to fight your battles as they come up.
Right now, Colorado is a solidly pro choice state. Go
back and look at the last few votes. Go back
and look at the elections on abortion and abortion wins
every single time. Pro lifers in this state would do
well to stop, try to changing the law and to
create an infrastructure that supports moms who are not necessarily

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wanting to have an abortion but don't know how they
can afford it. Much like the programs that exist for
Catholic charities, you want to make a difference. Support those
programs because in Colorado it's not going to change anytime soon. Mandy,
guns are just another item for my band in Colorado.
List Yeah, Mandy, I believe I heard this bill goes
through August first is when it kicks in. Yeah, Ari

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Britta Horne. She seems peppy, but hope she knows how
to play dirty too, because the problem we had when
battling partisans in Longmont was that the old Guard Republicans
didn't play dirty enough and would lose all the time
in local elections. Hopefully the new Colorado Republican leadership really
focuses on getting more Republicans into city councils too, because

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the Democrats certainly have been I agree with this wholeheartedly,
and as a matter of fact, Britt is going to
be on the show next Monday, because the show is
so screwed this entire week. That's the first time I
can get her on for long conversation. And one of
the things I want to talk to her about, and
I'm going to get your input via the text line
is which things should the Republican Party in Colorado focus on?

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And I'm going to come with a list, and these
are going to be things that you can focus on
when you're running for statewide office or you're running for
local office, because there's a big difference. There's a really
big difference. So we Shelsey, how come our governor will
never join your show as this Texter, I don't know.

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I have a theory. Well, I have two theories. Both
of them make me look good, so you can imagine.
The first is that he is he doesn't like women,
which I mean, you know. The second is I think
he's scared of me because he knows I'm smart, he
knows I'm onto him, and he knows that he can't
just be as his way through an interview. And by

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the way, I would be super respectful as I always am,
as I was when we finally cornered him at the DNC,
where I have the funniest picture in the history of
pictures of him standing there talking to me, and the
look on his face is like I would rather be
having a hot poker shoved into my eye. Best picture ever. Anyway,

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Colorado is solidly anti gun. What's the difference, Well, the
Second Amendment is in the Constitution of the United States
of America. There's nothing in the Constitution about abortion. Just
throwing that out there, big, big, big difference. And I'm
not sure. I haven't seen any polling data about Colorado being,

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you know, like way anti gun. I'm not sure. I'm
not saying you're wrong. I'll look that up because God knows,
I have time this afternoon because the Rockies take over
at twelve thirty, so let me do this. I'm gonna
make sure that mclock up area where it's gonna yell
at me. We also have a bunch of other stuff
on the blog today. Colorado's job numbers were a lie.

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That's they're all being revised now down now. After everybody
talked about our job numbers, including me, I was I
don't know why leave the government statistics on anything anymore.
I just every time I find myself going, well, the
latest government statistics, why do I even believe them? They're
all Alie over and over again. You can read that
on the blog today. We may have actual construction defect

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reform this year that may be able to spur the
condo market in Denver, which would be amazing. I don't know,
the details seem pretty good. I feel like everybody in
their grandmother has massaged this bill so that means everybody's
getting something, but not everybody's getting everything, which is fine.

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The best legislation falls into that, you know that sphere
that's on the blog today. We have the final four.
Watched a lot of basketball this weekend, a lot of
basketball this weekend, and honestly, these four teams were clearly
the superior teams in this entire tournament, and they all
deserve to be there, which I didn't realize how rare

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that was until they started talking about that. Colorado's anti
car stance is having the intended effect. We're now forty
third in the nation for road quality. Forty third. Now,
this is absolutely not just expected. This is the desired
outcome of our current Department of Transportation leadership appointed by

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a governor who feels the exact same way. What way
is that the governor believes that everyone else should be
on mass transit or on their bicycle or I don't know,
staying home because that clears the way for his suv
to travel unfettered throughout the state. This is the goal

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of Colorado Democrats. Now, they're so single minded about it
that they've diverted all of this transportation money that should
have gone to roads into things like bike lanes and
this bus system on Collfax or more something to do
with mass transit than no one's writing. Listen to this.

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A recently released report found Colorado's Highway's rank forty fifth
in urban interstate pavement condition, forty seventh in rural interstate
pavement condition, thirty fifth in urban arterial pavement condition, thirty
seventh in rural arterial pavement condition. We're only nineteenth in
structurally deficient bridges, fortieth in the urban fatality rate, and

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thirty second in the rural fatality rate. We are doing great. Great.
We spend an average of thirty six hours a year
stuck in traffic. Now, the reason I bring this up
and make such a point of it is see my
earlier comments about I want to see the Republican Party

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focus like a laser on things that matter. And if
I am running for the governor of Colorado, I am
running on partially this platform, and it is this. Our
roads have been neglected under leadership that has continued to
funnel money into mass transit that no one is writing.
They keep telling us, if they just give it more money,

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then people will write it, but they never do. And
instead of that, I'm going to figure back ways to
scale back as much as I can, and I'm going
to fix the roads in Colorado full stop. You heard
me right. I'm taking the transportation money and I'm just
fixing roads with it. That's it, and then that'd be

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one one platform, you know, in my in my anyway,
this is a story that I want to talk about,
and I put it on the blog. I'm probably gonna
forget at some point. But RFK I keep calling him
RFK Junior. RFK it is RFK junior. I kept calling
JFK JFK junior because I had RFK junior. And never mind.

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He is moving to block soda purchases for food stamps.
And I have talked about this for a very long time.
I never want people to starve. Right, I never want
people in this country of this much wealth to ever starve.
But I am staunchly against buying luxuries that I don't

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even buy from my family. Number one, because they're horrible
for you. But number two because that crap is expensive
and it irritates the crap out of me that people
who have government assistance for food use it to buy
stuff that clearly is not food, and soda is not
food and junkie crappy snacks are not real food. So yeah,
I'm here for it. He's leaning on the states to say, look,

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we're gonna start restricting some of the stuff that is
horrible for people. And everybody makes the argument, you know,
money's fungible, they're just use their cash for it. Will
they will they? Because let me tell you something, when
the last time we bought chips, Because time we buy
chips is when we're having people over, we're having a
party or whatever, you know, a group gathering. Because chips

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are my kryptonite. I can I have them in my
house because I will eat them. I love chips. Okay,
the last time we went for then bought chips for
a party, they were like seven bucks a bag. When
did that happen? And I thought, holy crap. Yeah, I'm
completely down with not allowing people who are using government

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money to buy food to be able to buy crap
with it. I'm perfectly fine with that one hundred percent
of the time, Mandy. Bike lanes are not good unless
the roads are in better shape. They're idiots. Bad roads
plus bike lanes will bring about a bunch of unused
bike lanes because a cyclist don't want to lose our
life to a dang pothole. Yes, yes, Mandy, even without

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a sign, you can tell when you leave Colorado in
any direction. One hundred percent. Ooh, du is in the
frozen four? I miss that? Sorry guys, Sorry guys. I'm
usually pretty good about paying attention, but I'm telling you
I watched a lot of basketball this weekend. A lot. Now.
He's also encouraging states to ban harmful food dies. But

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he's also doing something that I like better. He's meeting
with food companies. He's meeting with food producers to say, hey,
it's time to get some of this stuff that we
The only reason this stuff is in the food is
for marketing. It serves no nutritional benefit whatsoever. And I
I find it interesting that not only do we allow

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things that are for marketing inside the food, that no
one talks about the fact that the only reason this
stuff is in food is for marketing, Like there's no
nutritional value to red dye number three, Absolutely not. It's
there to make it more attractive, so you'll eat more
of it and we'll all get fat weight. That already
happened anyway, Okay. I also have today on the blog

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at mandy'sblog dot com. You need to read it because
shows almost over. I have the full interview from Face
the Nation and u a W. President Sean Faine was
on with Jake Tapper, and when you watch the first part,
you're gonna be so like eye rolly, because I was.
But he's talked. Immediately they started talking about Trump did
away with collective bargaining for federal employees, and he's like, oh,

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it's durable, but of course. But then they start talking
about tariffs, and you need to see the part about
tariffs because I put the whole thing on here because
I think the whole interview is worth seeing, Like you know,
but the part about tariffs is really interesting because Sean
Fayn points out that a lot of carmakers have recently

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offshored their production to Mexico. You know, so they still
have functioning factories here, they're just not functioning at full capacity.
So this may actually work. And I got to tell you,
if Trump manages to put a bunch of car auto
workers back to work, it's going to be really hard

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for Sean Fain and other union presidents to make the
argument that the Democrats are the party of the union worker.
Ever again, you know, it's like deeds not words. At
what point do our deeds more important? And what is
actually happening with you know, the stuff that we're seeing?
When does that matter more? Okay, I've got a few

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videos on the blog. I have the Glucose Goddess. Increasing
protein will change your life. You'll love this woman. You
should go listen to her. And I also have Aron.
Did you look at this video, the table tennis video
that's on the lune? No you didn't. I did when
I didn't even open any of your stuff today, did
you really? Oh wait, maybe I didn't. No, you didn't know. Okay,

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So these people put two halves of a table tennis
a ping pong table, and they put them on wheels.
They're separated, and they put them on wheels and they
hit onto one side and then the other team has
to move the side of the table, so the ball
bounces off the side of the table and then another
guy hit. It's nuts, absolutely nuts. I would never try

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this because I'm bad at ping pong. Anyway, Anyway, that's
on the blog today as well and tomorrow on the show.
We got a lot of good stuff. We are I
don't want to say exactly what because some things are
changing right now. Let me see here, I'm going back
through here really quickly. Another Democrat, female Democrat is investigated

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at the capitol for staff mistreatment. Why is it always
females and why is it always democrats? I'm just saying.
That's on the blog today. Rocky's coming up next now tomorrow,
I have a full show Wednesday. I don't I can't remember.
Just tune in. Maybe I'll be here, maybe I won't.
But right now Colorado, Rocky's taking over on KOA