04-16-26 FULL SHOW - As Cherry Creek Schools Gets A Deep Dive, Plus BattleBots! - The Mandy Connell Podcast

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
No, it's Mandy Connell, Many Connell on KOA.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
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Speaker 5 (00:27):
Welcome Local, Welcome to a Thursday edition of the show.
I'm your host for the next three hours, Mandy Connell.

Speaker 6 (00:32):
Anthony Rodriguez doing all the really heavy lifting in the
master YEP. You can call him a ride and just
don't call him late for work because he never is.

Speaker 5 (00:42):
Anyway.

Speaker 6 (00:43):
We we have a lot of stuff on the blog today,
but I have to start the show by addressing some
things that have popped up on social media on X
specifically now. If you've listened to the show for any
length of time, you know I love Twitter and I'm
gonna call it Twitter in my heart till I die.

Speaker 5 (01:02):
But I do try to call it X now because
that's what it is.

Speaker 6 (01:05):
At Mandy Connell on x ay Rod, what's your X
handle if you want people to follow you so they
can follow the A to Z podcast.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
At Anthony rod thirty three and at the Life of
a Rod on Instagram.

Speaker 5 (01:16):
Oh very nice.

Speaker 6 (01:16):
I am at the Mandy Connell on Instagram, but far
less active on Instagram unless I'm on vacation.

Speaker 5 (01:21):
I'm gonna be honest.

Speaker 6 (01:22):
Like I use Instagram to share fun stuff, I use
Twitter for political.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Blood sports at Caley, Colorado and all socials as well.

Speaker 5 (01:30):
Oh it's so good, It's so good.

Speaker 6 (01:33):
And today a kerfuffle broke out on Twitter when it
became known that Victor Marx turned down an invitation to
a governor's debate that I will be half of the
moderating team for. I am going to moderate it with
my friend deb Flora, and it is being presented by
Douglas County Citizenry, the Douglas County Women's Republican Group, Colorado

(01:57):
Lincoln Club, the Lincoln Club of Colorado, and now the
Colorado Young Republicans have signed on. So this is not
some little teeny tiny in somebody's house at a restaurant
for two hours. This is like a legitimate, significant debate.
So in talking to the organizers, who were very diplomatic.
By the way, I want to be clear about that.

(02:17):
The organizers are not the ones that are going to
be throwing two that is what I'm going to be doing.
The organizers were very diplomatic, and I just said, what
was the reason given for turning this particular thing. By
the way, the invitation went out two months ago, two
months ago, and apparently they couldn't get a response and
got bounced around to different people in the campaign, and

(02:39):
then finally some guy called and said, yes, we've decided
that this does not align with our campaign strategy. And
I'm paraphrasing. I don't know the exact words of the
guy said, but this is the gist. They said, it
is not in our campaign strategy. We have accepted two debates,
one at the Centennial Institute and.

Speaker 5 (02:59):
One that will be on nine News on television.

Speaker 6 (03:02):
And okay, fine, if that's your strategy, if you want
to adopt the Joe Biden, I'm not leaving my basement.
I'm not going to put myself in a position to
answer any difficult questions.

Speaker 5 (03:12):
That's the thing, you guys. Hit Victor Marx's supporters are like,
oh about god, he's all over the state, He's everywhere,
and people are showing at by the thousand eggs and
they love hib, they love abb.

Speaker 6 (03:25):
Do you really think any hard questions are getting asked
at these little fluffy Hey, come look at.

Speaker 5 (03:30):
How awesome Victor Marx is.

Speaker 6 (03:32):
I mean, what, No, there's nothing substantial going on at
these shows. As a matter of fact, I've now gotten
a few emails from people saying, Mandy, I've gone to
two Victor Marx events. I have no idea, I have
no idea what his plans for the state are.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
None. He talks about God, he talks about how awesome
and badass he is. And that's pretty much it. That's
the extent of these many, many, many many appearances. Don't
forget upring weird.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
What what Candace canis?

Speaker 7 (04:02):
Let me know what you want me to come on
the show?

Speaker 5 (04:04):
Oh that's such crap. He won't be on Candace, Oh
and show. He won't even come on this show. Good lord.

Speaker 6 (04:11):
Although I do have it on good authority that his
people reached out to Peter Boyle's so Pete may get
a crack at the apple here pretty soon. We'll have
to wait and see if that actually I'll believe it
when I hear it on the radio. That's all I'm
gonna say.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
So.

Speaker 6 (04:24):
Anyway, the social media kerfuffle went something like this, Hey, Victor,
remember back before the primary when you said you would
debate any a candidate who made the ballot, and someone
from his campaign responded, well.

Speaker 5 (04:39):
Greg Lopez is going to be at that debate, and
we're not going to debate a libertarian who's just there
to sink the Republican Party.

Speaker 6 (04:46):
But you know who else is going to be at
that debate Barb Kirkmeyer, who has never turned down an
opportunity to come and present her vision, and representative Scott Bottoms,
who also has never turned down, to my knowledge and tunity,
to address a crowd and present his case for governor.
So I mean yeah, So first they tell the organizers

(05:08):
that it's not in their campaign strategy, and now on
X it's not that at all.

Speaker 5 (05:13):
It's we're not going to do a debate with that guy.

Speaker 6 (05:15):
Well you didn't say that, because in all honesty, we
may have said, you know what, you have a good point.
Maybe we'll just exclude Greg from this debate in order
to get Victor. I got to tell you when we
did the Weld County debate, Ryan Schuley and I moderated
a Weld County forum that was really really, really good,

(05:36):
really good, and Victor we tried to accommodate him. We
tried to accommodate his schedule. He just didn't want to
do it. And what's interesting is Victor put out a
video saying, I'm so proud I've accepted. I'm going to
do two debates, one at the Centennial institu one on television.

Speaker 5 (05:52):
And you know, I don't want to do these forums
that just dissolve into attacks or whatever. He said.

Speaker 6 (05:56):
I stopped listening because it's so stupid. But he's never
been to any of these forums.

Speaker 5 (06:01):
He has no idea what goes on.

Speaker 6 (06:04):
He has no idea the substantial conversations where candidates gave
real answers to how they would solve the problems of Colorado.
We haven't had one that I'm aware.

Speaker 5 (06:15):
Of, dissolve into a brawl. None of them. The notion
that somehow Victor Marx is above the fray.

Speaker 7 (06:25):
He's too good.

Speaker 5 (06:27):
He's too good of a man, of a person, of
a human being to be bothered doing the things that
politicians have to do. Oh god, the horror, the horror.

Speaker 6 (06:42):
It's just it's gross. If you don't want to do
the politician thing, don't be a politician. I heard Lauren
Bobert on another show earlier, or a SoundBite I don't
know when she was actually on the show, but she's
out making excuses for him about, oh, well, you can't
do all these Well guess what Lauren Obert did him
all last time. Lauren Bobert showed up at all these forums.

(07:05):
Why should he be any different? And then you have
his defenders who are so fragile. I got blocked today
by someone I've never heard of, someone I don't follow,
someone that I didn't even know existed. But they made
a dramatic show of telling me, well, if you're that again, goodbye,
ma me. And I'm like, I didn't even have a

(07:25):
chance to know who you were, so I can't possibly
be upset about that goodbye. This texture on the Common
Spirit health text line nailed it, Mandy. I think he's
trying to be Trump like in Colorado. That ain't gonna work.
Here's the big fat hairy difference between well, just one
of the many big fat hairy differences between Victor.

Speaker 5 (07:42):
Marks and Donald Trump.

Speaker 6 (07:45):
When Donald Trump ran in twenty sixteen, we already knew
about Donald Trump.

Speaker 5 (07:49):
We already knew about the guy.

Speaker 6 (07:50):
He was famous. He had TV shows for crime Andy's sake.
He was a guest on all kinds of stuff.

Speaker 5 (07:55):
We'd known him for thirty years, and you know what,
he's still still showed up.

Speaker 6 (08:01):
He showed up for the debates, and he annihilated the
competition in the debates. That's the other part about this.
If he's so afraid to be on stage with other
people because he's worried it's gonna dissolve into some kind
of a tag fest. Isn't he supposed to be billy badass?
Isn't that his whole persona high risk humanitarian work. That's

(08:21):
what I do because I'm such a badass. Oh, come on,
give me a break. So I had a great time
this morning responding to all these It was just it
was so fun.

Speaker 5 (08:31):
I know it's terrible. Really, this is like.

Speaker 6 (08:35):
Going on X and creating a problem is like my
new vice. Now, I don't create a problem. I don't
like call people names, I don't do stuff. But I'm
going to push back on every bit of idiocy that
annoys me. Now there's a lot of idiocy on X
that annoys me, but it's not worth responding. But this
stuff is important. This stuff is so important because this

(08:56):
guy could potentially be the next governor. Now I don't
think he will be I think if he does. On
the off chance that he is going to make it
through the general election, the Democratic Party, I can assure you,
has already done a very extensive deep dive on all
of his grandiose claims about his incredible past where he's
a black belt like fifteen times over jiu jitsu and

(09:19):
some other form of martial arts. I mean, it's so
fabulous that if he really thinks he's going to get
through the general election, like maybe the Republicans will go
soft on him.

Speaker 5 (09:28):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (09:29):
I would hope that there's Republicans out there doing opposition
research so we don't get Dan maysed again. And if
you weren't here for the Dan Mayes fiasco, I explained
it the other day. Just google Dan mays Mes and
just read it for yourself. It was Republicans getting behind
a guy who said all the right things, all the

(09:49):
right ways, and they did no investigating and he turned
out to be an absolute disaster. He came in third
in the governor's race third, and that's exactly what they're
doing again. So that was kind of fun today on
Twitter and at Mandy Connell. If you want to just
jump right in and see what's going on.

Speaker 5 (10:07):
Let's do the blog.

Speaker 6 (10:09):
Mandy, give the poor guy a break, says this texture
on the Common Spirit Health text line.

Speaker 5 (10:13):
He's out there saving children from the sayan man. Okay, yeah, Mandy.

Speaker 6 (10:19):
Victor Marx's interview this morning on another station was so
bizarre and incoherent. Frankly, he's worse than Dan May's. He's
showing himself to be a narcissist. Narcissist. Now that's funny
because I know the station you're talking about is KNUS,
because that's the only station that'll go on because Jeff Hunt,
who I know. I've served on a board with Jeff.
We're not best friends or anything like that. I think

(10:40):
Jeff is a smart guy. But Jeff Hunt is in
the bag for Victor Marx, and I just wish you
would admit it. I mean, it's fairly obvious.

Speaker 5 (10:47):
He goes on there and Victor's like, oh, listen to
all these amazing things I did, and just like wow,
so cool. It's it's just not anyway. Anyway.

Speaker 6 (11:00):
I noticed you asked me for money. Why are you
not willing to work for it? Are you intimidated by.

Speaker 5 (11:04):
Mandy says this Texter. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Mandy.

Speaker 6 (11:11):
If Mars is the nominee and doesn't answer these questions,
the Dems will destroy him in the general and he
will lose worse than height he did. Not only that,
he will bring down the rest of the ballot. That's
the important thing right now. Now, let's talk about the
blog because I got good stuff from the blog today.
We got good interviews today. If you know me, you
know I love my battle bots. And we're going straight
to the source today. Find the blog at mandy'sblog dot com.

(11:35):
That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline that says
four sixteen twenty six blog as Cherry Creek Schools gets
a deep dive.

Speaker 5 (11:42):
No excuse me, now see I already screwed it up, Anthony.
I haven't even watched you, now I know.

Speaker 6 (11:48):
As Cherry Creek Schools Turns gets a deep dive plus
battle bots.

Speaker 5 (11:53):
Click on that and here are the headlines you will
find within.

Speaker 7 (11:55):
The passage of time.

Speaker 6 (12:00):
Plan today on the blog as Cherry Creek Schools turn
a review, battle Blots is almost back. Dems want to
illegally take our Tabor refunds. Here's hoping Aurora doesn't backtrack.
Bad actors are fleecing the state and hurting autistic kids.
Dem lawmakers are selling guns. Makes selling guns harder and

(12:21):
committing crime easier. Scrolling the PUC screws Elbert County, PEPSI
cuts prices, sales jump, Europe is running out of jet fuel.
Denver's lying about homeless addiction? What is ozempic personality? Want
to find the nuggets in the playoffs. A jury finds
Live Nation to be an unfair monopoly.

Speaker 5 (12:40):
Chick fil A.

Speaker 6 (12:41):
Opens a drive through only store. Chronic loneliness leads to
memory issues. More young men are attending church services that time.
Eric Swalwell lectured Republicans about trusting women.

Speaker 5 (12:52):
War stuff for today.

Speaker 6 (12:54):
Eric Banks are working with the US to seize more
Iranian assets. Israel and Lebanon are meeting today. Trya demands
a run, open up the straight of horror moves want to.

Speaker 5 (13:03):
Ask her out?

Speaker 6 (13:04):
Please fill out this form. Premature jocularity ends a run
to a state championship. Carnival gets dinged for a drunken passenger.
Mishap of course, bears float Pokemon takes the field. What
a toy jeep, some creativity and an iPhone can do
Denver can be downright beautiful.

Speaker 5 (13:22):
Space Ball's too. The new one is coming. Those are
the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Tick tech two.

Speaker 5 (13:31):
Come on, Nancy, come on, come on. There was a
tiny stumble I recovered.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
You made her way for the blog. She made you
wait for the winner. There we go.

Speaker 6 (13:44):
That's fine, that's okay. I'll take it, Nancy, I will
take it. Today, at one o'clock, we are gonna have
Molly Lamar on the show. Molly Lamar is the mom
that you want in your school district.

Speaker 5 (13:55):
Okay, Molly.

Speaker 6 (13:57):
I love Mollie because Mollie started noticing things in Cherry
Creek schools. And we'll get into how she got so
invested in what's happening in Cherry Creek schools.

Speaker 5 (14:07):
And now Molly has become a full.

Speaker 6 (14:10):
Blown like activist advocate for better schools than Cherry Creek.
And if you are a long time Denver residents, you
probably were, like Manday, Cherry Creek schools are known to
be the best.

Speaker 5 (14:22):
Yeah, not anymore. Not anymore. They have not even gotten
back up to pre pandemic learning levels in Cherry Creek.
They have fallen so.

Speaker 6 (14:31):
Far off they're just off off a cliff, not off
a cliff. I mean they're not you know, they're not Denver,
to be clear, but they are in as shambles. And
today we're gonna kind of go through it because Mollie
has her finger on the pulse of Cherry Creek schools.

Speaker 5 (14:48):
And if you are a Cherry Creek parent or taxpayer.

Speaker 6 (14:52):
I am begging you, begging you to start engaging on
the school board because what's happening now is is I'm
not it could be criminal and I'm not engaging in hyperbole.
There could have been criminal activity and people are basically
being allowed to take out a huge payout and leave
and that at the same time they're doing layoffs, and

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they're firing teachers and they're getting rid of special ed assistants.
I mean, it's insane. It is absolutely insane. Molly will
be on at one and then at two thirty.

Speaker 5 (15:26):
I am so excited. If you've never seen the.

Speaker 6 (15:29):
Show BattleBots on Discovery, it is a show where they
have an octagon, a you know, a big ring, and
then two robots face off. Now they're not humanoid to robots, right,
They're more like low lying remote control vehicles. That do
things like shoot fire or have a sledgehammer or a

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flipper and they can flip the other and they just
go head to head and it is exciting.

Speaker 5 (15:57):
Don't believe me.

Speaker 6 (15:58):
I got thirty minutes of the best instruction moments on
BattleBots on the blog today, thirty minutes of robots blowing up.
So I love BattleBots. It is something we watch in
our household and we I mean, we love battle Bots.
And today at two thirty, we're going to talk to
executive producer and founder Greg Munson about the Pro League,
which is going on right now.

Speaker 5 (16:18):
I mean, it's just I love this stuff. I think
it's the coolest thing. Anyway.

Speaker 6 (16:24):
I also want to talk very very quickly about some
of the things that are happening. Well only one really
and this one really made me mad today because if
you already did your taxes, and tax day was yesterday,
so I hope you already did your taxes or filed
for an extension, you may have seen that your tabor
refund was what's the word pathetic?

Speaker 5 (16:44):
Pathetic? What was your ay rod? Do you remember? Non existent?

Speaker 7 (16:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (16:47):
Oh wait, oh nothing, Okay, the fat donut? Yeah, there
you go.

Speaker 6 (16:51):
Well that is because over the last few years, the
Democrats in the legislature have slowly, surely taken the money
that you overpaid and that you, by law, are supposed
to get back, and they have redirected those to favored classes,
people that they like better than you, who they think

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deserve your money more than you deserve it. And they've
done this over the last few years and in a
few different ways. But in this bill, you know, we
got a big budget deficit this year because they have overspent,
I mean overspent, and so they're trying to fill a
budget hole.

Speaker 5 (17:31):
And love this.

Speaker 6 (17:32):
I'm just gonna read this story from the Denver Gazette.
Tucked deep within the hundreds of pages of the proposed
forty six point eight billion dollar twenty twenty six twenty
twenty seven state budget is a line item showing three
hundred and six point one million in savings achieved by
canceling Tabor refunds.

Speaker 5 (17:52):
Oh yeah, yeah. The governor has.

Speaker 6 (17:55):
Recommended with holding Tabor refunds in the next two years.
His budget proposal says the state accidentally overpaid three hundred
and six point one million in refunds during the twenty
twenty five twenty twenty six fiscal year. According to the
governor's office, the overpayment stemmed from federal budgetary changes that
affected how the state calculated revenue for those years. The

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revised calculations led to higher than appropriate refunds being issued
this year, so these are higher higher tabor refunds by
democratic standards.

Speaker 5 (18:28):
The problem is is that the Joint Budget Committee staff told.

Speaker 6 (18:33):
Them in February that keeping that money would not be legal.
The memo says JBC staff recommends the committee waih the
potential legal risks of treating those funds like an over
refund against the potential benefits. So they're not even pretending anymore. Oh,
you got a budget surplus because you ever spent. Just

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take the people's money. Don't worry about asking them for it.

Speaker 7 (18:57):
Just take it.

Speaker 5 (18:58):
Just take it. It's super fun, super fun.

Speaker 6 (19:02):
So that's what got me going this morning, and then
my little fighting on Twitter, which was super fun.

Speaker 5 (19:07):
Excuse me X.

Speaker 6 (19:09):
You know it's just not as much fun to say
X as it is Twitter. Has there ever been a
worse rename than this? Can you think of something that
rebranded with a worse rebrand than this? I mean, it
is convenient to only have to type x dot com.

Speaker 5 (19:23):
That's it.

Speaker 6 (19:24):
Just you know, Mandy, get the Colorado BattleBots team on
the show. As a matter of fact, two two Colorado teams.
And our good friend who has the Copperhead robot. He's
the one that connected me with Greg. So I'm super
excited about it all. Nineteen big dollars for low income taxpayers. Wow,

(19:44):
says this texter.

Speaker 5 (19:45):
You're right, Mandy.

Speaker 6 (19:47):
I like how Colorado Democrats blame Trump for funding shortages
and off the millions of dollars they're blowing on illegal
aliens for free crap. Another fair point from the text
line downright good point.

Speaker 5 (19:58):
How is that legal? Says this text The point is
it's not. But who sues is.

Speaker 6 (20:03):
That the taxpayer is getting shorted? I would say so,
but who's gonna take that case? We need, you know what,
maybe we just need a crowdfund. We need to start
a legal fund where people just pay in and then
we use that just to sue the state of Colorado
on behalf of citizens. Because no one else is doing it,
no one else is gonna step up and make it happen,

(20:25):
so we may as well just Hey, we're here, We're
gonna make it. We're gonna make sure it happens, Mandy.
Lawmakers making money, oh to taking money, oh to me
is so upsetting. Every time I bring it up with
my coworkers, they like to tell me that a lot
of states don't have tabor, So why am I mad?

Speaker 8 (20:39):
Really?

Speaker 6 (20:39):
It seems like a lot of people don't like keeping
government spending in check. Exactly, exactly exactly. So here's what
I would like you to go back and say to
your coworkers. Just say to your coworkers, hey, you know
what this company is supposed to pay you. But what
if I decided to redirect your paycheck, your money that
you earn your money to some other cause that I

(21:02):
thought was better. Maybe we're gonna save puppies and kittens.
Maybe we're gonna buy baby food. I don't know, some
great soundings. What if I redirected that? How would you
feel about that? Because that's exactly what the Colorado Legislature
has done. We are gonna take a very quick time
out when we get back. Holy Macaroni, we got a
lot of stuff on the blog today. It's gonna be
a busy show. You better just hang on and hope

(21:24):
to keep up. Keep it right here on Koa you
may know that Xcel Energy is about to string a
massive high transmission line through El Paso and Elbert County. Now,
neither el Passo nor Elbert County get energy from Xcel Energy.
But Xcel Energy wanted to do a straight shot to

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get energy from their wind farms on the Eastern Plains
to the Denver metro area. And instead of going around
the counties that they do not service and going more
to the east where it will create less of a
disruption and disrupt few were family homes and things of
that nature, Excel decided to take it to the PUC,

(22:05):
the Public Utilities Commission.

Speaker 5 (22:07):
And you already know how this ends, right.

Speaker 6 (22:10):
I saw the headline and I'm like, well, that was
absolutely unsurprising. The headline is Elbert County effort to block
Excel's one point seven billion dollar power pathway upended by
the PUC. Now, this is an interesting headline, and it's
gonna give me an opportunity to talk about framing. This
is one of the things I talked about the other
day when I was speaking to the kids in the

(22:30):
ap government class. When the Colorado Sun chooses to write
a headline that says Elbert County effort to block Excel's
one point seven billion dollar power pathway. They very easily
could have reframed it as Excel forces its will on
Elbert County. Now that's a much different perspective, isn't it.

(22:52):
This is why when The Colorado Sun came out, I
subscribed right away. I wanted to support a new form
of journalism. And I did that for about three months,
and I was like, oh, it's exactly the same as
the old forms of journalism.

Speaker 7 (23:04):
You know.

Speaker 6 (23:05):
Anyway, here's the kicker. The ruling was based on a
statute used just three times in twenty one years, allowing
regulators to override local land use decisions on electric and
gas infrastructure projects. Now what I'd love to do, I'd
love to get the fake libertarian Governor Jared Pulis's opinion
on this, because he loves to talk about local control.

(23:26):
We love local control as long as you are making
it more difficult to buy a gun or more difficult.

Speaker 5 (23:32):
To do something we disagree with. So here, Albert County's.

Speaker 6 (23:36):
Like, yeah, we're not getting any of this energy, and
you want to take it right through people's livestock, and
you want to take it through people's yards.

Speaker 5 (23:44):
So hard passed and yet it's happening anyway.

Speaker 6 (23:48):
But I'd love to put the governor on the sort
of like, hey, here you go, because he loves to
talk about local control unless it's zoning, which he just
sort of led the effort to have the state takeover
zoning to decisions at least around high transit areas.

Speaker 7 (24:02):
Well.

Speaker 5 (24:02):
How do you feel about this?

Speaker 6 (24:03):
You got people that are going to have their property
taken by eminent domain for something that they get zero
benefit from.

Speaker 5 (24:11):
Like roll that around in your head.

Speaker 6 (24:13):
Eminent domain, as it was early conceived, was supposed to
be for the benefit of the population. It was serving right,
the population that we're going to be directly affected by
the seizure of property. Now the whole concept of eminent
domain has gone to a place that I think our
founding fathers would be horrified by. Where now where they're
taking properties in the name of economic development or something

(24:36):
like that. But this is one of those times where
Elbert County gets no economic benefit from this eminent domain.
El Paso County gets no benefit from the eminent domain
projects that are going to take place there. Excel, by
the way, could have moved the power line there was
an alternate route, but it costs more money. So instead

(24:56):
of that, they're just going to take the property of
the people in Elbert and l Pass County. And what
I'd like to know, and I tried to reach out
this morning, but I ran out of time before the show.
I'm going to reach out to the el Pounty el
Paso or excuse me, Elbert County commissioners and say, what's next.

Speaker 5 (25:11):
Can you appeal this? Because you know what I would
love to see. And this is just me being snotty.

Speaker 6 (25:17):
And I know, I know it's just me being snotty,
But after all the ways that environmentalists have used the
courts to shut down any sort of a project that
they deem environmentally bad, whether it's nuclear development, whether it's coal,
whether it's any of the really efficient ways to create energy,

(25:38):
and I would just love to see a little of
the same back at them, right, Oh, yeah, you know what,
you want to build these It's gonna take a while
because we're gonna have to go through the court system.
I don't understand how you can argue that using eminent
domain in a county where none of the people are
going to benefit from the project is in any way
how that was supposed to be used in the first place.

(26:00):
Super frustrating and I am watching and I have your back, Albert,
I have your back el Paso on this.

Speaker 5 (26:08):
When you look at the map and the Colorado Sun
has the map.

Speaker 6 (26:14):
They are looking to take this thing in a five
path or in a five segment path, and they're going
to ask for a six path. So they had no
problems securing the right of way for the five hundred
and fifty mile loop until they got to El Paso
and Elbert counties.

Speaker 5 (26:33):
Well, those are the two areas that have the most population.

Speaker 7 (26:37):
Now.

Speaker 6 (26:37):
I know Elbert County is small, I get it. I
actually go to Elbert County on a somewhat regular basis.
I know it's small, but people live there, and people
should have the expectation that they're not going to have
their property sees for a project that they get zero
value from. That to me is the kicker that is
That's that for me feels like the legal argument, how

(27:01):
are you going to take our stuff for something we
get no benefit from. Mandy, have you seen in the
news channel video of Polus complaining about the oil drilling
right next to his vacation property.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (27:11):
Yes, when that came out many years ago, and I
actually have said on the air, I think that's part
of where the animus towards the oil and gas industry
really comes from. With Jared Polis, I don't think he's
a principal guy when it comes to green energy.

Speaker 5 (27:27):
I just don't.

Speaker 6 (27:29):
What's remarkable about Jared Polis in his ongoing war against
oil and gas is that he's smart. You guys, I
may dislike his politics, but I never ever ever.

Speaker 5 (27:39):
Question his intelligence.

Speaker 6 (27:41):
He has to see what's already happened in nations that
have already done the things that we're doing right. I mean,
he has to see that in Germany, when they raced
towards green energy, to the link that they shut down
all of their nuclear power plants. Twenty years ago, they
had eighteen nuclear power plants in Germany.

Speaker 9 (28:02):
Eighteen.

Speaker 5 (28:02):
Do you know how many they have now zero?

Speaker 6 (28:05):
And that's all because they pursued net zero and in
the process they've destroyed their economy.

Speaker 5 (28:13):
I mean, he has to know this.

Speaker 6 (28:17):
He has to know that whatever he's doing right now
is going to have a devastating effect if we get
to the same point that Germany's gotten to, or any
other nation that relies on renewable energy in terms of manufacturing.

Speaker 5 (28:30):
Forget about data centers.

Speaker 6 (28:32):
That's a fantasy unless data centers start moving towards what
I hope small modular reactors to power the data centers.
Why would anyone come to a state pursuing net zero
in an industry that consumes a ton of energy and
it needs a twenty four to seven, right, It's not
like it's a nine to five business where at five
o'clock that's all gonna shut down and you go, okay,

(28:54):
we got time.

Speaker 5 (28:55):
No, no, no, no, not at all.

Speaker 6 (29:01):
So I'll be following this. But Elbert County, I'm holding
my fist up in solidarity with you. El Paso County,
I'm now holding the other fist up in solidarity with you,
and that spells touchdown.

Speaker 5 (29:15):
We'll be right back. Keep it on Koa Mandy.

Speaker 6 (29:18):
Maybe they'll find the Prebble's Meadow jumping mouse has some
habitat in Elbert County.

Speaker 5 (29:23):
It slowed us down at Rocky Flats for years. That's
what I'm talking about.

Speaker 6 (29:27):
Anybody got a rare bug Ooh I just downloaded this
app on my phone and oh crap, what's it called?
After I said that, it's called I Naturalist, ay Rod.
You can take a picture with this app and it'll
tell you what kind of bug it is. Do you
have any idea how cool that is? When you like,
in Florida, I know all the bugs, right because I
grew up there. You got all kinds of disgusting, horrible

(29:50):
bugs in Florida. You move out here, there's hardly any bugs,
which is magical, but they're weird and I don't know
what they are. So now I naturalist. For all those
people who are about to email me about that, Mandy,
those net zero failures just did it wrong. Jared knows
how to do it right, just like the communism argument. Yes, indeed, Mandy,

(30:13):
I live in Crowley County and my family was eminent
domain for the southern segment between May Valley and Pueblo.
We found out the hard way that the utility is
not obligated to negotiate.

Speaker 5 (30:25):
So here's the thing with the way this is going.

Speaker 6 (30:27):
And you're the second person that has given me a
version of events that said, look, they came in and
said this is what we're offering, and we're like, we
don't think that's fair, and they were like sorry, that's
what we're offering, and now we're going to take it
via eminent domain. So essentially they're already doing eminent domain
because they know the PUC is going to rubber stamp
whatever they want to do. Sad but true, sad but true.

(30:47):
All in the name of green energy, green energy. Yep, yep, yep.
Got all that stuff going on right now. I have
a couple of videos on the blog today that I
actually think a rod when when you sent me this
baseball video. So these kids are up for a state championship,

(31:08):
right it's Hornell versus pal Mack. Okay, and it's it's
five to four Hornell at the bottom of the seventh.

Speaker 5 (31:17):
How is at the bottom of the seventh and this
is the this is the last out?

Speaker 10 (31:22):
Is this like a U.

Speaker 5 (31:23):
Eighteen game or something? Yeah, it might be. They go
a little shorter.

Speaker 6 (31:25):
Okay, it might be a U eighteen game, but nonetheless,
bottom of the seventh and this kid hits, well, kind
of whiffs a third.

Speaker 5 (31:34):
I don't know what happened, but.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
All the other dent it's a swinging strike that the
catcher has to like catch and like off the foul
tip or then tag the player got it to get
it to the end of game.

Speaker 6 (31:46):
Okay, the player kid fouls, foul tips the other team. Hornell,
which is in the lead, starts celebrating, and then you
hear from the crowd that's the second out. So the
kids thought it was the third out. It was the
second out. This guy just jogs around the bases and
they had guys on base, so there are guys come
around and score, and Paul Mack comes back from behind

(32:09):
to beat Hornell, and prematurity, premature jocularity does it again.
My friends never celebrate until the fat lady sings.

Speaker 5 (32:19):
He wrote, make sure you tag the guy. Yes, yes,
Those are.

Speaker 6 (32:23):
Always so heartbreaking to me when they make such a
It's like whenever you see somebody score a goal in
the wrong direction, you know, whether it's hockey or it's
soccer or whatever. We've had that happen in football, you know,
where a fumbles recovery and then the guy starts running
the wrong way. I just think to myself, Oh, I
just want to give him a big hug and say

(32:43):
I'm sorry you made that really, really embarrassing and egregious mistake,
because I've made really embarrassing and egregious mistakes on the radio.
It sucks, and then you got to live with knowing
that you've just brought it on yourself because you did
that kind of thing. So coming up in the next hour,
Mollie Lamar is going to join me.

Speaker 9 (33:03):
She is.

Speaker 6 (33:06):
A mom in Cherry Creek Schools. I'll let her explain
how she got involved in this whole thing. But Cherry
Creek Schools, you are in a mess. How big? How
big is the mess? The Denver Post editorial board wrote
an editorial basically yelling at the Cherry Creek School District

(33:29):
that's how bad it is. And Molly's going to come
on and lay it out for you now. Also in
the next hour, I have a couple of things about Aurora. Now,
you guys know, if you've listened to the show for
a while, that when the prior Aurora City Council was
in they had a conservative majority, and they took advantage

(33:52):
of that conservative majority and they made some really big swings,
had some really big problems in Aurora. They got the
Rara Navigation Center open and that has not been without bumps.
It's you know, they opened it too soon. Now everybody's
saying the building wasn't ready. We weren't ready, but whatever,
it's open. It's a completely different approach to homelessness than
any other community around is using.

Speaker 5 (34:14):
And they also really sort of went after crime.

Speaker 6 (34:18):
In the high crime areas in Aurora, and they hired
police Chief Todd Chamberlain, who by all accounts he is
well liked by the men.

Speaker 5 (34:29):
He is very fair minded. I you know, with the
last series of chiefs in a row, I had a.

Speaker 6 (34:36):
Steady drip of negative information from people within the area
police department.

Speaker 5 (34:43):
That stopped.

Speaker 9 (34:45):
Now.

Speaker 6 (34:45):
It doesn't mean it's been replaced with a steady drip
of you know, accolades or wow, this guy's the greatest
thing ever. But the fact that those drips of information
about people playing favorites and at a lot of politics
in the office and things like that, I'm not getting
any that now, and they exist, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (35:02):
Maybe they fired my sources, I don't know.

Speaker 6 (35:04):
But the reality is is that Todd Chamberlain and the
Aurora Police Department, working under a decree because of what
happened with Elijah McClain, they have done a remarkable job.
Aurora has seen a larger drop in crime than Denver,
and it's been significant really significant. So when a progressive

(35:25):
board got voted in in Aurora, the only thing I say.

Speaker 5 (35:29):
Is like, please don't unknew the things that they did right.

Speaker 6 (35:34):
You may disagree with him politically, one of the dumbest
things Joe Biden did when he got into office was
to just do a blanket reversal of everything Trump did
by executive order. Now he has the right to to
be clear. But Trump didn't do everything wrong right now Congress.
Congress should have codified a lot of that into law,
and then he couldn't just erase it. But nonetheless, just

(35:55):
because you hate someone else and hate their politics.

Speaker 5 (35:57):
It doesn't mean they're always wrong.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
That's just the way it is.

Speaker 5 (36:01):
That's how I feel about Trump. It's like, just because I.

Speaker 6 (36:03):
Think he's an a hole sometimes doesn't mean he's always wrong.
We're gonna take a time out. Molly Lamar coming up next.

Speaker 5 (36:08):
Keep it on KOA.

Speaker 1 (36:10):

Speaker 2 (36:15):
No, it's Mandy Connell Mann.

Speaker 5 (36:23):
Nine Am, stay the Nicey Prey.

Speaker 4 (36:32):
And Connal Keithing sad bab Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the
second hour of the show, and over the last few weeks,
I've had a lot of headlines on.

Speaker 6 (36:42):
The blog that start with as Cherry Creek Schools turns
because the soap opera over at Cherry Creek Schools has
been insane and in the worst possible way. A school
district that used to be the crown jewel of the
metro area has now been dethroned by the crown jewel
of the area that I live in, Douglas County, and

(37:02):
their students in some areas have not returned to pre
pandemic learning levels. This is a disaster, and when you
look at the leadership of the district, it all starts
to come together. Now the Denver Post, that Denver Post,
the left leaning Denver Post who always endorses the candidates
that are endorsed by the Teacher's union, right, I mean

(37:24):
that Denver Post has an absolute scorcher of an editorial
today calling on the Cherry Creek School Board to actually
do something about some of this and joining me.

Speaker 5 (37:35):
Now, she is a mom, she is a woman on
a mission, and she has to be the.

Speaker 6 (37:41):
Biggest thorn in the side of Cherry Creek Schools that
there is. Molly Lamar, Welcome back to the show.

Speaker 7 (37:47):
Oh gosh, whoever wanted that that name?

Speaker 5 (37:52):
But you take pride, take pride in that.

Speaker 7 (37:54):
Yeah, well thanks for having me on, Mandy. I'm a
Cherry Creek grad. I put three kids through these schools
already I have my fourth is headed to high school
next year. I absolutely love this district. But what we
are seeing right now isn't excellence. It's an executive protection racket.

(38:14):
The district is telling parents they have to cut one
hundred and fifty nine positions, including the parents who they
support our special education and gifted students. They're simultaneously handing
out six figure golden parachutes to these departing administrators. And

(38:34):
the worst part is that they knew this budget crisis
was coming. Last June's budget they pulled, they pulled millions
out of their savings, and now again in January, they
just pulled millions more. They knew they were overspending. And
now these golden parachutes are crazy. We're talking about one

(38:55):
hundred and sixty five thousand dollars for a superintendent who's
leaving under a cloud of toxic allegations. And the other
one is the associate superintendent for the special education department.
Tony Poole, who's leaving with one hundred and ninety thousand dollars.

Speaker 6 (39:14):
Well, let's we got to back this train up to
the station just a little bit, because you jumped right into.

Speaker 5 (39:19):
The end like that's the end. Oh howdy, there's some
history here. Let's get back to and we'll do this
as concisely as possible. But it's quite the soap opera.

Speaker 6 (39:30):
So at what point, how long ago was it that
accusations of a toxic workplace and bullying? When did that
stuff start to bubble up to your knowledge? And then
it got picked up by the media. The Denver Gazette
did a story on it, like months and months and
months ago, and then all of a sudden it somehow
got legs.

Speaker 5 (39:50):
Can you give me a little bit of that background?

Speaker 7 (39:52):
Oh in Actually, in May of twenty twenty two, a
former Board of Education member wrote a letter to the
Board of Education saying, we have what looks like conflicts
of interest and nepotism here with our superintendent and his
wife is the chief of HR, and there have been

(40:13):
rumblings of a toxic work culture. Just to we spoke
earlier about Douglas County, the top administrators all in Cherry Creek.
When you go through and look, they all come from
Douglas County back in the day. So Brenda Smith was

(40:35):
actually the union president for Douglas County. She was let
go in twenty twelve they didn't renew the teachers' union
contracts and she came to Cherry Creek. But when you
look back at her history at in Douglas County, same accusations.

(40:56):
Toxic work culture under Brenda Smith at Douglas County. So
lucky us, we inheritage or or how we made a
choice and took your sloppy seconds, lucky us, and now
we're just swimming in corruption, mismanagement of funds, toxic work culture.

(41:17):
But also to your point, in twenty twenty two, when
this allegation first came out from this board member, instead
of addressing it our Board of Education, the president at
the time, Kelly Bates, she simply rewrote policy and said
that it's okay, we will just now have the chief

(41:42):
of HR reporting to the associate superintendent instead of the superintendent.

Speaker 5 (41:48):
Oh wait, let me just make sure I heard that correctly.

Speaker 6 (41:51):
So now the HR head is going to report to
someone whose boss is her husband.

Speaker 5 (41:59):
Yes, no, conflict at all. There, nothing at all, No,
nothing at all.

Speaker 7 (42:03):
Ten.

Speaker 6 (42:04):
Yeah, sure that would be fine. Yeah, I'm positive that
would be okay, Okay, continue, I'm sorry.

Speaker 7 (42:09):
Well, so, when all of this came so thankfully, Denver
seven aired a massive expose, a uncovering what many of
us already knew, which was a pervasive toxic culture, blatant nepotism,
and a complete disregard for financial accountability. And what happened

(42:30):
next was a literal executive exodus. So within weeks of
that report, Superintendent Chris Smith, the man at the helm
of our excellence, suddenly resigned. He actually never even handed
in a resignation. He just walked out the door. But
it wasn't just him. It turned out the district office

(42:51):
had become a family business. So you know, both a
superintendent's wife, Brenda Smith, who is running HR, and super
assistant Superintendent Tony Poole his wife Rebecca Lopez, they were
all placed on leave. So Smith walks out the door,

(43:12):
and now we have three administrators placed on leave. The
thing is is that all of this information we're in
the news constantly right now, clear evidence of international travel,
mismanagement of funds, and yet we're still paying these administrators.

(43:34):
They are still on leave.

Speaker 6 (43:36):
Why I don't know, and I think it speaks to
the board's weakness. Of the Board of Education in Cherry
Creek has absolutely mishandled their duties in this situation. They
have absolutely crapped all over the taxpayers. They have crapped
all over all the teachers who work in Cherry Creek

(43:56):
who have had to report to two married couples. Now,
I just want you guys to think about this for
a second. This is a school district with a billion
dollar budget and you have two married couples at the top.

Speaker 5 (44:08):
So who are you going to complain to?

Speaker 6 (44:10):
You If you have a problem with anyone at the top,
who are you going to out them to the director
of HR who's married to the superintendent or the assistant
superintendent who's married to someone else in a leadership position.
The fact that all this was allowed to happen is
beyond the pale, right. The only way this would ever
happen in real life outside of government is if a
family and a family started a business together.

Speaker 5 (44:31):
But that's not what this is.

Speaker 6 (44:33):
So has the board done anything towards, first of all,
changing those rules that were changed back in twenty twenty two.

Speaker 5 (44:40):
Has that been changed back yet? Is that on the docket.

Speaker 7 (44:42):
No? And really, what they've done is they've just fired
up the PR machine. I mean they've they promised us
cleanups and total transparency. They launched a shiny new accountability website,
promising an external audit committee, swore they were overhauling travel
and spending policies. But the reality is, Mandy, that a

(45:05):
website is not accountability. It's it's simply a marketing tool
designed to pacify us as parents while the same insiders
stay in power. And you've mentioned we've talked about two couples, right,
there are multiple couples. Oh yeah, I mean we have
the chief technology officer, he hired his wife as the

(45:29):
website director, Toby Arratola. He's the associate superintendent. He oversees
literacy and curriculum. His wife is a literacy coach and
she reports to him. I mean, it's it just goes
on and on, and they're all friends and this and
the Scott Smith, our CFO, has now been placed on

(45:52):
the audit committee. So the guy who writes all the
checks is now it's like craading your own homework.

Speaker 5 (45:59):
Oh my god, oh my god, this isn't happening.

Speaker 7 (46:05):
But it's not funny.

Speaker 6 (46:06):
It's not funny because they're laying off teachers, they're laying
off para professionals who help with special needs kids. They
I mean, they're making decisions that are abs I mean,
this is cool. I had no idea that the nepotism
thing was that severe. Now when people are are parents
coming to school board meetings, are they angry about this yet?

(46:27):
Because I will tell you, I think a lot of
Cherry Creek parents are like, but it's Cherry Creek. Everything
is so great here.

Speaker 5 (46:33):
It's not great.

Speaker 6 (46:35):
Your tax dollars are being squandered by people that are
not taking the education of your children seriously.

Speaker 7 (46:41):
So the last three board meetings have shown excellent attendance.
I'm very grateful for you know, I'm very grateful for
the media to finally step up and start exposing all
of this. Let me say thank you. I so appreciate
being here today. It's really helping drive parents and exposing

(47:04):
all of this information. But it's unfortunately it's not enough.
You know, a lot of times parents will show up
because they find out that one department is facing cuts,
like the special education, right, and then they go back
to and I don't I don't want to be insulting
to anyone. And ignorance is bliss.

Speaker 5 (47:26):
Right, Ignorance is easy.

Speaker 7 (47:28):
Yeah, yes, yes, exactly. And we have a real issue.
I mean this, we need to cut We should not
be cutting teacher jobs. We should be cutting these administrators immediately.
And I put posted on my Facebook today I'm at

(47:49):
Molly for co kids and posted the ten the ten administrators. Oh,
I believe it's nine, the ten, the nine administrators that
need to go immediately, and that would get us going
in the right direction. But talk about saving a lot
of money. Yeah, that's a quick way to do it.

Speaker 5 (48:11):
Well, I'm looking right now.

Speaker 6 (48:14):
I'm gonna say, I'm just doing a quick check because
one of the things that Douglas County has done an
amazing job that a lot of conservatives in Douglas County
don't believe. But I've looked at the budget and look
I have compared. They have thinned the herd on the
administrative level, and they are running so lean compared to
Cherry Creek and compared to Denver, Holy cow, Denver is

(48:35):
so bloated. It's unbelievable and their kids still can't read
and write. But the reality is is you're right, it's
the administrative state that costs so much. ADMIN per thousand
students in Cherry Creek right now is five point three.
In Douglas County, it's four point eight. And we already
talked about results. Douglas County is now lapping Cherry Creek
by a good bit when it comes to academic achievement.

(48:56):
And you know a lot of parents move into the
Cherry Creek school district so they can attend those schools
because of their reputation.

Speaker 5 (49:03):
But the reputation is not holding. It's just not there.
I mean, it just isn't no that.

Speaker 7 (49:09):
I think to your point. We talk about the Cherry
Creek way, but the data shows a different story. We're
seeing a steady decline and academic achievement across the district.
But it's worse than just test scores. It's about fundamental
civil rights. The cd the Colorado Department of Education recently
confirmed that CCSD violated federal law. Every time I talk

(49:34):
about this story, it brings tears to my eyes. We
failed to provide required sign language interpreters for deaf students.
A district with a billion dollar budget left students in
a vacuum because they couldn't or wouldn't manage basic services.
And who's the district targeting to fix their budget mess?

(49:55):
The front line. We're taking our paras and gifted and
special education. They're the lowest paid but hardest working people
in our buildings who show up every day for our
most vulnerable kids, and the district is literally telling these
essential workers there's no room for them.

Speaker 6 (50:13):
Well, Mollie, I'm gonna take it one step further because
a lot of people might have that fleeting thought of
I don't have a special needs kid. So we'll guess
what a lot of those special needs kids are in
mainstream classrooms. So when they don't have that paraprofessional there
to help, the teacher now has to direct more energy
to helping kids who need a little extra help, and
that means that the rest of the kids are going

(50:33):
to have to wait until the teacher can take her
divided attention away. This doesn't just affect those kids, It
affects every kid in that classroom, and it's not fair
to any of them to go and do this. I
have another stat that I just looked up really quick Molly.
Cherry Creek Schools has fifty five seven hundred students, right,
and Douglas County has sixty one two hundred students, so

(50:55):
it's slightly bigger. Cherry Creek has three hundred and nine
administrators student Douglas County has two hundred and seventy eight.

Speaker 5 (51:03):
So to your point, there's room at the top, right, I.

Speaker 6 (51:06):
Mean, there's room to really loosen up some significant funds
to make sure that the kids don't have to be
the one to suffer. Now, how is the school board responding?
I mean, are they listening in the school board meetings?
Are they indicating that they're going to try and course
correct in a significant way?

Speaker 8 (51:26):
Are they?

Speaker 6 (51:26):
I mean, other than the fancy accountability website, what action
I would?

Speaker 7 (51:30):
Okay, So I was going to say that, you know,
if you think the worst is behind us, look at
what happened just this past Monday at our school board meeting.
The district is literally playing a fiscal shell game that
should alarm every single taxpayer. They moved interest earned from
the bond redemption fund and directly into the general fund.

(51:54):
So you know, when voters approve a bond, it's a
contract for buildings and infrastructure, not a slush fund to
cover up a budget deficit. At the very least, it's
a broken promise and at worst, it's potentially illegal.

Speaker 6 (52:08):
So how do you stop that? Or I mean, are
there could a parent sue over that? If so, are
there attorneys working on this? I mean, the problem is
the government knows that if they do stuff that is
unconstitutional or against the law, they realize that parents are
there going to have to mobilize, They're gonna have to
fund raise, they're gonna have to find an attorney who's
going to do it on the cheap, and then they're

(52:29):
going to sue. They're counting on you to run out
of steam and money, right because they have endless money
from us, Like you're basically paying for both sides of
the lawsuits. So what happens in this sense, what can
Cherry Creek parents honestly do well?

Speaker 7 (52:43):
I mean, honestly, we hope that the board changes course.
We don't want parents. I mean again, I go back
to I'm a Cherry Creek grad. My four children are
have been Cherry Creek students. I have zero desire to
sue Cherry Creek schools. That is not where my heart

(53:04):
is the board needs to change course. They need to
you know, when parents need to show up at these
board meetings and make the board look us in the
eye and tell us exactly what they're doing. They need
to do a not just an internal audit. We need
an external audit committee to come in. We want the truth.

(53:25):
We want Yes, it's bad, we know it's bad. You
can see that it's bad. But instead of sticking a
band aid on it and hoping it just you know,
we start looking the other way and then you can
fix it behind the scenes. Let's get to the bottom
of the problem. Let's get to the root of the rock,
cut it out and get back to what our charge

(53:49):
really is, which is educating students and restoring the legacy
of excellence in Cherry Creek. Let's bring back the Cherry
Creek way.

Speaker 6 (53:59):
The only way that's going to happen as if parents
show up and they and they show up loudly, and
they show up with the attitude that they're not going
to leave right, and it's we're gonna have to fix this.

Speaker 5 (54:09):
Molly Lamur is my guest. She's just a mom. How
did you get involved in all of this in the
first place, Like what happened.

Speaker 7 (54:17):
I thought that maybe I would run for school board,
and this was in twenty twenty one, and I received
some threatening messages, No, you shouldn't run for school board.
We've got this handled, stay away, and I thought, that
is so strange. You know, when it was during COVID

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and trying to get kids back in school, and just
really started paying attention, peeling back the layers of the onion,
and every time I got a little bit, it just
smelled worse and worse. And now we're five years later,
and I'm Mandy, I'm so grateful. I'm so grateful for

(55:03):
the exposure and the focus because the reality is that
the children are bearing the brunt of this corruption and
financial mismanagement, and in addition to that, we're losing wonderful
people who are devoted to ensuring they get an excellent education.
And I can't and won't stand by and let it happen.

Speaker 6 (55:25):
Mollie and I were talking before the came on the air,
and I'm like, you know, these kids are going to
be the ones that are doing our knee replacements in
the future, Like we need to make sure that they
are getting a quality education. And as it stands, now
from the outside looking in, over the past few years,
it seems like Cherry Creek has, much like Jeff co,
has been very invested in all of the gender crap,

(55:47):
the you know, all of the social garbage that has
been going on, when they should have been focused like
a laser on getting kids back up to speed and
even beyond their pre pandemic learning levels, which is what
other school districts like Doug have done. So Molly Lamar,
I really appreciate it. I hope that you are the
front edge of a movement, right. I hope that parents

(56:08):
hear this and go, what the heck what is happening
in my school district and start showing up and start
making just making hay and I hope we can see
some change in Cherry Quik.

Speaker 5 (56:17):
We'll have you on again soon to kind of get
an update.

Speaker 7 (56:20):
Thank you, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (56:20):
All right, that's Molly Lamar. Molly, thank you, and we
will be right back.

Speaker 6 (56:26):
Keep it on KOA as we move through a very
important show leading up to our interview at two thirty with.

Speaker 5 (56:31):
The founder of BattleBots.

Speaker 6 (56:33):
And I'm a little too excited about this, a lot
too excited about this. Now, got a couple of things
that I want to chat about very very quickly. One
of them is how in one legislative session you begin
to see how Colorado has seen an explosion in violent

(56:53):
crime rates. How big is the explosion? Well, I did
a little research this morning, so you don't have to.
We'll get to that in a moment. So what are
they working on in this legislative session? First of all,
they created another bill, and somebody had texted in to
Barb Kirkmeyer about the gun registry bill, and she.

Speaker 5 (57:13):
Was like, I don't know that might be in the House.

Speaker 7 (57:15):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (57:16):
The bill that I think that person was referring to
is a House Bill twenty six eleven twenty six titled
Requirements for Firearm Dealers. It is now on Jared Polus's
desk the Fake Libertarian to be signed.

Speaker 5 (57:30):
And this is what it does.

Speaker 6 (57:32):
The bill directs the Department of Revenue to adopt new
security rules for gun dealers, which must adopt the measures
and submit a plan to the state by October first
of next year. It would also require gun dealers to
keep an electronic record of firearm transfers and would allow
the state to find gun dealers up to seventy five

(57:53):
thousand dollars for some violations.

Speaker 5 (57:56):
Now, what is this bill going to do for safety?

Speaker 6 (57:59):
Nothing but what it is going to do. It's the
same way they've made being a landlord in Denver so miserable.
They're trying to make being a gun dealer in Colorado
so miserable and expensive that no one wants to do it.
That's the whole point here. There's literally nothing in this
bill that is going to make anyone safer. As a

(58:22):
matter of fact, let me read a little quote here,
this from Senator Kathy Kipp of Fort Collins. She sponsored
the bills Regulatory updates happen when we stand up a
department of qualified individuals, send them to work, and listen
to what they have to say.

Speaker 5 (58:39):
And these bills do exactly that.

Speaker 6 (58:42):
I'm proud to sponsor these two bills to optimize the
use of our resources, shore up protections against firearm theft,
and ultimately stop preventable acts of gun violence before they occur.

Speaker 5 (58:55):
Now, let me just say this, she.

Speaker 6 (58:57):
Is putting the blame for people stealing firearms on the
legal owners of the firearms. That's thing number one. Okay,
that's just patently absurd. If you want to prevent gun violence.
Put the people who perpetrate gun violence in prison. We know,
and studies have borne this out over and over and

(59:17):
over again. I'm not breaking any news here. There is
a small percentage of the population that commits a vast
majority of the violent crime. Right, they're gang members, their
career criminals. They're just bad people, and if you remove
them from society, an amazing thing happens.

Speaker 5 (59:35):
Gun violence goes down.

Speaker 6 (59:38):
Now, we've heard over and over again from Democrats as
they've passed many, many, many, many many gun bills since
they took power in twenty eighteen, we've heard that same line, right,
the same line, Oh, we're doing something about gun violence.

Speaker 5 (59:52):
So how effective has it been.

Speaker 6 (59:54):
Now, before I do this next bit, I realize that legislators,
there's Democrats more than Republicans, passed legislation not to actually
solve a problem, but so they can feel good about
believing that they are solving the problem, and they never
go back later and say did any of this work.

Speaker 5 (01:00:13):
No, they're not going to do that. So what I
grab some numbers.

Speaker 6 (01:00:17):
I grabbed the violent crime rate per one hundred thousand people. Right,
this is a pretty standard metric, that's pretty widely available.
So in twenty fifteen, Colorado sat at three hundred and
nine violent crimes per one hundred thousand people.

Speaker 5 (01:00:34):
Not bad, right, The US average at.

Speaker 6 (01:00:36):
That point was three hundred and seventy three for per
one hundred thousand, So you're looking at a difference of
you know, sixty five sixty four people. That's a pretty
significant split, right, But we were well below the national average.
Let's fast forward. Let's fast forward to twenty nineteen. Democrats

(01:00:57):
have taken over. We already know that they started to
decriminalize things that change the parole and all of that stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:01:05):
So now more people are getting out of prison. So
when does twenty nineteen look.

Speaker 6 (01:01:08):
Well, the national average has gone from three hundred and
seventy one per hundred thousand and twenty fifteen, it has
skyrocketed to three hundred and eighty one, up by an
average of eight violent crimes per hundred thousand.

Speaker 5 (01:01:21):
How did Colorado do in the same period. Remember, back in.

Speaker 6 (01:01:26):
Twenty fifteen, we were at three hundred, We were at
three hundred and nine per hundred thousand. Okay, in twenty
nineteen we went to four hundred and twenty three. That
is an increase of one hundred and fourteen violent crimes
per hundred thousand people in Colorado. And now we are
well above the national average, well above forty two above.

(01:01:51):
And it doesn't get better after that because crime continued
to go up, not just in Colorado but also across
the country in twenty twenty, and it hit it's peaked
nationally in twenty twenty, but not in Colorado.

Speaker 9 (01:02:04):
Oh No.

Speaker 6 (01:02:05):
In twenty twenty we were at four hundred and fifty
two violent crimes per one hundred thousand, and by twenty
twenty two that had gone up to four ninety three.
We peaked at four ninety three after the United States
peaked at three ninety nine two years earlier.

Speaker 5 (01:02:20):
How have we done so far? And how are we
doing since?

Speaker 6 (01:02:23):
Well, in twenty twenty four, the US national average dropped
down significantly to lower than it was in twenty thirteen
or twenty fifteen, the first year we looked at it
went down to three hundred and fifty nine per hundred thousand.
So how about Colorado? Are we back down to below

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where we were in twenty fifteen?

Speaker 5 (01:02:46):
Not hardly.

Speaker 6 (01:02:48):
In twenty fifteen we were sitting at three hundred and
nine violent crimes now we're sitting at four hundred and
twenty three.

Speaker 7 (01:02:54):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:02:55):
Between twenty nineteen and twenty twenty five, the Democrats have
done nothing but make owning a gun, buying a gun,
get license to carry a gun more difficult.

Speaker 5 (01:03:05):
They have consistently gone after.

Speaker 6 (01:03:06):
Again and again and again, law abiding gun owners, law
abiding gun stores. They continue to go after the same
people who are not committing the crimes. At the same time,
in this legislative session, we have yet another bill, another bill.

Speaker 5 (01:03:25):
To make crime easier in Colorado. Bill twenty six.

Speaker 6 (01:03:29):
Twelve eighty one would reshape how Colorado handles certain homicides,
including those involving what's known as extreme indifference murder, a
charge used when someone's actions show a reckless disregard for
human life. The best way to explain that is, if
someone does a drive by and shoots into a crowd

(01:03:49):
of people. If they kill someone, you could argue that
they showed extreme indifference and they need to be charged
thusly and currently currently, when a killing qualifies as a
first degree murder under the extreme indifferent standard under current law,
that charge can apply in cases even if only one

(01:04:10):
people got killed. So let's use the drive by example.
You drive by a crowd of people. You wound fifteen,
but you only kill one. Right, If prosecutors can show
that you acted with extreme recklessness towards human life, they
can still charge you with first degree murder without the
chance of parole. You can get life in prison without
the possibility of parole. Now they want to change it. Now,

(01:04:34):
if you only kill one person, you would not face
that same kind of consequences. So one person expendable more
than one person a tragedy. This is what they have
done to our state. And if I'm the Colorado Republican Party,
I'm talking about this stuff all day.

Speaker 5 (01:04:52):
Every day. I'm just saying, look, you know what, we
want you to feel safe.

Speaker 6 (01:04:56):
I read a story on the Rocky Mountain Voice and
I totally forg got to put it on the blog
today about a guy. Young guy moved here from Ohio
in twenty twenty, loves downtown Denver. Used to tell people
they should go to downtown Denver because downtown Denver is awesome.
And people were like, it's scary as hell, I'm not
going down there, and he was like, no, it's great.
And then he was the victim of a dry by shooting,

(01:05:17):
completely random guy hangs out of a car and shoots
him in the neck. He almost died. To say his
tune has changed is an understatement. And this is an
area where I believe Republican candidates should capitalize because is
when you look back at the numbers before democratic rule,
we are well below the national average, and right now

(01:05:37):
today we are well above. And the only thing that's
changed are the people that are making the laws. We'll
be right back. Keep it on KOA. The free market
works when it's allowed to work.

Speaker 5 (01:05:47):
So we talked.

Speaker 6 (01:05:49):
I don't know if did we actually talk about that
on the air, A rod about the cost of snacks,
like how expensive things.

Speaker 5 (01:05:54):
Had gotten with free to lay. I had it on
the blog. I think we did too.

Speaker 6 (01:05:59):
But now Pepsiico lowered prices in the first quarter and
guess what happened. Revenue jumped eight point five percent. That
was significant. It beat all analysts forecasts. It beat Wall
Street's forecast. And PepsiCo said, and this is a quote,
the consumer is coming back multiple times to our brands,

(01:06:21):
responding to our holistic value plus execution plus advertising plus
innovation strategy. Okay, what he's saying is we raised prices
too high. The market responded, We responded to the market,
and things are all looking up again.

Speaker 1 (01:06:39):
You know.

Speaker 6 (01:06:39):
I also I saw this story this morning and I
didn't put it on the blog because I forgot, But
there's a story about how right now corporations are taking
advantage of the sort of stress situation and they are
making record profits. They are raking it in from us,
the consumers, because we are told it's inflation, it's inflation,

(01:07:01):
it's inflation. What the reality is is that some corporations
are like, you know what, They're kind of used to
high prices. We like this, but what's gonna happen is
they're going to hit that price point where we all say, yeah,
that's not worth it. I'm gonna pass on that. Oh
those Kroger trips chips are just fine. Hey, look at
the new branding of the Great Value brand at Walmart.

(01:07:22):
I mean, consumers make decisions based on our wallets and
it does make it up to corporate I mean, that's
the reality.

Speaker 5 (01:07:31):
We think we have no power, but the power is simple.

Speaker 6 (01:07:34):
Stopped buying something, and they will either have to respond
by lowering prices to a level where people think that
whatever they're selling has that level of value or they're
gonna go out of business. Now, I always hate it
when a brand I love goes out of business and
it has happened. I mean, when you live as long
as I have, there are things that common, things that go.
Do you know what I would love to have?

Speaker 5 (01:07:54):
Do you guys?

Speaker 6 (01:07:55):
Remember the Carnation breakfast bars. I have no idea what
was in them. They were like a lot of like
chopped up nuts or something, and they were covered with chocolate.
Holy crap, they were good, Like I would pay money
right now from one of those breakfast bars. So things
come and go right, things fall out of favor and
all of that stuff. But we us consumers have the

(01:08:16):
ability to make these big impacts. In PepsiCo, they learned
the hard way, a big, big, big hard way. After
they jacked up prices by double digits for eight straight
quarters in twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three, consumers
were like, yeah, no, we're not doing that.

Speaker 5 (01:08:35):
We're just gonna go buy those Walmart chips.

Speaker 6 (01:08:37):
PepsiCo began cutting prices on value brands like Chesters and Santitas.

Speaker 5 (01:08:42):
What is a value brand? Is that like cheaper? What
are Chesters? Are those like cheap? Cheetos is it?

Speaker 9 (01:08:50):
Do you know?

Speaker 5 (01:08:51):
I don't know. I don't have a lot of snap
food in my life right now, So hang on, chesters,
let's see with it. Oh oh, it's like it's like yeah,
they're like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I've seen Oh it's popcorn. Yeah.
And fries. They make the hot fries too. I don't
eat those things. But apparently that's the value brand. So
they lowered prices with the value brand, and you know

(01:09:12):
what happened. People were like, okay, that's reasonable.

Speaker 6 (01:09:15):
Last September, an activist investor took a four billion steak
in the company and said, look, you've got to change things,
make some.

Speaker 5 (01:09:23):
Price cuts, and do it.

Speaker 6 (01:09:24):
So PepsiCo started accelerating their price cuts in February ahead
of the Super Bowl. They slashed US prices on Lai's Doritos, Cheetos,
and Tostitos by up to fifteen percent, and in a
Michigan Walmart on Thursday, the nine point twenty five ounce
of Doritos was down to three ninety seven, down from
four to forty eight. So yeah, I just have to say.

(01:09:50):
Pepsi also has some other stuff. They bought poppy. Have
you tried the poppy sodas a rod? Did you try
just because they're named after that? Okay, so they're like
a prebiotic soda. They have fiber in them. Does anybody
else think they have a weird mouthfeel? I realize I'm
super sensitive to textures. If I bring you one, will
you try it?

Speaker 5 (01:10:07):
They're low in sugar, They're a lot of weird mouth feed.
This is what I need to know. Okay, I'm gonna
bring one in.

Speaker 7 (01:10:13):
Do you like?

Speaker 6 (01:10:15):
No, the drink has a weird mouthfeel. I'm gonna bring
in a grape one. Do you like grape sona? Sure,
I'll bring in a grape one and we'll do a
taste test on the air, and you can tell me
if I'm just insane.

Speaker 5 (01:10:26):
Mandy. I also remember the breakfast bars. Those things were awesome.

Speaker 6 (01:10:29):
From the Common Spirit health text line five six six
nine zero is the text line, by the way, Mandy,
Usually I would agree with you on prices, but I
don't know. I'm a cattle producer, and it hasn't seemed
like the American housewife has gotten sick of the price
of beef. Yet we all stand around wondering when the
crash is gonna happen. The prices keep going up every week.
Beef is in a much different category than chips. Chips

(01:10:51):
are like junk food. Like we all know this, right,
And when you're on a tight budget and you're trying
to feed your family and you're trying to feed your
family something good, if you're gonna look at beef that
is really really expensive, and you're gonna look at that
bag of chips it's really really expensive, chances are you're
gonna get that ground beef. I mean that just is
like to me, beef meat is a staple. So Mandy,

(01:11:12):
I have the shop the Manager is special food. Since
the prices are so high at the grocery stores, I
am not afraid to buy a Manager special.

Speaker 5 (01:11:20):
You just got to eat it right away, Mandy.

Speaker 6 (01:11:22):
I think the Chester's popcorn is actually rejected cheetos cheese
puffs that have split during the cooking process, and they
have decided to make some money on it instead of
throwing it away.

Speaker 5 (01:11:32):
I could be wrong, though, that actually that actually could
be true.

Speaker 6 (01:11:37):
Huh, Mandy. I worked for PepsiCo for many years. This
is the first time I've known them to lower prices
when the market gets tough. Fuel prices go up, the
cost of goods go up, materials go up. They always
have left it higher. Kudos to them for actually responding
to the consumer. They had no choice. Activist, investor, those
are the words you need to know. We'll be right back.

(01:11:59):
Keep it on KOA.

Speaker 1 (01:12:00):

Speaker 2 (01:12:05):
No, it's Mandy Connell, Andy con KOA ninety one.

Speaker 1 (01:12:14):
AMA got way.

Speaker 4 (01:12:19):
Niceys through three Andy Connell.

Speaker 2 (01:12:25):
Sad Babe.

Speaker 5 (01:12:27):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the third hour of the show.
I'm super excited. It's two thirty.

Speaker 6 (01:12:32):
We are going to talk to the founder and the
executive producer of battle Bots.

Speaker 5 (01:12:36):
You know how I love this And I got a
whole half hour of the best robot blow ups on
BattleBots on the blog today at mandy'sblog dot com. Anthony
Rodriguez here with us as well.

Speaker 6 (01:12:46):
Thank you, Susan. And we're making our way through a
busy broadcast day. So I do want to clarify something
because I just got this text message and I just
realized what the problem was. Mandy, what happens to yesterday's
podcast download? Sorry if you already answered this they changed
our website. So instead of having the podcast and the
blog all in one smushed place, now there's a podcast

(01:13:10):
tab and there is a blog tab. Or you can
just download the Crystal Clear iHeartRadio app and make me
your favorite and then you'll have it right there at
your fingertips that way. So check that all out. But
I didn't even realized they changed the website. I should
probably read emails from the company on occasion.

Speaker 5 (01:13:29):
They're just so long, you know, they're just long. They
say a lot of words. I don't care about.

Speaker 6 (01:13:36):
Carnation Breakfast Bars nineteen seventy five to nineteen ninety seven.

Speaker 5 (01:13:40):
Fond farewell. That from a Texter and I just looked
it up. There are entire websites dedicated to Carnation breakfast bars.
And here's the thing. Carnation came out with some other
kind of crappy breakfast bar or whatever, but it wasn't
the chopped up pieces of cardboard.

Speaker 6 (01:13:55):
That's what I want. And somebody said, Poppy does not
feel weird. Telling you feels weird.

Speaker 5 (01:14:01):
It's got a weird mouthfeel, just does.

Speaker 6 (01:14:05):
Now I've got a couple of stories that I want
to get to because we've got to get caught up.
First of all, how are things going in the war.
Shall we chat about the war for just a moment, Yes,
we shall. We shall chat first of all.

Speaker 5 (01:14:18):
By all accounts, the blockade seems to be working, and
that's good news. But other things are happening that are
even more important than that. For instance, and I want
to yeah, give me my audio a rod because I
want to play this. This is Secretary of the Treasury
Scott Bessant talking about what's happening with Arab nations and

(01:14:39):
Iranian banking. Yeah, I think that's not a correct characterization.

Speaker 11 (01:14:45):
Yesterday we announced Operation Economic Fury, and we for over
a year we have had maximum pressure on the Iranians,
both on blocking payments end to the Iranian state, going
after the accounts of the IRGC. One of the what
may prove to be fatal mistakes that the Iranians made

(01:15:08):
was bombing their GCC neighbors and who are now willing
to be much more transparent in terms of the funds
or do a deeper dive in investigating the funds that
are held within their banking systems. So we have pushed
out to them the request that we want to freeze

(01:15:29):
more funds of the leadership of the IRGC and any
members of Iranian leadership. The other thing that we have
done is we have told company, we have told countries
that if you are buying Iranian oil, that if Iranian
money is sending in your banks, we are now willing
to apply secondary sanctions, which is a very stern measure.

(01:15:52):
And the Iranians should know that this is going to
be the financial equivalent of what we saw in the
kinetic activities.

Speaker 5 (01:16:00):
So that is Secretary of the Treasury Scott Besson. And
what he just said was oop, sorry about that, let
me do that. Hang on one second, let's do.

Speaker 6 (01:16:10):
This all right, there we go. What he actually said
was that, let me do that. Say right, I just
screwed everything up.

Speaker 5 (01:16:17):
Let me fix that. Okay, here we go.

Speaker 6 (01:16:21):
What he said was, look, we're going after the funds
of the Iranian leadership. We're going after the money wherever
it's parked. And all of a sudden, Arab states who
were like, why did they attack us? That is going
to turn out to be one of the biggest strategic
errors ever in warfare, is that the Iranians have attacked
their neighbors in the Goal State. So now all the

(01:16:42):
neighbors are like, yeah, we might have some Iranian money
in here in these banks. If you guys want to
just have I don't know, whatever you want to do
is fine.

Speaker 8 (01:16:49):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:16:50):
I have on the blog today that Israel and Lebanon
are meeting, and earlier I heard Chad Bauer report that
they have a tentatively agreed to attend day ceasefire. And
I don't know the details of that because that broke
after I started the show. But this morning I did
a lot of reading about the situation in Lebanon, because
you may not realize Lebanon.

Speaker 5 (01:17:10):
Is currently sort of divided in half.

Speaker 6 (01:17:13):
You have the northern part of the country where all
the normal Lebanese people live, who just want to be
left alone and live in peace and they're not looking
to kill anybody. And then in the south, which butts
up against Israel, that is where Hesbel has control, and
they absolutely have control of the southern part of Lebanon.
That's why all of the bombing is taking place in
the southern part of Lebanon.

Speaker 5 (01:17:34):
Israel is not bombing northern Lebanon because that's not where
Hesbel is right, is just not there. They're bombing where
hesbel Is and the sad reality is is the beginning
of April, maybe the beginning of March, I don't remember which,
the Lebanese president said, we are expelling the Iranian ambassador,
we are expelling all of the leadership of the Iranian Guard.

(01:17:57):
We're expelling all of these people. There no longer welcome here.

Speaker 6 (01:18:01):
When we get back, I'll tell you how all that
turned out and how useless those declarations turned out to be.

Speaker 5 (01:18:07):
Keeping right here on Koa. The talks that are taking
place between.

Speaker 6 (01:18:10):
Lebanon and Israel today, these are, by the way unprecedented
in the sense that the leadership from both nations are
committed to sitting down and having a conversation when we
talk about a ceasefire. One of the big problems is
that Iran wants Lebanon included in the ceasefire because they
want Hesbela to continue attacking Israel, and if Israel continues

(01:18:31):
to degrade Hesbela, then they will lose their ability and
their proxy to attack Israel. So they want Lebanon included,
and the United States has been like naw doog, it's
not included at all. So now the president or rather
high level representatives from Lebanon, high level representatives from Israel
are meeting at the White House, and according to the
news earlier, they've hammered out what looks like is going

(01:18:55):
to be a ten day ceasefire. Now, the problem here,
as I was explaining before the break, is in Lebanon,
they've been so decimated by civil wars over twenty years,
and then you know the the overthrowing of their government,
and it's just been a hot mess. And there they're military.
Their army is pathetic. It's just pathetic. There's no two

(01:19:19):
ways to say it. They don't have an army that
is capable of doing anything. So when the President of
Lebanon kicked out the Iranian Royal Guard and kicked out
the Iranian ambassador.

Speaker 5 (01:19:32):
Iran literally went, no, we're good, We're just gonna stay here.

Speaker 6 (01:19:37):
The ambassadory is still in Beirut as far as I know. Now,
what I want to see is if the Lebanese government
that is not Hesbelah and Israel finally get on the
same page and Israel says, look, you give us the
intel we need. Although I can assure you Israel's intelligence

(01:19:57):
agency is just as embedded with hesbel as.

Speaker 5 (01:20:00):
It was with Iran.

Speaker 6 (01:20:02):
But if they say, if they can come to a
situation where the president of Lebanon says, come and get them,
just come and get Hesbela because Lebanon doesn't have control
of the south and Israel is currently in the southern
part of Lebanon because they're trying to create a buffer
area where their people in the northern part of Israel

(01:20:22):
will not get shot at on a daily basis from
Hesbela rockets, right, So they're trying to push Hesbela back
far enough so that people don't have to worry about
being killed by a rocket on a regular basis. And
in the process, Lebanon's like, look, we want that land back,
and Israel will probably say you can have the land back.
Israel's really good at giving land back. Okay, they're really good.

(01:20:44):
After they capture it fair and square, they're super good
at giving it back. So what if the Lebanese government says,
we're gonna help you get rid of Hesbela because we
can't get rid of Hesbela and we don't want Hesbela
here anymore.

Speaker 5 (01:20:55):
They terrorize the people in the south.

Speaker 6 (01:20:57):
They want to create a situation, suation where we cannot
participate as a free nation in the rest of the
world because we have this terrorist organization in the south.

Speaker 5 (01:21:07):
Now, this is all wild speculation on my part, but
that's my hope.

Speaker 6 (01:21:11):
That is my hope for what could possibly happen next. Now,
one more development that you need to know about when
it comes to the war is this. Guess who decided
to pipe up and demand that Iran opened the Straight
of hor Moves. I did not see this coming, but
Wang Ye, the Chinese Foreign Minister, told Iran's Foreign Minister

(01:21:34):
Abbas Aragachi in a phone call late Wednesday that Iran's sovereignty,
security and legitimate rights should be respected as a literal
state of the Strait of hor Moves, but freedom of
navigation and safety through the Strait should be ensured. Wang
told Iran working to resume normal passage of the Strait

(01:21:56):
is a unanimous call from the international community. Now, you
guys have to understand China has been selling weapons, intelligence
and anything else that Iran is needed to create a
disruption for many, many many years now because they've been
sucking up Iranian oil.

Speaker 5 (01:22:13):
This is a huge problem.

Speaker 6 (01:22:14):
Closing the Strait of Hormus, the blockade of the Strait
of horror mooves. It creates a massive problem for China.
And we've talked about this on other shows. It goes
right back to why we deposed Nicholas Maduro. Guess where
Venezuelan oil is going now, It's not going to China.
Guess where a Ranian oil is going now, It's not
going to China. China has to import sixty percent of

(01:22:38):
their oil and gas. It's one of the reasons that
they're building coal fired power plants so fast. They're not
giving up fossil fuels, but they are not energy secure,
so they need the straight of horm Moves open.

Speaker 5 (01:22:50):
So this is not just a no big deal statement.

Speaker 6 (01:22:54):
What he says, working to resume normal passage of the
strait is a unanimous call from the international community that
means we're in there too, your big friend, China, we
demand that you open up the Strait of hor Moos now.
Earlier Wednesday, President Trump said China has agreed not to

(01:23:15):
send weapons to Iran.

Speaker 5 (01:23:17):
They're the ones. I think a lot of.

Speaker 6 (01:23:19):
People speculate about why this all happened, why it all
started when it did. I think the best reason that
I have heard, the best explanation is that Iran and
China were working on a deal that would have given
Iran missiles capable of reaching the United States of America,
and that's why we moved when we did. Now, Trump

(01:23:40):
was supposed to go to China in early April. Obviously
it was delayed to mid May because of the Iran war.
But if any of this is accurate, right, if any
of this about China saying, China's like, nope, We're not
going to send him any more weapons. And yes, now,
unanimously we demand that they opened up the straight of
hor Moos.

Speaker 5 (01:23:58):
This is hu hu. It's so big, there's no room
for the h It's just huge.

Speaker 6 (01:24:05):
And it goes to the bigger conversation of looking at
everything that Trump has done, as crazy as it all
seemed at the time, and how it directly impacts China's
ability to exercise their will over Taiwan and exercise their
will over the rest of the world. So yeah, yeah, Mandy,

(01:24:29):
about Israel, Oh yeah, they're great at giving back lamb
the West Bank. Oh not, please comment on the new
settlement and creating on the West Bank?

Speaker 7 (01:24:36):
Are you for that?

Speaker 6 (01:24:37):
I'm not for settlements. And the fact of the matter
is is that if you go back to two thousand
and five and look at the video of Israel yanking
Israelis out of the Gaza Strip because even though they've
been there for decades, yanking Jews out of the Gaza
Strip so the Palestinians could have their own little space
so there would be peace. I don't blame Israeli settlers,

(01:25:01):
I really don't. I just disagree with it. But don't
act like that's some kind of like ooh, look at Israel.
Israel has bent over backwards. They gave the Sinai Peninsula back,
they have given They are smaller now than when they started.
So please spare me, spare me. And what did the
Palestinians do with that land that was then Jew free?

(01:25:24):
They built tunnels to kill Jewish people in Israel instead
of creating a vibrant economy or maybe even you know,
a new med right there on the coast.

Speaker 5 (01:25:35):
So spare me that. Just spare me that. All right,
We're gonna take a quick time out when we get back.
I am super excited. If you've never seen BattleBots.

Speaker 6 (01:25:44):
Go to Today's blog and look at the videos of
robots blowing each other up for half an hour. The
founder of BattleBots, the creator of BattleBots. Coming up next,
keep it on KOA. Our next guest is the founder
and executive producer of something that I absolutely love, and
Greg Munson is that guy for BattleBots. And if you

(01:26:05):
don't know what BattleBots is now, Greg correct me if
I'm wrong. BattleBots actually started being televised on Comedy Central,
wasn't it?

Speaker 5 (01:26:13):
Did it start?

Speaker 9 (01:26:15):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (01:26:15):
That is absolutely correct.

Speaker 12 (01:26:16):
Back in nineteen ninety nine, our show premiered on Comedy Central,
of all places.

Speaker 2 (01:26:21):
Totally bizarre, right.

Speaker 5 (01:26:22):
And that's where I found it.

Speaker 6 (01:26:23):
So I want og BattleBots fan. I want some kind
of metal or something, some kind of nerd a word,
if we could make that.

Speaker 12 (01:26:29):
Deserve it?

Speaker 5 (01:26:30):
Yeah, really done that to you because I used.

Speaker 6 (01:26:32):
To tell people about it and they're like, because because
this is how I describe it. I'm like, okay, so
it's it's robots, but they're not humanoid robots. They're like
remote control, low to the ground with weapons and saw
blades and sledgehammers and flipper panels and and they just
go out and try and.

Speaker 5 (01:26:52):
Destroy each other and it's just so good.

Speaker 6 (01:26:55):
It's like gladiators without the guts, right, although you do
see guts sometimes they're just robot gut.

Speaker 5 (01:27:00):
You see robot guts.

Speaker 2 (01:27:01):
That's what we love about it.

Speaker 12 (01:27:02):
It's a free for all between mechanical machines where no
humans get hurt, so in that kids can get involved,
families can involved. It's really a fun, wholesome sport. But
it's all about super violence. These things are eating the crap.

Speaker 5 (01:27:18):
Out of each other.

Speaker 12 (01:27:18):
But at the end of the day, you're really getting
an engineering lesson, which is great.

Speaker 6 (01:27:23):
The thing is is that when it started, and this
is one of the things that I actually loved about
the early battle.

Speaker 5 (01:27:30):
Bots, Like let's go back in time.

Speaker 6 (01:27:32):
The teams think of like the nerdiest human beings that
you ever saw in your entire life, that are all
so brilliant, right, So that's that stereotype.

Speaker 5 (01:27:41):
But they were like and then over the years they
would try to get like cool.

Speaker 6 (01:27:45):
They would come up with like a move or like
a costume, and you sort of got to watch these
nerds like go next level.

Speaker 5 (01:27:51):
That aspect of BattleBots I think is way undersold. Oh no, Greg,
you just rose. We'll see if we get him back.
That was such a good question.

Speaker 6 (01:28:06):
I'll see if he comes back here in just a moment,
I'm going to kick him out and see if he
will just come back in.

Speaker 5 (01:28:11):
So there you go.

Speaker 6 (01:28:12):
We'll see it about Greg Munson. All right, a Rod,
I could not hear what you were saying in my ear. Okay,
let's talk about a couple things while hopefully Greg gets
back into our room really quickly.

Speaker 5 (01:28:24):
We've been talking today a lot.

Speaker 6 (01:28:26):
About political stuff, but I do have some kind of
cool stories that have nothing to do with politics. So
while I wait for Greg to hopefully rejoin our group,
I want to tell you this story right now. And
I've just said this to female friends. If you want
a good, solid conservative man, you have to.

Speaker 5 (01:28:44):
Go to church.

Speaker 6 (01:28:45):
And I mean this because young men are attending church
at levels that have not been seen in a very
very long time. This according to a Gallup poll that
was released today. And it's kind of interesting because over
all church attendants has has not been great. As a
matter of fact, we've been at all time lows.

Speaker 5 (01:29:05):
For a while now.

Speaker 6 (01:29:07):
But forty percent of men ages eighteen to twenty nine
attend religious services monthly or more often. That's a seven
percent increase from twenty twenty two to twenty twenty three.
That's the highest percentage of those men who have reported
doing so since back in twenty twelve.

Speaker 5 (01:29:26):
I find this fascinating.

Speaker 6 (01:29:28):
Now, this article from AP says the story the study
appears to reflect a trend observed by some religious leaders.
Pockets of young Americans, especially men, are joining faith communities
and driving increased attendance at churches and religious gatherings. Although
women are normally historically more religious than men, now female

(01:29:51):
attendance has dropped, especially for women under thirty. And oh
my god, let's break this out for a second. Let's
just break this out. Young men who are constantly being
told they are the problem. Masculinity is toxic, you know,
traditional households are patriarchy and oppression and marriage is slavery

(01:30:14):
and all of this other crap that is being spewed
by the feminist left. They've been tell they're bad, they're
the problem, They're the root of all evil.

Speaker 5 (01:30:22):
They're going to be.

Speaker 6 (01:30:23):
Searching for a place where things make sense, where the
rules are clear, and where they are part.

Speaker 5 (01:30:30):
Of something bigger than themselves. And guys, that's religion in
a nutshell right there. And at the same time, young
women are now being told that Daddy government is going
to take care of them and that Daddy government is
the way to go. And they're all becoming left wing lunatics,
and they're all suffering from anxiety. They're all on meds.

Speaker 6 (01:30:51):
They all freak out at the sight of a real
relationship because God forbid a man may think differently than
they do.

Speaker 5 (01:30:57):
I mean, it's crazy. So of course they wouldn't want
to go to church.

Speaker 6 (01:31:01):
Men want to go to church to have a more
true Wait a minute, I should not project my view
onto men.

Speaker 7 (01:31:07):
Men.

Speaker 5 (01:31:07):
I don't know why you're going to church. I'm here
for you.

Speaker 6 (01:31:10):
But if I were a guy at this point in time,
I'd want to go back to a place where you
could just clearly say, you know, here, here's how to
be a good person. Follow these rules, get married, have kids,
all of those things that make a life fulfilling. Where
on the left it's get a cat and go to therapy.

(01:31:31):
It's just kind of sad, I mean, really sad. Mandy,
I'm a boy. Best choice of girls will be found
in church college too, Mandy. Young men are drawn to
the church because Jesus loves them, even if they aren't
a victim. Very very interesting. Five six six nine zero
is the common spirit. Health text line. Now, another part

(01:31:52):
of this is that these increases are being driven almost
entirely by Republicans, and this is not surprising at all,
absolutely not.

Speaker 5 (01:32:06):
Let me scroll down to that.

Speaker 6 (01:32:10):
The increase in religiosity among young Americans is also concentrated
around Republicans. According to Gallup, the proportion of Republican men
and women who regularly attend events has increased by around
ten percentage points in the past five years. Democratic men's
attendance has generally declined in that time, while Democratic women

(01:32:32):
did not see a statistically significant change. All Right, we
got Greg Munson back on the phone, and I'm happy
about that. Greg, sorry about that.

Speaker 9 (01:32:42):
I think it was my fault. I'm in a hotel
and the hotel life I went bonkers.

Speaker 5 (01:32:46):
So I think a robot hit it, or he's gone
rogue on you, for sure.

Speaker 6 (01:32:52):
So Greg Munson, of course, is the founder and executive
director of Battlebot's one of my favorite shows.

Speaker 5 (01:32:57):
And I asked you. I don't even remember what I
asked you, but you're starting to give an answer, and.

Speaker 8 (01:33:03):
I want to.

Speaker 9 (01:33:04):
Nerds need an outlet, Nerds need a sport. They nerds
are really cool people, and but they need a sport.
That talks to them and building combat robots is perfect.
So what a better way to celebrate nerd culture than
to have robots beat the crap out.

Speaker 8 (01:33:21):
Of each other?

Speaker 5 (01:33:21):
That is right, I forgot.

Speaker 6 (01:33:22):
I was talking about sort of the evolution of some
of these teams, and I got to tell you, in
today's era of BattleBots, some of your real veteran teams,
they kind of do have a little they got a.

Speaker 5 (01:33:32):
Little swagger to them.

Speaker 6 (01:33:34):
You know, they got a little You can tell that
they've gotten confidence over the years from winning and even
from losing. But you're right, it does give them an
outlet for that kind of beefy swagger that maybe they
don't get otherwise.

Speaker 5 (01:33:45):
That's that's part of the charm of BattleBots. Let me
ask you about that.

Speaker 9 (01:33:50):
Yeah, go ahead. I was going to say, you know,
it's really to give engineers and makers and people who
make things and take things apart in teamp forers a
spotlight because.

Speaker 8 (01:33:59):
We don't spotlight those peop and it's really cool to spot.

Speaker 9 (01:34:02):
Like the people who are building the things that we
use every day and coding the things we use, and
you know, our engineers. So it's a celebration of those folks.

Speaker 6 (01:34:10):
So when you first started this, I mean, I'd love
to hear the pitch meeting to Comedy Central.

Speaker 5 (01:34:15):
Right, Like, you go in and you got it.

Speaker 6 (01:34:16):
You got executives in front of you, and you're like,
hear me out robots beating the crap out of each other.

Speaker 5 (01:34:22):
How did that go?

Speaker 9 (01:34:24):
Well, we did a lot of pitch meetings and we
would always bring a robot in to show them off,
and when the robot would inadvertently wind up destroying parts
of their conference room. And I remember, I remember we
went to USA Networks and like Henry Kissinger's son was
the head of a network and you just want an
ammy or something the night before and we go in
with our.

Speaker 8 (01:34:44):
Robot and skating up his like thousand.

Speaker 9 (01:34:46):
Dollars square foot carpet and it's like there are grapes
all over the all over the conference room table because
it was a big, fancy meeting, and they just took
the grape left and said, basically kicked us out of
the office. But we learned our lessons so started saying, okay,
meet us outside. So we had Debbie Leebling, who was ahead.

Speaker 8 (01:35:04):
Of Comedy Central.

Speaker 9 (01:35:04):
She came outside and saw one of these cool robots
that our friend Mark's attracting bill called Mecadon, which is
a huge, six legged walking robot.

Speaker 8 (01:35:14):
It was on the Comedy Central show back in the day,
and you know, she was just so blown away by
it that she thought, Okay, this could be a TV show,
this could work.

Speaker 5 (01:35:22):
That's fantastic.

Speaker 6 (01:35:23):
So how did you, I mean, did you sit around
and go, okay, let's take the best parts of MMA,
the best parts of gladiator sports and make him for robots.

Speaker 9 (01:35:32):
Now, the way it started was pretty funny. Is a
special effects artist named Mark Thorpe who worked for George
Lucas building models and whatnot.

Speaker 8 (01:35:40):
One was building a tank and.

Speaker 9 (01:35:42):
Then he built the tank and thought, okay, well there's
the tank. And then he said, well, I'll put a
vacuum cleaner on it. And he put the vacuum cleaner
on it, and he vacuumed up his floor. He was
basically the first rumba. And then he thought, well, that's
all right.

Speaker 5 (01:35:54):
Then he put a.

Speaker 9 (01:35:56):
Chainsaw on it and he says.

Speaker 8 (01:35:58):
Now that's the way to go.

Speaker 9 (01:35:59):
And I all went off and Mark said and he said,
I've got to make a sport where people compete with
these things and smash them together and he developed Robot Wars.
My cousin Try and I were competitors in that. In
the second instance of it, we won, We got hooked,
and we helped Mark evolve Robot Wars and became a

(01:36:20):
TV show in the UK. And then this whole ugly
lawsuit embroiled with him and his financial partner, and from
those ashes, we started BattleBots back in nineteen ninety nine.

Speaker 5 (01:36:32):
Well, I'm glad you did it and I got Oh,
go ahead.

Speaker 9 (01:36:35):
There's a book about it called The Turbulent Rise of
Robotic Sports called Gearheads.

Speaker 8 (01:36:41):
You can check it out on Amazon.

Speaker 9 (01:36:42):
It's crazy how these crazy little subculture sports have these
these tumultuous.

Speaker 8 (01:36:49):
Origin stories.

Speaker 5 (01:36:51):
Oh really, yeah, Well, let's got I'm sorry.

Speaker 6 (01:36:56):
I was reading a ton of questions on the blog
right now for my listeners, and they're high specific.

Speaker 5 (01:37:01):
Now, when was the last time you built a robot?

Speaker 6 (01:37:03):
Or now, now you kind of oversee everything, but when
was the last time you actually helped make a robot?

Speaker 5 (01:37:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:37:09):
So for that Robot Wars contest, my cousin Tran and
I we built La Machine, which won a bunch of.

Speaker 8 (01:37:14):
Stuff, and then we built a.

Speaker 9 (01:37:16):
Robot called Ginsu where all four wheels were saw blades,
and we got the huge of saw blades we could find.
There were like two foot in diameter, three foot in diameter,
and so this giant rolling saw blade thing and we
would roll over the competition and slice them into little ribbons.

Speaker 5 (01:37:32):
Nice.

Speaker 9 (01:37:33):
Yeah, we did get involved with the production side of things,
so we couldn't add a fairness compete.

Speaker 6 (01:37:38):
So what do you think, because I've also watched the
evolution of the bots, right, I mean it's like every
year everybody watches what works and what strategies are successful,
and then they come back and make little changes to
their robot. What engineering style do you think is the
most overall effective.

Speaker 5 (01:37:55):
Of the bots?

Speaker 9 (01:37:57):
Well, everyone loved the vertical spinner, and you see that
as the number one sort of weapon type that people
are choosing. It's you know, the Bite Force was a
champ for three years, vertical spinner, end game Spin a
champ two or three times.

Speaker 8 (01:38:09):
A vertical spinner. So that really is a way to go.

Speaker 9 (01:38:12):
Personally, though, in my heart of hearts, I love the flippers.

Speaker 8 (01:38:16):
Too, ones that can launch robots like you know Bronco
and Hydra.

Speaker 9 (01:38:21):
Yeah, because it's nothing's better than to see a two
hundred and fifty pounds robot launch sixteen feet in the
air and then fall on its back.

Speaker 8 (01:38:30):
It's just it's the best thing ever.

Speaker 6 (01:38:32):
It really is, and it's so exciting. And now people,
there's a couple of ways you can watch battle Bots. One,
if you're headed to Vegas, you guys have a permanent
installation there. Let's talk about what's there all the time,
and then we'll talk about the pro Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:38:47):
Yeah, So behind the Horseshoe Casino, which is just off
the strip, we have a tent that Caesar zonns and
we turned it into the BattleBots Arena and we have
shows pretty much nightly, a show called Destructivon which is
a sh okay show of all sort of the best
robots throughout battle Bot's history, from the Comedy Central era
through the ABC and Discovery TV era, and we fight

(01:39:08):
them nightly for the thrill of the ticket paying audience
and it's a ton of fun. Kids love it, families
love it, Robots, fans love it, Engineers love it. So
if you're in Vegas, definitely come check that out. You can,
but it's the battlebot dot Com slash tickets.

Speaker 8 (01:39:21):
We'll tell you everything you.

Speaker 5 (01:39:22):
Need to know there is that the training ground for
the new Pro League.

Speaker 9 (01:39:27):
Well so yeah, so we besides the day of the
nightly show Showcase Show, we open the doors to anybody
who had the combat robot for the thing called proving Ground.
So if you have a heavyweight too hundred fenty pound robot,
you can come to proving Ground and fight it against
either one of our house spots or another robot who's
trying to prove themselves, and we hold those all throughout

(01:39:47):
the year, and then from time to time we do
face offs, which are sort of like the best of
the best proving grounds, and now we've sort of evolved.

Speaker 8 (01:39:54):
It up into the scene called the Pro League, which
are the.

Speaker 9 (01:39:56):
Best of the best robots fighting over three weeks weekends
in Vegas, all of which will put on a brand
new YouTube series in June. And we're actually filming the
Pro League this weekend, next weekend, and the weekend after
next weekend. So what is it sort of the last
two weekends in April and the first.

Speaker 8 (01:40:15):
Weekend in May. So if you're in Vegas for that,
definitely come because.

Speaker 9 (01:40:18):
You'll see which doctor Hypershock, Huge Tombstone, all the big
names are going to be here.

Speaker 6 (01:40:23):
It's going to be Copperhead Mammoth Copperheads going yeah, yeah,
Colorado Robot.

Speaker 9 (01:40:31):
Yeah, Copperhead is going to be driven by James who
is a nine year old boy. Uh and everyone trying
to see the phenom and we'll kick ass. So rooting
for James and team Colorado.

Speaker 7 (01:40:42):
Yes.

Speaker 6 (01:40:43):
So when will the pro League be up on YouTube?
And where can people find that channel?

Speaker 7 (01:40:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:40:48):
So it's a Battle About YouTube channel on YouTube. Just
search that and you'll see us with the blue check mark.

Speaker 8 (01:40:52):
You know, it's the Battle About YouTube channel.

Speaker 9 (01:40:54):
And we're going to start dropping episodes all in June.

Speaker 8 (01:40:57):
And they'll go all the way out through October.

Speaker 6 (01:40:59):
All right, man, Greg Munson, I really appreciate your time today.
I said, I'm like a gee gee huge fan and
I can't wait for the new season. I actually like
that it's on YouTube so I have more control of
win en how I can watch it, So I'm happy
about that. Yeah, I mean that's that's really sweet.

Speaker 5 (01:41:16):
So I'm looking forward to it. Go Copperhead.

Speaker 6 (01:41:19):
I'm hashtag team Copperhead, especially now that it has a
kid driver. Greg Munson, thank you so much for your
time today, and just thanks for giving nerds and those
of us who love nerds a chance to see some
great fighting our pleasure.

Speaker 9 (01:41:32):
Thank you many for having me appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (01:41:33):
All right, thank you, Greg. You know we have a
big show tomorrow. We will have let's see. I want
to look at this really quickly. Who's playing out the
day today, mister Edwards? Oh okay, all right, we don't
have anything planned for tomorrow, but I do have this
plan for tomorrow. I've made a decision about the theme song.

(01:41:54):
I'll be announcing that tomorrow, but I might need help,
might need your help, just say it.

Speaker 5 (01:42:02):
For a lot of reasons.

Speaker 6 (01:42:03):
I'll give you tomorrow. But we're gonna talk about that.
And in the meantime, though, Ryan Edwards has made his way.

Speaker 5 (01:42:09):
Into the studio. Hello, how you doing?

Speaker 7 (01:42:12):
Ryan?

Speaker 5 (01:42:12):
Oh wow, that was enthusiastics walking to the stud I
was kind of matching your casual. That's the casual intro,
like the Hey look at my buddy, Ryan. I was like,
she just mad.

Speaker 3 (01:42:23):
The person with the most wins against you this year
has walked into the studio. That's still true.

Speaker 5 (01:42:27):
That is very true.

Speaker 6 (01:42:29):
You play, You do play more than anybody else. And
I told you when you first came and played this game.
The more you play it, the better you get.

Speaker 5 (01:42:37):
It just is a fact. So you are better at
it because you play more. I think it's lucky, but
I appreciate you saying that. I'm just trying to make
you feel good. But after that Blackbuster intro, I thinke
you that number one standing?

Speaker 6 (01:42:48):
So right now, anyway, well what are those standings? Because
now it's time for the most exciting segment.

Speaker 5 (01:42:57):
On the radio of its kine of the day. All right,
what is our dad joke of the day, please, Anthony?
What's the most popular dating app? The most popular dating app?
I am going to guess tender? Okay, what that wouldn't

(01:43:20):
be a dad joke. It's Google Calendar. Oh got it?

Speaker 9 (01:43:23):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:43:23):
I forgot we were doing the dad joke. I thought
it was doing a trivia question. Yeah, yeah, that would
not be a good dad joke.

Speaker 3 (01:43:30):
Daddy?

Speaker 5 (01:43:30):
What's tender?

Speaker 2 (01:43:31):
Anyway?

Speaker 7 (01:43:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:43:33):
I don't know why I have an account there? Anyway,
Let's move on the day. Is an adjective.

Speaker 6 (01:43:39):
Adjective means without any sort of regard for like it's
bold is the best word, Ryan right.

Speaker 3 (01:43:50):
Describe someone who is acting or something that is done
in a very open and shocking way without shame or embarrassment.

Speaker 6 (01:43:57):
Yeah, yep, I don't think I would have been able
to articulate that. Ryan, dit a fine job.

Speaker 5 (01:44:01):
Today's trivia question.

Speaker 6 (01:44:02):
What beloved animated musical film? Includes the songs this is Halloween?

Speaker 5 (01:44:08):
What's this?

Speaker 8 (01:44:09):
That?

Speaker 5 (01:44:09):
Xplement Christmas? One of my kids' favorites.

Speaker 6 (01:44:12):
Yep, Nightmare Before Christmas, Tim Burton's classic. I don't like
to stop animation.

Speaker 5 (01:44:17):
I'm just still say it. Yeah, I don't love it, No,
don't love it. I have my preferences, and that's not
one of them.

Speaker 9 (01:44:24):
All right.

Speaker 5 (01:44:24):
What is our jeopardy category for well?

Speaker 3 (01:44:27):
First, Ryan again number one in the standings of all
the twelve iHeart employees at play by the way, you're
three and seven against non iHeart guests after.

Speaker 5 (01:44:36):
Oh Yeah yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:44:38):
Yeah, three and seven, But Ryan has three wins, the
most wins against you this year.

Speaker 5 (01:44:43):
You don't let me answer on their first go round.
That's the problem. I'm big handicapped and it's showing in
my yep. Anyway, go up.

Speaker 3 (01:44:50):
The category is party on party on, not party on Wayne,
not party on Garth, just party on party on. This
verb can mean to attend to party.

Speaker 5 (01:44:59):
On or what's to crash? That is correct?

Speaker 3 (01:45:04):
The type of club that operates past the normal closing time?

Speaker 5 (01:45:08):
Or what's after hours?

Speaker 3 (01:45:10):
Doesn't even need the second part on both? Okay, gotta
say I don't remember much from Joe Jonas is one
of these on a viza right before Joe's big wedding
with Sophie Turner.

Speaker 5 (01:45:19):
Ryan, it's a birthday party. No, what's a bachelor prize?

Speaker 8 (01:45:24):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:45:24):
Yes, combining a holiday and a month is the title
of a Preston Sturges film.

Speaker 2 (01:45:33):
Holiday and month holiday a month?

Speaker 3 (01:45:34):
Holidays, the two big ones that you don't do that
holiday in a certain month.

Speaker 5 (01:45:40):
What is Christmas in July?

Speaker 3 (01:45:43):
Finally, fancy clubs offer this too word option that could
involve vodka.

Speaker 5 (01:45:48):
Market what's bottle service?

Speaker 9 (01:45:50):
Correct?

Speaker 2 (01:45:50):
Nice?

Speaker 5 (01:45:52):
Let it go, redeemed myself? What's coming up on K Sports?

Speaker 7 (01:45:58):
Ryan?

Speaker 2 (01:45:58):
Oh, we have some fun.

Speaker 10 (01:46:00):
We we're gonna get to a little bit of draft.
We have Frank Caliendo joining us in studio three thirty. Yeah,
so excited, very fun, very very fun. All right, we
will be back tomorrow again. We're gonna have to have
a talk about themes. Sorry, tomorrow, I might need your help.

Speaker 6 (01:46:14):
And of course I'll have all kinds of other stuff
that'll make your head explode, So tune in and keep
it right here in the meantime, KA Sports coming up next.

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