04-23-24 FULL SHOW - Comedian Kevin Nealon Today!

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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. It'sa great show, great conversation with comedian
Kevin Neal, and he's here thisweekend. Excel gets told No Biden's find
people on both sides answer and theseromance scams. Have you heard about them?
You're gonna hear about them today.Stick around for more. I'm your
host for the next three hours.Mandy Connell, joined, of course by
my right hand man, Anthony Rodriguez. We call him a rod before we

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do the blog. Trump is speakingright now outside of the New York State
Supreme Court. We're gonna dip inand hear what he has to say,
at least for the first few minutes. What do we got from President Donald
Trump over the last day and ahalf. You're very good articles. Actually
the cases of sham I should wetried it shouldn't have been submitted. And

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I don't even know if you've ledto put a minute to get a gag
on which to me is totally aconstitutional I'm not allowed to talk, but
people are allowed to talk about me. So they can talk about me,
they can say whatever they want,they can live, but I'm not allowed
to see it. And I justhave to sit back and if you look
at why a conflicting judge is inorder to me to have a gig,

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I don't think anybody's ever seen anythinglike this. I've loved controlling people.
I'd love to see everything that's sellmy mind, but I because I have
a gaga and I'm not sure thatanybody's never seen anything like this before.
And even having to do with anarticle. Somebody who writes an article,
I read, all right, sowe get the gist, we get the

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gist of what he's saying. Andhe's complaining about the fact that there is
a gag order against him, buteverybody else can talk about him, which
I think is a fair complaint.That being said, I hate a gag
order on a case like this becausethe reason you instill a gag order in
my understanding. And maybe I'm wrong, And if there are some people who

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work in the legal field that couldclarify this, but it is my understanding.
Could text us, by the way, on the Common Spirit Health text
line at five six six nine,Oh, it is my understand that a
gag order is put in place inorder to prevent people from talking about details
of the case out and around.That could therefore influence the jury. Is

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there anybody in the world that doesn'tknow the details of this case at this
point? I mean, if youwant to know, it's everywhere. Al
So, what is the point ofgag order unless it is to spare the
feelings of the judge and the prosecutor, who would be the ones that Trump
would be attacking in the press.Is it also when like safety is a
concern, is a gag order thenas well? I don't know. I

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mean, I honestly don't know.Not In this instance, the gag order
is simply to keep Donald Trump fromcriticizing the prosecutor and the judge. And
in my view, that's what Ibelieve the gag order is about. Maybe
I'm wrong, and I know thatanother reason was given, but I'm just
saying I think the real reason iswhat I just said. And he's right.
It's not fair. It's not fairat all. Now let's do the

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blog. You can find it bygoing to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandyblog
dot com, no apostrophe. Lookfor the headline on that page. Takes
your right to the KOA page.By the way, it's just a little
shortcut. When you get to theMandy Conno page. You look for the
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on that and here are the headlinesyou will find with it. I office

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half of American all with ships andclipments of say that's going to press plant
today on the blog Kevin Nielan isa funny man. Excel gets told no
Biden's find people on both sides answeruh, scrolling why the Biden admin is
more dangerous than a Trump admin?Scrolling? Ye, all these romance scams
are horrible. RTD is adding morecops to its lines. I guess we

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have to take down the Welcome Immigrantssign. Now Vobert votes against the aid
package. We must keep funding Ukraine. It's time to bring back cursive.
When progressive policies derail a gay bar, Colorado parks save some cute little mountain
lions, Colorado Dems expand recycling sothey think the cast review won't go away.
Two minute drill. This is abusiness. How much does the American

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Dream cost in Colorado? How FortCollins ended up at disney World. New
robot eyeballs could help the blind.AI can tell your political affiliation from your
face. Go to this Puerto Ricanrestaurant in Parker. How to use baking
soda as a weed killer, provingthose naysaying teachers wrong. If you're gonna
insult someone, you better back itup. Talking too much is seen as

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weakness. Those are the headlines onthe blog at mandy'sblog dot com. And
we got a bunch of stuff totalk about. We got a little of
this, a little of that.I'm super excited. Comedian Kevin Nealan is
on the show today. What whattime is that interview? Aye A twelve
thirty. Yay, he's out.He's at one o'clock. Okay, good.

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He is at comedy Works this weekend. But you can tell, and
I noticed this today, you cantell that Kevin has been around a few
years because when you look at thethe he's doing four shows. The early
shows are sold out, there arestill tickets for the late shows. And
as somebody who likes to be inbed by nine thirty, I get this.

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I truly get it. Anytime worksto watch Kevin Neilan though, I
mean all those Adam Sandler Prime eraAdam Sandler movies that he was in.
He is so fun. Oh myGod, he has so much more funnier
stuff than that. From back inthe day. He was when Saturday Night
was funny, he was on it. I mean, he did Weekend Update.
He was outstanding, mister subliminal.Come on, Hans and Franz.
Forget about it. Forget about it. He's been in a lot, Yes

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he has. He's looking at hiswiki right now. Yep. He's been
in a ton of movies and wayChef. I think I said some.
I think I meant to say allHappy Gilmour wedding singer, Little Nikki,
eight Crazy Nights, Anger Management.He's like in every Adam Sandler movie.
There you go, that's right.I was exposed to him. Well,
all of you youngsters can buy thoselate tickets. Us oldsters would prefer he

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did a matinee. I'm just throwingthat out there. Katie, not Katie.
Jamie Lee Curtis was on the redcarpet somewhere. I think she was
on her way to like the Emmysor some It was an award show and
they said, oh, are yougonna go to the afterparty? Might have
been the Oscars, and she goes, no, uh huh, no,
I don't do late nights anymore.As a matter of fact, nothing would
make me happier is if bands starteddoing matinees, Like you know, there's

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classic rock bands yet, could yougive me a matinee like Madonna's coming?
But the last time she toured shekept people waiting for two hours and didn't
start the show till ten. AndI'm like, I can't do that.
I had that audio of Jamie LeeCratis. Would you, oh please,
yes, hit me with that ifit'll work. Hang on, Hey,
I am gonna just say this nowas a taunt and as a suggestion,

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you too, do a matinee.Cold Play? Do a matinee? What
about a twelve noon concert? ColdPlay? What about it? Bruce,
She's not wrong, She's not wrong. So yeah, if we could just
make that happen, that'd be fantastic. Jamie Lee, I have your back.

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I absolutely have your back. Thisperson said, you don't know that
a gag order can be used asit has in Trump's case, to ensure
the safety of the court officials andthe jury. He's not talking about the
jury though. He hasn't been talkingabout the jury the entire time. I
mean, he's been talking about thejudge he's been talking about the prosecutor,
he's been talking about everybody involved inthat part of the case. And he

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doesn't know the names of the jurors. He doesn't have that information. It's
not about the jury. Come on, just come on, this person,
said Mandy. This gag order preventsTrump from talking about the judge's daughter and
witnesses and jurists. Trump is freeto say whatever he likes in regards to
the prosecutor and the judge. Areyou sure that's right, because that's not

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what I've read. I'm not sayingyou're wrong. I'm just saying that's not
what I've read. Nonetheless, yes, the trial is going on, it
will continue to go on, andwe'll probably talk about it more when there
is something of substance to talk about. I don't feel like sitting here and
dissecting every single moment of every singlesecond of this trial, because I think
it's absolutely absurd. It was reallyfunny. I don't know if you heard

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Ben's news. There was a reporterfrom New York. He's like, yeah,
the guy from the National Choir,and I'm going to give him my
own spin on this. The guyfrom the National Choir admitted that they buried
negative stories about Trump or didn't dohim at all, and they only published
negative stories about his opponents. Reallykind of like The New York Times the
Washington Post, kind of like theway they carry the water for the Democratic

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Party while amplifying every negative story abouta Republican they can find. Jeez,
look at nine News here locally.It's just ridiculous, just ridiculous. Whoever
just texted this about events Mandy.I used to plan to arrive at the
Fashionable. Now I arrive when Ican park close a men to that Red

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Rocks. What, Oh my god, I'm now you know. I used
to look at the people who weretailgating at Red Rocks and I'm like,
those people know how to party.Right now I realize they're just doing it
because they had to get there soearly to get the good parking space.
That might as well bring sandwiches.Well, I was gonna say that,
And to get close to the Chickfil A that they do outside Red Rocks
or the concerts. What did they? Oh, that's up top though,

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right, I think it's a littlebit lower down the hill. I think
they have that station at tent No. I only see I go, I
don't know. That's not the wayI go in in and out of Red
Rocks. I'm not telling you how, because you're going to tell me off
air. I'll tell you off airmy strategy. My strategy for Red Rocks
usually has me leaving the parking lotbefore most people get to their cars,

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and I mean leaving the park.No, I don't miss anything. Okay,
there's a whole strategy in play here, right right, Okay, people
want to know. I'm not tellingnone know No, figure out your own
Red Rock strategy. I have toa giveaway, that's the prize. Okay,
that's something I would consider. Butthey have to be sworn to secrecy.
We're going to make them sign anon disclosure agreement where they can't be

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telling their friends. Okay, can'tbe running around telling people about my strategy
because it works really well and Idon't want to ruin that for anybody.
So Kevin Neilan coming up at one. He's got a show on YouTube,
and I put the episode where he'shiking with Nick Offerman, and it's the
shows called Hiking with Kevin, andhe just hikes with comedians and other people

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that he likes and I'm just gonnasay, Kevin, you need to do
a show with enormy like just anormal person, and I'm your girl.
I'm so should we take Kevin Nelanhiking? Could you imagine, Hey,
Kevin, we're going to walk upthis manituing. I can't do it right
now. I'm getting my knees reshotat Regan Revolution. Right now, I'm
getting PRP shots and I don't thinkI could do that right now. Can't

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do that as long as well,I don't think he's in every episode.
I don't care this episode. Wantto be the No, he's not going
to be there. We're hiking herein Colorado, not in California, where
Kevin lives generally on a bunch ofstreets with a bunch of other comedians.
Because he talks about Nick Opperman walkingaround, you know, their neighborhood all
the time. Just need to movethere and then you can hang out with

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Nick Offerman just there. I betyou can buy a house there really cheap,
super inexpensively. Anyway, A coupleof things that don't want to jump
into news wise. I want totalk about this story Excel Energy, which
is our main energy provider here inour monopoly system in Colorado. I think

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that all of the attention that isbeing paid Excel now is good for the
rate payers, way better than anythingelse that's been going on. The Public
Utilities Commission, which is the quasigovernmental board appointed board that gets to approve
or shoot down any rate increases askedfor by Excel, just said no to

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Excel something they don't normally do.And this particular issue had to do with
Excel wanting to build charging stations acrossColorado. One of the big sticking points
for electric vehicles is that people haverange anxiety. They are afraid they're going
to run out of juice before theycan get to a charger, or that
there will not be a charger wherethey are. So this is a real

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sticking point for more people adopting electricvehicles, along with their exorbitant price tag.
Now, I'm all for putting morecharging stations wherever they need to be,
and if I had the backing,I would use what we're going to
call the stuckies plan. Now,I don't think stuckies. You didn't have
stuckies out here, did you whenyou were a kid? Okay, stuckies

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on the East Coast is one ofthose restaurants that was on the exit of
the interstate, right like every sooften you'd have a Stuckies exit and there'd
be a Stuckies and it was alittle restaurant, had a blue roof,
and they had these pecan rules thatwere just incredibly good, like candy and
Stuckies were everywhere. And the waythey built Stuckies is they got in the

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car, they drove until they hadto pee, and then they got off
of that exit and they built aStuckies. That was the strategy that Stucky's
employed. So let's just start withthat. Let's just go down I seventy.
When you got to pee, howsoon do you got to pee?
Stop? Put a charging station.But here's where it gets tricky. Xcel
wanted to use rate payer dollars.They wanted to raise the money off the

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backs of rate payers for something thatas of right now, a vast majority
of those rate payers would never use. Therefore, they wanted to use dollars
that they did not have to expendto put in these charging stations that they
would then profit from. And aswe know, we never see the rates
go down with Xcel. You know, there are huge profits for their shareholders.

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Never seem to have an impact onour energy prices going down, that
is never returned to the consumer.So XL wanted the ratepayers to put the
bill for this, and the PUCwas like, uh no, that's not
going to happen, and they shotit down. Now what's great about this
is I'm trying to find out theguy's first name that gave this. Ryan

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McKinnon, spokesperson for the Charge AheadPartnership, a coalition of businesses and organizations
working to expand the free market forEV charging in Colorado, said with private
businesses eager to offer EV charging tocustomers, the PUC understood that steering one
hundred and twenty million dollars a ratepair of money to Excel to run its

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own EV charging business would disincentivize longterm private investment. So there you go.
By the way, the PUC alsosaid to Excel, don't bring this
back to us. We don't wantto see it. We just don't care.
Now. They did allow a rateincrease, of course, for the
Transportation Electrification Plan, which I don'tknow what the details are for that,

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but they will not be be runningthe EV stations throughout the state now,
oh wait a minute, Stucky's wasan I twenty five in Johnson's Corner,
still a blue roof, So youdid have Stuckies up there, yep,
uh stuckus. This textter said theyall closed back in the nineteen nineties.

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STUCKI still has a very small footprinton the East Coast, but not very
big. And you can a texterthat said love the pecon rolls. You
can order those online if you wantthose pecan rolls, and they are still
flip and delicious. Just to letyou know, I'm not a big candy
person. I eat dark chocolate likeI love dark chocolate almonds, and I
buy mine from the Chocolate Therapist becausethose are the best. But I'm not

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a big candy person. But thosethe pecan rolls, Oh my goodness,
so good. And maybe that isuh, maybe that is a flashback to
my childhood because we get those andturtles at Stucky's, turtles of course being
blobs of caramel, little legs madeout of pecans and then a blob of

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chocolate on top. So good.Not sure how updated this is, but
this says Stuckies has still sixty fivelicensed locations and some two hundred retailers sell
stuckies, pecans, snacks and candies. They're so good and stucky. When
I say five thousand outlets, Stucky'syeah, they went from five thousand down
to like, you know, sixtyfive. They used to be everywhere.

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But let's do that with charging stationsand then hey, maybe somebody can sell
the conroles. That would be amazing, but at least it won't be Excel.
You know, I've started. Ijust started looking into this this morning,
and I had to stop because Ididn't have that much time. But
I'm wondering if anybody out there.Maybe I'll call Amy Oliver Cook and see
if she has any information on this, because she is an energy policy specialist.

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I believe that Minnesota and Colorado arepursuing much of the same legislation around
green energy. And do you knowwho the largest power company is in both
of those places, Excel Energy.So who exactly is writing this policy?
Because Excel can only increase their profitsby doing capital projects. That is how

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they make the most of their moneyright now, and the more that they
push legislation that forces them down theseways, the more money they stand to
make. So I'm gonna see ifI can get some information on that,
because I think that's a very interestingsort of collision of corporate quote responsibility and

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legislative efforts. M wouldn't surprise meat all, you guys. I love
the fact that you are telling menow where every Stucky is in Central Kansas
is yep, yep. Everybody knowsStuckies. And they have the best breakfast
too, absolutely the best breakfast.Where do people stop? Cracker Barrel's kind
of taken on that role, likenow there's a cracker barrel where although we

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don't have a cracker barrel in Denverproper, even south of Denver. That's
a big disappointment, but probably betterfor my waistline Ash brown Castle role when
we get back. I've got alot of stuff today, but I want
to jump in to something that Italked about yesterday. But then I have
a perfect example of what I wastalking about yesterday when I said I think

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that Joe Biden in office is moredangerous than Donald Trump in office because of
bureaucracy. I'll explain and demonstrate itwhen we get back. So yesterday I
was making a point about the Trumpeta future Trump administration versus the current Biden

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administration. And as a matter offact, I was talking to a friend
yesterday about this and she said,she has long been a liberal, I
mean a classical liberal, and thereforeshe has been part of the Democratic Party.
Over the last couple of years,she changed her party affiliation because the
Demo Credit Party no longer stands forher liberal ideals. And we were talking

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yesterday. She said, you know, I'm very afraid if Trump gets re
elected. And I said why andshe said, well, He's going to
use the Department of Justice to goafter people. And I was like,
well, stop right there. Whatwe're seeing right now, Joe Biden's Department
of Justice is viciously going after opponents, whether it's Donald Trump, whether it
is pro life people, whether itis the j six people who you know

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went to the Capitol and walked throughand did no destruction, but walked through
the Capitol are now facing you know, four or five six years in jail.
That's excessive. He's using the Departmentof Justice to go after political enemies.
And today I see this story andI'm like, this is exactly what
I'm talking about. And I'll getto why Trump is less of a threat
in this manner in just one second. If you didn't hear yesterday, the

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Justice Department is trying to throw aneighty nine year old concentration camp survivor in
jail. The thing called the FaceAct, and the Face Act was designed
to prevent people from blocking access tothings like abortion clinics and stuff like that.
So the Face Act, hang on, let me close all these fifty

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thousand pop up ads that just poppedup on my computer when I pulled this
story up. So the Face Actis Freedom to Access Clinic entrances, which
prohibits the use of force, threatof force, or physical obstruction to prevent
women from obtaining or providing reproductive healthcareservices, which we all know is code

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for abortion. In March of twentytwenty one, Even and other pro life
advocates participated in a prayer protest insidea Tennessee abortion clinic. The pro lifers
stood in front of the clinic storeswhile peacefully singing Christian hymns and praying.
For this they face up to sixmonths in prison, five years of supervised
release, and fines of up toten thousand dollars. Typically, Face Act

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violations carry a maximum sentence of upto eleven years in prison and up to
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars infines. Now, the fact that she
stood and blocked the way to anabortion clinic means she did violate the Face
Act. So the Department of Justiceis pursuing that an eighty nine year old
concentration camp survivor. That's who they'reprosecuting. That may be a righteous prosecution,

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but let's talk about who they arenot prosecuting. The FBI and Department
of Justice had prosecuted nonviolent pro lifeoffenders with the Face Act while turning a
blind eye to the violent, ongoingand terrifying attacks on other institutions protected by
the Face Act, churches and pregnancyhelp centers. Now, pregnancy help centers

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are faith based pregnancy centers that tryto steer women away from abortion. They
offer them support during their pregnancy andafter, they try to cycle them into
organizations that can provide housing if theyneed it. They generally try to suade
women from having an abortion. Andthis makes the pro abortion people. And
just because your pro choice doesn't meanyour pro abortion, but there are pro

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abortion people out there who cannot standthe thought of a woman choosing not to
terminate a pregnancy and being talked outof it and going on to have a
child. They hate that, Theyreally really hate that. So let me
give you some examples of what theDepartment of Justice is not prosecuting. A
man named Elliott Bennett set fire toa Catholic church in New Jersey. This

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was the third time Bennett had committedacts of violence or vandalism against the church
since twenty eighteen. The twenty firstattack on a Catholic church in twenty twenty
four, the two hundred and seventyfourth attack since May of twenty twenty two,
the four hundred and twelfth attack sinceMay of twenty twenty. But the
Justice Department is too busy throwing eightynine year old concentration camp survivor EVA in

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jail they can't prosecute Bennett for thesemultiple and obvious Space Act violations. It's
also failed to federally prosecute a singleone of the more than four hundred egregious
Face Act violations against Catholic churches sinceMay of twenty twenty, or to meaningfully
address the ninety attacks on pregnancy resourcecenters across the nation since May of twenty

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twenty two. These are not peoplewho stood outside the pregnancy center and sang
hymns and prayed. They involve firebombings and arson, vandalism andgnancy, vandalism
of pregnancy clinics and churches, spraypainted threats on clinic and church walls,
decapitated statues, smashed glass, disruptedmasses, blocking of church interesces, and

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even physical attacks on priests and parishioners. They've cost at least twenty five million
dollars in damages to the Catholic Churchwhile intimidating hundreds of peaceful Catholic and pro
life communities. The problem isn't thelaw, it's the way the law is
applied, and it's obviously designed toonly apply to people who are using their

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faith to try and stop abortion.And this is why the Biden administration is
more dangerous than a potential Trump administrationbecause everybody and I hate to use the
term the deep state state because itsounds so conspiratorial, but we watched it
happen when the FBI took a dossierthat they knew was full of crap and

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and and began a three year investigationinto a sitting president. The FBI lied
on FEISA applications in order to spyon people in the Trump administration or at
least in the in the campaign.They they went well beyond the norms of
what should be allowed to spy ona major candidate for the presidency and investigate

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the president of the United States ofAmerica. We already know that that exists,
So we'll call it the deep state, even though I think that sounds
very conspiratorial. Is there a bettername? Everyone in the deep state in
DC? And everyone may be toostrong a word. Maybe there's a handful
of people there, A handful ofpeople there. Everyone hates to Donald Trump.
They're not going to willingly do hisbidding on stuff like this like they

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will Joe Biden. When was theIRS weaponized by Trump and his administration to
go after liberal organizations? The answeris it wasn't. When was the Department
of Justice weaponized to go after theHillary Clinton campaign, which lied in its
bookkeeping and said that the money theypaid for the fake Steele dossier was a

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legal expense very similar to what DonaldTrump is on trial for right now in
New York State. Wait, didI say similar? I meant the exact
same thing. So when people talkabout the danger of a Trump administration.
They are willfully ignorant of the waysthat Joe Biden in his entire team have
weaponized the federal government against normal people. Normal people who just want to have

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their voices heard, Normal people whojust want to stop babies from being killed.
Normal people accept the normal people whotry to burn down Catholic churches and
pregnancy centers. They're just fine underthis administration because frankly, the administration agrees
with them. It's really that simple, at least from my position. Uh

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text line five sixty sixth nine.Oh, you can text us Catholics need
to butt out of other people's livesand decisions source to raise Catholic You know,
here's the thing I get, thedisdaining for religion or the Catholic faith.
I too was raised Catholic, andI have left the Catholic faith.
But Catholic charities here in Colorado doesmore to support women in crisis and help

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them have their babies, and thensupport them after they have those babies and
try to get them life skills sothey can move forward and have their babies
and have a decent life. Sodon't lump all Catholics and all Catholic efforts
in with your negative experience of thechurch. Oh, the new term for
the deep state is the blob.I like that. I like it a

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lot. That's a really good one. This person says, I bet Biden's
judicial system doesn't go after the collegeprotesters. They won't even be put in
jail. Probably paid for something.Yeah, yeah, yeah, when we
get back, it is uh ohgosh, I have so much good stuff

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today. I'm looking at what Iwant to bring you next. There's so
much good stuff on the blog today. Oh you know what, I'm gonna
share a Charlie Kirk SoundBite because thisis how I feel about a lot of
the people that text me nasty things. If you're gonna bring a knife to
a gunfight, be ready to beshot at. It's always interesting, why

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are people trying to ruin our country? I'm thinking of the socialists and the
liberals. Here's the thing, youguys, And this is one of my
big distinctions between the left and theright, and it goes to the nature
of progressivism versus conservatism. Like atits heart right, it used to be

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that people on the left thought thatwe were not good enough, and in
some ways they were right, youknow, they really were, Like,
we've had so much progress in termsof general equality in society now we all
know the Civil Rights Act was passedby mostly Republicans. That being said,
there's always ways to be better.But what's happening to the left now is

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they've decided that there's nothing good aboutthe United States of America. It was
founded on slavery, it was builton the backs of people in slavery,
and it is since then only oppressedand been the oppressor. And that is
fundamentally false, first of all,but I also think that it is a
losing proposition in the long term,because what's left over if we don't have

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the ideals that made our country sosuccessful for two hundred and fifty years.
And yet we have a lot ofpeople on the left who genuinely think,
I think that the United States hasno redeeming values. You look at these
young people outside of some of thepremier universities in the country who are so
steeped in the oppressor oppressed dialogue thatthey believe hamas a murderous regime, is

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superior to Israel. And it's clearlynot clearly on every measure, But yet
here we are now. I wantto play this stuff about Charlie Kirk because
I find this super interesting. Youknow, I'm not the biggest Charlie Kirk
fan ever, but I think inthis situation he is spot on and this

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is the kind of nonsense that oh, hang on, Charlie Kirk. I
can't get out of that. Ohmy gosh, sometimes I hate TikTok Okay,
here we go. Uh So,Charlie Kirk is speaking to a university,
and this young slacker at KU KansasUniversity of Kansas's he can't even be
bothered stand up while he's hurling hisinsults. He's leaning against the wall casually.

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But I want to just share thisexchange with you because I think it
has a lot of merit in explaininghow people on the left, when they
can't make an argument, they justresort to this kind of name calling.
How are you able to so confidentlyjust kind of word vomit? Really,
all of your work is not adebate, it's just confirmation biased Why a

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debate? No, I'm good.I'm just curious where you learned You sure
where you learned how to talk?I'm a high school graduate, you're in
college. Man, let's debate.I vomit for a living. You said,
no, I'm not here to debate, that's question here to insult me.
Yeah, I am. You're reallygood at lying out of here.
What if I lied about Name onething I lied tonight about at eleven million
jobs. Eleven million jobs are openfor blue collar work according to micro and

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according to three independent studies, accordingto the Department of Labor. Name another
side. I said, that's wrong. You need to work on not doing
confirmation biased. But you came uphere and insulted me. I'm asking you,
how have I misled this audience?And you come unprepared, like not
with a single data. I thoughtyou'd at least have like one gotcha man
at the Apex, fifteen thousand peoplecoming across the sun the board every single
day. I even said, it'sdown a little bit. That is true.

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You're gonda what you do, butnot for the right reasons. That's
what he brings to the table.And you guys should see some of the
stupid, idiotic insults that I geton the text line. It's like,
and I usually just email back ortext back and say, God, you
got to try harder, because I'vebeen insulted by the best people at this
stage in the game. Literally,nothing that I'm going to get on the
anonymous text line is going to haveany impact on me whatsoever. None.

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I don't think about it after Iread it. Sometimes I laugh at how
sad your efforts are and how badyour spelling is. But this is the
kind of stuff that passes on theleft for some kind of gotcha moment.
And Charlie Kirk's absolutely right. Whenyou bring statistics and someone doesn't like them.
Whose confirmation bias are we talking about? Anyway? This kid just learned

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the phrase confirmation bias, and nowhe's going to use it every chance he
gets in insulting someone who brings inconvenientfacts that he doesn't like. It's just
sad, incredibly, incredibly sad.To the person who said, hopefully,
I'm never nasty, I'm often sarcastic. I watch your show like watching a
sporting event. I'm always rooting foryou, but I definitely yell when you
fumble the ball. I am perfectlyfine with that, and that's not what

(32:17):
I'm talking about. Wait, youknow what, I'm just try and think
about the dumbest insults I've ever gottenUsually the ones that are super dumb are
basically they devolve to something like,yeah, you're fat and ugly. That's
pretty much where they are, LikeOh okay, well, geez, Louise,
there you go, there you go. When we get back, Kevin

(32:39):
Nielan joins us for an interview,looking forward to that coming up next.
Mandy Connell, you might have heardof me, and I know you've heard
of my next guest, Kevin Nielan, who I just chatted with on the
break and I'm pretty sure we're bestfriends now, Kevin, are we best
friends? Can we? Can wejust make Can I be in your next
book where you talk about all ofyour friends and go from there? Yeah?

(33:00):
Yeah, you'll be my bestiat forsure. There you go. Kevin
is going to be in town thisweekend at Comedy Works, And as I
said earlier in the show, ifyou want to go to the early show,
first of all, that means you'remy age and those shows are sold
out, so you've got some ticketsleft for the nine forty five shows on
Friday and Saturday night. But Kevin, you've been in this game for a

(33:22):
for a hot minute. You've beenaround for this a little bit I have
been around. I have, Ihave. I have been around quite a
bit around the country, the worldand around the world of stand up comedy,
and I love doing it. It'sall you ever wanted to do,
Mandy. You know, I startedoff wanting to be a stand up and

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Saturday Night Live and Weeds and Iwas Adam Sanda films. That was all
secondary and I welcomed it. ButI never stopped doing stand up man.
I continued to do it to thisday. Well, the the movies that
you did. My producer Anthony ismuch younger than I am, and the
first thing he said was, oh, my gosh, Kevin Neilan has been

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part of every great movie that AdamSandler's ever made. And I'm like,
oh, Kevin Neilan has so muchstuff. Well, beyond the Adam Sandler
years, you were part of SaturdayNight Live during its I think glory years,
most recent Glory years, and youcreated some incredibly iconic characters during that
time. What was your favorite characterthat you ever did during that time or

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since? What has been? Isthere any that you look back with special
affinity? Well, of course,I you know, I have a special
affinity to the real popular ones likeHans and Franz or Mister Subliminal or the
Weekend Update character. But you knowwhen you say character, I guess that
would include just doing one sketch withthat character. And for me, this

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is the one that kind of reallycapsulizes my whole kind of comedic persona.
And it was called the Bathroom Attendant. It was with Harvey Kaitel coming into
a very very small bathroom with justa toilet and no stall, and I
was the bathroom attendant with a tuxedo. And yeah, he thought that I
was using the bathroom, but Ihad to assure him that I was the

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bathroom attendant and I worked there,and so we didn't want through the whole
process. He'd sit down and I'dbe offering him cologne. We have newspapers
with New York Times, we havethe daily News, and just went through
that whole thing, and it wasvery uncomfortable for him, you know,
as that character. And he evenstarted laughing through it. So I think
for me that was probably one ofmy favorite sketches. At least is it

(35:37):
because he was so uncomfortable. Imean, is it better for you when
your comedy makes people slightly uncomfortable oris it more about the laughs. I
think it's about the laughs. Imean, it's not about him breaking character.
I mean you didn't really see ittoo much because he was holding a
newspaper over his head. And butI you know, I I think I

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really like the sketch to work onits own and not have people laughing because
the characters are the actors are breakingup. So and I'm really good about
that. I don't think I've everbroken character like I think a lot of
the actors in the last few decadestend to like to do. And the
audience likes it, of course,but it's a real disservice to the writers
who wrote the sketch. So yeah, I would say the Bathroom of Tenant

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was really one of my favorite sketches, you know, I am. I
grew up on Carol Burnett The KrollBurnette Show, and breaking character was like
the specialty of Harvey Kaitel and thatwas so absolutely hysterical. But I get
what you mean, though, becauseif you can do it straight to me,
that makes the whole thing funnier.But that being said, who are

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your comedy icons? Who are thepeople that when you were young you looked
at and said, man, that'swhat I want to do when I grow
up. Well, there was differentphases for me. If you're saying when
I grew up, that could meananytime, co mean last week. But
when I was a kid, Iloved a lot of different comedians, and

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I would there was a section ofthe newspaper called My Favorite Jokes by whoever
was the popular comics back then,and I would memorize those jokes, and
then I would go to neighborhood partiesand I would tell them as if things
really happened to me that were thesejokes. I'd say, for instance,
Hey, did you hear about thisguy downtown? He stole a fire truck.
I stole a fire truck. Andthey were it was incredulous. They

(37:28):
all thought I was telling the truth. They said, O kidding. What
happened to him? I said,well, he was arrested by about an
hour later by some guy who stolea cop car. You know. So
that's kind of where I learned howto formulate choke and you know, craft
jokes. And but some of thecomics back then were people like you know,
Johnny Carson I liked, and Iliked There was a guy named Stanley,

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Myron Handleman I liked, and ofcourse I liked Woody Allen and Richard
Pryor. But I remember one ofthe reasons I decided to go to Los
ange just to really get into itwas, and this is the weirdest thing,
but I was raking leaves at myhouse in Connecticut, out in the
yard, and I had the radioon, and then there was a news
break saying that Freddy Prince had died, and I realized what an impact that

(38:12):
had in the world and how importantstand up comedy was in comedy in general.
So I thought, that's really callingme, and I went to Los
Angeles and started getting into it anddoing open mic nights. How long did
it take you from your first openmic night to when you started to be
getting booked, when people were like, wait a minute, this kid has
something. Let's see. Well,I did the Tonight Show six years after

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I started, which is pretty good, pretty impressive, I think, and
I got called over to do apanel, you know, couch with him,
which is, you know, veryrare. So that's I think back
then, that is the show thatreally validated you as a stand up and
I started working quite a bit afterthat. But before that I had done
the David Letterman Show and some ofthe earlier shows they had, like MERV
Griffin in the afternoon. So itreally is only a couple of years.

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Is it really really happened pretty quicklyfor me? Thank God? Well,
you know, I've talked to alot of comedians and they talk about those
formative years when they're really trying towork things out. But what would you
say, is different about the wayyou approach comedy now than it was when
it got started? Or is itthe same? Well, comedy is always

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evolving. For me my stand upact. When you first start, you're
always emulating somebody. All the comicsare when you go into a club,
and at that point, there weren'ta lot of people doing stand up.
It was a novelty thing. Mostmost of the audience had never been to
a comedy club before. They've neverseen a live stand up comic. And
I knew pretty much everybody's act frombeing in the club. I knew Jerry

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Seinfeld's act by heart. I knewHarry Mandel, I knew all of the
comics, Jay Leno, Letterman,I see them all, Rob and Williams,
and then all of a sudden,i go off to New York and
I'm doing you know, SNL,and then I'm doing other shows and I'm
never giving up stand up. I'mstill doing it, but I'm not living
in the clubs anymore like I usedto it the improblem in Hollywood, And

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now at this point it's accessible tothe world and there's everybody doing stand up.
Now there's you know, Iranians,there's Pakistanis, there's you know,
people from China and all over theworld, and which is great because I
think we can never have enough standup comedy. But for me, it's

(40:25):
always a growth for me, andI'm always looking to find ways to be
different and to keep myself interested too. So as I get older, it's
more about my life and my observationof different things. And it's also kind
of grown a little dark too,I think getting older, and you know,

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I've been in radio. I've hadmy own show for almost twenty years
now, and I'm choking on thatas I say it. And I found
that my sense of humor has changedbecause I'm kind of immersed. I'm drinking
politics with a fire hose every day, and it's kind of hard to keep
that kind of slap dash sort ofhumor that I know I had when I

(41:05):
was young, and I'm kind ofsad about that. I don't mean to
get melancholy, but the things thatused to make me laugh uproariously when I
was younger are maybe not as funnyto me now. Is that like a
natural evolution or have I just ruinedmy life with this job? Yeah?
I mean I think you you didbecome a little hardened to different comedic situations

(41:29):
where you've seen it enough where it'snot that, you know, it's not
that shocking anymore. You know.It's like when I like to go on
YouTube and I watch, you know, these kids that are shredding them as
the guitar or the piano when they'relike six years old, you know,
because they watch other people on YouTube, and it's like, to the point,
now, it really doesn't impress methat much. What do you what
do you? Yeah, you're ina fiddle or something. You know.

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Let me ask about your book.I exaggerate my brushes with fame because you've
actually written because somebody said, doyou have any memorable moments of Norm MacDonald?
Because you've worked with I feel likeyou're kind of at the point now
where it's like, oh, yeah, you're wonder we can do seven degrees
from Kevin Nealan at this point becauseyou've worked with so many people, So

(42:15):
do you have anything to share aboutNorm or some of the other people you've
worked with. Well, I havea lot of stories about Norman. They're
included in my book called I ExaggerateMy Brushes with Fame, Right, I
just do a lot of celebrity caricatures, and a lot of them are the
people I know, like Norm McDonaldor Chris Farley or Dana Carvey, Steve
Martin, and well the Norm McDonaldNorman. People love Norman. Norma is

(42:38):
so likable, and yet he waskind of he was kind of had trouble
keeping himself together, you know,really, to say the least, he
was kind of always late, andhe couldn't find his passport. Oh he
couldn't remember when you told them something, and he kind of needed a handler
almost. They kept the haities sitterright. And also he loved to gamble,

(43:04):
and he also loved not to payback loans if you loan the money.
So he was not the hard way, didn't want to didn't necessarily want
to be in business with him,per se is what you're telling me.
No, no, no, buthe was hilarious and he was certainly unique,
and like I said, people didlove him. Well. You've also
in your book you write about youmentioned Chris Farley as well, and I

(43:28):
asked, so you only write aboutdead people, so there's no you know,
possible litigation on that. Have yougotten blowback from anybody that you wrote
about in your book? No,not writing about but the paintings. One
of them has gotten some blowback onthe paintings. Was going through my book

(43:49):
on all the talk shows about ayear ago, and as a courtesy,
I wanted to ask some of thepeople that I painted the subjects if they
wouldn't mind me taking their painting andusing it to just kind of give an
example on the talk shows. AndSteve Martin was fine with it, and
you know, Jim Carrey, awhole handful of people are fine with it.
But then Christopher Walking didn't like hisso he said, on the most

(44:12):
fucking stock, can you use thisall of your book? So I didn't
use his painting. So you're alsoa peace which is one of my favorites.
By the way, You're a renaissanceman. You do a little bit
of everything. When did you startpainting. I've been doodling since I was
a kid, but I only startedpainting about a year before the pandemic,
and then I did that all throughthe pandemic, So I stayed pretty busy

(44:35):
during that period of time. Butyou know, I am maybe you can
call me a renaissance man, butI'm not. Aside from the painting,
I'm not really good at any onething, you know. I spread myself
thin. Like I played the guitarsince I was ten and I'm still not
that good at it. And Iplayed a five string banjo since I was
eighteen, not that good at it, you know what I mean. But
I enjoy what I do. I'mnever bored. I always have something to

(44:58):
do, which is great. Wealso have a YouTube show that I was
unaware of. I could blow smokeand tell you that I was a faithful
viewer, but until this morning,I didn't know that hiking with Kevin was
even a thing. But it's oddlyinteresting to watch you and I just watched
half of your episode with Nick Offerman. As a matter of fact, I
put it on the blog today sopeople could see if they wanted to watching

(45:19):
two growing in huffing and puffing throughthe interview as you're hiking in some place
beautiful in California. Wherever you're hikingis absolutely gorgeous. How in the world
did you come up with that idea? Well, I do hike a lot
in California, mostly in the canyonsaround Los Angeles and Malibu, although I
have hiked up the places like Nashvilleand the Smoky Mountains, and I've even

(45:42):
done some promos from Lake Louise andCanada. Oh yeah, in Ireland.
I was in Ireland last year.I hiked with Paul Reiser. So I
came up with it because I livein California. I live near a lot
of these canyons which are great trails. And I call my friend Matthew Modeen,
who used to be in He wasin Full Metal Jacket and he's in
Stranger Things now, and like Isaid, we've known each other for a

(46:04):
long time. He had hosted SNLone week and we became buddies from that.
And I said, matt you wantto go for a hike. He
goes, yeah, sure, we'llcatch up. And we're hiking and it's
a pretty steep terrain, and wewere both so out of breath. You
wouldn't believe how out of breath wewere. And it was difficult to converse
with each other because we were There'sso much, you know, huffing and

(46:24):
puffing going on, like Matt cameto California, did you? And I
thought that would be a funny bitto post on Twitter. It was just
a two minute thing, and Iwould do all these interstitials like two minutes,
and then I started asking other friends, and then I eventually ran out
of friends to ask, so Istarted sending uh letters to publicists to try

(46:45):
to get their clients. But Ithink you have good luck with that.
It was a lot of fun doingit, and they're still doing it now.
I'm just going to say, ifyou want to, if you want
to, like hike with enormy,just a normal, not famous person.
Hiking happens to be one of myfavorite things. I asked Kevin if you
wanted to go hiking this weekend becauseyou're going to be in beautiful Colorado and
there's some great trails really close tothe comedy work South where you're going to

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be. I'm just throwing that outthere. We do have a little bit
more altitude than you have in Californiathat you have to deal with. Yeah,
no, this is real hiking hereand real hiking in Colorado. This
what I do here. You couldcall it strolling, maybe strolling on a
little incline. I'm not even wearinghiking boots. I have sometimes I have

(47:30):
thongs on. If you have onflip flops, you're not hiking. I
have news for you. That's nota thing. That those two things do
not go together. I know,have you done any hiking? I was
thinking about that, but I dowear I do wear sneakers. Though.
Have you done any hiking in Coloradoat all? Because I got to tell
you it's beautiful out here. Ihave done hiking in Colorado over the years,

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but nothing really serious, not atrail that I might get lost.
Yeah, but I have hiked ina lot of places. But again,
I'm not a serious hiker. Idon't you know. I don't own you
know, grappling hooks and that ropeand stuff. You know. I just
like a day hike where I couldjust go out and there's some you know,

(48:13):
there's some altitude and some nice views. I like views. That's what
I like. That's why I hikeas well for the views. I don't
do any of that grappling or theor the or the you know, I
don't do that. That just seemslike a lot of work. You were
going to be a comedy works thisweekend. I'm sure you've played this club
before. Yeah, I love thatclub. Yeah. I did my last
special there. Oh, very nice. What is it about Colorado audiences,

(48:37):
I'm not really sure. I thinkthat there's a couple of places, and
there's a reason why I picked comedyin Dever to do my special, because
somehow the audience and I really connect. And the other place where that happens
is Washington, d C. Andthen also the state of Washington itself up
around Seattle, and I don't quiteknow what it is, but I tend

(49:00):
to get a kind of a sophisticatedaudience there. They are. A club
owner said, when you're coming toour club, we have to order extra
red wine and white wine because that'sthe kind of audience that's sup brilliant.
You know, other comics, likesome of the like the blue collar comics,
you've got to per you know,beer and chicken wings for them,
and the same with some of theurban acts, you know, Squavasier and

(49:22):
Chicken Wings or whatever. So that'skind of my audience right there. So
are there any comedians working right now, young up and commerce that we should
look at that you think are arethese people are getting it done? Well,
there's a lot of comics out there, and it's, like I said,
there's you know, it's it's notsuch a novelty anymore. Everyone from

(49:42):
all walks of life are doing standup comedy. So it's kind of hard
to pick out one stand up comicthat that you're really loving. And I
try to watch these Netflix specials,but it's just so hard to keep up
with it all. And I'm notI'm not really as much into other stand
ups now as I used to be. I was always interested in. It's

(50:04):
just kind of overwhelming sometimes the amountof stand up. But if somebody is
really good and different, it's allabout being unique now, because right there
are so many stand up comics.You have to be so original and unique
so you stand out from the rest, or you just have to be Kevin
Nalan. That's really all you haveto do if you want to go through
where you just have to be KevinNeil. Yeah, there you go if
you want to go to the show. The early shows are sold out to

(50:25):
the white and red wine crowd thathas to be in bed by nine thirty
eight, like me, and theydo have a second class for the nine
five show, so you you latenight denizens can go see Kevin at the
Comedy Work South at the Landmark inGreenwood Village. He's going to be there
on Friday and Saturday night only,so get your tickets today. Kevin,
it has been absolute blast talking toyou. I've been a huge fan for

(50:49):
a long time. And if youever need anorem me to go hiking with
you, we can make that happen. I'm wildly entertaining on a hike and
I always three snacks. I'm sureyou are anywhere. Yeah, there you
go, Kevin. I appreciate youmaking time with us this morning. Have
a great weekend in Colorado, andmaybe maybe take a brisk walk instead of

(51:10):
the instead of the full hike.I might just do that. I love
brisk walks. All right, KevinNeilan, thanks for your time. We'll
talk to again soon. My friend. All right, thanks, loving you.
That is Kevin Neilan. He willbe at Comedy Works this weekend,
and like I said, those ticketsare going fast on the blog. I

(51:32):
not only have that episode of Hikingwith Kevin with Nick Offerman, I also
have a link to buy his bookcalled uh I Exaggerate My Brushes with Fame.
It came out in twenty twenty two. So go see Kevin Neilan this
weekend. When we get back,I've got let me see what I want
to do next. I want togo into oh this story, you guys,

(51:57):
so CBS Sunday Morning. I toldyou it was amazing this past week.
There was no politics whatever. ButCBS News is doing a week long
series that is airing on CBS.I believe it's airing on CBS News at
night, or it might be intheir morning show during the week, but
they kicked it off on Sunday duringCBS Sunday Morning about romance scams and Brian

(52:19):
Moss. CBS found a woman herelocally, and honestly, I my heart
broke. But what do you do? We're going to share her story next
and see if this applies to anyoneyou know who thinks they're in a relationship
with someone that they are clearly notin a relationship with. I'll explain after
this local CBS news story because thisis the most heartbreaking thing. But I

(52:44):
want to bring it up because Ithink this happens more than you might think.
I'm just gonna cue it up andlet this play. I'm not going
to play the whole thing, butI'll play part of it. They're called
romance or imposter scams. Online fraudstersare stealing more than a billion dollars a
year from people they need online.Yeah, whenever this topic comes up,
people always ask who could fall forsomething like this. Tonight, your investigator

(53:06):
Brian Moss introduces us to one apparentvictim, a woman in Colorado who's out
thousands of dollars. She believes she'sin a relationship with actor Keanu Reeves.
Brian assuring her stories and now justa warning. Plenty of people, even
though you wouldn't expect, do fallfor these scams. To hear the woman

(53:28):
tell her, I'm a fan.Hollywood movie star Keanu Reeves came into her
life in twenty twenty two and isstill romancing her. He's always very romantic,
flirtatious, being very very nice aboutit. She is sixty five,
a married mother of two and whilethere are numerous signs she is being victimized

(53:51):
by a scammer, she is convincedotherwise nobody else can talk to me while
they're sitting in a table during anawards celebration getting an award in texting me,
this is the real Keanu Reeves.What can I show you to convince
you that you've been scammed? Idon't know. I'm not sure. She

(54:16):
believes she met the actor through Facebook, which led to online conversations and text
messages she shared with us. Eventually, she was asked to buy gift cards
for him, which she did,you really think Keanu Reeves spends his time
talking to a sixty five year oldwoman trying to shake her down for fifty
dollars gift cards. It's part ofwhat he does. She says. She

(54:37):
became convinced she was talking to thestar when he sent her the supposed picture
of his driver's license. We foundthe exact same image circulating on the internet.
The apparent scammer asked her to installa cash app and said he would
teach her how to use it.There have been promises of trips to Paris,
lavish shopping trips, and marriage.Of course, none of that has

(54:58):
happened. She gave him her bankaccount and personal information, and estimates she's
handed over about five thousand dollars.She shared a message from the contact pressuring
her to get him more gift cards. I need this gift card please.
I want to call my mom.What makes you so sure that that voice
was the voice of Keanu Reeves?I think from hearing it on TV.

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We were shown video and then itgoes on from there to talk about exactly
how these scams work, and hetalks to someone from the Department of Justice.
A billion dollars in online scams,a billion in the year and only
fourteen thousand reported to the FTC.But I want to skip ahead to the

(55:45):
part where he continues to ask RyanMoss continues to ask, how does she
really believe that this is Keanu Reeves? Listen to this Federal Trade Commission.
As for the Keanu Reeves scam,it's been going around for years and has
been the subject of numerous media reports. The actor's representatives have said repeatedly,
Keanu Reeves has no social media accounts. Keanu Reeves, he has no social

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media. He's not on Facebook.He was on my Facebook there's absolutely nothing
I can do to convince you you'rebeing scammed. I maybe Keanu Reeves should

(56:32):
walk in the door and tell methat he didn't do this. I'm Brian,
that is I mean, you guys. There was a story on CBS
Sunday Morning about a woman whose husbandpassed away and she went on match and
she matched with a man that shethought was just fantastic and he built her

(56:52):
for one point two million dollars andthen her body was found where she drowned,
and her daughter thinks that it wassuicide because of this kind of stuff,
I have a friend whose aunt,who is seventy two, believes that
she is in a similar relationship witha different celebrity. And on this guy's
social media page is actual social mediapage, it actually says I will never

(57:14):
ask you for money that is notme. Yet she still believes she's in
a relationship with him, and youguys, I do not understand the psychology
of this, like I don't.I truly don't get it. And this
stuff is so frightening because there areso many lonely people. This woman's married,

(57:37):
according to Brian Musch, she's married. What is her husband saying about
this. At what point do youjust say, well, I'm putting all
of my money in a different account. So when you give your money to
a scammer, thinking it's Keanu Reeves, you're going to be broken. I'm
not going to be This is justmind blowing to me. And what a

(57:58):
disgusting, horrible way to earn aliving, scamming old women like this,
pretending to be Keanu Reeves or someother celebrity that when he asked her,
why would Keanu Reeves be, youknow, shaking a sixty five year old
woman down for gift cards? Andshe says, oh, it's just what
he does. What what I'd liketo ask this poor woman, this poor

(58:22):
deluded woman, if your daughter cameto you and said that a celebrity had
reached out to her online and nowhe was asking for money, what would
you say? What would you sayif someone else was doing this? I
sure hope you'd say you're being scammedbecause you're being scammed. Oh, this

(58:44):
kind of stuff is so absolutely terrible, And I just if someone can explain
the psychology of this, how peopleare so unwilling, you know what,
Let me walk that back, Letme walk this back, because I will
tell you that once people think theyknow something, whatever it is, whether
it is a fact about something,or whether it's a belief about a person

(59:07):
or a political party or whatever,it is incredibly difficult for them to admit
they are wrong. It's extremely difficultfor them to just say, you know
what, I was wrong about that. That's one of those things that I
try to make sure that I neverreflexively reject something. Unless it's someone who

(59:31):
says birds aren't real or the earthis flat, I'm going to reflexively ignore
that, right, I'm not gonna. But I'm talking about when somebody comes
and challenges my belief system, Itry to listen to what they're saying and
see if there's any validity to itbefore I reject it out of hand.
This is just well beyond to theTexter. Oh my god, Ayrod Sylvester

(59:52):
Stallone just hit the text line andhe's asking for some gift cards. Oh
from where? Reason? Why wheredo we send them? Just send me
your address? This person said,not exactly the same, Mandy, But
I tried internet dating. One supposedwoman, probably a West African man,
lured me from texting to WhatsApp andtried to lure me into buying cryptocurrency.

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Another person told me she wasn't feelingwell because she was weak and needed one
hundred and fifty for groceries. Iwas born at night, but not last
night. Unfortunately, there's a lotof people who are so desperately lonely or
maybe with this woman, like whatis she thinking? Does this? Ah

(01:00:35):
Ugh? It was just heartbreaking.I needed you to know that because now
I know it too. Anyway,I know three or four people, says
this Texter who send money every monthto women that they've never met, but
they say they are getting married.A ya yi ay ya yai. Anyway,
a few of you have harsher comments. We'll get into those. And

(01:00:58):
a new ruling by the FTS couldhave far reaching impacts for those of you
who have a non compete. Ifyou are an employee who is not a
senior executive who has a non competein your industry, it is about to
be worth absolutely nothing. The FederalTrade Commission has created a final rule that

(01:01:19):
bans non competes for all workers,including senior executives, after the effective date.
Specifically, the final rule provides thatnon competes are an unfair method of
competition and therefore a violation of Sectionfive of the FTC Act for employers to
enter into non competes with workers afterthe effective date. Now, if you

(01:01:39):
have an existing non compete after theexisting date, it will not be enforceable
unless you are a senior executive,So senior executives will have a different sort
of compensation. Specifically, the finalrule defines the term senior executive to refer
to workers earning more than one hundredand fifty one thousand dollars annually who are

(01:02:00):
in a policy making position. Now, the FTC says they're banning non competes
to do the following things. NumberOne, they say it will reduce healthcare
costs because physicians on a non competeare often kept out of the marketplace for
six months at a time, sometimeseven longer. It will spur new business

(01:02:20):
formation. They're expecting a two pointseven percent increase in the rate of new
firm formation and arise in innovation,an average of between seventeen twenty nine thousand
more patents each year for the nextten years. They also expect it will
lead to higher worker earnings four hundredto four hundred and eighty eight billion in
increased wages for workers over the nextdecade. Now this if you don't work

(01:02:45):
under a non compete for whatever reason, that's awesome. But there are many
industries, including mine, that haverequired non competes from forever. The tech
industry is famous for non competes,and they can keep you in a job
you don't want to be because youcan't afford or don't want to sit out
for six months sometimes a year fromthe industry that you love. And so

(01:03:08):
this is kind of a big deal. I mean, it's it's kind of
a really big deal. And thanksto Ralph for letting me know. A
lot of people are weighing in onthe horrible story that I just played about
this woman who believes she's in arelationship with Keanu Reeves, even though Keanu
Reeves, by the way, hasbeen in a long term relationship with the
same woman along long like twenty years. This text, I think gives the

(01:03:34):
best explanation, Mandy. The psychologicalanomaly that won't allow people to reject a
story they have a hold of anddespite conclusive evidence to the contrary, is
called anchor bias. People hate changeand don't want to admit they're wrong.
People will destroy their own lives becauseof it. Worse yet, people in

(01:03:55):
power will destroy scores of other livesrather than admit their embraced fallacies. That
is a great explanation of what's goingon here, Mandy. If you heard
of scamvaiterers, there are people whoare techies who try to hook scammers and
keep them busy so they can't scamothers. They use ai of old ladies,
voices, et cetera. Cool folks. I have not, but I'm

(01:04:16):
looking him up and getting them onthe show because I think that's God's work
right there, just tangling these peopleup so they don't have time to try
and pray on other old people.Mandy. My father in law was scammed
like this for twenty five thousand dollars. He died last month thinking that this
scammer was a real nurse from SouthAfrica that was going to come take care

(01:04:40):
of him. He sent his lastthree thousand to the scammer on the day
he died. Ugh, the onlything that I would say is, in
a way, it's good that hedied not knowing that he was being scammed.
You know, I hate to saythat, this person, says Mandy.

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I have the same name as oneof the founding members of the Eagles.
We are were related. Over theyears, I've received emails from various
women thinking I was him, andone in particular expected to have spent Valentine's
Day with him after meeting him oncein an airport, and a lot of
you are pointing out if this womanis married, then she's a cheating moron.

(01:05:26):
Yeah. Yeah. This person asked, Mandy, what about non compete
clauses in media? Do these goaway? I don't see a carve out
in the FTC rule about it,so I'm gonna have to assume yes.
I mean, unless you are asenior executive in a policy making position,
the FTC says you cannot have anon compete. That's what that says.
This is a very, very bigdeal. When we get back, I

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want to talk about Joe Biden's findpeople on both sides answer. I'll explain
what that is after the news andtraffic and all that good stuff. But
remember Donald Trump is still dragged ona regular basis for comments that he made
about Charlottesville that have been widely misconstrued. You know, I don't love Donald
Trump, but on that one,he's been completely misconstrued and misrepresented. Well,

(01:06:14):
Joe Biden just essentially did the samething, but oddly there's just been
crickets. I know, it's soweird, right, I do want to
talk for a second, and I'mhoping this opens and isn't paywall. We'll
see. Yeah, there we go. So I have been reading the CAST
Report and it's taken me forever becauseit's like three hundred pages long. I'm
not gonna lie that it's really longand it's taken me forever. The CAST

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Review is a study that was commissionedby the British Medical System and they ask
British pediatrician Hillary Cass to do adeep dive on youth gender medicine, to
look into the science behind it,to look into the quality of the science,

(01:06:57):
to look into the equality of thesuggestions that were being followed by the
NHS until fairly recently that children whohave gender dysphorias should be given gender affirming
care, and this report is incrediblydamning on that front. Now, Hillary
clat Cass is a pediatrician who hasprovided gender affirming care in the past two

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children. She is not some rightwing crank who thinks this is all terrible.
She's a pediatrician who takes this veryseriously and took her responsibilities in this
study incredibly seriously as well. Shenow says that youth gender medicine and this
is a quote, is an areaof remarkably weak evidence, and yet results

(01:07:40):
of studies are exaggerated or misrepresented bypeople on all sides of the debate to
support their viewpoint. The reality iswe have no good evidence on the long
term outcomes of interventions to manage genderrelated distress. So far, the report
has been very illuminating in that theWPATH recommendations. The WPATH is an organization

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that is not inhabited by doctors necessarily. It is inhabited by activists and they
have been putting out these these youknow, guidelines that have been followed all
over the world. They're the WorldProfessional Association for Transgender Healthy. They've been
lauded as the experts in transgender healthcare. But many of their recommendations are not

(01:08:28):
made by doctors. They are madeby activists, and we are doing things
to our children that cannot be undone. Now the dispatch from National Review Jesse
Single is part of this organization andthey did a long article on how this
is being covered by journalists, ormore importantly, how the CAST review is

(01:08:50):
not being covered by journalist. Listento this. The consensus is so strong
and so intense that CNN has astock sentence that is pasted into dozens of
articles on this subject. The sentenceis, gender affirming care is medically necessary
evidence BACE care that uses a multidisciplinaryapproach to help a person transition from their

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assigned gender, the one the personwas designated at birth, to their affirm
gender, the gender by which onewants to be known. That's absolute crap.
But journalists who have tried to writefair and balanced articles are attacked with
such viciousness that many of them arejust ignoring the Cast review. And don't

(01:09:34):
even get me started on our medicalcommunity, who I honestly believe there is
a financial incentive here for medical providersto give gender affirming care to children that
they know will become medical patients forlife because you can't stop taking hormones.
You don't get to decide to unknowyourmasectomy without further medical care. So it

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is. This article is actually verybalanced and talks about how those on the
right have gone too far by tryingto ban gender affirming care for children.
Though well intended, I think thatgets in the way of the parent child
relationship. What needs to happen isthat the American Association of Pediatrics and other
medical organizations need to explain why afterreading the CAST review, they continue to

(01:10:24):
advocate for the medical transitioning of childrenwho are too young to explain or care.
That this gendera affirming care could leavethem sterile and unable to achieve a
sexual climax for the rest of theirlives. That masectomies cannot be undone,
that puberty blockers can cause testicular atrophyin boys that can never be undone.

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You're essentially creating an entire generation ofcastratos. You're castrating these young boys,
and they're too young to understand it. I'd rather we put russure on the
medical system to explain why they're ignoringthis and continuing to experiment on our children
in a way that if Joseph Mengeladid it during the Nazi administration, we

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would have all been horrified, absolutelyhorrified, because what we're doing is wrong.
It's just wrong. I want toget this story in before we are
done today, and it has todo with a comment that Joe Biden made.
He was asked about the anti Semiticprotests on college campuses this week.
He made the following statement. Thisis what he said to reporters. He

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said, I condemned the anti Semiticprotests. That's why I've set up a
program to deal with that. Hasanybody Has anybody heard of a program to
deal with anti Semitic protests? Anyone? Oh wait, I'm sure Kamala isn't
in charge of it. Let metry that again. I condemned the anti
Semitic protests. That's why I've setup a program to deal with that.

(01:11:53):
I also condemn those who don't understandwhat's going on with the Palestinians. So
this is like the Oprah of condemnations. You get condemned, you get condemned.
He's condemning everyone. Just condemned,condemned, condemned, condemn He also
was following AOC at an Earth Dayevent, and AOC went out of her

(01:12:13):
way to praise the protesters at variousuniversities. Am I give you my computer
real quick? This is what shehad to say, Oh, come on
up, hang on. People gotall kinds of things happening, and none
of them are working correctly. Itis especially important that we remember the power
of young people shaping this country todayof all days, as we won once

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again witness the leadership of those peacefulstudent led protests on campus. Is like
Columbia, Yale, Berkeley and manyothers. Now, that was her,
and this is our idiot president rightafter her. Protected Bernie is the best
and representative Cossume Cortes in New York. You know I learned a long time

(01:13:01):
ago. Listen to that lady.Listen to that lady. We're gonna talk
more about another part of the worldtoo, real quickly. So he's now
getting his advice from alexandri Acossio Cortez. We're going to talk more about a
different part of the world real quick. A lot of people on the right
are making this into Hey, rememberremember when Donald Trump at Charlottesville said there

(01:13:26):
are good people on both sides ofthe issue, a comment that has been
absolutely misrepresented, as if to saythat he was saying that there are good
people in the white supremacist movement thatwas marching and good people on the other
side as well, when in realityhe was talking about the people who simply
didn't want their statues taken down inCharlottesville, who didn't want the history erased

(01:13:49):
in Charlottesville for a variety of reasons. And I know that for people who
don't live in the South, youdon't understand why you would want a Confederate
hero in the town square. Andfrankly, as a person from this,
it's not something I don't care oneway or the other. But for some
people it is essentially erasing Southern historyand they don't want it necessarily celebrated,

(01:14:12):
but they don't want it shoved ina closet because, as I've said before,
it's a learning opportunity to talk aboutthat. So he was referring to
the people who didn't want their statuestaken down, and it was completely misconstrued
as or distorted. I can't seemisconstrued because it was willful misconstruction. It
was distorted into people saying, oh, he was talking about white supremacists.

(01:14:33):
So are we really on equal footing? Are we on equal footing? If
I believe that Israel has a rightto defend itself after the worst attack on
Israel on October seventh in decades,I mean I can have compassion for the
people that are suffering in the GazaStrip, But this is the government they

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voted for, and according to thelatest pulling data out of the Gaza Strip,
the government they still support. Soyeah, my sympathy, well,
it waxes a little bit. ItWANs just a bit when I take those
things into consideration. But according toJoe Biden, they're equal Israel, who
has gone out of its way towarn civilians and allow them to leave areas

(01:15:15):
that they would be doing military maneuvers. And he's essentially saying that they are
the same as Hamas, who notonly doesn't do that, but actually puts
their headquarters in the basement of hospitalsand hides weapons next to schools and playgrounds,
and hides hostages in private homes inthe Gaza Strip. That's something that

(01:15:36):
doesn't get talked about a lot.But the hostages who were released said they
were not held in the tunnels.They were held in private homes of people
who are not official Hamas members,but of course were Hamas members. But
Joe Biden says those people are thesame. It's absolutely revolting. I know
what he's trying to do here,He's trying not to lose the support of

(01:15:58):
young people who believe this crap.He's trying not to lose Michigan, which
is full full of anti Semitic Muslims. He's trying not to lose the support
from the base which believes very nastythings. And ultimately, Donald Trump was
often criticized for the part of hisbase that was made up of white supremacist

(01:16:18):
and I think you know rightly soas a person on the right, I
don't want to associate with those peopleat all. And it's kind of winking
a nod to them without coming outand saying that's not okay, was not
okay with me. But that beingsaid, Joe Biden is aligning himself with
young people who are yelling at Jewishstudents on college campuses that they want the

(01:16:43):
Intifada back. And the Endefada wasjust an effort by Palestinians to murder as
many Jews as they could however theycould. That was what the Endefada was.
When someone says intefada, intofada,they are calling for the death of
Jewish Jewish people. That's what thatis. I can tell you that's not
what it is, but that's whatit is just because they don't know what
they're saying doesn't mean that the meaninghas changed. But to Joe Biden,

(01:17:06):
they're the same. I have totell you, I'm kind of enjoying watching
him on the hot seat. They'venamed him in some circles genocide Joe.
Oh yeah, genocide Joe. Butit's this kind of stuff does not get
reported fairly by the media, andthis will never be made the same issue

(01:17:30):
as the Charlottesville comment, because well, we know the left wing goes out
of its way to protect the Bidenadministration, and they've been doing it since
he was on the campaign trail inhis basement, and it's not okay.
It's absolutely not okay, at leastfor me. This person asks a good

(01:17:50):
question, is protesting Israel's actions inherentlyanti Semitic? No, it's not.
But within these groups of people,when they show out things like into Fada,
into Fada, or they say weare Hamas, or they say what
happened on October seventh, we willdo a thousand times, or when they

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say from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free, what they're
advocating for there is the murder ofJews. There's no other way around it,
and I dare them to parse thedifference between demanding that all of the
Jews in Israel be shoved into thesea. How is that different than anti
semitism and why is it so different. I think that they become anti Semitic

(01:18:35):
when you take other things around theworld into consideration. For instance, when
you talk about Israel blockading the GazaStrip, what about the border with Egypt
that is also locked down tight,that is actually having a larger wall built
between Egypt and Gaza. Where theprotests against Egypt for blockading Gaza. I

(01:19:00):
think that when you look at itfrom that perspective, you start to see
that anti Semitism plays an inherent rolein criticizing Israel for many of these many
of these people. So yeah,I do think that what's happening right now
in the United States has a significantand serious underpinning of anti Semitism to it.

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We see the things that are happeningto Jewish students on college campuses.
I have a friend whose son wasaccosted at Suny by a girl at a
party demanding Israel. Are the Palestinianschoose Israel? The Palestinians choose Israel is
a Jewish state. You can't denythat. So if you want to criticize

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Egypt equally for the Gaza blockade,then please That is a completely different situation.
But Israel never gets criticized, doesit. And nobody wants the Palestinian
people, you guys know one.Jordan doesn't want him, Egypt doesn't want
m Saudi Arabia doesn't want him.Nobody wants them because wherever they go they

(01:20:03):
create death and havoc. So ifyou want to talk about the entire picture,
then that would not be anti semitic, but just criticizing Israel when there
are other Arab nations at play thatreally gives it kind of an antisemitic feel.
Somebody said, when in hell didTrump give a wink and a nod

(01:20:24):
to white Well, you meant tosay white supremacists, not white racist.
Has he ever condemned the Proud Boys? Has he ever come out and said
maybe he has? And I justmissed it because it was so significant,
I missed it. So there yougo. And the best part is Trump
is the Nazi. You guys,that's just dumb. It's just a dumb

(01:20:45):
thing to say, and it makesyou look dumb when you say so and
so is the Nazi. It justmakes you look dumb unless they are actively
engaged in the extermination of another people. And Trump has never done anything like
that. Trump has never done anythingNazi like, So it's just a dumb
thing to say, a really dumbthing to say. Mandy, why do

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you guys lie about what time itis when you're doing the news? He
just said it was two thirty oneand it's really two thirty seven. That's
not accurate at all. It wastwo thirty one. I actually glanced up
the clock because I realized that Iwent to break a little bit late,
like forty seconds late, and Iwanted to see how late the news was.
So perhaps your clock is off.Wait a minute, I gotta read

(01:21:35):
this whole text. You guys,why do you guys lie about what time
it is when you're doing the news? He just said it was two thirty
one and it's really two thirty seven. I've noticed that you also don't do
the top of the hour news atthe top of the hour anymore. It's
always at eight minutes after. Whathappened to actually being on time and not
lying about it? Maybe your clockis wrong. Sir or madam, because

(01:21:58):
trust me on this, ay Rodbacked me up. If we were eight
minutes late for the news every day, what would be happening behind the scenes?
Everything would We would get yelled atevery single day at twice an hour
at the top and bottom. That'swhy I looked up to see what time
the news started, because I knewI was a little bit late going to
break. So, yeah, that'sjust that's wrong. That's wrong. These

(01:22:23):
children, says this Texter, thinktheir opinion of the United States can tell
another country how to protect themselves.Lol. So naive and ignorant. Yes,
indeedy it is. But here weare. Here we are with young
people paying well, their parents payingseventy grand a year for an elite university,
and they're too stupid to understand exactlywhat is going on in this situation

(01:22:45):
in Israel, which is this,if Israel decided today to fight no more,
every Jew would be murdered. Andif you don't believe that, look
at October seventh. They didn't askif people were in the military. The
babies that they killed in their beds, shot them in their crips. They
didn't ask the women at a musicfestival if they were part of the government,

(01:23:06):
they indiscriminately killed anyone they thought wasJewish because that's what Hamas wants,
and that is who these people aresupporting. I saw an article, actually
I saw a couple of articles yesterdaylast night. I didn't grab them,
I should have. And they weretalking about how now bad actors are coming
to these protests in New York wherethere was they showed a rapper who was

(01:23:29):
yapping or rapping f the Jews.What else was it? F the Jews?
You guys can get out of thisbyach. I mean, it was
all this really distasteful stuff. Andthere were these students that were like,
oh my gosh, they don't representus. That's not what we're here for.
And it was like, you dumbasses, this is who you've aligned yourself
with. This is who is onthe same side you're on. So if

(01:23:55):
you don't like them, then whydon't you figure out what they've what they
are doing, what they're saying thatis so much different than what you're saying.
They're just saying it more aggressively,but you're saying the same thing.
This is who you've aligned yourself with. I saw a news article years and

(01:24:15):
years and years and years and yearsago. It was a news story and
it was about the Irish Republican Army. And remember back when the IRA was
extremely active in Northern Ireland. Theyused firebombing a lot. They would put
a bomb in a trash can,they would blow stuff up, they would
do all these things. And thensomeone asked, and I cannot remember the

(01:24:36):
name. It wasn't Sean Finn,it was oh dang it. It was
another leader of the IRA, andthey said, well, you stop the
fire bombings. And they literally saidwhen the crazy Islamic Muslims started doing the
same thing, we were like,we can't do that because they didn't want
to be associated with that. Well, guess what, students, and these

(01:25:00):
are the people who are on yourteam. These are the people that you
are arguing the same thing for.I mean, wow, wow, The
streaming is behind the live radio broadcast. But not by six minutes, no,
no, just by seconds, byseconds, Mandy, the only ones

(01:25:23):
calling for the extermination of the Jewsis well, you know who are the
Nazis? Again? That from gameor Gault. If you're listening online,
everything is late. That's good toknow, good to know. But yeah,
if you're consistently seven minutes late.Perhaps it's something on your end,
not on our end. Just thinking, And Israel is indiscriminately killing Palestinians,

(01:25:48):
including children, with bombs that theUS is supplying. Not a Hamas supporter,
but every time an American bomb isused to kill Palestinians by Israel Hamask,
it's more support. It's the realityof the scenario. So what you're
suggesting, Texter is that Israel shouldagree to a ceasefire like the ceasefire that
was in place on October seventh.At what point does Israel get to stop

(01:26:10):
doing this dance? At what pointdoes Israel get to put a pin in
this once and for all by destroyingHamas, who, by the way,
keeps putting military people and weapons underneathschools and preschools and hospitals. And what
would you suggest they do? Justwait till it happens again, because the
Moss's leadership is planned. October sentis just the beginning. They've already said

(01:26:33):
it. So what are you goingto do? If this was your neighbor,
what would you do? That's thequestion I have. If these people
lived across the street from you andthey came into your house and raped and
murdered your wife in front of you. What would you do? That's the
question most Americans don't want to ponder. Anyway, Now we have Ryan Edwards

(01:26:54):
entering the studio. Hi, Hi, Ryan, So big news from the
Nuggets game line last night. BuzzerBeater and brothers punched somebody in the face.
Yeah. I saw the video ofthat. Yeah. I guess the
whoever got punch hasn't come forward yet, so they're still looking. But they
don't have a victim as of that. Yeah, they're just they saw the

(01:27:15):
video. Do we know why?I mean, you know, Lakers fans
at the end, I don't.I don't know. I think you'll get
a rowdy, they get drunk,you know. No, no, I
don't know if he's ever heard ofsuch a thing. And I imagine as
demoralizing as that loss was, Wow, for the Lakers and for Lakers fans

(01:27:35):
that you know, you get alittle testy. It's nice to be on
the other end of those demoralizing losses. Oh no, nice to be on
the winning side. Many times losseswe've experienced it. Uh. The boy
that was that was special. Verylate last night because I could not sleep
because you were so excited. Iwas so excited. I loved stuff like
that my heart. You know,like I don't because I do what I

(01:27:58):
do with sports most time, Ihave to you know, certain objectivity,
you have to kind of just youknow, try to I famble I was.
I was like, yeah, Iwas like, you know, and
what's cool is my daughters, especiallymy youngest, is now getting into the
Nuggets. So so first thing shedid was she woke up this morning because
she wanted to stay up, butit's like it's too late. You know,
it's eleven o'clock at ten o'clock night, So she woke up. First

(01:28:19):
thing, She's like what happened?And I was like, you won't believe
it? And she's like, Ican't believe. That's fantastic. It was.
It was christ sports is awesome.So obviously you guy are going to
be talking about that on KOA Sports. Yes, we have Chris Marlow,
voice of the Nuggets. We're gonnajoin us, and then yeah, you
know, all sorts of weird buzzythings about the NFL Draft. We're going

(01:28:42):
to get into. What are theBroncos gonna do? The corner that's coming
up next I'll be back tomorrow.