04-29-25 FULL SHOW - The First Hundred Days...Hooboy

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
No, it's Mandy Connell, Many John on KOAM ninety one,
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Speaker 3 (00:16):
Way, They three, Mandy Connell keeping your sad bab Welcome, Welcome,
Welcome to a Tuesday edition of the show. I'm your
host for the next three hours. Mandy Connell join, of course,
my night right hand man, the very snappily dressed today,

(00:37):
Anthony Rodriguez. We call him amenel Oh, there's a little
Susan wickin a ride. We'll be on the sidelines of
the Denver Nuggets game tonight. What's the what's the current
situation there?

Speaker 4 (00:48):
Yes, Grant Smith and I will be court side pregame.
Don some social media coverage for all of our social
channels at k we call her, I don't know. We'll
be up in the press box for the game, covering
all things on social and for KOA.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Where's that series right now?

Speaker 5 (01:00):
To two?

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Tied?

Speaker 5 (01:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:02):
Going in game five, the Aaron Gorder buzzer beating dunk
saved a series. I was about to be three to
one down right, I mean it would have gotten overtime,
but you know it wasn't looking too good.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Game for time there you go.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
Yes, so much better than the Abs who now are
down time.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Oh yeah yeah, what was that score? Looks like a
baseball score last year.

Speaker 5 (01:22):
Some weird goals. Man, it was really really bad luck.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
I mean the pot they just things just didn't go
their way.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
Just doesn't bounce right way sometimes. And last night multiple times,
so not good. You lost two games in overtime. Then
now you lost that. You're down three to two for
a team that played in game you know, poor like
they had Stanley Cupp aspirations and now they got to
win too straight.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
They didn't lose their seventh in a row. Perspective, Anthony perspective.

Speaker 5 (01:47):
Twenty games under perspective, twenty games on.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
It's not even May, and not the worst start in
modern National League.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Wait, they're twenty games back already.

Speaker 5 (01:58):
They're twenty games under five hundred.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Huh oh, how many games back are there? It was
a little care Wait.

Speaker 5 (02:03):
Like fifteen, let me see you here in fifteen. Yeah,
worst start in modern National League.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
History, nationally standing.

Speaker 5 (02:10):
And I got one better for you.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
They are on pace to beat last year's White Sox
or the worst record.

Speaker 5 (02:17):
In league history. Major League Baseball history.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
They are. Oh, they're only fourteen and a half games back. Ay, Rod, Okay,
so there's fourteen and a half.

Speaker 5 (02:28):
Lots of games left, Hope springs.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Eternal in case you're wondering how many games back, say
our fellow National League West teams are. And of course
we're talking about the Rockies here, people, Diamondbacks only three
and a half games back.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
Now, hold on, they're only eleven and a half back
in the wildcard.

Speaker 5 (02:45):
Good times, it is good tech. It is April twenty ninth.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah, I'm just looking to see if anybody else is
even remote late.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
Nope, the White Sox are the only other team with
single digit wins.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
And seven and twenty one.

Speaker 5 (03:00):
Yeah, the next best in the NL is seven wins. More.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
On another note, I'm enjoying Zach Veen. I'm watching some
of the players, some of the young pitchers are really
exciting to watch. There you go, see, got it, got it.
We're just shining the light on the bright spots there, Anthony,
just shining the light on the on the bright spots. Mandy,

(03:27):
I took my son to Sunday's Rockies game. I'm afraid
that CPS is gonna pick me up for child peace.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
Oh stop it. It's still a good time. It can
be competitive in some games. Don't even go there.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Let's do the blog, shall we. We're just gonna pretend
that bit of ugliness never happened.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
You took it there.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
I know, I know, because I'm sad. I'm sad, sad
fun to go to a game, but it's sad. I mean,
I'm a baseball fan, so it's just it's sad. And
you know, there's a It's one thing to have a
team that's mediocre, right, Like mediocre teams hope springs etournal
every day, Like you go to the ballpark, You're like,

(04:09):
I got a fifty to fifty shot of winning, right,
I don't even anyway.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
I hate to say this on April twenty nine, but
we're at the point now they're professionals. Prides on the line,
and your growth as an individual player for all those
young guys is on the line. You know, your future
still is there for these guys that want to grow.
It takes time in Major League baseball, So you know,
go with the growth.

Speaker 5 (04:33):
The journey, not just the journey, not just the destination.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
It's the journey. We're on a journey, Ladies and jerseys
a journey. Find the blog by going to mandy'sblog dot com.
That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline that says
for twenty nine twenty five blog the first hundred days.
Woo ooh boy. Click on that and here are the
headlines you will you will find with it.

Speaker 6 (04:58):
Office half of American almost ships and clippers.

Speaker 7 (04:59):
I say that's a press.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Plat today on the blog, what a first hundred days
it's been? Who is Mike O'Donnell? Scrolling? Scrolling? Comedian Dusty
Slay is a certain kind of dude. Trump signs an
order that will affect us. Colorado moves to cement its
sanctuary status. A uror PDA wants to track stolen vehicles.

(05:21):
We've gotten a little too nasty on this news story.
The social media bill is dead. When you explode the
size of government, this is what happens. TMU shoppers have
to pay much more for Chinese crap. Dia is getting
a bagel deli. Using a sintax to pay for water
is a bad idea. What happens to the soldiers caught
up in that huge bust Dugga residence tonight is the night?

(05:45):
Did Trump lose Canada for conservatives? Ultra processed foods lead
to early death, but Champagne protects your heart. Sabotage may
have turned out the lights in Portugal and Spain. Amazon
will make tariff charges transparent. Doge has cost Elon Musk
one hundred and thirteen billion dollars. Good stuff our parents

(06:06):
taught us. Want to honor student athletes, want a lightsaber?
This girl needs to check Lift's history on these things. First,
Bill Belichick's girlfriend takes over scrolling. Why Shdor Sanders dropped
like he was hot? Those are the headlines on the
blog at mandy'sblog dot com. And not to continue the

(06:26):
flogging of Sdor Sanders, Lots and lots of stuff is
starting to come out now as people are starting to
talk about why he fell out of the first round
into the second Nope, not the second round, Nope, not
the third, Nope, not the fourth, into the fifth round
of the NFL draft. And the most interesting out of
all that I've seen came from Boomer Assiasin. And Boomer said,

(06:49):
I'm telling you right now, and I know this after
talking to three different personnel people in the NFL this weekend,
they didn't even have him on their board, meaning their
draft board. They took him off, and they took him
off because the owner said, take him off. I don't
want that guy. I don't want this entitled person on

(07:09):
our team, and I don't blame them, So let's just
leave that boom little punctuation.

Speaker 5 (07:15):
Mark boom boomer.

Speaker 8 (07:17):
Nice.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yeah, yeah, Mandy, I feel you're paying lifelong baseball and
Rocky Span cut me open. I bleed purple. It's very sad,
but the problem is careless ownership, not the team itself.
I will not make any kind of comments so about
what I think is wrong. Mandy. You do know that
the rest of the NLS teams are above five hundred. Yes,

(07:38):
I do, Yes, I do.

Speaker 5 (07:40):
Yeah, it's a real good division this year.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Yeah they are, but you know it would be nice.
Never mind, just moving on. We're moving on from this.
We're gonna talk about other things that don't suck anyway.
So we've got a couple of stories on the blog
really quick. And as a matter of fact, let me
let me lead off with a story that I was
just talking about Ross talking to Ross about because he

(08:03):
brought it up, and it's about Bill Belichick's girlfriend. He
is seventy three, she is twenty four, And they did
a story on CBS Sunday Morning on Bill Belichick, and
she's kind of she has insinuated herself into every aspect
of his life. And now when he goes to coach

(08:26):
in North Carolina? What did you just say, a Rod
that North Carolina is getting concerned because she wants to
be c seed on all of his business emails? Is
that correct? All of them? Did they clarify under what role?

Speaker 9 (08:41):
Like?

Speaker 3 (08:42):
Is she his administrative assistant? Does she handle his schedule?
Is she booking things for him? Is she managing outside
of point?

Speaker 7 (08:50):
Then?

Speaker 3 (08:50):
So, I mean they just didn't say anything.

Speaker 5 (08:53):
I think like she's like the manager of like most things,
is what I've gathered.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
Okay, But and people are like he's being taken maybe.

Speaker 4 (09:04):
From the New York Post, UNC growing concern over Jordan
Hudson's influence on Bill Belichick.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
Interesting a here we go now? It seems where would
that go?

Speaker 10 (09:17):
Now?

Speaker 4 (09:17):
It seems a Hudson influence is creating concerns at UNC
with her essentially acting as his manager essentially, Yeah, so
probably not in full title, not officially, but everything is
making people believe that she is like acting as manager,
which is so weird because Bill is not the guy

(09:37):
we would think would allow things like that.

Speaker 5 (09:40):
Even with the situation, we believe this to be.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
You know, I know that Bill Belichick had an incredible
run in New England, but he also had Tom Brady,
and when Tom Brady left, we saw what happened to
Bill Belichick in New England. Right, So perhaps he isn't
the greatest coach of all time. Perhaps he had the
greatest quarterback of all time that he was able to
utilize win a bunch of games, But perhaps he's not

(10:03):
the uh, I don't know them. What's the word I'm
looking for that's not doesn't have bad words in it,
he's maybe he likes this. Some guys need a woman
to tell him what to do. And I'm not saying
Bill Belichick needed a woman to tell him what to
do when it comes to coaching, but some that are
perfectly happy to offload all that stuff. And you know,

(10:25):
I look at my own relationship with my husband, and
our relationship would probably drive other people crazy because we
are one hundred percent codependent on each other, and there's
so much stuff that he handles in my life, even
just making plans with friends. If we're making plans where
you know where there's gonna be a like the family
or a couple, I always say, talk to Chuck. He's

(10:46):
the keeper of the schedule. So I know what it's
like to just defer to every little detail of your
life to someone else because I do that with Chuck.
He manages all the minutia of my life. I love it.
It's fantastic. I'm not good at it, so he does it.
But it's interesting that people are looking into this and
being concerned. I mean, I said on Ross's show, I

(11:08):
think a fifty year age gap is gross. I don't
care if you're a rock star. I don't care if
you're a billionaire. And Anna Naole Smith, I just think
it's gross, really really gross. I know exactly why the
relationship works. She's getting what she wants, he's getting what
he wants. I totally understand it. But it's very strange
that this is kind of being like, well, why does

(11:29):
he need his wife there? Maybe maybe he wants her there.

Speaker 4 (11:32):
By the way, this Newer Post article notes what I
didn't know. They reportedly met on a twenty twenty one flight.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
That's what I've always heard. Why not why not say
you met on a flight? I don't know why she
we're not talking about that. And you say there's rumors
that she was an escort.

Speaker 5 (11:49):
I mean the rumor mail's hot with thinking things.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
Well, apparently her parent owns a sex positive sex shop
in Massachusetts. I'm not saying that makes her an escort.
But that's weird. Why wouldn't you just say how you met?
Why don't you make a cute meat story and call
it a day instead of we're not talking about that.
And that's exactly what she did during the CBS interview,
even though she was not on camera, she yelled at

(12:13):
from across we're not talking about that. Why why we
met on a plane? We sat next to each other
on a plane.

Speaker 4 (12:20):
Other than like frustration for you know, the rumors and
not wanting to just discuss it, period, regardless of what
the answer is. But I mean, that would that would
shut it up? You say that, you repeat that, What
else is there to say?

Speaker 2 (12:34):
On flight?

Speaker 3 (12:35):
Exactly cool, exactly a fly? Why is that a problem?
I don't. I think that's weird. I just think the
whole thing is weird. What's the maximum age.

Speaker 5 (12:43):
Gross, what's that formula?

Speaker 3 (12:45):
No, the formula is half plus it raw set seven.
But I thought we talked about it being eight on
this show. But I you know, here's the thing, Like,
I think within a no more than.

Speaker 5 (12:58):
A couple of decades after your age at seven.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
Yeah, I mean if you're talking thirty five years now,
if you're seventy and someone's thirty five, would I do it? No,
I would not. But twenty four and seventy three, that's
like older than your grandfather.

Speaker 5 (13:14):
Yeah, it's gross.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
It's just gross.

Speaker 5 (13:16):
Weird, it's weird.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
I mean, luah, it's weird just saying, just say it.
Mandy's an old fuddy duddy kind of is. He's an
old curmudgeon. Mandy. You set it right there, sex shop,
she's probably a hooker or stripper.

Speaker 5 (13:29):
She's right.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
The rumors are that she was an escort and that's
how they met. But even then then you go, then
you default immediately too. We met on the plane. It's
just first of all, I try really really really hard,
and I know I just judged this relationship. I try
not to judge anyone else's relationships, because people find relationships
that work really well for them. That would never work

(13:50):
for me, and as I said, like my relationship with
my husband would drive some people absolutely crazy. So I
try not to be judgmental. But it's weird when it's
kind of thrust in to the public eye and then
this whole store at I don't know, it's just strange.

Speaker 4 (14:05):
Here are some quick facts, okay about miss Hudson.

Speaker 5 (14:09):
Okay, okay.

Speaker 4 (14:10):
According to the Cincinnati Inquirer, she went to cosmetology school. Nice,
She's a main native and a fisherman's daughter. Former collegiate cheerleader. Hm,
we already knew that. She already met him In twenty
twenty one. Hudson and Belichick dine. Okay, who cares where
they dined? An ice cream plays.

Speaker 5 (14:29):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (14:29):
That's all the fun facts I got for you. Oh right, Hugh,
Cincinnati Inquirer.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
They didn't inquire very hard, can't. Somebody just said this
on the text line, and I actually thought this a
moment ago. They said, dominatrix. That is actually what I
mean that That makes a lot of sense to me,
a whole bunch of sense.

Speaker 5 (14:52):
Hey, the unc worry.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah, Bill won two Super Bowls before Brady. That is true.
That is How about sixty thirty. Eh, eh, when I'm
fifty up, fifty five now, I wouldn't want to be
married to an eighty five year old dude. I'm gonna
be perfectly frank. I don't want to because then you're
just a caregiver. Are the White House Press secretary? And

(15:14):
she with some one significantly older as well. Ummmm, I
believe so, Carolyn love it.

Speaker 4 (15:23):
I do know that she's thirty two. Oh, no, thirty
two year age gap. She's twenty seven, he's fifty nine.
I was gonna say, I've heard day.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't do it. But that's
not that's not as gross to me as that fifty
year Like fifty years you guys what ooh. Yeah. Anyway,
we're gonna move on here because it's just creeping me out.
Coming up a little bit later on the show. I've
got a guy that I've been following on Twitter for

(15:51):
or X for some time now. His name is Mike O'Donnell,
and he just hosts fun charts about stuff, especially Colorado,
like this one. In twenty twenty f there were one thousand,
two hundred and ninety seven deaths from suicide in Colorado
the equivalent of twenty point eight eight five deaths per
hundred thousand of population, the eighth highest rate in the nation.

(16:13):
And this is because the Democrat controlled Colorado legislature is
more interested in promoting mental illness than treating it. That
is what he just sent out a little while ago.
And he's all about statistics, and I thought this guy
seems interesting, so I invited him to come on the
show and we're going to talk about why he does
what he does. But you should follow him on Twitter
for sure. He's also got a Patreon you can go to.

(16:34):
I'm trying to open this up so I can see
the little tiny Oh, here we go. Do you want
to know the top states for suicide? Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho,
New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, and Colorado. Right after US is

(16:55):
South Dakota, and then there's a chunk of states. Isn't
that weird that there're all on the Rocky Mountains? I mean,
think about that for a second. Well, Alaska is not,
but they have their own issues in Alaska. Yeah, they're there.
I mean the Rockies go into Alaska. They're just not
the Colorado Rockies. That's fascinating to me. I wonder why

(17:18):
you've never done a deep dive about that or if
we have what the numbers say. That's curious. I think
that's very curious, very interesting. A tremendous number of gun
deaths in Colorado are specifically related to suicide, and they
lump suicide and homicide rates together to inflate the homicide

(17:43):
rates to make it look like more people are being
murdered than they are. It's fascinating what you can do
with statistics. So we're going to talk to him at
one o'clock about that and other stuff, including the I mean,
just stats on everything. And then we've got comedian and
Dusty Sligh coming in at two third not coming and
he's on Zoom. He's coming to the Paramount this weekend,

(18:05):
I believe, and we're going to talk to him. He's
straight out of the trailer park. And in Colorado, we've
got a couple of things happening that are on a
collision course with the Trump administration when it comes to
illegal immigration. We all know if you listen to this show,
that we are a sanctuary state and we are a
sanctuary city, and the Trump administration is making some big

(18:28):
big threats about telling states we're not going to give
you any more federal money as long as you're refusing
to cooperate with federal authorities when it comes to immigration,
and Colorado is about to double down. We're going to
get into that at about I want to do that
at probably one thirty, because when we get back, we

(18:49):
have now gotten through one hundred days of Donald Trump's administration.
We're doing the one hundred day kind of look back,
and in all of my time I'm watching politics, in
all of my time paying attention to what's happening in DC,
I will say I have never experienced anything like the

(19:10):
first hundred days of the Donald Trump. We'll call it
Trump two point zero. And when we get back, I
want to know your thoughts on the first hundred days.
And we're gonna try a rod and do it by phone. Yes,
he's saying no, and I'm saying yes. He's waving me
off and I'm nope, I'm gonna. I'm gonna pitch the pitch.
I want a rod. I'm gonna pitch it. Three oh three,

(19:34):
three O three seven one three eighty five eighty five.
Let's hear your thoughts on the first hundred after this.
All right, guys, we're opening up the phone lines and
we are asking you to give us a call three
O three seven one three eighty five eighty five. I
want to hear your thoughts on Trump's first hundred days
in office. And I heard Ross talking about this and

(19:56):
he asked people to text in one word about Trump's
first hundred days. But I gotta tell you, I think
that's really unsatisfactory because I find myself very conflicted about
Trump's hundred days. Right. The phone number, by the way,
three O three seven to one three eighty five eighty five.
That's three O three seven one three eighty five eighty

(20:17):
five if you want to vent your spleen, because there's
a lot of stuff that's happened in the past hundred
days that I actually really like, but none of it
is permanent yet because Congress has done almost nothing to
codify some of this stuff into law. So uh, right
now we have that, Thank you, Thank you very much.

(20:45):
The speed with which he has been doing stuff I
actually understand because if you look at it from Trump's perspective,
he learned a lot in what we'll call Trump one
point zero. That was the first Trump administration where he
was completely steinmy throughout the entire thing by people working

(21:06):
in his administration that did not want to work for him,
did not want to execute his vision, did not want
to have be helpful in any way in creating the
Trump vision. He was hampered by an investigation that was
absolute nonsense that drug on for two years. So when
he got elected this time and he started doing all

(21:27):
this stuff right away, I was like, I get it
by one hundred percent. Get it because he learned in
the first administration that if he wants to get anything done,
he's got to do it fast, and it's got to
be like a shock and awe situation. But what are
your thoughts about the way things are going right now?
I know that consumer confidence is low, but I got
to tell you, guys, and I want to ask you

(21:48):
this question as well. If you didn't watch the news,
if you didn't know that all of these things were
going on, how would you feel about it? Because I
think it's interesting that people who consume the news at
a high level are the people who are the most
stressed out. I know, I am Sheila, you are on KOA, Hey, Mandy.

Speaker 11 (22:14):
I just want to say I am so impressed that
Donald Trump is doing what he said he would do.

Speaker 3 (22:22):
That that is accurate. He is absolutely doing what he
said he was going to do. That is sure. So
are you Are you okay with the way things have
been going? Is there anything you would be wanting him
to do differently?

Speaker 11 (22:32):
Sheila, that's a good question. Obviously I'm not in his shoes,
but yeah, he's got a tough job and I think
he's doing the best he can with what he's got.
And I think, especially with what he's done with Dog,
I don't think the American people realized how bad the
corruption is in the belt Way.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
Well, I think we all kind of know it, like
you just kind of understand that Washington is this giant cesspool.
But what I think people have been surprised about is
that in order to shrink the size of government, you
have to fire people. Right, that's when we talk about
shrinking the size of government, and then you go, yeah,
we're gonna have to fire these people. There are a
certain number of people who are like, wait, what you've
got to fire? Where did you think the money was

(23:17):
gonna come from? I'd like to ask those people, So, Sheila, overall,
what grade would you give the Trump administration's first hundred days.

Speaker 11 (23:27):
I'm actually JD. Vancid twenty eight.

Speaker 12 (23:30):
I'm sorry to get them.

Speaker 3 (23:31):
An all right, Sheila, I appreciate your honesty. Thanks for
the call. Three O three seven one three eighty five
eighty five. This is really interesting because I get emails
critical of us for not taking phone calls, and I
always tell them the same thing. No one calls. Everyone
uses the text line. Now, you guys have adapted so

(23:57):
quickly to the text line that right now I got
phone lines open at three oh three seven one three
eighty five eighty five, and not a single person is
dialing that number. However, the text line is going. Here
we go. Ross has full blown TDS. I'm so confused
why Fox ever asked for his liberal opinion when you

(24:17):
are so much smarter and conservative. You know, uh, I
don't think Ross is liberal, you guys. I know Ross
way better than you guys do. And I'm not flaunted.
I'm not flexing. I'm just saying we have a personal relationship.
Off the air. Ross views everything through the lens of
get off my lawn kind of kind of way, and
for the most part, if it makes government bigger, Ross

(24:39):
doesn't like it. As a matter of fact, I can
think of a single area where Ross would be like, yes,
we need to make government bigger. So I know that
people hear things the way they want to hear them.
But the reality is is that sometimes your bias kind
of clouds the way I think you should see things.

(25:00):
But that's your viewpoints, so you can do what you will. Eileen,
you were on KOA. Thanks for calling. What's on your mind?

Speaker 12 (25:08):
How is Trump doing good afternoon? Mandy. Uh. I'm going
to sum it up in a short phrase of this
is what a revolution looks like. It's kind of chaotic,
it's going to be messy, there may be even casualties,
but this is the revolution we needed. In what way

(25:31):
you're to restore the republic?

Speaker 3 (25:34):
So you believe that he's just snatching us back to
where we needed to be.

Speaker 12 (25:38):
I think that's where it is. Uh, it's headed or
should should be headed. You know, in order to arrest
the growth of the permanent bureaucracy and the power of
the permanent government and get back to a constitutional republic,
we needed a Trump like figure, somebody that had the

(26:01):
money and the resources to challenge that permanent Washington establishment.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
Great points what grade would you give the first hundred days.

Speaker 12 (26:13):
It's maybe a B minus because there's some things I'm
not happy about. Of course, I am a trans individual,
and you know trans people are taking a very big
hit right now. Well as far as being eliminated from
the military. I'm also a retired naval officer.

Speaker 3 (26:35):
I lean. I think it's fascinating that you can separate
your personal situation and even give it a B minus
based on everything else that you're seeing. That speaks volumes
to your ability to sort of see the forest for
the trees. I admire that greatly.

Speaker 12 (26:53):
Well, you know, I have personal values and I value myself,
but I also value the Constitution and my oath and
the Republic.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
Eileen, thanks for the call. I appreciate it.

Speaker 12 (27:05):
Thank you, Mandy, have a good day.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
Let me get Zach and Greeley. You're on KOA. What
do you think of Trump's first hundred days?

Speaker 13 (27:13):
Hey, I've probably come out at a different demographic than
most people calling in, so I'm thirty, maybe on the
younger side. Trump supporter. But the tariffs, man, I mean
killing the economy. Immigration amazing, loved oge, but the terroriffs
is what is just killing me. I think tariffs, in

(27:37):
my mind come for more of a liberal ideology in
terms of limiting free trade. But with that being said,
I'd give them probably a ce just implement. Yeah, based
on just his implementation of tariffs. And that's just not
me speaking. There's a lot of people my age males

(27:57):
Trump supporters that are saying the same thing.

Speaker 3 (27:59):
So well, Zach, let me ask you a question. Let
me ask you a question. The Trump administration says that
they are in the process of unleashing the economy by
on shoring some critical manufacturing that I actually agree with him,
that we need to be able to make feel we
need to be able to make ships, we need to
be able to make ammunition. You know, there are things
that we need to be able to make here in

(28:21):
the United States. If they can get this trade stuff sorted.
Let me say the next three months, Okay, so the
next one hundred days, they end up cutting trade deals
and they end up, you know, the things start to
settle down. Is there anything else that is happening right
now that concerns you? I.

Speaker 13 (28:40):
You know, I come at one as also. My stock
portfolio is diffing a lot, which maybe comes with a
little selfish mentality but seeing that really hurts.

Speaker 12 (28:51):
The good news is if you're if.

Speaker 3 (28:54):
You're thirty, you've got plenty of time to recover from
a market depth, so you're gonna.

Speaker 13 (28:57):
Be able to trust me.

Speaker 3 (28:59):
I'm fifty five, man, I'm fifty five. When I watched
my portfolio dip, I'm like, I too, feel it in
my guts. There's nothing wrong with saying that. Okay, that's
self preservation. So economically, and you're not old enough. You
did not live through the Reagan administration. But the Reagan
administration started in a huge mess because they took over

(29:19):
the economy from the Carter administration and it was a disaster.
And the first moves that Reagan made through the economy
into recession hard for like eighteen months right but after
that it was a sharp V recession, meaning that went
straight down, straight up. It unleashed the economy. That's what
I'm hoping happens here. And if so, your generation is

(29:41):
perfectly primed to benefit greatly from all of that. So
I'd love for you to keep in touch with me,
because now you're my you speak for all thirty year olds, Zach,
So I need you to stay in touch and let
me know what your feelings are as this all transpires.
All all right, thanks Zach. Guys, I gotta take a
quick time out. We actually have big one hold. I'll
be right back, Audrey. You are on Kowa. How has

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Trump done in his first hundred days.

Speaker 14 (30:07):
I'm going to give him a B plus. I agree
with Zach's worry about my portfolio, and I like you,
I'm in my fifty mid fifties, so I don't have
as much time to recuperate from it. But I still
give him a B plus.

Speaker 6 (30:20):
I really like all of.

Speaker 14 (30:21):
His common sense, you know, the whole women's sports thing
and every and the immigration.

Speaker 13 (30:28):
Thing and everything like that.

Speaker 14 (30:29):
And I have to say I really loved this Trump
two point oh because his personality comes out so much
and is in his interviews with the media and stuff.
And he's funny and he dances, and I really appreciate
this guy more than his first time around, when he
seemed a little brash, you know what it was.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
I think he was on defense for the entire first administration, right,
I mean he was, and in this one he's one.
He has taken control. He is doing the things he
wants to get done. So I kind of agree with
you personality wise, this has been a different Trump. Audrey,
thanks for the call. Let me get Travis. You're on KOA.
What do you think of Trump's first one hundred days?

Speaker 15 (31:12):
Travis, Hey, Mandy, it's Travis Bockingstead.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
Call in hello, my friend.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
Hey hey, I'm just.

Speaker 15 (31:18):
Going to offer my perspective as a small business leader
because we work with a lot of small businesses. I
think on the trade stuff, I give them to be
minus only because a lot of my small business colleagues
are holding their breath yet now, and I think that's
preventing a lot of us from deciding if we're going
to hire fire grow our products. So I think that's
a big thing. Mandy would just need a little consistency.

(31:40):
We're going to rip the band aid off. Rip the
band aid off.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
Amen to that, my friends. I still owe you that dinner.
I will be in touch soon, sir.

Speaker 12 (31:47):
Take care.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
Van all right, thank you, let's go here. Thomas, you
were on You're in Colorado. What do you think of
Trump's first hundred days?

Speaker 12 (31:55):
You know, I give him an a.

Speaker 6 (31:57):
I give him an a plus, but honestly, I hate
listening to him talk.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
I did not see that coming. But what what I mean,
is it just because it's everything is big and beautiful,
you know, I mean, yeah.

Speaker 7 (32:11):
I like it.

Speaker 15 (32:11):
It's not scripted, but it's obviously not scripted.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
Too much of a good thing, as they say, Thomas
could be a problem. I appreciate the phone call very much. Hey, Dean,
what do you think of the first one hundred days?

Speaker 6 (32:24):
I think, again, it'll play out, And again I think
it's sad that the liberals want to, you know, would
like to see the economy fail so that Trump fails.
And again it's you know, what's good for the country
is good for all of us, and they just don't
see it that way.

Speaker 12 (32:36):
You know.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
There's a little bit of that that goes in both
directions no matter who's in charge. But but I always
say it. I say it, I'm with you, Like, okay,
you know what I said it when Joe Biden was president.
I don't want the country to fail so my team
will win, right, I want the country to succeed and
then have my team convince people that they could do
an even better job. But you know, we don't always
get what we want. Appreciate the phone call.

Speaker 12 (32:57):
Man.

Speaker 3 (32:57):
Let me let Rick have the last word. Rick, Oh,
have the first hundred days gone in your opinion, I'm going.

Speaker 16 (33:03):
To give the president an a two and a plus,
but I'm going to get Congress at d because they're
sitting on their hands and not doing anything, and that's
where the power really sits. And if I can right quick,
people that are really complaining about the portfolios, use this analogy.
Write yourself a one hundred thousand dollars check and go
around and tell everybody that you just made one hundred

(33:24):
thousand dollars, and then go around and complain whether you
put that check in the wash and destroy it. You're
really not losing anything because it's unrealized games right, actually
take it out.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
Well, the Dow is up right now, so maybe we'll
bounce back before we know. I appreciate the phone call
Rick when we get back. Mike O'Donnell is a guy
I follow on Twitter. I know you're thinking to yourself, Mandy,
why are you bringing a guy? Because he does the
most interesting stuff and he also has a patrion about it.
He's an economics nerd who loves statistics. We're going to
talk to him next about some of those statistics about

(33:57):
Colorado that are not so great.

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Speaker 3 (34:28):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show.
We have got a big, big, big day planned, and
a big, big big day is always better with statistics,
statistics being what they are. I found, and I don't
even know how I stumbled upon Mike o'donald's Twitter feed.
But here is this man, and I did not know
him at all. We literally just met on our zoom

(34:50):
call right before we started this. But I started to
follow him because he posts very interesting graphs and statistics,
and some of them are not necessarily very flattering for COLDO.
And after I checked his work a few times, and
I did check his work a few times, I thought,
you know what, this guy seems to know what he's
talking about, and not only that, he's putting it on
Twitter with no expectation of anyone really paying attention to it.

(35:14):
But what he does is so fascinating. I wanted to
amplify his platform. So I have invited Mike O'donald to
come on the show with us today, and here he is. Mike,
first of all, welcome to the program.

Speaker 8 (35:27):
Thank you very much, Manie, it's an honor to be
on your show.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
Well, tell me a little bit about yourself, because here
you've got these incredible statistics, and where did this come from?
How did you get to be the man posting things
on Twitter super nerdy economics stuff and more.

Speaker 10 (35:47):
Well, I am a super nerdy economic person, but really
a lot of the statistics that I follow and track
really come out of my lifetime career, which is really
working with small businesses. I grew up in my dad's
my family owned business, but I've always had a passion
for small business. For twenty years here in Colorado, around
a group called Colorado Landing Source, we did a lot

(36:09):
of loans to small businesses all over the state. And
following trends, you know, whether they're national or whether they're
state specific, can really help you when you're working with
small businesses. And I still do a lot of that
in my declining years as well.

Speaker 3 (36:27):
So you mentioned trends, if you had to give a
sort of a bird's eye view of the business trend
for Colorado, and we'll start in twenty ten and we'll
take it to twenty twenty six. What would that line
look like for you?

Speaker 10 (36:45):
It's again it's Colorado, and actually moved here in two thousand,
so I'm still.

Speaker 8 (36:49):
A newcomer to Colorado.

Speaker 10 (36:51):
But Colorado has always had the reputation of it being
a very entrepreneurial state. All of the jobs in Colorado
we now have thirty years or the history, have been
created by young businesses, startup businesses less than twelve months old,
except in six years. Of those thirty years, five of
those years correspond with national recessions. The last year, the

(37:14):
six year was actually up until the end of March
twenty four, didn't correspond with a national recession. So when
we look at what's happened in businesses, we as a
state have always been dependent on entrepreneurs, new businesses, startups.
That seems to be becoming less of a focus in Colorado.
And part of my message shouting to the world through

(37:37):
social media or just out the window out where I
live here, is that we need to be more focused
on businesses because businesses create jobs. The jobs create pay
the taxes in Colorado. And now that we're not as
focused on helping businesses grow successful, our jobs in this state.

Speaker 8 (37:56):
The states kind of run into a little.

Speaker 10 (37:57):
Bit of trouble in the future if they're planning on
in seeing employment texts as all the sort of things
it states to Well.

Speaker 3 (38:04):
You don't ever dip your toe, or maybe you haven't,
I just have not seen it. You may mention that,
for instance, I was looking at the suicide rate in
Colorado the latest statistic you have out about that, and
in that you say, and this is because the Democrat
controlled Colorado legislature is more interested in promoting mental illness
than treating it. But for the most part, you don't

(38:24):
make political statements. You just kind of put the numbers
out there and let them speak for themselves. Are you
as an advotive follower as the politics of all this
or more on the side of the results of the politics,
if that.

Speaker 10 (38:39):
Makes sense, Well, I see the results. I see the
fact that we do have. Now, the legislature here in
Colorado isn't very economically aware or doesn't seem to focus
on the future. There's a sort of perspective of being
a kid in a candy shop. I don't know if
that expression means anything to anyone.

Speaker 8 (38:58):
Anymore.

Speaker 10 (38:58):
But essentially they they seem to be. And this has
happened really since COVID, when you know, the budget in
Colorado almost doubled, but our population stayed pretty much the same.
And now we've got this mentality of let's go out
and spend as much money as we can. Let's go
out and add more fees. You can't call them taxes anymore.

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Colorado was now the sixth most regulated state when it
comes to small businesses.

Speaker 8 (39:25):
That didn't used to be the case.

Speaker 10 (39:26):
So we're just creating things in expectation of revenue coming
in to pay for whatever it is that they think
is exciting to do, as opposed to the basics.

Speaker 8 (39:37):
And perhaps I don't explain that well.

Speaker 10 (39:38):
So I'm hoping that that And I've got a few
people that have picked me up now on Twitter who
follow me and sometimes requote my stats. But it's just
important that people and power in the state understand, you know,
where we're heading based on where we've been and at
least the trends.

Speaker 3 (39:55):
You know, what are the parts of economics and the
study of economics that I always I think it's kind
of interesting, is the human part of it. Because economists,
though they they will factor in human reaction to parts
of it that they often miss on the on the
human reaction to whatever these policies are. And when I
look at what the Democrats are doing and legislating and regulating,

(40:17):
there seems to be an assumption that they can continue
to do whatever it is they want to do to
business and business will not react. Business will not leave
the state. Business will not make decisions about where to
place their next you know, headquarters or their next factory.
In your work with small business, how reactionary is small

(40:39):
business to these changes or are they kind of locked
in place and stuck here any way? Proving the Democrats right.

Speaker 8 (40:47):
Yeah, No, it's very very important when we look at it.

Speaker 10 (40:50):
Where entrepreneurs want to start a business, that will start
a business where they really want to live, but they
want to live in a place where it's affordable to live,
you know, the buer of life is. Statistics does track
business migration trends and Colorado was now number six in
terms of states where businesses are moving out of the state,
and we see that and that obviously has impacts on

(41:12):
people wanting to move into the state. So when we
look at things like hul statistics, we are seeing fewer
people moving, more people moving out of the state than
moving to the state. We haven't seen that impact on
housing prices yet, but we are starting to see. You know,
something is changing in the state, and it has to
do a lot with the policies that are coming down
from Denver.

Speaker 3 (41:33):
So, Mike, when I talk to people and I'm gonna
I've been mulling this over a weather to make this
a topic on the show, but I think it sort
of fits in this context. It is very frustrating for
me because I've been watching politics professionally for twenty years now,
this is my job. It's very frustrating for me when
I see people struggling. I see people, you know, talking

(41:56):
about how tough things are and how housing is expensive
and food is expensive and restaurants are expensive, but then
they keep voting the same way, and that for me
has been a huge frustration. When you put out these statistics,
I just want you to know you are essentially providing ammunition.
You are providing not literally ammunition. I have to clarify
that for the low IQ people who listen to the show,

(42:18):
rhetorical ammunition that I think the Democrats, I mean excuse me.
The Republicans should use every one of these statistics that
you publish, because they're all the results of policy, They're
all the results of choices being made by politicians. What
do you think, out of everything you've been looking at lately,
is the most ripe to help sway public opinion when

(42:42):
it comes to making different choices at the ballot box.

Speaker 8 (42:46):
Yeah, and that's a really good point. I think.

Speaker 10 (42:48):
Sadly, the trends that I'm showing is that Colorado is
really heading towards sort of an impulsion of sorts, and that,
of course or PEPs change people's minds. But we know
that under the Biden administration and the Policy administration, between
twenty one and twenty four, Colorado residents had the highest
inflation rate of any people in any state. Colorado households

(43:09):
own more money than people in any other state, even California.
The only exception is Washington, DC. Colorado in the last
fifteen months has only created five hundred jobs.

Speaker 8 (43:20):
You know, last month you.

Speaker 10 (43:22):
Might have probably covered on your show the fact that
the nation created two hundred and eighty eight thousand jobs
in the month of March.

Speaker 8 (43:27):
Colorado lost three and a half thousand jobs.

Speaker 10 (43:30):
So essentially, you know that the signs are there that
the economy nationally isn't great, but it's much stronger than Colorado's.
And the only reason that Colorado's economy isn't as strong
is because of the policies that are being imposed on us.
You know, I, as a tax bay, I don't want
to have to pay for someone's medical procedure all the

(43:51):
things that are sort of being feed on us. Even
as I don't know the details, you probably follow this,
but the way to reduce the cost of insurance Colorado
is at an insurance premium on the cost of motor
vehicle insurance. Whereas if you look at the fact that
the motive thefts sit down in January and February and
Colorado and the cost of insurance is coming down from

(44:13):
the CPI. So you know, if the politicians would be
actually up to date with some of the statistics, they
wouldn't be trying to create policies that don't address and
issues that doesn't exist anymore.

Speaker 8 (44:23):
Stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (44:24):
Well, I mean, Mike, the insurance thing is a perfect example,
because not only do they want to add a fee
to our insurance premiums, they're then going to use the
fee for something that the insurance industry has said is
not a driver of high insurance rates. So they're going
to fix a problem that doesn't actually have anything to

(44:44):
do with insurance costs by charging us more and telling
us that it's going to bring our pricing down. Maybe
they do know that prices are on the way down,
but this way they can claim credit and still make
more money for the state. I mean, it's kind of absurd, Mike.
I want to ask you, were you following this closely
back after the Great Recession in two thousand and eight

(45:04):
and two thousand and nine, because I've long had a theory,
and I looked at Colorado for a long time, even
before I moved here, because Colorado recovered far more quickly
than many many, many other states after two thousand and
eight and two thousand and nine. And I believe that
the reason Colorado recovered so quickly is because of tabor limitations.

(45:26):
It prevented the government from overspending during the Great Recession.
Therefore they were able to bounce back more nimbly. What
are your thoughts on that?

Speaker 8 (45:36):
Yeah, And I was looking at stuff back there.

Speaker 10 (45:38):
I moved here just before the dot com bubble burst,
and so that affected Colorado worse than most states. As
a result of that, Colorado became a very diversified economy.
We didn't become so dependent on telecommunications like we were,
and the Colorado's economy was very well prepared moving into
that recession. We were late going into it and we
were early coming out of it compared to my states,

(46:00):
and that was a function of the fact that we
were focused on business diversification strength. You're right, we weren't overspending,
we weren't doing all sorts of boondog or things. We
actually fixed the roads and the roads were in pretty
good condition back in the twenty teens or the early
twenty to the ten years before the twenty teens.

Speaker 8 (46:17):
So all of that was.

Speaker 10 (46:18):
Strong and we came out of that, and now we
are very poorly positioned for the next recession, which maybe
sooner than we think in Colorado might have its own recession,
but we are very poorly prepared for that. So we'll
be early in and we'll be late out. And that
all has to do with this overspending or trying to overspend.
But Tabor has actually kept us strong through that last recession.

(46:40):
But it's not going to help us through this next
one because we have fees everywhere.

Speaker 3 (46:44):
Now and they've just given away our table refunds, so
we don't even get our money back. A Texter just
asked this question, Mike, how many of the jobs last
lost last month were related to government layoffs like park service, BLM,
et cetera. And I want to ask us part of
that question. An What's been surprising to me is the

(47:04):
number of jobs during the end of the Biden administration
that we're government jobs. So did we even create that
many private sector jobs? And are these losses related to
government jobs or where do they come from?

Speaker 10 (47:17):
No, the losses that we see in Colorado don't seem
to relate it to government jobs we have. I think
the number is, off the top of my head, just
underd forty thousand federal employees in the state of Colorado.
But over the last couple of years in Colorado, the
only jobs that are being created have been in healthcare.
Apparently we're very sick nation, which where we are, and
in government more so in local government, but a lot

(47:39):
in state government as well. So essentially we're creating jobs
there and we don't really have a stronger basis. We
have losing jobs in of course some headmin services, you know,
some of the manufacturing things, but we're not really even
on a national level. I think we only lost twelve
thousand federal government jobs in the month of March when
I checked there, So we haven't seen the wave that

(48:02):
everyone's protesting about the government being gouted and downsize. That
isn't reflected in the stats yet in Colorado. Again, if
you've got kids or grandkids and I want to grow
up and get a job, based on the current numbers,
you either have to be in healthcare or you have
to work for the government if you want to have
a job in Colorado, because those are the only new
jobs being created in the state.

Speaker 3 (48:22):
Oh that's depressing because those jobs don't create anything. They
don't create a new job, they don't create a product,
they don't have the opportunity for growth. They're just a
drain on taxpayer dollars in the long run. I mean,
don't get me wrong, they'll provide some sort of service,
but they're just a fiscal drain on everybody else. This
is an interesting text message, Mandy. I've had my bakery

(48:44):
cafe for twenty one years, starting an Aurora and moving
to Denver. The over regulation and cost of doing business
are going to drive us out of business. Minimum wage
up one dollar per year four years thanks not the
Denver City Council, the Family Act mandated for a one
K plan, insurance, property taxes, landlord passes those on to tenants.

(49:04):
You know, policies matter. Give us a break, please, this
is not a small business friendly state. That from Chef k.
Is this what you're hearing from other small business owners
that you know, Mike.

Speaker 10 (49:19):
Yeah, And again that's the challenge is that we still
have a lot of startups in Colorado, about twenty four
thousand startups in the last twelve months that we've tracked it,
and they on average to create about three and a
half jobs, and they created eighty five thousand odd jobs
the last twelve month period, but existing business has lost
eighty seven thousand jobs. So that's the challenge is that

(49:42):
businesses that have already started and are ramped up and
have been there for five, ten, twenty one years are
just finding that they're being put upon so much to
pay for projects that don't really benefit them and their
community that they just don't necessarily need one to support
those sorts of activities. You know, Denver is it's gotten
a little out of control, if I can be so bold.

(50:03):
And a cost of taxes, sales taxa is that they're
really really high now, so you know, they supply and
demand if prices keep going up. In Colorado, as I said,
it's been had the highest inflation rate of any states
and have the highest debts, so people don't have as
much money to spend on the things that they used
to spend on, and that's all pushing on pushing down

(50:25):
demand for products. At the same time as that that
the people have extra costs which increase the cost of
providing those products. So it is becoming challenging and it
would be really nice if there was someone in power
in the state that actually understood business, especially small business.

Speaker 3 (50:41):
So let me ask you this, what is have you?
How do you decide what to dig into?

Speaker 8 (50:48):
I'm a very curious person.

Speaker 10 (50:50):
I part of it is based I do a lot
of research based on vieera of labor statistics, so things
that fascinate me. You know, the savings rate in the
United States is about a third of what it is
in You're the only country in the world that has
the lowest saving traders Astray where I'm originally from, and
so people there are even more put upon than they
are here. I don't see that Darta of Colorado. But

(51:10):
I'm just fascinated by how jobs grow, how unemployment happens,
where jobs are being created, where they're actually being lost.
I'm just I have a short attention span, so I
like to look at a lot of different things, and
so that's part of my fascination. But my overrating objective
is that I run a little nonprofit that provides early
stage financing to small businesses on the Kiva platform, which

(51:34):
is crowd lending, which I really like. But I'm always
watching the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the state of Colorado to
see where the trends are, because you know, I've many
people that I've known in the state have moved to
other states just because it's gotten too hard here, and
I don't want to do that. So I'm trying to
do what I can to try and shape directional policy

(51:56):
to get people aware of the direction we're heading in
where we will go unless we do change direction of that.

Speaker 3 (52:03):
So have you discovered any data? This is my final question,
because we're almost out of time that shocked you, that
was either so bad or so good that you went, wow,
that's interesting, not in a good way or maybe in
a good way.

Speaker 10 (52:17):
Well, it just fascinates me how often Colorado is in
the top ten. So I've always heard you mentioned the
suicide rates here. I was just looking back at the
suicide rates and Colorado has been a top ten states
for suicide rates since twenty fourteen based on the CDC data.

Speaker 8 (52:32):
And that's and I've been trying to work out why.

Speaker 10 (52:35):
You know, the Colorado Health Department says altitude has a
lot to do with that, but I can see a
report that medical called it back in twenty eleven that
said it has nothing to do with it. So what's
going on in Colorado? And the only thing that most
of the experts, and I don't consider myself an expert,
but is that there's not as much access to the
availability of assistance to people who are you know, distressed

(52:59):
or mentally help help mentally not healthy in this state. So,
you know, there are lots of things I.

Speaker 8 (53:04):
Don't have the answers to, but statistics fascinate me.

Speaker 10 (53:07):
The fact that we've created five hundred and sixty three
jobs in the last fifteen months, at the same time
as our unemployment has grown by whatever it is by
twenty you know, by thirty one, nine hundred and ninety
five jobs means that, you know, we're not creating jobs,
We are creating a lot of unemployment. It means that
the state and employers are going to have to pay
more for unemployment taxes. We're not bringing in the new

(53:29):
revenue from new peril taxes. So we are heading towards
a little sort of you knows a cliff that the
legislature might fall off and their deficit this year might
be a lot worse than they think it is.

Speaker 3 (53:40):
Well, they're already talking about their deficit next year being
even worse. But the reality is, And Mike, if you
could do a handied andy graff of this, I would
appreciate it. If you could just do the Colorado budget
number from twenty ten through now. I think people in
this state that have heard for the last few months
we've got a one point two billion dollar deficit, they're

(54:01):
going to think that this year's budget is one point
two billion dollars less than last year's. And I know
that to be false, and I'm sure you do too,
So if you could do that graph for me, I
would share it far and wide just to let people
know what the hard numbers say. We have plenty of money,
they're just spending it very very poorly in my estimation.

Speaker 10 (54:22):
Yeah, depending way too much. Again, the population is flat,
that's slightly declining a little bit, and we shouldn't be
spending more and more on the same population each year.
They could fix the roads, that would be nice.

Speaker 3 (54:34):
And then what we'll do, how would we get a
new set of tires when we blow them out on
a pothole. Mike, Mike o'donald is my Mike O'Donell is
my guest. He not only has an x feed that
is absolutely outstanding that you should follow, he also has
a Patreon to uh for a longer form columns that
he does, and I would strongly recommend you follow him. Mike,

(54:55):
we will have you on again for sure. Keep up
the good work because I I am making a war
book for Republican candidates that is just full of news
stories and data and things like that. And your work
has already quoted multiple times in my war books. So
keep up the good work. And it's so nice to
virtually meet you today.

Speaker 8 (55:16):
Thank you so much, Manny, and honor and a pleasure
to take care all right.

Speaker 3 (55:19):
That is Mike O'Donnell. Follow him on Twitter. We will
be right back if you're free this afternoon. It would
be a great day to go hang around Sam's Number
three Diner and Barn, Glendale. They're on South Cherry Street
and our very own Dave Logan, Ryan Edwards and Nick
Ferguson will be there from three to six pm. You,
of course can catch all the Nuggets and Avs playoff

(55:40):
games and enjoy some of the most delicious Sam's Number
three food. They close the one nearest me and I'm
honestly joning a little bit. So that's all happening today
from three to six pm. Got a lot of other
stuff on the blog today, but I've got to bring
this to your attention. Senate. Bill twenty five two seventy
six is yet another attention empt by Colorado and Colorado

(56:02):
Democrats to run full bore at the bear that is
the Trump administration so they can poke it with a
stick as hard as they can, over and over and
over again. Because you know, much like the ten percent
of Americans who were polled and said they believe they
could win a fight with a grizzly bear. Colorado believes

(56:24):
they can win a fight with the Trump administration. How
do I know they want to pick one? Well, let's
talk about what Senate Bill twenty five dsh DO seven
six is all about. It's called protect Civil Rights Immigration Status.
What does it do well? It changes existing law in

(56:48):
the following ways. This is from a column by Sherry
Pye on Complete Colorado dot com. She says, according to
the bills summary, changes to the existing law made by
SB two seventy six include, among other things, it repeals
the requirement that illegal aliens must submit an affidavit stating
that they have either applied to remain in the US

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legally or will apply as soon as they are eligible
when that person is applying for in state tuition or
a state ID. It prohibits jail custodians from delaying a
defendant's release for any time period for the purpose of
immigration enforcement operations. Those are called ICE detainers. It also

(57:32):
extends this one is the one you guys that I'm
surprised you didn't hear my head explode earlier this morning
when I read this. It extends the ability under certain
circumstances for an illegal immigrant who is facing criminal charges
to petition a court to vacate a guilty plea for

(57:53):
a Class one or to misdemeanor charge or a municipal
charge to include Class three misdemeanors, traffic misdemeanors, and petty offenses.
Why would they do that because that would allow them
to stay in the country. Because if you commit a crime,
then you're in. You're just out, You're done. So they

(58:15):
want to let illegal immigrants who have pled guilty for
any of these things go back and say, oops, I'm sorry,
I was just kidding. Now, if I, as an American citizen,
had a Class one or two, maybe even a Class
three misdemeanor that I had committed, and I decided to
go ahead and plead guilty because I did it, and
then I just wanted to get it over with, and
then I didn't get a job because of that. Could

(58:36):
I go back to the courts and say, yeah, I'd
like to take my guilty play well after their witnesses
would be able to participate in the prosecution. That's insane.
That's creating a special class of citizenry right there. It
expands an existing prohibition on arresting or detaining illegal immigrants
on a federal detainer request to include anyone designated by

(59:00):
the state as a peace officer, meaning no law enforcement
organization can arrest or detain an illegal immigrant on a
federal detainer request. It creates minimum requirements for public childcare center,
public school, local education provider, public institutions of higher education,
or public health care facility concerning access to its facilities

(59:24):
or property, and creates a civil penalty for a violation
of the requirement. I don't even know what that means.
It expands a prohibition on providing personal information about an
individual to federal immigration authorities, including a pre trial officer
or pre Trial Services Office employee. Pre trial would, in

(59:44):
my mind, indicate that they are justice involved, meaning that
they have been arrested for something. And it prohibits a
peace officer or employee or agent of a detention facility
from allowing federal immigration authorities access to a part of
the detention facil ability that is not accessible to the
public unless required by a federal warrant or a writ

(01:00:05):
to transfer an inmate to or from federal custody. Now,
if you don't think that this is going to be
seen as a giant slap in the face by the
Trump administration. You just have not been paying attention to
President Donald J. Trump. And here's the kicker, you guys.
I look this up the other day just to make
sure I knew what I was talking about, because I

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knew this in the back of my mind, but I
wanted to double check, and I double checked, and indeed
I was correct. What am I correct about? Throughout the
modern era, and I'm talking it's in the nineteen hundreds
and on, the federal government has more than once leveraged
federal dollars, most of the time transportation dollars. They've leveraged

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federal dollars in order to get states to capitulate and
do what they wanted them to do. First, the first
instance I want to give you, and I'm sure there
was instances before the nineteen seventies, but I didn't go
back further because these are the two that I remember.
Number One, the federal government threatened to withhold road money
if the states did not make fifty five miles per

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hour the speed limit in every state. Back back when
that was done during the Carter administration, it was remember
fifty five arrived alive drive fifty five. But the reality
was is they believed that engines car engines at the
time ran at peak energy efficiency. They ran at peak
gas mileage at fifty five miles per gallon. Now I

(01:01:34):
don't even know if that's accurate. I have no idea.
What I know about statistics is they're usually you know,
turned out to be so wrong later that it's like,
I don't even know if that's accurate. But obviously cars
have come a long way. But they told all the states, hey,
you can do this or we're going to keep your
road money, and they did until the states lowered the

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speed limit to fifty five. The second instance of this
happened in the late seventies, and that was when the
federal government decided that the drinking age needs to be
twenty one. Now people may not realize this, but the
drinking age is set by the states. It's not a
federal law, even though it's consistent across the old country. Now,
because once again the federal government said we need you

(01:02:17):
to raise the drinking age to twenty one. In states
like Louisiana who balked and said no, we're not doing it,
the federal government said oh well, yeah, oh sorry, we
lost that check for your road money. So there's a
lot in precedent that even though the Democrats are suing
and they're all going to sue, and everybody's going to sue,
everybody's sue, sue, sue, sue, sue, the reality is is

(01:02:40):
that president has already been set and here's the kicker,
It's already been affirmed by the court. So what the
State of Colorado is trying to do is create a
scenario where they are going to run up, slap the
Trump administration in the face, and then run away and
expect no repercussions. It's not going to go like that,
and it is not going to go well. Now, I

(01:03:03):
want to play this, Eric, can I get my audio
for just a second. I want to play this. This
is a group of Republicans talking about SB twenty five
DASH two seventy six, and I want you to hear
what they have to say.

Speaker 17 (01:03:17):
Hello, my name is Representative Carlos Baron and we just
got out of Judiciary career. I'm here with Republican Caucus
members for the Judiciary Committee. We just heard center Bill
to seventy six, which is the sanctuary State Expansion Law Bill.
It's we were here for several hours just listening to
testimony and listening to this bill sponsors. This bill it

(01:03:38):
really does, is just expand the sanctuary state laws in
the state of Colorado, which we should not be getting into.
This is a federal law. We should be helping the
federal government, federal ice agents do their job here in
this state, and this is handcuffing our local law enforcement agencies.
You know, there was some testimony and some comments set

(01:03:59):
here in this Sherry that we're pretty egregious that we're
really comparing us comparing the immigration deportations to the Holocaust
and seeing that there was really no difference. One of
the bill sponsors said that, and then the chair of
the committee actually agreed with it and said it as well.

(01:04:20):
So we think that this is a really horrible bill
and that we should not be passing this bill. And
it were passed on party line vote, which some of
the other Democrats brought up some points from the bill
that they really thought were kind of not going along
with our law, but they still voted just on it.
They always do this to where they say yes for today,

(01:04:43):
and it's just ridiculous that we have to put it
on the floor now for all seventy five of us
to sixty five of us, I'm sorry to vote on
So please keep your eye open for this one. And
we we we're just going to keep fighting this on
the house floor.

Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
I don't want them to fight it on the house floor.
I want to let it pass right on party lines.
I want if you if this is what we're gonna do,
if this is what Colorado has decided we're gonna do,
let's do it. Rip the band aid off. Fail fast,
as they say, fail fast, fail hard, get your hands
slapped and move on. But no, really, deportations are just

(01:05:20):
like the Holocaust. Oh my god, there's sound just like
the Holocaust. Do these people know how deeply offensive that
is to people who lost their family members in ovens
in the actual Holocaust? Now they don't care. My goodness,
Do I have some exciting news about Concourse A. Now, granted,
I hardly ever fly out of Concourse A, but when

(01:05:41):
I do, I can assure you that I will be
stopping at the brand new Bagel Deli restaurant. That's right.
Not only did they bring the best deli in uh Denver,
the bagel Deli. I believe they're also opening up a
new Tacabe of course, Theative American Restaurant, and a speakeasy

(01:06:02):
cocktail bar Williams and Graham, and they also were opening
up a d bar, which is where they have ridiculous milkshakes.
I can't even imagine eating one of those milkshakes before
getting on an airplane, though I'm not. Oh, I'm at
that age now where everything I eat that's new, I
eat it and then and then I sit back and

(01:06:25):
wait to see how it makes me feel. You know,
as I've gotten older, I realized some things are not
my friend pizza, not my friend. Still love it, but
not my friend pizzas like that that bad boyfriend you
just can't quit. Not all the way, just does not
do good things for me. But I am super stoked

(01:06:46):
about the Bagel Deli. If you've never been to the
Bagel Deli, in my opinion, and I know there's other
great Jewish jellies, you got Zadi's love Zadies too. I
love a Jewish Jeli. I love Jewish food, but the
Bagel Deli is for me. The og It's just like
it's so good. It's been around since nineteen sixty seven.
Their bagels are better than everybody else is in Denver

(01:07:09):
that I have found. So that will be part of
the new marketplace that is opening at A thirty eight.
So you got that going for you now, Folks, when
you go to the airport, when you guys go to
the airport, do you like eat before you go? Because
back in the day when I was a flight attendant,
I had to we had to serve food, like on

(01:07:34):
every flight, we had some kind of food, right, so
you could go to the airport hungry and they'd be like,
I'll eat on the plane, even though the food wasn't fantastic,
you could eat on the plane. But now it's like, oh,
there's no chance you're gonna eat on the plane. Oh
your flight's only nine hours. No, you're not gonna eat
on the plane. It's fine. So I always want to
get do you eat if the airport or you get
food to go? And if you get food to go,

(01:07:55):
are there certain things you will not get because you
don't want to fend the people around you on the plane.
I'm just curious because I have to tell you, like
if I want a tuna sandwich, I'm getting a tuna
sandwich and I'm eating it on the plane.

Speaker 10 (01:08:11):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:08:11):
I may not want a tuna sandwich. I may want
a ham sandwich or something less stinky, but it's always
and I do think about it. I'm like, do I
really I got a I went to Einstein Bagels once
and I got the smoked salmon bagel. You know what
I mean, the open face smoke salmon bagel.

Speaker 5 (01:08:27):
Really good.

Speaker 3 (01:08:27):
Love it. But I got on the plane. I didn't
even think about it, and this guy was like, You're
gonna eat that on this plane and I'm like, well,
I'm not asking you guys to eat it, and I
don't think smoked salmon smells bad. So I was a
little bit confused, but then I got all paranoid. But
I'm just curious. Where are these awesome bagel delis? Okay,
the bagel deli is called the Bagel Deli and it's

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on Hamden, So if you come from if you come
to Hamden from twenty five and then go east on Hamden,
it is just a little bit on the left hand side.
I think there's a Goodwill in that shopping center as well.
I'm almost positive, but the Bagel Deli is absolutely fantastic.
I mean fantastic. Rosenberg's Deli has the best bagels in Colorado,
says this texter. I like Rosenbergs Deli's bagels. I like

(01:09:13):
Bagel Deli's better. So that's just my personal opinion. I
love Bagel Deli. I love everything about it. I think
their chopped chicken liver is the absolute bomb. So good.
Dang it, now I want hit. I gotten that for
lunch today, Got that for lunch tomorrow, Mandy, I'm cheap.
I bring nuts, granola bars and meat sticks. I often

(01:09:34):
eat the other through the snack. The snack that I
was asked by my husband and never bring on the
airplane again was free dried cauliflower.

Speaker 18 (01:09:44):
He was like.

Speaker 3 (01:09:46):
He looked at me when I opened the bag. He's like,
are you about to eat a bag of dirty feet?
What is in there? And I was like, it's freeze
dried calliflower. It's really good. But no, Mandy, eating stinky
food on a plane is rude. Yeah, but stinky to
one person may not be stinky to another. My husband
thinks coffee stinks. What is that? That's crazy? Right? Everybody

(01:10:07):
knows you should mention address of Bagel Deli. Well, yes,
on Hamden east of my twenty five thank you text her.
I do want to do this very very quickly before
we go to break khalua pork. I talked about it
the other day. I gave out my little cheater recipe
no khalua in it. If you want that recipe, email
me Mandy Connell at iHeartMedia dot com and I will

(01:10:32):
send it to you. It's the easiest three ingredient recipe
ever that makes the best pork the best pork. Mandy
Connell at iHeartMedia dot com. We'll be right back after this.

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Coming up a little bit later, we've got comedian Dusty Sligh.
He's cut from a different kind of cloth straight out
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title of his comedy special. So I'm not being derogatory,
just letting you know to the dozen people that I
just gave the khalua pork recipe via email. I fully
expect a full report from all of you after your

(01:11:38):
Kalua pork experience. And don't be afraid to use that salt.
I'm just saying, you know, we've been scared away from
salt in our society, but do not be afraid to
salt that thing, because that's a big pork shoulder. Anyway,
got a lot of stuff on the blog today, but
I think I'm gonna start with something fun because you know,

(01:12:00):
everybody's trying to figure out a way to not have
a heart attack, right, I mean, everybody's trying to figure
out a way to not have a heart attack.

Speaker 6 (01:12:07):
I know.

Speaker 3 (01:12:07):
I am, like, what are you doing today? I'm trying
not to have a heart attack, That's what I'm doing. Well,
this from the Telegraph dot com. The Telegraph now has
a new story and I'm trying to get through all
the paywall stuff right now. It's not really a paywall
at the Guardian or the Telegraph. They just they just
want to make sure that they know who you are.
Oh no, it is a paywall now one moment, please.

(01:12:29):
I know what it says, though, so I'll just tell you.
There is a new study out that says that if
you're looking to protect your heart. I've got great news,
great news, and that is that champagne now has protective
properties for your heart. Yeah, yep. Experts found that drinking wine,

(01:12:53):
eating more fruit, and keeping slim we're linked to a
lower risk of sudden cardiac arrest. Now, I'm just going
to say this, and I haven't read the study, I
didn't click through, didn't look at all their methodology. But
can we all just admit that keeping slim is probably
the best way to not have a heart attack, although

(01:13:14):
some people who are genetically predisposed still have heart attacks
even though they're slim. But I'm going to go with
the story anyway. Champagne and white wine protect the heart.
Some thirty thousand Britons every year suffering out of hospital
cardiac arrest, which is different from a heart attack. This
occurs when the heart suddenly stops beating and you have

(01:13:36):
to do emergency resuscitation or the paddles to get it
started again. Researchers that thousands of people could prevent it
by tackling health and lifestyle issues will dull. An intriguing
finding of the research, however, was that champagne or champs
as they call it on the real housewives, and I'm
a little bit embarrassed for myself that I know that

(01:13:58):
champs and white wine seem to produce a protective effect
on the heart. The research team found that a higher
consumption of white wine, more fruit, a consistent positive mood
which comes from the white wine. Maintaining they didn't say
that I did, Maintaining a healthy weight, and keeping blood
pressure under control all seemed to protect against a cardiac arrest.

(01:14:22):
They identified fifty six risk factors. Up to sixty three
percent of cases might be avoidable if people change their
unhealthy habits. Now listen to this. The authors concluded that
between forty percent and sixty three percent of sudden cardiac
arrests may be avoidable when looking at all fifty six

(01:14:42):
life factors. Those include lifestyle factors, socioeconomic status, and local
environments such as exposure to air pollution. For lifestyle factors,
researchers found that a higher consumption of champagne and or
white wine and fruit intake protected against car prediac arrest.
While fed up feelings you know, I'm sell that up,

(01:15:05):
high blood body mass indexes and arm fat mass. Wait,
that's a new thing I have to worry about now
is arm fat mass what? Ah, I don't need another
thing to worry about there. No, it found that the
risk of regular champagne and white wine drinkers was about
thirty percent lower. Now let me just let me just

(01:15:26):
throw this out here. A vast majority of people that
are drinking champagne are probably in a higher socioeconomic class,
especially if it's actually champagne, which you can only be
champagne if it's from the Champagne region of France. Otherwise
it's just sparkling wine of some sort, you know how

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that goes. But if you're drinking actual champagne, well you've
got to have a few coins in your pocket. You're
not going to be running around, you know, collecting cans
to go buy your mad dog down at the corner store.
So these are the kind of studies where it's like,
you know, really, guys, how do you got fifty six things?

(01:16:07):
And you're gonna say that champagne is a good one.
Don't get me wrong, I don't hate it. I mean
the fact of the matter is if I drink champagn
or white wine, I'm just sacrificing sleep for the next
two days. It's just the way it is. Research on
the underlying mechanisms remains unclear, but these findings reinforce the
idea that the benefits of moderate alcohol consumption may be

(01:16:30):
more complex than previously assumed. They're really trying to make
sure we keep drinking.

Speaker 19 (01:16:37):
They really are.

Speaker 3 (01:16:39):
And again, I'm not anti alcohol at all. You guys
know we have the win Yogi in. I mean, I'm not.
I would still be probably a regular wine drinker if
it did not so deeply affect my sleep. And I'm
waiting to find out because that only happened when I
hit the menopause part of my life. I'm waiting to
see as I get older, does that go away? Any
women who have had this same suit situation, And by

(01:17:00):
the way, I found out this is incredibly common, extremely
common that alcohol disrupts sleep for women after menopause. It's like,
let's just suck all the joy out of your life.
You're welcome, You're welcome now. I didn't talk about this yesterday,
although I did have it on the blog. Spain and
Portugal were plunged into darkness yesterday, and even though the

(01:17:23):
government kept saying it's not sabotage, it's not zebotage, it
may have been sabotage. Why they're thinking it might have
been sabotage is that there was a mystery outage in
the UK power system a few hours before the entire
system collapsed. In Spain and Portugal, some people are speculating,
although I do not know this to be fact, that

(01:17:45):
their reliance on renewable energy made it harder to get
the grid back up and running. I don't know how
accurate that is, but Spain and Portugal. I don't know
about Portugal, but Spain is like all in on renewable
energy and they have the right weather for it, so
you know, maybe it'll work out for him. The system
is back up as of this morning. They said ninety

(01:18:06):
nine percent of the people who are affected have been
brought back online. It bled over into France, so it
was a huge power outage. But it should should make
you raise your eyebrow because if this was a cyber attack,
and some are speculating it was a cyber attack from Russia,
kind of makes you think to yourself, it might be
time to buy a generator, right, I'm not kidding. I'm

(01:18:29):
actually thinking about buying a generator from a house, not
just because of this, but as we move towards more
unreliable forms of energy. In this don Quixote like quest
to get to net zero, our grid is going to
get less reliable, not more reliable. And frankly, I don't
want to live out with life's little amenities. So if
anybody has a generator company, let me know, love him

(01:18:53):
or hate him. Elon Musk never let it be said
that he decided to take on dough to enrich himself,
as has been said by many people who are criticizing
his efforts to downsize considerably the size of government.

Speaker 10 (01:19:07):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:19:07):
I understand being upset when you watch friends and family
lose jobs, lose grants, lose federal money that they were
counting on. I get that one hundred percent. But the
notion that one of the richest men in the world
somehow needed to ransack the government for his own behalf.
It was laughable. When you had people out there saying,
oh my god, they're gonna have access to my Social

(01:19:29):
Security number. So what the Elon Musk is is gonna
then get a new car Loan in your name. I mean,
come on, you, guys. I trust rank and file government
employees a lot less than I trust these guys. They
have more access every single day and they make a
lot less money. But I think that this part of

(01:19:51):
it is is something that should be noted. Elon Musk
since going into DC to try and slash the size
of government, has suffered dramatically. How since he aligned himself
with Donald Trump, his fortune has tumbled by one hundred

(01:20:14):
and thirteen billion dollars billion with a B. So how
did that happen? Well, a vast majority of his wealth
is tied up with Tesla. Tesla was Musk's only publicly
traded company, a big source of his wealth, and we

(01:20:37):
know how liberals have responded like tiny, little angry, violent
children when it comes to Tesla. I see more and
more Tesla's around Denver and this cracks me up. That
with a bumper sticker that says anti Elon Tesla owner,
and I guess, now, that's not good enough. You have
to sell the car that you bought, No one wants, no,

(01:20:59):
you have to tell it to prove your allegiance to
the right people. So yeah, it is. It's nobody can
make the argument that he is not sacrificing. So essentially
he is going to step away from this because Tesla
is really taking it in the shorts, and he's got

(01:21:19):
to focus his attention on that. Tesla has a company
lost four hundred and forty eight point three billion in
market value since January seventeenth, That, in case you we're wondering,
is more than double the amount Doge has claimed to
save so far. So because people on the left are

(01:21:40):
criminals and can't express their feelings without violence and anger
and burning down Tesla dealerships and destroying Tesla chargers, he
has to refocus his attention on Tesla. So when asked
about it in an earnings call, he said, there's been
some blowback for the time that I've been spending in government.

(01:22:02):
He said, starting in May, his time allocation to Doge
will drop significantly. Now, of course, that's not his only business.
He also has space X, which is kind of crushing it.
He owns x dot or he owns x which of
course used to be Twitter, And I would argue that
X has become the town square. We talked about that

(01:22:22):
not too long ago. But value wise, have they figured
out how to make a lot of money with it? Nope.
That being said, X is poised for the first year
of revenue growth since twenty twenty one, So we shall see,
we shall see what's going on. I don't know what
happens with Tesla, because people on the right are just

(01:22:47):
not into buying electric cars as much as people on
the left. Number One, we are far more keen on
paying attention to the sort of disastrous stories that we
hear of someone's house burning down because of a battery
situation and car fires not being able to be put
out because they keep arking and starting again, or car

(01:23:09):
accidents where if you run into an electric vehicle, I mean,
you're probably gonna total the other person's car when you
run into them with an electric vehicle because they weigh
so much. I don't know what happens to Tesla. It's
gonna be very interesting to find out. I mean, I'm
not buying one. I like Elon Musk, but I'm not
buying one. I'm just not ready for an electric car.

(01:23:29):
I just I don't know if it's ever gonna happen
for me, because I have a feeling that by the
time I'm ready to buy an electric car, I probably
won't buy a car at all, and I'll just use
driverless taxis and stuff I would love. I would be
if it was cost effective. And right now I drive
a completely paid off car and it's old, it's ten

(01:23:50):
years old. And Chuck said, you know, maybe we should
look for a new car fee. I'm like, no, because
the way I figure it, a new car is going
to cost me about eight grand a year in car payments.
At least. I'm not one of those people who's gonna
buy the thousand dollars a month car payment. That is
never going to happen. I'll drive a better car before
I put myself in that position, but eight grand a

(01:24:11):
year in a car payment. So as long as my
car doesn't cost me more than eight grand a year,
I'm driving it. I mean, hey, by the way, secondary
question for you guys, if you know a good body shop.
I have ador ding. I have a couple things on
my car and what fixed, but I don't want to
repack the whole thing. It's still a really good shape.

(01:24:33):
Email me Mandy Connell at iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 5 (01:24:36):
Mandy.

Speaker 3 (01:24:36):
When the wright tries to boycott, if they had as
large an impact as the Testla situation, did target lose
as much, I would say that probably the best example
would be bud Light, and they still have not recovered
their market share. I know Target hasn't. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:24:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:24:55):
The Tesla thing has gone well beyond a boycott. It's
now if you drive one of these cars, there's a
chance that a whack a doodle left winger will destroy
your property. So it's gone well beyond to boycott from
one group of people. Now they've scared other people from
buying those cars as well. It's insane. What's happening when
you don't agree with their dogma. Now, if you're looking

(01:25:17):
for something to do this weekend, I happen to know
that Friday night there's a very funny comedian coming to
the Paramount and his name is Dusty Slay and he
joins us now from a rather cool looking office. Who's
that just over your shoulder in that picture right there, Dusty?

Speaker 7 (01:25:34):
All right, Oh, this is Steve Martin. A lot of
people think that's Jeffrey Epstein. They think I would have
Jeffrey Epstein on my wall for some reason.

Speaker 18 (01:25:43):
To Steve Martin, I was.

Speaker 3 (01:25:45):
Going a little bit like bad picture of George W.
Bush from when he was younger. I was a little
bit confused.

Speaker 5 (01:25:51):
Yeah, are you big?

Speaker 2 (01:25:52):
Steve Martin.

Speaker 3 (01:25:55):
Yeah, what are you big Steve Martin fan?

Speaker 18 (01:25:59):
Yeah, like Steve Martin a lot.

Speaker 7 (01:26:02):
And somebody gave me this sign though, and I just
thought it was a cool It's like a road sign,
but it's spray paint. I think it's cool. And I
got this these horses at at a yard sale.

Speaker 18 (01:26:14):
I'm into that. I don't want my I want my
studio to look kind of weird cool.

Speaker 3 (01:26:20):
Well, that's funny that you say that, because I have
a little side project where we do a web show
and we are actually building our entire set based on
items from thrift stores. We feel really passionate about giving
new life to ugly things that other people said they
didn't want anymore, so we are bringing them all into art.
So I have a great deal of appreciation for that.
Tell me a little bit about where you grew up. Oh,

(01:26:43):
I'm sorry, tell me a little bit about where you
grew up.

Speaker 7 (01:26:47):
Well, I grew up in Opa, like Alabama. This shirt, hey,
I got a little staying on it. That was it
wasn't showing it. But it's Opal like Alabama. It's a
great place. I grew up in a trailer park, you know,
and I had a lot of fun. Not sure why
they call it a park, you know, you know what
I mean. There was no rides in there, and we

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had like a water slot, you know, no water slides.
We had like a slipping slot, you know, or an
old tarp with some dog dish detergent on it.

Speaker 18 (01:27:19):
Well, my life was good.

Speaker 7 (01:27:20):
I liked growing up in the trailer park. My dad
also lived on a farm, so I liked that too.
I got a double dose of the country life. And
then I moved to Charleston, South Carolina for ten years,
where I waited tables and was an alcoholic. And now
I live in Nashville for the last ten years sober,

(01:27:41):
but well relatively sober.

Speaker 5 (01:27:42):
I don't drink.

Speaker 18 (01:27:43):
And then I have kids.

Speaker 3 (01:27:45):
So you've gone from alcoholic server to relatively famous comedian
in pretty short order in the grand scheme of things.
I mean, when did you decide you wanted to go
into comedy.

Speaker 7 (01:27:57):
Well, I was doing comedy in Charleston, you know, just
and a round, just kind of something to do while
we were drinking.

Speaker 18 (01:28:04):
And uh, I started to get good at comedy.

Speaker 7 (01:28:08):
And then I quit drinking and I got really good
uh and uh, and then I was like, oh, I
can do this, maybe I can do this for a living.

Speaker 18 (01:28:17):
And uh, and that's what I've been doing.

Speaker 7 (01:28:19):
I realized I have a red light over here. I
couldn't figure out why my arm was red and why
my I'm so red.

Speaker 18 (01:28:26):
But there's a light over here. That makes more sense now.

Speaker 3 (01:28:29):
I thought you were just tanning while we were doing
the interview. I wasn't gonna bust your chops or anything
about it. And everybody has their own union regime.

Speaker 7 (01:28:35):
Yeah, I don't have a window in here, but I
got you know, I got a plant, so I'm a
plant light going.

Speaker 12 (01:28:41):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:28:42):
Let me ask you when you just because you brought
this up. I probably wouldn't have asked this question, but
you just brought it up. You you were a drinker,
You were an alcohol like by your own admission, and
then you decided to quit drinking while you were doing comedy.
Was there ever any fear that it was the booze
that was making you funny and you were going to
struggle being sober, because I've talked to multiple artists who
have had a really tough time with that transition.

Speaker 7 (01:29:06):
Well, I, you know, was not a professional comic at
the time, and I wasn't really worried about it because
I was like, I'm pretty sure I'm having a good time,
but I'm pretty sure alcohol is wrecking my life. I'm
having a blast, but I don't think this is going well.

(01:29:27):
And I was like, I need to stop doing this.
So I was willing to give up comedy and whatever else,
you know, just to you know, survive and live a
good life. And it just so happened that when I quit,
I did think about quitting comedy. I was like, I
don't know, maybe because all my jokes were about drinking.

(01:29:47):
They were all about being overweight and being an alcoholic.
And then I quit drinking and I lost weight really fast,
so I was like, well, none of this makes sense,
so maybe I'll just quit comed But you know, I
was still running an open mic, and then I just
started to notice that I was able to write jokes
a lot faster, and they were better jokes, and I

(01:30:09):
was like, oh, maybe my whole life is just going
to be better now.

Speaker 3 (01:30:13):
Amazing how that turns out sometimes, doesn't it. Where do
you get where do you get your inspiration for your humor?

Speaker 7 (01:30:20):
Well, I like to say, for the record, though I
still support people drinking if people can handle it, yeah,
and have fun doing it. I support it because I
wish I could drink, but I don't wish it enough
to do it again, because I know it affected my
life negatively. But I don't know where I get inspiration

(01:30:40):
from for jokes from. I mean, I you know, I
just write down things all the time that I think
are funny. And sometimes actually a lot of times I
write something down and I'm not able to really make
it funny for the audience yet, but I keep it
written down, and then somehow I'll come up with a
whole hour of comedy, and then I'll record that hour,

(01:31:01):
and then when I'm like, all right, what do I
do next, I'll pull up old notebooks and I'll see
where I wrote that joke, and I'll go, oh, let
me try that now, and then then I'll be able
to make it funny somehow.

Speaker 3 (01:31:14):
You're very low key on stage, like you're you're at
You're the opposite of a manic comic, and I think
it's it's like catches you off guard as a member
of the audience a little bit. And is that is
that on purpose or is that just an extension of
your natural personality?

Speaker 18 (01:31:30):
Yeah, I think it's just just me, you know. I
mean I think that I change a little bit on stage.

Speaker 7 (01:31:35):
It's not intentional, but I think something happens to me,
you know, walk out on stage, I have the microphone,
Like I am a little different, but you know, I'm
still a little fidgety. I'm fidgetty now, I'm fidgetty on stage.
I just think there's something about like talking. It like
gets me going in a way. But I'm still low energy,
so I feel like it has to go somewhere. It

(01:32:00):
goes to my hands. And I touched a lot of
things and I touched my glasses and my hat.

Speaker 3 (01:32:05):
So you are i mean, your comedy being poor in
the trailer park, You've you've embraced this kind of redneck
Alabama sort of persona. And I used to work with
Larry the Cable Guy many years ago, but I was
surprised to find out he's actually from Nebraska and not

(01:32:26):
at all rednack, you know, just like it was shocking
to me. Is this who you are on and off stage?
Same dude?

Speaker 7 (01:32:33):
Well yeah, I mean, Larry the Cable Guy told me
that he grew up on a pig farm in Nebraska,
so I'm like, not southern but he's still redmack.

Speaker 4 (01:32:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:32:44):
I mean, you know, I grew up in a trailer park.

Speaker 7 (01:32:46):
I mean I moved you know, we moved away when
I was fifteen and I'm forty two now, you know, so.

Speaker 18 (01:32:53):
That was a long time ago. But yeah, I mean
I was gardening early.

Speaker 7 (01:32:57):
I have had a lot of radio calls today, and
between radio calls, I'm gardening, uh you know.

Speaker 18 (01:33:03):
And I was building some flower pots, you know. And
I still build like a redneck in a way. I
don't measure anything. I just I eye it out.

Speaker 7 (01:33:12):
I marked it with my fingernail and then I cut it.
Nothing that I build is straight, but it it holds up,
it looks okay. I wouldn't want to go into a
business where I built for other people, but I build
my own stuff all the time, and I get into it.
I'm like, you know, I'm like artsy redneck, you know,

(01:33:35):
like I you know, I definitely grew up, you know
the way I grew up.

Speaker 18 (01:33:40):
But I don't know. I think I caught an artsy
gene somewhere in the family line, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:33:46):
And I'm like, you know, I'm into you're renaissance redneck.

Speaker 7 (01:33:51):
Yeah, I'm into movies and music, and you know, I
like you know, I like cheese and you know, culture things.
You know, when I when I k I like to
go to some nice bars, and you know, of course
the redneck side always came out. Eventually I would go
in and have a glass of wine. But it's later

(01:34:11):
when I'm doing shots of bourbon that I'm getting kicked
out of the bar and losing it on people.

Speaker 3 (01:34:17):
Well, I mean, you did say bourbon and not Southern comfort.
So I'm docking you a couple redneck points just for
that right there.

Speaker 5 (01:34:25):
But I will document, I will tell.

Speaker 18 (01:34:27):
You that I don't even know what.

Speaker 7 (01:34:30):
Yeah, I'd never got too into what the liquors were, right,
I just knew there was a there was brown liquor,
and then there was like tequila, and there was vodka,
and I liked them all. But I never really knew
the difference in bourbons and whiskeys and Southern comfy.

Speaker 18 (01:34:47):
I just knew that it's brown liquor and I'm into it.

Speaker 3 (01:34:52):
Southern comfort tastes like cough syrups, So if you don't
remember a distinct liquor tasting like cough syrup, you may
have avoided it successfully. Unlike me. I got some Southern
comfort stories that I'm not proud of, to be perfectly honest,
Oh yeah, yeah, not my best work.

Speaker 7 (01:35:06):
There used to be a bar on James Island, South
Carolina called the Oasis, which sounds very nice, but it's
on an island and it says oasis. But it was
like a really crumby bar and everybody you could still
smoke cigarettes inside, and they would have on like Wednesdays,
they would have buy one, get two free bourbons, and

(01:35:28):
so we would do triple bourbon with a little splash
of coke, and that's what we would drive.

Speaker 3 (01:35:35):
Don't you look back on that and just wonder how
you're still alive?

Speaker 5 (01:35:38):
Honestly, you know you look back.

Speaker 3 (01:35:39):
I look back at I call it my lost twenties,
right right, my lost decade, right. I look back, And
there was multiple times where, if not for the grace
of God, things could have gone completely differently. And I
am so grateful that number one, camera phones weren't a
thing when I went through that, and number two that
for some reason, I made it out on the other
side okay and unscathed and with some brain cells intact.

(01:36:03):
So let me ask you one more question. About because
your style and you're you're from Alabama, do you play
better to crowds in certain parts of the country than others?
Like where do they get you?

Speaker 18 (01:36:16):
I don't know, you know, it's it just depends, you know.

Speaker 7 (01:36:21):
I think my comedy, like from from hour to hour,
depending on what I'm working on, changes a little bit.

Speaker 18 (01:36:27):
But you know, I do really well in the Southeast.

Speaker 7 (01:36:31):
I do really well in the Midwest, but I also
do really well in Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington. They
and I and I think that Oregon in Washington State
is a bit redneck.

Speaker 18 (01:36:43):
Outside of those sites too, and a.

Speaker 3 (01:36:46):
Lot most of the people in Seattle and Portland look
like you, long hair, trucker hat, T shirt on, so
you're you're one of them. You're just like a transplanted
one of them from far away. Dusty is going to
be this weekend. The paramount you can get tickets. There
are still some left. I just looked. I also on
the blog today I put his longer stand up a film,

(01:37:08):
whatever you want to call it. It's fantastic. I watched
it this morning. I absolutely loved it. So, Dusty, I
think you're gonna have Have you been to Denver before.

Speaker 7 (01:37:16):
Oh many times I called Denver. I love Colorado altogether.
I've driven around a lot of Colorado.

Speaker 18 (01:37:23):
It's great.

Speaker 5 (01:37:24):
I love it well.

Speaker 3 (01:37:25):
I think we have great crowds for comedy and they're
gonna love you this weekend at the Paramount. So I
appreciate you making time for me today.

Speaker 18 (01:37:30):
Yeah, I appreciate you you having me here.

Speaker 5 (01:37:31):
This is great.

Speaker 3 (01:37:32):
All right, Dusty, thank you so much for your time today. Man,
thank you. All right. That is Dusty Slagh. Go see
him at the Paramount Theater this weekend. And uh yeah,
that's Friday night. He's got one show Friday night at
seven pm. And there are some good, good seats available.
Rob Dusson has entered the chat. Everybody, Hey, hey, Row,

(01:37:55):
what's up?

Speaker 8 (01:37:56):
The MutS?

Speaker 5 (01:37:57):
Not the MutS?

Speaker 3 (01:38:00):
Not a lot today.

Speaker 20 (01:38:00):
Although you know Attorney General Phil Wiser fifteenth lawsuit and
park Hill golf Course land transfer.

Speaker 3 (01:38:08):
So will you just go full Wiser fifteenth lawsuits? I mean, like,
of course, whatever whatever else is happening, doesn't matter.

Speaker 20 (01:38:18):
California and Delaware led we're on a news conference too.
This is about amer Corps.

Speaker 3 (01:38:24):
Oh yeah, you know, I have no issue with what
amer Corps mission is, But this is one of those
things where it's like, should we be funding this? Should
the American taxpayer be paying for this? And if we're
going to do something significant about government spending, we have
to be real about what the federal government should actually
be doing with our money. There's lots of stuff that

(01:38:47):
I think is super cool that as an individual, I
would be willing to donate to to keep going. Give
me a tax right off. I'll give you my money voluntarily.
But we really are starting to see the mission creep
of the federal government when it comes to these conversations
about really worthy organizations, but should we be using taxpayer
dollars to fund it? I think those are really valid questions,

(01:39:08):
and that's kind of what we're seeing here with this stuff. Yeah,
they didn't, they're not. They don't. They're not having those conversations.
They're lost. They are Uh sue everybody, suebity, suebi, SUEBITI sue.
That's what's gonna go there. I will, guys, I'll send
you the rest of my information. I'm giving out klua

(01:39:31):
pork recipes right yeah. I'm now emailed probably twenty five
people my Kalua pork recipe and I am going to
continue to do that because it's amazing. And you know
what I love about my listeners. They're all like, hey,
can I please have this? Thanks so much, or I'd
love your recipe, Thank you, Mandy. They're also polite, very nice. Yeah,

(01:39:51):
unfailingly unfailingly polite. So there you go. Anyway, Grant has
or a rod has become Grant? Are you excited about
going down and hanging out on the floor there?

Speaker 5 (01:40:03):
I am pumped.

Speaker 19 (01:40:04):
First Nuggets game of the year and it's a playoff game,
so hopefully they can win in game five?

Speaker 5 (01:40:09):
You have pressed night? Oh yeah, baby?

Speaker 3 (01:40:11):
Nice? All right, there you go handling it?

Speaker 2 (01:40:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:40:15):
Are you going to the game too?

Speaker 1 (01:40:17):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:40:17):
Okay? As Dusty Slag the comedian you just had, was
he in thirty Rock?

Speaker 3 (01:40:22):
I don't think so.

Speaker 5 (01:40:24):
Okay. He looks just like the guy that's like one
of the back like not main characters.

Speaker 3 (01:40:30):
Hang on, let me look and see.

Speaker 12 (01:40:32):
Um.

Speaker 3 (01:40:33):
No, he's not done any acting that I can see, Okay.
All comedy, very very laid back. He's one of those
guys where you just you watch his comedy and then
the crowd like starts to chuckle, and then another joke
in like more and more people are chuckling. It's like
a slow burn kind of comedy, but not a burn.
It's just it's very He's very funny. He seems like

(01:40:54):
could be right up my alley. He's a good egg,
as the kids say, or as I say. And now
time for the most exciting segment all the radio of
its guide.

Speaker 2 (01:41:04):
In the word.

Speaker 3 (01:41:09):
Good day, Rob is the only one who goes low,
the only one who goes low.

Speaker 5 (01:41:13):
It's my favorite one.

Speaker 3 (01:41:15):
All right, there you go. What is our dad joke
of the day, please, Dad joke of the day.

Speaker 5 (01:41:19):
If you don't like it, blame a Rob?

Speaker 3 (01:41:21):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (01:41:21):
Would you?

Speaker 19 (01:41:22):
Would it kill the makers of avocados to put a
different toy inside.

Speaker 5 (01:41:26):
I have like fifty wooden balls already.

Speaker 3 (01:41:29):
Okay, that's really funny, that's really funny. What's our word
of the day, please?

Speaker 5 (01:41:36):
Word of the day? Furtive? You are t I V.

Speaker 3 (01:41:41):
It's an adgetive which means like a quick something, uh,
a furtive glance, so you kind of quickly do something
or or I can't.

Speaker 5 (01:41:53):
Like, you're almost there, but you're not.

Speaker 12 (01:41:56):
Rob.

Speaker 3 (01:41:57):
I was thinking that I thought it was it was
something nice or positive.

Speaker 5 (01:42:02):
I don't know, No, definitely not. I like your mindset, though, Rob.

Speaker 19 (01:42:05):
The subvertive describes something that has done in a quiet
and secret way to avoid being noticed.

Speaker 3 (01:42:13):
So close and he got so far. Today's tribute question,
I actually know the answer, and I'm super excited about
it because it's a Marvel question. Which Marvel's superhero is
portrayed in film by actor Simu Liu. I don't know
how to say his last name, l i U. How
do you say that, Lou Blue. I'm gonna say Lou
then Simu Lou.

Speaker 12 (01:42:32):
I know who.

Speaker 3 (01:42:33):
I know this movie because I love it's one of
my favorite Marvel movies.

Speaker 5 (01:42:36):
I have no idea, don't know wings. I've never seen that.

Speaker 3 (01:42:41):
Oh, it's so good. It's kind of Crouching Tiger hitting
Dragon meets Marvel.

Speaker 12 (01:42:46):
It's really good.

Speaker 3 (01:42:47):
It's one of my favorites. And the guy who plays
who plays the fake terrorists, I can't remember his name either,
but it's it's my one of my favorite Marvel movies.

Speaker 5 (01:42:57):
I Marvel movies.

Speaker 3 (01:42:59):
We watched them all in order with my daughter, and
it took one time.

Speaker 5 (01:43:04):
It's like seventeen weeks.

Speaker 3 (01:43:06):
It looks like six weeks. But now I've seen them all,
So there you go.

Speaker 12 (01:43:10):
All right.

Speaker 3 (01:43:11):
What's our Jeopardy category?

Speaker 19 (01:43:13):
Jeopardy category for today computer stuff? Ok, I'm always out
and about with my tablet, so I need my Mophy
juice pack, power station and external one of these?

Speaker 5 (01:43:28):
Rob Rob? What is hard? Incorrect?

Speaker 3 (01:43:31):
Andy? What's a power source?

Speaker 6 (01:43:34):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:43:34):
Should I give this to you? A charger or battery? Yes,
that's all right? Minus one one minus one.

Speaker 19 (01:43:41):
Snapchat an app on which content disappears after a certain
time as one of these for a logo, also known
to fade away.

Speaker 3 (01:43:51):
What is Snapchat's logo? I have no idea.

Speaker 5 (01:43:56):
A ghost? Oh ghost, that's what it is.

Speaker 19 (01:44:00):
Yeah, I actually had never thought about that before. It's
the adventurous name of the default Mac web browser.

Speaker 3 (01:44:07):
Mandy, what's the FARI?

Speaker 5 (01:44:09):
Correct? Rob A Rod picked this category so you would
have a chance.

Speaker 12 (01:44:14):
This is not it now?

Speaker 19 (01:44:16):
Getting an HTTP code one one on your computer means
it's switching to another.

Speaker 5 (01:44:22):
This a letter N HTTP.

Speaker 3 (01:44:26):
I have no idea another letter is switching to this?
No clue, Mandy? What is the platform?

Speaker 19 (01:44:33):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:44:33):
So close?

Speaker 15 (01:44:34):
Dang it?

Speaker 7 (01:44:34):
What is it?

Speaker 3 (01:44:36):
U pass?

Speaker 5 (01:44:39):
What is protocol? Oh?

Speaker 20 (01:44:41):
HTTP protoc with the at the end last one?

Speaker 19 (01:44:45):
My gamer roommate loves his rig for this extraterrestrial company,
a division of Dell.

Speaker 2 (01:44:54):
Mandy.

Speaker 3 (01:44:54):
What is alien software?

Speaker 2 (01:44:55):
Correct guest to.

Speaker 3 (01:45:01):
WHOA yay me. I'm actually pretty proud with the way
that went and didn't go.

Speaker 12 (01:45:12):
I guess.

Speaker 3 (01:45:12):
So, yeah, that's very refined. That's a narrow That's why
he's like. Rob's a nerd. He knows about computers.

Speaker 12 (01:45:18):
Whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:45:19):
It's fine.

Speaker 5 (01:45:19):
You will not be joining in the geek squad anytimes.

Speaker 16 (01:45:21):
No, no, you will not.

Speaker 3 (01:45:24):
Speaking of the geek squad, you can go out to
Sam three and Glendale and hang out with them next.
Because Ryan Edwards, Nick Ferguson, and Dave Logan are broadcasting
live from Sam's Number three, let's throw it to them.
I'll be back tomorrow for a super short show because
of baseball. Keep it right here on KOA