05-05-25 FULL SHOW - How to Get Better at Networking, and Celebrating Cinco De Mayo

Mandy talks about being an extroverted introvert, great margarita recipes, being a networking pro, The DoJ suing Colorado, the new Marvel Thunderbolts movie, and how Democrats have taken your TABOR money. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Bill and Pollock
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
No, it's Mandy Connell and Dona.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
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Speaker 4 (00:26):
Welcome, Local, Welcome to a Monday edition of the show.
I'm your host for the next three hours. Mandy Connell, joined,
of course, by my right hand man. We call him
a rod You can call him Anthony Rodriguez.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Aw so cute, man.

Speaker 4 (00:41):
My headphones sound weird, like I sound like I'm a
what is Let me try that?

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Oh? No, see way, it's one of the channels take
one day off. No, it just sounds like.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
A little Tinny Kenny, like, you know, like my headphones
are out like that and I can still hear two
words user error. I might switch to the audition feed
because it feels clearer.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
You do what you gotta do? Yeah, I might do that.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
Anyway, We're not going to talk about our little problems
with headphones over here, because we have so much stuff
on the blog.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
To wait, what did you wear the hat to the oh,
the hat to the wedding.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
This past weekend, I had a wonderful time at my
nephew and his beautiful new bride's wedding.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
I did not wear the Derby hat to the wedding.
People needed to know.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
I it is in my car right now, though, if
you'd like me to wear it for the show. Should
I just wear it for the show? I can't wear
it for the show with headphones.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Headphones I working for you? Well they are now.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
I just changed the channel that I've got punched in
on the thinking. But my Bobby over here, Yeah, don't
let the technical terms confuse you people. I realize that
radio is a high tech thing. Let's go to the blog,
shall we, Because I got a bunch of stuff in
the blog.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
That is really good. It is National Marguerite to Day,
or otherwise known as Sinco Demayo. Let's do this. Find
the blog. I go into mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog
dot com. Look for the headline. Just go to the
latest post section. Look for the headline that says five
five twenty five blog. And then for a moment, go wait,

(02:12):
wait a minute, how do we get to be the
how is it? How is already May fifth? What it
was April fifteenth? Like a two days ago, Am I right?
I mean easter just happened. Okay, it's not just me then, okay,
let me do that again. Go to the headline that
says five five twenty five blog how to get better
at networking and celebrating Sinco to Mayo. Click on that

(02:35):
and here are the headlines you will find within tic Tech.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Two in office South of American all with ships and
clipments and sass plant.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
Today on the blog you never know when you're gonna
need your network. New rule for Colorado politicians happy.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Sinco to Mayo. The DOJ sues Colorado and Denver scroll Lane.

Speaker 5 (02:57):
Here we go.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
Democrats have taken your takeabor money. The labor bill may
be headed to a veto. School districts need to have
a cell phone policy removed, not banned, books returned to shelves.
RTD leans in on transparency.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
This seems not scary at all.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
Both parties are crapping on voters. Warren Buffett announces his retirement.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Rude, how your mouth could be killing your heart?

Speaker 4 (03:22):
The hostages or Israel takes Gaza Antarctic ice checks notes
grew this year.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Time to dock fish in international waters? Wait a minute?
Time to debt oh wait a minute, I got it.
Here we go. Time to doc fish in international waters.
Time to get Jeffing Yellowstone has a cork in it?

Speaker 5 (03:41):
This is weird.

Speaker 4 (03:42):
A gorilla expert weighs in on the one hundred men
versus gorilla question. A Rod's review of the thunderbolts. Thank
god she's not. President Jeff Spurbeck's death is a tragic accident.
President Stephen A. Smith Moore scuttlelet on shador slide shine
as three gorgeous day, I'm as slowing the Earth's rotation?

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Weird? How courting influencers is bad now?

Speaker 4 (04:05):
And those are the headlines on the blog at Mandy's
blog dot com. And you should go read the blog.
Thank you, sir, Thank you sir. By the way, A
Rod were you? Did you see the video that I
had on last week's blog of the president, former President
Joe Biden giving a three hundred thousand dollars speech? Oh

(04:28):
you know what, Yeah, he got paid by a corporation
to come and.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Give a speech.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
They paid him three hundred thousand dollars. But you practically
just played the audio.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Of it right there. Lord, Yeah, do they want their
money back? Literally? I could have done that for free pizza.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
Okay, if you want somebody to bumble around the stage,
he's up there bumbling around looking for Carlo.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
I'm just doing what I'm told. Says that he said it.
Lord have mercy, y'all, Oh, Lord have mercy. I mean,
what did we do? For four years? What did we do? Ah?
And let me just have a moment about that.

Speaker 4 (05:03):
I wasn't I wasn't gonna go off on this at all,
but then I'm really thinking about this. I am really
tired of the sanctimony coming from many on the left
about Trump supporters, unless and until they all collectively apologize
for trying to gaslight all of us who knew that

(05:25):
Joe Biden was not at all in control of his
mental faculties, they called us, And you're just agist.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
We'll look at you. He's sharp as attack. He's as
sharp as I've ever seen in No.

Speaker 4 (05:41):
No, we basically had mister magoo as president for four
years and you guys covered for him.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
So drop the sanctimony. Okay, Trump isn't perfect, but you
propped up weekend at Bernie's. Good grief.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
Okay, I didn't mean to go off on that because
I got other interesting things to talk about. So today
Ivan Misner is joining me. I think it's Miser, might
be Meisner.

Speaker 5 (06:04):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
I've never heard his voice said aloud. He is the
founder of B and I, which is one of the
largest networking organizations in the world. I've been a part
of it in another state and had a really good experience.
Someone just sent me a text message they did not
have a good experience with it. So that might be
a case by case basis. But we're talking to him
not about B and I, but about the importance of

(06:25):
networking and why are we talking about this now. We
are in a period of economic uncertainty. Now when I
say that, I don't necessarily think we're headed immediately for
a recession. I don't think we're headed for a boom.
I don't know what's going to happen next. We've got
to get the tear of stuff sorted out and get
some certainty in the market. And you know, the market

(06:48):
hates uncertainty. And I don't just mean in the stock market,
I mean business owners. Business owners hate uncertainty. They need
to have to be able to figure out how much
there's supplies are going to cost, so they can make
sure they're charging appropriately. And with the way things are
going right now, it's very difficult for businesses to sort

(07:09):
of have any sort of certainty.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
So that could mean people are going to get laid off.
Some people are already getting laid off.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
And I, you know, we forget in times of stability
that we need to maintain our network. And I working
at this level, at the level that I am in
hell meaning market size, you know, there's just not that
many talk show host jobs in the country anymore. I'm
gonna just be honest, so much uh syndication is now

(07:41):
taken hold that there's not as many jobs as there
was even when I started twenty years ago, not even remotely.
But you have to maintain your network in the radio industry,
you just do. It's why I go to conventions, It's
why I go to talk radio events, because you never
know when you're going to get fired, and it is
a challenging industry to work in, and if you are

(08:02):
at all unsettled by uncertainty, this is not the job
for you.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
And it's been this way the whole time.

Speaker 4 (08:09):
It's not like, you know, radio is on the decline,
it's been they've been saying radio is on the decline
since I got into radio twenty five years ago, and
yet here we are still doing what we do. There's
a lot more players in the market. It is harder
to have as large a market share as we used
to have simply because there's more competition. But our advertisers
still get great results, and ultimately that's what it's all about, right,

(08:34):
But nonetheless, I suck at networking a runner. You're a
good networker, do you feel? I think you probably are
because you are. You're you know, nice to everyone, You're
always introduced yourself and present yourself. Well, I bet you're
a great networker.

Speaker 6 (08:50):
Yeah, And I was born on a stage, so I
have no shame in connecting with anyone at any point
in time, in any setting.

Speaker 4 (08:55):
But not everybody has that gift, no, And so if
you don't have that gift, I am not. I know
that sounds stupid for me to say because I sit
here on the radio every day talking to you, But
I am what I now know to be an introverted extrovert, okay,
or an extroverted introvert, I think is more so in
a social situation. I can struggle sometimes, which is why

(09:17):
I'm married to Chuck. Like, if you've ever met Chuck,
you know what I'm saying is true. Like he takes
all of the social pressure off me.

Speaker 6 (09:24):
I think inverted, your extroverted blinders are on your introverted
self so well that no one can tell averting me.
So I think it's so very deep inside the introvertedness
that is, it's just not there are.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
This experience, these three hours a day that we spend together.

Speaker 6 (09:42):
This is seen at these events in public too, And
I'm telling you it's very deep because no one can
tell you.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
Oh wait a minute, but that's what I'm being Mandy Connell.
You have to understand.

Speaker 4 (09:51):
There's being Mandy Connell, which is like a whole thing,
and we call it in our household being Mandy Connall.
And that is going to events. And I enjoy this stuff.
I don't want to make it sound like I don't
enjoy it, but nothing SAPs my battery, my social battery,
harder than going to an event and talking to a
bunch of listeners that I don't know. It's very stressful
for me. I enjoy it while it's happening, but when

(10:13):
it's over, it's like all of the arrogance, let out
of my balloon for a good bit of time.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Serious.

Speaker 4 (10:22):
I wish that wasn't true, you know it is, though.
It's like when we do the Mandy Connell adventures. I
love those because I get to talk to people and
I get to have dinner with people and find out
about them, and it's just it's so nice for me
because that's more personal. It's just it's I'm weird, I know.
But let's get back to networking.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Started.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
What started this whole thing is Ivan is joining me
at one o'clock. If you have not thought about your network,
if you have not you know, cultivated your network, just
gonna give you some reminders on how to make that happen.
And I'm just gonna say this, because I'm fifty five,
very open about that and will continue to be until
I start looking old and then and then I'll lie.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
I'll just stop aging at that point. You'll all know
if you're listening today, but don't tell anyone else. We're
just gonna make it a secret. Anyway.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
I'm at the age where if people get laid off,
it is hard for them to find a new job.
In my age racket, there's a lot of agism out there,
although I will say this, gen Z, we may owe
you a huge thank you before it's all said and done,
because so many gen Zers have become a nightmare in
the workplace that I have at least two people that

(11:37):
I know that own businesses that will not hire anyone
under thirty for the foreseeable future because they've just been
such a nightmare. And now they're like, oh, fifty five
year old person, yes, come work with me.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
You know, it's it's fascinating.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
So we're going to talk about networking, and I'm interested
because I again, I need to you know, I need
to up my game.

Speaker 6 (11:58):
You never know.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
Friends, now a ron I discovered something. You make that
drop down to Pueblo quite a bit because your parents
live down there. Yes, we drove down to Santa Fe
on Thursday afternoon, and then we drove down to Albuquerque,
and then we drove back from Albuquerque yesterday, so like
six and a half hours. So I'm trying to be
kind to New Mexico because they are our neighbor. But

(12:21):
I feel like if I never went there again in
my life, it would be fine. I'm good kind of thing.
But I got to tell you one area where New
Mexico kicks our behind is their roads. You can tell
when you cross over on I twenty five into New
Mexico when they start taking care of the roads and
driving back yesterday, we're like between Pueblo and Colorado Springs.

(12:46):
I think there should be a new law, maybe we
should run a ballot initiative to make this happen for
the four seat like till for the next hundred years,
when a politician travels, they are only allowed to drive
in the right hand lane.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Because that lane sucks so bad. It is like a
roller coaster.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
I mean, it was like it makes you sick to
your stomach because you're.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Just like, oh, it's it's awful for like one hundred
miles and then it's like Mario.

Speaker 6 (13:14):
Car, you gotta go all the turns, all the construction,
all the slow down, it's all the bumpy craziness.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
Someone throw a red shell. It's crazy. I just it
was awful, awful, and I just thought that's just embarrassing.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
But it's not surprising because this Department of Transportation that
we have here under this governor are doing everything in
their power to make driving so miserable that you'll finally
give up and get onto one of their stupid mass
media products.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
That no one else is on. Hey, at least they're
doing construction in the middle of the day.

Speaker 4 (13:47):
So ah, Actually we did not hit a ton of
construction issues. We didn't have a lot of construction problems.
You were in the middle of the day, a rush
hour or something that you would normally not see constructions
right here.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
How do you do? But I wonder how we can
get that done. Yes, you know, you're God please, I
just think that should be the rule.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
Like, if you're gonna make us drive on these roads,
you're driving on them, and you're only driving in the
worst lane possible.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
Leave them alone.

Speaker 6 (14:12):
They're too busy not getting to the snow storm in time. Okay,
it's fine.

Speaker 4 (14:16):
I don't even know how they plow the roads down there,
because they got to be just taking up huge chunks
of concrete, because there's just a mess, an absolute mess. Yeah, Mandy,
the right lane is that way due to all the
big truck traffic. I don't care why it is that way.
They should have already fixed it. If they know that
lane's gonna get worn down faster than they need to
schedule to fix that lane.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
More often. I know, it's okay.

Speaker 6 (14:40):
I got twelve more construction projects still to come, decades
still to go, NonStop forever more.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah, it's fine. Yeah, it's fine. It's fine.

Speaker 4 (14:50):
It's kind of like in South Florida, like the Fort Lauderdale,
Miami it's all connected by I ninety five. So I
grew up in Florida, So I was there from nineteen
sixty nine I was born until I left the last
time in two thousand and nine.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
Okay, long time in my lifetime.

Speaker 4 (15:09):
I never drove on nine ninety five with either my
parents driving or me driving when it was not under
construction and massive construction projects.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
It just never got done ever. And if I was
a smart kid, I would have said, you know what
I'm going in the road construction business, because that's a
griff that never dies. You could just keep doing the
same project over and over and over and over again.
They're never anything to know.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
It.

Speaker 6 (15:32):
Who was it running for office right now that told
us about their idea and this is just going to
tie in with all the construction of buying E four
seventy as a state.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
I will tell you what was it. George Lopez was
the other camp.

Speaker 4 (15:44):
It was it was a Lopez, and I would rather
whoever takes care of E. Four seventy give them control
of the rest of it. For that both four seventy
is so much better than any other road in this area, whether.

Speaker 6 (15:59):
We buy, whether they take care of everything, whatever, it is,
just to allow a more spreading of the wealth of
traffic while all this construction is going on yep, or
whenever anything's going on yep. Oh you know how much
better road flow all through if E.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Four seventh just didn't cause money. I know it's a
big money, I.

Speaker 4 (16:16):
Get it, but well that's I mean you basically you're
paying for a great road. You're paying for that great
well maintained road. And instead of us saying, look, we're
you know, we spend trans they just don't spend enough
on transportation. They have reallocated all of our transportation money
into dumbass programs that feed some part of their base
so they can keep buying votes.

Speaker 6 (16:37):
Me here, I am deciding each and every one of
my days on the way home, do I want to
save twenty minutes and spend five dollars or don't?

Speaker 2 (16:44):
Yep?

Speaker 4 (16:45):
Every day, every day lucky that I don't have to
drive in traffic like I'm not in hardcore traffic. And
every time I have to drive somewhere in the morning
and I'm on I twenty five at like eight point thirty,
I look around at all you other drivers and I
just go, bless all y'all because I could not do
this every day. Bless everybody that is in that traffic
every day because I could not do it. Yeah, I mean, man,

(17:07):
this guy who anyway, So that is uh my proposed
ballot initiative. I have no idea how to make this, bro.
We should get John Caldera on the phone and see
if we cant like.

Speaker 6 (17:18):
A period, because it's a solution, let alone, not thee
a solution better than anything else we got, right, And
if they want to drive.

Speaker 4 (17:25):
In the left hand lane, then they can pay a
toll for every road there you go, they can pay
us for dealing with correct correct All right. When we
get back, we're gonna spend a teeny insy bitty time
on Cinco de Mayo. The win Yogi was gonna come
in today, but she is a little bit under the weather,
so she decided not to bring her plague up here,

(17:46):
which I truly appreciate. But she did a blog posting
and we're gonna have a conversation about delicious margarita's for
just a moment, because I'm not a big drinker anymore,
and most of the time, if I'm drinking tequila, I'm
just gonna have a ranch water.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
You know.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
You know what that is, Aaron, do I want to know? No,
it's really simple.

Speaker 4 (18:04):
It's just tequila, club soda and squeeze the lime.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
It's really good. I mean, if you like that, I
like it. But I love great margarita's, love them.

Speaker 4 (18:13):
And on the blog, I have a video of Letty,
one of the bartenders the outstanding Numero Uno Beach Club
where we stayed in Puerto Rico, making their spicy margarita,
which in my humble opinion, and I have had margaritas
in some of the best places in Mexico.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
I love margarita's, not frozen. Those are like candy. I
want a real margarite, all right.

Speaker 6 (18:33):
I Frozen are delicious if done right, and it masks
the eighty percent of bartenders who don't know how to
properly make a drink correct.

Speaker 4 (18:40):
Which is why I'm helping them by showing Letty make
this drink please, they're spicy margarita. You guys, I got
them to tell me how they make it. And when
you see her make it, the last thing she grabs
is a squirt bottle of what she calls the jalapino
whatever spice or whatever it is. What that is is
a ton of laws, cutting quarters, skins and all, and

(19:02):
like twenty jalapenos put in the blender. They blend it
down and then they pour it through a wire sieve
so scrape out the solids, and then they take the
rest and go, oh my god, you guys, that was
the best margarita I have ever had. You could get
it with saying I did not I didn't do salt
at all, just left it off, didn't need it.

Speaker 6 (19:21):
It was just so good.

Speaker 4 (19:25):
And there's really nothing more refreshing than a great margarita.
I'll stand by that anyway. All right, This texture says classic.
Everyone wants good roads but doesn't want to deal with
the actual construction impact noise. Ordinance doesn't allow work to
go late, but you want construction to not be in
the day. Okay, that's a fair criticism. I didn't know

(19:46):
about the noise ordinate things. I didn't know that was
a thing.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
Oh, I'm just asking for you know, better time, not
during Russia. Better options.

Speaker 4 (19:54):
Yeah, and this textra said, then there's very clue, very true. No,
if E four to seventy was free, it would be
all clogged there you go.

Speaker 6 (20:02):
I mean be spreading out those that would take it
would not be on I twenty five and yeah, the
same goes for the other Yeah, just say you spread
the wealth.

Speaker 4 (20:09):
All right, we'll talk Margarite is what is your favorite
and where did you get it? And you've got any
tips let me know. Plus just got a text about deportations.
Are we going to talk about it one more time?

Speaker 2 (20:20):
All in one segment?

Speaker 3 (20:21):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yeah, stick around. My son Ryan was born today.

Speaker 4 (20:27):
One of my daughter's friends declared him a senior citizen.
So I'll keep his age to myself because I don't
want to embarrass him. He's not a senior citizen, but
to high school apparently he is. And it is what
I have now called Happy Margarita to Day. A lot
of people don't know about what this day is all about. Well,

(20:47):
it's not the Mexican Independence Day. It is actually a
celebration when about when the Spanish repelled the French in
the Battle of Pueblo, Puebla, excuse me, and that happened
in eighteen sixty two, wasn't really a big deal in
Mexico for a really long time. It's like a minor battle.

(21:08):
It's like, yeah, we beat the French. Turns fine. But
a couple of things happened.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
First of all, the.

Speaker 4 (21:18):
Battle at the victory at Puebla symbolized resistance to foreign domination.
And during the Civil Rights era in the United States,
including fighting for civil rights for Chicanos, that the notion
of pushing back against foreign invaders became very popular. And
then in the nineteen eighties we got the beer companies

(21:40):
driving Cinco de Mayo as a fun parties celebration, and
they did a great job.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
First it started in areas.

Speaker 4 (21:47):
With Largestpanic populations, and now it has spread all over
the country. And much like on Saint Patrick's Day on
Cinco Demayo, are we not all Mexican, No, we're not.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
Just like on St.

Speaker 4 (22:00):
Patrick's say, we're not all Irish either, even if we
play that on TV. So it's a minor holiday in Mexico,
and it is a party holiday in the United States
of America.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
Imagine that. So there you have it. That is, of course,
what brings us to margarite today.

Speaker 4 (22:18):
And I'd like to think those of you who have
texted your margarita recipes to me on the text line,
this one sounds really good. Spicy rosemary margarita. You need
one lime, one alipino, one sprig of rosemary, one and
a half premium Repisodo tequila, one and a half ounces
Triplezck hot sauce, garlic, salt, pepper, lemon.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
Lime soda.

Speaker 4 (22:40):
Mix tequila and Triplezck in a shaker, Pour into a
rocks glass with ice, Add lemon, lime soda, Add garlic,
salt and pepper. Garnish with rosemary, lime and jalapino sliced
and floating on the drink. Now I have taken the
liberty of adding this to my Facebook page, the Mandy
Connell Facebook page. You'll see a post that you says,
I'm gonna post some of the margarita recipes from the

(23:02):
text line as they look really good, and then if
you go to the comments you can do that or
if you want to go put your own margarita recipe
in there.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
I like sharing. I like a give and take in
the community. And if you love margarita's.

Speaker 4 (23:15):
You have to watch the video on the blog of
Letty at the Numero Uno Beach Hotel in San Juan
making what is the best margarita I have ever ever had?

Speaker 5 (23:27):
So so good?

Speaker 4 (23:29):
Anyway, celebrating beating the French, says this texter. Every country
could have there on holiday if the only criteria is
beaten the French. That is a fair point. What battles
do the French celebrate? I mean they had that steel Day,
that's their sort of independence day.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
I don't know, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (23:55):
You can find World War two French rifles never fired
dropped once. Haha, Yes, seven up lime and silver tequila
corona water. What you gotta be a little clearer about that.
It's not sinco to Stinkoh stop it, hater.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
Okay, I want to read this.

Speaker 4 (24:16):
Text message about immigration before it scrolls off the bottom
and it goes back to an argument we've been having
about the specific case of a braid Garcia, just his
specific case. Okay, this texter said, Mandy, I slightly disagree
with you on deportation.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
Legally, you are right. Morally you are wrong.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
These immigrants came here ten to twenty million, not using
the process Dems avoid the process and now hope that
slowing the deportation process down will mean when they get
back in power, they will allow these millions still here
to vote, avoid the process to let them in, then
force processes to delay them millions of voters eventually. I

(24:59):
have so much many text messages or emails along this tripe.
And what that argument does is conflate the argument about
one guy that was sent to l Salvador even though
the federal government had put a stay on deportation to
El Salvador. Okay, one guy who was already in the

(25:20):
immigration system. He had already seen a judge, he was
already checking in, he was already in the process. Now,
all of these people that have walked across the southern
border in the last few years, most of them, especially
in the last couple of years, have just been let
in on a parole basis. That's as far as it's gone.
There's been no processing. Those people are totally different. I
think there's a very valid argument to be made that

(25:42):
the laws were never meant for it, just an inbound
number of that number of people, and because of the
malfeasance and incompetence of the Biden administration, and I don't
think it was incompetence. It was totally on purpose. So
that's why I say malfeasance. You know, we've created in
an untenable situation. I don't expect the ten to twenty

(26:03):
million people that are here illegally that just walked over
the southern border to get the same treatment as I'm
asking for for a guy that was owed one more
hearing just to follow the rule of law. It's a
completely different situation. But they've conflated them for a very
specific purpose, because by conflating them, they're going to put
up Brago Garcia in the same category as a bunch

(26:25):
of people who are not in the process and who
everybody is like, yeah, they should not be able to stay.
So they've now given themselves a pass on the one
area where I'm talking about due process and following the
rule of law. I've never, ever, ever, once said that
every single person who's walked across the southern border in
the last three years deserves a hearing in front of

(26:45):
a judge. I don't believe they do. I don't believe
they should have ever been let in on the first place. Right,
that's the problem. So do not put those two things together,
because I am not talking about those two things together,
and I believe in general that most people are able
to seeing those two things separately. So we're not necessarily

(27:06):
in disagreement. We're just talking about two different things. Texter Ooh,
here's a good one, Cowboy margarita, one can of frozen
lime concentrate mixed with one can of tequila and your
choice and a beer. Oh, I don't know about that.
I have weird feelings about beer and tequila together. It
just seems like a recipe before disaster.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
You know what I mean? I mean it does.

Speaker 4 (27:30):
Oh my goodness, I like seven thousand notifications. I'm trying
to put more margarita recipes in here. Do you guys
celebrate sinco Demayo? I'm just curious, ay Rod, do you
celebrate you're married.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
To a Mexican woman? Is it even a big It's
not even a big deal in Mexico, though, is it?
It's very American? Yeah, I'll say that, but we absolutely
do have some fun.

Speaker 7 (27:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
What are you guys doing tonight? Nothing? Nothing special at all.
It's a long weekend.

Speaker 7 (27:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (27:54):
Oh, you got to give your review when we get back.
You have to give you a review of Thunderbolts.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
No spoilers.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
No spoilers because I haven't seen it. Be really mad, Yeah,
it's really really mad. Okay, bluh blah blup. Hang on,
let me see here. Fresh Morgaraita recipe, low carbon, healthy
eneo tequila. Two parts sit trenage, one part orange half
lime half limon half.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
I don't know what this is not a good recipe
because I can't follow it.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
I tried to write a recipe down for a cake
that I make. Writing a recipe is hard. You realize
when you go back and read, it's like, oh I
left a hole. It's like the peanut butter and jelly thing.
This is what made me think of it, because I
wrote a recipe down and I'm like, maybe I did
it like those little kids and the teacher had to
put peanut butter and jelly on our arms to make
them understand descriptive writing.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
Thank you TikTok for the recipes that there are.

Speaker 6 (28:44):
Yeah, because they do the video and then in the
comments and then description has the recipe written out.

Speaker 5 (28:50):
Yep.

Speaker 6 (28:51):
Both they're visual learners and then it gives the actual
written thing.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Well check it out.

Speaker 4 (28:57):
When we get back, we're gonna get the review from
a rod on the new Marvel movie Thunderbolts, which I'm
very excited to see, which is why we're doing a
movie review on Monday. Okay, we'll be right back after this.
Anthony Rodriguez has his reviewers cap on now and we'll
give us the latest about the Marvel movie Thunderbolts.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
And for those of you who have maybe thought you aged.

Speaker 4 (29:16):
Out of the demographic, I'm just gonna say this. I
urged a friend of mine who's a little bit older
than I am, who was kind of looking side eye
at the Marvel movies. I said, watch iron Man. Just
start with Iron Man, because in my mind, best Marvel movie.
Give it a chance, you might enjoy it.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Guess what happened. Anthony loved it, loved it, so now
she is watching I gave.

Speaker 4 (29:39):
Her the chronological order of Marvel movies so she could
watch them in that way, and she is enjoying the
heck out of it. So before you scoff, some of
these movies are fantastic. Well, as of late, they haven't
been great. So this is the first entry in what
since I don't even know when a couple year tough
couple of years. Yeah, when they were coming out like

(30:01):
every three every year.

Speaker 6 (30:02):
Well, in that vein, if I may, yeah, you know,
I'm tapped into the rumblings and the MCU and everything happening.
Things are going back to the good days in one
important way. Kevin Figi, who's the mastermind of yep, all
the Marvel Cinematic universe. Within the last couple of years,
they have been listening big time Disney Marvel. Everybody understands

(30:25):
the projects have not been great. That has been because
it has been a big rush job with all the
different Disney plus Marvel TV shows, all the movies coming
out stretched in beyond belief. So the last five six
years has been a since endgame has been really get
as much out as you can get it out quick.
Quality be damned. We got to get as much as

(30:47):
we can to the public sphere. That is officially changing.
The rumblings are that Figi and company are dialing it
back less about quantity more again about quality, and Marvel's
Thunderbolts is in that vein of quality.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Yeah, it is really really good.

Speaker 6 (31:05):
No spoilers, don't worry. It's really really really good. Is
just about great. There are some issues with it, but
I'll start with the good stuff first. It is an
elite collection of cast. You loved Black Widow. It's gonna
make me go back and watch it because Florence Pugh
and David Arber's chemistry in this movie is just so

(31:27):
damn good.

Speaker 4 (31:27):
I thought their chemistry was fantastic in the first movie
as well, and I thought that Black Widow was the
first chance that I felt like Marvel went emotionally deep.
There were there were emotional moments throughout the entire all
the Marvel movies.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
There are there's emotional punches.

Speaker 4 (31:44):
In all of them, but Black Widow was about this
family dynamic, this jacked up childhood coming to peace with everything.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
There was a lot going on emotionally in that movie. Mandy,
yougor are going for that reason and more, you are
going to love I can't wait. I'm excited it is.

Speaker 6 (32:00):
It is not for the emotion of what happens in
the movie spoiler alert, for the deaths that happen in
the biggest movies you know, in Fanity, Warren, Endgame.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
It's not emotional for those reasons.

Speaker 6 (32:10):
It's the deepest, most real Marvel movie I've seen, period.
In terms of the messaging behind mental health. And I'm
not talking about no no, no no.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
Correct.

Speaker 6 (32:22):
OK, I was gonna it's exactly I where you're gonna
go with that question. Yes, it is not beat you
over the head. It doesn't do it in the message
you would think. It's just it's it's real. They deal
with issues. People have mental health issues, people deal with
inner demons. This movie deals with those real, real world
things in such a great, great, great way. Lewis Pullman,

(32:43):
by the way, who plays Bob. I won't give any
more information for those that want to keep it spoil free.
He's kind of the good guy bad guy in this
I did not know he is the son of Bill Pullman,
president from Independence Day.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
I did not know that.

Speaker 6 (32:55):
Today, years old, I learned that Lewis Pullman. No wonder,
he's such a great actor. He's a good fit. He's fantastic.
The bad in the Run out of Time, the bad
basically ironically anyone that plays a US government role in
this movie. Yeah, you know, it's not Shield anymore. It's
just the new agency going on. In the backstory, they're
all really bad.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
Job.

Speaker 6 (33:15):
Julia Lewis Dreyfus, I've not left her character since he
introduced her. I think she's a bad fit. I think
her assistant's really bad.

Speaker 5 (33:22):
I am.

Speaker 6 (33:23):
I'm really not a fan of anything going on there.
But that still tells you how good the rest of
it is. Because I gave an eight out of ten,
and out of I believe thirty six MCO movies. Now
the top ten, top twelve is unbreachable for me, unbreachable.
It's all the good, All the Ogs, Thunderbolts is fourteen oh,

(33:43):
not bad, extremely good.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
It's the Dragon and I were just talking.

Speaker 6 (33:46):
I agree when it's the third best movie since Endgame,
The New Spider Man, No Way Home and dead Pool
and Wolverine were better.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
But that's not saying this one isn't great.

Speaker 6 (33:54):
People that deal with or know of, or have someone
that deals with those, maybe some mental health issues or
have some inner demons in a tough past, you're gonna
really connect to this one.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
It's super super fun, it's super super good. So somebody said,
do you have to see other Marvel movies to get it?

Speaker 6 (34:11):
And that's the other glorious part about this and Marvel's
understanding that that there's so many and so much history
and so much depth. This is another one where you
do not. It is a good standalone movie. It has
enough connection for those that want the connection to Like
you just said, Black Widow and other movies, you don't
have to have it, though, and that's where Marvel is
going to thrive and making ones that have just enough

(34:32):
for everyone and just enough for people that haven't seen
all the movies.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
This is great.

Speaker 4 (34:36):
So wait a minute. Lewis Pulman's name is Bob in
this one? Yes, okay, because he was in Top Gun
Mavericks Bob he said.

Speaker 6 (34:42):
He said on a press tour recently that he wants
to complete like the Trifecta and do like a live
action Bob the Builds movie as a joke. Ob, He's like,
he's He's Bob the Building. Yes, yes he could. Yes,
he's really fun. He's a perfect awkward understanding. Look into
this movie a little to the story of it so
you understand a little bit about his character. I don't

(35:03):
want to give away too much, but he's really really good.
He's perfectly amount of awkward. But again, Florence Pugh Chef's kiss,
David Arbor Chef's kiss, they are so good.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
It's probably the best acting in a Marvel movie I
can remember in a long time. Well, they're both really
good acts. It's real. It's great.

Speaker 4 (35:19):
When we get back, we've got Ivan Missner. He is
the founder of B and I, a networking organization. We're
just going to talk about how to brush up your
networking skills just in case, and then after that we're
going to get into the fact that we knew it
was coming. The Department of Justice has now sued Colorado
and the City of Denver for their sanctuary policies. The
response from the Governor's office made me burst out laughing.

(35:42):
That's all coming up in the next half hour. Keep
it right here on KOA.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
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Speaker 2 (35:51):
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Speaker 3 (35:53):
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Speaker 2 (36:06):
Tray and Tonal keeping you sad bab Welcome, Welcome, Welcome
to the second hour of the show. And I am
pleased this bunch to have someone on. Wait, hang on,
let me do this because I'm an idiot.

Speaker 5 (36:21):
Who up?

Speaker 2 (36:21):
Say how you doing? Let me just say, don't try this.

Speaker 4 (36:24):
At home, kids, it's very technical radio I'm pleased to
have someone with us who knows more about networking than
your average bear by a long, long shot. Doctor Ivan
Meisner is the founder of B and I. As it's
commonly known, it is the Business Networking International Groups.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
They're all over the place.

Speaker 4 (36:43):
I was part of one of them in Florida because
I suck at networking and I figured I needed all
the help I could get.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Why are we talking about networking?

Speaker 4 (36:50):
To be really honest, there's a lot of economic uncertainty
out there, and you may or may not in the
near future find yourself getting laid off. We do know
that some federal workers are going to be out of
their jobs, so it's time to kind of review what
we're doing when it comes to networking, because networking is
not something you do when you get laid off. It's
something you do all the time. And i'd like to

(37:12):
welcome doctor Ivan Meisner to the show. Hey, I even
welcome my friend.

Speaker 2 (37:18):
Thank you so much. And you were a member at
one time, yeah.

Speaker 4 (37:21):
About I know about fifteen years ago, no, no, twenty
years ago.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
Now, I was selling insurance. So we signed up and
it was a very positive.

Speaker 4 (37:29):
Experience and it really did help me because everyone at
the organization was so friendly and they came to me
and sort of helped me get over that hump of
you know, talking to people that I didn't know, well,
I know, people listening to me on the radio right now.
We're like, really, Mandy, you're too afraid to talk to people.

Speaker 2 (37:46):
You know, it's all true.

Speaker 4 (37:48):
You can be an introverted extrovert or an extroverted introvert.
And that's where I found myself. And you tell me
you found yourself in the same place.

Speaker 5 (37:57):
Yeah, yeah, I'm a situational extrovert.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
You know.

Speaker 7 (38:00):
I found this out fifteen twenty years ago when my
late wife said I said something about being an extrovert
and she's like, no, you're not. I'm like, yeah, of course,
I run the world's largest networking organization. And she's like, no,
you're an introvert. And I got mad and I went
to the Internet and I took a test and it said, congratulations,

(38:21):
Ivan Meisner, you are an introvert who is a situational extrovert.
Now go apologize to your wife. And we didn't say
the last part, but I was surprised by that. Honestly,
I believe, having now done that years ago, it. Introverts
can be great at networking, and here's why. When you're
an extrovert, you're great at introducing yourself. You can meet people,

(38:44):
introduce yourself. What's your favorite topic?

Speaker 2 (38:48):
Yourself?

Speaker 7 (38:50):
Yes, you love to talk about yourself. If you're an expert,
that's a problem. If you're an introvert, you have a
hard time introducing yourself. But you're a good listener and
a good networker has two years and one mouth and
should use them both proportionately. So I would argue that
extroverts have a strength at networking, but they have to
learn how to listen. Introverts have a strength at networking,

(39:12):
and they have to learn how to connect with people,
and there are definitely techniques that you can use to
do that.

Speaker 4 (39:17):
Let's talk about what a network actually is, because in
my experience from industry to industry, there are subtle changes
and sort of how things sort of get grouped out,
and I think some people don't recognize that they have
a network when they do. So let's just kind of
take it back to basics. What is a network and
how does that? How do you determine what your network

(39:38):
should be?

Speaker 7 (39:41):
Well, your network is a group of connections that can
help you to connect with other people throughout your community.
They may help you to connect for jobs. They may
help you connect for referrals for business. When you were
an insurance agent, you were looking for referrals for business.

(40:02):
And so it's really the community that you have around you.
They may be friends, they may be neighbors, they may
be business associates, they could possibly be old classmates that
you have connections with. And so these are the people
around you that you know, like and trust, and they're
willing to help you in some way and you're willing
to help them. That's important.

Speaker 4 (40:22):
So if you've cultivated a network of people that meet
those characteristics. And for me, I don't necessarily want people
in my network where it's only going in one direction,
meaning they're only seeking help or seeking favors or seeking
you know, connections from me. I've had that experience in
the past.

Speaker 2 (40:40):
I don't like it.

Speaker 4 (40:41):
How do you delicately maybe remove someone from your network
that isn't serving your purposes or you find to be
a time waster or even worse, an asshole. And I said, ask,
there's a case, there is a case? I think I
heard ask, yes, ask.

Speaker 5 (41:01):
So my recommendation is that you sit down with them
and have a conversation.

Speaker 7 (41:08):
And maybe let's just for argument's sake, because me and
I as a referral organization, that's my background. So let's
say you've given them a bunch of referrals. You sit
down with them and rather than say hey, you haven't
given me anything, which just makes them defensive. Instead you
sit down and you say, how did this referral workout
for you? And you may know, but you get them

(41:28):
to talk about it. How did that referral work out
to you? How did this referral? These are referrals you
gave them. Then listen to their answers. Now this is
really important. They may say to you they didn't work
out at all, which case you need to reassess just
how much you've helped them. Most of the time, several
of them worked out, and they'll tell you, yeah, this
worked out great, this worked out great.

Speaker 5 (41:49):
That's when you have the conversation.

Speaker 7 (41:52):
It's easier when you do it this way, as you
say to them, well, I'm really glad those worked out
for you. Can we talk now about how you might
be able to reciprocate and possibly give me referrals? In
the same way that I gave you referrals. Then listen
to their answer, and if their answer is that they
can't do it for some reason, then that's when you

(42:13):
cut them liers, right.

Speaker 5 (42:14):
But if their answer is, as I've seen many times,
oh my goodness, you're absolutely right.

Speaker 7 (42:19):
I can't believe I haven't given you any referrals. Let's
talk about that. Then you open the door to being
able to build a relationship.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
How do you maintain a network?

Speaker 4 (42:30):
I mean, how much time do you need to spend
making sure that you stay in contact with people. For me,
in the radio industry, I try to go to radio
events at least every other year just to say hello
to old friends. This is a very small industry when
you get right down to it. But how do you
maintain those relationships?

Speaker 5 (42:49):
You know?

Speaker 7 (42:49):
Just in general, Well, it's really about the number of
touch points that you have with somebody, And as your
business grows, the touch points become a little more difficult.

Speaker 5 (42:59):
You can't pick up the phone and call every friend.

Speaker 7 (43:01):
Or associate that you have. And by the way, Facebook
is kind of redefind what a friend is y. I'm
talking about real, legitimate friends that you know, like and trust.
And it's really about touch points. It might be an
email that says, hey, Mandy, how are you doing anything new.

Speaker 5 (43:20):
It might be connecting with them on some social media
platform where you say, hey, that's a great love the
photo of your grandchild.

Speaker 1 (43:27):
Right.

Speaker 5 (43:27):
You're making these use your touch points with your closest friends.
It's a phone call.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
As a matter of fact.

Speaker 7 (43:32):
Just today I called a co author of mine for
one of my books, who I've known for twenty years.
Loved this guy, and I called him and I just said, hey,
how are you doing. We haven't talked in a month,
and give me an update. And so it's all about
touch points with the people that are most important in
your life. You got to do it otherwise benign neglect

(43:53):
kicks in. Yeah, And benign neglect can be both good
and bad. If it's benign neglect with somebody you don't
want to stay in touch with, that's a good thing.
But if it's a benign neglect with somebody that you
love and care for, then you don't want to let
that happen.

Speaker 4 (44:08):
I'm talking with Ivan Meisner. He's the founder of B
and I, which is a massive networking operation.

Speaker 5 (44:15):
And I was eleven three hundred chapters in seventy five countries.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
Holy cow, that's amazing. That's amazing. It really is.

Speaker 7 (44:23):
You know, we generated last year twenty five billion with
a B twenty five billion dollars worth of a business.

Speaker 5 (44:32):
What we call thank you for closed business for our members.
Now here's the awesome thing. I love this business. Here's
the awesome thing.

Speaker 7 (44:40):
There are actually, based on United Nations estimates, one hundred
countries in the world, one hundred with a lower GDP
than what we generated for our members in the last
twelve months. That blows my mind. When I started being
and I I had no idea that it would resonate
this well with businesses.

Speaker 4 (44:57):
Well, as I said, I told you off the year
I was a member. Probably now that I did the math. God,
you know, I've reached that age where I think that
the nineteen nineties were like ten years ago.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
And clearly I don't know what's going on with my brain.

Speaker 4 (45:13):
But I was a member because I didn't know anything
about networking and I needed something that had structure and
that was already there, you know what I mean. And
I got a text message said, ah, I'm not a fan.
There are plenty of free networking for someone who's a
complete like the thought of the word networking gave me
cold chills down my spine. I'm not exaggerating it. It

(45:33):
was like a horrifying thought to walk into a room
full of strangers. It provided a structure for me that
I found invaluable. So my experience was very good. Let
me ask you this question, because I think this is
really hard. If someone finds themselves in a position where
they get laid off, how do you kick that network
into gear?

Speaker 2 (45:49):
How do you start? How do you make those phone calls?
What do you do?

Speaker 4 (45:52):
Do you just pick up the phone and start saying, hey,
I'm looking you know, let me know?

Speaker 2 (45:56):
Or do you need to be more specific?

Speaker 5 (45:59):
Well, so there's two parts to that answer.

Speaker 7 (46:02):
The first part is you know the old Chinese proverb
when's the best time to plant an oak tree? And
the answer is twenty years ago. When's the second best time?
The answer is today? So you should start building your
network now. So anyone who's listening to this should really
start to develop their network now. And the technology today

(46:23):
is so great. When I was in graduate school, we
didn't have any social media to stay connected. I went
to school with a deputy director of the Federal Aviation Administration.
I went to school You'll love this one with the
Captain of the Palace guard for Saddam Hussein, who.

Speaker 5 (46:40):
I'm sure is not around. I did, I went to
graduate school with them.

Speaker 7 (46:45):
But it would be amazing to stay in touch with
those who are still alive, and social media allows you
to do that.

Speaker 5 (46:52):
We don't teach this.

Speaker 7 (46:53):
In colleges and universities anywhere in the world. We don't
teach networking or referral marketing. And so the key is,
I think, to learn learn how to do this effectively
because most people use networking as a face to face
cold calling opportunity. Hi, Mandy, my name is Ivan. Let's
do business right, and that's not the way to network profectively.

Speaker 4 (47:11):
Well, when you're calling people because now you've been laid
off and you're looking for a new position, are you
going to give them your resume or are you just
going to say, hey, I'm looking something for something in
the field of you know, broadcast or project management or whatever.
Is it better to call with a specific ask or
just call and say, hey, you know me, if you

(47:32):
hear of anything that you think I might be a
good fit for, let me know what's the better strategy.

Speaker 7 (47:37):
Well, I think if it's people that you know, you
can get very direct. If it's people that you have
a relationship with, so you've gotta have to layer your connections.
In most of my books, I talk about the VCP
process and visibility, credibility, profitability.

Speaker 5 (47:53):
So let's start with profitability.

Speaker 7 (47:55):
People that you have a really solid relationship, and by profitability,
they may be clients, they.

Speaker 5 (48:01):
May be close friends, they may be people who have
referred you. Those people you can go direct with. Hey,
just you know, just got laid off. I'm really I'm
looking for a job in this area and get direct.

Speaker 7 (48:10):
They don't mind because they love you, they like you
your friends. Credibility it's not quite as direct, you know.
You just you may reach out to them and say,
I'm looking for job opportunities. If you know any people
in these areas.

Speaker 5 (48:26):
Please let me know.

Speaker 7 (48:28):
And at visibility you've got to be really, really tactful
because they don't know you, and if you go right
for the requests, it's probably too early.

Speaker 5 (48:39):
The other thing is to go to networking.

Speaker 7 (48:41):
Events that have people in it that are in the
business you want to be in and make connections there
and have conversations with them.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
This is all great advice. I hope nobody in my
listening audience.

Speaker 4 (48:54):
Needs it anytime soon, but everybody should maintain their network.

Speaker 2 (48:58):
And it's so critical.

Speaker 4 (48:59):
If you want more information about Ivan, if you want
more information about B and I or anything else, I
put it all on my website today ormandy'sblog dot com.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
Doctor Ivan Meisner, thank you so much, because you know
a lot of us know this.

Speaker 4 (49:13):
You know it if you if you're a working professional person,
you know all of the things you just said. But
hearing them again, I'm already thinking about how I'm going
to go through and sort of reevaluate my contact lists
where I'm going to put people, and thinking about people
I should probably reach out to just in case, Not
that I think anything bad is going to happen, but
just in case.

Speaker 7 (49:34):
Well, you're exactly right. If you go through your contact
list and say, am I a profitability with this person?
Is there a real tight relationship or am I just
a Am I a credibility or am I just a visibility?

Speaker 5 (49:44):
That really helps determine the kind of communication that you
have with the individual.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
Doctor Meisner, thanks so much for your time today, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (49:51):
It was great talking to you. I'd be happy to
come back anytime.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
All right, thanks so much.

Speaker 4 (49:56):
You know, networking, like I said, struggle, now not as much,
and I found the best way to network is to
simply ask whoever you're talking about themselves, because people love
to talk about themselves and it works really good. And
I've learned very interesting things from interesting.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
People, so it works. It's worked out really well for me.
All Right.

Speaker 4 (50:14):
The second thing that I was going to talk about
in this segment, and we're starting it in this segment,
will probably carry over the next been waiting for it
to happen, and now it.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
Is fully on.

Speaker 4 (50:26):
The Department of Justice has announced that they are suing
Colorado and the city of Denver specifically for their sanctuary laws.
Now we all know you've been listening to the show
for a hot minute. That the Colorado legislature and it's
always Democrats, or I wouldn't say Democrats keep doing this,

(50:48):
Democrats keep doing this. It is Democrats that keep making
these decisions. They've passed multiple laws that are designed specifically
to keep any local law enforcement officers and official from
working with ICE Customs and Enforcement or Immigration Customs Enforcement,
which is ICE. And they prevented jurisdictions who would be

(51:11):
happy to cooperate with the federal government from being able
to do so.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
So.

Speaker 4 (51:15):
The federal government alleges this is from our friends at
Fox thirty one. It is alleged in its lawsuit filed
in Colorado District Court on Friday, that the laws are
designed to quote, interfere with, and discriminate against the federal
government's enforcement of federal immigration law.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
The lawsuit specifically mentions.

Speaker 4 (51:35):
The troubled Aurora apartment complexes that went viral after a
video showing armed men in a stairwell was first reported
on Fox thirty one's Vincente Aarnus. The men in the
video were later connected to Trende Aragua, a Venezuelan gang
that's been publicized during the recent immigration efforts under Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
The lawsuit argues that federal.

Speaker 4 (51:56):
Immigration law pre EMPs state law, has a law that
prevents law enforcement from enforcing federal immigration law, among other things,
and it's been decried by many law enforcement advocates and
at least three members of the US Congress. And it
goes on specifically to talk about the laws that were
passed in very clear detail that are clearly sanctuary state laws,

(52:21):
including this AH House Bill nineteen eleven twenty four, protect
Colorado residents from federal government overreach. It allows law enforcement
to cooperate or assist federal immigration authorities in the execution
of a federal warrant, but prohibits law enforcement from arresting
or detaining individuals based solely on a civil immigration detainer.

(52:45):
It also stops probation officers from giving someone's personal information
to federal immigration authorities. Now, let me point out that
one only has a probation officer if they have violated
the law. Again, in addition to being here illegally, the

(53:06):
measure also ensures that individuals who are to be interviewed
via telephone or video by a federal immigration authority are
informed of their rights.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
And it goes on from there.

Speaker 4 (53:16):
Now, the reason I read you that we are clearly
a sanctuary city in Denver, clearly a sanctuary state in Colorado.
But you have to listen. If you if you're drinking something,
stop because you're going to laugh so hard when you
hear this statement from the governor's office that whatever your
drink is gonna come to shooting out of your nose.

(53:37):
So okay, swallow, Okay, don't not, and you're on your
own because I'm reading it. This is a Colorado Governor's
office spokesperson said this. Colorado is not a sanctuary state.
The State of Colorado works with local, state, and federal
law enforcement regularly, and we value our partnerships with local,

(53:57):
county and federal law enforcement agencies to make Colorado safer.

Speaker 2 (54:01):
If the court say that any Colorado law is not valid.

Speaker 4 (54:05):
Then we will follow the ruling. We are not going
to comment on the merits of the lawsuit. Does anybody
really think we're not a sanctuary state? Guys in the
legislature right now they are trying.

Speaker 2 (54:18):
To pass even more sanctuary state laws, including a state
law that will let a criminal who happens to be
an illegal alien as well rescind a guilty plea in
court after the well after the fact, because it could
affect their immigration status.

Speaker 5 (54:38):
What what.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
You guys? Stop now? I'd love to know from you
guys on the Common.

Speaker 4 (54:48):
Spirit Health text line at five sixty six nine ohero
and you can just coast yes, no or laughing face emojis.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
I don't care. Is Colorado so a sanctuary state in
your opinion?

Speaker 4 (55:04):
Simple question text it to five six six and I
oh back after this, I'm easy to do me two
big fat favors. Number one, go to the Mandy Connel
podcast and make it one of your presets.

Speaker 2 (55:14):
Yeah, they're judging my performance on how many presets I have.

Speaker 4 (55:18):
I'm gonna be perfectly honest. I'm gonna shamelessly ask you
to hook up your favorite.

Speaker 2 (55:22):
Talk show host. But I also would love for you
to follow the podcast as well.

Speaker 4 (55:27):
That way you will get notifications when the new episodes drop.
So do those two things on the absolutely free iHeartRadio
app and it would help me tremendously, and then you'll
never miss a show, which, of course, why would you
want to miss a show? So talking about the fact
that Colorado is now being sued by the Department of
Justice for its sanctuary state policies, and laughably, the governor

(55:53):
and Mayor Mike Johnston.

Speaker 2 (55:55):
Both came out and we're like, nah uh.

Speaker 4 (56:00):
Mayor Mike has this to say, Denver will not be
bullied or blackmailed, least of all by an administration that
has little regard for the law and even less for
the truth. We follow all laws, local, state and federal,
and stand ready to defend our values, and then the governor.
Of course, Colorado is not a sanctuary state, except it is.

(56:23):
If it walks like a duck and it talks like
a duck, it's a sanctuary state, people, He continues. The
state of Colorado works with local, state, and federal law
enforcement regularly.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
Blah blah blah blah blah.

Speaker 4 (56:38):
We're fully so I ask you guys to respond on
the common Spirit health text line. I now have two
hundred text messages showing, and I just breathed through them
really quickly. Not a single person said, no, we are
not a sanctuary state.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
I mean, you guys, you have to be. You'd have
to be blind, deaf and dumb.

Speaker 4 (57:00):
Mandy, how many people are going to the train from
Denver to Craig after they learn.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
It will take twelve hours exactly exactly?

Speaker 4 (57:09):
Ooh, apparently you can't sim laughing emojis. So this person
sent ro O t fl mao exclamation point, exclamation point
idiots in all caps, who sanctuary state? I love that
you've misspelled this texture, and I'm gonna try to beat
you up because it's kind of funny. Sanctity state, sanctity,

(57:31):
nothing says this texture out of police's mouth is true
after the fact, you guys give him any credit outside
of being a total and complete scumbag. Hill bent on
destroying Colorado and later the United States is truly mind bending,
but it does explain why things continue to slide Downhill unchecked.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
Who are you talking about, Texter? Who is this? Who
is this you guys that you're speaking of? Because I
am highly critical of this governor, especially because he won't
come on the show. So what's the point?

Speaker 4 (58:01):
And you know, holding my fire, which is why I'm
making the point here. Yes, Colorado is a blatantly, rapidly,
ridiculously sanctuary state with small pockets of non sanctuary cities
and regions. A blind, deaf mute could see that Colorado
is a sanctuary state, and anyone who can't see that
is either a liar or is lost touch with reality. Yes, Texter,

(58:25):
I'm looking for any No, they're all yes, absolutely, yes, capital, yes,
sanctuary state, yes blank Yes, that's an understatement. Of course,
we're a sanctuary state, especially Denver being a sanctuary city.

Speaker 2 (58:40):
So it's going to be very interesting to watch our government.

Speaker 4 (58:45):
P in the Department of Justice's face and telling him
it's raining that's going to be super fun, super fun. Now,
what I find especially annoying is that Douglas County actually
sued to get out of laws that made it make
it a forced sanctuary county. They want to be able
to participate and help immigration officials. They want to be

(59:09):
able to do these things, Mandy. Funny that the mayor
calls potus lawless when defending a sanctuary city.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
That is very, very funny.

Speaker 4 (59:19):
And to the text through asked earlier, it's long gone
now that we don't have a running total on all
of the lawsuits against Trump.

Speaker 2 (59:27):
Now, most of this is being done by the Attorney General's.

Speaker 4 (59:29):
Office, and I don't know how much they outsource this
kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (59:36):
Now.

Speaker 4 (59:36):
I know that because Phil Wiser is also running for governor,
he wants the camera time, right, he wants the FaceTime.
So but I don't know if the Attorney General's Office
brings an outside council. I don't know about any of
that stuff. So it's a good question to ask, but
I don't think we know the answer. I know that
a lot of is done in house, so there you go. Yeah,

(59:59):
but that is really funn that the mayor uses the
word lawless to describe people who walked off the walked
over the southern border illegally.

Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
Interesting.

Speaker 4 (01:00:11):
One man's lawlessness is another man's freedom fight, Am I right?

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
Mandy?

Speaker 4 (01:00:17):
Colorado has become the armpit of America. I'm sorry to say. Well,
I would tell you go on drive down in New
Mexico and will change your opinion. Okay, because Colorado is
not the armpit of the world, not even close.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
We're not. We're not third worldie, you guys. I mean,
there's there's a there are things that are wrong in Colorado,
but they're all policy decisions and everything that we complain about,
from the roads being crappy to you know, spending forty
five million dollars on people who are here illegally. All
of that stuff is just a consequence of elections.

Speaker 4 (01:00:57):
There's nothing wrong with the state that can't be fixed
if the voters of Colorado decided they really wanted to
fix it. But they're just not there yet. It's not
bad enough, and it should be really, really really sad.
Mandy Johnston should be indicted for harboring illegals. You know,
I do think there are a lot of questions that
still need to be answered by the Johnston administration about

(01:01:18):
the way that they shoveled these people into other cities,
using non governmental organizations NGOs to do it without talking
to the people that they were sending other people to.
During the first administration, Colorado and Denver bragged about how
they were a sanctuary city and state against the evil
federal government. Now they're not proud of it anymore. You

(01:01:39):
are absolutely right, Texter. Remember they hung up the big
immigrants Welcome sign on city all. That was Mayor Michael Hancock.
That wasn't Mayor of Mike Johnston. That was Mayor Michael Hancock.
So yeah, I don't text asking about ah. I don't

(01:02:00):
know what you're trying to say. It makes no sense.
I don't know what that means. Nope, when I went
to Colorado, the road sucked and the people are worse.

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
That's not nice. I live here, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (01:02:13):
Tell us what you don't like about the Land of Entrapment.
I think it's supposed to be the land of enchantment.

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
Is that there there.

Speaker 4 (01:02:22):
I just wasn't dazzled. You guys, was not impressed. They
are pretty parts. Don't get me wrong. Every state has pretty.

Speaker 2 (01:02:29):
Parts, but like Albuquerque, did not dazzle I had a
great time, got.

Speaker 4 (01:02:36):
To spend time with my family, and I actually enjoyed
the time we spent in Albuquerque. But as we were leaving,
I was like, great, check Mark, don't have to do
that again, cause nope, absolutely not. All right, you guys,
we are going to move on to something different because
this is going to be comical to watch, but there's

(01:02:56):
nothing really.

Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
To say about it.

Speaker 4 (01:02:58):
The Department of Justice is like, hey, if you guys
are a sanctuary state, and our state basically went nah.
So we're just gonna have to see how this plays
out in the courts. I for one, am really fascinated
to find out about it. Hey, coming up at two thirty,
I've got this whipper snapper economist guy coming on. He's

(01:03:18):
part of a team that wrote a really interesting study
about how much of our tabor refunds have been looted
by the Democrats.

Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
And so that's coming up to two thirty. You might
have heard of him.

Speaker 4 (01:03:29):
I think his last name is pronounced Kaminski. First name
like Rory something Ross.

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
Yeah, Ross. That that's it. That's absolutely it.

Speaker 4 (01:03:41):
Now, A couple things have come out of the legislative
session that we should pay attention to.

Speaker 2 (01:03:45):
We're about to.

Speaker 4 (01:03:46):
One of them is that every school district has to
have a cell phone policy. We're going to talk about
that next. And if you've been worried about the new
labor bill that is being bandied about, you might be
able to take a sigh of relief. Maybe we'll talk
about all that next. This just happened on X and
I think it's kind of interesting. So if you don't

(01:04:06):
follow me on X, you should, because I share the
best information on X with you follow me at Mandy
Connell on X.

Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
But I shared something earlier that is by a guy
that I follow. He is in Israel.

Speaker 4 (01:04:20):
He really posts very good stuff though, really really good stuff,
And today he posted a long thread called the Truth
about Gaza and it is well worth your time.

Speaker 2 (01:04:32):
And as a matter of I mean it's kind of long.
It's too long for me to read.

Speaker 4 (01:04:35):
But it's the history of the Gaza Strip in Israel,
and it starts out in two thousand and five when
Israel forcibly removed in many cases, eight thousand Israelis who
were living in the Gaza Strip so that the Gaza
Strip would be fully Palestinian controlled, Palestinian, no no Jews
living in the Gaza strip and when they left, they

(01:04:59):
left infrastructure, they left greenhouses, they left farms.

Speaker 2 (01:05:02):
They left you know, all kinds of stuff behind that
could have helped the Palestinian people feed themselves, become foods,
you know, sufficient.

Speaker 4 (01:05:12):
There was lots of stuff that was left behind, and
Israel forcibly removed, sometimes physically pulling people out of homes
that their families had lived in for decades, okay, in
order to appease the Palestinian people. And then it goes
on to talk about how Gaza. Two years later, Hamas
took over in a violent twue. They threw Fetah officials

(01:05:36):
off rooftops, they executed rivals in the streets, and they
silenced any hope of democracy.

Speaker 2 (01:05:42):
Hamas didn't build a state. They came to build a
base of jihad.

Speaker 4 (01:05:47):
Since taking over, Hamas has launched over twenty thousand rockets
at Israeli citizens. They don't aim at military targets, they
aim at cities and schools. And it goes on from there,
tells the story by the way of what happened those
greenhouses that were left behind.

Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
You really should look at those photos.

Speaker 4 (01:06:02):
But I post this, and I posted it with a
very simple I wish the idiot college kids being fed
propaganda by their professors would read this. And someone responded
and said, do you think calling them idiots will encourage
them to read the article?

Speaker 2 (01:06:16):
Let's treat people with respect and maybe people.

Speaker 4 (01:06:19):
Will be more willing to listen to differing thoughts and opinions,
to which I just responded. The kids running around shouting
into Frauda are idiots, full stop. They don't know what
they're shouting for, and they do it anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:06:33):
Idiots.

Speaker 4 (01:06:36):
I stand by what I said, and I believe it
to be true. And if you want to know more
about the history of the Gaza strip, and you want
to know more about what Israel has done to bend
over backwards to create a space for the Palestinian people
in the hopes that they could live in peace.

Speaker 2 (01:06:55):
But no, you don't get to do that, not with
a moss in charge, with a moss.

Speaker 1 (01:07:02):
So that just.

Speaker 4 (01:07:06):
Sort of irritated, because, you guys, if you cannot call
an idiot an idiot, do idiots even exist? The notion
that somehow we should not be able to tell someone
they are an idiot when they are is ridiculous. I
don't think there's anything wrong with telling an idiot you're
an idiot. That's an idiotic thing to believe. It's an
idiotic thing to think. I feel this way about the

(01:07:28):
people who are stuck in this Bird's aren't real group,
or the flat earthers.

Speaker 2 (01:07:32):
You're an idiot, but you do you right? I mean,
a free society means people have the right to be idiots.
A free society means people have the right to say
horrible things and call other people horrible names and even
call them the wrong pronouns. That's what a free society is.

(01:07:57):
I'm so tired of this.

Speaker 4 (01:07:58):
We you know, don't get me wrong, there are situations
where we need to be kinder to other people. But
if someone comes up to me and says the expresses
their belief system that they are inherently superior to other
people because they are white, I'm going to look at
them and say, you're an idiot. Why would you choose
that to hag your hat on. It's just a dumb

(01:08:19):
thing to believe, So why would I pull any punches
with this?

Speaker 3 (01:08:23):
Now?

Speaker 4 (01:08:23):
If somebody comes to me and says, I'd like to
understand more about the Israeli gas of conflict, and right now,
I'm sympathetic to the Palestinians, but I'd like to have
a conversation about it. That person's not an idiot. And
by the way, I may not change their mind at
the end of that conversation. They aren't going to change
my mind. But we should be able to have a
conversation about it. But if people are calling out loud

(01:08:45):
for the death of an entire race of people while
claiming genocide for a population that has only exploded under
the quote genocidal regime of the Israelis, that's idiot behavior, man.
And if you can't say someone's an idiot when they're
really being an idiot, then there's no idiots ever. And
you all know, just go through your day and you

(01:09:09):
will run into more idiots than you care to run into.

Speaker 2 (01:09:12):
Now most of them.

Speaker 4 (01:09:13):
I hope you would just think to yourself, bless their heart.
That person is an idiot. They're going to go through
life being an idiot.

Speaker 2 (01:09:20):
They may or may not know it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:23):
Well.

Speaker 4 (01:09:23):
When someone's being a dangerous idiot, I think it's incumbent
on us to call them out. Holocaust deniers idiots, Andrew
Tate idiot. We should be able to call the idiots
the idiots people, and I will not back down from that,
that privilege of being able to recognize an idiot and
call an idiot out all in one fell swoop. Okay,

(01:09:45):
we're now on the other side of this break, going
to get into three stories.

Speaker 3 (01:09:51):
One.

Speaker 2 (01:09:52):
We talked about it.

Speaker 4 (01:09:53):
When it first came up, but it's been kind of
being discussed behind clo closed doors right now as labor
unions who really want to make it super easy to
force people to pay dues to them even if they
don't want to, and business interests who really don't want
to make it easier to unionize in the workplace have
been trying to come to some kind of compromise. But

(01:10:14):
it looks like there is no compromise, which is bad
news for the unions, good news for labor because it
looks like Jared pulis navy too this thing. And we're
also going to talk about now cell phone policies for
high schools are required all schools actually, and I'm taking
chuckbeat Colorado to task along with all the other media.

Speaker 2 (01:10:35):
Keep using the words books banned, removing a book that
is not appropriate for children from a school library. It's
not a band, They're not burning copies in the streets.
Talk about all that.

Speaker 8 (01:10:51):
Next.

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Speaker 4 (01:11:21):
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Speaker 2 (01:11:28):
Anyway, I'm just gonna do a third hour one. I
was giving you a chance. I pause, dramatically, be generous,
left me hanging there. You know whatever, it's one. Yeah,
you know, I try to limit it to one. That
guy he keeps texting about how much he hates the airhorn.
There's like one guy. He really hates the airhorns.

Speaker 6 (01:11:44):
I mean, I will say, if we're on record, everyone,
almost everyone we see in person.

Speaker 2 (01:11:48):
Correct loves it. Yep, they all love war. They hate
it and in person they realize they just can't hate
my face.

Speaker 6 (01:11:56):
Which is also possible that Yeah, that was the time
out in public dressed up and looking nice and.

Speaker 2 (01:12:03):
They think, wow, he looks like a nice guy.

Speaker 5 (01:12:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:12:06):
On the blog today at mandy'sblog dot com, which.

Speaker 4 (01:12:08):
You should look at, you can go and see my
favorite margarita recipe from the Numero Uno Beach Hotel in
San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Speaker 2 (01:12:18):
Loved it. It was so good, it was so perfect
because it is sinco demayo.

Speaker 4 (01:12:22):
In the meantime that we got three things legislative that
we need to talk about really quickly. One is that
Governor Polis, if he's true to his word, will be
he will be vetoing the Labor Bill, the labor bill
that would have upended the Labor Peace Act. For a

(01:12:42):
few months now, union and business leaders have been negotiating
about this and they have come to an impasse and
it is, you know, it is rapidly becoming a parent
that they're not going to come to a compromise. And

(01:13:02):
the governor is pretty much said, I'm not going to
pass this or I'm going to veto this bill if
it comes to my desk. As it is, they're sending
it to his. Well, they're probably going to send it
to his desk. It is back on the floor to
be voted on. They're only five days left in the session,
thank god. But if this moves forward, I fully expect
that he will go ahead and veto that which would
be good because he's now had two vetos this legislative session.

(01:13:26):
Both have survived any attempt to override them. They finally
just gave up on trying to override them because it
was rapidly apparent it was not going to happen. So
that's good news if you're a business owner, and a
good news if you're a person in a skilled trade
or some that is part of a union that doesn't
like the union and doesn't want to pay dues.

Speaker 2 (01:13:46):
You should not have to put money towards the union
if you don't want to.

Speaker 4 (01:13:50):
And my thought is is that if you don't have
your contract negotiate about the union, then you should be
able to negotiate your own right if you don't pay
money to them. But boy, the unions don't want to
give that is that would undermine everything. Let's talk for
a second about cell phone policies. I've been very open
on this program, and I am the mother of a
high school student in Colorado, so I have the same

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concerns about safety as everybody else, but I also have
more concerns about the mental health of students and their
learning abilities in school. As long as cell phones are
a constant presence. I am in favor of a cell
phone ban during class time, in between and at lunch,
like your cell phone stays in your locker the entire day.

(01:14:36):
And for all of you who are about to text
me about school shootings, if you read half the research
that I have read about the damage that excessive cell
phone usage does to the mental health of teenagers, you
would be ashamed of yourself for putting your own fears
ahead of the mental health of kids, because that's what

(01:14:56):
we're talking about here.

Speaker 2 (01:14:58):
Not to mention is rampant. I have a friend who.

Speaker 4 (01:15:04):
Does not teach at one of the no I guess
she does now. She teaches at a school in.

Speaker 2 (01:15:08):
Orange County, Florida.

Speaker 4 (01:15:09):
They did away with cell phones in class, and she
said it has been a dynamic change where students are
talking to one another again, friendships are blossoming, kids are
talking at lunch instead of being on their cell phones. Now,
this bill that just passed does not do any of that.
To be clear, this bill simply requires every school district

(01:15:31):
to have a written cell phone policy. You have to
have some kind of framework on the books as a district,
and every district has the right to do whatever they want.

Speaker 2 (01:15:42):
With cell phone policies, so we shall see how that
works out.

Speaker 4 (01:15:47):
A couple of people have didn't Dave lower hate the error?
Did Dave hate the airhorn? I don't know, but Dave
hated everything that is true. Yeah, question on the cell
phone thing, is it not possible? So, like when you're
at work or like you're in the airport WiFi.

Speaker 6 (01:16:04):
Is it not possible when it comes to cell phones
to have every kid's phone connect to the school's WiFi
that blocks out the sites that they don't want.

Speaker 4 (01:16:11):
Well, were kids are using VPNs. There's so many ways
around that that it's just not and it's still a distraction.
That's the problem, you know what I mean, it's the
distraction that those cell phones create for the students.

Speaker 2 (01:16:29):
I'm not one of those people that's like, your student's
bothering my student. I'm not that kind.

Speaker 4 (01:16:33):
But these students are being pinged hundreds of times a
day with notifications and snapchat and everything else.

Speaker 2 (01:16:40):
It's a huge distraction. And unfortunately, we're sort of.

Speaker 4 (01:16:44):
At a really serious crossroads with our educational system. We
have far too many young people graduating from high school
that cannot read and write. I just read an article
about a woman who has a organization and I cannot.
It wasn't local to Colorado, but it was something that
I thought, if that organization existed here, I would want

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to volunteer with that organization. And it teaches adults how
to read. And she's got people that.

Speaker 2 (01:17:11):
Are coming to her. One woman came to her.

Speaker 4 (01:17:12):
She has three kids in college, and she said, I
don't read very well. I think I'm probably at a
third grade level. She was more at a first grade level.

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
She's like forty five. So in teaching this person to read,
you're basically opening the world up to them.

Speaker 4 (01:17:27):
And we've got too much going on in school that
is distracting from the core instructional needs of just teaching
kids how to read, how to write, how to do math,
how to be ready for the next step in life.
Because we are failing them and failing them badly.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
Holy cow.

Speaker 6 (01:17:44):
Some sort of an emergency alternative, then, I don't know
if it's a ristband. Every single classroom has a certain
thing to ease that thought of not having a phone,
not having the ability to, you know, in the worst
case scenario, alert everyone that something's.

Speaker 2 (01:17:59):
Going Yeah, but here's the thing.

Speaker 4 (01:18:01):
Every emergency management organization has said cell phone calls, all
the cell phones start flying at one time, it just
makes everything worse because then bad information is getting out.
The parents are freaking out. I mean, it's don't get
me wrong, if if my daughter was ever in that situation,
I in my heart, I want her to be able
to contact me. But even in Colorado, statistically that is

(01:18:23):
so unlikely to happen. It's so unlikely. And we know
that these these the cell phones are creating a huge problem.
And this texture just said, Mandy, they banned them and
d eleven in the springs. My high school son grudgingly admitted,
it's better. Banning cell phones is the best thing our
district ever did for the kids, says this text her.

(01:18:44):
So it's like, you know, I know it's hard, I know,
but we've got to put the what's right for the kids.
That's got to be the thing that we are talking about.

Speaker 2 (01:18:55):
And kids having cell phones in school does not make
any part of their edge educational experience better.

Speaker 4 (01:19:03):
It doesn't make their learning better. It just makes parents
feel better, and that is being very selfish. Having a
phone in a school shooting only clogs up the line.
So emergency personnel cannot talk to each other. It's not
a net benefit, says this texter. So you know, I agree,
But now every school district can make that choice. They're

(01:19:25):
going to have to make that choice, but at least
it can kick off the conversation, and I think that
is a really, really good thing. Can I just have
a moment to talk about how great my dentist is.

Speaker 2 (01:19:34):
This is not even a.

Speaker 4 (01:19:35):
Commercial, it's a news story I have on my blogyday,
not about my dentists specifically, but if you've heard my
running Credental commercials, you hear me talking about the fact
that doctor O'Neil talks about how what happens in your
mouth has a direct impact on your entire body because
it's essentially the beginning of a big long tube. I
don't need to tell you where the other end of

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the tube comes out, but it's a big long tube
and it just carries everything through your b body.

Speaker 2 (01:20:00):
Well, listen to this. Let me that study. A growing
body of evidence shows.

Speaker 4 (01:20:07):
A significant link between poor dental hygiene and cardiovascular health.
Gum disease and oral infections can trigger inflammation that allows
harmful bacteria into the bloodstream, and in severe cases, can
even lead to direct infection of heart tissue.

Speaker 2 (01:20:24):
Together, those effects.

Speaker 4 (01:20:26):
Can contribute to serious, sometimes life threatening cardiovascular conditions. At
the center of this connection lies periodontist wait, not periodontist
period periodontitis. Periodontitis a severe form of gum disease, and
that's caused by long term plaque build up and bad

(01:20:47):
oral hygiene and not going to the dentist. Left untreated,
the plaque irritates into flames the gum tissue. It causes
them to recede and deteriorate. The breakdown lets more bacteria
in et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Once in the bloodstream,
certain bacteria can attach to the endothelium, the inner lining
of blood vessels. This disrupts the vascular barrier, making it

(01:21:10):
easier for infection to spread throughout the body, including the
vital organs. In extreme cases, this can lead to organ
failure or even death. Now I'm not telling you if
you're the parents of a young kid who doesn't like
to brush their teeth, because I have news for you.
If your parents have a young kid who doesn't like

(01:21:31):
to brush his or her teeth, no kid likes to
brush his or her teeth. Yeah, oh yeah, none of them.
Nobody's kid can't wait to go in and brush their teeth.
But now you have another terrifying statistic to get them
to yield to your will and actually brush their teeth properly.
Oh yeah, you want to get a bug that's going

(01:21:52):
to eat your heart and your organs.

Speaker 2 (01:21:54):
Are going to fail. Yeah yeah, you want a stide
a king storm. It's gonna take out because you don't
brush your teeth.

Speaker 4 (01:22:01):
Kiddo, It's not about cavities anymore. Cavities are too easy
to fill.

Speaker 2 (01:22:07):
When I was a kid, Back when I was a kid,
getting a cavity was a big deal because getting a
cavity filled was Oh it was a nightmare. He had
to get your face all numbed up. Oh horrible.

Speaker 4 (01:22:19):
I hate novacane, I hope. I hate the after effects
of novaca. I just hate everything about novacane. Now these days,
I mean doctor O'Neal. He can fill cavities without even novacane.
He uses like this laser thing he has.

Speaker 2 (01:22:32):
There's no pain. I'm like, ah, you kids have it
too easy. Now you can threaten him with a heart attack,
be like, I don't think it's gonna happen today or tomorrow.
But I feel a heart attack in your future if
you don't brush your teeth. I know that I'm going
to be using this on my grandson's because that's the
terrifying kind of grandmother that I am. I'm going to
give you the absolute worst case scenario.

Speaker 5 (01:22:56):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (01:22:57):
Hey, another fun sciencey story right now, because up at
two thirty, I've got this fellow from the Common Sense
Institute about a new study they did about how our
Tabor refunds have been absolutely gutted something. If you listen
to this program, you already knew about. But when you
hear the number, wait till you hear the number. But
this note, this story's fun. So remember how when al

(01:23:21):
Gore did an Inconvenient truth and then we were all
going to be dead by now and the world was
going to be covered with the ocean because an article
was going to melt and there'd be no ice at
the Arctic, and YadA, YadA, YadA.

Speaker 2 (01:23:30):
Et cetera, et cetera. Hey, funny story.

Speaker 4 (01:23:34):
A study published this week in Science China Earth Sciences
finds that the Arctic Antarctic Ice Sheet, or the AIS
as it's known experienced a record breaking mass gain between
twenty twenty one and twenty twenty three, largely due to
anomalist increases in precipitation. The rebound is expressive, especially significant

(01:24:00):
in East Antarctica. In let me try that again, East Antarctica,
where four major glacier basins had previously shown signs of destabilization.

Speaker 2 (01:24:11):
Oh yeah, uh the big picture.

Speaker 4 (01:24:15):
Researchers from Tungji University and other institutions analyzed soundll like gravimetry, gravimetry, gravimetry, ayron.

Speaker 2 (01:24:24):
How do I say this? G r A V I
me E t.

Speaker 4 (01:24:29):
Ry gravimetry or gravin metric grevimetry sounds better, I think.

Speaker 2 (01:24:36):
Let me check grevimetry. Let's see it's gonna pull it up.

Speaker 4 (01:24:41):
We'll find out in a second graphymetry grab imatry, not
that I know what that is, but the analyze sounded
like gravimetry data, and they found that between twenty eleven
and twenty twenty, the AIS was losing ice at a
rate of one hundred and forty two gigatons per year.

Speaker 2 (01:24:59):
But between twenty two, twenty one and twenty twenty three
the trend reversed, with the ice sheet gaining approximately one
hundred and eight gigatons per year.

Speaker 4 (01:25:08):
A historic turnaround. You know what's funny about them saying
a historic turnaround? How long have we really been able
to measure this stuff like a hot minute? I mean,
it's only been fifty years since we've had satellites.

Speaker 2 (01:25:21):
But it's record breaking.

Speaker 4 (01:25:23):
But I'll take it because it's record breaking in the
other direction. Weird How this all happened as CO two
levels continue to get higher?

Speaker 2 (01:25:33):
Weird, isn't it? Why is Ross on my show at
two thirty? You might ask.

Speaker 4 (01:25:37):
Yourself, texters, listeners, whatever, Well, Ross, he's now moonlighting. He's
got more jobs than a Jamaican in New York who
works at a seven eleven and fourteen other places.

Speaker 2 (01:25:48):
I need the money.

Speaker 4 (01:25:49):
Yeah, And now he is moonlighting at our friends, the
Common Sense Institute, and he and a fellow named Eric
Gamm are under a headline a byline here that says
experts in big black, bold letters, and then there's Ross's
picture right under that.

Speaker 2 (01:26:04):
Eric's much smarter than I am. That's why they gave
him first billing. I'm assuming and every we want to
say it veron he did. Eric did most of the
work on this on this report about well, the.

Speaker 8 (01:26:13):
Title kind of speaks for himself, the legislative assault on TABOR,
how Colorado lawmakers are rewriting the rules.

Speaker 2 (01:26:20):
Yeah, I mean not that this is a surprise, because
I know you've talked about it.

Speaker 4 (01:26:23):
I've talked about it endlessly, endlessly every year the legislative session.
At the end, I'm like, guess what, your table refund
just got even smaller. The number that you put in
here for the average per filer, I think is kind
of shocking.

Speaker 2 (01:26:40):
Which one is that there's a thousand numbers. From fiscal year.

Speaker 4 (01:26:43):
Twenty twenty one to twenty twenty five, state legislation has
reduced table refines by more than two point three billion dollars,
which is an average, yeah, of seven hundred and thirty six.

Speaker 2 (01:26:57):
Dollars per filer.

Speaker 8 (01:26:58):
Yeah, I mean what they do color So, I think
most people know TABOR taxpayer bill are right, yep. And
I think lots of people think that TABOR serves a
very useful function of preventing the government of Colorado turning
into a behemoth that is at least proportionally like the
government in California or Illinois or places like that that

(01:27:21):
are school yeah, basket cases, right, And so the concept
is that the state is allowed to take in an
amount of revenue that unless the baseline is reset, is
however much they had last year, plus inflation and population growth.

Speaker 2 (01:27:41):
And actually in recent years.

Speaker 8 (01:27:43):
Inflation and population growth have both been big numbers, though
not always in the same year because the years where
we had the huge inflation sort of COVID and not
as much people were moving in.

Speaker 2 (01:27:52):
But the government just keeps growing and growing, growing.

Speaker 8 (01:27:54):
But still there are limits, and especially what happened in
like twenty twenty three timeframe when you had all this
this money filtering through the system from the helicopter money
that the both administrations did during COVID, that ends up
showing up in the tax receipts.

Speaker 2 (01:28:11):
Right.

Speaker 8 (01:28:11):
People spent lots of money, People sat around shopping, people
got all you know.

Speaker 4 (01:28:15):
Yeah, they got their semi checks, which we both said
they were going to drive inflation that would more than
eat up the stemmy check. I just wanted to take
a victory lap on that really quick, since we're sitting
here right, because it did exactly what we I thought
it was going to do, which is drive up inflation
and whatever those Stimmi checks were was just insignificant.

Speaker 8 (01:28:32):
Well, the other thing that they were is borrowing against
Q's future and against my kid's futures. And it's just
buying votes of today's voters with our children's futures.

Speaker 2 (01:28:45):
But anyway, here in Colorado, right.

Speaker 8 (01:28:48):
They couldn't keep all that money that was kind of
flowing through in taxes from all the Stimmi checks, So
they had to give it back, and they did lots
and lots and lots of things to try to reduce that,
either on a temporary basis or on a permanent and
there were two years in a row where they gave
everybody the same refund, even though that sort of turns
it into income redistribution rather.

Speaker 2 (01:29:07):
Than it's supposed to be. That ross You and I
should have led a lawsuit to just sue over that.

Speaker 8 (01:29:11):
We wouldn't have won it signed in the taxpayer Bill
of rights. How they have to give it back.

Speaker 4 (01:29:14):
Well, ultimately, if we made it to the Colorado Supreme Court,
they would rule against us anyway, because they're all about the.

Speaker 2 (01:29:19):
Big state there.

Speaker 8 (01:29:20):
Yeah, and so I think an important thing to keep
in mind is that they've passed when I say they
democrats in the state legislature have passed and Governor Polis
has signed in the last several years lots of laws
that where they assign certain expenses this or that new
project and assign it all in a way that it

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just reduces the TABOR refunds.

Speaker 2 (01:29:43):
And the biggest one was the family thing.

Speaker 4 (01:29:45):
Yeah, let me say it like this. They are taking
your tax refund and that's what TABOR is. It is
a refund of money that you have overpaid to the
state and they are taking that money. That is your money,
and they have decided to give it to some other
entity that they like better than you. That's that's the
only way to look at it.

Speaker 8 (01:30:04):
The biggest one was last year they called it the
Family Affordability Tax Credit, and that basically just hands money
to people who have kids sixteen or under.

Speaker 2 (01:30:14):
That amount is expected to was expected.

Speaker 8 (01:30:18):
To reduce state revenue, meaning the table refunds just that
one by a billion dollars in this past year, a
billion dollars that won't come back to us. And it
they could have done it some other way where it
wouldn't be exempt from TABOR, but they want all your money.

(01:30:38):
And I will say also, you know, Governor Polis. Governor
Polis does argue consistently for reducing the state income tax
rate or even eliminating it, but at the same time
he hates the Tabor refund and he will and has
gone along with every possible mechanism of stealing our reforce.

Speaker 2 (01:30:59):
Well, that's because going to get the refund down to
zero and say why do we need this law? Exactly right,
wrong with this law and you're not getting a refund back.
We should just do away with this.

Speaker 4 (01:31:07):
Just bookkeeping, Just bookkeeping, That's exactly what they're trying to do.

Speaker 2 (01:31:12):
Yeah, and a lot of these changes are permanent. It
wasn't just one year we're going to lower it. These
are permanent things.

Speaker 8 (01:31:17):
That have the effect, the intent and effect, like you said,
of lowering it forever. Now you're not always going to
In recent years, we've gotten table refunds often because of
all the stuff going on, most years there's little or
no Tabor refund.

Speaker 4 (01:31:31):
So this is my question about that. So are the
programs that they're now shoveling the table refunds? Are they ongoing,
are they recurring? Are there set amounts that have to
be paid for, or are they going to go down
as well?

Speaker 2 (01:31:42):
So it depends on the program. Right. And a good
example of this is the free school lunch thing, right right.
I know exactly, yes, I hurt myself them. She rolled
them so hard I could hear it.

Speaker 8 (01:31:54):
Yeah, and listeners know this are we Every state already
has a program where kids in low income families get
free lunch, sometimes free.

Speaker 2 (01:32:01):
Breakfast, and it's fine.

Speaker 3 (01:32:03):
Right.

Speaker 8 (01:32:03):
So they decided, they democrats and the legislature decided they
wanted free lunch for everybody. They wanted free lunch for
the kid at Cherry Creek High School who drives a
BMW disco correct, right. And this was so dumb that
they didn't even have tried to pass it in the
legislature because they knew Polis wouldn't sign it. So they
sent it to the voters, and the voters passed it.

(01:32:25):
But now, just to get to your question, it's running
out of money because, oh my gosh, more people want
the free stuff than they predicted.

Speaker 4 (01:32:32):
The other part about that school lunch thing is the
kids are required to take X amount of things to
get the free lunch. So you have to take vegetables,
you won't eat fruit, you won't eat whatever. You have
to take it all on your tray. So the amount
of pure food waste that is going on. So kids
can take advantage of the free lunch, they have to

(01:32:52):
take more food than they would normally.

Speaker 2 (01:32:54):
It's just the most idiotic thing.

Speaker 4 (01:32:56):
The other question I have about that program that I
just thought of, Yeah, in Florida, we got into a
situation where my son forgot his lunch money at school
two days in a row. We had given it to him,
he just left it on his dresser and they tried
to sign it for the free lunch program. And I
had to hear the school and be like, no, because
they get more money.

Speaker 2 (01:33:14):
If kids are on the school lunch program. Yeah, I
don't know how does that work in Colorado. I don't
know the answer to that.

Speaker 8 (01:33:20):
But what I do know is, just like with the
free babysitting that they call pre K, they intentionally misunderestimated
my favorite push ism and they intentionally miss under I think,
intentionally understated how many people want the free stuff. Every
there's always me more people who want the free stuff.
But to get back to your previous question, now, this
program is running out of money and they're either going

(01:33:42):
to have to kind of stop it in the middle
of the year next year, or there's actually two ballot
measures they're going to be showing up for us to
vote on to further attack what little tax deduction remains for.

Speaker 2 (01:33:55):
People who are earning over three hundred k in this year. Basically,
they're coming back to read us more, not us. I mean,
I'm not over that.

Speaker 8 (01:34:01):
Number, but they're coming back to raid people more for this,
for this funding, because it's never enough. There is a
little bit of good news. Please, there's a little bit
of good news. So we mentioned in this report. By
the way, folks, if you go to common Sense Institute
US dot org or just go to the Google machine
and type in common Sense Institute, you'll see right on

(01:34:23):
the front page this report on the legislative assault dot com.

Speaker 4 (01:34:28):
Well, not the whole thing. I put a link on
the blog today so you can find it as well.

Speaker 8 (01:34:31):
That's the that's the most badass place it's been like.
That's the better way. Yes, okay, you can go to
Mandy's that is, it's actually easier. You go to Mandy's
blog dot com. Okay, so you one thing you will
note in the report, and Mandy and I have both
talked about on our shows, is this resolution at the
state legislature to require the attorneys who work for the

(01:34:53):
state legislature to sue to overturn parts of TABOR is unconstitutional.
And the the good news is because the legislative session
ends in two days and they've got a lot of
other stuff they're trying to get done that they won't
get done. This thing will will probably not even get
a vote and it will likely not pass. The resolution

(01:35:15):
will likely not pass, So we'll be off up for
a year until they come back.

Speaker 2 (01:35:19):
Back again and again.

Speaker 4 (01:35:20):
The problem is is this is yet another example, and
in this case it's Colorado Democrats, so putting themselves firmly
on the wrong side of what the issue is. This
is a very popular program. TABOR is extremely popular. Yeah,
and I think I just got a text saying, yeah,
I got a whopping one hundred and thirty three dollars
table refund this year.

Speaker 8 (01:35:39):
Well, the TABOR refunds are done in trunsches. I think
it's six. I could be wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:35:46):
And basically the idea is it's.

Speaker 8 (01:35:49):
A tax refund that's supposed to be roughly proportional to
about how much you probably paid an income tax and
sales tax, and it's way too much work to go
through and just calculate it for everybody. So they just say, Okay,
if you're in this range of income, you get this amount.
This range of income, you get this amount. For a
couple of years they gave everybody the same. But the
bottom line is if somebody is getting you know, one

(01:36:10):
hundred and whatever dollars in table refund, then they're probably
maybe in the lowest or second lowest income bracket.

Speaker 5 (01:36:17):
Right And you know what, so be it.

Speaker 8 (01:36:20):
I mean, tax refunds and tax cuts should go to
the people who paid the taxes. It shouldn't be income redistribution.

Speaker 2 (01:36:27):
Yeah, and it always is.

Speaker 4 (01:36:28):
It always is, Mayby, It's never stupidity. It's designed to
launder money somehow. I wish we had a government agency
to look into that stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:36:36):
It would be nice, it would be very nice.

Speaker 4 (01:36:38):
I fear that we are too far down this rabbit
hole because let's just say in it, we wave a
magic wand and Republicans or libertarians take over the legislature
in the next legislative session.

Speaker 2 (01:36:49):
This is not going to happen, by the way, so
just go with it. There are now too many programs
that if they try and roll them back, it's going
to be Republicans are taking money away from the poor.

Speaker 4 (01:37:01):
And they they've shoveled it to projects that are easy
to demagogue against, right. And if you try and take
these programs back, now you're the rich, evil Republican who's
coming after poor people because you don't want rich people
to pay. I mean, I can already see it. Not
that that's going to happen. I think the writing is
on the wall. I think the tabor's on its way out.

Speaker 8 (01:37:21):
So I think that they've done so much to reduce
the amount of TABOR refunds through all this stuff we've
been talking about that that part of.

Speaker 2 (01:37:31):
It is almost irrelevant already.

Speaker 8 (01:37:34):
The real question then is well they try to take
out the rest where there needs to be voter approval
for tax increases, although they've worked around.

Speaker 2 (01:37:44):
That already so much with their fees. Yeah, that'll right.

Speaker 8 (01:37:47):
You got all these taxes that are called fees now
so they don't have to apply, and you've got a
ridiculous state Supreme Court that's basically a branch of the
Democrats in the state legislature that let.

Speaker 2 (01:37:58):
Them do anything they want.

Speaker 8 (01:37:59):
I agree with you, this part is almost a dead
letter because they've done so much to attack it.

Speaker 4 (01:38:07):
So I mean, other than completely change up the what's
just got a very foul.

Speaker 2 (01:38:15):
Text message, we'll move on. I So you think, as
I do, that this is just this is just the
we're watching the endgame play out. I just I don't
see enough political wins in this state to change the
direction that we're going now with Taber. The only hope
would be is that if you can convince voters to
keep those spending levers in place, even if they never

(01:38:38):
actually end up with a with another actual refund, because
they do control the.

Speaker 4 (01:38:44):
Size of government. You know, and a ross I talked
about it. This is on my show not too long ago,
before I got to Colorado. Like, I'm in Florida for
the crash of two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine.
It is devastating to where I live, Southwest Florida. The
Fort Myers and Naples housing market was number one in
foreclosures per capita for two years during that time period.

(01:39:04):
It devastated the economy there. I mean, there's not strong
enough words. Businesses were going out of business every day.
It was like the Great Depression in Southwest Florida.

Speaker 2 (01:39:13):
So I'm a talk show host. I'm looking around the
country two thousand and.

Speaker 4 (01:39:16):
Nine, twenty ten. I'm paying attention to what states are
recovering the fastest. Colorado was at the top of the list,
and I firmly believe that's because of the taper limitations
on government during that period. They did not have the
luxury to go out and give away money, spend a
bunch of money they didn't have. They had to work
within their means. It was a great system, and I

(01:39:37):
always thought that is amazing. Every state needs that, And
now it's all going to be thrown away in five years.

Speaker 8 (01:39:43):
That's all correct. The other thing I would add, I
wouldn't contradict any of that. What I would add is
at that time, when you were looking at it, we
already had some influx of Californians, but not enough to
massively change the character of the state.

Speaker 2 (01:39:58):
You know, the way it is now change character a
little bit, right.

Speaker 8 (01:40:01):
But I when I moved to Colorado in early oh four,
we had a Republican governor, right, and until fairly recently,
Republicans typically controlled one chamber of the state legislature.

Speaker 2 (01:40:15):
We never had another Republican governor after Bill Owens.

Speaker 8 (01:40:18):
But you had Republicans control in the state Senate and
and Democrats couldn't get away with all this. But now
it's just it's one party control. And I agree with
you that I don't see what's gonna stop it or
turn it around. And it's and it's very disappointing. And
I feel the same way you do. I I I

(01:40:38):
always felt, I always felt beyond confident that I would
retire in this state. Now I'm I'm it's going to
be too expensive. Now I'm less confident. And you and
I have had these private conversations. I still might retire
in this state, but I'm.

Speaker 4 (01:40:56):
All of the checks that are being written right now
are gonna come do, and they're going to come do
in the future, the near future, because the growth of government,
the sheer size that has been added to the government
in the last six years, is going to create massive
cost issues and the taxpayers are going to have to
fit the bill.

Speaker 2 (01:41:14):
That's just a reality.

Speaker 8 (01:41:15):
It's true, and it's showing up not just in this
Tabor thing, but in all kinds of other statistics as
Colorado is plunging on the list of business, environment, environment regulation,
all this sort of thing. And I think part of
it is. The other thing we're seeing is far fewer
people moving to Colorado than before. That might be a
self limiting thing as real estate prices get so high

(01:41:37):
and traffic gets so bad.

Speaker 4 (01:41:38):
But Ross, I just sold a friend of mine. He
was up for a really great job out here. I said,
before you accept this position, you need to search the
housing market. You need to understand that the cost of
living in Colorado is way hot, like maybe a quarter
more than what you're paying now. He did a little
investigating and turned down the job. When offered, He's like,
I forget that, I'm not doing it. And then he

(01:41:58):
found out we had income tax, and he was like, nope,
im and I'll give you one other. It's sort of
a small thing, and not that small.

Speaker 2 (01:42:05):
Right.

Speaker 8 (01:42:06):
So we've got now, as of the past year and
a half or so, this this bill for paid family leave,
and that's a state payroll tax that almost almost certainly
will not be enough. And in the law, the dude
who runs it can just raise the tax. Now, we
can't raise it an unlimited amount, but right now the
employee and employee are each paying point four.

Speaker 2 (01:42:27):
Percent or point four to five. It's going to go
up and up and up.

Speaker 8 (01:42:30):
So there's just all these extra fees and taxes as
as as we have one party control.

Speaker 2 (01:42:36):
But I don't think it's going to get better. I
don't either.

Speaker 4 (01:42:38):
I think it's gonna get a lot worse before it
gets better. And on this bright note, now it's time
for the most exciting segment on the radio.

Speaker 2 (01:42:45):
On It's gone, you yell in the world, in the
world that my voice?

Speaker 4 (01:42:54):
Oh boy, that was fantasticastic for a first go round,
very impressive.

Speaker 2 (01:42:59):
You're Ryan Edwards, but that was well done for the
first time.

Speaker 3 (01:43:02):
Finish.

Speaker 2 (01:43:04):
I can't because of my vocal cord. I'm pretty sure
we started. I ended up meeting vocal cord surgery in
the first place. Nobody said of the day, yeah, oh,
of the day? Wait, no right, no one in the
world the world? Yeah, you say in the world that
I say of the day when he started the music,
because I was laughing too hard about that. I mean,
it was just anyway, ready for what is our dad

(01:43:27):
joke of the day?

Speaker 7 (01:43:27):
Please?

Speaker 6 (01:43:28):
Anthony nineteen o three, Two of brothers announced they could fly.

Speaker 2 (01:43:33):
Turns out they were right.

Speaker 4 (01:43:34):
Oh really they were right, boy, And two wrongs don't
make it right. But two rights made an airplane.

Speaker 2 (01:43:40):
Ross on that note and three rights make a left. Yes.
What is the word of the day? Please? A verb?

Speaker 6 (01:43:48):
Verb?

Speaker 2 (01:43:48):
Extemporize. Oh, it means to speak off the cup. Yeah,
just make it up as you go along. That's three
hours of radio, ladies and gentlemen stemporaneously. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:43:59):
I did sell an extemporaneus speaking when I was in
high school. I repeat it in that yeah, where they.

Speaker 2 (01:44:03):
Just give you a topic and you just you got
five minutes and then you do a speech. And we
had a library, not the internet. You Yeah, exactly. Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:44:12):
Today's trivia question is also a word. What is a quadragenarian?
I'm gonna say a forty year old quadrigenarian.

Speaker 2 (01:44:20):
Let's go with that. With that, Yeah, let's go with that.

Speaker 4 (01:44:23):
A person between the ages of forty and forty nine.
What about somebody in their fifties? They get a word too.

Speaker 2 (01:44:29):
Quinn q Jerry Quinn Quinn quinn okay q u i
n q u a quinn quaderian queen Jerry. That's a
good one, all right, Ross Kaminski, Mandy Connell win just
so yeah, show me. Okay. Category is toward men, men men, Okay.

(01:44:50):
Men is the key here, thank you. Okay, part of
the body where you'll find your six pack? Ross cross
abdomen Ross is on the board. Jeez, say what is
at bibi? Question? One morning? Okay? Collective term for pond night,
Bishop Rook.

Speaker 6 (01:45:08):
Mandy correct, you're here to display this sharp Russ?

Speaker 1 (01:45:19):
What is.

Speaker 6 (01:45:22):
Shut up?

Speaker 5 (01:45:23):
Are you waiting for? Acumen?

Speaker 2 (01:45:25):
Units used to measure an amount of light? Rod Ross?
What is lumen? That is correct? What is three?

Speaker 3 (01:45:34):
One?

Speaker 5 (01:45:36):
One?

Speaker 7 (01:45:37):
More?

Speaker 2 (01:45:37):
Ross? Say nothing?

Speaker 3 (01:45:38):
You win?

Speaker 2 (01:45:39):
Fancy latinate synonym for nickname many? Oh no, that's wrong
for it for a nickname? I think I know she
doesn't go for what is what is pseudonym? Wrong? It's up?

Speaker 3 (01:46:00):
Men?

Speaker 2 (01:46:07):
When ros Kaminski was the first time I ever beat you?

Speaker 3 (01:46:10):
You know what?

Speaker 2 (01:46:10):
There's the first time for every And I'm telling you,
the more you play, the easier the game get. Which sucks.
You've missed it, that's about I know. That's fine. You can.
You're gonna give me another shot? Another shot? She's throwing up. Thanks,
thanks for coming back in. I appreciate you to do it.

Speaker 4 (01:46:32):
We will be back tomorrow. We got another great show.
I have no idea what's going to be on it,
but it will be awesome as normal. Keep it in
the meantime for k Sports right here on k A