05-07-25 FULL SHOW - Weather Wednesday, and Colorado Continues To Slide In Rankings

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We welcome to the Mandy Connell Show. I'm your hoa's
for the next three hours.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
On this dog and gloomy afternoon.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
But if you look to the north, it does appear
that sunshine or maybe just not rain.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Is right around the corner. And do you know what
I mean today?

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Is Zach Seegers as Anthony is off covering a big
story about the Broncos, not a big story for you guys,
like an internally big story that only matters to Kawe.
That's that's obtuse enough to do anythink? That's I obscured enough.
There nothing, no big whoop, no big excitement, no intrigue,
if anything, Yes, but.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Not even good intrigue.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Have you ever met somebody with a funny nickname and
you ask them, hey, that's a kind of a funny nickname,
where did that come from? And then they give you
the worst story ever?

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yes, and it's especially long time.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yes, yes, and you're like, wow, I did I just
thought it was funny and not anymore. Yeah, that's kind
of what I just did. There no big whoop, But
Zach Seegers is in for a rod he is going
to take now, do I get Grant is there a
handoff in the middle of the show. Okay, so we'll go.
Oh fantastic.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
We got a little zech, got a little grint, got
a lot of me. Yeah, there we go.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
And uh, today we are going to zip into the
blog because I've got a bunch of stuff on here
and I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna be uh honest when
I say nothing jumped out at me today. I know
that's crazy because there's so much going on. So if
there's something I missed, feel free to let me know
by going to the text line the Common Spirit Health

(01:31):
text line five six sixth nine.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Oh, it's time to go.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Five six sixth nine. Oh is the text line. Here's
where we're going. I'm sorry, I'm reading text as it's
coming in. Oh hush, it's dumping snow and Woodland Park.
I'm serious, you know what. And I've got Woodland Park
looks so pretty right now. I love Woodland Park. Have
you ever been to Woodland Park? Zac, It's gonna be
this kind of show people, It's gonna be er.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
I haven't. I want to, though. It is beautiful, cute,
cute little town.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
There's a restaurant down there called The Hungry bear super
good pancakes, like super good pancakes. So if you ever
do you just do a little tootle around? Do you
do young people tootle anymore?

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Is that a thing?

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Because sometimes Chuck and I will get in the car
and we'll we'll just tootle about. We'll just well, where
do you want to go? I don't know, Let's drive
over there and you just kind of you take a
little drive.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Do you ever do do young people do that?

Speaker 3 (02:24):
I think I'll take a drive sometimes, but I feel
like generally your innation the mission.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
One thing I will say about driving from Albuquerque to
here on Sunday was that it's so much nicer to
drive when you're not in the city right.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
When you're when you're out away from all of the
horrible traffic.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
And I don't care what city you're in in color
in the metro right now, I don't know what did
everybody get five new cars? And are they driving them
at the same time? Because traffic is insane, absolutely insane.
But that being said, let's get back to the blog,
shall we. Mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Go
to the latest post section.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Look for the headline.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
This is five seven twenty five blog Weather Wednesday, and
Colorado continues to slide in the rankings. Click on that
and here are the headlines you will find within.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
Anybody's Listen Office, South American, all the ships and cremascy
Let's go to press class.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Today on the.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Blog Rain Rain Go Away, Colorado is now the sixteenth
best state to live in. Are our leaders or make
more safety changes for the city. This as Denver's mayor
wants to give huge raises to appointees. More people are
seeking citizenship classes. This as ilegal immigrants are offended by
a cash offer. Today is the real id day we've

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been waiting for. Paulus must veto this labor bill. Should
funnest be a word? Make the most of your marginal
decade The tale of two layoffs. Trump's trans band stays
for now now. Smokey Robinson is horrible. Allegedly, michaelas Different
has a new title. It's time to pull funding for
public media. Trish Calvareci is back for another run at

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the fourth Congressional district. So we rescued hostages from Venezuela.
I'm a little too excited about Tony and ZeVA cool,
secret restaurants, hiding and plain sight. It's time to cancel
the Department of Education. California gas may skyrocket in cost.
Harvard President shocked to find out he employs liberals. Well,
get ready for war with Canada. Yes, Burger King size

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does matter? So how does UK food compare to US
fast food? How renewables make it harder to restart an
electric grid? Those are the headlines on the blog at
mandy'sblog dot com.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Mandy, Valerie the docksund is home.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Look it up, Zach, look up Valerie the docksund Do
you not how to spell docsund?

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Okay, he says he does, So there you go.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Can you mention the they could shelter in place from
yesterday morning? It was about five blocks from my house
and I have no idea what it was about. Well
I've mentioned it. I also have no idea.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
What that was about.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
But maybe now that I've mentioned it, someone can text
us at five six six nine oh and tell us
what that was about, because we Texter and I are
in the dark. Mandy, I think clear skies are a
bit away. It is absolutely dumping on us in Louisville
right now. Oh sorry, well, you.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Know what good news.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
We're gonna be able to get an actual weather forecast
from the chief meteorologist from Fox thirty one Weather Wednesday
coming up at twelve thirty, so we'll be able to
get real information about what we can expect. But see,
we're all we live in Colorado, right, and those of
you who don't live in Colorado, here's a little news flash.
When you come across the border, everybody is required to
stop at this little roadside stand and you're required to

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sign a document that says, if you're going to live
in Colorado, whenever it rains or snows, even if you
complain about it, you have to end the complaint by saying,
but we need the moisture. And then once you sign that,
they let you come into the state as far as
you know, so we need the we need the moisture.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
It hasn't actually been that has just been cold.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
I mean that's like I don't like that Mandy in
southeast Wyoming. It had snow overnight and this morning sun
is breaking through now, so there you go. Anyway, let's
talk for a second about a couple of things on
the blog today.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
It's there's a lot.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Of stuff that I saw this morning that is alternately
interesting and also kind of depressing. And I thought to myself, me,
and do I really want to go down that route?

Speaker 2 (06:48):
So I have that, but I also have things like
Burger King is being sued.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
What is your favorite fast food burger Zach do you
which I'm I'm not talking about five guys, I'm talking
about true drive through get a burger burger? What's your
favorite burger? Top of my head, I like a good baconator.
That's probably a go to Wendy's.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Okay, Wendy's. You're a Wendy's guy, then okay, so that's
your go.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
That's your if you have a if you have an
all so fast food restaurants side by side, you're going
Wendy's to get the baconator.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
Unless I'm overlooking a better fast food place, like I
think Chick fil A.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
Oh well yeah, then it's true fast food. They don't
have a burger.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yeah, we're looking for burgers here because this is all
about burgers. Because Burger King, who I think has a
very tasty burger, that whole flame boiled thing, tasty burger. Right. Well,
now they are being they're being sued, Burger King is
what are they being sued for a federal judge in
Miami because Burger King, I don't know if they're still

(07:49):
burst in based in Miami. They used to be based
in Miami, then they moved to Canada. I think they
might be back.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Who knows.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
A federal judge in Miami is ruled that Burger King
must face a lawsuit alleging its ads seriously exaggerated the
size of the Whopper, its signature sandwich. The suit spans
thirteen states. It's been brought by nineteen customers. It claims
Burger King's marketing makes the Whopper look far more substantial

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than it actually is. The ad show sandwiches with condiments
and veggies that over blew the buns and contain more
than double the amount of bee found in a standard
Burger King fair. In court filings, the restaurant chain admitted
that the photographers had styled sandwiches more beautifully than their products,

(08:37):
but argued the harm to consumers was limited. Now, the
judge already said, and this is one of my favorite
favorite phrases that I learned about ten years ago in
a story about Cores and Miller Lite. They were art
Cores Light Miller Lite, I can't remember. And Cores was

(08:58):
arguing that the claims that they had made in their commercial,
we're acceptable marketing puffery. Isn't that a beautiful term, acceptable
marketing puffery. That's a very simple way of saying, here's
how much we are allowed to exaggerate.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Okay, here's how.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Much we're allowed to lie about whatever product we are selling.
And this judge found that the ads go beyond near
exaggeration or puffery. So this was unacceptable marketing puffery according
to the judge. And now they are going to have
to go to court.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Subway, by the way, also facing a similar lawsuit. And
I gotta tell you, how much you get on a
subway sandwich is entirely dependent on which sandwich shop you
go to, exactly, especially if you get a.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Tune of s ub or a meatball, sub entirely subjective.
Same thing with Chipotle.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
It's total luck at the job in terms of who's
your your server in the conveyor belt.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
When I was in college, I was a manager of
a restaurant called The Mill Bakery, Eatery and Brewery, and
it was a Southeastern Limited regional chain and we had
a line where you would kind of like subway, where
you'd walk up and you'd order the food, and then
they would make those salads or sandwiches in front of you.
And we had scales that you put everything on and
then added everything on by the proper ounce that's the

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only way to manage your food costs. But there were
certain employees that you had to be like, dude, you
just made a sandwich to wait a pound and a half.
That's not you can't do that. That's why we have
the scales. You're putting us out of business exactly. You
won't have a job for long. Speaking of putting you
out of business, I have a question that maybe one
of you in this listening audience knows. It's so specific,

(10:49):
but this has been bothering me for years.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
You know, when you do go to.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
A fast food restaurant, which I don't do as much
as I used to, Right, every once in a while,
I gotta have some McDonald's fries. I go through the
drive through, I get the McDonald's trice and then I
say to the person in the drive through, I say,
could I get one pack of salt? Very specific, one
pack of salt? And they hand you like fourteen packages
of salt, and every time they do it, I think

(11:16):
to myself, Now, I know that those little packages of
salt are not very expensive, But if they give every
car load fourteen packages of salt when they ask for one,
how much money is that costing that franchise e every
single year just because they are not listening to what
the customer is asking for. And honest to God, has
any person ever used fourteen packs of salt on one

(11:39):
order of French fries in the history of French tries?

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Anyone? No one, And if anyone who does, isn't doing
it for very long, right.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
So yeah, So this is the story I decided to
lead with today. Is the McDonald's unacceptable marketing puffery suit.
By the way, Burger King has fought back again. It's
the whopper whopper story, That's what I'm calling it. I'm
calling it the whopper whopper suit because they were laying
out whoppers about whoppers, So it's the whopper whopper suit.

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They told The New York Post the plaintiffs claims are false.
The flame grilled beef patties portrayed in our advertising are
the same patties used in the millions of burgers we
serve to guess across the US.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
Mike drop, that's the.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
King dropping the mic anyway, Mandy from the text line, OMG,
what is wrong with people? Every fast food place exaggerates
their products and their ads. Why are people obsessed with
stealing money via lawsuits?

Speaker 5 (12:39):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (12:39):
By the way, the Whopper is my fast food favorite
for my once a year visit. That's if I'm gonna
get a fast food burger, that.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
Is gonna be what it is because it's so good.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
Mandy, how about Taco Bell that has two pound tacos
if you believe they're commercials? Yeah, and then you go
to Taco Bell. I got a the last time I
went to Taco Bell. Honestly, I don't even know how
long ago this was, but I was thinking, I don't
need Taco Bell. I do not need There's got to
be a better option. So where I was, I was
on the road, No, there wasn't. I ended up going
to Taco Bell and I'm like, Okay, what's going to

(13:10):
do the least damage to my life? I got the
chicken soft tacos, the Alfresco Chicken soft tacos because they're
not horrible there's like one speck of tomato, like two
chumps of chicken. It was just it was that was
the last time I was like, no, I'm good.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
I'm good.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
Nineteen eighty says this Texter had an eighth grade art
teacher that told the class the story that she had
a summer vacation gig where she had been hired to
paint the grill marks on burgers for advertising campaigns. That
is an actual job. Food stylist is what they call it.
And if you are a high level food stylist, you

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make a lot of money. I don't know how you
get into that gig. You know a way to commercialize
your painting skills. I guess you know what. Whatever works
right to be able to paid for something you're good
at it. Mandy, why don't you just keep all the
salt packets in your car then don't ask for any
next time. I don't like a bunch of crap in
my car, Like right now, I have too much. I

(14:09):
have too much stuff in the you know, on the console.
I don't like it. So I already mentally made a
note today that I was going to clean it out
when I got home. So I don't want a bunch
of in inevitably one of them breaks. Then you've got
salt everywhere, you know, just saying, Mandy, like the package
of salt for Blank's sakes, can you just give me
one answer?

Speaker 2 (14:28):
Nope?

Speaker 1 (14:30):
Now what what what? I don't know what you're talking about, Mandy.
It's too hard to grab one salt packet. It is
not it is not. That is insane, Mandy. Arby's is
the ultimate bait and switch ad inmpium.

Speaker 6 (14:45):
Dude.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
I love an Arby's.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
Just I just get an Arby's medium roast beef. Nothing
nothing on it, no sauce, no nothing that is that's magical, Mandy.
I ate a Dabba fries f my salt, especially at
Red Robin. I love so much salt on a fry
that you can't see any of the fry. Well, you
are an intrepid soul. You may or may not have
high blood pressure.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
I don't know. Although it's a myth that salt.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Immediately raises blood pressure, it's only in very specific people.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
Just want to let you know that.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
If you didn't know that, Mandy, which fast food places
are going to?

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Oh are you going to? I will ask for.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
A handful of sauces or a bunch of fry sauce
and I get one, maybe you should switch it up.
I don't never ask for sauce, so maybe it's just
salt because they're little and they feel like, oh, it's.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
A little packet. We'll just give them some extra ones.
But there have been so many times where I just
want to say to the kid. It's always a kid,
young kid.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
Just want to say to the kid, you know what
you're costing the owner of this store money every time
you do that, because I don't think they would care.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Because when I was a kid, I didn't care.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
You know, it was fine, Mandy, three tacos at Taco Bell.
They gave me eighteen hot sauce packets. That's what I'm
talking about. I mean, yeah, anyway, Okay, we're done with this.
I just wanted to start to show with something that
wasn't depressing, because a lot of what we have today

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is depressing, not in the super sad sort of way,
it's just, you know, more of the same. I didn't
just see something, and my friend Mike Kraus sent me
something from Complete Colorado that I did not see when
I looked at earlier. So they may have just posted it.
And it seems that perhaps our governor's actions are catching

(16:35):
up with his libertarian reputation. And I put libertarian in
air quotes. I just want you to know that libertarian
because Reason Magazine, which for a while there kept telling
people he was, which I wrote stern emails to Nick
g Leslie about that. They seem to have turned the corner,

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which I'm pretty happy about that.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
Now we're going to a quick time out.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
When we get back, I want to talk about a
tale of two Cities for just a moment, and then
I want to talk about this story Colorado. Oh no
weather Wednesday coming up next. So later on in the show,
US News and World Report, which I didn't even know
was still a thing, but they do this annual ranking
of states. Colorado is going down and has been going

(17:23):
down for some time. We're gonna do a deep dive
into that a little bit later, but right now, News
Tracking Weather as the Fox thirty one chief meteorologist, we
just call him Dave.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
Dave Frasier.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
It's a dark and gloomy day here in the Denver
metro when we'll do horrible weather break, Let's let.

Speaker 4 (17:52):
It go for a little while longer. I'm actually enjoying
this and it has been beneficial, there's no question about that.
So yeah, we're going to continue.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
With the shows.

Speaker 4 (18:00):
They'll probably take until later this evening to finally dry up.
There's a few of them out there on radar still,
especially at just south of downtown. Foothills are still seen
lead weather. Northern Front Range has some showers up near
Fort Collins, and we're seeing a few on the south
side down towards Castle Rock. But I think it's been
it's been exactly what we needed, Maddie, and I think
nobody knows that and was ready for it.

Speaker 5 (18:22):
Well.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
I told people earlier that when you come into Colorado
the first time, they make you sign a document that
says if you complain about the rain, you have to
end it by saying, but we need the moisture. So
that's where we are. But we need the moisture. So
we're geting a lot of snow in the high country.
How much of an impact will this have because our
right now, our average snowpack levels are not great.

Speaker 4 (18:44):
They aren't but you know, we've been talking about that.
So you basically load the mountains through about April seventh,
and then after April seventh, you start the melting process,
so any additional snow beyond April seventh is helpful. What
we're seeing is snowpack numbers that are below where we

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should be for the melting curve, being we've melted it
off pretty quickly. And I think the reason we've melted
it off sooner than maybe we should have is because
March and April were so dry, and we did have
periods of warm stretches. We weren't you know, we weren't
breaking records left and right for high temperatures, but we
did have above normal temperatures with sunny days, and that

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went into getting the melting process starting sooner. And so
your bell curve, if you will, for where we should
be in the melting process is definitely lower than where
we should because we've melted sooner. So this moisture certainly
will help a little bit. Does it push the snow
melt pack back up one hundred percent? Probably not, But
consider it a cherry on top if you will. It's

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a bonus, and it's been melting. Fortunately that have not
been a lot of travel problems, even though advisories were
issued in the mountains. Most of the issues were way
up high. That's nine thousand feet. We were in the
mountains last night, our pipoyt weather be and the roads
were just basically wet. So it was kind of a
wind wind, right, You're getting the moisture're getting the snow.
You know, there's still skiing available in the mountains. This

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will you know, go to that people running up, you know,
maybe late this week to do a couple more turns.
But I think this storm has been exactly what we needed.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
Well, let me ask you about snow melt in general,
because I still don't quite understand what conditions exist to
create the flash flood scenes that we've seen, you know,
in the last decade on occasion, not very often. So
if we've already had some melt, is that better for
river conditions for rafting and things like that, or are

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we taking too soon?

Speaker 2 (20:42):
Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (20:43):
I'm kind of asking what is the perfect melt cycle?
What does that look like compared to where we are now?

Speaker 4 (20:48):
I mean, the worst case scenario for rivers and streams
and the mountains to come up would be a heavy,
kind of warm rain on top of the snow. So
you've got the heavy water equivalent of the rain, and
you're melting the snow at the same time, and that
would increase stream flow. Generally, if we get a really

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big spike, you can get a lot of melting and
streams and rivers will come up very quickly. So it's
there's still even though even though we're below where we
should be for the path. I think even you know,
just a layman can look at the mountains and know
there's still a lot of snow up there, so we
can melt it away. So yeah, I mean, you don't

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want to put the you know, you don't want to
take a magnifying glass in the sun and point it
at the Colorado Mountains and melt everything off at once.
That would be that would be horrible and you would
have problems and stuff. And obviously the bigger concerns are
are the streams and the creeks and the rivers that
run through uh you know, narrow, narrow corridors and and

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you know where the water can't really fan out, it
has to go up because of the you know, the
steep terrain around it. So you know those I think
the worst case scenario would be ahead the rain event
on top of melting snow.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
Okay, I got a question from a texture or they
texted the commons fearial chex line at five sixty sixth nine.
Oh hey, Mandy, I live on top of Monument Hill,
which I always consider to be the Palmer Divide. What
does Dave consider to be the Palmer Divide?

Speaker 4 (22:18):
The Palmer Divide is I consider it Monument Hill as well.
They actually call it the Black Forest Divide. Some people
do down there, so if you know where Black Forest is,
they kind of call it. Basically, Monument Hill is the peak.
It's marked right on the highway. The elevation I believe
it's seventy three fifty three and it's the highest point there.
So for me, when I think of the Palmer Divide,

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there is a rise in elevation. If you look at
a three dimensional map of Colorado, you'll see this little
terrain feature that we call the Palmer Divide that comes
east west from the foothills and kind of rises up,
so the spine of it would be Monument Hill, and
then it stands all the way out to the Lineman
on the eastern plains, and so you have a rise

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in elevation that starts as you depart Denver, certainly as
you start to go over Surrey Ridge, so you're passing
Lincoln Avenue, you're climbing up to the Castle Pines Parkway exit.
You dip a little bit into Castle Rock, but even
there you're up in elevation. And then as you turn
the corner and head towards the Larkspur and Greenland, you
start to make that next line as you pass County
Line Road and go from Douglas County and continue south,

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and then you hit the big up. All of that
is a rise and it goes off to the east
and it kind of sands away. So instead of being
a north south oriented Fort Hills Hogback Mountains, you've got
this east west feature that is also a ride in elevation,
kind of like a mini mountain, if you will. And
the top of that is Monument Hill.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
There we go.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
That is an excellent answer to that question, very thorough.
I have another question when we're like we are right
now and you could I mean if feasibly there are definitely.
We just got a text earlier from someone in Woodland
Park who said it snowing like the dickens down there
when you're in the range where you could easily switch
from snow to rain. This is as I'm about to

(24:04):
ask this question, I realize.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
How stupid it is.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
You're still talking about the same amount of moisture though,
right if it's snow, if it's rain, it's the same water.
It's just temperature that has changed things.

Speaker 4 (24:16):
Yes, so let me I'll just answer this. This is funny.
It literally can be a few feet in difference. You
can literally drive along a rise in elevation and watch
the snow line come in your direction where it's grass,
and then all of a sudden, a couple of feet
away at snow, and then as it goes up in elevation,
the snow is there. We call it a QPS, a
quantitative precipitation forecast. We're dealing with liquid all the time.

(24:37):
The question becomes when you're factoring your snow. As you
take that liquid. You've heard this before, and then you
have to extrapolate it out to if a tenth of
an inch was to become snow, how much snow could
it become. And generally you do a ten to one ratio.
If it's cold, it could be a twenty.

Speaker 5 (24:51):
To one ratio.

Speaker 4 (24:52):
So the liquid amount is what we're always dealing with where.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
It's the toughest part in.

Speaker 4 (24:57):
Me any of a forecast, right, QPF forecast the liquid amount.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
Here's the difference.

Speaker 4 (25:02):
If you miss the forecast by let's say a tenth
of an inch on a rainy day, you're not going
to know it unless you go out and shut your
rain gage because it's just going to run down the street.
But if you miss that tenth of an inch forecast,
and that can be another inch or ten inches of snow,
it's a big old flay, Yeah, because you go outside
and you're expecting four inches and you're shoveling a foot.

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So we're dealing with the same top forecast. It's just
a matter of is it running down and soaking in
or is it stacking up? And I got to shovel.
It doesn't matter rain or snow. It's a QPF liquid forecast.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
As I saw Chad Nower leaving yesterday and I said,
it's a gloomy day, Chad, and he said, better this
than snow, and he was absolutely right.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
Fox News, you have dell.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
Fox News, Fox thirty one chief meteorologist Dave Frasier joys
always we'll talk to you again next week.

Speaker 4 (25:52):
Antley, I'm off next week, but I'll talk to the
week after.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
I hope you have a lovely vacation. It's not vacation.

Speaker 4 (25:57):
I got to go get a kid out of college
who's graduated.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
Let's get her done that.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
You almost got that one off the payroll that has
caused for celebration no matter how you look at it.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
All right, Dave, have a great time.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
We'll talk to you in a couple of weeks. All right, That,
my friends is Dave Fraser will be right back.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
We'll text it in.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
As we were talking about French fries and getting too
much salt and.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
Things like that.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
And I'm I saw this text and I'm you guys,
I'm I don't know what to do here. The text
or texted in Does any food actually need salt?

Speaker 2 (26:42):
I went to college with a.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
Monster that carried a little salt shaker with him everywhere.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
Yes, there are foods that require salt.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
Potatoes of any kind, eggs, popcorn.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
Have you ever eaten popcorn with no salt? It's like, oh,
why don't I just chew up little pieces of cardboard?
But it in my mouth.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
Most meals should have salt somewhere in the cooking process enhancement.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
Right, it just brings out the best in whatever you're eating.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Now, you don't, I don't want.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
Like super salty. Some people are gross about salt. Well,
my husband is a salt guy, and his mother who
was still alive at the time, and I his wife
haranged him until he finally cut back on the salt
and at his next physical do you know what was low?

Speaker 2 (27:34):
It's sodium levels.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
And the doctor literally looked at him and said, you
have to eat more salt. And he said, I'm going
to need you to write a note for my wife
and my mom.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
So I get a.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
Doctor's note from his doctor that says, Chuck must eat
more salt, and we sent it to his mom. It's
just some people, It's just you just have to have
you know, everybody's different. Salts can be terrible for some people.
Some people are very susceptible to its effects. But gosh,
there's a lot of foods that require salt. In my opinion,
what am I missing?

Speaker 4 (28:05):
Like?

Speaker 2 (28:06):
These are you know what it is? These are the
same people that you.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
Go in their kitchen and they only have garlic powder
as the spice.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
There's no other spices. There just garlet powder. They're like,
but where's all the Eah, yeah, they don't have a
spice cabinet. They where's the times? Where where's the where's
the Marjoram patria? Paprika?

Speaker 1 (28:27):
My daughter says, Paprika is our family spice because I
put it in everything.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
It's such a good catchall. I use it in just
about everything. It's so good.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
And now I started making my own seasoned salt mixed,
you know, so now I'm very you know, I'm persnicity.
I go buy my little packages it savory spice shop.
There's politics I don't know, and then I go back
and mix it all myself and it's just so good,
good spices. And you don't realize this when you're when
you're on a budget and you go and I still

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get spices at the grocery store. Don't don't get me wrong,
But when you're talking about certain spices like cinnamon, there
is an entire pellette of cinnamon out there, And when
you go to a fancy spice stop, you're like, Okay,
how much difference can this really make? Let me just
say this a ton, an absolute ton.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Mandy.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
I sold food Forever, French fries to restaurants many times
are brined already, no extra salt needed. I'll be the
judge of that, sir or madam. Pink salt is amazing
on vanilla ice cream. A little cinnamon too. Now that
just sounds intriguing, not to mention. Salt is essential for life,

(29:39):
says Eric. And that is correct. If you don't eat
any salt, or you don't eat enough salt, you'll actually die.

Speaker 7 (29:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
Fun fact, people can die because their sodium gets too low. Oh,
soup absolutely requires salt. Can we all just talk about
the disastrous Campbell soup decision to try and become quote
healthy by removing the salt from their soup. And all
they remove was a fiber tagen is our catch all seasoning.

(30:09):
It's a great chicken rub. Okay, I'm gonna have to publish.
Oh say okay, So I wanted a different chicken rub
because I was kind of burned out on the stuff
that I already had. So I went on the internet
and I had this chicken had this Caribbean restaurant, and
the couple that that was in this Caribbean restaurant. And
I want to say, I mean when I say Caribbean restaurant,

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I mean a restaurant in the Caribbean, and it was
a Caribbean wife and an African husband that had opened
this restaurant and they have this chicken and the spice
profile was.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
Like, oh so good.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
So I went on the Internet to try and figure
out what this chicken rub might have been, and I
found this recipe from this African guy for a chicken
rub that is.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
Just I love it.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
And if you want to do it spicy, you can
make it super spicy. You don't have to make it
spicy at all. It's so so good, Mandy. Have you
ever cooked with saffron, the most expensive spice in the world.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
Yes, I have a.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Naked, delightful Paea, the Spanish rice and seafood dish that
requires saffron, Mandy. I'm a private chef and have probably
twenty different kinds of flavors of salt that I use.
Here's what I got right now. I got ghost pepper salt.
I got volcano salt, which is supposed to be spicy.

(31:25):
It's black. I haven't tried that yet. For Christmas, I
bought Chuck and when I was going to open it,
I was like, I this could be a terrible gift.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
It was a little tube that has four different blocks
of four different kinds of salt, and then it comes
with a little greater right, so you can grate your
choice of salt on your food.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
Salt, yum, yum, Mandy.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
I have a chronic illness that has nothing to do
with heart or high blood pressure, and I have to
do a very low sodium a diet. At first, he
was very much to drag It still kind of is.
But once you don't have sodium on your food, it's
amazing that when you do have something that has sodium,
it's overwhelming.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
I used to put salt on everything. Don't get me wrong.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
There are a lot of foods I can't eat because
of the sodium content. It really sucks. I'm always sorry
about that. This person is just mad about saffron. I'm
gonna leave it on that we'll be right back. And
when we get back. So if you heard the story
with Rob Dawson about cattle and Cherry Creek to sell sandwiches,
or that's what I heard. So he's coming on to

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clarify exactly what I think I heard, to tell me
what I probably did hear.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
After this.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
One, Texture sent me this. Mandy actually said Andy because
they forgot the end. But my feelings aren't hurt. Don't
worry about it. Andy, Please make an announcement about I
twenty five to the north between Dakota and Firestone.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
There are four wrecks both sides of the road.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
It's very dangerous, so take your time if you are
headed north between Dacona and Firestone, things are a hot mess. Second,
I just uploaded a photo I made Chuck take a
photo of the chicken rub recipe that I was just
talking about. You marinate you can do boneless chicken breast.
I don't really do that. I do boneless chicken thighs.
Marinate it in this chicken rub, throw them on the grill.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
Oh so good.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
Now you may have just heard the news story with
Rob Dawson and cows in Cherry Creek or and something,
and I needed more information. So we now have the
intrepid Rod Dawson on the phone to answer questions about
cows in Cherry Creek. Rob, how many cows are we

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talking about it?

Speaker 5 (33:48):
First of all, thanks for having I knew you were
going to tax me as soon as I saw you
text I knew it's going to be about that there
were sick, they were or walking through the streets. Actually,
I just have to say something now. When they got
off the trailer here, yeah, very disorganized. One of them walked.

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I mean the horn was inches away from myself up
So recording this, I was like.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
Rob, you were going to protect yourself with your cell phone.
You've got to steer with giant horns and you throw
up your cell phone.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
Rob, we need to talk about self defense. I'm a
little bit worried about you.

Speaker 5 (34:29):
Well, I thought that you can't make sun and movement.
So I just, oh, yeah, that's what I have myself
out before the before the steer walk.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
After, Well, I want to make a quick announcement, and
I'm being serious about this.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
There is no pope yet.

Speaker 1 (34:44):
We've got black smoke coming out at the Vatican, and
so that was just an FYI, no pope today, no
pope today now, Rob. So they brought six steers into
Cherry Creek. Now, paint a picture for me, Rob, because
you know we're radio people.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
Were the steers on leashes? What was going on?

Speaker 5 (35:05):
Like?

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Who was walking?

Speaker 5 (35:08):
Guys on horses? Were kind of starting them, but they
were not on any sort of leaves. They were walking
kind of being pushed with the horses. Although along this
route right before the elementary school, there was a car
parked on the street and one of the stairs almost

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hit the car. So the horse just got in there
at the last second.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
Can you imagine that insurance claim? Do you call your
insurance age and you're like, yeah, my car was damaged
when a steer ran into it. Okay, where did this happen?
Cherry Creek And they're like, wait, what so this sandwich
place that's here right, tell me about this sandwich place.
So essentially they're bringing the steers down so you can
see what your roast beef used to look like. What

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are we doing?

Speaker 4 (35:54):
Now?

Speaker 5 (35:55):
I was thinking about that too, But this is Mendsino Farms.
You and your audience is going to love this, Mandy,
because it's the California days, La based sandwich eatery. They
do sandwiches, salad, caetering, and they opened up their first
location in Cherry Creek. Now, I guess to endear themselves

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to Colorado.

Speaker 7 (36:18):
They were aware.

Speaker 5 (36:19):
That the steers didn't make it for the Stack Show
Parade this year because they were stuck in the snow
on the way up here. So they decided, I guess
that it would be a good idea. And their logo
is a cow to do a promotion with the mini
parades or Cherry Creek. And then the Steers and the

(36:40):
staff delivered some of their foods to an elementary school
of Brownwell Elementary for teacher Appreciation Week. I said, your
audience is going to love this because the SoundBite I
had to use it, I was like, the why Cherry
Creek and the woman the manager said, oh, well, there's
a lot of California miss us and know about us,

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and we just thought it would be a great place
to face And I walked past it. It was passed.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
I bet I bet no, I just I find this
And you know what, here's the thing. We're sitting here
talking about their brand new business on the radio. So
obviously it was the right kind of pr stunt. It
just it would be like chick fil A opening a
store by bringing in a bunch of like baby chickens,
you know what I mean. Like, here's what your food
looked like before we killed it to put it on a.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
Bun so you can eat here.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
I mean, you know, I don't know It just seemed
like an odd choice to me.

Speaker 5 (37:38):
One of the other media members said, oh, yeah, this
is a retaurant opening. It's a little weird, but okay.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
Yeah, okay, all right, yeah, there we go. Okay, Rob,
That's really all I needed to know. I just needed
to Did they get them back onto the trailer without incident,
I'm guessing, or we would have heard about.

Speaker 5 (37:53):
That they did. I did hear some conversation they they
were rounding up the horses.

Speaker 7 (37:59):
First.

Speaker 5 (38:00):
I thought they like one guy was like, wait, wait
a minute, should we leave like one horse behind. I
guess one of the steers got loose. The course would
be able to chase it. But I wasn't around for
that part. But I was just hoping they all got
the trailer.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
Okay, wow, can you imagine what this is like for
the steers, Like, you know, here they are, they're just
minding their own vswax, right, They're out on a farm
or ranch somewhere. They're in the wide open spaces, they
got grass whatever steers do out there. And then they're like, hey, guys,
hop in the truck, and you hop in the truck,
and then all of a sudden you're like in the
big city. It's almost like a cow version of crocodile Dundee.

Speaker 5 (38:38):
And they looked annoyed essentially with the selfie they were
put into like a pen. It makes a pen in
the middle of the street at the elementary school for
about a half hour so the kids can watch, but
the kids views were blocked by all the adults taking
sheelfies with the with the animals. So that was interesting.

Speaker 7 (38:59):
Tale.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
So we got steers in Cherry Creek and sandwiches to boot.
It's that kind of day, Rob. Thank you for the clarification.
Let's just confuse me. I'm not I was like what what?
And I kind of wasn't paying full attention to the
news story the first time it played, and I it
was I didn't, but apparently I did hear it correctly.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
You did, ye, you did?

Speaker 1 (39:24):
Cols and Cherry Creek. All right, Rob Dawson, to see
you later. Thank you are wonderful, wonderful newsman.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
Rob Dawson. I don't even understand that.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
But okay, let's talk for a moment about the US
News and World Report annual report on states what states
are the best to live in?

Speaker 2 (39:48):
And this is what it says on their Best States ranking.

Speaker 1 (39:51):
Some states shine in healthcare, some sort in education, some
excel in both, or in much more. The Best State
rankings by US News draws on thousands of data points
to measure how well states are performing for their citizens.
In addition to healthcare and education, the rankings stink into
account of state's economy, it's roads, bridges, internet and other infrastructure.

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It's public safety, it's natural environment, the fiscal stability of
state government, and the opportunity it.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
Affords its residents.

Speaker 1 (40:24):
More weight was accorded to some categories than others based
on a survey of what matters most to people.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
Healthcare and education were weighted most heavily.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
Then came state economies, infrastructure, and the opportunity states offered
their citizens. Fiscal stability followed closely in waiting, followed by
measures of crime and corrections, and the states natural environment.
So let's look at the ranking. Shall we number one?
The state of Utah. Yep, the Great State of Utah

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is number one in fiscal stability overall, and I'm the
top ten of four other categories.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
Now what does this matter?

Speaker 1 (41:05):
Well, it matters because as businesses look to move, or
open or expand, they're looking for places that are going
to have a good worker base.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
They're looking for places that people.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
Are going to want to move if they need to
bring in experience people from other areas. They're looking for
places where there's a good quality of life because happy
people make happy employees.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
And I don't know if you guys knew this, but
Utah is right over there. I mean it's it's like
right over there. So we need to be.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
Concerned about Utah's ascension and more concerned about where we
are going now. This year it goes like this. I'm
going to give you starting number one, because I already
gave you Utah. No point in expanding the you know,
the tension around it. Number two New Hampshire, Live for
or Die. Whenever anyone says New Hampshire, in my mind,

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I respond, live fore or die, which is their state model.
And now they're number two. Idaho right after that. Idaho
is a beautiful state. But people in Idaho and Montana
can be a little odd in my view, not bad,

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just odd.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
Not the friendliest group of people.

Speaker 1 (42:23):
And now I guess when you move to Montana and
Idaho you all friends, right, You're like looking for that Yellowstone,
wide open spaces kind of vibe, so it attracts a
different sort of.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
You know folk as it were.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
Minnesota, number four best overall, Number five, Nebraska. Now, guys,
you're starting to see a pattern here, because just like
Utah's right over there, Nebraska is right up there, right
next door. Number six, my home state of Florida, that
has not always been that way, Okay, And Florida right

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now is number one in economy and number.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
Two in education. That is amazing to me.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
When I was a kid that schools were not good
in Florida, I mean, and those of you who are who.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
Are hate listening right now are like.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
Well, that explains a lot about you. That being said,
I have to give a lot of credit to Jeb Bush.
And I'm not a huge Jeb Bush fan. Like I
love George W.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
Bush. I'm an unabashed George W. Bush fan. I don't
like everything he did.

Speaker 1 (43:33):
In hindsight, I have great, great reservations about the entire
Iraq War, But nonetheless I love the guy. His brother eh,
he's okay, but he was a great governor and he
was one of the first governors that I was aware of.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
That that's centered reading in schools.

Speaker 1 (43:51):
Everything was about making sure kids could read, because if
they can't read, they can't do anything else.

Speaker 7 (43:58):
And so.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
He really aggressively focused on reading. And now number one
in education is just number two in education.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
Is stunning to me, but it just goes.

Speaker 1 (44:09):
To show you what a good plan, what great phonics education,
what a solid foundation can do for kids as they
get older. Just a point of order for Denver public schools,
throwing that out there. Number seven, Vermont, number eight, South Dakota.
Guess what South Dakota.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
Is right there?

Speaker 1 (44:26):
Number nine Massachusetts, But then you got to have Massachusetts winner,
number ten, Washington State. So Colorado not in the top ten.
Colorado is number eleven. Wait is this the right Let
me make sure I have the right year. This might
be the wrong year because Colorado is actually sixteen.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
Um bum bum bum. Let me see here, you guys,
Let me get back to where we're try this again
and do this and do.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
Okay, let me see I just put the wrong link
in here.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
Oh come on, fun moment.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
Well, I find the right thing, and if I still
have a wrong on the block, I'm gonna be super
mad about about that. Uh and ry, this makes great
radio Zach Vamp for me vamp.

Speaker 3 (45:27):
Uh Man, I think sixteen still sounds pretty solid for Colorado.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
You'd like to hear it better. Obviously that's not pull
US's goal of top ten. But yeah, it's terrible.

Speaker 1 (45:38):
Yeah, I'm gonna have to come back to this because
I can't get this to open. And I know that
I have a password for this because I had to
make it this morning, but it's not working right now.

Speaker 2 (45:47):
So that's usually how this goes. Let me, let me
do this.

Speaker 1 (45:49):
I know how I can find this twenty twenty five
best state.

Speaker 2 (45:55):
All right, I'm.

Speaker 3 (45:56):
Surprised to see Nebraska and Utap that high at the
very least, even though you know they do some nice
things going for them. I don't see a flock of
people go in Nebraska or Utah.

Speaker 1 (46:06):
Okay, so I am wrong on my blog. It is
eleventh overall. Oh that's good. We were sixteenth in twenty
twenty four. Trend en I've gone back up. Nope, then
I recind my entire thing. We've been going up and
down over the last few years, mostly down. So if
we pop back up to eleven, then I have to
change my entire blog post.

Speaker 2 (46:23):
Never mind, The problem is is.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
I was looking for history to try and compare, which
should be easily available, but it's not, and I screwed
myself up. This is one of those occasions where your
delightful talk show host, I got to eat at my friends.

Speaker 2 (46:39):
That's the egg on my face.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
Do you have any salt, zach, because everybody knows egg
needs salt.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
I got about fifteen pack. You ask for one. So
moving on. This is a very cool story.

Speaker 1 (46:53):
And I know that there's a touchiness to people when
we're talking about immigration because now all immigran has been
conflated with legal immigration.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
But that's not right, it's.

Speaker 1 (47:04):
Not accurate, right, And this story from nine News, I
really like it.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
Denver Public Schools.

Speaker 1 (47:11):
Offers citizenship classes at three of its community hubs throughout
the district, and since the inauguration of Donald Trump and
the pursuit of illegal immigrants, a lot of people who
have visas, green cards, and permanent residents are now feeling
some urgency to go ahead and become citizens.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
Now I don't care why.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
Someone becomes a citizen finally, but if they're here and
they have legal status, and they're working and they're part
of the community, then I really want them to become
a citizen. I want people who want to work hard
and be successful, I want them to become citizens.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
And a lot of the.

Speaker 1 (47:51):
People they talk to in the story is they want
to vote, they want to participate.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
I think that's wonderful.

Speaker 1 (48:00):
How they say they've got so much demand as these
classes that they can't keep up, which I also think
is great. Have you you've probably never had the experience
to watch a class of people take their citizen their
oath of citizenship is very very moving. I mean I
got to go watch it for a news story, not
even know any of the people, and I cried because

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when they take the oath of citizenship and they become
an American citizen, the pride, it's like everybody's glowing with
pride because, you know what, we were born here. We
really got the luck of the draw, right, We were
lucky enough to be born in the United States of America.
These people have gone over so many hurdles, They've had

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to learn a language most of the time. Many of
them have incredibly arduous stories of how they got out
of their native lands and how they got to the
United States and waiting for years and seeing all of
that come to fruition to see them become Americans because
all they ever wanted was to be Americans.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
It's so great, it's so incredibly great.

Speaker 3 (49:05):
Yeah, it's like watching someone get into their dreams school
or something. With all the work that goes into it
and the tests and the studying and all that.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
It's something you have to be really determined to do.

Speaker 3 (49:14):
It's it's interesting to see some states start to require
it as a graduation required in high school, which I
do think is interesting. It gives you a valuable perspective
about what it took for these other people to become an.

Speaker 1 (49:26):
Emery states require going to a what some states require
you to pass. The New State just leave.

Speaker 3 (49:34):
Say yeah, it required you to pass the citizenship exam
to earn your high school diploma.

Speaker 2 (49:38):
I'll check which states right now.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
The citizenship exam is not a walk in the park.
It's not the hardest thing.

Speaker 7 (49:44):
Ever.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
If you paid attention in Civics class and history, you
should be able to pass it. But for people that
it's not their history and it's not their you know,
native language, it's just it's a wonderful thing. So I
don't know if there are other classes like this around
where people are coming in, but I'd love to know
if there are these are at Denver Public Schools and

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there's a line Mandy, I work for DPS, and they've
said they're not even going to bother trying to teach
these kids to English.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
They think that would be racist. What what I'm if
that's accurate.

Speaker 1 (50:19):
That has to come straight out of the brain of
Superintendent Alex Mareno, the first after Latino bilingual superintendent of
Denver Public Schools, who has just given a contract extension.
Even though Denver Public Schools has not recovered from pandemic
learning losses, not even close, and black and Latino students

(50:39):
are sliding even further back. And yet the Denver Public
School Board, which I hope changes significantly this November, decided
to go ahead and do it anyway.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
That sounds like something you would do. You know, here's
the thing.

Speaker 1 (50:54):
If you don't teach kids who don't speak English English,
you are locking them out of a huge part of
the economy. You are trapping them in a small fraction
of the entire economy of the United States of America.
And I have friends who work in you know, you
can lose a great example of what I'm about to

(51:14):
say the jockey, the Hall of Fame jockey Pat Day,
nicest man you will ever meet in your life. And
when he stopped racing, he started a ministry and he
ministers to all of these young jockeys.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
They're all from Latin American countries.

Speaker 1 (51:31):
They're all like little pocket sized people, and Pat Day
teaches them English, helps them get citizenship if they want it,
but he supports them as they become Americans. It's just
part of the wonderful things that Pat does.

Speaker 5 (51:43):
To me.

Speaker 1 (51:43):
He is he's an amazing man. He's a small man,
but an amazing man.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
One of my.

Speaker 1 (51:49):
Favorite pictures is Pat Day to my left, Chuck to
my right. We look like that cell phone commercial with
the bars. It's perfect. We'll be right back.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
It might be.

Speaker 1 (52:07):
Interesting because we're talking about citizenship and citizenship exams as
Denver Public Schools is doing these citizenship classes. Tell people
who want to become citizens get prepared. I just looked
up the two thousand and eight Civics Practice practice tests.
Now with civics, you guys, and they give one of
these citizens a list of one hundred Civics items, civics

(52:29):
and history, and then they have to go to an
interview and they are asked ten random out of this
list of one hundred, and they have to answer them.
They have to answer six correctly to pass the civics part. Now,
let's you think that that's too easy, I have a
challenge my friends, who's got time to.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
Hop on the phone and do the civics test with me?

Speaker 1 (52:50):
If you want to participate three oh three seven one
three eighty five eighty five, it's going to go like this.
I will answer the first question because I go to
if I'm asking you to humiliate yourself, I'm throwing myself
in the stew as well, Okay, And then I'll ask
this first caller the second question, third cause, and we'll
just add we'll rotate through.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
So if you think you know.

Speaker 1 (53:10):
Your civics in history, then now's the time. Three O
three seven one three eighty five eighty five. Zach is
gonna screen those calls in just a moment. But in
the meantime, I will go ahead and possibly humiliate myself
by answering a question right or wrong. But I know
I know this question, as do you, and so the
new citizens probably do as well, because they've been working

(53:32):
here for some time. When is the last day you
can send in federal income tax forms That, my friends,
would be April fifteenth. That is correct, says the practice exam.
Next question, all right, we're going to get.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
Zach screen. Just get a name, Zach. That's all you need.

Speaker 1 (53:52):
Uh uh yeah, you guys, We're gonna hold you on
really quick.

Speaker 2 (53:57):
We'll pitch on hold. We're gonna put you on hold.
I'm gonna puts you on hold.

Speaker 1 (54:02):
Now, you're all on hold. If you can hear me
on the phone, you're on hold. Can you just give
me a first name? Yeah, hang on, Zach. Zach's gonna
what's happening right now is the phone is on one
side of the console. The computer with the screener is
on the other side of the console.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
So as you can.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
Imagine, is that Joshu one three? Okay, then you go
to Joshua. Okay, Joshua, are you ready for your civics question?

Speaker 2 (54:25):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (54:25):
Your civics question is what are two rights of everyone
living in the United States.

Speaker 2 (54:30):
I'm going to give you four options. Okay.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
Option A freedom of religion and freedom to make treaties
with other countries. Option B freedom of speech and freedom
of religion. Option C freedom of speech and freedom to
run for president and option D freedom to petition the
government and freedom to disobey traffic laws. That would be

(54:55):
option B.

Speaker 4 (54:56):
Mandy, you are correct, and.

Speaker 1 (54:58):
So says the two thousand and Hang on, You're still
in the mix now, so hang on, I'm gonna give
the next one might be harder.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
Hang on. Let's see going to.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
Mark, Are you ready for your civics question? And I
need to remind you that two thousand and eight? This
is the two thousand Well, no, this is a current
question though. Okay, I'm gonna ask the current question and
see if you get it right. Number number three, what
is the name of the Speaker of the House of
Representatives now.

Speaker 4 (55:28):
Johnson?

Speaker 2 (55:29):
Yes, correct, So.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
These are questions that are now questions. But it says
two thousand and eight to success.

Speaker 2 (55:35):
Well done. Hang on, you're still in the mix.

Speaker 8 (55:37):
All right.

Speaker 1 (55:38):
Let me go to Mike. Mike your trip you Are
you ready for your civics question? What are the two
you better get this? What are the two major political
parties in the United States?

Speaker 2 (55:49):
Republican Democratic?

Speaker 7 (55:51):
Correct?

Speaker 1 (55:51):
I don't even have to click on it to know
that that is correct. All right, Hang in there one second,
we're gonna go and get Mark. Are you ready for
your second question? If you want to join in three
oh three seven one, three eighty five, eighty five, Mark,
are you ready for your second question?

Speaker 5 (56:05):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (56:06):
What is an amendment?

Speaker 4 (56:07):
Mark? An amendment to the Constitution? Wall the first amendment,
and so they were the amendments of the Constitution.

Speaker 1 (56:16):
But you can't use the word amendment in the definition
of an amendment.

Speaker 4 (56:20):
Okay, okay, they were additioned to the constitution.

Speaker 1 (56:25):
How about let me give you're so close, You're so close,
I'm going to give it to you. It's actually a
change to the constitution. That's what amendments are. You know,
you may be thinking of the Bill of Rights, the
first ten they were kind of added on immediately, but
every other amendment since then has addressed a specific issue
in the Constitution. All right, I'm gonna let you go

(56:46):
so we get somebody else. We're going to do this
for just this segment. All right.

Speaker 2 (56:49):
Who is this? I didn't even wait for him to
screen you. Who's this? Hello? Are you talking to me?
I am talking to you? Hello Mike again?

Speaker 7 (56:58):
Hello?

Speaker 2 (56:58):
Oh Mike? Okay, here you go.

Speaker 1 (56:59):
When was the Constitution written? Nope, that would be the
Declaration of independence. You are wrong, but uh, seventeen eighty
seven was when the constitution was.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
We had to win the war first and then we
made the constitution. All right, I'm dropping you out because
you got that one wrong.

Speaker 1 (57:17):
No citizenship for you, Mike, none, Julie, are you ready
for your civics question? Yes, I am, okay. We elect
a US senator for how many years?

Speaker 2 (57:35):
Four? That is incorrect, Julie. It is six years.

Speaker 1 (57:39):
We elect our members of the House of Representatives for
two years, and senators get to keep their seat for
six years.

Speaker 2 (57:46):
So you got that wrong. But that's okay.

Speaker 1 (57:49):
Why did the colonists fight the British zach Why.

Speaker 3 (57:55):
Taxation without representation? Yes, and they wanted it.

Speaker 2 (58:00):
Dependents weren't able to they weren't able to vote.

Speaker 1 (58:04):
Yes, that was taxation without representation the British state in
their houses and the text ver few mind. Yeah, I
mean and that that answer is actually all of these
because there were three answers there, so you know these
aren't impossible. But it's interesting that native born folks got
a couple of them wrong. Ish Julie was wrong, and

(58:25):
then another gentleman was wrong as well. There are four
amendments to the Constitution about who can vote. Describe one
of them. So that's an interesting.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
Way are we going to go here, Rocky Mountain Bronx Bill?
How you doing? My friend?

Speaker 7 (58:39):
Hey? How you doing?

Speaker 1 (58:41):
Question again, the question is there are four amendments to
the constitution constitution about who can vote? Describe one of them.

Speaker 7 (58:50):
Uh, the thirteen or the fourteenth had to do with
the prior slaves.

Speaker 1 (58:56):
Well, but what did it say did what did it
say about how.

Speaker 2 (58:59):
Who can vote?

Speaker 7 (59:02):
There were no restrictions that they were free to vote. Well,
they were full citizens.

Speaker 1 (59:08):
Uh, it's yeah, but that's not one of my answers.
It wasn't directly about to vote. Yeah, yeah, sorry, that's okay.
The correct answer is you have to be eighteen to vote.
Citizens eighteen and older can vote. So there you go.

(59:29):
We're not doing this. It's kind of interesting, though, isn't it.
Some of this stuff we don't know. So whenever you
think about people out there coming from a foreign country,
studying in a language that is not their first language,
those people that make it through this test and they
get to become citizens, it is a glorious, glorious thing.
And as a matter of fact, when my friend's husband

(59:50):
becomes a citizen, that is his intention. He's living in
the United States trying to become a citizen. I cannot
wait to fly and watch him take that oath. I
just think it's so incredibly special. Come on, Mandy, most
people would study before taking the test. No one takes
a cold. You have to think about this for a
second now. I know, depending on your age, it's been

(01:00:11):
decades since you studied this stuff in school. And I
have to say this to my daughter sometimes because you'll say, Mom,
what about this? And I'm like, okay, wait, wait, wait,
go back and do a quick review for me about that,
because it's been a long time. But ultimately, we should
already know this stuff reflexively. We don't spend any time
after school reminding of ourself of this stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:00:32):
Maybe we know it's because we have to vote for
people in the House and representatives every two years, and
we don't have to vote for a senator until every
six years. I mean, maybe we know some of it,
but none of this stuff is outrageously hard. We should
know what's in the Constitution. We should know what the
amendments say.

Speaker 2 (01:00:50):
Mandy. You need to make it multiple choice. It is.

Speaker 1 (01:00:54):
It is, But I'll be honest, I knew all the
answers without the multiple choice.

Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
And I'm not saying I'm better than you. But part
of it is my job right.

Speaker 1 (01:01:01):
Part of it is is this constitutional or not? So
I probably spend more time looking at the Constitution than
your average bear.

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
Mandy.

Speaker 1 (01:01:09):
I became a US citizen in twenty twenty here in Colorado.
When I took my oath, my family could not come
to my ceremony due to COVID.

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
Oh that stinks.

Speaker 1 (01:01:20):
Land of the Free, except when there's a bad illness
on the loose. We'll be right back and look at
a text message that says this, Mandy, if you didn't
think the Colorado sidate wasn't stupid enough, Now we have

(01:01:41):
this with a link. So, being me, I clicked a
link takes me to X where I find this bit
of Well, I'm gonna let you just hear it for yourself.
This is Democrat Colorado State Senator Chris Colker on the

(01:02:02):
floor of the Colorado Senate.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
Can I have my audio please, Zach, thank you.

Speaker 9 (01:02:09):
I'm accountable to Almighty God because I'm standing up for
equality that my decisions. One day I will stand before
him and be accountable. Well, this is what I believe.

(01:02:31):
You ever seen that movie Talladega Knights, and you see
that's section where they're talking around the dinner table and
they're talking about what their favorite version.

Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
Of Jesus is. All Right, baby Jesus, I love baby Jesus.

Speaker 9 (01:02:47):
And the guy goes, well, I love Leonard Skinner Jesus.
When the angels are behind him and the choir is
singing and he's playing free Bird. Well, my dad, judgment.
I I might be standing in front of trans Jesus.
I don't know. I don't know. That's what I believe,

(01:03:10):
and I believe that Jesus God will look at me
and say, you stood up for people. You sit up
for those who we're less fortunate, who struggled. You may pass,
you may enter.

Speaker 2 (01:03:30):
Trans Jesus. So let me just review very very quickly.

Speaker 1 (01:03:37):
Jesus is considered by Christians to be the son of God.
Nothing may be son of God, not the unless he
feels differently. Son of God. Jesus is the son of God, God,
the Father. Jesus has soned the whole nine yards. And
now you have this dingbat standing on the floor of
a Senate, so desperate to be seen as the right

(01:03:59):
kind of democrat that he invokes trans Jesus created in
the image of his father. But God got it wrong
with his own son, Jesus. So how are we supposed
to think he would ever get it right if he
gets his own son wrong trans Jesus. I mean sometimes

(01:04:27):
I say things on the show and they sound way
different than I say. I'm in my head right, and
they don't come out as elegantly as I thought it would.
Or I say something and it sounds like a double
entendre that I didn't mean to make, and I have
to go, oh, Jesus, man, I did not come out.
Do you think he has any sort of self awareness
invoking trans Jesus.

Speaker 3 (01:04:45):
I mean, the plan was so ham fisted, I imagine, not
like even if you're trying to go for that point,
and I get what he was trying to go for,
but do you like, why invoke talladegad Knights in that
moment that immediately trans Jesus.

Speaker 1 (01:04:58):
Okay, this is like a scene out of Talladega Knights.

Speaker 3 (01:05:01):
Yeah, it's You're trying to make like some powerful, heartfelt
speech and it's hard to tee that up. With like
it's like the scene out of Talladega Knights, the Will
Ferrell movie like that. Just it's a tough cell.

Speaker 1 (01:05:12):
Yeah, trans Jesus Ah Colorado, Ah, Colorado.

Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
That is on my Twitter page if you'd like to
see that.

Speaker 1 (01:05:29):
I have this story. I'm gonna do very very quickly
because I just put it on here because it's interesting
to see the way layoffs are covered and layoffs are
responded to.

Speaker 2 (01:05:39):
We've been being told by the.

Speaker 1 (01:05:41):
Left, the Democrats, the progressives that every single person that
has been fired from the federal government is critical to
its operation, cannot be spared, no jobs can be cut.
Everyone must remain employed, even if the mission changes, even
if we don't need you, even if you're redundant, you
must keep your job. As a matter of fact, Representative

(01:06:03):
Joanagoz showed up outside Noah when he heard Doge was
in the house. They weren't, but protesters came out on this. Oddly, though,
when Chevron announces that it's laying off one hundred and
twenty five employees in Denver in an effort they say
to streamline their operation, there was a news story, but
certainly no sympathy.

Speaker 2 (01:06:25):
And yet I'm guessing. When word gets out.

Speaker 1 (01:06:27):
About the National Renewable Energy Lab where one hundred and
fourteen people were laid off from their government job, there
will be outrage.

Speaker 2 (01:06:35):
It will be heard across the land.

Speaker 1 (01:06:38):
I just find it interesting that jobs in government are sacred,
but jobs working for a company that delivers every single
product in the world in the form of energy, that
runs trucks and trains and ships, when they let people go,
there's no panic. None of those jobs are important because
that industry is not important, not as important as government is.

(01:06:58):
For sure, when do we get back? We've got real
ID Today is the day. If you don't have one yet,
your fault just saying. And the Department of Homeland Security
is offered a check for one thousand dollars to illegal
immigrants if they'd like to go home. When you hear

(01:07:19):
the response of one dude from Honduras, you will really
wish they would all take it. Grant Smith has been
swept in as the producer du jour right now in
his Ohio University Go Bobcat sweatshirt.

Speaker 2 (01:07:40):
Oh oh yeah, oh I like that. Oh you oh yeah,
that's good. I had heard that, don't know I missed that.

Speaker 1 (01:07:46):
If you were listening to the show earlier and you
heard me talking about the African chicken rub. The recipe
that I had. I put it on my Facebook page
and it's very easy and you can adjust the heat
by adjusting the amount of of red pepper flakes.

Speaker 2 (01:08:01):
It is so good.

Speaker 1 (01:08:03):
But somebody on the comments section asked for Dave Lowers
cheesecake recipe.

Speaker 2 (01:08:07):
Guys, if you google Dave Lowers.

Speaker 1 (01:08:09):
Cheesecake recipe, it will take you to a post I
did years ago with Dave's cheesecake recipe. It's on the internet,
so you can always find that there.

Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:08:18):
After I made the comments about the coverage of layoffs,
I got an email from someone who was not happy
with me and said, Mandy, Jesus Christ a little sympathy
for anyone losing their jobs. Do you hate all federal employees.
I want to be clear about something, and I said
this on the blog. I'm not rooting for anyone to
lose their jobs. I'm not rooting for people to lose

(01:08:39):
their jobs in the private sector. I'm not rooting for
people to lose their jobs in the public sector. But
the reality is we are spending two trillion dollars a
year more than we're taking in every year we have
thirty eight trillion dollars in debt.

Speaker 2 (01:08:53):
This is simply unsustainable.

Speaker 1 (01:08:56):
It is we cannot continue because so what happens after
a massive debt crisis is so bad that everybody will
lose their jobs.

Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
I mean, you know, and this is I hate.

Speaker 1 (01:09:08):
Like I was saying, Oh, you're gonna be the sacrificial lamb,
but when I am, I'm I'm a small government person.
So I realize that as I advocate for smaller government,
it is going to have a real impact on human lives.
And I'm deeply sorry if you are one of those people.
But I don't think the country can continue on the
trajectory that we're on and not experience a debt crisis

(01:09:30):
so severe that it sends the whole world into recession
and absolutely.

Speaker 2 (01:09:34):
Puts China and Rush in charge of everything.

Speaker 1 (01:09:37):
So, yeah, Mandy, I just heard bison petting season is
started in Yellowstone.

Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
Haha. Texture For those who.

Speaker 1 (01:09:45):
Don't know, there is no bison petting season unless you
go to a petting zoo where they have a bison
it will let you pet it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:53):
There's no petting of the bison.

Speaker 1 (01:09:57):
I'm never grant do you follow turns of yellow of Yellowstone.

Speaker 2 (01:10:02):
I do not. Oh magical, It's.

Speaker 1 (01:10:05):
An Instagram feed and they call them turns instead of morons.
And it's people like there's a bear on the side
of the road. People are stopping their car like running
after the bear to take a picture. It never ceases
to amaze me what Disney movies have made us believe
as possible.

Speaker 6 (01:10:21):
Well, listening to that story from Keenan and the news update,
just like with the cows and Jerry Creek, No about
the bison then goring someone in Yellowstone.

Speaker 2 (01:10:30):
No, I didn't hear the news so I missed that part. Yes,
it's just the first one.

Speaker 1 (01:10:35):
We're like barely in National Park season, right, it just started. Yeah,
And you know what, I don't mean to seem I
don't know, unsympathetic, but I am unsympathetic to that particular situation.
You're not out on the planes trying to bring down

(01:10:55):
a buffalo to feed the entire town or tribe. You're
a tourist, you idiot. Stay away from the thing with
the big horns. Shouldn't be that hard. Good grief. Seriously,
I got a story that I kind of I rolled
really hard about today and it's about the offer being

(01:11:18):
made by the Department of Homeland Security about self deportation,
and self deportation is not something that has never happened before.
When there was a huge crackdown on illegal labor in
the state of Florida, a lot of illegal immigrants self
deported because there was no work right They couldn't work

(01:11:38):
because there was a lot of immigration enforcement and they
were checking status, and you know, it was.

Speaker 2 (01:11:44):
A serious situation. A lot of people left.

Speaker 1 (01:11:46):
Now we have a bunch of people here illegally, none
of whom I think really are working that I know of.
I mean, I don't know what their status is, but
they believe that they're going to be here forever. So
when the Department of Homeland Security and bounced that it
was offering financial and travel assistance to immigrants who wanted
to self deport let's just say some of them did
not take kindly to it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:09):
For instance, Dean ver.

Speaker 1 (01:12:10):
Seven sat down with Pablo Acosta, an immigrant from Honduras,
who said he is skeptical about the federal government's proposal.

Speaker 2 (01:12:18):
Acosta said the.

Speaker 1 (01:12:20):
Decision to come to the United States was a matter
of life or death for his family, and he says
that it's an insulting offer.

Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
Insulting.

Speaker 1 (01:12:33):
Now, if I were the United States government, I would
be like, hey, we can send you somewhere else where
do you want to go?

Speaker 2 (01:12:41):
You just can't stay here.

Speaker 1 (01:12:42):
It's like, well, you know, when you're the last in
the bar, last calls over, they're trying to get everybody
else like you can say you can sleep somewhere, but
you can't sleep here. You gotta go. You really have
to go now. Again, these are people I have compassion with.
They live in a crap whole country of Honduras, full of.

Speaker 2 (01:12:58):
Corruption, all of that stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:13:00):
But there's a way to come here legally, and it
doesn't include walking across the southern border. I just thought
that that was a little bit ridiculous. By the way,
the first immigrants have taken them up on it, and
we'll see what happens next. So, uh, it's an insult,
that's it. It's an insult that the government would offer

(01:13:23):
them money to go back somewhere else before they get
kicked out of the country. What's insulting is that you
come over, you break our laws, and then when we
try to say, look, we're trying to give you a
way out here.

Speaker 2 (01:13:36):
Then you say you're insulted. I don't care how insulted
you are. I really don't.

Speaker 1 (01:13:42):
Do you realize how much dumb stuff happens because someone
stands there and goes that is so insulting, and we're
all supposed to care. The last time someone said that
is the most insulting thing I've ever heard. So something
that I said that was completely innocuous, no ill intent
mean whatsoever, did not even occur to me that it
could be taken in a negative way. And this person

(01:14:02):
just decided they were gonna get that out of That
is the most insulting thing I've ever heard. And I
just went so, number one, I didn't mean it that way.
But number two, why do I care if you're insulted?
I don't even know you. And they didn't really have
anything to say after that. I just you know, if
I insult someone on purpose, I don't care if they're insulted,

(01:14:25):
But if I insult them accidentally, yeah, I didn't meet
it like that, And if you're insulted, I guess I
should apologize.

Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
I guess it should have been nicer, but it was the.

Speaker 1 (01:14:33):
Way they said it, like somehow I was the problem well,
I was like, you really had to contort that to.

Speaker 2 (01:14:39):
Make it into an insult.

Speaker 1 (01:14:41):
Mandy, is there a Vegas line on how many will
be gored in Yellowstone each year? Do you know to
go to of those prop bet websites.

Speaker 2 (01:14:47):
Wait, let's just do this. Hang on, We'll do it
this way. Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:14:51):
Can I bet on the over under on gorrings in
yellow Stone this summer?

Speaker 2 (01:15:01):
Okay? Let's see. Uh oh wait, that is actually a thing.

Speaker 1 (01:15:07):
You cannot legally bet on the over under of bison
gorings in Yellowstone Park this summer or at any time.

Speaker 2 (01:15:14):
However.

Speaker 1 (01:15:16):
The twenty twenty four bison's score is done by PNW
fly Fishing, where people share the names and information about
people who get gord in Yellowstone Park because they're too
close to animals with giant horns on their head.

Speaker 2 (01:15:37):
Come on, guys, I mean it's kind.

Speaker 1 (01:15:40):
Of like when I hear people getting gorged at the
Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain. My immediate reaction
is it kind of asks for that, didn't you? I mean,
you sign up for the race and what made you

(01:16:00):
on the on the show? I think they were were
responsible for their gig here, But I'm just gonna say,
I don't think it wasn't. We were supposed to go
see Parliament tonight, but we got a roof leak, so
I have to called Spike Golden Spike roofing, he's coming out.
Check the situation. Yeah, I've seen George Clinton in Parliament
so many times. But I've learned this in my lifetime.

(01:16:22):
If you want to see a rock star musician that
is over sixty five, you better see them every time
they come, you know what I'm saying, because they'll die
on you.

Speaker 2 (01:16:34):
And you don't want to miss it. You don't want
to miss the last time.

Speaker 6 (01:16:36):
I actually thought about going to that show because.

Speaker 2 (01:16:38):
I've got tickets for you if you want to go.
Have you ever seen him? No, Oh dude, I'm going.
I got to watch the Nuggets tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:16:44):
It's such a good show. It's they're so and Yeah.
I mean, you got Bootsy Collins, you got George Clinton,
you got the pipont you tear the roof off that mother.
I mean, ironically, I can't go see them tear the
roof off the mother because I've gotta find out what's
wrong with my roof.

Speaker 2 (01:17:03):
So yeah, there you go, bring it all full circle.

Speaker 1 (01:17:06):
Today is the day that the real ID becomes a thing.
But lest you think that, if you don't have a
real ID, and I'll explain to you what that is.
And if you have a Colorado driver's license issued since
twenty thirteen, you have a real ID. There another stupid
kabuki theater, useless piece of garbage that the federal government

(01:17:30):
decided to do under the guise of making a safer
and yet no one can tell us how it's going
to make us safer. When last time I was on
an airplane, there's people from.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
All over the world there.

Speaker 1 (01:17:46):
Oh yeah, there's people from India sitting right in front
of me. There was a guy from the Caribbean sitting to.

Speaker 2 (01:17:51):
The left of me. I mean, it's just it's wild.

Speaker 1 (01:17:53):
None of them have a real ID. So why in
the world is this going to make us a bit safer? Now,
now that I've had my little fit about another stupid
layer of idiocy that is going to do nothing, I
will tell you that if you want to fly from
this point forward from today on, if you do not
have a real ID or a passport, I use my

(01:18:16):
Global Entry ID all the time.

Speaker 2 (01:18:18):
Here you go, that's the government says, I'm good. Just
take that.

Speaker 1 (01:18:23):
It's going to be a hassle going through security from
this point forward. You're gonna have to go to a
separate line. You're gonna get extra screen. I'm not saying
there's gonna be a body cavity search, but you never know.
Should be ready for anything. And guys, lest you think
how did this.

Speaker 2 (01:18:39):
Get sprung upon me?

Speaker 1 (01:18:41):
How, listen to this from nine News. They grabbed a
story out of Chicago or San fran Rather Marian Henderson
who applied for her real ID on Tuesday, and Jackson,
Mississippi said, I'm here today, so I won't be right
on the deadline, which is tomorrow. This bill was passed
years ago. Wait to slide it in at the last minute. There, Marian,

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but not on the last day. Never let it be
said that Marian is a slacker who would wait till
the last day. Not Marian, no way. Michael Licido was
waiting at the DMV and King of Prussia, Philadelphia for
about two and a half hours before getting his real ID,
and he said, it's a pain in the butt. It's
really a lot of time. Everybody's got to take off

(01:19:26):
work from here to be here. It's a big waste
of time as far as I'm concerned. He's not wrong,
but it is the wall of the lamb. So if
you're planning on flying, you're gonna want to make sure
you've got that. When we get back, Grant, I'm gonna
ask a question.

Speaker 2 (01:19:40):
Think about it. On the break.

Speaker 1 (01:19:41):
I'll be making you answer when we get back. Is
the word funnest an actual word. We'll be right back.
Are you sure you don't want those tickets? I'll get
to somebody right.

Speaker 2 (01:19:59):
Now, let's do it. I'll give them to somebody.

Speaker 1 (01:20:02):
I'll give them to somebody on the text line at
five six six nine, Oh, who can give me?

Speaker 5 (01:20:07):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:20:07):
Let me just do.

Speaker 1 (01:20:08):
Texter number ten that said I want parliament and you
have to spell parliament right, just kidding. You don't have
to go four tickets for tonight, so please let me
get them away to you. And if you've never seen parliament,
get ready, bring your funky shoes with you. And I
said funky. A great column by Rob Natleson about the

(01:20:29):
fact that it's time to end funding to public broadcasting.
This has been a b in my bonnet for some
time because I work in what's called commercial radio. Meaning
we have to go out and our salespeople do an
amazing job. They go out, they sell advertising. That's how
we stay on the air. Nobody sends us money in
the mail, nobody gives us money for the government, and

(01:20:52):
yet we're surviving. And it used to be that you
would listen to NPR or CPR, and I listened to
CPR on occasion. My friend Haley May is now there,
so I try to to hear her when she's on.
But now what used to be sponsorship announcements, like it
was like this segment brought to you by the Baker

(01:21:13):
Family Foundation, and.

Speaker 2 (01:21:15):
That was it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:17):
And now they're doing full on commercials. They are doing
full on commercial announcements. They're telling you about deals that
people are having, and their charter says they can't do
that because then they're more in competition with commercial radio.
But they're already we're competing against government subsidized media. Drives

(01:21:39):
me crazy, especially because now just entertainment options are so
vast that we are we fight, We fight for our
little corner of the world here on radio, and the
fact that my tax dollars fund my competition drives me insane,
absolutely insane. Now Rob Nagelson from the Independence Institute does

(01:22:01):
a beautiful job of sort of laying out the reasons,
like solid reasons other than me being irritated, Like that's
a that's not.

Speaker 2 (01:22:09):
A convincing argument, right, I realize this. I'm just venting
my spleen.

Speaker 1 (01:22:14):
But he lays out how government funding inevitably distorts the
result of what you've got, right.

Speaker 2 (01:22:22):
It distorts the results.

Speaker 1 (01:22:23):
Of scientific inquiry, it results the it distorts you know,
educational situations in college by creating a third party payer,
it's costs, it's driven the cost of college up to
an insane rate. And he makes some points in this
column that is very very good, he said, in this case,
the product continued federal funding from mass media is pernicious.

(01:22:48):
A very long history confirms that government funding tends to
corrupt the arts. That's one reason public broadcasting news coverage
is so heavily biased in favor of the leftists who
support their funding. Employing public funds to generate more public
funds is yet another example of corruption. When the federal
government amplifies its voice in the mass media, it undercuts

(01:23:10):
the free debate protected by the First Amendment. National Public
Radio's claim that President Trump's efforts to stop funding is
an affront to the First Amendment. Has it precisely backwards.
The federal government has an enormous annual budget deficit, which
is feeding a debt monster larger than the entire American economy.

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Expenditures on public broadcasting are regressive. That is, the relatively
wealthy CPR listener gets the content at the expense of
the poorer taxpayer, and expenditures on public broadcasting CPR funding
illustrates the federal government's current fiscal trap. Second, the damage

(01:23:52):
from federal funding and programs like CPR are social as
well as fiscal. And then he goes on to explain
the fiscal and social damages. Now, I want to compare
this to a story that I had on yesterday's blog,
and it was a column written by a guy making
the case that Israel needs to stop taking American foreign aid,

(01:24:13):
and I agree with it. And you guys know, I'm
a staunch supporter of Israel. I want Israel to have
the right to defend itself. I want Israel to have
the right to destroy Hamas and hopefully get to a
point where they can actually live in peace rather than
constantly have to deal with the proxies of Iran trying
to destroy their nation. And as long as they are
beholden to us by taking foreign aid, and by the way,

(01:24:36):
our foreign aid that we get that we give to
Israel is a minuscule fraction of their overall GDP, they
can absolutely go this alone.

Speaker 2 (01:24:47):
They do not need our help.

Speaker 1 (01:24:49):
And the guy who was arguing this, by the way,
was Israeli. So if Israel decided to say no, thank you,
we don't want to be your beneficiary anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:24:59):
We want to be your partner. Because in Israel right now,
some of.

Speaker 1 (01:25:03):
The most interesting tech research and medical research is going
on right at this minute. And if Israel wants to
be viewed as being able to stand on their own
two feet economically militarily, they should be allowed to use
their own money to buy whatever weapons that we sell
to other nations. What happens now is we give four

(01:25:25):
billion dollars in subsidies to Israel, and it is restricted
to only being spent on American military hardware. Think about
that for a second. That four billion dollars to Israel
is just a subsidy for the American defense contractor. Now,
don't get me wrong, I'm not mad about our massive

(01:25:46):
military I believe in deterrence through strength. I totally believe that.
But ultimately the foreign aid circle of money going from
the taxpayer to Israel right back to defense contractors, that
entire cycle could be broken. You just asked Israel to
pay for its own stuff. The defense contractors are still

(01:26:08):
getting their money, they're still selling their weapons, but the
American taxpayers are no longer on the hook. Isn't it
interesting though, that Israel The argument being made, if Israel
wants to be out from under the federal government, they
have to stop taking their money and NPR under the
leadership of what's her name, Catherine Maher, who fully denies

(01:26:31):
that there's any sort of liberal bias at PBS, which
is I mean, you guys, I mean, I mean, come on, seriously,
we all know, we all one hundred percent know, we
get it. We know. So wouldn't that standard reason that
in order to be truly independent and free of any bias,

(01:26:54):
the first thing they need to do is get out
from under the federal government's thumb. But the same principles apply,
So yeah, it is time to end funding to public
radio and all of the people who love CPR and
adore it. They can write a slightly bigger check and
the rest of us who don't want to subsidize the
competition can stop doing that. And by the way, I

(01:27:18):
looked it up the other day, the intellectual property around
Sesame Street is valued at about forty million dollars. That's just
the IP, meaning the images, all the stuff they license,
all the toys that they do. So all this they're
going to kill big bird crap is just that. It's
the same as believing that the federal government pulling all

(01:27:39):
funding from Harvard is somehow going to make a difference.

Speaker 2 (01:27:42):
At Harvard.

Speaker 1 (01:27:43):
I mean, they've got to their endowment is like forty
billion dollars maybe more. It's insane how much money they have.
And don't give me that about this is what people
from universities love to say about their massive endowments. They're like,
a lot of the day was airb arked by donors
for very specific things, and I'm like, we'll go back

(01:28:05):
to the donors and say, got to keep the lights on,
so we're gonna use your money for that. If they
love your school, they probably won't have a problem with it.
The notion that all of these things, all of these
things are gonna go under. They're all gonna die. People
are gonna die because of these kinds. I'm not buying
it to get it again. I'm not looking and excited

(01:28:26):
about people losing their jobs. But thirty eight trillion dollars
in debt, two trillion dollars a year in deficits, it
is unsustainable. We cannot keep doing this and it's gonna
take some really painful things to get us where we
need to be. Now, my favorite story of the day, Grants,

(01:28:50):
are you ready to answer my question about the word funnest.

Speaker 2 (01:28:54):
I use this word all the time. That's disgusting. I
had the funnest time. It is a word.

Speaker 1 (01:29:01):
It is not.

Speaker 6 (01:29:02):
Yes, this is this is proof of the dumbing down
of the United States. If we're making funnest a word.

Speaker 1 (01:29:09):
No, No, funnest has been a word since the eighteen seventies.

Speaker 2 (01:29:14):
Grant Smith that I did not believe this. Marriam Webster
Mirriam Webster.

Speaker 1 (01:29:18):
Merriam Webster says funnest is a perfectly acceptable word that
suffers from.

Speaker 2 (01:29:24):
A lack of widespread use.

Speaker 1 (01:29:26):
People are unjustifiably trepidacious about using the superlative form of
the adjective fund. The evidence shows funnest appeared in print
as far back as the eighteen seventies, when it was
used in a similar context.

Speaker 2 (01:29:40):
To how people use it today.

Speaker 1 (01:29:43):
So even if some detractors Grant Smith would rather the
word funnest not exist because it sounds like something a
child would say, the world's one hundred and fifty year
old history can't be denied. Funnest is very real, and
sometimes it's okay to use simple terms to express ourselves,
especially how much, but how much fun we're having? That

(01:30:05):
was the funnest story of the day. That was stupid
so good, it's the best story. I wondered why I
wasn't getting any text messages. It logged me out or
something that's.

Speaker 2 (01:30:14):
Like awesomer funnest and awesomer sound.

Speaker 1 (01:30:16):
This awesomer I also use. I tried to stop using
the word awesome. It's so hard because it's such a
great word, such a great word, but it's overused. It's overplayed.
I've been using it for forty years. It's time to
walk it back. NPR Mandy not CPR. NPR and CPR
are connected. CPR chares programming and gets funds from NPR

(01:30:40):
so if you defund NPR, you're going to defund part
of CPR at the same time.

Speaker 2 (01:30:45):
So that is what's going to happen.

Speaker 1 (01:30:48):
Mandy, I used to run and operate my own private
learned to Swim program. Believe me, I feel your pain.
I don't remember what we were talking about. Uh, Grant,
did you get some Parliament tickets?

Speaker 2 (01:31:02):
Do you want me to get the numbers?

Speaker 1 (01:31:04):
I just need an email address, get a name. That's
what I need from that. Yeah, if you can send
me that, I'll send them over. Just pick one. I
don't care, it's fine. Oh, this story's bad, you guys,
this story's really bad.

Speaker 2 (01:31:15):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:31:15):
Should I end the show with Smokey Robinson might be
a complete disgusting creep, or go into war with Canada?

Speaker 2 (01:31:24):
You pick, Grant? Oh do we have time for both?

Speaker 6 (01:31:28):
I don't know all trials as that story blows my mind.

Speaker 1 (01:31:32):
Well, Smokey Robinson, eighty five years old, has now he
and his wife have been sued by four women who
worked for him and her as assistants and housekeepers. And
these four women say that Smokey Robinson raped them repeatedly
over a period of years. And my guess is and

(01:31:54):
I'm speculating wildly here because they're all listed as a
Jane Doe. I'm guessing these women may be illegal ima
and they either didn't want to go to the police
so they thought they couldn't find another job or whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:32:06):
That's so gross.

Speaker 1 (01:32:07):
And I know, guilty or excuse me, innocent until proven guilty.
But apparently he has settled some issues like this in
the past, so I would imagine that people are going
to come out of the woodwork on this one.

Speaker 2 (01:32:20):
Just stay you know, calm.

Speaker 1 (01:32:24):
That's just sad, though I love Smokey Robinson's music.

Speaker 2 (01:32:27):
Now back to the last story of the day. This
is fan freakingtastic.

Speaker 1 (01:32:32):
Kaye Tour was speaking on Tuesday with Canadian journalist Stephen Marsh,
whose article in The Atlantic evokes the chance of an
armed conflict with US's neighbor to the north Man. If
I could have my audio, I appreciate it on my computer.
Oh he's on the phone, Yeah, you got it. Okay, here,
I'll just play the exchange for you. I hope this
works Atlantic and I this around to my friends.

Speaker 2 (01:32:55):
Just the very fact that it was published.

Speaker 5 (01:32:58):
I think is surprising that we can have a conversation
that is serious about what a war with Canada would
look like.

Speaker 2 (01:33:05):
Explain why it's no longer unthinkable.

Speaker 8 (01:33:09):
Well, because Donald Trump makes us think it, right, I mean,
he talks about annexing us on a on a regular basis.
I mean, somewhere around two percent of the American population
actually want to do this. But you know, at this
point in its history, you know, the American people can
obviously be convinced of anything, right, and already you see
numbers of Republicans who consider Canada an enemy to be

(01:33:31):
growing are And you know, I think when when countries
are in constitutional crisis and when their legal system starts
to fall apart, as an America's legal system is falling apart,
violence against against neighboring countries is a very common you know,
to me, it's very intimately tied with this talk about
being a third term president, right, That's exactly That's out

(01:33:52):
of the playbook of authoritarian governments around the world. And so,
you know, Canada really does need to think about protecting
ourselves from the United States.

Speaker 2 (01:34:01):
Too bad.

Speaker 1 (01:34:01):
They have no military to speak of, no defenses to
speak of, no real way to defend themselves against us,
because they've been pretty much just relying on us this
whole time? What could we call this war? It would
this be the Battle of Poutine? What could we do here?
I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm I'm I could
watch a war with Canada and CNN I did it

(01:34:23):
like we did it with the golf War, right?

Speaker 2 (01:34:24):
We could?

Speaker 1 (01:34:25):
Then Albright joined the chat as has Ryan Edwards. What
do you think we could call her polite surrender of
all time?

Speaker 5 (01:34:32):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:34:32):
Hey, did you Eric?

Speaker 7 (01:34:33):
Did?

Speaker 2 (01:34:34):
Didn't a movie? It was a Canadian Bacon or something
like that? Did we already did we already do this? Yeah? Yeah?
And that was John Candy's last movie, wasn't it? Sure?
Oh that's a sad way to go out.

Speaker 1 (01:34:45):
I'm centering his entire Candon that was his last movie?

Speaker 2 (01:34:49):
Think that was his last movie? Ah, that's terrible.

Speaker 1 (01:34:52):
That's like missing the game winner in the game seven
of a series and then retiring.

Speaker 2 (01:34:56):
That's horrible. Don't do that.

Speaker 1 (01:35:00):
So I'm looking forward to war with Canada. That should
be super fun. I just want I can't wait to
see a whole bunch of mounties on their horses with
their hats and stuff, trotting across with the fancy stepping
horses that'll be impressive. That'll strike fear of God into
Detroit here on their knees shaken right now?

Speaker 2 (01:35:18):
Yeah, I uh, I don't know that would be I'm sorry,
I'm sorry, sorry for shooting it. Oh did I shoot you? Sorry?

Speaker 7 (01:35:26):
So?

Speaker 2 (01:35:26):
Are you okay?

Speaker 7 (01:35:27):
Sorry?

Speaker 2 (01:35:28):
Okay? Sorry about that.

Speaker 1 (01:35:30):
The fact that in this, in these comments he says
a next thing, I'm like, already, Canada. Don't give me
more reasons, right, don't give me more reasons by saying
a next thing that's beyond that.

Speaker 2 (01:35:41):
I don't know. Yeah, I got friends that live up
there or whatever.

Speaker 5 (01:35:44):
I can.

Speaker 1 (01:35:44):
I love Canada, I have I I love the entire country.
It's beautiful from end to end. I've been to all
of the you know, various regions and and everyone is
lovely and it's a great place.

Speaker 2 (01:35:58):
But their government is horrible. It's just horrible.

Speaker 1 (01:36:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:36:02):
They I mean, you know, they've.

Speaker 3 (01:36:04):
Obviously voted the way they voted, and they've obviously got
gone their own way.

Speaker 1 (01:36:07):
I just yeah, this textor just suggested a name for
the war the dotcoming Canadian American conflict, and it's gonna
be called the one.

Speaker 2 (01:36:15):
Hour war Gift, the Last long the forty five minute
War forty seven minute war.

Speaker 1 (01:36:21):
Eh oh Canada, I APO can't get over the fact
that we're ramping up spying on Greenland.

Speaker 2 (01:36:30):
Did you see that one?

Speaker 1 (01:36:33):
The thing is is like, we could probably send enough
spies over to spy on every single person in Greenland, individually,
deep in the whole country.

Speaker 2 (01:36:41):
Yeah, I share a buddy. Michael Morrell was like, Fellas,
that's not what cold war means. Yeah, yeah, I like
to get that gig.

Speaker 1 (01:36:47):
You joined the CIA, you become a spy. To school
and they're like you are going to Greenland and you're
like what, Yeah, it's happening there.

Speaker 4 (01:36:57):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:36:57):
He died during filming Canadian Bay and that's awful.

Speaker 5 (01:37:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:37:00):
It was his last It was his last film.

Speaker 1 (01:37:02):
Wagons East was his last movie. Says this textaw was both.

Speaker 3 (01:37:05):
Because he but Wagons used to Believe came out the
year before, because the release date on Canadian Bankon I think.

Speaker 2 (01:37:09):
Was ninety five, right, and I think Wagons each came
out ninety four.

Speaker 1 (01:37:13):
I have offended a Canadian on the text line apparently,
by the.

Speaker 2 (01:37:16):
Way, Yeah, but for those who don't know, Canadian Bacon
was written and directed by Michael Moore.

Speaker 1 (01:37:21):
Oh, somehow that fits so yeah, that really does fit