05-14-25 FULL SHOW - Can India and Pakistan Be Fixed, + Lyft Will Go If Uber Does

Today we do a deep dive on cutter with The Foundation for the Defensive Democracies Cliff May, Jeff propco public schools is a mess, and Trump storms the Middle East.

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Got nice.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
By Connell.

Speaker 4 (00:24):
Sad bab Welcome, Welcome to a Wednesday edition of the show.
I'm your host for the next three hours, Mandy Connell, joined,
of course, by my right hand man. He's a rod
but you can call him Anthony Rodriguez. Today we've got
a bunch of stuff on the blog and some big topics.
My brain kind of hurts a little bit because I've
been doing a deep dive into cutter. Used to be qatar,

(00:47):
but now it's cutter. And you know this.

Speaker 5 (00:52):
Again?

Speaker 4 (00:52):
Is it katar? No, it used to be it used
to bear.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
I thought it was kaar.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
Are we back to guitar?

Speaker 3 (00:58):
I lost track?

Speaker 4 (00:59):
Wait, check it on the internet. See what the Internet says.
Internet is always right. Abraham Lincoln said that I read
that on the Internet anyway, while he's googling to find
out if it's cutter or a Qatar or something totally
different that we're not up to speed.

Speaker 6 (01:14):
On the most Apparently, according to aos Okay, the most
common English pronunciation is qatar katar. Some speakers especially those
with Middle Eastern connections, may pronounce it closer to cutter.

Speaker 7 (01:25):
Okay, Qatar, we're gonna go with guitar either.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
I'm just gonna say Qatar, and I'm just gonna decide
it right now until I forget that I decided it
and refer to it in a different way. But nonetheless,
this Middle Eastern swing by President Trump, if you just
miss Leland Vitter on Ross's show, Leland put it so well,
Donald Trump is upended American foreign policy in the Middle

(01:50):
East with one visit, and oh, thank goodness, thank you Jesus,
because I our Middle East policy has been an unmitigated
disaster in my opinion. Now, granted I have the benefit
of hindsight, it's easy to look back at something and say, boy,
was that stupid? And I feel that about a lot
of the things we've done in the Middle East, Boy

(02:12):
was that stupid? One are the things that is becoming
incredibly crystal clear. And this is driving the left crazy
because the left assumes that Donald Trump is doing whatever
it is he's doing only to benefit himself, and they're
always trying to find the way that Donald Trump is
enriching himself through his presidency. And when he does things

(02:34):
like try to take a jet from Cutter. Uh, yeah,
I don't know. I realized I just said Cutter. I
just I caught myself, even though I was going with guitar.
But now it's Cutter. I don't know that place. And
in hindsight, you look at everything we've done in the
Middle East, and we've done it because for a very

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long time they were so energy dominant that we were
forced to play a certain game in order to continue
having access to that energy. Well, we're not energy reliant
on them anyway. I mean, if worst case scenario, right,
everybody retreats to their borders and nobody is exporting any

(03:17):
kind of natural gas or energy or oil or anything
like that, we're going to be fine. We are aoka,
So that motivation is no more. And Donald Trump, I
believe he is the first anti war president we've had
in a very long time. But where other people see

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reasons to fight, reasons to send their young men to die,
Donald Trump sees wasted opportunity. So he is anti war
and pro economic development because he believes that when prosperity happens,
people are going to be far less anxious to try
and take over the world when their little corner of

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the world is pretty dang good. Now, I know that
that's not going to tamp down all the world's violence,
but a rising tide lifting all ships and whatnot. I mean,
that's there's something to that. When people are happy with
their lives, they're far less likely to get sucked into
some kind of you know, war or some sort of
aggression against their neighbors now their idea logues, especially in

(04:23):
the Middle East. And this is another reason why our
foreign policy has just been a disaster because culturally, the
Islamists are playing a much different game than the game
we are playing. And it's a game they've been playing
since the founding of their religion, and that is the
game of conquering and destroying everybody else who doesn't believe

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what they believe. So we can't we don't have that
kind of stamina because we're not motivated by the same thing.
We're not on a mission from God, you know. I mean,
people may be motivated motivated by their faith, but the
United States of America is not on a mission from God.
Are in their minds, they are, and that's a very
powerful motivator, especially when they're their countries are you know,

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seen as oppressive or the United States the scene as decadent?
So yeah, it was time anyway, gosh, I didn't even
do the blog yet. Sorry about that. Let's do that now. Fine, fine,
I know it did get distracted.

Speaker 7 (05:18):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
Find the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com.
Look for the headline in the latest post section that
says five fourteen twenty five blog Can Indian Pakistan be fixed?
And Lift will go if Uber does? Click on that
and here are the headlines you will find within nick
Tech two A winner I think with whom office half American,

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all with ships and clipments.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
A scene that's going to press plant.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
Today on the blog, we should pay attention to the
India Pakistan flare up. Don't forget about the Broncos schedule
release tonight on k How yes Medicaid cuts are needed? Scrolling?
How can a judge let a kid get away with murder?
Who's going to London? Broncos fans? More buildings sell for
nothing in downtown Denver? If Uber leaves, so will Lift?

(06:06):
No showers for you? Manitou Springs, Doug Co parents, A
child predator at school has been arrested. We may have
finally fixed construction defects. Trump is barn storming the Middle
East right now. David Hogg is out at the DNC.
The Babylon Bee nails. Jake Tapper, did Israel just get
the last October seventh? Mastermind? Tariffs are here, but inflation

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is not. Women are drinking more and that's not good.
The Menendez brothers may get out of prison. What concerts
are the best value? Cans doesn't want your naked body.
The truck was a shell of its former self. Nick
Cage and Christian Bail nail it. Jeffco School's leadership is
a dumpster fire, scrolling trinkflation exposed. The office spin up

(06:51):
spin off looks really good. The opening of idiocracy is
so true right now? Those are the headlines on the
blog at Andy's blog dot com. And you know what
I was thinking, uh a rod. I talked about this
briefly the other day, and I threw it into the ether,
hoping someone would volunteer to make it happen. But no
one has, so I'm probably gonna have to do it myself.

(07:12):
Just fine, you have like forty jobs, you don't need
another one. I want to do it like a series
of movies like wouldn't it be fun to rent out
a theater and invite listeners to come watch politically and
correct movies? And Idiocracy might be our first one.

Speaker 6 (07:28):
If I may, mister Reesience Theater three thousand round, There
we go, Mandy Connell special.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
Yes, we'll bring some of our friends. Maybe that Ryan
Schuling from over across the hall. He's funny, you know,
Maybe that Ross Kaminski sneki a koa cast exactly. Well,
I'm not to do this. I have no idea how
to execute this. So I'll bring this up to somebody
and see if we can make it happen. I think
it'd be super fun. But I'd forgotten about Idiocracies opening

(07:57):
three minutes, which is an absolute delight, a delight. It's
almost freakish to know how long ago this movie came out.

Speaker 6 (08:06):
And in twenty twenty eight, Terry Crews really runs as president.
I mean not a bad candidate at this point. I
mean anything is possible.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
Stephen A.

Speaker 6 (08:18):
Smith versus Terry Crews first, Donald Trump in his third
term versus the spirits of Joe Biden.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
Why a four man race? Why wellocracy?

Speaker 4 (08:28):
Three man on a Ghost. That's true. So if you're
offended by bad language, don't watch it. But it's so
funny and just the first three minutes is going to
make you go, oh my goodness.

Speaker 6 (08:39):
There's an argument to be made that no movie holds
up more than Antiocracy.

Speaker 4 (08:43):
I think it actually is getting better with age. Hey,
you know it's it's it's aging like a fine wine.
It came out in two thousand and six, and it
just keeps getting I know, this is what I'm saying. Yeah,
it's almost twenty years old, and it just keeps getting
more and more fairly accurate every single time.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
I gotta watch it again.

Speaker 4 (09:04):
Now I know you can't watch it. You don't make
sure there's not a mic on, because there's a lot
of potty milthing in there, a lot of potty mouthing
going on.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
Great cast.

Speaker 4 (09:11):
Oh yeah, everybody was in it, and it flew under
the radar at the time when it came.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Out again cult classic.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
Yep, Well wait a minute, maybe we start with PCU.
Have you ever seen Political Correctness University? I believe that
came out in like maybe nineteen eighty one. Look up
and see when PCU came out nineteen ninety four. Okay,
so it's much later than I thought, but still same thing.
It's all about how college campuses go absolutely batpoof crazy, crazy,

(09:42):
insane with political correctness. And it's exactly what happened on
college campuses. I mean like they got the script and
we're like, oh, we can totally play this role. Yeah,
it's the role I was born to play. So maybe
we start with PCU and then go to idiocracy. Let's see,
I'm announced the textures on the common uh Common Spirit

(10:02):
health text line. Oh, Mandy, I rent it out of
theater for my friends one time and it was a blast.
You just have to pick the theater, call the manager
and set up a time at eight.

Speaker 6 (10:12):
But how do you bring in the movie and then
get Luke Wilson to introduce the movie before a place?

Speaker 4 (10:16):
That would be super dope. Do you know him?

Speaker 3 (10:18):
Well, you know I can get him on the phone. Yeah,
you know.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
I do have a task for you. I need you
to track down whoever is in charge a voice to
text for the Android platform. We've got to get someone
on the show to explain this.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
We have to do it next person to get the superior.

Speaker 4 (10:34):
Well, they're not having the same problems the same problems.
I'm here. I'm here to solve the problem, Anthony. I'm
not going to Apple. No, no, and no.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
Okay, have you ever had one? Ever?

Speaker 7 (10:53):
I have a I have a iPad. Count down the
platform with phones I've had both. iPhone is so far
and away better. And I know, for a one, not
a ninety fact, you would like iPhone more.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
I don't. I don't like my iPad.

Speaker 5 (11:12):
I don't.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
I don't like my iPad.

Speaker 5 (11:14):
Don't.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
I don't know what anything is. I don't even know.
This is going to make me look like the biggest
idiot in the world. But you, guys, I promise I'm
smart about other stuff. I have no idea how to
close the windows on my iPad, so scroll up. But
then where do I know? I chuck will pick up
my iPad though, good lord, woman, I have no idea

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that they're all open. I don't know what that is.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
This is the part where I make you feel bad.

Speaker 4 (11:41):
You feel like an idiot.

Speaker 6 (11:42):
iPhone is vastly considered the simpler platforms.

Speaker 4 (11:46):
Oh god, well, maybe there you go.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
Soh not saying you're dumb.

Speaker 7 (11:50):
Yeah yeah, iPhone is easier, I'm okay, more straightforward.

Speaker 4 (11:56):
Yeah, just saying, but again, how how do we get
the movie? People who are texting about this?

Speaker 3 (12:03):
You give us seven dollars.

Speaker 4 (12:05):
Yeah, seven dollars, that's all it is. But how do
you get the movie? That's what I need to know.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
What do you mean? How do you get the movie?

Speaker 4 (12:13):
How do you like if we want to play PCU,
how do we get that movie? Do we have to
buy a DVD? Because I bet you I can find
a DVD or whatever? What format?

Speaker 3 (12:22):
How do you get them?

Speaker 4 (12:23):
That's the question.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
To ask the theater? What platform?

Speaker 4 (12:26):
Okay, let's call the theater. Call find a theater that's
open right now, and let's call a theater and see
if it' A manager will come on the show and
answer these questions.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
I know they won't refer us to someone in PR.

Speaker 4 (12:35):
No, it's fine. Just tell me some questions. So we
have questions about how to rent a theater so we
can show a movie to our listeners. They're going to
want to talk about it. We'll just get them to
do it on the air. Call make it happen. No,
do that right now? Okay, coming up at one o'clock today,
this show's already off the rails. I don't I don't
know if you guys notice it. It's completely I have
no cluence going on right now. I one o'clock the

(12:56):
gets back on the rails. Probably hopefully before that, We're
going to talk to Cliff May from the Foundation for
the Defensive Democracies. You just wrote a column about Indian Pakistan.
And though I have been paying sort of, you know,
corner of the eye attention to Indian Pakistan because they
are both nuclear nations, so if they really go at it,

(13:16):
that could be very, very, very bad, but I did
not have a lot of history or context, and Cliff
wrote a column that gave me both. So reached out
to him this morning and said, hey, can you come
on the show. He's coming on at one to talk
about that, But I also want to talk about the
Middle Eastern swing that President Trump is on right now.
I want to talk about whether or not I can

(13:36):
trust Cutter Qatar Cutter. I'm going with Cutter. It rolls
off the town a little bit better. Going to Cutter,
I'll be wrong. Everybody else will be saying guitar again,
and I'll be the one saying cutter. I don't care,
you know, I'm gonna say Qatar from now on, right,
because I just line in the sand one more time.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
So in the.

Speaker 4 (13:55):
Past couple of days, I've just been reading a lot
about laws that have past in that country, because there's
no doubt that Cutter has been funding terror for many,
many decades. There's no doubt. It's not in question. The
current premiere of I don't know what the head guy
is there, I don't know what actual title is. His

(14:15):
mother tweeted out support for the October October seventh attackers.
So they are not friendly in the sense that they
are friendly to all of our allies. But the reality
is is that Donald Trump is making a swing through
the Middle East in order to get as many allies
on our side as he possibly can, because everybody is

(14:36):
posturing for an actual fight with Iran. Israel has been
absolutely bombing the crap out of the Hoothies, out of Hesbola.
They are absolutely trying to dismantle all of these sort
of proxy organizations that Iran has been using to attack
them for years. And why are they doing that. They're

(14:59):
not going to stop with the Houthis and Hesbela and
Hamas because they know that, like they're already wildly the
way Israel I think is looking at this, and I'm
just an outsider who pays close attention. I think Israel
is like, you know what, the rest of the world
again has turned their backs on us again. So we
are not going to rely on anyone else's advice or

(15:22):
anyone else's whatever. We are going to go and we
are going to destroy the root of the problem, and
that is Iran. And they are working their way there now.
And it doesn't mean that they can't establish a truce
with Hamas currently because there's a pretty good chance it
had not been confirmed by the time I published the blog.

(15:42):
There's a pretty good chance they killed the last high
level member of HAMAS that helped plan the October seventh attack,
and he was widely believed to have been to have
been I'm sorry. Oh wait, we got the manager.

Speaker 6 (15:55):
We have, yes, Josephine on the line from AMC Orchard
AMC Theater an Orchard up north, and we can answer
some general questions about renting out of theater.

Speaker 4 (16:04):
Perfect. Hello Josephine, thank you so much for coming on
the air with me.

Speaker 3 (16:12):
Hello Josephine.

Speaker 4 (16:16):
Hello, Hello Josephine.

Speaker 6 (16:18):
Just okay, Well, I'll tell you what she told me
I think she did. That's okay, that's okay.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
It's easy. It's just going online.

Speaker 6 (16:26):
There's apparently a place on the portal e AMC wise
where you can just fill out all the information.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
I told her we'd have some follow up questions. She
said she was down.

Speaker 4 (16:34):
Okay, but I'm gonna have to We're gonna have to
charge like charge people tickets because I'm not covering the
cost of it. I'll cover it up front, but I
want my money back.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 7 (16:41):
You know that's a really good idea, cold Feet. She
sounded into it well.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
Scary sometimes, and you had she had just long enough
to think about it.

Speaker 3 (16:51):
Yes, you know what I mean. She did hang up
right away.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
That's okay, Josephine. We still love you, all right. Maybe
we'll see there. That's more of an anyway. So we're
gonna talk to Cliff at one o'clock about all of
this stuff, because he knows about all of this stuff.
When we get back here at twelve thirty. We don't
have weather Wednesday today because Dave is going to pick
up a kid at college, I believe, and we'll be
back next week. But tonight, I want to remind you

(17:17):
guys of two things. Can people still win tickets on
our instapage or is that.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
Over still going?

Speaker 4 (17:22):
Okay? A couple of ways that you can win some
tickets to see a Broncos home game this upcoming season.
And you know what, guys, isn't it exciting to be
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not that fake hope that you get before the season
when you're like, you know, yeah, it's gonna be great,
even though in the back of your mind you're like,

(17:43):
I don't know, this is gonna be a good season.
And tonight, at what time is the show starting for
clock on six o'clock on our sister station six thirty
K how there's gonna be a big old season schedule
reveal with Broncos Country tonight. Who else is going to
be there? Logan Dave Logan is going to pop in
and they're going to talk about the upcoming schedule and

(18:05):
they're going to give away a pair of tickets to
an upcoming Broncos home game.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
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Speaker 6 (18:13):
Three different ways to get in on a potential pair
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Speaker 4 (18:19):
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is professionals. There's only one and that is dialing it

(18:42):
live on the air. But then you never know. Well,
we literally can't do that too. We can't put people
on the air without telling them they're Let me just
say in a former show that I used to work for,
we made our stock in trade was middle of the
night prank phone calls to twenty four hour place, and
we never told people.

Speaker 5 (19:01):
That arend the air.

Speaker 3 (19:02):
I did know that.

Speaker 4 (19:02):
I appreciate the remind I mean, yeah, wow, but it
was funny. It was really really funny. All right, we'll
be back in just a second. When we get back,
the Republicans have explained how they are going to cut Medicaid,
and before you freak out, I just want you to
understand what it is they're cutting and what it is
they're requiring. And I promise you you will be like,

(19:23):
why isn't it already like that? We'll do that next.
We can't pick our own movie. You can only like
rent a private you know, screening for yourself. That's pretty cool,
by the way, you know, that's that's kind of cool
to do that. We'll talk more about that later after
I figured this out. Okay, so let's talk about medicaid

(19:44):
cuts for a minute, because there were so many posts
yesterday on X from my liberal friends, liberal pundits, liberal
commentators about how medicaid cuts are a sure surefire indicator
that people will die. They will die if we cut medicaid,

(20:07):
you are killing people, just like if you didn't wear
a mask, you were killing Grandma. I mean, I just
drew that analogy very quickly. So the House Republicans are
trying to bring spending under control, trying to do something
about the deficit. I mean, this bill is not going
to go nearly far enough, but it is a huge start.

(20:27):
It's going to be a reconciliation bill, which means that
you know, there's a bunch of stuff in the quote
big beautiful bill. I hate big beautiful bills. I want
to see individual budgets. I want to see individual budgets debated.
I want to see individual budgets pass the way it's
supposed to. Be this big beautiful bill. Crap is garbage. Unfortunately,

(20:49):
this is the only way to make this happen in
the current political climate. So we all decided on the right.
The means justify the ends. I'm kidding, it never does less.
This is where we are. And as part of that,
they are looking to shave eight hundred and eighty billion
dollars out of Medicaid. And that is a lot of money.
I mean, that is a big old chunk of change.

Speaker 8 (21:11):
So where's it.

Speaker 4 (21:12):
Going to come from? Because as I see on X,
people will die. And I don't mean to make light
of people having access to healthcare at all. I mean,
I want everybody to have some kind of access to healthcare.
But the reality is is that Medicaid is a program
that was designed to serve a very specific group of people,

(21:35):
mothers with children in poverty and the elderly in poverty.
It's pretty much it.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
Guys.

Speaker 4 (21:39):
I don't know, you got left out because I guess
they figured, you know, you're a dude. You can always
go out there and bus rocks if you need to
for money. But the reality is is that now, because
of things specifically that happened during the Biden administration, not
that the Biden administration started this whole out of control
nonsense that we have now. There was tremendous growth in

(22:01):
Medicaid spending in the last two years of the Biden administration,
partly because of the pandemic. There were pandemic Medicaid expansions
that were encouraged during the pandemic. Of course, you want
people to have health care. There's a pandemic going on.
But then they were supposed to expire at the end
of the COVID Public Health Emergency, except the Biden administration

(22:23):
extended the public health Emergency into the spring of twenty
twenty three, which kept ineligible people on Medicaid much longer.
And then when the Biden administration took regulatory action to
keep ineligible people on the program longer and to validate
state financing gimmicks that actually fleece taxpayers quite a bit

(22:45):
and raise Medicaid rates as well. You know, they made
it so much worse in the past two years, and
I really truly believe that they kept it bad now.
Expanding it during COVID one could understand that, not contract
it and then fighting to keep it expanded well after
the Public Health emergency was over. That was simply designed

(23:06):
to a put more people on the government dole because
people on the government dole are easier to convince to
hope for you, because all you have to say is
that guy is going to kick you off the public dole.
And you know, people on Medicaid. There's so many people
on Medicaid.

Speaker 9 (23:21):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (23:22):
In another part of this whole thing, the Biden administration
actually expanded Medicaid to include people making up to one
hundred percent of the poverty level and that were healthy
and had no real issues. Why is this a big deal, Well,
they incentivized through a series of priority rules. They incentivized

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those people being seen first. So the very people that
this program was designed for, the really poor, mothers with children,
and the elderly, were fighting it harder to get service
and harder to be taken care of. We have to
reign in Medicaid costs. So we have to rein in
how states use Medicaid dollars because right now there's an

(24:05):
incentive for states to increase hospital fees because that increases
their Medicaid reimbursements. Now, what does that do for the
rest of us? It leaves us with hospital facility fees.
What exactly is that fee for? Does anybody know? Anyone? No, me, neither,
no clue, but we're all paying it. So we've got

(24:28):
to reign in Medicaid. But you have to understand. Listen
to the ways that they want to reform Medicaid. Prepare
to be horrified. Prepare to have your jaw drop into
your lap at the heartlessness of these reforms. Listen to this.
To be eligible for Medicaid, there would be new community
engagement requirements of at least eighty hours per month of work, education,

(24:53):
or service for able bodied adults without dependence. So people
who don't have children, who are perfectly fit and able
would either have to have a job for twenty hours
a week, or be in some kind of educational program
for twenty hours a week, or volunteer for twenty hours

(25:13):
a week in order to remain on Medicaid. God, that's horrible.
That's the worst thing I've ever heard. I'm being sarcastic.
Of course, people would also have to verify their eligibility
to be in the program twice a year, rather than
just once. The bill also adds a more rigorous income
verification for those who enrolled in the Affordable Care Acts

(25:35):
healthcare coverage. Now that last part about more rigorous requirements
for that. That's a good thing, because if you think
you are going to sign up in such a way
to get a larger subsidy than you are legally entitled to,
and that the government isn't going to take it out
of your income tax refund the next year, you've lost

(25:55):
your mind. The government's always going to get their money,
So making sure that you have verified your income is
only going to benefit you in the long run. Now
here are some different things to think about. Some Medicaid
recipients who make more than one hundred percent of the
federal poverty level, that's about thirty two thousand dollars a
year for a family of four would be required to

(26:18):
pay out of pocket cost to for some services. Those fees,
which would not apply to emergency room visits, prenatal care,
pediatric visits, or primary care checkups, would be limited to
thirty five dollars per visit. Now, less you think this
is heartless and cruel, talk to your doctor. If your
doctor serves Medicaid patients, just ask your doctor. Are Medicaid

(26:43):
patients reliable in showing up for appointments. Are they reliable
in following through on the instructions or orders or even
medication that you give them. Because I've talked to doctors
in Kentucky, doctors in Florida, doctors in Colorado that took
Medicaid patients, and though here's the thing, they still accept

(27:04):
Medicaid patients. They want to help people, but they will
express frustration at the level of no shows because there's
no fees and there's no way to ding people right.
No shows, or parents that bring their kids in and
then don't get the medication that will be free for them.
There's a lot of frustration there because a lot of
times people in poverty have a lot of other issues, right,

(27:25):
There's a lot of stuff going on, and so they're
not always the best patient. And sometimes you've got to
have a little skin in the game to make it matter.
And I don't want to, you know, to be unable
to afford something. I do think that this will lead
to an increase in emergency room visits. I really believe
that applicants, by the way, could also not qualify for

(27:47):
Medicaid if they have a home that is valued at
more than a million dollars. Now I have concerns about
this specifically because if you have a home's valued at
over a million dollars and you still low a bunch
of money on it, now that's a dumb financial decision.
Should probably sell it. I think there needs to be

(28:07):
equity in there instead, Like, if you have a million
dollars in equity in your home, you should not be
on Medicaid. You should sell that home. If you have
a remaining spouse, move into something more reasonable and pay
for your health care. I know it sucks. The proposed
bill also targets any immigrants who are living in the

(28:28):
country illegally or without documentation. It reduces by ten percent
to share the federal government pays to states such as
New York or California or Colorado that allow those immigrants
to sign up for Medicaid. To qualify for the ACA
coverage enroll, these would have to prove they are lawfully present.

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And this is what Democrats are freaking out about. You know,
there's a case to be made that we have to
make sure that people are taken care of, but we
also don't need to supplement or subsidize people that are
otherwise capable of participating. More in their own care, so

(29:15):
that those are the things in the Medicaid cust Now
what would I do if I could wave the magic wind,
if I were the federal government, I would immediately go
to a Medicaid block grant program that works like this.
The federal government, I don't even know how you've come
up with these numbers. Maybe use the last five years,
an historical average, that kind of thing, and you say, okay, Colorado,

(29:36):
you traditionally have this population, this amount of people, this
part of your population that is utilizing Medicaid that meet
our standards, and that's going to cost you five billion dollars.
So here's five billion dollars. You're not getting a penny more.
No incentives for states to try and jack up Medicaid
rates or payments. They have to manage the money, and

(29:59):
when they run out, the taxpayers are going to have
to pay for it. I think that will lead to
much more fiscally sound policies here in the state of Colorado,
for one. So that's what's in Medicaid five sixty six nine.
OHO is the common Spirit health text line. I'd love
to hear from you. We need it to be there,
especially for elderly people. Who need assistance and having a

(30:20):
place to live. Somebody hit a text and talking about
the homes. By the way, I just found out Landmark
over here in Greenwood Village, which is a lovely little theater,
great parking, good restaurants all around. I'll be checking with
them today because I can do a private rental there.
So all of you who are texting, thank you for that.
We were talking about the provision that if you own

(30:40):
a home that is over a million dollars then you
cannot qualify for medicaid, and someone said this, let me
see here. What let me see trying to find is
there is there a provision if you have over one

(31:03):
million dollars in a stock market account when you apply
for medicaid, they go through all your assets. If you
have a million dollars in a stock market account, you
cannot qualify for medicaid. It's not just income based because
most people, elderly people, they don't have income other than
social Security, so that doesn't really mean much. But they
do look at your assets and before you think to yourself,

(31:24):
I'm gonna sign my assets over to my kids. Most
states have a what's called a five year look back
where they go back five years and see when exactly
you transferred your stuff to your kids. So if you're
planning on doing that, like you're gonna go ahead and
sign a house over to your kid, you need to
do it now and hope they don't kick you out
before you're ready. Just saying, Mandy, I'm a dentist in

(31:45):
Colorado's Springs and I've been taking Medicaid since I've been
here seventeen years. I would say the book, Oh Dagnavity
just updated. Hang on, I would say the book of
my patients are Medicaid, and it is very frustrating. The
no shows, the no skin in the game. It lost
me money to schedule them and not schedule another patient
and they don't show up. Fees are less than normal.

(32:06):
I will admit it's been frustrating to see the amount
of it with people with Medicaid have a nicer car
than me and have the newest phone and tell me
about their vacations to Hawaii when I have yet to
even be to Hawaii or go to Hawaii. So that
is consistent with the conversations that I've had. And again,
these doctors and I didn't even think about dentists. I've

(32:26):
never asked a dentist about it. They serve this population
because they think it's important, right, but they still can
be very, very frustrating. Maybe the new Medicaid policies, this
Texter says, will put more pressure on the healthcare system
to be more accountable of their pricing because the people
will have a more direct line to billing. I think

(32:48):
that would be good instead of easily soaking up our
tax dollars. I'm just going to say this, and you
know I have had good experiences here. I should say
this my several experiences, like my vocal cord surgery, my
other stuff. I had a very good experience here when
it came to hospital billing. But I have had experiences

(33:09):
in the past in Florida when I was selling insurance
to older people. I would try to help these people
sort out their billing from a hospital, and in one case,
I spent eight hours reconciling Medicare bills to statements, to
hospital bills to statements because this hospital was telling one
of my clients that she owed them fourteen thousand and

(33:29):
eight hundred and something dollars in change, right, And I
was like, there's no way with the Medicare supplement you have,
all of this is covered. So I spent eight hours
going through everything, matching up every bill. It took me forever.
Then I called the hospital billing department and I said, Hi,
I'm here with so and so. I am working with
her to reconcile her hospital bills, and we need to
make an appointment to come in and talk to someone

(33:51):
about this outstanding balance that you say. She owes. The
hospital billing lady says, well, let me pull it up.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
She pulls it up.

Speaker 4 (33:56):
She says, it seems here that we have fourteen it's
fourteen thousand, eight hundred and something dollars in change. And
I said no. After I reconciled everything, I got to
like four hundred and forty dollars or actually was like
four hundred and eighty dollars, was like a tenth of
what the actual number was. And she said, oh, that
sounds fine. Just send that in. And you know how

(34:18):
you go into something and you're ready for a fight,
like you're you know, you're jacked up, you got the evidence,
you spent eight hours going through all this stuff, you
know what you're talking about. You are ready to fight somebody.
And she's like, oh, no, that just send that a
that'll settle it. And it was at that moment I
was like, so hospital billing is just a racket then,

(34:38):
I mean, it's just a legal racket. They are counting
on older people to be too daunted by the thought
of doing what I did for eight hours and it
took me forever. It was horrible, and I'm not good
at that stuff. So it was like, you know, for me,
maybe for somebody who's good at accounting, it would have
been easy, breezy, but for me, it was just an
uphill battle. And this woman was just like, I can't

(35:00):
do it. It was four years of breast cancer treatment bills.
Imagine imagine what kind of paper we're we're talking about.
And so she either just casually wrote off another ten grand,
you know, another fourteen grand, or it's all just a racket.
I don't know. Anyway, we're going to take a very

(35:22):
quick time out. When we get back. My friend Cliff
May joins us from the Foundation for the Defensive Democracies.
We're going to talk a little bit about India and Pakistan,
and we're also going to talk oh you know what
else I didn't talk about with this medicaid stuff. I
got to come back to that ten percent cut could
be very devastating for Colorado because I don't know if
you guys know this, but Democrats gave illegal immigrants access

(35:44):
to medicaid here in Colorado too. To a little side note,
Cliff May coming up next.

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Speaker 4 (36:06):
Stay and they May Connell, Keith sad Bab Welcome, WELSEO,
Welcome to the second hour of the show. And now
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(36:27):
the Defensive Democracies and a columnist to boot. He is
Clifford May High. Cliff, how you doing.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
I'm I'm doing great.

Speaker 4 (36:35):
We got a lot we got to talk about. We're
going to start with the Indian Pakistan, but we got
to talk about Trump's Mid East wing. We got to
talk about a lot of stuff.

Speaker 5 (36:42):
Cliff, Wow, Okay, we'll try to do our best to
beat so thinks.

Speaker 4 (36:48):
So let's talk Because I said earlier, I said, I've
been following the Pakistan India conflict kind of out of
the corner of my eye, right, not really paying that
much attention, but paying attention because you have two new
powers been at war for how long have they been
warring over the Kashmir district.

Speaker 5 (37:06):
Since the partition of India into two states, one Hindu
majority one Muslim majority. Pakistan was a brand new state
after nineteen forty seven, so.

Speaker 4 (37:17):
A while now they have been at war over this
piece of real estate in the middle. And because they're
nuclear powers, when things flare up, we got to pay attention.
And I loved your column today is this call them
in Today's Washington Times or yesterday's.

Speaker 5 (37:30):
Great edition the Washington Times today, and it's still and
it's online as well under Washington Times dot com.

Speaker 4 (37:37):
You did a nice job of sort of laying out
the background, and if you could do that here and
kind of bring people up to speed on how we
got first of all, how India and Pakistan were divided,
how they've been fighting over the Kashmir region, and what
happened to kind of flare things up.

Speaker 5 (37:53):
Now, Okay, let me let me try to do that
as succinctly as I can. Let me just make this point.
A lot of the media. Here's where the media coverage
has been right and wrong. Like the mainstream media has
reported that Indian Pakistan are quarreling over Kashmir, and that's
a territory in the northernmost region of the Indian subcontinent.

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So far, so good. They're right about that, but they
infer from that, or they tend to that because they're
fighting over a territory. This is a territorial dispute. That's misleading.
They also imply a lot of them BBC, for example,
they imply a morally equivalence between Indian Pakistan. Now that's
dead wrong. This particular flare up conflagration called which you

(38:38):
will almost a full scale war, not quite, and Trump
and Dvance and Marco Luvil they put a halt to it,
a ceasefire, not peace, a ceasefire. This flared up in
April twenty second when you had a group probably five
Islamis terraces coming in from Pakistan. The Kashmir will get

(38:59):
to cement. It is along a line of control going
back to the war in nineteen forty seven forty eight
over this territory so they come across into the part
of Kashmir that the Indians administer claim as their own citizens.
They then try to begin to identify the people they meet.

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A lot of them are tourists. Kashmir is a beautiful place,
and tourists from indiacome newlywed to come on their honeymoon.
All that wud they identify them? Are you Muslim or
are you Hindu? And if they figure they're Hindu, and
I'll tell you in a second how they figure that out,
then they kill them, including killing men in front of
their new brides right there. They kill them. How do

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they know, Well, they may ask them recite the follow
you know, some verses from the Quran. If they can't
do it, you're a Hindu. The the way they may
do it is say, and they didn't see this report
in a lot of places, but I'm telling you it's true,
pull down your pants because Hindus are not certain and
Muslims are. And so if you're not circumcised, we kill you.
So that's what's going on. Okay, that's what they did.

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Now the final death, by the way, the final there
was a Christian and a local Muslim who attempted to
protect some of these Indian civilians. We're talking about civilians
who are murdered. The final death toll is twenty six.
Now what happens. The Indians in response, conducted precision air
and missile strikes against I believe it was nine terrorists

(40:31):
infrastructure sites in Pakistan and the Pakistani administered half of
Kashmir had Pakistan to those strikes are an active war.
Now you have after that cross border artillery and drone exchanges.
Pakistan claims that it down several Indian fighter jets. Not
quite clear that sue. I think it's probably true at

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least two. India then reduced the flow of water going
to Pakistan. There's a treaty about water saying you know,
you know, you get there. No more water coming, not
for drinking, not for agriculture. You're not getting anymore. And
again escalation became possible. And that's when Marco Rubio advance
on orders from Trump, began making a million phone calls

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and they managed to get a cessation of hostilities. The
real roots of this conflict go back to after World
War II, when the sun was setting on the British Empire.
Britain was pulling out of India. Britain was pulling out
of Palestine at the same Around the same time when
the British are pulling out of India, the leader of

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the Muslims there a guy the name of Muhammad Ali
Jinnah who is head of something called the Old India
Muslim League. He says, well, we Muslims in this country.
We can't live in a Hindu dominated, Hindu majority. We
want our own country. So the next thing that happens
is there's an Indian Independence Act with the partition. Again

(41:59):
like the U and did to do a partition of Palestine,
they did a partition and then you had millions, millions
of Hindus moving out of the two major Muslim areas
that were earmarked to become Pakistan, one of the Far
East one of the Far West. You had the Muslims

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moving out of India to go to the new country
of Pakistan Stan. This was not a peaceful exchange. It
was one of the biggest and bloodiest population transfers in
all of history. Roughly fifteen million people if you can
imagine that, across these new borders. About as many as
two million were killed in clashes between Muslims and Hindus

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and Muslims and Sikhs. Now. It's interesting, even after that,
about twenty five percent of Pakistan's population was still Hindu
and about ten percent of India's population at that point
was still Muslim. What's happened over the years since, well,
the Muslim population of India has grown. It's now the
fourteen percent of India's population Muslim. By contrast, the non

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Muslim population of Pakistan less than four percent. And that's
because over the years, Islamists in Pakistan have implemented policies
that caused Hindus and Sikhs and Christians and others, and
a lot of very i would say moderate Muslims to
leave the country, to get out, to emigrate. It's much

(43:30):
less diverse country now than it was. By the way,
I just mentioned, I talked to you about Muhammad Ali Jina.
He was Gritish educated, very well dressed, favored pluralism, tolerance.
But he died in forty eight and eight years later
Pakistan declared itself in Islamic Republic. And it's been and
that's the way it's gone since then. So I'll stop there.

(43:52):
Permitted for this, a lot of things we can talk.

Speaker 4 (43:54):
About I wouldn't ask militarily because obviously India is far
more popular and more developed. I mean, India has got
a lot more going on for it than Pakistan does. Militarily,
how do they stack up? And who is Pakistan as
an Islamist nation allied with that could possibly provide them
weapons for a war with India.

Speaker 5 (44:14):
Okay, so militarily India is stronger than no question. But
having nuclear weapons a nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are the
great equalizer, aren't they. You know, that's one of the
reasons Iran, the Islamic Republic of Iran, wants nuclear weapons
because that means they could wipe out a whole city

(44:35):
with one bomb if it gets through. Both countries do
have nuclear weapons, but if they were not for the
nuclear weapons, no question that India is the bigger and
stronger country. Look, Pakistan is very close to China, and
India has been close to Russia still is, though closer
and closer to the US. It's relations. It's close relations

(44:57):
with Russia are somewhat I would say, of an impediment
to its evolving relations with the US, but not entirely.
Don't forget this is the most populous democracy on the planet.
But you know they were if you go back to years,
they were part of the non Aligned movement, which wasn't
really not aligned. It was closer to the Soviet Union.
They have their their weaponry, they have a lot of

(45:19):
Russian weaponry, uh in their arsenal, and they're still getting
spare parts. They're getting closer to the US but not
but again they still there. They still have this and
they're in things like bricks that you know what that is, Yeah,
you know, an organization trade agreement. But they're all kind
of anti American, and you know, includes Russian incluse, China,

(45:41):
includes Iran. They're all kind of anti American. What Indian
to tell you is, look, we're your friends within bricks. Okay,
it's good to have us there. We keep an eye
on things, We tell you what's going on. We keep
it from going off the deep end. So it's not
such a problem. But that anyhow, But America, do you think.

Speaker 4 (45:58):
That India being cozy in bricks and being cozy with Russia.
I don't think that dissuades Donald Trump. I think and
I want to shift gears just a little bit here
because it's sort of connected and yet not he's in
the Middle East. Right now, he stopped in Saudi Arabia.
He's going to UAE, He's going to Cutter. These people

(46:19):
are people, especially Saudi Arabia. We know nineteen hijackers came
from Saudi Arabian's flu plains into our buildings. We know
that Cutter has funded terror against Americans over and over,
but we also realize that in the Middle East, the
enemy of my enemy is my friend, and Saudi Arabia
certainly needs our help with Iran. And I think Donald
Trump used Cutter as an opportunity to insert, or rather

(46:43):
maybe put some space between Cutter and Iran, and a
little less space between the US and Cutter if they
give Cutter legitimacy. The reason I talk about that is
because isn't the same couldn't the same thing exist with
India in Donald Trump's size.

Speaker 5 (47:00):
Yeah, I don't entirely agree with your analysis there, and
I'll tell you why in a second. But we are
getting closer to India. Modi has had good relations with Trump.
There's a lot of good reasons for us to be
for India to become our ally and to pull them away.
And I think that is possible from Russia, especially at

(47:22):
a time when Russia has a no limits partnership with
communist China, and Communist China is an enemy of India.
They have also fought, they have border disoots that China
and India are are not friends. What role China may
have had in terms of becoming Pakistan. This is a

(47:43):
good time maybe for some terrorists to come in and
knew this for various reasons. Who knows. I know there
are theories of rumors out there about that. What I
would tell you about Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia was very
bad after the nineteen seventy nine revolution in Iran. Why
because Iran, the revolution in Iran wisinness Islamic Revolution was

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the first nation state committed to jihad against the West,
and they felt, we have to show that we're committed
to Jihat two and so they began to finance madrasas
in Pakistan and I do a lot of bad things.
Eventually Al Kada came back and bit them. I am
convinced that so the Saudis at this point wants stability

(48:28):
in the region. They want to develop their country in
a very different way. Certainly, I'm talking about the Crown
Prince effects to the king of fifty years from now.
And he wants to transform Saudi Arabia that is producing
much more than just oil and gas, right. He wants
a country that is in the forefront, intellectually, academically, indust

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all kinds of ways. Can't have that. And he knows
that the Islamic Republic of Iran is an enemy. Qatar
is a whole different kettle of fish. There's a piece
out today in the Free Press by journalist named Jay Solomon,
recommend you cut our plays both ends against the Middle arm.

Speaker 4 (49:06):
Wait, clist, I got to tell you, I, for the
last forty eight hours have gone down this rabbit hole
right about Cutter. This is and I but here's here's
my problem. And we're going to get into this because
the Free Press article is a perfect jumping off point
and it's on today's blog. My issue is that there
are a lot of very important people in the United
States of America who have been on the payroll of Cutter.

(49:28):
They've spent three hundred billion dollars buying good pr in
the United States of America. Now I can't figure out
where I'm going to get good intel. But at the
same time, they've also over the last ten years especially
passed some reforms internally in Cutter that are encouraging that
that indicate to me that they do want to join

(49:49):
the modern world and treat people with a little modicum
of respect, at least on the on the letter of
the law. So you say they're playing both sides against
the middle to what advantage? Tell me, Tell tell me
what Cutters long game is in your.

Speaker 5 (50:02):
View, Cutter, I'm afraidy to tell you, is a Muslim
brotherhood state. Cut They they dressed you know better, but
they support must They have supported Al Keeda, They have
been cozy with Iran whenever necessary. But they also buy influence.

(50:23):
Their influence effort is in the US is unbelievable. There's
a reason more than one, but there's among the main
reasons why almost every middle he studies department at every
major university in America is his pro Islamist at this
point and viciously anti Israeli. And it goes back to

(50:44):
Cutter buying up these departments. Al Jazeera is very anti American.
That's an Arabic news service owned and operated by cut
I understand you know how many you know how many
cut Turry citizens there are.

Speaker 4 (50:57):
Isn't there like three hundred thousand.

Speaker 5 (50:58):
They're not very big three hundred thousand. There's about two
million people in the peninsula. They're all servants. They'll never
get miss citizenship. They can't. They're there to they're there serve.
And yet it has something like twelve percent of the
energy resources in the world. They are so rich they
have they don't know what they don't. Money means nothing
to them. And Biden made them a major non NATO ally,

(51:21):
and they said, and they said, and the fact, oh,
it's great that we have Hamas officials here as billionaires,
either from donor money the aid money getting skimmed, or
maybe directly from the Qataris, because then we can negotiate
them think how well they need right away after nine
ten seven. First of all, they shouldn't have been at
ten seven, because the Qataris should have known what was

(51:43):
going on, since they had high level officials of Hamas
in their hotels, very rich guys, billionaires. They should they
should have said, you're not doing something like this, because
that's that's not good. Our American out after it happened,
it should have been at the American president that point.
It says all right, this is what we pay you,
this is this is who you are. We said, you're

(52:05):
a non NATO ally. At least get every American out,
and I mean today. And here's how you do it.
You tell the you tell the Hamas officials who are
in your hotels that they either make this call, make
this order that the hostages leave, or they leave the
hotels and they leave the hotels and handcuffs and they
go either into one of our prisons or get extradited

(52:26):
to the United States. None of that happened. Now we
finally got the lab the last living American out. Okay,
that's great, that's really good. But that's but look, but
really what has cuts are done. They have campuses that
they pay for for many universities, and again they're indoctrinating, indoctrinating, indoctrinating.
They have law firms, they have pr firms. They there's

(52:49):
a big counter gate in Europe where they've bribed government officials.
It's again, I think Jay Solomon is spot on in
his colum today about the unbelievable historic influence operation that
Culter has. And again, their aims are Muslim brotherhood aims,

(53:12):
and that's frightening.

Speaker 4 (53:12):
And I just want to read some of the column
that he's talking about in the Free Press today, and
the headline of the column is how Cutter bought America,
And I just want to read some of the connections
in the Trump administration with Cutter. The airplane deal was
signed off by Attorney General Pam Bondi. She used to
work at a Washington, DC lobbying firm that received one
hundred and fifteen thousand dollars a month from Cutter to

(53:34):
fight human trafficking. She's not the only one. President Trump's
chief of Staff, Susie wilds led lobbying firm Mercury Public
Affairs when it represented Cutter's embassy in Washington. FBI director
Cash Battel worked as a consultant for Cutter, though he
didn't register as a foreign agent. Then there is Steve Whitkoff,
President Trump's longtime friend and senior advisor, who's accompanying him

(53:56):
on the trip this week. For months now, he has
served as Trump's Special Envoy to the Middle East, and
he happens to be a beneficiary of Cutter's largest In
twenty twenty three, Cutter's sovereign wealth fund bought out his
Faltering investment in New York's Park Lane Hotel for six
hundred and twenty three million dollars. The Trump organization is
putting a luxury golf resort near Doha, and next week,

(54:19):
Donald Trump Junior will speak at the invitation only Cutter
Economic Forum in a session entitled investing in America. I mean,
if this were the Biden administration, Republicans would be losing
their minds.

Speaker 5 (54:32):
Well, that's right, there were, but again, the Biden administration
had no didn't say hey, we got a problem here
on the contract. Two things Biden did when he got
into office is one, he designated Kuttar as a major
non NATO ally. That is huge and that allows anybody
you just on that list to say, wait a minute,
this is an American ally. They want my help. That

(54:55):
on my council, my advice. Why wouldn't I give it
to a major ally? How is that a problem?

Speaker 9 (55:01):
You know?

Speaker 5 (55:01):
Biden also said the who these we're not We're taking
them off the terrorists list. I don't think they're terrorists
after all. And that was a big gift to Iran.
Try to get them back into you know that the
Obama's Iran deal. But you know, there's no question in
my mind that when Kutchar does these things, they want

(55:23):
something in return. They think they're going to get something
in return. And I can see how that Again, I
can understand how people say, all they're doing is they're
paying me for my advice. I'm very smart, I know
how government works. Why should there be a problem. They're
not an adversary. But this is, this is, this is
a very strategic attempt at what is sometimes called state capture.

(55:46):
You just you know, you just buy every every pr
frot and they and I've met with Katari diplomats, they're
very slick, they're very smart. They say, hey, you know,
yes we have hamas, but you know the Americans this
they wanted us to do that. They need somebody, you know,
to act as a mediator. It's a way we set
up a channel of communication and we're doing our best. Honestly,

(56:08):
we are what we you know, really, what do you
want us to do? But I think it's I think
it's it's it's very shrewd, it's very clever. Uh. They've
all you know, they have done. They know they've bribed
to get sports events in Katar and huge bribes. We

(56:29):
know that the people who work on a broad or
off and very badly mistreated. Al Jazeera doesn't report on that. Yeah,
al Jazeera has been bad from the beginning, but plenty
of plenty of American journalists went to work for Al Jazeera.
Maybe made you remember Dave Marrish did years ago, a

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very well known New York journalist, and then eventually he
quitit and he said, no, I kind of I thought
it was a good gig, and then I kind of
understood who they were and what they were really doing.
There you go journalists from Ala Rabia who I remember
talking to one and saying, who said, he used to
work for Al Jazeera And I said, what's the difference.
He said, well, Al Rabir Arabia I can be reasonably

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free journalists, not entirely, but reasonably Al Jazeera no, no way,
And Al Jazeera's had influence on the BBC and vice versa.
It's I mean, we've got to be able to see
what's under our nose here. Even but again I give
them credit. They are very very clever about what they're doing,
and they have and money is no object because when

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you got that kind of hundreds of billions of dollars
in just three hundred and fifty thousand citizens. It on.
You can do what you want to do, clib The Saudis,
the Saudis are. The Saudis are really down on Katari's
and the Saudis have have criminalized the Muslim brotherhood, as
have the Amuradis. They will tell you the Qataris are

(57:54):
the Muslim brotherhood.

Speaker 4 (57:56):
Oh, Cliff May, you didn't make me feel better at all.
I mean, come on read cliffs column. It is an
Indian Pakistan I put it linked to on the blog today,
as well as the story we were just talking about
from the Free Press. Cliff A joy to talk to you.
We'll talk again soon, all right, I have a good one.
We'll be right back. We had a text or say
it's guitar now. I'm just I don't care. So there's

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a website called memory dot org mri i dot org
and it is an English language website that tells you
what is happening in Arab media and right on the
front page. If you just heard my interview with Cliffmay,
I'm asking like, what's the truth about cutter? I don't know,

(58:38):
And listen to this. Listen to this. Uh, the Qatari
media has recently published articles and cartoons insulting US President
Donald Trump, and the Katari owned Al Jazeera network in
Arabic continues to serve as a mouthpiece for anti Trump
terrorist Islamis and arrange below our examples. The Katari government

(59:04):
daily Al Shark recently published on March twenty fifth, two
articles harshly castigate US President Donald Trump appeared in the paper,
describing Trump as a hostage to the Israeli positions. He
claims that the American president has put on a Jewish
skull cap which sits on top of his yellow hair,
and has started to behave like Theodore Hertzel, the founder

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of the Zionist movement. He mocks Trump's efforts to present
himself as a superhero and leader capable of bringing change,
when he is nothing of the sort. He then compared
hamas terrorists to John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and
George Washington. He then called Trump a terrorists for threatening

(59:49):
to annex Canada and take control of the Panama Canal.
And this is regular from him, and they put the
columns so you can read it yourself. They have anti
Trump cartoons showing Trump as a big fat baby.

Speaker 9 (01:00:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:00:06):
The most recent example of Al Jazeera in Arabic, Hotsi
spokesman nas Rudin ammer President Trump is a criminal, a liar.
He was the one who suggested to cease fire. The
Americans abandoned Israel, but we won't abandon the Palestinians. We
will continue blocking Israeli ships and imposing an aerial siege. Now,

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one has to believe that people in the Trump administration
are also reading this website. And here's the thing. I
don't necessarily think that Trump loves to be. He loves
to be you know, fitted, as they say, He loves
to be having you know, adoration showered upon him, formal
state dinners and all that good stuff. But whether or

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not he really believes that these people are you know,
willing to talk about peace, or he understands who he's
dealing with, That's the only question I care about. And
I'm inclined to believe that even though he loves having
his ego stroked, he is not stupid. I do not
believe President Trump is stupid, and I do not believe

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that he likes having his ego stroke so much that
he loses sort of the bigger picture here about who
we are allied with and treats them thusly. Okay, I
want to move on because I didn't want to stay
with that. But I just looked that up and thought,
oh that's great. So Cliff was right, So yeah, okay, awesome.
Arod sent me a video maybe two weeks ago, and

(01:01:33):
it was a young woman and she was like, I
am never using Uber again because they said they were
going to pull out of Colorado if this bill pass.
It's all about safety, and they hate safety. I'm just
going to be true to Lyft. And I published the
video and in my little caption, I said, oh, oh, precious.
If you think Lyft is going to keep operating in

(01:01:55):
Colorado when Uber says we're out, you've lost your mind.
There is a new bill that has been passed. It
is awaiting the governor's signature, and it requires things of
Uber and Lyft, some of which are really great ideas,
really great ideas, things we can get behind. But some
of them are very, very unwieldy and very very expensive,

(01:02:18):
things like having twenty four to seven camera and then
storing that data endlessly. It's not so much about recording,
and it's what do you do with it. When you've
recorded it, where do you put it? So Uber has
been very vocal about the fact that if this passes
in Colorado, they're just going to leave the market. And
everybody's like, Oh, they're just kidding. Why would they do that,

(01:02:40):
that's terrible. They're not They've done it before. Austin, Texas
passed some legislation about Uber that they thought was going
to help people get paid more by the card sharing services.
They passed bill and Uber kept saying, yeah, we're we're
not going to do that. We're we're not going to
do that at all. We're not going to do that

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at all. And Austin did it anyway. And so what
happened Uber and Lyft left They left Austin Texas. What
happened after Uber and Left left Texas Because I've actually
heard people say this will allow other ride sharing platforms
to flourish in Colorado if Uber and left leave, Well,

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let me tell you what happened with Austin Texas. They
pulled out of Austin, Texas, and there were multiple apps
that immediately popped up. They were springing up everywhere, except
they weren't working right. They kept crashing.

Speaker 3 (01:03:37):
They were very very.

Speaker 4 (01:03:39):
Understaffed, so people couldn't get a car. And then south
By Southwest came and OMG south By Southwest where celebrities
and musicians flood the city of Austin, Texas and they're
not going to rent a car because they don't rent cars,
that's not what they do. They flew into south By Southwest,
all of these new apps all collectively crashed. No one

(01:04:02):
could get a ride. There was no no rides to
be had, and the legislature was like, yeah, we're not
gonna let you do that to ride share anymore. We're
gonna we're gonna pass our own regulations that you surp yours.
And Uber and Lyft came back, you know. So the
notion that somebody is just gonna step into this void
and it's gonna be seamless and we're not even gonna

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and that's just dumb. And the notion that Uber and
Lyft will not just say sorry, we're turning off the
app in Colorado is also crazy because look at it
from their perspective. If they roll over and let the
state of Colorado put requirements that they feel are so
onerous and expensive on them in Colorado and they take it.

(01:04:45):
That just opens up forty nine other states to do
the exact same thing. The only option Uber and Lyft
have are to pull out of the market and just
let it collapse. Can you imagine how vibrant Denver would be?

Speaker 5 (01:04:58):
Then?

Speaker 4 (01:05:00):
Guys on those little bike pedal things would probably make
a fortune. They can get you at least one or
two blocks closer to where you needed to be. Uh, Mandy,
I wonder what they thought of Trump as the pope
in Cotter. I don't know. I have no idea, Mandy.
I was a little shocked that you were shocked about
the jet graft. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad you're

(01:05:21):
upset about it. I just wish you would get irritated
about all his other scams he's currently running from the
White House too. Made a list, but my top one
this week besides the jet is buy some bitcoin and
get a dinner with the President. Absolutely shameful. You know why,
I don't have a problem with that because it's all
perfectly transparent, and you, as a voter, can look at
what he's doing and go, wow, that's really gross. He's

(01:05:43):
profiting off the presidency of the United States of America.
But the reason I don't have a problem with it
is look at the net worth of the Obamas, of
the Bidens, of the Clintons, of the Bushes before they
became president, and then when they were done being president,
look at their networth. Then people have been profiting off

(01:06:05):
their position as president of the United States behind the
scenes for far too long. Do I still think it's gross, Yes,
I do. I think it's gross. I think it's in
the South, we don't say gross, we say it's tacky,
and he's being really, really tacky. There is gonna be
a really really fun schedule release show tonight with Broncos
Country Tonight, Dave Logan's gonna stop by. They're gonna chit

(01:06:28):
chat about the upcoming schedule. We do know one game
is going to be in Julio'd England. They wanted to
go to Germany apparently, and who could blame them because
Munich in October wow.

Speaker 3 (01:06:41):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (01:06:42):
But they are gonna be playing the Indianapolis Colts on
October twelfth in London, and I think I'm gonna I'm
gonna try and go to that game. I'm sure they're
not gonna let me go from the station officially, but
that would be super cool. That's kind of a bucket
list thing a little bit, don't you think Broncos? Does
anybody else think that's a bucketless thing? Because I gotta

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tell you, London is the coolest city. It is, just
it is expensive as all get out. So if you
think you're gonna do it on the cheap, unless you're
gonna stay in a hostel, which I am far too
old to stay in a hostel. That stopped appealing to
me like thirty years ago. So it is expensive. But

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what a great city, and what a fun time to
go and watch the Broncos play. That'd be neat anybody else.
Five six six, And I know is this a bucket
list thing for you guys? I think it's super cool.
I always wonder like how much do the Brits really
understand about the game itself? Because I feel this way
when I go to hockey games. I don't know anything

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about hockey, and please don't tell me. I don't want
to know. It's just not my favorite sport. I don't
hate anybody. I love the Abs. I'm cheering for them,
but I have no idea what's going on on the IYCE,
no clue. I'm fine with it. It's good.

Speaker 3 (01:08:00):
Am I just now hearing this?

Speaker 4 (01:08:02):
Oh, you can ask Chuck. It drives him crazy because
every time we go to a hockey game he tries
to teach me and I'm like.

Speaker 6 (01:08:06):
Just bounce, have failed you. I just I know hockey,
it's my favorite sport. What the hell I it's just
for some here.

Speaker 4 (01:08:15):
Okay, here's a little truth about me, a rod. When
someone tries to teach me something that I don't care about,
it's like this, this wall of you know, ignorance, disinterest
drops down over my eyeballs.

Speaker 3 (01:08:28):
No ignorance and whatever you.

Speaker 4 (01:08:30):
Know people are trying to put in it, just think, think,
it just bounces off. And then, because I don't care,
I try to explain this to my daughter a lot.
She tells me really intricate stories about some of the
things in the books that she's reading, and then later
on she'll try and update me, and I'll say, wait
a minute, go back and refresh, you know, refresh where
we are so I can understand, because I do want
to know. I want to know what she thinks is interesting.

(01:08:51):
But that she's like, how can you not remember? I'm like,
I remember that India and Pakistan had been a worse
since nineteen forty seven. How about you.

Speaker 7 (01:08:59):
Things from your own daughter about a book. I listened
to the important things to important well, and I do
get up to speed and then I get the resolution of.

Speaker 4 (01:09:10):
Whatever she's reading. Whatever makes you feel better, Yeah, Mandy,
I've watched hostile. Nope, nope, nope. I don't know what
that is.

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
Hostile?

Speaker 2 (01:09:17):
What is that?

Speaker 3 (01:09:18):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:09:18):
Hostile? He spelled it. Hostile. Hostile is el Probably he
put there's quotes in here and capitalization. Yeah, Mandy, I
think more of a bucket list thing for me would
be watching the Broncos in Kansas City on Christmas. Oh
to the person London sucks, stop it, stop it right now,

(01:09:39):
I reject that. I reject that right now anyway. So, yeah,
hockey players are the cutest. They are cutey. I love
the hockey hair. I mean, super cute, manly, even without
the teeth.

Speaker 3 (01:09:54):
A lot of hockey.

Speaker 4 (01:09:57):
Did you you had the party in the front, business
and the wait either business in the front, party.

Speaker 5 (01:10:03):
In the back.

Speaker 3 (01:10:03):
He was a party both sides.

Speaker 4 (01:10:05):
I dare you to grow a mullet. Now I heard
they were coming back.

Speaker 3 (01:10:08):
I could pipe pull it off.

Speaker 4 (01:10:09):
I think you could I think you could one of
my Jimmy Keys who owns Gutter Helmet and Keys Concrete Coatings.
Love that family. His son had a pretty epic mullet
going for a while. I mean he's like in his twenties.
He's not a little kid. And it actually, I'm gonna
say it, it kind of looked good.

Speaker 3 (01:10:27):
Yeah, there might be a cutoff, big.

Speaker 4 (01:10:28):
Ethan shout out right there for that. It's a little
bit shorter than it was a cutoff. I saw what
you did there. Oh, didn't even do it on purpose.

Speaker 3 (01:10:38):
That is when you know you were really good at
dad jokes, when they just come naturally.

Speaker 4 (01:10:41):
Mandy, I had your back on the whole iPhone inferiority thing.
But hockey is vastly superior to football, no question. And
here's a news slash. My favorite sport is baseball. I know,
I know, I don't. I can't explain myself, and I
like Nickelback and Barry Manilow. There it is, guys, I
just slammed the closet door open, and now you know

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all the dirt.

Speaker 3 (01:11:03):
Yeah, you're a mess.

Speaker 4 (01:11:04):
I know this person said London does well, they live
there for a year, so yeah, maybe they know better
than I do. It's a fun place to visit. How
about that? And the Broncos will be visiting that by
the way, tonight during the schedule release show, they're gonna
be giving away a pair of home tickets to a
home game, not the London game, a home game and

(01:11:25):
you can also go to Instagram and x at Kowa
Colorado and register to win those tickets.

Speaker 3 (01:11:31):
Has one to three chances. Three chances there, you go make.

Speaker 4 (01:11:35):
It happen, Mandy, I agree to go to London and
to see a Broncos game. I have a daughter who
lives in England and she has her fiance watching the Broncos.

Speaker 3 (01:11:43):
He is so cute.

Speaker 4 (01:11:44):
Does he know what's going on? Mandy? Isn't London annoyingly woke?
Only the leadership the normal people are not at all
And it's delightful.

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Speaker 4 (01:12:24):
We are moving right towards the end of a Wednesday,
and I'm okay with that. I got a story from
nine News on the blog today about a couple of
office buildings downtown and in twenty nineteen US someone valued
them at about two hundred million dollars twenty nineteen. So
what did they just sell for? They sold for three

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point two million dollars. Remember twenty nineteen two hundred million dollars,
twenty twenty five three point two million dollars. That's quite
the swing.

Speaker 1 (01:13:01):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:13:01):
Nine News does a decent job talking about the stresses
of downtown real estate and vacancies being just ridiculous experts.
This is from the story. Experts estimate that office buildings
in downtown Denver have lost forty to fifty percent of
their pre pandemic value. The city central Business district currently

(01:13:21):
faces vacancy rates of twenty five percent to thirty percent,
although this remains lower than tech heavy cities like Austin,
San Francisco and Seattle, where remote work has been particularly prevalent.
And then they go on to talk about why, you know, people,
the rents are too expensive, and now this guy bought
these two buildings and is going to convert them. Into apartments,

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which is great. There's nothing wrong with any of this
in the story, except I feel like there's a big
glaring omission in this story, and that is that Denver's
new Green Dream requirements for large buildings are going to
be so expensive to retrofit a building for if the
building has any age on it whatsoever, because older buildings,

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you know, thirty forty years ago, they did not have
the energy efficiencies they have now. They didn't have the
building codes that they have now. There's not remotely as
energy efficient as a new building. So they pretty much
destroyed the market for older office buildings in Denver because
the new owners are going to have to bring the
buildings up to the new code and it's just prohibitively expensive.

(01:14:28):
And that is I think a big, huge issue that
nine News didn't even mention. So I think that's an
oversight that should be corrected because if that is definitely
I've talked to business owners who have said, yeah, there
are opportunities, like there are people in real estate development
that become people other people call right They'll call you

(01:14:49):
and say, hey, I got a deal, I got this building.
They're offering them buildings in downtown Denver. They're like, not
a snowballs chance in hell, because those older buildings are
going to be like you were talking when I say
a lot of money. You could be like twenty five million,
fifty million to retro fift these buildings, and most people
are not willing to commit, especially for an older building,

(01:15:11):
because you never know what other problems you're going to find.
So that's a huge part of this conversation that is
not being had in this nine news story. This is
a crazy story out of Manitoo Springs right now. Manito
Springs has told the people of Manitou Springs that they
cannot shower. Yeah, you heard me right. What's going on

(01:15:34):
is that they had a bunch of snow in this
last snowstorm and then it melted really fast and it
has kicked off all of these organics into organic compounds
into their drinking water supply, and now they have a
strict water emergency going on in Manito Springs. According to
the city. The following is prohibited dishwashing except for sanitation.

(01:15:57):
Is there another reason to dishwash being genuine in this?
I mean, do people just for fun? I think I'm
just gonna wash my dishes today who is that person?
And we need to get them some help. You're not
supposed to do laundry, take showers. Obviously, you don't use irrigation,
and you can't wash your car. Commercial and industrial use

(01:16:20):
is not essential to drinking. I find this fascinating. They've
closed schools, they've closed the fitness centers because they don't
have any water. Now, what's ironic about this? And I
say this with so much love for Manitoo Springs. Do
you like Manitud Springs if you ever spend any time
down there? Ayrod Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:16:38):
Not in the hot springs.

Speaker 4 (01:16:40):
No, it's adorable. Manituo Springs is adorable. And everybody smells
like petuli, which is good because now you can't shower.
So there's every store in Manituo Springs. You can buy
some crystals to use as deodorant and some petuli because
you're gonna neat it. What's super ironic is that, when
you think about it, Manitou Springs has a freaking river
running right through the middle of it. For them to

(01:17:02):
have a water emergency, that's like wow, water water everywhere
and not a drop to drink. Yeah, manday, they should
have sold it to the city of Denver, it seems
they like to overpay. Yes, but only for homeless hotels.
And to the person who said McBride for Colorado governor,
has this dude been on the show yet, I would

(01:17:23):
be curious what his viewpoints are. I'm gonna be really
honest with you, guys. I am not ready to jump
into the next election. We absolutely will be inviting all
of the candidates on both sides of the aisle. We
will invite all well, Okay, if there's like a crazy
person that has no chance, I'm not gonna invite him
on the show. But all legitimate you know, if you

(01:17:44):
have any fundraising to speak of, I'm gonna invite you
on the show. Both Democrat and Republican, especially the Democrats.
I'm gonna try and get on the show because the
way it looks right now, unless there's some unicorn Republican
out there with absolutely no skeleton in the closet and
the clear ability to articulate why conservative positions would be
great for Colorado, we're going to have another Democratic governor.

(01:18:08):
A lot has to happen to change my view of that,
so I will have them on the show. I just
am not ready to jump right in to another one,
just not yet. I hope you understand. So if you're
going to Manitou, you may want to bring a little
what's that stuff called Vic's vapor rub, like the emmes us.
Just put it right under your nostrils. I mean, I'm

(01:18:32):
just saying there's a lot of hippies in Manito Springs,
a lot of hippies, a lot of witches, wickens, weirdos,
And I mean that in the best possible way. I
happen to be pro weirdo.

Speaker 8 (01:18:46):
I do.

Speaker 4 (01:18:47):
I'm pro weirdo. I think weirdos make life interesting. Weirdos
make life fun. I mean, not the dangerous whack of
doodle weirdos, just your run of the mill normal weirdos.
Everybody needs some weirdos in their life. You think, I know,
I do, Mandy? Do those hippie shower anyway? I don't know, Hi, Mandy,

(01:19:07):
My Band's Sundance Revival is playing in Manitou Springs this
Sunday at one o'clock at the Armadillo Ranch. Come out
and have a glass of water. Now you rebel? Are
you just gonna bring bottled water and like like just
throw it all over everybody in the crowd.

Speaker 5 (01:19:21):
Just as a.

Speaker 4 (01:19:22):
Flex I would. This is a fascinating study. Someone decided
to do something and put a value proposition on concert tickets.
They went and got the prices for various concerts, and
then they went and got the set list, and they

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divided the price of the concert with the number of songs,
and they got a value proposition like what are you
paying per song? Hey, Runner, you're a Lna del Rey fan.
I don't know if I if I could identify a
Lna del Race, I'm going to slap me in the face.
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:20:03):
I mean I think she's she leads with.

Speaker 4 (01:20:06):
The priciest concert performer at sixteen dollars and two cents
per song. I mean, that's that's kind of nuts. Pass
Oasis generates the most revenue for song at wait for it,
eight hundred and fifty eight twenty four dollars, with nightly
earnings of seventeen point one six million across their Reunion

(01:20:27):
tour shows. Budget conscious fans get the best value from
Ed Sheeran just ninety one cents per minute and Usher
at three dollars and seventy six cents per song. Now
let me just go back in the way back machine.
Back when I was a kid. I remember the first
concert that I bought tickets for that I had to
save up money and I had to go, you know,

(01:20:48):
wait in line. I gotta tell you, Like as easy
as it is to sit in your computer in a
queue when tickets go on sale on Ticketmaster, there was
something magical about camping out for tickets for a show
you really wanted to see. Right, you go to the
record store, you set up your lawn chair, you got
your cooler, and you hang out with a bunch of
other nerds who are in line waiting for a concert.

(01:21:10):
And then you're like first in line the next day,
and it was you still got ten throw seats, And
you're like, what happened? But artists back then, when tickets
were thirty seven dollars, I had to save up thirty
seven dollars, which was a lot of money to me
in nineteen eighty seven. But in the grand scheme of things,
when people are paying hundreds of dollars for a concert ticket,
now I feel pretty lucky. But back then, artists made

(01:21:33):
money on album sales. Right, we all went and we
bought their album, We bought their CD, we bought their cassette.
We bought their eight track depending on how old you were,
and they made money off of all of that. But
now streaming pays so little that they may have tons
more downloads, but the actual payout per play is much much,

(01:21:53):
much lower, so they have to make money on these concerts.
I will tell you, I feel like the Tailor swift
Eras tour that had to be a good value because
she sang so many songs. I mean so many songs.
Lady Gaga's Mayhem Ball Tour follows at thirteen point nine

(01:22:16):
seven cents per song and two forty seven a minute.
That's two dollars and forty seven cents a minute. Beyonce
rounds out the top three with her Cowboy Carter and
the Rodeo Chitlin Circuit Tour at thirteen dollars and sixty
three cents per track. Her generous thirty six song two
and a half hour spectacles command premium pricing, averaging four

(01:22:38):
hundred and ninety one dollars per seat. Yike, you guys,
how do you take your kids to stuff like that?
I mean, how do you? We've now now with my daughter,
that's all she wants for Christmas is she asked for concerts,
and a lot of the music she listens to or
not is no music that we have here in the station.

(01:22:58):
But thankfully they're not big star they're not super celebrities.
They're you know, lower tier musicians on the way up,
I think most of them. But still it's like, you know,
eighty five ninety dollars a ticket, it's like oof, that hurts.
With my best friend in nineteen eighty five camping out
at Independent Records to get Rush tickets so fun, I

(01:23:21):
will never forget. I camped out for two days, two nights,
two days, two nights, three nights, I guess three days,
two nights to get Eric Clapton tickets on my twenty
first birthday. I didn't camp out on my twenty first birthday.
The concert was on my twenty first birthday and it
was worth it. And the last day I used to

(01:23:44):
work at a restaurant called the Mill Bakery, Etery and Brewery,
and we had donuts and muffins and stuff like that.
The last day of the camp out, right before tickets
went on sale, I got the manager to bring donuts
for everybody in line, and I was I was the
hero of the day and I was in the front
of the line, so I was I was like, yeah, God,
it was so fun. Back in the day, the Dead
never made money on their records. Sharing music sure paid

(01:24:06):
off for them, Yeah, I did, Mandy. I saw in
nineteen eighty two saw Queen and Billie Squire from the
Eighteenth paid twelve bucks for the whole show, Mandy. I
was seventeen when I saw my first live concert Led
Zeppelin in nineteen seventy three at Kazar Stadium in San Francisco.
We camped overnight. It was epic ticket price seven dollars

(01:24:26):
and fifty cents. Back in my day, you could go
see a concert for a reasonable an out of money.
Not anymore. But at what point, I wonder, at what
point the people start saying, uh, yeah, I'm not going
to pay four hundred dollars a ticket for bad money.

(01:24:48):
I guess as long as there's people willing to pay,
they could get them. By the way, I'll begrudge you
anybody making money. I really don't, but it does feel
inaccessible for a lot of people to be able to
pay four hundred and fifty bucks for concert ticket. I mean,
at that point you're like, do I pay my rent
or do I go see Beyonce. I have a video
a young Chinese woman did an undercover report on the

(01:25:11):
working conditions for fast fashion giant San And if you
buy from Shean, you're buying from people who are not
being treated well. But you know, hey, whatever, it's fine.
That's on the blog today. The Office has a new
spin off, and I have to say I love the

(01:25:32):
concept so much. It almost has a Christopher guest waiting
for Guffman feel to it. And it is about a
small town newspaper who has run out of money and
the editor is trying to keep the whole thing afloat
with volunteer reporters. Already, I'm excited about the premise Oscar
will be a part of this show. What network? Where's

(01:25:56):
this airing? It's not on regular television?

Speaker 3 (01:25:59):
Is it Paramid on NBC? No, It's on Peacock plus
Peacock Yes.

Speaker 4 (01:26:03):
Yeah, So this is the new way they're trying to
make us all get streaming services. Ha jokes on them.
I already have that one. Anyway, I want to talk
for just a moment about again. I mean, this is
I really don't understand why Jeff co parents aren't constantly
up in arms about the things that are happening in

(01:26:26):
their district. You may remember that there was a female
teacher who not only groomed a female student towards a
sexual relationship, she also helped the student commit fraud by
lying on FAFSA forms those are Federal student aid forms
and declaring her homeless, even though everybody knew she wasn't.

(01:26:49):
Since the girl turned eighteen, she conveniently left the state
to go live with the teacher, and Jefferson County Public
Schools has done nothing productive about it until now. Until now,
I just want to let you know what Jeffco Superintendent
Tracy Doorland is doing about this. Listen to this good

(01:27:12):
morning from an email for Inquiring Minds. Tracy's breakfast meeting
with us tomorrow at Columbine High School where all this
took place, is an opportunity for her to share her
support and the district support of Columbine and Scott, the
principal who knew about it and helped it happen anyway,
and when the mother complained said this teacher was just
helping this girl navigate her sexuality. I would say, so,

(01:27:37):
let me start again for Inquiring Minds, Tracy's breakfast meeting
with us tomorrow morning is an opportunity for her to
share her support and the district support of Columbine and
Scott as related to the leanne Kearney news stories in
the past weeks. Last week, a small group collaborated on
the importance of making a statement in defense of Scott

(01:27:57):
and Columbine as we feel the news has portrayed a
horribly negative and false image of Columbine and how the
situation was handled. Because that's what happened. The media didn't
have to spin anything out of control. A principle of
a school guidance counselors of a school committed fraud and

(01:28:20):
helped a female lesbian teacher groom a female student at school.
I mean what, I'm sorry, did I miss something we're
in that we're in that is just the Oh, they
just mishandled one situation. There were a series of purposeful
choices by school officials to separate this girl from her

(01:28:43):
family so she could be preyed upon by their colleague.
I admit, that's pretty clear. I don't think we need to,
you know, there's no reason. I sorta nibble around the edges. Thankfully.
By the way, while Tracy Dorelin, the superintendent, has just
been ignoring parents were outraged about this. At least she's
gonna go to the school to let them know the

(01:29:04):
district is going to support them as they're being investigated
for the fraud they perpetrated allegedly. I am really fascinated
to see how this thing turns out, really fascinated. And
I again, I don't understand why jeff Co parents, and
why this is okay. I don't understand why you're not
at every single school board meeting demanding the resignation of

(01:29:25):
Tracy Dorlund for her blatant ineptitude in this and so
many other matters. But hey, I don't live in jeff Co.
You guys are on your own anyway. Can we talk
about you know, sometimes people will balk, like if you've

(01:29:47):
ever rented a vrbo and Airbnb, there's usually a list
of rules. Right when Chuck and I got married, we
actually came out here for our honeymoon because we were
living in Southwest Florida or living on the sun as
I like to call it. So I told you we
got married in December, and I said I for our honeymoon,
I want to go to a place with four feet
of snow. I want to have a hot tub outside,

(01:30:08):
and I want it to be really private. So we
rented a cabin and divide. It was so good, it
was absolutely fantastic. But when we thought when we got
this deal done, so this is two thousand and seven,
and a lot of stuff was still being done, Like
we got this emailed contract because Airbnb wasn't a thing then,
or if it was, I wasn't aware of it, and

(01:30:29):
they emailed us this contract and I am not joking you.
It was like fifteen pages long, written in tiny mice
type of all of these rules that you had to
follow to stay in this cabin. And Chuck looked at
it and was like, you have got to be kidding me.
With all these rules, I said, you have to understand
every one of these rules is in response to some

(01:30:51):
stupid thing that someone else did already. I mean, there
were things I wish I could remember the most ridiculous one,
but they were so ridiculous. You know, someone did it
and they had to make a rule so it didn't
happen again. So that's kind of how I feel about
this rule change. At CON the Film Festival, you know,
the Con Film festival, massive Hollywood event in France. It's

(01:31:16):
one of the biggest film festivals in the world, if
not the biggest film festival in the world, and it's
their seventy eighth annual event. So this year the cann
website has added something to the website. One of those
things is the dress code. Listen to this for the

(01:31:37):
Graham Theater Lumire Gallas greenings taking plays around seven to
ten PM, which are attended by the artistic teams evening
where long dress tuxedo is required. Alternatively, you may also
wear a little black dress, a cocktail dress, a dark
colored pantsuit, a dressy top with black pants, elegant shoes
and sandals with or without a heel, no sneakers, a

(01:32:00):
black or blue navy suit with bow tie or dark
colored a tie. Tope bags, backpacks or large bags are
prohibited for decency reasons.

Speaker 10 (01:32:09):
Nudity is prohibited on the red carpet, as well as
in any other area of the festival. Voluminous outfits, in
particular those with a large train that hinder the proper
flow of traffic of guests and complicate seating in the
theater are not permitted. They had to make a rule

(01:32:29):
that you couldn't show up naked to the can Film Festival.

Speaker 4 (01:32:33):
That's where we are in society right now. The funniest
part about this is I'm pretty sure you can go
to the beach in can and see a bunch of
topless women, but you're not gonna see them at the
film festival. This is what Hollywood has done. All of
these Hollywood starlits, trying to get some kind of traction,
trying to be the thing that was talked about the

(01:32:54):
next day, have now set a standard where in France,
of all places, they have to clearly say no nudity
of any kind. Now this article that I read the
headline is very misleading. It says Halle there he was
supposed to change at Cans last minute, not going to
break the rules, and then they start out with the

(01:33:16):
naked part. You're like, Halle was not about to go naked.
Because Halle normally ninety nine point one percent of the
time is flawless on a red carpet. She is gorgeous,
she has incredible style, she has a rock and body.
I only say ninety nine point one percent of the

(01:33:37):
time because her Met Galla dress was not good. It
was it was not good. It just it was It
was the opposite of good. It was bad. It had
sheer panels sewn in with kind of in this striped way,
and there was a black panel in the middle of
her body that went right down, you know, and covered

(01:33:59):
the uh the private area, do you know what I mean.
But then there was two sheer panels on either side
of it, so you could sort of like, oh, can
I see No, you could not, but it just it
did not work. Mandy has Scott a principle or a pimpsicle?
Uh huh. I don't think he is trying to pimp
people out, but I think he was asleep at the wheel.

(01:34:21):
I think he trusted the word of a teacher who
was a predator, because we still don't think of women
as predators, and yet they are. We've had two stories.
I have a story on the blog today about a
Douglas County teacher, a male teacher, being arrested for child
abuse of some sort. And then I heard in Keenan's
news we got a guy at a cherry creek or somewhere.

(01:34:45):
But these are both dudes, right, so we you know,
when that happens, we're like, okay, we need to think
that women can be predators because they can be Mandy.
Did they also have to include thou shalt not kill
in the rules it can what and make sure that
Alec baldw you could never come again. That would be
mean to single him out like that, Nandy, they do

(01:35:06):
not take a bath with a toaster clause is standard
in rental agreements. No, it was way worse than that.
It was things very specific like don't put an open
container of tuna fish in the refrigerator and leave it.
I mean that it was that kind of level of specificity,
and they were just more absurd. They either got my

(01:35:28):
thinking was the people who own this area or own
this home that we rented. It's now a private residence.
We found it again, but you can't rent it anymore.
I think they either got super drunk and just made
up the wildest rules that they could ever think of
in their lives, or all of these things had been
done by prior renters. Mandy, private area, whatever do you

(01:35:48):
mean if you don't know, I cannot help you. Nope,
do not Nope. And I cannot read the other text
about that because it will it will get me fired anyway.
This text message gets it right, Nandy. My life motto
is there's always one schmuck and it's true. It absolutely

(01:36:10):
is true. So here we go. We've gone from Jeffco's schools.
We've gone to the what's the word I'm looking for,
the halle Berry situation. But I do want to get
into this story. I should have done it earlier because
this is something we've talked about and I think that
it is one of those things that it's really important

(01:36:31):
to understand the damage around alcohol that we have sort
of pushed to the wayside. And there's a story in
the Wall Street Journal right now about women and alcohol.
And we've talked about this before. I've talked about how
I really don't like mommy wine culture. And it's not

(01:36:54):
that I don't like women drinking wine. That's not it
at all, obviously not I have the wine again in
the show we talk about wine. I drink in moderation,
although hardly ever anymore, but simply because it prevents me
from sleeping. Ever. So, mommy wine culture is more the
women who walk around with the t shirts that say
your why Mommy drinks, or they walk around with the

(01:37:17):
win o'clock shirts like they're walking around as an active
promotion of a habit that is not a healthy habit. Yeah,
you can have wine and moderation and it's good for
you and all that stuff. That's one of those nutrition
stories that one day alcohol will be bad, one day
wine will be good, one day beer'll be good, then
it'll be bad. I mean, we don't really know, and

(01:37:37):
I don't think that. Like I'm never in favor of like,
let's just never sell alcohol again. That's not it at all.
I'm for responsible usage. But now women are not just
drinking more, they're also dying more. Men by far, die
more often of alcohol related issues by far, but women

(01:37:58):
are catching up. Women who turn thirty five between twenty
eighteen and twenty nineteen were more sixty percent more likely
to report binge drinking or alcohol use disorder symptoms than
women who turn thirty five earlier than that. Doctors are
now witnessing more hospitalizations of women for liver disease, and
some researchers suspect alcohol consumption is contributing to a rise

(01:38:22):
in the rates of breast cancer. Women are also experiencing
alcohol related deaths at a faster clip than men, and
they're saying it's not pay parity, it's drinking parity. So
I always like people to just think about be purposeful
in your vices, right, think about what you're doing. Just
don't do it because it's habit. And if you enjoy

(01:38:45):
a glass of wine and you love having a delicious
bottle of wine with your dinner on occasion, I'm here
for you one hundred percent. Just pay attention to what
you're doing. Pay attention if it's negatively impacting your relationships
in your life, if it's making more difficult to do
your job. At that point, you may need to recognize
that you were headed down a very very bad road

(01:39:05):
and right edwards. I'm gonna ask you this because Ryan
just came in the studio. Did you have friends in
college who were like party, party, party, party, party, of course,
and then they got out of college and they were
like I'm done.

Speaker 3 (01:39:16):
Oh yeah, yeah, I'm done.

Speaker 4 (01:39:17):
And then you have the friends that never did They
never got over it, right, and now they're forty and
they're bloated and they're a full blown alcoholic. And that
is the most depressing thing because I think if you've
gone to college, you have people that fit in both those.

Speaker 8 (01:39:31):
Categories, correct, And I even lived in a house with
three other guys, and I can immediately tell you two
of them that that went on to have successful lives
and then the one guy that really did not.

Speaker 4 (01:39:43):
Everybody has a blue dough from animal House. Everybody's got
a blue do in there, and it's depressing because mine
is dead.

Speaker 5 (01:39:50):
So there you go.

Speaker 3 (01:39:51):
So and I mean mine is not.

Speaker 8 (01:39:52):
But to that point, it's like, you know, when you're
in your early twenties, you know, there's a certain amount
of acceptance we have with that lifestyle while you know
your forties and fifties, and then it's kind of like, Okay,
what was going on?

Speaker 4 (01:40:04):
I gotta tell you. I have a few friends that
were great friends in my twenties that if I plan
to see them because they live in a different city,
so I'm gonna go visit them, and I make sure
to go see them early in the day. Yeah, cause
I just I don't want to be a part of it.
I don't like it. You know, there's nothing worse than
like a fifty year old sloppy drunk.

Speaker 8 (01:40:24):
No. And the other side of that, too, is when
you have elected to either scale back or maybe not
drink at all. They don't want to be around you either,
because you're a reminder of the constant reminder of what
they probably should be doing with their life.

Speaker 4 (01:40:37):
I actually think younger people are more tolerant of non drinkers.
Like when we were young, if you have those nightsperens like, look,
I gotta go to work tomorrow at four o'clock in
the morning, I'm not drinking. I was like, what, you're
not drinking? It became a challenge, right, like, oh, I'm
just going to buy one shot. That doesn't count, but
yet it all counts. I do think younger people are
much more tolerant of not drinking, which is great. Yeah,

(01:40:57):
you know, and like I said, if you enjoy a
glass of wine or whatever, just be thoughtful about it, right,
Just make sure that you're paying attention to what you're
doing and don't let yourself get to a point where
you're damaging relationships or your overall health because it's simply
it's not working. And for the person who's that, aren't
you And the wine called yogi just contributing to the culture.
You notice we're not talking about yellowtail chardonnay, right, Like,

(01:41:20):
if you're going to do it, Phronsia, Yeah, at least, Hey,
don't knock the phronsie that got me through right there again.
You know, that's that's why we talk about really quality wine,
because you know, I'm not a teetotaler. I don't expect
people to be a teetotal I'm just asking people to
be purposeful in their choices, that's all. It's just make
sure in whatever you do, be purposeful in your choices. Anyway,

(01:41:42):
Now it's time for the most exciting segment on the
radio of its kind in the world of the day.
All right, I have a dad joke today. No, no, oh,
you can go first. Then give me subject now and okay,
go for it. Okay. A slop got robbed by three turtles,

(01:42:05):
and when the police arrived, they asked what happened, and
the sloth said, I don't know.

Speaker 8 (01:42:09):
It all happened so fast, anyone. My daughter told me
we're all in the pool. Now, my daughter, where do
sheep like to go on vacation? Where the Bahamas?

Speaker 6 (01:42:25):
I like both of those very much, But Ryan, I
told Andy that this is going in my dad Joe call. Okay, okay,
is anyone out there interested in buying my DeLorean great
condition in low mileage?

Speaker 3 (01:42:38):
Really only driven from time to time.

Speaker 4 (01:42:40):
Good.

Speaker 3 (01:42:41):
Yeah, that's really good.

Speaker 4 (01:42:42):
Yeah, there's a frame of reference though, you know what
I mean, Like you gotta know the movie love that one.

Speaker 3 (01:42:48):
Yeah, that's a.

Speaker 4 (01:42:48):
Great, great one. Okay, what is our our word? Our
word of the day?

Speaker 5 (01:42:52):
Please?

Speaker 3 (01:42:52):
It is an adjective, okay.

Speaker 7 (01:42:54):
Ephemeral, ephemeral e femeral means not of this world, kind of.

Speaker 4 (01:43:01):
Angelic u ephemeral like ghost like No, what is it?

Speaker 6 (01:43:07):
It sounds right though lasting a very short time. Ah,
dang it that word for wrong for years trivia question.
Although she was born in Egypt, Cleopatra was not Egyptian.
What nation did Cleopatra's family hail from?

Speaker 4 (01:43:23):
I'm gonna see.

Speaker 3 (01:43:25):
Great for it.

Speaker 4 (01:43:27):
No, I don't know. Ethiopia. Oh okay, wow, Greece. Cleopatra
was a descendant of Ptolemy told me the first Soda,
a general who served Alexander the Great. There's the thing
we know now. I should have known that. I feel
bad for myself that I didn't know that.

Speaker 3 (01:43:49):
Because because he said great, birl was like, well that
wasn't really like I was like, old.

Speaker 4 (01:43:53):
World, pretty obvious, though. We should have said Greece, we're
just dumb. Ryan We're just dumb anyway. What is our
jeopardy category? Please don't call ryme dumb?

Speaker 6 (01:44:01):
Take my rhyme, which means every answer rhymes with take
take my rid When used by hand, it'll kill a vampire.

Speaker 3 (01:44:13):
That was exactly it'sie. You need rock paper scissors right now?

Speaker 4 (01:44:18):
Crap, go ahead?

Speaker 3 (01:44:19):
Was a stake that is correct? Ok? Really close? Take
my rhyme?

Speaker 6 (01:44:24):
The Yama gashi not Tamagachi. Yama Kagashi of Asia is
a venomous one?

Speaker 3 (01:44:31):
What is a stake?

Speaker 4 (01:44:32):
Is correct?

Speaker 3 (01:44:33):
It follows a schooner as it? That is correct? To
leave someone when they still need you?

Speaker 8 (01:44:41):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:44:43):
What's the forake that is correct?

Speaker 5 (01:44:45):
Is that a tie?

Speaker 6 (01:44:46):
Here we go rubber match? To satisfy, to satisfy one's thirst.
I've never heard this word.

Speaker 3 (01:44:57):
Neither of you get this. I've never heard this word.

Speaker 4 (01:45:00):
I mean, I know ay word, but it doesn't rhyme
rhymes satisfy ones.

Speaker 3 (01:45:03):
First, man, I don't know that word either.

Speaker 4 (01:45:10):
All I could remember was.

Speaker 3 (01:45:12):
Was, uh, sate Ryan. He starts so well, and you
kind of choked away like the nuggets last night. I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (01:45:21):
I'm guessing that's gonna be a painful subject today.

Speaker 3 (01:45:23):
For that is gonna be tough.

Speaker 4 (01:45:24):
Yeah, Colorado Sports Show sort of deal with that.

Speaker 3 (01:45:27):
We actually are.

Speaker 4 (01:45:27):
Gonna do the schedule show tonight too. Are you going
the full.

Speaker 3 (01:45:30):
Full month in the full full full gambit there? So yeah,
so we'll start.

Speaker 8 (01:45:35):
We actually have Warren Shaffer, the interim Rockies manager, right
off the top of the show.

Speaker 4 (01:45:38):
All right, there you go. You can shake something loose there.

Speaker 3 (01:45:41):
Yeah, me too.

Speaker 8 (01:45:42):
Got the Nuggets game, We got some Broncos topics, and
yes we have the schedule and stuff that's exciting.

Speaker 4 (01:45:47):
I'm gonna try and go to the London game. I
would like to go and uh and go see a
football game in London. I just think that's cool. Okay, Tomorrow,
I don't know who's coming on. He's not confirmed yet,
so we'll talk about that tomorrow. Okay, Waite Sports coming
up next.