05-16-25 FULL SHOW - Ask Me Anything, And An Aussie Standing With Israel

Mandy and Arod gather up some new airhorn entries, James Comey is not a nice man and has tried to insult our intelligence, Aussie Colonel Michael Scott makes the case for Israel and the IDF while fighting anti-Semitism, King Soopers gets busted for overcharging and the City of Denver is the worst slumlord of all.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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By Connell keeping a Sad Thing.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Welcome Local, Welcome to a Friday edition of the show altogether.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Now, you.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Know, it's been a while since we solicited new airhorn impressions. Yes,
so if you listen to us on the absolutely Crystal
Clear iHeartRadio app, though it sometimes loops were working on.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
That, which means multiple airhorns at the right time. I
hope that right there.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
That one guy, you're driving him crazy right now. Anyway,
So if you'd like to make your own airhorn and
send it in, you can go and use the talkback
feature on the app. It's super easy. There's a little
microphone down at the bottom right hand corner. You hit
that microphone, you got thirty seconds to record your airhorn.
Magic and I hope it doesn't take thirty seconds because
that one won't make the cut. Yeah, just letting you know,

(01:23):
muscle feeling generous.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
If you don't want to do that, which is always preferred,
you can also email them to me as well.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yeah, if you want to, but it's way easier to
just use the talkback feature. And hey, while you're on
that iHeartRadio app, go ahead and make the Mandy Connell
Show one of your presets. Yes, you can make koa
a preset and the Mandy Connell Show a preset.

Speaker 5 (01:40):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
By the way, a rod at iHeartMedia dot com. If
you send it over, we'll add you into the mix.
If they're good, we reserve the right. If you're not good,
bring your a game. People thank you that you can't
make that or I would recommend children as a part.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
By the way, for those that don't late the airhorn,
just saying this guy kid, he walked up to me
at the last Gorilla meetup we did and had his
kid play like, literally, do that air horn for me,
like over the phone, get audio. People love the airhorn.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
There you go, you're saying, there you go. All right,
let's do the blog because we got a bunch of
stuff on the blog today and it's kind of an
asked me anything Friday because I'm gonna be perfectly frank.
I don't know how your week has been. My week nothing.
Bad boy hasn't been a butt kicker. I had two
appointments this morning? What why would I do that too? Okay,
I had one appointment and then my daughter, let me

(02:35):
just have a moment, could I? This morning I got
to go to the Student of the Semester breakfast where
at my daughter's high school, all of the teachers pick
a student of the Semester and they do it every semester.
So there's like maybe one hundred kids, seventy five hundred
kids and their teachers. And it was such a delight
to see these young people and they're talking to their

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teachers and they're engaged. And I even have it on
the blog today. We spend so much time talking about
the bad actors in schools that we don't spend enough
time remembering that there are incredible people every day going
to school to try and make our kids smarter and
better people. I mean, they genuinely trying to do great things.

(03:16):
And and I just wanted to remind that does a
rod have an air horn? Don dun dum. Yeah, I
mean I can do it anytime.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
Why aren't you in the mix because I'm I'm talking already,
I'm already present. By the way, By the way, that's true.
I like, by the way, it's really nice about Q.
But did they see that you were her mom and
then rescind it? Because no, no, I was undercover. I
was nobody knew, nobody knew it was me. It was
just it was really cool, so humble, humble mom brag

(03:46):
right there, you know, just throwing that out there. Anyway,
go to the blog. You can find it by going
to mandy'sblog dot com. Conductors aren't in the band. I'm
just saying, Okay.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
I airor We just wanted to invite you to the party. No,
I'm catering intead if you'd like, I'm hosting the party. Okay,
that's fine. But you'd be at the party if you
were hosting the party. I'm just saying, of course I
would be. This Texter. Mandy is my favorite airhorns sound
is none, just none? Okay, Mandy, please give a shout

(04:16):
out to my son Monroe, who's graduating from high school today. Congratulations.
I have always loved the name Monroe. So well done,
Mom and dad. I've never heard the name. I don't
know if I I yeah. I grew up in the
Deep South as r Yeah exactly, huh, and there I

(04:38):
knew several people when I was a very little kid
that were older and their names were Monroe, and I
just thought that was a cool name. Never if I
met Yeah, And I've always loved the name Major for someone.
I think Major's a cool name. And my friends have
a kid named Major and it's a great kid. No, Uncle, Sergeant, No,
you don't go through all the No, you don't do that. Okay, Mandy,

(05:03):
my daughter won sixth Greater the Year. Thank you for
saying this. So proud too. I swear to God, we're
going to get to the blog in just a second though. Okay,
somebody just said Dave hated the airhorn. I just talked
to Dave the Intrepid. I was Daved.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
He is.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
He's having the best life ever. I just want you
guys to know this. Dave Lower, the Intrepid Dave. He
is so happy in retirement. He is reading through his library,
he's listening to classical music. And you talk about a
guy living his best life. Dave Lower's living his best life.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
That sounds fun. But I need you to give me
his address if you have it. That way, I can
send him a card that will you open it? The
airhorn and it never stops.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
Oh, I just sent one of those to my son.
I sent a rickroll a card to my son because
my oldest son has senior prank. He dyed his hair
red and he got a trench coat and he dressed
like Rick Ashley and he rickrolled all the classrooms. He
went from classroom to classroom, and rickrolled all the classrooms
during during school. And uh got away with it because

(06:04):
all the teachers loved him. So I sent him a
card that once you open it, it never stops. And
then you rip it open to stop it, what comes
out glitter. He knew the rule, and so do I. Okay,
now really going to do the blog in the South.
It's pronounced Monroe. Of course it is Monroe. That Monroe

(06:26):
exactly Monroe. Okay. Go to the blog mandy'sblog dot com
latest posts. Look for five sixteen twenty five blog I'm
on task right now, Anthony, stop trying to derail it.
Look for the headline that says, ask me anything and
an Aussie standing with Israel. Click on that and here
are the headlines you will find with it.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Of American ships and clips.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
Today on the blog Colonel Michael Scott stands with Israel.
It's an ask me anything sort of day. Denver Housing
Authority is the worst flume lord of all. James Comy
is not a nice person, scrolling oh Go nuggets. Jeffco
Schools has an epidemic of child sex crimes. But let's
talk about teachers for a minute. I have trust issues

(07:12):
with Doug Coe County commissioners. Check your king super's receipt.
Steamboat wants to tax your second home. A Christian camp
sues to protect girls. A baby with a rare condition
is helped by gene editing. Felony charges for these ten
year olds is stupid. Why are their Medicaid cuts? Beware
of Facebook scams and protect your account. Which airlines had

(07:34):
the most complaints in twenty twenty four? Looking for a
cheap summer vacation. Gardening helps you live better longer. Carry
on rules are getting more strict. This is how to
change jobs or not? Can we just let Trump have
a win for a second. This mechanic says auto start
and stop is the worst feature ever. THEOVONN goes to
see the troops. Lauren Bobert responds to James Commie's ex

(07:57):
post and Jaguars lost its way. Those are the headlines
on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com tech tote oh Manner,
Thanks Nance, She's the best, Mandy. How about a text
in for high school graduate shout outs today? Get as
many as possible. Okay, wait a minute, fly air horns.

(08:21):
Here's what we're gonna do the last segment of each hour. Okay,
we will do high school or college either or graduate
shout outs. And they cannot be a novel. Okay, I'm
not gonna read like, please give a shout out to
my little Jimmy. He's such an amazing kid and I
love him so much and mom and dad are proud

(08:42):
of you. We're not doing that, okay, in the last
segment of this show each hour, So from like forty
five to fifty four, we'll do him in the end
of each hour. And then you guys have to promise
me that you're gonna go back and listen to the
podcast in the next twenty four hours. Hey, I just
need you to listen to it. Just let your kid

(09:04):
hear it in the next twenty four hours. It matters anyway,
Mandy best airhorn sound is from the song Brick House
Bach Bow. That's that's totally That's not an airhorn. That's
no a rod which is Mandy's airhorn. Can you play?

Speaker 6 (09:19):
It?

Speaker 3 (09:22):
Started at all because I made fun I did the
air horn in Arod recorded it, and that's how this
whole mess got started. Okay, Today on the show at
one o'clock, we are having a guest that I'm very
much looking forward to. His name is Colonel Michael Scott.
He is an Australian who, after serving in the military
in Australia, has now spent some time in Israel in

(09:44):
Gaza with IDF soldiers, and he is an unabashed Zionist,
an unabashed supporter not just of Israel, but of the
Israeli Defense Forces specifically, and he maintains and contends that
there is no fighting force in the world that operation
in a more upstanding fashion in war than the Israeli Army.

(10:04):
And he's absolutely right. I mean, you know, it's don't
get me wrong. If anyone commits a war crime, I
don't care if an American soldier commits a war crime.
I want them to face punishment for that. And part
of me realizes that the notion of a war crime
is in and of itself ridiculous, because war ins in
and of itself is pretty ridiculous when you get right

(10:26):
down to brass tacks. It's a waste of human life,
it's a waste of human potential, and it's a waste
of money. But sometimes people decide that's the only way
to settle their differences, so they decide they're going to
kill each other whatever. But ultimately, you know, there are
fighting forces around the world that behave horribly throughout the
entire thing, and we never talk about them. But whenever

(10:47):
Israel can be accused of anything that remotely resembles what
could possibly be beyond the norms, they are held to
account in a very public forum. So I'm interested to
hear what Colonel Michael Scott has to say. We're gonna
ge into that at one o'clock. It doesn't ask me
anything sort of day. You can go ahead and send
your text line messages to six nine. Wait a minute,

(11:08):
five six nine, Wait a minute, Oh god, did I
just forget the text line number that I've given out?
But yes, yes, five five six six nine oh six
five six six nine oh six nine. Do you know what,
whipper snapper, It's gonna happen to you someday, mister stop it.

(11:29):
Stop it, Mandy, will you do the shout outs in
your southern voice? No, mischiud, I do have in Voice
of God voice. Okay, there's a there's a job, a job.
I did this once. I got this gig one time.
It was five hundred bucks for two hours worth of work.
And I go in and there's this huge paper company
that's having their convention in Orlando, Florida, and I get
hired as the voice of God if a rod don't laugh.

(11:52):
But it was very Dounder Mifflin like. But it was
before the office, you know what I mean, so pre date.
So maybe anyway, My job was to sit in the
back the sound guys in the booth. I didn't even
have to wear like the fancy clothes. And I was like,
and from Anchorage, Alaska, congratulations Bob Peterson, Salesman of the
Year Western Division. And it was Peterson. It was the

(12:16):
greatest two hours for five hundred bucks I have ever
made in my life. I would do that gig permanently
all day long if they would let me. Seriously, it's awesome.
So maybe I'll do it in the Voice of God voice.
I don't know. I have no idea. Mandy when you
play the sound by the former President Biden Prostate trying
to talk its way out of the limelight. No, that

(12:37):
was just during a speech. Just a snippet, Just a
tiny snippet. Yeah, Mandy, shout out to me. I work
in tech and didn't get laid off today. He said, insert,
there you go. There you go, Mandy, thank you for
remembering that good teachers exist. As a high school teacher,
one of my biggest disconnects with the political right is

(13:00):
that they seem to think I'm automatically vile because I
chose a career where I thought it could make a difference.
And you know what, that's one of the points that
I made today on the blog. I actually talked about
this at lengths on the blog. We do get focused
on the bad apples, and there are some terrible bad apples,
And Jimmy Seckenberger's got a call on about the latest
shenanigans in chef Co and it's just so bad. They

(13:23):
suck up all the oxygen, though, and we forget that
there are people who have dedicated their lives to try
and help young people be better people. So I am
not good enough at making that distinction, but I do
want to make that distinction, because I do think overwhelmingly
a vast majority of teachers are in it for the
right reasons. Mandy just wanted to tell you that two

(13:44):
separate talk show hosts from competing radio stations not iHeart Stations,
gave you a big shout out all by not by
name for your interview of the former GOP clowns. They
both said they hold you in high regard. That's cool
that you have so much respect around among your competitors.
Darn toot. There's a really nice group of people that
do talk radio in Denver and the surrounding areas, and

(14:06):
I don't know all of them, but I've gotten to
meet a few more of them lately and they seem very,
very very nice. So it's always nice to work with
good people. Anyway, it would be hilarious if one day
you do an entire show in a famous voice using
a voice change program. Trust me, I've been thinking about that.
Could you imagine if I did the show as a

(14:27):
chipmunk like I you know, Oh yes, oh god? Would
that be I mean, for a short period of time,
it would be hilarious. For a long period of time,
it would be horrible and great. You got to do
it permanently. Shout out to this person. They just said,
shout out to me. Day off, clean the house. Yeah,
that's up to you. Yeah, there you go. And don't
text me your graduates right now. Please goe end of

(14:49):
the show from forty five on because they'll all be
gone by the time we get there. All right. I
also have a couple of stories today. We got to
start out with this James Comy story. First of all,
you know, when James Comey started the political shenanigans, I
did not know a lot about James Coby, the man
in his career path. So I'm watching the Martha Stewart documentary,

(15:12):
which is fantastic. By the way, I watched two documentaries
that are worthy of your time, the Martha Stewart documentary.
Just watched the Christopher Reeve documentary that just came out.
Holy mackwill talk about an ugly cry situation. So James Comey,
former head of the FBI, is found himself in hot water.
What a surprise this is to him For a man

(15:35):
who worked in law enforcement, a man who led the FBI,
the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the man that put himself
at the center of pretty much everything during the first
Trump administration. The man who never met law fair he
didn't like, the man who chose not to prosecute Hillary
Clinton for clearly violating laws because she didn't mean to.

(15:57):
He was strolling down the beach. And this is what's
so amazing about James Comy's life. You know, when I
walk down the beach, I often see shells, as you
do on the beach. But oddly, I've never, not once
ever seen something spelled out in shells on the beach.
But James Comey is a lucky guy. He was just
strolling down the beach mining his own beeswax, and he

(16:17):
happened to see four letters or excuse me, numbers spelled
out with seashells. What did the numbers say? They said
eighty six forty seven. Do you anybody who's ever worked
in a restaurant knows the phrase eighty six? Hey, Rod,
did you ever work in a restaurant? Okay? Perfect? Do
you know what the term eighty six something means?

Speaker 4 (16:39):
I'm pretty sure I think it's essentially like kill get ready,
I get rid of it.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
Doesn't exist anymore? Yeah, eighty six klipenios, no more jalapenos.
So some clever person couldn't have been James Comy, though,
because he says, well, I'll get to this in a second.
It says eighty six forty seven. Now, let's see here,
who could this person be talking about? Could they be
talking about the forty seventh President of the United States, which,
let me think that's Donald J. Trump. And James Comy,

(17:10):
the former head of the FBI, posted this. After he
posted that, he took the picture down and then posted
this later. I posted earlier a picture of some shells
I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed
were a political message. I didn't realize some folks associate
those numbers with violence. It never occurred to me, but

(17:33):
I opposed violence of any kind, so I took the
post down. Really, you guys, this is as believable to
me as Jake Tapper trying to tell me he was
completely completely befuddled by the White House when Joe Biden
was president. To me, was the former what FBI director?
One more time? FBI director?

Speaker 4 (17:54):
Yeah, good thing, it's former exactly what the hell exactly?

Speaker 3 (18:00):
Anyway, So James Comy not only puts out this eighty
six forty seven that he pretends like he has no idea, like,
oh what I mean, who knew? Who would have fucked that?
But then the most insulting part to me is that
he thinks I'm that stupid. He thinks the world is

(18:21):
going to believe that he didn't know what eighty six
forty seven was. If you don't know what eighty six is,
then you're talking about the last four digits of someone's
phone number. Two. You know, two high school athletes put
their numbers together on the beach. Oh my gosh, this
text said. The scary thing about eight six four seven

(18:42):
is that was the last four digits of my childhood
phone number. So it's just it's absurd and it's insulting,
and you know what, I'm gonna get into this a
little bit on the other side. I'm not going to
spend a whole lot of time on this today, but
I read something this morning that I thought was very interesting,
and that is the Democrats are just beginning to figure

(19:03):
out how badly covering for Joe Biden has damaged their brand,
because right now the news media that has always carried
their water is beginning to turn on them. To protect
themselves and I'm not gonna lie. I'm here for it.
Make the Mandy Connell show your preset at the top,
and then hit that microphone button and give us an

(19:24):
air horn. We've got two, let's do it.

Speaker 4 (19:28):
What yeah, gets better?

Speaker 3 (19:33):
I'm afraid boy asked for your a game and y'all
barely showed up with a C minus paper right there. Okay,
what that is creepy? That's creepy. That is creepy, adam

(19:57):
in they're in anyway, Okay, we have some shenanigans a foot,
and I'm getting it back to the James Comy story
in just a second. But a rod, you know how
outside in the news area where there used to be
a clock, but they took the clock away and they
never replaced it. Well, some smarty pants put a picture
of a clock at nine at nine o'clock and put
it up on the wall. It's just a picture of

(20:19):
you know, a printed out clock face. So me, also
being a smarty pants, I printed out the word tokyo
and I put it under there like you see in
the you know in the movies, were like, oh, what
time is it in a tokyo? And they're, oh, there
you go. So I put Tokyo into there. Now some
other smarty pants has changed it to Katar. So where

(20:39):
are we going next? People? What's the next city? I'm
leaning towards Paris right now, But give me your thoughts.
Text the Common Spirit of Health text line at five
sixty six nine. Oh, let's keep the Shenanigans going. Speaking
of shenanigans, we were talking. I was talking about James
Comy before the break, But I want to talk about
something I saw this morning and I really started thinking
about it on the way here, driving in silence, and

(21:00):
that is the cover up of Joe Biden's decline by
the Democratic Party and everyone who worked in the White
House and everyone who worked around the White House is
turning into be a huge problem for Democrats, Like this
is going to be a really big issue because the
news media, which was very happy, I mean, could not

(21:20):
have been happier to carry the water for the Biden
administration and continue the lie, you know, whatever the White
House said. They were like, yes, Joe Biden just ran
a marathon. The White House said it, and bye, gosh,
by golly, we believe it. They were wilfully gullible. They
were wilfully ignorant because they wanted to protect their guy
because they were afraid of the other team. And now

(21:45):
that they've realized that the American public no longer trusts
anything they say, they are pivoting as Jake Tapper, who
I'm amazed Jake Tapper can walk with stones the size
of cantelopes like that guy has. He has been so
relentlessly mocked for trying to sell a book about a

(22:06):
cover up that he himself participated in. It's like the
bank robber writing a book on robbing. You know what
it is, Let's just call it what it is. It's
Oj Simpson writing the book if I did it, same
thing I mean, And miss Jake Tapper is like, I mean,
I didn't do it, but if I had, it would

(22:27):
look just like this. And people are just having none
of it, excoriating the guy, and everybody's starting to take notice.
So the news media is turning on the Democrats. Democrats
are now going on formerly friendly shows and being asked
difficult questions like wow, you talk to the president all
the time. You didn't notice because it's laughable. I actually

(22:51):
saw some person from the Biden administration responded that he
saw no decline until that debate. None, to myself, really
are This is like James Comy trying to tell me
he didn't know what eighty six meant. It's it's just
comical to watch what's going on right now. But every
day somebody else gets sucked into this, and I think

(23:15):
it's first of all, I do think that this is
one of the biggest scandals of the modern era. And
when people look back in history, they'll be like, wait,
I'm sorry what They'll look back at video? Do you
guys remember the angry Biden's speech where he was so
amped up on some kind of stimulant that his chin

(23:36):
was like wiggling. And I talked about it at the time.
It was like that man was jacked up on something,
like they gave him five hundred cans of red Bull
or whatever. He was so obviously given stimulants to get
him to that point. It was obvious to all of us.
Everybody else could see it. Why And now I'm supposed
to believe that the Democrats too. It was like, just

(23:59):
we had no idea what a mastermind Joe Biden was,
as he was barely capable of stringing a word together.
He was also a mastermind, pulling the wool right over
the eyes of all of the people closest to him.
And if the Republicans are smart, they would not let
this issue die. Anything in any response to anything from

(24:23):
the Democratic Party, especially from Democratic leadership, should start with
we're not why, We're not sure why we were supposed
to believe them now after they lied to us for
four years during the Biden administration. I swear to you
that would be my answer to every question. You could say, hey,
how are you today, and I'd say, well, I'm not
sure how we believe the Democrats after the way they
covered up for Joe Biden. I would just bang this

(24:46):
drum because nothing says you can't trust us more. What's
ironic is that the news media is still, you know,
not taking responsibility for it. Even a few people in
the in the news come up and say, god, you
as we really got that wrong. But I've not heard
one single person in the news media who worked diligently

(25:07):
to cover for the Biden White House say hey, you
know what, we let our own bias get in the
way and we didn't see what was right in front
of our face. That to me would be progress. That
would be forward motion. But all this god le with
no idea. Look how clever they were. I mean it's
just so dumb and insulting. Holy macarony, just terrible. Biden

(25:33):
cover up is bigger than Watergate. I believe it is.
I really think it is. I mean, think about it.
They basically weekend it burnied us for four years with
the leader of the free world. If you made this
a movie, if you made a movie about them propping
up a doddering old man and hiding it from the press,

(25:55):
people would be like, well, that's not realistic. Being president
is hard. You can't fool be like that. Well yeah
they did, and we still have no answers from the
Democratic Party about who actually was running the country while
he was, you know, wobbling around somewhere. These are all
questions that I would love the news media to start
to ask a little bit harder, because now that they've

(26:16):
just discovered they got duped, they got snookeered. Now that
they figured it out, maybe they'll begin to ask Democrats
harder questions. I you know, until the next Democratic rising
star shows up, and then they'll start asking Patty Kake questions.

Speaker 4 (26:33):
Yes, Anthony, we have multiple yes, more air horns. One
from a celebrity.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
Oh, yes, who's the celebrity. Oh I'm gonna save the
celebrity for last. Okay, go ahead, First non celebrity from
Mike not bad, very good, straightforward, very good, nice tone.

Speaker 4 (26:47):
That's good Mike, A random one, energetic. We already did
that one.

Speaker 3 (26:52):
This one not that, a little over modulated, but very good. Yes,
and finally, Donald Duck. First of all, can we all
just be impressed for a moment that Donald Duck listens
to my show? Okay, I had no idea that such

(27:15):
a huge star listened to the program and then took
the time out of his busy Duck schedule to record
an airhorn for us via the talkback on the Great
iHeartRadio app. I'm deeply moved, mister Duck. I so appreciate
your patronage and your airhorn and the cat apparently. Yeah wow,

(27:42):
good thing that Jill is a doctor. Exactly, Texter, exactly.
I will be doing shout outs for graduates, high school, college,
or even a high school retirement. One guy sent that in,
but you got him into the common Spirit health tech
sign right now. I will do them in the next segment.
But we have asked for more entries for our air
horn Arsenal, and apparently we've gotten yet another celebrity. We

(28:05):
just had our first celebrity ever, Donald Duck sant us
an air horn, which is a thrill for all of
us long time Disney fans. But is Donald being critiqued
by a different celebrity.

Speaker 4 (28:14):
Oh yes, this celebrity believes that we should not be
calling Donald a celebrity.

Speaker 3 (28:20):
Ladies and gentlemen, It is Arnold, which.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
Is this nonsense? Saying that Donald Duck is a big
celebrity is nothing but the heck.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
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(30:13):
I hate the fact that we're coosing up to people
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you know, I'm keeping my eyes on them, but domestically,
the only one that I'm like I'm not sure why
we have that is the one banning trans people trans
adults from the military, because I believe we need to

(30:33):
predict trans kids from pre you know, sort of making
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I also think if you're an adult and you can
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(30:54):
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Ross say you thought everyone making an issue of the
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(31:15):
eighty six means a number of degrees of removal. I
think Komy put it out there as a bait, and
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I disagree with this simply because there have already been
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grace of God. Right, so we're not talking about sort
of an idle threat, sort of a throw it into

(31:36):
the ether kind of thing. And the fact that James
Comy is the former director of the FBI and then
he's going to turn around and expect us not to
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I've just reposted something I saw almost funny on the
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don't get me wrong, I'm not I'm sure it's going
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So it's.

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Colonel Michael Scott is an Australian soldier who has now
dedicated himself to supporting israel It's right to fight and

(33:30):
the soldiers who were doing that fighting. We'll talk to
him next.

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Speaker 3 (34:00):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show.
I am pleased as punch to have in the studio
with me. Now an interesting fellow. We were just chatting
during the break. He is originally from the great massive
country of Australia, and after serving proudly in the Australian military,
he has now turned his attention to Israel and what's
happening in Israel. And he spent time in Gaza with

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IDF troops in the last couple of years during the
actual fighting, and has now been in the United States
for several months spreading the word and supporting a new
foundation that he's created. I don't know how new it is.
We'll find out the second that he's created to fight
anti Semitism. His name is Colonel Michael Scott and welcome
to the show.

Speaker 6 (34:40):
Sir, Hey, Mandy, wonderful to be with you today and
your listeners.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
And now I already told him that just because of
the Australian accent, you guys are going to be like, Wow,
he's awesome, and he is, so let's talk a little
bit about you. First, tell me a little bit about
your backstory.

Speaker 6 (34:56):
Hi Andy, Colonel Michael Scott, thirty one year vetran of
the Australian Army. Previous operational service in East Team or Boganville, Iraq,
two tours of Afghanistan, the later operations working hand in
glove with United States Military Force elements. But more recently,
from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty one, I was secondered

(35:18):
from the Australian Army to the United Nations Truth Supervision
Organization as a senior unarmed observer operating in Israel, but
with responsibilities in Israel up in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt.

Speaker 3 (35:34):
And this was al during most of the hot mess
in Syria, hot mess in Israel. The hot mess really
didn't break out fully until after you finished that position.
Can you tell my audience what the responsibilities how a
UN observer actually are.

Speaker 6 (35:50):
Certainly the particular mission that I was seconded to has
been going since nineteen forty eight. Australians have been supporting
the mission since nineteen fifty six. I was the head
of the military of one hundred and fifty three offices
drawn from twenty seven different troop contributing countries including the
United States, Russian Federation, China, and many other nations. And

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we observed and monitored and reported the terms of the
various ceasefire agreements. So we operated heavily up in the
South Latani River sector north of Israel. I had team
members up in Beirut, in Damascus, Syria, either side of
the area of separation between gol Lan and Kenetra, but
also elements in Amman, Jordan, and down in Ishmaelia, Egypt.

Speaker 3 (36:39):
Now, a lot of people don't understand how small that
area is that you're talking about, I mean, and this
is part of the problem I think for some Americans
in understanding why this conflict remains so hot all the time.
And it's because we're talking about a very small area
of land.

Speaker 5 (36:55):
That's right.

Speaker 6 (36:55):
If you go from the Mediterranean Sea in Tel Aviv
and drive for one hour, you're at the Jordan River valley,
which is the border between Israel and Jordan. It's such
a small area and that's something that most Gentiles don't
appreciate that when we're talking about Hamas terrorists in Gaza,

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people that are not dissimilar to the violent militants in
the sixth century AD. It's a forty five minute drive
south of Tel Aviv.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
It'd be the equivalent of Boulder harboring Hamas. I mean,
that's really what we're talking about for Denver rides. It
would be having people who wanted to murder you in
Boulder and a whole bunch of them and a whole
community dedicated to that. That's probably a great way to
think about that. How did you go into that experience
as a U observer? What was your mindset? What did

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you think you were going to see versus what actually transpired?
Were you close?

Speaker 1 (37:54):
So?

Speaker 6 (37:55):
I think since my early twenties, I've had an interest
in the Israeli Defense Force and also Lavont So when
the application came about in twenty eighteen, I was very
interested to put my name forward. It was a fascinating
part of the world because the Israeli Defense Forces, in
my judgment, are the most lawful, ethical, and moral military

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fighting force world history is known not only with what's
happening in Gaza at the moment, but if we look
at the modern history from forty eight, nineteen fifty six,
nineteen sixty seven, seventy three, the inn a fada's elevenon campaigns.
The Israeli Defense Forces are really excelled against against an
intractable flight foe. David has defeated Goliath in many of

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the campaigns in the past.

Speaker 3 (38:42):
Well, let's talk about now, because there's you know, I
yesterday I had read an article that was an a
Reuter's article, and I could very easily go through and
show the clear instances of anti Israel bias from not
mentioning that the local health minist is her Maasa's health
ministry that's giving these numbers. When you went to Israel,

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you already had a fascination with the IDF. What did
you see there that affirmed your belief that they were
operating as ethically as possible in a war zone? Which
almost sounds like an oxymoron, You know it doesn't. How
can you have ethical war because war is so to determine,
to break things and kill people. It's the purpose of war.
How do you square that? Give me some examples.

Speaker 6 (39:26):
I think the first thing for the listeners to understand
is that Israeli defense forces are just that they're a
defensive mindset. They're not an offensive mindset. So Israel as
a people are very similar it's Western liberal democracies around
the world. But one of the things that's different for
Israel is that forty five minutes away from the second

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largest city barbarians that want to rape and murder on
film and then break about it. And so Israeli defense
forces face a number of the checks and balances that
are very familiar to US military Australia in terms of
targeting protocols that look at proportionality.

Speaker 5 (40:04):
The laws of war.

Speaker 6 (40:06):
There really is no moral comparison between Israeli defense force,
wonderful citizen soldiers and the genocidal maniacs in Hamas.

Speaker 3 (40:15):
How do you explain to someone or respond to someone
who says, but they're block eating gaza. But but but
they're creating starvation. But how do you how do you
explain that?

Speaker 6 (40:27):
It's one of my observations at the strategic level is
that we operate in an or wealthy in age of
gas lining and projection. People seem to have very fixed
opinions on Israel and the IDEF without any first hand interaction.
It is Allwellian people are forming deep mindsets based on
what they're hearing from Beljazerra BBC. For those that are

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reasonable open minded. I'd encourage people to get across to Israel,
to actually interact with Israelis, because, like I saw when
I was there from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty one,
Israelis and Israeli Defense Force are very similar to our own.
And indeed, for non Jewish people, when I say, when
I give an example of how they can actually picture
the average idea if depending on their age, I think

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I tell them to picture their own children or their
own grandchildren, because that's the closest indication of what n
IDF soldier is.

Speaker 3 (41:22):
Well, there's a sense of duty in Israel, and everybody
is in the idea for at least two years, so
you know, everybody kind of goes through the process. But
in my experience, to your point about them being a
defensive force, no one is ever saber rattling to go
bust down the neighbor's door.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
You know.

Speaker 3 (41:40):
It is all about just maintaining peace and making sure
that their families can grow up and flourish. That's the
whole purpose of the whole thing. Is there ever going
to be a situation where IDF movements are not going
to be the most highly scrutinized movements in the world,
because I've talked on this show about the barbarians that

(42:00):
work for the UN in places like the Congo, who
are literally committing war crimes against women every single day,
and it's not making a blip in our news media
at all. Nothing is being said.

Speaker 6 (42:12):
Yeah, I think a good test for anti Semitism is
the Natan Sharansky's three D definition demonize, delegitimize, and double standards.
It's quite shocking when we think of the very imperfect
world in which we live, what the Russian troops are
doing in Eastern Ukraine, dreadful things that are happening all

(42:33):
over the world, but the Israelis are the focus of
so much pillary and bile.

Speaker 5 (42:41):
It's completely irrational.

Speaker 6 (42:42):
And part of the work that I'm involved in in
combating any Semitism is connecting with reasonable, open minded people
and allowing them to interact with Israel and Israelis and
learn and see the truth for themselves, because I think
the only way practically that we can overcome or levels
of misinformation is for reasonable people to get across and

(43:04):
to live a personal experience.

Speaker 3 (43:07):
I'm going to ask you this, and this is just
a speculative question you can answer it or not. It
seems to me that Israel has recognized that once again,
no matter what they do, they're going to be held
to a different standard. So it seems to me from
the outside looking in, they are highly committed to completely
rooting out Hamas at this juncture, and even possibly going
further to completely destabilize Hasbal as we've seen, and now

(43:30):
they're launching missiles at Houthi's as well. Does this feel different?
Are we moving towards a final resolution with Iran?

Speaker 6 (43:37):
Look, there's a number of significant issues and questions to
unpack there. If we look at just the Gaza envelope presently,
Israeli's three strategic goals are to return the hostages. There's
still fifty eight hostages held in Gaza. The second is
to dismantle Hamas, and the third is to ensure that

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the Gaza strip the envelope never again constitutes a threat
to the safety and security of Israelis Iran is, of
course the head of the snake. Iranian retrick has been
very consistent since the late nineteen seventies.

Speaker 5 (44:14):
And the fall of the Shah.

Speaker 6 (44:16):
Death not only to the little Satan, but death to
the big Satan the United States, and for me, I
take that very personally as as an Australian that's given
the whole of my adult life to the profession of arms,
and someone that believes in Judo Christian traditions and the
Western civilization. That constitutes a threat not only to the

(44:38):
safety and security of Israelis Americans, but also to the
safety and security of my children and my family and
loved ones. And for what it's worth, I see no
non kinetic solution to the Iranian problem. I think that
there will need to be a strike to remove once
and for all the Iranian nuclear program like we saw

(44:59):
on the the early nineteen eighties in Iraq.

Speaker 3 (45:03):
What you're not Jewish? So what has drawn you into
not just being an unabashed supporter of the IDF in Israel,
but now you're actively fighting Semitism? What clicked in you
that made you say this is going to be my
life's mission.

Speaker 6 (45:19):
So I think my tipping point was October twenty twenty three.
But to understand that fully, I've got to go back
into my early twenties when a mentor of minor, former
commanding officer said, Michael, as part of your professional development,
you need to study Israel's wars, and so understanding the tactics,
the operations and strategy also exposed me to the history,

(45:39):
politics and the peace attempts. And so it was only
after October twenty twenty three that I have been able
to look back that I've been an ardent Zionist since
my twenties because I believe in the political and cultural
self determination of the indigenous people in their homeland, deep
personal connection with Israelis. People that I know and care

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for were personally involved on October seven. Indeed, the adopted
son of a dear friend of mine is still the
hostage in gharz Or, one of the fifty eight. And
at the time, my eighteen year old daughter was at
a music concert four hours away from the family home
in Sydney, Australia. At the same time that kids were
being slaughtered and raped in Nova, my daughter was away

(46:23):
from home. So to say I can empathize and relate
is an understatement.

Speaker 3 (46:27):
Let me ask you a question, because you've actually spent
time in Gaza, and you spent time in Gaza during
this war. I have gotten on good authority from people
who live in Israel, and many of them will say
the Palestinian people are as oppressed, and one said this
to me, there are as oppressed by Hamas as North
Koreans are oppressed by Kemilun. That no dissent is allowed,

(46:49):
no protest, no sort of pushback, there are no elections.
So how or do you separate the people, the Palestinian
people that initially we elected Hamas only to find out
what they got after they elected them, or do you
separate them at all? And if not, why.

Speaker 5 (47:08):
Hunt See that's a cracking question.

Speaker 3 (47:10):
Again, I'm really smart. I am really smart, Colonel Michael Scott.

Speaker 6 (47:14):
I can only give my judgment and looking at the
Palestinian people. So not only in Gaza envelope, but Juda
and Samaria. I must must admit that since the Bibas
murders back in February, I've had a lot of difficulty
referring to Juda and Samaria as the West Bank. So
I remember the celebration and the joy of those people

(47:38):
at the spectacle of Shari Kafir and Ariel's body coming
back home to Israel. I think one of the things
we've seen at the moment is a level of radicalization
that is without precedent and human history. If we look
it back at the Mongols, the Vandals, the Tatars, I
don't think they I think they pale in comparison. We

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talk about the radicalization of the Palestinians, and something that
I'm deeply angry about is that it's your taxpayers money
and mine that's fund at that level of radicalization. In
my judgment, there will certainly be gardens that have got
no interest in supporting Hamas, but Hamas rules with an

(48:20):
iron fist. My concern is that Hamas have been operating
with the acquisition the acquiescence, but perhaps the majority of gardens,
and so even after we look at the operations beyond
the kinetic activities in the envelope, there's going to be
a sustained period of de radicalization where people of goodwill

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get into the schools, get into the offices, deradicalize a population,
and indeed, for those listeners that are interested. I think
that the United Arab Emirates and some of the work
there in terms of firstly outlawing was them brotherhood in
the United Arab Emirates, more particularly establishing a ministry of tolerance,

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I think that that points to some of the solutions
that we might look at seeing in Gaza and the
West Bank.

Speaker 3 (49:10):
I agree wholeheartedly. When I was probably twenty years old
and I'm fifty five now, I saw a documentary called
The Women of Hesbla, and I didn't know anything about
the region at all, but that documentary genuinely horrified me
because children from the time they were very very little,
when they were falling behind their parents in the market
or something, they turn around and say, hurry up, or

(49:31):
the Jews are going to get you. And they tell
their children if they got out of line, the Jews
were going to come take them and kill them and
eat them. Now, this is what parents were telling little children.
Those little children have no chance, you know, in terms
of what they believe and how they're steeped in. And
I'm with you. I think it's it's like a two
generation process to undo all of that. That is to

(49:52):
me going to be the hardest part of peace.

Speaker 6 (49:55):
And I think objectively, what are the steps that we
can take going forward. I'm a big fan, as a
simple soldier of kiss, keep it simple, stupid, and I
think the first precondition is to stop rewarding bad behavior,
so throwing good money after bad into organizations like the
United Nations Relief and Works Agency absolutely a non startup

(50:18):
that needs to stop. And unfortunately, like we've seen in
the United Nations, where in my judgment, the institutions remain relevant,
it's not an institutional problem, it's.

Speaker 5 (50:29):
A people problem.

Speaker 6 (50:30):
Activists have taken over and infected not only the UN,
but agencies that were formally credible like Amnesty International, like
the International, like UN High Commission Human It's outrageous and
I think that the simple policy positions there is to

(50:51):
stop funding bad behavior. Israel is a wonderful, tolerant organization
for those listeners that are interested in understanding a little
bit more about what the Israeli government does to provide
support for the Palestinians and the territories. I'd recommend people
look at CogAT Coordination of government aid in the territories,

(51:13):
and that's got a source of truth to how much water,
how much electricity, how much food goes in and it
straightaway empowers and enables people like you and me to
push back on the hard left sell its and the
social Marxists that are trying to gaslight and project their
nonsense onto us and shape not only anti Israeli sentiment

(51:36):
but anti Semitic center.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
Right, We're almost out of time, and I want to
make sure we get to the foundation. The foundation that
Michael Scott has founded is the twenty twenty three Foundation.
It's an Australian nonprofit organization dedicated to combating anti Semitism.
Tell me a little bit about what you guys do.

Speaker 6 (51:53):
Absolutely that thesiest way to explain it is that we're
very similar to the Fulbright Scholarship, which was established in
the States at the end of the Second World War.
It not only brings people into US institutions to educate them,
but builds cross cultural linkages through soft power. And so
the basis of the twenty twenty three Foundation is to

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connect with reasonable, open minded non Jews with little or
no first ten experience with Israel and incentivize them across
to Israel so they can interact.

Speaker 5 (52:24):
With the environment and overcome go to Israel.

Speaker 6 (52:28):
In my judgment, there's no practical way to anti Semitism
without people going across and seeing the facts on the
ground and all of Israel's perfect imperfections. They have to
get across there to see the truth and how israelis
not just Jewish people but Drews Christian Arabs, Muslim Arabs
interact to be able to push back on some of

(52:50):
the gas lighting from some of our failed legacy media
institutions and those dim weits we're seeing on campus in
Colombia and other over the Egans institutions.

Speaker 3 (53:01):
Colonel Michael Scott, I so appreciate you. I've got links
to everything. I've got a link to his website, I've
got a link to a phenomenal column that he just wrote,
an opinion piece that I highly recommend, and now a
link to the twenty twenty three Foundation. If you would
like to support this, I agree because I will tell
you my trip to Israel went for my nephew's wedding,
which already is a wonderful occasion, but walking through Old

(53:21):
Jerusalem is such a It's just an incredible and powerful thing.
I would love for everyone to have that opportunity to
walk in the same steps if you're a Christian that
Jesus walked in, and if you're Jewish, you go to
the to the wall and you see the foundations of
the Temple. It's just the cradle of humanity is in Jerusalem.

(53:43):
I mean, there's no other way to say it.

Speaker 4 (53:45):
So I so.

Speaker 3 (53:46):
Appreciate what you're doing and making time for us today
and coming with your beautiful Australian accent to talk to
my radio listeners.

Speaker 6 (53:52):
You very sweet. Many it's wanted to be a guest
on your show. Schelom.

Speaker 3 (53:55):
Everyone all right, thank you, We'll be right back. Mandy'sblog
dot com. I have some fantastic videos on the blog today,
including one of a young woman. I got to give
her a little credit, a little big ups to this
young woman. She was wanting a little more money at
her job, wasn't sure she's met ready to make the leap.
She took her PTO time to start another job, which

(54:18):
allowed her to find out that the new company was
an absolute dumpster fire. So she came back to her
other job. That, my friends, is how you do it.
Like I kind of want to call her and just
be like, you should get free lessons because that is outstanding.
And then at the end she says, if my boss says, yes,
I love you, I just wanted more money, you know,

(54:38):
And if the boss doesn't respect her ingenuity and give
her a raise to keep her, then that's just dumb
on their part, just really really silly. And I have
to say a rod when I saw this video of
this mechanic that you sent me today, so deep yep.
A mechanic says that the absolute most useless, worst feature

(54:59):
on New CA is the auto start and stop, the
Eco mode, as it were, the thing that turns your
engine off at the light, you know or whatever. And
he just said, basically, you're just restarting your car a
thousand times a day. I turn mine off. Mind's easy.
Mind's a button push. Yeah, mine's a button push. Every
time I start my car turns back on. Oh I know,

(55:20):
I know. Yeah. So it's like first thing I do
in the car. Yeah, well, my car has a I
have a ten year old Mercedes G four fifty, which
is just basically a glorified station wagon. And you know,
it's kind it's a crossover, but it's it's very I
don't know, it's waggonlike, but anyway, it has turbo. But
it also has what's known apparently as a Mercedes bends

(55:42):
turbo lag. That's a thing. And so you put the metal,
you put the metal all the way to the floor.
Nothing happens, and then all of a sudden you're like jing,
And I'll tell you the turbo works. I took a
Tesla off the line the other day, just said it.
Testas are like zero to sixty and nothing flat. It's crazy. Yeah,
but you have to hold it. Yeah you any foot off?

(56:04):
Yeah yeah yeah. If you shop at King Super, do
you shop at Kings Super? Occasionally? I love King Super,
but I also shop the sales really really hard. Like
I am a sale shopper at King Super, and you
know they got that none. Sometimes I'll be a coupon
or if it's a really good like I just downloaded
a digital coupon to get five dollars off a two
pound box of crab Legs because I want a crab

(56:25):
legs from Mother's Day. So I definitely clip that coupon.
But that being said, you know, you look at the
little tag and it says, you know, normally three dollars
on sale for you know, a buck seventy five or whatever.
Every time I go to the checkout, I make sure
that I get those discounts, and if I don't, I'm
flagging somebody down. If I'm in the self checkout, I'm like, yeah,
that was supposed to be a buck seventy five, And

(56:47):
every single time they don't ever go check. They just
change it. You could say anything. Well, now be real.
Now we know why because free yeah exactly. A Consumer
Reports undercover shopper investigation, and they went in. They sent
these shoppers into some Kroger and Kroger owned stores in March, April,

(57:07):
and May. They went to twenty six stores across fourteen
states in the District of Columbia to investigate claims that
the grocery giant put incorrect price tags on items. And
what they found was that shoppers found expired sales labels
that led to overcharges on more than one hundred and
fifty grocery items, including cheerios, musinex nescafe, instant coffee, boneless beef, salmon,

(57:34):
and dog food. One third of the expired sales tags
were out of date by at least ten days, and
the prices of the five of the products were expired
by at least ninety days. The average overcharge was found
to be a buck seventy per item, or eighteen point
four percent. This is why I check it every single time.

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But you've got to know who's behind this study. You've
got to know who's behind these accusations. It was all
because the union ratted them out. UFCW Local seven, the
union that represents thousands of Colorado grocery store workers, said
the Consumer Reports investigation was launched after the union conducted

(58:15):
its investigation of chronic understaffing in stores. The union claims
the understaffing led to rampant overcharging, in inaccuracy and prices
paid at the register in Colorado grocery stores. Now they're
not wrong, but does this reflect well on their unionized

(58:36):
grocery workers. I mean, seems to me somebody's just not
doing their job. Otherwise this stuff would have been taken
care of. But what a clever way to put pressure
on a grocery store chain to up the staffing, which
means more employees, which means more union dues. This is

(58:58):
a master stroke. Love Consumer Reports. I subscribe to Consumer
Reports for years, that actual magazine, just because I think
it's fascinating. And before I buy a car, I always
go to Consumer Reports, although they don't always get it right,
and I love them because they don't take advertising, so
they don't owe anybody anything. They're completely supported by subscriptions

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and they go out and buy their own stuff. They
pay their own money for these groceries. So I just
brought that up to you. So if you are shopping
at the K and here's the thing you guys, I
bet it's not just in King Super. I bet it's
in You can probably go in any grocery store and
find stuff that's mispriced. Pay attention, especially if the deal
that you're buying stuff for is really really good. Because

(59:40):
if the deal's really good and I know it's something
I'm gonna use, I'll buy multiples. And you better believe
I want to save money on my multiples. Okay, let's
talk about the worst landlord in Denver. Listen to this.
Shirlean Johnson was an elderly woman living in an apartment.

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She had a lot of health issues. She had COPD,
she was on oxygen. She was not in great health.
So imagine her dismay when in twenty twenty three, her
heating and cooling unit it started to malfunction and it
was blowing hot air into her apartment. While her apartment
landlords came and fixed her fixed it up. They replaced

(01:00:23):
the unit with a refurbished part, and in May of
twenty twenty three, that part failed. On May nineteenth, she
called the landlord and said, hey, this thing is blowing
hot air into my already hot apartment. No one showed up,

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and four days later she was found dead in her apartment.
And Shirlen Johnson had basically cooked to death in her
apartment which was one hundred and twenty degrees when she
was found dead. Now, these are the kind of stories
that make you go, well, thank goodness, Denver ha just
passed all those rules on landlords that they have to

(01:01:06):
have inspections and that there's all kinds of stuff that
has to be done before we can be landlords, so
stuff like this never happens again. That landlords go to jail.
Who's the landlord the city of Denver, it's part of
the housing authority. And this elderly disabled woman was left
to cook in her apartment after she complained about it
over the weekend, and now her family is suing, and boy, howdy,

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I hope they win. Now I realize what you're going
to say, but Mandy's that's our money that the family's
going to get. The thing I really wish that would
be included in these sorts of lawsuits is a provision
that says whoever was in charge of making the decisions
directly that led to the death of this woman, they
must be fired from the city and given a no

(01:01:51):
rehire order in their personal folder. That's what's missing from
these lawsuits, because no one has ever held a cant
no one has ever fired, no one is ever forced
to step down, nobody ever loses their retirement when they
make a decision that's so bad and so horrible that
someone ends up dead. So yeah, this is why, this

(01:02:12):
is why, this is why. Whenever politicians accuse, you know, nice, honest,
upstanding people of being horrible, I always say it's usually
because they themselves are the ones being horrible and we
just don't get to see that part. So yay City
of Denver. I hope this family wins. What a horrible,
horrible thing to have happened to your mother or your grandmother. Ugh,

(01:02:35):
absolutely awful. When we get back, I want to do
some shout outs for graduation. We did these in the
first hour. And uh, all cars with turbo have turbo lag.
Good to know, very good to know. Mandy watched the
daily prices a King Superam regularly charge non sale prices

(01:02:57):
with items that are on sale. Sometimes it's a pretty
big price difference. Oh I do I'm cheap you, guys,
I'm thrifty. I'm making sure I get every break I
can get, and you should too, especially King Super. Shout
out to your graduate. I'll get it in as many
as I can and make no promises. High school college,
I don't care. Go and do that at five, six,

(01:03:19):
six nine. Oh, already got a couple. Many of you
are pointing out, Mandy, are you a fan of cottage cheese?
I like it with a little salt, no herb seasoning.
These people who put fruit in it or just gross,
amen to that. I do like cotta cheese. It's having
a moment right now.

Speaker 2 (01:03:32):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:03:33):
It's not just because you hate fruit. I love fruit.
And that sounds terrible. Why just a little cotta shoes? No,
you said no. They asked if you like fruit in it,
and of course you would say no.

Speaker 3 (01:03:42):
No cottage cheese at all. I do like cottage cheese.

Speaker 4 (01:03:45):
But with fruit, and I'm not put fruit I love
and that's gross.

Speaker 3 (01:03:49):
That's not a thing that's happening in my house. No,
not doing that. Well, of course you're not. Shout out
to our grandson, Colton Stinky graduating from Heston College in
Eastern Kansas. Rewind Stinky Okay, is it psnkey? Probably Arnold
two airhorns now, Hi, Mandy, he really wants to out

(01:04:12):
do Donald Duck. I mean he's really got it. He's
really got a an issue here. That's two different Arnolds. Oh,
I didn't realize we had an impostor along with the
real Arnold listening to the show. Now we have an
impocter Arnold. First guy obviously, the second guy is obviously
an impostor. Obviously obviously, Hi, Mandy. My son Brian, graduated

(01:04:33):
from the South Dakota School of Mines with a BS
in physics. He has a well paying job with a
full benefits package in the uranium mining industry. Also no debt, Mandy.
Please shout out to my triplets, Dame Drake and Ava Grace,
who just graduated at Frederick High School. That from Chad, Mandy,

(01:04:57):
do not listen. Not all turbos experience. Many modern turbos
are kept spoiled, spooled by electric motors when exhaust gas.
I don't even know what any of those words mean.
I pushed the gas. That's what happens. That's my entire
knowledge of a car right there. Yeah, I got nothing
after that, Mandy, Nicole Schlackter, double graduate Holy Oak High

(01:05:18):
School and Northeastern Junior College. Good for her getting her
AA or as that is so creepy, that's like we
gotta save that for like Halloween time or something that's
a vaguely threatening air horn, like that guy's coming to
kill you and basically he's doing like his own Jason
music with the air horn. Yeah, I feel like a

(01:05:41):
clown horn would be like right before or after that,
Oh now you got me, like creepy guy dressed as
a clown doing the air horn Urner Mandy, I wonder
if the shells read eighty six JC Coomy would have
reposted that. By the way, as a former restaurant manager,

(01:06:02):
I've often heard that eighty six removed or refers to
a remote country road where gangsters in the twenties used
to take people to kill and bury them. Actually actuly.
I did look it up, and some say that eighty
six came from the eight by six hole dug for
a coffin. Maybe maybe not, I don't know. Ah so
death Congratulations to our son Blake Paddock. He graduated from

(01:06:25):
the Arizona State University Wednesday evening. Love you, says your parents.
They also said, get a job and move out. Just kidding,
I added that last part. Rude, I know, let them
live a little Take a semester.

Speaker 4 (01:06:38):
No, no, no, no, Now am I not successful?

Speaker 3 (01:06:43):
You are very successful?

Speaker 4 (01:06:44):
Okay, I took a semester. I needed it your parents
between high school and college. That's that's fine. That not
after after college. You got to hit the ground running.
Oh yeah, no, yeah, hit the ground just boom, you're
ready to go. Mandy, My daughter and my money went
to see you.

Speaker 3 (01:06:56):
Thank god. She just graduated. Another one off the payroll.
And isn't that graduation season is all about? Completely? All right? Guys,
when we get back, I have a lot of stuff
to talk about. We've got a Christian camp that has
now picked up the mantle of protecting girls sports. And

(01:07:17):
I mean that, I really really do mean that, because
I think that policies like the ones we have in
Colorado that say that any student can declare their gender
and then has to be housed and shower and change
with whatever gender they've chosen is patently unfair to girls
who may find themselves in a situation as we know

(01:07:37):
happened to jeff Co schools. Because that place is a
train wreck where they are supposed to room and possibly
share a bed with a student who was born another gender.
I mean now, and I know I'm going to say
this wrong. Camp it raja ja. It's inspired by the

(01:07:58):
song I'd Rather Have Jesus. So it's I d R
H A G E j E. I need you guys
to tell me how to pronounce it. I know it's
very famous and a lot of people either went there
or sent their kids there. They are now suing the
State of Colorado. Named in the lawsuit our Lisa Roy,
executive director of the Colorado Department of Early Childhood, and
Karen Rosa, director of the Department's Division of Early Learning,

(01:08:22):
Licensing and Administration. The state licensed camp had asked for
a waiver from the identity based regulations requiring campers be
allowed to use the same private bathing, dressing, and sleeping
facilities as the opposite sex. When we get back, we're
going to talk a little bit more about this and
the impact it could have on other places in Colorado.

(01:08:45):
Right after news Trafkin Weather.

Speaker 1 (01:08:47):
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No, it's Mandy Connell on Got Study and the Nicety.

Speaker 3 (01:09:07):
Three, Bendyconnell, Keith Sad Babe. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the
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That guy's Anthony Rodriguez. We will take you right up
until three o'clock when we'll hand the station over all
in one piece to the wrecking crew. That happens in
the afternoon. Can't waite sports. So I was talking before

(01:09:29):
the break about a private Christian summer camp, and thank
you to all of you who took to the text
line to tell me it is Camp Era Hodgie, camp
Ara Hodgie. Thank you so much for that. Appreciate you.
And unfortunately this Christian summer camp is found themselves in
a position that there's zero reason they should be in

(01:09:52):
except Colorado doesn't care about girls. That's where I'm going.
They're suing because in Colorado, the Colorado Department of Early Childhood,
they are licensed. They're a licensed facility in the state
of Colorado. The Colorado Department of Early Childhood has gender
identity based regulations requiring campers be allowed to use the

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private bathing, dressing, and sleeping facilities of the opposite sex
if they declare themselves to be transgender. Now, the camp
has requested a waiver from the regulations based on religious beliefs,
but they were denied, and thankfully the Alliance Defending Freedom
has now decided to represent them and they are going

(01:10:39):
to work this lawsuit through the state of Colorado. And
here's hoping that this ends up at the US Supreme
Court so they can overturn what will inevitably be upheld
by the Colorado Supreme Court. By the way, Camp Irahagi
has been operating since nineteen forty eight. It's held a
resident camp licenses nineteen ninety five. Serves between two thousand,

(01:11:03):
five hundred and three thousand children between the ages of
six and seventeen years old every summer. Now, if they've
got kids at that camp that are sixteen and seventeen,
I'm not saying it's going to happen. But let's just
say you have a boyfriend and girlfriend who know that
they are both going to be going to the same camp.
Boyfriend says, Hey, I'm actually a girl. Yeah, actually a girl,

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So I'd like to room with my female counterparts, and yeah,
I'd like to room, especially with that one. Now, I'm
not saying it's going to happen. But what's stopping it?
With the policies of Colorado. They don't demand that you
have any kind of hormone therapy or have legally changed
your aam or no. You just say I'm a dude

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and I want to stay in the women's quarters. And
there you are now as a religious camp. Camp Irahdgi
is arguing that man a god, and you know, man
and woman and their religious beliefs say we got men
and women and when we separate them for a very
good reason, and we're going to continue doing so.

Speaker 2 (01:12:10):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:12:10):
I don't know what this means for this summer. The
ADF legal counsel Andrea Dill said in a press release.
The government has no place telling religious summer camps that
it's lights out for upholding their religious beliefs about human sexuality.
We're urging the court to allow Camp Idrahaji to operate
as it has for seventy five years as a Christian
summer camp that accepts all campers without fear of being

(01:12:34):
funished for its beliefs. Oh, Texter, you're so funny on
the Common Spirit health text line, where's the ACLU? At
least you put laughing face emojis after it because we
both know the answer to that question. So no, it
is idrahaji. That's what I said, isn't it Idrahaji? Isn't

(01:12:56):
that what I said? What it raja? I rahaji? It's
I drove. Okay, Now, you guys are just messing with me.
I asked for a favor, and you all take to
the text line and tell me different things not doing that.
In any case, we'll see what happens here, and if

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it does make it to the Colorado Supreme Court, I
fully expect them to rule against the camp and then
I fully expect it to go to the Supreme Court
where the look and go, oh yeah, Colorado Supreme Court
decided at civil rights case. We're we're gonna have to
take this up because you know it's going to be
a disaster. Now I want to tell you about a
crime story, very very quickly. I'm all for people being
held accountable for their actions. But when I saw this headline,

(01:13:41):
I thought, okay, I'll bite, I'll bite. We just we
suffered a tragedy recently because of something similar. New Colorado
rock throwing incident prompts felony investigation. It's not a prank
and won't be tolerated. So I'm thinking, Okay, we have
another situation where you know, young adults are out there. No, Nope.

(01:14:02):
The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office says it will likely recommend
felony charges against three Colorado elementary school students, one an
eleven year old and two others who are both ten
years old. Yeah, they threw multiple large rocks from their

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school bus that hit a passing car in the other direction.
Now is this acceptable behavior? Absolutely not. Is this a
good idea to charge three children ten and eleven years
old with a felony? No, it is not. Now I

(01:14:44):
realize that in Jefferson County, as I just said, we
just had a horrible tragedy where a woman was killed
by young adults who absolutely should have known better throwing
massive rocks at cars going by. This is kids on
a school bus doing a really stupid, dum thing, and
kids on a school bus deserve to be punished, and

(01:15:05):
maybe severely so, but they don't deserve to be charged
with a felony because kids are inherently stupid. This is
why whenever I hear people say things like you know,
Greneth Thunberg. She's sixteen, she is so wise. We should
listen to the children. The children are we should from
out of the mouths of babes. We should just listen

(01:15:27):
to the No, we shouldn't. Children are by design idiots,
no offense kids. But you're simply not alive long enough.
Your prefrontal cortex is not formed enough. You don't have
enough emotional maturity to make good decisions. This is why
we shouldn't let little children decide that they are another gender.

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But it's also why we should not be charging two
ten year olds and an eleven year old with a felony.
What are we doing? I mean what? Here's my favorite
part of this whole story from CBS News, and I
love CBS four. Their reporters are some of my favorites.
Fox thirty one and CBS four are my go tos
for all of their stuff. But listen to this. Asked

(01:16:14):
if the May eighth case might be a copycat case
stemming from publicity around the Bartel Court proceedings, Kelly said
she didn't know, but anyone throwing projectiles at a driver
of a moving vehicle should understand the potential consequences of
doing that. So what you're telling me is that you
asked if two ten year olds and an eleven year
old were glued to the news cycle so much so

(01:16:36):
that they decided to go out and recreate a horrible
crime that killed a woman. So now we've made it
two ten year olds and an eleven year old master criminals,
and we're going to put a charge on them that,
for the rest of their lives could prevent them from
being able to achieve because they're stupid. Somebody else just
pointed out a story I had it on the blog

(01:16:57):
earlier this week, and honestly made me so angry. I
don't understand it. In a I believe a rapa Hoe County,
I believe it was a Rapahoe County, a judge heard
the case of an unlicensed, undocumented fifteen year old boy who,
without a driver's license, took his mother's jeep, sped through

(01:17:19):
a neighborhood at about ninety miles an hour with a
jeep full of other kids, and slammed into the car
of a woman who was killed. And for this the
kid got probation. And I was like, I don't even
I don't even how can a human life? How can
you snuff out a human life and get probation. Now

(01:17:41):
that's a situation where you've killed someone and they didn't
even I don't even know if they charged him with
a felony. I think he pled down. Horrible story, Absolutely
horrible story. The only thing I hope is that Ice
has already started deportation proceedings for him and his mom.
I don't want that kid here anyway. I know it's

(01:18:03):
I'd rather have Jesus, I got it. I don't believe
you people on the text line anymore anyway. The best
protein bar, the Power Crunch Pro triple Chocolate. It is delicious.
How many calories it tastes like candy? Hang on, I'll
tell you. Yeah, too much. Yeah it's a meal though

(01:18:24):
it's a meal replacement. Yeah no, that's still too much.
I'm good with that. I factored in into my chat
JBT food Lug. What's your calories per day right now?
About fourteen hundred? It's exactly me.

Speaker 4 (01:18:35):
Yeah, so you fourteen hundred a day and you are yeah,
and both of us fourteen hundred a day bends here
and three hundred on one bar.

Speaker 3 (01:18:44):
What are you having for dinner? Just protein and veggies?
I mean just basically like six ounces. Yeah, but I
didn't have breakfast today, so I had no breakfast. Then
I had lunch, and then I have this and then
I'll have dinner. Yeah, keeping meals. Well, I had stuff
this morning, I had what not. Oh, by the way,
I would like to congratulate the winner of the Rocky

(01:19:04):
suitek giveaway that we did to raise money for my
daughter's Criminal Justice club, Liz One, and she had notified
her yesterday. She's very excited. She said, I've never won anything.
I just wanted to support the club, and I said,
now you've won. And they raised about twenty five hundred dollars,
so they paid for most of their expenses and one
of their kids won the state competition. So that's very exciting.

(01:19:26):
So thank all of you for that. I've got several
things on the blog right now, but I need to know,
you know, I talked about gardening, and now that's my
hobby now because I'm you know, I'm getting to be
an elderly woman. I mean not right away, but it's happening,
and I needed a hobby, so I started gardening. I
only gardened on my deck, and it makes me brings
me great joy. If you too garden and I got

(01:19:46):
a lot of people that were sending me tips, so
thank you for all of those research shows gardening preserves
cognitive function, helping you live well for longer. Now dementia
dementia patients of which I apparently one dimensipations are reaping
the benefits with care farm prescriptions. Listen to this. This
is so cool. Maryann Rogstad, a retired grandmother from Norway,

(01:20:10):
is a lifelong learner. She worked as a hotel clerk
in Switzerland for five decades, where she spent her days
immersed in new languages and cultures. But when Rogstad returned
to Norway, she was diagnosed with dementia. She soon became
isolated and lost those sources of stimulation. That was until
she joined Impulse Center, a small care farm outside Oslo.

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The care farm borrows its name from the way it
serves people's impulses to work and connect with others, and
in twenty fifteen, Norway became one of the first countries
to create a national dementia care plan, which includes government
offered day care services such as Mpatunet, which translates into
the yard or care farms now as researchers recognized the

(01:20:54):
vast cognitive benefits of working on the land. More communities
are integrating gardening into healthcare, treating all kinds of health
needs through socially prescribed activities in nature, or what they
call green prescriptions. The best part about gardening, you guys,
you don't need a prescription. It's true, you do not,

(01:21:14):
according to Melissa Lemm, She said, nature prescriptions can increase
physical activity and social connection while reducing stress, which has
multiple positive knockoff effects for blood pressure, blood sugar control,
and healthy weight, reducing the risk of diseases that can
lead to dementia. And I think this is so now

(01:21:38):
We've established that I'm going to live a very long time,
and as long as I keep gardening, I'll be fine.
In one two thousand and two study of more than
eight hundred nuns in the United States, they found that
frequently participating in cognitively stimulating activities reduce their risk of
Alzheimer's disease. A more recent study of older adults in

(01:21:59):
Japan found participation in meaningful activities could protect against declines
in memory function. Meanwhile, other research is found that people
who received an intervention of cognitively stimulating activities, typically in
a social setting, saw improvements in cognition, mood, communication, and
social interaction. The long story short of this article from

(01:22:21):
the BBC, which of course is linked on the blog
today at mandy'sblog dot com, is that if you're sitting
at home alone watching television, chances are you are going
to decline faster than if you are in the community
doing activities, putting your hands in the dirt, stimulating your

(01:22:42):
brain and no watching. You know, four thousand episodes of
NCIS does not stimulate your brain in the right way.
So it's all about creating the healthiest, happiest health span
that you can. We all the lifespan, right, and that's
how long we're going to actually live. But I don't

(01:23:03):
want to just live small L. I want to live
big L. And in order to do that, you have
to maintain your health. You have to maintain your brain.
I'm just here to help people. You can take my
advice and do what you will. You can head out
to the home depot right now and load up on
some flowers. When we get back. I have a question
for you, which airline do you think is the worst

(01:23:27):
in the United States? When it comes to complaints, I'll
let you moll that over and I'll tell you the
answer when we get back. Weigh in on what airline
you think had the most complaints in twenty twenty four.
Do it on the Common Spirit Health text line at five, six,
six and nine O. But I just got this question,
and isn't ask me anything, Friday, Mandy. Does it scare
you that in fifty years you and a majority of

(01:23:48):
your listeners will likely be dead? Not at all. I
believe that this isn't this isn't it. I believe that
there's a whole, great beyond that we go on to
and this is just part of our existence. And so
don't get me wrong. I'm not looking to rush toward
the light or anything. But it doesn't scare me at all.
And I've had I was talking to a friend of mine.
I said, you know, and I've said this before on

(01:24:10):
the ear, and I mean this one hundred percent. If
I dropped it right now, I have had the best life.
It has not been without challenges, it has not been
without frustrations, devastations, heartbreak, all of that stuff, But man
if I had a good ride. So now it doesn't
scare me. At all in my way. By the way,
I mean, I have really good friends who are atheists,

(01:24:32):
and I kind of joke to them, I'm like, your
ways boring to think that just this time on Earth
is all there is. Come on, this can't be it.
So nonetheless, we are going to I'm okay with it again,
not looking to rush there, but I'm okay with it.

(01:24:53):
And now you know, I'm obsessed with near death experiences
as well. And now I've read enough people who've had
near death or after death experiences that were convincing that
I'm like, Nope, I think we're going to be just fine.
Now to the story about the airlines that had the
most complaints and least complaints in twenty twenty four. Now,
airline passenger complaints have skyrocketed since before, right at the

(01:25:15):
beginning of the pandemic, for a variety of reasons. I
think people are just willing less willing to take the
crap from the airlines that they used to take. By
the way, I also have a story on the blog
today this summer. Airlines are cracking down on carry ons. Okay,
they're cracking down. If you bring on a big carry
on bag that isn't a wheeled piece of luggage, you're

(01:25:36):
going to be told to put it into the seat
in front of you, which is completely janky because now
if I just bring my backpack, I have to put
it in my foot space, but if somebody else brings
a big suitcase, I have to accommodate them in the
overhead bin. So I'm gonna just start bringing a wheeled
suitcase because I'm not doing this. But know the requirements.
And if you're traveling in Europe, carry on sizes are
smaller than they are in the United States. If you

(01:25:59):
want to avoid fees or anything like that, make sure
you know the appropriate carry on sizes because they're checking
at the gate and it could cost you big and
create problems. Now let's go to the best airlines first. Okay,
best airline overall, and actually it's kind of not even
close in overall complaints. The number one airline with just

(01:26:22):
one point five complaints per one hundred thousand passengers. And
to give you some context for that number, the worst
airline we're gonna get to in a moment has twenty
three point three complaints per one hundred thousand airlines, So
at one point five complaints, Southwest airlines sitting right on top.
Number two Alaska two point six, number three, Hawaiian at

(01:26:46):
three point eight. Now you have to understand Hawaiian and
Alaskan air They've gone back and forth as the top
airline over and over and over again for many, many years.
So the fact that Southwest has cracked this is pretty special.
Worst airline. I'll get to that in the moment. Flight
Cancelation's best airline again Southwest number one, Hawaiian number two,
Delta number three, DeLay's best airline Hawaiian only sixteen percent

(01:27:12):
of flights to lay, Delta eighteen percent of flights delayed,
United twenty one percent of flights delayed. Mishandled bags best
airline Allegiant number two, Jet Blue, number three, Frontier. Now
I have a theory that on Frontier nobody checks bags
because it's expensive, so they all just carry stuff on

(01:27:32):
mishandled wheelchairs. This is really bad. Number one best airline, Delta,
number two, Allegiant, number three. United involuntary bumping number one Allegiant,
Delta and then United and they almost have zero passengers
being bumped. Now, let's go to the worst airline. You guys,
you all know who it is. We all know, and

(01:27:56):
I'm looking at the text line. Frontier is the worst
Frontier for sure. A lot of Spirit airlines on here,
a lot, and somebody said jet Blue or Frontier. I've
never had a bad experience with jet Blue. I like
them now. Worst airlines overall complaints number three, Jet Blue
ten point four per hundred thousand complaints, Spirit twelve point

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eight per one hundred thousand passengers. Number one with a
bullet Frontier Airlines with twenty three point three complaints per
hundred thousand passenger miles. They are also the worst airline
for flight cancelations, the worst airline for delays, the worst
airline for oh, let's see where else involuntary bumping. They're

(01:28:42):
the number two worst airline in mishandled wheelchairs. The only
place where they shine is mishandled bags. And again, I
think that's simply because everybody checks their bags, because you know,
you don't fly a Frontier to spend money. You just
do so knowing there's something on the other side. And

(01:29:04):
treating this like a school just means all my dogs graduated,
and I will see them when I graduate, too. Correct. Correct, Hi.
The show keeps skipping or repeating says this texter maybe
three times per segment, not news or commercials. We know
there's a glitch in the matrix, and our it people

(01:29:25):
at the iHeart platform cannot seem to solve the problem exactly.
Carry On is expensive on Frontier also, yes, and Frontier
actually incentivizes their gate agents to measure your carry on
bags and if it is remotely bigger, like a quarter
of a millimeter bigger, they're going to charge you more

(01:29:47):
for that overhead bag and make you check it. That's
still going on. Oh yeah, as far as I know,
I wasn't aware that anything else changed in that respect.
As far as I know, it's the same. So we
got that going for us as well. Now I have
a couple of stories that I want to talk about.
This one is just really really cool. So gene editing

(01:30:10):
for years now has been sort of touted in the
medical community as the next big breakthrough because there are
diseases with a genetic component that many times there are
not good treatments for because they're the underlying condition is
a genetic anomaly, and scientists have been working really hard
to try and figure out how to edit the gene

(01:30:32):
sequences that cause these problems, and a little baby boy
was born in Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has
an extremely rare condition that dramatically affects his liver. Most
children with this disease die in the first week, but

(01:30:53):
the boy, his name is kJ he inherited mutations in
each of his two copies of a gene for a
liver enzyleme called CPS one. Without this enzyme, ammonia builds
up in the blood when proteins, including the ones you eat,
are broken down, and that damages the brain. It leads
to severe brain damage and the children die relatively quickly,

(01:31:16):
about half of them die relatively quickly. So their child
is born with this condition and the team said, okay,
well you can comfort him and basically give you know,
comfort care and see what happens. Or we can do
this completely experimental progress process where we try to edit

(01:31:37):
the faulty genes in the baby and see if we
can fix the problem that way. And the parents were like,
let's do it. Baby's gonna die, let's do it. So
they got special permission from the FDA, and when he
was six months old, the FDA gave approval and he
was given a low dose of the gene editing treatment.
They take whatever it is that actually edits the gene.

(01:31:58):
They put it in little fat glows and lipid clabules
to make sure that it can make it all the
way to liver. And then when it gets to the liver,
the treatment itself activates a series of events that edits
out the bad genes and puts the right ones in.
I have no idea how this works, no clue, and

(01:32:21):
I read like four different articles to try and figure
out so I can explain it to you. But I
do not understand how that actually happens. But it seems
to have worked. This little boy is making a remarkable recovery.
He can even eat protein right now. And this is
the future of medicine when it comes to so many

(01:32:42):
diseases that have an underlying genetic component, things like sickle
cell anemia they specifically talk about in this things that
are we already know they have a genetic component. Imagine
being in there, like finding out that your baby in
the womb has some kind of genetic anomaly that's going
to cause them a heart issue, and eventually doctors will
be able to, even before the baby's born, go in

(01:33:06):
and edit those genes. I just think it's it's an
amazing time to be alive right now, you guys. I
really mean that. I'm not just saying it. I just
think some of the stuff that's happening, the science is happening,
and now with supercomputers and AI and using artificial intelligence
to model out these things before we even have to
try and do that practically, right, I mean, you can

(01:33:26):
use AI to model out what might happen, and it's
just it's fascinating. It's absolutely I just think that's like
the coolest thing I've seen in a very very long time.
And I just think, Wow, we're it's it's glorious, absolutely glorious.

(01:33:46):
Also on the blog today, I have a story about
scams on Facebook. Right now, Facebook, I'm at the point
now I'm never buying anything off Facebook because a vast
majority of that stuff is just a rip off. Even
Marketplace Marketplace, I'll meet you at the cop shop and
we can do it in the parking lot. You know
what I'm saying. Marketplace is direct to consumer and I'm
gonna see the item before I purchase it. They are

(01:34:09):
selling ads to scammers. The scammers rip people off, and
Facebook does nothing to stop it. I now have a
second friend whose Facebook account has been hijacked because they
didn't have two step authorization enabled on Facebook, and now
their friends are being ripped off by scammers on Facebook,
and Facebook is doing nothing about it. What I think
is going to have to happen is that a lot

(01:34:30):
of people who've been ripped off are gonna have to
get together and sue Facebook for some kind of relief,
because if you are getting ripped off, I mean, here's
the thing, Like if I went to I'm trying to
think of a good example where this would translate. If
I went to Walmart and I bought something in a box,
a closed box, and it said in this box, this

(01:34:51):
is what this item is. And then I buy it
at Walmart and I get at home and I open
it and that's not at all what's in the box.
And then I take it back to Walmart and they're like,
that's not a problem. That's just a third party vendor.
We didn't have anything to do with that. You're on
your own. That's absurd. And yet that's what's happening on Facebook.
They're allowing people to buy ads for fake stuff. They're

(01:35:12):
taking money for that advertising and then they're leaving the
consumers out to dry. Now, as a person who has
been involved in selling products for twenty years now on
the radio, twenty five years, let me tell you this.
One of the things I take incredibly just incredibly serious
is my credibility when it comes to advertisers. And before
I take on an advertiser, I go and I check

(01:35:33):
their reputation, I check the Better Business hero, I look
at reviews. I really do a deeper dive because the
last thing I want to do is have you go
get a product and have a horrible experience, and then
what are you gonna believe? Are you ever gonna believe me? Again?
Absolutely not. And sometimes I do get complaints about advertisers.

(01:35:53):
It happens. You cannot make everybody happy all the time.
And I always send it to the client and say
can you fix this and let me know how was resolved?
And they do. It's important to me to keep my integrity.
Look what the cat tracked in. I've got it then,
all right to the right on your radio dial. Left right,
we've got right edwards on the left, we've got bit
all right on the right. We're here to talk about
the flu game. Will this be a flu game? Will

(01:36:16):
it be called the flu game?

Speaker 7 (01:36:17):
I think it's the julliest rather game, to be honest.

Speaker 3 (01:36:19):
Yeah, we're talking about the Nuggets. They are one. Last
night took it to Game seven in Oklahoma City? What's next?
Sunday afternoon? Sunday? Sunday Sunday turn the floor of the
arena into a bloodbath. So I used to be, uh, yeah,
we don't have to have that conversation in your ship. No,

(01:36:40):
I don't want to know what you're about to say.

Speaker 5 (01:36:42):
You really don't.

Speaker 7 (01:36:42):
No, No, I I were just talking about he's done
this joke before on VCT. No.

Speaker 5 (01:36:48):
I mean in college, it was one of my jobs.

Speaker 3 (01:36:50):
What was one of your jobs?

Speaker 5 (01:36:51):
Here we go Gentlemen's club?

Speaker 3 (01:36:52):
Dj oh No, I was just earlier today I did.
I got one voice of God gig not at a
strip club. It was the greatest sometimes with Gentlemen's club. Right, Okay,
it's a trip club. It's a shoe show. Okay, we
all know what's going on behind those doors. What was
the last one? A shoe show? Only wearing shoes? Okay,
they're only wearing show. You're going to see their shoes, right?

(01:37:12):
I mean, what else would you go? Of course, of
course no. I got a of god gig one time
and it was me sitting in the back with the
soundboard guys, and it was it was for a paper
company's big convention in Orlando, So I got to sit
back there, like Bob Peterson from a fair Banks, Alaska.
You are West Samman of the Year. Five hundred bucks

(01:37:34):
for two hours, best gig every like you have to
pay for It's like nineteen ninety Okay, this was not
that was a lot of money in nineteen ninety. I
was like, and I didn't have to dress up. They're like,
wear black. I'm like, okay, that's what I wear every day.

Speaker 7 (01:37:47):
Anyway, you could have gone to dinner on five hundred.

Speaker 3 (01:37:50):
Was exactly, but like only mid level chain you Fridays
quick cash, Yeah, we don't do Fridays anyway. So we're
we're supposed to be talking about the Nuggets. Are they
going to pull this out on Sunday? Is really going
to be a battle of wills of who wants it
more both? Yeah, it's going to be a battle of
the referees. How how tightly is this game officiated?

Speaker 7 (01:38:12):
Because if you if you sneeze on shy Gil just
mahomes uh. You know, they start calling the they start
calling all the fouls.

Speaker 3 (01:38:18):
So so basically, did I just hear a like Ben's
got beef with the level joke right there? Uh huh
uh huh. Yeah, the officiating in this is inconsistent?

Speaker 5 (01:38:28):
Is Is that the nicest way I can put that?

Speaker 3 (01:38:30):
You know, we tried to get a major league umpire
on the show before Baseball. I was like, look, I
think it would be a cool interview to have an
umpire on, not to talk about like balls and strikes,
but like, how do you become an umpire? What kind
of training do you do during the season, what kind
of feedback do you get, you have to do viewing sessions? Nothing.
It was like crickets, nobody want. I think that's absurd.

Speaker 5 (01:38:50):
Well, the best guest for that would have been the
late Greater Brown. He would doing great.

Speaker 7 (01:38:54):
But I mean, I think for the most part, they're
just assuming you're probably going to come after them for
something because most most people hate them.

Speaker 3 (01:39:01):
You know what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna find me
some Ed hockey late I'm gonna call Ed. He's been
my favorite guy forever. I was devastated when he retired
the guns. Yeah, anyway, I know, but Ed's retired now.
He'll give the dish the dirt, He'll give you the scoop.

Speaker 7 (01:39:17):
That's the Empire code. It's like the Magician's code. He
does like his face time, but you know he does.

Speaker 3 (01:39:24):
Tell him it's on zoom.

Speaker 1 (01:39:25):
Hey.

Speaker 3 (01:39:26):
You know what Ed conflex for me anytime we're putting
Oh time. I was like, like, what's coming up today?
It's such a niche joke. What is coming up today
on KO Sports?

Speaker 2 (01:39:43):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:39:43):
Well, of course, be celebrating the Nuggets win last night, looking.

Speaker 2 (01:39:46):
Ahead to Game seven.

Speaker 7 (01:39:48):
Also, the Broncos are favorites in a lot of games
this year, so we're gonna talk a little bit about
about how they manage that so they'll be fun.

Speaker 3 (01:39:58):
Wow, hey Rod, back to working station. Briefly about Facebook Marketplace.
Here's one for you. I'm the guy who had our
van totalled in the smoke cloud two months ago. What
a replacement off marketplace that looked great inside and out,
So I trusted it was taken care of mechanically, like
I was told. At one hundred and thirty two thousand
miles it should have lots of life left except the
seller switched out the odometer module. Carfax shows it has

(01:40:20):
over two hundred.

Speaker 4 (01:40:22):
Thousand miles on Facebook.

Speaker 3 (01:40:26):
Never cart to rip off? Yeah, never cars anyway, check
the Carfax. No, it's time for the most exciting segment
on the way one of it's kind. It's you Ben,
which one? I'm both ran we're doing it again. Stop
then you're sitting quietly for us. Okay, Just there's free
lessons right here that are about to happen right here

(01:40:47):
on the show. And now it's time for the most
exciting segment on the radio of its sky.

Speaker 2 (01:40:53):
The world.

Speaker 3 (01:40:56):
Of that day. It's just not that hard then in
the world. It's too much, I mean too much pressure.
Ryan gets it. Every I'm just saying Ryan gets it.

Speaker 7 (01:41:05):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:41:05):
Everybody keeps telling me around the building anything, just start
coaching me up on my show yet, Why.

Speaker 3 (01:41:12):
Can't you Ryan knows. I'm just sorry. It means, right,
there's your friend, you could ask for help.

Speaker 7 (01:41:16):
Yeah, but I'm an Indian and people say, you know,
Ben is funnier. You know, Ben is a lot more charming.

Speaker 3 (01:41:21):
Who says that, Yeah, my mother exactly. Any Who who
was a previous PD wow? Shots all right, kids. What
is our dad joke of the day?

Speaker 4 (01:41:34):
It's Friday and changes up. Actually poem of the day? Oh,
I like a poem. I dig, you dig, he digs,
she digs, We dig, they dig.

Speaker 3 (01:41:43):
It's not a long poem, but it's deep. That's good
like that. Yeah, I feel like Eve on a tear
with some really good ones are Yeah, recent entries into
the a rod. What is today's word of the day?

Speaker 4 (01:41:57):
Please?

Speaker 3 (01:41:57):
It is a noun. We okay, I know a r F.

Speaker 7 (01:42:03):
Well, I have an advantage on this son English word.

Speaker 3 (01:42:07):
Go ahead, you guys know what it is. It's like
you're it's it's a sneeze in a foreign language.

Speaker 7 (01:42:13):
Take a yes, uh, the nausea I feel every time
you like that. No, then that you would refer to
the cardboard holder on like a Starbucks cup.

Speaker 5 (01:42:25):
But really it's an Arabic word. It means container. It's
just the whole.

Speaker 3 (01:42:28):
Coffee thing a handle. This orna mental holder for it.
Benjamin fancy, look at him a little. Today's trivia question
is literally a layup. This is the easiest trivia question
we've had in so long. In the nineteen ninety one
film The Silence of the Lambs, who plays doctor Hannibal
Lecter correct.

Speaker 7 (01:42:49):
Then he was not correct Edwards, he took over for
Brian Cox, who played it in The Manhunter.

Speaker 3 (01:42:54):
Yeah, but Manhunter was terrible. I mean it really was
a terrible movie.

Speaker 4 (01:43:00):
Man a guarantet man.

Speaker 3 (01:43:07):
Perhaps I would have done better had you done your
part at the beginning of the show.

Speaker 4 (01:43:13):
All right, category please begins and ends with E E
to get hitched without parental consent? Then what is best correct?
This dot com offers on trend digital invitations.

Speaker 3 (01:43:30):
What's evite se? Whatte okay?

Speaker 4 (01:43:33):
Correct to guarantee or a nutritional protein shake?

Speaker 3 (01:43:39):
Manny? What is insure that is correct? Brian?

Speaker 4 (01:43:42):
I'm okay your posse from French for to surround Many
different parts of the pancreas act like these two main
types of glands.

Speaker 3 (01:43:56):
Get the name them both? What No, I'm out in
both words.

Speaker 4 (01:44:02):
I'm starting to end with the I'm in defense rightcrine
and exacrin.

Speaker 3 (01:44:08):
Crin is one I never remember, Like I've never heard
that word until fairly recent.

Speaker 5 (01:44:11):
Over two for the boys, Oh, I know one right?

Speaker 3 (01:44:14):
And over one for you? Okay, off, all right, it's Friday.
I'm gonna go do Friday things. I'll leave you guys
to have a Friday show and we'll regroup on Monday. Uh, everybody,
have a great weekend. Don't hurt yourself because I can't
afford to lose, So you don't hurt yourself on the
coffee exactly