05-21-25 FULL SHOW - The Big Beautiful Bill Is Hot Garbage, And No Forced Apology

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 4 (00:26):
Welcome local, Welcome to a Wednesday edition of the show.
I'm Mandy Connell and joining me today in for the
jury dutying Anthony Rodriguez. It's Grant Smith. Everybody, Hello, is
that a bowling shirt with cats on it?

Speaker 5 (00:42):
So?

Speaker 4 (00:42):
My mom has a cat named Jezebel. Okay, Jezebel doesn't
like anyone but my mom. So the whole time I'm
visiting my mom, all I see of this cat is
like this little head around the corner. And I started
calling her missus Kravitz. I was like, oh, missus Kravitz
is looking at me.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Now.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
If you don't know about Bewitched, you might not understand
the missus kravitzs reference. But Missus Kravitz was the nosy
neighbor on the show Bewitched from a long long time ago, which,
by the way, out of all the crap they're remaking
on TV, what don't we bring back Bewitched? Okay? It
was a really great premise. Dude accidentally marries a witch?
Come on, come on? Would it cause too much of

(01:21):
an outcry in the wicked community if we brought that back?
I think offensive. The movie was not good, but it
was not great. Yeah, it just was not my favorite.
It could have been so much better. And anyway, so
I call my mom's cat Missus Kravits, and Grant has
cats peeking around a corner. So now Missus Kravits is

(01:41):
going to be staring at me the entire time. Times too,
just here to bother you. Thank You're doing a great
job already. Anyway, let's go to the blog because oh,
we got a lot of stuff on our plate. Wait
a minute, I gotta do this. So as they are
every day, there's three televisions on in the studio. I
used to try and turn them off, but they're not
on the same remote, so it's like an episode of

(02:03):
laugh in where you click one and the other one
comes on, and then you click this one of the
other one comes So I've just given up and now
I just leave him on and I try to ignore
him because I'm very easily distracted. The Fox News just
had a story out of wood County, Ohio Grant, do
you know where Wood County is? I have no idea.
Just south of Toledo. I just looked it up Bowling Green. Okay,
we don't speak about that part of it. I know,
I know, you Southeasterners. You don't, you don't. You don't

(02:27):
pay them no mind up there in the north anyway.
A twenty four year old illegal immigrant was busted because
he had enrolled himself in high school as a teenager,
and the mother of his child alerted authorities to the
fact that not only was he not a sixteen year

(02:49):
old boy, he was also an illegal immigrant who overstayed
his visa. So now homeboy is going back, and I'm thinking, like,
what what do you think goes through your head before
you decide to re enroll in high school? And I'm sorry,
this is my first thing I thought. I thought, this
guy's like, you know what, I bet I have more
game with high school chicks. Now, I bet that had

(03:10):
something to do with it.

Speaker 6 (03:11):
See, I was thinking maybe he wanted to relive his
athletic days. And you know, when you're twenty four, you
got an advantage over high school.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
Of course, of course, how are you about high school grant,
love it, hate it mix of the two. I had
a great high school experience, so I did too. I
loved high school. I loved not so much that I
peaked in high school. You never want to peak in
high school, you know what I mean. But I I
was friends with everyone, me too.

Speaker 6 (03:35):
I got to play all the sports because I went
to tiiny Liddle School, got good grades.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
It was easy for me.

Speaker 7 (03:42):
So yeah, I thought I loved high school. I loved
high school as well. I had a great time, got
much fun, trouble. But would I go back? Not on
your life especially now. Oh my goodness, the stuff my
daughter tells me about high school. Now, I'm like, what
what are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (03:59):
What?

Speaker 4 (04:00):
Anyway, let's do the blog. It's big, it is fight.
You can find it at mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog
dot com. Look for the headline this is five twenty one,
twenty five blog The Big Beautiful Bill is hot, garbage
and no forced apology. Click on that and here are
the headlines you will find within.

Speaker 8 (04:17):
I think it's one who office South American all with
ships and clipments at that's going to press.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
Plane today on the blog weather Wednesday at twelve thirty,
The Big Beautiful Bill is nothing of the sort. Scrolling
scrolling A main ruling could put Colorado on notice. Scrolling
Mayor Johnston's trip to DC costs two hundred and fifty
k in legal fees. Biden's last PSA was in twenty fourteen.

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The Conservative case for due process for immigrants. It's time
to embrace treatment and work first. We spent one hundred
grand on this. Representative Brittany Petterson should argue for Medicaid
block grants. While we're at it, let's end the who
why work requirements for welfare are good? Representative Shannon Bird
jumps in the DEM scrum for the eighth A guy

(05:02):
is suing over a foul ball to the face. You're
probably weighing yourself wrong. The sneaky gangs of food additives
making us fat. Jake Tapper says Conservative media was right.
Is Israel getting ready to strike ir On? I would
not fly into or out of Newark anytime soon. The
Southern Poverty Law Center is the real hate group. School

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choices on a roll. Scott Jennings and Bill Maher agree
on stuff. Adam Prola wants to use all his Joe
Biden jokes and I'm ready for my robot now. Those
are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com.
And if you are the least bits concerned about having
a humanoid robot in your house, I would like to

(05:44):
direct you to the last video on the blog, and
it is of Tesla's humanoid robot. You know what it's doing, Grant.
It's not dancing, it's not jumping up and down like
all the other robot videos are doing. It's throwing garbage
into a trash. Can me up? Just you know what,
I'll just let it know when I get my robot.

(06:05):
And then I'm gonna have to give it a name.
I mean, don't you have to name a robot? Shouldn't
you name a robot? Shouldn't you? I'm going to name
my robot Jeeves, because hasn't everybody always wanted to have
a Jeeves in their life? I guess you know what
I mean? It just makes them even more human like yes,
And so here's the deal. When I get Jeeves, I'm
gonna be like Jeeves. I feel like we are going
to get along really well because I'm gonna treat you

(06:28):
kindly and fairly, and you're gonna do all my housework
and take care of all the stuff in my life
that I don't want to do. But when you kill
me in my sleep, can you make it fast? I
feel like if you just throw it out there right away,
as long as it's painless, Yeah, it's just make it quick.
Just don't you know, don't make me suffer. When you
murder me nicely, It'll be fine. I feel like that
would be enough, because at least then it would be like, Ah,

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she's smart enough to know I am gonna kill her
in her sleep, but she's smart enough to ask me
to make it painless. Yes I am, Yes, indeedy. But
you know what, this is what everybody wants. We don't
want robots that do dumb stuff. We want robots that
do our laundry and that clean our bathrooms and that
make sure that you know, wouldn't it be nice if

(07:13):
you could tell a robot, jeeves, here are all the
things my family likes to eat. You're in charge of
picking what's for dinner every night. Isn't that worth being
killed harmlessly in your sleep? You know what I'm saying?
Like the trade officer are there, grant, Yeah, that's a
fair point. But it's like, if you just made a
decision about what we're having for dinner every night, that's

(07:35):
worth the money right there. Just that's take my money.
I don't know when these are coming out. I can't wait.
I'm excited. I'm serious. Will you really get one as
soon as I can afford it? Yeah, I'm never going
to be a first adopter because I'm gonna let somebody
else get murdered in their sleep first. You know, I'm
not going to be a first adopter, but I'll be
as early an adopters as is reasonable. With this one.

(07:57):
I don't think I want one. Say that now. I'm
literally thinking of buying a Tesla just for the self
driving feature. Right now, my car is perfectly fine. I
have a ten year old car. It runs great. I
intend on driving that until the wheels fall off. But
my next car I wanted to have a self driving feature.
I hate driving. I don't enjoy it. I was on

(08:20):
twenty five yesterday for a total of you know, like
four miles, and thirty minutes later I was just angry, right,
I was just angry. I'm like, what are we doing? See,
there's certain kinds of driving that I love Oh, on
an open road, pretty scenery. Oh yeah, that's great.

Speaker 6 (08:36):
But man, if we could do something about I twenty five. Yep,
I've been My schedule's been a little different this week,
as you know. I'm here with you now. But driving
during rush hour? What a freaking night?

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Man?

Speaker 4 (08:47):
Can we just talk about the word rush hour is
the greatest oxymoron in the history of oxymorons. When did
it start happening at three o'clock? When did it start
happening all day? I mean, we're getting to be California
level traffic. And first part is our governor and the
head of our Department of Transportation hates all of us
on the roadway, So they're not gonna make it easier,

(09:07):
just gonna get more trains. I gonna tell you, if
I am a Republican candidate for governor, my entire campaign
pitch starts with the following. You just start out by saying, Hey,
Coloraden's I don't hate drivers. I'm not trying to shove
you all onto mass transit that you don't want to
be on. I commit that my Department of Transportation is
actually going to take care of the roads. We're not

(09:29):
gonna devote any more money to road diets where we're
taking away space on downtown roads to put Mike lanes
that no one ever uses. We're not gonna do any
more of that. You know what we're gonna do. We're
gonna fill potholes. Baby, We're gonna make it so you
can get around without sitting in traffic for days at
a time. And I think you win just on that alone.

(09:50):
That's it. Don't just stop talking again for that, Like,
that's it, that's all. That's all. My promise is. Yeah,
that's the whole thing. Somebody did hit the text line
like a week ago and said the first ca the
runs on the plastic bag repeal has my vote and
my dedication. Yeah, self driving isn't as good as you think,
especially in Colorado with bad road paint. I don't want

(10:12):
to tell me that. Oh, this person said, Mandy, Volvo's
pilot assist is amazing even in rush hour. Mandy, you
have rocos Basilisk. It's the fear of mistreating technology that
one day it might kill you. Now I think I
have certainty that someday my robot's gonna kill me. Robot

(10:32):
named Benedict as in Arnold, Mandy, my robot will be
named Judas. Now, see that's not nice though, if I
name my robot Jeeves and I say, I'm naming you Jeeves,
because Jeeves not only is the traditional sort of butler
name that we've all grown up with, or driver name,
it's also the brainshaw. Oh no, that was Jarvis, wasn't

(10:54):
in Iron Man? Dang it? How am I gonna choose
between Jarvis and Jeeves? Dang it? Oh hey, just see
what the personality is like of you. Maybe I'll name
them Jarvis Jeeves like Jeeves is the second name, and
then just call him JJ for sure. There you go,
There you go, Mandy, My next vehicle is going to
have a carburetor. The Chinese EMPs are coming. That's one

(11:16):
of the reasons I want a VW thing because there
is nothing in a VW thing that can be negatively
affected by an EMP. It is the most ancient technology
in the history of ancient technologies, Mandy. As long as
Jeeves isn't made by Skynet, you should be okay, uh huh,
we shall see. Ralph asks, can I train my robot

(11:39):
for home defense? I'm sure I can hack it to
do so, but can you hear the marksist squeals when
a robot breaks in, breaks a home invader's arms instead
of me shooting them when but then there's a trial,
Ralph the old way, there's no trial, save the taxpayer's
money when someone breaks into your house. Just saying, coming

(12:01):
up in about oh fifteen minutes, we have Fox thirty
one chief meteorologist Dave Fraser on to talk about the weather,
and I have I have some questions about tornadoes, just
you know, we obviously had some touchdown and Bennett and Elizabeth,
tornadoes scare the bejeebers out of me. They really do,
because there's so little warning.

Speaker 8 (12:22):
Right.

Speaker 4 (12:22):
It's like, you know, when a hurricane is coming. For
the most part, you can kind of batten down the
hatches a little bit for a hurricane. But a tornado
you just don't stand a chance and you can't get
out of the way. It's terrible. Mandy, you realize Jarvis
turned into ultron. Okay, that's a fine point. We're going
back to Jeeves. They'll have to figure out for themselves, Mandy.
I'll run for governor Phil Baby Phil will be my

(12:45):
slogan talking about potholes. I love that multiples of you
are gonna buy a female robot named Rosie. Of course,
we had Tesla in September. We got a Tesla in September,
and I self drive all the time, never had one issue.
It's got more self driving features than any other vehicle.

(13:08):
There you go, Mandy. We had two different VW things
when I was a kid. Lots of fun. Didn't do
as well in heat though, well they are air cooled. Ooh,
this person has a VW thing. They'll sell me. It's
monkey poop green. I've heard they don't work well at
high altitude, but I don't care. I feel like you
should have to peddle those cars now. A little bit

(13:29):
later in the show, about one o'clock, we're gonna talk
with David Strong from hot aer dot com. He's got
a column today in defense of Thomas Massey. Thomas Massey
is one of the few no votes against the Big
Beautiful Bill, and he voted no because he's what's the
word I'm looking for, principled, And I realized that principled

(13:51):
people don't do well in DC. But without them, no
one would be sounding the alarm of how bad this
bill actually is. I know Trump fans out there who
are like, no, the big beautiful. It's not perfect, it's awful.
It codifies so much of Joe Biden's spending priorities into
the laws, so we just keep spending. It has taken

(14:13):
the alleged one time COVID spending and made it permanent.
So now we're running deficits that are absolutely insane and
unsustainable and out of control. And yeah, things are not
going to go well for us. But Thomas Matthey is
they're trying to hold people's feet to the fire, trying anyway,

(14:35):
but they don't want their feet held to the fire.
They want to be able to keep spending doing whatever
it is they want. And it's super super super aggravating
that so many Republicans, who for so long were allegedly
the party of fiscal conservatism, are now arguing for measures
like the salt deduction. The salt deduction, if you don't

(14:57):
know this, it'll trick. And it being kind when I
use the word trick, I was going to use a
different word. The salt deduction allows people who live in
high tax states like California and New York and Massachusetts
and New Jersey to deduct from their federal income taxes.

(15:17):
The state taxes that they pay. Here's the deal. If
you are in a state and you vote for all
of these services and you vote to pay high taxes
on them, that's fine with me. I don't have to
live there. You can do whatever you want. But by
deducting the state taxes that you pay, you are now
asking the rest of America to subsidize the bad choices

(15:40):
of the big government states. And I'm not okay with that,
and Republicans are fighting for it. Republicans are very close
to stripping out most of the work that Doage did.
I'd be shocked of any of those cuts last. It's
absolutely insane, completely insane. So we're going to talk to

(16:05):
David Strom about his column and the big beautiful bill
that is anything but beautiful at one o'clock. Now. I
don't have time to get into this right now. There's
a very interesting case out of Maine that may or
may not be a canary in the coal mine when
it comes to Colorado's recent Kelly Loving Act, which severely

(16:28):
restricts the freedom of speech of other people when it
comes to trans people. They've outlawed misgendering people, they've outlawed
calling people the wrong name, and I don't think you
can do that. You really can't do that. And now
there's a case in Maine where a legislator posted a
post on social media making a comment about the fact

(16:50):
that yet another biological boy has one yet another title
in track and field in the girls division in Maine,
and the main legislature, Oh my goodness, they got super
salty with her. She is an elected representative in Maine,
and they got so angry with her, and they basically
stripped her ability to vote or represent her constituents at

(17:13):
all until she apologized to the trans athlete that she
commented on. She refused. And now the Supreme Court has
made a ruling that could be trouble for Colorado's Kelly
Loving act. We'll talk more about that later on in
the show. If you can't stick around, you can always
go to the blog mandy'sblog dot com and read about
it and find out what went on. But in the meantime,

(17:34):
let's do this quick news, traffic and weather, and then
back with weather Wednesday. Get your weather questions ready, Go
ahead and text them to five sixty six nine. Oh,
that's five sixty sixth nine, Oh, and we'll be right
back Dave Frasier from Fox thirty one. Hello, Dave, how
you doing today?

Speaker 8 (17:53):
I'm doing okay, your day gone.

Speaker 4 (17:55):
You know what, It's beautiful outside, it's lovely weather, all
is well. I have nothing to complain about. That isn't
a first world problem. So I do have questions, though, Dave,
because obviously this week we've had some severe weather out
east and some tornadoes touchdown, and I was thinking about this.
I don't really necessarily know what weather conditions have to

(18:19):
exist to make a tornado form in the first place,
and why does it seem that those conditions are so
prevalent on the plains versus, say, in the mountains.

Speaker 8 (18:31):
So we have had tornadoes in the mountains. We've been
talking a lot about tornadoes since what happened on a
Sunday afternoon. Basically, you know, most of the tornadoes we
see are east to Bye twenty five. More than ninety
percent of them are east of Bye twenty five. There
are maps out there if you want to google them,
that will show you where storm where tornadoes have been

(18:53):
reported going back to when they started collecting data in
nineteen fifty, and you'll see that there are other parts
of the state, including metro Denver, but the vast majority
of them do form on the eastern plains. And what
you're generally looking for is a setup where thunderstorms are
going to be developing. And anytime you have thunderstorms in
the forecast, if they're going to be strong enough, what

(19:15):
we call the towering circulating thunderstorms, those can produce tornadoes
at any time. And generally we'll have a setup where
maybe the conditions are a little more favorable because you've
got spinning in the atmosphere to kind of generate it.
So you know, without getting too scientific, you'll see us

(19:35):
sometimes talk about a marginal risk, low end, a slight risk,
a little better, an enhanced risk, even a higher chance
for those storms, and that means that the environment is
right for spinning out the southeastern corner of the metro.
We talk about the Palmer divide. What happened on Sunday
was we had the Denver cyclone, and so you've got

(19:58):
winds swirling into the city and coming up over the
nose of that rise in elevation. And remember, terrain and
wind are king when it comes to forecasting in Colorado.
The wind direction, is it going up, is it going down?
And so what happened was we had a thunderstorm that
generated right up over southeast or came up quickly, and
the wind feeding into that was coming in from a

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southeast to the direction at lower levels, but the wind
on the back side of it was kind of coming
in for a northwesterly direction. So you've got this kind
of borticity. You've got a little bit of rotation going,
and as the thunderstorm grows, that rotation gets a little stronger,
and eventually, withinside the thunderstorm, you have this rolling column
of air. And eventually what happens is the updraft or

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the wind flowing into the thunderstorm, the sheeting of the
wind will cause that rotation to stand up straight and
tall tornado drops down, and the tornado drops down. Now,
in Colorado, we also have dust devils. It's the opposite formation.
We also have land spouts. They tend to be weaker
and small. It forms differently. It's a rotation like a

(21:03):
dust level on the ground, and it attaches to a
growing thunderstorm, and the thunderstorm acts like a vacuum and
sucks up that rotor. When you're yeah, so a little
different formation. Tornadoes generally as we define them, form inside
the thunderstorm and then rotate down out of the base
of the thunderstorm, where a land spout will start on

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the ground like a dust devil and get drawn up
into the circulation as the thunderstorm is growing. And they're
both tornadoes. They're classified as tornadoes, but the land spouts
tend to be small or short lived. And I will
tell you that most of the time tornadoes we've seen
here in Colorado are generally small, they're narrow, and they
don't last more than ninety seconds. That was not the

(21:45):
case on Sunday.

Speaker 4 (21:47):
Yeah, this look kind of big and kind of scary.
And somebody on the text line said, Sunday's tornadoes formed
with a due point of forty five degrees. How does
that happen? So where does temperature come into this?

Speaker 8 (22:00):
So due point is a measure of moisture in the air.
Obviously we want a moisture to play with. Colorado is
a semi arid climbing Actually, forty five degree due points. Again,
that's a measurement of moisture in the air represented as
a temperature. That's pretty high for Colorado. Fifty sixty seventy.
That's the kind of stuff you think about. In the Midwest,

(22:22):
there have been eighty degree due points. You can you know,
you can drink the air with a straw, it becomes oppressive,
So you need that as a fuel mechanism. So you
want you want warm air, you want a little bit
of humidity, and then you want something to trigger it,
to lift it. You need a lifting mechanism, and sometimes
that's a cold front, sometimes it's a warm front. Sometimes
it's a storm system, or in our case, it can

(22:44):
be a wind direction around a terrain feature. And that's
what happened on Sunday. There were four tornadoes reported. Two
of them are the ones that did damage. They were
both rated as EF two's, which you know the National
Reservices breaking down everything, e six percent of the tornadoes
we have seen since nineteen ninety five, and there's been

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thirteen hundred and fifty nine reports tornadoes since nineteen ninety five.
It's actually not a huge count. That averages out to
about forty five a year across the eastern plains of Colorado.
It's decent, but it's certainly not the tornado alley that
we think of in the Midwest. But eighty six percent
of the ones that we see are those short lived
ninety second narrow little ones. They're e F zeros where

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the speeds are going to be less than about sixty
five to eighty five miles per hour. You certainly don't
want to be in that, but it's generally not going
to cause a lot of damage, if any at all.
And then ten percent of the time they're EF ones.
Now the wind's getting a little bit stronger, and then
the EF twos they're only about three percent of the time.
That's what we had on Sunday, And so this was
a rare occurrence because it only happens about three percent

(23:51):
of the time since nineteen ninety five. And that put
the winds between one hundred and eleven one hundred and
thirty five. And that corresponds with the damage that we saw.

Speaker 4 (23:59):
The room saw right.

Speaker 8 (24:01):
Knocked over, you know, telephone lines down, trees down, damage
to other things like vehicles and windows blown out, So
it all matched up.

Speaker 4 (24:10):
This textter asked what about sharknadoes? Dave, have we had
any sharknadoes in Colorado? I don't think we have any
sharks to sweep up into the tornadoes. This text or asked,
Mandy can you ask, if a tornado is in your vicinity,
or the ingredients are there for a tornado, will the
air or particles in the air turn green. This happened

(24:32):
one year to us. The air turned greenish. And I
have had that situation where there was not actually a tornado,
but the sky was green and we were having tornado
sirens going off, but we didn't actually have a tornado.
What is that?

Speaker 8 (24:46):
It's just it's the debris in the air, the moisture
in the air, the condensation in the air. It just
gives it that green cue. You know. The tornado itself is,
by definition of mandy, is a rotating column of air. Well,
if it stays clean, sometimes it doesn't look that great.
What we've witnessed, and a lot of people did along
the front range is it was picking up dirt and
debris and so you see it vividly. And the other

(25:08):
great thing about Colorado, unlike the Midwest, when it comes
to viewing tornadoes, because we are a semi arid climate,
you get a three hundred and sixty degree view of
this thing all the way up to the base of
the thunderstorm, where in the Midwest sometimes that thunderstorm is
lower and it's pouring rain and the thing is hidden
within the rain. We saw that with the Highland's Ranch
tornado just a few years ago. It wasn't as vivid

(25:29):
because it was that thing was producing heavy rain and hail,
and so the tornado that ripped through the Highland's Ranch
area was actually hidden from view where what we saw
on Sunday was so vivid. The images that viewers shared
with us, the videos, the pictures were fantastic, and it
was just.

Speaker 9 (25:44):
This awe of this tall climate, tall column of air
dust on the bottom, rotating, moving slowly across the landscape
and in some places, unfortunately Elkhorn Ranch and the Bennett community,
there was damage for those folks that unfortunately had to
deal with it, and it is tough.

Speaker 4 (26:01):
Listen.

Speaker 8 (26:02):
We do our best to put out the advanced warnings
days ahead that there's a risk. We do our best
to let you know that thunderstorms could be possible in
the afternoon. Colorado sometimes doesn't get the luxury of a
watch right and buy there could be storms. Sometimes we
go right to the warnings and that happens more often
than not, and that's what happened on Sunday. The watchpots
that actually came out, came out after we had already

(26:24):
had the tornadoes on the ground, and it was for
northeast Colorado where they got one or two little radar
indicated storms that didn't amount to much. So that happens.
Sometimes we'll do our best to give you the warnings.
But anytime you hear us talking about a chance of
storms in the forecast, lightning, wind and hail are possible,
even if they don't reach severe limits. Be prepared for
lightning when in hail and tornadoes can also be included

(26:47):
in that. Even if it's a dust pebble, even if
it's a land spout, all of that falls under the
umbrella of a developing thunderstorm. And I will tell you
Memorial Day weekend outdoor plans, we have a chance of storm. Saturday,
we have a chance for more more day storms. And
Sunday right now is looking soggy and gray. There's a
pretty good chance for rain. Yeah, so boo boom.

Speaker 4 (27:09):
Last question that has nothing to do with weather. This
from Andy, they said on this day, following George Wentz passing,
maybe you could ask Dave about the Cheers Bar and
Beacon Hill in Boston. Why you ask, well, last night
on his kdvur Weather broadcast, Dave mentioned that he grew
up in Boston and has visited the Cheers Bar. Now,
when we were in Boston, we did not go to
the Cheers Bar, and now I'm kind of sad I didn't.

(27:30):
I mean, not that I wouldn't go back to Boston.
It's a great town. But Chare's been a lot of
is that it like a tourist destination though.

Speaker 8 (27:37):
It was certainly it was when the when the show
was on the air for the what was it eleven years,
it was very very popular. I know the spot because
I used to have an apartment diagonally up about two blocks,
and obviously it was the place you go to when
you go to what's called the Bull and Finch Pub.
It is actually down a set of stairs. The only
two things that look the same as the show is
the door entering the bar and then the in statue

(28:00):
that you'll remember that was in the corner once you
went in. The bar itself inside the Bull and Finch
plub does not look like the show. Gets a very
small bar. It's a neighborhood bar. It's packed all the time.
They actually put a plaque at the end of the
bar in the Bull and Finch Club on the bottom.
I've sat in the sea that they put Norm's name
on it with a stool and it's one stool there.

(28:21):
Now upstairs in the hotel that sits over the Bull
and Finch Plub on the main level, there is a
larger room where the actual set bar from Cheers fits
and reside. You could look in at the actual set
that they built for the show, and it looks a
little bit different, but it's a great spot. I will
tell you the first I'll tell your show story because
I know we run along. The first time that I

(28:44):
took my wife to Boston when we were dating, I
took her to Cheers, to the Bullingfinch Bark and the
great they have great bloody marriage. My wife loves it.
My brother met me there with his wife. We had
bloody Mary's and we were having such a great time.
Bartender let them go behind the bar and make their
bloody marriage. He lists to say that leedless to say,
the rest of the afternoon was a little bit more
for us, but it's a great it's a great fun spot.

(29:05):
We went from there to Stanuel Hall and continue yeah
bar to bar.

Speaker 5 (29:08):
And eat and made a.

Speaker 8 (29:09):
Whole afternoon in the day out of it. Boston is
a great walkable city with a ton of history, and
I would encourage anybody who wants to visit it and
sit by the bay and look out over the harbor
to go and enjoy it. It's a fun city.

Speaker 4 (29:21):
Amen to that, Dave Fraser. We'll talk to you again
next week, my friend.

Speaker 8 (29:25):
Have a great Memorial Day week.

Speaker 4 (29:26):
Hey, you too, gotta stay dry. That my friends is
Dave Fraser. We will be right back. The comedy in
Cheers holds up perfectly because it's all about the people, right.
There's no like, there's no like, you know, intricate plot
devices or anything like that. It is all about the
relationships between the people. Although some of Sam's comments to

(29:49):
Diane would not fly in today's society. I'm just letting
you know that. And you've got to start with the
Sam and Diane. You can't start with the Kirsty Alley part.
You have to start at the beginning and watch some Cheer.
But like Norman Cliff Claven, they were the most magical
characters they made the show. And then you have Woody
Harrelson playing the idiot Bartek. Oh my god, there was
so much good about that show, so good and honestly

(30:12):
like Ted Danson may be one of the most likable
actors in the history of acting. His latest show that
he's got right now called Man on the Inside. Oh
my god, it's hilarious. I haven't seen that place, Okay,
so if you love the Good Place. The premise of
inside man is it Man on the Inside? I can't
remember the name of it, something like that, but the

(30:34):
premise is he is now widowed and his daughter is
worried about him not having anything to do right, so
he sees an ad in the paper to work as
a private detective inside and nursing home. Now, this premise
does not sound that funny, but trust me, this show
is an absolute delight. Is it Man on the Inside.

(30:56):
It is an absolute delight. And he is as charming
he is in everything. He's never not been charming in
anything he's ever done, even in The Good Place, where
you know you're not quite sure of his attentions throughout
that show. That was a very clever show, extremely clever show.

(31:17):
So an interesting thing just happened in the White House.
And I haven't seen the video. I'm just reading coverage
of it because somebody just hit the text line. So
today Donald Trump is meeting with South Africa's president and
he was asking him about the genocide of white farmers
in South Africa that is going on for years. I mean,
they're just murdering white farmers and taking their land. And

(31:39):
the president of South Africa was like, no, no, no,
we don't do genocide. That's just some minority party people.
And then Donald Trump must out a video of all
the graves of the white farmers and of leaders in
the area calling for the death of white farmers. It's like, oh, yeah,
you say there's not a problem, Well, how do you
explain this? Immediately the South African president was like, it's

(32:02):
cheap fakes. No, I'm just kidding. That was a Biden administration.

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Speaker 4 (32:31):
Sad bab Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of
the show. And if you guys listen to the program
at all, you know, I love some Congressman Thomas Matthew
from Kentucky. I'm a huge fan. I am friendly with Thomas.
We don't braid each other's hair, but I am an
admirer and I've had the opportunity to have dinner with
him and speak to him when I worked in Kentucky.

(32:52):
So this morning, as I opened hot air dot com,
as I do every morning they are part of my
daily show prep for the program, I saw a column
by my friend David Strom, and I was like, and
I'm getting David on the show to talk about this
column because I'm tired of being the one defending Thomas Massey.
And David Strom did it in today's column, especially about
the so called big beautiful Bill, and now David's joining

(33:16):
me to have a chat about it. Good morning or
good afternoon, sir.

Speaker 10 (33:21):
Well, hello Mandy. It's always fun to be on.

Speaker 4 (33:23):
With you and we're happy to have you as always.
What inspired this column about Thomas Massey? Obviously, he's been
getting crapped from Donald Trump, who says he doesn't understand
how government works and he should be replaced, which he
won't be. But you know, nonetheless, is that kind of
what got you going in this direction.

Speaker 10 (33:42):
It is, although.

Speaker 11 (33:43):
I've also occasionally defended the Senator Rand Paul for much
the same reason, because they are often the dissenters in
their caucus and they get absolutely trashed by everyone else
or being realistic, and uh, they get called rhinos.

Speaker 10 (34:05):
They get attack like that. That would laughable, most ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (34:09):
The rhino thing is so hysterically laughable to me, because
you've got two guys, I'm a huge fan of them,
both that are actually trying to hold up the ideas
of fiscal conservatism that the Republican Party used to be
built on. And what we have now, this this big,
beautiful bill, is anything but. And Thomas Masthew is going

(34:30):
to be a no vote. I mean that's just going
to be. He's not going to vote yes for this.
It's just not going to happen. And and that is
because well, we'll go ahead.

Speaker 10 (34:39):
Well two things can be true at the same time.

Speaker 11 (34:43):
One is that the best option for Republicans right now
is to vote for this bill, and that this bill
is horrible. Uh, it should never have been brought up.
And if everyone in Congress or every public and in Congress,
where like Thomas Massey, this country would be far better off.

(35:07):
If I were in Congress right now, I could probably
get persuaded to vote for this bill, but I would
be wretching. I would probably go into the bathroom and
toss my cookies several times, and only do it because,
you know, the politics of the situation in Washington are
so bad that every alternative is worse.

Speaker 4 (35:31):
I mean, that's something right there, David. Because the reality
about this bill is it not only codifies much of
the Green Dream spending from the Biden administration, it uses
the COVID spending as the new baseline. So all of
that alleged one time spending that drove deficits to two
trillion dollars a year is now part of the regular budget.
That in and of itself should be a non starter.

(35:54):
But yet here we are having a discussion about not
only those things, but including the salt deduction, which allows
high earners in high tax states to shove more of
their tax responsibilities onto other Americans who don't live in
high tax states. I mean, there's so much to hate
about this bill. And you know, there's a knock on
Thomas Massey. It's like, Okay, how effective is he? Well,

(36:17):
he's effective enough that the people in his district in
northern Kentucky keep re electing him. And it's not even close,
it's not even remotely close when it comes to opponents.
But the reality is there's something to that criticism because
you know you've mentioned Ran Paul. His father, Ron Paul
was very much the guy screaming about debt and deficits
for years, but he never got anything done ever, never

(36:40):
got anything accomplished. And Ran Paul I had the opportunity
to ask him one time, I said, how are you
different than your father?

Speaker 8 (36:47):
Right?

Speaker 4 (36:48):
What's the difference here? And Ran Paul said to me,
I watched my father say the right things and mean
the right things and be very ineffective. And my goal
is to say the right things and do the right
things also be effective. And I do think Rand Paul
has done a better job of positioning himself as the
small government debt guy without seeming quite as fringy as

(37:11):
his father ended up seeming. Right, if you were a
Ron Paul supporter, you were kind of fringy. But I
think you can be a normal person and be a
Rand Paul supporter. So, I mean, at what point do
we show our gratitude to Thomas Massey, but also go
you know, I'm kind of worried about if your constituents
are gonna get tired of feeling like they're not being represented.

Speaker 10 (37:32):
Well, I don't know the answer to that question.

Speaker 11 (37:37):
To be perfectly honest, I will say though, that you
need to have people like you know, to.

Speaker 10 (37:45):
Say that he's not effective.

Speaker 11 (37:49):
Is just a reference to passing legislation and winning every battle.
But actually having him there does move the ball because
you know, they have to, you know, pay attention to
the Freedom Caucus. And I look at Thomas Massey and

(38:11):
I see someone who's very different than Matt yetz H.

Speaker 10 (38:16):
Gates.

Speaker 11 (38:17):
Yeah, you could tell he was motivated by personal animus.

Speaker 4 (38:25):
I think he was motivated by He's one of the people.
I call them the Instagram Congress people, right, They're the
ones that are building a brand instead of being statesmen
or states women. And I don't have any I don't
have a use for that. Matt Gates is there, AOC
is there, But now apparently it's worked for her because
she's the leader of the Democratic Party. But I don't
I don't like feeling like people are using that position

(38:47):
to further their own level of fame, and Matt Gates
definitely fits in that category.

Speaker 11 (38:52):
Yeah, I don't think Massy is like that at all.
I think that he and some other members of the
Freedom Caucus actually move the ball, not far, but they
move it to the right.

Speaker 8 (39:07):
You know.

Speaker 10 (39:07):
One of the things that's.

Speaker 11 (39:08):
True of the speaker, whoever that speaker is, is that,
you know, they have to assemble a coalition of everyone
from the farthest right in their caucus to the people
who are the farthest left in their caucus. And one
of the frustrations that we often have is that it
looks like they're always giving in to the farthest left

(39:32):
of their caucus.

Speaker 10 (39:33):
But and that's true, but they have to.

Speaker 11 (39:39):
Look at their right flank, and they're able to use
the fact that there are the Thomas Massey's out there
to tell people on the left flank. Look, I mean,
just like I can't let you go, I can't let
him go all the time.

Speaker 4 (39:55):
And so.

Speaker 11 (39:57):
I would actually push back on the idea that he's ineffective.
He doesn't get what he wants and what we want,
but he does prevent you know, he's kind of like
a goalie at times. He prevents the left from scoring
some goals, not enough, but he does help. And so

(40:22):
I'm very glad to see you know, Massey, ran Paul
and people with whom I often would not vote, but
I'm glad that they're there, and I'd rather be in their.

Speaker 10 (40:36):
Coalition than the coalition on the left.

Speaker 4 (40:40):
The thing about both Thomas Massey and ran Paul that
I like, like this is the number one thing that
I like about both of them when they vote in
a way that I find confusing that I'm like, what
the heck was that? Like, Thomas Massey just voted against
the take it down at So I said Thomas and
text I go, okay, I know why you're not voting
for the big beautiful bill. Why did you vote this down?
And sent me back along text message that said, you know,

(41:02):
this bill is so overly broad that it is going
to sweep up people that it should not sweep up.
And pornography has always been legislated by the states. This
has never been a federal issue, and we're creating a
law that is so murky in some areas that it
could end up shutting down certain AI programs before it
even gets started. So he always has really good freedom

(41:24):
based reasons for voting against something. And that's what it
comes down to, you like, And he told me a
long time ago. He goes, I look at a bill,
and I say, does it make me more free or
less free? That's the starting position for him on whether
or not to vote for these things. And it's not
like he wants to be free to put pornography on
the Internet, but he wants to make sure that some
American is not going to be caught up doing something.
And you know, because of the way the law is written,

(41:46):
they're going to end up in federal prison for something
that wasn't necessarily intended to happen. On that issue, I'm
want to shift gears just a little bit on this
with you, because I know you write about this stuff
all the time at hot air dot com. And have
you been surprised at all with the speed with which
former deficit hawk Republicans have just been swept into the

(42:10):
big beautiful bill.

Speaker 10 (42:14):
Uh? Surprised? No, very disappointed? Yes?

Speaker 8 (42:20):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (42:21):
You know.

Speaker 11 (42:21):
I you know, I've watched, say, the transformation of Tom Emmer,
who I actually did research for and wrote speeches for
him when he ran for.

Speaker 10 (42:33):
Governor here in Minnesota. Uh. And he was one of the.

Speaker 11 (42:37):
Most conservative legislators that we had. And you know, I
watched his evolution and I don't know that in principle,
uh that his principles have changed, but Washington changes people,
and you know, the whole calculus shifts. And so Donald

(43:03):
Trump is there, you can push people around.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
Uh.

Speaker 10 (43:07):
That's part of it.

Speaker 11 (43:08):
And then uh, I think some of it is just uh,
you know, Congress, all legislatures are kind of like high
school campuses.

Speaker 10 (43:18):
Uh. Uh.

Speaker 11 (43:19):
You know, you want to be the cool with the
cool kids, and uh you wind up uh you know,
say with you know, if you're in the emo group,
you conform to the emo group. If you're in the
mean girls, you're with the mean girls, uh and do
things that you never would do outside that group. And

(43:42):
I think that's part of it as well. And you know, again,
one of the great things about the masses of the
world is they don't care about being the cool kid.

Speaker 4 (43:52):
Correct.

Speaker 10 (43:52):
Uh. They keep their eye on the ball.

Speaker 11 (43:55):
And I'll tell you, I mean, uh, I have seen
so many people get dragged into the group thing that
happens not just in Washington but every state legislature and
to a certain extent, in every institution. Once you get
ten people in an institution, you know, a culture develops,

(44:22):
and it's very disappointing because that's how we have gotten
to this place where, uh, you know, lots of us
have been screaming about how you know, you this can't
go on forever. Because what can't go on forever doesn't
And usually if if you push and push and push,

(44:47):
you could go a lot farther than you ever thought,
say with spending, but eventually, uh, you know, you've got
you got to pay the piper, and we're really close
to that.

Speaker 4 (45:00):
Well, I don't know if you saw this today, that
they just had a bond auction and were not able
to sell all the treasury bonds, the United States Treasury bonds.
That is a direct result of these choices, these deficits
that were running with no seriousness about getting rid of
the deficits. My frustration with rank and file Republicans, not

(45:22):
the politicians, is that they all say, we voted for Trump,
we voted for Doge, we voted for all these cuts.
They got all excited when we started hearing about it.
There's a really good chance that the Republican Caucus is
going to strip all of Doge's findings out of this bill,
there is a genuine chance. So if you were cheering
Doge and now you're saying we need to pass this bill,

(45:43):
you obviously don't know what you're asking for.

Speaker 11 (45:47):
Oh yeah, I mean all the things that we cheered
for in the first several mods are at risk yep.
And I think that's actually one of the reasons why.
I mean, he hasn't attacked Congress or anything like that,
but he said he's not opening his wallet for the

(46:08):
next elections, and he's clearly going to be pulling back
out of politics because you know, he's devoted the last
six eight months towards trying to save the United States
of America. I think he actually sees the peril. And
you know, we really are on the cusp. I can't

(46:32):
tell you whether it's months or years away, but within
my lifetime and probably within the next few years, if
we don't change the path, the United States is going
to go effectively.

Speaker 4 (46:49):
Bankrupt and bring the rest of the world down with us.

Speaker 10 (46:53):
Yeah. Yeah. In fact, the only reason why we have
not hit that.

Speaker 11 (46:58):
Point, well there're too one is we've been in the
world's reserve currency, and so everyone's economy has been.

Speaker 10 (47:06):
Tied to the dollar and the other.

Speaker 11 (47:10):
The other reason is everyone else's finances are even worse
than ours. You know, if you think, oh, well, you know,
maybe the Euro, It's like, no, those countries are total disaster.

Speaker 4 (47:28):
Well to the point, David, when the UK, when Britain,
when the empire really fell for all intents and purposes
in the seventies, they ran out of money, they didn't
have enough money. We bailed them out like we were
the ones that wrote the check. There's no one to
write the check for us. Nobody has thirty six trillion
dollars that they can just float us, right, I mean,

(47:48):
we're perilously close to a disastrous situation. And it used
to I mean I've been talking about this since I
got my show in two thousand and five, I mean NonStop.
I've been talking about debt and deficit. And it used
to really upset me because I really believed that we
should all pay attention to this, and we should all
be concerned about it, and we should all be demanding
real action. But I've realized over the years that a

(48:10):
vast majority of Americans just want to make sure they
still get their stuff. They want to make sure that
whatever they're owed in their mind from the government still
flows their way. They're not willing to give up any
single thing in order to save the country. So now
i just feel like it's inevitable and I'll plan the
best I can. My daughter wants to go to school
in Europe for college, and I'm like, go right ahead,
because then you'll feel free to move to another country

(48:31):
if it really gets bad. And I feel terrible saying
and thinking that, but I have seen absolutely nothing from
anyone else other than Thomas Massey and Ran Paul and
Elon Musk and Chip Roy that is leading me to
believe that we can avert that disaster. I hate saying that,
but now I'm just in the acceptance phase.

Speaker 11 (48:53):
Well, I mean, that's not irrational, and there are things
that individuals can do to buffer them themselves, depending upon
their financial situation. And you know, on a practical level,
what's going to happen with the bankruptcy of the United
States is the value of our currency is just going

(49:13):
to drop through the floor. It's not like they're going
to quit writing checks. I mean, they are a sovereign power.
They do have guns, and if you look at every bill,
it says this is legal tender, you must accept it.
And so they're going to keep writing checks. There's still

(49:34):
going to be dollar bills and one hundred dollars bills
out there. They're just going to buy less and less
and less over time, and so we're all going to
get much poorer. So, yeah, you'll get your Social Security,
it just won't be worth what they say it's worth.

Speaker 4 (49:53):
Correct.

Speaker 11 (49:53):
You know that three thousand dollars check will buy half
as much and so, uh, you know, it's it's frustrating.
But I don't see what's going to change it either.
I mean, we're going to wind up, you know, with
two trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see.

(50:15):
And at some point, yeah, people are going to quit
buying US bonds and then what and.

Speaker 4 (50:22):
Then we're done. I mean, then they start printing more currency,
which hyperinsulates our currency. And this is how all the
empires before us have fallen. I've been watching this series,
this Old History Channel series called Barbarians Rising. It's actually
very very interesting because it essentially sort of tells the
fall of the Roman Empire from the other side, from
the Barbarians and the Goths and the and the Huns,

(50:44):
kind of perspective, and it's interesting to see the parallels
between ancient Rome and where we are here, and you
just think, well, hopefully we're not going to be invaded
by Huns because they were not nice at all, and
hopefully the barbarians will kept at the gate. But we're
doing it all to ourselves because the people of the
United States, as everyone in every democracy before US is done,

(51:07):
have figured out they can vote themselves the treasury and
that's what they're doing.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
Well.

Speaker 11 (51:13):
In fact, you know, the invasion of Rome started with
Rome opening its borders and by the time it was done,
and you look at the battles for the Roman Empire,
it was Huns versus Hunts, or Goths versus Huns. You know,

(51:34):
they were fighting on both sides because the Romans imported
all these foreigners to do the labor. They were the soldiers,
they were the you know, if you go when you
look at what the arguments, then they mirror very much
what the you know, the pro immigration people are saying
now yep, and it really is kind of shocking. I mean,

(51:58):
in fact, the six or seven even years ago I
spent and I continue to do this. I started looking
at how did the Roman empire evolve and fall, and
we're very I think we're in the late republic stage.

Speaker 6 (52:16):
Yes we are.

Speaker 10 (52:18):
And you know the thing about.

Speaker 11 (52:21):
The late republic stage is the republic fell, but the
empire didn't correct.

Speaker 4 (52:26):
But all the good fell, all of the good things. Yeah,
all the good fell, and then the evil rose. I mean,
it really did happen like that. Then it became totalitarian.
Then it became we're going to murder everybody. Then it
became scorched earth. Then it became we're gonna rape and
pillage and steal oier things. So yes, I believe we
are in the late republic as well. And why don't
we leave it on that happy note, David, Why don't
we just we'll just leave that until we talk again,

(52:48):
David Strom. You should read his work at hotair dot com.
One of the few subscriptions that I still have that
is not a substack is hot air dot com. I
have the VIP package. They don't pay me to say that.
They should, by the way. It's an outstanding set of platforms.
But David, we'll talk again soon, my friend. All right,
I have a great one. We will be right back.

(53:12):
One of them says, I've never met a right leaning
person that doesn't believe in American exceptionalism. I really believe
that the creation and the idea behind the United States
of America is steeped in American exceptionalism. I get it.
But if we're doing the same exact things that every
democracy has done before us that led to their downfall,

(53:32):
are we still exceptional? We've gone from what can I
do for my country? To where is my stimmy check?
We are not the people that used to make American exceptional.
I really believe that we have an eight I mean,
just look at it like this. We have another text
who said I think doges was rolled out sloppy, and

(53:52):
Elon assumed government works like the private sector, which it doesn't.
And I think he assumed the process would be more
seamless than it was. And I think he also assumed
there wouldn't be much pushback either. He was wrong. And
although I like the idea of it, it doesn't seem
they're making any cuts that will actually make a difference.
And let me just go back to that comment I
just made about this not being the people that made

(54:14):
American exceptional. You have a bunch of politicians Republicans who
run around campaigning on smaller government, cutting the budget, blah
blah blah. But then when we try to make to
your point, and you're not wrong, Texter, minor really minor
cuts to the budget, everybody in DC freaks out. They

(54:37):
hear from constituents who are like, don't cut my program,
don't cut my program. You can cut everybody else's program,
but you can't cut my program. So nobody there's no
seriousness in Washington DC. Those members of Congress need to
keep greasing the wheels so they keep getting campaign donations,
so they keep getting re elected, so they can rain

(54:58):
over the ashes when it all burns down. I don't
mean to sound cynical, and I'm truly I'm beyond cynical
at this point. I'm sort of in the acceptance phase
of what's going to happen next, because I don't see
the will in the United States to change anything. We
have another texture who said, Mandy, we have to cut defense.

(55:18):
You can still be strong, but not spend that kind
of money. I absolutely agree with you. But if anyone
were to suggest significant cuts to the Pentagon, you know
what would happen. All of the defense contractors in these
various districts would be on the phone to their members
of Congress saying, you can't cut our budget. We'll have
to fire people in your district, and you'll get unelected.

(55:38):
So what do they do what? You can't cut that
weapons program that's ten years overdue and never going to
come to fruition. Can't cut that because that's in my
district and I need to get re elected. My question
is re elected, why if you're not going to do
the things that we elected you to do, which is
cut the budget, bring the deficit to heal in some

(56:00):
way two trillion dollars a year. You guys, If you
want to know why mortgage rates are so high right now,
it's because of government spending. Governments. The mortgage rates are
attached to the ten year treasury bond, and they're attached

(56:20):
because they're a long term product. It's harder to float
a mortgage rate because you're asking someone to commit to
a payout that's quite lengthy fifteen thirty years somewhere around
that timeframe. So they're pegged to the ten year treasury rate.
Right now, the United States can't sell it's treasury bonds.

(56:41):
Interests just went over five percent on treasury bonds for
the first I don't know if it's the first time,
for the first time in a very long time, if
it's not the first time. The markets are responding negatively,
by the way. They're down about one and a half
percent right now across the board, and it's like, unless

(57:01):
we can get mortgage rates down, I think if mortgage
rates hit five and a half percent right now, there
is seven six, nine nine today. I look at mortgage
rates every day. I'm not looking to buy or sell.
I just think that is a big indicator of what
is going to unleash the housing market. Right now. The
housing market is creating some stagnation in a lot of
other businesses that have to do with activities that normally

(57:25):
take place when someone buys a new house. You buy
a new house and you're like, Oh, I hate the
color of that bathroom. I'm going to repaint. So you
go and buy paint from Lows or whatever. You hire
someone to come in and paint. Oh, we really want
to update the kitchen, so you hire a contractor, and
then you've got cabinet makers, you've got appliances, you've got
all new stuff going in. When houses are not selling,
those things are not occurring, So we have this kind

(57:47):
of log jam in the economy. And right now there
are a ton I don't mean an absolute ton of
houses coming on the market for sale that people can't
afford them. Because when interest rates were two percent, home
price is skyrocketed because people don't buy on price, they
buy on payment.

Speaker 10 (58:07):
Right.

Speaker 4 (58:08):
You don't go and say I want to spend four
hundred thousand dollars on a house. You go, I want
a monthly payment around two grand. Right, that's what people do.
I can afford two grand in a monthly payment. Well,
when interest rates were two percent, they were still like,
I can afford two grands, so they could pay more
for the houses. So now housing prices are incredibly high

(58:30):
and mortgage rates are at their historical norms, which is
about seven percent. But people are stuck because now with
higher home prices and higher mortgage rates, they can't afford
that payment, that two thousand dollars payment maybe three grand
a month. So there's this log jam in the housing market.
And all of that is attached to how much money

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government is spending more than they take in every single year.
So it is affecting your life, it is affecting the
lives of people in our communities. That is affecting the
lives of people trying to sell a house because they
need to move. It's affecting the lives of all of
the companies that do home improvement services. So yeah, government
spending matters, not in that abstract sense, right, It's not like, oh,

(59:16):
some days somebody will pay that off.

Speaker 11 (59:18):
No.

Speaker 4 (59:19):
Right now, it's creating a log jam in the economy.
And I don't understand why. I can see it so
perfectly clearly, And yet the members of Congress who are
about to vote for a crap sandwich bill that does
nothing except explode the deficit and create more problems in
the economy, Like they're the idiots. But hey, you know what,

(59:41):
they got to get reelected, don't they. They got to
get it. Mandy, you're acting like you just realized what
politics are. Oh no, no, no, I've had this understanding
for some time. I'm just bringing you guys up to
speed so you two can plan accordingly. Right, there's a
reason that Costco gold bars keeps selling out and that
you can only buy one gold bar at a time

(01:00:02):
now because people are looking for a safe have in
because they see what's happening. You know the worst part
about this whole thing. The worst part about this whole thing,
and David just touched on it a moment ago in
our interview, is that when people start buying our debt,
the only option the federal government has is to drastically
slash services, which means all the things, the little things

(01:00:23):
that we're fighting about right now, there won't be any
money for Medicaid, there won't be any money for snap,
there won't be money for any of that stuff. So
either we drastically cut all of that stuff, or the
government just starts printing money again, hyperinflating the currency and
putting us all in the poorhouse. And you know who
suffers then, people on Social Security, people on fixed incomes,
because the fixed income they thought was going to be

(01:00:45):
enough now all of a sudden falls way way short.
If you think what happened in the last two years
was tough, wait until inflation is fifteen percent every year,
year over year, because those are the options. So you know,
what are we gonna do? Mandy, My grandfather had a
thirteen percent mortgage rate after World War Two. My parents

(01:01:06):
had a seventeen percent interest rate in the seventies on
their home. But of course their home only costs like
forty five thousand dollars. So you see where it all
starts to balance out. So our home price is going
to fall to allow home buyers to start buying homes.
What's going to give? Because right now the federal government
and all of the people in office are saying it's

(01:01:28):
not going to be us. We're not going to give.
We have votes to buy. I'm talking about this case
in Maine because I'm looking for things that could create
problems for Colorado's new law outlawing speech that they don't like.
So this story is about a main elected representative to

(01:01:51):
the main House of Representatives. Her name is Libby. Hang
On Laurel Libby. Representative Laurel Libby. In February, she published
a Facebook post on her official legislative account that had
photos and the name of a transgender girl who had
competed in and won the pole vault at the state

(01:02:13):
Track and Field championship. So yet another biological boy is
now winning a state championship in the girls division. She
posted the Facebook posting and it went viral. I mean,
I remember seeing it. The Speaker of the House said,
you got to take that down. And not only that,
you got to take that down because it's creating a
health and safety issue. And Representative Libby said, no, I'm

(01:02:38):
not taking it down. I'm just telling the truth. And
she was. So the House introduced a resolution to censure
Representative Libby and said that her post violated the state's
ethics Code for legislators. The resolution added that as a
result of this post, the school district has had to
increase security at the school, causing unnecessary stress and disruption

(01:03:00):
to other students, parents, teachers, and school support staff, and
the entire community. Note what did that was allowing a
boy to compete in a girls sport. That's what did that.
Let's be real. The resolution passed on a party line
vote seventy five to seventy, and when Representative Libby refused
to apologize for her violation of the ethics code, she

(01:03:21):
was barred under the House rules from participating in debates
and from voting on issues that the full House was considering.
She took it to court. A district court in Rhode
Island declined her request, holding that the claims against Effectu
and hence were barred by legislative immunity. She then went

(01:03:41):
to the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit,
seeking only an order requiring Hunt to count her votes,
but the Court of Appeals rejected that request, instead fast
tracking leave his appeal and scheduling oral arguments for June fifth.
Those oral arguments took place. She came to the Supreme
on April twenty eighth. She told justices that are thousands

(01:04:03):
of constituents in Maine or now without a voice or
vote for every bill coming to the House floor for
the rest of her elected term, which runs through twenty
twenty six, and she would not be able to vote
on the budget and one hundreds more proposed laws, such
as the policy on transgender athletes in sports. So Mainne

(01:04:26):
tried to ask the justices to stay out of the dispute,
right like, just this is our problem, let us happen,
But the Justices didn't see it that way. In a
one paragraph order on Thursday, they granted Libby's request. The
court did not explain its reasoning, but is any of
that reasoning is because of the way her First Amendment

(01:04:49):
rights were violated by the state House representatives, demanding not
only does she take it down, I mean you could
make the argument that the State House could say, look, Libby,
this does create a divisive situation. It doesn't meet our standards.
We'd like you to take that down. But the minute
they say and you have to apologize, that's where you're
talking about compelled speech. And I will tell you, and

(01:05:13):
I have only had to apologize one time, when I
was told by my boss, you have to apologize to
Congressman John Yarmouth. Let me get the backstory here, because
I actually think it's kind of funny.

Speaker 2 (01:05:26):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:05:27):
So Congressman John Yarmouth he's now out. Yeah, he's out
of office now. He was from Louisvil, Kentucky, as left
as left could be a bunch of inherited money born
on second thought, he hit a double kind of guy,
you know what I mean. But he used to come
on my show once a week, and I had no
idea he was Jewish, no clue. It never occurred to
me that he was Jewish. I didn't even bother me

(01:05:47):
to think that he might be Jewish. And we were
talking about gun control and a gun registry and things
of that nature, and I very smartily said to him,
why don't we just make all gun owners wear a
yellow star? In their chest. John, that will make it
easier for us to know who to run away from.
It was very sarcastic. It was obviously, you know, let's
just say we had some contentious debates. Well, my boss

(01:06:10):
gets a call from one of his staffers saying, as
a Jewish man, John is appalled that Nandy would use
that kind of imagery on talking to a Jewish man.
And I was like, first of all, no clue was Jewish.
But if I had known he was Jewish, I probably
would have said John, as a jew you remember what
happened when they made people wear yellow stars. You're just asking,

(01:06:32):
you know, people with guns to wear their own version
of yellow stars. I would have changed the verbiage. I
would have said the same thing. But my boss was like, look,
you just have to apologize. And I went on the
air and I was like, Okay, I'm sorry that John
Yarmouth took what I said that way. That was my apology.
And my boss was like, oh god, why, And I'm like,

(01:06:53):
I'm not gonna apologize for something I don't believe I
need to apologize for. You guys have heard me apologize
and admit when I get things wrong. If I am wrong.
I will apologize. I will say I'm wrong, and I
will apologize, but forced apologies. No, no, no, no, no no,

(01:07:13):
that is first of all, it's not real. I mean,
there's nothing sorry. I was sorry. He he he took
it that way. I don't care. Didn't make any difference
to me if he took it that way or not.
It was just an expedient way to make that whole
episode go away. Shortly after that, he stopped coming on
the show. Weird, just weird.

Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
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Speaker 4 (01:07:58):
Welcome locome, Welcome to the third of the show. I'm
your host, Mandy Connell. That guy, oh hey, how you doing?
That guy over there's Grant Smith in for a rod
who update did not get chosen today. Thank god you
are not chosen, so he'll be back tomorrow. So there
you go. So I have to give an update on

(01:08:18):
the Joe Biden cancer situation because if you listen to
the show the other day, you know I'm not buying
what they're selling because I've been lied to enough by
the Biden family by the way they're were. The scathing
commentary is still flowing. And I don't know if you
guys know who Sally Quinn is, if you know anything
about DC politics, she is as insider in DC as

(01:08:44):
an insider can be. She's not a politician. She was
married to Ben Bradley, who was the longtime publisher of
The Washington Post until his death in twenty fourteen. She's
written columns for the Washington Post. She is sort of
the social maven of Washington, d C. She wrote a

(01:09:06):
column or did an interview and ripped Jill Biden to shreds,
not Joe Jill. And the reason Sally Quinn did that
is that then Bradley died from dementia, and in the
last few years of his life she pulled him out
of the spotlight to protect his dignity. She just said, Nope,

(01:09:26):
we're not doing this anymore. He deserves to be remembered
as the dignified man that he is, so we're stepping
back out of the spotlight. For the last two years
of this dementia battle. Obviously she didn't know it was
going to be two years, but she protected her husband,
and in this new interview, she rips Jill Biden. A
new one just absolutely rips her. And they've known each

(01:09:49):
other for years. So I mean, people are not done
piling on, but listen to this. Make sure this is
coming through both channels, by the way, because if it's
not coming through both channels, then the people on the
radio cannot hear it. So this is from CBS Mornings.
This is them talking to the CBS Medical contributor about

(01:10:10):
why Joe Biden had not had a PSA test since
twenty fourteen. Now, he's an elderly man and he's had
cancer before. He had skin cancer before, not melanoma, but
he's had skin cancer before. And listen to this logic,
So it.

Speaker 5 (01:10:25):
Took a while to do that would need be getting
regular checkups. Yeah, so it depends on the kind of
cancer you're talking about here. We do know it's quite
aggressive again, so the time in which it would take
to spread to the bones is going to be shorter
than with a less aggressive cancer.

Speaker 4 (01:10:40):
And he's eighty two.

Speaker 5 (01:10:41):
Normally doctors will stop screening for prostate cancer at seventy
five or so because after that the prostate cancers you
typically pick up are very slow growing, and so the
harms of all of the testing and treatment for something
that may not kill you. You know, you're talking about
Rispurs's benefit not be worth the risk.

Speaker 6 (01:11:01):
Isn't there a blood test that men can take to
know if they have an issue that might warrant further examination.

Speaker 5 (01:11:07):
So there's something that we call a PSA test, but
that can also be indicative of many different things. It
could just be you have an enlarged prostate. Maybe you
have a low grade infection in the prostate. There are
many things that can cause that, and so this is
again why after a certain age doctors will typically stop
screening for prostate cancer. But in his case, it's not screening.

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It's important to emphasize this was diagnostic because he had
urinary symptoms and so there was a reason to do
more testing quickly.

Speaker 2 (01:11:36):
What is your final message to men of a certain age.

Speaker 5 (01:11:39):
Well, men, at a certain age, you need to be
seeing your primary care doctor for regular exams.

Speaker 4 (01:11:42):
And it's not just for prostate camp. So it's because
it's too expensive the cost of these PSA Do you
know what a PSA test? Well I didn't either, so
I reached out to my friend Travis backinstead at Pinnacle
Advanced primary Care, and they're a direct primary care provider,
so you buy a membership there and then you pay
cash if you need testing done, you need your cholesterol checkter.

(01:12:06):
In this case, you need a PSA test. So I
reached out to Travis. They only charged wholesale prices. They
don't do the markups that you see in regular insurance. Nope,
it's just wholesale pricing. So I reached out to Travis
and I said, Travis, how much does a PSA cost?
PSA test at Pinnacle Advanced Primary Care cost five dollars
and fifty cents. Yeah, I mean that's tough for the

(01:12:29):
President of the United States to swing. Surely, with two
trillion dollars, you know, cost overruns, we could find five
dollars and fifty cents to test the President of the
United States for prostate cancer. You know, you have to
think we probably should be paying better attention to the
health of our presidents, don't you think. I mean it's

(01:12:54):
that being said, I will concede one point on this issue.
It is possible, it is possible a one to two
percent chance that he had no idea he had prostate cancer.
And then he's just got this far and he had
no idea he had it except I've been lied to
too many times, so I'm not in a mood to

(01:13:15):
give any grace, but I will have to concede. I
don't know, Mandy Annabelle Bolan shielded Pat Bolan. It's the
decent and loving thing to do, exactly right. You know,
being a caregiver for a person with dementia is very,
very difficult, and I think that most people who are

(01:13:38):
providing that care they're doing so because they're in a
long term, loving relationship, and I think they do have
that instinct to protect people, whether they are in the
late stages of a battling cancer, near death. I mean,
I've had a few friends that their loved ones refuse
to let anyone see them near death, not because they

(01:13:59):
had dementia, but because they had said I don't want
people to see me like this. By the way, can
I just say this, I hate that. I have a
really good friend who died very young. He died in
his mid thirties, and he did he said, I don't
want to see anybody at the end of my life.
But by the time we found out he was at
the end of his life. I mean, we knew he
was battling cancer, but we kind of thought it was

(01:14:20):
going okay, and then all of a sudden, it's hey,
get ready, Jimmy's gonna die. And I'm like, wait what.
And he would not see any of us because of vanity,
and he was a vain man. He would be the
first one to tell you he was a vain man.
But if you are in that situation ever, please don't
be vain. Let people have a chance to come in

(01:14:41):
and tell you what they you mean to them. Because
we've had you know, unfortunately, we're at the age where
Chuck and I have had more than one friend pass
away from cancer. And the last one who passed from
cancer was a really good friend of ours in southwest Florida,
and he was battling throat and neck cancer and we
got a message from a his wife that said things

(01:15:01):
are not going well and we're sort of at the
end of our treatment options. And he and Chuck had
been very close, and I said, Chuck, go see him.
Go see him. You'll never regret go see You'll never
regret going to see someone who is dying. You will
regret not going to see some people that are dying,
some maybe not. Something you're like, hey, you know, good

(01:15:22):
luck and the great beyond. But if you ever wonder,
if you're ever vacillating, should I shouldn't? I just go?
And he did and it was an amazing experience for
both of them. So, you know, Mandy, why is it
ninety four point one working? They are working on the
transmitter today? I just asked, And so it's going to
be off and on all day. But remember, you guys,
you can always listen to Crystal Clear Digital Audio on

(01:15:45):
the iHeartRadio app. And while you're there, go ahead and
make the Mandy Connell Show a preset along with taking
it for granted the Grant Smith podcast. Since he's here today,
I'll give you a little love, Grant, give it a
little boost. Much appreciated, even though father Mike's been on
seven times and I'm always been on one. So whatever,

(01:16:06):
it's fine, but go listen to Grants podcast too. I'm
sure it's good. Whatever. News stories that we're not going
to have time to get to today, a few of
them are Israel may be striking Iran soon and their
nuclear sites, and this was reported by our intelligence agencies
to the news. So immediately I'm like, that kind of
seems like a jerk move, you know. But then there's

(01:16:29):
this paragraph. But the chance of an Israeli strike on
an Iranian nuclear facility has gone up significantly in recent months,
set another person familiar with US intelligence on the issue,
and the prospect of a Trump negotiated US Iran deal
that doesn't remove all of Iran's uranium makes the chance

(01:16:49):
of a strike more likely. And that, my friends, is
why this is in the news. This is just another
example of sort of seating, seating the water, you know,
seeding the tear territory to get Iran to understand what
is at stake. Now another story on the blog that
we're not going to get to in depth. I am
a confident airline flyer. I have no reservations about being

(01:17:14):
on an airplane. I know that there are many people
who do. But it's far safer than flying that's demonstrably true.
But I'm just going to say this, I am not
flying in and out of Newark Airport in the near
future because something is really screwed up at Newark Airport.
First of all, that airport's a dump, and you have
other options. You can fly into LaGuardia. You can fly

(01:17:35):
into JFK multiple options. You can fly into Long Island
for depending on where you're going in New York. But
Newark is having significant, major, massive power failures in the tower.
Multiple times over the past couple of months. They have
had blackouts in the tower that lasted several minutes. And

(01:17:59):
I'm talking about the control tower where they're supposed to
be talking to you know, airplanes that are flying around
New York. And one of your traffic controllers now said
I wouldn't fly in and out of here, it's too dangerous,
and I tend to agree with her. So that's just
a little warning from me. And again I'm a confident
I'm about to travel. Our flight we have to fly

(01:18:20):
from here to San Francisco and then San Francisco to
South Korea is like twelve hours and forty five minutes long.
I am not looking forward to that. You guys are
gonna have to give me good suggestions at another time
to download for that trip, so I have stuff to
actually watch. So that is on the blog today. We

(01:18:41):
also have some other stories that I want to get to.
Did you hear this story about the guy suing the
Rockies because he got hit in the face with a
foul ball. I did see this story. This might be
one of my favorites. I think it's so ridiculous. Not
because he has a leg to stand on. Let's be real,
when you go to a sporting event, you have some

(01:19:04):
responsibility to pay freaking attention to what's going on. So
this guy gets hit in the face with a foul ball,
and now he's suing the Rockies for negligence. But listen
to his reasoning. This is really where it gets good.
So he was hitting the face on July sixteenth of
twenty twenty three. The game was between the Rockies and

(01:19:26):
the Yankees. The foul ball was hit at the bottom
of the first inning. The man says in his lawsuit
that he was in a private box suite as a
guest of a company that rented the luxury box, and
his lawsuit describes the ball hitting him directly in the
right eye and face, causing catastrophic and permanent injuries. He's
suing under the Colorado Baseball Spectator Safety Act of nineteen

(01:19:48):
ninety three, which does create the assumption of risk for
spectators injured by foul balls, but one section creates an
exception for a landowner who does not make reasonable, proven
effort to design and alter and maintain the premises. He says,
they need more nets, and the wonder we just gonna
have Florida ceiling nets. Yeah, but he gets it gets

(01:20:12):
even better, Grant it gets even better. He doesn't stop there.
He then said that the team's record has contributed to
a game day environment that makes stadium culture in which socializing, dining,
and business networking have become the primary focus for many attendees.

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So essentially, what he's saying is because the Rockies are
so bad that people don't go and watch the game anymore.
They just go to chitchat with their friends and should
not be expected to pay attention to a foul ball
flying over the fencing that is already high. This guy
is an idiot. He's not going to win, and there's
no way that the Rockies, I mean, the Rockies have

(01:20:56):
to fight this. But does he have a point about
the game atmosphere being one where people are just going
to hang out and socialize.

Speaker 6 (01:21:04):
Yeah, I don't think that gives him any leg to
stand on. I thought it, but I think that's been
true about Corus Field for the past three or four years.

Speaker 4 (01:21:11):
Yeah, yep, yep, yep. We just did that raffle where
we raffled off Chuck and I are hosting the iHeartRadio Suite,
and we raffled it off to benefit the Qu'es Criminal
Justice Club so they could go to state competition. And
we were literally selling it as don't you want to
be a part of history. Don't you want to say
that you were there for a.

Speaker 6 (01:21:32):
Game fastest team to forty losses since eighteen ninety five?

Speaker 4 (01:21:38):
Eighteen ninety five?

Speaker 2 (01:21:39):
Yeah, yep.

Speaker 4 (01:21:42):
Do you watch the game on Sunday? Because I did.
It was actually an incredibly good game and Chase Dolander
pitched really well and it was one to zero in
the ninth and then the Rockies left three on base. Yep.
Sounds about right. Yeah. I can't talk about that anymore
when we get back you guys, Today is i q
sixteenth birthday, and I want you to think about this.

(01:22:03):
I thought about this earlier and I was like, I
kind of like this idea, what advice if you could
go back in time and talk to you at sixteen,
what advice would you give yourself. We're gonna do that
next keep it right here on KWA. Question for you guys.
My daughter, my adorable little daughter, has turned sixteen today. Yikes,

(01:22:26):
grant wait till you wait if you ever have the experience.
I don't know what you and Olivia's plans are, and
I don't need to out you on the radio, but
if you ever have children, it's amazing because I used
to hear people say this when I was younger, and
I was like, what are they talking about? And moms,
You're gonna absolutely identify with what I'm about to say.
I can still remember what it was like to nurse

(01:22:46):
her and have her fall asleep while while I was
nursing her and just kind of roll off like milk drunk.
I can remember that like it was yesterday. I can't
remember what I had for lunch yesterday, but that is
burned in my mind for the rest of my life.
And now I have this sixteen year old human, and
she's so much better than I was at the same age.

(01:23:07):
Oh my god. She's braver than I am, she's smarter
than I am, she's more compassionate, she's very empathetic, you know,
and just turning into a really good human. And I'm
asking what advice if you could go back to your
sixteen year old self, what advice would you give yourself, Grant,
What would you tell sixteen year.

Speaker 6 (01:23:27):
Old Grant, don't worry about what other people think about you, Amen,
listen to your gut and believe in yourself.

Speaker 4 (01:23:35):
Mine would definitely be listening to your gut, because when
I have not listened to my gut, I've gotten married,
I've done things that you know, weren't catastrophic in the
grand scheme of things, but certainly if I'd listened to
my gut, it would have been a different story. But
at the same time, all of those experiences make you

(01:23:55):
who you are, right as like the path to where
we are makes us who we are. So I don't
know if I would change it now, but yeah, listen
to your gut is a big one. And no, I
don't think that the lawyer for the guy that got
hit in the foul ball at Coursefield is Jackie Chiles.
Maybe we'll Seinfeld reference for you guys. Keep your eyes
on the road and your phone out of reach, says

(01:24:15):
this Texter. That is great advice. Your life is beginning.
God has big plans for you. Learn from every failure
and mistake. And keep moving forward. We talk about that
a lot in our household. Like, you know, I know,
the adage everything happens for a reason is super frustrating
for some people because they're like, what, And sometimes the
reason is you're stupid, right, That's what it is. But ultimately,

(01:24:40):
I think that if you don't believe that everything happens
for a reason, then it prevents you from going back
and looking to see what you should have learned from
that thing. I mean, I look back at some of
the decisions that I made and I go, what was
I thinking? And I can't even wrap my head around
because they were so dumb that I can't I can't
even rap my head around what I was thinking because

(01:25:03):
clearly I was not. Oh, here's a good one. Don't
start your day with gas station nachos. Gas station sushi
also goes into that situation. Any gas station food maybe.
I you know what though, I love a seven to
eleven tun a sandwich. I know, I know, I know
how crazy that sounds, but they've actually changed it a

(01:25:25):
little bit. Now it's kind of salty. It wasn't and
I haven't had one in a very long time, so
I don't know what the situation is Nowmandy at sixty seven,
I still have the rocking chair. My granny nurse my mom,
and my mom nursed me. In this text said I'm seventeen. Okay,
I have a listener who is seventeen years old and
who is texting in. You are the listener of the day,

(01:25:46):
seventeen year old person. They, I'd say, have three or
four good friends instead of one hundred fake ones. I
will say that she has gathered up a group of
girls that are just fantastic human beings, just quality people.
So's she's done that. She has managed to create a

(01:26:06):
friend group that is outstanding. Take calculated risks, have faith,
have no fear.

Speaker 11 (01:26:12):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:26:12):
I wish I'd been able to do that. I'd be
president right now. If I'd been able to do that
when I was young, I feel confident I would have
been I would have been far further along than I
am now.

Speaker 6 (01:26:21):
But that goes back to your point about you know,
making mistakes when you're younger, you learn lessons from them
that you wouldn't have learned without making those.

Speaker 4 (01:26:28):
Mossy exactly. I love this one. Que Remember to treat
yourself like you would treat your best friend, especially in
the way you talk to your inner self. Side note,
each of us were giving a special dinner out with
our parents on our sixteenth and given a watch. I'm
sixty seven. By the way, Mandy, I would tell my
younger self to focus on school, study harder, take more

(01:26:49):
math classes. She's already doing that. High school is a
very small blip in your life. Enjoy the fun stuff,
take advantage of the opportunities, and don't stress about popularity.
If high school is the pinnacle of your life, that
is a very sad state of affairs. And that is
so true, so so true. For we were talking about

(01:27:13):
a specific event that happened in her life that still
stresses her out. And I went and looked, and at
the age of sixteen, you've been alive for like eight million,
four hundred and eleven thousand minutes and change. And I
just looked at it, and I said, you're focused on
ten minutes of eight million, four hundred eleven thousand minutes
of your life. And when you think about that, when

(01:27:35):
you are feeling you know you're going through a bad time,
because we all go through bad times, you have to
remind yourself it won't last forever. It really won't unless
your parents named you job in a cruel turn of events.
It will get better, Mandy. I would tell myself, pull
your head out of your rear. Your parents aren't as
stupid as you think, and you're not bulletproof. I just

(01:27:56):
told her that when I was her age. This is
a true story. Great, you were up in a rural area.
I'm interested to see if your people ever came up
with something like this. We used to tie a rope
to the back of a pickup truck and then we
tied it to a mattress and we would hang on
to the mattress as the pickup truck went around a

(01:28:17):
field doing donuts, trying to throw us off the mattress. Yep,
and that was what we did for fun on a
Friday night. I'm not even kidding. Yeah, we would do that.

Speaker 6 (01:28:27):
And we would also do that with like a sled
behind a four wheeler.

Speaker 4 (01:28:31):
I grew up in Florida. There was no sleds. We
didn't have sleds. We had mattresses and cardboard boxes and
d We liked it. Grant guard your credit score. That
is great advice. We're talking to her about that stuff now.
Happy birthday, Q My advice to my former sixteen year
old self, don't try to keep up with the Joneses. Instead,
keep up with yourself. Put yourself first, get outside, be active,

(01:28:55):
challenge yourself, push yourself to be the best you can be.
Never let someone tell you can't, because when you put
you first, you will move mountains with love, deep with friends, family,
and pets. There you go, that's a good one.

Speaker 6 (01:29:10):
You know. One other thing I would say to my
sixteen year old self would be hang out with your
parents more like I regret that I thought they were
so lame when I was a teenager, Like I did
everything I could to get out of the house.

Speaker 4 (01:29:23):
We kind of force her to, like we really do,
because being second time parents, because Ryan and Phil, her
older brothers, are thirty four and thirty three now, well
one of them is thirty two. He'll turn thirty three
in August. And you know that after your kids leave
for college, everything changes and it's never the same again,

(01:29:45):
and you never have those opportunities to hang out with
your kids again. They're often having their lives as they
should be, right, So we kind of make her hang
out with us. But in a weird way, it's been
incredibly beneficial to her because she can talk to adults.
She can talk to with no problem whatsoever. Do you
have any idea how proud I am of that in
today's generation where so many teenagers cannot talk to people,

(01:30:10):
it's terrible. I mean, use a condom. Yes, I'll pass
that along on our sixteenth birthday. Thank you. Mandy the
que is Mandy the que is nearly an adult. When
does the Mandy and Q Start show start this summer?
One of the projects I have already assigned her projects
for this summer. She doesn't know it yet. One of
the projects is that she's going to learn how to
edit the podcast because I don't have time to do

(01:30:32):
any of that. But as soon as she learns how
to edit the podcast and upload it, then we're off
to the races. Because I can do everything else, I
just don't want to edit it and upload it. Grant
can tell you that that is a pain in the body. Yes,
it is a pain. Take calculated risks, have faith, no fear.
Like that, start investing early and often, be responsible and

(01:30:54):
focus on career, but have fun too. I like that.
Don't hesitate to change your dreams unless they're stupid. Texter,
if they're dumb, like she's not going to join the circus. Okay,
if she wants to be a clown, let her be
ab met. You have your own clown Manby. When I
was still very young, my mom said good, better best.

(01:31:15):
Never let it rest till you're good is better, and
you're better is best. I love that saying financial advice,
save as much as you can for as long as
you can. In other words, save money. Start now. I
wish someone had told me me too, you guys. One
area where my parents failed me was financial education. And
it was a brutal self inflicted journey to financial education

(01:31:41):
for me. And I'm still digging myself out of that hole. Mandy,
for the cue, have a genuine relationship with Jesus Christ.
Everything else follows there. Uh, Mandy. I have three grown
daughters and all our fine successful women. The way it
worked out, we had a teenage girl in the house
for nineteen years. My wife deserves sainthood. Wow, Mandy, say

(01:32:02):
no to alcohol. You know her generation is not drinking.
They just aren't. Like statistically they are not drinking. They
probably are smoking pot. Not my daughter, but you know,
I don't know. Learn to say no, yes, yes, Texter her,
that's a good one. Remember tomorrow never comes. Do today
and don't procrastinate for tomorrow. Mandy. Really, I'm going to

(01:32:31):
tell my sixteen year old daughter, no fat chicks. Is
that nice? That's not nice text her and not helpful, Mandy,
I'd say, don't get caught up on internet poor and
go out and bang real people. Thank you again for
my sixteen year old daughter. Great advice. Who are these
people texting right now? Who are you people? Mandy? Happy birthday, Q.

(01:32:51):
Always remember the soul is painted with the color of
its thoughts, so ignore negativity from external forces and smile.
I like that. That's kind of that's kind of. Oh
here we got old piece of foam on the top
of the chevy and did donuts in the field. Listen
to what your mom says and ask her about your
family history because when she is gone, like my mom,

(01:33:15):
I have so many questions I want to answered. You guys,
that is such incredible advice. So okay, my dad had
a catastrophic stroke. He was seventy five years old when
he had a catastrophic stroke, and it took his ability
to speak. We were trying to help him get his
ability to speak back, and so I downloaded the thing

(01:33:37):
called Legacy Project Questions, and I started asking me asking
my dad questions about his childhood and his life. But
he was too he was too disabled at that point
to be able to answer it. And I'm so mad
that I didn't know more, because I learned some stuff
in that period, even though it was very difficult for
him that I had no idea about. Apparently my iological grandfather,

(01:34:01):
which I did not know, was not I thought my
actual grandfather that I grew up with. I thought he
was just my grandfather. It never occurred to me that
they had a different last name than I.

Speaker 1 (01:34:09):
Like.

Speaker 4 (01:34:09):
I just never made that connection. But my actual grandfather
was the town drunk, like passed out in the street,
and my father felt a tremendous amount of shame about that.
And I didn't know that my whole life. No clue, Mandy,
never abandoned your dreams. Go back to bed. Haha ha
ha ha ha haw. Don't trust the police. An interview

(01:34:33):
is an interrogation. Don't say a thing without a lawyer.
I have already imparted that wisdom to her. I am
pro cop, but my father was an attorney. So whenever
there have been two times in my life where I
had to speak to police officers about a crime someone
else committed, and both times I said, I would like
to bring my attorney in and they said, no problem,
bring him in because you don't know. You don't know

(01:34:55):
if you're the subject of the investigation. Better to be
safe than sorry. If it as a penis, don't trust it.
That's from a dad. Oh trust me. If I got
Q on the phone right now and I said, Q,
what are boys, she would say boys are stupid because
my husband has been telling her boys are stupid since
she was born. And he said, look, when they become adults,

(01:35:15):
they're not stupid anymore. They grow out of ith. Well
twenty five ish, they say they're out of it at
that point. Start your day by making your bed. I
gave up that battle some time ago. And not because
my daughter is a slob. Her room is like spotless
and organized as a matter of fact, as a way

(01:35:36):
to make money. I was like, you should do kid organizing,
you know, like moms bring you into their kids' rooms
and you help the kids organize. Because she is unbelievably organized.

Speaker 6 (01:35:46):
I will say it's a great way to start your day.
On a positive note. If you do if that's the
first thing you do, and you do it well, you
don't just throw the sheets up.

Speaker 4 (01:35:55):
I do it every day.

Speaker 6 (01:35:56):
You make the bed, and that's the first task on
your list every day, and you start because.

Speaker 4 (01:36:01):
You know you're going to succeed at it. For me, Grant,
it's on the other end of the day that I
appreciate the made bed, right. I love getting into a
bed with the sheets are all smooth, and then you
get in and you pull the you got the covers up,
and oh, it's just so oh, it's so nice, it's inviting,
it's so good. There's no wrong way, just another way.

(01:36:24):
Good advice, Mandy. I would tell my sixteen year old
self that my parents have never been there for me
in sixteen years. Why I expect that to change. I'm
sixty four. I might keep that to myself as her parents. Yeah,
because I worked pretty hard to make sure that we
are there for her kind of thing. Happy birthday, que
Keep a diary, write down all the stuff you do,
the people that you meet in the places, pictures too,

(01:36:46):
And I'll let this go. I'll let this be the
last one. Advice for my sixteen year old daughter. Never
trust Whitey says this Texter. Yep, yep, yep. Ran Edwards,
what would you tell your sixteen year old self if
you could go back in time? Oh, wow, that's good.

Speaker 10 (01:37:06):
I don't know.

Speaker 12 (01:37:06):
I guess I would probably encourage me to have a
little more patience with myself in my twenties and understand
I'm going to make mistakes and not you know, understand
that those mistakes are not going to necessarily live with
me the rest of my life, that they're important for
my growth. Yeah, and and and you know, go easy
on myself a little bitau.

Speaker 4 (01:37:24):
I think I beat myself up a lot for mistakes
in the twenties, and.

Speaker 12 (01:37:27):
Honestly, I got I got the other side of it,
and I was like, gosh, that was a lot of
effort and energy probably for nothing.

Speaker 3 (01:37:32):
Ran.

Speaker 4 (01:37:32):
I call my twenties the lost decade for a very
good reason. Absolutely, I wouldn't change a single bit of
it now in retrospect, I would not change a single
thing from that time period, even though I look back
now and I like cringe inside. I just go, oh God,
why did you date him? Thousand thousand percent?

Speaker 12 (01:37:52):
No, I mean, not him necessarily, but say kind of thing,
you know, dating certain people that yeah, I just don't
know where the who I am now, but I wouldn't
be where I'm that now.

Speaker 4 (01:38:02):
I would not be married and happy. And you know
what's funny, I can look back at all of my
serious boyfriends and see the ways that they prepared me
to be married to my husband.

Speaker 12 (01:38:10):
Absolutely, and my wife's does the same thing, since she,
I mean she was engaged before.

Speaker 4 (01:38:14):
I like the training wheels, yes, and she's.

Speaker 12 (01:38:16):
She's like, if I wouldn't have had those experiences, I
wouldn't have been right for.

Speaker 4 (01:38:19):
You write exactly. So the journey that leads us to
where we are makes us who we are. That's last
one because I just really like this one. Mandy. I'm
eighty years old, and I would tell the sixteen year
old me that I've never regretted anything I did. I've
regretted the things I haven't done. That is very, very true.
You never want to be at the end of your
life thinking about all those things you should have done,

(01:38:41):
you know, I mean, be a little embarrassed about some
of the people that you did. Andy just teks to
this in for you, Ryan, Mandy. Ryan would tell his
sixteen year old self to wear more flannel. So I wasn't.

Speaker 12 (01:38:58):
I was more of a cargo sorts in my twenties
and T shirts. But yes, I've always said, like, don't
be afraid of flannel. But no, I mean that, listen.
That's the thing. Like there's there's so many things. I
always thought very quickly my dad. I love the advice
he gave me. One of the things that he said
to me that really stuck out is just you know,
find something that you love that you could.

Speaker 4 (01:39:17):
Do the rest of your life as far as you
know work.

Speaker 3 (01:39:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:39:20):
Thing, It's like he's like, if you it's kind of
those long like if you find something you love, really
never work any kind of thing. But he found a
job that he's do it for forty years, but he
loved every single thing about it.

Speaker 4 (01:39:30):
Man, I have been doing this job for twenty eight years,
so now it took a four year hiatus, so twenty
six years I've been actively in it. When I think
about that, that blows my mind. That's remarkable, especially this industry. Yes,
and as of right now, I have not been fired ever.
I'm in year sixteen of doing this job, and that

(01:39:51):
jinks yourself here, I'm not I knocked on wood just
to be sure. But now it's time for the most
exciting segment all the radio of this guy, The Way
of the Day. All right, let's jump in because I
ran late there. What is our dad Joe? Please? Dad
joke of the day.

Speaker 6 (01:40:10):
I want to ask a girl for a date, and
she said I had a face like the back of
a boat.

Speaker 4 (01:40:15):
I didn't reply, but I gave her a stern look. Good.
That's very good. That's very good. Who invented a word
of the day?

Speaker 6 (01:40:22):
Please? Sorry, I got ahead my word of the day.
I think you will both get this.

Speaker 11 (01:40:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:40:26):
Hapless? Oh, hapless means kind of like a hapless means
not productive, kind of going through life, just not being great?

Speaker 8 (01:40:38):
What is it?

Speaker 4 (01:40:39):
Unfortunate?

Speaker 8 (01:40:40):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:40:40):
There you go, having no luck? Okay? Who invented mister
potato Head in nineteen forty nine of Fisher Price. I'm
gonna say, Mattel, Oh, you're probably right, but it's neither
of those things. It's George Lerner. The original mister potato
Head toy didn't come with the potato head. It was
just plastic body parts you could stick into a real potato.
You didn't know that, I mean no, I didn't know that,

(01:41:01):
but that, I mean, that makes sense. Yeah, I'll be
back in the day. Yeah, why are you gonna waste it?
Perfectly good potatoes? Right, you know? Okay, what is our
Jeopardy category?

Speaker 6 (01:41:10):
Jeopardy category for today, Fried and Gone to Heaven? Okay,
all right, Sorry, we don't have coke, but at the
South Carolina State Fair we serve fried this beverage created
in North Carolina in eighteen ninety three.

Speaker 4 (01:41:26):
Mandy, what is cheerwine? Incorrect? Take it.

Speaker 6 (01:41:30):
We don't have coke, but at the South Carolina State
Fair we have fried.

Speaker 4 (01:41:35):
This beverage created and I would say pepsi if I
were you Rya, I'm gonna say, yeah, Ryan, what is pepsi? Correct? Yeah,
they looked at me and said, we don't have coke.
I thought it was North Carolina and they have cheer wine,
which is like a bastardized version of Doctor Pepper. Oh
you can't do It's very very sweet anyway.

Speaker 6 (01:41:53):
Next one, how about this stuffed Chinese app with shredded
veggies and meat.

Speaker 4 (01:41:58):
It's larger, larger than the spring type. Correct back to zero.

Speaker 6 (01:42:04):
Allrecipes dot Com notes you can also fry up red
ones with the recipe for these a nineteen ninety one
film title, but over ripe ones will be mushy, Ryan, Ryan?

Speaker 4 (01:42:17):
What are fried green tomatoes? Car? Ryan? Is that two
for us?

Speaker 6 (01:42:22):
For fried chicken? Joy of cooking, says a marinate of
this tanging?

Speaker 4 (01:42:27):
What buttermilk? Correct?

Speaker 6 (01:42:30):
From there? From the French? This deep fried? New Orleans state?

Speaker 4 (01:42:36):
Correct? What's side? We need a tie wrecker? Okay? What
should we do?

Speaker 10 (01:42:41):
All?

Speaker 4 (01:42:42):
Come on? Twenty two? Is the category?

Speaker 8 (01:42:44):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (01:42:45):
Yeah, gosh, you can't fool me, or maybe you can.

Speaker 6 (01:42:49):
There are twenty two major arcana cards in this type
of deck.

Speaker 4 (01:42:54):
Now go and impress us. What do the next question?
No idea? You don't have any idea to you? Right,
next question? Tarot car. Oh we're so stupid. My wife
is screaming.

Speaker 6 (01:43:06):
Yes, the knife came down, missing him by inches, and
he took off.

Speaker 4 (01:43:10):
Is the last line of this novel. Remember the category?
What is the category? Come on twenty two? Mandy? What
is catch twenty two? I should have guessed the tarot
cars is the first thing I thought.

Speaker 12 (01:43:24):
Of, Yeah, but I did not got to jump on
that right on that, And again I was thinking, well,
my wife would just.

Speaker 4 (01:43:30):
Try to throw you off the game, so I could
win anyway. Tomorrow we have a baseball game and I
only had a half hour show, but I'm going to
a high school graduation tomorrow, so Ross is going to
handle that half hour for me, and I'm eternally grateful
for that. But we'll be back Friday for a full show,
so keep it right here on Kaway.