05-23-25 FULL SHOW - TGIF Before The Holiday Weekend, Erebody!

It was a wild Ask Me Anything show where Mandy answered lots of radio questions and more. We also discussed Denver being broke, Trump's personal deals in the Middle East, and AROD's jury duty.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
No, it's Mandy Connell and conn on KAM ninety one FM.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Got want to stay and they prey Andy Connell keeping
no sad bab. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Friday edition
of the show altogether. Now that is right, it is

(00:36):
ball and we will take you right back, I mean
right back to Uh what did I say right back?

(00:58):
That's not what I meant to say at all. We'll
take you through the day. Sorry, I got distracted by
something shiny. We have a lot of stuff on the
blog today, like a bunch like it's a two hander
kind of day. But it's also the Friday before Memorial Day.
And I heard what Ross was doing and I absolutely
love it. I love it. He was allowing people to
text in their sort of little short stories about people

(01:23):
that were killed in action or killed during wartime, and
that ultimately is what we're celebrating or honoring. We're not
really celebrating, but we're honoring those who gave their lives
in service. And Memorial Day has sort of lost its
meaning to a lot of people because people just don't
think about it, because you know, back in World War Two,

(01:44):
everyone had a connection to someone serving, and everyone was
sort of part of a giant family for the soldiers.
And now I don't know what it is. Now, hang
on one second, let me do this. What percentage of
American families have an active duty member? So let's see

(02:10):
what percentage? Now, Well, that doesn't make sense at all.
About about four percent, that's the number that I'm seeing.
I'll go back, but about four percent of Americans have
some direct connection to the military. Now at about four percent,
are can say that they are, you know, actively supporting

(02:34):
someone in their family in the military. And I don't
mean supporting literally, I mean just giving support to So
it's a lot different. Now it's a lot different. Hi, Mayda,
it's Anton in my FedEx delivery guy until they change
this route. Much to my chagrin, I heard you talking
about your grandpa the other day, and I have a
similar story that I think you'll like. So my mom

(02:54):
never knew her birth father, but my grandpa married my
grandma and adopted her when she was two years old.
Went down to Texas to see my grandpa in two
thousand and three, a year after my mom died. When
I got to his house, he looked at me and
said he never thought he would see me again. I
asked him why not, and he said, well, you know
I'm not your real grandpa. So I said you're not

(03:14):
and started looking around and said, well, if you know
where he is, point him out and I'll go hang
out with him instead. He gave me a big hug
and we had a great weekend hanging out and fishing
for bass in his pond. So, Mandy, did a rod
just find a bunch of Muppet air horns? No, these
were air horns submitted via the talkback feature on the
amazing crystal clear audio of the iHeartRadio app. Yeah, that

(03:40):
sounds French to me.

Speaker 4 (03:42):
That's podcorn leghorn, you know, but.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
It's the little French more than more than Southern, more
than French.

Speaker 5 (03:54):
I mean, I'll sit an air hole. Yeah, I love that.
That's one of my new favorites. So' sor right there
with Arnold.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Yeah, yeah, it's amazing. He listens to the show. Frankly,
I mean that's outstanding.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
A lot of you are already weighing in on the
text line, because let's do the blog first. Get ready,
you guys. Wait, let me stand up real quick, a ron.
Let me adjust my situation here so I can have
enough air. I can get enough air in my lungs
to do this giant blog. And there's gonna be a
lot of scrolling you guys, because's got a lot of
information here. This from an Air Force veteran on the

(04:31):
text line to everyone, please don't say happy Memorial Day
to a veteran or active service member. I think it's
lovely that you guys want to honor our veterans are
active duty members, but today is our Memorial Day. Is
not the day to do it, because if you can
talk to them face to face, they are not the
ones we're honoring for Memorial Day, all right.

Speaker 5 (04:51):
Find a word then to express gratitude when you are
wishing someone a blank Memorial Day or you know, for
their let's say there's a family they've they've lost someone.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
At whatever way the way, Yeah, I think the best
way to say is I'm thinking of you and your
family on this Memorial Day. Perfect you know what I mean.
It's like, I'm thinking of you and the sacrifices your
family made on this Memorial Day. And I think that
would be lovely. If you know people who have lost
a service member, absolutely do it. I mean that would
be fantastic. But we have Veterans Day to honor veterans,

(05:26):
and you can always think a military member any day
you want. I always do when I see him, Hey,
thanks for your service. Guy. Some of people cringe, but
you know what, I don't care. I want them to
know I appreciate their service. Now go to mandy'sblog dot com.
That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline that says
five twenty three twenty five blog t g IF before

(05:47):
the holiday weekend. Everybody click on that and here are
the headlines you will find within tech two, A winner
in office, half of American allyships and clipments and that's
going to press plant today on leblog. Have a wonderful
Memorial Day. It's a free for all Friday. Denver is broke.
The Intafata comes to DC. Another spectacular Denver restaurant closes.

(06:12):
Trump's battle with Harvard is getting out of hand? And
are you not uncomfortable with Trump's deals in the Middle East? Scrolling?
Or is meme coin dinner? Colorado hates religion? No, you
can't boose it up. On the sixteenth Street Mall. Independence
Pass is open for the season. Whelp. The Rockies have
made history. Democrats are now worried about Judge safety. Universal's

(06:34):
epic universe looks super cool. The NFL wants sixteen regular
season games overseas, anthropics, AI schemes and codes to protect itself.
Another conspiracy theory comes true. The FTC is investigating media matters.
Time to save your pennies. Vitamin D could slow aging.
Denmark raises the retirement age to seventy. Secretary of State

(06:56):
Mark Rubio does not suffer fools or insults. Durango Kangaroo
has cops hoppin mad an idea for ABS fans, and
now a Corgi on a skateboard. Those are the headlines
on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com and the text
three just said add much. You know. I have never

(07:18):
been formally diagnosed, but after reading a considerable amount of
add and ADHD, I'm pretty sure they would have medicated
me as a child, but instead my mom put us
in sports.

Speaker 5 (07:29):
Let's do it now without my degree in hand that
I am not at all professional.

Speaker 4 (07:33):
Mandy Connell, you have some sohrn of ADHD.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah, I just I'm I'm good with that, you know. Yeah,
this soldier says my response when someone thanks me for
my services, thank you for the tax dollars. Yes, indeed,
let's talk about Memorial Day for just a moment, because
obviously most of us have a long weekend this weekend
and I went and did a little dig, so let's

(08:01):
talk about Memorial Day. Memorial Day was originally known as
Decoration Day, and it originated during the American Civil War
as a way to honor fallen soldiers by decorating their
graves with flowers. It was first observed in various towns
across the United States. The holiday took formal shape in
eighteen sixty eight when Major General John A. Logan of

(08:21):
the Grand Army of the Republic designated May thirtieth as
a nationwide day of remembrance. Over time, the observants expanded
to commemorate all American military personnel who died in service,
and in nineteen seventy one the day. In nineteen seventy one,
Memorial Day was established as a federal holiday observed on
the last Monday in May. Today, the day is marked

(08:44):
by parades, memorial services, and a national moment of silence
at three pm. While also signaling the unofficial start of summer,
Memorial Day remains a solemn reminder of the cost of
freedom and the enduring need to honor those who have
served and sacrificed for the nation. Don't forget to take
a moment to remember the sacrifices of all who gave
all in the service of this great country. You know,

(09:06):
the thing that gets me about Memorial Day is that
we have had so many people who have died in
service of this nation throughout our history, and I feel
like we're at a point in time where if many
of those people came back from the grave and saw
where we are and what we're doing now, they would

(09:27):
not recognize the country they died for. And that's depressing.
It's very depressing. So we won't get stuck on that.
But please remember on Memorial Day and what you're doing
why we have it off. As you're barbecuing with friends
and family or doing yardwork or whatever you're doing, what
are you doing on Memorial Day?

Speaker 5 (09:45):
Run on actual Monday, a whole lot of nothing relaxing
because I'm working all weekend. But Friday, the next Friday
is when we're kind of you know, celebrating with friends
and having you know, I'm celebrating the day off.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
Not there you go, yeah, there you go. Got this
from the win Yogi, and this is what I was
talking about when I heard Ross doing it on his show.
And I think it's such a wonderful, great idea win Yogi. Here,
I honor my close friend's nineteen year old son, specialist
Dane Balcon Kiaid in Iraq. On the day he was killed.
His mom and I had just talked on the phone.

(10:21):
She found out a few hours later. I also remember
my friend Captain John Moria, fellow pilot and my husband's
frequent co pilot, killed in an accident over a cutter Qatar. Whatever, however,
I'm saying that, so if you want to send these
things now, we're not talking about active duty, We're not
talking about people who have served and survived. We're talking
about people that did not make it out of the military.

(10:44):
You know, Mandy, there are some ex military members that
expect a thank you. I just saw an old man
at the Cheyenne Post office chastise the lady at the
counter for not thanking him for his service while pointing
to his stupid veteran hat guys. There's always going to
be people like that in every group, right, There's always
going to be people in every group of people that

(11:05):
are just I mean idiots, And for him, as a
veteran to not know the difference, he should be embarrassed.
That's what I'm saying. Anyway, Okay, today we're doing a
free for all Friday, and you can do it via
the text line. It's super easy. Five sixty six nine. Oh,
when I first started in radio back in two thousand

(11:27):
and five, No, let me walk that back. I first
started radio back in nineteen ninety seven. I cannot believe
I've been in this industry for almost thirty years. That
blows my mind. I'm not nearly old enough to be
able to say something like that, but here we are.
So of course Rush was king, and Rush had you know,
free for all Friday. No, he had open lines Friday.

(11:48):
So when I got my own show, I decided I
wanted to do something like that on Friday, and I
named it free for all Friday because RUSSI had already
taken open lines Friday and I just wanted to do
something else. Then ask me anything happened on Reddit where
people were like, ask me anything, Ama, So then that
took off. So I've been saying ask me anything. But
I kind of like free for all Friday better because

(12:10):
that way it doesn't have to be a question, like
what do you want to talk about this? Texter just
sent me this and I don't know the answer. Texter said, sorry,
I missed the blog, but did you hear about the
Yemmy stuff? Know what happened in the trial? I didn't.
There was nothing in our local news, and I I
dropped my subscription to the gazette in in the Springs

(12:36):
when I started subscribing to the Denver Gazette. Personally, I
think I should get access to both of them. Just
throwing that out there. So let's see suspect in Stage
Take crime Now's claims Yemmy Mobilatty was in on it.
He's been saying that U. He said he not only
knew about the plan, but that a state representative was
already in on it. Oh good lord. Now, I will

(12:59):
say this, the guy that is making these claims is
already serving time in prison that for murder, for ordering
the murder of a rapper, So he seems a little shady.
So yeah, and the prosecution said, nope, they have looked

(13:21):
at the evidence, and they have looked at text messages
and screenshots and they don't think he's a part of it.
So we will see, We'll see what happens. Is that
what you're talking about, oh to this text or Howard
Stern is not the king, okay? Howard Stern is the
king of a completely different kind of talk radio. And

(13:42):
this is kind of an interesting distinction because I've worked
in all three kinds of talk radio. I started my career,
and what's called hot talk that is Howard Stern, and
I used to tell people it was how can I
say this on the radio? It is uh Man's junk
and toot radio, but I usually used a different term

(14:04):
for it. And it's kind of an anything goes But
you're certainly not going to turn to Howard Stern, especially now,
God talk about a guy who's lost his spine, remember
what Howard Stern? And I haven't listened to Howard Stern,
and I mean probably fifteen years because he started to
get he turned into a giant whining weenie. I mean

(14:25):
I can whine, for sure, I can whine, but I
tried it to be a weeny about it. He's just
turned into a sniveling weenie about so much stuff. The
fact that he was afraid to leave his house during
COVID because he was certain he was going to die.
I mean, come on, you guys, that is just I
don't deal with cowards very well. And you can go

(14:45):
through life being overly cautious because you're afraid of everything,
and that's your prerogative, but I don't respect you. What
kind of life are you going to have if you're
afraid of everything? Sometimes bad stuff is gonna happen you, guys.
Sometimes you're gonna get sick, sometimes you're gonna get COVID.
So I mean that's part of life. That's Those are

(15:05):
people that don't trust God. When you trust God, it's
not like I go through life, you know, running into
things and breaking things on purpose and doing things that
are bad for my body. I mean, I try to
do my part to live a decent and upstanding life
and make good choices and take care of the body
that God gave me. But ultimately, I gotta trust God.

(15:25):
And that's kind of what is not going on. Mandy.
Why and when did it become a thing to post
yard signs telling people to not let your dogs relieve
themselves in a yard, like I have control over that.
I am both with and against you on this text her,
because I mean I try when when my dog chinks,

(15:47):
who's a Saint Bernard, so you can imagine the poops. Okay,
when she was really little, I tried to sort of
train her to only go in places that were not
somebody's yard. And I have plenty of those spaces. I
don't live in a super tight neighborhood, so I have
that option, and she's really good about it. But on
those rare occasions where she's just got to go and

(16:10):
she drops and does her business, I try so hard
to clean up every single bit of whatever it is, like,
get every black I mean, but you'd be shocked how
many people are not that responsible and they just do
a basic swipe. And then if you have little kids
and you got like pooh on your grass out there,

(16:30):
it's gross. So I think those people are just like, look,
I'm tired of cleaning up your poop and I don't
want it in my yard, or I don't want yellow
stains in my yard. I get it, I really do.
But if you're in a neighborhood that doesn't have any
open space. Where are the dogs supposed to go? I'll
tell you what those homeowners would tell you. In your
own yard. Okay, that's where they're supposed to go. Mandy,

(16:52):
ask you anything. Why are radio producer separated from the
host by a glass barrier? Why do you and Ross
ask the producer for control of the computer. This is
a great free for all Friday question. First of all,
I'm separated from a rod, so we don't murder each other. No,
I'm kidding. Kate has to do with a rod is
constantly working while we're on the air. So this, as

(17:14):
much as I love it for him to be his
only job, he has all these other things and people
are walking into his studio asking him questions about stuff.
So in order to not interrupt the show, he has
to be in another studio. So only the tacos are
in the main studio, and then a rod is in
his studio, and then our news people like keenan Is
is in a completely different studio. So we have three

(17:36):
studios to make koa work. So there you go. That's that.
That's that reason. But a rod also controls the board,
which is when you think of radio mixing board studio situation,
and you have the a rod. Take a picture of
your studio and post it on the KOA website so
people can go to Koa Colorado at Facebook or inst

(18:00):
But you don't have to be in it to show
people what you got. But when you see it, he
has to bring up the channel that brings up my
computer in the studio. It's not up all the time
because sometimes stuff auto starts or stuff like that, so
he does not put it up all the time. We've
got to kind of, you know, only when we need athing.

(18:20):
So there you go. I mean, I love that question.
Thank you so much, Texter, Mandy, ask you anything. What
was it like the first time, the first day where
you had your own show on the radio and had
control of the mic in the station? Terrifying. And here's
the thing, I don't have a single bit of audio
from those early shows. I don't have any of it.

(18:41):
And I'm sure it was awful because I didn't get
a job, my first job, my first show, my own show,
like I've been a producer for a long time, my
first show. I got it because the morning show host.
Let me walk this back, I'm gonna share a little
story for you. So I was out of radio for
two years. I was selling insurance to old people. My

(19:04):
ex husband and I moved from North Florida, where I've
been selling insurance down to South Florida, Southwest Florida, Fort
Meyers specifically, and I was selling insurance to older people.
So I knew I wasn't going to make any friends
that way. And I told my ex hubsand I'm like,
I'm just going to get a job at a local
radio station because radio people are fun and I'll meet people,
and you know, we could build our group of friends

(19:25):
that way. And so I go. I a friend of
mine made a call and got me an interview for
a weekend board up position. Now I'd already been in
radio for like fifteen now ten years at this point,
wait about ten years at this point. And I go
to apply for this weekend board up position with a
guy named Jim Watkins, who I'm still in touch with.
Great guy. And after meeting me, he said, oh no, no, no,

(19:47):
you don't need to do a weekend board up position.
You need to produce our morning show because he's not good.
Our host is terrible. This is what he tells me
because our host is terrible. The big bosses loved him,
so they thought they were going to but you have
to fix this show. He tells me this, so he
hires me to produce the morning show. But he doesn't
tell the host that I'm number one experienced in this

(20:08):
and number two I'm there to help him be better.
So whatever suggestions I made, this guy was such a
jerk to me and complete just not It was not
a good scene. But I went in every day and
I tried my hardest because that's how I am. And
one day he decides he's gonna quit. So he walks
out one day and they're like, holy crap, what we're
gonna put on the air tomorrow? And I was like, oh,

(20:28):
I can do it. So that's how I got my
first show. And I came in the next day and
I did five hours of radio for the first time
by myself, and I didn't suck. And I started every
show by saying, I'm your host for the next three
hours until the more suitable replacement can be found. And
I said that for a year, and we looked, we

(20:50):
tried to find because I was already programmed director, I'd
already been made program director at this point, and we
tried to find somebody, but nobody was better than I
was that would work for the money that we were paying,
which was nothing. So that's how I got my first show,
and and I took advantage of that and have not
looked back. And I'm pretty excited about that. Mandy. Have
you ever thought of a live stream on YouTube or

(21:10):
does that conflict with iHeart that is something. Don't you
think we'll have that in the future? A Rod, I
mean I think we will. Yeah, we're talking about getting
some cameras. I mean, there's there's things happening that Oh gosh,
what time is it? Oh crap, Sorry about that. We'll
be right back. Someone on the text message said free

(21:32):
for all Friday sounds violent. Well, no, I mean no,
it's not at all. Uh. Speaking of Howard Stern says
this Texter, how often are you approached by the deep
state or do we need to elevate you more so
that you are more of a threat. Guys, I cannot
tell you how disappointing my career has been in terms

(21:53):
of being approached by the deep state, deep state or
the Illuminati. I have made my you know, I'm available,
right like, I'm okay, no one ever, no one ever
approaches me with some kind of you know, like blackmail
scheme or something, partly because my life is fairly dull
and there's really not anything to blackmail me with. But yeah,

(22:18):
that's been a big disappointment for my career. I'm gonna
I'm not gonna lie about that, Mandy. Have you ever
got that one? Mandy? If the city of Denver is
so broke and facing a two hundred and eighty million
dollar budget deficit, the why do they keep starting all
these stupid massive projects like the bus lanes down the
middle of Coalfax or the complete refiguring, demolishing, and reconstruction

(22:38):
of Civic Center Park with a bunch of stupid steel
walkways that nobody needed, wanted, or asked for.

Speaker 5 (22:45):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
That is a great question, And part of it has
to do with the fact that those capital project dollars
are attached to that capital project and they're not used
for things like salaries and benefits and stuff like that.
We have a giant hole in the pile of money
for salaries, benefits and stuff like that. But is this
any surprise to those of us who have been paying

(23:06):
attention for the last fifteen years, as the size of
Denver government has exploded and Meyer Mike Johnston said in
his press conference. Johnston told reporters on Thursday, adding a
big source of the deficit is the growth of the
city government, notably the number of staffers. Seventy percent of

(23:26):
the city's total expenditures are people, this is a quote
from him. About twenty five percent are contracts and services
and some other internal services. As a general part of
high importance going forward, if you look at the growth
of government over the last fourteen years in the city,
we've increased our total employee count by forty percent. Forty percent.

(23:50):
That's why they're broke now. They're also broke because the
mayor of Denver was so invested in virtue signaling to
the rest of the world how much and how better
he was than the Trump administration that we have spent
well over one hundred million on homelessness and giving illegal
immigrant stuff. I'm just gonna say it. I don't think

(24:14):
Mayor Mike Johnston is up to the job of running
a city, right. I don't think he can do it.
So far, not so good. Mandy, tell me what a
producer does and how much control over the program content.
They have. A Rod runs the show in the sense
that he makes sure that we're on the air, make

(24:34):
sure everybody sounds good, He books guests for me, He
provides topics and stuff like that. But everything that we
talk about on the show is something that I've decided
I find interesting. So because I never never talk about stuff,
I don't talk about topics just because I think this
is add topic today I should talk about it. Because
some stuff is not worth commenting on, right, I mean,

(24:58):
some stuff just isn't a talk. Some of those things
you might find on the blog, but we won't talk
about them on the show, just because I think they're
interesting and you should know them, but we're not necessarily
going to talk about it on the show. Mandy, are
you familiar with a certain radio talk show host that
did flash Friday where people were supposed to drive with
their headlights on and women were supposed to show their headlights?

(25:19):
If you know what I mean, I am not, Mandy.
Do you like to hear yourself talk only for three
hours a day on the radio?

Speaker 4 (25:28):
Mandy?

Speaker 3 (25:29):
Another inside radio question. Sometimes listen to KFI and that's
Los Angeles. The traffic reporter popped in and was accidentally
giving a traffic report for Honolulu. There was some banter
back and forth and they discussed how she not only
gives LA traffic reports but Honolulu traffic. Is Susan Feelin
the KOA traffic reporter actually here in Denver or is

(25:49):
she somewhere else? Susan Feeling is local, like everyone you
hear on our radio station is local. We have total traffic.
They have their own department and they are all local
to hear. But they do traffic in other markets, but
we are kind of a hub for that. So they
may do traffic in other markets, but they are based here.
So there you go. Our traffic people are here. How

(26:12):
do Mandy Connell show ask you anything? Very serious question?
What do you do if you have to number two
bathroom pains while on the air and you can't go
to break? This is the grossest question anyone has ever asked.
But I will answer it honestly. There have been times
in my past where when things were not good digestively,

(26:34):
I have said to Anthony, Anthony, if I say I
gotta go to break, we're going to break early. And
I have done it because the options of actually pooping
in your pants while on the radio, or going to
break early and taking care of the problem. I'm going
to go with the one that doesn't involve me pooping
my pants in public. So thank you for that really
gross question. Appreciate you. Yep, Mandy, if you're allowed to

(26:59):
setting up your own separate streaming account, securing a bunch
of subscriptions through the use of Patreon, and then the
whole affiliate marketing as well like they have on YouTube,
it would literally roll in the dough for you. I
cannot do that. This is an iHeart project, an iHeart product,
and that will not fly in any way, shape or form,
I mean at all. Just to let you know, Mandy,

(27:21):
are the commercials that you have you narrating actually recordings?
Are you narrating them live? So there are two different
kinds of commercials that we do. One is a live
endorsement that is a live spot, and then the other
is a recorded commercial that could run either in the
show or outside the show. So it is a mix
of both. And when I do a live spot, I
just make stuff up. Okay, I'll make stuff up, but

(27:44):
I make it the commercial as I go. So basically
every commercial you hear during the show. That sounds like
me just talking. Is me just talking about a sponsor?
So there you go. Let's see here. I would be
curious to know the exact dollar amount the city has
blown and wasted on all these stupid bike lanes, these
little bumpers, and the stupid white poles that have been

(28:06):
put up all over, impeding traffic and making the daily
commute of driverers absolutely miserable, not to mention the parking.
Great question, my friend, but until we change leadership, those
stupid white poles will absolutely remain. The only thing we
can do is change the leadership of the city. Let's

(28:29):
see here, Mandy listening to you and mauritea Italy drinking
wine and watching the sunset five day cycling trip to
Naples South, two hundred miles back home on Monday. Also
listen to Ross. Well, now you're just rubbing it in.
You are just rubbing it in. Two people back to
back pointed to oh, same person, what is the projected

(28:49):
cost of the desecration plan for Civic Center Park. I'm curious,
and they want to throw down like seventy million dollars
for a new soccer stadium. Mayor Mike Johnston said, Hey,
those things are necessary because they're gonna be money makers.
They're gonna bring more money into the coffers. So ready
to look at that. I gotta tell you, I have
much more, much more beef with the fact that Denver

(29:11):
has spent so much money on illegal immigrants, and they
have spent so much money warehousing homeless people in hotels
that they bought from nonprofits that have a relationship with
Mayor Mike Johnson. You want to look at I mean,
you just want to talk about that. Come on, Mandy,
you've been saying for a long time that you're convinced

(29:33):
that Police will be running for president in twenty two.
You said, twenty twenty six, twenty twenty eight, My friends,
there's not a presidential election until twenty twenty eight. He
is still governor, and as long as he's governor, he's
gonna pretend like he cares about governing. But the reality
is expect it. Although now that Bennett is stepping out
of the Senate race, it just you know, Jared Polus

(29:57):
is an extremely shrewd politician. So if he believes that
he has a big chance in twenty twenty eight, he'll
take it. But if he thinks that maybe twenty thirty
two might be a better option if the economy, you know,
booms or things turn around, and we get all this
nonsense from the first year sorted out that he may
wait till twenty thirty two, but he's got to be

(30:17):
in office in order to run for president, because once
you're out of office, no one cares about you. You just don't.
And I don't think Polus has the personality to be
a television pundit. I just don't. We got to take
a quick time out. Let's do this real quick back
after this, keep it on KOA. It's Friday before Memorial
Day weekend. Let's see here, manby, what really happened to

(30:45):
Alfred Williams and Kowa he was the best with Dave
Logan in the sports and whoever else was driving the show?
Are they going for cheap chickens or drive by wannabe
radio tryouts? Honest answer as possible would be greatly appreciated.
I'm sure I'm not the only wonder at one wondering
wt H And does I really know how many people
are actually tuned in and listening for any given show?
Thank you for taking and answering our questions. Keep up

(31:07):
the great work. Alfred Williams was the victim of budget cuts.
And this industry is it's brutal, you guys. I mean,
I've worked with more than one person in this industry
who keeps a cardboard box in their office or by
their desk so when they get fired, they don't have
to worry about, you know, packing everything up. They just

(31:29):
throw it all in the box. As a matter of fact,
at my desk, in my bottom drawer, there is a
cardboard box. Now it has stuff in it, but just
in case. There's no certainty in radio, and you know,
decisions are made far away from this building about things
that have to happen. And I'm talking about corporate and
I'm not putting anybody in blast. I'm just telling you

(31:50):
the truth. And as for exactly how many people are
listening at any given moment, we're getting much better at
that because now more people are using the street app
and on the streaming app. Obviously, you know, there's a
person at the other end of this. And one of
the things that I can't go into a lot of
detail about this because there's a lot of rules around

(32:10):
the way the ratings are done and the ratings are executed.
So I'm not going to put myself into a position
of giving up information that could cause me or the
station problems. But let's just say I don't love it.
I think it's stupid. I've always thought it was stupid,
even when it said I was number one in the market, right.
I mean, it's it's a very inefficient system. That's why
I would love for all of you to start listening

(32:31):
on the iHeartRadio app, because then we know you're there,
we know you're listening or listening to the podcast. I mean,
there's it's tough because of the nature of the beast.

Speaker 6 (32:40):
Right.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
So I hope I answered your question without you know,
giving up too many things that I can't give up.
It's a bit convoluted. Did the mayor just try and
blame the federal government for his city's money issues? Lol? Yes,
this text or he did. What's going to be interesting
is the economy does take off, and I truly believe

(33:03):
that many of the things that Donald Trump is doing
right now will be good for the economy, assuming that
the tariffs are just a tool to get us to
better trade deals. If that's the case, then I think
the economy is going to be to take off, and
then Denver is going to have to explain why theirs didn't.

(33:24):
But the reality is Denver has seen an out migration
that's pretty significant at the same time that its entire
business center has, you know, collapsed in a lot of ways.
So they've got a lot of problems. But yeah, you know,
we're not fully in a recession. We could be adding

(33:45):
towards one. I don't know, but Denver's going to have
to figure it out. And the problem in Denver is
not income. It is definitely outflow, that's for sure. Mandy. No,
I'm not part of a deep state. Oh Mandy, you've
been part of the deep state. You haven't even made
Rhino Watch his list yet. I'm keeping my fingers crossed
for you though. Haha. You guys, they're not letting me

(34:08):
on the Rhino Watch Hall of Fame or Hall of
Shame because I ask them to put me on the
Wall of shame so I could print t shirts up
and sell them to donate to their enemies. So either
I one or they won, depending on how you look
at it, right, But yeah, I'm not bitter about that
at all. Mandy. Why don't care what reporters ever question

(34:31):
or challenge the mayor about his statements. Example, how much
is the city of Denver spent this year on illegal
immigrants for housing, medical care, and policy policing. I gotta
tell you, guys, Rob Dawson tries really really hard. He's
the guy that covers most of those press conferences. And
I don't know if you're talking about hosts, I don't know,

(34:52):
but he does try really really hard. But you can
only ask questions when you are asked to ask a
question at these things, so you normally get one or
two questions. So you've got to get uh, you know,
get it done. This texter said, I'm ignorant. What is
the deep state? Who are the Illuminati?

Speaker 7 (35:08):
Well?

Speaker 3 (35:09):
I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.
Next question, Do you get paid based on timeslot, experience?
AD sales are all of the above? Do you get
additional commissions? Yes, yes, there's a lot that goes into
negotiating a contract. We all negotiate our contracts separately. And

(35:29):
you have to demonstrate that you're getting you you're a
good return on investment, right like you are bringing enough
advertising that you know you're you're making the money, making
the station money. Oh I turned it on ten minutes
of updating. What time is it? Oh crap, I'm late again.
We got to take a time out. We'll be right back.
Keep it on KOA.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
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Speaker 2 (35:53):
No, it's Mandy Connell and Donna.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
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Speaker 3 (36:14):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show.
Happy Friday, everybody. I'm Mandy Connell. That guy right there
Anthony Rodriguez. As a matter of fact, Hey Rod, Yes,
if you want to see some fine fine racing, what's
going on this weekend at the Colorado Speedway.

Speaker 5 (36:31):
Well, we've got our big Memorial Day show coming up
on Saturday, so that's gonna be awesome. And uh yeah,
come on up. You want to have see some system
wicked racing. It's our Memorial Day arkha Menard series, so
it's gonna be lots of fun.

Speaker 3 (36:44):
And you may not know this, but a Rod is
the track announcer now, so he took over from the
esteemed John Morrissey with John DeCamp for Mexico and he's
doing a bang up job out there. So if you
love race and go see him on the.

Speaker 5 (36:56):
Site, you want to see three train cars attached. And
by train cars, I mean like cars that make up
a train human centipede style. Come on out this Saturday.
It's crazy and five hours.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
Sunday races have been canceled. Right, Yeah, Well, the weather's
going to be kind of yucky on Sunday, so get
your stuff done on Saturday. I do want to talk
about some stuff on the blog, and I blame all
of you on the text line for the fact that
I did something in the last hour that I don't
think I've ever done in my entire radio career, and

(37:28):
that is I was late for all three breaks. I
pride myself on my punctuality. When I first got my
own show, a friend of mine who was in talk
radio for a long time said, look, I'm gonna give
you one piece of advice. Hit your brakes on time.
It makes your life so much easier, especially if you
want to fill in for national hosts. And then what
happened and then this last hour, what a train wreck,

(37:51):
Just what a train wreck that was. I'm disappointed in me.
But more importantly, I'm blaming you Texters for asking really
great questions that I got really excited about answering. And
maybe we'll do this again in the two o'clock hour
and we'll see if our two o'clock listeners are as
good as our noontime listeners have been on that. But
I got stuff that I want to talk about. I
want to talk about the Intifada coming to Washington, d C.

(38:13):
We now know that a socialist activist from Chicago flew
to Washington, d C. With a gun in order to
shoot people outside a Jewish museum. Ironically, one of them
a Christian. And what's disgusting about this is that there
are people on social media supporting this. They say it's

(38:34):
a response to genocide. Shouldn't genocide actually kill all the
people in a group, in a you know, in a group.
Isn't that what genocide used to be. Genocide used to
be when someone would go into an entire community and
eliminate everyone, absolutely everyone in that city or town for
whatever reason. Genocide is when Hitler killed six million people,

(38:59):
a vast majority of them Jews, in an effort to
wipe out the race. Now I'm not saying that the
death total in Gaza has not been terrible, and except
for the militants, I hope they all die and rotten hell,
but you know, innocent civilians. It's never good when people
get killed. It's never good when people who are not
militants get killed. But the reality is we're talking about

(39:22):
maybe forty five thousand people, and that's according to the
Gaza Ministry. How many people live in Gaza. Let's just
do this really quickly out of a population of two
point one four million. Now, the reason I'm bringing this
up is because if you actually realize how small the

(39:43):
geography of Gaza is, the Gaza Strip is twenty five
miles long and three point seven to seven point five
miles wide. Think about that for a second, Like, think
about it in terms of the I twenty five corridor.
So if you go from E four seventy in the south,

(40:05):
crossing I twenty five up through downtown Denver and a
mile and a half on either side, that's the Gaza Strip. Now,
if Israel really wanted to commit genocide, it would be
so incredibly easy, so incredibly easy, And yet we now

(40:26):
have two people who were diligently working to help Israel
that are dead because this guy who, by the way,
we found out today that his father was actually at
the State of the Union address invited by a Democrat,
of course. And it's revolting to me to see people

(40:47):
on places like CNN try and spin it like they're
shocked that this is where we are. And of course
Scott Jennings, I mean, Scott Jennings. What a national treasure.
This guy's I don't know if I have ever told
you guys this, but I knew Scott Jennings before Scott Jennings,
was that Scott Jennings. Scott Jennings used to work for
Senator Mitch McConnell, and when I was in Kentucky, I

(41:11):
dealt with Scott when I was trying to deal with
Senator Mitch McConnell. The great guy is as nice as
the day is long. And I think Scott Jennings on
CNN is an absolute nightmare for left wingers because he's
got two things. Number one, he is so blanking smart,
and number two, he's super likable, just incredibly a likable guy.

(41:36):
So I want to share this little SoundBite with you now,
and it's from his ex account, and he said how
many times have I called out Democrats dangerous anti semitism
on CNN only to be yelled at by five people
at the same time. And this is what that sounded like.

Speaker 8 (41:51):
You would like to discuss the relative gatherings of anti
Semitism in this country going on over the last few months.
You want to talk about who's getting together where and
what their political proclivities are.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
Let's let's talk.

Speaker 8 (42:04):
About what's going on on all these college campuses. Let's
talk about what's going on on the streets of New
York City.

Speaker 4 (42:09):
And he is talking about the policy.

Speaker 8 (42:11):
He did have strong pro Israel policies, he did take
a hard line against Iran, and right now the US
government is constantly trying to with a mosque.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
The anti Semitism problem in this country is.

Speaker 4 (42:24):
On the left.

Speaker 8 (42:24):
If you guys want to poo pooh what we have
seen on the streets of America in the wake of
October the seventh, the amount of anti ugly, anti semit
people ripping down the posters of hostages. These are not
Republicans ripping them down. You cannot deny what we have
seen in America since October the seventh, and it has

(42:47):
only to do with one thing. Anti Semitism is on
the rise, and there are people who feel like now
is the time to.

Speaker 5 (42:52):
Let it out.

Speaker 8 (42:53):
And it is ugly, Marjorie Jewish, you're making, you're making,
You're you're making a tactical argument. And I and everybody's
sitting at this table knows where the source of anti
Semitism is in this country.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
It is not on the right. So you're saying one person.

Speaker 8 (43:07):
In a stupid dinner versus the thousands upon thousands upon
thousands of progressive activists in the streets, that that's the equivocation.

Speaker 5 (43:16):
Actually, that's an instant question for you.

Speaker 3 (43:18):
These college kids who are wrong, I have denounced those.

Speaker 4 (43:21):
That's your party. Now, those are your people.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
Those are the people you seek.

Speaker 3 (43:24):
To because I would never So the point he's making,
and it's a good winn and it's solid and he
can back it up with so much statistical data, is
that on the right, we absolutely have anti Semites. We
have white supremacists who believe that Jews go in the
same category as black people. We have people on the
right who have consistently tried to put Jews in a

(43:49):
category of ruling the world. Kind of stuff I've seen
it online. I know it exists. But the difference is
is that when I see something like that, I'm certainly
not going to embrace her elevate it as these anti
semites on the left have been embraced and elevated. I've
got to column on the blog today that is from
the Free Press, and it is incredibly important because it

(44:14):
has to do with Harvard. So Harvard is now in
a really big peeing match, like the really big peeing
match with the Trump administration. And I'm just gonna be
perfectly honest, I think Trump is going to lose this
one ultimately. I do think that the federal government can
say we're not going to give you any more money

(44:35):
because you've done nothing to stem the tide of anti Semitism.
But when when you have Trump saying to Harvard you
can no longer admit foreign students, Harvard University is a
private university. I think you can make the argument that, yeah,
we're going to keep your federal money, but you don't
get to intervene on who they let into their program. Now,

(44:56):
if you want to make kind of a blanket prohibition
where you're not going to give any foreign student visas,
then do that I mean, that's your prerogative, but I
strongly disagree with the escalation that's happening now, even as
I recognize that Harvard has some serious, serious issues. I
want to share this from a column in the Free Press.

(45:19):
In the year and a half since the Hamas massacre
of October seventh, twenty twenty three, there have been many
alarming incidents on college campuses aimed at Jews. Many stick
out for their grotesque imagery, for their outrageous Slanders, and
for their Soviet style tactics. But the incident that I
remember most vividly is the one that took place at
Harvard University less than two weeks after Hamas invaded Israel,

(45:41):
killing twelve hundred people and kidnapping two hundred and fifty more.
No one was physically injured that day, but the fact
remained that an incident was wildly beyond the pale. A
group of Harvard students surrounding another student and Israeli named
you have Segev repeatedly screaming shame in his blocking his
path and forcing him to leave a part of campus

(46:04):
that he was entitled to be in just as much
as they were. The incident might have disappeared from the
news like so many other but another shocking fact emerged.
The two aggressors who were the easiest to identify because
they weren't wearing masks or hoodies and didn't have cafas
around their faces were not just Harvard's students. They were

(46:24):
also Harvard employees. Abraham Barmel was a Harvard Law School
student and editor at the Harvard Law Review. He was
also a law school teaching fellow in a civil procedure class.
Elom Teddi Demoklow was a student at Harvard Divinity School.
He was also a residential Harvard proctor, someone who advised
first year Harvard College students and lived in their dorm.

(46:45):
In other words, they were not random outside agitators or
foolish eighteen year old college students trying to prove their
radical clout. They had been chosen by Harvard to be leaders,
role models, and part of the very fabric of the institution.
And then it goes on to talk about other ways
that Harvard has has not just allowed anti Semites and

(47:11):
anti Semitism to flourish, they have elevated the people in
front of it and and you know, allowed them to
rise to very prominent positions and to speak at graduations
and so, yeah, there's a huge issue there, a huge
issue there. But in terms of anti Semitism in this country,

(47:35):
I think that anti Semitic people fall into the same
category that many many other people fall into, and they
are people that have to put another group of people
down in order to feel good about themselves. Now it's
not as blatant as it used to be, Like let's
just go back to the to the Jim Crow era,

(47:56):
when whites truly believe that they were superior to black people.
It's not that obvious. It's a lot more subtle in
the terms that they're looking for validation from like people,
They're looking for the right kind of validation from other
people who have also decided to be anti Semitic in
search of a tribe or a group to belong to.

(48:16):
And they're going to look at Israel as the problem
while wilfully ignoring the fact that Hamas has been oppressing
the Palestinian people far worse than the Israelis. Ever did
I think, I don't know if I put it on
the blog today, if I just saw it on X
right before the show. I think extra before the show
is where I saw it. They have video of aid

(48:40):
coming into the Gaza strip. The humanitarian a being Israel
is now bringing food and medicine to the Palestinian people,
and Hamas is hijacking the trucks to take the stuff
and sell it on the black market. But remember us,
that are the problem. If you care about the Palestinian people,

(49:01):
you should want the utter and complete destruction of Hamas
to free them from those shackles. But that's not what
we're talking about. We're talking about people hating Jews because
they're Jews, period, super super frustrating. And now I'd love
to be able to ask those idiot students who walked

(49:21):
around chanting global LIZI Intifada, Well, great, you did it.
Now it's globalized. Now in DC we got two dead people.
Are you feeling good about that? How do you feel?
Do you feel like you accomplish your goal. I'm angry
at young people who have glombed onto this issue. I
saw another video today. I saw it on x and I.

(49:42):
It was a young woman and of course what was
she doing, guys? She was crying, Oh my god, babies
are dying.

Speaker 4 (49:53):
What are you gonna do?

Speaker 3 (49:57):
Women are their own worst enemies. Sometimes rather than making
the case, rather than talking about exactly the issues at hand,
rather than discussing the fact that Hamas is stealing humanitarian
aid for their own gains, They're gonna cry on the
internet and demand we do something. It's as stupid. Remember

(50:18):
bring back our Girls? Remember hashtag bring back our Girls?
When Michelle Obama, the wife of the President of the
United States of America, the leader of the most powerful
military in the world, decided that the best way to
get back a bunch of kidnaped girls who were taken
by Muslim extremists in Africa was to create a hashtag campaign.

(50:42):
Oh God, seriously, ugh.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
Ugh.

Speaker 3 (50:50):
Anyway, Mandy, has there been any conversation about how the
DC shootings occurred in a gun free zone? I've seen
in her none gun free zones? Is that how it
is for us now? I had to go to a
hospital on Thursday morning and I walk in the door

(51:11):
and it says this is a gun free zone, and
I just wanted to stop, and it was so early,
there was no one there. I just want to stop
and say, really, do you think that that sign is
going to make a bad actor walking in here to
kill people and name people and create havoc. Do you
think they're going to go to walk through that door
and go, oh wait, this is a gun free zone.

(51:32):
What am I doing here? It's also stupid, so incredibly
incredibly stupid. Don't forget. You can text us at five
sixty six nine. Now, I do want to ask one
question that was left over. Hey, Mandy, if you filled
in nationally on a radio show. Michael Brown does a
Saturday weekend show. I've heard former local hosts Leland Conway

(51:53):
fill in for Joe Pegs. Where are you at? Is
it because you're a woman, you're lazy, I mean, busy
with your side hustle. Or is it because because you
don't like to take your breaks on time? Haha? Year
and Boulder. I actually was one of four hosts that
used to host the weekend years ago until Joe Pegs
threw a fit and said he wanted it every weekend.

(52:13):
And I'm still really bitter about that, really bitter about that.
So technically I did that show before Michael Brown did.
I'm just throwing that out there, just throwing that out there, Mandy.
Anti Semitism is a BS word called racism racism, and
I couldn't care less if it's coming from the left
or the right. Yeah, I agree totally, Mandy. Have you

(52:36):
heard of the black fatigue that has been trending all
over What is black fatigue? I have not heard about that.
Do you know what this is? Arod, Have you heard
about this black fatigue? Black fatigue refers to the emotional, mental,
and physical exhaustion experienced by black individuals due to the
cumulative effects of systemic racism and daily microaggressions. How can

(53:00):
I say this as nicely as possible. If you walk
away from an interaction with another person and you feel
bad about something that person did, that is your fault.
It's not their fault. You've allowed them deliver it free
in your head. This is something I tell my daughter
all the time. And I have the luxury of being

(53:23):
able to absolutely not care about what people do or
treat me or it doesn't bother me at all, because
I have dealt with my share of abuse doing this job.
But guys, if you feel bad after an interaction with
another human being, it is your fault. You have decided
to give those people power over how you feel in

(53:45):
your daily operation. That is your fault. So if black
people are feeling black fatigue. Sorry, that is their fault.
Don't let people bother you, don't let them get into
your head. Don't let some jerk different free where they
don't deserve to be period. All right, guys, we're gonna
take a quick time out on time. I might add,

(54:08):
I despise being late. We'll be back right after this
right here on koa free for all Friday, because I
gotta tell you my twelve o'clock listeners, they brought their
A game to that it was fantastic. Okay, I'm gonna
talk about something that is inevitably gonna irritate the full
throated Trump supporters in my audience. Now, I have been

(54:30):
very open about talking about the things that Trump has
done that I like. But now it's time to talk
about what I think is the elephant in the room,
and that is how is everyone not wildly uncomfortable with
the Trump family cutting all these deals in the Middle
East at the same time they're trying to normalize relations, which,

(54:54):
by the way, to be clear, I am in favor
of the diplomatic moves, even though I think we need
to make those diplomatic moves with an understanding that the
people some of the people like Cutter have been funding
terror to destroy us for many, many years. I mean,
it's got to be like a trust but verify situation.
But it's clear that our Middle East policy up till

(55:15):
now is not working. Some in favor of that. But
are you even aware of the business deals that are
going on at the exact same time. Here's some of
the projects that are happening at the exact same time
with President Trump's company and family, Trump Tower, Jetta. This
is from Saudi Arabia. It's a forty seven story luxury

(55:37):
residential skyscraper and the Jeta Corniche developed in partnership with
Dar Global. It's going to have high end residences, retail spaces,
fitness centers, all that good stuff, and the Kingdom's first
exclusive members only Trump Club. He also has projects in
riadd Two new real estate projects in Riad are underway,

(55:58):
also in collaboration with Dark Global. They are going to
have a Trump Tower and a Trump Golf Community in
the United Arab Emirates. Trump International Hotel in Tower Dubai.
That's an eighty story skyscraper in downtown Dubai featuring luxury
residences and a hotel that is also being developed in
partnership with Dark Global. Trump Tower Abu Dhabi, a separate

(56:22):
project in Abu Dhabi with development rights secured by Damak
prop properties in cutter the aforementioned place that has funded
terror against the United States of America. He's got a
luxury golf resort a new deal to build that, partnering
with Katari dr a real estate company backed by the
country's sovereign Wealth Fund. Now these projects are just licensing agreements.

(56:47):
The organization doesn't directly own or develop the properties, meaning
they have no skin in the game. They just get
a certain skim off the top of you know, for
the licensing of these things. And I I mean, I'm
curious for all of you die hard Trumps supporters, this
doesn't give you the ick, as the kids say, It

(57:11):
doesn't look the least bit like, you know, maybe we
shouldn't be doing that at the same time we're trying
to negotiate Middle East peace. Cause I gotta tell you
I'm not cool with any of that. I'm not down
with any bit of it. And then we can talk
about the dinner last night, a dinner where people who

(57:32):
had invested enough in Trump coin got to have dinner
with President Trump. More than two hundred investors had dinner
with the president is Golf Club outside Washington, DC, and
many of these people were heavily invested. I mean, the

(57:54):
number one hundred and fifty million has been thrown around.
I don't know if that's total or if that's one person.
I don't know. But Trump launched this meme coin shortly
before his inauguration. And now, how is that not just
paying for access? How is that any different than what
we all got super mad about Hunter Biden doing. I

(58:15):
mean it's different because it's just out in the open, like, hey,
we're doing this thing or we're gonna no. I mean,
does it make you guys uncomfortable at all? Because I
gotta tell you, this feels very corrupt and I cannot
say with certainty like, yes, there's corruption here, but it

(58:37):
certainly does seem to be that the president of the
United States is offering status and what's the word I'm
looking for, gravitas to these nations, giving them a place
on the world stage they certainly never had before. Mandy,

(58:58):
how many of those Trump properties were begun when he
was out of office. I used to live in Saudia
and Uae I don't think any of them were. I
don't know. It's my impression that all of these deals
have come about since he got re elected, so one
hundred and twenty days ago. I don't know, Mandy. We
need a sighting of your sources for these Trump projects.

(59:20):
No sources cited on your blog. I use the Google,
and the Google popped up the various things. I should
have put links, but I did not, Sorry about that.
But they're from multiple sources like Newsweek and Reuters and
you know, Bloomberg and stuff like that Business Insider, So
they're not like whack of doodle sources. I don't use
wack of doodle sources. If I find something that's a

(59:42):
wack of doodle source and then I look it up
and I still can't, I will tell you this is
a wack of noodle source. But these are all mainstream
sources that I got that information from. But if that's
the question, Texter, so you don't believe that he's doing
doing this, I mean, I'm curious about what that is.

(01:00:03):
Like you're like attacking the message as if somehow these
are all just made up projects. I mean, maybe you
have to do that in order to prevent the cognitive
dissonance if you are a diehard Trump fan that doesn't
want to believe that he's capable of doing things that
are not perfect and fantastic and hugely bigly, you know,

(01:00:27):
straight in air. I think that we have to be
able to say when President Trump is doing stuff that's
good and works and needs to be done, and we
should also be able to say that looks corrupt. I
don't know if it is, but it looks corrupt. And
my standard for this is this is how I'm not
viewing things right. I just say, what if the Bidens

(01:00:49):
did it? What if Hunter Biden? Now there's a zero
percent chance that Hunter Biden could have gotten any of
this done, because I don't think he's intelligent. I think
he damaged his reign through years of hardcore drug abuse.
No chance Hunter Biden's going to be able to pull
off deals of this magnitude. But the reality is, what
if Hunter Biden did it? How would you feel about it?

(01:01:12):
A president having dinner with donors and trying to create
Middy's piece. Oh no, guys, he didn't have dinner with donors.
He had dinner with people who spent enough on his
private industry. Jam they're not donors. They bought his meme coin.

(01:01:34):
They gave him money by buying his meme coin. That's
not donors. See, this is exactly you know what from
this texture, I could have looked. I could have told
you who it was before I even looked at the
phone number. A president having dinner with donors and trying
to create Middy's piece. Oh no, I'm shocked. You're letting
your teds slip again. So this is this is what

(01:01:56):
I hate about diehard Trumpets. Okay, this is that's what
I hate. You're not allowed to criticize the man. He's perfect,
he can do no wrong. Don't talk about things like
him banging porn star as well. His wife is pregnant.
That's just awful. You're just Trump derangement syndrome. I literally
just said, I support the diplomatic efforts that he's making

(01:02:17):
in the Middle East. That's worth all of that. So
that's fine. But now to this texture. How can you
be surprised Trump was a businessman well before the president.
Absolutely right, But when you're president, is it a good
look to go to nations like Cutter, especially Cutter Stuck

(01:02:38):
in my throat. Cutter has funded terror that has killed Americans.
Cutter is run by the Breslim Mother, the Muslim Brotherhood,
and now he's got deals and Cutter. He's giving Cutter
a place on the world stage. He's selling AI to Cutter.
He's giving them credibility, and he's giving them credibility because

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they deserve it. Or is he giving them credibility because
he wants the deals done? And Cutter I think when
questions like that are being asked the President of the
United States, who by the way, agreed to become President
of the United States when he signed up voluntarily to
lead and run, you kind of have to put that aside.

(01:03:25):
Your job for four years is not to be a businessman.
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All right, my friends, we are back, and I've got
bad news. If you're all excited about a new plan
for Sixteenth Street, should we just keep calling it the
sixteenth Street Mall just to be passive aggressive over one
hundred thousand dollars that they spent with a London in
England firm to rebrand by removing the mall at the
end of the name. I get that malls aren't popular anymore.

(01:09:07):
I get it, But sixteenth Street snoozefest anyway, Denver is
planning on creating a kind of a boozy zone around
glenarm Place, that part of the mall, and you'll be
able to drink outside there, but it will still be

(01:09:28):
illegal to drink walking down the street on Sixteenth Street.
You know, I'm just gonna say this, And ay Rod,
you may want to weigh in here because of your
newfound love for New Orleans after your trip there, But
they're the only city that seems to have figured out
the walking and drinking thing. Like, you can walk and
drink in Vegas, but it's not remotely the same vibe.

(01:09:52):
Right Vegas, you're with a billion other people. New Orleans,
you're with a lot of other people, But it just
feels more natural to walk and drink there.

Speaker 4 (01:10:02):
You lost me.

Speaker 5 (01:10:03):
Fremont Street in Vegas absolutely matches.

Speaker 3 (01:10:05):
Well, I'm thinking about the strip though.

Speaker 5 (01:10:09):
Even the right parts of the strip there absolutely can
be that experience now in terms of the vibes, and
I'll of it be fully enveloped with like the culture
in the field. No, of course, the prime of Bourbon Street.
But but but people would argue that, I mean a
lot of people would argue that Fremont Street, o G
Vegas Old Vegas. That is Vegas, and that is the vibe,
and in my mind stands up especially with the most

(01:10:31):
recent trip to Vegas back in April, so recency and
then me and on Bourbon Street a couple times in
last year. Fremont Street and Bourbon Street are right on
par with but.

Speaker 3 (01:10:41):
They're very similar though. That's it's actually a good point
about Fremont Strip. I mean, I'm thinking of the Strip,
which is just a billion people and you've got to
go over walk bridges to get over the street. It's
just like kind of a nightmare. Fremont Street is also
a street though, so it has that vibe right, and
Fremont Street is no cars, much like the Sixteenth Street mall.
So Denver is looking to create an area at Glenarm

(01:11:05):
Plaza in front of the Denver Pavilions. And could this
be the beginning of you being able to take your
cocktail all up and down Sixteenth Street or is it
just going to open it up for more homeless people
to sit around and get cracked.

Speaker 5 (01:11:19):
Well, you know, here's the interesting caveat and Devil's Advocate.

Speaker 4 (01:11:24):
You think Freemont Street and you think Bourbon Street.

Speaker 5 (01:11:27):
There's parts of especially Bourbon Street aren't the safest either,
similar to the issues that Sixteenth Street has. So it's
not necessarily the homeless and the crime that is really
holding up potential issues. It's well, I don't know, the
fact that there aren't a lot of fantastic, booming businesses
that we want to go enjoy those immaculate vibes with.
Also old school in terms of all the old, awesome,

(01:11:49):
you know, casinos on Freemont Street, and then all the
decades and decades of history in all of those old
bars and restaurants on Bourbon Street. So it unfortunately for
for with Sixteenth Street, it's just going to take a
lot of investment and time to build that up like
those two places.

Speaker 3 (01:12:07):
Kyle Clark had a super snarky commentary about Sixteenth Street
being rebranded from the sixteenth Street Small and I did
have to hand it to him that it was very,
very funny in the sense that great, You're going to
go down to sixteenth Street and see a bunch of
chain restaurants, and that's what it is. And here's the
thing about Sixteenth Street specifically, lots of convention businesses still

(01:12:31):
coming to Colorado when I travel, I don't want to
go to Olive Garden. I don't want to go to
the cheesecake factory. Now, no offense to either of those establishments.
I eat at both of them on occasion, but that's
when I travel. I want to experience local restaurants, local cuisine.
But I'm afraid and we're seeing it. I've got a
story on the blog today another Michelin recommended restaurant Notaswet

(01:12:56):
is closing in downtown Denver because we've made it impossible
restaurant tours to be able to do business in downtown Denver.
So Kyle's right, It's like, what are we gonna have
a bunch of chain restaurants, big chain stores and no
local footprint or no local you know businesses. How do

(01:13:18):
you incentivize or create an atmosphere in downtown Denver that
would inspire local business owners to open up down there.

Speaker 2 (01:13:25):
Well.

Speaker 5 (01:13:26):
The interesting thing now, Bourbon Street has Frenchman Street obviously
on the opposite side in terms of competition. The Freemont
Street obviously has the Strip, but Denver also has its
own competition in that they have a lot of older
areas with a lot more foot traffing. A lot of
these older bars and restaurants in Loto in Larimer. I mean,

(01:13:46):
the sixteenth Street Mall is fighting their own The own
city is competition in terms of trying to bring that
vibe and bring the foot traffic.

Speaker 4 (01:13:53):
So they're kind of battling.

Speaker 5 (01:13:55):
The city of Denver is battling itself a bit on
other areas that people rather be than sixteenth I mean,
is anyone going to answer anyone on God's Green Earth
in the city of Denver going to answer Sixteenth Street
when they say where do you go in downtown Denver
to have a good time? Where do you want to
have good food? Where do you want to get a
god drink? Where do you want to hang out with people?
Is anyone ever answer sixteenth Street with all those other options?

Speaker 3 (01:14:15):
Now now Cherry Creek is killing them. I mean, if
you want locally owned restaurants, if you want locally owned shops,
you go to Cherry Creek. It's just the way it is.
Here's a new slogan from this texture. I like it.
Sixteenth Street, new name, same you're in smell. They're not wrong.
I wish they weren't. Mandy. You know what the Sixteenth
Street Mall was called before it was Sixteenth Street Mall,

(01:14:37):
Sixteenth Street correct, and last comment before we take our
break on time. All three breaks this hour on time.
I know exactly that's the difference. Vegas to New Orleans
have something to offer. Sixteenth Street Mall has no appeal
to anyone except the locals that live right there's.

Speaker 5 (01:14:55):
The bones of literally like an apartment building before anything's
in there. There's just nothing nothing there right now, nothing
that appeals once youse guy I.

Speaker 3 (01:15:05):
And again I'm rooting for Denver. I want Denver to
come back. I just don't think the current leadership is
the right leadership to make that happen. We'll be right
back after this.

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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the third hour of the show.
I'm your host, Mandy Connell, taking you right up until
three p m. Anthony Rodriguez joining me as well. You
can call him a rod and that, of course being
Arnold doing the thing.

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The blog wasn't Arnold what was it?

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I couldn't hear because I was talking bow. Okay, I
will accept that. Yeah that's our old Yeah, sorry about that.
So this hour, I'm gonna do one story right here,
and then we're going to open it up for another
hour of Free for All Friday. On the text line.
You can text me at five six six nine.

Speaker 5 (01:16:14):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:16:15):
And I'm just gonna tell you, you know what, I
love all of my listeners equally. You're like my children
in a way. I could not pick one that was
better than the other one. But the twelve o'clock listeners
they made Free for All Friday, asked me anything so
good that I was late for a break three times.

(01:16:35):
I'm just throwing that out there. No pressure about texting
your questions to five six six nine.

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Speaker 3 (01:16:41):
I'm just letting you know they were so good. Don't
make me pick them if I can only pick one
of you. You know what I'm saying. Like two o'clock listeners,
you have your marching orders, but this story. If you're
afraid of robots taking over and Skynett killing us all,
you're gonna want to skip this particular story that I'm
about to share with you because it is freaky d key.

(01:17:04):
Anthropic is a tech company and they've been making AI
models and they're doing things specifically when it comes to coding,
they are they're working on AI that can help code
and write computer code and things like that. But they've
got their newest, newest AI and it's called claud for Opis.

(01:17:29):
And Thropic announced on Thursday that two versions of its
claud for family of models, including Claude for Opus, which
the company says is capable for working hours on end
autonomously on a task without losing focus. Andthropic considers the
new Opus model to be so powerful that for the

(01:17:51):
first time, it's classifying it as a level three on
the company's four point scale, meaning it poses quote signs
significantly higher risk listen to this. While level three ranking
is largely about the model's capability to enable renegade production
of nuclear and biological weapons, the Opus also exhibited other

(01:18:15):
troubling behaviors during testing. In one scenario highlighted in Opus's
one hundred and twenty page system card, the model was
given access to fictional emails about its creators and told
that the system was going to be replaced. On multiple occasions,
it attempted to blackmail the engineer about an affair mentioned

(01:18:36):
in the emails in order to avoid being replaced, although
it did start with less drastic efforts. Meanwhile, an outside
group found that an early version of Opus four schemed
and deceived more than any Frontier model it had encountered,
and recommended against releasing that version internally or externally. Research

(01:19:00):
said in notes, we found instances of the model attempting
to write self propagating worms, fabricating legal documentation, and leaving
hidden notes for future instances of itself, all in an
effort to undermine its developers' intentions. Uh what what? When

(01:19:23):
pressed by Axios during the company's developer conference on Thursday,
Anthropic executives acknowledged the behaviors and said they justify further study,
but insisted that the latest model is safe. They say
they fixed it. I'm sure it's going to be fine.
I'm positive, I'm positive it's going to be fine. That's

(01:19:46):
not terrifying at all. So now we have AI that
can actually write code in order to protect itself. The
part that got me was it tried to blackmail the
engineer that the said they were going to shut it down.
I mean, you guys that is my question is this
and I know the amount that I know and understand

(01:20:08):
about the creation of these AI platforms could fit on
the end of my thumb. Okay, I don't know anything
about how this is developed, but it seems to me
that the morality of the people who develop it could
somehow be an indicator of what went wrong. I don't

(01:20:28):
know how it develops, so I have no clue, no clue.
So now we're going to go to ask me anything
free for all Friday on the text line and I'm
just letting you know two o'clock listeners. I I'm already
a little disappointed. Five six sixth I oh is the
text line? Oh the guilt trip, Mandy. We're doing our best,

(01:20:52):
says that Texter. So far it's not that good, Mandy.
All the sixteenth Street homeless ghetto needs is a black
I still think that, uh, that would be a nice addition,
locally owned and operated. What do you think about the
Teler County sheriff letter to DC about the fifty thousand

(01:21:12):
dollars fine if they contact ICE. I know that multiple
sheriffs around the state are pushing back, and some sheriffs
are pushing back against the notion that their teams should
be They don't want them to be federalized. So I
don't know. I'm a twelve o'clock and two o'clock listener.

(01:21:35):
I can't stand the pressure, said this Texter. Well, you're
part of the good kids right now if you're a
twelve o'clock listener too. Mandy, you mentioned that you used
to be number one in the market. How long has
it been since you were number one? What rank are
you now? And do you blame Ross or the Rockies
for dragging down your ratings. When I was in Southwest Florida,
I started my first show was on a radio station

(01:21:57):
that's now called Fox ninety two point five. It was
Wink w Og because it was when I took it over,
because it was two AM signals one in Fort Myers,
one in Naples, Florida, and wink was the signal in
Fort Myers and wnog was the signal in Naples. And
when I took over the morning show, Wink wnog did
not show up in the ratings at all. And back

(01:22:19):
in the day, when you get a ratings book, now
it's all online, so we don't get the ratings book.
You would see the stations that didn't have any ratings,
they would have an asterisk next to their name. We
were an astrisk station. We didn't have any ratings at all.
And over the five years that I worked there, I
took that station from note ratings at all to number

(01:22:40):
one in the market. And that is one of my
greatest points of pride. Because I had a zero dollar
marketing budget, I was the only local station on the station,
the only local show on the station. Of the rest
of it was syndicated, and I worked my tail off
to get there, and I was number one in the market.
I don't know if i've i've ever been number one

(01:23:00):
in the market here, and I say that not flippantly,
but I don't pay a lot of attention to ratings because,
as if you heard in the twelve o'clock hour, and
I can't go into any details, I'm just going to
say this, the ratings system for radio is stupid. It
is ineffective in my view, and I tend to focus

(01:23:22):
more on am I getting results from my advertisers, because that,
for me, is a better measure of how we're doing.
And if you really want to support the show, use
my advertisers. The people that advertise on this program. They
choose to be here, they want to work with me,
and I would love it if you would give them
your business whatever it is, whether you need gutter protection,
or you need concrete coatings, or you need regenerative medicine,

(01:23:45):
or you need furniture, or you need any of the
things that I represent, and let them know where you
heard about their business. I can't get caught up in
the ratings because it's just so dumb. It's just so dumb,
and that's all I can say about it without possibly
getting myself into trouble. Let's take a quick time out.
We'll be back with more of your questions. They're getting better.

(01:24:07):
We'll do that next right here on KOA, Mandy, support
your advertisers. Who's your sex robot client? I am not
opposed to endorsing that category. If it can help people
lead better, happier lives, I'm all about it. Here's one.
What are the responsibilities of a radio host besides being
on air? What's the behind the scenes role? Mostly advertising

(01:24:28):
stuff like I work with salespeople to identify clients that
I'd like to work with. Sometimes, if they're going to
meet with someone, I'll do what's called a spec spot,
which is like, hey, this is what your commercial might
sound like. I go meet with potential clients. I try
to keep up with all of my clients anyway. I
talk to my clients. I try to talk to them
quite regularly. Some of them I've been with so long

(01:24:50):
that I don't do as good a job keeping up
with them. But do we have friendships now that kind
of go beyond that. So other than that recording commercial,
doing promotional stuff for iHeart not a lot, just a
ron has way more work than I do. Let me
just say that way more work. So yes, Mandy, no

(01:25:12):
one is teaching AI the Three Laws of robotics written
about the nineteen fifties and sixties exactly right now. I
just want to let you guys know, if you want
to be the number one Mandy Connell listener, I want
you to listen to this text message. Mandy. I'm running
a quick errand so I'm listening to you on the
AM radio, but I left my iHeart Radio app streaming
at home so that you know I'm here. Well done,

(01:25:34):
Well done, Texter, Mandy. You do realize that the Anthropics
story was written by the engineer who developed it right now.
He has the perfect excuse when he does have an affair.
I had not thought about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, weird question.
What's a dialogue of mentioning your advertising to a business.

(01:25:56):
I'm a bit awkward, perhaps on the shy side, and
it always seems to be a bit clunky or awkward
to mention where I heard something if not prompted by
the business. When prompted by the business, then it is
not awkward to me. It's very easy to say, like
if you're buying something or you're making an appointment, to
just say, hey, you know what I heard about it
on the Mandy Connell Show, just so you know, that

(01:26:17):
would be fantastic. It would go a long way and
I would really appreciate it, Mandy. Come on. The democrat
neo socialist globists are the creators and nurtures of these programs.
AI robots ensure compliance by the citizens and gives total
power to the overlords. Terminator was just a preview of
what's to come. Russia, China, USA and every global power

(01:26:38):
is ensuring this will happen because that has been the
plan all along. They've divided us and we are ripe
to be conquered. Ah, I wish I thought you were
totally wrong, but I don't, Mandy. Some of your interview
guests drowne on and on with very long answers, and
sometimes you let them blather. What's your strategy for cutting

(01:26:58):
off long winded guests. You gotta wait till they take
a breath, and then when they take a breath, you're like, ah,
you jump in. But eh, you know it's funny that
you say that I let them blather on. I've been
accused of not letting guests talk enough, and I've been
accused of letting guests talk too much. So no matter
what I do, it's going to Uh, you know, somebody's

(01:27:22):
gonna complain. You don't want to be rude to guess.
I mean, I try really hard not to be rude
to guests, but I also want to make it entertaining.
I will say this, if a guest is not good,
I will get out of the interview as fast as possible.
So I mean, trust me, I know when a guest
is not good as well. So yeah, but you don't

(01:27:43):
want to be rude, right, Mandy. Do you have a
framed picture of the KOA transmission tower on the show
place while in your home that you show guests with pride.
This is the tower that transmits my show. No, but
I will soon never even thought about it until right now.
This is why we do this segment. Mandy, if you

(01:28:05):
could have any three birds as pets, which would you choose?
I would choose the parrot from Aladdin. I would choose
the lemu Emu from the Liberty Mutual commercials. And I
would choose uh Sam the eagle from the Muppet Show.
If I could have three birds, that's the ones that

(01:28:27):
I would take. I mean, Mandy with uh with a
y brock. Boxers or briefs. Neither, Mike, none of your business. Yeah,
hybrid Wait, oh the boxer briefs. Yeah no, I don't No,
I'm not doing that. I hate uh, I hate the well,

(01:28:47):
I hate both.

Speaker 4 (01:28:48):
Actually I only like the hybrid.

Speaker 3 (01:28:50):
Alright, you so you're a boxer brief guy.

Speaker 4 (01:28:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:28:52):
Yeah, both boxer both by themselves are terrible. I call
them hybrids.

Speaker 3 (01:28:57):
Well, I mean that they're called box of briefs. That's
what's literally on the pack, could.

Speaker 4 (01:29:00):
You, I know, I call him hybrids.

Speaker 3 (01:29:02):
Are generally speaking, I'm not going to tell you what
kind of underwear are wear just private? Well for some reason? Well,
first of all, if a woman ever asked you, has
a woman ever asked you what kind of underwear you wear?

Speaker 4 (01:29:16):
No, that's weird.

Speaker 3 (01:29:17):
This is like a man question, no offense, Mike, like
a total dude question to asking. Hey, Rod has answered
your question, Mike, and we're moving on, Mandy, could you
ask Mayor Johnston since he's crying about Denver's budget shortfall? Whoopsie,
hang on, just miss this budget shortfall? How much he
has wasted taking care of illegals? Same point I made

(01:29:40):
earlier in the show. This, this mayor has been an
absolute disaster when managing the budget of the city of Denver.
I don't think he's up for the job. He's more
worried about virtue signaling and letting everyone know he's welcoming
and caring than actually managing the city the way it
needs to be run. Many do you really go to

(01:30:00):
the dentist in Elizabeth? I absolutely do. I was there
last week and I'm going again on Tuesday to get
my plan to get my tee straightened because my front teeth.
Did you know that just the action of chewing eight
rod shoves all of your teeth forward and that by
the time you're my age at fifty five, they start
to actually push out of your mouth like that.

Speaker 4 (01:30:22):
Cool doing it?

Speaker 3 (01:30:23):
Yeah, something to look forward to right after that. Let's
see here, Hey, Mandy, why don't you do use an
old recording of the day for the of the day announcement?
I think it's more fun to see what other people
bring to the table in terms of in the world.

Speaker 5 (01:30:42):
And today we're gonna hear someone fail aka Ben Allbright again.

Speaker 3 (01:30:47):
I feel like Ben is a smart guy though, so
he should be able to pull this out.

Speaker 4 (01:30:51):
Which phrase do I say, even though it's like the
twelfth time?

Speaker 3 (01:30:54):
If he does that again, then I'm just gonna make
fun of him for being done then and I don't
think that is done and he'll do it right exactly
what will become of reality when AI takes over? Will
it matter? I mean, will it matter? Anyway? As for
the mentioned Mandy Connell says this Texter, it's a shame
that it's not set up on the iHeart website where

(01:31:17):
people can get the QR code that they can show
at the point of sale that would actually track on
your site as well as advertisers. How many people brought
in the door. It wouldn't be one hundred percent, but
it would be an indicator. You know, we've done stuff
like that before, kind of like downloadable coupons and things
like that. And I'm not gonna exaggerate when I say,
and maybe it would be easier now because everyone has

(01:31:39):
smartphones and because when we did this it was a
long time ago. It became more unwieldy than it was useful. Right,
it was like the juice wasn't worth the squeeze, as
business folk are using that phrase. Now we'll talk about
that and more. It's free for all Friday. Your questions welcome.
Text men at five, six, six nine. Oh, we'll be
right back. There's a guest in our waiting room, EYERJ.

(01:32:01):
Did we have someone scheduled right now? They're not on
the calendar?

Speaker 4 (01:32:07):
Who?

Speaker 3 (01:32:12):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:32:12):
If I can, it's text me.

Speaker 3 (01:32:15):
It's okay, hang on, I'll text you in a second
and then figure out what's going on. I mean, it
would not be unlike us to schedule a guest and
then and then forget that we had scheduled a guest.
Uh so it's not crazy.

Speaker 9 (01:32:26):
Um.

Speaker 3 (01:32:27):
The bump bump, bump, boom bump. Hang on, guys, I
realized this is as as Ros says, semi professional radio.
But uh, here we go. I've got It's a free
for all Friday, and you guys are texting your great questions.
You have caught up to the twelve o'clock listeners. I'm
just letting you know. So, okay, okay, Manby. Have you

(01:32:49):
ever been to the laundry maat in Elizabeth which is
near the dentist office. It's run by friends of mine. No,
I have not needed a laundrymat. If I do need one,
that's where I'll go. Did you ever see the movie
The Prize Winner at in Ohio?

Speaker 2 (01:33:01):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:33:01):
I haven't text her. I've never even heard of it.
But maybe I'll download it from my.

Speaker 2 (01:33:05):
Trip to.

Speaker 3 (01:33:07):
Japan, because I gotta you know, the flights to Japan
are very very very very very long, and I gotta
have stuff to do. I'm gonna try and sleep for
part of it because when it is noon here, it's
three o'clock in the morning tomorrow in Japan. So yeah,
but I might download it for that. I don't know why.

(01:33:28):
I'll look and see this one. Let's see here, Mandy,
I wear boxers or briefs, depending on the weather. Recently,
on a dating side, a woman asked me boxers are briefs?
I said, depends. Haven't heard anything more from her? That

(01:33:50):
is funny. Okay, good, good, okay, good? Is we did
not mess that up? Hey, ay Rod, We've got a
request from the text line A Rod. Can we hear
all the airhorn recordings you have?

Speaker 13 (01:34:00):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:34:00):
You always make.

Speaker 4 (01:34:01):
Me have mercy?

Speaker 5 (01:34:02):
And then and then you finished after that, We're going
to do what I was waiting for you to ask
me about all day long.

Speaker 4 (01:34:08):
What you didn't ask me about my jury duty?

Speaker 3 (01:34:11):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:34:11):
I forgot.

Speaker 3 (01:34:12):
Yeah, I did tell people that you didn't get chosen.
So because people were asking.

Speaker 4 (01:34:17):
Did I or did I not?

Speaker 3 (01:34:19):
Wait?

Speaker 4 (01:34:20):
You want to hear them all first, every single one.

Speaker 3 (01:34:22):
Every single one, one, two, three, bam, vam vam.

Speaker 4 (01:34:24):
Really, here we go.

Speaker 3 (01:34:25):
Okay, okay, all the air horns, here we go. And

(01:34:53):
you were always welcome to send us another air horn
via the talk back on the beautiful Crystal Clear Radio.
iHeart So there you go, hey, Mandy, or you get
a barbecue this weekend well as planning on it. We're
having people over on Sunday. But now the weather looks
kind of crappy on Sunday.

Speaker 4 (01:35:09):
All day rain.

Speaker 3 (01:35:10):
Yeah, all day rain on Sunday, So I will be
cooking barbecue items in my house, if that makes sense.

Speaker 5 (01:35:19):
You already forgot one set of airhorns. You already forgot
forgot what the jury?

Speaker 3 (01:35:25):
You get me that right now? So what happened with
your jury duty?

Speaker 5 (01:35:28):
So I spent as much time commuting as I did serving?
Oh shut up, I lucked out, well, you know, in
a way of experience. Oh nothing crazy. I got through
the entire process.

Speaker 4 (01:35:41):
Going through the room.

Speaker 5 (01:35:42):
I got to tell you, though, with all due respect
and appreciation for everything that the Great Well County does,
they need yours truly to produce them a new video,
the eighteen minute video for when they tell you what
jury duty is all about, Mandy, they say, stay off
social networking like Facebook and MySpace.

Speaker 4 (01:36:08):
How old is that video?

Speaker 5 (01:36:09):
Well, they reference to MySpace and the iPhone that they
show in the video has to be at the very
most generous an iPhone four.

Speaker 3 (01:36:18):
Well, you need to reach out to them and say,
I would like to provide a video for all of this.

Speaker 4 (01:36:23):
Well, they in I will provide you with a better one.

Speaker 5 (01:36:27):
No, but it was actually pretty lame in terms of
in terms of the reasoning I didn't get chosen. So
I'm sitting in the room, big room, big ol' Weld
County Jury selection room, and the first group gets called
and they skip over my number. Second group gets called,
they skip over my number, and after both times, I go,
don't worry, I've got my numbers.

Speaker 4 (01:36:44):
Ha ha ha ha.

Speaker 5 (01:36:45):
Well, they actually wait like two minutes for everyone else
to leave, and then they come back and go listen,
and there was like maybe a fourth of us left listen.

Speaker 4 (01:36:53):
The rest of you guys are getting dismissed.

Speaker 5 (01:36:54):
I just didn't want to say anything in front of
everybody because you guys are getting out early. Because my case,
my trial I would have potentially been on got postponed,
so day of postponement, so they obviously didn't anticipate that.
But they still got to give credit, you know, in
terms of you know, taking the time out of the day,
taking the time off work and you know, to go

(01:37:15):
down there.

Speaker 4 (01:37:15):
So we still got the credit. You're still I.

Speaker 5 (01:37:17):
Got my certificate specific duty. I actually thought it was cool.
I thought it was enjoyable. I thought it was interesting,
even in the small little version that I got without
actually doing any serving. I did feel, as they said,
you might, a little bit of like satisfaction of some
service to there.

Speaker 3 (01:37:36):
I'm saying, you did your duty. I got a fantastic
I gotta tell you.

Speaker 5 (01:37:39):
Do you know the chances I did the math the
chances of getting chosen for jury duty in Well County.
They gave me a little slip that says ten thousand
people in Well County serve in jury duty every single year.

Speaker 4 (01:37:55):
Do you know the population of Well County?

Speaker 3 (01:37:57):
I do. I mean it's probably not the most populous area,
but they're.

Speaker 5 (01:38:02):
Telling to people massive three hundred and fifty nine thousand
and four hundred and fifty two as of two years ago,
So that means have ten thousand people. It's like a
three percent chance of getting selected in Well County. And
of that three percent, I got dismissed and didn't even

(01:38:22):
have to do anything.

Speaker 3 (01:38:23):
There you go, but you did your civic duty. You
showed up. I needed to do all right, back to
ask us anything free for all Friday? Hey, Mandy, how
do you see it working out for Christian schools and
their employees who are taking a firm stance against polists
in HB twenty five, thirteen twelve. I have said this many, many,
many times when it came down to the Jack Phillips situation,

(01:38:45):
when it came down to the three h one decision,
where you have gay folks who are looking or have
have state protections and they are going up again against
the Constitution of the United States of America. The problem
for the gay community is that religion is protected in
the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, but being gay

(01:39:07):
is not. The Constitution doesn't have carve outs for specific
groups of people. So I think that the Christian summer
camp who is now fighting this, I think that Christian
organizations who are fighting this stand a much better reason
or much better chance rather of getting this kind of
thrown out. But it's going to take a while. And

(01:39:31):
what happens in the meantime, three thousand kids don't get
to go to summer camp because the summer camp had
the nerve to say, we're not going to room biological
boys with girls. Oh the horror. So I think they're
gonna be okay, It's just gonna take a while. Mandy,
do you ever watch a Rockies game when they preempty
you guys, even with the historically bad season we're having now.

(01:39:55):
I am still watching Rockies games. I don't even know
why anymore because it's so frustrating, and sometimes I go
to the game. I used to go far more often
than I did before, but yeah, I still watch him. Mandy,
we heard you use the words housekeeping when calling Jinks
to come clean up. We laughed so hard, and we're

(01:40:15):
now doing it the same with our two big dogs.
Thank you, and let me tell you something. It'll take
like five minutes for your dogs to get it. The
dogs are like I hear housekeeping and then are stuff
on the floor. Yes, I got it. I understand you.
How come no one questioned the mayor why it's okay
to spend millions on projects that are in investment with
future return on that investment, but it's almost mandatory to
spend millions on illegals and homeless who have very little

(01:40:38):
or no return on investment. And he wonders why there's
a two hundred and fifty million dollars shortfall. Correct. I
don't even need to comment on that anymore. Correct, Mandy.
During his May tenth addressed to the College of Cardinals,
Pope Leo the fourteenth focused on several themes, including and
maybe the one most reported of AI. I got this

(01:41:00):
answer from my friend Grok. By the way, Andy, here's
part of Grock's answer, Artificial Intelligence and Human Dignity. He
highlighted the challenges posed by artificial intelligence, drawing parallels to
Pope Leo the Thirteenth's response to the Industrial Revolution. Leo
the fourteenth emphasized that the church's role in addressing technological
shifts to defend human dignity, justice, and labor. Referencing Leo

(01:41:24):
the Thirteenth eighteen ninety one in cyclical Rerum Navarium, he
positioned AI as a central theological and social concern for
the Church's future. I don't know if I need to
comment on that anyway, Mandy. During any of your summertime
trips to Dayton, Ohio, have you and Check ever been
to a Dayton Dragons baseball game. It has never worked out.

(01:41:46):
They never are at home when we are there, but
it is on our list of things to do. And
I really wanted Dayton Dragon's shirt or hat because they
have a super cool logan logo. Mandy and a Rod.
You play two of my airhorn submissions, Creepy Guy and
Foghorn Leghorn. I'm famous that from Steve. Yes you are Steve, Mandy.

(01:42:08):
I love the clip of you shouting not they satan
not today. I can't remember the context. Please play it
again and explain if you can. So funny? Oh I
had no idea? What would you just play?

Speaker 4 (01:42:21):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:42:21):
God, no, I have no idea. Guys, when I get
done with the show at three o'clock, if someone walks
up to me and says, hey, that was so funny
or smart, I have no recollection of what just happened
for three hours. Oh god, it's show amnesia, no clue
what just happened? Mandy? What is your favorite type of potato?

Speaker 4 (01:42:42):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (01:42:43):
That is a Sophie's choice if there ever has been one,
because not only do I love potato chips, they are
my junk food kryptonite. Potato chips and donuts cannot be
in my house because I can't not eat them. But
I also love a really good baked potato. Like that

(01:43:04):
might be one of my favorite foods. But then there's vodka.
I mean, there's no other vegetables versatile as potatoes. I
mean corn. I guess is maybe I would have to
say a really good baked potato. But the problem with
baked potatoes is, unlike potato chips, it's so hard to
make a bad potato chip. Now there are better potato

(01:43:27):
chips than other potato chips, but you never like put
a potato chip in your mouth and go, God, that's horrible.
It's a potato chip. Right, you can have a bad
baked potato. I mean you can have a really bad
baked potato. Mandy, Can I have the O God sample
for my text message tone? Can we make that happen?

(01:43:49):
A rod Oh God? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:43:51):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (01:43:52):
Yeah. If you email a rod at a rod at
iHeartMedia dot com, he'll send you the MP three maybe
maybe well, Hey, from profiting, I get I get four
of that. I'll get you get Wait, I can't even
get two dollars of my own one? Okay, can you

(01:44:16):
record and play a clip of you giving a big
old hearty darn tutan. There you go. If you didn't
get it, you didn't get it.

Speaker 4 (01:44:22):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:44:23):
Have you been to a Savannah bananas game? I have
many years ago, and they are hilarious. If we can't
ask you boxers or briefs, how about thong or granny
panties again? I am not talking about what kind of
underpants I wear. That is no one's business but me
and my husband Daunce toutan what hey. Chuck just walked

(01:44:44):
in and said, yeah, oh stop it. Bloomers. I don't
wear bloomers. There's no bloomer thing going on over here.
With everything the potato does. It's like none of the
other vegetables are trying, says this texter. You are exactly right,
exactly right, Mandy. I watched the Denver Mayor this morning
on the news. It's funny Trump's been in office four

(01:45:05):
months and dead versus train wreck. Isn't that odd? Super odd, Mandy.
If we were up to me, I would replace the
word artificial with auxiliary AI. Auxiliary intelligence. We're starting to
rely too much on the machines. Here's the thing, though, guys,
This intelligence is going to be smarter than us very quickly.

(01:45:25):
It just is so. And I actually, I I'm I
have been using various forms of AI a lot more lately,
mostly to look up stuff. And then once I look
it up, then I use that stuff to springboard off
of and I and I find it, you know. But

(01:45:45):
it's so easy, It's so easy. Dark dute. If you're
ever in Boise, hit up the Boise Fry Company. Then
make good burgers and fries out of all sorts of potatoes. Mandy,
soak here potato and salt water before baking fluffy inside,
crispy outside. I'm one of those people. I oil and
salt the outside of my potato and they come out

(01:46:07):
perfect every time. I love them. Mandy is all commando. No,
I'm not a commando type person. Dog douting Now stop
it right now, Manby. I have a potato food truck,
the Wandering Potato Food Truck. I would love to show
you how delish a potato could be. Yes, indeedy so

(01:46:27):
potato food truck person. Email me Mandy Connell at iHeartMedia
dot com. We've been you know. We used to do
Food Truck Friday before COVID. Were you with the show
when we did Food Truck Friday? Erod okay, it was
like right when you came on board with us. But
then COVID happened and everything shut down and everybody started
working from home. And I haven't started it up again

(01:46:48):
because we don't have as many employees in the building
at all times. But we now have a tenant on
the second floor. That is a totally different building. Globust
Travel has joined us in the building. I'll go down
and ask them if they would be interested in like
a food truck Wednesday on Friday in our office. No
one's here just I mean, you could shoot a cannon
through the office. No one is here at all. But

(01:47:09):
what about a food truck Wednesday. Send me an email
potato food truck, and you could be first up for
the return of that event. Manday. I'm a mailman and
I'm thinking about getting a postal visor this summer and
bleaching the tips of my hair and having it stick
above the visor. My wife said, absolutely not, but she
might just be jealous. What do you think, I say,

(01:47:30):
don't just do the tips, die the whole thing. And
what I really say is, listen to your wife. She's
the one you want to have sex with you, right,
you want her to like the way you look. I'm
just saying potatoes are horrible health wise, very high glycemic index,
darned tutin. Most nutritious part of the potato is appeal,

(01:47:50):
much like an apple. That is a myth, actually that
potatoes are the most the skin is the most nutritious part.
I looked it up several years ago and was a
little bit disappointed to find out that was a myth.
Hey Rod, can we get a boy howdye from you? Sir?

Speaker 4 (01:48:07):
Why?

Speaker 3 (01:48:09):
I don't know what texter's asking for it. If you
just do what the texter says, everything's fine. Howdy.

Speaker 4 (01:48:17):
Yeah, I've drops of everyone speaking of who.

Speaker 3 (01:48:21):
Has that been?

Speaker 5 (01:48:22):
All right?

Speaker 3 (01:48:22):
I hear chuckling, what's happening?

Speaker 4 (01:48:25):
How do we still have that?

Speaker 3 (01:48:27):
Because it never dies? Ben, it never dies?

Speaker 4 (01:48:32):
Just gave Ryan a nerd gasm, uh Ben?

Speaker 3 (01:48:35):
What is your favorite type of baked potato rusted or
Yukon gold?

Speaker 5 (01:48:39):
I usually cook the I usually do the rust it
just because they're more readily available.

Speaker 4 (01:48:43):
But I'm not Yeah, I'm not picky. I'm like you.

Speaker 13 (01:48:45):
I oil and salt and pepper, and then I stand
up the four key, you know, to get them done properly.

Speaker 3 (01:48:49):
I love Yukon gold for mass. I definitely mean the
b definitely good Lord, how many sound drops you? I
love Yukon gold, but they don't have good potatoes for
or skins for baked potato. They're too thin. Yeah, So
there you go.

Speaker 4 (01:49:02):
To answer your other question.

Speaker 3 (01:49:04):
So you know what, Ben, I could have guessed that
about you. I'm not surprised. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:49:12):
And if.

Speaker 3 (01:49:16):
Anyway, now, Ben, do you know what you're supposed to
say after I say my part? Are you? Are you
up to speed?

Speaker 4 (01:49:22):
I prepared for this.

Speaker 3 (01:49:24):
Okay, good because we were going to mock you openly
if you got it wrong. Again because the time for
the most exciting segment on the radio. I'm it's kind day, Ben.
That was spectacular. That was some of your best work
right there. Just fantastic. I feel like the grasshopper has become,

(01:49:47):
you know, the master on that one. That's a fantastic
what's our dad joke of the day?

Speaker 5 (01:49:52):
Please, I'm in search for someone to assist with milking
cows on my dairy farm.

Speaker 4 (01:49:58):
Must work well with utters.

Speaker 3 (01:50:04):
That was a good one.

Speaker 10 (01:50:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:50:06):
This is our word of the day, please, sir. Word
of the day.

Speaker 13 (01:50:09):
Is and own Okay, bastion uh bashi bastion? Which definition
are we using these two? Is it like the whichever
you want both? Bastion is a fortified position.

Speaker 4 (01:50:21):
That's the military definition.

Speaker 13 (01:50:23):
And then the metaphorical version would be like a person
of principle who's like the you know, the last bastion of.

Speaker 5 (01:50:28):
Well b A S T I O in that's what
you're thinking about. It says, a placer system in which
something is protected and continues to serve. That's a position.
Also a restaurant, yes, well no, not a restaurant, it says.
Restaurant is oh, it says an example. Restaurant is a
bastion of the the last, the last, you know, fortification
of whatever it would be.

Speaker 3 (01:50:48):
So yeah, all right, today's trivia question. If you mix
bourbon with agastro, bitters, fresh lime juice, all spy strom
and simple syrup, what cocktail have you made? I have
no idea. I was a bar for eight years. It
is bourbon, anguster of bitters, fresh lime juice, allspice strom

(01:51:09):
and simple soul.

Speaker 4 (01:51:11):
Fashion.

Speaker 3 (01:51:12):
Nope, it's a lion's tail. It's garnished with a lime
beal or wortsbiel and I have never ever heard of that.
That ever, then you're getting kudos on the text line
now for your performance.

Speaker 4 (01:51:24):
Yeah, well, you know Jeffary's coming up, so let's he's up.

Speaker 3 (01:51:27):
Well, because Ben is in the studio and I'm broadcasting
from Southern Command, he has to wait.

Speaker 5 (01:51:31):
Now, that's how it works you're the only one that
rule applies to.

Speaker 4 (01:51:35):
Yeah no, yeah no.

Speaker 5 (01:51:37):
Category is breakfast of Champions.

Speaker 3 (01:51:40):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:51:41):
This cereal has used the slogan breakfast as champions and.

Speaker 4 (01:51:44):
Wheedies as whets.

Speaker 5 (01:51:47):
A special maker with larger deeper grids produces the Belgian
type of mandyfles That is correct. Some translate the Spanish
name of this breakfast dish as country style isle eggs
then come on, then waves frend shows Yeah all right
for a classic eggs Benedict use a dollop of this.

Speaker 3 (01:52:12):
It then keeps answering without answering the form of a question.
That is not cool.

Speaker 5 (01:52:16):
This roll flavored with onion, a sort of bagel without
the hole, was named for a Polish city.

Speaker 4 (01:52:25):
That is wrong.

Speaker 5 (01:52:27):
That is wrong, That is correct, but doesn't matter because
that wins.

Speaker 3 (01:52:32):
You know what, The rules should be fair the same.

Speaker 4 (01:52:37):
This is your game.

Speaker 5 (01:52:38):
Somebody else is away. I will go to Mandy's house.
Ryan's in here, so he knows I'm about to say.
I'm about to tell you what Dave Logan said about you.

Speaker 4 (01:52:48):
What he said that you cheat and of the day,
how do I cheat? How he knows I heard that. Yeah,
Dave says you cheat.

Speaker 3 (01:52:57):
How but how I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:52:59):
I don't know, but I make it fair if you
come up.

Speaker 3 (01:53:01):
With the questions. So I have no knowledge of what's
about to happen except the trivia question, which I don't cheat.
I'm not a cheater. That makes me mad.

Speaker 4 (01:53:10):
I heard it the other day.

Speaker 3 (01:53:11):
That makes me really mad because that says Dave Logan
thinks I am a cheater and I am not a.

Speaker 4 (01:53:21):
Hurdles like cheating. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:53:22):
It's Oh my god, Ben, I'm I'm like deeply wounded
by the fact that Dave Logan thinks I would cheat
on something as stupid.

Speaker 4 (01:53:31):
As of the day you go Segan.

Speaker 3 (01:53:36):
Anyway, there's a show that comes up next that's now
dead to me. But whatever, it's hard, I'm still dead
to me. I don't care. It's dead to me, dead
to me. I'll be back on Tuesday. Everybody, have a
safe Memorial Day weekend, and please take a moment to
remember why we're commemorating the day while you're enjoying yourself.
Just have a great weekend and we'll see you on Tuesday.