06-01-26 FULL SHOW - Is Vic Trying To Back Out? - The Mandy Connell Podcast

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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No, it's Mandy Connell and Ton on KOA ninety more
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Speaker 3 (00:15):
Got you want to stay then through three and donald.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Sad Day.

Speaker 4 (00:26):
Well, welcome, welcome to a Monday edition of the show.
I'm your host for the next three hours. That guy
over there, that's Anthony Rober gu together, we'll take you
right through three p well right up to three pm,
I should say, And I've got a fun actually a
fun show planned for today. I looked around for news

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that wasn't necessarily the same old, same old, But first
I need an update from Anthony, who went back to
the Denver Fan Expo on Saturday and posted more video
you found like the hardcore OG fans, it was impressive.

Speaker 5 (01:02):
The cause players were not messing around they are.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
Did you ask them how much they spent on their costumes?
Because that's oh a rod. Some of those Star Troop
of costumes are like ten thousand dollars. It's crazy. No,
I know, they spend a lot of money on them.
It was a wild weekend in downtown Denver, so much
stuff going on. But what a great weekend for it.

Speaker 5 (01:21):
Yeah, No, it was awesome and well done. Again, I
was telling I've told people. I wanted people, the pr
folks that help put it on. I went to that
thing ten years ago and I covered it in college.
And how far it's come in ten years. If you
haven't gone next year, which is going to be, by
the way, in fourth of July weekend, which is a
little crazy, Oh that's nuts. It's worth going to. It's

(01:44):
cool nurture.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
You are a pop culture entertainment. You like movies, you
like this, you like that.

Speaker 6 (01:50):
I mean, it is definitely worth your time if you
enjoy any of that.

Speaker 5 (01:54):
It's gone way beyond where it all started, which was
in comic books aka comic con. It's gone way beyond that.
Any like you said, anything pop culture, anything relatively in
the vicinity of being nerdy. Yep, it's a go to.

Speaker 7 (02:08):
Well so much funny.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
You missed it. If you didn't go this weekend, you
miss Morgan Walland throwing his piano in Denver Apparently. I
was just listening to Jojo, our boss, talk about this,
and he said, apparently there was a mixing issue. He
couldn't hear the piano, so we got mad and flipped
the piano, and then on Saturday they were like, well,
what are we gonna do for a piano? Like, dude,
go to Facebook marketplace right now. If you go to

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Facebook marketplace, you can find a free piano.

Speaker 5 (02:32):
Yeah, totally rational response to technical issues.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
Well, let's just say mister Walland has made some bad choices,
no in his life. No, and that just appeared to
be another one, just throwing that out there, shops face
exactly that being said, I do like his music though,
that he g is one of us.

Speaker 6 (02:50):
Well you're not a country guy, are you.

Speaker 5 (02:51):
I am not, But I will say little miss l
Langley who opened up for him, you know, I don't.
I don't hate if you don't know her our country music.
That says a lot. I also learned that my brother
in law is one of them. Apparently, if you are
a guy and a fan of miss Ella Langley, you
are a quote an eli fella. That's kind of cute.

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It is really cute.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
I mean that's kind of cute. Yeah, that's well done. Yeah,
she's good, well done, young lady. Yeah, well, donel fella.
Let's jump to the blog because it is voluminous today.
All you have to do is go to mandyblog dot com.
That's mandyblog dot com. Now, if you had already subscribed,
it would already be in your mailbox. Or as Anthony does,
he gets a push notification when the blog comes out.

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Bada bing bataboo.

Speaker 7 (03:35):
Where we are?

Speaker 4 (03:35):
How many we are a little over seventeen hundred subscribers.

Speaker 5 (03:40):
That means we can get two thousand this week.

Speaker 6 (03:41):
We should be able to get two thousand in the
next two days.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
But what I love about my subscribers is you guys
are all engaged. You're actually opening the email when it
comes to your email box.

Speaker 6 (03:50):
That makes me momb Yes.

Speaker 5 (03:52):
So everyone that's subscribed in our chat right now? Like
in the chat yeah subjects. Yeah, okay, did anyone listening
right now say hello, I'm listen live right now in
the substack chat?

Speaker 4 (04:02):
Oh oh I like that.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
Hello to us right now say I'm listening.

Speaker 6 (04:05):
I could be a subscriber to be in.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
The chat though.

Speaker 5 (04:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
So anyway, so Anny, uh, the attention to the pushover
piano was overrated. I went to the concert. It was
fabulous that it was barely a blip, But I mean
he turned over a piano. You guys again, if another
rock Star came and did the whole smashing of the guitars.
That would be a news story too, because that's cool.

Speaker 5 (04:27):
That response to technical issues most of the time.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
Happy Monday. Mandy saw a great show this weekend. Star
Wars Strips in Denver, the same group that did the
Halloween show this past Halloween strongly recommend we had them
on the air for the Halloween show. Maybe we should
get them on for the Star Wars show. I want
to see that one as well.

Speaker 5 (04:44):
Yes, so there you get already working on that one.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
Ay Rod show us fans in in our one and
two some love with the swag. We're not giving away swag.
We're just saying, Mandy, you know you have a coke
problem when your piano gets tossed. I did not realize
that those we're connected somehow. I've known people in my
life that have had a coke problem. I don't believe
any of them have flipped a piano.

Speaker 5 (05:05):
We reread the swag text again because I think I
know what they're talking about.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
Joe us fans in turn one and well, what is oh, oh,
is this there a racing show?

Speaker 5 (05:14):
When I throw out swag at the speedway in our downtime.
The unfortunate truth is the my my press box is
right on the checkered line, which is right on the
front stretch between turns four and one. I typically don't
have enough time to sprint to the other side of
the track. Got you and throw out, But when I
can text her, I do, and I'll keep you in mind. Okay,

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turns four as well. I've heard I heard some some
A bunch of kids over in turn four want some
stuff too, So I will spread down to you when
I can. Okay, I promise.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
And last text before I get to the blog, Mandy,
you know how Michael Brown is a cute little girl
voicing his promo and bumper transitions like hey you next time, Brownie,
you should hire the Queue to do some of your promos.
She has a great voice for radio. Do you want
them all dripping in seventeen year old sarcasm.

Speaker 5 (05:59):
Yes you do? Okay, yeah, So if.

Speaker 4 (06:01):
You what kind of promo should the queue my daughter
voice send them on the text line at five sixty
six nine. Oh, while we do the blog, go to
mandyblog dot com. That's mandyblog dot com. Look for the post.
Oh I forgot, I keep forgetting to put the the
the date. I gotta remember to put the date in
the blog headline. I'll fix it in one second. Easy

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to fix.

Speaker 5 (06:24):
Chat by the way saying hello, Hello, like chat, Love
you guys.

Speaker 4 (06:28):
Okay. Look for the headline that says is VIC trying
to back out? Click on that and here are the
headlines you will find.

Speaker 5 (06:35):
Within We're the United States of America.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
That anyone's office South American?

Speaker 5 (06:39):
All the ships and clipments, and say that's going to
press plant.

Speaker 4 (06:43):
Today on the blog? Could vict be looking for a
way to drop out? The rise of clean comedy YouTube
filmmakers are having a moment. Tech in schools is not
making kids smarter. Trump Patriot is going to ruin our
two hundred and fiftieth birthday. Goco is a dumb idea.
Claude Lemeuse's brain is being donated to science. Is there

(07:03):
hope for the Colorado gop? Trump is bitching about a
case he hasn't lost yet, sending good mosquitoes after bad.
A personalized vaccine keeps melanoma away. The fighting continues during
the ceasefire. Are you looking for a new job? Teens
are struggling even more to find work. Ocean and river
cruising are cute different things. Europe is tiring of Middle

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Eastern mass migration. Should you correct someone else's child on
a plane when literally means figuratively? The UN is a
worthless garbage organization. Remember when Israel bombed a hospital and
conunis about those grassroots ice protests. Trail Ridge Road is
open for the season, The truth about Cutter. Those are

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the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com Tech
two winner. And look at this, Allison has already left
a comment at the bottom of the blog. Something else
you can do on the sub sax site. You can
just zip right down there leave a comment.

Speaker 5 (08:03):
Are we back to cutter?

Speaker 4 (08:05):
Cutter is what I'm doing. I'm just doing cutter. I'm
just doing Cutter. That's all I'm doing.

Speaker 5 (08:09):
That's the right one, right, Yeah, guitar is kind of
like you with Yeah.

Speaker 4 (08:13):
No, it goes either way. I guess I don't know.

Speaker 6 (08:16):
I don't care. Cutter is what it is right now.

Speaker 4 (08:18):
So if you go to the blog today, you see
a whole bunch of stuff coming up. At one o'clock,
our pale Christian Toto is going to join us. I
forgot to put him on the calendar after I looked
him today, but he's coming on at one o'clock. And
Christian of course our Hollywood on Toto guy. He is
the one we look to for pop culture. Interesting things
are happening with comedy. There is sort of this really

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really really popular group of comedians that do not work blue.

Speaker 6 (08:43):
There is not a single F bomb.

Speaker 4 (08:45):
There is not an inappropriate joke about Genitalia. There is
just straight up comedy that is that is appropriate for everyone.
Nate BARGATESI is one, Lean Morgan is one. Sebastian Manascalo
is one. But they're having a mob it and I
love that because I like being able to go to
a show with my kid. And you're making a face

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like you don't like clean comedy.

Speaker 5 (09:08):
Hate clean comedy. Why I despise it? Like comedian, the
filthier the better, always because you don't have kids. Yet
I don't care. Kids can stay at home. For me
going to a comedy show. I want to l O
l at the grossest, funniest things. Bring the filth, Yeah,
bring the expletives. So yeah, no, no, but you know

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not for everyone.

Speaker 4 (09:34):
Well, they're the clean comedians are having a moment. Now
we're going to talk about that can your creativity. I'll
say that I agree with that. Do you think that
when you don't have the shock that is available when
you work blue, there is a shock factor when you.
I mean, I've I've been watching a comedian one time
that was so outrageous.

Speaker 6 (09:53):
That I was like uncomfortable.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
There's a line and I am and I'm like, I'm
pretty sure that everybody in here we're laughing. We're all
going to hell because we're laughing at this. And sometimes
you just don't want it.

Speaker 5 (10:04):
Yeah, I get it to myself. You can't go over
the top or you're just like, oh my god. Yeah,
like have some other words in there, friend, Yeah, like
be selective because then you want to hit home the
ones that you use. So I get that.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
We're also going to talk to Christian about a story
that I have today. Two of the most popular films
out right now were made by young people who got
their start on YouTube.

Speaker 6 (10:33):
And this is what the internet is supposed to be.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
This is it, by the way, and Rod, my daughter
saw Obsession over the weekend and I'm not going to
see it because it's scary, but you should go see it.

Speaker 6 (10:43):
She said it was amazing.

Speaker 5 (10:44):
I will. I've heard great things.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
Yes, she went to see it. Because now she's seventeen,
she's all about the R rated movie. She just had
her birthday a couple of weeks ago, so now she's like,
I'm going to a seventeen Yeah, I'm going to an
R rated movie. Do it it, just doing it. So
we're gonna talk to Christian.

Speaker 5 (11:01):
At one o'clock.

Speaker 4 (11:02):
But in the meantime, we have to talk about this,
and I promise I'm not going to spend a lot
of time talking about this. But over the weekend, the
Victor Marx campaign put out on multiple platforms multiple platforms,
the following Victor Marx on the coloraddens for Victor Mark's
official Facebook page. I've been invited to debate Barb Kirkmeyern,

(11:25):
Scott Bottoms with Kyle Clark moderating. Some believe a front
runner should debate. Others point out the debates often create
sound bites and gotcha moments, while town halls, podcasts, and
long form conversations give voters a better understanding.

Speaker 5 (11:39):
Of a candidate.

Speaker 4 (11:40):
President Trump' skipped GOP primary debates, while leading Charlie Kirk
has made similar arguments, should I debate. Vote below and
tell me why vote.

Speaker 5 (11:48):
Oh darn, people voted for me to debate.

Speaker 6 (11:50):
Correct, which is why they pulled it all down.

Speaker 5 (11:52):
Darn.

Speaker 6 (11:53):
So you won't find this now. You will not find
this now.

Speaker 4 (11:57):
And my guess is this was their their chance to
back out of tomorrow Night's nine News debate, and it
did not go the way they thought it was going
to go. So I'm I don't know. What do you
think the odds are right now? If Victor Mark drops
out of an X.

Speaker 5 (12:13):
Debate that he drops out, I will give an inch
of credit, and I'll say only thirty five percent, because
if he backs out of this one, especially having invited
mister Kyle Clark to the compound, which are kind of
the prerequisite if he will which I felt like to
this debate, and this is really the last go around,
I think the chance has got to be low. This

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would be a bad look, Yeah, a bad bad look,
but still thirty five percent a thing. He's some chance.

Speaker 4 (12:44):
I think it's a toss up right now because I
think that they've recognized that Victor cannot perform well in
a debate. He's going to get absolutely annihilated. Because here's
what's going to happen. He's going to give some answer,
some problem answer, some pre rehearsed here's my answer on
tabor or water or education or roads or anything.

Speaker 6 (13:04):
He's gonna give his pre.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
Rehearsed response, and Kyle Clark is gonna ask a follow
up question and he's gonna have nothing.

Speaker 5 (13:10):
There's no hiding at a debate. No, And what you
could say if you don't debate is what we're gonna
do our own thing. And the biggest criticism would be
you didn't debate. But that could be versus all of
the stuff that could come out if he did debate,
so way worse opportunity. You know, if he does debate, like,
everything's open for Kyle and for Barb and I just

(13:32):
forgot his name Scott in that debate, everything is fair game. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (13:38):
But now if he does a debate, yep, he's I mean,
this strategy may work in the Republican primary. His followers
are bizarrely like cult like level followers. And I'm not

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everybody who supports him is part of a cult. I'm
just saying the people on social media, they are cult like.
They don't want anything that could hurt their guy. You
could say Victor Marx just killed my child in front
of me, and they'd be like, liar, You're a liar.
Maybe have you been following the guy that's running for

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mayor of Los Angeles from the Common Spirit Elf tech line.
He's putting out some of the best election content that
I've ever seen, And it's funny as heck.

Speaker 6 (14:27):
You are talking about Spencer Pratt.

Speaker 4 (14:30):
Spencer Pratt, former reality star who had had enough of watching.
I believe he's a native Los Angelino. I think he
is a native to California. I believe he is a
native Los Angelino and he got sick of it, and
he is I'm telling you right now.

Speaker 6 (14:47):
I said this the other day on X.

Speaker 4 (14:48):
If you don't follow me on X, you should because
I do some of my best work over there at
Mandy Connell.

Speaker 6 (14:53):
But on X the other day I said, this is
the way forward.

Speaker 4 (14:56):
Because what Spencer Pratt is doing is focusing on three issues. Homelessness, crime,
and drug addiction. Those are the biggest three issues, and
he is absolutely focused like a laser on them.

Speaker 6 (15:13):
And he is telling the truth.

Speaker 4 (15:15):
About the lousy job that Mayor Karen Vass has done,
and he's likely going to make it now in Los
Angeles for mayor, they have what's called a jungle primary,
which is everybody's in the pool, no matter what party
you represent, no matter what it does not matter, you're
all in the primary. Top two vote getters come out
to go to the general election. I would be absolutely

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floored if Spencer was not in the top two because
right now it's mayor Karen Vass. She's a garbage mayor.
She's done a garbage job, she's a longtime socialist Marxist,
I mean long time.

Speaker 6 (15:53):
She's absolutely horrible.

Speaker 4 (15:54):
And then the other woman running against her is a
city councilwoman who is just horrible.

Speaker 6 (16:01):
As well horrible.

Speaker 4 (16:05):
So it's like, okay, so if Spencer Pratt can't get
through that, now, if he does get through to the
general election, it's going to be fascinating to work. But
they're trying to attack him on his reality show Passed,
and he keeps coming back with real stuff from like
Karen Vass's work with the Socialist and Mark Sist. Hey,
I was on a reality TV show, Karen, But what
about this? I mean, it's been brutal, no holds barred,

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and I don't know that Spencer Pratt is creating all
of those ads, because if he was, he would have
to identify himself because of federal election laws, you have
to identify that the candidate is supporting. So all the
videos that are flying around our x, I think those
are being made by somebody else on his behalf, which
is amazing, amazing, amazing. So yeah, we shall see, Mandy.

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I absolutely love of the clean comedy. Being vulgar and
inappropriate is easy and not funny, just vulgar and enterprise. Okay,
I'm just gonna say, in defense of vulgar and inappropriate,
sometimes yours truly can be vulgar and inappropriate.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
I really do.

Speaker 6 (17:13):
Yeah, it's true.

Speaker 5 (17:13):
I've never heard that kind.

Speaker 4 (17:15):
I sent a text message to Michael Brown the other
day about something else, and I made a vulgar and
inappropriate joke, so vulgar and inappropriate that my next text
message was, Hey, that was crude, true but crude. And
then I finished my thought and no, I'm not going
to tell you what it is. Maybe I'll tell you
on the sub stack. Maybe I'll do it there in
the chat chat. Well, it doesn't matter. I don't care,

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green shots. I just don't care, Mandy. Everybody needs to
listen to the episode with Spencer Pratt on Joe Rogan
and then share it with everyone they know. Such great ideas.
Happy Monday, Jen and TJ.

Speaker 5 (17:50):
So there you go.

Speaker 4 (17:51):
CNN has a new series, Craig Ferguson America on Purpose,
focusing on immigrants that become US citizens and why and
how proud they are y'all. This is one of the
reasons that I love Craig Ferguson. You know, Craig Ferguson
is right, the Scottish guy when he got his American citizenship.
He still have the Craig Ferguson show, and he talked

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about choosing to be an American.

Speaker 6 (18:14):
You and me were lucky enough to be born here.

Speaker 4 (18:17):
All of those whack a doodle left wingers who run
around complaining about the United States of America, they were
lucky enough to be born here. Not everybody is.

Speaker 6 (18:26):
So it's it's definitely I'm gonna check that show out.

Speaker 4 (18:31):
So we'll see the nine News Debate to get back
full circle to what I started talking about here. The
nine News Debate is tomorrow night. We'll find out if
if it is going to be there or not.

Speaker 5 (18:42):
Let's put up a poll on our X ry. Now, yes,
do people think he's going to do it right now?

Speaker 4 (18:46):
Do it right now? I'm telling you, I feel like
it's fifty to fifty right now because there's a lot
Because let me just say this, Kyle Clark has gone
He's been relatively silent on VIC up to this point.
I think if he drops out of this debate, the
drum beat against him becomes relentless and it becomes.

Speaker 6 (19:07):
Super super super sharp.

Speaker 4 (19:11):
So we shall find out, Mandy, you left my favorite
clean comedian off your list, and he is from Florida,
Brian Reagan. I don't know that I know who he is.
I'm not like in the comedian circuit, so I don't know.
I'll have to look and see. We'll talk to Christian
Toto about that at one o'clock. So that's all I'm
gonna say about whether or not Tricky Vick will drop out.

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But a Rod right now is putting a poll on
our X account Kowa, Colorado. On x dot com, Mandy
Jerry Seinfeld told Barbara Walters, if I need to be
vulgar to get a laugh, I feel like I haven't
prepared myself. Another guy who was never vulgar, but I
mean Jerry Seinfeld talked about idiotic stuff and made it funny.

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The late great Genie Robertson, who I absolutely adored that
woman and had the pleasure of meeting her on multiple occasions.
I said, Genie, are you a comedian? She said, no,
I'm a humorist. Because a comedian says funny things. A
humorist says things funny. And I love that distinction and

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I've never forgotten it, and I always think to myself,
if if I ever wanted to be funny, I'd want
to be a humorist, not a comedian.

Speaker 6 (20:25):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (20:26):
Now, when we get back, can we just talk for
a moment. I know that most of you in this
listening audience are my age or about there right, maybe
a little older, maybe a little younger, but you're I'm
in my mid fifties. I still clearly remember America's bi centennial.
I was six years old going on seven during that

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whole year of the bi centennial, and it was a
time where as a kid, I didn't realize this, but
we were in very much a malaise as a country.
Gas prices were still out of control, the economy wasn't
doing great we'd just come out of Watergate and then
forward pardon Nixon, and everybody was kind of salty and bitter.
It wasn't a great time in America. And yet, and

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this is what I'm asking for from you listeners. I
remember everyone wearing red, white and blue in my hometown.
You would just see a random person dressed up like
Betsy Roster, George Washington, like on a Tuesday. Everybody was
so excited to celebrate the bi centennial. And now they

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will talk about the disaster that is happening right now
in DC. After this are two hundred and fiftieth Birthday,
two hunred and fiftieth Birthday. The United States of America,
the country whose very existence has helped lift the world
out of poverty. Don't even at me on that one.

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The numbers are staggering. The number of people who lived
in abject poverty at the founding of the United States
of America worldwide was massive.

Speaker 6 (22:02):
Now still more than we'd like, but a fraction of
what it was before.

Speaker 4 (22:07):
The United States of America is the dream for so
many people around the world still to this day, even
with all of our problems and all of our agitating
and all of our political hatred going on in the country.
You know, people are not hopping on inner tubes in
Key West to try and get to Cuba. We're watching
socialist governments fall all over the world. And yet when

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we should all be getting ready to have a massive, massive,
massive celebration two hundred and fifty years, we can't even
have a party because when you say you're going to
participate in the party, then the other side comes out
and says, you know, Donald Trump is president, right, We're
not allowed to be patriotic when Donald Trump is president. Yeah,

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I asked my texters at five six six nine O
on the common Spirdhal text line back in nineteen seventy six.
I was six years old going on seven, and I
remember entire events at school that were dedicated towards celebrating
the Vice centennial, where we all wore red, white and blue.
We dressed up as the founding fathers or Betsy Ross

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or you know, patriots or whatever, and we read the
Constitution and the Declaration of Independence and we celebrated the
fact that the United States of America was even a thing.
So I asked people on the text line to tell
me what that was like for them. I mean, it
couldn't have just been my hometown, right, couldn't have been Mandy.

(23:37):
I remember growing up in Grand Junction and all of
the fire hydrants were painted red, white and blue, exactly,
exactly little things like that. We're not even doing that anymore, Mandy.
I remember celebrating in nineteen seventy six. My mother brought
us all small replicas of the Liberty Bell and we

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rang them loud and strong on July fourth, nineteen seventy six. Sadly,
we need people to do it again. We still ate
the best.

Speaker 6 (24:09):
What I don't know what that means.

Speaker 4 (24:11):
Yes, I remember the bi centennial and I still have
my dad's seventy six bi centennial flag. Oh yes, ladies
and germs, we had our own flags printed up for
the bi centennial. Mandy. I graduated from high school in
nineteen seventy six. It was a very special time to
be a graduate.

Speaker 6 (24:29):
We got bi centennial swag.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
Which I still have, Mandy. In nineteen seventy six, my
family was living in ou Wait. Listen to Ash of Wait.
I know how to say this, Ash Schaffenberg, A Schaffenberg, Germany. Well,
let's see how why don't you say this? A rod
asc h A F f E N b U RG no.

Speaker 5 (24:51):
I know better. Thank you.

Speaker 4 (24:52):
My dad was in the Army community commander. I remember
the parade down Main Street. The Germans seemed as happy
as we were to celebrate that. From Diane, Mandy, Sesqua
by Centennial says, no, let me just tell you, guys,
it is the Sesqua semi Quinn Centennial. Trust me, trust me,
semi Quinn Centennial, Sescua semiential. Let's see how we say that.

(25:18):
I'm just saying, Mandy, middle aged liberal women are batpoop
crazy and ruining this country. Perhaps, yes, Mandy, yes we
did too in Aravada. I wasn't conceived in nineteen seventy six.
I realize there are some, and thank you for person
not as old as me listening to the show. I
appreciate that Mandy. I was thirteen and couldn't wait to

(25:39):
get the quarter and the two dollars bill.

Speaker 6 (25:41):
I still have them. Exactly.

Speaker 4 (25:44):
This person said I'll be in Cstke, I'll be celebrating,
you'll be sweating, or took us off in csdkey in July.

Speaker 6 (25:49):
I'm just letting you know.

Speaker 4 (25:52):
The bi centennial celebration was also a big middle finger
to the USSR two. We've partied hard all year long.
I was, Yes, I remember the Special Quarter and just
a good, warm feeling about it when I look back
at that time, and that's how I feel. Mandy I
was fourteen in New York City. Watch the up sailed

(26:12):
tall ships sail up the Hudson. Mandy, we took our
nineteen seventy six transam out yesterday to cruise the lake.
Tell me it is painted like Burt Reynolds trans am
in Smoking in the Bandit with the big gold eagle
on the front. Please, even if it's not, just let
me believe that there's one out there painted.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
Just like that.

Speaker 4 (26:34):
Mandy. I graduated from high school in nineteen seventy six.
Everything all the way down to the tassel was red,
white and blue. Now, let's compare this to what is
happening right now. Right now, there was going to be
a big celebration, a big now, granted you can decide
whether or not, a bunch of kind. Actually it was

(26:55):
quite appropriate them calling it the Great American State Fair,
because these were all state fair level performers. Proven by
the fact that one of them, Vanilla Eyes, will be
performing at the Colorado State Fair in August, but they.

Speaker 6 (27:10):
Got these performers.

Speaker 4 (27:12):
The concerts were scheduled to kick off on June twenty
fifth as part of the major event on the National
Mall organized by Freedom two fifty, a Trump backed public
private entity. So on Friday last Friday, artists including country
singer Martina McBride and Brett Michaels, frontman of the nineteen

(27:33):
Eightiespan Poison, said they were dropping out of the concert series.
Brett Michaels posted and said, Unfortunately, what was presented to
us as a celebration of our country has evolved into
something much more divisive than what I agreed to be
part of. Now, let me ask this question, why who
is making it divisive? That's my genuine question. You already

(27:58):
know the answer. It's not people on the right. People
on the left hate Donald Trump so much that they
are going to absolutely crater our two hundred and fiftieth
celebration because they hate Donald Trump that much.

Speaker 6 (28:13):
And do you know what they've done.

Speaker 4 (28:15):
They've taken this big concert that would have been a
big kickoff and they've turned it into a Trump rally.
I can't tell you how little I care about another
Trump rally. I'm not one of those people that enjoys
watching the president stand up there and riff for ninety
minutes about whatever he comes to as mine. I don't care.

(28:36):
I don't like it.

Speaker 6 (28:37):
I think it's stupid. I think it feels very.

Speaker 4 (28:39):
Good, you know, very like Soviet to make this about
Trump in any way, shape or form when he happens
to be the current president. But y'all, we didn't make
it about Jimmy Carter back in nineteen seventy six, or
even about Gerald Ford.

Speaker 6 (28:56):
It was about.

Speaker 4 (28:59):
The country.

Speaker 6 (29:01):
It was about the founding.

Speaker 4 (29:04):
It was about how important our nation has been as
a beacon of hope and freedom in the world since
its inception. It's about American ingenuity, It's about American creativity.
It's about all of the amazing inventions that have come
from the United States of America. We are the driving

(29:25):
force in the world still to this day. Chinese technology
is amazing. You look at one of those Chinese drone
shows and you know that there are incredibly smart people
in China who are doing amazing things. A lot of
that technology was stolen from ours. Are our brain power,
our intellectual property. Can we just one time have a

(29:50):
nice thing for all of us without people ruining it.

Speaker 6 (29:55):
I mean, I guess the answer is no.

Speaker 4 (29:56):
The reason that the artists have given for backing out
show that they have been talked to by those on
the left. Because the actual concert, the actual Great American
State Fair, is envisioned as being a sixteen day Great
American State Fair on the National Mall, a salute to
America Fourth of July, a Freedom two fifty Grand Prix

(30:19):
IndyCar Race. It's got all kinds of stuff, including the
dumbass UFC event on the White House lawn. I'm just
saying I hate that. I can't there's not enough words
to tell you how much.

Speaker 5 (30:32):
I hate that.

Speaker 4 (30:32):
But nonetheless, a lot of people on the left are like,
back in twenty sixteen, Congress established America two fifty to
come up with events for this, and then Trump came
in and he created Freedom to fifty, and now it's like,
you know, we want to well, America two fifty wasn't
doing any big events. They're focusing on non partisan nationwide

(30:58):
community events historically exhibitions and grassroots celebrations. What's the point then,
you don't need a congressionally created board to do grassroots events.
But when you looked at what the artists have said
about why they're stepping down, and you, guys, in all honesty,
I don't really care about any of these artists, so

(31:19):
they can do whatever they want. But you need to
understand that they were going to perform until someone from
the left got in their ear. Morris Day of Morris
Day and the Time said it's a no for me.
On Facebook, Young mc said, I've informed my agents and
I will not be performing at the Freedom to fifty event.
The artists were never told about any political involvement with

(31:41):
the event, and despite the claims by the organizers at
the event is nonpartisan. Spin magazine describes it as trump
bat I hope to perform in DC in the near
future at the event that is not so politically charged.
It was not politically charged until left wingers started saying

(32:03):
it was. Country singer Martina McBride announced she will not
be going. She initially signed on because she was told
the event would be nonpartisan, which turned out to be misleading.
I asked lots of questions and was assured this was
a non partisan event that was meant to celebrate all
fifty states. Yesterday things started changing and what we were

(32:26):
told is in fact not what is happening. Brett Michaels
of the band Poison, you know I met him once
on an airplane. Lovely fella, lovely fella. He said. Unfortunately,
what was presented to us as a celebration of our
country has evolved into something much more divisive than what
I agreed to be part of. Concerns have been raised

(32:47):
regarding the safety of my fans, band crew, family, and myself,
including threats that are completely.

Speaker 6 (32:55):
Unfounded and unforgivable.

Speaker 4 (32:58):
So let me tell you what happened. The Left ginned
up all of this crap last week because they want
to claim they care more about scoring points on Donald
Trump than they do about celebrating the United States of America.
They can't do it. They literally can't do it.

Speaker 6 (33:16):
I'm not saying they hate America, but boy, they sure
seem to.

Speaker 4 (33:18):
They really wrap themselves and hate America in order to
dunk on Trump. Now, when all that happened, After all
that happened, Trump came out and said we should just
cancel the concert and make it a make America Great
Again rally, which is literally the dumbest, worst idea ever ever.

Speaker 6 (33:37):
And I as an American, have no desire to see that.

Speaker 4 (33:39):
I will not watch it. I will not I don't
even care what he says. If that's what ends up happening,
I'm going to be super pissed off if my tax
dollars get used for another Donald Trump rally. I have
no interest in that whatsoever. But it wasn't that when
it started. They're dropping out because Trump backs freedom two fifty.

(34:03):
Think about that for a second. That's why they're doing
And Brett Michaels threts. There have been brets of violence
against Brett Michaels, his family and his fans that didn't
come from the right, not at all. So I mean,
you know, this just is so disappointing. It makes me sad.

(34:26):
You know, my kids should be getting ready to celebrate,
and we should all be wearing red, white and blue
car you know, back in nineteen seventy six, somebody pointed
this out on the text line carmakers made red, white
and blue vehicles of the off the Lineugh, I worry
about us. I very much worry about us as a nation.

(34:46):
I am not hopeful that things are going to continue
to go in a good direction, but I guess we're
gonna have to see when we get back. Our pal,
Christian Toto, joins us to talk a little entertainment. We're
doing that right after.

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Speaker 2 (35:04):
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Speaker 3 (35:14):
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Free Andyconnell, Keith sad Thing, Welcome uncle, Welcome to the
second hour of the show.

Speaker 4 (35:28):
It's started to be talking gloomy outside, but we're inside
and we're talking a little entertainment with our favorite entertainment guy.
He's Christian Toto, the genius behind Hollywood in Toto and
also the prolific writer for hot air dot Com, among
other sides. He's just he's just he'll just go anywhere

(35:50):
and write anybody for anything about when it comes to
Hollywood and entertainment. And he's a good friend of mine
as well. Christian Toto, welcome back to the show. My friend,
you called me a genius and you call me easy.
I don't know how to balance it is. I mean,
you will just go and write anywhere. No, I'm just
teasing you. I'm teasing you I actually follow you mostly.

(36:13):
I'm following your writing on hot air dot com. You're
writing behind their paywall, which for people who don't subscribe,
is frustrating. But hot air dot com is one of
the things I subscribe to, mostly because I know many
of the writers who write there.

Speaker 6 (36:28):
They do incredible work.

Speaker 4 (36:29):
It is worth the pennies that I give them, and
it's not very expensive, and they're doing great content, including
Christian's content. But Christian, I saw your story and I
did put it on the blog, even though it is paywalled,
and it's about the rise of clean and I don't
want to say the rise because that sounds like there
hasn't been clean comedy. But clean comedy is in the

(36:50):
spotlight now more than it has been in a very
long time. And let's start there, like, why is it
that we're now seeing so many clean comedians get so
much play?

Speaker 7 (37:05):
I mean, I think it's a combination of there's some
very funny comedians who were clean, and also there's a
hunger for it. You know, Listen, I grew up in
Howard Stern, so I don't need clean comedy, but I
get why many many other people do. And also, you know,
if you're watching with your family, watching with your kids.
You just want to maybe escape from the coarse nature
of public society these days. I think there's a real

(37:27):
hunger for it. But you know, you look at the
taking a step back. You've got people like Jim Gaffigan
and Brian Reagan, Sebasian Maniscalco is mostly pretty clean. And
then of course there's the king right now, Nake Barkatsi.
And I read a stat that he is out selling
the competition by a wide mile. He's the king right now.
He just sells that Arenas. It's just amazing what he does.

Speaker 4 (37:50):
I will tell you that Nate bargates, he reminds me
of that guy that was like your dad's buddy that
could just stand in the backyard with a beer in
his hand and have everybody else on the ground with laughter,
just because of the way he presents the stories that
he tells. He is that guy. He's like your next

(38:10):
door neighbor across the fence, right, who's just that really
funny guy. And I think he's so relatable. That's what
makes him successful. He's got a new movie out, and
I'm you know, I'm always concerned, and I know you
haven't seen Breadwinner is new movie out, but what is
this kind of is are the clean comedians getting more
play than the guys and gals who work.

Speaker 7 (38:31):
Blue Well, it's tough to say, because comedy at the
cineplex has really been on life support. We haven't had
those body r rated comedies like Bridesmaids and The Hangover.
Hollywood just gave up on them. And there are some
cultural reasons for that, for sure. And we also haven't
had kind of the more squeaky clean comedies, you know,
the stuff that you could take the whole family to.

(38:53):
So I think they're trying to do the latter with
The Breadwinner, and so far it's been a little touch
and go because the box office was about seven point
five ish million. It's not great, but you know, the
word of mouth could be good. People love Nahporgatsy. And also,
while the critics were pretty rough on it, the audience
scores were higher. So it's the kind of movie that

(39:13):
could have legs this summer, but we'll have to wait
and see it. I feel like we've almost got out
of the habit of going to the movies to see
this funny stuff, which is a shame.

Speaker 4 (39:21):
Well, I mean, we've gotten out of the habit of
going to the movies. I mean, that's just the reality
of where we are right now. I don't need to
tell you that, but I do think that we all
need to recognize that for parents with kids, May I
heard someone call it May somber, and it's so perfect
because between the end of school and graduations and all

(39:41):
of that, May is just a nightmare. And by the
time you get to Memorial Day weekend, you're so exhausted
that the thought of going to a theater is not
even appealing. But I do think it will probably have legs,
especially in streaming. Let me ask you this, and I'm
going to throw you a curb ball, Christian. I don't
know if you know the answer to this. How many
movies are outperforming on streaming in terms of how they

(40:04):
perform when they get into our homes versus how.

Speaker 6 (40:07):
They perform in the theaters.

Speaker 4 (40:09):
Because I think that for a movie like this, like
what is the incentive to go see it on the
big screen. There's not great special effects, there's not big
epic you know, scenes of battlefields or whatever that you
want to see on the big screen. You can watch
this at home on your sixty inch and be just
as happy.

Speaker 7 (40:25):
I completely agree. And part of the problem is I've
seen the trailer for The Breadwinner. I've seen multiple trailers,
and nothing in those trailers said to me, oh my gosh,
I've got to rush out and see it. It's just
looks like, Oh, I like Nate, seems like a nice
genial comedy. I'll catch it when it's on X, Y
or Z. That's the problem. You know, what we're happening
with the theaters right now is that they've really tried
to event size, for lack of a better phrase, with

(40:49):
the experience, where if it's a Christopher Nolan film, he's
one of our best directors, you got to see it
in the theater, right same with Spielberg. There are certain
properties that make you want to rush out.

Speaker 5 (40:59):
Now.

Speaker 7 (41:00):
We saw The Devilwaar's Product Too come out a couple
of weeks ago, and that one has got tons of
goodwill and people were clamoring to see it, and then
it's a huge box office hit. Project Hill Mary the
same way. It's big, it's bold, it's visionary.

Speaker 4 (41:14):
Visually sorry visually, Project Hill Mary is a big screen movie, right,
so you did want to see that in the theater,
and you know, to your point, my mom and Iron
Mother's Day, we're literally at the movie theater and I
was like, Mom, do you want to go see Devilwaar's
productor do you want to go see The Sheep Detective?
And we ended up going to see The Sheep Detective
because I was like, I can see the Devil Where's product? Too?

(41:34):
On when it comes to streaming, I'm making those decisions.
I can't be the only one.

Speaker 7 (41:40):
Well, it's funny you mentioned that, because I think another
topic we want to touch into we could probably seguay
right now, is that this year's much better for Hollywood
when it comes to the movies. We've seen a bunch
of big, big hits, and then over the weekend there
are two new horror films. They're practically art house, they're indie,
they're small, not big, and to say they overperform doesn't

(42:02):
even begin to describe it. There is a movie called Backrooms.
It came out a couple days ago. It made about
eighty plus million dollars. No big stars, no big budget,
no ips. It's not a sequel, it's not a remake,
it's not a reboot. It's smart it's a slow burn.

Speaker 4 (42:16):
There's no reason for.

Speaker 7 (42:17):
That to movie that make any money, and it made
all the money. And then Obsession is another one. They
did just that as well. Each week Obsession gets more
money at the theaters. That just doesn't happen well for Obsession.

Speaker 4 (42:28):
My daughter who just turned seventeen, so she's going on
an entire tour of our rated movies now, she's very
excited to be able to go and see her R
rated movie.

Speaker 6 (42:37):
But she saw it this weekend because she loves the
girl who stars in it.

Speaker 4 (42:41):
I've never heard of this girl, but she was on
some show that my daughter watched streaming online. But ultimately,
what makes these movies so interesting is there's not a.

Speaker 6 (42:50):
Big Hollywood director behind them. Where did they come from?

Speaker 5 (42:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (42:55):
YouTube? Literally YouTube. Both the directors were talking about. Curry
Barker and Kane Parsons wean themselves on YouTube, new technology.
They get access to these editing software packages which are
very cheap, very powerful, very effective, and if you've got
a vision, you've got something to say, you can make
a story now and pop it on YouTube. And of
course that's a great training ground Hollywood comes calling. Just

(43:17):
to give an example, the director of Obsession. Curry Parker
was handed the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise to reboot that,
and some studio is offering him ten million dollars. There's
not even a movie. There's not even I want to
be in your we want to work with you. That's
how weick it turns around. No, how old are these directors.
One is twenty that's Kane Parsons. I think twenty six

(43:38):
might be for Curry Barker. These are young young men.

Speaker 4 (43:40):
It'll be interesting to see how they work underneath the
studio system. Because when you're making movies by yourself and
you're the only input that you're going to have to
deal with, that is a much different proposition when you
go under a studio umbrella, where the studio is going
to have something to say about that film. You know,
do you think the studios are going to allow these

(44:01):
young guns to come out? I mean, obviously they did
with these films and it's worked out well.

Speaker 5 (44:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (44:08):
I think they will. I think that the budgets here
are so low. Listen, the studios get nervous when the
budgets are huge, right, They've got to get that return
on the investment. So that's when they give you the notes,
that's when they give you the pressure. That's when they
say we can't do this, we can't do that. If
you hand them a movie for seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars, you can basically do whatever you want. And

(44:28):
now the other film, Backrooms, I think was about ten million.
That is nothing by Hollywood standards. So when you have
lower budgets, you have more freedom. You can tell your
story for better. Of course, you know what is back
Rooms about. It's about a furniture salesman. He owns a
furniture company and he discovers a hidden wall in the
showroom that leads to this series of carridors and empty

(44:51):
rooms and mysterious passageways. And I'll say no more because
the surprise is part of the fun. But it was
based on a series of videos. It has like this
really rich internet history. So for many people they knew
about it. I didn't know about it. I'm not in
the demographic. But one of the things about this past
weekend and what we're seeing is that it's gen Z.
Gen Z is flocking to these kind of movies. It

(45:13):
speaks to them, and whether it's the age thing or
the YouTube connection, the indie actresses and leaving behind. Yeah,
these kids want to see it.

Speaker 4 (45:21):
Well, and that's my daughter. My daughter solely went because
she loves this actress, didn't know anything about the movie
and loved it, said it was fantastic and really really
enjoyed it. But let me ask you, this feels like
there's two stories that kind of go together. You've got
these young guns and these no name actresses that gen
Z knows and loves. Then you have AMC Theaters announcing

(45:42):
that they are going to be bringing back classics to
the big screen, so you can go and see these
movies you know from decades ago and see them for
the first time on the big screen. It's like they're
trying to tap into the younger people, and yet they
recognize that older people are far more likely going to
go to the movies.

Speaker 6 (46:00):
It's just we're used to it.

Speaker 4 (46:02):
I mean, not me because I haven't been going, but
you know, you're sixty year old. They're gonna go back
and see these movies if they show them on the
big screen. I actually think that's a pretty good move
by AMC.

Speaker 7 (46:14):
It's a brilliant idea. They've been doing it in fits
and starts for a while. Nows Pocus came out, Lord
of the Rings was released. They're gonna I think they
could break the original Star Wars. I think early next year. Listen,
it's a no brainer. You're talking about nostalgia, you talk
about legitimately great films. You want to connect the generations
where a guy who's in his sixties wants to bring

(46:34):
his grandson or his son. There's no downside that I
can see about it. And also it just gets people
back to the movies. It gets people in the habit
of going to films again. And it's the whole I
remember when I was twelve years old and I saw
Star Wars and I don't want to see it with
my kid, that kind of thing.

Speaker 4 (46:51):
Yeah, I want to make it authentic. They've got to
wait like two years before Empire Strikes Back comes to
the good screen again, right oil rotten kids Today they
get the sequel right away.

Speaker 6 (47:02):
That's not how it was back in the day.

Speaker 4 (47:04):
So let me ask you this. We've got The July
fourth weekend is another big weekend for releases. Already, Supergirl
is running into problems because the young actress who is
SuperGold cannot keep her mouth shut. When our studio is
going to start adding a clause into these contracts it says,

(47:25):
keep your freaking mouth shut about anything political, about Christian dads,
about anything that is going to alienate Middle America. And
if you don't know what that is, we will give
you a list of stuff not to talk about. I
feel like they've got to start doing something like that.

Speaker 7 (47:42):
It's really staggering that it continues. Listen, Rachel Zegler basically
sank snow White all by her loansome at list. The
movie was not great, but she really just built in
this animosity toward the project based on the thing that
she told the media. Now, the weird thing is that
they have handlers and agent and managers, publicists, and their
whole job is to kind of craft an image, to

(48:04):
put their best foot forward. But I think that in
Hollywood the bubble is so bulletproof. Yes, but they don't
realize that them saying these things is really hurting the
product and the marketing. I don't think they. I don't
think they get it. Otherwise that's the first thing you
tell it ANNGENU.

Speaker 4 (48:19):
Well, hey, careful, Well, not only that, I mean in
my contract, I have a clause in my contract that
says if I damage Iheart's product in any way, shape
or form, I get fired right now. If you've already
got a movie in the can, you can't actually do that.
But I'm surprised Hollywood studios have not put something in
these contracts to curb that kind of behavior. I mean,

(48:40):
even to the tune of if it was me a Christian,
I would say, if your comments damage the box office
of this movie, you get nothing on the back end.
Your back end is dead because you're not going to
get anything anyway. But at least that's some kind of
mental incentive to shut your pie hole before you go
out there and talk about the movie.

Speaker 7 (49:00):
And I think the craziest thing about everything we're talking
about is that when Millie Alcock, who's the star Supergirl,
when she talks to Vanity Fair or Variety, it's not
like she's bored and she said, you know, I'd love
to talk to report today because I've got some things
in my mind. They're doing it to promote their movie.
So what you do is that stunt was hard. We've
worked on the script. I love Supergirl. My colleagues had

(49:20):
a great time. This is why I think it's going
to be a fun trip for everyone right at the theater.
This is this isn't rocket science. No, they can't figure
it out.

Speaker 4 (49:28):
Somebody just asks on the text line, Mandy Weinstein used
to pick up distribution of small independent films. Who's doing
that now?

Speaker 7 (49:38):
Well, there are a lot of studios do at focused
features A twenty four. There are some smaller indie like
studios that will gobble up these films if they get
buzzed at a film festival, if there's sort of a
sense that this is an up and coming star. So
there are still places that will gather up these films.
I know Weinstein was great at that. It's I mean,
he was very good at what he did. He just
was a monster, that's all. I mean.

Speaker 6 (49:59):
You can have good things some bad things.

Speaker 4 (50:00):
Somebody said when they play old movies, they should have
the old prices. I would just want the old prices
for popcorn, Like, just give me cheap snacks and call
it a day. Are there any other movies coming out
July that we should be paying attention to.

Speaker 7 (50:14):
Disclosure Day is coming fairly soon. I think next weekend
that's a new Steven Spielberg UFO style movie. We don't
know much about it, but it's Steven Spielberg. You have
to get excited about that. The Odyssey is coming out.
I think next month.

Speaker 4 (50:25):
Now, gosh, can we just have that minute on that?
We can we have a minute on the Odyssey. This
thing is already getting shellacked as people are like, what
you made Helen of Troy a beautiful nonetheless beautiful black
woman in Lapida Deong. But this sort of color blind casting.

(50:47):
Sometimes it works, but sometimes it doesn't. When you're playing
a historical figure, I think it's more challenging to make
these kind of DEI based hirings. That's how it feels anyway, it.

Speaker 7 (51:01):
Does, and I think it creates a bad social media
buzz which can't help the movie. It can only hurt it.
And if for we understand the ticket sales were doing,
we're going strong and then they kind of leveled off
a bit when this controversy began. Listen, Nolan's a great director.
I trust the process. I give him a lot of faith.
But the average person is looking for an excuse not
to go to the movies, and if you give it

(51:21):
to them, it's just not smart.

Speaker 4 (51:24):
Well, you know what it says to me?

Speaker 6 (51:25):
Christian.

Speaker 4 (51:25):
It's like, okay, if you're going to make sure that
you have a code of every color in here, maybe
for Oscar consideration because of their idiotic new rules, then
I'm going to fully expect you to put more crap
in here, politicization, you know, more garbage, more preaching, more whatever.
And I'm just as a consumer paying twenty bucks to
buy a ticket, I am not interested in that. One

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bit goes to show you when you don't do that
in Project Hail Mary, Massive Box Office, and when you
do do it, it's like one catastrophe.

Speaker 6 (51:57):
I mean, I heard someone wrote a book about that.

Speaker 7 (51:59):
Actually, yeah, right, really smart guy, I think, But I
don't know. I can't imagine what that was about. I mean,
you know, I'd call it virtue bombs if I did it,
but that's you. Yeah, virtue bombs would be a good
name if he were the guy who wrote it. Yeah,
that's amazing how this all works. You know, you and
I are not studio executives. We're not you know, steeped
in this lore. I am to a degree. Its kind

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of what I could do, but I'm not an expert.
How can we know this? And they don't know this?

Speaker 6 (52:23):
I that's that's the question of the day.

Speaker 5 (52:27):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (52:27):
Christian Toto. You can read his work on Hollywood intoto
dot com. He also has some really great writers joining
you now on Hollywood in Toto.

Speaker 6 (52:36):
If you're looking for a review of a movie from
a normal.

Speaker 4 (52:40):
Person's perspective, that's what you're gonna find in Hollywood in Toto.
And you can also find his work at hot air
dot com as well as other places. Christian, good to
see you, my friend. We'll talk to you again very
very soon. All right, so we are going to you know,
we've talked about like what does it take to go
back to the movie. And I will say this movie

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theaters have up their game in terms of comfort, in
terms of food available. Although you know what I realized,
a rod I kind of like eating in the dark,
Like no when you go to like Alamo or you
go to Southlands has a full menu and the food
is actually it's not bad. Like meals are getting a burger,
like you can do that without paying attention. Ryan popcorn,

(53:22):
you know, put your your peanut eminem's in the popcorn
as they are supposed to go. All of that's fine,
But like eating a meal like a Burger. I can't
do it.

Speaker 5 (53:30):
Yeah, me's so weird.

Speaker 4 (53:33):
Yeah, exactly so. I like the concept, but for me,
the execution is challenging. Eating in the movie.

Speaker 5 (53:40):
For me, it's the people walking in and out, in
and out, in and out, in and out. Almo is
really cool, don't get me wrong, but the constant service
I during a movie, I can't do.

Speaker 4 (53:50):
It, And now they make you use your phone shorder
and that's not that's not no, great, no, not my
favorite Mandy. Is it possible she might have just been
the best choice for the role. I love Lapita new Young.
I do not want to disparage her or her work,
or her ability or anything. She's playing a historical character
in Helen of Troy, and that is worth where I

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get like, you know here, Okay, I'm gonna give you
an example of when casting does not work for me
in terms of racial diversity. I went to see the
Broadway version of Frozen. Frozen is set in Norway. There
is not a black person in Norway. There was not
a black person in Norway when this was created, you know,

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hundreds of years ago. And yet the guy they had
playing Olof, who was very very talent, not Oloff playing
Oh gosh, who's the guy that has the whatever, the
main character that she falls in love with. They had
an African American guy playing that, and I found that
very distracting. He was very talented. There was nothing wrong
with his performance, but I'm like, this does not work

(54:59):
for me because this is a Norwegian fairy tale.

Speaker 5 (55:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (55:03):
There's certain times where I don't care if you have
a rom com or you have a you know, a
modern day cast where everybody's got to I don't care
if you who you cast. I don't care what color
you are, and I don't care about any of that that.
There's certain times where I'm like, oh, that just did
not work for me. That would be one of them, Mandy.
I think the theaters would be able to get more

(55:24):
of a response for the audience if they did lower
the price on concessions. The tickets themselves are ridiculously high,
so lower the cost of popcorn and nachos and the
people will come. The problem is, theaters make no money
from the movies. They make such a tiny like clip
off of the ticket prices it's not even funny.

Speaker 6 (55:44):
The only way they make money is concessions.

Speaker 4 (55:48):
So it's kind of like, yeah, you can say that,
but m Mandy, I used to work in Hollywood, and
they don't get it. And most of the people in
Hollywood fled the miss.

Speaker 6 (55:59):
West the Midwest, so why would they get it.

Speaker 4 (56:05):
Mandy Helen of Troy had a face that launched a
thousand ships, not a face that would make a train
turn left.

Speaker 1 (56:10):
Oh.

Speaker 6 (56:10):
I think Lapita new Ang is beautiful.

Speaker 5 (56:12):
I really do.

Speaker 6 (56:14):
I just found this to be weird casting.

Speaker 4 (56:16):
Okay, I have a couple stories on the blog that
are incredibly important even if you don't have kids in
schools right now, because these kids are going to be
running our nursing home someday.

Speaker 5 (56:26):
People.

Speaker 4 (56:28):
Gen Z has pulled off something no modern generation has
pulled off before. After more than a century of steady
academic gains, gen Z is on track to be dumber
than the generation before it. Now, is this your fault?

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I have to say no, absolutely not. I know a
lot of these kids, they're not unintelligent, but schools and
I'm trying to think of the nicest way to say this. No,
I'm just going to be blunt. Schools have been pushed
into a place where they believe is their responsibility to

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worry about everything that a kid may experience, whether it
is anxiety, whether it is their mental health, whether it
is their gender dysphoria, whether it is helping them transition
without telling their parents all of these things. At the
same time, school districts have been chasing new curriculums that

(57:31):
are widely unproven, and our reading scores are the best
example of that. Instead of just learning how to read
using phonics the same way I don't know, millions and
millions of people learned how to read using phonics, these
kids were just told to guess the words, look at
the pictures, get the words. And I'm not even kidding

(57:52):
that's actually a reading strategy. Guess the words, so I guess.
They never get to go to those real chapter books
when you need pictures to tell you what the words say.
But nonetheless, this is significant, This is really really significant.
The declines cut across attention, memory, literacy, numeracy, executive function,

(58:16):
and general IQ. It's every aspect of gen Z. Now,
what has changed for gen Z? They grew up in
a digital world. They grew up with apps, they grew
up with TikTok, they grew up with YouTube and Instagram, snapchat,
they grew up having their attention span shortened dramatically by

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all of these different things, and they grew up with
tech in school. Back in my day, when we wanted
to take notes, we had to take out a piece
of paper and a petzel and write them out. And
then we started seeing computers come into classrooms, and all
of these school district were like, well, we gotta have

(59:00):
computers in the classroom. We can't have kids going out
in the world not out knowing how to use a computer.
Which is interesting because back when I was in let's
see eighth grade, so what year was that, That was
nineteen eighty three, we had computers in the classroom, but
we had access to them for like thirty five minutes,

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and we learned how to code. We learned how to
code so we could make a little man march across
the screen and then march back. I mean, it was
it was you know, didn't stick with me. It was
interesting to me. So I was in the Gifted and
Talented program back when I was a kid, I know, shocking,
but they let me in. We actually left campus and

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went to a different school, and we had things like logic,
we had things like computer coding, and we had things
like photography and back then, so this is like eighth grade.
Back then, the boys would swap their dark room time
with the girls to get more coding time. And the

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girls were like I Like me, I was like, I
have no interest in any of that. I have no
interest in any single bit of that of computer coding.
And it just did not excite me. I didn't want
to learn it. I didn't care. But the boys were
all up in it. They were like, hey, yeah, and
I was like, I'll take your dark room time. I'll
take all of it. So the girls were learning how

(01:00:25):
to develop pictures and the guys were learning how to
write code, not even kidding about that. This textter said,
what about COVID. COVID, of course was devastating to this generation,
not just academically but in their social interactions, in their
ability to be around other people. I mean, COVID was devastating.

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So of course now I can't pull up this article.
It's been giving me the spin since I started talking
about it. Luckily I remember what it said. What we're
seeing now in when it comes to test scores and
technology is people are beginning to go, wait a minute,
is this really helping our kids, and the answer seems

(01:01:08):
to be no. And there are now parents advocating for
a tech free classroom, tech free classroom, and I gotta
tell you, I think that's a good idea. There is
so much documentation, so much evidence, hard evidence, random control
trials which are still the gold standard of medical research

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where they had kids take notes writing things out, like
literally writing them out, and they had kids take notes
using a computer laptop. The kids you w use the
laptop retained almost nothing. There is so much research about
how the act of writing, putting pen to paper, especially cursive,
stimulates areas of the brain that do not get stimulated

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when you are typing. It's a completely different methodology. It's
one of the reasons that for kids with mild dyslexia.
I'm not talking about kids who have severe dyslexia, which
is a whole different situation. But if you have mild
dyslexia and that's a problem where your brain flips letters
or you know, messes things up so you have trouble reading,

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mild dyslexia can be greatly improved by helping kids learn
how to do cursive because connecting letters on the page
also helps connect letters in the brain. So I'm wondering,
is it time to walk all this stuff backwards? So
I am inclined to think that if kids are not succeeding,

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we need to go, Okay, what are we doing here?
And where did they succeed? When was the last time
that these kids in this same cohort succeeded at a
high level? What was a curriculum, what were we doing?
How much tech was in the classroom? How much tech
did we need? You know, go back and look and
see where things went off the rails. That would be
the first thing I would.

Speaker 5 (01:02:56):
Do, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (01:02:58):
I graduated from high school in nineteen We had a
computer lab even way back then, pea size hail in
downtown Lyttleton erad pea sized. How about we go back
to how it was when we were in school. The
computers were only in computer class, a class we went
to to learn computers. Correct.

Speaker 6 (01:03:19):
That sounds like a great idea.

Speaker 4 (01:03:21):
What we're doing in school right now is clearly failing
between the grade inflation that we're seeing where everybody do
you know that the most common grade in Harvard is
an A?

Speaker 6 (01:03:35):
Do you know how statistically unlikely that is?

Speaker 4 (01:03:39):
Harvard is now by the way, going after grade inflation,
because what happens is kids are coming out of high
school and they are the valedictorians of their class. They're
getting to college and they cannot do basic college math.
So now parents are spending two years, two years of
money sending their kids to basically learn math that they're

(01:04:02):
not learning in high school. It's insane. Writing forces your
brain to slow down and convert short term processing to memory.

Speaker 6 (01:04:11):
Just need to slow down, says this texter.

Speaker 4 (01:04:16):
This texter said, this is why we love the classical
Academy in Colorado Springs. My nine year old writes seventy
five percent of the time in cursive. No tech until
sixth grade. Do they even really need tech in sixth grade?
That's the question. So we're talking about tech in classrooms.
I do know that my daughter, who's in Douglas County Schools,
was told that Douglas County's new cell phone policies starting

(01:04:38):
next year is that when kids come in the classroom,
they have to drop their phones into essentially like a
shoeholder that the teacher has or her ap GOV teacher
had this last year, he made the kids put their
cell phones in the in the phone holder PACEI is
hailed two twenty five and Parker Road Go Mandy, You're

(01:05:01):
spot on our cursive writing in the brain. Am certified
graphologist and have helped individuals utilizing graphotherapy the act of
writing certain letter structures repeatedly for twenty one days, which
is how long it takes to make or break a habit.

Speaker 6 (01:05:18):
Have helped employers hire people.

Speaker 4 (01:05:20):
Via handwriting analysis, and also wide in on the John
Vana Ramsey case with my instructor being the lead graphologist
on that case. Much more to say, it's fascinating. You know,
we always assume everything kind of works in a vacuum.
One of the things that I see happening now that
I'm very excited about is the recognition that nothing operates

(01:05:41):
in a vacuum.

Speaker 6 (01:05:43):
Everything has some other, you know, thing that it affects.

Speaker 4 (01:05:49):
Mandy. I would argue that there needs to be a balance,
a balance of tech and non tech. I remember when
I was in school, we had tech once a week,
then in sixth grade it was twice a week for
six weeks.

Speaker 1 (01:06:00):
That was it.

Speaker 4 (01:06:01):
We really need to teach kids to balance their life
between tech and non tech. Know, that is what we
need to do as parents. That is not the school's responsibility.
But what's funny is parents keep sending notes down saying, oh,
the summer tech, you know, apparently during the summer, and
we are we are trying to help my daughter manage
this a little bit better. She's going to be a

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senior in high school next year. We're all trying to
manage it better in my household. But screen usage skyrockets
in the summer, as it always has. Only in our
day it was just TV. I mean, how many episodes
of The Price Is Right? Did you watch? I was
ready to go to the grocery store at any moment.
By the time schools started, I knew exactly how much
stuff should cost exactly. So screen time goes up dramatically

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in the summer.

Speaker 6 (01:06:47):
And I get it.

Speaker 4 (01:06:48):
You're working. You can't be there to, you know, sort
of monitor your parents or your kids behavior. Twenty four
to seven. I do have a friend, though I'm not
this motivated.

Speaker 1 (01:06:59):
She was.

Speaker 4 (01:07:00):
She had four kids, and during the summer when her
kids were older and she was back at work. So
I think our oldest kid was like going into a
senior year, youngest kids going into maybe seventh or eighth grade.
Every night she changed the Wi Fi password, and every
morning the kids woke up and there was a list
of chores that they had to do, and when they
were done with their chores, they could get the Wi

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Fi password. And she initially was doing it so when
one kid got their chores done, they could get the
Wi Fi password, but then she found out older brother
and sister were shaking the younger kids down to get
that password, so then it became nobody gets the password
until everybody's chores are done. So, I mean, we got

(01:07:42):
to do what we got to do, but I can't
even remember the password that I have now. I'm exhausted
with passwords. I hate changing my password. I hate dealing
with password changes. I don't know any of my passwords anymore.
I have a password manager, and I think to myself,
if somebody breaks into the password manager place, I'm screwed.

(01:08:05):
I got nothing. And to the smarty pants who just
texted this, rockets operate in a vacuum, you are smarty pants.
I can't argue with that, but you are smarty pants
when we get back. Fascinating story about former AV Claude
lmu Lemieux, who unfortunately took his own life last year

(01:08:27):
his family has made a very interesting decision about what
to do with his brain. I'll share that when we
get back, don't get hit by hale. It's already stopped here.
That was like the fastest sales storm ever. It's like
two minutes of hail. I hope everybody has two minutes
of hale and no more after this.

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Speaker 6 (01:09:14):
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Going over there is Anthony Rodriguez.

Speaker 3 (01:09:18):
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Speaker 4 (01:09:18):
We got one more hour in us before KOA Sports
takes over at the top of the hour. In the meantime,
I got lots of stuff to talk about, including an
interesting twist, if you will, in a very sad story.
So uh, Claude Lemieux, who is obviously a former av
an incredible hockey player, took his own life last week

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and many say that it has become or are because
that he suffered repetitive brain trauma and because of that
his family has decided to donate his brain to the
Boston University CTE Center so they could research the impact

(01:10:00):
of repetitive brain injuries on his brain. And I mean,
I'm guessing that the family believes that his brain trauma
led to his decision to take his own life. I mean,
one has to wonder, you know what, you know what
I wonder about ct and what is CT is a long.

Speaker 5 (01:10:20):
Name chronic traumaticpalopathy.

Speaker 4 (01:10:22):
Okay, that's it. They didn't put it in the nine
news story, thank you, Anthony. But you know what I
would be interested in. I would be interested in to
see how many non athlete people die with some measure
of CTE as well, because there are a lot of jobs,
and I'm thinking of guys in these jobs, because women

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don't normally gravitate towards these jobs, but their jobs where
men are hurt on a regular basis not hurt bad
enough to make a you know, I make a claim
on their employee whatever. You know what I'm saying. But
I'm wondering what percentage of the population dies with some
measure of brain trauma, because I bet it's significant. I

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bet there's a lot more people that have these brain
injuries than we even realize.

Speaker 6 (01:11:12):
Because they're not athletes.

Speaker 4 (01:11:13):
We think about it with athletes because of course this
guy is gonna have, you know, brain trauma over and
over again. Hockey is a rough and double sports. Famous football,
maybe you're not gonna get hit directly in the head,
but it's very similar.

Speaker 6 (01:11:28):
So I think this is interesting.

Speaker 4 (01:11:29):
You know, my mother, my mother, my eighty two year
old mother, who was not an athlete, She's like, I
want to donate my body to science when I die.
And I was like, I don't care. My sister was
like absolutely not, and I was like, no, you have
to figure this out before mom dies, because I'm not
going to fight with you after she's dead. If she
wants to donate her body to science, I'm donating her

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body to science. It's her body.

Speaker 6 (01:11:53):
She's not going to be using it anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:11:56):
But it is kind of interesting to think that, you know,
this is perhaps going to help the next level or
the next you know, version of athlete. Perhaps I don't know,
but what an interesting way to make make something positive

(01:12:19):
out of something that is just negative.

Speaker 6 (01:12:23):
You know, there's there's no real upside.

Speaker 5 (01:12:27):
Well, this is also part of the collective effort I
think for this to eventually be found, not just post mortem,
which is what cte on need to be discovered as
right now. So I think it's a little bit out
of time with each of these donations to it.

Speaker 6 (01:12:43):
It's interesting to me that even with like a have
you ever seen a brain MRI? Have you ever seen
the like?

Speaker 4 (01:12:50):
When they do an MRI of a brain, they end
up with individual tiny slivers of your brain that are
imaged at a time. It basically in you know, uh,
technologically slices little tiny pieces of your brain. Why can't
we see it ahead of time? Now, here's the really
bad part, Arod, is that even if we could see it,

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we don't know how to fix it.

Speaker 6 (01:13:12):
We have no idea. There doesn't seem to be a
fix on the horizon.

Speaker 4 (01:13:18):
So you know what are we going to do? Okay,
now you have this, and now you're going to suffer
until you die because you know you have you know
what I mean? Like, is this one of those things
where maybe less information is better than too much information
until we have some way, if ever, to fix this.

Speaker 5 (01:13:32):
I think the first step is to first discovering that
someone has it, and then you then can figure out
the treatments because otherwise, as of right now you don't
know how to fix Yeah, you don't know if you have.

Speaker 4 (01:13:44):
Brain injuries are so difficult. Although they're finding out and
I just read this story last week, so let me
see if I can pull out the details because I
don't have it in front of me. A new study
of babies in the womb showed that up to a
certain point of a baby's development, Let's say you have

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your three months pregnant, you get into a car accident,
the seat belt does some damage to your baby's brain, right,
which is possible if it's early enough in the pregnancy.
They are finding out that the baby's brain plasticity is
so good that the baby can actually fix that damage.

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So using the knowledge that during at least a part
of our development, we have the ability to rewire our
brains in a way that sort of mitigates the damage,
then that starting point becomes, Okay, what is what is
happening right there with that baby? And can we replicate it?
It's a wild time to be alive right now. Medically.

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I have another story on the blog today, and I
put it on here because a very very good friend
of mine has melanoma, had had She is in remission,
but melanoma has a tendency to pop back up. But
listen to this.

Speaker 1 (01:15:01):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:15:02):
Remember when the COVID vaccine came out and I was like, dude,
this is MRINA technology. This MRINA technology is amazing, and
it really is amazing.

Speaker 6 (01:15:12):
Listen to this. In a trial, fifty.

Speaker 4 (01:15:15):
Patients received the standard melanoma treatment surgery followed by a
type of immunotherapy called ki truda. Another one hundred and
seven patients also got a personalized vaccine tailored to their
specific tumor. All of the people in the trial had
at least stage three melanoma, meaning the cancer had spread

(01:15:36):
to nearby lymph nodes or skin and at a high
risk of returning.

Speaker 6 (01:15:40):
Even after surgery.

Speaker 4 (01:15:42):
Five years later, nearly seventy percent of people in the
vaccine group were cancer free, compared to forty nine percent
in the standard treatment group. Adding the vaccine also cut
a person's risk of the cancer metastasizing by nearly sixty
percent scent. And from what I understand after reading this

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story and that I forgot to link to in this blog.

Speaker 5 (01:16:07):
I will fix it.

Speaker 4 (01:16:09):
They take a little piece of your melanoma, like this
is actually out of your body, and then they create
this mRNA vaccine specifically for your body. That's amazing. I mean,
these numbers are staggering. It's it's an amazing time to
be alive right now. So I just wanted to congratulate.

(01:16:31):
Not I congratulated, such a bad word here, but I
guess I just wanted to thank the Lemieux family for
being unselfish and making this decision.

Speaker 6 (01:16:42):
And I know that there are people out there that
it's like he's dad, he's not, but that like my.

Speaker 4 (01:16:46):
Sister's freaked out because she's afraid my mother's body is
going to be treated disrespectfully. Because here's the thing. When
you donate your body to science, sometimes it's used to
figure out how the body respects to being blown up.

Speaker 5 (01:17:01):
Well, and yeah, Claude le muse family's case and others
that make the similar donation. It doesn't, Yeah, but it
doesn't fix everything by any means, but it could help
provide an answer as to why that took place.

Speaker 6 (01:17:14):
Correct.

Speaker 4 (01:17:15):
Correct, When we get back, I have let's talk about
the job market for a little bit. Are any of
you looking for a job right now? No, wait a minute,
I want to talk about Mosquitos first. We're gonna talk
about the job market after two thirty. You gotta hear
this story. So Google is making their own mosquitoes. I'll
tell you why when we get back. Mandy, what do

(01:17:37):
you think about the new Republican chairman. I don't know
a single thing about Craig Steiner, except I do know
he is not Joe Oltman. I thought Joe Oltman was
gonna win for sure, came in third over the weekend.
And Craig Steiner is a computer guy. He is very
focused on getting the vote out and it says all

(01:17:58):
the right things.

Speaker 6 (01:17:58):
But guys, I.

Speaker 4 (01:18:01):
I hope he can get it done. I truly do,
because we have to have a functioning Republican party in
this state. But we're gonna try and get him on
the show and find out a little more about him.
I'm pleased as punch that he won, even without knowing
that much about him, because I was really worried that

(01:18:21):
the party was going to continue to careem in an
extreme direction, and it did not, So that is good news.
So we'll be getting Greig Steiner on the show in
the next little bit to talk to him more about
just his philosophies and how he brings to Okay I'm
gonna I'll get his mosquito story after the bottom of
the hour break because I meant to put this on
the blogger and I've forgott until right now. So on

(01:18:43):
social media now, especially on x there's this new thing
and it's Republican versus Republican infighting. And what people are
doing is they are now publishing the text messages between
them and a former ally whoever that is former ally,
doesn't matter who it is, but they're all on the

(01:19:05):
right right. This is all right on right violence, and
it is gosh, it's petty and it's small, and it's
not helpful and I I don't know exactly what even

(01:19:25):
what's the purpose. A lot of the times the purpose
is to show I'm gonna show you it's true colors
or her true colors or whatever. But here's the thing.
The people that are posting the messages a lot of
times they look really bad in the messages too, like
they think they're scoring and they're dunking and oh, I'm

(01:19:45):
gonna show, but they need to go back and go, wow,
I probably don't look good in this either. It does
make me think before I text message with some of
my Republican friends, not because I think any of them
would come back and you know, throw me under the bus.
Maybe they would, I don't know, but it does make

(01:20:05):
it gives me pause before. I don't send anything in
writing that I wouldn't say to someone's face. I learned
that a long time ago, especially in the industry that
I'm in. Whatever I say, I mean, I may not
say it on the radio, especially if it's vulgar and crude,
which I am capable of, but I'll say it to
their face first of all, because you know, not being

(01:20:29):
genuine with people is exhausting. Being genuine with people is easy.
You don't have to remember what you told them last
time that wasn't completely the truth because you didn't want
And I'm just like, I'm too blunt, and that is
a problem sometimes for some people that they some people
cannot do blunt like my Like my husband will point

(01:20:50):
out on occasion when I can come across a bit
too blunt in certain situations, and I appreciate that by him.

Speaker 1 (01:20:57):
I do.

Speaker 6 (01:20:57):
I appreciate that, but I just.

Speaker 4 (01:21:02):
At this point in my life, sugarcoating and trying to
you know, finesse a difficult conversation is a lot harder
than saying, Okay, we're gonna sit down and have a
tough conversation for a few minutes. Well we're gonna get
through it and we're gonna work it out, or I'm
gonna get to where we're all, you know, understanding of

(01:21:22):
everybody's opinion. That is so much easier than trying to
figure out the right way to say the right thing
to the right person. I just don't have that kind
of energy anymore ever, Mandy. Future question for Weather Wednesday
with Dave Frasier. Why can't the National Weather Service naked?
So the radio alerts don't sound like a muffled robot

(01:21:44):
with all the background noise. You would think in today's
age they could make the announcer sound just as clear
and concise as you do on the radio or the stream.
Number one. It is a piece of government equipment. Okay,
it's not our equipment. That equipment for the EAS system.
Hey Rod, how long have you been in radio?

Speaker 3 (01:22:04):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:22:05):
What year is it?

Speaker 6 (01:22:07):
I don't know, Ben, has it ever changed?

Speaker 1 (01:22:10):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:22:10):
Okay, So I've been in radio since nineteen ninety seven,
and in about nineteen ninety nine they updated and I'll
put you know, updated in nineteen ninety nine they updated
the EAS system, and I know this because it was
a complete pain and it was a nightmare and it
kept firing and it was just really a pain. But
they updated in like nineteen ninety nine. They have never
updated it since, and because it's a government piece of equipment,

(01:22:35):
don't expect it to be updated anytime soon. If they
would let radio stations take care of it, we would
be fine. Mandy. Why are these thunderstorm updates? A lot
of the time lists mile markers in their updates. Nobody
knows the mile markers. I guess if you're driving, you do.
I've lived here since twenty thirteen, and there's some things
in our traffic report that I'm still not sure where

(01:22:56):
they are. Where's the hog back? Again?

Speaker 6 (01:22:58):
I don't know?

Speaker 5 (01:23:00):
Do you not know a ron mouse trap?

Speaker 1 (01:23:02):
What?

Speaker 8 (01:23:02):
Huh?

Speaker 6 (01:23:02):
What is the mouse trap?

Speaker 4 (01:23:03):
Where's that?

Speaker 5 (01:23:04):
At? Is that over seventy?

Speaker 4 (01:23:05):
And I twenty five? Meat?

Speaker 5 (01:23:06):
Yeah, one of those things? Okay? And hogback?

Speaker 1 (01:23:10):
Is uh?

Speaker 5 (01:23:10):
That one thing?

Speaker 4 (01:23:11):
And this textra said, have you ever had someone tell
you they want the complete brutal truth, You give it
to them and they never speak to you again. And
I sent Becky yes, and I always see that they
did me a favor. When someone chooses to remove themselves
from your life, they have done you a favor. Straight up. Now,
I got to talk about this Google story because growing

(01:23:32):
up in Florida, mosquitoes are a ubiquitous part of your existence.

Speaker 5 (01:23:38):
There.

Speaker 4 (01:23:38):
Everyone I knew growing up had a bath house somewhere
near their yard where they actually had bats, where they
built a little house because bats eat a crap ton
of mosquitoes. And that's what got me thinking when I
saw this article about Google, as part of its debug program,

(01:24:00):
is now seeking approval from the federal government to release
up to thirty two million mosquito mosquitos in California and
Florida as part of its debug program.

Speaker 6 (01:24:11):
Now, why are they doing this?

Speaker 4 (01:24:13):
You guys may not realize, but mosquitoes are like little assassins.

Speaker 6 (01:24:19):
Mosquitoes. Listen to this stat This is so accurate.

Speaker 4 (01:24:22):
Mosquitoes are the deadliest animal in the world. Forget about hippopotamuses,
forget about crocodiles, forget about all those big predators. Mosquitoes
are responsible for more deaths every year because they carry
so many different diseases. They sicken hundreds of millions of

(01:24:43):
people per year. So what is Google got in this
debug program? They want to release male mosquitoes that they
have infected with a naturally occurring bacteria called Wolbakia, which
makes them unable to have offspring with wild female mosquitoes.

(01:25:05):
Male mosquitoes can't bite or spread disease, so good bugs
will stop bad ones from reproducing. Over time, there will
be fewer and fewer bad mosquitoes. This sounds like a
great idea, except I'm thinking about the bats, I'm thinking
about the birds, I'm thinking about other things that eat
all of these mosquitos. Now, obviously they're not doing a

(01:25:25):
good enough job, and now in Colorado we have cases
of West Nile virus, so now we're in serious mosquito time.
According to Google Debug scientists, this technique uses a naturally
occurring bacteria and uses no chemicals, no toxins, and doesn't
involve genetic modification.

Speaker 6 (01:25:47):
Similar approaches have.

Speaker 4 (01:25:48):
Been used to safely combat other pests for decades. We're
combining the debug team's scientific and engineering expertise with the
help of international partners, to raise and release lots of
good bugs and stop bad mosquitoes that can spread disease.
So this is kind of interesting when you go down
to like Africa. Africa. They stopped using DDT in Africa

(01:26:15):
after the Silent Spring controversy, which I'm going to be
perfectly frank when I say, I'm still not sure what
the actual right side of that issue is. But DDT
was used to control Mosquitos for years and years and
years and now not so much. Oh. Look Rob does
in entering the studio with breaking news. What is breaking?

Speaker 1 (01:26:37):
Rob?

Speaker 4 (01:26:37):
And break it right here? Do you want a sounder? Uh?

Speaker 5 (01:26:40):
No, I'm good.

Speaker 6 (01:26:42):
What is the breaking news you got?

Speaker 9 (01:26:44):
No, we just have a little bit more context of
that tornado warning that we had some of the audience
heard on the eas.

Speaker 6 (01:26:50):
So the warning goes.

Speaker 9 (01:26:51):
Until three fifteen pm. And it this this box right
now is not over a lot of population, but it
does fact are in parts of the south central Adams County,
Western a Rapa Ho in Central a rapa Hoe. Then
it is right outside of this tornado box. It's not
in the box, but there is concern that it could

(01:27:12):
track in that direction. In that direction, it just matters
whether it maintains its strength or not. Now it's a
severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado, so they have
not seen any funnel cloud particularly with this storm yet
of course that some of those come from my witness account,
you know, before the Weather Service came.

Speaker 4 (01:27:33):
Essentially we've got a tornado warning, a warning, tornado warning.

Speaker 9 (01:27:38):
This is a storm that they are very concerned about
just on radar at the moment. That the one thing
about this that there's not a population where it is
over right now, there's not a lot of population, but
it's just tracking towards where basically cutting I seventy at
a diagonal from going from southwest and northeast, so diagonal

(01:28:01):
over seventy And that's what we're just trying to understand
right now, whether this storm will continue its strength.

Speaker 4 (01:28:07):
Okay, So if you are out west in the Bennett area,
east of Aurora, east of that inner Rappo County, keep
your eyes open, is what we're saying. And quarter size
hail is possible with this.

Speaker 5 (01:28:19):
Story, all right, The same cell looks like it's going
to Fort Morgan here.

Speaker 9 (01:28:22):
Within the hour two potentially, although there are there were
up to four severe thunderstorm warning boxes about a half
hour ago. Okay, it's hard to pinpoint exactly what sell
this is, so all right, So We.

Speaker 4 (01:28:34):
Will obviously keep you guys up to speed on everything
weather related.

Speaker 6 (01:28:38):
And you can hear the.

Speaker 4 (01:28:39):
Robotic voice of the EAS system, not updated since the
late nineties right here on KOA.

Speaker 6 (01:28:44):
So there you go.

Speaker 4 (01:28:45):
Somebody just ask a question I didn't know the answer to,
but the Internet shared it with me. So if maile
mosquitoes don't bite, what do they eat? Says this texture mail.
Mosquitoes feed exclusively on sugar sources such as flower neckar,
plant sap, and honeydew. Huh, there you go. Who knew this?

Speaker 5 (01:29:06):
Texter?

Speaker 4 (01:29:07):
Said Mandy. Why don't they give the male mosquitoes little
tiny vasectoms? I think infecting them with a bacteria to
keep them from breeding is probably a better idea. And
this texter, said Mandy. The area where the boxes is
between Watkins and Bennett, Colorado. So, guys, the Eastern Plains
are going to be a mess for the next few hours.
And I gotta say this. I'm just gonna say it.

(01:29:29):
People on the Eastern Plains know what to do. Yell,
are not y'all?

Speaker 6 (01:29:34):
Are not city folks who maybe need a little more handholding.

Speaker 5 (01:29:37):
Yeah, the sterling ins sterling.

Speaker 4 (01:29:40):
Yeah, you don't need sterling Indians sterling Indians sir ling
sterlinging for Fort Morganites, let's call them Fort Morganites. I
like that, so only okins, that's obvious.

Speaker 5 (01:29:54):
Yeeah.

Speaker 6 (01:29:56):
The Benetians, the Benettons.

Speaker 5 (01:29:59):
And the might be a little less first, a little
closer than so you know how.

Speaker 4 (01:30:05):
To handle it. People, don't be an idiot, don't get
hurt anyway. A watch is it could happen, A warning
is it's happening. Thank you, Texter, because I always get
those mixed up. Mandy, I had the mosquito for sectomy comment.
Now I can picture as mosquito sitting on a couch
with an ice pack watching football.

Speaker 6 (01:30:24):
That is now a visual I share as well. Thank
you for that.

Speaker 4 (01:30:28):
Apparently a rod the hogback is the first row of
foothills near Ken Carroll that's supposed to resemble hogs back.

Speaker 5 (01:30:37):
Got okay, Roger, Now.

Speaker 4 (01:30:39):
We know, Mandy, do mosquitoes have took uses? I don't know.
They probably a little tiny hiinees. We'll just little tiny himies.

Speaker 5 (01:30:48):
They had to be tiny.

Speaker 4 (01:30:49):
But again I don't I don't care to get close
enough to Mosquito to find out. So we'll find out
if Google's going to release all these you gotta look
at like, what is the unintended consequence here, and that
is that you're gonna mess up the whole food chain.
That's what I'm concerned about. I don't care about mosquitos.
I hope they all die, unless, of course, they then

(01:31:09):
screw up everything. Mandy. So are male mosquitos pollinators? Yes
they are, Steve, Yes they are. I planted some, especially
I guess delicious plants on my deck, and I have
the cutest little bees on my flowers in the morning
when I come out. They are the cutest little bees
you've ever seen. They don't think.

Speaker 6 (01:31:31):
They don't seem to have a stinger at all.

Speaker 4 (01:31:34):
Now, let me talk about this very quickly, although I
was going to spend more time on it. Can we
talk about the job market for a minute, because statistically.

Speaker 6 (01:31:44):
Our job market looks great on paper.

Speaker 4 (01:31:48):
The four point three unemployment rate is below both the
ten year average that's four point six and the fifty
year average of six point one percent. For the second
month in a row, the official government tally of jobs
added blue past economist expectations. But it doesn't feel like that,
does it. A Rod and I were talking off the break.

(01:32:09):
We both know people who have been recently laid off.
Now he's in a slightly different situation in that he's young.
So when my friends get laid off, they're already in
their fifties. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that.
And I saw the numbers this morning. Oh wait, they
might be in this Maybe it was in this article
or another one. I can't remember that it talked about

(01:32:31):
the amount of time that people are on unemployment when
they are old.

Speaker 5 (01:32:36):
Oh, here it is here.

Speaker 4 (01:32:37):
It is four years ago, laid off workers forty five
to fifty four years old were unemployed for an average
of twenty seven point one weeks. Right now, that is
thirty point seven weeks. People over fifty five, it's even higher. Meanwhile,
people thirty five to forty four are unemployed for an

(01:32:57):
average of twenty four weeks. Y'all, that's still six months.

Speaker 5 (01:33:01):
Yeah, that is a long time.

Speaker 4 (01:33:05):
So I think some interesting things are happening. Jobs are
being created in retail and in healthcare, and that doesn't
seem to be I mean, anywhere else. I don't know,
But I'm curious as to your position right now. If
you are an employee, do you have fears that you

(01:33:26):
were gonna get laid off. Have you recently been laid off?
If you're If you've been laid off and you're in
the job market, how long have you been looking? How
many interviews have you had? What is the job market
here in Colorado? Mandy? They may be sweat bees on
the plants in the morning. What does a sweat bee?

(01:33:46):
What does that look like? Mandy is a kid. I
love the movie Lelo and Stitch, and for years I
believed it was true that mosquitoes were an endangered species.

Speaker 6 (01:33:55):
Oh no, they are not.

Speaker 4 (01:33:58):
No, no, no, they are not. Similar story and this
is one that I am very invested in because I
have a seventeen year old looking for a job. Fewer
teens are getting jobs. They're still looking, but they're not
getting jobs. Last summer, team hiring fell to its lowest
level in nearly eighty years. Forecasters predict it could be

(01:34:22):
even lower this summer. Last month, five point one nine
to three million workers between the ages of sixteen and.

Speaker 6 (01:34:28):
Nineteen were employed.

Speaker 4 (01:34:30):
That's down almost three hundred thousand workers from the year before.
So why is this happening?

Speaker 5 (01:34:38):
Why?

Speaker 4 (01:34:39):
Because the jobs that are being created are skilled jobs.
They are not entry level jobs. A few factors, says
USA today, are contributing to this low higher environment. The
Challenger report identifies four rising inflation and oil prices pushing
up costs for businesses, self checkout and automation replacing cashier

(01:34:59):
and customer service roles, competition from older workers seeking out
similar jobs, and a smaller teen labor force participation rate.
When I was a kid, I everyone I knew had
a job, I mean everyone same, and I worked in
a video store. I taught gymnastics.

Speaker 6 (01:35:18):
What else did I do? I worked at cracker Barrel.

Speaker 5 (01:35:20):
How old were your first job?

Speaker 6 (01:35:22):
Fourteen?

Speaker 4 (01:35:23):
Me too? I taught JYMNASTI well, I babysat from the
time I was like eleven years old until I got
an actual I babysat probably till I was I probably
babysat all the way through high school.

Speaker 6 (01:35:34):
For my next door neighbors who were amazing.

Speaker 5 (01:35:36):
Like was so good. I got paid and got gains
youth core fourteen years.

Speaker 6 (01:35:40):
Oh there you go.

Speaker 4 (01:35:40):
No, I taught gymnastics and when I was fourteen. When
I was fifteen, I worked at a video store until
I was seventeen, and then I went to work at
cracker barrel.

Speaker 5 (01:35:49):
Is it like not cool to have money as a
kid anymore? Like, here's my own money and what I want?

Speaker 4 (01:35:54):
This is the conversation Chuck and I had. You know,
Chuck and I, our parents didn't have money to give
us when we were young. And when he was raising
the boys, he didn't have money to give the boys.

Speaker 6 (01:36:02):
They had a job.

Speaker 4 (01:36:03):
As soon as they were old enough to ride their
bikes to get a job, they got a job. And
I told him last night, I think we're gonna have
to set some parameters and say the gravy train, the
parent gravy train stops. But the problem is my kid
doesn't go anywhere, she doesn't do anything, she doesn't spend
any money. She just had her seventeenth birthday. Do you

(01:36:24):
know what she told me she wanted for her birthday?

Speaker 5 (01:36:26):
Amy?

Speaker 4 (01:36:27):
She said, and I quote, Mom, I have no idea.
I just don't want stuff. What do you even do
with that? So literally, we got our a couple of
cute T shirts and we said we're going on two vacations.
We're going to Alaska with the whole family in August.
Looking so much forward to that with all my kids

(01:36:47):
and grandkids. If you see something really cool that you
want to buy, we will make that your birthday present.
Or we're going on the Mandy Cattle Adventure in the fall.
You can use the same strategy, like just tell us
because I don't want to buy her something that she
doesn't want. I just don't She's going to college in
a couple of years.

Speaker 5 (01:37:05):
And if she just doesn't want things, well, don't pull
the full e Brek on the gravy train. Just slow
down the gravy train.

Speaker 4 (01:37:13):
Well, we're gonna give her a set date. We're gonna
say on this date the gravy train stops.

Speaker 5 (01:37:17):
Well, look at that, it's your eighteenth birthday.

Speaker 6 (01:37:19):
No no, no, no, no no, that was my dad, Thank.

Speaker 4 (01:37:22):
You very much. Do you want to know why I
have been working since I was fourteen? That would be
my father's responsibility because he was tight. He was cheapity cheap, cheap, cheap,
cheapity cheap cheap. Big time kids beg Grandma for money now, no, no, no, Mayby.

(01:37:45):
I worked at two video stores and two movie theaters
in the nineties.

Speaker 5 (01:37:48):
It was awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:37:49):
How much is higher minimum wage affecting teens?

Speaker 8 (01:37:51):
You know what?

Speaker 4 (01:37:52):
In a city like Denver? I bet it has a
huge impact. You're seeing more automation. There's a McDonald's in
Parker that does not have people at the desk anymore.

Speaker 6 (01:38:01):
There's two kiosks.

Speaker 4 (01:38:02):
When you walk in, you place your order and you
walk up to a counter and somebody walks out from
the back and gives it to you or in.

Speaker 5 (01:38:08):
The drive through. Isn't not the funniest thing always when
you get the most amazing, welcoming ten second greeting, let
me know if you need anything, blah blah blah blah blah. Okay,
give me a second, let me know you're ready. Totally
a different person, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:38:22):
Just like he's just okay, Well I'm I'm missing come
to the AI want it anyway. Ryan Edwards has wandered
into the studio. Hello, looking fresh.

Speaker 5 (01:38:35):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:38:35):
You know, I just Ryan. Those boys in the afternoon
they pick on you too much, And if I didn't
think it would make it worse, I would give them
a stern talking too for kicking on you. It would
make it exponentially worse.

Speaker 5 (01:38:46):
Worse.

Speaker 4 (01:38:46):
Yeah, exponentially so I will. But I'm here for you.
I'm rooting for you in the car.

Speaker 5 (01:38:51):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (01:38:52):
Jam I'm thinking about turning that car around sometimes on
my way home.

Speaker 6 (01:38:58):
But then I'm like, don't make it worse, Mandy, don't
make it worse.

Speaker 5 (01:39:00):
Oh you can't do it.

Speaker 8 (01:39:01):
No, I listened to I understand that there plays a
bit of a role what they do and oh you
I say some I do for my own credit. I
do you say some bombastic things like the ads are
gonna sweep?

Speaker 6 (01:39:13):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I understand.

Speaker 4 (01:39:17):
Yeah, you did it, you absolutely, But I'm just saying
I have sympathy for you.

Speaker 5 (01:39:21):
That's all hard.

Speaker 6 (01:39:22):
I'm rooting for you.

Speaker 4 (01:39:23):
I appreciate and not turning around the car because that
would make it exponentially worse. Why that, It's time for
the most exciting segment on the radio of It's Guy
in the World, Good one of the day.

Speaker 6 (01:39:39):
I was like, a soccer Have you seen the commercial
with the soccer goal guy?

Speaker 7 (01:39:42):
Of course?

Speaker 4 (01:39:43):
Oh yeah, yeah, very clever, very clever. As you're trying
to reach a Latin market, that's the way to go.
Uh what is our dad joke?

Speaker 5 (01:39:52):
Which superhero likes hummus the most?

Speaker 4 (01:39:55):
Us humits? Which superhero likes miss the most? I don't know,
Peter Parker, Oh.

Speaker 5 (01:40:07):
Yeah, wow, that was.

Speaker 6 (01:40:11):
That wasn't okay? Today's review question?

Speaker 5 (01:40:14):
That was that good?

Speaker 3 (01:40:15):
I'm wrong.

Speaker 6 (01:40:16):
I have sorry words.

Speaker 10 (01:40:17):
Okay, we have done this a million times. It's an
adjective adjective unctuous. Unctuous means that it has it's it's like,
it's a flavor thing. No, it's a flavor that when
something is unctuous. No, No, it's like bold or wait.

Speaker 4 (01:40:35):
I know the definition this word?

Speaker 5 (01:40:37):
Okay, Ryan, any guests, No, I mean a word that's
undergone change in recent years now often describes food that
is fatty and oily, especially in a pleasing ISTU.

Speaker 3 (01:40:46):
I was wrong.

Speaker 4 (01:40:47):
I was totally on the right track.

Speaker 5 (01:40:48):
I want to mess with you, typically applied as a
formal adjective describing someone who is figuratively only figuratively oily. Yeah,
someone that's oily.

Speaker 6 (01:41:01):
Nny, you've never met an oily person?

Speaker 7 (01:41:02):
I have.

Speaker 4 (01:41:03):
Yeah, I'm just selling guys. Some jerseys in the nineties
were oily anyway, I don't know this one what long
running and best selling fantasy children's book series was penned
by British author Brian Jacques no Clue.

Speaker 6 (01:41:17):
The Red Wall series, the first book.

Speaker 4 (01:41:18):
Of which were published in nineteen eighty six. It follows
the adventures of anthrom anthro anthropomorphic pipe in medieval England
as they defend their beloved abbey against invading rats and
other threats.

Speaker 6 (01:41:32):
So there you go, all right, Bryan Edwards?

Speaker 2 (01:41:36):
Me?

Speaker 4 (01:41:37):
All right?

Speaker 6 (01:41:37):
What is our jeopardy category?

Speaker 5 (01:41:38):
The words of smash Mouth? All stars? Okay, all stars?
Hey now, hey now the right side of a sailing ship? Brian, Ryan?
What a Starbard? Correct?

Speaker 3 (01:41:53):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:41:53):
I got you?

Speaker 4 (01:41:54):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:41:54):
Judy Greer's memoir is I don't know what you know
me from my life as this type of actor Manny.

Speaker 4 (01:42:01):
What does a child star No? Dang it.

Speaker 5 (01:42:04):
Come on right right there? A star in it? Yeah,
I know, I know, I know my life as Ryan.
What does a movie star?

Speaker 1 (01:42:12):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:42:13):
What is a coastar star? An olympian who starts running
less than a tenth of a second after the gun
is guilty? What does a false start? That is correct?
One word meaning not wearing any clothes?

Speaker 4 (01:42:29):
Mandy? What is stark.

Speaker 6 (01:42:32):
Naked? What is Stark naked?

Speaker 5 (01:42:35):
I'm not gonna give it to you. Don't get a
negative though, because you're close enough but not exactly starkers
Oh would have got no negative? The So what's the score?

Speaker 6 (01:42:46):
It is one minus one.

Speaker 5 (01:42:48):
You have minus one? Yeah, Ryan about take the take
the lead again. Jesus tells parable about this seed of
condiment fame Mandy.

Speaker 6 (01:42:56):
What is mustard? Mustard seed?

Speaker 2 (01:43:00):
But you lose that.

Speaker 5 (01:43:02):
Mustard seed?

Speaker 4 (01:43:04):
Yeah, that's what I said.

Speaker 5 (01:43:05):
Well yeah the second time. Yeside with Chad Bauer. Oh no, no,
you take the lead. Sixth win, sixth win?

Speaker 4 (01:43:14):
Well done, Ryan, it is well done. What do you
guys have coming up on the old K sports?

Speaker 8 (01:43:19):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:43:19):
Boy?

Speaker 4 (01:43:20):
With those boys are too mean to you?

Speaker 5 (01:43:21):
Wow?

Speaker 8 (01:43:22):
Again I bring some of it on myself. We have
a lot to get to. Miles Garrett traded a J.
Brown was just traded a little bit ago. Oh jeez,
crazy crazy NFL news today. And we'll see if the Broncos.

Speaker 6 (01:43:33):
I have a question.

Speaker 4 (01:43:34):
Apparently the Broncos have chosen to replace stalls in some
of the women's bathrooms at Mile High with urinals. No way,
I have photographs. I'm literally calling the organization tomorrow to
ask what this is? Is that and I'm talking like
five urinals in the ladies room at empower Field?

Speaker 1 (01:43:52):
What?

Speaker 6 (01:43:53):
Yeah, okay, I got pictures from this last week.

Speaker 5 (01:43:55):
Yep.

Speaker 6 (01:43:56):
Anyway, we'll find that out.

Speaker 4 (01:43:57):
We'll be back.

Speaker 6 (01:43:58):
K Sports coming up,

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