06-03-25 FULL SHOW - Last Day Before Vacation and I've Got Shortimers Bad - The Mandy Connell Podcast

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock
Accident and injury lawyers.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
No, it's Mandy Connell and Connall on KOLA ninety one
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Speaker 3 (00:16):
Wait say the Nicey's three by Connal keeping you really
sad thing?

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Well, welcome, Welcome you.

Speaker 4 (00:27):
At Tuesday, it feels like Friday edition of the show
because tomorrow I am off to South Korea. Soul here
I come. I love Korean food. How are you on
Korean food? Anthony Rodriguez, we call him made Rod, He's
here with me.

Speaker 5 (00:43):
I love Korean.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
Korean food is my favorite ethnic food period.

Speaker 6 (00:47):
I take it back for two seconds. I thought it
Mongolian Korean. I know Korean barbecue, Korean.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
The whole palette of Korean food, the breadth that I know.
Most people are like, oh, I love al googee or
I love Korean bar or whatever it's which is delicious.
There's no knocking going on here. But as you move
into the more you know, complex dishes, the flavors, the spices,
the seasonings. It's my favorite. Super excited about that. So

(01:13):
CNN right now is reporting that the Colorado tax suspects
wife and kids have been taken into ice custody a
Rod And now we're kind of talking about that because
it popped up right as right before the show started.
And I mean, I'm like, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
And apparently his daughter was quite promising, just graduated from

(01:37):
high school, I think, and now they're going to be
deported to Egypt, where I'm guessing for his daughter life
will not be as good as it would be here
in the United States of America, or for that matter,
as it would be if he lived in Israel right now,
because you know, Arabs do live freely in Israel, happily, freely,
side by side with Israeli Jews. It's amazing. Shift to

(01:59):
Malston is you can't get it right. I also have
this from the Babylon Bee and this is laugh out
loud funny. And then I'm gonna get to the blog
because the blog is amazing. I got a compliment from
Catherine on Facebook. Thank you, Catherine. I appreciate your reading
the show and taking time to comment that it was
a fun blog. I appreciate you. So this from the babylon.

Speaker 5 (02:19):
Ze blog dot com.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
There you go, We're getting there. Listen to this headline,
A Rod Colorado rules Jews must make cake for terrorists
who lit them on fire Headline Boulder, Colorado. And by
the way, this is the Babylon b This is not
a real news story. This is a satire site. So
I don't want to confuse. I feel like we're going
to look on the verge or of the world's type

(02:41):
situation here. This is funny as heck. The controversy surrounding
a horrific attack over the weekend continue today as a
Colorado court ruled the Jewish victims must make a cake
for the terrorists to let them on fire. The ruling,
handed down early Monday morning after Sunday's terrorist attack. It
was a Muslim illegal alien from Egypt viciously burned Jewish

(03:03):
people at a pro Israel event. Mandated that the badly
burned victims of the attack bake their assailant to cake
within the next thirty days or face consequences. Refusal to
bake a cake for the man who burned that would
be horribly prejudiced, said District Judge Helen Jurgens.

Speaker 5 (03:19):
Has been well.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
Established here in Colorado, victims of injuries or persecution are
obligated by law to cater to their attackers, typically through
cake baking. And that's what we've become, Colorado, a sad,
sad little punchline at the Babylon B. At least today
there was no headlines about the Rockies. Did you see
the Rockies headline from yesterday on the Babylon B Rockies

(03:43):
demoted to church Softball League. Yeah, that's what we are.
That's who we are. That's what we are to the
Babylon B. Let's go find the blog, shall we. Let's
do it. Find the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. That's
Mandy's I'm thinking a rod when I get back from vacation,
I think maybe I'm going to make an instructional kind

(04:04):
of a recorded video, like like the safety demonstrations you
see on the planes, of how to find the blog.
As a former flight attendant, no you're not. No, as
a former flight I feel like, but you'll say. Look,
you have several entrances to the blog. You can go
to kaa Colorado dot com and look for the Mandy connopage.
Or you can do the easier way, go to mandy'sblog

(04:24):
dot com and badabing bababoom.

Speaker 6 (04:26):
Onlike a plane. There are no emergency exits. Once you're
in the blog, You're in the blog. You're not going
any sucked in because it's that good. There are no
exits exactly. There are no lights on the ground. Nope,
just Mandy and I just guiding you through greatness.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
No way to leave.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
Noon to three except when I'm on a vacation with
the next two and half weeks anyway, and I am gone.
Mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the
headline in the latest post section that says six three
twenty five blog last day before vacation and I've got
short timers bad. Click on that and here are the
headline you will find within tech toe.

Speaker 7 (05:02):
Oh I office South American all with ships and equipments
of Stana Press plant.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
Today on the blog, my out of office reply is set.
More on why you should vote no on Doug co
home rule my dragon voting friend. The Real Housewives of
Palmer Lake should be fire. Want to do something to
help the Jewish community. The Department of Ed is investigating
Jeff Coo. Schools teachers' unions are mad at who they elected.
Politics made an appearance at Lindell's trial boulders. State rep

(05:31):
would rather hang with an anti Semite. Democrats telling kids
America sucks is working. Rockies win. The Navy finally pays
attention to barracks. Liberals discover phonics works. Ukraine blows up
the breach to crimea. Trump's NATO strategy worked. This is
why non Thai people cannot have tie hot. You should

(05:54):
watch the Twisted view. We found the root cause of
aging suicide. Schiller takes his own advice, what do you able?

Speaker 5 (06:01):
Bodied?

Speaker 4 (06:02):
Childless Medicaid recipients spend their time on guys dinner, doesn't
buy anything, stay dirty during a thunderstorm. A genius move
that we need no more. You should do this. Diet
coke is not your friend. Those are the headlines on
the blog at mandy'sblog dot com, and uh, Catherine is

(06:24):
correct when she says it's a it's a good blog today.
I mean not that it's not a good blog every day,
but today's strong. So the comedy was strong on today's blog.
The starcasm rolls through my fingertips like lightning. It was fantastic.
Got a couple of stories that we're going to talk
about a little bit later. We've got guests coming up
that we are going to talk to first, but I

(06:46):
should let you know. If you email me at three
oh one today at Mandyconnell adiheartmedia dot com, you will
get a bounce back message that says, I am on vacation.
I already set it up a writer. Are you a
good out of office reply?

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Guy?

Speaker 4 (06:58):
Are you a responsible member of corporate environment who turns
that on when you leave for any length of time?
Thank you, because you're a decent person who was raised right.

Speaker 6 (07:07):
And it's gone from saying limited access to like, oh
I say no access.

Speaker 5 (07:12):
There are people you can reach out to.

Speaker 4 (07:13):
Yeah, I don't even do that. I'm like, yeah, I
got no. It literally says I'm on vacation until this
day with no access to email. We'll get back to
you when I get back. That's the whole shooting match
right there, whole little thing. And I am completely packed
except for our toile issues bags. Those suitcases are all
packed and laid out. Gott to drop the toiletuer bags
in the pre assigned space, ready to go.

Speaker 6 (07:33):
I ever since years past, I think we're past the
statute of limitations here.

Speaker 5 (07:38):
Oh God, in years.

Speaker 6 (07:40):
Past, it may or may not have been here, may
or may not have been a different role, and it
definitely was a different boss. I may or may not
have had a boss get frustrated that I did not
reply fast enough while on my honeymoon. I know, on
the beach. Yep, I could not believe I.

Speaker 4 (08:01):
Know who you're talking about.

Speaker 6 (08:02):
You buh, yeah you did not, just get mad I
did not reply fast enough while on my honeymoon. Yeah yeah,
So since then, Yeah, I've got, you know, a little
bit more of a twinkle in my eye when I
set that yep out of office.

Speaker 4 (08:18):
Yep reply and I do it, and I'm like, nope, can't.
I don't check my email while I'm at work. Although,
by the way, if you want to go with me
to South Korea and Japan, make sure you follow my
Instagram page. That is where I post most of my
stuff because it's just so much easier at the Mandy
Connell is the website, and I'll be posting there throughout
the trip, unless, of course, I leave my phone in

(08:38):
the airport again. But I will not do that again. No, no,
a Rod, you should see me now. It's like I'm
patting myself down, like I'm both the police and the
criminal before I go anywhere. If I stand up out
of a chair that I just sat in, I'm like, oh,
where's my phone? Okay, got my phone. It's it's now.
It's almost neurotic.

Speaker 5 (08:57):
I wish you the best, but we will see, Okay.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
I like your confidence. I'm me Mandy. Also from the
Babylon Bead, Rocky's rewarded for their tenth win with pizza
party at Chuck E Cheese. Well, I thought they'd be
off the hook for today.

Speaker 6 (09:12):
I have a question. It crossed my mind. I don't
like that it did. It's a real question. I think
it's a fair question. Okay, will they reach twenty wins?

Speaker 4 (09:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (09:22):
For four one hundred losses?

Speaker 4 (09:24):
Ay Rod. I literally just had this conversation in my
head because I.

Speaker 6 (09:29):
Want to obviously go with twenty wins. But it's a
real question. It's a fair question, h fair ten and
fifty The number says which one comes first.

Speaker 4 (09:36):
And I have not. I started out the season. I
probably watched most of the first games of the season,
and at some point, and I'm trying to be delicate here,
the product on the field, the level of perceived effort
on my on their part by me, Okay, yeah, you know,

(09:57):
I just remember all of those incredible No No One
Aeronaudo plays because he never stopped trying to win. You
know what I mean. You always knew that Nolan Aeronado
was going to go out there and put it on
the line every single game, it didn't matter how many
games back they were. That feeling is not I don't
see that on the field. Maybe the players have it.
I don't see it on the field.

Speaker 6 (10:17):
I do from some players, and I also hear it
from the intro manager, Warren Shaffer. I do think they
get to twenty wins before I hope so I think
they get to twenty wins before eighty losses.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
I love that optimism. I gotta tell you, I just
have not because here's the problem. We get marginally better,
every other team gets better at the same time.

Speaker 5 (10:42):
Injuries the other glorious thing here, and this is part
of it.

Speaker 6 (10:46):
That they have gone on a stretch now of playing
teams with winning records for a long while, like I
think like a month. Maybe they are now playing a
Marlins team twenty three and thirty five who are under
five hundred.

Speaker 5 (10:58):
Finally, did you see.

Speaker 4 (10:59):
The crowd yesterday Day's game and my crowd, I mean counted,
there were at least tens of people there.

Speaker 6 (11:04):
Yeah, it was well, I'll tell you that for the
next stretch. They have the Marlins for two more under
five hundred. Then they have the Mets, who were good,
Giants were good, but then Braves under five hundred, Nationals
under five hundred, Diamondbacks under five hundred.

Speaker 4 (11:17):
They've got some they've already lost to the Braves and
diamond Back.

Speaker 6 (11:20):
I get that, but you you have to imagine if
you are at least taking because they haven't won a
series for a while, but if they at least.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
One one since last year, might they have a one
one this year?

Speaker 5 (11:30):
You might not be wrong.

Speaker 4 (11:31):
No, I know I'm not wrong.

Speaker 6 (11:32):
If they're taking one and maybe they sneak too out
of some of those series, then they're going to get
that twenty wins. Pride is a factor here. Pride is
the factor. I like Warren a lot. I like his messaging,
I like his direction. I think the team likes him,
and I understand where they're at now. They know where
they're at. They're ten and fifty.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
But we have a lack of talent on the field.
And it's true obvious, that's true. I think I will
help out. I hope, so, I hope. So I'm wondering
from you guys, after a telling that story about you know,
being on vacation and having the boss get mad because
he was on his honeymoon and and he didn't respond
fast enough. Did we get this on the Common Spirit

(12:09):
health text line manby? When I worked for Quests, the
last thing I did before I took an extended vacation
really screwed up a database and they were frantically trying
to get a hold of me the entire time and
couldn't get a hold of me. I got written up
when I came back, the only time I've ever been
written up in my life. Now I own my own business.
Yeah yeah, but I mean, I'm pretty sure that I've

(12:31):
taken a phone call. I came back from attorney to
leave early. But I'm wondering if anybody else had a
vacation just kind of blown out of the water. I'm curious.
You can text us at five six six nine, Now, Mandy,
can we get a big old hard hardy don toutin
for the road, darn tote you can anyway, Let's talk

(12:54):
about who's coming up at twelve thirty. Oh my god,
super excited about this dragon? Are you from with dragon boating?
Aerd Do you know what dragon boating is?

Speaker 5 (13:04):
Doesn't have to do it live anymore?

Speaker 2 (13:05):
Dog Tuton.

Speaker 4 (13:06):
There we go. All right, I've heard of that it is.
It's a Chinese and I'm going to show a little
bit of ignorance here. It appears to be, according to
the Internet, an ancient Chinese. It's a canoe race, only
the dragon boats were very very long, like a dragon.
And these guys are gals depending on which team you're on,
they are paddling these things so fast. And my friend

(13:29):
with longtime physical therapist, Mark Perez, is not only the
coach of a local dragon boat team, he is the
coach of the PASCO, that's the Philippine American Society of
Colorado Fighting Dragons. He's been invited to compete on behalf
of the United States of America in the international competition.
He's going to join us at twelve thirty to talk
about that. And at one o'clock I have already come

(13:53):
out and said I am a no on home rule
in Douglas County, mostly because of the way that it
is being done. In theory. I would love to have
a longer conversation about what home world would really look like.
I would love to have a conversation about what we
might change. But the speed with which it is being
shoved down the throats of Douglas County voters is a

(14:14):
hard pass. It's too important to get it really wrong,
and anything you rush that's this important, you're gonna get
really wrong. But joining me at one o'clock to talk
a little more about it is former county commissioner from
Douglas County Steve. I don't know how to say his
last name. I'm going to say Boned, but I'm not
sure that's right. Bo An d. I apologize, sir. You

(14:35):
can correct me at one. He's coming on the show
to talk about that. And in the meantime, we can
do a couple of things today. Okay, I have a
lot of stuff on the blog, and some of it's
super interesting, but I also am mentally checked out, ready
to go on vacation. So we can do and ask
us anything however you want to do it five six,
six nine, oh, just text your questions. Mandy. Thank you

(14:59):
for your report of the Jewish community using your voice
on your platform is much appreciated. I did not just
use my voice yesterday. I made a donation to a
new fund that is specifically designed to give more security
in Colorado, Boulder and the surrounding areas, four places where
Jews gather, and I put a link to this. It's

(15:19):
through Jewish Colorado dot org and I put a link
to it on the blog. They're also having a vigil
tomorrow night. They have a They're having a vigil tomorrow night.
Those details are also at Jewish Colorado dot org. And
you know, I said yesterday like I wish I was
going to be here this weekend so I could go
walk down Pearl Street in solidarity with these people. But

(15:41):
I can't because I'm leaving for Korea tonight in the
middle of the night. So this is my small way
of helping. And if you would like to do something,
I mean even a symbolic like five dollars, just to
say this is all I've got, but I want you
to have it. I just think that it's unfortunate that
not only are we unable to protect people in Colorado,

(16:03):
but that our legislature keeps making it harder and harder
and harder for people to be able to protect themselves,
and that's just sad to me. But at the same time,
we've seen an increase in anti Semitic attacks and anti
Semitic issues a skyrocketing in Colorado compared to the rest
of the country. We're now making it harder for anyone

(16:25):
to learn how to use a firearm and use it well,
and we're making it prohibitively expensive. Well done, Democrats, Well done. Mandy.
Ask you anything, Do you wash your eyelids, like the
inside or the outside? Because I am a woman and
I do wear eye makeups, so yes, I thoroughly wash

(16:46):
my eyelids because you got to get the makeup off, Mandy.
Napa Valley Wine train had servers crashing. Nobody else could
seem to figure it out, and I didn't have the
internet where the train was ruined my experience by making
me talk them through what to do during dinner. Crowd

(17:07):
last night at the Rockies game was five two and
eighty four excluding Miami Rockies. Last twenty nine games were
the top teams, not middle of the road teams are
below average teams. I love your optimism. I love your optimism, Texter.
I really do trust me when I say, no one
wants the Rockies to be good. I don't even need

(17:29):
great at this point. I just want good than me.
I'm a hardcore baseball fan, and every time I watch
them play, my heart breaks a little bit more. There's
no other way to put it. Yes, says this text.
I was cruising to the Panama Canal and had to
complete my annual review for the previous year while sitting
on the ship off the coast of Central America. That's

(17:50):
when you do that. Okay. Let me just give you
guys a pro tip. Okay, especially if you're on a cruise,
especially you start with, well, you know, sometimes the ship's
WiFi is super you know, I mean, it's a ship,
it's not a stationary thing. I mean sometimes if the
weather's bad, or you know, in the Panama Canal and

(18:11):
the waves are too high, it's really tough and sometimes
the WiFi just doesn't work. What I find annoying about
all of this is that there's almost never a reason
that someone can't figure out the answer to the problem
that they are calling you to answer. There's usually a
million different other ways to do it, unless, unless, of course,

(18:34):
you are a business owner and you're too afraid of
giving up any control, and you're the only person that
knows the answers to those questions. Mandy, ask me anything.
What's the blog name again? Mandy's blog dot com? Mandy's
blog dot com. Mandy, it just seems like there's some

(18:57):
degree of cronyism going on with the implementation of home
rule in Douglas County. Correct, Mandy, what's your favorite dessert ever? Oh? Hmm, okay,
my favorite dessert ever has to be I love cake, right,
And I'm one of those people that I like the
cake more than I like the frosting that I just

(19:19):
need a little bit of frosting. Really good cake. And
there's a cake in the South that is a white cake,
just a plain white cake, and then it has caramel frosting.
And you can do the caramel frosting one of two ways.
You can just make the caramel and add butter to
it and just make the thick caramel then kind of

(19:39):
pour it over the cake and then it kind of
drizzles over the sides and creates like a almost a
crunchy shell. Or you can throw it into a mixer
and whip the caramel and then that's more of a
traditional frosting. Like, right now, I'm talking about that and
my mouth is watering so hard, so hard.

Speaker 6 (20:00):
Good.

Speaker 4 (20:01):
I might have to make one of those for myself
for my birthday because I don't think anybody can make
it as good as I can. That's my problem at
this point in my life. I don't even like going
out to dinner anymore because I'm like, I can totally
make this better. I mean, seriously, when we get back,
let's talk dragon boat International Challenge. When we get back
after this dragon boat racing, Yeah, it's a thing. And

(20:22):
joining me now, Mark Perez, our family's longtime physical therapist
and the coach of the Filipino American Wait a minute,
hang on, I had it right here, Mark, the Filipino
American Society of Colorado's Fighting Dragons, a local dragon boat
team based in Aurora, Colorado, and now he's about to
head to Germany for an international competition. Mark, welcome to

(20:44):
the show.

Speaker 7 (20:45):
First of all, Hi, thank you for having me.

Speaker 4 (20:50):
Let's start at the very beginning. What is dragon boat racing?
Where did it come from?

Speaker 7 (20:55):
Yeah? So dragon boat racing started out in China two
thousand years ago. It pretty much involves a forty foot
long canoe with twenty two people on it, so twenty
paddlers and then a drummer up front and a stern
at the very back of the boat.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
So this is all about individuals working very hard by
themselves together, right, because I mean that's a lot of people, correct.

Speaker 7 (21:20):
Yeah, It's all about timing, synchronicity, teamwork. So that's why
I love the sport so much. Do we have without
each other?

Speaker 1 (21:27):
So?

Speaker 4 (21:27):
Do we have a large dragon boat racing community in
the Denver metro?

Speaker 2 (21:33):
We do.

Speaker 7 (21:34):
So. The Colorado dragon Boat Festival has been going on
since two thousand and one and it's the largest dragon
boat festival in the nation. Were one hundred thousand, Yeah,
one hundred thousand attendees throughout the entire weekend.

Speaker 4 (21:44):
How did you get started in this sport?

Speaker 3 (21:49):
So?

Speaker 7 (21:49):
Yeah, I was just just drugged into it. Back then,
in two thousand and one, the Asian leaders in Colorado
wanted to bring out dragon boating just to unite the
Asian communities. They went around to the different Asian communities,
including my group, the Filipinos POSTCO and asked us to
join the racing. And I've been doing it ever since.

Speaker 4 (22:08):
And you've been training hard because now you've been invited.
I guess explain to me how this works that you
are going to Germany to compete. You're not going with
a team though, you're going as an individual.

Speaker 7 (22:20):
So I'm going with Team USA. So this was a
big tryout for the entire nation. So they're putting together paddlers,
the top peddlers all across the US to represent Team
USA in the World Championships in Germany.

Speaker 4 (22:34):
That is so cool, Mark, How many athletes get to
go and represent Team USA.

Speaker 7 (22:40):
So there are different age divisions, so I'll be representing
the Senior A division, so that's peddlers forty and up.
And in each age division they select about thirty males
and thirty females for each age division.

Speaker 4 (22:54):
That's very cool.

Speaker 7 (22:55):
It's going to be oh, go ahead, Yeah, there's gonna
be a good number of athletes representing the US out there.

Speaker 4 (23:01):
And where are you going in Germany?

Speaker 7 (23:04):
It'll be close to Berlin. It'll be in Brandenburg, Germany.

Speaker 4 (23:07):
All right, have you ever been to Germany before?

Speaker 7 (23:11):
I've actually never been to Europe, so this would be
my first time across the pond.

Speaker 4 (23:15):
Oh, that's super cool. And Mark has put together a
GoFundMe because the athletes know. You guys need some sponsorship opportunities. Mark,
you got to have some logos on your chest in
your arms. We got to work on sponsorships for dragon voting.
I feel like this is an untapped market, but we'll
get you here to Germany first and we'll work on
all that. On the other side, we do have a

(23:36):
go fundme account set up for Mark so he can
go and represent the United States of America. Mark, I
had no idea that this is like you're you are
at the elite level of dragon voting in the United States.
I mean, don't get me wrong, I was impressed before,
but now I'm even doubly impressed that I know an
elite athlete like this.

Speaker 7 (23:58):
Yeah, I appreciate it'sake a lot of hard work, sacrifice, dedication,
but I'm excited to represent them USA.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
Well.

Speaker 4 (24:04):
I put a link to marksco fundme account, Chuck and
I made a donation last night. So if you have
a few bucks and you want to help this guy
go bring the dragon boat flag back to the United States,
you can do that. Mark. I really appreciate your time today.

Speaker 7 (24:18):
Thank you so much for having me on all right now.

Speaker 4 (24:20):
Go kick butt, go kick international butt in the dragon
boat on behalf of the United States. We'll do all right,
thanks Mark. I mean that's just cool. I put a
video on the blog of the dragon Boat competitions. They
are as cool as you would think they are. I mean,
they're very very cool. So Mark has almost reached his
big whopping twenty four hundred dollars goal. So I he's

(24:40):
super super guy and he's been working at this for
a really long time. So no, the goal is over
four thousand, says Chuck. Not what's on. So he's halfway
to his four thousand dollars goal. But I just I
think that's very very cool, Mandy. I hope management listen today.
Keep Brian Brian. See this is why Ryan won't allow
any Brian's. Right here. In this one text mess to

(25:02):
Jay Rod, we talked about the Ryan meetup that is
trying to get as many Ryans as possible at the
Rockies game on the twenties, just so they can have
a bunch of Ryans there. And they are very clear
about nope Brian's and now we know why because they
always get mistaken for Brian's. So yeah, Mandy, Currently there
are two dragon boats floating around the Adams County Fairground

(25:24):
Lakes nifty to see. I don't know who owns the
boats texture. I'm sorry about that, do not know? Hi,
Mandy koaam really fading out in and out week today.
Have a delightful trip that more than likely is a
weather issue, depending on where you are. When there's cloud

(25:44):
cover like we have today that's breaking up and then
kind of lowering down again, it can recavoc on the AM,
but you know what, it doesn't recavoc on the crystal
clear digital audio on the iHeartRadio app available on that
little computer in your hand that you make. You can
also make phone calls on just letting you listen there, Hi, Mandy.
How many weeks of vacation do you get? How much

(26:04):
do you think you should get? I get three weeks
in four days, but I think I should get one
week for every year of employment, so seven weeks. They
don't see it that way. I get five weeks of vacation.
And there's a whole story about that. But all the
years I couldn't get a raise, I was like, hey,
give you another week of vacation. They were like sure,

(26:25):
And now they're like, I'm sorry, you have helmet? What
what time do you have off? What? What are you doing? Anyway?
How about visiting Jack Phillips ask him to make the
cake a fun quest and a wonderful business to patronize.
I am going to be straight up honest. I have
gone to like three different bakeries and I have explained

(26:48):
to them what this cake is, and I have taken
them a picture of the Southern Living you know, recipe
from the Southern Living book I have from like nineteen
sixty four, and none of them can get it right.
And then they charged me thirty five forty bucks. And
that was a long time ago, so it's probably like
seventy bucks now. So I just I'll make it myself.

(27:08):
It's delicious. I'll take care of it.

Speaker 6 (27:10):
Though.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
Hi, Mandy, why is an a Rod going on the
big trip too? Well, somebody's got to run the radio
station while Dragon's going. Uh Mandy. Not while on vacation.
But after I was laid off, my former coworker texted
several times and we had a forty five minute call
about how to do things. I finally said, Hey, I
don't work there anymore. You need to figure it out.

(27:33):
I would have said hey man, good to hear from you.
And the first question I'd like, Ooh, I don't work
there anymore. That is not a me problem, that's a
you problem. Is it spiteful and petty? Yes it is.
Mandy on a hunting vacation had a big grizzly in

(27:53):
the crosshairs and the boss called bear haul button. Never
saw another one. Yep, Hi man, is it true? The
shenanigans of all kinds take place in the flight crew
rest quarters on aircraft. As my big five and a
half year stretch as a flight attendant, I never ever
experienced another human being in the crew rest area. And frankly,

(28:17):
there was very few flights that I was on that
we had a crew rest because when I flew to
Europe it was too short. You didn't get crew rest
like significant rest. They may have blocked off a few
seats for you to sit in, but you didn't get
significant crew rest until yet really long flights, and I
just didn't do enough of those to have that experience. Now,
shenanigans on the layovers. Correct. Would I ever marry a pilot? No?

(28:42):
I would not, although I do no wonderful pilots who
probably don't cheat on their wives. I did need a
lot of pilots who did cheat on their wives. I
don't know what percentage that is, and I don't want
to disparage the entire profession, because again, I know pilots
who are wonderful and do not cheat on their wives.
Let's see here. Ask me anything, Mandy. I heard from

(29:06):
the King Supers guys that Kings gets four cents for
every police bag fee on those cheap paper bags they
make us buy. What does the state do with the
remaining six cents?

Speaker 5 (29:15):
I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (29:19):
Mandy, when will we see the return of the Mandy
and Q Show. She is your perfect co host. We
are working on a project and hopefully that project will
be going middle of summer. She has to learn how
to edit and take care of the business work of
that stuff. Mandy, we're at the point of the Rockies
where we need to embrace the suck. I agree with you,

(29:40):
text her, I truly do agree with you. So yeah, yeah, anyway, Mandy,
will you send me that pulled pork crocpot recipe have
fun on vacation. You have to email me for that,
Mandy Connell at iHeartMedia dot com. Please do that. And Mandy,

(30:02):
thanks for that blog post about donating to the Jewish
Colorado Boulder Security Fund. I donated to the fund just
after reading your blog earlier this morning. That from Andy,
who is now my favorite and last, but not least, Mandy,
Please don't say Christa is covering for you. I believe
I looked at it this morning. It's a little combination

(30:24):
of Jimmy Sangenberger, Deborah Flora. You're gonna get some ben
Albright in there, and then you're gonna get one day
with Greg Stone, one of our guys from the rock Side,
super super smart guy. I kind of wish I was
gonna be here to hear Greg because I was intrigued
by that. I was like, I've never heard him do
this kind of talk. So there you go, true crime

(30:45):
with c That kid does not need any more reasons
to read about murder. My goodness. I can't really blame her, though,
because I did the exact same thing at her age.
A pilot, in his defense, says Mandy, I'm a retired
airline pilot. First wife cheated on me during my divorce.
I kept a list of cheating spouses versus pilots overwhelmingly.
It was the stay at home spouse who cheated. And

(31:06):
I said, look, I can see that, but I didn't
work with them. And when I worked as a flight attendant,
I was much younger, much thinner, and much hotter than
I am now. And trust me, I had more than
my share of pilots. I didn't have them. I'm saying
they made their best attempt, but no, that was not
my thing. Mandy. It's the longest international flight you ever worked.

(31:28):
That would be from Frankfurt, Germany to San Francisco, and
as I recollect, it was about fifteen hours, maybe a
little bit more. But it was so cool because you
flew up and over the polar ice caps, so if
you looked out the window you could see the curvature
of the Earth. It was so cool, super cool flight.

(31:49):
How long is the flight to Soul? San Francisco to
Soul is about twelve hours and forty five minutes. Not
looking forward to that at all, not even a little bit.
Who do you think in parallel park better Que or
a Rod? I have never seen a rod parallel park
and Q is just now learning to drive phenomenally, Thank
you very much. I couldn't even I've never seen you

(32:11):
parallel park, so I couldn't even make a comment on it,
even if I wanted to do something.

Speaker 5 (32:15):
I get very nicely thank you.

Speaker 4 (32:17):
Yeah, Mandy, what what did you download for your trip?
I don't remember, and I know that that sounds stupid,
but I always download stuff that I have no idea
what it is, but it has either people that I
like or whatever, and then if I start watching it,
I don't like it, I just I just delete it.
It's fine, Mandy. Are you going to eat any of
the dogs or cats that the street vendors kill in

(32:39):
front of you in Korea? We're probably not gonna go
to that kind of market. We're going to go to
the market whi's been purely touristed and therefore.

Speaker 5 (32:48):
Uh yeah, I have an update.

Speaker 4 (32:51):
Uh oh.

Speaker 6 (32:51):
One of our listeners, Andrew Yes As asked Grock on
the analysis of whether the Rockies will reach twenty wins
or LOSSA. First of all, a detailed current pace in
projections games needed to reach milestone's likelihood calculations, betting odds,
and market sentiment probability estimates, but in conclusion, based on

(33:13):
current performance projections and remaining schedule. According to grock the
Colorado Rockies are more likely than not to reach twenty
wins before one hundred losses.

Speaker 4 (33:23):
I'm asking chat gbto let's see what Chad has to say.
We'll put AI versus AI.

Speaker 6 (33:32):
Apparently there's a sixty to eighty percent chance in favor
of reaching twenty wins forres go that's good.

Speaker 4 (33:39):
So eighty percent that's good.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
I mean.

Speaker 4 (33:44):
The chance conclusion from chat GBT. While the Rockies' current
performance is concerning their chances of reaching one hundred losses
before twenty wins are low, their recent victory and the
presence of emerging talents suggest that they may find ways
to set your additional wins as the season progresses. We're
gonna go, chat GPT it says, yes, they're gonna. They're

(34:05):
gonna do it. They're not gonna reach one hundred losses. Mandy,
do you know what happ happen to know what type
of plane you're flying on tonight? Have you flown a
Boeing seven eighty seven Dreamliner? And how nice is it?
The planes are really nice? I And this is like
the most first world complaint you'll ever hear from me.
We do not travel in business class very often, but

(34:28):
we're on a flight it's like thirteen hours. We're in
business class. But if you're with United Airlines, your business
class seats are horrible. For tall people, they are so horrible.
And the way that you box in people's feet, ay Rod,
when you sleep at night, do you sleep with their
feet right next to each other? What kind of maniac
would sleep with their feet right next to each other.

Speaker 5 (34:49):
That's weird.

Speaker 4 (34:50):
It's so uncomfortable and it's sick. Like I said, biggest
first world problem ever, right, so I should not complain that.
I'm hoping maybe someone with United will listen and go,
we get someone who's six 's four and have them
sit in one of those seats and see what we're
talking about. And don't get me wrong, I know you
don't build airline seats for people who are six to four,
but at least maybe take that stuff into consideration, Mandy.

(35:11):
World War three will start when you're on vacation, and
I'll find out when I get back. I mean, unless
say bomb Japan or Korea, I'm out people. I'm not
paying attention, Mandy. On the topic of Korea, I served
twelve years active duty and lived in Korea for four
of those and I believe you're going to enjoy your
time there. That from Taylor, Well, I hope so, Taylor,

(35:31):
because we are going to do a tour of Camp
Casey and the DMZ and all of that stuff the
day after we arrive. That's why we're going one day
earlier ahead of our group. And I am super excited because,
like you, Taylor, Chuck was also stationed in Korea, and
we're gonna go relive his youth, as they say, when
we get back. If you're wondering why I'm a no
on home rule in Douglas County, I will have a

(35:55):
partner to explain that when we get back.

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Speaker 4 (36:25):
To the second hour of the show. Joining me now
is a man with a much longer list of credentials
when it comes to Republican and Douglas County politics than
I do. He's a former county commissioner, longtime party guy
and activist, and has held different roles in a variety
of other parts of the Republican operation. And Steve Bohan

(36:45):
reached out to me and said, Hey, if you need
any help on this no on home rule for Douglas
County thing, please let me know. And I said, I
always welcome people onto my parade bandwagons. Let's do it. Steve,
first of all, welcome to the show. Thank you very much, Mandy.
So let's talk about let's start with a home rule period, Okay,
because this is one of those things where people I

(37:05):
think there's a lot of misinformation flying around right now,
and a lot of it is being floated on purpose,
I think, to confuse people about what home rule actually does.
If a county adopts home rule, what does that do.

Speaker 8 (37:18):
Counties have basically three sets of powers. They have mandatory
powers that they're required to implement by the state. They
have discretionary powers, and then home rule powers. And the
addition of home rule powers to Douglas County only adds
a few things that the county can do. We're already
and have already implemented mandatory powers, many discretionary powers. Home

(37:44):
rule powers don't do much for us. I've been asking
all along where's the beef on home rule? And there
aren't great answers at this point.

Speaker 4 (37:53):
Well, and there are things being said, and they're being
said by the county commissioners in such a way as
to give the appearance that, oh, we'll be able to
push back against laws we don't like. Well, laws we
don't like is a pretty broad stroke, right. I mean,
it could be the new concealed carry permit laws, or
the new gun purchasing laws, or the bag tax fee,

(38:15):
or these are all things that I've heard bandied about
from people in Douglas County who truly believe that if
they vote for home rule, somehow we're going to be
able to get out from under those things. How accurate
is any of what I just said?

Speaker 8 (38:27):
Is highly unlikely that we'll be able to get out
from existing state laws. Now, items that are considered by
the legislature to be items of statewide interest, absolutely not.

Speaker 4 (38:38):
They can regulate that. And to be clear that state
concern that is in the legislation, they put it in
there specifically to say that whatever we're passing, whether it's
zoning laws or gun laws or bad taxes, it is
a matter of state concern. That pretty much eliminates the
ability of a home rule county to push back on
that particular rule. Right, You're absolutely right. Okay.

Speaker 8 (39:00):
There's another section called the safety clause that they put
in almost every bill, and the safety clause reads the
General Assembly finds, determines, and declares that this Act is
necessary for the immediate preservation of.

Speaker 4 (39:14):
Public peace, health, or safety.

Speaker 8 (39:18):
I think that clause actually makes it difficult for the
county to push back against things that they might not like.

Speaker 4 (39:26):
Well, and here's the thing. There are things about a
home rule that I think are kind of cool. I
do think that it matters that it's not a matter
of state concern. There would be times where I would
like the opportunity to at least be able to say,
wait a minute, now, we have standing as a home
rule county. Because in a lot of cases, even if
Douglas County wants to sue the state because of the
property tax shenanigans that the state told, I say, shenanigans, Yeah,

(39:50):
but the judges said, look, you don't have standing because
you're this kind of county. There's some parts of that
that are appealing. And I've said this on the show already.
I'm against this particular iteration of home rule because of
the way it's being shoved down everybody's throats, and I
think things are being said. They're giving the impression that
things will be possible under home rule that simply will

(40:11):
not be possible.

Speaker 8 (40:13):
Home rule at this point is a bit of an
unwritten book. We don't know what powers it will provide.
There are lots of potential opportunities, but there are also
lots of risks, and the risks are tabor Right now,
citizens of Douglas County vote on debt and taxes that

(40:35):
could be changed under home rule. We could have extended
terms for local elected officials at the county. That can
be a positive if you're of one camp, it would
be a negative for me. I'm a two term and
out type guy. I believe we all need to go

(40:55):
home and get a real job and participate in our
county as a member of the public, not just an
elected official.

Speaker 4 (41:05):
There are I mean, there is a long list. Well,
let me let me play Devil's Advocate with you for
a moment. Why not vote yes and then try to
be a part of the Charter Commission, To be a
part of the person or to be a part of
the group that is writing the charter of Douglas County.

Speaker 8 (41:22):
That's the camp I was in until last week. I
was looking at this as perhaps there are things that
we need to learn from each other that would make
this better. After I attended the county commissioner's public meeting
on this issue, watched the behavior how they shut down
citizens who were trying to provide input and then provided

(41:46):
a threat against those who stood up, I went from
being let's look at this to a hard note, this
is not the right time, not the right way to
get this done.

Speaker 4 (41:57):
Would you be a posy And I've said this on
the year as well, I would completely be open to
it in the future with a much more transparent process.
I do not think that there should be three county
commissioners on the Charter Commission who could potentially say we're
going to limit the County Commission to three officers and
not go to five. Ever, they could put that in
the charter to cemit a more centralized corps of power.

(42:21):
I'm not necessarily for growing big government, but I am
distrustful of county commissioners who want to do this and
then say, but we want to be on the board
as well. When they stand to benefit.

Speaker 8 (42:31):
I don't believe the elective officials who potentially stand to
benefit from setting their salary or their term limits should
be on the Charter Commission. They are expert advisors to
the Charter Commission and should play that role. They should
be brought in to testify, give their perspectives right in
opinions on what should be in the charter.

Speaker 4 (42:51):
I know, what are some of the other things that
I'm always trying to find unintended consequences?

Speaker 2 (42:58):
Right?

Speaker 4 (42:58):
An unintended consequence of this? In my mind, one of
the biggest is simply this the amount of time that
you will have if someone gets on the Charter Commission
in June, the number of days until they have to
produce a document for review is about seventy days. So
let's just say we meet once a week. How many
hours are we going to meet once a week? And

(43:19):
then you're going to basically have seven meetings to eight
meetings maybe nine meetings of an all volunteer committee where
everybody's not going to be able to be at every minting.
How does this get done? And if you're doing it
with that speed, I don't trust the outcome. I think
something that's important in this foundational and this fundamental, this
constitution for Douglas County cannot be rushed. And that's how

(43:40):
I feel this is going.

Speaker 8 (43:41):
I agree with you one. If we're going to do this,
let's do it right. Let's take the time that is
required to look at the issues, to talk about the
pros and cons of each way of implementing those issues,
and give the charter commission in the two hundred and
forty days.

Speaker 4 (44:02):
Maybe it takes one hundred to get this right. I agree.
I would have preferred they put the charter on the
November election to be voted on the following year. I mean,
I would much have preferred an outcome like that. But
when asked recently at a panel discussion about it that
I was at George Teel when they said why are

(44:23):
you rushing, and he said, well, we want to start
out January first as a as a home ruld county.
That's not a good enough reason. There's nothing pending, there's
nothing out there, there's nothing hanging that you can point
to that says we need to move with this kind
of speed. And therefore I'm just immediately suspicious, and I
hate that I am that way but I haven't had

(44:43):
this a very long time, Steve. As you have, I'd
like to ask you a little bit about that meeting,
because there's been some conflicting reports about that meeting. I
think the unconflicting parts that I've heard were that there
was absolutely no time given for citizen questions. The county
commissioners and the County attorney sucked up all the time

(45:05):
that should have been spent allowing people to ask questions
back and forth. But one thing that I am not
clear on did they say at the end of the meeting, Hey,
we'll have another meeting where we can just answer your questions.
Was there any effort at all to say we want
to address these questions that you have in a public setting. Well,
I didn't hear that.

Speaker 8 (45:24):
Now we all have access to the video of that meeting,
and it's important to go back and take a good
look at it.

Speaker 4 (45:30):
But the reality is it should not have been a
one hour meeting.

Speaker 8 (45:34):
This issue is so critical to the future of Douglas
County that the Border County Commissions should have stayed till
ten o'clock that night.

Speaker 4 (45:41):
Listen to everyone.

Speaker 8 (45:43):
I'm interested in all perspectives at this point, but that
meeting turned me off.

Speaker 4 (45:49):
I am now a hard no. Somebody just asked this
question on our text line. Hasn't Weld County had home
rules since the nineteen seventies and not had any of
the issues that this guy's talking about. And at the
panel discussion for Douglas County Citizenry that I moderated, we
did have a gentleman who was a Weld County commissioner

(46:09):
and he told me privately he's that I love home rule,
but I do understand why citizens are so concerned about
the speed of the process, because in Weld County it
took much, much, much longer. Steve, I don't know if
you know the answer to this question. What would have
to happen if a group of citizens, let's just say
this charter issue fails. Could a group of citizens ostensibly

(46:33):
then kind of restart the process. We could vote on
it again in the future at some point. Because there's
a lot of people are saying it's this time or never,
which makes no sense to me. That seems like voter blackmail.

Speaker 8 (46:44):
Well, the answer is yes, this can be restarted. According
to state law. It takes a relatively small number of voters,
about five percent in the last general election to generate
a petition to put it back on the ballot. I
think that might be a good way. Let's have a
cooling off period. If this does not pass, think through it,

(47:08):
then talk about whether this is worthwhile for the future.

Speaker 4 (47:12):
I also have an issue with the fact that there
was a tiny window for people to express their interest
in being on the ballot to be on the Charter Commission.
I would like to think that a longer process, because
I'm still talking to people now, they're like, Oh, that
sounds kind of cool. How do I get on the
Charter Commission? You missed that deadline by weeks and weeks.

(47:33):
You're way too late. Those are some of the issues
that I'm stuck on. So what would have to happen
for you to support a home rule charter initiative in
the future.

Speaker 8 (47:44):
Well, Number one, we would need to have a broad,
open discussion about how we move forward. Let's talk about
the timeline, Let's talk about how the public input process,
what that would look like. I do realize that the
Charter Commission would be the one who set the rules.
They are a body independent of the county. Let's give

(48:07):
them the authority to act like an independent body, but
let's provide them the assets they need to get that
work done.

Speaker 4 (48:14):
They will need to get so many legal.

Speaker 8 (48:16):
Opinions as part of this process, and the county attorney
has one perspective.

Speaker 4 (48:21):
It's important to hear from all the people and all
of the experts on this.

Speaker 8 (48:28):
We have heard from a couple professors up at Metropolitan State,
doctor Prowse, Yeah, doctor Prowse, who said, ah, this might
do what you're saying it'll do, but it probably won't.
I mean, I look to printed material. The Colorado General
Assemblies Legislative Office in the state Department of Local Affairs

(48:51):
has said Colorado law permits a home rule county to
design its structure of government and its function as it
relates to the internal affairs of the county where such
function is not prohibited by the state constitution or a
state law. If there's not a constitutional limitation, where there's

(49:12):
not a current state law, the county can look at right.

Speaker 4 (49:15):
Yeah, and this would be I mean. One of the
other things that I've heard brought up is, you know,
during COVID when we broke away from the Tri County
Health operation, and there are people who really believe that
Douglas County could have just opened up everything. Nobody's wearing masks,
nobody's doing anything, and we would have gotten away with it.
And I'm like, wait a minute, those were all state

(49:36):
health orders, which are going to supersede anything. Unfortunately, that
would be dead in the water. Maybe there would have
been a lawsuit filed, but there's no doubt in my
mind we would have lost on that issue. And that's
one of the things that I'm trying to push back
against is the notion that if we're a home real county,
we can just give Denver a middle finger, we can
give a middle finger to the Gold Dome. That is

(49:57):
not at all what we're talking about. And if you
talk to people from Weld County, they will tell you
that that's not at all what it's like, or they
would have been walking around maskless with businesses open in
Weld County if that was an option. I just want
people to we have counties that we could look to
and see what they did and see what they're doing.
The same gun laws apply in Weld County as they

(50:18):
apply everywhere else, and that's just the reality of the situation. Steve,
what is the word on the street that you're hearing
you went to that meeting. Are you you're aware of
people that went to that meeting? Were there more people
that went in like you, like open, let's have a
conversation and came out hard No, I'm not doing this,
I think so.

Speaker 8 (50:35):
I mean, the ballots has started to hit homes. Now
people are going to look at this. I think most
of them will say what the heck is this? Yeah,
and then they'll say, why are there forty plus people
on the ballot?

Speaker 6 (50:47):
Right?

Speaker 8 (50:48):
That's a little bit confusing, and people will have to
get in line with the thought that they have two
votes on this one.

Speaker 4 (50:57):
Do we move.

Speaker 8 (50:58):
Forward with the charter process at all? And second, who
do I vote for within my district?

Speaker 4 (51:04):
And who do I vote for at large? And let's
be real, this campaign were already already at the almost
at the end of the campaign. And other than the
list of people that I have seen that showed up
the day after this announcement was made to get all
their little petitions signed by everybody else in the group,
I don't know a single thing about any of these
other people. I'm inclined. I'm going to vote no on

(51:25):
the charter, but I'm also going to vote for people
on the Charter Commission just in case, and I'm voting
for everybody except the people on that list, and some
of those people I like. But I don't like the
way it was done. I don't like the fact that
there was already people chosen to go to a meeting
to get their petition signed by one another. No, the
whole thing stinks, Steve, it just does.

Speaker 8 (51:44):
Well, you're right, it's a pervasive smell that the county
commissioners move forward on this through private meetings. Yeah, and
then they published the list of the twenty one preferred
candidates and it came out before they pass their resolution
to move forward with home rule. Yeah, there's a process

(52:05):
problem here. And one of the things I would change
if I'm on the Charter Commission and I had the opportunity,
We're going to make sure that public process follows right
and correct procedure. August County has fallen off the bandwagon
in terms of transparency. It's time to rebuild that ship

(52:26):
and then sail it so that everybody has an understanding
that the business of the public is public.

Speaker 4 (52:34):
I agree one hundred percent. This Texter feels differently differently
our e home rule in Dougco. It's important to understand
context behind the pushback. The same people Marxist activists who
got angry with the commissioners when they chose to break
away from Tri County Health are the same ones complaining
that they're not being given a voice our e home rule.
These Marxists are pulling out all the stops to prevent

(52:56):
the citizens of doug Co from governing themselves. My point
is the commit know who these activists are. They're bad actors. Well,
sometimes the blind squirrel finds a nut, and I find
myself on the side of the bad actors. They're not
always wrong, and when you're talking about procedure and how
the policies are going and how they're being unfurled, I
find myself on the side of Marxist then I guess

(53:17):
and I'm I'm fine with that. I mean, if that's
the way this Texter wants to look at it. Mandy,
I live in Weld County. Many restaurants stayed open without
mastering COVID. I think the county just turned a blind
eye and did not enforce regulations. And that's all could
be well and true, But if you'd fought it against
the state on that you would have lost if the
state had come out of you know, decided to make
an issue of it. In Weld County. They could have

(53:40):
made an issue out of it, they just choose not.
Counties should be able to opt out of unconstitutional orders.
I mean, I agree with that, But who gets to
decide what's unconstitutional. There has to be a process. We
have to you know, go through the courts and everything
has to be done, and when something is declared unconstitutional,
everybody gets out from my So we kind of have

(54:01):
that option. But I'm not comfortable with just random people
saying that's unconstitutional and just making the edict. We have
to follow the process. We have a process.

Speaker 8 (54:11):
It involves the courts, it involves legislative discussions, and if
something is unconstitutional, let us follow the process.

Speaker 4 (54:23):
Well, I appreciate you coming in, Steve. I remain a
no on this issue, and I'm glad that people are
starting to say, wait a minute, you know, even if
because like I said, I'm kind of like the idea.
There are parts of it I would like to explore.
There are things about it that I do think are
very cool. But if we're talking about rewriting the foundational documents,

(54:43):
that governed the county. I'm not interested in doing that
over a period of seven meetings. I mean, even the
Constitution took one hundred straight days of fourteen hour days
for them to hammer out the details, and it's a
pretty simple document. We're talking about rewriting the governance of
the entire county. I am not comfortable rushing that process
because I think that's when terrible mistakes are made and

(55:06):
special interests are served. That is my view on the
whole thing. Do you want to have a final word
on it, Steve. If we're going to do this, let's
take the time to do it right now. The Charter Commission,
as a body independent and a body politic aside from
the county, can determine if it wants to take more
than seventy days, it could take up to two hundred

(55:28):
and forty days pursuing to state law. That would move
it out from the Commissioner's end of the year plan.
But that may be what we need to do. And
this is why the county commissioners cannot serve on the
Charter Commission, because they are very invested in getting this
done before the end of the year for whatever reason.
And that's why they simply cannot serve. Steve Bowen, thank

(55:50):
you for coming in with your perspective as a former
Douglas County commissioner. I greatly appreciate it. And hopefully we're
on the winning side of this. We shall see. And
if we're not on the winning side of it, I
hope the right people get on the Charter Commission, whoever
they are, that will put the interest of Douglas County
in Douglas County only first. That's all I'm asking. All right, Uh,
we will be back in just a few minutes. I

(56:10):
have a bunch of stuff on the text line that
is really, really, really interesting.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
And.

Speaker 4 (56:21):
We're gonna do that. Plus, I just forgot, I lost
completely lost my train of thought. They're sorry about that.
We have to talk about what I'm now calling the
Real Housewives of Palmer Lake. If you have not been
following along with the drama going on in Palmer Lake,
holy schnikes some a whole stream of signal messages between

(56:43):
two women, one the mayor, one Darcy shooning. They are
nasty bits of business. We'll talk about that after this. BUCkies,
the National chain of gas stations slash Barbecues slash. Disney
World wants to open a new location on I twenty
five just south of here in the near the Palmer

(57:07):
Lake exit. It's the Larkspur Exit. And there's not a
dang thing there, Okay, I mean nothing. So they want
to open the BUCkies there, and they want to open
it across I twenty five from where Palmer Lake is.
It's not actually in Palmer Lake. And there was some
action taken by the Palmer Lake town county or town

(57:28):
council to annex the property that BUCkies will be locating on. Now,
this is very controversial for a variety of reasons. One,
the property is not contiguous with the rest of Palmer Lake,
so now Palmer Lake is going to be like a
blob where BUCkies is and then a little teeny tiny
strip of land connecting it to Palmer Lake. But the

(57:50):
town council wants to do this because BUCkies would bring
in a tremendous amount of money in sales tax for
Palmer Lake. Palmer Lake is about the you know, as
big as the Palm my hand, delightful little community if
you're ever down that way. Lovely they have some lovely
little restaurants and whatnot. Super cute, but they don't have
a lot of infrastructure. They certainly don't have a thriving,

(58:13):
booming economy. There's just not enough people to make that happen.
So this would be a big deal for Palmer Lake.
But it would also be a big deal for Palmer
Lake because Palmer Lake doesn't have any water. Water is
a huge problem. I have a friend who bought a
house in the area and has now had to resort
to having water shipped in because Palmer Lake has no water.

(58:34):
And now you're going to put a BUCkies, which obviously,
I mean they have like nine billion pumps for gas,
and nine billion pumps come with people in cars that
are then going to use the bathroom, and their bathrooms
are spotless, I've heard. I still haven't made it to BUCkies,
by the way, still have never set foot in the BUCkies.
I know it's it's far from my house, Anthony, you

(58:54):
know where I live. Now, If they open one in
Palmer Lake, that's right down the road, I'll go check
that one out. But I haven't gone up north at all.
Isn't there another one coming down south? That's what we're
talking about, Okay, the Puple of Palmer Lake, though, are
so mad about the way that the town council and
especially the mayor have gone about approving this BUCkies project,
because they're alleging that there were multiple violations of open

(59:17):
meeting laws and that there were other constitutional violations. Let's
just say this from the latest filing in the case.
Mayor glad to have NAR's long term and repeated ex
parte contacts with Mark Waller. Mark Waller is a former
El Paso County commissioner who has been the liaison with

(59:38):
BUCkies glance ex parte communication and coordination with mister Waller
on behalf of BUCkies of process meetings and hearings related
to the annexation petition, including remotely driving comments at public hearings,
the mayor's bias and prejudgment declaring the vote will be
four to one before and during the hearing, procedural unfairness.

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The mayor coordinated the hearings and statements in advance with
mister Waller and attempted to limit public comment, to exclude
citizens in opposition, use the public office, to suppress free
speech of citizens, and to attempt to prevent citizens to
monument Colorado, specifically from attending those board of trustee meetings
and speakings, and it goes on from there. I mean,
it's it's government run amok. And here's the thing, you guys.

(01:00:28):
I would imagine that if everybody on the town council
went door to door in Palmer Lake over the weekend
to talk to people about why they want to do
this and how it's going to work, they would have
been far more successful than they've been trying to shove
it down the throats of everybody who is trying to
stop it now. But that brings us to today's filing.

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And normally I would not get into this kind of
tit for tat nonsense. But in the filing that I
have linked on the blog today, it's a motion to
supplement new evidence in the Palmer case, and it is
a series of text messages between former candidate for Colorado
GOP chair Darcy Schooning and the mayor of Palmer Lake. Now,

(01:01:14):
I'm just gonna say this. If bad language offends you,
you do not want to read these text messages. If
hearing elected officials call constituents nasty names offends you, you
don't want to read these text messages. These text messages
read like a mean girls Slam book from middle school

(01:01:36):
and one of the biggest irritations that I have. And
I see it less I think among rank and file
type Republicans than I used to see it. But this
notion that if you if someone disagrees with you, you
have to call them a terrorist, or you have to
call them a Marxist, or you have to call them
a name. That's on full display here and it's just like,

(01:01:58):
you know, this is this is why, maybe this is
why Darcy was soundly rejected in the chairman's race, like
didn't even remotely come close to winning that thing, because
people are tired of it, the nastiness. If I am
the mayor of Palmer Lake, I am deeply embarrassed. I
mean I would hope anyway, I would be deeply embarrassed

(01:02:21):
if my text messages came out like this. And not
only is I did not know this. I thought that
it was just three town council members. But apparently Mayor
Glant Habner will face recall in a few weeks, along
with the remaining board of trustees who have now joined
the pro BUCkies camp. So we're gonna see, we shall see. Apparently,

(01:02:44):
since she was just elected the mayor, no recall can
happen for her for a certain period of time. The
date is circled in red on everyone's calendar. It is
very real Housewives of Palmer Lake. I mean, it's kind
of it's small town politics are often way worse than
big time politics because it's easy to manipulate more people

(01:03:07):
in a much smaller pool. Right, you only have to
get a certain number of people on quote your side
and attack the other side before things start to sway
your way is I read it this morning and I
just thought to myself, and then I thought, what about
my text messages? So I went back and I looked

(01:03:27):
at my chat that I have with my two best girlfriends.
We talk every single day on WhatsApp every day, and
though there are inappropriate comments, they are directed at one another,
not at other people. Although I did say in a
conversation with my friend about a Robert W. Reich column,
Robert Reich is the stupidest person to ever have a column.
So I said that. But I stand behind that, and

(01:03:48):
I would say that to his face if I had to,
and give them the opportunity. So if you want to
read it, you can read it. But man, oh man,
not the best work of anyone from Palmer Lake. So
this is kind of funny and not haha funny, but funny.
The teachers' unions and Jimmy Seckenberger has a great column
about this today, are now super upset with the superintendents

(01:04:13):
in both jeff Co and in Denver. Now, I'm just
gonna point out that both Jefferson County and Denver, both
their school boards are completely inhabited by people who are
elected by the union. And then those people who were
back by the union then turned around and chose the superintendent,
both of which the teachers unions endorsed. They endorsed Tracy Dorlund,

(01:04:37):
and they endorsed Alex Morero. But now they say that
these superintendents are not uniony enough. They didn't use the
word uniony, but I'm using the word uniony. They say
they're not collaborative enough, They're not this, they're not you
know what. They don't talk about at all? Student performance?
How are the kids doing? Are we hoping kids learn

(01:04:57):
how to read? If not, what are we doing to
fix that. It's interesting that now they've turned on the people,
and especially in Jefferson County, they've got three seats up
for election this fall. You can either vote for more
of the same, more teachers union candidates, or you can
find a different direction who says, we are going to
take all of these sexual assault accusations in jeff Co. Seriously,

(01:05:21):
We're going to create the most transport in transparent administration
in history. And Tracy Dorlan's got to go. She's done
an absolute, not just terrible job. It would be one
thing if she just did a bad job, but she
has actively worked to subvert the rights of parents in
Jefferson County schools, and she has actively worked to protect
people that displayed behaviors that to any rational thinking human

(01:05:44):
being would have been seen as sexual predation by an
adult on a child. And yet it just keeps happening
under her quote leadership. So Jimmy rotegude column about it.
But I also and we're gonna get an to this
right after this, we now have news that the federal

(01:06:05):
Department of Education is investigating Jefferson County Public Schools. Why,
I'll tell you after this. The US Department of Education,
this from the Denver Gazette, announced Monday that it's investigating
the jeff Co Public Schools District regarding potential Title nine violations.
The Department of Education announced the investigation, and according to

(01:06:25):
the news released from the Department of Education, jeff Co
Public Schools is allegedly violating federal law with its policy
that students will be quote assigned to share overnight accommodations
with other students that share a student's gender identity rather
than rooming by sex, breaking Title minds inclusion of female
students' rights to sex segregated intimate spaces. The Department claims

(01:06:50):
to have heard several disturbing reports, including from parents of
an eleven year old girl discovering their daughter would have
had to share a bed with a male student on
an overnight school trip without being notified by the school.
The release says the district allegedly misleads parents by informing
them the girls and boys will be separated for overnight

(01:07:11):
accommodations without divulging that its definition of girl includes boys
who claim a feminine identity. So the district told the
Denver Gazette that Jeffco Public Schools follows all Colorado's state
laws when it comes to how he treats students, staff,
and families. There is nothing in the language of Title

(01:07:32):
Mind that prohibits the degree of protection that the State
of Colorado provides under the Kata Act. That rule says
all covered entities shall allow individuals the use of gender
segregated facilities that are consistent with their gender identity. Gender
segregated facilities include, but are not limited to, restrooms, locker rooms,

(01:07:55):
dressing rooms, and dormitories. So it doesn't matter what you think,
and the State of Colorado once again pushing the boundaries.
I was on the show that the time slot that
I used to do in Louisville on WHAS the station there.
I was talking to the guys who took that time slot.
They're friends of mine, and they said, we got to

(01:08:15):
talk to you about this crazy guy and Boulder, and
I said, great, let's do it. So I was on
their show this morning and we got into some of
the crazy things that Colorado had passed in this last
legislative session. And I'm telling them and they're like, wait what,
And you realize as you're saying it to someone who
doesn't live here, how insane the rules that Colorado is passing.

(01:08:37):
The rule that was invoked in the name of quote
trans writes the one that allows someone to complain to
the Civil Rights Commission. If you misshander them, you know,
they're now criminal penalties that have to be fat I mean,
it's insane what's happening here, absolutely insane, And when you're
saying it to other people in other places, you start
to go, wait a minute, oh Lee, that just sounds nuts.

(01:08:59):
I'm going to be fascinated to see what the Federal
Department of Education says about this. Ultimately, I think it's terrible. Ultimately,
as the mother of a daughter, I would be pretty apoplectic.
You know, there's been a lot of pictures on x

(01:09:19):
and other social media outlets of these biological males that
are competing in girls sports, and they're plastering these photographs
of these young people. And I believe these young people
need help. I do. I feel terrible for all of
them that they feel so miserable in their own space

(01:09:40):
that they've decided the only way to feel better is
to be the other gender. I feel terrible for the kids.
Why are we not focusing on the parents what their
parents are allowing them to be put in this position?
And I think that's horrible, I mean really horrible. And
I can just hear these some of these parents are

(01:10:00):
bound to be saying, you're pushing the boundaries, You're a leader,
look at you, You're so special. But then there are
those parents that wear their trans children like an accessory.
I do feel bad for the kids, though, I mean,
they're just they're teenagers. You guys, think about how dumb
you were when you were a teenager. Now imagine that
your dumbest, stupidest thing that you did as a teenager

(01:10:23):
gets you thrust into a media spotlight where people are
sharing pictures of you on social media and saying horrible things. Now,
as one who doesn't believe that biological boys should compete
in girls' sports, I also don't believe that we should
just be mercilessly mocking these troubled young people. You can
believe both of those things at the same time. Now,

(01:10:44):
when we get back, we've got updates on Mike Lindell's trial.
Very interesting questions were asked yesterday. I've got some fascinating
data from CNN. A when you tell kids consistently, over
and over and over again that the United States of

(01:11:05):
America sucks, they start to believe you. Now, the big
news of the day, of course, the Rockies won yesterday.
That's it. That's the news. Don't need to get into that.
And my favorite story of the day is simply this.
We're going to get into this next because I love
it so much. You want to know when you go
to a Thai restaurant and they say and you order

(01:11:26):
something and they say, oh, what, how spicy do you
want that? And you go, I want that hot? And
they go American hot or tie hot, and even if
you say thy hot, you're not getting tie hot. Nope,
they're not going to give it to you, mostly because
you're not Thaie. I'll explain why this is all being
proven in court right now.

Speaker 1 (01:11:46):
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Speaker 8 (01:12:03):
Say the nicety three Mandy Torontal, keep your sad bab
Welcome Local.

Speaker 4 (01:12:12):
Welcome to the third hour of the show, the final
hour before I go on vacation. It's the battle countdown. Yes,
I'm not afraid to bust out a little Europe for
the third hour. If you'd like to ask me anything,
feel free. I do have some very interesting stories that
we're going to jump into in this hour. But it'sn't
asked me anything kind of hour as well, so you

(01:12:34):
can text those questions to the Common Spirit Health text
line at five six six nine. Oh bada ban bataboom,
make it happen, Mandy. I have been losing sleep over
this gender issue, how to identify boys versus girls, But
this morning I had a Eureka moment out East boys
an East girls. Fair point, very fair point, Mandy. I

(01:12:57):
recommend the movie Mandy. If you find the right Thai restaurant,
you need to ask for gi Hot. If you get
the right restaurant, they'll look at your ID and it'll
be blazing hot. That takes us to this story, which
I am going to share with you right now because
I love it so much. A California doctor has a
fool for a patient. Well, not in the operating sphere,

(01:13:18):
but in the courtroom. A San Jose doctor is suing
a Last Guttos restaurant, claiming it's dragon balls appetizer was
so spicy it burned her internally. She's now dropped her
lawyer and is representing herself. Harjocelyn Wallya in July of
twenty twenty three, file Litt lawsuit in Santa Clara County,

(01:13:40):
a legend. She incurred permanent injuries and will forever be
damaged by the eleven dollars chicken meatball dish at Coup
to Tie. By the way, can we just stop for
a moment and appreciate the name Coup to Tie. I mean,
come on, guys, they focus group that it's amazing. I
want to open a tie restaurant here called Coup de taie,

(01:14:02):
just to steal it. Anyway, She says, the appetizer burned
her vocal cords, esophagus, and the inside of her right nostril.
No word on why she fired her current attorney or
if a new attorney will be hired. But listen to this,
I mean, this is my favorite part of the whole story.

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The lawsuit claimed the dragon ball's dish, which is advertised
as spicy, and while you asked her server to make
it with less spice because she does not tolerate spicy foods,
the server said the chef would make the dish less spicy,
not not spicy, less spicy. Almost immediately, she says, as

(01:14:46):
she began eating the dragon balls, she felt her entire mouth,
the roof of her mouth, her tongue, her throat, and
her nose burned like fire, and then her eyes, nose
watered and she began coughing. She lost her voice. It
was diagnosed with internal chemical burns from the chili's in
the dragon balls. And she's pointing a finger at Taie

(01:15:07):
bird's eye. Chili is the ingredient that made Wally just
dragon balls unfit for human consumption. And this is why
white people are not allowed to have Thai hot. When
we lived in Louisville, we lived right down the street,
maybe just right around the corner from one of the
best Thai restaurants in Louisville, and the first few times
we ordered, I'm a medium hot person, like a little

(01:15:28):
more of the hot side than the medium side. But
I'm a medium medium hot person. I would never go
full hot, especially in an Asian restaurant, because you have
no idea what's about to come out in that case.
But we would call and check would say, oh, I
want Thai hot, I want Thaie hot, and and he'd
get it and it was hot, but it wasn't super hot.
And he's like, wait a minute, this is not tie hot.
So he calls one day and he said, look, you

(01:15:49):
guys are not giving me taie hot. And the guy's like, nope,
no can do No. White white people don't get taie hot,
is what he told us. White people do not get
taie hot. And Chuck said, I'll be right there. So
we drive up walks in shows the guy his military idea,
and the guy goes, oh, geei, why not you tell
me you get tie hot? And you guys, my husband

(01:16:11):
sat at the table eating this food, sweating so profusely
that it was dripping onto the table on either side
of his plate as he ate that, and I was like,
you are an idiot, and he's like, no, there's flavors.
When it's this thought that you can't taste any I'm like, no,
there's not. Your face is just burning off. And you

(01:16:32):
know what I always think of in that situation. This
is gonna be even worse coming out the other end.
Mandy rush Lumba used to call transgender surgeries and either
added it to me or a chop it off of me. Okay, yep, Mandy, funny,
you were just talking about thy food. As I was
eating at my favorite Thai restaurant. I tried the tie
hot once I thought my face and throat and insides

(01:16:55):
were on fire. Never again, several glasses of Tai feet
Tai tea finally stopped the fire. What if you don't
identify as Tai well, then you don't get Tai hot either.
No Taie hot for you. Elon just tweeted that he
doesn't like the big beautiful bill at all, called it

(01:17:15):
full of pork Fai. Not only did I see it,
I already retweeted it with a simple he's right, Mandy.
Did you ever solve your woodpecker problems? If so, how
we had a dude come over with a big ladder
and fill those holes. That's what we did. That is
exactly what we did. We tried everything else and nothing
else worked. It just it did not did not work, Mandy.

(01:17:39):
I have a sister and brother that live in Liberal, Oregon,
and even they wonder what the heck is up in
Colorado with the crazy laws. Yes, indeedy, Mandy, less than
an hour ago, I haven't ask you anything question on
your trip. When interacting with the people of South Korea
and Japan, do you expect that you'll receive any questions
or comments about what's going on in current American politics

(01:18:02):
or events? Maybe some opinions of Donald Trump that from Andy.
I believe that culturally there is a lot more civility
and a very they're big on manners in Japan and Asia,
and they're they're you know, they're big on not insulting

(01:18:23):
their guests kind of thing. I've been reading a lot
about the culture, trying to get up to speed and
just trying to get ready for the trip, and I'm
super excited. I don't think we will. And Japan's former
prime minister was just indicted, So it's not like their
house is an order, you know what I mean. It's like,
h I just don't feel like that's going to be
an issue. When we were in Europe, it was a

(01:18:44):
thing where we would talk to tour guides and other people,
and people were very open about their opinions, not all negative,
by the way. It wasn't like a big hate fest
for Trump.

Speaker 7 (01:18:58):
So that is that?

Speaker 4 (01:18:58):
Oh hang on, let me do that this, Mandy. Why
does a ghost always tie hot? When I offer to
share food? One of my friends asked me, is it
hot or mark hot? You are a smart man, aeric.
Do you ever order something that you're pretty sure? Jocelyn
isn't gonna write like, so you don't have to share
it or order something that you know she doesn't like

(01:19:20):
just because you really want it, and then you also
know you won't have to share it.

Speaker 5 (01:19:23):
No, sometimes I do.

Speaker 4 (01:19:25):
Sometimes I do. Sometimes I'll order a certain kind of
ice cream and I'm like, you know what, I want
that ice cream. And because I'm ordering this ice cream,
no one's gonna ask me to share it, No one, Mandy.
Hot farts aren't fun. And there's two times my dad
will sweat when he eats spicy foods and when he
spends money. Yeah, yeah, Mandy, have fun on the trip.

(01:19:50):
Will miss you a bar off the Fox River chain
of Lakes, a half hour north of Chicago. Bathroom girls
equals inboard boys outboard. That's very simple. That's very very simple.
My wife can handle Taie hot more and more and
barely sweats. You know, as I've gotten older, my tolerance
for heat in food has risen dramatically. But I want

(01:20:14):
to enjoy my food. I like spicy food. I like
the way it tastes. But at a certain point, when
you're just fighting for your life trying to get a
meal down, I don't want to feel like I'm being
attacked by the food that I'm putting in my mouth.
This is one of the reasons that I won't eat.
Like if you've ever seen those videos of people eating
like the little wigglies, the little eels that are alive.

(01:20:35):
No hard pass, I'm not doing that. No, I'm not
putting a wiggly anything. But eh, yuck. Hi Mandy, maybe
you answered this already. Are Chuck and the que going
with you? And will you be posting on Instagram? I
will be posting extensively on instagramm assuming I don't leave
my phone in the airport again. I'm not going to

(01:20:55):
do that. Though I've got a piece of duct tape.
I'm just gonna stick it on my leg. It will
be going with me, So yes, at the Mandy Connell
on Instagram. Follow me there and let's do this quick
time out and we're going to come back and talk
about a couple of the other stories that I do
have on the blog. What do you non disabled childless
adults on Medicaid do with their free time? This one's

(01:21:18):
going to be a hard one for the Democrats to
explain away. So, you know, the big discussions about the
Republican work requirements that say, if you are an able bodied,
childless adult of working age, so between the ages of
eighteen and sixty four, and you're a Medicaid recipient. The
Republicans have added a provision that says you must volunteer

(01:21:38):
for twenty hours a week. You must be in some
kind of job training school, something to better you give
you better skills, or you got to get a job,
or they're going to kick you off Medicaid. And there
are people on the left running around screeching about how people,
oh well die. And my favorite part of the conversation
has been when they say things like non childless people

(01:22:01):
who are able body, they're already working Manday, except are
they A new study in the American Enterprise magazine said
they looked at the Community Engagement Survey. This is a
large survey. It's the American Time Use Survey. It's a
nationally representative survey used extensively in government and academic research.

(01:22:25):
It provides detailed information on the amount of time Americans
spend in various activities during a given day. He took
the individuals. He figured out who was on Medicaid by
linking this survey with the current population survey annual Social
and Economics supplement, which asks about health insurance coverage two

(01:22:48):
to five months before they receive the time use survey.
So you put those together and you get an idea
of who's on Medicaid and how they're spending their time.
He then dug and found that the time use of childless,
non disabled adults ages nineteen to sixty four who are
not in school shook out like this for Medicaid recipients,

(01:23:10):
Mostly they were watching TV and playing video games. Yeah,
they spend four and a half four point two hours
per day watching TV and playing video games, or one
hundred and twenty five hours during a thirty day month.
That's more than fifty percent higher than the eighty hours
they would be required to work or otherwise engaged with

(01:23:30):
the community during at least some months under the Reconciliation Bill.
They spend on average six point one hours per day
or one hundred and eighty four months on socializing, relaxing,
and leisure activities, including television and video games. In the
average day, they spend about twenty two minutes looking for work,

(01:23:52):
four hours doing houseworks and errands, and twenty eight minutes
caring for others. For Medicaid scipients to report working. The
most common activity after sleeping is work. They work an
average of four point two hours per day or one
hundred and twenty six hours per month, enough for the
average working Medicaid recipient to comply with the community engagement requirement,

(01:24:15):
meaning they wouldn't have to change anything. Working Medicaid recipients
spend a lower two point seven hours per day watching
TV and playing video games, a total of four point
five hours on socializing, compared to the six point one
hours that people who are not working and childless on
Medicaid are spending. Now, when you get to non Medicaid recipients,

(01:24:38):
then the hours for working go up, the hours for
everything else goes down, and amazingly, they're making more money. Amazingly,
I know now, He does say time used patterns alone
are not sufficient to determine whether community engagement requirements are
a good idea. Other factors that policymakers should consider include,

(01:25:00):
for example, impacts on work and other community engagement, government spending,
cost to hospitals, and the health and mortality risks of
current Medicaid recipients. But understanding how Medicaid recipients who will
be subject to the new community engagement requirement spends their
time provides a picture of how they might need to
reallocate their time if they start working more or are

(01:25:21):
more frequently engaged with the community. So the notion that
somehow we're going to kick all of these hardworking people
off medicaid, the hardworking people on Medicaid are already working.
So that's going to be a very interesting argument to have,
a very interesting argument to have when we get back.

(01:25:41):
What happens when you tell kids over and over and
over again that America is bad, Well, they start to
believe you. I'll have that after this. I tease this
before the break, and then I realized that it's a
Bill marercliff and I didn't edit it, so there could
be a bad word in it. So I can't play it.
But I'm gonna give you a gist of it. CNN

(01:26:03):
has a new poll out, and it is very disheartening
when it comes to the views and attitudes of young
people in the United States, when it comes to the
United States of America, and some of this is.

Speaker 5 (01:26:22):
Really bad.

Speaker 4 (01:26:23):
Less than one in four Democrats under thirty say they're
proud to be an American. Fifty four percent say they're
embarrassed by it, embarrassed to be an American. That's disheartening.
But you know what, these kids have been fed a
steady diet of Howard Zinn Hate America history, where we

(01:26:44):
only focus on the negatives, where we only talk about
what's bad in this country. And frankly, these kids are
so isolated with their stupid smartphones and not going anywhere
in the world. They have no idea how good they
have it. They don't pay attention to what happens around
the world. They don't pay attention to people getting rested
in Britain for posting a meme. They have no clue.

(01:27:06):
And part of me is like, you know what, go
out into the big bad world, go over to a
foreign country and demand that they give you free things,
demand that they let you live there. Just walk over
the border. You walk over a border anywhere in Europe
there's no fences. Let's see what happens. And this is

(01:27:29):
an absolute, kind of direct result of the educational system
that we're in. Now here's a problem, you guys. When
people don't believe that the country is good, they are
not going to fight to keep it, are they? And
I saw another part of a CNN survey, and I
didn't grab this for the web or for the blog.

(01:27:50):
At mandy'sblog dot com, I saw another part of the
of the CNN poll that essentially said Americans believe that
government should be doing more to solve our problems. Guys,
this is the opposite of what we need to happen.

(01:28:12):
There's nothing more inefficient than government at solving any problem.
There's no profit motive, so there's no motive to do
things officially to maximize the profit motive. There are way
too many fingers in the pot, there are way too
many cooks in the kitchen, and having government take care
of any problems is a huge issue. And I understand
that people are looking at government to create economic prosperity

(01:28:34):
with no downturn. How's that worked out Since the creation
of the Federal Reserve back in nineteen thirteen, we've had
a few major depressions since that organization was going to
fix the economy. When you live in a free society,
of free society is messy. A free society has things
that happen that you're like, oh, I don't love that,

(01:28:54):
but that's the trade off. Unfortunately, Mandy, what is your
exact return day to Koway. I believe the twenty second.
Hang on, I'm not good with dates, you guys, the
twenty third. I'll be back Monday, the twenty third, and
hopefully I'll recover from the jet lag portion of this trip,
because it's significant. It is also when asked me anything,

(01:29:15):
last twenty minutes. Get it in now at five six,
six nine. Oh, you should have seen all the young
kids an adults ignore the national anthem at the Rockies
five K on Saturday. I was shocked. Why should you
be shocked? I mean, why should you even care? That's
such a such a terrible, terrible, terrible country. Why would
we celebrate that? Uh? Is it just my radio? Is

(01:29:39):
the radio station K eight P fifty coming in weird?
Do better? LOLJK. With the kind of cloud cover we
have right now that can reacavoc on an AM signal,
it never reaksab havoc on the delightfully crystal clear iHeartRadio
app free and while you're downloading it, go ahead and
make the Mandy Connell Show a preset the top. Mandy,

(01:30:01):
if I eat tie hot, everyone's face in my houses
will melt off. Hot farts are no joke have a
fantastic vacation. Everybody's concerned about the hot farts. I'm not
concerned about the farts, concerned about you know, Mandy, While
in Japan, you should rent a fake family for an
afternoon as a joke. Yes, it's a real thing. I
saw one of my favorite made up jobs ever, and

(01:30:24):
it's a Japanese guy who has just offered himself as
another guy, a human like you. And what ends up
happening is some people will call him and say, look,
I really want to go to this really nice restaurant,
but I don't have anyone.

Speaker 1 (01:30:39):
To go with.

Speaker 4 (01:30:39):
Will you go with me? It's not like a date.
You're just paying for companionship. Some people that have to
have a really tough conversation with someone else will pay
him to sit there and listen so they can kind
of work out what they're going to say. And this
guy's making money. He gets paid by the hour, and
he gets taken out to nice places because people don't
want to dine alone. Guys get over the dining alone thing.

(01:31:01):
I don't care. I am fascinated by my own mind.
I don't need company while I eat. It's fine, Mandy,
are you broadcasting from a cave today or is it
just my reception driving around town again? Go ahead and
hit up the iHeartRadio app and it's a little bit better. Mandy.
Have you been following any of the South Korean presidential
election on x Liberal candidates? Li Jian Jung was just

(01:31:26):
elected president and there was a controversy in this election.
Maybe some South Koreans will break their cultural standards and
want to talk politics with you. Does Chuck speak any Korean?
By the way, He knows how to curse very well
in Korean. He also knows how to say some basic
pleasantries and all.

Speaker 5 (01:31:42):
Of that stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:31:43):
Be prepared to have your picture taken due to your
blonde hair. Guys, this is the one thing that I
am apprehensive about about this trip. And this is gonna
sound so stupid. The only time I've been in an
Asian nation other than this time was to I flew
to Marie to Tokyo once and we laid over and

(01:32:06):
I was blonder than I am now and taller and hotter.
And this was before cell phones, right, so, and I
still walking around the area where we're walking around, everyone
was taking my picture. It was very unnerving and I
think now I'm older and not nearly as hot, so
I think I'm hoping it won't be as bad this time.

(01:32:27):
But I already told Chuck, I said, I feel anxiety
about that. It really freaked me out. And also being
in a culture that was so different and so hard
to decipher, like you can't look at the signs and
you know, understand what they're saying. It was very overwhelming
for me. And I told Chuck about that, and he
was like, seriously, this way, I know it's dumb, but

(01:32:50):
this guy, the new president of South Korea. He was
actually he's been indicted. He has five different cases against him.
Very familiar, so maybe there will be less of a
chance to hear any gruff because their guy kind of
like ours, is Roz Kaminski. Okay, he's fine, he's just
taking a few days off. He'll be back tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (01:33:11):
He's in New York. The big Apple right now went.

Speaker 4 (01:33:13):
To you niece or his nephew's bar mitzvah, I think,
or his niece's bat mitzvah one or the other.

Speaker 5 (01:33:19):
Yeah, there's a video on Twitter right now him walking
in the streets of New York.

Speaker 4 (01:33:22):
Very nice, Mandy. It is a real thing called rent
a friend, I did it for a while. Wait a minute,
text you did it here? I want to do that?
Caniche you? Mandy? Why is there constant repeated statements from
all of the KOA shows that is on the Crystal
Clear iHeartRadio app and our technicians are completely baffled by that.
They're working on it day and night. Can't fix it, Mandy,

(01:33:48):
Your manly voice is coming in Crystal Clear today. You're welcome, Mandy.
Wasn't part of why we founded America two hundred and
fifty years ago was to be free from the monarchy
of over government strength other than taxes that we are
well surpressed now, just saying it's a little bit of
a train wreck of a text there, Mandy. How many

(01:34:08):
boomers were proud to be Americans when they were twenty five?
The numbers over the years are staggering, I mean genuinely staggering.
Back in the day, there was bipartisan support for being
a proud American. Even during the Vietnam years, when you
would think it would have fallen off a cliff. It
dipped significantly, but not anything like we're seeing now. Young

(01:34:31):
people have lost faith in the American dream. They don't
agree with this statement that, oh wait, let me see
if I can find the exactly I don't have it
in front of me, the statement that is something to
the effect of hard work and determination will lead to success.
They disagree with that statement. And I got to tell you,
that's the most self defeating attitude I've ever seen. And

(01:34:53):
don't get me wrong, there are people who work hard
and make good choices and still have terrible things that
happen and undermine their entire lives. You know, not everybody
is guaranteed a wonderful outcome, unfortunately, But for the most part,
the people that I know at fifty five who are
successful now at fifty five are the people who worked
hard and were determined to work hard and have done

(01:35:16):
a good job. It's not complicated, but it's hard, right,
It's it's not impossible to follow that truck, but it
is difficult. And I do believe. And this is this
is gonna sound like an old person shot like, what's
the matter for kids? Today? I meet wonderful young people.
Anthony right here in this studio is one of them.

(01:35:38):
He and his wife work their collective butts off and
don stop. They're always busy, They're always doing something. But
then I've met young people who have taken the what's
the point. There's no point in doing anything because I'm
not going to be a slave to work. I'm not
gonna work, you know, work to live or live to work. Rather,
I'm going to have more work life balance. And I

(01:35:59):
read a really, really perfect quote the other day. Work
life balance is when you work for somebody else, when
you're working for your dream, when you're working for your future,
work life balance is not a thing. It's a luxury
you can't afford. It's the harsh reality. But guess what

(01:36:23):
those people who are investing in themselves and in their
future instead of having quote work life balance right now,
they're the ones that in twenty years are going to
have the best work life balance. You can convince yourself
that hard work and determination don't have any impact on
your future. You can do that all day long, but
that absolutely becomes a self fulfilling prophecy, where one hundred

(01:36:45):
percent I can tell you you will not be successful,
you will not move ahead, you will not be able
to pursue your dreams because you have decided that life
is not fair and rather than do the things that
have been proven over and over and over again to
lead to success. Us, you're just gonna sit there and
let life happen to you. And guess what, When you're
not an active participant in choosing what happens in your life,

(01:37:09):
somebody else is going to make those choices for you.
That's the harsh reality. Hard work increases your chances of
good outcome, says this text or nothing Guaranteed, correct, Mandy,
totally jelly enjoy the best food in the world and soul.
I miss it badly. I am incredibly excited about Korean food.
I love Korean food period, and I'm just excited to

(01:37:33):
go to the motherland and try it all there. Really
hard to succeed being lazy, correct Texter Mandy. This millennial
was in ninth grade for nine to eleven. My whole
life experience was the height of patriotism for my generation.
But we're talking about people under thirty, and I hate
to break it to you, millennial. You guys aren't under

(01:37:54):
thirty anymore. I know, I know it hurts.

Speaker 9 (01:37:58):
I know it hurts thirty one close, But I'm also
on the tail en you're over thirty, yeah thirty one barely,
yeah barely, You're over thirty barely. I'm just saying, you're
over thirty, have barely. I'm on the back side of
my fifties.

Speaker 4 (01:38:12):
Now, what is that? What I realized that I turned
fifty six this year. I'm on the back half. I'm
not even like in my early fifties anymore. Now I'm
in my solid mid fifties. And you know what comes next.
I'm sixty and I want to rush ahead. I'm just saying,
whoever thinks to themselves, gosh, I can't wait till I'm sixty.
No one, that's who, Unless, of course, you have a

(01:38:35):
terminal illness that's diagnosed when you're fifty and you make
it to sixty, that's got to be pretty cool. Work
life balance is a choice to underachieve, Agreed, Mandy. Let
the lazy ones be lazy. Doors of open for my
hard working kids. Amen to that. Older generations will never
understand a work life balance, and in twenty years they'll say,
why did I miss my kids growing up? You're absolutely right.

(01:38:58):
Choices have to be made all day, every day. I
mean they really do, right. Your choices are made in
every moment of every lifetime, and there are gonna be
things that you look back on and go wow. I
wish I'd been able to do that differently, but it
doesn't undermine the fact that at the point that you
were working, your hardest happens to be when your kids
are the littlest. It's a terrible, terrible thing. This is

(01:39:19):
why if you have the ability to have a stay
at home parent, I would strongly recommend it. We've been
able to do that and it's been wonderful for our family. Mandy,
You're right on. It's Howard Zin all the time in
public schools, upside down history. No, it's flat out anti
American history. And you know how people always say, like,
if I could go back in time, I would kill

(01:39:40):
Baby Hitler, I would kill Howard's In. I mean, obviously
I'm not going to go back in time, and obviously
I'm not going to kill Howard's In, but if I were,
if I could, because he's done more to damage the
United States of America than anything from the external forces.
As a matter of fact, I mean, you could look
at how Zen's the History of the People of America

(01:40:01):
or whatever it's called, and it looks like it was
written by Mao or by Lenin or by Stalin and
It's absolutely terrible. Mandy. The mentality of making things happen
is what I call taking life by the You know
what's Mandy, You're in Q four of your career. Thanks
for that, Texter, good gravy. Yes, Mandy, this millennial is

(01:40:23):
thirty eight who needs a work life balance because things
are starting to hurt. Oh grasshopper, you you you don't
even understand things hurting yet. I mean I think that
I hurt my back the first time picking up a
sock when I was like forty five, and it's all
been downhill from there. Ryan Edward's entering the studio right now. Ryan,

(01:40:45):
when was the last time you hurt yourself just doing
something like picking up a sock?

Speaker 7 (01:40:50):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (01:40:50):
My god, let's see here.

Speaker 4 (01:40:53):
It happens.

Speaker 10 (01:40:55):
It happens a lot more than I care to admit.
What I oh, you know what I did? So so
similar thing. We have cats, yep, we have the patae
things that we open up and they have a lumin foil.

Speaker 5 (01:41:04):
Oh yeah, slit open.

Speaker 10 (01:41:05):
My hands bleeding everywhere at five o'clock in the morning,
and that's always.

Speaker 4 (01:41:10):
The emergency room visit you want to make, like how'd
you do this?

Speaker 5 (01:41:15):
I and I told my wife.

Speaker 4 (01:41:17):
She's like, I have never done that.

Speaker 2 (01:41:19):
Only you.

Speaker 9 (01:41:20):
Only you would slip your hand open on a cat
Pat Tay, And I was like, yeah, that's I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:41:26):
If you're going to be dramatic, be dramatic dramatics bleeding
like yeah, so yeah, It's been a while since I've
hurt myself seeing I will tell you this. I work
really hard on my core strength. There you go like,
I mean my core is very very strong, like super strong.
That's a game changer as you get older, if you
don't do anything else, which you should be exercising because

(01:41:48):
man so much information. Had a story on the blog yesterday.
Exercise is more effective than medication at stopping the return
of cancer. That's something you know. Now, work on your core,
life will so much better. My thirty eight year old
millennial who says stuff already heards that's so adorable. You're precious.
I love you, but you are precious. And now it's

(01:42:10):
time for the most exciting segment all the radio of
its guys, the world.

Speaker 6 (01:42:16):
Of the day. What is there?

Speaker 4 (01:42:18):
I have some dad jokes, Anthony, what happens when SpongeBob
gets taller?

Speaker 3 (01:42:27):
Uh? What?

Speaker 4 (01:42:28):
He asked? My rectangle pants, and what do you call
cows lying down in a field ground beef? That's right, Okay,
hit me with yours one, and thank you for sending those. Andy.

Speaker 6 (01:42:48):
I bought a head of lettuce from a small grocery
store called Mama's and Papa's can't eat it because.

Speaker 5 (01:42:53):
All the leaves are nice.

Speaker 4 (01:42:57):
Did not see that one coming? That was a good one.

Speaker 6 (01:43:01):
Word of the day is an adjective not spelt like
how it sounds O T I O S E O.

Speaker 5 (01:43:13):
S adjective.

Speaker 4 (01:43:16):
Ohios, I'm gonna say it is something that you cannot hear,
something very very quiet.

Speaker 6 (01:43:23):
No, okay, I'll go something loud, a formal word typically
used to describe either something that serves no useful purpose
or something that has no use or effect.

Speaker 4 (01:43:33):
So this show is here's a good one, guys. And
I know the answer. I have not looked. I know
the answer. How often does the average.

Speaker 6 (01:43:44):
Sloth coop day week, month? What let's go with once
every two and a half weeks. Okay, what do you
think they're ryan?

Speaker 2 (01:43:52):
Once a month?

Speaker 4 (01:43:53):
You are incorrected, is once a week and they come down.
It's the only time they're out of the trees. They
come down out of the tree to poop, and that
is when they're their most vulnerable is when they're pooping.
I don't know. Maybe there's just a little clean little sloths.
I mean, they're super cute. I learned that in Costa
Rica when we saw a baby sloth and it's mama

(01:44:13):
and the god. No. Well, I'm glad they don't. Can
you imagine walking to the force splat birds? No, or
the monkeys. They're very metabolisms. By the way, background like a.

Speaker 5 (01:44:28):
Monkey's really slow motion. You see it coming.

Speaker 4 (01:44:33):
What is what is our what is our jeopardy category? Camping?

Speaker 6 (01:44:40):
The camper knife from this military brand can help me
open a can or saw wood?

Speaker 4 (01:44:46):
What's a bowie knife? Wrong?

Speaker 5 (01:44:48):
Dang it really really I know I know this. That's
uh can't help open a can? I know wood?

Speaker 7 (01:44:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:44:56):
For tweet, I know it's a Ryan What is it
utility knife?

Speaker 5 (01:45:03):
No, it's Swiss Army.

Speaker 4 (01:45:05):
Thank you for getting one wrong as well.

Speaker 6 (01:45:07):
I gotta have my trail mix a k A gorp
good old.

Speaker 5 (01:45:11):
These two items, manny?

Speaker 4 (01:45:13):
What are raisins and peanuts?

Speaker 5 (01:45:14):
That is correct?

Speaker 6 (01:45:16):
Time to turn in and hit the everest mummy. This
two word item that leads up what's the sleeping bag?

Speaker 5 (01:45:21):
That is correct?

Speaker 6 (01:45:22):
Nice, I have a preposition for you the clip on
mosquito repellent from this brand as a fan inside to
circulate the stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:45:30):
Manny, what is off?

Speaker 5 (01:45:32):
That is correct?

Speaker 6 (01:45:33):
Classic classics from this camping company include the dual fuel.

Speaker 7 (01:45:41):
That is correct.

Speaker 5 (01:45:42):
Man that is correct.

Speaker 4 (01:45:43):
And I don't even like camping, camping and I'm like
an ocean front hotel room.

Speaker 5 (01:45:48):
That's the Swiss army. Swiss Army.

Speaker 4 (01:45:52):
That one hurts. That was very bad. That was embarrassing.
Way to go out on this one. Okay, guys, follow
me on Instagram if you want to go to Korea
in Japan with us at the Mandy Connell and you
can expect me back in a couple of weeks. There's
going to be a rotating cast Jimmy Segenberger, Deborah Flora
been all Bright and Greg Stone is going to do

(01:46:12):
a shift as well. So it should be a lot
of fun, but not as good as me by design anyway.
What's coming up on KOA Sports?

Speaker 10 (01:46:18):
We got a one hour show. We got Ian Rappaport
joining us, so it'll we have fun.

Speaker 4 (01:46:22):
I that's coming up next. I'll see you guys in
a few keep it right here on Koa.

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