06-12-26 FULL SHOW - The War Is On Again? Or Off Again? - The Mandy Connell Podcast

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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No, it's Mandy connellyn on KOAM ninety one FM.

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Speaker 5 (00:26):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Friday edition of the show.
Altogether now.

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The mouth.

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And together, I'm Mandy Connell and he Anthony Rodrigan will
take you straight up until three pm and we will
hand the perfectly preserved station clean as a button. We're
going to hand it off to KOA Sports, and I
hope they don't break it. Okay, those guys in the
bent all right, ripping microphones off of stands, having to

(01:05):
deal with the savagery of the afternoon and evening show.
We are a genteel bunch here on The Mandy Connell Show.
As far as you know, I am very much looking
forward to this weekend. Let's jump into the blog. And
I've just got since I published the blog, and I
was doing some stuff and I was going on a
walk and doing things, and so many more stories popped up.

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But I just want you guys to know, and this
is the only time I think I've ever really been
able to say this. If you are not on the
X platform right now, you are missing so much goodness.
Europeans have discovered the United States of America. They're here
for World Cup, and if you want just purely wholesome content,

(01:50):
go find you some Europeans to follow as they travel
the United States and learn about our culture and go
to Bucky's and waffle House and all of these great
things that make America great, and then they wonder, in
the best possible way, talk about how things. This is
an actual tweet that I responded to. Every Scottish person

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in America needs to immediately try chicken fried steak and
you'll realize we and the Americans are kindred spirits.

Speaker 6 (02:19):
Chicken fried chickens better.

Speaker 5 (02:21):
I like both. I love chicken fried steak well done
like perfectly done. Chicken fried steak is a magical dish
and I learned how to make it from my high
school boyfriend, Emmy's grandma. And she was a kind of
grandma growing up in the South in a rural area.
She was a kind of grandma that you'd come over
after school to see her and she'd say, oh, let
me fix you something to eat, and she would proceed

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to go out to the garden and she'd pick corn
to make cream corn, and then she would get chicken.
She wouldn't actually kill the chicken, but she'd have chicken.
She would make fried chicken from scratch for an afternoon snack.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Oh.

Speaker 5 (02:57):
I love this woman. I adored her. She used to
make chicken and dumplings for a place in my hometown
called Jimmy's Buttermilk Chicken. It's no longer there, said to
tell you, but Tuesdays were chicken and dumpling days and
they had them until they ran out, and they were amazing,
and she was the person making them. So she taught
me how to make chicken fried steak. And I'm telling

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you it can be magical. But chicken fried chicken also delicious,
just not as juicy. It's not as juicy as chicken
fried steak done well. Anyway, go to the blog. It's fantastic.
If you haven't already subscribed, I'd love for you too.
And if you have subscribed, I am deeply, deeply appreciative.
I'm trying to find out if I can put a

(03:39):
pole on my substack, since you guys are the actual
avid blog readers, the people that have subscribed. I'm going
to start. I want to ask you guys questions about
you know, what you like, what you don't like, what
you want more of what you want, less of that
kind of thing, because I really want to hone the
blog to the people who really enjoy it, and you know,

(03:59):
it might make my life life easier. I don't know.
I have to get some feedback. So I appreciate all
of you who have subscribed, and those of you just
dip in and read and don't subscribe, I appreciate you too,
very very much. Find the blog by going to Mandy Blog,
Mandy Blog, No s Mandy blog dot com. Hey, Ron,
I'll say Mandy, you say blog okay, and then we'll
say dot com together. Ready, Mandy blog dot com. So easy,

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get there, Yes, get there. Look for the headline that
says six twelve twenty six blog the War is on
again or off again. Click on that and here are
the headlines you will find within me in Office, half
of American allyships and clipments of seen that's going to
press plant today on the blog. A celestial event is
happening at Saint John's Cathedral. The Iroan War is the

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toxic relationship we don't need another crazy criminal victimizes someone
else after being let out. Why is our inflation higher?
In Denvers Metro doug Co is regulating ebakes, heat, bikes,
and ATVs. Trump course corrects on the new DNI director,
It's time to talk to your unaffiliated friends. Without government subsidies,

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EV sales collapse, more money for schools means administrative bloat.
The one to James Brand is crumbling. Elon Musk is
the world's first trillionaire. The idiocy of social distancing. During COVID,
European soccer fans are loving the United States, looking for
a true foody vacation. The Two Tall Boys. Not enough

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cours has got you? Switzerland looks to cap population, soccer parties,
Parker Days, and giant turkey legs on deck. Comedian Jerry
Seinfeld says the truth about Palestine. Why are Democrats giving
Hunter Biden anything? Government can't do what motivated monks can do.
MTG stays relevant by calling Trump a trader, But please

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don't leave it at the beach. Am I missing that
this is impressive. Ja'far needs to stick to evil. I
one hundred percent have this woman's back on this statement.
The Nuggets podcast Team Gotta Shake Up. RFK Junior shows
how to respond to the lefty media. Josh Shuntzon got
stuffed by the tsay I'm ready to go roller staying
now doesn't have life. I'm a blog blog dot com

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tick tech. Shut up, Nancy, I don't hear you A winner?
A winner, all right? Texter five six six n I O.
On the common Spiritdealth text line. It is also an
ask Me Anything Friday, so please bring your dumbest questions possible. Mandy,

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Now you need to share your chicken fried steak recipe.

Speaker 7 (06:37):
Please.

Speaker 5 (06:38):
Huh hmm. That's not a bad idea. I have not
made chicken fried steak in a very long time because
it will probably put you in an early grave. Okay, Like,
let's be real, anything called chicken fried is not going
to be a health choice that I've been making in
the last few years. But I would be more than

(06:59):
willing text to recreate because it's it's burned into my memory.
That was my high school boyfriend's favorite meal, so I
learned how to make it because he loved it, and
I made it a lot while we dated, showing people
I love them by making them fat. Since nineteen eighty one.
There you go. I will do that for you. I

(07:21):
just I have to write it down. Can I ask
a question to the textures in this audience who do
cool things? So is roller skating back? Is this the
thing now? Because if it is, I might be on
board a run. Skating was probably done by the time
you were a le No oh no, no, I all
the time as a kid. Oh man loves me time.
That makes me super happy because I started ice skating

(07:42):
Friday night in my hometown was the skating rink? Now
roll arena?

Speaker 7 (07:45):
Where are my people in the listening audience at least
one person that lived at some point in time in
Longmont and went to roller Oh my gosh, non you
forgot roll arena? Roll arena?

Speaker 5 (07:55):
Yeah spot growing up? Yeah? Oh yeah, yeah, Mandy. I'm
listening in Texas. I'm at a few World Cup folks here,
and they are all over things like the Fort Worth
Stockyards and our cowboy culture and even super walmarting program marketplace.
But yes, they told us their experience at Bucky's and
waffle House. You guys, they're living the dream and they're

(08:16):
loving it and what's amazing about this? And I was
started the show if you're just joining us in the
next last five minutes. A thing is happening on x
ray now, and it might be happening on other social
platforms as well, probably on TikTok, I don't know. But
all of these people from across the pond are coming
here for World Cup and they are raving about the

(08:38):
beauty of the South and driving into Auburn. And I've
driven into Auburn, and when you're driving into Auburn, it
goes like this, Auburn's in Alabama. It's kind of in
the middle. It is in the middle of nowhere. When
you're driving to Auburn, at one point you will think
the following thing, This is a lot of cows and
corn and about then that's when you get to Auburn.

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So they're just talking about the beauty of the United
States and how wonderful the people are and how friendly
everybody is and how they're having the best time of
their lives and they can't believe they didn't come here sooner.
And if that does not make you look at this
country in a different way, if you're currently super pessimistic
about the United States, and I'm pessimistic about some stuff,
but I'm not pessimistic about the people of the United

(09:21):
States of America. You know, when you get into the
heartland of America and you just start meeting people and
you're talking to people and people are wonderful, it's just fantastic.
What's interesting is a guy from South Africa is walking
through a park in Auburn and he says, look, you,
there's a park bench where no one's getting raped. So

(09:43):
his perspective, he's like, no garbage anywhere. And this is
South Africa he's talking about. So it's like, Okay, maybe
we need to listen to some of these people who
are seeing us with fresh eyes, because we've lost the
ability to see ourselves, you know, fairly and justly. So please, please,
please please find that stuff. Mandy in the first one

(10:07):
hundred subscribers, does KOA stand for King of Advertisements? Okay,
I'm just going to tell you guys, I'm pulling back
the curtain. The rest of June is going to be
like this, and I'm going to tell you why. I'm
gonna be perfectly honest. We changed systems within iHeartMedia computer systems,
specifically the computer systems that keep track of how many

(10:31):
commercials are salespeople have sold and how many commercials we
actually have available. So those are very complex computer systems,
and we move from one system to another system, and
somehow in the switchover, the new system did not grab
all of the spots that had already been sold, and
so we now have more spots than we are supposed to.

(10:53):
But it's for one month, and I am deeply apologetic.
I had absolutely nothing to do with it, but here
we are. So I apologize on behalf of everyone because
no one's happy about this. Trust me, no one is
happy about this. I mean maybe the sales team is,
because you know, maybe I don't blame them. They work

(11:14):
on commission. Roller City on Lakewood was a bomb in
the nineteen seventies. Mandy roller skating is back. I'm so
down with roller skating. My wife said my replaced hip
wouldn't stand it. Now this is my thing, okay, because
I have a video at the very bottom of today's
blog at mandyblog dot com and it's all these people,
and some of them are older than I am, and

(11:34):
they are rocking out on their skates. But here's the thing,
I know, I used to be able to do what
they're doing. Very easily, and I'm pretty sure I can
still do it now. A Rod, were you equally as
good a roller skater as you were an ice skater,
or you better at one than the other.

Speaker 6 (11:52):
The funny thing was is I did roller hockey for
a long time.

Speaker 7 (11:56):
The second I jumped on ice, I was incredible right
off the jump, like it immediately went.

Speaker 6 (12:01):
To But I would say, like.

Speaker 7 (12:05):
Ice skating is so much easier just because you glide
so much better, I can't do it. There's so much
more effort involved than roller skating. It's put so much
more into it. You just glide on ice.

Speaker 5 (12:14):
I just can't.

Speaker 7 (12:15):
I can't ice skate. I can go backwards, but I
can't go forward. Better at ice for that reason, but
I'm equally as good at both.

Speaker 6 (12:22):
It's one thing.

Speaker 5 (12:22):
I am very good at roller and ice skating, and
I love it both. A Rod roller rina all night,
skate by the railroad tracks on the diagonal that burts
you fun in birthed Mandy. Did you see the other
cities the World Cup is going to be played. I'm
very glad they started in a beautiful place. That is,
unless they clear the homeless before each event. Oh you
bet your sweet bippy. They will clear every single homeless

(12:45):
person out of the way before these things start. Mandy.
I've seen bars hosting roller skating events in Denver, so
you get to enjoy getting wasted and then try to
roller skate. Kind of fun. I guess doesn't hurt as
much when you fall down initially, but you feel it
in the morning. See now, I'm I don't want to
do that. I don't want to do I'm not going
to go get liquored up and then get on wheels.

Speaker 7 (13:04):
Unscrew the little break one, go all out. You don't
need a little break one on them. I mean I
also skated with like just like an ice. I think
there's like two different kinds of skates to en roller
where it's like ones that are for leisure with a
little stopper and the ones that are for the professional.

Speaker 6 (13:19):
What do you mean stopper?

Speaker 5 (13:21):
You guys could not see the disdain that Aron just said. Stopper. Yeah, like, oh,
only sissies have stopper.

Speaker 6 (13:28):
Yeah, we don't need a stopper.

Speaker 5 (13:29):
No, you gotta have a stopper. What are you just
crash into the wall?

Speaker 1 (13:32):
No you you.

Speaker 5 (13:35):
Stop it, Mandy. Anyone who's not afraid of the South
has never seen Deliverance. Okay, now, you guys, you just
hit a nerve because I'm not saying that My hometown
had a lot of people like the folks that you're
talking about in the movie Deliverance. But we had our
fair share and for the most part, you know, aside
from that scene in the Deliverance, they're they're harmless. They're harmless.

Speaker 8 (14:02):
Ish.

Speaker 5 (14:03):
That's why everyone in the South is armed. I'm just saying,
skate City is still at sixty fourth and Sheridan and
Nevada has been there forever. Cannot ice skate, Maddy. I
don't know if you're referring to the videos on Facebook
from a couple of roller centers in Maine where it's
all thirty through fifty or so year old skating and
they're usually skating the eighties music like Level forty two
and stuff like that, kind of cool and in sync two.

Speaker 6 (14:25):
And you got like three guys that are like late
in their years and they got and they got the lad.

Speaker 5 (14:33):
That's what I want to do, you know what it is.
It's essentially the roller skating version of line dancing, right,
And I'm not a big line dancer, but that looks cool,
like I would like to be in a pack of
people who are doing the same moves. Yeah, all chill
like that.

Speaker 7 (14:46):
Yeah, when you're a jets, like all together a battle
between two groups of fellas.

Speaker 6 (14:51):
Oh hell yeah, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (14:53):
Ice skating is harder on your ankles than roller skating.

Speaker 7 (14:55):
Oh, you gotta tie those skates real tight and tire
and everything. Oh man, the hardest.

Speaker 5 (15:02):
Part about rollerblading is telling your dad you're gay. Okay, really.
When I was a flight attendant for Delta, I flew
with my rollerblades. I had them with me, and wherever
I went, I rollerbladed. Now, this is the early nineties
when rollerblading was a thing, and I rollerbladed all over
this country until I was in Los Angeles one time

(15:23):
and we were rollerblading towards the Strand and if you know,
La has this beautiful beach obviously, and then it has
a big, big long sidewalk that goes all I don't
even know how far it goes. It goes really really far,
like tens of miles. It's very very far. And I
rolleduling to the strand and a kid who had just
rented some rollerblades goes flying down this hill and hit

(15:45):
the side of a bus and I was like, you
know what, maybe I should not be rollerblading around strange
cities in America. That's yeah, not that I'm in Texas,
says this Texter for a rodeo this weekend and last night.
There were a lot of spectators and for World Cup
at the rodeo, and the few people that approached me
were just mind blown. One guy told me his experience

(16:08):
at a local Western store. Lol. See this this is magic.
Forget about I have a story on the blog this
week that only eleven percent of Europeans polled feel like
the United States is an ally They don't believe will
come to their aid, which is hilarious because they're not

(16:29):
coming to our aid in Iran. But whatever, we started it,
we have to do it ourselves. But the reality is
is that before Trump was president, it was only at
twenty four percent. And when I tell people like, oh,
we're doing the Mandicotton Adventure, We're going to Europe, they
always go like, ooh, yeah, but doesn't Europe had us.
When you get to Europe and you start talking to

(16:50):
we talk to everyone when we travel, We talk to
uber drivers, we talk to waitresses, We talk to our
tour guides, We talked to anybody. We talked to people
at coffee shops, we talked to people, and I would
say ninety percent of the normal people that you talk
to in Europe are either like, yeah, we love what
Trump is doing, or they're like, well, I don't love

(17:12):
the guy, but you know he's not wrong. It's bizarre,
but yet you see these these these things, these these poles,
and all of these numbers. It's like, who are they
asking Mandy? What day of the week are you most
likely to be preempted by baseball? That would be a
Wednesday and the random Thursday. Never a Friday or a Monday.

(17:33):
That could make a nice long weekend. Thanks for that
Rockies person calling rollerblader gay is most certainly only a snowboarder,
not a skateboarder or a skier. That's not nice. Okay, Mandy,
you should add a tab to your sub stack for

(17:53):
Mandy's recipes. Ooh, that's a good idea. Or textter Should
I record myself making a video of making the dish
and then put the recipe on the blog? What should
I do? I'm not opposed that I love to cook
and I love. I think I would very I think
I would do a good job. Mandy. I just signed

(18:14):
up to the blog. Here's hoping there will be took
us talk. There's always took us talk, Kevin always speaking
of that, Mandy. I always wind up on my arse,
So I've never liked skating because of that. That would
dissuade me as well. And I often ended up that
way on ice skates, and yet somehow I managed to
pull it together on roller skates. I don't understand the difference.

(18:36):
Much like I can water ski, I cannot snow ski. Now,
those are two completely different animals that are only connected
because you're wearing large sticks on your feet while you
do them, totally different kind of sticks. I can water ski,
but I can't snow ski anyway, Mandy. So what is
the Mandy Cornels skate night mixer? Okay, here's the deal.

(18:57):
I already thought about that today, but I'm gonna have
to have you all sign a release that says you
understand you can break a hip if you go out
there and go roller skating. I'm We're gonna make this happen. Yes,
I haven't wanted to do something this bad in so long.
I'm so in we got to find that out. Okay,
I'm looking into it this weekend. It's happening. It's happening. Okay.

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Coming up at when is Fanny joining us today? In
twelve thirty, So coming up next, there is what looks
to be an absolutely stunning visual light story with music
and a choir and all of this stuff happening at
Saint John's Cathedral. It's called Celestia, and it is only

(19:40):
Friday and Saturday night. It's it's all summer long. It
looks totally cool. And coming up next we're gonna talk
to a woman named Fanny Kurtat about it. And today
I have a big chunk on the blog at mandyblog
dot com about the Iron War. You guys, it's almost

(20:00):
it's you know, it's reminding me of you know, that
couple that you've known in your lifetime that they break
up and they get back together, and they break up
and they get back together, and they break up and
they get back together. And this is what we're doing
with Iran and it sucks. We'll talk about that later.
It is called Celestia and it is taking place all

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summer long at Saint John's Cathedral in Denver. It is
a Friday and Saturday night thing. It will not interfere
in any way with services. I'm assuming and joining me
now to talk about it. Fanny Kurta with a Celestia. Fanny,
welcome to the show.

Speaker 9 (20:38):
Thank you for having me. We're so excited to bring
this show in Denver.

Speaker 5 (20:41):
So explain what this is. Because I'm looking at the
visual I have it up on my computer screen. I'm
not sure I can explain what it is looking at
the visual. So what is this?

Speaker 1 (20:54):
So?

Speaker 9 (20:54):
Celestia is a seated immersive art experience that transforms Saint
John's Guittthedral into a living canvas with projection light. There's
a sound design or no original music. It highlights the
Gothic architecture. It is designed to be visually stunning. It
is emotionally rich, It is inclusive. It is reverent of
the space, but it is truly truly welcoming of people

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of all backgrounds.

Speaker 5 (21:18):
So whose idea was this to go into these Gothic
cathedrals and create a show that plays up on the architecture.
Now that you said that, I can absolutely see that
in the video that I'm watching.

Speaker 9 (21:31):
Yes, well, it's a collaborative process.

Speaker 4 (21:34):
You know.

Speaker 9 (21:35):
The Gothic in and of itself is all about collaboration,
combining craftsmanship and perspective in order to create some bit
of an artistic vision. And that's what Celestia is. It's
Poket Entertainment Group, along with the creative studio called Normal
Studio Base where I am here in Montreal, and of
course Saint John's Cathedral, and through all of these perspective,
it's about creating a show that truly transcends belief. It

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is an art experience. It is about appreciating the Gothic
and the importance that it does. That it gives to
light to art as a means to elevate the mind.
That's really the core of this show.

Speaker 5 (22:10):
So there's also a choral aspect to it. Tell me
about the choral aspect.

Speaker 9 (22:16):
So yeah, you have shows during the week and on
Fridays and Saturdays. These are special because then you have
a live choir. You have eight people. They come from
the University, the School of La mont School of Music,
and it really highlights just how much the music plays
a part in an experience like this. It is cinematic,
It upflifts you the whole show is truly contemplative and

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the music carries sort of this dreamlike quality, and when
you do have the opportunity to see it with the
live choir, it makes it so so much more unique.

Speaker 5 (22:48):
Now, is this particular version of Celestia? Was this done
for this specific cathedral or is this more of a
we used Gothic cathedrals and went from there, or is
this specific to Saint John's in Denver?

Speaker 9 (23:02):
It was custom made for Saint John. It is really
it fits like a glove. So to create a show
like this, you need people to scan the entire church.
It's not just about the projection mapping, meaning that one projection,
one projector doesn't compete with the other one next to it.
It's really about fitting it into the architectural feature of
the cathedral. So it is truly for this Denver landmark,

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and it makes it so special because it is an
incredible example of Gothic revival. It is special and it
needs to be celebrated in that way. And Gothic is
still inspiring. It's really truly about the power of art.
It's about letting the light in. It's about seeing how
you can be inspired and connected to something larger than yourself.
So all of these elements just boil down to the

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uniqueness and the beauty and the natural mystery of Saint
John's Cathedral.

Speaker 5 (23:51):
So it happens you just said all week, but the
live choir is only going to be on Friday and
Saturday night exactly. Okay, it is running through. When are
we looking at here? I'm letting them pull it up. Oh,
it's running through.

Speaker 9 (24:04):
It's going, yes, all the way to the summer early September.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
You have.

Speaker 9 (24:09):
All of the information is on Celestia Experience dot com.
So if people want to have reserve seating, because you
have it's general admission, but you have an option for
a section that's reserved seating. You also have the live
choir element, so people are encouraged to book earlier to
in order if they want to have these features or not.
But all of the information description of the show and

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everything Celestia experience dot com.

Speaker 5 (24:31):
So how long is the show? How long are you
going to be at the cathedral so people can plan.

Speaker 9 (24:36):
So the whole experience is about forty five minutes, but
the show in and of itself, the projection elements are
about thirty minutes.

Speaker 5 (24:42):
Okay, and it's.

Speaker 9 (24:44):
Really again, something that's truly dream like. So you have
this whole journey, you have every projecting element around you,
It flows at ebbs around you, and it really it
goes on incredibly fast.

Speaker 5 (24:56):
All right, Fanny Karta. I also put a link to
Celesti Experience dot com on my blog at mandyblog dot com,
so people can just go find that if they like
to check it out. It looks absolutely stunning. And you know,
it's always fascinating to me when you've got all original music,
you've got this incredible specialized light show, you've got choir performances,

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you've got all these different pieces that all come together
all around this one cathedral to make this show. I
just I love the creativity behind this.

Speaker 9 (25:28):
Oh, it's really and it all stems from the cathedral
and the Gothic elements.

Speaker 3 (25:33):
You know.

Speaker 9 (25:33):
It was all about this combination of talents of perspective
in order to create something that feels very universal, that
in which every person can see a part of themselves.
And a show like this, it's bringing different perspective and elements,
but it's also about sharing those ideas so everybody can
take aspects from the show that are going to be
different from their neighbors, so you can talk about it afterwards,

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sharing it, connecting to others around you, connecting to something
longer than yourself. All of these are part of the
experience of Celestia.

Speaker 5 (26:03):
Fanny Karta, thank you for your time today, and I've
got everything linked up so when people are ready to
get their tickets they can go right there. Thank you
so much for your time.

Speaker 9 (26:11):
Thank you for having me.

Speaker 5 (26:12):
All right, that is Celestia experience. Doc. I'm totally going
to this. They had a media thing on Wednesday night.
I couldn't make it, but it looks really what a
perfect way to do a date night. You do dinner,
then you go see this Saint John's Cathedral. By the way,
to the person who sent this text message, I made
the comment in the last break that the Iran war

(26:33):
is like that couple that keeps breaking up and getting
back together and keep breaking up blah blah blah blah blah,
and they texted this. Only when on Facebook, either the
US or Iran changes their profile photo to one with
just them and the kids or one of them at
the gym, will we know they've actually broken up that
I was in the middle of that interview, and I
saw that text message and I almost laughed out loud

(26:56):
for real, but that would have been rude. And to
the person who said, sounds like new age mumbo jumble
poopy head stuff, then you don't have to go. Isn't
that amazing? You just have to go.

Speaker 7 (27:10):
It gives vibes of like the if you've seen the
Awakening show in Vegas, like that same, it's.

Speaker 5 (27:16):
Something beautiful, different and lovely. And if it sounds like
something you would not like to do, then do not
buy a ticket and do not go. I think it
sounds interesting. I and here's the thing, I may go
and go. I never want to do that again, but
I won't know until I go. I went through Buried

(27:36):
when I lived in New York City, where I kept
getting invited to performance art things. Now, this was back
in the early nineties and performance art in New York
was all it was. It was just one stupid thing
after another stupid thing. But I kept going because it's
kind of like Cats, the musical. I keep I keep

(27:58):
going to see the musical because I keep thinking everyone
loves this and I think it's awful. What am I missing?
So I kept going to these performance art things, and
they were just awful. And there were all these people
standing around and they were watching whatever idiotcy the performance
artist was engaged in, and they were all like, oh
my gosh, so brave, stunning, brave. It was just like,

(28:21):
what are we doing? I felt like the little kid
in the Emperor has new clothes, like, this is not art,
this is just dumb clothes, clothing. The Emperor has no clothes. Groove. No,
the original fairy tale is the Emperor has or new clothes,
Emperor's new clothes, but it was Emperor's no clothes because

(28:42):
he had no clothes, but nobody was brave enough to
tell him. Do not know the whole story? Doman encapsulate
it really quickly, Sure, okay, do Charlatans come rolling into
the kingdom. The king takes the Charlatans into the court
and they say, King, we are tailors and we make
you a suit of clothes that it's so fine, so
incredibly revolutionary that only the people of the finest character

(29:06):
and the smartest minds are able to see them. And
the king says, absolutely, I want those clothes. So they
get to work and they pretend over a series of
weeks that they are making a new clothes for the Emperor,
when indeed they are making nothing. So they take the
clothes to the Emperor. They very carefully pretend that they
are carrying them in. They say, Emperor, how stunning are

(29:26):
these clothes. The Emperor, who didn't want to seem like
one of the smartest or stupidest rather and people with
low character, said that's the most beautiful set of clothes
I've ever seen, pretended to put them on and then
walk down the street naked, until a little boy stepped
up and said, the emperor has no clothes. That is
the story in or nut that kid. I mean he

(29:47):
should have become They should have put him in charge,
don't I don't remember. Somebody said, you need a Mandy Connell.
Heck yeah, oh it's morphed already. And there's a meeting
scheduled Anthony, a meeting scheduled with David Miranda. Someone else
on the text line suggested, why don't we combine the
Missus Roper walk with a skating event, and yes, yes, yes,

(30:12):
you don't have to come dresses Missus Roper. It would
just get, you know, like extra points in the grand
scheme of things. Mandy are you watching the USA tonight?
I will not be watching USA tonight. I cannot guys.
I've actually been to a World Cup game really in

(30:32):
nineteen ninety six in Orlando There. No, it was Morocco
versus Ireland. I want to say it was. It was
Morocco versus. No, it was Morocco versus Ireland because all
these Irish guys gave us tickets. Tickets, by the way,
were like forty bucks for the World Cup games in
nineteen ninety six. And I mean I went, we had
a good time, We sang the songs or you eh oh,

(30:54):
we did all.

Speaker 10 (30:54):
That that was.

Speaker 5 (30:55):
And I just find soccer to be incredibly boring to
watch anything that can go for ninety minutes which feel
like a million, and then still ends zero zero and
then they just do a bunch of kicks and if
nobody gets kicks, it's just end zero zero.

Speaker 7 (31:11):
For those who haven't heard my amateur soccer philosophy, a
great time to bring it back up. Yeah, I am
always of the belief. And this is coming from someone
I called. I was playing back play of Metro State
soccer in college. Loved it, thought it was awesome, and
it gives some depth to this theory. The higher the
level of competition of soccer for me, the more boring
it is because they're all too damn gooding to technically sound.

(31:32):
It's tougher to have meaningful action in these this high
of competition.

Speaker 5 (31:37):
I would prefer to go on a Saturday morning and
watch the four to five year old soccer team where
every kid is barely paying attention and they're all just
running after the ball. I would prefer to watch that then,
no offense. I want Team USA to win. I'm rooting
for Team USA, but I'm fine without watching now.

Speaker 6 (31:57):
With that said, and I agree with you with that said.

Speaker 7 (31:59):
Yesterday I gave a chance because I have a new
buddy of mine who's here from Jamaica. Jamaica's not in
the World Cup, but he's a massive soccer fan. I
want to watch them World Cup with him this this
go around. Yesterday I tried the first game Mexico in
South Africa. Yeah, that was absolutely pretty entertaining. There was
a bunch of red cards, there's a bunch of action.
It was pretty cool. So I'm giving it a fair
chance because it only comes around every now and then.

(32:21):
You know, I'm gonna try but the USA, like I said,
is like roughly around like plus five thousand plus six
thousand to win, so they have like no chance. But
you know, woo, Yeah, it's tonight's game. USA and Paraguay
is at SOFI in Inglewood, California.

Speaker 6 (32:40):
Oh nice, pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
Fan fran.

Speaker 6 (32:42):
Yeah, people out there playing with yeah Englewood.

Speaker 5 (32:46):
Oh you're right, Yeah, you're right. My bad. Anyway, when
we get back, we're gonna talk a little bit about
the toxic relationship we're now in with a run unless
you guys send better questions for asking anything to the
Common Spirit Health text line five sixty six. And I know, Mandy,
where do the Republican governor candidates stand on the Right
to Hunt and Fish initiative? I have not asked any

(33:07):
of them, but I would almost I would almost certainly
bet that they are one hundred percent for it, all
three of them. I cannot imagine Victor Marx, Barb Kirkmeyer,
or Scott Bottoms not being in favor of protecting hunting
and fishing in our constitution because it is under attack,
especially because Jared Polish just appointed another idiot to Colorado

(33:29):
Parks and Wildlife. I mean, his husband must be so excited.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
accident and injury lawyers.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
No, it's Mandy Connell and Dona Ka.

Speaker 3 (33:46):
Ninety one FM got way to study the nicety three
Andy Connell, Keith sad bab Welcome, Welcome to the.

Speaker 5 (34:01):
Second hour of the show. I'm Mandy Connell. He's Anthony Rodriguez.
We're gonna take you right up until three pm. Interesting
doings from the beginning of the show. First off, the
blog is amazing today at mandyblog dot com. And at
the very bottom there is a video of people of
a certain age, my age, maybe even a little older

(34:21):
roller skating and doing it like so cool. So the
Mandy Connell roller skating event is being discussed at an
official meeting. There is a meeting on the calendar on
Tuesday to discuss it. So I'm very excited about that.
I will require that you all signed some sort of
release that if you break something, it is not my fault.

(34:42):
I'm just trying to have some fun. This text message
both baseball and soccer feel like someone tried to design
excitement but forgot to include the part where anything actually happens.
I disagree with baseball. You know that I love that sport.
But yeah, soccer Mandy. Is there an RSS feed for
the new blog? There is there is. All you have

(35:06):
to do is go to my substack pagemandyblog dot com,
add slash feed to the end of that, and that
should be your RSS feed. If it doesn't work, I
have no idea how to fix it. I'm an end
user for Ask me Anything. I would like to trademark
the name and nominate to officially change the name of

(35:26):
Tender as a straight female to blank on demand. I
have downloaded and deleted this app within twenty four to
forty eight hours three different times because it's an overwhelming
number of males buying for my attention. It will make
you feel pretty for a moment though I don't even
have dating apps. I don't even use dating apps. I

(35:47):
have never been single in the dating app era. Thank
you Jesus for that little bit. But let me just
say this, even as a person who's never downloaded that app,
I know that if you are on Tender, you are
trying to get laid. Now, if you happen to find
the right person after meeting to get laid and it
turns into a relationship that is secondary on tender. Tender

(36:11):
is the we're there to get laid app That is
what it is. There, you go, there, you have it.
Mandy open roller skating tonight and tomorrow at Boulder County
Fairgrounds in Longmont. Hey, Mandy, are you gonna invest in
Elon Musk's starlink stock? I am, but I'm gonna wait
for the initial machinations a Rod did to get his

(36:33):
share of SpaceX. So right now the ticker is going.
It's been very up and down, but not by a lot.
It hasn't been dramatically up and down. But it's one
sixty seven, one sixty six, one sixty seven.

Speaker 7 (36:46):
Yeah, it was as much up two hours ago of
thirty and seventy six. So it's faded a little.

Speaker 5 (36:52):
IPOs go up and then they come down, and then
you have another drop. When the institutional not institutional investors,
I can't remember the name of the end. There's a
certain class of investor that is allowed to buy lots
of shares, but then they're prohibited from selling their lots
of shares for I think six months. Don't quote me
on that, but that drop, well like when they can

(37:14):
sell that is when I will buy SpaceX stop.

Speaker 10 (37:17):
Sure.

Speaker 5 (37:17):
Well, Mandy, the most boring game in the world has
got to be cricket. It goes on for freaking weeks.
Let me tell you about my cricket experience. I was
dating a guy who lived in the Cayman Islands when
I was a flight attendant. You can do that when
you're a flight attendant because you just fly down there
for like fifteen bucks. It's fine. So I'm dating a
guy in the Cayman Islands and I go to visit
him for the weekend, and he goes, oh, this is fantastic.

(37:40):
There's a cricket match tomorrow. We can go to the
cricket match. Now, in my mind, when someone says you
can go to this sporting event, in your mind as
an American, what are you think in like, oh, a commitment,
three four hours whatever? Three yeah, it's fine. Oh oh
oh not just no, but hell no. I think we
were there for like seven and a half hours. It
broke for tea in the middle of the game. Oh

(38:05):
oh at thirty minutes in, and I'm thinking, cricket, it's
like baseball. They hit a ball. No, it sucks, it's awful.
It's a space it looks like a sport for people
who don't actually like sports. That's what cricket feels like.
Mandy asked me anything, when do you get some more?
When do we get some more?

Speaker 4 (38:23):
Chuck?

Speaker 5 (38:24):
Eh, we'll see, Mandy. What was your favorite music or
favorite song to skate to? How is it not Sugarhill Gang?
How is it not that was like the jam? So good,
So so good. I want to go back to Elon
Musk for just a moment, because today Elon Musk became
the first trillionaire in the history of the world. And

(38:48):
this is what the irritating school mommy marmy scoldie Elizabeth
Warren had to say about it. Can I have audio, please, Anthony?
Thank you.

Speaker 10 (39:00):
Musk is officially the world's first trillionaire.

Speaker 5 (39:04):
Think about that.

Speaker 10 (39:04):
We're living in a time when more and more people
are just hanging on by their fingernails to survive in
this economy, and Elon Musk has more money and more
wealth than anyone in human history.

Speaker 5 (39:18):
I want to be clear, this is not just some fluke.
It is a feature of a rigged economy. Donald Trump's
big and then she goes on blah blah blah blah, blah.
The only thing she said that was correct there was
that Elon Trusk, Elon Musk, became the first trillionaire, and
that it was not a fluke. What Elizabeth Warren is
peddling here is what's driving me crazy today. Everybody on

(39:41):
the left is like, oh my, got Graham Platner, the
scumbag who just got made it through the Democratic primary,
the Nazi He actually tweeted out, let's make this the
last trillionaire.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
Why not?

Speaker 5 (39:54):
Why? Why would that be your sticking point. It's not
like Elon Musk has been standing on a street corner
holding a gun to everybody's head taking their wealth. Let's
very very quickly through a wonderful post on X that
I saw earlier today, just talk about for a moment,

(40:15):
just for a moment, everything that Elon Musk has done,
because he has done a lot. And a guy named
Robert Sterling posted a rather it's not super long, but
let me just share with you. Robert Sterling says, you'll
never start a rocket company. You'll never build your own engines,

(40:38):
you'll never be able to use off the shelf parts,
you'll never survive three launch failures, you'll never reach orbit,
you'll never win NASA's trust. You'll never launch cargo to
the ISS. You'll never compete with Boeing. You'll never compete
with Lockheed. You'll never make rockets reusable. You'll never land
a rocket vertically vertically. You'll never land on a drone ship.

(40:59):
You'll never reuse as a booster. You'll never fly the
same booster ten times. You'll never fly the same booster
twenty times. You'll never fly the same booster thirty times.
You'll never recover and reuse the fairing. You'll never lower
launch costs. You'll never you'll never launch every month. You'll
never launch every week. You'll never launch multiple times a week.
You'll never carry astronauts. You'll never replace Roskamas Ross Cosmos.

(41:23):
You'll never fly civilians to orbit. You'll never manufacture satellites
at scale. You'll never build the biggest constellation ever. You'll
never make satellite Internet work. You'll never make satellite Internet fast.
You'll never make satellite internet affordable. You'll never serve rural customers.
You'll never serve aircrafts and ships. You'll never build a
methane rocket engine. You'll never make a full flow stage

(41:43):
combustion work. You'll never build the world's most powerful rocket ever.
You'll never build a rocker bigger than Saturn five. You'll
never build it out of stainless deel. You'll never launch starship.
You'll never separate super Heavy in starship. You'll never relight
Raptor in space. You'll never bring super Heavy back. You'll
never catch a boo with a Metzilla tower arms. You'll
never launch eighty five percent of mass to orbit worldwide.

(42:05):
You'll never change the economics of space. You'll never force
the entire industry to copy you. You'll never win, You'll
never IPO. Congratulations to Elon Musk and the space X team.
You did what countless people said was impossible, and you
did it time and time again. Today is your day.
You deserve this. May it be a glorious one. That

(42:29):
is the correct response to Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire.
How did we go in our society? From when I
was a kid, being wealthy was aspirational And I don't
mean flashy, fake weals. I don't mean having a Gucci bag,
I don't mean any of that stuff. Being a successful

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business person creating something that mattered that people were willing
to give you money for that was something that we
were told to aspire to, And now you have an
entire political party that is out there telling people that
somehow Elon Musk, who by the way, that's just SpaceX.
Think about what everything else Elon Musk has done.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
I am.

Speaker 5 (43:13):
I know you guys think I'm kidding when I say
Elon Musk is a Martian. But if there was ever
a case to be made in the modern era that
this man is built so differently than the rest of
us that we can't even begin to keep up all
of those failures that Robert Sterling just listed, all of

(43:36):
the things that went wrong. One of the things I
just learned about Elon Musk that I find absolutely fascinating
is he has no emotion when something goes catastrophically wrong.
When a rocket blows up on the launch pad, for him,
it's just a new series of data points. He doesn't
have to sit there and lick his wounds and be

(43:57):
sad and more in the loss of what was just goes.
What are we learning from this and moving on? That
trait is not normal. I have had some catastrophic failures
in my life. Business failures really just really catastrophic failures
in my life, and every one of them took me
down for a good long bit before I even felt

(44:21):
like I could start to even think about venturing out again.
Not Elon Musk man, This guy just goes okay, what
do we learn from that? Moving on, what was the
stat you gave me off the air about Elon being
the first trillionaire and what that puts in ranking wise?

Speaker 7 (44:35):
Yes, this is from Unusual Whales, which is a fun
follow with stocks and options and crypto whatnot. They said,
the average American is now closer to Jeff Bezos in
net worth than Jeff Bezos is to Elon Musk. Again,
the average American is now closer to Jeff Bezos and
networth and Jeff Bezos is to Elon Musk.

Speaker 6 (44:54):
Now here's the quick context.

Speaker 7 (44:56):
Typical American household has a median net worth of roughly
one hundred ninety two thousand, nine hundred dollars. Elon Musk's
fortune sits at approximately one point two trillion. Jeff Bezos
net worth of two hundred and forty seven billion. That
means the distance between Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk is
a staggering nine hundred and fifty three billion, whereas the
distance between a typical American and Jeff Bezos is roughly

(45:18):
two hundred and forty six point eight million.

Speaker 5 (45:21):
But here's the thing. Jeff Bezos literally changed the way
we shop forever. He created Amazon and fundamentally changed how
we do commerce in the United States and around the
world with that one action. He used to just sell
books out of his garage online and he created the

(45:41):
world's largest marketplace. I think Ali Baba is a little
bit bigger now, but Amazon is probably the world's largest marketplace.
And Elon Musk has done so much stuff that has
a fundamentally changed society. Love or hate him, Tesla is
still the best selling electric vehicle. I actually have a
story on the blog today about how car sales in general.

(46:03):
First quarter car sales in Colorado fell off a cliff
because after the government subsidies stopped all of a sudden,
nobody wants to buy an incredibly expensive electric car unless
they could get ten grand off of it. He's already
working on lowering costs of Tesla's Now think about that
for a moment, because if they're truly been a free

(46:26):
market with electric cars, they would probably be much cheaper already,
but the government subsidies propped up the prices. I have
nothing but love for Elon Musk. This is a guy
who buy all accounts. When things were going wrong at
Tesla and there were big problems that needed to be solved,
he just went to the factory, went to the office

(46:47):
and slept there for like three weeks. Let's talk about
average Americans. Yeah, you might be working long hours, you
might feel like, you know, yeah, I'm putting it in,
but you're also not risking it at all. It's a
fascinating story, and I think it's one of the greatest
stories in the United States right now. And I think
you can probably tell a lot by the way anyone

(47:10):
in your life reacts to Elon trust and Elon Musk.
Be I keep calling him Elon Trusk because he's a
trillionaire now Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire. And if someone says,
you know, oh yeah, Elon, you should look at him
and say you are consumed with envy and greed. He
is consumed with big ideas that have made a just

(47:32):
generational change in our society. If you don't after everything
the man has come up with, he has done more
in a private company with Starlink to actually make sure
that people in rural areas can have Internet that is
effective and works than the federal government did after spending
forty billion dollars. It's amazing what he is doing. And yeah,

(47:55):
and not only what he's doing, but now everybody else
has to follow along. Everybody else is chasing him all
the time. I I if anybody in this entire world
deserves to be a trillionaire, I will make the argument
that it's Elon Musk. You may not love him personally,
I mean I kind of have an issue. No, I
do have a big issue, and I'm gonna call it

(48:17):
the Nick Cannon issue Elon Musk has. I mean, look
and see how many kids Elon Musk has. I think
he has thirteen? Does that put him above Nick? I
think Nick only has twelve? So you has more kids,
Elon or Nick Cannon. I have a real problem with
men just going around and spreading their seed with a
bunch of women. Now, it's one thing if you are

(48:38):
married to the same woman. What are the stats here
on kids stats?

Speaker 6 (48:41):
That's your final bets.

Speaker 5 (48:43):
I think Elon has thirteen and I think Nick has twelve.
Nick Cannon does indeed have twelve Elon fourteen, Okay, and
they're all not all with different women, but most they're
how many women?

Speaker 7 (48:54):
Nick Cannon twelve kids with six different mothers, Elon Musk
fourteen kids with four different mothers.

Speaker 5 (49:02):
Unless you're going to be married to that mother and
in the household, A vast majority of those kids are
going to get screwed out of time with their dads.
And that is where I have a real problem. Yeah,
he's got oodles of money, but he also works relentlessly
and he's not involved in his children's lives. I think
part of that is because he's on record in many
interviews as saying his father was significantly abusive and horrible

(49:25):
and that his childhood was a nightmare, and maybe he
feels like it's probably better for him to not be
near his kids. I actually have a friend who had
such a horrific childhood and got married, had kids, didn't
work out, and he was saying things like, well, my
dad was so horrible, it's probably better I'm not in
my kid's life. And I just looked at him and said,
you're an idiot. That's the dumbest, most idiotic thing I've

(49:48):
ever heard. Most self pitying thing I've ever heard. So
many people with horrible parents themselves have turned around and
become amazing parents. But only thing I don't like about
Elon I really don't and that's none of my business.
That's I mean, he has to figure that out. But

(50:09):
the hate for Elon Musk is just baffling to me,
and it shows how strongly the notion of socialism and
communism has taken hold. Notice people are never, you know,
all for socialism and communism because they want to give
all of their stuff away. They're for socialism and communism
because they want to take someone else's stuff away. And
that's all this is. They're mad. They are mad. They

(50:32):
didn't think of any of the things that Elon Musk
has invented out of whole cloth, just believing that he
could get it done. I look at him in the
same class as I look at Richard Branson. When Richard
Branson said he was going to start Virgin Airways, all
of his business advisors said, are you insane? Why would
you do that? Why would you can't start an airline?

(50:55):
He had no money. By the way, he wasn't famous,
he wasn't he wasn't a big deal, and yet he
started it and now he's got cruise lines and everything else.
There is a certain kind of person that when they
have an idea and they believe that that idea is
an amazing idea, and then they can kind of work
out what it's going to look like, it doesn't matter

(51:16):
what anyone tells them, they're going to do it. Most
of us get talked out of it. Most of us
explain a dream that we have and someone stands there
and goes, well, you know, here's why that idea won't
work one, two, three, and we believe them, even though
they themselves have never made such an idea come to life. Now,
I'm not telling you to do something crazy. You know,
don't sell the family home to invest in what you

(51:37):
think is the next pet rock. That's a bad idea.
But when someone says I have a vision and this
is how it's going to work, people like Elon Musk
and people like Richard Branson are not dissuaded by the
people who have never done that before. And like I said,
I'm here for you, Elon, big ups. Congrats you're the
first trillionaire. I'm wondering how you guys feel about it

(52:05):
text me five sixty six nine. Now that's common spirit
health text line. Mandy Musk is pretty amazing in his drive.
I'm a serial entrepreneur myself and can retire whenever I want. Instead,
I'm starting another business after a very successful exit. I'm
bored not creating things exactly, Mandy Donald Donald Donald. Look

(52:26):
who is Donald Lee Klein? Donald Lee Cline has sired
ninety four children? Who are these women that are gonna
have a baby with a guy with ninety four kids.
I hate to say it, but you're just a bad
potential mom at that point, Good lord, Mandy, will you
suggest to reach out revolution to have a booth at

(52:47):
the Mandy Skating event? A question and a suggestion? What
do you call it? That would be hilarious? Hilarious? Mandy?
I uh half, oh, wait a minute. They're saying on
Fox News that, oh, where did it go that employees
of Elon Musk all became millionaires today? Like four thousand
of them. That's what happened at Microsoft, and I'm glad

(53:09):
it happened again because those are the people that had
to stay up in the middle of the night with
their boss to make it happen. So I just said, Hey,
give me the top inventions of Elon Musk. This from
last year. Did you know that Elon Musk sold the
first code for his game Blasttar at the age of twelve.
He sold it to PC and Office Technology magazine for

(53:31):
five hundred bucks, and then shortly thereafter his first real
venture was called zip two. It was an innovative online
business directory that combined business listings with digital maps, making
it easier to find local businesses. Launched in nineteen ninety five,
it was developed to serve the newspaper industry by providing

(53:52):
online content publishing solutions, But despite bootstrapping the company and
living in their office, Musk and his brother Kimball gradually
gained traction, securing three million dollars in nineteen ninety two.
They partnered with major newspapers. He clashed with the CEO.
In nineteen ninety nine, Compac bought zip to for three

(54:13):
hundred and seven million dollars. Trump made twenty two million
on that next. Internet supported phone calls. In nineteen ninety seven,
Elon Musk patented a technology enabling computers to call landlines
directly from web pages. Musk applied the technology to enable
Internet supported phone calls, demonstrating the early ability to implement

(54:35):
innovative solutions. Granted in two thousand and one, This innovation
allowed users to click on a phone number on a
website and be connected via a call center. This was
the precursor to platforms like FaceTime and Zoom. In nineteen
ninety eight, he patented a system designed to enhance geographic
search efficiency. Musk's early vision laid the foundation for today's

(54:58):
location based search capabilities. Way before the Twitter merger, Elon
Musk already had a use for x dot com. The
original website was founded in nineteen ninety nine, one of
the first betterally insured online banks, offering services like online
bank accounts, payments, and investments. In two thousand, it merged
with Confinity, which led to the creation of PayPal. Musk

(55:23):
was later ousted as CEO and in two thousand and
two eBay acquired PayPal for one point five billion dollars
and Musk purchase theex dot com domain in twenty seventeen.
In twenty twenty three, Twitter was rebanded as X. Then
there's Tesla. Elon Musk joined Tesla in two thousand and four.
Is a major funder and quickly became the driving force

(55:46):
behind its success. Pun intended as the majority shareholder, Musk
played a pivotal role in shaping Tesla's direction and success.
As CEO and product architect, he transformed the company into
a leader of electric vehicles and sustainable energy. His vision
to reduce global reliance on fossil fuels led to groundbreaking innovations,
including electric vehicles like the Model S, Model three, and

(56:08):
Model X. Tesla has expanded into energy storage products with
powerball and megapack, and solar technology with solar roof. That's
the solar roof shingles that you can Yeah, those are cool.
Following the acquisition of solar City in twenty seven to
twenty sixteen, Musk's relentless focus on innovation has helped Tesla

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not only dominate the ev market, but also push the
world towards a different energy future. Solar City founded in
two thousand and six by Elon Musk's cousins, solar City
aimed to provide affordable solar systems. The initial concept for
solar City was to make solar panels accessible and affordable
for homeowners, With solar panels as a core component of

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its offerings. Musk as chairman guided the company to become
the largest residential solar installer in the u U. In
twenty sixteen, Tesla acquired Solar City, integrating it into Tesla
Energy to advance sustainable energy. Solar city systems, along with
Tesla's power Wall, play a crucial role in Musk's mission

(57:14):
to reduce environmental impact. Now. Electric jet concept. Elon's vision
for an electric jet, proposed at MIT's Aeronautic and Austronautics
Centennial Symposium, aims to transform air travel. The jet, designed
to use electricity for power, would feature vertical takeoff and
supersonic speeds, requiring smaller runways than conventional craft must. Commitment

(57:38):
to innovation and sustainability is reflected in this concept as
it aligns with its broader goal. Blah blah blah. Then
there's hyper loop. Hyperloop came out in twenty thirteen as
an innovative transportation system capable of reaching speeds of seven
hundred miles per hour. The system consists of pressurized capsules
moving through low pressure tubes, reducing air resistance for ultra fast,

(58:02):
energy efficient travel. Think of when you go to the bank,
or you used to go to the bank at the
drive through and you put the little container in the
tube and you press the button here and gore. That's
what hyperloop is. Must describe it as a fifth mode
of transport, aiming for collision free, weather independent, and environmentally
friendly travel. The first hyperloop, by the way, is being constructed.

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I say that it's underway around a town in California.
Then there's Neuralink. Founded in twenty sixteen. Neuralink develops brain
computer interfaces to treat neurological disorders and enhance human potential.
It's now becoming reality. In twenty twenty four it's successfully
implanted its first device in a human. The company focuses

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on conditions like brain injuries and blindness that faces ethical
concerns over animal testing. Neuralink aligns with Muscle vision of
merging technology with the human brain to revolutionize medicine and
huge and capabilities. Then there's the Boring company. That's the
tunneling company that goes along with the hyperloop. And then

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there's SpaceX. He began his first rocket launches with Falcon One,
had many failures before they finally did what they have done.
Now they are the leading space company in the world.
The Starship rocket will be pivotable, pivotal in deploying Starlink satellites,
enabling rapid expansion of the global network, Starship the future

(59:31):
of interplanetary travel and Starlink, and then XAI, the AI
that is now powering ROC. I mean, does this guy
not deserve to be a trillionaire? And I asked that, respectfully,
who among us wouldn't deserve to be thought of as
a trillionaire? And I would just say this. Had Elon

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Musk not tried to apply his giant brain to making
government more efficient and smaller, you would probably be seeing
a much different viewpoint of this today. I just think
it's kind of sad. I think it's kind of sad
that there are people so rooted in jealousy that they
cannot look at what he's done and say, well, dang,

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perhaps this guy has has contributed enough to society that
we can get off as jock for five minutes and
let it be a trillionaire. Hey, Mandy, if Elon Musk
were to divide is three trillion dollars to every human
on Earth, each of us would get approximately three hundred
and seventy five dollars. All right, yeah, yeah, yeah, push

(01:00:42):
our noses in it this text are said, why don't
you that you'll never go out to everyone, not just haters,
you guys. I'm just saying, if you find yourself angry
that Elon Musk is a trillionaire, you have a problem.
And if me talking about everything this man has done

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in order to make you understand why you have a problem.
If you think him being a trillionaire is a problem,
and if you do have a problem with him being
a trillionaire, then you need to evaluate your entire what
is important to you being jealous of what other people
have done and earned and accomplished, because that's how you're
coming across. Hey, Mandy, Elon is my favorite Martian? Me too,

(01:01:25):
Me too, Mandy, Elon Musk is not a Martian. He's
a time traveling Leonardo da Vinci. Mandy my son works
for SpaceX at Canaveral as a senior manager for the
Dragon program. I haven't asked him if he got any shares.
How can you not? How did you not call your

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son and say you are buying in at the employee
IPO right right? I hope he did. Most employees are
smart enough to know. Mandy, I love my starlink system.
I live out in BF and it it's the only
decent option. And that, my friends, is why Elon Musk
is a trillionaire. In the last segment, I just told

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you the stuff that Elon Musk has done to just
let you know, if you have a problem with him
being trillionaire, why don't you do the stuff he's done?
And this is the text that I get. This is
now the front runner for the dumbest text of twenty
twenty six. It literally says the Nazis contributed to their
society to Mandy shaking my head, really really really in

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what way? I you know what, Let's just make it
the winner.

Speaker 10 (01:02:40):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:02:40):
I realize that it's only the middle of June, but
I find it difficult for someone to beat the stupidity
of that text message Godwin's law right there in action, Mandy,
I work hard for my money and try to manage
it well, do it by myself. Take a certain amount
of pride in that I'm not small hard enough to
manage my own money.

Speaker 1 (01:03:01):
I just.

Speaker 5 (01:03:03):
I'm not. You know, you got to have you got
to know what you're good at. You got to know
what you're not good at. Managing my money is one
of it. I have a great financial advisor that I love,
and they help me work things through. Now we got
to talk about Iran, and I've talked about this off
and on because honestly, off and on, that is what

(01:03:24):
this nonsensical back and forth with Iran is. Leave it
to CNN to come up with this gem. Ay Rod,
may I have my audio please? This is the thirty
eight times that Donald Trump has said, Well, it's thirty
nine today. I don't know if that has all thirty nine.
I thought I had thirty thirty eight times that Donald

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Trump has said that a deal with Iran is imminent.

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
We have points of major points of agreement.

Speaker 5 (01:03:54):
They want to make a deal, and we are very
willing to make a deal. Well, I think we're going
to end it and tell you for sure. When they
want to make a deal so badly, you have no
idea how badly they want to make a deal.

Speaker 6 (01:04:05):
They want to make a deal so badly.

Speaker 5 (01:04:06):
But I do see a deal in Iran. We were
very close to a deal. I think it's close to obi.

Speaker 6 (01:04:12):
I mean I view it as very close to over. Yeah,
it's looking very.

Speaker 5 (01:04:15):
Good that we're going to make a deal with a
rad and it's going to be a good deal.

Speaker 6 (01:04:18):
This process should go very quickly. We're going to end
that war very quickly. They want to make a deal
so badly.

Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
We think we're close to a deal.

Speaker 6 (01:04:26):
And that's okay. We're in the final throes of what will.

Speaker 2 (01:04:29):
Be a very very good deal.

Speaker 5 (01:04:32):
Today makes thirty nine times. Thirty nine times Donald Trump
has said we are close to making a deal. Now,
here's what happens every single time Donald Trump says, oh
my god, they've agreed to a deal, and then Iron's
like uh uh huh, and Israel's like, dude, we got nothing.
The Arab States are like, that's not what we said.

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And we're back at square one.

Speaker 4 (01:04:56):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:04:57):
We just bomb the crap out of Iran again. Trump
threatened to take carg Island. He says they're negotiating. By
the way, I did finally find out today. We did
find out they're negotiating with the Iranian parliament speaker Mohammed
Bagar calab Off calab Off. But there seems to be

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some confusion about whether or not the Iranian parliament has
any power, or if it's been ceded to the royal
or the Iranian Royal guard. Nobody knows who's in charge
right now, and the Supreme Leader or some facsimbly thereof,

(01:05:39):
has also allegedly rejected the deal. Now, something interesting that
is coming out is jd Vance had to take too
X to clarify that a lot of the reports that
are coming out now are completely wrong as to the
terms of this alleged deal. I'm growing tired, and I
see this is why I can never be president because

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if I were a president right now, do you know
what I'd be doing. I'd be on the phone with
Benjaminette Nahu and saying what do we need to do
to end this? And I don't mean negotiate, I mean
what do we need to do to end the Iranian
regime so the Iranian people can have the opportunity to
decide what they want to do next. How do we

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end this regime? That would be my only question. And
whatever came back, I would go back to my military
advisors and say, Okay, y'all get ready to go, all military,
let's just get it done. Get it done. Give me
a plan, give me an exit strategy, give me all
of that, because we're just finally gonna get it done.
But instead thirty nine times. An alleged deal has been

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announced at this point. Even Charlie Brown's not trying to
kick that football.

Speaker 1 (01:06:49):
Accident and injury Lawyers.

Speaker 2 (01:06:54):
No, it's Mandy Connell.

Speaker 4 (01:07:04):
Got study the nice through free Baconnell keeping really sad things. Welcome, local, Welcome.

Speaker 5 (01:07:16):
Take the third hour of the program. We've had a
rousing show today. Two o'clocker's Now it's your time to shine.
It isn't ask me anything. If you haven't looked at
mandyblog dot com today, there's a ton of stuff on
the blog that it's Friday. I do have something on
the you know what. I started the show today by saying,
if you're not on X right now, you're missing such

(01:07:39):
wonderful content as people from all over Europe are descending
on the United States and they're posting video of them
trying foods and visiting places like waffle House and BUCkies
that are sort of part of the Americana of the South,
and it is so heartwarming. They all love it. They're
the best time. They're going to Walmart and this this

(01:08:00):
is so foreign pun intended to what they're used to
at home. It's just it's kind of delightful. But leave
it to this sour puss to send this text message,
obviously wanting to compete for the dumbest text of twenty
twenty six, which is already been won by a text
in the last hour. For you to imply that BUCkies
and the waffle House are must see things that define

(01:08:20):
the United States is the dumbest damn thing I have
ever heard in my life. You're such a dim minded hillbilly.
Get the biscuits out of your ears, sir or madam.
They are engaging in these sort of Americana things. I
never said you need to come to the United States

(01:08:40):
to go to waffle House, but you do, you sour puss. Mandy,
mister negative here is always great blog today and great show.
He's trying to weasel his way back into my good graces.
Always listen every day. Ask you anything. Have you made
roasted garlic powder in your air fryer? Yet I have
not because I have a giant thing of roasted garlet

(01:09:01):
powder in my cabinet, So when I get done with that,
there you go, Mandy. If it's not too personal to ask,
have you bought or invested in precious metals. I have,
but it is not a significant portion of my investments.
And I don't want to sound like, well, my investment
Postmolio is so massive. It's not that big. But just

(01:09:22):
a little bit in gold, physical gold. So there you go, Mandy.
Did you happen to watch Sean Boyds voters decide report
on Jenna crazy Eyes Griswold last night on the CBS
News Colorado. I did not. I did not. I'll have
to go back and check that out. Did they teleport

(01:09:43):
to the waffle house? No, that would be cool, Mandy.
Was you rather work in an organization where the leadership
and staff is mostly male or female one hundred percent?
I would rather work with then. No offense to the
great women that I do work with. But in my
experience in the times where I've been engaged in a
female centric job situation, like being a flight attendant, there

(01:10:09):
are certain things about a hive of women that I
do not belong in that I just don't belong in
that setting at all. And I know a lot of
women who prefer to work with women. I am not
necessarily one of them, although we do have we've had
two female boss bosses like the Big Boss. We have

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one now, Jessica, who I absolutely adore, and we had
Brenda before and I absolutely adored her. They've been great
women to work for. But some of the scariest people
I've ever met in radio have been female presidents of
a radio company. I don't mean scary in a mean way.
I just mean those women. The way they negotiated was

(01:10:52):
it was brutal. They were ruthless. I'm gonna tell a story.
This is such a great story. I love this story.
So I was working for a sports station. It was
called five Ford to the team that it was called
seven to forty the team because we moved up the
dial and we had the Solar Bears on our little
sports station because the Solar Bears were part of the

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Devas family, and the Davas family, of course owned the
Orlando Magic or I don't even know if they still do,
but they did at the time, and we were trying
to get the opportunity to be a part of that
conversation to pull them away from another news talk station
that had the Orlando Magic. So in order to do that,
we ran the Orlando Solar Bears Games, a hockey team

(01:11:33):
minor league hockey. Super fun. I mean, the games were great,
but it was minor league hockey in Florida, right, so
did not exactly have a riveting radio audience. So we
go to renew the Solar Bears contract. And I've been
working with the Solar Bears for like four years now
because I'm an air talent, but I'm also working in
promotions and I know these people. I mean, we had

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drinks together, were friendly, We're very friendly. And our president,
our market president, walks into the meeting. We're all kid,
it's seen going baga. Good to see Hena, how's your kids?
All that stuff. She walks in and they start talking
about everything they have planned for the next season, and
she puts her hand up and goes, just curious, before
we continue this conversation, when is the magic contract back

(01:12:21):
up for negotiation? And they both just looked down at
the desk and then looked back up at her and said, yeah,
we just resigned a five year extension, and she goes, Okay, thanks,
I hope you find someplace to put the Solar Bears
next year, got up and walked out of the room,
and I was like, what just happened? Right now? And

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I look at these friends of mine across the table,
and they know exactly what's happened. They've lost their radio station.
Nobody else is going to take this product, no one,
And I was just like, I will never cross that
woman again. Never flashing back to a comment about Tender
Mandy Hunt, my son hooked up with a galon Tender.

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He was forty, she was thirty five, got married a
year later and had been married for nine years. Now,
what I said earlier in the show is if you're
just joining me, if you are using the app Tender,
you are using it to get laid. If you happen
to get a long term relationship out of that, that
is a bonus. But that is not the purpose of
Tender Mandy. Did you know there's now proof of at

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least one woman in attendance at a Rush concert. They're
new drummer Anika.

Speaker 2 (01:13:33):
Huh.

Speaker 5 (01:13:34):
Do you know what I just found out about Rush concert?
Arod Ross, a fellow Rush fan as I am, called
me up before tickets went on sales, said hey, I
might have a way to get us some tickets, but
I won't I don't know. I said, great, I'll take two.
Give me the tickets. I only looked at the first
date of the Rush show, that would be the day

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before I leave for Europe for the Mandy Connal Adventure.
Guess which tickets we got? The other one the second show,
which is the day after I leave for Europe. Oh yeah, yeah,
Russian Russia is They're so I've already seen them like

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four times. I love them, although now without Neil, I
just I don't know, you know, maybe just like cats,
you see him enough times and maybe they'll be good.
They are good, and in a Rush concert you never
have to wait for the ladies' room. Mandy. How many
Nazi tattoos you're rolling with? Guess you need one to
get democratic support? I am at zero Nazi tattoos. I

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am too, Texter. I am at zero Nazi tattoos. Mandy.
Are you gonna do your voter guide for the election
coming up that I will be doing. I'll be doing
it this weekend. It will be published on Monday. M Dude,
watch the videos before you put your foot in your mouth.
The people in them are happy and sharing and experience

(01:15:00):
and they have never had before enjoy the moment with them.
What are you talking about, Texter? Because I genuinely have
no idea, Mandy. Oh dag nabbit, let me find it
and keep just updated again. Essentially, Mandy, did you hear
Ross talking about you and the way you do the well,
now you know, segment telling you how to do it right?

(01:15:20):
I did not. The Dragon made sure to email me this.

Speaker 8 (01:15:24):
Listen, Mandy, now that you have adopted, well, now you
know you need to do it right. Okay, First of all,
it's well now you know not so now you know
because Chad's sitting here smiling. He's trying to decide whether
to jump on board here or not offend Mandy. He's

(01:15:44):
struggling with this what dragon, He's got.

Speaker 5 (01:15:48):
To play that fine line because you know, as a
child of divorced parents here Chad has to to.

Speaker 6 (01:15:53):
You know, not offend one or the other.

Speaker 11 (01:15:55):
Right, and but it's an amical divorce, amicable divorce, right,
so uh but anyway, yeah, so, so, well, now you
know was my baby? I gave it up for adoption
because Chad works afternoons most of the time, so Mandy
has nearly full custody now, but you can't rename my baby,
all right, my baby's name is well now you know

(01:16:17):
not so now you know.

Speaker 8 (01:16:21):
And here's the thing, Mandy, this is key. This is
what makes it such a thing. Near the at the end,
when Chad is done telling you the thing you didn't know,
you have to say something like, wow, Chad, that was fascinating.
I thought I knew something about that, but on that
particular fact I did not know. And then Chad says, well, Mandy,

(01:16:44):
now you know, and then we all put our fingers
in the air.

Speaker 6 (01:16:47):
Look, Mandy, if you're gonna adopt my baby, do it right.
The baby's happier.

Speaker 5 (01:16:54):
I've been thinking about this all morning long. When you
adopt a dog from the past and they go, hey,
this little dog's name is Petie and you hate the
name pd, do you change the dog's name. Not that
Chad Bower's a dog in any way, shaper Sometimes sometimes,
I mean, Ross is very territorial for someone who just
gave it up here, you take it.

Speaker 6 (01:17:15):
It's fine, it's fine. He's mad that the baby is happier.

Speaker 5 (01:17:21):
Ah, yes, indeed, Ay Rod throw back to the first
hour the roller Rama, Holy smokes a Rod first fifth
grade double date after we moved to Colorado. Wait, no,
it was skate city, I think on Main Street. Rama oh, Rollerina. Yes,
roll Rama was on the south side of Longmont, right, yes, southwest. Yeah,

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this texter said, I just tuned in. Are we explaining
how tender works to the KOA listening audience asking for
a friend. That was a crackback to an earlier comment
as well. Wow, Rollerina closed in two thousand and three.
Now the skating rink that I grew up going to
in my small hometown where there was literally nothing else
to do, I mean just nothing, so we all went

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to the skating rink. Now it's like a like an
industrial supply you know, where they just like almost like
a granger type building, you know, business with just stuff
that people need.

Speaker 6 (01:18:18):
Well, someone mentioned earlier some event going on this weekend.

Speaker 7 (01:18:20):
It looks like now in Longmont they do a pop
up skating event, an organization called Free Wheell Free Wheel Limited,
little pop up thing. But where is the is the
I gotta have an operating out of the Boulder County
Fairgrounds Exhibit building.

Speaker 5 (01:18:34):
Yeah, I'm not driving up there to go skating. Is
Neil Young better than Rush? Asked this textmester. What what
kind of dumb.

Speaker 6 (01:18:42):
Question is that both can be bad?

Speaker 5 (01:18:44):
Rush is far superior to the whiny intonations of Neil Young.
He's not as bad as Bob Dylan. Pink Floyd and
they're trifetta terrible Pink Floyd. I'm telling you right now,
in one hundred years, people are gonna look back at
the catalog of Pink Floyd like they look back at
Beethoven's works. Hahah yeah, yeah, uh huh no, yeah, no, Mandy,

(01:19:06):
every time that somebody says the name pet I think
of the Blind Kid and dem and Dumber getting a
bird with its head attached by duct tape. I haven't
seen that movie in a while. Does it stand up
gumb and Dummer? Yeah? Absolutely, Forgiveness not intended for Mandy.
For the dude knocking on the South Africa World Cup
fan discovers the wondering grandeur of walmart In, Alabama, Americana

(01:19:29):
at its finest. I mean, they look at our stuff
the same way I go over and ogle their museums.
But our stuff's cooler. We'll be right back. Europeans experiencing
Americans for the first time, and we are dazzling. We
are dazzling them. Got a lot of stuff on the

(01:19:51):
blog today that you need to read without government subsidies.
EV sales have collapsed. More money for schools means administrative bloat.
That's on this on the blog today at mandyblog dot com.
Jimmy Sangenberg's written a great column on how Wanda James
is destroying her own brand. But instead I'm going to

(01:20:11):
answer this question because it has asked me anything. Five
six six nine zero is the common spirit health text line. Mandy,
you're a gen xer. Did you ever play dodgeball with
that red ball that made the distinctive bank sound when
you got it? I found some similar balls and have
been playing dodgeball with my grandkids.

Speaker 4 (01:20:28):
Fun.

Speaker 5 (01:20:29):
I was good at dodgeball because I was good at dodging.
I never had that ruthless you know, like oh oh God,
kill everybody. But I would always make it to maybe
the last quarter of people, and then I would get
out because there was not enough people for me to
hide behind.

Speaker 7 (01:20:47):
Being fun conservative catcher is always fine. I mean, I'll
throw one really hard every now and then, but being
able to just bo you're out, yeah, next person, come
on in. Yeah, like hovering back and playing kind of
the defenseman. I played a lot of dodgeball because we
were tough back then. Are we you know, people expected
us to do tough things. Well, people playing now with
the little squishy ones, and nine of them are inflated

(01:21:10):
enough you take enough.

Speaker 5 (01:21:12):
No, you can't give somebody a bloody nose with that.
Some of them you can't. And if you can't give
somebody a bloody nose, are you even playing dodgeball? If
you can't take somebody's arm out of the socket, are
you even playing Red Rover? I like the little ones
you can palm though, because then you can really chuck it.
I've never been a great thrower of things. It's never

(01:21:33):
been my fort to throw things. And so my fort.

Speaker 6 (01:21:39):
It's fort forte.

Speaker 5 (01:21:41):
That's the Italian word, and it has to do with music.
The word fort means my strength. Yeah, it has never
been my fort. I'm telling you that is correct. Yes,
if Charles Harrington Elser is like smiling on me at
having right now, Okay, Mandy, that's because it was Texas.
Imagine if a European visiting America for the first time
was in Detroit or Chicago or Los Angeles. The only

(01:22:04):
one of those that I think you would encounter truly
unfriendly people is actually Los Angeles. I love Chicago a
Rod and I had a blast in Chicago for the DNC.
Love that city, love the food. Everybody was nice, it
was it was a really good experience. But La nobody
cares about anybody but themselves. It's the most self absorbed

(01:22:26):
city I've ever been to. And if you're not helping
them somehow move their career along, they're just not interested
in you. It was more the sound was more of
a point, and you're right, it was like point. It
was point, Yeah, that's closer. It was a higher point,
but definitely a point. Would it hit you, uh, Texter?

(01:22:46):
I'd like you to go to the the iHeartRadio app
and send me a talk back of you making that
noise point. If you could do that, I'd appreciate it. Mandy,
why can't AOC or ilhan Omar be arrested and tried
for a sedition? Honestly, I'm genuinely curious and I really
want to know. How can you please elaborate? Sedition by design?

(01:23:07):
As well as treason has a pretty high standard of proof,
and just because someone believes in things politically that you
don't believe in, that doesn't necessarily make it sedition. Now
about ilhund Omar, I would be very interested in seeing
her investigated and prosecuted for possibly marrying her brother to
bring him over. Mandy is correct on Fort that text messager, Mandy,

(01:23:33):
thank you so much for pronouncing fort correctly.

Speaker 6 (01:23:36):
We are waiting for the dodgeball sound effect.

Speaker 7 (01:23:39):
But in the meantime, a very very pivotal and important
question has come across the top.

Speaker 9 (01:23:44):
Uh oh, Mandy, what is your views on the White
House Ballroom?

Speaker 5 (01:23:51):
Is that the one bad bunny's doing the show to open.

Speaker 6 (01:23:54):
Maybe he's the intro to the UFC event coming up
this weekend.

Speaker 5 (01:23:57):
I am I really don't care. I don't care about
the ballroom in the sense that it's going to be
built by private donations. The Senate put the kabash on
any taxpayer dollars. Obviously, after the White House Correspondent Center,
we need something more secure. I don't care. Just build

(01:24:19):
a damn thing and get it over.

Speaker 6 (01:24:20):
Now, what about UFC Freedom two fifty? Then it is ridiculous.

Speaker 5 (01:24:29):
I just first of all, I don't care for the
MMA because I watched UFC one, two and three when
people were like compound fracturing other guy's arms and stuff,
and I was like, I'm out this is not for me.
This is a little too gladiator like for me. I'm
not down with it. And now I think those were
the last ones I watched to just give you an

(01:24:50):
idea of how much I don't like mma fighting and
I love boxing.

Speaker 7 (01:24:53):
Plot twist, they at the very launch of the event,
scrap the whole thing. Make it it celebrity deathmatch Donald
Trump against somebody right then and there.

Speaker 5 (01:25:05):
He's so old though, and I'm not being disparaging.

Speaker 6 (01:25:08):
He's old.

Speaker 5 (01:25:09):
He would get hurt.

Speaker 7 (01:25:10):
Who would you want to see him scrap with right
now in the ring if you knew he wouldn't get hurt.
Who enters the ring celebrity death match style in honor
of America two fifty this weekend style.

Speaker 5 (01:25:26):
That's a really good question. I'm just wanting to think
of the Oh, come on, two doddering old men walking
around looking at each other, yelling of seeing things. No, no,
thank you, no thank you. Mandy. I thought Bill Clinton,
Oh stop it, Mandy, I thought Bill Clinton created the
first White House ball room. I believe you're thinking of

(01:25:47):
the Oval Office, Mandy. The five days of Dodgeball, Dodge, dip, duck, dive,
and dodge.

Speaker 6 (01:25:52):
If you can dodge a range. You can dodge a ball.

Speaker 5 (01:25:56):
Mandy, What did you think of the Steroid Olympics? It
was I didn't even First of all, I didn't even
know was happening. Did you know the Stereoid Olympics were happening?
They had they had a contest where you could you
could juice or not, didn't matter. And they weren't better
than regular Olympic athletes. I don't think anybody. I mean,

(01:26:17):
maybe there were some records broken, but they were like
by fractions of a second.

Speaker 6 (01:26:21):
Yes, we have received the sound effect.

Speaker 5 (01:26:23):
Okay, here we go this poining. Well, that's good. One
more time. So this is the sound of that big red,
kind of textured ball that you played dodgeball with when
we were kids, and when it hits you mostly right
in the face. Go ahead, poining. That's good. That's very accurate.
I like that. Well done, Mandy. In the ring with that,

(01:26:48):
I don't know, Oh, George Conway, George Conway, there you go, Mandy.
The correspondent centers held in a neutral location by nature
of the event, not at the White House. I would
venture a guess that it is held not at the
White House because the White House doesn't have a space
to accommodate it. If they did, they would be able

(01:27:11):
to do it there because the President generally appears at
the White House correspondence dinner, so it's only in a
neutral site because they didn't have the space before Rosie
O'donnald's Celebrity Deathmatch, Go DJT. I am going to be
honest and tell you that I did think about Rosie,
but then I was like, we haven't heard from her

(01:27:32):
in a while, and I just didn't want to jinx anything.

Speaker 7 (01:27:35):
I mean, if they haven't settled the beef, why not,
mister new trillionaire elon?

Speaker 5 (01:27:40):
Oh their pals again? Their pals again? Right, Yeah, there're BFFs, Mandy.
Here was the challenge we had in the eighties. We
played kickball on roller skates. OMG, it was hard. Now
wait a minute, kickball on roller skates. I'm not going
to that sounds kind of fun a little bit. I

(01:28:00):
mean not now. I would die, completely die, Chuck, I said.
Chuck was referencing someone in our past the other day,
and the way he referenced him was, do you remember
this guy from our kickball team? And I looked at
Chuck and said, you know what, I'm kind of proud
that our lore as a couple includes the fact that
we played on a kickball team. I'm pretty happy about that.

(01:28:21):
Twice we were terrible. The average age of our kickball
team was about forty. The average age of all the
other kickball teams was about twenty five. To say that
it was somewhat of a massacre does not do massacres justice.

Speaker 6 (01:28:35):
Did anyone get into scoring position?

Speaker 5 (01:28:37):
Yes? Yes, on occasion, Yes, okay, I was actually able
to get on on for you know, by home runs,
ummm to your knowledge, not by us, Okay, against us? Yes?

Speaker 6 (01:28:51):
What positions were you two? Did you switch?

Speaker 5 (01:28:54):
I played left out and then you know I played
in the outfield. But I'm not a good runner. Now
I can't run at all. I mean you know that.
I say a fight or flight like legitimately, flight has
been taken off the table for me at this stage
in the game, So I better learn how to fight, Mandy.
How about behind the bleacher's Joe? All Trump would have

(01:29:16):
to do is blow on him?

Speaker 2 (01:29:17):
True?

Speaker 5 (01:29:19):
True, Chuck Schumer another one. Two old guys suit it
up with their gloves on. I don't want to see that.
The red poing doesn't sound enough like fear needs more
reverberation and impending doom like like that, and then you
hear it about way off your face.

Speaker 4 (01:29:42):
Yah.

Speaker 5 (01:29:45):
I kind of wish that there were more dodgeball now
because think of how cool that would be in slow
motion on your camera on your phone. That would be great.
What things did you play in school that you absolutely hated?
Because there were things that I remember those What are
they called when you have to run back and forth

(01:30:06):
and pick up something off the floor and then run
back to the other side pick up something off the floor.
What is it called the shuttle race? Is that what
that was?

Speaker 6 (01:30:14):
My gosh?

Speaker 5 (01:30:14):
I hated those things because back then I was already tall.
Wasn't super tall, but I was already tall. I mean
by in elementary school. I was tall by sixth grade.
I was really tall by ninth grade. I was freakishly
tall for ninth grade. And I'm not freaciously tall now.
I'm only five ten, But I was all knees and elbows,

(01:30:35):
and I just I look like a baby giraffe out
there trying to do like bend. Oh, Mandy, The Dems
don't want a ballroom, since the crazies seem to only
want to shoot Republicans. I wish that I could say.
I don't agree that that is out of the rim
of possibility, but I I'd like to see President Trump
fight Woopy or Joe Joy Behart to the death. Yeah, yeah, Mandy,

(01:31:01):
did you just say you were left out? I'm sorry
I would pick you. You are so kind, so kind,
And apparently I guess Rosie is back. She's been spouting off.
Several of you were talking about that. I've managed to
avoid that, and I'm just fine with that. Mandy, did
you ever race Nick?

Speaker 4 (01:31:18):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:31:19):
No, And I don't feel like I could beat him anymore.
Right now, I'm in the process, and it's so much
better that it was a few months ago. My right
knee is bad, my right hip is bad. I'm doing
all the Regaien revolution stuff and it has gotten remarkably better.
But if I told you that it was one hundred percent,
I would be lying. Mandy aoc versus Lauren Bobert h

(01:31:44):
dodgeball are like straight up fighting? Are we mmaing? Are
we dodgeballing? How fun would it be if we replaced
the congressional softball game, which just happened. Republicans won handily again.
What if we replace that with dodgeball Congress Dodgeball, they
could make that pay per view, and I would watch

(01:32:06):
it just to see people get smashed in the face. Mandy,
tetherball a jam my fingers every time. I was good
at tether ball because see my earlier comments, I was
taller than every other kid, so I could get stuff
the other kids couldn't get. Mandy. I hate being made
to square dance in pe class yuck. But I mean,

(01:32:27):
shouldn't every American know how to docy dough? You would
have never known. Did you square dance when you were
a kid? Do you have to do that? Oh? We
square danced a lot, and then we learned the Irish jigs,
so we did the Irish jig as we were scared
square dancing. Mandy, we actually had square dancing in grade school.
Gym I hated it. This person hated badminton. How do

(01:32:48):
you hate badminton? It's like take light, so good tennis light.
I love badminton because it didn't require me to be
that fast. It's not like we were playing like Olympic badminton,
which is insane.

Speaker 6 (01:32:58):
You just reminded me, though, A listener event has to
be pickleball.

Speaker 5 (01:33:04):
Oh, I found a place where we can join chuck
it out. Are gonna go check it out and see
if you can see if you can figure out at
what is crabball?

Speaker 6 (01:33:11):
No idea hm Texter.

Speaker 5 (01:33:13):
Said crabball was interesting. I don't know what crabball was. Mandy,
you might be too young, but do you remember Red
Rover Red Rover, let so and so come over a
game and someone would have to run and try and
bust through your arms that you were holding with someone
else's hands. I always thought my arm was gonna break.
That was a stupid game from Linda. Linda, I watched
a child's right arm be ripped out of the shoulder

(01:33:34):
socket playing Red Rover Red Rover, and as we're watching
him on the ground writhing pain, we also declared victory
at the same time, as only elementary school kids could do.
And then the nuns banned Red Rover Red Rover for
like a year. It came back the next year and
guess what that kid was out there playing again, Bobart

(01:33:56):
and AOC mud wrestling. Now that who is that really for?
Who is that really for? Texture who? I don't think
it's about AOC. I don't think it's about Lauren Bobert.
I think it's about what you want to see mud wrestling.
Ryan Edwards would never cube to supporting women's scantily clad

(01:34:18):
mud wrestling, would you. Ryan. It was a movie that
they did that in trying to remember it was with
the old school. Yeah, they did an old school.

Speaker 6 (01:34:30):
Candy. But I'm thinking of like, oh, it was Stripes.

Speaker 5 (01:34:34):
Oh I just watched Stripes, but I fell asleep during
that part. Sorry I didn't answer your question, but that
was the first go. It's today if we really talk
to them about what went on in bars on a
regular basis, from midget tossing to cello wrestling. And these
aren't like nuty bars. These are like average bars which
just have a night where they'd have women wearing bikinis

(01:34:57):
in jello and the place was full. So I think
kids today with a different sensibility would look back on
this and just be absolutely horrified. I agree, you know,
and having to explain that to my two teenage daughters,
like what I was doing there, I don't think I'm
ready for that. Think about it in this context, it's there.

Speaker 4 (01:35:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:35:19):
Oh, I've been to many of the jello wrestling and
mud wrestlings. That's where all my friends were going. So
I was going and we went and we watched it.

Speaker 6 (01:35:26):
Where the list as a participant.

Speaker 5 (01:35:28):
No, no, never, I hear I want to be rolling
around in food And I had a mud bath one
times in Palm Springs and it kind of freaked me out.
So I'm I'm good with that.

Speaker 6 (01:35:38):
You have standards.

Speaker 5 (01:35:39):
I know they're very low, but I do have them.
And now it's time for the most exciting segment all
the radio of its kind, the world of the day.
All right, what is our dad joke of the day, please, sir?
This one. I was at an ATM and this old
lady asked me to check her balance. Yeah, I saw

(01:36:02):
that one come in a mile away. Disney's nice. Oh sorry,
word of the day. It's okay, that's something we haven't
done this before. It's a noun. I sent some sarcasm
in that. Did you hear that? Right over there? Ask
your control right now? Yeah, bland blandish means something.

Speaker 6 (01:36:22):
Mm hmm, you're so close.

Speaker 5 (01:36:24):
It's something. It's like it's like a medal or something
like that, like a decoration of some sort that you
wear on your clothing.

Speaker 6 (01:36:31):
No, right, any guess think what she said, but nowhere near.

Speaker 5 (01:36:35):
With nothing like that at all.

Speaker 7 (01:36:36):
Just see whatever, I'm nice things that you say or
do to convince someone to do something.

Speaker 5 (01:36:42):
Oh, very interesting. I don't like the first question, and
I want to get a better one. Who was the
first female owner of the major league baseball team?

Speaker 11 (01:36:53):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:36:53):
It was with the.

Speaker 5 (01:36:57):
March, isn't it March Shot series? Yeah? Oh no, we're wrong.
Oh wow, this is interesting. I should send this to
Jesse Thomas for Pioneers of the game. Helen Brittain, who
assumed the presidency of the Saint Louis Cardinals in nineteen eleven.
Oh wow, who saw that? Her husband must have died.
That's what I'm guessing. That's the only way a woman
is going to get a baseball team. That's then, you know,

(01:37:18):
it's ridiculous. Yeah again, children, why not? Oh son of
a biscuit eater? And he crunching up?

Speaker 10 (01:37:25):
Enough?

Speaker 6 (01:37:26):
What is our chat?

Speaker 4 (01:37:33):
First?

Speaker 5 (01:37:33):
Wait? Wait, we got to tell me. I crumpled up
my question from the calendar, as I do every day,
and then I took a shot at the at the
garbage can, which I usually make, and it wasn't even close.
The second one was go ahead, jepardy. Category.

Speaker 7 (01:37:47):
Well, first, Ryan, leading the way against you with six wins,
you are looking for win fifty nine.

Speaker 5 (01:37:52):
Okay, on right here, category is it's over? It's over,
over over Ryan, every answer by the way, okay, but
they have to do with over.

Speaker 7 (01:38:04):
If you go off the deep one, you've lost emotional control, Ryan,
what's the high dive?

Speaker 5 (01:38:08):
No question again, if you go off the deep one,
you've lost emotional control. God overboard? What is the board?
Minus one? What is end? The deep? N have a
pen to keep score?

Speaker 6 (01:38:27):
Just remember what minus one? Minus one?

Speaker 7 (01:38:29):
This ten letter word means an ending or a logical deduction, Ryan,
is a conclusion?

Speaker 5 (01:38:36):
Yeah? In football, it's a successful forward pass.

Speaker 6 (01:38:43):
Oh no, I got it? Go ahead, Ryan, What is
a completion? That is correct?

Speaker 5 (01:38:50):
One got over his.

Speaker 6 (01:38:52):
Messing with here's minus one, so now he's a villain.

Speaker 5 (01:38:54):
No, he just got too so he's at one.

Speaker 7 (01:38:56):
You're that's all wrap it up. This word also the
surface coating of polished wood. That's all wrap it up, Mandy,
what's finished?

Speaker 6 (01:39:08):
Correct?

Speaker 5 (01:39:08):
Okay, back to the minus one, so make a run here.

Speaker 7 (01:39:12):
A closing argument in a courtroom is also called this
from the Latin four highest.

Speaker 6 (01:39:18):
Ummm I think I'm gonna sit where I'm at. Yeah,
I don't know what is summation.

Speaker 5 (01:39:26):
Hey, well done, Ryan, I stunk that category of bad.
I Okay, everybody has a wonderful weekend. It's gonna be
a great weekend. Tons of stuff going on this weekend.
You can find it all at mandyblog dot com and
we'll see you on Monday. Keep it right here on
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