06-21-24 FULL SHOW - Jeff Crank Wants Your CD-5 Vote, Plus Freelancing for Big $$$

Episode Transcript

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Welcome, Welcome, welcome. Ontoday's show, we talk about all kinds
of stuff, including why Jeff Crankneeds to be the nominee and CD five.
We also talk with Michael Fleischer abouthow to be a seven figure freelancer
and what stall are you supposed togo into when you go into the bathroom.
It's all very complicated, but webreak it down. So stick around

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the one Grant Smith sitting in todayas a Rod has the day off.
Actually a Rod worked the morning show, didn'ty. Yeah, you guys are
all skewed because Cooper's out. Yeah, you guys, we have we're let's
just say this, we are thinin one area at this radio, well
multiple areas, but especially at theproducer petitions. Yeah, when someone takes
it off, it's like all theseguys step up and do like fifty more

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times work than they normally do,and they normally do a lot of work.
So I appreciate you being here,Grant. It's a pleasure to be
with you. I'm looking forward tothe three hours we are about to spend
together. And I'm of course MandyConnell. And you can find my blog,
which is amazing, by the way. Can I just toot my own
horn for a second. It's solike, if somebody wanted to nominate me

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for an award, I bet i'dwin. I'm just saying, grant,
well, somebody nominate me for anaward because I feel like I need that.
Yeah, I'm just you know,and then if I lose, I'm
supposed to say it was just itwas an honor being nominated, which is
not clearly Or you can be likeJennifer Lawrence at that awards show last year
and said if I'm not if I'mnot winning, I'm leaving and just have

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that that mindset towards it, youknow. Yeah, okay, I could
do that. My certificate of merittoday for the Denver Nuggets parade coverage with
Ross and Ryan last year, andI'm like, first loser. What do
I even do with this? DoI just burn it out of anger?
You know? I'm I just havea folder because I've been lucky enough to
win awards with you and the pastand with Broncos Country tonight. But yeah,

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a certificate of merit, Yes,that's that's the culture we're living there.
Yes, yes, everybody gets surprised. You know, here's your ribbon
means nothing, but here's your ribbon. As a matter of fact, grant
when you leave today, I gota ribbon for you on the way out.
Oh thanks, okay, I'll turnthat too. It actually works great
as kindling. So there you goingto start the conflagration. But of course

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don't do it right now because weare dry, even with the weird grainstorm
yesterday. So that's not what Iwant to talk about. I want to
direct you to my blog, whichdid I mention is amazing. Go to
mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dotcom. No apostrophe because you can't have
any kind of punctuation in a URL. And then look for the headline.

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Once you go to the KOA page, that's the Mandy Connell page. Look
for the headline that says six twentyone twenty four blog Jeff Crank wants you
are CD five vote plus freelancing forbig money. Click on that and here
are the headlines you will find within. I didn't go listing office half of
American all with ships and clipmas andsay that's going to press plants today.
On the blog Jeff Crank is runningin CD five people are making bank freelancing.

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I did Michael and osk me yesterday? More knives are out for Dave
Williams will a new corner office?Help kids? We are being flooded by
fentanel. Do attack ads work?This is why RTD sucks. All the
administrators who let this happen should pay. Faith Winter has to answer for her
bad behavior. Do long ago crimesmatter in an election? Tgif peeps,

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who will be Trump's BP? Hey, everybody, Ross Bazama, John Caldera,
this is exactly like being in thecar with me and Chuck. MSNBC
putting out cheap fakes. Now ripDonald Sutherland. McDonald's starts a fast food
price war. AI means we betterget skeptical and fast. No political violence

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is not justified. Looking for acamping spot in Colorado? Potatoes are back,
baby, James o'keith comes for Disney. Which stall is the correct stall?
Exactly what being from the South islike? Now? A beaver video,
Tucker's twin can't deal. Those arethe headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog
dot com. And I have somegreat videos today on the blog. Fantastic

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videos, including one about a beavernot that kind yep, perverts. I
was excited for you. Yeah,it actually is an adorable vision. It
is. It's a really cute video. And then I got a few more
videos on the blog that you needto see. I have what's now known
as a cheap fake grant. You'renot really your I know, your sports

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is where your passion is, soyou're not really that much of a news
guy. Have you been following alongwith a cheap fakes story that is now
being promoted by the media. No, I mean you know what a deep
fake is, right, A deepfake is where something is completely fabricated.
Well, all of these really unfortunateJoe Biden videos keep coming out because he
keeps doing these things that they canlook like he is in the throes of

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dementia. Right, Yeah, Idon't know if you've heard about these one
where he's fundraiser. Now, they'rethe big thing coming out of the White
House now is that those videos areactually cheap fakes that are not real videos,
even though they are unaltered videos ofthe president doing stuff. And then
their issue is is that people aretaking them out of context. See,

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it's not them, it's us.We're the problem here because it's perfectly normal
that the leader of the free worldwould have to be led off stage by
a prior leader of the free world. It's perfectly normal. There's nothing to
see, absolutely not a single thingweird about that. It's perfectly normal for

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the leader of the United States ofAmerica to just wander off as every other
world leader at the G seven islooking at a parachute guy. Perfectly normal.
Nothing to see that, nothing,no problem at all that someone else
had to walk over and get himand gather him. Another world leader had
to bring it back into the fold. Perfectly fine. Any suggestion otherwise makes

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you a cheap fake. And nowMSNBC has gotten in on the cheap fake
game. What had happened was NicoleWallace was interviewing Joe Biden and they're sitting
at the desk on the MSNBC studio. Now, anyone who has ever watched
any sort of news program knows itgoes like this. Like, for instance,

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if Grant and I were on anews program right now, we would
be having a very pleasant interview.I would say like, oh, Grant,
good to see you, and Grantwould say great to see you as
well, man, and we wouldchat back and forth about whatever we were
talking about. And then I wouldsay thanks so much for coming by Grant,
and Grant would say, oh,thanks so much for having me,
and then I would say, andwe're gonna go to break, and we
would go to break, and thenGrant would get up, and then Grant

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and I would shake hands, probably, and then Grant would leave at that
point. But Joe Biden, heis a rebel. And if you think
anything of this other than he's arebel, you are part of the cheap
fake problem because in this particular interview, let me just let me just play
and then I'll give you a blowby blow. Let me give in my
computer rent, I'm gonna give youa blow by blow of what you're not

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seeing in this video, which youcan see at mandy'sblog dot com on Today's
blog. But this is what's goingon. Nicole Wallace wrapping up an interview
with Joe Biden. Well and theones that didn't vote for your bills but
run on them. That's true.Thank you. Already's standing up right now,
now, he's standing up. HeShakespeare hand, don't go anywhere talking,

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walking off stage and we'll have reactionand analysis. Walking off from the
perfectly normal, perfectly normal though,as you say otherwise, you are part
of the cheap fake industry. Thecheap fake has now become a form of
newspeak. Grant, you weren't herefor our book club when we did our
book club on nineteen eighty four byGeorge orwell, oh yeah, this isn't

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a perfect example. You can goand you can see, as you did
at the fundraiser. What were yourthoughts about the President's behavior at the fundraiser?
I mean, without going into cheapfake territory, you know, just
your immediate reaction scary and weird.Yeah, nope, that's a lie,
Grant, that's a lie. Youreyes are lying to you. You just

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need to listen to what the WhiteHouse says, which is that Joe was
just basking in the adoration of hisfans and it was perfectly normal that Obama
had to come over and lead himaway like he was a lost child at
the zoo. Perfectly normal. Nothingto see. I wonder what's going through

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Obama's mind in that moment, like, my god, this is the gy
that we got running for the DemocraticParty. I I you know, there
is a theory out there, Grant, call it a conspiracy theory or just
a theory that Obama and his teamare running the show, and seeing what
we see, it certainly does seemthat way. And you know, I'm

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not one of those people that Idon't need someone to be macho. I
don't need someone to establish their dominance. But when Obama is in the room,
Joe Biden is an afterthought. Andwhen he walks over grabs Joe Biden's
arm. Now, I don't meanto I don't mean to talk about a
cheap fake video. I'm just relayingwhat's exactly in the unedited video that's been

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released. Obama has to grab hisarm, but then he turns him around
and he puts his arm over hisshoulder, and that is a very dominant
move and it makes Joe Biden lookvery weak. And so there's a theory.
There's a theory out there that theObama of people have been running the

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White House since you know, whenever. And I mean, if you do
have someone who is let's just saynot at the at the peak of their
faculties in that position, you youcan control them pretty much by saying,
you know what, if you dothis, everyone's gonna think you're a genius.
Everyone somebody just pointed this out,Don't believe your eyes nineteen eighty fourish

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exactly, And they're trying to tellyou what you're seeing is not what you
are seeing. And they are tryingto redefine what we are all seeing,
which is an elderly man who hassignificant cognitive decline and getting into situations where
he does not seem to understand whatis happening around him. And that guy's

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the president. But hey, whatif you talk about it, You're just
part of the cheap fake industry.I'm honestly just starting to feel kind of
sorry for him. Do you imaginewheeling out your grandpa like this while he's
battling some sort of cognitive issue andyou're like, okay, now you have
to talk to you. If hewas mister Rogers and then we did this
to him, I would feel bad. But Joe Biden has been a creature

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of politics and a climber since nineteenseventy three, so he's getting what he
asked for. You know what I'msaying. I don't pity him. I
do find it disgusting that his family. I mean, I believe that doctor
Joe Biden loves being the you know, the first lady. Oh boy,
she loves that status. I blameher. I think she's gross. I

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mean, if this was my father, I would be mortified because don't you
think at some point, and maybehe doesn't even have the wherewithal to even
be embarrassed or even be aware ofhow he looks, but at some point,
I mean, would you would thinkhe's a very proud man. He's
got a healthy ego. Yeah,and these will be the lasting images that
no one will remember him from.And it's I don't want to go out

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like that. I mean, ugh, Oh, Mandy, the Hag Hillary.
We don't need to call the hagHillary. We just call Hillary.
Everyone knows the rest. The HagHillary has been out of her evil lair
A lot recently says this one guys, it would be so stupid of the
Democratic Party to replace Joe Biden withHillary Clinton, who already got rejected in

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twenty sixteen. People don't like HillaryClinton. Democrats love her. I normal
people that are not Democrats don't likeher. She's very unlikable. That would
be the worst. That would bethe second worst choice. First worst choice
is Kamala Harris because she's just sheis just not ready for prime time,

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But the second worst choice would beHillary Clinton. Let me talk about a
reash. And how are you gonnamake the argument that Donald Trump is too
old, which is exactly where theywould go if you've got another old person
on the ticket? Eh, Mandy, how is his doctor allowed to let
him continue as president? Because hisdoctor gets to say he's the president's doctor.

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That's why clout buys a lot morethan you think it does, Mandy.
They need to find a conservative dato charge the family with elder of
youse. That will never happen.Hi, Mandy, what is doctor Jill's
platform? Don't first ladies have aplatform? I don't know. Grant look
that up, use the Google machinefind out doctor Jill's platform. I mean

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Miss America has a platform. LauraBush had a platform. I think Oh
Michelle Obama ruined school lunches. Yes, she had a platform. I'm guessing
it's something to do with education.She's a big union height. I don't
know. You have the same opinionthat I have, says this text her.

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I don't feel bad for Biden,but I do blame Jill. She
loves being first lady. Yep,it's been confirmed that Biden molested his daughter.
Maybe this is revenge. You know, her diaries are creepy and weird,
and maybe there was, but Idon't think anything's been confirmed. And
yeah, we're not gonna We're notgonna go there, Mandy. For all

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the people that think the Democrats aregoing to replace Biden before the election,
if that's the case, why onearth with they let him debate next week?
Now, the theory you can callit a conspiracy theory if you want,
but when it's on the left,we don't call it conspiracy theories.
We just call them theories because thatjust I don't know. But in any
case, the conspiracy theory on theleft is that if he tanks in the

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debate, and that is possible,we'll see if the adderall kicks in in
time. But if he, youknow, does poorly in the debate,
then there's going to be some kindof oh my gosh, we've discovered the
president has an illness dementia, andthen it'll go from there. I will
tell you that I don't think thatJoe Biden is going to step down voluntarily.

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I think that the Democrats are allout there on TV talking about how
sharp he is, how mentally,he's just so there. It's amazing.
They've never sat with anyone as sharpas Joe Biden. When they talked to
him, I think he believes them. And if they came to him and
said, dude, you gotta stepdown, he'd be like, what are
you try talking about? Look atall this, Look at all these people
saying I'm sharp as ever, Becauseone thing I know about our current president

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is that his ego far outstrips hisintelligence, and his ego far outstrips his
duty to the country. And that'show the Democrats, will you know,
pitch it. Mandy Michelle Obama isthe secret weapon. Yes, they say
she won't run and hated the WhiteHouse. My conspiracy theory is that's a
smoke screen. If she was unleashed, it would be all over for Trump.

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She has come out and said shehas no desire to run whatsoever.
And why would you Yeah, theyhave a house in Hawaii, a brownstone
in Washington. You know, whywould you want to do that again?
They have gobs of money. She'sshe's already had her taste. She doesn't
want to do it again. Whoknows? Do you think she would win
if she ran? If she replaced. I do. I do too,
I do too, I really do. In this race, I've against a

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different Republican. Maybe not, butI think, yeah, it would be
tough to beat her. By theway, I didn't see anything specific on
doctor Jill Biden's place, but thisis from the White House dot gov.
It says she has continued to supportmilitary families, advocating for increased educational opportunities,
and working to end cancer as weknow it. Alrighty then, and

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she has some program called uh oh, I just lost it. I'll find
it for you. But yeah,something about work joining forces. Try.
Okay, employment and educational opportunities tothe military. All right, there you
go. There's doctor Jill for you. When we get back. I'm super
excited. Jeff Crank needs your voteif you are in the fifth congressional district.

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We'll talk to him next. Acandidate for the fifth congressional district.
His name is Jeff Crank, andI sure hope you vote for him for
a variety of reasons. We're goingto get into you here in just a
few minutes. Jeff. Welcome backto the show. Thanks so much,
Mandy. Great to be with you. So it's weird that you're on the
show today because I'm reading in theColorado Sun that your opponent, the unethical

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GOP party chairman, seems he's beenout there telling tales and he's been caught
by the Federal Elections Commission. DaveWilliams told nine News in an interview,
and this is a quote, there'sbeen no direct spending from the party for
myself, but a Federal Elections Commissionreport filed by the Colorado GOP last Thursday

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discloses nineteen thousan four hundred and fortyfive dollars in twenty nine cents spent by
the party in support of mister Williamscongressional campaign. How surprised are you by
this, Jeff, Well, notat all, because this has been Dave's
master plan all along, was tobe able to, you know, cajole

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the Republican Party to endorse him andsome other candidates so that he could bankroll
his campaign through that. He knewhe couldn't raise very much money, and
he hasn't raised very much money.I've outraised him five to one probably,
and so he knew he couldn't dothat. So he needed to find a
way to get money, and Ithink this is this was his plan all

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along, was just to go throughand get this money. But you know,
it's one thing to do that,but it's also another to compound it
by continuing to lie about it asif people are never going to find this
out. And you just have toask, if somebody is willing to do
this in a campaign, what inthe Lord's name would they do if they
were able to have control or accessto public funds, to lobbyists, to

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others. You know, what youdo, you know in your private life,
and when people aren't looking, itreally talks or speaks volumes about what
you may do when when when peopleyou know, when you have public access
to public money. Jeff, yoube. Here's the thing about your candidacy
and your campaign, right, Ithink you're obviously doing well. I've seen

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polling data that puts you well aheadof Dave Williams. Because now the knives
are out from all different angles comingat you, one of them from Rocky
Mountain gun owners. And this isespecially disheartening to me because I was told
by Taylor Rhodes that the Rocky Mountaingun owners were not meddling in primaries anymore,
and that's turned out to be alie. That's just really disappointing.

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What are the attacking you on rightnow? Well, I mean they're just
making stuff up at this point.You know, I have a thirty year
history of being a conservative and beingactive in the community here and defending the
Second Amendment. You know, Iwas one of the leaders in helping recall
Senator John Morris when he passed themagazine band he was one of the Democrats

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that voted to pass it. Soimagine my surprise when I hear rmgo it's
actually through their Federal National Association ofGun Rights saying that I somehow supported a
compromise with Democrats. I mean Inever did any such thing. Okay,
So Dudley Brown is the one behindit. I feel better about Taylor right

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now that you clarified that. Iappreciate that very very much. That's not
surprising at all. I have nolove for that man because of stuff like
this. So you had nothing.I mean, what they're saying you supported
the magazine in what way do theyallege or since they've made it up,
I guess they could say anything.Oh sure, yeah, well they made
it up. Basically what happened is, as you know, the Colorado legislature

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passed a fifteen round magazine ban backI think it was like twenty thirteen,
twenty fourteen, and of course therewere senators recalled from that, first time
in the history that senators were recalled, by the way, I was very
active in that, far more activethan Rocky Mountain gun Owners was in that
recall, and we recalled some statesenators over those bad gun votes. Well,

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then two years later a bill cameup to move the ban from fifteen
rounds to thirty which for most peoplewho shoot pistols know that the Democrats in
the left chose fifteen round for areason. There's lots of pistols that have
fifteen round magazines, and several legislatorssupported a bill to move it to thirty.
Rmgo said they didn't want, youknow, to any kind of ban

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at all, so they fought that. I had a guest on my radio
show who talked about it, andyou know, they tried to pin me
with being, you know, supportiveof that or whatever. But I guess
if I wanted to be honest aboutit, they're the ones that prevented it
from going from a fifteen round bandto a thirty, So they supported stricter

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gun control measures than I ever didin that But those are the kind of
games, silly games that people likethat play when they really spend their time
attacking Second Amendment supporters like myself insteadof going after actual Democrats. So let
me ask you this, Jeff,do you think that they are attacking you
because they're afraid that you are goingto I don't know, do things as

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a congressman that they don't like orare they trying to curry favor by sucking
up to your opponent. Well,I think they're curring favor by sucking up
to my opponent. But also,look, let's be honest. They make
money off off of primaries. That'show they've played this game. They make
money off of going and attacking progun legislators. It's no different than Dave

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Williams. Look at Dave Williams reignas chairman of the Republican Party. He
doesn't generally spend much time attacking Democrats. Most of his fire is for other
Republicans. Every email he sends out, every text, every communication seems to
be going after what he calls rhinosor people that are unpure in his mind.
But the reality is he doesn't spenda whole lot of time going after

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Democrats. I mean, you know, he's attacked Americans for Prosperity several times.
Well, Americans for Prosperity is workingto get Gabe Evans elected in CD
eight and unelecting Yadiro Caravea, whohas been terrible on a whole host of
issues. But they've spent afp spenta heck of a lot more money than
the Colorado Republican Party has spent,which they have spent zero in trying to

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get rid of Caraveo. So youknow that's what they do. It's all
about money, raising money for theirfriends, putting it into their pockets.
It's never about actual gun rights inmost cases. So Jeff, you've got
I'm got your website up right now, Jeff Crank for Congress. I also
linked to it on the blog today. If people want to find out more
about you, give you money,support you. You have the policy positions

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that you are talking about, securethe southern border, fix Joe Biden's broken
economy, and fight for conservative change. And I want to start at the
bottom, because fight for conservative change, what does that mean to you?
Well, to me. It meansjoining a team. Look, we're getting
our tails handed to us in Colorado. I mean, are we better off

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than we were five years ago orten years ago? In Colorado? We
aren't the establishment chairman of the RepublicanParty, the guy who decides who the
candidates are by picking them and endorsingthem. He's been doing that, taking
that voice away from voters. SoI think we need to do a much
better job of working to fight forconservative change by electing conservative leaders who can

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win at the state legislative level,and I take that to the federal level
as well in Congress. If youlook at that, I mean, I
don't want to go there just tooverthrow a speaker every couple of months with
no plan, like others have done, and others suggested, and my opponent
has suggested was a good tactic.It wasn't. It was dumb. I'm

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going to go there and fight.I'm not going to vote that every time
the way the speaker wants me tovote. I'm not handing my voting card
to the speaker. I won't handit to Donald Trump. My voting card
will belong to the people and thecitizens of the fifth Congressional district, and
I'll be a conservative voice for them. But we need to be team players

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and we need to go build abench, much like the Democrats have done.
You know, They've been very goodin Colorado and in Washington, d
C. Of sticking together to gettheir agenda, their liberal agenda past.
Why can't we do that as conservativesinstead of just attacking other conservatives for political
gain. I'm tired of that,and that's what my opponent would do.

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Jeff Craik, Why should people votefor you? Got one minute? Well
again, I'm a tried and trueconservative. I've been a thirty year record
in our community. Unlike my opponent, I've been here. That's why I've
got so many endorsements from within ourcommunity, experience with military installations here.
I'm solid second Amendment, solid prolife candidate and going to go to Washington

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and make a difference and make governmentsmaller. All right, Jeff Craik,
We will talk to you hopefully afterthe primary, hopefully after you secure victory
and when we get back. Ijust want to remind people of some of
the things that your opponent has done. The good news is, oh Jeff,
is that it looks like there maybe enough will to force a vote
on bouncing him out of his currentoffice because he's doing an absolutely terrible job

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and looting the party for his ownbenefit in my opinion, and hopefully we
won't be talking about him much longeras you move on to the general election,
So we will keep fingers crossed foryou, Jeff on Tuesday. All
right, thank you, many,appreciate it. All right. That is
Jeff Clank. You can find outmore about him on the website. We
will be right back. So Iwant to do a quick one on this

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one because I love it so much, and I want to say a hearty
congratulations to all of the Republicans acrossColorado that are banding together and demanding that
Dave Williams step down as chairman.He's doing an absolutely terrible job, I
mean terrible job. He's not fundraising, he's not doing anything that he's supposed

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to do except use the Republican Partyto self a grand eye himself. Let
me reference back to that Colorado's Sunarticle that I was just mentioning with Jeff
Crank. The Colorado GOP spent nearlytwenty thousand dollars in late May to help
party chairman Dave Williams in his fifthcongressional district campaign that represented the largest single

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expense of the nearly ninety thousand theparty spent in May. According to FEC
filings last Thursday, the party raisedabout fifty six thousand last month and began
June with about five hundred and fiftythousand in the bank. Williams has faced
intense criticism for using party resources tobenefit his congressional bid as he faces conservative

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commentator and activist Jeff Crank in theRepublican primary in the fifth district. Last
week, in an interview with nineNews, Williams denied using party money on
his campaign. He said, andthis is a quote, There's been no
direct spending from the party for myself. But the FEC report filed by the

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Colorado GOP late Thursday clearly refutes thatclaim. It discloses nineteen four hundred and
forty five dollars and twenty nine centsspent by the party in support of William's
congressional campaign. No other candidates directlybenefited from parties spending last month. The
Colorado GOP sent a mailer in lateMay promoting Williams and his endorsement from Donald

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Trump. The FEC report says thatthe almost twenty thousand dollars was spent by
the party to support Williams congressional campaignMay twenty eighth, the same day The
Sun received a copy of the mailer. The report doesn't say what the money
was spent on, just that itwas used to support Williams, but the
back of the mailer did say paidfor by the Colorado GOP. The Colorado

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GOP's largest contributions in May were nearlyseventeen thousand dollars from the Douglas County Republican
Central Committee and nearly five thousand dollarsfrom the Weld County Republican Central Committee.
The parties nations included twenty three onehundred and fifty dollars from four candidates endorsed
by the party. Oh nice,So did they bribe the party for those

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endorsements or h yeah yeah. TheGOP paid party treasurer Tom Borkland's consulting firm
almost twelve grand in May and Williamsconsulting firm eight grand in May. It
also sent a ten thousand dollars donationto the Claremont Institute in California, which

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employs attorney and election and I areJohn Eastman, who is representing the party
in a federal lawsuit seeking to blockunaffiliated voters from casting ballots in Republican primaries.
Now, this is the same guywho a California judge recommended be disbarred
for his efforts trying to overturn theelection. Colorado Democrats, on the other
hands, reported raising one hundred andthirteen thousand dollars in May while spending one

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hundred and two The party ended withthree hundred and eighty four thousand in cash,
and the DNC was responsible for muchof that fundraising. So he's doing
a terrible job. He's an unethicalperson. He lies. He doesn't ever
answer criticisms that are valid, likethe one that says the only job in

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the private sector he's ever had wasimporting cheap Chinese crap. He yells big
news but doesn't answer the accusation.He never says no, I did not
do that. But if he didsay no, I did not do that,
he would be a liar. Heis a lying liar who lies.
He does not deserve your vote.Jeff Crank is a good man and a
good conservative. And he does deserveyour vote. So if you are in

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the fifth Congressional district, you canvote for an unethical, loud mouth bigot,
or you can vote for Jeff Crank. Choose, please choose wisely,
because if David Williams is allowed todo what he has done, which is
take over the party for his ownself aggrandizement, then that will be the

(31:02):
way forward for other unethical Republicans togain power. And that cannot stand in
any way, shape or form.Now, when we get back, we
are shifting gears entirely. I've gota guest coming on. He's written a
book about the seven figure freelancer.How can you freelance and make enough money
to live and thrive? He's goingto tell us all that next. Michael

(31:22):
Fleischner coming on. He is he'skind of a big deal in the SEO
and marketing world. He is theCEO of Big Finn SEO, the founder
as well, and the author ofa new book that I find fascinating.
And we were just talking about thisoff the air in that you know,
I'm fifty four, about to befifty five years old, and the way
business is done now is completely foreignto the way business was done when I

(31:47):
first got you know, became anadult. And his new book, The
Seven Figure Freelancer, How to Start, Grow, and Scale your full freelance
business, is what we're talking about. Michael, Welcome to the show.
Thank you so much. Mandy,great to see you. Well, let's
start with what I was just talkingabout, because I mean, back in
the you know, the eighties andnineties, even your goal was to get

(32:08):
out. You have a degree insomething, you go to work for a
corporation, you work your way up, you're in the c suite, and
then life is good. Right,Well that was really kind of destroyed by
the crash of two thousand and eight. A lot of people lost their jobs
in the corporate world. The corporateworld shrank considerably in many middle management areas,

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and a lot of people find themselveskind of out in the cold.
And then we go to COVID,right, and so COVID is a huge
disruptor. Everybody's working from home,everybody's working remote and absolutely loves it because
they're working in their jammis. Andnow we've got corporation saying we want you
back in the office, and you'resaying there's a better way. Absolutely and

(32:51):
you're right, so many people havebeen working from home. There's been a
shift. Companies are saying come backto the office. And I speak to
a lot of people every day whosay, I don't want to go back
to the office. So what canthey do? What options are available?
Enter freelancing. You know, it'ssomething I've been doing for over ten years,
and I can tell you that companiesare looking for talent, and in

(33:15):
many cases they're willing to say,I don't care where the talent is really
anywhere in the world. If Ican hire the best talent, that's what
I want. And that's what hasreally opened the doors to freelancing. And
for people who have experience, whohave skills, who are able to create
value for companies are in demand,and it's just a matter of getting over

(33:39):
the I guess history or comfort oftraditionally going into an office to say,
you know what, I can delivermy services online. I can do a
via phone, via zoom and Idon't have to physically be in a particular
location to create value. And youknow, one of the things I teach
in my books and figure freelancer isreally what are the steps that you need

(34:01):
to go through to prepare yourself tothink that way, to operate that way,
and ultimately to work in a waythat's very different for a lot of
people. I have always sort ofthought, and the older I get,
the more I think this is true. There are people who have a personality

(34:21):
that allows them to be entrepreneurial,because this really is you're creating a business
that is you, right, Imean, that's what we're talking about here
when you're freelancing. And then thereare people who are much more comfortable offloading
some of that to someone they workfor. Right, So you have that
employer mindset versus employee mindset. Howdo you help someone adopt that employer mindset,

(34:45):
that ability to make that jump outof a comfortable, if annoying job
where they have a four oh onek and they have a salary and they
have vacation and they know what toexpect into a world where they're going to
have to fend for themselves. Yeah. Well, let me begin by saying
that freelancing certainly isn't for everyone.However, there are a lot of people

(35:06):
who have thought about freelancing, andthey've talked themselves out of it because of
the unknown, because of the fear, well, I get to say paycheck
every two weeks, what if Ican't find a client? And as someone
who went through that transition, Mandy, I can tell you that the fear
of doing it is much worse thanthe reality. There's so many people who

(35:27):
enjoy doing other things, like evendog walking. You know, you could
start a dog walking business and beincredibly successful, and that would I would
consider that a freelance business. RightYou're on your own, you're setting your
own hours, you're choosing the location, you're doing it, you're charging what
you want, you're finding clients whoyou want to work with. That's freelancing.

(35:49):
So you know, oftentimes we justmake it seem so impossible and so
difficult, when in reality we canget there both mentally and physically by taking
on a strategy that I talk aboutin the book, which is crawl,
walk, run. You don't haveto quit your day job to start freelancing.
Do something on the side, takeon a project, help a friend.
There are a lot of different waysto get started, and it doesn't

(36:12):
have to be all or nothing.So how do you even begin to find
clients? That seems like that's themost overwhelming hurdle for someone to say,
what, am I just going topick up the phone book, which we
don't even have anymore and just startcalling people? How do you do that?
Yeah? I like to start withfriends and family. And the reason
I say that is because there area lot of people I work with who

(36:36):
say, well, I don't wantmy employer to know that I'm freelancing,
that I'm doing work on the side. And I can tell you, having
been in corporations for decades as wellas freelancing for quite some time, corporations
are actually a lot more open toit than you think, especially and particularly
if it's non competitive. So ifsomeone wants to start a writing business or

(36:59):
publishing business, but there let's saya mechanic, the company's not going to
have an issue with that. Sothat's number one. Number two is whether
you want people to know that you'refreelancing or not. You can start from
where you are, and oftentimes that'sjust telling the people you're closest to that
you're taking on freelance work, thatyou're you're looking at a new path.

(37:21):
And I believe in six degrees ofseparation, it's probably closer to three.
As we've all discovered at some pointin our lives. And as you start
to get the word out and asyou start to focus more on this business,
things start to happen. Doors startto open, and that's different for
everyone. Some people are not comfortablewalking into a room of strangers and talking

(37:42):
about their business. That's fine,But you might be much more comfortable inviting
an old colleague out for a cupof coffee to tell them that you're freelancing.
So how do you deal with ormanage the fear that if you're if
you're readily, maybe you've been freelancingfor a little while and you feel like
you're ready to make this a fulltime gig, But then you've got health
insurance too. Many people are attachedwith health insurance and benefits and things of

(38:07):
that nature. Do you cover howto manage that as well? Yeah,
a little bit. The reality isthat today we just have so many more
options available to us as opposed tolike when I was working for a corporation,
either the corporation provided health insurance oryou didn't have any. But there's
an open market today, there aremany other options. There are even some

(38:30):
groups where you could go and getaccess to health insurance. So a lot
of those things just require a littleresearch or a little time on chat GPT
to see what your options are.But there are many more options today and
some of those obstacles that people hadto deal with in the past just aren't
there anymore. Do you coach peoplethrough this process? Is that one of
the things that you do. Yeah, So I don't take individual coaching clients

(38:55):
anymore. I have something called theFreelance Training Academy. It's basically a platform
that brings together freelancers from all overthe world to collaborate their courses and live
sessions where we talk about these veryissues. And I think what I have
found doing that through Freelance Training Academy, through the book, through my own

(39:17):
experience ultimately, is that there areonly a small handful of issues that prevent
people from really doing what they loveand what they're passionate about. You touched
on one just around benefits. Theother is a belief, a belief that
they can actually do it. AndI'm here living proof to say, as
secure as you may feel in yourfull time job, it's not as secure

(39:42):
as you think it is. Andyou're better than you think you are.
So a lot of it is juststepping out again. Crawl, walk,
run, do a little project onthe side, start to experiment, start
to get in that mindset of beingable to do it, build some momentum,
and really take that as far asyou can't. Well, I was
talking to Michael before we came onthe air, and one of the reasons

(40:02):
that I find this so fascinating,this conversation is that for my children,
who are in their thirties and myfifteen year old, these are the things
that I talk to them about becauseyou know, the ultimate freedom is to
not have to come to an office, to be able to do your job
from anywhere in the world. AndI think a lot of people got the
taste for that during COVID. Butis is there a downside in this in

(40:27):
terms of the balance between corporate structureand the individual freelancer, because you know,
over the last fifteen twenty years we'veseen a lot of lawsuits about contractors
in tech and things of that nature. How do you make sure that doesn't
get out of balance? I mean, how do you value yourself? I

(40:47):
think whether you're working for a corporationor you're working for yourself as a freelancer,
you need to have structure, andthat structure looks different for everyone.
But I think one of the appealsof working for a corporation is rules,
regulations, procedures. You have aclear delineation as to where you can play
and what's out of bounds. AndI think when you're working for yourself as

(41:10):
a freelancer, or even if youhave your own business, you still need
structure and you still need guidelines.And the people who I see succeed in
this line of work when they're freelancing, they're very clear about the hours they
work, the type of work theywill perform, and they create that structure
and framework to be successful. Ifyou think you're going to become a freelancer

(41:34):
and lay around the house all dayin your pajamas eating a bag of chips
and make millions of dollars, you'reprobably in for a surprise. So that
level of discipline that you would haveworking for a corporation, you need to
deploy a similar type of discipline.But obviously as a freelancer you have a
lot more freedom, and for me, I found that to be more fulfilling

(41:57):
than abiding by someone else's guidelines insteadcreating my own. But that does give
me pause if you're a terrible boss, you might not want to do this
because you won't have anyone else toblame. At that point of just throwing
that out there, Michael Fleischman's bookFleischner's book is The Seven Figure Freelancer,
How to Start, Grow, andScale your freelance Business. I put a

(42:17):
link on the blog today to Amazonso people can pick this book up.
Michael. I really appreciate your timetoday. This is a super interesting topic
and I think that a lot ofpeople should pay attention to this for two
reasons. Like one, you hita certain age and it gets really hard
to get another job if you know, if anything happens, and I'm being

(42:39):
deadly serious about that. But also, if you have kids like I do,
like they may come to you andsay this is what I'm gonna do.
It helps to understand what they're doingand that the world is different now
and you're not going to go workfor a corporation for forty years and retire
with a pension. It's just notgoing to happen. So it's just a
it's a whole new world out there, and I think you've done a great
job encapsulating Michael. Thanks so much. Mandy, all right, by Michael's

(43:05):
book, and we will talk toMichael again, hopefully in their future things.
Mike, very interesting. Great.How many of your friends work the
freestyle life? I mean meaning theyeither freelance or they work as part of
the gig economy and are maybe workingfor multiple people at the same time.
Uh, probably three year four ofmy closer friends out of like seven.

(43:27):
Yeah. When I was your age, it would have been a big fat
zero yeah. And it wasn't reallyan option, right, I mean,
I came of age when the Internetwas just sort of on its little baby
legs, so there wasn't the kindof opportunity that there is now. But
I think that's fantastic, really fantasticbecause a couple of reasons. One,
I do know that I have manyfriends who have done contract jobs with companies

(43:52):
and ended up loving the company andgone to work with the company. Then,
so that is a possibility. Ifyou find you're working with a company
that you absolutely love, then forperhaps you move in that direction, but
maybe you don't. Maybe you justdo this for the rest of the time.
And thank you text her for thesuggestion that I sell feet picks.
But I'm good with that I'm notgoing to do that. That's a big
market now. No, No,it's no, it's not going to be

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I don't understand that. Grant,the whole feet thing, I don't get
it either, you know. Itry to be understanding, because you know
what, whatever makes your freak flagfly, as long as you're not hurting
anybody, you know, I don'tcare. But there, I don't get
that one. Yeah, I don'tunderstand it. I guess you just have
to be of a certain elk tohave that fetish. I guess, And

(44:35):
I will tell you. I wentout with a guy one time and at
dinner he asked me to take myshoe off to show me my foot,
and I got so creeped out.I'm out here. Well or after the
free dinner, No, well,no, I paid half. I paid
half. I paid my share.It was like it wasn't really dinner.
It was like happy hour, youknow, like snacks, that kind of
thing. But I left and no, it's like, I don't I don't

(44:58):
understand it. I just don't.Anyway, So read the book, do
that. We got a lot ofstuff on the blog today. One I
find this kind of fascinating. Ourfeckless. I'll call him feckless because I
love that word. Our feckless superintendentof Denver Public Schools has just had himself
a newly relocated and remodeled office,and I just want to give you guys

(45:23):
some perspective. I have remodeled myentire house at this point and remodeling everything,
everything in the house, and wedid this over ten years. It's
not like we did it all inone year, but remodeling everything, building
a kitchen, two bathroom, threebathrooms, three and a half bathrooms,
although I did the last baths sothat doesn't really count. But we have

(45:45):
painted everything, we have redone everything, and we're in it for like one
hundred and ten thousand dollars in remodelcosts over ten years. We've renovated my
entire house. The superintendent's new officecost one hundred grand. Now what exactly
where where did they buy this furniture? Did they buy it in fancy office

(46:07):
furniture is us? Is that aplace? They did take extreme measures to
sound proof his office, And I'mguessing that's so no one else can hear
the weeping about the poor test scoresin Denver Public schoolers. You know just
this is the kind of stuff thatmakes me. And don't get me wrong,
I don't want people to have towork in a hovel, right,

(46:29):
I want people to have a spacethat they're proud of. But first of
all, I think this guy isa mediocre superintendent at best, and I
think he's a you know, terriblesuperintendent at worst. Looking at student achievement
in Denver public schools, he's notblazing a trail. And when setting goals
for himself, he set an improvementrate of one percent. One percent.

(46:52):
Don't set that bar so high,sir. That's how you know you're going
to reach your goal. Well,you don't even have to lift your foot
all the way off the ground.You can just slide it over the pole
and then put it down on theother side. Insane, absolutely insane.
But yet he's got a newly remodeledoffice with a corner. He's got a

(47:13):
corner office now grant with a viewof downtown. Yes, so we can
look out and all those people whosechildren can't read and write. The soundproofing
thing is weird to me. It'snot crazy, but you and I work
in an industry with soundproofing. It'snot that expensive. Right. I mean,
I could probably soundproof an office withjust panel work in with maybe maybe

(47:38):
three grand, and I'm being generous, and those are really nice panels that
look nice on the walls. Right, So I don't know what that's all
about. Does it have like acost breakdown? Well, here's the best
part. Listen to this, hey, listen to this from the Denver Gazette.
Story's so good. A district officialtold the Denver Gazette that the project,
which included relocating and proofing Marero's office, cost seventy eight thousand and twenty

(48:02):
two dollars. Documents obtained through arecords request show otherwise, purchase orders indicate
the remodel actually cost taxpayers ninety sixthousand and nine hundred and two dollars.
When asked about the nearly nineteen thousanddollars discrepancy, Bill Good, a district
spokesperson, said, and listen tothis quote, my friends. He said,

(48:24):
we didn't know what you had.Oh my gosh. Yeah. Later,
Good explained, not knowing what documentsthe Denver Gazette had obtained, that
staff had tried to piece together theexpenditures using the district's final response to other
record requests seeking the cost of theremodel, but then he confirmed the higher

(48:45):
cost. I mean, why didn'the just go Whoopsie, we didn't know
you guys had that? What what? Yeah? They bought it. This
tax says they bought it from afriend of a friend of somebody in the
office furniture business, with the biddingprocess thoroughly vetted so that there was no

(49:07):
waste in the furniture of his office. I guess nobody works at Ikea.
But then again, you would haveto build the furniture, and that just
wouldn't be right and it would bedone wrong. Has anything a friend of
a friend got the bid? Yeah? Is it cherrywood? That can be
expensive? Must be nice? Whatis that velvet? That's beautiful? One

(49:29):
of my favorite lines from was thatTrading Places. Well, it wasn't trading
places. It was the other onewhere Eddie Murphy played all of the people
in the in the barbershop. Thatwas that trading spaces or trading places?
Dang it, guys, where wasEddie Murphy playing? The two old men
and one of them says, whatis that beauty? What is that velvet

(49:50):
that's beautiful? Dang it? Oh, Mandy they bought furniture at Tata's furniture
grift. That is probably accurate.Who knew he was in the furniture business?
Now twenty five grand of that withpermit costs, says this guy.
I would hope not, But youknow what it is, Denver needs soundproofing
to discuss NDA's for payouts. That'sactually a very good guess what else could

(50:15):
they possibly need. They need soundproofingto prevent anyone from hearing how bad the
discipline matrix is as they discuss it. They need soundproofing so no one can
hear Alex Morrero complain that I workin Denver and I make less money than
other people, and I missthianic.This is beautiful? What is that velvet?

(50:36):
Yeah? What movie is that comingto America? Dang it, that's
right. I use that line allthe time, whether or not, whether
or not it works, I justuse it. What is that velvet?
That's beautiful? That and you gottafreak up a soup with that? That
of course from Caddyshack. That's agood one, a really good one.

(50:59):
Thank you to all the techs whoknew it was coming to America. It
was stuck in my brain and Ijust watched Trading Spaces. Trading Places the
other day still stands the test oftime. We're going to take a quick
time out when we get back.Can we all talk about last night's Rolling
Stones concert for a second. Ihope you all had fun. If you
went, I want to hear,but there's a perfect example of why RTD

(51:19):
sucks surrounding the Rolling Stones concert.We're going to dip into that next.
I'd love to hear from you,guys, if via the text line,
if you went, how you thoughtthe show was five six six nine.
Oh, I saw him the lasttime they were in down Have you ever
seen the Rolling Stones? Grant?No, never really really fantastic. I
mean I saw them, oh maybenineteen ninety one or two, maybe no

(51:45):
earlier than that, eighty eight,eighty nine, somewhere around there. I
would have wanted to see him,but then I saw him on their last
tour. And don't get me wrong, Okay they're old, Okay, they're
elderly people. You know, MickJagger's eighty or something. It's crazy,
Yeah, it's crazy, but hestill sounds great and he still struts around
the stage like he thinks he's twentyfive. Everyone I talked to the show

(52:07):
last night said the exact same thing. He struck like he was twenty five.
No, he cannot, but hestruts a hell of a lot better
than most people at fifty. Thatbeing said, I saw this story.
I didn't see it yesterday or youknow, would have mentioned it yesterday.
But this story from our friends atFox thirty one RTD yesterday. Let me
just read the story. Okay,let me just read you the story.

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The British Invasion is coming to Denveron Thursday, as thousands are expected to
fill in power Field at Mile Highfor the Rolling Stones concert. The legendary
rock band is back. If youhave tickets to see Mick Jagger, Keith
and Ronnie Wood, the RTD ispreparing to connect you to empower Field without
dealing with the hassle of traffic andparking. That sounds magical, Grant,

(52:52):
They're gonna connect me and I don'thave to worry about anything until you scrolled
down. Now, if you wentto the show last night, what time
did the show end? That's whatI want to know. The last time
we went to see a show,it was Taylor Swift and the show got
out like eleven ish, maybe alittle bit later. And so last night,

(53:15):
I don't know what time the showgot out, five sixty six nine.
Oh. You can text us atthe Common Spirit Health text line.
But listen to the train schedule thatthey're touting. Here's the list of the
last train times for each train line, the H line eleven twenty five,
and then there's another train at twelvetwenty five and it won twenty five.

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Even though they know that the firsttrain is going to be completely filled because
how many people? Doesn't power Fieldhold Greg, Greg Grant, how many
people? Seventy oh? Oh sookay, so seventy thousand people. Let's
just assume ten percent of those peopletake the train and people are gonna fit

(54:00):
on one train. No, they'renot. People are gonna cram in like
sardines, and then the other peopleare gonna be standing there waiting for an
hour. This is why RTD sucks, because it's not responsive to what's going
on. If there's a big showat the empower Field, this is what
needs to happen in RTD. You'rewelcome, go ahead and institute this.

(54:23):
Starting three weeks in advance. Youstart selling special event train passes. You
start selling them on the website,and then guess what, you add more
trains. You pay your workers overtime to get this done because in theory,
if you have to pay one driveror two drivers, or three drivers

(54:45):
or eight drivers overtime double time evenbut you can now move and thousands and
thousands of more people who bought aspecial event pass. Before the special event,
you can plan ahead and people canhave some certainty that they're gonna be
able to get home at a reasonablehour. You know, there should be
a train running every ten minutes forthe first half hour after the show is

(55:07):
over. And if you don't knowhow to find out how long the show
is, their websites like setlist dotfm that will tell you everything about this
tour. It will tell you exactlyhow long these shows are. And if
you don't think a bunch of guysin their eighties are not punctual, you
are crazy. It's not like they'regonna get, you know, out of

(55:28):
control and play for an extra hour. They're flipping eighty. This is the
kind of stuff because basically, ifyou use the A line, the B
line, the G line, orthe N line, you're screwed. If
you don't get on the first train. There's no other train, so then
you're left at the mercy of Uberwith Serge pricing from around the stadium.

(55:49):
This is just why this fails.This is why it fails, Mandy.
The show ended at eleven pm,which included their two song Encore. Was
my first Stone's concert and it wasquite an event that from Ralph. So
you get off at eleven, youmake it over to the train station.
If you're on the H line,you got to make it there by eleven

(56:09):
twenty five, get out of thestadium with all the other people, or
you're waiting for another hour. Ugh. Ugh, I even't said this before.
For Broncos games, we will playin primetime, Sunday night games,
fireworks games at the court at Coursfield, any concerts at Corsfield, you know,

(56:31):
even big concerts at at Ballerina.We I took the train to a
concert at Ballerina one time and whenwe came out of the concert, there
was I don't know, five thousandpeople standing in line for the train.
Right five thousand they are getting onthe first train and we ended up taking
Uber home, which was like eightybucks. You know where I live,

(56:52):
yep, I mean, that's nosmall hall. I was so pissed.
I was like, never again,RTD, never again. They have to
be able to move people the waythey wanted to be moved. And if
people aren't riding during the day,cancel some trains during the day and give
people, you know, the nightshift. Say hey, guys, we're
gonna give you double time where we'regonna get this done. That that lets

(57:13):
people have some confidence in RTD.Yeah, and I've rode on trains in
the middle of the day where there'slike one other person on it like those.
Get rid of those rides, sendthem out exact week or a schedule
change or whatever, and make likeyou said, those special late night rides
for situations like this, and selltickets in advance if you shold me.

(57:35):
Look, you give us twenty dollarsin advance. That gets you to the
concert and back. Now we're talking, and we're gonna have more trains running.
We're gonna make sure that we canaccomp because then you have an idea
of how many people are gonna beon the train. You figure it out
after the first few times. Butguess what, people with advanced tickets,
they get a special line that givesthem privileges, that gives them. You
know, you get in first,because there's just gotta be some way to

(57:59):
make this work. And they're noteven trying. That's what gets me.
You're telling me they look at thisand no people wait an hour. It'll
be fine. They won't be mad. They'll love us for it. Oh
oh wait, they didn't get onthe second train either. They can wait
until one twenty five for the lasttrain, one fifty five for the last
train, and nothing like killing agreat evening. But I haven't wait for

(58:22):
two hours for your light rail andyour home. I get super angry when
I get caught in the parking garageat the DCPA and that takes like twenty
minutes. Okay, I get irrationallyangry about that. But the last time,
Grant, the most magical thing happened. The last time I was the
DCPA. Do you know what everybodyin the DCPA parking lot did? They
zipper merged. Oh you had tobe so proud. I got teary eyed.

(58:45):
I mean, I was like emotionalabout it. As everybody was zipper
merging, and everybody was we wereall laughing and smiling, and we were
Zipper merging, and it was justit was beautiful. It was really beautiful.
So anybody who works at RT,just play this for them, go
back, grab the podcast. I'lljust take it. Please, for the
love of God, make the systemresponsive to how people want to use it.

(59:08):
If you want them to love thesystem to use it other times,
because RTD for me is a completeafterthought. It never enters the chat when
I am deciding how I'm gonna getfrom point A to point B. It
just doesn't. So they got tofix it. And oh my god,
Mandy, RTD just needs some moremoney. Raise the sales taxes. I'm

(59:30):
telling them how to make money.I'm telling them what they can do to
actually charge. And here's the thing. I would pay twenty bucks for that
ticket. I would pay above marketvalue to ensure that I have a line
that I can go in as aprepaid customer where I'm getting on first And
if you tell me, you knowwhat, you missed this train and you're

(59:50):
gonna get on the next train,I'm paying you to. I'm paying you
thirty bucks for that. I lovethis text RTD reason to drive, Yeah,
exactly, exactly. Get somebody fromthe RTD board to come on your
show. Bronco Games waited for hours, Mandy. Last time I took the
train to ball Arena, I endedup walking over to the Ararea station.

(01:00:13):
That is a good plan RidgeGate forthe Bronco Games or a nightmare exactly exactly.
And the people that are coming fromup you know, down south,
the RidgeGate station should be a boonthat there should be multiple trains because then
you're taking everybody off the roads throughDenver, right. Ugh, Ugh,

(01:00:34):
it's just not that hard. Youjust need to try. There's no try
happening. Just try a little.You can do it. You can do
it. When we get back,we're gonna have the most important discussion of
the day, and that is whenyou walk into a restroom and you're in
the restroom and you're in the stalland you're doing your business and someone else

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walks in. What is the properetiquette if you three stalls, you're in
the far right, where do theygo? We're gonna discuss it after this.
I find this a fascinating conversation,which is why we're having it.
Okay, so here's the setup.People, you're at work, you go
into your restroom and you got threestalls, right, you got a stall,
you got B stall, you gotC stall. You go to the

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far end, you're in a stall. Someone comes in, what is the
proper stall that they should go into? Grant? Well, isn't it obvious?
See exactly? Men have had thisdebate a long time with urinals.
Well, urinals are different because you'relike, I mean, don't get me
wrong, they're the same and thatthe answer is the same here. But
even in a stall, when youin theory have a person right next to

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you like what what are you doing? I mean, you almost feel creeped
out, you know what I mean? I will say Europe beats the crap
out of us in bathrooms because theydo not have stalls that have you know,
the half door or whatever. You'rein your own little room all the
way to the bottom, all theway to the floor, door cup,

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all the way to the shop.And now I had on the blog yesterday
a video of a self cleaning bathroom. I went into one of those in
Switzerland and it is first of all, you go in, you're like,
why is the floor all wet?And then you look around and you realize
that when you leave, the bathroomcleans itself that toilet spins around with a
new toilet, yes way, it'son yesterday. I know. The only

(01:02:30):
downside is the floor is always wet, right, so if you have long
pants on or something like that,you got to kind of you know,
you get a kind of hold push. It's very complicated, but at least
you can sit down on the toiletbecause you know it's clean. But this
one, and then I started thinking, like, you do you have a
favorite stall at work, Grant?I think everyone does, Yes, everyone

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does, but it's the handicap stall. Well, of course you got more
space lounge. I here, Iuse the handicaps stall because we don't have
anyone in this building who uses wordedcorrect. But I was at the airport.
You know, you go to thebathroom at the airport, and that
you're in the long line of people, right, and there's like five hundred

(01:03:12):
people in line to go to thebathroom, and then the only stall that's
open is the handicaps stall. I'mlike, you know what, I'm gonna
be quick. I'm gonna be quickif I don't see anybody with you know,
using a wheelchair that I am,I'm in and out like a ninja
man. I was just traveling thispast week, and airport bathrooms are so
gross no matter where you go.I always rat them out, like there's
a number, don't don't men's roomhave like the call this number if this

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needs to be sir, I doit every time. I do it times,
like somebody needs to get over thisbathroom over here because it's nasty,
just nasty. Nowadays, I takethe stall furthest from the closest bathroom patron.
In my twenties, if I walkedin and a buddy was in a
stall, I would ignore the availablestalls and relentlessly jiggle the handle on his
stall, and don't profanity started flying. That's pretty funny, actually, last

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one you'd know who's in there.But you like aggressively knock over and over,
so mad gotta go, man,Mandy, what if the A stall
is dirty? Now that's A.That's a reasonable excuse if you're if the
C stall because you got somebody inA, you got empty B empty C.
But if C is dirty, thenit's reasonable to pop into B.

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You gotta do what you gotta dobecause if C is full, you have
no choice. You have to gointo B. You know, Mandy,
I usually take the stall or urinalnext to the occupied one because I like
making people uncomfortable. Bonus points forstriking up a conversation. Well you're succeeding
because nothing is more awkward than that. See, women will not talk when

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they're in the stall, but thenonce they're out. I would take a
party in there. See, menwill talk side by side at the urinal
if even if you don't know them. Even if you don't know them,
I mean, how do you startthat conversation? You're like, oh,
how about that hit last time?You definitely don't talk about balls or anything?
Right, Well, you see,I mean close bond during that.
Okay, just checking, just checking, Mandy. I always use the handicap

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stall, and I'm not a handicapped. Let me just share this with you.
There has been one time in mylife that I came out of a
handicap stall and there was a womanin a wheelchair and I got the stink
eye from her so hard, andI was like, oh my gosh,
I'm so sorry, so so sorry. But they're not just reserved for handicap
people. We should let you knowthose those stalls are available for people who

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use a wheelchair, but they arenot solely for people who use a wheelchair,
right, It's just for them toknow that this is the most comfortable
one for you. Yes, andpeople do need to flush. Text her,
you are absolutely right. But ifI see that situation, I'm gonna
go in, I'm gonna flush withmy foot, and then I'm gonna go
to another stall. It's like,even if I flush it, I'm still
going on another stall. It makesyou wonder how dirty is that person of

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the rest of your life if theywon't flush, what does the rest of
their backside? A little like Mandy, how about the people who use the
ADA stall when they don't appear tobe handicapped? Like I said, I
don't care. I don't care.They just need to be available if someone
needs them, and you know,if you have to, if you have
to drag a leg or so.I'm sorry that was in poor taste.
My bad. When don't we getback? Two minute drill more? Keep

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fake video from MSNBC And I justretweeted if you follow me on Twitter at
Mandy Connell the President arriving at CampDavid. Now I realize that by saying
this, I'm I'm allegedly buying intoa cheap, fake. But you can

(01:06:41):
go find that video on Twitter andwatch it and you can decide how virile
our president is. He's got theWell, I'm just gonna let you go
watch it, Just gonna let yougo see that now on the blog Today,
did you see the video at thevery bottom of the Blog Today,
Grant under the Beaver video, Yes, well, where there's lesbian who looks

(01:07:01):
just like Tucker Carlson. Okay,it's part of a longer video from Sky
News Australia, which makes me laugh. If I could go work for any
other company in the world, Iwant to work on this show on Sky
News because all they do is makefun of everything, and it's just it
looks like so much fun to havea team. But there's a left wing
lesbian who looks like Tucker Carlson.In My Goodness, she looks just like

(01:07:25):
Tucker Carlson, and she looks himup to see what he looks like and
she's like, I don't see it. No, she looks exactly like him,
exactly. It's right under the Beaverstory. She looks exactly like him,
doesn't she exactly like? I meandead ringer for the old young Tucker
Carlson, So that's on the blogas well, And I want to talk

(01:07:47):
about this just for a second.James O'Keefe, who has been ousted from
Project Veritas. That old situation superweird and there was a lot of like
there's a lot of a lot ofto do. James O'Keefe, just to
go back, was the founder ofProject Veritas, and they're the kings of
the hidden video, right. Theysend reporters in, they become friends with

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people that work in these big corporations, and then they get them on tape
saying incredibly outrageous things. He wasousted for Project Veritas after accusations of mismanagement
of funds and all of these things. They were very nebulous and nothing really
ever seemed to come from it,like criminal charges are real accusations. So
he gets bounced out of Project Veritas, but he is not dissuaded, and

(01:08:33):
with his new outfit, he hasgone after Disney and Disney's hiring practices where
they openly discriminate against white males.White pale is stale is their interior lines
now and Disney is coming off Wetalked a little bit about what they've done

(01:08:53):
to the Star Wars franchise, butthey have had flop after flop after flop,
and they've got a hit with InsideOut too, and they've got to
hit because it's not woke. It'sjust not woke at all. So it's
kind of fascinating to watch him continueto do his work, and I'm interested
to see if, if what happenshere at this new company. Now I

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have a conspiracy theory, or itcould you just be a theory, but
since I'm leading right and he's onthe right, it's a conspiracy theory.
And that is that people decided JamesO'Keeffe was being too effective at Project Veritas,
and so they set about to underminehim, thinking that he would go
away with his tail between his legs. I think that was a gross miscalculation.

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And there's a lot of people thatlike what he does because he exposes
exactly how hateful this ideology is andexactly how pervasive it is at certain companies,
and Disney deserves everything as getting theDisney of my youth is dead.
I had a dream, Grant,I had a dream the other night I
met Kurt Russ. How random isthis? Right? Like, when was

(01:10:02):
the last time you thought about KurtRussell. You know, yeah, I
don't even know the last time Ithought about Kurt Russell. But I a
dream that I met Kurt Russell ata restaurant bar, right, like,
I sit down and then Kurt Russellsays down. And it wasn't one of
those dreams, people, it's notat all. I was trying to get

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him on the show. This ismy dreams, my dreams. I'm trying
to get a guest on the show. But I started in my dream.
I started recounting all of the Disneymovies that Kurt Russell did when I was
a kid, right even before Iwas, you know, watching Disney movies.
And then I was like, andyou made Miracle, which is the
best sports movie ever made, andyou were in Tombstone, which is one
of the best cowboy movies ever made. And he would not come on the

(01:10:44):
show. And I just remembered thatdream. And I have no idea why
I just brought that up. KurtRussell, if you're listening, I'd love
to have you on the show anytime. Email me Mandy Connell at iHeartMedia dot
com. He lives in Colorado Park. I've seen that new movie for well
it's a couple of years old.Now I forget the name of it where
he plays Santa Claus. Oh yeah, it was so good. It's called

(01:11:06):
the Santa Claus. Oh no,wait a minute, Oh that's Tim Allen.
No Identicles. I'll find it,please do, please do. And
to all of you who are pointingout that Radar O'Reilly was played both by
what was played by Gary Bergoff inboth the movie and the television show,
all I can say is was thereanyone else that could do that role?

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No? The Christmas Chronicles? Ohthank you. I will look it up
because I love Kurt Russell and he'sso so cute. I mean, he
just has such a cute, boyishface. How can you not like Kurt
Russell? Hope I have a differentkind of dream about him soon, Grant,
how much fast food do you eat? You're young? Young people usually
eat at fair amount, too much, too much? Well, good news
for you. My friend McDonald's isabout to start a price war. Thank

(01:11:50):
god. That went the other dayand it was like eleven dollars for my
meal? What yeah? What didyou get? Just a two cheeseburger meal?
Shut up? I never buy thewhole meal. Like, McDonald's is
my go to because a double cheeseburgerhas like three hundred and seventy five calories
and it's a good mix of fat, protein, and carbs. I mean,
it's fast food. No, it'snot health food, but I know

(01:12:11):
what I'm getting. So I justget the double cheeseburger in an unsweet and
nice tea and it's like five seventyfour maybe, which is still too much
money. Yeah, but I haveto say they have elevated their food at
McDonald's quite a bit lately. They'vechanged their burgers, their buns are softer.
They've just really done a good job. And now they are going to
bring the five dollar value meal back. Now, of course you're only gonna

(01:12:33):
get three fries, a small coke, and you know, a chicken sandwich.
I'm just kidding. I don't knowwhat you're getting. But McDonald's is
kicking off a new marketing campaign anda new five dollars meal deal. Joe
Erlinger, president of McDonald's US,said we are committed to winning the value
war. Last night, after BloombergNews reported on the plans for the five

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dollars promotion, Burger King was like, not all Burger King pledged to roll
out it's five dollars value meal beforethey do so. Wendy's is now pushing
out a three dollar breakfast offer andtook to social media to Mockt's competitors for
copying its ideas. Wendy does notplay on Twitter like. You don't even
want to get a foul of Wendy'sTwitter, because they will take you out.

(01:13:20):
Wendy's Twitter is vicious, they willtake you down. They're wildly entertaining.
So I do follow Wendy's Twitter.I'm not even kidding about that.
Is Wendy's ever going to be aplayer in the breakfast biz? Though they
keep trying. They keep rolling outall this new stuff. And you know
how often I think about going toWendy's for breakfast? Never me either,

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never, So I've never even hadtheir breakfast items. Now, at the
largest restaurant chain in the US bysales, McDonald's size and marketing muscle gives
the one hundred and thirty billion dollarcompany in edge over small arrivals and the
ability to reduce any hit to franchisee profits. Think about our scale,

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he said, noting that the incrementalcost of adding fries and a drink to
a sandwich was minimal. A fivedollars deal includes oh, here we go,
grant Oh, I was almost right. It includes a mcdouble or a
McChicken sandwich, small fries, fourpiece chicken enc nuggets, and a small
soft drink. That's not bad forfive bugs. I don't eat McNuggets because

(01:14:23):
I know how they were, Iknow how they're made, and Wendy's nuggets
are better. Well again, whenI go to Wendy's, I'm getting a
chicken sandwich. What's your easier orderthan the chicken? Ten? What do
you get at Wendy's. Wendy's,I get two junior bacon cheeseburgers and a
six piece nugget. I think it'ssick. O Hey, it might be
five at Wendy's. I go toWendy's for chicken sandwiches. They have really

(01:14:46):
good chicken sandwiches and have for along time, way before chicken sandwiches became
a thing. You guys, it'seasy to download the McDonald's app and get
fruit and cheap food, free andcheap food. But you know what,
guys, it's then I've just givenin, Right then, I have to
end the illusion that I eat healthyall the time if I have the McDonald's

(01:15:08):
app on my phone, So I'mnot going. It's like it's like having
seven eleven rewards number. It waslike, do you have a rewards with
no? Nope, I don't.I don't. I don't want rewards at
seven eleven because whatever I'm getting hereis not good for me. I don't
deserve a reward for a seven elevensandwich. I don't deserve that. So
we'll see how this spreads. Let'ssee what Burger King is offering with their

(01:15:30):
cheap o'deal. Let's see. Ithink Wendy still have the five dollars biggie
bag or have they got gone awaywith it. I have no idea because
that comes with like a junior baconcheeseburger or a chicken sandwich plus nuggets,
plus fries plus a drink. Wow, it's a lot of food, but
they're all smallest options of each thing. But you're kind of like, basically

(01:15:51):
that's like fast food tapis, youknow what I mean, all the small
things on their so grant. Onthis cruise ship that we just went on,
the food was extraordinarily good, evenat the buffet. I normally eskew
a buffet because I overeat. Everybodyover eats the buffet. It just is

(01:16:12):
with the food on the celebrity apexat the buffet was outstanding. And many
nights we were trying to go catcha show where we were trying to do
this or that, so we didn'twant to have the whole sit down dinner
experience. And I went to thebuffet and I did the I'm just gonna
have a little taste, right,I'm just gonna like one little, tiny
scoop. So eighteen thousand calories later, I have now taken one little scoop
of everything off the buffet, tryingto find what is in the Burger King.

(01:16:36):
Burger King, in my mind,is the superior fast food burger anyway.
Oh look, okay, so BurgerKing has some sort of sandwich,
a small fry, and some chickenMcNuggets. Wendy's has what you just described,
and Starbucks has an iced coffee witha croissant. Way to make us

(01:16:57):
not go to Starbucks. Starbucks.We'll see if this is going to be
a big news. Mandy says thistext, or you don't realize for four
dollars. You can get eighteen eighteencount eggs and make nine breakfasts on your
own. Soon they will all bethat poor. And that's what I do
every day, except I don't getI get the fancy eggs. I get

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the happy eggs, the ones thatare pasture raised. I like the idea
of happy chickens making my eggs.I do well. I get them sporadically
for my friend Kelly Mahers. Shealways brings me eggs when she comes in
here, and I have a fewother friends that deliver, But for the
most part, we eat a tremendousamount of eggs in our house. They're

(01:17:42):
a major part of our diet.And so I buy the happy eggs because
I like thinking all these chickens aregoing to be happy making my food.
And I think they taste better too. And I know that sounds crazy,
but I bet you at a blindegg taste test, I could tell you
the happy eggs from a regular egg. The chicken tastesum, there's more to
them, you know, Like Idon't know how the yolks are more flavorful,

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right, And I said that toKelly one time. I was like,
you know, Kelly, the yolksof your chickens eggs are so dark.
She goes, well, they doeat my son's left over in mac
and cheese, So her eggs aremade out of mac and cheese, and
it's delicious. I don't care whatthey're made out of, they are delicious.
Wendy's app offers a great deal dailyfree six piece nuggets or junior bacon

(01:18:25):
cheeseburger with a dollar purchase. MostOkay, now wait a minute, grant
this is now appealing to the cheapnessin me. So the cheapness of me
right now is battling with the healthyme. The cheap meat usually wins.
See Michael Cooper always says, yougot to download the apps for these fast
food places because there's so many deals. But I'm like you, I try

(01:18:46):
not to go that often, soI don't want to, yeah, incentive
to eat. It's like I hadto stop following crumble Cookie on Instagram because
I don't need to know what crumbleCookie has, and they're eight hundred calorie
cookies that you go and you're like, you know what, I'm just gonna
eat a little bit of this cookieand then I'll leave the rest for like
tomorrow, No, that's a lie. I tell you yourself. It's a
lie, because as soon as youeat your a little tiny bit, you're

(01:19:09):
like, you know what, I'mjust gonna have like upset half. They're
just so good. I'll cut itin half and then I'll just eat and
I'll put the half, and thenlike three minutes later, you're eating the
other half like you like you're astarving man who just got rescued off of
an island. So yeah, Idon't I don't eat. I don't even
like food flavored candles in my house. You know. People are like,
oh, I have this candle andit smells like baking chocolate chip cookie.

(01:19:29):
No. No, then my brain'slike, hell yeah, chocolate chip cookies.
Yeah, the cinnamon candle. That'swhat I get about it. I
like the the ones that are likeapple cinnamon because that smells like Christmas to
me for some reason. But yeah, just like food flavored stuff. No
no, No, happy eggs aregood. But the happy happy eggs and

(01:19:51):
the blue container are the best.Those are the heritage farm ones. Yeah,
I get those on occasion. Ireally buy whatever pasture raised egg is
the cheapest, so sometimes you areThe blue ones are sometimes the other ones
are Mandy McDonald's profits are awful.Products caused me to reintroduce myself to b
K, and I'm grateful. Youcan't meet their Ropper Junior Combo for the

(01:20:15):
price and quantity. They do havea significantly better product at at at at
at Burger King. Crumble just gotmini's. What are you people? You're
like pushers, You're you're like,oh, first one's free. Hey,
Mandy, they got free. Ibet if you went to Crumble an estra

(01:20:39):
a mini sample, they'd probably hookyou up. First one's on me,
Like you're just out there, justjust sprinkling the diabetes all over everything,
giving you a taste to get youhooked. And you know what it is.
I like Crumble cookies are ridiculous,but I'm not a cookie person.
And I've decided when I have dessert, it's gonna be for something I really

(01:21:00):
really want. It's not gonna befor something that's, you know, tastes
good, but it's not what Ireally really want. Never refrigerate Eggs says
this texture up to five weeks stayfresh. You can coat with any oil
which simulates what's washed off every storeegg. Your pricier eggs have a more
yellow orange yolk. I had chickens. I know that when you when you

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if you just go out and collecteggs and you don't wash them or anything,
there's a coating that comes from thechicken on the egg. I think
it's called the is it the bloom? I think it's called the bloom.
I've never raised chicken, so I'mjust trying to remember what people have told
me. And if you don't washthe eggs, you can just leave them
on the counter, just like thisperson said. Dude, Now all these

(01:21:45):
people are telling us about the appgrant, we're missing out. I got
a large soda and a sausage McMuffinfor two fitty through the app. You
I'm thinking about it. I amthinking about it, Mandy, FYI costs
fast Dude eight cents to make amedium fry or drink. It's their profit
items. True. But oh geez, our power just went out of the

(01:22:09):
building. I feel like we're stillon the air. Check the air signal
there, Grant, because yeah,we have no lights or they went home
and then just are we still onthe air? Oh here we go,
We're back. JK just wanted allmy TVs to go off anyway. Now
I'm hungry and I want fast food. That's not a good thing at all.

(01:22:30):
Let me go find a different storyto talk about. There are some
also really good videos on the blog. One of them, if you ever
wanted to know what it was likebeing in the car with me and Chuck
when Chuck is driving, there's avideo on the blog about that. And
I have this story and I didn'ttalk about it because I'm kind of torn
about this and I'm not voting forthis guy anyway. So yeah, Ryan

(01:22:56):
Edwards, did you flip off thelights on your way in? What did
you do? And now all theTVs are jacked up? So I don't
know how to fix that. Imean, it's Friday. I was trying
to help out, but you know, well done, get us out here
early. Yeah, there you go. Oh you're on the air. Thank
you. Text. I appreciate that. What's your favorite fast food? You're
a vegan, so that must bechallenging, well, more vegetarian than vegan
in these days. But I've alwaysbeen a taco bell fan. You know

(01:23:17):
what taco bells like? The ogit is when I first became a flight
attendant, they sent me to LaI was making fourteen thousand dollars a year.
This was nineteen ninety one, notnineteen seventy, so I ate more.
They were forty nine cents at thetime, forty nine cent bean burritos,
so good. That powered me forthree months. That and top ramen.
That was what we ate because wehad no money. And thank God

(01:23:39):
for Taco Bell. I can't eatTaco Bell anymore though, I just oh,
really no, I'm still I'm stillokay with that with thank goodness,
because I don't, I mean againwithout because there's so many like I love
Wendy's, but there's not really alot of options. Yeah there, So
yeah, right now, I'd sayit's still pretty consistently Taco Bell. But
I like they'll talk, and Ilike Deltaco because they got the fries.

(01:24:02):
That shouldn't work, you know whatI mean, that that should not be
a thing that makes it appealing togo to Del Taco. But they got
fries and they're really good for me. I mean, so that that's almost
like one of those how come TacoBell didn't think about this chef's kiss it's
brilliant. My sister used to workfor a couple that owned like ten taco

(01:24:23):
bells or whatever. They had asmall franchise operation. She was their chief
financial officer. But there were somany times that she would go work in
a restaurant and I was like,so, what what should people know about
taco bells. She's like, well, there are like ten ingredients and we
just repackage everything. That's fine,Yeah, that's great. Yeah, here's
the here's some beans and some cheeseand some onions and some picoda gayo.

(01:24:45):
But we're gonna wrap it up thisway, and sometimes we're gonna grill it,
and sometimes we aren't very much.And here's your cup of weird yellow
delicious cheese. So maybe you didn'tlose signal for that not hot power zip.
Okay, it sounds weird. Imean, well you get you're right.
The TV's are all messed up,and yeah, we're all out there
because because it's it's such a weirdsensation right in general when the power goes

(01:25:10):
out, because it gets so quiet. I know, you don't hear any
or nothing anything. We're so usedto the buzz of electricity and there's always
noise in this buildings somewhere. Imean there's always something going on in this
building. That is, you know, I heard you the whole time.
I was sitting out there on thegreen room in the lobby to be invited
in like some kind of celebrity,well sort of more of like I don't

(01:25:31):
want to step on the toes ofif you've got like a really intense topic.
There's a couple of times I've walkedin and you're in the middle of
something very heated and then I'm like, I don't know how to jumped into
this, but you were like McDonald, there you go. So, No,
what's coming up on KA Sports today? What do you guys got?
Well, it is Friday, soI have no idea my feed. No,

(01:25:56):
we're gonna have some fun. Icertainly you have the game six of
the same like a final. We'llprobably get a little bit got a smattering
of different Broncos conversation points about thingsthey need to accomplish before the training camp
starts in about a month. Right, we're about a month out, which
is pretty wild. Are you atthe stage of life where every year goes
faster and faster and faster. Yes, absolutely, especially with kids like it

(01:26:21):
that way. And and I don'ttake stock and I remember a friend of
mine told me a long time ago, like, when you have little kids,
the days are long, but theyears are short. Yes, and
as like that is a thousand percenthe probably borrowed from somebody else. But
I think about that all the timebecause now I have teenagers and I'll look
at my Facebook memories and stuff willcome up. You're like, oh my
god, that like you if you'regoing to freak you out? Do you

(01:26:42):
want to completely freak you out?Right now, I've already got a lot
of my mind. Okay, I'mgoing to because I'm going to freak you
out, like someone freak me out. When your kids leave for college,
everything from that point on changes,really like everything. There's no that that
is a moment of separation that youcan't Everything changes because they come back to
different people, and so then youhave to navigate the changing of the relationship

(01:27:08):
from parent to child to parrot toadult, right, and that navigation process
is interesting. I haven't done witha girl, but I did with two
boys. Yeah, and I havetwo girls, so yeah, and it's
a fascinating It's I can't wait tosee and all my daughter turns out right,
Like I can't wait to see whatkind of adult she's gonna be and
what kind of life she chooses,and what kind of life she creates.

(01:27:28):
So I'm excited about that. Butyeah, it's weird. And your kids,
you know, once they hit eighteen, it's like then they're just popping
back and forth. They're not aconstant anymore. I mean that makes sense.
I think about when I went awayto college and the type of people
I surrounded myself with. They're certainlynot the same people that I grew up
with. So it's natural that you'regonna go through those changes. But you'll
have to let me know, sinceyou get to go through this experiment for

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your will, how that goes.I will. Uh, you are driving
me away from soda tonight. Okay, here's the deal. Go get your
taco bell Aaron McDonald's and then calltomorrow as so taweightloss dot com. They
can fix it. Trust me.I used to eat a lot of fast
food. I don't eat very muchat all anymore because I did the soda
plant, not just because I wantto, you know, lose weight.

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But it really does change your mindset. But that's neither here nor there.
But it's turn this over ka WaiteSports, where they'll talk about pumpkins spice
right after this, I'll be backon Monday.