07-09-24 FULL SHOW - The GOP Goes Soft On Abortion

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sad thing. Welcome, Welcome,Welcome to a Tuesday edition of the show.
I'm your host for the next threehours. Mandy Connell, joined,
of course, by my right handman. You can call him a rod
I call him Anthony Rodriguez. Stopit, stop it right now, stop

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it right now. But Biden mumbles, stop it. I wish and you
know what, let me use ablog real quick, because I want to
start there and just blaze a trailbecause there's something going on right now,
and I just talk to us aboutthis. Normally, normally I can very
easily find a variety of news,just multiple things happening here there right now.

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All of the oxygen in the roomis being sucked up by the Democrats
showdown over Joe Biden. So let'stalk about that. But I do have
some other stuff that I want totalk about today. So if you're sick
of it, and oh my goodness, how can you be sick of it?
It's like it's like a magical soapopera. And finally, finally it's

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the Democrats having a soap opera insteadof the Republicans. The Banner Day people.
Not for the country. I mean, that's terrible what's happening for the
country, But you know, forpolitics anyway, Go find the blog.
You can find it at mandy'sblog dotcom. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look
for the headline that says seven ninefour blog the GOP go soft on abortion.

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Click on that and here are theheadlines. Will find within idin withs
in office, half American, allwith ships and clippers, and say that's
going to press plant today on theblog Republicans are soft on abortion. Now,
raising taxes does not make things moreaffordable. It's a church versus zoning.
In Castle Rock, Biden's inner circlehas been lying for over a year.

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Biden's physician was in business with theBidens. The repercussions of being pro
Hamas are significant. Oh Canada,it's time to pony up. Why won't
KGP just tell us why the Parkinson'sdoctor visited Hamas may be ready to strike
a deal. Mom Brain explained asweet story about being a good neighbor.
Look fireworks burned down a forest inGreece. Jeff Dunham and Walter respond to

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the debate. Six places that aregetting harder to visit? Do you reuse
your passwords? Office vacancy's in andall time high. This symptom appears years
before cancer. Are the Olympics worthit? A great idea for your next
BBC whoop? These poopy pants commentsfor all times? The gross people making

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up transgender care and here they arearguing against making selling child a felony,
how frugal people save money? Andfinally, what does the US do better
than anywhere else? Those are theheadlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com.
So I have one Texter who hatesmy new intro music. And you

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know what, Texter, I don'tcare. I love it. It's peppy,
it's fun Texas. No he didnot. I don't want no stop
it no no. Right now,Every story on every site somehow circles back
to the fact that there is amassive schism in the Democratic Party. And

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I was thinking about this today becauseHouse Democrats met today and according to all
sources that we're talking about it,the outcome was unsatisfactory because the Democratic Party
is divided and divided sharply along thelines of and I'm just gonna guess,
well, let me say it's dividedalong the lines of should Joe Biden stay

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the nominee or should Joe Biden go. Okay, those are the two sides
theoretically, But what I think isprobably happening. And I don't have access
to all the behind the doors thinking, But when you look at who has
come out to support Joe Biden,it is Democrats who are in safe,
reliable Democratic seats. They don't haveto face voters. They're not worried about

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Joe Biden creating a down ticket drag. They are all behind Joe Biden one
hundred percent. And I have afeeling, and this is just me speculating
again that behind closed doors, itis the Democrats who are not in safe
seats who are freaking out because theyknow that if Biden is at top of
the ticket, he will likely dragdown the rest of the Democratic ticket the

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same way Donald Trump drew down theRepublican ticket in twenty twenty. So it
is just the way of the world. And they're super worried about this,
and they are coming out and sayingthings like he can't make a coherent sentence
kind of thing, and they're freakingout. While on the other side,

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you have all the safe Democrats whoare going, hey, look, it's
not that big a deal. Wecan control Trump. We'll just accuse him
of a bunch of things and preventanything from really getting accomplished. And the
other Democrats who are seeing their politicalfuture slip away because Joe Biden is not
going to step down. I'd beshocked. I don't know what the Democrats

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could say to him to get himto step down. So far, they
have appealed to his sense of duty. They have appealed to his sense of
doing what's right for the American peopleas he always has, which is a
total lie, but more on thatlater. They've appealed to his better angels,

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if you will. And he hascome out written a letter, a
stern letter. It is stern asa matter of fact. Let me share
some of the stern letter with youone moment, please. He sent this
to Democrats yesterday, okay, andit starts with this, Wait a minute,

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hang on, I can't get thisframed up correctly in my window here,
fellow Democrats, says President Joe Biden, Now that you've returned from the
fourth July recess, I want youto know that, despite all the speculation
in the press and elsewhere, Iam firmly committed to staying in this race,
to running this race to the end, and to beating Donald Trump.

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I have had extensive conversations with theleadership of the party, elected officials,
rank and file them, and mostimportantly, Democratic voters over these past ten
days or so. I've heard theconcerns that people have, their good faith,
fears and worries about what is atstake in this election. I am
not blind to them. Believe me, I know better than anyone the responsibility

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and the burden the nominee of ourparty carries. I carried it in twenty
twenty when the fate of our nationwas at stake. I also know these
concerns come from a place of realrespect for my lifetime of public service and
my record as president. And I'vebeen moved by the expressions of affection for
me from so many who have knownme well and supported me over the course
of my public life. I've beengrateful for the rock solid, steadfast support

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from so many elected Democrats in Congressand all across the country and taken great
strength and support from so many electedDemocrats. Oh wait a minute, taken
great strength from the resolve and determinationI've seen from so many voters and grassroots
supporters, even in the hardest ofweeks. And then it goes on to
talk about this. He says multipletimes, I decline, uh, to

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not give the voters their say.You know what's interesting about him saying,
oh, thank you to all ofyou. Have such nice things, with
such great affection. Thank you somuch for your support, and I so
appreciate you. You guys. IfDonald Trump wins this election, the Democratic
Party is going to turn on JoeBiden in a manner that we have not

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seen in a very long time,very long time. So yeah, ooh.
Someone just said, maybe they'll offerhim a lifetime supply of tapioca pudding
to get him to step down.If you made it chocolate ship ice cream,
I think you might have a deal. Maybe, just maybe, this

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person said, I'm worried there mightbe a chance vote Biden goes to war
before November to save his presidency.Every president who entered war in the past
was re elected. Yeah, Idon't know, that's scary. Here's the
problem, you guys from this,From that debate forward, any decision that

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Joe Biden makes is going to bemet with such scrutiny. Was that decision
made while he was in his rightmind? Did he make that decision at
three point fifty five or did hemake it at five point thirty PM?
I'd like to know. So.If he somehow gins up the war drums,
I think there's going to be alot of people pushing really hard against

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that, based on the fact thata clearly less than fantastic president should not
be driving young men and women intowar if he's not in full control of
his faculties. Twenty four to seven, Mandy, Joe will leave when Hunter
is offered a no show job atfive million a year and Joe's is increased.

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I do think that if they couldensure that Hunter would be pardoned,
I think Joe would consider it.But I think you guys are underestimating the
ego of this man. This man'sego knows no bounce. Have you ever
heard the phrase his ego outstrips hisintelligence? And we all know people to
which that applies, right, Imean I do, I certainly do.

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But this applies to the President.I've always thought it. His ego is
much larger, larger than his intellect, and so I really think he believes
he saved the free world in twentytwenty when he was elevated to the position
to be launched into office. Ireally this may be a case of a

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guy who was born on second andthinks he hit a double right. And
those people are the hardest to dissuade. They are the hardest to make disbelieve
their own greatness. That's a bigproblem for the Democrats, a huge problem
for the Democrats now, and it'sone that I'm here for it. I

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am enjoying this a little too muchafter the chaos of the Republican Party,
which by the way, is stillgoing on here in Colorado and the general
I don't know change in the nationalGOP into the Party of Trump if you
do not, And I've wanted tolong resist the notion that the entire party
belongs to Trump. With the GOPplatform, even in the way it's written

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with lots of exclamation points and unneededcapital letters, is exactly the way Trump
writes a tweet. So I thinkthe Democrats are stuck with Joe Biden,
not only because you guys, areoptions for overriding the vote of Democratic voters

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and somehow creating a whole group offaithless electors who will vote against the will
of the people to install another candidate. After all of the accusations that they
have levied at the Republican Party andthe nonsense of faithless electors and things of
that nature, they can't turn aroundand do it again. I mean,

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don't get me wrong. If theyfeel like that's the best option, they
would. And like I said,I fully believe that there are probably high
level Democrats constantly wargaming all of thepossibilities every minute of every day, and
they are constantly weighing which move,which chess move in this situation, will
get them closer to the end gamethat they want, which is to control

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the government. Mandy, I'm moreconcerned with our enemies starting a war while
Biden's in office, And I'm tellingyou right now me too, because that
is a legit. If I aman enemy of the United States, if
I'm Iron, do you know whatI'm launching an attack like today? Not

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that I think Iran has the capabilityor the stones to come at us directly,
but if I am, If I'mChina, I know that before January
of next year, chances of anythingbeing done if I roll into Taiwan are
very very low. Now, Idon't know what would happen under a Trump

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administration in that case, I don'tknow. He has far more of a
chip on his shoulder about China thanJoe Biden does. So yeah, that's
a big problem. What about Projecttwenty five is that the republic agenda Republican
agenda you mentioned, Project twenty fiveis an outlined by the Heritage Foundation.

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And I've used to be a bigfan of the Heritage Foundation, and I've
gone to their events. I waspart of their President's Club in Florida.
And since the newest president took overthe Heritage Foundation, whose mission has always
been to elevate conservative solutions to conservativeelevate conservative ideas, elevate the arguments that

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conservatism lifts more people at the sametime than any other form of government.
That was what the Heritage Foundation usedto be all about. But they weren't.
They weren't as successful as they wouldhave liked to have been. And
I've been told this secondhand from arelatively strong source, or I wouldn't be

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sharing it with you. But againit's secondhand information, so you considered a
rumor. So in order to bemore effective and more salient in Washington,
d C. Where their main officesare, their main offices are beautiful.
I've actually broadcast my show from theHeritage Foundation's main offices many years ago.

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And now they have embedded themselves withthe Republican Party in a way that they
had not previously, and I actuallythink that undermines them now. Don't get
me wrong. There was no doubtthat they worked with Republican members of Congress
and that they provided policy information toRepublican members of Congress. But the reality

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was they would offer that to anyone. If you were a starch Democrat and
you wanted the conservative viewpoint on answersand solutions, you could go to Heritage
and they would share it with you. I don't know if they would do
that now, and I'm not I'mnot particularly happy about that. I like
think tanks to have some modicum ofindependence, even if they do have an

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ideology that lends itself more to oneside or the other. And it's one
of the reasons I love the IndependenceInstitute. It's one of the reasons that
I love the Steamboat Institute because thoughthey are unabashedly right of center, they
are not just a mouthpiece or anarm of the Republican Party. And I'm

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afraid in some ways that, inan effort to become a bigger part of
the conversation, that Heritage has nowentered into an arena that is more about
politics than it is about policy.So I'm trying to get someone from Heritage
on about Project twenty twenty five.And somebody on the text line sent this

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earlier, and this is Mandy.If you can get somebody on from Heritage,
get somebody on from the other sideto talk about Project twenty twenty five.
Now my problem is this. Theproblem is is that there's a lot
of demagoguery going on already that justfrom reading it I know is over the

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top hyperbole and is not in Projecttwenty twenty five. So what do I
do get someone on the other sidethat's just making up stuff? Or who
do I ask? Who do Iask? So I don't know. If
you have a suggestion, please letme know. Mandy. You have to
wonder why Biden wrote a letter insteadof addressed the Democrats in person. Hmm.
That's a fine point. He wantedit in writing and he wanted it

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out there, so there was noquestion, Mandy. A recent report says
and unidentified source states that Jill Bidensits in on some policy meetings. At
one they wanted to take a shortbreak and go outside. Jill said the
president doesn't need to go outside.Basically, no, Joe, you can't
go outside and play rumors and innuendos. That's probably what that is, Hi,

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Mandy. The D's are on theverge of making the colossal mistake of
nominating the guy Trump can most likelybeat. Trump's reptilian brain is just smart
enough to know when to shut upand not interfere. That is a point
that I want to talk about whenwe get back. Surprisingly, the one

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group that is not talking about JoeBiden and possibly replacing him on the national
stage is Donald J. Trump.We'll talk about that next. Before the
break, we were talking about thebiggest story of the day, which is
Democrats desperate to get Joe Biden tostep down, and the old Dodger is

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saying no. He is saying IAm not going anywhere. He really believes
he can beat Donald Trump in thefall, and maybe before the debate he
had a better chance. I willtell you personally, I've been watching.
I watched a little bit of thatGeorge Stephanopolis interview. I didn't watch a
lot of it because it was justlike, Oh, does anybody else called

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George Stephanopolis, George snuffalophagus? Anyone? No? Just me? No?
Hmm, really, no one else, No one, George snuffalophagus? Anyone?
Okay. He hasn't done anything toreally inspire kind of confidence in himself

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after that, and saying that he'scapable of doing the job and actually doing
the job, those are two differentthings. And Careine Jean Pierre, bless
her little heart, has been outthere every day. She must be dizzy
as hell by the end of herpress briefings from all the spinning she's doing.
And the spin just gets dumber anddumber and dumber. Remember, first

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it was well, Joe Biden hada cold. He may have had a
bad reaction to his cold medicine.Then it was Joe Biden is jet lagged
even though he'd been back for threeweeks. Now it's Joe Biden was exhausted.
He was exhausted from being holed upat Camp David doing debate prep for
five days five days, and nowshe's trying to spin away the fact that

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a Parkinson's specialist visited the White Housemultiple times last year, and instead of
just saying, oh, he cameto the White House to talk about this,
she goes on this long roundabout abouthow the president gets a physical every
year that they then release to theaudience, and you know whatever, and

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and and then the and the andhe sees a neurologist in each of those
visits and that's when he's seen anneurologist. Okay, well, what was
the guy doing there? It's reallyreally, really an easy question. What
was he doing there? Question?Anyway, But I want to get to
Donald Trump's behavior since the debate,first of all, and we talked about

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this during our KOA cast and evenafter the debate, we talked about the
fact that Donald Trump, the barfor both men was very low. In
my view, Donald Trump merely neededto prove in that debate that he wasn't
some maniac hot head who couldn't keepus cool, and that once Joe Biden
got under his skin, he wasjust gonna lose it, and he was
going to show everybody how crazy hewas. That did not happen. All

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Joe Biden had to do was showus that he was not too old to
do the job. That also didnot happen, but Trump definitely won on
that front. And now since thedebate, it has been a NonStop swirl
of news about Democrats wanting Joe Bidento step down and who would take his
place, and who would they elevate, and how would this work, and

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what would we do, and whatwould the convention look like? How do
you get the delegates released? Thishas just been a non stop, all
of it focusing on the fact thateven his own party does not believe he
has the strength and stamina and mentalacuity to be president for four more years.
Now, Old Trump would have alreadysaid something, done something, expose

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something I don't know, would havedone something to bring the spotlight back to
him, good or bad. Hejust wanted the spotlight, right, I
just need to be in the spotlight. Well, as we'll call him new
Trump seems to be sitting back playinggolf, not talking about Joe Biden.

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And when he does talk about JoeBiden, he doesn't talk about Joe Biden's
age, he talks about his policies. This is a really high level of
discipline from the former president that Icertainly was not expecting. Now again,
how high is that bar? Youknow? I don't know if i'd say

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it was like you know, Olympic, you know, horse jumping high More
like like the people who do theshow pony thing, you know what I'm
talking about. Did you see thaton the blog a couple weeks ago,
the people who run around with thesticks and they pretend they're horses. Did
you see this? Oh? Yeah, it's a thing. I can't remember
the name of it now. Nonetheless, Trump seems to be perfectly content to

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let all of this attention remain onJoe Biden. Remember last week before the
debate two weeks ago, No,it was I don't know if it was
last week or two weeks ago.It's been a blur since then. He
said, Donald Trump, I've prettymuch decided my VP. And what did
I tell you guys before the debate? If the debate goes well for Donald
Trump, he will not announce hisvice president if the Trump. If the

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debate goes poorly, he will andhe is just gonna hold that vice presidential
nomination, just hold it until morebad news or any bad news breaks about
him or his candidacy that's new ordifferent, and he will drop the VP
to suck up the oxygen in theroom. But right now he's letting Joe
Biden take the heat. And boy, howdy, is he really really really?

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Somebody just said, I'm going tobilly Joel too. It's going to
be one hundred and one degrees.You know what. He is a hot
performer, but I don't know ifhopefully it won't be that hot by the
time you know that happens. I'mlooking at different stories this morning. I

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was looking at all these different storiesin different angles, and what's the most
unnerving two things. Number One,Hunter Biden has now taken up residence in
the White House. Now we allknow that Joe Biden has said multiple times
Hunter is the smartest person I know. Hunter is also an addict who has

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had like mind blowing drug problems inthe past. I know he doesn't have
a security clearance and he's staying inthe White House to help his dad with
the presidency. I just want youto think about that for a second,
because why else is he there.We had news a couple of days ago
that he was attending meetings. Hewas attending briefings at the White House.

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The family is desperate, I meanreally desperate, and it's just absolutely sad
empathetic to watch. What isn't sadand pathetic to watch is watching Democrats scramble
to get the messaging right, Democratswho have privately said this guy needs to
go, but have recognized that actuallydoing that would be incredibly destructive, if

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not downright impossible, and there's areally good chance they would lose anyway.
I'm telling you, I would loveto be in the war room game for
this stuff. I would love tobe in that meeting just to fly on
the wall listening to the stuff that'sbeing talked about by the people running the
Democratic Party because they're in a fullblown Oh, George step on all of

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us. Oh, I like that. Nice George Stefanoppola palas about George.
No, but my new name forWhoopee is poopy. That's funny. Mandy
J. Leno called him a stepon all of us. Stephalopagus is the
nicest version of George's name that I'veheard. Uh, Mandy, I call

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him George Stephalopagas. All the time, I thought it was just me.
No, it's not just you.It's the two of us against all us.
My wonderful husband, Chuck. He'shaving a birthday today and this one's
messing with him a little bit.It's turning sixty. And I pride myself

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on trying to come at any agefrom a position of gratitude, Like,
think of all the people who didn'tmake it sixty. But what birthday messed
with you? Guys the most.I'm just curious because this is, uh,
this is a big one. AndI don't know why, because he's
never really been remotely the sort toworry about such things. But did anybody

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else know it was sixty? Wasit fifty? That was weird? But
it was just like you just becausenobody really expects you to be fifty.
Right. It's like you think aboutwhen you're young. You're like, oh,
I can't wait turn sixteen, andI could can't wait to be eighteen
so I can vote, And thenI can't wait to be twenty one so
I could drink, right, andyet all of those things after that,

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it's like, yeah, I'm justis Yeah, it's another birthday. So
the only thing you can do isbe grateful that you made it that far
and that you also are able towalk and talk and do the things that
you like to do, because Ithink later on you take that for granted,

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and I'm just curious five six,six, nine. Know, I
just want to give him some Youknow, you're not alone. So what
twenty five? Text her? Youcannot be thirty if you are saying twenty
five, mess with you? Howold are you now? Text her?
How old are you now? Becausethe first birthday that everybody freaked out about
when I was younger was thirty andI turned thirty. I was like,

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you know what, I'm feeling prettygood about things. I'm in a good
place. A rod thirty is thatthis year? I am thirty now?
Oh you're thirty last year? Iwas like, I feel like you turned
thirty last year. Yeah, thirtyone coming up? Yeah, thirty one.
They're boring ages. After that,then you just sit like the milestone
birthdays, you know, my favoritenumber, thirty three will be good,

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but after that yet doesn't matter.Yeah forty eight years and eleven months,
that one hit me hardest. Gofigure. I was depressed for about a
week straight when I turned thirty onfifty six tomorrow, sixty a whole new
level of age related surprises. Yes, indeed mine was forty because my birthday
is September eleventh, and I turnedforty when the towers came down. Now

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that is not cool. That sucksand I'm sorry about that. Oh,
here's somebody else today's birthday. Happybirthday at chuck. Today is my birthday.
I'm fifty nine, huge fan ofhumanity, thank you now forty three.
But my twenty first was the worst. I sat home by myself with

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a six pack of guinness because itwas no way I could go to the
bars and celebrate, as I'd beendrinking in them for years. That was
the best, most fun night,going out to the bars that he'd been
in for years and walking in andshowing them her real id Ah. That
was fun, super fun. Itsounds like a quarter life crisis. The

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twenty five year old. I needto know, I need to know which
how old to twenty five? Nowforty three? But my twenty first was
the worst of that one. Hey, Mandy just turned sixty in May.
Didn't bother me at all. Itwas just another day. I was thinking
that seventy might be mine, butwe'll see in ten years, God willing.
You know when my mom my momturned eighty last year and she said,

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being eighty is weird because you knowyour expiration date is coming, but
you don't know when, but it'sthere. She's like all those other things.
You didn't even worry about an expirationdate, but now you're like,
huh, I've made it further thana lot of people, and you just
don't take anything for granted. Mandy, please tell Chuck that he's really forty

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and a half forty and a halfof forty. I like that. I
like that. Brian and Sue,thank you sixty, Mandy. I turned
sixty yesterday. Birthdays have never botheredme at all, but this one has
been rough. I've been trying tofigure out why. Maybe it's not being
sixty, but what other people's perceptionof sixty is. Oh. I love

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that. My plan is to beone of those extremely eccentric older women who
wears loud clothes and caftains. Idon't know, I feel a caftain in
my future, because why not?At what point do you truly get to
go? You know what? Itreally doesn't matter what you think of my

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outfit. I love it. Ican't wait. Mandy, what is oh
oh Aro? Do me a favor? Texture last three zero zero three?
Give him a call. We'll gethim on right now on the other side
of the break cause I'd like toknow the twenty five the person who said
twenty five was rough. They're gonnacall in and let me know. For
my thirtieth birthday, I got amotorcycle. For my fortieth, I got

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a trip to Afghanistan as a civiliancontractor. Thirtieth was better. Two months
after my sixtieth I had a triplebypass, but the birthday was fine.
Seventy sucks. Nothing is getting anybetter fifty. But had a party and
realize I look better than most friendsthere. Throw him a party. We
are throwing him a party, nottoday. We're throwing him a huge party

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and a lot of our friends arecoming from out of town for it,
and I'm super excited about that.Nick Jagger's eighty plus and still rocking.
I think he is just eighty turnythirty was cruddy in Vegas with a girlfriend
while on a work trip and hadto break up with her because her presence
made me feel sick due to herbeing so rude to everyone. Oh,

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this guy can the ninety's through GreyMany Connell Keithing real sad thing? All
right, we are back. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second Hour.
Now, in the last segment,I mentioned that Chuck, my wonderful
husband, my ride or die,my right hand man, my everything.
He turned sixty today, so happybirthday to Chuck. But this birthday unlike

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any other birthday the man has everhad. He's like, dang, I'm
sixty. So I was asking youif it affected if any other birthday had
affected anybody else negatively, and Maxtexted in and said, twenty five hit
me hard, and I had toknow more. Max, Welcome the show.
Hi, So what how old areyou now? Max? Eight?

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I'll be forty nine in November,so you're going to be forty nine.
But twenty five hit you hard?Is it? Because all of a sudden
you could rent a car and getcheaper car insurance rates. No, so
I was stationing in Germany at thetime. I was in the Army and
it was just that time in mylife, no girlfriend, kind of self
esteem issues. And on the dayof my birthday, I was actually me

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and my buddies went out and Iended up drinking way too much Jaeger and
passed out next to my car becauseI couldn't drive. So that one kind
of hit me. And then theonly other one that kind of hit me
would be twenty eight because the daybefore my twenty eighth birthday, an RPG
missed my side of the humpy bya split second, went two of the
wall assigned us and then blew up. So that's another one that hit me

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kind of hard. And after that, every other birthday has just been another
number. Well, you know,realizing that you may not make it to
your next birthday can be a verysobering experience. Yeah, and it did.
But yeah, so anyway, twentyfive hit me hard than twenty eight.
And after that assist them like,hey, I'm still here. Let
me ask you a question. Soyou're forty eight, going to be forty
nine, Now, what would youtell your twenty five year old self,

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if you had the opportunity to givethem a call and say, dude,
on your twenty fifth birthday, Firstof all, start with don't drink so
much, yegger, that's like thestarting position. But after that, what
would you tell your twenty five yearold self to just like chill yourself out?
Just that, Just chill out andjust enjoy your life for what it's
said at that point, and don'tworry about some of the other stuff that's
out there. Amen to that,my friend. Well I'm glad, I

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mean if twenty five, because like, honestly, if a twenty five year
old now was saying, oh mygod, this birthday's really hit me hard,
I would just be like, oh, precious, you have no idea
what's coming down the like, likeyou cannot have a quarter life crisis because
you you haven't become a millionaire attwenty five. And I think a lot
of young people put those stupid,idiotic standards on themselves and then you know,

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wonder why they're unhappy. Right Andthen also I hit so I lost
my job and had a divorce rightwhen COVID hit, So that kind of
hits you. So I was justkind of like, Hey, what else
you gotta throw at me? I'vekind of been through the lot already,
so yeah, it does gotta Youknow, they always say God doesn't give
you more than you can handle it. In that case, God just must
think you are out of control,strong dude for everything. So I appreciate

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calling the clarification. Max. Allright, I have a good one.
Man. My mom turned eighty today, says this Texter. Happy birthday,
Chuck. My dad's name is Chuck. Many connections there, Mandy. I'm
forty three today. Happy birthday tofellows seven to nine er Chuck. Here's
one. Here's one for you toconsider it, Rod, Mandy. After
my seventeenth birthday, I couldn't pee, So there you go. Well huh

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yeah, why how do you live? Cross state issues? Crossed goat?
Yeah, it just kind of stopsdoing what it's supposed to do. It.
I don't know if anything tells themfollow up about that. When he
follow up, phone calls are necessaryin this conversation because now I want to
know. Seriously, this one said, I made sixty in August of last

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year, but what I was lookingforward to is being a grandpa for the
first time and it's been bittersweet.My grandson is soon going to be five
this month, and he's not oneto hug his grandpa. His daddy almost
always has to tell him to hugme. It kind of sucks and it
hurts. Well, let me justsay this, Grandpa, I have a
grandson who is not a hugger.He is very much a MySpace, my

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body, my space. This ismy autonomous bubble. And sometimes he'll give
me a hug, and sometimes hegives me a high five, and sometimes
he goes when I go high five, he goes, no, thank you,
And you know I would say this, it does suck, it really
does. But be happy that yourgrandson has the ability to advocate for his

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own personal space, and you knowyou can't force him take you to a
high five. That's actually my oldestgrandson. We high five for like four
years and he's only seven. Soit's been a long and winding road.
But now when I see him,he gives me a big hug. But
you just you gotta let him knowthat they're okay and that's okay, and
that you respect that and then hopefor the best. But yeah, I'm

(37:14):
with you. It does kind ofsuck, but you gotta you gotta try
and rise above. I turned eighteenand basic training back when eighteen was the
drinking age. Milk really didn't cutit. Nope, it did not,
Mandy. I gave birth to myonly daughter on my thirtieth birthday. Best
ever, then, all my birthdayshave been about her. Was planning to

(37:35):
dye my hair purple on my sixtiethand let it go naturally gray. Turns
out I was taking chemo on mysixtieth, and I'll be damned if I
was gonna let my purple hair fallout. I just turned sixty five,
gratefully no cancer, but still nopurple hair. And I have to ask
you, text her why no purplehair? Hair is one of those things

(37:55):
you can always mess with. Idare you. As a matter of fact,
Texter, I triple dirty dog.Dare you. I expect to see
a photo in my email box ofyou with purple hair soon, Mandy.
I'm sixty four. In February,I turned sixty five. I'm receiving Medicare
information. It's very weird and Idon't look sixty four. At least That's

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what I'm told when I reveal Maryto a wonderful man who's nine years younger.
Yeah, I get to retire andhe keeps working, So there you
go. Oh No, Mandy turnedsixty four Saturday had my yearly company review.
The first words out of my boss'smouth was, before we begin,
how long till you retire? Thatone stings a little bit. Yeah,

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that one stings, you know?So when are we getting ready? Bud
nice? Haven't you? But couldyou go already? Could you? Grandpa's
carried candy in their pockets to fixthe no hugging issue. Next coins,
then bills. He has been painful, says this texter hospitalized for the first
time, and everything just started goingdownhill. I am so sorry to hear

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that. Ooh, Chuck will likethis. Chuck is twenty and a half
in Celsius. I like that.I like that a lot. I turned
sixty two next week. I thinkthat one's going to be my hard one.
Lost my brother when he was sixtytwo. My father died in the
mid sixties, and my mom barelymade it to seventy. I'm thinking my

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time will be sooner than I know. So let me ask you the question.
And I saw this on Twitter theother day and I thought it was
just the most interesting thought experiment.And you could do this at any age.
You don't have to wait until you'reseventy or sixty or fifty five.
But if you knew you were onlygoing to live for five more years,
what would you do? And Ithink for young people especially, that could

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be a very interesting thought exercise.Ay, Rob, if you knew you
only had five years left in fiveyears from right now you were going to
drop dead, what would you do? Boring answer? I'd do what I'm
doing right now, Okay, Ilike what I'm doing in my life.
I would know how to adjust tofreakly outy doing things. I know that

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makes no sense. I was inEnglish, but I don't know how to
Okay, calm well, I keeptalking. Yeah, thanks, Yeah,
I mean my Biden going on.No, I don't know how I would
adjust to saying I only have fiveyears to I probably would freak out for
like a week. Oh I hopeyou would freak out a little bit more
than that. And then I hopeyou get out a pencil and paper and
start writing stuff down, you know, start writing down your list of stuff

(40:34):
to do in the next five years. And if you make that list.
I mean, you can call ita bucket list, you can call it
whatever you want to call it.I don't care, but I firmly believe
and this is just through my ownexperience in talking to people that were much
older than I am now, andthe ones that had the best quality of
life, the ones that were livinga vibrant life even in their very elderly

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years, were people that had alist that never ran out of things to
do. Ever, have you everknown someone, and I've known two people.
I've known two people that said,one said, I want to live
to be one hundred to get aChristmas card from the President. And I
don't know if they still do thisanymore, but back in the day,
when you turned one hundred, likein the seventies and eighties, you would
get a birthday card from the WhiteHouse, congratulating you on being a centigenarian.

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And I knew this man in ourhometown, not in particularly good health.
He was one of those people thatwhenever you saw me, he was
sitting in a rocking chair, right, so it wasn't incredibly active. And
he told his family, I wantto live to be one hundred and I
want to get my birthday card fromthe White House, and he turns a
hundred still hasn't got the birthday cardfrom the White House. It took like

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six more weeks. He gets thebirthday card from the White House, and
like five days later he's dead.So that was his last goal. His
last stretch across the finish line was, I just want my birthday card.
And then I have another friend who'sher entire family no one lived to be
past like sixty years old, soshe said, I just want to live

(42:07):
to be Her mom said, Iwant to live to be seventy five.
I feel like I will have resetthe clock for the generations to come after
me. And she lived to beseventy five, and she had cancer for
about three years, but she livedto be seventy five and then died right
after. So you gotta have somekind of goal for me. I don't
want the goal to be I justwant to live to be ex age because

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that has a finite live span.Can't walk that back. Mandy five years,
I'd spend my winters in Vale andFlorida, summer at a golf course
and near an ocean. Mandy comingup on seventy two, and my boss
asked me to please postpone my retirementto seventy five. That had to feel
good, That had to feel reallygood. I already know what I would

(42:51):
do if I only had five yearsto live. I'm going to do Oh
I can't say that out loud.Almost gave something up that starts in a
couple of weeks the next Mandy ConnellAdventure. Hi, Mandy, I'm sixty
five and loving retirement. Medicare chucklike myself is four hundred and twenty in
dog years? Uh? This textersaid if you had five years left,

(43:15):
a lot of hookers in blow gotto get on a hunter's level. Yeah,
there you go. I'm twenty fiveand forty two will be the hardest.
Dad passed away at forty two.And when you hit forty two,
more importantly, when you hit fortythree. I hope that you celebrate every

(43:35):
birthday. You celebrate every day,every gifted day, because none of us
know. None of us have anyidea when we're gonna die. We have
no clue. I mean, ifyou currently have a debilitating disease, you
may know what's gonna kill you,but you don't know when. Yes,
ay, Rod, would you wantto know? Two things, when you're
gonna die and how? Would youwant to know either or neither of those

(44:00):
when and how? I don't thinkI would want to know how, because
here's the thing. If if itwas gonna be cancer or something like that,
that would not change anything I'm doingright now. I eat a healthy
diet, I exercise, I'm doingthe things a normal human should do to
save that stuff off. So ifI knew I was going to get cancer
and die, then that's just thethe you know. But if I was

(44:22):
going to be murdered or something,or die in a car accident, I
don't think i'd want to know,because that's the way I'm supposed to go.
That's where I'm supposed to go.I think you. I think I
would want to know when, butdefinitely not how. And I definitely don't
want to know how, but notwhen, because then you're always wondering when
is that happening? Correct, especiallyif it's like, oh, You're gonna

(44:43):
die in a car accident. Ijust came to mind, Yeah never.
Mandy, my grandma wanted to haveenough money so that she never had the
state pay for her nursing home.She ran out of money at one oh
two and died that month. Ilove your grandma. Most people would be
constrained by their financial situations. Here'sthe thing, though, you guys.

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If I knew that I only hadfive more years to live, I would
embark on an adventure with my family. I mean, obviously no, because
I was like, my daughter willbe back in school in the fall,
and things of that nature. Butit would not necessarily be five star hotels.
It would be let's buy a camperand drive around the United States and
Canada, and then we sell thecamper and we do the same thing in

(45:28):
Europe. I mean, you know, it would be things like that.
It would be adventure oriented and atthat point I would sell my home.
I would take the profits, Iwould live for the next five years,
and then I would die, hopefullywith nothing. That would be the goal.
So, you know, I thinkit would be It's interesting. I
don't think anybody says, if youfind out you have five years left,
nobody goes, well, gosh,I would put my nose to the grindstone

(45:50):
and I would train and make moremoney. Nobody does that when faced with
your own mortal I mean, maybesomebody does. Maybe somebody is so motivated
by money and they don't have anythingelse in their lives. We're all like,
maximize your legacy for your kids.No, I would get that,
like that my legacy would be theirtime with me. Well, I'm saying
the five years in addition to enjoyingthe time, maximizing like the profit,

(46:14):
for them to have the best possiblelife off of your earnings, what you
did for a living, making theirlife as enjoyable as possible. Net no,
net no, no. I mean, don't get me wrong. I
would make sure that my legacy waseverything that happened in the last five years,
and they would have no expectation ofan inheritance. I would hope not.

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I mean, one thing I learnedgoing through what I went through with
my dad when he passed away anda whole bunch of stuff that happened after
that, is that people who counton an inheritance, you're not you know.
I mean, I'm not talking aboutsuper rich people who know they're going
to get millions of dollars. I'mtalking about people like you know, I
don't really need to plan for mymy own retirement because my parents will die
and all inherit there's no because youhave all kinds of things that can come

(46:59):
into play, long term care costs. I mean, there's so much stuff
that can happen. And I'm notsaying that. You know, I don't
want to live some leave something formy kids. If all goes as I
plan and I live a long,healthy life and I don't get fired,
then yes, I will have somethingto live leave for my kids. But
five years, the first thing Iwould do is, well, you guys
aren't getting a retirement, but we'regonna have a blast for the next five

(47:21):
years. That's what the That's whatit would be. That's my legacy.
I wouldn't want the future kids toplan on it, but I would definitely
want personally internally to plan on havingsomething for them, not them knowing and
not them expecting it or asking forand making sure that they're getting it.
But like a nice surprise for youknow when I go, here's something to
get you buy in life a littleeasier. Here's something you're not ready for.

(47:45):
Is how nasty people get about money? Oh I know, I mean
no, I'll tell on the break. I know. Yeah, nasty people
that you don't expect to be nastyget super nasty when it comes to money,
and sometimes it's not even your ownkids, sometimes their spouses in their
ears at that point. I mean, there's a lot that happens, and

(48:08):
it's tough. Mandy. I thinkturning twenty really sucked because you weren't technically
old enough to go out to bars, but everyone wants you to be an
adult. Turning fifty April twenty twentyand having everything canceled that we had spent
a year planning was lame, butI didn't really care about the age.
Retired December thirty first, twenty twenty, and I'm grateful for every birthday I

(48:29):
have coming there you go, Mandy. One of my pet peeves either celebrate
or acknowledge everyone's birthday at work ornot at all. Just saying happy birthday
to the boss and presenting the bosswith a cake but ignoring the other managers
or employees is a poor workplace andit just means that you have a suck
up in your midst who knows whenthe boss's birthday is. And it is

(48:52):
the boss's responsibility, by the way, to say, hey, that was
really kind of you, but wedon't generally celebrate birthdays in the office.
Well let's not do that. Againnext year. There you go. Check
out a book called The Measure,all about people who got a length of
string in the mail to show howlong they will live. Very interesting book,

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Mandy. I tell people I'm tenyears older than I am, and
they say I look really good,So every birthday is a good one.
I like that strategy, Mandy.Would you want to be alive to witness
the rapture or gone before it happens? Kind of want to know if you're
like judged the right way, ifyou did enough things in life. This

(49:35):
is where my view of God isprobably different than most straightforward Christians. And
it's different in the sense that Ido think that God, if God is
the Father, and I do believethat God is the father of humanity,
and he made all of us,and he created us because he thought we
had value and we needed to behere on this earth. I have a

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hard time thinking of the traditional wayof if you're a good person and you
kind of show up that they're goingto say, sorry, you were a
good person, but you didn't checkXYZ boxes and therefore you cannot come into
ev And you are a good personyour entire life, and you saved animals
and you treated people kindly, andyou tried to do the right thing all

(50:21):
the time, but you're not goodenough because you didn't check some series of
dogmatic boxes. So I realized that'sin conflict with a lot of people who
believe that you have to do ita certain way in order to make it
to the next level. But Iam not one of those people. I
think there's a lot of different waysto find your way to God and find

(50:42):
your way home. Mandy, I'mforty four and would love to get to
know some grandkids if only had fiveyears left, make sure I get more
pictures and videos of me because I'mfat and ugly, and stay away from
that. So would try to makemore memories with my girls and document them
better for them. So, Jason, what's keeping you from doing that now?
And here's the thing. Whenever anybodysays, you know, I'm fat

(51:05):
and ugly, Well, you can'tchange ugly. I mean you can't,
but I doubt you're really ugly inthe sense, but you you can change
fat. But even if you don't, you're still an absolutely phenomenal human that
your kids are gonna want to rememberwhen you're gone. So get in the
pictures moms. Get in the pictures, even if you haven't lost the baby
weight. Get in the pictures,get online, and go to s OS

(51:30):
dot com. I wasn't gonna gothere, but since you did. When
we get back, I got alot of other stuff I want to talk
about. I want to talk aboutMayor Mike Johnston's new plan for affordable housing
that just raises prices on everybody else, another great idea that I think is
an abject failure. We're going tobe covering a Rod and I the r
n C, the Republican National Convention, and I am so excited. This

(51:54):
is something I've wanted to do myentire career. I've never been able to
make it happen. And I amthrilled that I get to go pee a
part of this and think about howspecial this is. So few people get
to go and participate in any way, shape or form in the nominating process
where we are going to see theselection of candidates for the Republican and Democratic

(52:17):
conventions. I find this stuff amazing. We're going to be part of history,
darned Tutin, and I am curious. Darned Tuton. Yeah, no,
thirty years old. Apparently in theseven thousand old body, Can you
walk people through real quick Monday throughThursday, what exactly the point of a
convention each and every year is,Well, the convention is the process which

(52:40):
when all delegates come together and ostensiblyduring the week. Back in olden times,
we forget that it wasn't that longago when we had a contested convention
where all of the delegates were notpledged for one candidate and it went to
multiple votes before they got to theactual nominee. Nowadays, it's kind of

(53:00):
a done deal and we already knowwho's going to be nominated and there's no
drama normally. But depending on whathappens between now and August seventeenth, the
Democratic National Convention could be wild,which will also be at correct. And
I've got to think our sponsors,Rocky Mountain Voice is sponsoring our coverage of
the RNC and then Golden Spike Roofingis sponsoring our coverage of the d n

(53:22):
C, and we literally could notbe going without them. So I'm incredibly
grateful for that and I'm looking forwardto it on Friday this week. Wait,
we have a baseball game this weekone day. They start on Thursday
on Thursday. Yes, Yes,lets start on Thursday, Yes, Friday,
on Friday. We're going to takequestions from you guys in the audience,

(53:46):
and you have to you have tobe aware of one thing. Okay.
I am there not as my completelyopinionated self at either convention. I
am there to talk to people thatare at the convention. At the Republican
National Convention, we're going to talkto people about how they feel about Trump.

(54:06):
Are they bothered by his felonies?Do they think he'll be a better
president. All those answers are yes, no, yes, But we're gonna
ask him anyway. We're gonna bedoing Mandy on the Street interviews that a
Rod's going to be filming and turninginto cool videos. And at the DNC,
I'm not going to be there tochallenge people that I disagree with.
And I want to make that perfectlyclear, okay, because this is our

(54:29):
opportunity for those of us who areon the right to step back and get
a feel for the most passionate membersof the Democratic Party and what they stand
for and what they believe in,what their hopes and dreams are. So
it's going to be very very exciting, very very exciting. Ralph asked,
please tell me why the GOP conventionis in Wisconsin, a city that is

(54:51):
not exactly GOP, instead of aGOP city like Colorado Springs or any other
GOP city. Because Wisconsin is inplay. That's why Wisconsin is winnable this
year. Now they schedule the conventionswell in advance, but Wisconsin was a
very important state last time. TheMidwest is very important, especially for Trump's

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agenda, which is all about manufacturingand sort of those blue collar jobs and
you know, restoring a good standardof living for people who work in those
blue collar jobs. And that's whyWisconsin. Now, Chicago's the one that
confuses me because talk about going tohome base, right, And I'm sure

(55:35):
they thought Chicago was just going tobe this giant love fest, But I
think Chicago could be very reminiscent ofnineteen sixty eight when all hell broke loose.
The difference is is that there isnot a mayor in Chicago who will
tell the cops to stand out orto go after these people. This is
going to be It could be crazy, absolutely crazy, but I'm looking forward

(55:57):
to it now. I want toget to a ballot in initiative that will
be on the ballot in Denver thisfall, and it is a ballot initiative
asking you to raise the sales tax. Now, I know what you're thinking,
dumb andy, How bad is yourmemory? You just told us about
this not too long ago. Ohno, no, my friends, that
was a different sales tax increase that'sgoing to be on the ballot this fall.

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This proposed zero point five percent tax, added to the other point six
percent tax that is going to beon the ballot, would raise Denver's sales
tax to nine point three Oh excuseme, no, I'm sorry, I
got that wrong. I got thatwrong. Yes, it would raise it

(56:42):
to nine point three to one percent, and that makes it the highest in
the front range and it would beone of the highest sales tax rates in
Colorado. Now, the mountain townsthey have higher sales tax rates. They
are trying to soak the tourists tocome in and pay for everything. That's
understand good. But now, ohexcuse me, no, I was right.

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Nine point sixty five percent. Whenyou add in a sales tax increase,
that will shore up the finances ofDenver Health, which is the city's
hospital of last resort and so youdon't have to have health insurance, you
just go in there. And theyhave been absolutely crushed by the influx of
illegal immigrants that we've welcome here inDenver. So they want to raise the
sales taxes on everyone, including poorpeople, because you don't get an exemption

(57:29):
if you're poor, and you haveto pay sales taxes, and then the
second sales tax would be wait forit, for the development of affordable housing.
This is the most perfect example ofDemocrats appearing to be completely unaware that
they had a role in making housingunaffordable in Denver. Yeah, it's true.

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It all started with the bipartisan billthat created a dis incentive to build
condos and multiple family homes because ofthe ability to sue was so easy,
the contractors could no longer get insuranceto build these properties. So we took
out condo building as an option foraffordable housing. And rather than go back

(58:15):
and demand a change on that,democrats answer is we'll raise your taxes and
then tell you it's to make thingsmore affordable. Only Democrats could spin it
that way. They never go youknow, what, why why is housing
so expensive? What can we doto make it less expensive. You know,

(58:38):
I have a story on the blogtoday about Denver's office vacancy rates.
As a matter of fact, officevacancy rates across the country hit a brand
new high, all time high.They've only been keeping these rates since nineteen
seventy nine. Okay, so acrossthe country twenty one excuse me, twenty
point one percent of offices are currentlyvacant. I suspend since nineteen seventy nine

(59:04):
when they started counting. In Denver, it's even higher, twenty three point
five percent. And I know thatthe mayor has talked about we've got to
turn some of these office buildings intoresidential housing. What is he coming up
with real strategies to incentivize builders tomake that happen. No, he's trying
to raise taxes on everyone so wecan build a few units of affordable housing

(59:29):
here and there. Now, myquestion is, and I know who I'm
talking to in this audience, right, I am talking to people who do
not like to raise their own taxesever, and I rarely, and I
mean rarely ever advocate for a taxincrease. I just I think government has
enough of our money. And youcan look at the growth of the Colorado
budget just over the last ten yearsto know they have enough of our money.

(59:52):
But if you live in Denver,at what point do Denver rights who
have never said no to an opportununity to raise their own taxes? At
what point have you guys had enough? At what point are you like,
you know what we're driving? You'regoing to drive businesses out, especially restaurants.
Restaurant pricing is so high already thatwe can't afford to go out to

(01:00:15):
restaurants anymore in Denver, and restaurantsare shutting down. We did that story
yesterday. Add in more sales taxto make things even more expensive, and
you've got even fewer people go intorestaurants in Denver. But when do Denver
voters just say, you know what, I don't want to do this.
I don't want to do this anymore. I want you to fix the problems

(01:00:36):
you created and stop tapping into mypocket to fix them. When you can't
figure out how to undo what you'vealready done, what would you raise your
own taxes to pay for? Andassuming everything is as it is, we
have tons of government waste. Youknow about it, I know about it,
We all know about it. Butis there anything that you would say,
you know what, yes, raisemy taxes for that. And this

(01:00:57):
is just a thought experiment. I'mnot trying to raise your taxes. Because
one asked, wonder, at whatpoint people who are struggling to get by
in Denver, especially young people whoare living in the city of Denver,
at what point do they say,yeah, no, I can't afford to
pay anything else. At what pointdo businesses start to stand up and say,
you guys are killing us because Ican, you know, drive down

(01:01:19):
to Highlands Ranch and buy the samestuff and not have to pay sales tax
that high. I mean, that'ssuper super interesting text us at five six
six nine. Oh, if thereis anything, there's nothing, don't worry
about it. It's fine. BecauseI was trying to think about this,
like, there are school issues thatI will vote to raise my own taxes

(01:01:40):
on because I've spent a lot oftime learning about, especially in my district,
how they currently spend money, andI think they do a very good
job managing and are as lean asa district that size can be. So
I say, look, if theytell me they need more money for capital
improvements or teacher pay, yes,I'm going to vote to raise my taxes

(01:02:00):
for that. Now you could argue, well, there should be enough money
to pay for all that. Thereshould be, but there isn't. So
there you go, better roads,says this texter. But didn't we just
do that not too long ago?I had an article on the blog I
think last week about where the moneyCorey gains has a substack called the Colorado

(01:02:22):
Accountability Project, and he gets lotsof really good information. I'd love it
if Corey, if you're listening tothe program, I have some advice for
you, and if you reach outto me, I will give it to
you directly, because I think thework that Corey is producing is really interesting,
but it's organized in a fashion thatI think probably holds a lot of

(01:02:44):
people back from deep diving into itlike I do. That being said,
he pointed out that remember when JerryPoulis campaigned for us to raise taxes because
they were going to finally fix ourdamn roads. Do you remember this?
They were going to fix our roadsalready, fix the damn roads already.
A ton of the money that hasalready come in from that tax increase is

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being used for multimodal, for transit, for widening, other opportunities for people
not to drive their cars. Sothat's the problem. You're told one thing
and then they do another. Althoughthey pretty much said it was going to
be used for multimodal transit. That'swhy I voted against it. I don't
know how anybody says this Texter couldwant to pay another tax when they drive

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on the roads that we have potholeseverywhere, But someone that chose to be
homeless has a tiny home. Sorry, that updated right in the middle of
me reading that text, Mandy.I can't think of one thing that I
would want my taxes raised for.However, there are definitely some government entitlements
that need to be cut, andI could think that would in time,

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save a ton of money. Ummmmm, raise my taxes to fix and expand
our roads. That's what the IndependenceInstitute tried to do, and that was
voted down because the governor told youthey were going to fix our damn roads
already. He was lying, absolutelylying, Mandy. I would pay more

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taxes to have the city and stateclean up the roads and get the trash,
fires and furniture off the roads.They should be doing that already.
Teachers, update infrastructure, Mandy.Nothing that's why I live in Wyoming,
Mandy, living in the Cherry CreekSchool district. It's wise to allow real
estate taxes increases because values in theCherry Creek School District are bolstered because of

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Cherry Creek schools prestige. You guys, Cherry Creek Schools, they do not
have the prestige that people think theyonce had. Doug co is beating them
in pretty much every measure, andcoupled with the fact that they have an
absolutely crazy board of directors that ishell bent on making every white child know

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that they are guilty for every sinof their ancestor, while telling black and
brown children that it's not their faultthey don't work hard and achieve. It's
just racism. I mean, Idon't know what's happening in Cherry Creek,
but if you're like on autopilot overthere thinking everything's fine, you need to
dial into what your school district isdoing. You need to look at their
test scores. You need to seewhat's happening. You need to find out

(01:05:18):
who's reading and who's not. Itis not it is not the cherry on
the top that it used to be. That is for sure, and when
we moved here eleven years ago,because the queue was four years old,
I did a deep dive into it. Pretty much every school district within driving
distance reasonable driving distance of this buildingthat I'm in, and Cherry Creek was

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on top. Now Doug Co's ontop. And I'm just gonna say my
kid gets to dug Coast schools.I'm not saying she's bringing the average up.
I'm just throwing that out there asa possibility. The Mandy Connell Show
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three Byconnell keeping sad thing the twominute Drill at two hy where's too many
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Let's call this so will take longerthan two minutes? Are are you
out? Here's Mandyconnell. Welcome,Welcome, Welcome to the two minute Trill.

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First up is the end of theOlympics near It might be not what
you're thinking is, which is companycountries can't get along well enough to actually
have the Olympics. No It isan economic question. None of the modern
Olympic Games have come in on schedule, and they have certainly not come in
under budget. They end up costingthe cities that they are hosted in millions,

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if not billions of dollars, evenafter promising the residents that they were
going to bring in billions of dollars. You know who gets rich, the
Olympic Committee and sponsors and a fewpeople at the very top who managed to
get those lucrative construction deals. Sowho wants to host the Olympics going forward?
The answer is becoming a resounding noone. It will be very interesting

(01:07:19):
to see going forward which cities stepup and which cities end up getting these
bids because well, in this case, it appears that the juice is not
worth the squeeze it too. Don'tignore one very weird sign that might mean
you have cancer. Scott Walter,a board certified dermatologist in the Denver area,

(01:07:43):
is telling his TikTok followers to lookout for white, fine hair in
places that are normally hairless. It'sa condition called hypertrichosis le nugosa. Yes,
that's right. Lenugo is defined asnot fine, non pigmented, wispy
hairs, similar to what a babymakes after birth. But if you're an

(01:08:04):
adult and you get them on yourears, your cheeks, or your nose,
that could mean you have cancer.And we're not talking about skin cancer.
This hair growth has been linked tocancers of the lung, breast,
uterus, colon, gastrointestinal system.You're an airy tract and ovary. And
here's the kicker. This white,fine hair can predate a diagnosis of cancer

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by up to two and a halfyears. It could literally be the first
sign that you have cancer. Sogo home, get a mirror, look
at your nose, your ears,and your cheeks, and then make an
appointment with your doctor. If you'reall of a sudden harry in a way
you've never been hairy before. Ittoo. If you are one of those
people that reuses passwords like everyone,it's time for you to go back and

(01:08:55):
clean up the mess you've created,because a recent breach list a staggering nine
billion, nine hundred and forty eighttrillion, five hundred and seventy five thousand,
seven hundred and thirty nine unique plaintextpasswords. This one file was posted
on July fourth to a forum calledObamacare. Now they don't know who posted

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it, but they've already had severalbreaches where one of these kind of password
things got leaked and then people startedtrying it on other accounts like bank accounts.
And because people reuse passwords, wellguess what, people are getting their
stuff stolen. You don't want tobe that person. So it's time to
think of a new password. AndI'm telling you this should be the test.

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We should ask Joe Biden how manyof his passwords he actually remembered.
How many? Joe? How many? It too? Another fun story about
fireworks a rod I love this one, Love it. In June, thirteen
crew and seven passengers on a privatelychartered yacht set off unauthorized fireworks from their

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ship. As far as officials cantell, the pyrotechnics then sparked a major
forest fire on the island of Hydra. Not only is the mayor of Hydra
very outraged, those people have nowbeen arrested and they're learning their lesson the
hard way. Reckless deployment of fireworksis frustratingly common, and now these people

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are facing charges. The Greek yachtscrew members, if they're convicted, could
face serious penalties, including as muchas twenty years of prison time. Another
reason not to just fire off fireworks, especially from a yacht, because just
because you're on a yacht doesn't meanyou can't be arrested, at least in
Greece anyway. Too. And finally, I love this story, and I

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love it because I'm so sick ofjust In Trudeau up in Canada with his
smug, boyish looks looking down onAmerica and being like, we don't have
any racism in Canada. That's becauseyou only have light people in Canada a
except in Vancouver. Anyway, Canadahas been the lone malingerer when it comes

(01:11:09):
to its commitment to NATO for abouta decade. You may remember that when
George or excuse me, when DonaldTrump got into office, one of the
first things he did was walk intoa NATO meeting and tip over the apple
cart by saying to all of theNATO members, you guys aren't spending what
you're supposed to spend on defense.Well guess what. The thirty two member
Alliance actually listened to what Donald Trumpsaid, and they have all up there

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spending dramatically except Canada. Canada's alaggard on spending even though it's chosen,
it's proven to be a strong allyin other arenas, but NATO allies are
fed up. One of the twelvefounding members of NATO, Canada readily signed
the twenty fourteen pledge to spend twopercent of GDP on defense in the wake

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of Vladimir Putin's seizure of Crimea inUkraine. The alliance as a whole might
have been slow to get there,but this year twenty three of the thirty
two NATO members will hit the markas fears grow about Putin's plans. So
Donald J. Trump, who wewere told destroyed NATO because of his unwillingness
to carry the entire load anymore,has actually strengthened NATO as other nations except

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Canada have stepped up to meet theirobligations. By the way, there's a
NATO meeting coming up. Two thingsto watch in this NATO meeting. Number
one, see if Trudeau gets thestink eye the entire time, like the
laser eyes. Just people just sittingin meetings just staring at him. You
can a pony up Canada, what'sgoing on over there? And secondarily,

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our own president, President Joe Bidenis going to be at these NATO meetings
and the world is watching to seeif he can pull it out. I
mean, it's there's so much atstake right now, so much a state.
How would you like to be aNATO nation? Imagine being a NATO
nation that for years has just beenable to cruise. You're like, oh,

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no, we don't have to alldo a weird accent. No,
we don't have to worry about that. The Yanks have got it. They
spend a fortune on the military,and therefore we don't need to do the
same, because why would we becauseof the way hitting them do it.
We're going to give our people freehealthcare, but no, the youngs have
got it. And then all ofa sudden, Donald J. Trump is
you know what, the Yanks,we don't got it anymore, not unless

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you guys poney up. And thenyou get Joe Biden in office, who
clearly is not the man he oncewas. You gotta be wondering, man,
we'd better spend more on defense becausewe're screwed if something happens, If
Putin decides to roll into Europe.Who's going to defend us? An old
man who barely knows where he isat for four pm. We better do

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it ourselves. And I got totell you, I am when all the
outrage occurred about Donald Trump calling outthese NATO nations for not spending what they
were supposed to spend, I trulydidn't get it. I did not understand
what the problem was because, inmy mind, why have we been carrying
the load? Why have we beenthe only ones spending the right amount on

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defense? Why have we always beenthe world's policeman, instead of any of
our leadership standing up and saying,yeah, you guys need to pony up.
It's pretty simple. It's like whenyou have a group of friends,
and you have a group of friendsthat you meet every Friday night to order
pizza. Right, We're gonna meetat this pizza joint. This is me
in college. Actually, Friday nightwe met at this pizza joint and from

(01:14:33):
like five to seven they had threedollars pictures or some crazy low number like
that, and then you could ordera pizza for ten bucks. Right,
So basically you could go out,get yourself a picture of beer and an
entire pizza for thirteen dollars. Sothis is well within the reasonable number of
amount of money you can spend oncea week, and yet there was always

(01:14:56):
a moocher in the group, alwaysthe guy's oh you know what, oh
do I just had to pay myrent or just had to make a car
repair. Oh dude, I justI'm short this week. And that went
on for about six weeks until finallysomeone in our group was like, dude,
you never have money. You justcome here and eat free and drink
free, and it's not cool.And you know what happened. He stopped

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showing up, which I was perfectlyokay with. And I'm not saying NATO
needs to stop showing up. Theydon't have that option, but they need
to start paying up. And I'mperfectly fine with what's happening. And now
they just need to lean on Canada. Okay, I want to play a
little sound bite of Karine Jean Pierre, the spinmeister in chief for the White

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House. This is this is oneof those things that if it's nothing,
then you should just say it's nothingand explain it away. But instead of
just saying it's nothing and explaining ina way, Karine Jean Pierre, well,
she doesn't quite do that. Whenasked why a Parkinson's expert has been
to the White House so many times? Listen to this provide a wait,

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wait, wait, wait a seconde wait times or at least once in
regards to hold on a second pointwait no no, no, no,
no, no no wait a minute, come, Ed, please a little
respect here, please, so alittle Every year around the presence physical examination,

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he sees a neurologist. That's threetimes, right, So I am
telling you that he has seen aneurologists three times while he has been in
this presidency. That's what I'm saying. I'm telling you that he has seen
them three times. That is whatI'm sharing with you. Right, So
every time he has a physical hehas had to see a neurologists. So
that is answering that question. No, it is, it is you're asking

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me. I just I also saidto you, Ed, I also said
to you you for security reasons,we cannot share names. We cannot share
names. We have to we haveto others he would have met with.
We can't share names. In regardsto if we cannot share, we cannot
share names of specialists broadly, froma dermatologist to a neurologist. We cannot

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share names. There are security reasonswe have to we have to predict.
I understand that anyone to see ed, I hear you. I cannot from
here confirm any of that because wehave to keep their privacy. I think
they would appreciate that too. Nowlet me just stop this here. Now,
if you're again applying for a jobas an accountant, or you're applying

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for a job as a radio host, or you're applying for a job as
a construction worker, that maybe theprivate details of your doctor's appointments are completely
ridiculous and off limits. Although constructionworker, they want to know you're healthy,
but that nonetheless, he's applying,reapplying to be the leader of the
free world. And we all sawwhat that looked like before, right,

(01:18:04):
we all saw what happened. Andthat's just the other day. I want
I want to play a bit oftoday's press briefing where Steve Doocy asks,
well, I'm just going to lethim ask the question. Well, he's
sharpest before eight pm. So saythat the Pentagon at some point picks up

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an incoming new it's eleven pm.Who do you call the first lady?
He has a team that lets himknow of any of any news that is
pertinent and important to the American people. He has someone or that is decided
obviously with his National Security Council,and who gets to tell him that news?
So did you vote for a teamor did you vote for the guy

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who' spposed to pick up the photeat three am? I always feel sorry
for Korean Jean Pierre, but Idon't. I don't feel you know,
for years, one of the jobsI wanted to have, and I'm dead
serious about this, I wanted tobe a White House spokesperson. That was
a goal of mine, to bea White House spokesperson. And then Tony
Snow, who I absolutely loved onFox News. I got to meet Tony

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at an event in DC, andhe was just as nice and kind as
he could be. He was justjust a true gentleman and just a really
good person. And then I watchedhim have to spind for George W.
Bush and I knew he was upthere saying things he didn't believe in,
and I knew I could never dothat professionally. So why when people send

(01:19:39):
me an incredulous text you don't reallybelieve what you're saying? Yes, I
do, as insane as it mightsound to you, I wont one hundred
percent stand behind what I say,and I just would not want this job,
not at all, when we getback. Remember when President Joe Biden
threatened to withhold weapons if Israel launcheda full scale invasion of Rafa. Well

(01:20:00):
guess what happened when Israel launched afull scale invasion of Ratha. I'll tell
you next. I do want todraw your attention to the war in Israel
right now. According to the Timesof Israel Israel War Day two seventy seven,
several senior Hamas figures in Gaza haveurged the terror group's exiled political leadership

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to accept the ceasefire and hostage dealproposal championed by US President Joe Biden.
This according to internal communications seen bythe Associated Press. The messages, shared
by a Middle East official familiar withthe ongoing negotiations, described the heavy losses
Hamas has suffered on the battlefield andthe dire conditions in the war ravaged territory.

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The official spoke on condition of anonymityto share the contents of internal Hamas
communications. The officials shared two internalHamas communications, both written by senior officials
inside Gaza to the group's leadership inQatar, where amasa's political leader Ismael Henyeya
is based. The communications from Mayand June suggested that the war had taken

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a toll on AMAS fighters, withsenior figures urging the group's political wing to
accept a broad deal despite the reluctanceof Yahwa Sinhwar, the group's leader in
Gaza. The messages also suggest thatSinhwar, who has been hiding since the
war erupted and is believed to beholed up in a tunnel deep underground,

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either isn't fully aware of the tollof the fighting or isn't fully communicating it
to those negotiating outside of the territory. It is not known whether Hanaya or
Hanyu Hanaye, or any other topofficials in Qatar responded to the messages.
Hamas over the weekend appeared to dropits long standing demand that Israel promised to

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end the war in Gaza as partof any deal, though it indicated it
was still demanding Gara and tease tothat effect for mediators. Prime Minister Benjaminette
Yahoo said on Sunday that military pressure, including Israel's ongoing two month offensive in
the southern Gasa city of Rafa iswhat has led Hamas to enter negotiations.

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So I want to remind you backin May. Let me see if this
uploaded or it updated fast enough tomake this happen. I should have left
it open, and I didn't onemoment. Please trying to make the interwebs
work for me. No, Ijust wanted to remind people that back in

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May, our President President Joe Bidenhe issued an ultimatum to Benjaminette Nahu.
Do you remember this? It wason CNN, so I know you didn't
see it there, but you probablystart reporting on it elsewhere. President Joe
Biden's decision this week to make publicis ultimatum that a major Israeli offensive in

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the city of Rafa would result ina shut off of someone US weapons did
not come easily or lightly. Youmay remember that back in May, President
Biden said that if Israel rolled intoRafa, it would create an even larger
humanitarian crisis, and then it wouldbe beyond the pale. It would be
a war crime. But you knowwhat, you know what was in Rafa

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Hamas and by going into Rafa andmain or gaining control over what's called the
Philadelphia Philadelphia Corridor, which is betweenGaza and Egypt. Iran has created a
choke off. They have now chokedoff Hamas from all of their points where

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they could restock and resupply, andso Hamas is starving to death. I'm
starving to death. The weapons wisestarving to death. I don't know what
the food situation is there, butwe know that Hamas takes the food first,
and if any gets to the Palestinians, good for them. But that's
not a priority for Hamas. Andapparently there were hours and hours of meetings

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between Biden's tops national security lieutenants andtheir Israeli counterparts, and Israel basically came
back and was like, we don'tcare what you say. We know Hamas
is hold up in Rafa and we'regoing to get them. And they have
and it appears to be working inthat Hamas is finally willing to come to
the table and talk about releasing what'sleft of the hostages. And Israel has

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announced that some number of hostages Idon't have the number right in front of
me. They believe them to bedead based on pretty significant evidence. But
there are still a lot of hostagesthat they don't know if they're dead or
alive. And Israel announced at thebeginning of this entire, entire war that

(01:24:55):
they would not rest until the hostageswere released. So if Hamas is offering
to release the hostages, then Idon't know what comes next. But it's
clear that how Os cannot be leftin charge of Israel. There's no way
that that can happen, none whatsoever. But interesting story and once again Joe
Biden wrong on foreign policy again.Of course history will probably look back and

(01:25:21):
say, well, he was wellin the stages of whatever he was in
the stages of at that point,so that explains his decision making. Okay,
that'll work, won't it. Hey, on the blog today, just
in case you missed it yesterday,we have the video of Whoopi Goldberg says
she would still vote for Biden evenif he poops his pants. And it's

(01:25:43):
just fun. It's just a funthing put on the blog today for you
to look at. Just you know, fun and then less fun but also
interesting. You know, we havereached Guggenheim from Gaye against groomers on the
show. And if you don't knowwhat gays against groomers stands for. They
stand for reducing and eliminating the sexualizationof children, the force medicalization of children

(01:26:10):
because as gay people, they havein their lives been accused of all kinds
of terrible things because they were gay. They've been accused of being pedophiles.
They've been accused themselves of grooming childrenfor sex. And this group gays against
groomers, which is entirely gay,lesbian and transgender people, and whatever the
spectrum is, you're all invited becausethey don't want to have to They don't

(01:26:32):
have to live under any cloud fromother people that they are anything other than
people who happen to love other adultsof the same sex. Right, It's
that simple. They don't want tohave to refight these battles on the blog
today, I have video of LGBTactivists speaking out against SB fourteen fourteen.
This is a California bill which wouldmake it a felony to purchase children for

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sex. Do you know why thesepeople are out testifying against a bill that
would make it a felony to sella child or purchase a child for sex
Because they're worried they could have adisproportionate impact on the LGBTQ community. So
you have gay people essentially arguing thatall of the fears of straight people for

(01:27:24):
years are accurate because if they makebuying or selling a child for sex illegal,
more gay, lesbian, bisexual,transgender people will be caught up in
that net. So they don't wantto make it a felony to buy or
sell children for sex because there weregay people are doing it. And I

(01:27:47):
watched this like five times to makesure I wouldn't missing anything. I'm not
missing anything. And if I weregay, I'd be furious and I'd be
giving money to gaye against groomers.The last story I want to share with
you today is just kind of fun, but it's from BuzzFeed. So it's
a list. Like if you're everwondering, like, what's a good list
I can have? Just go toBuzzFeed. All they have is lists.

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So someone asked, what is somethingthe United States of America does better than
any other country? And you,guys, I was so proud to be
an American after all these You cantext me yours at five six six nine.
Now, yeah, I'm sorry,it's poopy Goldberg textures. Thank you,
Thank you for remembering that for me, but some of the things that

(01:28:32):
the US does better than anybody else. The first one made me extremely proud
because it's true. This person said, I was born in Europe and moved
to the USA as a young teen. The US gets assimilation really well,
Like no matter where you're from,you can become part of some group fairly
quickly, and there's lots to choosefrom. I love that. And you

(01:28:55):
see it at any school. Yousee kids of different ethnic backgrounds with other
kids of different ethnic backgrounds. YayAmerica. And we assimilate well because we've
been forced to assimilate well. Thisone. I've heard from others that our
air conditioning is top notch. Yesit is, because we're not waiting around
for the planet to get warmer.We are making ourselves comfortable while it does.

(01:29:19):
The National park system, which Ithink we can all agree is absolutely
amazing. Hollywood Movies is something thatAmerica does better than any other country.
The thirty year fixed rate mortgage,Yeah, we take that for granted,
but it's definitely not a thing everywhere. Disability protections and accommodations. The ADA

(01:29:44):
is the world's gold standard, andit's not even remotely close. This one
logistics. Logistics, the United Statescan move anything from anywhere to anywhere all
in one day, well maybe notone day. We have the most Olympic
medals, so olympicing, we dothat very very well. Cybersecurity, I

(01:30:06):
did not know that the United Statesof America is the top gold standard at
all things cybersecurity. A little surprisedabout that. And hamburgers. Yeah,
the queue made a mistake in Londonand ordered a hamburger. And as she
said to me the other day,I don't think I'm ever going to order

(01:30:28):
a hamburger in a foreign country again, because it's always disappointing. It's never
like it should be. But itis kind of funny to see some of
the stuff they put on hamburgers.Now, you guys are weighing in,
Mandy, the US does the worldempire better than anyone else right now?
Right now? Maybe not? Nineteenfifty five one hundred percent waste and spend

(01:30:51):
my tax dollars, my friends,that is a governmental thing across the planet.
When world wars were too in WorldWar Winning, Nandy, you're off
today. You keep saying Israel whenI think you mean the Gaza Strip.
The Gaza Strip is part of Israeluntil it's not. It's part of Israel

(01:31:13):
though, so flagellation. We aregood at that creating ice. There are
only three thousand cubes in all ofEurope. That might be accurate because when
you ask for I, although they'vegotten better at it in the last few
years, when you're American and yousay can I get ice with that,
they used to literally give you twocubes. Even in a cocktail like I'll
have a vodka tonic, can youput some ice in that? There would

(01:31:34):
be two cubes that would last aboutforty five seconds and then you just have
a watered down, lukewarm drink.But now if you're American, they're like,
ah ice, Yes, ice Americaboy bands and Taylor Swift, Yes,
that is correct. We are right. Somebody said football, but you

(01:31:57):
guys all is just gaining a toehold in Europe just now. It's not
wildly popular. People still have noidea. Like Europeans at a football game
and American football game are like meat a cricket match. I'm there to
sing songs, you know, havetea whatever it is you're supposed to do

(01:32:19):
there, But I have no ideawhat's going on in a cricket match Mandy
in Australia, they put beats onhamburgers. Interesting, but no, thank
you. What is the even thepurpose of that? I will never forget
as long as I live till mydying day. I was in Orlando,
Florida, and we were in anentertainment district downtown and there was a place

(01:32:41):
called Jungle Gyms. Have you everbeen to Jungle Gyms? Ryan? It
was like a burger joint, kindof themed with a jungle gym type.
There was like monkeys and stuff likethat. So we had been overserved at
a prior bar and decided to goget something at Jungle Gyms. And one
of my friends ordered a cheeseburger andshe gets it and she has up to
be far more intoxicated than the restof us, right, so she had

(01:33:03):
already turned into the Tasmanian devil.So we're just trying to like shut her
up mostly, and she takes abite of her burger and she's like,
this burger tastes terrible. It tasteslike peanut butter. It's awful. And
we were like, shut up andeat your burger. You need to get
some food down your pie hole.She's eating it, but she's like,
God, this is awful. Aboutthat time, here the waiter shows up.

(01:33:26):
He had brought her the wrong burger. There was peanut butter on her
burger, and we were all like, wow, I'm really sorry because we
told her to shut up like thirtytimes, like shut up, but eat
the burger. Shut up, it'snot peanut butter. Shee burger. The
peanut butter on a burger hard passed. No way, No, I don't
think this is one that I'd beintwo, although I've watched Ben Albright down

(01:33:47):
a cheeseburger with two donuts on eachside, two glazed donuts. I did
when I was at Whas in Louisville, Kentucky. Every year they have Whas
Day at the State Fair. Okay, so we would all everybody would broadcast
from the state Fair for one day. So of course what am I doing.
I'm like sending my husband. I'mlike, find the weirdest thing you
can find. Absolutely, so Itried it all for I kool Aid.

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We got one of those Krispy Kremecheese bas bacon cheeseburgers and we cut it
into four pieces because I was like, there's no way. So much.
It was. I wanted to hateit, yeah, but I couldn't.
It was like the bad boy offast food items, Like you wanted to
not like it. Yeah, therewas some kind of sexy about it and
all the salty sweet cheese mixture.It worked. Yeah. See, I

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can't get there yet, especially nowsince I don't even eat meat. But
more than anything, watching him takethat thing down and he does the whole
thing in one sitting. No,I did a quarter and that was perfectly
to write him out. See Icould live with that. I will split
it with him if I, youknow, again, eat meat. But
I've actually sat there and watched himtake that thing down, and I'm like,
my god, that's just where didyou get it? Do you get

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that? That's not a fair Yeah? So down in Mobile we go to
sing your bowls sense more. InFlorida. Fun fact, there's a place
we went kayaking down the uh KaiARiver, which is gorgeous. It is
magical, magical place. But westop at what appears to be a rundown

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shack on the side of the river, and they had deep fried cheeseburgers.
They took the patty, they putcheese in the middle. They battered it
and they dropped it in the fryer. That's so phenomenal. That honestly is
like, should you just have yourcardiologists on standby? Were you down that
thing? My son and his bestfriend both ate one, and I was
like, no again, you shouldsplit. Yeah, probably just a taster

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for health, because I don't knowthey were young enthusiastic. They were teenagers.
You know, your metabolism isola metoo oh much. People are weighing
in on peanut butter burgers and I'mnot buying what you people are selling is
not happening in my world. AndI like peanut butter at but no,
not no. But it is reallyfunny that you kept telling her to shop

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oh oh, like I'm not evenexaggerating, maybe twenty thirty times, just
because she'd just been so irritated therest of you know how it is you
oh that has never been able tohold their liquor right, and you're just
like, WHOA, why they eatsomething because you're gonna kill them if the
if they don't do, because they'regonna be miserable to rest the night.

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And they sat trying to help themout, but they're being very difficult I've
been there. I think if Isent her a text message right now and
just said, hey, have youhad a peanut butter worker later, it
would send her into a tailspin becauseshe was so mad at us, as
only an indignant drunk person can be. Right now, we've given her the
high horse. Oh she's barely hangingon too, but nonetheless, now it's

(01:36:45):
time for the most exciting segment allthe radio. It's kind no wild of
the day, all right? Whatis our word of the day? Please
excuse me down talk of the day? Dad, joke of the day.
Worry about the limerick. I'm sureyou don't have I don't have wreck You
come forgetting one more? And I'mcanceling it. I know, I know,
I know, I know. Gettingmy kite stuck in the tree isn't

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the worst thing that happened to metoday, but it's definitely up there.
Wow, don't all at once.I know that joke blew you away?
Okay, what is our word today, please, Anthony? It is a
noun reach up like the draper kite. It's a noun glade g O a
d e. The stuff you pluginto a wall and it's like a It's

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like a river of grass. It'sa river of grass. Well, that's
what the Everglades is. It's ariver of glass. You're you're in the
open space, but not quite there. It is a bushy area that has
water and grass. I mean,you're just talking about Florida. Well that's
the only glade I know. Aglade is a grassy open space in a

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forest. Thank you. The riverof Yeah, in the in the everglades
of a river. And of coursethe Army Corps of engineer ruined by cutting
through it and building a road.But whatever, I'm not better. The
nursery rhyme Mary had a Little Lambis based on a true story. What
was the full name of the womanwho inspired the rhyme? I don't know
Mary Lamb, No, Mary Sawyer. When Mary was a young girl living

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in Massachusetts, her pet Lamb followedher to school one day. It wasn't
a day. Oh yeah, what'sour jeopardy guy? Colorful term? Colorful
terms. It describes the waves ofgrain in America, the uniful. What

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are amber waves of grain? Okay, if you drink enough of this color
champagne, you might also see itselephants. Brian, what is purple raw.
I don't know for sure. Theanswer I'm sitting by all means a
whirl no, because I don't wantto lose my point. I was going
to say that, but shade ofred that precedes fever and letter items.

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What a scarlet craw on? Itcan describe bad journalism or yellow Yeah,
here we go. Should get big, environmentally sound or unripe. Brian Bryan,
what is green? Solid? You? That was pretty dango? That

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was one of your most stunning victory. Yesterday was tough again nobody, but
you should feel good about because Ican't hit the car. Nobody can apologize
for anything. But it was sodistracting. I have David out staring at
the eating brisket in front and likeeverybody because we're inside the clubhouse there,
and it's the weird I'm screaming inthe world. And then everybody turns their

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head to look at me, andI'm like, I don't I'm sorry.
I was not supposed to like,so it's so weird, and I just
didn't want to talk anymore. Soyou you, you absolutely won that one.
I waited the question and you waited. But I will say, in
my defense, that was awkward.Weird situation. I felt good coming in

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today. I was like, yeah, whatever it is, what you're doing
it, you're crushing it and lookwhat you did. Nailed it, hashtag
nailed it. What's coming up onk Sport. We've got Ryan McMahon All
Star for your color, Rocky joiningus right off the top of the show,
so we can't wait to talk aboutthat. Plus the Broncos quarterbacks receivers
are all working out in Texas.Let's get to that as well. Just
knocked over Ross's water. He left, but it's closed. It's fun.

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We will be back tomorrow and gota lot of stuff planned already, so
keep it right here on KA