07-11-25 FULL SHOW - The Wine Yogi On Summer Cocktails, And The Next Mandy Trip! - The Mandy Connell Podcast

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
No, it's Mandy connellyn on KOA ninety four one FM
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Speaker 3 (00:26):
Welcome Local, Welcome to a Friday edition of the show.
All together now, Hi, I'm your host for the next
three hours, Mandy Connell. That guy over there in the
Superman shirt is Anthony Rodriguez. You already have your tickets
for Todays. Of course, I'm Superman. I've been for months.

(00:51):
What really, you bought them goats on advance? This and
Fantastic four in two weeks. Oh yeah, Now when you
go on an opening night or there a bunch of
people in the theater. Oh yeah, see. I have not
been in a theater with more than ten other people
in eight years.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
These comic book movie releases, especially these two big ones
this month, Oh yeah, completely full nine an empty seat
in the house.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Okay, Well, that's why I won't go to the movie
on the opening weekend of a big movie.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
The Fantastic cheers, the altogether happiness it is unmatched.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
And for these big time movies two and two big weeks.
Oh yeah, I will take your word for it, and
I hope you enjoyed it. I just wanted to be
a good movie, ay Rod. Now we're talking about the
kind of manufactured controversy behind the scenes, which I generally
don't understand, because James Gunn could have kept his mouth
shut and there would be no controversy. I dare he
repeat what's been for decades. Just it's all everybody has to,

(01:42):
you know, make something of everything, so you know it.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
For me, it's a real good separation of those that
know the story Superman than those that don't.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Well, Christian Toto did not love the movie, not for
anything having to do with anything that we're talking about.
He just didn't love the movie. I'm got his exactly.
I've got his review on the blog today. Let's find
that blog. I go into mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog
dot com. Looks for the headline in the latest post
section that says seven eleven Oh just says seven eleven five.

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We're now back in the year five Anthony. Oh yeah,
just five seven eleven five blog the Wine Yogi on
Summer Cocktails and the next Mandy Trip. Click on that
and here are the headlines you will find within. Also
found it Randy crumwell dot com office, half of American
Allerships and clipments A sea that's going to play today

(02:32):
on the blog. How about a nice fancy European cocktail?
Go on vacation with me. Rich Guggenheim is trying to
save the kids. If you miss Barb Kirkmeyer on the
show yesterday. Denver City Council isn't feeling the vibrancy. Denver
has lost its shine. The weed your buying may not
be labeled properly. Colorado Democrats are blaming Trump for their

(02:52):
overspending fire season is on Aurora. PD isn't having any
of these so called takeovers. Danielle Charinsky said, a da
must go and here are the class actual lawsuits. No
light's allowed at this postpartum training. It's a different kind
of superman. James Brennan just can't quit lying when defund

(03:13):
the police meets reality. Pour some sugar on stem cells.
The Washington Post is asking people to leave. John Kerrey
says Trump is right about those chemtrails. Conrad Black is
high on the United States need a passport photo best
of Triple D in Denver. Those are the headlines on
the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. Tick Tech Toe a winner.

(03:38):
Do you and Joscelyn ever watch Diners, Drivings and Knives
Guy Fieries when in passing in a hotel room where
we have nothing else you do? Okay? I love the show.
I just like learning about little mom and pop restaurants
all over the country. And there's websites devoted to where
you can find all of the triple D restaurants as
they call them, in your town. And this has a

(04:00):
video with several of the uh of the Top show
at some point, Yes, and so was Bagel Deli. But
we Denver has had an Denver in the Springs have
had a ton of restaurants featured on triplet ton This
probably from Chicago, No, no, no, no no, It's all
over the country. That's why I like it, cause you

(04:22):
find out in these little small towns. You find out
about little mom and pop shops. Right so, uh anyway,
that video is on the blog today. We also have
today coming up on the show. We've got Rich Guggenheim
coming up at a at one pm. He was just
part of a panel I think at the FTC. It's
really long. I did link to it, but I didn't
watch all seven hours of it. I'm going to talk

(04:42):
to him today about that. And we also have the
win Yogi coming up at two thirty, because the Wine
Yogi just got back from a European vacation that is
eerily similar to the next Mandy Connell adventure. That's right,
my friends, We're going back to Europe and I I'm excited,
and we're not going in the summer. And I say

(05:03):
that because if you've been to the summer, if you've
been to Europe in the summer recently, Europe is hot
in the summer and it's getting hotter, and instead of
adapting to the rising temperatures and putting this stuff called
air conditioning in their spaces, or should I say air
conditioning that actually works, they are just letting everyone suffer.

(05:29):
And so I don't want to go back to Europe
in the summer until they fix that issue. And you
can say, Mandy, you're so spoiled. But at least in Japan,
where it's hotter than blazes in the middle of summer,
you can walk into your room and go, oh, so nice,
because they have air conditioning that works. The people that
live in Colorado. I realize a lot of homes have

(05:49):
been built in Colorado without air conditioning. I don't know
how y'all do it. Like in the middle of the night.
The other night, I came out at six o'clock in
the morning to take the dog out. It was already
seventy degrees and it felt hot. It was like, eh,
gross reminded me of those days back in Fort Myers, Florida,
when I would leave my house to do my morning

(06:10):
show at four o'clock in the morning and it would
already be eighty seven degrees with ninety percent humidity. Oh yeah,
oh yeah. You'd come out your car, would it would
look like somebody had taken a hose and just hosed
it down. No, it was just condensation from the air. Eh.
You want to know why I don't live there. That's
why I don't live there. Anyway. Wanyak's coming at to thirty.

(06:32):
We're going to talk about her trip and some fancy
summer cocktails. An aperol sprints. Anyone you ever had an
apparol spritz?

Speaker 4 (06:39):
Ay?

Speaker 3 (06:39):
Rod, Oh what an aperol sprits? Aperol is a kind
of liqueur. Hang on, let me find out what that is.
I don't know what aparol actually is.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
It is a cocktail known for its vibrant orange color,
slight bittersweet taste, and refreshing fizziness as prosecco aperol and
so do club soda.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
And orange slice. I don't think I've had one. No,
it is very refreshing in the heat. But April, what exactly?
I mean, I'm trying to figure out what it's made of,
and they keep just trying to sell me stuff. Let's
see here. They've been around since nineteen nineteen.

Speaker 4 (07:18):
Mm hmmm, oranges, yeah, rhubarb, geniesian or gentin root chin,
Shona bark Oh sure, okay, yeah those things, Yeah, that's those.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Yeah, it's it has slightly and this is going to
make it sound terrible, but it's not. It has a
slightly medicinal kind of quality to it, but it tastes
better than medicine. Ooh, dequill drink. No, it's not that bad.
In any case, we're going to do that with her
a little bit later. The show is going to be
a little bit all over the place today, and I'm
going to throw in and ask me anything. You can

(07:51):
text us you or ask me anything. Company by texting
five six six nine oh to the text line Mandy,
it's called an attic fanf Mandy. That's because natives are
not weak living without air conditioning. I don't care if

(08:11):
you call me weak. You know what, You're also gonna
call me comfortable. Oh look, as you sit in your
living room sweating, I'm going to be comfortable in my
home with air conditioning. Mandy. We didn't have AC for
seven years or longer, but finally do and I'm so relieved.
If the AC quits in my vehicle, it's broken down.
Amen to that. Amen to that and to the texture,

(08:35):
said Mandy. Now that Bojangles is open in Peblo, how
about arranging a charter bus to take you and US
fans for lunch there. I'm still trying to work on that,
but I don't know, Like, how much money would you
guys pay to ride a charter bus down to Pueblo
to go to Bojangles to have lunch with me? And
we'd have to do this on like a Saturday, obviously,
can't just do it during the week. So what's the

(08:55):
price point? Because then that depends on what we're looking
at here ahead and text that if you want to
go on our field trip to Bojangles in Pueblo, then
go ahead and text me five to six, six, nine.
Now what's your price point? What would you pay? And
I'm not buying your lunch to be clear, everything is
on you. I'll just be arranging things, but I'm not
afraid to arrange if I but I'm not going to

(09:16):
arrange it if only like four people want to go
and they want to pay six dollars anyway, Mandy ask
her if European wine tasting is cheaper than Napa. I
can tell you it is. Their wines are still what's
the word I'm looking for, reasonably priced? Yeah, Mandy, what's
your email address? Because my wife is getting a job
in Florida. I would just like to get some facts

(09:36):
about Florida from you, since you've spent a lot of
time there. I need to know which part of Florida
because Florida from end to end is like multiple different countries.
It's completely different. The people in Miami have nothing in
common with the people in my hometown at the other
end of the state. Nothing, So I need to know
a little bit more about my email address. Mandy Connell

(09:59):
at iHeart met com So there you go, Mandy, I
pay whatever it takes. I'd buy your lunch. Don't even
because I will take you up on that. Okay, Mandy,
do you believe Trump is covering up the Epstein files
and do you think he has implicated in it? I
can say with certainty that if Donald Trump was implicated

(10:22):
in any other way other than casual acquaintance as he
has been, because there are photographs with him and Jeffrey
Epstein in Palm Beach in the you know, they all
moved in the same circles. If Donald Trump had been
significantly implicated in any of it, it would have come
out a long time ago. Nothing else would have, but
that would have come out. Now let's talk to about

(10:45):
one second. I've been reading. I told you guys, I
was super mad about this on Tuesday. I was just
kind of just be getting madder and matter all week.
I saw Alan Dershwitz, who I actually love. Alan Dershowitz
was Jeffrey Epstein's attorney at one point, and Alan Dershowitz said,
I can assure you that list exists. But Alan Dershowitz
says that list contains a lot of names from people

(11:10):
that had some kind of casual relationship but didn't necessarily
do anything wrong. But it also contains a lot of
people who had a more significant relationship with Epstein and
did do things wrong. But sorting those two things out
is really challenging. And a lot of the people on
that list are incredibly powerful men who are very very

(11:33):
well connected, and so releasing the list when their names
on it, where people didn't do anything, means that they
would be seen to be guilty by association. And Alan
Dershwitz said that's why the list is not being released.
So in essence, what he said in a lot of
words was the list isn't being released to protect powerful men.

(11:54):
I mean, that's it, right, that's what we would do.
So there you go. Who you'll pay fifty bucks? We're
halfway halfway there. Ooh okay, Texter, her Palm Beach Gardens
is lovely. You're gonna like it. But text me and
I'll or email me and I'll give you some more
information as regards to ac you can't miss what you've
never had. But see, here's the thing about that. When

(12:17):
you walk into a business, do you ever go why
is it magically colder in here? What have they done
to make this cold front only come into this business.
I mean, I you can't say you've never had AC.
You know what it is. I mean, I got their residence,

(12:38):
I know. And I'm not mad at you, guys. I
actually look at you and kind of wonder. I mean
not wonder like wonder what's wrong with you? I mean, like, wow,
look at those people who can live without AC. So
I don't know, Mandy. We used an attic fan to
cool our house for years. When twenty twenty fires blew
up and my wife was using an upstairs bedroom for business,

(12:59):
the smoke made drawing cool air in impossible, we got AC. Shazam,
What an invention. We still use the attic fan when
conditions allow. But I wonder how we went without AC.
As long as we did well for a very long time,
that was not a big deal. But it is getting hotter,
you know, it's getting the climate is changing, as the

(13:20):
climate has done since the beginning of time. This texter said, Florida,
the further north you go, the north southern it gets.
That is absolutely correct. North of Okla, Florida, you are
in the deep south. South of that, you are in
a tra They call it a transient community, not transients
like bums. But everybody is from somewhere else and they

(13:41):
brought their culture with them, and so south of Okla
it's just a mishmash there, Mandy, what's the real truth
between Mayor Mike Johnston claiming he reduced homelessness by forty
five percent? Sean, I just heard that sound by the
same way you did. And then I thought to myself,

(14:03):
has he driven around downtown, because now that it's summer,
the urban outdoorsmen have come right back out. There's I mean,
I mentioned this the other day. I sat at a
light at what I can't remember what road. It was
an intersection with with Broadway, and I sat at the
light through four cycles because there was a homeless guy

(14:25):
wrapped in a blanket, just wandering around the middle of
the intersection, just wandering around. What are you doing? I
don't know. Finally somebody he just wandered away. I don't know. Anyway,
somebody was asking about something. Ross talked out about robotic surgery,

(14:46):
and they said, Mandy, would you trust a robotic anesthesiologist?
The answer is no, not yet, because in my view,
the anesthesiologist is the most important person in the room. Right,
forget about what the surgeon's doing. The anesthesiologist is the
one that puts you to sleep and then wakes you

(15:06):
back up. So I'm not ready to trust a robot anesthesiologist.
But the reality about robotic surgery, and Ross was talking
about a story where a robot had been trained using
surgery videos to be able to do a gallbladder surgery
on a pig. They removed a pig's gallbladder, and they
did it successfully with no human intervention. The robot did

(15:28):
the whole thing. We already have robot assisted surgery. A
lot of it is going on right now. As a
matter of fact, yours truly is going to probably have
some robot assisted surgery coming up here quickly. And you
know what, I'm just going to talk about this. I've
been going back and forth on this, but I read
a story about Dion Sanders, coach Deon Sanders, and he's

(15:50):
having some kind of health issues but he's not talking
about it. He doesn't want to talk about it, and
I understand that. I understand wanting to keep things private.
I totally get that, So I'm not mad at him.
But as a fan, you're worried about him, right, like,
you want him to be okay as a decent person.
You worry about him, you want him to be okay.
And I think sometimes it's just easier to say what's

(16:13):
going on. So here's what's going on. So, as a
fifty five year old woman, I have just found out
that I have a pretty significant case of uterine fibroids.
These are non cancerous growth on your uterus. And so
August first, I am having a full hysterectomy and having
everything taken out, and that is going to be robot
assisted surgery, and it's got a big deal surgery. So

(16:35):
I'm going to miss that day obviously, and I might
miss a couple days the next week, just depending on
how everything goes. And I've really been vacillating about whether
or not to share that with the audience. But I'm
telling you guys know everything about my health at this point.
I mean, I've had vocal cord surgery, I had a
baby practically on the air. I Mean it's like, and
you just think I would prefer it if you guys knew,

(16:56):
And then if you're the prayerful sort in the audience,
you guys can pray for me when I'm having surgery
and things like that, but also because I think keeping
in and holding things, especially medical things, too close to
the chest adds another layer of stress, right, it just does.
I have friends that have gone through cancer battles and
didn't want anybody to know, and I'm like, what are

(17:17):
you doing? Let people help you and let people support you.
So I don't need anything from you, guys, other than
some good prayers. And I'll have a full report on
how this robotic surgery thing goes. But it's just it's
kind of interesting watching how people handle different things. And
I think for men, and I have no idea if
this is what Deon Sanders is thinking. I really don't.
I'm not ascribing this to his choice to keep his

(17:39):
personal business personal. And again that's not a criticism. I
totally get that, but I think, especially for men, they
are afraid to admit that they might have a medical
issue because somehow that translates to weakness, and I just
do not understand that, you know, I really truly don't.
So anyway, roboticistant surgery is already a thing, but I'm

(18:00):
not doing a robot a robot anesthesiologist. No, thank you, no,
thank you. Mandy, My house is one hundred and two
years old. I had AC put in twenty five years ago. Yep.
I grew up in Longmont, says this TEXTA from nineteen
seventy nine until I left in nineteen ninety one. The
house was brand new in nineteen seventy nine, and my
folks did not get air conditioning until nineteen eighty eight.

(18:24):
During those years, we were used to know AC. Now
it's necessary, and that's the difference. I do think that
the weather has changed enough that you definitely probably maybe
want to consider that if we're going to have more
hot summers and things like that. Mandy, I've worked in
surgery for twenty five years. Fibraryed removal and his directory

(18:45):
has directed me avoidance for fifteen years. Give me a
robot surgeon, an anesthesiologist. There's always someone who finished last
in the medical school class. You know what, you know
the old joke, ah rod, what do they call the
guy graduated last in his medical class? What doctor? There

(19:05):
you go? There, you go, there, you go. No needed
for AC and Denver thirty plus years ago. Most houses
built before then didn't have it. Warming temperatures and more
roadways and structures resulting in radiant heat increases. Correct Ask
me anything, Mandy, why is there recording at the top
of the hour saying parts of the following program are

(19:27):
pre recorded?

Speaker 2 (19:29):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
Do you know why?

Speaker 4 (19:31):
I mean, legal reasons likely. I mean, they're just portions
of things that are replayed.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
I don't know. That's all I got. Yeah, I don't
know it. I'll just say this, it's got to be corporate.
It's probably corporate. Anything anything dumb you might hear, just
blame it on corporate. I like the Beabes. I'm not
gonna lie. I like him. I like recently his music
is just the last album was super good. So hoping
he's okay. He's gone off the deep end of the

(19:59):
li His wife has taken to social media yes, to
be like, look a holes, this is what's been going on.
He's been working his tail off on this record, and
they're all lovey dovey, and they're all, you know, happy
and together and all that stuff. And I want them
to last. For some reason, I am invested in Haley
and Justin Bieber. I want them to go because you

(20:20):
know what, they've gotten crap the entire time. I would
never want to be a big, big, big big, big celebrity.
How bad would that suck to have everything? Imagine if
you and Joscelyn were famous, right, and you guys go
out to dinner and you're having to talk about something,
and maybe it's a serious talk, and you have a
look on your face, she has a look on her face.
Someone takes a picture and they're like, there's troubling paradise

(20:41):
for Anthony and Jocelyn. That's the life they live in. Awful, I.

Speaker 4 (20:48):
Hear you, and I think you can really only sympathize
when you are finally in that situation.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
But as of now, I'm like, okay, you'll be all right.
People are also.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
Got the conspiracy theories going that a lot of their
trouble has been to get focused back onto him for
said album. Correct, it's not clocking to you, man, says
the Bebes.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
Yeah, okay, well now new albums.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
Now, everyone's been honed in on every single thing that
they've been doing and saying, and I'd like, ooh, new album, yep,
onto tour makes some more money.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
Change. I'm trying not to read gossip because I don't
want to feed into the machine. Oh you're feeding into
it right now. No, I'm not. I'm talking about his album.
I'm giving him free press. That's not gossip.

Speaker 4 (21:30):
You are now one of the machines because now everyone
else is listening to us feed into it.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
Yeah, but I just want to talk about his music. No,
I don't. I haven't listened to the album yet, so
I don't know. And is it weird that a grown
fifty five year old woman about to be fifty six
is my daughter has really introduced me to a lot
of like music that I would not.

Speaker 4 (21:48):
Have heard otherwise. The answer is no, it's not weird
because you have a daughter. That's yeah, I guess. So
bringing you in the fold, yeah, a little bit with
all the beach bring on the beabes.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
I love the beabs. Daughter of Baldwin. Yeah, even so weird. Yeah,
there's a lot of those bald Ones though, there are
a lot of bald Ones. Mandy asked me anything, did
you really go from a flight attendant to long term
care salesperson? How did that happen?

Speaker 2 (22:12):
No?

Speaker 3 (22:12):
No, no, there was a bit of radio in between.
I went from being a flight attendant and then I
went I met a man on the airplane. That's a
great story for another time. Who got me into broadcasting school.
Then I went into radio, and I was in radio
for uh, I don't even know, like six years, and
I moved to a smaller town so my ex husband

(22:33):
could go back to school, and I was working at
a radio station there, and radio became a hobby I
can no longer afford. I had to have a job
that paid better than what I was making, So I
left radio for two and a half years, went to
work with my brother and sister. We had an insurance agency,
and that's when I sold long term care Medicare supplements
and health insurance and also like long term like you know,

(22:55):
life insurance and stuff like that. So and then I
did that for a cup of years. And then when
I moved down after my husband was done with school,
moved back down or moved to southwest Florida and got
a job down there, and then ended up getting my
own show at that radio station. So it was like
a two year hiatus from radio to go sell insurance.

(23:15):
So that's how that went. So I'm glad that I
could clear up my resume for you. You go, Mayby,
Have you ever taken a ride along with a police officer?
If so, did you enjoy it? If not, would you
I have In Gainesville, Florida, I took a ride along
and I found out later because I was working for
the radio station there and I was doing news that

(23:36):
they basically like ran away from every call because I
was riding along with them and they didn't want to
get into a situation that could be bad or hurt
at whatever. But I had a blast. I just rode
around in the evening with these two great cops and
they just told me about the city. And it's a
college town, so some of the crazy stuff college students too.
I would love to do it again. I just haven't
made it. I haven't made it happen yet. So anyway,

(24:01):
thank you to all of the women who are now
texting me about having a hysterect to me, I really
appreciate you. I really appreciate you. And I figured I
would talk about it because this feels like one of
those surgeries, kind of like when men have prostate surgery.
They don't want to talk about it because it's you know,
it's personal. But I figured if I talked about it,
then maybe other women who are facing the same sort

(24:21):
of situation would be more comfortable talking about it. Mandy
do you want to do? I want to be rich
and famous, No way, rich and obscure, absolutely famous would suck.
Exactly right, exactly right, Mandy. When he traveled to Japan
and Ohio, did you listen to eight fifty k away
on the free iHeart radio app just to see if
it worked?

Speaker 2 (24:42):
I did not.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
I mean, I know it works in Ohio. I did
not do that in Japan. I just when I'm off work.
I'm off work, guys, just off work. Hi, Mandy, what
radio station do you listen to in Ohio last week? Also?
Did you drive around and look at other iHeartRadio stations,
competitive brand stations and radio towers? Darn Duton, No, I
did not. They have one of the best classic R

(25:08):
and B and soul stations I have ever heard in
my life in Dayton, Ohio. And I don't know the
name of it. It is just so good. It is
so good. That's what I listen when I do listen, Mandy.
I've never been in the insurance business. You still get
residuals from the policies you sold. I do not. It's
been over twenty years, and based on our clientele, which

(25:31):
was mostly elderly people, I would genuinely be really surprised
if many of them are still alive. And I don't
mean to be morbid, but they were elderly when I
worked with them twenty years ago, so yeah, it was yeah. Anyway, Mandy,
do you make more money in radio? I do now.

(25:52):
I didn't back then at all. Didn't make a lot
of money in radio for a long, long, long, long, long, long,
long long long time, long time, a really long time.
So I don't feel bad about making good money now.
I feel like I paid my dues. Okay, let's talk
about some actual news, you guys, because we do have
some actual news. You know that Mayor Mitt Johnston is

(26:15):
about to ask Denver voters to approve another bond measure.
They've given it a fun name, the Vibrant Denver Bond Program.
Why did they have to do that, Well, they've already
used Rise Denver and Elevate Denver in order to ask
the people for more money. So this bond issue could

(26:36):
total more than eight hundred million dollars. These bonds would
be funded through general obligation bonds and repaid overtime through
property taxes. So the Mayor's office convened a group of
people citizens and whatever to create this board for the
Vibrant Denver Bond program. And this group got together and

(26:58):
decided it would be paid for with this bond. Okay,
they got together, they talked to a lot of people,
They went into the community, they came back, and they
came up with this big old list of things like
parks and rec centers and libraries and roads and bridges
and more. And they just presented it to the Denver
City Council and the Denver City Council was like, what

(27:21):
what is this? When we get back, I'll share some
of the comments from these city council members and spoiler alert,
they're not positive. We'll do that next. Denver's trying to
get you to give them more money. Now, if I
lived in Denver, I would say, hey, didn't you guys
just squander millions and millions of dollars housing and giving

(27:41):
aid to illegal immigrants. Yeah, you don't get any more
of my money. That would just be me. But I
you know, I'm passive aggressive about having my money that
I worked very hard for squandered in such a way.
And now this eight hundred million dollar bond issue that
should be on the ballot in November, the Denver City
Council is very unhappy with the list that was prepared. Now,

(28:02):
I went and I looked at the list, five pages
of projects. By the way, you know what's missing from
the list any kind of dollar numbers. There's no monetary
value attached to any of these projects, So you have
no idea whether or not the project is a good value,
is overpriced, could bust the bank. You don't know any

(28:23):
of this, But that's not what they do in the
mayor's office. Remember, we've still not been able to get
a number of how much money we've spent on illegal
immigrants and homelessness. We can't get the bottom line because
the mayor's office is like, oh yeah, oh wait, I
have that. I put that on a post to note
on my desk somewhere and I'll just all get back
to you, And they never do. So they've given this list,

(28:45):
and you guys, so many of these things are things that,
in my mind, should be taken care of in the
regular budgeting process. There are things like repairs to a
roof at a community center. What he's not not in
the maintenance budget? How is that not already being allotted?
Why do we need another eight hundred million dollars to

(29:07):
handle things that you have already paid for in essence,
but that money has been squandered on something else. Will
the Denversity Council is not very happy about this list.
Members of the Denversity Council This is from the Denver
seven described the list as out of what District four
council member Diana Romero Campbell said, I am disappointed, to

(29:30):
say the least. According to some members, the list does
not reflect the top priorities they've been hearing from their constituents.
District five council member Amanda Sawyer said, I am out
of patience with this process. I am incredibly frustrated. I
am incredibly angry. Now I have no idea if that's
what she actually sounded like, but that was my dramatic
interpretation of her. Quote from District six council member Paul Cashman,

(29:55):
I couldn't believe you released a list of projects without
the dollar figures. It's a me list. It was just
tone death. District eleven council members Stacy Gilmore said without
cost estimates, the council can't do its job. She said,
we even can't even have a conversation really without the
numbers attached to it, so that the council can really deliberate,

(30:17):
so that we're making sure we're fulfilling our equity promises
to the city. Yeah, the sad part is is that
they put together a vibrant Denver executive committee and they
created the list and when asked why no cost estimates
were included, he said, we have an idea of how
much each project is going to cost. Not all of

(30:38):
them were fine tuned in terms of this is exactly
about how much it's going to cost. Well, then you
put a ballpark, you put a plus or minus plus
or minus seven million, plus or minus fifty bucks plus
or minus two hundred thousand. You just can't. This is
just it's absurd, and it's ridiculous, and it's just indicative

(31:00):
of how I'm trying to think of the right word.
How I don't want to use incompetent because that is
not quite the word that I'm looking for. No, it's
the word I'm looking for. It's incompetent to not include
any kind of monetary estimates. But again, the Mayor's office

(31:21):
is not big on telling you how much stuff is
going to cost. And usually it's wrong. I mean, that's
why we're told about the homeless response, that's why we're
told about illegal immigrants, that it was just going to be,
you know what, We're just gonna put a little money
at this, and then we find out later it's one
hundreds of millions of dollars. So it's going to be
really interesting to see if Denver votes on this. And

(31:42):
why doesn't Denver ever ask why is the stuff being delayed?
Why isn't the stuff being included in the regular budget.
Where is the regular budget going that we can't afford
to repair roofs. I think that's a valid question, one
that needs to be answered before the City of Denver
and the citizens of Denver vote to give this administration
another blank check, because that's what this is. Because I

(32:05):
haven't gone back. I was going to, and then I
lost interest. I'm not going to lie. To see how
the last bond initiatives have panned out, to see exactly
what's been done with nine hundred and seventy eight million dollars.
You can they have an interactive thing where you can
find out where the where the bonds are being spent

(32:26):
and everything. But these are for basic things transportation issues, roadways,
fixing buildings, repairing swimming pools. These are all things that
should have already been taken care of. And that's what
I want to answer. Why do you need more money?
And are we just going to do this every time
instead of actually doing it the way it should be done,
which is through a regular budgetary process. I already know

(32:48):
the answer, But until Denver says no to these bond issues,
they will keep doing it. So if you want them
to stop it and fix this stuff in the regular budget,
you just have to say no. So after me, let's
all channel our inner Nancy Reagan, just say no. See
how easy that was When we get back, my friend

(33:09):
Rich Guggenheim coming up next right after this.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
Accident and injury Lawyers.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
No, it's Mandy connellyn on KOA ninety one FM.

Speaker 5 (33:27):
Got way the Noisy.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
Andy Connell sad thing.

Speaker 3 (33:38):
Welcome to the second hour of the show. I'm Mandy Connell.
That guy over there Anthony Rodriguez. By the way, a Rod.
Someone took to the text line to say, ay, rod
does an amazing job with the races, So I want
to make sure you didn't get a compliment because he does.
He doesn't really, and I believe it's fair to say
he loves that time at the races as well. So
I hope you go see him at Colorado Speedway tomorrow.

(34:00):
Oh are you gonna be the Yeah, You're gonna be
there tomorrow. I am okay, just wanting to make sure
I want to answer a question before I bring Rich
Gougenheim on, since I've just shared all my business out
there that I'm gonna be having to hysterect me when
in August. First now people are saying, Mandy, ask you anything.
What symptoms were you having or problems before the tumors
were discovered in a routine exam. Sorry, if that's two

(34:22):
personal thanks. I will share this with you because it
was bizarre. I was standing in line in Tokyo waiting
to get on the airplane, like they were borning, I'm
standing in line, and all of a sudden I got
hit with, honest to god, the worst cramps I've ever
had in my entire life. And guys, I'm a postman
apausal woman, so that should not happen anymore. It was concerning,

(34:45):
and it dropped me to my knees. It was like
I went into full blown labor, those kind of cramps
out of nowhere. And I had no problems before that. Really,
I mean, I had some pain, and I thought it
was weird that when I coughed or I did certain
core exercises, my seat section scar hurt. I was like,
why does my sea section scar hurt? Sixteen years later?
This makes no sense. That wasn't the C section scar.

(35:07):
That was actually uterine fibroids. So went to the doctor
the week like two days after I got back, and
that started the process and I was diagnosed and then bam,
and we talked about a bunch of different options, and
I said, hey, I'm not using that equipment anymore, so
we can just you know, haul it all out, just boom,
just you know, take it out.

Speaker 4 (35:26):
Now.

Speaker 3 (35:26):
I don't have to worry about cervical uterine cancer as
I get older. So that's that's what's going on. But
I will say this, if you think something's wrong, go
see a doctor, just if you've And I know men
are really much better at ignoring stuff because I'm married
to one, and rich Gugenheim is nodding along. So it's
nice that that's true in the gay community as well.
It's not just you know, straight males, but also men

(35:49):
but women. I think we know when something is wrong,
don't ignore it, just go in and get it checked
and take care of it. So anyway, now we're gonna
welcome Rich Gugenheim, who just admitted that he ignores his
physical pain and manifestation. Yeah, it's good to be with you. Well,
it's good to have you. I was talking about it
earlier because you know, hopefully me talking about it will

(36:10):
help another woman that may be going through the same thing.

Speaker 6 (36:13):
You know, my sister is going through the same thing
right now.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
So it's just it's fairly common. And I didn't know
that until after I was diagnosed, and the doctor's like, yeah,
this is actually a fairly common situation, and depending on
your age, we treat it differently. Right, Like I said,
I'm done without equipment. I don't need it anymore.

Speaker 6 (36:28):
Unless you're a man who needs one of them.

Speaker 3 (36:31):
Oh my god, Can I sell it on the black
market to self delusional person who thinks they can use
it to have a baby? No, you can ask I
mean trans no, no, no, no, no, no. Mandy, Now
you have a small idea how Chuck feels with a
cold from a text.

Speaker 5 (36:51):
You know what, I think my doctor hates when I
go to the doctor because when I do go to
the doctor having you know, my background is in pathology.
So I'm like, this stuff is real if I'm going
to the doctor, and I tell him like I've already
in fact, this is literally my story from a couple
of weeks ago. I went in and I'm like, I
think this is what it is, and I want to
not treat that. I always say, I want you to

(37:12):
treat the problem, not the symptoms, right, And so I
told him, I said, I think you need to run.

Speaker 6 (37:16):
This test instead of this test.

Speaker 5 (37:18):
And I aligned it all up and I'm like, and
then you need to do an antibiotic sensitivity test because
if this is a problem and you put the wrong
person on either, you put the person on the wrong
antibiotics and it just creates a feedbacks Okay.

Speaker 3 (37:31):
And then he looks it all up and.

Speaker 5 (37:32):
He's like, yeah, you're right right, And he's like we
can go ahead and schedule that. And I'm like okay,
and he's like, you're the only person I know who
comes in and tells me what I need to do
because you've already done your own work, and no, this
is your background.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
When I meet my new doctors, I always tell them
I go just so you know, I am an internet doctor,
but not one of those hacks who just goes to WebMD, right.
I am a real internet doctor where I go to
Harvard and I go to Mayo Clinic, and I go
to John Hopkins and I read their studies. So I
am right ninety five percent of the time when I
go into the doctor and say, pretty sure, chet GPT, don't.

(38:04):
This is what's gonna happen.

Speaker 6 (38:05):
Though you know, AI is going to replace all of
our doctors right now.

Speaker 3 (38:08):
I think they will replace doctors in the way that
there's now medical AI that can is better at diagnosing
a problem than human doctors are, because what you do
is you put every single thing that is wrong with you,
Like my elbow hurts when I wake up in the
morning and I'm having trouble urinating and I'm doing you
put everything in there and chat just not chat. It's

(38:29):
a different AI, but it runs it through everything, crunches it.
But then that's what the doctor uses for a treatment.
Place is going to get Walgreens dock in a box. First,
we're gonna have max headroom as our doctors. We're gonna
you know, it's gonna be awesome. To the text. You asked,
if I'm gonna let the doctor puts my uterus in
a jar. No, No, that will not be happening. Your

(38:51):
listeners are weird. I know they are. Let's talk about
some important stuff. First of all, you are you're about
to be an author, like a published audible. Yes, I'm
writing a book.

Speaker 5 (39:03):
It's called Escaping the Rainbow Plantation and for no controversial Okay,
so here's the background on that. Remember a couple months
ago when I was on your show and I referred
to the larger LGBT i q A plus community is
just slaves on the Rainbow Plantation pinglitter. Well. James O'Rourke
over at the Colorado Times Recorder.

Speaker 3 (39:24):
Hey, James, how'd you doing?

Speaker 5 (39:25):
Guy decided to run a hit piece on me and
make all kinds of false accusations, which you could actually
get his story right if you would take the time
to reach out to me, not on my work email, idiot,
but my personal email and talk to me and have
a conversation with me instead of just spreading misinformation, which
he's so well known for. So anyway, he ran this

(39:47):
hit piece on me and I and that was literally
the title of the article. So my book, Escaping the
Rainbow Plantation is actually dedicated to James o' warke and
all of the other trans and queer rights activists who
inspired me every single day.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
So, you know, somebody asked me not too long ago.
They said the point of their question and it's a
person that is part of their bisexual friend that I've
had for a very long time, and she said, what
I don't understand is the gay people that are so
passionate about this. She's like, I am passionate to a
certain extent, you know, because it is about protecting children.

(40:23):
But she's like, some of these people are like rabidly passionate,
and honestly, your face popped into my mind. So where
does that passion really come from? You know, Mandy?

Speaker 5 (40:32):
So I talk about in my book the introduction to
the book, I talk about how I was one of
those people who fought when one Colorado existed, way back
in the day when Colorado was known as a hate state,
and we're fighting for things like the Civil Union's non
discrimination and housing and employment and basic civil liberties.

Speaker 6 (40:54):
And so that's where it came from.

Speaker 5 (40:55):
And so for me to spend my time at the
state Capitol to accomplish basic freedoms and liberties to go
to work and not get fired, to get married, and
to repeal DOMA and refiel the Defense of Marriage Act
and Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and those kinds of things
are really important. And I had friends, older gay men

(41:16):
that have been together for many, many years, and you know,
they had to go through the process of power of
attorney and of living wills and all of those kind
of things in case something happened to one of them.

Speaker 6 (41:26):
And I remember those days.

Speaker 5 (41:29):
And so for me to fight for that, and then
what did we call that When we were fighting for
the right to get married, we were calling it same
sex marriage. And what did we call ourselves? We were
called homo sexuals. And for some strange reason, now those
basic facts are being glossed over, erased, and they're calling
it marriage equality and this idea of gender ideology. And

(41:53):
I talked about this in my book. It is fundamentally homophobic. Yeah,
my history as a gay man is being erased. In
one of the stories in my book is about Fred Sergeant,
who literally organized the first Pride Christopher Street Liberation, went
to a Pride in Vermont with a sign that said
gay not queer and was physically assaulted by queer transactivists

(42:16):
at pride. One of literally the founders of the first
Pride and the gay rights civil movement was assaulted by
gays and queers and so, to add insult to injury,
this LGBT I called the lgb O mg WTF plus
community wrote a story about it and talked about nobody

(42:37):
owns pride and Fred Sergeant was wrong?

Speaker 3 (42:40):
What can I ask?

Speaker 1 (42:41):
That?

Speaker 3 (42:41):
This is going to be a dumb question, but it's
one that I don't know the answer to. I realized
the other day I don't even know what it means
to be queer, because when I grew up gay, you
were you were, you were a lesbian, you were a
gay man, you were a lesbian, or you were bisexual either.
It's just really what they say is like, oh, I'm queer.
Then you've got people like Abe Layton who says he's

(43:03):
in a state he loves beautiful people. Well that's how
they're narcissists.

Speaker 5 (43:08):
Well sorry, Abe, I've called you out into your face
on this before. But when you show up to these
types of organizations and you hear queer, and I'm like, well,
you know, not all of us can look like a
ken doll, so but no queer.

Speaker 3 (43:21):
Honestly, what does that mean?

Speaker 5 (43:23):
Nobody knows, And so when I look at it, it's
just heterosexual people who feel like they want to be
part of the party, so they've decided to appropriate our
rights and colonize our spaces.

Speaker 3 (43:32):
Is the separate the tq from the LGBT movement gaining
any steam.

Speaker 5 (43:38):
I think it's gaining a lot of steam, and I
think it's because more and more people that are gay
and lesbian, same sex attracted people are waking up to
the fact that the LGB fought for these ideas and
this freedom and this liberation, which goes back to escaping
the Rainbow Plantation and the tqia plus. When we achieved
our rights as gays and lesbians, the tqia plus establishment

(44:02):
stepped in and started fundraising, and they have not only
thrown us under the bus, they are actively erasing art
history and the things that they are fighting for are
dragging down public support for our rights.

Speaker 3 (44:12):
Yes, that's the part that concerns me is I see
fewer Republicans now support gay marriage, and I think that
is in direct backlash to the kind of nonsense that
we've seen where we have you know, school districts lying
to parents when their kids come to school and want
to be called the opposite gender. I think it's all connected.

Speaker 5 (44:30):
It's bigger than that, though Mandy and I talked about
this in my book, the TQIA plus the establishment agenda
right now, Really it is about attacking the foundation of society.
The foundation of society in my book is the family.
It is the foundation of Western society. In fact, I
think any civilized society, you could say, and then when
you go and you look at how the ideology has

(44:52):
it's captured the five pillars of society that I talk
about in my book, and that is science, academia, medical, media,
and government, and it's all they all play together, and
they're all serving each other, and it's all funded. And
I talk about Tim Gill, I talk about Mark Ruskin

(45:12):
in the book, and I hope your listeners know who
these people are.

Speaker 3 (45:14):
I talk about path strikers. Remind them these are the
people who put together the blueprint. The blue print you know,
these are extremely wealthy people. Tim Gill is a gay man,
and it's been very, very invested in not just hundreds
of millions of dollars. Oh yeah, they're the reason that
Colorado is in the state that it's in right now,
if we're honest, let's be real, yep.

Speaker 5 (45:33):
And so I talk about all of that in this book.
I expose the medical industry and I really talk about
all of the things that have happened the science, the
medical industry. I talk about the ass our institutions of education.
Do you know what's really interesting to me? And when
we talk about undermining the foundation of society and then
attacking the pillars of those society, and then we wonder

(45:54):
why we're seeing a measles outbreak right now? Right People
don't trust these institutions. And so when you have people
like nine News and Kyle Clark over at nine News,
and you've got people like Micah Smith over at Denver
seven playing these stories that portray us as these victims
and really running along with this trans queer narrative that
is protrans pro query. And here's an example of undermining

(46:17):
that you know about the story of Jack Scratton, right, No,
Jax Gratton went missing back in April from Denver, the
transgender identified man.

Speaker 2 (46:27):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (46:27):
And so when they found his body, how did the media,
every media outlet in Denver, how did they report that
that the I don't know her body has been found?
And even because I lived in downtown Denver, I saw
the posters up on street signs and lamps and stuff

(46:49):
like that, and it said have you seen this person?
And then it says sex female. Jack's Bratton was a man.
And you can't find what you don't if you don't
know what you're looking for, right, and so yeah, and
then of course the media plays it all up in
every single media outlet in Colorado decided to report this
as a female wrong, and that's a lie. And every

(47:10):
person with two brain cells that they can run to
rub together understands that it's a lie. And so the
media undermines itself by reporting verifiably false information.

Speaker 3 (47:21):
I also just saw that her family is Jack's family
just is now mad because of the way they say
they're being treated by the police. And anybody who is
attached to a crime that is under investigation probably has
had the same experience because the police don't tell you

(47:42):
things that they can't verify or haven't so they're working
the instigation. They there's no real information to be given,
but they feel they've been mistreated. Now they want a
task force to go. Whenever it's a transgender person, the
task force would step in to make sure that the
police are treating it with the right the right level
of respect. And I hate to break it to him,

(48:02):
a murder victim is a murder victim.

Speaker 6 (48:04):
Who's paying for all this? Well, it's not suggests the taxpayers,
it's just a suggest.

Speaker 3 (48:09):
Here's what's even crazier about.

Speaker 5 (48:10):
That, though, is then you have the media, and then
this is where the government comes in, and now the
state's coming in, and you have of course our players
in the legislature don't need to mention means Brian to
tone saying oh this is this just demonstrates how we
need more protections for the lgbt i q A plus.

Speaker 6 (48:25):
Sir, Sit down, What protections do we not already have?

Speaker 3 (48:29):
What more? Are you going to give me a.

Speaker 5 (48:31):
Personal bodyguard at taxpayer expense as part of the lgbt
i q A plus community.

Speaker 3 (48:35):
What are we talking about here?

Speaker 5 (48:37):
Because please Texters letter listening text tell me as a
gay man. What rights do I not have? What more
protections do I need? I mean, if you want more protections,
it's called the Second Amendment.

Speaker 3 (48:49):
Amen to that. Amen to that. So rich, you know,
when you come out of your shell and stop holding back,
you're going to be an amazing advocate for this.

Speaker 5 (48:58):
Well, you know, when the book as published, we can
talk about that, but you know, it really is exposing
the truth about all of these things. And this is
where you know, this is quite frankly. We've talked about this.
I've received death threats. I don't care anymore. You're not
going to silence me, and you're not going to shame me,
and you're not going to shun me. And when I
talk about the rainbow plantation, I use these stories of

(49:18):
other gays and lesbians.

Speaker 3 (49:19):
I use the stories of JK.

Speaker 5 (49:22):
Rowling, and I talk about how they have tried to
shame her and silence her and the purpose of it is.
And I share the story of a gay person who
spoke about it was he's also he was assaulted at
a gay bar in North Carolina and then kicked out
of the gay bar. And I said, they do this
because not only do they want to silence you. But
they want to make just like the slave masters on

(49:44):
the Plantation of Old would flog a slave who tried
to escape or stepped out of line. They didn't just
do it to punish that slave. They did it to
send a message to the other slaves that if you
step out of line, this is what we're going to
do to you. And that's exactly what they are doing
to people today. They want compliance and they want assimilation.
And how dare you think for yourself?

Speaker 3 (50:06):
See, here's the thing that gets me, and I think
that this is where we've we've gone. The pendulum has
swung too far because we've gone from and I've been
an avid supporter of gay marriage when it wasn't popular
to be a talk show host on the right who
was an avid supporter of gay marriage. But for me,
it was it's a governmental it's a governmental you know
it is and you know, and that's where I.

Speaker 5 (50:26):
Get a lot of people disagree with me on this,
on the right and on the left my personal take
on marriage. In fact, I was just talking to another
conservative LGB commentator this week and the fallout from all
of this, and I said, I am willing to sacrifice
some of my rights as a gay man if it
means that we protect children from the harm of gender ideology.
Because when I look around at all of these married

(50:49):
men that I see out there in these open relationships,
that isn't.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
What I fought for. But you do you.

Speaker 5 (50:55):
But also my personal belief is that the government has
no oh business being in the business of regulating and
licensing marriage for anyone.

Speaker 3 (51:05):
Right. No, I totally agree, And that's the way I
looked at it. For me, it's a tax issue, right
like government marriage is about taxation when you get right
down to it, It's about taxation and how that works.
It's about having rights at end of life situations and
things of that nature. But it's a government demonstrated thing.
And to your point about giving up rights, here's the thing.

(51:27):
I don't think you need to give up rights as
a gay man. I think as a man you have
to give up the right to go into a female space.
And Aery Armstrong wrote a great column about this the
other day on Complete Colorado dot com, and he essentially said, look,
if you have a penis, you don't need to be
in a woman's changing room. How hard is that to
understand that?

Speaker 5 (51:46):
Again, goes back to one of the things that I
talk about in my book is this is misogyny.

Speaker 3 (51:49):
Who are we telling they have to give up their rights?

Speaker 5 (51:52):
This is literally about the patriarchy telling women sit down,
shut up, and listen to the men.

Speaker 3 (51:58):
And by the way, they're that are women than you are,
let's make them women of the year. So I hope
that a lot of people. I hope that you.

Speaker 5 (52:04):
Know, when we talk about one, it's a warning to
the LGB community, but it is also a roadmap to
help us understand how we strengthen the foundation of society,
which is our families, and how we rebuild the pillars
of society, because until we rebuild trust in these institutions
that have been compromised, our society is going to continue
to crumble.

Speaker 3 (52:23):
I agree wholeheartedly, and I actually think that this is
the logical end result of the postmodernism movement that has
taken hold in the United States back in the nineteen fifties,
where God is dead, nothing matters, everybody's a nihilist, we
don't have to worry about the future because everything sucks.
This is where we're seeing it now because now, to
your point, they've taken a basic truth. We have men,

(52:44):
we have women, and we have a tiny fraction of
people who are intersex, and we've heard they're telling us
we're crazy. Well, that's the other thing.

Speaker 5 (52:51):
And I do briefly touch on the whole intersex thing
with the medical piece of it. Intersex is a rare
medical condition. Tiny times of bar are either still male
or female. Being intersex is not a new gender. It
is not a third gender. It is not a non gender.
It is not a transgender or whatever other label you.

Speaker 3 (53:08):
Want to use it.

Speaker 5 (53:09):
And so in my opinion, this is extremely ablest at
best for the LGBOG WTF plus community to appropriate this
and use people with a medical condition to advance their
political agenda and ideology. How disrespectful and shame on them
for doing that.

Speaker 3 (53:27):
When are you going to start a podcast? Oh? I
don't want to do that. Why it's that hard. I
just wrote a book. That's why you need to start
a podcast. After good at it? Rich, Okay, we're going
to talk off the air because somebody just said, how
can a person get involved with Rich meaning pushing or
helping or push the truth? He speaks you, Well, you're
going to need to buy his book when it comes out.
We'll know about that when you have your book launch party.

(53:47):
Let me know. I want to. I will say, if
you want to get involved.

Speaker 5 (53:50):
We do have protect Kids Colorado and their ballad initiatives.
One is going to be girls Sports. The other one
is going to be to limit the surgeries on children
so that anyone under eighteen is no longer being mutilated
under the guise of gender affirming care, because let's be honest,
you can't change your sex, so a sex change operation
has a one hundred percent fail rate.

Speaker 3 (54:10):
That my friends is Rich Guggenheim. His book will come
out and we will let you know when it's coming out.
It's good to see you, my friend. Thanks. One of
my texters said, Rich is my favorite guest. We need
more gay voices like him. All my liberal friends look
at me like I'm an idiot, and when I listen
to Rich on the radio, it's reassuring to me that
I'm actually ahead of the gay curve. I can't wait
to share his book with all the haters in my life.
That from Jared and Boulder, who I can assure you

(54:32):
is very gay. We've met many times and he's an
absolute adorable man and I love him.

Speaker 5 (54:37):
See there's other gay voices that agree with me, and
that's the thing we're not monelis just.

Speaker 3 (54:41):
Letting him know that it's okay. Yep. Please if if
you agree with me and your gay speak out yep,
talk about it. Okay, Rich, We'll see you soon, my friend.
All right, let's use some news. It's also an ask
me anything kind of day. You can text your ask
me anything to five six six. N I know, and
I want to talk about the fact that when I
moved here in twenty thirteen, I was part of a

(55:02):
wave of transplants, and twenty fifteen, about forty four thousand
people moved to Metro Denver. A decade later, that number
dropped to about thirteen thousand people. That's a seventy percent
decrease in net migration between twenty fifteen and twenty twenty five.
Now this for natives who are so sick of people

(55:25):
like me invading your space, I get it. I've tried
to be a very respectful neighbor and not try to
change anything. But the reality is is that if we
don't have new people moving into the area, especially as
people in Denver are not having kids, we have to
That puts pressure on labor markets. It can stemy economic growth,

(55:49):
and anything that is funded with tax dollars finds it
harder and harder to pay for its services, especially as
our population ages. Although I got to tell you, I
talk to people all the time that are fifty and
over who were like, there's no way I'm going to
retire in Colorado. It's just too expensive. I can sell

(56:11):
my house which I own outright, cash out, move to
someplace with a fraction of the cost of living that
we have here. I already have friends who are already
doing it. So I don't know how many retirees are
going to stick around. And I get it if your
family and your kids and all your grandkids are here,
I totally understand that. But for me, that is not
an issue. The statewide drop in Colorado is fifty two

(56:34):
point five percent, and CSI, the Common Sense Institute, did
a study about this they published yesterday, and this is
a really big problem for schools. I mean, it's a
really big problem for a lot of different things, especially
because our government has grown explosively over the last ten years,
and if we don't have enough warm bodies working to

(56:56):
pay for that, that is a huge issue now this
from the Gazette. In twenty fifteen, the Denver metro attracted
forty three thousand, four hundred and fifty new residents. It's
only projected to draw thirteen thousand, one hundred and ninety
three this year. The studies authors say these patterns highlight
ongoing demographic and economic challenges that could have lasting implications

(57:17):
for regional growth, labor markets, and urban planning. Now, lest
you think this is just happening everywhere, it's not, because
they go on to compare it to other cities. Salt
Lake City, for example, saw an increase of wait for
it eighteen hundred, eighteen hundred percent from negative six hundred

(57:41):
and thirty two in twenty fourteen to ten thousand, seven
hundred and forty seven in twenty twenty twenty four. The Phoenix,
Arizona region, and I don't know why people move to Phoenix,
I'm just going to say it. They're a direct competitor
to us in terms of metro size, their offerings, and
things of that nature. They experienced a twenty five percent

(58:02):
growth during the same period when seventy thousand people moved
to the area. Colorado Springs, by the Way has also
seen a negative net migration, or rather the net migration
numbers drop by twenty eight percent. So this is a big,
big problem. I mean, don't get me wrong. Maybe if
we don't want forty five thousand people every year, I

(58:23):
get that. I too am sick of sitting in traffic
where there used to be no traffic, right, I get it.
I one hundred percent understand it. But the CSI authors
are projecting that the metro Denver region especially won't reach
the numbers it saw ten years ago. They think it's
going to peak at roughly twenty twenty eight before steadily

(58:44):
declining after that. So they don't really put one reason
on it. They said, the disportion This disproportionate decline suggests
that urban specific pressures such as housing affordability, shifting lifestyle preferences,
and perceptions of liveability may be playing a greater role

(59:05):
than in surrounding areas. In response, you never get to
talk to the mayor of Denver, but a spokesperson said,
reducing the cost of housing is a key priority for
our residents. How about this, how about you stop trying
to make things cheaper, because every time you touch something
and try to make it cheaper, you make it more expensive.

(59:26):
By the way, I got an email today for my
property manager. I did not realize this. Denver passed another
law for landlords last year, and this one says, if
someone that is renting from you demonstrates through an affidavit
that they are a victim of domestic violence, they can
push off paying their rent and you have to offer

(59:46):
them a payment plan for up to nine months. Now,
don't get me wrong, I don't want to pile on
someone going through a domestic violence experience. But how is
a person who just owns one rental property this still
has a mortgage on it. You're just supposed to carry
the mortgage for nine months because someone else is having
a bad time. This is where it's insane. What they're

(01:00:06):
doing here, absolutely insane. But they'll never stop. No, they're
just going to tax us more and then tell us
they're gonna build affordable housing that's gonna end up costing
way more than it would have if the private market
had just done it. A CSI fellow said that the
regulatory framework in ecosystem associated with housing in Denver is
quote very problematic and remain so today. Instead of pushing

(01:00:30):
for more fake affordable housing, why not streamline the permitting process.
Why not make sure that when someone does want to
build something, you're not saddling with them with a million
dollars of unnecessary costs or rules that prevent them from
being able to ensure a product, or the insurance costs
are so high that building affordable housing makes no sense.

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And that's where we are, by the way, When asked,
the press secretary for Governor Jared pull Us said his
office has not yet reviewed the report, and then they continued,
but the reality is that Colorado is a top destination
for visitors and people looking for a greater quality of
life in our great state. Our population is increasing and

(01:01:13):
we need to remove barriers to housing to keep up.
And that, my friends, is exactly, exactly, exactly exactly why
the Democrats keep doing what they're doing. They look around
at our beautiful state, and it is beautiful. They look
around at all of our amenities, are beautiful mountains, red rocks,
all of the great things that make Colorado a wonderful

(01:01:35):
place to live, and they go, well, of course people
are gonna want that. They don't look at the fact
that young people can't afford to buy a house here.
And I actually had a friend who was up for
a job in Denver, and he reached out and I said, look,
before you accept an offer, look at housing prices and
understand that from where you're moving the cost of living

(01:01:57):
is like fifteen to twenty percent higher than where you
live right now. He turned the job down because it
essentially would have been a pay cut. He lives in
a new income taxed state, and it would have been
a pay cut for him to come out here and
try and make it, you know, on the amount of
money that they were offering him. So it's just it's
all not good, Mandy. People will come when it's safe

(01:02:18):
to walk from Coursfield to the Capitol after a night game.

Speaker 7 (01:02:21):
Yeah, yeah, we'll see a legal immigration added seven percent
to Denver's population or in this last wave under Biden.

Speaker 3 (01:02:32):
I don't even know if they're counting them. I don't know, Mandy.
Colorado is the third best state in the country to retire,
behind Minnesota and Florida, according to wallet Hub and wait
for it, Jared Poulis, I don't even understand how that's
even possible Minnesota. Who wants to retire in Minnesota? You

(01:02:54):
ever been in winter in Minnesota? Ooh. Anyway, Jimbo says
he's planning his escape. Yep, Mandy, have you seen the
YouTube The world according to Briggs? I have not, but
I'll look it up. Pro Denver for years. His latest

(01:03:16):
is what the hell Happened to Denver? Yeah? Yeah, Mandy.
I have no problem with the newcomers. My family's lived
here since the eighteen sixties. Just don't try to tell
me you know more about this area than I do.
Amen to that, Mandy, I would love to hear from
your water expert that was talking about the Colorado water

(01:03:37):
supply earlier this year. I'd love to hear where all
that's going as we discussed Colorado's growth. I'll go back
and figure out who you're talking about. I don't remember.
I wish I did, but I don't. All right, guys,
I'm gonna take a quick time out come back. We
got to talk about Aurora PD. They're ready for the
next nonsensical takeover. I just want to say hats off
to the Aurora PD for actually being led by a

(01:03:59):
chef who seems to know what he's doing. That's a
nice change. There have been these takeovers, is what they're
calling them. A bunch of teenagers spread the word online
and then they do what they call a takeover. And
after one of these takeovers at the shops at Northfield,
three hundred kids converged on the area. There were fights,

(01:04:24):
there were other disturbances. One young one teenager ended up
in the hospital for an extended period of time. And
the Aurora PD got a word that there were rumors
of another takeover at the town Center in Aurora, and
they put the word out just this that just says, hey,
if you want to come to the town Center and

(01:04:46):
shop and have a nice time, we'd love to have
you because it's open. But if you want to come
to the town Center to cause a problem, to start
a fight, to steal, to impede the business of the businesses,
there were going to arrest you. Now this team takeover thing.
You know, back when I was a kid and we

(01:05:08):
used to go to the mall, there'd occasionally be an
idiotic fight in the parking lot, right, just like one
of those like yeah, oh yeah, meet me behind the
Golden Mine at three thirty. Yeah, And a bunch of
kids would show up and we'd all stand around and
whoever was fighting would throw like nine punches and then
they would and then their friends would dramatically pull them
apart and the whole thing was over, like that was it.

(01:05:30):
But apparently now it's much more aggressive. And what I
find frustrating. And don't get me wrong, I get that
once your kids are a certain age, they have a
certain amount of autonomy. Right, you cannot put a geo
tracker on your kid when they're fourteen or fifteen. And
if you feel like you need to put a geo
tracker on your kid when they're fourteen or fifteen, you

(01:05:51):
have some issues. You have some big, big issues that
you probably need to address. But at some point our
parents in these in Aurora going hey, do you know
anything about this takeover? And at least make your kid
lie to you about it, you know, at least force
the issue. And I'm going to read this text message,

(01:06:13):
even though I have vacillated about pointing this out, But
in the videos that I've seen of these takeovers, it's
all black kids. There may be a couple of kids
that are not African American in the group, but overwhelmingly
it is black kids. And I don't know why that is.

(01:06:34):
I don't know why that seems to be a thing
and I don't know how to address that without everybody going, God,
that's so racist of you even pointing that out. But
it's not inaccurate. That's the problem. So how do we
have a conversation about whether or not there's a connection
there if we can't even talk about the fact that,

(01:06:55):
you know, does appear to be African American kids, what's
going on over there? Mandy Elitch's takeover averted yesterday. Props
to DPD for a forceful presence. Kids are just like
little nihilists. They just run around destroying everything. I don't know,
I was just I was raised differently. I was raised

(01:07:18):
in a community where other people's property was very much
respected and if you even if you did anything to
someone else's house, Okay, maybe one time when I was
in high school, maybe I might have participated in the
toilet papering of a nemesis's house, right, friendly nemesis, kind
of a frenemie, you know, one of those, and her

(01:07:38):
mom called my dad, and my mom and then me
and everybody. We had to go over and clean up
all the toilet paper from their house, and then got
yelled at, and then got yelled at some more, and
then when that person toilet paper in my house back,
nobody made them come over and clean up. I had
to go clean up the toilet paper in my own yard.

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But personal property and property of others was very much respected,
and it was drilled into us. And I don't understand.
It's like, would you say to these kids, It's like, well,
if if somebody that you didn't know came into your
room or your house and just destroyed it because they
felt like it. Can you not relate to that? Can
you not understand that? I don't know. Wasn't there supposed

(01:08:20):
to be one of these takeovers in the park across
from the zoo a couple of weeks ago. Whatever happened
to that they closed the zoo and everything. I don't
know that anything ever happened there. They might might have
averted that before it got started. All right, we're gonna
take a quick time out. When we get back. Danielle
Jorinsky is making more good trouble. I'll tell you what
that's about after this.

Speaker 1 (01:08:39):
accident and injury lawyers.

Speaker 2 (01:08:43):
No, it's Mandy Connell and nine FMA got the Nicety
three baby Donald Keith, who is sad bab.

Speaker 3 (01:09:05):
Welcome, Welcome, welcoming to the third hour of the show
coming up in about half an hour. The wine Yogi
joins me. We're talking about the summer drink, the sprints.
More on that in a moment, and we're gonna be
talking about a trip she just went on that is
extremely similar to the next Mandy Connell adventure that we'll
talk about as well. But in the meantime, I gotta

(01:09:25):
talk about this Danielle Zorinsky, bless her. This woman is
tired of people sucking at their jobs. She was instrumental
in getting rid of former police chief and I always
put air quotes around Chief Vanessa Wilson because she was
just an abject failure. But now she is going after
the prosecutor who made a deal that is so beyond

(01:09:47):
the pale and egregious that I also believe she should
be recalled. Eighteenth Judicial District Attorney Amy Patton is the
woman who gave probation to a young illegal immigrant fifteen
years old. He stole his mom's jeep and then drove

(01:10:08):
ninety miles an hour in an Aurora neighborhood when he
smashed into twenty four year old Caitlyn Weaver and killed her.
When John Kellner was the district attorney, he promised to
pursue what was then the maximum two year sentence in
youth corrections because this kid is a juvenile, right so
the most he could get is two years in juvie.

(01:10:30):
Then Amy Padden got into office, she offered the teen
two years probation, one hundred hours of community service, and
a requirement to attend school and not break any laws.
Oh well, so tough. That'll teach him not to murder

(01:10:51):
people with his car. The good news is that Ice
has picked this kid up now, so we may not
have to worry about it anymore. But nonetheless, this was
a horrible deal. But it is completely on brand with
Amy Padden's belief about the juvenile justice system. She told
the Denver Gazette previously this is a quote. We're talking

(01:11:12):
about kids whose brains are not fully developed until they're
twenty five. So in the juvenile justice system, the way
it works in Colorado is we look at, really how
we can connect this juvenile with resources to help them
rehabilitate and make sure they don't turn into an adult offender.
Mm hmmm. Mm hmm. During your campaign for District Attorney,

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Patten said she would work to reduce over incarceration and
ensure fair and equal treatment for immigrants, adding it's not
the job of her office or local law enforcement to
do ICE's job for them. She also called for an
end to private prisons. The county's website says Miss Padden
will focus on community safety, alternatives to incarceration for nonviolent offenders,

(01:12:01):
juvenile justice reform, and ensuring justice and equity for all. Well.
Caitlin Weaver's family doesn't feel like she got justice, and
at the age of twenty four, her brain wasn't fully developed,
nor will it ever fully develop, because this kid made
a series of stunningly bad choices and decided to do

(01:12:21):
something that ended her life. Sir Daniel Drinsky is not
going to sit down and take this lightly. She wants
to recall Amy Padden, and in order to do that,
she has to start a petition first. The approved petition
must meet a signature threshold of twenty five percent of
the total votes cast at the last preceding general election

(01:12:45):
for that office. In twenty twenty four, there were three
hundred thousand, three hundred three thousand five hundred ballots cast
for the eighteenth Judicial district, So a recall position is
going to require about a little over almost seventy six
thousand signatures. So I don't know if Danielle is spearheading this.

(01:13:07):
I'm going to reach out to her and see if
I can get her on the show next week. But
I mean, aren't aren't you tired of people that are
supposed to be in law enforcement simply deciding that they're
not going to enforce the law because it doesn't jibe
with their values. Imagine if this was your daughter that

(01:13:27):
this kid killed, and this woman, here's the thing, two
years in juvie. That's the max this could could have
gotten two years in juvie and she couldn't even do that.
It's not like she's going to ruin the rest of
his life. I mean, I hope, I hope that he
has removed from this country and we don't have to

(01:13:48):
deal with him anymore. But ultimately, I'm sick of people
getting elected that run on a platform of not enforcing
the laws, and I don't understand people that vote for that.
I do understand Colorado, the Republican brand is so bad.

(01:14:09):
It's just horrible. It's absolutely horrible that people just, well,
I'm not going to vote for a Republican. I'm just
going to vote for a Democrat. I hope people listen
to the interview yesterday with Barb Kirkmeyer and came away
with a feeling that maybe there are Republicans in the
state that can clearly communicate some of the issues that
have been created and that there might be hope. But

(01:14:29):
right now, I mean, this woman has to go. I
just when you become a prosecutor, you should have to
commit to prosecuting the laws. You should have to commit
to getting justice for victims who happen to be white citizens,
instead of just worrying about the future fortunes of an
illegal immigrant who stole a car and killed a woman

(01:14:50):
by driving ninety miles an hour in a neighborhood. Now,
don't get me wrong, I know kids do dumb things
all the time. I don't think this kid should have
to go to prison for the rest of his life
for this crime. I don't He's a fifteen year old idiot.
But all that being said, no punishment none. Probation is

(01:15:11):
not punishment for vehicular manslaughter. Probation is a joke. I
don't know. I agree with Danielle on this. It just
remains to be seen whether or not enough people are
tired of this kind of nonsense in Aurora. Are are
you more tired of people getting away with crimes because
the prosecutors aren't doing their jobs or are you more

(01:15:34):
interested in virtue signaling how much you hate those evil ours?
And by the way, I don't know if a Republican
is needed here. Maybe there's a Democrat who would love
to actually enforce the laws. But you know what I know.
I live in the twenty third Judicial District. I know
that the prosecutor in the twenty third Judicial District is
George Brockler, and I know that if somebody commits a
crime in the twenty third he's going to prosecute them.

(01:15:59):
He has prom to prosecute them.

Speaker 2 (01:16:04):
That's why I.

Speaker 3 (01:16:04):
Voted for him. I mean, isn't that why you vote
for a prosecutor? I would hope so, But apparently not.
When we get back speaking of the police and prosecutors,
what happens when you defund the police? Los Angeles is
now finding out it just gets way more expensive. I'll

(01:16:24):
explain that next Los Angeles got all hot and bothered
in twenty twenty and all of their wackadoodle socialists city
council members after the George Floyd riots, decided that the
way to get around this was to defund the police,
and they did. Stripped about one hundred million dollars out
in one year, added another fifty million out of that again,

(01:16:47):
so it looks like this. In twenty twenty, a total
of fourteen nine hundred and two LAPD employees, both sworn
officers and civilian staff existed. Four years later, the department
shrink to twelve thousand, six hundred and seventeen overall workers.

(01:17:08):
What are we talking about in terms of officers, Well,
the officer count is down significantly. The city Council's May
twenty twenty five vote in favor of additional LAPD cuts
will leave the agency with just eighty four hundred cops.
That's the lowest number since nineteen ninety five. In fiscal

(01:17:33):
year twenty to twenty twenty one, a total of six
hundred and thirty one police officers from all ranks left
the department or profession, many taking early retirement just as
a you know, as a comparison. In twenty twenty two,
Washington d C employed five hundred and forty three officers
per one hundred thousand residents. Los Angeles just two hundred

(01:17:56):
and thirty seven, less than half the number of officers
per capita. Other cities that beat Los Angeles in this
metric include Chicago, New York, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Miami. But
here's the kicker, I mean, here is the real kick
in the teeth. Overtime pay has now raised the total

(01:18:20):
amount being spent by the LAPD considerably. Some of the
officers working overtime, including a guy named Detective Nathan Corey.
And by the way, I'm not mad at these officers
working overtime. The crime is continuing to happen. Somebody's going
to try and solve it. Detective Nathan Curry, whose combined

(01:18:41):
compensation including overtime was six hundred thousand and change, making
him the highest paid cop in Los Angeles. He made
more than the mayor of Los Angeles did. He made
more than the governor of California did. So back in
twenty twenty, they spent one point seven to one billion

(01:19:04):
dollars on the LAPD. Then they got busy defunding the LAPD,
and in twenty twenty six, twenty twenty four. Excuse me,
they cost the city one point seventy three billion dollars
because of overtime. This is the fallacy, the idiocy when
it comes to people who want to shift money away

(01:19:25):
from actual law enforcement personnel into programs that if they
pay off, if that's a big if in crime prevention,
they won't pay off for years, even decades. So in
the interim, the crime is still happening, it still needs
to be investigated. They still need to find out who's
doing the crime and arrest them, and there are fewer

(01:19:47):
police officers to make that happen. This is one of
the reasons, by the way, that Trump set forty eight
hundred US Marines and members of California's National Guard to
the city because they don't have enough cops. The LAPD,
which was staffed with around ten thousand sworn officers at
the start of twenty twenty, argues that is the minimum
number that they need to address public safety concerns, and

(01:20:12):
in the next year that number is going to drop
down to eighty six hundred and twenty. This is what
you get when you virtue signal with no real economic
knowledge behind you. This is what you get when you
want to show everybody how caring you are, and you
don't have a brain cell in your head to recognize that.

(01:20:32):
Guess what criminals are going to criminal? Right, Criminals are
going to commit crimes, and the fewer cops that you
pay and the fewer cops that you have, it's just
going to make it harder and they're going to get
over time, which is time in half, by the way.
So before people talk about defunding the police, I think
the first question should be, Okay, who's going to fight

(01:20:54):
the crime that happens until all these grandiose programs that
you keep talking about kick in, until all the preventive measures,
all the root cause programs that may or may not deliver. Ever,
I mean, I'm not convinced. So the other part about
this is that they've shifted a bunch of money away

(01:21:15):
from cops into having unarmed teams of people responding to
individuals experiencing a mental health crisis, substance abuse crisis, and homelessness.
So these are supposed to be non violent calls. But
a social worker, she spilled the beans. She said, oftentimes
we encounter people who are having a mental health emergency,

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and we can help by trying to de escalate the situation.
But to say that we only respond to nonviolent calls
isn't true. Most of the time, the person suffering is
physically threatening us and we have to call the cops
to back us up. This is what happens when you
defund the cops, just ends up costing you not just
warrant money, but more in your quality of life. Well done,

(01:21:57):
Los Angeles, Well done joining us talk about seasons and
Europe and fancy cocktails. Fresh from her European vacation where
they drove around in a circle saying, look, kid's big
ben just kidding. They didn't go to London. The why Yogi,
Chris Lafonso, good to see you, my friend.

Speaker 8 (01:22:13):
I did you.

Speaker 3 (01:22:16):
I don't know that second part. That's how are you doing.
I did learn how to say summi mussen, which is
excuse me, excuse me, because I kept running into people,
excuse summi mussen, sumy mussen.

Speaker 9 (01:22:25):
That was my I did get ca Now I must
pronounce it differently because we said sumi mussin.

Speaker 3 (01:22:29):
Well, I probably was slaughtering it. I mean, there's no
doubt in my mind.

Speaker 9 (01:22:32):
Yet you also learned Chatta Monte kutis I really quickly?
When you live over there?

Speaker 3 (01:22:36):
What is that slowly? Please?

Speaker 7 (01:22:38):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:22:40):
Well, now with Google Translate, it doesn't matter. Google translates.
Game changer. So you just got back from your European
vacation and you had what we're gonna call the cocktail
of Summer for the Mandy Connell Show. Although the paloma
I had at Sierra is haunting my dreams right now
because it was that good the other night.

Speaker 8 (01:22:58):
Well, I had never I'm not my for wine cocktails.

Speaker 3 (01:23:02):
I love a spritzer in the summer I do too,
and a little bit lighter. You're not getting as much.

Speaker 8 (01:23:06):
Alcohol I do enjoy.

Speaker 9 (01:23:08):
I do enjoy like a billini or mimosa, especially at
brunch and around the holidays, but just in the summertime.

Speaker 8 (01:23:15):
Yeah, I'm just not much of a wine like wine cocktail.

Speaker 9 (01:23:18):
So we're they're actually adding in some other type of
spirit or liqueur.

Speaker 8 (01:23:23):
And so I just happened.

Speaker 9 (01:23:25):
We were sitting in one of the hottest days there
and I was there during the heat wave.

Speaker 8 (01:23:31):
I guess still going on. But we were visiting Alsatian town.
So we were in France and we had just.

Speaker 9 (01:23:36):
Visited the town that was used to model Beauty and
the Beast and then her Bell's House is actually from
the live action Bell's House is, so I took a
picture of that because that's my favorite. That's my favorite
animated movie is Beauty and the Beast. And of course
I was singing the whole time, and I had a
lot of French people looking at me strange, because well.

Speaker 3 (01:23:57):
You're American, accept nothing more.

Speaker 6 (01:24:00):
Last and I seen it.

Speaker 9 (01:24:00):
Actually the French owner of one of the wine places
where I went and I tasted his wines, he didn't
speak any English, and my French was passable enough that
he was lovely. I actually had a great experience with
most of my language barrier issues because I theoretically can
speak French, but if you don't do it, you forget
it and practice I can still read it, but in.

Speaker 3 (01:24:21):
Practice, see, I can read it too. But sentence structure
in French is where I got hung up. So I'm
sure my sentate structure is terrible because their sentate structure
is different than ours.

Speaker 9 (01:24:30):
And Paris was beautiful all those things, but we were
in this the second Alsatian town, and it was just hot.
There was no shade anywhere, so we ended up stopping
in this place just to grab some lunch as we
were kind of encouraged too, and I was like, you
know what, I'm going to have that apparal spritzel spritzer
with the local sparkling riesling and so it wasn't prosecco
and it was fantastic and it was just exactly rash,

(01:24:53):
exactly what I needed.

Speaker 8 (01:24:54):
Yes, I'm going to need another one of those.

Speaker 3 (01:24:56):
Let's talk about apaol for a minute, because I was
explaining it to Anthony earlier, and it is actually kind
of a bitter and it has a slightly medicinal quality
to it, but not in a way that you go
hook that tastes like cough medicine. It just has the
only way I can think of it is and bitterers
are used.

Speaker 9 (01:25:15):
Yeah so, and in old fashion, So if you're kind
of used to that wild orange bitter note that you
might find in certain types of old fashion that really
want to emphasize the orange.

Speaker 8 (01:25:26):
It's very comparable.

Speaker 9 (01:25:27):
And then they put a lot of other things in
there too, and it's very proprietary, but it's just a lovely, gorgeous,
bright orange and they have their own glasses.

Speaker 8 (01:25:36):
I was given these glasses very nice. A liquor store
front of mine was given the glass.

Speaker 3 (01:25:42):
And I'm sure with the five finger discount, no, no, no.

Speaker 8 (01:25:45):
I put him up there and he's like, no, I'm
not going to charge you for those.

Speaker 3 (01:25:48):
I was like.

Speaker 9 (01:25:49):
Thanks, But it was just it was so refreshing, absolutely
because I was not about to order savagnon blanc with
a help in it.

Speaker 3 (01:25:55):
It's not too sweet, that's the thing.

Speaker 8 (01:25:57):
That's the big thing.

Speaker 3 (01:25:58):
It's not too sweet. It's just refreshing. It's a little
bit bracing, and it's a delicious summer cop.

Speaker 9 (01:26:03):
And it has club soda in it, which I really
like too, especially again with the heat of the day.
Heat is going to intensify alcohol. So even though you
have typically it's a.

Speaker 8 (01:26:11):
Two to three ratio.

Speaker 9 (01:26:14):
Two parts apparol, three part persecco and then one part
club soda, but you could certainly like make it heavier
handed on the club soda, just again to make it
lighter in terms of your alcohol. And so yeah, it
was just perfect.

Speaker 3 (01:26:27):
You just mentioned putting a jalapino in savio blanc. So
I saw a story about this and I literally set
the link to Crystal and said, I am intrigued. And
it was a glass of savio a blanc was just
a slice of fresh jalapino in it. Well, I am
here to tell you she tested this out and it

(01:26:48):
is outstanding.

Speaker 9 (01:26:49):
I actually had it for that because I think I
texted you right back. I said, oh, by the way,
I met sip Into Spring over here in Palisade and
I just had that because one of the winery that.

Speaker 8 (01:27:00):
Was pouring there. I had met that wine maker.

Speaker 9 (01:27:03):
It's a brand new winery in Palisade and Terravin and
I had met.

Speaker 8 (01:27:07):
That team and he's like crystal cameric khmer and he.

Speaker 9 (01:27:10):
Was slicing these jalipinos and he's like, the secret is
you have to freeze the jalipino. And I was like, okay,
it's good to know. So I froze the valipino, sliced it.
I got a nice, beautiful French Laire Valley savignon blanc,
hundred percent savignon blanc, and that's what I made for you.

Speaker 3 (01:27:26):
It changes. First of all, the savignon blanc she brought
was perfect. It had very floral notes in it, but
it wasn't sweet. It was just a nice crisp finish.
But you put that one slice of Valipino in they're
and it changes everything.

Speaker 8 (01:27:39):
It really brings out the green notes.

Speaker 3 (01:27:40):
Yeah, Blanc, Yeah, if you like a little bit of zing,
that's what it is. It's just zing. It's not heat,
it's not uncomfortable, it's just zing and freshness. That was amazing.

Speaker 8 (01:27:50):
Yeah, I really enjoyed it. It was lovely.

Speaker 9 (01:27:52):
It was a very hot day in Palis too at
that particular winefest, and that was absolutely perfect.

Speaker 3 (01:27:57):
So I have to question, Oh, hi, Mandy got me
going teeing up in apparol sprits. Now, well I have
one in my grubby little hand right here, So there
you go. I think it's funny when people say Europe
is fancy. Lol, it's really gross, says this texter. I
could not disagree with you more. I really Europe is different.

Speaker 9 (01:28:16):
It's different all and there were parts. I mean, I
will be honest. I was telling Mandy because I did
do the Mandy Connell I kind of feel like the
Advon team. I did the cruise unbeknownst to me because
when I picked this one, I picked a base off
of dates and it just worked out perfect. I did
the castles on the Rhine and when I came in.

(01:28:36):
I was like, do you know why there's so many
castles on the Rhine And it's about the robber barons, but
you learn that actually on the tour and there is
a part of the Rhine River where you're just I mean,
you cannot go thirty seconds.

Speaker 3 (01:28:47):
With fancy swing a dead cat without hitting a castle.

Speaker 9 (01:28:49):
There are castles, there's you have a castle, You have
a castle. It was like Oprah came through there and
just gave everybody a castle. And most of them have
been destroyed. The one along the Rhine that hasn't been
destroyed was right outside of a town called Braboch and
it sits up on top of this hill. They were
all just most of them were destroyed either before World
War Two or as part of daylight bombing.

Speaker 8 (01:29:12):
But the amazing thing.

Speaker 9 (01:29:14):
About it was, you know, we finished up in Amsterdam,
and unbeknownst to me, this year is Amsterdam's seven hundred
and fiftieth anniversary of existence, and so the weekend we
happened to be there, they were closing down different streets
and if the bike game is real in Amsterdam, everybody
tells you, they warn you be careful of the bikes.

Speaker 8 (01:29:30):
Oh my gosh, that was insane, and that was insane.
I don't know how the people drive.

Speaker 3 (01:29:34):
Around now, and most of the roads end in a canal,
so if you think you can, you recognize that, Okay,
our hotel is probably a miles was.

Speaker 8 (01:29:42):
Really good about that. Though Google Maps was fantastic.

Speaker 3 (01:29:44):
We used to when I was there. We didn't have
Google Maps, we didn't have cell phones.

Speaker 9 (01:29:48):
We popped that little earbud in Google Maps led us everywhere,
so we never got lost. We did a walking tour
of it and everything. But what Amsterdam was probably the dirtiest.

Speaker 3 (01:30:00):
Just because of the because of the.

Speaker 9 (01:30:02):
Parties, but it was because of the party and also
because of the drug tourists and homeless issues that Amsterdam
grapples with. Sunday morning, when we did our walking tour
with our via tour guide, they were finally starting to
clean it up. I think like when we got there
on a Friday, they're just like, it's the weekend and
party and we're not going to really mess with it.

(01:30:23):
Sunday morning they were cleaning everything up, so it was
completely different by Sunday evening, so and then we left
on Monday. But it definitely I loved the whole experience
of being on the cruise ship and how well they
took care of us. It was so nice that they
did my laundry multiple times because when we got there,

(01:30:47):
because it was hot and in Paris. We spent three
and a half days in Paris, walking all over Paris.
Had an amazing time there, but the uh and yet
the very first place I sat down at was cafe
I like to call it Cafe Boo, but it was Buci.
I'm pronouncing it bougie. And I had champagne by the glass,
so I had have three glasses because I rarely get

(01:31:08):
champagne by the glass that they're pouring it at my table,
and I was just like, this is amazing. And I
only had es cargo, so I kind of feel like
it balanced out. But the u that Holy Paris, I
think maybe still a holdover from the Olympics, was extremely clean,
whereas in past times that I've been there, like Paul
and Tony, my husband's son, they were just shocked.

Speaker 8 (01:31:28):
They were like I expected a lot worse. I expect
you to be more like Amsterdam.

Speaker 3 (01:31:31):
I've never been to Paris when it wasn't pouring down
ring and I'm not kidding, I mean pouring down ring Paris.

Speaker 8 (01:31:38):
We had seventy degree weather, like seventy degrees.

Speaker 3 (01:31:41):
Because they are very smug about not having air conditioning
in France.

Speaker 8 (01:31:45):
And it was perfect. Our room hotel room did our
hotel was amazing.

Speaker 9 (01:31:49):
And then but after walking all over those still like
I needed to do laundry.

Speaker 3 (01:31:53):
And then we went to Bosle.

Speaker 8 (01:31:54):
So we took the Swiss rail train to Bosle, which.

Speaker 3 (01:31:57):
Is so lovely, isn't it.

Speaker 9 (01:31:58):
It was really hot on that train way, oh yes,
and I don't think that that particular cabin got the
message that was really hot outside. So when we finally
got there and it was too expensive to do my
laundry at the Basle Marriot we stayed at, so I
was like, well.

Speaker 8 (01:32:14):
I know I get laundry on Unit World.

Speaker 9 (01:32:16):
Yeah ship, So but as soon as we roll in,
like my son needs me, we need sight to daundry.
That was my first day I did laundry, and then
after that they did my laundry for me and it
was amazing, delightful.

Speaker 3 (01:32:26):
Somebody has a follow up question, Mandy, is the Jilapino
is still frozen going in the wine? Yes?

Speaker 9 (01:32:32):
I mean ideally, like I drive up from Colorado Springs,
so I kept it on ice, so it was it
was not by the time I threw it in, but.

Speaker 8 (01:32:40):
It was still slightly frozen.

Speaker 3 (01:32:41):
Yeah, I want to talk about very quickly the rest
of your trip, because news flash. After Crystal went on
this trip, we announced well, I told her, oh my gosh,
that's the next Mandy Coddle adventure. Only we're not going
in the middle of summer because I have made a
solemn vowed to never go back to Europe in the
summer again, much like I've now added never go back
to Japan in the middle of summer again. So we're

(01:33:02):
going in October of twenty twenty six. And the reason
I say it like that is this, you have plenty
of time to make payments on this trip. It is
going to be spectacular. We are going to be aboard
the Emerald Don. But I've already been to a bunch
of these cities, so I am super excited to take
my husband and my daughter because they have not been
to any of these cities. But we're starting in Switzerland.

(01:33:24):
We're starting in Zurich, and we're going to Lake Lucern
and we're spending the night in Lake Lucern, which you've
been to before.

Speaker 8 (01:33:29):
Stern is beautiful. I've been there a couple times before.

Speaker 3 (01:33:31):
We go to Basel, Switzerland and hop on the Emerald
Don and then we are visiting. I don't want to
see which one of these you stopped at, so we
stop at. The first stop is in Freeburg, which is
like the capital of the Black Forest, which is stunningly beautiful.

Speaker 9 (01:33:45):
Did we did an excursion in the Black Forest. We
went to one of the the We went to the
world's largest cuckoo clock, and we met the guy that
builds him, and he's still he runs the whole place.
He gave us some cheery snaps when we arrive, of course,
and that's where we taste it forst Cake. That was
all fantastic and I think that was like his separate excursion, right,

(01:34:05):
But I'm so.

Speaker 8 (01:34:06):
Glad we did that.

Speaker 3 (01:34:07):
So that was.

Speaker 8 (01:34:07):
Yeah, that was a beautiful tour.

Speaker 3 (01:34:09):
Then we're going to Kiel in Strasburg, which of Strasburg
has the you know, you can go to the Sound
of Music whatever, but there's so much other stuff in
Strasburg that I'd rather do.

Speaker 8 (01:34:20):
No, no, no, that's Salzburg.

Speaker 9 (01:34:21):
Oh, you're RIGHTBG Strasburg's in France and right it's a
very Germanic styled We did go there. I did a
walking tour of Strasburg as well. They beautiful city. I
had been there before as well, but we were there
on a Sunday morning, so everything was closed, so you
can't really do any shopping or wat tasting or anything.

Speaker 8 (01:34:39):
But yeah, it was a beautiful city.

Speaker 3 (01:34:41):
Then we go to one of my favorite towns in Germany, Heidelberg.
There's a massive castle there. But now because of Crystal,
I have to find out about a vinegar tour.

Speaker 8 (01:34:50):
Yes, you need to do the vinegar tour because that was.

Speaker 3 (01:34:52):
Are they famous for vinegar and Heidelberg? Is that a thing?
I know it's not.

Speaker 9 (01:34:55):
This one's not in Heidelberg where the vinegar is. That's
like the morning that was our morning excursion that we did.

Speaker 8 (01:35:02):
And this this place was just kind of in.

Speaker 3 (01:35:04):
The middle of Wershine.

Speaker 9 (01:35:06):
Yeah, it was just in the middle of all these
vineyards and that's just what this particular family decided to
make and it's the most That vinegar was insanely delicious.

Speaker 8 (01:35:16):
I'm so glad we did that vinegar tour.

Speaker 3 (01:35:18):
So then we're going to Copeland's. Copeland's a UNESCO World
Heritage Site in the Upper Rine Valley.

Speaker 8 (01:35:24):
Copelands unlike Strasbourg.

Speaker 9 (01:35:26):
So in Strasburg you're kind of when you dock, it's
not like the prettiest site, so they'll probably put you
on a bus to go into city, whereas Copelanz, you
are right there in the city.

Speaker 8 (01:35:35):
And when I.

Speaker 9 (01:35:36):
Got off and I was just doing my morning walking
my steps in, I ended up walking through like there's
this place where you can see where the Rhine meets
the Moselle River, and that's where I wanted to go.

Speaker 8 (01:35:47):
But they were having like a job fare for all
our high.

Speaker 9 (01:35:49):
School teenager students German students that were out bebopping around,
and so I'm just walking around taking all the you know,
I'm looking at the they.

Speaker 8 (01:35:57):
Had like the radio station there and.

Speaker 9 (01:35:58):
They're talking about Germany and playing all this music and
stuff like this is awesome. But right there in cope
Blentz they have part of the Berlin Wall. Oh nice,
and like most people are oblivious so that it's the
Berlin Wall, but it's like right there where the cruise
shipstock and you can easily, I mean, you just get
off and you start walking around.

Speaker 10 (01:36:16):
I loved Cope Blentz, so it was beautiful. Then we
go to Cologne and do so torf Cologne. Cologne has
her heart. The church in Cologne has one Crystal's heart.
And I told her, I'm like, go to Vienna. There's
churches just like that, like everywhere crazy.

Speaker 8 (01:36:29):
And it's funny.

Speaker 9 (01:36:30):
Our whole trip, we went into four different Notre Dames. Yeah,
we went to the you know, the og on Il
de lasste in Paris. But then I saw one that
had been bombed and partially destroyed for the Battle of
Saint Low during the Normandy invasions, and so to see
that and like how they kind of dealt with it
because they never rebuilt a tower that was you know,
torn down them right.

Speaker 8 (01:36:48):
It's fantastic. But this the tower in Cologne.

Speaker 9 (01:36:51):
When we happened to be there was a a holy
day in the Catholic Church and so the archbishop was
in town, so they were holding all these masses. So
we had all these choirs singing, you had all these
different parishes coming from around Central Europe to come celebrate Mass,
and the bells just started pealing.

Speaker 3 (01:37:07):
Yeah, oh my gosh.

Speaker 9 (01:37:08):
And so we have to go back to Cologne so
that we can go inside to see it, because that
is just an amazing feat of architecture.

Speaker 3 (01:37:14):
And then we end up in Amsterdam, which I hope
is going to be all cleaned down the tidy as
it was when I was there, and then we fly home.
So that's our trip. We're going on a different cruise line.
We're going on the Emerald Dawn for no other reason
other than UNI World, which is who Christal went on
and who we've been on before they changed their policy
about group trips, so it's no reflection of that. But

(01:37:34):
Emerald is also a fabulous luxury trip, because all of
these trips are luxury. I just want to let you
guys know, if you want to go on this trip,
go to Mandyconnell trip dot com. That's Mandyconnell trip dot com.
We already have people booked on this trip from former trips,
so don't sleep on this. I don't know how many
cabins we have, and it's going to be amazing and
I hope you guys can all go on vacation with us.
I'm really looking forward to it. Like I said, I'm

(01:37:56):
super excited to go back to Switzerland cannot wait to
go back.

Speaker 9 (01:38:00):
To Ti restaurand ten stars would do again and probably
will do again because we already put down a deposita
teamn sins.

Speaker 3 (01:38:08):
Tell your story of the private chef.

Speaker 8 (01:38:10):
Oh okay, yeah, so this is.

Speaker 3 (01:38:13):
We're not doing this on the Mandy Jill. You got
thirty seconds.

Speaker 9 (01:38:15):
Hey, private chef in Normandy. He's a British guy that
my mom has a huge crush on, and he was
amazing and just just delightful.

Speaker 3 (01:38:23):
You tried to make reservations at his restaurant but it
was closed, was closed, and he what invited you guys
over for a private lunch?

Speaker 9 (01:38:29):
Sent me an email and he's like, hey, you want
to come over for lunch? And I mean it was pricey,
but it was totally worth it and we're now friends.
So yeah, reps, we're going to do it again.

Speaker 3 (01:38:37):
All right, So go to Mandyconnell trip dot com, get
yourself some hot frozen jalapenos, drop them in a glass
and saw Onny Holk or have it apparol sprits this
weekend and celebrate summer. Yes, because it is here. Alrighty
you ready to play?

Speaker 8 (01:38:51):
Sure?

Speaker 3 (01:38:51):
And now it's time for the most exciting segment, all
the radio of it's kind in the world. I've a day,
all right, So we've had some real groaners in the
dad joke department over the last couple, well, the last week. Yes,
even tough. Yes, So what is today? God? What kind

(01:39:12):
of car does a Jedi drive? Shut up? A Jetta?
I was gonna say, toyoda. Ah, I get it, toyyo,
toy yoda. Stop it?

Speaker 5 (01:39:28):
All right?

Speaker 3 (01:39:29):
What is our word of the day? Please? A ver
a verb? Dad ad g a dad not egadd gad
to gad something. Yes, it's goad. I'm gonna say, to
make fun of kind of rib a little bit, give
him a little, give him a little guff. Hey, think

(01:39:49):
all of what she said, but none of it?

Speaker 8 (01:39:51):
Okay, Uh, I'm gonna I'm gonna guess it's to guess.

Speaker 4 (01:39:56):
Oh, to move restlessly or aimlessly from one place to another?

Speaker 3 (01:40:01):
Is that where gadfly comes from? Maybe? Okay, here's our
trivia question. This is so easy. I'm gonna be very
disappointed if we don't all get the answer. Who voices
the titular character in the twenty twenty two Disney Pixar
film Light Year, An origin story for the fictional astronaut
Buzz light Year from the toy strem in America.

Speaker 2 (01:40:22):
Chris Evans.

Speaker 3 (01:40:24):
Chris Evans because Tim Allen was too conservative for Disney anyway.
All right, wwan, yogi me? What is our jeopardy catinal?

Speaker 8 (01:40:32):
Even know why I play this game?

Speaker 3 (01:40:33):
Do you want to play a game? Let's play a game.
Let's do it.

Speaker 4 (01:40:37):
Okay, so we're actually going to play D and D.
Guess it's time to select the DM. This person, man,
Crystal May.

Speaker 3 (01:40:44):
Here's the dungeon master. Correct.

Speaker 4 (01:40:46):
On a monopoly board, a question mark marks the three
spaces labeled this Crystal, Crystal?

Speaker 8 (01:40:52):
What is chance?

Speaker 3 (01:40:53):
That is great?

Speaker 4 (01:40:53):
Dang it. If you lose your last territory in this game,
you're eliminated.

Speaker 3 (01:40:58):
What's risk? Correct? Hate that game too? And is it
stratag go? Do you play that game?

Speaker 4 (01:41:06):
That don't The pieces that don't move are the bombs
and this The object of the game is to capture
your opponents.

Speaker 3 (01:41:15):
I have no idea. I've never played that game. Capture
the is it the flag?

Speaker 8 (01:41:19):
Crystal?

Speaker 3 (01:41:20):
What is the flat? Crystal? Said her name? The point? Correct?
Is that three to one?

Speaker 2 (01:41:25):
That's two two to two?

Speaker 4 (01:41:26):
You get sixty seconds to guess your teammates sketch in
this game?

Speaker 3 (01:41:31):
Oh man, rock paper scissors? Ready? And oh no, we
got to do three? Three? Ready? Three? Oh I did
it wrong again? One more in crystal, one more, dude? Three?
There we go? Who won me? Okay, what is it?
What's the I forgot the question? Remember what is pictionary? Correct?

(01:41:54):
I really did forget the question and they did thirty seconds.
You're about to lose between kim asking it and rock
paper scissoring wrong late on my.

Speaker 8 (01:42:03):
Part account, I should get an extra point or quarter
point or something for that.

Speaker 3 (01:42:10):
Probably I can't even argue with that point. That's actually
quite right. Okay, guys, go have a great weekend. We're
gonna be back on Monday. I don't know if we
have a single thing planned for Monday, but I will.
Oh yeah, you're gonna have the full review, so we'll see.
Uh what what a Rod thinks of that? I just
want everybody to happy, happy, safe weekend. Stay inside in

(01:42:31):
the air conditioning if you can, or go out and
do something fun, but drink lots of water, and when
you get back April splitts it up. Just the drink
of summer ladies and germs. Thank you win yogi. Oh,
by the way, I put a blog posting with all
this information on the win yogi on the blog at
Mandy's blog dot com. I forgot to say that we'll
be back on Monday.

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