07-12-24 FULL SHOW - The Old Man Does Well Enough, and a Mission Lead Coffee Shop

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three Mandy Connell keeping sad things.Welcome. We welcome to a Friday edition
of the show all together now.Whooo, that's right, We and me
meaning Mandy Connell and him meeting MichaelCooper in for a roddy. He's got
the day off today. We willtake you right up until three o'clock where

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KOA Sports will take over. AndO m G. Did you guys watch
the press conference yesterday? I watchedabout three quarters of it and then I
couldn't take any more anyways, Sooh I watched the rest of you this
morning. I saw the weird yellingabout the gun, the what was?

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What was? What was happening?My goodness. So let me talk about
the blog and then we'll jump intothat, because obviously we have things to
talk about there. Find the blogby going to mandy'sblog dot com. That's
mandy'sblog dot com. Then scroll downto latest posts and look for the headline
that says seven twelve twenty four blogThe Old man does well enough and a

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mission led coffee shop. Click onthat and here are the headlines you will
find within. I did some missingoffice happen? American all the ships and
clipments and say that's got a pressplat today on the blog yesterday made the
Dems coup much harder? Uh,scrolling a timeline of media malfeasans in hiding
Joe's decline, Scrolling a coffee shopand a resting mission. A majority of

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voters find our candidates embarrassing. DenverPublic Schools is asking for money too?
How to make housing more affordable?If you're gonna be stupid, you better
be tough. Radio edition. Ashakeup at CBS News vindicates Catherine Harritch.
Could a ceasefire be in reach?No juicing isn't healthy? One hundred years

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of making fun of vegetarians at andT phone customers just got hacked. How
nature created red rocks? If youuse rideshare to go to coursefield? How
about a little snowtubing this weekend breakingnews. There's a new Bluebell ice cream
flavor. Be careful what you teachyour puppies. Always be aware of a
hot mic. Ladies, this oneis for you. I love this so

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much about choosing this could be myolder sons. What is the greatest invention
in history? Nearly half of cancerdesk could be prevented if we made lifestyle
changes. And steak and nail isback baby. Those are the headlines on
the blog at mandy'sblog dot com.And yesterday, roughly an hour behind schedule,

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two hours from the initial schedule,our president, President Joe Biden,
came out for what is sure tobe called the most consequential press conference in
the world. Yesterday, our presidenthad to come out and do a press
conference. He had to deliver remarksabout the NATO summit, which just finished

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that day, and everybody in theentire world was going to be watching to
see if he could get through thiswithout screwing up. Earlier in the day,
if you missed it, he introducedPresident Vladimir Zelenski of Ukraine as President

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Putin, who he is currently atwar with. Now, that was awkward.
I have seen multiple videos of theworld leaders behind him, their faces
as he introduces President Zelenski as PresidentPutin. There, I mean, everybody's
kind of like, uh, youdon't know what to do? Uh do
we uh? And then of course, Iiden came up and corrected himself.

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Now, in a vacuum, thatkind of slip up is not a big
deal. It's not a problem.It happens all the time. It happens
in our daily lives. Most ofus are just chatting with other people when
we misspeak, and it's not amplifiedto the rest of the world. But
this is not in a vacuum.This is after the most disastrous debate performance
in the history of debate performances,and everybody was watching and is watching,

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and every little misstep, every gaff, every misspeak, every stumble, every
robotic turn is going to be analyzedto death until the day of the election.
So yesterday we're watching this press conferenceand like four or five people start
texting me at once making some commentslike, oh, here we go.

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And the consensus was, yesterday JoeBiden really created the biggest possible disaster for
Democrats, and that is he wasgood enough to kind of quell the rebellion
for now, but not good enoughto convince anyone who just saw what he
was doing at the debate. Andmore importantly, you guys, since the

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debate, this has been the entirenews cycle. This is all anyone has
been talking about. So even themillions of people, and I think the
debate ended up being like fifty onefifty two million people watched it, so
the other you know, two hundredand seventy million people in the country did
not see the debate, but thecoverage of it was all negative for Joe

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Biden. And it has been relentless. It has been absolutely relentless. And
so you have a situation now whereyesterday, if Joe Biden had absolutely come
out and been an absolute disaster,because as he was pontificating about very yesterday
was an opportunity for him to showhis foreign policy chops, which is really

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kind of funny when you think aboutit, because he takes credit for bringing
Finland into NATO, but though hewas part of a group of leaders who
did that, he did not dothat on his own. And on the
flip side, Trump, because yesterdayturned into a political rally, this this
NATO speech and press conference, itturned into a political rally for Joe Biden,

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and he was trying to draw aline between himself and Donald Trump when
it comes to foreign policy, andJoe Biden talked about, you know how
things bringing Finland into NATO. AndI thought it was interesting that he pointed
out the timeline before Vladimir Putin rolledinto Ukraine. You may remember during that

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timeline, it was when our presidentgave the edict to VLADIMR. Putin.
Don't that was what he said publicly, don't, and yet Vladimir Putin did,
and here we are. So he'strying to draw a contrast in comparison
between he and Donald Trump. Andoh, did I forget to mention that

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during Donald Trump's administration, multiple Arabnations normalized ties with Israel called the Abraham
Accords. You guys heard of that. Yeah, it's kind of a well,
it wasn't really that big a dealbecause it happened during his administration,
but it was incredibly historic and thebenefits of that are still being felt even

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in this time of tension. Sothat's kind of a big deal. And
then, oh, there's that otherpart when Biden said he's going to blow
up NATO since Donald Trump became presidentand started talking about the fact that a
vast majority of NATO nations were notliving up to their side of the deal

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when it came to defense spending.As a part of GDP. There was
a floor set and that was twopercent. That's the floor, not the
top end the floor. And DonaldTrump called out all these other NATO nations
who have been spending money on everythingbut their defense and said, you guys
need to pony up. Oh oh, hang on, We've got some breaking

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news with Kathy Walker about the firein Boulder. What do you have for
me, Cathy. We have awildfire reported in Boulder near end car.
This is off some of the mostpopular hiking trails just west of Boulder,
the Mallory Cave Trail area, veryvery popular area. Wildfire reported their Boulder
police are asking people not to callnine one one. They know there's a

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fire. They are responding again,this would not be immediate danger to homes,
Mandy, but certainly to anyone who'sout there recreating hiking on the trail.
So I'm guessing they're saying, don'tcall about that fire. But if
you see fire, call, Butif you don't see fire, he smoked.
Maybe No, they really they knowthere's a fire there responding they just

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don't want five hundred calls going tosee the smoke. So Boulder, Yeah,
they do, they do. They'reon it. And we'll try and
get more information right away. Butagain, super hot day. You would
think there's not a lot of peopleout there hiking right now, but it's
a super popular hiking area just offa van car. All right, thank
you, Kathy Walker will have moreon that at the bottom of the hour
News. So. I was talkingabout the difference between Donald Trump and Joe

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Biden. He was trying to laythis out in yesterday's press conference, and
he did. I mean he did. There were certain parts of the press
conference where he seemed to have somemastery of what he was talking about.
Before he would kind of drift offand anyways, but it was good enough
to stop the people with knives out, but not good enough to win.

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And everybody knows it. So I'mtexting with all my friends back and forth.
I'm trying to get my train ofthought here again. So work with
me here, people. So I'mtexting back and forth with a lot of
people, and we were kind ofhaving that discussion, like is he going
to is he going to be thecandidate? And I said, this guy's
not leaving. He thinks he isone of the greatest presidents of all time.

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Because that's what people keep saying.As they were buttering him up trying
to woo him out of the WhiteHouse, they were saying, over and
over, he's the most consequential,most most effective president in our lifetimes,
best ever, And he just believeshis own press. He's not going anywhere.

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That press conference was an active defiance, not just more for his party
than the Republican Party, that's forsure. That was a giant middle finger.
He really believes he's as sharp asattack. He's your grandpa that when
you go and say, hey,hey, grandpa, I noticed the sixteen
new dents in the car since lastI saw you. Maybe it's time to

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stop driving. It's everybody else's vault. I drive fine, that's exactly what
what's going on. Only this guy'srunning the United States of America, not
a plymouth. I chose an oldermodel card just to you know, go
with it. Anyway. So yesterdaywas bad because now they can't get Joe

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Biden out, And the conversation viamy text messages then went into do you
think he's going to make it?And if not, how do the Democrats
get him out? And I said, you know, after the convention,
it's really really hard unless he diesor is completely physically incapacitated. At that

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point, maybe you'd have a glidepath for Kamala to go to the But
he's not going to step down,you guys. Not unless they have some
kind of blackmail on him. Notunless they promise that Hunter's going to go
to jail for fifty years. Ifhe doesn't, you know, step aside
and prove how they can do it. And by the way, I believe
they could do it. So it'sthis is just insane. Now some of

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the headlines today we're very entertaining.The Atlantic, which is a reliably left
leaning magazine. They are I callthem pretty. They're not far left by
today's far left standards. They usedto be far left in my view,
but now they're like middle of theroad far left, if that's a thing.
But in the Atlantic today there isa headline A stubborn old narcissist ambles

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toward disaster, and that's from aleft leaning magazine. We now have Chuck
Todd throwing the president and himself underthe bus multiple times, and it's frustrating
as hell that this is where weare. I have a story on the

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blog today from Pew Pugh. Pewthe polling company, A vast majority of
US are actually embarrassed that these arethere are are candidate. Sixty three percent
of Americans say the choices are embarrassing. A friend of mine is going to
Europe and I said, hu,huh wait until you get there. Actually,

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coover, did anybody ask you aboutthe presidential election when you were travel
around Europe recently? They did not? Did you ever? I mean,
well, did you talk to likepeople that were driving you places and things
like that? Those are the peoplethat always get the best stuff. We
talked to some people, but itnever really got political at all. Well,
everywhere we go, maybe I justhave a look that says talk politics
to me. I don't know.Everywhere we go people are like, really,

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these guys they're the best. Well, sixty three percent of Americans agree.
And here's the thing. The onlyway you get to sixty three percent
is Democrats think of Donald Trump whenthey say yes, and Republicans think of
Joe Biden when they say yes.So it's I would generally speak, probably

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the other guy is terrible, right, That's how this always works. What's
funny about this is both guys areequally embarrassing, which is kind of interesting
negative traits. I'm looking at thispositive traits is said, what are the
positive traits of these presidents? Percentof registered voters who say blank describes each

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candidate well or fairly well. Sothink about this. The percentage of registered
voters who say mentally sharp describes Bidenand Trump. Fifty eight percent of voters
said Trump is mentally sharp, twentyfour percent said Biden is mentally sharp.

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Thirty six percent said Trump is honest. Biden fared a bit better. Forty
eight percent said he is Forty ninepercent of people said that Biden cares about
the needs of ordinary people, andonly forty four percent said that about Trump
negative traits. Thirty percent said Bidenis mean spirited. Sixty four percent agreed

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about Trump. But here's where thetwo men are tied. Sixty three percent
said Biden is embarrassing and sixty threepercent said Trump is embarrassing. We're about
to elect a president that one wayor another, we're gonna have to explain
for the next four years, andeverybody's gonna standard already know how this is

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gonna go. You're gonna be ata party and then somebody's gonna be like,
what the heck is with this president, regardless of who it is,
there's gonna be somebody here what whatthe heck, And you're gonna be like,
look, I did not vote forthat, you know, So whatever
happens, we're just rolling the diceand hoping for the best. Anyway.

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By the way, in that samepoll, Trump leads Biden forty four to
forty while seventeen percent say they're gonnasupport r FK Junior. And if they
just narrow it to Biden and Trump, Trump holds a slow edge fifty percent
favor Trump while forty seven percent favorBiden. And when you look at this

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from this perspective, that means thatRFK Junior is peeling away slightly more from
Joe Biden. And I mean barelyanything. Slightly more away from Joe Biden.
I wonder how and I did notput this blog, this story on
the blog today. RFK Junior's campaignhas now collected enough signatures to appear on

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the candidate our ballot as an independentcandidate. He has also cut a deal
with the Libertarian Party to be theircandidate on the ballot here in Colorado,
so he could potentially be on theballot twice. Now, I don't think
that alone is going to get hima whole bunch of, you know,
other votes. But in a statelike Colorado, where we have so many

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young people, we have so manyindependents who don't necessarily feel an allegiance to
the party. They may vote withDemocrats a lot, but they don't feel
an allegiance to the Democratic Party.They don't want to vote for Joe Biden
because he's like their grandpa is morewith it than he is, and they
don't want their grandpa to be president. They want somebody young, they want

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fresh blood, they want someone morelike them. And are they going to
go to RFK Junior? He's notthat much younger than they, Kooper,
Can you find out how old RFKJunior is real quick for me? We'll
do so use the Google because you'renot that much younger. I wonder how
that works in Colorado and isn't enough? And this is going to sound so

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absolutely insane. I realize it beforeI say it. He's seventy, so
he's no spring chicken, but hedefinitely other than the way he sounds,
which we all heard on this program, and we investigated with doctor David Opperman
I wonder how he's going to playhere, and if he plays strongly enough

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to throw the race for one sideor the other. We can have that
conversation on the other side of this. But I also have other things I
have to I had to just foundout right before the show. I had
to reschedule my coffee guest today.And I'm excited to talk to Dan Claim
from Convict Coffee very soon, butwe've got to reschedule him when we get
back. Denver Public Schools is askingfor money. Denver is asking for money

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our taxpayers. When do you guyssay enough or do you follow on the
second category that will always vote forhigher taxes that I'm going to talk about
after this at the bottom of thetext line today woohoo, it's Friday.
I can't I can't understand the wordsin that intro the song. Is it
the song that you're talking about?The new song? And then two lines
up from that day, num numnumb numb. You guys are the best,

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thanks haha, and then had totell you, Mandy, I woke
up yesterday at four thirty am andguess what song was playing in my head?
Yep, your new theme song.Thanks for that. Ah, I'll
publish the words on Monday. Ihave them. I'm just not going to
do it right now. This isvery catchy, very very catchy. Let's
just say that a lot of you. First of all. The other thing

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about the text line is that Isee things and I think, to myself,
did I say that just now?But I don't think I did.
Someone actually says, I am astonishedyou want to see Harris in the White
House. But I mean, I'munless I had a complete stroke for like
five minutes and that that was notanything. That nothing, There was nothing

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like that that I said nothing.So I don't know what you thought you
heard, but no, Mandy Moneyis on Biden having a stroke. That
in our text message stream was goingback and forth. And then I said
to one of my friends, Isaid, can you even believe that we
are having a serious conversation where withinthe framework of the conversation we are saying

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things like do you think the Democratswill take him out? And we weren't
talking about impeachment or the twenty fifthAmendment. And I thought to myself,
this is crazy. This should bea conspiracy theory, but it's not.
A lot of you are saying somevariation of this, Mandy, and this.
I have this from the other sideas well, Mandy. I've been
a reliably Democratic voter for my wholetime that I could vote, and both

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of them are embarrassing. Joe Bidenis embarrassing. Donald Trump is embarrassing.
Donald Trump is a lot more frighteningthan Joe Biden for a lot of reasons.
But they're both embarrassing. Okay,Joe Biden is embarrassing to Democrats.
I would take issue from your perspective. Donald Trump is scarier because probably I'm
guessing because of the man himself.For me, Joe Biden is much scarier

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for two reasons. Number One,who are you actually voting for if you
vote for Joe Biden? Because doyou really believe he's running the country?
I don't. I do not.I don't have any problem. I don't
have any kind of worry about sayingthat, because I do not believe he's
running the company. Might between tenand four in you know, ten am

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to four pm, maybe he is, but certainly not after five. But
for me, the policies of JoeBiden and what they're doing to this country
are far more destructive and far scarierto me than the culture personality of Trump,
because I believe in our checks andbalances here in the United States of
America. You saw it happen onJanuary sixth, and I know that sounds

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like a funny thing to say becauseof what happened on January sixth, But
ultimately, the end result of Januarysixth was that Congress certified the vote.
It was delayed, but they stillthat same day certified the vote. Our
system worked. It was ugly,it was not the way it's supposed to
be, but it worked right.And so for Trump to become this kind

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of dictator that the Left keeps sayinghe's going to become, you have to
say you have zero faith in anyof the levers of government to control such
an event from happening. I do. I haven't seen that the military will
turn on the American people on behalfof Donald Trump. I haven't seen.

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Well, we have seen things likethe IRS and the FBI weaponized against American
citizens, but that's happening under theBiden administration, not the Trump administration.
The other part of this is oneof the things that I mean, even
the left has to admit the bureaucracyof Washington, d C. Hates Donald
Trump. You can call it thebureaucracy, you can call it the deep

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state, you can call it whateveryou want. But we labor under the
illusion that we elect people to representus and they're running things. The people
that are running things in DC arethe people that never leave DC because they
are part of the bureaucracy, notpart of the elected class. They're the
ones that are can controlling pretty mucheverything. And during the Trump administration,

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which department would you say felt likeit was in the bag for Donald J.
Trump? Was it the Department ofJustice, where we know the FBI
lied on Feiser warrants and made stuffup and took a dossier that they already
knew was paid for by the HillaryClinton campaign and use that to start an
investigation that they knew was a liefrom the very beginning. Were they on

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Trump's side? No, didn't.We have tax returns leaked from someone in
the irs, so they're not onhis side. Maybe the Department of Agricultures
in the bag. I don't know. So for me, Donald Trump is
bombastic, He's a lot of things, But I believe in the system,

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and I believe in the checks andbalances that are in place to keep him
from doing anything insane. And unfortunately, the same people that are going to
check the worst impulses of Donald Trumpare what's the word I'm looking for,
enabling Joe Biden right now? So, yeah, you can be scared of

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the man Trump, but when youget right down to it, I want
you to think this out. Doyou really think Trump's going to become a
dictator? Because I don't. He'ssimply not popular enough. Do you think
that Biden could become a dictator?Why not? We now know that a
lot of people in Washington, DC, at a bare minimum, didn't even
ask the question of why the presidentwas nowhere to be found? Where's the

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president? Cabinet members haven't had acabinet meeting since last October, and no
one in the news media is like, hey, why haven't there been any
cabinet meetings? Nobody asked the question. Now we know from Chuck Todd that
this is the nonversation, the opensecret in Washington DC. He has the

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deep state, he has the bureaucracybecause they're all union members and they want
to keep their jobs, so they'regoing to go with the party of big
government. That's the story as oldas time. This is why Democrats in
Denver right now are trying to makeit easier for city workers to unionize.
Now, I want you to thinkabout this. People unionized because their bosses

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have presented them with such unbearable conditionsthat they decide to ask to collectively bargain
in order to get better terms fortheir miserable existences. The Denver City Council
has now said to more city workerswho ostensibly work for the city council in
a way that they're telling them,go ahead and unionize. The way it

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is that the union is just abig griff. Now it's hey, we're
going to get you more union membersand then you're going to give us bigger
donations because unions only donate to Democrats. So, you know, I can
appreciate that you have concerns about DonaldTrump. Trust me, I do too,
But to act like someone specifically JoeBiden is devoid of the potential for

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great fears because, honestly, likeI said, the biggest one, we
don't know who's actually running the countrywhen he's there. At least with Trump,
you're pretty sure, Yeah, misterboombastic word up. Excuse me,
mister officer, word up. Yeah. Yeah. Everybody loves checks and balances

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until something they love gets checked.Amen to that. Don't we see that
on all of these Supreme Court cases. If they go the wrong way,
then everything is broken and must becompletely replaced. Mandy, would you please
explain to me and the viewers andto the listeners what policies Trump passed.
Uh, we can start with taxcuts, and then we can go into

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the regulatory reforms that happened under DonaldTrump, where if you added a new
regulation, you had to remove twofrom the books. Now that sounds crazy,
but the cost of the cost ofdealing with regulations is a huge part
of business. That's too right offthe top of my head. Give me
a second. I'll be back withmore on something put out by the Trump

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White House and it's archive and it'sa list of Trump's achievements and some of
them are things that you know,up things about the economy in his administration.
It was the lowest level of unemploymentfor blacks and Hispanics and things of
that nature, which are consequences ofpolicy. Because economic growth is not created

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by government, but government can steinyit or government can get out of the
way and allow the private sector todo what it does right, create things
and build things and sell things,and you know, then the government takes
the clip just for existing. Sobut there's a ton of stuff any here,
A shockingly large number of things thatI had forgotten about, especially when

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it comes to trade agreements that hethat he upended across the world, and
for the most part, they haveall been seen as very beneficial for American
manufacturing, for American production, andAmerican trade. There's a ton of stuff
here. I'm just saying, Iconsider and read till the end of the
show, and if I just readall of them, and some of them,

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like I said, are things thatare the end results of different economic
policies, and some of them,frankly, they just happened, and they
could have happened or not happened,depending on his presidency. But I was
shocked of how many there were,and good ones. I want to answer
these. You can google yourself,Texter, what are your thoughts on?
Kennedy asked this, Texter. Okay, So Robert F. Kennedy came on

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the show and we had an incrediblyinteresting conversation. He was unlike any other
presidential candidate I've ever interviewed other thanMitt Romney in that every other candidate I've
interviewed, and I've probably interviewed fifteenpresidential candidates since two thousand and eight,

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Okay, and they all just stayon talking points. He and Mitt Romney
were the only two that just hada conversation with me and answered my questions
and didn't try to spin it orgive me some bloviaty blah. The only
thing I thought he spun was hetried to downplay his past anti vaxxer stewardship.
He is. He has been anoted anti vaxxer, not just about

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the COVID vaccine, but about allvaccines for like a decade now, and
he tried to kind of soft pedalthat. But when I listened to his
policy positions, I very very muchagreed with him about a lot of stuff,
and a lot of my listeners whoheard that interview agreed as well.
And this is going to sound soshallow that don't hate me, but this

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is accurate. A lot of peoplewill not vote for him because of his
voice. He has a conditioned dysphonicI can't remember the other part of it.
We actually talked to my voice doctorabout it, and there are ways
to fix it. But he doctorOpperman has been to through you know,
secondhand sources or read somewhere that hechose not to have the botox injections that

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could probably help his voice because hedoesn't want a toxin in his body,
which I get. But he's veryhard to listen to and that is a
big turn off for shallow voters.That being said, when you listen to
what he says, I don't knowif he's going to be able to scrape
off the anti vaxer stuff that he'sdone in the past. It's I think

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less of a problem now that thereare so many people who are regretful and
were harmed by the COVID vaccine.But I just I don't see him pulling
it off. I just don't.And he's having trouble getting on all the
ballots. It is shameful in thiscountry how hard it is to get on
state ballots, and states which you'rerun by Democrats and Republicans make it so

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hard for a candidate, even aviable candidate like RFK Junior, to get
on the ballot. Realize, youdon't want to have a ballot that's thirty
pages long full of people that noone's ever heard of. I get that,
but there's got to be some kindof middle ground where you can set
some standards about someone has to bepolling at this level nationwide, you have

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to raise this much money from smallmoney donors, and then kind of just
say, okay, at this point, there you go. You're on the
ballot. You can do it whenwe get back the same year. He
ate a dog, says the text. Or he did not eat a dog.
He made a joke about eating adog. And if you haven't talked
to someone going to South Korea andnot made a joke about eating a dog,

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we can't be friends. Okay.My husband's dog when I married him,
we called her kk. She wasa black lab. Her actual name
was kagogi, which is the Koreandish of dog, because Chuck wanted to
let her know that if she actedup, there were options. Yep,

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but I can't remember what he's holding. But that was he was not eating
that dog. That was not athing that happened. Oh it was goat.
I believe he said he was ona camping trip. Who will be
the best in cases for agriculture outof the three. I do know that
Trump did do some stuff for agriculture, but I don't know anything about Biden's
agriculture policy. So I don't feellike I can give you a good answer

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there. I know nothing about rfk'sagriculture policy, nothing at all. You're
gonna have to look it up yourself. Texture we will be back,
and when we get back, we'regoing to talk about taxes and Denver.
We're going to talk about Oh it'snot shouten Frauda, but I have a
story about a competing radio company andmy headline, if you're gonna be stupid,

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you better be tough. Radio edition. I'll explain after this. The
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no sad babe. All right,we are back. Welcome, Welcome,
Welcome for the second hour of theshow. So the text line has sort
of turned into and asked me anythingsort of thing. So there's a few
text messages I want to respond to. You can join in at five,
six, six, nine, Ohso Lucy Goosey kind of Friday show,

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this one says, and I justwant to respond to this specifically. We
know you're not a big Trump fan. You tried to get him off the
ballot. You Texter are confusing mewith my friend and colleague Christa Kaefer,
who has filled in for me onoccasion. She was part of that lawsuit.
I not only did not have anythingto do with that lawsuit, I

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voiced my opposition to it. Ithought the voters should be able to decide,
and they did, and they choseTrump in their Republican primer, So
there you go. But yeah,that was not me, and I thought
that was a fool's errand when itwas filed, so that is on there.
Somebody just asked, Mandy, whatdo you think the chances of World
War three if Biden or Trump getselected? And I've said this before.

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I think it is far more likelythat World War three will break out under
a Biden administration than it would aTrump administration. And I believe that because
Biden has proven on the world stagemultiple times to be an utter disaster on
foreign policy, the precipitous withdrawal fromAfghanistan being one of those and the world

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sees him as a weak leader.You think we all watched that debate.
You don't think they were watching thatin Iran, in China, in Russia.
You don't think they were watching asthe leader of the free world stumbled
and mumble his way through a presidentialdebate. They know who, they know
who's in the White House. Andthen on the other side you got Donald

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Trump, who is a complete wildcard on so many levels. And if
you have no idea how someone isgoing to respond to something, it is
paralyzing because then you think, mygod, he's just crazy enough to do
something like this, So you don'twant to poke that pair. And I
think that that is part of theI don't know. I think it's a

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core part of Trump's foreign policy,the unpredictability. On the one hand,
he's not afraid to talk tough toour partners in NATO and demand that they
start paying their fair share. Buton the other hand, he's also not
afraid to go and have a photoop with a North Korean dictator, which
I thought was a bad idea,but he did it anyway, And then

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when he didn't get what he wanted, he just pretended like Kim Jung un
stopped easing. Did you guys noticethat I was thinking about this the other
day because of the photo of KimYoung un and Donald Trump popped up on
somewhere what I was looking at,and I thought to myself, you know,
he went over there, there's alot of criticism. His attitude was,
you know, we got to talkto people in order to bring him

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into the fold and see if theycan be made a deal with. Well,
he caught on very very quickly thatNorth Korea was not really serious about
doing anything that would have made thesituation better. And Donald Trump just pretty
much ignored him after that. Thatfor a guy like Kim Young un,
that's that stings. And at thesame time it sort of puts Kim Young

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un on notice that, yeah,we're not afraid of you. We don't
think you're intimidating, we don't feellike you're a world power. It's an
interesting strategy, but it seemed tohave been effective. No major conflagrations broke
out while Donald Trump was president.Russia rolled into Crimea while Obama was in
office. Syria completely melted down whileObama was in office after his big you

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know, red line in the sandcomment, after which he did nothing.
It's Joe Biden over and over again, don't and then doing nothing. So
World War three, I would saythe odds I'm hoping are pretty small,
although you know, you never know. But I do think that that under

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Trump there are dissuading factors around theworld that are probably more significant than there
are with Joe Biden. What arethe odds Trump lives past sixty days of
inauguration? Now, I don't knowwhat you're implying here, Texter. If
you're implying that he is going tobe assassinated or he is going to drop

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dead, I certainly hope the firstis not even in play. But everybody
said, you guys, forget Everybodysaid that before the twenty sixteen election too.
They were like, if Donald Trumpit gets elected, somebody will just
assassinate him. It's such a horriblepart, said horrible posts said, But
it didn't happen. Now, couldhe drop dead? I mean, anybody

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at his age could drop dead.Anybody at my age could drop dead.
So far, so good for him, though. He's built on cheeseburgers and
diet coke, and it seems tobe working out for the guy. Mandy,
any chance Donald Trump goes rogue andasks Nicky Haley to be his VP.
That's very funny that you just broughtthis up, because Roskiminsky and I

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just had this conversation during our switchas I was coming into the studio and
he was leaving. I personally thinkNicky Haley would be a genius pick.
And the other thing Rousin and Iwere talking about is, you know,
Donald Trump has said he's decided whohis VP is, but he hasn't told
anybody. And my guess is,and I said this before, if he'd

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had a bad debate the next day, he would have announced his VP and
it would have sucked all the negativeoxygen out of the air. But because
Biden was getting absolutely clabbered every singleday, Trump is just sitting back,
playing golf and minding his own beeswax. So here's what I anticipate happening.
Roth said, I think he'll announceit Monday, you know, Monday of

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the convention. But why would youBack in two thousand and eight, I
was sitting in a newsroom full ofguys, right, and John McCain was
announcing the vice president his vice president. No one knew who it was,
and all of a sudden, SarahPalin walks out, and I know no
one knew who was coming, becauseall the guys are like, holy crap,

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she's hot. Who is that?And one of my friends who worked
in a different city said, inmy newsroom, we have a picture of
her on the wall, and whenwe talk about hot women, we always
say, yeah, but is shegovernor of Alaska? Hot? He was
the only one who knew who shewas. And I think Trump, because
if there's one thing Donald J.Trump is good at, it is working

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the media to his advantage. Sohere's what I think is gonna happen.
Over the next five days. You'regonna get a drip drip, drip drip
of information. Some of it willbe accurate, some of it will be
a red herring. And I don'tthink if it's Donald Trump's decision, I
don't think we know until they walkout on stage like that, because he

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knows that will just cause a riotthe next day. That kind of stuff
where nobody has time to pre react, nobody has time to uh, you
know. Although if it's Jade Vansor any of these people that are being
bandied about, people are already doingopposition research on them, and if it's
complete surprise, if it's a shockerout of left field, like Nicky Haley,

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then that just that becomes like aconflagration in a good way. I
think that's what Trump is gonna do. I think he's gonna milk it out
this week. It's gonna become agame of who's he gonna pick? Who's
he not? Here are the contenders. Is he gonna pick one of these?
Or is he gonna go rogue?I don't know, But here's my
question, Texter, if you're NickyHaley, why do you want to be

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VP? Because one of the thingsabout running for president the first time because
many, many many people have failedin their first go round to be president,
many people, Joe Biden being oneof them. So when you run
for president, part of that processthe first time is just building up your
name recognition and starting to create thatbase of people who already know who you

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are. We already know what happenedto Mike Pence's political career after his stint
as Trump's vice president. It isover. He will never work in politics
again unless he decides to run forlike his you know, his town's mayorship
or something like that. His major, big time political career is over and
Nicki Haley has higher aspirations. Iwould love it as a voter because I

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would then be excited about the ticket, and I think that it would go
a long way towards bringing in thenever trumpers who fell into Nicky's camp and
now have nowhere to go. ButI just don't see the side for Nicki
Hayley other than you get to beVP. But I mean, what is
it done for Kamala She's just nowshe's even more unpopular. She was unpopular

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when she ran for president, She'seven more unpopular now. Somebody said,
set up for twenty eight. Butguys, the other thing I know for
certain about Donald J. Trump iswe cannot predict what's going to happen in
the next four years. We don'tknow if that vice president is going to
be tagged in a negative way forher association. I do know this that

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the left will do everything in theirpower to destroy whoever's VP going forward.
This is why I don't understand youngpeople who want this role. JD Vance.
First of all, everybody keeps talkingabout like he's the obvious choice.
He doesn't bring anything to the ticketthat it doesn't already have. And I
like jd Vance, I thought HillbillyElogy was one of the best books I

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had read in a very long time. My husband is from that part of
the country and it truly spoke andhill Billy Elogy, if you haven't read
it, is jd Vance's autobiography ofhis time growing up in Appalachia, very
poor. His mom was addicted toHero when he raised by his grandma.
Maybe he saw the movie, whichwas also really really good, but he
captured that workingman ethos really perfectly becausehe lived it, so he would bring

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that to the ticket. But Ithink he already has working class whites.
He's already got those people. Hedoesn't need another bomb bast on the ticket.
And all Russ was talking about DougBurgham earlier, and Doug Burgham is
boring as hell. Nothing remarkable aboutDoug Burgham in terms of personality. He's
extremely accomplished, built a tech company, he's a billionaire, he ran a

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state. He's got all of theseaccomplishments under his belt. But he's boring
as all hell, as was MikePence, which is why Mike Pence was
chosen when I lived in Louisville andworked for whas. Mike Pence was governor
of Indiana, which is right acrossthe river, so the market was well
into southern Indiana. So we wouldcome on my show with some regularity.
Honestly, so nice, just oneof the nicest people, and he cared

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about the people of Indiana. Hewas just really milk toasts, like there's
Mike Pence. He's the human equivalentof white toast dry. But he was
a counterbalance to the sort of chaosthat Trump brings to everything he does,
and Doug Bergham would be that guy. But maybe Trump has some other feeling

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about it, after the way hefeels like he was treated by Mike Pence.
So I cannot even remotely picture whatis going on in Donald Trump's mind
about this, because I can't thinklike he thinks. And that's not me
slamming Donald Trump and saying I thinkbetter than he does. I just think
differently, and I cannot sometimes wrapmy head around the way he thinks.

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Like just when I think I understandhim a little bit, Donald Trump,
he does something Remain quiet while JoeBiden twists in the wind for two weeks
and I'm surprised and shocked. ChelseaGabbard said, this person, you know
again, I don't know. Itwould certainly be interesting and it would definitely

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be a unity ticket in a waythat we've never seen, but it would
also turn off a lot of thehard right. But again, who are
they gonna vote for if not Trump, Mandy, If it's Ben Carson,
the VP debate will be legendary.Eh. You know what, I remember
Ben Carson in his debates when hewas running for president. He did not
blaze a trail. He was speakingof doll. He was dull, which

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is why he didn't really go thatfar. This person said, I really
really liked Sarah Sanders. She isoutstanding. And I know this is gonna
sound terrible. I think she's toochunky for Trump. He does not like
chunky women. I mean she workedfor him. Yes, but we shall
see, Mandy. If it's warmongerednicky, Trump better get a food taster.

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No, no, stop it,Nikki Haley's not gonna take you know,
you guys, I was reading somethingabout the Roman Empire the other day,
because you know, we've all gotto pay attention to the downfalls of
Roman empire as often as we can. But it was talking about the fact
that in the in the Greek democracythat rose up or the Roman democracy that

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rose up out of this, theydidn't have to worry about tyrants taking over
because generally speaking, if you werein power, you weren't going to be
in power very long because you weregoing to be assassinated pretty soon. So
they didn't have to worry about longterm dictators because somebody was going to drop
a knife in somebody's back. AndI thought to myself, I'm not saying

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that I want this to happen,by the way, don't don't that no
part of this should be that weneed to assassinate people. But there's almost
this feeling that we're going backwards intime in terms of our civility. Cooper,
have you guys on the Sports showtalked at all about the professional slap
fighting competitions that are going on?We have not. Oh have you seen

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this? I've seen it. Yeah, it's pretty wild, it is.
Okay, So it's two usually beefymen and they're standing almost nose to nose
and they just haul off and slapeach other as hard as they can.
Like people are getting brain damage fromthis. It is very controversial, but
when you think about how our entertainmentseems that we go from Boxing is the

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Sweet Science to UFC where I rememberthe first UFC pay per view where a
guy got his leg compound fractured andthe audience was wild. They loved it.
And I'm thinking to myself, arewe are we somehow rolling back our
stabilities so much that we need tostart worrying about people taking out their political
rivals. Yesh to the person whosaid who likes chunky women, Well,

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there's a lot of people out therewho like chunky women because there's a lot
of chunky women with a lot ofmen who love them. Uh. If
Trump happens to pick Rubio, there'sa Twelfth Amendment problem. Electors can't pick
a POTUS and a VP inhabiting thesame state both are from Florida. That
would be a dumb pick. AndI like Marco Rubio, although he lied

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to me when he was a candidatein Florida. More on that later,
and I didn't like that. Buthe doesn't bring enough upside. He's not
Hispanic enough to bring in the WesternHispanics and the Cubans are going to vote
for Trump so strategically, And youguys, I don't mean to sound heartless
when I talk about this stuff,but all vice president is is a strategic

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boost to some area where the maincandidate has an issue. This is why
I really thought for a while itwas going to be a female, because
Trump lost suburban men and suburban womenin the last election cycle, and he
needs to shore up there. Slapcontests, says this texter. Wait until
you hear what the gladiators used todo. But y'all, they didn't start

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with the gladiating. They probably startedwith slap content. Yes, we just
didn't know Mandy. Trump will neverpicked Tulsi. She voted to impeach in
eighteen. That could be true,But I honestly don't know if Trump is
strategic enough thinking to get over along grudge like that. I don't know.

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He's Sometimes he can seem like theultimate pragmatist and other times I just
feel like he's, you know,running on emotion. So again, I
can't get a handle on this guy. I just cannot. But it's kind
of cool trying to figure it out, isn't it? Sure is you can
text us five sixty six and nineO, Mandy, I have long thought
the same thing. I'm thinking oneday there will be paid for view gladiator

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fights. I'm surprised we're not therealready. I'm I'm actually shocked that some
YouTuber hasn't set up a ring andtried to fight a bear or something like
a real bear. I mean,we see it every day at Turons of
Yellowstone. Have you ever seen Turnsof Yellowstone. It's a combination of tourists

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and morons of Yellowstone where people dothings like walk up to a bison to
take a selfie and then the bison, of course, like throws them fifteen
feet in the air. And Ijust laugh, because if you're gonna be
stupid, you better be tough.Anyway, I don't think Trump's absolute best
curveball choice for VP would be Tulci. Gabbard says this Texter, Mandy.

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They will starve them, they willstarve, they will suffer from disease,
and he will get them games andthey will love him for it. Gladiator.
Yes, indeed, it will beGeneral Flynn. No, no,
no, no one thing. No, that's not gonna happen. No,

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no, he's not even in themix. I find General Flynn. Although
philosophically he and I are very veryclose, there's something about him that just
rubs me the wrong way. It'sjust something about him, and I don't
know what it is. I can'tput my finger on it. It's not
anything significant. It's just something minor. Mandy, I honestly think Nikki would

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bug his base more than Tulsi.You may be right about that, Mandy.
Freddy Mercury loved fat bottom girls.Let's be real, Freddy Mercury did
not love any girls. He wasmoving in another direction, if you know
what I mean. Okay, we'renot going to talk about this in the
next segment. We're talking about thestory from our competitors across the street,

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because there's a lesson to be learnedhere. We're going to talk about Denver
raising its own taxes again and whythey're going to do it. I know
I tease that already and didn't payoff. I'll pay off on the other
side of the break, I promiseyou. I heard Ross talking about this
all the way in and he wassaying, I just don't understand why these
people continue to raise their taxes.And it's an easy, easy answer if

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you think about the motivation, andthis is I think a core difference between
progressives and conservatives. I think thatthere are people like conservatives who believe when
they see a problem, they cansolve it. Now, that's not to
say that progressives are not problem solves, because they are. I don't want
to make it sound like they're devoidof that, but I think it is

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more a progressive ideology that when there'sa problem to be solved, you throw
money at the government so they canfix it, and then you're relieved of
the actual responsibility of following through tosee if the problem gets fixed. Where's
the conservatives, I know, arefar more likely to say, you know
what, I'm going to start anonprofit. We're gonna fundraise, We're gonna

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get this done. We're going totake care of the problem. It's just
a different philosophy. They're still bothgiving money, but on the left they
trust government, which has shown overand over and over and over again how
bad it is at efficiently spending money. Where's on the right, We're pretty
sure we can always do a betterjob, even though sometimes we don't.

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Just something to think about. DrewHolden is going to join me to talk
about a just absolute barn burner ofa column on his substack today that lays
out the last year of media coveringfor Joe Biden, and I said,
I wasn't gonna talk about Joe Biden, but I just want to throw that
out because it's coming up in anhour. Let's talk for a second about

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Denver voters. You guys are goingto be asked to come out of your
own pocket for quite a bit morethan you initially thought. Yes, there
was that sales tax increase being puton the ballot to shore up university or
university health. There is also asales tax increase that would go to affordable
housing. And now we remember thatDenver Public Schools has put a giant bond

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and milivy package on the November ballotas well. The three proposals would result
in at least one point one billiondollars in additional taxes on Denver residence's residents
at a time of we're all tryingto keep up from you know, two
years of twenty percent more paying foreverything. I said it right before the

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breakthrough. I think there's a lotof people in Denver and I think this
is part of a function of livingin a city. And I've thought about
this for a long long time growingup the way I grew up, which
was in a smaller town where youhad, you know, single family homes
next to single family homes, oryou had farms that were, you know,
next to farms, but lots ofspace in between. You you still

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knew all of your neighbors. Youknew everybody on your street, and if
you had a problem, you wentand said, hey, you know,
we got this problem, and youworked it out with your neighbor and there
was not that feeling that everything wasinsurmountable. When you move into a city,
you are now in a hive ofmillions and millions of people, and
the feeling that you can solve aproblem easily is completely diminished because you don't

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even know all the people in yourbuilding. They would think you were insane
if you went door to door withcookies trying to get to know everybody in
your building. That's not what citiesare all about. So that's I think
why urban centers are more likely tovote for big government, because they need
government to solve all of those problemsas they all live on top of each
other. Because it just seems toounwieldy because imagine if you had a problem

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with every single person in your building. I mean, I'm being you know,
if you have a problem with everysingle person in your building, you're
probably the problem. It is overwhelming, which is why I think they say,
look, we need government to takecare of these issues. Government should
solve this problem. But then whengovernment doesn't, they never hold them accountable.
Nobody is asking, as Denver's askingfor one point one billion more dollars

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from the residents of Denver and thepeople that shop there. No one's saying,
are you spending your money now efficiently? Are you spending it effectively?
Because we even have people in thecity council going, wait a minute,
Mayor, We've thrown a lot ofmoney at this homelessness thing, and we're
finding out from studies that we're noteven getting people into housing at the same

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rate as other cities that are spendinga fraction of what we're spending. Nobody
ever says, is this enough?I don't know, Oh my goodness,
you guys. Britney Peterson of Coloradohas urged Biden to exit the race during
a conference call. Britney is ina reliably democratic seat, but Why aren't

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they having all these junior people doit? Is it because they want him
to understand that young people want himout. I'm sorry, I just distracted
myself. We're talking about taxes.So that's my reason why I think Denver
voters will probably again vote to raisetheir own taxes because they see a problem
they can't fix it. And theline on the left has for so long

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been homelessness is because we don't haveenough affordable housing. There's a component of
that, absolutely. But you andI we know you see the people out
on the streets in Denver, bentOver walk inside? Have you seen these?
Coover? Have you seen anybody?Do you go downtown much? Not?
Okay, okay, last time I'mdowntown. I'm not exaggerating. Okay,

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this is what And I'm standing upso I can show coover what I
saw. I'm in a light.Okay, I'm on Broadway. I don't
know what the cross street was,I don't remember where that was. But
I'm on Broadway and I see aguy standing on the corner like this,
So he's he's beit over like he'slooking at something on the ground, you
know, And have you ever seenwhen somebody looks first at something on the
on the ground or what you immediatelygo, well, what is that?

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Where's that I looking at? Thenhe just starts walking. He's just walking.
He stands over in half. Hesays, ellow, up on his
an arm like this, and andI realized he just whacked on on drugs.
There's nothing on the ground. He'sjust crazy. And he walked all
the way down the block like that, bent in half. It was bizarre.
And what was even more bizarre wasthat there were people walking on the

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sidewalk and no one even looked athim. That's how normal this has become.
That's the crazy part. Like weshould be going, sir, are
you okay? But they know he'snot okay. They know he's whacked out
on drugs, and they know betterthan to ask him a question. So
it's you know, I think Denverrights. They see the problems, they

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feel helpless to fix them, sothey think throwing more money government is going
to fix the problem, but theydon't hold government accountable when it doesn't work.
I'm all for efficient, effective government. I think there's ways to run
government that would be far better thanwhat we have now. I have an
article on the blog today that isa point counterpoint on affordable housing. Basically,

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whose fault is it? And whatdo we need to do to fix
affordable housing? And on one sideyou have a democratic strategist who says,
well, we just need more money, We just Denver just needs more money
and then we can build affordable housingand everything will be fine. And then
on the other side, stage Noumensays, yeah, why doesn't government fix
the problems that make housing so expensive, because they're all created by government,
And wouldn't it be nice if themayor's office came and said, we are

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undertaking a massive study and review tofind out the actual cost of the regulatory
framework that we have in place,and then we are going to streamline what
we can streamline. We are goingto become more efficient. We're going to
get these permits done on time.We're going to make it cheaper to build
a house, with the caveat thatwe'd better see those savings passed on to

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the consumer. And if we don't, we're going to do far more regulatory
stuff that is going to create morehavoc. Lay it on the line,
call out the people that you needto bring prices down by passing on those
savings to the consumer and then getthe hell out of the way and let
them build. The state of Coloradobears a lot of responsibility for this because
of the condo defects legislation from yearsago that they have still not fixed,

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and they don't show any real effortbecause they're just going to go to the
voters of Denver and say, wejust need more money and we can fix
this problem. The problem we created, but you're not supposed to pay attention
to the fact that we created theproblem in the first place. So we'll
see. I wouldn't vote for itif I were in Denver. Now,
Denver Public Schools they have some capitalneeds, meaning they have some buildings that

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are in really bad shape. Butagain I would call out Denver Public Schools
and say, you need to makeyour budget completely transparent. Let's have some
meetings and find out how you're spendingyour money. Now. That's why I
get frustrated when people talk about becauseI live in Douglas County, so I
have to vote on tax increases formyself there for schools, and people in

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Douglas County say they have enough ofmy money, they don't need any more
money. Go look at the budgetbecause I have, and they do the
same level of service for their employeeswith like a third of the staff.
So there are efficiencies to be foundbefore you come back and say we have
to have more of your money.They just show no desire to look at

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or even investigate those efficiencies. Iwish we had an electorate that was smart
enough to say, you know what, we'll vote for you after you cut
spending. We'll vote for this afteryou cut spending. We need you to
cut some spending. Because what didwe do when we had an influx of
illegal aliens? We cut spending.So we cut a lot of spending.
So obviously there's fluff there, right, because we had plenty of money to

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accommodate a bunch of people who cameinto the country illegally. Just something to
think about Denver voters when we getback. A fellow talk show host is
now a former talk show host.And if you want a perfect example of
you better be sure of what you'resaying before you say it. There's none
better than the story I'm gonna sharewith you next. This is why if

(01:01:42):
you've ever heard the show, whena big news story is breaking and it's
in the middle of the breaking andeven if we're covering it as breaking news.
I always tell you do not believeeverything you hear the first time you
hear it, and that's why youwait for evidence. You wait for the
rest of the story. Otherwise yourisk making yourself look foolish. I know
this because I have made myself lookfoolish in the past. It's something I

(01:02:02):
tried to avoid again. But afterthe election and after January sixth, there
were a lot of sources on theright that ran with the story of corruption
and ballot rigging and voting machines thatwere programmed in a certain way, and
they ran with it without evidence.And now a lot of those people have

(01:02:27):
already been sued and settled with thecompanies that were involved in those claims,
Dominion Voting Systems being one of them. They are the ones that settled with
Fox News for seven hundred and eightynine million dollars. They also settled with
Sydney Powell, she of the releaseof the Krack and fame, who had
to admit that there was no Krakenand she had no evidence. And now

(01:02:51):
they are suing kN Us, SalemMedia and Randy Corporn because they Randy has
had a show on kN US fora little I mean like ten years.
He's been there for forever on Saturday, and they are all being sued for

(01:03:12):
defamation, and based on the casesthat have already settled, I would say
that their case is pretty soft,meaning they're probably going to be found liable.
They spread lives that they had noreason to believe were true and there
was no evidence to support them,and they did it on the radio now
here at iHeart. What a coover. How much do you love the libel

(01:03:35):
and defamation training that we have todo here once a year where we are
told every year the same thing,which is don't say things on the radio
that aren't true. To be honestwith you, I think it. It's
tedious. It is, It's justtedious, and yet we have to do
it every year. Iheart's very aggressiveabout this stuff. We have a bunch
of those that we do, likethree or four of them we have to

(01:03:57):
do, like the emergency alert onewe have to do that's under business ethics
that we have to do once ayear, and then there's another one FCC
training for what is that just regularFTC training. I mean we have to
do this every year, and Ican't believe that Salem Media doesn't do this.
Maybe they don't, I don't know. But this lawsuit, by the
way, can put Salem out ofbusiness, will it. I don't know.

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Their stock is garbage now, it'straining for pennies and they pulled themselves
off the stock exchange the last timeI checked. But now Randy Corfrin,
a local attorney, is in thissituation. He's now been fired or separated
from because he was not actually anemployee. He was a contractor for Salem

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Media and they said we're gonna notrenew that contract, so he did his
last show. In addition to beinga talk show host, Randy's also an
attorney. He was one of theattorneys that the Republican Party of Colorado used
to sue to close the primaries again. He was unsuccessful in that. And
he also who faces another unrelated lawsuitabout him as an attorney for a man

(01:05:04):
in a divorce when the divorce wasfinalized and the settlements had to be paid
out. Instead of wiring like threehundred and seventy five thousand dollars to the
ex wife, he wired it toscammers in Hong Kong and that's that's just
that story is insane. Now,I do want to say this. I

(01:05:26):
don't know Randy well, I've methim on a few occasions, but I
do know that he lost his wifelast year, and that would not explain
his bad decision making when it comesto defaming possibly Dominion Voting Systems and its
owner Eric Komer, but it mightexplain his mistake wiring the money. That
being said, he needs to paythe lady back. But the easiest way

(01:05:48):
to avoid this is don't say thingsthat are not true. This is why
you've heard me say. Remember whenI watched two hundred two thousand Meals and
I had to dsh to Susan onand I was like, wow, Denesh,
the way this is present is verycompelling. But when are we going
to see the underlying documentation? Whenare we going to see the data that
they allegedly used to create this film? Then accused people of being ballance stuffers

(01:06:13):
all over the place, and hesaid, oh, five six weeks,
it'll be out, it'll be out, it'll be out. Guess what still
not out? And Salem was suedover that movie as well because they produced
it and back did I mean,it's just it's a huge mess for people
who just ran with clickbait. Thisis the same reason Tina Peters is on
trial because she believed the clickbait anddecided she was going to single handedly break

(01:06:38):
the law to prove that the lawhad been broken, which I know makes
a lot of sense. Every personwho's involved in this is now having to
admit they made it up. That'snever something I want to do. That's
why when I tell you I don'tknow the answer, or I come back

(01:07:00):
and correct myself, it's because Ireally do want to give you the right
information. It's why I don't rushto judgment when a story breaks, and
it's why I ask for things likeevidence because I think it's important to get
it right. I know you guyscount on me to get it right.
I just want you to know Ireally try to get it right. We'll
have to see what happens with allof this, but if you're gonna be

(01:07:20):
stupid, you better be tough.And in radio there's very little wiggle room
when you say things that are nottrue about organizations with deepen up pockets to
sue you, whether it's opinion ornot. So we'll see how all this
works out. Now when we getback, we got two minute drill and
then at two point thirty Drew Holdenis a reporter and he writes just he

(01:07:43):
always has the most epic Twitter threads, but he also has a substack where
you can go read his work there. He's done an absolutely insane accounting.
I think that's the best way toput an accounting of the media's efforts to
tell us that even though we allwatched Joe Biden decline in real time with
our own eyes, they lied tocover it up and told us it was

(01:08:05):
our fault. We were ageists.We didn't see that it was all cheap
fakes. And Drew Holden brings thereceipts and it is so good, so
you really want to stick around forthe last hour. It's going to be
a burn burder. The Mandy ConnellShow is sponsored by Belle and Pollock Accident
and injury lawyers. No, it'sMandy Connell, Andy con On, Kla

(01:08:32):
ninetem God Sat and the Noisy Threeby Connell keeping sad thing. The two
minute drill at two years too minutewarnings, rapid fire stories of the day
that we don't have more time forI'm not triplet call this so it'll take

(01:08:56):
longer than two minutes. Are areyou? Here's man, Probably people out
there who have been juicing your fruitsand veggies, thinking you're getting all of
the health benefits. I got badnews for you, my friend. Juicing
is absolutely not as healthy as justeating a piece of fruit. You know
why, because you're taking all thefiber out, leaving a glass bull of

(01:09:16):
sugar water. But hey, youdo you if you really want to make
it impact, throw some spinach inyour smoothie and drink it all. Even
though it kind of feels like sludgein your mouth and it's hard to get
down. It's healthy unlike juicing,weena. What's happening The ceasefire in Israel

(01:09:39):
may be a thing soon, becausewell, now that the Israelis have gone
into Rafa and have decapacitated many ofHamas's fighters and their ability to reload,
things have gotten interesting, and Hamasall of a sudden is like, you
know what, maybe we should listennow. The deal that I'm seeing to

(01:10:00):
discussed that is being backed by theUS says the release of some hostages.
I gotta tell you, guys,if I'm Israel and I know I have
Hamas on the ropes. Some hostagesis not going to get it done.
It is all hostages or it isnothing at all. The Post says that
other Arab nations are on board andthey'd like to see this happen. And

(01:10:23):
what's the kind of the interesting thingto come out of this is after Hamas
is defeated and they have to Youknow, I would not I would not
move forward if I'm Israel without cleardefeat by Hamas. But onces is defeated,
there would be a government that wascreated by Palestinian authority, folks and
moderate Arab nations. What does thatmean in the long run, I don't

(01:10:45):
know, but perhaps a ceasefire dealcould be coming soon unless Hamas wants to
be completely destroyed. It too.One hundred years of mocking vegetarians, that's
right. Does it ever get oldmaking fun of our friends who only come
to a party to eat celery andno dip. No, it doesn't.
Isn't it fun to pick on Ryanin the afternoon because for health reasons he's

(01:11:08):
a vegetarian. It is fun andhe can take it. We've been making
fun of vegetarians for over one hundredyears, with the first mention of how
annoying they can be back in thenewspapers in nineteen twelve. Why is this
a story, Well, vegetarianism isoften talked about, and we're always told
more people are going meatless, butthe numbers of actual vegetarians never really move.

(01:11:32):
They stay about the same percentage,which is three or four percent.
So maybe we should just leave themalone. Nah, let's not leave them
alone. It's too much fun tomake fun of them. Drill it too.
If you are an AT and Tcell phone customer, just a newsflash,
your data has been a hat.AT and T says the data does
not contain the contents of calls ortexts, personal information such as social security

(01:11:57):
numbers, dates, the birth,or other personally identifying information. These records
identify the telephone numbers with which anAT and T or whatever wireless number interacted
during these periods, including telephone numbersof AT and T wireline customers and customers
of other carriers. So pretty much, if you are an AT and T
customer, or you are someone whohas talked to or texted with an AT

(01:12:19):
and T customer, someone has thatinformation. Now here's the question. I
mean this genuinely because I am nota hacker. I don't understand a lot
of computer stuff, to be frank, and I don't get this. What
would be the purpose of stealing thatparticular set of information? What would you

(01:12:40):
use a record of everyone's phone callsfor? Why would you need that?
Doesn't it seem like the plot ofa movie where it's actually the government who's
trying to track down some behavior ofspecific people, so they steal everyone's information
so no one knows who they're reallyafter. Or that doesn't sound like a
it could be a good movie.You don't know it too. Really cool

(01:13:04):
story on Fox thirty one if you'veever wondered about how Red Rocks became Red
Rocks, they did a really coolstory about what we are calling and they
are calling the only naturally occurring acousticallyperfect amphitheater in the world. Now.
They go on to talk about rockformations, the formation of the Rockies,

(01:13:25):
the fact that we used to beunder an inland sea. It's super nerdy
and super interesting. But if you'venot just sat at Red Rocks and been
gobsmacked by the natural beauty, Ican't help you, because really we are
so lucky and blessed to live ina place where we have that to enjoy
it too. And finally, ifyou take rideshore a share to get to

(01:13:47):
Corsfield, maybe you're taking it downto the Billie Joel concert tonight, you
need to be aware that police arenow restricting where you can hop into your
uber or your lyft. It's becausetraffic in certain areas get so ballocked up
as people try to get into theirride shairs. They've now got specific areas
and when you go to call acar, if you are in certain parts

(01:14:09):
of the ballpark district, it isgoing to direct you to go to a
different place, not far. Youdon't have to walk like across the city,
which is a different block to getyour ride share. The popular corners
are going to be off limits goingforward. So there you go. That
is something you need to do now. A couple things for this weekend.
It's going to be hot, hot, hot. What's on Couver's what's on

(01:14:30):
the coover family plan this weekend?Couve believe going to a whiskey festival in
Castle Rock inside or outside? Insideor outside outside? Anything outside just sounds
like this is although I'm going tothe concert tonight. My poor husband,
He's like, you know, it'sgoing to be really really hot when we
get there and we're facing the sunin our seats, and I was like,

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I don't care. I've never seenBilly Joel. Who's someone that you
haven't seen that you'd really like tosee from, like, you know,
the music of your youth coover probablyGuns n' Roses. I saw a twenty
minute Guns and Roses show one ofthe shows during that last tour, not
the last tour, but the tourbefore they all broke up the first time,
and the shows would go on fortwenty minutes and then somebody would storm

(01:15:15):
off and it was just an absolutedumpster fire. So I've seen it for
twenty minutes. They were very goodfor twenty minutes, but I like,
yeah, they would be good anyway. That's all happening this weekend, but
it's gonna be super hot, soif you are outside, if you are
planning anything athletic, then you needto make sure you have plenty of water
and a place to go and cooldown. Tonight, you'll see me at

(01:15:39):
the concert. I got my neckfan coove. It's a fan you wear
around your neck and you just holdit up. Or I have one that
is a hard thing, comes aroundyour neck like this and it has two
fans, one on the right,one on the left, and just blows
air on your face. Nice.You got beer goggles as well? Beer
God, I am taking a koozy? Is you get a beer tonight?

(01:16:00):
It's gonna be warm in two seconds, so you got to have a koozy
to put your beer in. SoI got that, I got my little
clear bag. I'm ready to go. So what is your favorite Billy Joel's
song? Well, let me thinkabout that for a second on this break,
because I have one, but Idon't want to say the wrong one.
It's not Uptown Girl, least favoriteof his famous songs. I really

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love we Didn't Start the Fire.I love that song, Okay, I'll
tell you after I get back.Number five, still rock and roll.
Great song. Number four, She'sGot Away. Number three, you may
be right, Another great song.Number two She's Always a Woman, even
though for years I thought it wasShe's always a woman. And then number

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one, just the way you are. And please, if anybody listening in
this audience knows Billy Joel, wouldyou just let him know those are the
songs I need to hear? Pleaseplease? How is he one that actually
does not play is its? Oris he one that plays no? He
plays it? Well, I meanlook at it this way, because I,
of course, obviously you can seefrom the songs that I tend to

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skew to his older music, right, But even his newer albums are good
albums, Like they weren't all hits, but they weren't bad songs that weren't
hits. Some albums you get andthere's two songs that are good and the
rest of the album is trash,and you're like, I completely got ripped
off. Although now all that's changedbecause of the nature of streaming, albums

(01:17:24):
aren't as important as they used tobe. But all of his albums are
pretty damn good, just top tobottom. So even if he did like,
we're gonna do some deep cuts,as long as he doesn't go,
here's some things off my new album. That's my nightmare? Now? Are
you one that goes online? AndI will look for his set list to
see this, and Chuck gets somad at me and he will not let

(01:17:44):
me tell him what's coming up.But I do it for two reasons.
One, I don't like to bedisappointed. If he doesn't play the song
that I want him to play,right, that's I get ridiculously disappointed if
I don't hear the song I wantto hear. But if I know I'm
not gonna hear it, going inall is well, it's fine. And
maybe if there's an encore and theythrow it just makes my day. It's
it's fantastic. Chuck on the otherhand, is like, no, I

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want to be surprised. So Isneak a look at set list fm and
for those of you who don't knowabout setlist FM, at setlist dot fm
and you can pull up the artistsays I'm doing right now as we speak,
and you can pull up their latesttour and it'll tell you what they
played in the last concert. Now, are you one that stays till the

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bitter end the very last song?Depends on the artist, depends on the
artist him. I'll stay for thewhole thing. I will, however,
make my way to the top ofthe stairs, just hang out. I
can stand for the last couple ofsongs in the encore. I don't need
to be seated for that because Iyou know, I don't have that kind
of time to be wasting. I'mold. I got to get to the

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parking lot so I can get outof the parking lot. How'd you get
did you get parking days? No? Oh sor how are you getting there?
I'm driving? Oh you're going todrive? Yes? And just park
off site? Uh yeah, that'swhat I'm well, you know what,
they got that big ass parking lot. I'm on that side of the stadium,
so like parking a for course field, that's gonna be convenient for me.

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Okay, So I'm just I'm like, can you buy tickets ahead of
there? Ahead of time? There? I think you can. I think
you can. I'm not sure though, So I'm gonna do that. But
based on what I'm seeing a setlistFM, A lot of my list is
there, but not the one whenI eat. Nope, didn't make it.

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So it will just be a surprise, possibly change. I know,
I know. And this was fromJune. This concert was from June.
He hasn't been uh, he hasn'tbeen doing a lot of shows. This
is Oh wait, no, Ijust pulled up a different show and there's
a lot of different songs on it. So there you go. Let me
see Oh, yes, this couldbe. This is a crapshoot. None

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of them the same. Oh,how how could I forget scenes from an
Italian restaurant? Is that in yourtop five? That dang, that is
going to displace everything that is goingto create a cast game, because that
is number three. Scenes from anItalian restaurant is a solid number three,
So everything else. Now I havea top seven, which is a weird

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number. And now I you know, anyway, I'm excited. I'm super
excited. This is one of theperformers that I have not seen. Now,
very very quickly coming up next,what's happening right now in the Joe
Biden narrative in the media is watchingall of these reporters look at each other

(01:20:41):
with their mouths agog and they saythings like this, this is incredible.
How did he get this way soquickly? Except my next guest, Drew
Holden, has brought the receipts abouthow exactly the media not only gas lighted
the American public for the last yearand a half, they called us every
name in the book for even askingthe question about the president's mental fitness.

(01:21:03):
Drew Holden joins me, next,keep it right here on Koa. He's
the keeper of receipts and the manof many threads. He is Drew Holden.
Drew, welcome to the show whenI'm hosting exactly, Mandy, thank
you so much for having me.I'm really happy to be back on the
program, and more than that,I'm really happy to be chatting with you.
Well, I'll tell Ryan that youliked me better. Anyway, let's

(01:21:25):
talk about this latest story, andI want to give you a little backstory
of me. We did a thingthe night of the debate with me and
my fellow host Ross Kaminski where wekind of did like we were going to
do a mystery science theater three thousandkind of thing on Facebook while the debate
was going on. And I wassuper excited because I mean, why wouldn't
you be This is just going tobe great, such a target rich environment.

(01:21:45):
Ten minutes in, it was notfun making fun of the president.
Okay, I completely believe that itwas awful, and we were all Now
we've been talking about the president's obviousdecline for some time, but of course
we were being told by the mediathat it was our problem and not to
believe our lion eyes. And youhave done a staggeringly good job of gathering

(01:22:09):
up, as you call it,the receipts from the media over the last
year. So let's talk about thisstory for a second. Absolutely, Yeah,
you know I made it at thatfirst off. It's very kind of
you to say so. But Ithink one of the things when one of
the reasons I really wanted to writehis pieces obviously that the conversation around President
Biden's mental kind of cognitive functioning hasshifted post debate, But I was worrying

(01:22:34):
people had kind of forgotten about whatit looked like before that. So you
mentioned in the last year, butit actually even goes back further than that.
And so the end of last yearwas when we really had a lot
of discourse around is being critical ofBiden agist? Yes? Is the focus
on his stutter and what it meansfor him when he goes up to give
a speech. You may see itas freezing, but it's actually, you

(01:22:57):
know, it's anti the disability community, and it's just that you would suggest
that maybe the president doesn't have themental bandwidth to do the most important job
in the world. And so wesaw this very very My favorite there was
there's a guy who writes for thePhilly Inquirer named Will Bunch, and he
has a newsletter, and the titleof his newsletter late in twenty twenty three

(01:23:17):
was Joe Biden's problem question mark yourages. It has left an indelible mark
on me in a way that Iwould imagine Bunch did not intend, because
whenever I think of that late andyou know, it was from twenty twenty
two to twenty twenty three, thismoment in time where there were outlets.
NPR said the same thing, NBCNews asked the same question, CBS News

(01:23:40):
asked the same question, and it'sin retrospect, it's really preposterous. Well,
that's basically a newer version of whoare you going to believe us?
Are your own lion eyes? Right? I mean, it's like he's fine.
It's the way you're perceiving him thatis the problem. What's been the
most remarkable in the last two weeksthrough is to see the media walking around

(01:24:00):
with their mouth open, going,oh my gosh, no one knew was
this bad, while at the sametime we have Chuck Todd admitting that everyone
knew it was this bad two yearsago. And exactly there's no introspection from
Chuck Todd on that and his rolein keeping this secret. Yeah. Absolutely.
You know you mentioned the thread thatI did on this one, and

(01:24:23):
I think one of the things thatreally stuck with me most is just the
speed and alacrity with which we wentfrom this isn't happening to oh boy,
this is troubling. If only wecould have known sooner. Right. I'm
reminded of a piece that New YorkTimes wrote back in February when the report

(01:24:43):
from Special Special Counsel Her had runout about how Biden was a feeble old
man. He can't face the jurybecause they'd look at him and be like,
oh, he's sweet, but he'snot all there, and so he
can't possibly face charges. And theNew York Times wrote a piece that said
memory issues were acquire careful diets andthat Her couldn't possibly do it. And
then, wouldn't you know it,just this past week after the debate,

(01:25:05):
the New York Times two days lateris up with a new story that says
that people in the room have saidthat Biden's mental lapses have been increasing in
recent days, in recent weeks,and I thought to myself, well,
gosh, how is it in whatuniverses that are both of those things possible?
Yeah, exactly. It's either youneed a doctor or you don't.
So it's been this is going tosound like a very weird way to put

(01:25:31):
this, it's been gratifying to seewhat we all know to be true finally
come out right. There's a measureof gratification. They're like, Haha,
we were right. But at thesame time, it's like, oh God,
we were right and it's as badas we thought it was. So
what is the next step? Whatis the next part of this narrative?
Because the media is obviously not goingto go back and take ownership like you

(01:25:53):
own them in this column. They'renot going to take ownership of their role
in this No, I don't thinkthey will. But I think that my
question for how it moves forward comehere is which side of the media wins
out and how we talk about Biden'smental health, particularly after his remarks yesterday
right the press conference he gave.I think what probably is going to be

(01:26:15):
the case is the role has beenpulled from the eyes not only of the
media, who I don't think we'reI don't think we're actually naive. What
was happening, but to the Americanpeople, so just how bad it was.
And so I think the press,in a somewhat self flatulating way,
is going to take every Biden miscue, every mistake, every hiccup and blow
it up thousand times and say thisis so bad, this is so bad.

(01:26:36):
Why aren't the Democrats serious about thisabout our candidate? But I do
think that, you know, particularlyif he can hold on or if it
becomes clear to Democrats and so youknow the why his voice is in the
media, that he is going tostick around. I wouldn't be all that
surprise if the media actually goes theopposite direction and now goes back to saying,
oh, maybe we over indexed onthe debate, maybe we ran too

(01:26:58):
far with that one. And wesaw Durham that the right. You saw
Axios and CBS and NBC all putout headlines that say that the problem would
buy them and why he was havingsuch a horrible performance was that he had
a pole. Yeah, exactly asyour lightning guys are still sending the information
back to your brain. That wasthe story that they ran with. Well,
I just saw Jensaki. I actuallyplayed this yesterday, and it seems

(01:27:20):
that for a certain segment. It'salmost like the parties have been given their
marching orders. Right. We haveour one of our junior congresswomen, Britney
Peterson, just came out and askedon a conference call instaid the president should
step down. Our US senator,the generic Michael Bennett from Colorado has also

(01:27:41):
said he thinks Biden can't win.We've got another senator who's not up for
reelection for four years out of sometiny state in the northeast, and he's
saying that Biden should step down.But now I see on Twitter this is
fascinating. I don't know if yousaw it, Drew. Apparently there is
a dream team of super friends thatare and this is exactly what it says.
It says a group of heavyweight superfriends from the top of the Democratic

(01:28:04):
Party head to the White House togetherto speak with a united voice and tell
him that time is up. Drew, I don't think it works on him.
He really believes that he's the greatestpresident ever. And you know that
that really puts the Democrats in thebind, right, and it puts it
Unfortunately, he puts the super teamI fear in a bind because short of
having a broker convention at the DNCY. The only way that they're going to

(01:28:27):
be able to change things is ifBiden steps the time. Yeah, right,
and so and soon. I thinkyou're right. I don't think he
wants to. I think he's incrediblystubborn. He is the leader of the
free world, and you know,like many very old people experiencing cognitive issues,
he doesn't see how bad things are. He can't well. I used
one of my favorite phrases yesterday todescribe the dumpster fire that is the Colorado

(01:28:49):
GOP chairman. It definitely goes tohim as well, and that is when
enough people tell you you're dead,it's time to lie out. And he's
dead in the water. He justdoesn't know it yet. But the real
question is is whether he's going totake down the Democratic Party with him?
Yes, yeah, I think Ithink that's the that's the right question,
right because the polling is exactly asbad as you would expect in the wake

(01:29:14):
of the debate, and I thinkthere are a lot of voices in the
media who would love to pretend thatwe can you know, Biden and his
team more the media themselves and somehowput this genie pack in the box.
But I just I just don't thinkyou can, right. I don't think
that you're ever going to be ableto undo the amount of damage he did
at the debate. And I thinkit's really clear that it would take a
true act of God to prevent himfrom losing the election. Yeah, and

(01:29:36):
that's yeah. I think the mediaand Democrats have to reckon with that.
And if the super team can't getit done, I don't know who can.
True, but you, I mean, they did it to themselves.
They could have run an open ourprimary. They could have signaled to Gavin
Newsom and others who are interested thatthey should run against President Biden. But
they didn't. They circled the wagonsaround him. And now we're all supposed

(01:29:57):
to believe their surprise, but thereality is that they're not surprised at all.
They've been watching this happen in slowmotion. Let me ask you a
question about yesterday's press conference, specificallybecause you are a media critic. I
was appalled by the kid glove questionsthat this media gave the president yesterday.
It was as soft an approach whilestill pretending to ask the hard question that

(01:30:21):
I have ever seen it. Itwas shameful. You yeah, I know,
maybe I think that's exactly fair.Right at the end of the day,
if these people in the media takeseriously their role as a counterbalance to
the most important office in the world, and the person occupying that role is
clearly incapable of executing their responsibilities theway that they thought Donald Trump was,

(01:30:44):
you would expect there would be alittle bit more temerity in taking on the
president, and instead they got thequestions that will give them that I think,
and you know, it seemed kindof designed this way. They asked
the sources of questions that are onthe right topics with the kind of kindness
of what the super team was probablygoing to do exactly I talked to when

(01:31:06):
they go and try and talk toBiden, right, and they what they
should be doing is being an antagonistic. Course, they are obviously very comfortable
doing that when they're talking to someoneof the other team, and it was
it was really embarrassing that we're inthe state that we are now and yet
they still keep those kid gloves off. What's fascinating to me is that there

(01:31:27):
have been so many leaks from variousplaces now and we've heard reporters who have
said things like Chuck Todd, itwas a nonversation. It was the worst
kept secret in Washington, DC,And one reporter actually said, look,
we didn't cover it because we didn'twant to help Trump. Now, how
can you work as a journalist andmake that kind of statement and admit that.

(01:31:50):
Chuck Todd admitted that a cabinet membertold him two years ago that Biden
can't run and then turn around andtell me a conservative that media bias is
all in my head, Like thatis such a disconnect for me that you
could do two of those things atthe same time, and yet that's where
we are. So is this isthis the end of any shred of a

(01:32:12):
notion of journalistic integrity? Yeah,you know, Manny, Unfortunately, I
think you probably put it right.I fear that it is because at the
end of the day, I thinkthat what we've seen from the way the
media has covered Biden's Biden's cognitive functioning. It checks the two most important boxes
in this conversation. One it's sobad and so egregious that anyone with a

(01:32:34):
pair of eyes can see it.And two it had the highest stakes possible.
This is not you know, ignoringthe little local issue that maybe it
would be uncomfortable for them to talkabout. This is about whether or not
the man who holds the nuclear codeshas a brain that allows him to serve
as commander in chief? Right,And if you can't, if your if

(01:32:55):
your kind of political disposition prevents youfrom even asking questions in those circumstances,
then, my goodness, where canwe expect you to be honest? Where
can we trust that you will beforthright and thoughtful if it isn't completely aligned
with your part of the disposition.Well, as I mentioned Jen Sak's comments
yesterday, a little bit, butthe new narrative is, Oh, my

(01:33:17):
gosh, Kamala Harris is a treasure. She is she actually said, powerful
communicator, and I almost fell offmy chair. It is. It is
incredible the ease with which they shiftgears. And the same people that have
been lying to us for years aboutBiden are now telling us, Oh,

(01:33:38):
but you know what, Kamala isamazing? Have you seen that as well?
I have? I have? Youknow? All of a sudden,
this and the other idea. TheNew York Times flipped it into a report
they had the other day. Ijust mentioned in passing. Oh yeah,
Kamala Harris's pulling is actually just asbad as Biden, as She's at like
twenty eight percent and Biden's at twentyseven. But there is and yet there

(01:33:59):
is feel this belief that like sheis the hope, she is the savior,
she has all the right answers andto me, what it what it
really like? There's a there's oneparticular line that that just fits with me
about the way the media has coveredKamala Harris since the debacle of the debate,
and it's that they believe that whatcan be for her candidacy is unburdened

(01:34:23):
by what has been, which iseverything that's led us up to this moment.
And you know, there's a fourminute clip of Kamala Harris repeating that
line. If you think that,I think that. Unfortunately, it also
describes the way the media covers heris that they have woken up afresh anew
to discover the occupant of the numbertwo office in the United States and said,
oh, you kind of like her? You know what, She's kind

(01:34:44):
of awesome. How did we notnotice her awesomeness before? Now? I
mean, what's wrong with us?This is obviously a world problem. Yeah,
exactly. They wake up every morningand as if the world has started
over anew what unburdened by what beenin what has come before us, in
the passage of time and all ofthat stuff. So I'd love to know
your thoughts about when what I've seenin the last two weeks is a stunning

(01:35:11):
lack of media discipline, because Ithink that the media was so undone by
this performance on the debate stage becauseit did all the things you and I
have been talking about here. Itundermine their credibility tremendously because the cat is
out of the bag and they knewabout it, and we know they knew
about it, right, So whatdoes this mean? When do they pull
it together? We're going into theRepublican debate next or a Republican convention next

(01:35:34):
week. I am predicting, Drewthat Trump will wait until we like Wednesday
night or Thursday night to introduce theVP. I think you will say that,
yeah, because I mean, becausewhy would you interrupt this moment?
Yeah? Right, And like maybehe does, maybe he has to,
I don't know, But the ideathat you would push off as long as

(01:35:56):
you possibly can to give the mediaanything else to talk about totally makes sense.
Think it's a pretty striking level ofdiscipline or someone not exactly known for
his discipline up to this point.Drew dare I say, is our little
Trump growing up? I mean,I don't want to, I don't want
to hexit. But the last coupleof weeks and in the debate performance itself,

(01:36:17):
we saw a level of discipline thatwe have not seen. Yeah,
I was, I was expecting tosee the New York Times yead line like
in this moment, Donald Trump reallybecame president, right, It's it was.
He comported himself very presidentially. Yeah, until the golf handicap debate,
which was ridiculous. Yeah, yeah, right then then the juvenile disposition kicked

(01:36:39):
in. But yeah, it was. It was a sight to behold.
I would love for you guys togo to Drew's substack and check out this
whole column because in the column hehas all of these these snippets from all
of the media covering for Joe Bidenembedded in the article and it is a
thing of beauty. Drew Holden,I put a link on the blog today
so people can go to my blog, mandy'sblog dot com and find the link

(01:37:01):
to your substack and subscribe for amere five dollars a month. It's fantastic,
Maddy. I really appreciate it.And yeah, gave me a lot
to work with on this one.Yeah, they did. We are supposed
to check it out. But thankyou, Drew. I appreciate your time
today. We'll talk again soon,pleasure. All right, thank you.
That is Drew Holden joining me inthe studio right now. Ryan Edwards,
Hi, you don't have a storyon my blog today about how people have

(01:37:24):
been hating on vegetarians for one hundredyears? Is that hard to be a
vegetarian. You're not like a bigv vegetarian, like you're angry at people
who eat meat. You're just like, here's what I do for my own
personal health. That's it. Andhonestly, you know, there's always the
jokes like, hey, how doyou know if somebodys vegan, they'll tell
you, you know kind of thing, but right if they tell you they
do CrossFit. Yeah, so Ithink that's a little like those kinds of

(01:37:45):
people. And again I'm not judgingeither way. It's just to get the
time. I don't think it's somethingthat I go out of my way to
let people know. In fact,most of the time, it's kind of
on something that I just I don'treally want to talk about, right,
which maybe I should, but Idon't really want to talk about it because
you're usually surrounded with people like,oh, here we go is because tell
us that the reasons for becoming avegetarian, yours was health related, and

(01:38:09):
so a health related vegetarian. Ifeel like, though they may advocate for
a vegetarian diight because they feel better, they're not the year eating murder vegetarians
that I find so insufferable that we'vebeen making fun of for heavy and that
is that is tough, and there'sa very important delineation I feel like there
is, and yeah for me andI. So that's what most of the
time when it when I get theeye roll, I say, listen,

(01:38:30):
before you judge me, Yeah,for my own personal choice. Before you
judge me for my choice, yeah, just know that I did it because
my cholesterol was like four hundred andfifty and I was in my mid thirties
thinking I might be having a heartattack here soon, right, So there
was health reasons, good reason.I won't make fun of you for that
I'll make fun of you for somuch other stuff. I deserve it.
But now it's time for the mostexciting segment on the radio of its guy

(01:38:57):
of that day. That's how youdo it on a prime day. But
what is our dad joke of theday Michael Cooper, Our dad joke of
the day is what's the lawyer's favoritedrink? Ummmm, I don't know?
Aut colada? Oh godo boo yesboo is Okay? What is our word

(01:39:19):
of the day? Please you shouldget this one, okay. Bilk means
to steal something, steal somebody's money. Yeah, basically applied to contact relating
to fraud and deceit. It canmean to cheat out of something valuable or
to evade payment for two obtained somethingby defrauding someone. How nicely into that
lawyer conversation exactly. Trivia question,how many rooms does Buckingham Palace have?

(01:39:43):
I just stood outside Buckingham Palace nottoo long ago. It's big, It's
very big. I'm gonna guess like, I'm gonna guess like a hundred.
Yeah, eighty was the first number. Oh my god, way, how
many, holy Larry, seven hundredseventy five rooms? This includes nineteen state
rooms, fifty two royal and guestbedrooms, ninety two offices, and seventy

(01:40:05):
eight bathrooms. Holy crap, seventyeight bathrooms. Wow, okay, what
is our Jeopardy category? All right? Our Jeopardy category. By the way,
that place is overrated. Ducking inpalace? Did you do the tour?
I didn't do the two King wasin residence. Yeah, the king
was in residence. We couldn't goin. Stupid king, stupid king.

(01:40:25):
Dummy. Whatever the powers that beis the name of the category. Okay?
So question one? This character remarkedto Elizabeth Hurley in a nineteen ninety
seven movie Dangers. My middle nameBenny. Who is Austin Powers? I
see what we're doing here? Now, that's all right? Question two.
Austin Stole played YouTube pilot Francis GaryPowers in this movie, a twenty fifteen

(01:40:50):
Best Pitcher Oscar nominee. I feellike I should know this and I do
not know this. I think Iknow, but I don't want to guess
because I have one point. Goahead, what do you know, Ryan,
I don't Okay, Coach of Spies, nurse boring, I've never made
it all the way through. I'vetried three times. You really Oh God,
it's so boring, so such badreviews. I just asked, no,

(01:41:13):
don't watch it, save yourself.Question three, here's Stephanie Power showing
a lot of heart with this scer. Who is Robert Wagner? Correct?
Yes, Heart to Hurt one ofmy favorite eighties close And question four Powers
Booth win an Emmy for portraying thisman in the Guyana Tragedy Mandy, who
is Jim Jones? Correct? Thatwas a good movie too, Never saw

(01:41:33):
that really good? And the lastquestion, Tom Powers plays this dude,
doomed hubby of scheming Barbara Stanwick inthe nineteen forty four Billy Wilder classic God,
I'm gonna just set a heart pass. I'm gonna sit on my three,
he's gonna sit on his zero,and we're gonna call it to day.
What is that double in? Ah? If Dave Lower was here,

(01:41:55):
he would have gotten the only oneI literally could have gotten was awesome Powers,
and he didn't get it. Ringin breaks my heart? What do
you got coming up on KO Sports? I got a short program. The
rockiesers are taking on the Mets tonightat four thirty, So we're gonna get
into some of the shore. Sanderssaid that playing the cu Buffs for all
teams is like playing their Super Bowllike it's the other and I'm like,
hey, let's walk that back.Okay, let's just let's just here's the

(01:42:19):
thing. Talk talk, talk untilyou back it up. Yes, don't
do that. I can't imagine going, Hey, this four win team last
year. Boy, oh yeah,boy, that's gonna be billboard you know,
bullet board material. I mean,that's a lot of recruits up beating
this four win team. Anyway,we'll talk a little bit about that.
Got a couple of Broncos topics aswell, Justin Simmons in the news.

(01:42:41):
We'll get to that as well.All Right, I will be talking to
you guys from Milliewalk, the Landof the Friendly People on Monday for the
Republican National Convention thanks to Rocky MountainVoice. You guys, have a great
weekend, don't die in the heat, and we'll talk to you later.