07-14-25 FULL SHOW - Biden's Autopen In the News, Plus Close Call Stories

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Monday edition of the show.
I'm your host for the next three hours, Mandy Coddle.
Today we've got Zach Seeger in for Anthony Rodriguez. Zach,
I have not seen you recently, and you've grown a
beard and a mustache. I have not seen a man
in a very long time that went from looking about
sixteen to looking about thirty five just by growing facial hair.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
But yet here you are. I'll take it. Thank you
very much. It is and I mean that in a
good way.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
I happen to think and men are gonna hate me
for saying this, but just like women have that place
in their life where they just everything works, they you know,
for men.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
I think that's thirty five. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
And I'm not saying man after that are not good looking.
I'm just saying it thirty five. It all seems to.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Jill your men.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
There's a peak.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, well, I.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Don't even know it's a peak. It's like a sweet spot.
It's it's different. There's a there's kind of like you're
almost like, oh, you're done pretty much evolving. I got
you quickly, you know what I mean. People will evolve
their entire lives and that's just the nature of being
a human being. And for people who don't evolve, I'm
not sure you're doing it right, but whatever you do,

(01:10):
you But at like thirty five, for men, you sort
of know who you are, the good, the bad.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
You know you're good with yourself a little bit.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Women, I actually think hit that point later in life
and then see.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
I feel like the.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
Status quo idea is that they mature a lot earlier
than that.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
I just think they hit the comfort level. Men hit
the comfort level with themselves before women hit the comfort
level with themselves. These are just my own personal observations.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
And again I.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Don't look at it as a peak, because after that
you can go on and do great things and look fabulous.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
That's not a peak.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
It's like in all sorts of gels for you and
it's a great thing, but you jump to where you
look like, that's where you are even if you have it.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Good to see you, though, thank you, I appreciate good.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
I feel like I should call you mister Seegars from
now on. Well, mister Seegars, it's fine, no, just kidding.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Good to see you. Let's do this.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Let's jump in and do the blog because I got
a lot of stuff on the blog. I got Dick
Wadams coming in at twelve thirty to talk about a
column I've got on the blog that he wrote, and
so let's just make this thing happen. How about go
to the find the blog at either mandy'sblog dot com.
That's mandy'sblog dot com or Randy Cromwell dot com. Due

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to some clever listener and if you don't know the
Randy Cromwell story, email me Mandy Connell at iHeartMedia dot
com and I'll clue you in anyway. So find well
on that page the headline that says seven fourteen to
twenty five blog Biden's auto pen in the news plus
close call stories. Click on that and here are the

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headlines you will find within.

Speaker 5 (02:45):
How need with listening office half of American all with
ships and clips a c that's going to press plane.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Today on the blog.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yesterday we celebrated Chuck's life day. The New York Times
is looking into Biden's auto pen. What Elon Musk's third
party fly a takeover is averted? Stop limiting political parties
to stop shady packs. More Trump terraff threats This could
be cool for Westminster. The left does population control. We're
selling weapons to NATO for Ukraine. I've always wanted to

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stay in the historic Grand Canyon Lodge.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
It's the all Star break.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
This week, Tesla is adding group to its cars. Stop
being afraid. That's the rich of Jerry Creek. About that
so called strawberry farm in California.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Superman is a it.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Colorado has the eleventh best business climate. The Iranian president
was injured in an Israeli attack. Pay attention to Colorado's fires.
This man is a flaming record holder. Kids are eating
nicotine patches. There are three weekend businesses you can start
a new Billy Joel documentary. Snow and Cold is moving west.

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Carnival is making big changes. Those are the headlines on
the blog at mandy'sblog dot com.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
And yeah, there you go the band.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Obviously, the band had a few too many over the weekend,
if you know what I mean, not paying attention, not
doing their jobs anyway. Today at twelve thirty, Dick Wadhams
is going to join me. He wrote a column in
the Denver Gazette that you know when you first hear it,
I think there's so many people in this country who

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still believe that it is possible to take the money
out of politics, and.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
I am here to tell you it is not.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
Because however the government, the courts, whatever, however they choose
to limit it.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
There is an.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Entire just industry of people whose job it is to
figure out how to get around that, right, because they're
still going to try and influence policy by buying that
influence through a series of you know whatever. I'd love
to tell you it's otherwise, but it's simply not. Powerful

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interests are always going to try and find ways to
leverage that power, full stop.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
I don't care if you're talking about.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Ancient Greek, ancient Rome, the vikings, whatever.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
Powerful people will always.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
Work to leverage their power, and in this case it
is going to be with the federal government. Now, let
me just have a moment right here to just throw
something into the mix. If our federal government was the
same federal government that it was when the founders came
up with this genius idea called the United States of America,
this entire industry would not exist in its current form. Yes,

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there would have been people lobbying for various things. That's
why they're called lobbyists, by the way, because the people
from varying factions in industries and states would come to Washington,
DC and hang out in the hotel lobby of the
hotel where all the legislators stayed. They were there so
infrequently that they didn't have houses in DC. They just
stayed in hotels while they were there for the legislative session.

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But now the federal government is too powerful and now
everything goes through Washington, DC, and so we're going to
be stuck with the system for a long time. And
the headline of this column is still going to give
some people the shivers, and it says courts should abolish
spending limits on political parties. Now a lot of people
are going to be like, no way, we need to

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put evensighter restrictions on spending my political parties and get
the money out of politics.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
That's not going to happen.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
So what happened years ago when limits, these contrived limits
were put on how much money a political party could
spend on one of their own candidates for various offices.
They put these limits that are based on population sides.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
I mean, it's just nonsensical.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
And what happened was we saw the rise of super
packs on both the right and the left. There are
no innocent parties in this, maybe the Libertarian Party because
who's going to support them.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
All they do is argue they don't really get anything done.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
So you've got these limits that are put in place
and the rise of the superbat.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Superbats don't have to disclose their donors.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
So now we have complete We've added a layer of obfuscation.
And I'm not completely against obfuscation when it comes to politics.
Obfuscation has been allowed since the beginning of our nation.
Some of the best political treaties were written under someone
else's or a.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Made up name. Right, So you should be able to express.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
A political opinion via a donation or via a pamphlet.
I mean that's very colonial, but a pamphlet without having
to be outed.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
You should be able to do that. Now. Whether or
not people.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
Take your opinion and give it any merit, that's a
whole other thing.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Altogether. It's much easier to rip apart.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
An anonymous pamphlet than it is to rip apart something
that someone's put their name.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
On, although it still still can be done.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
So Dick argues that we should allow political parties which
do you have accountability. We do have the ability to
find out who is donating to political parties. The problem
that we have in the United States is not that
we have too much transparency. It's that we have bad
actors who are using that transparency against people who otherwise

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should be able to make a donation and not expect
to have their livelihood attacked. Right, That's the problem we're having.
Transparency is always better than not, especially in government. In
my view, everything that the government does should be open
wide for inspection. There should be no secret other than

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something that is so closely held that we have to
have this information kept from the public for national security
under very very very very very very very very narrow circumstances.
Everything else should be out there. So Dick makes you argument.
The Colin will talk to him about it in the
next segment. Couple things that I want to do today,

(09:01):
and Dick's coming out at twelve thirty, so I think
I'm going to do this at one o'clock. But yesterday
and I just talked about this on Ross's show. But
I know there's like four of you who will not
listen to Ross but listen to this show. So I'll
bring up to speed. So I posted this yesterday. Oh
come on, take the ad away. I'm trying to make
this add on x goo away. It's in the way

(09:25):
that's so annoying. Hang on one second, let me find
it a different way. So this is what I posted yesterday,
thirty three years ago today, my husband was wounded in
an ambush attack, but in Somolia. It was very similar
to the one that happened months later that took the
lives of eighteen service members in the black Hawk Down incident.
His humby took over one hundred rounds and he took
about ten rounds himself, but he still managed to get

(09:47):
himself and his friend Jack back to base, where they
found an RPG had penetrated the truck and lodged underneath
the driver's seat.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Whoever fired it forgot to pull the pin.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
So today I celebrate incompetence because without it, my husband
would have been blown to smithereens before I even met him.
Happy life day to my human Chuck. And that's what
I posted yesterday, And the responses either on x or
on Facebook had lots of guys piping in to say,
oh yeah, I had a similar story with an RPG
or oh yeah, I had a close call like that.

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So I thought it would be interesting to maybe in
the one o'clock hour.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
I want to hear your close call stories.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
I want to hear about that time when you most
assuredly should have been dead.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
And I have one that involved.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Driving on a highway in Florida that I swear to you, like,
when I think about it, I start to sweat because
it was so incredibly stressful and lucky that I am
not dead.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
So we'll do that at one o'clock.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
I hope we can all appreciate the fact that we're
talking about not being dead. Right somehow, on my x feed,
some of the people that I follow are reposting content
of people like either getting killed or almost getting killed.
So I'm scrolling along my timeline in unassuming fashion and
one of these things pops up, and when at first

(11:06):
you know, you don't know what you're watching it first,
But I'm like, why why is that? Do you know
you don't watch people getting killed videos on the internet?

Speaker 5 (11:13):
Do you?

Speaker 6 (11:14):
Not?

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Intentionally?

Speaker 4 (11:15):
But I've had that same experience, especially with like the
conflicts going on now, I feel like they're all over
the time.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
I do not unfollow you fast enough if you just
reshare stuff like that, because that's not fair.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
That's not what I signed up for.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
So yeah, it's like, but apparently there's just this huge
market on the internet for people watching videos of people debting.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
Themselves or by accidents or whatever. I mean, it's just ah, horrible,
absolutely horrible.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Mandy the history of a successful third parties that party
supplants one of the two main parties, then there are
two parties again. So we're talking about the possibility of
Elon Musk trying to start up the America Party, and
John Kildera has a really great column about it.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
As a matter of fact, I was asking him to
come on the show.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
He responded like two minutes ago, but I haven't been
able to read the text. So let's see what that
scallywag just said. Um no he can't. He's in a
conference whatever. Conferences are stupid. But anyway, he's got a
great column about it today. And there's some of the
problems that are naturally.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
Going to arise.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Then they kind of all go exactly to what I
was talking about, where it cannot be a grassroots movement
because the grassroots is great for local stuff. A grassroots
movement in your community to get something done. When you
need something in your neighborhood and you have a grassroots
group of people that get together to make that happen,

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that is the best use of grassroots.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
But when grassroots tries to push.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
Itself up and it runs up, you know, either larger
infrastructure needs or they get too much money too fast.
Then you have a bunch of people who all work
their tails off in the grassroots, and they all want credit,
and they all want the leadership roles right, and it
can't when you get a bunch of you can't all

(13:08):
be in charge. We all need you know, Indians, not
just chiefs kind of thing. So that's why I can't
be grassroots. But John has a really good column with
some of the problems that he sees in this just
overarching thing. So as a matter of fact, I want
to I'll go ahead and talk about this right now,

(13:28):
hang on one second, trying to get back to where
I was before, because he makes a lot.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Of good points. And part of what's going on right
now with.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
The Democratic Party is they've sort of painted themselves into
the corner of being pro very unpopular things and against
very popular things.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
They've really kind of done this to themselves. We've got
a story on the blog about more information is coming out.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
You all saw the video of people running through fields
running away from ICE. This was the encounter where someone
shot at ICE enforcement officers, and the Democrats could not
jump in front of a camera fast enough to say,
these strawberry farmers, these strawberry farmers are just and you're

(14:20):
look at you. Who's going to pick our crops? Who
was going to pick the cotton? I'm just saying back
in the day when people wanted to free the slaves.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
Nonetheless, we find.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
Out now that a bunch of those people that ran
were unaccompanied minor illegal immigrants, and they're working not at
a strawberry farm, but a weed farm in California. By
the way, do you know why ICE got called in
the first place, Because that guy who owned the weed farm,
the quote unquote strawberry farmer, he was not paying them

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and the conditions that they were working were horrific. So
he's basically employing illegal immigrant children to underpay them and
treat them awfully. And that's who the Democrats are defending,
you guys. The point John Caldera makes in this column
about the potential of a third party is that you
cannot build a party just being against things, right. You

(15:18):
can't say, well, we help the hate the Democrats and
we hate the Republicans. So that makes this what is
what is the party? What does it stand for? Who decides?
And I think these are all great questions. So perhaps
a little bit later in the program, we will answer
these questions what kind of party?

Speaker 2 (15:34):
Because I've been.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
Having a fascinating email exchange over the last weekend with
a lesbian in Bolder.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
And the only reason I tell.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
You that she's a lesbian from Boulder is that she's
also on the left right, so she checks all these boxes.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
But she is as.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
Disillusioned with the Democratic Party as many Republicans are with
the hard right of the Republican Party. Right, So you
have all of these people in the middle who are disaffected,
and they they've really been, like philosophically disenfranchised. So what
would we look like if we were to create a party?

Speaker 5 (16:14):
Now?

Speaker 1 (16:14):
I know I would create a party based solely on
two things. Number one, deficit spending. Number two freedom.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
I don't care what box you check, you get treated
the same. That's it.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
If you're a black lesbian. If you are a white dude,
you get treated the same. That means powerful people go
to jail. When I'm in charge, that's what I would
That would be my whole platform. That'd be it, and
you know, hopefully i'd be able to sell those three things.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
Yesterday I was weeding. You don't have a house yet,
do you?

Speaker 1 (16:54):
Okay, So I've got a house, and I realized, like
this back corner of my house that I never look
at or pay attention to, I have Virginia creeper going
up the side of the house, which is bad for
your sighting.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
So I go to pull it out yesterday. Does anybody
know if Virginia creeper releases a toxic you when you
uproot it?

Speaker 1 (17:11):
Because I pulled up a whole bunch of it, and
I swear to you I poisoned myself. I breathed in something.
And now I've got this like weird, like, yeah, it's
just awful.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
I know, wil I've never heard of that before.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
I was pulling up a bunch of stuff and I'm like,
did I inhale something good?

Speaker 2 (17:29):
Gravy? Yes?

Speaker 1 (17:30):
I do remember the faces of death videos in the
early eighties when.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
I was in high school.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
I used to people bring those up to rent them.
Now people have to remember back in the day, when
you wanted to watch an inappropriate video like of Faces
of Death movie or pornography, you had to face some
teenage fresh face clerk in order to do so. And
whenever anybody rented the Faces of Death, I gave him
the stink eye so hard and I picked it up

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like two fingers, like I didn't want it, you know,
put it in the back. Yeah, just let him know
how I felt about their choice. But of course I
rented it to him because I didn't want to get
fired anyway. Let's take a quick time out. We're gonna
when we get back talk about Dick Wadhams. I want
to talk to him about third party stuff because Dick

(18:16):
and I have had conversations in the past about the
Republican brand in this state. Though there are bright spots,
I always forget to say that, but there really are
some bright spots in the Republican Party.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
The brand is a mess here and I.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
Don't necessarily see that changing anytime soon. It's really going
to take kind of a unicorn Republican to become the
face of the party here. To really pull it out
of a ditch, and I'm not sure who, if there
is anybody.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
I have some hopes, but I'm just not not possible.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
Anyway, let's do this time out On the other side,
Dick Wadham joins us.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
One.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
Mister Dick wadhams he's known more about Republican politics than
anybody Else's forgotten in the state and still trying to
fix things. Has a great column in the Denver Gazette
from today about whether or not the courts should allow
political parties to spend unlimited dollars on their candidates. And
I realized that, and I said this in the first segment.

(19:24):
I realize a lot of people kind of get that, Yeah,
we need to get money out of pology. Well, it's
not ever going to happen, though, I mean, it's just not.
That's such a fantasy, Daniel. So make the case why
should the courts undo this?

Speaker 6 (19:34):
Well, when that law was enacted, the two parties basically
and candidates basically spend all the money in campaigns.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
Right.

Speaker 6 (19:40):
But what we've had emerged in the last I would
say twenty years, maybe a little longer, is the increased
influence of super packs, which are things. They are totally
separate from political parties, totally separate for candidates, and they
can spend any amount of money on anything at any time,
and that puts candidates and political parties at a advantage
because they have to. They can only raise so much

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money and spend so much money in these races. And
so the only way to really reduce the impact of
super packs, which are very unaccountable, right and they have
nice sounding names like the Citizens for American Yeah yeah, yeah,
Americans for Puppies and Kitty yeah, stuff like that, but
you have no idea who finances them. And this is

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a one This is one way to level the playing
field also for for wealthy candidates who try to buy elections,
because Jared Polus, he's saying he bought Congress and he
bought the governor, and his Democratic and Republican opponents were very,
very very upset by this.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
Yeh bought Board of Education.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
I mean he spent an obscene amount of money for
a Board of Education race. He's bought every single office.
And don't get me wrong, I think he would have
gotten re elected without a ton of money in this
last election cycle. But he has definitely way out spent
shocking all amount of money all of his opponents to
get in where he is.

Speaker 6 (21:00):
I'm not anti money Mandy at all. In fact, it
takes money to educate the voters on your candidacy. But
what I am against is false limits on that spending
by groups that allegedly are getting quote money out of politics.
It can't be done. We need to level the playing field.
And by the way, three of the campaigns I ran

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for Senator Allard and Governor Owens, those three campaigns to
Fralberg win for Rowens, we were outspent by our opponents.
So the fact is just because you get outspent doesn't
mean you're going to lose, right, So you just need
to raise enough money to do what.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
You need to do well.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
So what could potentially happen in this are we moving
to that of the courts making a decision to cut
up in this what's going on?

Speaker 6 (21:46):
I think the courts will probably move to eliminate these limits,
and they've been in place since nineteen seventy four. I
think they're probably going to come down and will be
one more chink in that armor of the campaign Final
Answer reform that created these ridiculous limits. But what we
really need to do long term, Mandy, we just need

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to eliminate all limits on all contributions and spending for everybody,
because today we have the Internet and we have search ability.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
This.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
I've been making this argument for absolute years. In my mind,
there should be no more cash donations of any kind.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
Totally, totally, no more cash donations.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
Everything has to have an electronic trail. Every campaign should
have to upload that information daily, daily, and I should
be able to search it daily. And there's no reason
why they can't do that.

Speaker 6 (22:36):
And that's the thing. So and by the way, we
have smart voters. If they're given the opportunity to make
their own decisions on this, they can decide if Mandy
Connell for governor is taking too much money from a
big wealthy gun right, or you're spending I mean, voters
can handle this right these public interest groups. Mandy too
often treats voters like they're dumb and they need to

(22:59):
be and they don't need to be.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
So I would to ask you, secondarily, you should guys
should read the whole column.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
I was ready to hate it. I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
I was ready to hate it, but then I read
what we were actually talking about, and it does make
a lot of sense, especially if we'd like to get
back to that system where we have full transparency. That's
the reality of what we should all want. Okay, I
want to talk about John Caldera has a column today
about the America Party.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
This has been kind of.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
Lofted by Elon Musk as the potential for a third party,
and John makes great comments in this column where it
basically says, look, you can't create a party built on
we hate you, which is kind of how this feels.
But is there ever going to be the potential for
a third party that would give the disenfranchised center anywhere

(23:44):
to go? Because I feel very I don't understand the
Republican Party right now. I don't understand they're not the
Republican Party of physical responsibility that has just been thrown off,
and for me that's the most important right.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
But I'm also like not super animated by social issues
at all. And then people on the.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
Left who may feel like, oh, I want to be
you know, I want women to be able to choose
whether or not they want to have an abortion, but
I also don't want this ginormous government paying for everything.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
I mean, I think.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
There's there's like this blob in the center that is
completely underserved by what we have right now.

Speaker 6 (24:19):
I agree, but I don't think a third party can
address that, Mandy, I really don't. I think John made
a great point. You have to be for something, and
I think John's right, And then think about it. The
last time a third party replaced one of the major parties,
the Republican Party, it replaced the Whig Party in the
in the middle of the Civil War. So I'm not

(24:41):
sure it'll happen. I think we're going to go through
a period for quite a while on this, this warfare
within the Democratic Party and within the Republican Party, and
it's just going to have to play itself out. Right now,
Donald Trump owns their Republican Party, there is no doubt
about it, and he's done some wonderful things. But one
of the the problems with the party right now is

(25:01):
that you cannot express any disagreement whatsoever with Trump the
Trump administration. Look what happened with the governor or Senator
Tillis in North Carolina. Yeah, he pulled out or Congressman
Bacon in Omaha. I mean, we've seen anybody who disagrees
with the administration on anything gets gets thrown out of
the party. The same thing in the Democratic Party. I'll

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tell you what. The Republican Party gives a lot of attention,
but the Democratic Socialist Socialists are single wrecking right they are.
And actually what they're doing to the Democratic Party is
I think more dangerous for the nation than what's going
on in the Republican.

Speaker 1 (25:37):
Republican Party is they're all there are arguing about purity, right,
are you Trump enough? Which is in some ways terrible
because when you indulge Trump's worst instincts, that is when
I like, in the least right, I'd rather he be
sort of reined in by Republicans. I'd rather Republicans be
able to go in and say, mister President, you can't

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threaten to take.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
Away Rosie Donald's citizenship.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
Right, Somebody at our party should be able to say that, okay,
but they can't.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
To your point, that is on that side.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
On the on the left, you have the establishment Democrats
absolutely losing control of the part.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
I mean they it is spinning.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
Does anybody really think of Hakeem Jefferies as any kind
of leader? Compare him to Nancy Pelosi's iron fist right,
I just you know, everything is kind of a hot
mess right now.

Speaker 6 (26:27):
And this isn't that kind of funny to watch this
Epstein situation?

Speaker 1 (26:30):
And how that feel so mad about this, Dick. I'm
mad because it's two layers of justice. And I'm mad because.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
Once again, once again, we were.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
All promised that the bad guys would get it, no
matter who they were, and once again they pulled the
football away as we want him to kick it.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
That's right.

Speaker 6 (26:48):
And look at the turmoil that is going on within
the Mega movement right now. I mean, they're they're accusing
Trump of essentially not being megan enough, right.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
I know, I know, I know, I I just I
to your point about the various factions going on in
the two parties. The thing that makes me worry the
most is that I am seeing and I've loved the
Republican Party. I left it when Dave Williams was elected,
and I'm waiting to see if it's worthy to go
back for.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
And the big.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
Beautiful Bill tells me no, right right now, no, because
why I was in it doesn't exist anymore. I'm afraid
there's going to be more attrition from the Republican side
than the Democratic side, And even though I will probably
vote Republican ninety nine maybe one hundred percent of the time.

Speaker 6 (27:29):
Well, look what's happening in Colorado. Fifty percent of the
electorate is now unaffiliated. I know, only twenty three percent Republican,
twenty six percent Democratic. For decades it was a third
to third a third, and now people are gravitating towards
unaffiliated because they don't like either party.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
That's going on.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
Right now, Dick Wadams, I know you've got to be
somewhere at once, So I'll let you go after this.
Reada's call them today in the Denver Gazette. Let's do
this again soon, because we've got to start talking about
I hate to say it, but we've got to start
talking about the governor's race because there is an opportunity
because I don't find any of the Democrats particularly strong.

Speaker 3 (28:03):
No.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
No, So we'll need to get back in and have
a conversation. Basic we'll be right back a little bit
later in the show.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
I want to try and we'll noodle out together, you
my hive mind and me, like, is there would there
be could there be the possibility of a true third parties?

Speaker 2 (28:32):
It could straddle.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
The center left and right. Because there is center left
and there is center right. There are people that say,
look and they should be libertarians. But the libertarians to
the texture who said, wait a minute, let me find
this because it made me laugh on the break.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
Up up up bub Bu.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
Mandy, it could have been the Libertarian Party, but they're
too disorganized.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
Amen to that.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
I went to Libertarian Party meetings in Orlando, Florida. They
were held in a Friday's, okay, because the Benicans closed,
and it was me and a bunch of dudes. I'm
not kidding, Zach. Zach just started laughing. I'm not kidding.
They had to move it from Benigans to Fridays after
the Benicans closed, and it was me and like fourteen

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dudes that sat around arguing about our cane points of
liberty that no one in the entire country except those
fourteen dudes cared about.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
And I finally was like, first of all, that's how
the meetings were. There was no meetings.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
There was no like structure or Libertarians, we don't need
any structure.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
It was insane.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
And then finally went day I was like, you guys
really don't care about winning anything new. You like you
don't care. You don't care about actually doing something. You
just want to sit here and have an L on
your voter registration card and sit here and argue about crap.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
It doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
And they all looked at me like I had nine
heads and that was the last meeting that I went
to and.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
L on their card in multiple ways.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
Yeah, yes, I didn't even think about that, thanks Zach.
And don't get me wrong, there's some passionate, super smart,
really good libertarians out there, but they are surrounded by
idiots who would rather posture than be effective, who don't
understand that sometimes politically you can't get everything you want right.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
It's just that's the way it is.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
They want to unwind every government overreach in one fell swoop.
You cannot do that. They didn't all show up in
one fell swoop. But in any case, i'd love to
know if there was a way to straddle that center section,
because if you could capture the imagination of the center
section of people, people that are like, yeah, I'm personally

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pro life, but i'll accept you know, some abortion up
to a certain point, a coupled with the people who
are like generally pro choice, but I'll accept you know.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
Some reasonable restricts like that's a huge part of the
electorate on.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
That issue alone that are in agreement, right, So it's
just I'm super frustrated because I love the United States
of America. I love the fact that we are based
on ideals that are so incredibly powerful because they're based
on one simple concept that we are all created equal.

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And yes, we have fallen short on achieving those ideals
in the past. But if we all just decided, you
know what, from this point forward, we're going to treat
everybody equally.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
We're going to make sure everybody has equal.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
Access to opportunity, I think that would be a very
appealing message for people. So a little bit later in
the show, we can talk about that, and I'll get
your ideas, probably in the two o'clock hour, Mandy. From
what I know, the Forward Party fits the bill. The
Forward Party does not mention spending in its entire platform.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
I read it like a week and a half ago.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
So the Forward Party, as far as I'm concerned, is
an epic fail already, because unless and until you talk
about spending and what.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
It means, if we don't get.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
Spending under control and make people understand that everything else
is just a house of cards waiting to fall down.
Because you can promise the world to everybody. You could
promise everybody forty acres and a mule, a free house
and a free car. But as soon as the country
truly goes broke and the rest of the world spirals
economically out of control as well, none of that stuff

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is gonna matter because none of it's gonna be a.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
Thing that happens. So it's like the things that are
important to me.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
Everything starts and ends with spending and taxation and the economy.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
That is the that's the big thing.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
Because unless that's working, unless we are doing something about
a debt that is more more than all of our
other discretionary spending right now, our interest payments on that
debt are more than all of the discretionary spending in
the government right now, and it's not getting any better.
We're just the big beautiful bill's gonna add.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
Another three trillion.

Speaker 7 (32:58):
You know.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
It's just it's insane and absolutely insane.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
Mandy Libertarians are actually anarchists with better clothing. I would
argue about the better clothing based on my personal experiences
at those meetings. Libertarian says this Texter would rather be
right than actually get anything done. That is absolutely correct, Mandy.
Third Party needs to start at ground level and work

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their way up local elections first with young candidates. Here's
the problem with that, and I sort of articulated this
fairly recently. That would be a true grassroots movement. And
it's great for small things, local stuff. Grassroots is phenomenal.
But as grassroots gets big and as it spreads across
the country. Now, as grassroots starts to bubble up, you

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have a bunch of people who've been working their butts
off at the grassroots level, and not only do they
want leadership positions, they want credit.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
And then you have a bunch of.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
Infighting as everybody's arguing for credit and trying to get
the money, and.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
You're doing it wrong.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
This is exactly what happened with a Tea Party. It's
exactly what happened with Black Lives Matter. It happens every
single time something starts in the way you're talking about.
This has to be top down. Here's your leadership team.
We're gonna field candidates that fall into this category. Vote
for us or you don't. That's what has to happen.
We'll come up with that later when we get back.

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Ladies and gentlemen, if you've ever had a close call,
I want to hear about it in the next hour.
I'll explain after this. But welcome, Welcome to the second
hour of the show. I'm your host, Mandy Connell, and
that guy over there and for Anthony Rodriguez is Zach Seekers,

(34:38):
or as I am calling him now, mister Seegers because
he looks so grown up with his beard and mustache.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
Thank you now, Zach.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
You do know, once you like get a kid at
some point, if that's in your future, you're not allowed
to shave anymore. Once the kid knows you with your
facial hair, then it will be upsetting to them if
you shave your facial hair.

Speaker 4 (34:59):
Do you know videos where just terrifies it real, it's.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
A real thing. Kids get freaked out. They're like, I
don't know you are anymore. So it's just now, it's
a part of your life forever.

Speaker 4 (35:09):
I just want you to know that I'll roll with it,
or I can keep that in my back pocket, traumatize
them if they really missed PA, I.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
Would keep it until you turn thirty six and then
zip bang and you're back to sixteen, go ahead and
shave it off at thirty months. Yeah, in that time
exactly as, exactly right. I'm here for you. I am
an ideal woman. So yesterday I posted in on my
Facebook page a little tribute to my husband.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
We were celebrating him yesterday.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
His birthday was last week, and July thirteenth is his
life day. And I don't know what other people call it,
but your life day is the day that you should
have died but you didn't. And his happened thirty three
years ago. And this is what I posted on Facebook.
Thirty three years ago today, my husband was wounded in
an ambush attack in small Yeah, it was very similar

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to the one that happened months later that took the
lives of eighteen service members in the Blackhawk down incident.
His humby took over one hundred rounds and he took
about ten rounds himself, but he still managed to get
himself and his friend Jack back to base, where they
found that an RPG had penetrated the truck and lodged
underneath the driver's seat. Whoever fired it forgot to pull
the pin. So today I celebrate incompetence because without it,

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my husband would have been blown to smithereens before I
even met him. Happy life date to my human Chuck.
And so many people responded, And I can't tell you
how touched he is about all of these responses because
I whereas I see what he did as.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
Heroic, he does not.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
He still has a lot of guilt because his friend
Jack was not supposed to be on that supply run
that day, and Jack ended up.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Being severely wounded.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
A bullet went through Chuck's arm as he was driving
and into Jack's glasses and shattered his glasses and blinded
Jack in one eye. So Chuck just that that's all
he focuses on instead of like, hey, I man, but
in any case, that's the whole story for another day.
But he's been very gratified reading all of those responses.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
But a lot of the responses.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
Say things like, oh yeah, I had a day like
that too, And it got me to thinking, like, I
want to know your close call stories. So if you
have one three oh three seven one three eighty five eighty.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
Five, will you call in chat? You can text it
to five six six nine.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
Oh that's phone number again, three O three seven one
three eighty five eighty five or text it to the
Common Spirit Health text line five six six nine. Oh,
but here's my near death experience. And I wasn't in
the military. I wasn't doing anything. I was driving down
I four in Orlando, the kind of highway that makes
you feel about I twenty five, right, that's the main

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frag between Tampa and Orlando.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
And it always sucks. Okay, it always sucks.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
And I was down by Disney and I was driving,
and we just had our afternoon rainstorm. And I was
driving in my car and all of a sudden, the
traffic in front of me slams on the brakes.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
But I'm a good bit back.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
I'm like a good probably like eight or nine cars back,
so I'm not an imminent I hit the brakes and
my car starts our hydroplane and just goes around in
one and a half circles. And I am grabbing this.
I'm completely freaked out. I handled it completely wrong. Okay,
so I already know what I should do. I was
maybe twenty two when this happened, right.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
So I freak out.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
I'm just literally holding the ceerial well. The car is
spinning around slowly. It comes to a stop, and I
am facing the median right, so I'm facing the median,
my door is facing oncoming traffic. I look to my left.
I realized the guy behind me is not stopping at all.
I hit the gas, I go into the median, and

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he smashes into the car that was stopped in front
of me at like fifty five miles an hour, And
it was like, it was absolutely horrific.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
And I sat in the media.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
And holding my steering wheel at ten and two and cried,
I'm not gonna lie for like fifteen minutes, just sit
an adrenaline dump. And I'm pretty sure that is the
closest I've ever come to death that I'm aware of.
You know, you always think to yourself, like, there's probably
all these weird near misses that happen in our lives
all the time, right, But that was the first and

(39:20):
only time that I have thought to myself, I should
be dead after that, I should still not be here.
And the highway patrolman got there. I'm sitting in my
car crying. But the other people, like the people in
the cars that actually.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
Got in the accidents, it is and it created.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
A chain reaction accident because all these cars were stopped
in front of it. So there was like eight cars.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
Involved in the Shane reaction situation.

Speaker 1 (39:41):
And the finally they get to me, I'm just sitting
in my car and the highway patrolmans like, are you okay?
I was like, you know what, I'm just gonna sit
here for a few more minutes before I try to
drive home, and he was like, sit here as long
as you need to. It was a grass median, so
I wasn't in the way. I think I sat there
for like forty five minutes, just trying to, you know,
compose myself, and then i'd in the median past the

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nine or two so cards that were in this chain
reaction and.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
Just went home.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
But I was like, man, that should have been my number,
that should have been my ticket right there, and it wasn't.
So whether you were in the military or whether you
have some other kind of clothes call, I want to
hear about it. Three oh three seven one, three eighty
five eighty five. Who forgot to pull the pin on
your RPG?

Speaker 2 (40:25):
That's the question. And you are on kaway? What's your
story for me?

Speaker 8 (40:30):
Hi?

Speaker 5 (40:31):
Mandy? I lived with camor Ridge Apartments here in Boulder,
and well back and well, this was in twenty twenty three,
on April the eleventh Easter, and we have an intersection
all about in a block from our leasing office. And
I was crossing the street and a little girl was

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in a pickup truck with small truck, and the streets
were all clear, so I thought were I crossed the
street as I was crossing, and the little girl happened
to be on her cell phone and she didn't see me,
and of course I thought everything was clear. I crossed,

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started crossing the street and I looked out in my
corner of my eye and this truck was two feet
away from me. Had sent her and she stopped. I
should be good, but I survived. I'm alive, and I
just wanted to tell you I'm happy.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
Well, and I'm happy too.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
And he's a good reminder be sure look every way
before you cross the street.

Speaker 5 (41:38):
Well I looked everywhere. Yeah, I thought the truck was
parked and yeah, well I thought everything was just all clear.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
So but and I'm glad you. I'm glad you were
in a way.

Speaker 5 (41:51):
Yeah, I'm alive. So I just wanted to tell you.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
Thanks, man.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
I appreciate the phone call, and good for her for
having good reflexes right, Mandy, May twenty third, twenty twenty
four is my son's life day. He slid three hundred
and fifty feet down the first flat iron and boulder
while free climbing.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
Oh broke over.

Speaker 1 (42:13):
Twenty two bones in his body and has to and
has overcome so much. He has a construction business where
he physically builds custom woodworking beams, cabinets, built ins. Even
with his leg and back hardware breaking. Less than a
year after being put in, he is still working his
tail off, waiting for his bones to heal so he
can get the hardware removed or better hardware re installed. Wow,

(42:38):
you guys, free climbing freaks me out. That just that
is a hobby that I am like, why don't you
just run and jump into a ravine every once in
a while?

Speaker 2 (42:49):
I just it's do you see the Oh? What was
the movie was a call free climbed free solo terrifying.

Speaker 1 (42:57):
I did not breathe through that entire movie, and I
knew how it ended.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
I knew how it ended.

Speaker 4 (43:05):
I hate heights and it makes me easy even thinking
about it.

Speaker 1 (43:09):
Over not super bothered by heights necessarily, but just the stress.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
Of that, I just cannot do it. Cannot do it.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
Somebody just pointed out, so Chuck's day is the same
as Trump's assassination attempt.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
WHOA, I didn't even think about that.

Speaker 1 (43:25):
Yeah, July thirteenth, Mandy, I'm glad to hear you have
a celebration of life ceremony for Chuck. His situation reminds
me of Colonel Captain Jason Frye, who in Iraq had
an inactive RPG thought shot through his humbye went in
one side and out the other. The RPG still Fry's
forearm with it. But I'm sure he's thanking God that

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he's alive today. Yeah, for sure, Mandy. My father used
to celebrate a second birthday, and as a young child,
I never understood why. Later on I learned that he
celebrated the date of his variety as the beginning of
his new better life. I love that.

Speaker 2 (44:04):
What a great anniversary to celebrate.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
Fantastic this Texter, my dear near death experience. I told
my girlfriend those pants did make her look fat. That
was a poor choice, sir, Poor choice, Mandy. On July sixth,
two thousand and nine, I was indirectly hit by lightning
I was on a Panasonic business phone lane line and lightning.

Speaker 2 (44:28):
Hit our building in Parker.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
It was like the worst electric shock I've ever got,
almost like a static shock, and I am a master electrician.
The next morning I had to burn on my wrist
in the back of my left shoulder the entrance and exit.
That's crazy, that is nuts. I have friends that were
out on a river canoeing and it started to storm

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really bad in Florida, and they got out. They pulled
their canoe off to the side, metal canoe, They pulled
their canoe up to They're not dumb. They pulled the
canoe up to the up to the river bank, and
then they got on the other side of a tree.

Speaker 2 (45:07):
There's a riverbank canoe tree.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
They were on the other side like fifty feet away
when the tree got struck and it looped back through
the canoe into the tree again, and the secondary lightning
strike almost killed him and they were like fifty feet away.

Speaker 2 (45:23):
Lightning. Don't play with lightning, man, do not do it.

Speaker 4 (45:27):
As me terrified with all our audio equipment right now,
if they can go through the phones, oh it.

Speaker 1 (45:32):
Absolutely can, it absolutely can. Thanks for pointing that out
as I sit here with headphones on.

Speaker 5 (45:38):
Eh.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
My friends and I were trying to catch his girlfriend
one night on a County gravel road. I was going
about ninety miles an hour in my seventy three Tono
when I lost control and skid about one thousand feet
before my car ended up upright hanging in the ditch,
with the front bumper on the road and back bumper
on the fence side. We should have rolled it, Yes,
you should. Isn't it amazing that we're all walking talking

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in here?

Speaker 2 (46:03):
Isn't it? Sometimes? Mandy On twelve thirteen, twenty thirteen.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
Wait a minute, twelve thirteen, twenty thirteen, I was playing
roller Derby and on the track I had a cardiac arrest.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
Luckily, I had.

Speaker 1 (46:16):
A cardiac RM that was skating with me in an
EMT and they did CPR on me for sixteen and
a half minutes until the ambulance came with a defibulator
to shock me. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't
be here today.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
WHOA.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
I know multiple people that have had long term cardiac experiences,
and I'm very.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
Fascinated by it.

Speaker 1 (46:43):
Mandyuh wait already read that one I drove on I
seventy six at five am to get to Nebraska with
my two young boys and seven months pregnant with my
third boy. It was dark and I was going like
seventy miles an hour when three deer came across the road.
And to this day, I have no eye idea I
drove through.

Speaker 2 (47:01):
All of them.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
I was definitely praying and cussing at the same time.
Still not sure how I missed them all Those who
scare the bejeebers out of you, for sure, Mandy. I
was on the off ramp from two to five westbound,
waiting on the DTC Parkway light. I was pulling a
boat in a slightly underpowered SUV.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
The light turned green, and as I slowly entered.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
The intersection, two kids ran the red light northbound and
flew through the intersection and two cars. One car couldn't
negotiate the road. It ended up in the field. If
I hadn't been towing that boat and a limited acceleration,
they would have slammed into me when they were doing
about eighty miles an hour.

Speaker 2 (47:41):
Someone would not have lived.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
Luckily, we all lived and very little damage occurred to
their car. Mandy, not a new experience from a near
experience for me, but a bicyclist. When motorists are ready
to turn right from a parking lot, the first instinct
is to look left for traffic, just as I did
that a bicyclist was riding up the sidewalk against traffic
from my right and almost collided with me.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
That would not be your fault.

Speaker 1 (48:07):
People on bicycles and motorcycles doing dumb things when cars
are the other thing that they're doing them around is
just I you know, I just am like.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
What are you doing? Do you really think car versus
bicycle is going to go well for you? Because it's
not at all. It's terrifying. Oh, it's horrible. Where we
live out in Douglas County.

Speaker 1 (48:29):
There's a lot of cyclists who come out there because
it's nice and hilly and they want to come out
and ride on the weekends. And I get it, I
totally get it. But the roads have no lane, they
have no like shoulder lane. They're two lane roads, and
it's like a nightmare sometimes trying to get around bicyclists
because you've got traffic com in the other direction and respect.
I try to be as considered as possible, but some

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bicyclists are not considerate back, and that's where the frustration
in trouble comes.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
I think anyway, it's just my feelings. Mandy.

Speaker 1 (49:00):
Garbage truck fully loaded on my way to dump t
boned me.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
He ran a red light.

Speaker 1 (49:05):
Everyone that saw my seventy three two thousand and two
BMW could not believe I survived. My ribs are still
square on the left side. That was in Denver in
the eighties.

Speaker 2 (49:17):
Mandy.

Speaker 1 (49:17):
On Thanksgiving Day twenty twenty, in the height of COVID,
I woke up feeling terrible. Thought maybe it was COVID.
My wife said, stomach flew. I could barely breathe even
after ten steps. Said we should go to the er.
It turns out I had massive numbers of huge pulmonary
embolisms in both lungs. Duck said, I would have died
if I'd waited even an hour to go to the er.
Pay attention to your body, people, Pay attention, Mandy.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
I was painting a.

Speaker 1 (49:43):
House and fell off a thirty foot ladder. Thankfully I
was on the first run.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
Ha ha ha ha.

Speaker 1 (49:52):
Wrecked my motorcycle at ninety miles an hour. What and
you still ride a motorcycle? I mean, I'm just curious,
cause yeah, I'm I'm just curious. Somebody asked, did the
person who they had to do CPR? Did you see
the light? Did you have any kind of near death experience.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
Why?

Speaker 1 (50:16):
Yogi said she was headed back to New Jersey as
a brand new second lieutenant and her Honda Sinek when
a guy had a heart attack careened across multiple lanes.
I was in the left passing someone and crashed into
the median cement. Sadly, he passed as he slipped into
a diabetic coma.

Speaker 2 (50:32):
I was able to swerve avoid.

Speaker 1 (50:34):
Him, spend twice and wound up rolling back down a
single embankment on the opposite side of the interstate. I
didn't hit a single car or damage my brand new car.
And that's where it gets tricky right there. I mean,
that's where it just gets anyway, Mandy, I was in
a rollover accident the same day. Princess Diana died on

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August thirty first, nineteen ninety seven. She passed the way
I lived, along with the three other friends I had
in the car after a camping trip.

Speaker 2 (51:03):
Was it meant to be?

Speaker 1 (51:05):
I always wonder like for me, I think I'm a
better driver because of my potential nightmare experience.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
Right, I feel like it helped me.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
I don't know Tom is on the common spirital checks line, Tom,
or excuse me, hotline, Tom.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
What do you got for me?

Speaker 9 (51:25):
Well, Mandy, My life day was actually March seventeenth, two
thousand and three. What was going on in Denver and
all around Colorado at the time was the big bike
snowstorm that was moving in. Seeing that the weather reports
were stating, hey bake snowstorm. I was living up at

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Peaceful Valley Ranch at the time, in between Lyons and
as this spart so I decided that before the storm
fully hit to go down into Longmont to get new
tires for the jeep. And I took my son, who
at that time was only just a couple of months old,
and we were we were starting to get a precursor

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of the storm, where we had gotten about six eight
inches of flush already up there in the mountains.

Speaker 3 (52:13):
And when I was.

Speaker 9 (52:14):
Driving, I sort of started hydroplane on a curve. I overcorrected.
I went car was going to the left, I turned
my wheel to the left. I wound up sliding to
the right. Thankfully, we were in a part of the
canyon where towards the river. It wasn't a cliff, it
was more of a gradual slope down. And wound up

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sliding towards that, and I wound up rolling my cheap
grand Cherokee at the time a couple of times slid
slid down the embankment on the roof had nearly all
the windows shatter out from from me. Baby was in

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the backseat. I wound up after we had stopped, and
I wound up having to crawl out of the car
out of the right passenger side. One of the most
eerie sounds of silence that was going on because I
didn't hear anything. I was actually listening to Mike Rosen
on the radio while all of.

Speaker 3 (53:16):
This was happening.

Speaker 9 (53:18):
So I try opening up my car door because I
realized my son isn't making any noise here Mike Royson's voice,
It's like, oh, let's see if I can unlock the door.
Was able to unlock the door, crawled to my son.
It felt like I was crawling through a long tunnel.

Speaker 3 (53:34):
I get to my son.

Speaker 9 (53:35):
He's hanging upside down in his car seat with the
look of dad, what just happened? He was perfectly safe
and safe and healthy out of it. I wound up
tearing my shoulder out of it. But wow, my son
climb up the embankment to get back up to the

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road to start walking back towards the ranch. And I
was lucky that a good Samaritan happened to be driving
by and picked us up and took us back to
the ranch.

Speaker 2 (54:08):
You know, you don't really.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
Expect a guy carrying an infant to murder you, so
that probably helps you in your hitchhiking. Tom, that's a
crazy story. I really appreciate you sharing.

Speaker 3 (54:19):
Thanks Tom.

Speaker 2 (54:20):
We will be right back.

Speaker 1 (54:29):
And I'm glad that everybody's sharing these stories because I
really want to make it a point. I hadn't thought
about my you know, near death. It's almost accident in
a long time. But ultimately, like you got to be
grateful for that stuff, right, you got to be grateful
that you didn't die. I mean when I talk about
gratitude to my daughter and making sure that every day

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you find something to be grateful about. Sometimes the thing
that I am grateful for is today I did not
murder anyone, and I did not die. Because that's where
the bar is some days, right, but every day we
get to wake up on the right side.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
Of the dirt is a good one and treat it
that way.

Speaker 1 (55:11):
So I want to get some of the other stories
that we've done on the blog, and I want to
have kind of an update. Last week, I told you
that Aurora police were warning teenagers that if they showed
up for a team takeover at the town Center at
Aurora and they caused any problems at all, they we're
going to be arrested. Aurora PD is like we are
done playing because the fourteen year old girl ended up

(55:34):
in the hospital for multiple days at one of these takeovers. Well,
this weekend, when the takeover was supposed to be happening, guess.

Speaker 2 (55:41):
Who else showed up.

Speaker 1 (55:42):
Aurora PD was there, but there was also adults from
the community. They came down, totally volunteered their time, came
down to engage kids that might show up at the
town Center, let them know that there was other options,
just you know, let them know there was adults paying attention.
And I think that is one by the way, no
such takeover took place. I don't even think they had

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an influx of teens. I'm guessing when the teens saw
the sort of show of force that I'm sure was there.
They decided to not do that. But the adults at
CBS four interviewed in this story. I love the fact
that she's like, look, these teens just don't have anything
to do, and that, my friends, is the complaint that

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has been around since.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
The beginning of time. It really is. And no matter
where you.

Speaker 1 (56:30):
Live, teens still have nothing to do because they're too
big for little kid places.

Speaker 2 (56:36):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (56:37):
You can take a kid to a place with a
bunch of bounce houses or trampolines. That kid's good until
they're exhausted and you can just go home. Teenagers just
need more. And Zach, where did you grow up? I've
never asked Zackson for Aron today. Where did you grow up?

Speaker 2 (56:50):
Lafayette? Just outside Boarder?

Speaker 1 (56:51):
Was there anything to do for teenagers in Lafayette Pools?

Speaker 4 (56:56):
Like, honestly, you would go on the Border Do you
catch the bus. They've got some good bus and Border
and you'd grab a bus, go to Pearl Street or
just walk the Boulder Creek. You'd go to the Border Creek,
walk down there, jump in the creek. There's some areas
that are pretty deep and you could that they'd have ropes, swings,
hung out in everything too.

Speaker 2 (57:13):
Those are some good times.

Speaker 1 (57:14):
I lived in a small town where there was literally
nothing to do, you know, uh where. On the weekends,
we found somebody's patch of forests and we could go
and have a party on Friday or Saturday night. And
then if there was no party, we would just ride
up and down the same road, back and forth, back

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and forth. If you want to know. It was between
the Hearties and Walmart. That is the strip of land
that we occupied, and we had a mall and we
go hang out there. But the fact that kids don't
have anything to do has been a problem since the
beginning of time. It really has been so one of
the reasons that I've encouraged my daughter. I'm like, invite
your friends over here. We have the space, we don't

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bother you. We're awesome, meaning her dad and me. Why
wouldn't you anyway, Mandy, it's funny you do this on
your show today. Today Mark's ten year anniversary clean off methamphetamine,
which I consider to be reborn again birthday. I wouldn't
be alive. I don't believe if I hadn't wanted a

(58:20):
better life for my youngest son. His mother and I
were such a mess. Unfortunately, my son's mom couldn't face
her demons and took her life. Oh guys, drugs are awful.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
Drug addiction is awful.

Speaker 1 (58:38):
It does things to your brain and makes you choose
drugs instead of your child. And sir, the fact that
you did not and you are celebrating that day. I
am with you one hundred percent, Mandy, costs for things
for teens is the problem.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
Also, get a damn job. Correct. Did you have a
job in high school, Zach, I did. I worked as
a busterer at a restaurant. Nice.

Speaker 1 (59:03):
That's a good job for somebody to have. In high
school teaches you a sense of urgency. Yep, you know,
you begin to understand how the economy works. Did you
get tipped out?

Speaker 2 (59:10):
Yeah, it was great. We had a good setup there.

Speaker 4 (59:12):
And then also you learn I would implore anyone to
do it, or if I have kids, I will make
sure they do it, because I think seeing that side
of the service industry and how to be a good
customer and everything I think also has value.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
I have long believed that everyone like you know in Israel,
when you go to Israel, you have to serve an
IDF for two years. When you go to BYU or
your Mormon you have to serve a two year mission trip. Right,
I think everyone in the world should have to serve
two years in a restaurant in front of house. I'm
not knocking back of house, but I in a weird way.
I think that to work in back of house, meaning

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the kitchen, and that there's a different skill set.

Speaker 10 (59:48):
Right.

Speaker 1 (59:49):
Not everybody can handle the stress of working in a
high volume kitchen in.

Speaker 2 (59:52):
The back of house. Is It's tough.

Speaker 4 (59:55):
It's like the difference between working at the car dealership
and working on the manufacturing line.

Speaker 1 (59:59):
Correct big time, big time. But I learned so much
being a server. I mean, wow, I was a server.
I was a martender. I managed a restaurant. I did
everything in restaurants except work actually cooking, Like I even
prep cooked when I needed to, you know, I came
in and cut stuff up, I washed dishes, I did
everything in a restaurant, and it really was extremely helpful.

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The problem is is that the restaurant lifestyle is not
a healthy one for most people. There's a lot of drinking,
a lot of drug use, at least in the restaurants
that I ha lots of smoking, yes, very high rate
of cigarette smoking in restaurants. But it's a blast, super fun,

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really really super fun. Aimless team driving was called cruising.
Back in the sixties, we did that. We called it
riding around.

Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
What are y'all doing? We're gonna go ride around for
a while, That's what's gonna happen. Mandy.

Speaker 1 (01:00:54):
Children used to have something to do, it's called labor,
and then we passed laws against it. You know, I'm
not necessarily working or wanting to put small children into
difficult and dangerous jobs like chimney sweeping because they fit
it up.

Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
The chimney Like, I don't want to do that.

Speaker 1 (01:01:10):
But I do think the kids need more responsibilities than
parents today are giving them. I do think that's a
big problem. And I mean just responsibilities around the house.
One thing I can say for my sixteen year old
daughter is that she just does her chores without any crap.
She just takes care of business. It is so delightful.

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But that process started when she was eighteen months old.
Because we've got other people comment, wow, she's she takes
care of that, It's oh, I'm like, yeah, that's her
that's her chores. When she was eighteen months old, every
single night we made her pick up her toys and
put them away before she went to bed. Little little
kids can do a lot, and we're just not asking
them to do anything. Mandy, I would like to hear

(01:01:53):
the queue input in. You and Chuck are cool. Let
me just say this, okay, and there'll be no follow
up question about this.

Speaker 2 (01:02:01):
One day she comes to us, We're sitting there watching TV.

Speaker 1 (01:02:05):
She comes in, she goes, you know what, you and
Dad should write a parenting book. And I burst out
laughing and I said, I'm sorry, I don't mean to
laugh at your great idea, but a lot can go
wrong in the next few years and I'm not getting overconfident.
And she said, no, you guys are like really reasonable,
and some of my friend's spirits are not so as

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soon as she got old enough to kind of compare, like,
what and we're not permissive. Do not think that reasonable
is overly permissive. It's just we choose our battles and
make sure that the battles that we're fighting are important ones.

Speaker 2 (01:02:43):
Mandy.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
Even recovering drug addicts have permanent brain rewiring that affects judgment, mood,
and decision making. They are technically covered as a disability
under the ADA.

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
I do think it matters how long you are.

Speaker 1 (01:02:57):
Abusing drugs, but the same exact thing can be said
for alcohol. Long term alcohol abuse changes the function of
your brain significantly. So when we get back, I want
to talk for just a moment about the fact that
I am never going to be able to stay in
a hotel that I've wanted to stay in for a.

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
Really long time. And the reason is super sad.

Speaker 1 (01:03:31):
And they may or may not be the nicest places,
and one of them was the Grand Canyon Lodge. Grand
Canyon Lodge was the only lodging inside the park on
the North Rim.

Speaker 2 (01:03:43):
And it was not fancy.

Speaker 1 (01:03:46):
It was you know, and you notice I'm talking about
it in the past tense. The Grand Canyon Lodge was
consumed by the flames of a fast moving wild fire
this weekend. The visitor center, the gas station, a wastewater
treatment plant, an administrative building, and some employee housing were

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among the fifty to eighty structures lost in a wildfire.

Speaker 2 (01:04:13):
That's terrible, I know, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:14):
It is terrible, And like I said, this place wasn't
like super nice, but I knew about it, and I
wanted to go and have that kind of, you know,
like a little kitchen kind of National park experience, and
now I'm not ever going to be able to do that.

Speaker 4 (01:04:27):
And beyond that, you have to think there's hundreds of thousands,
if not millions, of people who have similar memories with
that same lodge. With the Grand Canyon being the site
that it is.

Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
That's one of the reasons most people go to the
South Rim. It's easier to get to it. It's just
more You could go year round to the South Rim.
The North Rim is only open seasonally. And last Thursday
they evacuated at all because of wildfires. And it seems
like that was a really really good choice. The Inner

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Canyon of the North Rim. They were all evacuated over
the weekend the parks set. Along with the fire risk,
they could potentially be exposed to chlorine gas after the
treatment plant burned.

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
Well, that sounds terrible, isn't that mustard gas?

Speaker 1 (01:05:14):
I don't know if it's the sat Google I real
quick find out. Rafters on the Colorado River through the
Grand Canyon were also told to bypass Phantom Beach this
lodge by the way was the first big feature that
visitors see, even before they see the canyon.

Speaker 2 (01:05:35):
A highway ends at the watch.

Speaker 1 (01:05:37):
And now they have a second wildfire burning north of
the Grand Canyon, and so everything's on fire.

Speaker 2 (01:05:44):
It's fire season. We also have fires here in Colorado.

Speaker 1 (01:05:46):
Governor Jared Polis has issued an emergency declaration for fires
on the western slope.

Speaker 2 (01:05:53):
All of these and this is like, if you.

Speaker 1 (01:05:55):
Want to hear the bright Side situation, none of these
appear to be human caused. They all appear to be
the result of lightning strikes from the same storm.

Speaker 2 (01:06:05):
But Black Canyon if the Gunnison Park is closed.

Speaker 1 (01:06:08):
So if you're headed to the Western Slope in the
next few days, week, whatever, double check and make sure
that where.

Speaker 2 (01:06:14):
You're going is still okay to get for get there.
You know, I haven't lived here. I've only lived here
thirteen years.

Speaker 1 (01:06:23):
But living on the East Coast, you don't pay attention
to things like wildfires because you don't really have them.

Speaker 2 (01:06:29):
On the East Coast.

Speaker 1 (01:06:30):
There's so much rain and everything is so wet, and
it's so humid, and in.

Speaker 2 (01:06:34):
The forests of the East Coast and east.

Speaker 1 (01:06:37):
Of the Mississippi, you have so much humidity that unlike
here where the trees die and then they just fall
and then they just stay there for forever because they
don't rot in where I am from. I mean, I've
seen a how big would you say a tree? If
a tree is this big around, what would you say?

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That's like five feet in diameter?

Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
Yes, when you see right?

Speaker 1 (01:07:01):
Okay, So a big, big, big live oak got taken
out by a hurricane like ten years ago. It took
five years for it to rot to the point where
you could kick it with your foot, and the inside
had collapsed. It was diseased already, That's why it fell
in the storm. But I mean it was only like
five years before you could kick it, and like it
would fall apart. Here, it would just never fall apart.

(01:07:26):
It would petrify until it got on fire. Right, I'm okay,
Petrified stuff is not going to catch on fire because.

Speaker 2 (01:07:31):
It essentially becomes stone. But you know what I mean.
So it's interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:07:36):
To live in a place where wildfires are such a
part of the conversation and something I'm super freaked out
about now, I really am.

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
That's I'm generally.

Speaker 1 (01:07:44):
Speaking, pretty calm about thinking about things I can't control
and I mean I never I really don't worry about
things I don't control, and I know that that's a
gift because a lot of people do worry about stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:07:55):
They can't control.

Speaker 1 (01:07:56):
But I'm like, why can't do anything about it?

Speaker 2 (01:08:00):
A fire danger?

Speaker 1 (01:08:01):
So I've done everything I can to control it around
my house. But you know, lightning strikes and you just
don't know what happens. Mandy, you never went to the
beach where you grew up, No, I did not. We
went to rivers, we went to Springs, but the beach
was an hour and a half away and that was
too far. We lived to reach smack in the middle

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of the state. I mean smack in the middle of
the top of Florida. So we went to the Itchtuckney River,
which just google that if you can remember it. Itchtuckney
be beautiful, stunningly beautiful, and I'm not gonna spell it
for you.

Speaker 2 (01:08:39):
But yeah, we didn't go to the beach. I don't
like sand.

Speaker 1 (01:08:42):
If I could sit at a pool looking at the ocean.

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
That is when I'm happiest. We'll be right back, oh.

Speaker 1 (01:08:56):
Joining me today in for Anthony Rodriguez, We've got Zack
Seger or mister seekers as I'm gonna call it anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
Yeah, thank you very much, Susan. What can we appreciate you?

Speaker 1 (01:09:05):
Although got a lot of stuff in this hour that
I want to get you. Let's check in with the president,
shall we. So over the weekend I got hit with
multiple questions about things that Donald Trump is doing that
I have no answer for. And you know what I've
decided to do, Zach, you know what I do.

Speaker 10 (01:09:20):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:09:21):
People are and it's always like this. It always goes
like this, Can you explain to me why Trump is blank? Okay?
And now when people do that, I'm like, nope, I
got nothing for you. I don't know. You're not his
defense attorney.

Speaker 1 (01:09:38):
No, I don't know the man. He doesn't call and
ask me. I'm not looped in. A couple of things
over the weekend. One he is threatening to revoke the
citizenship of Rosie O'Donnell, a natural born citizen to the
United States, and he can't do that unilaterally. Okay, that's
just not a power that the President of the United

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States have.

Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
So let's just dispense.

Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
With that bit of nonsense. I want A friend of
mine asked it about it. I'm like, I don't know
what the man is thinking.

Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
I don't know why.

Speaker 1 (01:10:14):
Donald Trump, who is currently President of the United States
and currently setting the tone for the entire world with
things like more threats on tariffs. We'll get to that
in a second, bombing Iran and their nuclear facility. I mean,
this guy is on a tear of leadership, and yet

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he has time to be petty and small and directing
social media posts at a woman who is so irrelevant.

Speaker 2 (01:10:44):
Here that she has now moved to Ireland. No one
cares about ROSI o'donald sir. Oh stop it.

Speaker 1 (01:10:57):
There is some interesting things happening, though, and this is
what drives me crazy about Trump because some of this
stuff I love. I absolutely love this. So NATO's Secretary
General Mark Root A rut Root I don't know how
to say his last name, is set to meet with
Donald Trump this week. This after Donald Trump announced plans
to sell NATO weaponry that NATO.

Speaker 2 (01:11:20):
Can then pass on to Ukraine. And here's how it works.

Speaker 1 (01:11:25):
We get paid and then NATO can do what NATO
should have been doing a long time ago, which is
step up and be the actual organization that supports Ukraine
in its battle against Russia. NATO has just been a
paid for title. Well, no, no, no, I'm gonna walk that back.
NATO has just been the United States for a really

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long time now, I mean that's it's Oh, what does
the United States want to do, because we can't do
anything without them leading the way I want NATO if
it's going to be a real organization to be able
to take the lead and paying us for weapons and
then passing them on to Ukraine is fine with me.

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
Fine with me.

Speaker 1 (01:12:06):
I don't care if we sell weapons to allies, if
they pay full price, I don't care.

Speaker 2 (01:12:12):
I really don't.

Speaker 1 (01:12:14):
What I'm tired of is us committing our treasure and
our blood to someone else's causes that you know, we
don't really have a dog.

Speaker 2 (01:12:22):
In that fight.

Speaker 1 (01:12:23):
Now, if you want to buy as our ally, you
want to buy our weapons, sure you want somebody to
give them to you, Well great, we'll sell them to
NATO and that way NATO can take the lead. So
I actually like that move very much so. But nobody
ever asked me to explain that question I got.

Speaker 2 (01:12:43):
Why did Trump remove.

Speaker 1 (01:12:45):
Any mentor mention of bisexual people from the small memorial?
I don't know the answer to that question. I have
no idea. Pay and lesbian people are still there, so
bisexual people who have same sex attract but also have
heterosexual attraction. I don't know why they got left off.
I have no idea. I really don't no clue, have

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no idea, can't explain it. What I can tell you
is that anyone apoplectic, freaking out getting the vapors over
Trump announcing thirty percent tariffs on the EU in Mexico
starting August first, you guys, stop, just stop. It's all

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the negotiating tactic. Every bit of it is a negotiating tactic.
Do you notice how now the left wing media that
told us that inflation was gonna skyrocket after all the
tariffs hit, and granted, some prices on some items have
gone up, but.

Speaker 2 (01:13:42):
Overall kind of stand the same right now. I just
can't even get excited. I can't get nervous.

Speaker 1 (01:13:48):
I can't get anything over these, you know, threatened tarifs,
because I just think they're just a negotiating tactic and
we'll see how it all gets negotiated.

Speaker 2 (01:13:58):
I just can't get bothered about it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:00):
Hey, Zach, I have this story pulled up on my screen,
but I don't even know what to say about it.
The twenty twenty five Major League All Star Break is
this week, and I could just say, thankfully because those
are went three four days that the Rockies will not
rack any losses.

Speaker 2 (01:14:18):
Yeah, it'll be their best stretch of the season so far.

Speaker 1 (01:14:21):
Our friends at Fox thirty one did a little check
in with the Rockies.

Speaker 2 (01:14:25):
Here's here's what you really need. Here's the takeaway.

Speaker 1 (01:14:28):
As they like to say, a two to four loss
on Sunday brings the Rockies record to twenty two and
seventy four for the year, ten wins back from the
next worst team. That's the chi White Sox, who said
it thirty two and sixty five. The Rockies find themselves
behind the White Sox is the worst team this year,

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and if they're not careful, they'll also find themselves behind the.

Speaker 2 (01:14:53):
Twenty twenty four Boston.

Speaker 1 (01:14:55):
Red or White Sox as the worst team in the
modern era.

Speaker 2 (01:15:00):
Of Major League Baseball. I don't know which I hope
for at this point.

Speaker 1 (01:15:06):
Do I want them to set the record as the
worst team in the modern era?

Speaker 2 (01:15:10):
I kind of do. I'm kind of invested now. I'm
kind of with you. I feel like that Foment's.

Speaker 4 (01:15:16):
Changes for these sports franchises is when sometimes they get
a big old messive egg on their faces. Maybe they
look in the mirror, some can reflect and the hopefully
write the ship.

Speaker 2 (01:15:30):
Hopefully hopefully.

Speaker 1 (01:15:33):
I I just I'm yeah, they're oh wait, let me
do this really quickly. MLB oop, see you sorry about
that one. The second I meant to do this before
the rag and.

Speaker 7 (01:15:50):
What am I a?

Speaker 2 (01:15:51):
What are the oh my gosh, the two divisions?

Speaker 3 (01:15:53):
Just a.

Speaker 2 (01:15:55):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:15:56):
I was like AFC and NFC is football? What is happening?
And L West standings and oh, come on, Mandy, I
just lost the ability to type. There's how many games back?

Speaker 4 (01:16:09):
They're way back? I think there's twenty some I can
pull up the exact number.

Speaker 2 (01:16:12):
Bok, I got it right here. They've got it rough
right now. Also because a lot of the other.

Speaker 4 (01:16:17):
Teams, and then I believe every other team in the
NL West has a winning record, so.

Speaker 1 (01:16:21):
There's not a diamondbackstone. They're at forty forty eighty five
is the diamondbacks percentage. But think of all the games
that they played against the Rockies. Yep, how could they
not have a winning record. I don't mean to be morose.
They are thirty five and a half games. Back off
the Dodgers, you guys, thirty five and a half.

Speaker 2 (01:16:43):
Jump in Jesus.

Speaker 1 (01:16:44):
On a post just bad bad baseball is happening on
atx dot com and it sits woman and he is

(01:17:04):
on in this video that they posted on x dot
com saying, if you're a stay at home mom, your
husband should be paying you a salary because you're essentially
non compensated domestic help. I mean, if you're a stay
at home mom, isn't your husband paying the bills? Should
you be kicking in for rent? I'm confused by this attitude.

(01:17:26):
And let me just say this, this woman is not
gonna stay married.

Speaker 2 (01:17:30):
It's just not at all.

Speaker 1 (01:17:34):
It's crazy to me how many young women are coming
up with a chip on their shoulder and an attitude
and thinking that value is only shown by like a paycheck,
which is just stupid, just incredibly incredibly stupid.

Speaker 2 (01:17:49):
These I feel sorry for.

Speaker 1 (01:17:50):
Young women who have been sold a bill of goods
that is just hot garbage. At least when I was
growing up, I was sold a bill of goods that
I could have it all. I could have a career,
I could be a mom, I could be a sex
d a wife. I could fry bacon and never let
him forget he was a man. And that, my friends,
was also a lie. Because you can't have it all

(01:18:12):
without something suffering. It's very very hard to have it
all without something not working. I mean, man, let me
talk about two things. Number one, Cherry Creek. You guys
need to be paying attention Cherry Creek residents, because the

(01:18:33):
Denver City Council has just been reminded that you guys
are killing it right now, even as downtown Denver it's not.
They want to create a general Improvement District. What does
that mean that you're going to be paying more taxes?
They want to raise your taxes in Cherry Creek because
you know, everybody lives in Cherry Creek is rich.

Speaker 2 (01:18:54):
Everybody knows that, right.

Speaker 1 (01:18:57):
And what's happened is that as businesses have fled downtown Denver,
a lot of them that made a new home right
there in Cherry Creek. I I have a love hate
relationship with Cherry Creek. I love so many of the
restaurants in Cherry Creek. I love the vibe in Cherry Creek.
What I hate is getting to Cherry Creek and getting

(01:19:18):
out of Cherry Creek because it just feels like as
soon as you enter into the Cherry Creek vortex, you're
gonna sit through some of those lights like four times.
It's very crowded, and longtime Cherry Creek residents are like, no,
we don't enjoy this. And now Denver City Council is like, hey,
bebe how would you like us to give you some

(01:19:39):
new street lights? All are you gonna have to do
is agree to raise our razor taxes and then let us.

Speaker 2 (01:19:45):
Spend the money.

Speaker 1 (01:19:47):
I just want to remind you what a bang up
job the Denver City Council has been doing, blowing through
money at the behest of Mayor Mike Johnson, where they
now have a two hundred million dollars shortfall. Do you
really want to give those people more of your money
so they can blow through that as well? If I
were the people of Cherry Creek, I would take the

(01:20:08):
list of things that people have because here's what they did.

Speaker 2 (01:20:10):
They held a public meeting. Just listen to this.

Speaker 1 (01:20:13):
This is so so perfect, just so on brand.

Speaker 2 (01:20:20):
So they had a meeting, big meeting.

Speaker 1 (01:20:22):
They brought in all these residents of Cherry Creek and
here comes somebody from the city council and Jamie Gillis,
who was a mayoral candidate I really liked. She's working
on this project now with a Manda Sawyer, So they
show up at this meeting. Several residents questioned Gillis and
Sawyer at a community meeting in May, asking them why
the study survey was prioritizing how their money should be

(01:20:46):
spent over if the tax district idea interests them at all, well.

Speaker 2 (01:20:51):
Of course, because they have.

Speaker 1 (01:20:52):
To show you, like, oh my gosh, you guys, if
we just passed this and you guys agreed to pay
more at all the cool stuff we could get.

Speaker 2 (01:21:03):
Look at it all. It's so cool, but you have
to give us money to make it happen. It wasn't
until the last.

Speaker 1 (01:21:11):
Questions, says the Denver Gazette, when they were asked whether
they wanted to be part of the district or not.
It should have been the first question, one of the
residents said.

Speaker 2 (01:21:19):
But then they can't tempt you with all of those
cool things. I just envisioned them standing up and go, oh,
you get a street light. You get a street light.
Everybody gets a street light. And wait, there's more.

Speaker 1 (01:21:33):
I just I mean, there's something to a tax increase,
so they're going to try and convince you that the
tax increase is worth it so you can get all
this cool stuff in the city. And Amanda Sawyer, the representative,
she just got redistricted into managing or overseeing or representing
I should say, Cherry Creek.

Speaker 2 (01:21:51):
She's like, Oh, we have.

Speaker 1 (01:21:53):
Been underinvesting in Cherry Creek for so long, and how's
that worked out for Cherry Creek? No offense, but you've
been quote investing in downtown Denver for how many years now?
And that place is not only a you know, a desert,
it's now full of homeless people again, drive around it
during the day again, it's they're just everywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:22:16):
So does Cherry Creek really want.

Speaker 1 (01:22:18):
Your quote attention and investment when all you guys bring
is misery and destruction wherever you go. If I had
a neighborhood and the Denver City Council showed up as like,
we are here to invest in your neighborhood, I would
slam the door in their faces so fast and so
hard it would probably leave a mark.

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Kayaway. News time is two thirty. I'm keenan Dixon.

Speaker 8 (01:23:04):
One person has been airlifted to a hospital following a
crash between an Amtrak train.

Speaker 3 (01:23:08):
And a semi truck today.

Speaker 8 (01:23:10):
The semi truck driver is the person who was taken
to the hospital with that injury, and the Gilpin County
Sheriff's Office believes the injuries to be non life threatening.
He was cited for not stopping at a railroad crossing,
but it's unclear if the truck stalled on the tracks
or the driver was trying to beat the train. The
sheriff's office says there were two hundred and sixty eight
passengers on the Amtrak train, along with ten crew members.

(01:23:32):
Know whether injuries have been reported. The train was traveling
west to its final destination of San Francisco and had
left Denver about a an hour prior to the crash.

Speaker 3 (01:23:41):
It did not derail.

Speaker 8 (01:23:42):
The President Trump is pushing for lower interest rates, pressuring
the Federal Reserve to drop rates as low as one percent.

Speaker 3 (01:23:49):
To save money, we should be less than one percent.

Speaker 1 (01:23:51):
I think Switzerland is the lowest, at like one half
of a percent.

Speaker 6 (01:23:55):
We should be lower because.

Speaker 2 (01:23:56):
Without us, there's no world.

Speaker 9 (01:23:58):
They're really I don't want to sound overly aggressive, but
without us, you have no world.

Speaker 8 (01:24:02):
Trump also continues to take jabs at FED shared Jerome Palell,
calling him quote a knucklehead for not reducing rates earlier.
Powell responded by saying the President's tariffs are increasing the
thread of inflation. The market finished up on the day
to start the week with the record closed for the Nasdaq.

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Just a couple of minor issues on the highways for
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A dog is running on the westbound lanes of C
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Speaker 3 (01:24:47):
Several drivers have stopped to try to catch the dog.

Speaker 10 (01:24:50):
Other drivers are slowing down, and now an ambulance has
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to grab that dog at his call, slowing on both
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There's also a stalled car with police on the right
shoulder of northbound I twenty five before sixth Avenue that's
causing some slowing back to Santa Fe. And a crash

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Speaker 1 (01:25:50):
Interesting sort of goings on right now. As people are
digging into the Biden administration, including an unlikely source.

Speaker 2 (01:26:00):
The New York Times.

Speaker 1 (01:26:01):
Yes, the New York Times is looking into Joe Biden's
use of the auto pen. This as there's a full
on House Committee investigation. Blah blah blah, nothing will happen,
no one will get fired, blah blah blah. But even
in the New York Times has a few kind of
little things in here that should jump out into your awareness.

Speaker 2 (01:26:26):
Here.

Speaker 1 (01:26:27):
First of all, I don't know how normal White House
emails are written, right. I don't know how much reiteration
of obvious things there is in a normal White House exchange.

Speaker 2 (01:26:44):
Let me give you an example.

Speaker 1 (01:26:46):
They went back and revealed emails from mister Biden's White
House counsel ed Siskel, who was notifying senior staff to
expect a flood of lobbying for clemency grants. At the
administration's end, it had laid out on a process for
orderly review. The final step, he wrote in an email,
the President makes the final decision on the final pardon

(01:27:09):
and or commutation slate. That feels like a cya to me.
Why would you need to say that? Isn't it just
like you know that it's the president making this decision.

Speaker 2 (01:27:21):
I mean, wouldn't it seem that way, It would seem
inherently implied, yes, Like.

Speaker 1 (01:27:26):
Why would you reiterate that unless you knew that your
documents could be grabbed in a Freedom of Information Act request?

Speaker 2 (01:27:34):
Yeah, you knew there was Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:27:37):
And the process that they put in place, they didn't
get an actual yes, the person who used the auto
pen to sign the clemency or pardons or whatever was
signed there. They didn't have direct communication with Joe Biden.
There was a layer of AIDS in between Joe Biden,
who was allegedly saying, I am going to commute all

(01:27:59):
these sences, I gonna give these pardons, I'm gonna do
all this stuff. Then there was a group of AIDS
who then took that information from a meeting of stuff
he just said verbally, and then they put it into
an email and they sent it to the woman who
actually operated the autopen. Okay, here's my problem with that.
And I don't expect the president to pick up the

(01:28:20):
phone and direct everybody to do everything. That's unrealistic. But
my problem is these same AIDS were the one they
knew about Joe Biden's decline.

Speaker 2 (01:28:30):
They worked tirelessly to hide it, not.

Speaker 1 (01:28:32):
Only from the American public but from fellow lawmakers on
Capitol Hill.

Speaker 2 (01:28:38):
So the same people that were working.

Speaker 1 (01:28:40):
Diligently to hide the president's decline are now the people
were supposed to believe when it comes to Yeah, Joe
Biden knew of it on all this now, Joe Biden
himself gave a whopping ten minute interview to the New
York Times.

Speaker 2 (01:28:54):
Ten minutes What was he busy? What was he doing?
Ten minutes?

Speaker 10 (01:29:02):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:29:04):
Ten minutes?

Speaker 1 (01:29:06):
And Joe Biden's like, of course, I wanted all of
these to be a signed I went through each and
every one of them with a fine Jude comb. I
think that's a big fat line. I mean, that's why
I'm seeing. It feels like a big fat light to me.
And I'm not the only one, for sure. There are
a lot of other people saying, hmm hmmm, that doesn't

(01:29:29):
seem like that should be real.

Speaker 2 (01:29:32):
I'm just throwing that out there.

Speaker 1 (01:29:35):
So, according to Ed Morrissey on hotair dot Com, he
points out that mister Biden says, Hey, why absolutely, I
made every decision. This is from the New York Times
mister Biden said in a phone interview on Thursday, asserting
that he.

Speaker 2 (01:29:53):
Had his staff use an auto pen.

Speaker 1 (01:29:55):
Replicating his signature on the clemency warrants because we're talking
about a whole lot of people. So just to be clear,
he thought signing twenty of these would have been too
much because there were sometimes hundreds of people listed on
the clemency order. There was like twenty things that had
to be signed. Oh gosh, twenty twenty not too long ago,

(01:30:16):
say before June twenty seventh, twenty twenty four. The New
York Times would have accepted that at face value.

Speaker 2 (01:30:22):
Biden said, it good enough for us. We have no
notes or need of corroborating sources these days.

Speaker 1 (01:30:27):
However, Biden's word is Biden gets pretty much the value
it truly always has. The New York Times did some
digging through emails that the National Archives sent to the
Department of Justice as part of its probe on Biden's
cognitive status and capacity to make these decisions at all.
And this is what The New York Times had to

(01:30:47):
say about that. The full picture of what mister Biden
did on pardon and clemency decisions and how much he
directed those decisions and the actions of his staff, including
the use of auto pen. They come down to tens
of thousands of Biden White House emails that the National
Archives is turned over as part of the investigation by
the Trump White House and the Justice Department. Those emails

(01:31:09):
contain keywords like clemency, pardon, and commutation from November twenty
fourth through January twentieth, twenty twenty five. The Times has
reviewed several dozen of these thousands of emails, which discussed
each of the major grants of the clemency that were
recorded by an autopen near the end of mister Biden's term.
But the Times has not seen the full extent of

(01:31:30):
the emails, so it's impossible to capture the totality of
information they contain or what else they might show about
mister Biden's involvement in the pardon in clemency decisions. But
those that were reviewed by the Time show that the
Biden White House had a process to establish that mister
Biden had orally made decisions in meetings before the staff Secretary,

(01:31:53):
Stephanie Feldman, who managed use of the autopen, would have
clemency records put through the signing device. I don't believe them,
straight up?

Speaker 2 (01:32:03):
Why would I?

Speaker 1 (01:32:05):
Why would I believe the people that lied to the
American people and perpetrated what might be the greatest political
fraud in the history the modern era of the United
States of America. Why would they have any credibility with me?

Speaker 4 (01:32:17):
And they lied about a directly connectal issue.

Speaker 2 (01:32:20):
Oh yeah, they lied about everything everything.

Speaker 1 (01:32:26):
Mister Biden, the Times continues, did not individually approve each
name for the categorical pardons that applied to large numbers
of people. He and AIDS confirmed, Rather, after extensive discussion
of different possible criteria, he signed off on the standards
he wanted to be used to determine which convicts could

(01:32:46):
qualify for a reduction in sentence. Even after mister Biden
made that decision, one former AID said, the Bureau of
Prisons kept providing additional information about specific inmates, resulting in
small changes to the list, and asked mister Biden to
keep signing revised versions. His staff waited and then ran
the final version through the auto pen, which they saw

(01:33:09):
as a routine procedure.

Speaker 2 (01:33:12):
I mean, is it though, talk about CYA Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:33:16):
And this particular group of AIDS and staff members that
had access to this man on a daily basis. Their
word is not worth the toilet paper you wipe your
heini with in my world. And I don't know why anyone,
and I don't know why anyone at the New York
Times did not say why should we believe you now
when you clearly lied to the American people for we

(01:33:38):
don't even know how long, maybe from the moment Joe
Biden got elected.

Speaker 2 (01:33:42):
His people were covering for him.

Speaker 1 (01:33:44):
Remember when they put him in a leather jacket and
aviators to make him look young.

Speaker 2 (01:33:48):
Do you remember that. Yeah, they were trying to top
gun of fiohim.

Speaker 1 (01:33:50):
Correct because they didn't want us to notice that he
was severely, severely addled and having trouble staying awake past
four pm. But hey, when they come out and say, no, no,
he made all these decisions on his own, I am
positive we believe him. No, I am not positive we
believe him. As a matter of fact, I don't believe

(01:34:13):
him at all. Now I want to ask you guys,
I just remembered I wanted to do this topic today,
and it's so good I might have to hold it
over for tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:34:22):
My question is this we have about ten minutes.

Speaker 1 (01:34:28):
Okay, Elon Musk is starting talking about starting a third party,
and John Calderon, a great column on the Denver Gazette,
argued correctly that you cannot build a political party based
on what other people hate.

Speaker 2 (01:34:43):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:34:44):
You can't say I hate the Democratics and I hate
the Republicans. I want to be in another party, because
then you start the other party, what does it even
stand for? Okay, you got to figure out what it
stands for now, if you Texter, we're going to figure
out how to a party for the middle.

Speaker 2 (01:35:02):
I'm talking about.

Speaker 1 (01:35:04):
A party that encompasses people on the right side of
the center and the left side of the center who
don't have strong feelings about social issues, or if they do,
they don't want the government to be involved. They're just
worried that we're spending ourselves into oblivion. They want the
strong borders, they want strong defense, but they also might

(01:35:26):
want to make sure that the neediest among us are
taking care of properly.

Speaker 2 (01:35:32):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:35:33):
They want to make sure that our lands and forests
are managed, but they also want access to those lands
and forests.

Speaker 2 (01:35:41):
They want to make sure that.

Speaker 1 (01:35:42):
We're pursuing and above all everything goes energy strategy because
they would love to see more, you know, non carbon
releasing energy production, but they also want to be able
to turn their lights on. I have a great story
about the Netherlands. The Netherlands is now rash their power

(01:36:02):
because they don't have enough because they've shifted everything to
electrification and green energy and they don't have enough power
for everything. So what else would we put in this?
What else would we do.

Speaker 9 (01:36:14):
This?

Speaker 1 (01:36:14):
Texter said Mandy explain how a preemptive pardon works. You
can't pardon something that hasn't been convicted. Using the same logic,
Bill Clinton could have pardoned himself for killing Epstein. Wait,
I'm sorry. Another text came in as I was reading that,
and it shocked me so and I can't figure out,
like there's no laughing emoji.

Speaker 2 (01:36:36):
But this person said, the Dems are in the middle.

Speaker 1 (01:36:39):
If you, sir or madam, are a Democrat and you
believe a party that wants to allow men with penises
into women's locker room and wants to allow or runs
to the protection of a guy running a weed farm
in California that was employing child labor and then treating

(01:37:03):
them poorly, that they defend that guy. If you think
the party that wants to defund the police to unleash crime,
If you think the party that wants to give drug
addicts and people suffering with severe mental health issues just
a free apartment, and think that's going to solve the problem,
that's not the middle. That's as far away from the
middle as you could possibly get. I mean, I hope

(01:37:27):
you were kidding, right, I mean you were kidding right?

Speaker 2 (01:37:31):
What seriously.

Speaker 1 (01:37:35):
Preemptive pardons work like this, They issue a pardon for
any crimes that possibly might have been committed between X
state and X state. Biden says he did it because
he knew that Trump would be spiteful. I can't imagine
why a guy that had to suffer through a Democrat
created two year, multi million dollar investigation into utter garbage

(01:37:55):
might be bitter.

Speaker 2 (01:37:57):
I don't get that, Joe.

Speaker 1 (01:38:01):
But he said he did it because he knew that
Trump would go after big people and he didn't want
to have to, you know, have him spend a bunch
of money on you know, crap like lawyers and stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:38:11):
That's what he said. Anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:38:14):
So anyway, Yup brings up trans rights as if that's
far left. What a clown answer men in women's walker room.
Look at the polling data, Look at how Americans feel
about penises in women's restrooms.

Speaker 2 (01:38:29):
Go ahead, look it up.

Speaker 1 (01:38:30):
I will wait because you are delusional if you think
that's not a far left issue. As a matter of fact,
I had an article this morning. I didn't put it
on the blog where the normal part of the Democratic
Party is now trying to figure out how to unwind
all of the identity politics crap that they've created because
now it's hurting them because it's unpopular. So yeah, let's

(01:38:57):
see here, I'm looking term limits. That's good.

Speaker 2 (01:39:00):
That's part of the party.

Speaker 1 (01:39:01):
As well, because what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna
help I'm going to create a platform for the America Party,
and they're all things that will benefit like every single
policy position should be.

Speaker 2 (01:39:16):
Is this going to benefit the most Americans? Possible?

Speaker 1 (01:39:19):
Lowering spending would benefit all Americans because it would create
an environment for our economy that would be absolutely insane.
If we were just remotely serious about controlling spending, it
would unleash the housing market.

Speaker 2 (01:39:32):
It would be amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:39:34):
So yeah, yeah, trans men also remove their penises, So
does that make it okay? For your fear mongering bigotry,
says the same texture who believes Democrats are in the middle.
And this, my friends, is exactly why. If you are
a post surgical you look like a woman you talk,
just go in. No one's going to care. No one's

(01:39:54):
complaining about a post surgical transgender person in a locker room.
It's about penises in a locker room.

Speaker 2 (01:40:00):
Go back and check the record.

Speaker 1 (01:40:02):
So to stop trying to make it like I'm saying
something crazy, back to basics party. If it's not specifically
spelled out in the Constitution as a duty of the
federal government, it's reverted back to the states. States are
not permitted to regulate more than Feds can. Flat tax
of ten percent of income able bodied people must work bill,
Now you're cooking with gas. Now you are absolutely cooking

(01:40:25):
with gas. I do think that welfare programs need to
be structured with an off ramp, a gentle off ramp,
instead of what they do now, which is create a
welfare cliff where if people have x amount of benefits
and if they get make too much money in a
job that would allow them to advance further, they get
kicked off.

Speaker 2 (01:40:43):
All of those benefits at one time.

Speaker 1 (01:40:45):
We should have a welfare step down to allow people
to get off of welfare easily when you know, when
they get a skill or they get a better job
and they work their way up.

Speaker 2 (01:40:54):
I mean that's got to happen. Oh yeah, you ring
right in.

Speaker 1 (01:40:59):
The days when Mandy decides to have the cup of
coffee that she isn't sure she should have or not,
that that being the third or fourth cup. Hey, ladies
and germs, I have two cups of coffee every day,
one in the morning and one right before the show boom. Anyway,
so I'm gonna do this. We're gonna bring this back

(01:41:20):
tomorrow because I like all of these and I'm gonna
drop them down very very quickly. Or we're gonna start
on making the America Party platform and then I'm gonna
send it to Elon cause again, you guys, a third
party cannot come from the grassroots.

Speaker 2 (01:41:33):
It cannot.

Speaker 1 (01:41:33):
It is gotta come top down. And I know people
hate that, but if there's one person that can get
this ball moving in the right direction, it is Elon Musk.

Speaker 2 (01:41:43):
But I also don't want him to run it.

Speaker 1 (01:41:46):
Like, just use your name, your notoriety and your platform
to push the ball up the hill and let us
push it over the top.

Speaker 2 (01:41:54):
That's it.