07-15-25 FULL SHOW - A Bojangles Monkey Wrench, And Why Our Roads Suck

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
No, it's Mandy Connell, Mandy don koa ninetem got.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Wait Satday, Kenny through three, Andy Connell, Keithy Satday.

Speaker 4 (00:26):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Tuesday edition of the show.
I'm your host for the next three hours, Mandy Connell.
That guy over there in for Anthony Rodriguez, who was
working the morning show schedule, much to his chagrin, Grant
look at it like this, Grant Smith, you don't have to.

Speaker 5 (00:42):
Get up at three, not till Friday.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
Uh Oh, I knew I had zach on Friday, but
I didn't know why.

Speaker 5 (00:50):
Yeah, so my schedule is so fun this week.

Speaker 6 (00:54):
Worked till ten o'clock last night, and then the mid
days today through Thursday, and then early three am wake
up call on Friday.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
So you have to like work until ten on Thursday
and then back in at three on Friday.

Speaker 5 (01:08):
Thankfully, it was like a cloaping after you.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
Know what I mean, Like in restaurants, if you had
to close and then open the next day, that's a cloaping.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (01:15):
I did that many times when I was well.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
I used to manage this restaurant, bakery and eatery. So
our bakery opened at five am and our restaurant closed
at two. So on the rare occasion that I had
to straddle I had to clopin, I would sleep on
the flower bags downstairs going home for.

Speaker 6 (01:33):
Two hours before at iHeart, I've worked till ten and
then work the morning shift the next day. It's like,
by the time I get home and settled down, it's
gonna be midnight.

Speaker 5 (01:43):
And then you're up at three. It's like, why not
try and get at least four and a half five hours, you.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
Know, you bring in a mattress whatever. I just brought
in a blanket, my sleeping bag, put it on the
flower sacks and called it a day. Well, I'm glad
to have you anyway, Grant, And I just told Grant
off the air. Have you ever had one of those
days where everything you try to accomplish does at work?

Speaker 2 (02:00):
That was my morning.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
Everything I had scheduled didn't pan out. It was just
like a big hassle. And then let me share with you.
At first of all, let me do the blog. Let
me get that out of the way, because there's so
much stuff on it, and I'll tell you what's coming
up and all that good stuff, and then I have
got to I'm gonna spin a yarn for y'all. Got
a story to tell, So go to the blog. You
can find it at mandy'sblog dot com or Randy Cramwell

(02:25):
Randy Cromwell dot com either or it does redirect, yes,
when I bought the url and redirects it to my page,
and I just I love it so much. Whoever you are,
I love you almost as much as I love the
wonderful woman that I'm going to talk about a little
bit later this morning.

Speaker 7 (02:43):
Who who was gonna do me a solid? Donna was?

Speaker 4 (02:46):
But we'll we'll we'll get to that in a moment. Okay,
Go there, find the blog. Go to the latest post section.
Look for the headline that says seven fifteen twenty five
A Bojangles monkey wrench and why our roads suck? Click
on that, and here are the headlines you will find within.

Speaker 8 (03:01):
I thine with someone who office half American allerships and
equipments of sea that's going to press flat.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Today on the blog.

Speaker 4 (03:08):
I got a lovely bow Jangles offer from a listener today.
Veterans who need help filing for disability. Listen up, The
VBC is doing Hamas's work.

Speaker 9 (03:17):
A war.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
City council members are asking for a raise. Crappy roads
are a feature, not a bug, of Democrat policies. Protests
over a Christian coffee shop are on brand. John Elway's
cleared in the death of his friend. Loveland's city councilor
resigns from her seat. Denver goes after derelk building owners. No,
Los Angeles doesn't belong to Mexico. The Supreme Court says

(03:40):
Trump can fire Department of ED employees. What moving to
green energy and electrification really does Today's silly listener question.

Speaker 7 (03:49):
John Brennan is a liar who lies.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
The UN blames capitalism for the Israel Israel Hamas war
pushing back against the big medicaid lie. Automated balls and
strikes comes through the All Star Game. The housing market
is starting to drag the economy. We're fat because we
eat too much. Why can't we hear from Julaine some
fancy new digs at glen Wood Springs. Trump gives pootin

(04:11):
fifty days to come to the table. John Stossel and
the green industrial complex. If you've heard about rucking a
glucose fact that surprised me. Constantine kiss In on Radical Islam,
elderly folks are choking to death, and we'll pack Burrow
racing make it to the Oh Show. Those are the
headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. And now

(04:34):
I'm going to share with you a wonderful email that
I got this morning from Donna, and it says, Mandy,
there is the slightest possibility that I might be able
to bring you some bow Jangles today. It just opened
July night, so there might be a line, and I
have to get back to Denver from Pueblo. If it
was if I was to get a meal for you, what.

Speaker 7 (04:56):
Do you want?

Speaker 4 (04:56):
And then she gives me the you know, the sort
of the logistics of what's going on. She has to
go to Pueblo for business. She's coming back. She was
gonna go to Bojangles the New Chicken, and she was
gonna bring me back.

Speaker 7 (05:06):
So I was so excited, you guys, I was so excited.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
I went online Bojangles dot com and I found the
store and I looked at the menu so I could
tell don exactly what I.

Speaker 7 (05:14):
Wanted her to get me.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
And you know what they don't have at Bojangles Fried
chicken and Pueblo. They don't have fried chicken. They have
chicken tenders.

Speaker 5 (05:26):
That is not the same thing.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
I gotta tell you, guys, I am so I'm irrationally
angry about this for a few reasons. Number One, chicken
tenders are for children. Okay, I realized that adults eat
them and that you enjoy them, but primarily they're for
children and real people, real adults should eat chicken on
the bone because it has a million times more flavor.

Speaker 5 (05:50):
It just is.

Speaker 7 (05:50):
It is so far superior, it's not even funny.

Speaker 4 (05:55):
And now Bojangles, that has the best chicken ever, is
now just another chicken tender place. Within fifteen minutes of
my house, there are six different places that I can
go and buy chicken tenders, four of which only sell
chicken tenders.

Speaker 7 (06:13):
They don't even sell other products.

Speaker 9 (06:15):
Right.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
I don't understand why as a society we cannot eat
chicken on the bone. I don't get it. I don't
understand it. But the trip to Bojangles is off. I
have sent a well a stern letter to corporate I
called the office. I called Bojangles in Pueblo. Here's my conversation.
My conversation went like this. She said, hello, thanks for
calling Bojangles. And I said, do you guys have chicken

(06:38):
on the bone? And there was a tiny pause and
she went just like this, no, and it went, well
are you getting it anytime soon?

Speaker 7 (06:47):
Pause?

Speaker 10 (06:48):
No?

Speaker 4 (06:49):
So you're just another chicken tender place now right, yes?
And that was a conversation. I was just like, what
are we even doing?

Speaker 5 (06:58):
Do Bojangles in other area? Yes?

Speaker 7 (07:01):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (07:02):
Yes, that is why I was going to charter a bus.
I did call the charter company that I talked to
yesterday and told them that I would no longer be
neating a bus because I don't need a bus now
because I'm not driving down to Pueblo to get Bojangles,
which I was going to do. And I don't like
it when people change something I love.

Speaker 7 (07:20):
I don't like it.

Speaker 4 (07:22):
I realize that tastes of change that we all eat
like toddlers now because kids men us have ruined the
palettes of countless adults. Do you know how many adults
basically still live on kids' menu foods because when they
were little, they never had to eat what their parents
serve them. Because their mom made them a back some
macaroni and cheese instead, so their palettes are as developed

(07:44):
as a Toddler's and Bojangles. I'm looking at you. I
realize I'm irrationally angry about this. I get it one
n I understand. I realized that from any of you
are like, Mandy, what what are you doing? Why is
this bothering you? It is super frustrating when you take
something that makes it literally started out as a fried

(08:04):
chicken place with a few sides and biscuits, and now
it doesn't even have the main dish. Your bone in
rule applies to almost every meat. Of course it does.
Meat on the bone has more flavor than meat not
on the bone.

Speaker 7 (08:21):
Period. Do you know what you make chicken stock with?

Speaker 4 (08:23):
You don't make it with the meat, You make it
with the bones, right? So what is it about Americans
that we have to have? Not only that, It's like
I was just talking to Bob Murphy, one of our
sales guys, who also owns a pub right down the street,
and he said, yeah, we do you know, we take
a chicken breast and we cut into three pieces and

(08:45):
fry it and serve it as chicken tenders. I'm like, oh,
because picking up a chicken breast with your fingers would
make you a savage, but cut into three pieces and
you're like, yes, please, and I'll have some ranch.

Speaker 6 (08:55):
And people love chicken wings with the bone in fried
chicken with bonut.

Speaker 4 (09:01):
They do everywhere, but here, I mean, my goodness, it's terrible.
And yes, I know, the Castle Cafe is still rocking
fried chicken, and it's very good fried chicken. Castle Cafe
in Castle Rock, very very good, very very good. But
it's not Bojangles Fried Chicken. It's kind of like if
they opened to publics here and they didn't have the

(09:22):
substation in the publics, I would be just as apoplectic.
I don't even care about the groceries they sell at publics, right,
you go to publics to maybe pick some stuff up,
but you go to publics to get a sub That's
why you go to public supermarkets. And if they open
to publics without the substation, I would be just as apoplectic,

(09:43):
super annoying, just super annoying. Anyway, Mandy, what do you
think about tonight at the All Star Game? No umpires
will AI take care of everything, Jim Eagle Now Grant.
Do you know, I believe there is still an umpire
behind the.

Speaker 5 (09:58):
Plate everywhere they are.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
They're just going with automatic balls and strikes. And I
got to tell you, guys, I saw this in spring
training and after one game, I was like, sign me
up for.

Speaker 7 (10:08):
That, because here's how it goes.

Speaker 4 (10:10):
Pitcher throws the ball, umpire makes the call, and then
on the screen it shows you, like you see on TV,
exactly where.

Speaker 7 (10:19):
The ball was. It's it's so perfect.

Speaker 5 (10:22):
Yeah, and they do it in tennis already.

Speaker 7 (10:23):
It's called consistency.

Speaker 6 (10:25):
But to be the devil's advocate, I love as a
baseball purist that you can kind of understand what a
as long as the umpires are good, and usually they
are at the major league level, you can understand an
umpire strike zone throughout the game. So maybe you can
get an extra quarter and an inch off the inside
corner or a pitch that's a little lower, and then

(10:47):
you can you can determine where you're going to throw
the rest of the game based on that umpire strike zone.

Speaker 5 (10:53):
But I get the idea of.

Speaker 6 (10:54):
Wanting it to be consistent and the same all the
time as well, and it's going to make hitting easier.

Speaker 4 (10:58):
It's super frustrating when on the and Grant is right.
And and by the way, spring training bore it out
because we saw four challenges in one game. Every each
team gets two challenges. Saw four challenges in each game,
and the umpire was right every single time, which is nice. Yeah,
So I mean it's it's affirmation for a vast majority
of umpires. And you know what, I don't care who

(11:20):
you are, you're never going to be perfect. No, right,
and achieve is not perfect. So it's really just a
backup measure to make sure that they get it right.
But when we saw it, the umpires were right every
single call they made.

Speaker 7 (11:32):
But I love it.

Speaker 4 (11:33):
I love it because it just takes it off the table,
you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 7 (11:36):
Like, and it is so fast.

Speaker 4 (11:38):
It's not like instant replay in the NFL where the
guy has to go over and look at the tent. No, no,
it's the zone or it's not exactly. And the and
the strike zone is consistent for all of the batters,
and there's I have a story on the blog today
about this, and it's like fifty three and a half
inches or whatever.

Speaker 7 (11:59):
I mean, it's very very.

Speaker 6 (12:01):
Specific and you know, when the pitch clock came out,
I was like, Oh my gosh, they're ruining baseball.

Speaker 5 (12:07):
I kind of like it all the clock.

Speaker 7 (12:09):
I do like how fast the games go.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
And I know that's an unpopular opinion because you used
to be able to go to a baseball game and
it was like a leisurely experience, and like, say you
wanted to go up and use the restroom and get
a snack and come back down, you'd miss an inning.
If now you can miss two two and a half
innings just going upstairs.

Speaker 7 (12:28):
Yeah, so there are things about it I like.

Speaker 4 (12:31):
I do wonder and I heard Ryan Edwards say this,
and I think this is a valid question. I wonder
if you're going to see an increase in pitching injuries though,
because of the pitch clock.

Speaker 5 (12:42):
Yeah, because they are moving so much fast.

Speaker 4 (12:44):
And you know, back in the olden days when guys
used to pick complete games, they weren't throwing ninety five
miles an hour, and now everyone is exactly, if you're
not throwing in the nineties, you're not pitching.

Speaker 7 (12:53):
In the major leagues, right. So I don't know. I
love it.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
I want them to bring it to the regular game
as soon as as possible. The umpires are not going
to be replaced because I don't think a computer can
make a call at home.

Speaker 5 (13:06):
Plate yet, you know, so we'll probably get there.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
Yeah, yeah, Mandy, you're saying all Bojangles went boneless or
just the Peblo location.

Speaker 7 (13:15):
Oh, that's the insult to injury. Just the Pueblo location,
just that one.

Speaker 4 (13:22):
I mean, I'm assuming because I didn't look at all
of them, but I did check other boj Angles where
I knew they were located to find out.

Speaker 7 (13:31):
Anyway, And to.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
The person who said first world problems, Mandy, you are correct.

Speaker 7 (13:36):
You are so correct. Anyway, Mandy, you need.

Speaker 4 (13:42):
To find yourself a Dave's Hot Chicken and give those
tenders a try. Whatever you do, don't get the no spice.
Get something from medium up to the hottest if you
can handle it, y'all. I don't like chicken tenders. I
mean straight up, I don't like chicken breast. I think
it has no flavor whatsoever none. I don't cook with it.
I don't use it. I used chicken thighs all the

(14:03):
time because I just think, ugh, the chicken breast is
just dry and flavorless. Anyway, Mandy, what makes Bojangles fried
chicken so darn good? I could tell you, but I
could have showed you. But I'm not now just I'm
in a fit of peak. I'm not doing it.

Speaker 7 (14:18):
Mandy.

Speaker 4 (14:19):
I sold food to restaurants for thirty years back in
the nineties. How did you squeeze thirty years into just
the nineties. I'm just kidding, Texter. We sold lots of
fried chicken. In the two thousands, people started eating healthier
and stopped eating fried chicken, and all of our vendors wondered,
why don't you guys sell more fried chicken? Well, we
can't sell what people won't eat. Sorry, Mandy, send it. Well,
I don't have to eat there. I don't have to

(14:40):
give them my money and schedule a charter bus to
go down there. Thank goodness that Donna sent me that email,
because you guys, I would have lost my mind. If
I had chartered a bus for listeners and I had
gone all the way down to Pueblo and then I
found out they just had contenders, I would have lost

(15:02):
my mind.

Speaker 6 (15:04):
Have you ever been to the Post Chicken and Beer.
I have not, but I've heard good things they have
bone in of course, chicken. That's delicious. I'll try it
out anyway. So the bow Jangle ship is off.

Speaker 4 (15:18):
Now coming up on the show today, we're are going
to talk about more important stuff than my Bowjanngle's irritation.

Speaker 7 (15:23):
Although we will be hearing from corporate.

Speaker 4 (15:25):
I am asking for an interview to come on the
show and explain this bit of nonsense and tomfoolery today
on the show, though, I got a couple of guests.
I'm pretty excited about one. If you are a disabled veteran,
maybe you've never been disability rated, but you know that
you have or believe you have service connected disabilities that
did not appear until later.

Speaker 7 (15:44):
Those can be a variety of things.

Speaker 4 (15:46):
If you need help filing a disability claim, I would
strongly suggest you tune in at one o'clock.

Speaker 7 (15:52):
We've got Jack Darnell.

Speaker 4 (15:54):
He's a disabled American veteran executive board member and they're
having an event in Fort Morgan on July nineteenth where
they are going to help people who need help filing
the disability claims. Now, why would you need to do this? Well,
watching my husband try to navigate the VA over the

(16:16):
last twenty years of our relationship has been fascinating and
if you think to yourself, after you know multiple layers
of frustration and irritation, they're doing this on purpose. I
actually believe that there is what's called I just learned
this grant.

Speaker 7 (16:31):
Listen to this. Have you ever called a.

Speaker 4 (16:34):
Number of customer service number and you finally get through
to a person and you tell them your story and
they're like, can I put you on a brief hold?
And they put you on hold and then like three
seconds later the phone line dies. Have you had this
that's on purpose? It's a thing called sludge. Fludge are
little things built into a system designed to frustrate the

(16:56):
user so much that they will not try to use
this as him anymore. And it is built into certain
programs that they don't want highly utilized. It's built into
customer service phone trees, it's built into different areas.

Speaker 7 (17:11):
It has a name. It's called sludge.

Speaker 4 (17:15):
And I'm relatively certain that the VA has put layer.

Speaker 7 (17:18):
Of sludge upon sludge.

Speaker 4 (17:21):
And if you need help getting signed up or want
to change your disability rating, this is a fantastic way
to get the help that you need. And I got
a wonderful email from a woman who said, I cannot
say enough good things about disabled American veterans. They help
my son when he needed when he passed away. They
helped his daughter when she needed it. And so if

(17:42):
you need help, there's an event coming up. We're going
to talk to Jack Darnell about that at one o'clock.
And then my friend David Strom from hot air dot
com has done a story. This is my frustration about
the Israel Gaza situation. I have two stories on the
blog today that are both equally insane. I view one
that we're going to talk to David about at two

(18:03):
thirty is about how BBC aired a documentary. Right, they
aired this documentary that purported to tell the story of
a young meaning a child war survivor in Gaza. Now
you can only imagine the bent that this thing had,
right because of course it's BBC liberal. And then they

(18:24):
have this kid who is Palestinian, designed to evoke heartstrings,
and he talked about how hard it was to survive war.
The big thing they forgot to add was his dad
is part of Hamas and BBC just left that out.
So weird, so so weird. But when you hear what
BBC decided in their investigation It is another reason that

(18:45):
we do not distrust the mainstream news enough. I also
have a story about Israel and Gaza. The UN Human
Rights Commission has come out with a report on the
cause of the Israeli Gaza Strip conflagration, and that's what
they call it, the Israeli Gaza War. When you hear

(19:08):
after this break what is in this report, and more importantly,
what is not in this report, you're gonna know that
the deck is permanently stacked against Israel in a way
that is beyond absurd.

Speaker 7 (19:24):
It's it's absolutely nuts. We'll do that next.

Speaker 4 (19:30):
Do you ever needed to know why anti Semitism is
on the rise around the world, You need to look
no further than this reason dot com story about the
United Nations Human Rights Council and their recent report about
the conflict in Gaza. That's what they call it, the
conflict in Gaza. The you and Human Rights Council is

(19:53):
already a joke. Wait, let me see, hang on one second.
Countries on the UN Human Rights Council. You really need
to hear this list to understand what a garbage organization
this is. Okay, it includes such freedom fighting countries as

(20:18):
let's see Rwanda, Somalia, the Congo. You may remember the
mass rapes there. Afghanistan as a Rajan Brian. Yeah, I
think of freedom when I think of all those places, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, China.

Speaker 7 (20:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (20:37):
This is the Human Rights Council and a bunch of
other countries as well. The report was put together by
a woman who's been in the news as of late
for her anti Semitism. Her name is Francesca Albanese. She's
the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in
the Palestinian Territories. And she's a horrible person. She is

(21:01):
clearly an anti semi She just had an article written
about her titled wolf in Sheep's Clothing Why Democracy should
sanction un Rappertoire Francesca Albanese for propagating anti Semitism and
supporting terrorism. Yeah, that was from a Geneva based watchdog
group un Watch. The report found that, let's see, her

(21:25):
accusations that she has made public are that the United
States has been subjugated by the Jewish lobby, that her husband,
who compares Palestinians to Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto, formerly
worked for the Palestinian authority. Then in her role as
a un official, she told attendees at a Hamas organized conference,
you have a right to resist this occupation, and that

(21:45):
she responded to Hamas's October seventh atrocities by insisting that
today's violence must be put in context. So slicing off
women's breasts while they were being raped with a you know,
a box cutter, that just needs context. So this is
a woman that the Human Human Rights Commission puts in

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charge of a report on what's going on.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
Now.

Speaker 4 (22:10):
I want to start with this. Do you know what
word is not mentioned at all in the report on
the Israeli Hamas situation. Do you know what word that
she left out of this report? The word Hamas is
not in the report one time, So already it's not

(22:31):
worth the paper it's written on. This is from the report.
Listen to this, you guys. I laughed out loud when
I read this, but it's not funny because it's so serious.
The report says the role of corporate entities in sustaining
the illegal Israeli occupation and its ongoing genocidal campaign in
Gaza is the subject of the present investigative report, which

(22:55):
is focused on how corporate interest underpin the Israeli colonial
twofold logic of displacement and replacement aimed at dispossessing and
erasing Palestinians from their lands. The enduring ideological, political, and
economic engine of racial capitalism has transformed the Israeli displacement

(23:20):
replacement economy of occupation into an economy of genocide.

Speaker 7 (23:26):
Now I'd like.

Speaker 4 (23:28):
To clarify a little bit about Let's talk about the
word genocide for just a moment. The word genocide used
to mean, and it's not an old word. It is
in the middle of the twenty first century that this
word appeared. Twentieth century that this word appeared, and it
should mean when the purpose of an action, of a

(23:48):
violent action is to completely destroy everyone that is part
of a population because they are part of a population. Okay,
So if we use that definition of genocide, which I
think is appropriate, the Israelis have done a terrible job
at genocide. If they really wanted to destroy the Palestinian people,

(24:12):
they could carpet bomb every single refugee camp within Gaza.
They could do it today. They could kill pretty much
every Palestinian in the Gaza Strip. They could just drop
bombs in it. Everyone in the world hates them anyway,
why not take care of the problem once and for all,
Because that's genocide and the Israelers are not interested in genocide.

(24:33):
That is why before they're bombing these various areas where
Hamas has retreated and has taken hold again, they will
drop pamphlets for the people, the Palestinians, to let them know, Hey,
the bombs are coming.

Speaker 7 (24:45):
You should probably go, should probably go somewhere else.

Speaker 4 (24:48):
But because Hamas hides their weapons and hides the entrance
to their tunnels, tunnels which.

Speaker 7 (24:53):
By the way, they will not allow.

Speaker 4 (24:56):
Citizens to go in, even though they've built no bomb shelters,
unlike Israelis who have built bomb shelters everywhere to protect
their citizens. They won't even let the Palestinians into the
tunnels to be safe from bombing because the tunnels are
only for Hamas fighters. So the tunnels are just for
people that are trying to kill Jews, and Palestinians are

(25:20):
just pawns and if they get killed, eh, it's good
pr for Hamas, right I mean that, yeah, right, So
that you and report in case you missed it. Blames
this war on settler colonialism and racial capitalism.

Speaker 7 (25:44):
The report, by the.

Speaker 4 (25:45):
Way, doesn't mention the events of October seventh.

Speaker 7 (25:53):
No, not at all.

Speaker 4 (25:54):
The report references October twenty twenty three thirty times, but
in it bizarre way, the date somehow becomes a mysterious
turning point during which Israel and its corporate capitalist accessories
became pointlessly meaner than ever towards the seemingly peaceful people
of Gaza. I mean, I believe that Representative Illan Omar

(26:18):
said it best when she said some people did some
things right. That's the equivalent of some people did some things.
Hamas is mentioned only as part of the URL in
a link to a Washington Post story.

Speaker 7 (26:31):
In a footnote, there's no mention of hostages.

Speaker 4 (26:34):
The word anti Semitism is used exactly one time, in
a dismissive manner, when Albanese acknowledges the vital work of
students and staff in holding universities to account. It casts
a new light on global crackdowns on campus protesters. Shielding
Israel and protecting institutional financial interests appears a more probable

(26:56):
motivation than fighting alleged anti semitism. This is a report
in the un When I was younger, I used to
think that the UN was a valuable organization because it
had a valuable goal, right, I mean, the entire aim
of the United Nations is a lofty goal. We should

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absolutely want a world organization that can interject and prevent
people from spinning out of control and creating war and
murdering people and all of that good stuff. But has
the UN done that once, one single time. The UN
is garbage. It's anti Semitic garbage. And anybody that uses

(27:44):
the UN as a source is going to come away
believing that Israel does not have a right to exist,
and whatever happened on October seventh is overblown and made up,
and what hostages. That's the information that they're getting. And
this is an organization that exists on some prime I'm
real estate in New York City, and I wish Donald
Trump would tell them to get the hell out out

(28:07):
of everything. He has had the stones to do that
nobody else has had the stones to do. That is
the one thing that I wish Donald Trump would do,
and that is to tell the UN to pack up,
that we're taking back their real estate.

Speaker 7 (28:19):
We're going to develop it into.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
Something beautiful right there on the shoreline of New York City.

Speaker 7 (28:23):
And they can go somewhere else.

Speaker 4 (28:25):
Why don't they re readjourn in the Congo or you know,
I don't know Libya or the Sudan or any of
these other places on the Human Rights Commission, just go
in and set up camp somewhere else, because you have
outworn your welcome and you're doing a garbage job bringing

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the world together, unless it is designed to bring the
world together against Israel. They brought up candae Owens and
ask the question, where do we draw the line between
anti Semitism and not agreeing with Israel not agreeing with
us having different beliefs. It's a little bit of a
confusing question, but I kind of where they're going, kind
of thinking of candae Owans here. Unless you've got an
exact quote that, as you know, downright hateful, I think

(29:13):
it depends on what you're talking about. If you use
the phrase Israeli occupation, which it is not an occupation
of Gaza, and when we go into that in just
a moment, or you use the phrase Israeli genocide or
Palestinian genocide committed by israelis I don't think you're a
serious person, and I do think that that is rooted
in anti Semitism, because if you're incapable of understanding the

(29:35):
history of the Gaza Strip and the fact that in
two thousand and six Israel ripped out the settlements out
of the Gaza Strip in a move to sort of
give the Palestinians the ability to manage their own affairs
in not.

Speaker 7 (29:47):
Just Gaza but also the West Bank.

Speaker 4 (29:50):
Israel has taken step after step after step, and yet
after billions of aid has flowed into the Gaza Strip,
the Hamas, which took over in two thousand and seven
an election and then never had another election. Hamas has
taken all that money to build tunnels. They've not built
one desalinization plant. They've not built one power plant. They

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have concrete plants that they built so they could continue
to make five hundred miles of tunnels underneath Gaza going
into Israel, so they could kill Jews, but they didn't
build any infrastructure, so Israel is required to continue giving
them power and water, and people use that as evidence
that somehow is Israel's occupying Gaza. But if Hamas had

(30:36):
simply taken the billions of dollars, guys, the area that
we're talking about, I don't even think is as big
as Metro denver Land mass wise, we're not talking about
anything remotely as big as the state of Colorado. It's
a very small space. If Amas had built a power plant,

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then Israel could have turned off the power to Gaza
and let them do it on their own. If they
had created a desalinization plant, Israel would not be providing
them water. They could have stood on their own two feet.
But instead of that, Hamas chose. Hamas chose to build
tunnels underneath kindergartens, they chose to put weapons in hospitals,

(31:17):
they choose to put their headquarters in the most densely
populated areas, and they chose to continue fomenting violence against Israel. So,
if you want to criticize Israel, and Israel is not
beyond reproach. Israel just killed a bunch of Palestinian citizens
because they say there was a like a technical error
with the targeting system that they were aiming at Hamas

(31:40):
militants and it went awry and ended up killing Palestinian citizens.
But the difference here is the Israel steps up and
says we did not mean to do that. Here's what happened,
Here's the problem. Here's what went wrong. They've tried soldiers
for war crimes. How many Hamas soldiers have been tried
for war crimes?

Speaker 7 (31:58):
None? Absolutely none.

Speaker 4 (32:01):
So unless you give Israel the credit for all of
the ways that they have tried not to kill Palestinians
while trying to kill Hamas, who is hiding behind the
Palestinian citizens, which, by the way, is a war crime
in and of itself, I have a hard time believing
that any criticism of Israel that doesn't take all of
that into account is based in anti Semitism. And if

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you think I'm wrong, please explain how. And ktis owends
now what disappointment she has turned out to be not
just because of her views on Israel, but the stuff
she's focusing on is just so something happens when people
get popular on the right and on the hard left.
And I don't know if it's because in order to

(32:47):
maintain your popularity you have to sort of dig into
all of this news, which is so incredibly depressing when
you really dig into it all the time, and I
think it makes people crazy. I gotta tell you, I'm
confused about what Tucker.

Speaker 7 (32:59):
Grolson is doing. And he used to love him on Fox.

Speaker 4 (33:03):
But it seems that Fox rained in his worst instincts,
and though he'll occasionally do a really interesting interview where
you're like, oh, the old Tucker's back, then he just
veers off into these crazy insaying like Alex Jones type stuff.

Speaker 7 (33:19):
It's just it's nuts. And here's the thing.

Speaker 4 (33:24):
If you want to be anti Semitic, if you don't
believe Israel has the right to exist, more power to you.
Wear it on your sleeve. I hear they have swatsed
because to indicate that. But don't be upset when people
call you an anti Semite when you're being anti Semitic.

Speaker 7 (33:38):
That's just the way to look at it.

Speaker 11 (33:39):
Mandy.

Speaker 4 (33:39):
There's a reason why none of the other twenty two
Muslim countries want to absorb the Palestinians.

Speaker 7 (33:45):
Amen to that, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (33:48):
Did you see the model citizen that tried to kidnap
an eleven year old girl and is having all charges dropped?
Colorado is such a disgusting joke. That is the story
of a man who has long history's very very mental ill.
It is my understanding that he is not being released,
He's being remanded into some kind of mental health custody.

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That is my understanding at last check. If I see
something different, I will update that. But I don't think
that man is being fully released. He's not being charged
because he's not competent to stand trial, but he is
going to be going to be in some kind of
confinement because of his severe mental illness, as he should be.
Mandy heard Gazza is about the same land mass as the.

Speaker 7 (34:31):
City of Roar.

Speaker 4 (34:32):
Yeah, it's dinky. The whole Israel's tiny. It's tiny compared
to anything we could compare it to.

Speaker 7 (34:40):
Mandy.

Speaker 4 (34:40):
Perhaps I'm being a bit confusing. I hope you can
understand me. I'm not supporting Amas. I'm relatively neutral on
the entire thing, except the part where I disagree killing
children and putting babies in ovens, that sort of thing.
I don't understand how you can be neutral. I don't
understand how you cannot clearly see that Israel as a
nation is the only democracy in the Middle East. It

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is the only place where people can practice their religion freely,
no matter what it is. There are Arabs, there are Muslims,
there are Jews. There are secular folks living in Israel together,
and they've lived that way for a very long time.
And then you have Hamas, Hamas, which has stolen billions
of dollars in aid so they can build tunnels with

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the sole.

Speaker 7 (35:24):
Purpose of killing Jews.

Speaker 4 (35:26):
Hamas went on a terror spree on October seventh of
twenty twenty three and live streamed.

Speaker 7 (35:32):
It to the world. As they raped women, as.

Speaker 4 (35:36):
They cut off their breaths with box cutters, as they
put babies in ovens, as they tried to chop off
people's heads with garden tools, they live streamed that.

Speaker 7 (35:47):
How can you remain neutral?

Speaker 4 (35:52):
Remaining neutral is the same as being on the side
of Hamas.

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Speaker 7 (36:23):
Bab Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show.

Speaker 4 (36:27):
I'm your host, Mandy Connell. And that guy over there
in for Anthony Rodriguez, who's in for someone in the morning,
is Grant Smith. And right now I have a great news.
If you are a veteran and maybe you are realizing
that you've got a service connected disability, but you have
no idea how to navigate the VA disability system, and boy,

(36:49):
howdy is it complicated? And may's like joining me now though,
to talk about an event coming up on July nineteenth
at the DAV Chapter forty one at the Gene Senior
Center and Fort Morgan.

Speaker 7 (37:02):
I've got Jack Darnell.

Speaker 4 (37:03):
He's the Disabled American Veteran executive board member for the State.

Speaker 7 (37:07):
Department of Colorado. Hello, Jack, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 12 (37:12):
Oh Mandy, how are you.

Speaker 7 (37:13):
I'm doing just fine, and I got to tell you.

Speaker 4 (37:15):
I want you to start by telling my audience a
little bit about disabled American veterans.

Speaker 12 (37:22):
Now, we have our.

Speaker 10 (37:23):
Mission is we have three main missions, once for legislative issues,
state and federal.

Speaker 12 (37:29):
For example, with.

Speaker 10 (37:32):
The state, if you're at least fifty compensation, you will
get free license.

Speaker 12 (37:38):
Plates, you can get into the parks free. And we're
working on other legislation. Matter of fact, I'm on the
UVC committee and we talked about that today, and we're
working on United Veterans Coalition issues this year and in
the future to improve state what the state does.

Speaker 10 (37:53):
Then we have federal legislation, which we're going to talk
about today, Compensation, VA medical school rules, education, all this.

Speaker 12 (38:02):
Kind of stuff, lots of stuff.

Speaker 10 (38:04):
The second thing we do is compensation filing that we're
going to talk about today.

Speaker 12 (38:09):
And the third is transportation.

Speaker 10 (38:10):
And I have a list of transportation people throughout the
state that transports veterans to the via clinics and to
the hospitals. Chey in Wyoming, handshoots Grand Junction, and Albuquerque,
New Mexico takes it in the southern part of the
state for the hospitals.

Speaker 4 (38:27):
Right, So, Jack, I want to talk about how challenging
it can be for a veteran to navigate the disability system.
And I say this as someone married to a disabled veteran, right,
And I would give my husband mad props for his

(38:48):
ability to navigate the VA. He is one of those
guys that other people will call to ask for advice
because he is relentless and he is dogged, and he
writes down every single person's name extension that he talks
to and keeps very very careful notes. But man, they
don't make it easy for veterans to access disability benefits.
And tell me a little bit about the process that

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people should know.

Speaker 10 (39:12):
From your perspective, Mandy, you're exactly right. I found out
the same thing, so disabled it and your husband did
it perfect. You got to learn the system. You got
to ask a lot of questions. You can't give up.
It's not over until you give up.

Speaker 12 (39:28):
So that's the main thing. We have numbers of certain
numbers you can call the problems. The VA is so big.

Speaker 10 (39:35):
You got to call this number for this, You got
to call that number for that. And some of them
don't communicate with the other one, but they are working
on that. Once you learned the system, I get most
of my VA stuff done to and choose medical center
you see health and you can do that, but you
got to learn the system.

Speaker 12 (39:51):
And once you get in there, you can go out
about any doctor you want. And so your husband did
it perfect. You must have trained him right.

Speaker 4 (40:00):
Oh, I can take no credit. I am baffled by
so much military stuff. It's not even funny. It all
seems very unwieldy to me. But well, that's the story
for another time. Let's talk about disability and disability ratings
and what if you're a veteran and you're having things
happen now even though you've been out for several years,

(40:20):
like maybe you've lost your hearing that was okay.

Speaker 7 (40:24):
When you retired, but now is gone. I mean, explain how.

Speaker 4 (40:29):
The process works for a veteran seeking a disability rating.

Speaker 8 (40:35):
Well, the first thing you got to do is attend
this meeting this Saturday, July nineteenth at the Jing Dotie
Chapter forty one to four Morgan Senior Center on three
oh seven Industreet infot Morgan.

Speaker 12 (40:45):
That starts the process.

Speaker 10 (40:47):
These guys are good, they're National Service officers, they've been training,
they've got months of training, they filed thousands of cases
and they don't charge anything.

Speaker 12 (40:56):
This is all free.

Speaker 10 (40:57):
There's people out there that charge of money to do
it or the percentage. We don't charge nothing where your advocate.
So start there and then what you got to do
is they will follow up in the Europe your advocate
through the whole process. So you just have to have
the initiative to go to one of these events that
we put on.

Speaker 12 (41:16):
We're trying to get the.

Speaker 10 (41:16):
Word out and we really appreciate what KOA is doing
on trying to get the word out the help veterans.
That's what we find the hardest thing is is the
communication and trying to get people out to these events.

Speaker 12 (41:27):
So if you start there.

Speaker 13 (41:29):
They'll start the process, and then what happens is they
will send you to one of their doctors.

Speaker 12 (41:34):
It's an outsourced doctor. It could be if it's hearing,
like you suggested, I'll sing it to a doctor that
deals with that.

Speaker 10 (41:41):
They'll test you're hearing. They'll send the results back into
the VA. Then they'll make a decision. Are you ten percent,
are you twenty percent, are you fifty percent? Or you said,
they'll make a decision on the percentage of compensation.

Speaker 12 (41:53):
You can always refile too, so that that's kind of
the way the process works.

Speaker 4 (42:00):
Is it designed to be frustrating or is that just
a bug not a feature? You know what I mean,
because it is frustrating.

Speaker 10 (42:09):
You know, I understand what you're saying, because I've been
there too, so frustrating until I got what I thought
I deserved and you just got to stick with it.

Speaker 12 (42:18):
It is frustrating. I don't think they mean it to
be frustrating.

Speaker 10 (42:21):
It's just as such a burotic system, neurocrotic system.

Speaker 12 (42:25):
That is just it's not intentional.

Speaker 14 (42:28):
Again, you have to if you work with these people,
they can get a hold of people, you can get
the right numbers.

Speaker 12 (42:34):
They can give you in contact and you have to
be taken initiative yourself to do it like you did.
That was perfect. That's exactly what I did.

Speaker 13 (42:42):
And it works well once you learn the system, it
works really well. I give them kudos.

Speaker 15 (42:47):
The VA.

Speaker 12 (42:48):
I was shy in Wyoming. The hospital, the clinic in
Loveland has been great for me. If I need somebody,
I go to them and say, hey, I want to
go this doctor and my doctor. The VA gives me,
says okay, and they give me. They paid for the
one hundred.

Speaker 10 (43:00):
Percent of the whole thing, and they paid for the
outsourcing of the doctor, So you picked the doctor you want.

Speaker 4 (43:05):
Even somebody in our on my text line just asked,
what do you do if you can't make this meeting?
If they can't get to the meeting, what options do
you guys have?

Speaker 12 (43:16):
And that's a good question. We're gonna start doing more
of these. We started doing this last year here in
Fort Morgan.

Speaker 16 (43:22):
Uh.

Speaker 10 (43:22):
We just had a new commander takeover and he's going
to He's starting to do these throughout the state.

Speaker 12 (43:27):
Scott Phil They're going to do one in the Denver
metro area.

Speaker 10 (43:31):
I think it's a laquid there at that chapter there
August twenty sixth I believe it is.

Speaker 14 (43:36):
Okay, But they can get ahold of da V and
I think you got all this on your website. The
state DAV they can get get on your website, get
that phone number, and they're going to have more of them.

Speaker 10 (43:47):
I think they're gonna have one in Colorado Springs. It's
something that we started doing. It needs to be done,
and we talked about this at the UBC meeting today too,
the night a Better Coinalition meeting.

Speaker 12 (43:57):
But this is stuff that we need to get the
word out, and we really appreciate you doing that.

Speaker 4 (44:01):
Well, you know, what are some of the most common
disabilities that you guys deal with? And I'm asking this
because you know, now I'm married to an old soldier. Okay,
I'm married and when he was a middle aged soldier
and now he's an old soldier, and I am here
to tell you we are still dealing with injuries that
he received in combat in his service. Okay, my husband's

(44:24):
perfectly healthy, but structurally he's a disaster because of being
shot and you know, all these different things that happened,
so things pop up later. What are some of the
most common things that people are coming in and saying, look,
this is service connected and I need to get something
done about this.

Speaker 12 (44:41):
That's a really good question, Mandia. I'm in the same
boat as your husband. The look at me, you think
I'm okay, but you go back. A lot of depends
on your MOS too, right when I say that, it
doesn't have to be just your MOS. You can get
an injury while you're in that gets worse as you
get older. That you're talking about.

Speaker 10 (45:00):
It could be some agent orange or some type of
chemicals that you're exposed to. Our fumes from the helicopters
or the aircraft or hearings a big one.

Speaker 12 (45:09):
Yeah, and you get older, your ears get worse too.

Speaker 10 (45:12):
Some of this stuff may come of age, but a
lot of it is made worse by your military service,
of what your MOS was or what you were exposed
to or in a military A lot of these people qualify,
but they think I won't. You don't know un that
you go to one of these These people are good.
The National Service officers, the VAD and the VFW are
really good at what they do, and that's what they

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do all the time.

Speaker 12 (45:35):
They file thousands of them. So that was a good question.

Speaker 10 (45:38):
And I would encourage anybody not to say I'm old
and I'm going to get that anyway. It's going to
make it worse as you get older, which you probably
know from your husband.

Speaker 4 (45:46):
Well, Jack, I want to share a text message that
kind of goes right to this issue. Hi, Mandy, Some
vets have too much pride.

Speaker 5 (45:53):
Like my dad.

Speaker 7 (45:54):
It wasn't until he had.

Speaker 4 (45:56):
Dementia that we could get him any deserved benefits from
the VA. He always claimed he did it for his
country and didn't need any compensation. He had five battle
ribbons from World War Two and still wouldn't ask for anything.

Speaker 7 (46:09):
Bless his soul.

Speaker 4 (46:10):
He's gone now, but we were able to use some
of his benefits for the last two years. And that
is such a crusty veteran thing to say I did
it for my country, I don't need anything, and then
they follow it up with there's somebody worse off than
me that needs it worse. I have heard that some
variation of that so many times. It makes my head explode.

Speaker 12 (46:32):
I agree with you one hundred percent, Mandy, and that's
something we got overcome. And if you're if you're in
that frame of mind.

Speaker 10 (46:41):
Think of what your relatives are going through to try
to get your help afterwards.

Speaker 12 (46:45):
It's a lot harder. Think of the people that's going
to have to take care of you that you should
have done this earlier. Think of it that, yeah, and
maybe you'll file it. You do deserve it. That's why
we got it, and we're proud of you.

Speaker 6 (46:58):
Well.

Speaker 7 (46:59):
I put a to the DAV website.

Speaker 4 (47:01):
I put a link with the address to the to
the Gene Nod Senior Center in Fort Morgan. This event
is happening July nineteenth. If they're going to be there
all day, and so if you are in the Fort
Morgan area, if you're in the northern part of the state,
try and get to this event. But if not and
you still need help, the DAV contact information is on.

Speaker 7 (47:20):
The blog as well.

Speaker 4 (47:21):
I would strongly advise you to take advantage of it, because,
as I said, watching my husband trying to navigate this
stuff has been very instructive, right, It's been very instructive
and very frustrating, And for someone that maybe isn't as
tenacious or dogged as my husband is, I would imagine
it would be real easy to give up. Is that

(47:42):
what do you know what percentage of claims are filed
and then either never get resolution or just kind of
you know, dropped at some point.

Speaker 12 (47:52):
No, I don't have any stats on it, but it
is you've gotta be tenacious, like you're saying, to get
it done. I was ready to give up seven times.
The only reason I applied about seven years ago. I
had a friend of mine at the DAV that encouraged
me to do it and finally said, Okay, do it.
And I was surprised. Like I said, well, I was
titeury the most mso. And you may not think you

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qualify for it, but it could be something that happened.

Speaker 10 (48:17):
There's so much that qualifies for this as unbelievable, and
almost every bit of an out there I says it's
got a good chance of qualifying for something if they
just try, If they just try, just come down file
it and try.

Speaker 15 (48:30):
It won't hurt anything, right, It's not.

Speaker 4 (48:32):
Going to change anything, all right, Jack Darnell, I really
appreciate your time. I appreciate you taking care of our
veterans and everybody at all, the volunteers at DAV for
doing this kind of stuff. And let me know when
we finally get some of those scheduled in the metro
or down in the springs, and we will let people
know so they can travel. And if there's anything I
can do to help facilitate that, let me know.

Speaker 2 (48:52):
Jack.

Speaker 7 (48:52):
I appreciate you, Mandy, you already done it.

Speaker 12 (48:56):
We greatly appreciate you at what you've done on your
show there.

Speaker 7 (48:59):
Okay, away, thank you, sir. You have a great day.

Speaker 15 (49:01):
Jack, You too many things, all right?

Speaker 4 (49:05):
That is Jack Darnell with disabled American veterans.

Speaker 7 (49:08):
Yeah, that that process.

Speaker 4 (49:12):
It's something, And I don't mean that in a good way, right,
I just not in a good way, not even a
little bit.

Speaker 7 (49:22):
All right, got a.

Speaker 4 (49:23):
Couple of things to talk about, you know, the Aurora
City Council. I have a story on the blog today
is is gonna ask voters for a raise?

Speaker 6 (49:32):
Now.

Speaker 4 (49:32):
I know the initial reaction to any politician asking for
a raise is like, no, No, it's a volunteer position.
It's a volunteer job. You volunteered. You not only volunteered,
you ran to get this job knowing what it paid.
But as areas get bigger, as cities get larger, these

(49:53):
jobs take a tremendous amount of time. School Boards, Holy cow,
I mean wow, is. It is a consuming thing. And
if you're a normal person with a normal nine to
five job, making a normal salary, and you're not loaded,
and you're putting in twenty thirty hours a week in

(50:17):
your duties in the city council and then working a
full time gig, it eliminates people from being able to
reasonably do that job. And so the Aurora City Council
they're asking for a raise. They're asking for a raise
for the mayor. The mayor says, I don't need it.
I make enough money. It's fine because the mayor is
a full time gig and Aurora, but it only makes
like ninety eight thousand dollars a year, which is not

(50:38):
a lot of money. In Denver city council is looking
for a bigger raise, And I thought I would just
ask you guys, like, what circumstances could you see yourself
if ever, and the answer maybe never voting for a
raise for a politician. I'm not opposed to paying people
for these jobs. I'm really not, because they are so consuming.

(51:01):
But Aurora is going to have to decide whether or
not the city council deserves a race. They're gonna have
to make the case and they're going to find out
if the people agree or not. And I think that's
the way it should be. I don't think that legislative
members of any sort city council, town council, county commission,
legislators should be able to raise their own salary without
asking the permission of the voters, and then the voters
can decide whether or not they deserve it, right, I

(51:24):
think that that's fair. If I lived in Aurora, I
would probably vote to raise their You know what, let
me just play this, I got time, I got time,
rang on, ran turn that off. Let me let this
pre roll go really quickly and all right, A or.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
City council will consider whether to ask voters from Denver
seven or by the Galleries.

Speaker 7 (51:43):
The proposal would triple their salaries Tenver seventh.

Speaker 9 (51:46):
Brandon Richard is listening to community members tonight, with some
saying council members deserve more money and others saying they
should be paid even less.

Speaker 17 (51:54):
The Aurora City attorney and city manager have introduced a
proposal that would ask voters to give the mayor and
city council a big pay raise.

Speaker 6 (52:02):
All we're saying is what do the voters think if
you put this on the ballot in November, that you
all should be paid for the hard.

Speaker 15 (52:07):
Work that you do.

Speaker 17 (52:08):
It would base their salaries on the salaries of a
Rapahoe County commissioner's. The mayor, who's considered a full time employee,
makes about ninety eight thousand a year. Under the plan,
his salary would increase to one hundred and fifty thousand
a year, equivalent to what a rap Hope County commissioners make.

Speaker 5 (52:24):
Council members are considered part.

Speaker 17 (52:25):
Time employees and make just twenty two thousand a year,
Their salaries would more than triple to seventy five thousand
a year. Aurora Mayor Mike Kaufman is on board with
half the plan.

Speaker 3 (52:37):
I support the increase for the council members, but not
for myself because I think my pays adequate.

Speaker 15 (52:43):
Is full time mayor council member.

Speaker 4 (52:45):
Now, I'm want to stop it there, because we're talking.
I just looked really quickly, the Denver mayor makes two
hundred and five thousand dollars. No, we can argue about
whether or not the current mayor's worth two hundred and
five thousand dollars, but that's what his salary is. Aurora
is the second largest city in Colorado. I think they're
bigger than Colorado Springs. I'm not sure, but I think so.

(53:09):
And the mayor's making ninety eight five. I'm just curious.
Do you guys think twenty two thousand, by the way,
for the for the Aurora City Council's ridiculous. I mean,
that's just ridiculous. That's not even like pocket change. You
can work at McDonald's and make more money than that.
I'm curious, just curious, So you can text me five

(53:32):
sixty six nine. Oh, that's five sixty six nine.

Speaker 2 (53:34):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (53:35):
A lot of you were weighing in on the Disabled
American veteran thing one the flip side of this coin.
What about veterans who abuse the system and claim untrue
things to obtain more benefits. I will tell you this,
after seeing how the system works, if somebody can navigate
that system and defraud that system, I'm shocked.

Speaker 7 (53:59):
First of all, I'm sure it happens, but of course
there's going to be bad actors.

Speaker 4 (54:04):
But I do think the system is so cumbersome that
it probably dissuades bad actors from pursuing VA disability benefits.
When there are so many other ways to pursue disability
benefits that are easier to navigate. Does that make sense
because the VA system is insane. It's absolutely insane, Mandy.

Speaker 7 (54:25):
The city on a.

Speaker 4 (54:26):
Major deficit, The city is on a major deficit. In
city council is asking for a raise when city employees
might have to furlough.

Speaker 7 (54:33):
That's a hell no for me. Now.

Speaker 4 (54:34):
I know that Denver is furlowing city employees, but I
have not heard that about Aurora.

Speaker 7 (54:39):
So if you have heard that, Texter, I'd love to
know more about that. I have not heard that. I'm
not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying I haven't heard it.

Speaker 13 (54:47):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (54:50):
I think ninety eight k is extremely low for a
full time mayor, and yet I don't know if I
would vote yes, I might have to see the budget.

Speaker 7 (54:59):
That's kind of I think that would be reasonable, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (55:03):
A median income per individual is forty three, two hundred
and thirty one dollars. Now, the city council gig is
ostensibly a part time gig, so you know, you may
want to decide differently, like do you want to take
them up to seventy five for a part time gig?
Or do you want to make them a full time gig.
What do you want to do there, Mandy. Public officials
are not meant to be career jobs. No, they should

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not get paid that kind of money. But Ray, that's
exactly why they should get paid that kind of money,
not so they're there all the time. I'm firmly in
favor of term limits, by the way, firmly in favor,
and there are term limits on the Aurra City Council,
so we're not talking about lifetime politicians.

Speaker 7 (55:39):
But if you want people to be able to.

Speaker 4 (55:40):
Do this part time and it's so incredibly labor intensive,
then you have to be able to let them live
while they do it, right. I mean, Aurora is going
to get to decide, you guys get to choose.

Speaker 7 (55:54):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (55:56):
The Aurora City Council voted three to seven not to
ask for a pay increase. They were just like, Nope,
not gonna do it, so that will not be on
the ballot. I didn't realize there was an update. Thank
you Texter for making that happen. iHeart says this Texter
just wanted to give wanted me to give up meat

(56:17):
one day a week for the earth. Not very good
targeted marketing.

Speaker 7 (56:22):
No, No, it's not, is it? I mean what what?

Speaker 4 (56:28):
That was probably the pre rollout on the absolutely free
iHeartRadio app that you can go to and while you're there,
Nike kaway a preset at the top.

Speaker 7 (56:37):
It's super easy.

Speaker 4 (56:38):
And then you add the Mandy Connell Show, and then
you add taking it for granted the podcast to your presets.
That would be amazing, absolutely amazing. Okay, So I got
to get this story in because it's so First of all,
the story is old, and a guy on Twitter pointed
it out to me a couple of years ago, maybe
a year ago.

Speaker 7 (56:57):
It's been updated.

Speaker 4 (56:58):
In June, the New York Times ran a piece in
conjunction with an organization called Headway.

Speaker 12 (57:04):
Now.

Speaker 4 (57:05):
The reason I point that out is because even though
this is propaganda's clap trap that would have been on
brand for the New York Times staff, it's not the
New York Times staff that provided this blatant pop propaganda
about our roadways.

Speaker 7 (57:18):
It was written by a woman named Megan Kimball.

Speaker 4 (57:23):
She's an independent journalist based in Austin, Texas. The Headway
Initiative is funded through grants from the Ford Foundation, the
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the starvros Niarchos Foundation,
with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors serving as a fiscal sponsor. So
that is where this article came from. But it is

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a glowing article about Colorado roads, more specifically about the
fact that we just won't build any more of them.
The headline Colorado's bold new approach to highways, not building them.
This entire article is about how our crappy road system
is actually by design.

Speaker 7 (58:06):
As they say in the computer world, it's a feature,
not a bug. Listen to this.

Speaker 4 (58:14):
It was notable when in twenty twenty two, the head
of Colorado's Department of Transportation called off a long planned
widening of I twenty five. The decision to do nothing
was arguably more consequential than the alternative. By not expanding
the highway, the agency offered a new vision for the
future of transportation planning in Colorado. That new vision was

(58:38):
catalyzed by climate change. In twenty nineteen, Governor Jared Polis
signed a law that required the state to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions by ninety percent within thirty years. As the
state tried to figure out how it would get there,
it zeroed in on drivers transportation is the largest single
contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, accounting

(59:01):
for about thirty percent of the total. Sixty percent of
that comes from cars and trucks. To reduce emissions, Colorado's
would have to drive left or drive less. An effective
bit of bureaucracy drove.

Speaker 7 (59:16):
That message home.

Speaker 4 (59:17):
After sustained lobbying from climate and environmental justice activists, the
Transportation Commission of Colorado adopted a formal rule that makes
the state transportation agency, along with Colorado's five metropolitan planning organizations,
demonstrate how new projects, including highways, reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Speaker 7 (59:39):
If they don't, they lose funding. Do you know what
that means?

Speaker 4 (59:44):
That means that the official policy of the state of
Colorado is to never build another road again, because roads
bring cars, which bring carbon dioxide and other gases. Within
a year of the rules adoption in twenty twenty one,
Colorado's Department of Transportation orc DOT had canceled two major

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highway expansions, including I twenty five, and shifted one hundred
million to transit projects. In twenty twenty two, a regional
planning body in Denver reallocated nine hundred million dollars from
highway expansions to so called multimodal projects including faster buses

(01:00:31):
and better bike lanes now and then they go on
to talk about other states they're following Colorado's lead.

Speaker 7 (01:00:37):
Here's what's not in this article.

Speaker 4 (01:00:40):
What's not in this article is anti any any countervailing information.
There's not a bit on the absolute, gobsmackingly horrible conditions
of the roads outside of the metro area, because they
are horrible.

Speaker 7 (01:00:55):
They are third world.

Speaker 4 (01:00:57):
When you're driving on seventy or you're driving up it
is an absolute nightmare and an embarrassment.

Speaker 7 (01:01:04):
So here we go, guys. It is essentially Colorado has.

Speaker 4 (01:01:08):
Determined that we're not gonna build any more roads, and
we're gonna make it so miserable to drive that people
will bed to get on the train or the buses.

Speaker 7 (01:01:17):
That are absolutely inconvenient.

Speaker 4 (01:01:21):
There is a zero percent chance the Shoshana Lou, the
director of ce DOT, rides mass transit to work.

Speaker 7 (01:01:27):
Zero percent chance.

Speaker 4 (01:01:29):
There's a zero percent chance I'm ever gonna see Governor
Jared Polis on a train unless he's just doing a
photo op before he steps off, before the man's smoking
meth can get on behind him. They are determined to
get us all out of our cars so then they
can drive on the roads in theirs.

Speaker 7 (01:01:49):
And it's not an accidental thing. It's not.

Speaker 4 (01:01:52):
Oh, we have all these other priorities that have to
be taken care of to ensure save roadways.

Speaker 13 (01:01:56):
Know it is.

Speaker 4 (01:01:57):
You know what, We're gonna take nine one hundred million
dollars and put it in.

Speaker 7 (01:02:03):
By lanes and faster buses.

Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
Eh, good gravy.

Speaker 7 (01:02:13):
Ah, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (01:02:14):
I'm a longtime listener and thought you knew your audience
in state better at Colorado Springs, probably the most conservative
city on the.

Speaker 7 (01:02:20):
Front Range, is the second largest city in the state.
Kindly show some respect.

Speaker 4 (01:02:25):
Apology accepted, an apology given you are not the only
Denver area resident that doesn't realize how great Colorado Springs is.
Oh contrere, my friend. I would live in Colorado Springs,
except my job is in Denver, so that was not
an option, especially because I moved here and I was
doing a morning show that was not not a just

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sitting in.

Speaker 7 (01:02:48):
Traffic produce more pollution. Great question, Texter, Let's spend the
magic dial and say, oh, yes it does.

Speaker 5 (01:02:55):
Yes, it does.

Speaker 4 (01:02:57):
This textra points out, but they're not really expanding trans
that either. Well they are if you want to ride
your bike to the airport. Do you guys realize that,
as they're doing a five year study on Payia Boulevard,
that there are bike advocates who are advocating the solution
to the traffic on Paynia Boulevard is more bike lanes.

Speaker 7 (01:03:19):
So Grant just expect to see me tootling.

Speaker 4 (01:03:21):
Down the road on my cruiser with my luggage attached
to the back of my bike like a creative homeless
person downtown.

Speaker 6 (01:03:30):
But at least we'll have a nice walkway from the
Capitol building into.

Speaker 4 (01:03:36):
That is not going to There's no way they're going
to get that tone. What was the cost on it,
like twenty million. It's gonna be like twenty million dollars
and it's ugly and it it it. It creates imbalance
in the view of the Capitol that I cannot get past.

Speaker 7 (01:03:53):
Absolute garbage. Mandy.

Speaker 4 (01:03:55):
I remember how many people complained about the last Republican
governor because he didn't put enough emphasis on banning Colorado roads.
It was part of the reason Fredrikopania was elected. Yep, Mandy,
funny how it went from we have to get into
electric cars. Two cars are bad, even the electric ones. Yeah,
they're they're bad. This textor said, if they're really serious

(01:04:16):
about carbon emissions from cars, they should outlaw drive through
windows at fast food and coffee shops. That would be
a shot across the bow. Can you imagine? Can you
even a mat like that would be the thing that
would be the thing that would finally get all the
lefties in Colorado to wake up to the totalitarian style

(01:04:37):
government that the Democrats in the state are inflicting on us.

Speaker 7 (01:04:40):
If we took away their coffee.

Speaker 4 (01:04:42):
Drive throughs, mortified, horrified, terrible, Mandy, their net gained because
of traffic is zero, maybe even worse because you can't
get anywhere fast. I'm a ride share driver and I
can tell you every project just creates traffic and is
for those businesses because it also takes away parking. That's

(01:05:03):
why their sales revenue downtown is down. Nobody wants to
go down there.

Speaker 7 (01:05:07):
It's too much work. And that, my friends, is the
final word on that about seed Dot. You guys are
killing me.

Speaker 4 (01:05:14):
On the text line, it's really really really funny, Hi,
Mandy's spending all of our money for a new speed
cameras on the diagonal between Boulder and Logmat to protect
sea dot workers while pouring a concrete path from one
to the other, while still paying taxes for fifteen years
to build a light reiel that's never happened. Yep, that

(01:05:36):
pretty much sums it up. This one says, hey, Mandy,
The city of Golden Is banned future drive throughs. They
tried to get rid of current ones, but decided to
table it for a while. Every stupid idea of the
state is trying as already being done here, Mandy. They
could take away drive through liquor stores too. I something

(01:05:56):
about the rebellious nature of a drive through liquor store.
Think about that appeals to me, and I know it's crazy.
Back when I was a kid, actually, when I was
in college, there was still a drive through liquor store
where you can get a cocktail.

Speaker 7 (01:06:12):
You'd be like, like to go, I need to Margarita's.
They would put them a to go cup and hand
them to see you drive away. It was in Perry, Florida.
It was there for a long time. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:06:23):
Wait to hang on one second, hang on drive through
bar in Perry, Florida.

Speaker 7 (01:06:31):
Let me see here Graves drive In. No, that's not it.
I want to see if if there's anybody that has
it now it's too old. Uh wait, hang on, where
was the drive through bar? Yeah, let me see if

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that pops up right, it might have been Graves drive
In might have been. But yeah, you can pull up.
Obviously I don't remember.

Speaker 5 (01:07:02):
And of course no one.

Speaker 16 (01:07:06):
Was.

Speaker 4 (01:07:06):
Oh Perry's Package Store. That's it, Perry's Package Store and lounge.
You can no longer drive up there at all.

Speaker 7 (01:07:16):
And it used to be run by absolute racists.

Speaker 4 (01:07:21):
They were open about it. They were clearly racists. I
didn't know that for many, many years that they were
as racist as they were. I just knew you could
drive up and get a cocktail, which, by the way,
is not a great idea, just saying, Mandy, it's all.

Speaker 7 (01:07:37):
An unrealized tax.

Speaker 4 (01:07:38):
Talking about the roads, I own a trucking company and
have spent hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of dollars in
suspension repairs, brand new parts broken the next day, just
because of our wonderful roads.

Speaker 7 (01:07:51):
Absolutely, I love this one, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (01:07:54):
A cyclists are getting fed up with the condition of
the roads as well. How the hell does Sea Dot
think we'll be able to use the bike lanes when
the potholes in them can cause a very serious bike crash. Well,
they're not worried about that part of it. You're just
supposed to use them and possibly die.

Speaker 7 (01:08:09):
It's fine, It's fine, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (01:08:13):
How about a fee charged on coffee at Starbucks, just
to irk all the Liberals who have to drive to
get their coffee instead of making at home. Call it
the suburban SI surcharge grant? Are you a coffee buyer?
I know you used to work in a coffee shop.
Are you a coffee buyer on a regular basis?

Speaker 6 (01:08:27):
No, very seldomly, usually for like a special occasion, or
for you got a big trip coming up.

Speaker 5 (01:08:32):
But I always make coffee at home.

Speaker 4 (01:08:34):
You know what's happening because I always try to shop local.
Right when I travel, I want to shop local. I
want to I don't necessarily want to give my money
to a big chaine like Starbucks. So I've tried these
different little coffee shops in different places that we've traveled to,
and it's almost like the IPA syndrome is now coming.

Speaker 7 (01:08:49):
To coffee shops and some of the coffee is awful,
so bad.

Speaker 4 (01:08:54):
I mean, I didn't realize that a coffee shop like
you're you have coffee in the name of your business,
and yet you can serve really bad coffee.

Speaker 7 (01:09:05):
I don't. That's baffling to me. Yeah, there's so many
And here's the problem for me.

Speaker 4 (01:09:09):
I'm a dark roast person. I like dark roast coffee
number one. It has less caffeine. That's a fun fact
for you to know less caffeine at a dark roast.

Speaker 5 (01:09:18):
Well, of course you did.

Speaker 7 (01:09:19):
You work at a coffee shop, and I just like
the way it tastes. A lot of coffee shops are like, oh,
we don't for a dark roast.

Speaker 4 (01:09:25):
How do you even make a cappuccino and an espresso
without dark beans?

Speaker 6 (01:09:28):
How do you do that?

Speaker 12 (01:09:31):
Not?

Speaker 5 (01:09:31):
Well?

Speaker 4 (01:09:33):
Drive through loaf and jug and Pueblo. I like, we
used to have a like a and I think you
guys have one of these in Athens. Don't you like
the drive through package store?

Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:09:42):
What's that called an Athens? We have beverage Express. In
my hometown, we have beverage Express where you drove through
this convenience store and you just pointed it stuff and
they fetched it for you.

Speaker 15 (01:09:53):
But was it?

Speaker 10 (01:09:54):
It was?

Speaker 7 (01:09:54):
Was it the dang it. All it can think of
is Max Handy and that's not it at all.

Speaker 4 (01:09:59):
That's that's that's Jimmy Max's Farm Store or whatever you
want to call Max Handy where you can always get.

Speaker 5 (01:10:05):
Carhart Max Thrifty Store Max Thrifty.

Speaker 7 (01:10:07):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:10:08):
Oh my gosh, i'sid know that. That's my brother in law. Jeez, Louise,
what is it called? Do I need to call check
on the break Athen's local drive through? No, that had
a different name. I'm gonna find out while we take
a break when we get back. Is anybody else watching Landman?
Are you watching Landman?

Speaker 7 (01:10:23):
Have you seen this?

Speaker 5 (01:10:24):
I've never even heard of it?

Speaker 7 (01:10:25):
Okay, started watching it.

Speaker 4 (01:10:27):
The first episode is one of the greatest first episodes
of any show I have seen in so long. But
there's something about one of the characters that's driving me crazy.
I'll tell you about it when we get back.

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Speaker 4 (01:11:06):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the Third Hour. Of the show
and shifting gears entirely. We have to talk about Landman
for a moment. So you are you familiar with Landman
at all? Grant no cause a few months ago, maybe
six months ago now, I asked my audience, like, what
am I sleeping on?

Speaker 7 (01:11:23):
Right, and somebody said, you gotta watch LANDMN. I was
like this on excerpt.

Speaker 4 (01:11:27):
It didn't look good, but I wrote it down on
my list of shows that I needed to watch. And
then I was on an airplane and it was available
on the airplane. So I was like, Okay, let's let's
see what's up.

Speaker 7 (01:11:39):
First episode, mind blowing.

Speaker 15 (01:11:42):
So good.

Speaker 4 (01:11:43):
Billy Bob Thornton is so good in this role. I mean,
he's just so let me just lay it out for you.
He plays what's called a landman working for an oil company.
He's the fixer. He takes care of everything that goes
wrong that happens. He's the point person.

Speaker 7 (01:11:58):
He's the guy that makes it all work.

Speaker 4 (01:12:01):
He's married, or his ex wife is played by Ali Larder,
who is super hot in this, but she plays kind
of a money grubbing bimbo. And I'm only three or
four episodes in, so I haven't seen the whole thing yet.

Speaker 7 (01:12:12):
And then they have a.

Speaker 4 (01:12:12):
Daughter who basically walks around with no clothes on it
and I'm like, Chuck would have beat her within an
inch of her life, but that's neither here nor there.
So she's hot daughter walking around with, you know, with
no clothes on, kind of like her mom. And then
there's the Sun and the son is working in the
oil fields. The actor who plays the Sun is perfectly
fine as an actor, right, I have no beef with

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him as an actor, But we're supposed to believe that
this kid who now wants to work in the oil fields, who,
by the way, doesn't have very good teeth. He's got
a huge gap in between his front teeth, right, And again,
I'm not knocking this actor or the way he looks
for anything.

Speaker 7 (01:12:54):
I don't mind a gap in people's teeth.

Speaker 4 (01:12:56):
But if I'm supposed to believe that his mother is
this incredibly shallow character, there is a zero percent chance
that she did not put him in braces when he
was a teenager.

Speaker 7 (01:13:07):
And that's bothering the crap out of me. I realize
how stupid that is, but it's little.

Speaker 4 (01:13:13):
Inconsistencies like that that take me out of what I'm watching, right,
it doesn't feel real, no, because his ex wife is
about as deep as a bag of doritos in terms
of her humanity. Like somebody texted and said, there are
no likable characters in Landman, they are so gross. That's
not entirely inaccurate, right, but it's wildly entertaining to watch.

Speaker 2 (01:13:36):
But that that one thing.

Speaker 4 (01:13:39):
I can't let it go because I was like, that's
his And by the way, he doesn't want to have
much to do with his mom whenever. It's fine, but
there's no no chance that she did not put him
in braces when he was a kid.

Speaker 7 (01:13:54):
I just I can't.

Speaker 4 (01:13:56):
So I think we're four episodes down in land Man now,
so we got like four more. I think it's an
eight season arc the first season. But dang, Billy Bob
Thornton is so good in this move, in this in
this show, he's so good. I can go hotter cold
on Billy Bob Thornton. He's like, you know, when he

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was married to Angelina Joe Lee. Is there any man
that Angelina Joe doesn't make worse? I mean, great, you're laughing,
But am I wrong?

Speaker 12 (01:14:29):
No?

Speaker 13 (01:14:30):
Why?

Speaker 4 (01:14:32):
Yes, she leaves this this trail of wreckage in her wake,
and when he was with her, I just I found
them both super creepy.

Speaker 7 (01:14:42):
It was just like ew, that was a relationship.

Speaker 4 (01:14:44):
I was like, ahl blah, Mandy. After I watched land Man,
I watched Goliath. He's the same person, except that he's
a rough lawyer instead of an oil man. There you go. Oh,
I'm gonna watch the whole season. People are telling me,
Mandy to watch the rest of the season. We just
haven't gotten there yet. It's not that we don't want
to watch it. We just I cannot binge an entire series.

(01:15:06):
I can't sit still that long. Maybe after I have
a little surgery beginning of August. Maybe after that, when
I am forced to recover and be still, I'll be
able to, like binge watch series. Well, when people say,
oh my god, on Saturday, I watched this whole there
like ten episodes, I'm like, oh my god, I can't

(01:15:26):
do it.

Speaker 6 (01:15:27):
We just did that with The Bear. The new season
of that show over like eh, not all on one day,
but like over three days.

Speaker 7 (01:15:34):
Oh gosh, I just I can't. I can't do it.

Speaker 3 (01:15:39):
Do not.

Speaker 4 (01:15:39):
I just no way, Mandy, she wouldn't care about her
son's teeth as long as she had the finer things.

Speaker 7 (01:15:46):
But she's shallow and that's such a big part of
her character. She literally says, well, I don't want to
say that.

Speaker 4 (01:15:52):
I don't want to have any spoilers in here, because
it's a really good show so far, is really really good, Mandy,
the sun probably reminds her of her ex, and she
doesn't want to make him look good.

Speaker 7 (01:16:01):
Oh, Contrea, my friends. Again, no spoilers, But that is
not accurate, Jason says, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (01:16:08):
The way the daughter talks and the conversations they have
with a seventeen year old daughter is very hard to watch.

Speaker 7 (01:16:16):
Jason.

Speaker 4 (01:16:16):
I agree with you, but I also know people who
have those conversations with their seventeen year old daughters and
their seventeen year old sons in just that same way.
And though I try to have open lines of communication
with my teenager, I don't think I would do it
in quite the way that they.

Speaker 7 (01:16:37):
Do on Landman.

Speaker 4 (01:16:38):
I don't think anybody should take parenting tips okay from Landman,
but it is a really good series. Other than the
fact that I cannot get past the fact that the
son would have had breeces there's just no doubt in
my mind what you're too young to have experience this.
But I watched people that I know and had known

(01:17:00):
for a long time when they had kids, force a
way of being on their children, right, like, well beyond
when you should be forcing how to be on your kids.
When your kids are little, you get to choose their clothes,
and you get to choose their hair, and you get
to choose everything, right, so you can dress your kids
however you want. And then the kids turn into teenagers

(01:17:23):
and they're like, I don't want to do that anymore.
But parents would try to force these kids to be
like them. And the daughter in Landman's just like her mom,
I mean, very very similar, and it would be tough
for me to believe that she would not have put
that kid embraces Mandy. I watched the whole series. She
drove me nuts through the entire thing. It's a good show.

(01:17:46):
A little bit of language. I think you're being kind
by saying a little bit of language, but for the
most part it's pretty good. However, The Quarterback on Netflix
is phenomenal with her cousins Jared and Joe.

Speaker 8 (01:17:58):
So when is the.

Speaker 6 (01:17:58):
Quarterback documentary about three quarterbacks in the NFL. They did
it a couple of years ago, and this year they
have Kirk cousins, Jared Goff and my guy Joe Burrow
from Athens, Ohio. Yes, and it is just a behind
the scenes look at their entire life. It's incredible. The
last episode I watched was about the break in at
Joe Burrow's house Lies and that is crazy and the

(01:18:22):
production value is unreal. It's from Peyton Manning's production company Omaha,
and it's just so well done.

Speaker 4 (01:18:30):
This textra said, it's kind of pathetic that our society
gets so wrapped up in these shows. Guys, this kind
of entertainment, whether it was in the form of plays
that were done in the King's courts, are just amusements, right,
They're just things to take our minds off whatever garbage
we're dealing with. I would hardly say I'm obsessed. It
just has been bothering me about the bracest thing, and

(01:18:52):
I just wanted to see if it was bothering anything else.
But based on the text line, no one else is
remotely bothered by my appsvation, So I'm the weirdo here.

Speaker 7 (01:19:02):
That's what we've learned from this a lot of stuff
on the blog that we have not gotten to today.

Speaker 4 (01:19:07):
And there's a lot of like serious news in the
on the blog today, but there's also some just like
passing news, and I want to give this one out.
You may remember that John Elway's best friend and former agent,
was killed in a terrible golf cart accident. It almost
sounds like a joke, right, but he fell out of
the golf cart and hit his head and died as

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a result.

Speaker 7 (01:19:28):
Well, the authorities who were.

Speaker 4 (01:19:30):
Investigating this incident have come out and said this is
an accidental death and no one is to blame, and
it's a tragedy. But there's not going to be any
further nonsense. And John Elway has been exonerated in any
sort of situation. And I think it's important to get
that out there because John Elway is beloved and I
think this was a horrible tragedy for him and his
family to go through. And so I'm glad this ended

(01:19:52):
the way it ended. And sometimes things are just a
horrible accident, right, I mean it is. I have a
stories about Trump that I want to get to.

Speaker 7 (01:20:02):
Oh wait a minute.

Speaker 4 (01:20:03):
First of all, we figured out that it was the
stop and cop, that's the one I was thinking of
on Richland Avenue in Athens, Ohio.

Speaker 7 (01:20:10):
And it is not fancy.

Speaker 5 (01:20:12):
No, I should have remembered that, though I've gone through
there many many times.

Speaker 4 (01:20:15):
Yes, the stopp and cop drive through beverage store. Supreme
Court says that Trump can fire the members of the
Department of Education that he had wanted to fire. The
lower courts required that the Department of Education reinstate nearly
fourteen hundred employees who had been laid off, and the

(01:20:39):
High Court granted a request for the Trump administration.

Speaker 7 (01:20:43):
To lift that injunction, allowing.

Speaker 4 (01:20:46):
Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon to continue firing people
at the Department of Education. The reason that they cited
with Donald Trump in this manner is a six to
three vote, with the three liberal women dissenting in this.

Speaker 7 (01:21:08):
Ruling. But the reason that they ruled.

Speaker 4 (01:21:11):
In Trump's favor was that in his executive order, he
orders her to lay off as many people as he
can within current law. And because he put within current law,
that gave him cover to go ahead and do what
he's doing. And the Supreme Courts and yeah, you can
kind of do that now.

Speaker 7 (01:21:29):
In the dissent.

Speaker 4 (01:21:31):
The three women liberals, Sonya Sodomayoor, Elena Kagan, and Katanji
Brown Jackson.

Speaker 7 (01:21:38):
Said this, when the executive publicly.

Speaker 4 (01:21:41):
Announces its intent is to break the law and then
executes on that promise, it is the judiciary's duty to
check that lawlessness, not expedite it. And they specifically mentioned
the fact that Donald Trump has said repeatedly that he
wants to get rid of the Department of Education, which
he has.

Speaker 12 (01:22:00):
But they're not ruling on.

Speaker 7 (01:22:01):
What Trump said.

Speaker 4 (01:22:03):
They're ruling on what the executive order said, and that's
the problem. They actually have a good point, they really do,
but that was not part of the evidence presented. That
was not the thing that they were considering. They were
considering what the executive order did and what Linda McMahon
had been doing with it. As part of the plan

(01:22:23):
to dismantle the Department of Education, the Trump had men
canceled a slew of grants and implemented a reduction in
force that implemented almost fourteen hundred employees. That's one third
of the agency's workforce. Now, of course, Democrats are upset
with this because teachers unions are basically their bread and butter.
But the reality is, since the inception of the Department

(01:22:45):
of Education, the state of education in the United States
has done nothing good nothing. As a matter of fact,
the state of education in the United States has been
on a steady decline since the early nineteen seventies when
unions really took hold and started dictating what was being
done in the classrooms and putting adults needs and wants

(01:23:07):
over what children need and want. So we shall see,
we shall see, the Solicitor General said. The layoffs of
the Department of Education are part of the administration's policy
of streamlining the department and eliminating discretionary functions that, in
the administration's view.

Speaker 7 (01:23:27):
Are better left to the states. So we'll see what
happens next.

Speaker 4 (01:23:34):
You know, I got an email from someone, a transgender person,
and this transgender person was trying to make a point
about Donald Trump and justices having to get.

Speaker 7 (01:23:46):
Involved in everything else.

Speaker 4 (01:23:47):
And for anyone on the left that looks at all
of these lawsuits and uses that as evidence that Donald
Trump has broken the law, you're looking at it backwards,
because from where I'm sitting, the Trump administration just keeps
winning these lawsuits, demonstrating that the strategy of using the

(01:24:10):
justice system in order to control policy is simply not
a good one. Not good for democrats using it, not
good for Republicans who might be using it in the future.

Speaker 7 (01:24:21):
So maybe this will walk this back. I doubt it.
I mean, we've now it's just the you know, the
horses out of the bar and YadA, YadA, YadA, all
that stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:24:28):
When we get back, leave it to Denver communist to
hate an organization that is actively working to help homeless
people rebuild their lives. I'll explain after this from hot
air dot Com comment on the show to talk about
his latest column, the column that I mentioned at the
very beginning of the show about why we don't distrust

(01:24:50):
the news media enough, and I have a very healthy
dose of distrust for most major news media outlets. But
boy howdy, the BBC has done it to themselves. And
joining me now to talk about it is David Strong
from hot air dot com. How you doing, my friend?

Speaker 12 (01:25:09):
Well?

Speaker 15 (01:25:09):
As always, when I'm I'm with you, my life is perfect.

Speaker 4 (01:25:13):
See this is just shameless flattery. So I invite him
back and it works every single time. That and the
fact that I enjoy his writing so much at hottier
dot com. So what did BBC do initially, and then
we'll talk about what they did in their own investigation
into their own failures. From the initial thing that I
want you to talk about right now, Well.

Speaker 9 (01:25:35):
The BBC, which has a long and glorious history of
anti Semitism, commission a documentary about what it's like to
survive the war in Gaza. And they followed around I
think a twelve or thirteen year old boy and they're

(01:25:57):
showing you how life is so difficult for.

Speaker 15 (01:26:00):
This young man, but how he is gamely following through.

Speaker 9 (01:26:05):
And then and they air this documentary, they push it relentlessly.
They air the documentary and along comes someone who looked
into it and they discovered, well, the little boy is
the son of an.

Speaker 15 (01:26:21):
Official in Hamops.

Speaker 9 (01:26:23):
This turned out to be just one big propaganda campaign.
And of course the people who did the documentary knew
all about this, and they tried to argue, well, it
doesn't really matter that he's.

Speaker 15 (01:26:39):
The son of a HOMOS official. He's you know, he's
a young man and he's in Gaza. And the DBC.

Speaker 9 (01:26:46):
At first was going to push this out worldwide, but
they got so much pushback that they eventually had to
pull it and then do an investigation into how it happened.

Speaker 4 (01:26:59):
Well, and this is the thing, first of all, the
DBC when this was brought to their attention, how do
you know how it was brought to their attention? Because
that's I would have loved to see that email.

Speaker 15 (01:27:12):
I used to know how.

Speaker 9 (01:27:13):
But but this the original story I wrote maybe two
months ago or something like that, but it was you know,
there's a lot of attention on the propaganda coming out
of Gaza. There's this entire infrastructure called Pellywood, which is

(01:27:38):
you know, sort of the Palestinian Hollywood, and people have
figured this out, so they start looking at who the
people are, and they're actors who show up in videos
on a regular basis. One day they're a dead body,
the next day they're a doctor, the next day they're

(01:27:58):
a journalist. And the problem is is that any actual
journalist or anyone employed by a media organization has to
be approved by Hamas. They're often actually HAMAS operatives themselves.

(01:28:19):
And I mean you can understand why this is. I mean,
Hamas is a terrorist organization. You're not going to send
you're ace reporter in there to get shot if he
says the wrong thing. But the alternative that they have
chosen is essentially to report whatever Hamas tells them.

Speaker 7 (01:28:41):
And without that.

Speaker 4 (01:28:42):
The thing that gets me, David is that they report
it unquestionably right.

Speaker 7 (01:28:46):
They just they regurgitate the facts.

Speaker 4 (01:28:49):
That Hamas gives them, the Hamas Health Ministry without Unfortunately,
a lot of people in the West don't have a
clear understanding that Hamas is entrenched in every act.

Speaker 7 (01:29:00):
Aspect of the Gaza strip.

Speaker 4 (01:29:01):
They are a political system, they're a military arm, they're
an economic wing.

Speaker 7 (01:29:06):
They do everything.

Speaker 4 (01:29:08):
So when Hamas they say that the Hamas Ministry of Health,
that is simply another arm of the Hamas military wing.

Speaker 9 (01:29:16):
Oh yeah, every doctor, everyone who works in any capacity
and whether they're working for the government directly or not.
And Hamas is the government. So the gods a health
ministry is Hamas, But everyone who works in the hospitals
is Hamas. In fact, hostages were kept in the hospitals

(01:29:40):
a lot of times. You've got the tunnel entrances for
the fighters, buried in schools, buried in hospitals. They are
in all the civilian infrastructure, which is by the way
of war crime.

Speaker 1 (01:29:55):
Right that that is.

Speaker 9 (01:29:59):
One of the definitions of a war crhyme, because you're
supposed to avoid uh civilian casualties. As soon as you've
got soldiers there, it's a legitimate target of war.

Speaker 7 (01:30:10):
So UH, there's.

Speaker 5 (01:30:15):
Because it's not.

Speaker 9 (01:30:16):
It's it's not just the BBC, as bad as the
BBC is, uh, but the New York Times, one of
their key reporters.

Speaker 15 (01:30:25):
There is an actual Nazi.

Speaker 9 (01:30:27):
I mean he puts on his uh social media all
about how he loved Hitler. And when The New York
Times was confronted with this, they said, well, we had
a conversation with him, and he's got to keep his
politics out of the report it.

Speaker 2 (01:30:43):
I mean, really, oh.

Speaker 7 (01:30:47):
My, we we earlier in the show, I talked about it.

Speaker 4 (01:30:50):
I don't know if you saw this the report from
the UN Human Rights Council, which is like joke where
they did a whole report on the quote Israel Gaza
conflict that did not mention Hamas one time, David.

Speaker 15 (01:31:07):
We're October seventh.

Speaker 4 (01:31:09):
They just talking about October twenty twenty three.

Speaker 15 (01:31:12):
They just glossed over it.

Speaker 4 (01:31:13):
I just got back from Japan, a long trip in Japan,
and I went on all these tours in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki and all of our Japanese tour guides. They were
very dedicated to the proposition of showing the horrors of
atomic war so it never happens again.

Speaker 7 (01:31:27):
They are one.

Speaker 4 (01:31:28):
Hundred percent piece nicks. It is genuine.

Speaker 7 (01:31:31):
I believe them.

Speaker 4 (01:31:32):
But boy howdy, they glossed over why we dropped those
bombs in the first place, right, I mean, it's it's
their history.

Speaker 7 (01:31:38):
But it started to annoy me and I was.

Speaker 4 (01:31:40):
Like, wait a minute, and now we have the UN
literally just glossing over the atrocities that were committed on
October seventh in order to justify more hatred at Israel.
BBC is complicit in this. Their coverage is almost some
of the worst I think. I look at them every day,
every day, and every day I'm just gusted by what

(01:32:01):
I see. But what did they discover in their own
report on their own documentary, what did they what did
they cop to in their report?

Speaker 9 (01:32:13):
Well, not enough, but even they admitted that this violated
their journalistic standards, that it was deceptive, although they claimed
it was not intentionally deceptive, but it did leave the
wrong impression. And you know, they are tap dancing around

(01:32:36):
the fact that they are a propaganda outlet for Amas,
and they happened. They are among the worst. But you
can go back and in twenty fourteen there's a former
Associated Press reporter who quit the Associated Press. He was

(01:32:56):
there for five years. He was based in Gaza for
part of it, and he wrote an article in the
Atlantic about how their offices, Uh they co office with Hamas.

Speaker 4 (01:33:09):
Oh one, does you know, I mean office based in
Gauza is so expensive, David. They've probably got screaming good
deal on the rent in Hamas's offices. And I mean
then they have access to the tunnels right there and
any weapons they might need. So there's a lot of
benefits to partnering up with Hamas for your reporting.

Speaker 7 (01:33:28):
So I you know, no big deal, nothing to see here.

Speaker 15 (01:33:31):
Yeah, And this is something you know.

Speaker 9 (01:33:34):
It really is the equivalent of, uh, you know, having
someone based in Berlin during World War Two and telling
you about, you know, the wonders of the Nazi government
and how mean the Allies are. The New York Times
during the holamdor in Ukraine, one of their reporters was

(01:34:00):
a Stalinist who reported from.

Speaker 15 (01:34:04):
The Soviet Union.

Speaker 9 (01:34:06):
And he just flat out lied about whether there was
starvation going on. I mean, it was intentional starvation where
millions of people died. It was a famine caused by
the government, and he got not a Nobel Prize, a
Pulitzer Prize for that, and the New York Times refused
to give it back.

Speaker 15 (01:34:28):
And you know, so there is a long history.

Speaker 9 (01:34:35):
You know, journalists not just injecting their own politics into things.
We I mean, let's face it, all of us, even
when we try to be objective, have a hard time
separating out our opinions from how we spin stories, consciously
or unconsciously. But there's a difference between that and pure propaganda.

(01:35:00):
And the New York Times is a long history going
back nearly one hundred years of being a propaganda organization.
The BBC is a government mouthpiece, right as is PBS,
and it's always the most left wing parts of the

(01:35:22):
government that go into communications.

Speaker 7 (01:35:25):
Well, let me ask you this. Did you see the.

Speaker 4 (01:35:29):
News that the New York excuse me, the Washington Post
is sent out an email that said, Hey, we're looking
to you know, basically go right down the middle. We're
looking to win back the trust of the American people,
and we're looking to do it in a way that
focuses on real journalism, and if if you're not comfortable
with this, you should probably take an employee buyout.

Speaker 5 (01:35:52):
Is there hope?

Speaker 4 (01:35:53):
Because obviously Jeff Bezos is looking at the Washington Post
and saying, we're still shedding, you know, subscribers, because I
subscribed to the Post for probably, i don't know, probably
fifteen years until a few years ago, where I was like,
what am I paying for?

Speaker 7 (01:36:09):
I'm literally paying to be.

Speaker 4 (01:36:10):
Insulted my intelligence, my value system every single day.

Speaker 7 (01:36:15):
Is their hope? You know, when Jeff Katz took over
at CNN, I was hopeful.

Speaker 4 (01:36:19):
I thought, okay, maybe, well we all know how that
did not end well for him. So what about the
Washington Post? Is there hope that the ownership of this
paper of the La Times, which is doing a very
similar thing with their editorial page, are they going to
be able to turn this thing around?

Speaker 7 (01:36:35):
Or is the profession of journalism hopelessly.

Speaker 4 (01:36:39):
Corrupted by j schools that are all left wing, by
organizations that are all left wing.

Speaker 7 (01:36:44):
They all operate in a bubble. Can we save this
entire thing?

Speaker 9 (01:36:51):
Well, I mean the personnel's policy, right, you know, who
you hire matters quite a bit, and you if you
go back to the golden age of journalism, journalists were
essentially a sort of high end, blue collar job. You know,

(01:37:11):
nobody went to a j school. You know, these are
people who, many of them never went to college. They're
just they're just good at writing and cynical. Unfortunately, the
current crop of journalists have all gone through these indoctrination centers,

(01:37:34):
and I think it's going to be very hard for
the credential obsessed elite institutions to reform, even when their
leadership knows it's going to happen. And so I think
that the center of gravity, certainly of journalism, is going
to keep moving towards independent journalism. Places like the Free Press,

(01:37:59):
Washington Examiner, and.

Speaker 15 (01:38:05):
You know, the Free.

Speaker 9 (01:38:07):
Press is great because they have, you know, spans from
center left to center right right. You know, the the
you know, Washington Examiner, and you know a few other
organizations tend to lean a little bit right right.

Speaker 7 (01:38:27):
And I don't want that.

Speaker 4 (01:38:28):
I don't want an overcorrection. I don't want a bunch
of like hardcore right leaning. I don't want that either.
That's one of the reasons that I became a subscriber
to the Free Press almost immediately for exactly what you said.
They've got viewpoints from both sides of the aisle, but
they don't have the fringe on either side, and it
is refreshing to read robust discussions about things and both

(01:38:50):
sides of the issue.

Speaker 7 (01:38:51):
So I don't know, you know, I kind of hope
they get it together. I'm with you.

Speaker 4 (01:38:54):
I'm not sure they can pull it off. But maybe
the BBC learned a lesson, But somehow I doubt it.

Speaker 15 (01:38:59):
What I know, Oh go ahead, Dad, Oh no, I
doubted as well.

Speaker 9 (01:39:04):
I don't think that organizations like The New York Times,
the BBC, PBS. We saw with CNN, they tried and
they tried, and it just didn't work. And some of
it's the economics. People want to be told what they

(01:39:25):
believe already, which is why you're seeing this increasing divide
between the right and left wing media sphere. The market
for news that's just news is a lot smaller than
what we would like, and so the reason why CNN

(01:39:49):
had the tack back left is they kept on losing
their core audience, and they're.

Speaker 7 (01:39:58):
Their tiny audience.

Speaker 4 (01:39:59):
David's That's from writes every day at hot air dot com.
He is prolific, and I'd urge you to go check
out his work. David, It's good to see you again,
and thanks for continuing to do what you do. I'm
there every day on the other side of the computer
screen reading what you wrote.

Speaker 15 (01:40:15):
So just know that, Hey, that's exciting. I like being
in the same room with you.

Speaker 17 (01:40:24):
David.

Speaker 7 (01:40:25):
We'll talk again soon, my friend.

Speaker 4 (01:40:27):
All right, by all right, That is David Strong from
hotair dot com. Oh look, Bryan Edwards is coming in
fresh off his big win yesterday.

Speaker 7 (01:40:37):
Dang it, dang it.

Speaker 11 (01:40:40):
I mean, I imagine you lost sleep and all that,
but sorry, I know. Actually I slept really, really well.
My sleep score last night, let's check it out was
an eighty for me.

Speaker 7 (01:40:52):
That's excellent.

Speaker 4 (01:40:53):
And I went to bed late, so I didn't get
as much sleep as my phone reminded or my fitness
tracker reminded me.

Speaker 5 (01:40:59):
Do you check your I used to my wife does
I used to.

Speaker 16 (01:41:03):
I sort of stopped because I didn't like the returns
it's like, and I get to.

Speaker 4 (01:41:08):
They do say that that for some people it can
cause you stress that actually keeps you from sleeping.

Speaker 5 (01:41:13):
It does.

Speaker 7 (01:41:13):
I's just a tool for me.

Speaker 4 (01:41:15):
I look at it in the morning. It doesn't affect
me in any way, shape or form. But I'm a
chronic insomniac, so it's like I've been tracking my sleep.

Speaker 7 (01:41:22):
I bought my first fitness tracker just to track my sleep. Nice.
So it's been like ten years.

Speaker 4 (01:41:26):
So anyways, that stuff, for sure it is and it
just sleep is incredibly important, you guys, incredibly important. And
now it's time for the most exciting segment on the radio.

Speaker 2 (01:41:37):
I'm a kind in the world.

Speaker 9 (01:41:40):
Of that day.

Speaker 7 (01:41:42):
All right, what is our word of the day.

Speaker 2 (01:41:45):
Word of the day today?

Speaker 7 (01:41:47):
Give me dad joke of the day.

Speaker 5 (01:41:48):
First, Oh right, you didn't even correct her.

Speaker 2 (01:41:52):
I know, it's very right, Dad.

Speaker 5 (01:41:55):
Joke of the day.

Speaker 6 (01:41:56):
I didn't think I was fat till the woman in
McDonald said, sorry about your weight.

Speaker 7 (01:42:01):
Okay. I like that one. I like it a lot.

Speaker 5 (01:42:06):
Okay. Now word of the day. Ready, watching me walking
up to somebody to say that, yeah, yeah, sorry.

Speaker 7 (01:42:12):
About your way.

Speaker 5 (01:42:13):
That's uh, that's tough.

Speaker 1 (01:42:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:42:15):
Word of the day tantalize.

Speaker 4 (01:42:17):
Oh, tantalize means to temp yes, to intrigue someone with,
to make them want.

Speaker 6 (01:42:23):
It, interest, to feel excitement or interest about something that
is very attractive or appealing. Yes, there we go.

Speaker 7 (01:42:29):
That is a tantalizing word. Today's trivia question The first
First The first.

Speaker 4 (01:42:34):
Car race in the United States took place on Thanksgiving
Day in eighteen ninety five.

Speaker 7 (01:42:42):
Who won, I'm gonna say Henry Ford.

Speaker 2 (01:42:46):
Oh good, I mean, why not?

Speaker 7 (01:42:48):
That's really all I got on this one.

Speaker 14 (01:42:50):
Oh no.

Speaker 4 (01:42:51):
Frank Drea, who I've actually heard of. He drove a
motor wagon that he and his brother had designed. The race,
which started in Chicago and ended in Evanston, Illinois, intended
to drum up publicity for the burgeoning automobile industry. If
you ever go to Daytona Beach, learn about the history
of racing on the beach in Daytona.

Speaker 7 (01:43:10):
It's very cool.

Speaker 4 (01:43:12):
I mean, Daytona Beach is kind of trashy still, it
could always be kind of trashy.

Speaker 5 (01:43:18):
As a family.

Speaker 7 (01:43:19):
Do you have an airbrush T shirt from Daytonah?

Speaker 2 (01:43:22):
Of course.

Speaker 5 (01:43:22):
My dad drove a car around the track.

Speaker 7 (01:43:24):
Yeah, yeah, yep. I got to do that before the
PEPSI four hundred got drive.

Speaker 4 (01:43:28):
It didn't let me drive it. They let you ride
with a professional driver. It was, honest to god, one
of the scariest experiences I have ever had in my life.

Speaker 7 (01:43:38):
At one point, I swear to God, we.

Speaker 4 (01:43:39):
Were like an inch away from the walls, going like
one hundred and forty miles an hour.

Speaker 7 (01:43:44):
It was terrifying, Thank you, That's what I said.

Speaker 4 (01:43:48):
I was like being a passenger in that situations so stressful.

Speaker 5 (01:43:52):
It was stressful. And even go on and forty.

Speaker 4 (01:43:55):
I think you feel like you could pull it off,
but in the passenger seat, and it was in a
pace car.

Speaker 7 (01:44:00):
Was it even in like a real waste?

Speaker 3 (01:44:01):
Wait?

Speaker 6 (01:44:01):
I think you don't appreciate how big those banks saw
until you're insane. Okay, what is our Jeopardy category? Jeopardy
category for today? Let's talk about cake.

Speaker 4 (01:44:12):
I just made the best cake on Sunday I have
ever made in my life. What chocolate chocolate for chocolate Birthday? Oh,
it's from scratch and it is it'll knock your socks off.

Speaker 5 (01:44:21):
That is not one of the answer.

Speaker 7 (01:44:22):
Should just make one and bring it in for everyone,
just saying okay, I'll do that.

Speaker 5 (01:44:26):
You said something, I'll do that. A classic New York
one of these Ryan, what is a cheesecake?

Speaker 7 (01:44:33):
Ryan knows his cake?

Speaker 5 (01:44:34):
The name of this ring shaped cake?

Speaker 1 (01:44:37):
Man?

Speaker 5 (01:44:37):
What aunt it's correct?

Speaker 7 (01:44:39):
Ant? A bunt ca king.

Speaker 5 (01:44:43):
Cake is a tradition of Marti gras.

Speaker 7 (01:44:45):
What is Marti gras?

Speaker 15 (01:44:48):
What is Marti gras?

Speaker 5 (01:44:50):
Okay, since he lost yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:44:53):
Thank you.

Speaker 7 (01:44:54):
This can take the pity. I'll take the pity point.

Speaker 5 (01:44:56):
I don't care this cake. I don't think a Rod
would have given it to you.

Speaker 7 (01:44:59):
He would have.

Speaker 5 (01:45:00):
This cake became a little.

Speaker 6 (01:45:01):
Cheaper and a lot more vivid when Adams Extract suggested
using its red food What is red velvet cake? Corng
literally French for melting. It's a creamy sugary paste used
in a cake and candy making, used.

Speaker 13 (01:45:19):
In Ryan.

Speaker 2 (01:45:22):
Nice.

Speaker 7 (01:45:26):
I thought it was fonded, but I was like, I'm
winning and I'm gonna sit on that win.

Speaker 5 (01:45:30):
And let Ryan do you've been watching the Great British
Bakeoff or what?

Speaker 7 (01:45:33):
Working with fond it's very hard to deal with.

Speaker 5 (01:45:36):
You know, it doesn't taste good.

Speaker 4 (01:45:39):
Point, it's just awful. Anyway, what's gonna be up on
KA sports and cake talk?

Speaker 5 (01:45:43):
Obviously cake talk?

Speaker 16 (01:45:45):
Well, we have Shelby Harrison Studio, who would be a
lot of fun. There's all sorts of NFL contracts. Camp
start next Friday. Officially, you know they have the media
barbecue and everything like that, which is kind of the
soft kickoff for a.

Speaker 7 (01:45:58):
Are you guys going to be out there?

Speaker 4 (01:46:00):
I don't get to go because it's like quiet time
when my show's on, so there's no point in me being.

Speaker 2 (01:46:05):
There, which kind of sucks if I right at noon.

Speaker 4 (01:46:09):
Right, That's what I'm saying. So and so it's it's
just anyway, you guys go and have fun. But whatever, Ryan,
it's fine.

Speaker 16 (01:46:16):
So you got shell me Rris and what else we
got Shelvirris. There's also the NFL contracts wrapping up. I'll
get the MLB All Star Game tonight.

Speaker 7 (01:46:22):
So it wasn't fun, all right, That's all coming up next.
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