07-19-24 FULL SHOW - Well the RNC is a wrap and will he or wont he drop out

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Mandy Connall keeping sad Thing. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Friday edition
of the show All Together Now Woo. I am your host for the next
three hours. Mandy Connall coover isin for Anthony Rodriguez, who came in
early early to do this morning showafter we didn't get in all that early

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last night. But we are goingto be here all day or I'm going
to be here. I just mademyself a multiple van couver. Will be
here all day, dang it untilthree o'clock and then we'll hand the station
over to KOA Sports. Let mejump right into the blog because obviously last
night was the culmination of the RepublicanNational Convention. I want to share my
personal thoughts on the convention along withtalking about, uh, the speeches last

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night. Obviously Trump's speech was justreally long. We'll get into that in
just a second. Find the blogby going to mandy'sblog dot com. That's
mandy'sblog dot com. Look for theheadline seven nineteen twenty four blog, Well,
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Click on that and here are theheadlines you will find within a do you
doing with missing office? Half ofAmerican all with ships and clipments and say
that's going to press Plach today onthe blog it's an ask Me Anything RNC
edition of the show today she weshould start the day with the national anthem
about Project twenty twenty five. Igot to speak with Madeline Brain. Trump's

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speech was long last night. Overall, the convention was really, really good.
Some of the best speeches last night. Tucker Carlson was fire, but
no one was better than the Hulkster. So is Biden dropping out or not?
Scrolling? Scrolling? I'm scrolling.There is no precedent for a candidate
dropping out this late. He's evenlost Hick Representative Jason Crowe is trying to

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bring the temperature down. Perhaps otherColorado progressives should take note. Did you
get caught in today's tech outage?Rip Bob Newhart? Lou Dobbs is dead?
How often do you poop? Bill? Billy Elegy is booming on Netflix
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mandy'sblog dot com, and the simplemobility exercises to see how you're aging.
Story that I have right there onthe blog that is just there because
I feel like I am one hundredand fifty years old right now. Physically,
I am exhausted. My body hurts, It actually hurts. It's like
I was telling a Rod because heslept. A Rod slept a twenty five

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pound We waited at the airport.His backpack with all of his gear,
his camera equipment, his drypods,everything that he brought with him. It
was twenty five pounds and he literallycarried that around like a rucksack for four
days straight. It was absolute insanity. And I wanted to do this just
so you know. I was gonnagive us kind of like a rundown of

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our day. But I'm going totalk about the Trump the President's speech first,
but I want to give you arundown of what we did behind the
scenes, like kind of what ourday was. And then if you have
any questions, if you were listeningto anything and you had, oh,
I'd like to ask that question.You can do that today. It isn't
ask me anything kind of day,mostly about the RNC, but I don't
really care. I'm exhausted. Youcan ask me anything about anything, but

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we obviously have a lot to talkabout. Last night was the culmination of
four days of what I think isan extremely well executed convention. Now I
say that not as a person whohas ever been behind the scenes, because
I've never been behind the scenes ata convention before. I've never been to
a convention before, but also asa consumer. Right I'm looking at it

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because I got to see the speechesin person at night, and then I
would go and I'd get up inthe morning and I would rewatch the speeches
that I remembered being really good.So I got to see both live and
experience that the crowd there and allof that stuff, and then I got
to see what the consumer at homewas seeing, and for the most part,

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it matched up pretty well. Iwill say this. The way that
the Five Serve Forum was set up, there was a lot of I don't
know if there was just a bunchof NAT they call it NAT sound microphones,
where they just have a microphone hearthem at baseball game broadcast. They
have a microphone outside of the pressbox to really capture the crowd noise and
things of that nature. I don'tknow if they had those microphones, but

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holy cow, it was loud.And when you see the convention floor,
there's the delegates are just packed inthere, so no matter who's speaking,
there's people having side conversations, there'speople, you know, talking about things,
there are delegates from different states connecting, things of that nature, and
all of that noise kind of gotcaught up, I think in the microphones.

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I don't know. Maybe you didn'tnotice it, but I noticed it.
And there were certain speeches in thearena, especially the ninety nine year
old World War Two veteran, thatI could not hear at all. Granted,
he was a ninety nine year oldWorld War Two veteran, and he
often moved away from the microphone anddidn't know it. I couldn't hear him
at all at the event, soI had to go back and watch his

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speech after the fact. So letme get into Trump's speech last night,
because one of the things that I'vebeen talking about, I know I've talked
with Ross about it. We've beentalking about the discipline of the Republican Party
this week, staying on message,staying very clearly on message, and the
message was the country is not doingwell. You are worse off than you

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were four years ago. You alreadyknow what Trump's policies can do, and
we're going to secure the border onday one. We're going to deal with
these issues that the polling shows theAmerican people want them to be dealt with.
So it was a very straightforward conventionin that way. It's like,
here's the other guy, here's whatwe're offering, and our way is going

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to do better than you are rightnow. The other part of the convention
was the humanization of Donald Trump.He had speaker after speaker that told personal
stories about him, whether they werehis you know, daughter, son,
grandchildren, I mean. And thenthere was the gold Star families that came
out and talked about their meeting withDonald Trump as a contrast to the very

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damning picture of Joe Biden looking athis watch while the coffins of the service
members were coming off the airplane.So they did a great job, and
you know, everyone was so disciplineduntil Donald Trump. Last night. Donald
Trump's speech for twenty five minutes wasincredible, and it turned into a rambling

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conversational rally talk speech that was justin way way way way, way,
way, way, way, waytoo long, and it wasn't the same
Donald Trump. I will say thatI do think he was deeply affected by
the attempt on his life on Saturday, considering it just happened last night.

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When he said I'm not supposed tobe here, Chuck actually stopped the speech.
He paused it and said, Iknow exactly how he feels. Anyone
who has been shot probably has hadthat exact same feeling where you're just in
awe of the fact that you escapedeath. And my husband's been shot,

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so he knows. And I thoughtthat was very very interesting and very humanizing,
you know. I think it's avery introspective way to look at things.
Now, did he change enough?I don't know, But I just
saw a CNN panel that an undecidedvoter said that she was just looking to

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see if the man had changed,and she got that from him in last
night's speech. Now think about that. And I thought about that after I
saw him, like, Okay,that's an interesting comment. But I think
there are a lot of people outthere. And I had a back and
forth with a texter earlier this weekwho said, how can you vote for
him after the way you felt abouthim on January sixth, which is absolutely

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a fair criticism, one hundred percent, because after January sixth, I was
like never again. But the realityis is that I think there are a
lot of people like that woman whodon't want to vote for Biden or really
any Democrat because currently the Democrats' policiesare hurting the American consumer and hurting the

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American family. There's no doubt aboutthat. And you notice Trump did not
mention Biden a bunch last night.They're preparing to run against any Democrat that
ends up elevated to that position.We're going to talk more about that later
in the show. Obviously we haveto. So these people like this woman,

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they want to be able to votefor Trump, but they need to
be able to justify the vote bysaying, you know what, I think
he's changed. They need to beable to give themselves permission to vote for
Trump because maybe they find him distasteful, but they're looking for a reason to
be able to vote for him,right, So, very very interesting,

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But I'd love to know what youguys thought of the speech. I think
if he had stopped it at twentyfive minutes. It would have been hailed
as one of the most brilliant comebackspeeches in the history of comeback speeches.
But he just can't. He couldn'tresist. And the very end of the
speech was really good, the partwhere he was actually reading the words off
the teleprompter, that part was verygood. But just the rambling. I

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know that people at rallies love it. It's off the cuff, and you
know, part of it may havebeen just to prove his virility, Like
there's no way Joe Biden could havedone that last night, no way.
We all know this, And soto stay up there for ninety three minutes,
that was pretty impressive, off thecuff, free wheeling. But I

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could have lived without it. AndI'd love to know what you guys think.
Our Common Spirit Health text line isopen at five six six nine oh.
You can text me your reactions.And we've got some really good guests
coming up. I recorded three interviewsover the last few days that we've just
didn't have time to get in overthe last three days, but one of
them is an attorney for the HeritageFoundation called Sarah Parshal Perry. We were

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actually scheduled to talk about what theSupreme Court had decided in the case in
Florida. When she sat down,I was like, we have to talk
about Project twenty twenty five. Youare going to be surprised because the way
the Democrats are projecting or presenting Projecttwenty twenty five is some kind of deep,
dark plan to take over the worldthat has been endorsed by Donald Trump

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and his handprints are all over it. Nothing could be further from the truth.
We're gonna talk to Sarah Sarah partialPerry or he did talk to Sarah
Parshal Perry. I'm gonna play thatinterview at twelve thirty, and I got
a commitment from her because we onlyhad a few minutes with her. She
had another interview she had to goto. I got a commitment from her
off the air to come back onthe show. So if there are questions

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going forward, she is like,we are completely transparent. It's why we
put it on the internet, right, That's why they put it on the
internet. They want everybody to knowit. So we're gonna play that at
twelve thirty. And then if yousaw the first night of the of the
convention, you saw a woman namedMadeline Brain. Now that I said that,

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it might have been the second nightyou guys, I'm sorry. It's
all running together in my head rightnow. Madeline Brain is the African American
woman whose son was a veteran whohad gone been to play wait for combat,
gets out of the military, honorabledischarge and all that he might have
retired out of the military, andhe gets stabbed on the streets of New
York City, and Alvin Bragg andthe liberal DA's in New York City cut

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his son. Her son's murderers loose. They charged one of them with a
salt with a shoe, and oneof them got out with very little jail
time. The other one got outwith time served. It was just a
tragic story. And I went upto her when she was in the media
area and I said, miss Bram, I'd love to talk to you about
this because I can't stop thinking aboutyour story. And we got a little

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bit more into the story, andI asked her things about, you know,
who did her son die before orafter Black Lives Matter? And what
she had to say about that justgutted me. It was terrible, absolutely
terrible. So we're going to talkplay that interview at one o'clock. And
if you saw the woman who sangthe national anthem last night, her name

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is Mary Milvin. I got tomeet me at the Steamboat Institute's Freedom Conference
last year when we were seated nextto each other to have dinner. And
oh, you guys, she isjust a wonderful, wonderful human being.
She is just kind and she kindof radiates this warmth and she just has

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this incredible voice, and she's justa wonderful human being. And I ran
into her at an economic forum thatwe were going to and had a few
words with Mary. It was justreally good to see her. And she
loves this country, and she lovesthe singing the national anthem. She's just

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a remarkable person and really really reallyoutstanding human to boot. So I embedded
on the blog today her singing thenational anthem, and it's just stunningly good,
just stunningly good. Got a lotof text messages coming on right now,
and that is Hi, Mandy.Oops, hang on, just caught

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up on me there. Let's seehere. Did I see Mandy Connell chanting
USA USA just after hul Cogan rippedhis shirt off. If not. You
have a doppelganger out there, AndI told you strippers. All conventions need
strippers, even if it's the Hulkster. No, I was not. I
was already back home, actually onthe way home from the convention yesterday.

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I watched all the speeches that Imissed this morning, and I loved the
Holster's speech. First of all,it took me back to the glory days
of professional wrestling. And I'm unabashedlya wrestling fan. I know, I
never mentioned that before. Not somuch today, but in the nineties.
Oh yeah, when I was aflight attendant, I had wrestlers on the
plane all the time. I evenhad hul Cogan on the plane once.

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He was an absolute, wonderful,charming man and he had to go into
the restroom, use the restroom,open the door, back out, turn,
and then move sideways into the restroomto wash his hands because it was
a play bathroom and he's whole cocin. I thought he was fantastic. But
no, that wasn't me, Mandy. I'm definitely voting Republican. And that

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being said, I seriously wonder whysomeone doesn't coach Trump on giving speeches.
He rambled a lot, and Ifeel like he could take a page out
of Ronald Reagan's boot book. I'mjust gonna say this. I think this
week and I think he did moreto listen to other people when it came

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to his security and things of thatnature than he ever has before. But
you know, you can't turn anaircraft carrier on a dime. Okay,
so these are baby steps for aguy that has a really significant ego.
Okay, here we all agree,whether you love the man or you don't,
he has a significant ego and beingthe way he is has gotten him

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very far. So it's kind ofhard to argue you need to change everything
when he's done pretty dang well justbeing Donald's. You and I might wish
that just because he'd be more polished, but the reality is he's Donald Trump
and that's what people expect. Mandy, thank you for covering the convention.
Can you mention how to thank RockyMountain Voice, the sponsor? I sure

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can. All you have to dois go to Rockymountain Voice dot com and
sign up for their free newsletter,use their product. They're doing a great
job over there. We actually crashedtheir server when we were at the convention.
Between their coverage and all the talkingabout it. We crash their server.
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out three times a week. Itjust gives you an overview of what's going
on. That's how you can thankthem, Mandy. I watched you guys
on Instagram this week. Very welldone. A lot of that was a
rod and he really did a greatjob. Yes, speeches Trump was long,
but we'll get Malania back. Idon't know. I don't think Malania
is going to all of a suddenbe more a part of the campaign.
So there you go, Mandy.Will you be at Steamboat Institute's Freedom Conference.

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I hope so, TBD. Iwill let you know as as as
I know. Mandy, love yourshow. I was watching the convention Wednesday
night when they cut to Biden landingin Delaware. My question is, why
wasn't he wearing a mask when diagnosedwith COVID. He was exposing everyone around
him. I would think being aDemocrat and their love of masks, he
would have been wearing one. Guessit isn't a big deal anymore, or

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guess it never worked in the firstplace. Yeah, maybe the jig is
up. They're finally admitting it.Mandy. I still think Joe had a
great idea about setting things in thebattle box. Yes, the battle box.
The ramble was way too long,agree, Mandy. You just told
everyone why Ross and you are goingto vote for Trump? Lol? Ross
is not I am. I've alreadysaid I'm going to vote for him.

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I said it like after he wrappedup the nomination. I can't. I
cannot be part of allowing the DemocraticParty as it is today continue to do
the things to the country that theyare doing. I cannot be a part
of that. And I think inthis election from where I sit, not
voting for Donald Trump is doing that. Now, other people are gonna come

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to different conclusions, and I don'tjudge you for it. That is the
conclusion I have come for. Imean, that's it. I do think
that people who are idealistically voting forsomething else are doing so knowing that the
rest of us will do the unpleasantheavy lifting. Mandy. I was fine
until he started to ramble and sounda little arrogant. Mm hmm. Hulk

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Cogan was an awesome addition. Howdoes Biden match that? I don't know,
but you know, last night's lineupof speakers. Think about this.
You had kid rock play, whichwas if you saw the crowd, yeall,
this was not a kid rock crowd. Okay, they were old,
they were beyond the kid rock demographicage wise. But having kid rock play,

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you got Hulk Cogan and then you'vegot Dana White from Ultimate Fighting Championship.
That's the lineup last night. Imean, man, man, Mandy,
if I can figure out how toif I can listen to you rambling
on for three hours a day,listening to Trump for an hour and a
half is like a cakewalk. Welldone, sir, Mandy. Wondering if

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you know where Baron Trump was Forsome reason, I thought he was there
last night, but I will findout to the texter who texted? Is
this the text line to Mandy Connell? Yes it is there you go.
What happened to your friend, Vito? I have no idea. Haven't heard
from Mayor Mike Johnston for a whileon your show? Is he ghosting you?
Sorry? Off topic question? Well, he's not been on the show

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for a while, not completely ghosting, but he's not been on the show
for a while. All Right,We're gonna take a quick time out.
When we get back, we're gonnadip our toe into Project twenty twenty five.
Next Sarah Partial Perry, and we'regonna play that for you now.
My next guest is Sarah Partial Perry. She's an attorney and senior legal fellow

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at Heritage. And you know wewere gonna have you on, Sarah to
talk about some of the things thathave happened legally. But the big story
this week, last week, thenext week is Project twenty twenty five,
a program put out by the HeritageFoundation. This is what the Democrats have
ceased on, of course, provedthat Donald Trump is going to drag us
back to the dark eight right.What is Project twenty twenty five. It

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is very easy to describe. We'vedone this actually every year since nineteen eighty
we have provided an analysis to allpresidential candidates for what we believe is the
most successful vision for a flourishing America. We've always done it. This is
just different now we published it sothat everyone can take a look. We've
also done something different this year andthat we have Project partnered with over one

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hundred other conservative organizations. We didn'twant this to be just the effort of
the Heritage Foundation. We wanted tobring together a coalition of all conservative groups
on various different policies, from economicsto pro life issues, to education,
to welfare and subsidies. We reallywanted people to bring their expertise to the
table and get a chance to weighin. So it wasn't just our organization

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speaking, It was really the broadcoalition of Conservative America saying this is what
we believe will be the most successfulfor a safe, free and flourishing nation.
Is there a direct connection between theTroupe campaign and Project twenty twenty five?
Did they weigh in? They arethey a part of this? They
are not at all. And infact, we simply offer briefings to all

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presidential candidates. Let us come in, We'll bring our experts through. We'll
talk you through these highlights. You'rewelcome to a copy we deliver the book.
We've offered briefings to Kennedy and Bidenas well. Not surprisingly they did
not take a bup. But no, he is no way affiliated. The
campaign did not weigh in at all. And listen, there are going to
be things in that he may noteven want to accept or reject. In

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fact, he's actually said he didn'tknow anything about it. Now we've published
it online, I find now sortof the increased publicity on Project twenty twenty
five. He's probably very, veryaware of it. But this is not
something that he ever weighed in on, and it's not something that we have
done for him. It is somethingwe always provide to every presidential candidate.
What's interesting from my perspective about thecriticism, and I've been familiar with Heritage

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for years, and I know thatyou guys are nerdy policy wongs who put
out white papers with all kinds ofboring stuff in it, no offense,
but listening, I write a lotof them, and I will tell you
right now they are born well.But they're important because they provide a lot
of information and there's a lot ofgood research behind it. But what's been
interesting is they have seized on thefact that back in nineteen eighty Heritage put

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out a much shorter list of policypositions where we think this would be great,
and Ronald Reagan worked on a lotof those policy positions, and the
Democrats now are saying, well,Ronald Reagan enacted half of it, and
that turned out to be pretty good. You have a country in the economy,
Sure was. You know, Ihave a recollection that that was a
pretty successful period in American company.So no, when you guys present this

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stuff, do you have any expectationthat, Okay, we're going to hand
this and this is going to bethe blueprint for Donald J. Trump in
his first hundred days of office.Oh? Absolutely not. In fact,
it is. First of all,it's over nine hundred pages, right,
So that's why I say I startedto read it. But boy, if
there's a lot, and I encourageall the listeners to go to Project twenty
twenty five dot org. That isthe best way for all of them to

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get direct access because you can literallysearch every word, every section, every
policy. We're not hiding anything inthe shadows. We want people to take
a look. This is what ourexperts and the experts in one hundred different
organizations came together and determined was reallygoing to be the most successful. First
of all, it is so expansivea policy document. It would be impossible

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to enact all of these policies inevery agency, at every level in the
first one hundred days of office.And listen, there's going to be a
lot in there that he probably doesn'tlike. This is a vision of conservatism
we've seen this year at the Rand C that I think, in many
ways has been very encouraging because itis sort of a big tent republicanism.
We're seeing a coalition building that Idon't think conservatives often do well, and

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we've seen it this year. Wehave seen people who have come here and
they are there immigrants, they arecoming from blue collar families. These are
worthtbult individuals. We're seeing union leaders. I mean, it is truly,
I think the most successful option we'veever seen for going forward as a nation
hand to hand, and I'm reallythinking there's a lot of excitement building about

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sort of the increase, the resurgencein the belief in the American ideal and
the American idea. And this hasbeen i think a coalition building effort unlike
any other. But we have noexpectations that the President would even accept probably
half of what we have in there. We just know this is something we
feel passionately about and we provide itto him as an option. Have you

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been shocked by the response, Youknow, no, I'm not. This
is the last effort of a flailcampaign. You know, in many ways.
My heart goes out to the Bidencampaign. They're hemorrhaging right now.
His approval numbers are at historic lows. And now that I hear that he's
introduced the idea of term limits onthe Supreme Court, everything is historyonics with

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this campaign, right So they wantto paint the dystopian future vision of a
handmade sale that isn't even remotely closeto what we have included in the document
of Project twenty twenty five. Lotsof misconceptions about what's in their contraception No
IVF, no National Abortion Band,no, none of those thanks are in

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the actual documents. So they really, it really is filled with a lot
of sound and fury, as thepoet says, signifying nothing. Sarah Para
Sarah Partial Perry from the Heritage Foundation, I really appreciate your time today.
This, like I said, hasbeen a hot topic. But I feel
like this, if you're catching fire, you're over the target. That's exactly
it. I would agree with you. Thanks so much for having me all
right. Thanks. Okay, thatwas an attorney from the Heritage Foundation,

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and she and I chatted very brieflyoff the air, and I said,
you know, did it shock you. She's like, they really have nothing.
And if you look at Democrat messagingright now, they are mentioning Project
twenty twenty five over and over andover and over and over and over and

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over again. And I just gota text that said, Mandy, many
of Trump's past associates are part ofProject twenty twenty five. Did you read
the article I sent you from theBBC text her? I could lie and
say I did. I did not. If you sent it this week,
I probably didn't even see it.It's been that kind of week. So
if you want to resend it,I will happily read it. But let
me say this about that these publicpolicy think tanks in Washington, DC,

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all of these former politicians, theyrotate in and out of them. There
is an incredibly high level of incestuousnesson both the right and the left.
But it doesn't mean that their policypositions get get followed, because if they
did, the Republican Party would stillbe the Party of fiscal responsibility. And
that's a big thing for heritage.It's not just about social issues. So

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to think that these public policy instituteshave outsize influence is just not accurate.
What some of them do have arereally good ideas, and hopefully those are
the ones that politicians glom onto.We'll be right back asking people to weigh
in on the RNC overall. Plus, if you have questions about anything that

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we saw, or like, youknow, we were talking about something and
you were like, oh, whatare they talking about? Now's the time
you can text us on the CommonSpirit Health text line at five six six
N I know, I want toread some of these real quick, Mandy.
I'm a Trump supporter and have watchedmany rallies, including Saturday's rally Live.
When he reads the prepared teleprompter partgood, when he riffs better.

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Last night was the exact opposite thatfrom Rocky Mountain Bronx Bill. I just
thought the time and place was notright, Mandy. I saw a version
of the RNC from a liberal perspectiveon Roku. They did a Mystery Science
Theater three thousand style version. Itwas on a travel called TYT, which
I think is the Young Turks.I'm pretty sure that's what that channel is.
I got a good eye rolling exercises. I flipped back and forth from

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good versions of the RNC that fromSean. Here's one that's kind of interesting.
I've never I've been against Trump foryears due to the lies, January
sixth, behavior, name calling,China, Iris, attitude, and love.
I love trade barriers, et cetera. However, if he shows sincerity,
I would choose him over Kamala.I want to watch him a little

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longer, but versus Kamala pretty easy. This person asked, did you lose
weight last week? I don't know. I didn't get on the scale this
morning, but it's all. It'svery possible. Although when we ate,
we did not eat good food.A Rod truly has the palette of a
toddler. I love the guy,but man, we did not eat good
food, although we had some PuertoRican chicken that was outstanding, so it

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wasn't all bad. Mandy. Hewas just shot in the head. If
he had not turned his head,the bullet would have been through his temple.
I would listen to whatever he hadto say for as long as it
took to him to say it.That after the comments we were talking about
earlier. It was a really longspeech, the longest in convention history.
And when he was on script,reading the teleprompter or talking about his actual

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actually getting shot, that was veryeffective. So the rest of it,
the rambling part. Trump lovers lovedit. Everybody else was like, I
fell asleep, I'm I'm if,I'm honest, I fell asleep last night.
Do you think the DNC will haveRepublicans on that switch parties as the
RNC? Did you know what?They probably will? I don't. There's

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more than a handful of them acrossthe country, so they've got many to
choose from. Mandy. Any commentabout the slam from Kyle Clark on your
interview of Mike Lindell, You know, if you're not on TWIS, you
probably didn't even see it. Butyeah, Kyle was like, how dare
they give a platform to Mike Lindellwithout pushing back? See the difference between
Kyle Clark and I is this,Well, there's many differences, but this

(30:14):
is just one of them. Itrust my audience to hear what these people
are saying and make their own judgments. Mike Lindell I even said on the
show, I feel sorry for theguy because he's literally destroyed his own life
in the service of proving something thatup to this point, no one has

(30:34):
proven. So when I sit thereand asking these questions, do you still
believe the election is stolen. I'mgonna let him talk and you guys can
make your own decisions. I trustyou to do that. Apparently Kyle does
not, so I honestly, genuinelydon't care about what Kyle Clark has to
say this person. I felt thecoverage of the R and C was amazing,
Thank you, thank you. Votingfor a rapist like Trump is disgusting,

(30:59):
Okay, moving on. Masks areup to the individual to want to
wear. This is about Joe Bidengoing up the stairs or coming down the
stairs in Delaware without wearing a maskafter disclosing that he has COVID. An
earlier Texter said, is that nota thing anymore? And of course it's
not. It is not this person. Masks are up to the individual to
want to wear. I wore onethe other day in Walmart and was glad
when I was sneezed on. COVIDnumbers are up. Good for you,

(31:23):
sir or madam, good for you. Ross will vote for him. He
just conceded to say. I thoughthe just said, I'm still He said
that to me that he's not unlessthat changed during a show. You cannot
vote for Trump in Colorado and stillbe Okay, he ain't winning here.
I don't know. We'll see howmuch of an impact that RFK Junior has

(31:45):
in Colorado. You know, Idon't know that it's going to be significant
enough to make a difference, butI also don't know that it's not.
So there we go, Mandy.Like you, I thought this speech was
great and started with the twenty twentyelection results. He needs to let it
go. Mandy. Uh, youdid a yeoman's job at the RNC.

(32:08):
Thank you for bringing us all thegreat interviews and information. You and a
Rod go ahead and take the weekendoff. You know what, clan,
I appreciate you. This one dida single speaker mentioned Project twenty twenty five
at the convention. I cannot findanything online that says anyone did, and
I racked my brain, and Idon't think anyone did because the campaign is

(32:32):
not involved with Project twenty twenty five. Maybe that's why when we get back,
we've got all kinds of stuff totalk about, and I want to
hear from you on will Biden orwill he not? Let's talk about the
best and worst options for the currentpresident when we return. Keep it right
here on Kawa. The Mandy ConnellShow is sponsored by Belle and Pollock Accident

(32:55):
and injury Lawyers. No, it'sMandyny Conall got the nicey through frame,
Ben Connal sad Babe. Welcome,Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of

(33:21):
the show. I'm your host,Mandy Connell, coover in for a Rod
who is worked the morning show.So everybody's out of order, but that's
okay. We're gonna get you rightup until three o'clock. Now you may
have seen during the RNC and we'regoing to get into the Biden topic of
just a second. But I wantto play this interview first because Madeline Brain
gave one of the most powerful everydayAmerican speeches that was during the convention.

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I was skeptical of everyday Americans whenI saw them on the on the call
sheet for that night, but boy, some of them absolutely crushed it,
absolutely crushed it. And the goldStar families that were on were as incredible.
It was just a lot of everydayAmericans did some really extraordinary things.

(34:04):
So Madeline Brams told the story ofher veteran's son, who was a combat
veteran, comes back to New YorkCity, gets stabbed and da Alvin Bragg
let her son's killers go, becauseyou know that's what he did. He
was spending way too much time prosecutingDonald Trump when he should have been putting
murders behind mars for a long periodof time. But then I saw her

(34:27):
on the media floor and had achance to chat with her for a few
minutes. Let's go ahead and hearthat interview. I am here with Madeline
Brame. She was one of thebest speakers last night, and I'm gonna
be perfectly honest. I told mylisteners today, I wasn't sure about everyday
Americans given speeches because a lot ofpeople can't get up in front of a
lot of people and speak. Yougot up and not only did you do

(34:47):
an amazing job, you told aheartbreaking story of the death of your son.
How do you find that well ofstrength to do that? Well,
first of all, thank you somuch for having me. And it has
nothing to do with my physical strength. Nothing that is completely supernatural. You

(35:08):
know, I give all you knowpraises to God and his tremendous grace and
mercy. You know that's not somethingnatural that any you know, mother or
father has should have to deal withabsolutely. I want to ask you an
odd question, and that is yousaid last night you were a Democrat for

(35:29):
many, many years. How doesyour family, who I would imagine are
also Democrats, feel about you comingto the RNC and giving that speech last
night. Well, not all ofmy family are Democrats. That's my sister
Wendy standing there. She's a Republican, all right. I have a brother
who's a Republican. My mother wasa Republican. I'm born with strong conservative

(35:52):
values. However, there was alwaysa requirement in our house growing up.
You bring mom to high school diploma, and you vote when you turn eighteen.
However, she never told us whatparty to vote for. I voted
vote. I voted Democrat for fortyfive years because that's what we were doing.
If you're black, you vote Democrat. But we were never told to

(36:15):
do that, and there was noother reason. Now, when your son
was murdered and then allowed his murderersallowed to essentially walk free and not pay
a penalty for this, was thata moment where you said I have to
find a new political home or didthat happen after Well, that happened before,
you know, Alvin Bragg dropped thosecharges. It happened when I found

(36:37):
myself up against an entire you know, Manhattan criminal court system, trying to
fight and get justice from my son, and also all of the nonprofits in
the different agencies and organizations in NewYork who was supposed to assist with this
type of stuff, you know,And because my son was stabbed to death
and not shot to death. Allright, those people are ostros, and

(37:00):
they shunned me because my story didnot fit their narvative. My story didn't
fit the narrative because all the moneyis being pumped into gun violence prevention,
there's nothing for stabbing. Can Iask this is another weird question, but
did your son pass before the BlackLives Matter movement? And if it was,

(37:20):
how did that feel to know whatyou just said? Your son didn't
die the right way. No,he was killed in twenty eighteen, so
that was before Black Lives Matter.Actually, I was told by the district
attorney that, unfortunately your son waskilled at the wrong time. How do
you tell a mother that that mademe sick to my stomach. I am

(37:42):
so sorry that happened to you.I just want to thank you. Your
story was honestly one of two mostpowerful stories, both of moms talking about
their losses. And I appreciate youcoming and talking to the Republican National Committee
and bringing your story and keeping yourson alive. That woman, she was
amazing, absolutely amazing, and shetalked to everyone, absolutely everyone, and

(38:08):
she was just such an incredible exampleof when the people elected to enforce the
lodge Is choose not to. Itwas heartbreaking when she said that her son
died at the wrong time. That'swhat some of the District Attorney's office said
about her son. Holy mackele,that was awful. Okay, text us

(38:31):
your thoughts. A lot of youstill weighing in on the convention. I'd
love to know if you watched theconvention, whether we watched one night or
you watched all four nights, whatwas your favorite speech or what was the
favorite thing that you saw during theconvention. I'm interested to know. You
can text us at the Common SpiritHealth text line five six six nine.

(38:52):
Oh. This person said, Iwas shocked, well not really that MSNBC
chose not to broadcast the gold StarFamily segment. Y'all hear there's a fun
fact about MSNBC's so called coverage.None of their major talent was at the
convention. They were broadcasting their showsfrom in front of a giant led screen

(39:13):
made to look like they were atthe convention, So all to talk of
bringing you the tone and how thingsfelt, it was an absolute lie.
But you know what, that's MSNBCfor you. It truly is what are
the words to your theme song?You know what, I will get them.
I have the written out and Iwill put them on my Facebook page
text or if that will work foryou. Mandy on Trump's statement that illegal

(39:37):
immigrants are taking black and Hispanic jobsmade me wish he would have said they
are taking American jobs. Seems tome he was insinuating that they are taking
low paying jobs. That is somewhatthe reality as born out statistically. That
doesn't mean that every black person orHispanic or Latino person is it doesn't have
a good job. That's not whatthat is. But when you look at

(40:00):
especially urban areas, the sort ofjobs that are being done at the lower
end of the socioeconomic spector are beingdone a lot of the times by African
Americans and you know, Hispanics thatare legally here and that are from here.
So it's one of those things.That sounds awful when you say it,
but statistically it's not inaccurate. Maybenot everywhere, maybe not across the

(40:23):
entire country, but in large urbancenters it is definitely accurate, Mandy.
Until that's all that is, thattext is a mess, Mandy, was
Nelly there? Or why were thereso many clowns with bandages on their faces?
Or I don't know, bandages ontheir I don't know what that is,

(40:44):
Mandy. How many years will Joelive as this texter? Let alone
serve in a public capacity? He'seighty one. Should retirement be a goal
at some point in his life?Now you're talking about the big mystery that
is still going on. Is JoeBiden going to drop out? Or is
he not? NBC News reported yesterdaythat people around him were saying things like

(41:07):
the end is near. Nancy Pelosihad a call with him that devolved into
yelling, where she essentially said,you can't win. There is no path
to victory for you. He isbeing told by everyone that it would be
best if you stepped aside, Butwe're not going to tell you what to
do. I'm guessing that the we'regoing to tell you what to do is
coming next. But as time ticksby, this becomes a bigger and bigger

(41:31):
disaster for the Democratic Party. Thelonger this goes, the more chaos ensues
for the Democratic Party. Now fastforward to today, the White House is
putting out a stern message saying,hey, the President is feeling better.
He'll be back on the campaign trailnext week. They are not going to

(41:52):
go quietly into the night because nowthere's no way for him to save face.
There's no way if Joe Biden comesout this weekend and says I've decided
to step down in my candidacy.I've decided I'm not going to move forward.
So we're going to open the doorfor someone else to come and be
the nominee for the Democratic Party.We all know that he's been forced out.

(42:15):
There's no way he can be seenas the elder statesman who stepped aside
for the good of the nation.That ship sailed like a week ago.
So however it goes down from thispoint forward is awful for Joe Biden.
Awful. So I was talking.We had Buck Sexton on the show earlier

(42:37):
this week, and Buck said itbest when he said, you look at
the options for the Democratic Party,and they're all terrible, And the only
reason that they want Joe Biden tostep aside is because they're really worried about
the drag on the down ticket races. That's a huge problem. They have
a razor thin majority in the Senate, facing eight re election campaigns in the

(43:02):
Senate. Several of those are breakingright now for Republicans. They can't lose
a whole bunch of those. Sothey're really in a desperation situation now.
It's a desperation situation of their ownmaking. If they had just opened up
the primary and had, you know, a fair debate and let the Democratic

(43:22):
voters decide who their candidate was goingto be, maybe Joe Biden would have
won. But if he had togo through the rigorm role of a debate.
Do you really think he would bethe nominee right now? If he
had debated Robert F. Kennedy Junior, or if he had been on a
debate stage with Gretchen Whitmer and GavinNewsom and Jared Polis, do you really

(43:43):
think he'd be the nominee right now? I don't think so. I don't
think so. So. The Democratsbrought this on themselves, but now they
have to deal with the fallout.So it's going to be really interesting this
next few days. If he makesit through, if he has not drown
out by Wednesday of next week,I think it gets impossible for the Democrats

(44:06):
to get something organized before the convention, So it's not a disaster. Mandy,
What do you think about the timingof the convention? Was it too
early? Were they afraid to competewith the Olympics? They did compete with
the All Star Game and the MLB. I don't know what the thinking was
there. Maybe it was the Olympics. I'm not sure, but especially in

(44:27):
this situation where we already knew whothe candidate was going to be and there
was no mystery about that, itworked. It was fine. If Joe
drops out this weekend, will youand Ross cover it? I don't know.
I can't speak for Ross, butI'm around, so possibly Joe can't
retire. He doesn't trust social Security, says this texter. Oh, you're

(44:49):
talking about the bandages on their peeon people's ears. I thought you were
talking about on their faces. No, there was people wearing bandages on their
ears to mimic and support Trump's bandage, which I you know, you guys,
these people are so passionate for DonaldTrump. I just by that point
in the week, I was like, Okay, it makes sense. If
you were there, it made sense. If not, you're like, I

(45:12):
don't know. Kai Trump is myfavorite. She made him a normal grandpa.
The admiration on Trump's Facebook volumes shewas really good. That girl is
seventeen years old, looked absolutely fantastic, Mandy. The gold Star Family's presentation
was so powerful. A lot oftears in the arena, and I'm guaranteeing
at many homes as well. Neverforget I was in the audience for that,

(45:37):
and I had tears in my eyes, you know, as the wife
of a veteran and the mom ofa veteran. That was incredibly powerful.
From the video that they showed beforethey introduced the families. I saw the
families the next day and just hada chance to thank them for sharing the
stories of their loved ones at theRNC and they were all very kind and

(45:59):
grateful when I said that, andI meant it. Mandy watched all four
nights. Favorite was Franklin Graham's speechand prayer. ABC News, by the
way, went to their live reporter. Oh no, I'm sorry, it
might have been NBC News went totheir live reporter on the floor during the
prayer. Stay classy, NBC orwhoever you are, stay classy, Mandy.

(46:21):
How did that ear lobe shot knockTrump out of his shoes? Pretty
powerful? Ammoh huh. I thinkit was more likely the secret Service scrum
that landed on him after he ducked. I'm pretty sure that would be a
better explanation for being knocked out ofhis shoes. Mandy watched CNN during and
after the Gold Stars Family presentation.Two of the male panel members, especially

(46:45):
the one veteran, were visibly emotional. One stated, how can Democrats answer
that that from Carly Mandy? Theyshouldn't address him as black or Hispanic,
address them as Americans. That's howto start the unity. I agree,
but you know, you have toremember Trump is not speaking necessarily to people
like you. He's speaking to peoplewho may be used to the identity politics

(47:08):
that the Democrats have made an artform. So you have to respond to
that kind of commentary in the samemanner to push back on it. So
it is I absolutely agree with you, Texter. I'd love it if we

(47:32):
could just all talk about Americans.But again, we're not the audience for
that comment. We're with people whohave been trained to expect identity politics instead,
Mandy, people at the convention werewearing bandages and solidarity with Trump.
Mandy, I'm so disappointed in Trump'sacceptance speech, if that's what you want
to call it. I really expectedhim, after his life altering experience the

(47:53):
other day, to come out andbe a little more humbled. I was
hoping for a statesman like quality.We are really screwed with our choices.
Biden is too old, and Trumpis just going to get us into trouble.
I don't think Trump is going toget us into trouble. I just
don't. If Biden does not run, he will also resign and Kamalo will

(48:15):
take over. No, you candrop out of the race. Both Lyndon
Johnson and Harry Truman or president rightup until the next president was installed,
even though they pulled themselves out ofthe running for the next term. He
does not. But honestly, ifhe's not good enough to run, he
shouldn't be good enough to run thecountry. Mandy, once again, you

(48:37):
shared the spread of misinformation. Madelinebram is a Republican office seeker that is
repeatedly rejected by the voters. Herson's murder happened years before brag Four of
the five defendants were convicted, butnot for murder. The only one who
wasn't was found to have known thatthere was going to be a fight,
and that's what it was, afight. Her son and her baby daddy

(48:58):
sought out the defendants for a confrontation. We are right, he deserved to
die. Then, I don't knowhow I miss that. Yeah, he
went to have a fight, sohe should have died. Yep. Correct,
Texter, Thanks for that. Ifeel so much better, I think,
I thank you for that. Thanksfor the clarification, Hi, Mandy.
The Democrats are doing the slow boilof the proverbial frog, first announcing

(49:22):
Biden might depart, then probably departnext week. Ish Biden will depart.
The Demos are contacting their constituents topacify them as to do the least amount
of damage. I don't think that'saccurate. I really don't, because every
time we see these stories, ohit's any time Biden's gonna step up and
resign, he forcefully comes out andsays I'm not going anywhere. I'm staying.

(49:46):
I'm gonna be on the campaign trailnext week. So he's under enormous
pressure. But this is one thingI've always believed about Joe Biden. He's
one of those people who's stubborn,streak out ways his intelligence A lot outwayes
his intelligence. Where we're talking aboutJoe Biden, Mandy, do you think

(50:06):
that any of the major DEM candidatesjump on now it's one and done.
If you lose a presidential race,you're done. Oh god, it's not.
No, it's not not even alittle bit. I mean not in
recent memory, but years people haverun more than once. Joe Biden,
this was not his first go roundin twenty twenty, Mandy, why are

(50:29):
the sixty five gold Star families fromtwenty seventeen twenty twenty one never mentioned?
Why were we in Afghanistan after twentyseventeen? What are you talking about right
now? I know for a factthat George W. Bush, when he
was president, wrote thank you cards. I don't know about Trump. I
have no idea. I don't knowthe answer to that question, Mandy.

(50:52):
I thought the venue of Hulk Hogan, followed by Franklin Graham was awkward.
Needed an in between speaker. Thatmay be a good point. Mandy big
fan of the grandkids, also cuteand made him so human. This speech
was the ninety eight year old,amazing American speech. We just don't have
enough people that live through that awfultime. This day and age, no

(51:14):
one knows what it means to bean American and our fight. You know,
I got a copy of Klay Travis'sbook, and I don't have it
in front of me, and Ican't remember the name, but in it,
oh, it's his playbook for AmericanSuccess, something playbook for Americans whatever.
But in it, first of all, I'm enjoying the heck out of
It's really funny but also very interesting. One of the things he talks about

(51:37):
is how the if you see someonewearing a shirt with the American flag,
you know they're conservative, they're rightleaning, and and people on the left
don't have that same sense of patriotism. And I think that's really really sad,
because we need something to bind ustogether. And frankly, right now,

(52:00):
looking forward to twenty twenty six,because that is going to be our
nation's a big, big, biganniversary, and I think it's going to
be really extraordinary and an opportunity tofocus on the foundational greatness of our nation.
Perfect, no, but greater thanany other nation in the world.

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And we have to get back tothat, whether we're Republicans or Democrats.
And I hate it, I absolutelyhate it that anyone on the left would
feel like they can't fly a flagor they won't fly a flag because someone
may mistake them for something they arenot. I mean, I want everyone
to feel like we all have theright and ability to fly the flag and

(52:44):
be proud of it. And thatwas one of the things that came out
of the convention from a lot ofthe speakers, essentially saying, there's more
that binds us than tears us apart, and we should all be proud to
be an American. That is goingto be, you know, one of
those things. Love Tucker Carlson andwould love if he had a role in

(53:06):
a possible Trump administration. Need allthe smart people we can get. I'm
guessing it would be a bit ofa pay cut for Tucker Carlson, Mandy
ford mondale Gore, Carry McCain,and Romney all done after they lost the
general election. Young people, thoseare all look think about how Mondale was
not super old. Al Gore nobodyjust liked, and he decided he could

(53:29):
make billions off of the green energygrift. John Carry already had money.
No, he ran previously though.Yeah, I think he'd lost twice,
didn't he? And John McCain wasold, and Mitt Romney just took such
a beating, why would he comeback. Mandy Tucker's hard to beat.
He's just so upbeat and incredibly intelligent. I thought he did a great job

(53:51):
last night. I put his speechon the blog today at mandy'sblog dot com,
so you can check it out yourself. Got a lot of text messages
coming in. But when we getback, give you some of the stuff
that happened in the convention that wedidn't necessarily talk about. Things interesting things
I learned many of you Jesse Kellyfans out there. I got some about

(54:13):
him. When we get back.I'm back from the Republican National Conventions,
something that I have wanted to attendand cover for my entire radio career.
This is the first time we've beenable to do it. And again one
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(54:36):
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you go check it every day.So there you go. I do want
to address something that came up aboutLauren Bobert telling a Native American Indian show
that she wanted to be the Secretaryof the Interior. Believe she said on

(55:00):
Ross's show today that she was kidding, and uh, yeah, I'm really
I think it was Ross's show.I know, I heard the sound bite
of her saying she was joking onour radio station. I think she was
talking to Ross, but I'm notit was Ross, Thank you coover.
I just couldn't remember who was talkingto her when she said it. So,
yeah, she was joking about that, and she made that point.

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Now in this segment, if youguys have any questions that you've ever wanted
and whatever wanted to ask about theRepublican Convention, now's the time, like
anything you heard or just a questionabout what went on or what was happening?
Now's the time? Five six sixnine. Oh, but I got
to tell you guys some funny thingsabout stuff that I learned at the Republican

(55:43):
National Convention. One of the showsthat was doing his show right next to
us was Jesse Kelly. And I'veseen Jesse Kelly on Twitter for years,
I've seen him on TV. Ihad no idea that that dude was so
tall. He is six' eight. I know this because I asked him
for I just said, howl talleryou and he's like six' eight,

(56:04):
But somehow he manages to look taller. And as a matter of fact,
yesterday we got to interview Enis Canterbecause he was wandering around the basketball player
and I think Jesse Kelly might betaller than Enis Canter. And the way
Jesse walks, because I saw himwalking away from me at at one point

(56:25):
before I actually knew who it wasbecause I couldn't see his face yet.
So he's walking away from me,and I thought to myself that guy walks
just like Woody from Toy Story,because they he and Woody from Toy Story
have the same physical build. He'ssix' eight but if he weighs two
hundred pounds, I'm shocked. He'sa skinny dude, and he's walking away.

(56:47):
He's like kind of doing the bootkick out a little bit. And
then I was like, well,oh my god, that's Jesse Kelly and
he walks just like Woody from ToyStory. And I he was very nice,
very nice. I didn't meet anypeople that were not nice, but
I was kind of surprised that Jessewas so nice. And then Buck Sexton
was fantastic. They broadcast next tous. It just met really interesting broadcasters

(57:13):
from all over the country. Hadgreat conversations. Dan O'Donnell and I from
WISN and Milwaukee. We're like bestfriends now because he also works with Cruise
and Tour, so we're gonna putup a Cruise and Tour mash up for
us and go do a trip together. He's an absolute riot. But it
was just you'd be sitting there becausewe're on media row, and all of

(57:34):
a sudden you're like, oh,look, Rudy Giuliani, Oh look,
Donald Trump Junior, Oh look.I mean, it was just all of
these people, one after the otherafter the other, and Rudy Giuliani,
you guys. He looks terrible,absolutely terrible. And this is going to
sound like I'm making fun, butit's the only way to describe how he
looks accurately. He walks like thepenguin, as ex amplified by Danny DeVito's

(58:00):
penguin, and he's hunched over,and he just looks incredibly old, so
old, and it's just it's justsad. And there are people that would
come into media row and they wouldcome in and you could tell that they
were waiting to be asked, youknow. They were like, I'll just

(58:21):
walk around and somebody will want totalk to me. And those people were
just kind of sad. One ofthem was Laura Lomer or Laura Looney as
many call her, because she isabsolutely insane. She must have made the
laps like seven or eight times beforeshe finally left. Nobody wanted to talk
to her. It was crazy.But it's just so interesting. And then

(58:44):
you have publicists that are walking aroundand they're like, hey, I've got
a guy on this. Hey,I've got a guy on this. Hey,
I've got it, and it's justlike this giant hustle. It's like
a flea market almost of guests.And it's just it's so interesting, Mandy.
Do they keep live elephants at theconvention? I looked for the live
elements and was unable to find them. Sorry about that, the old standing.

(59:08):
If it doesn't benefit me, it'snot needed. There was a House
representative who said the Build Back Betterprogram was a waste of money until a
bridge in our district had to bereplaced. Then she grabbed the money that
was from a texture that I'm goingback and forth about Project twenty twenty five.
I just don't care. Jesse isa riot, Yes he is,
Mandy, how did you score theDNC? Also, I figured Marty would

(59:31):
be all in on that. Wemade a decision. I didn't make the
decision. The decision was made aboveme to send the same person to both
conventions so we would be able tohave kind of that compare and contrast ability.
And this year was me partly becauseI think a Rod and I worked
so well together, and a Rodputting out the social media stuff was just

(59:52):
invaluable. He and Rob Dawson,Yill, we were like the three Musketeers,
the three of us, and Robwas everywhere getting audio and sound,
and I mean it was just itwas a lot of work. And I
told Chuck when he picked me uplast night, I was absolutely exhausted when
he picked me up at the airport, and I just said, you know,
it's not that I'm not proud ofthe work I do every day on
the radio, but it has beena long time since I did something in

(01:00:16):
my career that I am this proudof because we worked so hard to bring
it to you guys, and Ithink it was really well received and people
really liked it. So yeah,I'm pretty happy about that. How much
did you spend? Not that much, I mean, and I'm not even
kidding. We stayed in a VRBObecause Milwaukee doesn't have a lot of hotel

(01:00:37):
rooms and the hotel rooms were thatwere there were obscenely expensive. So I
wentted a VRBO that was like aten minute cab ride or uber ride from
the house or from the event center, and we just went back and forth.
And I mean maybe three grand total, and that includes lodging and all
the ubers back and forth and stufflike that. But I don't even think

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it's that high. I'm a verythrifty traveler. People a very thrifty traveler.
So I got my thrifty on andwe did not spend a whole bunch
of money. But I'm telling you, we didn't even have like a real
dinner. We had like fast dinners. We didn't have good food. We
had one really good meal at thekaraoke place. So there you go,

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Mandy, I would like to knowhow you become a delegate who determines and
is an approval process, application process. They were just looking at the audience
on TV. There was such awide variety, so I was just curious
as to how you actually do becomea delegate. You have to get involved
in your state, your inner localparty. Then you become like a precinct
leader, and then you move upto become a representative for the state Assembly.

(01:01:43):
This is how they do it inColorado. By the way, we
had the opportunity to talk to Heidigenaal'sdad, Harvey, about how he became
a delegate, and it really isby just being active in the party.
You need to be active in theparty. You need to participate, you
need to take leadership roles in theparty, and then you get invited.
You have to apply, it hasto be approved and then you have to

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pay your way so that is it. Is there free food at the convention?
No, there is not, Thereis no. Well, I take
that back. Are I hurt?People that helped set up our whole radio
row, Chris Berry and Mike Ross. They brought us snacks every day,
but they were literally all the snacksthat make your breath smell so bad that
nobody wanted to eat the jalapeno cheetosor the funions that are on the table,

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or the ranch Doritos because you weregoing to talk to guests. You're
like, I can't have that breathgoing on there? Why didn't you sing?
Karaoke? Total failure. It wreckedan otherwise great broadcast. Thank you.
Since my vocal cord surgery, whatlittle singing voice I had left is
pretty much gone. I have avery very very narrow range and no one

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needs to hear that. So yeah, A Rod and Rob Dawson did an
amazing job at karaoke. Mandy ARod is Isabelle A Rod? Wait reward
for that's a little bit of amess. Oh yeah. A Ron is
going to Cooperstown this weekend to interviewTodd Hilton at the Baseball Hall of Fame

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induction. He's super excited about that. It would have been nicer for him
if he hadn't been back to backlike this. But yeah, that's the
way the cookie crumbles sometime, Mandy. Do you think the enthusiasm inside the
convention center spread nationwide for the RepublicanParty. Well, here's what I'm expecting,
Dan, I'm expecting a post conventionbounce. It happens for every political
party every single time. That willhappen. It'll be in two weeks,

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three weeks that we see exactly howthat played out. Mandy. Please please
tell us more about the economics forum. I will right after this. Keep
it on Koa. I mentioned thatwe went to an economic forum by the
Committee for Americans for Prosperity. Ourfriend Steve Moore and Art Laffer was there
as well. That was alternately avery interesting event and a very frustrating event

(01:04:09):
because we could not get any ofthe big cheeses that we're talking on stage
to talk to us as they wereleaving. It was so absurd and irritating.
But we did get free breakfast,so that was an upside there.
And the forum itself was really interestingbecause there was a lot of conversation about
energy and I have. I'm goingto reach out excuse me, I got

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to heick ups you guys. I'mgoing to reach out to Steve Moore and
see if I can get the PowerPointpresentation that he used with some really damning
statistics. But if I sit hereon the radio and give you guys a
bunch of statistics, that's going tobe super boring. So instead of that,
I'm going to just tell you I'mgoing to find I'm going to get

(01:04:53):
that online version and I'll put iton the blog one day now. The
actual Economic Forum, though Art Laughertalked about, you know how much tax
money came in after the Trump taxcuts. Ted Cruz, who I am
not a super fan of Ted Cruz. There's just something about him I find

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irritating personality wise. However, hewas the Republican that it was like they
decided let Cruse take the hit thisweek because he was the guy out there
talking about deficit spending calling out otherRepublicans for not being serious about the debt.
He is a major policy wonk,and he went deep into the economic
issues that are facing the United Statesright now that can be fixed or helped

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by congressional action. He expressed alot of frustration with the way things have
gone. I mean, he talkedabout a wide range of things. For
me, one of the most interestingwas Doug Burgham. I fully expect Doug
Burgham to be the Secretary of Energy, and it is going to be really
interesting to see what he does whenhe talks so passionately about the fracking revolution,
about the fact that China has justupped its creation or it's a mining

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of coal. They're not slowing downtheir development to save the world. They
are going full bore in not savingthe world. And as I just said
this, something popped into my head. This is going to be a sidewinder.
Bear with me for just a second. I had a long conversation with
a Chinese immigrant. Her name,her American name is Jane Jane g.

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Jane said, and I'm you know, I don't have any way of verifying
this. She said she was inthe tight Tianaman Square massacre. Obviously she
wasn't killed, she was wounded,and she finally got to the United States
after a long, arduous journey.But she said when she was young,
she worked in the Chinese propaganda department, and the Chinese knew at the time.
This was fifty years ago when shewas young, and she said,

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the Chinese knew that militarily they couldnot beat the United States of America.
So the strategy was create a wayto divide Americans from themselves and therefore a
week in the country. And there'sbeen a lot of scuttle but talking through
the years that one of the groupsof people that is funding all of the

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anti oil and gas stuff is theChinese government, and they're the ones funding
the climate change conversations. They're theones that are funding all of the kind
of propaganda that comes out to demonizefossil fuels, which really are the backbone
of our economy in many many ways. So wouldn't it be interesting to watch

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China continue to mind coal and usecoal and pump out CO two emissions while
having us completely destroy our economy inthe name of climate change, even though
we're a world and what we dois not as significant as what is China's
doing now, wouldn't that be interesting? Just something to think out think about,

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Mandy, The only thing that wasn'tamazing was the background noise. I
knew you couldn't control it, Soaplus for you and the crew guys.
That's why we had to go intoa different room to do the last hour
of the show yesterday because it wasso loud. Sometimes I couldn't hear I
couldn't hear Couver, you know,in my ear coming. It was it
was there was just so many peopleand everybody was having conversations. It was.
It was kind of crazy. Itwas awesome though. When we get

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back, I got I'm gonna rapidfire answer a few more of these questions
at five six six, nine ozer, including about our coverage at the DNC,
which we're also going to be atthe DNC, and then I have
an interview with Mary Milbyn. Ifyou did not see her singing the National
anthem last night, I put iton the blog today at mandy'sblog dot com.
I've had a chance to meet Marypreviously. She is a lovely woman.

(01:08:39):
We'll play that interview in the nexthour. In the meantime, keep
it right here on KOA. TheMandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and
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(01:09:11):
right, my friends, we areworking our way through the last hour of
the program fought today on a Friday, and I am doing ask me anything
about the RNC and you guys,we have some really good questions on the
text line. You can text usyour question at five six six nine.
Huh, Mandy, please do you? Oh excuse me, Mandy. Did

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you get to meet or talk withDan Bongino. No? I did not,
And that that is a perfect exampleof how this convention felt in many
ways. I actually said this tosomeone, I said, this feels like
when you get married and you havea wedding, when you are the bride
and groom, you start five hundredconversations with forty different and you never finish

(01:09:54):
them. They all get interrupted inthe middle. But Dan Bongino was upstairs
from us, he was not onthe same floor, and he said he
would come back, and he didn't. But what are you gonna do?
You know, he was being obviouslywith his experience in his background. He
was a hot commodity this week.So my feelings are not hurt. I

(01:10:15):
don't get bent out out of shapeabout that stuff. It is what it
is. It was just it wasa Crazy Week, Mandy, do you
think you'll find have difficulty finding peopleto talk to you at the DNC or
will you maybe disguise yourself as alooney lefty. I could lie and say
no, I think it'll be fine, but I am concerned about that.
I'm actually really concerned about that.So we are going to reach out to

(01:10:40):
our you know, legislative delegation thatare that are going to be there.
We're gonna find out if they're gonnabe there. We're gonna invite them on
the show. But I want youguys to know something about the way we're
gonna go to the DNC and bringingup you know, Kyle Clark's on Twitter
criticizing my interview with Mike Lindell becauseI didn't push back hard enough, and
I just I trust my listeners toknow what they heard, you know,

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I trust them to understand that thisman is, you know, delusional.
But that being said, I'm goingto cover the DNC pretty much the same
way. You're not gonna hear megetting into arguments with people from the other
side of the aisle about their policypositions, because I want you to hear,

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you know, relatively unfettered the opinionsof people that we disagree with.
I could go there and start argumentswith every single person, but honestly,
I don't want to do that.That's not my intention. I want to
try to do at the DNC theexact same thing we did at the RNC,
which is bring you a flood ofvoices from the other side talking about
different policy positions, things that arehappening, hear from your elected officials.

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You know, those are the kindof interviews we're going to try and get
now. As of late, andby late, I mean like the last
couple of years, it has becomeincreasingly difficult for me to get people on
the left to come on this show. But there are also more people on
the right that won't come on thisshow. So maybe I wear that as

(01:12:09):
a badge of honor and considering youguys have heard me interview like, I'm
a nice interviewer. I'm not tryingto make someone look stupid or bad or
dumb. I want people to comeon make their case because again, I
trust that you guys can decide howyou feel about it. Now, chances
of you and I come into thesame conclusion probably pretty good. But I

(01:12:30):
trust that you can listen to someoneand make your own decisions about what they're
saying. So we shall see.We're going to do the best we can
and know this. If we don'thave as many guests at the DNC,
it is not for lack of trying, because A Rod and Rob Dawson,
we're so aggressive at getting guests.And it's just like I said, it's
so fluid behind the scenes. SoMandy, was the three grand out of

(01:12:53):
pocket or is the sponsor paying?No, this was a business trip.
Kaway is paying the bill for this, so it's not like I have to
come out of pocket. I justhave to expense everything, you know,
Monday and we'll take care of it. Mandy's a fellow Ohioan. I'm wondering
what Chuck thought about Trump's pick ofjd Vance for VP. Did he break
out in an? OHI? Ohthat from Andy. My husband is decidedly

(01:13:15):
not a political person, so heknew about Hillbilly Elogy from me because Chuck
is from the same part of thecountry that Hillbilly Elogy is written about.
So as I was reading Hillbilly Elogy, which is JD Vance's incredibly good book
about his upbringing, I highly read. The movie is good. The movie's
on Netflix right now. Watch themovie. Meryl Streep plays Mamma and she

(01:13:41):
is fantastic. Not Meryl Streep.What am I saying? Glenn Close plays
Mamma and she's outstanding. But thebook is phenomenal and it's not a hard
read. So when I was readingHillbilly Elogy, I kept hitting Chuck and
going, oh my gosh, they'rewriting about you, guys. And nobody
in his family was a heroin Addict, but there's mentality wise, there were
so many similarities. So I'm abig fan of that. But that's as

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far as Chuck knows. Probably aboutjd Vance, I mean, he's just
he's not He doesn't like politics,and that's why I love him because he
doesn't talk to me about politics,and it's a perfect relationship when it comes
to election times. He will askme about people and ask me for what
they're about, and I will tellhim and then he will make his decisions

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going from there. Mandy, whodo you think was the biggest celebrity there
other than Trump? Hmmm, Wow, that's a really good question. I'm
gonna have to mull that over.I'll think about that. Gold star families.
Trump used them when it suited him. Look at how he treated them

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when he was president quite a bitdifferent on most occasions, even ridiculing some
families from the stage because they didn'tagree with him. Which text or you
are correct that was wrong? Randomthought. I'm pretty sure Joe would have
looked like he's ready to ho didepisode of Tales from the Crypt before doctor
Biden would let him drop out.I think you are correct, Mandy.
I watched all four days and wasreally looking forward to Baron. I can't

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uh oh, And she was askingif they were there. No, Baron
was not there, and no oneknows why. So there you go.
Did you wear a Maxi pat onyour ear? Says this texter. I
did not. That was not alook I was going for, although there
was so much humidity on Monday andTuesday, it might have made my hair
look better. What was the nicestcelebrity type that you ran into and who

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was the biggest jerk? Dean Caine, You guys ough. He was so
incredibly nice, so incredibly nice,And the only jerky people that I dealt
with were the handlers of the politiciansor the people that were walking around and
they some of them were just completeA holes, like just colossal A holes.

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So I didn't have any bad experiencesreally except for the people, the
handlers, and I was just morefrustration than anything else. Mandy. After
the speech, CNN said Trump dodgeda bullet Saturday night and the Democrats dodged
a bullet last night, meaning thespeech was a miss for Trump that remains
to be seen. But I justwant to say this, for anybody out
there who is absolutely believes that Trumphas this in the bag and there's no

(01:16:19):
doubt that he's going to win ina landslide, I would just say check
yourself. It's that kind of overconfidencethat keeps people away from the polls.
And this is going to be probablyanother close election. We'll have to see
what ends up happening on the Democraticside. But people are so tribal,
and people are so they've taken theirside, and for people on the left,

(01:16:42):
they don't want to admit that they'rewrong. People on the right don't
want to admit that they were wrong. So here we are, Mandy.
I noticed Kyle Clark chirping at youand others about the RNC. Was he
even there? You know what?Texter, No, he wasn't. Perhaps
it was jealousy that got to Kyleand made him lash out in such a
way, but uh, hater's gonnahate. Thanks for the name drop,

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Kyle Kisses. How did the audiencechanting work as this Texter? I thought
I saw a microphone in the audienceat one point. How do they get
through the chanting in Unison? I'mjust gonna say this, Republicans are not
good chanters in Unison. A lotof the time, okay, a lot
of times they were not chanting inUnison at all and it just started like

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wow aw ah, I mean,but they did get it together for the
important ones. And my favorite chantof the entire convention was when jd Vance
said was it jd Vance or wasit one of the Trump sons who said,
you guys are a great audience andthey started with Jadvance and they started
chanting, yes we are. Waslike, well done chanters in the audience,

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I will tell you, And Iposted this on my Twitter feed.
Texas, the Texas delegation they allhad cowboy hats on and when the music
was playing, they all let theircowboy hats up and they were waving him
back and forth, and I waslike, dang it, Texas has it
together. They look good. Theygot it. Ah, Mandy, but
it looks like he's going to theDNC about Kyle Clark. I haven't seen

(01:18:14):
anything about that. I welcome him, but that hardly would go, you
know, a long way to dispellingthe notion that he is not a down
the middle journalist, wouldn't it.I mean, I'm going to both,
Mandy. You may have already mentionedthis, and if so, I apologize.
John Caldera interviews Mike Rosen on Devil'sAdvocate Tonight on twelve point one PBS
at eight thirty, also available onthe Independence Institute YouTube channel. Thanks Craig.

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He tweeted that he will be inChicago August nineteenth to the twenty second.
Well isn't that odd? Isn't thatweird? So weird? Mandy?
Are you taking care of your voice? You sound a little raspy, you're
yelling strange your vocal cords. Thankyou? Now back to your regular programming.
As a matter of fact, Iam, I've got my steamer.

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I steamed every day at the convention. But yeah, it's been a long
week of all day talking, notjust three hour talking, so we will.
I'll shut up the entire weekend.I promise you. It'll drive Chuck
crazy about I'm doing it. Didn'tsay he's going to the convention, but
the timing seems like too much ofa coincidence. Mandy that I missed your
secret about Jesse Kelly. I don'tknow if you did, but the secret

(01:19:25):
is this. He is so tall, so tall. I'll tell you how
tall when we get back. Ifyou did not hear her sing the national
anthem last night is the first videoon today's blog. I had the chance
to meet her last year, andI just adore her. She is a
lovely, lovely, lovely woman.Let me rip through some of these questions.

(01:19:47):
This is going to be a bigspeed round up, Up, Up,
up, Mandy. Are the picks? Uh? Are there picks of
the three of you at the mic, at the RNC online and yes,
yes tons on our social media.I give the RNC a B plus great
music, humor, speakers, etcetera. I would say kit Rock was
the biggest celebrity, and then hulKogan, not Dean Kine. I loved

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Dean kan though. He was sokind and so nice. Mandy, you
should go to the DNC with questions. They lead leftists, especially Palestinian supporters,
to go down the rabbit hole untilthey snap a sigaile. No,
I'm not doing that. Um letme hang on. The thing keeps updating.
Here, we go back to here, it updates and throws everything out

(01:20:32):
of whack. Sorry about that.Who did you want to interview but slipped
away? That would be Lauren Bobert. We had her scheduled and then she
canceled, and then we could notget her rescheduled. I am less hopeful
that she will appear on this show. I think she's mad about the primary,
and honestly, I don't blame her, but it's the primary and it's

(01:20:55):
politics, and you know it's upto her. I do a show every
day without her, and I'm prettysure she feels like she's going to win
handling in the fourth But if anypolling data shows otherwise, maybe she will
appear on this show. That's justthe reality of where we are. Mandy.
I think doctor Carson is super cool. He's got a cool voice.
He just spills coolness from his pores. What some say is cool, others

(01:21:18):
might say is a little dull.So yeah, maybe maybe, and that
is it from that, all right. When we get back, I am
going to play the interview with MaryMilden and then I have a couple more
things on the blog that I wantto talk about, including things that were

(01:21:41):
not mentioned on the debate stage.That's not on the blog, but I
want to talk about that very veryquickly, and what to look for or
head to the DNC. We'll see. I mean, there's so much chaos
in what's going on right now.I think it's really hard to even like

(01:22:04):
even plan for that. In away, very very strange. We'll be
back right after this. I hadthe opportunity to do an interview with a
woman named Mary Milbyn. She wasthe woman who did the the anthem last
night at the RNC. She's hadthe opportunity to sing for like the last

(01:22:26):
five presidents. And she doesn't justsing the national anthem, she performs the
national anthem and she's absolutely so sogood at it. And to boot on
top of all of that, sheis the nicest person. Last year at
the Steamboat Institute's Freedom Conference, Igot to sit next to her for a
dinner and have a long conversation withher, and she is just this wonderful,

(01:22:51):
kind, just a ray of lightkind of person. I think everybody's
met those people before in their lives. If you've never met one of those
people, I'm sorry for you,because they make your life inevitably better.
And I ran into her at oneof the events we were at and this
is what we uh, well,this is what she had to say.
You know, part of the RepublicanNational Convention is the patriotism, it's the

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love of country. It is theraw raw America. And nobody exemplifies that
better than Mary Melbourne, no one. I had the opportunity to meet you
at the Steamboat Institute, watch yousing the national anthem, which America will
see you sing the national anthem tomorrownight, and you know we always talk.
Unfortunately, there was an unfortunate incidentat the Major League All Star Game.

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I didn't see it, received lotsof videos, and let me say,
you know, first of all,it's a very First of all,
it's good to see you. Secondof all, it's a very tough song
to sing, and it's it's asong that everybody in the world knows.
So when you prepare for those moments, I can understand a lot of artists

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sing the anthem and maybe not asoften, but my heart goes out to
that artist and give a little grace. You know, it sounds like it
was a tough night, but alwaysgive a little grace. Yeah. One
of the things that makes you standout as an artist who sings the Star
Spangled Banner is that you don't justsing it. You feel it. And

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it shows when you sing the nationalanthem. And it's one of those things
where I didn't really think much aboutthe anthem until I saw a video that
explained the origins of the anthem andthe meaning of the words in the song.
You bring that to life and Icannot wait for America to see because
when you sing it, it isthe most moving thing I have ever seen.
Well, the national anthem moment,it is our moment of unity in

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the country when we all gather together, whether it's in a stadium or a
room or what will be tonight ortonight and tomorrow for the convention. There
are no differences. We're not Republicansor Democrats or independence, which is Americans
America's first. I I feel thatthe anthem moment is one of the most
important moments we need today in ourcountry where we stop and we're reminded of

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our DNA as children of God,because we are one nation under God,
and we're reminded of our DNA asAmericans. And I feel that it's one
thing I certainly value about President Trump. I've been singing for President Trump now
almost ten years, starting back atthe twenty sixteen inauguration to date, and
I tell you, he values ouranthem moment. He values our patriotic songs

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because he knows what. He knowswhat the anthem moment means, and he
knows what those patriotic songs do forour hearts and our souls. And so
I'm grateful for the opportunity tomorrow tobring the anthem before he speaks, and
certainly grateful for the opportunity to behere at such an important time in our
country. When did the anthem startmeaning to you what it obviously means when

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you sing it? Sure well,you know, I'm originally from Oklahoma.
I'm a small town girl from Oklahoma. So it was in Oklahoma, which
we call the heartland of America,Oklahoma. My roots there in the Midwest,
and my roots as a preacher's daughterreally honed in the importance of American

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patriotism and certainly the national anthem moment. That's where I really learned the value
is in the Midwest, where you'llsee patriotism at its height, and that's
where the value for the anthem andlove of country really started. Little did
I know that it was going toturn into a profession of singing the national
anthem now for four consecutive presidents inall over the world. And I'm grateful

(01:26:35):
for that. I thank God forthose opportunities. But I just feel like
it is the one moment where weare all unified, which is what we
need today, we really do,and I think that has started, certainly
a reset of understanding who we areas Americans during seasons like a democratic process

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that we are facing now. Andif there's ever a time where we need
unity, it really is now.And so I hope to bring in first
the presence of God tomorrow, butI hope to contribute to that moment of
unity tomorrow prior to the President speaking. Well, I am looking forward to
it. I've had the great pleasureof watching you sing it before, so

(01:27:17):
I can't wait to see you knockthe doors off of five sir Forum tomorrow.
Oh, I will say a prayerfor you, but I don't think
you need it. I think Godalready blessed you with the voice you need
to sing this. Mary Milburne,thank you so much for your time.
Thanks, it's great to see you, dear. She has a lot of
gifts, that woman. I mean, And if you did not hear the
national anthem, you really should goback. It's on the blog today at

(01:27:39):
mandy'sblog dot com. It was it'sjust outstanding, outstanding. You know.
What's funny is someone asked on thetext line who the biggest celebrity other than
Donald Trump was, and overwhelmingly itis Hulkogan. But I think that has
to do with the age of thisaudience, you know, if that is
exactly true, But I don't.Here's the thing is, like, what

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are you impressed by when you askthat question who's the biggest celebrity? Because
there were really, really, reallyimportant The Speaker of the House of Representatives
was there, you know, Imean, there were really important people in
that space, but I don't considerthem they should not be celebrities, even
though they kind of are. SoI don't know. That's a tough one.

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I'm going out maybe the Holkster.I did love his speech last night.
It's also on the blog at mandy'sblogdot com. Two notable deaths today.
One is longtime newsman Lou Dobbs hasdied at seventy eight. As of
this morning when I was looking,they had not released a cause of death,
but apparently it had some kind ofillness. In the last week or

(01:28:44):
so, he was off of bothof his radio show and his television show,
and now he has passed away atseventy eight. And the second one,
the second one stings. This isyet another thing from my youth that
is over now. Bob Newhart,who died at ninety four years old.
Bob Newhart's one of those comedians thatis unlike anybody else, and anybody else

(01:29:09):
trying to do Bob Newhart could notdo Bob Newhart because Bob Newhart is really
the only guy that could pull thatstuff off. And when I was a
kid, the Bob Newhart Show wasin reruns right in the afternoon when I
got off school. So I wouldwatch the Bob Newhart Show and loved it.
And then as I was an adult, they brought it back as new

(01:29:30):
Heart and so that's how I knowhim. But years ago a friend of
mine introduced me to his comedy albumsand the really old school and it's they're
all on vinyl. She has themall on vinyl. And we sat around
and listened to his comedy albums fora weekend and just the man was a
genius. And I found a phenomenalarticle It's such a really great tribute to

(01:29:55):
Bob Newhart that originally was published inthe Hollywood Reporter. They they absolutely did
a great job summarizing the man.But that one, you know, it's
I don't really get upset when celebritiesdie, not because I'm I don't.
You know, you have sympathy fortheir family and nobody wants to think of

(01:30:16):
somebody else dying. But I don't. I'm not really emotionally invested when a
celebrity dies, but there are somewhen they die you're like, dang.
And I saw Carol Burnett comment onthe fact that Bob Newhart had passed away,
and I thought, oh no,when Carol goes for me, that's
going to be a part of mychildhood that is so significant. I used

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to sit and watch the Carol BurnetteShow with my mom My mom is responsible
for the development of my sense ofhumor, so blame her or whatever you
want to do. But I grewup in a steady diet of the Carol
Burnett Show, Faulty Towers, otherBritish comedies like Monty Python. Because we
only had three channels, right,didn't have cable and you know kids today,

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you're kids. We only had threetelevision networks, that's all we had.
There was no internet back in theday. We had to sit at
a box and if you wanted towatch the whole TV show, you had
to stay on the floor right therewatching it. And if you had to
go to the bathroom, you hadto wait for a commercial break, which
by the way, you could notfast forward through, and you had to

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run as fast as you can totry and use the restroom. And as
you were in the middle of yourbusiness, your brother or sister yelled out,
it's starting, it's starting, andyou had to run back as fast
as you could, pulling up yourpants at the same time. Oh children,
life was hard back then. Itwas hard, very hard. Bob

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Knewhart was a big part of that. So this one, this one hit
home, this one. We don'tyou feel like, we've had an excessive
amount of famous people die in acouple of weeks. It's been kind of
weird. So I thought about this. I mean, last week we lost
a bunch of people. This weekwe had two down, one more to
go. For the rule of threes, And for the person who inevitably will

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text me and say the rule ofthrees man day, I've never heard of
it. First of all, wherehave you been? Second of all,
the rule of threes is that famouspeople die in groups of three. The
rule of three must be fulfilled.It is written hard to believe, it
hard to believe. But there wasonly four years between the Bob Newhart Show

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went off the air and New Heartsstarted. That is really hard to believe.
Are you sure, Mandy? Didyou like the part of the Bob
Newhart Show This is my brother Daryland my other brother Daryl that was actually
on New Heart, not the BobNewhart Show. The Bob Newhart Show was
where he was a psychiatrist or apsychologist, I think a psychiatrist, and
then in New Heart he owned aninn. How about Dick Van Dyke,

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he's deep into his nineties. Didn'the just did? He just pass away.
I mean, is he still Idon't mean to wish him into an
early grave, but I thought hepassed. Did he not? Oh no,
But here's why he hasn't. He'sninety eight years old and his wife
is forty six. Yeah, go, Dick van Dyke. You know,

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some age gaps are creepy. Ifyou're a forty nine year old dude and
you're dating a twenty year old girl, that is creepy. If you're a
forty nine year old woman dating atwenty year old guy, that's creepy as
well. They are creepy age gaps. But at some point, when you
get to be ninety eight and youland a wife who is forty six,
you just want to kind of highfive him. High five, Dick.

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I hope it's love, because there'sno doubt you're gonna go before she does.
So. Yeah. Although Arlene Silverdidn't really know who he was when
she met him, she had neverseen the Dick Van Dyke show, and
still she she married him anyway,So there you go. Dick Vandyke's still

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alive and kicking with a wife morethan half his age. Good for you,
Dick, Good for you. Bidenis not going to be number three
by Sunday. Stop it. Whatabout Jerry the dentist that was from the
first Bob Newhart show, Mandy,Bob Newhart just outside of my age range.

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I was born in nineteen eighty four. But he was absolutely fantastic on
Big Bang Theory as Professor Proton.They sent out a nice tweet about him
passing away. He was very,very good on that show. He was
good at everything. He was nevernot good. What the hell is going
on with Jimmy Carter? Talk aboutthe energizer Bunnie. He's been in hospice

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for like a year. Do youthink his hospice nurses are like, Jimmy,
should I make plans tomorrow or not? And it'll be like, nope,
come back tomorrow. Like okay.I really thought when Roslin went,
I did think he was going togo right, you know, at because
people that are married for that longa lot of the times one will die

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and then the other one will followrather quickly. It happens a lot,
Mandy. I'm a nurse and webelieve in the rule of threes. I
lost a patient on Sunday and Ihave two patients that are in hospice.
You know what. Bless you,Bless you nurse. Bless you nurse for
doing a profession where in your dailylife you regularly lose people. That's got

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to be very, very hard,and I'm glad that people like you are
out there doing it. Uh,you can't tell me she never saw Chitty
Chitty Bang Bang, Hi Chitty HoChitty Pretty Chitty bang bang, Pretty Chitty
bang Bang. We love you.I used to babysit these kids, and
they had that on VCR tape andwe watched it over and over and over

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and over again. I used toknow every single word to every single song
in that movie. No, she'syoung. I mean she's younger than me,
and that movie was old when Iwas young. Mandy, we sat
on the floor in front of thatbox watching those shows in black and white,
even though Saturday Morning Cartoons exactly.Fellow oldie, exactly Mandy is.

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In the last episode of New Heart, Bob Newhart wakes up to Susanne Plachette
and tells her what a weird dreamhe had. That was brilliant, absolutely
brilliant. Great great end to aseries, Mandy, best ending of a
series ever was New Heart's ending.Oh wait, a minute. I meant
to read this one Mandy. WhenI was in college, we had a

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drinking game played during reruns of TheBob Newhart Show. We all drank when
someone said hi, Bob. Outof the group of people that did this,
how many of them went to rehabat some point, Because you guys
are gonna be drinking a lot basedon that game alone. All right,
kids, we will not speak ofthe Republican National Convention again. I mean

(01:37:05):
we will. I'm not like it'snot verboten. It's not like it's all
the it's not you know, Voldemortor something. But we're gonna be looking
forward to the DNC, and Ineed you guys to understand I'm gonna be
laying this groundwork for the next month. If you're expecting me to go in
there and argue with people, thatis not what's going to happen. I

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trust my audience to hear what theother side has to say, and I'm
looking forward to hearing what they haveto say and finding out the areas of
maybe commonality. Wouldn't that be somethingcommonality like the commonality we have with KOA
Sports. Ryan Edwards, I don'tknow if you knew this I interviewed Enis
Canter yesterday. Yeah, and Imentioned, you know, I was like,

(01:37:46):
Enis, if you're working out,I mean, you know, the
Nuggets need some bench help. Yeah. He was down for it. He
was like, yeah, tell himto call me. There was a rhyme
where where Enis Cancer was considered oneof the best bigs in the league.
He's certainly much nice guy. Yeah, I certainly gave the Nuggets some fits.
But well, you know what hesaid about playing out here. I
don't know if you heard this.He said, playing in Denver is like
a cheat code because you the otherteam comes in and you're immediately winded.

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Like there's no way to do it. He said, I hated playing in
Denver. It was so hard togo up there and play at altitude,
which is wild. Never understand andthis goes for all the major sports,
I guess, specifically football, basketball, and hockey. Why you're not just
trying to outrun or outskate everybody,right, you have that advantage, you've
been at altitude. Why are youplaying at pace? Why are you why

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are you playing slow when you couldbe playing at pace? And that'll never
that'll it'll never makes sense to me. Uh, it's a valid point.
It truly is a valid point.And Ryan Edwards. But now it's time
for the most exciting segment on theradio of its kind in the world of

(01:38:54):
the day. All right, well, what do we have from Michael Cooper
in for a rod He'll be backon Monday. Coove. What's our dad
joke of the day, please?Our dad joke of the day is what
do you call a line of menwaiting to get haircuts? I don't know,
a barbecue? Oh? Wow?Wow? What's the reason? Wow?

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I'm going to use that again though. I can tell you that's going
to come out of my mouth alreadybecause I'll remember it. What is our
word of the day? Please?Our word of the day is non plus.
Oh, non plus means unbothered.Doesn't really make a difference, good
enough for me to non plus someoneis to perplex them, or, in
other words, to cause them tobe at a loss as to what to
say, think, or do.M Okay, I've obviously been using that

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word incorrectly for like forty years,but it's fine. You've never even heard
anybody use that word before. Ohno, I used that word before many
times, and apparently wrong every singletime coover. So there you go.
What is our our jeopanque our triviaquestion? What country consumes the most te
per person per year? Oh?Come on, it's got to be Britain

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England right. I was thinking Indiathough, because India takes a lot of
tea too, So let's see.Oh, and we are both wrong.
Turkey. The Turkish people annually consumearound seven pounds of tea per person.
Second place goes to Ireland, wherethey have five pounds of tea per person.
Who knew, Wow, I knowwhat bread streaking that. Think about

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how much tea is seventy seven poundsof because it weighs nothing, because it
weighs not it's nothing. Yeah,yeah, do you wish we do that
more here in the United States?Like we're big tea people like afternoon tea.
Uh you know, hoity toity peoplewho like their pinkies out do afternoon
tea and stuff. But not norms. Okay, no norms? All right?

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What's our jeopardy category coover all?Right, coming off the Republican National
Convention where we saw a bunch ofspeeches, we're gonna go with sixties speeches.
Oh goss, like twenty years beforeI was born. But go for
it. I've seen the promised Land. I may not get there with you,
but we as people will get tothe promised land. Mandy, is
this who gave the speech? Yep, Mandy? That is? Who is

(01:41:05):
Martin Luther King Junior? That iscorrect? Quoting Shaw in sixty eight.
Some people see things as they arein. Say why I dream things that
never were in? Say why not, Mandy? Who is JF? Oh
No, they can't be. Who'sJohn F. Kennedy Junior? I know
that's wrong, though, you're onthe right track. You're on the right

(01:41:27):
joh Okay, I know who itis, but I don't. I don't
get to guess. Again, that'scheating. Yeah, I mean I would
guess, but then it's probably wrong. Go ahead, you want to take
a shot out of you. He'sall the negative It RFK JR. Isn't
it? It is RFK? Yeah? Yeah, dang it. Go ahead
back to zero. The aircraft theUnited States of America treacherously invaded airspace of

(01:41:49):
the Soviet Union. I think Iknow, but I'm not sure, and
I don't want to go down minusone because I know Ryan's not going to
guess. Yeah, you're probably rightabout that, all right, Nikita Kruscha.
Oh see, I was gonna saybresnev because I can't remember what order
they were in. Go ahead,I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow,

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nanny and segregation forever's George Wallace,you got it, all right? One
back up, one one nothing,duty, honor, and country. Those
three words reverently dictate what you oughtto be, what you can be,
and what you will be. Mandy, I'm gonna say, JFK, No,
we're back tied. Les. Ryanwants to cast no way, this

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has been played out perfect for me. Who was it, General Douglas MacArthur.
Oh, dang it, dang it? Okay, all right, just
sat there with onod alright, Animalgroups, all right, Kangaroos and gorillas
gather in these groups, Ryan,they are moresupials. No, kangaroos are

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all right, let me finish toask the question. Kangaroos and gorillas gathering
these groups as do boy scouts,Mandy? What are troops? Yeah?
There you go. Yeah, finallya victory. Wow. I was like,
wow, but gorillas are not marsupials. So that one. What do
you have coming up on? Kosports? Oh? It's Friday. We're
excited for one week from training camp, so we'll be diving into a spattering

(01:43:23):
of different Broncos topics plus a theNBA Hall of Famer agrees with me and
I can't wait to rub it inDave's nose. All right, fantastic,
go for it, Ryan Edwards.We'll all be back on Monday. Have
a great weekend everybody, and besafe. Keep it on, Koa