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July 22, 2025 101 mins
OZZY OSBOURNE PASSED AWAY during our show so we had to react to it. Willie B and Rick Lewis from our sister stations KBPI and The Fox respectively came on with us to discuss the icon's passing.

MAYOR MIKE JOHNSTON HAS ROSE COLORED GLASSES ON If you listened to his State of the City address you would think Denver is just a ragtag little community fighting the BIG EVIL of the federal government to protect innocent people from being thrown out of the country. It was utter claptrap. It wasn't all delusional, as the Mayor touted a dropping violent crime rate and a slightly lower number of homeless people living on the streets. But he wants us to believe all the evils Denver is dealing with right now are because of the Trump administration, which is poppycock.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 4 (00:26):
Welcome Uncle, Welcome to eight Tuesday edition of the show.
The band is back together, Anthony Rodriguez back in the
proper terms, least until the Broncos training camp starts. When
does that start? It starts next week.

Speaker 5 (00:41):
Friday, Friday Friday, and then how long does that go?
About two weeks until until preseason gets going? Okay, so
we're talking the twenty fifth is the last day and
as I what's the word looking for Rogers waiting until
I find what I'm looking for here it is.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
Final day is.

Speaker 5 (00:59):
August fourteenth, so okay, about on a little under three
weeks and then preseason.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
Is it my imagination or did they add bleachers out
there for people to sit on in addition to the
hill or did they replace the hill.

Speaker 5 (01:13):
They are doing a complete overhaul the entire facility, so
those are temporary seating. And my knowledge, if I'm not mistaken,
I believe that it is wind up going to be
less seating then it would be with just the hill.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
I don't think. I don't think the hills existent. They
it's just the temporary bleachers.

Speaker 5 (01:30):
Because it's a complete overhaul right now, it's a temporary
kind of DIGS situation. Why they overhaul the entire training facility,
I have.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
To say, I mean, we don't go. My show doesn't
go to training camp, not for any reason other than
the time when I'm actually on the air. They require
all the media to leave while they do super secret
team stuff, and so I couldn't do my show from
there even if I wanted to. But I have been
able to go out there a couple times. It's super cool,
just really neat experience to be able to go out

(01:58):
there for training camps to see how things they hit me.
Less major decrease.

Speaker 5 (02:03):
Previous years, the BERM could accommodate around three thousand fans
capacity capped at eight hundred per prepice per practice. But again,
Dave Stresses is a not long term thing. It's for
the long term goals, the future of the franchise. So
people are gonna have to exercise patients, I mean.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
Tickets that don't take you have a lot of parking
issues though.

Speaker 5 (02:20):
Yeah, tickets were already really hard to come by in
years past, so it was probably damn near impossible for
those fans trying to get them.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
But again, you know, at least they didn't close it
all completely.

Speaker 6 (02:28):
Ones.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
Yeah, if you're the lucky ones, you should be able
to enjoy quite the experience of training camp this year.
We'll have all of that for you. Now, let's talk
about the blog, shall we. Today's one of those days
where I started doing show prep and nothing. I was like,
nothing's really jumping out at me. Nothing really crazy. I mean,
don't get me wrong, I have some crazy stuff on

(02:49):
the blog, but I do have a couple of stories
that I found very very interesting that are sort of
i'll call them a bigger idea story, not about politics
or anything like that. But it's all on the blog.
So let's go find the blog. And you can find
it by going to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com,
or you can go to Randy Cromwell dot com. Then

(03:09):
look for the latest headlines. Look for the posts that
says seven twenty two twenty five blog Mayor Johnston conflates
legal with illegal immigration. Click on that and here are
the headlines you will find within anyone.

Speaker 5 (03:21):
In office South American allmerships and clipments of sea that's
going to press plant.

Speaker 4 (03:26):
Today. I'm the blog Mayor Mike Johnston has rosecolored glasses
on a former Democratic law Mayer is facing charges. Not
everything is racism about that? Jason crow Ice visit could
trendy Arragua be taking over another apartment complex. The US
must manufacture stuff because the world is heading for war.

(03:47):
We were lied to about wolves. Gen Z says college
wasn't worth it, and yet gen Z is outpacing prior
generations in this arena. This is why I can't move
on from Biden. The new women's pro soccer team has
a name. Good for Trey and matt The difference between
boys and girls now defunding NPR is racist. A Rod's

(04:09):
review of the new Superman movie, Mattel makes a doll
for kids with diabetes. Be aware of quishing parking scams?
Did they do a land acknowledgment to the Dinosaur? There's
a new Harry Potter is retirement at sixty five stupid.
This is the most useful video I've ever shared. I
didn't know Stickman was a job. The second most useful

(04:31):
video I've ever shared. You are the father. Those are
the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. Hi
Tech two a winner. Thanks Nancy, I appreciate your approval
of today's blog. Today's blog has a lot of really
good stuff. But oh, A Rod brought the a game

(04:51):
of videos today. The video on the packaging a rod
that is life changing, life changing a lot. I'm trying
to remember the video now. Oh it's okay. So we've
all had this experience as companies now pack things in
that heavy duty plastic that is impossible to open with

(05:13):
your bare hands, and you have to go get scissors
and you got to cut the packaging open. Dude, in
this video shows you how to open that packaging with hands. Yes,
and I don't know how. I didn't know this my
whole life until now. We got to try it out though,
Well I I fuster said that min fusters. Okay, so
today one of us has to buy something in that

(05:34):
plastic packaging. Try to think of anything I need that
comes in that plastic packaging. I'm gonna find some.

Speaker 5 (05:39):
I am getting something tomorrow, okay, I am getting, ironically
something to help with another piece of something. If it
comes in that packaging, it's got to it's the leather belt,
whole punch thing that has to come in that packaging.

Speaker 4 (05:51):
Right, you would think maybe maybe it's not it maybe
maybe not.

Speaker 5 (05:56):
It's helping to make my rand fery costume. Yes it is,
but now to here nor there. I think if it
comes in that we'll test right right.

Speaker 4 (06:03):
Yes, okay, all right, yeah, but it is incredibly useful,
extremely extremely useful automn work on the blog today. I
have a little bit on Mayor Mike Johnson's State of
the City address last night. And you know, a state
of the state, state of the county, state of the city,
it's a chance to shine on a bit about what
your community has been up to. And that's exactly what

(06:24):
Mayor Mike Johnson did, and he did a fine job
with the shine on of Denver. But and this is
such a big butt, I mean, but you know what,
but anyway, you can only shine on so much before
you have to start dealing with reality. And there's a

(06:45):
few things that specifically jumped out at me from this
State of the City address that I just want to
kind of go over real quick, because they were the
things that I was like, hmmm, I don't know, Mayor Mike,
if I can get on board with that. Let me
share one paragraph about the Democrats' strategy, where they are
going to tell us that the end result of the

(07:07):
policies that they have championed and pursued and passed successfully
in Colorado are actually the fault of Donald Trump because
they're going exactly the way that people like me said
they would go. You make government bigger, and everything's more expensive,
and then and then you've got to raise taxes and
so on and so on. I mean, this is how

(07:28):
it goes, right, and that's what's happening. And that's why
Colorado's unemployment rate is higher than the national average. It's
why our cost of living is dramatically higher than the
cost of living in other places, all because the policies
that have been passed by the party that is in
control of every level lever of government in Colorado. It

(07:48):
has been for some time. But let me listen, or
let me let me read for you what the mayor
of Denver, Colorado had to say in this speech. Today,
we face a federal administration that is cutting hell care
for the sick and food for the hungry, banning books,
pulling people off the streets and sending them to prisons
without lawyers or hearings, threatening the cut funding for roads

(08:10):
and bridges, if we teach the stories of Look Young
and sand Creek with holding money for terrorism prevention and
wildfire response. Because Denver believes, just as we did in
the eighteen sixties, that immigrants can help write the next
great chapter of this city. Now, this is the Democratic
talking point that takes every immigrant and lumps them into

(08:35):
one category that is not at all accurate. Now, I'm
going to talk about legal immigration in just a few minutes.
And if you just heard the end of Ross's show
with Ryan Schulling, I started talking about some of the
stuff that must be fixed, and it must be fixed
right now while we have a secure border, because I
know it seems crazy that we've clearly demonstrated how easy

(08:57):
it is to have a secure border under Donald Trump,
after being told by Joe Biden that there was nothing
he could do.

Speaker 7 (09:05):
Do.

Speaker 4 (09:05):
Not think for a second that another sort and I'm
going to say democrat would get into office as president
and just reopen the southern border again. So we have
to disincentivize illegal immigration by fixing our legal immigration system.
But I'll come back to that in a moment. This
is the new Democratic strategy to just lump all immigrants

(09:27):
into one pile.

Speaker 5 (09:29):
Now.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
Back in two thousand and eight, I had a show
in Southwest Florida and I and I'm just going to
take credit you guys. I hope you know. I hope
you know this about your humble talk show host. I
am not one to self aggrandize, right. I'm not one
to sit here and tell you about all these wonderful
things that I've done. But I'm here to tell you
right now. We have Secretary Mark Rubio in part because

(09:50):
of my show in Southwest Florida, because he was running
against another politician for the US Senate and Mark Rubio
had been Speaker of the House. I really like him
when he was Speaker of the House in Florida. The
young guy a great story, and I absolutely hated the
guy he was running against in the Republican primary. So
I was talking about how much I hated the other guy,

(10:12):
and someone called Marco Rubio in the airport in Miami
and said, you have to call this woman show, and
he did, and it ended up having him on the
air with me for like an hour. That day, I
hosted fundraisers for him in southwest Florida. We raised a
crap ton of money for him. Long story short, he
became the US Senator from the state of Florida and
beat the other clown. So I will take a tiny

(10:35):
bit of credit for the success of Mark Rubio. However,
right after he got elected, I mean right after he
got elected, he what what did you?

Speaker 1 (10:44):
What?

Speaker 4 (10:45):
Is there something I should know?

Speaker 1 (10:47):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (10:48):
Oh wait something shocking? Just at what what?

Speaker 5 (10:52):
I double confirm this? What via TMZ what Ozzy Osbourne
is pastor?

Speaker 2 (11:02):
No? Wow?

Speaker 4 (11:05):
Okay, first of all, not surprising, right, not surprising?

Speaker 2 (11:10):
Wow? Wow?

Speaker 4 (11:12):
That talk about the end of an era. Holy mackerel.
Back when I was a kid, if you listen to
Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne and I lived in the
Bible Belt, you were going to hell because they were
speaking to you using backmasking. He just did that last Yeah,
talk about talking talking what you love? Wow, what a

(11:36):
life that guy had. Talk about doing it on your
own terms. I mean, he's been very ill.

Speaker 5 (11:44):
That concert was on July fifth, was seventeen days ago.
Where he now he's able to do that but you
know what a.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
Rod This is so weird. And I know probably a
handful of stories like this where either someone was very
elderly and they said, look, I just want to live
to be so I get a birthday president a birthday
card from the president, right, because that was the thing.
And then they got the birthday card and they.

Speaker 5 (12:06):
Died seventy six quote surrounded by love of death.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
Unclear, but we obviously know we had a lot of Parkinson's.
He had a lot of stuff going on. Yeah, we
don't know if anything like that really ill health. But wow, man, wow,
someone's gonna leave the mark. Hey, that crazy train's going
straight north. I don't need to tell you that it's
going to be all Ozzie or Black Sabbath for the
rest of the show, right, rejoins, Yes, just letting you know. Well, anyway,

(12:36):
they go back to what I was doing. We'll have
more on Ozzy in a bit. We may have to
take memories of Ozzy because I actually have specific memories
that involve not Ozzy Osbourne the person, but the music. Anyway,
I may go back to what I was saying. Right now,
we have border security and and then that is incredibly important.
So we've got to do something about overhauling the immigration system.

(13:00):
The legal immigration system is an absolute nightmare, just hot
garbage on so many levels. And I know this because
I have two different people in my life that are
going and dealing with immigration. One is finally through the
process after like seven years and being married to an
American for twenty years, and the other one is at

(13:23):
the beginning of the journey and about to miss the
purse of his child because he's stuck in Scotland because
he can't get the proper visa even though he too
is married to an American woman. I mean, you guys,
it's insane and representative Gabe Evans has come up with
a plan, a starting point, a jumping off part, and
I think the first of all, good for him for

(13:45):
putting a space in this wood chipper. I think it
was a good idea. But let this be the start
of significant efforts to overhaul the legal immigration system to
include generous work visas for people who want to come
up and work in businesses that we don't necessarily want
to work in, like agriculture, like meat packing, what you know,

(14:09):
a bunch of other jobs that nobody else shows up
to apply for Mandy and your Colorado economy subject. Colorado
is the most expensive non coastal state for cost of living. Yes, yes, indeed. Anyway,
the reality is is that we are going to have

(14:30):
to do something about people who came here illegally and
who have been here many many years, and who have
never broken the law, and who have worked and paid
taxes and done the right thing and have become parts
of their community. We need to figure out some way

(14:50):
to give them some status. I'm sorry we do it
is not practical, and we're now we're seeing it now,
we're seeing exactly what's happening is people are seeing the
videos of people being you know, taken by ice and
thrown into vans and they look like nice little old
ladies or whatever, and the tide is turning. You look
at the latest polling data and now people are like, no,

(15:11):
we don't want deportation like this. We voted for deportation,
but not the kind where people are actually deported, which
shows you how little fought people actually give to things
before they give their opinion. And I'm not knocking you,
I'm just saying, so what are we going to do here?
I would love to have someone and Gabe Evans has

(15:34):
started the conversation, begin the process, and it needs to
happen in the next two years. There has to be
significant immigration reform. And now's the time because we have
border security and we have more money going to border
security than we ever have before. And let me tell
you something. When you create a system that you can

(15:54):
go to the American people and say, look, we understand
why people used to want to come here Lee because
it was so horrible and expensive and long consuming to
get here legally.

Speaker 7 (16:05):
We get it.

Speaker 4 (16:06):
But we have streamlined this process. We have now offered
all of these work visas to people who want to
come over and work, so they can move freely back
and forth across the border. They can actually go visit
their family. Wouldn't that be amazing visiting their family without
worrying about getting arrested. And we've created this whole system,
this dynamic immigration system, to make sure that people who
do it the right way can do it in a

(16:27):
timely fashion. So if you do that, then you take
the entire notion that people like Mayor Mike Johnson have
that the only thing that these people could do was
break into the country illegally. Because if we make it
easy enough to come and do the jobs that people

(16:49):
here don't want to do that people in Mexico or
Honduras or El Salvador would be happy to do because
their own economies are garbage. Then yeah, it disincentivizes sympathy
for people who then break the law. The second part
about this that has to happen, and I'm trying to
get representatives gave Evans on the show for a long

(17:09):
conversation during the recess about this, because we've got to
have these conversations, even if they are you know, we
start very far apart, we've got to get closer together.
We've got to figure this out. So it's kind of like,
this is the best opportunity that we have to get
this done while we have some kind of security at
the border. And I'm just saying, before you throw everything

(17:32):
out and say everybody's got to be deported, I heard
Ryan Schuling say everybody's got to go to their country
of origin and start over. And I'm like, you're telling
people that they have to leave their families for what
seven years? Because that's how long it takes if you're lucky,
Oh and if you have money, because if you don't
have money to pay an immigration attorney. Good luck, good luck.

(17:56):
And I'm not knocking immigration attorneys by any stretch, but
not everybody can afford that anyway, Mandy, we need to
keep it legals from counting in the US House of
Representative numbers. I agree. I don't think that people who
do not have legal status should be counted for the
purpose of congressional representation. I just don't at all. And

(18:17):
I think that's a very reasonable thing to ask for.
So let's make it happen. And I already know that
the Democrats are going to argue, well, those people still
are part of the roads, and they're part of all
the strain on the system. But you don't get to
have more power because you've led a bunch of people
in the country illegally and are not holding them responsible
and not asking them to pursue any sort of status.

Speaker 7 (18:39):
You know.

Speaker 4 (18:40):
The other thing about this immigration debate. I don't know
the numbers now, but in two thousand and eight somebody
did some polling of a large group of illegal immigrants
working in various industries. I don't know how large, but
it was a pretty significant pole and in it I
think the number was something like only fifty percent, maybe
half me to actually become American citizens. The rest of

(19:03):
them wanted to come, They wanted to work. They sent
money back to their family, They use that money to
build a house safe for retirement, and as soon as
they could, they just went back home. That's all they
wanted to do. We need both types. We need people
who want to move here and become citizens and be
a part of the American dream. I really believe that.
I do think that having people from all over the

(19:26):
world makes us better. It really does, as long as
those people from all over the world want to share
in that American dream, those American ideals of taking care
of yourself and your family, working hard, making good decisions,
and being successful. In my mind, those are the American ideals.

(19:46):
And if they want to adopt those, I want them here.
But if they don't, if they just want to come work,
more power to you. Just make that available to them
as well. We'll be right back. When I think of
out of control rock stars, I immediately think of Willy
B from our sister station over there on KVB. I JK,
You're not an out of control rock star anymore.

Speaker 6 (20:07):
No, Well, you know, since the kids have calmbat a
little bit, some would say, but what a sad day man.
I got the news just a minute ago too, and
I was blown away by you know, his farewell show
was just a couple weeks ago.

Speaker 4 (20:20):
We looked it up July fifth, so seventeen days ago
he had his farewell concert. And think about this, though,
WILLI like talk about a guy who did it on
his own terms from start to finish, right?

Speaker 3 (20:33):
I mean?

Speaker 4 (20:34):
This guy was He was the original Madman, you know
what I mean? And I remember and you grew up
in the Bible Belt as well, I know where you
grew up.

Speaker 7 (20:42):
And.

Speaker 6 (20:43):
Records backwards more than any youth group in Kentucky. I'm
telling you, it's crazy to me that the Prince of
Darkness gave the biggest contribution to his local children's hospitals
and to fight Partisans, And he gave the biggest contribution
on hundre ninety millions from that concert a couple of
weeks ago to several charities. It was the largest charitable

(21:05):
donation ever. And that was the same guy that in
youth group we would play as records backwards over and over,
and Billy, my youth leader, was just hard struck on
the fact that he was saying things about the Devil
or you know, things like that, because I look at
it out I can't believe I'm stealing shocked like everybody else, you.

Speaker 4 (21:23):
Know, the whole story. The reason that he was considered
to be like the devil was partly because he bit
the head off of a bat, which may or may
not have happened exactly like the word got out, but
to the point that I made earlier, like he was
trying to get he was trying to break through, right,
and and so what does he do? He acts like

(21:43):
a maniac and it worked.

Speaker 6 (21:45):
Yeah, yeah, you know the story about that somebody he
thought it was a rubber bat and somebody threw it
up on stags and he just grabbed it and bit it.

Speaker 4 (21:52):
It was.

Speaker 7 (21:53):
It was a real bath.

Speaker 5 (21:56):
God.

Speaker 4 (21:57):
I gives you the creeps just thinking about it.

Speaker 6 (21:59):
I mean, but if you think about the pop culture
the MPV had the Osbourne for how many years? Yeah,
you think about all the things that occurred around that
man's life, the influence that he had on every band
in rock and roll, every band you know that I've
heard of in years they label They'll put Black Sabbath
and Ozzy.

Speaker 7 (22:19):
Is a big influence.

Speaker 6 (22:20):
So I mean he's influenced everybody in rock and Road
for decades now. It's just insane.

Speaker 4 (22:25):
Well not only that, nobody else sounds like Ozzy, right,
I mean, he's just nobody else sounds like Ozzy. Nobody
sounded like Black Sabbath. And it kind of felt And
I just said this to Nia. I think the reason
that this is kind of a shocking death even though
he's had Parkinson's disease and he's really been a physical
hot mess for like years now, this is not a
new thing. But he felt like he was just never

(22:47):
going to die, Like he's Keith Richards and You're just
never going to die. And of course my first thought
is like where does Ozzy end up? Like in the
grand scheme of the afterlife? Right, like where does that go?

Speaker 6 (23:00):
Because you have to wonder, you know, I have no idea, man,
I just can't believe that fans, the people that you
know that that shockwave is going to take. The first
ripple is just now occurring, but I imagine the sweeping
across the country, the globe, the world. You look at
the millions of people that he influenced, fans, every you

(23:23):
know kid that picked up a guitar when it be
you know, Black Sabbath or Ozzy of the kid, you know,
I mean, his influence and his footprint is just gargantuan
in this industry, so much bigger than what people you know,
initially think with everything, and it's just a wild day

(23:43):
in rock because, like you said, you just didn't think
that guy was ever going to die. He's been through
so much.

Speaker 4 (23:50):
Exactly, and you know, to your point, I'm looking at
right now, when did Black Sabbath begin? Okay, nineteen sixty
eight really is when Black Sabbath started being a band, right,
So that means that they are only a year older
than me, right, and I'm old, I'm fifty five about
doing fifty six, and that that to have that kind

(24:12):
of stamina and to continue to have the kind of
visibility to kind of to continue to matter, right.

Speaker 6 (24:20):
Yeah, the relevance to be able to still command, you know,
the crowds, that just the bravado around Ozzy is a minch, right,
everything that he kind of does and as weird as he,
you know, he stumbles through sentences sometimes and other times.
I've interviewed him once and it was so funny because
one question you would ask him and he'd be like, well,

(24:41):
I was I think about this, I'm not sure about that.

Speaker 7 (24:44):
Yes, I like a car.

Speaker 6 (24:46):
And then the next one you would ask him, but
he would just be completely clear, very cognitive, you know,
sharp and just just like you were, just like wow,
he's on his game. And then next one and they
would be off the rails. He's been like that for decades.
But I mean, the man is such a figure and
metal and rock and has had such influence. He's just hard.

(25:09):
It's hard to think of him as not being around anymore. Yeah,
when he just you know, he said before that Farewell Show,
because initially that Farewell Show is unique. It was weird
because he was going to play a set with Black
Sabbage and going to do his own set, and as
time went on, his time on stage got whittled down
to the point where he just did like three to

(25:29):
five songs. I think on that Farewell show. A lot
of people pay tribute to him, but he said he
wanted to die on stage. You know what he almost did.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
He did. I mean, that's I don't know. We should
all be so lucky as to be able to do
what we love and do it until the very end
and then die surrounded by our loved ones. Come on,
I mean he's he had.

Speaker 6 (25:52):
I hate to say this, but he's a darker version
of Johnny Cash.

Speaker 4 (25:57):
Yeah, in a weird way. Yeah. I guess that that's
very right, very right, very similar trajectories in different genres
of music. Well, we'll be I know that you're gonna
be talking about him tomorrow and your morning show on KVPI.
So if people want to have more reminiscence about Ozzy.
Uh man, this one's gonna leave a mark, though, Willie
huge All right, man, I'll talk to you later.

Speaker 7 (26:17):
Bye. That's willy Be.

Speaker 4 (26:19):
Everybody, We'll be right back. I had not heard it
in some time. Tookxt the stirrup and the ground Mercy.
I saw it, mercy. I found meaning in those moments
between life and death, when you reach for mercy, God
grants it.

Speaker 7 (26:33):
I like that.

Speaker 4 (26:34):
I actually think Ozzy Osbourne was probably a pretty good
dude who made a lot of dumb choices and mistakes
in his life. But I think in his heart he
was a good He was a good person, and that's
why that's why his appeal is so broad.

Speaker 5 (26:47):
You know, I will tie that quote into the fact
that there will be no mercy for all of the
vendors on Amazon for plastic bats. So many plastic bats
heads will be bitten off in honor.

Speaker 4 (27:02):
In honor of Ozzy. Yeah, yeah, I hope plastic bats
because Betsy mosquitoes. Just remember that. Ye, no plastic bats.
We love bats. This texter on the Common Spirit health
text line at five six six nine oh said Ozzie
was always more coherent than Biden. Never was you know, eh,
I don't know, don't know. Ozzie's daughter said that his

(27:25):
farewell tour was actually like a funeral for him. I
gotta tell you there's some appeal in this, right. And
a friend of mine's mother was battling cancer and it
was a cancer that eventually took her life, and she
said she wanted to have the funeral before she died
because after she was dead, she wouldn't get to enjoy it.

(27:47):
And we laughed about it, and when she did finally die,
her daughter was like, we should have done it. We
should have had a funeral for her before she died.
And what a great way to go out being adored,
being loved, doing what you love, being in front of crowds,
screaming fans raising money for charity. Holy macaroni. This is
this is aspirational, just aspirational, and I'm here for it absolutely. Anyway,

(28:16):
We'll be playing as music throughout the day. I do
have a bunch of other stuff on the blog that
I want to get to, and we're going to get
to some of it after the break. That's a little more,
but I want you to bring your attention to a
news story. We'll follow it if it pops its ugly
head up again. But it seems that there's an apartment
complex in Denver that is now suffering some of the

(28:38):
same issues as the apartment complexes that we're taken over
by Venezuelan gangs in Aurora. That's a problem, that's a
huge problem. A family of immigrants Venezuelans who are seeking
asylum here in the United States called police and said, hey, man,

(28:59):
we are we are going through the same thing.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
Now.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
Will this be called the figment of someone's imagination? I
don't know. I certainly hope that we're now taking this
stuff seriously. So yeah, yeah, this guy. What's interesting about
this story that's on CBS four is the guy that
called the cops and is interviewed in this story. He
was in the military police in Venezuela and his family

(29:25):
immigrated because you said his father was a judge and
he stood up to the Maduro administration and that's why
they came here. So interesting. Interesting that that's happening in
Denver now, and I wonder if that changes anything. Of course,
if you go to the state of the state address,
everything is awesome. Everything is cool when you're part of

(29:48):
a team. Will you be posting your blog soon? Yes,
I know how to find it. It's there. When you
can't find my blog the normal ways, there's some things
that happen, and I don't know why, you should alway
go to social media, like my Facebook page at Mandy Connell,
my ex page at Mandy Connell, and you can find
the link there and that link will work. Even if

(30:09):
you go to the Mandy's blog page and it's not there,
the link on social media will work. I don't know.
I don't understand why it's happening. I don't know. Mandy.
What was that discount code for Blue Sky CBD. That
would be the promo code, Mandy, and it gets you
thirty percent off forever except on subscriptions which are already discounted.

(30:31):
So there you go. Anyway, we're going to come back
after this. We have a little bit of an update
on Congressman Jason Crowe's visit to an ice detention facility
in Aurora, and once again John Fabricatory, former ICE director,
here to tell us the well in between the lines
parts that we were missing.

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Speaker 4 (31:16):
Welcome Local bolcoming to the second hour of the show.
We are working our way through a busy day. Big
news Ozzy Osbourne has passed away. A Rod and I
are both still off off the air just talking about
this one. Just this one is going to leave a
market I was trying to think of. Is this as
big as Elvis dying for people back in the seventies, Aron,
I know people who's still to this day in twenty

(31:40):
twenty five will still go to Graceland on the anniversary
of Elvis's death. That's how impactful that death was on
them because they were your age when Elvis died, and
it really it struck. I'm wondering if this is going
to have the same kind of impact. Totally different kind
of music, of course, I mean he is just a

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rock icon, just just the epitome of rock and roll.
A bit more on the I don't know.

Speaker 5 (32:09):
I mean overall, he's kind of rock genre neutral in
a sense. And I and I and I say it
like that because it's it's he had a bit of
everything well in that.

Speaker 4 (32:21):
Well before you were born cool the things that Willie
B And I were talking about when he first came out,
When Black Sabbath came out in the early seventies, you
have to understand, like the sort of music that they
were that they were brought into right, Like, there wasn't
anybody doing what Black Sabbath did the way they did
it when that kind of music came out. Now it's

(32:43):
all very mainstream now, it's the background of commercials. Now
now it's like everybody loves Ozzy. But back then, if
you listen to Ozzie or Black Sabbath, you were a
devil worshiper, like your parents were going to send you
to some kind of Christian camp to get it all
cleaned out of you. So it was not mainstream at all.
So the fact that a guy who branded himself the

(33:04):
Prince of Darkness is now like all these people from
all these different walks of life were like, oh my god,
I can't believe Ozzie died without selling out. Incredible without
selling out.

Speaker 5 (33:14):
And you know, one comparison comes to mind, I think
is a good analogy, and obviously this is his was
from sports to being an icon, and Ozzie's from music
to being an icon kind of like Shack in the
way that from basketball to just being Shack. He does everything.
And Ozzie still obviously was primarily music, but he kind
of went above and beyond.

Speaker 4 (33:33):
We were talking about the various shows that he did.

Speaker 5 (33:35):
But I think to get to the level he did
without ever doing what you just mentioned, which was really
that people say like selling out or changing who you
are and what you do as your craft to cater
to whatever audiences won.

Speaker 4 (33:46):
Ozzi never really did that.

Speaker 5 (33:48):
No, he just kind of the genre kind of just
broad in a bit and brought in I think wider
audiences than just the hardcores from back in the day.

Speaker 4 (33:58):
But his top hits kind of everyone loves well, but
their mainstream now they weren't mainstream back in the day.
He was very, very controversial.

Speaker 5 (34:05):
Is it like that he is a music example of
a cult classic, but the cult's actually really big because
usually usually when you say cult classic, it's like, wasn't
that big back then? Still not really big now, but
has a niche following it kind of is.

Speaker 4 (34:19):
Like a bigger version of that. Uh yes, in a way.
And I would liken it too, the fact that now
I can turn on a Law and Order and I
can see Iced Tea, who was a gangster rapper back
in the day, highly controversial rapper, Ice Cube the same thing.
Now he's a respected actor. You know, these guys were
in there in a very sort of divisive niche when

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they started out, but now the niche is commonplace. And
and you know, for a white woman from the suburbs
to be listening to NWA, isn't that big a deal.
I mean, it kind of is, because people do stare
at the stop lights. But back then it was a
very niche kind of music, and now it's very mainstream.
And I think that's a that's a good analogy to
where But Ozzi even went beyond that. I mean, now

(35:03):
he's kind of like everybody's crazy grandpa, right, I mean
he's just you know, all your grandpa's wear an eyeshadow. Again,
it's just grandpa Azzy. You know, what are you gonna do?
What are you gonna do? So anyway, I didn't want
to talk about that again. I'm just still talking about
it off the air, and I do want to talk
about By the way, this texter said for me, Eddie
van Halen was more impactful. Eddie van Halen was a

(35:25):
musical genius, no doubt about it, but he never achieved
the kind of cultural status that Ozzy Osborne has. And
I think that's the difference. Chris says Mandy. Younger people
cannot understand how Verboten, Black Sabbath and Ozzie's music back
was in the seventies and eighties, And you're right, you
were some kind of devil worshipere like the kids at

(35:46):
school that puts back in the day, Anthony. We didn't
just get books from school. We had to get books
and then we took a brown paper bag and we
made book covers to protect the outside cover of the
book because back then we were expected to take care
of the things that the school at us borrow and
whoever had like Ozzy written on the outside of their

(36:08):
school book, because then after you covered it with a
brown paper bag, you then got to dool on it. Right,
You could write all your favorite fans. I had Billy
Idol and Derandorana online and the kids that had like Ozzy,
you were like, Oh, that kid's trouble. Look at that
troubled kid over there with Ozzy written. Back then, back
in the day, going to see Ozzy was the ultimate

(36:29):
sin pun intended. Yeah, kind of was. Okay, let's talk
about Jason Crow for just a moment, because I talked
about this yesterday and I want to make sure I
get this in today. So Representative Jason Crow went to
go visit an ice detention facility in Aurora. Now there
is a law on the books. He is absolutely right
about this that says that members of Congress have dropped

(36:52):
by ability to investigate and inspect ice facilities or any
sort of facilities whenever they want, however they want. And
he's not wrong about that. But I want to read
for you. John Fabricatory's response to Jason Crow on nine
News complaining about being denied entry into an ICE facility.

(37:15):
By the way, do you know what he went to
this ice facility? He went July third, Now a rod
is there something that happens around that time of year? So, yeah,
a little celebration. It's a long weekend this past year
where we were going into the Independence Day weekend. So
he shows up unannounced to inspect the ICE facility and uh,

(37:38):
and then made a big show of being told he
couldn't go into the ice facility. John Fabricatory, former ICE
director or the supervisor for ICE, had this to say
on x He says this was performance hard. Congressman Crow
has visited the facility numerous times during the week. In
the last year of Trump's first presidency. He visited the

(37:58):
facility thirty four times. In four years under Biden, I
was able to locate two on site visits. He wasn't
concerned as much under Biden to visits. He visited in
person seven times since Trump was elected this time and
was last there on July third. He knows the ICE
office is closed on Sunday at the jail and only

(38:20):
the GEO contract detention officers and a limited staff are there.
Having a limited staff on a Sunday is not safe
for the contract employees to try and shut down the
facility's detainee movement. He knew he would get denied on
a Sunday. Here's the visitation log, electronic visits or paperwork only,
and then on site visits or fiscal micro So basically

(38:41):
he's like, look, he did this on purpose, which clearly
he did clearly, so this was just show botary And
it would have been nice if someone at nine News
had said, well, why did you only visit twice during
the Biden administration? I mean, I realized the place was
probably empty because Biden didn't do any kind of border

(39:02):
enforcement or security, but only two times, couldn't be bothered
to find out what was going on there during the
prior administration? So weird, so so so weird. I love
this so much, you guys, Mandy. I knew a guy
in high school who wrote Ozzie Rules on his paper
book cover. Today he's a Baptist pastor. Oh scandal, but

(39:26):
is the Baptist pastor who has a liquor cart that
he shoves into a closet when people come over. I'm
just curious because I've met those Baptist pastors. Not all
Baptist pastors, of course, Mandy, the Ozzy kids always had
reputations and weed. Lol, that is so right. Like, if

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you wanted to find out who was selling weed in
your high school in the seventies and eighties, you look
for the kid in the black Sabbath or the Ozzie shirt,
and most assuredly that kid had pot on him. Absolutely right.
This millennial didn't know Ozzie until the Osbourne Show, says
this texter. Yeah, here's an interesting one. Ozzie's death will

(40:10):
leave almost as much of a mark as John Lennon's
in some ways. I think it cuts across more age groups.
And John Lennon's death was just so shocking because of
the way it happened. It was just so, you know, unbelievable.

Speaker 5 (40:29):
How diverse was Ozzie may ask. I told Mandy this
in the break. I never watched it, and it was
only a couple of years ago. Ozzy and his family
had a show called The Osbourne's Want to Believe, a
show that focused on paranormal investigations.

Speaker 4 (40:41):
With Ozzie in the gang. Yep, I want to watch
that now so badly. Well, I'm sure it's on YouTube.
You can go find it and give the Osbourne face
if it's on YouTube. Hi, Mandy, what you're saying is
spot on And just what I was thinking Ozzie was
forbidden potheads, we're going to be losing fast forward. Ozzy

(41:01):
is revered and potheads are millionaires because they were the
only people who knew how to grow when it was legalized.
Makes you question why we ever listened to our teachers,
church leaders and parents. Eh, you know, I know some
potheads in high school that didn't turn out all that well.
I'm just saying, Oh, it's streaming on HBO Max. There
you go. You know what you're doing this weekend? This

(41:23):
texter said, we used to cut class in eighth grade
to go to my buddy's house to listen to latest
Black Sabbath albums, and you probably didn't turn out to
be a loser, Mandy. When Black Sabbath debuted in nineteen seventy,
their first album was titled Black Sabbath, and their first
single was a song called Black Sabbath. That's marketing. It
is good marketing, isn't it really good? This texter, what

(41:48):
do you why do you always bring two Baptists with
you when you go fishing, because if you bring one,
he'll drink all your beer. Oh that's funny. If you're Baptist,
please don't be offended my Baptist jokes. I grew up
in the middle of the Baptist belt, not the Bible belt,
the Baptist belt. And I was Catholic, and I didn't

(42:09):
always have great experiences around Baptist people. I had a
Baptist preacher when I was like nine years old, tell
me I was going to Hell because we worshiped idols
in the Catholic Church. Do you know how many nights
that kept me up? So a few Baptist jokes here
and there, nothing means spirited, just spirited, if you know
what I mean.

Speaker 3 (42:30):
Huh.

Speaker 4 (42:32):
My mom was eight months pregnant with me when she
saw Black Sabbath open for led Zeppelin. What a show? Nice? Yeah, Mandy,
Too bad Jason Crow couldn't be worried about ice when
thousands of kids were disappearing. Too bad, Jason Crow wasn't
worried about everybody streaming over the southern border. That would
have been nice if he showed a little concern there. Oh,

(42:53):
someone is asking for can we just get an intro
of him yelling chun nice. Here's this for diversity.

Speaker 5 (43:02):
The New England Patriots of all accounts on extras now
posted the Pats The New England Patriots are sat in
to learn at the passing of music legend Ozzy Osbourne,
who provided the iconic intro for Patriots games for over
twenty years.

Speaker 4 (43:14):
Huh another thing on the resume. I didn't know that.
I didn't either. Ozzy Osbourne's nickname a text harass on
the text line Mandy and ay Rod. Do you know
Ozzy's real name and how he came to be known
as Ozzy? According to AI, it says Ozzy Osbourne's nickname
Ozzy originated in his childhood of Birmingham, England, where it

(43:34):
was common to shortening out of y or an ie
sound to names. His childhood friends began calling him the Ozzy,
and the nickname stuck throughout his career with Black Sabbath
and as a solo artist.

Speaker 5 (43:44):
According to Facebook, well, Wikipedia says it's John Michael, so
Jill John and Michael Osbourne.

Speaker 4 (43:52):
Yeah it is John My, but they added the Z
to Ozzy Osbourne. Oh yeah, see, it's like.

Speaker 5 (44:00):
Essentially last name, last name OHI yes, Ozzy oz.

Speaker 4 (44:03):
Ozzy name last name Ozzy was my first concert, said
this Texter at the old McNichols Arena. I was fifteen
and from a little town on the Western Slope. It
was the coolest thing ever. The opener was a band
I'd never heard of called Metallica, and they scared the
crap out of me. What is your rough?

Speaker 5 (44:19):
Guess how long it's been where you could just say
Ozzie and not his full na Madonna.

Speaker 4 (44:24):
Yeah, it's been a while. I mean, the only other
Ozzie that I'm aware of is Ozzie k Newsome. Yep,
So I mean definitely since the Osbourne's definitely, I don't
feel like he was ever just known as a one
named Ozzy. When I was a kid, he was Ozzy Osbourne.
You said both names, Ozzy Osbourne. Yeah, just that's how
you said it, Mandy. Three fundamental truths in religion. Number one,

(44:49):
Jews do not recognize Jesus as a messiah. Number two,
Protestants do not recognize the fallibility of the pope the
infallibility of the pope. Number three, Baptists never recognize each
other at the liquor. Oh my god, that's hilarious. Mandy,
do you know what the difference between a Baptist and

(45:10):
a Methodist? A Methodist will shake your hand in a
liquor store. Yeah, Mandy Black Sabbath albums, Are you crazy?

Speaker 7 (45:17):
Train?

Speaker 4 (45:18):
Eight track was the way to go paranoid. You know,
there was something magical and not magical at all about
eight tract tapes because you had to listen to everything again,
you can rewind. You just had to go back to
the channel and hope you got Oh, Ozzy and Harriet.
You guys are right. Didn't even think about Ozzy and Harriet.
That was before my time. So yeah, Mandy raised Roman Catholic,

(45:41):
married a Southern Baptist, still married thirty three years later. Yeah. Right,
until you go to Hale for worship and atles telling
you that's what they said to me, it's not very nice.
I loved that Paranormal show, says this text, A rod
showed how supportive he was for his children's ventures. Paranormal
seems to be Jack Osborne's thing, This dexter said, type

(46:02):
of music aside, how would Michael Jackson's death in two
thousand and nine rank as far as being an icon? Well,
the man in I mean his music. Obviously, Michael Jackson
was just a talent of a generation. The problem is
is that it was sullied by accusations of pedophilia, and

(46:22):
so that tinted the death of Michael Jackson, fair or not.
You know, I really I don't know what happened there.
I tend to believe that he had a seriously creepy
obsession with children that I could easily see crossing that
line easily, Mandy. I saw Ozzy Osbourne in twenty eleven.

(46:46):
I remember at the time how surprised I was and
how great he sounded live. I watched the entire stream
of his final show a few weeks ago. Great finale
for a great performer. And that, my friends, is how
we should all want to.

Speaker 6 (46:58):
Like.

Speaker 4 (46:58):
I mean, I'm gonna be like one hundred and somebody's
gonna be like, yeah, Mandy, why don't you come and
do a radio show? You know, come hang out and
do a radio show for half an hour, and I'll
do it, and I'll get all these calls from people
that listen to my show way in the back or
when their mom and dad made them listen kind of thing,
And then I'll just go home and die. That would
be awesome, super super awesome, be great. Pat Boone and

(47:21):
Ozzie were once neighbors. I bet Pat Boon's a good
neighbor like you could if you had a barking dog,
you could go over and just say, Pat, we got
to work this out. We just gotta we gotta make
this happen. Gotta take care of business, all right, you guys.
We've got a bunch of stories on the blog, and
I want to get to them. I've got I want
to figure out what I've got enough time for right now? Oh,

(47:43):
can we talk about the lie of wolf free introduction
for a moment, this entire thing. I've really, really, really,
really really been thinking about this, given this a lot
of thought. Why do we need wolves reintroduced in Colorado now?
According to this article in the Denver Gazette, let me

(48:06):
find it very very quickly, the notion that wolves restore
ecological balance is dubious. A twenty year CSU study found
no significant trophic cascade from wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone, suggesting
Colorado's program made yield minimal environmental benefits. Meanwhile, livestock is

(48:30):
being slaughtered now when we think about who was behind
the Wolfree introduction. Who was vocally in favor of Wolfree introduction.
I always think of the first gentleman, Marlon Reese. Marlon
is an animal rights activist vegan. He's not just like
a little v vegan. He is an animal rights activist.

(48:52):
And if I'm an animal rights activist and I want
to attack ranching in Colorado, how do I do it?
I can't do full frontal assault. I know, I'll just
bring some wolves in to do it for me. After
everyone on the front range decided to reintroduce wolves being
told it's gonna cost like fifty bucks. Okay, it was

(49:13):
more than that, but I'm just saying it was like
fifty bucks. Right now, five years in, we have spent
eight million dollars reintroducing wolves who have been spending all
of their time murdering livestock. That's what we've accomplished. I'm

(49:36):
not sure what benefit does I mean? It certainly not
a benefit for all the little baby calves that were seeing,
you know, splayed open by wolves. We're not seeing that
livestock ranchers are having to be reimbursed not just for
cattle that they know had been killed by these wolves,
but for the fact that a stressed herd does not
reproduce well. So they're losing money left and right over this.

(49:59):
And yet the folks on the wolf free introduction side,
when you talk about actually doing something about the wolves
that have been brought here, even though we were also
told this is another lie. We were also told that
they would not bring in any wolves with a history
of livestock depredation, and depredation is just a really easy,
nice way of saying murder. So they were like, we're

(50:20):
gonna find wolves that had never killed livestock. And what
did they do. They brought in a pack that has
been seen killing livestock even before they got here. And
that's a pretty big lie because here's what happens. Mama
wolf who knows that livestock are easy prey and starts
killing livestock, then has baby wolves. And you know what
mama wolf teaches those baby wolves that livestock are easy killings.

(50:42):
All you have to do is look for a big
heard of them. They're too dumb, they're too slow, they
have no natural predators. They just stand there and let
us kill them. I mean, I don't know if it
exactly happens like that, but I kind of have to imagine,
like the cows are like, what what is that?

Speaker 5 (50:55):
What is that? Oh?

Speaker 4 (50:57):
I'm dead. That's my impression of cows in Colorado right now.
By the way, I realize I need to work on
it a little bit. That that was just rolling right out,
you know, shooting from the hip on that one. So
it is another dumb idea passed by people who think
they know better, and now we're stuck with it. Mandy,

(51:19):
maybe Colorado should have built a magnificent Jared Polis Wolfbridge
from Wyoming to Colorado for Wolfree introduction. Andy, you are
an idea man. I don't know what you're doing with
your life now, but you need to just hang up
your shingle as Andy idea.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
Man.

Speaker 5 (51:34):
I like it.

Speaker 4 (51:35):
I like it a lot.

Speaker 5 (51:39):
Mandy.

Speaker 4 (51:40):
I saw Ozzy and Tokyo in nineteen eighty four. He
kept promoting, prompting the crowd to count for four and
seemed genuinely perplexed why they weren't shouting it back to him.
Legendary performer, Mandy, do we don't how much livestock has
been killed by wolves? I don't know, but listen to this.
In the current fiscal year alone, the budget for wolf

(52:02):
reintroduction reached three point six million dollars, two point one
million dollars from the general Fund, five hundred and thirty nine,
four hundred and fifty four from the Wolf Depredation Fund,
and additional revenue from non hunting sources and specialty license plates.
One rancher, Conway Ferrell, has claims right now for one

(52:25):
hundred thousand dollars for eighty nine missing calves in Grand County,
highlighting the program's fiscal irresponsibility. By the way, Ferreal is
part of a that that one hundred thousand dollars claim
is part of a three hundred and eighty seven thousand
dollars claim by one rancher. But tell me again why

(52:47):
this was a good idea. Okay, you know what, I'm
a big fan of two step note of verification or whatever.
It's called two step authorization? What is it called two
factor authorization? But it's getting a little stupid at this point,
you guys. I mean, now, it's like, hey, click on
all of these boxes that are that are motorcycles, and

(53:09):
you do, and then they're like no, no, no, no,
now you got to click on these that are motorcycles.
What are you doing? Stop it anyway. So the Freepress
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It's just really good. The headline America won't exist if

(53:29):
we can't build things. Now, this is one of the
reasons that how am I going to say this? I
think tariffs are not the best way to go about it, right,
But I had a story and I didn't put it
on the blog today because I didn't care that much.
So Mary Barrow, I believe is the CEO of GM.

(53:51):
I believe that's her name, and I'm pulling that out
of my memory, so that could be totally wrong. In
an Earlings call today, she talked about the fact that
they're investing billions of dollars to re onshore production of
GM cars. They're investing in factories, they're investing in technology,
they're investing in all of these things in the United

(54:13):
States of America. But you know what's not at the
top of the list. They're not investing a bunch of
in electric vehicles because guess what, we don't want them.
And as much as our betters in the Biden administration
tried to tell us that if if we just only
made electric cars, then people would want to buy electric cars.
The reality is much different because electric cars are still

(54:36):
not a one for one exchange with combustion engines. I
just read a really interesting long story a couple of
weeks ago about a guy who tried to drive around
the UK of England in an electric minibus by VW
Cute Little bus, Little cute little thing, electric bus. He
only made it halfway before he said, wait a minute,

(54:57):
what do you mean I need six hours to recharge
my bus? Six hours? And then he found out very
quickly that the actual number of miles he got out
of a charge was much different than what he was
initially told. They're just not ready for prime time. But
that being said, the fact that General Motors and other

(55:19):
companies are investing lots and lots of money here in
the United States so we can build things again is good.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
Now.

Speaker 4 (55:25):
I'm not one of those people who has this vision
of a burgeoning, you know, blue collar class rising up
as we have hundreds of people working at these factories.
The reality is going to be much different. It's going
to be a highly automated system. There's going to be
a lot of robotics. There's going to be a lot
of need for people to manage those robotics and fix

(55:46):
those robotics. But it's not going to be hundreds of
guys on the floor of a factory anymore. It's just
not going to be that way. And yet I still
support this investment for the reasons that are laid out
in this column. And I want to just share, like
a little snippet here, every great power, the Dutch, the British,
and then the Americans rose to dominance by building the

(56:06):
strongest industrial base of their time. That industrial strength produced
unmatched military power and global economic influence. It also gave
them the reserve currency of the world. It's not trust
alone that keeps the dollar dominant. It's the belief that
America can project power, produce what it needs, and manage
a war or crisis. Lose that industrial edge and we

(56:29):
risk losing the dollar's central place in the global system.
And they then go on to point this out roughly
every one hundred and twenty years, global leadership shifts hands.
And this is the paragraph that got me why. Because
success breeds complacency, Great societies, like great countries and companies

(56:52):
eventually get comfortable. They ride on the coattails of their success.
They offshore everything to developing countries because they have the
luxury of prioritizing returns an efficiency over resilience. It's easy
to chase lower costs abroad when the threats seem far away.
But when it matters, most these societies find they've lost
the capacity to build anything that counts. When Trump started

(57:17):
talking about our inability to build ships in the United
States and then pointed out that China is building hundreds
of ships while we build six, it really sort of
brought it all home. What does happen if China decides
to go all in and take Taiwan and then not stop.

(57:38):
I have another story on the blog today where a
gentleman pointed out that there are things happening internationally with
different nations around the world arming up. They are shoring
up their militaries, they are making sure that they can
produce their military goods because they are concerned about emerging threats.

(58:00):
Everybody's kind of gearing up for an emerging threat right now.
That emerging threat could be from China, but we don't
know yet, could be from somewhere else. In the late
stages of dominance. This author continues comfort replaces urgency, consistent
with Rob Henderson's luxury beliefs hypothesis, great powers in decline

(58:20):
convince themselves that they are still invincible. We think we're
Mike Tyson in his prime, but we're actually Tyson on
the ninety loss to Buster Douglas, unprepared, over confident, and
shocked when reality hits. So what are we going to
do about this? And one of the things that I
hope continues is the realization that we have to be

(58:43):
able to produce our own steel. We have to be
able to produce our own warships. We have to be
able to produce our own munitions, we have to be
able to produce our own semiconductor chips. We have to
be able to produce the things that we need in
this country in case something goes sideways. When you look
at Russia right now, we've had sanctions on Russia for forever,

(59:04):
and we can have a conversation about whether sanctions ever
work at a different time, but the reality is is
in response Russia, which is a vast expanse of land,
they have oil like we do. They have the ability
to produce food like we do. Maybe not at the
same levels as we do, but they do, and they
have now created an insulated economy. They don't need our stuff. Yeah,

(59:28):
our stuff might be better, whatever, but they don't need it.
Right now. We have offshore stuff like the production of drugs.
We saw this during COVID. We couldn't get enough personal
protection devices because we don't make them in the United
States of America anymore. And there's a lot of good
reasons for that, right and it's cheaper overseas blah blah

(59:49):
blah blah blah. But when we've lost the ability to
maintain our entire economy without imports from other places for
very important stuff, we are screwed. So one of the
things I do hope that comes out of the tariffs,
and I don't know where the tariffs end up. I'm
still not convinced that Donald Trump sees tariffs as anything

(01:00:10):
other than a bludgeon to get people to do what
he wants. Just look at the tariffs in Brazil right now.
There's no economic reason for that other than the Brazilians
are going after Bulsonnaro, who was an ally of Donald Trump's. Now,
do I think that's appropriate to use tariffs to meddle
in another country's politics. No, I do not, but I'm
far more isolationist about stuff like that than most people

(01:00:32):
I think. I think it's a bad idea, but if
it brings more business back to the United States, not
just to employ American citizens, but to ensure that we
can move forward and have an economy just in case, yeah,
I'm down with that, and I would hope everybody else
would be down with that as well. Hey, Rod, we
need to catch up with you because last we spoke,

(01:00:53):
last time, you were on the show with me before
the cavalcade of producers that I went through. In the
last week or so, you were going to see the
new Superman movie. Yes, this week the new Fantastic Four
movie comes out. Let's talk Superman first. I've heard varying
things about this movie, but you and Christian Toto kind
of have the same take. Yes, we have spoilers. We

(01:01:14):
don't do spoilers for the show.

Speaker 5 (01:01:16):
No spoilers. No one has to turn the dial whatsoever.
So actually you just said you kind of heard varying things.

Speaker 4 (01:01:24):
I've heard.

Speaker 5 (01:01:24):
Majority of people have really loved it ninety percent plus
in my you know, ways to consume media.

Speaker 4 (01:01:32):
Yeah, people have had nothing but glowing reviews. I really
did like it.

Speaker 5 (01:01:39):
I did not love it, right, And the more that
time has passed since I saw it, the more I
dislike it.

Speaker 4 (01:01:45):
Wow, you use the word dislike or not love? Yes, not,
kind of both? Yeah, because I want to be fair.

Speaker 5 (01:01:52):
It was a I've used this word and it's kind
of sense a simple word, but I'd used it so
frequently it feels like it's trying to be polite because
I want to love it, and I really wanted to
love it.

Speaker 4 (01:02:03):
It was fun.

Speaker 5 (01:02:05):
Yeah, it's a fun movie, but this is a movie. Yes, well,
I'm gonna tell you this, and this is exactly on
the nose. I forgot who said it, but it was
so perfect. In terms of a quick criticism of the movie,
it felt like I was watching Saturday morning cartoons. It
was too cheesy, it was too silly, and the other
this and this is my words. I think it was

(01:02:26):
too much of an overcorrection from the last ten years
with the d c EU. For those who are like,
what the hell you talking about DCEU, Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck,
the darker DC movies we've seen in the last ten years,
that switch has now gone to James gun who switched
over from Marvel. Now he is the head of the
d of the d CU and no it's DCEU, old

(01:02:48):
time DCU.

Speaker 7 (01:02:50):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:02:51):
It was way too much of overcorrection to the other
side of the spectrum. It was too silly, too corny.
A lot of this stuff Love and Thunder.

Speaker 4 (01:03:00):
Was it comparable?

Speaker 7 (01:03:04):
Oh no, no, no no.

Speaker 4 (01:03:05):
In the silliness, the movie was better.

Speaker 5 (01:03:07):
Okay, But where I have hope is David corn Sweat's
the best Superman I've ever seen.

Speaker 2 (01:03:15):
He was.

Speaker 5 (01:03:16):
I think this is just pitch perfect elite. Rachel Brosnahan.
If you don't know her, she's a lot in the
house for cards. Missus Masel has the cards best Lois Lane,
David Cornswt, best Superman.

Speaker 4 (01:03:28):
Nicholas Holt as Lex Luthor.

Speaker 5 (01:03:30):
I did not love, I should say, except for he
is a fantastic actor. That he was a whiny cry baby.
I'm not getting my way kind of Lex murder.

Speaker 7 (01:03:40):
I didn't.

Speaker 5 (01:03:40):
It didn't hit for me, mister terrific. I forget the
actor's name. He was elite. The pieces are there, and
this is my analogy for you. The puzzle box of
James gunn laid on the table. Box was open, pieces
all over the place, scattered, wasn't put together, clot was weak.
The components are there, which for the DC movies moving forward,

(01:04:01):
that's very important because we want those pieces to work.
This first project didn't hit as much as I anticipated
that it would. It was silly, it was corny, it
was too much. The plot was really weak, Yeah, really weak.
I had to like actively think as a movie was
going along about what the hell is going on while
I'm trying to enjoy the good parts of it. And

(01:04:22):
I will say the best part of the movie, hands down,
no doubt about it. James Gunn can say all he
wants that Crypto is after his dog, but visually, inspirationally
he must be following Poppy on Instagram because that is
where Jocelyn and I had so much fun. Because I
swear to God, the mannerisms, the way that that CGI

(01:04:44):
dog acted was literally like our dog, Poppy, and it
was the coolest, most fun thing.

Speaker 4 (01:04:48):
And without that, maybe I hate the movie even more.

Speaker 1 (01:04:50):
So.

Speaker 4 (01:04:51):
Let me just encapsulate A Rod's review of Superman. He
loved the casting except Lex Flouser's character and his dog
is really the star of the movie, which made him
like it even more.

Speaker 5 (01:05:02):
We got home where like we knew you were up
to something, we knew you were special on us.

Speaker 4 (01:05:08):
You better find out when there's residual checks start coming in, Okay, and.

Speaker 5 (01:05:11):
They will be because he's going to be in many
more movies to come. Although Poppy is a girl, so
it's gonna be Crypto not Crypto again again over Archie theme.
Like I said, the pieces are there. I'm really hopeful
for the future. This first project didn't hit in the
ways that I wanted to. Silly Corny, too much of
overcorrection to what the DCEU was with the darkness and
all that. David Corn sweat Best Superman and I'm talking

(01:05:32):
I'm looking at you, Dean Kane. He was very kind
to he was he was in Henry Cavill's Awesome and
a really good attractive dude.

Speaker 4 (01:05:41):
David Corn sweats our Superman. When we get back, Coca
Cola makes a big announcement about a product they say
is new but is actually old. We'll have that next.

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Speaker 4 (01:06:19):
I'm here Anthony Rodriguez, A rod right over there, and
we've been talking. Thank you, little girl. We've been talking
throughout the day about the death of Ozzy Osbourne. It's
been a it's been a big hit and not like
a good kind. But I wanted to switch things up
just a moment because last week President Trump tweeted out

(01:06:41):
that he'd been talking to executives in the Coca Cola
company and they had agreed to start using real sugar
in their coke products. Well, on that news, the entire
corn refining business collapsed because if if, if soda makers

(01:07:01):
stop using high fructose corn syrup, it unlooses it. It
just unleashes the floodgates of other industries, sort of saying, Okay,
if they're gonna do it, we've got to do.

Speaker 2 (01:07:10):
It, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:07:12):
And so Coca Cola kind of dodged on that a
little bit. They they sort of were like, WHOA, We're
excited that the President loves our products and thanks so
much for weighing in, but we're not sure now the
company has come out and said that they will be

(01:07:32):
offering a quote new version of Coca Cola, the company
said in a Tuesday statement, as part of its ongoing
innovation agenda. This all in the United States. The company
plans to launch an offering made with us Kane sugar
to expand its trademark Coca Cola product range. The coke

(01:07:53):
made with Uscine sugar will compliment the company's existing product line.
Now only marketing people can take a product that is
already sold in Mexico and in Europe because there's no
high fructose corn syrup in Europe where everyone is skinny.
I'm just saying, and they're gonna market it to something

(01:08:15):
new and different and exciting. How many of you regularly
buy Mexican coke from Costco or wherever in the big bottles.
How many of you do that on a regular basis. Well,
now you're gonna be able to do it in plastic bottles.
That's an interesting side note on this story, because aluminum
tariffs have now raised the cost of cans so much

(01:08:36):
that we're looking at at plastic bottles instead. So I'm
not sure how that makes us healthy again. Anyway. Now
people are asking questions like, Okay, let's talk about high
fructose corn syrup, and I'm here for it, people, I
am here for it. There are a lot of people
who will say, look, if you have a Coca Cola

(01:08:58):
with regular sugar, you just have a drink that's like
fifty percent glucose. Okay, And if you have a drink
that's sweetened with high fructose corn syrup, you've just got
a drink that is fifty percent fruit toose. And that's true.
It is true. You're still getting a blast of sugar
either way. And let's just start from the position that

(01:09:19):
sugary sodas have no value to you physically. There's literally
nothing good that comes in a can of sugary soda, period,
full stop. Like you could never have a soda again
for the rest of your life, and your body would
be perfectly fine, if not better. So this is a
completely emotional product that we buy. It's totally emotional, and

(01:09:42):
I actually think it's somewhat addictive. So what is the
difference between glucose and fruit toose. Well, I'm glad you asked.
There are more and more studies that show or seem
to show that the difference is how we in our
bodies actually burn fruit toase and glucose. Fructose and glucose

(01:10:03):
are very similar in that they are simple sugars. They
have the same amount of calories. However, when you get
right down to it, glucose, which is naturally occurring sugars,
even refined cane sugar, is still a naturally occurring sugar.
And I've actually seen the process of how they make sugar.
They boil it, then they cook all the water off,
and they kind of have the sugar left over. It's
not very dramatic, but it is what it is. Glucose

(01:10:26):
happens to be our body's primary fuel source, and glucose
enters the bloodstream and it gives us a bunch of
blood sugar, and then we release insulin which helps us
absorb the glucose and use it for energy. If we
drink too much glucose, then that glucose that we don't

(01:10:47):
use for energy due to the insulin, we then turn
it into fat for storage later in case we don't
have enough glucose, our body can then change that fat
into glucose and burn that glucose instead. That's the natural
processes of the human body. Fruit toase on the other hand,
which also is naturally occurring, not high fruittose corn syrup

(01:11:07):
or not high fruit toase corn, but regularly it occurs
in fruit. That the sugar in fruit is fruit toase. Now,
the thing, when you eat a piece of fruit, you're
also getting a blast of fiber and other things that
will slow down your bodies of doors absorption of fruit toase. Now,
when you eat a piece of fruit, your blood sugar
is going to go up more than if you ate

(01:11:27):
a vegetable. It just is because of that fruit toase.
Fruit toase bypasses the bloodstream almost entirely, and it goes
right to the liver and that's where it's processed. Now,
when you eat a piece of fruit, that's not going
to be enough fruit toast. That's going to cause your problem.
Plus it's got the fiber in there to kind of
slow everything down. But when you're just mainlining a can

(01:11:50):
of coke, you're just blasting your body, your bloodstream, and
your liver with fruit toase. Now they're starting to think
and starting to see people who drink a lot of
fruit toase sweetened beverages. Sweetened beverages, they end up with
fatty liver disease. Non alcoholic fatty liver disease is what
it's called. The liver then turns the excess fruittose into fat,

(01:12:15):
which can actually cause you to have insulin resistance. Insulin
resistance is what happens before you get diabetes, when your
body can no longer create the right amount of insulin
to manage these glucose and fruittose spikes. So there is
a difference. I promise you there's a difference. And for

(01:12:36):
many people, they may not see it. Think it's first
of all, I happen to think that sugar sweetened beverages
do taste better. But if you're trying not to get
fatty liver. And I have a young relative. He's now
wait how old is he now? He's about to be thirty.
And when he was like twenty five. He's not a
very big guy. He's not a fat guy in any way,

(01:12:58):
shape or form. You know, he's not the fittest guy
in the world, but he's not a fat guy. And
he was diagnosed with fatty liver disease at the age
of like twenty four to twenty five, and the doctor said,
what are you eating it wasn't what he was eating.
It was the multiple sugar sweetened energy drinks that he
was choking down every day. We're gonna take a very

(01:13:21):
quick time out, be back right after the Oh wait,
hang on, oh with Rick Lewis. Oh I didn't hear
that last part. I'm glad. Rick Lewis on to talk
about Ozzie. Good news though, because two things happened. Number One,
Coca Cola is making their their sugar sweetened soda available
in the United States again, because by the way, that's

(01:13:41):
what they had in the first place. And secondarily, hopefully
more people will take note and start to pay attention
to how these different things. If you're gonna drink soda,
just try and drink soda sweeten with sugar. I know
it sounds dumb, but if you're gonna do it, try
and do it the least harmful way possible. Okay, that's
where I'm getting. Let's take a quick time out and

(01:14:02):
Rick Lewis is on to talk about the death of
Ozzy Osborene coming up after this on vacation, but still
made time to talk to us today because Rick Lewis
from The Fox is the Man. Rick, are you as
shocked as we are, even though none of us should
be shocked about this.

Speaker 7 (01:14:18):
Yeah, you know, I was surprised when I heard the news, Mandy,
because you know, we just watched him perform what two
weeks ago, and yeah, obviously he was struggling, did the
whole show from a wheelchair, and he seemed pretty weak
and feeble. But the fact that he did that two
weeks ago, yeah, I'm shocked that he passed away today. Man,

(01:14:39):
we lost a total icon in the rock world, the
godfather of hard rock, the godfather of heavy metal. And uh, yeah,
I am stunned. You know, I'm starting to wonder too
if maybe that show was a little too much for him.
You know, I know we had to travel for it,
he had to rehearse for Yeah, he got through it.

Speaker 4 (01:14:59):
But I got an interesting text message from a listener
earlier who said, you know, he was in Switzerland seeking
treatment for his Parkinson's, but Switzerland also has assisted suicide.
And I'm not saying that's what happened, but it was
an interesting thought because Parkinson's is a terrible, debilitating disease,

(01:15:19):
and the fact that he was able to do that show,
I think in his advanced condition was pretty remarkable and
to your point, it had to have taken it out
of him.

Speaker 7 (01:15:30):
Yeah, and I wonder, I mean, looking back now, could
we could pretty much say that he knew the end
was near. I don't know if you heard the the
raw audio of him singing, Mom, I'm coming home, yeah show,
but I got a chance to hear that. In fact,
we played it on my radio show on the Fox
in the morning, and it was it was kind of
hard to listen to because he was trying real hard

(01:15:53):
not to cry.

Speaker 4 (01:15:55):
It was really emotional.

Speaker 7 (01:15:57):
Voice was trembling, he got choked up, and it's like
he was saying goodbye, Mama, I'm coming home. Rick real
very powerful. Uh, your listeners out there can probably find
it somewhere on the internet. And I don't think they'll
ever be another Ozzy Osbourne. He was one of a kind.

Speaker 4 (01:16:15):
He was one of a kind and talk about doing
things on your own terms. We talked about this a
little bit earlier in the show. This is a guy
who did it his own way for his entire career,
and now it seems that he planned his daughter. Kelly
was quoted as saying Kelly or Amy was quoted as
saying that this final show was really his funeral, and

(01:16:36):
that that's how they kind of all looked at it.
It was like the last chance to come out and
celebrate Ozzy. But even in death, the man goes out
the way he wants to. I got to tell you
him a little bit jealous, right, It's not like to
just live with reckless abandon the way he has and
to have so many different phases of his life.

Speaker 7 (01:16:54):
Yeah, that's a good way to put it. He did
it his way and he was true to his authentic self.
He never changed and all the way to the end
at fifty five years, close to sixty years of being
Ozzy Osbourne, and you know a lot of people were
surprised he made it to seventy six years old. And
then in some ways people were looking at him like, man,

(01:17:16):
nothing can kill this guy, right, Nothing's going to be
able to kill Ozzie Osbourne. Well it's it's eventually, you know,
the Parkinson's as you said, it's such a devastating disease,
and yep, I'm sure that was a big part of
what took him out.

Speaker 4 (01:17:31):
You know, we should all be so lucky as to
have the career that he's had. You know, I was
talking to a rod Rick because of a Rod's young
so he doesn't remember like we do. When Ozzy was
like this pariah and if you went to church and
you listened to Ozzie, there was gonna be problems, right
because he worshiped the devil and he'd bit a head
off a bat and did all this crazy stuff. But

(01:17:52):
when you think about the rest of his life, where
he's been basically like everybody's rock and roll grandpa for
the past fifteen year, right since since the Osbourne's came out.
What an evolution.

Speaker 7 (01:18:05):
Yeah, look at how many artists he influenced, and just
look at the lineup at that Back to the Spinning
Show a couple of weeks ago, was a who's who
of rock and rollers and they all played for free
reportedly and raised two hundred million dollars for charity. What
a way to go out. You are absolutely right. If
you're going to come to the end of your life

(01:18:26):
and you can have one last performance and raised two
hundred million bucks for charity.

Speaker 4 (01:18:32):
Man, you did it right, You absolutely did.

Speaker 7 (01:18:35):
Rick.

Speaker 4 (01:18:35):
Why don't you go and enjoy your vacation for a
little bit. You go on vacation for one day and
look what happens.

Speaker 7 (01:18:41):
I know, man, I'm actually in Michigan right now with
the family. I'm just about to jump on the plane.
But I'm getting calls and request for the last hour
and a half to appear on various podcasts. Yeah, I bet,
and radio shows, and hey, that's what you do.

Speaker 4 (01:18:56):
Maybe, you know, yep, got a strike while the iron's hot.
If they want to talk to you, you're going to
talk to them back, especially with something it feels as
big as this. Now here's my question. What do you
think the funeral is going to be like for Ozzy Osbourne?

Speaker 7 (01:19:11):
You know you said something interesting just a minute ago
that really was like his funeral. Yeah that we witnessed it. Yeah,
many people witnessed. I can't imagine it could be any
bigger or better than that. And all those same artists
that you saw at that concert will be in attendance,

(01:19:31):
and man, it blows me away. Like I said, he
was one of those guys that you never thought was
going to die.

Speaker 4 (01:19:41):
Yep, and now you know, you kill him. Keith Richards
is sitting at his home right now, going, oh crap,
Ozzie's gone. They're coming for me next. You know, They're
just these rock icons that are never going to die,
just like Rick Lewis on the Fox and a woven
part of the Denver, Colorado fabric. So you too, sir,
going to live forever. This is my prediction. I'm planning

(01:20:03):
on it right, man, Go have a vacation. I'll talk
to you later. Rick, thanks for making time. Appreciate you.
I love that guy. Talk about a guy that's just
as nice off the air as he is on the air.
You know, we don't really work with any dill holes.
Here a rod and trust me, in other radio groups
that I've worked in, there's always a dill hole. Oh

(01:20:24):
we've all heard stories, Yeah, none of them have come
from here. Now. This is just a lovely group of
on air people that are just the same off the
air as they are on the air. So let's take
a quick time out. I've got like five stories that
I want to get in on the next next segment,
but I've got to start with the story that reminded
me yesterday of why I cannot let go the conspiracy

(01:20:46):
about Joe Biden's health during the end of his administration.
I'll share why when we get back. I think is
how I got my credit card stolen. So Aaron sent
me a video today about qushing and what is quishing.
Quishing is when you go to park your car, for instance,
and it says hey pay to park, and it has
a little sign and on that paid a park there's

(01:21:08):
a little QR code and you click on the QR
code and parking site comes up. You put your parking
information in there, put your credit card info in there.
About it being bought a boom, You've been quished because
those QR codes are fake. Steve Seger on nine News
did a really good story on it. It's on the
blog today. But I just got a fraud notification two
days ago and I was like, yeah, did you just

(01:21:30):
spend two thousand dollars in the Apple store. I'm like, no,
I did not. It did not cancel that card. It
used to be such a big deal when your credit
card number was stolen. Now they're like, ah, we got you,
We'll send you a new card, cancel that one already.
It's on the way, Like okay, now I just have
to chang where all my bills go to. I talked

(01:21:51):
yesterday about the fact that the AP the Associated Press
published a column and it was a column, not a
new story and how Republicans just need to stop talking
about Joe Biden, because really, what's the point and looking
backwards and we should stop talking about Joe Biden. Okay,

(01:22:14):
do you want to know why I can't stop talking
about Joe Biden? And now why I still am not
over the fact that there was a vast conspiracy to
hide from the American people, just how addled he was
mentally a rod Can I have my computer? Please, thank
you very much. Now what I'm going to start playing

(01:22:34):
right now is fourteen minutes in twenty two seconds of
nothing but Democrats and Democratic talking heads telling you that
Joe Biden was just fine. This is a man that's
on his game, on his game, top of his game.
He's at the top of his game, at the top
of his game.

Speaker 6 (01:22:53):
Such a consequential president of the United States, a Mount
Rushmore kind of president on.

Speaker 4 (01:22:59):
The a the man knows more than most of us
have forgotten. On his game, I.

Speaker 5 (01:23:05):
Walk into the Oval Office or or see him on
Air Force one, I have to be on top of
my game.

Speaker 1 (01:23:10):
Do you believe President Biden is the future of the
Democratic Party, the strongest person to represent Democrats.

Speaker 7 (01:23:15):
In twenty twenty five.

Speaker 4 (01:23:16):
Absolutely is extraordinarily strong.

Speaker 5 (01:23:20):
Is the strongest, most accomplished president we've had in my lifetime.

Speaker 4 (01:23:24):
Boldest and strongest American presidents.

Speaker 5 (01:23:28):
We have had, focused and discipline leader focused, His recall
was good.

Speaker 4 (01:23:32):
Focus, He's detail oriented. Fitness is bigger, is beyond questions.
Message from full vigorous rate, physical health.

Speaker 5 (01:23:43):
That's effective and capable president, fully capable of doing the
jobable and ready to serve another.

Speaker 4 (01:23:48):
Time, Capable, seasoned and capable of the leader. I have
seen a lot of seventy two yeelds. I'm not as
capable as this eighty year old.

Speaker 5 (01:23:58):
If we have a talented and capable president, I know
what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna I'm gonna pot
this down right now, just for a moment.

Speaker 4 (01:24:05):
No, just leave mineup because I'm gonna pot it back.
I'm in a second. It goes on for fourteen minutes,
in twenty two seconds, and not a single one of
these people has been held to account. I haven't seen
anyone in the news media we would you know, ask
any of these people challenging questions. Were you lying about
the president's mental fitness? Were you around the president enough

(01:24:29):
to make an assertion that he was, you know, on
top of his game, vigorous. What is laughable is when
they say this is the most consequential president in the
modern era. Really really, I mean, you didn't really believe
that when he has said it, did you? Because I
can't think of a less consequential president than Joe Biden.

(01:24:52):
He was an abject disaster as a president. I read today,
Remember the Infrastructure Act that was going to bring broad
bait and and charging stations to everyone. Do you know
many charging stations have been built, like forty Do you
know much money? They got six point four billion dollars
for forty charging stations. That's Joe Biden's presidency. And until

(01:25:17):
and unless some of these people are forced to answer
questions about whether they were just lying about the president's fitness.
And then before stass why should we believe anything that
you say from now on? I'm not gonna let it go,
and I don't think we should let's go back.

Speaker 1 (01:25:35):
Like limitless reserves of energy energy.

Speaker 4 (01:25:38):
I seen he cares about the issues. He's and Joe Biden,
there's nobody better than Joe Biden. But how it is
hard for us to keep up with this president?

Speaker 5 (01:25:47):
Clear to me that he had the energy and the
appreviority to continue to do this work.

Speaker 4 (01:25:52):
I can't even keep up with him now. That was
built with passion and power and wisdom and energy. Okay,
I see his figure, I see his energy, I see
his passion. News about the Joe Whyden saw that energy
between nine thirty and ten am. After that, it was
a crapshoot. I'm not even gonna play the rest of
these because, honestly, fourteen minutes and twenty two seconds of

(01:26:15):
people blatantly lying. Either they knew and they lied, or
they didn't know and they chose to lie anyway, That's
where it feels and and that's why I can't let
it go. So sorry, Ap, I'm not gonna be able
to let it go until somebody bears some responsibility for

(01:26:36):
the biggest hoax pulled on the American people in the
modern era. I mean, come on, good news for Trey
Parker and Matt Stone. Did you see this a rod,
This story about the streaming rights for for south Park.
South Park has been on the air for over twenty
seven years. That's freaking amazing. First of all, that it

(01:26:58):
still manages to be the cutting edge and entertaining, and
it does. But they just sold the streaming rights, or
rather created a streaming deal with paramount plus for one
point five billion dollars. One point five billion dollars, I mean,

(01:27:23):
that is a lot of soap a peas at Catsubanita.
I would grudge them nothing. If I could create something
that someone would pay me one point five billion dollars,
I would do it. But I'm I don't. I don't
have any good ideas, and I'm not particularly clever, and
I don't do animation, and I don't know comedy. I
mean I do, but not on purpose. But that story,

(01:27:45):
for me, is absolutely fascinating. I just think that is
super interesting and good for them anyway, now they can
pay for all the oncoming bills for Caspanina. This last
story that I want to get into today is it's
precisely why NPR should not be getting taxpayer money. Catherine

(01:28:06):
Maher the CEO of NPR. She says that the reason
that NPR's funding was cut was because it had too
many non white voices and perspectives on the air. You guys, NPR,

(01:28:34):
their demographics are literally like white liberal people. That's who
listens to NPR. We have more diversity in our audience
than they have in theirs. I would bet you. I'll
bet you. So now she's saying that NPR is being
canceled because of racism, and I just can't. I have

(01:28:56):
another story on the blog today. Black leaders from I
don't even know who these people are, and I'm sure
they're lovely, but they've now come out in support of
CU Regent Wanda James and they're demanding the CEU President
Todd Salomon be fired. Why because the CU Board of
Regents had the unmitigated gall to officially censure CU Regent

(01:29:21):
Wanda James for what And this is where it gets good.
Wanda James, a pot shop owner, did not like CU's
School of Health Policy putting out the award winning tea
on THHC campaign because it potentially could hurt her business.
That's not what she said. First, she tried to say
that images were racist, and then when they took the

(01:29:42):
images out, she then continued to attack the science behind it,
while providing absolutely no proof that she had any reasoning
to say what she was saying. She sits on the
CU Board of Regents. Their sole job is to run
vote the university and move it in a positive direction.

(01:30:03):
Attacking one of their prominent schools is not how you
do that job. And now we have black leaders coming
out and say, well, as well, it's racism. It's not racism.
She was an idiot. She did a dumb thing, if
it meant that much to where she should have accused
herselfs from any kind of conversations because of a conflict
of interest. And if she'd just done that, we wouldn't

(01:30:24):
be having a conversation. Not that being censured means anything.
You have to have honor in order to care about
being censured, and we don't live in a society that
has honor in many different areas. So now NPR, which
by the way, is going to go under or it
only gets a fraction of their funding from the government.

(01:30:45):
One of those things is true. They're saying. Both of
them is now saying that the reason that we attack them,
we the Republicans attack them is because of their points
of view. Yeah kind of yeah, yeah, but not really
not from me. For me, it's about funding the competition.
And I'm sure, as I've said before, NPR is going

(01:31:06):
to figure this out. I'm positive that they are going
to figure out how to sell advertising. There's a whole
template on how to do it. It's existed for one
hundred years right here at KOA. We do it every
day free lessons right here. Figure it out. But this
everything is racism. If everything is racism, nothing is racism.

(01:31:28):
That's just the reality of it. And I'm just at
this stage in the game, the racism accusations are just
eye roll worthy. And the sad part is is there's
probably racist out there, right. I mean, there's probably people
out there who don't like NBR because there are race
I don't know. NPR the First Amendment is getting in
the way of news. That was an old It's not

(01:31:51):
really a quote there, but a sentiment expressed by the
CEO of NPR who set our commitment to free speech.
Sometimes gets in the way it's kind of supposed to.
And the only thing he gets in the way of
is propaganda. Mandy, one point five billion dollars for a

(01:32:12):
bunch of fart jokes. What am I doing wrong? Well,
you're not nearly as clever cause your furt jokes they're
not that good, Mandy. Looks like we'll be getting more kassamanitaes. Lol.
I don't think so. You know Cassibanita was a chain, Mandy.
That's also why I can't let the Trump stuff go.
He's a flaming train wreck, but everyone says he's the smartest,

(01:32:35):
best ever in the best physical and mental shape of
any president other the best deal stable genius. Give me
a freaking break. That's fair, That's totally fair, Mandy. Can
we just not build big things anymore? Why wouldn't we
want to build big things? I like the idea of
building big things. Then Albright joins me in the studio,
Where are you on building big things?

Speaker 1 (01:32:56):
Ben?

Speaker 4 (01:32:57):
Are you anti building big things?

Speaker 5 (01:32:58):
I'm pro pros big things with other people's money, correct,
I mean nobody likes to build big things with their
own money.

Speaker 4 (01:33:04):
Yeah, that's terrible.

Speaker 5 (01:33:05):
People we used to do what's that line from a
Sorkin What's one of the Sarkin shows where he's like, uh,
I think he's Jeff Daniels is talking.

Speaker 4 (01:33:12):
He's like, we used to do great things. We used
to build new things.

Speaker 5 (01:33:15):
And it more refers to like they constant of big
ideas rather than actually large things.

Speaker 4 (01:33:20):
But I love him or hay him one of the
guys right now, that's mister big ideas. Elon Musk.

Speaker 7 (01:33:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:33:26):
He here's the thing. Here's why I think this is
my little dime store analysis of Elon Musk. He is
missing the thing that the rest of us have that
makes us think to ourselves after we come up with
a big idea, well that would never work. He doesn't
have that. That's what wealth will do for you. Well,
but even though he was super wealthy, I mean, he
just doesn't have that fear, you know what I mean.

(01:33:48):
He's the guy that says, you know what, I think
we should go to Mars and then goes, Okay, who's
going to give me money to make it happen.

Speaker 5 (01:33:53):
I was literally on the list of people too. I
was one of the sign up but one of the
sign up people. So exactly my point, so exactly my point.

Speaker 4 (01:34:01):
I got talked out of it about woman, that's what
you all do. Stop on a dream dreams. I let
you do whatever you want to do, but you gotta
suffer the repercussions when it's all over. I wanted to go.

Speaker 5 (01:34:11):
I believed there's a little secret for you. I came
up thinking I was going to be an astronauts. The
whole reason I joined the army. All this stuff so
you get tainted with that space in Alabama. A lot
of people Florida is the same way. Like when I
was a kid, everybody wanted to be an astronhim. I
believed I was going to be the first man on
Mars for far longer in my life than I should

(01:34:32):
have believed that.

Speaker 4 (01:34:33):
One of the cutest things that ever happened when I
was a flight attendant is we were on the We
were on the plane and the astronaut, Alan Shepherd, was
in first class and we were flying out of Huntsville,
and there was a bunch of kids coming out of
space Camp and they all their little uniforms on from
space Camp. It's so cute. And one of the dads
recognized Alan Shepherd, so he came up to first class

(01:34:53):
during the flight, and Alan Shepherd went back and talked
to those kids. That's the entire flight cool like actual
astronaut and talk to those kids. It was just like
the coolest thing. And they were just stars pie in
the eye. I mean, they were just like, Oh my god,
I can't believe you're a real astronaut. It was one
of the coolest things I ever saw when I was
a flight attendant. Yeah, I got tied, never been Ellen Shepherd,

(01:35:14):
I met Buzz Alder, and I met Charlie Jo. When
Shepherd asked me out, oh he was in his seventies.
I was twenty three years old and almost got it.
All I could think of was to say, you know,
I was born when the astronauts got back from the
first Moon. Look that man spent his entire life saving
for the stars. That was so mad at me. Ben
My dad was like furious. Yes, I mean I'm not
imagine right, No, No, it's not a thing. It's just

(01:35:39):
gonna be gross anyway, and it's not time yet. Early
I was, yeah, I didn't know.

Speaker 5 (01:35:45):
Are you gonna?

Speaker 4 (01:35:46):
Are you gonna? Are you an Ozzie fan?

Speaker 5 (01:35:49):
I mean, would talk about it. I wasn't the biggest.
I appreciate his playing music. There are some of the
songs that I love and all that kind of stuff,
but I wasn't the biggest Aussie fan coming up. But
you couldn't be because he was a devil worshiper well,
and I was in a very culty upbringing.

Speaker 4 (01:36:00):
So yeah, exactly, super super as I like to say.
I was raised in the Baptist belt, so we all
learned about the back masking and how they were using
back masking to send us messages from Satan. Oh yeah,
and that Ozzy os one was actually Satan incarnate.

Speaker 5 (01:36:14):
Yeah, we had, we had all that kind of we had,
you know, all that kind of stuff in the We're from.

Speaker 4 (01:36:18):
The same belt, yes, yes, anyway, now it's time for
the most exciting segment on the radio. I was gowned
of the day, Ben, you were, so that is coming along.
So I'm telling you I like your effort. I like
the fact that you leave it all on the field
every single time exactly. That's by the way, real quick

(01:36:40):
on the South Park thing.

Speaker 5 (01:36:41):
Yeah, the Terry Schivo episode might be the most brilliant
bit of satire in the last thirty years.

Speaker 4 (01:36:48):
They have several episodes that I think they love.

Speaker 5 (01:36:52):
Not Warcraft said the Shiva one now like it's got
some it hits deep truths in that one too.

Speaker 4 (01:36:59):
Yeah, they've done that several times. So in any case,
what is our dad joke of the day, please, Anthony,
what do you call a skydiving metal head? Sky metal head?
A I don't know. Ozzie Airborne. Wow, that's all right, darkness,

(01:37:20):
let's just leave that on that from beyond the grave
on the decks on that one. Today's word of today, please.

Speaker 5 (01:37:25):
It is an adjective adjective exculpatory.

Speaker 4 (01:37:29):
Exculpatory means like in the case of evidence, it means
that evidence right there on the outside of the court room.
Let me know what you're ready. Exculpatory evidence is evidence
that comes in in a way. Let's see, I can't
remember it's It means outside the normal processes or something

(01:37:50):
like that.

Speaker 5 (01:37:50):
It would be to prove a defendant innocence, to clear
from a charge of fault or guilt.

Speaker 4 (01:37:56):
Thank you, obviously, I need to watch a few more
episodes of Long Okay, there you go. Our trivia question today.
Horsetail Falls, a waterfall in California's Yosemite Valley, sometimes looks
on a some wait a minute, sometimes takes on a
fiery orange color that makes it look like liquid fire.
What causes the effect? I mean where the place where

(01:38:20):
the placement of the sun is. It's a light magic
in late February. The waterfall is positioned relative to the
setting sun in such a way that the sun last
rays light up the waterfall. So there you go, Ben,
all right, what is our jeopardy category?

Speaker 5 (01:38:37):
Ozzy Osbourne's favorite songs. Wow, okay, this is more just
playing name that tune pretty much okay. Said to be
inspired by Judy Garland, this Elton John hit is actually
about giving up the fast lane for a quieter life.

Speaker 4 (01:38:52):
Elton Shawn hit about Judy Garland. Oh Mandy, what is
good Bye Yellow Percy? All Right? I was like, they're
not They're not. Apparently now now I get it.

Speaker 5 (01:39:08):
This Pink Floyd classic reminds Ozzy of his LSD days.

Speaker 4 (01:39:11):
Maybe it's that trippy cash register what is comfortably numb?

Speaker 2 (01:39:16):
I know what it is.

Speaker 4 (01:39:17):
It's the wrong what's money? That is inorrect? Okay? Ozzie
said his world stood still the.

Speaker 5 (01:39:24):
First time he heard this led Zeppelin tune that lends
its title to a film by Richard link Later.

Speaker 4 (01:39:36):
Like wait a minute? Song was yeah, Alex Trebeck, by
the way, thank you. I don't know. I'm giving up
what is dazed?

Speaker 5 (01:39:44):
And I forgot the director that I so forgot is
a big fan of the Animals. Cover of Don't Let
Me Be Misunderstood, originally recorded by this high priestess of.

Speaker 4 (01:39:58):
Soul Man's A Frame Glynn. It says Nina Simone, is
that the same no it has also it also hasn't parentheses.
Who is Aretha Franklins? I never know what the hell
that means? Has another answer but not blue like the
answer get it wrong? I guess so maybe I mean
on the show it says is the answer?

Speaker 7 (01:40:18):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (01:40:19):
So score is that'd be one minus one called the cow.

Speaker 5 (01:40:24):
Bell jam to end all cow bell jams. This song
by Mountain is not about a riverboat, you know what
I mean. I'm the music guy, like, I have no idea.

Speaker 4 (01:40:35):
I have no idea.

Speaker 5 (01:40:36):
What is it?

Speaker 4 (01:40:37):
Mississippi Queen? Oh god? That was as Ben the epic fail.
Thanks Ben, well done, well done. What's coming up on
KAY Sports Today? Myself Nick Ferguson. Dave's out, he's got
some vocal issues. We're trying to get himrested. We're trying
to get arrested up for the season, get arrested up
for the season and get to go with the creative.

Speaker 5 (01:40:54):
Nick Cosmiter, it was the media barbecue today, Nick and
I had to we're doing it the Orchard Blue Brunch. Yeah,
we're doing it at one place this year called the
burn Down over there on the South Broadway. So we
had to go out there and do that was. We
missed the media barbecue today, but Nick was down there.
We'll get a chance to talk to him. So Nick
cooking media people at Broncos training camp. Yes, the barbecue,
it's just as if it was the first I would
have been there.

Speaker 4 (01:41:15):
Yeah, you'd be the king of the roads. All right,
we'll be back tomorrow. Keep it on, ko A

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