07-23-24 FULL SHOW - Where is Joe Biden And can the Colorado GOP Right the Ship

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Welcome to a Tuesday edition of theshow. I'm your host for the next
three hours, Mandy Connall, MichaelCooper in for Anthony Rodriguez, who is
doing the morning show this week,and we're gonna jump right in. We
got a lot of stuff on ourplate. H Kamala Harris is doing are
do you have that up? Isshe talking? Is she no? Okay?
So Kamala Heris is doing a rally. We're gonna try and dip into
that. But I've got an interviewat twelve fifteen, and I've got the

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blog and so let's do that.Go to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog
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Joe Biden? And can Colorado gopright the ship? Click on that and
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today on the blog. Where inthe world is Joe Biden go to South
Korea and Japan with me? TheColorado GOP is trying to boot Dave Williams.
Can we take things back from theelites? Cheetle doesn't survive. Yesterday's
hearing was the debate, the beginningof the coup. Here come the Kamal
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to Omaha the worst paying college degrees. We are the seventh ranked city for
fitness in the US. Those arethe headlines on the blog a nambiesblog dot

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com. That's interesting. So Iembedded an interview with Jordan Peterson and Elon
Musk onto the blog today. It'sfascinating. I listened to about half an
hour of it this morning. Superinteresting. We're going to talk about that
a little bit later on. Butit says this video contains content from SVG
Sports and Entertainment, who has blockedit on copyright grounds. But I didn't

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see any thing from SBG Sports andEntertainment. I mean, maybe that's Jordan
Peterson's agent. I don't know,but I'll drop in a link to YouTube
so you can watch that because it'sreally worth it and very very good.
Now, coming up at twelve fifteen, we're going to talk to El Paso
County Republican Todd Watkins. He ispart of the group of people that are

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trying to oust the disastrous chairman ofthe Colorado Republican Party, Dave Williams,
and I got him on the onthe show today at twelve thirty. There's
now a giant, unnecessary kerfuffle,and the kerfuffle, the fact that the
kerfuffle exists is a further indication ofthe incompetence of Dave Williams as chairman of

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the Republican Party. And now we'vegot a story about the Colorado son talking
about how Williams has been grifting offthe party. They don't use the word
drifting. I use the word driftingto use party funds and resources for his
own enrichment. And the best partabout that is he failed at that.
So I'm down with that. I'mperfectly fine with that. He used party

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funds and the party's nonprofit mailing sticker, which is a bigger deal to try
and get through a primary against JeffCrank in excuse me, yes, Jeff
Crank in Colorado Springs, and Crankstill won. Now there's a whole bunch
of stuff going on, but Iwant to point out one thing, and
we're going to talk to Todd herein about six minutes. I want to

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point out one thing, and thisis straight out of the Democrat playbook.
And I don't often say like,oh, those were Democrats always do this.
But one of the things I havedefinitely noticed over the years is that
when Democrats stand up and yell thatthe Republican Party is doing something, chances
are it's because they are actually doingthat very same thing. And the calls

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of how if we want to savedemocracy, we have to vote for Kamala
Harris or Joe Biden or whoever they'veelevated to that position today, I mean,
when you think of how ironic thatis, considering that they just threw
aside a candidate who received fourteen millionvotes in the primary. And we're going
to come back to the fact thata mere fourteen million people participated in the

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Democratic primary. Now, I knowwe have an incumbent, there wasn't really
anybody else on the ballot. TheDemocratic part already locked out all comers.
That's another aspect of this that we'regoing to get into today. But ultimately
they have decided that those voters don'tmatter, and that what they said doesn't
it's not important. They have deposedthe president in his reelection campaign. And

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I say this as someone who definitelythinks the man does not need to be
running for reelection. I want thatto be clear, right. But the
Democratic Party, we now know therehave been stories coming out now that as
early as October of twenty twenty one, Democratic lawmakers had a serious inkling that
something was wrong and rather than openup the Democratic primary and let the Democratic

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primary voters decide who their candidate was. They hid the condition of the president
from the rest of the country,and they've hit it for some time.
I'm not saying there was a vastleft wing conspiracy, because what I think
is that the people in the immediatesphere of President Biden had been working double
time to keep him away from everybodyelse. But I also think that nobody

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was going to be the one tostick their head up and say are you
okay? So there was kind ofthis don't ask, don't tell among not
just Democrats, but the media aswell. And the accusation being levied now
in the Republican Party here in Coloradoby Dave Williams, the chairman of the

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Colorado Republican Party, is that hispredecessor, Christy Burton Brown, who I
like a lot, his predecessor wasthe one that abused party funds. His
predecessor was the one that didn't followthrough on financial commitments, when in reality,
there's been no evidence to that fact, and if she did skim money
off the top, then she shouldbe charged with a crime, none of
which has occurred to my knowledge.You'd think that would be kind of a

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big deal if they charged Christy BurtonBrown with a crime. I mean,
I would think so goov, wegot to call him at twelve fifteen.
He's on the calendar. I justwant to let you know. So essentially,
Dave Williams is taking a page outof the left wing playbook, and
anyone who disagrees with him is calleda rhino. And what's hilarious, you

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guys? I swear I was nevergoing to talk about Rhino Watch again because
it probably boosted their listener or theirviewership to the highest has ever been by
me talking about them on the showRhino Watch. Not too long ago added
Todd Watkins to the Rhino Watch GrassrootsHall of Fame. Yeah, hall of
fame. They got the Hall offame at the Rhino Watch. Well,

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now that he's demanding that Dave Williams, in his just glorious incompetence, be
removed. Now he's been added,I guess to the wall of shame.
I have not gone to check.Someone else told me that. I don't
care if it's true or not.It's delicious, But that is exactly what's
wrong with the Colorado Republican Party.You have people that are trying to thin

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the herd, even as the herdis naturally getting smaller, instead of doing
what they did at the Republican Convention, which is, let's see how many
people we can get into the tent. Let's bring on Amber Rose, Let's
have her talk to young people.Let's see if we can make the tent
bigger. Not in Colorado, ifyou don't pass some kind of dumb ass

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purity test put out by Dave Williamsand his ILK, then you're not good
enough to be part of their RepublicanParty, which by the way, got
their asses kicked in the primaries.You know, it's just it's nuts what's
going on. But we have tohave a functioning Republican Party if we are
going to pull Colorado back from thebrink of out California. In California.

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So Todd Watkins is going to bejoining us in just a few minutes to
talk about his efforts to follow theactual bylaws of the Republican Party, which
would seem like a pretty, youknow, pedestrian thing to do, except
that's not what's happening. Dave Williamshas crepped all over the bylaws over and
over and over again, and nowthat someone is actually paying attention to the

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bylaws, he is not happy.We're welcoming Todd Watkins from the El Paso
Republican Party to the show. Toddwelcome. First of all, Hey,
hi Andy, thanks for having meso in the interest of full disclosure,
I am ready for the post DavidWilliams era in the Republican Party. But
I wanted to bring you on today, Todd, to talk about what's going

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on right now. You have followedthe bylaws and called a meeting for this
Saturday, specifically to talk about removingDavid Williams. Is that correct? That
is correct? So what is happeningright now? There's been a lawsuit filed,
which is of course more money beingsquandered by Dave Williams. Tell me
what's going on with that process,So I'll speak to the lawsuit. I'm

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using air quotes first. Yeah.The only reason I know about that lawsuit
is because people like you guys inthe media are talking about it. I
don't have any other knowledge of thatoutside of the media contacting me asking me
for comments about it. So youhaven't been served or anything. They're just
there. So who So there's nodefendant in this lawsuit, So I mean,

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who's the defendant if he's suing?What? What that's a that's I
guess that's a good question. Ihaven't been served. I've told that I
am named in a lawsuit along withNancy from Jefferson County. Neither of us
has been served. I talked toher earlier today. Unless she's been served

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since I spoke to her, Butnope. Do you think this, I
mean, do we actually know there'sa lawsuit? I mean, that's that's
the big question. That's just couldjust be another lie. Well, the
media picked it up. There thereare lots of people in the media talking
about it, so I'm guessing thatthey saw something. I I well,

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this is one of those things whereit's a rumor mill situation. Maybe they're
taking the word of someone who saysthere's one because it and maybe you know
this and can correct me if I'mwrong. But it's been my understanding that
the courts have repeatedly said that intraparty squabbles are not the they're not the
the the court doesn't oversee that.So if that's the case, this is

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just more wasted money. So Itend to take that understanding as well.
I had a front row seat tothe most recent case where you know,
the al Paso County Chairwoman Tonkins spentover forty thousand dollars to prove that in

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January February of twenty twenty three.That's crazy. Well, let's let's talk
about what you are doing. Youare using the bylaws correctly. Let's start
with that. Tell me what startedthis whole process. Kind of unroll the
yarn for me, if you could, Todd, So, I believed that
from the very beginning, Dave Williamsannouncing and running for US Congress would prove

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to be a very clear conflict ofinterest where he is the chairman of the
Republican Party and has the helm orhe's he has the con of all of
the assets and machinery and resources ofthe Republican Party simultaneously seeking office, which

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he's It's not the first time heran for that office. He obviously wants
to win that seat and has forsome time, and it would be impossible
for him to not, you know, cross contaminate those worlds where he's the
chairman of the Republican Party looking outfor the best interests of the party,
writ Lard and simultaneously seeking his ownoffice against other Republican candidates in a contested

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primary. And you know, Iwas proved right about that. I would
like to think with the mailers thatwere sent out, paid for by the
Republican Party endorsing his closest confederates intheir contested primary races, and you know
the party did exert he expend resourcesand finances to promote certain candidates over others

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and attack other candidates as well.I don't think that's the role of the
party. We could argue up anddown, and I'm sure others will that
he didn't do anything wrong. Thebylaws didn't say anything against that. It's
not against the law. It's UNPETIit's BC can handle that part. F

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BC can handle that part. Peopleacross this country get fired every day.
And didn't break any any federal statutes. It is unethical. This is about
conduct, this is about character,and it's about performance. And I think
the electorate spoke resoundingly as to whatthey think of the strategy, the Republican

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strategy going into this election. Daveand thirteen other endorsed candidates in contested races
lost, and most of them tothe tune of sixty five thirty five.
It's my understanding that he I don'tknow if he demanded, but when Priscilla
Ron announced she was going to runfor Douglas County Commission, she was asked

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by someone to leave her vice chairrole. Was she not? That is
my understanding also, that they hada talk and that it would be a
conflict of interest for her to sitas the vice chair of the state party
while running for a county commission.I mean, would I wouldn't put my

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hand on a bible in a youknow, on a stand on that.
But I'm barely certain that is theconversation that was relayed to me that it's
why she stepped down, because Ithought it extremely you know, simultaneously ironic
and very hypocritical for him to notfollowed his own tutelage. So you went

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to the bylaws and said, wedemand if we have enough enough signatures on
a petition, we have to havea meeting about and you met that standard.
So yeah, yeah, yeah,of course they're saying it's a lie.
I wasn't able to prove it.You know what they're there, We
all know who these people are.They're part of the Central Committee. If
you doubt it, so seriously callthem an ask that they said, the

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onus is on me. I didn'tfollow procedures, which if there are procedures,
I at best they're ex post factoprocedures that they concocted in order to
say that we weren't within policy.There's no policy on this. The bylaws.
It's an Article seven of the ofthe Colorado Republican Committee Bylaws, Special

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Meeting. Twenty five percent of theCentral Committee request, you know, in
writing that a meeting be called.The Chair has ten days to call that
meeting ten days from the receipt ofthe petition, and if the Chair does
not call the meeting within ten days, any member of the Central Committee can

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call that meeting, and the meetingmust be held within thirty days of the
call. Then if you bounce overto Article five is the by law that
describes the removal of elected officers,and it's any elected officer of the CRC
can be removed by the CRC forwhatever reason they feel necessary upon at a

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meeting called for that purpose. Soyou tether these two together. We requested
that a meeting be called, youknow, within the provisions of Article seven
for the purpose of holding a voteto remove the chairman they called. I
delivered that addition to them by emailto the three elected officers and all the

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executive committee on I believe it wasJune twenty sixth. They the vice chairwoman
called a meeting for August thirty firstto consider petitions and controversies, and I
forget what other. Yeah, butit will let's gloss over that nonsense because
I've talked about that on the showbefore, and it's also stupid that I

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don't want to waste time because I'veonly got another minute or two with you.
Do you have Do you think doyou have enough people that are coming
to Saturday's meeting that are going tobe willing to bounce David Williams out,
Yes, you do you think youhave the numbers? Yeah, we wouldn't
be doing this we didn't think wehave the numbers. Well, Todd,
I'm here for it, okay,because we have to have a functioning Republican

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party in Colorado if we are goingto kind of write the ship and start
winning races again and doing the thingsthat we need to do to have a
voice in Colorado government, which whichthe Republican Party does not have now,
So who is going to step upinto that leadership position? Are there people?
And I don't care if you namethem or not, but are there
people who have expressed interest in takingover the party which is divided into shambles

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right now? Yes? There are, And I want to, you know,
say to you and your audience.I'm not going to get into the
business of king making or regime change. This needs to be fixed. The
body is who will remove him,and the body will choose the next leader.

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I'm not going to, you know, stump for any particular character candidate,
but there are who have voice that'sinterest in it, and if the
body wants them, the body willhave them. All right, Todd,
I appreciate you making time today,Todd Watkins from the l pasogop. I
will be watching Twitter with baited breathon Saturday to see the outcome of this.

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I really appreciate first of all youtaking the initiative to help hold begin
the process of rebuilding the Republican Party. Again, Todd, thank you for
your time. All right, Ihave a good day, that is,
Todd Watkins will be right back.That story you guys have We had the
nuttiest six months of political stuff ever, I'm beginning to think so I said

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it yesterday, the October surprise isgoing to have to be space aliens to
top all of this. But BobMenendez, Senator Bob Menendez is stepping down
after being convicted. That had tobe expected. So I'm I don't know
the replacement procedure for New Jersey,but we'll see what happens there. To
the text messager who just texted aboutthe Central Committee meeting for the Republican Party

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happening on Saturday, they said,what time and where Saturday in Brighton.
If you are not part of theCentral Committee, I don't believe this is
an open meeting. So if youare part of the Central Committee, you
should have already been notified. Andlet me just say this. I don't
normally do this, but I amgoing to to plead on the radio right

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now. And if you are onthe Central Committee and you are listening to
this, and you are and youknow other members of the Central Committee who
are not planning on going on Saturday, please for the love of all that
is holy, go to the meetingon Saturday in Brighton and remove Dave Williams.
The party is spiraling out of controlunder his leadership. And I don't
normally do this, but I'm beggingyou. I am begging you to get

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on the phone, talk to otherCentral Committee members, get them there and
find a new leader. Get someonewho cares about getting Republicans elected to positions
in Colorado. Okay, Kamala isspeaking, We're gonna dip into her.
Rallies, see how fire it isshe is in Milwaukee. Let's bring that
up now less, thank you,And it is so good to be here

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and be back with so many extraordinaryleaders, including my friend, the great
governor of Wisconsin, and Tony Evers. He's here somewhere, my dear friend,
Senator Tammy Baldwin. And you knowI have the privilege of serving with

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Tammy when I was in the UnitedStates Senate, and she is always fighting
for the people of this state.And I know that the folks that are
here are going to make sure youreturn her to Washington. Saying and down
while she's doing introductions, just listenin and see when she gets to actual
meet of her speech, because she'sgot to go through a few more introductions.
One thing I noticed at the RepublicanNational Convention, And she just reminded

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me of this now, is thatpeople don't just say I represent the people
of Colorado or Wisconsin or Nevada.Every single politician I fight for the people
of my great state or my districtor wherever they are I fight. Don't
you think we need a ratchet thatback? I mean, we're all being

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told that after the assassination attempt onDonald Trump, which, by the way,
that's just fallen out of the headlines, hasn't it the actual investigation into
the young man who was so Idon't even know what warped that he decided
to try and take out the Presidentof the United States. I mean,
that's a that's a big swing,you guys, that's a big swing.

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Thankfully it was a swing and amiss or near miss. But at what
point do our elected officials have tostop with that? And I realized that
people want to know that somebody's goingto go up there and represent them,
and nobody wants to have a candidatestand up and say, you know what,
I'm going to go up there andwork with people and get things done.
We're gonna we're gonna find ways tosolve these difficult problems, and we

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may not get everything that we want, but we're going to get some of
it, and we're going to makesure that we represent you. I Unfortunately,
I don't think it's a winning messageat this point. Is she in
the media this Okay, We're goingto go back to Vice President Kamala Harris
right here in Milwaukee. She looksgood and you all helped us win in

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twenty twenty and in twenty twenty fourwe will win again. Gamer Galton says
Kamala is getting names right, notcalling on dead people to stand up.
She's already doing better than Joe.That's true. Go ahead, I've but
a few words about our incredible presidentJoe Biden. I don't want to hear

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the incredible words about the incredible JoeBiden because you guys, and I tweeted
this out yesterday, all of thesepeople that are saying all these wonderful things
about Joe Biden will turn on himso fast. If the Democrats lose in
November, it will be remember afterthe deified Ruth Vader Ginsburg died, all

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of the lefties turned on her fornot doing the right thing and dropping out.
Well, if they lose in November. All of these people are saying
all these wonderful things about Joe Bidenare going to turn around and say he
should have dropped out sooner. Hesaid he was going to be a transitional
president. He never was supposed torun for a second term, and they're
gonna rip him and his lousy legacyto shreds. So I just am not
listening to any more of the Ohmy god, can you believe how amazing

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Joe Biden is. This is alljust to bring in any Joe Biden voters
who are salty that he got stabbedin the back and thrown out. It's
interesting the text messages that are comingin here, and I'm gonna share some
of these. Mandy, why doesKamala always sound like she just downed a
handful of pot gummies? She's noMichael Bennett in that respect. Well,

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let's potter up and just listen toher voice for a second, because all
of these are about her voice.Bring it up for me. Couver is
she just blobbedy blog? Yeah?Bring that up again real quick. The
cure the Democratic nummy h And Iam so very honored and I pledge to

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you I will spend the coming weekscontinuing to unite our party so that we
are ready to win in November.Daddy, she sounds drunk, says this,
Texters. Friends, we have onehundred and five days until election day,

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and in that time, we've gotsome work to do. But we're
not afraid of hard work. Welike hard work, don't we. And
we will win this election, Yeswe will. She looks very comfortable giving
this speech. She looks to you. Before I was elected Vice president,

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before I was elected the United StatesSenator, I was elected attorney general of
the state of California, and Iwas a courtroom prosecutor before then. And
in those roles, I took onperpetrators of all kinds, credators who abused
women, fraudsters who ripped off Swimmer, the Trump attack right here, cheaters

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who broke the rules for their owngame. So hear me when I say
I know Donald Trump's type. Oh, that's a really good swam in the
little the political swims. That isa good one. And obviously the crowd
goes, well, now something,because you know about Milwaukee. Bring that

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down just a little bitcouver. Milwaukeeis forty percent African American it is almost
a majority minority city, so I'mguessing she has a really big crowd here.
Uh and a lot of Milwaukee Heiteswere super annoyed by the RNC even
being there, So this is avery friendly crowd she's talking to. I

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will proudly put my record against hisany day of the week. So now
that's going to be in the store. She probably should have stuck with the
cool attack line because her record andTrump's record California, you know anyway,
it's largest for profit colleges that wasscamming students. Yeah, you can read.
I don't care. This is justa campaign speech. I don't really

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care that much. I mean,we're gonna if she says anything weird or
breaks out into a cackle, we'llhear that all later. But she's on
the trail, she is the presumptivenominee in her mind and the minds of
the Democratic Party. We're gonna havea conversation about a couple of aspects of
this in just a minute. Iwant to remind people if you have ever
wanted to find out more about RegentRevolution, I'm going to be at their

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office tomorrow from four to six.I will give you a guided tour myself.
That's how much time I've spent there. No, I know everything about
it and there's going to be cupcakes. But I want to remind you it's
in Oravada on Ralston Road, easyto find, very easy to find.
So if you're going to be inthe area from four to six tomorrow,
stop, but I'd love to giveyou a tour of the joint. We
will be right back after this.We're leaving in June of next year.

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It'll be the only trip next yearbecause it is a whopper. It is
a trip to South Korea and Japan. Visit Mandy connelltrip dot com to find
out more about that. And rightnow we're talking about Kamala Harris. She
is having her they said, firstrally, but I'm getting a lot of
text messages that say this, thatis the same script she followed yesterday in

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order same phrasing. You know what. It's her second day as the candidate,
and I'm willing to give her atiny bit of grace. What I
find interesting is how many of youare commenting on her voice. And as
one who works in an industry wherevoices everything, I think I'm a little
bit sensitive to those comments because thosecomments similar comments have been used against me

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in my radio career. So youguys are weighing in. She sounds drunk.
It's like fingernails down a chalkboard.She sounds like Fran Dresser. I
don't think she sounds like Fran Dresherat all. I think that's a little
too harsh. So yeah, isthis going. Is she gonna use this
tired line every time she speaks?If it keeps getting laughs like that,

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I would keep using it. Youguys think comedians switch it up at every
single show. No, they donot. They do not. Whoever texted
me Kamala is the Gildroy Lockhart ofpolitics. I burst out laughing on that
one. If you're a Harry Potterfan, that made me laugh really hard.
So thanks for that. I appreciateyou. I appreciate you a lot.

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This texter said Mandy. People betterget used to the fact that Kamala
Harris is probably going to be abetter speaker by default than Joe Biden never
was. And that's probably to herbenefit. Not that I'm endorsing her,
because I'm not endorsing anybody at thispoint, but that is an excellent point
and one that I tried to makeyesterday. Kamala Harris comes with a lot

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of weird baggage, all that camebefore her and all that was, but
she also is a much more coherentcandidate than Joe Biden. And to think
that this is just going to bea walk in the park, like,
oh, Trump's going to roll rightover her, well, you know what,
guys, The Democrats told me beforethe first debate that Joe Biden was
going to steamroll right over Donald Trump. And we all know how that worked

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out. It didn't work out wellat all. And as a matter of
fact, I have a story onthe blog today that the debate was the
beginning of the palace coup that tookout Joe Biden in the next election cycle,
that the debate was purposely we neverhave debates that early. We never
ever have debates before the conventions.I don't remember it ever happening in my

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lifetime. I might be wrong.I haven't looked at every single debate schedule
that it always happens after the convention. So why did these schedule it so
early. Word on the street isis that they knew it would expose how
badly Joe Biden had declined, andthat then he would be shoved out.
And as a matter of fact,the same article makes the accusation that the
Democrats threatened to use the twenty fifthAmendment on Joe Biden to get him out

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office if he didn't step down.It's kind of like yesterday, what's this
woman's first name? Why can't Iremember Cheatles? Director of the Secret Service?
Catherine Kimberly? Thank you? Whycan't I not remember this Kimberly Cheatle?
Yesterday? There was no way shewas keeping her job after those congressional
hearings, No way at all.I think she looked drugged, to tell

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you the truth, because I don'tknow how she kept her composure after just
being relentlessly hammered by all these differentbipartisan members of Congress. So when enough
people come to Joe Biden and say, look, do you want to be
the guy who has the legacy ofstepping down for the good of the country,
or do you want to be theguy removed because of the twenty fifth
Amendment? Which do you want tobe? And this was all part of

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the Palace goo. They put JoeBiden up there specifically because they knew exactly
what was going to happen. Now. I actually think that Joe Biden coming
out and endorsing Harris immediately after announcinghe was stepping down, I don't think
that part was planned. I thinkthat was a giant middle finger to the

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establishment who kicked him out. Andthen as soon as he did it,
all of these other Democrats who maynot have been in on the call,
they started to endorse, and theycreated a wave of endorsements, and nobody
wanted to be left off the waveof endorsements. And we've got to sluidify
around Kamala Harris. Forget about thefact that she didn't even win a single
delegate when she ran for president,that she dropped out I think before Iowa

(32:30):
or right after one of those twotimes. She was a wildly unpopular candidate,
even for Democrats. But now secondcoming of christ best candidate in the
history of candidates. Oh my god, we can't believe that she was hiding
and playing fight like that. Ohthe meccanations. Now, my next guest
coming up in the next hour,We're gonna look at politics from a completely

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different perspective. My next guests saythey are working very diligently to bring government
back to the people and remind thempeople in power that they work for us,
not the other way around. We'lldo that right after this. Keep
it on KOA. The Mandy ConnellShow is sponsored by Belle and Pollock Accident
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God want to say, can thenicety great? Many Connell, Keith
sad Things, Welcome, We welcometo the second hour of the show.
And man, we have been talkingabout all kinds of political machinery going and
we're talking about left versus right andeverything else. And my next guests are

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two women who are trying to remindgovernment again that we work for them,
not the other way around. Joiningme now, Debbie James and doctor Heather
Potter. Ladies, welcome to theshow. Thank you, Mandy, it's
great getting to talk to you.Well, Debbi, I'm gonna start with
you here. Thank you. I'mgoing to start with you, Debbie.
Tell me what you're doing. Well. About three years ago our group started

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and we came up with this ideafor running two initiatives so that we can
form a government a true democracy.That is of bite and for the people.
What these two measures are is onehaving a public owned news so that
we can stop hearing all the propagandaand get to hear independent and hear and

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read independent journalism that tells us thetruth of what's going on, so that
we can make proper decisions. Andthe second part is setting up community councils
that would first take over city budgetsand then take over the state budgets.
And I can get to that partlater about about that jump. And so

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we tried running a statewide and hitthe roadblock that we're hitting right now is
that we have no name recognition andso no one would return phone calls or
emails. So we broke it down, tried to do it locally, and
I ran into a councilwoman I know, who said, if she could get
reelected and find six cohorts, thatthese two measures could simply be referred to

(35:22):
the ballot by city council. Whata deal. Here are politicians, So
we elect doing something good for us, So that spoiled us, knowing that
that could happen. What happened inthe end, she did not get re
elected, so we had to regroupand figure out what we were going to
do. And that was the pointthat we realized not only could we do

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this nationwide, but we could doit worldwide. And the thing that we
have to do is plant the seed. Now, this whole thing is based
on three times in American history wherepeople gathered together across whatever lines there were
at the time, they figured outtheir problem, they developed a plan,
they executed it, and they won. The first time was the bost and

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Tea Party, and what we learnedfrom that was having a surprise attack.
And that was the eighteenth century model. The nineteenth century model was the American
Grange movement, which was set upafter the Civil War to bring people together
who had been torn apart by strife. And the good thing about these Granges,
the wonderful thing is that here itwas after the Civil War and they

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decided that women would have equal powerwith men, they would have full voting
privileges. This was a half centurybefore women would get the vote. The
other good thing that the Grange did, and they're still in existence today.
There's one up at Naiwat, thisfunctioning going on. And the other thing

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they did is have a children's programso that it raised these kids up learning
about democracy, how to be responsiblefor it, practice it, so that
then when they were fourt they wentin with their elders, they had a
full vote, and then at sixteenthey could stand for office or get committee
assignments. So we see that inour community councils too, so that just

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like Athenian democracy, it's an everydaypart of the life. We don't ever
want again to have whatever whoever isruling us going on doing whatever they please,
however they please to do it,and we having we have absolutely no
say, I mean, this iscomplete craziness. Well, so that's where

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we're at right now, is tryingto jump this to some really big podcasters
who do this so that we canget this word out internationally. We call
this the Mosquito Revolution. Why becausefor more than half a century, every
time a movement of people would riseup and start making strides, they get

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smacked down like little mosquitos. Butif mosquitos gather together in a swarm,
they can put the ruling class onthe run. And that's what we intend
to do. We need to havea big enough massive people, which is
the lesson we've learned from the twentiethcentury model, which was the civil rights
movement. Once you get a criticalmassive people, then you get the media

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on your side. You know,they start reporting what you're doing, and
the favor goes to you, andso you win. Let me, let
me ask how did you come tothis movement? Tell me about your sort
of background and what made you wantto be a part of this. So
Debbie and I are friends, andshe was talking to me about it,

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and I haven't been super involved inanything politically in my life, and I
just feel like the only way todo something is to start locally. And
so when Debbie started talking to meabout this, and it interested me because
I do feel like we need change, and really, I just think that

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the change happens here locally. I'mgonna play Devil's advocate for a minute,
because I worked in the media fora very long time and we currently have
publicly funded broadcasting in PBS, andit has been, in my view,
ideologically captured by journalists who believe thatthey are right down the middle, but

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in reality are are left of centeralmost consistently. So let's start from that
position. How do you where doyou find these truly unbiased journalists? Where
do you get the people that aregoing to do stuff right down the middle
and just tell you the truth,because trust me on this, there's not
a big stockpile of them rolling aroundwaiting for something to come along. Unfortunately,

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it's true, though, well Ithink you identified it properly. The
way I tell if I and gettingunbiased opinion, is if that journalist is
holding both sides accountable. Now,I don't know if you know it,
but it was the guy who workedfor MPR. He was in the upper

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echelons of that. He came outand said he was sick of everything being
steered toward the left side and awayfrom the right side. But yet it's
our public dollars. It's people onthe right who are paying to fund that
news organization. The same with PBS, so I derogatorily call it propaganda Broadcasting

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Service and National Propaganda Radio. SoI don't believe. I used to watch
those and it was when I wasbrainwashed, and looking back on it,
I'm ashamed that I was so ignorant, and I get really frustrated now with
people who don't realize they're not seeingtheir side being held accountable. I agree,

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but that's what I yeah, thatis that doesn't necessarily answer my question,
though, how do you prevent anypublicly funded organization from being ideologically captured
when so many people in journalism areleft of center. I mean, this
is a huge issue. I meanthat I don't I don't know if I
even understand like how big that issueis of where you're going to find people

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that are going to shoot straight downthe middle. Well, I'm kind of
I listen to huge and read hugenumbers of them, and I call them.
There's the Diasthemin Democrats who are disgustedwith what's going on in the Democratic

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Party. They left it long timeago, so they're going after and exposing
all that rot. So you canread that. There's people on the right
also who are holding the right accountable. So, you know, it's interesting
whenever you tell the truth, likewhen Tucker Carlson told the truth, he
got fired. So that's the wayyou tell there's a lot of independent journalists

(42:07):
out there, believe me. SoI see those people, you know,
say, you know, we getthis public owned news up and so you
know, the community council gets together, they get a pick who the editor
is, and they look at thebackground of this person. You know,
the reporting that they did. Didthey hold both sides accountable? You know?

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Did they go after reading out corruption? How do you Let's talk about
the community council aspect of this fora second, because you brought it up
initially in the form of we're goingto bring people together to work on the
budget, which I think is anamazing idea. But how do you choose
the people that go onto the communitycouncil? Is that evenly divided between Republicans,
Democrats and independents? What does thatlook like in your mind? Well,

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excuse me, we said it baderror. As you were saying,
we set it up taking after thegrange. So the doors are open and
everybody's welcome. So it's a community. So you'll go like twice a month
to a community council meeting, Youmeet with your neighbors perhaps you know,

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you order food in, and youput the commune back in community council.
There's a business meeting first, justlike there are in grange meetings, and
then there's always a program to elucidateand inform. So these are people talking
together at at the grassroots level.They're all connected to throughout the city to

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the other granges. You elect delegatestoo, and this is based on Vermont's
Vermont has already has a citizen processfor determining their state budget. So you
elect delegates who go to work onthe budget and they report directly back to
you. So we're sending information wewant this in the budget and we want
to spend this much. So theytake that Carriet advocate for it. And

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this process has been working beautifully forquite a number of years. It's then
on the national level in Iceland there'sanother participorty participatory citizens in Brazil, and
Heather found in Aurora there's an advisorycouncil overseeing the budget. We went to

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that meeting, so these are thesepeople were selected, so you know the
brain I mean the community councilors aregoing to be everybody, Okay, So
in your responsibility, if you wantyour democracy to work properly, then you
show up and you participate and youhave a voice in it. Debbie James
is my guest, do you Sheis with the Mosquito Revolution and we were

(44:42):
talking off the air. You gotto get some kind of website or Facebook
group going, because how can peopleparticipate if they want to be a part
of this. Well, you helpedme understand that that's what we need to
do, so that will be ournext step. Well, Debbie and Heather,
I mean, we've just been doingthat face to face, right And

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as I told you before, wehave talked over fifteen hundred people in eight
different states and two foreign countries whoare up for doing this. People are
excited to do this, and Ihave to say that I have an easier
time with people who lean conservative thenwith those who lean liberals. And I

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don't know exactly why that is yet. I really have to be careful and
purse my words carefully with people whoare liberals. Maybe they've just been taught
to be very suspicious. I don'tknow. Well, I think conservatives are
wild about this. So with thewebsite, will be on our way,
all right. Then when you getthat website, you let me know and

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I will share it so people canjoin in. I would say that people
on the left are generally more trustingof the job that government is doing,
and that's really what it comes downto. They tend to have more faith
the fact that we already have peoplein the government writing a budget, and
we already have public radio. SoI think probably that's where the resistance might
come from But Debbie, let meknow when you get your website up and
I will share it with my people. But I appreciate you guys sharing first

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of all, that you're trying tosolve the problems, right, isn't that
Isn't that really what we're doing here. We all see the issues, and
we all want to try and solveproblems. And I appreciate the fact that
you guys are taking the initiative totry and fix things, and I really
like that. But get your websiteon and we'll have you back on after
that. Thank you so much,Mandy. I really appreciate you having us

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on today. That's Debbie James,I had Potter from the Mosquito Revolution.
It's you know. I love whennormal people try to say, look,
you know what, we can gettogether and we can do this. But
a lot of times normal people don'tnecessarily recognize that there's a certain amount of
organization that has to occur and beforepeople will go, oh, this is

(47:00):
actual movement. So they're gonna putthat together and we'll talk about that a
little bit later. By the way, Joe Biden has been seen. He
is walking under his own power.He is headed back to the White House,
he has recovered from his COVID andwe have proof of life. That's

(47:20):
essentially what I'm saying, proof oflife. We've got it now. Now
he's gonna speak to the United Statestomorrow night, I think at eight pm.
Did you see that cover? Doyou know? Is that eight pm
Eastern? So tomorrow night, I'msure we're gonna air those comments on the
radio station unless we have baseball.Do we have baseball tomorronight? Nope,

(47:43):
no baseball. We will air thosecomments. I'm just making an editorial decision,
but I'm sure it's already been madeover my head anyway, because it's
going to be a pretty significant speechby the president about why he chose to
drop out and what goes on fromthis point forward. There are a lot
of people with a lot of questionsabout who's actually the country, me being
one of them. Yesterday someone onTwitter posted and I don't know how,

(48:05):
and I didn't like last night itfreaked me out, and then I thought,
well, maybe this is normal.Maybe a president assigns powers to various
cabinet heads to execute the details ofcertain legislation, and maybe it's not odd
that he turns over certain duties tothe Department of Commerce or the Department of

(48:28):
Transportation or whatever. I don't know, but it freaked me out because we
now know that even the Democrats aroundJoe Biden do not think that he should
run for reelection, and yet weare to believe that he is running the
country. And those two things don'tnecessarily set well with me, not right
now anyway. So yesterday, andI want to talk about this quickly because

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I'm not going to spend a wholelot of time on this. The Secret
Service Director is out. Kimberly Chiegelhas now resigned today in the wake of
just voterline abusive testimony from Congression membersof Congress. And I watched it when
I got home last night, andI realized that this woman had to go.

(49:13):
There was no chance of her keepingher job, especially because she refused
to answer some pretty basic questions.But there was something that happened yesterday that
I need to know if I'm tooold. I need to know if I'm
now reached. I passed the rubiconof now being an oldster. Because Nancy
Mace, who I generally speaking findinteresting from North Carolina twice yesterday in her

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grilling of Kimberly Cheatle dropped curse words. First she said bs and then she
said the S word. And eventhough I agree with the sentiment she was
delivering, I don't like that.I don't want are members of Congress degrading

(50:04):
the tone and tenor of Congress evenmore by beginning, I don't want to
hear an F bomb in a congressionaltestimony. But then I was like,
oh god, I'm probably just old. This is it time to buy for
old crow's shoes. I mean,it's over for me my birthdays in two
days. I'm gonna be fifty five. I'm over the hill. The hill
is far behind me. As amatter of fact, I can squit and

(50:25):
I can barely see the hill.But I'm just kidding. I'm not really
over the hill. But was anybodyelse bothered by that? Are we so
tribal that when our team are youknow, I'm putting that on air quotes,
our team makes a kind of acrazy, outrageous thing where they use
a curse word. We're supposed tobe excited because I'm not. And by
the way, to be clear,I say this as a person who has

(50:50):
the ability to curse in such away that sailors have asked me to tone
it down in the past. Iwish I was kidding. I mean,
obviously I can pull it together andnot curse when I'm on the radio,
because I've been doing this for twentyyears almost, and I have never cursed
on the radio except that one time, and that wasn't my fault. But
more on that later or not.But I didn't like that. I don't

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want to hear people cursing in Congress. Manday, yes, you are definitely
too old. She was talking abouta president almost being killed. We want
fighters, no, I know,you guys know, no, we have
to, at least within the hallsof Congress. There's so much crap and

(51:36):
garbage and dirt in the political processthat within official proceedings, can we just
elevate the dialogue just a smidge.I don't want to hear that. Why
do we hear trash talk like that? I just don't in that setting.
I do not. Now, wedo know that our current president has been
known to drop the odd F bombhere and there, and he's done it

(51:58):
on microphone multiple time. I'm notexpecting these people to be as pure as
the driven snow. But much likeI sit behind this microphone and I've never
dropped an F bomb on purpose thatyou heard, and I don't do that
every day. For three hours aday, you can be harsh and damning
and make your position without cursing.In the congressional record. I'm with you,

(52:23):
Mandy. I think our government shouldbe more respectful. I don't like
all the cussing that's been going onlately, but I am old to fifty
seven Michelle. Yeah, Mandy,it pissed me off. Oops. I
didn't mean to say that, butit did upset me. Smarty pants is
don't forget. Tomorrow night or tomorrowafternoon four to six pm, I will

(52:43):
be visiting my friends at Regaien Revolutionin Oravada. We'd love for you to
stop by. I will give youa personal tour of the facility, and
I have confirmed there will be cupcakes. If you've ever wanted to find out
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to six I will be out there. It is on Ralston Road in Arvada
four to six pm. We willbe right back. Usually that's something on

(53:06):
my computer playing. That's usually myfault. A lot of you lighten up
the text line about cursing, andI would like to thank you for making
me feel not so old about this. I was talking about South Carolina congresswoman,
and thank you to the Texter whocorrected me. I swear to you.
I thought she was from North Carolinathis whole time. So she Nancy
Mace, who I generally think ispretty interesting, even if I don't know

(53:29):
where she's from. She dropped twocurse words yesterday in the congressional hearing,
and I just though I agreed withher sentiment, sometimes you got to figure
out a way to say what youneed to say with the right emphasis when
you can't curse right. Because Ido it every day on the radio,
trust me, there are times whenI have to really think about what I

(53:51):
want to say because what I reallywant to do is drop a string of
f bombs. But that's not howwe play on the radio, and that's
not how we should play in Congress. That was my point, Mandy.
I'm all for fighters, but Iwant smart fighters. Cursing shows a lack
of mastery of the language aka ignorance. If you know the right words,
you can be brutal way beyond cursingI agree with that. My mother always

(54:15):
used to say, cursing is lazylanguage, very lazy language. And it's
funny when my daughter got to middleschool. Coover, your kids are there
out of middle school? They inmiddle school now? No, they're both
in high school now. Okay,So middle school seems to be where kids
learn how to curse, like evengood kids. I think my daughter is

(54:36):
a good kid, but I knowthat when she's with her friends, cursing
is going on. So I don'ttry and stop it, right because we
live in a course in society,and I recognize that people are going to
curse as a person who curses aswell. But what I tell my daughter
all the time is know who isaround you when you are cursing, because
if you are around one of yourfriend's parents and you and they hear you

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say a curse word, even overhearyou, they're going to have an opinion
of you that is not flattering,especially if you're twelve thirteen years old.
One of my favorite things I everdid, I'm standing in line at Starbucks
in the mall right, and I'mstanding behind this group of boys roughly eleven
twelve ish in that range. Youknow, some of them look like they
had started puberty, and some ofthem hadn't. And they were standing in

(55:22):
front of me and they're like,if that, if this, blah blah
blah, And I'm standing behind themand I put my I crossed my arms
over my chest, and I'm justwaiting for one of them to notice me,
and I'm staring at them, andone kind of turns back and catches
my eye. And I looked athim and said, do you want your
mom to hear you talk like that? Because when people hear you talk like

(55:44):
that, they think you're from abad family. The kid was like,
no, my parents are really good. I'm sure they are, but that's
what people. And I wonder ifthat kid remembers that. I always think
about that. But this is howI feel about Congress time and place.
People time and place. Oh,it says pro Palestinians storming the Capitol happening
now, But I'm watching two differentnews networks and I'm not seeing that.

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So we'll see if that pops upin just a second. People that cuss
are actually smarter. Look it uppeople who cuss in the right situations.
But if you're not smart enough torecognize that there are places where cussing isn't
appropriate. I have an issue withthat, and I realize younger people are
like, oh, it's no bigdeal, but there's got to be some

(56:30):
measure of decorum. And somebody said, it's no big deal. You know,
it's not a problem, get overit. Well, okay, then
where's the limit? If Nancy Maceand I'm picking on her a little bit
because she was the one that cursedalready, If Nancy Mace had looked at
her and said, you know what, you're a real c word? Is
that okay with you? How aboutyou know, get your effing fact straight?

(56:50):
Would that be okay with you?Is that where we want to go?
Because that's not where I want togo, not at all. I
agree Mandy's a foul mouth machinist.There's a time and place for colorful metaphors,
not in the halls of government,maybe behind closed doors, not in
public. And I feel the exactsame way. I don't care if every

(57:12):
representative in Congress stands in the cloakroom of the House of Representatives, where
a lot of business gets done behindclosed doors, by the way, and
drops f bomb after f bomb afterI don't care they'll make a bit of
difference to me, but you haveto understand that it's not appropriate everywhere.
I want to move on from thisand talk about the VEEP list that Kamala

(57:34):
Harris has been working on. Now. The normal co of the normal names
that you would have seen on thatlist. JB. Pritzker from Illinois,
Mark Kelly from Arizona, Greshen Whitmerfrom Michigan, and Josh Shapiro from Pennsylvania
are the foremost prominent. But onename that was not on the list at
all is a guy who's been makingthe rounds as a potential VP candidate.

(57:59):
He is is the current governor ofKentucky, the Great Commonwealth of Kentucky,
where I lived for three years,and I'm well acquainted with Andy Bashier and
his family. I want to playa SoundBite for you of the Governor of
Kentucky, and this is him activelyjocking for the position of vice president.
You know how I know, Well, listen to what he says and I'll
explain how we know he is reallyjocking for the vice presidential position. So

(58:23):
as vice president, you undoubtedly wouldbe able to help your own people,
Suria, Are you at least opento the possibility of being a running mate
to Vice President Harris Well. Ithink if somebody calls you on that,
what you do is is at leastlisten. And I want the American people
to know what a Kentuckian is andwhat they look like, because let me

(58:43):
just tell you that Jade Vance ain'tfrom here. Oh now, what you've
got to know? What you've gotto know about Andy Bashier, the governor
of Kentucky who just dropped the JD. Vance ain't from around here to be
folksy. He's folksy, y'all.He's just like you, except folksy.
He's trying to be the counterbalance toJD. Vance. He's trying to out

(59:07):
hill Billy the guy who wrote HillbillyElegy, the guy who came from nothing,
who came from poverty to join theMarine Corps, go to college on
the GI Bill, and then endup at Yale Law School. He's trying
to Counterbell except Andy Basheer is fromthe political elite family of the Commonwealth of
Kentucky. His father, Steve,was Governor of Kentucky. Previously, he

(59:30):
was governor of Kentucky. When Iwas there, he would not come on
my show at all. He toowas folksy. They are incredibly wealthy.
Andy Basheer grew up in great privilegeand now he's going to get on national
TV and go he ain't from around here, just to shore up his
street cred when it comes to thevice presidential sweepstakes. It's embarrassing for him,

(59:52):
it truly is. But I wantto ask. And by the way,
Kentucky delivers nothing, absolutely nothing otherthan I can out he'll Billy jd
vance And if that's really what we'relooking for, I don't think we are.
He doesn't deliver anything. In termsof electorate, Kentucky is a very
weird state. The state government,well it used to be. I should

(01:00:15):
look up the makeup. Now.It used to be run by Republicans.
Now the governor is a Democrat.They send Republicans to Congress except for the
district right where Louisville, Kentucky is. That's always that was Congressman John Yarmouth
for the longest time. And he'sjust h That man. That man just
was a bur in my saddle theentire time I was there. But I

(01:00:37):
returned the favor to him. Trustme. He used to call interviews with
me his Weekly Root Canal. Yeah, it was fantastic, absolutely fantastic.
So don't fall for this. Ithink most likely we're going to see Josh
Shapiro. Was just talking to oneof my colleagues here I heard about this.

(01:00:57):
I think most likely it's going tobe Josh Shapiro for a couple of
reasons. One, there's some scuttlebutt that the Democratic Party who forced out
Joe Biden, and this is allI feel like I'm running a gossip column
right now. With the kind ofmedia that's coming out about all the stuff
that allegedly happened behind the scenes,with no one willing to go on the
record and say they were actually there. It's just all this speculation. But

(01:01:17):
that being said, here's some gossip, because you know in the South,
they say you can't say something niceabout somebody, come sit next to me.
So I'm doing that right now.The gossip was is that Mark Kelly,
the Senator from Arizona, is whothe Democrats really wanted to elevate into
the role. So I don't knowif Mark Kelly gets disqualified because of those

(01:01:38):
rumors, I don't know. Wedo know that Kamala Harris is slightly paranoid.
That's been a knock on her fora very long time, even when
she was running for president. Wealso have the rumor mill working overtime talking
about the fact that her staff iscompletely turned over multiple times because no one
really wants to work for her.So I think it's more likely to be

(01:01:58):
Josh Shapiro for two reasons. Onehe could help deliver Pennsylvania, which is
a very important swing state. Andnumber two, he is Jewish and nothing
says sit down and shut up tothe Prohama squad more than picking a Jewish
vice presidential candidate. We'll be rightback. Let me just share with you
From reuters dot com, Black LivesMatter demanded on Tuesday that the Democratic National

(01:02:24):
Committee immediately hosts an informal virtual snapprimary across the country prior to the DNC
convention in August. Just hours afterVice President Kamala Harris secured enough delegates for
the nomination, VLM provided a statementto Reuters that said, we call for

(01:02:44):
the Rules Committee to create a processthat allows for public participation in the nomination
process, not just a nomination byparty delegates. The current political landscape is
unprecedented, with President Biden stepping asidein a manner never seen before. This
moment calls for decisive action to protectthe integrity of our democracy and the voices

(01:03:06):
of black voters. They went onto point out that a lot of black
voters voted for Joe Biden. Asa matter of fact, they said,
following the primary, where millions ofblack voters weighed in after one poor debate
performance, the DNC party elites andbillionaire donors bullied Joe Biden out of the
race. Now Democratic Party elites andbillionaire donors are attempting to manipulate black voters

(01:03:32):
by anointing Kamala Harris and an unknownvice president as the new Democratic ticket without
a primary vote by the public.Did not see that coming. You know
what. I am no fan ofBlack Lives matter, but that's a tough

(01:03:52):
bit of irony to swallow if youare a woman of color who has been
elevated to run for president. Yeah, yeah, so yeah, Thanks Texter
for bringing that to my attention.That's another thing I didn't expect to see
happen in this election cycle. Butyou know, here we are in the

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looniest of looney now. Wanted toget this in real quick because this is
kind of important. Quidnipiac has thefirst poll since Joe Biden dropped out of
the race, and it looks likethis. Forty nine percent of voters support
President Donald Trump, forty seven percentof voters support Vice President Harris. Now,
forty nine to forty seven is veryclose. There's no there's no landslide

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here. But I want to throwthis out to you, this should have
been even after the fawning press thatKamala Harris has gotten over the last seventy
two hours. This should have beenat least even because people don't even know
Kamala Harris. Really, why whenthey started to know her in the Democratic
prime Mary, they didn't like her. So after all of the farming press

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and oh thank god Joe Biden finallystepped down, this should be. This
should be better for Kamala. Butit does go to show you that this
is not a walk in the parkfor Donald Trump. This is not the
he can't lose election that a lotof Republicans are making it. Yes,
we've had a great deal of funmaking fun of Kamala's word salads. I

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mean, we've all enjoyed that becausethey are just they're spectacular, really spectacular.
But a lot of Americans don't knowabout the word salad. They don't
know about the fact that the significanceof the passage of time, right,
the significance of the passage of time, So where you think about it,
there's a great significance to the passageof time. They don't know about that.

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They don't know Kamala Harris except she'snot Biden. And they're happy that
Biden dropped out because they knew hewas an absolutely god awful candidate. So
nine to forty seven, both campaignsshould be concerned. I still think that
this Trump and this race is Trump'sto lose. But I also think that
Donald Trump is the politician who couldsomehow manage to lose this. His discipline

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in the last few days on truesocial has gone out the window. He
is back to me and Donald Trumpagain, which is great again for the
base. The base loves it.But he's got the base. At what
point do you go? You knowwhat, I got to talk to people
in the suburbs. I got totalk to the people who didn't vote for
me in twenty twenty, that votedfor me in twenty sixteen, and it
looked like he was finally listening tohis advisors. I don't know if he's

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listening to his advisors now. Sothe polling number is not as good as
you would hope they would be,at least from my perspective. Now,
when we get back, I've gotthere's actual news other than this. It's
just there's so much stuff coming outright now about this that it feels like
we have to talk about this.We haven't even talked about the fact that
Obama hasn't endorsed yet. But Iwant to talk about some of the other

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things that are on the blog today. We've got news stories. We're going
to do the two minute drill,but instead of just doing the two minute
drill, there's a couple of thesestories that I'm gonna go a little bit
deeper on in the next hour.And I have some videos on the blog
today that you have to see.Okay. One of them is from prager
You and it is an interview withMosab Hassan Yousef. If you don't recognize
the name, his father was thefounder of Hamas, and if you want

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to know the mentality of people inHamas, and if you need to recognize
that it's not just Israel at warwith Hamas. Please it's fifteen minutes long.
Just watch it. And then areally cool video that was taken in
the hospital waiting room of the hospitalthat Trump was brought to after he was
shot in Pennsylvania. Fascinating, supersuper fascinating. We'll be right back with

(01:07:45):
the two minute drill right after this. The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by
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sad thing the two minute drill attwo hey where I go to many Lois
repidfire stories of the day that wedon't have more time for play check.
Let's call this so it'll take longerthan two minutes. Are are you out?
Here's Mandycondle a story you're not gonnasee anywhere else. Our friends at
Fox thirty one did a really coolstory on Buna Vista. Now, if

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you aren't from around here and youhaven't been here long, you may not
know that the town that looks likeyou had pronounced it Buena Vista is actually
Bunavista. And here's the kicker.They did it on purpose. They wanted
Buna Vista to sound like beautiful.And I gotta tell you, it's one
of my favorite towns in Colorado,and one of my biggest regrets about moving

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here eleven years ago is that wedidn't try and buy a proper pretty in
Bunavista while it was still affordable.It's no bueno now, even though it
is still Univista. Too bad news, and we're gonna have to confirm this
with our meteorologist Dave Frasier tomorrow onWeather Wednesday. But the National Weather Services
Climate Predictions Center has released their predictionin regards for the next three month,

(01:09:21):
and y'all, it is gonna behot, it is gonna be dry,
and if we don't end up onfire, it's gonna be something of a
miracle. You can check out themap, but it doesn't look good now.
If you are one of those poorsouls who is still living without air
conditioning in the state because years agoyou didn't need it, it is time,
my friends, it is time tojoin the twenty first century and get

(01:09:44):
your ac on. Nobody's gonna judgeyou for it. It too, if
you're flying this week and you're planningon flying Delta Airlines, You're probably gonna
want to make a backup plan.It seems like over the last year they're
every single airline has had their weekof meltdowns. It started with American Airlines
last year, and then Southwest ofcourse had their moment in the sun when

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they couldn't get anybody on an airplaneanywhere. But now we've got Delta.
It all started last weekend with themassive internet outage, But that Internet outage
seems to have done something to Delta'sscheduling system. They have an entire office
and all they do are make surethat they have pilots where they need to
be, to fly where they needto go, and flight attendants to work

(01:10:30):
those flights. That's their sole job. All of the software that does that
has apparently crashed, and Delta isscrambling to try and figure it out.
Now, if you are flying Delta, I'm not kidding. I would call
or at least checked to make surethat your flight was even scheduled to go
before you got to the airplane.But know this, if your flight is
canceled, you are due compensation andyou don't have to call an attorney to

(01:10:53):
get it. Just google FA regulationsabout cancel flights and know exactly what you
can and can expect, and donot necessarily expect any airline to offer that
information to you before you call themon it first. It's just the way
of the world. But the moreyou know, the more you can be
reimbursed for canceled flights. The drillit too, you know. We reintroduced

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wolves into Colorado last year, eventhough they had already made their way down
from Wyoming, but liberals in theFront Range decided we need more wolves.
And all of those people who aregrowing cattle and everything else they don't like
wolves because wolves have a tendency toeat things like cattle. And now we
have some relief. The Colorado Parksand Wildlife Commission has voted to update state

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regulations to match US Fish and WildlifeService rules, and those say that if
they see a wolf attacking a workingdog like a Border Collie or a dog
that's a herding dog specifically that isthere to herd sheep or cow or whatever,
then the ranchers who own those dogscan kill the wolves. I think
we're gonna see more of these rulingsas things kind of settled down from the

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initial wolf free introduction because we haveto protect our livestock from wolves. I'm
okay with that. I thought thiswas a dumb idea in the beginning.
I still think it's a dumb idea. Yet here we are, and now
next I guess we're going to reintroducewolverines. That's gonna be a thing that
we're gonna do. So now we'regonna have do wolves fight wolverines because that

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would be kind of cool, likein a cage match kind of thing.
No, okay, moving on ittoo. I don't know if I am
savoring this story more than I should, but the news that Nike is in
trouble kind of makes me laugh alittle bit. Not because I have any
ill will towards Nike, but becauseNike decided to embrace wokeness a few years

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ago, after a Colin Kaepernick createdall kinds of havoc in the NFL by
kneeling for the anthem and wearing socksthat had cops dressed as or cops as
pigs on it, they then hiredhim to be their spokesperson. Well,
things are not going so well now. They've had massive layoffs under poor financial
performance, and now they're hoping thatthe Olympics can save them. The Major

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League Baseball uniform debacle was just indicativeof how cheap their products are. A
Rod a Rod Coob. Did youever see any of those Nike jerseys up
close? I did not. Theywere cheap. I mean, it's like,
how cheap can we make this?They weren't the heavy construction that a
normal jersey is, and they werewidely panned by both the players and MLB,

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So that situation has been fixed.But now they're designing outfits for women
to run track that are guaranteed togo straight up their high knees when they
take off, and Nike is hopingthat their Olympics will somehow save them.
But I grew out of the needto hang out with or buy products that
are inferior, and I've always thoughtNike's products are overpriced for the quality of

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the of the stuff. Right.So now we'll see what happens. But
this is one of those things whereNike probably is not even asking how much
that choice to jump into the frayhas cost them in the long term.
In the short term, it gavethem a boost, but in the long
term, it seems like they arejust dying too. Now this last story
is my favorite story of the yearso far. Yep, if you are

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a runner, I have an eventfor you. It is called the sixth
annual Taco Bell fifty k Ultra Marathon. It is a fifty k, which
is about thirty one miles in change, and it's set to take place on
October fifth. But it's not justany road race. All you elite athletes
out there who think I can dothirty one miles, no problem, But

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can you do it? Stop itat ten Taco Bells where you are forced
to order something off the menu atevery stop. I don't think you can,
especially if you take on the BajaBlast Challenge, which means that you
have to drink at least two leadersof Baja Blast throughout the race and here's
the key without vomiting. This isamazing, amazing. You can also do

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the Diablo Challenge, which means latheringall the items with Diablo sauce and doing
a shooter of the sauce at theend of the race. Hats off,
Taco Bell, Hats off. Idid not see this coming. I feel
like that's been my sentence of theof the Day. I say it at
least one time I have since thedebate. I did not see that coming.
Taco Bell, I did not seethis coming. But whoever wins this,

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I want to interview him on thisshow. We got to talk to
him because how can you eat acombo burrito and then run, By the
way, you have to finish thisin eleven hours eleven hours, thirty one
miles. You do have to runafter you eat Taco Bell anyway, well
to the bathroom, but we're notrunning thirty one miles coover. That's true.

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By the way, you can't justorder like you know, like the
fresca taco, which is what Iget, the chicken fresco, which is
just salsa. No, you haveto get a Shaloupa supreme. You have
to get a burrito supreme at leastone of these stops. This is crazy
and awesome. And if you knowanybody who signed up for this race,
please send them to me, becauseI have to interview someone crazy enough to

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do this. When we get back, I want to dig a little bit
into a story that is just startingto catch fire, and it has to
do with Elon Musk talking about hisnow dead son. But it's not what
you think. We'll do that next. I want to play something that is
part I just realized the entire interviewwith Jordan Peterson and Elon Musk is not

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out on Jordan Peterson's page yet.So I had embedded it from another site
who had grabbed it illyly, Andwe're not going to do that. But
as soon as this interview is allthe way up, I'm gonna get it
for you guys, because it's anextraordinary interview between doctor Jordan Peter and Elon
Musk. So these are two prettyinfluential thought leaders, and Elon Musk shared

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a story that I think most peoplemay be shocked to hear. But you
talk about making a powerful enemy.Holy cow waiting to hear this? Good.
Let me have my computer real quick. Oh, here, here we
go. This is Elon Musk anddoctor Jordan Peterson talking. It happened to
one of my older boys where Iwas. I was actually tricked into signing

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documents for one of my older boys, Zayer. This is before I had
really understanding what was going on andCOVID going on, and so there was
a lot of confusion, and youknow, I was told, oh,
you know, Savor might commit suicideif that was that was a lie right

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from the outset. Incredibly evil AndI agree with you that people that have
been promoting this should go to president. So I was, I was straight
into doing this, and it wasn'texplained to me that puberty blocks are actually
just sterilization drugs. So anyway,and so I lost my son essentially,

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so you know, they they're caulltedead naming for a reason. So the
reason it's quote dead naming is becauseyour son is dead. So my son
is Avior is dead, killed bythe walk mind virus. I'm sorry to
hear that. Yeah, I can'timagine what that would be like. Yeah.

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So yeah, and there's lots ofpeople in that situation now it's not
pretty and lots of demolished kids.Yes, ye, well that's good.
That's a good reason to be thefinal straw, right, So let's go
about to destroy the work my envirusafter that, so we're making some progress.

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Join the club, talk about makinga powerful enemy. Elon Musk has
money to burn through for this stuff. But let me just say this.
We've talked about the medicalization of childrenfor a long time on this program,
we've talked about the cast Review,which is the most comprehensive review of the

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lack of science behind gender affirming care. I've been trying to think of a
different word to call gender affirming care, because it's not gender affirming, it's
sterility. It is taking children wellbefore they can even begin and to comprehend

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what a sexual relationship is and turningthem into people that cannot achieve a sexual
orgasm. By the way, thatcame from a gender affirming doctor here in
the United States who said that shehas not had a single patient that was
put on puberty blockers at a youngage be able to achieve a sexual climax.

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Ever, they're turning these kids intoeunuchs before the kids even have the
ability to understand what that means.They're doing masse sectomies on girls they cannot,
possibly at fourteen and fifteen understand thatthat prevents them from ever being able
to breastfeed a child should they remaina female later. They're allowing little children,

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little children to make permanent life alteringdecisions. And now they've made an
enemy of Elon Musk. By theway, Elon Musk's child Xavier, formally
Xavier is now transitioning to become femaleor you know, the outward appearance of

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female, and has dropped musk fromhis last name. He says, I
want nothing to do with my biologicalfather. Now. I hope it works
out. I hope it works outfor this kid. I do because Xavier
is now an adult. By theway, I want to be clear about
something. I don't have any dogin the fight of whether an adult decides

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to move through the affirming process,just like I don't have any dog in
the fight if an adult wants toget a face tattoo, or an adult
wants to get so much plastic surgewhere we can't even recognize them anymore.
That's entirely your decision. When you'rean adult, do whatever you want to
do. I mean, don't getme wrong. I am horrified by some
of these people that are into extremebody modification. The guy who turned himself

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into a lizard, EH, disgusting. But who am I to tell somebody
else how to live their life.But we're talking about children, and that,
my friends, is where the buckmust stop. Now I'm going to
come back. I have a reallyweird question to ask you, guys.
But I can't be the only onewith this problem. I also want to
remind people I am going to beat Regen Revolution tomorrow. We have a

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baseball game tomorrow, We've got areally short show. I'm going to be
out there from four to six pm. If you've ever wanted to learn about
regenerative therapy or just get a tourfrom the the office from me, We're
going to be there. There's goingto be cupcakes. We love cupcakes.
And you know, does anybody elsetake the bottom off and then put the
top on it and eat it likea little sandwich? No? Just me?
Okay, we'll do that together aswell. Tomorrow. You can find

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them on Ralston Road in Arvada,and that's tomorrow from four to six.
We'll be right back. I'm goingto be at Regen Revolution for two hours,
hanging out giving people guided tours ofthe space because they've done so much
to help me. If you've everwondered about regenerative therapy, tomorrow is the
perfect day to come out. Youcan find them on Ralston Road food in

(01:23:00):
Oarvada. You can also find theiractual address at regenrev dot com. Four
to six, there will be cupcakesand a Rod's mom just texted me and
said, ay, Rod doesn't likecupcakes. I don't even know how that's
possible. I mean, what,how? What? What? Anyway,
here's my dumb question. Okay,So, and I'm not trolling for birthday

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wishes. This is a legit question. So I turned fifty five on Thursday,
and I'm now at that age whereI am officially impossible to buy for.
So check ask me, what doyou want for your birthday? Does
anybody else like when someone says whatdo you want for your birth Remember when
you were a kid and somebody saywhat do you want for your birthday?
And you could rip off like ninethings right away? Coober, what do
you want for your birthday? Justsee how Coouver? Does this mean?

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You know? My birthday was actuallythis past Sunday? Well, what did
you get for your birthday? Nota darn thing? Did you ask for
anything for your birthday? I didnot, and I was not asked whether
or not I wanted anything for mybirthday? Is a sorry assumption. We
did go out, yeah, forbirthday dinner. We're doing that. We're
doing that, so that is happening. But it's like a gift. I

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mean, I don't. There's notthings that I want. I feel overwhelmed
with stuff all the time. Mywife says all the time. When I
ask her what she wants for herbirthday, she goes, I can go
out and buy anything I want.Correct, why do I need to have
you buy that one? But legitimatelythis is my list so far. Okay,
this is how sad it is.I want some new pairs of either

(01:24:30):
darn Tough or smart roll socks,like running running socks, because they're like
they're like twenty bucks a pop.Right, they're not cheap socks. That's
literally all I can think of issocks. That's what That's what I want,
some new socks. And then Ithought that is just that's pathetic.
So what do fifty five year oldpeople get for their birthday? This is
the question that I'm asking, whatdo you what do you get in your

(01:24:55):
middle fifties. I'd actually did geta gift card for my in lass.
Well there you go to give cardtoo? Uh la Loma, Oh there
you go? Or actually whatever thatconglomerate is of l Loma, Yeah,
Sierra all those they're owned by thebrinker Hofs. Yes, Rene brenker Hoff.
I know her. Uh Mandy Legoalways asked for Lego. I hate

(01:25:15):
to admit this because it could makesome of you not like me. I
have never been a Lego person.Whenever my kids got Legos when they were
little, I was like, oh, please let them be able to put
them together by themselves. Just notlike I was more of a Lincoln log
kind of kid. Did you haveLincoln Logs? I did have some Lincoln
Logs. One of the bad thingabout Legos is what the stepping on them

(01:25:36):
in the middle of the night.No is eventually they're going to come apart.
And all these Lego sets that webought for our kids, yeah they
built them, we put them upin the thing. But then there's some
of them that just got destroyed,and it's like, what a waste do
you guy? You just have abunch of Lego pieces. Oh yeah,
you do sell very well if youactually want to sell them. Maybe the
reason that I was never into legosis because when I was a kid,

(01:25:58):
you didn't get kids right, Oh, here's a box of Legos, Now
build something great. I'll build asquare. That's what I'm building with my
Legos. It was just not somethingthat caught my imagination. And now,
oh, socks and underwear for Christmas? Great? Now I got nothing text
nothing sounds like what my grandparents wouldbuy me. Well, of course,
well everybody knows socks and underwear requiredgift at Christmas. I still buy my

(01:26:21):
husband underwear every year. But nowwe're getting better underwear. We're getting the
arm of Chillos from the Luth TradingCompany. They're fine drawers for men.
Fine, Mandy. My wife hatedLego. Now I have two rooms of
Harry Potter kits. It's just I'mnot Here's the thing about me. I
don't like hobbies that require a greatdeal of attention to detail, Like I

(01:26:45):
try to learn how to knit thatone nowhere fast. I tried to crochet
Macramay so can't do it. Anythingthat requires a lot of attention to detail
is not a hobby for me.It's just not. I don't like it.
Okay, depends is a bad answer, and I'm gonna I'm gonna assume
it means depends on what you like, Mandy. Not the adult diapers come

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on would be a terrible gift,Mandy, I always ask for obedient children.
Yeah, way to be disappointed onyour birthday. I turned fifty five
three days ago and got a Fitbit, although I just replaced my fitness tracker
with a garment last year for Mother'sDay. No, I'm not an Apple
person. I'm not doing the cult. I'm not doing it. That's right,

(01:27:30):
you, Yeah, I'm I'm adroid across the board like I'm droid
for life. Right you people arenot gonna suck me into your weird little
cult. Get a green bubble insteadof a blue bubble. No, I
don't care whatever bubble. I don'tcare what my bubble is. Spa day
for your birthday. Ooh, that'snot bad. That's actually a very good
idea because the half day at theSpot Bovasage, skincare and spa is a

(01:27:53):
delight. And when I was comingback from the RNC last week, I'm
sitting in the airplane seat and haveyou ever seen people sitting in an airplane
seat doing like they're raising their shouldersand putting it down and they're stretching their
neck, and my back and shoulderswere so locked up that I was like,
dang, I gotta get a massage. But I haven't had time.

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Mandy, I'm sixty five and canbuy whatever I want for my birthday.
I always plan trips for us,and now like to plan trips for us
with our grandkids and leave their parentsat home. I do like that a
lot. We actually refer to mydaughter or my son and daughter in law
as those people who take care ofour grandchildren. They're not super cool with
that, but I don't care.It's fine, granny panties. I'm not

(01:28:36):
a hundred golle ask for world peas. I had mushy peas in London and
I did not like them. AndI do like peas, just not mushy
peas. A really nice bottle ofwhiskey that sounds great, except I do
not drink whiskey, and I prettymuch I drink so little alcohol at this

(01:28:56):
point in my life it's not evenfunny like twenty two year old. I
can feel the weight of disappointment abouthow I have completely I'm so boring now.
I'm the person I used to makefun of when I was young.
I'm in the grocery store, I'mreading labels. I'm putting stuff back because
I don't know what all the wordsand the ingredients mean. I now pull

(01:29:16):
my cart up and it's full ofvegetables, for God's sake, not a
frozen pizza in the mix. Iam a tremendous disappointment to twenty three year
old me. Tremendous I can feelit, Mandy. I went to a
friend of mine's fifty fifth birthday party. Couldn't think of anything, so I
got her a breast pump. Now, if it's the kind of breast pump

(01:29:39):
that reinflates your breast, now we'retalking. But I truly don't have any
use for a breast pump ever.Again, thank you, though, appreciate
you. I'm forty six and Istill go broke and ask for a neoce
snowmobile yearly. See that's what Ishould do. What outrageous thing could I
ask for? We just like throwcaution to the wind. We did just

(01:30:00):
get a new treadmill, and I'msuper excited about See all right, that's
I am ancient. Twenty one yearold me is like, oh, you're
excited about a new treadmill. Iam, though, super excited about.
To the person who just said AARPtote bag, turn off this radio station
and never come back. Never didyou get a fancy one? Well,
you know what's funny is Chuck hasa shoulder issue and can't use the rower

(01:30:25):
we've had for a really long time. So we're like, okay, right,
we'll get rid of the rower.We'll get a treadmill. So I've
been looking online trying to have aused one because I'm cheap. Right,
I'm straight up, I'm cheap.We found a used one that had barely
been used, but it's the samekind they have at the gym. So
it's this super good treadmill. It'sten years old and I got it for
six hundred and fifty bucks. SoI'm feeling pretty dang good about that.

(01:30:45):
Nice. Yeah, I mean,seriously, it was awesome, Mandy,
boos and bullets. Actually, mykids got me air pods for fifty five
last year. A jitterbug Haha.You people are really funny. They're old
people. Comments mean just me,I turned sixty three in three weeks,

(01:31:06):
says this person. I want tobe left alone, Mandy a droid for
life face tattoo. My wife andI actually bought each other a new washer
and dryer. Exciting. Yeah,yeah, how about your posture on a
oh poster on a city bus?That would be cool. Although does anybody

(01:31:27):
my age really want to see theirface blown up to be large enough to
be on a city bus. I'llbe driving by, like, Wow,
where did that wrinkle come from?Is that a weird hair coming out of
my face? Nobody tells you thatwhen you're young. You know, you
remember boys that are like fifteen andthey're first getting their facial hair and they're
trying to grow their first beard ormustache. Nobody ever says to women,

(01:31:48):
Yeah, that's gonna be you whenyou turn fifty. Good luck with that.
You think I'm kidding. How oldis your wife? Uh, she
is just turned fifty. Just wait, it's coming. Where you wake up
one day and you touch your face, same place you touched it yesterday.
Nothing there yesterday. All of asudden, there's like a six inch hair
coming out of your face that justsprouted out overnight, and you're like,

(01:32:11):
how did I miss that? Oh? It's super fun getting older? Super
fun. Mandy the latest greatest newbackpacking gear. I'm actually really set with
backpacking gear. I'm super happy.I got great hiking shoes right now.
I love. I got a greatbackpack that I love. I got a
day pack that I love. It'sjust I'm set for backpacking stuff right now,
although with the smoke, I don'tgo backpacking right now. That's a

(01:32:33):
good idea, though, diamond studearrings. Fun fact, your host Mandy
Connell does not have pierced ears.I have a weird tactile issue. It's
why I don't like fruit, rightI don't like fruit because I don't like
the way it feels in my mouth. I had my ears pierced for about
three months when I was in mytwenties. I didn't get my ears pierced

(01:32:54):
when I was a kid. Ihad them pierced for about three months when
I was my twenties. I couldnot stop feeling that there was a hole
in my ear and I did notlike it, so I took the earings
out. Never again, you geta tattoo again. No, I am
unadulterated right now, coover, andwhen I die, I'm gonna be unadulterated.

(01:33:15):
I'm not a tattoo fan, likeif that's your thing, and I
can appreciate a beautiful tattoo when Isee it, like you know, you
see some of these tattoos that arejust works of art. I can appreciate
that, but there's a zero percentchance I want it on my body.
You do not put a bumper stickon a Lamborghini. That's that's my take
on tattoos, just saying, ah, it was a life fitness treadmill.

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For those who were asking about that. Jet skis are a gift from God.
I have had my fun on jetskis, ladies and germs. Being
from Florida, jet skis as soonas they came out, We're like everywhere,
absolutely everywhere a chia pet. Nowthat's good, that's really good.
How about skydiving or hot air balloonride? Dan? Are you trying to

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kill me? Trying to me outof a plane where I could where I
could die. See, this iswhere I'm at right now, you guys,
this is where I am. Mandy. Go do the incline and stay
at the Garden of the Gods orthe broad Moor. I have to have
an MRI on my left knee.I've got a tendon issue that I cannot
quite get past, so I can'tdo the incline this summer, much to

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my I can go up, icannot get back down because I can walk
up, no problem coming back down. Big trouble, Big, big trouble.
Mandy. You think that's bad,I now have hair growing out.
Wait where did it go? Inow have hair growing on the outside of
my nose. Yep, welcome,we get an old Mandy Birthday president.

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Unlimited car wash pass a year orso would be reasonable. That's not bad.
I would take a Do you getyour car washed very much in the
summer? I don't. We havea car wash special to a place in
Castle Rock. Oh, there yougo. They're pretty expensive. It's like
thirty seven dollars a month. Wellduring the winter though, if you're going
twice a month and getting the reallygood, you know wash, that's worth

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it. But during the summer,I hardly ever wash my car. My
wife tends to go on once aweek, week and a half. I
think if I had the pass,I would probably use it more. But
it's one of those things like ifI don't use it, now, why
get the pass? You know?That's why I bought a silver car.
It's cute that you compare yourself toa Lamborghini. You're more like an Aston

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Martin. Should I be insulted bythat? I think Aston Martin makes really
cool looking cars, right, yeah, I think that's pretty nice car.
I would drive an aston Martin aslong as somebody else paid for the repairs.
Order some famous food off Goldbelly dotcom. Oho. I kind of
like that, kind of like thatat all. I like that a lot,
Mandy. Would you like a giftof the Book of Month club subscriptions?

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No? I would not for thisvery reason. I have a pile
of books at home that taunt meevery day because I don't have time to
read them. So please don't sendme need more books. Ryan Edward's got
a haircut? Ryan, how oldare you? Forty four? What did
you get on your last birthday?Because I got to come up with ideas
for my birthday and I'm tapped out. I got nothing, nothing except socks.

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Oh man, I don't know whatI got my last birthday. I'm
more experienced. We do more experiencesin our family. So it's more like
we're going to go somewhere, We'regonna we're gonna eat outs. You know,
we don't like I don't I'm donewith things, correct. I'm kind
of like tapped out on things.So so if your wife said, Ryan,
all I want for my birthday issome new smart world running socks,

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that would be cool, right,because that's all I got on my list.
If that's what she wants, youknow, and I'll probably do something
a little extra there, but Idefinitely would get hear that thing, and
then I would hopefully be listening overthe rest of the year for other hints
of things that she's been saying.Oh you know this would be cool to
have. Well, this one's good. Mandy, who I just remembered,

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I asked for and received a vinylwrap for my mini forge that looks like
Han Solo and carbonite. Now that'spretty cool, Pretty cool. My friend
Rob has a yoga mat that lookslike that, so as he's doing you
know, down dog, he's lookingdirectly into Han Solo's face in carbonite.
So there you go. Now that'sgood. That that's that's not bad.

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And this one is my favorite.But I don't know if Chuckle pulled this
off. Mandy having very Manilow singuh weekend in New England to you at
a crowded, fancy restaurant. Iwould love that, absolutely love that.
Maybe I love Barry Manelo. Look, I am such a very Manelo fan.

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I'm not even embarrassed to tell youthat I love Barry Manelo love him
to say love love him. Wesaw him at the West Gate in Vegas,
like right before COVID and I criedlike four times during the show wow,
because he sang the songs that Ilove so much. So good.
It was so good. Anyway,Ryan Edward is here and now it's time

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for the most exciting segment on theradio of its kind in the world of
the day. How am I?We're gonna grab my tribut what's her with
her? Dad joke? Our dadjoke is who do you what do you
call a sad cup of coffee?I don't know, a depresso? Oh

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wow, Okay, that's kind offunny. That one was kind of funny.
There you go. What is ourword of the day? Please,
you guys gonna get this one justlike you got yesterday. Yeah. This
one is catastrophe. Oh it's adisaster. Yea. You know, one
of my favorite words to describe somethingcatastrophizing. You know when you tell somebody
a minor inconvenience and they're like,oh my god, they're catastrophizing. I
love that word. All right,So today's trivia question, I'm assuming we

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got that right, couver, becausethat's that's like a You know, that's
a softball right over the plate?What film does the following quote come from?
Go Ahead Make My Day? Isit that the outlogue? Josie Wells,
No to me right now, No, it's not, because that's it's

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not a Western he does that.He's actually a go ahead punk? Is
that from? It's from Dirty Harry, Dirty Harry. I just watch that
not too long ago. I've neverseen it. It's so dated, but
it still totally works. I meana weird you know the quote and you
know the scene, but like Ilittle have never seen the movie. Are
you feeling lucky? Punk? My? My grandfather loved Westerns, so we

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watched it Billion Westerns when I wasa kid. Why wouldn't you? Why
would you? Okay, what istoday's category things? Ryan Edwards loves?
What is you know? What dowe got for today? You? Yeah?
Cueen Breaker Ryan's favorite categories. Yeah, that's what we're gonna do right
now. What is it? Right? Famous Canadians? Oh god, okay,

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I only know maybe one. Actually, you guys gonna know a lot
of them. Okay, okay,all right, so here we go.
Mj f F stands for This CanadianActors Foundation which I think you got it?
Did I? Who got it too? Yeah? Yeah, I think
she got it. Okay, I'lltake that. Who was Michael J.
Fox? Yes? Okay, allright. After his mom posted videos of

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him on YouTube, Usher signed himto a record deal and he became just
now he's going to be one thisstar of John Wick ran I got that
one? Yes, yes, twoto one, Ryan, this Canadian star
of Wala Land that it was RyanReynolds. Nod. Oh h it's Ryan

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Gosling. Yes, Ryan, dangit, man, I'm back to zero
and you're at three. All right, crap, last question. He was
just eighteen and really sid the kidin two thousand and five, two thousand
and six when he racked up onehundred and two points for the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Got nothing, Ryan, who's SidneyCrassey? Yes, yeah, I
got nothing on that. That's likesaid the kid like I was thinking movies.

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Yeah, it's the kid, Isn'tit well done? That was a
masterful performance by you, Ryan,without even any softballs. All I was
waiting for was Alex Trebek, bythe way, he never he was never
in that category. I was thinkingCanadian musicians. I was waiting for the
nickelback one because been sitting in there, so soon are you big nickelback?
You know what, Ben, You'renumber one to my friends, you are

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number one in my book as well. What's coming up on K sports?
Well more Canadian conversations, especially becauseBen love Celine Dion as well. Yeah,
uh no, we're gonna obviously,uh, trading camp kind of got
underweight today. So we had SeanPayton, we had Quinn Miners. Uh,
we had Brandon Jones. We hadall sorts of audio to get to
and we'll well met. We're outthere in the in the flannel. You

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know, I didn't. I didn't. I was getting a haircut, as
you pointed out, so nice,nice short haircut. Yeah, so I
than that horrible tragedy haircut that Benhad not too long ago. That he's
fine, remember that it was itwas it was stuff of legend, you
know what. I'm not saying itscarred me, but I did seek therapy
after seeing his Hitler haircut there fora while. Yeah, I basically said,

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you know, so what happened waswhat happened was? What happened was
is instead of telling kids like heybehave we'll say I'll get you this haircut.
If you don't do it well,you know, if you can't be
a good example, be a sternwarning and on that we will turn things
over to KOA Sports. We'll beback tomorrow. Keep for a very short
show, so keep it right hereon KOA