07-26-24 FULL SHOW - The last two weeks have been the longest of the year

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edition of the show altogether. Nowwoooo that woo oo was me Mandy Connell,
your host for the next three hours. And Michael coober In, I
think is today the last that you'rein for a rod. I think there's
a couple of days next week too, good gravy. Yes, we've got
a bit of a shortage at ourproducer position and all the guys are basically
shuffling all of their schedules. AndI appreciate all of that very much,

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or I would be sitting here andnothing would be going out on the radio.
So there you go. I amnot at Broncos training camp. And
I got an email from someone todayIt said, I just heard they're not
sending you to Bronco's training camp.Is that because you're a woman? It
was like, no, here's howit works, so Incouver. You know
this probably better than I do.There's like quiet time where you cannot have

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any media on the field. Andwe are set up at Broncos training camp
right along the sidelines, so ourbroadcast booth is right there, and starting
at twelve thirty, there's like thiswindow that just covers my show where you
cannot have media on the field,so there's no point I can't. I
can't do the show from there.I will, however, be doing the
show with Ross. I think onthe eighth, whatever day we have a

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baseball game during my show, Rossand I are going to broadcast from there,
so nerds from training camp will happenon that day, So keep that
up. And thanks to and this. This sponsor's name makes me laugh and
I can't I've never been to thisplace, but every time I say it,
I feel like I'm pulling one overon the audience. So if anyone

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is been to the Sporty Pickle Barand Grill, I'd love to know something
about it if you've been, becausethe name cracks me up. And this
is one of those names where Iwant to talk to the owner and be
like, Okay, how drunk wereyou when you decided that this was going
to be your name? And what'sthe story behind Sporty Pickle bar and grill
because there's a story there. Iwant to know what it is. Have
you ever been there? Coover?I've never been there, But supposedly there's

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pickleball court. Oh well that makessense, and I believe that's where the
Sporty Pickle comes from. Ah,that makes tremendous sense. And probably they
weren't even drinking when they came upwith that. Well, that makes a
lot of sense. Do you knowhow to play pickleball? Coover? I've
never played. No. I reallywant to learn, but near where I
live. You, they're the busiestcourts in the world. There's you can't

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there's no way to learn. Somaybe I'll go to the Sporty Pickle.
Now, maybe and I'll learn howto play pickleball. Maybe you can do
a remote from the Sporty Pickle.Ooh, that would be great. We're
just here to tdto do tdtum thepickleball noise. You got multiple courts like,
oh yeah, three. I findthat noise very soothing, but I
don't live next to it. Youknow, pickleball's become very controversial. Why

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how so because of that noise?Did did diddingding? You're like, you're
it's like listening to a a pingpong game amplified right because it's bigger and
the noise is the same. Andimagine living next to that. That would
drive me insane if I live nextto it. Just being around it,
like when I go to the gymand stuff doesn't bother me. But yeah,

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you just I couldn't imagine living nextto it. Next to trains,
Oh see, now when I whenI uh, I had a place in
college that was about half a milefrom a railroad track. But the railroad
track went through town and there werenot gates, so legally they had to
blow the horn and they come throughin the middle of the night, and
it was just the combination of thesound of the train, that that chugging

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sound that the trains, and youhear the you know, the the wheels
on the track kind of thing,and then the occasional woo. It was
incredibly soothing. Wow, I knowI would at all who It was one
of those things where if the traindidn't come, I think I woke up
because the train didn't didn't come.So it's strange the things your brain gets
used to pickleball, I don't knowif your brain would get used to that

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or not. So that's not whatwe're going to talk about this entire entire
thing here. I do want tojump into one story that Cynthia Baylee just
did that. She did it kindof casually and I was like, no,
I need to know more about this, and then I'm going to do
the blog and then we're going tojump into the show. Did you hear
the story about the the heart implantationtechnology that is that is happening right now.

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Earlier yesterday they did the first successfulinhuman implantation of the by the core
total artificial heart. The first inhumantransplant of this heart took place in Baylor's
Medical Center and it is composed oftitananum constructed by the ventricular rotary blood pump
with a single moving part that utilizesa magnetically levitated rotor. According to the

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statements from the Texas Heart Institute,the rotor pumps the blood and replaces both
ventricles of a failing heart. Ituses the same technology as high speed rail
lines. Bring it a full circle. Didn't even know it, so they
use technology from high speed rail tomake an artificial heart that completely replaces a

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human heart. We'll see I hopethis patient does well. You know,
we'll see what happens. Now.Titanium has been being implanted into human bodies
for decades now as part of artificialjoints and stuff like that, and I
think unless you have a titanium allergy, it would stand to reason that your
body would, you know, maybenot reject it. Although this is a
pretty big implant. I just findthat that's the coolest thing I've heard a

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long time. It is it.It is an amazing time to be alive.
Let's go to the blog. Goto mandy blog dot com. And
I've gotten some frustrated emails from peopleabout finding the blog. Once you go
to Mandy's blog dot com and Iheart changed something that I'm not happy with.
But they didn't ask me, andI don't do things the way everybody
else does them, so I'm theproblem here. I realize this. Go

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to latest posts and if you seea picture of me, just a picture
of me, I'm wearing a purplesweater. I've got to get a new
picture made, but I haven't doneit yet. So I'm wearing a purple
sweater. That is a podcast Andyou can scroll to the right and you
can find the anything that does nothave a picture of me that is a
blog, and it always says thedate and then blog, So it's not
as easy as it used to be. But we're also trying to make it

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easy for people to find the podcastthat they want to find. So we're
trying to thread a needle and it'sit's frustrating for not just you texters and
emailers. Trust me, but youcan go to Mandy's blog dot com.
Look for the headline that says seventwenty six twenty four blog the longest.
The last two weeks have been thelongest year. Click on that and here

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are the headlines you will find withinanything with miss in office, half of
American all with ships and clipments ofsea. That's going to press flinch today
on the blog? Is anyone elseexhausted from the last two weeks? I'm
putting Slow Jammastan on my must visitlist. What if Yellowstone supervolcano erupts?
RTD's chief is being investigated, butnow RTD has cameras on buses and trains.

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The US Marine Corps memorial has beenvandalized by pro terrorist factions. Scrolling
Scrolling, Tay Anderson Ruin's public commentin Aurora. Why is it offensive to
point out Kamala Harris was a Deihire? Scrolling, scrolling, scrolling.
The ministry of truth is just gettingstarted. The media is scooping up the

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borders our talking points. When didChris Why did Christopher Ray add fuel to
the left wing conspiracy? Britta Hornwants to clean up the GOP mess.
We are spending less on food rightnow. Music may keep our brains young.
Y'all wear a stupid life veest.What's cooking it? Shy in frontier
days? Pet owners, watch yourpets. Lots to do in Denver this

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weekend? And now baby's doing cutestuff, filthy comedy for a Friday.
This should be me in a hotelroom. Those those are the headlines on
the blog at mandy'sblog dot com.Now it's Friday, and today I sat
down on my computer at six pointthirty because I jinks the dog waved me
off. We left for a walk, and we walked like thirty feet and

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she's dragging behind me like she's lostthe will to live. And you've never
seen anything quite like a Saint Bernardwalking like they have lost the will to
live. It's so dramatic. Ohso dramatic. So we turned around.
I was at my computer, Earlly. So I'm sitting at my computer.
I'm like, you know what,I am just gonna find super positive news

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today. It's Friday. It's gonnabe fun. We're gonna have a good
time. And then I just thenews. There's no positive news there.
It's just a devoid. It's avoidwasteland of political news. Because, oh
my goodness, this campaign season justwent into a level of overdrive that I

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just can't even fathom what's coming next. And now we're in the Kamala honeymoon
period that's gonna last until something dumbhappens. But the level of absurdity flying
around right now about this upcoming electionhas just reached fever pitch, just so
so fever. And we're only inJuly, right, it's still the end

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of July. We're not even doneyet. But did find some fun stuff,
and I did put some political stuffon here, and then I thought,
you know what if people last Fridayturned into a great ask me anything
by accident? I love that.I think that's super fun. So if
you want to text something to theCommon Spirit health text line at five six
six, And I know it doesnot have to be on topic, so

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by the way, I wanted Scottto know. Scott came out and saw
me at Reja in Revolution and hesaid that as I read the headlines,
he is actually scrolling along with meon his phone and he's allowing me to
read the headlines to him as hescrolls along on his phone. And it
got me to thinking, how manyof you do that? Or do you
read the headlines yourself before the showand hear it in my voice? Because

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once you hear somebody's voice a lot, don't you read in their voice in
your head? I mean, don'tdon't you do that? If you read
anything that says Morgan Freeman said,don't you immediately hear Morgan Freeman's voice reading
it. After that, I wasjust wondering because it never occurred to me
that someone would do that. Andwhen he told me that, I thought
that was hilarious, Absolutely hilarious.Text us at five sixty six nine.

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Oh so there you go, Mandy. Yes, after the convention videos,
you really need to update your profilepicture. And that profile picture is old.
It's not just you know, Iwas heavier than but it's just old.
You know. I feel like ifI have an old profile picture,
it looks like I'm trying to makeyou think I'm still super young when I'm
not. I mean, I'm notancient, but I'm not. You know,

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I'm not. I am still buyinggreen bananas though for other people,
but I am you know, nospring chicken, as they say, I
just haven't had time to do that. So there you go, Mandy.
They're building a place up North calledChicken and Pickle. Well, I mean
that's specific. Do you want tolet people know what you do? Do

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you ever see a company and youhave no idea what it is they do?
You've seen, I know you guyshave seen if you go to the
baseball games or the football games,you see arrow five years out? Do
you have any idea what that companydoes? I don't, And just on
principle, I am not gonna findout. I am gonna make them at
some point change their advertising into somethingthat tells me what they do, because

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I've got no clue none. Buthey, Chicken and Pickle, you got
a pretty good idea of what you'regetting yourself into. What are you gonna
have? I think I'm gonna havethe chicken, might have a pickle.
I don't know. Have to seewhat else is there. I missed your
lyrics for your opening song. Pleaserep the words to your opening song.
Now, what you guys may notknow is that the opening song actually has

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a longer version. And I putthe longer version on Facebook, and now
people hang on. I got tolook it up a different way because I
didn't log into Facebook for some reason. So I got to go back to
Tie's email who sent it to mein the first place, and the important
part of the song, and yes, indeed people. A guy came to

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the event at reach Out and said, I woke up this morning with your
theme song running in my head.I know, right, it's so catchy.
It's so so catchy. The wordsthat you hear in the intro are
Mandy Connell ruling the day with wordsthat ignite. She's our guiding way through
the static and the noise, shecuts through the fray, Mandy Connall keeping

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ignorance at bay. And then itgoes from there and it's just so catchy.
I love it so much. Idon't care if people hate it.
I love it. And isn't thatwhat it's all about coming up on the
show. Trust me, I'm goingto bring you a guest that normal talk
shit those probably would not bring you. But never let it be said that
this is a normal talk show.If you've never heard of Slow Jamastan,

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vccouver you ever heard of Slow Jamastan. No, the first time I saw
it was when I looked at yourcalendar. Yep. It is a micro
nation. It's an eleven acre micronation located two hours east of San Diego.
It is surrounded by Imperial County,California. In just two years,
Slow Jamastan has attracted nineteen thousand registeredcitizens, but most of them don't live

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within the borders. And when youhear the interesting laws that they have in
Slow Jamastan from the Sultan of SlowJamastan himself, he's going to be joining
me at one o'clock and y'all,I got this pitch and it's like,
Hey, would you like to talkto the Sultan of Slow jama Stan.
And I'm like, huh, yeah, does a bear poop in the woods?
Who wouldn't. So we're bringing thatto you today and then you'll see

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on the blog today, the dramathe World, the GOP drama in Colorado
continues Saturday. We brought you ToddWatkins earlier this week talking about the meeting
that is happening on Saturday where theythink they have enough votes with the Central
Committee to bounce out current GOP ChairmanDave Williams, who is doing an abjectly

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terrible job, and he abused theparty and its resources during his run for
Congress and he's just been very unethical. So they're trying to get him out.
But now people are starting to lineup for the chairmanship after him,
and one of those people is awoman named Bretta Horn. I've met Britta
several years ago. She's just adynamo, just a dynamo, and she's

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going to come on and talk abouther plans for the GOP. There are
other factions in the GOP as well, but I didn't know how to get
a hold of them, or Iwould have them on today as well.
I'm not taking sides because I don'thave enough information about it. But we
put on Monday have new leadership ofthe Colorado Republican that will then be denied
by the current chairman, who showsno willingness to leave. So they even

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went so far as to call ameeting under a bridge just to and I'm
not even making this up. Thisis I can't believe I haven't talked about
this today or this week. Soin order to somewhat act like they're complying
with the bylaws when it comes tocalling a meeting to deal with the situation

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with David Williams, they called ameeting in Bayfield, which is six hours
away from Denver, in the middleof the week, underneath a bridge.
They called a meeting and then andthen they immediately gabbled it out. I
guess what did they gabble? Whatthey gabbled the sidewalk. But that's the
same group of people who are tryingto tell you that the group of people

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who are following the bylaws and arehaving a meeting on Saturday are illegitimate.
They're not having a meeting on Saturdayunder a bridge. So when you're thinking
about where are your allegiance currently inthe Republican Party should go, think about
whether or not you're going to alignyourself with people who have crept all over
not only tradition but the bylaws ofthe Colorado GOP and done it so poorly

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that fourteen out of eighteen people theyendorsed lost. Think about a Republican Party
as it is now that cannot raisemoney unless it is the chairman dropping sixty
grand into the party to try andcover up for the fact that he used
money from the party unethically at leastif not illegally. Just think about that

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before you align yourself. And ifyou're part of the Central Committee and you
have not given your proxy and notgoing to the meeting, please find someone
you trust to take your proxy andmake this meaning happen. Just the level
of absurdity is through the roof onthese issues, and the party cannot move
forward with the current leadership, andthat's unfortunate. I heard Hope Schefflman on

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with Heidie and all the other day. Heidi was filling in for Dan Kaplis
on our sister station, k Hew, and Hope didn't even sound like she
believed what she was saying. Itwas the most tentative and uncertain interview that
I've heard out of anyone in avery long time. And that's just is
sad. I don't know what theythink they're going to get accomplished here.

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So we're going to talk to Brittaabout why she wants to take over the
Colorado GOP and what that might looklike if she does. But Maan,
do we have a lot of stuffon the blog today. When we get
back in just a minute, Ihave a ton of questions. Does a
bear poop in the woods? Polarbears don't? Well, maybe they do

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if they're in woods at some point. Smarty pants, Oh, chicken and
pickle. Oh that's chicken and pickle, y'all. Sometimes I am dumb.
Did not get that at all,did not get that it all. Okay,
I'm gonna do your text when weget back, but I'm gonna start

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right now, Mandy. It's likea thousand pac Man games pickleball noise,
Mandy. Pickleball people are extremely hyperand they have taken the fun out of
the sport. Well, let metell you this, I will put the
fun right back in because I guaranteeyou the last thing I'm gonna be is
hyper on a pickleball court. Myhyper days are well behind me. Nothing
good ever came from being hyper inany situation, Mandy, except that you

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have to drive to the south sideof the Centennial Airport to get there.
Look, I don't know what thatis I want. Oh, that might
be the sporty pickle might be overin Centennial. No, that's not on
my side of the metro. Supposedlyover by Broncos training camp. Oh yeah,
that's on my side of the metro. That works for me. That
totally works for me. I oncewoke up because the frogs in the background

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stopped making noise. Boy, didI cover a lot of stuff in this
based on the text messages alone.Yeah, when you're growing up in a
rural area. I lived in acabin on a river for four years,
and I mean it was in thewoods, the deep woods, and in
the summer. The bugs were soloud they would keep my ex husband awake
because he was a city kid.They just for me were like music,

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but they were so loud. Youcannot believe how loud they are. So
yeah, I would if all theif all the noise stopped, I would
probably wake up too. I feelyou. I feel you on that,
Mandy, This is completely random.A long time ago, maybe a couple
of years, you talked about aFlorida inmate that had a life sentence and
ended up killing his cellmate so thatyou put on death row. There's now
a new series on Amazon and he'sfeatured on that. What. Oh my

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gosh, you know what. Okay, you got to send me the name
of the series, because if theyshow his sense and hearing, I might
be sitting in that courtroom. ButI don't know if there was any cameras
there. I don't remember. Oh, you got to send me the name
of that. That guy is justwalking and talking evil creepy. Okay,

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we'll be right back anyway. We'lltell that story again sometime at a different
time. Going to the text line, because we have so many of them,
lots of you said, I readit early, then follow along with
you reading the blog stuff Mandy superOh, let's see, Mandy, when
you're broadcasting live from the Democratic Convention, are you going to be as interested

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and ask even handed questions of themas you did with the Republicans? Will
you be unbiased or antagonistic? Myintention is to bring you the Democratic National
Convention just as we brought you theRepublican National Convention. I've tried to explain
this because I already know that whenI'm talking to someone who philosophically I disagree
with you guys, you're going tobe screaming at me through the text line.

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You gotta ask you this, yougo to the that's not the whole
purpose of this, that is notI am going to try really really hard
to check my own opinions and justlet you do. Just as I did
for all of the people you heardfrom the RNC, I trust my audience
to make up their minds about howthey feel about it. It's not my
job to tell you what to think. That being said, I want to

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hear from Democratic delegates. I wantto hear from members of our congressional party,
like, what is the Democratic vision? I want to bring it to
you guys. So, yes,it is not going to be an adversarial
situation. It is not going tobe antagonistic. That's not the purpose of
us going there. So you know, I'm I trust me, I'm going
to do my I'm going to domy absolute best. I mean, ultimately,

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you guys. At the at theR and C, we were trying
to get Lauren Bobert on the show, you know, and I let her
her person know, I said,you know, I didn't back her in
the in the primary, but Iam back here in the general. I
you know, I think it's importantthat the House of Representatives stay Republican.
So I'm going to vote with thatattitude of mine. But couldn't make that

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happen anyway. Mandy subscribe to DavidByrne's Reasons to Be Cheerful. Yes,
it is David Byrne from Talking Heads. You will get emails. I am
at the point in my life whoelse is there with me? Where if
I'm in a store and they're like, can we get an email address?
No, no, you cannot.I get enough crap in my email box.
I don't want any more of yourcrap in my email box. None

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of it. None of it.Mandy already asked me anything. I've noticed
that KOA news media personnel changed theirnames. I understand why you do.
But are the crazy so bad thatthere's a need for that kind of security?
Give me some inside baseball on thesubject. Thanks, Daryl. Listening
via the iHeartRadio app Crystal Clear Audiofrom Norman, Oklahoma. There's a lot

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of reasons that people have changed theirnames for the radio. I'm trying to
think of the people here. Idon't think we have anybody that's not using
well. I don't know first app, what's funny is I only know them.
Oh, the traffic people do ondifferent stations. Ah, that's different.
That's different. The traffic people dowork for different stations in the market.
Because we're total traffic can we providetraffic for a lot of other stations

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outside our company. So I thinkjust to avoid you know, confusion,
whether they're on this station, theyor this name, that's the only reason
I can imagine. I don't know. I have no idea. Now you've
got me thinking about it. Ialways know radio people buy their radio names.
I hardly ever know their real names, you know. Actually, Michael's
Michael Coover's last name is actually Washington. We just started calling him Coover for

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no reason. No, I'm justkidding, it's actually Coover. Who would
make that up? You know?But some people have like their their radio
names, you know, and sometimesthey're a funny handle. I met a
guy at the RNC. What washis name? It was something like like,
oh, it wasn't boogerhead, butit was something equally sort of ridiculous
in the talk radio format, AndI was like, you came from music

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radio, didn't you, Because musicradio you get a lot of that.
Hey, it's Mutton chops bringing toall the glass rock or whatever it is.
You know, but it's I don'tknow. I like my on air
name is my first married name,so it was my name. At some
point. It is no longer myname, but I still stick with it
on the radio because I already hadbuilt an audience in a radio industry reputation,

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so I just stuck with that anyway, Mandy, let me see this
scrolling up now, Mandy, whatis it like working at the radio ranch
in the tech center? Do youinteract with other radio broadcasters? Who's the
big dog in town? Are otherfemales supportive and understanding of how difficult it
is for women in this business,or out to tear you down, as

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if there's not enough room for multiplewomen on radio. PS loved Jamie White
for three decades. That's Jared andBoulder. I see people that work for
other radio stations all the time,and I was talking to one of my
salespeople yesterday just about how pleasant itis to work here because everyone here is
so nice. There's so few peoplein this building that it's not even worth

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even thinking about that. I'm notgenuinely excited to see every time I see
them I get sad when people leavehere, and radio is such a transient
industry. People are coming and goingall the time that you can't get attached
to people. You just can't.I'm sad when people leave here because this
is such a great group to workin. But we are on two different
floors, so I see some peoplemore than others. The FM stations are

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actually on the floor below us,so I don't see them as often that
I see them in the elevator.And it's a great place to work.
And all of the women in thisbuilding are supportive of each other. I
believe I have never had anything butspectacular support from every woman that I've met
in this building. Now in theindustry overall, you know, some are

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more supportive than others. How aboutthat. I try to be very supportive.
I try to mentor as many youngwomen as I can help them with
their career stuff. Because when Igot into it, I tried to find
a female mentor and literally no onereturned my call. And I was just
calling people in the industryasically, leavinga message that was like, Hi,
I'm new I just got a show. I could use some mentorship. I'm

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not an idiot. I would nottake up a lot of your time.
I really appreciate a conversation. Andnone of them called me back. I
probably called thirty women in radio andI vowed, no, it's not gonna
be me. Mister, that's notgonna be me. Mandy. Did you
hear the Needles donated seven million tothe Harris campaign? Oh? Bye,

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wait bye by Netflix? Who arethe Needles? I don't know what that
is? Hmmm. Sometimes the textmessages are not clear, Mandy. When
you read, I hear Kamala Harris'svoice and what I'm reading just ends up
turning into a word salad. Okay, there you go, There you go.

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Fantastic pickleball, best fun for tennishas beens Keep's retired husband's bushy.
What am I if I had aI'm trying to read these or is it
you guys? I think it's you, guys. Mandy. I can't believe
you got the words wrong. It'sMandy Connell, ruining, ruining the day.
Thank you, Texter, thank you? Oh no? Correct. Did

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you hear that Netflix donated seven milliondollars of the Harris campaign? You guys,
they gave up the Obama's twenty milliondollars when they left office, twenty
million bucks cash money for future projects. Of course they're going to donate to
Kambla Harris. Of course they arebe careful in Chicago. That's going to
be one dangerous convention. I amsuper interested to see the difference between the

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entire RNC and the entire DNC,like whole package. One of the things
I will tell you, the DNCwebsite has an entire search function and a
map feature for all of the localrestaurants around the area where the DNC is
going to be. That is somethingthe RNC should have done, and they
didn't because local businesses in Milwaukee didnot get a huge benefit out of this

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convention. And that's a shame becauseit was highly disruptive to the city of
Milwaukee. We shall see how itdoes in Chicago, and we're gonna be
there when we get back. I'vegot a couple of news stories I want
to jump into. One of them. What happens if Yellowstone supervolcano explodes?

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Good news, We're not all gonnadie, But I'll tell you what will
happen next the potential end of lifeas we know it. I mean,
why not let's do some light ona Friday. Have you seen the video
of the geothermal explosion at Biscuit Basinin Yellowstone National Park. If you haven't,
you gotta go. And I triedto find a way to embed it
so you can just go to themandisblogdot com and see it that you have

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to click through one and go toYouTube, which is fine. It's pretty
spectacular. Everybody's running away. Now. What's fascinating to me is so this
giant germo geothermal It looks like ageyser explodes. Okay, so waters shooting
way up into the air. There'slike a poof of dirt and everything else,
and everybody runs away while it's exploding. But then it stops and they

(29:08):
all stop and they turn around tolook at it. Oh, no,
worry that it'll explode again, becauseyou know, I guess this happens fairly
commonly, but most of the timeit's not caught on videos. So you
know, this is it's spectacular,but it of course gets people thinking,
oh my gosh, Yellowstone sits ontop of a supervolcano. What happens if

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the supervolcano blows, Well, itwon't totally kill us. I mean,
you know, it's gonna probably dropfeet of ash in the immediate vicinity that
those people are gonna have a problemwith what's happening in Colorado. What we
really have to worry about is theinevitable winter that appears after it belches all
of its black smoke and dust anddebris into the atmosphere. It would actually

(29:56):
change the climate of the Earth.This has happened in the past, where
a massive volcanic explosion sent so muchash and cloud into the atmosphere that it
was a decade before we got backto normal, or even longer. So
you know, I'm not saying weneed to prepare for nuclear winter. I'm

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just saying, maybe stock up onsome snacks, just to give you an
idea. By the way, geologistssay there is no real indication that there
is an imminent explosion coming, sowe don't need to. You know,
don't run out and buy your Patriotbucket of food just yet unless you already
have it, which case you're good. So I don't know, this is
one of those things where I thinkabout the cycles of the Earth's being.

(30:42):
Couldn't think of a better way toput that. You know, we've had
periods of time because we know throughice cores and things like that, we
think we know that there have beenperiods of time when it's been much warmer
than it is now. And wheneverpeople say it was the hottest day on
record, those records only go backin most cases to about the late eighteen

(31:02):
hundreds. There are some records thathave been kept by the Vatican and things
like that that have been around forhundreds and hundreds of years, but most
records go back to the late eighteenhundreds, mid to late eighteen hundreds.
So we know that the Earth hasbeen hotter, it's been colder, it's
been all of these things. Butyou gotta wonder, you know, does
the earth itself and I'm not ascribing, I'm not anthromorphizing the earth, but

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could the Earth be set up insuch a symbiotic way that whatever we do,
the Earth is going to respond thuslyand in over a period of thousands,
if not millions of years. It'sno one of those things that doesn't
happen overnight. And all this worrythat we're putting into the fact that we
have right raising levels, rising levelsof carbon dioxide. We're all freaking out

(31:48):
about this, but maybe this isjust part of the natural psycho worth goes.
You know what, everything needs tobe bigger, Everything needs to grow
bigger. Do you know those storiesthat we have in the Bible and elsewhere
about giants people that were extraordinarily large. What if it was that people were
extraordinarily large because there was so muchcarbon in the atmosphere because we need carbon.

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It's not a pollutant. It's athing that we need to survive.
It's just really interesting to think abouthow all that's tied together. These are
the things I think about when Ican't sleep at night, and last night
I woke up at two twenty five, So that's what I thought about last
night for like an hour and ahalf. You're welcome by the way that
I then bring it to you insuch a delightful way, much like I'm

(32:32):
going to bring our next guest.I am oddly excited about talking to the
Sultan of slung Jamastan for a coupleof reasons. One, I've never had
the opportunity to talk to someone whocreated their own micronation. And then I've
never talked to someone who managed toget that micronation recognized at NATO. Not
join NATO but recognized at NATO.So I'm excited to hear what this man,

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how he came up with this vision. I mean, you guys don't
know. Maybe this is maybe thiscould work to say, parts of Colorado,
We'll just declare a micronation in partof Colorado. We'd buy like forty
acres and just set up our ownstuff. If works for him, it
can work for us. We'll beright back. The Mandy Connell Show is
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(33:21):
and Tondall on Kola ninety FM ayuycan the Nicey's through free Many Connell keeping
sad thing? Welcome, Welcome,Welcome to the second hour of the show.

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And if you have ever been drinkingwith your friends and said, you
know, if I ran this countryand thought I should do that, my
next guest, I don't know ifhe was drinking with his friends when he
came up with the idea that hehas done just that, he has created
the micro nation of Slow Jamastan.Welcome, ladies and gentlemen to this Sultan
of Slow Jamastan himself, Sultan.Welcome to the show. Mandy, Welcome,

(34:05):
to the show for yourself. It'sgood to have you here today.
We are getting ready for the sevenhour Sultan Special. Shall we begin the
seven hour Sultan Special? I thoughtI got you for the longer interview.
Well, I can from a sevenhours minimum, and then we'll take it
from there as long as the snackswill keep on coming. Yes, it's
good to be here today. I'mexcited to be on the show. A

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big fan. So let's get started. Let's get started with tell me a
little bit about how you decided toform your own nation and tell us what
a micro nation actually is. We'llstart at the beginning. Well, absolutely,
the humble beginnings came from a frustrationfrom me and many other people here

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in the United States. Hate isa strong word, but I'll use it.
I hate crocs, the shoes,the rubber shoes with the holes.
Are you familiar on Mandy with thecar? I actually am, and I
actually I wrote down the question whydo you hate crocs? Because I mean,
if you ever had them on yourfeet? Well, have you seen
them? That's the question. Youjust avert your eyes. They're extremely comfortable.

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They're like they're like sliding your feetinto marshmallows. Sultan. Well,
I can tell this conversation isn't goingto go well from start, Mandy.
But look, we can talk anothertime about problem. We do have people
who can help you, and soi'mderstand standing by Mandy. We're here to
help people like you. But look, we tried to stop the awful spread

(35:35):
of these crocs throughout America. Wecontacted local and regional, even federal law
enforcement and politicians. Unfortunately they turneda blind eye to the problem. So
look, we had two choices,right, we could do a violent uprising
to stop the crocs, but theSultan is a peace loving man. So
instead we said, look, weare simply going to carve out our own

(35:55):
country where we can prohibit crocs,wedding and even possession of crocs strictly illegal.
It is the foundation of why slauJanastan was founded. And we have
a bunch of of of of funloving, crockating people all together for one
uh, for one idea, andit's going extremely well. But we'll have

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to talk later about this opinion ofyours about the crocs. Now, when
California found out that you had justset up a micro nation east of San
Diego, was there a kerfuffle.Was there any did they push back at
all? Did you have to engagein any kind of uh, you know,
armed revolution to defend your territory.Well, of course that is a

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that is a good question, I'lltell you. For the most part,
the people in California have become alliesfriendly. In fact, they have visited
us. They like to take selfiesin front of the big sign that says
slow yamastan We're We're located about ninetyminutes south of Palm Springs, California,
right off of a state highway.So for the most part, it's been

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it's been fun. We have littledance parties in Sloy understand, a few
times a year when the weather permits. There was a small, as you
said, kerfuffle, little international incidentmonths ago. The Sultan received a parking
ticket in my diplomatic vehicle. Sowe did take that all the way up
to the traffic court in San Diego. It didn't go so well. So

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it's it's little things like that,but look, it's it's it's day by
day. Every day is a newchallenge, and every day we bring more
people in. So you take thegood, you take the bad, you
take them both in there. Youhave sloy understand. Oh, I thought
you were going to say the factsof life. I'm sorry, I was
going in a different direction there.So micronations, let's let's have a little
chit chat about that for a second, because apparently you guys are not the

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only one. They're They're all overthe place. How does one create a
micronation? Is there paperwork? Whatdo you have to do there? Do
you just plan a flag and justbe like this is it? Well?
Of course, you know. Idon't like the term necessarily micronation for Soyanmistan
because we think we are grand.We think we are a pretty big deal.
We don't like to be attached tothe word micro But yes, a

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micronation is usually small country started byan individual. That are over four hundred
micronations all across the world, includingAustralia and Asia, and we have one
in Nevada called Molossia. There isone off the coast of UK which is
a small platform in the sea calledsea Land. So micronations come in many

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different forms, but basically it's anyonewho declares a certain piece of land their
own country. Interestingly enough, ifyou want to get political and geographical.
The Montevideo Convention, specifically Article threesays that a country does not have to
be recognized by another country to bea country. So of course the biggest

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question people say, well, isslow jama stand recognized? But according to
the Monte Video Convention, you needyou need land, you need a border,
you need people, and you needa government, and you do not
need recognition from anybody else to bea country. So basically, like I
could declare the Kaway Studio of micronationand that's all I needed to do.

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And then how do you get Iunderstand now, and this is serious.
You've just come from a NATO meeting, so they are taking you seriously,
Sultan, You've gone beyond what allthese other I don't recall seeing sealand being
invited to come to the NATO meeting. How did that come about? Well,
yes, I'll tell you. Weare the very first micronation in the

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universe to go to NATO. Ican't exactly tell you how we got in.
That is a slow I understanding,secret intelligence, classified information. But
the point is we made it in. We might have only lasted fourteen minutes
before they politely ask us to leave, but we didn't make it in in
all of our uniforums, and Iguess I wanted my big green sultan uniform
for those listening at home. Idon't I don't condone his practices, but

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Colonel Kadaffi, his fashion sense wasimpeccable, so he does inspire me.
So if you can picture a Kadaffiuniform but in the color of the swyerness
and flag, it's green and brightand lots of metals. Anyway, so
we got to NATO the first dayplain clothes to kind of suss out the
situation. But on the last dayof NATO we said we're going to go
in full uniform. We made itin. Let me tell you, Mandy.

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The media swarmed us. They werevery excited to see a diplomat.
The lights and cameras were on.We were being interviewed by the Turkish media
and then North Macedonia and Georgia andArmenia. They were very excited because these
press people, as you are,the journalists, they're relegated to a press
room, so they are apart fromall the diplomats. All of a sudden,

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the diplomat, like me, hewalks in. Of course, it
was a huge scene, a positiveone, lots of laughs and smiles and
hugs. But about fourteen minutes ina gentleman from NATO came by and basically
says, please follow me, andhe walked us straight out the door.
And that well, you know whatthough, that that's uh, that's the
beginning of the diplomacy. I wasgoing to ask you who had the best

(41:06):
uniform. I'm guessing you have giantepaulets as well, you know, because
Kadafi'll always had the big epaulets onthe shoulder. You got those with the
dangly things that come around the outsideof the shoulder. I'll tell you absolutely,
there is a lot of metal andand and fringe and uh and and
rick rack and the metals, thelittle cords, all of all of the

(41:28):
things that hat uh, the theshoes depends. I'll tell you it's quite
a production to to get dressed.But I do it for the people.
I think. I think every leaderof a country should look presentable when he
goes out for a night on thetown or even running errands on Sunday.
When I go into America to togo to TJ Max to bring things back
to Soyamistan, we're having a short, a small infrastructure problem in Soyamastan,

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so unfortunately it's more imports than butyes, I I think I think every
leader should should look good when he'sout on the town. So I'm guessing
your trade imbalance is what one hundredpercent on that one, because every it
appears everything is important currently, well, we are working on it. We
do export sand, so we're workingon the sand exports as well, smiles

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saying occasional dad joke. We relyon entertainment, of course, the slow
jams, the music of slow Jamastan. So we're working on it. It's
you know, they say Rome wasnot built in the day. How can
you have a lot of citizens youdon't live there, so how could one
become a citizen of slow Jamastan?And is that the passport you have in
your hand right now? Yeah,So for the girls listening at home,

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we are doing a nice zoom,so I'm holding up the passport of Slowyamistan.
It's absolutely beautiful. Here's the greatthing. Citizenship is absolutely free for
Sloyamistan and Mandy. This is prettyincredible, if I may say so,
Sloy understand has more citizens than twofully recognized U and nations. So right
now we have over nineteen thousand registeredcitizens. Nobody actually lives in Sloyamistan except

(43:01):
for me. The plumbing and thesewer electricity. It's a work in progress.
Currently only three cable channels, soit's a rough life. I don't
want to subject it to everybody.It's not for everybody yet, but the
waiting list to actually live in slowyamastanIs is pretty large. Well, it
looks like paradise, Sultan. Imean it really, it's it's desert paradise,

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but paradise nonetheless, Sultan of SlowJamastan, I can't tell you how
much I've enjoyed this. And youknow what, I've decided. I'm rethinking
my position because a man of yourstature, if you say crocs are bad,
it must be true. So Iam. I am immediately going to
go home and throw out my crocflops that I have, because I do

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have some croc flops. Because obviouslyuntil this point I've just been misguided.
And I feel so much better aboutthings, and I will I'm on the
no Croc, the no Croc pledgefrom here on out. Thank you,
sir for your kindness. Today.You're a good company. How much time
on the clock do we have bythe worn we all about like one minute
somebody else you have for me?Okay, So I want to quickly tell

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you the closer and you know,the fun and the jokes and the crocs
aside the rule about string cheese youhave to peel it. You can chump
it. But that is a seriousundertone in Sloyamistan, and that is I
want to share with your listeners.You know, you wake up every day,
the moment you open your phone,you see people you love, your
neighbors, your friends. They arefighting, they are bickering. We have
never been any more divisive, polarizingsociety ever, and everybody has too many

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labels, not enough. People arejust saying we are all Americans. So
in Sloyamistan we are all Soloyamistanding.So when you cross the border, we
don't care religion, color, politicalaffiliation. As long as you don't like
as long as you don't like crocs, you're one of us. And we
wave the sloy Undistandi flag proud.And I hope America and part of the
other world who are having some divisivenesscan take a que from Sloyamastan and we

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can all come together to be onebecause that is what's missing today. Yes,
Saltan, You're absolutely right and thisis you are the leader of leaders
of all men at Slow Jamastan.Thank you so much for your time today,
sir. It's been a pleasure,and I'm sure that as you grow
and become more influential and get invitedto stay at NATO the last day,

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we will be talking more about youand your mission in the near future.
Thanks for your time today. Thankyou. All right, I already opened
up how to become a citizen ofSlow jama Stand. Now here's my question.
Do you think it has to be? Could it be dual citizenship?
I should have asked him if Ihad to renounce my citizenship, because I'm

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not going to do that. Butyou know, come on, you know
that's hilarious. All right, guys, Now back to serious stuff because I've
got so much stuff on the blogtoday that isn't fun, but I want
to get to it. I wantto play for you guys a little bit
of audio. This was on Twittera couple of days ago or x or

(45:54):
whatever it's called. And this kidgoes to Ramala in the West Bank,
and I'm gonna play this. Itdoesn't have any cursing in it. Let
me just have my computer VCOUVER.I'm gonna play this because it's you need
to hear from the people. He'sjust stopping people on the street in the
West Bank. These are not soldiers, These are not people who are in

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charge. These are just average citizensin the West Bank. And he asked
them questions about Israel. For monthsnow, millions of people around the world
have been chanting free Palestine. Well, I've decided to see Palestine. Welcome
to the wild West Bank. Sinceten seven, he says, almost no
outside reporters have gone to Palestine untilnow, and here he is talking to

(46:37):
people on the street. Are yousupportive of Pamas? Yes, yes,
of course, yes, are mostPalestinians? Yeah? With that is this
ten Did you see the videos theyposted of what they did on October seventh?
Everything, you're okay with all ofthat? With everything they did,
they killed the innocent Israelis they killed, yes they did. No, yes,

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they did give me a ford.Do you think Hamas should release the
Israeli hostages? No? No,no, nothing's knew, miss There's nothing
named Israel. The Kron mentions Israelover one hundred times. You jolst the
dairy cow is Pal's dimension in theKron. You know the murders Hamas did

(47:21):
on October seventh. Is that okay? Yes, they have the right to
do it. The problem is notKamas. We should look at the bigger
picture because they live in until recubation. But Israel left Gaza in two thousand
and five. Sure, what doesantibodis? Neither one of us were born
anywhere near nineteen forty We have todeal with the reality today. No,
no, don't deal with the reality. Is that written wrote all the criminal

(47:45):
Jewel says nineteen forty eight. Theycan go back Holanda. Most of those
places they were kicked out of Jeurshave not been killed or exposed to any
shruggel or any violence to that mostevery country in the Middle that's true.
Educate yourself and this is what theyreally gave. They are kicked. It's

(48:06):
because of their own actions. Whatdid they do besides being Jewish? Tasteen?
They they do all awful? Doesanyone hear an in the US.
It's a big movement right now,Queers for Palestine. Are you supportive of
that? No, we don't haveit. You don't have to pay people.

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No. No, it's like analien would not be accepted. No.
To be honest with you know,do you want to live with the
Israelis in peace or no? No, you want to understate solution? Israel
wiped off them that we should didso you would not be okay with a
Tuesday solution, of course not.It is the most smooths they released from

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God. You think that these peopleare genuinely smiling after being held hostage.
They're scared about their life. Thisa little bit. I think you're in
denial of Hamas. So Hamas implementsstrictury a law. It looks like in
Ramala at least you're free to showyour hair. Would you want Hamas to
be in charge? They would allowfor extras. They not had elections in

(49:09):
Goz in twenty years. That's afact. Maybe people have said one of
them thanks for watching this report.Yeah, And so essentially, I mean
you hear these are just normal peopleon the street in the West Bank,
And when he says there's a movementcalled Queers for Palestine, the guy literally

(49:30):
goes, oh, we don't havethem here. We don't have gay people
here, they wouldn't be accepted.It's videos like this that need to be
seen by everyone who is out there, like a moron walk, you know,
marching in the streets on behalf ofthe Palestinian people. Those see morons
really believe that a two state solutionis possible. The people there don't even

(49:51):
want a two state solution. Theywant Israel destroyed so they can take over
that section of the world. Andwhen they're done with that section of the
world, where do you think theywere? I want to go next.
The whole end game is an Islamiccaliphate over the entire world. That's the
endgame. That's the ultimate goal.Israel's just in the way right now.
That's step number one in a planthat goes on decades. You know,

(50:15):
we're very short term thinkers in theUnited States of America. I was talking
to one of my coworkers who justgot back from Europe and she went all
over the place and they went fromRome and saw ruins. I mean,
she really did everything. And Isaid to her, I said, don't
you realize when you come back fromEurope, how we're like a baby country.
We're like a toddler of a country. We've barely been around five minutes.

(50:37):
Those places have been around thousands ofyears. So it's it is incredibly
important that we recognize that Israel isthe first line of defense, because that
is the way they look at it. Israel is the first thing to be
conquered. And if they murder everyJew in Israel and take over the entire

(51:00):
property, that would just be thebeginning of the next phase. And the
next phase is coming after the West, the Great Satan. They hate everything
about us. And this isn't everyperson who is Islamic. These are Islamists
who want to force everyone to yieldto their religion, whether they want to
or not. So man, it'sthat video is on the blog today.

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I put it on. I thoughtI found it the other day and I
forgot to put it on here.Yesterday Benjamin Netanya, who spoke to the
two houses of Congress. I talkedyesterday about how I feel about Benjamin naw
who liked him before, not asmuch now, and after this war is
over, he's got to go well. Kamala Harris skipped that yesterday as the

(51:43):
President of the Senate. As thevice president, she should have overseen that
speech to the Joint Houses of Congress, but she had made other plans to
go speak to a group of sororitysisters and ask her fellow black sororities,
who you have to assume are goingto vote for her already, to get

(52:04):
their vote for president. That wasmore important than coming and appearing with Benjamin
net Yahoo. Now. She wenton to say that she would like things
wrapped up sooner rather than later.Cry per a cease fire, not victory.
Notice, it's never it's time forvictory. We have your back until
you defeat Hamas. Because unless theyutterly destroy and dismantle every part of Hamas

(52:27):
that they possibly can, we're justgoing to do this again in five more
years. I mean, it's nevergoing to end for Israel unless we can
continue to do the things that werestarted with the Abraham Accords during the Trump
administration, working with not insane countriesto normalize relations with Israel so it becomes
more challenging to attack without expecting somekind of response from their neighbors. What's

(52:52):
happening right now in the Middle Eastis really easy to understand when you look
at it, as Iran and itsproxies are on one side and Saudi Arabia
is on the other. So they'reboth Muslim nations, they are different kinds
of Muslims, and they don't likeeach other at all. And basically the
entire Middle East can be broken upalong those ally lines. You're either with

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Saudi Arabia or you're with Iran,and Amas is just a proxy for Iran.
So if we want to keep thebattle away from the United States,
we probably need to help Israel continuethe battle there. I strongly believe that,
and I'm not much of a warmongeranymore. I've been a Warmongeri before.

(53:37):
During the Gulf War, I wasall in. But then I'm like,
wait a minute, was that allnecessary? Did we really need to
do all that? I don't know. Second, guessing war is a terrible
thing, isn't it. The Olympicsstarted today. It's starting today this weekend.
Simone Biles is going to compete ingymnastics, and we have some great
athletes that are going to be Commedtiing, are you an Olympic sky coover?

(54:00):
Enjoy the Olympics? You're a sportsguy? Yeah? I like the Olympics.
I like watching the basketball, Ilike watching the gymnastics. Right,
I tend to like the Winter Olympicsa little bit more. Really, what
about the skiing? I like theice hockey. I like the skiing.
I like the figure skating. That'sthe exact toppase. I actually like the
summer game is better. I heardRoss talking earlier about Olympic sports that we

(54:23):
don't have anymore, and some ofthem were super cool, and including when
he was describing one of them.Okay, let me pull this up very
quickly, since I'm talking about itand I don't have it on my blog.
He was talking about specifically sports thatused to be in the Olympics since
the modern era. The modern eraof the Olympics started in the eighteen nineties

(54:43):
through now. Okay, so oneof them is a game called polota.
Have you ever heard of polota?I have not. Have you ever heard
of highlight? I've heard of highlight. Okay, have you ever been to
a highlight match? No? Ohboy, oh boy. So there was
a highlight fron Time in Tallahassee therethe place where they play highlight. It's

(55:05):
called a highlight fron Time, andPolota is very similar to highlight, and
highlight is freaking wild. It iswild. Okay, they've got these they've
got these curved like basket things andthey get the highlight ball. I don't
remember what it's called. And theball is a little bit smaller than a
baseball, but about the same hardnessas a as a golf ball and a

(55:31):
little bit heavier. Okay, sothis thing will fly. And they hurl
that thing at like three hundred milesan hour and a wall and you're not
separated from the game. Right,there's open you're looking at it. There's
a back wall as to your left. The sidewall is to the back,
and the front wall is to yourright, and you're just sitting there and

(55:51):
they're curling this deadly missile and Iwas like, that would be cool to
have back in the Olympics. Iknow a lot about highlight because one of
my friends dated a highlight player andat that point, and it may still
be this way, they're so highlightFronton's in Florida. It's very popular with
Cubans. But it was so rigged. It was so rigged. I mean
they knew exactly. It was likeprofessional wrestling, rigged who was gonna win,

(56:14):
who wasn't. It was shady asI'll get out, but super fun
to watch, I mean, justcrazy. And what do you like?
What is your favorite Do you watchthe sporting of the track and field at
all? Stuff like that? Imean, I like the one hundred meter
dash. You don't want to findmyself watching more intently the really long races,
you know, the ones where they'vebeen running like four hours before you

(56:36):
even dip into the race and youjust see like the last two laps in
the stadium. I find that fascinating. Yeah. One of my most famous
memories of the Olympics is Mary Deckerrunning and she falls. Oh that was
heartbreaking, absolutely heartbreaking. That's whatthe Olympics is all about, though,
isn't it. You watch to seesomething spectacular and then you you if you

(57:00):
see something disastrous, that's the thingyou remember. I mean, I remember
being a kid and watching Nadiya Komayiciget the first perfect ten in gymnastics.
You go back and look at thatroutine. Now it looks like what they
teach first graders who are taking gymnasticscompared to what that sport is now with
Simone Biles and just the sheer athleticismthat she has. It's pretty incredible how

(57:25):
far things have gone. And youhave to wonder, so that was fifty
years ago, that Nati Komeny shegot a perfect ten fifty or forty eight
years ago, and what is goingto happen in fifty years? Like what
are they going to be able todo in fifty years considering what they can
do now in the last fifty Ijust think it's super super cool. I
love the Olympics and I can't wait, and I hate that it's in Europe

(57:46):
because it's eight hours ahead, andthen you have to try and not see
who won for eight hours while youwait to watch it when you know when
you're not asleep. But I'm I'mglad you don't in the studio. I
do not actually off. It wason in here earlier and it's just the
opening game though, but I wantto watch it. I'm gonna watch it
later. I don't want to watchit now. I just have to like

(58:07):
la la la. And as westart to get the metal count, they'll
start to do it during the news, so I gotta let them know.
They got to give a spoiler alertbefore they give the metal count. Anyway,
tug of war couver used to bean Olympic sport, and I'm thinking
Ross lifted that off earlier, andall I could think of was think of

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how dominant we would be a tugof war as the United States, because
everybody's so fat. We're as apeople just bigger than most other peoples.
I don't know what the tall wholet me see here the tallest Who is
the tallest worldwide? Demo? Okay, let's see here. Oh no,

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that's just giving me the tallest person. Eight foot two inches almost three inches
is the tallest person. But thecountry is with the tallest people in the
world. Go like this, Okay, Greece is at the bottom. Bermuda,
Poland, Germany and blah blah blah, Dominica, Ukraine. Slums just
going down here, Czech Republic,Latvia, Apparently they got tall people in

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Latvia, Iceland, Denmark, Estonia, Montenegro, and the Netherlands. What
what, we didn't even make thetop twenty. They didn't even make it.
We're fifty eighth for women and fortyseventh for men. Or average height
for men is five feet nine pointsixty five inches. For women it's five

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to four point two nine inches,y'all, I'm bringing up the average.
Who are you people bringing down theaverage to five four. My goodness,
we're not tiny people. It's likepocket people. How does that compare to
the top. Let's see, let'scrawl boom all the way down to the
bottom. Let's see what Netherlands is. Their average dude is five nine and

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seven tenths inches, So it's atiny fraction of a difference. Oh no,
men are six feet and the womenare five feet seven. Have you
ever been to the Netherlands. Ihave not. We were actually had that
on our list when we went onvacation this summer, but we crossed it
off at the last minute. Everyonethere is beautiful. Everyone who lives there

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is absolutely beautiful. It is themost intimidating country I have ever visited in
my entire life, because everyone isjust gorgeous. They're all tall, they're
all thin, they ride bicycles everywhere. They all have blonde hair or light
brown hair, and these big blueeyes. It's insane. It's crazy how
good looking everybody in Netherlands is crazy. And now we know they're the tallest,

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but I still think we can takethem in tug of war. You
know, the only other country that'sfatter than we are is Mexico. Obesity
wise, and I'm being dead serious. Those are the stats. So think
about we could get some like likeCornfread Nebraska boys as our anchors. I
feel like Tug of War we couldabsolutely dominate. Running deer shooting used to

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be a sport at the Olympics.Now is the deer running or is the
shooter running? I have questions.I think those are both legit questions.
Dueling pistols. Ross talked about thisand I got really excited. I was
like, well, obviously, duelingpistol is a single elimination. You know,
you can't have double elimination. Butthen he told me they're actually shooting
at targets. Well that's no fun. Had the opportunity to make the most

(01:01:30):
Darwinian sport in the history of Olympics, and you blew it. You absolutely
blew it. So Mandy, Ithink Andrea the Giant could take them out
with a tug of war by himself. I don't think he was originally from
the United States though, was heWasn't he born somewhere else? Andrea the
Giant, let me see here.He was born in Uh he was French,

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so they could keep him. Imean, I feel like We've got
a lot of people to select from, Mandy, but Americans might way more
per inch than all of them.That is true. All of these immigrants
from South America are ruining our heightstanding in the world. You know what.
That might there's some truth to that, because I've met a lot of
people from certain Central American countries thathonestly, they're like pocket people. You

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can just pick them up, putthem right in your pocket. They're a
little tiny people, tiny tiny people. Hi, Mandy, I feel like
I already got that one. Ohthe only reason people remember Zola Bud yep,
that's exactly right. She's the onethat crashed into Mary Decker. She
was running barefoot too, remember herfrom South Africa. I do remember that,

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but that's the the Merry Decker thingis more pictured in my head,
not the Zola Bud portion of it. Let's see here. Let's see here
what happened to her after the fall? What is your most famous Olympic memory
of all time? I watched theNayakomenichi getting the first ten. That was

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something I watched because I was takinggymnastics. I was a little kid,
but I remember watching that and thathad a and Carrie shrug. Another gymnast
moment where she did a vault withwhat we found out later was a broken
ankle and stuck the landing to helpthem win the all round. That with
the Mary lou Retten team, theywere so good, and it's a lot
of gymnastics for me. Michael Phelpsis just so dominating and swimming that you

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have to like defer to him.Some of the races, the short races,
the fifty meter yard, you know, fifty meters and the one hundred
meters, some of those races arevery memorable. Can't think of anything else
right now. You got the hockeyUSA beating Russia. Oh that's and that's
the basis of the best sports movieever, Miracle. Yeah. Again,

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we got to take a break Olympicmemory and you can do that at five
six six n I oh, that'sthe common spirit health text line, Mandy.
I remember the USR USA basketball fiascoin nineteen seventy two and Frank Shorter
winning the nineteen seventy six Marathon.I was only three in nineteen seventy two,
so I don't remember that. Ooh, good point, Mandy. Tug

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of War Japan's sumo wrestlers would winor shot put dudes. Yeah, shot
put dudes are big. You knowwhat I always wondered, you know,
the people who lift the super heavyweights, you know, the people who have
like, you know, five hundredpounds and they're doing a clean and jerk.
Why are they always? Why arethey so big? And I don't
mean muscular, They're always kind ofbuilt like a you know, like a

(01:04:35):
barrel, you know what I mean? What is that? I mean you
think that being in better you know, maybe less fat mass on your body
would help you athletically. I mean, I don't know. Maybe that's good
for them. I'm not sure.But did anybody else ever wonder that,
Like, if all you do islift weights, how could you even have

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that much body fat on your jWinning Gold when he was still a man?
Yeah, that was a big deal. Remember how cool that was?
For two reasons. Number One,we were celebrating the bi centennial in nineteen
seventy six seventeen seventy six, andit was so patriotic to be an American

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in nineteen seventy six. We talkedabout this a couple of weeks ago.
We have our two hundred and fiftiethanniversary coming up, and wouldn't it be
amazing if we could have that kindof feel and gin up that kind of
feeling for the United States of Americathat we had in nineteen seventy six where
everybody was wearing red, white andblue Holly hobby dresses. You have to
be a certain age to get that. Sorry Millennials and gen z my gen

(01:05:40):
xers, they know exactly what I'mtalking about. But then you have Bruce
Jenner winning the decathlon, and that'skind of like, even though there are
people that are faster, or theycan jump higher or whatever, they can
do all of these things better,they can't do them all better. And

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so the Caathlon's kind of like thepinnacle of track and field, and the
Olympics just one of those you hadto do everything, and you had to
do it all well. And whenBruce Jenner can't remember how good his hair
was too, he just had thebest hair kind of you know, swishing
in the wind was just so good. And the whole country was excited because
it was our bicentennial and our guywon the big prize in track and field,

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and it was just it was aglorious time to be alive. Charles
Barkley versus the Angolan basketball player thatwasn't Charles Barkley's Heyday too ooh tany hard
and crocodile tears. Yeah, mylace, my lace game, I died.
I always remember the Winter Olympics,the ski accident at the beginning of

(01:06:45):
wide world of sports. Yeah,I remember that. The thrill of victory,
the agony of defeat, and theguy comes flying through the banner.
He didn't hurt himself, by theway, That's pretty amazing, Mandy.
My favorite sport is pole vault.Watching them vault at twenty feet is amazing.
My son vaulted in college. Vaultersare a different breed of cat,

(01:07:09):
kind of like surfer dudes. Thatfrom Steve. Yeah, you gotta have
a little touch of the nuts togo, uh you know, and by
that I mean crazy. I don'tnever mind that did not come out the
way I wanted to come out.Just you know, rewind that and take
that out of the podcast. Couveryjust no, I'm just kidding. I
don't care that much. Give thepodcast people something to giggle at. Grab

(01:07:30):
some girls from Commerce City. Automatictug a war champs, Now, that
is not nice, not nice atall. The basketball game reset the final
three seconds twice until Russia one.When was that? What I used to
love back in the Cold War isin the gymnastics, it would be like,
oh, look, the French judgegives that a nine point seven,

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and the Spanish judge gives it anine point eight, and the Russian judge
gives it a two point five,and that was just what they did.
The Russian judge always came in low. When we get back, I've got
the two minute drill. You'll Ihave a bunch of stories about the political
race on the blog today, butI'm just I'm sick of it, so

(01:08:12):
you can go read them all,and I wish you would, because there's
some really good stories that you know, we can talk about later, some
of the Ministry of Truth stuff that'shappening, but again, I don't want
to talk about it. So whenwe get back, we're two minute drilling
and then I'm going to do someof your text messages where you can ask
me anything or whatever, and thenwe're going to do a great interview about
the mess that is the Colorado RepublicanParty. That's all coming up in the
next hour. KOA The Mandy ConnellShow is sponsored by Belle and Pollock accident

(01:08:36):
and injury lawyers. No, it'sMandy Connell and Condall ninem got way.
Can the nicety there? Andy Connell? Keeping you sad thing the two minute

(01:09:00):
drill at two Hey, we're Igo to too minute warrians reponfire stories of
the day that we don't have moretime for play. Let's call this will
take longer than two minutes. Areyou out? Here's Mandycondle. All right,
my friends, several of you hitthe text line when I was talking
about the agony of defeat guy andsaid, oh, he's from Colorado,

(01:09:20):
except he's not. Fans of acertain age almost certainly remember the image of
Slovenian athlete Vinko Bogotage wiping out onthe takeoff ramp and hurtling towards a gallery
of spectators. Bogatage than twenty twoyears old and competing for Yugoslavia, suffered
a concussion and a broken ankle ina terrifying tumble at the nineteen seventy World

(01:09:42):
Ski Flying Championships. He immediately thatJune, got back to training and continued
to ski and now is retired insome place in Slovakia. I don't know.
Oh the drill at two. Thisis interesting, and you have to
think that we're gonna start seeing someprice drops if things don't change. A
global consumer backtrack has happened from postpandemic revenge spending, and it's hitting companies

(01:10:09):
top and bottom lines food producers,airlines, automakers, luxury homes. Evidence
is starting to pile up that weare pulling back nestly. The world's biggest
food company cut its revenue outlook forthe year on Thursday, while Niliver Uniliver
reported sales that missed estimates and jeepowners Silantis env posted a punge in profit.

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Luxury brands are suffering. Grocery brandsare suffering, and it's all because
we as consumers have decided we cannotafford to buy their stuff anymore. And
this is going to be the kindof thing that either puts companies out of
business or gets them to lower prices. Finally, you know what I just
paid for a twelve pack of sevenup. A twelve pack of seven up
was nine dollars nine dollars. Iwill not be doing that again. Drill

(01:10:58):
it too. If you want tostave off mental issues as you get older,
specifically dementia and other things memory issueslike that lean into music. They've
been studying in this study that Ilinked on the blog today about the impact
of music on our ability for recall, And they am not going to explain
to you how they did the studybecause that's really complicated. It takes too

(01:11:19):
long. But across all age groups, people were able to identify types of
music that they had heard before,mostly classical music. And the people that
can identify the more music were themost with it as they got older.
So David in Trepid is never goingto have an old brain because he's leaned
in on all the music. Andmaybe we should all do the same it

(01:11:42):
too. If you're going to goout on the water in Colorado, will
you please put on a life jacket. I know they look dorky, right,
I know I've been wearing them onmy entire life. But we are
on track right now in Colorado tohave a record number of water related deaths
this season. We have a verywe were season and we are just at
our twenty fifth water related death now. Colorado Parks and Wildlife says most of

(01:12:06):
the people who have died were notwearing a life jacket. They fell off
a paddle board, fell out ofa tube, fell out of whatever,
and then they drowned. So pleasedo me, yourself and everyone else a
favor. Put on a life jacket. We all look doorkey in them.
It's fine, no one cares,and you won't die probably too. It

(01:12:27):
is time to talk about fair food, because Cheyenne Frontier Days has got it
all gouber. Do any of thesesound delicious to you? I'm just gonna
ask you, because some of thesedo sound delicious. How about a Mexican
streak corn pizza. It's all theingredients of a classic aanote on a delicious
pizza crust. It's creamy, it'scheesy, fresh, cilantro delicious. Last

(01:12:48):
year, of course, they hadthe pizza or the pickle pizza. No,
not doing that. I'm just I'mpassing them all. I'll play pickleball,
but I'm not doing pickle pizza.They also have corn dogs and fluting,
one dipped and covered in hot cheetos. I would eat that. I'd
try it at least once. Nowthere is something here that just is too
weird for me to get behind thefruity pebbles, pineapple shrimp bowl It's a

(01:13:13):
great big pineapple hollowed out, filledwith delicious fried shrimp, grilled pineapple,
topped with a spicy ranch sauce,and sprinkled with fruity pebbles and wells.
He took the word right out ofmy mouth, like you kind of had
me until the fruity pebbles. That'sjust one. You just were like,
what can we throw on this tomake it super weird so people will talk

(01:13:34):
about it, but no one willactually want to eat it. Fruity pebbles
with winter. Yeah, there's alot of food at the Shyenne Frontier Days,
and I love fair food. Imean I love it. I'll try
it all at least once. Maybenot the whole thing, but I'll try
it all. And it's amazing tome what people come up with. I
just saw one for the Minnesota StateFair. They now have wait for it,

(01:13:56):
deep fried ranch. They have ranchwith cream cheese, rolled in panco
breadcrumbs and deep fried, so basicallyyou bite into it and you don't have
to dip it in anything because theranch is inside. Part of me is
just amazed at the ingeniousness of it, you know, exactly sure I would
like it, though, I mean, I like ranch, but I'm not
sure if I want it deep fried, I don't know. I'd hit it

(01:14:19):
once I try it once, I'mnot scared. I am not scared too.
And finally, if you live inwheat Ridge, wheat Ridge police are
warning pet owners that your pets aregoing to get eaten if you let them
out. Now that's not a certainty, but unfortunately a lot of pet owners
have lost their pets, indoor outdoorpets, cats who go out at night,

(01:14:41):
they are coming home, bobcats andother predators. Coyotes are in the
area. So keep your pets inside, especially at night. And if you
have to let your dog out togo to the bathroom, go out with
your dog just to ensure that theyare safe. And cats, you want
to keep your cats inside. Iknow they don't like it, but it's
further a good absolutely for their owngood. Do you call it coyotes or

(01:15:03):
coyotes? Coover coyotes because that wasour nickname in high school, the Kinsley
coyotes, But it doesn't rhyme withwiley wiley coyotes. No wiley coyote.
I just had this conversation with myfriends the other day, literally two days
ago about how to pronounce coyotes becausesomeone in their circle of friends called it

(01:15:25):
a yot and I was like,a yot? What is a yot?
And I was completely confused until theykilled me as a I'm like, no
one calls it a yot? Dothey do people call it yoats? Here?
Yutes? Yutes? What's a yut? Do people in Colorado call coyotes?
Yoats? Hit? The text linefive six six nine, oh,
and do you say coyote or coyote? I'm hashtag coyote all the way.

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The text line about the man whois in the Agony of Defeat video.
So I have dug deep into theinterwebs to figure out where this has come
from, and it all seems tostem from an article from Steamboat radio dot
com about Jim Moose barrows of steamboatstrings and as they were eulogizing him,

(01:16:12):
steamboat springs, not strings. Sorryabout that. In this article, it
says that his fall during the downhillin the nineteen sixty eight Olympics in Grenoble.
His fall during the downhill was documentedon ABC's Wide World of Sports,
dubbed the Thrill of Victory and theAgony of defeat. That is not correct.

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How do I know that I amright when I say that it was
Vinco bogotage because I found an ABCwide World classic, the Agony of Defeat
Vinco Bogotage interview. So I'm goingto say that ABC knows who the dude
was and it was Vinco bogotage.There you go. So now we have

(01:16:57):
settled that we can leave that offthe text. Fine from now on,
just leave it alone right now?That's what I get, says the Texter,
for not fact checking other radio stationsstories. Yes indeedy, Yes,
indeed, Mandy, what do youcall one coyote? What do you call
one or more coyotes? A coyote? Coyotes? Is that a trick question?

(01:17:24):
Mandy? It's coyote? Yote?Is the drunk version yote? What?
Mandy? When I was a kid, we hunted coyotes on the eastern
plains of Colorado and Kansas. Oneof the small high schools had them as
a mascot. No long e HannahBarbera changed the English language. That was
Warner Brothers. Wasn't it? Werethey Hanna Barbera books? Money? Wasn't

(01:17:47):
Hannah Barbera that's Warner Brothers. Yeah, I'm positive. But Hannah Barbera did
have you know, laugh the laughOlympics they were. That was Hanna Barbera
YouTube CBS Colorado warn not to useblue mailboxes, counterfeits, stolen keys.
What so now we can't trust themail that's oh, now I'm getting kyote.

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Thank you. Southerner's addressing a packof coyotes. All y'all yoats skidadle
No, No, people in theSouth don't call them yoats. That's what
the point is. No, canwe all just agree no one should call
them yoats. It's like it's toomuch of an abbreviation for no reason.
Is it that hard to say coyoteor even coyote? No, it's not.

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Ralph wants to know why is SnoopDogg carrying the Olympic torch into the
stadium in Paris. I honestly haveno idea. I knew it was happening,
but I'm not sure how Snoop DoDwent from thug life to hanging out
with Martha Stewart and carrying the torchinto the Olympics in Paris. But you,

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guys, how can you not admirethat dude. I mean honestly,
I got to be part of therelay one year for the oh what am
I trying to think of here?The Special Olympics Worldwide Games, basically the
Special Olympics Games, and I gotto carry the torch for a little bit

(01:19:16):
and it was it was such asuper cool experience to be part of that.
But can you imagine having the experienceas a rapper of walking the torch
into the stadium. I can't evenimagine what that's like. And no,
I have no idea why Snoop dogg? Is there no clue if anybody else
knows? Five six six nine?Oh is the text line? Mandy?

(01:19:38):
I think there are two recks downhilland the ski jump. You know what,
Jimo, You're right, you arecorrect, because the other one was
him going around the Are they calledgates? What are the cooper? Do
you know what? The little flagthings that they have to go in between
and around and skiing or called orthose gates? I think they're gates rights
the other gates. So there's onewhere the guy hits the gates and falls.

(01:19:58):
Maybe that's the guy, but thatwasn't the agony of defeat. The
agony of defeat was the guy flyingoff the end of the ski jump.
Mandy, yoats if plural tea ifsingular, No, you're I mean you
must mean the end is just becauseyou're not walking around going look at that
tea. That's not a thing.You's no text or please either way you

(01:20:21):
pronounce it, it doesn't matter,except the ones that are bald and called
Kyu. Kyu's not a coyote,is he? Kyu? That was one
of those shows that when Q waslittle, I that was one of the
kids shows that just bored a holeinto my brain. Kyu, stupid fake

(01:20:43):
voice. Oh hate it, hateit? Mandy? Is that because you
and wyle Lee have something in common? You're both super genius? Well?
Yeah, as a matter of fact, I've got to go and take a
break here because I've got to filemy new order with ACME. I'll be
right back after that when I getback. Rita Horn has put her name
out in front to be the nextchairperson of the Colorado GOP. It could

(01:21:06):
happen this weekend. She's not theonly one who has expressed interest, as
many in the party are ready tosee the chairmanship of Dave Williams end we're
going to talk to her right afterthis. It all started when the chairman,
current chairman of the Republican Party threwall tradition and norms away and crept
all over the bylaws so he couldnot only stay chairman and run for the

(01:21:30):
seat in the fifth Congressional district,but he also decided to use party funds
to promote his own candidacy and attackhis opponent. He also decided, for
the first time in the modern era, that the Republican Party was going to
endorse in the primaries, and overwhelminglyhis candidates got their butts kicked in the

(01:21:50):
primaries, including him. Now youthink that after all of that, in
addition to not being able to raiseany money and overseeing a further divide in
the Republican Party, he would besmart enough to step down. But we're
talking about Dave Williams here, sohe's not so enough. Republicans got together
and signed a petition that demanded ameeting of the Central Committee to discuss whether

(01:22:13):
or not to recall Dave Williams.And Dave Williams and the other leadership have
decided to ignore it. So underby laws, those Republicans were able to
call a meeting that is happening thisSaturday. In that meeting, they will
try to vote to throw Dave Williamsout, and other Republicans have stepped up
to say, look, I wouldlike to be chairperson. I do want
to share before we bring one ofthem on the air. Lauren Bobert just

(01:22:38):
posted this on her social media anhour ago, and it says the past
month of public dissension and infighting inthe Colorado Republican Party has been embarrassing to
watch as we have a golden opportunitythis November to flip seats at every level
of government. Instead of uniting andfocusing our message on secure our border,

(01:23:00):
unleashing American energy, and getting PresidentTrump back to the White House, we've
seen lawsuits, threats, and censuresresulting in a failure to come together,
fueled by all sides of the party. This isn't about competing policies or ideologies.
This is about a failure from ChairmanWilliams to lead after our primary election
and simply reach out to candidates andorganizations throughout Colorado and beyond to offer support,

(01:23:26):
mend bridges, and present a cleargame plan of how we can win
together in November. An attempted andlikely contested change in leadership at the Colorado
GOP just one hundred days out fromelection day will be disruptive and damaging.
The Chairman Williams has put himself inthis situation. I stand by. I
stand ready to publicly help and providesupport to Republicans up and down the ballot,

(01:23:50):
regardless of whether or not I agreewith them on every issue. If
Chairman Williams can't do the same andrefuses to show candidates he will, Republicans
and Colorado and nationally we'll look ina different direction for leadership over the final
one hundred days. So that isthe latest from Lauren Bobert, and I
just want to say well done,Lauren Bobert. No sarcasm in my voice

(01:24:14):
at all, because you know howI feel about this situation. Now,
if there is going to be achange in leadership, someone is going to
have to be the chairperson. AndBretta Horne, who I met? I
mean, Britta, I think Imet you like ten years ago now for
the first time. Yeah, andyou're just a super neat individual. I'm
just going to say that. Iknow that's, you know, a weird
thing to say. But I thinkyou're super interesting. You've been very dedicated

(01:24:36):
to the state and two Republican politicsfor a long time now. But why
in the world would you want tostick your face in this wood chipper?
Thanks a lot, I really appreciatethat. Yes, I'll take me.
That's awesome. Well, because Isee what's ahead of us, We see
this complete, you know, Imean the Shenanigans are unbelievable. I means

(01:24:58):
we can go over for days anddays and days what's been going out to
last two year and a half.And I've always been the type of person
is that, you know, ifa person's going to show you who they
are, believe them the first time. And we haven't changed any of that,
and so it's time for change.And when I saw this opportunity,
and you're absolutely right. We haveone hundred and one days tomorrow to get
candidates across the finish line. Imean, ballance come out what eighty six

(01:25:21):
days? Well, yeah, andthere's been no work being done. So
I'm looking at this like I lookat everything else. And I know everyone
knows that I'm a fire chief uphere in the mountains. Halfway change the
about springs and fail and I'm lookingat it just like a fire chief,
just with critical, critical set ofeyes, you know, critical thinking.
Everything I learned in leadership and howto get people together and to go focus

(01:25:45):
on the idea I've learned on thefire ground, and we need to do
this now. So what do youbring to the chairmanship because ultimately, let
me just list down a couple offailures right now. The first failure,
of course, is the failure toabide by the bylaws. And the second
failure by Chairman Williams is that hehas encouraged division in the party. He
has encouraged purity tests that decide who'sRepublican or enough or not. And he

(01:26:11):
has been an absolutely abysmal fundraiser.They have no money coming in and it
is a disaster financially. So whatwould you bring to that leadership position if
you were to get it. Iappreciate that, and I I have a
role reverse of it is what youjust said. Number one is definitely fundraising,
a really robust, termed fundraising ofprovision. And when I was at
the R and C to mention inMilwaukee last week a week and a half

(01:26:34):
ago, now, I went toeverybody that I know that in this state
had closed their checkbooks and will notgive money to the state party for this
situation they're currently in. And withtalking with them, they said, if
I'm their chair, I will definitelybeget the doors open to talk to other
fundraisers and they'd open up the checkbooks. And even more recently as two nights

(01:26:55):
ago, and I've been going tomeetings expressing this. Billman has been coming
out to me in the parking lotsaying, you make this change, and
you get this done, you getyour money. And I started asking for
amounts and we're in the tens ofthousands now just being what we want to
say is just being pledged to mycampaign, saying get me to the front
of the class and get this started, and we will work together and we'll
get the fundraising taken care of.So the second thing is also supporting our

(01:27:19):
candidates. We got to support them. They're not getting the data they need,
they're not getting the volunteers they need. Again, talking to people at
the R and C to mention andover the phone this past week, there's
so many outside organizations outside the state. They're like, we will bring busloads
of people in just show us theway we'd be happy to volunteer and get
our candidates across that finish line.And finally, over with the last night

(01:27:42):
and with last day, we hada meeting when we got to see our
new National Committee, woman Christy FedoraRuckus when we call her. She was
getting ratified in and both Michael Wattleyand Laura Trump were there and they were
telling everybody in the room, westill need to get an energy to get
out the vote strategy, and weneed to protect the ballot. So why

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would we follow the rules that areahead of us with beyond seawatch for all
the states to do. We cando this and we can win if we
stay together and unite. Now,there are several other people who have thrown
their name in the hat. Iknow Eli Bremer has come out from El
Paso and he's assembled a kind ofa leadership team already saying, Look,
if I'm chier, then these arethe people that I'm bringing with me,

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and they're from different parts of thestate. Is there anybody that you have
spoken to or talked to that youwould say, yes, I would like
them on a leadership team as well, or would you rather fellow Republicans decide
that separately. You just nailed onthe head I think, Mandy, I
think you and I have heard thesame kind of girl. I don't think
it's our decision to do that.When I start seeing slates and I had
a headphone calls and people are callingme in askter me, it's not for

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us to decide. I don't thinkthat's the game we're looking at. You
know, that's not how this works. When you're up there on stage and
you're going for cheer. It's upto the people, the butts in the
seats that are going to be theretomorrow morning, for them to make the
decision who should be my vife,who should be my secretary. I will
work with anybody as long as theywant to win. Somebody just had a
text that said there was a temporarywait. Let me see here, let

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me let me get this, letme get this text before I read it.
Mandy, Apparently a temporary restraining orderhas been issued on the meeting tomorrow.
Have you heard anything about that oris that a lie? I don't
have it, don't lie. Imean, there's been a lot of paperwork
going back and forth. There's goingminute by minute. I know there was
some court has something, but theyhaven't decided whether they're gonna they're gonna rule
on it or not. So Idon't know. I've never heard. I

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haven't gotten a restraining order. They'dhave to find me out here on the
ranch. Well, I'm not seeinga I'm not seeing any news about that.
I'm searching the Worldwide RAB right now. I'm looking for no I may.
I don't see any of that.So that's interesting that that's being floated
around this meeting. Let's just say, unless you get an email from Todd

(01:29:57):
Watkins or someone who is involved inthe AS, I would say ignore that
and show up for the meeting tomorrow. That would be really, really pathetic
if they were spreading a lie toprevent this meeting from happening. And there's
going to be a lot of fearmongering and scare tactics, absolutely, because
you can see the momentum and theenergy of the state talking to candidates after
candidates after candidates going what can wedo? What can we do? What

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do you meet? And they're like, we need support, we need a
direction, we need to have aprocess. And I've been very fortunate to
be really close to Christy Rutgers andDodora and down there on plub moll they've
done a wonderful job of flipping pluglows. We're nine out of eleven seats and
then the other ones were you know, they're you know right, meaning so
there they have a plan and theyhave a way to do it. Why

(01:30:41):
wouldn't we do that time sixty threemore counties and get this done. We
can do this if we unite together. And I just put this on on
Twitter to somebody put something on ourX and I just said, you know,
we can be whether we're big,big f Republicans, little city Conservatives
all that, or libertarian Republicans.As long as we get together together like
you to always be here in Colorado, Colorado roots, we win. We

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can do this well. Tomorrow CentralCommittee members are going to have the opportunity
to first ask David Williams, andplease, I'm begging all of you for
the future of the party, forthe future of the state, we have
to move beyond David Williams lack ofleadership, and it is a lack of
leadership. So now I want toask you this question because you do have

(01:31:24):
competition. Several people have stepped upand said they want to be chairman.
If you don't get to be chairman, what's your next step in the party?
Well, absolutely so I'm going todo whatever dat stake to get us
to win. You know, thisis a six month stint in a way,
because March is coming up to twentyfive when we have our new new
leadership and new you know, thenew steps to go. And I'm in

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it for the long haul, youknow, if it's not only this the
six months, I'm up for Marchfor the seat also because I think we
need continuous direction and one focus andone way to get to get this done.
And I believe that if I hadthe opportunity to do this for the
next six month to the next hundredand mondays, you'll see all the different
tactics and strategies and people coming tothe table because we're going to be looking

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all different, but we all bringit to the table because we all have
something to say and how to doit. Why would we listen to the
people, listen to the party andfind our way we can do this to
win and start with the backstabbing,name calling craziness. I mean, it's
unbelievable. So let me ask youthe hardest question that the next chairman is
going to have to answer, andthat is how do you bring together the

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various factions of the Colorado GOP.When I'm looking at the post underneath that
Lauren Boebert post on our social media, and you have those people, why
should we team up with those rhinos? Why should we all the name calling
and the idiocy coming from a certainpart of the wing. We still need
them in the party. How doyou bring everybody together? It's just going
to have to be. They haveto have that one goal and a goal

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that we want to win. Thisinfighting is not going to get us anywhere.
We're always going to have those naysayers. So the people who are honest
and want to get back and getto the Colorado wops we used to have.
I mean, it wasn't long agothe state with the Red State.
I think we all know that oldstory with the blueprint and all that if
we are one, we can win. And do they want to win or

(01:33:10):
do they want to keep fighting?If they want to, the fighters can
go keep fighting, but we're goingto stay on a strategy and literally put
this fire out. I appreciate thatBrenda. Brenda Horn is my guest.
I hope you know, fingers crossedthat whoever gets elected, whether it's you
or anybody else, fingers crossed thatthis is the new beginning for the Republican
Party moving forward in Colorado, andwe can somehow write the ship and figure

(01:33:33):
this thing out. I appreciate that, and we will and with a with
a win, we could get thisdone. And I look forward to seeing
everybody tomorrow and then not only askingfor everybody's vote, I'm also asking for
prayers. All right, Bretta Horn, I appreciate you. I'll talk to
you soon, hopefully with good news. Okay, thank you, ma'am.
I have a good weekend. She'ssuch a nice person, just a really

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nice person. I'm a big fan, big fan. I would like to
know from the tech that said aboutthe temporary restraining order. I'd love to
know where you heard that, becausewouldn't that be something? Wouldn't that be
something if that rumor was being spreadby the same people who don't want the
meeting to happen tomorrow. Oh mygoodness, geez, Louise I just looked

(01:34:20):
at Dave Williams Twitter feed. Hehas not tweeted anything since the primary election,
so weird where he lost and gothis butt kicked, lost two to
one. It was quite quite aspectacular day. Just real quick, I
want to get this story in.It's Friday, and what would a Friday
be without an opportunity to make funof Taita Anderson. You thought you were

(01:34:44):
done with him when he got kindof he wasn't booted off the school board,
but he knew he wasn't going toget re elected, so he ran
for a hot minute for the stateHouse that he knew he was going to
lose that primary. So now heis back to his community justice roots.
Monday night, in Aurora, thefamily of a man named Killan luc Lewis.

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He was suspended or suspected accused ofattempted murder and swat went to pick
him up. They told him toget on the ground. He reached behind
him to grab his cell phone,but they didn't know what it was grabbing
for, and they shot him andkilled him. This is, you know,
a terrible thing, a really terriblething. That being said, now,

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Taite has taken in with the familyto go to Aurora City council members
or or meetings and demand apologies anddemand all kinds of So I don't even
know what they're demanding. But youknew Tan Anderson was involved in this because
anything that sucks, uh, he'sinvolved in really for real? Hang on
one second, I gotta look thisup. Bridge just sent me. She

(01:35:54):
said this just happened on Twitter.Let's see hear what she's saying, because
I think it might the important umup up, up up. Hanging on
waiting for this tweet to come up, and it says breaking Judge Grant's temporary
restraining order barring Colorado go beach hair. Dave Williams critics from holding a meeting

(01:36:15):
purporting to be an official meeting ofthe CRC without proper authorization. So the
meeting is off for tomorrow, andhere we go. This is more idiocy,
more complete, asinine, just damntom foolery. This is this is
why we can't have nice things.How much money is Dave Williams wasted on

(01:36:41):
this? How much to just clingingto power when he's doing a horrible job.
I'd be embarrassed to try and clingto power if I'd been as crap
a chairman as he's been, asblatantly unethical using the party's money and mailings
for himself. This guy's a scumbag, in my opinion, an absolute scumbag.

(01:37:03):
Oh this makes me so mad,so incredibly incredibly mad, so dumb.
Golly, I'm super mad now,dang it. Not even making fun
of Tay Anderson is making me feelbetter. Well, your Saturday is free
and the Republican Party is dead inthe water in Colorado. And if you

(01:37:25):
are a Republican donor, here's whatI'd like you to do. I'd like
you to find anybody you know onthe Colorado Central Committee and call him and
say not another dime ever until thisis taken care of, and then don't
give any money to the party.Please, for the love of God,
you know what's gonna make me feelbetter. It's gonna make me feel a

(01:37:48):
lot better, just to hear myfriend Ryan Edwards say three words. Because
now it's time for the most excitingsegment all the radio of its kid in
the way of the day. Seeeven from Broncos training camp, he's still
he's the man. How is trainingcamp this morning? Oh it's fantastic.

(01:38:09):
We actually pretty good weather out here, a little overcast, It was good.
It was good. I thought thesmoke was It's I mean I can
kind of see the mountains in thedistance, so it's not quite as bad.
We'll see what happens tomorrow with that. Okay, what is our dad
joke of the day? Please cooverall right, Our dad joke of the
day is what did the beach saywhen the tide came in? Beach say

(01:38:30):
when the tide came in? Idon't know, long time, no sea?
Oh wow, boo boo boo.That was wow. These are the
worst dad jokes ever bad. Iknow what is our What is our Oh?
Geez, Louise, I left abad taste in my mouth. What's
our word of the day? HopefullyAnthony'll be back soon. Yeah, give
you some better dad jokes, allright. Our word of the day is

(01:38:55):
Harold. Smell it a she ra l d. Yes. It's someone
who makes a big announcement. Theyusually have a trumpet or something yeah,
something with news yeah, announcing thesomething Yeah, look at you, guys.
Harald is a bird meaning to givenotice of. It is synonymous with
announced, publicized, and foreshadow parkthe Herald's angel sing This is Hugh the

(01:39:16):
newborn King. Okay, our triviaquestion, Hang on, I'm pulling the
extra glue off of my trivia calendar. If all the blood vessels in a
human body were laid out in oneline, roughly, how long would the
line be. I'm gonna say twelvemiles? I was saying five. Wow,
No, you're gonna want to goa wee bit higher like fifty.

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How about more than sixty thousand miles, with some estimates placing it at one
hundred thousand miles. That includes allthe vessels in the circulatory system, arteries,
fines, and capillaries. My wewere well under on that one.
All right? When is our category? To Darry coover exactly all right?
Our jeopardy category today is hat check? Hat check? The words h A

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T will be in the answer.Got it? Okay? Necessarily hat ah
a t? All right. Legendaryfeuding enemies of the Hamacoys. Manny,
who are the hatfields? Yes?Nice, Miss McDaniel an oscar winner for
who's McDaniel? Yes, Oh mygosh, he's on a roll here.

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Eastern North Carolina cape renowned for treacherousweather. Manny, what is hatteras?
Wow? Oh gosh, I don'tknow any of these. A car with
a hinged rear door, Ryan what'sa hatchbag? Yes, category, and
I'll be really surprised if you getthis one from Sanskrit. It's literally force
yoga. Manny, what is hathyyoga? It's very that's very close it

(01:40:55):
is it's haw thought. Dang it, that is not cow matter you there
you go. Well, we werein a bad mood, so I felt
it was only necessary. Oh donot even say you'd let me win.
If you were here, I'd punchedyou right in the side of the arm
for even suggest that I deserve it. You mercy, Yeah, mercy.
What's coming up? What do youguys got going on? Are you gonna

(01:41:15):
talk to you today? Oh?Man, We're gonna have so much fun.
Of course, we're gonna break downeverything from training camp, which was
a blast. Today. We havekeep to leave on the show at three
thirty, so we're very excited aboutthat. Very good. That's all coming
up on KOA Sports. Everybody havea phenomenal weekend, and obviously we will
not see a change in the GOPleadership this weekend, but try and have

(01:41:35):
a nice time anyway. I knowI will, and we'll see you back
on Monday. So in the meantime, keep it right here, on Koa