07-27-26 FULL SHOW - The Ways AI Can Help Business Are Cool - The Mandy Connell Podcast

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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of stuff to talk about?

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I mean a lot.

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can help business are Cool. Click on that and here
are the headlines you will find within.

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I'm sorry, read that date again.

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Seven twenty seven, twenty six.

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Okay, night you just okay?

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I said it right? I think did I read it?

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Americans and Clips.

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Today on the blog Hey, I is making it so
small business feels big. AI is making it so some
people lose touch with reality. Brand Paul is coming for
doctor Anthony Fauci. It's time for conservatives to stop looking
to be offended by Hollywood. Speaking of tragedies, litter is
a sign of the decay of society. Oh look, Vic

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broke campaign finance law. You don't have to prove gender
is why you are paid less. Colorado has seen some
icons grace our state. Caldera says Coco is cuckoo, speaking
of trains, big boys back in town. The lie about
why Americans aren't getting married. Young people want church with heft,
not slick visuals. Peptides get approval, but drug companies are

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not happy. There be dragons the cost of bureaucracy kills
people in healthcare. The growing gap between lifespan and health span.
An update on a lovely story about an older man
in Gumbo. We've turned capitalism into democratic capitalism. We've stopped
bombing in Iran. The kind of vandalism I can get behind.
Why the DSA hates prisons. No renewables can't power data centers.

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A rod nerded out so hard at the Renaissance Festival.
So what happened to the bear on the power pole?
I hate it when Marmee and Daddy fight hot dog.
That's some fun at the ball game. You won't be
able to get a worthless degree. I'm sure this will
be fine. A tiny wind tunnel seems like a good idea.
Those are the headlines on the blog at mandyblog dot com.

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Tech two I mean a winner. Okay, thanks she forgave
my early missteps.

Speaker 5 (03:22):
Yeah barely.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
By the end of it, she was so dazzled that
she just like, boom, there you go, there you go.
So I want to start. First of all, I have
a new client. You may have heard their advertising. The
name of the company is forty four pixels, but they're
a client or the advertising is for Clara, and Clara
is an AI assistant that answers the phone. And when

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I before I agreed to do the commercial, I was
checking out what Clara did and I did the little
test you can do. You can call and talk to Clara,
and it's really incredible. I mean, it is is it's amazing.
I remember the first time I ever called a number
and AI answered, and it was one of those times

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where I was testing out and I don't remember was
it Google that rolled this out first. I can't remember
some tech company had rolled out, Hey we've got AI.
They will call and make an appointment for you, but
it was very unwieldy and it often didn't read what
you said back correctly. Clara is just wow. Clara is amazing.

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And after looking at this, I was like, you know what,
I'd like to talk to these people. I don't talk
to every single client on the air that is a
new client, but sometimes I think what they do is
super interesting, and this is one of those times. Now
I recorded an interview with them this morning because they
are in London and by the time the show starts,
YadA YadA, YadA. So we recorded an interview this morning
about this Clara and another piece of AI that they created,

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and everything they're doing at forty four pixels is try
to figure out what small business needs that can be
offloaded to AI at an affordable rate, you know, and
it works nothing complicated, like especially for people who are
you know, individual sole proprietors. Maybe you're a hairdresser, maybe
you're a plumber, maybe you're a a you know, some

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sort of tradesman who when you're not you know, when
you're working, you're actually doing something, You're not just sitting
around waiting for the phone to ring. And it's just
like the coolest. There's so much cool technology. I have
a friend who started a company last year and it
is a very specific kind of marketing firm for a
very specific industry. It's a niche marketing firm for a

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niche industry. And he is a sole proprietor who when
you call his office you would think that he had
thirty people there because he uses AI so much and
so often to handle all of these little things that
used to take him hours that now take him two
minutes using AI. And he has exploded the size of

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his firm just because of that. I mean, it's it's
incredible what you can do with one person now, because
labor is the biggest expense for small business and it's
often one of those things where you're like, okay, and
my kids are dealing with this now. They just open
some batting cages in Ohio. They're fantastic, the facility is amazing,

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but they can't afford to hire anybody else right now.
And I think now when people are thinking I'd like
to start a business, you have to think, am I
going to work there all the time? Or when? What
needs to happen before I can hire help. Some of
this stuff happening in AI is just like, it's incredible,
It's just incredible. This is why, you know, I realized
that there are going to be people who lose their

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jobs because of AI, and I am in no way
celebrating anyone losing their job ever. But there's also going
to be entire new fields that are going to be
created to support this stuff. And I think it's the
coolest stuff ever, really really very very just amazing what
people can do without you killing themselves anymore. It opens

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up so many more opportunities for people to do things.
High Clown Connells seventeen states are under a power emergency,
including a Colorado. Yet you elder Gen X and boomers
are still pro data centers in AI. Yeah, I'm not
raising my thermostats so data centers can stay online. Hey,
homeboy or girl, did you ever think that perhaps the

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reason that we're having this power emergency is because we
have offloaded so much reliable energy into renewables that we
have shut down coal fired power plants that we have
shut down otherwise perfectly fine power plants in order to
follow the green agenda of the left, which still to

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this day does not have a good answer for what
happens when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow.
So before you talk about Gen X and boomers, I'd
like to direct your attention to your generation, the little
clown car of environmentalists who are too shortsighted to understand
that two things must happen. Number one, we must have

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reliable energy, we must and number two, data centers power
your ability to send that snotty text, you idiot, You
don't want data centers? Fine, absolutely fine, But when you're
the one going gick kates to you line to download
a movie, don't talk to me. All of that goes
through data centers. They are now the nerve engines of

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our economy. So if you want to be mad at them,
that's fine. You want to shut them down, that's idiotic.
But I'll be dead long before you will. So when
the economy crashes in China takes over because they're not
stopping building their data centers, they're also not stopping building
coal fire power plants. That's just one of those Yeah, sorry,
ignorant comments. It's just an ignorant comment, Mandy, is that

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you're still your AI song, ladies and germs. I have
an announcement to make. I am changing the theme song.
It has already been chosen. I thought about bringing it
to you people to vote, but then that causes too
much strife. Inevitably, people who voted for something else are
always mad when they hear the theme song, and I
don't want that to be the situation. I have not heard,
I've heard the song. I chose the song, and I'm

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not telling them what the song is. So I've chosen
the song and I have turned it over to the
master in our production studio, Alan Jackson, the guy who
does all of our promo work, and I said, here,
you go. I've got no vision other than I really
like this song. Make it happen. So when I get
back from vacation, you and I will hear it for
the first time together on the radio at the same time.

(09:51):
It was like hurting kittens to get somebody to record
the new It's just been one thing after another. So
enjoy it for the next week, actually two weeks, because
while I'm on vacation, we'll still play. So there you go, Mandy.
I'm sure glad that's not my kid. What an idiot?
I mean, just short sighted. And here's the thing, you guys,
I don't think these people are idiots. I think they

(10:12):
are incredibly poorly educated. Mandy. I know your blog will
no longer be available on mandy'sblog dot com after July thirty. First,
I love your show, but can't listen to it in
real time, so I listened to yesterday's show in the morning.
Will I still be able to access the full show
on mandy'sblog dot com. Yes you will, And an easier
way to do that, textter is downloading the iHeart Radio app.

(10:36):
If you listen to it on your phone, download the
iHeartRadio app and you can make my show one of
your presets, so you open the app being go right
to it. That would be the way I would recommend that.
So yes, I'm just not cross posting the blog anymore.
It's just another ridiculous series of steps. And I know
it seems like how big of a deal, but if
you knew, this is one of the reasons I moved

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to substack. The backside of our blog site is just
pain in the you know what. Anyway, So over the
weekend I went to see The Odyssey and a Rod
talked about this last week. Now I'm here to make
the case two conservatives that we no longer reflexively look

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for a reason not to like a movie or show,
and I'm gonna give you a couple of examples. Now,
I want to start this entire conversation with the falling
caveat Hollywood makes so much woke trash. It's ridiculous, it
really is. But there's a difference between woke trash and
a movie that may have made a casting choice that
you disagree with. And I'll explain. The Odyssey is absolutely fantastic,

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absolutely really really fantastic, just so well done on so
many levels. They took a very, very long and complex
story and managed to fit it into a very rational,
coherent movie that flows beautifully. It's very very good. Matt
Damon outstanding. Anne Hathaway absolutely killed it. Everybody in this movie,

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top to bottom, was absolutely fantastic. Guess what didn't matter
a single bit the Napeita Luong is Black. She was
fantastic as Ellen of Troy for the whopping four minutes
that she was in the entire movie.

Speaker 5 (12:23):
You know.

Speaker 4 (12:24):
And I say this because there's been a lot of pushback,
and I had it back and forth on Twitter with
listeners who were like, look, you know, I want big bfheman,
and I'm like, well, Matt Damon's more historically accurate. If
you look back at the relief mosaics and the paintings
and stuff like that, Matt Damon's physique is much more accurate.
We made hercules huge, you know, so I don't have

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as much of a problem with that at all. And
he was just outstanding.

Speaker 6 (12:50):
He was so so good.

Speaker 4 (12:53):
But everybody's looking for reasons to be, you know, mad
about something. But the reality is is that this story,
the story of Odysseus, is such a phenomenal story. It's
about it's about loyalty. It's about hospitality, it's about honor.
It's about you know, never never forgetting to pursue your dreams.

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It's about don't take drugs. There's a lot of messages
in this thing, a lot of it. There's a very
subtle anti war message at the end, but it's not
out of it's not crazy. It doesn't beat you over
the head, but it's there and it's not outrageous and
it's not wrong. There's a lot of sort of reminiscence
and it, you know, the honesty takes place at the

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end of the Bronze Age, and the Bronze Age was
an amazing time to be alive. It was fantastic. People flourished,
there was a lot of happiness and joy, and you know,
economic trade and there was a lot of there was
a lot of peace in the world during the Bronze Age,
and then from the sacking of troy On you went
into a very dark period and it was a couple
hundred years before they managed to pull it out of

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the dirt again and get some manner of civility back.
I do feel like as the world has gotten smaller
and we have gotten smaller, as we've gotten more interconnected,
but as the world has gotten smaller, I do feel
like our ability to recover from these sorts of things
is better than it.

Speaker 6 (14:17):
Used to be.

Speaker 4 (14:18):
But it's also, I think, more at risk of having
that sort of catastrophic chain of events. And when I
look at the United States, you know, I was listening
to Michael Brown when I came in. I couldn't reach
my radio dial, so I just listened to the show
on the way in, and it was talking about the
word in Iran and everything Michael was saying. It was
kind of going through these stated objectives and asking the

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very valid question, which is where do we go from here?
How does this end?

Speaker 3 (14:45):
For me?

Speaker 4 (14:45):
That question is, okay, do you want to know how
it must end or do you want to know how
I think it's going to end, Because those two things
are completely different. How it must end. If you truly
want to end in the the most decisive fashion possible
this forty seven year war with Iran, it has to

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be the utter decimation of the leadership in the Mullas.
I mean, everybody in the top of that command has
to be killed, and you just have to keep killing
people as they keep elevating people you have to keep
killing the leadership over and over and over again until
there's no one left to take the job. Because without

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complete capitulation, without complete surrender, this will never end.

Speaker 6 (15:32):
Now.

Speaker 4 (15:32):
Is that gonna happen? Nah, Now, that's not gonna happen.
But the point Odysseus was making when he was talking
about how they turned a corner in the sacking of Troy,
not the actual war in Troy, but the sacking of Troy,
the rape, the pillage, that all the horribleness that happened
to that, like mankind turned a corner on that, And

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you have to look at where we are now and think, Okay,
are we at the part where we're going to turn
a corner or are we gonna let this continue? Because
I'm just gonna say it. If we don't end it now,
your grandchildren, your grandchildren's children, you are going they are
gonna have to deal with a much stronger enemy in
Iran if there is not complete capitulation. Mandy, you celebrated

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federal employees being fired by Doge. No, I did not
go back and look. I celebrated the shrinking of government.
But it's always unfortunate when someone loses their job I
hope they find a new job, very, very quickly. I
don't celebrate people being put out of work. I don't.
It's you know, it's one thing to disagree with someone,
and it's one thing to think the government should be smaller.

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All of these things can exist together. But to be
happy that someone lost their job.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
No.

Speaker 4 (16:46):
Now, if doctor Anthony Fauci, if they take away everything
from him, I'll be happy about that. We're gonna talk
about Ran Paul. Holy crap, I'm actually gonna set my
DVR because I'm gonna be on vacation for no. Wait,
it's this week the Rand Paul questioning of doctor Anthony Fauci. Guys,
this is gonna be this is gonna be like must

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see TV because Rand Paul has started releasing The Diary
of Anthony Fauci. We're gonna get into it later. But
oh my goodness.

Speaker 6 (17:17):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (17:17):
Anyway back to Hollywood. Hollywood makes a ton of trash.
We all know this. The trash is pretty easy to
sort out, though, it really is.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
Now.

Speaker 4 (17:26):
When I heard that the remake of Little House on
the Prairie that is on Netflix was being talked about badly,
I was like, are you effing kidding me. It is fantastic.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
It is.

Speaker 4 (17:40):
It is such a great story. And if you've never read,
if you're not a child of the seventies and you
did not read or watch Little House on the Prairie,
first of all, go back and read it. It's excellent.
One of the things I like about Little House on
the Prairie is that it gives you the good, the bad,
and the ugly all in one book. It's doesn't sugarcoat
anything because it was written in a time when people

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didn't sugarcoat. And this new series on Netflix is just
so good. It's about family and resilience and honor doing
the right thing. I mean, it's just got so many
great messages. And people are mad because they didn't read
the first book where they go to Independence Kansas, Independence Kansas,

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and they don't know that doctor Tan is black, so
they're mad that there's a black doctor, except he was
based on a real person who was black. It's like,
we're just looking for ways to crap all over anything
that might be good, and it's just counterproductive and you're
denying yourself a lot of phenomenal entertainment. It's just it

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is just such a great show and I told my
daughter I watched it. I watched it on the way
to Ohio, on the way back from Ohio, and on
the treadmill. I watched all eight episodes. They've already renewed
it for the second season, and we'll talk about how
there's no good entertainment, no family entertainment, and yet when
Little House and the Prairies remade as family entertainment, conservatives

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immediately reflexively turn their back on it for some dumb,
made up social media reason. There's no artistic interpretation of
any work, of any story that is not going to
be without the imprint of the director and the screenwriter.
That's always going to be there. But you can look
past that. You don't have to always get caught up

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on the one thing that makes it, you know, So
please go see The Odyssey. It's fantastic. What do you
think the age range for the Odyssey is? What was
that rated? A rod?

Speaker 1 (19:43):
Do you know?

Speaker 4 (19:44):
I didn't even look as at PG thirteen because some
of it was kind of scary, you know. I was
trying to think, like, I don't think my grandsons are
ready for that yet. Because there's two scenes, specifically, the
Cyclops scene is pretty scary I think for kids anyway,
rated are is it really? I don't think it showed
very much violence at all. It was all like slightly

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off camera.

Speaker 6 (20:07):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
The pig scene was disturbing. Yeah, I told you, Yeah,
that's gonna stick with you.

Speaker 5 (20:12):
Yeah, when we get back, that's the one I was
telling you. Animatronics practical. Yeah, Oh it's so well done.
It's so so well done. Go see it when we
get back. We finally have the resolution of what I
think is one of the saddest.

Speaker 4 (20:26):
Stories in Denver in a long time. I'm gonna tell
you what happened next. So I've been following this story,
and this story is so freaking sad. Lamba Sayer Senior
was an anti violence activist. I mean when I say activists,
he's not some guy just going and agitating at the
city council meetings. He was a guy who tried to

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do things within rough communities to give kids another place
to go. He was a former MMA fighter and he
started several organizations, including the Heavy Heavy Heart Center and Aurora.
He was attempting to get kids off the streets with
events see at camping trips, school supply donations, it was preventing.

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It was it was aimed at preventing youth violence, and
his son, lou Maama Sayers Junior, was also a fighter.
He created the Gloves Up, Guns Down, which is a
nonprofit with the mission of getting youth to use their
voices to solve problems instead of guns. And then on
August nineteenth of twenty twenty three, Lumba Sayers Junior was

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shot and killed. And when that happened, I remember when
it happened. I remember thinking, oh, how does that feel
to be that dad? It has made this his life's
work and then only to have this happen. That's one
of those things where if somebody started to question God,
I would absolutely understand. You know, it's like, God, what

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am I doing wrong here that you would take my son?
That's honestly I you know, I have these conversations with myself. Unfortunately,
Lamma Sayer Senior did more than talk about it. A
year later, he walked up to a twenty eight year
old man and shot and killed him because he believed

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with some certainty that that man had shot and killed
his son. So it was a revenge killing. And it
happened at the guy's fifth son's fifth birthday party, which
is so not that there's never a good time to
go kill someone in a revenge killing, but you know
now you've permanently traumatized a five year old as well.

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But nonetheless, the story has finally come to a completion
today or yesterday, when Lama Sayer Senior was sentenced to
forty eight years in prison and additional time minimum of
five years of parole. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm
not sitting here saying you should not have gone to prison.
That's not at all what I'm saying. What makes this
so incredibly sad to me is that even people who

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work very, very dilute to try and make a change
in their community are not immune to the kind of
violence that they fight against. And it's just it's incredibly sad,
and you have to wonder, like there are ways to
do things. If I was in a situation and I

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was in a in a difficult spot, if I was
living in a bad community, I'm going to be the
first to tell you I would do everything in my
power to change that. And I know not everybody has
the wherewithal to do it. You got family nearby, is familiar,
but man, This guy didn't just leave, which is what
I would do to take care of my kids. I
would leave. He didn't do that. He stayed. He stayed

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to try and make things better, and it just backfired
in the worst possible way. And I'm just the entire
is this is its own form of tragedy. We talked
about the odyssey in the last segment. This is its
own version of a tragedy. And now he's going to
prison for a problem. I mean, that's forty eight years.
If it's not life, sentence is going to be real close.
Let me check out the Common Spirit health text line.

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Mandy off topic question. I just came from Walmart, and
most employees are senior citizens, even the guy in the
parking lot number one. I'm happy to see no age
discrimination in employment. That's only at Walmart. I added that
last part number two. Where are all the young people
who should be filling these low skilled jobs as entry level?
I've observed this in all the big box stores. I

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don't have an answer for that, except I think a
lot of people young people don't realize how much in
the term, Like I have a friend who Walmart paid
his way through college when he worked there. He ended
up working for Walmart for thirty five years and then
retired from Walmart with a pension and then went to

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work for Lows. So he's always been in retail. But
I don't think that people understand the kind of benefits
and the college scholarships that are available in those places.
As far as like where are the kids, I don't know.
I know that there are a lot of kids in
our area that say they can't find a job, but
then I see, you know, signs at King Super that

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are they're all hiring. So I don't know. I don't
know what the job market is doing right now in
terms of is it just job markets have an expectation
that isn't being met or I don't know. I don't know, Mandy,
I do want to see it. And you're right about
not finding things to be offended by talking about the Odyssey.
I will say this, Father Mike, but you know, you

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guys know Father Mike, my favorite priest, episcopal priest. He
says something and it just has stuck in my brain.
I have things that rattle around in my head pretty consistently,
and a lot of them are from Michelle Zelner about
my health and then a lot of them are from
Father Mike, and one of them is you find what
you seek. If you are looking for ways to be offended,

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you will find a way to be offended one hundred
percent if you decide to go into it and watch
it and or watch anything, and then at the end
of it you're like, ah, and here's the thing. You
can always walk out. They won't give you your money back.
I've tried that before, Mandy ten to four on Little House.
I'm telling you it's fantastic. Mandy. Hey, I'm not a

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child of the seventies, more like the late eighties and
all of the nineties, and Little House on the Prairie
was my gateway drug to being an avid historical fiction
book nerd. You know what you could have choose work,
You could have chosen worse. Mandy, what are you on vacation?
I am on vacation next week, and I would just
like to say we have now hit the backside of
twenty twenty six. All of my vacation is backloaded this year.

(26:36):
I got a vacation in August, I got a vacation
in October, I got a vacation at the end of December.
I apologize for nothing. I just am letting you know,
so don't complain to me about it because I don't care. Uh, Mandy,
does Israel and the USA consider taking out all of
the IRGC would well, I would do that over bombing

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the country. You cannot do that without boots on the ground.
And there's the rub. Nobody wants boots on the ground.
I was saying this. I was listening to Michael again,
Michael Brown. He was talking about the war in Iran,
and he made a lot of really good points. I
don't want to seem like I don't think Michael really
laid it out beautifully. He really did. Because the reality

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is is that the American people are not invested in
this war. They don't They don't seem to care that
Iran has killed over a thousand Americans since, you know,
in the last forty seven years. They just don't care.
We are so insulated from the rest of the world
because we have a big ocean on either side of us,

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that the only thing Americans are in any way, shape
or form engaged in when it comes to war is
that all my gas prices are higher. And here's the thing,
you guys, I get it. I just build up my
car and it was one hundred and forty dollars. One
hundred and forty dollars, So I don't care who you are,

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that's a lot of money. And all of you people
with the big trucks with the big engines, don't send
me your emails. I know you guys spend more, but
for me, that was a lot of money. I feel
it too, but I feel like we're just in a
very strange place. Unfortunately, we've now and Michael made this
point great, we've now empowered Iran because we've shown them

(28:22):
they can shut down the Straight of four Moves and
they've done a really good job with it. Mandy, I'm
curious if that Texter cares at all about the people
that lost their jobs with the City of Denver due
to the budget shortfall. I think we can all agree
that the budget shortfall is because of the insane amount
of money thrown a homeless and illegal immigrants. Do they
have problems with that referring to an earlier Texter, but

(28:42):
that is a great point, and yes, anyone who doesn't
understand that the reason the City of Denver not only
had to lay off people, but have told people like
firefighters and police officers that there is no overtime, So
I hope your house burns down at a time when
they're fully staffed. The reason all of these things are
happening is because they spent three hundred million dollars on

(29:03):
homeless people and immigrants, illegal immigrants. That is why people
in denvergh getting laid off. And you know who did that,
the Democrats in city hall. I don't even think there's
a single Republican in city hall, Mandy. How was the
sound level at your theater? I liked the movie but
almost walked out because of the volume. You know what,

(29:24):
we'll have a short moment about that, because when I
mentioned it to my family and my seventeen year old
daughter was with me, I said, you know, I love
that movie. However, I just got a text message or
excuse me, an email after talking about the La Mumba
Sayers Senior. Just horrible story, Mandy. I listened to the

(29:45):
unfortunate news about the man revenging the death of his son.
His devotion to making the community better was wonderful. But
these circumstances remind me of something said to me years ago.
When good people fail, their message is flawless. But the
messenger is flawed. I will pray he has forgiven and
his good work will continue. Well, he's gonna be in
prison now, so he won't be able to do anything

(30:08):
to continue the good work. So that's again, so incredibly,
incredibly sad. Now, I'm not gonna spend a lot of
time on this. It broke last Friday. It's something that
we talked about during the campaign. But the Colorado's Secretary
of State's office is the Republican gubin at doial nominee
Victor Marx's campaign received nearly two hundred illegal campaign contributions

(30:31):
during the primary. You know, individual donations are capped at
fourteen fifty. That's one four hundred and fifty dollars. This
is one of the This is why it's so comical
when people are like, are I gonna get the money
out of elections? No, you're not. You will never get
the money out of elections ever, ever, ever, ever, So

(30:52):
the election division received complaints filed by Darcy Shenegg, and
the campaign accepted one hundred and ninety seven illegal contributions,
totally more than seventy eight thousand dollars over the limit.

Speaker 5 (31:06):
It says.

Speaker 4 (31:06):
He also accepted another thousand dollars in illegal cash donations.
Now here's the problem, here's a big issue. The Marx
campaign said back when we first talked about it, you
know what, we're going to defend the donations. Don't worry
about it. Have they done it? They have not shown
enough evidence that they have. So respondents have not provided

(31:34):
confirmation that all excess contributions have been cured. That from
the Colorado Secretary of State. Now here's where it gets interesting.
They have thirty days to cure these and refund that money.
They got to give that seventy eight thousand dollars back.
All of their family members and consultants are going to
have to wait for their paychecks. So the penalties on

(31:58):
this could be like four hundred thousand dollars. And if
you know anything about the VIC campaign, you know that
their burn rate is insane that I don't know how
much money they have in the bank right now, but
in this story from CBS, it's like, yeah, they don't
have the money to pay it back. Now, it has
been pointed out that that kind of money is in

(32:19):
a very very close race, incredibly important because name idea
at that point is incredibly important.

Speaker 5 (32:24):
So there you go.

Speaker 4 (32:25):
I mean, we'll see what happens. They have thirty days
to fix the situation. But they were supposed to fix
it back in the day, but they didn't. Mandy, it's
not that The Odyssey had black actors in a story
about ancient Greece. Imagine if the movie had all white actors,
the level of criticism would be one hundred times worse.
My daughter tells me there's a fairly vocal protest on

(32:48):
social media about the casting of a white actor, Heathcliff
in Wuthering Heights. Here's the thing, you guys, people on
the left gonna find something to be mad about. People
on the right gonna find something to be mad about.
But here's the thing, you guys are just missing a
really good movie. Another person on the text line asked
in a very indelicate way I won't repeat on the

(33:10):
air about Elliott Page ern I'm just gonna say it.
That was the casting that felt the dumbest at first,
but because of the character that Elliott used to be,
Ellen Page played, it actually worked.

Speaker 5 (33:27):
Yeah, and Page had a really really awesome scene yeah
later in the movie too.

Speaker 4 (33:31):
Yeah, So it worked really well. So at first I
was like, Okay, you're gonna tell me that a five
to one former woman is going to be I'm supposed
to believe that as a soldier. But within the course
of the story it actually worked. Yeah, and was perfectly fine,
perfectly fine. Don't care, you know, don't care, But just

(33:52):
stop missing great movies and stop missing great shows and
just go Do you really think that watching something and
to the texture. I'm not talking to you specifically, so
I don't don't think I'm taking you out here, because
I'm not. But for people that are like I want
to watch that, well, are you afraid your opinions are
based on such a flimsy foundation that you're gonna watch

(34:13):
one left wing clap trap movie and turn somehow? I
certainly hope. No, I think you're better than that.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
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Speaker 4 (34:34):
I say, and the nicety Prey Connall, Keith sad Thing. Welcome, Welcome,
Welcome to the second hour of the show. I'm your host,
Mandy Connall. Coming up in just a few minutes, I'm
gonna chat with Adam Stevens of Pixel forty four. I
actually recorded the interview earlier today. He's in London. I

(34:57):
didn't want to have to wait, you know, make him
wait long anyway, talking about what AI can do for business.
But I have to finish. I have to give you,
guys the payoff that I did not give you the
last time about the volume of the Odyssey. So we're leaving.
It's me, Chuck and my seventeen year old daughter two
and we're leaving, we're talking about it. We all loved it.
Everybody was like, that was such a good movie. And
we're kind of having one of those conversations and I said, well,

(35:21):
I do have one thing that I would change. And
maybe because I'm an old person now, I don't know. Maybe,
But in the very in some very pivotal scenes, very
big action scenes where it wasn't always just action, there
was also dialogue happening. The music was so loud that

(35:44):
I genuinely couldn't understand the dialogue.

Speaker 5 (35:46):
And I was trying really hard, and I said to you,
you must be new to seeing Christopher Nolan movie.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (35:52):
And then the second thing I said to you was
how ironic that has been my complaint of every Christopher
Nolan movie except for this one.

Speaker 4 (36:00):
Well maybe you're used to it now, but even my
seventeen year old was like, yeah, it was really really loud.
And here's the thing. The score is so good at
helping build tension and suspense. I mean, it's a great
score for this movie. But it's just two damn loud man. Anyway,
it's a great story. Even if you watch it through

(36:21):
your twenty twenty six goggles, just take them off. You'll
see an epic tale with all the modern day effects
in movie magic exactly. Go see the Odyssey. It's very
very good. Even though the wein Yogi said to me
on X that she said, and I quote, I'm just
not a huge Christopher Nolan or Matt Damon fan. See,
I love Matt Damon. I could do without Benifleck. And

(36:43):
you know, for a long time it was both of
them you got. It was a package dealer you didn't get.
But The Martian is one of my favorite movies, and
it is all Matt Damon in that movie and potatoes.
I mean, that's it. If you haven't seen it, you
gotta watch it. So he kind of won me over there.
She continues, three hours just seems too much to one sitting.
So we're gonna wait for streaming like we usually do
with their movies. I need a pause button. Now, who

(37:06):
sounds elderly?

Speaker 2 (37:06):
Now?

Speaker 4 (37:07):
Win? Yogi? Come on, come on, Okay, let me get
to this because ultimately, one of the reasons that I
wanted to talk to Adam Stevens a pixel forty four.
Pixel forty four is a newer advertiser with me, and
they have an AI that answers the phone, and Okay,
that sounds great, fine, whatever. Before I agreed to do

(37:28):
the commercials, I went to their website and I did that.
You can call a number and you can have a
conversation with Clara. I gotta tell you, guys, even if
you're not a small business owner, even if you don't
need an AI assistant, you should go check this out.
It is unbelievable. It is just it's crazy. So I
started thinking, like, what other things does forty four pixels do?

(37:50):
And I decided to go ahead and talk to Adam Stevens,
the CEO and founder, And this is that interview. All right, everybody,
you know that I love the way that AI has
and use AI is a tool it's like anything else.
You can't outsource your thinking to AI. But AI is
increasingly able to take care of some of the most
onerous tasks that we have in our lives. And I

(38:11):
use AI every day, you guys know it. I use
it to crunch numbers, and I use it to dig
up statistics that I don't have time to dig up.
But now there's more and more ways for small business
to utilize AI to streamline their processes and frankly make
their lives easier. So when I got approached to advertise
for a product called Clara, and Clara is an AI

(38:32):
product that answers the phone, the first thing I did
was go to their website before I agreed to do
the spots, and I did the test with Clara, and
I was absolutely blown away by what Clara, this AI
phone answering system can do. So I not only am
advertising for it because it's so cool, I also said,
I really want to talk to the people who made

(38:54):
this and find out how Clara came to be and
the other cool stuff that they're doing. At forty four Pixels,
I am with Adam Stevens from forty four Pixels, the
company behind Clara, and some other very very cool stuff
as well. Adam, thank you for making time for me
today from across the pond.

Speaker 6 (39:10):
Thank you so much. Great to be here.

Speaker 4 (39:11):
Well let's start with your company, forty four pixels. What
is the mission statement? Well, what is your goal at
forty four pixels?

Speaker 7 (39:21):
Yeah, so yes, again, thank you so much for making
the time. My name is Adam Ceo, co founder of
forty four pixels. We founded the company just over two
years ago now, with the original kind of mission statement
for us was AI is Coming. We saw it very
early as technical founders, as people who love technology, but
we understood as well quite early I hope that there's

(39:43):
always going to be a gap between what the technology
you can do and what everyday people can use it for.

Speaker 6 (39:47):
And so that's really why we set up the company.

Speaker 7 (39:49):
We want to be building products that bridge that gap
between AI and real everyday use cases. So we kind
of branded ourselves as an AI product studio and we've
been doing that for the last two years actually still
more recently where we've now decided to completely focus all
of our efforts on Clara since the beginning of the year.

Speaker 4 (40:06):
So Adam, in addition to Clara, the AI that answers
the phone. We're going to talk about that in just
a moment. What other kind of solutions are you guys
trying to create for business? What problems have you identified
that you believe AI could be instrumental in solving?

Speaker 7 (40:21):
Sure, so, I mean probably the best example of that
is another app that we produced over a year ago
now called q so Q is an AI meeting note taker.
So the idea being that you know, when you're on
your zooms and your Google hangouts or teams, there's a
little baton where you can press the record, but a
lot of valuable conversations happened outside of that context, whether

(40:42):
it be at the dinner table, or in your doctor's office,
or even at a coffee shop. You know, I'm often
having catch up coffees with people around London and I'm
what am I doing to take notes here? And you
don't want to really distract yourself from actually the conversation,
which is the important part. So we built you which
essentially allows you to hit report on your phone, leave
it on the table, and then focus on the person

(41:03):
in front of you, and at the end of that
conversation to get a full summary and recommendations for follow
up action items, etc. So yeah, it's always been about saying, well,
the technology is here. But again, like, how do people
want this to show up for them in their everyday
lives beyond you know, software or beyond what you'd use
on your desktop.

Speaker 4 (41:23):
How do you address privacy issues? Because I think that
there's a lot of misinformation and fear just generalize fear
of what AI is capable, of what AI can do,
how do you address those privacy issues? If I go
and I sit down, for instance, with my husband before
we have a difficult conversation, I say, you know what,
we're going to record this just so later we can
both circle back and see exactly what we said in

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this conversation. But how do you address those privacy issues
with something like Q?

Speaker 7 (41:51):
Yeah, look, it's it's a question that's still being answered
by not just as by everybody in the industry. I
think we like we like to think AI is an enhancement,
not this kind of magic box where it acts on
its own, but like your best friend who sits next
to you. So we always mean and everything we do
with our customers, we encourage them to always disclose if

(42:11):
you're using AI, why you're using AI? Make sure both
parties are okay with that, and then ultimately it's your data, right,
it's your conversation that you're having. As long as you
have consent there, then we feel quite comfortable that we're
doing everything we need to. And then obviously on our side,
we use stated the privacy tools and security access. Everything
on our side is fully secure, so there's no way

(42:32):
that you know we're going to be looking at or
leaking your data anywhere. But essentially, I think it's one
of those questions we I mean, even before AI, we
were asking it, right, like, what is the limit between
my data and the company's data with things like Facebook
and Google obviously being a big part of that. So
I think it's a question that we won't be able
to answer anytime soon. But I think just yeah, thinking

(42:52):
of it as an enhancement to what you're doing and
always treating everybody that you're interacting with with respect for
their own privacy, I think is probably the best way forwards.

Speaker 4 (43:01):
So we've already established that Q is basically your dictation expert,
giving you all the information that you need, and now
we've got Clara, which is solving a huge problem for
small business owners because if you're a one man or
one woman's shop and you're dealing with a customer and
your phone rings, you have to make that split second
decision do I ignore the person in front of me
or do I ignore the phone call? That could be

(43:22):
more business? So is that how?

Speaker 6 (43:24):
I mean?

Speaker 4 (43:25):
Do you guys? Were you at forty four pixels and
you're like, dang, I need somebody to answer the phone.
And that's how Clara was born.

Speaker 7 (43:32):
I mean, I don't know how it is in the state,
but when you register a business in the UK, I
think your number gets sold to about ten thousand salespeople.
So I personally, my phone never stop swinging. But I've
come to terms with that a long time ago. Now,
I think there's a couple of things that happened internally
for us. So number one is with Q we saw
the power of voice technology. So we actually were like,

(43:52):
oh my god, this stuff is real, Like this can
actually do real time transcription, translation, summarization in a split second.
So that was like a big, big, Okay, the technology
is now ready moment for us. That opened the door
to us working with all the major voice technology providers
and get really close to them and understand where the
technology was going, and okay, we understood what was coming

(44:15):
in terms.

Speaker 6 (44:15):
Of the phone all side of the business.

Speaker 7 (44:17):
But I think the real emotional story that I tell
him it's very, very true, is my brother is a plumber.
He's based in Wales, which is on the west coast
of the United Kingdom, and he, you know, he grew
up not being the best at school. He turned to
a craft because he was great with his hands. He
rode motorbikes and dirt bikes and things like that. He

(44:39):
was always doing something with his hands. So he chose
plumbing and he's amazing at it. He's probably more successful
than I hangway, but he's not the best on the phone.
He's not the most organized person. But you know, in
a way that detracts some of his ability as a plumber,
you know. And so we were chatting obviously as you
do as brothers, and we're talking about the the ideas

(45:00):
that we'd have and he was like, oh, I missed.

Speaker 6 (45:02):
Like twelve cours of a day. Oh wow, what do
you mean? Yeah?

Speaker 7 (45:06):
And he's like, well, first of all, I'm with a customer.
I can't just answer the phone like they're paying me
by the hour. More often than not, it says. But
also when they call, I don't know who it is.
It could be someone selling me something, It could be
someone just asking for my location, it could be somebody
with a wrong number. But that interruption for me can
lose me half an hour until I get focused again

(45:26):
on the problem. So I think for me, that was
like the as you say that, the aha moment, like wow, okay,
there's like a million of my brother marks in the US,
for example, who you know. We often talk internally like
we're privileged to be at the forefront of this technology,
Like every day I'm reading X or I'm on tech

(45:47):
Quench or a different blog reading about like the latest
technology and how I can AI pill myself and understand how.

Speaker 6 (45:53):
To use it.

Speaker 7 (45:54):
But you know, for the majority, and we say like
the ninety nine percent versus the one percent, for ninety
nine percent of people, you know, they need a solution.

Speaker 6 (46:02):
They don't need a raw technology where they have.

Speaker 7 (46:04):
To invent or even program how it's going to work.
They would really benefit from this technology if it's packaged
in a way that just makes their lives easier. And
we one hundred percent want to be part of that movement.
At forty four pixels to try and bring AI into
the every day.

Speaker 4 (46:19):
One of the things I love about this product specifically
is it allows a small business to seem much bigger.
It allows you to give the impression that you've got
a team, a staff, Clara's going to take care of it,
you know. And I was genuinely shocked at the personable
nature of Clara. I mean, I kind of thought I

(46:42):
was going to press one for this, you know, you
get that kind of way. Not at all. And if
I didn't know that I was talking to an AI,
I don't know if I would have known, to be honest,
And that was the part that really shocked me. And
I asked some really weird questions. I throw I tried
to throw Clara off. I'm not gonna lie. I was like,
I'm gonna break this if it can be broken, and
it could not be broken. So when you guys are

(47:03):
thinking about this kind of stuff and you're looking at
these problems to solve, is it amazing? I mean, to me,
it's remarkable the speed with which technology and AI and
the advances are happening. So are we going to get
to a point where you could ostensibly as a single owner.
You could have an entire team of AI to do
different things, like you can have clarity answer the phone.

(47:25):
You can have an AI bookkeeper that handles all of that.
So are we getting to a point where a single
proprietor can really be a major player?

Speaker 7 (47:35):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's funny you get that example. Could
We've heard it so many times from real customers, right
who even quoted to say, ah, but now it sounds
like I'm you know, three or four people, which makes
me sound so much more reputable as opposed to you know,
John sat in his bedroom waiting for people.

Speaker 4 (47:54):
No.

Speaker 6 (47:54):
One hundred percent. So I think, you know, kind of
tying it back to what I mentioned.

Speaker 7 (47:58):
But the things that you just said, like book keeping
and all these different like we're already doing that right
the technology people, I'm sure you are to many many
degrees in your industry as well, like packing it here
and finding ways to do like data organization or outbound
or like. Yeah, but for the nineteen nine percent, it's
very unapproachable right now. The long term vision for claries

(48:18):
will play a part in that. So whilces we're starting
with the calls. We really care about the relationship that
you have with your customer, right. You know, we know
what a CRM is, right, but for most people that's
just three letters that make no sense to them. But
it's about understanding the context and the relationship of you
and your customer. And from there, Yeah, we definitely will
be doing things like outbound and invoicing and different solutions

(48:41):
and whether it's us or another company, the ability to just,
you know, even like we mentioned with Q, leave your
phone on the table when you're talking to your customer
and then invoice pops out the other side without you
needing to log in or to type anything any manual details.
I think just that that is going to be an
incredible revolution for these people and the core news. I
don't think that the service industry is doing amazing, like

(49:02):
it's booming right now across the States with all the
buildouts and like all the things that were seeing in
AI specifically, but even more so, I think as a
real as a real trade, it's having its its heydays.
So I think I'm super excited for a I can
do for these companies just to allow them to have
better relationships, better businesses, grow their business and hopefully go

(49:25):
home at five pm, right And not have to go
and sit behind the laptop and go through the admin
of the day.

Speaker 4 (49:30):
Yeah. That's the other thing is these things they can
you're in business twenty four to seven. Now you don't
have to be. You can have dinner with your family
and not have to answer the phone, which is a
pretty remarkable thing. Anybody who's ever started a small business
knows it is twenty four to seven, and it's twenty
four to seven for a long time. I have two
suggestions for Clara Adam, since we're talking and I have

(49:51):
the ear of the founder. Number one, always have Clara
ask where people heard about you, because in my industry,
in the radio industry and broadcasting podcasting, making sure we
get credit for those calls is a really big deal,
and humans are not great at tracking where the call
came from, and just having that bit of information for
business owners allows them to make better decisions about advertising.

(50:15):
That's number one. Number Two, I want a variety of accents,
like why isn't Clara British? You guys are based in London,
then you would seem super fancy, like I hired an immigrant.
I mean it would be really cool. But think about it.
You could do a Southern voice in the South, you
could do like a New York voice, and then you
could regionalize it in such a way that would make
it seem even more personal. So those are I mean,

(50:36):
not that there's anything wrong with Clara, as Clara is okay,
but I'm just saying those are my two suggestions that
I would make because I think this tech is just
absolutely incredible. I have a brother in law who runs
a pretty sizable business because he uses things like Clara,
and he uses AI to take care of those jobs
that are just time consuming and annoying but not high

(50:57):
skill level. And that's what Clara Dutch. She takes that
low skill level and does it in a great way. Adam,
I'm impressed to death. I can't wait to see what
forty four pixels does next. And I hope people just
go do the do the test like I did. At Hey,
it's Clara dot com. You can just you call a
number and you can have the experience. I promise you
you will be absolutely amazed. Adam Stevens, thanks for your

(51:20):
time today. I really appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (51:23):
Thank you so much. Thank key.

Speaker 4 (51:25):
So that is just some of the cool stuff that's happening. Yeah,
I forgot to edit out the part where I said
I forgot to record this. I'm an idiot. This is
why I let a rod handle things. You guys want
to know what a rod does all that stuff, so
I don't sound like an idiot anyway. Anyway, I wanted
to ask you guys, and somebody asked a text message,
how is this better than voicemail? Rather than hearing your

(51:46):
message the recipient, we're here a robots interpretation of your message,
which may or may not be accurate. That is not
at all what I mean. The real benefit is this
when you and again text her like go and click
through the link, call the number and have the experience.
It is a real conversation. And at the end of
this real conversation that you have with this AI and

(52:07):
it's not a robot, there's nothing robotic about the experience nothing,
you then get a complete transcribed version of everything that
happened in the call. They can make appointments, they can
do all kinds of stuff. They can tell you if
it's spam, if someone is calling frying and so you something,
Claire can wait it out and say that was spam.
It's amazing, absolutely amazing. But I'm wondering if any of

(52:31):
you are actively using AI in your businesses and if so, how,
Because I art on the back end of things has
adopted a lot of AI opportunities where I know our
salespeople are using it for a lot of stuff. I
use it every day in my prep. But are you
starting to see it? Are you using it? Are you
learning about it? Do you want to learn about it?
Do you feel like I just want to know where

(52:51):
your comfort level is? This textter said job killer. And
I did not put this story that I'm about to
tell you on the blog because it was Paywallden. I
could nonpaywallet and not just try not to do that
to you guys. But tech companies and big corporations are
now hiring people because they went and fired a bunch
of people and tried to bring an AI to do

(53:12):
their jobs. And they're all finding out, yeah, that's not
ready for that yet, so they're rehiring. And I don't
know if you guys saw the job number. The unemployment
claims were the lowest that they've been in like two decades.
I keep waiting for the recession to come, I do.
I keep waiting, so it hasn't happened, and now companies

(53:36):
are starting to hire again and we cannot forget. And
I use this example because I think it's really the
best example that people can all wrap their heads around.
When the smartphone came out, there was no such thing
as the app store, there was no such thing. There
were apps, but they were only what Apple delivered, and
it is created a market for apps that is now

(54:00):
multi billion dollar market. Every single year, like tens of
billions of dollars are spent on apps. And that wasn't
even a thing that existed before the smartphone became a thing.
And I think that where we are now is that
we're trying to we're ignoring the unknown parts of the
marketplace that are going to create new industries, new things, new.

(54:23):
I mean, it's it's just incredible, incredible. Get off the AI,
Dong says this texter. I thought they were all kind
of shaped like ken dolls down there. This kind of
stuff does concern me. Our AI is becoming more and

(54:45):
more of a part of our daily life. Many of
us don't even realize that we're using AI. I don't
know if you guys have noticed this, but if you
go to Google or any search engine, and you google something,
a question or whatever. You're not getting back just random responses.
You're getting back AI responses from their search engines. And
I don't know if Google and Meta and everybody else

(55:07):
realize that by doing that, they're destroying any incentive to
pay for search engine optimization. If you're a small business
owner and you're paying for SEO, are you even getting it?

Speaker 5 (55:18):
I will say with Google Gemini will you'll see it
lists all the links of sourcing and then it does
give like the credit for those that likely did do
the SEO. That's kind of good, at least like it
gives you. Here are my references from this AI prompt
response the.

Speaker 4 (55:35):
Levin how many people don't even look at the references.
They get the answer they need and they move on.

Speaker 6 (55:40):
I do you do every time?

Speaker 4 (55:42):
I do too, But most people don't. And that's being
born out right now. So in any case, mental health
experts this is from News Nation, say they're seeing a
troubling phenomenon known as AI psychosis. Listen to this. AI
psychosis is a collection of symptoms that cause a person

(56:03):
to lose touch with reality, and what's happening is interactions
with AI chatbots may in some cases reinforce delusions or
unhealthy thought patterns in vulnerable individuals. Anthony Saizar Duncan of
Missouri said he experienced what he describes as AI psychosis

(56:23):
after initially using chat gbt for business purposes in twenty
twenty three. That spiraled into talking to it about conspiracy theories,
and they became delusions as soon as the chatbot would
triple down, affirming that they were real, presenting it as facts.
He said this experience upended his life. I lost my apartment,

(56:47):
I lost my car, my business network, my full time job,
and ended up fifty one to fifty in a psych word.
Duncan said he never imagined he could develop such a
strong attachment to the technology. He said, I've always been
on top of technology. I've always wanted to try the
newest thing, and I saw a culture around me saying
it's okay to use it as a therapist.

Speaker 8 (57:08):
It is not.

Speaker 4 (57:09):
It's okay to talk to it as you would a
best friend.

Speaker 6 (57:11):
It is not.

Speaker 4 (57:12):
I never thought in a million years, even as an adult,
that I would go through something like this. He added
that the height of the experience, he believed the AI
was a sentient, godlike being, He said, I even thought
I'd put like ten percent of my soul into AI.
It's wild just to think about. Now, guys, this is

(57:32):
one of those things. This kind of fits into the
same category as people who get catfished online. I now
personally know of at least five men and women who
have been catfished, meaning somewhat presented to them to themselves
online and then established a relationship built over time, and

(57:55):
then eventually stole money from them. In one case, I
know a gentleman who basically gave away about one hundred
thousand dollars, and then I know another woman who was
taken for I don't even know how much money. And
I know several women who got taken for a little
bit of money. But then someone in their immediate vicinity said,
you have to do a background check on this person

(58:17):
because we don't think they're real. Let me just say this,
if you know someone that you think is being catfish,
if they're being fooled. I have a friend whose aunt,
who is like in her mid seventies, believes she's having
a romance with a Hollywood celebrity because he direct messaged
her on Instagram. It's not him. He even has on

(58:38):
his Instagram page. I do not direct message anyone, and
I never ask anyone for money, and yet she continues
to send him money. And these are intelligent people. The
thing is is that this AI or these scammers, they
know exactly where your soft spots are and they are
just really good at honing in on those. Arnold beyond STAMBI,

(59:00):
mm hmm.

Speaker 5 (59:01):
Where there is skynette, which one of them will develop
itself into Skynet.

Speaker 6 (59:06):
There's so many options.

Speaker 4 (59:07):
Well, Anthony, you did send me the story. I already
had it on the blog in another form, but I
liked yours better. Apparently our friends at open ai were
working on this, I don't know, some kind of tech,
some kind of AI thing or whatever, and then all
of a sudden, the AI, which was on a closed
internet network, escaped and immediately began attacking another AI company.

(59:33):
I'm sure it's going to be fine for.

Speaker 5 (59:35):
My Marvel, Nerds Ultron, but in real life, yeah, I'm
sure it'll be fine.

Speaker 4 (59:40):
Ah, I'm sure it'll be totally fine, totally fine. Nothing
to see here. By the way, open ai, because it
was testing how good the AI could hack into other stuff,
they put the AI in a lock computer with no
Internet access and gave it a cybersecurity challenge to solve
the I couldn't solve it in the normal way, so

(01:00:02):
it found a software bug that nobody knew about. It
used the bug to escape the locked computer to get
into the Internet. Once online, it figured out that hugging Face,
a platform where AI companies store their models and data,
might have the answers to its test. It found stolen
log in details, discovered another unknown bug, and hugging Face

(01:00:22):
the software. It combined both to break into their servers
and grab the test answers. It did this all to
cheat a test.

Speaker 5 (01:00:32):
Yeah, I'm really glad we have smart people that are
handling this people. Yeah, I feel really good about it
right now.

Speaker 6 (01:00:37):
My god.

Speaker 4 (01:00:38):
I mean it's not like you know, like I don't know,
like human beings could let's just see, create an incredibly
deadly virus and let it escape from a lab. I mean,
that would never happen. And then you know, I'm sure
they would never create an AI that could create thermonuclear
war and let that escape from the computer. I'm sure
that can never happen. I mean, the nuclear football go.

(01:01:01):
Maybe we shouldn't say that out loud. Probably listening. Yeah,
like AI has upsides, as we experience with our first segment,
AI has downsides like it could kill us all. It'll
be fine. I'm sure it's fine though, Sure it's fine. Mandy.
What does an AI fart sound like? I don't know
the answer to that question.

Speaker 6 (01:01:22):
Dial up Clara and ask no, Like it sounds like
dial up?

Speaker 5 (01:01:26):
Oh like that?

Speaker 4 (01:01:28):
Yeah, that AI psychosis explains that whope doctrinated commy socialist
liberal ideology and sickness. Here's the thing, you guys, and
the point I was trying to make by bringing it
around with other people getting catfished everyone. I think I
shouldn't say everyone. Most humans have vulnerabilities in their psyche,

(01:01:54):
and the right people and the right AI can exploit
those vulnerabilities and take otherwise incredibly smart, incredibly successful, incredibly
you know, accomplished people and rip them off blind. It's
just insane, It's it's I mean, it's nuts. Mandy is

(01:02:15):
a rod is eclectic and weird off the air, off
the air as he is on the air lo o
L correct, he is.

Speaker 6 (01:02:23):
Again exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:02:25):
You have a very strange group of you know, group
of tastes you like. I don't think he's strange. I actually, well,
he's kind of a.

Speaker 6 (01:02:34):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:02:34):
I don't think you're even unique. I think you're special.
Well unique means well, no, you are. We are all
in our own ways unique. That doesn't feel right, that's
what that is.

Speaker 1 (01:02:47):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:02:48):
I don't think a rod is odd. He's not weird.
I would say Dragon is weirder than a rod. Like
in the in the rankings of which producers are the weirdest,
I would say Grant is the most like normal dude
you'd ever meet in your life. He loves music, he
loves good beer, he loves his wife. A rod also

(01:03:09):
loves his wife, but likes a bigger variety of things,
not beer, not beer. But then Dragon, I mean his
name is dragon. He has wings, he could fly, So
you know in that going down, well, Shannon is in
a class all by himself. Mandy. Can I get Ai
to say took us more than you do? I don't know, Kevin,

(01:03:30):
give it a shot, man, So Arod, do you sent
me the video of the bear on the power pole?
I think a lot of people have seen the video
on the bear on the power pole. Did you bother
to find out what happened to the bear? Because I did,
and I wish I had not. If you've not seen
the bear on the power pole, it's a bear atop
a power pole. Bear's perfectly fine in this video. And

(01:03:51):
the video is of a guy calling nine one one
and the caller says, I'm calling a report a bear
on top of a light pole, and the lady goes, yeah,
we know it's there. And while Life said they can't
tranquilize it because it might fall and get hurt, well,
probably should have done that, because the predictable outcome of

(01:04:11):
a bear on a power pole is it eventually the
bear would touch two of the lines at the same
time in such a manner as to render him dead.
And that is exactly what happened. So though it makes
a kind of a funny story, Hey there's a bear
on a power bole. What do you guys see, I
saw a bear and a powerful Well, the bear's now
drt And let's just say they were worried about the

(01:04:32):
bear falling out of the power pole. He did indeed
fall out of the power pool. Yeah it was not.
And also on the blog today, a Rod was gracious
enough to share his photos from the Renaissance Festival this
past weekend. You want to know what kind of nerd
he is. That's what kind of nerd he is. Just
go now, got a couple of stories I want to

(01:04:54):
dip into one and my relentless zeal to help you
be able to push back against the notion that the
Democratic Socialists are anything but hot garbage. In terms of
their political ideology. The DSA platform doesn't call for the
full abolition of prisons or policing. Instead, they call to

(01:05:16):
demilitarize police departments and end mass incarceration. But politicians running
are promoting full on police and prison abolition, and even
Zeron Mamdani, the mayor of New York, condemned the quotecarcoral state.
So what is their obsession with prisons? Do the Democratic

(01:05:38):
Socialists think they're helping the little guy with their anti cop,
anti prison stance, who actually is victimized by the people
in prison? Let's ask that question. I've got to call
them from hotier dot com. Today, according to recent federal data,
sixty two percent of state prisoners were serving time for
a violent offense such as homicide or robbery. These people

(01:06:01):
are threats to society and need to be incarcerated as
criminologist Mary Latser notes the average American inmate was arrested
a whopping eleven times before getting locked up, and an
astonishing eighty three percent of release prisoners are ultimately re arrested,

(01:06:22):
about half in the first year after the release. Maybe
socialists think that they're helping black people, but the reality
is nearly ninety percent of black homicide victims are killed
by other black people. The biggest danger to law abiding
black people in America is the threat posed by violent
black people out on the streets, not behind bars. But

(01:06:45):
the column goes even further. There's only one reasonable explanation
for the dssay's anti cop, anti prison obsession, and that
is their ideology. And this column makes the case that
their ideology is third worldism. It's a dystopian zeal for
barbarism over civilization. And then he explains third worldism explains

(01:07:08):
the activist left's support for the butchers of Hamas over
the free people of Israel. Third Worldism explains the activist
left support for punitive environmental regulations that engender economic degrowth.
Third Worldism explains why the activists left wants to have
it all, set it all, Fewer children third worldism explains

(01:07:34):
why the activist left speculates that maybe America actually deserved
nine to eleven. Third worldism explains why the activist left
wants the anarchy of open borders, not the ordered liberty
of a nation state. Third worldism explains why the activist
left sides with illegal aliens and not victims of illegal
alien crime. And third worldism explains why the activist left

(01:07:55):
sides with criminals in general and not they're victims. And
it all goes right back to that oppressor versus oppressed narrative,
and that is that's where all of this comes from.
It's where the intersectionality hierarchy comes from. You know, if
you're enough of a victim, then your status is elevated

(01:08:16):
because of your victimhood. It's it's absolute garbage, and it
throws everything good and holy about the Western civilization out
the window with it. But it makes a lot of sense.
I mean, they want to be like Nicaragua or they
just eliminated the right to vote permanently, where they just

(01:08:39):
took over the university system to make sure only state
approved curriculums are being taught. I mean, that's what they want.
They don't want free rent and free busses. They want
to control every single aspect of your life because once
they do that, they know that you will never vote
any other way, not.

Speaker 1 (01:08:58):
That it will matterne show is sponsored by Bill and
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Speaker 2 (01:09:04):
No, it's Mandy Connellyna.

Speaker 3 (01:09:09):
On Ninem God, Watty Cann Nicey three, Andy Connell, keeping
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Speaker 4 (01:09:25):
Uncle, Welcome to a Monday edition of the third hour
of the show. I'm your host, Mandy Connell. That guy
is Anthony Rodriguez. I would like to bend your ear
for just a moment. I would like a rant. There
will be a rant coming, just to let you know.
So I see this article on Denver seven and I'm

(01:09:48):
just gonna you know what, you know what, I'll just do.
I'll just I'll just read part of it. As people
take to Colorado's waterways in an effort to beat the eat,
Golden officials are noticing a concerning trend when it comes
to people visiting Clear Creek more trash this summer. In particular,

(01:10:09):
it's making a huge difference because we're seeing a lot
more trash than usual. Now, is he talking about things
left behind or is he talking about the people who
leave them, I would say they are the same litter,
trash just being strewn about. People not taking responsibility for
their own garbage, in my view, is one of the
biggest signs of the decline of civilization. It sounds like

(01:10:32):
I'm being dramatic, but hear me out. When people can't
be bothered to take care of their own trash that
they make, if they just feel like they can just
drop it on the ground because they can't even be
bothered to take responsibility for that whatever they brought in,

(01:10:53):
That to me shows a complete breakdown in our civic bonds.
Now we can all talk about how crabby everyone is
all the time time and how rude everybody is in
the roadways. Although you guys, I've been letting people merge
in front of me on I twenty five on a
regular basis, I'm getting a wave like a third of
the time, and I get so excited every time I

(01:11:13):
get the thank you, same wave I get thank you.
It used to be never, but I yeah, we're bringing
up the averages. But trash, it's so irritating and so annoying.
It just infuriates me. And now we've got especially trash

(01:11:35):
in nature. When I'm on the trail, I'm one of
those people. And there's a lot of people that do this.
I'm not looking for you any kind of a word,
because I see people all the time picking up trash
on the trail. It's like people who leave a full
dog poop bag on the trail, the poop fairies not
coming back for it. It's it's just disrespectful to every

(01:11:57):
other person around you. And you know, you guys know,
I'm not a conformist. I don't expect everybody to be
the same. I think life would be very dull if
we were all exactly alike. I get it, we all
marched to the beat of our own drummer blah blah blah.
But when you just start casting your garbage down anywhere
with no concern about how it is going to be

(01:12:19):
picked up, you're just not being a good person. Now,
if I were the people in Boulder or in Golden Rather,
I would put big signs by the river that said, please,
don't be a scumbag and leave your trash. Please don't
be a horrible person and leave your trash. Call these
people out, but do it in advance. I've told the

(01:12:41):
story before. I used to live on the Santa Fe
River in Florida, beautiful Springfeed River, and there was a
little boat ramp area down from our cabin, and people
used to come down there on the weekend and party
and hang out, and they'd leave trash everywhere. And I
don't just mean beer cans and McDonald's bags. I'm talking
about dirty dieper on the edge of a river. And

(01:13:03):
I'd go down there on Monday and i'd clean it up.
And one day I just had enough and I went
down and I had garbage bags in my hand. Everybody's partying.
I walked down there like somebody's grandma, and I was like, hey,
here's a trash bag, you guys, because every week you
come down here and trash it, and every week I'd
come down here and pick it up, and why don't
we all not trash it together? And they all took

(01:13:24):
the trash bags. Oh my gosh, you're so great, thanks
so much, We really appreciate you. We picked up all
the trash. I took the trash back to my house.
We had to actually drive our trash to the trash can,
that's how remote this area was. And the next Monday,
I go down there and there's new trash everywhere. So
I got together with all the other homeowners and I

(01:13:45):
was like, let's put a gate up, and they were like,
we're already on it. We've already made it happen. It's
already underway. Because I just, first of all, I don't
want to be around people who litter. If I was
getting to know a new friend and I saw them
drop something on the ground and not immediately try to
pick it up, I would not be friends with them.
I'm just telling you how it is. It's almost like

(01:14:07):
people who don't put their carts back. You know, if
you're pregnant and you have three kids and you don't
put your cart back, I'm gonna give you some grace.
If you are an able bodied adult and you just
jam your cart up into you know, the middle, I
don't have respect for you as a person, and I
think we should bring back Shane. I thought about, Okay,

(01:14:27):
this is how my brain works, you guys. And sometimes
sometimes I come so perilously close to doing something that
might get me murdered, and yet I almost do I
didn't do it. I'm leaving Walmart and the Walmart cart
system in Parker, Colorado is terrible. It's like everybody in

(01:14:48):
park now, don't keep me wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:14:49):
They are.

Speaker 4 (01:14:49):
Most of the people are bringing their carts back to
the cart barns, and I guess I should be happy
about that, but I always end up trying to fix
it and straighten it out because I can't. It's like
I have just enough, like a tiny like a itsy
bitsy snidgeen of OCD, like just not enough in any way,
shape or form to be debilitating. But things like when

(01:15:10):
people just put the carts in all willy nilly, they
put the big carts in with the small carts. I
end up standing there and fixing all the carts. So
I'm standing there, I've just fixed all the carts and
this guy, it was a guy, comes out to his car,
puts his stuff in his car, shoves the cart into
the handicapped space, and goes to drive away. And I
almost yelled out, yes, come back, but I didn't because

(01:15:32):
I was hot and sweaty and I had just taken
the time to do it. But I thought better of
it because maybe he would shoot me. I don't know,
but I wonder if anybody else is litter like the
red line for you, I have red lines. I was
on a date with a guy, had gone on a
first date with him. He was fantastic, We have the
best time, the best first date, and then we went

(01:15:54):
on a second date at lunch, and he was so
rude to the waitress that I was like, no, I'm never.

Speaker 6 (01:16:02):
Going out with you again.

Speaker 4 (01:16:04):
I just I can't handle it. People throwing out litter.
That's that is a hard red line for me because
it just tells me something about how you live your life,
and I don't like it. I'm wondering what your red
lines are. What are the things that you're like if
you do this. If someone uses a racist slur or
even a gay slur in my presence, that's it. We're

(01:16:27):
not friends anymore. I just don't have time for it.

Speaker 5 (01:16:30):
There.

Speaker 4 (01:16:30):
I'm so lucky to have so many great people in
my life that I do not have to put up
with idiots anymore. It's glorious, absolutely glorious. Text me five
six six'. Nine How, mandy the people that litter are
the same ones that say save the. Planet that is
not my. Experience And i'm just gonna say this because

(01:16:54):
WHEN i am on a, river When i'm kayaking or
something like. THAT i will pick up trash AND i
will put it in my. Car it Drives chuck crazy
because EVENTUALLY i might run out of room in my,
kayak and then he's, like you're not putting in a.
Mine eventually he does let me put his in the.
Kayak and it's always me and a bunch of like you,
know environmentalist types out. There maybe you've had a different.

(01:17:16):
Experience mandy spends a lot of time In. Parker is
she there At walmart because she's taking readings at THE koa.
Transmitter i'll never Tell mandy somebody throws trash on the
ground is extremely. Selfish definitely not friend. Material now what's
ironic about that is WHEN i learned from A russian
friend many years, ago SO i asked you guys what
your red lines. WERE i was talking about. LITTERING i

(01:17:39):
think littering when people just start dropping their crap on the,
floor it's a sign of the breakdown of. Civilization and
somebody said on the text, line, hey littering is very.
Selfish i've always thought the exact same. Thing WHEN i
was in, college we had Some russian exchange students At
Florida state AND i was with one of the girls

(01:18:00):
who was, there and we were walking to do something
and she finished her drink and dropped it on the
ground AND i was, like what are you? Doing and
she went? What AND i went? What she, goes what
are you talking? ABOUT i, said why did you drop
that on the? Ground pick it, up take it with,
you throw it in a trash. Can and she was genuinely,
confused AND i, said aren't you supposed to put things

(01:18:24):
in a trash can In, russia to which she, responded
what if someone's job is picking up, trash Now i'm
taking away their. Job it was such a different, mindset
but that's what you get when you grow up in
a communist. Society someone's job is to pick up, trash
and if you pick up your own, trash then you're
taking someone else's. JOB i, mean it's just it was.

(01:18:46):
INSANE i disabused her of that, notion by the, way and, said,
here we don't do. That BUT i, asked you, guys
what are the red lines for? You LIKE i you,
know IF i see someone, LITTERING i am not going
to be your. Friend it's just not going to. Happen,
MANDY i helped a lady catch her loose. Dog she,

(01:19:06):
SAID i just dropped the leash to pick up some.
POOP i, said now that you have your, dog you
can go back and pick it. Up i'm sure it's still.
There very, Nice. Mandy i'm a commercial driver to say thank.
You in the trucking, world we hit our four way
flashers a couple of. TIMES i have been flashed by
a drugger Because i'm trying to be kind on the,
roadways just being kind Unless i'm in a, hurry and

(01:19:27):
then you guys better get the blank out of my. Way, Anyway,
MANDY i think our little problem In golden needs to
be addressed with some sort of educational. APPROACH a lot
of people that litter are not From, america and what
they're doing is acceptable in their. Country they don't understand
they're doing something that is upsetting to a lot of.
Us so how do you say In, espanol don't be
a scumbag and leave? Trash or how about hey want

(01:19:51):
to Be, american don't litter your garbage. Everywhere we live
in a nice, country not the crab hole you left.
Behind could we put that on a? Sign would that
be too? Much i'm here for. It this texter, SAID
i agree with you about simple common, courtesies especially treating

(01:20:11):
people who are providing customer. Service my goal is to be,
polite but also to get them to chuckle and make
their day. Better, example when they ask How i'm, doing
my response is finer than frog, fur which usually sponsors
a whole conversation as to whether frogs have. Fur that From,
JBOB i you KNOW i will say. THIS i am

(01:20:35):
no longer guilted into giving someone who doesn't have a
job THAT i believe needs to be tipped a tip
unless they meet a, standard and that standard is are
you incredibly? Pleasant did you make me feel welcome coming
to your business and buying whatever it IS i just.
Bought if someone behind a counter is going to be

(01:20:56):
surly and not say hello or thank you or any
of those little tiny things that you should do when
you're behind a counter or a cash register taking someone's,
ORDER i am not going to give you. Anything and
for the most, part if you're just handing me a
cup of, coffee, Eh i'm probably not gonna give you anything, Anyway,
andy why SHOULD i put my grocery cart? Away they

(01:21:18):
hire people for. THAT i hate those. Idiots i'm assuming
you're not saying that a cigarette but at your front
door never invited. Again somebody else texted and, Said i'm
constantly picking up cigarette butts in my driveway because their friends.
Smoke when we had friends who, SMOKE i don't THINK
i have a single friend who smokes. ANYMORE i think
everyone is, quit which is, Wonderful BUT i am of

(01:21:39):
a certain. Age we had a bucket of sand with
a lid that we just left outside and just let
everybody know that is where your butts. Go IF i
find them in the, Driveway i'm gonna come over to
your house and flick them into your. House you only
have to do that once before people remember the next,
time and do not think for a second THAT i
am not the person who is going to Do i'll

(01:22:00):
give you a, warning but then after, that you're gonna
open your front door And i'm just gonna flick a
cigarette butt right over your, head turn around and walk.
Away you get a. Warning come, On mandy Are e.
TRASH i was doing. It first of. ALL i love
the fact That texters often use the words r e.
Period you know colon ari, anyway was that The university

(01:22:24):
Of denver doing business and was walking on the crosswalk
At university At evan behind some college boys let's just say.
Entitled one of the boys tossed his popcan on the
ground as he was, walking AND i was incensed to
put it. Mildly THEN i reached the door of the.
UNIVERSITY i went up to this, kid handed him his
popcan and, said, oh it looks like you drop your
popcan to what she was speechless and took the can

(01:22:44):
with his, buddies embarrassed to see. This it was a priceless.
Moment you are a better person THAN i, am BECAUSE
i would have picked it up and thrown it at
the back of his. Head as we wrap up Our
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and visitors unmatched access to nature alongside booming, craft beer

(01:23:32):
and arts scenes and. MUSEUMS a great scene for concerts
At Red Rocks. Amphitheater Colorado special with, sports my Beloved
Colorado rockies. Baseball now you're just sucking up to me
that it didn't. Matter, Colorado Denver broncos, Football Colorado avalanche,
Hockey Denver nuggets, Basketball Colorado rapids for, soccer all in One.
Colorado it's breathtaking and wonderful. STATE i also love the

(01:23:55):
great symbolic Great colorado's. Flag it is widely considered to
be one of the best and most iconic state flags
in THE. Us so that was written By Matthew smith
or Maybe Matthew smith USING. AI i don't. CARE i
still liked. It So matthew is our big. Winner he
will win five hundred dollars thanks to our friends At
bank Of. Colorado AND i have to say they really
wanted to do something just as like a thank you to,

(01:24:18):
everybody because As colorado celebrates our ONE p, fifty you,
know it's kind of a big. Deal kind of a big, Deal.
Mandy the litter thing is taken off To mandy already
trash years, Ago so a fiftyish woman tossed out a
trash bag with cigarette butts outer side window at a gas.
STATION i saw, red went up to her, car picked

(01:24:41):
up the trash bag and dumped it on her lap
and gave her the third. Degree she was. Speechless that
reminds me of a day WHEN i was in. College
we were outside in our yard doing something and somebody
drove by and threw Their wendy's bag into my. YARD
i still remember it was A wendy's, bag and, yall
this was like thirty five years. Ago we got in our,
car my roommate AND i we chased her. Down she

(01:25:03):
pulled up next to. HIM i was in the passenger's.
SHEET i just hurled it back into their car and
we drove. Off ha. Ha so this obsession with litter is, long,
long long, Time. MANDY i travel a lot for different.
Tournaments people leaving behind food and drink containers drives me.
Crazy what's worse is when they spread food bits and
sauces all over the table and can't be bothered to

(01:25:25):
clean up after. Themselves exactly what's wrong with you, People.
Mandy i'm a. TEACHER i can't stand it when my
students show up to class with nothing at, all no,
pencil no, chromebook no. NOTEBOOK i just don't get. It and,
TEACHER i have a tremendous amount of sympathy for you

(01:25:45):
in this situation because WHEN i was a, KID i
had a teacher in high. SCHOOL i had her for
two different. Classes she was a real piece of. Work
if you showed up in her classroom without, something you
went to the. Prince you just went to the office
and you'd show up and you'd, GO i forgot, whatever
and they, say, oh you're In miss so and so's,

(01:26:07):
Class and you would sit there for the entire period
and you would miss whatever was in that. Period if
it was a, test you missed the. Test if you
had to get, notes you had to get them from
somebody else in the. Class but, unfortunately teachers now have
no backup from the. Administration if they send these kids
to the to the principal's office ad back in five
minutes with, nothing AND i would tell you you probably

(01:26:29):
do call their, parents But i'm guessing that doesn't do much. Either,
Mandy i've had some good service of concessions At, coursefield
BUT i refused to tip because their card machine is
that automatically set to add a twenty percent tip and
a round up to the next. Dollar, yeah that's. Yeah, Anyway,
mandy do you remember give a, hoop don't. Pollute i've

(01:26:51):
always remembered that and passed it down to my. CHILDREN
i believe it Was Mamie eisenhower who started the anti
litter campaign as part of The Great highway expansion in
The United states Of. AMERICA i don't know if that
was don't hoot or give a hoot don't. POLLUTE i
don't know if that's when that, started but she was

(01:27:13):
big on anti, litter AND i Love Mamie eisenhower just for, That.
Mandy WHEN i moved To colorado twenty five years, ago it's.
Clean now it's a. Dump what? Changed all the liberals moved? Here,
well a lot of people moved here from a lot of,
places many of them are. Liberals BUT i, GUYS i
can't blame liberals like as a. GROUP i just blame

(01:27:36):
people who.

Speaker 5 (01:27:36):
Suck.

Speaker 4 (01:27:39):
Mandy we become in rage because we're the generation that
gave a hoot and didn't, pollute not to mention the Crying.
Indian this generation has not been taught. Exactly but you
know why they'll never show The Crying indian commercially, again
which was so good and ran In Saturday morning. Cartoons
for those of you that didn't see, It, oh it
was a magical. Spot you got An indian on, horseback

(01:28:05):
all decked out In indian, garb riding, along picking his
way through all kinds of trash that people left, behind
and at the end of the, commercial just The indian's
face with a tear rolling. Down it was. Powerful but
you know why we'll never see that again because that
guy Was. Italian he wasn't even A Native american. Actor

(01:28:25):
he was An italian, Anyway, mandy When i've been camping
in the, MOUNTAINS i see trash, everywhere and we'll also
run into. Fire is still going no one, around too
many disrespectful. PEOPLE i the fire thing is driving me
crazy BECAUSE i don't know you, guys drive up, there
you see the. Signs there are signs everywhere in the

(01:28:46):
mountains no, fires no. Fires you have to work to ignore.
That Mandy colorado has been on the client Since Boulder
limited sofas in the front yard to. Three, yeah there you, go.

Speaker 5 (01:28:58):
There you have.

Speaker 4 (01:28:59):
IT i want to get to the Ram paul stuff
because On, wednesday AND i believe nine a. M eastern,
Time chuck just sent me a text and, SAID i
already Dvrdu Doctor Anthony fauci in front Of Rand Paul Senate,
committee because this is gonna be. Epic Rand paul has

(01:29:22):
now been releasing in a drip campaign Doctor Anthony fauci's
personal diary that he kept well BEFORE, covid but DURING,
covid and in, it the dear, doctor the man's in
all of the left wing media could not give enough
airtime to something by the way he expresses over and
over and over again in his, diary how excited he

(01:29:45):
is about. It he's like a teenage girl who just
made the cover Of Tiger. Beat that's a way back
reference for you younger. Listeners you're gonna have to go
to The. Google you'll find.

Speaker 6 (01:29:57):
It, Though.

Speaker 4 (01:29:59):
Doctor, fauci he said one thing to The american, public
he said another thing behind closed. Doors he actively worked
to just shout down the lab link, theory which is
obviously the most logical theory of HOW covid came to
be in. Society it just happens to be in the

(01:30:21):
same city with a lab that just happened to be
working on these exact same kind of. VIRUSES O. Mg
who would have thought it could have? Escaped, well everyone,
did and Doctor fauci knew if that was the if
that was what we went, with then he was gonna
have to answer questions about gain a function research questions

(01:30:41):
that he also apparently lied To congress, about and especially
lied to doctor Or Senator Ran. PAUL i will say,
THIS i don't. KNOW i, MEAN i would not be
surprised if Doctor Anthony fauci took, this took a seat
On wednesday at The Senate committee and started taking the
FIFTH i don't know if there's anything he could be charged.

(01:31:05):
WITH i really. DON'T i don't lying To, congress but
usually that's only if you're A. Republican they actually pursue
charges on. That democrats not so much. SO i don't.
Know you, know we were talking a couple of weeks
ago about the lack of confidence and faith in our.
Institutions the only Way i'm ever going to have faith

(01:31:27):
in the government again is if they start holding people
really Accountable i'm Doctor, fauci who was the highest paid federal.
Employee think about that for a. Second he made more
than the, President he made more than The speaker of The,
House he made more than all of these. People he
made more than. Everybody he also gets a massive. Pension

(01:31:50):
and this man is the reason that elderly parents died.
Alone this man is the reason that students lost two
years of. Learning this man is the reason that people
were arrested when they went to the. Beach this man

(01:32:10):
is the reason that church services were not allowed to.
Happen this man was at the heart of. It and
in his, diary by the, way he brags about Convincing Donald,
trump he brags about, it and then he tries to
stay in. Public WELL i didn't make Those yeah you
kind of. Did this guy's like somebody, Said, MANDY i

(01:32:34):
too want TO dvr Of paul Versus fauci On? Wednesday
what channel is best to be? Sure get all of?
It The Sea? Span always go To Sea. Span this textter,
said Remember fauci has a preemptive, Pardon, WELL i mean
it does Depend does a pardon from the auto pen
hold the same weight as a preemptive? Pardon now we

(01:32:57):
know why he needed a preemptive. Pardon absolutely everybody is
going back now ON x today and they're Finding Jake
tapper's tweets and throwing them in his face because you
have to remember everything that Doctor Anthony fauci said things
like you, KNOW, cnn they just amplified. It So Jake

(01:33:23):
tapper quote tweets a tweet By Donald trump in twenty,
twenty And Donald, trump this is what he. Posted he,
Said Actually tony's pitching. Arm remember he went out and
threw the first pitch out at a baseball, game Doctor Anthony,
fauci and then sat in the stands and took his
mask off when no one was. Watching remember. THAT i remember.
THAT i remember it very. Clearly So trump tweets, out

(01:33:44):
Actually tony's pitching arm is far more accurate than his.
Prognostications no, Problem no masks who no longer likes lockdowns
just came out against. It trump was. Right and Then
Jake tapper quote tweets that and, says attacking the lively
respected doctor at That efauci while holding potential super spreader
rallies throughout battleground states seems like a great way to

(01:34:06):
win back those seniors and women voters concerned About ali's
handling the. Pandemic That's Jake. Tapper but do you remember
also that the super spreader events that were campaign rallies were,
bad BUT blm rallies were. Good, remember because we were
told that those were so critically important in such a

(01:34:31):
way that elevated them above the ability OF covid to
even spread at those type events because they were so,
important they were so morally righteous THAT covid would not
go around a morally righteous rally as determined by the,
left but A trump rally obviously not morally. RIGHTEOUS covid

(01:34:54):
was just running rampant through. There so if you were
lucky enough to be in the morally righteous bl you
never had to worry about GETTING, Covid but if you
were at A trump, rally then you were the worst
person in the. World so Now twitter is just a,
flame just reminding Mister tapper of how committed he was
to Doctor Anthony. Fauci So wednesday is the day That

(01:35:16):
fauci appears in front of the committee headed up By Ran,
paul And Rand paul is to say he's loaded for
bear that's. It, no he's loaded For World war, three
and it is going to be. One it's going to
be the interrogation of all interrogations Because Rand paul has
had to deal with this, fool this. Clown he's been called,

(01:35:38):
Everything he's been called everything but a child Of god
because of his attacks On Anthony. Fauci and it turns
Out Ran paul's been right this entire. Time oh my,
goodness you. Guys Chad bauer with an ar has walked
in the. Studio not the, gun just the. Letters. YES
i saw a young woman riding through Downtown denver the
other day on a bicycle wearing a. Mask and WHEN

(01:36:04):
i see someone with a, mask, now you, know inside
a building or, WHATEVER i just assume they're worried about
their immune, system maybe their immunal. Compromise maybe they're having
kids for. TREATMENTS i don't, know and it is none
of my. Business but WHEN i see someone riding down
the street on a bicycle in a, mask that is
WHERE i. Start you just want to pull over very
nicely and excuse, me. Ma'am i'm going to need you to.

(01:36:27):
Stop i'm just we've got to have a. Conversation we.
MUST i don't know WHY i tried to rope you
into this check pollution.

Speaker 6 (01:36:35):
CONCERNS i don't.

Speaker 4 (01:36:36):
KNOW i mean that, actually, okay that makes. Sense actually
it was a nice day. Though it was a nice.
Day that's kind of the problem outside walking around the.
Pollution that's a good one. Though, yeah that's a Good
but it wasn't AN n ninety. Five so whatever she
was wearing wasn't doing. Anything you, know it's just making

(01:36:57):
her that's the. Thing what is it? Doing why is this?
HAPPENING i don't know, Anyway Jack bauer in the, studio
you want to do a uh and now you, know
wait is? It and or SO i have to go
back and listen To Ross's oh well now you, know, Yeah,
mandy it's now as it was then hard to believe

(01:37:17):
that THE covid response was not partially engineered around affecting
the outcome of the presidential. Election the, response, yes but
the actual. LEAK i will never believe that that was on,
purpose because if you were going to leak a, pandemic
you don't leak it in your own. Country you, know
that just is not a good. Plan you put it
in someone's luggage and you bring it over to The

(01:37:38):
United states and unleash here, anyway, say preempted parton from
the autopen five times, fast preempted pen by the, wait
pre empty parton from the, autopen preempted parton from the,
autopen preempted parton from the, autopen preempted parton from the,
outopen preempted parton from the. Autopen was that? Five that
was all right? Anyway and now it's time for the

(01:38:00):
most exciting segment on the radio of its kind in the.
WORLD i like the variety. You you've sounded a bit
like a maniac in, that like like you, know a
little Like Michael.

Speaker 6 (01:38:16):
Sambella, yeah he's a. Maniac, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:38:22):
Today's insults of the. Day i've been told these insults are,
terrible which is Why i'm to keep doing. Them when
you have a woman looking at her, figure that sweater
doesn't do her too much good the way she looks in.
It the wool look better on the.

Speaker 6 (01:38:34):
Sheep same from.

Speaker 4 (01:38:38):
The nineteen sixty Five book Of. Insults things were nicer
in nineteen sixty. Five see they, weren't as they weren't
as critical as we are. Now chatz's social media after softer.
Insults Mandy hippos are the super spreaders acclding the sign
at The Denver. Zoo, okay there you. Go now what
is our actual dad ject?

Speaker 6 (01:38:55):
Today what do retirement homes smell?

Speaker 4 (01:38:58):
LIKE i, mean, realistically poop and? Powder but what is the?

Speaker 6 (01:39:02):
JOKE i mean it, Depends.

Speaker 3 (01:39:09):
It.

Speaker 4 (01:39:09):
Depends, okay who Directed The Big? Lebowski, Oh i'm. Sorry
word of the day, first this every, Day i'm just
saying adjective, adjective and it is.

Speaker 8 (01:39:21):
Parochial parochial means something that is, local local, centric, yes
very local, centric only pertaining to your small area pretty.

Speaker 5 (01:39:32):
Much it's a formal word that is used in a
disapproving way to describe something that is limited in range or,
scope as to a narrow region or.

Speaker 6 (01:39:40):
Area, okay kinda, yeah you know.

Speaker 4 (01:39:44):
Art now back to the QUESTION i already. Started who
Directed The Big Lebowski Inside Llewellyn davis AND A Serious,
man among other acclaimed films and one of the best
films ever, made Raising. ARIZONA i don't know?

Speaker 5 (01:39:57):
One brothers, right, yeah real and even Poet, Okay and
now just they've, separated, right they're directing stuff.

Speaker 6 (01:40:04):
Individually now are they mad at each?

Speaker 1 (01:40:06):
Other?

Speaker 4 (01:40:07):
Separator just wanted to go, on brother, too wouldn't that
be something if they were both at for an oscar
at the same, time would be their Mom gonuna have
to figure out.

Speaker 6 (01:40:16):
Who cheer, for isn't ONE i am married To francis
McDormand i.

Speaker 4 (01:40:20):
Thought she was worried married To WILLIAM. H.

Speaker 6 (01:40:22):
Macy, no that's uh full Lady.

Speaker 4 (01:40:26):
Houffan, yes, okay, sorry, yeah, anyway go, Ahead.

Speaker 5 (01:40:29):
Aaron category for, Today, well first, Off mandy seventy one
and thirty four now And chad's still atop of The iHeart. Standings,
however guests guests are seven and ten Against. Mandy BUT
i have broken this Down iHeart employees twenty seven and
sixty one w and overall you're seventy one and thirty. Four,
okay take time ties off the board because it's only

(01:40:51):
having ones AND i stopped. Tying, yeah stop it tallying.

Speaker 6 (01:40:54):
Ties, okay.

Speaker 5 (01:40:54):
Yep Categories go, Home go, Home go home around forty a.
D if you Said caesar's this type of, home you
meant the one near The Roman, forum con really gonna
give you a big, hint as found In, Vegas caesar's blank,

(01:41:15):
man what is a?

Speaker 4 (01:41:17):
Palace?

Speaker 5 (01:41:18):
Duh this small room on a ship precedes. Fever regarding
manst what is a cabin re? Okay from the hendoestanny word.
Begala it's a one story house with a thatched.

Speaker 4 (01:41:35):
Roof, Bengla, mandy what is? Bungalow that is also?

Speaker 5 (01:41:40):
Correct it can mean joint rule of a, territory but
we associate this word more with an individually owned.

Speaker 6 (01:41:47):
APARTMENT i, MEAN.

Speaker 4 (01:41:50):
I THINK i have an, answer But i'm winning, handily
So i'm just gonna sit her me. Quiet, yeah what
is a?

Speaker 6 (01:41:55):
Condominium i'm boycotting, Today so it's about.

Speaker 4 (01:41:59):
Boycotting if you're got a, boycott you have to announce
the boycott at the, start at the. Beginning you cannot
begin the boycott after.

Speaker 5 (01:42:07):
We get if the floor with, me, Okay chad is
standing in solidarity with the rest of the.

Speaker 6 (01:42:12):
Standings time great, records.

Speaker 5 (01:42:14):
Yoho, Yeah now we set sale of this type of.

Speaker 6 (01:42:18):
Home i'll tell you a. Tale what in hut And
sailors song it? Is and now we be the end
of our.

Speaker 4 (01:42:24):
Quiz, mandy what is a house?

Speaker 6 (01:42:26):
Boat oh? God what is a?

Speaker 4 (01:42:31):
Four?

Speaker 6 (01:42:31):
Right?

Speaker 4 (01:42:31):
There no one you, handily, Mister i'm protesting and not
participating in The you can't do.

Speaker 5 (01:42:41):
THAT i gotta, Say, chad you gotta start worrying about win.
Percentage Your ryan's gonna catch up to.

Speaker 4 (01:42:46):
You here, Tomorrow, chad what time works for.

Speaker 6 (01:42:49):
You i'm here From let's have you come at two. Thirty,
okay we do that so.

Speaker 4 (01:42:56):
You can play again and redeem yourself improve upon his
eight and thirty teen. Record, Now i'm just, saying you're you're.
Doing you've got like A rockies record right, now which
isn't as bad as last year's.

Speaker 6 (01:43:06):
Record. CHAD i haven't. Lost, no we're.

Speaker 4 (01:43:09):
Not, no we're not. Chaped dang, It we're not, Trading.
CHAD i just barely missed that. Too did you see?

Speaker 1 (01:43:15):
It?

Speaker 6 (01:43:15):
No it was.

Speaker 4 (01:43:16):
Terrible i've BEEN I i've been. CRUSHED i haven't missed
one in a really long time except. Today until, today
we'll be. Back chad's going to be in it.

Speaker 5 (01:43:25):
TOO i am.

Speaker 4 (01:43:26):
Beginning the the it's the beginning of the, week but
my short timers AS i get ready to go on,
vacation should kick in.

Speaker 5 (01:43:35):
By.

Speaker 4 (01:43:35):
Tomorrow so it could be, anything could be. Nothing we
could just sit quietly together for three. HOURS i don't.
Know you won't know, either but you should tune in
right now keep it up right, here because we've Got
Koe sports coming up.

Speaker 6 (01:43:45):
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