08-07-24 FULL SHOW - Weather Wednesday and the Oppo Research on Tim Walz

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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No, it's Mandy Connell and ton.

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Speaker 5 (00:29):
Here until three p m. Join right now by Michael Cooper.
But he's about to pass the baton back to Anthony
Rodriguez as we make our way through a very busy
broadcast day. Now, let me jump right into the blog today,
because man, we got some stuff. I feel like I
am living in a time that as a talk show host,
there has never been a larger time of abundance when

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it comes to topics and things to discuss. But today
I decided to do the blog backward from what I
normally do. I'll explain when I tell you how to
find it. Go to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com.
Look for the headline that says eight seven twenty four
blog Weather Wednesday and the oppo research.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
On tim walls.

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Click on that and here are the headlines you will
find within.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
I didn't do with is in office half of American
all with ships and clipments and say that's going to press.

Speaker 5 (01:20):
Plat today on the blog don't miss the next Mandy
Connall adventure to Japan and South Korea weather Wednesday at
twelve thirty. Former Chief Intelligence Correspondent Catherine Herridge at one
about that Venezuelan gang activity. Dave Williams is one step
closer to gone this as the GOP tries to stop
a full demage Supermajority. Don't send things on fire into

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the sky, please. Tina Peters top A throws her under
the bus. Colorado is killing a lot of dogs.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:51):
The Chinese are crazy good at some water sports. Someone
compared the nineteen thirty two Olympic swimmers to the twenty
twenty Games. Michael Phelps does a like the dirty truth
about green energy? Is ecstasy? Right for PTSD? Why are
some damn women so mean? Take a holiday from your phone?
And now all the political crap about Tim Walls telling

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us to mind our own business? Who should play Tim
Waltz on snl ooh squad member Corey Bush gets whooped
Kamala on inflation. Harrison Ford is an idiot for money.
Good grief, Brad, Those are the headlines on the blog
atmanbiesblog dot com. And if you love Corgis, and really

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who doesn't, there are dogs that even if you're not
necessarily a dog pit person, you know, like you don't
own a dog. I think there are dogs that are
universally beloved. Corgi's are one of them. Who doesn't see
a corgying? Oh look a Corgi, little tiny legs, little
fat bodies.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
The fact that if you see.

Speaker 5 (02:53):
A Corgi mixed with anything, it just looks like a
Corgi in a costume? Is that a Corgi in a
German shepherd costume? Looking up the internet, I'm not wrong.
So that video is at the very very bottom of
the blog today. Normally I put all the political stuff
on top. See what I did here, though, I put
it on the bottom because it is coming out so

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fast and furious, it's not even funny. I've got audio
that I've heard part of played on multiple spaces. It's
all over the internet. We're going to get to it
a little bit later. Kamala on inflation. That's actually the
sound bite is actually from two years ago, and I'm
going to play the first thirty five forty seconds for you,
and you're just gonna hear it sounds like remember when

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you were a kid and you had an assignment, but
you didn't do all of the assignment. Maybe you had
to read a certain amount of pages, and then immediately
the teacher calls on you to answer a question, and
you stand up and you just start saying things about
what you actually did read, knowing that at some point
you had to cover for the fact that you didn't

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read the whole thing. So you just thought, I'll just
keep talking long enough and then the teacher won't notice
that I have no idea what I'm talking about. So
a lot of people have been playing the first part
of that sound bite, but I've done all four and
a half minutes of it, and it's even worse. There's
a fundamental lack of understanding among politicians in what causes inflation.

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Every period of severe inflation has been preceded by a
massive expansion of the money supply, and during COVID, the
Federal Reserve printed in about four years one third of
all the money that had ever been in circulation, and
they did so so the federal government could keep overspending

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without killing themselves on debt. Payments that's to come. But
when I play this whole SoundBite for you, it is
just like you just if you know anything about economics,
it's stunningly bad, stunningly bad. And that's the part of
the thing that's not getting talked about. And I bring
that up and I'm gonna play that for you probably

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in the one thirty segment if you want to make
a note, set a timer. Is because we are in
the silly season, that's the political season, and we see
people talking about the dumbest crap, and a lot of
it is inspired by dumb crap that Donald Trump says.
I was so hopeful from the moment he got shot

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until actually the debate when he showed great discipline by
just letting Joe Biden twist in the wind until he
was dethroned by the Democratic Party. But he's now he's
back out there being Trump. And instead of saying, wow,
wait till you hear what Kamala Harris said about inflation,
she has no idea what she's talking about, he says,

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is she even black? Or is she Indian?

Speaker 6 (05:47):
You know?

Speaker 5 (05:48):
And that's all that the talking heads want to talk about.
And talking heads, I mean George Stephanopolis and his ILK.
So instead of having a conversation about the complete and
total lack of under standing about the basic causes of
inflation and the government's role and responsibility and reining it
in by reducing government spending because that's not popular in DC,

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because everybody's got to be able to pay off their
supporters in some way by expanding some government program or
more government large asse. I mean, that's what the tax
code is all about. Instead of that, we're talking about
is she black or is she Indian?

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Does it matter?

Speaker 5 (06:24):
And they've already managed to send Tim Walls out as this. Hey, look,
he's a folksy grandpa, just like you. He's a folksy
grandpa who believes that if you're a parent whose child
expresses gender discomfort and you don't affirm that child's wish
to be a different gender, the state of Minnesota can
take your children away.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
Is that folks me? I don't think so.

Speaker 5 (06:47):
So we'llcome back to this all a little bit later
in the program, because it's important. We got weather Wednesday
at twelve thirty. I do have Catherine Herridge today at
one o'clock. She is the former Keith and Tell Leigion's
correspondence at CBS News who went sideways by publishing some
stuff that was not flattering, and then when asked to

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provide her sources by the courts, she refused and was
held in contempt. So we will talk to her about
that entire experience and what that does to the media
and journalism when they run up against an administration that
doesn't want them to talk about what they're talking about.
So we'll talk to her at one o'clock.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Now.

Speaker 5 (07:28):
I want to remind you guys, we are currently and
I haven't really talked about this during the show. We
are currently selling the Mandy Callin Adventurers for next June,
and I've had a few questions about this trip to
South Korea and Japan. It is a fifteen day trip,
yes and d D and everything is taken care of.
One of the questions I get is how do I
get to South Korea to join the trip. You joined

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the trip well before that in Denver, and we've taken
care of everything on this trip, airfare, transfers, hotels, the
whole nine yards.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
We are going to sail all.

Speaker 5 (07:58):
The way around the Japanese island and stop in so
many different places you can see all the cities that
we're staying in, and I even have people saying, well,
what excursions are you going to do? Mandy? Mud baths?
That's the thing that's happened.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
You eve had a mudbath? Coouverer You ever done that?

Speaker 5 (08:14):
You strike me as the spa type.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
I've played around in the mud, but not how.

Speaker 5 (08:18):
They not enough thatshal I'm doing a mud bath. I'll
have a full report on that. Japanese gardens, world history sites, volcanoes,
scuba diving. It's all happening on my itinerary anyway.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
So if you want more.

Speaker 5 (08:29):
Information, Mandy Connell trip dot com. But these trips always
sell out, so don't sleep on that anyway. I want
to start talking about a local story that we've touched on.
I've had it on the blog. I haven't really done
a deep dive. You know, we in the Denver metro
have spent millions of dollars of our tax dollars the
people that work for the money here that then gave

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it to the government. The government then turned around and
gave it to a little over forty thousand people from
mostly Venezuela and giving them free rent. Assistants food, sometimes,
cell phones, job treating assistants, help working through the legal
process to get some kind of status to work. I mean,

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we've paid for all of that. And now we find
out from Fox thirty one that the mayor, who is
very hell bent on continuing these programs, knows that a
Venezuelan based transnational criminal organization is.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Floating around Denver.

Speaker 5 (09:28):
Now, the story broke last week that apparently word, according
to New Mexican authorities, word had been sent that it
was aok to start firing on the cops in Denver,
specifically in Denver. And we do know that this Venezuelan
transnational gang was actually involved in a violent robbery where
they pistol whipped two older women as they robbed the

(09:51):
jewelry store blind. And now we know that everybody seems
to be up to speed. Now listen to this. I'm
for a police chief, Ron Thomas says, we're aware of
the presence of the gang in our city. Certainly continuing
to follow that.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
I think the.

Speaker 5 (10:07):
Safety of our citizens, you know, officers, is paramount. Then
they go to the mayor, and the mayor says this
Mayor Mike Johnston, who's been giving away a lot of
free stuff to all of these people who have been
walking off the walking across the southern border with no
real vetting. I mean, let's be real, it's not like
they're getting fingerprinted in background scheck. None of that is happening.

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The mayor maintains, according to Fox thirty one, that Denver
is a welcoming city, but he also shared a warning.
He says, for anyone that's here to commit crimes, whether
you've lived here your whole life or your brand new
we won't tolerate that. We'll find you, we'll enforce it,
we'll prosecute you, unless, of course, you break into the

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country in the first place, in which case that's fine.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
Here's some free stuff. There you go, your free stuff
for the.

Speaker 5 (10:57):
Day, all right.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
So, uh now.

Speaker 5 (11:03):
We've got oh dang it, Aaron, we just have a
double book situation with Kathy Walker. I'll find out because
we Catherine all that stuff Ayeron just walked in. So
first thing I do is blasting with me, messing up
the schedule. So we're concerned about Venezuelan gangs, but not
so concerned that we're not telling people to come here.
So there you go. You know, elections have consequences. Mandy

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on our Common Spirit Health text line, you can always
text us at five six six nine zero. Mandy. I've
been to Korea in Japan four times. I'd love to go,
not not really. Oh, I'd really love to go, but
not not really.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Not with you.

Speaker 5 (11:44):
Ew was that nice? You probably wouldn't fit in on
this trip anyway. Everybody else is super nice, Mandy. I've
listened with so much anxiety with the Trump vance ticket
and now they're speaking. I can't listen to anything going
on right now. It's giving me tremendous anxiety. Our kids
and grandkids are at stake. Okay, if this is where
you are, If watching politics or listening to this show

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is giving you anxiety, turn it off. And I'm not kidding.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
I don't want listeners to go.

Speaker 5 (12:11):
But you should not be experiencing anxiety over this election.
And let me tell you why. Number One, Experiencing anxiety
about it will not change it. Worrying about it will
not change it. The only thing you can do is
what you can do. You can control the spear around you.
If you feel that strongly about it, then volunteer with
one of the operations that you feel good about to

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go talk to your friends and neighbors about why you're
voting the way you do. But if you can't do
that and you don't feel like you can do anything else,
then just turn it off. Because regardless of who wins,
and I want to be clear about this, I am
not happy about the thought of a Kamala Harris presidency
because policy wise, I think she is wrong for the

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United States of America. I think she would be an
unmitigated disaster policy wise. But that being said, I still
have faith in the branches of government to rain things
in and if Republicans can somehow manage to get elected
in the House and the Senate, there's not a whole
lot that President Kamala Harris or even Vice President Tim
Walls can do. So if you can't control the presidential election,

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then pay attention if you must, to other stuff. But
please you, guys, politics is not life and death. I've
talked about this a couple of weeks ago. There's this
kid online on YouTube. I can't remember his name. I
need to look it up. Sorry, I remember it. All
he does is interview older people about their lives. Some
of them are seventies, some are eighties, some are nineties.
Some are one hundred, and he asked them very poignant

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questions about what's important in life, and you know how
many of them mentioned politics, Not one, not one single person.
It is our kids and our grandkids at trust me.
I feel the same way. Well kind of future am
I leaving for my grandkids? But I also have to
trust that my grandkids and kids are going to be
able to adapt and overcome or at least mitigate the

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damage that happens on their watch that started on ours.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
You can't worry.

Speaker 5 (14:04):
About things you can't control. And everybody needs a break
from politics. I say this, I do it when.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
I'm on vacation.

Speaker 5 (14:11):
Do you think I'm paying attention to politics? You are
dead wrong, absolutely dead wrong. I do not at all,
not even a little bit.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
Mandy.

Speaker 5 (14:22):
Keep up the good work. You've become part of my
life and I look forward to your show. Thanks Jim, No,
thank you, Jim, thank you. Just to remember, if you
make over seventy thousand dollars, you should give the rest
to Johnson for illegals. No hard pass on that one
hard pass, Mandy. So cool, These wonderful illegal entrance criminals
get to commit a crime first.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
Really cool.

Speaker 5 (14:42):
To know. Yes, indeedy my heart radio tells me every
day that inflation has caused by greed and CEO bonuses.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
KOA expresses a lot of.

Speaker 5 (14:53):
Different opinions, doesn't it, And some of them are going
to be wrong inevidently. I'll let you decide which ones are.
And we have another chance to win season tickets to
the Denver Broncos this season coming up during the show,
A Rod, do you think someone will get a lucky

(15:13):
break today?

Speaker 6 (15:15):
Wink wink, You mean a break where they wasting tickets.

Speaker 5 (15:23):
So pay attention, nudge, because at some point during the show,
someone is going to get a lucky break. Yep, yep,
just something. A Rod's in the house, everybody, Gosh, it's
good to see you. I haven't seen you in like,
as they say, a coon's age. I am raccoons, by

(15:44):
the way, not the negative, negative racist history there.

Speaker 6 (15:48):
I am cloned number twenty three. Nice to meet you,
very nice to meet you. As one out of Broncos
training camp one is ready for the DNC. One that
just came back from Cooperstown. I think he's dead on
what happened to him?

Speaker 4 (15:56):
Yep?

Speaker 6 (15:57):
One those some other thing And here I am clone
number twenty three, night to meet you.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yes, there we go.

Speaker 5 (16:01):
I got this follow up text, Mandy, what about the
executive orders the Dems rule by Betty Lou those can
all be undone? You guys, stop looking for immediate gratification
in political life. The best we can hope is that
everything will come to a grinding halt. But again, worrying
about it won't change a thing.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
Worrying about it.

Speaker 5 (16:20):
Adopt a more stoic mentality about it, because it will
make you nuts. It will make you absolutely crazy. Mandy,
how can we get some sensible talking points to Trump?
You know what, if I had the answer to that question,
I would make a kajillion dollars as a political consultant
who could actually get a candidate to do something that
they don't want to do. Donald Trump is who he is.

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The people that hate him are going to continue to
hate him. The people that love him love him for
who he is. At this point, he stands to lose
more by trying to change who he is, I think
than he stands to gain. And I know that sounds crazy,
but Jabe Vance by the way out there tearing it up.
He's out there. Given the real deal about the economy.

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I and he's doing a fantastic job carrying the policy water.
We'll see if he can get enough airtime to make
a difference. Dave Fraser from Fox thirty one about what's
going to be coming from the Friendly Skys soon. Hello,
mister Fraser, Hey.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
Welcome to monsoon season.

Speaker 5 (17:18):
Yeah, I don't mind it. I'm not gonna lie. This
makes me happy. I'm sure it's been very helpful for
the firefighters that are finishing up with these fires that
we've had go that could have gone a lot worse.
And I don't want to hext anything. I just knocked
on wood. But are we going to have a healthy
dose of rain throughout the week or what are we
looking at?

Speaker 3 (17:39):
Yeah? I mean since Sunday you could probably start to
feel the transformation. While we've still been in the nineties
for the last few days and did reach one hundred
on Sunday, you've been noticing the clouds coming in earlier
to set the stage for scattered storms and the storms
that we've seen so far through today and what we're
about to see this afternoon. If you get one and

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again they have and scattered they are very efficient in
making rain and that's the monsoon season that we've been
waiting for. I think our next two best chances for
rain are going to be Thursday and Friday, followed again
by Monday. If next week all which look to have
a high chance for a lot more people along the
front range to see measurable rain that could exceed a
half to an inch over the long period. Even your

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weekend is going to have scattered storms. So it's all
good news. And by the way, seventies for the next
two days.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
How about that.

Speaker 5 (18:27):
Oh that's delightful. I have a you know, Hurricane Debbie
just smashed through my hometown area and I'm talking to
close friends that I have there, and I said, if
you guys could just pull Debbie to the west, that'd
be great. You know, we we'll take it out here.
But they're getting just relentlessly hammered. And now the rivers
are coming up, and YadA, YadA, YadA, it's going to
be it's going to be bad there for a while.

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But you know, we've talked about the tropical storm sort
of effect on Colorado, but what is now going to
be We're getting the monsoon when sucking up the moist
from the south, But what is the is this going
to push back and keep the smoke from the California
wildfires out of here? What's the smoke forecast for the
next few days.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
Yeah, I think so. The rain and the forecast and
the wind direction should both combine to cleanse the air,
if you will. Well, we've had rain showers for the
last few days, there's still been a hint of smoke,
and that's mainly because we haven't been able to get
it widespread. I think you'll notice conditions now after we
get through this period, starting to say the middle of

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next week. If they don't get a handle on those
fires out west, it is possible as we return to
the typical flow, we could start to see the smoke
coming back our way. But I would say it starting
tomorrow morning with a cold front coming in. It actually
comes in tonight. The wind direction is going to be
more in a north northeasterly easterly direction, and that's going
to keep everything pushing off to the west of us

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and increasing our chances for rain. And I like the
way it looks. You're looking at overcasts, mostly cloudy sky,
kind of shallow. We rain through the day. I think
Friday looks very gray and wet through most of the
day from early to late, so it's absolutely great use.

Speaker 5 (20:07):
I got a text message question for you, Mandy. Could
you please ask Dave why humidity seems higher at night
than during the day. I was recently in Cancun. Is
it just because we don't have these sunlight to warm us?

Speaker 3 (20:20):
So we always talk about the humidity. The humidity is
based on temperature, so you know, it depends if the
moisture in the air doesn't change all day, the humidity
value will rise as the temperature cools. Okay, so it's
dependent on temperature. And it's kind of hard to explain.
So if you have a balloon and it's half filled

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with water, and that balloon never changes, but the balloon
expands during the day, it appears with the heating of
the day and expansion of the balloon that the balloon
is containing less water. And then as the air temperature
cools and the balloon shrinks, the water level looks like
it rises, therefore a higher humidity. The reality is the
amount of moisture in the balloon never changed all day long,
so you may notice it more in the evening as

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it cools off. It's interesting we have We have a
new meteorologist who joined our team this week called in
and we were out on Monday outside and he came
to us from Louisville. Oh yeah, well yeah, so he's
joining us from Louisville. I walked outside and I looked
at him and he said, hey, all, I might to
ask you a question. You think it feels humid? And
he looked at me said absolutely not. I said, well,

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about Colorado standards, to day is eight of the day,
and you looked at me with this blank expression like
you got to kid me. I said, nope, this is
a humid day for Colorado day.

Speaker 5 (21:33):
When I first moved here, so it was like April
and my boss and his boss took me to a
baseball game and we're sitting in the seats and my
boss looks over and goes, man, I'm sorry, it's so humid,
And I had literally just said to Chuck, I love
this no humidity. It's also an earth perspective because coming
from an actual humid place, forty percent humidity feels glorious.

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But to us we're like, oh God, the water in
the air is sucking the life out of me.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
So there you go.

Speaker 5 (22:01):
Yeah, that's very very funny.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
I always tell people and ranchers and farmers pay more
attention to this. If you look at current conditions wherever
you get that information from, whether it's our weather app
or on a website or whatever, look at the due point,
not this humidity, and the due point will tell you.
So twenties, thirties, forties is going to be comfortable. We
start to get into the upper forties, fifties and beyond.

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That's sticking air for Colorado. Now in the Midwest, that
due point number can go sixty seventy eighties. Right on
the air that you're talking about that you can pull
a straw to putting your mouth and drink the air.

Speaker 5 (22:34):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (22:35):
I mean.

Speaker 5 (22:36):
Being for Florida, that's the Florida air all the time.
So there's no reprieve there. Somebody just asks any hail
threat from these storms in the next few days.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
Today, Yes, I think the next two days. The atmosphere
is too cool for that. So with the colder air
coming in a loft tonight, a couple of thunderstorms we've
seen it with a few of the last few days,
they can produce hail. I think if there's going to
be hailed that's large enough to be considered a threat
for damage. It would be in extreme northeast Colorado. They
will get the colder air first as the storms get

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going this afternoon, and at this time of the year,
I always tell people, even though we don't have a
severe weather threat on many many days, any thunderstorm that
develops at our altitude can generate hal The goal is
to keep it on the small side so it doesn't
cause damage to property or rip leaves off of trees
or damaged flowers. And I think if we do see
that today, it would be on the smaller end. We

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won't have to worry about it. With the exception of
the northeast Colorado and then with the cooler climate for
the next couple of days, the lower temperatures, I think
we're just dealing with steady showers and good beneficial rain.

Speaker 5 (23:36):
And then the last question, what's the weather for the
Broncos on Sunday? It's begun, Dave, it's begun.

Speaker 7 (23:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
They're in Seattle, right, are so it doesn't matter?

Speaker 7 (23:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (23:51):
Is in Indian Indies a dome? Right?

Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (23:54):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
They're in Indy, not Seattle. Yes, Seattle's their first official
game of the season. Yeah, so they're in Indy, climate
controlled in seventy five degree.

Speaker 5 (24:03):
There you go, perfect forecast once again. He's right all
the time in Indianapolis forecasting. Dave Fraser, appreciate your time.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
As always.

Speaker 5 (24:11):
We'll talk to you again next week.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
I have a great weekend.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
All right.

Speaker 5 (24:14):
That's Dave Fraser from Fox thirty one. When we get back,
good news if you are tired of the dumpster fire
that is the Colorado Republican Party, an update in a
meeting that will most assuredly take place that is designed
to oust the incompetent grifter chairman Dave Williams. So we
will do that next keep it right here on KOA.

(24:36):
We get base Bowl tomorrow, but I will be at
training camp for what I'm calling nerds on football. Ross
Kaminsky and I will be broadcasting together during his normal
showtime and for the big half hour that I have
from twelve to twelve thirty before baseball takes over. So
if you've ever wanted to hear me talk sports, which
I'm sure, I'm sure you listen to the show every day,

(24:58):
and dang, I wish she just sports. We're not talking
just about sports, so Ross has done it again. He's
booked a guest and I tried to study up on
the topic that we're going to be talking to the
guest about, and I, honestly, I can't understand any of it.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
It's so far over my head. What's the what's the
subject matter?

Speaker 5 (25:16):
Quantum computing corrections?

Speaker 2 (25:18):
I just do bitcoin. I mean at that point, yeah, bitcoin, Quantita.

Speaker 5 (25:22):
You want to understand quantum computing corrections, error corrections. And
here's the thing. I looked up quantum error corrections and
they use the word quantum in the definition, and that's
that doesn't make me happy. Doesn't make me happy at all,
not even a little bit. So I want to get
to this Republican story. I'm trying to keep these short

(25:43):
and sweet because I know not everybody cares about this
because so many of you are independents. But for the
Republicans out there like me scratching their heads wondering why
the Republican Party in Colorado has turned into such a
just gigantic embarrassment, it might be coming to an end.
A district court judge on Tuesday paved the way for

(26:05):
a vote to remove Colorado Republican chairman. And I just
always put chairman in air quotes because he's doing such
a bad job. Dave Williams by lifting a temporary restraining
order that blocked a group of Colorado Republicans from holding
a meeting to consider whether to fire the party boss.
Following an hour long hearing, a Rapaho County District Court
Judge Thomas Henderson reversed an order he issued last month,

(26:28):
and in response to the or, he said the court
lacked jurisdiction in the internal party dispute, which is accurate.
Courts have held over and over again that they have
no authority over intra party squabbles. That's pretty settled, so
I was kind of surprised when he waited on this
in the first place. Now, of course, in response to this,

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El Paso County Chair Al Passo County GOP Vice chair
Todd Watkins says, we're ready and they've already called another
meeting August twenty seventh in Brighton August twenty fourth, Excuse me,
August twenty fourth at a church in Brighton, where they
hope to have enough of the Central Committee to vote
to bounce out Dave Williams and his vice chair and

(27:15):
the secretary and treasurer, and of course, the Williams already
sent an email out to Republicans calling the meeting invalid
and illegal.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
He urged party.

Speaker 5 (27:28):
Officials to attend a different meetings set for a week
later on August thirty first, at a church in Castle Rock.
Let me just say this, if you're in the Central Committee,
go to both meetings, because he needs to hear from
everyone that he needs to go. He is ineffective. He
has squandered party resources, he has attacked other Republicans in
the primary. He has not done anything to create an

(27:50):
infrastructure to help Republicans get elected in this state. He
has been an abject failure, beyond failure. If I were
not you know, if I didn't hate conspiracy theories so much,
I'd swear he was sent by the Democrat Party. Certainly
looks that way. Is there anything you could imagine that
someone else could have done to hurt the Republican Party

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in Colorado more than David Williams has?

Speaker 2 (28:15):
I can't.

Speaker 5 (28:17):
It's you know, maybe it's not on purpose, but boy,
it's starting to look on purpose. At the bare minimum.
He's become a useful idiot for the Democrats, you know,
preventing the party from being able to coalesce and get
anything done. Do you really think anybody's writing checks to
this leadership? The answer is no. It's time for him
to go. So if you're in the Central Committee and

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you are ready to see him go, you've got two
meetings to go to. One on the twenty fourth, one
on the thirty first. But let's get this done. Send
a message that is undeniably strong that Dave Williams is
an abject failure and new leadership is needed. It's it'll
be okay. Rip the band aid off, rip the purity tests,

(29:00):
rip the self serving, rip the you know, self dealing
band aid off, and move on.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
There you go, There you go.

Speaker 5 (29:10):
Why do I care?

Speaker 9 (29:11):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (29:11):
Here we go.

Speaker 5 (29:12):
So a guy a text I should do this because
this is fun. So a texture earlier made a really
nasty comment about a rod. Because here's a fun fact.
There's like three textures that hate a rod. They're the
same textures. Oh, just saying I know of one worth three? Come,
I know there's three. There's three textures that hate you.
And one of them made a really rude comment about

(29:33):
a rod, and I text back and said one more,
one more, and I will block you. And so this
is well basically wish a rod dead, and that for
me is a bridge too far. Yeah, I mean, don't
get me wrong. You can insult me, you can insult Arod.
We really don't care, but I do. I do have
a line. And that is when you say, oh he
didn't die, I wish he had. And that's what this
text said. So this grown up, ostensibly a grown up,

(29:56):
sins back this.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
Why do I care?

Speaker 5 (29:58):
Your show is boring and you're a bitch and a
bad interviewer, not a us. Go back to Kentucky. No
one wants you here.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
Oh yeah, I'm reading now. Yeah that's my one hate.

Speaker 5 (30:07):
What sad thing happened in this person's life to make
them respond like this?

Speaker 2 (30:10):
That's the only one I think interest that guy.

Speaker 5 (30:12):
No, there's one more guy who's the last four digits
I know as well. Because see here's the thing, you guys.
We can see your phone numbers. Yeah, we can totally
see who you are. We could call you back in
the middle of the night and harass you.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
I for you, because we're better. I'm just too nice
a deal.

Speaker 5 (30:27):
So yeah, but like I said, I have a limit,
and wishing someone dead is my limit, So on the break,
I'll be blocking you.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
Sir or madam.

Speaker 5 (30:36):
You can turn off the worst show ever and go
about your day. Find someone else to antagonize, have a
nice life.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
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Speaker 5 (31:02):
Through frame, Bendycronal, keeping your real sad babe. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome,
forgot to turn my own microphone on. I'm a trade professional.
People do not try this at home. I am thrilled
to have a true professional joining me now. Catherine Herriage
is a long time veteran journalist who has worked both

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for Fox News for many years and CBS News in Washington,
d C. Covering DC and politicians. She has faced some
interesting challenges as of late, and she will also be
speaking at the Steamboat Institute's Freedom Conference coming up at
the end of this month. Catherine, first of all, welcome
to the show.

Speaker 10 (31:43):
Thanks so much for having me.

Speaker 5 (31:44):
So I want to have you sort of explain where
things kind of went sideways for you. And I mean
this in terms of you are actually facing right now
contempt charges for not really seeing your journalistic sources on
a story that connected a Chinese man to some investigations

(32:08):
in the FBI. I think that's fair to say, and
I realized that this is ongoing litigation, so I'm kind
of laying the groundwork. But if I get something spectacularly wrong,
please feel free to let me know. You have been
held in contempt, you are now appealing. Where are you
in the appeal process?

Speaker 10 (32:26):
So thanks for the opportunity to bring people up to
speed on the case.

Speaker 11 (32:31):
I am limited in what I can say because I
want to be respectful of the courts and the process. Currently,
this Privacy Act case is in the Appellate Court in Washington,
d C. We've had a series of briefs that have
been filed, and we anticipate that there'll be oral arguments
and potentially a decision in the case.

Speaker 10 (32:52):
Later this year or early next year.

Speaker 11 (32:54):
These Privacy Act cases are extremely rare, but when they happen,
they can have a profound effect.

Speaker 10 (33:01):
As a journalist, I am only a witness in this case.

Speaker 11 (33:04):
The plaintiff is a woman who ran a school in
Virginia which was recruiting members of the military, and she
has sued the FBI and just Department, among other government agencies,
for the alleged leaking of her personal information.

Speaker 10 (33:20):
I was held in contempt of.

Speaker 11 (33:21):
Court for refusing to disclose confidential source information as part
of a series of stories I did at Fox News
in twenty seventeen.

Speaker 10 (33:30):
The decision by the district court just left.

Speaker 11 (33:32):
One exit rant for me to appeal the decision, and
that was to be held in contempt of court and
then have the case heard at the appellate court in Washington.

Speaker 5 (33:42):
Now, Catherine, we like to think of journalistic protection of
sources as almost being sacriscynct. So how common are these
kind of occurrences? To your knowledge, I'm sure you've had
other journalists maybe reach out to you or you've been
forced to get up to speed on this. How common
are these kind of prosecutions?

Speaker 10 (34:03):
These cases are in common.

Speaker 11 (34:05):
I just emphasize that I am a witness in this case.
I'm not a party to the litigation. Some of the
recent cases which have been similar involved allegations about the
source of the anthrax letters after nine to eleven. Others
had to do with nuclear secrets that had been allegedly stolen.

Speaker 10 (34:23):
So they're not common these cases.

Speaker 11 (34:25):
But when you have a constitutional question, the First Amendment
you have the free press and the protection of confidential
source information.

Speaker 10 (34:33):
Every single case can have a profound impact.

Speaker 11 (34:37):
And it's not an exaggeration to say that whatever the
appellate Court decides in Washington will impact every working journalist
in the country today, because if you don't have a
credible pledge of confidentiality to your sources as an investigative
journal journalist, your toolbox is empty.

Speaker 5 (34:58):
I was going to ask you to kind of explain
to my audience how that process works, How you build
up these confidential informants, How do you get confidential informants?
Give me a little window into that, how that process
plays out.

Speaker 11 (35:14):
Well, what I will, what I'm able to say, is
that confidential sources come to reporters I'm speaking generally here,
not specifically about myself, through a number of different avenues.
By and large, they come forward as whistleblowers or they
come forward only on a confidential basis because they have
evidence or they have insight into what they believe is

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government corruption and wrongdoing. And if you can't offer someone
a credible pledge that you will protect your identity in
almost all of these cases, they will not be able
to provide that information to a journalist. And the reason
that matters is that it blocks and frustrates the free
flow of information to the public. And that's the reason

(35:58):
that this is so sent to our constitution and also
to democracy. And informed electorate is the bedrock of our
country and our democracy, and this is.

Speaker 10 (36:08):
Why the protection I believe confidential sources is so vital.

Speaker 5 (36:12):
Have these sources been upheld in the cases you mentioned
before about the anthrax letter? Have what is the recent
court done in this arena?

Speaker 11 (36:23):
Well, I want to be careful here because of the
ongoing litigation. What I will say is there's hope that
the litigation I'm involved in will sort of help clarify
the rules of the road when it comes to the
protection of confidential sources, and that only in the most
extraordinary cases can the government force the disclosure of these sources.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
Right now, I'm.

Speaker 11 (36:45):
Pending pregnant I'm facing contempt lines up to eight hundred
dollars a day for the refusal to disclose. I'm grateful
that they have been stayed pending the appeal, but I
think your audience can appreciate that that these would be
crypts and fines for any small or independent news organization,
even corporate organizations as well.

Speaker 5 (37:07):
Now, you had done this work on this particular story
while working for Fox News, but then you had moved
over to CBS News. And how far after this story
breaking were you laid off by CBS News?

Speaker 11 (37:25):
This story was in the media, I want to say
at the end of last year, it was, and then
I was laid off in February.

Speaker 10 (37:34):
And after I was laid off was when I was
actually held in contempt of court.

Speaker 5 (37:38):
So this has been a really crappy year for you,
Catherine here. Not the best year ever you know before.

Speaker 11 (37:44):
It's been a very what I'll say that, it's been
a very eventful year. I did lose my job at
CBS News. I still remained very proud of the work
that we did there, especially with veterans. This was work
that impacted a million service members and their families. But
the same month that I was terminated, I also had

(38:05):
my record seized by CBS News. These were investigative reporting files,
including confidential source information. I'm thankful that they were returned
to me, but only after a public backlash and the
intervention of my union SAG After and then I was
held in contempt of court, just within about two weeks
of losing my job.

Speaker 10 (38:25):
What I will say is that when you go through
as many life events as I have in the last
six months, it gives you a lot of clarity.

Speaker 11 (38:35):
And I feel really with all my heart the importance
of the first amendments of Free Press.

Speaker 10 (38:43):
I mean, they really are my guiding principles now my
north star, well.

Speaker 5 (38:48):
As more than one of my texters, is giving me
a variation of Mandy. I really miss Catherine Harriage. I
know I butchered the spelling, but she's always been a
great investigative reporter. That the landscape in your field has changed.
It used to be that if you did not work
for a network or you didn't work for a channel,
then you didn't work. But now there are more opportunities.
So what are you doing now? Are you pursuing individual projects,

(39:10):
are you working with maybe a more independent news network,
or what's happening with Catherine Herriage.

Speaker 10 (39:18):
Well, I decided, after.

Speaker 11 (39:22):
All of the events of this year, and having so
much clarity about independent journalism and accountability and the importance
of a free press, that I've decided to launch under
my own ban er Catherine Herridge Reports, and we publish
our investigations on x. We launched our first in June,

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which was an investigation into COVID vaccine injury in the
US military. This is a difficult topic, but we had
a lot of confidence that we could launch this project
on X and we could do so without fear of
s cnsworship, and that we could have a really candid
conversation about the impact. And I'm really pleased to report

(40:07):
that we had full engagement with the Defense Department and
the Department of the Army on this soldier's case. And
after our investigation, they expedited the review of her military
records and they ended up giving her full benefits for
a debilitating hard condition that left her with a pacemaker
at twenty four.

Speaker 10 (40:27):
It seemed very literally linked to the vaccine. So Number One,
we got a great result for this soldier.

Speaker 11 (40:35):
Number two, the Department of the Army and the Defense
Department really listened to what we get found in our investigation,
regardless of whether we were working under the umbrella of
a big corporate network like CBS News or whether I
was working independently. And that's the kind of results driven
reporting that I want to see, and I think the
landscape has really shifted and that door has opened for

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independent journalists like Smell or smaller independent newsrooms.

Speaker 5 (41:02):
Well, it doesn't hurt that you've already got an established
reputation that is that is a very strong reputation. So
I'm glad you're continuing on what's the handle for your
Catherine Herridge reports on X.

Speaker 11 (41:14):
SO it's Catherine Double Underscore Herage h G. R r
Idge And we do subscriptions as well because they're sort
of behind the scenes and bonus content that we provide.
But most of all, you know, we ask people to
support this kind of independent journalism, which he's very fact
based and accountability driven journalism. And I've been really heartened

(41:38):
by the response. Our first project was over three million views,
and that was encouraging. But what was even more encouraging
was that we got a result for this young woman,
and that was accountability and it was about seeing the
government do the right thing by her.

Speaker 5 (41:54):
How comfortable are you being the story?

Speaker 11 (42:00):
Not really very comfortable. I've become more comfortable as as
the year has has gone on. It's you know, it's
been hard personally this this year. It's not been easy
because you know, one of our i testified to Congress
earlier this year, and I shared with them at that
time that one of our children asked me, when I

(42:21):
was subpoenat and going through this process, this litigation over
the disclosure of confidential sources, he said, you know, Mom,
are we going to lose our house? So we're going
to lose our savings, everything that you've worked for to
protect your sources. And I wanted to say that in
this country, where we say we value democracy in a

(42:43):
free press, that it was impossible, but I couldn't offer
that assurance. And what he said to me is he said,
you do what it takes. I've got your back. And
I thought, if a teenager can really understand the importance
of protecting confidential sources and the free information to the
public and what role it plays democracy, certainly Congress can.

Speaker 10 (43:02):
Pass the Press Act.

Speaker 11 (43:04):
This is a piece of litigation that is sitting in
the Senate right now, and it would create a federal
shield law for reporters, something that exists in almost every
state but does not exist at the federal level.

Speaker 5 (43:15):
Catherine, I want to come back to something you mentioned
kind of in passing, and that was that CBS seized
your records when you were laid off. Now they say, hey,
we just went into Catherine's office. We boxed everything up
with HR because that's the procedure when someone is laid off,
and then we sent it to her. How long was
the lag time between you being walked out of the

(43:37):
buildings as they do, and when you received all of
your data and information and all of your stuff.

Speaker 11 (43:45):
Well, what I've always tried to be respectful of my
former employers. What I will say is that CBS's public
explanation at the time just illustrated to me that it
was a news organization that had a very difficult relationship.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
Up with the facts.

Speaker 10 (44:01):
That is not what happened. I was told that my
job a difficult relationship with the fact. That is not
what happened.

Speaker 11 (44:11):
I was pardon me, I was locked out of my
email and locked out of the office. And if it
had not been for the intervention of the union and
the public backlash, I may never have seen those records again.
And this idea that CBS just sought to secure the
records is undercut by the internal communications with the union

(44:34):
and and sort of myself as well.

Speaker 10 (44:38):
So that's all I'm going to say.

Speaker 11 (44:40):
I thought that the seizure of the records was a
red line that should never be crossed, and that for
the network of Walter Cronkite to see these investigative reporting
files was really an attack on investigative journalism.

Speaker 5 (44:52):
It's sad the way that the circle of the Wagon's
mentality sometimes you lose sight of how damage King this
ruling against you is for all of their journalists as well, right,
and every other journalist in the country who relies on
confidential sources. Can I ask you one journalistic question that
I just want an answer to, and that is when

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you get information from a confidential source, what happens at
that point? Do you then take that and run with it?
Do you then begin the process.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
I'm verifying.

Speaker 10 (45:24):
We can't go there, okay with litigation.

Speaker 5 (45:26):
Now I understand, no problem. Now, if you want to
hear more from Catherine or have a chance to meet
and say hello, she is going to be at the
Steamboat Conference's Freedom Conference this at the end of this month. Now, Catherine,
you've ever been to this event before?

Speaker 3 (45:41):
No, I have not.

Speaker 10 (45:41):
I'm really looking forward to it.

Speaker 5 (45:43):
It is the absolute best. It is my favorite nerd
event all year. Forget the White House Correspondence series. This
is so much fun because they bring in great speakers
on a huge variety of topics, yourself included, and it's
in the most beautiful setting you will ever see. So
I hope you enjoy your time in Beaver Creek and
enjoy your time at the STEMOA conference. Now what, let

(46:05):
me make sure I've got this right.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
You are underscore.

Speaker 4 (46:09):
Sure.

Speaker 11 (46:09):
Just one final thought, I just if the one thing
that people can take away from our conversation is that
what's happening with the First Amendment and the free press
and the protection of confidential sources is so much bigger
than my case, And it's so much bigger than a
single network or a single series of stories. This is
about protecting a fundamental tool of investigative journalism that keeps

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the public informed and that is the bedrock of our democracy.

Speaker 5 (46:35):
The Twitter handle at c underscore herriage correct. Just to
make sure I have the right one, Well, double underscore
ch double underscore soon ce double underscore herriage at Twitter.
It popped right up when I A, yeah, got that, Catherine.
Thank you for making time today, and and obviously we'll

(46:58):
all be watching to find the rest solution of this
case and hopefully I'll think here rather than later. All Right,
that's Catherine Harridge. Fascinating story. She was way more diplomatic
than I would have been. But when you are in
the process of litigation, uh, your lawyer will be like,
don't say anything that can mess up the case. And
that's what that is about. Fascinating story though, absolutely fascinating.

(47:20):
I will share that Twitter handle on my on my
blog in just a second when we go to break here. Now,
when we do go to break boy, I got a
lot of text messages. Hey, Rod, everybody loves you.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
Okay, there's superb one.

Speaker 5 (47:34):
They're super Well he's blocked now, so it doesn't matter. Yeah,
everybody's super mad about that.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
So uh that's okay.

Speaker 5 (47:41):
You have to in this industry. Yep, you don't have
any choice.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
I literally have. I don't care pull back the curtain
now that he's blocked and on.

Speaker 6 (47:49):
I have an album screenshots of all of his hate
text just that one guy.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
Just really just for fun.

Speaker 5 (47:55):
Well, somebody else said I would print those out and
paper my office with them.

Speaker 6 (47:59):
I could wallpaper probably this whole floor. Yep, yeah soon,
I mean this whole studio for sure. I've talked about the.

Speaker 5 (48:08):
Hate mail I got when I worked in sports radio,
and I just printed each email out and I made
a pile on my desk that ended up being like.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
An inch and a half thick, and I called it
my f you pile. I love it. It's funny.

Speaker 5 (48:18):
Got you. I still have a job and you don't.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
I'm bown.

Speaker 10 (48:22):
There you go, there you go.

Speaker 5 (48:26):
A lot of people saying variations of this. Wow, not
good with bad texters. I thought I was a little
rough sometimes, but not really.

Speaker 2 (48:32):
I guess. All right.

Speaker 5 (48:39):
Anyway, Mandy, this keeps being asked.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
So let's clear it up.

Speaker 5 (48:43):
Two terms as president and you are through the VEEP
must be qualified to be president. Therefore, two terms as
president would make you ineligible to be VEEP. Obama, Clinton
and Bush cannot be veep. Wait a minute, oh Clinton,
Bill Clinton, and nobody's asking Bill Clinton to be deep?
Can you imagine?

Speaker 2 (49:02):
Can you imagine?

Speaker 5 (49:03):
The only reason I would love for Bill Clinton to
be asked to be somebody's vice president is because we
could actually litigate all of the women that he abused
and took advantage of and lied about, and the Democrats
covered him for him all those years, all those years.
He is a creep, a massive creep. And again I

(49:25):
will put her ex handle on the website. So Washington
shouldn't have a court system Unfortunately, I think that Catherine
will get screwed, not if it goes to the Supreme Court,
and it will because this is a clear First Amendment issue. Clear, Mandy,
people hating on a Rod are probably cheering for Palestine.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
That is correct.

Speaker 11 (49:47):
Correct.

Speaker 5 (49:49):
Went to Gravina's on Saturday to do some research. Met
Jim Gravina. I said, I heard all about them from you,
and he said, she's a nice lady and he's a
nice man.

Speaker 2 (49:58):
Love that family.

Speaker 5 (50:00):
And I see in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel that
actor Rick Schroeder is the supporter of Tina Peters and
was at the courthouse at least once during the trial.
Rick Rick, Greg Greg Greg Grick, Rick, Great, Great Gret Grick.
What a mistake, What a mistake. A Rod's mom wants

(50:20):
to know she needs to beat up. I think your
mom could probably take him too. Just letting them know.
When we get back, Okay, it's one thirty. At two o'clock,
we are going to talk to Jordana Brewster about the
latest in Israel. Things are heating up, not in a
good way.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
When we get back, though.

Speaker 5 (50:37):
I want to talk about people sending stuff into the
sky while it's on fire.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
Can we not really please?

Speaker 5 (50:45):
I mentioned the audio of Kamala Harris from a couple
of years ago, so she's vice president. This is in
twenty twenty three, and a lot of people are playing
the first part of this video, but they are not
playing the second half of this video, which is just
as damning.

Speaker 2 (51:03):
Listen to the first part.

Speaker 5 (51:04):
After being asked about what she and the administration we're
going to do about inflation.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
Jennifer Jacobs at Bloomberg, thanks a lot.

Speaker 12 (51:15):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (51:18):
Okay, thank you.

Speaker 13 (51:19):
Hold on to it man.

Speaker 11 (51:20):
The US is experiencing record inflation, the worst in thirty years,
way beyond expectations.

Speaker 10 (51:28):
Opek didn't increase oil production.

Speaker 5 (51:31):
Can you tell us a little bit about how you
would prevent this the new spending and you're built back
better agenda from exacerbating the problem.

Speaker 10 (51:40):
And also, what else are you going to do to
fix this problem with inflation?

Speaker 3 (51:44):
I thank you.

Speaker 5 (51:45):
Now here's the part that everybody keeps playing, And this
is the part that to me sounds like she is
a student who got called upon.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
In class to talk.

Speaker 5 (51:55):
About a book that she only read the first few
pages too, But she's going with the I'll just keep
talking and they won't notice that I don't know what
I'm talking about.

Speaker 2 (52:04):
Strategy.

Speaker 10 (52:05):
Well, let's start with this. Prices have gone up, and.

Speaker 8 (52:15):
Families and individuals are dealing with the realities of.

Speaker 2 (52:22):
That bread costs more, the gas costs more, and we
have to understand what that means.

Speaker 8 (52:28):
That's about the cost of living going up. That's about
having to stress and stretch limited resources. That's about a
source of stress for families that is not only economic,
but is on a daily level, something that is a
heavy weight to carry.

Speaker 10 (52:45):
So it is something that we take.

Speaker 8 (52:47):
Very seriously, very seriously, and we know from the history
of this issue in the United States that when you
see these prices go up, it has a direct impact
on the quality of life for all people in our country.

Speaker 5 (53:01):
Now, if you think about what she just said, everything
she says is actually accurate, but it in no way,
shape or form answers the actual question that was asked
by the reporter. And we're already a minute into a
three minute answer. Okay, so a third of the answer
has just been taken by blahbadi blah. But I want

(53:22):
you to listen to the next two minutes of this
sound bite, and I want you to listen to her
talking about the things that she believes are going to
bring down inflation, and then note how wrong she was.

Speaker 8 (53:34):
The big issue and we take it seriously and it
is a priority. Therefore, so we have addressed it in
a number of ways. One of the issues that we
know is related to this is the supply chain issue
that we just discussed, and so on a domestic level.
In terms of domestic policy, one of the approaches we
have taken is to work with labor unions and to

(53:55):
work with municipalities and opening back up and extending the
hours of our ports. There are actually three I have
in mind Los Angeles, Long Beach, in Savannah, and in fact,
part of the infrastructure bill benefit is most recently what
we will do to assist Savannah in broadening their ability

(54:16):
to be an active port.

Speaker 10 (54:18):
And we have seen a.

Speaker 8 (54:18):
Reduction in the container ships off of the Long Beach
and LA ports because of what we have done, which
is to extend is you know, the twenty four or
to extend the hours to now twenty four hours a
day seven days a week.

Speaker 5 (54:31):
Do you know why there got to be so many
ships backed up because the unions did a slowdown. The
unions just refused to work harder. Now that they're open
twenty four to seven, guess who benefits with a lot
of overtime the unions.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
So it was a problem that.

Speaker 5 (54:46):
Should have been taken care of by an executive order
saying open up the ports and figure it out, but
instead it ended up being a union payoff. Now she's
not wrong though, we were having supply chain issues, significant
supply chain issues, but she doesn't stop.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
There a week.

Speaker 8 (55:00):
But there is also a point that is important to
make on the Build Back Better framework. One it is
designed to make it less expensive for working people to live.

Speaker 2 (55:15):
It was specifically.

Speaker 8 (55:16):
Designed to bring down the cost of childcare and increase
accessibility and availability. Designed to bring down the cost of
elder care and make it available to all those working
families that need that support and need that help. And
build Back Better is not going to cost anything.

Speaker 10 (55:40):
We're paying for it.

Speaker 8 (55:42):
So when we can get build Back Better passed, and
we are optimistic that we will, the American people will
see cost actually reduced around some of the most essential
services that they need to take care of their basic responsibilities.

Speaker 5 (56:00):
How'd that work out? Parents? Is the cost of your
childcare dropped? Has the cost of caring for your elderly
parents gone down? Of course not everything has just gotten
more expensive because she doesn't even have a rudimentary, fundamental
understanding of what causes inflation.

Speaker 8 (56:18):
But I'll let it wrap it up, including issues like
childcare and elder care and also preschool. And that's an
important point to mention also, and in fact I had
some conversations here in France, including with the Minister of
Education in France, about the again global impact of the
pandemic on childcare, but also on education, in particular for
our youngest children, Universal pre K when we're able to

(56:40):
do that three and four years old, getting education.

Speaker 10 (56:45):
At no cost.

Speaker 8 (56:47):
What that is going to do in terms of not
only supporting working families who otherwise can't afford to put
their kids in a private situation and otherwise don't have
it available. That's going to have a huge impact on
louring costs for families. So that is a big part
of our agenda, and I think it's important to also
stress that it's not going to cost anything for them.

Speaker 5 (57:08):
That is an absolute lie. Of course, the costs anything.
We're running trillion dollar deficits every year, all paying for
the free programs that are ineffective. One more time, ladies
and gentlemen, The Department of Education did a study. I
believe the study was wrapped up in like twenty oh nine,
and they sat on the results for years before they

(57:32):
released them on a Friday before the Christmas holiday, so
no one would pay attention to it. By the federal
government's own longitudinal study, meaning they followed children from when
they entered pre K head Start programs through like seventh.

Speaker 2 (57:46):
Or eighth grade.

Speaker 5 (57:47):
Do you know what The Department of Education's own studies
showed that any gains, any gains that were created by
getting lower income kids into the head Start program early
were lost by first core first grade. Instead of doing
what needs to be done, which is taking all the

(58:07):
money for pre K and putting it towards interventions for
kids in the fifth grade, in the seventh grade, in
the eighth grade, in the ninth grade, that's when kids
decides to drop out. By the way, most kids who
drop out of high school decide to drop out in
middle school because they get so hopelessly behind that they
can't catch up. The federal government's own study says that

(58:29):
what she just said is garbage, but she kind of
admits it's not about actually helping kids. It's about free daycare.
That's what they view pre K as free daycare. The
rest of this cut is way worse for Kamala Harris
than the first, you know, thirty forty seconds of word salad,

(58:49):
and yet nobody's playing that part. Nobody's saying, Hey, what
happened to childcare costs during this time?

Speaker 2 (58:55):
Well, let me tell you.

Speaker 5 (58:56):
Average weekly daycare costs are up thirteen percent from twenty
twenty two, Average weekly baby wait, average weekly family care
center up four percent from twenty twenty two. All the
prices that continued to go up, not one of them
is dropped. And I don't understand how she is out

(59:19):
here talking about how this is going to make things
less expensive for people when inflation is the hidden tax
that hits us all, and it hits people in poverty
far harder because they have far less money to mitigate
a twenty percent increase in cost that came because the
Federal Reserve printed money so the federal government could keep
spending it to buy votes. That's the reality of where

(59:41):
we are, and Kamala Harris doesn't have any understanding of
that at all, and she wants to be in charge.
No thank you. He's already being branded as the folks say,
grandpa guy.

Speaker 2 (59:51):
Look at him. He's Midwestern.

Speaker 5 (59:53):
He's one of you, you people in fly Over Country.
Glorious to share with you a little story that he
told about having his daughter, Hope, who was the result
of in vitro fertilization.

Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
In Minnesota.

Speaker 12 (01:00:10):
We respect our neighbors and their personal choices that they make,
even if we wouldn't make the same choice for ourselves.

Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
There's a golden rule.

Speaker 2 (01:00:22):
Mind your own damn business.

Speaker 5 (01:00:25):
Now, that's especially funny, and I'll explain to you why
in just a minute. But I'll let them finish because
it's a good story. It's a really good story. You know,
anybody having kids, that's a good story. The crowd loved
him because he's not common.

Speaker 12 (01:00:42):
Lest you guys are after my heart chanting, mind your
own damn business.

Speaker 14 (01:00:44):
That feels good, No thank you.

Speaker 12 (01:00:47):
Look that includes IVF and this gets personal for me
and my family.

Speaker 5 (01:00:53):
By the way, just in case you were wondering, there's
been no discussion or movement or anything that would indicate
that a Trump Vance presidency would try to ban IVF,
just to be clear, but I'll let them continue.

Speaker 12 (01:01:06):
My wife and I decided to have children. We spent
years going through infertility treatments, and I remember praying every
night for a call for good news, the pit in
my stomach when the phone rang, and the agony when
we heard that the treatments hadn't worked. So it isn't
by chance that when we welcome our daughter into the world,
we named our.

Speaker 2 (01:01:25):
Hope a minute.

Speaker 5 (01:01:27):
So that is a lovely story, except mind your own
damn business. That was the big line, right. Are you
aware that during COVID, Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz set up
a snitch line, a snitch line because Minnesota had to

(01:01:47):
stay at home order. And this is what you got
when you called the snitch line in Minnesota.

Speaker 13 (01:02:00):
Stay at home hotline. The information you leave is considered
public information at the tone. Please leave the following information,
your name, your call that number, how the stay at
home order is being violated, and where the stay at
home order was violated. Thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:02:17):
So they want you to call in on your neighbors
who had the nerve to leave their house.

Speaker 2 (01:02:22):
Do you know who got called in on a rod?

Speaker 5 (01:02:24):
This is the fun part. People who were outside playing
basketball at a neighborhood park. People who had taken their
children down the street from their houses to play with
each other in a neighborhood park found themselves getting called
on the snitch line. That hardly sounds like in Minnesota
they mind their own damn business.

Speaker 6 (01:02:43):
I mean, call me crazy. And when have they scheduled
their purge? Because that is like the gateway drug to that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:02:53):
Yeah, And it's also not even that unilaterally closed places
of worship schools in business for months and his heavy
handed approach demonstrated a troubling disregard for constitutional freedoms and.

Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
The rule of law.

Speaker 5 (01:03:08):
So it's especially ironic that Governor Tim Walls is talking
about minding your own damn business. How about that law
he signed into into law. The bill he's signed in
a law that allows the state of Minnesota to remove
your children if they decide that they are another gender
and you decide maybe they're not, they can remove your

(01:03:30):
children from your house. Ah, kids know best exactly follow. Yeah,
it's good and law work out. Mister, mind your own
damn business.

Speaker 2 (01:03:39):
Brains are definitely fully developed, definitely decision.

Speaker 5 (01:03:42):
As a matter of fact, he also supports face tattoos
for seven year olds because why not?

Speaker 7 (01:03:47):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
No big whoop, somebody.

Speaker 5 (01:03:51):
Just asked this. Uh, this is almost going to get
you banned for being stupid. Now, the big jd vance
knock that some guy said in his book he admitted
to have trying to have sex with a couch Number
one read a book.

Speaker 2 (01:04:07):
How about that? It's not in there.

Speaker 5 (01:04:10):
I read the book, So texting that, Yeah, does he
blake couches? Yeah, you're so funny. And this is a
conversation Ben Albright. Now we're just talking about the sort
of information that's flying around about whether or not Walls
was a retired you know, lieutenant whatever he was, whatever
he says he was. I'm not even getting into that

(01:04:32):
because there's some there's some little things that you have
to know about that that are weird military things that
most people don't know are weird military things.

Speaker 2 (01:04:40):
And honestly, that's not.

Speaker 5 (01:04:41):
Important to me because that's not an indication of how
he's going to lead. And before you say, but Mandy,
he quit on his troops. Apparently he put in his
retirement before they were ordered to deploy. That's the official story.
I don't know if that story is accurate, but that
is what it seems like. That would be pretty easy
to confirm or deny. So when you come at me

(01:05:02):
with dumb things about JD. Vance, I'm going to do
exactly to them.

Speaker 2 (01:05:06):
When I hear dumb.

Speaker 5 (01:05:07):
Things about walls or Kamala Harris. But it's important that
you understand Kamala Harris economically is the worst kind of
person for the United States of America today. Economically, at
least with Trump's policies, we can grow, even if he
doesn't do anything about spending. Neither party is serious about spending.
By the way, neither party has indicated any concern about

(01:05:31):
our deficit, which is completely out of control. Both parties
are to blame for that, but one party has to
be the one to step up and say no more,
and I don't see who that is. When we get
back ABC News, Jordana Brewster joins us to talk about
what is happening in Israel. They are waiting for a
retaliatory strike from Iran.

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
We'll do that next.

Speaker 1 (01:05:52):
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Speaker 2 (01:05:57):
No, it's Mandy Connell.

Speaker 3 (01:06:06):
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Speaker 2 (01:06:13):
And is sad thing all right?

Speaker 5 (01:06:18):
We are waiting for a call from ABC News. Is
Jordana Miller. She is the ABC News correspondent from Jerusalem. Jordana,
thank you for making time for us today. It's got
to be very nerve wracking to be in Jerusalem right now.

Speaker 7 (01:06:33):
It is nerve wracking.

Speaker 10 (01:06:34):
It's eerie. You know what can I tell you?

Speaker 7 (01:06:38):
The whole country is really waiting for this, these reprisal
strikes from Hsbala and Iran, and there's a lot that's unknown.
You know, whether the two will strike together, it will
be a simultaneous attack, what the targets will be with,
will it be military targets, how far? How deep into Israel?

(01:07:02):
For example, would Hasbola strike? Would they try to hit
Tel Aviv?

Speaker 14 (01:07:08):
You know?

Speaker 7 (01:07:08):
So, I think it's causing a lot of people, first
of all, to get their safe rooms and their bomb
shelters ready.

Speaker 13 (01:07:15):
Right.

Speaker 7 (01:07:16):
People are buying you know, their water and dried goods
and getting everything set up. On the other hand, a
lot of people aren't going out.

Speaker 10 (01:07:23):
I mean, I was in Tel Aviv a couple of
days ago.

Speaker 7 (01:07:25):
It reminded me of the first few weeks of this
war when there were just people weren't out, they were
just at home, hunkering down, and that's what it feels like.
The streets of Jerusalem are also empty. And remember a
lot of Israelis, I mean, flights have been canceled, a
lot of carriers are not coming to Israel. They're not,

(01:07:48):
they're not. So a lot of Israelis that we're supposed
to be out of the country or here, and still
there's nobody out. So it's very nerve wracking. The Home
Front Command. There are are no changes yet, and you know,
Israeli leaders keep saying the minute that we see anything
or believe anything's coming, you know, we will inform the public.

(01:08:11):
There's now even an automatic app where it's not even
an app. You don't have to do anything, but based
on the location of your cell phone, and if you're
in an area that's going to come under attack, you
will automatically get a message to your phone without even
being on what's called the home Front Command app.

Speaker 3 (01:08:32):
Here.

Speaker 7 (01:08:33):
Having said all that, you know, I think tonight the
Israeli assessment afterward. Now one week from the assassinations in
Tehran and bay and in Beirut, and the assessment here
is that it's likely Hasbollah will attack first and that

(01:08:53):
Iran is waiting. They wait to see how that goes
before Iran strikes. And it seems that the Israelis believe
US diplomacy and the you know, the US flexing its
military muscle, if you will, by boosting up its forces
and here or you know, off the coast of Israel,

(01:09:15):
it's naval forces, squadrons, UH and aerial defense systems. That
that has given pause to the Iranians and Husbullah also,
so you know, after many male biting days, I think today,
while there's still a lot of tension, it seems the

(01:09:36):
Israelis are more convinced that perps will be a staggered
attacks and maybe not not one like we saw in
April with hundreds and hundreds of missiles to try to
overwhelm the system.

Speaker 2 (01:09:50):
I'd like to ask you.

Speaker 5 (01:09:52):
I have the blurb that ABC sent about your stories
that you're working on, and the Israeli defense sources Pentagon's
additional deployments of military assets to the region to help
defend Israel appear to be unprecedented in scale and scope.
What can you tell me about US support in the
region right now.

Speaker 15 (01:10:13):
Well, you know, the.

Speaker 7 (01:10:16):
The Pentagon has essentially sent you know more, They've relocated
or repositioned their warships closer to Israel stores than ever before,
both in proximity and in number, and you know that,

(01:10:37):
and they've you know, boosted aerial defense systems. As I said,
all of that to be in place for I think
for two purposes. The first, of course, is to send
a message to Aran and Hsballah that the United States
is one hundred percent standing behind Israel and that this

(01:10:58):
should give them pause about any major strikes that could
spin the region into war. Right because has Balan ran
they have to strike back after what happened, that they
need to calibrate it very carefully. And that's what the
military presence is well for there to say. So it's

(01:11:19):
a kind of deterrence. And the other is of course
that you know, in the worst case scenario, the United
States is working not only with Israel, but with European
allies the British, the French, as well as regional allies
like the Jordanians in the Egyptian the Amaradis two again

(01:11:41):
work together to have a kind of joint air defense
cooperation or air defense shield. We could say that's what
worked in April with the United States led this coalition
and along with Israel, and they were able to shoot
down ninety seven percent of those three hundred and thirty cruise,

(01:12:05):
ballistic and drones that Aron fired over So.

Speaker 5 (01:12:10):
This sounds like this is a very delicate dance because
everything on red said the Iranian mulis, they don't want
to go to a full hot war with Iran. They're
perfectly happy having the proxies in Hesbalah or Hamas or
the Houthis, you know, kind of continue to antagonize and
fight with Israel. But to your point about having to

(01:12:31):
do something, I thought that first attack by Iran where
they sent all of those missiles and basically said, hey,
we just fired a bunch of really slow missiles just
to let you guys know, and to your point, most
of them were intercepted, should we I kind of hope
it's the same. But how do they thread that needle? Jordana,
I mean, it just seems like there's no good answers

(01:12:51):
here without escalating the situation.

Speaker 8 (01:12:55):
Right.

Speaker 7 (01:12:56):
Well, first of.

Speaker 2 (01:12:56):
All, remember that.

Speaker 7 (01:13:00):
That attack back in April. While we look back and
say oh, Iran telegraphed everything and every the you know,
the warheads moved slowly, the drones took ten hours to
get here. We have to remember that the Pentagon's estimate
initially was that Iran was going to fire somewhere between

(01:13:20):
one hundred and one hundred and fifty. The total ended
up being somewhere around almost three hundred and fifty. So Iran,
you know, they you know, they did mount a formidable
attack on Israel and thankfully, I mean some people really

(01:13:41):
call it a miracle. The Ear two and the Ear
three and the David Sling, which are Israel's air defense system,
they had never really been tested in real time until
that night, until April fourteenth, I mean, they performed you know, flawless. Yes,
So you know Iran now, because the problem that Iran

(01:14:06):
is in is that the assassination of this Smallhania, the
Hamasa's political chief in Tehran, was such an embarrassment for
the regime and showed that they have security flaws, they
have intel flaws. It happened in a residence of the
regime regime as they were hosting right Ismallhania. Someone managed

(01:14:29):
to plant an explosive there, right and kill Hania in
the middle of the night. And you know, the Iranians
feel they have to do something because they were essentially humiliated. Right,
But again, they can't do something so dramatic that it
will drag them into a war because Iran's not prepared

(01:14:51):
for a war. They don't want it. By the way,
Hasbala doesn't want it, Israel doesn't want it, and the
United States doesn't want it. Having said all that, war
is not an exact science, right, and again, it will
take one miscalculation, one misfire, one misreading of the other's intentions,

(01:15:12):
and we could find ourselves in a very dangerous situation quickly.
And I think that's why, you know, the I think
that's why President Biden has decided to send, you know,
and prepare such a force here to help Israel in case,
you know, in case the worst case scenario develops.

Speaker 5 (01:15:36):
Jordana Brewster from ABC News, thank you so much for
your time. I assume that you are someplace safe as
you will wait with the rest of the people in
Israel retaliation from Iran. Thank you for making time for
us today.

Speaker 7 (01:15:48):
You're welcome, all right, thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:15:50):
That's Jordana Brewster. We'll be right back when I read this,
And by the way, I called her Jordana Brewster, who's
an actress. She was Jordana Miller gollait Manny. In this story,
it says that the official said the preparations in coordination
with allies and in particular the United States, were very critical.

(01:16:13):
What we're seeing is the US take a very clear
position in their actions and their messaging, and it matters
exactly what they're saying to us, the official told ABC News.
Let me ask you the question of who is making
the decision in the United States to send warships into
the region. Now, I'm not necessarily opposed. If it can

(01:16:35):
help tamp down any Iranian dreams of taking out Israel
by having a more a larger presence in the Mediterranean
in that area, I'm okay. But who is making that decision?
Have you heard Joe Biden come out and talk about
the situation, because if he did, I missed it. But frankly,

(01:16:55):
I will tell you I don't care what Joe Biden
says at this point. He is absolutely useless. But who
is making the decision to move.

Speaker 2 (01:17:04):
US closer to war.

Speaker 5 (01:17:05):
I'd like to know in case we need to hold
him accountable at some point in the near future, one
anti Semite is gone from Congress. Representative Corey Bush just
lost her primary, but she was not going to go
down without swinging. Give me my audio there a rod.
This is her quote concession speech where she puts the

(01:17:25):
Jews on notice.

Speaker 16 (01:17:26):
Way from my position as congresswoman. Oh you did was
take some of the strings off.

Speaker 5 (01:17:44):
Now that is supposed to imply that now she's been
unleashed and now she's not a puppet for anyone, but
it also sort of admits that she was a puppet
for somebody.

Speaker 15 (01:17:56):
But she goes on, I don't have to work some
strings that I have attached it as much as I
love my job, but all they did was radicalize me.

Speaker 11 (01:18:07):
And so not a hi.

Speaker 5 (01:18:11):
Talking about APAK by the way, the Jewish lobbying organization.
But we won't have Corey Bush to kick around. She
had Jamal Bowman can cry into their cheerios together because
they got both got bounced by people who are not
anti Semites. Imagine that. Imagine when hey, are you an
anti Semite?

Speaker 2 (01:18:29):
Needed to be asked. She failed the question.

Speaker 5 (01:18:33):
She did not say that she was not because she
she is.

Speaker 2 (01:18:38):
When we get back.

Speaker 5 (01:18:39):
I just got some very exciting news, and I'm already
feeling extremely nervous, Anthony, extremely nervous. I don't get nervous
when I'm interviewing presidents. I don't get nervous. But I
am nervous as of right now. I'll tell you why. Next,
I've got to tell you about some big news that
I just got. Saturday night is Kowa Knight at the

(01:18:59):
Rocky Game, and we're super excited about this, and every
year a bunch you can't wait. People go, and I
have been invited to throw out the first pitch, and y'all,
I throw like a girl, and I cannot embarrass myself.
I can't embarrass the station. So I need help. I
need a coach, a rod, I need somebody who's like

(01:19:21):
an actual baseball player or actual pitcher. When I did
this in Florida, I was lucky enough to have been
working with Hall of Fame or excuse me, World Series
MVP Frank Viola of the Minnesota Twins, and Frank gave
me free pitching lessons and I did pretty good.

Speaker 2 (01:19:36):
Basically, look up the fifty cent video and do exactly.

Speaker 5 (01:19:39):
That that's not going to happen and this is what
Jeff Johnson said. He goes, you know, if it's really bad, you.

Speaker 2 (01:19:44):
Could go viral. No, no, I do not want to
go viral. Look up Simone Biles and do that. What
did she throw out the first pitch? Yes, and it
was awesome.

Speaker 5 (01:19:58):
Wait now I have to look and see, Oh she
did a backflip.

Speaker 2 (01:20:01):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (01:20:02):
I can't do that. I can't even do a back
summrsault at this point in my life. I'm already I'm
gripping now, I'm absolutely gripping. And I know I don't
have to throw it all the way from the rubber
because they won't jump on the clay part of the
pitching surface. You're well ahead of it, right, I mean
you don't even have to like pretend that we're you know,

(01:20:25):
I'm nervous. Does anybody know any professional pitchers? Do we
have any there? You go anyway? Anyone, anyone at all? Anyone? No,
dang it? How about his strategy?

Speaker 2 (01:20:40):
And you know, I mean you just you put your.

Speaker 5 (01:20:43):
Arm back, you throw it over. I gotta practice. I'm
starting today, got to get it to home plate. Oh
for the person who said, Bob Yuke are just a
bit outside Mandy you can't do any worse than Ryan Edwards.

Speaker 2 (01:20:54):
What happened there? Did Ryan Edwards throw out the first pitch?

Speaker 6 (01:20:58):
I don't know if he's thrown out a first pitch,
it's likely in reference to his throwing of a football,
just not good.

Speaker 5 (01:21:05):
I can actually throw a football better than I can
throw a baseball.

Speaker 2 (01:21:08):
We'll ask him for advice in ten minutes when he
comes on to play out the day. Did Dave Logan
play baseball too? He was like every sport, Yeah, he is.
I think one of the few to be drafted three.

Speaker 5 (01:21:19):
Okay, I'm gonnask Dave Logan. Yep, he's gonna have some
pit you know, some pointers for me. I don't know
what position he played in baseball, doesn't matter. Dave Logan
is good at everything.

Speaker 2 (01:21:27):
He's just one of.

Speaker 5 (01:21:28):
Those people like if you just said, hey, Dave, want
to try out for professional badminton, he'd probably be like, well,
I probably won't be good and they'd win. He's just
that guy. My husband is one of those guys who's
just good enough at everything sports wise that he dries.
So frustrating for those of us.

Speaker 2 (01:21:44):
That are really not.

Speaker 5 (01:21:46):
Mandy wax On wax Off dig deep inside. Make the
throw come from your heart.

Speaker 2 (01:21:51):
You got this, yike? Mandy?

Speaker 5 (01:21:55):
Look up former Cincinnati Mayer's first pitch, asked Dave Logan.
Look up that just practice, Mandy.

Speaker 2 (01:22:02):
See here's the problem.

Speaker 5 (01:22:03):
If I practice, I'm gonna be practicing the way I
normally throw, which is I don't know how to throw
very well.

Speaker 2 (01:22:12):
So there you go. Just don't throw like Fauci.

Speaker 5 (01:22:15):
Oh my god, what if I throw worse than Anthony Fauci?

Speaker 2 (01:22:18):
A ride? What if that happens? Dad Nabbit.

Speaker 5 (01:22:25):
Logan played everything. Andy's a coach. Doctor Rick lewis he
had some kind of lobster class screwball.

Speaker 13 (01:22:31):
Oh no, no, no, no no.

Speaker 5 (01:22:32):
We're not looking for specific pitches. I'm not trying to
throw a slider or a change up. I'm trying to
throw a non embarrassing pitch that goes at least towards,
if not to the catcher, and by towards. I want
the catcher to stand there and catch it without taking
a step.

Speaker 2 (01:22:49):
That's my goal.

Speaker 5 (01:22:51):
You know, remember l step throw okay, point step throw
point and wait, there's too much pointing and stepping here.
You guys are not helping point step throw point, glove
step foot under glove. Throw throw, wait, throw, follow through
with the ball, drive, throwing through the Oh, that's not

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helpful at all.

Speaker 2 (01:23:15):
Multiple steps are not going to make this better.

Speaker 5 (01:23:18):
Mandy.

Speaker 2 (01:23:19):
You can wear your mom jeans just like Obama.

Speaker 5 (01:23:20):
Did you know my mom jeans look less Mom Jeanie
than Obamas did.

Speaker 2 (01:23:25):
I'm just throwing that out there.

Speaker 5 (01:23:27):
So Saturday, if you're going to the Rockies game on Saturday,
get there early to watch the potential humiliation of me
embarrassing myself.

Speaker 2 (01:23:38):
I do not want to go viral. That's the only thing.

Speaker 5 (01:23:40):
I don't want to go viral. No way, So that's
happening on Saturday. That's very exciting. Who is Harrison Ford
in the new Marvel movie? Who is Red Hulk? Why
do I not know this character at all? What's the
actor that passed away? He has replaced him? Hang on,
it's at the bottom of that story. But that's Underholt Melross.

Speaker 15 (01:24:00):
He's a.

Speaker 5 (01:24:02):
Who is Thunderbolt Ross in what storyline?

Speaker 8 (01:24:05):
Sir?

Speaker 2 (01:24:08):
Yes, to your place, William hurt you?

Speaker 5 (01:24:10):
But who is the character come into play?

Speaker 2 (01:24:14):
He's Thunderbolt Ross.

Speaker 5 (01:24:16):
Well, you can keep repeating that, it doesn't I.

Speaker 2 (01:24:18):
Recall William Hurt at all? In Marvel. No, well, then
I can help you. Well, you know who the character is.
Who is he connected to? Which story? Was he in
the First Time Civil War? Okay, got the American Civil War?

Speaker 6 (01:24:30):
He essentially is one of the top dogs in the
government agency that tries to control Oh you.

Speaker 5 (01:24:36):
Know what, I do remember him now? But why do
they call him Red Hulk? Does he turn into a
Red Hul?

Speaker 2 (01:24:42):
Turning into Red Hulk? Well, Harris, he does not like
the Hulk.

Speaker 6 (01:24:44):
That character has everything out for the Hulk, and so
him turning into Red Hulk will be like his final,
one last ditch effort to try to beat the Hulk.

Speaker 2 (01:24:54):
So it's not on purpose, No, for sure, I don't
think so.

Speaker 5 (01:24:59):
I just the only reason I'm doing this story is
because I love the fact that, when asked about appearing
in his first Marvel film as the Red Hulk, Harrison
Ford said, what did it take? It took not caring.
It took me an idiot for money, which I've done before.
And that, my friends, is what you get when you
ask an eighty two year old a question, and he

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is eighty two years old, Harrison Ford, He's gonna work
until he's like one hundred and forty and then he's
gonna die and we're all gonna be like, man, I
can't believe.

Speaker 2 (01:25:28):
He's gone so soon.

Speaker 5 (01:25:31):
Because he's I mean, he's eighty two and he's I
do think there's a point where an actor is too
old to play an action hero effectively. That's how I
felt about him in the last Indiana Jones movie. I
just I was afraid he was going to break it
hit the whole time.

Speaker 9 (01:25:45):
It was not.

Speaker 5 (01:25:46):
It just was stressful for me to watch him play
in action.

Speaker 6 (01:25:49):
Here, well, to avoid you breaking anything on Saturday on
the line right now, we have Voice of the Rockies,
Jack Corgan, who has some advice for you.

Speaker 5 (01:25:56):
Okay, excellent, fantastic, okay, Jack, So I need some help
because I throw like a girl and consistently throw like
a girl. So what have you got for me, Jack Corgan,
Voice of the Rockies.

Speaker 14 (01:26:07):
Well, when people say they throw like a girl, Mandy,
it's usually because they don't turn their upper Torso.

Speaker 5 (01:26:16):
Okay, and to just wait, I'm stand enough to do
this while you're telling me okay.

Speaker 14 (01:26:21):
Yes, So as you have the ball and you're starting
into your motion.

Speaker 5 (01:26:28):
Right, I have emotion.

Speaker 2 (01:26:30):
Yes, well yes, okay.

Speaker 14 (01:26:33):
As you start into your body moving right. You want
to have a twist to your upper body so that
you're right handed, correct, yes, okay, so that your left
shoulder is pointing towards the target.

Speaker 2 (01:26:53):
Okay, got it, I'm sideways. I'm good. My right hand
is behind me, right.

Speaker 7 (01:27:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:27:00):
You let your right hand drop down and behind you,
and then you just come over and hurl it the
top and throw it as you stride with your left
foot towards the plate. So you're trying to stay on
a line to your target. So you get your shoulder,
your hip, your leg all pointing forward, got it, rather

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than to the side, and hopefully, hopefully as you bring
your arm up it follows the rest of your body.

Speaker 2 (01:27:30):
All right? Okay?

Speaker 5 (01:27:32):
How far away am I going to be from the
actual catcher? I mean, you guys eyeb all this stuff
all the time.

Speaker 2 (01:27:38):
How far is that?

Speaker 5 (01:27:38):
Because I need to practice at home and I gotta.

Speaker 14 (01:27:41):
March it out, I would say it's probably thirty feet
maybe forty feet top.

Speaker 5 (01:27:47):
Okay, I feel good about that. I got enough power
to make.

Speaker 2 (01:27:50):
That happen, right, Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:27:52):
I know, you do your exercises and everything else. A
lot of times bad throwing comes from bad body positioning.
Got it?

Speaker 2 (01:28:03):
Got it?

Speaker 5 (01:28:03):
Now, I'm getting for people. I'm excited for you throw
a splitter. I think that's a little ambitious.

Speaker 6 (01:28:08):
Here's the thing though, selfishly, I don't want you to listen, Jack,
I love you to death. I don't want Manny to
listen to a word you're saying so I can get
a viral video out of this.

Speaker 2 (01:28:17):
I'm just saying, no, I don't. That's the opposite of
what I want to have. I am sorry, but I.

Speaker 5 (01:28:22):
Don't need to hurl one sideways and hit Dinger in
the head.

Speaker 11 (01:28:25):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:28:27):
I am moty against you, but I'm rooting against you.

Speaker 5 (01:28:31):
Stop it, Stop it. This person said, I bet Harrison
Ford could throw out a first pitch.

Speaker 2 (01:28:36):
Of course he can.

Speaker 5 (01:28:38):
I mean, of course, okay, Jack, Well, cheer me on
from the boots.

Speaker 7 (01:28:43):
I will.

Speaker 14 (01:28:43):
And the last thing is you're making the throws. You
don't let it go too soon or too late.

Speaker 2 (01:28:50):
How do you know it's soon.

Speaker 14 (01:28:53):
You'll know it's too soon because you haven't gotten your
hand reaching out like you're gonna shake hands with the tetcher.

Speaker 5 (01:28:59):
Got it, take.

Speaker 2 (01:29:00):
Hands with the catcher. As I'm throwing.

Speaker 5 (01:29:03):
I'm doing my throwing motion Okay.

Speaker 14 (01:29:06):
So that means your arm is extending forward, and when
you're letting the ball go, it should be pretty close
to parallel to the ground. Okay, if it's if it
gets if it gets let go earlier, it's gonna be
a fifty center. If you let it go too late,
it's going to be in the ground. So okay, the

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idea you're reaching out to shake, you're coming over the top,
can it?

Speaker 1 (01:29:33):
Now?

Speaker 5 (01:29:34):
This person said, it's it's more. It's you use your
legs more than you think. Don't just throw it using
your arm? Is that accurate as well? I mean, do
I need to am I in a fencing position when
I get done? What am I doing here?

Speaker 7 (01:29:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (01:29:47):
I mean your your whole idea. After you've twisted your
upper torso, as I said, you're you're going to stride
with your left leg, You're going to step towards the
target and as you're letting the ball, so you're that's
where the power is coming from, because you're stepping towards
the target. Got it arms and motion?

Speaker 5 (01:30:08):
Okay?

Speaker 14 (01:30:09):
That I can as you Yeah, and as you let
the ball go, then your right leg follows so that
when you finish your your feet should be parallel or
pretty close to it.

Speaker 5 (01:30:20):
Got it, Okay. I'm feeling good about this now, Jack.
I feel good about it until I go home and
practice today. If practice doesn't go well, then I'll start
freaking out. But you know what, I've been watching a
lot of Olympics, and the Olympics always make me feel
like I could accomplish something, even though in reality we
all know I couldn't any other stuff they're doing, but
it makes me feel like I could. So this is

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the perfect time for me to have this opportunity to
throw out the first pitch on Saturday night.

Speaker 13 (01:30:45):
There you go.

Speaker 14 (01:30:45):
I mean have have Chuck or your daughter. Make sure
that you're striding towards them when you're playing catch, okay,
and that you finish, and that you finish with your
feet parallel.

Speaker 2 (01:30:56):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:30:57):
I'll be practicing. We'll have a full report Saturday night.

Speaker 2 (01:31:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:31:01):
And you know, and will ay Rod. You won't be
the only one videoing this. I'm sure Jesse and Jerry
and I will have lots of coverage as well.

Speaker 8 (01:31:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:31:12):
Pressure, no pressure at all, thanks Jack. You pressure very
hopeful until that last comment, you jerk. Anyway, Jack Corgan,
I'll see on.

Speaker 2 (01:31:21):
Saturday sounds great. Alright, you'll do fine, okay, Chelsea. That's
Jack Corgan.

Speaker 8 (01:31:29):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:31:30):
So there was some word about Ryan Edwards and his
ability to throw things.

Speaker 2 (01:31:35):
Ryan, have you thrown out a first pitch?

Speaker 7 (01:31:37):
I have?

Speaker 5 (01:31:38):
How did that go?

Speaker 2 (01:31:39):
This is a few years ago. You know, I thought
it would all right.

Speaker 9 (01:31:42):
I mean again, you know, for me, despite what Anthony
is saying, don't listen to him, for me, it was
more about just not embarrassing myself more than anything.

Speaker 1 (01:31:51):
Same.

Speaker 5 (01:31:52):
You know, I don't want to do like a fitty cent.

Speaker 2 (01:31:53):
You know, yeah, exactly exactly. I wanted to be respectable
where I can.

Speaker 5 (01:31:57):
You know, a bit outside would be fine, Yeah, bouncing
across the turf would be a disaster.

Speaker 2 (01:32:03):
Yeah, And I got into the catcher.

Speaker 9 (01:32:04):
I think the one thing that I well, first of all,
Jack had a good advice as far as the mechanics go.

Speaker 2 (01:32:08):
Nobody did that.

Speaker 9 (01:32:09):
I just had Ben Albright saying it's like ninety feet dude,
you got to practice from ninety feet out.

Speaker 2 (01:32:14):
And of course that was just insanity.

Speaker 9 (01:32:16):
And I'm like, I'm chugging, I'm throwing as hard as
I can here. But if I'd have known that it
was going to be more like thirty to forty feet.
I've spent way more time doing those kinds of throws
because I was the same thing I wanted to practice
that I wanted to just to see because I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:32:29):
I don't throw a ball very often.

Speaker 5 (01:32:31):
I'm not athletic in that manner, right, I mean, I
have certain athletic abilities throwing and hitting a ball or
not at the top of that list. I actually am
better at throwing a football than I am throwing a baseball.
But I feel confident. You know, the last time I
threw this out, I didn't work out right. I mean
I wasn't working out at all, so I was much
weaker than I am now. So maybe I'll just all powered.

(01:32:54):
I'm thinking fastball right out of the chute to confuse him,
because my fastball probably goes thirty five miles per hour tops.

Speaker 2 (01:33:01):
Well, And they wouldn't. They wouldn't even let me up
on the on the mound.

Speaker 5 (01:33:04):
No, they won't let anybody up on the mount. They
won't let you touch the clay or the rubber and
all that stuff.

Speaker 9 (01:33:08):
So you're throwing in front of that. And then they
had dinger. He wasn't even in home play he was
in front of home plate, right. So in the end,
it's it's not as hard as far as that goes.
I think it's just kind of quieting your your nerves
a little bit walking out onto the field knowing there's you.

Speaker 2 (01:33:23):
Know, thousands and thousands of people looking at you, and
really thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:33:26):
That's it for that, that's special for reminding me of that. Luckily,
I mean you're talking.

Speaker 9 (01:33:30):
You talked to thousands and thousands of people every day.

Speaker 5 (01:33:31):
But their face is full of disappointment every day. I
just have to imagine their faces full of disappointment. Ryan,
there's no denying it.

Speaker 6 (01:33:41):
This time.

Speaker 5 (01:33:43):
I'm but now I'm super nervous. And I don't really
get nervous about stuff anymore, but this I am nervous about.

Speaker 9 (01:33:48):
Yeah, And I totally hear you and Yeah, a few
years ago it was it was pretty it's pretty stressful.
But I'd say, like I said, the best advice there
that from Jack it's thirty to forty feet practice that, okay,
and just get the mindset of like, hey, I know,
I know what my mechanics are throwing this distance because
I had no idea going into it, how if I
was gonna be up on the mound.

Speaker 2 (01:34:09):
If I was going to be I had no idea
what that was.

Speaker 9 (01:34:11):
Going to look like, and so I wish I would
have spent more time, quite literally, practicing thirty to forty feet.

Speaker 5 (01:34:16):
Well, you know how greenskeepers are, though, cream sepers are
like so possessive of their turf and their field. They
don't want you to touch any of the pretty stuff
that they've already made pretty. They will leave it pretty
for the picture, and that that's fine.

Speaker 9 (01:34:28):
I was totally fine with that, but I just didn't,
you know, mentally, I was thinking, oh my gosh, this
thing might be like sixty feet night I got to
practice that. So I was practicing the hardest possible throws
over and over again. And then when it was short,
I was like, okay, well that that took some of
the stress out of it, knowing that I didn't have
to throw as far. But like I said, mine was
just just a bit outside. But I but I, but

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I got it there. There was no bouncing, There is.

Speaker 2 (01:34:52):
No fifty cents I want.

Speaker 5 (01:34:53):
I just want to get it there so the catcher
doesn't have to take a big step to get it.
That's that's all I want see what I'm saying here.
Thank you to the Texters who are supporting me with
text messages like this. My eight year old granddaughter can
make this throw, don't embarrass us. Thank you Texter for
taking the pressure off you people are awesome on the
text line. And now it's time for the most exciting

(01:35:15):
segment on the radio.

Speaker 2 (01:35:16):
Of its kind, the world of the day.

Speaker 6 (01:35:21):
All right, what is our dad joke of the day please,
Mandy Ryan, did you hear about the guy who invented
the knock knock joke?

Speaker 4 (01:35:30):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:35:30):
I did not. He just want to know Belle Fries.
Wow wow wow wow.

Speaker 5 (01:35:38):
All right, then, what is our word of the day please?

Speaker 2 (01:35:41):
I Oh, it's a noun.

Speaker 5 (01:35:44):
Bibly a clept biblio tech biblio biblia clept wait, biby biblio.

Speaker 2 (01:35:53):
Someone who steals books, Brian? Is she right? I mean
it has to do with books. I know what you think?
Is she right? She's right? Geeze right, yeah, person who
steals books. This is what paying all.

Speaker 5 (01:36:07):
Those sat studying of Latin roots comes in handy for
this for this game. Here today's trivia question, where in
the United States can you find the Winchester Mystery House?
A mansion full of secret passageways, multiple elevators and doors
and stairwells.

Speaker 2 (01:36:23):
That lead to nowhere in Massachusetts. That's right.

Speaker 5 (01:36:26):
I'm gonna say Massachusetts. We're both wrong. What San Jose, California.
The mansion was built over several decades. According to the
whims of eccentric owners Sarah Winchester, just anyway, what is
our jeopardy category?

Speaker 2 (01:36:40):
Lingo, L I N G. Emphasis?

Speaker 5 (01:36:43):
Okay, so it's all ling in it?

Speaker 6 (01:36:45):
Okay, Lane, a sister or brother? Hanny, what does a
sibling collect? It can be a small savory lump of
dough served in suit.

Speaker 5 (01:36:54):
Anny, what's a dumpling?

Speaker 7 (01:36:55):
That is correct?

Speaker 2 (01:36:59):
It's meaning chatter or the soothing sound.

Speaker 5 (01:37:01):
Of a brooky. What's babbling?

Speaker 2 (01:37:04):
Correct? I've got a feeling. You'll know it's a vague
idea or notion, vague idea? Lang ling?

Speaker 5 (01:37:13):
Mandy, what's inkling?

Speaker 6 (01:37:15):
Oh my gosh, I'm going for the sweep and an
inexperienced person or a young bird that just got its
flying feathers.

Speaker 2 (01:37:21):
Ryan, Oh, I was gonna say, what's a sapling? But yep,
I don't.

Speaker 5 (01:37:28):
Oh, Mandy, what's a fledgling?

Speaker 2 (01:37:30):
Oh my goodness, gracious, sweet sweet Wow, what I know.

Speaker 5 (01:37:36):
See, if I could throw a baseball as well as
I do of the day, I would be in the
majors right now.

Speaker 3 (01:37:40):
At you.

Speaker 5 (01:37:41):
When need be a question what's coming up on KO Sports.

Speaker 9 (01:37:44):
We'll get to the stuff that happened at a camp today.
Quarterbacks spoke and we also have Malcolm Roach, defensive line
for the Broncos, come on the show very excited.

Speaker 5 (01:37:53):
Do you want to hear something that's gonna make you
feel old? The Sixth Sense? The movie is twenty five
years old today.

Speaker 2 (01:37:58):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 5 (01:37:59):
Yeah, I'm gonna go have some tapioca and take a
nap after that one. Okay, that's all gonna happen next Now,
tomorrow we don't have a full show, so I am
going to training camp to do Ross's show with him nice.
I'm horning in nerds on football. We're gonna be out
there for until nine to twelve thirty because then we
have a Rockies game right after that, So we're just

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gonna do three and a half hours together. So if
you're coming here at like twelve thirty, you're gonna hear baseball.
But if you get here early at nine, you're gonna
hear me and Ross, so it's gonna be a lot
of fun. And Ross's booked a guest on a topic
that honestly, I read about for forty five minutes yesterday
and I still don't have any rudimentary understanding of it
at all. How are you on quantum error correction?

Speaker 16 (01:38:42):
Mine?

Speaker 2 (01:38:42):
You know, I haven't brushed off on it in a
little bit, but I yes tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (01:38:47):
I tried yesterday so I didn't look stupid. Then I
just finally was like, well, guess what I'm gonna look
stupid tomorrow. So tune in to hear that KOA Sports
coming up next. Keep it right here on Kowa