08-11-26 FULL SHOW - How To Find Your Tribe

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Guy over there, Zach seekers a Rod continues to be
our man covering training camp.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
He will be back in the studio with us.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
I don't know, like Thursday or Friday ish, I don't
know anyway, Zach. How you doing today? Did you stay
up late watching the Dallas Wings play?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
No? I but I'm doing well?

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Are you?

Speaker 4 (00:21):
Mandy?

Speaker 2 (00:21):
I do it just fine? Thank you? Do it just fine.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Let's jump into the blog because I got a lot
of stuff to talk about today and we're just gonna
jump right into it by finding the blog at mandyblog
dot com. That's mandyblog dot com. Look for the headline
that says now because I just fixed it eight eleven,
twenty six blog how to find your tribe. Click on
that and here are the headlines you will find within.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
You're in office half of American all with ships and
clipments and say that's going to press plan.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Say on the blog and making friends as an adult
is so hard?

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Can we talk.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
About the faucy miscarriage story? Lauren Bobert's son has some
grow new charges. The DSA is LARPing, poverty and working
class scrolling. Denver water cops are out to get scofflaws
how to make the treadmill not suck, want to be happy?

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Have faith?

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Why would Doug co eliminate the best benefit of a
data center? Three hard questions for your aging parents. Where
are all the workers? The earth is greening? Schools are
out of control these days. You of Michigan drops first
semester grades for soft students. Hunner will have a new
writer this year. Of course, dogs know how we feel.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
What's wolf free?

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Introduction sold on bad Science. Bunnies are scary, watch out
for rattlesnakes. No, there's not a genocide in Gaza. A
story on crabs has me thinking John stossel Bus some
climate myths. Those are the headlines on the blog at
Mandy blog dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Tick Tech two a winner.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Now for those of you who read the blog on
a regular basis, I've been thinking about adding a segment,
a segment that I love. It would be separate from
the blog, but it would be on mandyblog dot com.
I would make it its own little separate section. Many
many years ago, USA Today did a high coup of
the day. Now, Zachary, do you know what a high
coup is? Do you know the format of a high coup?

Speaker 4 (02:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (02:21):
Classic Japanese poem five.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Mostly about nature, but can be about anything. And USA
Today used to give a word of inspiration and they
would it was high Coup of the day.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
I'm not going to do it of the day. I
don't have that kind of time, but.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
I was thinking about doing a high Coup of the
week contest, just blatantly ripping off USA Today because I
I won the USA Today High Coup of the Day
one day and I got a free T shirt.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
It was very special. I felt really good about things,
pretty me happy.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
But I just think I'm looking for fun stuff to
put it mandyblog dot com. Just stuff that entertains me
and having you guys submit.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
A high Coup of the week would would be that way.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
And a meeting with a potential advertiser for the blog
that might be able to provide a prize weekly for
the winner.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
So there'd be a prize.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Would that be like? But it would only be for subscribers.
That sounds intriguing.

Speaker 5 (03:12):
I think you got to put a you know, maybe yeah,
get a T shirt out there, get everything going.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah to those of you weighing in on the Common
Spirit health text line, Mandy, I missed the old theme
song and this one. What happened to the new theme
song that the Weasel Rick Lewis.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Promised to write for you?

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Okay, all I asked Rick to do was have his
band re record. Rick's band is full of people who
are not only professional musicians, they're also very busy people.
So it got into be a kind of a hurting
kittens situation and it.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Just got too hard.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
And you know, iheart's like, everything's all person it's the
real people whatever, So I just had to make a change.
I actually love the new song like I love the
new song, and no one knows what it is, which
makes me love it even more.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
I love it. Anyway.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
I've got a couple of guests coming up on the
show today, one that I'm super interested to chat with.
His name is Tim Hess and he is trying to
address one of the biggest problems in adulthood, and that
is making new adult friends. Now, Zach, how long have
you lived in Colorado? How long have you been here?

Speaker 5 (04:20):
I have lived in Colorado, man, my whole life since
nineteen ninety nine.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Okay, so you're a horrible person asked this question for
for some reason, I thought you were a transmitt but
you're not really. Yes, my family did make it back
to Ohio last night at ten thirty.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Thank you for asking about them.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
But when you move places, and I've moved from city
to city multiple times as an adult, the hardest thing, well,
the second hardest thing. The first hardest thing is to
find a really good hairdresser. The second hardest thing, well, no,
it's the third hardest thing, because the second hardest thing
to do is to find a really.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Good mechanic you can trust.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
So you got to get the hairdresser, you got to
get the mechanic, and then you got to find friends.
And as an adult, holy macaroni, is that challenging?

Speaker 3 (05:03):
Now?

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Of course, we all make work friends, and sometimes your
work friends do become your besties. Some of my best
friends I have met here in Denver have come through
the workplace, and I'm eternally grateful for that. But what
if you're a remote worker? What if you live far
away from the rest of your workforce?

Speaker 2 (05:21):
And then what do you do?

Speaker 1 (05:23):
So this guy, Tim Hass came up with a new
app and it's brand new.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
And the reason I tell you that is that I.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
Signed up and my first name, and my first name
only was available as a username Zach, no.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Numbers after it, just Mandy. That's impressive. I know I've
never gotten that.

Speaker 6 (05:45):
Good luck.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
I have to tell you I've had young people when
I give them, I eat my Gmail address, Mandy Connell.
You know it's very simple. Don't use my Gmail address.
I will not respond to you. Use Mandy connall. What
I heard media, But you're like, oh my gosh, how'd
you get your name? I'm like, well, I was there
when Gmail was invented. That's how old I am that
I have my name in Gmail. And I believe that

(06:08):
was still my legal name too when I did that, Mandy.
Don't forget about a good handyman. I'd put that up
there with a hairdresser.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
I'm still looking for that. I would just love a.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Handyman that shows up when they're supposed to come give
an estimate.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
That would be super cool. To the text thro who
asked our Grant Smith and Olivia parents.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yes, they are. Baby Winifred was born last week and
they are enjoying their new bundle of joy and he'll
be back next month. He is on paternity leave and
I'm super excited for them. And you know, have you
ever had young people in your life that you just
look at and go, Man, they're going to be really
good parents. That's how I feel about Grant Olivia. They're
going to be fantastic, absolutely fantastic. Well, Tim Pass is

(06:50):
going to join us at one to talk about the
Nearby Grid app, how it works, the goals for it.
It's free, which I got to ask him, how are
you making money on this thing?

Speaker 2 (06:59):
What do you do?

Speaker 1 (07:00):
You making money on this thing? Unless you're just selling
all of my hobbies. I mean that's you know, if
something's free on the internet, you are the product. Let's
always remember that. So one person just gets my song
and I'm not gonna tell you what it is because
I'm gonna milk this anyway. TAM's gonna join us at
one o'clock, and then my friend David Strong from hot
air dot Com is gonna pop on at two thirty.

(07:23):
He is writing just insane columns right now about the
Democratic Socialists of America. Talk about an organization that is
not ready for prime time. Boy howdy, they have just
now that they're in the spotlight. They are not ready
for the spotlight. They have no actual ideas. But do
they do they do they really not have any ideas

(07:47):
or are they just talking in platitudes to hide their
real motivations. I would say the second is true. David
wrote a column about the lack of any plan other
than tax the hell out of the rich, and when.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Someone said, Okay, what does that look like? What's the
tax rate? They were like, what what do you tax rates?
What are you talking about? Wow, we hadn't thought about that.
You mean that the hell out of is it a
tax rate?

Speaker 7 (08:16):
Golly?

Speaker 2 (08:17):
Who knew? These people are such idiots.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
What's fascinating about them is that so much of the
Democratic Socialists of America.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Leadership are actually rich kids.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
They're like trust fund kids, and they're costplaying being poor
and being working class.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
They're wearing it like a costume.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
If someone calls who is a male says they can
be a female, then well, I can't I a rich
NEPO baby say that. I am pull perfect example Anty
Rent Radical and Zo Ron Mamdani Powell, who is quote
squatting in Brooklyn, is the daughter of a themed music

(09:01):
studio owner who recorded rock legends like David Bowie, the Ramones, Blondie,
Lou Reed's son Akuth, the Foo Fighters, and Coldplay. Oh yeah,
Racy Rosenthal grew up in a one point seven million
dollar pad with elad access to the music industry. She's
been to the Grammys, and now she is down with capitalism.

(09:24):
Oh come on, come on, She's just These people are awful.
So anyway, we're gonna talk to David Strom about that
at two thirty. And in the meantime, I want to
jump right into something. And you know what, I don't
normally call out my friend and colleague Ross Kaminski, but

(09:46):
I'm gonna do that today, not viciously because I couldn't
because I love Ross. But yesterday Ross posted something on
his substack, the Ross Reporter, which you should also subscribe to,
about the new information about what Fauci knew about the potential.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
For miscarriage with the COVID vaccine.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
Now, there's a lot of talk about the nature of
the cover up that doctor Fauci and his ilk created
and shoved onto the American people at the same time
that they were mandating that people had to get vaccinated.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
And Ross, though he.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
Doesn't defend Fauci, and as a matter of fact, he
even says he turned into a self important, narcissistic.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
Villain, and he did.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
But he says that the stuff that's coming out right
now about when Fauci knew that there may be a
problem with miscarriages and pregnancies, and the fact that he
didn't share anything about it, and I want to just
read one party he said, it's important to understand what
seems to have been going on in the Fauci conversation.

(10:58):
Fauci was talking very early in the vaccine phase of
COVID about a possible theoretical risk for which there was
not data or evidence at that time.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
So two things.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
First, if he thought that risk was high, ro says,
if there were even data suggesting the risk was real,
he should have disclosed it.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
That's where he should have stopped.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
Second, he continues, even that isn't quite as obvious a
conclusion you as you might think if the risk of
not getting vaccinated was even higher, but there was no
data about any of that at that time.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
Now, the dirty little secret.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Is that when Ffiser declared the vaccines safe for pregnant women,
they were basing that on studies of pregnant rats. Now,
you guys know that I share stuff, I share medical studies. Okay, Look,
there's this medical study that shows that this particular drug
may have an impact on Alzheimer's disease. But I'm always
very careful to tell you if it's just in the

(11:54):
mouth study phase, don't get excited, because like eighty five
percent of things that were in the mouse study phase
do not work on humans. And when I say eighty
five percent, that's not.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
The exact number, but it's almost that high.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
So to use any sort of mouth study as a
defining you know, oh, look it's safe because it was
safe for my that's absurd and would not be allowed
in any other drug study.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
But this was operation warp speed.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
And corners were cut and decisions were made and people
were put in the dark. Now, had they not mandated
vaccine over all of this, I would be able to
sit back and say, you know what it is, what
it is. People who chose to take the vaccine, they
knew it was, you know, rush through. They knew it.
They knew it. So my issue here is that in

(12:46):
any other context, for any other disease, even if a
drug has been shown to be effective and safe in
certain settings, the FDA will prevent people who have a
debilitating terminal disease from being able to access those medications
because the FDA says the risk of harm is so

(13:07):
unknown that we cannot allow those people, even though they're
going to die anyway.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
We cannot allow those.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
People to have access to these experimental drugs. And yet
we have the COVID vaccine, which was mandated in healthcare settings.
Who works mostly, Who are most of the bodies in
any hospital.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
They are female. They are nurses.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
There are far more nurses than doctors in any healthcare setting.
And yet those same females were told that they had
to get the vaccine, which we didn't know was safe
for pregnant women. We knew it was safe for pregnant rats,
but we didn't know it was safe for pregnant women,
and yet they.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
Were mandated to have the shots.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
Now, the connection between COVID vaccines and miscarriage is not
at all certain. I want to be clear about that.
I think that's important. There've been multiple studies that tracked
women and their studies out of places like Den where
every single person is followed because they have a national

(14:03):
healthcare system with no outside availability. So you have to
stay in the healthcare system because and that way they.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
Have all of your data. So there has not been
a definitive connection.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
But at the point that doctor Fauci sent a text
message that says pregnant women in the first trimester could
be at risk for miscarriage because of the cytokine storm
that we know some people get after the second injection,
at that point, the guidance should have been wait until
after the first trimester before you get your COVID vaccine.

(14:37):
That should have been the guidance, especially because by the
time the COVID vaccine rolled out, we had a pretty
clear picture of who was getting extremely sick and who
was dying from the vaccine, and it was not child
bearing age women.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
It just wasn't Mandy.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
So, Chuck, isn't your handyman go dark. He is for
a lot of stuff, But I have a couple jobs
that I need done that he can't do anyway. So
I'm very frustrated to think that this would be a
sort of you know what, let's get Falci no no,

(15:18):
especially because we now know everything else this man conspired
to hide from the public, to keep from the American
people things he made up out of whole cloth, and
then tried to say that he had nothing to do
with We know that he leaned on school districts to
shut down, he leaned on other people to shut down
the economy. This man gets no no grace from me

(15:39):
at all.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
None.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
And when it comes to pregnant women, when you go
to the doctor, I had no idea before I got
pregnant with my daughter that this is what they do.
You go in for that first visit, they tell you're pregnant,
You're all excited.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
You're like, oh my gosh, this is amazing.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
And then they turn around and they're like, Okay, let's
talk about things you should restrict right now, starting right now.
Did you know you're not supposed to eat lunch meat, Zach,
when you're pregnant.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
Lunch meat that's a new one truck. Oh yeah, lunch meat.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Can't eat sushi. You're not supposed to eat undercooked meat.
You're supposed to eat your meat well done. So when
I tell you I did not eat beef for nine months,
I did not eat beef for nine months because I
cannot eat well done meat, it's not happening. They give
you a list of things that you're not supposed to eat,
even though when they said, and you shouldn't eat sushi,
I said, okay, what do women NINJAPANI when they're pregnant?

Speaker 2 (16:30):
And my midwife looked at me and goes, that.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
Is an excellent question that I don't have an answer to.
I got, well, I appreciate an answer, because sushi makes
up a good chunk of my diet. So they tell
you not to eat all of these things, even though
there is a minuscule chance that any of those items
are going to cause you or your baby any harm.
They just take them off the table out.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
Of an abundance of caution.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
And yet the same people who probably send out the
same dumbass warnings for pregnant women couldn't be bothered to say, hey,
maybe wait until after your first trimester. I find that appalling,
and to me, it genuinely shows two things.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
Number One, there.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
Was a huge part of this vaccine rollout that was
just about experimentation.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
They just wanted to see what would happen because.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
They didn't know, they had no idea. And number two,
in my mind, it shows that they don't value an
unborn life. They don't value an unborn human that they
were willing to just throw it out there with only
rat evidence to back them up. And then demand that
pregnant women get these vaccines. Let me just say this,

(17:44):
pregnant women are at their most vulnerable and their least
logical when they are pregnant, because all they care about,
all they care about is protecting that baby. And I
understand that doctor Fauci was worried that everybody would not
take the vaccine, which is why he lied about it
over and over and over and over again. He lied

(18:06):
about it preventing transmission. Remember, you had to get vaccinated,
otherwise you're gonna give Grandma COVID and she was gonna die.
Come on, hey, Mandy, how many people were saved by
the COVID vaccine. I don't know the answer to that question,
and neither do you, and neither does doctor Fauci, and
neither does anyone else, because at the same time the

(18:27):
COVID vaccine was rolling out, COVID was getting less deadly,
as all viruses do. And if you guys listen to
this show, I don't even know how many times I
said that the evolution of a virus is it starts
out deadly and then it gets less deadly and more transmissible.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
That's how we have the common cold. I bet you
and the common Cold rolled out.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
It killed some people, and now it's just an annoyance
you have to deal with as you try to get
through your day. Oh, raw eggs, thank you Texter forgot
about raw eggs, Caesar dressing, undercooked.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
Yolkes, supposed to eat hard yokes.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
And yet they're going to tell you that a vaccine
that was only tested on rats is safe for your baby.
That is where I have a problem, and that is
where I give doctor Anthony Fauci no grace, none, none. Anyway,
So I don't normally pick on Ross, but man, own man,
did he get that wrong?

Speaker 2 (19:25):
A rod?

Speaker 1 (19:25):
And we're making our way through. I want to be
very very clear. Someone just said, Mandy, when you talk
about Fauci on the Common Spirit health text line, you
go off the deep end. All vaccines carry a small
amount of risk. You probably shouldn't be vaccinated for anything.
I'm not anti vaccine. I got the freaking COVID vaccine.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
My ire.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
My fire is that the government conspired to keep information
from us while ordering us to get a vaccine. People
lost their jobs over not getting this shot, and now
the government has created an environment where I don't believe
leave anything the CDC says, the more I find out

(20:03):
about how doctor Fauci behind the scenes worked very diligently
to prevent real information like the origin of the VACA,
the of the disease in the first place, from getting
out to the American people.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
I am not down with this.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
If they had not mandated the vaccine, if they had
not kicked people out of the military for not getting
the vaccine, if people had not lost their jobs for
not getting the vaccine that they then didn't give us
all the information about, maybe I would feel differently, But
they chose.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
To be totalitarian about it.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
Instead of urging us to make an informed decision, they
thrust it upon us while.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
Withholding very important details.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Do you think I would have recommended a vaccine if
Pfizer had released all of the research that they had,
which they didn't. No, I would not have. I would
have said, get it if you want. I'm not gonna
begrudge anyone.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
Flying back from Vancouver, there were multiple people on the
airplane wearing masks, multiple people, like more than a handful.
I no longer give those people any thought. I just
think to myself, obviously they're immunal, compromised and that makes
them feel better about themselves. But those people have probably
been scared forever. They're never gonna take the mask off.

(21:22):
And the government did that, and they didn't do it honestly,
And I don't understand why you're not mad about that too.
Every one of my family is vaccinated. I've got my
kid vaccinated. But you know what, I had concerns about
the fact that you take a little, tiny baby to
the pediatrician's office and they stab them with a needle
to give them five different.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
Vaccines at the same time.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
Vaccines, by design, are there to attack your nervous system.
They are there to inspire an immune response by putting
your body on fire, attacking whatever they've just injected you with.
That's how they work. They build up your natural mimas unity.
Well it's not natural, but you know what I'm saying.
And when I expressed this to my pediatrician, the first
pediatrician told me I could leave the practice, and I did.

(22:08):
Second pediatricians said, no problem, we can space mount. Okay,
that's all I was asking for. Let's just not assault
my tiny baby's body. And let me tell you something,
every time we gave q vaccines, every single time she
had a fever, and if you look at any kind
of you know, parenting said oh no, no, no, kids
don't get a fever after about Yeah they do, they do.

(22:32):
And I don't understand why so many people are so
willing to.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
Be blase about it.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
And this isn't like, hey they didn't give me a
tax cut, or hey they gave me a speeding ticket.
This is the government mandating that you put something in
your body that got raced through an approval process that
would have never been allowed for anyone else. At the
same time, they gave the drug company immunity from any
kind of lawsuits about the product that they lied to

(23:01):
us about in order to get us to take it
while they were forcing.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
Us to Why why does that not make you crazy?

Speaker 1 (23:09):
And a genuine question text sir, I'd like you to
text in why that's okay with you?

Speaker 2 (23:14):
Why is that okay? What else are you going to
allow the government to tell you and force you to do?
What is that? So much went wrong, so much was
done so badly that if.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
We were a functioning society, a functioning government, functioning governmental agencies,
there would have already been a massive investigation, both internally
and in public into those failures, so the next time
we do this again, we don't have to do the
same dumbassy one more time.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
But we don't have that, do we.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
We have ran Paul the lone Souldier standing up, screaming
his set off like chicken little, only to find out
the sky was actually falling. So super super frustrated. It
just really frustrated Mandy, my doctor's.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
And ic U nurse.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
They're required to get vaccinated for a whole host of things.
I don't have a problem with that, I really don't.
This vaccine was different. This vaccine did not go through
the same rigorous testing that every.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
Other vaccine did.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
It just did and then to be mandated a vaccine
that we didn't have good data on. And the argument
that how could doctor found she be held accountable when
we didn't have good data, that there might have been
a side of kinstorm that could have led to a miscarriage.
How can well shouldn't you air on the side of
the baby. Shouldn't you air on.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
The side of caution to give that baby the best chance?
And the worst part is this. When my daughter was born,
she was born in very dramatic fashion. Her heart was.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
Sort of stopping. And thankfully I noticed that she stopped
moving and I went to the doctor. She was born
via urgency section, and after they delivered her via urgency section,
she the doctor looked at me and said, we'll see
if she.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
Survives the first twenty four hours.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
That sentence, that entire scene, I could describe in great detail.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
I could tell you what the doctor looked like.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
I could tell you what kind of lab coat he
was wearing, and I can tell you what color shirt
he had on. When someone looks at you and says
about your newborn baby, will see if she survives the
next twenty four hours, it is imprinted on your brain
in such a way that you will never forget it.
And she is seventeen and a half years old now,
and occasionally I still find myself wondering what I did

(25:38):
to cause that problem. Now, after they delivered her, they
took the placenta, they send it off.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
To a lab.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
They checked to see, you know, what could have gone wrong.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
And I went and went back in for a follow up,
and I said, what happened?

Speaker 2 (25:50):
Why did this happen? And the doctor looked at me
and said, we just don't know.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
There's so much about pregnancy and delivery and field developed
that we do not know. And there was no specific reason.
You had no illness, there was no virus, there was
no malfunction.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
It just happened. And I still think about it.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
So what about the women who maybe, maybe, just maybe
they were coincidentally the group of women that are going
to lose the pregnancy, because unfortunately, miscarriages happen every day
in this country.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
They happen all the time.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
They happen with such great frequency that it is just
it's insane how many babies are naturally lost in this
country every single year. And for those mothers, what if
you find out now, oh yeah, it could cause of
p cytokines. Did I get a vaccination that caused me
to lose a baby? That's insane, you guys. Somebody else

(26:47):
pointed out in my list of things you're not supposed
to eat, you're also supposed to not supposed to eat
blue cheese, You're not supposed to eat.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
Blue meat, cheese.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
All of these things with a minuscule, minuscule amount of
risk are taken off the table for pregnant women. And
yet doctor Fauci ran around and told everybody to get
vaccinated especially pregnant women especially.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
He used those words. Come on, how does that not
infuriate you? How does it not make you so angry?
How does it not make you distrust the government at
a really big level.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
I don't understand that. I mean, you may not understand this.
So wow, Mandy. Every year when I get my flu shot,
I'm sick for twenty four hours part of the process.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
Well, that does mean your body is working, just does Mandy.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
The Nuremberg Accord prohibits such things as mandatory vaccination. However,
the Civil Vaccination Mandate defeats this. The vaccination was not mandatory,
but you can be terminated if you're not vaccinated, and
that kind of feels a little more mandatory then, you know. Yeah,
my family tried pressuring me into getting the vacs.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
I held strong. It was crazy. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
Trump wants to spread out the MMR vaccines as well.
I agree that it should be, But I'm curious as
to how you feel about that. We spaced our MMR vaccines.
We spaced all the vaccines. I found the most wonderful
pediatrician who sat and had a conversation with me about
my concerns.

Speaker 2 (28:23):
She shared with me a.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
Lot of data, a lot of long term research studies,
a lot of law, I mean a lot of information.
She said, how much information do you want about this?
I said, give me everything you got. She spent her
time going to conferences and we talked about it, and
she said, we can absolutely do this for you and
do this for your baby, and that's what we did.
This is what I don't get. Is it inconvenient for

(28:48):
the doctors? Why is there such pushback against spreading these
vaccinations out?

Speaker 2 (28:54):
That's the thing I really don't understand, Mandy.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
All four of my healthy kids passed when getting their
immunizations for sixth grade. They were given so many at
once their bodies freaked out. Yeah yeah, yeah, yes, Texter.
You're also not supposed to smoke cigarettes. But those I
mean those you know smoking cigarettes we know can lead

(29:19):
to lower birth weight. There's a direct connection. But if
you eat lunch meat, your chances of having a problem
are very, very small, and yet you're supposed to just
maybe lol. In the military, you go down a line,
you get about twenty shots at a time. People who've
been in the military, regardless of branch or job, are
twice as likely to come down with als coincidence. I
doubt it that from Brian. You're also an adult when

(29:44):
you're getting those shots, so hopefully it's not as bad.
So again, I'm waiting for the text or to text
me back.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Why did you not? Why does this not upset you?
There you go.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
And normally, I just I'm gonna say this, I don't
normally talk about the children of politicians unless they are
actively involved in their parents' political careers. Hunter Biden being
one of those. He has actively been a part of
the Biden family mafia for a long time. But this

(30:22):
story about Lauren Vobert's son, Lauren Vobertson obviously has issues.
I mean, there's no doubt about it. This kid's been
in trouble with the law multiple times. Went on a
burglary spree a few years ago for which he was arrested.
Now he's been arrested for something far more serious. He's

(30:42):
facing charges of sexual exploitation of a child, induce entice,
sexual exploitation of a child, possession with intent, sexual exploitation
of a child video, and two counts of contributing to
the delinquency of a minor. When I first wrote this
story on the blog today, no details had been out,

(31:03):
but Colorado Politics came out and kind of gave the
rest of the story. Apparently, Tyler Bobert made a sex
video when he was eighteen years old with a seventeen
year old girl. Now that in and of itself is
not as big a problem on the face of it

(31:24):
as you might think. We do have a Romeo and
Juliet law that would have protected the sex with the
seventeen year old girl, But it's the video that is
the problem. Now, the existence of the video is only
known because someone created an anonymous Instagram account and posted
that video and other videos of people having sex with

(31:49):
you know, teenage miners being you know, later teenage years miners,
but nonetheless underage girls, and that Instagram account, according to investigators,
they believe it was created by none other than Tyler Bobert.
So not only did he make the video with an

(32:09):
underage girl, he then shared the video on social media.
And now that gets into are you sharing child pornography situations?
I actually think if this is, if this, all of
these details are accurate, He's lucky that these.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Are the only charges that he's facing. He's lucky.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
Because I mean, we've had cases in the past, and
I can't remember if it was in Florida or if
it had to have been in Louisville where we had
a girl in Kentucky who was.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
Like I think she was fifteen sixteen.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
She shared sexually explicit images with her boyfriend, who of
course then turned around and showed them to everyone. But
she was charged with trafficking child porn because of the
way the law was written. There was no exception for
if you hosted it yourself, because the law predated the
kind of social media sharing that was happening at that time.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
So this is you know, like I said, I.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
Try not to talk about the kids of politicians because
they don't sign up to be in the public eye.
And you know, maybe if Tyler Bobert's going to be
a dumb ass, he should be able to be a
dumb ass in private. By the way, the child was
a seventeen year old girl. He was eighteen, she was seventeen.
But nonetheless she is underage for the purposes of creating

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adult content.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
So that is the problem.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
And now he's going to have to face these charges
and perhaps we'll end up a registered sex offender. So
it's just an ugly ugly situation. But this kid is
and he's not a kid now, he's in his twenties now,
this happened several years ago. He's also had problems with
Child Protective Services for not taking care of his kid.

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I mean, just a mess. I hope this young man
can get it together. Maybe this is the thing. Maybe
this is gonna be the arrest, the thing that makes
him sort of, you know, go wow, I should probably
make some better choices, because I don't think he's making
any better choices. So it's it's just it's gross. Do

(34:23):
I blame Lauren Brobert?

Speaker 3 (34:25):
No?

Speaker 1 (34:25):
I mean, at some point, your kids have to be
responsible for their own actions. Is it a commentary on
her mothering.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
I don't know. I really don't.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
I think it's extremely difficult to be a great parent
and be a member of Congress. I'm just gonna say it.
I think it's really really challenging. You're gone half the time,
more than half when you're at home, you're constantly doing events,
going around, fundraising, doing all of that stuff. I think
it's just it's a really difficult position to be in.

(34:56):
This is one of the reasons I'm not giving AOC
any guph for announcing that she's freezing her eggs. I
do think it will be terribly sad for her if
she finds out later like many many, many young women
who froze their eggs find out that they still can't conceive.
There's a sweet spot for childbearing, and when you're forty,
that's not it.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
And just because.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
Cameron Diaz had a baby at fifty two doesn't mean
you get to do the same. And we'll take you
right up until three pm today now. I talked yesterday
with my friend Jonathan Flora. If you heard the interview
in the last hour about you know, striking up conversations.
And one of the things we talked about was when

(35:37):
I first met Deborah Flora, who's now my show partner
from Mandy and deb I met her an event. I
went home and I told my husband, I said, I
want to be friends.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
With this woman. But how how do you make friends
as an adult?

Speaker 1 (35:48):
You know, when you're a kid, you walk up to
somebody the playground and say let's be friends, and they're
like yeah, and then your besties forever. But when you're
an adult, meeting people and having things in common that
bring you together is really, really challenging. My next guest
knew about that and he's created an answer for that.
Tim mess Welcome to the show.

Speaker 8 (36:09):
Hi Mandy, thanks so much for having me. And you
couldn't describe it better. I definitely ran into that problem
myself when I moved to Colorado from Chicago.

Speaker 7 (36:18):
And I didn't know anyone.

Speaker 8 (36:19):
I just had a dream of living near the mountains
and getting outdoors, and I put the part of actually
meeting people ladder and I had to find a solution
for that myself.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Now are you in that because you've created a thing
called nearby Grid And we're going to get into this
just a second, but are you in the tech field?

Speaker 2 (36:37):
Do you have a tech background.

Speaker 8 (36:41):
I've always wanted to be in tech, so I did
study philosophy and legal studies in college, but it's really
been the rise of AI that's helped me get into tech.
So I have some mobile gaming apps that I have
guides for, like games like League of Legends and things
like that. But tech has evolved so much lately that

(37:01):
I've been able to make my dream app because I
have a social media background as well. So it's a
social media platform called nearby Grid that started just here
in Colorado.

Speaker 7 (37:13):
So yeah, that's my background.

Speaker 8 (37:15):
And recently we've been featured on Fox News and the
article has also been reposted by sites like Yahoo and Aol.
And we're really hitting it off here in Denver for
finding local communities and groups and events and having people
meet and discover each other through the platform.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
One of the things I.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
Love about this, especially in the metro the size of Denver,
is that if I meet someone and I find out
that they live in wheat Ridge, We're not going to
be friends because I live in Douglas County, right, so
I'm not going to drive, you know, an hour to
go see my friend nearby. Grid kind of solves that problem.
Explain how this works.

Speaker 7 (37:52):
Exactly. So it's a geolocation app.

Speaker 8 (37:55):
You can choose to put yourself on a map or
a grid, and it'll show you all the closest users,
events and groups all nearby you, sorted by location. So
for example, I have my paddleboarding group on there, and
that's what inspired me to make the app. We ran
into an issue where we had about ten members, and

(38:16):
other apps out there wanted to charge a monthly fee
of about forty dollars a month, but we came up
with a better solution, and that's just have our own
app where groups don't have to pay, make it free
for all groups and organizers to use the app and
host events with unlimited attendees, and make it even more
easily discoverable by just seeing everything on a local map

(38:39):
rather than having to search for the events you like
or to use swipe features like some social media apps have.

Speaker 7 (38:46):
Like so i've left and right. That's really not intuitive,
I don't think so.

Speaker 8 (38:50):
I just made it really easy where you could see
everything visually right on a map. And we've really hit
it off with I guess around forty plus groups right
here and done already using that well, I download time.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
I downloaded the app yesterday, I created my free membership.
I got my own Mandy at Mandy that's me on
the nearby Grid app. So if you see me, that's
me because I got my own name because it's so new.

Speaker 2 (39:14):
I'm very excited about that.

Speaker 1 (39:15):
But I will tell you a couple of things, and
this is just based on my own observations on nextdoor.
Because I'm older than you are, I know that you
created this with young people in mind, and I'm.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
Here for that. I think that's great, but there's.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
Just as much of a need for people over fifty
five over sixty to find community. Sure, if you go
to next door, that's where you see moms going, hey,
is there a mommy group around here? Does anybody want
to start a mommy walking group? Or seniors saying hey,
does anybody want to do a book club for older women?

Speaker 2 (39:46):
You know, things like that.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
So I hope that you make some categories that are
specifically user friendly to the older folks as well. I
mean sometimes it's like, would anybody like to start a
group to give each other rides to doctors appointments? I mean, yeah, yeah,
My mom is eighty two and she has a little
group of older women that that's what they do for

(40:10):
each other. So I see so much possibility here. Really,
I just think this is such a great idea. What's
the feedback that you're getting from the people who are
already on the app.

Speaker 8 (40:19):
We've had amazing feedback so far. So people are loving it.
They're loving that it's free, and they're loving that by
if you signed up by August thirty first, you get
unlimited for life. It's sort of like an early Denver promo.
But we have some large groups already of forty plus
people and a few groups on our app, and my
powderboarding group is already at one hundred and eighty plus people.

(40:41):
But people are loving like checking out the local groups,
seeing what's around them. And we've had so many outdoors
the activities because it's summer. But I totally agree that
there should be more options, like I guess book clubs,
and yeah, we do have like Denver Trivia League, which
is awesome.

Speaker 7 (40:59):
They joined our that's a great indoor activity.

Speaker 8 (41:01):
We've also had a few bars and restaurants join and
they post their events so you know in advance what
to expect when you go to the bar restaurant for
trivia and nights like that.

Speaker 7 (41:13):
But there's so many possibilities.

Speaker 8 (41:14):
It's really a self serve app, so you can make
your groups for rides to like the dentist's office or
the airport, things like that, and it automatically just makes
a group chot for everyone who's interested.

Speaker 7 (41:25):
That's super easy.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
I was going to ask you how the actual process works.
If I see someone that has the same interest that
I say, I want to start a let's see, I
want to start a mommy walking group, and I see
other moms on there. How does that process work? How
do I reach out to them? What does that look like?
I mean, I don't necessarily want to be inundated with
a bunch of people sending me messages.

Speaker 8 (41:47):
How do I control that? Yeah, So the first step
is to make your group. So you would make your
mommy walking group. Maybe you would make a name for it,
and it would be maybe specifically in your area, so
you would say Douglas County for example, Mommy Walking Group.
And then what you could do is you could sort

(42:08):
on the map by people who have similar interests, so
if their parents with kids, you look through the filters
and sort by individuals who are on the map, and
then in a chat with them, you could just click
invite to group. So you don't necessarily have to know
these people really well before you invite them to your group,
but you could see that they have similar interests and

(42:29):
then say, hey, do you want to be part of
this group? And then that's really a way to get
new members into your group right off the bat. And
then you can also host events for your group, and like,
anyone who attends a single event will become a group
member and they'll see your future events too, so it's
super easy.

Speaker 1 (42:47):
I noticed when I signed up you had options like
what do you want out of the nearby grid app?
And one of them is like dating? Then there's friendship.
I mean, do you ever foresee this being anything like
a dating app? How does it differ from like the
BFF sites that are out there where you're supposed to
be able to find a best friend.

Speaker 8 (43:09):
Yeah, I totally get that, so I built it with
that exact question in mind. The app is primarily for friends,
and pretty much everyone who joins the app has friends
is one of their intents on the app, but you
can also set an intent as dating, for example, and
then you'll also see the others who might be interested
in you who have dating as their intent. So if

(43:31):
you're on there as a single, it's great for dating,
But if you're on there as a married couple, for example,
you never have to see people who are interested in dating.

Speaker 7 (43:41):
I never have to see their profiles at all.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
Well, it's very.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
Very cool, and I think that I hope it grows
very very quickly, because this is going to be one
of those things that the more people that are on it,
the better it's going to be. The more options that
you have, you've got a good core in the Denver
like in this in Denver proper. I'm talking to you
today because I want people in the urbs on this Okay,

(44:04):
I like, yeah, I don't want to drive to Denver.
I don't want to have to drive up by twenty five.
I want people in Douglas County that I can go
do stuff with. So hopefully we can get you more
people in the burbs of all ages.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
And I love this concept.

Speaker 1 (44:20):
Because we are we are so desperately lonely in our society,
and people, especially younger people, have a really hard time
just talking to strangers. So I get that. I think
this is a wonderful addition to the scene. This guy said,
mommy group senior women. What about men?

Speaker 2 (44:38):
Dude, there's all kinds of things on this app.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
What are some of the groups that you've already got
going on, Tim, so I.

Speaker 8 (44:45):
Can list off a whole bunch. We have paddleboarding, a
Nintendo Switch group. We have Workout Buddies, Denver Trivia League,
Summit Sports League for dodgeball.

Speaker 7 (44:55):
We have up the Creek Ski and Recreation Club.

Speaker 8 (44:58):
We have Mile High Climbing bad and the Manitude and
Climb group, which I attended last week. We have tennis
and pickleball, we have volleyball, a bowling league. We have
restaurants and bars like Lady Justice Brewing, Gregor's Kitchen and
Top House, eight Ace Eat and serve Vanishing West Siders.
And we also have board in groups, hockey fans groups,

(45:22):
local art classes and more and ultimately really expanding out here.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
Ultimately, if you don't hear something that you like, if
your passion is not represented in that list, you can
start your own group. And that's what this That's what
makes it so great, right. I mean, you could go
on and say you love to play D and D,
but you want to get a game together that's closer
to your neighborhood. You can do this on this app.
Whatever you're interested. You're a woodworker, you're a wood carver,

(45:46):
you're just a guy who likes to stand in your
garage and drink beer. Whatever it is. You can create
your own group and you can you can basically reach
out to people with similar interests. That's what makes this
app such a great idea. Tim, I love this. I'm
I'm not only an early adopter. I am going to
be watching you to see how well, this pans out.
Are there any like in the future would you do

(46:09):
like a nearby Grid event in a different community where
you're just like, look, if you're on the platform, regardless
of your interests, you're invited to come hang out and
meet all these other cool people because you know, you
never know what would overlap him. Is that something you
would do in the future.

Speaker 8 (46:25):
I appreciate that so much that you're enjoying the app
as an early adopter, and yes, I've definitely thought about that.
That's one of the things that I'm actually looking forward
to most about the app is I'm not making any
revenue yet because I'm letting everyone get all the unlimited
features for free as they sign up right now. But
down the road as the app generates revenue, I do

(46:46):
want to host near by Grid events for people of
all interests, and I think that would be a great
way to get people out and mingling in the community
as well.

Speaker 1 (46:55):
I think people are hungry for it and they want
the opportunity to meet with other people. They just don't
know how to do it anymore, and that's that's what's
so sad. I think I'm gonna start a group called
No Phones for two hours and we're just gonna have
no phones for two hours. I was just on a
cruise tim where no one had the Wi Fi package

(47:16):
and we chatted with everyone.

Speaker 2 (47:17):
It was glorious.

Speaker 7 (47:19):
I mean it was just amazing.

Speaker 1 (47:21):
Nice to connect with human beings again from all over
the world. It was just it was so good. Okay
to the text, true ass is it good for swingers?

Speaker 2 (47:28):
I mean, you could start your own group. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
Are there restrictions on what you can create? I mean,
obviously you're not gonna let selation. I mean, well, well
maybe you will. Are there any sort of guardrails on
what kind of groups that people can create?

Speaker 8 (47:45):
Yes, there are guardrails, and there's terms and conditions that'll
specifically mention them when you try to make a group,
and there's filters on the sort of words that you
use when creating a group. So unfortunately I had a
group like swingers or anything with that framing wouldn't be
allowed because it's more focused on recreation, getting out into

(48:05):
the community and things like that.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
I mean, they're getting out of the community. You could say, no,
just kidding, So sorry, Texter, that is not going to
be a thing you can do. Somebody just said nearby
Grid is not fee, it is free. Anyone who joins
Nearby Grid by August thirty one gets Unlimited for Life
for free as an early adopter. So I don't know
what you did, Texter, but I signed up for free yesterday,

(48:28):
so I know that it is free. So if you
have a problem, maybe do you guys have like a
contact page or you know any I put a link
to the web page on the blog today.

Speaker 2 (48:37):
Yeah, and Mandy blog dot You.

Speaker 8 (48:38):
Can always contact support at nearby grid dot com.

Speaker 7 (48:42):
And it is free. It will always be free.

Speaker 8 (48:46):
There are paid tiers that will come up September first,
but Unlimited for Life really offers a lot of features,
like you can see the seven hundred and fifty nearest people,
you can view.

Speaker 7 (48:58):
The map and grid while you're offline.

Speaker 8 (49:00):
There's more filter sets to filter through the people and
events near you, and you can coast or co host
unlimited groups with unlimited attendees. So that's for anyone who
signs up now before August thirty first, and even after
August thirty first, there will always be a free tier.

Speaker 7 (49:19):
Nothing in the way of getting into a group.

Speaker 8 (49:21):
Or event that requires you to pay unless the group
itself has a fee.

Speaker 1 (49:26):
For example, this texter said, listening from Florida sounds awesome,
which brings the question when does this go nationwide?

Speaker 7 (49:34):
So that's a great question.

Speaker 8 (49:36):
We did have Box thirty one Denver, an amazing article
written by Jacob Factor and it was republished by Yahoo
and AOL. So we do have one thousand plus users
here in Colorado, but we're approaching two thousand total users.
So our other thousand is nationwide people getting set up

(49:57):
with their community. And with that, we have half our
groups and events here in Denver, but half our nationwide.
So you can really get anything started in your community
and then just invite people to your group or event page.

Speaker 1 (50:11):
And I would say, I'm going to start recommending because
I love the next Stoor app just to watch people
complain about everything. It just gives me an immense amount
of joy to see people bitch about everything.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
But now when I see.

Speaker 1 (50:23):
Those people saying, hey, does anybody have a mommie walking group,
I'm gonna say, hey, you should start one on nearby
app or nearby grid the app and suggest it. I
think that's the way you're going to get the most
growth is people saying, hey, I downloaded this app. I
started this group. You should do it too, so, Tim Has,
the founder of nearby Grid. Nearbygrid dot com is the
basic website. You can download it from your Apple Store

(50:45):
or your Android store. It's available now for free until
August thirty. First, Tim, I can't wait to see what
this turns into and I really appreciate you taking the
time to share it with us today.

Speaker 8 (50:56):
Thank you so much for having me. I can't wait
to see where it goes as well. So glad to
have you as an early user. I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
Mandy at Mandy, that's me, Tim Hass, I appreciate you, man.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
I'll talk to you again soon, Talk soon. Thank you,
all right.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
That is Tim Has. It's just a really cool, cool thing.
I love this text message. This text message says, guy
starts an app for people to meet, and all of
a sudden, freaks and weirdos want to start swinger groups losers.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
Yeah, I don't.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
I don't know about Mandy. Can I get that swinger's
phone number?

Speaker 2 (51:28):
Please?

Speaker 6 (51:28):
Ha ha?

Speaker 2 (51:29):
I mean really ha ha? Are you just.

Speaker 1 (51:33):
Fly fishing? You could start a group for fly fishing.
You could start a group for anything except swingers. As
we've established, but it is just so hard to meet
people that you like, and having one thing in common
with someone is such a great way to start a relationship.
One thing I've noticed is I've gotten older, and I've

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realized this, Well, when you have longtime friends, you're willing
to put up with some of their crap because the
history of the relationship. But when you're meeting new friends,
you don't have that history to fall back on. And
when they have their crap, and by the way, we
all have our crap, we all do. We all bring
some crap to the situation, right And when when the

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newer friends, you know, their crap gets in the way,
you're far less likely to give them, you know, a
little space on that. So but if you have that
core thing that you enjoy together, and maybe you're in
five different groups and you have five different sets of
friends that you do five different things with, next door
is a basket of deplorable karens, Yes, it is, and
it is glorious. I love seeing what people complain about

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on Nextoor. Zach, you're young, Do you ever go on
next door or is it just all old people complaining?

Speaker 2 (52:46):
Which is why I'm there.

Speaker 5 (52:47):
My current setup in my apartment. It's just like a
less homey neighborhood. So I'm not on it right now.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 5 (52:52):
But when I was in college and it was more
of like you know, on the hill and and older,
more of like an actual neighborhood, I was on it
all the time, and I would get a riot laughing
at the stuff bortor Rights would complain about on that.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
Derekly funny hysterically.

Speaker 1 (53:07):
My favorite is this, like this actually happened on my
nextra rep Does anyone know who this man is? Driving
back and forth? And puts a picture of the guy's
truck and the scuttle butt. Now all that was that
does anyone know this man driving by in his truck?

Speaker 2 (53:27):
That's the post, the whole post. Immediate, it's like, well,
you need to call the police, Like wait, what how
do we escalate from? Does anyone know this man in
this truck too? Immediately? You need to call the police.

Speaker 5 (53:39):
Yeah, unless it's like menacingly or he's following me or
that's crazy, that's nuts.

Speaker 3 (53:45):
I know.

Speaker 1 (53:46):
By the way, we have confirmation Texter number one is
not a swinger. Just curious about the boundaries. I bet
you are curious Texter Dog is yillity group. You could
do that if you want to. What if you don't
like people?

Speaker 2 (53:59):
Is there a group? But you could start one.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
Could you imagine if there was a group on nearby
grid that was just like people who don't like other people,
and you could all agree to not show up at
the same place at the same time, and then you
could all be alone at your homes knowing there was
other people doing the same thing.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
It would create community. And yet not.

Speaker 1 (54:19):
Mandy, it seems like nudism and swingers could be a group,
and that way, it's still outdoor recreation. I mean, I
feel like you're pushing the boundaries there, you know. And
one thing about nudists, they're usually the people you don't
want to see naked.

Speaker 2 (54:35):
I mean I've heard from the internet anyway.

Speaker 1 (54:38):
Coming up in the next segment, I have a lot
of stories on the blog today, but this one I
think is really important. It has to do with something
I love talking about, and that is happiness. I don't
love talking about it as much as Arthur Brooks, though
he is the master when it comes to the study
of happiness, and we'll get into some of the stuff

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he's found next. How to have a happy, productive, fulfilling life.
But nobody has spent more time studying happiness I think
officially studying happiness than Arthur Brooks, who for the past
two decades has been studying the art and science of

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happiness at Harvard Business School. He's written fifteen books. Fascinating guy,
Fascinating guy. And what's fascinating about him is that he
is very open about the fact that what began this journey,
this study into happiness for him was the recognition that
he was not a naturally happy person. I am a

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naturally happy person. It is my default position. I always say,
I can be situationally happy anywhere, Like whatever situation I
find myself in, I can find a reason to be
okay with what's happening now. Of course, terrible things happen,
and either are times when I am unhappy. But I'm
just talking about generally going through life. But I know

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a lot of people that happiness is not their default position,
and they go through life struggling, wondering why they can't
just be happy, seeking happiness in a variety of ways,
but not truly understanding the core tenants that sort of
underpin happiness. And Arthur Brooks has a new book out
with Oprah Winfrey, and the book is Build a Life

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You Want. His books are fantastic. I have not read
all fifteen. I've read three of them. But one of
the I think one of the worst self fulfilling prophecies
that people tell themselves when they realize that they are
not necessarily a happy person is that that's just how
they are, that's.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
Just how I am.

Speaker 1 (56:48):
It's just that this is my personality. I just this
is how I'm wired. And they run on the assumption
that there's nothing they can do about it. Well, Arthur
Brooks has been studying this for two decades. He says,
I have I am proof. He actually says that happiness
can be learned. So in this story from News Nation,
he's got the four pillars of happiness. Those four pillars

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are faith, family, friendship, and work that serves others. The
formula is really really simple, and it's just as simple
as it seems. The secret to finding happiness is never
going to come from an external source. It's never going

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to come from external validation. It's never going to come
from things. You're never going to be able to buy enough,
make enough, spend enough to just have that make you
be a happy person. But in the book Build the
Life you Want, The Art and Science of getting Happier,
he says, you know what, First of all, the happiness
slump is very real.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
The percentage of Americans.

Speaker 1 (57:53):
Who say they are not too happy rose from ten
percent to twenty four percent.

Speaker 2 (57:58):
But the good news is things.

Speaker 1 (58:00):
Specifically that he lays out actionable items that you can
invest in in yourself that can lead you to be
a happier person. Religious, spiritual, or even philosophical outlooks allow
you to transcend yourself and see the bigger picture, and
that is a big part of being a happy person.

Speaker 2 (58:21):
Admitting how small we are.

Speaker 1 (58:23):
In the grand scheme of things and reminding ourselves that
life is more than our own personal struggles is one
of the cornerstones. We were walking through a forest in
Alaska and they have these giant spruce pine trees. They're
super tall, and I just I love that feeling of
feeling very small, And when you're in Alaska, it's kind

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of like when you're in the mountains here and you
get to the top of a peak and you look
out over the vast expanse of the rocky mountains, if
that makes me feel small.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
But not in a bad way.

Speaker 1 (58:55):
It just makes me aware of how tiny my footprint.

Speaker 2 (59:00):
On this earth really is. Now.

Speaker 1 (59:02):
Arthur Brooks says we're not just physical creatures, we're metaphysical
ones too, that we have the divine in us, and
to tap into that we have to overcome worldly urges
and override our natural animalistic tendencies to become who we
were meant to be, and the key starts with a practice,
not your feelings. He defines faith as any belief system

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that provides meaning, purpose and moral structure, noting that research
shows that correlate strongly with life satisfaction. You need to
do something that makes you feel small and the universe big,
says Arthur Brooks. Faith is a central pillar in his
life and therefore his happiness, and it all started in
his teens and a conversion. He had a mystical experience

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when he was fifteen at the Shrine of Guadalupe in Mexico,
where he discovered he was Catholic. Some say it's adolescent rebellion.
My parents said, well, I guess it beats drugs one
way or the other. I became Catholic and I really
did that I'm really glad I did it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
Now, here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
Maybe you are a staunch atheist or a staunch agnostic,
and you have no interest in submitting to any kind
of God. He says, you can still be happy, but
you've got to have some kind of philosophical or spiritual
foundation that guides you. This, I think is why so
many younger people gen z is returning to church, because

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they're looking for that spiritual guide, you know, framework in
a culture that increasingly tells them that nothing is beautiful,
everything is beautiful, nothing is ugly, everything is ugly. Postmodernism
has destroyed so much, so incredibly much. But I'm wondering
if there are any of you in this listening audience
that have a different prescription for happiness. See for me,

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my happiness is very reliant on my attitude of gratitude,
and I talk about it, and I know people think
I'm full of crap. You guys cannot believe how many
times I say a little prayer that sounds like this, God,
thank you that I don't live in a country where
overwhelmingly people are starving, trying to figure out how they're

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going to eat and feed their children, and they suffer
from terrible diseases, and they don't.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
Have fresh water.

Speaker 1 (01:01:15):
And I have all of these things, and for that
I am grateful. Focusing on what you have instead of
what you don't have for me is a big part
of happiness. I also have a very strong relationship with God.
Though I am not a religious person, I would consider
myself a Christian. I absolutely believe that Jesus was a
child of God or the son of God. I believe that,

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but I don't necessarily need I'm not a joiner, so
I don't need the fellowship aspects. It's just personality wise.
It's just not something I need. But I still have
a very strong relationship with God. I'm wondering what you
guys who are out in this listening audience right now,
who believe and feel like you are mostly a happy person.
Nobody except a blithering idiot, goes through life happy all

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the time.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
Life gets hard.

Speaker 1 (01:02:02):
Life gets really challenging on occasion, things suck on occasion.
Not talking about that, I'm just talking in general. You know,
if you're the person that your friends say God, you're
always so upbeat to what do you attribute your happiness?

Speaker 2 (01:02:15):
That is my question, because the four.

Speaker 1 (01:02:18):
Pillars, according to Arthur Brooks after two decades of study,
are faith, family, friendships, and work that serves others. The
family aspect I think can be broader because I do
think that there are people who have maybe their biological
families or not good, but they have created their own

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family out of close friends and you know, that kind
of network that you consider family. I think those count
I think you can. I think you can create a
new family if you don't like the one you have.
You know, it's nice to have a family that you
can count on and rely on and you have that
ongoing history with and that sort of shared lineage, that's great.

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But if you don't I don't have that, you can
still create your own family. So five six six, n
I oh, go ahead and tell me to what do
you owe your happiness? I'm genuinely curious, Mandy says this text.
I feel like those pillars are over complicated. Happiness. Happiness
is learning to be content and being content if learning
to be grateful. That happiness survey that they do every

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year where Nordic countries win, Yeah, they don't ask those
people how happy they are on a scale of one
to ten. They ask those people on a scale of
one to ten. Are you living your best life? Which
is not a happiness question, that is a contentedness question. Actually,
the Happiness survey they do use the word happiness.

Speaker 2 (01:03:39):
They absolutely do.

Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
Mandy, it took him fifteen books to come to his answer. No,
he's gone over these things in prior books. I mean,
every self help book is just really a repackaging of
an idea that's already been expressed. But I do think
that Arthur Brooks has done some really amazing research on happiness,
like really really interesting. The three books that I've read
that are absolutely fantastic, absolutely fantastic. I try to buy

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myself happy, a new truck, a trip, anything.

Speaker 2 (01:04:10):
I'm you know, I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:04:14):
Fifty seven years old. I've done the buying of things.
I've had the things. Now I am buried in things,
and I'm trying to get rid of the things that
I bought to make me happy because they don't make
me happy anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
I have too many things.

Speaker 1 (01:04:26):
I've been thinking about having a virtual garage sale and
all you maniacs buy my stuff, but that just seems weird,
and then you I know too much about me, which
will be creepy and make me unhappy ironically on my
what do you attribute your happiness to question?

Speaker 2 (01:04:48):
A lot of you are weighing in.

Speaker 1 (01:04:50):
My happiness is because of my faith in Christ, my
friends from church.

Speaker 2 (01:04:53):
Strong faith.

Speaker 1 (01:04:55):
Three gratitudes for every negative thought, says this texter. This
text said, I believe it was Will Rodgers who said
a man's about as happy as he makes up his
mind to be. This texter said, the five f of
our family credo is faith, family, friends, fitness, and finances,
and that seems to have served us very well. This

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text reminded us that Roger Miller said, you can't roller
skate in a buffalo herd, but you can be happy
if you've a mind to listen more than you talk
and give more than you take. Stop trying to control
the process and focus on the outcome.

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
This texter said, Mandy, I feel like, well, we already
read that one. Let me go back up here.

Speaker 1 (01:05:40):
Dennis Brager has written a lot on happiness and references
gratitude as the basis of happiness, and I agree. One
of the things I have always loved about Dennis Prager's show,
which of course is much different now because he's still recovering,
it was his Happiness Hour.

Speaker 2 (01:05:52):
On Friday, because it was so refreshing.

Speaker 1 (01:05:54):
To hear people talk about how happiness takes effort, Happiness
takes intention. It's not just this thing that washes over
you magically. So much of it depends on your mindset.
I learned a lot about happiness from Dennis Braker over
the years. Mandy, I owe my happiness to my brother's
early departure from cancer. I was twenty three and chose

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to get busy living because life is too short for
not taking chances.

Speaker 2 (01:06:20):
Ended up following my dream.

Speaker 1 (01:06:22):
To become a fighter pilot as a result of taking chances,
and that led to true satisfaction. Constitution says we have
a right to pursue happiness. I learned early that happiness
is not a destination, but rather a pursuit. Very grateful
for friends and family I've made along the way, and
for the last ten years I've been listening to your show.
I am grateful that I am able to give you

(01:06:42):
a little bit of happiness. Jared wanted to know if
I was going to sell my sex swing on my
virtual garage sale.

Speaker 2 (01:06:51):
I answered him directly.

Speaker 1 (01:06:54):
This Texter said, Mandy, I wish someone would write a
book about how to be happy in your mid seventies
when much of your family and many of your friends
have died. They're in bad shape, and it's hard to
get a community at this age. I have no kids
except a foster daughter in another state who is not
really related to me, and I get that that's really
really tough as you get older and your peers pass away.

Speaker 2 (01:07:16):
This is one of the reasons.

Speaker 1 (01:07:17):
I try to maintain a group of friends that span
many ages. I've always had older female friends that were
often decades older than I was, and I often now
have younger female friends who are decades younger. But as
for what you're talking about now, I have a great
deal of sympathy for you. I know that that's incredibly difficult.

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I don't have great answers other than try to get
involved where you can. If you're not a member of
a church, this is one of those things where you
know what I just said.

Speaker 2 (01:07:49):
I'm not a joiner.

Speaker 1 (01:07:50):
But if I was really lonely and I didn't feel
like I had good options, I would join a church.
I would find a church where I found people that
I felt were enough like me, and I would be
involved in that church. Mandy, I agree with your gratitude, prayers,
and the other things you describe that are part of
your happiness. I trust that when I get down, I
will float back to the top of that sadness like

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a cork. One thing is that one thing that is
happy in my life are the great good laughs that
I enjoy when I listen to your show, and the
quirky things we experience throughout life.

Speaker 2 (01:08:23):
Mandy, not a day goes.

Speaker 1 (01:08:25):
By where I don't see someone who is worse off
than me by comparison. I have no problems, and this texter,
I'll let him have the final word. I attribute my
happiness to just snapping my fingers.

Speaker 2 (01:08:37):
And go and darn toutin.

Speaker 1 (01:08:39):
Hey, whatever he works, you got too, your way through it,
do what you gotta do. Those are all fantastic, By
the way, I love all of those.

Speaker 2 (01:08:45):
When we get back, I've got a couple of questions.
One have you.

Speaker 1 (01:08:49):
Asked your aging parents? Three hard questions? Number two?

Speaker 2 (01:08:52):
Where are all the American workers? Number three?

Speaker 1 (01:08:56):
Why is the University of Michigan decided to not give
scores to freshman? All of these things and a fascinating
interview with my friend David Strom from Hot Air Dot
com about his ongoing series of the Idiocy of the
Leadership of the Democratic Socialists of America. Coming up in
the next hour, Mandy Connell, they named the show after me.

(01:09:20):
It worked out really nicely that way. Zach Seeger's in
for Anthony Rodriguez as we whip through this hour. Coming
up at two thirty, my friend David Strom from hotair
dot com has been writing so much about the Democratic
Socialists of America in there, and I'm gonna put leadership
in air quotes, because if you're a socialist, you don't
need leadership, right, everyone decides together.

Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
We all decide together.

Speaker 1 (01:09:45):
But we're gonna talk to him at two thirty. But
in the meantime, I have a couple of things that
I want to get into. I have a bunch of
stuff on the blog every single day that I don't
have time to get to you on the show, but
I think it's interesting enough to include, and i'd love
for you to go look at the blog at mandyblog
dot com, where hopefully soon you'll be able to submit
your entry for high qup of the Week. Oh yeah,

(01:10:08):
I'm adding stuff. It's getting better. It's only getting better.
At mandyblog dot com anyway. So this story caught my
eye because it is it is such great information. Our
friends at Fox thirty one to have a story Three
big questions to ask your aging parents.

Speaker 2 (01:10:27):
And these are the three.

Speaker 1 (01:10:28):
Questions nobody wants to ask their aging parents. But let
me just say this, there's nothing worse than an unexpected
medical event that thrusts you into your parents' finances and life,
only to find out that things are not as buttoned
up as you thought they were. The things are not
on the firm footing that you thought they were. It

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is much better. And here the reason I shared this
article on the blog today is that you can send
this article to your parents or sit down with them
and say, hey, I saw this article and I've never
really asked you these questions, and so I think it's
time for us to have a conversation. Number one, how
healthy are your finances? Are your parents just getting by?

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Are they getting by at all? Do you know how
they are living where their income comes from. Now all
of this becomes very important if they face things like
a long.

Speaker 2 (01:11:23):
Term care situation.

Speaker 1 (01:11:25):
There are also organizations that you can connect your parents
with to help them get through some of this financial stuff.
Number two, do you have end of life plans and documents? Now?
If the answer is no, I don't have an advanced directive.
You need to have the conversation with your parents. What
do you want me to do if you have a

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massive stroke that leaves you incapacitated and bedridden? What do
you want me to do if you go into a coma?
What do you want me to do? Trust me on
this ask these questions, know the answers, because trying to
figure it out on your own sucks. Number three of

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the three important questions, is your home still safe and.

Speaker 2 (01:12:13):
Comfortable for you?

Speaker 1 (01:12:15):
A lot of people want to age in place, but
they're at homes that no longer serve them physically. They
know they can't do the stairs anymore they need or
they could agent place with some modifications. Can we put
a bedroom on the first floor, Can we have grab
bars in the bathroom?

Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
Things of that nature.

Speaker 1 (01:12:33):
These three questions can help you start a larger conversation
with your parents about end of life things.

Speaker 2 (01:12:39):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:12:40):
I try to talk to my kids about this stuff now,
and they put their fingers in their ears and.

Speaker 2 (01:12:44):
They go la la la, la, la la la.

Speaker 1 (01:12:46):
But I keep telling them, trust me, you don't want
to have to deal with this stuff later, so use
this article as inspiration as a starting point to say, Hey,
you know what, we need to have this conversation, so
let's just have it. That's why it's on the block
today at mandyblog dot com. Now, the next story I
want to get to is just another story of how

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universities are failing our kids. And I don't mean failing
with an F. I mean failing to prepare these young adults.
Let's remember, they're not children unless they're like Doogie Howser,
in which case I'm not talking about them at all.
I'm talking about normal eighteen nineteen year old people who
are heading off to college for the first time. I
know that there still are children, but they are also adults.

(01:13:31):
So when I saw this story, first why I rolled
so hard I almost went blind. But secondly, I just thought,
what why would anyone want a degree from the University
of Michigan when I see a story like this The
University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science and the Arts.
Of course, who do you think is in the College

(01:13:52):
of Literature Science and the Arts. I bet you It's
predominantly women by a good bit they're going to stop
reporting traditional letter grades on first semester transcripts for incoming
freshmen beginning in fall of twenty twenty seven, replacing them
with pass or no credit designations as part of a
pilot program aimed at reducing students stress and curbing a

(01:14:16):
quote mental health crisis.

Speaker 2 (01:14:23):
One of the things that.

Speaker 1 (01:14:25):
Our over therapeutic Society has done is we have somehow
adopted the notion that if someone struggles with someone, it's something.

Speaker 2 (01:14:34):
If someone has a.

Speaker 1 (01:14:37):
Real issue doing a difficult thing, we should just say, oh, oh,
don't do the difficult thing. Oh it's too hard, it's
too upsetting, let us intervene. That is the exact wrong approach.
People gain confidence by doing hard things, and sometimes they fail.
And when they fail and they don't die, well, that

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in and of itself is a learning process that makes
them a better and more resilient adult. What we've done
is we've protected children for far too long. Great inflation
is rampant at high schools across the country, So a
lot of these kids get into college only to find
out they are not prepared for college at all. So
their first semester, guess what their grades suck? I was
the exact opposite. My first semester grades were great. They

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went progressively down after that. By letting young people off
the hook, and by young people, I mean young adults,
you are not helping them at all.

Speaker 2 (01:15:35):
Now. What's interesting is they're still going to use the
grades for things like scholarships, things like financial aid, athletic eligibility,
academic advising, degree process, all of that stuff. They're still
going to use them for that.

Speaker 1 (01:15:50):
They're just not going to put them out there publicly,
so nobody gets their feelings hurt. Do you remember the
first bad grade you ever got to a report card?

Speaker 2 (01:15:57):
Zach?

Speaker 1 (01:15:58):
What was the first bad grade you ever got on
a report card?

Speaker 2 (01:16:00):
Do you remember?

Speaker 1 (01:16:02):
I remember fourth grade? My mom was my teacher. In
fourth grade, I went to Catholic school. She was a
teacher there. She knew that I did my science project
the night before because she was my mom. My own
mother gave me a d something I had never seen
in my life at that point. The good news was

(01:16:23):
I didn't have to go home and tell my parents.
They already knew, Zach. First bad grade, Man, they blurred
together at a point.

Speaker 5 (01:16:32):
I was not a prodigious student until about high school
and I went, oh, man, this is going to impact
my life. I should probably lock in.

Speaker 1 (01:16:38):
I like the fact that you use the word prodigious
to show you how smart you actually are, even as
you tell that you were a terrible student.

Speaker 2 (01:16:46):
Well played, Zech, thank you, well played.

Speaker 1 (01:16:54):
The high school, and my dad sent my car to
the crusher for it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:58):
Now we tell our.

Speaker 1 (01:16:59):
Oldest keeper raids up if she'll face the same fate.
I grew up in a household where good grades were
the default expectation. I've mentioned the fact before that you'd
show my dad a report card that was all a's
and one B and the only thing he would say
is what happened with the b?

Speaker 2 (01:17:16):
There was no effusive praise for all the a's.

Speaker 1 (01:17:18):
If we got straight a's, it was like, oh, okay,
I'm not exaggerating.

Speaker 2 (01:17:25):
Oh you got straight a's in here. Okay, good, there
you go. That was the extent. I had friends who
got paid for a's and.

Speaker 1 (01:17:33):
I told my dad that one time, and he's like, well,
her parents' expectations are too low. It was like, and
you wonder why I am the way I am? Ee
two to one second semester of college at CSU.

Speaker 2 (01:17:47):
See this is it.

Speaker 1 (01:17:48):
If you're a person with good grades, you remember those
bad grades. You remember all of them.

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
Mandy.

Speaker 1 (01:17:56):
If my niece heard this from Dartmouth, she'd probably not
start there this fall. Thank god for rural Colorado teachers
giving bad grades to motivated students. I don't know if
I'd send a kid to Dartmouth. I don't know if
I would know. I'll say that with authority, I would
not send a kid to an Ivy.

Speaker 2 (01:18:11):
League school at this point. It just would not.

Speaker 1 (01:18:14):
I got a frown on a paper in kindergarten. I
erased it and made it a smiley face. You rebel,
You rebel. This texter makes the best point and the
point of the whole story I shared, Mandy. There are
certain criteria that have to be met for entrance into
high level schools, law school, medical school, et cetera. Some
of that involves a great point average. I don't think
any of us want our attorney or our surgeon to

(01:18:37):
be someone who merely passed his classes or her classes.
I've been a psychiatrist for thirty eight years. In the
last decade have seen a huge failure in our education
system by coddling these students along correct and that is
why I did the story and why I would not
recommend the University of Michigan for anyone. Now I have

(01:18:58):
a story for market Watch that I think should be
very concerning. Our labor force participation rate is the lowest
it's been since COVID, and it doesn't look like it's
going back up anytime soon. What's the problem. The problem
is baby boomers are retiring. At the same time they
are retiring, we are not having babies, so there are

(01:19:21):
not necessarily people to come in and fill these jobs.
And now with the immigration crackdown, we have taken some
of the workforce and taken them out of the workforce
by deporting them or having them just not show up anymore.
This is a huge problem. And it's a huge problem
because Social Security is hanging on by a thread. And

(01:19:43):
social Security, if you understand how Social Security is structured currently,
it's a giant Ponzi scheme. And if we run out
of suckers to pay in, then we're gonna have to
cut the suckers that we.

Speaker 2 (01:19:54):
Pay out to.

Speaker 1 (01:19:54):
Now, I know you're not a sucker if you're on
Social Security. I should have chosen my words differently, but
you know what I mean. We're already talking about a
twenty percent benefit cut in twenty thirty two if Congress
doesn't do something, and they won't do anything until twenty
thirty one.

Speaker 2 (01:20:07):
I'm just letting you know.

Speaker 1 (01:20:08):
If you're expecting Congress to take significant action on something
as massive as a fix for social Security that has
to happen, do not expect that until the last minute,
there will be a government shut down over it. And
then after they shut down the government and put together
some half ass fixed that is only temporary. We're all
supposed to be grateful. Oh, look, they solved it. No,

(01:20:29):
they didn't solve it. The cowards in DC will not
take control of the issue. So this is a big
deal that our labor force participation rate is down. Now,
the flip side of this is how much of this
is being taken over by automation. So I went through

(01:20:50):
Wendy's the other day. Have you been through a Wendy's lately, Zach.
Have you had the Wendy's AI order taking experience?

Speaker 6 (01:20:57):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:20:57):
No, oh, oh, it's fully AI. And you know it
used to be like, hello, welcome to Wendy's. We'll be
right with you, and you're like okay, and then the
voice goes, oh, you know what I mean. No, it's
not that anymore. Now it's fully AI taking your order.
And I got to tell you that AI loves to upsell.
I just wanted a grilled chicken sandwich. Just a grilled

(01:21:17):
chicken sandwich, No combo, just a grilled chicken sandwich. I
pull up the AIS like, hello, welcome to Wendy's or
whatever it says.

Speaker 2 (01:21:25):
And then it's like, what can I get for you to?

Speaker 4 (01:21:26):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:21:26):
It says, would you.

Speaker 1 (01:21:27):
Like to have pretzel roll something something?

Speaker 2 (01:21:29):
Something?

Speaker 1 (01:21:29):
I go, no, okay, what can we get for you?
I said, I would like a grilled chicken sandwich.

Speaker 2 (01:21:34):
That's it. Would you like to add a frosty for No?
Would you like to? He'd asked me like three.

Speaker 1 (01:21:40):
Things, and I'm just shouting no, no, and I finally,
but that's one more job gone.

Speaker 2 (01:21:48):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:21:48):
It sounds great that automation is going to be able
to take these things over, But automation doesn't pay Social
Security taxes, so that, my friends, is really challenging.

Speaker 2 (01:21:59):
Mandy.

Speaker 1 (01:21:59):
You at we think medical boards are easy to pass
or pilot training. Come on, they can get into school, sure,
but you aren't getting worse doctors or pilots.

Speaker 2 (01:22:07):
If so, provide data.

Speaker 1 (01:22:09):
Let me tell you an anecdotal story that I learned
from someone who is a graduate of Columbia's medical school.
His son was doing his medical boards at Columbia, not
the medical boards for the state of New York, but
his graduation medical boards. This kid is studying to be
an obgyn. This is a true story, you guys. I
got it from an unimpeachable source. So they bring in

(01:22:29):
the quote patient that he is supposed to do a
pelvic exam on as an obgyn. The patient that Columbia's
Medical school brought in was a transgender woman who was
not post surgical, and the transgender woman was on the
table and he had to pretend to do a pelvic exam.

Speaker 2 (01:22:50):
On a man who, let's just say, was.

Speaker 1 (01:22:53):
Excited about the prospect of being there. So, yeah, do
I think it's affecting the quality of the doctors. If
I go to a and they graduated from Columbia, I
may find a different doctor from now on. Absolute favorites
from one of my favorite websites, hot air dot com.

(01:23:13):
David Strom is a prolific writer of things about the news,
and he has been on a tear about the Democratic
Socialists of America, the not ready for primetime crowd who
want to destroy everything about the country, but don't ask
him for details.

Speaker 2 (01:23:29):
First of all, David, good to see you again.

Speaker 6 (01:23:32):
Oh it's always the pleasure, Mandy.

Speaker 1 (01:23:34):
So let's first of all, I have two stories today
about the DSA on the blog, and I want to
get into one that you didn't write about yet, although
I'm sure it's coming, and that is that we're now
finding out a lot of the quote leadership.

Speaker 2 (01:23:49):
The faces of the DSA.

Speaker 1 (01:23:51):
Especially in New York, are actually like trust fund kids,
or they are NEPO babies, or they come from a
significant amount of wealth. I always love pointing out that
the mayor of Seattle's mommy and daddy still pay for
her childcare because her husband won't get a job, so
they help her.

Speaker 2 (01:24:09):
Out with that.

Speaker 1 (01:24:11):
It is amazing how these young morons have now decided
that socialism is the answer after growing up in great privilege.
So that is on the blog today. But you went
deep into the DSA leadership and their inability to simply
share what their actual platform is. So what is making

(01:24:32):
the rounds right now out there in the form of
DSA talking points.

Speaker 2 (01:24:37):
That caught your eye and your eye.

Speaker 3 (01:24:41):
Well, first of all, I mean the DSA has an
actual platform and among themselves. I mean there are all
these video calls that you can look up. They're very
big about once we've made a decision, everybody's got.

Speaker 6 (01:24:55):
To get in line.

Speaker 3 (01:24:57):
But they also have media training for all the DSA
people that basically say, don't actually talk about any of
these things. What you need to do is pivot to
attacking billionaires or you know, something where you can get
a lot of people on board with just sort of

(01:25:18):
general resentment about things like, you know, the rent is
too damn high, but don't talk about the fact that
you want to, you know, essentially turn all buildings into
government buildings.

Speaker 6 (01:25:32):
And so.

Speaker 3 (01:25:34):
What I call that is actually the DSA is practicing takia,
which is the Muslim practice of lying to people for
political purposes. Because the people you're lying to are essentially
soulless until they convert to your point of view, and

(01:25:55):
so it's perfectly legitimate to lie to them. This is
what communists always do. And getting to your first point,
actually it's very perceptive of you just to say that
about how they're all trust fund kids and there's a
reason for that. They're not just trust fund kids. They're
trust fund kids who are failures. They're downwardly mobile people.

(01:26:20):
And the reason why they're communists and democratic socialists or
whatever you want to call them or they want to
call themselves, is because they need an explanation for why,
after going to college and these boarding schools and having
a trust fund, they're all still failures. And the answer

(01:26:41):
is the system is rigged. That's their explanation that it
can't be them, it's the system.

Speaker 6 (01:26:51):
But in fact, they're just all failures.

Speaker 3 (01:26:52):
A lot of them, you know, at best, they're midwis,
but a lot of them really are halfway.

Speaker 2 (01:26:58):
Explain midway. What is midwind all right?

Speaker 3 (01:27:03):
Well, I have a quick, quick and dirty explanation for it.

Speaker 6 (01:27:07):
It's the people who are relatively.

Speaker 3 (01:27:10):
Educated, at least you know, in the college sense of
the term, who are slightly above average in intelligence but
not smart enough to realize that they don't have all
the answers, and so, you know, I call them the
sort of one fifteen to one twenty I people. They're
verbally fluent, you know, in terms of being able to

(01:27:34):
read and write, but they really don't understand anything you know,
the Midwich are the journalists of the world. They're you know,
not they think they know everything but don't know anything.

Speaker 1 (01:27:50):
Some of my favorite people are journalists, so I have
to give some exceptions to that category for people.

Speaker 3 (01:27:57):
Well there are exceptions, but I mean, you know, anyone
who really thinks they.

Speaker 2 (01:28:02):
Know they know it alls yeah, you know.

Speaker 6 (01:28:05):
And they're the people who.

Speaker 3 (01:28:07):
Will tell you their credentials, right, the people who have
a PhD in English literature but demand you call them doctor.

Speaker 2 (01:28:16):
Yes, yes, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:28:18):
Yeah. The big joke is you can talk to like
a mechanical engineer with three degrees and he'll.

Speaker 6 (01:28:23):
Say call me Bob.

Speaker 2 (01:28:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:28:25):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:28:26):
And you talk to someone who's got a PhD in
education from you know, a third grade community college, and
they'll say call me doctor.

Speaker 2 (01:28:35):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:28:37):
You You embedded in this story some of the video
of some of the leadership of the DSA in these interviews,
and genuinely, David, I thought, I thought, maybe you are
exaggerating a little bit about this, and then I watched.

Speaker 2 (01:28:54):
The videos in the story.

Speaker 1 (01:28:56):
It is behind a paywall, so you do have to
subscribe to hot aired com what you should do anyway,
but the rapidity is vapidity A word is vapid with
any the vipidity of the conversation is mind blowing. They
have no real answers for any sort of pressing questions.

(01:29:17):
But to your point, that is not a bug, it's
a feature. After I saw your story, and maybe it's
in the story, I don't have it open right now,
But did you have the story of like Hassan Piker
recommending that they don't really tell people what they stand
for because they have to get into office first.

Speaker 2 (01:29:34):
Is that in the story? Is that where I saw it?

Speaker 3 (01:29:37):
I actually have written three over the past couple of days.
I woke up this morning not thinking that I was
going to do a DSA day, but I wound not
doing a DSA day because of the Hassan Piker. That's
what I That's the one where I called it takiya. Yes,
of course he's also an Islamist uh and uh and

(01:30:02):
so is by the way El sayed in Michigan. I
mean he's actually a member of an Islamis sect and
a muscle brotherhood guy. And so I mean, it's not
it's it's not making anything up to say that these
people believe that lying is okay.

Speaker 6 (01:30:24):
I mean, Hassan Piker set it out right.

Speaker 3 (01:30:27):
Uh. DSA people with it. You know when they're in
these video calls that uh they do with each other,
and the reason why they're recorded is because this is
their decision making body.

Speaker 6 (01:30:40):
Uh, and so they record all this stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:30:43):
We'll say explicitly, well, we're not Democrats. They run as Democrats,
we're not Democrats. We're here to take over the party.

Speaker 6 (01:30:52):
Uh. Just as David Hagg.

Speaker 3 (01:30:54):
Who was you know, a Democratic National Committee vice chair, yeah,
is talking about, you know, you've got to kick out
all the Democrats who are there now and replace them
essentially with the DSA people. It really is. You know,
when they say they're Democrats, they're just flat out lying.

(01:31:15):
They're communists. That's who they are.

Speaker 1 (01:31:17):
And that leads me to my next question, because what
concerns me is as all of us normies out there
sit around and talk about how stupid all of this is,
because we're actually educated on the dangers and the failures
of communism and socialism around the world, whereas these.

Speaker 2 (01:31:33):
People are not.

Speaker 1 (01:31:35):
I am concerned that as we're laughing at them, no
one is making a forceful counter argument to the young
people who are buying into this load of crap, and
to your point about not wanting to do any introspection.
That reminded me of when I was in college and
I had this wonderful friend, African American woman, very very intelligent.

(01:31:55):
She was a business major. She went to a few
interviews that were set up to the school business and
did not get a callback. Her default was, well, it's
because they're racist. And when I said, wait a minute,
when you say it's because they're racist, aren't you missing
out on an opportunity to find out what your weaknesses
are and become a better candidate for the next job.
And she looked at me and said, it's just because

(01:32:17):
they're racist. This is the same thing. They don't want
to look and do any introspection to find out. Why
isn't my gender studies degree with a minor in women's
literature of the feminist era getting me a job?

Speaker 3 (01:32:30):
You know?

Speaker 1 (01:32:31):
Where do I need to shore up my skills? And
they are failing miserably, and they're failing spectacularly, and they're
failing with one hundred thousand dollars worth of student debt.

Speaker 6 (01:32:42):
At least.

Speaker 3 (01:32:42):
Well, in fact, I can't believe I'm suggesting an article
in the Atlantic. But an article in the Atlantic just
came out from Tyler Austin Harper, who was about to
get tenure, and I think it was Bates College, you know,
a dream job, and you know he's a black scholar,

(01:33:05):
he's a socialist, so I mean, he's really progressive. Laugh.
But he left because he realized he's just a token.
You know, the whole place is run by insane people,
and you know, he just he couldn't live. And if
you read the article, I mean it's clear the guy

(01:33:25):
is actually brilliant. I mean, we've got to get him
out of socialism. But uh, you know, and that it
really is this all purpose explanation for everything. And if
you actually are a smart, competent person in that environment,
to you know, be treated in the way that he

(01:33:48):
was treated as basically a token, it was you know,
a blow to you know.

Speaker 6 (01:33:54):
His own sense of self.

Speaker 3 (01:33:56):
So we just let I mean, that's a dream job,
you know, as someone who left academia myself, I mean,
tenure is now almost impossible to get. Seventy five percent
of people in academia are in non tenured positions. I mean,
you know, in fact, when he got hired, his dissertation

(01:34:17):
advisor said, I feel like I'm watching the Last Dinosaur people.

Speaker 1 (01:34:23):
Well, you know, I haven't talked about the Jason Arday story,
but there are some similarities to what we were talking
about now. Jason Arday, for those who don't know, was
a Cambridge professor who had this incredible backstory of all
these things he had accomplished and done, all of which
were completely fabricated. He was hired by Cambridge University in

(01:34:44):
the UK. He was given a million dollar forward for
writing a book about his absolutely fabricated life. That book,
by the way, is going to come out, but he
just resigned in disgrace from Cambridge because his backstory was
too good.

Speaker 2 (01:35:00):
A question and when look.

Speaker 3 (01:35:02):
This, I'm sorry, but just give you your your listeners
and an idea of how insane his backstory was. I'll
just give you the you know hop highlights. There's a
lot more. He claims that he you know that he's
autistic and was nonverbal until eleven.

Speaker 6 (01:35:23):
He was.

Speaker 3 (01:35:27):
Incapable of reading, illiterate until he was eighteen, and then
he got through college and got a PhD. I think
by the time he was twenty six, was a professor.
At twenty seven, and was a full professor.

Speaker 6 (01:35:44):
At Cambridge at thirty seven.

Speaker 3 (01:35:46):
He claims to have run six hundred miles in six days,
and thirty marathons in thirty five days.

Speaker 6 (01:35:58):
And the last nine where we're with a broken leg.

Speaker 2 (01:36:01):
And the people.

Speaker 3 (01:36:03):
And the people at Cambridge, you know, just when they
hired him, they said, you are the best at what
you do in the world.

Speaker 6 (01:36:11):
And the guys, I mean, it's it's ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (01:36:14):
We love you and you're you're black. I don't know
if you've noticed. We love your story, we love that
you're black. The reality is is so sad. But here
in Denver, in Colorado right now, we have a gubernatorial
candidate who I believe has fabricated so many insanely wild
stories that there were too good to check. Same thing.

(01:36:37):
And now we've got a candidate who I can't even
with that. David Strom writes prolifically at hot are Yes
make your final comment?

Speaker 3 (01:36:46):
Well, I was just going to say, getting getting back
to the DSA, all of this is based upon a fantasy,
you know, that is what the DSA sells. It's all
somebody else's. Yeah, And if we could only tax the
billionaires and do this and do that you would live
in Nirvana, and there's a there's a huge market for that,

(01:37:10):
for for living in a fantasy world.

Speaker 1 (01:37:13):
You know what, though, David, The reason that there's a
huge market for that is nobody thinks in the socialist
utopia that they're going to be the guys in charge
of cleaning out the porta potties against their will or
washing the dishes at the local restaurant against their will.
They all think they're going to be in the upper
echelon and have a nice Kardashian like life with no effort.

(01:37:33):
And that is what I find so profoundly disturbing for
the future of our country.

Speaker 2 (01:37:39):
That is what they're after.

Speaker 3 (01:37:42):
It's like the people who think that, you know, they
remember their past lives and they were always like, you know, princess, oh.

Speaker 6 (01:37:50):
Yeah, nights.

Speaker 3 (01:37:51):
You know, I was Queen of Siva or something like that,
and it's like everybody was a peasant.

Speaker 6 (01:37:57):
No one remembers that.

Speaker 3 (01:37:59):
You know, a that like where yet they were a
medieval person who died of the play.

Speaker 2 (01:38:05):
You are absolutely right.

Speaker 1 (01:38:07):
Read David's work at hot air dot com. It is fantastic.
Good to see you, my friend. I'll see you again soon.

Speaker 6 (01:38:14):
Bye. Mammy.

Speaker 2 (01:38:14):
All right, thanks David. I love his writing. Rick Lewis,
look what the cat dragged in? You're ready to go
to hot Lanta.

Speaker 1 (01:38:21):
Yeah, they're kind of mine, only cooler, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:38:29):
Cool.

Speaker 4 (01:38:30):
Yeah. Going to Atlanta Thursday afternoon, Atlanta for the game Friday.
This will be my first time to see UH that stadium.

Speaker 1 (01:38:39):
I had not been to that stadium since they rebuilt it.
Like it's newer, right, I mean it's not that old.
Is what five ten years old?

Speaker 2 (01:38:46):
Man, I'm not.

Speaker 4 (01:38:46):
I don't know, but I don't know if that's It's
considered one of the best UH in the National Football Leagues,
So I'm looking forward to it. Last time we played
them in Atlanta was COVID and we weren't Oh yeah,
so I didn't miss it that year.

Speaker 2 (01:38:59):
This will be my So it's at least five or
six years old. I can't remember.

Speaker 4 (01:39:02):
Yes, it seems like we're running a little late. Baby
went enough time for the game.

Speaker 1 (01:39:08):
That is incorrect, because now time for the most exciting segment.

Speaker 2 (01:39:12):
All the radio of its kind.

Speaker 3 (01:39:17):
Word.

Speaker 2 (01:39:18):
I like that the big an Ulster voice. Sound like
that was good? What is our dad joke of the day, please, Zach,
Today's dad joke of the day. This is this, especially back.

Speaker 5 (01:39:29):
What time is it when the clock strikes thirteen?

Speaker 2 (01:39:34):
Time to buy a new clock? That is correct?

Speaker 1 (01:39:37):
Home on, I love that joke. Time to buy a
new clock, mister, the clock strikes? All right?

Speaker 2 (01:39:44):
What is our word of the day? Please? Perfidious? Perfidious?

Speaker 4 (01:39:50):
Perfidious.

Speaker 2 (01:39:51):
That sounds like it means something bad, But I don't
know if it is something that is you're warm.

Speaker 1 (01:39:56):
Something that is uh, that is a negative force.

Speaker 2 (01:39:59):
It's it's it's it's perfidious.

Speaker 5 (01:40:02):
I don't know how to politicians can be perfidious.

Speaker 2 (01:40:06):
They tell lies to get elected. Is that it?

Speaker 5 (01:40:09):
You're getting a deceitful, untrustworthy and deliberately faithless or treacherous.

Speaker 1 (01:40:14):
I knew it was best evil, but I mean all
of those things together are evil.

Speaker 4 (01:40:18):
That's true.

Speaker 1 (01:40:19):
There you go today's trivia question this You should get
this rick.

Speaker 2 (01:40:23):
In music, what is verbrado?

Speaker 4 (01:40:27):
Robrato is bending a note?

Speaker 1 (01:40:30):
Yeah, vibrating a note, small rapid fluctuations in pitch in
a singing voice or an instrument. This tremulous effect is
used to enhance expressiveness and warmth.

Speaker 2 (01:40:41):
There you go. That's the thing you know? Now, all right?
What is our What is our Jeopardy category?

Speaker 3 (01:40:48):
Please?

Speaker 5 (01:40:49):
Jeopardy category today is brands by letter. There will be
a letter, a little hint about the brand, and you'll
tell me the brand.

Speaker 2 (01:40:57):
I love these categories by letter. That's my letter.

Speaker 5 (01:41:00):
So you'll tell me the whole brand name. I'm going
to give you a letter, a little hint.

Speaker 1 (01:41:03):
Okay, okay, okay, memory, you got to say your name
to answer the question.

Speaker 4 (01:41:06):
I do okay?

Speaker 2 (01:41:09):
First one D the better grease skeetter.

Speaker 1 (01:41:12):
Manny what is dishwashing liquid?

Speaker 2 (01:41:18):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (01:41:19):
All right?

Speaker 7 (01:41:20):
Next up?

Speaker 2 (01:41:21):
S wrapped? Sorry? S wrapped?

Speaker 7 (01:41:24):
Is its year in review?

Speaker 6 (01:41:26):
Future?

Speaker 2 (01:41:28):
Mandy? What is Spotify? That is correct? Did you know
that you're in music on? Shouting his name? He's shouting it?
Can you not hear it?

Speaker 1 (01:41:40):
On?

Speaker 6 (01:41:40):
That's on me?

Speaker 2 (01:41:41):
That's on me phone on? Okay, we go now now
he'll come back.

Speaker 5 (01:41:47):
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really sucked. D D in nineteen eighty four. It's new
handback really sucked.

Speaker 2 (01:41:58):
Mandy? What is dirt Devil?

Speaker 3 (01:41:59):
That?

Speaker 6 (01:42:00):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:42:01):
I have a dirty dustbuster.

Speaker 1 (01:42:02):
It's a pro tip if you have a little child,
don't buy on a fake vacuum give him a dustbuster
and let him actually get some Dutch let them because
will dust bust all day?

Speaker 4 (01:42:13):
Are these all household items and kitchen items?

Speaker 2 (01:42:18):
Not this next one? Okay, here we go.

Speaker 5 (01:42:21):
I guess it depends on your definition B speakers with
head nagers and what are what is bos?

Speaker 2 (01:42:26):
That is correct?

Speaker 4 (01:42:27):
I hate that one. I had that one.

Speaker 2 (01:42:30):
You just didn't jump into.

Speaker 4 (01:42:31):
What he just says B And then you're like, Mandy, No.

Speaker 1 (01:42:33):
He said B speakers? What else was there going to be?
That's when you know what it was.

Speaker 5 (01:42:38):
I'm a little slow slow all right, B G e
verdant barbecue cookers?

Speaker 2 (01:42:47):
Mandy? What is big green egg? That is correct?

Speaker 6 (01:42:51):
Categories?

Speaker 2 (01:42:53):
Yeah, that's okay.

Speaker 4 (01:42:54):
Right to start the show, can we ask.

Speaker 1 (01:42:56):
You what what do you think about? I'm excited about
I'll get that. I'm excited about our prospects this year
for bron Because you've been at a training camp.

Speaker 2 (01:43:04):
What are you seeing out there?

Speaker 4 (01:43:05):
Yes, the team is stacked, very excited about this season.
Although they're going through a rash of what they call
soft soft tissue.

Speaker 2 (01:43:14):
SI don't suck too because they take forever to heal.

Speaker 4 (01:43:17):
This is like muscles. Yeah, you know, maybe a tended
spring or something like that. But I feel like if
they'rey healthy, this could be another special season like we
saw last year.

Speaker 2 (01:43:27):
I hope, so, I hope.

Speaker 1 (01:43:28):
So I'm ready for fine, all those years of suffering
behind us. It's all starting Friday at one pm, when
I will give the show over to Nick Ferguson and
then alright to kick off our coverage leading up to kickoff.

Speaker 2 (01:43:40):
What time is kickoff? Five thirty five o'clock here, five
o'clock here.

Speaker 1 (01:43:43):
Okay, it's going to be on nine News, but you
really should listen to the guys calling the game.

Speaker 4 (01:43:47):
Turn the sound down on nine News and then listen
to close it.

Speaker 1 (01:43:50):
For thirty seconds and then turn it back on. You
can sink it almost.

Speaker 4 (01:43:54):
I was told that's how you sink it.

Speaker 2 (01:43:55):
Yeah, that is how you do it. It's very easy
now that we can all pause our television, We're.

Speaker 1 (01:43:59):
Going to make room for the boys of KOA Sports
with Rick Lewis today. We'll be back tomorrow for a
big one hour, half hours something. There's baseball tomorrow. I'll
be here for a little bit and they'll always be
a blog at mandyblog dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:44:11):
Keep it right here on KOA