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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kay Away and Hi hard radio stations guaranteed human Ah
my friends. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
To the only hour of the Andy Connell Show today.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I am here for one hour.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I am assisted today by Shannon Scott as A rod
continues to cover our training camp of cover to cover.
If you're not following our social is he is he
not at training camp?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Is it over? Shannon? You're supposed to know these things.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I thought there was some sort of travel situation that
made it all quite on the western front.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Oh, I don't know. I don't know where a rod is.
They're not traveling until tomorrow for the game. I talked
to Riga Luis about that yesterday, So I don't know.
We don't know else A rod is lost?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Is that what you're telling me? We got with no
idea where a rod is?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
He just gone? One of our A rods is missing.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Okay, okay, we've thrown a rod. We don't know where,
but we've thrown the a rod.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Let's jump in. We've got an hour. Let's stop dithering.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Shall we find the blog at mandyblog dot com. That's
mandyblog dot com. Look for the headline that just says
short show. Let's make it count. Click on that and
here are the headlines you will find within and.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Even with someone who offers South American all with ships
and clipments and say that's going to press Flint.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Today on the blog, let's check in with whether Wednesday
want something to watch while the game is on. Paulus
is over selling our education rankings. Denver postpones it's idiotic
labor acknowledgment again. The Firefighters Union is in Hotel California.
Aurora's homicide rate plummets bocks thirty ones. Chris Barente's cancer
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journey continues. Can standing on one foot predict your death chances?
At least one COMMI lost our cigarette. That's really the problem.
In Denver Top ten Dogs of the Week, progressives try
to wave away their idiocy with a laugh. Jennet Griswold
is hiding a report those blood tests for Alzheimer's aren't
helping even the mar they're doing. OnlyFans now another stupid
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video that makes me laugh. I am too obsessed with
Gerald right now. Powerball is a billion tonight. The idiocy
of NYC's mom Donnie grocery stores. Mark Arubio loves the
idea of Maha. Late addition, those are the headlines on
the blog at Mandy blog dot com.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Hon It.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Anyway, I've got a lot of stuff. Obviously, it's not
as long, it's not as bolluminous a blog as normal
because we have an hour because the Rockies take over
at one as they go to win the series with
the Diamondbacks, which is totally frustrating my nephew Patrick. So,
my nephew Patrick lives in Arizona, huge Diamondbacks fan. This
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kid has never met smack talk. He does not enjoy.
So as soon as the Rockies in the Diamondbacks start
playing here comes to my phone, it starts blowing up
with the smack talk. He texts me a couple days
ago before the series started, he says, can you just
asked the Rockies to lose these games so we can
beat the Dodgers in the Division And I was like, no,
I will not. I will cheer even harder for them.
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And then they got absolutely slapped in the first game,
like just pasted, like the Rockies were just didn't even
show up. But yesterday, yesterday, we're planning my nephew's visit
in November to go to a Broncos game, and while
we are texting back and forth to confirm that the
Rockies tie up the game, and he's like, not of
a biscuit eater, But that's not what he said.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
He's bad language.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
But and then of course the Rockies held on last
night to win that game. So the Rubber matches today,
and just to irritate my nephew, Patrick, go Rockies win
this game. Coming up at twelve thirty, we're gonna check
in with Dave Frasier. He's been off, I've been off.
We haven't chatted in a few weeks, just as we've
been what's the word I'm looking for roasting here in Colorado.
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It looks like today is the day, though, that things
are starting to turn around, and I'm here for it.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I'm done with summer. I'm completely Shannon.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Are you a summer guy, a winter guy, a spring guy,
a fall guy?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
And I'm not talking about your color palette clearly went
to the Lee Majors. I am a fall guy.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
That was such a great throwback reference. And can we
all agree that Heather Thomas was so hot in that show?
She was a smoke show in that show. Whatever happened
to her like, I think she got addicted to drugs
or something.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I don't know. Did not go well, Mandy. I heard
the butt story on the news this morning.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I can't believe the reporter said this with a straight face.
I was waiting for him to crack up.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Ha ha. See what they did there, Mandy.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
The study on your blog on Senior's fitness test was
so interesting I forwarded to my doctor. Don't know how
it popped up on your radar, but thanks that from Mike.
Now what he's talking about is a study that I
have on the blog that we're going to get into
in just a second. I'm probably gonna rip through everything
on the blog today today. I was like, Okay, no
big serious topics because we only have an hour. So
(05:01):
I just went and sought out interesting things. So I
found some interesting stuff. Number One, I have this story
and I saw it yesterday, but I didn't put it
on the blog yesterday because I didn't understand the backstory.
Now I understand the backstory. So the Denver Firefighters Union
has found out that joining or affiliating with the state
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wide union is much like checking into the Hotel California.
You can check in anytime you like but you can
never leave. The situation is so bad that the local union,
Local eight fifty eight voted in late twenty twenty four
to stop sending dues to the state union. Now here's
where it gets interesting. They were never an official affiliate.
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They never had that, you know, written agreement like we're
an affiliate of you guys, and we're gonna send They
were just sending them dues kind of a you know,
when you go month to month on a least kind
of thing, you don't actually have any written stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
You just he keeps it in the in your landlord
keeps taking and it's fine. They were doing that. Well,
apparently they decided they didn't want to do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
And I don't know why exactly, I don't know what
the breaking point was. So they announced a couple of
years ago to the union, the state union, that they
were done, they weren't going to pay anymore to the
state union. And then they actually had a vote where
seventy percent of Denvers unionized firefighters approved the disaffiliation measure.
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So they send that information to the state union. How
does the state union respond? They send him a bill
for three hundred ninety thousand dollars in unpaid dues. And
this is where it gets great. According to the lawsuit,
the state union and the International Association of Firefighters, which
represents firefighters across North America, did not recognize the disaffiliation
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votes because the votes allegedly failed to adhere to IAFF bylaws.
Here's the problem, because they were not officially affiliated with
the union. The local union is arguing that those bylaws
don't outline a procedure for disaffiliation. And because there's not
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a clear procedure, the local union was free to leave
the state union at any time.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
And here's the kicker.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
The kicker is that they did follow the rules that
are in effect for an affiliated union, but they're not
officially affiliated. And the part that I love about this story,
part the reason I'm talking about this story is I
love it when union members find out how bad union suck.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Because isn't that what we're talking about here?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Isn't this Do you think it's a surprise to the
unionized firefighters to find out that being any union sucks?
And the unions don't care if you want to be
a part of them. They just want your money. Oh
you guys don't want to affiliate.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
That's fine, send us three hundred ninety thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
We'll call it a day. We'll wash our hands of everything. Actually,
that's not even what they're saying. They're basically saying, nah, uh,
you can't leave. Imagine this. Imagine a world in which
you're not actually a member of an organization. You've just
been supporting the organization. Let's say, for instance, I'm supporting
the Shannon Scott Booze Fund, and I've been sending Shannon
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Scott booze money over the you know, every month, I
send him twenty bucks. When I've been doing this for
a few years, just because I want Shannon to remain.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Liquored up on, you know, all the time.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
And then I decide, you know, what I might be contributing,
and Shannon may now be an alcoholic because of my
booze money. So I'm just gonna stop giving the booze money.
And then Shannon calls me and says, where's my booze money?
And I go, oh, I've decided not to pay it anymore.
And Shannon goes, nah, I'll be waiting for the booze money.
That's essentially what's happening, right now, and I just I
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do think unions have a place. I really do when
you look at things like the Electrical Workers' Union or
the plumbers union, when I'm talking about the trades, where
they actually have programs in place to help train people
to do a job, and they have ongoing education, and
they are actually productive organizations that can help you move
forward in your career. More power to you if you
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want to, if you want to join those unions, that's great.
Public sector unions are garbage. They are absolute garbage. They
don't do anything to make the public. What have they've
done for the Denver firefighters? That's what I'd love to know.
What did the Denver firefighters get for their multi year
association with the state organization. I'd love to know the
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answer to that. I have no idea, but I certainly
have no idea. So that is on the blog today.
I just found that wildly entertaining. And I did go
back and found a different story about how this whole
thing unwound, you know, it came to be, and it
literally is the union that's just saying no, you can't
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quit us.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
We're not going to let you. So that's on the
blog today.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I have the most interesting story, did you guys hear
yesterday there was. It was all over the news, and
the big headline was big cities. See the massive drop
in homicides from h one, twenty twenty five to twenty
twenty six.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Massive to this point in the year.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
So they're looking at homicides in big cities across the country,
and some of these cities have seen.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
A massive reduction.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Newark, New Jersey, has seen murder's decrease almost sixty five percent. Raleigh,
North Carolina down almost sixty four percent.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Denver, Colorado, oh see wow.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Asked about that that's a little bit of a problem
where murder is up thirty percent in Denver. But listen
to this stat Aurora, Aurora, Colorado, murder is down almost
fifty nine percent.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
If this Aurora City council does not screw everything up,
and I don't have any confidence that they will not
screw everything up, if they will just let Todd cha
Ingberlyn do what he's doing as the Aurora Police chief,
Aurora will be so much better off for it. But
of course, again see my earlier comments, this current city
council is not.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Full of people who make rational decisions. It just isn't.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
And there's part of me that thinks the people of
Aurora deserve what you voted for, like you deserve these
clowns on the City Council who are not actually doing
anything other than coming up with grandiose statements of caring
weak care. Not as grandiose as the idiotic statements in
the Denver City Council, which I also have on the
blog today.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Have you heard this, Janon?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Have you heard that Denver is considering a labor acknowledgment.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Have you heard about this?
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeah, so you know what the land acknowledgements are. That's
where some you know, person stands up in front of
a room and says, I would like to acknowledge that
the land that we're standing on belong to the indigenous
people of.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
This tribe, this tribe, this tribe, this trip.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
They never give the land back, acknowledge that they are
standing on stolen land, as they call it. I prefer
the term conquered land. But whatever, it's just potato patata.
But now, the Denver City Council, in an effort to
demonstrate their moral goodness.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Their superiority over all of.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
The rest of us rubs out here in rube Land,
they are considering a labor acknowledgment. But you knew it
wasn't going to pass easily. You knew it wasn't because
these people cannot find enough stuff to quibble about. So
now it was put forth by city council member Sean
Tel Lewis. She is herself an African American. She is
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now having to deal with council members who are Latina
who are basically like.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Well, what about us?
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Now?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
The irony here of a labor acknowledgment is that in
the state of Colorado, we have never had legal slavery.
Slavery was outlawed in the United States of America before
we became a state. So we are now doing a
labor acknowledgment that doesn't necessarily have anything.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
To do with Colorado. Oh but that's not all. That's
not all.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Lewis says, she wants to have denversity Council acknowledge and
this is a quote that our country's economy, infrastructure, and
resulting generational wealth would not exist as they do today
without the stolen and forced labor of enslaved Africans and
the visitants who suffered the horror of the transatlantic trafficking
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and shadows slavery. The full text of her acknowledgment does
include naming the actions of the KKK in Denver and Colorado,
among other uncomfortable incidents. So see, here's what we're going
to do for the rest of our lives.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
We are going to start every Denversity Council meeting reminding
us that historically, back in the day, people were awful,
with the implication being that we are still awful in
a city council that is inhabited by black people, by
Hispanic people, by white people, which would certainly to me
indicate that we've come a long way in terms of
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labor excuse me, in terms of race relations in the
state of Colorado. We've had black mayors, We've had you know,
we haven't had female mayor. But I don't hear anything
about that. I'm just throwing that out there. Committee members
remain receptive to the idea, says this article. Questions still
swirl around crafting inclusive language for the acknowledgment. Y'all, this
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acknowledgment is going to be seven minutes long. Denver City
Council pro TEMs Serena Gonzalez Gutierrez, who supports the proposal,
said she had some additional concerns with some of the
revised language, noting that additional stakeholder engagement would be required
with each of the added communities. Okay, so are we
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gonna have like a victim Olympics.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Are we gonna wait?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Or are we gonna have to line up all of
these people at a city council meeting and they'll just
go down the line and they'll be like, what are you?
And the first person will be like, well, I am
a Latina who also has indigenous family members as well.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Okay, you can stay. We will take your opinion.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
What are you?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I am an African American man.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Okay, you can stay, but you don't get to talk
as much as the other people.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
What are you? I'm a white man? You can go oppressor.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Louis said this to clarify this is.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Lewis said.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
We can acknowledge the exploitation of immigrant labor, We can
acknowledge migrant workers, we can acknowledge the Chinese Exclusion Act,
we can acknowledge the exploitation and displacement of Japanese and
other communities, and we absolutely should. We don't need to
pretend that all his streets were the same. And I
think it's really important because slavery was not simply exploited labor.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
People were stolen.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
From Africa, transported across an ocean, bought and sold his property,
and forced to labor without compensation or freedom. She did
forget that the people were stolen in Africa by Africans,
that it was fellow Africans who facilitated the slave trade
in Africa. So just in case you were missing the
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point there, those people that were exploited, the Japanese who
were put into an internment camp here in Colorado, they
were not exploited enough. They're not high enough on the
victim hierarchy for Shantell Lewis to really care about their exploitation.
It's only about her people, people that she doesn't know,
people that don't exist anymore, people that have passed away.
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Only those people matter, nobody else. This is what happens
when you play victim Olympics. And that's on the blog
today as well. Back to Aurora. Now, violent crime falling
dramatically in Aurora should be a headline story, and I
think for a couple of reasons.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Number one, we have seen a.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Massive pushback on what we all know was here, that
we had a significant chunk of Venezuelan gangs that were
creating havoc. They were preying on people, many of whom
were here illegally. They were stealing cars, committing crimes. Now
one of two things happened. They were arrested and were deported,
or they self deported, or they.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Just went somewhere else. I don't care.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
But at the same time, Police Chief Todd Chamberlain has
been very aggressive in putting cops.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
This is so crazy.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
He's been putting cops where the crime is in Aurora.
I know, nuts, right, just crazy, super nuts.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
But congratulations to Aurora.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
They actually drugged down, dragged down the rest of the
numbers for us in the state. They make us look
really good. This is running in Axios. The reporter writes
this the intrigue Aurora, Colorado, a city Trump falsely singled
out as being overrun by Venezuelan immigrant gangs during the
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twenty twenty four election. So I fifty eight point eight
percent drop in homicides.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Perhaps it's because.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
They went after the Venezuelan gangs that we're here in
twenty twenty four. Perhaps I'm just crazy. I know it's crazy.
Maybe there is a connection.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Maybe.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Now, some of the places in these in this list,
they had so few homicides and then so a small
drop seems very significant. But I do think that an
almost sixty percent drop in Aurora is worth talking about.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
I really do.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Mandy just saw pumpkin spices, cheerios, and pumpkin spies, everything.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
And now llween Oreos are in stores.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Now you know what, guys, I used to feel the
outrage with you, but now I just lean in.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I really do.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Oh Christmas cookies now, oh, sure, I'll take them. Doesn't
mean I'm going to celebrate Christmas or put my tree up.
We can fight it, but we live in a capitalist
society and there are people out there who want to
buy this stuff. Now, that's why it's out there. If
nobody bought it, we wouldn't see it. So be happy
that our capitalist system is working. And there you go, Mandy,
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didn't Native Americans in Colorado practice slavery of other people?
I do know that Native American tribes did. I do
not know about the Native American tribes that were indigenous
to Colorado, so I cannot answer that question specifically, but yes,
there were many Native American tribes who were marauders and
who enslaved the people that they did not kill. So yes,
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you are right, Mandy. If I lived in Denver, I
would make a white accomplishment acknowledge every day.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
What would that even sound like? Oh, I'm gonna make
one up after this.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Ah, my friends, we are back and it's been a
few so let's check in with our Fox thirty one.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Media Chief meteorologist Dave Fraser. Dave, good to talk to
you again, my friend.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
How are you doing.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I'm doing very well.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I'm ready to not you know, last week I was
in Alaska and I underpacked for Alaska weather, which was
very cool in an overcast. But I'm ready for the
easy bake oven that has been Colorado to sort of
go into the you know, into the memory. So is
today the day do we finally turn.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
The corner on this?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Yeah? First, before I get into that, I did hear
you talking about that.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
I knew you were going to Alaska because you had.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Said that a couple of weeks ago. So I'm gonna
give you a little homework. I just booked my crews
a month ago, shortly after you announced that you're going,
so send me an email with your dues, your don'ts,
what you liked who your cruised with Cord Excursion and
she did. I booked my excursions, but I'm willing to
change them based on recommendations. I'm doing my research online
just to make sure i get the biggest bang for
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my buck while I'm going up there next year.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
What cruise line are using, Holland, Oh, that's a good one. No,
I'll totally do that, David, And yeah, there are definitely.
I mean there's so few cruise ports and this was
our third cruise. I think I've done all the excursions,
so I might be able to help you with that.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
So I'll send you an email about that.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
I'm your favorite.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I will, I will, I will. So what's happening here
with our weather?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Yeah, so we are turning the corner. It all has
to do with what we talk about this time of
the year, and it's the monsoon moisture. Basically, what that
means if you're new to Colorado is we get this
seasonal switch in the wind that helps to pump up
moisture from the Baja California and the Pacific Ocean. Sometimes
it wraps in Gulf of Mexico moisture, so it all
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comes up out of the south across Arizona, through Utah
and then makes its way across Colorado, first up and
over the mountains and then spreading onto the eastern plains.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
So this week.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Monday, Tuesday, and today, we've reintroduced that monsoon moisture, more
so in the mountains. You're gonna notice heavier rain coming
with the thunderstorms this afternoon, but they will be scattered,
so not everybody's gonna benefit today. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
That possibility of everybody getting something grows a little bit.
And by that I mean we're talking about an eighty
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percent chance of rain up and down the front range,
across the eastern plains. Even the mountains will do well.
And again, monsoon rains can be heavier times, so you
got to watch out for ponding on the roads and
maybe standing water here and there. Of course, our biggest
concern will be the burn scars, but the heat's gonna break.
Today's our last day at pushing near ninety and then
we will be in the upper seventies and low eighties
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all the way through the weekend.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
WHOA, that's what I wanted to hear, So let me ask.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
I mean, how our monsoons made any dent in our
drought situation. I know that like in the metro area,
there's been very little rain in Denver proper, but we've gotten,
you know, down in Douglas County, I've gotten some like
you know, frog stranglers as my dad used to call them,
where we got really hard rain, brief rain, but really
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hard range.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
What is our situation with our drought?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
It is it varies that much. Obviously, we make our
point of focus Denver because that's where our record keeping is.
So to have you know, an understanding of whether this
was a record setting hot day, a record setting summer,
so forth and so on, we have to pick a point,
and that point is Denver. But there are many other
places along the front range that have done better. I
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will say that we haven't moved the needle that much.
There was some improvement in a few places, but then
we lost a little bit, Like you mentioned in Metro
Denver and the heart of the Metro within the four
to seventy Loup struggled a little bit. This I won't
call this chance of rain drought busting, but I do
think we will see, maybe by next Thursday's calculation, some.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Improvement, because what we're looking at.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Year is the potential for between now and Sunday as
much as two inches of rain or mooring.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Wow, spots.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Wow, that's pretty good. Yeah, that's a lot good.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
I'm looking at like, you know, I'm looking at numbers
that are, like, you know, three tenths of an inch,
two to three tenths maybe later today in spots, maybe
as much as three quarters of an inch Thursday, Fridays
in that same category, Saturday and Sunday. It comes down
a little bit, but you're still looking at four tenths
five tence. So when you do the math and you
add it all up, you're looking at numbers that represent
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one one point twenty five, one five, maybe as much
as two inches in areas that get heavier.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Storms and the south side of town. You know, well,
we'll do a little better.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
The Palmer Divide always does a little better. I think
the mountains is where we'll see some real good improvement
in the drought. The center part of the state has
had the worst strout for the longest time, and I
do think we'll see improvement there and improvement in other areas,
but I don't think we eradicate it all together. But
here's the good news, Mandy. I don't have the dry
day moving forward, so I think the heavy push of
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monsoon moisture we see Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday retreats a
little bit Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday of next week. And while
I'll reduce my rain chances down to maybe twenty percent
starting on my probably Tuesday of next week, I don't
have a dry day through next Friday, and I can
see the monsoons ramping up again next weekend.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
So we're in a good spot right now.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
So let me ask this, is this going to push
some of this smoke down or I mean, the air
quality is just so bad right nowadays. It's miserable to
be outside for a long time, and it's just like
it's it sucks because we all live in Colorado because
we love to go outside in the summer and we're
all just trapped inside down.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Yeah, So we saw improvement yesterday, We've seen a little
improvement today. There is a noticeable haze. It's visible. It's
not at a level down low enough to have any
health concerns.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
And what we're going to see with this.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Push of moisture coming in, because the flow will be
coming up out of the southwest and west, all of
that is going to get walter to the east. So
if you watch me tonight at five or nine o'clock tonight,
I will have the smoke forecast as part of my
presentation and I will show that to you and you
will see how things will vastly improve.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Especially we've seen some improvement in the last few days,
but I think you'll see.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Things really wash out tonight and the rest of the
week and weekend looks fantastic.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Excellent, that is what I want to hear.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Now, I'm gonna check the text line to see if
anybody is asking when we're going to get our next snow.
But I have nothing so far if following the water restrictions,
any best practices to at least keep the lawn alive.
I love how you're both weather man and our lawn
guy here on the Mandy Connell Show, because they trust
you to know these things. I mean, my lawn has
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done surprisingly well this summer with the QWA day, so
it's it hasn't been as bad, I guess, and over
the last couple of weeks, we've gotten some good rain
at my house, so my lawn's looking pretty good. But
I've seen some really not so great lawns in Denver.
So do you have any suggestions.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
You know, I would say my lawn like yours, looks
a little stressed in some area, has got a tint
of yellow, but overall it's still green in a lot
of places. And I to them on the south side
of town. I think if you're watering two days a week,
and you're watering enough, generally what I said mine at
and there are certainly gardeners and you know, landscape guys
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that might have different opinion. You know, I set up
for about ten minutes, let it soak, and then run
at another ten minutes to get it to seep down
into the roots. If you can do that twice a week,
fertilizing also helps a little bit to kind of keep
it going. You're not going to get at this time
of the year, no matter what, you are not going
to make it look like a golf course.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
You just know you're just throwing bad money.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
And with the water restrictions, we don't want to be
violating water restrictions. Of course, We've done the stories about
neighbors ratting neighbors out because they're using water more than
they want to. You can also do a little bit
of hand water. But I honestly, when we get into
the dog days of summer at mid July, before the
monsoons kick in, like we were just talking about, you're
going to get that lawn looking a little bit, you know, weak.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Yeah, but it's not dead. It's just it's it's you know, it.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Needs a little help.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
But then what will happen.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Is we'll get these monsoon rains and we'll get the
cooler nights. We're going to be down in the.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Fifties starting tonight, oh thank god.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
And then we'll yeah, and then we'll hit then we'll
hit September, and all of a sudden, that lush lawn
is right back and you're mowing twice a week sometimes.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Yeah, we just got to get through this period.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Somebody set this in. Hi, Mandy boy, howdy?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Can we feel the humidity in the air today on
the ranch northeast of Cheyenne. Can you ask mister Fraser
if there's anything severe? Is it just why is it
so high?
Speaker 3 (28:37):
So I was just I'm literally sitting in front of
my laptop putting the forecast together, and we always talk
about due points, not humidity. Due point is the actual
measurement of moisture in the air, and that's something that
we've been looking at in our forecast. So when we
start to see due points for Denver in the front
range getting into the fifties, that is really good moisture.
That's a sign of monsoons. We're going to have due
points in the fifties all the way through Sunday and
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Monday next week, so.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
We will have the moister and play.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
But the DEU points out on the northeastern plains east
of Cheyenne in the Nebraska Panhandle there I just looked
there between sixty four and sixty eight that is thick
humid air and those areas may have very heavy rain.
You got to watch out, as I said, for standing water,
watch out for ponding on the roads, you know, back
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the speed down if it's a heavy downpour. There is
a small threat for severe weather out there, with lightning,
winded hail being accompanying the heavy rain. That would probably
take place from about six to midnight tonight. So if
you're in the northeast corner of the state, say north
of Fort Morgan, up High seventy six, close to maybe Cheyenne,
east of Cheyenne and over to the Nebraska Panhandle. That
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is the potential threat for the season.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Okay, real quickcause you're out of time, Mandy, can you
ask if you can hold off on the rain until
at least four forty five. I want to get my
bike right in before I'm sucked in for the rest
of the week, So can you just turn your rain
dial to five pm instead of earlier.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
I'll do this quickly because we're short on time.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
After three o'clock today and after noon tomorrow the rains
will start.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
And I know I don't know who it is.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
I'm not real familiar, but I know we have concerts
coming up on Thursday and potentially Friday at outdoor venues.
Those things are going to be maybe delayed and or
very soggy if you're sitting in the stands.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
All right, Dave Praiser Box thirty one, appreciate you. I'll
talk to you next week, my friend.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Enjoy the rain.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Ah, we will, thank you. We'll be right back all right,
wrapping up the show because we've.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Got Rockies baseball at one o'clock. I think tomorrow I
might do a deep dive on how much better the
Rockies are this year than last year. And I know
it doesn't feel that way. We've lost over seventy games.
But as someone who actually watches the games, trust me
on this. There are good things happening at the Rockies organization.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
I know.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
I know it is a much different ball club, much
different ball club it has been in the past. I
believe that we're on the right trajectory. Let's just keep
the trajectory the same.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Now.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
I had this story on the blog and somebody already
texted in and said, hey, I sent.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
This to my doctor.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
So you know, they're always trying to find out how
to help people understand when they're going to die.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Okay, none of.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Us know exactly when we're going to die, but we're
all going to die at some point. But when it
comes to older people, how do we discern who is
in better health than others? Now, you think about things
like your blood pressure, cholesterol, do you have diabetes, are
you overweight?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Those kind of things, and yeah they matter.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
But now they've got a study of a little over
thirteen thousand adults aged sixty five and older.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
In Taiwan. They followed these people for.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Seven years and they measured their physical fitness through a
battery of practical tests.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
And I'm talking.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
About tests like agility tests where someone has to sit
down in a chair, stand up, walk round a cone,
and come back and sit down again. A test where
people have to stand on one foot for thirty seconds.
These are not you know, they're not stress tests. They're
not making them you know, climb a fourteen, or they're
just basic tests to find out how someone's physical fitness
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is after the age of sixty five.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
And what they found out was is that there is.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
A significant connection between how you perform on these physical
tests and your likelihood of dying of any cause in
the next seven years. So if you can balance on
one foot for thirty seconds, you are doing very very well.
And now they're saying it's not enough to know your
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blood pressure or cholesterol. How are you actually able to function?
How are you And this is the difference between lifespan
and health span. Lifespan is how long you live. In
the United States and other Western countries, we all, you know,
we come out of the womb, we rock it up
in terms.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Of our overall health.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Most of us still were eighteen mid twenties. Then it
levels out, and at about sixties sixty two in the
United States, we start to decline on a forty five
degree angle.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
It's not good. It's slow, and the last.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Few years for many many people are plagued with illness,
with pain. It's just not a good way to go out.
So what they're trying to do is increase healthy lifespan,
which is, instead of declining at a forty five degree angle,
you're healthy, you're healthy, you're healthy, and then you have
a catastrophic something and you die, but you die eighties nineties,
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you know you're healthy until then. So seven tests they used,
and what they found was that the people in the
top five percent from lowest to highest, did an amazingly
great job. And on the one leg stance, the gap
between those who could do that and those who couldn't
was about fifty percent. If you can stand on your
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one foot for thirty seconds, you have dramatically increased your
odds of living beyond seven years. It's incredible flexibility.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
By the way.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
You know, now you're said, I don't know if you
guys see it, And now I have all these mobility influencers.
There's these twenty year old people doing these insane exercises
like maintain your.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Mobility and flexibility.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
What they found was extreme stiffness, people who can't bend
over at all, people who have no flexibility. They had
a higher mortality risk, but beyond a moderate functional range
of motion, there was no benefit to being more flexible.
So all those yoga classes you'd planned in your eighties,
you may not need them. You may not need them.
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I find this incredibly interesting because all of these things
are things you can test in your own home. You
can do them to yourself. You don't need to go
to a fancy clinic. You don't need fancy equipment, you
don't need any of that stuff. You can stand and
time yourself on one foot. Now, lest you think that
you cannot improve balance, I'm here to tell you you
absolutely can. It's like anything else. The more you do it,
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the better you get at it. The better you get
at it, the better chance you have of living past
one minute. By the way, try standing on your foot
with your eyes closed for thirty seconds.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
I can do it. I did it this morning. Just
letting you know.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
To the person who said dying scares the blank out
of me. Then you need to work on your spiritual life,
not your physical life, because if you get your spiritual
life in order, dying. Isn't that scary? Rockies Baseball coming
up next. I'll be back tomorrow with a full show.
Keep it right here on KOA
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my friends. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
To the only hour of the Andy Connell Show today.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I am here for one hour.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I am assisted today by Shannon Scott as A rod
continues to cover our training camp of cover to cover.
If you're not following our social is he is he
not at training camp?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Is it over? Shannon? You're supposed to know these things.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I thought there was some sort of travel situation that
made it all quite on the western front.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Oh, I don't know. I don't know where a rod is.
They're not traveling until tomorrow for the game. I talked
to Riga Luis about that yesterday, So I don't know.
We don't know else A rod is lost?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Is that what you're telling me? We got with no
idea where a rod is?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
He just gone? One of our A rods is missing.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Okay, okay, we've thrown a rod. We don't know where,
but we've thrown the a rod.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Let's jump in. We've got an hour. Let's stop dithering.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Shall we find the blog at mandyblog dot com. That's
mandyblog dot com. Look for the headline that just says
short show. Let's make it count. Click on that and
here are the headlines you will find within and.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Even with someone who offers South American all with ships
and clipments and say that's going to press Flint.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Today on the blog, let's check in with whether Wednesday
want something to watch while the game is on. Paulus
is over selling our education rankings. Denver postpones it's idiotic
labor acknowledgment again. The Firefighters Union is in Hotel California.
Aurora's homicide rate plummets bocks thirty ones. Chris Barente's cancer
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journey continues. Can standing on one foot predict your death chances?
At least one COMMI lost our cigarette. That's really the problem.
In Denver Top ten Dogs of the Week, progressives try
to wave away their idiocy with a laugh. Jennet Griswold
is hiding a report those blood tests for Alzheimer's aren't
helping even the mar they're doing. OnlyFans now another stupid
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video that makes me laugh. I am too obsessed with
Gerald right now. Powerball is a billion tonight. The idiocy
of NYC's mom Donnie grocery stores. Mark Arubio loves the
idea of Maha. Late addition, those are the headlines on
the blog at Mandy blog dot com.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Hon It.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Anyway, I've got a lot of stuff. Obviously, it's not
as long, it's not as bolluminous a blog as normal
because we have an hour because the Rockies take over
at one as they go to win the series with
the Diamondbacks, which is totally frustrating my nephew Patrick. So,
my nephew Patrick lives in Arizona, huge Diamondbacks fan. This
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kid has never met smack talk. He does not enjoy.
So as soon as the Rockies in the Diamondbacks start
playing here comes to my phone, it starts blowing up
with the smack talk. He texts me a couple days
ago before the series started, he says, can you just
asked the Rockies to lose these games so we can
beat the Dodgers in the Division And I was like, no,
I will not. I will cheer even harder for them.
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And then they got absolutely slapped in the first game,
like just pasted, like the Rockies were just didn't even
show up. But yesterday, yesterday, we're planning my nephew's visit
in November to go to a Broncos game, and while
we are texting back and forth to confirm that the
Rockies tie up the game, and he's like, not of
a biscuit eater, But that's not what he said.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
He's bad language.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
But and then of course the Rockies held on last
night to win that game. So the Rubber matches today,
and just to irritate my nephew, Patrick, go Rockies win
this game. Coming up at twelve thirty, we're gonna check
in with Dave Frasier. He's been off, I've been off.
We haven't chatted in a few weeks, just as we've
been what's the word I'm looking for roasting here in Colorado.
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It looks like today is the day, though, that things
are starting to turn around, and I'm here for it.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I'm done with summer. I'm completely Shannon.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Are you a summer guy, a winter guy, a spring guy,
a fall guy?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
And I'm not talking about your color palette clearly went
to the Lee Majors. I am a fall guy.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
That was such a great throwback reference. And can we
all agree that Heather Thomas was so hot in that show?
She was a smoke show in that show. Whatever happened
to her like, I think she got addicted to drugs
or something.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I don't know. Did not go well, Mandy. I heard
the butt story on the news this morning.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I can't believe the reporter said this with a straight face.
I was waiting for him to crack up.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Ha ha. See what they did there, Mandy.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
The study on your blog on Senior's fitness test was
so interesting I forwarded to my doctor. Don't know how
it popped up on your radar, but thanks that from Mike.
Now what he's talking about is a study that I
have on the blog that we're going to get into
in just a second. I'm probably gonna rip through everything
on the blog today today. I was like, Okay, no
big serious topics because we only have an hour. So
(05:01):
I just went and sought out interesting things. So I
found some interesting stuff. Number One, I have this story
and I saw it yesterday, but I didn't put it
on the blog yesterday because I didn't understand the backstory.
Now I understand the backstory. So the Denver Firefighters Union
has found out that joining or affiliating with the state
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wide union is much like checking into the Hotel California.
You can check in anytime you like but you can
never leave. The situation is so bad that the local union,
Local eight fifty eight voted in late twenty twenty four
to stop sending dues to the state union. Now here's
where it gets interesting. They were never an official affiliate.
(05:45):
They never had that, you know, written agreement like we're
an affiliate of you guys, and we're gonna send They
were just sending them dues kind of a you know,
when you go month to month on a least kind
of thing, you don't actually have any written stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
You just he keeps it in the in your landlord
keeps taking and it's fine. They were doing that. Well,
apparently they decided they didn't want to do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
And I don't know why exactly, I don't know what
the breaking point was. So they announced a couple of
years ago to the union, the state union, that they
were done, they weren't going to pay anymore to the
state union. And then they actually had a vote where
seventy percent of Denvers unionized firefighters approved the disaffiliation measure.
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So they send that information to the state union. How
does the state union respond? They send him a bill
for three hundred ninety thousand dollars in unpaid dues. And
this is where it gets great. According to the lawsuit,
the state union and the International Association of Firefighters, which
represents firefighters across North America, did not recognize the disaffiliation
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votes because the votes allegedly failed to adhere to IAFF bylaws.
Here's the problem, because they were not officially affiliated with
the union. The local union is arguing that those bylaws
don't outline a procedure for disaffiliation. And because there's not
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a clear procedure, the local union was free to leave
the state union at any time.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
And here's the kicker.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
The kicker is that they did follow the rules that
are in effect for an affiliated union, but they're not
officially affiliated. And the part that I love about this story,
part the reason I'm talking about this story is I
love it when union members find out how bad union suck.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Because isn't that what we're talking about here?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Isn't this Do you think it's a surprise to the
unionized firefighters to find out that being any union sucks?
And the unions don't care if you want to be
a part of them. They just want your money. Oh
you guys don't want to affiliate.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
That's fine, send us three hundred ninety thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
We'll call it a day. We'll wash our hands of everything. Actually,
that's not even what they're saying. They're basically saying, nah, uh,
you can't leave. Imagine this. Imagine a world in which
you're not actually a member of an organization. You've just
been supporting the organization. Let's say, for instance, I'm supporting
the Shannon Scott Booze Fund, and I've been sending Shannon
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Scott booze money over the you know, every month, I
send him twenty bucks. When I've been doing this for
a few years, just because I want Shannon to remain.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Liquored up on, you know, all the time.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
And then I decide, you know, what I might be contributing,
and Shannon may now be an alcoholic because of my
booze money. So I'm just gonna stop giving the booze money.
And then Shannon calls me and says, where's my booze money?
And I go, oh, I've decided not to pay it anymore.
And Shannon goes, nah, I'll be waiting for the booze money.
That's essentially what's happening, right now, and I just I
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do think unions have a place. I really do when
you look at things like the Electrical Workers' Union or
the plumbers union, when I'm talking about the trades, where
they actually have programs in place to help train people
to do a job, and they have ongoing education, and
they are actually productive organizations that can help you move
forward in your career. More power to you if you
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want to, if you want to join those unions, that's great.
Public sector unions are garbage. They are absolute garbage. They
don't do anything to make the public. What have they've
done for the Denver firefighters? That's what I'd love to know.
What did the Denver firefighters get for their multi year
association with the state organization. I'd love to know the
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answer to that. I have no idea, but I certainly
have no idea. So that is on the blog today.
I just found that wildly entertaining. And I did go
back and found a different story about how this whole
thing unwound, you know, it came to be, and it
literally is the union that's just saying no, you can't
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quit us.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
We're not going to let you. So that's on the
blog today.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I have the most interesting story, did you guys hear
yesterday there was. It was all over the news, and
the big headline was big cities. See the massive drop
in homicides from h one, twenty twenty five to twenty
twenty six.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Massive to this point in the year.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
So they're looking at homicides in big cities across the country,
and some of these cities have seen.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
A massive reduction.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Newark, New Jersey, has seen murder's decrease almost sixty five percent. Raleigh,
North Carolina down almost sixty four percent.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Denver, Colorado, oh see wow.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Asked about that that's a little bit of a problem
where murder is up thirty percent in Denver. But listen
to this stat Aurora, Aurora, Colorado, murder is down almost
fifty nine percent.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
If this Aurora City council does not screw everything up,
and I don't have any confidence that they will not
screw everything up, if they will just let Todd cha
Ingberlyn do what he's doing as the Aurora Police chief,
Aurora will be so much better off for it. But
of course, again see my earlier comments, this current city
council is not.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Full of people who make rational decisions. It just isn't.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
And there's part of me that thinks the people of
Aurora deserve what you voted for, like you deserve these
clowns on the City Council who are not actually doing
anything other than coming up with grandiose statements of caring
weak care. Not as grandiose as the idiotic statements in
the Denver City Council, which I also have on the
blog today.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Have you heard this, Janon?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Have you heard that Denver is considering a labor acknowledgment.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Have you heard about this?
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeah, so you know what the land acknowledgements are. That's
where some you know, person stands up in front of
a room and says, I would like to acknowledge that
the land that we're standing on belong to the indigenous
people of.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
This tribe, this tribe, this tribe, this trip.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
They never give the land back, acknowledge that they are
standing on stolen land, as they call it. I prefer
the term conquered land. But whatever, it's just potato patata.
But now, the Denver City Council, in an effort to
demonstrate their moral goodness.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Their superiority over all of.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
The rest of us rubs out here in rube Land,
they are considering a labor acknowledgment. But you knew it
wasn't going to pass easily. You knew it wasn't because
these people cannot find enough stuff to quibble about. So
now it was put forth by city council member Sean
Tel Lewis. She is herself an African American. She is
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now having to deal with council members who are Latina
who are basically like.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Well, what about us?
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Now?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
The irony here of a labor acknowledgment is that in
the state of Colorado, we have never had legal slavery.
Slavery was outlawed in the United States of America before
we became a state. So we are now doing a
labor acknowledgment that doesn't necessarily have anything.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
To do with Colorado. Oh but that's not all. That's
not all.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Lewis says, she wants to have denversity Council acknowledge and
this is a quote that our country's economy, infrastructure, and
resulting generational wealth would not exist as they do today
without the stolen and forced labor of enslaved Africans and
the visitants who suffered the horror of the transatlantic trafficking
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and shadows slavery. The full text of her acknowledgment does
include naming the actions of the KKK in Denver and Colorado,
among other uncomfortable incidents. So see, here's what we're going
to do for the rest of our lives.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
We are going to start every Denversity Council meeting reminding
us that historically, back in the day, people were awful,
with the implication being that we are still awful in
a city council that is inhabited by black people, by
Hispanic people, by white people, which would certainly to me
indicate that we've come a long way in terms of
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labor excuse me, in terms of race relations in the
state of Colorado. We've had black mayors, We've had you know,
we haven't had female mayor. But I don't hear anything
about that. I'm just throwing that out there. Committee members
remain receptive to the idea, says this article. Questions still
swirl around crafting inclusive language for the acknowledgment. Y'all, this
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acknowledgment is going to be seven minutes long. Denver City
Council pro TEMs Serena Gonzalez Gutierrez, who supports the proposal,
said she had some additional concerns with some of the
revised language, noting that additional stakeholder engagement would be required
with each of the added communities. Okay, so are we
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gonna have like a victim Olympics.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Are we gonna wait?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Or are we gonna have to line up all of
these people at a city council meeting and they'll just
go down the line and they'll be like, what are you?
And the first person will be like, well, I am
a Latina who also has indigenous family members as well.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Okay, you can stay. We will take your opinion.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
What are you?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I am an African American man.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Okay, you can stay, but you don't get to talk
as much as the other people.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
What are you? I'm a white man? You can go oppressor.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Louis said this to clarify this is.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Lewis said.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
We can acknowledge the exploitation of immigrant labor, We can
acknowledge migrant workers, we can acknowledge the Chinese Exclusion Act,
we can acknowledge the exploitation and displacement of Japanese and
other communities, and we absolutely should. We don't need to
pretend that all his streets were the same. And I
think it's really important because slavery was not simply exploited labor.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
People were stolen.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
From Africa, transported across an ocean, bought and sold his property,
and forced to labor without compensation or freedom. She did
forget that the people were stolen in Africa by Africans,
that it was fellow Africans who facilitated the slave trade
in Africa. So just in case you were missing the
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point there, those people that were exploited, the Japanese who
were put into an internment camp here in Colorado, they
were not exploited enough. They're not high enough on the
victim hierarchy for Shantell Lewis to really care about their exploitation.
It's only about her people, people that she doesn't know,
people that don't exist anymore, people that have passed away.
(16:51):
Only those people matter, nobody else. This is what happens
when you play victim Olympics. And that's on the blog
today as well. Back to Aurora. Now, violent crime falling
dramatically in Aurora should be a headline story, and I
think for a couple of reasons.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Number one, we have seen a.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Massive pushback on what we all know was here, that
we had a significant chunk of Venezuelan gangs that were
creating havoc. They were preying on people, many of whom
were here illegally. They were stealing cars, committing crimes. Now
one of two things happened. They were arrested and were deported,
or they self deported, or they.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Just went somewhere else. I don't care.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
But at the same time, Police Chief Todd Chamberlain has
been very aggressive in putting cops.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
This is so crazy.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
He's been putting cops where the crime is in Aurora.
I know, nuts, right, just crazy, super nuts.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
But congratulations to Aurora.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
They actually drugged down, dragged down the rest of the
numbers for us in the state. They make us look
really good. This is running in Axios. The reporter writes
this the intrigue Aurora, Colorado, a city Trump falsely singled
out as being overrun by Venezuelan immigrant gangs during the
(18:19):
twenty twenty four election. So I fifty eight point eight
percent drop in homicides.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Perhaps it's because.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
They went after the Venezuelan gangs that we're here in
twenty twenty four. Perhaps I'm just crazy. I know it's crazy.
Maybe there is a connection.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Maybe.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Now, some of the places in these in this list,
they had so few homicides and then so a small
drop seems very significant. But I do think that an
almost sixty percent drop in Aurora is worth talking about.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
I really do.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Mandy just saw pumpkin spices, cheerios, and pumpkin spies, everything.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
And now llween Oreos are in stores.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Now you know what, guys, I used to feel the
outrage with you, but now I just lean in.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I really do.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Oh Christmas cookies now, oh, sure, I'll take them. Doesn't
mean I'm going to celebrate Christmas or put my tree up.
We can fight it, but we live in a capitalist
society and there are people out there who want to
buy this stuff. Now, that's why it's out there. If
nobody bought it, we wouldn't see it. So be happy
that our capitalist system is working. And there you go, Mandy,
(19:32):
didn't Native Americans in Colorado practice slavery of other people?
I do know that Native American tribes did. I do
not know about the Native American tribes that were indigenous
to Colorado, so I cannot answer that question specifically, but yes,
there were many Native American tribes who were marauders and
who enslaved the people that they did not kill. So yes,
(19:55):
you are right, Mandy. If I lived in Denver, I
would make a white accomplishment acknowledge every day.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
What would that even sound like? Oh, I'm gonna make
one up after this.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Ah, my friends, we are back and it's been a
few so let's check in with our Fox thirty one.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Media Chief meteorologist Dave Fraser. Dave, good to talk to
you again, my friend.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
How are you doing.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I'm doing very well.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I'm ready to not you know, last week I was
in Alaska and I underpacked for Alaska weather, which was
very cool in an overcast. But I'm ready for the
easy bake oven that has been Colorado to sort of
go into the you know, into the memory. So is
today the day do we finally turn.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
The corner on this?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Yeah? First, before I get into that, I did hear
you talking about that.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
I knew you were going to Alaska because you had.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Said that a couple of weeks ago. So I'm gonna
give you a little homework. I just booked my crews
a month ago, shortly after you announced that you're going,
so send me an email with your dues, your don'ts,
what you liked who your cruised with Cord Excursion and
she did. I booked my excursions, but I'm willing to
change them based on recommendations. I'm doing my research online
just to make sure i get the biggest bang for
(21:08):
my buck while I'm going up there next year.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
What cruise line are using, Holland, Oh, that's a good one. No,
I'll totally do that, David, And yeah, there are definitely.
I mean there's so few cruise ports and this was
our third cruise. I think I've done all the excursions,
so I might be able to help you with that.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
So I'll send you an email about that.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
I'm your favorite.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I will, I will, I will. So what's happening here
with our weather?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Yeah, so we are turning the corner. It all has
to do with what we talk about this time of
the year, and it's the monsoon moisture. Basically, what that
means if you're new to Colorado is we get this
seasonal switch in the wind that helps to pump up
moisture from the Baja California and the Pacific Ocean. Sometimes
it wraps in Gulf of Mexico moisture, so it all
(21:53):
comes up out of the south across Arizona, through Utah
and then makes its way across Colorado, first up and
over the mountains and then spreading onto the eastern plains.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
So this week.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Monday, Tuesday, and today, we've reintroduced that monsoon moisture, more
so in the mountains. You're gonna notice heavier rain coming
with the thunderstorms this afternoon, but they will be scattered,
so not everybody's gonna benefit today. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
That possibility of everybody getting something grows a little bit.
And by that I mean we're talking about an eighty
(22:24):
percent chance of rain up and down the front range,
across the eastern plains. Even the mountains will do well.
And again, monsoon rains can be heavier times, so you
got to watch out for ponding on the roads and
maybe standing water here and there. Of course, our biggest
concern will be the burn scars, but the heat's gonna break.
Today's our last day at pushing near ninety and then
we will be in the upper seventies and low eighties
(22:45):
all the way through the weekend.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
WHOA, that's what I wanted to hear, So let me ask.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
I mean, how our monsoons made any dent in our
drought situation. I know that like in the metro area,
there's been very little rain in Denver proper, but we've gotten,
you know, down in Douglas County, I've gotten some like
you know, frog stranglers as my dad used to call them,
where we got really hard rain, brief rain, but really
(23:10):
hard range.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
What is our situation with our drought?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
It is it varies that much. Obviously, we make our
point of focus Denver because that's where our record keeping is.
So to have you know, an understanding of whether this
was a record setting hot day, a record setting summer,
so forth and so on, we have to pick a point,
and that point is Denver. But there are many other
places along the front range that have done better. I
(23:35):
will say that we haven't moved the needle that much.
There was some improvement in a few places, but then
we lost a little bit, Like you mentioned in Metro
Denver and the heart of the Metro within the four
to seventy Loup struggled a little bit. This I won't
call this chance of rain drought busting, but I do
think we will see, maybe by next Thursday's calculation, some.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Improvement, because what we're looking at.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Year is the potential for between now and Sunday as
much as two inches of rain or mooring.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Wow, spots.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Wow, that's pretty good. Yeah, that's a lot good.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
I'm looking at like, you know, I'm looking at numbers
that are, like, you know, three tenths of an inch,
two to three tenths maybe later today in spots, maybe
as much as three quarters of an inch Thursday, Fridays
in that same category, Saturday and Sunday. It comes down
a little bit, but you're still looking at four tenths
five tence. So when you do the math and you
add it all up, you're looking at numbers that represent
(24:32):
one one point twenty five, one five, maybe as much
as two inches in areas that get heavier.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Storms and the south side of town. You know, well,
we'll do a little better.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
The Palmer Divide always does a little better. I think
the mountains is where we'll see some real good improvement
in the drought. The center part of the state has
had the worst strout for the longest time, and I
do think we'll see improvement there and improvement in other areas,
but I don't think we eradicate it all together. But
here's the good news, Mandy. I don't have the dry
day moving forward, so I think the heavy push of
(25:02):
monsoon moisture we see Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday retreats a
little bit Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday of next week. And while
I'll reduce my rain chances down to maybe twenty percent
starting on my probably Tuesday of next week, I don't
have a dry day through next Friday, and I can
see the monsoons ramping up again next weekend.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
So we're in a good spot right now.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
So let me ask this, is this going to push
some of this smoke down or I mean, the air
quality is just so bad right nowadays. It's miserable to
be outside for a long time, and it's just like
it's it sucks because we all live in Colorado because
we love to go outside in the summer and we're
all just trapped inside down.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Yeah, So we saw improvement yesterday, We've seen a little
improvement today. There is a noticeable haze. It's visible. It's
not at a level down low enough to have any
health concerns.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
And what we're going to see with this.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Push of moisture coming in, because the flow will be
coming up out of the southwest and west, all of
that is going to get walter to the east. So
if you watch me tonight at five or nine o'clock tonight,
I will have the smoke forecast as part of my
presentation and I will show that to you and you
will see how things will vastly improve.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Especially we've seen some improvement in the last few days,
but I think you'll see.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Things really wash out tonight and the rest of the
week and weekend looks fantastic.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Excellent, that is what I want to hear.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Now, I'm gonna check the text line to see if
anybody is asking when we're going to get our next snow.
But I have nothing so far if following the water restrictions,
any best practices to at least keep the lawn alive.
I love how you're both weather man and our lawn
guy here on the Mandy Connell Show, because they trust
you to know these things. I mean, my lawn has
(26:43):
done surprisingly well this summer with the QWA day, so
it's it hasn't been as bad, I guess, and over
the last couple of weeks, we've gotten some good rain
at my house, so my lawn's looking pretty good. But
I've seen some really not so great lawns in Denver.
So do you have any suggestions.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
You know, I would say my lawn like yours, looks
a little stressed in some area, has got a tint
of yellow, but overall it's still green in a lot
of places. And I to them on the south side
of town. I think if you're watering two days a week,
and you're watering enough, generally what I said mine at
and there are certainly gardeners and you know, landscape guys
(27:22):
that might have different opinion. You know, I set up
for about ten minutes, let it soak, and then run
at another ten minutes to get it to seep down
into the roots. If you can do that twice a week,
fertilizing also helps a little bit to kind of keep
it going. You're not going to get at this time
of the year, no matter what, you are not going
to make it look like a golf course.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
You just know you're just throwing bad money.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
And with the water restrictions, we don't want to be
violating water restrictions. Of course, We've done the stories about
neighbors ratting neighbors out because they're using water more than
they want to. You can also do a little bit
of hand water. But I honestly, when we get into
the dog days of summer at mid July, before the
monsoons kick in, like we were just talking about, you're
going to get that lawn looking a little bit, you know, weak.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Yeah, but it's not dead. It's just it's it's you know, it.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Needs a little help.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
But then what will happen.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Is we'll get these monsoon rains and we'll get the
cooler nights. We're going to be down in the.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Fifties starting tonight, oh thank god.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
And then we'll yeah, and then we'll hit then we'll
hit September, and all of a sudden, that lush lawn
is right back and you're mowing twice a week sometimes.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Yeah, we just got to get through this period.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Somebody set this in. Hi, Mandy boy, howdy?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Can we feel the humidity in the air today on
the ranch northeast of Cheyenne. Can you ask mister Fraser
if there's anything severe? Is it just why is it
so high?
Speaker 3 (28:37):
So I was just I'm literally sitting in front of
my laptop putting the forecast together, and we always talk
about due points, not humidity. Due point is the actual
measurement of moisture in the air, and that's something that
we've been looking at in our forecast. So when we
start to see due points for Denver in the front
range getting into the fifties, that is really good moisture.
That's a sign of monsoons. We're going to have due
points in the fifties all the way through Sunday and
(28:59):
Monday next week, so.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
We will have the moister and play.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
But the DEU points out on the northeastern plains east
of Cheyenne in the Nebraska Panhandle there I just looked
there between sixty four and sixty eight that is thick
humid air and those areas may have very heavy rain.
You got to watch out, as I said, for standing water,
watch out for ponding on the roads, you know, back
(29:22):
the speed down if it's a heavy downpour. There is
a small threat for severe weather out there, with lightning,
winded hail being accompanying the heavy rain. That would probably
take place from about six to midnight tonight. So if
you're in the northeast corner of the state, say north
of Fort Morgan, up High seventy six, close to maybe Cheyenne,
east of Cheyenne and over to the Nebraska Panhandle. That
(29:43):
is the potential threat for the season.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Okay, real quickcause you're out of time, Mandy, can you
ask if you can hold off on the rain until
at least four forty five. I want to get my
bike right in before I'm sucked in for the rest
of the week, So can you just turn your rain
dial to five pm instead of earlier.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
I'll do this quickly because we're short on time.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
After three o'clock today and after noon tomorrow the rains
will start.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
And I know I don't know who it is.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
I'm not real familiar, but I know we have concerts
coming up on Thursday and potentially Friday at outdoor venues.
Those things are going to be maybe delayed and or
very soggy if you're sitting in the stands.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
All right, Dave Praiser Box thirty one, appreciate you. I'll
talk to you next week, my friend.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Enjoy the rain.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Ah, we will, thank you. We'll be right back all right,
wrapping up the show because we've.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Got Rockies baseball at one o'clock. I think tomorrow I
might do a deep dive on how much better the
Rockies are this year than last year. And I know
it doesn't feel that way. We've lost over seventy games.
But as someone who actually watches the games, trust me
on this. There are good things happening at the Rockies organization.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
I know.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
I know it is a much different ball club, much
different ball club it has been in the past. I
believe that we're on the right trajectory. Let's just keep
the trajectory the same.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Now.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
I had this story on the blog and somebody already
texted in and said, hey, I sent.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
This to my doctor.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
So you know, they're always trying to find out how
to help people understand when they're going to die.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Okay, none of.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Us know exactly when we're going to die, but we're
all going to die at some point. But when it
comes to older people, how do we discern who is
in better health than others? Now, you think about things
like your blood pressure, cholesterol, do you have diabetes, are
you overweight?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Those kind of things, and yeah they matter.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
But now they've got a study of a little over
thirteen thousand adults aged sixty five and older.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
In Taiwan. They followed these people for.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Seven years and they measured their physical fitness through a
battery of practical tests.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
And I'm talking.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
About tests like agility tests where someone has to sit
down in a chair, stand up, walk round a cone,
and come back and sit down again. A test where
people have to stand on one foot for thirty seconds.
These are not you know, they're not stress tests. They're
not making them you know, climb a fourteen, or they're
just basic tests to find out how someone's physical fitness
(32:15):
is after the age of sixty five.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
And what they found out was is that there is.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
A significant connection between how you perform on these physical
tests and your likelihood of dying of any cause in
the next seven years. So if you can balance on
one foot for thirty seconds, you are doing very very well.
And now they're saying it's not enough to know your
(32:42):
blood pressure or cholesterol. How are you actually able to function?
How are you And this is the difference between lifespan
and health span. Lifespan is how long you live. In
the United States and other Western countries, we all, you know,
we come out of the womb, we rock it up
in terms.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Of our overall health.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Most of us still were eighteen mid twenties. Then it
levels out, and at about sixties sixty two in the
United States, we start to decline on a forty five
degree angle.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
It's not good. It's slow, and the last.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Few years for many many people are plagued with illness,
with pain. It's just not a good way to go out.
So what they're trying to do is increase healthy lifespan,
which is, instead of declining at a forty five degree angle,
you're healthy, you're healthy, you're healthy, and then you have
a catastrophic something and you die, but you die eighties nineties,
(33:35):
you know you're healthy until then. So seven tests they used,
and what they found was that the people in the
top five percent from lowest to highest, did an amazingly
great job. And on the one leg stance, the gap
between those who could do that and those who couldn't
was about fifty percent. If you can stand on your
(33:58):
one foot for thirty seconds, you have dramatically increased your
odds of living beyond seven years. It's incredible flexibility.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
By the way.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
You know, now you're said, I don't know if you
guys see it, And now I have all these mobility influencers.
There's these twenty year old people doing these insane exercises
like maintain your.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Mobility and flexibility.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
What they found was extreme stiffness, people who can't bend
over at all, people who have no flexibility. They had
a higher mortality risk, but beyond a moderate functional range
of motion, there was no benefit to being more flexible.
So all those yoga classes you'd planned in your eighties,
you may not need them. You may not need them.
(34:39):
I find this incredibly interesting because all of these things
are things you can test in your own home. You
can do them to yourself. You don't need to go
to a fancy clinic. You don't need fancy equipment, you
don't need any of that stuff. You can stand and
time yourself on one foot. Now, lest you think that
you cannot improve balance, I'm here to tell you you
absolutely can. It's like anything else. The more you do it,
(35:02):
the better you get at it. The better you get
at it, the better chance you have of living past
one minute. By the way, try standing on your foot
with your eyes closed for thirty seconds.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
I can do it. I did it this morning. Just
letting you know.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
To the person who said dying scares the blank out
of me. Then you need to work on your spiritual life,
not your physical life, because if you get your spiritual
life in order, dying. Isn't that scary? Rockies Baseball coming
up next. I'll be back tomorrow with a full show.
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