08-15-25 FULL SHOW - Good Enough Is Ruining Your Life, And A Type One Golden Honor

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
No, it's Mandy Connell and Don.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
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sad Day. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Friday edition of
the show.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
All together now, that's all right, and the airhorn.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Indicates the return of what mister Anthony Rodriguez ending his
twelve hour days to bring you the best social media
coverage of Broncos training camp that you're gonna find anywhere.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
I'm glad to have you back, my friend.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
I am happy to be back.

Speaker 5 (00:53):
Hi.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yeah, and it's Friday and there's a lot of stuff
to talk about today.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
But I got to tell you, it's like.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
So much irritating things that I just decided to go
in a different direction on the blog. And you'll see
it when you go to the blog. Find it by
going to Randy Cromwell dot com or mandy'sblog dot com.
Look for the headline that says eight fourteen to twenty
five blog good Enough is ruining your life and a
Type one Golden honor. Click on that and here are

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the headlines you will find within I think you're someone in.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Office South American allerships and clipmans s that's going to
press pledge.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Today on the blog.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
It's an ask Me anything kind of Friday. From dream
to done. It used to be an early death sentence
excel Sues Elbert County. Yes, I'm putting Taylor Swift Travis
Kelsey story above the fold. The Salvation Army checks out
of the homeless hotels. Are black coaches discriminated against in
the NFL? You want to see what the deep state
looks like when they're losing. Scrolling another dubious stat to

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blame on Democrat leadership. Socialism fails again. Colorado Democrats are
the most freezing line I've ever seen. Scrolling scrolling on
tariffs and polus. They're coming for your gas stoves, frank
and bunnies in Fort Collins. This should not take two
and a half years. Our sanctuary status could lead to

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the loss of federal funds. Another motorcyclist dead. Mortgage rates
hit six point five percent this week. This seems pretty
accurate to me. These baby AI videos are hilarious. Thinking
about doing the manituincline, a spaghetti act that might be
useful if you dropped off a donation to the Loveland
arc Thrist's store in a dark hun day palisade. Would

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you want to survive the apocalypse? What to do with
all the dog hair? Another Denver post expose a this
is some scary work dgif everybody, and now.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Baby's doing cute baby stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Those are the headlines on the blog at manby'sblog dot.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Com or yeho a winner.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Sorry, Nancy, didn't mean to step on your praise for
the blog, because it is another winner. As you can see,
today's blog is a little bit all over the place.
I actually started it last night because I had my
first follow up appointment with my surgeon, who is so outstanding,
and I have officially been cleared to drive. I'm pretty

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excited about that and I'm doing awesome and she showed
me pictures of my uters and.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Ovaries, so that was cool.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
I got to see Norma and all of her glory
and anyway, that's I started the blog last night.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
That's just Norma.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
I named my uterus Norma after Norma Desmond, the aging
starlet from Sunset Boulevard who just wanted everyone.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
To remember how beautiful she was.

Speaker 6 (03:40):
Okay, but yeah, the question that everyone's wanting to have
an answer to, Yeah, did you get anything in the jar?

Speaker 3 (03:47):
I did not.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
I did not ask for anything in the jar. No, no, no,
I did not.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
No no.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Because they did some biopsy stuff which all was positive
and none of it was positive and.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
Was all good. All the results were good.

Speaker 7 (03:59):
No.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
I never want to deal with Norma again. Okay, I
don't even want her as a as a paperweight. Wow,
I'm done, Norma. H Yeah, thanks for everything, Norma, thanks
for thanks for creating a baby and stuff.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
But I'm good. I'm good.

Speaker 6 (04:13):
Hey, now.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Exactly look your first apartment. No, I'm just kidding.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
I wouldn't do that when it was free. Way to
start paying. Durrant was right.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Anyway, it is eight fifteen today, you guys. I will
change that. In just a second. I realize what I did.
What I did. Mandy, your blog is not on the Koa,
Colorado website. Okay, this is a little glitch thing that happens.
And this is why I post the blog on Facebook
and Twitter because even if it doesn't show up on

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our website, which occasionally it just doesn't for some reason.
If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter at Mandy Condle.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
At both places. You can just click.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
That link and that link will take you to the
KOA website where you will find my blog, which is weird.
I know, I don't know why it does that. I
have no idea. I am what's known as an end user. Okay,
so I am an end user of computer stuff. And
then so I don't ask me like the man behind

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the curtain stuff, I got nothing.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
I have nothing. What I do have a three guests today.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
I was gonna have two guests today, but now I
have three. So the first guest coming up at twelve
thirty is Britta Horn, the chairwoman of the Colorado Republican Party.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
So last night, as I was.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
Perusing Twitter and everything for the blog, getting stuff ready
for today, I stumbled across the most blatant gaslighting post
I have ever seen in my life. And it was
put out by Colorado Democrats, and I mean the actual
Colorado Democrats themselves, right, And this is what it says.

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First of all, it's got four pictures. It's got Lauren
bober finger in the air, mouth open like the most
unattractive pictures of all these people. Jeff Heard, Jeff Crank
and Representative Gave Evans the four Republican members of Congress
from Colorado, and it says this Colorado Republicans are toxic.

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They blew a one point two billion dollar hole in
Colorado's budget, costing you money and course services people rely on.
We're holding them accountable. Across Colorado. Attend a big bill
fallout emergency down all near you, and then it gives
you the various states and you can get free tickets
to these events. Now, I would not be the sort

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of person that would told you to go get tickets
and then just not go. I mean, I think that's
kind of bush league. But if you wanted to go,
you could, because Brenda Horn went to the one in
chip Some last night. They have them in Gypsum, Durango,
Lone Tree, North Glenn, Colorado Springs, Eerie, Denver, Jefferson County, Centennial,
Boulder County, in Pueblo, Okay. And what they're doing is

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trying to make it look like Colorado's budget issues are
solely the responsibility of the big beautiful Bill. Now, because
of the way income taxes and actually all of our
taxes taxable income is indexed in the Colorado tax code,
we are getting hit harder than other states because of
the no tax aren't overtime that's in the Big Beautiful bill,

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and some other changes for business that were made that
are going to reduce the overall taxable income for everyone
in Colorado now instead of last legislative session changing that
in the tax code, which.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
By the way, the Colorado Dems could have done, they.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
Could have done it easily without one single Republican vote,
because the Republicans are so hopelessly outnumbered in the legislature
that it's they can do.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
Whatever they want.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
And we all knew when Donald Trump got back into
office the changes were going to happen when it came
to federal butts, but they didn't do anything.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
They did nothing.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
Now what they have done is go from a three
point two billion dollars surplus a few years ago to
us not getting any table refunds this year.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
Now, think about this for a moment.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
If that surplus still existed, we wouldn't even need a
special session. We would just be able to say, whoops,
we got to go back and plug this hole with
that surplus money.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
But we don't have it anymore for two reasons.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
One, the Democrats have spent every dollar they can and
two they have moved our table refunds away from us,
the people that they were supposed to come to, and
to all of their pet projects across the state. Come on,
come on, give me a break with this. So I

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posted about it rather graphically language wise. If you follow
me on social media, especially if you follow me on
X where I am the most active, I love X
formerly Twitter. I love the platform. I love everything about it.
I make no apologies for it. I don't have a
bunch of racist in my timeline, so I love the
whole thing that being said. Generally speaking, will make really sarcastic, snarky,

(09:01):
sometimes obnoxious comments, but I don't use bad language. But
yesterday I need an exception, and boy did I can't
even tell you what I said. I'm not going to
tell you what I said, just not going to do it.
But Britta went to one of these meetings last night,
so we're going to talk to her in just a
few minutes and find out what these meetings are all about.
And then a little bit later in the show, I

(09:22):
have a guy who was addicted to drugs and had
a flatlining near death experience, but then when he came back,
he decided to change his life and now he's a
motivational guy and he would love to help you change
yours as well. And what got me on this pitch? Okay,
because I get pitches. I get a billion pr pitches.

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But the pitch is how to go from dream to done?
And you know, somebody always told me the drift. The
difference between a dream and a goal is a timeline, right.
A dream is, oh my gosh, I would love to
travel Europe with a backpack sometime. A goal is in

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the summer of twenty twenty six, I'm going to travel
across Europe with a backpack. By the way, my backpack
days are so far behind me.

Speaker 4 (10:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
Now I'm booking stuff through my American Express travel portal,
and if it doesn't have a nice enough bathroom, I'm
not staying there. I'm just saying that's where I am
in life. And I make no apologies. I've traveled poor
and I've traveled wealthy, and I like it the other way,
the second way better.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Just saying.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
To the text you just said, are you kidding, Mandy?
The Dems are making the debt the Republican's fault.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
Correct? Correct, yep, And I did fix the blog.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
It will take a moment to update. So those of
you who are still texting me, first of all, thank
you for going to the blog. You are my favorites
in the audience, just letting you know, and thank you
for letting me know I made a mistake. I have
several people who I consider my own personal editors for
the and they usually email me about really egregious mistakes

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pretty early.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
And I really appreciate that. I mean, I really really
do appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
There's a question, because it doesn't ask me anything kind
of Friday, Hi, Mandy. So how do they dispose of
those leftover parts? I have no idea, nor do I care.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
I do not care.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
I mean maybe I'm guessing they incinerate them like I
would think. I mean, I don't care if they feed
them to the animals at the zoo. I'm not using
it anymore. You can have it and do whatever it.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
Is you want to do with it.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
Hey, Roddy, you ever thought about how you want to
be buried? You're young, so you probably haven't thought about
that stuff yet.

Speaker 4 (11:40):
I don't want to be buried.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
What do you want to have happen?

Speaker 1 (11:43):
You want to be shot into a cannon, into the
etherh or what do you want to have happened with
your body when you're dead?

Speaker 4 (11:47):
Frozen? Absolutely frozen?

Speaker 6 (11:49):
Yeah, because we're talking about a future at some point
in the future. It sounds insane now, but at some
point I'll be able to be brought back to life.

Speaker 7 (11:59):
You know what.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
That doesn't appeal to me. And I've thought about this
long and hard.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
I actually interviewed a guy in Florida that has a
cryogenics organization.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
They don't freeze your whole body, by the way, They
just freeze your.

Speaker 4 (12:09):
Head future Ama style, baby.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
Yeah, they freeze your head.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
Ready for it.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
I mean, I guess they could freeze your whole body.
This guy just froze your head, you'd wake up.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
Let's just say it takes.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
Five hundred years for them to get the technology to
bring you back and reanimate you and all of that stuff.
Everything and everyone you know is gone. Well you have
no connection to anyone.

Speaker 6 (12:30):
That's not true. If you also have your loved ones
do the same thing. Well, that's true if you if
you froze the whole family, I could see that. Yeah, Okay,
you've that's a that's a valid, valid pushback right there. Yeah,
because if I'm dead, nothing matters, So I want to
have even a one percent chance of, at some point
down the road come back.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
I don't know, I because I don't believe this is
the end, right.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
I think that there's an entire you know, thing after
this that we don't know about yet, and so uh,
generally speaking, I would say, I'm just going to be
content knowing what I think I know about the afterlife
to say, I'm not going to.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
Want to come back here. I am hopeful to do
this anymore.

Speaker 4 (13:11):
I'm hopeful you're right, but I also want to hedge
my bets.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Fair fair point, I mean, that's a fair point you anyway,
It isn't ask me anything kind of day. You can
text your questions to five six six nine, oh, and
it could be any kind of question, especially about anything
that's going on Mandy.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
Have you guys seen pat Cemetery? Not only have I
seen it.

Speaker 5 (13:34):
That book.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
Was literally the scariest ending of any book, and I
would maintain to this day perhaps the best ending of
any Stephen King book in all of the Stephen King
books he has ever written. The end of that book
scared the crap out of me so bad that I
threw the book across the room, and then I got

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up and I had to put it in the freezer.
Why it seems safer to just have it in the
freezer so I could go to sleep. And if you've
not read pet Cemetery, it is light years better than
any movie they've ever made of it.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
It is so much better. But yeah, no, I'm not
doing that.

Speaker 6 (14:14):
I'll have to read it because I I don't recall
liking or disliking the movie. I'd have to try it again.
The first one, well, the first one was not good
one because the isn't the first one pretty old, Yeah,
and it was not good at first of the newer
ones because there was a second newer one, I believe,
And I can't recall whether it was good or not.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
This textor said Mandy, I had my daughter convinced I
was going to be taxidermy, didn't spend the rest of.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
The life of her life on her couch.

Speaker 4 (14:39):
I'll tell you one thing, Mandy, I'm telling you right now,
lock it in.

Speaker 6 (14:43):
No chance in hell of all the ways to be
dealt with, No chance in hell do I want to
be cremated ever? Well, no, no, no, frozen, buried, thrown
off a ship whatever, Okay, not cremated.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
I I just want to be I don't want to
be like I don't want any of that embalmbing stuff,
which seems super creepy to me. I just want to
be wrapped in a shroud and thrown in a hole.
It's a natural burial and so you deteriorate you. You
know you, you basically decomposed.

Speaker 4 (15:16):
Do you've ever considered creamas I.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
Don't like the idea of being set on fire. Although
if someone dumped a bunch of unpopped popcorn into the
coffin with me right before we went in, that could
be fun.

Speaker 4 (15:27):
If I do decide on burial, you better give me
that bell.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
Just do you want the bell? Okay, be just in case.

Speaker 6 (15:34):
No, I want it to be like set to like
have a little thing that like nails it like a
couple of times a year, just to freak people out
in the cemetery.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
Well, one of my husband's friends has already requested that
he's already set up. He's got a text, a group text,
ready to go out and at his funeral. He wants
Chuck to just hit send and all the texts that
will go to all of his friends and family just
says it's dark in here.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
I and so that he really wants that.

Speaker 4 (16:03):
I love you everything about it.

Speaker 6 (16:05):
I want to be the troll at my funeral having
been dead, because then I want people to laugh because
I know it's gonna suck. I like to think for
my loved ones, it's gonna suck. So I want to
make that day a little less sucky for them. Okay,
and stuff like that is beautiful.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
I've actually thought about this, and I've already determined I'm
gonna do it if I find out I have any
kind of disease. Right if I find out, even if
I have a beatable form of cancer, before I start
to look a little worn down from the treatments, I'm
going to record a video to be played at my funeral.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
I'm just gonna be like, hey, kids, last time you know,
here we go.

Speaker 6 (16:38):
I don't know about a video because I think I
think it would make it worse for that time. I
think by the end of the video you're feeling good,
But during the duration of the video, I think I
would make my loved ones hurt more.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
Ends on the video, I would be like, hey, guys,
I don't know if you know this, but I had
an amazing life.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
Don't cry for me, because man, did I love it? Man?

Speaker 6 (16:59):
Did I love you?

Speaker 5 (17:00):
Guys?

Speaker 8 (17:00):
Man?

Speaker 3 (17:01):
It was awesome.

Speaker 6 (17:01):
In the public space, there's been I feel like, quite
a few of them recently where people that have like
really successful YouTube channels will have that video set to
publish the moment that they pass and say, if you're
watching this, there you go, this is it.

Speaker 4 (17:14):
I've gone, and then they describe everything that's gone on
everything like that.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
I don't know what's going on on Twitter right now,
but I've probably had five or maybe seven, five or
seven people that I follow who someone else on their
Twitter account in the last two weeks and else their death.
And some of these people are not elderly. Some of
these people are young. So it's just been very, very odd,
and I thought, well, I should probably I probably need

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to give Chuck some kind of message to put out
there on my social media accounts if something happened, and.

Speaker 6 (17:44):
Make sure, I mean, does he have access? Does he
know all the passwords? It's all your no, but he
could sit down at my computer and it'd be fine. Yeah,
my my home computer has everything like my laptop at
work doesn't.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
My phone.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
You know, you have to have two step notification. But
if he has my phone and that, oh geez, we're
just squandering time here. Okay, we're gonna We got a
lot of people who have given me really good ideas
to use for their bodies. I especially like I want
to be cremated and then send some of the ashes
to space. I like it a lot, or a Viking
funeral in a landlocked state. I like where we're going

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with this. But when we get back, we're going to
talk to Britta Horn about her experience at one of
those Democrat meetings last night. Keep it on KOA, let's
get to Britta Horn. She is the Colorado Republican chairwoman,

(18:37):
and last night she took the hit so we don't
have to. She went to one of these Republicans or
toxic meetings in Gypsum put on by the Colorado Democratic Party,
and now she's here to talk about it.

Speaker 5 (18:49):
Hello Britta, Hello, miss Mandy.

Speaker 6 (18:52):
How are you?

Speaker 3 (18:53):
I am doing very very well.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
I have to ask, what was your reception last night
when you walked into this Colorado damn meeting?

Speaker 5 (19:02):
Oh my gosh. They were surprised. They were quite surprised.

Speaker 8 (19:05):
So some of you some of us.

Speaker 5 (19:08):
We were to being about a dozen of us showing up,
and I mentioned there was about thirty there. And it
was at the library in the very small room. And
it wasn't as gatekeeping as it maybe people think, you know,
you could walk in. You didn't have to reserve, you know,
the reservation. But we did just let them know we
were coming. And we also even turned into you know,
questions that they said to turn into their email. But

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when we walked in the door, I saw the blind
going out of the face of a few and they
handed us a clipboard and they're like, can you fill
this out? And then I can really bold, you know,
wrote my name and Colorado GOP chair and gladly gave
them my phone number, and I'm like, we're here with
signs and patriotic people and everybody were in red, white
and blue, and oh they just didn't think we were

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going to come, but we did.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
So what was this meeting all about? What did you
get from the meeting?

Speaker 1 (19:57):
And I'm guessing they probably just they probably ratcheted back
the rhetoric a little bit because you were standing there,
one would zink.

Speaker 5 (20:05):
But I also had a video, so we'll get to
that later. So they really were so proud of themselves.
They're penning themselves in the back of all these accomplishments
that they did, and none of it was true, none
of it. You know, they were saying that their budget,
you know, they balanced the budget, but that didn't happen
at all this year. You know, we ended up having
a budget year for the JBC. The Joint Budget Committee

(20:28):
told us that twenty twenty six and twenty twenty seven,
we're going to be seven hundred million in the red
and we're dipping into our reserves. You know, we're already
short our reserves from fourteen two percent to those statutory
requirement of fifteen percent as of like eighty three million dollars.

Speaker 8 (20:45):
And there's it's not balanced.

Speaker 5 (20:48):
We have to do two things. Let's get a little
granular here. If you bounced the budget, there's that long bill,
it's signed by the governor, but you also have to
do the supplemental budgets and supplement funding in February of
twenty six and it hasn't happened yet, right, So don't
seem like I'm sorry, go ahead.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
No, no, go ahead, Brad. I was gonna let you
finish that I want.

Speaker 5 (21:08):
To make a point, right, no worry, I'm just saying
that they're they're saying that they've done all these things.
They've done all these things. That's bad Republicans and bad
Trump and bad. But you know they've you know, they've
owed BBB, you.

Speaker 8 (21:20):
Know, the big bottle Phetto.

Speaker 5 (21:22):
There was just saying that so long and they're taking
you know, one point two billion dollars from us, and
it's like, no, no, no, that's not even true. This
budget shortfall was before this bill got passed.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
So Britta, let me ask you this because this has
been super frustrating for me. I understand the way Colorado's
income tax or our taxes are sort of index to
the federal income tax, and that's a problem. We're one
of a few states that has that issue. But the
reality is everyone knew that there was going to be
some changes into how much federal money we're going to

(21:56):
come to the states. Why didn't the Democrats address the
tax code issue in this last legislative session because if
they'd done that, then none of this would have been happening.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
According to them, right.

Speaker 5 (22:09):
Exactly exactly, they knew what they knew it was going
to be this way. But for the reason why, and
the only reason I know. I don't know them. I
don't know all the personal reasons, but they the big
problem is they have a spending problem and they don't
understand how to cut and to stay within a budget.
And they've had since twenty nineteen the Trisecta from the
governor down to the state into the House having the majority,

(22:32):
and they had all this time to be able to fix.

Speaker 8 (22:34):
This, but instead they just spent, spent, spent.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
I actually have a more nefarious reason that I think, Britta,
if I'm honest, and I think they're going to use
this as another bludgeon to attack Tabor again because they're
I mean, I don't know if you saw Barb Kirkmeyer
on television, and oh my gosh, the gentleman's name just
popped right out of my head where he essentially says, well, yes,
where he said, well, we're just gonna really to raise revenue.

(23:01):
They want to come after Tabor, they want to destroy Tabor,
and the best way to do that is.

Speaker 3 (23:06):
To say, look, if we didn't have Tabor, we wouldn't.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
Have had to have a special session. This is all
Taper's fault. We have to get rid of this in
order to prevent this from happening again. I genuinely think that.

Speaker 3 (23:17):
That is what is in play here.

Speaker 5 (23:20):
I don't disagree, and they actually were saying that, so
I'm surprised. I felt like you were probably a fly
in the room on the wall, because yes, they said,
Tamber is a problem. We have to get rid of it.
It's old, it's antiquated. You know, there's nothing, you know,
there's nothing we could do for this. You know, we're
we're gonna have to do this. We're gonna have to
do there's no surplus for the taper. Everybody groaned, or
nobody's gonna get their check. Yeah, because the Democrats spend

(23:43):
it all. Yeah, they spend it all. And so they're
going to go into this because this really is if
you look back at thirty thousand foot view, I also
think this is just pre circuit, you know, pre priming everybody,
I guess is the right word to the August twenty
first special session. And there's nothing special about this session
when you should rename it as Jared's taxing session, because

(24:06):
all there is on that call is to do tax
to raise money, raise taxes, raise taxes. There is not
one opportunity for Republicans to be able to do a
cut spending cut dough. There's no an opportunity on the call.
And all they're going to do is raise the taxes
and that Jeff Bridges said that when that reporter asked him,
you know, are you guys going to be raising taxes?

(24:27):
And he said, yes, so.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
But how can they do that, Britta, if without asking
our permission? As long as Tabor is the rule of
the land.

Speaker 4 (24:35):
Of the law of the land, one would think.

Speaker 5 (24:38):
But they're circumventing the table for us. There's no way
they shouldn't be doing this. They're not even going to
the voters on it. They're just going to raise it
because of this crisis that they created.

Speaker 3 (24:50):
Well, I actually think.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
There's going to be another thing coming out of this
special session, and I think it's going to be a
referral to ballot amendment to get rid of TABER. I
think they're going to do it under the guise of
addressing this budget shortfall, and they're going to make the
argument that if only it wasn't for Tabor and those
evil Republicans, we'd be just fine. I think that's what's
going to happen. So at the end of the meeting,

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did you have a chance to talk to any of
the sort of democrat or the people that were at
the meeting or did you kind of stay.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
With the people that you were with.

Speaker 5 (25:20):
Oh no, I want to write and make sure I
talk to everybody, because I know the commissioners and I
know a.

Speaker 8 (25:24):
Lot of vocals.

Speaker 5 (25:24):
So I definitely went and shook all their hands and
thanked him and I just asked him, especially Meghan and
Luken's and Dylan Roberts. It was just like, why are
you why is this still going on? You know, why
are we here? And so a lot of people coming
in and out. I had another young Democrat coming up
to me and calling me a fascist. I'm like, so much,
can we talk about this? And she was just started,

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you know, darting at me and saying things that are
so like, go good gravy. And we had other people
there asking all those questions. And we did have one
of a lady, our friend of ours, and she went
up both to Dylan Roberts, Senator Roberts and to Chad
I can't say his last name, of the state.

Speaker 8 (26:02):
A Democratic, thank you for that.

Speaker 5 (26:05):
His wife is Senator Terry Donovan and they're from Fale,
so you know, we thought, actually I was the first
time we ever met because we've been throwing punches at
each other on X so it's good to finally made him. Anyway,
so she has she knows, do I look toxic? And
right away she said, Dylan Roberts said no, you're not
at all. And she's like, who is saying all this?
And he and he of course pointed to his chair,

(26:28):
a state chair, and so she went to him too
and asked, uh, yeah. She's like, do I look, I'm
seventy six years old, married, you have kids, I have grandkids.
Do I look toxic? And he's like, no, no, no,
just these people.

Speaker 8 (26:39):
And he was just going after the four Congressionals.

Speaker 4 (26:41):
Republicans, right, So it is so old.

Speaker 5 (26:45):
You know, this fallout you know it was from the
World War Two, the fallout shelter. You know, there isn't
that toxic you know logo and you're just looking at
this going wow are.

Speaker 8 (26:54):
They grasping at straws?

Speaker 5 (26:56):
So I really I really encourage anybody everybody goes just
sign up, call you know, reserve to SYA. It's I'll
say on their on their invite to just say, you know,
you don't have to have a you know, it's not required.
Go listen to them. I mean you might have to
put on some hip boots and listen to them and

(27:16):
try to ask some questions. Because they didn't take any
of our questions. We filled them out on little three
by five cards, you know, put them in there. They
were all, you know, but you know, the bucket that
all our questions went into, you know, disappeared and came
back in. Certain fuctions were asked, you know, just keep
you know, you know, throwing, throwing, you know, some questions

(27:37):
to them, just saying what are you doing? Why are
you doing this? Ask some really serious questions because the
people need to know, they need to know. If you
believe what's going to happen with the next session with Taber,
I wouldn't doubt it, because this is going to be
their last year. I mean the Democrats overall knowing the state,
but in the country they lack leadership, they lack organization,
they lack a message. This is our year.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
I'm just gonna say this.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
I'm gonna say this because we're out of time that
I want to get this on the record. The fact
that you went to that meeting last night with other Republicans,
for me, that feels like a sea change. That feels
like a party that is no longer willing to be
the whipping boy of the Democratic Party here in Colorado.
And by going and being respectful and trying to ask

(28:23):
questions but showing up, you have already improved the lot
of the Republican Party. And I really appreciate that. So yeah,
I encourage people to go. Don't act like an idiot
when you go, but go to these meetings.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
I put the link.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
I have it on the blog where you can click
through and get the link. But Britt, I appreciate you
making time, and more importantly, I appreciate you demonstrating that
the days of Republicans cowering in the corner because we're
afraid of being called a fascist or a racist or
whatever is they can think of, are over in Colorado.

Speaker 5 (28:52):
Well done, no no cLogP dot org. Find us over there,
jump on our newsletter, you know, well, the donation because
we are This is our year, ma'am.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
From your lips to God's ears. That's Britta Horne, the
Colorado chairman of the GOP. Thanks for the time today, Britta,
we'll be right back. We were talking about look what
you were going to do with your dead body after

(29:27):
you were dead, and this texter has something for a rod.
A Rod said he wants to be cryogetically frozen, and
I'm like, no, I don't. I don't want to do
that because when they wake me back up, nobody else
I know is going to be there. Mandy, what if
in five hundred years, your frozen body is being saved
as a food source for whoever's in charge? Fair point,

(29:50):
fair point.

Speaker 7 (29:51):
Hello, Mandy.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
I thought I heard you say you don't call Twitter
X because it's a stupid name, but then today you
called it X. Another thought, with death and buried, what
happens if there's a nuclear war and we all get incinerated.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
We don't really get to choose how to be buried.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
Even if we're cryo frozen, we would still be incinerated
or vaporized. I guess you know what's interesting about my
trip to Japan that we just did. Really interesting? I
thought was that I always assume that when you drop
an atomic weapon that everybody is incinerated, and yes, within
a certain you know, sphere, within a certain distance from

(30:27):
the actual impact of the bomb, but way more people
lived than I thought. So I think we're kind of
operating under this misconception that if somebody drops a nuclear
weapon in Kansas, we're all done.

Speaker 3 (30:39):
In Denver, we're not not at all.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
As a matter of fact, a little bit later in
the show, Pedro Pascal, the actor, has said he does
not want to survive an apocalypse, and it got me
to thinking, would I want to survive an apocalypse?

Speaker 2 (30:54):
Like?

Speaker 1 (30:54):
Because the aftermath is going to be way worse than
if you just get you know, nuclear puff, you're gone.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
I don't know. We'll talk about that later in the
show when we get back.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
I got a pitch for this guy who's coming on
the show next and it says he can help you
get from dream to done. And that struck a chord
with me because ultimately the hardest part about accomplishing something
a lot is just getting started. So when we get back,
we're gonna chat with a guy named Kellen Flukiger and about.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
How to get that done.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Little motivational stuff for your Friday. In the meantime, though,
we got news trafficking weather, Keep it on kiawah blah blah,
Welcome to the second hour of the show. I'm your host,
Mandy Connell, Anthony Rodriguez producing back where he should be

(31:48):
and joining me now. My next guest, has I mean
to say. He's a prolific author. He's written more than
twenty books, including the bestseller of The Results Equation From
Dream to Done in five Simple Steps. He now travels
the world and spends his time trying to help other
people live their very best lives. And if you're feeling
a little stuck, you're definitely going to want to hear

(32:10):
this interview with Kelln Fluekiger. Join me now from beautiful Canada,
our friends to the North. Hi, Kellen, Welcome to the.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
Show, Mandy, thanks for having me, appreciate being here with
you today.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
So I want to start our conversation with a little
about your backstory, because you weren't always the positive, upbeat
guy trying to help other people lead their best lives.

Speaker 3 (32:30):
How did you get here?

Speaker 2 (32:32):
Well, I was a typical got to go pursue the
corporate ladder, get all that stuff. I did that for
decades and the chief C suite stuff in the United
States and in Canada and so forth. But behind the scenes,
my life is areck. I was living in self sabotage,
struggling with mental illness, depression, and ended up with addictions
and failed relationships and a nightmare of a story of

(32:56):
all kinds. And finally, in two thousand and seven, here
I turned fifty two, I had a divine intervention that
invited me to change direction. I radically stopped and turned
in a new way and literally started life over again.
And for the last eighteen years, I've become the person
that does all the stuff you just described.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
That's a lot to pack into eighteen years, twenty books,
right there, is pretty impressive. Let's talk about that divine intervention.
Was that your near death experience?

Speaker 2 (33:23):
No, that happened eleven years later. The divine intervention could
have been. It just wasn't life threatening, but.

Speaker 4 (33:30):
It was like that.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
It was some an incredible out of body experience that
made me take a new perspective on how I'd been
living my life and invited me literally with the words,
it is enough to change, And so I did, and
without having any idea of how to do it or
where to go or anything. And so I just kind
of walked off in a new direction, and it made
a commitment that I'm going to a new way of

(33:52):
life in a new place, and have not deviated in
the last eighteen years, you.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
Know, doing this show for as long as I've had
my own show for over twenty year now, and I've
had the opportunity to talk to people, multiple people who
have had a near death experience or an experience like
yours where they call it a divine intervention. And I
never get tired of hearing about the power of God
to move us in the right direction if we just listen, right,

(34:18):
I mean, isn't it. We've got to listen, let's talk. Oh,
if we could go ahead?

Speaker 2 (34:23):
Yeah, No, that's exactly right. They are invitations. They don't
do the work. It didn't heal my mental illness, it
didn't heal my addictions. But the invitation was so powerful
that the answer was I'm going I don't know what
I have to do, I don't know where I have
to go, et cetera. And the near death experience was
eighty or eleven years later, in twenty eighteen, that happened.

(34:46):
That was the excellent illness. I got a fatal illness
and an infection and died in the ICU and then
had conversations with God, three of them, and those conversations
affirmed powerfully what I've been doing for the eleven years
and made me even more ridiculously committed if that could
have been possible.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
So let's talk about your strategies for helping people, because
I love your concept that we have created a culture
of mediocrity. And this is a conversation. I have a
sixteen year old daughter, and that I have a conversation
with my daughter about trying to balance the urge or
the the the push for perfectionism with also not accepting mediocrity.

Speaker 3 (35:32):
Right, So tell me a little bit about that.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
About that, Well, mediocrity is the idea that, eh, that's
as good as it gets, and it shows up in
the form of I'm not good enough, I can't do this.
There's people that have the breaks or better things than
I do. And the truth is you, me, each of us,
your daughter, my kids, they have the ability to create
the life we want to have. We just have to

(35:58):
adopt that viewpoint and then start taking incremental steps like
there's no Harry Potter Wand it doesn't just show up
that way.

Speaker 4 (36:05):
It's and we literally with our.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
Energy, with our effort and with our commitment, can build
what we want, but we have to go do the building.
And the addiction to mediocrity is giving up on that.
We've been sort of socialized that everything needs to be
solved in the length of a TV sitcom, and it
doesn't happen that way. And when it doesn't, it's like, oh,
it's too hard, it must not be the right thing.

(36:29):
And the answer is, nobody falls up that mountain you
got to climb.

Speaker 4 (36:34):
So how do we do that?

Speaker 3 (36:35):
How do you go from a dream to a goal?
How do you do that?

Speaker 5 (36:38):
Do you do that?

Speaker 3 (36:39):
Well?

Speaker 2 (36:40):
One of the things that I took out of all
my years of executiveness and all that Jazz is consultant
in different countries is the steps to success. I don't
care what the goal is, they're the same. And there
are five steps to success, and that's what I wrote
about and the results equation and is to just the

(37:01):
five terms are understand the present, meaning understand where you are.
The second term is me mental earthquake, because you've got
to create power to create change. The third step and
there's specifics in the book about how to do all those.
The third step is to create the future, and that
means create a compelling vision in your mind that's so

(37:22):
powerful that it perpetually fires the drive to make it real.
The fourth step is courageous planning, which is a very
specific process about lining out the steps as best you
know in between where you are right now and where
you're trying to get, and then figuring out the right
processes to do each one. And the last one is
relentless execution, which is not about grinding. It's more about

(37:46):
mindset and understanding failure or setbacks as simply data points
instead of personal indictments, which, when we interpret them that way,
drives us toward that mediocrity. So those five steps in
great detail in the book will let you accomplish any
goal you want. Whether it's write in twenty books or

(38:07):
I have ninety seven songs in commercial release, It doesn't matter.
Whatever you want to do.

Speaker 4 (38:12):
You can have.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
So Kellen, what was your biggest takeaway from your conversation
with God?

Speaker 7 (38:18):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (38:18):
Oh, to hang on one second, Sorry about that, Sorry
about that, Kellen, What was your biggest takeaway personally from
the conversations with God?

Speaker 3 (38:28):
What did you change in your own life?

Speaker 2 (38:31):
There were four things that came from that, and it
you know it's indescribable what that feels like and looks like.
But the number one thing is each of us are
intentionally lovingly created divine beings, not maybe not sort of
we are. Number two is we have a mission and
a purpose that we not only agreed to, but we
were stoked about before we came. Number three, the gifts

(38:55):
and talents that we need to do that and enjoy
that we're given to us. And number four, all the
help we need is available from both sides of that door.
And I call it a door because the conversation has
literally took place at a doorway. And so those four
things just keep me focus, fired up, and clear because

(39:16):
I know those are true, like life and breath.

Speaker 1 (39:20):
Kellen, I'm gonna make sure Kellen Flukeeger is my guest.
You can find a link to his website to find
out more about all this stuff.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
Kellen. Fascinating conversation. I really appreciate your time today.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
Thank you for having me, and I've enjoyed meeting you.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
All right, thank you. And I had to cut that
short because of the echo. So fascinating stuff. Though you
know it seems so simple when you put it like that,
it really does and I think that a lot of
the times. First of all, I guess I should warn
you guys, just to let you know what's coming here.
So I had that week off from surgery, and I

(39:58):
can't do anything physical. I mean I at the time
that first week, I really couldn't do a whole lot.
I wasn't supposed to lift anything more than ten pounds,
so pretty much everything I like to do I couldn't do.
So I just sat and I think I just thought
about a lot of stuff, and I realized that I
started kind of doing that checklist of stuff that I
want to accomplish. But I've talked myself out of for

(40:20):
years for a variety of reasons, and all of them
such good reasons.

Speaker 3 (40:24):
I mean, so good, the best reasons ever.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
And then I thought to myself, I know I'm not
the only one. And they're not things like, you know,
be president of the United States. They're just little personal goals,
some of them bigger than others that I've just talked
myself out of even trying. So I hopefully am going
to be I'm gonna buy this guy's book, and I'll
give you a full report. I'll give you a full
report on all that stuff. Now you guys are still

(40:49):
weighing in on what to do with your body when
you die. So I'm just gonna ask the question. It
doesn't ask me anything kind of day. You can text
anything to five six six nine.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
But we were talking about this in the early segment
of the show, and now you guys are very creative.

Speaker 3 (41:04):
Here's one for you.

Speaker 1 (41:05):
A rod skin me and make a lady's saddle. Then
I'm between the two things I love.

Speaker 6 (41:12):
Ruh.

Speaker 4 (41:14):
Gross.

Speaker 3 (41:15):
Yeah, did you see the story?

Speaker 1 (41:16):
I didn't put it on the blog this week, but
you probably didn't even see it. So this woman is
married to a huge Pittsburgh Steelers fan and he dies unexpectedly,
very tragic.

Speaker 3 (41:26):
He had a young son. A horrible story.

Speaker 1 (41:27):
But then she has the tattoo cut off his body
and has it like literally treated like a piece.

Speaker 3 (41:35):
Of leather and framed.

Speaker 1 (41:37):
She has her dead husband's skin and tattoo hanging on
the wall.

Speaker 3 (41:43):
Of her home now, and honest to god, I was like,
what is happening in the world?

Speaker 8 (41:47):
What is that?

Speaker 4 (41:49):
So she could make herself into leather face and murdering.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
Spree with a big Pittsburgh Steeler tattoo. I don't know
if that makes it better or worse. I was so
grossed out.

Speaker 3 (42:02):
I mean, that's just like the grossest thing I've ever heard.

Speaker 4 (42:05):
A Steeler serial killer.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
Oh here's one for you, Mandy.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
I don't know if anyone else mentioned this one in
my will, I'm getting my body cremated and ashes put
into fireworks.

Speaker 3 (42:16):
There's a company in Missouri that will do that for you.

Speaker 4 (42:19):
There's all that's cool.

Speaker 7 (42:22):
I have.

Speaker 3 (42:24):
I have multiple ways.

Speaker 1 (42:26):
There's a place in Florida called Eternal Reef that you
can mix your ashes with concrete and they make a
reef and then drop it in an area so fish
can swim around you and you become like they put
some coral on you and you become part of the ocean.

Speaker 3 (42:39):
That's super cool.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
You can have your ashes pressed into a diamond, and
it's not like a perfectly clear diamond, but then you
could be like somebody be like, oh, how's your husband,
and you just wave your ring finger.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
Oh he's fine. Yeah, breaking news real quick?

Speaker 6 (42:57):
What President Trump in Russiani in Vladimir Putin shake hands
in Anchorage, Alaska ahead of the high stakes talks.

Speaker 4 (43:06):
Foxes mm hm.

Speaker 3 (43:09):
So a handshake is taken but are we sure? Did
we verify this with multiple sources?

Speaker 6 (43:13):
I am witnessing the handshake walking the red carpet.

Speaker 4 (43:17):
Yeah, and the handshake has been done.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
Okay, pot and Trump, we have confirmation. Putin and Trump. Yeah,
and Jake do like the pope does and make some
human skin shoes.

Speaker 4 (43:28):
What I don't need or want to know. No, no, no, no,
no no no.

Speaker 1 (43:33):
The horrible part is is that the Nazis made all
kinds of stuff out of human skin. They made lamp shades,
they made all kinds of stuff. So I'm not saying,
and you know, I'm not disparaging this pope that we
have now or even recent popes for the last modern era,
but some of the popes in history.

Speaker 3 (43:50):
Were really evil people.

Speaker 1 (43:53):
And I don't say that lightly, but we have had
some extremely evil popes, so that's not all together crazy.
Although I do not see the current pope doing that.
He seems like a very nice man. This textter said,
I'll be taxi dermied and then placed in the local
town square.

Speaker 4 (44:09):
Mm hm, you won't last long. I feel like they
would get ready pretty quick.

Speaker 3 (44:13):
Yeah, here we go.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
How do we fix downtown? Asked this textra and ask
me Friday and ask me anything.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
Friday.

Speaker 1 (44:21):
I just talked with Grant's old boss at the coffee
shop and he said today at his Lincoln Street location
was the slowest in his entire business history since nineteen
ninety four.

Speaker 3 (44:32):
Cherry Crook is booming. How can downtown join the party?

Speaker 6 (44:35):
Andy? What we went downtown Denver like a week ago? Yeah,
I'm patrolled through what is it now, Sixteenth Street?

Speaker 7 (44:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (44:44):
Yeah, don't drop them all, unbelievable ghost town.

Speaker 3 (44:48):
Oh it looks so good to you, doesn't it. It
looks so good.

Speaker 5 (44:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (44:52):
The the we walked a good chunk.

Speaker 6 (44:56):
It's still a little smelly in some part, really not
as bad as before, like uriny kind of smell.

Speaker 4 (45:01):
Yeah, and you know, and know, how do I put this?

Speaker 6 (45:05):
No homeless like sitting and chilling and making their own
little baby camps. But definitely decent amount of questionable characters
walking around that probably are just forced to keep moving,
if that makes sense, right, right, But it is really depressing.

Speaker 4 (45:21):
How many vacancies, how many places.

Speaker 6 (45:25):
Where we remember what was there no longer there and
nothing in its place, not a lot of people walking around.

Speaker 4 (45:32):
It was, Uh, it was pretty rough.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
I had a friend who just went to the Brown
Palace for their fancy brunch and said it was the
most depressing thing she's seen in a really long time.
And she's from here, she's a native, So she said,
I don't know what to do. I think that to
your first point, a rod, it can't smell like urine, Like,
let's start with that, do you know what I mean?

(45:56):
Especially in the summer, And I'm not even being facetious.
Right in the summer, all of those smells just getting
magnified because they're not freezing like they do in the winter,
and it's really unbearable. I think that Denver needs to
do two things, and we've talked about this, I think endlessly.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
At this point.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
You have to flood the zone with police officers. You
have to bring that crime rate in District one down significantly,
and then you put on a full marketing campaign where
you're asking people to come back.

Speaker 6 (46:27):
I didn't I don't recall seeing much law enforcement, but
it did feel relatively safe in to the previous point,
relatively like, relatively clean, even outside of the smell like,
it seems pretty cleaned up, like the bones are there.
And I couldn't have said that previously it's just now
you gotta you gotta get moving on on getting.

Speaker 4 (46:47):
Businesses in there.

Speaker 6 (46:48):
It is it is a it is a pretty clean,
pretty safe but but but the cleanest, safest graveyard right now.

Speaker 4 (46:57):
It's nothing that happened.

Speaker 1 (46:59):
My point is is that the word has to get
out that every crime is being aggressively addressed in downtown
right and this is from a just purely pr That's
all I'm talking about here. You aggressively donate or you
aggressively go after every crime, I mean petty crime, quality
of life crimes. You clear out any crime in downtown Denver,

(47:22):
and you make sure the news knows about it, and
you make sure that the news is there, and you
make sure that news starts getting out, and you have
the mayor come out and say we have absolutely eliminated crime.
You're not going to see people loitering doing drugs. You're
not going to see that anymore. And if it does,
all you do is call nine one one and the
cops show up. That has to be the PR push first,

(47:43):
like nothing else can happen or will work until people
feel like they can come to downtown Denver and feel
safe and right now, statistically they can point at statistics,
but it doesn't change the vibe that people have.

Speaker 4 (47:57):
And you know, the worst part is Amandy, you know me,
and from listeners that don't know me, I get out.

Speaker 6 (48:02):
We get out quite a bit with friends in every
city center in the metro area, whether it be Boulder
up north, you know, Lewisville down, you know, Cherry Creek area,
every single city center, like if it's booming, we're gonna
be there for something. Denver's bottom of the totabowl in
terms of entertainment value, in terms of what they have
to offer, in terms of how much you want to
go there, like our friends group pretty much rather be

(48:26):
like anywhere else unless it's a round corps after a
game day, which is really that's the reason why it's
not because of anything Denver has. It's like, well, you're
already kind of there in the area and Denver's at
the bottom.

Speaker 3 (48:38):
Just incredibly incredibly sad.

Speaker 1 (48:41):
I mean, it just it depresses me because if Denver
gets hollowed out any more than it already is in
terms of people not moving there, it creates a cascading
issue that is significant. And you know, even if you say,
you know, screw Denver, we don't care about Denver. I
get it, they don't care about you, right, they don't

(49:01):
care about your safety. But ultimately, it's not just Denver,
it's every city around Denver that stands to be negatively impacted.
We should all be rooting for downtown Denver. I mean,
that's the thing. We should all be rooting for them.
The only possible upside, and I don't even think this
is going to be enough, is at what point do

(49:22):
Denver business owners start to look at who is being
elected and re elected and start to engage more politically
to see if they can get more competent people in leadership.
I'm trying to think of a way to sugarcoat it,
to not be inflammatory or not be unnecessarily harsh, But

(49:42):
the reality is, I genuinely believe that Mayor.

Speaker 3 (49:46):
Mike Johnston is incompetent. He is ill prepared for this job.

Speaker 1 (49:50):
He has made stunningly bad decision after stunningly bad decision,
in my opinion, he has blown through gobsmackingly large amounts
of money, and we're still dealing with the same problems. Right, So,
maybe not at the same magnitude, but we still are
dealing with the exact same problems. And yet, and this
is where I think he's absolutely the worst manager ever.

(50:12):
He refuses to consider that what he has done so
far is not the best way. I don't see any
indication that he has given any thought that just housing
homeless people in these homeless hotels where they're overdosing, children
are falling out of windows for crime and his sake,
that might not be the best way to do it.

(50:33):
And that, for me, indicates a bad manager more than
anything else. Like, you've done all of this stuff and
you've barely made an impact, and yet you keep telling
everyone who can see that you've barely made an impact,
that everything is awesome.

Speaker 3 (50:47):
What this is Why do Better Denver exists at Do
Better Denver?

Speaker 1 (50:54):
And this is why they are on Instagram and Twitter
because we can all see with our eyes. We can
see exactly what a Rod just said. We can smell
the urine. We don't need to be told that everything
is awesome. You know, when I moved here in twenty thirteen,
it was the culmination of years of trying to figure

(51:17):
out a way to get to Denver. And people would say, Mandy,
what is it about Denver that you like so much?
And the first thing, The very first thing that I
would always say is, holy crap, it is such a
clean city. And it's a clean city.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
Where people can hold diverse opinions and no one seems
to care. And they wear a lot of denim in
fine dining restaurants. What's not to love?

Speaker 1 (51:39):
But the first thing I always said was Denver is
so clean. Not Denver smells less like urine than it
used to, which kind of feels like where we are now.
All right, when we get back, golly, I want to
talk about the Salvation Army checking out of the homeless
hotels when we get back.

Speaker 3 (51:55):
Yeah, let's do that.

Speaker 1 (51:56):
And we've got to talk about sandwich Gate straight from
what in DC. If you have not seen this video,
go to the blog today and I hope you get
as much of a laugh at it as I did,
as we watch a man make a series of mind blowingly,
stunningly bad decisions because his team is finally losing. I'll

(52:16):
tell you all about it when we get back. Keep
it on, Kowa, Well, I bet it was a club sandwich.
I talked about this yesterday, but since then I have
now seen so much more video and it's worthy of a.

Speaker 3 (52:38):
Nice long conversation. What am I talking about.

Speaker 1 (52:41):
I'm talking about a guy whose name just went right
out of my head.

Speaker 3 (52:45):
It's Shawn something. Sandwich.

Speaker 1 (52:48):
Hang on one second, sand let me use the X
machine here, Sandwich guy, it'll come up.

Speaker 3 (52:56):
Trust me.

Speaker 2 (53:00):
It is.

Speaker 1 (53:03):
Sean Dunne is his name. Sean Dunn was caught on
video in his I don't mind a pink shirt on
a man. I don't man a salmon shirt on a man,
A colored you know that color?

Speaker 6 (53:19):
I like it.

Speaker 1 (53:20):
It looks so good on my husband. But Sean is
wearing this pink shirt and he's got like, you know,
khaki shorts on.

Speaker 3 (53:28):
He just looks like your typical Washington d C D bag,
you know what I mean. Just looks like that. Nothing remarkable.

Speaker 1 (53:36):
Well, he was absolutely incensed, infuriated by the presence of
Border Patrol agents and other federal agents on the streets
of Washington, DC. So in the longer video that I
have on the blog that I am telling you right
now you need to go watch, he is seen walking
up to the guys who were filming him, demanding to

(53:58):
know what cars these guys these men were in, and
then he walks across the street in a snit and
he starts screaming at these officers. And if you think
law enforcement officers are out of control, I defy you
to watch what this guy did in their faces and
tell me that you would have the exact same non reaction.

(54:19):
And I mean nothing, not a reaction at all, just
standing there taking it while this crazy man's just screaming
in their face, screaming fahyest, fashiest I.

Speaker 3 (54:30):
Mean, and screaming, you guys, screaming.

Speaker 1 (54:34):
I watched Princess Bride yesterday and all I could think
of was yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (54:40):
That's what he looked like.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
So after he gets done screaming and gets no reaction
from the officer whatsoever, dude just stands there with his
thumbs hooked on his you know, his vest, and just
stands there and looks at him. He gets so mad
that he takes his sandwich that he just purchased from
Subway and he assault the officer with his sandwich. It
was a salt with a Bradley weapon. That was a

(55:06):
club sandwich for sure. But the reason I'm sharing this
is not just to make the jokes, but the jokes
on Twitter have been.

Speaker 3 (55:16):
Like a chef's kiss somebody made a meme that says,
pry it from my hands with a sandwich on it.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:28):
The Internet has been having an absolute field day with
this because it's so ridiculous. And then there's this is
from the internet. It might seem like harmless fun to
throw food at a cop, but if a cop eats it,
the cop.

Speaker 3 (55:43):
Can become dependent on human food.

Speaker 1 (55:45):
This upsets the natural balance of the ecosystem and can
actually make the cop more aggressive towards people.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
Yeah, it's true, it's true.

Speaker 1 (55:53):
The Internet said it. I saw it right there, right there. No,
the reason I really brought the up is because this
is what happens when the hardcore left wing loses control
of the situation. This guy, by the way, this sandwich maniac,

(56:17):
was a trial attorney for the Department of Justice, And
I say it was because Pam Bondy was like, yeah,
you're fired and you're charged with a felony because he
assaulted a police officer.

Speaker 3 (56:27):
Now granted it was with a sandwich. He could have
been more effective in his assault, but assault is assault. Nonetheless,
it is so it is, it's on record. There's no
doubt that he did what they said.

Speaker 1 (56:43):
He was going to do Now, it's no doubt in
my mind that there is not already a left wing
law firm dying to give this guy a job. I'm
sure he already has multiple job offers after this. But
when you see how they react when they've lost control,
they've lost control of the Department of Justice, they've lost
control of being able to run roughshod over the citizens

(57:07):
to keep them afraid, right, so they can promise to
do something more about crime and not actually do anything.
Because running on a campaign promise of doing something about
crime sounds fantastic, but in DC it doesn't actually mean anything.

Speaker 3 (57:19):
Well, now it means something.

Speaker 1 (57:22):
This also is a huge indicator of the level of
rot in the Department of Justice. Now I don't mean
I shouldn't say level, but the existence of people who
are actively working against what the Trump administration is trying
to do. Now, it's one thing to not be an
enthusiastic supporter. And you know what, when I was in college,

(57:43):
I work for the Senate of the state of Florida.
And what people don't know, and maybe it's different here,
I don't know, But in Florida, if a new person
was elected, even if they were from the other party.
A lot of times, some of those staffers would be
held over because they had the institutional memory of the
district and they had they knew where all the players were,

(58:03):
and it was just smart to find people that you
would like keep in your office to kind of provide
some of that with you and the best ones of
those people, you did not know their party affiliation. You
had no idea because they were there to serve the
people of the district. And it didn't matter whether it
was a Democrat or a Republican that held that seat.

(58:25):
They maintained this kind of veneer of and I don't know,
maybe it was a lie, but it was very convincing
of impartiality that allowed them to maintain those positions for
long periods of time and continue to serve the people
of the district regardless of whoever was in office.

Speaker 3 (58:41):
What we have now are people like this guy.

Speaker 1 (58:45):
If you don't think he doesn't, he probably has a
resistance poster at home or something.

Speaker 3 (58:49):
And this guy, if you think for a second that he.

Speaker 1 (58:52):
Is going to work his hardest to enforce the desires
of the Trump administration that.

Speaker 3 (58:58):
He clearly hates.

Speaker 1 (59:00):
He clearly hates law enforcement and he works for the
Department of Justice. I mean, I hope you can understand
that that is absolutely incompatible. So it's a fascinating study
into the mind of some of these people that are
so far gone that I just feel like, you know,

(59:23):
everybody wants to talk about how wrong it is that
Trump is firing these people.

Speaker 3 (59:27):
He's not just firing people, He's.

Speaker 1 (59:29):
Firing people who are actively working against his agenda.

Speaker 3 (59:32):
And you know what, that's his right.

Speaker 1 (59:35):
And you know what, the American people voted for him
pretty overwhelmingly. So you don't get to decide guy in
the Department of Justice whether or not cops in the
streets of DC are a good idea. And if you
truly believe that law enforcement officers are fascists, then you
don't need to be working for the Department of Justice.

(59:56):
You need to be working for the ACLU. That's what
needs to happen. I'm just asked on the text line,
can he be disbarred? I believe if you're found guilty
of a felony, those proceedings should be you know, moving along.
I don't know, maybe an attorney can answer that question
on the text line. At five sixty six nine zero
Mandy January six is what happens when the right loses

(01:00:17):
control of the situation. You know what's funny about that,
First of all, that you're what about ing this kind
of behavior. But the reality is is that more and
more documents are being released now by the FBI and
by others that clearly show the Trump administration asked for
more help on January sixth, and Nancy Pelosi's office said no.

Speaker 3 (01:00:40):
So the left is about to lose that as.

Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
A bludgeon as well, which would also explain why they're
freaking out and throwing sandwiches at law enforcement officers on
the streets of DC. All of the narratives that they've
created that there was some kind of collusion between Russia
and Trump, we now are beginning to see. I mean,
I hope, I hope they're paying attention. MSNBC has been
covering it, not very much, but they have that all

(01:01:05):
of everything they're hanging their hat on, everything that they
look at to prove their moral superiority is a lie.
And it was a lie designed by the very people
that they look up to. So this is what happens.
You lose control and you throw a sandwich at a
cop and now you're facing felony charges and you're out
of work.

Speaker 3 (01:01:25):
Good luck paying for your own defense. Will be right back.
Keep it on koa reliable account on x that I follow.

Speaker 1 (01:01:43):
Apparently as the president at President Trump is walking across
the tarmac with Vladimir Putin. They did a flyover with
a B two stealth bomber. Are you freaking kidding me
with that?

Speaker 3 (01:01:58):
That's like the most awe some flex ever. But I
don't know if that's real. This is what I will
tell you. I am finding myself in.

Speaker 1 (01:02:09):
In more and more occasions where I am reluctant to
just share something because it's it's like I don't want
to share something that's just AI. So now I'm like, okay,
I have to look for it for multiple sources. But boy,
if this is not real, it's really really good. What
a flex, What an absolute boss move. You know, I

(01:02:35):
don't always agree with Donald Trump, you guys know, I am.
It wasn't my first choice for this nomination. I voted
for him, but he definitely wasn't my first choice. And
increasingly every single day I find myself so grateful that
he is the president, and that is something I never
in a million years thought I would say, I just

(01:02:57):
I have to fess.

Speaker 3 (01:02:58):
Up stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (01:03:00):
That's just like a stone's the size of cantalope. There's
a new sheriff in town world. And I like that
because when you get right down to it, I just
read and I'm I'm debating on doing something. Ayrod, will
you help me with a side project that I want
to do cause I don't want to do a lot
of the work, but I need to do.

Speaker 3 (01:03:20):
Yeah, I we need to do a tiny bit of
the work, so we'll get a rod to help me.

Speaker 1 (01:03:24):
I read an article about the fall of empires that
is fascinating from like nineteen thirty nine or nineteen forty
somewhere in that timeframe, and the parallels to where we
are now in terms of the end of what I
will always think of as the American Empire. And I
got into it one time at the Steamboat Institute.

Speaker 6 (01:03:43):
Not hard.

Speaker 1 (01:03:43):
I didn't push back too much, but I said the
American Empire to one of the scholars that was there,
and he goes, We're not an empire.

Speaker 3 (01:03:51):
We don't go out and call inized places.

Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
Well, most empires throughout history have been continuous land masses,
right they've been us like they didn't have a bunch
ofies around the world. We just think of the British
Empire because it's called the British Empire. Most empires are
just continuous land masses, and the similarities to where we
are now are so disheartening and kind of scary, very scary.

(01:04:18):
So I think I'm gonna do a podcast series on
it because it's so dense and there are people that
I'd like to interview about it, and I'm you know,
I'm rolling this around in my head. This is one
of my things dreamed to done. I'm gonna buy the
book and make sure it happens. But stuff like this
where Donald Trump is refusing to do things the way
we've done them for the past seventy years because he

(01:04:40):
sees the intransit just intransigent nature of the end result
of this stuff right Like, he knows it doesn't work.
So instead of trying to figure out another way to
use the same old diplomatic tools that we've used over
and over and over again, he looks at our economy
and says, everybody wants to be here, We're them all.

Speaker 3 (01:05:02):
Everybody wants to be in And he's absolutely right now.

Speaker 1 (01:05:06):
I don't necessarily think he's right on everything, and I
don't like tariffs, but tariffs appear at this point to
me to be more a function of leverage than anything else.

Speaker 3 (01:05:17):
And we'll see how they all end up. I mean,
it wouldn't surprise me at all if if the.

Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
Court's struck down Trump's tariffs and say you don't have
the ability to do that.

Speaker 3 (01:05:25):
Congress has to.

Speaker 1 (01:05:25):
Be involved, and Trump just goes okay because he's accomplished
his goals that he had, you know, but the flyover
by the B two bomber, forget about.

Speaker 6 (01:05:36):
It, that is.

Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
I mean, he just whipped it out and threw it
on the table right there. Bam, here you go.

Speaker 1 (01:05:43):
You want to see what we're up to, I'll show you,
just like you'll see it coming over Russia. I mean
the implied threat. Wow, Mandy, that's a radar plane, not
a bomber. Okay, that clarifies. It's still cool, still very
very cool. Little too cool. Well, why if they fly

(01:06:04):
over right at that moment, don't they clear the airspace?
When all this stuff goes on, even in a air
force base? And why are there four planes on either side?
I'm telling you right now, that looks like a stealth bomber.
I'm looking up your plane, but I gotta tell you
I know what a stealth bomber looks like, because even
though they're invisible, I've still seen one. Oh yeah, yeah,

(01:06:26):
Flyover is legitimate. Just watched it on Fox News. That
is fantastic, fantastic. Oh this is so cute, This is
so adorable. Trump is probably eternally grateful to Putin for
not releasing any tapes of him with girls who were
definitely over eighteen guys. Nobody wants to get the goods

(01:06:47):
on Jeffrey Epstein and every single disgusting person, every single
disgusting man that took advantage of his affinity for young girls.
But the reality is, in this political climate that we
live in, there is a zero percent chance that any
video exists that shows Donald Trump doing anything like that,

(01:07:09):
because it one hundred percent would have come out way
before now, no doubt in my mind, we know that
the FBI and the CIA colluded to create an intelligence
briefing that they could then leak to the press to
frame Donald Trump as some kind of Russian collusion scheme.

Speaker 3 (01:07:27):
We know it worked. So if you don't think those
sane people if they had that kind of video, would
have released it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:33):
You are insane, Texter, absolutely insane.

Speaker 3 (01:07:39):
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(01:08:55):
just watch the video of the confirmed B two bomber
flyover right over Vladimir Putin's head as he and Donald
Trump are walking up the tarmac for their meeting in Alaska.

Speaker 3 (01:09:08):
I have to tell you, I am impressed with that flex.

Speaker 1 (01:09:13):
I love that flex so much, and I cannot wait
to hear how the Democrats are gonna tell me it
was wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:09:23):
I can't thought.

Speaker 2 (01:09:24):
Wait.

Speaker 1 (01:09:25):
Okay, let's talk about the apocalypse for just a moment.
You can text me on the Common Spirit help text
line at five six six, And I know The Last
of Us, which is a show about a zombie apocalypse.

Speaker 3 (01:09:36):
I don't watch zombie shows.

Speaker 7 (01:09:37):
I don't know why.

Speaker 1 (01:09:38):
The only zombie show I enjoy is The is Doctor,
which James Bond movie. Is that with Jane Seymour and
Sean Connery where she plays the medium? Dang it, I
can't remember. There were supposed to be some zombies and there,
of course they weren't released.

Speaker 4 (01:09:53):
On well whatever it is.

Speaker 6 (01:09:54):
It's not the first five seasons of Walking Dead because
that is peak television.

Speaker 3 (01:09:57):
Yeah. No, I'm not gonna watch that. It's It's not
for me.

Speaker 1 (01:10:01):
I don't like Gore, I don't like violence, and I
don't like zombies, so I'm out. Well, the Last of
Us is about this group of people trying to survive
the zombie apocalypse that was brought on by the introduction
of a virus, which is really how all the best
zombie apocalypses are brought on.

Speaker 3 (01:10:14):
Excellent, Yeah, not so much after that.

Speaker 6 (01:10:16):
I haven't watched the second season, and the second season
got spoiled for me, so now I'm in no rush.

Speaker 3 (01:10:20):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:10:21):
But in any case, Pedro Pascal, who is everywhere by
the way, and still likable as I'll get out, you know,
he's not overexposed in a way that you're.

Speaker 3 (01:10:29):
Like, ah, I don't want to see that guy anymore. Yeah.
He says he does not want to survive the apocalypse.

Speaker 1 (01:10:35):
He does not he wants to be killed in the
first wave because he just doesn't have the wherewithal to
do whatever it's going to take to make it through
the apocalypse. And I got to tell you, that's kind
of a giant way to look at it, in my opinion,
but I think it's fairly common. I think there are
probably a lot of people who are like, you know, what.
I have no idea how to take care of myself

(01:10:56):
without all of the modern amenities, because the aftermath of
any kind of major incident live and let die.

Speaker 3 (01:11:03):
Thank you, Texter. I just watched that the other day too, so.

Speaker 1 (01:11:10):
I do think it's going to be horrible after a
major event like a bomb gets dropped and EMP explodes
and we'd lose our electrical grid and society kind of
collapses right away. And those of us with firearms and
ammunition will be able to manage. But if you don't
have firearms and ammunition, good luck to you. I mean,

(01:11:30):
I've seen Mad Max.

Speaker 3 (01:11:31):
I know what it looks like.

Speaker 1 (01:11:33):
That's why I keeped a shop like a souped up
Chevy in my car as well, just for that Mad
Max experience.

Speaker 3 (01:11:39):
No, I'm just kidding. I actually hate the movie Mad Max.

Speaker 1 (01:11:43):
Yeah, hate it, absolutely hate the one, the original one
with Mel Gibson, hated it.

Speaker 3 (01:11:50):
Hated the new one. Didn't like it so but I
still learned a lot from it.

Speaker 1 (01:11:57):
The Last of Us is about a tranny becoming a dad,
and I did not know that, did not know that
at all. According to the Internet, it's based on a
hit video game. It chronicles the societal breakdown that happens
when a fungal outbreak starts turning people into zombies. Pascal's
character Joel is contending with the loss of his daughter

(01:12:17):
when he meets Ellie, a teenage girl who might be
humanity's last hope. So I got that going for us.
But I was thinking about this.

Speaker 3 (01:12:26):
I'd want to survive, I guess.

Speaker 1 (01:12:29):
I mean, if it got really bad, you always got
one bullet for yourself kind of thing, right, I'd love
to know what you guys would do. Do you want
to survive the apocalypse or do you just want to
be taken out in the first wave?

Speaker 8 (01:12:39):
Five?

Speaker 3 (01:12:39):
Six six 's nine? Oh, that's the text line, And
I'm curious, Mandy.

Speaker 1 (01:12:44):
I'm not a prepper or anything, says this Texter, but
I'm all on bard for surviving the apocalypse. That sounds
like quite the challenge to have in life. Yeah, I
mean that's a massive understatement. The level of bombing that
would have to take place for every part of the
United States to be taken out at the same time

(01:13:05):
is significant, Like the Russians would have to fire everything
at us, otherwise there's gonna be large parts of the
United States that are gonna be okay. If I was
one of our enemies, I would blow up Middle America.
It sounds crazy because you got all the people on
the coasts, but the reality is all of our food
and production for food, and all of the stuff that
goes through our economy comes through the center of the country.

(01:13:28):
So you would do far more long term damage, and
you would inflict a lot of suffering on the people
on the coast, who we already established have no idea
how to take.

Speaker 3 (01:13:36):
Care of themselves.

Speaker 1 (01:13:37):
I mean, they're always looking at government to, you know,
figure out problems instead of figuring out themselves.

Speaker 3 (01:13:43):
So they're going to be an absolute mess.

Speaker 1 (01:13:46):
By the way, a Rod no rush because second season
not as good, says this texter. So you got that,
you don't now you have less reason to rush. Yeah, Mandy,
I want to survive the apocalypse in a well supplied
bunker stocked with everything i'd plus Scarlett.

Speaker 3 (01:14:00):
Johansson does she know this?

Speaker 1 (01:14:05):
And I'm not saying she'd be opposed if you were like, Hey, Scargo,
I've got a bunker with all the everything you need
in it. The Book of Eli was a good aftermath movie.
I really enjoyed the Book of Eli, But it's one
of those movies that I watched one time, and it's
been on, you know, one of the pay channels that
I that I use, and I'm always like, eh, I

(01:14:25):
don't know if.

Speaker 3 (01:14:25):
I'm gonna watch it again.

Speaker 1 (01:14:27):
Glad I watched it once, don't necessarily want to see
it the second time.

Speaker 3 (01:14:32):
Mandy.

Speaker 1 (01:14:32):
I know several people who are hoping for a civil
war in this country. Are they freaking crazy?

Speaker 5 (01:14:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:14:38):
They are, and they're stupid, and they're ignorant, and they
have an overblown sense of what they're.

Speaker 3 (01:14:43):
Capable of in that situation. They really do.

Speaker 1 (01:14:46):
Anybody wishing for civil war is just dumb. Civil War's horrible.
What don't you call the people in Syria and say,
how have you guys enjoyed ten years of civil war?

Speaker 3 (01:14:57):
How's that going to work out for you? I just
I don't know people like that.

Speaker 1 (01:15:03):
I'm glad when they open their mouth because I know
I don't want to be around them anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:15:07):
I'm just just letting you know.

Speaker 1 (01:15:11):
As a female says this text, I became a bowhunter
to plan for the apocalypse. It does sound crazy when
I type this, Lol. I don't like using a bow
because I'm not super accurate that. You know what I
am accurate with, Texter my crossbow, and yes I own
a crossbow, and I am lights out with that crossbow.

(01:15:33):
Absolutely love it.

Speaker 3 (01:15:36):
Mandy. Let me see here. If you don't have firearms,
you better hurry before next year. Amen to that.

Speaker 1 (01:15:42):
This texter said, I've watched every episode of The Walking Dead,
Fear the Walking Dead, and all the spinoff shows. I'm
ready for the zombie apocalypse. I mean, you do realize
it's just TV, right, just asking Mandy. I would love
to survive the apocalypse, but yes, that bullet left for
myself just in case is important because I really hate
to be hungry and I don't want to starve to death.

Speaker 3 (01:16:02):
Yep, Mandy.

Speaker 1 (01:16:04):
The first people to perish in apocalypse will the people
who need medication to survive, I e. Insulin or heart
Med's correct, Mandy, Please, I am legends status life would
be amazing all by yourself, though I don't know about that.

Speaker 3 (01:16:18):
We'll be right back. We're going to take a quick
time out a little more.

Speaker 1 (01:16:20):
Of this and some of that. A Loveland woman who
drives a dark colored Hyundai Palisade. The Loveland police are
looking for you, but it's not for a bad reason.
It's quite the opposite. I'll tell you what it is.

Speaker 3 (01:16:33):
After this.

Speaker 1 (01:16:44):
Got a lot of stuff on our plates right now.
I want to get this story out because I think
this is super interesting. The Loveland Police Department is asking
for help to track down a person who they say
appears to have accidentally donated truly special and incredibly valuable
items to the Larkland Loveland Arc thrift store, so Loveland. Obviously,

(01:17:07):
they didn't say what it was because then every idiot
in the you know area would be.

Speaker 3 (01:17:11):
Like, no, those are mine family diamonds or whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:17:15):
But they have this woman's car on tape, so they
see that it is a very relatively new Hyundai palis
a dark color, she has a black license plate, and
they're just trying to get a hold of her so
they can give it back, you know, which I think
is super cool. I actually have a friend who worked
in the thrift store. This was like twenty five years ago,

(01:17:37):
and she was in charge of intake, so whenever people
would drop stuff off and she would have to go
and throw and sort it and you know, figure out
what they were going to sell and what they weren't.
And one time she found a hole like a wooden
box inside a bunch of other boxes, but it had
all of this stuff about this gentleman's experience in World
War Two. And she spent like two weeks trying to

(01:18:00):
find the owners of this box and eventually did and
got it back to the family, and the family was
incredibly grateful. And I asked her, I said, you know
what happens when it's something that's just like jewelry, that's
just valuable. She said, Look, you know, most of the
people that donate here do so because we're a charitable organization,
and we try to reconnect people with their stuff if

(01:18:22):
it's something that is something really valuable, because nobody ever
just donates, you know, a bag full of stuff and
forgets that there was some kind of jewelry or even
a large amount of cash that kind of stuff in it.
So I love that they're trying to do this. So
if you know somebody who lives in Loveland, because normally
people don't drive far from their houses to make a donation.

(01:18:43):
Even though I often drive around with my donated stuff
or stuff to be donated.

Speaker 3 (01:18:50):
In my car for like six months, I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 1 (01:18:53):
I always take you to the same thrift store near
my house, just because I like their mission. It's an
arc thrift store, and you know, I shot there. I'm like, hey,
I me buy that back at some point in the future.
And no, I'm just kidding home to that.

Speaker 3 (01:19:06):
Good news. If you are thinking about doing a refi,
this is not a commercial. This is just a point
of order.

Speaker 1 (01:19:12):
Mortgage rates this week hit six point five percent, So
if you're thinking about buying a house in the next
few months, I would go ahead and call. And of
course I'm going to tell you to call American Financing.
Call American Financing to walk in the mortgage rates that
we're seeing right now. If you're wanting to talk about
a refi, call today that kind of stuff. I'm not
sure how much longer the rates will be at six

(01:19:34):
point five percent. I agree with this kind of consensus
out there that I don't see mortgage rates going below
six percent.

Speaker 3 (01:19:42):
Maybe at the end of this year.

Speaker 1 (01:19:43):
I don't know, not anytime soon, though, So make that
happen if you want it. Mandy, do you have the
extra food to survive? Patriots something? Twenty five year shelf
life advertising on a coast to coast get great show
I asked a genie to make me irresistible to women,
turn me into a credit card. Well, that's funny, Mandy, LOL.

(01:20:06):
The flex with the B two spirit was bigger than
you think. We have somewhere in the range of nineteen
B twos in service, one hundred and ninety five F
fIF F twenty twos, four hundred and forty three F
thirty five's and eighteen or so F one seventeens that can.

Speaker 3 (01:20:22):
Be brought back into service.

Speaker 1 (01:20:24):
These are our stealth fighters, which have a radar signature
ranging from a small bird to a postage stamp. Russia,
on the other hand, they have no stealth bombers and
only sixteen to twenty SU fifty seven stealth fighters in service,
and their radar signature is said to be that of
a washing machine. In other words, all of our active
stealth aircraft radar signatures would fit within the signature of

(01:20:48):
a soul stealth fighter the Russians have. That flex was huge,
says that texture. Very very good, very very good, Mandy.
The black license plates are so stupid and typical of Colorado.

Speaker 3 (01:21:03):
I gotta tell you, I think they look kind of cool.

Speaker 1 (01:21:05):
I don't mind them license plates are one of those
things where if you want to personalize your license plate
or you want to get something and support a cause
I feel, I feel, do whatever you want to do.
But there's here say is it support kids Colorado? There's
a license plate that's like kids First or support kids
or something like that in Colorado. And today I watched

(01:21:26):
a car with that license plate speed through a school zone.

Speaker 3 (01:21:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:21:32):
Yeah, yeah, so they support kids in theory, just not completely, Mandy.
Have you interviewed some any preppers? Some of that is
a little abstract to me. You know what's funny about that?
I have, Actually I have. I used to have a
client that had a prepper store in northern Colorado, and

(01:21:56):
prepping is what my grandparents used to call being prepared.
At my grandparents house and everybody's grandparents house that I
knew when I was growing up. They had a pantry,
and that pantry was full of canned goods. And when
I say full, I mean floor to ceiling court jars
of vegetables, of potatoes, of glassed eggs.

Speaker 3 (01:22:19):
Did you guys know you could preserve eggs?

Speaker 1 (01:22:21):
Yeah, you can do that in a jar and they
will last forever, and then you just take them out
of the jar, you pop the lid, take them out
of the jar, and they're just eggs.

Speaker 3 (01:22:29):
They're just regular eggs. It's amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:22:32):
But that's how I grew up. I grew up in
the country. I grew up where people grew their own
food and then they canned it. So prepper today you
can buy the Patriot food just to make sure you
have it in an emergency.

Speaker 3 (01:22:42):
I've been what you may.

Speaker 1 (01:22:44):
Call a mini prepper since I lived in Florida, and
you have to prepare for hurricanes, you have to prepare
for no grocery stores to be open, you have to
prepare for no power, you have to prepare for all
of those things because that is an actual thing that
can happen to you at any time. So you know
they're weird preppers, and then they're just normal people who
just want to be prepared. I would say I fall

(01:23:05):
into this second category.

Speaker 3 (01:23:06):
We'll be right back.

Speaker 1 (01:23:17):
To get Dana Davis with the Children's Diabetes Foundation on
the show, but we might have had a miscommunication, so
we're going to just talk about something else and we're
gonna try and get Dana on and we'll see what
happens there. If not, we will just reschedule her, you
know how. Zoron Mumdani, the potential next mayor of New York,
has said he wants state run grocery stores because he

(01:23:40):
wants to take out that evil profit motive and he
wants to make groceries great again.

Speaker 3 (01:23:45):
Right, So you guys listen to this.

Speaker 1 (01:23:49):
Kansas City, Missouri, ten years ago decided that they were
going to renovate and rehab this broken down shop center
in the ghetto. And as part of that, and by
the way, I am not the one saying the ghetto.
The news stories from Kansas City are saying using the
word ghetto. Okay, So please don't think that's me hurling invective.

(01:24:13):
I'm really I'm just reading the news. So ten years
ago they opened up a store called Casey Sunfresh and
it opened up to a big kind of a big
to do and it was being run by a private operator. Well,
in the ensuing years they transferred over ownership to the city,
and just a few months ago they just got an

(01:24:37):
additional emergency seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars from the
community or from the city to pay back invoices. Now,
at the same time, there's no food on the shelves.
There's no fruit or you know, there's nothing on the
shelves of this grocery store. Local news outlets reported the

(01:24:58):
doors to the Kansas City Sunfresh market were locked, saying
that a note saying the store was unable to serve
the community, and it says this, Unfortunately, due to unforeseen
circumstances beyond our control, we are no longer at this
time able to serve the residents of this important community.
It has always been our dream and passion to provide
quality products and services in a safe family environment. At

(01:25:21):
this time, unfortunately, we are unable to do that. Community Builders,
that's the company that has been running it. Community Builders
has been vocal for years about our concerns and fears
regarding the increasingly insurmountable challenges of the case Sunfresh midtown location.
They are well documented and well known to the community,

(01:25:44):
the media, and the city of Kansas City, Missouri.

Speaker 3 (01:25:50):
What challenges are those?

Speaker 1 (01:25:52):
Crime shoplifting is rampant and out of control. Drug addicts
walk in naked. There's videotape of that strip off their
clothes and start ripping things off the shelves. I mean,
it's the exact same things that keep regular grocery stores
from going into these communities because it's far too expensive.

(01:26:17):
The loss is too great.

Speaker 3 (01:26:20):
When you have to deal. I mean, think about the
level of shoplifting.

Speaker 1 (01:26:23):
We've seen here in Colorado, and in some of these
really downtrodden neighborhoods, the shoplifting is even more. The only
way one of these stores is going to work, and
I don't see why this technology cannot be adopted, is
if they do it like old tiny grocery stores. You
ever watched Little House on the Prairie and you see

(01:26:43):
them go and see Missus Olsen at the mercantile and
everything is behind the shelves. It's not like they're browsing
and she's like picking up eggs or she's doing this. No,
she tells missus Olsen what she needs, and Missus Olsen.

Speaker 3 (01:26:55):
Gets it for her. The only way to make a grocery.

Speaker 1 (01:26:59):
Store work in a community that is overrun by criminals
is to prevent people from being able to have access
to anything, which is a completely different shopping experience, but
a shopping experience. Nonetheless, it's going to be interesting to
hear people say that that's somehow racist when I know
people that have not set foot in a grocery store

(01:27:20):
in probably four years because they're like, oh no Walmart,
to go whatever it's called. Oh I got the instacr
that I got. They don't do it anymore. So everybody
has a smartphone at this point. Everyone has a smartphone
at this point. They can download an app and do
it that way. But what's fascinating is we now have

(01:27:42):
a real world example that happened just now that demonstrates
how stupid the thought process of mister Mumdannie actually is.
It fails wherever it's tried. That's the only thing consistent,
Mauth socialism. It fails every single time it's tried. You know,

(01:28:05):
instead of trying to figure out a way to put
government in the business that it has no business being in,
why don't you figure out a way to help a
private company make it work in that community, in that neighborhood,
work with them to see what they need. By the way,
this store was four blocks away from the police station,

(01:28:25):
four blocks and they still had so much crime that
they could not stay open. I mean, that's what we're
dealing with in Kansas City, Missouri. Excellent, well done. One
of the reasons I think Democrats are freaking out so
hard about the federal takeover of DC right now is
because they're afraid it's going to work, and they're going

(01:28:47):
to it's they're afraid it's going to show that, you know,
arresting people and not allowing homeless camps and all of
that stuff is actually effective in cleaning up a city,
because then what excuse.

Speaker 6 (01:28:58):
Do they have.

Speaker 1 (01:28:58):
The biggest frustration I have with the fact that all
big cities are run by Democrats is that they all
just blame it on each other. They're like, well, you know,
every big city has these problems, and most of them
are also run by Democrats. I'm not saying that, you know,
correlation equals causation, but so yeah, the socialist grocery store,

(01:29:23):
it's been tried, it has failed, and now they want
to do it again in New York City. All right, guys,
I want to ask you in this hour because it
entertained me in the last at the beginning of the show.

Speaker 3 (01:29:33):
I don't even know how it came up.

Speaker 1 (01:29:34):
I think I asked a Rod what he wanted them
to do with his body when he died for no
apparent reason, and he said, I want to be crygenetically frozen.

Speaker 3 (01:29:43):
That's not what I want to have happen.

Speaker 1 (01:29:45):
I just want to be wrapped in a shroud and
thrown in a hole, let the worms eat me, or
or in one of those tree pods. Have you seen
the tree pods where they put your body in the
bottom and then they put a young tree right on
top of you, and then your body just gets eaten
by the tree, and then later it could bear fruit.
You could feed people with your body. It would be amazing,

(01:30:07):
be super cool.

Speaker 6 (01:30:08):
Well, as much as I want to be frozen. Yeah,
you know what isn't frozen is red hot right now?
What the hype over the Denver Broncos.

Speaker 3 (01:30:17):
Yes, yes it is. And because of that hype, why
don't we give away some tickets a rod?

Speaker 6 (01:30:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:30:23):
Yeah, how do you want to give them away?

Speaker 2 (01:30:24):
There?

Speaker 6 (01:30:24):
You're the one that told me you had your idea earlier.
I have mine and I'm aways waiting for yours.

Speaker 3 (01:30:28):
Completely forgot about it.

Speaker 8 (01:30:30):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:30:30):
It's too late in the show to do my idea
because it was far too complicated.

Speaker 6 (01:30:33):
I'm selfish, So we're gonna do is. I want to
hear how everyone else wants to be handled when they die.

Speaker 3 (01:30:40):
And we'll choose the best winner, and we'll choose No.

Speaker 4 (01:30:42):
No, I just want to hear them.

Speaker 6 (01:30:45):
So I want to do on the phones because I
want to hear people physically, like say it to me. Okay, okay,
let's go with the sixth person to call and tell
me the way that they want to die and die
their body disposed of. Yes, yeah, what you want to
be done with your body? So let's do Caller six
right now three O three seven five eighty five on

(01:31:07):
the Commons Beer Health Hotline to tell me what you
want to be done with your body when you die?

Speaker 4 (01:31:11):
Gets to go to the Broncos game tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (01:31:13):
Nice, do it right now, chuckjoy me.

Speaker 7 (01:31:15):
Hello, everybody.

Speaker 3 (01:31:17):
You can't hear him?

Speaker 8 (01:31:18):
Is he?

Speaker 2 (01:31:18):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (01:31:19):
He's good?

Speaker 3 (01:31:20):
All right?

Speaker 4 (01:31:20):
I take phone calls now.

Speaker 3 (01:31:21):
Yeah, I could not make you.

Speaker 1 (01:31:22):
You go take phone calls and chuck an outsittar, babe,
what do you want me to do with your body
when you die?

Speaker 7 (01:31:27):
You know that's a good question.

Speaker 5 (01:31:28):
I U.

Speaker 7 (01:31:29):
I've transitioned from things that you know. I originally wanted
to be buried at punch Bowl, Hawaii, which is if
you've never been to punch Bowl Cemetery, it's the Arlington
of the Pacific. It is amazing. It's just one of
the most beautiful places in the world. But then I
started thinking about things that you said, you know, just
throw a cloth over me and throw me on the

(01:31:50):
ground kind of stuff. I don't know. I've been told
by our daughter that there better be a place for
her to come talk to me.

Speaker 1 (01:31:57):
I know, but do you like I don't actually want
to be in that place with the grave. I mean,
the headstone is fine, just like, yes, she lives, she died,
kind of thing.

Speaker 7 (01:32:05):
She she it would make a difference to her. We've
had the conversation, so I have to.

Speaker 3 (01:32:09):
She doesn't want to talk to me.

Speaker 7 (01:32:10):
No, no, no, she said that about both of us.
You just don't remember the conversation. But you know, so
I you know, even if it's you know, I don't
really want to be burned up.

Speaker 3 (01:32:20):
So op either.

Speaker 1 (01:32:21):
And what's funny is I got some text messages earlier
on the Common Spirit health text line at five six six,
and I know that people were like, well, I don't
want to be in the ground, so I want to
be cremated. Okay, so you want to be set on
fire with some like weird thing about being in the
in a.

Speaker 3 (01:32:37):
Box, which I get. There's a little there's claustrophobia there,
but you're dead. You're not alive.

Speaker 1 (01:32:42):
You know, we've already passed that threshold that you are
absolutely physically dead.

Speaker 7 (01:32:48):
See. I figure, I want to be in a box
because then later when they figured out who killed me,
because I've never really gonna die, they'll have evidence. See.
So yeah, oh my God.

Speaker 1 (01:32:59):
Said up, I want to be buried vertically. That no way, no,
wait wait a minute, let me try that again. I
want to be buried vertically. That way, nobody could say
I wasn't a stand up guy.

Speaker 7 (01:33:08):
That's funny. Yeah, there's some place that does bury vertically.
It's part of a religious right. I'm not really sure
what the deal as I remember seeing that.

Speaker 1 (01:33:18):
Well, I think when you when you're in the tree pod,
you're kind of vertical, like the tree pod thing that
goes underneath the tree, that's kind of up and down.

Speaker 7 (01:33:26):
Well, that's true, but that's someplace we visited. There was
like somebody that was a king or something. That's how
they buried him or something, standing up, standing up.

Speaker 1 (01:33:34):
The Egyptians had weird customs about that, not that many,
but anyway, five, six, sixth n I know Texas.

Speaker 3 (01:33:42):
What you want to do there? A Rod is answering
phone calls. Do we have a winner?

Speaker 6 (01:33:45):
A Rod?

Speaker 3 (01:33:45):
We got a winners? Oh, hang on, he's chatting. He
doesn't know that I'm just asking him.

Speaker 7 (01:33:50):
So they get tickets tomorrow's game.

Speaker 1 (01:33:51):
Yes, tickets to tomorrow's preseason game. By the way, which
game will you be working? So my listeners can look
for you holding the hair of a microphone.

Speaker 7 (01:33:59):
But I definitely working the Bengals game.

Speaker 3 (01:34:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:34:02):
I grew up in the same hometown as Joe Burrow,
so I'd like to be on the side.

Speaker 3 (01:34:06):
But you're not cheering for them.

Speaker 7 (01:34:07):
I am not cheering, Okay, Nope, nope, I am.

Speaker 3 (01:34:10):
I am making sure.

Speaker 7 (01:34:11):
Wearing a baseball cap from my from our joint high school.

Speaker 3 (01:34:15):
Yes, because.

Speaker 1 (01:34:17):
Yeah, so, Mandy, you're not just burned when you're cremated.
Then you're ground up in a big blender type thingy.
I made the mistake of looking it up after we
cremated my mother. Oh no, yeah, I probably know, Mandy.
My best friend is buried in a cemetery south of Amarillo,
right next to I twenty seven, and I think it'd
be miserable to hear the interstate points.

Speaker 3 (01:34:40):
You know, it's very funny that we think that way.
You know, that's really really funny.

Speaker 7 (01:34:45):
What I think it was really funny about that is
a lot of people, I even know atheists that have
said stuff like that. So it's I look at them
and go, so you think you're going to be around spiritually? Yeah, No,
can see the blank look on their face.

Speaker 3 (01:34:57):
They wanted to do it.

Speaker 1 (01:34:58):
This one just put me in the pet cemetery gauge that. No,
we had that conversation earlier. Creepiest book ever. This person
wants to be buried upside down with their butts sticking
out so everyone can kiss it.

Speaker 3 (01:35:10):
This would donate their body to.

Speaker 1 (01:35:12):
Medical science, so my mom said, and Chuck knows my
mom so well, she's actually his favorite or her favorite.
My mom said, just donate my body to science, and
my sister was like absolutely not.

Speaker 3 (01:35:24):
All right, I'm refused. Okay, then do we have who won.

Speaker 6 (01:35:26):
The I first, why it took so long is because
I wrote down everyone's responses of those that were calling excellent.
So we've had someone wanted to be just burned, so right, yeah,
cremated in some way. We had second person said they
want to be thrown in the trash.

Speaker 3 (01:35:41):
Okay, okay, well there you have it.

Speaker 6 (01:35:43):
A third the third person said, cremated. The fourth person
said up to the wife and whatever is cheapest.

Speaker 3 (01:35:49):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (01:35:51):
The last two were very similar. The fifth one brought
up to the mountains and just leaned up against a tree.

Speaker 2 (01:35:58):
Ah.

Speaker 6 (01:35:59):
And then our winner, Cheryl cremated and then also put
up in the mountains. Yep, so there you go, yeah Cheryl, Yes, yeah,
but it's uh for those that may be called and
didn't get in. You still have gosh three on air
chances and on X and Instagram right now X and Instagram.
Contest ends a little over three hours and then KOA

(01:36:21):
Sports Mandy every single hour between three and six and
more chances to win. It's almost like we're the official
radio home of the Denver Broncos and we have tickets
to give away and the only ones in time they
can do it.

Speaker 3 (01:36:31):
That sounds cool, Yeah, yeah, that we do that. These
are very funny.

Speaker 1 (01:36:36):
On the text line, Mandy, I want to be cremated
and put it in hour glass so I can still
participate in game night.

Speaker 4 (01:36:42):
Here you go of the day from beyond the Grave.

Speaker 1 (01:36:46):
Sorry, I missed the contest deadline. But I want to
see the game as much as Ross wants to see
Neil Young. But I would go if it was free.
So you have three more chances in the next three hours. Hey,
Mandy r e the Casey Grocery store. I saw your
thought bubble say run by Democrats in dead overrun by crime.

Speaker 3 (01:37:02):
You stopped your mouth before you said it, though maybe
I did, maybe I didn't. You don't know, Mandy.

Speaker 1 (01:37:08):
When we were kids, our dad asked that when he dies,
if we would bury him face down with his butt
sticking out of the ground so people could use it
as a bike rack. That's the original dad joke. Uh
scavenger hunt. I want to be cremated and my son
to scatter my ashes everywhere in the world I haven't
visited or we've shared as a special place, doing the
same with my dad's ashes. I got to tell you, guys,

(01:37:30):
one of the funniest things I've ever heard. Our friend Lindsey,
who's one of the funniest people I've ever met. Her
brother passed away before she did, and he had this
really awful cat that no one wanted.

Speaker 3 (01:37:41):
It was ugly, it was old, It was mean and
its name was Boots.

Speaker 1 (01:37:46):
Well, let's just say when her husband passed away or
her brother passed away, no one would take boots. Boots
was like eighteen years old. So they put Boots down
and they cremated Boots and at her brother's funeral as
people were leaving, because he was an artist and all
of his friends were very art scene, it was just
that kind of service.

Speaker 3 (01:38:04):
As the friends were leaving, they were giving.

Speaker 1 (01:38:06):
Away scoops of the ashes of her brother, and they
would ask people with or without Boots before they put
the ashes.

Speaker 3 (01:38:13):
In their little containers and sent them on their way.
So there you go.

Speaker 7 (01:38:17):
One of the new fans that I have seen that
I actually like is if you go to a gravestone
sometimes now there's a QR code, yeah, and you can
scan it and you get a video of that person's life.
What I saw the other day a veteran that I
follow did is he did that to the nth degree.
They took a part of his ashes, and they took

(01:38:38):
a you know, they printed out a bunch of q
and they left them all over the world where he
was stationed. So anybody it picks it up, hits that
QR code. And it tells the story. You know, the creativity.

Speaker 5 (01:38:48):
I like it.

Speaker 3 (01:38:48):
Here's one I'm telling you, a cremation.

Speaker 1 (01:38:50):
Then put it in an etche sketch so my son
can give it to his kids and say, go play
with your grandma.