08-22-25 FULL SHOW - The Wine Yogi Wills Autumn Into Being

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Bill and Pollock
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
No, it's Mandy Connell and.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
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Keith sadding welcome.

Speaker 4 (00:27):
We welcome you a Friday edition of the show. I'm
your host for the next three hours, Mandy Connell. That
died right over there is Anthony Rodriguez. You can call
him a rod altogether.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Now you.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
All right, my friends, we are gonna bust through a
big old fat Friday and take you right with us.
I'm looking at what is on your shirt, Anthony?

Speaker 1 (00:58):
What is that?

Speaker 5 (00:59):
This is Emperor's New Groove. You've never seen Emperor's New Group?

Speaker 6 (01:01):
No, I have not.

Speaker 5 (01:02):
Oh my god.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
I was out of the window at that time. Lordy,
I didn't have any kids yet. I had kind of
aged out of the teen early twenties of still going
to all the animated movies. So I miss that.

Speaker 5 (01:15):
Yeah, that's what he says in the movie.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
Oh got it? Okay, maybe I'll check it out.

Speaker 5 (01:20):
It's a great one.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
I I've just about today reached my limit with two
step authorization or whatever two factor authorizations, because now to
get into our email at work, it's like, okay, what's
your password? And you give them the password and they're like, okay,
now you have to go to a different version of
our outlook on your phone and you have to tell
us that number there. Oh wait, there's a number. We

(01:43):
need a fingerprint. I kid you not people.

Speaker 5 (01:46):
That is such an exaggeration. It is not that hardiculous.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
I don't have the well, I do have the app
on my phone now to log into my computer, to
log in on my computer right now, as I do
before the show. That is what it requires. You type
pass where you hit enter, yep, you type in the number,
and then it asked me for a fingerprint on my phone.

Speaker 5 (02:05):
Well, that's because you have a stupid Android.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
Nope, that's because I set it up that way because
I'm in it well already.

Speaker 5 (02:10):
First, so what you just said was user error?

Speaker 4 (02:14):
No, because I'm just.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Up I did.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
That's exactly right. One hundred percent of life harder. How
dare I?

Speaker 2 (02:22):
You know? I?

Speaker 4 (02:23):
Well too many of my friends have had their social
media accounts stolen from them, and Facebook does not care
if if some scammer is using your social media account
to steal from your friends and family.

Speaker 5 (02:34):
Multi factor is enough you don't need multi multi multi factor,
like I.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
Don't know what figerprint came from. Actually I have no idea,
no clue.

Speaker 5 (02:41):
Android.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
Yeah, anyway, let's do the blog, shall we, Because we
got a lot of stuff on our plate today. There's
gonna be a lot of snark, a lot of commentary
that includes snark. And then, uh, just well, here's what's
coming up. It's on the blog. You can find the
blog by going to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com.
Look for the head line that says eight twenty two
twenty five blog the Wineyogi wills autumn into being. Click

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on that and here are the headlines you will find within. Well,
well that I got a multi factor.

Speaker 5 (03:10):
I got a needs by face, needs by thumb, wantsby
to lick the street?

Speaker 4 (03:15):
Okay, and there's the blog.

Speaker 5 (03:17):
I think there was office South of American all with
ships and clipments and say that's going to press flat.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
Today on the blog, it's nearly time for Octoberfest. Whatever
happened to Rosemary Echo silver Dollar taber It dosn't asked
me anything sort of day. Jared Polis tries to redefine sanctuary,
scrolling the stabbing at Staunted Park was a hoax. I
have a theory about all the chicken Tender restaurants. John
Bolton's house is rated by the FBI the coolest things

(03:45):
made in Colorado. Democrats won't have Ryan Representative Ryan Armagos
to kick around anymore. The Fed may cut rates, which
winds won the Governor's cup tail and all could cause
ADHD in autism. Senator Clobe didn't comment on Sydney Sweeney
d you ditch's DEI Progressive finds out her sign is

(04:07):
racist and shrugs scrolling scrolling. The new Cracker barrel menu
is something. California begs Oil and Gas to come back.
Denver schools still Kevin caught up. Colorado Democrats want to
give money to Planned Parenthood in this session to cut spending.
The magic of lines, the invention of glass. Sixty motorcyclists

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dead this year. This woman doesn't need to be on
social media. Don't be a horrible hotel guest. Nick Cannon
doesn't know the name of his kids. Note to South,
be careful with Colorado funeral homes. Those are the headlines
on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com Tech two a winner.
We've got to start. Can we just have a moment

(04:50):
on this funeral home story, this one out of Peblo.
This is the second one of these stories in Colorado.
Holy crap, you guys. I know we've just covered it.
Connor just did a report on it with Keenan in
our news And this is just horrible. And I'm just
gonna ask an impertinent question. I'm just gonna I'm just

(05:12):
gonna ask the question everybody else is asking. I'm just
gonna say it out loud, and that is, like, how
hard is it to throw a body into a crematorium
and just turn it on? Why are bodies being piled up.

Speaker 5 (05:23):
In a place cost money, like a significant amount of money.
I don't know, Like, let's say a rod.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
Some of these bodies have been here in a pile
for fifteen years. Fifteen years. You're telling me in fifteen
years you can't pay to cremate these bodies. I mean,
I just find this absolutely horrifying. It's so bad, absolutely,

(05:50):
I mean, just the worst. And you know, now the
families who have already buried someone and gone through the
whole process and you know, grieving and all, and now
they find out, oh sorry that that box of dust
that you have sitting on your mantle up there. It's
not your grandma. No, it's just dirt they got from outside.
Your grandma has been in a pile for fifteen years.
Oh my goodness, what.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
What?

Speaker 4 (06:14):
How is this? Does this only happen in Colorado? That's
how we Colorado?

Speaker 7 (06:19):
A Rod, that is how we Colorado.

Speaker 5 (06:22):
Like, was there equipment down and they didn't want to
repair it.

Speaker 4 (06:24):
Fifteen years it's still an active mortuary. They've been cremating
people since then. I genuinely don't understand how this happens.
I mean, if it's some issue with the family, like, oh,
the family is well, great, then you cremate the person
and hold the ashes for ransom, right you see the

(06:45):
family or whatever. It's kind of like when you leave
a car at a mechanic shop for long enough, eventually
they get ownership. That's how it works. It's probably in
the contract you sign when you sign your estimate. So
it's just, oh my gosh, I just I can't believe
we have another one third story. One guy kept, of course,
in course, in his heart for a year. Of course,
of course, yep, ay Rod. When did Mandy become a Luddite?

(07:08):
Become of you people not listening to this program A luttite.
A lutite is Bludites are technophobes. They are people that
way back in the Middle Ages of the light actually
like killed what was it was? It wasn't the printing press.
They tried to stop industrialization. Essentially, they tried to just
say no, we're not going to do it. The Luddites

(07:29):
were anti advancements in technology. I have been a ludite,
so that's not new. Mandy beats getting hacked and someone's
sending emails saying, you love Democrats. If they could find
that in my email, good luck. My email is thirty
eight thousand emails right now, and most of it is
pr pitches from things that I will never have on

(07:49):
the show. It's like seventy five percent of my email
is you know, stuff that I should that I'm never
going to talk about. And you think to yourself, why
do you have that many emails? Because I can only
do a mass elite so many times. Okay, anyway, a Rod,
we have a musical request coming back from break they'd

(08:10):
like Wingo Boingo's Dead Man's Party.

Speaker 5 (08:13):
Headway. Yeah, by the way, if correct, because it was
kind of hard to get chat Gubt to answer. Not
for an individual to have a loved one cremated, but
the cost of like the company itself to do it right,
not very much, from fuel to electricity and auxiliary power
to labor and equipment maintenance. We're talking like like yeah,

(08:35):
like less than one hundred dollars thousands to have it done.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
But here's the thing, like you can lock in a
cremation for like a thousand bucks. Although wait a minute,
you know what now that I said that, I have
not been involved in the cremation of a loved one
since before the Biden inflation, so I don't know if
the prices have gone up. I have no idea.

Speaker 5 (08:57):
And we're talking they're making for like direct cremation all
the way to like to full service, and he could
be as little as a couple grand sure to upwards
of five to seven grand, and only one hundred dollars
per person that they do it.

Speaker 4 (09:11):
I mean, don't get me wrong. You deserve a profit
motive right, and people will pay what people will pay.
Although a Rod maybe we should start the Mandy and
a Rod crematorium Number one. We guarantee to cremate.

Speaker 5 (09:21):
Your loved one.

Speaker 4 (09:23):
A two, we'll come in, come in at seven fifty
still six to fifty profit, you know, I mean, oh no,
I was about to say something so insensitive that I
just had to stop myself. I'll tell you off the air.
I came up with our slogan anyway, God this textor

(09:44):
just said this, Hi Mandy. We listened to KOA just
to hear how weird Colorado is. Like the park rangers
stabbing himself. We haven't even gotten to that crazy story. So, yes,
was it yesterday as the day before?

Speaker 5 (09:54):
I believe it was Tuesday?

Speaker 4 (09:56):
Or with it wasn't It wasn't Thursday because I was
based on No, No, he was Tuesday. Yeah, so a
Tuesday story breaks during the show. We didn't really talk
about it because it was a crime story happening in process,
and I don't really talk about those guy. Uh this,
this ranger at Staunton Park gets stabbed and they shut
down everything, like for all these blocks around the park.
They have a man hunt. They've got all this stuff

(10:17):
because he gave a super detailed description of his attacker.
He goes to the hospital because dude's been stabbed. It's
not like, you know, he was stabbed and we find
out today dude stabbed himself and made up the whole thing.
What I mean, what you couple that with the funeral

(10:39):
home story, and oh my goodness, these are just horrifying,
absolutely horrifying. Now today on the show, we got a
couple of guests coming up. Why Yogi is coming up
at two thirty two. Things happening there. Number one, we're
talking about Octoberfest, because that is right around the corner.
Do you ever do an Octoberfest sort of situation, Anthony,
I'll see you later.

Speaker 5 (11:00):
That would get in the way of our two months
of prep for Halloween? So not really, I mean not
even it already has begun. Oh no really, Oh yeah,
the theme is good, the costumes are ready or I
love that. You guys super Bowl every year. Yeah, we
host the super Bowl esque Halloween party every so that
would kind of get in the way of that. Yeah,
but I'm down to go to just caror it like

(11:24):
other than beer Fest, like have a October. Yeah, they
have been.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
Multiple Octoberfests around town. I mean they're they're all They're
not like actual Oktoberfest because actual Walktoberfest is huge, but
they do have several around town. And you can whip
out the later hosen and go down. But we're going
to talk Octoberfest. But we're also going to talk about
the Governor's Cup. The Governor's Cupp is an annual competition
among Colorado winemakers and a lot of my favorites and

(11:49):
especially the wine Yogi's favorites one big this year. So no,
we are not going to use the slogan do you
kill them with grillam? That is not what That's what
the Texters are saying. Now, we're not doing that.

Speaker 5 (12:01):
Did they steal yours?

Speaker 4 (12:02):
No, mine's actually worse. Oh god, yep, but it doesn't
really work. So it's okay, you know kind of thing anyway.
It is also, when asked me anything, kind of Friday,
because it is Friday, and you can make it whatever
you want. Although I have a bunch of stuff on
the blog today that I need to talk about, and
you boy in if you want. Now, we also have

(12:23):
an author coming on. Rebecca Rosenberg writes historical fiction.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
Now I find.

Speaker 4 (12:29):
Myself in an interesting position. I actually like historical fiction
better than I like history. It's far more interesting. Right.
So she's got a new book out called Silver Echoes
and it dips into the silver mines and she's got
a big book tour coming out. So we're going to
talk to Rebecca Rosenberg a little bit later in the
show as well. Why yogiate to thirty Rebecca at one

(12:52):
And in the meantime, Oh boy, do we have some
crazy stories that do not involve funeral homes or people
stabbing themselves at state parks. Oh one more thing on
the state park thing, Anthony. I was talking to Noah,
one of our engineers, because he was talking about this story.
What in the world was this guy's motivation. I've been
really really rolling that around in my head. Now here,

(13:13):
here's what I've come up with. Number One, he worked
for the parks department. He was afraid he was gonna
get laid off, right, so he was trying to gin
up sympathy so if he was on the layoff list,
he wouldn't get laid off. That's thing number one. Thing
number two he wants pity fame. Yes, you know, pity
fame is a big deal for some people, Like I
kind of feel like maybe that trend is nearing its conclusion,

(13:36):
Please God, I hope so. But pity fame is where
you've become famous and there's a go fundme to help
you recover from this horrible attack. And Jesse Smallett, yes, yes, yeah,
we'll call that the Jesse Smollett theory of why he
might do this. But I'm trying to It's like, what
would make you what?

Speaker 5 (13:56):
How did get caught that fast?

Speaker 6 (13:58):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (13:58):
His story fell apart in the so they're interviewing him,
and his story fell apart almost immediately in the hospital,
and the cops were like, wait a minute. And I
can't even imagine. As part of his punishment, he should
have to be he should be forced to provide restitution
for the cost of the manhunt that went on looking
for his so called attacker. Uh and when he actually

(14:20):
lied about it. I think I think he should have
to pay for all the overtime, whatever resources were brought out.
He should have to pay for all of it, all
of it. He watched CSI, but not enough CSI exactly.
I feel what crime show do you think provides the
most accurate criminal mastermind kind of stuff that you need
to know if you want to commit the perfect crime.

Speaker 5 (14:41):
CSI for the basic stuff of me, if you want
to be a serial killer, then I guess criminal minds,
the one that focuses on serial killer. What about like
Dexter though, well, that's deep in the weeds of being
a serial killer. I think that that guy probably thinks
he's big brain enough to be the Dexter and then nope, no, yeah,
just uh.

Speaker 4 (15:01):
But I tried so hard to get with such an
elaborate player.

Speaker 5 (15:03):
That fell apart in thirty seven seconds. I could do
an officer.

Speaker 4 (15:07):
This is a good ask me anything, Mandy. Can you
tell me what touch them all time means that Jack
says every time at the Rockies game. I wish that
he said it every time at the Rockies game. It's
touch them all time, not touch of all time, touch
them all time, touch all the bags, touch them all time? Correct,

(15:28):
touch all the bags time is what it is.

Speaker 5 (15:31):
Yeah, it's just like Mark Johnson's Ripe between the eyes.

Speaker 4 (15:35):
Maddy, a friend work for the Denver pet Cemetery Crematorium
in Vietnamese. Oh, come on, why did I read that?
Before I read it? People are killing me, Hi, Mandy,
do you think Colorado could overcome this budget deficit if
Paulics didn't put so many restrictions on oil and gas?
Ha ha, I gotta tell you, guys. I have a
whole tear on a couple of things today. One of

(15:59):
them is Jared Police trying to sell the bill of
Goods that we are not a sanctuary state. Now this
is becoming a significant issue because now the FEDS are
suing states Colorado included for their sanctuary state policies. So
I want to get into that quite extensively. But the
oil and gas thing, You're right, Jared Police has been

(16:22):
a force to be reckoned with when it comes to
destroying the oil and gas industry in Colorado. Part of it,
I believe, and then just speculating, because God knows he'll
never answer this question. Part of that I believe is
rooted in anger at the industry because they had the
nerve to frack across the road from his vacation home,

(16:44):
and I really think it made it mad and this
is his flex But in the meantime, as we rush
towards renewable energy that is not in any way, shape
or form ready for primetime or for powering the needs
of Colorado, California is finding itself in a very interesting position.
There's a long, long article about it today on the blog.
But if you follow me, do you go look at

(17:06):
my Facebook page really quick, a Rod, I want you
to look at the picture that I made today because
I am now for my social media using a chat
GPT illustrator to create cartoon pictures to use on social
media to promote my blog. Because because you know, what's
supposed to be yes. So here's my thing. Is that

(17:27):
a yes thing or a no thing? I did one
yesterday where a Rockies player was hitting a radio out
of the park because you know what I mean, I
can make it do anything, and I kind of like it.
But here's the reason I'm doing it. I can't use
any of the images that I use on the blog
on my social media because the contract that we have
iHeartMedia with Getty Images is between iHeartMedia and Getty Images,

(17:49):
not Mandy Connell. Okay, And if I don't have a
picture of some kind, the whole post gets throttled and
doesn't get seen by anyone on social media because of
the algorithms. So this is my effort to sort of
thread that needle. If you have other or better ideas,
please let me know, because I got nothing. I got

(18:09):
absolutely nothing. You know what, though, A Rod, what I
just thought about hit me Why can't I just do
a quick video and put the video up there and
then put the link in the comments of the video.

Speaker 5 (18:19):
Put on your ig first, do the cross posting action collaboration,
bing bong.

Speaker 4 (18:25):
But what do you think of my cartoons?

Speaker 5 (18:26):
I thought that I thought that was the cartoons are great.
You could also do both, do one earlier in the
morning and maybe do a video of that hour before
the show.

Speaker 4 (18:34):
I don't know that an hour before show because I'm
still getting ready. Y'all need to see that.

Speaker 5 (18:37):
Well, maybe the second you get in here, when you're
walking in. Okay, so many ideas. Okay, the wheels are turning, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
Do you think the guy put up a fight before
he got stabbed?

Speaker 5 (18:51):
Did you see the lilias idea for our crematorium coming?
No burn and earn stop it? Buh, We're not stop
stop it? He is it there? So we're not going
to hell.

Speaker 4 (19:01):
I think the crematoriums has legs, though it would be
unique in our industry, and I bet that there are
a single other radio personality that also owns a crematorium.

Speaker 5 (19:10):
The bar is stupid low. We would be more gracious,
and then on the side, we're kind of turned some profit.
I mean, of course there's got to be a project.
It sounds like lots of profit.

Speaker 4 (19:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (19:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (19:22):
Man, the crazy person in Ireland, I think too experienced
skydiver jumped out of an airplane and purposely didn't open
the parachute. Suicide apparently, I would think.

Speaker 5 (19:32):
So, I think I heard about that.

Speaker 4 (19:33):
That's awful. But I mean, if you want to make
sure you're going to die, jump out of a plane.
That seems pretty full proof. Not that I'm recommending it,
because I think suicide is horrible. Today is part of
the special session. One of the things, other than raising
taxes and fees because they're not going to cut spending.
The other thing that is on the call, specifically from
the governor, is they've got to fix Colorado's artificial intelligence

(19:57):
law that they passed a couple of years ago. It
is an hour absolute disaster, an absolute I mean, it
is so bad, it's so vague. It's all about preventing
bias related incidents. So typically as they do, our legislature
wrote a bill based on feelings. Well, feelings are really

(20:17):
hard to figure out where the lines are and aren't,
and you know what we're supposed to do here and
it put. I know this is going to shock you guys,
but the bill puts new onerous regulatory requirements on AI companies.
I know, right, that's so new, and everybody knows. It's
a disaster. And our governor, if he wasn't so cowardly,
would have vetoed it. He should have vetoed it. But

(20:38):
instead he said all these bad things about the bill
and then he signed it. Because he has no backbone
or spine when it comes to doing things that he
knows to be wrong. He did it anyway, But that's okay.
Vanessa Rutledge over at the Independence Institute has written a
great column on Complete Colorado and I just added it
to the blog, and she does a really great job

(21:00):
outlining the tremendous issues with the bill as it is.
I would think they are going to repeal and replace.
That's probably the best move, rather than trying to clean
up the garbage dump that this current bill is. I
would expect, maybe out of this special session them to
kick the can down the road a little bit to
twenty twenty seven so they can try and address it
in greater detail in the next legislative session. But it's

(21:23):
an absolute mess and now they're trying to fix it.
But I just added Vanessa's column to the blog today,
so I got a lot of people asking questions on
the text line. Big Favorite plays a Jinx update. Jinks
is perfectly fine. If you remember, she my big Saint
Bernard got hit by a car. She's bounced back from that.
We're going on walks again. But you guys, she's getting old.

(21:47):
She just turned seven and for Saint Bernard, that's fifty
six in human years. We're the same age right now,
ay Rod, for like the next you know, a few weeks.
I know, how cool is that same age as my dog?
But she's flowing down, but she's still awesome, the best
best ever. We've got someone volunteering to come work at

(22:07):
our crematorium. So that's that's the thing. We could do
all the work. Yeah, they know how to cremate. I'm
not doing that part. Oh no, we got to hire that.
I mean, come on, come on, Mandy. It takes stones
to stab yourself and do what that park ranger did. Colorado,
Colorado is full of balloons.

Speaker 6 (22:23):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (22:24):
I mean, I guess it does take courage to stab yourself.

Speaker 5 (22:29):
But I don't know that sounds like one of the
most painful things you could do yourself. Oh hey, I've
always heard not that I would prefer either, but much
better to get shot than stabbed, depending on where you
got shot, well.

Speaker 4 (22:42):
Yeah, you know what I mean, Like some places you
don't want to get shot. Mandy, Do you think the
guy put up a fight before he got stabbed? That
from Mandy. No, we're not going to be using let
the bodies hit the floor as a bumper music wank.
You text her. Here's the question, Mandy, do you have
any opinion on the techna sale to Next Star? I
ask because nine News getting sold seems to be sending

(23:03):
Comrade Kyle's spiraling. Here's the thing, you guys, I actually
have sympathetic sympathy for all of the folks at nine
News and Fox thirty one and seven and two because
there are pretty strict rules about how many stations you
can own a in a market, and so I don't
know if one of them is going to be spun off,

(23:24):
which creates a huge level of uncertainty going forward. And
I've been in those situations where I'm working for a
company and oh, it's we're gonna get bought or No.
I mean, it's just it's very, very stressful.

Speaker 5 (23:36):
And I mean I've been in newsrooms. I I can't
imagine what your everyday photographer, producer, Eveny the Webster is.

Speaker 4 (23:46):
Stressed because you don't know what's gonna happen next.

Speaker 5 (23:47):
I'm gonna be real with you. I think it's about
his care for his coworkers. But Kyle Clark and Next
probably one of the highest rated shows on the tuesdage.
You're not going anywhere if that, if they merge or
one of them goes away, that show will continue. Yeah,
on whatever station is the one that continues. Correct, It's
just a matter of which.

Speaker 4 (24:05):
Yeah, Kyle is too popular in this market and too
well established and too likable.

Speaker 5 (24:11):
Now, I think he's speaking for Like I said, I
think he's speaking for a lot of his colleagues, his producers,
his friends that he cares about. To give him a
little bit of credit. I think there is some care
for that understanding that his show would probably live on.
It's about a lot of the people that maybe he
works with on a daily basis that maybe would not well.

Speaker 4 (24:25):
And I have no idea how much how much money
Kyle Clark bankes. I have no clue. I would not
even speculate because I have absolutely no frame of reference.
But whenever somebody else comes in and they're streamlining operations,
that's when you have to worry about your salary being cut.
I mean, that's just the reality of this business that
we're in. Media has gotten so fractured, and not just

(24:46):
for radio, right, I mean, radio at least has the
opportunity to put ourselves on like the iHeartRadio platform, and
we can podcast, and we can stream live. And there
are pretty much two outlets for next and it's on
TV and then it's YouTube or their website. After the fact,
they don't have the same means of distribution that we
all do because they're a visual medium. So I can

(25:09):
put my show like, even if we had cameras in here,
which someday, you know, maybe iHeart will jump into the
twenty first century. Anyway, even if we had cameras in here,
the show's still going to work as an audio show
because I'm not showing images. I will never forget when
I was in Fort Myers and I had a radio
show and we had Hurricane Wilmo was coming towards Fort Myers,

(25:30):
and we had TV stations in the building that own
were owned by the same company as the radio station,
so we were all in the same building. And when
I said, Okay, I'm going to stay in and do coverage,
They're like, oh, no, no, no, We're going to put
the TV station on. Here's what it sounds like to
have a TV station on during a hurricane. Now, if
you look at the map over here, you can see
this movement in this direction.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
A kid, you not.

Speaker 4 (25:51):
It's the most useless combination in a weather situation. You know,
in a breaking news situation, it might make sense, right,
but in in a weather situation, it was just dumb. So,
you know, they're kind of limited and how they get
their product out and how they can monetize that, and
we're all everybody in the industry is trying to figure
out how to get more money out of your pockets

(26:14):
to support what we do. And by the way, the
way you do that is using my advertisers and telling
them that you're there because Mandy Connall sent you. That
is how you support this show. It's almost like all
of your commercials with telling Mandy Connall sent you weird,
exactly weird, Mandy, how did your dog get hit by

(26:35):
a car. You guys, I wish I could tell you
that there was some horrible driver who did the wrong thing,
But it was an absolute abject failure by me and
the dog. She at the very last moment, decided for
the first time in her entire dog life, to run
into the road in front of a guy who was

(26:55):
not speeding. He was not doing anything wrong. He tried
to avoid her, she ran right in front of him. Yes,
she was on a leash, but it was a retractable leash,
which she's on all the time because she's my dog,
is the worst fomo of any dog you've ever seen.
Wherever we are, she has to be there. And like
the guys, I had a company preferred lightscapes. You're gonna

(27:15):
be hearing about them on the show. They came out
to my house because they're gonna hang out my Christmas lights,
which is gonna be glorious. I cannot wait. But my
dog is sitting in the front door. We have a
screen door there, and she's sitting there just staring at
U said. I said, dude, you can let her out
if you want. He goes. She won't run away. I
was like, no, the dog will not run away because
she just wants to hang out wherever we are. I

(27:36):
gotta tell you, I kind of like that a lot,
but it was a massive failure by me and the
dog and the guy in the car felt absolutely terrible,
and I just said that was not your fault. Mandy.
I want to hear you play your harmonica, trust me,
text her you do not me too. You really do
not want to hear me try to play a harmonica,
And I say that No. I say this as someone

(27:58):
who has actually tried to play harmonica before, So I
what I should say here is you're welcome Texter or
I will not be doing that. That is not a
thing that I will be doing. Hi, Mandy, it's too
gloomy for a Friday. We're listening in northern well County.

Speaker 5 (28:13):
Well.

Speaker 4 (28:14):
I mean, I'm not sure if I can get the
gloom away. But what could I do? Do we need
to have a dance party where we just start playing
some music and we all get up and dance at
the same time.

Speaker 5 (28:23):
Yeah, but like you just said moments ago, we could
dance and then have dead air because no one would
you know, we could dance if you want to, no
one would see it.

Speaker 4 (28:31):
You could leave your friends behind.

Speaker 5 (28:32):
I mean, if your friends don't dance, and if they
don't dance, well then you know they ain't no friends exactly.

Speaker 4 (28:37):
Anyway, we appreciafety on this show. Can we please have
some different ads. I'm tired of getting out of bed
with sore knees, needing alone to fix my limp Oooha
before I assume my gutter company for not using the
right air conditional repair shop, for not using my fiduciari
when I use the precepts on my iHeartRadio to change
the stations, then forget to return to your show.

Speaker 5 (28:56):
Hey, if you got a problem, yo, we'll solve it.
Check out the while the DJ revolves. Yeah, I thought
we'd just keep that train on the tracks.

Speaker 4 (29:04):
You guys. I will tell you this. I love, love,
love the people that I work with that are my advertisers,
and I know if you need them to then you'll
love them too. But the fact that you just ripped
all those things off, you know what that means they're working.
Thank you Texter for reaffirming what we do. I've got

(29:26):
to take a little time out and do some commercials.
Concert venue called the Moon It used to be a
grocery store, great place to see a concert, and Tallahassee
being a double college down triple really you got Florida State,
you got fam you and you've got Tallahausee Community College there.
So there's a ton of college students, lots of up
and coming bands come through the Moon. And the thing
about the Moon is there's no real seating, so it's

(29:47):
all general admissions. So if you want to have a
good space to watch the show, you got to get
there super early and kind of stake your claim right
at the front of the stage. So we were going
to see the band Cracker, and there's another and opening
up for them that we had not heard of because
they were kind of they had not had a song out.
So we get there super early so we can stay

(30:09):
out our place and we're standing by the bar and
strike up a conversation with this guy, super cool guy,
and just had a wonderful, like twenty minute conversation. He
bought us around the beers, and then I was like, Okay, dude,
I'm gonna go up to the stage. I don't know
this opening band, so I want to see, you know
how they I want to watch them. So we leave,
we go up to the stage. Like ten minutes later,
dude walks out. He's the lead singer of the Counting Crows.

(30:30):
It was Adam Durretz and and I was like, oh no,
and he looked down and kind of like, you know,
it gives a little like hey, little wink wink, nudge nudge.
But we got a pair of tickets to give away
because Counting Crows are going to be tomorrow night at
Fiddler's Green. And the older I get, the more I
absolutely adore seen a show at Fiddler's Green. Very low stress,

(30:50):
you know, very easy, and if you take like an uber,
oh my god, it's the best thing ever.

Speaker 5 (30:55):
That's kind of like the only option. I don't remember that.

Speaker 4 (30:57):
Yeah, parking is horrible. Yeah yeah, parking really yeah, it
is your but you just take it. It's just so nice,
Like I love that venue. They're going to be at
Fiddler's Green tomorrow night, so we're gonna give away a
pair of tickets just count and Crows, which is kind
of cool. But I've already seen my son before you
did us, before everybody did.

Speaker 5 (31:17):
Stay tuned. Yeah, maybe in like a couple of minutes.

Speaker 4 (31:20):
What I don't know, that's giving away tickets to see
the Counting Crows what anyway, By the way, their big
first hit, Missus Jones, hit right after the show, so
we just were I'm like og Counting Crows fan anyway,
and then David Courtney Cox. So it was just like
I felt very connected to friends because of that experience,

(31:41):
my twenty minute conversation with the lead singer of Counting
Crows who went on to date Courtney Cox. I mean,
if it works for Kevin Spacey, I don't know why
I can't work for Courtney Cox. Okay, guys, I've got
a couple of things that I want to go over.
But you guys have been asking really good questions on
the text line for ask me anything. Mandy, do you
alter your voice for certain commercials? It seems higher for some.
It depends on which studio I record the commercials in.

(32:03):
That's legitimately the only difference, just what the compression is there.
Mandy next door has a reputation of being conservative. Kyle
is speaking out against the perceived MAGA scare. That's on Kyle.
I mean, you know he'll figure it out. Like I said,
I have a lot of compassion for what the folks
over there are going through right now, So I'm just
not going to pile on you know, I'm not Mandy

(32:28):
the self. Wait, I can't words.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
No.

Speaker 4 (32:33):
I started to read it, but it's not written in
a way that I can read it. Mandy, I'm ready
to subcontract for you cremation station here in Pueblo. Stop it.

Speaker 5 (32:40):
Cremation station, y bro.

Speaker 4 (32:44):
Cremation station. What's your function?

Speaker 5 (32:48):
Never? I almost continue that, but no, no, no, no, no,
no no.

Speaker 4 (32:52):
No, yep, yeah, the previous text is absolutely right. I
am also sick and tired of the same ad over
and over and over again. Please get some new advertisers,
you know what, Texter. That sounds like a fantastic idea
to me. You find me advertisers that are top quality,
take care of their customers, and provide a service that
our listeners need on a regular basis, and I will
be more than happy to march myself right into their

(33:14):
business and say, my Texter wants me to have new advertisers,
and they've recommended you.

Speaker 5 (33:19):
But also sounds like the advertising is working because it's
differently with you. And when you have a problem that
the advertiser talked about, you know who to call and
then you know who to say you. Yep, that's how
radio works. Hi, Mandy, this is Wilson and Scott's Bluff.
I was just at Murdos and the cashier said thanks
for coming in, and I said, why, thank you?

Speaker 4 (33:37):
Mandy Connell sent me. Hey, I now say you sent me.

Speaker 5 (33:41):
No matter where I'm at.

Speaker 4 (33:42):
God bless and have a good weekend. You know what,
Wilson and Scott's Bluff. You're my favorite right now? You
are my favorite?

Speaker 2 (33:50):
Mandy.

Speaker 4 (33:50):
Where's the next listener trip? I gotta tell you guys.
It is down the Rhyine River. We're starting in Switzerland,
ending in Amsterdam, going October twenty twenty six, and I
just found out from cruising tour it's almost sold out
and we haven't even done the commercials yet. Mandy Connall
Trip dot Com. As a matter of fact, the win
Yogi just went on this same trip, different ship, but
same trip. So we're gonna talk about it with her

(34:11):
at two thirty. So Mandy Connall Trip dot Com and
if you want to go, you better call. Like today, Mandy,
if I had to get I'm not gonna you know what,
I'm not gonna talk about any more Kyle Clark's.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
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Speaker 2 (34:27):
No, it's Mandy Connell and conn On koam got.

Speaker 4 (34:38):
Way ny three, Andy Coronald, Keith sad Thing. Welcome, We
welcome to the second hour of the show. It's a Friday, everybody.
I have some really good questions. I'm gonna get to
on ask me anything, but you're gonna have to be
patient because I've got a guest coming on. She writes

(35:01):
historical fiction, and I have decided that I like historical
fiction better than actual history because it's usually way more interesting.
And her new book is Silver Echoes, a historical rowing
twenties novel, and it's about Wait, where's the oh, I
can't read the subhead. The subhead is an historical rowing
twenties novel.

Speaker 5 (35:22):
Oh no, wait a.

Speaker 4 (35:22):
Minute, where's the subhead with the name of the woman
in it? Rebecca Rosenberg, Welcome to the show. I need
you to clarify because I love the sub of this,
of this the long name of silver Dollar something something.
Tabor tell me a little bit about about her, Andy
silver You are.

Speaker 6 (35:42):
A Colorado, so I'm sure you've heard of the Tapers
and Baby Doe Taper, right, yes, all of us have
heard of that. Well, Baby Doe Tabor had a daughter
named silver Dollar Taber, and that's what Silver Echoes is about.
And there's a lot of mystery around her because she

(36:04):
disappeared from Denver and no one heard of her again
until ten years later they say she was scalded to
death in Chicago. Oh my gosh, you're shocked as I am.
It's so exciting. So I wrote a book about Baby
Dough Taber called gold Digger, The Remarkable Baby Dough Taber.

(36:28):
And during that time of research I found out about
silver Dollar and I think the subhead you.

Speaker 7 (36:36):
Were looking for is on the cover here. What really
happened to.

Speaker 6 (36:41):
Rosemary Echo silver Dollar Tabor And that was her whole name,
because this girl was born into the richest family in
all of America. They were the silver Queen and King
of America. And yet five years later, when she was
just five years old, they lost their entire silver fortune

(37:06):
and that changed her life and was extremely traumatizing for them.
And this book really chronicles what happened to her, and
something very crazy happened to her.

Speaker 7 (37:19):
She was a very talented girl. She was a silver
if you can believe it.

Speaker 6 (37:24):
She was a movie actress even back then in nineteen
fifteen in Pike's Peak, Holly, what's it called Pipe's Pee Photoplay,
Pipe's Peak Photoplay, which was a movie studio back then.
And then she fled Colorado, which later we discover was

(37:46):
because a family friend attacked her. And she went on
to become a major burlesque and five star really in
Chicago and did that full circuit, and she even got
back into motion pictures.

Speaker 4 (38:05):
So what really happened to her?

Speaker 6 (38:07):
And that's what this book Silver Echoes is about.

Speaker 4 (38:10):
So Rebecca, tell me about historical fiction, and tell me
about this process and why did you choose to write
this way? So actually I.

Speaker 6 (38:20):
Write a subgenre of historical fiction, and I think Mandy
you might enjoy it even more. It's called biographical literary fiction.
So that's where you take real women who did extraordinary
things and you tell their stories. Because no one has

(38:41):
ever told the story of what really happened to Silver
Dollar Tabor. So you start researching and finding out all
the nuts and bolts of what happened, Where was she living.

Speaker 4 (38:53):
What was it like, what happened to her?

Speaker 6 (38:56):
Why was she writing? Her mother and telling her that
to address her as all different names. And I actually
found out that she probably had dissociative personality disorder.

Speaker 7 (39:11):
So that is what this book is all about.

Speaker 6 (39:14):
It's they didn't even identify it in those days, in
the nineteen twenties, but I saw all of her letters
that she wrote her mother, and she would tell her
mother to write her as Echo, to write her as Rosemary,
to write her as all these different names. And she
was living in all different places around Chicago. So it

(39:35):
was really exciting to explore vaudeville and burlesque and the
silent movies through that lens of a dissociative personality.

Speaker 4 (39:47):
Where how do you decide as an author where to
amplify or exaggerate or you know, how do you because
you're you're ultimately writing a story, right You're you're also
And that's one of the reasons I like it historical fiction,
because the stories are already super interesting and they're made
more interesting as the author. How do you decide where
to go and what to amplify and what to kind

(40:09):
of focus on?

Speaker 7 (40:10):
Yeah, well, you do.

Speaker 6 (40:13):
All your research everywhere that that you can. And I
was lucky that there was a New York Post reporter
who had actually reported on what silver Dollar was doing
at the time, and no one has made a lot
of his work. So I found that, I found her letters,
and you start piecing together a story. And then to

(40:33):
answer your question, obviously, we don't know what she sent
to people, you know, we don't know the dialogue. But
I do know from her letters how many boyfriends she had.
I know exactly where she lived, and so you can
start to piece the.

Speaker 7 (40:48):
Story around that.

Speaker 6 (40:49):
In fact, I knew that she lived in the Black
neighborhood of Chicago during this whole exciting time when jazz
was coming about, and they actually had the Ku Klux
Klan marching on the streets where she lived.

Speaker 4 (41:05):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (41:05):
So there are all these thrilling facts that you find
out and you put them.

Speaker 7 (41:10):
Into the story.

Speaker 6 (41:11):
And then there's a thing called an author's note in
the back of these historical fiction books that you can
find out a little bit more about what things were
not exactly true and what things are.

Speaker 4 (41:26):
One of the things I always end up doing is
going and looking for more information on the real people
that I'm reading about in historical fiction. I always go
and do a deeper dive on you know characters that
I know are real, maybe they just got glossed over,
maybe they were just a bit part. So that's really
really fascinating. You are going to be touring all over Colorado,
and I put a link on the blog where you

(41:47):
can go and meet and meet Rebecca. Rebecca, are you in?
I mean, you're a little bit in character today for
me on Zoom and I like it. You've got your
flapper happy, and.

Speaker 7 (41:56):
That's love for you.

Speaker 4 (41:57):
I've got my flapper out on with.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
My feathers and jewels.

Speaker 7 (42:02):
And I will be speaking that way too.

Speaker 4 (42:05):
But you you are all over the place. You're going
to be in Leadville and.

Speaker 6 (42:09):
You're at the Tatder Cover Bookstore on Thursday, September fourth,
and then on Saturday. This one's very exciting at the
Center for Colorado Women's History, and it's exciting because they're
going to pull out baby dough Tabor's wedding dress and
her belongings for everyone to see.

Speaker 4 (42:29):
That's fantastic. You're also going to be in Leadville because
we have listeners all over the place, Leadville, estes Park,
Boulder that she's got events coming up and all of
these are linked on the blog. Today. The book is
Silver Echoes, a gold Digger novel, and it just looks fantastic, Rebecca,
So thank you for making time for me today.

Speaker 7 (42:47):
Thank you, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (42:48):
All Right, that is Rebecca Rosenberg. Find all of her
information on the blog and go check her out. She
seems like a lovely dame. Lovely dame coming up at
Q thirty, the wine Yogi is going to join me
and oh, we have so much stuff to talk about.
But she's already here, and she's already like with and
out wine glasses, so this could go terribly wrong. Now,
I'm just kidding. I got a lot of good stuff

(43:10):
on the text line for ask me anything. What band
would you not attend even if you got free tickets?
I need to think about that one. I don't think
I would ever go see Roger Waters again. And that's
so sad because I saw the Roger Waters version of
The Wall Nah ten fifteen years ago and it was

(43:30):
one of the most incredible artistic experiences I've ever had.
It was, but I would never go see him again, Mandy.
Why know Kyle Clark comments just curious. It's not so
much about Kyle Clark as it is all of the
employees that are over there right now. You guys, when
you're purchased, when you are bought by another company, I

(43:51):
cannot even begin to tell you the stress levels. And
you know what personal politics aside. I don't wish other
people in media to go through that. It's very, very difficult,
and I'm just not gonna pile on, you know, because
the level of uncertainty is incredibly stressful for all the
folks over there. And it's not just about Kyle Clark.
It's about all the people who work over there. So

(44:12):
it's that that's really it. It's just sympathy because I've
you know, been there, done that kind of thing before,
and it's just it just sucks, It really does. Uh, Mandy,
My father is my family is from Leadville, and my
grandfather and his siblings new baby dough Tabor in the
nineteen twenties. She went broke and went a little crazy.
My great aunt brought her food and she locked my

(44:33):
aunt in her house. Wow. Probably won't do that again anyway, Mandy.
Let me see here. Would you rather have a tortoise
or a duck as a pet? I don't. I don't
like either of these animals as pets. Okay. If I'm

(44:56):
gonna have something as a pet, I want it to
be able to eat either talk back to me right,
like a parrot. But I'm never gonna get a parrot
because that's like a lifetime commitment. Parrots live like seventy
ninety years, no, no, thank you. But I like a
tortoise is not cuddly, and one time I got bit
by a snapping turtle when I was a kid. So

(45:16):
I'm just not a fan. Like I don't hate them,
I don't try to run them over in my car,
just not a fan. And ducks, I mean, ducks are
cute when they're little, but they just pooh everywhere and
they can't talk. If I'm gonna have a bird, I'm
gonna have a parrot. So I would say none of
the above, just none of the above, Mandy. If the

(45:37):
Raw Show is a Toyota Camry, what would your car
be or your show be. I think it would probably
be like a nineteen seventy one Carmen Gia. I feel
good about that. You barely go uphills fast kind of thing.
As long as I'm going downhill, I can pass really well.
But I don't know, Mandy, what do you think the
best binale for a TV show was ever has to

(45:59):
be Mass.

Speaker 7 (45:59):
You guys, the.

Speaker 4 (46:01):
Mash finale, what oh, Newhart did have a good one.
New Art had a good one, but that was right
at the very end, the one you know he's already
went in. I'm telling you right now, the finale of
Mash was a perfect end to a phenomenal show. And
I'm so angry about the end of some of my
favorite shows, like I'm still mad about the Seinfeld end.
I'm so angry about that.

Speaker 7 (46:23):
I will say this.

Speaker 4 (46:23):
I thought Friends had a lovely end, and I was
very committed to Friends, but it was not. It was
like knock your socks off. Like Mash was just one
gut punch after another. It was just so good, A
good afternoon, Mandy. This is why it straight out of college.
I used to be an account executive for town Square
Medium in Cheyenne, and sold ads are attempted to sell

(46:44):
for six fifty KGAB and K two and Casper. Most
of the programming is all syndicated. I couldn't sell crap
for their talk stations. We usually had to say, if
you advertise on a music we'll put your ads on
the AM talker. Everyone in southeast and central Wyoming who
listens to conservative talk listens to eight fifty KOA and
five sixty klz out of Denver, including myself. Hey Wiley,

(47:09):
I'm waving at you. Mandy asked me anything, how does
the funding for interstate road repair breakout? I understand state
highways I E. CO eighty five and CO eighty six
would be the state's responsibility, But what about actual interstate
funding that comes from the federal government You're talking about
like I seventy I twenty five. Now, in some cases,

(47:32):
when you're talking about interchanges and things like that, states
and cities may get involved, but primarily that money comes
from federal road funds, federal road dollars. And in our case,
I guess our leadership just doesn't advocate for money to
fix our highways, or if they do, they've redirected it
somewhere else. Let's see. Let's see to the person who

(47:57):
asked if Jinks contacted Bell and Pollock after she sit
by a car and I said no because it was
fully our fault, and they texted back. In that case,
did you advise the driver to contact Bell and Pollock?
Champions of the people to which I just responded to,
don't say anything, Mandy. Will you ever do a trip
where a single person doesn't have to pay enough charge

(48:18):
for their shadow? No cruises ever. If I have to
pay for my shadow, we're not on speaking terms. And
that is speaking, of course, about the dreaded single supplement.
The problem is is that every cost on a cruise
line is based on double occupancy. So if you are
a single occupant, look at it this way. They could

(48:39):
try to charge you twice, but they don't. It's usually
a few several thousand dollars and it sucks. I know,
I understand it, but it's kind of like because of
the way it's set up. Although I will say this,
there are no more cruise lines in the in the
newer ships that are adding way more single cabins. They're
not you know, they're not luxury's sweets. They're very nice,

(49:01):
they're tidy, but they're small. But you don't have to
pay the single supplement. So if you are interested in
going on a cruise without a single supplement, just go
to the Google machine and say cruises with single cabins
and see what comes up. I understand that, I really do.
We have a lot of women who travel as single
passengers on the Mandy Connell Adventure, And honestly, you know

(49:22):
who you are, Debbie Ostrid, Mara, Cindy, you know what
I'm talking about. There's some of my favorites, but I always,
you know, feel like, dang, you got to pay that
single supplement. So yeah, there's not a whole lot we
can do about that. Somebody said they wanted to hear
me do karaoke. No, you really don't. Ever since my
vocal cord surgery. No, since well before my vocal cord surgery.

(49:44):
My singing voice is gone. Just it's gone, So that'll
never happen. Best finale Cheers hmmm. I don't remember the
Cheers finale, but all the original players had gone, right,
I mean Wood he was gone. Everybody was kind of gone.

(50:04):
It was I don't remember that, So I don't know
Mandy Kyle Clark aside, TEGNA owns sixty eight stations in
fifty four markets and Next Star is acquiring all of them,
so it's not just about nine News Denver will it
be meet the new Boss same as the old boss
when it comes to media bias. I don't know the
answer to that.

Speaker 5 (50:23):
Show do not.

Speaker 4 (50:25):
You guys are throwing these old shows. The ending of
Saint Elsewhere. I didn't watch Saint Elsewhere when it was
on normally. I watched him in syndication. And I don't
know if I ever saw the ending of that. Quantum
Leap had the best ending episode. I don't remember that,
but please tell me he'd leaped back home like he
has to leap back home.

Speaker 7 (50:42):
I got really.

Speaker 4 (50:43):
Excited when they were rebooting that show, but the reboot
did not work for me. I tried it, just didn't
didn't do it. Mandy, why don't you have chickens?

Speaker 2 (50:53):
Number one?

Speaker 4 (50:54):
I don't like chickens. I like eggs, but I don't
like chickens. When I was ten years old, but his
grandma sent me into the henhouse to feed the chickens,
and it was raining and I had an umbrella, and
I guess I moved too slow putting the feet out there,
and the chickens attacked me, and I backed into what
I thought was out of the coop, but it turned

(51:15):
into a coop with a rooster that then turned around
and attacked me and scratched the crap out of my legs.

Speaker 5 (51:19):
I don't like chickens.

Speaker 4 (51:21):
That's why I eat so many eggs. Do it my
part to control the population. Just letting you know, I
have a nineteen seventy Carmen gia. I need a mechanic
for it. That's why I don't have a nineteen seventy
Carmen gia. Can't be fixed. I mean maybe you can.
I don't know historical fiction. This text said you gotta

(51:41):
check out Ken Follock's The Century Trilogy. They're long books,
but it might be my favorite book series ever. That
is what actually got me started in historical fiction or
ken follop books. So yeah, you are absolutely right. Um, Hey, Mandy,
what are you gonna have a local gathering so I
can meet Chuck. We've been talking about it and talking

(52:02):
about it and talking about it, and we just haven't
done it. We just got a bunch of new promotions people,
and I will be honest and let you know that
for a hot minute there we literally had no one
that could work these events or help put them together.
But now we have some really great people and now
they can start working on this stuff. So we'll make
that happen sooner rather than later. So worst finale X files,

(52:24):
I say, I don't remember that one, Oh, Big Bang
Theory did have a good finale. You're right, a very
good one. Mandy. What about that singles event? Is it
gonna happen? I'm telling you we're trying. We're trying. People
are trying, trying. A Rod's parents are listening to New VI,
the iHeartRadio, Apple driving in Kansas right now. They probably
have koa set as a preset and the Mandy Connell

(52:46):
Show as a preset. Just letting you know. Let's see here,
best show finale was the Bob Newhart Show. That was
the same. That's what the wine yo. You said, Mandy,
how many different types of animals have you been attacked by?

Speaker 7 (53:02):
Lol?

Speaker 4 (53:02):
Me one a hamster. Let's see. I have been bitten
by a snapping turtle. I have been scratched by a rooster.
I was attacked by a chow chow twice, two separate occasions,
I think. Oh, and when I was like six or seven,
I kind of got treed in a way by a
bunch of wild pigs. Hear me out. So I lived

(53:24):
in town, in my small town in Florida. But we
had all these woods behind us, behind our house, and
one day, like a pack of wild pigs comes running
out of the woods area and chased us. And I
ran into our utility room which was outside, and jumped
on the washing machine, and the pigs were trying to
jump up and get me. Wild pigs suck. They don't

(53:47):
suck as bad as chickens, but they suck. So I
think that's all of my animal attacks right there. Oh
and I was snorkeling once in the keys and I
had a bathing suit on that had little shiny sparkle
on it. News slash parrotfish, which have giant teeth because
they like to eat coral and they'll break through coral shell.

(54:08):
They love shiny things. So it was also attacked by
a bunch of parrotfish who were trying to eat the
shiny things off my bathing suit. But I think that's
it for animal attacks. I'll give it some thought and
let you know if there's anything else I need add.
There was the unfortunate incident where I was water skiing
down the Santa Fe River and a pack of water
mookts then started chasing me. Those snakes are jerks. And

(54:32):
then also they reminded me of when I was in
college and an iguana jumped from a bookshelf into my
hair and proceeded to wiggle its little nails all around
in my nineteen eighty eight perm And it took like
half an hour to get the damn thing out of
my hair. And I still hate lizards anyway, can we?

(54:52):
I'm going to talk about some actual serious stuff for
just a moment, because I've got some stuff on the
blog that we have to get into, and I've squandered
so much of it. Show. So Jared Police is out
there trying to sell that we are not a sanctuary state.
Why is he doing this because the federal government is
suing Colorado and other states for their sanctuary state policy.

(55:12):
Listen to this from the governor's spokesperson. The governor continues
to be frustrated by this mistaken and incorrect label and
the lack of transparency from the federal administration on this
and many other items. His office said, in Colorado, we

(55:32):
are improving public safety, apprehending dangerous criminals, cooperating with federal
law enforcement on criminal investigations, and keeping our communities safe.
The governor encourages the federal administration and Congress to focus
on actually securing the border, decreasing violent crime, and increasing
transparency and passing real immigration reform. Let's just see border secure, check,

(56:00):
decrease in violent crime. How are things going in DC
this week?

Speaker 5 (56:03):
Check?

Speaker 4 (56:04):
Increasing transparency. That is comical because our current president does
everything in public.

Speaker 6 (56:13):
He does.

Speaker 4 (56:14):
He has press conferences every five minutes, He appears with
world leaders, he has interviews with various people. He'll talk
to anybody who wants to talk to him. Let's go
back to when the Democrat president was in office. I mean,
come on, this is the kind of stuff that makes
my head explode. You guys. Now, just in case the
governor doesn't have access to say Google or chat GPT,

(56:38):
as I do, I went nash chat GPT. Hey does
Colorado have any laws on the books that give sanctuary
or prevent law enforcement from working with immigration officials?

Speaker 6 (56:49):
And do you know what?

Speaker 4 (56:50):
In I don't know point zero seconds, chat GPT responded first.
In twenty nineteen, there's House Bill nineteen eleven twenty four.
It was called Protect Colorado Residents from Federal Government Overreach.
Now you may note this passed in twenty nineteen. Who
was president in twenty nineteen? Oh my gosh, this should

(57:11):
have been called Orange Man bad bill.

Speaker 7 (57:15):
What did it do.

Speaker 4 (57:16):
It prohibits law enforcement from arresting or detaining individuals solely
on the basis of ICE civil detainers, and forbids probation
departments from sharing personal information with federal immigration authorities. Remember,
if someone's on probation, they're on probation because they have
broken the law. In Colorado, probation officers aren't allowed to say, hey,

(57:41):
this guy's here illegally too. Nope, can't do it. It
also blocks ICE from assessing secure areas of jails or
law enforcement facilities without a judicial warrant, and requires individuals
to receive rights advisement before interviews with ICE. Now, there's
also Senate Bill twenty five twenty seven to six that
was passed in twenty twenty five. Passed by the Colorado legislature,

(58:05):
this bill expands immigrant protections. It prohibits jails from delaying
inmate release for immigration enforcement purposes. Remember the video we
all got to see of the guy running through the
parking lot at the jail while ICE was chasing him.
That's because of this law. It prohibits jails from delaying
inmate releases for immigration enforcement purposes. It restricts sharing personal

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identifying information with ice. It limits ICE access to sensitive
areas like schools, hospitals, libraries, and non public areas without
a warrant. It eliminates affidavit requirements for certain immigrants applying
for in state tuition or identification documents. And it allows
criminal defendants to petition to vacate guilty. Please if they
were unaware of immigration consequences. Now, guys, gals, come on.

(58:53):
If it walks like a sanctuary state, and it talks
like a sanctuary state, and it passes laws like a
sanctuary state, we are a sanctuary state. And that's just
the facts of the matter. So no matter what the government,
the governor is trying to gaslight us into believing. And
this is full on gaslighting everyone everyone, because you know what,

(59:16):
the federal government has the Internet as well, and they
probably already did this search. And then if they really
wanted to get down to the nitty gritty, maybe they
noticed the article. Just these past few weeks of Colorado
Attorney General Phil Wiser filing a lawsuit against Mason County
Deputy Alexander's wink What did deputies wink do? He shared

(59:40):
the immigration status of a young woman he pulled over
with ice via a signal chat. So not only do
we have these laws on the books, we're prosecuting the
laws on the books. So it doesn't matter if Jared
Polis tells us that we are not a sanctuary state.
It doesn't matter that he stomps his little feet and

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says no, no, no, we're not. We are fully and
it's something we have embraced since the first Trump administration.
Do you remember the giant immigrants welcome sign that was
flowed over City Hall. He was like, Hey, if you're
here illegally, we want you in Denver. And then what happened.
We got a bunch of illegal immigrants in Denver, and

(01:00:23):
we've spent to I don't know, well over one hundred
million dollars making sure that illegal immigrants, some of whom
are part of trende at Ragua. You know, we've never
seen a deep dive on whether or not Venezuelan gang
members were at first placed into the apartment complexes that
they later took over by NGOs from Denver. We've never
had an investigation into that. So not only have we

(01:00:47):
had multiple apartment complexes taken over in the Denver metro
area and Aurora, we've also potentially had it assisted by
the Denver City Council and mayor, and no one's ever
asked thoseques questions. Now, it's going to be really interesting
to see Phil Wiser try to prosecute the Mason County deputy.
At the same time, he's going to be arguing that

(01:01:10):
we do cooperate with law enforcement, that we're not a
sanctuary state, and then he's going to turn around and
he's going to argue that this guy violated our sanctuary
state laws. I mean, I just this is one of
those times where I'm like, how can you, as a
human being, a professional human being, Phil Wiser is a

(01:01:30):
professional human being, How do you, as a professional justify
the how do you swear that? How do you not
have a level of cognitive dissonance while trying to make
those arguments that is not humiliating and embarrassing for your
moral code? I mean, that's like, this is why for years,
years and years I wanted to be a White House spokesperson. Honestly,

(01:01:51):
it was like it was a dream. And then Tony
Snow became George W. Bush's White House spokesperson. Now, Tony
Snow was a well known popular radio host for a
long time he was on Fox News. I knew what
Tony Snow believed, I knew what he thought. I knew
what he I had a pretty good understanding of what
Tony Snow was about. And then he became White House spokesperson,

(01:02:12):
and I saw him stand up there on behalf of
the White House as was his job, and completely completely
present a position that I knew to be in contrary
of what I thought his principles were. And I thought,
you know what, that job's not for me, because I
just I don't know if I could do it. I
think maybe they'd come to me and say, you have
to say this dumb ass thing, and I would be like,
I can't say that dumb ass thing. I'm just gonna

(01:02:36):
have to go.

Speaker 6 (01:02:37):
I mean, the.

Speaker 4 (01:02:39):
Real trick there is you have to be with the
president that you truly believe in what they're doing. And
don't get me wrong, I'm sure Tony Snow believed in
a lot of what George W. Bush was doing, but
certainly not some of the stuff that I found the
most annoying. Mandis Police ever made a pre scheduled public
appearance to answer questions from the public.

Speaker 5 (01:02:57):
Never?

Speaker 4 (01:02:58):
Why would he he has the money to keep buying elections.
I want to get into this and I'll probably start
it on this side and can oh no, no, we
have to talk about Amy Clovishar being required to come
out and let people know that she did not say
that Sidney Sweeney had great blanks and that Democrats were

(01:03:19):
too ugly to go outside. What are we talking about here,
Senator Amy Clovishar. She is one of the few Democrats
that I genuinely don't care for, just personality wise. She
seems horrible. She seems awful. She has quite the reputation
for being awful as well. Someone made a deep fake
video of her. It looks like she's at a judicial committee.

(01:03:40):
I can't play it on the air because there's enough,
you know, bad language, but it's on the block. Now.
If you really look at this, you can totally tell
it's Ai. Her mouth does not move in a natural way. Okay,
it's not like the Ninja movies that are over dubbed
where you can they're not remotely close to where it's
supposed to be. It's better than that, but it's it's

(01:04:03):
very funny, except it's totally not true. And now she's
had to come out and deny that she said democrats
are too ugly to go outside, and the other things
that are said in this video. But the reason I
put it on the blog is not to piolon any Klobashar,
who I think is probably not a very nice person,
but more to point out this is the early iteration, Right,

(01:04:23):
These are the early stages of what's possible with AI
and these video fakes. We are very very close. And
I'm not saying it's gonna happen in the midterms, but
I would be shocked if we didn't see in the
next presidential election, right before the election, maybe ten days
before the election, some horrific video of one of the

(01:04:45):
candidates will come out and it will be a fake,
but it will be so good that that candidate will
not have time to recover from the fake video, because
the fake video will make it around the world in
four seconds, and the hey that might not be real
will take weeks to even if it even makes it
around the room. Right, So we all are gonna have

(01:05:08):
to become extremely savvy consumers. There is so much satire
and fake stuff on the internet that now when I
see a story and I look at it and go
what if that's my reaction. I immediately I don't ever
trust the first thing I see. I immediately start to
do a deep dive to find out if it's even true.
That's how I felt this morning when I saw the

(01:05:29):
story about the Staunton park ranger who stabbed himself. I
was like, that can't be true. Yes it is, it
is true, but it's incoming on us to be a
lot more savvy about what we're watching, what we're sharing,
what we're promoting. And I'm just gonna say this, it
doesn't matter if you're on the left or the right.
If you see a video that is the most perfect

(01:05:51):
video of all time, that's gonna prove your point and
make your point for you better than anybody ever has.
It's probably a lie. It is a lion, so you
can get some other confirmation, and you know it's to
We're waiting into some dangerous times and unfortunately, what we're
gonna see is government's attempt to regulate AI to make

(01:06:12):
sure this stuff doesn't happen, and it's just not going
to work anyway. Mandy, could you ask the wine Yogi
what is the one thing she would recommend on the
Rhine trip? That might not be obvious. I will, she
joins us at two thirty to talk about that. So yeah,

(01:06:33):
keep that. But that is very I'm sorry that any
Clovish our video is very funny. But I think this
one is obviously fake. But the next one, it won't be.
The next one is going to be really, really bad.
I also have something on the blog that's fascinating. I'm
not going to spend a lot of time on it.
On the air, an old white woman thought it would

(01:06:53):
be a good idea to head out to a campaign
event for Lieutenant Governor win Some Sears when some Seers
is running to be governor of Virginia. She is quite
a remarkable woman, born in Jamaica, originally served in the military.
She is sharp. She is great at articulating conservative positions,

(01:07:14):
which makes her very unpopular because she is also black.
A white woman showed up at one of Winsome Seers
events to hold up this sign. Now there's an issue
in Virginia right now because they let a man who
I also have a video or pictures of on the
blog today, who looks like like if I said the

(01:07:36):
words child molest her to you and asked you to
come up with a visual of what that person looks like.
This is what this guy looks like. But he said
he was a woman, so they led him into a
girl's locker room to change clothes. And this is a
big deal in Virginia. So this white liberal woman showed
up with a sign that said this, Hey, win some

(01:07:57):
If trans can't share your bathroom, then blacks can't share
my water fountain. She thought it was a good idea.
She found out not so much. But hey, isn't it
just democrats returning back to their roots. They were the
team of Jim Crow.

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Speaker 4 (01:08:44):
To the third hour of the show. It is a
bride is dried. I'm talking about half an hour. I
got the wine neuge coming on. We're talking Octoberfest. We're
talking about the Governor's Cup wine awards. Some of our
favorites and some personal friends of Crystal have won big
this year. And for the person who SAI earlier, Eh,
Governor's Cup. I don't even want to think about that.

(01:09:05):
We're not talking anyway. It's an award, not a anyway
speaking of governors. If you follow me on social media
and that's how you get to the blog. My image
today that I created using the illustrator on chat GPT.
By the way, a rod, I'm posing up the twenty
bucks a month. I'm new in the premium now, so
I'm in good decision. I am actually canceling my Premium

(01:09:28):
plus membership on x because grok has been so glitchy
and useless lately, and that's way more expensive. In any case,
I made a great picture of Gavin Newsom on his knees.
By the way, Chat GPT would not let me make
an image of Gavin Newsom on his knees begging at
an oil and gas drilling well, but I said, just

(01:09:49):
make it a dark haired politician with slicked back hair.
And you know who it looks like, Gavin Newsom. Thanks Chat,
you're the best with the workaround. But I did that
because there is a fantastic column from an organization called
cal Matters and the headline is Gavin Newsom warms to
big oil in climate reversal. Why should you even care

(01:10:12):
about this? You guys California already did everything that Colorado
Democrats are doing right now to oil and gas. They've
been attacking them for years. They've been marching towards renewable
energy for years. But the problem is now they have
some of the most expensive gas in the country. Two
more refineries are shutting down in the next year because

(01:10:36):
both refinery operators said the California's regulatory environment has made
continuation questionable in the state of California. Listen to this.
This is from the article, and it's long. This is
not long. Newsom and Democratic legislative leaders are now negotiating
a plan with the industry to boost stagnating production in

(01:10:59):
California's oil drilling hub of Kern County and avert a
nightmare scenario for a governor with national ambitions and a
party that is promised to focus on affordability. Lawmakers could
pass the measure before the end of their annual session
in mid September, though the details remain unsettled and environmental
groups are raising alarms. The head spinning realignment potentially arrows

(01:11:22):
a new era in California's transition to a carbon free future,
as high costs, technological impediments, and flagging political will force
Democrats to recalibrate their ambitious climate goals. President Donald Trump
and congressional Republicans are also taking aim at the state's
vast powers to regulate its greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution,

(01:11:45):
including revoking California's mandate to phase out gas powered vehicles
and slashing renewable energy tax credits. Listen to this from
State Senator Henry Stern. You may know him, or maybe not,
as a Calabasas Democrat who five years ago was publicly
advocating for keeping more California oil in the ground. This

(01:12:06):
is what he had to say. We all need to
kind of evolve. Maybe that's just a lesson on climate.
There's really not a purity test on this. It's not
like civil rights now. This is the same group of
people that have been running around for decades now telling
us not that climate change was a problem, that climate
change was an issue. They've been telling us we're all

(01:12:29):
going to die. They have spread the message that climate
change is an existential threat that must be addressed aggressively
or we're all going to die. And they've done such
a good job that I've done stories on this show
about young people who are sterilizing themselves, having their tubes
tied or vasectomies, because they don't want to bring any

(01:12:51):
more life onto our warning planet lest.

Speaker 2 (01:12:54):
We all die.

Speaker 4 (01:12:58):
So the fact that it is no longer politically expedient
because now that these two refineries are closing, at least
one analyst has said this could drive our gas prices
up to eight dollars a gallon. The reason I'm telling
you about this is not just to make fun of
Gavin Newsom, because I am never going to let people
forget what a disaster he's been as California governor and

(01:13:20):
therefore would be again as president. I am also doing
this because all of the policies in this column, and
you should read the whole thing, all of them are
the exact same things the Colorado Democrats are doing here,
all of them. Only California has been ahead of us.
So now they're having to go, oh wait what, yeah,

(01:13:42):
we can't make that happen. Do you know why technology
isn't there? It simply doesn't exist yet. Now that's not
to say it won't exist at some point, but the
fact of the matter is that California's green energy dreams
and to a large extent hours here in Colorado have
been propped up by federal subsidies that the Trump administration

(01:14:03):
has said, we're not going to do anymore. Either compete
or die, because right now, using taxpayer money from people
like me who don't want or need an electric car
to induce someone else who has more money than me
to buy an electric car because they can afford to
put the electrical outlet in their garage is ridiculous. And

(01:14:27):
these subsidies have gone on long enough. And for the
next person that's gonna text me and say the oil
gas it just so he gets all kinds of subsidies too. No,
they get the same tax breaks that other companies and
businesses get. They do not have people saying, you know what,
when you go to that shell and you get twenty
dollars worth of gas, we're going to give you two

(01:14:48):
dollars back. That doesn't happen with oil and gas, But
that's what happens with electric vehicles and solar panels and
all of this other green stuff. I, by the way,
am not opposed to any of that. Sounds fantastic if
you can power your ac in the summer without having
to tap into the overpriced energy that we're all gonna
have to buy from Excel. I have more power to you.

(01:15:09):
But if solar panels can't compete and make that economically
viable without a bunch of taxpayer money, I am not
down with that, not at all. Mandy. I don't understand
why people still like Gavin me either. It's so good looking,
it's so cute. It's that everything solar panels and wind

(01:15:33):
turbines harvest energy. They don't renew energy, but they're a
renewable source until the sun doesn't shy and the wind
doesn't blow. Mandy, I was watching a food segment about
moldy foods. I feel like this goes into the ask
me anything category. The most surprising wine? Can the wine
Yogi tell us more about wine made with moldy grapes?
Seem to be more of a dessert wine category, maybe

(01:15:55):
a topic for another day. As a matter of fact,
years ago, I went to a wine tasting and Indiana.
I know what you're thinking. They make wine in Indiana
and how good is it? Remarkably not as bad as
you might think. Is it as good as some of
the wines that the win Yogi already let me taste today.

Speaker 5 (01:16:10):
No, it is not.

Speaker 4 (01:16:12):
But they have some good wine. But one of the
wine makers was a former chemist and he had had
an outbreak of a very specific mold two years prior,
and it helped create his only award winning bottle of wine.
It was Noble Rot.

Speaker 2 (01:16:27):
Win.

Speaker 4 (01:16:27):
Yogi just said, it's Noble rot and he was trying
to figure out how to make it happen again. But
it's a weather related thing. There's all these other things
you can't control. But yeah, I mean, some of my
favorite things, wine and cheese are mold and I make
no excuses for that. Go read this whole article about
Gavin Newsom. It is just it's we're headed in the
exact same direction, but there's still time for a course correction.

(01:16:50):
Will Coloradin's make it. I don't know. I have less
confidence in how smarter voters are, but whatever.

Speaker 5 (01:16:55):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:16:55):
If you guys have heard about the Cracker Barrel rebrand,
it has been almost as mocked as the MSNBC rebrand.
And by the way, one of my favorite tweets that
I've sent out in sometime was I see the Cracker
Barrel rebrand is going well. The only people happy about
it are MSNBC, and it was an underappreciated tweet. Okay,
I'm just gonna let you know I hate that when

(01:17:17):
I send out what I think is an amazing joke
and the responses. I mean, it was decent, but I
felt like that should be the shot heard around the world.
I felt very clever. Cracker barrel is taking out everything
that makes it feel like a cracker barrel. There is
a rich I say rich. She's been a CEU of
multiple companies, so I'm guessing that she is wealthy. But

(01:17:39):
the reality is she is hell bent on genericafying is
genericifying a word like genericafying is what you do when
you take every single bit of soul out of a space.
For instance, all right heart radio offices. They used to
be quirky and fun and weird, and now they're red
and white and red and white. Oh look, right and right.

(01:18:02):
So they've genericified cracker barrel and they've taken all the
folks see stuff. They've rebranded with just the most basic
B signage that says nothing means nothing. It's just it's disappointing.
It's really disappointing. But I just got a hold thanks
to Jarvis. If you don't follow Jarvis on X boy,

(01:18:25):
you're missing it. I mean, the man works in snark
like an sculptor works in marble. He's just so good.
He actually got his hands on the new breakfast menu
at Cracker Barrel in case you were wondering. You know,
they always have breakfast as an all day thing, but
they've made some adjustments to the menu, and I just
want to share these with you. From now on, you're

(01:18:46):
gonna be able to get land acknowledgment flapjacks. Underneath it
says we won't give back the land, but gosh we
feel bad about it. It comes with whipped butter. Draw
your own conclusions. Then there's Grandpa, Grandma, Pause, gender sampler,
don't assume my pronouns. Dear anti Semitic steak and eggs.

(01:19:08):
Jews are right now you hear the beautiful at any
size breakfast. Oh boy, that's a lot of food. Good thing.
It doesn't matter. This is Maga Fried's steak. In this house,
we believe in Jesus and black lives matter. Biscuits. Y'all
won't be able to breathe after this meal. All right,

(01:19:28):
that's too far. I worry, get it. This is not real.
By the way, this is satire. Somebody hit the text
line earlier and when I was talking about knowing whether
or not you were seeing something that was real, and
they said, what about the wolf story in Wyoming about
the guy who was a furry who was gonna go
and be a part of a wolf pact? And as
much as I loved that story and his heartbreaking for

(01:19:50):
me to tell you it was not real. But the
sad reality is is that in today's society, it very
well could have been real. And when we saw it,
we're like, oh, well, it was bound to happen. I mean,
you know, probably went to jeff Co schools just but
that was not real. Did they change the inside of

(01:20:11):
the Cracker beare as well?

Speaker 6 (01:20:12):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:20:12):
Yes they did, and it is the most generic beige.
Oh my god? Did they take away the peg game?
Did they take it away? I hate that game because
I'm not good at it. I suck at it. I
get idiot every time. Excuse me, I get idjit every time.
And then Chuck and k were like being ming ming

(01:20:33):
ming ming. Oh lick IONI left wine.

Speaker 5 (01:20:35):
Shut up.

Speaker 4 (01:20:37):
Anyway, Mandy. The remodel one hundred and twenty. It looks
like the Village In across one hundred and twentieth Avenue exactly.
It looks like any other generic restaurant. And you guys,
my first restaurant job was at a cracker Barrel. I
was a hostess at a cracker barrel. I love Cracker Barrel,
but I'm also realistic. Cracker Barrel's food is good, but

(01:20:59):
it didn't deny right, like, so they're competing against Village
In for breakfast consumers. And if you make it all
look the same, if the experience is exactly the same,
then you've lost your selling proposition. And I realized it's hard.
You got to keep up with the times. You got
to update, you got to make things nice. I understand
all of that, but you can go too far. There

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should have been a splitting of the difference, right. There
should have been a how do we modernize without ruining
the charm of cracker Barrel. And that's what they did.
They ruined the charm of Cracker Barrel. And if this
puts Cracker Barel out of business, I'm going to be
super mad, because there are places in this country where
we go to visit Ohio where we stay near a
cracker barrel and guess where we go every single time

(01:21:43):
we go to Cracker Barrel. And they've changed a lot
of the menus since I was there. It's much smaller now.
It's shrank during COVID and it shrinks significantly. But I
just think Cracker Barrel logo kind of like sixteenth Street.
Mall to sixteenth Street. That'll be one hundred thousand dollars. Please.
You can call her the Winiogay as well.

Speaker 6 (01:22:04):
She there.

Speaker 4 (01:22:05):
She just brought in two spectacular wines and I found
out one of them is actually a gold medal winner
for the Governor's Cup, and we're going to talk about
that in just a moment. But Oktoberfest right around the corner.

Speaker 7 (01:22:19):
Yeah, I can't believe we're already hear.

Speaker 6 (01:22:20):
I know.

Speaker 8 (01:22:20):
And Octoberfest always gets confused because it takes place in September.

Speaker 7 (01:22:23):
Yeah, so you know German translation.

Speaker 4 (01:22:26):
Whatever, it's fine, it's fine. So you just went to
Germany though I did. She just did the same trip
on a different line that we're doing for the Mandy
Connell Adventure, and starting out in Switzerland, yes, and then
going and going up the Rhine to Amsterdam. Yes, somebody
said in earlier and said, what is something on that
trip that maybe is off the beaten path or that

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we should look for or know about that you did,
and I got to tell you. For me, it's the
vinegar thing. But I'm torn because I would love to
do a vinegar tour. Chuck hates vinegar, and I don't know.

Speaker 8 (01:22:59):
I don't know if you guys are going to be
stopping in that same place where you can go to
that vinegar.

Speaker 4 (01:23:03):
Yes, that's the Heidelberg stop, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:23:05):
It is.

Speaker 7 (01:23:05):
We ended up taking a coach to Heidelberg.

Speaker 8 (01:23:08):
Yeah, so I don't know if there's if like they
will still have that because it's out in the middle
of nowhere, in the middle of vineyards and stuff like that,
because it's they're making vinegar so from grape must Oh
my gosh. Yeah, that was absolutely amazing. And then so
that would be along the Heidelberg stop.

Speaker 7 (01:23:23):
And while it's not off the beaten path, Cologne.

Speaker 8 (01:23:26):
If you've never been to Cologne. We were just mesmerized.
We were fortunate enough to be there. Well, it was
kind of a catch twenty two, so we were blessed
to be there when they it was a holy day
of obligation. I tried with my best German to say
we're Catholic so we could go in for the mass,
but we weren't allowed because it was basically for all
of the local rushes. But they had everything was taking

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place outside and they had just the most I mean, angelic,
beautiful music, just kind of soaring up out into the universe.
And as you're walking around old town Cologne, you're just
hearing this gorgeous music, and then the bells started ringing
and that Cologne was absolutely stunning to see the dome

(01:24:09):
and Cologne. I we're definitely going to go back at
some point because we've got to get inside to see it,
and I, you know, five stars we'd do again. In fact,
I'm doing the Dan you've been in April well, and.

Speaker 4 (01:24:21):
I got to tell you, guys, I talked to cruise
into our last week and we're like three quarters sold
and we haven't even done the advertising yet. So if
you want to go with us, we're going in October
of twenty twenty six. We're going on Emerald, which is
a different cruise line. All of the river cruise lines
are spectacular, and Cruise in Tour find spectacular cruise lines,
so it's a really good one, and we're going in

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October of next year. You can go to Mandy Connell
trip dot com and find out more. But if you're
thinking about it, I would go ahead and throw a
deposit now, because I mean, we may be able to
add some cabins. But we are three quarters with all
former travelers. And I'm just gonna say this, not that
I don't love all of our travelers. We got some
good ones all right on this one. Some of my
favorite people to travel.

Speaker 7 (01:25:02):
I would have loved to have done it, But we're
gonna be doing Naples.

Speaker 8 (01:25:05):
Yeah, a month before, like I would get back and
then I go write back around and go back over.

Speaker 4 (01:25:09):
So, and my mom's going on this trip with us,
so I was excited about it, and the cue. It'll
be the que's last trip with us because she's going
to be in college after that. So let's talk about Octoberfest.
I thought you're little on by the way, every time
Crystal's on the show, she does a really good blog
post that has all the information about everything we talk
about on the show and the wine. So if you're
driving and you want to know about the wines that
we're about to talk about, you can do that as well.

(01:25:30):
But you have a nice history of Octoberfest and so yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:25:32):
In eighteen ten you had a couple of German monarchs
get married, and so they decided that they would spend
the entire month in Munich. So they were Bavarian nobility
and they spent the entire month of September partying like
it was I don't know, eighteen ten, and so it
just kind.

Speaker 7 (01:25:52):
Of just took hold.

Speaker 8 (01:25:52):
It's at the end if you think about it's at
the end of harvest yep. People have been out working
and to bring in the harvest, you know, back breaking
work and take a moment to reap the rewards of everything.
And so obviously when you are talking about beer and
that is kind of in Munich again, that's another life ambition,
is to actually hit Octoberfest in Munich. It's it's a

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big celebration and it's a great time of music.

Speaker 7 (01:26:18):
If you like to polka. I love to polka. Does
love a good polka? I mean, how long you can't
hear polka.

Speaker 4 (01:26:25):
Music and just not be Like for me, I'm kind
of like like I feel the same way about mariachi music.
It's like you have to be happy if you hear
mariachi music, you have to be happy if you hear
polka music.

Speaker 8 (01:26:36):
And so a lot of the octoberfests that are around Colorado,
and there are plenty of them spread out through the
month of September. I included several, all along the Front
Range and up in the mountains, different themes, different contests.

Speaker 7 (01:26:51):
They're always a lot of fun.

Speaker 8 (01:26:52):
And I normally would be attending a lot of you know,
our local octoberfests, but it falls into a time where
I'm not going to be consuming alcohol.

Speaker 7 (01:27:00):
I'm not going to be eating bread and gluten.

Speaker 4 (01:27:03):
So you can go get a Schweinehassen.

Speaker 7 (01:27:04):
It's all of those things like big crispy pork knuckle.

Speaker 4 (01:27:08):
Yeah, but I love schweine Hassen.

Speaker 7 (01:27:11):
That the temptation would be.

Speaker 2 (01:27:12):
I know.

Speaker 4 (01:27:12):
We've also got to wine walk on here as well.
September thirteenth. This is down on the Dairy Block and
super fun. It kind of spearheaded by Blanchard Family Wines
and brings in a bunch of Colorado wines and wine
makers and it's just a really fun day.

Speaker 8 (01:27:27):
And there's sent me a few last I looked at
the winemakers coming in, I believe he will be having
some that were part of the Governor's Cup that wants
some accolades this year.

Speaker 4 (01:27:38):
Well, let's talk about the Governor's Cup for a second,
because I actually love the concept of this. I think
it's a very cool event. They bring in some all
Yays and you know, big wine muckety bucks in to
judge all of these different Colorado wines from all of
these different Colorado wineries, and there is a I'm just
saying that the wine Yogi endorsed wineries had a very

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very good year in the Governor's Cup. Which were the
ones that you were the most excited about.

Speaker 8 (01:28:04):
So well, actually, the most excited exciting one that I
was thrilled to see on there is when I've not
talked about before, mainly just because I haven't gotten out
there as much as I would like to.

Speaker 7 (01:28:14):
I'm in that stone cottage cellar.

Speaker 8 (01:28:17):
They are absolutely fantastic, beautiful space there and outside of Paonia,
just a lovely vineyard and really excited for them. But
my friends that I'm I am really good friends with
over the folks over at Carboy, so tiazak Is and
Kevin which we've had Kevin Weber.

Speaker 4 (01:28:35):
And they're super accessible. Some of these winemakers that we're
going to talk about, you kind of have to be
on the Western slope or in their wine club to
get access to their wines. Carboy has a joint right
there on Santa Fe that is outstanding.

Speaker 8 (01:28:46):
And also in downtown Denvers they have another place as well.

Speaker 7 (01:28:50):
But so Carboy's very easily accessible.

Speaker 8 (01:28:52):
Yes, their cab franc was recognized, so I looked to
see if I could pull a cab fronc and I
don't have it. I haven't picked up my club order
from card this month. But so Carboy one Savage Spectrum
which is out of Palisade. So Patrick and k Bob
are the two wine makers. They're oh and it just

(01:29:12):
escaped me. It's a new grape for them. Also one
of red wine. And then the Storm Cellar, so Steve
and Jamie from Paonia, so they're down.

Speaker 7 (01:29:24):
In West elks Aba. They had two gold medal winners.

Speaker 8 (01:29:27):
So I brought in their Alberino from twenty twenty four
because I saw that that was on the list, and
so that was what I grabbed on my way out
the door.

Speaker 4 (01:29:34):
What did we taste today? The ain these two wines
you guys. They're like a chef's kiss, and they are
not normally wines that I would gravitate towards because they're
very fruit forward. And the wine that, you know, what
is the price point on that one that was a
little bit lower.

Speaker 8 (01:29:49):
The Alberino from Storm Cellars twenty five Okay in retail
that was delicious, and you can get Storm Cellar along
the front range.

Speaker 7 (01:29:56):
So like we carry it down at the Wine Gallery.

Speaker 8 (01:29:59):
In fact, next month, I'm going to be having a
wine and food pairing classes in September and it's going
to be all focused on Colorado and I am doing
German wines. Go back to our original German and Austrian
wines this weekend on Sunday. So we still have some
spots available for German wine and foods if you're interested.

Speaker 4 (01:30:17):
But the can I say a moment about German and
Austrian wines for just a second, because my entire childhood
all German wine that I ever had, not childhood but
young adulthood. It was all super sweet. And then imagine
my delight when I go to Switzerland and I found
out they're just holding all the super dry, mineral forward
wines over there. They don't send them here.

Speaker 5 (01:30:37):
They do it.

Speaker 8 (01:30:38):
They're just really expensive, so they're more expensive than what
you normally find. And again it goes back to they
were sending them. But wine shops, especially if you were
buying wine at like a liquor store or a grocery store,
you are never going to see anything other than Auschleisha's
bpatelesa griesling in a blue bottle.

Speaker 3 (01:30:56):
Yep.

Speaker 8 (01:30:56):
So yeah, there are some amazing wines. I'm gonna have
a Peanot blanc. I'm having a sparkling green er veltliner
from Austria that's made in the method Chimp and wise,
and then I'm gonna have some really beautiful Austrian and
German reds that I'm really one of them. I'm really
excited about to try a red blend. So give me
a lot of fun with the food pairings too, just

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to kind of kick off October fests.

Speaker 4 (01:31:18):
So, and if you're in the Springs, or you are
close to the Springs, or you would be willing to
drive to the Springs for one of these tastings, she
has a couple of spaces left. They do sell out,
I will tell you that, So if you would like
to go to one of her wine pairings and that stuff.
You should probably go today and go to the blog
that's linked on my blog and or just go to
I Am Thewineyogi dot com and go ahead and sign

(01:31:40):
up for those wine pairing events. They're very there. Yours
are much fancier than the wine pairing stuff that I've
gone to in other places. I'm not gonna lie because
you like make all this food.

Speaker 8 (01:31:49):
I do, yeah that when I do the classes, I'm
really focused on wine and food pairing, So it's more
than just kind of a sample of cheese or sharcoutery.

Speaker 7 (01:31:57):
It's more of how would you pair this? And I
even willclue recipes.

Speaker 8 (01:32:00):
My last class, we made our own French vinaigrette in
class and then dressed our own you know, everybody dressed
their own salads to their liking. So they're really fun
and interactive and small so you can have kind of
more of a conversation about wine.

Speaker 7 (01:32:13):
To bring your questions.

Speaker 4 (01:32:15):
Well, I have a challenge for you before your next
appearance on the show. Okay, I'm looking at the list
of winners from the Governor's Cup. Oh and by the way,
I also link to an event spy Guilt on the
blog today Spy.

Speaker 7 (01:32:25):
Spy gelt what's one that Savage won for?

Speaker 4 (01:32:27):
So there's an event called Colorado on Course and it's
coming up on Saturday, October eighteenth, and you can go.
It's a at the History Center in downtown Denver, and
you can go and taste all of these wines that
we're winning. So it's a that's very cool. I think
that's very very cool.

Speaker 2 (01:32:44):
Let me just say this.

Speaker 4 (01:32:45):
Though, I'm looking at a lot of these wines that
just won prizes, okay, and I'm gonna read these out. Okay,
blanch Family Wine's one with a twenty twenty five or
twenty twenty four of the Vie guilt, which I guilt.

Speaker 7 (01:32:56):
Yep, what the hell is that?

Speaker 6 (01:32:58):
Like?

Speaker 3 (01:32:58):
What?

Speaker 4 (01:32:58):
I Okay, I've got Caberts, I've got you know, I've
got your basics. Wait wait, I'm not done. I'm not done.

Speaker 7 (01:33:04):
I'm just gonna say coming to my class this weekend,
you'll find out what Vikel is.

Speaker 4 (01:33:07):
There you go, but you got a five velt a
cabadet franc a cat, Catelli cat, We're Cat's itll something
Aramela cabadet franc petite Verdeaux and another's vigelt petite, Sarah,
I know that one pino great, know that one Shamborsen
Shamberson Shamberson, no clue you've had, and Alberino is just

(01:33:30):
a delightful light. Do me a little list of what
all these things are, like, where do they lean, Give
me a little give you a clue, because now I
feel like they're just throwing new things at me because
I finally just learned all the old stuff.

Speaker 8 (01:33:41):
Well, so like it's also what happens can't happen like
terms like Limburger is the German version of La Frankish,
which is the Austrian version of this particular grape varietal,
which they're very close to Pino noir, and they're all
cousins and related.

Speaker 7 (01:33:56):
In some ways in some cases. But yeah, I can
do that, you know. But Alberino is a Spanish grape.
Shamberson is uh.

Speaker 8 (01:34:03):
Is actually a varietal that does really well here on
the Western Slope. And so you all often find either
just Shamberson red wine.

Speaker 4 (01:34:10):
You'll find what it is.

Speaker 8 (01:34:11):
Wine isn't all of these wines are dry. Okay, every
single wine that you just listed off, they're dry. They're
going to compete in dessert wine categories. If they're competing,
they're not gonna do it. They're not going to be
sweet wines. They're gonna all they're all going to be dry.
In that case, they might be a little bit fruitier,
a little fruit more fruits.

Speaker 4 (01:34:28):
Let's talk about the other wine they brought.

Speaker 8 (01:34:31):
Vignols is from a new wine maker that we met
at sip into Spring, which is an annual tasting there
in Palisade. And Alex torrez Is his vineyard is down
in hotchkiss Uh, which is south of Payonia, over on
the western slope, and Vignols the grapes are grown by

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the folks that are growing grapes for Sabash Spectrum. So
he sourced the Vinyols grapes, which is a white wine,
out of the Grand Valle, and we met him tasted
his wine. All three of us have been drinking quite
a while, but this white wine just exploded on our pallets.

Speaker 7 (01:35:08):
We were all shocked by it.

Speaker 8 (01:35:09):
And before I went to the Storm Cellar, when they
announced that they had won two gold medals for a
wine maker dinner up on the Mesa a couple of
weeks ago, I stopped in at Fallen Mountain and Alex
tasted me on all of his wines and I was
able to bring a case.

Speaker 7 (01:35:24):
We're the only ones that have it on the front range.

Speaker 8 (01:35:26):
This wine I will be pouring next month in September
when I have my class on Colorado wine. So yeah,
absolutely stunning wine, gorgeous, bright acidity.

Speaker 7 (01:35:36):
It's just got.

Speaker 8 (01:35:37):
Stone fruit and just all of this. This mouth feel
that it's difficult to describe.

Speaker 4 (01:35:42):
The mouthfeel is what got me. And the fruit is
very I want to say pronounced, but that's not the
right word. It's because I don't love if something is
super fruity. If I can taste every fruit, I don't
enjoy that.

Speaker 5 (01:35:55):
It's just not.

Speaker 4 (01:35:56):
This wine just kind of coats your mouth. It's just delightful.

Speaker 8 (01:36:00):
I feel like when you start getting down to things
like watermelon rind or close to the pit and like
an apricot or a peach. To me, this is what
the fruit reminds me of so much in this particular wine.
It just yeah, and it does that. This cidity is
to me, what I really appreciate about both of these wines.

(01:36:21):
Alberino is known for it's uh acidity, and it's just absolutely.

Speaker 7 (01:36:28):
This this Vignyols. We had to bring it into our store.
It's slightly more expensive than the Alberino from Storm Cellar.

Speaker 4 (01:36:34):
But what a perfect wine for Thanksgiving.

Speaker 7 (01:36:36):
It's going to be amazing for Thanksgiving.

Speaker 4 (01:36:37):
Yeah, just got this one Mountain Harvest Festival in Paona
in September. You going to that one?

Speaker 1 (01:36:43):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:36:43):
Oh, you're getting You're on the wagon.

Speaker 8 (01:36:45):
Seventy five hards starts on September thirteenth. If anybody wants
a nice little challenge that'll finish right before Thanksgivings.

Speaker 4 (01:36:51):
Mandy did wine. You know, you get some cold spears
in Cologne Church.

Speaker 7 (01:36:55):
Awesome cauls.

Speaker 8 (01:36:55):
And as we were sitting there looking at the twin spires,
which is what if it's going to be call culshit
has to be made within view of the twin spires.

Speaker 4 (01:37:03):
Of the dose cool. I don't know that it's very cool.

Speaker 8 (01:37:06):
And you'll always see the umlaut on the o's. And
there was a question earlier about mold with wine.

Speaker 4 (01:37:12):
Yes, I forgot to get that.

Speaker 7 (01:37:14):
Noble rat is what it is.

Speaker 8 (01:37:15):
And if you've ever had blue cheese, for example, it's
the same strain of penicillin. So I just always look
at it as if you drink a soturn or late
harvest reestling, you're getting your dose of penicillin. It pairs
perfectly with blue cheese. You're getting another dose of penicillin
and you're boarding off and you're just curing yourself.

Speaker 4 (01:37:33):
So basically, when you're drinking one of these wines that's
created with Noble Rot, you're just like, it's for my health,
for my health, I mean, it really is. No, there's
so much cool chemistry to wine making. And when I
went to the winery in Indiana, Turtle Creek Winery, as
this guy was an actual chemist, and he was so
geeked out about the chemistry aspect of wine tasting. But

(01:37:55):
I'll be perfectly honest, he had never done like a
wine dinner before and we taste it, wait for it,
seventeen wines in one dinner. Yell. I had to be
carried out there at a wheelbarrow. I mean I was
not driving, thank god, because I would have just had
to lay down on the ground and go to sleep
for ten hours. But he was so geeked out about
all of that stuff and how no broad affects this,

(01:38:16):
and I mean it was just really really interesting. So
if you ever have a chance to do a wine
dinner at a vineyard with the vintnor. It is so fascinating.
It's just really really cool stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:38:26):
All right.

Speaker 4 (01:38:27):
Check out the wine Yogi's blog and I amthwineyogi dot com,
or just go to my blog and find out more
about Uncorked in the Governor's Cup and enjoy your wine
and trust me, it might be worth a trip to
the springs just to get a bottle a few bottles
of this forty five dollars wine. It's so good, so
so good. But now it's time for the most exciting

(01:38:49):
segment on the radio of it gone in the world
of the day.

Speaker 2 (01:38:55):
Alright, dinner.

Speaker 4 (01:38:58):
Hello, I can't grab my question sah yeah, my bad. Anyway,
what is our dad joke.

Speaker 5 (01:39:05):
Of the day please, Anthony, I'm thinking of taking up
coin collecting. I believe the change will do me good.

Speaker 4 (01:39:12):
H wow bad, yeah, yeah, anyway, what is our word
of the day please?

Speaker 5 (01:39:18):
Adjective adjective flextuous what f l U or l e
x e x o us.

Speaker 4 (01:39:27):
Same assous like you know scilly bendy since she was.

Speaker 7 (01:39:31):
Up, go get me another glass of wine.

Speaker 4 (01:39:34):
Uh oh oh that's good. Yeah, flexuous like I'm gonna yeah,
I'm gonna say it's something extremely flexible.

Speaker 5 (01:39:40):
Flexuous, full of bends or curves.

Speaker 4 (01:39:42):
Yeah, there we go. That was kind of an easy way.
In the history of the Roman calendar, the year forty
six BCE was the longest year ever, lasting four hundred
and forty five days. Why, I don't know no clue detail.
Prior to forty six b C, the Roman calendar was
based on lou cycles and had fallen out of alignment
with the solar year. Julius Caesar stretched forty six pc

(01:40:05):
to get things back on track, ensuring that the following
year started after the winter solstice. So there you go.

Speaker 7 (01:40:12):
If you can only get rid of daylight savings and
changes and all that, you.

Speaker 4 (01:40:16):
Mean, the racket of daylight saving nonsense, crap anyway, coming
to fall back though, I'm not gonna lie. I'm already looking.

Speaker 7 (01:40:23):
Ahead, dude, I'm willing to fall into existence. Look at
his weather that.

Speaker 6 (01:40:26):
I brought in.

Speaker 4 (01:40:27):
I appreciate you wearing a blaser and the ten day forecast. Yeah,
I already looked at that this morning. But I'm in
early seventies. Next week, folks like low seven three of us,
we're ready for hand solo season.

Speaker 5 (01:40:42):
My wife tells me shut up all the time. My
mom does.

Speaker 4 (01:40:45):
Now I'm ready. What is our Jeopardy category? Scratchy scratchy?
Every answer my voice.

Speaker 5 (01:40:52):
Has to do with something scratchy.

Speaker 4 (01:40:54):
No, okay, I'm just asking it.

Speaker 5 (01:40:56):
Scratching while playing pool generally mean sinking the cueball.

Speaker 4 (01:41:01):
You save the cuball.

Speaker 5 (01:41:02):
You're luckily I got the last.

Speaker 4 (01:41:03):
Ask ques the form of a question.

Speaker 2 (01:41:05):
I didn't.

Speaker 4 (01:41:05):
I can't give myself an answer, dang it right? Zero
zero negative is given myself minus my name, and I
didn't give the right answer.

Speaker 5 (01:41:13):
Ted Nugent knows this, sand manby.

Speaker 4 (01:41:16):
What is cat scratch fever? It's probably back to zero.

Speaker 5 (01:41:20):
The name of this surgical knife comes from the Latin
four to scratch, though it doesn't more.

Speaker 7 (01:41:25):
Than what is the scalpel?

Speaker 5 (01:41:27):
That's crap?

Speaker 4 (01:41:28):
Dang it thought it's creat.

Speaker 5 (01:41:30):
Someone who exchanges favors or services for mutual advantage. What
is it?

Speaker 7 (01:41:35):
Backscratcher?

Speaker 5 (01:41:37):
There's often a scratchy sound when you play records made
for this many rpm, the standard speed until the nineteen forties.

Speaker 4 (01:41:46):
Manny, what is seventy seventy rpm?

Speaker 6 (01:41:51):
Wrong?

Speaker 4 (01:41:52):
Seventy eight, which means that was wrong for smoked me
tote minus bg finger is sing on the pall exactly.
All right, kids, we're gonna take I hope everybody has
a great weekend. This weekend, be safe and all that
good stuff. We will be back on Monday. We've already
got a bunch of stuff planned for next week and

(01:42:12):
only preempted one day. You know, baseball pre emptions are
almost over, so stop sending me your angry emails. Okay,
but on Monday, we're going to check in with Ed
prayther Do a kind of a state of the real
estate market. Plus we're going to find out the latest
on John Bolton's house being rated today. I'm sure he's
just gonna become very forgetful, so they won't file charges

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because they'll seem like a sympathetic old man. We'll see
what happens. You guys, have a great weekend. We'll be
back