08-25-25 FULL SHOW - A State Of Real Estate And An Incredible Anniversary

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 4 (00:27):
A Monday edition of the show. I'm your host for
the next three hours, Mandy Connell, and I'm joined, of
course by my right hand man, also wearing a long
sleeved T shirt today. That's Anthony Rodriguez. You can call
him a rod.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
One another.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
Aaron. Together, we will take you right up until three
o'clock when we will just we'll just hand the station
over like it doesn't even matter to those KOA sports guys.
They got a lot to talk about today. Can we
just have a moment on Shiloh sanders little fit. I mean, you, guys,
if you didn't see this, Sheilah Sanders Uh, previously of

(01:03):
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, was playing in the preseason game
and he had a tough game. I mean, this is
these are guys fighting for their jobs, right, but it
gets into a little kind of back and forth with
a guy you know, covering him he's covering and ends
up taking a swing at the guy directly in front
of ref. It was just, it was it was a

(01:26):
perfect example of when people don't learn how to control
their emotions because they've never been they've never had to
deal with any sort of disappointment, and they don't know
how to control their emotions. And and I'm not saying
Ben alright had already said he didn't think he was
gonna stick with the Bucks, but that certainly gave the
Buccaneers a reason to cut him and not look back.

Speaker 5 (01:47):
A guy comfortably already on the bubble prior to that
ins and bubble guys, there's just no women.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
You don't get to throw a touch.

Speaker 5 (01:55):
Yeah, I mean, it's it's it's kind of ironic because
a similar conversation is being held for his brother should
Or in Cleveland, saying, if you're not the second or
maybe even the second, the first or the second string quarterback,
how much distraction do you want a guy deep on
the depth chart to be And with Shiloh, Yeah, that
punch just that was his way towards the labor wire
within twenty four hours.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
Yeah, not even I mean it was right after the
game they cut him. So it was obviously a bad choice,
and just you know, it's always interesting to me to
see how some of these young athletes, and I'm not
necessarily just picking on Shiloh or or Shade or here,
although they are two of the athletes that I'm going
to be talking about here. You see these young people

(02:36):
who have been told from the time that they were very,
very young. And I know people that had this experience
in Florida because in growing up in Florida, football was
king and at our high school football games, my hometown
would turn out to watch high school football. There'd be
five thousand people, you know, at a high school football game,

(02:57):
mostly because there was nothing else to do, but we
all it was football crazy. And you see these kids
starting in like you know, Pop Warner, and they're talented children, absolutely,
but they start with, Oh, you're so good, you're so good.
You're so good. You're gonna get a scholarship, you're gonna
do this, you're gonna go in the NFL. You're so good,
you're so good, you're so good, you're so good. And

(03:19):
they are given a level of deference through that entire process.
And then when they hit a level and sometimes it's college,
sometimes you know, it's the pros. When they finally hit
that level where they are competing against people that are
at a minimum as good as they are and in
a maximum way better than they are, they have no

(03:41):
idea how to deal with it. They just can't handle it.
This is why kids have to be allowed to fail
on a regular basis, right, they just do. I just
feel like we do a lousy job protecting our kids
from the kind of personality altering sort of idol worship.

(04:07):
Fame is incredibly corrupting. And there can be fame at
all different kinds of levels.

Speaker 6 (04:11):
Right.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
You can be famous, you know, worldwide, and that sounds
horrifying to me. You can be famous locally. You can
be famous in your block or on your town. I mean,
it's just when people start to defer to you because
of some perceived fame that you have, it's very, very corrupting.
It just corrupts your soul. And I've seen it happen
to so many people that I think I'm so keenly

(04:32):
aware of it that whenever I get too big for
my breeches, God checks me, I mean he checks me,
and I end up embarrassing myself somehow. And so you know,
but it's crazy. It's crazy, and I just think we
saw a little of that yesterday on the field in
Tampa rather Saturday. Anyway, let's do the blog, shall we,

(04:53):
because it's giant. I just got started. I could not stop,
and then a Rod sent the best videos today just
saying you're so here it is. You can find it
by going to mandy'sblog dot com. That's Mandy's blog dot com.
Or you can go to Randy Crumwell dot com and
then look for the headline that says eight twenty five
twenty five blog A state of real estate and an

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

Speaker 5 (05:22):
South of America, all with ships and equipment and SLA.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
Today on the blog how is your home value doing?
Fifty years with Type one diabetes, House Minority later Rose
Paglice at twelve thirty. Democrats make sure there's abortion money scrolling.
John Caldera talks the sale of nine news, A district
judge has no cutting off, sanctuary cities, the fake green
status of RTD. We're going to get some information on

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Guess what happens when Democrats move to green energy? Old
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record breaking attendance. Here is it really climate change? If

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dot com. You guys, thanks Stance a winner. Yeah that
was a good one. I am I'm lightheaded. Now, I
pushed way too much air out without taking any in.
But as you can see, today's blog is voluminous. It's
Rubenesque in its plumpiness. Well, we've got so much stuff

(07:19):
to talk about, and we got some good guests today. Now, hey, Ron,
I forgot to tell you. Did you get the email
with the interview?

Speaker 7 (07:24):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (07:24):
Okay, perfect? This morning I reached out to I reached
out to a few members of the Republican Caucus today
because I woke up this morning. I was I had
a busy weekend, good busy, you know, just like a
lot of a lot of piddling around, a lot of
you know, this and that, whatnot, wash the dog, things
like that. So I was like, I'm not going to

(07:44):
check on the special session. I'm sure it'll be whatever
it's going to be on Monday morning. So I wake
up this morning and I open up my Denver news
sources to find out what's going on in the special
session and what what what is happening? What what is
going on? Okay, you guys, they've been in session since
last Thursday. They have done a full four days. They

(08:06):
are back in session right this minute, which is why
I recorded an interview with Minority Leader Rose Peglice this morning.
They have passed three bills to send to the governor's desk,
and when I say they have passed, a vast majority
of this has been solely with Democratic support. Here's what
they've done. They are transferring overflow funds from a school's

(08:31):
meal program to food stamps with voter approval.

Speaker 7 (08:35):
We're going to come back to that.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
They are going to require the governor to consult with
the legislature before making any spending cuts. And here's my favorite,
at a special session where they are there because we
have a one point two billion dollars shortfall, meaning they
have to cut the budget. By the way, they're not
cutting the budget at all. This is all about taxing
people more. They we have decided to allow state medicaid

(09:02):
to cover planned parenthood services after a federal cut, so
they wanted to make sure that money was still going
to flow to the abortion mill even though those dollars
were cut by the federal government. So what they've done
is cut nothing but create more of a shortfallen Medicaid

(09:25):
by moving money to a private organization. It just happens
to offer some other healthcare services, but they also offer abortion.
And for anyone who says, Mandy, this money is not
going to go for abortion, Okay, genius. If if they
have all this other money flowing in to pay for

(09:48):
other things, the fees for those other things are going
to be used for things like abortion care. The phrase
money is fungible, meaning you can move it all over
the place. Basically, what you're talking about is what's on
the books. What I'm talking about is what's in reality.
Let's talk about this for just a second. The transfer

(10:10):
overflow funds from a school meals program to food stamps
with voter approval. They're talking specifically about the Healthy Meals
for All program. The Healthy Meals for All program was
the idiotic program that gives every kid in schools free lunch.
Now I live in Douglas County. My daughter goes to

(10:33):
a high school that has an affluent population. Okay, When
I go to our school during the day, and I
look in the student parking lot, the student park, not
the teacher parking lot, the student parking lot, there are
brand new cars. There are Beamers, there are Mercedes, there

(10:56):
are brand new Jeeps. There's a kid who drives a
brand new Bronco. I mean, these are seventy five thousand
dollars cars in the student parking lot. And then don't
even get me started on people that are actually picking
up or dropping off their kids, right because our cars
are all nice, and yet every kid in that school
gets free lunch. Not free, of course, it's paid for
by the taxpayers. Well, what happened when they passed this

(11:20):
big plan was that, shockingly a lot of people started
eating the free lunch I know, right, crazy, absolutely, And
here's the kicker, you guys. In order to have your
food counted as free, you have to take I think
it is the main dish, a vegetable of fruit and

(11:41):
a milk, most of which doesn't get eaten. It just
gets thrown away. But that's how you get the free lunch.
So all of a sudden, everybody's taking advantage of the program,
and taxpayers, of course are going to be on the
bill for it. So it has never been able to
operate without extra money from the government. It has never

(12:02):
ever fallen within what was budgeted for the healthy meals
for all. So why in the world would they say
transfer overflow funds when there have never been overflow funds
to flow anywhere it's running the red the entire time.
I asked that question to House Minority Leader Rose Pacleese

(12:24):
earlier today, and you're going to hear the answer in
about fifteen minutes. They are not doing anything productive in
the Capitol right now. Nothing. I mean, what are we
even doing here? By the way, I want to give
you one little snippet, just in case you're sitting there.

Speaker 7 (12:45):
Going, what do Republicans do more? Why aren't they doing more?

Speaker 4 (12:49):
Why aren't the Republicans stopping this?

Speaker 7 (12:51):
What are the Republicans doing?

Speaker 4 (12:53):
You guys? The Republicans are so hopelessly outnumbered that the
Democrats are not even pretending to care what the Republicans
are bringing to the table. Every single bill that the
Republicans brought to try and cut spending or find creative
ways to avoid, you know, really cutting stuff in a

(13:13):
meaningful way, they were killed on the first day of
this special session, every one of them. Every one of them.
You're telling me there wasn't a good idea in any
of those not one, not one single good idea. But listen,
it's even worse than that. When they don't like the
way things are going, the Democratic leadership just boots people

(13:33):
off committees listen to this. The bill won a party
line five to two vote from a changed Senate Appropriations Committee.
Senator Majority Leader Robert Rodriguez changed the committee's makeup Saturday
in preparation for a possible vote on his artificial intelligence bill,
taking away one Republican Senator, Larry Liston of Colorado Springs,

(13:56):
removing the committee's vice chair, Joint Budget Committee Chair Jeff
Bridges of Greenwood Village, and adding two Democrats, Mike Weisman
and Katie Wallace. They're just changing the rules in order
to limit the amount of time that Republicans could even
talk about an issue. They've invoked rules to prevent debate

(14:17):
from continuing. They're not even pretending to care. And this
is what's happening. So that is on the blog as well.
I do a really deep dive about this. You're gonna
want to hear this interview with House Minority later, Rose
Pagles coming up next. Now, coming up at two thirty,
my friend and realtor Ed Prather joins us the real
estate market. I know that there are some of you

(14:39):
who are like god Ma Andie. I don't know why
you talk about real estate so much. Well, let me
just tell you, most people's wealth is wrapped up in
their real estate holdings. A vast majority of us. That
is the largest asset we have is going to be
our home. And I live through the housing crash in
two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine, and
I realized.

Speaker 7 (14:59):
People are like, we lived through it here too, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (15:01):
No, you really didn't. You really did not. I lived
through it at ground zero of the housing crash. I
have friends who paid nine hundred thousand dollars for house
they later sold for three hundred and sixty five. That
was a housing crash. So losing thirty ten percent. No, no,
no offense. You have no idea, You have no idea
what we went through. So Ever, since then, I watched

(15:24):
the real estate market like a hawk because I know
my biggest asset is my home, and I want to
see what is happening in the market that is going
to affect the value of my biggest asset. So ed pray.
They're coming on at two thirty to talk about that.
At one o'clock, my friend Dana Davis is celebrating a
just an incredible milestone and probably a milestone that when

(15:49):
she was diagnosed with type one diabetes fifty years ago.
A lot of people thought, Oh, that would never happen,
But she's celebrating fifty fifty years with type one diet
and her family has had such a huge impact on
people living with type one diabetes here in the Denver
metro through the Barbara Davis Center and Children's Diabetes Foundation

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and just so many other things they've done. It's just
been really incredible. So we're going to talk to Dana
at one o'clock about that. So this is all going
on right now, and on Twitter, the big conflagration is
about the Crackerbill remodel. Hey, run, I have a question.
You're more social media savvy than I am. You're young,
I'm old. Let's be real. What is something I can

(16:34):
do other than write the phrase I'm being very sarcastic here?
What can I do on X to make people realize
that I'm being ridiculous.

Speaker 7 (16:47):
In caps at the very beginning, this is not to
be taken seriously.

Speaker 5 (16:50):
That just ruins the joke though, or just right the
whole thing, and people go ee dad. And then at
the very bottom, really small, you just put JK really small.

Speaker 4 (16:59):
How do I do small?

Speaker 3 (17:00):
Well?

Speaker 7 (17:01):
Really small?

Speaker 4 (17:02):
JK?

Speaker 7 (17:02):
No I mean just having JK.

Speaker 5 (17:04):
Low caase, like after a couple of spaces, so people
get the whole she said, what and then they see
it and go, okay, wells well done. Yeah so that
would be great. Yeah, or like thirty dots after your
entire like paragraph. There you go, People go, what could
possibly at the end of this crazy statement?

Speaker 7 (17:21):
Oh, she's kidding right right now? It usually gets people. Yeah,
it's a good troll job. You're welcome.

Speaker 5 (17:30):
Yeah, how long of a thing are we talking here?
With a full fun ingest statement?

Speaker 4 (17:35):
Or it was a no, okay, okay. Ben all Bright
started it, of course, Yeah, I mean Ben, it's always
It's always Ben, isn't it?

Speaker 1 (17:43):
You know?

Speaker 4 (17:43):
Yeah? So but Ben started it with imagine being upset
the Cracker Barrel changed their logo. The number of people
that have even ever even thought of Cracker Barrel's logo
before they changed it is nil. Who is outraged about this?
Is this the same fake people that were outraged about
Sidney Sweeney, to which I responded, no, those people were
left wing lunatics. We are upset for all caps valid reasons, now,

(18:08):
don't you think, like, I mean, that's not a little
And then somebody said, what's the valid reasons? You said plural?

Speaker 1 (18:14):
All?

Speaker 4 (18:14):
Wait, so I responded again. Number one, they got rid
of the old dude. Number two, it's boring. Number three
they made the inside look like the most generic village
Denny's random breakfast place possible. Number four. No word on
whether or not the peg game made the cut. Now
can you not tell?

Speaker 7 (18:29):
Then?

Speaker 4 (18:30):
The peg game made the cut? Comment? Doesn't that scream?
I'm not really upset about this. I'm just being silly.

Speaker 7 (18:36):
Man, mity real coming to a realization just now?

Speaker 5 (18:40):
Oh, one of the most ingenious marketing the Yeah, because
what was the last time any of us talked this.

Speaker 7 (18:48):
Extensively or have been to a cracker barrel?

Speaker 6 (18:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (18:53):
Genius, genius, genius marketing. Well again, extrand strikes again.

Speaker 4 (18:59):
Except the people that actually have been going to Cracker
Barrel are now not going.

Speaker 5 (19:03):
And it doesn't people are going to Cracker Barrel. Guess what,
Mandy Connell, They're still going.

Speaker 4 (19:11):
Maybe maybe not. I mean they do have delicious biscuits
and gravy. I am pleased to punch this morning to
be talking with House Minority Leader Rose Paglie. She is
part of the very strong and small group of determined
Republicans trying to actually do something to do spending, and
it's not gonna happen in this special session. And Rose,

(19:34):
first of all, thanks for joining me. But second of all,
I didn't even look at the media coverage over the weekend,
right because I figured Monday, I'll just dip in. Maybe
they'll have sorted it out, maybe they will have already
gabbled out the special session. And imagine my shock when
I read this morning. Not only are they not close
to gabbling out, like literally nothing has been done. So
tell me what has happened in the first four days

(19:56):
in your view?

Speaker 6 (19:58):
Okay, so kind of predicted, And thank you Mandy for
having me on so I can talk to your listeners.
As predicted, Republicans don't have any ideas. Only Democrats have ideas.
In this special session, all of our bills died the
first day.

Speaker 8 (20:12):
But they were kind of a little smarter.

Speaker 6 (20:13):
You know, my very first special session, they've killed all
of our bills by noon, and that was a great
talking point for us. But this time they spaced out committees,
so they were killed all on the first day but
past noon.

Speaker 8 (20:26):
So a bit creative on their part.

Speaker 6 (20:28):
But basically, you know this call was so narrow, and
it basically was to raise revenue and not necessarily to
make cuts.

Speaker 8 (20:35):
Right, there was no room for Republicans to bring forward
bills that made any sort of cuts. And if anything,
what we have seen now is that.

Speaker 6 (20:44):
We are we came here to solve the budget shortfall,
and of course Democrats are blaming it on HR one.
Republicans are blaming it on Democrat mismanagement of the budget
throughout the years, but putting even that aside, we have
a budget shortfall.

Speaker 8 (20:58):
We need to plug the whole. And so what are
they going to do.

Speaker 6 (21:02):
They're going to raise the most a billion tax a
billion dollars in taxes on our small businesses. Are hardworking
moms and pops who are really struggling to survive in
Colorado anyway. So let's put more burden on them, because
you know, tax cuts means more money in their pockets,
so they should be giving it to state government instead
of federal government. And then we debated at Billy yesterday,

(21:25):
which says if federal funding is cut from certain entities,
not just planned parenthood, but planned parenthood is one of
those entities that the state would fill that budget hole
for these organizations. So what we just did was we
came here to solve a budget hole, but we added
to the budget hole that we need to solve. So

(21:46):
only in Colorado does that make sense in this special session.

Speaker 4 (21:50):
So let me ask you about the bills that have
been sent to the governor. And let's start with the
one about Planned Parenthood, because when I saw that this morning,
I'm like, wait a minute. We have a one point
two billion dollar shortfalls. So their solution is to make
sure that Planned Parenthood gets more money for abortions. And
I realize that it's not supposed to be for abortions,
but you and I both know money is fungible. So

(22:10):
anything that Planned parent had gets for STI testing or
you know, well woman visits, that's one more dollar they
can be shifted over to abortion. I find it unsurprising
and especially ghoulish that the Democrats put making sure that
we could kill the babies in Colorado above all of
the other spending priorities that might be out there. I
got to tell you that blew my mind. Am I

(22:31):
misreading this somehow?

Speaker 6 (22:34):
Well, Mandy, it's about healthcare for Colorados who need it.

Speaker 8 (22:40):
That those were the arguments that were made yesterday.

Speaker 6 (22:43):
And you know, and I don't dispute the planned parenthood
does more than abortions.

Speaker 8 (22:47):
But as you said, money is fungible and so but I.

Speaker 6 (22:50):
Think like the crux of the arguments we were making
were we already have a budget hole.

Speaker 8 (22:55):
We are continuing this budget hole, and we're we're growing it.

Speaker 6 (23:00):
I just I don't know how that works in real life,
because none of us can do that, right, We can't
just continue to spend out of control. And the protections
like the tax payabill of Rights that you know that
you originally asked me about this morning, right, how do
they raise taxes without a voter the people?

Speaker 8 (23:17):
And what they have said is, well, the vendor fees.

Speaker 6 (23:18):
Already in place, so if we take it away, even
though it increases taxes, it's already been in place, so
therefore it doesn't require vote of the people. The hard
part for me, and I'm sure for your listeners, when
you know, when Proposition AGH happened and the Democrats were
trying to take away the tax Payer Bill of Rights refunds,
the people said no, and they have that opportunity because

(23:40):
it was on the ballot. Right, in these cases, these
bills will go to the Governor's desk. That will become
a lot in everything that leaves the capitals presumed to
be constitutional.

Speaker 8 (23:50):
So what does that mean.

Speaker 6 (23:51):
That means challenges in court, and so then somebody has
to challenge it in court, and then we have to
you know, when I'm an attorney, I'm not knocking the
judicial system, but someone will have to decide and set precedence,
which could be also very scary for future you know,
tax payabilla rights bills that might come forward.

Speaker 8 (24:12):
So it's been a really interesting session.

Speaker 4 (24:15):
Let me ask you specifically about table refunds because a
couple of years ago we had three point two billion
dollar surplus. In the meantime, Democrats have slowly but surely
reallotted all of our table refunds to different special projects
that they wanted to pay off their constituents or whatever.
So they have eroded our table refund. I think our
table refund was supposed to be like seven or eight

(24:37):
dollars this year anyway, and now that's gone. Now we
have another bill that they sent to the governor that
says we're going to reallocate Healthy Meals for All money,
which is the free school lunch program. And we're going
to reallocate that to SNAP benefits. But the problem is,
it's my understanding that the Healthy Meals for All program
has been in the red the entire time of its

(25:00):
It's never been fully funded. So is that just like
a cheat on paper? I don't even understand why they
do that.

Speaker 6 (25:07):
So it's really interesting to me because I said exactly
that yesterday. I said, listen, we have this Healthy Meals
for All program. We spent all last year, in all
last budget cycle.

Speaker 8 (25:15):
Democrats and Republicans saying, hey, we have.

Speaker 4 (25:18):
To do better.

Speaker 6 (25:19):
Right, there's not enough money in this program. How do
we get health you know, meals. I'm not even to
say healthy meals and I'll put a pin in that
for a second, But how do we get the meals
to the people.

Speaker 8 (25:28):
Who actually need it?

Speaker 3 (25:29):
Right?

Speaker 6 (25:29):
I always say, I'm a single mom, I work three jobs.
I raised two kids all by myself.

Speaker 8 (25:33):
But I don't need it, right. I work three jobs,
and there.

Speaker 6 (25:36):
Are a lot of people who work three jobs who
really truly can't afford it. So let's make sure those
meals are getting to the appropriate people. I also have
an issue with the program in what we are feeding
our children, So after session ended.

Speaker 8 (25:48):
I told a story yesterday at the well corn dogs.
Corn dogs were for lunch, and I don't know.

Speaker 6 (25:54):
I don't normally feed my kids corn dogs. But it
doesn't seem like if it's a healthy Meals for All.

Speaker 8 (25:59):
Program, we're doing right by our children. So we'll put
a pin in that for a later conversation.

Speaker 6 (26:04):
But for this special session, healthy Meals for All program
was going on the ballot. You know, Republicans didn't vote
for it, Democrats did. It was going on the ballot
just to fund that program that was already at a shortfall.
We were there was talks about means testing it, how
do we get it to the right people, all of
those things. Well, now you're adding SNAP then if it's
on top of that. Now, mind you, there are no

(26:25):
cuts I want to be very clear here, there are
no cuts to SNAP.

Speaker 8 (26:30):
What is happening is they.

Speaker 6 (26:32):
Have reallocated this federal share versus the state match. So
they're saying, well, states, you're gonna have to pay a
little bit more for it. Now, let me tell you,
the state.

Speaker 8 (26:41):
Legislature does this to counties all the time.

Speaker 6 (26:44):
Right, they say, well, you're gonna you're gonna administer this program,
and we're going to give you a certain amount of dollars.

Speaker 8 (26:50):
This is your match, and then they change it right
as budget needs adjust so everything.

Speaker 6 (26:55):
So federal government did it, State government has done it.
Like let's be clear, they're un mandates on our local governments.
But they haven't cut SNAP. They just changed the state
share SNAP right, but it doesn't even go into effect
until October.

Speaker 8 (27:09):
Of twenty twenty seven.

Speaker 6 (27:11):
But unfortunately, this ballot measure is going on this November,
so if they were going to add SNAP, they had
to make it a dire situation where we have to
add it so that they can get additional funding and
be able to push it towards SNAP.

Speaker 8 (27:22):
I am curious what the underlying reason is.

Speaker 6 (27:25):
Is it because the Healthy Emails for All program maybe
wasn't going to pass on its own, but now that
you add SNAP, I mean, I don't know, said, I don't.

Speaker 8 (27:31):
Want a conspiracy theory it. But there's a reason.

Speaker 6 (27:36):
There's there's some reason that was not articulated at the
well yesterday as to why they had to add SNAP
to the Healthy Meals program when we can't even fund
the Healthy Meals program. So we just Mandy, you and
I have been in politics. Long, yeah, right, there's an
ulterior mind.

Speaker 4 (27:50):
Yep, there always is. Rose Paglie is my House Minority leader,
and I want to ask you this question before we
run out of time, and that is simply I see
people on Twitter. And as a matter of fact, I
got into it with a guy this morning. He's like,
we need to do something to push back and get
why aren't the Republicans doing something to push back? And
I said, they are hopelessly outnumbered. And it's not just that,

(28:10):
is it? Rose? The Senate Appropriations Committee was made up
of three was it five? And so was it seven? Total?
I can't remember the actual numbers, but there were two
a Republican and a Democrat who were not going to
vote the way that the Democrat leadership wanted to vote,
so they just replaced them with two different Democrats. So
not only are we under very much underrepresented because of

(28:34):
the way Colorado's vote in this state, we're now having
any modicum of power stripped away from Republicans just because
the Democrats feel like it. I mean, is this another
thing I'm misreading or am I accurate here?

Speaker 8 (28:49):
You're not misreading it.

Speaker 6 (28:50):
I will say the arrogance and the drunken power democrats
like that I have seen. This particular special session is
the most egregious I have ever seen, and it actually
really bothers me for the sake of the institution right
that we should be devoted to protecting. But just just
to be clear, so a Democrat can't replace a Republican

(29:11):
on a committee. All the Republicans can replace Republicans. So
I don't and I'm not in the Senate, so I
don't know what all that background was. But Senator Barb
Kirkmeyer can tell you the behind the scenes, real good
story about the Senate. But for us, yes, we have
absolutely seen it. We saw it here at the House
when you know, they were tired of Republicans talking, so

(29:31):
then they limit time on debate to one hour so
that they can get out of there. They called the
question rule sixteen. We don't want to hear from Republicans anymore.
We're going to kill all of your bills. You have
no ideas, We won't let you bring ideas that actually
cut budget right, and on top of that, we're not
going to let you speak and represent your constituents. It

(29:52):
is a horrible position for all Colorado ins and I
think everybody should be outraged.

Speaker 4 (29:58):
Last question before I let you go in, That is simple.
Apparently the Governor's going to be making all the budget cuts.
Is that what I'm seeing? Since no budget cuts are coming,
and surely this new revenue scheme is going to be
challenged in court, so it's on shaky ground already, and
now the governor is just going to be empowered to
make all the cuts. Explain that to me.

Speaker 6 (30:17):
Yeah, I mean the governor has to say right, like
everybody does. But ultimately, I think the Joint Budget Committee
is going to really have to come together to figure this,
figure out how we balance this budget. You know, the
thing that people don't realize is that, you know, we
have a constitutional obligation to balance the budget.

Speaker 8 (30:35):
And everybody's like, great.

Speaker 6 (30:36):
Well, it's only twice a year when the Long Bill
is passed and then signed into law it's balanced, and
then during supplementals, so we were already out of balance
and people don't realize that before HR one was even
in effect.

Speaker 4 (30:51):
Rosemaglize is the House Minority leader. When do you think
this is going to wrap up? Do you see any
chance of a wrapping up anytime soon?

Speaker 6 (30:59):
So we're really hoping for today. There's some issues with
the AI bill that they're trying to work out. Again,
why do we call a predetermined special session and not
have all your ducks in a row?

Speaker 8 (31:08):
I still don't understand.

Speaker 6 (31:10):
It costs the taxpayers thirty three thousand dollars a day
to keep us here. We were literally waiting for five
hours yesterday to come back to the floor for.

Speaker 8 (31:18):
A bill that took less than a minute.

Speaker 9 (31:20):
So like.

Speaker 8 (31:22):
It, it's really just egregious I and.

Speaker 4 (31:25):
It's really my word for this session.

Speaker 6 (31:27):
But so it looks like potentially Wednesday will be when
we actually are able to leave.

Speaker 4 (31:34):
That is, we'll see what else happens. But it doesn't
look like anything good is going to happen for the
taxpayers of Colorado. How's minority later? Rose Police, thank you
so much for your time today. I appreciate you.

Speaker 10 (31:44):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (31:45):
Great calling by my friend John Caldera and the Danver Gazette.
And it's about nine News and the sale of the
company that is currently the owner of nine News in
their affiliate Channel twenty being purchased by the larger company
that also owns Colorado's Channel two and Fox thirty one,

(32:08):
and they will be streamlining those processes. The FCC says
you cannot own more than two television stations in the market.
That's the rule, which is why you just had the
two like nine and twenty or together, and then three
and two. And everybody knows that both nine and twenty
share a newsroom and both two and thirty one share

(32:31):
a newsroom. They're two separate stations. But are they really
The answer is no, they're not, so John in writing
about this, I I was interested to see what John
had to say. He actually turned it into kind of
a grudge match against radio. I know, I know, leave
it to John anyway, but he's not wrong.

Speaker 9 (32:54):
It is.

Speaker 4 (32:54):
He goes on to talk about how station consolidation has
dramatically changed the radio landscape. And this is something that
I live every day, and the field of radio that
I got into years and years ago. And I worked
initially for a company that was then purchased by clear Channel,
which then became iHeart Media. So I've worked for that companies,

(33:17):
those companies as they've been purchased and whatnot. And I'll
be the first to say that working for I Art
Media has a lot of upside. And I'm not blowing smoke.
I mean the kind of assets that we have the
ability to communicate with you guys on multiple platforms. That
kind of stuff is amazing, Like you just can't do
that as a mom and pop But working for corporation.

(33:38):
News sets are in New York and they have over
the last few years, in my view, tried to homogenize
all of the radio clusters to look exactly the same.
And you guys, I'm not telling tales out of school here,
because you walk into any iHeart radio group they all
look exactly the same. But in doing so, you took
an industry that was based on creativity and local passion

(34:02):
for the market and you've just tried to flatten the
company and make it all exactly the same. And John's
point here is that is that what we're going to have?
And do you think that they're going to cover more
conservative news or less. I'll let you all that over
when we get back. Dana Davis from the Children's Diabetes

(34:22):
Foundation is on to celebrate a big, big, big milestone
right after this.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
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Speaker 4 (34:53):
Sad bab Welcome, Vocal, Welcome, give us second hour of
the show. I'm your host, Mandy Connell. That guy over
the are Rodriguez, he's producing things and joining us now
to celebrate a really, really significant milestone is a woman
who has not only been living with type one diabetes
for fifty years, which we're going to get to why

(35:14):
that is so absolutely incredible in just a moment, but
I would go so far as to say, because Dana
Davis got type one diabetes as a child, the entire
city of Denver and the surrounding areas for miles and
miles have benefited through the Barbara Davis Center, through the
Children's Diabetes Foundation, and all of the work that they've
done to get us from fifty years ago when finding

(35:37):
out you ad type one diabetes probably meant a shorter
lifespan to last Friday where at the Barbara Davis Center
or Children's Diabetes Foundation, not know where the actual metal
ceremony took place, they actually honored people who had been
living with type one diabetes for at least fifty years,
which is insane. And now Dana Davis, Sexecutive Director joins

(36:01):
me to talk about it. It wasn't just you, though, Dana,
but you did get your medal on Friday.

Speaker 11 (36:08):
Hi, thank you so much for having me here. I
did get my medal, and it was super.

Speaker 10 (36:13):
Exciting and thrilling to get it because when I was diagnosed,
just like so many of the other people that were
there with me, we were told that we'd probably lived
thirty or forty years. A lot of people were discouraged
from having kids. Life was just so different, and we
celebrated this day. There was eighty six of us there,

(36:34):
but there are actually four over four hundred and sixty
patients at the Barbara Davis Center living and thriving with
type one for more than fifty years, some up to
seventy five years, which is unbelievable and incredible.

Speaker 4 (36:49):
So let's talk about Dana and I were talking off
the air before we just started this segment, and you
said something that I thought was very interesting. You said,
for you, you almost got more out of Friday's metal
ceremony than some of the kids because the way type
one diabetes impacts their lives is so different now then

(37:10):
the way your life as a child was impacted just
because of the advancements that have been made. So isn't
that a wonderful bit of progress to talk about?

Speaker 11 (37:20):
There's a huge bit of progress.

Speaker 10 (37:22):
I mean, there is the way technology has sped up
how diabetes is treated.

Speaker 4 (37:29):
Now.

Speaker 10 (37:30):
We now have continuous glucose monitors where we know what
our but sugar is every five minutes. Back then, we
didn't even have blood testing. We had urine testing. It
was totally inaccurate. We have insulin pumps now. When I
was diagnosed, you were given one shot in the morning.
Park was the first one. I was allergic to it.

(37:50):
The next day I went back and they gave me beef.
It was cloudy, you could see stuff floating. Now, you know,
we had to boil needles, and now we have I mean,
insulin pumps and we have really pure insolence and disposable needles.

Speaker 11 (38:06):
And it's a different world.

Speaker 10 (38:08):
And it was kind of nice to be around a
bunch of people that grew up with Type one the
same way I did, because you know, it's so hard
to remember that fifty years ago how far we've come,
which only means I really believe the next fifty years
is going to happen in twenty five, like I believe

(38:30):
we will have some.

Speaker 11 (38:32):
Form of a cure, whatever that will look like, in
the next twenty five years.

Speaker 9 (38:36):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (38:37):
I just read a story recently about a crisper gene
treatment that is yeah, they're literally modifying the genetic code
for people who have type one diabetes and it turns
on their spleen and all of a sudden they are
able to completely eliminate their dependence on influin. I can't
even imagine. And this has only been done a few times.

(38:59):
We're not talking to widespread study yet. So I don't
want people to think it's going to be here tomorrow, right.
I want to manage expectations a little bit. Absolutely, But
that's incredible. That's a that we are so close to
a cure for type one diabetes. And let's be real, folks,
fifty years ago was not eighteen ninety five with the
cloudy influence. That was nineteen seventy five. Okay, so this

(39:21):
is not the Dark Ages, but that's how much in
the Dark Ages treatment for type one diabetes was back then.
So I mean data exactly, Go go ahead.

Speaker 10 (39:32):
No, sorry, I was just going to say things with
the crisper and stuff is important to look at and know,
because one of the things you want to make sure
is that the cure isn't worse than the actual disease.
So sometimes still, you know, there's a lot of anti
rejection drugs involved with things that are types of cures, right, saying,
so you want to make sure you know, like those

(39:52):
are one thing that's.

Speaker 11 (39:53):
Being focused on.

Speaker 10 (39:54):
Another thing is getting tested. If you have the markers,
you have four markers, you're a one CE starts to raise.
You can come and get an infusion. That's why we're
trying to encourage people to get tested. You can get
an infusion for two weeks and it could push off
the onset of type one diabetes for many years. So
when I say cure, I mean it can look like

(40:16):
it's more than just one thing, right. A cure can
be multiple things, and that's what we're so excited about.

Speaker 4 (40:23):
Well, go into that just a little bit. What you
just mentioned. What are the four markers? What what what
if they want to look for?

Speaker 10 (40:28):
And I should know what they are and I do not,
but I shall learn it for the next time. But
I know there are four markers. So at the Barbara
Davis Center, we do free testing so people can come.

Speaker 11 (40:40):
They can get tested.

Speaker 10 (40:42):
They can see if they have the markers for type
one diabetes along with to see if.

Speaker 11 (40:46):
They have celiac and we then can follow you and
know if you have the markers.

Speaker 10 (40:52):
They have a whole process they go through and Sonofi
is a company that has created this drug called teziald
tz is something that we have an infusion center at
the Barber Davia Center and we can infuse you.

Speaker 11 (41:06):
It's thirty minutes a day. I mean, you have to
go through it.

Speaker 10 (41:09):
I'm making it sound so much easier than it is, right, Yeah,
but you know it's thirty minutes a day for two weeks.
But in the past, it used to be people were like,
well why would I get tested? There's nothing you can
do right right now? Families, If you have it in
your history and you can get tested and you can
do something to prolong the onset, I mean, that's incredible

(41:30):
and eventually continue to prolong it, maybe as another form
of a cure. Say and say, we've never said a cure,
like the Children's Diabetes Foundation, the Barber Data Center.

Speaker 11 (41:42):
We've never been like we have a cure.

Speaker 10 (41:44):
We've been very careful and we really feel what it
is in our grasp within the next you know, twenty
two decades, which I think is a huge deal.

Speaker 4 (41:53):
Oh No, I think it's I think it's I keep saying,
all of this stuff is happening right now with medicine
and the way they're using AI to sort of move
things along at a rate that is just incomprehensible in
terms of the ability to speed the process along. I'm
with you. I feel very optimistic that we're going to
find a way to help people live a perfectly normal

(42:16):
life without necessarily worrying about their type one diabetes very soon.

Speaker 11 (42:20):
Absolutely, kids can live.

Speaker 10 (42:22):
I mean, somebody who gets it when they're five, when
they're one, they can live until they're nineties, happy and healthy,
and that's that's.

Speaker 11 (42:30):
Like the greatest gift ever.

Speaker 4 (42:31):
Right Well, Dana, congratulations to you and all of those
over fifty year folks who are living and thriving with
type one diabetes. I'm glad you had that experience where
you all got to get together and I'm guessing some
war stories were traded.

Speaker 7 (42:48):
Back in our day.

Speaker 4 (42:49):
This is what we had to do with the kids
that are there now with their continuous glucose monitors and
their you know, influin pumps. They can't even imagine, they
can't fathom it. It's great, Beau, d.

Speaker 11 (43:02):
Thank you so much. I really appreciate you for having me.

Speaker 4 (43:04):
Ah, that's Dana Davis. It's my pleasure. We'll talk again soon, Dana.
I have a great day. It's just it is a
glorious time to be alive. When it comes to medicine,
it really is. It's just so spectacular. Mandy, my great
grandmother had type two diabetes for three days until she died.

(43:26):
These are type two and type one, totally different, by
the way, totally different. Her daughter, my great grandmother, had
type two diabetes for three years before dying. My son
has type one diabetes now for twenty five years without
indication of imminent death. Type one is completely different than
type two. Type two is more lifestyle related. People can

(43:49):
get type two diabetes if they have a healthy lifestyle.
It's just like that's your genetic draw and I'm sorry
about that. But a vast majority of people who have
type two diabetes, it is a lifestyle disease. It is
about obesity, it's about being sedentary, and it's about making
bad choices. Anyway, Mandy, my mother was diagnosed with type

(44:12):
one at age six. She lived to be seventy seven,
had a reasonably high quality life into her seventies. Mandy,
please don't say John Caldera is right. You know how
it goes to his head. Love favorite Texter. You are correct,
and that's why you're my favorite.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
Just saying.

Speaker 4 (44:31):
I want to get Mandy on the blog. It might
be a little generous to call the WNBA a nascent sport,
as it began playing in nineteen ninety seven and still
not close to breaking even. Okay, we've got to talk
about that for just a moment. The WNBA set records
this year, Anthony, did you see did you see their
record setting attendance this year? I've heard did you see

(44:52):
two point five million people went to a WNBA game
and enjoyed themselves? Or I mean maybe they did, maybe
they didn't, but two five million people bought a ticket
to sat down. And then I just googled what the
NBA attendance was. Did you see what I wrote a rod?
Did you see it? Or do you want to guess?

(45:12):
What do you think NBA attendance is per annually? What
do you think this year was?

Speaker 7 (45:18):
I have no idea one hundred mili no.

Speaker 4 (45:21):
No, no, not viewership, just attendance. Attendance, attendance, like.

Speaker 5 (45:25):
For all the teams come up, yeah, yeah, for twenty
twenty five, yeah, this or twenty twenty four yep, oh man,
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (45:34):
Five hundred thousand, oh no, no, no, no.

Speaker 4 (45:36):
More than that, twenty two a little over twenty two
and a half million. So basically ten times what the
WNBA draws. And this is why, and and ladies of
the WNBA, I am not trying to insult any of you,
but to compare yourself to what the NBA has built

(45:57):
in terms of viewership, in terms of television deals, in
terms of attendance and demand sort of equality when it
comes to pay is just ridiculous. Now I'm going to
take you to tennis. For years, there was a lot
of scuttle butt because men made a lot, women made
a lot more than women. And maybe it was in

(46:18):
the nineties when women's tennis really came on strong and
the viewership for women's tennis was better than men's tennis,
and that argument had to fly out the window because
if more people are showing up to watch your sport,
then yeah, you can make that argument all day long.
So it is interesting to me that these women don't

(46:40):
understand that they're still in the building phase. And yes
I called them nascent. I believe they are nascent. They're
on the rise. I do believe that now more than ever,
there are more people watching the w NBA than there
ever has been. First of all, they're on television more, way,
more than they were in nineteen ninety seven. In nineteen
ninety seven, if you saw a WNBA game on television,

(47:04):
it was like a novelty act, right, it was like,
look how the ladies play basketball or whatever. And now
they're actual games that they show on television. And I
will not lie people. I have watched a few WNBA
games this year. I enjoyed them. Are they the fly
you know high flying dunk shows that some NBA games
have been. No, but it was entertaining. I enjoyed it. Mandy,

(47:29):
Why would I go to the WNBA when I could
go down the street and see the joker? Well that's
kind of you know, it's different if you had little
girls take them to a WNBA game. It's super fun
for families, I will say that. But yeah, they got
to stop with thee we deserve. No, No, you don't
you're not producing at as high a level. You're just

(47:50):
not and it's a ways off. Ask the guys in
the ABA how much money they made. And by the way,
basketball had been around for a really long time at
that point, So I don't know. I wish them well,
but all the whining and just you know, is what
we deserve. Well, I don't know if you really want that.

(48:10):
By the way, Hey, Rod, did you hear the Rockies
have been eliminated from playoff contention?

Speaker 7 (48:16):
They have?

Speaker 4 (48:16):
Yeah, they are out of the playoffs. They're about forty
games out with about thirty to play, so it doesn't
look like they're going to be able to pull this
one out. And you know, we'll have to better luck
next year. Blah blah blah, all that stuff. It's going

(48:38):
to be very interesting to see what, if anything, Rockies
ownership does in this off season. Let me just ask
this question. We're not a sports show. I'm going to
talk about this till the bottom of the hour break
and then we're not gonna talk about it anymore. But
I have I'm curious. Texters to the Common Spirit Health
text line, what do you think the Rockies should do

(49:01):
this summer? What do you think should happen? What would
make you pay attention as a fan again? Because I
got to tell you I love baseball and it is
just we're going to a game this weekend. It's just hard.
It's hard to lose the way the Rockies have lost
this year. It's just hard, and it gets hard to

(49:23):
remain a baseball fan. It's just they're beating the baseball
fan out of me. So what should the Rockies do
in order to give you some semblance that they wanted
to win? Five? Six, six nine? Oho?

Speaker 7 (49:36):
Text me two words? What one guy? Walker? Momford.

Speaker 5 (49:41):
I'm excited to see his direction. Okay, I think it's
going to be a good change. And uh so you're
saying no, I know, I'm not saying nothing Walker Momford. Okay,
I'm excited to see what Walker's direction.

Speaker 4 (49:54):
Let him make some let him do the thing. Okay. Anyway, Mandy,
the WNBA two point two million attendees half can be
attributed to Kitlin Clark. That is probably right, Mandy. Were
you completely out of options and nothing else on to
watch a w NB A game I started watching out
of curiosity. I will be perfectly honest. It's not like

(50:15):
I was like, eh, WNBA, but it was like a
Saturday and there wasn't a lot of stuff on, so
I stopped and I watched it, and then that was
the That was Kitlin Clark's team, but she was playing
the Sparks. I don't even know where they're, Like, who
the Sparks are?

Speaker 7 (50:32):
What team is the sports?

Speaker 9 (50:34):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (50:34):
La?

Speaker 7 (50:35):
Let's say I think New York.

Speaker 4 (50:36):
Is a liberty la? Okay? So then I started watching
a Sparks game, which was also kind of good too.

Speaker 7 (50:43):
Just say it.

Speaker 4 (50:46):
A lot, Okay. I don't think the Rockies are going
to be sold to the Walton Penner group, like the
way there seems to be a consensus. Uh, well, this
guy went rogue. If they if they if they joined
the Intermural Church Softball League is a suggestion, that's it.
But there's a lot of sell the team things on here.

Speaker 7 (51:07):
I and this is not just for the Rockies. This
is for Major League Baseball overall.

Speaker 5 (51:11):
Wouldn't it be kind of interesting if Major League Baseball,
with the great farm system that they have, have relegation
as a thing.

Speaker 7 (51:18):
You know what that is, right?

Speaker 5 (51:19):
Legation where in different leagues it's usually soccer where I
don't know if it's the bottom one or bottom two
teams will swap places with the top two teams of
the league below for that next year, and so on
and so on.

Speaker 4 (51:33):
And that's the problem Baseball. I see what you're doing.

Speaker 5 (51:38):
Yeah, So what I'm saying is that is so you
would go from being and this could be good for
your system. Really, it's not just being on the Rockies,
just any It could be good for your system because
you go from Major League Baseball to being the best
team in Triple A, and then if you are the
top one or two teams in Triple A that next year,
you then bump back up to Major League Baseball.

Speaker 11 (51:57):
What if they weren't the best league, the miners.

Speaker 5 (52:00):
They would be the best team Triple Ay. They would
be the best dream in Triple a. Because we're talking
about a full team, a Major leaguers mess. What an
embarrassing mess. That would be terrible.

Speaker 7 (52:10):
It would be the best team in Triple A.

Speaker 4 (52:12):
So bad, just saying, Mandy. Another guy said, Mandy, the
Rockies should be relegated to the Miners, take the best
minor league team and replace the whole roscer roster, or rather,
the only way the Rockies will get competitive again, is
for the Montforts to sell the team. I just don't
see him doing that. Number one answer to your Rockies

(52:34):
question would be sell. We shouldn't be surprised, as this
textter the Rockies were out of it four months ago. Yeah,
I would say, when you're on track to have the
worst record in baseball history, I mean the playoffs, at
some point you just realize it's just not gonna happen.

Speaker 9 (52:51):
Just not.

Speaker 4 (52:53):
Mandy, all of it. Everybody says, let us walk her
into the new there you go, clean house players and management.
That's what I would do, no offense to anybody who's
working there, but there is a culture of mediocrity that
has taken hold in that organization.

Speaker 5 (53:13):
Well, there's a really strong and important decision to be
made immediately in the off season for Walker monv and
that's whether to retain or go to the new manager.
Ward Shaper's been the interim now for what at least,
if not two thirds of the season we're talking.

Speaker 4 (53:27):
I actually think, and this is ironic, considering that Bud
Black was a pitcher, I actually think he's done a
better job managing our pitching than Bud used to do.
I would get frustrated with Bud when he would pull
a guy out who had a decent number of pitches
but not an excessive number of pitches, and then bring
in a reliever and I'm like, wait a minute, that
guy may have had one more full inning left, right,

(53:49):
maybe not maybe half an inning whatever, But I always
felt like there.

Speaker 5 (53:53):
Was he was too cautious, and I think that you know, well,
what's going to ultimately lead even when it comes. I
know Rockies fans bear with me when I say this,
When the success comes for the Rockies, it's going to
be leaning into the numbers game, the the analytics, the
hardcore baseball nerdiness, moneyball esque that will make this team

(54:16):
in this market successful. It's all about how much Warren
Schaeffer is already or will lean into stuff like that,
stuff that made the Oakland A's successful for many years
up until the last couple of years.

Speaker 7 (54:25):
Like he's rays as well.

Speaker 4 (54:27):
Here's our issue right now is that Dick Montfort loves
to talk about the Rockies Way, which his draft develop
and then apparently trade the Rockies Way when you have
only made the playoffs like what five times in thirty
three seasons. The Rockies Way is a failure. I'm gonna failure.

Speaker 5 (54:46):
I will ask Devil's advocate question though, when it comes
to the Trader referencing Nolan Trevor story, et cetera. Were
those guys staying, do you try to get something in
your farm system? For those guys leading no, you're gonna
say no, you don't pay him fifty million?

Speaker 7 (55:02):
Well also leave. I get that part, that's that part
for sure.

Speaker 5 (55:05):
But if you're being told either straight up from these players,
I'm not saying move me if you want to get something.

Speaker 4 (55:12):
If you've got a talent like Nolan Eronado, do you
know what you do when your GM comes to you
and says, we can't work with Nolan. You fire the
GM and you get a GM that can.

Speaker 7 (55:20):
What about working with Nolan? What if Nolan says, I'm leaving, get.

Speaker 4 (55:23):
Rid of y Nolan leave Jeff Brightitch is why Nolan left.
That is the story that I've always heard from everybody
who knows. In that case, fire the GM, you keep
Nolan Ernado because Jeff Brydage never hit a home run,
not one, not one.

Speaker 5 (55:37):
No, he's gone now. But I'm just maybe I should
have happened. I tried to keep him, but at the
end of the day of bottom line. You try to
get something, you try to replace it.

Speaker 4 (55:46):
They got nothing. They just released Austin Gomer the last
part of that trade. They got nothing. We'll be right back.
I've got to share some of this column with you.
This is so interesting. This is by a kid named
Ethan Cornell. He has been part of the Future Leader's
program at the Independence Institute. He's getting a master's degree
in Natural Resources and Energy policy at the Colorado School

(56:08):
of Mines and Young. Ethan decided to do a deep
dive on RTD and exactly how green or not RTD
really is. Listen to this. The Denver Regional Transportation District
that's RTD often markets itself as a green solution to traffic,
congestion and climate change. In reality, RTD uses more energy

(56:31):
and emits more greenhouse gases per passenger mile than the
average car and even the average SUV. In twenty nineteen,
RTD consumed for and you know what, I'm gonna skip
over this part because if I read a bunch of numbers,
your eyes are going to glaze over. The fact of
the matter is they admitted two hundred and eighty six

(56:52):
grams of co two per passenger mile, the average car
one hundred and ninety six. This raise this is a
tough question. Is RTD really green or just financially wasteful.
According to urtd's own financial records, its operating budget increased
by nearly sixty percent between twenty twenty one and twenty
twenty three, growing from six hundred and twenty nine million

(57:15):
to over one billion, Yet ridership is shrinking. Since twenty
twenty one, total rail boardings have dropped by nearly ten percent,
and light rail boardings alone have fallen more than eighteen percent,
from thirteen point six million to eleven point one million
riders fair box recovery. The portion of its budget covered

(57:36):
by passenger fares has fallen below five percent. Meeting riders
pay just five cents for every dollar the agency spends,
Taxpayers cover the rest. Despite claims of reducing congestion, the
opposite has happened. Since voters approved these seven point two
billion dollar fast tracks in two thousand and four, the

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congestion is worsened. According to the Texas A and M
Transportation Institute, Denver commuters spent sixty six hours in traffic
in twenty twenty two, up from fifty hours in two
thousand and four. RTD's impact across Metro Denver is minimal.
In Douglas and Jefferson County's transit usage among workers is
below one point five percent. In Broomfield it rarely exceeds

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two percent. Even in a Repo county home to the
job rich Denver Tech Center, just two point one percent
of workers take transit to their jobs. These aren't just
census numbers. They're a wake up call. RTD also significantly
contributes to emissions, and then it gives the numbers about
CO two and blah blah blah and whatever. RTD argues

(58:45):
that it offsets this by removing cars from the road,
estimating two hundred and forty thousand tons of CO two
avoided per year. However, this assumes that every rider would
otherwise drive solo, and it ignores the emissions from running
near empty buses and trains. RTD and its supporters like
to claim that public transportation is inherently green as well

(59:07):
as efficient and equitable, but the data tells a different story.
Despite billions of dollars in spending the Denver metro regions,
percentage of people who use public transit to work hasn't budged.
It holds steady at four point eight percent. From two

(59:27):
thousand to twenty nineteen, we have made zero progress, zero zero,
even with five new rail lines and flashy news stations
from the fast track spendings free Congestion has not declined,
and neither have car commutes. If RTD wants to be

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part of a sustainable future, it needs to earn that role.
That means publishing energy provider data, reallocating service to high
ridership corridors, and eliminating underperforming routes. Until that we should
stop calling RTD green just because it runs on rails. That,
my friends, is incredibly sobering. But the problem is is

(01:00:10):
that now we've built all these light rails. Well, we've
built all these rails, we can't just we can't just
stop now. Government is most susceptible to the soak cost
fallacy because it's not their money, right, It's easy to
continue spending money on something that is obviously failing if
it's not your money. Now, if we got to go
to every single person involved in RTD and say, okay,

(01:00:33):
what how much of your personal wealth are you willing
to take and move towards funding RTD to get it
where you think it can be. What percentage of your
total personal wealth are you willing to commit to make
that happen. I bet you would be hearing a much
different conversation. But when you're talking about quote government dollars,

(01:00:54):
which are it's my money, it's a rod's money, it's
to our money, right, those seem to be endless and
they have no real cost because they don't have to
look us in the face and demand that we give
them money to support ninety five cents of every dollar
they spend because no one is consuming their product. I mean,
that's just I saw this today and I knew it

(01:01:15):
was bad. I knew it was I knew that it
was not great, right. I knew that we were subsidizing
a tiny fraction of people in the Denver metro area
by spending gobs and gobs of money, But I didn't
realize it was this bad, and I didn't just see
it just sort of laid out. We have not changed

(01:01:37):
the number of the percentage of people who use public
transit in twenty five years four point eight percent. And
by the way, you guys, they stopped counting that at
twenty nineteen We've never recovered from the losses during COVID
and maybe even lower now. It's crazy. It's just this

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is well, here's what I would do. Before somebody says, well,
that would you do to fix it? We've already about
these I know it's coming. Put a high speed buses
on those rail lines. Fill in the railroad tracks, just
fill them up and put buses. Because buses are cheaper.
You can add more buses, like after a concert or
a game, you can add a ton more buses. Apparently

(01:02:17):
you can't add trains or add any trains to the
schedule because they don't do that. Mandy urtd is Colorado's
largest DEI operation. Just look at the leadership, i e.
Their Dingbat CEO, Mandy. Unfortunately, it isn't a great system,
and it isn't consistent or right reliable. The best purpose

(01:02:38):
would be the shuttle people to and from concerts, but
they're bad at that because the trains stop operating exactly right.
This is a perfect example of something that doesn't have
to respond to market forces. If they were a private company,
if this light rail system or in this train system
private company, they would have to say, wait a minute,
you know what what's happening is that lots of people

(01:03:00):
after this concert are going, Okay, guys, I need you
to work that night. But when it's you don't have
to worry about whether or not you sell a single ticket,
which is where they are now. This is what happens
when you give something a monopoly and say, you know what,
do what you're gonna do. We're gonna keep throwing more
money your way. That's a great song. That's one of
those songs that makes me wish I was sitting on

(01:03:20):
a beach with my toes in the sand kind of
thing and just hanging out having chicken fried steak.

Speaker 7 (01:03:26):
No, I prefer chicken fried chicken.

Speaker 4 (01:03:29):
I like chicken fried steak and chicken fry. Chicken fried
steak was one of the first Southern foods that I
ever learned how to make because my high school boyfriend's
granny taught me how to make it, and I still
know how to make it just like she taught me.
She was an amazing woman.

Speaker 5 (01:03:44):
Even with great and I mean great chicken fried steak,
there's something weird about all the texture on the outside
lasting not as long as the steak, so you get
to the steak as you're devouring and it's just weird.

Speaker 4 (01:03:56):
You have done well, and that has done really good.
I'm just saying, I mean, when it's done right, it's
really so delicious. Anyway, I didn't mean to go off
on the Now I'm hungry. Dang it, dang it, dang it. Okay,
So we are going to be getting some information on
Jeffrey Epstein. It is going to be coming from a
book by the late Virginia Jeffrey.

Speaker 5 (01:04:19):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:04:20):
Her story, man, this, her story is terrible.

Speaker 7 (01:04:25):
It's just terrible.

Speaker 9 (01:04:27):
She was like.

Speaker 4 (01:04:28):
Sixteen years old when she started getting groomed by Julaine Maxwell,
and then she was allegedly trafficked to like Prince Andrew
and Prince Andrews settled a lawsuit with her, and recently,
in April of this year, she was found dead. And
it looks like a suicide. I mean, as I said that,

(01:04:49):
you guys, I kind of rolled my eyes. Which makes
me feel bad. That she had struggled for a long
time with depression. She had been very depressed at that time.
This is according to her family. But I still part
of me is like, oh, of course she did sure,
Sure she did well. Publisher Naff Knopf Knaff has said

(01:05:10):
they will be publishing her book, Nobody's Girl, and it
should hit the shelves in a few weeks. And in
it it's called Nobody's Girl, a memoir of surprise for
surviving abuse and fighting for justice in it. I don't
know how much she's going to name names. I really don't.
She has admitted in the past that because she is

(01:05:32):
trying to remember long ago events that she has mistakenly,
you know, accused people of doing things. She initially accused
Alan Dershowitz of assaulting her, and Alan Dershowitz was like, no,
I didn't do that, and she came out later and said, ah,
I might have had that one wrong. And the only
reason I say this, and I say that I'm dying

(01:05:52):
to read this book, I'm I'm going to pre order
the book. I'm not gonna lie. I want to read
this book the second it comes out. I bet this
book will more copies than the Bible on the day
that it comes out, because I want to know what
she has to say about it. The entire Epstein situation
is one of the most frustrating, irritating, trust breaking, not

(01:06:15):
that I have a lot of trust in the federal government.
I just don't. I don't care who's running it. I
really don't if what we should have learned by everything
we have learned since Trump got back into office about
the ways that government is used to abuse citizens. And
by the way, if you think the Trump administration isn't
capable of that, yeah, I think they are.

Speaker 1 (01:06:34):
I do.

Speaker 4 (01:06:34):
I think they are.

Speaker 7 (01:06:37):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:06:38):
I could also argue that this is going to be
the only thing that finally brings the end of lawfare.
When Democrats try to use the system against their political opponents,
and then their political opponents win and they try and
use the system against their political opponents. That's going to

(01:06:58):
be the only thing that stops that kind of nonesce
from happening again. The threat that when we lose, it's
gonna happen to us is the only thing that's gonna
scare these people straight. So you know it has to happen.
But I wonder, are you guys gonna read it? Are
you gonna order it? Text me five six six nine, Oh, Mandy,

(01:07:19):
I'm I'm confused. I think maybe this text was not
for me. I don't even know what purple whole piece are.
What are purple whole piece. I mean, I know, wait,
purple whole piece image. Let's see what we got here.
Oh yeah, I know what those are. They're like black
eyed peas. I mean, that's that's what they are, aren't

(01:07:42):
they They look exactly the same. I mean, what's the difference?
Why are they called purple whole piece? And now I
have to text this person back and say what what
is happening? Why are you sending I'll do that right
now and I'll have a full report on the other
side of the break. But I also have a bunch
of other stuff that we're going to talk about, including

(01:08:03):
hy EMUs make terrible pets, and how Adam Schiff is
trying to lie his way out of something that is
documented on notary paper.

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Speaker 7 (01:08:36):
Sad bab Welcome.

Speaker 4 (01:08:38):
Welcome about them to the third hour of the show.
I'm your host, Mandy Connell. That guy across the glass,
he's Anthony Rodriguez. You can call him a rod god.
A weird question, Anthony, I need your opinion on something.
Do you think the fact that former NBA star Sean
Kemp was just sentenced to thirty days of electronic home
monitoring and one year of community custody after pleading guilty

(01:08:58):
to shooting at a stolen car outside the Tacoma Mall
increases the value of his rookie cards.

Speaker 7 (01:09:06):
Uh, weird, weird maybe, but I mean true probably.

Speaker 4 (01:09:11):
I mean I think, yeah, I think might be my chance.
Now I gotta go through all my I have a
ton of NBA cards Ton Ton he was signed. You know,
I'm such an I'm a great girlfriend a rod And
when I was a flight attendant I used to fly
out of Orlando all the time and I always worked

(01:09:31):
in first class and I always carried a Shaquille O'Neil
rookie card with me and I got one signed by
him on a flight and then I gave it to
my boyfriend at the time for his birthday, not my
boyfriend or husband. Now I might add so anyway, I
didn't get one for myself. But I do have a
Shack rookie card because I was just a fan. That's

(01:09:53):
not what I wanted to talk about. Can we talk
about Adam Schiff getting what he deserves. You know, we
don't get to see karma in action very often. But
this guy, now, Senator Adam Schiff, What a scumbag this
guy is. He sat on television over and over and

(01:10:15):
over again talking about how the goods and oh he
had it in his pocket, he had the evidence to
drump was a Russian asset and oh my goodness, we're
gonna get him, and blah blah blah blah blah. Now
we know that not only did he not have the evidence,
he knew he was lying. So imagine my delight when
now Senator Adam Schiff is being accused of mortgage fraud.

(01:10:38):
May I have my computer, Anthony, because he went on
NBC News with Kristin Welker yesterday and she asked him
about it. Mortgage company Fanny May says, you're quote engaged
in a sustained pattern of possible occupancy misrepresentation on several loans.
Are these allegations true? How do you respond to them?

Speaker 7 (01:10:59):
The false? And the president knows it.

Speaker 12 (01:11:01):
In the Housing Agency, president's person, Poulty knows it. He's
essentially doing the President's bidding against me, against Letitia James,
against this person on the Federal Reserve.

Speaker 7 (01:11:13):
Mortgage is their new.

Speaker 12 (01:11:14):
Weapon to go after their critics. But I've been very
open about my residency both in California and in Maryland
with my constituents and with the lenders.

Speaker 13 (01:11:23):
So there's no there there.

Speaker 7 (01:11:25):
But the common denominator is.

Speaker 12 (01:11:28):
They will manufacture anything to go after their critics, after
members of Congress to try to silence them, after John Bolton,
after people in the Federal Reserve, after generals.

Speaker 4 (01:11:38):
Now I'm just going to stop Adam Schiff right there,
because I just need you to remember, as he's going
on talking about how the Trump administration weaponizes government to
go after their opponents, Let's not forget. This is the
dude that knew that the entire Trump Russian collusion operation
was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign. He knew it

(01:12:00):
was predicated on a dossier that was so ridiculous that
even the FBI, who would have loved to have substantiate
any of the crap and it could not. But here
he is talking about how bad the Trump administration is
for doing what he laid The groundwork for comment.

Speaker 12 (01:12:17):
Denominator is they will manufacture anything to go after their
manufacturing remembers of Congress to try to silence them. After
John Bolton, after people on the Federal Reserve, after generals, after.

Speaker 4 (01:12:30):
Let me just say this about John Bolton. Remember when
we were told no one is above the law. John
Bolton emailed top secret documents to his wife and daughter.
And he may have top secret documents in his house.
So he better pretending like he's an old man, a
sympathetic old man with a bad memory. But I'll let
him finish.

Speaker 12 (01:12:50):
They're investigating call me and Clapper, the Obamas.

Speaker 4 (01:12:54):
Coll Mey and Clapper were actually the two that conspired
to push the fake Russian narrative forward after their own
analyst said, nah, dog, it's not real, but.

Speaker 7 (01:13:03):
I'll let him go on buttons.

Speaker 12 (01:13:05):
Basically, it's free reign with a corrupt leadership of the Justice.

Speaker 4 (01:13:10):
Wait, corrupt leadership of the Justice Apartment. I'm sorry, who
are we talking about. Well, i'll let him finish, apartment,
and just very quickly, will you cooperate with the investigation.

Speaker 12 (01:13:19):
Oh, well, we have, and we've refuted their allegations.

Speaker 7 (01:13:22):
In fact, we put in writing. But it doesn't matter.

Speaker 12 (01:13:25):
What matters to them is the intimidation campaign, and they're
going to mount it against anyone who stands up to
the president.

Speaker 7 (01:13:32):
But I'm not backing down, and I have.

Speaker 12 (01:13:34):
To hope that others will stand up to this increasing
authoritarian form of government.

Speaker 4 (01:13:39):
Okay, I need you to go watch this video because
this man lies the same with the same ease as
he breathes. Because here's the problem. Here's the problem. Here's
some audio that I want you to hear where he
talks about his residency, because the issue is that when
he applied for a mortgage for his place in Maryland,
he said it was his principal residence. But for the

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refins that he's done for his house in California, he
said it was the principal It was the principal residence.
You get much different mortgage rate treatment when it is
your principal evidence. So where does he live. I'll let
you hear from him.

Speaker 12 (01:14:15):
That's what he said, kids, and that our principal residence,
our primary residence is in California and always has been
and always will be.

Speaker 4 (01:14:22):
Okay. So, unfortunately, one of his political thorns in the
side is a woman named Christine bish in California. She's
running for Congress, and she has pulled over three hundred
pages of documents, including notarized property records and tax forms,
that Adam Schiff maintained his primary residence was in Maryland,

(01:14:48):
so this is not asked. But this is not just accusations.
These are accusations with significant evidence, notarized documents where he
he swore when he signed his name that this was
his principal residence. He knew it, he knows he's caught,
and the way that he lies about it was such ease.

(01:15:11):
There's no uncomfortable, there's none of that.

Speaker 7 (01:15:14):
It is.

Speaker 4 (01:15:14):
This is just a witch hunt against me and other people,
and this totalitarian dictatorship of a presidency. No, man, you
gave them rope and they're hanging you with it. You
went after Donald Trump thinking that somehow he would never
get back into office, but underestimating whether or not he

(01:15:35):
was going to get back in office and do the
exact same thing to you that you did to him.
Only the problem is there was actually stuff you did,
Senator Adam Schiff, and that's what you're being I mean,
this is I enjoy this. I'm enjoying this a ton,
But don't ever forget how much these people lie, and

(01:15:57):
they lie with ease every single day, every single day.
When we get back, I've got a couple of things.
Dang it, because I got a you know what, we
got to talk about climate change. Nope, when we get back,
we're gonna talk about why you shouldn't have an EMU
as a pet. Climate change comes up later. Hey, Ron,
on that break, I was subject to an extortion attempt.

(01:16:18):
Uh oh, I shut him down though it started. It
started like this, let me make sure, let me see
that is a ridiculous song. Until you change it, I
will not listen to your show again. You're my theme
song the song yeah, to which I responded okay by then,
and this person texted back and said yeah, because it's

(01:16:40):
a really stupid song. And I was like, yeah, but
I'm not gonna fall for your extortion. I was just
exercising my freedom of speech. They come back, I'm like, no,
exercising freedom of speech as I hate your song. Not
I'm going to demand you change something about your show
where I'm not going to listen. Right, That's not how
that worked. That's extortion. And I don't play. Do not play?

Speaker 5 (01:17:01):
I mean it could we could give them one of
our variants they like Country Wars.

Speaker 4 (01:17:16):
Maybe yeah, I mean if.

Speaker 7 (01:17:20):
They don't like that one.

Speaker 4 (01:17:21):
Yeah, what else do we have in that library?

Speaker 7 (01:17:23):
Could we could do whatever this is.

Speaker 3 (01:17:27):
In thee?

Speaker 4 (01:17:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:17:31):
Were they version of that?

Speaker 7 (01:17:33):
Yeah? You know, I don't know. We could mix it
up a little.

Speaker 4 (01:17:41):
Baby, Yeah, yeah, made a magic.

Speaker 7 (01:17:51):
Stories a lot, just some options.

Speaker 4 (01:17:55):
We can do something different, totally different, but not because
we won't because I'm not going to be extorted.

Speaker 7 (01:18:01):
So nah.

Speaker 4 (01:18:02):
Anyway, let's get to why emos are a terrible pet? Now,
anyod have you ever been around an emu?

Speaker 7 (01:18:08):
Not up clothes?

Speaker 4 (01:18:09):
Okay, they're just big. They're not as big as ostriches,
but they're still large birds. They look a little bit
like dinosaurs. Somebody pointed that out, and I'm like, you
know what, that's a fair assessment. Well, now we have
had two lost EMUs in the last couple of weeks,
this one in Weld County, and come to find out
to Dash, the emu had escaped from his family. Dash

(01:18:33):
has now been reunited with his family. But this goes
to show some things don't make good pets. I'm just
throwing that out there. Some things make bad pets, even
really bad pets. And I put Emo's right there, and
as not as high as like like a tiger or

(01:18:54):
a lion. They make the worst pets, I think, although
you kept him really well fed. They're probably like giant
Saint Bernard's. When I was in college, I had a
couple of friends that were They had a license in
Florida to do rehabilitation for large cats, and they pretty

(01:19:14):
much had a setup in their where their pool cage was.
They had this giant, like super reinforced. It wasn't a
regular pool cage. It was a pool cage that was
covered with you know, steel kind of fencing. So that
is where he kept the big cats while they were rehabbing.
He also had two big Rottweilers and they had these big,

(01:19:35):
thick you know you see those spiked collars. That's what
they're for to protect the dogs from a cat. It
was playing. The cats never attacked the dogs or vice versa,
but the cats would play and they would you know,
kind of play and put their mouth around the dog's
necks and accidentally kill the dogs on occasion. Apparently never
happened when I knew them, but I'm just saying it could.

(01:19:56):
But they didn't make great pets, but it was still
like Emu's. This is kind of like I don't want
to cuddle a duck. I don't want to cuddle an emu.
I don't want to cuddle a turtle. I want to
cuddle a big fluf. Although I gave my dog a
bath yesterday and I went to give her a kiss
on the head today, Does Poppy shed really bad after
you guys bathe her?

Speaker 9 (01:20:17):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:20:18):
Not really, No.

Speaker 4 (01:20:19):
After I give Jinks a bath the next day, it's
like every hair in her body is completely disconnected. And
when I get home today, I will first take the
vacuum and just vacuum her, and then I'll take a
brush and really brush her. But she was still wet
yesterday and she doesn't like to be brushed.

Speaker 5 (01:20:33):
Well, she does she at fur? Oh yeah, Okay, she's
got fur. We're convinced that like Poppy has more so
like hair. She's definitely not coat. Yeah, because people that
are allergic to dogs don't really have much reaction around her.

Speaker 7 (01:20:44):
Yeah, so we think she's somewhat I alergize.

Speaker 4 (01:20:48):
She maybe a little bit of a doodle mix or
a water spaniel mix or something, just knowing how she looks. Yeah, Mandy,
I thought Johnny Cash got attacked by an ostrich. Maybe
could be Mandy. I heard chicken fried emu is pretty good.
I don't know. I don't think that would be good
because emu cannot be cooked to more than medium rare.

(01:21:09):
Have you ever had emu as that last? Honestly, it's
like dark meat. It's like it's like steak medium rare
past What are you? What are you unstaked?

Speaker 7 (01:21:22):
Oh jeez yeah? Medium? Well you know yourself.

Speaker 4 (01:21:25):
Never have a rod over for sake, there's something in me.
I cannot cook steak past medium. I can get it
to medium, pink all the way through, but I just
I cannot go past that. Just I just I can't
do it. I cannot.

Speaker 5 (01:21:44):
Just said, people like what they like medium wells, not
well done, okay, chill.

Speaker 4 (01:21:50):
Mandy Agovi has a pet, Piranha terrible pet, just terrible,
terrible pet. Yeah, but why, I don't know. I've seen
people with raccoons as pets. They seem like they would
be a mix of a cat and a toddler. Raccoons
can be really, really mean. I have not officially been
attacked by a raccoon, but I've been in close proximity

(01:22:10):
with one that it was giving me the mean look
before I escape. No raccoons for me either, even though
they are cute and have little human hands. Also go
I like this one a lot. But we're just breaking

(01:22:31):
out some of the old Mandy Connell show songs just
because we can. And somebody requested the SKA version. And
if you ask a decent question, you shall receive. Not
everyone asked a decent question. But my next guest is
here to talk about something. And I said this at
the very beginning of the show. I realized that a
lot of people in this listening audience don't like love
real estate and don't follow it like I do so obsessively.

(01:22:52):
But ultimately, our homes are our largest asset for many
of us, right they are our wealth building tool. And
if you think, Okay, I've got this much equity in
my house and nothing can happen, you're crazy. Because I
lived through the housing crisis in two thousand and eight
and two thousand and nine in the number one market
in the country for foreclosures. I saw houses that sold

(01:23:13):
for nine hundred thousand dollars sell again for three seventy five.
So do the math on that in your head, and
then you begin to understand why I obsessively follow the
real estate market, because this is not just about what
homes are selling and how much you're selling for. It's
about how much my assets are worth. And joining me
now to talk about that is my realtor and smart
guy himself, Ed Prather. And before we got on the air,

(01:23:36):
Ed you and I were chatting about the fact that
from a purely spectator perspective, this is what I have
just as a hobby, I follow the real estate market.
This market is fascinating. There are a lot of things
happening in this market that almost shouldn't be happening but are.
And it really goes to show that you better have

(01:23:57):
a plan if you want to sell your home. But
if you have a good plan and you have a
good strategy, and you have an aggressive realtor, you can
sell your home in this market. So let's do a
big overview right now of where we are.

Speaker 13 (01:24:12):
Well.

Speaker 9 (01:24:12):
Absolutely, and you know, Mandy, first and foremost, thank you
for having me. It's always a pleasure to be on.
And you know, you and I were just talking about
the fact that some of the properties that hit the market,
you know that are are priced well, you know that
that look good, are the ones that sit and then
other ones that you wouldn't expect to move quickly, move
move very quickly. And you know, I think it's more important.

(01:24:34):
You know, first and foremost, we need to remind ourselves.
I mean, homes are selling each and every day, but
it is more difficult, and it's more difficult because we've
got more inventory than we've had for many, many years.
And so when you've got you know, instead of in
your neighborhood you've got a few for sale, maybe you
have a dozen for sales. So you need to be
able to differentiate as a seller. You know, when people

(01:24:58):
are walking into the property down the street, how is
yours going to compare her? And you know whether that
be finishes the lot the curve appeal, you know, because
the last thing we want to do is to get
to that point where we have to differentiate through price,
and that's where you see reduction after reduction and properties
sitting for longer than they should. But you know, overall,

(01:25:21):
what I will say is this, you know, on the
sales side, we are seeing seller sitting more than they
have in the past. But historically speaking, you know, it's
still I hate to say it because it seems crazy,
but it is a seller's market. And I say that
based on the three point eight months of inventory that
we have. I mean, historically speaking, four to six months

(01:25:43):
is a balanced market, so we're still below that, but
it's just so different than it has been over the
last few years. It's hard not to notice that contrast,
and especially when when you're trying to sell your home
and it's taking longer than you want.

Speaker 4 (01:25:57):
So from my perspective, and I told Ed, I watch
my neighborhood. I've been watching my neighborhood for the twelve
years that we live there. I want to know what
people are selling their homes for, what I am seeing,
what I am perceiving to see. If your house in
pictures looks like it needs a lot of work, it
is not necessarily going to sell unless it is something

(01:26:17):
that can be flipped, right, unless you're going to get
those investor dollars. But say it's a great home in
an older neighborhood that is just super dated. Those are
the ones that are sitting in my neighborhood. Is that
what you're seeing in other places as well.

Speaker 9 (01:26:30):
It's such a good point, Mandy. And in this market specifically,
you know in the Denver metro area, what we have seen,
and it's very clear and more so than ever now,
is that the consumer, the buyer in this market wants
a fixed up they want a remodeled property. And you
know that's not to say that a property that is

(01:26:51):
priced well or even below market that needs some love
isn't going to move. But when we start talking about
the investor route, you have to understand that they're needs
to be a profit involved there. So you know, if
we're trying to get the very most for our homes
when our sellers, when we're working with our folks, and
usually that's over months as we get ready to bring
the property to market because we want to have it prepare.

Speaker 13 (01:27:13):
We wanted to present to the market the right way.

Speaker 9 (01:27:15):
Anything that was sort of hey, should we do this,
should we hold off, should we touch up paint?

Speaker 13 (01:27:21):
Should we not?

Speaker 9 (01:27:22):
Almost always now it's go ahead and do it, because again,
we want.

Speaker 13 (01:27:26):
To differentiate through finishes, you know, through the quality, through
the feel you know, because it's it's not just the photos.

Speaker 9 (01:27:33):
I mean, Mandy, you've seen this before where you know
it looks great in photos, you walk into the house
and it's something completely different. You know, we need that
perception you know, to match the reality. So we are
making sure that we're presenting and coaching our sellers to
to do those things that maybe they wouldn't have had
to do in the past.

Speaker 13 (01:27:54):
As far as some of the repairs and upgrades.

Speaker 4 (01:27:56):
Yeah, I mean there are some things that people can do,
and these are such small things. One of the things
I always notice ed and this is probably just me,
like being a neurotic person. You know what I notice
is old light switches and old light switches make something seen.
And by old light switches, I mean the traditional ones
with the little you know, little guy that goes up

(01:28:16):
and down instead of the flat switches. Those right a
space for me, And that's like the first thing I'm like, Well,
this house was built before at least nineteen ninety one
or nineteen ninety right, So what are there little things
do you say to people like, hey, you know what,
that's not going to cost you a lot of money.
Maybe change out those light switches or something else that
other people notice. Is popcorn still a huge deal?

Speaker 1 (01:28:40):
You know it is?

Speaker 9 (01:28:42):
And I don't know that I would say it's a
huge deal, but it's something that we notice. And just
like you said, you walk into a home, and there's
some things that sort of go, oh, this is an
older home. And again, if we've got a number of
properties nearby that are listed for a similar price, you
know we want to differentiate and we can remove popcorn
and ceilings that you know, great, Obviously, we want to

(01:29:03):
get that tested before doing so. The switches, of course,
you know, take that one further, Mandy. I mean, if
they're the beige switches in outlet covers and outlets, that
is easy to switch out to the to the bright white. Also,
if you're talking about trim and doorcasing, you know, if
we go to the squared off white versus even sort

(01:29:23):
of some of that wood tone. And I always say this,
you know, when I'm working with our sellers, I say, hey,
the last thing I want to do is be critical,
but I want you to understand what the consumer sees.
And you know, the consumer these days again wants a
very fresh, new feeling product and it doesn't need to
be a brand new house. In fact, you know, sale
in this market in Colorado is huge because people like infill,

(01:29:47):
you know, they like the mature neighborhoods and they like
the older properties to that.

Speaker 13 (01:29:51):
Extent as well.

Speaker 9 (01:29:52):
But they need to feel newer, they need to feel fresh,
they need to feel well taken care of.

Speaker 13 (01:29:58):
And you know, good bones go a long way.

Speaker 9 (01:30:01):
But in this market, I would say, let's go that
extra mile and freshen up, whether that be even you know,
going as far as is you know, repainting, carpet touch
or redoing flooring, whether that be wood floor, carpet. But
the biggest thing is we want to be sure that
what we're advising and suggesting that we're getting a return
on because I completely understand it's not convenient bring your

(01:30:24):
home to market and it's.

Speaker 13 (01:30:26):
Not cheap to do this stuff. So we want to
make sure that we get a return on that effort
in time.

Speaker 4 (01:30:31):
And this is one of those things like what it
does the neighborhood that you're living in right now or
you're you know, you're wanting to sell in. Are there
neighborhoods that are moving quickly still? Are there neighborhoods that
almost be like a sure thing?

Speaker 13 (01:30:46):
Absolutely?

Speaker 9 (01:30:47):
But I would say it's so specific it's hard to
say because you've got neighborhoods say like the you know,
the Highlands or or Cherry Hills where you know it's incredible.
Like in Cherry Hills, you're still seeing very of homes
move very very quickly because it's somewhat of a closed market.

Speaker 13 (01:31:03):
You know, there's not a ton of.

Speaker 9 (01:31:04):
These houses, but it's it's very specific to the street
and very specific to the house. And so it is
we're beyond the time where you can just say, well,
you know, this neighborhood, no matter what happens, moves moves
very quickly.

Speaker 13 (01:31:18):
Like you know, we do some business in for example, apple.

Speaker 9 (01:31:22):
Wood West, which is a really really nice area, and
and a lot of the areas that have a little
bit of land, you know, larger lots, older homes with character.

Speaker 13 (01:31:32):
You'll have a lot of desire, have a lot of demand.

Speaker 9 (01:31:34):
But I'll tell you what, you can still mess that
up by by marketing, you know, incorrectly, inappropriately and certainly mispricing.
Because if we want a price above market and it sits,
it's like you and I were talking about before jumping
on here. You know, the longer it sits, in almost
every scenario, the property is going to be worth less.
Whether that's fair or not. You and I see it

(01:31:57):
the same way. I mean, why is this house sitting?
Some thing has to be wrong even if there isn't anything.

Speaker 4 (01:32:02):
Wrong ed, bra there is my gift, or in my gift,
he is my gift, he's my guest. Also, we're talking
about the Colorado or real estate market, you know, ed,
is this another period in your industry? And I'm not
asking you to disparage anyone else in any stretch of
the imagination, but is this going to be another period
in your industry where we sort of separate the wheat
from the chaff a little bit, where we have professionals

(01:32:23):
that this is your career who are going to be around,
versus folks who may have gotten their license, who previously
may have sold one house a year. Are we going
to kind of get rid of that sort of extra
in your industry? If that makes sense.

Speaker 13 (01:32:38):
It absolutely does, and we already are.

Speaker 9 (01:32:40):
You know, in twenty twenty towards the end as things
really heated up with rates going down, and certainly through
twenty twenty one and part of twenty two, you saw
a huge amount of folks getting their license and you
can't blame them, you know. It was almost like you
could throw a sign in the yard and you'd get
multiple at almost any price. That is not the case now,

(01:33:04):
so you're seeing a lot of distress in the industry
or people are sort of looking around and going, well,
you know what am I supposed to do now? And
that's where I would say, also, you're getting you know,
I mean, gosh, buyers and sellers are smart, and in
times like this, it's less likely that you're going to say, hey,

(01:33:25):
why don't I give my friend of a friend a
shot who's never sold the house.

Speaker 13 (01:33:29):
It is not the time for that. You know, we
need experience behind it.

Speaker 9 (01:33:32):
And again, you know properties are selling every day, but
it is it is not through happenstance, and we're really
intentional on how we bring.

Speaker 13 (01:33:41):
These properties to market. So you're absolutely right.

Speaker 9 (01:33:43):
I mean you're you were seeing the number of folks
renew their license and that's kind of what we look
at and you can kind of see what's happened there.
Decrease is substantially And to give you an idea, we
have about forty thousand agents across the front range and
just over seven thousand agents did one deal or more

(01:34:05):
and a lot of those only did one. So you
can see a huge sujority are sitting on the sidelines.

Speaker 4 (01:34:11):
Uh, Ed is the guy you want to call if
you're ready to sell your home. He could walk you
through the process, get you what you need. And I'm
relatively certain he can get your household whether I wouldn't
do commercials for him. So, Ed, I appreciate your time
this morning, uh, this or this afternoon. Edprather dot com,
Edprayther dot com, ed p R A T H e
R dot com. I'll talk to again soon, my friend.

Speaker 13 (01:34:33):
Hey, I appreciate you, Mandy, take care all right, thank you?

Speaker 4 (01:34:36):
That is Ed Prather. Now, Oh, Mandy, I did not
see this. I'm so sorry, Mandy. Can you ask ed
about the sale of condominiums. I live in a condo development,
and man, they are not selling very quickly at all,
not like they used to. No, and that's a shame
because condo living is still entry level home ownership for

(01:34:57):
a lot of people. And there are some screaming good
deal on condos right now. So you can always call
him and ask about that. I'm sure he would take
your phone call, no problem, No problem, Mandy. What about
Albert County sales two to five acres? Again, I did
not get that in time. Ben Albright's come in the
studio today after creating a huge kerfuffle today about a

(01:35:20):
cracker barrel on the on the interwebs, and the people
thought I was serious about my.

Speaker 3 (01:35:28):
Rage.

Speaker 4 (01:35:28):
I mean I figured when I used simmering, you know,
like I thought sure when I went to peg game comment,
I thought for.

Speaker 7 (01:35:34):
Sure, I'm afrained from the joke I would have to
make there. And I just let that sort of go.
And then I checked that again on the thread. I
don't know, I must have been an hour later, yeah,
and I.

Speaker 4 (01:35:43):
Was like, oh my god, yeah, come on, it's okay.
They didn't get your joke there. Apparently there's like a
way I found this out from another texture. When you
write in caps and lowercase that is sarcasm.

Speaker 5 (01:35:57):
I had no idea, yeah, using a little slash a
meme as well, no idea, no clue.

Speaker 7 (01:36:03):
I use the slash thing because like, people can't tell
what I'm being dumb.

Speaker 4 (01:36:07):
Golly, people are dumb.

Speaker 7 (01:36:09):
Yeah, but I I just didn't understand what people were
outraged about it. Now, once you saw the remodel.

Speaker 4 (01:36:14):
It's so generic, so blood. It doesn't feel like a
Grandma's warm hug anymore.

Speaker 14 (01:36:19):
But the problem for Crackerbels, their stock price had been
in a just a cliff Dive for two years.

Speaker 4 (01:36:24):
They've had some of the dumbest self inflicted wounds in
the last like ten years. Do you remember Brad's wife. Yeah, Okay,
so Brad's wife. This guy named Brad. His wife Nanette
gets fired from Cracker Barrel. He takes to Cracker Barrel
to demand answers from from Cracker Brel. She's worked there
for eleven years. Justice Justice for Nanette, for Brad's wife.

(01:36:48):
Justice for Brad's wife literally became a hashtag and they
were slow to respond, and you know, and then they
jumped in with some sponsorships of some woke stuff and
that's not their audience.

Speaker 14 (01:37:00):
Their audience, and their audience is It almost seems like
that streamlined logo was trying to get younger.

Speaker 7 (01:37:06):
And I was like, it looks like Golden Corral, Like
you know, you're laying no no your demo.

Speaker 4 (01:37:16):
I did get. Don't knock that the older I get.
I'm telling you, I don't want to eat too far
before bedtime because then the heartburn.

Speaker 7 (01:37:22):
Bob Evans has more money. I'm just saying.

Speaker 4 (01:37:25):
The Bob Evans near my son's house in outside Dayton,
Ohio closed And I was like.

Speaker 7 (01:37:30):
Well, what why, And they're because you're not here anymore?

Speaker 4 (01:37:34):
What I don't even know what to do there. But
nonetheless anyway, yeah, no, I just they you know, they
didn't get you. I saw it was like, I'm not
stepping in here. I was just kind of amazed that
the like inviciousness that they got upset about me being mad.
The PEG game did make the cut, So it is
the PEG game is still on the tables.

Speaker 9 (01:37:55):
The game.

Speaker 4 (01:37:59):
That's not the way it goes, Ben, I mean, maybe
it's some I don't I don't know what the situation
in the back is. I have no clue. But now
it's time's waving that off right now? That what the
pet game? The pet the little triangle with.

Speaker 7 (01:38:14):
The that's what we're talking Everyone knows what we're talking about.
Everyone knows what we're not talking about.

Speaker 4 (01:38:21):
Right now. He's in the triangle thing. And if you
leave more than three, you're an it and I'm an
agent every time. Oh hate that game. And now it's
time for the most exciting segment on the radio.

Speaker 7 (01:38:38):
That I try to get about a foot back.

Speaker 4 (01:38:42):
Maybe a little further there we go, Okay, what is
our what is our dad joke of the day?

Speaker 7 (01:38:46):
Please, brow, can you pass me that leaflet brochure?

Speaker 4 (01:38:52):
No you're supposed to say, what's that brochure?

Speaker 3 (01:38:54):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:38:55):
Yes, no, yes, I'm just saying that's incorrect. What is
our word of the day?

Speaker 6 (01:39:01):
Please?

Speaker 4 (01:39:02):
I love that.

Speaker 5 (01:39:03):
I now know what this word means. Okay, free song
f R I S S O N f R I.
And you're gonna love that.

Speaker 7 (01:39:12):
You know what this like?

Speaker 4 (01:39:14):
Fancy lettuce or something? Free song.

Speaker 7 (01:39:17):
Is goose.

Speaker 5 (01:39:18):
It is essentially, as I understand the translation, well, the
literal definition is a brief moment of emotional excitement a
k a. When you're listening to a song that just
hits different and you get the little chills.

Speaker 7 (01:39:31):
I knew it was close to that.

Speaker 4 (01:39:34):
Very nice. What is the term for the scientific study
of fruit? Hint? It ends in o ology.

Speaker 7 (01:39:44):
Fruit ology because Mandy loves fruit. Would it be Oh
you reminded me of this?

Speaker 4 (01:39:49):
Okay, I eat two fruit, three fruits, avocados, crunchy apples,
and watermelon. Dude, the Rocky Ford watermelon this summer.

Speaker 7 (01:39:56):
That's what you choose off watermelon.

Speaker 4 (01:39:58):
I grew up in the South.

Speaker 13 (01:39:59):
Fruit.

Speaker 4 (01:40:00):
I grew up in the South. It's just required that
just make you eat it.

Speaker 7 (01:40:02):
Right, I think I know this.

Speaker 9 (01:40:04):
What is it?

Speaker 7 (01:40:06):
Is it also the first part named after a fruit? Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:40:08):
Yes it is. Yes, a scientist specializes in the study
of fruit. Is a pomologist?

Speaker 7 (01:40:14):
Can then go three for three today.

Speaker 4 (01:40:16):
We'll find out what's the category furniture words?

Speaker 7 (01:40:20):
Furniture words.

Speaker 13 (01:40:22):
I don't want to lose this.

Speaker 5 (01:40:23):
Something up for debate is on blank. Someone who's had
a few too many drinks can end up under it.

Speaker 7 (01:40:30):
Maybe what's the table that's correct? Oh god, okay, I
see how it was working out. In nineteen sixty five.

Speaker 5 (01:40:35):
Members of this included Robert McNamara and Stuart you'dall.

Speaker 7 (01:40:42):
Members of I know, I know this.

Speaker 4 (01:40:44):
I just want to make sure I'm getting it right.

Speaker 7 (01:40:46):
Your words, Ben, what is cabinet? That is correct?

Speaker 4 (01:40:49):
I was trying to make that harder than it was.

Speaker 5 (01:40:51):
Stretch out in this garden area in which plants are
grown or for happening at that is correct. This empire
began around thirteen hundred. I love this category to to
to phrase your words in a specific way.

Speaker 4 (01:41:10):
Yeah, that was a good category.

Speaker 7 (01:41:14):
Like that one for a minute. The empire is Yes.

Speaker 4 (01:41:21):
I got an ottoman from Woodley's and now we've had
it recovered this automan. I have a great emotional attachment
to this automan.

Speaker 7 (01:41:29):
Here's why.

Speaker 4 (01:41:29):
Oh I got it when we first moved here, because
being able to go and buy a custom piece of
furniture with the custom of pholstery that I wanted is
something I'd never been able to do before. Just financially,
it was not something I could do before. So when
we changed out some furniture in the autumn no longer matched.

Speaker 7 (01:41:45):
I told Chuck.

Speaker 4 (01:41:46):
I was like, Oh, we're recovering that automan. And he's like,
why don't we just know we are recovering that automan?
And we did, and I explained to him why I
now have an emotional attachment to the autom Like little
things like that that when you when you had achieve
something that that you were working on for a really
long time.

Speaker 7 (01:42:03):
Yeah, it's the little rewards like that. I sort of
get that.

Speaker 14 (01:42:06):
I yeah, because then the first piece of furniture that
you buy that you buy buy, you know, and you
start getting it, and then you know, you get later
on in life and you're like, I'm spending how much
on the couch?

Speaker 9 (01:42:15):
Now?

Speaker 4 (01:42:16):
I found my new car at Mercedes. I do not
have the money to buy so just yet. But I
was like, Okay, now I have a goal. I have
a goal car.

Speaker 7 (01:42:25):
Well it's so yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:42:26):
The last the last couch that I bought was I'm
going to say this on the airs, say it was
eighty six hundred dollars for the couch, and I'm like,
I'm spending how.

Speaker 4 (01:42:33):
Much couches sell you? For eighty six hundred it covered
autom whatever it's covered with, you know, like something, Yeah,
dog hit, it's all my IDT get to keep that
couch and the split either, you know, I don't think
I would pay eighty six hundred bucks for an autumn.
I would pay a lot of money for like occasional chairs,
you know, because they don't get the same way and
tear the.

Speaker 14 (01:42:51):
Money that I spent if I spend I spend big
money on bed like because you're sleeping, like I spend
big money there.

Speaker 7 (01:42:55):
But otherwise, yes, and so you put me under that.

Speaker 4 (01:42:58):
Yes, thank you. That all right, let's talk about we
got a roster that's going to be cut down. Do
we know anymore about what's going on? You guys are
gonna be talking about here.

Speaker 7 (01:43:06):
We'll probably have some live updates on that throughout Kiawei Sports.

Speaker 14 (01:43:08):
As they get closer and closer, we have a few
cuts already, but nothing surprising.

Speaker 7 (01:43:12):
It was a lot about the roster guys.

Speaker 4 (01:43:13):
All right, there you go. That's all coming up next.
I'll be back tomorrow. Keep it on, kwe