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Will take you right.
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Through the show until.
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I feel like I'm in the presence of some whole
new You've got your own song you you're sinking?
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I know, your own song about you?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Fun know it is fine, it's just that song.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
I feel like I aspire to reach your level of
radio where I have a song about me.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
I just want to tell you that six single radio
person where I've met that has heard that song is
immediately struck with jealousy about not having their own song.
Welike you know what not everybody has listener tie to
make those little listeners. A listener made it for me. Yes,
so we have a whole bunch of them. The Ross Smith,
who you know, he also made me a bunch in
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different musical genres. They're very, very funny. We'll have to
go over that later. I might have ross stay for
a little bit. Because you and I were talking about
your travels and you've spent a lot of time in
the East. I have spent almost no time in the East.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Now.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
When I married Chuck, I had been all over Europe,
been doing all that stuff over there, and not spent
much time in Asia. He was stationed in Korea, actually,
so we always said, you know, crossing over we're together.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
We've seen the whole world separately.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
So being able to go to Japan and Korea on
our Mandy Connell adventure is something that I am incredibly
excited about. But you've already been these.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Places, and this is gonna be a wonderful trip.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
I mean, I don't I don't get jealous of your
trips in a sense, but if I were, I will
be jealous of that one. I mean, I've been to
both Japan and Korea. I've been to Korea a couple
of times. It's my favorite food.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
In the whole world, it's my favorite cuisine.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Is my favorite cuisine in Korean food for sure.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
And I'll tell you, I mean, traveling to Europe fascinating
a lot of history and all this but you can
you can clearly see some kind of tie in and
relation to your your own life and your own background.
Probably you go to Japan and Korea like, wow, this
is different. It's very foreign, very foreign. Everything about it
is is different, and especially in Japan, probably more than Korea,
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a little bit harder to find people who speak English.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
But it makes you have to pay more attention.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
And it's just so it's exotic and it's and it's
wonderful and the food will blow you away.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
I can't wait. I can't Korean food is my absolute
favorite cuisine across the board because the flavor profiles are
so good and so interesting. You can get it, you know, mild,
you can get it hot, you can get whatever. And
so I'm super excited about the food. But I wanted
to ask you some stuff about Japan because I've never
I've been to I flew Intotrita, Tokyo, once laid over there,
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didn't have a great experience. Could we laid over pretty
close to the airport and there's not really anything there.
And then I've never been to Korea. So what are
some of the things historically because their history is a
couple thousand three thousand more years than horses here in
the United States, maybe even four thousand.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
So I won't hold myself out as an expert on Japan.
But one of the things that I think is so
cool about what you're doing is that you're doing a
cruise that hits a lot of different spots. Yeah, you're
not just going to Tokyo now. And one of the
interesting things about that for me, so Tokyo is one
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of the greatest cities in the world. It's an incredible city,
but it's also a very new city because there was
so much damage done to it in World War Two,
and also earlier on it actually wasn't the capital of Japan.
So a lot of these other places that you're gonna go.
Are you gonna get to Kyoto? Yes, Yeah, it's been
in two days in Kyoto.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Yeah, so Kyoto seventeen World Heritage Sites, just in Kyoto.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Kyoto was the capital of Japan, right, Yes, for a
long time and Kyoto, okay. I just heard this story
in a podcast, so I'll just share it with you.
There was a guy who, like in the nineteen twenties
or thirties, went on vacation to Kyoto with his wife.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
He ended up being in the inner circle of.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Harry Truman's targeting group that was trying to decide where
the atomic bomb was going to be dropped, and Kyoto
was going to be the target, and he.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Talked him out of it because how many cultural sites.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Yes, because he loved that city so much from when
he had gone on vacation there in the nineteen twenties
or nineteen thirties. Kyoto is a gorgeous a shint city
with almost no war damage or maybe none, and it's
one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. And
we got two also, it's really walkable, beautiful. It's just
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there is no American equivalent because, like you say, it's
you know, a thousand years old, two thousand years old,
it's been around.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Japan's recorded history begins only in the first century b C.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
So before Christ.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yeah, a thousand years before Christ is what we're looking at,
and a lot of the sort of civilizations have been
I have had a footprint in these cities since then,
and that's what I'm interested in because whenever I travel
outside the United States, you realize we're like a baby country.
You know, we're in the toddler stages. Of our countryhood,
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and you go to these places where they have places,
you know, they have buildings from the fourteenth century and things.
It's just mind blowing as an American.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Yeah, especially this may just be a thing that I like,
but some of the five hundred seven hundred year old
wooden buildings that are still there just incredible. And the
other thing that I love, I'm kind of fascinated by religion,
even though I'm not a religious person, but the temples
around Japan, but the temples in Kyoto are probably the
best I've ever seen, and Kyoto really is in my
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top few favorite cities in the whole world.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Well, we're going to Kyoto, We're also going to Nagasaki
and Hiroshima, so we'll see both of those. And I'm
personally I'm going to New Mexico for my nephew's wedding
in May, right before we go on this trip in June,
and we're going to go to the Nuclear Museum in
New Mexico and then go to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and
kind of see it from both sides.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
I really wonder what that will be like that because
so I've been to Vietnam and in Vietnam. You get
a very different feel from the people right here in
the south versus in the north.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Right.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
And in the North they have a museum that's called
like the War Crimes Museum.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
They call it the American War Crimes Museum, and they
still don't like as much in the North.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, but I have a feeling won't be like that.
In Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I think. I don't think you're.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Gonna be turned these cities into now. They have a
massive peace garden, you know, they really tried to use
it as a symbol of peace in both places. Have
you done the Japanese gardens? Have you done that?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Not in any big way. I walked through a garden,
but no.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
My dad goes to Japan almost every year because he
loves all of that.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Your wife would probably love the gardens, obviously, we're not
with Christian. When you went to.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
There was a trip where I came home before she did,
and she might have done something because because I work
at iHeart so I don't get enough vacation, right, So
I came home before and left my family in Japan,
and they kept on for more of Japan after I
went home.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
But boy, it's it's going to be just a spectacular trip.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
I can't wait.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
So we haven't really talked about when the trip is
and how people sign up.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
It's June fifth, we're leaving. It's a fifteen day trip
and we have some space available still. You can find
out more by going to Mandy Connell trip dot com.
It's going to be absolutely incredible, And as I said before,
we were actually able to bring the price point down
and our airfare came in, so you know, they have
to plan it. Ross knows a little bit about the
inside baseball stuff, but they can't buy airfare until a
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certain point, and the airfare came in dramatically lower than
they had actually budgeted, so they just passed those savings
on the people.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I saw the new price on your trip, and it's
seriously a bargain.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I think so too.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
If you've never been on a cruise into our trip,
you know it's it's.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Way better than any vacation you will plan for yourself, right, and.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
It's amazing, it's amazing value. Like I can't believe what
you guys are going to be able to do for
that price. Seriously, it's going to be unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Yep, I'm looking forward to it. I appreciate that insight.
I will bring you lots of photographs. I'll say you
would just follow me on insta.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Worm we cheese curds.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Well, the cheese curds were actually delicious and we ate
them on site, and that was from the DNS. We
had cheese cards there too, and cheese kurds in Wisconsin
and the chef kirts in Chicago were actually better, I thought,
So did you think the ones that Ronelli's were better?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
I think, but they were. The deep fried ones is
what my wife wanted me to bring, but we didn't
have time.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Well, deep fried cheese curds cold are terrible. It's like
little fried and the er grossness. They're sweaky. You would
just had regular fresh curds and not a word I
want to.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Use the scribeer.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
So I texted Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin, Blenn, you
brought me cheese curds and showed him the cheese curds
you bought me, and he made some comment about how
the good ones squeak, and I didn't know about that.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
You didn't know that. No, Oh, you put him in
your mouth and you can hear them that's wrong. No,
that's the thing. That's what she's curtag.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I like it. I know it, but I like it.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
It's it's I didn't make it up. I'm just sharing that.
Le Ross, thank you, I appreciation all right, many of
you weighing in, Mandy. The Koreans are still mad at
the Japanese are atrocities committed during World War Two, referencing
the comfort women. Japan has never apologized and still deny
they ever conscript conscripted comfort women from the countries they invada.
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And of course comfort women is is women that were
forced into sexual slavery. So yeah, comfort, I guess only
goes one way. Mandy. I've never had Korean food, but
really interested in Korean barbecue. What would you recommend for
a first time er and anywhere in Denver, you would
recommend you either go to Soul Korean Barbecue or you
go to day g Korean Barbecue and just tell them
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you want to get the beef bullggi. That's like entry
level Korean food. You get the beef bulgogi, and you
get all the little side dishes. Ask them to tell
you what all the side dishes are, because there's a
lot of them, and I'm just gonna say, the only
one I don't like is the candy trip.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
Can't do it.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Can't do it.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Short ribs.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
All the short ribs are off the chain. But yes,
Bulgogi is that's entry level Korean food. So go to
Soul Korean Barbecue, which is like outstanding, and then and
then Dag is also very good. It just doesn't have
the extensive menu that Soul has. So there you go.
They're off of Hamden. Is that on Hamden? Yes, Hamden
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and almost Hamden and Parker Road, just pretty close to
Parker Road on hand.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
And get plaster with soju while you're doing it.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Soju is Korean liquor that tastes like water and it's
like one hundred proof and Chuck has always called it
altitude enhanced alcohol, meaning you're sitting, you're having a few
cocktails with soju, you stand up, oh boy, back down.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
And we learned the first time, first time we had
like authentic Korean.
Speaker 8 (11:29):
Witten saw Kevin Hart that night. Yeah, let's just say
we think he was really funny.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
We're sure where maybe what's not funny is the blog.
Let's do that very very quickly. So find the blog
by going to mandy'sblog dot com. That's Mandy's blog dot com.
Look for the headline that says eight twenty six, twenty
four blog the GOP boots Dave Williams and a spat
about the Mona Lisa. Click on that and here are
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the headlines you will find within.
Speaker 9 (11:57):
Anyone in office half of American all with hips, and
I must say, let's got a press pledch.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Today on the blood?
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Now everyone is gender fluid? Am I right? Dave Williams
was voted out of the GOP chairmanship Saturday? Does RFK
Junior help Trump? Enough?
Speaker 10 (12:14):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Scurolling? Wait a minute, what is happening here?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Does?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Wait a minute? Oh no, something has gone terribly wrong
on the blog. And I'm not quite sure what happened.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Wait a minute, there's.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
A whole thing that got Oh wait a minute, No,
I didn't break anything. Yeah, go ahead, I.
Speaker 11 (12:35):
Just have to ye a press pledch.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Today on the blood. Speaking of extended press, honeymoons? Uh scrolling?
How to fix the mess that is RTD? This special
Session on Property taxes is this week. How Douglas County
handles homelessness. The Littleton High School football team is under investigation.
Why does DPS's superintendent still have a job. Your diet
could be giving you anxiety. Israel Thwartz has bela attack
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the presidential election is killing real estate deals. Jack Tapper
asked the right question. Coach Prime talks about keeping the
noise down. Cutting the cord is no longer the deal
it once was. By Nomics and now Harris Nomics, they
are crushing Americans more ranked choice vote making ranked choice
voting work. In Alaska, the last major charges in the
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Breonna Taylor case have been dropped another place. I'm not
cool enough to go the best state fair food around
the country. But why do you want your ex back?
Elon Musk, said a rod Rob and I.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Were so good.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
The Kamala impressions are really good. Kids making friends on vacations,
want to see a real, live First Amendment violation in
real time? And what AI thinks we all look like?
Those are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com.
All right, you guys, soju is the devil, says this texter.
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Too many nights that I can't remember. Lol.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
So good.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
So Jew stands for so Jude so good. I was
trying to make it sold, but it's not so I know.
I'm sorry, Ew Mandy as far as dag is concerned.
When I have to pay that higher price for food
and cook it myself, it's not worth.
Speaker 12 (14:17):
It for me.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
I don't care how good the food is. Glad to
have you back from the convention. Enjoyed listening to you while.
Speaker 8 (14:22):
You were there.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Keep up the good work there you go.
Speaker 13 (14:25):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Ben Albright said, SoJ you taste like cat. You're in
strain through a dirty sock. Wow, I'm so surprised that
Ben doesn't like something that's actually good. No, so ju does. Actually,
the problem with soju is like if you're during moonshine.
If you have moonshine, you take a tip of that moonshine,
you feel it start in your mouth and you feel it,
You feel the burn all the way down your esophaga. Yeah,
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so you you don't even taste the alcohol. If the
apple flavored soju so good? I mean, come on, come on,
Ben Mandy. On Dave Williams. Whatever Williams finally does go
his political careers over right, do you suppose he will
have trouble finding regular work? I don't know, because Dave
Williams that we're going to get to this. Dave Williams
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still has a lot of supporters, a lot of supporters
in the Colorado Republican Party. Does he have enough to
outlive this? What am I talking about? Wells Saturday, and
we're going to talk more about this later in the show.
The meeting that a judge stopped a few weeks ago
took place and overwhelmingly the people that attended that meeting
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voted to oust Dave Williams as chair of the GOP.
They then went on to elect Eli Bremer as the
chairperson of the Colorado Republican Party.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
And I've got Eli Bremmer coming on the show today
at one o'clock, so.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
We got that going for us. We're also supposed to
have Brandy Bradley, Representative Brandy Bradley on the show, but
she just sent me a text that she is about
to present a bills. She's going to let us know
when she's done. She was supposed to join us at
twelve thirty, so we'll get her on a little bit later.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
She actually she actually.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Was at her son, her son, her son's school and
had an exchange with a teacher. And though I understand
why she was not happy, about this because in doing
some research this morning about the Mona Lisa, more research
than I ever wanted to do about the Mona Lisa
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this morning, I did a ton of it. I think
that the teacher handled this pretty well, but I think
it goes to show you how deep in our instructional
system the notion that everybody was gay, everybody is gay,
everybody's gay, let's gay it all up is deeply embedded
in our school system. We'll talk about that story with her.
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I'll share that with you, with you, with her when
I can ensure that she's going to get on the show.
Speaker 11 (16:55):
But we'll do it.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Had it in Korea. That garbage is terrible. Again, Ben
Albright stalking the show like some kind of madman. If
he starts calling me Baby Reindeer, I'm out. Did you
watch Baby Reindeer.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Where you told me to watch? You're the one that
told me that you liked it. Stop just don't watch it?
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Why because after watching all seven episodes, I've never seen
a program that had a less likable main character than
Baby Reindeer. The main character, not the crazy stalker woman.
Because if you don't know what this is about, it's
about a woman that stalks this guy. No, it was
written by directed by the guy who then stars in
it and literally the most unlikable character I've ever seen.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
Real quick, real, real fast, breaking news. We had heard
RFK endorsement of Donald Trump. Maybe other former Democrats Tolcy
Gabbard is now endorsed Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
What Yep, that's not a surprising really, I mean, Toulcy
Gabbert has been highly critical of both parties for some
time now. That doesn't surprise me at all. Like ever clear,
straight feel the burn exactly, you don't have that with Sojo.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Not at all.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
You just don't.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
It's delightful.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
I don't know what Ben Albright does.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Maybe you know what, just you surprised.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Stick to your Cosmopolitans, Ben, leave me leave the real martinis.
Excuse me?
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Did you just rip on one of the worst beverages
of all time? Martinis are at least classy. Oh yeahs.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
A martini you get a beverage and a snack. It's
the perfect beverage, truly is you know perfect. Probably would
need for it to taste good, and it doesn't. You
know what, when your taste buds grow up, you too
will enjoy a martini. We'll be back. Maybe Representative Brandy
Bradley will be with us, maybe not.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
We'll find out.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Next he wants everyone to know that he is a
old fashioned drinker, which is even worse.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
All wrong, Benjamin, all wrong, and.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
A Rod's parents are highly disappointed that he just ripped
on their favorite martinis. So there you go.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I like express some martinis that aren't really martinis.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Those are kind of bougie. Those are the Cosmopolitan martinis.
Just there, ye, Mandy. When I was in Korea, you
would get one bottle with four percent alcohol and the
next one would be over fifty percent and you wouldn't
remember anything for three days.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Talking about sojiu yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
I think this is a challenge. So we're going to
have a Ben Albright soju taste test. I will bring
in my husband, who is an authority on soju, and
we will find soju that does not taste like it.
We'll make Ben drink it, and then we'll make him
do his show. What will it be even better? Be
even better?
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
There you go. So I want to do a little
political stuff and then Brandy Bradley is going to call
us when she is able after introducing a bill in
the special session that started to day, And let's chat
about that for a second. I've got a couple of
articles on the blog today about the special session and
the property tax issue, and one of them is from
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a website called the Sum and Substance. The it's Colorado
business website, and they do a really good job of
laying things out in such a way that you immediately
begin to understand, Holy crap, is this complicated.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
And it is complicated now.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
It seemed to me that there would be an easy
way to make this not as complicated, but there isn't,
not at all.
Speaker 12 (20:23):
So this.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Special session, which by the way, they're already projecting to
go beyond three days because legislators are filing a bunch
of bills that have nothing to do with property taxes,
and God only knows what they're going to do to
us next. So the property tax special Session is trying
to stave off two valid initiatives that have been put
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forth by Advanced Colorado and Colorado concern and they have
to do with capping property taxes, and they do so
in a you've heard the old adage. You know, people
who use the sledgehammer to kill a fly. In my view,
they kind of sledgehammer to kill a fly situation. They
are very, very very oversimplified and could actually lead to
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one of them could lead to some significant issues for
rural districts going forward. That being said, I understand why
people want to vote to cap their property taxes, but
I'm gonna be perfectly honest, you guys. I've heard some
heard some scuttle butt that they are not polling all
that well. They're polling decently. They're polling like if you
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put millions and millions of millions and millions of dollars
behind them, you could probably get them over the finish line.
But it is far from a sure deal. And I
say that because I've heard from multiple people things like, well,
I want a chance to vote on it.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Why would they pull these If.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
They can get something that's pretty darn close and they
can get it done by the legislature, I think.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
That is a better way to go.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
And I don't normally say that, but I think that,
knowing what I know on the backside, I think there's
a better way to do this, and we should all
hope that the legislature could be you know, get their
heads out of their collective kazoos and get something done now.
To be clear, nothing that anyone is talking about right
now is going to take your taxes back to where
they were in twenty twenty or twenty twenty two. It's
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not going to happen. They're not even having that discussion.
That's not even part of the conversation. So just to
manage your expectations. And by the way, the two ballot
initiatives would not do that either. So the thought that
we're going to go back to seeing property tax rates
that are manageable is well, rates would go down, but
property tax bills, I guess, is a better way to
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say that is not going to happen. Just not going
to happen. If you can't appreciate an old fashioned, there's
no hope for you. No, guys, I'm not a whiskey drinker.
I don't like bourbon. I lived in Kentucky for three
years and one of my best friends is a bourbon snob,
and he tried to get us to like bourbon. I
just don't care for them. And I really hate sweet
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formooth and that is part of an old fashioned. And
I really hated making old fashioned when I was a
bartender for many years, paid my way through school and
my first few years of radio behind the bar, and
an old fashioned is like a process. You have to
muddle the orange peel and the oh, it's just a.
Speaker 8 (23:20):
The sophisticated grossness that it makes it an excluision individual.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Well, but if you look at the light, I mean,
if you like whiskey, then note, go right ahead, go
right ahead. Yeah.
Speaker 11 (23:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
One thing is for sure, says this chexter is going
to happen Mandy, is they're going to charge us twenty
grand a day to sit there and argue over things
that we're not supposed to be brought up. We need
to get them to limit to the question in the text.
Speaker 11 (23:45):
How do we do that?
Speaker 4 (23:46):
This is one of the things that I agree with
you one hundred percent. By the way, texture on that
get off track here, But this is one of the
things that the constitutional convention has going for it in
my mind. And if you've heard us talk about the
call for a constitutional convention where very specific amendments to
the constitution Constitution would be brought up. You cannot just
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randomly bring stuff up at a constitutional convention, though, And
this is what needs to happen with the legislature. They
need to see. This is what we're going to talk about.
Nothing else, absolutely nothing. Hmm yeah, yeah, with a normal legislature.
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This text messager says, I might have some trust in
the process, but this legislature, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
And that's fair. But the good news is for us the.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Voters that if this deal, this property tax compromise isn't
good enough for advanced Colorado and Colorado concern we're gonna
have the chance to vote on two ballot initiatives. And
that would be really a big deal for taxpayers and
a very bad deal for for local governments who are
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already freaking out, by the way, already freaking out about
dealing with what they're calling now massive cuts cuts to
the just absolutely ginormous windfall that they were going to
get after property taxes went up ginormous, And so it
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is it is really really important that they get this done.
By the way, the Texter said, there are no there's
no overmouth in an old fashioned York right. It's bitters
that I'm thinking of. You muddle the orange in this
cherry with the bitters, and then you put the whiskey
in there and it's gross. I want to talk about
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another school related thing. This is concerning, although I don't
want to make it more than it is because we
don't know what it is. So Littleton High School canceled
a scrimmage on Saturday and a Friday night practice and
team dinner because there was an anonymous allegation of some
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sort of assault that involved the football team. Now we
don't know if this was a regular assault like fisticuffs,
or if this was a sexual assault. I hope it
was neither. I hope this turns out to be much
a do about nothing. But I also know that occasionally,
when you get young people together, they make really dumb decisions,
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and I'm hoping that this is not what happened at
Littleton High School. Now, I know that students will always
know more than the media will. So if you have
a student at Littleton High School and can give us
an idea, I'm not going to share it on the air,
by the way.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Because like I said, this could be nothing.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
It could be something. It could be nothing. But whenever
I hear this, I just think to myself, please please,
please don't let these young men have done something incredibly
stupid to harm another individual in any way, shape or form,
in a way that is going to impact everybody's lives permanently, right.
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I mean, it's remarkable to me that even after all
the instances that we've had where famous people and athletes
have been charged with terrible things, that this is still
a possibility. But young people's frontal cortexas are not fully developed,
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and so I hate to say it, but anything is possible.
I say it all the time, and I mean it.
Never underestimate the ability of a teenager to make a
really bad decision, because oh boy, they are capable of
that very thing. I was trying to think about this.
Not that I ever assaulted anyone. I never. I've never
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been in an actual fight, like a fight fight, you know,
like one that I have punched someone, but he deserved it,
and he'll tell you he deserved it too. So I
have punched someone once, I tried to punch someone else,
but I missed because they backed up. Both times, I
feel like I was justified, and in a court of law,
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I would have been able to make my case. But
that being said, I thought about, like, what dumb things
from high school do I look back on and just
go what was I thinking other than hairstyles, because let's
be real, high school is when we all have the hairstyles.
I mean, now, the broccoli cut is a thing, and
these young people are coming out and they're wearing hair
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that just looks ridiculous. And girls, can we talk about
girls hair in high school right now? And I have
a high school girl who would absolutely argue with me
about this point. It's time to be done with the long,
straight hair and the part in the middle, because much
like low rise jeans, it doesn't look good on that
many people. We need nineties hair back. I'm here for it.
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I'm ready for nineties hair. Nobody ever wants eighties hairback, okay,
because we all know that we don't need to sit
with the chemicals on our head to get hair that is,
you know, well, as I say in the South, hire
the hair the closer to God. You know what I mean.
We don't need that back, but we need good hair
back because good hair is not a thing that's happening
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right now. You can text us five six six nine. Oh,
you can text us the information if you know anything
about what's going on at Littleton Public schools Now in
the next hour, we are going to talk here in
just a moment. As a matter of fact, Saturday, big
things happen in Brighton. I believe it was Brighton or Broomfield.
I can't remember which one are off the top of
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my head. There was a meeting of us, a lot
of members of the Central Committee of the Republican Party
of the State of Colorado. You've heard me talk endlessly
about the disaster that is the quote leadership and yeah,
I'm doing air quotes around that of Dave Williams, who
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needs to go and he needs to go now. Well
he's not going to go, even though he was voted
out this past weekend. What has to happen here is
that the Republican National Committee is going to have to
step in and remove him from his position. I believe
they will do that. They already did it in Michigan.
A similar situation happened in Michigan, and they don't have
all the details. I should ask Ryan Shuley. I bet
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Ryan knows all the details of the Michigan Republican Party.
He's a Michigander. But nonetheless, they voted to remove their leadership.
Their leadership said nah uh, and the RNC was like, sorry,
we don't recognize you anymore.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
You need to go bye bye.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
You can go now. And that's what happened on Saturday.
So when we get back, Eli Brimmer was actually elected
as the new chair of the Colorado Republican Party. And
you know how the UN formally recognizes a country and
it's kind of a big deal. They're like, oh, they
got you in recognition. I am formally recognized Eli Bremer
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as the new chairperson of the Colorado GOP. To prove
how much I'm recognizing him, I am going to speak
with him right after this. Keep it right here on KOA.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
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Speaker 2 (31:17):
No, it's Mandy Connell and Conall.
Speaker 10 (31:22):
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Speaker 4 (31:47):
Bye by. We got a whole party going on over here,
But the party that matters is the Colorado Republican Party
for this segment, because big goings on last night. Big
going on actually Saturday, in a meeting that saw the
voting out of the disastrous leader Dave Williams and the
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voting in of the new chair of the Colorado Republican Party,
who I believe just stepped into a forest. Eli Brember,
did you just put your phone down in a forest
of flowers?
Speaker 1 (32:20):
What was that?
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Oh you're muted, Eli, You're muted. Hang on.
Speaker 7 (32:32):
All right, Mandy, I'm so sorry about that. Here we
are home office and.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Had had a head over to the door.
Speaker 7 (32:37):
We just had a delivery of some flowers, and so
I apologize for that. I am not in a forest
of flowers. I'm at my house.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
No problem. Well, you're probably going to get more flowers
as people are grateful that Dave Williams was booted on Saturday.
Tell me a little bit about that meeting. We've talked
about it extensively, how it came to be, but how
did the actual meeting go.
Speaker 7 (32:59):
Well, it was actually, I would say one of the
best organized Republican Party meetings I've seen. People were extremely
pleasant to each other. It was a very very well
run meeting by state Representative Richard Holthorf. We had three
lawyers at the front of the room working to make
sure that everything went according to schedule. That was former
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state Party chair Christy Burton Brown, former Secretary of State
Wayne Williams, and party attorney Chris Murray. So it really
was an incredible meeting, very well run. People were positive,
they showed up to do a job and they got
the job done.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
So how many people showed up and how many people
brought proxyes? What was the actual account of the meeting
or roughly if you don't remember the exact numbers, If I.
Speaker 7 (33:47):
Remember right, it was one hundred and eighty two people
credentialed in in person or by proxy. It doesn't legally
matter whether you were there in person or if it's
your proxy, So it was one hundred I think it
was one hundred and eighty two total votes at the meeting.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
That's quite significant, and that is a significant part of
the Central Committee because now, of course Dave Williams has
decided that it was an illegal meeting and he's not
going to pay attention to it, and he's saying, look,
they didn't have the right number of people, We couldn't
verify that there were people that signed this petition, a
whole bunch of other nonsense. What happens now, Eli, have
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you been in touch with a Republican National convent Our
committee to talk about officially recognizing the change and recognizing
you as Colorado chair of the GOP.
Speaker 7 (34:33):
Well, that's in process. There's a lot of moving pieces
right now. I've been talking to a lot of media outlet's.
I think you're my fourth interview today. People want to
know what's been going on. I do find it funny
that the former, the now deposed leadership team is saying
that we didn't have a good enough meeting, Mandy. We
had one hundred and eighty two people there in person
are by proxy, twelve of whom routinely voted in support
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of the former leadership team. Now the former leadership team
is touting a meeting that they held under a bridge
in Bailey, Colorado and July nineteenth, where they mustered three supporters.
We had four times as many people at this meeting
who supported them as they had it their own that
their claiming was a legitimate meeting. So, I mean, this
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is a clear cut situation. It's over. You know, we're
in the process right now of taking every legal measure
that is needed to take over the party assets, and
then as soon as we have done that, we are
going to turn those assets over to helping out the
candidates instead of attacking them, which is what the former
leadership had done.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
So there is another meeting I believe, scheduled for this
week that was called as the as Dave Williams and
his team were trying to figure out a way to
circumvent the meeting that you already had. My question is
do you continue? Do you go to this meeting? What
happens on the thirty first? What's going on there?
Speaker 7 (35:58):
Well, they can hold a rally, they can you know,
talk issues. That meeting has been canceled. It was officially
canceled on Saturday by a vote of the Central Committee.
They didn't want to go to a meeting, another superfluous
meeting over Labor Day weekend. The former chairman had called
it during that time specifically to suppress attendance because most
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people want to spend Labor Day with their families or
supporting campaigns. So that meeting has been canceled and it
will not be recognized as an official meeting. Again, if
they want to get together and talk about you know,
various issues or whatever, it's the first right to do that,
but there will be no business recognized at that meeting
because it's not a meeting of the Republican Party.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Well, I am officially in my capacity as the seer
and knower of all things, recognizing you Eli Bremer, as
the rightful chairman of the Colorado Republican Party. So that
leads me to my next question, which how do we
get these Republicans over the finish line this November. Are
you guys pivoting to work on that or are you
still having a deal with the idiocy that has been
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going on?
Speaker 7 (37:04):
Well, we're doing all of the above. I did not wait.
I was driving home from the meeting at about an
hour and a half drive home from the meeting, and
I was working the phones on Saturday night into the night.
I talked to Congress from Lauren Bobert. On Sunday yesterday,
I talked to Paul Lundin the House, the Senate minority leader.
We had a great strategy discussion. That was the first
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time Mandy that he had heard from a state party
officer this election cycle about campaigning. Okay, that had not
been done. So he and I talked about the problems
that had happened at the state party and the damage
that had been done and what we can do to
stop that. So we are now fully coordinated with State
Senator Lundin to try to stop the Democrats from taking
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total control of the Colorado State Senate.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
I had a call with Jeff Hurd.
Speaker 7 (37:54):
That was the first time he had heard from anybody
at the state party and had not had any conversations
with state officers. As I informed him the party was
formally endorsing him, which was a huge shift. If you
remember right, the former vice chair had actually been sharing
Adam Fresh campaign videos and supporting Adam Frish. I told
him that was coming to an end. He thanked me
for that, and we we've swapped information so that now
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we can work directly with his campaign. I had the
same exact conversation with Gave Evans, our candidate in the
eighth district. Gave informed me that I was the first
officer of the Colorado GP that had contacted him. I
informed him that we would be joining President Trump, who
was endorsed him, and working with him, and he would
have all of the resources of the Colorado Republican Party
to work with now.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
So you spoke with represented Lauren Boeber. Was she accepting
of the Saturday meeting and ready to move forward?
Speaker 7 (38:48):
She wished me well, said you know, she she thought
I'd do a great job as a chair. You know,
we spoke for about thirty minutes, and I have a
I've been friends with Congressman bober for number of years.
Every time I go to Washington, I always stop on
and say hi to her. You know, we talked about
some of the problems that have been going on with
the party and I told her my vision for fixing that.
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So we had a very productive conversation. Her district, the
first district, won't be a competitive district. However, I told
her that the Colorado Republican Party supports all of our
general election candidates and if she has any any requests
from the party, she can call me personally on my
cell phone any time of the day or night. And
the Colorado Republican Party is there to serve all of
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our candidates well.
Speaker 4 (39:35):
And people need to understand why this is important, Eli,
because you have and you just mentioned Jeff heard he
is in the third congressional district that was formerly held
by Representative Goobert, and because she switched districts, that is
now an open seat. It is critical that we keep
that seat. And until you called him, I guess know
when it reached out to Jeff, He's got a little
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bit of a I think of a name id disadvantage.
He's not as well known, but that district is still
very winnable, right, So, and then you've got the eighth
with Yadeer Caraveo, and you've got Gabe Evans, who I
think is a much better candidate than you Deer carave
Ao is, and he's well known in the district. So
these are really winnable races. I know that you were
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on the phone with donors because fundraising has been nonexistent
under the old leadership. What are you hearing from donors?
Are they ready to move forward? Are they ready to
put money in? What are we doing with money? Because
it's money is critical to get stuff done?
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (40:32):
Yeah, money is the is the mother's blood at mother's
milk of politics. I mean, anybody who says that you
don't need money to campaign doesn't know what.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
They're talking about.
Speaker 7 (40:42):
And you know, the first step is we had to
stop the bleeding. Last week alone, one of our major
campaigns lost twenty thousand dollars because of bizarre communications coming
out of the state GOP. They had multiple donors come
out and say we can't support you, we don't want
our name associated with you, and the candidates said, wait, wait,
that's not me, it's the state party, and they said
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it doesn't matter. This is too toxic. The venom that's
coming out from the state Party is too toxic. So
the first step is to start doing no harm. I
have given each of these candidates are assurance that the
Colorado Republican Party will not send communication into their district
unless it is one hundred percent coordinated and approved by
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the campaign. That is a never event. We should never
do what we did to Cleave Simpson. We should a
state Senate candidate in on the Western Slope area. We
put that on the map by accident because the state
party sent some inflammatory emails into the district that should
be an easily winnable seat. Now we're having to defend
it because of nonsense by the former party leadership. So
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back to where the donors are.
Speaker 11 (41:48):
They are so.
Speaker 7 (41:49):
Excited right now. I've been getting calls from folks saying
I just got it. I just actually got a text
from someone said, when can I send a check where
we don't have control of the bank account yet. I said,
don't dump into the bank account, because we have every
reason to believe that the former leadership team was basically
treating this like a piggybank, and so we are going
to get control of that. And once we've got that
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taken back over, Senator Gardner called me yesterday, offered his
full support and said he'd be happy to host a
call with all the major donors in the state with
all the other candidates. I expect within a week and
a half or two weeks we're going to have all
the campaigns together with the state Party, with former Senator
Corey Gardner, and we are going to get this thing
back on track and raise as much money as we
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can for these candidates.
Speaker 4 (42:33):
Eli. I'd love to see a forensic audit of the
last couple of years of the Republican Party coffers and
see exactly where money went, who was paid, who wasn't,
and see exactly how much money was squandered by Dave
Williams either trying to fight his ouster in court with
a ridiculous lawsuit that you know, judges have never been
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part of intra party squabbles, and he tried to make
it a legal issue and wasted a bunch of money
doing that. I'm sure there's going to waste more money
trying to fight this, So is there anything that rank
and file Republicans who want to move on can do?
Do we need to call the r n C and say,
can you help us out and get this squared away?
What can we do in the meantime before you can
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get control of the website, the bank accounts, the email list,
all of the other stuff that the old chairman is
still maintaining control of.
Speaker 7 (43:30):
Now, I think you know, my Twitter account's been blowing
up with people supporting us. Jump on my personal Twitter
feed at Eli Bremmer is my personal feed. It's got
one m M Bremer Eli v R E N E R.
We're putting all the information out there until we have
control of the state's Twitter account. But tweet at the RNC.
The NRCC. The NRCC has already come out and said
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they're honoring this election. They're a sister organization to the RNC,
and they've been very supportive. I just talked to another
Congress office one of the leadership of the NRCC. They
were so excited. They said, we're so glad you're back
in business. But yeah, the average rank and file person,
get on their retweet, show your support, but also get
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ready to come back in because I'll let you know, Mandy.
We'll come back on the air when we've got control
of the bank accounts, and I need every single person
out there to pitch in. You know, we're going to
be running a tight ship. I ran the largest county
party operation in the state in Olpaso County. We raised
record amounts of money. We put the vast, vast mass
majority of that right back down into let On Target.
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I know how to run a really efficient system. We're
not going to have a huge amount of overhead that's
going into this. It's going to be predominantly money put
forward to to win this election. So if people are
excited about it, first of all, give to the campaigns.
Support Jeff Hurd in the third district, Support Gabe Evans
in the eighth district. You know, you don't have to
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wait until the party gets all legally is figured out.
We need to be out there supporting these candidates today.
They need your help. But when we get the bank
accounts back, we'd love to have your support too.
Speaker 4 (45:04):
So I'm guessing that if you had to call this
phase of your leadership anything, it would almost be triage, right,
just trying to trying to stop the bleeding trying to
figure out where all the pieces fit together. But one
of the things that I am significantly concerned about going forward.
Speaker 3 (45:22):
Is the destruction of the party.
Speaker 4 (45:25):
And I mean by Dave Williams and his stupid purity
tests and you're not Republican enough, and Rhino watching all
this other crap that has been out there for so
many years, and now we see republican. You know, people
are not joining the Republican Party and that's a huge problem.
We live in a state full of unaffiliateds. So is
that the next step, like get us through this election
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cycle and then focus on how to rebuild the party
and make it be something that people want to be
a part of again.
Speaker 7 (45:55):
Well, I think so, and I think people are excited
right now. I think what you have is that it's
we don't have a problem with the Republican Party. We
have a problem with a very bizarre crew of people
who are now squatters in the office basically, and they
can't win elections. If you look, they lost almost every
seat that they endorse in in this sort of unprecedented
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deal where the party took sides in the primaries. So
that's not where the nine hundred thousand Colorado Republicans are.
That's not where your listeners are. The Colorado Republican Party
should represent Republicans instead of yelling at them and telling
them the way they should believe. And I'd like to
point out, by the way, that in twenty sixteen, these
were the same people that were the never Trumpers. They
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called me a rhino in twenty sixteen because I had
the audacity to be working on the Trump campaign and
I was a national spokesman on Olympians for Trump and
on the Second Amendment Coalition. So that made me a rhino.
And so I hate that term rhino because they basically
use it. It's sort of the Republican version of the
word racist.
Speaker 10 (46:54):
Left.
Speaker 7 (46:55):
When they hate you, they call you a racist, and
now you're canceled, and we have the same cancel country nonsense.
We What my pledge is is I'm going to get
to this organization back on track, and it's going to
make people's head spin how fast we get it back
on track. We are going to get you know, we're
going to take a look at where the finances have
been and all that, but after this election, we're going
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to get things like the by laws cleaned up we're
going to prevent this from happening. And again I've got
the experience for this. You probably don't know this, but
when I was the party chair and he'll pass the
counties from twenty eleven twenty thirteen, we set record fundraising numbers.
My vice chair was a young man by the name
of Dave Williams, and I spent two years undoing the
damage that that young man did and he has not
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stopped destroying Republicans ever since.
Speaker 8 (47:40):
This ends.
Speaker 7 (47:40):
Now we're going to end this, and then I would
put a call out to any good Republican who wants
to run the Colorado of Republican Party for the next
two years, We're going to get it fixed. I'm going
to turn it back over in the spring when we
hold a natural leadership election. I'm not going to run
for this again. I am here to fix the problem,
get it back on track. But we were going to
need some good new leadership, Mandy or Frankly, this same
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fringe group they can't win, they're going to try to
take over well.
Speaker 4 (48:07):
And I want to ask you this, and I think
that's a very good position for you to be in
to say I am not running for this position. Permanently,
because then you can go scorched shirts and you can
do exactly what needs to be done, and you don't
have to worry about winning an election for this in
the in the spring, which leads me to my last question,
and that is we I just read today Dick Wadams
has got pretty much a scorcher of a column criticizing
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the fact that the Republican Party has no young people
coming to it, and one of the things he mentioned
is that in El Paso they've invited Mike Lindell to
be a speaker at one of their events. When do
we get to move on? When do we get to
stop looking back at twenty twenty? Because you probably know
as well as I do, the unaffiliateds in this state
don't give a rats ass about twenty twenty. They don't
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want to hear about Mike Lindell spending forty million dollars.
They they don't want to talk about that. So how
do we move the party past that once and for all?
Speaker 7 (49:00):
Well, I mean, Mandy, the truth of the matter is
that the party has been predominantly run like a scam pack,
and that means that they're trying to do this to
inflame part of the base that will send five or
ten dollars donations in It's obviously not where the unaffiliateds are.
But guess what, we have got great policies in the
Republican Party that unaffiliated in this state agree with. Financially, fiscally,
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Colorado Republican or Colorado unaffiliated voters. They want lower property taxes,
they want attainable housing, and lower inflation. Those are things
Republicans can help with. On the social policies, the Democrats
talk about a Republican's war on women. Well, let's talk
about Title nine and the fact that the Democrats have
launched an all out assault on the top national women's
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rights legislation, Title nine. It's been there for fifty years.
It's guaranteed women equal rights in sports and the college scholarships.
And I can't find one Democrat out there who says
I will support that men cannot take women's scholarships. But
we've pulled this every what's like ninety nine point five
percent of Republicans support this. They support keeping women's sports
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for women. Virtually one hundred percent of unaffiliated voters in
the state of Colorado believe in keeping women's sports for women.
That's a Republican issue, Mandy, and it's a young person issue.
There's a lot of young women right now for whom
this is becoming a defining issue in their lives. And
if Republicans will talk about keeping inflation down, addressing the
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border issues, and saying we are the Party of women's rights,
we stand up for women's rights, to have your own scholarships,
to have your own locker rooms, your own sports teams.
We support women's rights. I think we can actually make
a huge impact with Colorado on affiliated voters. And this
is not a hard blue state that should be a
purple state, but because of the bad actions by the
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fringe element that took over the Republican Party organization, we've
kind of made it a solid blue state and it
shouldn't be that way.
Speaker 4 (51:00):
Eli Bremer the new chairman of the Colorado Republican Party.
I have officially recognized him, which means it's official. So Eli,
appreciate you making time for me. I hope we can
have more conversations leading up to the elections in November,
and best of luck, you have a herculean effort in
front of you. I do not I don't envy you this,
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but I think maybe they got the right person for
the job, and I hope you're successful.
Speaker 7 (51:27):
Thanks Mannie. I'm happy to come anytime. Come on anytime
you want. You know how to reach me.
Speaker 4 (51:31):
All right, that's Eli Bremer. Thank you, Eli, appreciate you,
and hopefully the Republican Party can get going once again.
We are going to take a quick time out when
we get back. I got a million things on the
blog we're going to dip into right after this. One
member of the House of Representatives is Representative Brandy Bradley,
and she has stepped away from the chaos to do
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two things. Number one, Brandy, what's going on? I mean,
you guys have started the special session, you introduced two bills,
got killed. What is happening there today?
Speaker 11 (52:03):
Your guest is probably as good as mine. I mean,
are we here to provide property tax relief? I'm not
really sure. I'm waiting to see.
Speaker 4 (52:11):
Well, and that's going to be very interesting to see
what happens this week. What were your bills that already
got introduced and killed? What were they about?
Speaker 11 (52:20):
So my first one was to restore Gallagher. It was
kind of a messaging to tell the Democrats you've had
four years you said to the people of Colorado when
they were killed Gallagher, you were going to come up
with a solution. Four years later and two special sessions later,
you still have not done that. Property taxes are through
the roof and you still have provided nothing. And so
party line vote, right, because they just get told how
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the vote. I mean, if they didn't get told how
the vote, it would never it wouldn't always be a
party line vote.
Speaker 14 (52:45):
Right.
Speaker 11 (52:46):
You'd have a Democrat you were there, that would say, now,
I'm gonna send this to the committee as the whole
now eight to three billed on a party line vote.
Speaker 4 (52:53):
Well, uh okay, So what was the other one? And
by the way, I just want to have and I
told you so moment for all of my listeners when
they're when I told everybody not to repeal Gallagher. Yeah,
here we go. Anyway, what was the second bill?
Speaker 11 (53:05):
The second bill was with Mark Baisley and Van Winkle.
We were trying to establish a baseline for special districts
so that their baseline budget was based on inflation and
the population, so that when our property taxes go up
forty seven percent, that doesn't mean they get forty seven
percent of that. We were trying to establish that. You know,
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the special districts had to go back to the people
if they, let's say they wanted a new fire truck, right,
they have to ask the people they want a fire truck.
There's no reason that if our property taxes go up
that astronomically that they should receive sixty percent of what
the property taxes were. So we were trying to provide
a level of budgeting. Remember those days, Mandy Wind Yeah,
your book and yeah.
Speaker 4 (53:48):
Yeah, those well, and that's interesting because and there's I
have an article on the blog today that does a
really good job of kind of explaining all the different
moving parts.
Speaker 3 (53:58):
Of the property tax system.
Speaker 4 (54:00):
How quickly were you able to get up to speed
on property taxes because talk about a convoluted mess.
Speaker 11 (54:06):
Well, I think that we're still trying to get up
to speed.
Speaker 4 (54:09):
And there were bills that were.
Speaker 11 (54:11):
Introduced that none of us knew anything about. There are
people here that couldn't sign up to testify. There are
fiscal notes that are just now being released. I mean,
it's just a reenactment of all the legislation that they
do at the very last minute of session, where the
people in our community can't come in and testify with
all the knowledge that they need, and it's ridiculous. This
is the people's house.
Speaker 4 (54:32):
I agree. That's not what I brought you on here
today to talk about. I wanted to talk about something
completely different and interaction that you had with your sons
one of your son's teachers at high school, and I
want you to share what happened with my audience. Please sure.
Speaker 11 (54:49):
So, my fifteen year old son is in a world
history class. I talked to my children all the time
about your teachers are not allowed to ask your pronouns,
your teachers aren't allowed to ask certain things, and counting
up considered Cambelt's speech. Sure enough, first day of school,
one of the teachers asked my childers pronouns. Had to
have a conversation with that teacher. It was resolved. He's
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a new teacher in the district. He was talked to
by the principal for good thirty minutes and great resolution.
Next a couple of days later, my sign came home
and said, mom, my teacher was talking about gender fluid
and I said, really, what context was that.
Speaker 14 (55:24):
She said that Da.
Speaker 11 (55:25):
Vinci was gender fluid and their series that the Mona
Lisa was the feminine side of Da Vinci, And I said, okay,
I'm just going to go basics, Wikipedia, right, Google. I'm
then going to go into the main research that you
know most Americans do, and couldn't find anything on that.
So I decided that I was I'm just tired of it, Mandy, honestly, like,
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just stick to the basis and teacher children what they're
supposed to be taught well.
Speaker 4 (55:50):
And I too did the basics. I mean, I did
a search this morning, and I did find one thing
that said that there's a theory that this is actually
a portrait. But it's not an old theory. It's a
newer theory that just showed up in the mid two
thousands from I mean like early two thousands from what
I can see. But that being said, I you know,
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you went to and talked to the teacher, and I
think that's the way to handle it. But did you
why did you post the audio? Why was that important?
Because I got to tell you. I think that in
the audio, the teacher made her case and explain why
she was doing what she was doing, and I would
urge people to listen to it to get the full picture.
But why post the audio?
Speaker 5 (56:31):
Of this.
Speaker 11 (56:32):
Because I think a lot of people come after me
as this hateful bigot that wants to take people down,
and that was not the case. There was a video
that the children watched that had one mention of da
Vinci maybe being homosexual. There was no mention of gender fluid.
There was no mention of DaVinci painting the Mona Lisa
as a feminine side. So when teachers go off on
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to their own narratives, then we're going to be in trouble.
You need to stick to the lessons that you needed
to teach. I mean, we don't have time for these
alternative narratives to be taught in our schools. Our kids
are behind. COVID taught us that, and I just want
my child to go to school and learn about world history.
Speaker 4 (57:11):
Well, I think it's interesting the whole gender fluid thing
because I've long known that there's a lot of people
and if you're gay, and what I'm gonna say is
going to offend you. I'm sorry, not you, Brandy, just
the audience. But there's a lot of gay people out
there who will tell you everyone is gay, and they
will look back in history and go, oh.
Speaker 3 (57:28):
He was gay, he was gay. He was gay, she
was gay.
Speaker 4 (57:30):
She was gay, and it's like, not everybody's gay, okay.
So this, for me, I kind of laughed a little
bit because this just felt like an extension of that, like, oh,
we need a famous artist in the in the you know,
on the team. But there's not any evidence. There's actually
not very much evidence about the Mona Lisa at all.
I mean, it was painted in the fifteen hundreds, so
this is this is not something we have a lot
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of information. Was the teacher able to direct you to
any sort of material that that, you know, girded that position.
Speaker 11 (58:02):
Now, I watched the video that she said that was
very adamant that Douglas County approved, And in that said video,
it was one mention that Leonardo da Vinci might have
been gay, and it did not speak anything about the
Mona Lisa being a feminine side of da Vinci. And
I'll say, you know, for other things, I work very
closely with gayes against groomers, and this is an eradication
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of gay rights too. I mean, if da Vinci was gay,
then saying that he was gender fluid is eradicating the
rights of gay right.
Speaker 4 (58:32):
Well, well, Brandy, I think the fact that you went
and talked to the teacher is exactly what people should do.
And I recommend this to my to my listeners all
the time. If you're hearing something from your student that
doesn't sound right, that sounds like like Brandy did, like
something that's like wait a minute, that's that's at odds
with everything I've ever learned in my life. Up a
Tilla's point, I commend you for going and talk to
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the teacher and doing it in a respectful, you know, manner.
There was nothing nasty about the exchange. There was nothing
angry about the exchange. You ask questions, you got answers,
and I think that it really goes to show how
we as parents can continue to advocate for our kids
and for our beliefs in the classroom, because I have
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to say, I wonder if it's going to get her
pause before saying it again, and if that's the case,
or at least dig up any sort of evidence of
which I don't think there is of that point of view.
So I wanted to commend you. I just I worry
about us, you know, putting people on the internet, putting
them on blast. And I say this, and I know
you've experienced it to the kind of hatred that you
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get online from people who don't know you. I am
cautious about throwing what I call normal people to the
wolves like that because it can be so awful and
so vicious.
Speaker 3 (59:44):
And so horrible.
Speaker 11 (59:46):
So and that's why I decided not to post the
teacher's name right post the school and didn't post the principle.
I mean, if the roles were reversed, they've come after
my company that I work for. I mean, let's be honest.
I showed a lot of grace towards this teacher, and
I know people maybe don't feel like I did. But
I could have put her email, I could have put
everything about that teacher up in a post.
Speaker 4 (01:00:08):
I didn't.
Speaker 11 (01:00:09):
I did not do that because I do feel like
maybe she's learned a lesson. But I think that if
there's a teacher with a cross in her classroom, her
personal cell phone and probably where she lives would have
been posted if the roles were reversed.
Speaker 4 (01:00:21):
I agree, I agree, but I always think our side's
better that. I always think our side is better. No, Brandy,
I'm glad you shared it because I think too many
parents are not paying attention and I know it's hard
for parents to think that your kids teachers have tremendous
influence over them. They're with them far more during the
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school day than you are, right, and so it's important
to know what's going on, stay engaged and do what
Represented Brandley. Brandy Bradley didn't and go and ask questions.
And I appreciate you for that.
Speaker 11 (01:00:54):
Well, thank you so much. I do think that teachers
are supposed to be trusted adults, and lying to children
because they don't understand or they don't know the difference
is not shouldn't be tolerated. I do think that my
children see me as an advocate for them, and I
hope that I've created some boldness for other parents to
do the same thing.
Speaker 4 (01:01:14):
I agree, Representative Brandy Bradley, get back to the special session.
God knows what they're going to do. While you're talking
to me, I'm going to try.
Speaker 11 (01:01:21):
Thanks Van, all right, thank you for that.
Speaker 4 (01:01:23):
That is Representative Brandy Bradley. You know, the thing about
this particular issue is that this is not a widely held.
Speaker 3 (01:01:32):
Belief.
Speaker 4 (01:01:34):
There is a woman who, like in twenty ten, started
comparing X rays and oh this could be Leonardo da
Vinci as a woman and everything else. It's not a
long term situation. Pay attention, ask questions, Talk to your kids.
Somebody just said on the text line, Mandy, if a
teacher isn't going to engage the students in critical thinking,
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in other words, talk beyond the video, then why I
have teachers at all? Just put a video and let
kids watch that. What is he had said? You know,
there are some people who think that Leonardo da Vinci
was a child molester. There's as much evidence for that
as there is for this being a portrait of himself.
That's the issue. This is not a well known thing,
(01:02:16):
and it definitely feels like it has an agenda, especially
when the teacher has four Pride flags hanging in their class.
Speaker 3 (01:02:23):
That seems excessive to me. But hey, what are you
gonna do?
Speaker 13 (01:02:26):
Right?
Speaker 4 (01:02:26):
Honestly, it's gonna be really hard for me to get
through this without a WTF out loud. This person said.
My son's freshman English class has just started reading To
Kill a Mockingbird, and the first thing brought up on
the first day of class was the gender identity of scout.
(01:02:47):
Can we please just leave it alone and not ruin
a great American classic. Y'all, scout is six years old
and to kill a mockingbird flip in six?
Speaker 2 (01:02:59):
What buy hell?
Speaker 4 (01:03:02):
I cleaned it up. If this is I mean, y'all,
what how is that even? How how's that a thing?
Another person pointed out, Mandy ken Burns is coming out
with a documentary on Da Vinci. If it's able to
be known, I'd think he would find out. And you
are right, Texter, you are right. Now interesting story about
(01:03:28):
real estate markets.
Speaker 3 (01:03:29):
For just a second.
Speaker 4 (01:03:31):
A record number of home deals collapsed in July. Now,
when a home deal collapses, it means that the buyer
has decided. I mean a vast majority of the time.
I guess the seller could say no, I'm not selling
this and it would collapse. But a vast majority of
the time it is the buyer who says, uh, yeah,
we're not going to do this, We're not going to
move forward.
Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
You know.
Speaker 4 (01:03:53):
Sometimes they get their earnest money back, sometimes they don't.
But sixty thousand home deals went up in smoke, and
realtors are saying it's a couple of things. Number one,
high prices. Number two the presidential election. People are uncertain,
(01:04:13):
they don't know what's going on. Many Americans feel like
we're already in a recession, even though technically, using the
technical definition of recession, we are not. But a lot
of people feel like they're in their own personal recession
right Like our incomes have been decimated by inflation and
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people are having a hard time keeping up. I mean,
I talk about it all the time in my American
financing commercials, like people are using credit cards. We've got
a record amount of credit card debt. This is real,
And I wanted to ask this question. Have you and
you can text us on the Common Spirit Health text
line at five sixty six nine zero, and I'd love
to know have you put off a major purchase because
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of either interest rate or you're just not feeling good
about committing to another big monthly payment, or you don't
want to drop a bunch of money on something that
you know that you've got to pay for. Five six
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sixth nine oh is the text line. Go ahead and
text us if you have put off or thinking of
putting off, maybe even thinking about buying a new house,
but you haven't. Maybe even thinking about replacing the windows
on your home, but you're not. Maybe you're thinking about
redoing your landscaping but you're not. Maybe you're thinking about
buying a new car, but you're not. You know, maybe
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all of these things. I'm just curious. Five six, six, nine. Oh,
you can text us the answer. Mandy, just heard your
story about the Mona Lisa being a self portrait. I
was a sub for an ILC student at CCSD. In
a first grade class, the art teacher mentioned the exact
thing about Mona Lisa being a self portrait of Da Vinci.
I was like, I've never heard of that before. But
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of course I didn't say anything because I'm not in
a position to question the art teacher. I don't think
there's anything wrong with saying what, where's the evidence for that?
Because that flies in the face of everything that I learned,
And if I've learned stuff that is now out of date,
I'd love to know more because none of us, none
of us heard that when we were young. When we
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get back, we've got a two minute drill because I
got a bunch of stories on the blog, and then
later on we're going to talk to Mary Rook of
The Daily Caller. Does RFK Junior even make a difference.
We'll do all that in the next hour.
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Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
Two minute drill at two?
Speaker 10 (01:07:04):
Hey, we're I go to too many Morris repidfire stories
of the day that we don't have more time.
Speaker 3 (01:07:08):
For play Mark Jeff Bline, let's call this.
Speaker 2 (01:07:11):
It'll take longer than two minutes.
Speaker 3 (01:07:13):
Are you out?
Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
Here's Mandy Condell, Welcome.
Speaker 4 (01:07:17):
Back, and I've got a bunch of stuff for you,
including a really, really scorching column. The headline says it all.
How does DPS Superintendent Alex Morrero still have a job?
Eric Sonderman pulled no punches as he talks about the
failure of the current Denver Public Schools superintendent to do
(01:07:37):
anything significant about student achievement, especially the achievement gap between
black and Hispanic students and white students. And apparently his
answer is just not breaking those numbers out. Uh, you've
got to read it. Eric Sonderman's right. I wish more
media would pay attention to the fact that our superintendent
just got a ginormous raise even though he's doing a
(01:08:00):
really bad job doing his most basic thing, which is
educating students in Denver. It too more evidence that your
food is directly affecting your brain. There is a school
of research now that suggests that blood sugar fluctuations are
partly responsible for the connection between how we eat and
(01:08:20):
what we feel. I'm not talking about your guts, I'm
talking about your anxiety, your depression. Numerous random controlled trials
have demonstrated that diet is one biological factor that can
significantly influence risk for symptoms of depression and anxiety, especially
in women. The more you know about how your body works,
(01:08:42):
you know that sugar or spikes and crashes are terrible,
and unfortunately, the standard American diet creates a lot of that.
Could that be the reason that so many young people
have anxiety and depression? I don't know, but maybe cleaning
up their diet for a little bit to see if
it helps might be a great end free place to start.
Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
Drill it too.
Speaker 4 (01:09:04):
Remember when streaming and cutting the cord was a great
way to save money. Well, those days are over because
streaming services are jacking up the prices. Monthly fees for
individual streaming services ad free have gotten really expensive. Hulu
eighteen ninety nine, Amazon Prime seventeen ninety eight, Max sixteen
(01:09:25):
ninety nine, Disney Plus fifteen ninety nine, Netflix fifteen forty nine,
and so on and so on. It used to be
that you could cut the cord from cable and save
big by signing up for a few streaming services. But
those days are over. It's called streamflation. And if you
want to save money on your video stuff, steal it
from your neighbor, don't. I don't know what else. I
(01:09:48):
don't know what else to tell you. That's the best
idea that I have so far.
Speaker 2 (01:09:53):
Drill it too.
Speaker 4 (01:09:55):
Very interesting story coming out of Alaska. You know, the
was the first to go to ranked choice voting and
it ended up with Alaskans, which tend to be very conservative,
electing Democrat Rep. Mary Peltola to Congress. Now she is
a liberal and doesn't necessarily represent the people of Alaska.
(01:10:17):
And now we just had a primary where three members
came out of this, Mary Poltola and two Republicans. Now,
unlike last time where the Republicans split the vote and
Petola was able to get into office, the candidate the
Republican candidate who got fewer votes, So there was two Republicans.
(01:10:38):
They already decided whoever got the fewest number of votes
was going to drop out and support the other Republican.
This is how you do it. You don't alienate the
supporters of the other team so much that they won't
vote for you in the general election. It's going to
be interesting to see how this works out. Because the
two GOP candidates garnered more votes combined than Mary Peltola,
(01:10:59):
but she was named the winner after the hierarchy higherarchicle
rounds of ranked choice voting were concluded. And now the
Republicans have learned to play the game and they're probably
going to win this election because of it.
Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
Drill it too well.
Speaker 4 (01:11:14):
There's another cool bar in Denver that I'm not cool
enough to go to. Have you heard about this? A
rod the secret bar, totally a secret, No, it's a secret,
no no advertising. It's it's known as the Lincoln's because
every drink is five dollars. It's in a basement somewhere
and that five bucks, by the way, includes tax I
don't know.
Speaker 8 (01:11:34):
Where it is.
Speaker 4 (01:11:35):
I don't know where it is, but it's a hit
and bar called the Lincolns where drinks are five bucks
and I am not cool enough to go there, So
if you know where the Lincoln's is, you can text
me and make me feel cool, because it'll lord it
over a Rod's head, like I know more than he does,
even though I'm not as cool as he is.
Speaker 3 (01:11:53):
Because I'm not.
Speaker 4 (01:11:54):
My cool days are behind me, and I'm okay with
that because I had enough fun for all of you.
And state fares would be nothing if not a whole
cavalcade of disgusting food items that will probably put you
in an early grave. And this year is no different.
Now we're no stranger to deep fried oreos and deep
(01:12:15):
fried twinkies, but now we've moved on to things like
and I would totally eat this, hey Rod, Yes? Or
no bacon cheeseburger egg roll y, Yes, I would definitely
try that one hundred percent Krispy Green donut cheeseburger.
Speaker 3 (01:12:30):
No, No donuts and cheese no.
Speaker 4 (01:12:32):
Surprisingly delicious, Nope a surprising. I had one at in
Kentucky and it was remarkably good. We've got the oh
sugar cakes, fried oreos, that's old news. We've got the
dill pickle pizza. I like dill pickles and I like pizza.
But I don't think I need them together.
Speaker 8 (01:12:52):
After having a whole pickle spear in a Chicago dog,
I'm down that.
Speaker 4 (01:12:56):
Well, pickles and hot dogs go together perfectly. I mean
they're like magic. How about an entire flight of deviled eggs?
Oh you don't like deviled eggs?
Speaker 3 (01:13:05):
Oh they're gross? I don't know how, I don't what like?
Speaker 8 (01:13:09):
What do you like?
Speaker 4 (01:13:10):
Egg salad?
Speaker 11 (01:13:11):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (01:13:13):
I mean egg salad is essentially just a salad. A
little handful of this egg salad. Two foot lobster roll
at Jari Southwer I would I'd hit that hundred bucks
by the way for a two foot lobster rollo. Wait,
what three potato chip coated balls of party dip?
Speaker 3 (01:13:36):
What is party dip?
Speaker 4 (01:13:38):
I kind of explain. And the pickle dog combines an
Iowa favorite deep fried hot dog pickle wrapped around with
batter and fried. There you go, There you go, So
there you go. That is your two minute trail. I
would try all of those fair foods. I would try
them all. I have tried a lot of them. The
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Kentucky State Fair whas where I used to work in Kentucky,
we did WHS Day at the State Fair. So the
whole station was there all day. It was so much fun,
and we'd always go find the weirdest stuff. And the
Kentucky state here has some. They have some weird stuff,
super weird stuff. Mandy rate choice voting sucks. It can
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result in everyone's worst choice winning. Just say no, Rick
not if it requires a majority to actually be declared
the winner, and the ballot initiative that's going to be
on the ballot here in Colorado requires a majority, so
no one will win with less than a majority. So
Hulu Plus is not eighty nine ninety nine. Somebody just
(01:14:40):
hit that the Texters. It is not eighty nine ninety nine.
I already closed that window, so I got to hang on,
let me pull that back up. Do you have Hulu plus.
Speaker 3 (01:14:51):
Not the plus?
Speaker 4 (01:14:51):
No, Disney Plus and Hulu together is nineteen ninety nine.
Disney plus Hulu and Max is twenty nine ninety nine,
Disney plus Hulu and ESP The PN plus is twenty
four to ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (01:15:03):
So there you go. Then the live TV that might
be what puts it up in.
Speaker 4 (01:15:07):
I thought Huluplus had the live TV? Does it I
thought it did. I don't know, I think it does.
We just paid for Hulu because we wanted to watch
if it has.
Speaker 3 (01:15:16):
Something, if it has lve TV and all that, it's
no way it's got more has do you think?
Speaker 1 (01:15:21):
So?
Speaker 3 (01:15:22):
Yeah? No, yeah, because YouTube TV is an example. With
live TV is like seventy five bucks.
Speaker 8 (01:15:26):
Now, yeah, cut the camel, they said regarding cutting the cord.
Speaker 4 (01:15:31):
I installed an antenna and watched primarily over the air.
I live in the foothills and get over thirty channels.
I just I want to see what I want to
see when I want to see it, and really all
I want to see is HGTV. I wish I had
something else for you. Although they've gotten rid of a
lot of my hosts I like, and I'm just not
happy with the new round of hosts. Don't like it
when people move my home improvement cheese. So what point
(01:15:53):
does doing that and having Hulu with live TV? I mean,
how much you paid for your internet to come in
your house. We pay a ridiculous sum of money for
our internet access because we have business speeds, so I
can do the show from home on occasion, and I
regret nothing like that's the best thing ever. But I'm curious, like,
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if you added up those numbers, have you called the
cable company and been like, Okay, what's going to take
You know, because they're desperate for eyeballs. Infinity needs as
many subscribers as they can get. Same with Central Link,
same with AT and T, because that's how they sell advertising.
They got to have enough eyeballs. They got to have
enough subscribers. So I'm wondering at what point that break
(01:16:36):
even a ro Do a quick search? How much does
Infinity cable cost? Just do a quick search, see what
you get. Because I don't pay our bills, Chuck does,
so I don't know how much everything costs. I mean,
generally speaking, I don't know how much stuff costs. So
I want to talk. Well, he's looking that up. I
want to talk. And as a matter of fact, give
(01:16:56):
me my.
Speaker 8 (01:16:59):
Cany cable TV lands can cost between twenty and eighty
dollars a month, depending on the region and the package. Yeah,
exact internet access, no internet like one hundred and let's see,
let's go with gigabit extra Ultimate TV one hundred and
eighty five plus channels and twelve hundred megabits download speeds
one hundred and eighty a month.
Speaker 4 (01:17:18):
Oh now you're still you're still talking yeah, one hundred
and thirty. You're probably making money by doing Hulu with live.
Speaker 8 (01:17:24):
Yeah, if you're in, you're going more basic stuff four
hundred megabits download speed connect Internet and Popular TV one
hundred and twenty five channel one hundred and thirty four
a month, or for Fast and Popular TV one hundred
and twenty five channels and five hundred megabits downloads B
one hundred and eleven per month.
Speaker 3 (01:17:38):
Like internet wise, we're we're around there, just Internet.
Speaker 4 (01:17:42):
Yeah, that's kind of what we're looking at. Yeah, So,
I mean, I guess I don't know. I could call
Chuck and ask him, but now I don't care that much.
I want to play this audio Jake Tapper talking to
Corey Booker, and he asked the question that I've long
had since I heard this chart a new course with
Kamala Harris. I'm just gonna let Ke Tapper aske it
a new chap Well, hang on, didn't know that was
(01:18:03):
up there?
Speaker 7 (01:18:04):
We go a new chapter.
Speaker 3 (01:18:06):
I mean, she's the incumbent Vice president.
Speaker 8 (01:18:08):
Democrats have controlled the White House for twelve for the
last sixteen years, how can Democrats talk about a new chapter?
Speaker 3 (01:18:13):
Turning the page?
Speaker 7 (01:18:14):
You guys are the ones writing the book.
Speaker 3 (01:18:17):
Corey Booker, Well, you.
Speaker 15 (01:18:19):
Know that that's not true, Jake, because you know politics
like I do. Right now, we see the maga Republicans
in Congress, So wait.
Speaker 4 (01:18:26):
A minute before we stop. First of all, the thing
he says to Jake Tapper when Jake Tapper literally says
something that is true, Jake Tapper says she's the incumbent
vice president. Corey Booker responds with, first of all, Jake,
that's not true.
Speaker 3 (01:18:41):
Wait but is she?
Speaker 4 (01:18:43):
I'll just let you hear the clap trap that comes
out of Corey Booker's mouth, and then we'll respond to it.
Speaker 15 (01:18:47):
On the other side of the baring all kind of
pragmatic policies. On the most contentious issue, we had a
bi partisan deal argued by excuse, we settled on by
Senator Langford or right Republican and Chris Murphy, a blue
state Democrat.
Speaker 2 (01:19:04):
And notice that he.
Speaker 4 (01:19:05):
Says right wing Republican and instead of saying left wing Democrat,
he's a blue state Democrat.
Speaker 3 (01:19:14):
But I'll let him finish build the pragmatic progress.
Speaker 15 (01:19:16):
It wasn't the sensible Republicans but really people that were
how telling to Donald Trump his influence is egregious and incredible.
Speaker 4 (01:19:27):
Yeah yeah, yeah, so yeah, new way forward. She's the
income advice President. Well that's not true, Jake. Everything that's
wrong is the fault of the Republicans. Even though the
Democrats control the Senate and they control the White House.
(01:19:47):
We're supposed to believe that it's a new way forward.
But that wasn't the only great SoundBite from this weekend.
I want to play you this on this week on
ABC's This Week, which purports to show that, you know,
like political stuff, high brown conversation. Senator Tom Cotton is
(01:20:10):
being interviewed by John carl and I want you to
hear this exchange.
Speaker 9 (01:20:14):
And President Trump is going to draw a sharp contrast
with Kamala Harris, who has supported things like decriminalizing illegal immigration,
or giving taxpayer funded health insurance to illegal aliens, or
taking away health insurance on the job for one hundred
and seventy million Americans, banning gas cars, confiscating firearms.
Speaker 6 (01:20:34):
Taking away health insurance. What are you talking about?
Speaker 9 (01:20:36):
She said when she ran for president that she wants
to eliminate private health insurance on the job seventy million americans.
Speaker 6 (01:20:41):
John, Yeah, I mean, I mean that that is not
her position.
Speaker 7 (01:20:43):
Now she knows how do you know this, Sciram, how
do you.
Speaker 9 (01:20:45):
Know this not her position? I mean she says, you
know what, she has not said that. Maybe anonymous aids
on a Friday night have said that. But but the
last thing that.
Speaker 3 (01:20:56):
She said, this was not a radical convention.
Speaker 4 (01:20:59):
I mean she.
Speaker 6 (01:21:01):
As that you heard me go through with Bernie Sanders.
She is not taking the positions of the far left
of her party. She's clearly making an effort to move
to the medal.
Speaker 9 (01:21:10):
I did hear what you said to Sanader Sanders, and
I thought it was clear that he's very disappointed that
she's taking these efforts not to change her positions, but
to hide her positions. John, the American people are totally
justified to conclude that Kamala Harris is a dangerous San
Francisco liberal based on what she campaigned on the last
time she ran for president and what this administration has
(01:21:32):
done for the last four years. Again, you would have
thought watching the Democratic Convention last week that the Democrats
are not in office, that they're not in power, that
they're campaigning against an incumbent Republican, when in reality, she's
been part of the failures of the Biden Harris administration
for four years, and when she campaigned for president in
her own right, she did in fact promise sayings like
(01:21:53):
decriminalizing illegal immigration, taking away if that's this.
Speaker 6 (01:21:56):
Position she's clearly changed on, and she said she has changed.
Speaker 9 (01:22:00):
Yes, yes, yes, I has no John, she has not
said that.
Speaker 4 (01:22:04):
I want to point out something that is really important.
John Carl is a journalist. John Carl is supposed to
be paying attention. John Carl's job is to interview politicians,
and yet he is touting the line that Kamala Harris
has announced has spoken the words I've changed my position,
when nothing like that has occurred. And if I were
(01:22:26):
Senator Tom Cotton, I would have said, hey, you know what,
I can wait while your team finds the audio of
her saying that she doesn't want to take away private insurance.
I'll wait. I'll just hang out right here. You do
what you got to do back there. But I'm sure
shouldn't be hard to find out where she has rebuked
these positions. She hasn't rebuked anything, not a single one
of them. But of course we don't get to ask
(01:22:49):
her questions because whatever it's, it's fine it's fine, It's
all fine. She writes about all kinds of stuff. And
initially when we were going to set this up, we
were going to talk about the d N see, but
I swore I would not talk about it anymore after
last week, and she's got to call him today about
the endorsement. I don't know if this today or yesterday
about the endorsement of RFK junior of Donald Trump, And
(01:23:13):
so Mary, I wanted to ask you because we kind
of talked about it a little bit when it happened,
but I wanted to ask you if if you think
it's going to make that much of a difference. And
I'm kind of the jury is out on this right,
I'm not quite sure if I'm not quite sure the
impact just yet.
Speaker 11 (01:23:35):
Hi.
Speaker 13 (01:23:36):
By the way, thanks for having me on, Mandy. It's
always great to be on. And in fact, I do
I think it's going to make a world of difference.
So if you're looking at these swing state pollings, the
ones that Kennedy's dropping out of, you'll see that he
is getting about five percent of the vote, and they're
saying that there's at least seventy five percent of that
five percent that is being pulled from Trump's voter role,
(01:24:00):
and so I think that one it's going to give
Trump a big boost. And then also just him coming
over and telling his followers like, it's time we have
to unite around one candidate, and this is the candidate
to go through.
Speaker 14 (01:24:10):
I think that's going to be huge.
Speaker 13 (01:24:12):
And also I think that a lot of Americans are
forgetting that there's a swath of female voters who are
kind of independent leaning their mothers. They're worried about our
food supply, They're worried about the quality of water, They're
worried about how that's going to affect their kids. When
he talks about infertility in men, when he talks about
(01:24:32):
infertility and women, and then you think about it. I
have four children, and I think about it all the time.
What kind of world are they going to grow up in?
What's their fertility going to be? Like?
Speaker 14 (01:24:39):
How are they going to be able to have children
of their own?
Speaker 13 (01:24:43):
When you have a candidate that cares so deeply about
that and is saying, I here's Donald Trump, and he
is also going to carry this torch with us, I
think that that moves a lot of these female voters
that Trump has been struggling to reach. He's great at
blue collar workers, he's great at talking about immigration, the
border of the economy, but this is one of those
(01:25:03):
aspects that he hasn't really hit hard enough. And JFK
Junior are sorry. RFK Junior really does, and I think
that that's going to be, you know, a big push
in his favor. I think that's something that the Harris
camp hasn't even talked about.
Speaker 14 (01:25:17):
I mean, you saw several.
Speaker 13 (01:25:18):
Democrats come out after Kennedy's speech and say, oh, we
need to start a commission, we need to start talking
about this, we need to create a federal commission on
this and and really bring this about in Harris's camp.
Speaker 4 (01:25:31):
And it's a little too late.
Speaker 13 (01:25:32):
I'm sorry, but you've had four years now and as
part of the Biden Harris administration to do anything about it.
You're not You're beholden to the FDA, You're beholden to
the CDC. These issues have been long standing and parents
want a resolution on it. And I think that having
someone like RFK Junior come out and say that Trump's
going to carry that torch will be big for him.
Speaker 4 (01:25:52):
I mean, the Democratic Party has been too worried about
ending pregnancies to worry about them actually happening in the
first place, Right, I mean, that's their focus is all
on ending pregnancies and not in making sure that we're
having babies. It's interesting to me, Mary, to your point
that when you talk about it and jd. Vance has
been very open about this, about the need to have
kids and about what having children does in terms of
(01:26:15):
your worldview of the future. Right, You've got four kids,
I have kids. I worry about what kind of world
I'm leaving my children. And do you think that that
demographic especially and I'm gonna call them earthy granola moms,
the earthly granola moms who are probably doing yoga, who
are maybe worried about vaccinations, who are you know, only
(01:26:36):
feed their children organic food and stuff like that, That
to me is traditionally a very strong Democratic voter. Do
you think this issue is going to be enough to
move them to the right.
Speaker 14 (01:26:48):
Absolutely? I think so.
Speaker 13 (01:26:50):
I think that that, you know, they're Democratic voter in
the sense that they kind of have always felt like
the Democratic Party cared more about this kind of stuff
than the Republican Party did.
Speaker 14 (01:27:02):
They've been you know, the.
Speaker 13 (01:27:03):
Republicans have been the Party of Big Business and all
of those things throughout the eighties and nineties, and so
they grew up and with their parents.
Speaker 14 (01:27:09):
Telling them that this is the way it is.
Speaker 13 (01:27:11):
But now we're in an economy where even if you
want to feature kids organic, even if you want to
feature kids whole foods and you know, things that are
nice and healthy for them, you can't afford to. And
so when you have someone like President Trump come in
and say I want an economy for all. I want
an economy where you can afford to do these things
for your children, to make sure that they're healthy, to
make sure that they're safe. I really do think that
(01:27:33):
it sways a lot of voters. I've seen a lot
of mothers and who were thinking about voting for RFK
Junior just because of these types of policies now say
that they're going to vote for Trump because he's carrying
that torch for him.
Speaker 14 (01:27:45):
So I do I really think that this is a
momentum changer.
Speaker 13 (01:27:49):
And not to bring it back to the DNC, but
we had a week of them telling us how important
it was for women's rights and how important it was
for them to be able to choose abortion over anything else.
You have a candidate that says, no, guess what, you
can be a mother, you can care about these things,
and we're going to help you do that. And that's
kind of like the saving grace for these women who
have always been desperate to be moms and desperate to
(01:28:11):
be part of that motherhood circle and have felt like
maybe overwhelmed by all of the negativity and overwhelmed by
the prospective well how do I even bring children safely
into this world?
Speaker 4 (01:28:23):
So yeah, I do.
Speaker 14 (01:28:24):
I think it's going to be a big momentum shift
for them. And also, you know, RFK has this ability to.
Speaker 13 (01:28:32):
Has you know, he has this expertise in this area
that maybe Trump doesn't, and so just knowing that you
have someone like that in your corner is helpful. And
who does Kamala Harris have in that corner? She doesn't
have anyone. So I think that it does it speaks
a lot to them.
Speaker 4 (01:28:50):
So the other weird endorsement that came out today is
former Congressman Chelsea Gabbard has come out and endorse Donald Trump.
Tell me a little bit about that, because I've been
doing the show since that happened, so I haven't seen it.
Speaker 14 (01:29:05):
So she's been a Democrat for a long time.
Speaker 13 (01:29:07):
We saw her kind of shift more to an independent
after the twenty twenty election, and how the Democrats treated her.
You know, she was like the lady of the hour
in Hawaii, and you know, moving forward, she was their
veteran vote.
Speaker 14 (01:29:19):
She was all of these things for them.
Speaker 13 (01:29:20):
And then because she came out against some of the
party line issues, all of a sudden, she became persona
and on gata. And now we have someone again who
has been a Democrat all her life, has voted for
Democrats all her life, come out and say, no, we're
not voting for Democrats anymore just because they have a
d nex to their name. We're going to vote for
a candidate who will be for all Americans. And she
(01:29:42):
spoke in front of a lot of different veterans. And
there's been a lot of talk about, you know, Trump
calling veterans suckers and losers, and you know that hoax
that's been going around by the Democratic Party. But who
was there laying the wreaths today at the you know,
at the nationalmety for the thirteen fallen soldiers under Biden
(01:30:03):
Harris administration.
Speaker 14 (01:30:04):
I mean, by the time that was all said and done.
Speaker 13 (01:30:06):
It was only like two hours ago that Biden even
spoke out on Twitter about these thirteen individuals that died.
Speaker 14 (01:30:12):
And you can't say that you are a man for
you know, or an.
Speaker 13 (01:30:18):
Administration for all of these people, when in reality, you
can't even bring yourself to mention it.
Speaker 14 (01:30:24):
In the morning of like the moment that.
Speaker 13 (01:30:27):
You know you should be honoring these soldiers who died,
you're sitting on a beach somewhere in Delaware. We have
a political correspondent, Henry Rogers, who said that he was
on a phone call with veterans today and with their
families of the thirteen that died, and not a single
one of them has received a phone call from Kamala
Harris since the attack happened, since their child died.
Speaker 14 (01:30:50):
And that's a big deal.
Speaker 13 (01:30:51):
We're talking about, you know, people who want to be
the commander in chief of the army and they can't
even bring themselves to have humanity or human compassion.
Speaker 14 (01:31:01):
For these people that laid their livestone for our country.
Speaker 13 (01:31:04):
And that was such a chaotic withdrawal that I think
that veterans, you know, you bring Tim Walls.
Speaker 14 (01:31:10):
On and he's supposed to be the guy that helps the.
Speaker 13 (01:31:13):
Veteran vote because he was supposedly a command sergeant major
and he never actually rose to that rank.
Speaker 14 (01:31:18):
He had stolen beller accusations against him.
Speaker 13 (01:31:21):
Now and these veterans are wising up and they're saying, Okay,
our va is terrible, it's corrupt. They give us pain
pills instead of actual help. We need someone in there
that's going to help us. And Trump tried to do
that under his first term, and you know, he's vowed
to help them even more under his second. And I
think that that speaks, you know, again to another large
(01:31:42):
swath of voters who would have maybe voted Democrat just
because they had always been Democrat, but now will look
to the Republican Party for help and leadership.
Speaker 4 (01:31:51):
Mary Rooke, I appreciate your time today. You can read
Mary's work at the Daily Caller every single day. Mary
will talk to you again soon.
Speaker 14 (01:31:59):
Thank you, Thanks so much.
Speaker 4 (01:32:02):
Madi. All right, that is Mary Brook.
Speaker 10 (01:32:03):
You know.
Speaker 4 (01:32:04):
Tulsea Gabbard made the endorsement today at a Trump's appearance
at a National Guard conference in Detroit. Hours after the
forty fifth president attended a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery
with families of some of the thirteen service members who
perished during the botch to Afghanistan withdrawal.
Speaker 3 (01:32:26):
Tulsea Gabbard has and I did know this.
Speaker 4 (01:32:29):
She has also been helping the president do debate prep
and there's been a lot of squabbling over the debate situation.
I guess there's discussions about keeping the microphones muted when
the other person is talking. I actually didn't mind it.
I thought it worked, but of course Trump doesn't like it.
And we'll see if that debate actually happens. It's scheduled
(01:32:53):
for September tenth, and if it does happen, then we
will we will have a kawaycast, So we talk to
Ross about that. I'm just gonna I'm gonna RSVP for Ross. Yes, okay,
I'm just gonna RSVP for him. I'll ask him about
it tomorrow in our cross talk on his show. So yeah,
(01:33:16):
Tulci Gabbert in Trump's camp. It's very strange bedfellows being
made as Democrats are sort of being forced out of
the party in a way. Tulsi Gabbert has talked openly
about the fact that she is on the TSA watch
list for no reason, but every time she goes to security.
(01:33:37):
She gets the s SSS mark on her on her
boarding pass. Do you guys know what the SSSS mark is?
If you look at your boarding pass and it should
be up in the right hand corner. If it says
s S S S, you will be heavily screened at security.
You've been marked. Tulsey Gabbard says, she's been, you know,
(01:33:58):
basically used and now harassed by the Democratic power structure.
You have RFK Junior, whose dad and uncle are probably
two of the most prominent Democrats to live in the
past one hundred years, and he says the party has
become so undemocratic that he has no choice but to
(01:34:21):
endorse the Republican nominee for president. So as people are
finding out what it's like to be on the wrong
side of the Democratic Party, they're finding out what we
on the right have known for a long time. The
Democratic Party is mean, they're hateful, and if you cross them,
they will destroy you. It's not enough to just win
(01:34:47):
the war of ideas. It's more about shutting down any
ideas they disagree with the power that they wield to do.
That has really been seen by RFK Junior. They've been
fighting him in multiple states with friendly judges to keep
him off the ballot. And that's why he endorsed Trump.
If they just left him alone, he would have been
on the ballot. By the way, there's now a new
(01:35:08):
committee to remind you of every bad thing that RFK
Junior has ever done. Someone that he knew in college
alleges that he was a coke dealer in college. Eh,
it doesn't have the same sting it once had. Now
we have politicians openly admitting that they inhaled even as
they put people in prison for long prison terms for marijuana.
Speaker 13 (01:35:31):
Oh is that?
Speaker 1 (01:35:32):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:35:32):
Oh yep. I'm looking at Kamala Harris. She's right over there,
laughing about it as she says she is. Yeah, she
did inhale. A couple things on the blog that we
did not get to today. One of them. Then I'm
gonna get see if I can get Randall on the
show soon. Randal O'Toole is with the Independence Institute. He
(01:35:56):
writes more stuff about RTD than anybody else. He he
probably has a better understanding about RTD than anyone who
is not on the RTD board. And he's written a
really really interesting column about how bad the ridership has
recovered on RTD, and he suggests, look, it's time to
(01:36:17):
just end the light rate rail charade and just move
to high speed buses. We could put buses on those
on those light rail lines and it was zip right
past traffic. It'd be a fraction of the cost and
maybe people would actually ride them. What was the last
time you were on light rail, Ryan Edwards?
Speaker 3 (01:36:33):
Oh, it's been years? Really?
Speaker 12 (01:36:35):
Yeah, well, yeah, no, I think it's been It's been
a few years. I mean the last time I did
light rail, we went downtown for some it might have
been like a New Year's thing or something, and it
was just a mess.
Speaker 3 (01:36:46):
It was it was it was a mess to get back.
Speaker 4 (01:36:50):
Yeah, And just here's the thing is it's really easy
to take light rail to an event.
Speaker 2 (01:36:55):
That was why we loved it.
Speaker 3 (01:36:57):
You got a plan.
Speaker 4 (01:36:58):
It's like, okay, so if I am gonna am I
going to uber out and white rail is not should
have done.
Speaker 11 (01:37:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:37:05):
But then by the time, I mean I live in
Douglas County, by the time I uber from downtown, that's
sixty five bucks not worth it. Cheaper to drive park
and drive home cheaper.
Speaker 12 (01:37:15):
And you know, if you're having a good time downtown.
That's not necessarily the best idea. So yeah, it's a
difficult proposition. I'd love to hear solutions, certainly.
Speaker 4 (01:37:27):
Yep. Thanks to the Texter who pointed out that as
soon as RFK Junior endorsed Donald Trump and suspended his campaign,
they pulled his Secret Service protection. I mean, it's not
like anybody who knows ever been killed right for politics?
Speaker 10 (01:37:40):
Nah?
Speaker 4 (01:37:41):
Whatever, it's fine.
Speaker 3 (01:37:43):
He doesn't say controversial things anyway.
Speaker 4 (01:37:44):
Why and he's fine. It's all fine. It's not like
somebody got shot in this campaign cycle, is it. I mean,
oh wait, that did happen? It just it's been memory
hold so quickly that I didn't think it's it. Maybe
it didn't happen. I don't know anyway, Ryan Edwards, is
that a?
Speaker 15 (01:38:01):
Is that a?
Speaker 4 (01:38:02):
Pso it is?
Speaker 2 (01:38:03):
You're in. I'm in.
Speaker 3 (01:38:04):
Let me get the flannel. I mean, it's vibe.
Speaker 4 (01:38:07):
You're ready.
Speaker 3 (01:38:08):
It was you know, it was a long rs ready
for sweater weather.
Speaker 12 (01:38:11):
Sundays are long days, so Mondays need a little extra
love and car It's time. What I look today fifty.
Speaker 4 (01:38:20):
Carbs and now it's time for the most exciting segment
all the radio of the sky.
Speaker 8 (01:38:28):
I take a bag fifty grams of sugar. I think
it's like half atten carbs. But that's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (01:38:32):
No, fifty grands of sugar is fifty I mean that's.
Speaker 12 (01:38:34):
See, that's why you do like I did with tide,
and then you don't have to worry about that with what?
Speaker 4 (01:38:39):
No, what are you doing? What you're.
Speaker 3 (01:38:47):
I take it bag?
Speaker 9 (01:38:47):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:38:48):
I was right, I was right. A grande PSL fifty
two carves. Again. I fairly eat anything anymore because of
the I mean, I hope you eat nothing else today.
Why are we shaming people? I just feel I can't
have them.
Speaker 4 (01:39:07):
Yeah, so if you can't enjoy it, you can't enjoy
all right. Now, what is our dad joke of the day?
Speaker 3 (01:39:12):
Please p s ls.
Speaker 8 (01:39:14):
Okay, what happens when a microscope crashes into a telescope?
Speaker 3 (01:39:19):
What kaleidoscope?
Speaker 4 (01:39:21):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (01:39:21):
Wow?
Speaker 10 (01:39:22):
Wow?
Speaker 13 (01:39:25):
You know what?
Speaker 9 (01:39:27):
It is?
Speaker 8 (01:39:27):
A noun?
Speaker 3 (01:39:29):
And I forget to pronounce it. Oh help me out.
Speaker 2 (01:39:32):
Jeremiah Jeremiah Jeremiah.
Speaker 4 (01:39:35):
No e R E M I A D. Isn't it
like a platitude or something like or an old trope
or something like kind of a cliche. It's I feel
like I'm.
Speaker 3 (01:39:46):
In Ryan, take that?
Speaker 4 (01:39:49):
Okay, never mind?
Speaker 3 (01:39:50):
Okay, yeah, go ahead. Refers to a long, cautionary or
angry rant about something.
Speaker 4 (01:39:55):
I knew it was a word thing. I just didn't
know what a word thing. Word of the day is
a word.
Speaker 3 (01:40:04):
Word whatever? Off the limerick.
Speaker 4 (01:40:07):
No, I know it was, it was I got over confident.
I got over confident, right, Okay? What is the largest
type of perching bird?
Speaker 7 (01:40:16):
A bird with three forward.
Speaker 4 (01:40:18):
Facing toes and one backward facing toe on.
Speaker 3 (01:40:21):
Each foot perching bird?
Speaker 4 (01:40:25):
No, they don't perch on the ground, right, I'm gonna
say a condor. They seem big, right?
Speaker 3 (01:40:33):
Oh wow?
Speaker 2 (01:40:34):
Not close?
Speaker 4 (01:40:34):
Close the raven, which has a wingspan of more than
four feet. There you go. I didn't know the raven
was a perching bird.
Speaker 5 (01:40:42):
Why we do it?
Speaker 14 (01:40:43):
Right here?
Speaker 4 (01:40:44):
What is our jeopardy category?
Speaker 3 (01:40:46):
And here's your host?
Speaker 8 (01:40:47):
Okay, Mandy and Ryan are not two answers, okay, but
other hosts. Okay, this idol host with a variety? Who's
Ryan Seacrest is correct? Ihearts right? This comedy, said Central
political pundit, Who's John Stewart wrong? Good guess explored running
for the president of the US of South Carolina.
Speaker 4 (01:41:11):
The president of the US of South Carolina. I have
no idea.
Speaker 3 (01:41:14):
I'm out Stephen Colbert.
Speaker 4 (01:41:16):
I was going to guess after and I decided not to.
Speaker 3 (01:41:18):
It was it was a one. It was a fifty
to fifty shot.
Speaker 8 (01:41:20):
Yeah, Ryan, Well, when he's not snuffing out torches, this
new talk show host new Oh it's because it's old
host hopes guests say yes to an ambush adventure.
Speaker 3 (01:41:31):
Mandy, who's Jeff Corbyn wrong?
Speaker 9 (01:41:36):
Show?
Speaker 3 (01:41:39):
Torched right in the survivor which is who?
Speaker 10 (01:41:43):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:41:44):
I thought Jeff Corbyn was survivor?
Speaker 3 (01:41:45):
Oh? Oh yeah, okay, come here we go.
Speaker 4 (01:41:50):
We're suckond win here Ryan.
Speaker 8 (01:41:51):
The twenty twelve version of this Phil Keyogan hosted show
promised nine countries, twenty five thousand.
Speaker 4 (01:41:57):
Miles and what is a great race? The amazing right?
Speaker 3 (01:42:01):
He said great race?
Speaker 4 (01:42:02):
I did the amazing race?
Speaker 1 (01:42:04):
Oh no?
Speaker 3 (01:42:05):
And then Ryan, the answer is what is the amazing race?
Is correct?
Speaker 8 (01:42:08):
That bummer hosting one hundred and seventy one episodes of
this Discovery Channel show, someone had to.
Speaker 3 (01:42:14):
Do it, and it was Mike Ronny.
Speaker 4 (01:42:15):
What is dirty jobs? One one the minus one lions?
Speaker 3 (01:42:22):
A lot of darts thrown at that board, though.
Speaker 4 (01:42:24):
Yeah, that was a lot of guessing going on there.
Speaker 12 (01:42:27):
I guess have that kind of category than the one
where we're just sitting here both staring at each.
Speaker 3 (01:42:31):
Other like, I don't know, do you want to guess?
Speaker 2 (01:42:33):
Well, I obviously don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:42:35):
I know, well, I put them together. I put two
pieces of paper together. Then I fired at the trash can.
They came apart in the air and I missed both
of them, which it makes you better standard.
Speaker 3 (01:42:43):
It's still closer than Albright gets.
Speaker 4 (01:42:45):
Okay, great, that is actually very helpful.
Speaker 3 (01:42:47):
Thank you for that big of a miss, just like
him not liking Soji.
Speaker 4 (01:42:49):
Yeah, we're gonna have an Albright Sojo tasting party on
the Mandy Connells Show.
Speaker 3 (01:42:53):
So we had somebody call him last night and call
him a wet blanket. It was awesome. It was awesome.
Speaker 4 (01:42:59):
I know what that all right's getting for Christmas. Now
he's getting a blanket. So, do you have a picture
with bad hair? Probably make that happen and we're gonna
put it on a blanket.
Speaker 11 (01:43:11):
So good.
Speaker 4 (01:43:12):
Yes, what's coming up on KO Sports today?
Speaker 12 (01:43:14):
Oh, we got all sorts of fun stuff. We're gonna
react obviously to the game. We're gonna get into some
of the fifty three man roster stuff. There's already cuts
happening right now. Ceedee Lamb gets paid a lot of drama,
see you. So we'll get into that plus E right.
Speaker 4 (01:43:26):
For goodness, my goodness.
Speaker 12 (01:43:28):
At CEU Prime, you wouldn't even know they have a
game coming up Thursday.
Speaker 4 (01:43:33):
It doesn't like it when people question him, don't you,
Dare I said nothing. I'm backing out of the room,
not making eye contact.
Speaker 3 (01:43:40):
The way you had a tone there. You will never
be invited to another press conference, you know what.
Speaker 4 (01:43:44):
I haven't been invited to one yet. So am I
losing anything? No, I'm not. Let's turn it over to
KOA Sports. We'll be back tomorrow.
The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
No, it's Mandy Connell and.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
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Speaker 3 (00:26):
We welcome, Welcome to a Monday edition of the show.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
I am here Mandy Connell for the next three hours,
and Anthony Rodriguez is right over there.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Will take you right.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Through the show until.
Speaker 5 (00:39):
I feel like I'm in the presence of some whole
new You've got your own song you you're sinking?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I know, your own song about you?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Fun know it is fine, it's just that song.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
I feel like I aspire to reach your level of
radio where I have a song about me.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
I just want to tell you that six single radio
person where I've met that has heard that song is
immediately struck with jealousy about not having their own song.
Welike you know what not everybody has listener tie to
make those little listeners. A listener made it for me. Yes,
so we have a whole bunch of them. The Ross Smith,
who you know, he also made me a bunch in
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different musical genres. They're very, very funny. We'll have to
go over that later. I might have ross stay for
a little bit. Because you and I were talking about
your travels and you've spent a lot of time in
the East. I have spent almost no time in the East.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Now.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
When I married Chuck, I had been all over Europe,
been doing all that stuff over there, and not spent
much time in Asia. He was stationed in Korea, actually,
so we always said, you know, crossing over we're together.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
We've seen the whole world separately.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
So being able to go to Japan and Korea on
our Mandy Connell adventure is something that I am incredibly
excited about. But you've already been these.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Places, and this is gonna be a wonderful trip.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
I mean, I don't I don't get jealous of your
trips in a sense, but if I were, I will
be jealous of that one. I mean, I've been to
both Japan and Korea. I've been to Korea a couple
of times. It's my favorite food.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
In the whole world, it's my favorite cuisine.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Is my favorite cuisine in Korean food for sure.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
And I'll tell you, I mean, traveling to Europe fascinating
a lot of history and all this but you can
you can clearly see some kind of tie in and
relation to your your own life and your own background.
Probably you go to Japan and Korea like, wow, this
is different. It's very foreign, very foreign. Everything about it
is is different, and especially in Japan, probably more than Korea,
(02:39):
a little bit harder to find people who speak English.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
But it makes you have to pay more attention.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
And it's just so it's exotic and it's and it's
wonderful and the food will blow you away.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
I can't wait. I can't Korean food is my absolute
favorite cuisine across the board because the flavor profiles are
so good and so interesting. You can get it, you know, mild,
you can get it hot, you can get whatever. And
so I'm super excited about the food. But I wanted
to ask you some stuff about Japan because I've never
I've been to I flew Intotrita, Tokyo, once laid over there,
(03:12):
didn't have a great experience. Could we laid over pretty
close to the airport and there's not really anything there.
And then I've never been to Korea. So what are
some of the things historically because their history is a
couple thousand three thousand more years than horses here in
the United States, maybe even four thousand.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
So I won't hold myself out as an expert on Japan.
But one of the things that I think is so
cool about what you're doing is that you're doing a
cruise that hits a lot of different spots. Yeah, you're
not just going to Tokyo now. And one of the
interesting things about that for me, so Tokyo is one
(03:52):
of the greatest cities in the world. It's an incredible city,
but it's also a very new city because there was
so much damage done to it in World War Two,
and also earlier on it actually wasn't the capital of Japan.
So a lot of these other places that you're gonna go.
Are you gonna get to Kyoto? Yes, Yeah, it's been
in two days in Kyoto.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Yeah, so Kyoto seventeen World Heritage Sites, just in Kyoto.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Kyoto was the capital of Japan, right, Yes, for a
long time and Kyoto, okay. I just heard this story
in a podcast, so I'll just share it with you.
There was a guy who, like in the nineteen twenties
or thirties, went on vacation to Kyoto with his wife.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
He ended up being in the inner circle of.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Harry Truman's targeting group that was trying to decide where
the atomic bomb was going to be dropped, and Kyoto
was going to be the target, and he.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Talked him out of it because how many cultural sites.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Yes, because he loved that city so much from when
he had gone on vacation there in the nineteen twenties
or nineteen thirties. Kyoto is a gorgeous a shint city
with almost no war damage or maybe none, and it's
one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. And
we got two also, it's really walkable, beautiful. It's just
(05:13):
there is no American equivalent because, like you say, it's
you know, a thousand years old, two thousand years old,
it's been around.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Japan's recorded history begins only in the first century b C.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
So before Christ.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yeah, a thousand years before Christ is what we're looking at,
and a lot of the sort of civilizations have been
I have had a footprint in these cities since then,
and that's what I'm interested in because whenever I travel
outside the United States, you realize we're like a baby country.
You know, we're in the toddler stages. Of our countryhood,
(05:46):
and you go to these places where they have places,
you know, they have buildings from the fourteenth century and things.
It's just mind blowing as an American.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Yeah, especially this may just be a thing that I like,
but some of the five hundred seven hundred year old
wooden buildings that are still there just incredible. And the
other thing that I love, I'm kind of fascinated by religion,
even though I'm not a religious person, but the temples
around Japan, but the temples in Kyoto are probably the
best I've ever seen, and Kyoto really is in my
(06:16):
top few favorite cities in the whole world.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Well, we're going to Kyoto, We're also going to Nagasaki
and Hiroshima, so we'll see both of those. And I'm
personally I'm going to New Mexico for my nephew's wedding
in May, right before we go on this trip in June,
and we're going to go to the Nuclear Museum in
New Mexico and then go to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and
kind of see it from both sides.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
I really wonder what that will be like that because
so I've been to Vietnam and in Vietnam. You get
a very different feel from the people right here in
the south versus in the north.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Right.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
And in the North they have a museum that's called
like the War Crimes Museum.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
They call it the American War Crimes Museum, and they
still don't like as much in the North.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, but I have a feeling won't be like that.
In Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I think. I don't think you're.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Gonna be turned these cities into now. They have a
massive peace garden, you know, they really tried to use
it as a symbol of peace in both places. Have
you done the Japanese gardens? Have you done that?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Not in any big way. I walked through a garden,
but no.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
My dad goes to Japan almost every year because he
loves all of that.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Your wife would probably love the gardens, obviously, we're not
with Christian. When you went to.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
There was a trip where I came home before she did,
and she might have done something because because I work
at iHeart so I don't get enough vacation, right, So
I came home before and left my family in Japan,
and they kept on for more of Japan after I
went home.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
But boy, it's it's going to be just a spectacular trip.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
I can't wait.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
So we haven't really talked about when the trip is
and how people sign up.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
It's June fifth, we're leaving. It's a fifteen day trip
and we have some space available still. You can find
out more by going to Mandy Connell trip dot com.
It's going to be absolutely incredible, And as I said before,
we were actually able to bring the price point down
and our airfare came in, so you know, they have
to plan it. Ross knows a little bit about the
inside baseball stuff, but they can't buy airfare until a
(08:07):
certain point, and the airfare came in dramatically lower than
they had actually budgeted, so they just passed those savings
on the people.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I saw the new price on your trip, and it's
seriously a bargain.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I think so too.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
If you've never been on a cruise into our trip,
you know it's it's.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Way better than any vacation you will plan for yourself, right, and.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
It's amazing, it's amazing value. Like I can't believe what
you guys are going to be able to do for
that price. Seriously, it's going to be unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Yep, I'm looking forward to it. I appreciate that insight.
I will bring you lots of photographs. I'll say you
would just follow me on insta.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Worm we cheese curds.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Well, the cheese curds were actually delicious and we ate
them on site, and that was from the DNS. We
had cheese cards there too, and cheese kurds in Wisconsin
and the chef kirts in Chicago were actually better, I thought,
So did you think the ones that Ronelli's were better?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
I think, but they were. The deep fried ones is
what my wife wanted me to bring, but we didn't
have time.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Well, deep fried cheese curds cold are terrible. It's like
little fried and the er grossness. They're sweaky. You would
just had regular fresh curds and not a word I
want to.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Use the scribeer.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
So I texted Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin, Blenn, you
brought me cheese curds and showed him the cheese curds
you bought me, and he made some comment about how
the good ones squeak, and I didn't know about that.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
You didn't know that. No, Oh, you put him in
your mouth and you can hear them that's wrong. No,
that's the thing. That's what she's curtag.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I like it. I know it, but I like it.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
It's it's I didn't make it up. I'm just sharing that.
Le Ross, thank you, I appreciation all right, many of
you weighing in, Mandy. The Koreans are still mad at
the Japanese are atrocities committed during World War Two, referencing
the comfort women. Japan has never apologized and still deny
they ever conscript conscripted comfort women from the countries they invada.
(09:58):
And of course comfort women is is women that were
forced into sexual slavery. So yeah, comfort, I guess only
goes one way. Mandy. I've never had Korean food, but
really interested in Korean barbecue. What would you recommend for
a first time er and anywhere in Denver, you would
recommend you either go to Soul Korean Barbecue or you
go to day g Korean Barbecue and just tell them
(10:19):
you want to get the beef bullggi. That's like entry
level Korean food. You get the beef bulgogi, and you
get all the little side dishes. Ask them to tell
you what all the side dishes are, because there's a
lot of them, and I'm just gonna say, the only
one I don't like is the candy trip.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
Can't do it.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Can't do it.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Short ribs.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
All the short ribs are off the chain. But yes,
Bulgogi is that's entry level Korean food. So go to
Soul Korean Barbecue, which is like outstanding, and then and
then Dag is also very good. It just doesn't have
the extensive menu that Soul has. So there you go.
They're off of Hamden. Is that on Hamden? Yes, Hamden
(11:02):
and almost Hamden and Parker Road, just pretty close to
Parker Road on hand.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
And get plaster with soju while you're doing it.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Soju is Korean liquor that tastes like water and it's
like one hundred proof and Chuck has always called it
altitude enhanced alcohol, meaning you're sitting, you're having a few
cocktails with soju, you stand up, oh boy, back down.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
And we learned the first time, first time we had
like authentic Korean.
Speaker 8 (11:29):
Witten saw Kevin Hart that night. Yeah, let's just say
we think he was really funny.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
We're sure where maybe what's not funny is the blog.
Let's do that very very quickly. So find the blog
by going to mandy'sblog dot com. That's Mandy's blog dot com.
Look for the headline that says eight twenty six, twenty
four blog the GOP boots Dave Williams and a spat
about the Mona Lisa. Click on that and here are
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the headlines you will find within.
Speaker 9 (11:57):
Anyone in office half of American all with hips, and
I must say, let's got a press pledch.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Today on the blood?
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Now everyone is gender fluid? Am I right? Dave Williams
was voted out of the GOP chairmanship Saturday? Does RFK
Junior help Trump? Enough?
Speaker 10 (12:14):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Scurolling? Wait a minute, what is happening here?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Does?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Wait a minute? Oh no, something has gone terribly wrong
on the blog. And I'm not quite sure what happened.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Wait a minute, there's.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
A whole thing that got Oh wait a minute, No,
I didn't break anything. Yeah, go ahead, I.
Speaker 11 (12:35):
Just have to ye a press pledch.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Today on the blood. Speaking of extended press, honeymoons? Uh scrolling?
How to fix the mess that is RTD? This special
Session on Property taxes is this week. How Douglas County
handles homelessness. The Littleton High School football team is under investigation.
Why does DPS's superintendent still have a job. Your diet
could be giving you anxiety. Israel Thwartz has bela attack
(13:04):
the presidential election is killing real estate deals. Jack Tapper
asked the right question. Coach Prime talks about keeping the
noise down. Cutting the cord is no longer the deal
it once was. By Nomics and now Harris Nomics, they
are crushing Americans more ranked choice vote making ranked choice
voting work. In Alaska, the last major charges in the
(13:25):
Breonna Taylor case have been dropped another place. I'm not
cool enough to go the best state fair food around
the country. But why do you want your ex back?
Elon Musk, said a rod Rob and I.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Were so good.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
The Kamala impressions are really good. Kids making friends on vacations,
want to see a real, live First Amendment violation in
real time? And what AI thinks we all look like?
Those are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com.
All right, you guys, soju is the devil, says this texter.
(13:59):
Too many nights that I can't remember. Lol.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
So good.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
So Jew stands for so Jude so good. I was
trying to make it sold, but it's not so I know.
I'm sorry, Ew Mandy as far as dag is concerned.
When I have to pay that higher price for food
and cook it myself, it's not worth.
Speaker 12 (14:17):
It for me.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
I don't care how good the food is. Glad to
have you back from the convention. Enjoyed listening to you while.
Speaker 8 (14:22):
You were there.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Keep up the good work there you go.
Speaker 13 (14:25):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Ben Albright said, SoJ you taste like cat. You're in
strain through a dirty sock. Wow, I'm so surprised that
Ben doesn't like something that's actually good. No, so ju does. Actually,
the problem with soju is like if you're during moonshine.
If you have moonshine, you take a tip of that moonshine,
you feel it start in your mouth and you feel it,
You feel the burn all the way down your esophaga. Yeah,
(14:47):
so you you don't even taste the alcohol. If the
apple flavored soju so good? I mean, come on, come on,
Ben Mandy. On Dave Williams. Whatever Williams finally does go
his political careers over right, do you suppose he will
have trouble finding regular work? I don't know, because Dave
Williams that we're going to get to this. Dave Williams
(15:08):
still has a lot of supporters, a lot of supporters
in the Colorado Republican Party. Does he have enough to
outlive this? What am I talking about? Wells Saturday, and
we're going to talk more about this later in the show.
The meeting that a judge stopped a few weeks ago
took place and overwhelmingly the people that attended that meeting
(15:29):
voted to oust Dave Williams as chair of the GOP.
They then went on to elect Eli Bremer as the
chairperson of the Colorado Republican Party.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
And I've got Eli Bremmer coming on the show today
at one o'clock, so.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
We got that going for us. We're also supposed to
have Brandy Bradley, Representative Brandy Bradley on the show, but
she just sent me a text that she is about
to present a bills. She's going to let us know
when she's done. She was supposed to join us at
twelve thirty, so we'll get her on a little bit later.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
She actually she actually.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Was at her son, her son, her son's school and
had an exchange with a teacher. And though I understand
why she was not happy, about this because in doing
some research this morning about the Mona Lisa, more research
than I ever wanted to do about the Mona Lisa
(16:27):
this morning, I did a ton of it. I think
that the teacher handled this pretty well, but I think
it goes to show you how deep in our instructional
system the notion that everybody was gay, everybody is gay,
everybody's gay, let's gay it all up is deeply embedded
in our school system. We'll talk about that story with her.
(16:49):
I'll share that with you, with you, with her when
I can ensure that she's going to get on the show.
Speaker 11 (16:55):
But we'll do it.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Had it in Korea. That garbage is terrible. Again, Ben
Albright stalking the show like some kind of madman. If
he starts calling me Baby Reindeer, I'm out. Did you
watch Baby Reindeer.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Where you told me to watch? You're the one that
told me that you liked it. Stop just don't watch it?
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Why because after watching all seven episodes, I've never seen
a program that had a less likable main character than
Baby Reindeer. The main character, not the crazy stalker woman.
Because if you don't know what this is about, it's
about a woman that stalks this guy. No, it was
written by directed by the guy who then stars in
it and literally the most unlikable character I've ever seen.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
Real quick, real, real fast, breaking news. We had heard
RFK endorsement of Donald Trump. Maybe other former Democrats Tolcy
Gabbard is now endorsed Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
What Yep, that's not a surprising really, I mean, Toulcy
Gabbert has been highly critical of both parties for some
time now. That doesn't surprise me at all. Like ever clear,
straight feel the burn exactly, you don't have that with Sojo.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Not at all.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
You just don't.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
It's delightful.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
I don't know what Ben Albright does.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Maybe you know what, just you surprised.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Stick to your Cosmopolitans, Ben, leave me leave the real martinis.
Excuse me?
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Did you just rip on one of the worst beverages
of all time? Martinis are at least classy. Oh yeahs.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
A martini you get a beverage and a snack. It's
the perfect beverage, truly is you know perfect. Probably would
need for it to taste good, and it doesn't. You
know what, when your taste buds grow up, you too
will enjoy a martini. We'll be back. Maybe Representative Brandy
Bradley will be with us, maybe not.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
We'll find out.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Next he wants everyone to know that he is a
old fashioned drinker, which is even worse.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
All wrong, Benjamin, all wrong, and.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
A Rod's parents are highly disappointed that he just ripped
on their favorite martinis. So there you go.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I like express some martinis that aren't really martinis.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Those are kind of bougie. Those are the Cosmopolitan martinis.
Just there, ye, Mandy. When I was in Korea, you
would get one bottle with four percent alcohol and the
next one would be over fifty percent and you wouldn't
remember anything for three days.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Talking about sojiu yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
I think this is a challenge. So we're going to
have a Ben Albright soju taste test. I will bring
in my husband, who is an authority on soju, and
we will find soju that does not taste like it.
We'll make Ben drink it, and then we'll make him
do his show. What will it be even better? Be
even better?
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
There you go. So I want to do a little
political stuff and then Brandy Bradley is going to call
us when she is able after introducing a bill in
the special session that started to day, And let's chat
about that for a second. I've got a couple of
articles on the blog today about the special session and
the property tax issue, and one of them is from
(19:56):
a website called the Sum and Substance. The it's Colorado
business website, and they do a really good job of
laying things out in such a way that you immediately
begin to understand, Holy crap, is this complicated.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
And it is complicated now.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
It seemed to me that there would be an easy
way to make this not as complicated, but there isn't,
not at all.
Speaker 12 (20:23):
So this.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Special session, which by the way, they're already projecting to
go beyond three days because legislators are filing a bunch
of bills that have nothing to do with property taxes,
and God only knows what they're going to do to
us next. So the property tax special Session is trying
to stave off two valid initiatives that have been put
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forth by Advanced Colorado and Colorado concern and they have
to do with capping property taxes, and they do so
in a you've heard the old adage. You know, people
who use the sledgehammer to kill a fly. In my view,
they kind of sledgehammer to kill a fly situation. They
are very, very very oversimplified and could actually lead to
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one of them could lead to some significant issues for
rural districts going forward. That being said, I understand why
people want to vote to cap their property taxes, but
I'm gonna be perfectly honest, you guys. I've heard some
heard some scuttle butt that they are not polling all
that well. They're polling decently. They're polling like if you
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put millions and millions of millions and millions of dollars
behind them, you could probably get them over the finish line.
But it is far from a sure deal. And I
say that because I've heard from multiple people things like, well,
I want a chance to vote on it.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Why would they pull these If.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
They can get something that's pretty darn close and they
can get it done by the legislature, I think.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
That is a better way to go.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
And I don't normally say that, but I think that,
knowing what I know on the backside, I think there's
a better way to do this, and we should all
hope that the legislature could be you know, get their
heads out of their collective kazoos and get something done now.
To be clear, nothing that anyone is talking about right
now is going to take your taxes back to where
they were in twenty twenty or twenty twenty two. It's
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not going to happen. They're not even having that discussion.
That's not even part of the conversation. So just to
manage your expectations. And by the way, the two ballot
initiatives would not do that either. So the thought that
we're going to go back to seeing property tax rates
that are manageable is well, rates would go down, but
property tax bills, I guess, is a better way to
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say that is not going to happen. Just not going
to happen. If you can't appreciate an old fashioned, there's
no hope for you. No, guys, I'm not a whiskey drinker.
I don't like bourbon. I lived in Kentucky for three
years and one of my best friends is a bourbon snob,
and he tried to get us to like bourbon. I
just don't care for them. And I really hate sweet
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formooth and that is part of an old fashioned. And
I really hated making old fashioned when I was a
bartender for many years, paid my way through school and
my first few years of radio behind the bar, and
an old fashioned is like a process. You have to
muddle the orange peel and the oh, it's just a.
Speaker 8 (23:20):
The sophisticated grossness that it makes it an excluision individual.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Well, but if you look at the light, I mean,
if you like whiskey, then note, go right ahead, go
right ahead. Yeah.
Speaker 11 (23:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
One thing is for sure, says this chexter is going
to happen Mandy, is they're going to charge us twenty
grand a day to sit there and argue over things
that we're not supposed to be brought up. We need
to get them to limit to the question in the text.
Speaker 11 (23:45):
How do we do that?
Speaker 4 (23:46):
This is one of the things that I agree with
you one hundred percent. By the way, texture on that
get off track here, But this is one of the
things that the constitutional convention has going for it in
my mind. And if you've heard us talk about the
call for a constitutional convention where very specific amendments to
the constitution Constitution would be brought up. You cannot just
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randomly bring stuff up at a constitutional convention, though, And
this is what needs to happen with the legislature. They
need to see. This is what we're going to talk about.
Nothing else, absolutely nothing. Hmm yeah, yeah, with a normal legislature.
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This text messager says, I might have some trust in
the process, but this legislature, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
And that's fair. But the good news is for us the.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Voters that if this deal, this property tax compromise isn't
good enough for advanced Colorado and Colorado concern we're gonna
have the chance to vote on two ballot initiatives. And
that would be really a big deal for taxpayers and
a very bad deal for for local governments who are
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already freaking out, by the way, already freaking out about
dealing with what they're calling now massive cuts cuts to
the just absolutely ginormous windfall that they were going to
get after property taxes went up ginormous, And so it
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is it is really really important that they get this done.
By the way, the Texter said, there are no there's
no overmouth in an old fashioned York right. It's bitters
that I'm thinking of. You muddle the orange in this
cherry with the bitters, and then you put the whiskey
in there and it's gross. I want to talk about
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another school related thing. This is concerning, although I don't
want to make it more than it is because we
don't know what it is. So Littleton High School canceled
a scrimmage on Saturday and a Friday night practice and
team dinner because there was an anonymous allegation of some
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sort of assault that involved the football team. Now we
don't know if this was a regular assault like fisticuffs,
or if this was a sexual assault. I hope it
was neither. I hope this turns out to be much
a do about nothing. But I also know that occasionally,
when you get young people together, they make really dumb decisions,
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and I'm hoping that this is not what happened at
Littleton High School. Now, I know that students will always
know more than the media will. So if you have
a student at Littleton High School and can give us
an idea, I'm not going to share it on the air,
by the way.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Because like I said, this could be nothing.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
It could be something. It could be nothing. But whenever
I hear this, I just think to myself, please please,
please don't let these young men have done something incredibly
stupid to harm another individual in any way, shape or form,
in a way that is going to impact everybody's lives permanently, right.
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I mean, it's remarkable to me that even after all
the instances that we've had where famous people and athletes
have been charged with terrible things, that this is still
a possibility. But young people's frontal cortexas are not fully developed,
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and so I hate to say it, but anything is possible.
I say it all the time, and I mean it.
Never underestimate the ability of a teenager to make a
really bad decision, because oh boy, they are capable of
that very thing. I was trying to think about this.
Not that I ever assaulted anyone. I never. I've never
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been in an actual fight, like a fight fight, you know,
like one that I have punched someone, but he deserved it,
and he'll tell you he deserved it too. So I
have punched someone once, I tried to punch someone else,
but I missed because they backed up. Both times, I
feel like I was justified, and in a court of law,
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I would have been able to make my case. But
that being said, I thought about, like, what dumb things
from high school do I look back on and just
go what was I thinking other than hairstyles, because let's
be real, high school is when we all have the hairstyles.
I mean, now, the broccoli cut is a thing, and
these young people are coming out and they're wearing hair
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that just looks ridiculous. And girls, can we talk about
girls hair in high school right now? And I have
a high school girl who would absolutely argue with me
about this point. It's time to be done with the long,
straight hair and the part in the middle, because much
like low rise jeans, it doesn't look good on that
many people. We need nineties hair back. I'm here for it.
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I'm ready for nineties hair. Nobody ever wants eighties hairback, okay,
because we all know that we don't need to sit
with the chemicals on our head to get hair that is,
you know, well, as I say in the South, hire
the hair the closer to God. You know what I mean.
We don't need that back, but we need good hair
back because good hair is not a thing that's happening
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right now. You can text us five six six nine. Oh,
you can text us the information if you know anything
about what's going on at Littleton Public schools Now in
the next hour, we are going to talk here in
just a moment. As a matter of fact, Saturday, big
things happen in Brighton. I believe it was Brighton or Broomfield.
I can't remember which one are off the top of
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my head. There was a meeting of us, a lot
of members of the Central Committee of the Republican Party
of the State of Colorado. You've heard me talk endlessly
about the disaster that is the quote leadership and yeah,
I'm doing air quotes around that of Dave Williams, who
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needs to go and he needs to go now. Well
he's not going to go, even though he was voted
out this past weekend. What has to happen here is
that the Republican National Committee is going to have to
step in and remove him from his position. I believe
they will do that. They already did it in Michigan.
A similar situation happened in Michigan, and they don't have
all the details. I should ask Ryan Shuley. I bet
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Ryan knows all the details of the Michigan Republican Party.
He's a Michigander. But nonetheless, they voted to remove their leadership.
Their leadership said nah uh, and the RNC was like, sorry,
we don't recognize you anymore.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
You need to go bye bye.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
You can go now. And that's what happened on Saturday.
So when we get back, Eli Brimmer was actually elected
as the new chair of the Colorado Republican Party. And
you know how the UN formally recognizes a country and
it's kind of a big deal. They're like, oh, they
got you in recognition. I am formally recognized Eli Bremer
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as the new chairperson of the Colorado GOP. To prove
how much I'm recognizing him, I am going to speak
with him right after this. Keep it right here on KOA.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
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Speaker 2 (31:17):
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Speaker 10 (31:22):
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Speaker 4 (31:47):
Bye by. We got a whole party going on over here,
But the party that matters is the Colorado Republican Party
for this segment, because big goings on last night. Big
going on actually Saturday, in a meeting that saw the
voting out of the disastrous leader Dave Williams and the
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voting in of the new chair of the Colorado Republican Party,
who I believe just stepped into a forest. Eli Brember,
did you just put your phone down in a forest
of flowers?
Speaker 1 (32:20):
What was that?
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Oh you're muted, Eli, You're muted. Hang on.
Speaker 7 (32:32):
All right, Mandy, I'm so sorry about that. Here we
are home office and.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Had had a head over to the door.
Speaker 7 (32:37):
We just had a delivery of some flowers, and so
I apologize for that. I am not in a forest
of flowers. I'm at my house.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
No problem. Well, you're probably going to get more flowers
as people are grateful that Dave Williams was booted on Saturday.
Tell me a little bit about that meeting. We've talked
about it extensively, how it came to be, but how
did the actual meeting go.
Speaker 7 (32:59):
Well, it was actually, I would say one of the
best organized Republican Party meetings I've seen. People were extremely
pleasant to each other. It was a very very well
run meeting by state Representative Richard Holthorf. We had three
lawyers at the front of the room working to make
sure that everything went according to schedule. That was former
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state Party chair Christy Burton Brown, former Secretary of State
Wayne Williams, and party attorney Chris Murray. So it really
was an incredible meeting, very well run. People were positive,
they showed up to do a job and they got
the job done.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
So how many people showed up and how many people
brought proxyes? What was the actual account of the meeting
or roughly if you don't remember the exact numbers, If I.
Speaker 7 (33:47):
Remember right, it was one hundred and eighty two people
credentialed in in person or by proxy. It doesn't legally
matter whether you were there in person or if it's
your proxy, So it was one hundred I think it
was one hundred and eighty two total votes at the meeting.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
That's quite significant, and that is a significant part of
the Central Committee because now, of course Dave Williams has
decided that it was an illegal meeting and he's not
going to pay attention to it, and he's saying, look,
they didn't have the right number of people, We couldn't
verify that there were people that signed this petition, a
whole bunch of other nonsense. What happens now, Eli, have
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you been in touch with a Republican National convent Our
committee to talk about officially recognizing the change and recognizing
you as Colorado chair of the GOP.
Speaker 7 (34:33):
Well, that's in process. There's a lot of moving pieces
right now. I've been talking to a lot of media outlet's.
I think you're my fourth interview today. People want to
know what's been going on. I do find it funny
that the former, the now deposed leadership team is saying
that we didn't have a good enough meeting, Mandy. We
had one hundred and eighty two people there in person
are by proxy, twelve of whom routinely voted in support
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of the former leadership team. Now the former leadership team
is touting a meeting that they held under a bridge
in Bailey, Colorado and July nineteenth, where they mustered three supporters.
We had four times as many people at this meeting
who supported them as they had it their own that
their claiming was a legitimate meeting. So, I mean, this
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is a clear cut situation. It's over. You know, we're
in the process right now of taking every legal measure
that is needed to take over the party assets, and
then as soon as we have done that, we are
going to turn those assets over to helping out the
candidates instead of attacking them, which is what the former
leadership had done.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
So there is another meeting I believe, scheduled for this
week that was called as the as Dave Williams and
his team were trying to figure out a way to
circumvent the meeting that you already had. My question is
do you continue? Do you go to this meeting? What
happens on the thirty first? What's going on there?
Speaker 7 (35:58):
Well, they can hold a rally, they can you know,
talk issues. That meeting has been canceled. It was officially
canceled on Saturday by a vote of the Central Committee.
They didn't want to go to a meeting, another superfluous
meeting over Labor Day weekend. The former chairman had called
it during that time specifically to suppress attendance because most
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people want to spend Labor Day with their families or
supporting campaigns. So that meeting has been canceled and it
will not be recognized as an official meeting. Again, if
they want to get together and talk about you know,
various issues or whatever, it's the first right to do that,
but there will be no business recognized at that meeting
because it's not a meeting of the Republican Party.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Well, I am officially in my capacity as the seer
and knower of all things, recognizing you Eli Bremer, as
the rightful chairman of the Colorado Republican Party. So that
leads me to my next question, which how do we
get these Republicans over the finish line this November. Are
you guys pivoting to work on that or are you
still having a deal with the idiocy that has been
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going on?
Speaker 7 (37:04):
Well, we're doing all of the above. I did not wait.
I was driving home from the meeting at about an
hour and a half drive home from the meeting, and
I was working the phones on Saturday night into the night.
I talked to Congress from Lauren Bobert. On Sunday yesterday,
I talked to Paul Lundin the House, the Senate minority leader.
We had a great strategy discussion. That was the first
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time Mandy that he had heard from a state party
officer this election cycle about campaigning. Okay, that had not
been done. So he and I talked about the problems
that had happened at the state party and the damage
that had been done and what we can do to
stop that. So we are now fully coordinated with State
Senator Lundin to try to stop the Democrats from taking
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total control of the Colorado State Senate.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
I had a call with Jeff Hurd.
Speaker 7 (37:54):
That was the first time he had heard from anybody
at the state party and had not had any conversations
with state officers. As I informed him the party was
formally endorsing him, which was a huge shift. If you
remember right, the former vice chair had actually been sharing
Adam Fresh campaign videos and supporting Adam Frish. I told
him that was coming to an end. He thanked me
for that, and we we've swapped information so that now
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we can work directly with his campaign. I had the
same exact conversation with Gave Evans, our candidate in the
eighth district. Gave informed me that I was the first
officer of the Colorado GP that had contacted him. I
informed him that we would be joining President Trump, who
was endorsed him, and working with him, and he would
have all of the resources of the Colorado Republican Party
to work with now.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
So you spoke with represented Lauren Boeber. Was she accepting
of the Saturday meeting and ready to move forward?
Speaker 7 (38:48):
She wished me well, said you know, she she thought
I'd do a great job as a chair. You know,
we spoke for about thirty minutes, and I have a
I've been friends with Congressman bober for number of years.
Every time I go to Washington, I always stop on
and say hi to her. You know, we talked about
some of the problems that have been going on with
the party and I told her my vision for fixing that.
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So we had a very productive conversation. Her district, the
first district, won't be a competitive district. However, I told
her that the Colorado Republican Party supports all of our
general election candidates and if she has any any requests
from the party, she can call me personally on my
cell phone any time of the day or night. And
the Colorado Republican Party is there to serve all of
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our candidates well.
Speaker 4 (39:35):
And people need to understand why this is important, Eli,
because you have and you just mentioned Jeff heard he
is in the third congressional district that was formerly held
by Representative Goobert, and because she switched districts, that is
now an open seat. It is critical that we keep
that seat. And until you called him, I guess know
when it reached out to Jeff, He's got a little
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bit of a I think of a name id disadvantage.
He's not as well known, but that district is still
very winnable, right, So, and then you've got the eighth
with Yadeer Caraveo, and you've got Gabe Evans, who I
think is a much better candidate than you Deer carave
Ao is, and he's well known in the district. So
these are really winnable races. I know that you were
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on the phone with donors because fundraising has been nonexistent
under the old leadership. What are you hearing from donors?
Are they ready to move forward? Are they ready to
put money in? What are we doing with money? Because
it's money is critical to get stuff done?
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (40:32):
Yeah, money is the is the mother's blood at mother's
milk of politics. I mean, anybody who says that you
don't need money to campaign doesn't know what.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
They're talking about.
Speaker 7 (40:42):
And you know, the first step is we had to
stop the bleeding. Last week alone, one of our major
campaigns lost twenty thousand dollars because of bizarre communications coming
out of the state GOP. They had multiple donors come
out and say we can't support you, we don't want
our name associated with you, and the candidates said, wait, wait,
that's not me, it's the state party, and they said
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it doesn't matter. This is too toxic. The venom that's
coming out from the state Party is too toxic. So
the first step is to start doing no harm. I
have given each of these candidates are assurance that the
Colorado Republican Party will not send communication into their district
unless it is one hundred percent coordinated and approved by
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the campaign. That is a never event. We should never
do what we did to Cleave Simpson. We should a
state Senate candidate in on the Western Slope area. We
put that on the map by accident because the state
party sent some inflammatory emails into the district that should
be an easily winnable seat. Now we're having to defend
it because of nonsense by the former party leadership. So
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back to where the donors are.
Speaker 11 (41:48):
They are so.
Speaker 7 (41:49):
Excited right now. I've been getting calls from folks saying
I just got it. I just actually got a text
from someone said, when can I send a check where
we don't have control of the bank account yet. I said,
don't dump into the bank account, because we have every
reason to believe that the former leadership team was basically
treating this like a piggybank, and so we are going
to get control of that. And once we've got that
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taken back over, Senator Gardner called me yesterday, offered his
full support and said he'd be happy to host a
call with all the major donors in the state with
all the other candidates. I expect within a week and
a half or two weeks we're going to have all
the campaigns together with the state Party, with former Senator
Corey Gardner, and we are going to get this thing
back on track and raise as much money as we
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can for these candidates.
Speaker 4 (42:33):
Eli. I'd love to see a forensic audit of the
last couple of years of the Republican Party coffers and
see exactly where money went, who was paid, who wasn't,
and see exactly how much money was squandered by Dave
Williams either trying to fight his ouster in court with
a ridiculous lawsuit that you know, judges have never been
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part of intra party squabbles, and he tried to make
it a legal issue and wasted a bunch of money
doing that. I'm sure there's going to waste more money
trying to fight this, So is there anything that rank
and file Republicans who want to move on can do?
Do we need to call the r n C and say,
can you help us out and get this squared away?
What can we do in the meantime before you can
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get control of the website, the bank accounts, the email list,
all of the other stuff that the old chairman is
still maintaining control of.
Speaker 7 (43:30):
Now, I think you know, my Twitter account's been blowing
up with people supporting us. Jump on my personal Twitter
feed at Eli Bremmer is my personal feed. It's got
one m M Bremer Eli v R E N E R.
We're putting all the information out there until we have
control of the state's Twitter account. But tweet at the RNC.
The NRCC. The NRCC has already come out and said
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they're honoring this election. They're a sister organization to the RNC,
and they've been very supportive. I just talked to another
Congress office one of the leadership of the NRCC. They
were so excited. They said, we're so glad you're back
in business. But yeah, the average rank and file person,
get on their retweet, show your support, but also get
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ready to come back in because I'll let you know, Mandy.
We'll come back on the air when we've got control
of the bank accounts, and I need every single person
out there to pitch in. You know, we're going to
be running a tight ship. I ran the largest county
party operation in the state in Olpaso County. We raised
record amounts of money. We put the vast, vast mass
majority of that right back down into let On Target.
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I know how to run a really efficient system. We're
not going to have a huge amount of overhead that's
going into this. It's going to be predominantly money put
forward to to win this election. So if people are
excited about it, first of all, give to the campaigns.
Support Jeff Hurd in the third district, Support Gabe Evans
in the eighth district. You know, you don't have to
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wait until the party gets all legally is figured out.
We need to be out there supporting these candidates today.
They need your help. But when we get the bank
accounts back, we'd love to have your support too.
Speaker 4 (45:04):
So I'm guessing that if you had to call this
phase of your leadership anything, it would almost be triage, right,
just trying to trying to stop the bleeding trying to
figure out where all the pieces fit together. But one
of the things that I am significantly concerned about going forward.
Speaker 3 (45:22):
Is the destruction of the party.
Speaker 4 (45:25):
And I mean by Dave Williams and his stupid purity
tests and you're not Republican enough, and Rhino watching all
this other crap that has been out there for so
many years, and now we see republican. You know, people
are not joining the Republican Party and that's a huge problem.
We live in a state full of unaffiliateds. So is
that the next step, like get us through this election
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cycle and then focus on how to rebuild the party
and make it be something that people want to be
a part of again.
Speaker 7 (45:55):
Well, I think so, and I think people are excited
right now. I think what you have is that it's
we don't have a problem with the Republican Party. We
have a problem with a very bizarre crew of people
who are now squatters in the office basically, and they
can't win elections. If you look, they lost almost every
seat that they endorse in in this sort of unprecedented
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deal where the party took sides in the primaries. So
that's not where the nine hundred thousand Colorado Republicans are.
That's not where your listeners are. The Colorado Republican Party
should represent Republicans instead of yelling at them and telling
them the way they should believe. And I'd like to
point out, by the way, that in twenty sixteen, these
were the same people that were the never Trumpers. They
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called me a rhino in twenty sixteen because I had
the audacity to be working on the Trump campaign and
I was a national spokesman on Olympians for Trump and
on the Second Amendment Coalition. So that made me a rhino.
And so I hate that term rhino because they basically
use it. It's sort of the Republican version of the
word racist.
Speaker 10 (46:54):
Left.
Speaker 7 (46:55):
When they hate you, they call you a racist, and
now you're canceled, and we have the same cancel country nonsense.
We What my pledge is is I'm going to get
to this organization back on track, and it's going to
make people's head spin how fast we get it back
on track. We are going to get you know, we're
going to take a look at where the finances have
been and all that, but after this election, we're going
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to get things like the by laws cleaned up we're
going to prevent this from happening. And again I've got
the experience for this. You probably don't know this, but
when I was the party chair and he'll pass the
counties from twenty eleven twenty thirteen, we set record fundraising numbers.
My vice chair was a young man by the name
of Dave Williams, and I spent two years undoing the
damage that that young man did and he has not
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stopped destroying Republicans ever since.
Speaker 8 (47:40):
This ends.
Speaker 7 (47:40):
Now we're going to end this, and then I would
put a call out to any good Republican who wants
to run the Colorado of Republican Party for the next
two years, We're going to get it fixed. I'm going
to turn it back over in the spring when we
hold a natural leadership election. I'm not going to run
for this again. I am here to fix the problem,
get it back on track. But we were going to
need some good new leadership, Mandy or Frankly, this same
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fringe group they can't win, they're going to try to
take over well.
Speaker 4 (48:07):
And I want to ask you this, and I think
that's a very good position for you to be in
to say I am not running for this position. Permanently,
because then you can go scorched shirts and you can
do exactly what needs to be done, and you don't
have to worry about winning an election for this in
the in the spring, which leads me to my last question,
and that is we I just read today Dick Wadams
has got pretty much a scorcher of a column criticizing
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the fact that the Republican Party has no young people
coming to it, and one of the things he mentioned
is that in El Paso they've invited Mike Lindell to
be a speaker at one of their events. When do
we get to move on? When do we get to
stop looking back at twenty twenty? Because you probably know
as well as I do, the unaffiliateds in this state
don't give a rats ass about twenty twenty. They don't
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want to hear about Mike Lindell spending forty million dollars.
They they don't want to talk about that. So how
do we move the party past that once and for all?
Speaker 7 (49:00):
Well, I mean, Mandy, the truth of the matter is
that the party has been predominantly run like a scam pack,
and that means that they're trying to do this to
inflame part of the base that will send five or
ten dollars donations in It's obviously not where the unaffiliateds are.
But guess what, we have got great policies in the
Republican Party that unaffiliated in this state agree with. Financially, fiscally,
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Colorado Republican or Colorado unaffiliated voters. They want lower property taxes,
they want attainable housing, and lower inflation. Those are things
Republicans can help with. On the social policies, the Democrats
talk about a Republican's war on women. Well, let's talk
about Title nine and the fact that the Democrats have
launched an all out assault on the top national women's
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rights legislation, Title nine. It's been there for fifty years.
It's guaranteed women equal rights in sports and the college scholarships.
And I can't find one Democrat out there who says
I will support that men cannot take women's scholarships. But
we've pulled this every what's like ninety nine point five
percent of Republicans support this. They support keeping women's sports
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for women. Virtually one hundred percent of unaffiliated voters in
the state of Colorado believe in keeping women's sports for women.
That's a Republican issue, Mandy, and it's a young person issue.
There's a lot of young women right now for whom
this is becoming a defining issue in their lives. And
if Republicans will talk about keeping inflation down, addressing the
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border issues, and saying we are the Party of women's rights,
we stand up for women's rights, to have your own scholarships,
to have your own locker rooms, your own sports teams.
We support women's rights. I think we can actually make
a huge impact with Colorado on affiliated voters. And this
is not a hard blue state that should be a
purple state, but because of the bad actions by the
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fringe element that took over the Republican Party organization, we've
kind of made it a solid blue state and it
shouldn't be that way.
Speaker 4 (51:00):
Eli Bremer the new chairman of the Colorado Republican Party.
I have officially recognized him, which means it's official. So Eli,
appreciate you making time for me. I hope we can
have more conversations leading up to the elections in November,
and best of luck, you have a herculean effort in
front of you. I do not I don't envy you this,
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but I think maybe they got the right person for
the job, and I hope you're successful.
Speaker 7 (51:27):
Thanks Mannie. I'm happy to come anytime. Come on anytime
you want. You know how to reach me.
Speaker 4 (51:31):
All right, that's Eli Bremer. Thank you, Eli, appreciate you,
and hopefully the Republican Party can get going once again.
We are going to take a quick time out when
we get back. I got a million things on the
blog we're going to dip into right after this. One
member of the House of Representatives is Representative Brandy Bradley,
and she has stepped away from the chaos to do
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two things. Number one, Brandy, what's going on? I mean,
you guys have started the special session, you introduced two bills,
got killed. What is happening there today?
Speaker 11 (52:03):
Your guest is probably as good as mine. I mean,
are we here to provide property tax relief? I'm not
really sure. I'm waiting to see.
Speaker 4 (52:11):
Well, and that's going to be very interesting to see
what happens this week. What were your bills that already
got introduced and killed? What were they about?
Speaker 11 (52:20):
So my first one was to restore Gallagher. It was
kind of a messaging to tell the Democrats you've had
four years you said to the people of Colorado when
they were killed Gallagher, you were going to come up
with a solution. Four years later and two special sessions later,
you still have not done that. Property taxes are through
the roof and you still have provided nothing. And so
party line vote, right, because they just get told how
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the vote. I mean, if they didn't get told how
the vote, it would never it wouldn't always be a
party line vote.
Speaker 14 (52:45):
Right.
Speaker 11 (52:46):
You'd have a Democrat you were there, that would say, now,
I'm gonna send this to the committee as the whole
now eight to three billed on a party line vote.
Speaker 4 (52:53):
Well, uh okay, So what was the other one? And
by the way, I just want to have and I
told you so moment for all of my listeners when
they're when I told everybody not to repeal Gallagher. Yeah,
here we go. Anyway, what was the second bill?
Speaker 11 (53:05):
The second bill was with Mark Baisley and Van Winkle.
We were trying to establish a baseline for special districts
so that their baseline budget was based on inflation and
the population, so that when our property taxes go up
forty seven percent, that doesn't mean they get forty seven
percent of that. We were trying to establish that. You know,
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the special districts had to go back to the people
if they, let's say they wanted a new fire truck, right,
they have to ask the people they want a fire truck.
There's no reason that if our property taxes go up
that astronomically that they should receive sixty percent of what
the property taxes were. So we were trying to provide
a level of budgeting. Remember those days, Mandy Wind Yeah,
your book and yeah.
Speaker 4 (53:48):
Yeah, those well, and that's interesting because and there's I
have an article on the blog today that does a
really good job of kind of explaining all the different
moving parts.
Speaker 3 (53:58):
Of the property tax system.
Speaker 4 (54:00):
How quickly were you able to get up to speed
on property taxes because talk about a convoluted mess.
Speaker 11 (54:06):
Well, I think that we're still trying to get up
to speed.
Speaker 4 (54:09):
And there were bills that were.
Speaker 11 (54:11):
Introduced that none of us knew anything about. There are
people here that couldn't sign up to testify. There are
fiscal notes that are just now being released. I mean,
it's just a reenactment of all the legislation that they
do at the very last minute of session, where the
people in our community can't come in and testify with
all the knowledge that they need, and it's ridiculous. This
is the people's house.
Speaker 4 (54:32):
I agree. That's not what I brought you on here
today to talk about. I wanted to talk about something
completely different and interaction that you had with your sons
one of your son's teachers at high school, and I
want you to share what happened with my audience. Please sure.
Speaker 11 (54:49):
So, my fifteen year old son is in a world
history class. I talked to my children all the time
about your teachers are not allowed to ask your pronouns,
your teachers aren't allowed to ask certain things, and counting
up considered Cambelt's speech. Sure enough, first day of school,
one of the teachers asked my childers pronouns. Had to
have a conversation with that teacher. It was resolved. He's
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a new teacher in the district. He was talked to
by the principal for good thirty minutes and great resolution.
Next a couple of days later, my sign came home
and said, mom, my teacher was talking about gender fluid
and I said, really, what context was that.
Speaker 14 (55:24):
She said that Da.
Speaker 11 (55:25):
Vinci was gender fluid and their series that the Mona
Lisa was the feminine side of Da Vinci, And I said, okay,
I'm just going to go basics, Wikipedia, right, Google. I'm
then going to go into the main research that you
know most Americans do, and couldn't find anything on that.
So I decided that I was I'm just tired of it, Mandy, honestly, like,
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just stick to the basis and teacher children what they're
supposed to be taught well.
Speaker 4 (55:50):
And I too did the basics. I mean, I did
a search this morning, and I did find one thing
that said that there's a theory that this is actually
a portrait. But it's not an old theory. It's a
newer theory that just showed up in the mid two
thousands from I mean like early two thousands from what
I can see. But that being said, I you know,
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you went to and talked to the teacher, and I
think that's the way to handle it. But did you
why did you post the audio? Why was that important?
Because I got to tell you. I think that in
the audio, the teacher made her case and explain why
she was doing what she was doing, and I would
urge people to listen to it to get the full picture.
But why post the audio?
Speaker 5 (56:31):
Of this.
Speaker 11 (56:32):
Because I think a lot of people come after me
as this hateful bigot that wants to take people down,
and that was not the case. There was a video
that the children watched that had one mention of da
Vinci maybe being homosexual. There was no mention of gender fluid.
There was no mention of DaVinci painting the Mona Lisa
as a feminine side. So when teachers go off on
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to their own narratives, then we're going to be in trouble.
You need to stick to the lessons that you needed
to teach. I mean, we don't have time for these
alternative narratives to be taught in our schools. Our kids
are behind. COVID taught us that, and I just want
my child to go to school and learn about world history.
Speaker 4 (57:11):
Well, I think it's interesting the whole gender fluid thing
because I've long known that there's a lot of people
and if you're gay, and what I'm gonna say is
going to offend you. I'm sorry, not you, Brandy, just
the audience. But there's a lot of gay people out
there who will tell you everyone is gay, and they
will look back in history and go, oh.
Speaker 3 (57:28):
He was gay, he was gay. He was gay, she
was gay.
Speaker 4 (57:30):
She was gay, and it's like, not everybody's gay, okay.
So this, for me, I kind of laughed a little
bit because this just felt like an extension of that, like, oh,
we need a famous artist in the in the you know,
on the team. But there's not any evidence. There's actually
not very much evidence about the Mona Lisa at all.
I mean, it was painted in the fifteen hundreds, so
this is this is not something we have a lot
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of information. Was the teacher able to direct you to
any sort of material that that, you know, girded that position.
Speaker 11 (58:02):
Now, I watched the video that she said that was
very adamant that Douglas County approved, And in that said video,
it was one mention that Leonardo da Vinci might have
been gay, and it did not speak anything about the
Mona Lisa being a feminine side of da Vinci. And
I'll say, you know, for other things, I work very
closely with gayes against groomers, and this is an eradication
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of gay rights too. I mean, if da Vinci was gay,
then saying that he was gender fluid is eradicating the
rights of gay right.
Speaker 4 (58:32):
Well, well, Brandy, I think the fact that you went
and talked to the teacher is exactly what people should do.
And I recommend this to my to my listeners all
the time. If you're hearing something from your student that
doesn't sound right, that sounds like like Brandy did, like
something that's like wait a minute, that's that's at odds
with everything I've ever learned in my life. Up a
Tilla's point, I commend you for going and talk to
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the teacher and doing it in a respectful, you know, manner.
There was nothing nasty about the exchange. There was nothing
angry about the exchange. You ask questions, you got answers,
and I think that it really goes to show how
we as parents can continue to advocate for our kids
and for our beliefs in the classroom, because I have
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to say, I wonder if it's going to get her
pause before saying it again, and if that's the case,
or at least dig up any sort of evidence of
which I don't think there is of that point of view.
So I wanted to commend you. I just I worry
about us, you know, putting people on the internet, putting
them on blast. And I say this, and I know
you've experienced it to the kind of hatred that you
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get online from people who don't know you. I am
cautious about throwing what I call normal people to the
wolves like that because it can be so awful and
so vicious.
Speaker 3 (59:44):
And so horrible.
Speaker 11 (59:46):
So and that's why I decided not to post the
teacher's name right post the school and didn't post the principle.
I mean, if the roles were reversed, they've come after
my company that I work for. I mean, let's be honest.
I showed a lot of grace towards this teacher, and
I know people maybe don't feel like I did. But
I could have put her email, I could have put
everything about that teacher up in a post.
Speaker 4 (01:00:08):
I didn't.
Speaker 11 (01:00:09):
I did not do that because I do feel like
maybe she's learned a lesson. But I think that if
there's a teacher with a cross in her classroom, her
personal cell phone and probably where she lives would have
been posted if the roles were reversed.
Speaker 4 (01:00:21):
I agree, I agree, but I always think our side's
better that. I always think our side is better. No, Brandy,
I'm glad you shared it because I think too many
parents are not paying attention and I know it's hard
for parents to think that your kids teachers have tremendous
influence over them. They're with them far more during the
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school day than you are, right, and so it's important
to know what's going on, stay engaged and do what
Represented Brandley. Brandy Bradley didn't and go and ask questions.
And I appreciate you for that.
Speaker 11 (01:00:54):
Well, thank you so much. I do think that teachers
are supposed to be trusted adults, and lying to children
because they don't understand or they don't know the difference
is not shouldn't be tolerated. I do think that my
children see me as an advocate for them, and I
hope that I've created some boldness for other parents to
do the same thing.
Speaker 4 (01:01:14):
I agree, Representative Brandy Bradley, get back to the special session.
God knows what they're going to do. While you're talking
to me, I'm going to try.
Speaker 11 (01:01:21):
Thanks Van, all right, thank you for that.
Speaker 4 (01:01:23):
That is Representative Brandy Bradley. You know, the thing about
this particular issue is that this is not a widely held.
Speaker 3 (01:01:32):
Belief.
Speaker 4 (01:01:34):
There is a woman who, like in twenty ten, started
comparing X rays and oh this could be Leonardo da
Vinci as a woman and everything else. It's not a
long term situation. Pay attention, ask questions, Talk to your kids.
Somebody just said on the text line, Mandy, if a
teacher isn't going to engage the students in critical thinking,
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in other words, talk beyond the video, then why I
have teachers at all? Just put a video and let
kids watch that. What is he had said? You know,
there are some people who think that Leonardo da Vinci
was a child molester. There's as much evidence for that
as there is for this being a portrait of himself.
That's the issue. This is not a well known thing,
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and it definitely feels like it has an agenda, especially
when the teacher has four Pride flags hanging in their class.
Speaker 3 (01:02:23):
That seems excessive to me. But hey, what are you
gonna do?
Speaker 13 (01:02:26):
Right?
Speaker 4 (01:02:26):
Honestly, it's gonna be really hard for me to get
through this without a WTF out loud. This person said.
My son's freshman English class has just started reading To
Kill a Mockingbird, and the first thing brought up on
the first day of class was the gender identity of scout.
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Can we please just leave it alone and not ruin
a great American classic. Y'all, scout is six years old
and to kill a mockingbird flip in six?
Speaker 2 (01:02:59):
What buy hell?
Speaker 4 (01:03:02):
I cleaned it up. If this is I mean, y'all,
what how is that even? How how's that a thing?
Another person pointed out, Mandy ken Burns is coming out
with a documentary on Da Vinci. If it's able to
be known, I'd think he would find out. And you
are right, Texter, you are right. Now interesting story about
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real estate markets.
Speaker 3 (01:03:29):
For just a second.
Speaker 4 (01:03:31):
A record number of home deals collapsed in July. Now,
when a home deal collapses, it means that the buyer
has decided. I mean a vast majority of the time.
I guess the seller could say no, I'm not selling
this and it would collapse. But a vast majority of
the time it is the buyer who says, uh, yeah,
we're not going to do this, We're not going to
move forward.
Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
You know.
Speaker 4 (01:03:53):
Sometimes they get their earnest money back, sometimes they don't.
But sixty thousand home deals went up in smoke, and
realtors are saying it's a couple of things. Number one,
high prices. Number two the presidential election. People are uncertain,
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they don't know what's going on. Many Americans feel like
we're already in a recession, even though technically, using the
technical definition of recession, we are not. But a lot
of people feel like they're in their own personal recession
right Like our incomes have been decimated by inflation and
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people are having a hard time keeping up. I mean,
I talk about it all the time in my American
financing commercials, like people are using credit cards. We've got
a record amount of credit card debt. This is real,
And I wanted to ask this question. Have you and
you can text us on the Common Spirit Health text
line at five sixty six nine zero, and I'd love
to know have you put off a major purchase because
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of either interest rate or you're just not feeling good
about committing to another big monthly payment, or you don't
want to drop a bunch of money on something that
you know that you've got to pay for. Five six
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sixth nine oh is the text line. Go ahead and
text us if you have put off or thinking of
putting off, maybe even thinking about buying a new house,
but you haven't. Maybe even thinking about replacing the windows
on your home, but you're not. Maybe you're thinking about
redoing your landscaping but you're not. Maybe you're thinking about
buying a new car, but you're not. You know, maybe
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all of these things. I'm just curious. Five six, six, nine. Oh,
you can text us the answer. Mandy, just heard your
story about the Mona Lisa being a self portrait. I
was a sub for an ILC student at CCSD. In
a first grade class, the art teacher mentioned the exact
thing about Mona Lisa being a self portrait of Da Vinci.
I was like, I've never heard of that before. But
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of course I didn't say anything because I'm not in
a position to question the art teacher. I don't think
there's anything wrong with saying what, where's the evidence for that?
Because that flies in the face of everything that I learned,
And if I've learned stuff that is now out of date,
I'd love to know more because none of us, none
of us heard that when we were young. When we
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get back, we've got a two minute drill because I
got a bunch of stories on the blog, and then
later on we're going to talk to Mary Rook of
The Daily Caller. Does RFK Junior even make a difference.
We'll do all that in the next hour.
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And they's there, Thy Connell keeping who is the.
Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
Two minute drill at two?
Speaker 10 (01:07:04):
Hey, we're I go to too many Morris repidfire stories
of the day that we don't have more time.
Speaker 3 (01:07:08):
For play Mark Jeff Bline, let's call this.
Speaker 2 (01:07:11):
It'll take longer than two minutes.
Speaker 3 (01:07:13):
Are you out?
Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
Here's Mandy Condell, Welcome.
Speaker 4 (01:07:17):
Back, and I've got a bunch of stuff for you,
including a really, really scorching column. The headline says it all.
How does DPS Superintendent Alex Morrero still have a job?
Eric Sonderman pulled no punches as he talks about the
failure of the current Denver Public Schools superintendent to do
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anything significant about student achievement, especially the achievement gap between
black and Hispanic students and white students. And apparently his
answer is just not breaking those numbers out. Uh, you've
got to read it. Eric Sonderman's right. I wish more
media would pay attention to the fact that our superintendent
just got a ginormous raise even though he's doing a
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really bad job doing his most basic thing, which is
educating students in Denver. It too more evidence that your
food is directly affecting your brain. There is a school
of research now that suggests that blood sugar fluctuations are
partly responsible for the connection between how we eat and
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what we feel. I'm not talking about your guts, I'm
talking about your anxiety, your depression. Numerous random controlled trials
have demonstrated that diet is one biological factor that can
significantly influence risk for symptoms of depression and anxiety, especially
in women. The more you know about how your body works,
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you know that sugar or spikes and crashes are terrible,
and unfortunately, the standard American diet creates a lot of that.
Could that be the reason that so many young people
have anxiety and depression? I don't know, but maybe cleaning
up their diet for a little bit to see if
it helps might be a great end free place to start.
Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
Drill it too.
Speaker 4 (01:09:04):
Remember when streaming and cutting the cord was a great
way to save money. Well, those days are over because
streaming services are jacking up the prices. Monthly fees for
individual streaming services ad free have gotten really expensive. Hulu
eighteen ninety nine, Amazon Prime seventeen ninety eight, Max sixteen
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ninety nine, Disney Plus fifteen ninety nine, Netflix fifteen forty nine,
and so on and so on. It used to be
that you could cut the cord from cable and save
big by signing up for a few streaming services. But
those days are over. It's called streamflation. And if you
want to save money on your video stuff, steal it
from your neighbor, don't. I don't know what else. I
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don't know what else to tell you. That's the best
idea that I have so far.
Speaker 2 (01:09:53):
Drill it too.
Speaker 4 (01:09:55):
Very interesting story coming out of Alaska. You know, the
was the first to go to ranked choice voting and
it ended up with Alaskans, which tend to be very conservative,
electing Democrat Rep. Mary Peltola to Congress. Now she is
a liberal and doesn't necessarily represent the people of Alaska.
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And now we just had a primary where three members
came out of this, Mary Poltola and two Republicans. Now,
unlike last time where the Republicans split the vote and
Petola was able to get into office, the candidate the
Republican candidate who got fewer votes, So there was two Republicans.
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They already decided whoever got the fewest number of votes
was going to drop out and support the other Republican.
This is how you do it. You don't alienate the
supporters of the other team so much that they won't
vote for you in the general election. It's going to
be interesting to see how this works out. Because the
two GOP candidates garnered more votes combined than Mary Peltola,
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but she was named the winner after the hierarchy higherarchicle
rounds of ranked choice voting were concluded. And now the
Republicans have learned to play the game and they're probably
going to win this election because of it.
Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
Drill it too well.
Speaker 4 (01:11:14):
There's another cool bar in Denver that I'm not cool
enough to go to. Have you heard about this? A
rod the secret bar, totally a secret, No, it's a secret,
no no advertising. It's it's known as the Lincoln's because
every drink is five dollars. It's in a basement somewhere
and that five bucks, by the way, includes tax I
don't know.
Speaker 8 (01:11:34):
Where it is.
Speaker 4 (01:11:35):
I don't know where it is, but it's a hit
and bar called the Lincolns where drinks are five bucks
and I am not cool enough to go there, So
if you know where the Lincoln's is, you can text
me and make me feel cool, because it'll lord it
over a Rod's head, like I know more than he does,
even though I'm not as cool as he is.
Speaker 3 (01:11:53):
Because I'm not.
Speaker 4 (01:11:54):
My cool days are behind me, and I'm okay with
that because I had enough fun for all of you.
And state fares would be nothing if not a whole
cavalcade of disgusting food items that will probably put you
in an early grave. And this year is no different.
Now we're no stranger to deep fried oreos and deep
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fried twinkies, but now we've moved on to things like
and I would totally eat this, hey Rod, Yes? Or
no bacon cheeseburger egg roll y, Yes, I would definitely
try that one hundred percent Krispy Green donut cheeseburger.
Speaker 3 (01:12:30):
No, No donuts and cheese no.
Speaker 4 (01:12:32):
Surprisingly delicious, Nope a surprising. I had one at in
Kentucky and it was remarkably good. We've got the oh
sugar cakes, fried oreos, that's old news. We've got the
dill pickle pizza. I like dill pickles and I like pizza.
But I don't think I need them together.
Speaker 8 (01:12:52):
After having a whole pickle spear in a Chicago dog,
I'm down that.
Speaker 4 (01:12:56):
Well, pickles and hot dogs go together perfectly. I mean
they're like magic. How about an entire flight of deviled eggs?
Oh you don't like deviled eggs?
Speaker 3 (01:13:05):
Oh they're gross? I don't know how, I don't what like?
Speaker 8 (01:13:09):
What do you like?
Speaker 4 (01:13:10):
Egg salad?
Speaker 11 (01:13:11):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (01:13:13):
I mean egg salad is essentially just a salad. A
little handful of this egg salad. Two foot lobster roll
at Jari Southwer I would I'd hit that hundred bucks
by the way for a two foot lobster rollo. Wait,
what three potato chip coated balls of party dip?
Speaker 3 (01:13:36):
What is party dip?
Speaker 4 (01:13:38):
I kind of explain. And the pickle dog combines an
Iowa favorite deep fried hot dog pickle wrapped around with
batter and fried. There you go, There you go, So
there you go. That is your two minute trail. I
would try all of those fair foods. I would try
them all. I have tried a lot of them. The
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Kentucky State Fair whas where I used to work in Kentucky,
we did WHS Day at the State Fair. So the
whole station was there all day. It was so much fun,
and we'd always go find the weirdest stuff. And the
Kentucky state here has some. They have some weird stuff,
super weird stuff. Mandy rate choice voting sucks. It can
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result in everyone's worst choice winning. Just say no, Rick
not if it requires a majority to actually be declared
the winner, and the ballot initiative that's going to be
on the ballot here in Colorado requires a majority, so
no one will win with less than a majority. So
Hulu Plus is not eighty nine ninety nine. Somebody just
(01:14:40):
hit that the Texters. It is not eighty nine ninety nine.
I already closed that window, so I got to hang on,
let me pull that back up. Do you have Hulu plus.
Speaker 3 (01:14:51):
Not the plus?
Speaker 4 (01:14:51):
No, Disney Plus and Hulu together is nineteen ninety nine.
Disney plus Hulu and Max is twenty nine ninety nine,
Disney plus Hulu and ESP The PN plus is twenty
four to ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (01:15:03):
So there you go. Then the live TV that might
be what puts it up in.
Speaker 4 (01:15:07):
I thought Huluplus had the live TV? Does it I
thought it did. I don't know, I think it does.
We just paid for Hulu because we wanted to watch
if it has.
Speaker 3 (01:15:16):
Something, if it has lve TV and all that, it's
no way it's got more has do you think?
Speaker 1 (01:15:21):
So?
Speaker 3 (01:15:22):
Yeah? No, yeah, because YouTube TV is an example. With
live TV is like seventy five bucks.
Speaker 8 (01:15:26):
Now, yeah, cut the camel, they said regarding cutting the cord.
Speaker 4 (01:15:31):
I installed an antenna and watched primarily over the air.
I live in the foothills and get over thirty channels.
I just I want to see what I want to
see when I want to see it, and really all
I want to see is HGTV. I wish I had
something else for you. Although they've gotten rid of a
lot of my hosts I like, and I'm just not
happy with the new round of hosts. Don't like it
when people move my home improvement cheese. So what point
(01:15:53):
does doing that and having Hulu with live TV? I mean,
how much you paid for your internet to come in
your house. We pay a ridiculous sum of money for
our internet access because we have business speeds, so I
can do the show from home on occasion, and I
regret nothing like that's the best thing ever. But I'm curious, like,
(01:16:14):
if you added up those numbers, have you called the
cable company and been like, Okay, what's going to take
You know, because they're desperate for eyeballs. Infinity needs as
many subscribers as they can get. Same with Central Link,
same with AT and T, because that's how they sell advertising.
They got to have enough eyeballs. They got to have
enough subscribers. So I'm wondering at what point that break
(01:16:36):
even a ro Do a quick search? How much does
Infinity cable cost? Just do a quick search, see what
you get. Because I don't pay our bills, Chuck does,
so I don't know how much everything costs. I mean,
generally speaking, I don't know how much stuff costs. So
I want to talk. Well, he's looking that up. I
want to talk. And as a matter of fact, give
(01:16:56):
me my.
Speaker 8 (01:16:59):
Cany cable TV lands can cost between twenty and eighty
dollars a month, depending on the region and the package. Yeah,
exact internet access, no internet like one hundred and let's see,
let's go with gigabit extra Ultimate TV one hundred and
eighty five plus channels and twelve hundred megabits download speeds
one hundred and eighty a month.
Speaker 4 (01:17:18):
Oh now you're still you're still talking yeah, one hundred
and thirty. You're probably making money by doing Hulu with live.
Speaker 8 (01:17:24):
Yeah, if you're in, you're going more basic stuff four
hundred megabits download speed connect Internet and Popular TV one
hundred and twenty five channel one hundred and thirty four
a month, or for Fast and Popular TV one hundred
and twenty five channels and five hundred megabits downloads B
one hundred and eleven per month.
Speaker 3 (01:17:38):
Like internet wise, we're we're around there, just Internet.
Speaker 4 (01:17:42):
Yeah, that's kind of what we're looking at. Yeah, So,
I mean, I guess I don't know. I could call
Chuck and ask him, but now I don't care that much.
I want to play this audio Jake Tapper talking to
Corey Booker, and he asked the question that I've long
had since I heard this chart a new course with
Kamala Harris. I'm just gonna let Ke Tapper aske it
a new chap Well, hang on, didn't know that was
(01:18:03):
up there?
Speaker 7 (01:18:04):
We go a new chapter.
Speaker 3 (01:18:06):
I mean, she's the incumbent Vice president.
Speaker 8 (01:18:08):
Democrats have controlled the White House for twelve for the
last sixteen years, how can Democrats talk about a new chapter?
Speaker 3 (01:18:13):
Turning the page?
Speaker 7 (01:18:14):
You guys are the ones writing the book.
Speaker 3 (01:18:17):
Corey Booker, Well, you.
Speaker 15 (01:18:19):
Know that that's not true, Jake, because you know politics
like I do. Right now, we see the maga Republicans
in Congress, So wait.
Speaker 4 (01:18:26):
A minute before we stop. First of all, the thing
he says to Jake Tapper when Jake Tapper literally says
something that is true, Jake Tapper says she's the incumbent
vice president. Corey Booker responds with, first of all, Jake,
that's not true.
Speaker 3 (01:18:41):
Wait but is she?
Speaker 4 (01:18:43):
I'll just let you hear the clap trap that comes
out of Corey Booker's mouth, and then we'll respond to it.
Speaker 15 (01:18:47):
On the other side of the baring all kind of
pragmatic policies. On the most contentious issue, we had a
bi partisan deal argued by excuse, we settled on by
Senator Langford or right Republican and Chris Murphy, a blue
state Democrat.
Speaker 2 (01:19:04):
And notice that he.
Speaker 4 (01:19:05):
Says right wing Republican and instead of saying left wing Democrat,
he's a blue state Democrat.
Speaker 3 (01:19:14):
But I'll let him finish build the pragmatic progress.
Speaker 15 (01:19:16):
It wasn't the sensible Republicans but really people that were
how telling to Donald Trump his influence is egregious and incredible.
Speaker 4 (01:19:27):
Yeah yeah, yeah, so yeah, new way forward. She's the
income advice President. Well that's not true, Jake. Everything that's
wrong is the fault of the Republicans. Even though the
Democrats control the Senate and they control the White House.
(01:19:47):
We're supposed to believe that it's a new way forward.
But that wasn't the only great SoundBite from this weekend.
I want to play you this on this week on
ABC's This Week, which purports to show that, you know,
like political stuff, high brown conversation. Senator Tom Cotton is
(01:20:10):
being interviewed by John carl and I want you to
hear this exchange.
Speaker 9 (01:20:14):
And President Trump is going to draw a sharp contrast
with Kamala Harris, who has supported things like decriminalizing illegal immigration,
or giving taxpayer funded health insurance to illegal aliens, or
taking away health insurance on the job for one hundred
and seventy million Americans, banning gas cars, confiscating firearms.
Speaker 6 (01:20:34):
Taking away health insurance. What are you talking about?
Speaker 9 (01:20:36):
She said when she ran for president that she wants
to eliminate private health insurance on the job seventy million americans.
Speaker 6 (01:20:41):
John, Yeah, I mean, I mean that that is not
her position.
Speaker 7 (01:20:43):
Now she knows how do you know this, Sciram, how
do you.
Speaker 9 (01:20:45):
Know this not her position? I mean she says, you
know what, she has not said that. Maybe anonymous aids
on a Friday night have said that. But but the
last thing that.
Speaker 3 (01:20:56):
She said, this was not a radical convention.
Speaker 4 (01:20:59):
I mean she.
Speaker 6 (01:21:01):
As that you heard me go through with Bernie Sanders.
She is not taking the positions of the far left
of her party. She's clearly making an effort to move
to the medal.
Speaker 9 (01:21:10):
I did hear what you said to Sanader Sanders, and
I thought it was clear that he's very disappointed that
she's taking these efforts not to change her positions, but
to hide her positions. John, the American people are totally
justified to conclude that Kamala Harris is a dangerous San
Francisco liberal based on what she campaigned on the last
time she ran for president and what this administration has
(01:21:32):
done for the last four years. Again, you would have
thought watching the Democratic Convention last week that the Democrats
are not in office, that they're not in power, that
they're campaigning against an incumbent Republican, when in reality, she's
been part of the failures of the Biden Harris administration
for four years, and when she campaigned for president in
her own right, she did in fact promise sayings like
(01:21:53):
decriminalizing illegal immigration, taking away if that's this.
Speaker 6 (01:21:56):
Position she's clearly changed on, and she said she has changed.
Speaker 9 (01:22:00):
Yes, yes, yes, I has no John, she has not
said that.
Speaker 4 (01:22:04):
I want to point out something that is really important.
John Carl is a journalist. John Carl is supposed to
be paying attention. John Carl's job is to interview politicians,
and yet he is touting the line that Kamala Harris
has announced has spoken the words I've changed my position,
when nothing like that has occurred. And if I were
(01:22:26):
Senator Tom Cotton, I would have said, hey, you know what,
I can wait while your team finds the audio of
her saying that she doesn't want to take away private insurance.
I'll wait. I'll just hang out right here. You do
what you got to do back there. But I'm sure
shouldn't be hard to find out where she has rebuked
these positions. She hasn't rebuked anything, not a single one
of them. But of course we don't get to ask
(01:22:49):
her questions because whatever it's, it's fine it's fine, It's
all fine. She writes about all kinds of stuff. And
initially when we were going to set this up, we
were going to talk about the d N see, but
I swore I would not talk about it anymore after
last week, and she's got to call him today about
the endorsement. I don't know if this today or yesterday
about the endorsement of RFK junior of Donald Trump, And
(01:23:13):
so Mary, I wanted to ask you because we kind
of talked about it a little bit when it happened,
but I wanted to ask you if if you think
it's going to make that much of a difference. And
I'm kind of the jury is out on this right,
I'm not quite sure if I'm not quite sure the
impact just yet.
Speaker 11 (01:23:35):
Hi.
Speaker 13 (01:23:36):
By the way, thanks for having me on, Mandy. It's
always great to be on. And in fact, I do
I think it's going to make a world of difference.
So if you're looking at these swing state pollings, the
ones that Kennedy's dropping out of, you'll see that he
is getting about five percent of the vote, and they're
saying that there's at least seventy five percent of that
five percent that is being pulled from Trump's voter role,
(01:24:00):
and so I think that one it's going to give
Trump a big boost. And then also just him coming
over and telling his followers like, it's time we have
to unite around one candidate, and this is the candidate
to go through.
Speaker 14 (01:24:10):
I think that's going to be huge.
Speaker 13 (01:24:12):
And also I think that a lot of Americans are
forgetting that there's a swath of female voters who are
kind of independent leaning their mothers. They're worried about our
food supply, They're worried about the quality of water, They're
worried about how that's going to affect their kids. When
he talks about infertility in men, when he talks about
(01:24:32):
infertility and women, and then you think about it. I
have four children, and I think about it all the time.
What kind of world are they going to grow up in?
What's their fertility going to be? Like?
Speaker 14 (01:24:39):
How are they going to be able to have children
of their own?
Speaker 13 (01:24:43):
When you have a candidate that cares so deeply about
that and is saying, I here's Donald Trump, and he
is also going to carry this torch with us, I
think that that moves a lot of these female voters
that Trump has been struggling to reach. He's great at
blue collar workers, he's great at talking about immigration, the
border of the economy, but this is one of those
(01:25:03):
aspects that he hasn't really hit hard enough. And JFK
Junior are sorry. RFK Junior really does, and I think
that that's going to be, you know, a big push
in his favor. I think that's something that the Harris
camp hasn't even talked about.
Speaker 14 (01:25:17):
I mean, you saw several.
Speaker 13 (01:25:18):
Democrats come out after Kennedy's speech and say, oh, we
need to start a commission, we need to start talking
about this, we need to create a federal commission on
this and and really bring this about in Harris's camp.
Speaker 4 (01:25:31):
And it's a little too late.
Speaker 13 (01:25:32):
I'm sorry, but you've had four years now and as
part of the Biden Harris administration to do anything about it.
You're not You're beholden to the FDA, You're beholden to
the CDC. These issues have been long standing and parents
want a resolution on it. And I think that having
someone like RFK Junior come out and say that Trump's
going to carry that torch will be big for him.
Speaker 4 (01:25:52):
I mean, the Democratic Party has been too worried about
ending pregnancies to worry about them actually happening in the
first place, Right, I mean, that's their focus is all
on ending pregnancies and not in making sure that we're
having babies. It's interesting to me, Mary, to your point
that when you talk about it and jd. Vance has
been very open about this, about the need to have
kids and about what having children does in terms of
(01:26:15):
your worldview of the future. Right, You've got four kids,
I have kids. I worry about what kind of world
I'm leaving my children. And do you think that that
demographic especially and I'm gonna call them earthy granola moms,
the earthly granola moms who are probably doing yoga, who
are maybe worried about vaccinations, who are you know, only
(01:26:36):
feed their children organic food and stuff like that, That
to me is traditionally a very strong Democratic voter. Do
you think this issue is going to be enough to
move them to the right.
Speaker 14 (01:26:48):
Absolutely? I think so.
Speaker 13 (01:26:50):
I think that that, you know, they're Democratic voter in
the sense that they kind of have always felt like
the Democratic Party cared more about this kind of stuff
than the Republican Party did.
Speaker 14 (01:27:02):
They've been you know, the.
Speaker 13 (01:27:03):
Republicans have been the Party of Big Business and all
of those things throughout the eighties and nineties, and so
they grew up and with their parents.
Speaker 14 (01:27:09):
Telling them that this is the way it is.
Speaker 13 (01:27:11):
But now we're in an economy where even if you
want to feature kids organic, even if you want to
feature kids whole foods and you know, things that are
nice and healthy for them, you can't afford to. And
so when you have someone like President Trump come in
and say I want an economy for all. I want
an economy where you can afford to do these things
for your children, to make sure that they're healthy, to
make sure that they're safe. I really do think that
(01:27:33):
it sways a lot of voters. I've seen a lot
of mothers and who were thinking about voting for RFK
Junior just because of these types of policies now say
that they're going to vote for Trump because he's carrying
that torch for him.
Speaker 14 (01:27:45):
So I do I really think that this is a
momentum changer.
Speaker 13 (01:27:49):
And not to bring it back to the DNC, but
we had a week of them telling us how important
it was for women's rights and how important it was
for them to be able to choose abortion over anything else.
You have a candidate that says, no, guess what, you
can be a mother, you can care about these things,
and we're going to help you do that. And that's
kind of like the saving grace for these women who
have always been desperate to be moms and desperate to
(01:28:11):
be part of that motherhood circle and have felt like
maybe overwhelmed by all of the negativity and overwhelmed by
the prospective well how do I even bring children safely
into this world?
Speaker 4 (01:28:23):
So yeah, I do.
Speaker 14 (01:28:24):
I think it's going to be a big momentum shift
for them. And also, you know, RFK has this ability to.
Speaker 13 (01:28:32):
Has you know, he has this expertise in this area
that maybe Trump doesn't, and so just knowing that you
have someone like that in your corner is helpful. And
who does Kamala Harris have in that corner? She doesn't
have anyone. So I think that it does it speaks
a lot to them.
Speaker 4 (01:28:50):
So the other weird endorsement that came out today is
former Congressman Chelsea Gabbard has come out and endorse Donald Trump.
Tell me a little bit about that, because I've been
doing the show since that happened, so I haven't seen it.
Speaker 14 (01:29:05):
So she's been a Democrat for a long time.
Speaker 13 (01:29:07):
We saw her kind of shift more to an independent
after the twenty twenty election, and how the Democrats treated her.
You know, she was like the lady of the hour
in Hawaii, and you know, moving forward, she was their
veteran vote.
Speaker 14 (01:29:19):
She was all of these things for them.
Speaker 13 (01:29:20):
And then because she came out against some of the
party line issues, all of a sudden, she became persona
and on gata. And now we have someone again who
has been a Democrat all her life, has voted for
Democrats all her life, come out and say, no, we're
not voting for Democrats anymore just because they have a
d nex to their name. We're going to vote for
a candidate who will be for all Americans. And she
(01:29:42):
spoke in front of a lot of different veterans. And
there's been a lot of talk about, you know, Trump
calling veterans suckers and losers, and you know that hoax
that's been going around by the Democratic Party. But who
was there laying the wreaths today at the you know,
at the nationalmety for the thirteen fallen soldiers under Biden
(01:30:03):
Harris administration.
Speaker 14 (01:30:04):
I mean, by the time that was all said and done.
Speaker 13 (01:30:06):
It was only like two hours ago that Biden even
spoke out on Twitter about these thirteen individuals that died.
Speaker 14 (01:30:12):
And you can't say that you are a man for
you know, or an.
Speaker 13 (01:30:18):
Administration for all of these people, when in reality, you
can't even bring yourself to mention it.
Speaker 14 (01:30:24):
In the morning of like the moment that.
Speaker 13 (01:30:27):
You know you should be honoring these soldiers who died,
you're sitting on a beach somewhere in Delaware. We have
a political correspondent, Henry Rogers, who said that he was
on a phone call with veterans today and with their
families of the thirteen that died, and not a single
one of them has received a phone call from Kamala
Harris since the attack happened, since their child died.
Speaker 14 (01:30:50):
And that's a big deal.
Speaker 13 (01:30:51):
We're talking about, you know, people who want to be
the commander in chief of the army and they can't
even bring themselves to have humanity or human compassion.
Speaker 14 (01:31:01):
For these people that laid their livestone for our country.
Speaker 13 (01:31:04):
And that was such a chaotic withdrawal that I think
that veterans, you know, you bring Tim Walls.
Speaker 14 (01:31:10):
On and he's supposed to be the guy that helps the.
Speaker 13 (01:31:13):
Veteran vote because he was supposedly a command sergeant major
and he never actually rose to that rank.
Speaker 14 (01:31:18):
He had stolen beller accusations against him.
Speaker 13 (01:31:21):
Now and these veterans are wising up and they're saying, Okay,
our va is terrible, it's corrupt. They give us pain
pills instead of actual help. We need someone in there
that's going to help us. And Trump tried to do
that under his first term, and you know, he's vowed
to help them even more under his second. And I
think that that speaks, you know, again to another large
(01:31:42):
swath of voters who would have maybe voted Democrat just
because they had always been Democrat, but now will look
to the Republican Party for help and leadership.
Speaker 4 (01:31:51):
Mary Rooke, I appreciate your time today. You can read
Mary's work at the Daily Caller every single day. Mary
will talk to you again soon.
Speaker 14 (01:31:59):
Thank you, Thanks so much.
Speaker 4 (01:32:02):
Madi. All right, that is Mary Brook.
Speaker 10 (01:32:03):
You know.
Speaker 4 (01:32:04):
Tulsea Gabbard made the endorsement today at a Trump's appearance
at a National Guard conference in Detroit. Hours after the
forty fifth president attended a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery
with families of some of the thirteen service members who
perished during the botch to Afghanistan withdrawal.
Speaker 3 (01:32:26):
Tulsea Gabbard has and I did know this.
Speaker 4 (01:32:29):
She has also been helping the president do debate prep
and there's been a lot of squabbling over the debate situation.
I guess there's discussions about keeping the microphones muted when
the other person is talking. I actually didn't mind it.
I thought it worked, but of course Trump doesn't like it.
And we'll see if that debate actually happens. It's scheduled
(01:32:53):
for September tenth, and if it does happen, then we
will we will have a kawaycast, So we talk to
Ross about that. I'm just gonna I'm gonna RSVP for Ross. Yes, okay,
I'm just gonna RSVP for him. I'll ask him about
it tomorrow in our cross talk on his show. So yeah,
(01:33:16):
Tulci Gabbert in Trump's camp. It's very strange bedfellows being
made as Democrats are sort of being forced out of
the party in a way. Tulsi Gabbert has talked openly
about the fact that she is on the TSA watch
list for no reason, but every time she goes to security.
(01:33:37):
She gets the s SSS mark on her on her
boarding pass. Do you guys know what the SSSS mark is?
If you look at your boarding pass and it should
be up in the right hand corner. If it says
s S S S, you will be heavily screened at security.
You've been marked. Tulsey Gabbard says, she's been, you know,
(01:33:58):
basically used and now harassed by the Democratic power structure.
You have RFK Junior, whose dad and uncle are probably
two of the most prominent Democrats to live in the
past one hundred years, and he says the party has
become so undemocratic that he has no choice but to
(01:34:21):
endorse the Republican nominee for president. So as people are
finding out what it's like to be on the wrong
side of the Democratic Party, they're finding out what we
on the right have known for a long time. The
Democratic Party is mean, they're hateful, and if you cross them,
they will destroy you. It's not enough to just win
(01:34:47):
the war of ideas. It's more about shutting down any
ideas they disagree with the power that they wield to do.
That has really been seen by RFK Junior. They've been
fighting him in multiple states with friendly judges to keep
him off the ballot. And that's why he endorsed Trump.
If they just left him alone, he would have been
on the ballot. By the way, there's now a new
(01:35:08):
committee to remind you of every bad thing that RFK
Junior has ever done. Someone that he knew in college
alleges that he was a coke dealer in college. Eh,
it doesn't have the same sting it once had. Now
we have politicians openly admitting that they inhaled even as
they put people in prison for long prison terms for marijuana.
Speaker 13 (01:35:31):
Oh is that?
Speaker 1 (01:35:32):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:35:32):
Oh yep. I'm looking at Kamala Harris. She's right over there,
laughing about it as she says she is. Yeah, she
did inhale. A couple things on the blog that we
did not get to today. One of them. Then I'm
gonna get see if I can get Randall on the
show soon. Randal O'Toole is with the Independence Institute. He
(01:35:56):
writes more stuff about RTD than anybody else. He he
probably has a better understanding about RTD than anyone who
is not on the RTD board. And he's written a
really really interesting column about how bad the ridership has
recovered on RTD, and he suggests, look, it's time to
(01:36:17):
just end the light rate rail charade and just move
to high speed buses. We could put buses on those
on those light rail lines and it was zip right
past traffic. It'd be a fraction of the cost and
maybe people would actually ride them. What was the last
time you were on light rail, Ryan Edwards?
Speaker 3 (01:36:33):
Oh, it's been years? Really?
Speaker 12 (01:36:35):
Yeah, well, yeah, no, I think it's been It's been
a few years. I mean the last time I did
light rail, we went downtown for some it might have
been like a New Year's thing or something, and it
was just a mess.
Speaker 3 (01:36:46):
It was it was it was a mess to get back.
Speaker 4 (01:36:50):
Yeah, And just here's the thing is it's really easy
to take light rail to an event.
Speaker 2 (01:36:55):
That was why we loved it.
Speaker 3 (01:36:57):
You got a plan.
Speaker 4 (01:36:58):
It's like, okay, so if I am gonna am I
going to uber out and white rail is not should
have done.
Speaker 11 (01:37:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:37:05):
But then by the time, I mean I live in
Douglas County, by the time I uber from downtown, that's
sixty five bucks not worth it. Cheaper to drive park
and drive home cheaper.
Speaker 12 (01:37:15):
And you know, if you're having a good time downtown.
That's not necessarily the best idea. So yeah, it's a
difficult proposition. I'd love to hear solutions, certainly.
Speaker 4 (01:37:27):
Yep. Thanks to the Texter who pointed out that as
soon as RFK Junior endorsed Donald Trump and suspended his campaign,
they pulled his Secret Service protection. I mean, it's not
like anybody who knows ever been killed right for politics?
Speaker 10 (01:37:40):
Nah?
Speaker 4 (01:37:41):
Whatever, it's fine.
Speaker 3 (01:37:43):
He doesn't say controversial things anyway.
Speaker 4 (01:37:44):
Why and he's fine. It's all fine. It's not like
somebody got shot in this campaign cycle, is it. I mean,
oh wait, that did happen? It just it's been memory
hold so quickly that I didn't think it's it. Maybe
it didn't happen. I don't know anyway, Ryan Edwards, is
that a?
Speaker 15 (01:38:01):
Is that a?
Speaker 4 (01:38:02):
Pso it is?
Speaker 2 (01:38:03):
You're in. I'm in.
Speaker 3 (01:38:04):
Let me get the flannel. I mean, it's vibe.
Speaker 4 (01:38:07):
You're ready.
Speaker 3 (01:38:08):
It was you know, it was a long rs ready
for sweater weather.
Speaker 12 (01:38:11):
Sundays are long days, so Mondays need a little extra
love and car It's time. What I look today fifty.
Speaker 4 (01:38:20):
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Speaker 8 (01:38:28):
I take a bag fifty grams of sugar. I think
it's like half atten carbs. But that's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (01:38:32):
No, fifty grands of sugar is fifty I mean that's.
Speaker 12 (01:38:34):
See, that's why you do like I did with tide,
and then you don't have to worry about that with what?
Speaker 4 (01:38:39):
No, what are you doing? What you're.
Speaker 3 (01:38:47):
I take it bag?
Speaker 9 (01:38:47):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:38:48):
I was right, I was right. A grande PSL fifty
two carves. Again. I fairly eat anything anymore because of
the I mean, I hope you eat nothing else today.
Why are we shaming people? I just feel I can't
have them.
Speaker 4 (01:39:07):
Yeah, so if you can't enjoy it, you can't enjoy
all right. Now, what is our dad joke of the day?
Speaker 3 (01:39:12):
Please p s ls.
Speaker 8 (01:39:14):
Okay, what happens when a microscope crashes into a telescope?
Speaker 3 (01:39:19):
What kaleidoscope?
Speaker 4 (01:39:21):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (01:39:21):
Wow?
Speaker 10 (01:39:22):
Wow?
Speaker 13 (01:39:25):
You know what?
Speaker 9 (01:39:27):
It is?
Speaker 8 (01:39:27):
A noun?
Speaker 3 (01:39:29):
And I forget to pronounce it. Oh help me out.
Speaker 2 (01:39:32):
Jeremiah Jeremiah Jeremiah.
Speaker 4 (01:39:35):
No e R E M I A D. Isn't it
like a platitude or something like or an old trope
or something like kind of a cliche. It's I feel
like I'm.
Speaker 3 (01:39:46):
In Ryan, take that?
Speaker 4 (01:39:49):
Okay, never mind?
Speaker 3 (01:39:50):
Okay, yeah, go ahead. Refers to a long, cautionary or
angry rant about something.
Speaker 4 (01:39:55):
I knew it was a word thing. I just didn't
know what a word thing. Word of the day is
a word.
Speaker 3 (01:40:04):
Word whatever? Off the limerick.
Speaker 4 (01:40:07):
No, I know it was, it was I got over confident.
I got over confident, right, Okay? What is the largest
type of perching bird?
Speaker 7 (01:40:16):
A bird with three forward.
Speaker 4 (01:40:18):
Facing toes and one backward facing toe on.
Speaker 3 (01:40:21):
Each foot perching bird?
Speaker 4 (01:40:25):
No, they don't perch on the ground, right, I'm gonna
say a condor. They seem big, right?
Speaker 3 (01:40:33):
Oh wow?
Speaker 2 (01:40:34):
Not close?
Speaker 4 (01:40:34):
Close the raven, which has a wingspan of more than
four feet. There you go. I didn't know the raven
was a perching bird.
Speaker 5 (01:40:42):
Why we do it?
Speaker 14 (01:40:43):
Right here?
Speaker 4 (01:40:44):
What is our jeopardy category?
Speaker 3 (01:40:46):
And here's your host?
Speaker 8 (01:40:47):
Okay, Mandy and Ryan are not two answers, okay, but
other hosts. Okay, this idol host with a variety? Who's
Ryan Seacrest is correct? Ihearts right? This comedy, said Central
political pundit, Who's John Stewart wrong? Good guess explored running
for the president of the US of South Carolina.
Speaker 4 (01:41:11):
The president of the US of South Carolina. I have
no idea.
Speaker 3 (01:41:14):
I'm out Stephen Colbert.
Speaker 4 (01:41:16):
I was going to guess after and I decided not to.
Speaker 3 (01:41:18):
It was it was a one. It was a fifty
to fifty shot.
Speaker 8 (01:41:20):
Yeah, Ryan, Well, when he's not snuffing out torches, this
new talk show host new Oh it's because it's old
host hopes guests say yes to an ambush adventure.
Speaker 3 (01:41:31):
Mandy, who's Jeff Corbyn wrong?
Speaker 9 (01:41:36):
Show?
Speaker 3 (01:41:39):
Torched right in the survivor which is who?
Speaker 10 (01:41:43):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:41:44):
I thought Jeff Corbyn was survivor?
Speaker 3 (01:41:45):
Oh? Oh yeah, okay, come here we go.
Speaker 4 (01:41:50):
We're suckond win here Ryan.
Speaker 8 (01:41:51):
The twenty twelve version of this Phil Keyogan hosted show
promised nine countries, twenty five thousand.
Speaker 4 (01:41:57):
Miles and what is a great race? The amazing right?
Speaker 3 (01:42:01):
He said great race?
Speaker 4 (01:42:02):
I did the amazing race?
Speaker 1 (01:42:04):
Oh no?
Speaker 3 (01:42:05):
And then Ryan, the answer is what is the amazing race?
Is correct?
Speaker 8 (01:42:08):
That bummer hosting one hundred and seventy one episodes of
this Discovery Channel show, someone had to.
Speaker 3 (01:42:14):
Do it, and it was Mike Ronny.
Speaker 4 (01:42:15):
What is dirty jobs? One one the minus one lions?
Speaker 3 (01:42:22):
A lot of darts thrown at that board, though.
Speaker 4 (01:42:24):
Yeah, that was a lot of guessing going on there.
Speaker 12 (01:42:27):
I guess have that kind of category than the one
where we're just sitting here both staring at each.
Speaker 3 (01:42:31):
Other like, I don't know, do you want to guess?
Speaker 2 (01:42:33):
Well, I obviously don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:42:35):
I know, well, I put them together. I put two
pieces of paper together. Then I fired at the trash can.
They came apart in the air and I missed both
of them, which it makes you better standard.
Speaker 3 (01:42:43):
It's still closer than Albright gets.
Speaker 4 (01:42:45):
Okay, great, that is actually very helpful.
Speaker 3 (01:42:47):
Thank you for that big of a miss, just like
him not liking Soji.
Speaker 4 (01:42:49):
Yeah, we're gonna have an Albright Sojo tasting party on
the Mandy Connells Show.
Speaker 3 (01:42:53):
So we had somebody call him last night and call
him a wet blanket. It was awesome. It was awesome.
Speaker 4 (01:42:59):
I know what that all right's getting for Christmas. Now
he's getting a blanket. So, do you have a picture
with bad hair? Probably make that happen and we're gonna
put it on a blanket.
Speaker 11 (01:43:11):
So good.
Speaker 4 (01:43:12):
Yes, what's coming up on KO Sports today?
Speaker 12 (01:43:14):
Oh, we got all sorts of fun stuff. We're gonna
react obviously to the game. We're gonna get into some
of the fifty three man roster stuff. There's already cuts
happening right now. Ceedee Lamb gets paid a lot of drama,
see you. So we'll get into that plus E right.
Speaker 4 (01:43:26):
For goodness, my goodness.
Speaker 12 (01:43:28):
At CEU Prime, you wouldn't even know they have a
game coming up Thursday.
Speaker 4 (01:43:33):
It doesn't like it when people question him, don't you,
Dare I said nothing. I'm backing out of the room,
not making eye contact.
Speaker 3 (01:43:40):
The way you had a tone there. You will never
be invited to another press conference, you know what.
Speaker 4 (01:43:44):
I haven't been invited to one yet. So am I
losing anything? No, I'm not. Let's turn it over to
KOA Sports. We'll be back tomorrow.
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