08-27-25 FULL SHOW - The Not So Special Session Is Over - The Mandy Connell Podcast

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:10):
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Speaker 3 (00:26):
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Speaker 5 (00:26):
Welcome to a Wednesday edition of the show. I'm your
host for the next three whole hours, Mandy Connell. That
guy over there and is bright orange. I'm going to
work on the roadside when I got dead working here
a sweatshirt. That would be Anthony Rodriguez. You can just
call him a rod Soon I say orange rod stop.

(00:48):
That isn't a bold Orange shirts, I know, but that's
not I thought. It's not even like if you had
blue on it, you'd be like, oh, you're wearing a
Broncos colors. That's just something that's like a jack lantern
and at that right there.

Speaker 6 (01:01):
Yeah, we're getting close, moving into the seeked out and
found out my whatever you know, words are hard be
up early my Halloween sweatshirt and I don't know when
I'm gonna break it out.

Speaker 5 (01:14):
This is kind of a teaser.

Speaker 7 (01:15):
I feel like.

Speaker 5 (01:16):
After Labor Day, Halloween sweatshirts arey okay.

Speaker 6 (01:20):
Yeah, but that kind of makes me hypocrite, because I'm
the guy that gets mad if you start thinking about
Christmas before Thanksgiving.

Speaker 5 (01:29):
But no, you can be a hypocrite because then I
can bring that up if you get mad at me
for being into Christmas before Halloween. But I was born
on Thanksgiving. Put some respect. I already got my Christmas
lights schedule, but some respect on Thanksgiving. I mean no,
I was born on that day with preferred lightscapes about
my Christmas lights. That's where I am in the holiday
planning season. Okay, can you make them Thanksgiving colored?

Speaker 8 (01:53):
No, we're going with.

Speaker 5 (01:54):
Multi colored lights because Chuck Love's multicolored lights.

Speaker 6 (01:56):
You can't like adjust him, you know, because they're not
those kind of lights. But but I'm sure they're great.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
I am.

Speaker 5 (02:02):
I think I might Now I don't know. I'm thinking
of No, just gonna say it.

Speaker 6 (02:06):
Just give a little with your producer. Being born on
Thanksgiving a literal turkey baby Giving. Don't get me wrong.
I adore Thanksgiving and my mom's coming. So we'll have
a lovely table scaping thanks Thanksgiving in a long time. Yeh,
I will not be having a Thanksgiving fuse in my
family because we're going on a cruise.

Speaker 5 (02:23):
Oh okay, I thoroughly enjoyed or we've done a Thanksgiving
cruise before, but you're gonna have no Thanksgiving. I just
want you to know that there's not gonna be any
like turkey on them. There was turkey, but it's not
it's just me. It's not remotely the same. And it's
not like you're celebrating Thanksgiving because it's an international ship,
right and there's all those people from around the world,
and you don't necessarily get the same vibe. But still

(02:46):
loved it.

Speaker 6 (02:46):
Well, there's a year while I will not celebrate Thanksgiving,
so we're gonna do what we did. I think it
was two years ago when uh, we had COVID and
so we celebrated Thanksgiving Christmas week. So we're gonna do
that this week. We're not gonna go You don't just
go in our household, in our family, you don't go
a year without celebrating things heating. So we're just postponing
it by a month.

Speaker 5 (03:04):
That's perfectly sure. Just just have this is your prerogative. Yes,
it'll be perfectly fine. Let's do the blog, shall we alight?
I did put long sleeves on and then I was like, no,
we're up against Labor Daymanda, you have to wear your
white linen.

Speaker 6 (03:17):
Shirt one more time. The wife says to live in
the moment. But I'm saying, look outside, it's cold.

Speaker 5 (03:22):
I'm in the moment. It's here, sweater weather. It's time.

Speaker 7 (03:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (03:26):
Yes, anyway, it is September on Monday. Sh stop it.
You're welcome. Find the blog by going to mandy'sblog dot com.
That's Mandy's blog dot com, or head over to Randy
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the headlines you will find within.

Speaker 7 (03:48):
Bring on the cold half of America all with ships
and clippas.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
That's a press.

Speaker 5 (03:55):
Today on the blog Weather Wednesday Today, The Not So
Special Session is Ova. Democrats condemned a private citizen. How
did Dems raise corporate taxes? Denver is demanding accountability. They
themselves don't do Coloraden's love hallucinogens. Denver doesn't know how
many illegals it welcomed. This is not a function of government.

(04:17):
Why are the leaves already changing? I have been laughing
about this for two days. Ralphie six is running into retirement.
Uncle Herschel's back on the logo. COVID is sky high
in our wastewater and I don't care. Christianity is making
a comeback with tech pros. Burning Man's orgy Dome destroyed

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by mother Nature, The truth about those starving Godsen children.
Some good news about youth suicide. No, we don't need
gay Batman. Some people are happy with Trump's DC takeover.
Democrats are obsessed with child mutilation. K Pop Demon Honors
is the top set Netflix. The White House has a
use for the old New Cracker bare logo. I agree

(04:57):
with Teddy Roosevelt Ember's first and last see you runs.
Holy Pilate's up the Caribbean. Who will restore hope? Your
brain is a liah. Those are the headlines on the
blog at mandy'sblog dot com. Big Tech Toe a winner
to the text through just hit up our Common Spirit
health text line at five sixty six nine out. No,

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A Rod's birthday does not move every year. Some years
it falls on Thanksgiving, some years it doesn't. But it's
always in the you know, general vicinity. So we have
some really, really really good videos. On the blog today.
But my do you ever see something on the internet
and then it makes you laugh for several days after

(05:41):
you see it. Well, I'm on Instagram the other day
and my friend Michelle sends me an Instagram post and
you're gonna have to go and you have to click
on the post. It doesn't show on our website, does Instagram?
Wont in bed like that? But I'm just gonna tell
you what it is. And it is a group of
penguins walking across some ice and you have to have

(06:03):
your volume up. You must have your volume up because
one of the penguins it falls down and then it
gets back up. But what happens in the interim while
that's happening, Well, you just have to read the caption
and you just have to Walt. I've literally been laughing
about this for like four or five days now, and
I thought I got to share this, even though want

(06:24):
in bed properly. And I'm making you do a little
bit of work by having to click through the Instagram thing.
I'm sorry about that. It's just the way Instagram doesn't
work with our system here. It is what it is.
Don't ask me to fix it. I barely can get
the blog up every day, but it just this. If
you want to window into the world of what my
sense of humor is about, just go look at that

(06:44):
today and the headline says, I've been laughing about this
for two days, but actually I went back it's five days,
four or five days, so, and you just want to
know what my brain looks like. That's it right there inside. Okay.
The special session wrapped up yesterday. Opping eleven bills were passed.
One bill was passed with bipartisan support, and that was

(07:07):
the bill that took a little over two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars I think two sixty five ish out
of the fund to introduce more wolves into Colorado so
they can continue murdering baby cows and ripping them to
shreds and leaving them dead. They move that into a
fund to help offset some of the premium increases for

(07:29):
the health insurance plans on the Western Slope. And before
you say to yourself, man, all those people on the
Western Slope they're rich that No, no, they're not. They're
really not. But their insurance is very expensive. Can we
just have a conversation for one second about insurance and
this isn't even on the blog, but this just made
me think about this. Everyone is talking about insurance affordability.

(07:51):
This is like a massive, massive crisis. But this is
exactly what Obamacare, or the ironically named Affordable Care Act,
was designed to do. And here's why. Back many many
years ago, I've talked about this. I actually was a
licensed insurance agent in Florida. I sold health insurance, both
Medicare supplements and individual health insurance plans. Now this was

(08:14):
before Obamacare, and I used to have a plan that
would cover people between the ages of eighteen and thirty
if you were in good health, you had no pre
existing conditions, as a vast majority of young people are.
It costs like ninety eight bucks a month, and it
got you to basically got you an annual full physical

(08:35):
for free. It got you one other visit with no charge,
and you paid like thirty dollars to go to the
doctor after that, and then you had your typical eighty
twenty copay kicks in after that, and it was like
ninety five dollars a month. And then I had family plans.
The expensive ones were like six hundred and fifty bucks

(08:56):
a month. Now did they cover everything? That is currently
mandate to be covered. Absolutely not, but you'd be surprised
how few people actually need gender surgery or how many
people are actually going to use IVF. And in insurance,
there are things that you can attach to any policy.
It's called a rider. You buy a plan. You do

(09:19):
this with car insurance. You can buy a rider for
a variety of things. You can buy a rider that
covers your the cost of replacement for your windshield, right,
you can add that to whatever the plan already covers.
So instead of just saying, look, we're going to give
you a basic plan that gets you a few doctors
visits a year, it's going to cover you eighty percent,
you pay twenty percent. Anything catastrophic over ten thousand dollars whatever,

(09:41):
that's what these plans used to be, and then saying,
you know what, you're of child bearing age, you're married,
if you're planning to have kids, buy a maternity rider
and it cost an extra you know, honestly, it was expensive.
It was like thirty bucks a month, because maternity care
can be very very expensive. But then you add it
on the things you might want, and it was an

(10:05):
extremely effective system. But there were people who were uninsured
because they couldn't afford the ninety five dollars a month.
So instead of looking at what you can do to
specifically help those people on the edge, they're not poor
enough for Medicaid, but for whatever reason they can't afford
to buy insurance and fix that problem, they created Obamacare,

(10:27):
whose sole purpose was only to make everything more expensive
and reduce options in choice by design. By the way,
remember they capped profits for insurance companies with Obamacare, so
you can't blame it on the insurance companies. Their profits
are capped by the government. But by mandating everything be

(10:47):
exactly the same, by mandating that they all cover everything
you could possibly think of, you've just made insurance prohibitively expensive.
So people will start to demand single payer, which has
always been the endgame. And for anyone who wants single payer,
I want to tell you the story of two gallbladders,
one of them you're very, very familiar with. So my

(11:09):
friend Michelle, part of the National Health System in Northern Ireland,
part of the vaunted NHS in Northern Ireland, started having pain,
significant pain, and went to her doctor. After about six
months of pain getting worse, finally went to her doctor
her doctor said, oh wow, your gallbladder is really inflamed.

(11:31):
We're going to get you an urgent referral to see
someone about this gallbladder situation. So she got an urgent
referral and that took four months for her to get
to the next doctor. And now in the meantime, if
you've ever had gallstones or a gall bladder attack, you
know it is devastatingly painful. There were many days she
could not get out of bed, it was so painful,

(11:51):
but she had to wait for her doctor's appointment. Finally
gets in to see that doctor, they do a sonogram.
Oh my gosh, your gall blader's a complete mess. Look
at this. You got to have that out. We're going
to give you an urgent referral. That was in the
beginning of December, and in February when she was completely
crippled by the pain, could not get out of bed,
and I said, this is stupid. How much does it

(12:13):
cost to get it done in a private hospital and
she said eight thousand dollars And we started to GoFundMe.
And thanks to many of you in this listening audience,
and a wonderful man who owns a bunch of Chick
fil As. She was able to get her gallbladder out
in like ten days. After that it was completely completely
gangrenous and rot it. It is a miracle she didn't

(12:34):
get sepsist waiting for that. By the way, the urgent
referral never came. And then I want to compare that
to another friend that I have who fairly recently started
having all these abdominal pains and one day they got
severe enough went to the er. They're like, oh my gosh,
look at your gallbladder. You're having your gall bladder out.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
You know how long?

Speaker 3 (12:50):
That took?

Speaker 5 (12:51):
Forty eight hours. So if you want the first system
that leaves you in pain and basically hopes you die,
that has councer can or outcomes that are far worse
than what you have in the United States that have
so few MRI machines that if you need an MRI
it could be six months before you get one. If
that's what you want, I mean, that's fine, but you

(13:14):
better fess up that you want free care that you
can't get access to because it takes so long, you
may die before you get an appointment. So this insurance
stuff could be solved very very easily and It could
be solved just like this. It could be solved by
repealing the parts of Obamacare that require every state to
offer the exact same coverage. Repeal all mandates, every single

(13:38):
one of them. Just peel them all back, and you
say to insurance companies, Okay, here's what we expect from you,
and this is going to be part of your regulatory structure.
Here are the basic things that must be covered. An
annual physical, two regular visits per year. There's got to
be in there after that. You guys decide, and then
let the market decide. Let people shop for what they want.

(14:01):
If you're eighteen years old and you are in perfect
physical health, guess what. You don't need a lot. You
could stand to have a high deductible because chances of
you actually having it are very very low. I mean,
there's just so much wrong with Obamacare. It's so much wrong,
and it is working exactly as it was planned to work.

(14:22):
And I told people this in two thousand and eight.
I was on the air in Kentucky and I'm like, you, guys,
there's not one. Because I read every single iteration of Obamacare,
every single one of those massive bills I read start
to finish. And you know what wasn't in any of
them any means to control the costs associated with healthcare.

(14:44):
There were no free market mechanisms that would encourage hospitals
or providers to be more competitive with their pricing. There
was nothing to keep in check the practice of charging
one insure far more than another insurer because their negotiators
aren't as good. The way that healthcare and healthcare billing
is delivered in this country is absurd. The problem is

(15:05):
in the healthcare system. The problem is how we pay
for it. There needs to be way, way, way more transparency.
You know what, it might be time for another visit
from the great folks from the Oklahoma City Surgical Center.
And I don't know if you've heard me talk about
the Oklahoma City Surgical Center. Why am I talking about that? Well,
it is a free market surgical center. You can go

(15:26):
to their website right now, use the Google go to
Oklahoma City Surgical Center and you could look for their
price list. You can see exactly what it costs for
you to cash pay for things like a hip replacement,
a knee replacement, all of that stuff. You can just
cash pay it there and you can see that their
prices are a fraction of what you're going to get
if you run through insurance to do any of those surgeries.

(15:50):
And the reason they do it is because they know
that they give great healthcare. But they're tired of the
nonsense and chakanery that goes on when it comes to
how we pay for our healthcare. It is ridiculous that
when you go to the doctor or hospital you have
no idea what you're doing. You have no clue how
much it costs. I mean, you just don't. I remember

(16:11):
sitting in my orthopedis office. This is before I had
all of my regenerative medicine with regen Revolution, and he said, well,
we're gonna get you an MRI. And I said, well,
how much is that gonna cost? And he said, well,
it depends on what kind of insurance you have. And
I said, no, what does an MRI cost? Like, what
does it cost my orthopedist He've been doing this for

(16:31):
a long time. He looked at me and said, I
have no idea. What other business in the world do
you have the salespeople out there saying, you know what,
We're just gonna go ahead and do this, Like, isn't
every medical appointment the assumed clothes, isn't it. Hey, you
know what, you're gonna need these tests, We're gonna go
ahead and do them. Well, how much are they gonna cost? No,
we're doing them. Okay, thanks, great doing business with you.

(16:54):
It's insane, absolutely insane. Okay, I just went on a tear.
Did not mean to go on, but I think it
was a good one, and I hope it was productive
because what we need to push for are real solutions.
When it comes to reinjecting the free market back into insurance.
The government should be involved in insurance only in the

(17:15):
sense that they should be regulating insurance companies in making
sure that they have enough money to pay the claims
that come in at any given time. Right, they should
be working to ensure that the insurance companies remain solvent
so they can pay off the promises that they've made
to their customers. But other than that, I should be able,

(17:36):
as a fifty six year old woman to say, you
know what, I don't need maternity care, I don't need
coverage for IVF, I am not changing my gender, and
I don't need alcohol or drug counseling. So let's just
drop all that from the insurance, shall we, But you
don't have that option because they're counting on you and
me to pay the freight for a lot of these

(17:57):
extremely expensive proceeds that focus on a very niche market.
And don't get me wrong, if you want to cover
gender affirming care or you want to cover IVF, then
you should be able to buy a rider to do it,
and the insurance company should be able to set the
rates for that rider. You know the notion that some

(18:19):
you know, it'd be like me saying I want my
insurance company to pay for plastic surgery just because I
want to feel better. I mean, if I were a
dude in Colorado, I could make that happen who wanted
a boob job, But not me as a woman, because
you know women were inferior and all that stuff. Well,
I mean just here in Colorado, not everywhere. It is
time to do what we do every Wednesday, would is
take your weather questions via the Common Spirit Health text

(18:41):
line at five six six nine zero with our favorite
meteorologist that my friends would be Dave Frasier from box
thirty one. How you doing, Dave?

Speaker 7 (18:49):
Still favorite after all these days?

Speaker 5 (18:51):
I'll take that, You know what I got to tell
you I was ready for a break in the weather though, Dave,
I mean it. It was just I'm kind of I
was done the heat. I'm not naive to think that
we're totally done with summer, but this has been a
nice break for me anyway. I've enjoyed the cloudy days.

Speaker 7 (19:09):
Yeah, and I think it was it was welcome there.
We had gone almost two weeks with ninety degree temperatures
and then we got the break starting over the weekend,
and of course the last few days in the seventies,
and that trend's going to continue. We might touch eighty
degrees one or two days going into the holiday weekend,
but right now our average is eighty six. We don't
even have an average temperature, so we're going to stay cool.

(19:29):
And there is a sober lining, as I always say,
And it has been the moisture yesterday or that rain
along the Northern Front Range and over the Eastern Plains
hit the censor at DIA record rain total for the
day yesterday on the twenty six. So that's the good news,
right is the break in the heat, but the moisture,
the higher humidity kind of reducing the fire risks. Maybe

(19:49):
helping the western slope a little bit with drought conditions.
This is not a drought busting rain for them. They
got a lot of work to do. But any moisture
is welcome, I agree.

Speaker 5 (19:58):
And how are things going? You know, we got the
big fire happening on the western slope. Are they getting
any of this rain? I know we're getting it on
the front range, But what's happening over there, and what
are the immediate weather impacts for that situation.

Speaker 7 (20:11):
They have been getting some, they haven't been getting a lot.
In other words, it's not anything at this point that's
going to squash the fire. Unfortunately, when you look at radar,
most of the better rain is focused towards the eastern
half of the state. We just have a little more
higher humidity here. We've got a nice east southeasterly wind
which is tapping into Gulf of Mexico moisture. There is

(20:33):
some monsoon moisture coming up and out of the south
and west. But as I look at the radar right now,
it's been the same for the last three days. There's
scattered showers over the west, but where the Lea fire
is closer to Meeker, they're getting some light showers, but
the heavier rain is just now building over the Continental
Divide west of Fort Collins, and then that's what will
spread over the east. So if we could flip it
and point it the opposite direction, I think it might

(20:54):
be more helpful. But they're getting some they're getting some relief. Listen,
even lower temperate, a lower cloud deck, and higher humidity
else in containing and fighting those fires.

Speaker 5 (21:05):
All right, that's good news, I guess. So what are
we what are I expecting? What are we coming up?
You know, I obviously I'm not asking for an exact forecast,
but what's your general thoughts about the next couple of weeks.

Speaker 7 (21:17):
So I looked as I always do, and the weather
pattern through our forecast for the next seven days does
include below normal temperatures and I don't have a dry
day in the forecast. Now I will underscore that Tomorrow
I think looks like today. I think Friday looks like
today with the timing and the chance for showers and thunderstorms.

(21:37):
We stay close to eighty degrees seventy nine to eighty degrees.

Speaker 9 (21:41):
Some of it could be.

Speaker 7 (21:42):
Heavy as they're kind of slow moving. Saturday I think
is very similar as well. May only be in the
mid seventies. So for the holiday weekend, Saturday is your
web day. Now, Sunday and Monday. Between you and me, Mandy,
I'm doing a CYA ten percent. I think both days
are actually okay, perfect. I don't think there's a lot.
I don't think there's a lot going on.

Speaker 5 (22:00):
I think the.

Speaker 7 (22:01):
Foothills could see a couple of showers. I think the
Palmer Divide south of Denver could, but I think the
vast majority of the front range in northeast Colorado may
get through Sunday Monday without seeing the storms, and that
should allow temperatures to get back into the low eighties,
and then the wet pattern comes back after that and
we get back into the upper seventies as we get

(22:21):
to Tuesday and Wednesday next week. Now, the long range
outlook for eight to fourteen days, which is the third
through the ninth of September, is cooler and wetter than normal,
So that would tell you the wet pattern that I'm
talking about is coming back. However, in contrast, the one
month outlook for all of September is warm and drier
than normal, So that would tell me that the second

(22:44):
half of September might be a little warmer and drier
than the start of the month, right, equalize things below.

Speaker 5 (22:49):
That's why I'm not getting excited about this nice cold break,
because I know they're going to have another couple of
weeks before I can put all my winter clothes away.
Here's the question for you, what is and causes a
haboob storm that's appearing in Arizona. I spoke with my
niece in Phoenix and they ran a power off and
on for like thirty six hours because of the hoboob yep.

Speaker 7 (23:10):
So it's the same thing we see here. You basically
have these powering thunderstorms in a line, and the thunderstorms
are collapsing because of the dry climate, and that collapsing
causes an outflow. We talk about that here all the time,
a gush of wind, but it is so powerful, it
is so linear, and because it's the desert and you

(23:30):
have all this dust on the ground, right, you don't
have grassy vegetation like we do here. You basically that
out dusty outflow boundary from the collapsing thunderstorms is just
like this giant, roaring wind that's picking up all this
dust and you get this huge rolling dust cloud, which
can be nasty. Visibility drops. You know, it gets into

(23:51):
your carser systems. It gets into eighteen units if your
windows are open, God bless you. You got a mess. Yeah,
So that's what they call the same thing.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
We get them here.

Speaker 7 (24:02):
We just don't get that dry component and the dusty component.
We just get the blast of wind sometimes and sometimes
we do get them. We've seen them and track them
on satellite in southeast Colorado where it's a little dryer
and there's a little more dust to kick up.

Speaker 5 (24:14):
This texter, said Mandy. Denver is getting Seattle weather? Why
is Seattle getting Denver weather? How we flipped? I'm not
paying attention to what's going on in Seattle. What's happening there,
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (24:24):
I am not paying attention to it either. So I'll
take the Texters that they're probably warm and dry. You know,
we have a persistent flow up and out of the
south and west. It's the monsoon flow. We're tapping in
the moisture from the gulf. So we've got all this
moisture feeding in, and we've got what we call troughs,
little debted waves, little stretched out areas of low pressure
instead of being a center of circulation that's a little

(24:45):
more elongated, and they're coming up and over the mountains
almost on a daily routine, and that's helping to lift
the moisture and get the showers and thunderstorms going. Most
of it has been showers, as you've seen, because once
the storms come off the mountains, they come down to
this cool, calmer environment. Our humidity levels are due points,
which we talk about all the time, due points. Our
due points are running in the upper fifties. So by

(25:05):
Colorado standards, this has been human it's been soupy.

Speaker 5 (25:09):
Yeah, supy.

Speaker 7 (25:10):
You step out of the shower here, normally you expect
to dry off quickly. You've done that the last few days.
You know, you step out and you're like, I'm sweating, Like,
what's going on? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (25:18):
This Texter said Mandy, We're starting to grow web feet
out here in Lineman. It's glorious. So not everybody's upset
about that. And lastly, I think it's very important that
we give the win Yogi credit for willing this weather
into existence. She wore her fall clothes last week when
she was on the show and said she was going
to personally will some fall weather our way. So well done.
Now let me ask you the question. Oh go ahead.

Speaker 7 (25:42):
I was gonna say that's great, and if that worked
for her, great, But if she starts telling you she's
wearing winter clothing, everybody prepared.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
There you go.

Speaker 5 (25:50):
Dave Fraser, Fox thirty one's chief meteorologists, I appreciate. Oh
real quick, this wait, one more question just popped up.
Can you ask Dave where precisely at the Denver Airport
or is the temperature sensor Is it like the one
in Arizona, which is the runway wins of the right
direction the jet exhaust actually elevates the temperatures that from Illinois.

(26:10):
Farm boy.

Speaker 7 (26:12):
You know, those are things that have they've discussed. I
won't get into the details of it. You can actually google.
I actually did a segment on this talking about where
it is and what the SA right looks like in
the whole nine yards, and you can google it. It
will give you the latitude, longitude and you can actually
zoom right down. It is east of the airport and
east of the utility road in an open field and

(26:33):
you can find it. So I would suggest that that
listener just go ahead and do that, because for me,
to try and give you a specific location. It's easy
to find.

Speaker 10 (26:40):
You'll see.

Speaker 7 (26:41):
It's with a group of other sensors out there. Right.

Speaker 5 (26:43):
Oh, that's good news. Thank you, Dave Frasier.

Speaker 7 (26:47):
Hey, have a great Labor Day weekend.

Speaker 5 (26:49):
Talk to you so you too, Man, you too. We
will be right back. Story from the Denver Gazette. This
one is just chef's kiss. The population of immigrants illegally
staying in America rose by more than forty thousand in
just two years in Colorado. In twenty twenty one, this

(27:09):
population of people will just call them illegal immigrants in
Colorado was estimated to be one hundred and sixty thousand.
Just two years later, that figure had ballooned to more
than two hundred thousand. Now we all know where the
immigrants came from. They were welcomed with open arms and
checks and computers and cell phones and apartments by Mayor

(27:32):
Mike Johnston because he wanted to show the world we
were a welcoming city. Now we didn't keep them all
here because we're not that welcoming. I mean, we're like, hey, welcome,
put your feet up for a while, and then keep
on going. So this is what I want to bring
your attention from this article. The spokesperson for Denver Mayor

(27:56):
Mike Johnston. He says Hugh's estimate, which she is forty
three thousand, would have captured most of the influx. And
then they continue and this is where it gets good.
While city officials recorded the number of people who sought services,
primarily temporary shelter and transportation, they did not track who stayed. Bus,

(28:18):
plane and train tickets for immigrants to travel elsewhere. Suggests
that about half stayed. That's roughly twenty thousand illegal immigrants,
or adding a city the size of Golden in less
than eighteen months. Now here's where it gets even better.
Mister Ewing, the spokesperson for Mayor Mike Johnston, says, I

(28:38):
think the number today would be different, it'd be lower.
Does it strike anybody Else's odd that no one would say,
you know, maybe we should keep track of these folks,
find out what, you know, what's happening to them? Where
are they living, are they working? Are how are they
how are they working? How are they living?

Speaker 10 (29:01):
How is that?

Speaker 5 (29:01):
How's that going? So we're just just no follow up,
I mean just and we now know at least some
of the people that have come here illegally, especially some
of the people from Venezuela, that some of them are
gang members, some of them have wrought havoc in parts
of our communities. We already know this to be true.

(29:23):
And yet, you know what, if we've kept track, it'd
probably be lower. But we didn't really get track. I mean,
you know, we're welcoming. We're not following, we're not continuing,
We're just welcoming. That's how you Colorado. This is just
this is going to be one of those things that

(29:45):
is going to take so long to unwind. It's just
going to take such a long time just to just
work all this backwards. It was so overwhelming, it was
such a shock. Un a maneuver by the Biden administration
to just end the charade that anybody was the border
and just let everybody from around the world walk across.
It's going to take years to undo. And unfortunately, the

(30:08):
blunt force that we're seeing now in terms of how
aggressibly the Trump administration is taking care of it, I
don't think that stops anytime soon. So, you know, but yeah,
we have no clue. We gave them stuff. You know,
I don't think anybody's actually answered this. But I'd like
to know where are the people that have now been

(30:30):
charged with crimes based on the apartment complex and Aurora
that was taken over by what we believe to be
trendy Iragua. At least a couple confirmed members of trendy
Aragua were part of that. Were they initially placed in
that apartment complex by an NGO paid by the Johnston administration.
I'd really like to know that. And don't get me wrong,

(30:52):
I think the landlord's I think there's enough evidence now
to say for sure that they were definitely slumlord type people.
But if I'm them, I'm going to find that out.
I'm going to find out how the people ended up
in that apartment complex in the first place, and if
it was the administration of Mayor Mike Johnston, I'm suing them.

(31:15):
But has anybody asked that question? If we got in
the answer, how did these people get to that apartment
complex in the first place? That's what I'd like to know,
And I don't think that question has been asked or
answered yet now when we get back, so try to
say the nicest way to say this. There was a

(31:37):
big presentation at the Denver City Council yesterday last night,
and it was by the folks from Host. They're the
organization that kind of oversees the homeless hotels and all
of the other response things that the Johnston administration is
spearheaded to get people off the streets so they can
just be warehoused in giant homeless hotels full of addicts
and mentally ill people. And they showed up last night

(32:00):
at the Denver City Council meeting to talk about how
successful this program has been. And then someone well, they
asked him a question, and that question was how much
does any of this cost? Yeah, as you can imagine,
there weren't enough answers to those questions. And what's funny
about this, and I don't mean funny, ha ha, I
just me funny, is that now the City of Denver

(32:22):
says when they bid out the management of the homeless hotels,
they're no longer going to do a flat fee for services.
They're going to do results based. We're gonna explain it all. Connor,
Steve's gonna pop in. He watched the city council meeting yesterday.
We'll talk about it next.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
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Speaker 5 (33:00):
Connell sad Babe, Welcome Balla, Welcome to the second hour
of the show. I'm your host, Mandy Connell. And that
guy over there, that's Anthony Rodriguez willing fall into existence
in a hoodie. You can call him a rod joining
me in the studio right now, a man. We just
pulled back from an area without an international airport. Connor's

(33:23):
three back in the KA newsroom after a stint in
the Durango market. We're happy to have you back. Connor.

Speaker 11 (33:28):
First of all, not just without an international airport, like
three hundred and thirty miles from the nearest Reel international airport.

Speaker 5 (33:36):
So I was just saying to Connor, I'm like, gosh,
I love Durango, but it is so inconvenient to get there.
There's just no fast way to make that happen. And
that's probably why it's still special, I think so.

Speaker 10 (33:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (33:48):
I spent a time in my childhood living in Crest
Debute before it had become ruined, and I think the
paving of Cottonwood Pass and just everybody finding out about it.

Speaker 5 (33:57):
You can't say that about Crested Beauty. No, no, you can't.
You cannot. So, because Connor is sort of the new
guy in the newsroom, we gave him the worst job
of having to watch the city council meeting. And I
bring this up because if you've been following along as
since Mayor Mike Johnston was sworn into office and began
executing his plan. And one thing I will always give

(34:18):
the mayor credit for is he has stuck to what
he campaigned on. As bad a plan as it was
when he campaigned on it, he has continued to execute
the bad plan much like you said he was going
to in the you know, in the campaign. So I
credit him for keeping a bad campaign promise. But here
we are. We're now two and a half years into

(34:39):
this situation. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent,
and I feel like every time people from hosts or
the you know, what is it? What is it now
Denver's Way Home? What is it called now all in
the mile mile high? Yeah? Whatever?

Speaker 11 (34:56):
Okaychase, I believe came out of a thousand yeah, which
was in twenty twenty three. But every time they come
to the City Council meeting. Someone on the City Council.

Speaker 5 (35:07):
Has the unbridled nerve to ask a question like, well,
how much does this cost? And Connor, my hand to God.
Every single time they're surprised that someone is asking this,
they're like what, I'm sorry, what you're breaking up?

Speaker 4 (35:23):
I get what?

Speaker 5 (35:25):
And they did it again yesterday. So tell me about
what was being presented yesterday in the meeting. First of all,
let's start there.

Speaker 11 (35:30):
Yeah, this was a standard quarterly update being presented to
the city Council from all in Mile High or really
the Mayor's Homelessness appointee Cole Chandler, who did present a
lot of positives like this, This program has reduced homelessness
really amongst some of the top cities in the country.

(35:52):
And I do want to point out that the city
council members who just continue to plead for the budget
numbers did recognize that they did.

Speaker 5 (36:00):
We think you're doing a good job.

Speaker 11 (36:01):
But to your point about needing the numbers, and the
other smaller issue would be too that sometimes they present
not exactly in apples to apples comparison, right, Like they'll say,
in twenty twenty three, we had this percentage of Denver's
homeless enroll in this program, and then they'll say in
twenty twenty four, this many people enrolled in.

Speaker 5 (36:19):
It's like, how do you get their contextual? I mean,
and we know there's a reason because you can do
pretty much anything with statistics in how you present them.
You can create a narrative with statistics depending on how
you choose to lay it out. And that's what they
were doing.

Speaker 11 (36:34):
And the reason these council members are sort of desperate
to get these numbers is because we're coming down to
the wire in terms of approving Denvers twenty twenty six budget.
I mean, just to give you some dates here, they're
going to be looking at approving contracts for this all
in mile high program. You know, they're going to be
looking at funding allocations on October fourteenth, where to put

(36:57):
housing Central Command on October twenty eight, and how much
to allocate towards their sort of street outreach in November,
and they're looking they're going to start their budget hearings
on September twenty second, and those will last a week.
And obviously the budget has been kind of discussed since
the early part of the year, but that's really when
it comes down to it, and Connor, here's.

Speaker 5 (37:18):
My issue, and this is the ongoing issue that I've
had over this process, and that is every time someone
says there's not a dollar sign on this spreadsheet, the
people from hosts are like, oh my gosh, Like no
one's asked us that before, Like, oh my god, that
never and yet every single meeting someone has asked them
for this before. So the frustration that I have is

(37:38):
that everyone is asking them And how are you supposed
to determine whether or not the ROI on a program
is actually worth the price tag if no one can
tell you the price tag.

Speaker 11 (37:49):
Yeah, that's really what Amanda Sawyer said yesterday when she
sort of criticized Chandler for giving them none of the
meat and potatoes and sort of all, yeah, there.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
Are zero pieces of information on the fly deck that
tell us anything about.

Speaker 5 (38:08):
The cost of this that I mean, that's kind of it,
isn't it. Yeah, did they talk yesterday? And I don't
know if you heard this part or if you're familiar
with this story, but I have a story today on
the blog about the Denver City Council deciding to go
from a flat fee based payment system to whoever the

(38:28):
next operator of the homeless hotels is going to be
they have to rebid those contracts. The Salvation Army has
come in and said, we're sorry, we're now dipping into
our own reserves to pay for this, and we can't
do this anymore. And the city, in their genius moment,
decided to try something completely new, which is to pay
based on a performance based model, which means that they're

(38:50):
going to have so called metrics that include things like
our beds filled tonight in the homeless hotel. How many
people have had case management, you know, touches or whatever,
And yet it doesn't seem like they have any of
that accountability for themselves. Like essentially, if the city council
said to host, we're gonna pay you on a per
service event, these presentations would be much different. And my

(39:14):
question is is anybody even going to bid these contracts
because if I'm a provider, that sucks.

Speaker 11 (39:21):
I didn't catch any of that conversation. Ah, you were
right about me drawing the short end of the straw
like that was. Yeah, that was a lot of counsel
before there were any firewas.

Speaker 5 (39:30):
As a matter of fact, your next task, you're gonna
have to watch the entire two hour podcast with Travis
Kelcey and Taylor Swift and it in depth deep dive.
Now they're engaged. You don't know what's in there, little
easter eggs. Maybe in there. We're gonna need you to
do a deep dive on that, Connor. I hadn't heard
that now.

Speaker 11 (39:45):
But one thing I want to point out Mandy is
I quoted Amanda Sawyer right, and she's been vocal. I
shouldn't say against this committee because again, she did praise
the work they had been doing yesterday. But it would
be easy to say, oh, there's this one outlier criticizing
them or ask them for numbers. But you know, I
wrote their names down as they followed Sawyer's comments, and
they were really reiterated by Diana Romero Campbell, the president

(40:08):
of the City Council, Amanda Sandoval, and Sarah Paraday. So
it's not like it's just a one off council member
asking for these numbers.

Speaker 5 (40:16):
Here's the thing. You can ask how much something cost
and still fundamentally support the program, right. I, on the
other hand, would say, you better show me how this
is a justifiable expense, because the what does the budget
shortfall I think is two hundred and fifty million dollars
this year that they have to fill. And this is
when they need to be doing a deep dive on

(40:36):
how whether or not these programs work at a level
that is worth this kind of investment. You know the
old adage like if it saves one shot, No, no,
it's if it's a billion dollars that I have to pay. Sorry, kid,
you know you're you're gone. And I don't mean to
be heartless, but there may be a more efficient way
to do this too, and we can't fix it. There's

(40:58):
an old saying you can't manage what you don't measure.
So how are we supposed to manage this? How is
the city council supposed to manage this? And I'm I'm
glad they're pushing back for accountability. That's their point.

Speaker 11 (41:08):
And one of the lines that really struck hard yesterday
was miss Sawyer saying, we're about to come up on
some hard budget talks.

Speaker 5 (41:17):
Yep, yep, yeah. Do you cover national news now or
is that only when Democrats are president?

Speaker 3 (41:26):
Texter.

Speaker 5 (41:27):
Let me just say this, if you don't listen to
the show every day, you will miss the days that
almost everything is national stories. But frankly, I'm a local
talk show host in Colorado, and I don't know if
you've looked around or just listened to the conversation I
had with Connor Shreeve. We are a target rich environment.
Right now, you're done, Connor, thank you so much for
coming in. Connor's Like, can I go? I got stuff

(41:48):
to do. Man, And for the record, Connor does not
have a pumpkin spice latte. He has a man's coffee
in his coffee cup. Today I did, and long sleeves,
I did ask him what was in his coffee cup
up there? We talked. You know, let me just say
this about my show. I talk about national issues when

(42:08):
they're worthy of talking about. We've talked a lot about
a lot of stuff in the Trump administration, but I
hate to say it. You know, you can listen to
a lot of people talking a lot of stuff about
the national news, but there are very few people left
in Colorado that are talking about the issues facing people
in Colorado from a right of center perspective. And I

(42:29):
think that's my job here, that's my role here. I
enjoy it. This state is important to me. This city
of Denver is important to me, even though I don't
even live there. I moved here because I loved this
state and the things that I've seen happen are just terrible,
and a vast majority of them are easily fixable, easily
avoidable by rolling back the overreach that we have experienced

(42:50):
from government. I have a story today on the blog
about Aurori City Council. I mean, just careen in an
almost totally different direction, but it just go with me
on this. So I have a story on today's blog
about the Aurora City Council talking about boards and commissions
and looking to see whether or not, you know, certain
boards and commissions need to exist anymore, and I, well, oh,

(43:15):
here we go, finally found it. So in Aurora, there's
a thing called the Human Relations Committee. Okay, the Human
Relations Committee. This is so ridiculous. It is not a
function of government at all, not even a little bit.
And I'm waiting for this to load because the way

(43:35):
that Denver Gazette loads is kind of a pain. But
I'm waiting sitting here right now. So the Human Relations Committee,
their job, according to the website, is to quote promote
a mutual understanding and respect among people and disseminate information
and educational materials to eliminate prejudice, promote human relations, and

(43:56):
investigate complaints of this nature. Now, if this was a
organization or a nonprofit and wanted to tackle this, I
would say that's fantastic. That's lovely that you're trying to elevate,
you know, the community and make people get along better.
I think that's fantastic. That is not a function of government.
So I talk about stuff like that because when you
start to realize that this committee is not a function

(44:18):
of government, even though it's well intentioned and it sounds
like it has a nice vibe, how is there How
do you make that department accountable to anyone? What are
the metrics that you're going to use to measure its success?
It's a committee of a commission of blah blah blah it.
You know, maybe they did one thing, or two things,
or even ten things that were great. Still not a

(44:40):
function of government. So by telling you about stuff on
the local levels that matters like that, then you can
start to say, wait a minute. When you hear the
federal government doing something they should not do, you can
start to say, wow, that shouldn't be a function of government.
It's all connected. So and like I said, there's so
much stuff going on in Colorado that other talk show

(45:02):
hosts in other states are like, Oh, I can't believe
you get to live there and talk about all this nonsense.
It's just insane. And everything I talk about on the
show that's local, every single thing on this show that's local,
is going to have a greater immediate impact on your
life than anything that Donald Trump does in DC. I

(45:24):
mean for real, unless, of course, you're a legal immigrant,
in which case the Trump thing is a much bigger deal.
Mandy says this text or I love the fact you
talk about the lunacy that is Colorado government. Yes, it
is lunacy. Oh, by the way, I want your opinion
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(45:45):
on one second, let me just double check, let me
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(46:07):
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I use it. I absolutely love it. So if you've
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(46:28):
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(46:50):
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have to do this, by the way, I feel like
I need to explain this because people are like, oh,
I don't like the pictures I do.

Speaker 10 (47:04):
I don't.

Speaker 5 (47:04):
Whatever the reality is is that if you do not
have a picture that goes along with your post on
either X or Facebook, they just don't show it to anyone.
And I can't use the pictures for my blog because
that's between that's a contract between Getty Images and iHeart Media,
not me and my social media. See what I'm saying.
There's like a whole bunch of rules there. But I'm

(47:27):
gonna tell you, I'm having a blast doing this, and
the pictures obviously have something to do with the blog, right,
I mean, am I just impressed with my own cleverness?
I guess I just want to know five six six
nine O text me or go do I'll do a
little poll on my Facebook page. Mandy. I agree, keep
talking local politics. Unfortunately, not enough of us are getting squeezed.

(47:49):
We are getting squeezed by state policies, i e. Energy
taxes and fees. Correct, Mandy, I'm losing my job tomorrow
courtesy of Trump's tariff policy. I don't care what Denver does.
You are the exception texture and I'm sorry about that,
and I hope you find something bigger and better right
around the corner, Mandy. Boards and Commissions I'm bored and
commiserate bo r ed. If the massive spending in Denver

(48:15):
doesn't increase or goes away, will the homeless is come back?
And will it come back even worse? Ask this text,
And that's the question that I think some on the
city Council are trying to get to, not how much
even at this point, you need to know how much
you've spent, you need to know where it went, and
you need to know about the efficacy of the programs
that you have decided to lean in on. Those are

(48:36):
the three things that the Denver City Council needs to
know because the reality is, you guys, if the programs
are not helping people move towards independent living or if
they are incapable of independent living, and some people, you guys,
are incapable of independent living at this stage, or maybe

(48:56):
ever some people have damaged their brains significantly through abusing
a drugs or alcohol and they are not going to
be able to be self sufficient, you know, independent living people.
We have to figure out what we're going to do there.
There's a lot of questions that have to be answered,

(49:16):
but until they focus on sobriety and mental health treatment
and accountability, I think that there's going to be a
lot more people falling through the cracks than, you know,
successfully moving on and having a great life again. Mandy
once again X led the way on the church shooting today. Yeah,
the church shooting, by the way in Minneapolis. Terrible situation.

(49:39):
And many are pointing out that this is another transshooter.
And I just want to say this, I this is
a You're about to get way too much information people.
I just want to let you know so we all
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a half weeks ago, now three and a half weeks ago,
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(50:00):
you into this hormonal situation that is like uncharted territory,
was not ready for that at all. That it hasn't
been horrible. And there have been times when I look
at Chuck and say I am incredibly cranky right now,
and he goes, Okay, go about your business. I won't
make eye contact because I am married to an amazing husband.
But I can only imagine what it must be like

(50:21):
to be on cross sex hormones when you are a
dude on female hormones, Like I can't even imagine what
that does to you mentally. I just I can't even imagine.
It's just mind blowing. Hormones are so incredibly important for

(50:42):
just so many things. And when we started thinking we
could play god and we can just, you know, change
people's hormonal structure, it doesn't work like that. And maybe
it helps some people feel better, but you have to wonder, like,
I just think to myself, when you see these people
that are clearly hatched from reality, shrieking at someone who

(51:03):
called them a man, when they have a full beard
right and they're screaming that they're a woman, you have
to think, like, how much of that is just craziness
because they're messing with their hormones. I don't know. I
have my theory about why people get divorced when women
are in their fifties is getting stronger by the day,
and I think part of it is because menopause just

(51:24):
is a whole. Nobody tells you, you, guys, Nobody tells
you and men all those things that women have been
holding back on, well they're not holding back anymore. I
think that's why Mandy, you're assuming that they want to
fix the problems. Dams usually want the problem to increase
to add to their programs. You know what, I'm just

(51:45):
gonna say this in defense. I have a lot of
friends who are Democrats, and I know people who work
in democratic politics, and there's a lot of people working
in democratic politics that really truly believe that their friends
have an answer to the problem. And once they've just
decided what they're going to do, and they've set up
this network of people they know who are going to

(52:05):
solve the problem, it gets really hard to claw that
money back. But I don't think they want people to suffer.
I just think they're not willing to look at what
they're doing and say, Wow, this isn't working at all.
You know, we're just warehousing drug addicted and mentally ill people.
Is that really what we're trying to do? Is that
really what we just spent what up two hundred million
dollars on? Warehousing mentally ill and drug addicted people, little

(52:28):
kids falling out of homeless hotels. Is that what we're
spending money on. They're afraid to just go, wow, we
made a mistake and course correct. And by the way,
that's not just Democrats. Republicans will continue to pursue the
same dumbass solutions on occasion as well. So it's people
get married to what they know, people start profiting from

(52:50):
what they know, and it gets really hard to unring
that bell.

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All right, I am back, Sorry about that. I'm answering
now a bunch of text messages about menopause. Somebody actually
said you should do a whole show on menopause for
dummy men. No, no, but I will say this, you guys,
I have never experienced anything like this. I'm not a
big crier. I've never been a big crier. I really
am not. You can ask my husband when I was

(01:01:51):
pregnant with my daughter. The other time in my life
when hormones are just like what is happening right now
and I watch commercial on TV in my house, was like, really, no,
I don't want to cry. I don't want to cry.
Yesterday got some news yesterday that's not horrible by any
stretch of the imagination. It was business related news, and

(01:02:12):
I found myself sitting in my car crying, and I thought, Okay,
this is definitely hormonal, but it's hard to tell because
you just feel like you're going crazy, right you just
talk about And I also have a very even killed temper,
I really do. I'm not a person who like freaks
out on people. I generally, I mean I have. I'm
not gonna say i've never done it, but generally speaking.

(01:02:34):
And man, I'm in traffic the other day and this
woman just hit her breaks a little quick and I
wasn't super close behind her, but I had to tap
my brakes a little harder than I and I went
from zero to one hundred and I called that lady
everything that a trial to God, before I went, what
are you doing? What is happening? So guys, if you
think your wife is going crazy, why don't you say

(01:02:58):
hey babe and do it in a when you're standing
holding ice cream? Hey babe, I notice that you know
you haven't really been yourself lately. I mean, is it
me that's the problem, where maybe we should get your
hormones checked and then run away. Okay, just run away,
throw the ice cream out and just run away and
let her think it over. I am now recommending my

(01:03:18):
friends who are forty to start checking their hormones and
stay on top of it with hormone replacement. And I'm
going tomorrow to Reja in Revolution. They got my blood
work back. I talked to Roslyn today, Gonna go get
my hormone pellets and hopefully that's gonna even me out again. Man,
but menopause happens to every woman, right. It either happens
naturally over a period of time, or if a woman

(01:03:40):
has to have a hys direct to me, then it
happens immediately. And we're all gonna go through it. And dudes,
if you love women, at some point, you're probably gonna
be with a woman who goes through this. So it
would behoove you and your relationships to understand the process
a little bit better. I do think that now, like
this moment in time, lots of women are talking about menopause.

(01:04:01):
When my mom was going through it, nobody was talking
about this stuff. Nobody was, so it is it's different,
and you start to realize that other people are going
through the same thing you're going through, and you're talking
to your female friends about what that means and how
you're dealing with it, and there's all these different options
and everything. So it's it's just an interesting time to
be alive. Just was not ready for that. Guys, is

(01:04:22):
there anything that you've experienced in aging that you were like, Wow,
that would have been nice to know somebody included me
in on that. I mean, I'm just curious about normal
things about aging that you were not ready for. Let's
just normalize talking about the weird things about aging. Let's
do that. On The Mandy Connell Show five six six nine,

(01:04:43):
O is the way to text? This textor said, menopause
really kicked my butt after my hysterectomy. The patch and
cream helped a lot.

Speaker 17 (01:04:51):
I was a mess.

Speaker 5 (01:04:52):
I do the pellet hormone replacement where they actually take
this little teeny tiny pellet in the inserting into one
of your butt cheeks, the fat in your butt cheeks,
and that works like a a just a super champ.

Speaker 3 (01:05:09):
Mandy.

Speaker 5 (01:05:09):
I think it's funny that women can women'splain why we
can't be around them. But God forbid a man try
and blame hormones for anything. It's in the delivery, sir,
which is why I said ice cream in one hand,
perhaps a bottle of wine. I don't know what your
situation is, Mention it and then run away. I'm not
trying a woman's plain. I'm trying to save you, sir.

(01:05:30):
I'm trying to save you from possible death and dismemberment.
You're welcome, Mandy. I hope the bad business news isn't
the cancelation of the Connell show. No, absolutely not now.

Speaker 12 (01:05:42):
No.

Speaker 5 (01:05:43):
When I say it was bad news, it was bad news.
But it's the kind of bad news that happens in
this business with some regularity. You know, you get used
to it. But in any case, I think it's funny. Wait,
we'll probably never know how long the shooter was on hormones,
but messing with God's work never works out. We're talking
about the shoe in Minneapolis, and it appears that a

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young trans woman used to be Robert then became Robin. Also,
this person is left like a manifesto. They left an
unconfirmed video, although it does appear to be the same person.
That's eleven minutes long, showing all kinds of things, And
when you look at the clip, it has two mentions

(01:06:27):
of President Trump, one written on a magazine that said
kill Donald Trump. The other written on his rifle said
kill Trump. Now, both messages were relatively small compared to
some of the other things. He wrote, Where's Your God?
Written on another magazine, why so Querious, which is apparently
a reference to a piece of music. There are also

(01:06:49):
references to Israel, including a smoke bomb, on which he
wrote extra thick jew gas, also burne Israel on his rifle,
and six million wasn't enough on a holster. Now, it's
gonna be hard to blame this on right wing terrorists,
especially because he attacked a Catholic school. I would fully

(01:07:12):
expect anything you want to know about this particular incident
you're gonna need to learn today, because by tomorrow it
will be gone. Just there will be no more mention
of it that will act like it never happened. Just nope,
nothing to see, nothing to see at all. Now, I've
got a couple of things on the blog today, but
I want to talk about this for just a minute.
Before we got to break here because I think this

(01:07:34):
is so interesting and it's one of those stories that
if you are familiar with the Cu Buffalo's or you
go to Buffs games and you see Ralphie the Bison
run out onto the field and it's really impressive. Well,
our latest Ralphie, Ralphie six, is retiring, and Ralphie is
actually a girl like I don't I don't know why

(01:07:55):
they couldn't just let it be a girl name, but
Ralphie's a girl named Ember. And Ember has been Ralphie
for several years now. She started out when she was
about fifteen months old, and Connor Treeve, our own Connor
Shreeve went and found her opening salvo as Ralphie the
Buffalo and then her final salvo as Ralphie the Buffalo.

(01:08:17):
And now Ember is going to go to a ranch
somewhere and spend the rest of her life just eating
grass and doing buffalo stuff, whatever that is. And now
we've got a new Ralphie in training, and.

Speaker 3 (01:08:29):
It's so cute.

Speaker 5 (01:08:31):
So Ralphie seven is being trained right now, and I
guess they have to start them when they're relatively young.
That way, they're still sort of manageable. You know, they
can kind of train him on what to do and
then hope that as they get bigger, they don't end
up dragging the handlers across the field. But I think
that's gonna be. There's gonna be games this year that
don't have a Ralfie, is what I'm getting at. And

(01:08:52):
I'm wondering, like, for buff fans, how big deal is that?
Because one of my favorite things as a Florida State
fan is the entire pregame tradition of Chief Osciola riding
out on the field onto the horse with the flaming
spear and then they throw the spear into the center
right on the big seminal head and it's awesome. It's

(01:09:14):
so good, and I kind of feel like Ralphie has
that impact. So is it gonna be the same until
they get the new Ralfie trained up? And obviously they
have to put safety first and make sure that you know,
this fifteen month old bison isn't going to go rogue
and run over a bunch of cheerleaders or something. But
how big a deal is that with Ralphie kind of out. Mandy,

(01:09:35):
my daughter, is part of the CU marching band, was
devastated that they were retiring Ember. I'm guessing, and I'm
just speculating. I don't have any kind of dirt on Ember,
but I'm guessing that perhaps Ember has gotten a little
bit bigger, a little bit harder to kind of, you know,
keep under control. And maybe Ember's been plotting her escape

(01:09:59):
out that she's just gonna run right out the tunnel,
right out the gates one day. Oh to the Texter.
Ralphie needs to become a Burger. Stub it stub it
right now now. Don't get me wrong. I love a
good Weisenberger, but not Ralphie. That's awful. Mandy. The left
is going to blame the attack on Trump and his policies.

(01:10:19):
Of course, I'm sure Mandy. I worked in radio engineering.
I was like, ah, Mandy lost a sponsor because I
remember personalities taking it personal in them crying too. Some
of them hurt worse than others. Let me just say
that some of them don't hurt at all some of them.
Sometimes things just don't work out right, no harm, no foul.

(01:10:41):
Sometimes things just don't work some of them. Yeah, yep,
that's right, Mandy. We in the public never seen the
manifesto you can. It's on hot air. I'll have it
on the blog tomorrow. I just saw it before the break.
We'll be right back anyway. Oh wait man, And this
text is asking, then run away. Are we supposed to

(01:11:04):
keep holding onto the stuff or drop it? You throw
the ice cream at your wife and then ask about hormones.
I'm just trying to help Ember as Ralphie getting some
shade on the text line. Listen to this this from Dan.
Ember was just not into it. She would sort of
walk out the corral, maybe trot to the thirty or
forty line, and then saunter to the trailer. She did

(01:11:25):
not inspire and strike fear us fans are embarrassed. That's one.
This texter says, losing Ralphie is huge. By the way,
in case you just joined us, it's not that they're
getting rid of Ralphie the buffalo at CU Games, it's
that they're training a new one and Ember is officially retiring. Okay,

(01:11:45):
this texter said, losing Ralphie is huge. Ember never wanted
to run, and they use females for Ralphie because males
get too big, too fast, and too mean. Yeah, that
is the thing. Anyway. The comments from you guys about
your wives in menopause. I'm just not gonna read them

(01:12:05):
because if your wife is listening, she knows where you sleep. Okay,
so again you're welcome. Just letting you know, Mandy, American
bison herds are led by female cows. I mean, otherwise
it would just be a bunch of boys fighting. I've
ever seen buffalo fight like during mating season when two males, Uh,

(01:12:30):
I don't think so. It is like it's like two
hams slamming together. Just bam. I've never seen it in
real life, but I watch a lot of nature documentary,
so I've seen that. Mandy. I just hand my wife
a cape and now say, now you're super mad. Yeah,
I'm just sir or madam. It's been nice knowing you anyway.

(01:12:52):
Got a lot of stuff on the blog today. Good
news Cracker Marrel fans like me. Uncle Herschel is back
in the logo.

Speaker 3 (01:13:00):
Yes.

Speaker 5 (01:13:01):
After the backlash heard round social media, Cracker Barrel has
caved and said they are not changing the logo and
taking Uncle Herschel out of it. No word on if
they've been able to cancel the sign order. And it's
going to be interesting to see what the new remodels
look like after they have made everything so homogeneous. In
every cracker barrel, no cracker barel in its own way,

(01:13:23):
they were all exactly the same.

Speaker 10 (01:13:24):
Right.

Speaker 5 (01:13:25):
You got the fun country store with all the old
fashioned candy. Have you ever bought anything out of the
cracker barrel store? You've never been to a cracker barrel,
had seen it? Okay, so cracker bail is a part
of my life. I can't even I bought clothing out
of a cracker barrel old country store. I'm not even kidding.
Really cute shirt that I had for years and loved.
Then you go into the restaurant. You got the big
fireplace where there's always a fire, which is weird if

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you're in the South because you're like, it's not even
cold outside. But then you have the you know, checkerboard
in front, a couple of rocking chairs, and you got
all the memorabilia all the way around the stores. And
that's where even though it's the same, it's all different,
and they tried to make it all the same. Mandy,
what was that buffalo song y'all just played? Thanks? That
is Man on a Buffalo by Jomo and the possum posse,

(01:14:11):
Man on a buffalo. Oh excuse me, what am I saying?
Guy on a buffalo? Guy on a buffalo by Jomo
and the possum posse. So there you go, Mandy. From
what I heard, she wouldn't run like the others. Okay, anyway,
let's just move that when we get back. Gosh, it's
thirty two o'clock. How did that happen? When we get back?

(01:14:32):
Are you guys feeling like are you terrified of dying
of COVID right now? You should be, because Denver's wastewater
is just a wash with the COVID. But you know what,
it doesn't matter because, just like your favorite talk show
host said, what do viruses do, they become more contagious

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and less deadly. We'll talk about that next, along with
some other stuff.

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And as much as I get frustrated about teachers unions,
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so grateful that my daughter has had some of the
teachers that she has had who have had such a
positive impact on her life as well. So there you go.
There is that.

Speaker 3 (01:16:38):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:16:41):
I was just talking about COVID being sky high in
our waste water sky high. There was a video put
on the internet by James Comy, I think last week,
and in it he goes, oh, that cold I had
last week turned out to be COVID, And I thought,
if that doesn't just prove the point of the things

(01:17:05):
that I said during COVID about what happens to a virus,
And that's exactly what's happened to COVID. How do I
know because right now COVID is flowing in our pooh.
You may not know this, and you should know this
after living through COVID that they actually track how much
a disease is spread in a certain area by checking
to see how much is in the wastewater. Right now,

(01:17:28):
quoting cue the doctor Michelle Baron with uc Health Colorado
is quote sky high when it comes to COVID. Now,
of course, the doctor went on to say, there are
a number of people who stand to benefit from the vaccine.
That includes the elderly and the very young. You guys,

(01:17:50):
not a single otherwise healthy baby died from COVID. Okay,
can we stop with that.

Speaker 3 (01:17:56):
Now?

Speaker 5 (01:17:57):
She's had High risk groups also include people with conditions
like lung disease and diabetes. If you are obese and
you already have high blood pressure and you already have
other issues, couldn't get the vaccine because you're at risk
for serious illness. I will never be getting another vaccine again.
I'm just telling you that right now, not a COVID vaccine.

(01:18:17):
I'm just not doing it. My trust has been rattled
and shaken and completely destroyed, so that is not a
thing that I'm going to be doing. I have a
story on the blog, and as a matter of fact,
my friend Jesse Thomas, he of the fantastic crew that
does the Colorado Rockies games on the radio. Jesse Thomas
just texted something out that I had to respond to.

(01:18:39):
Let me go to my notifications here. Jesse texted out,
this can't busy laughing and all the burning Man catastrophe
videos get wrecked, you nerds. That scene has been cooked
since twenty ten. If you don't know what burning Man is,
first of all, congratulations, Okay, burning Man started out, I

(01:19:00):
don't know. I feel like in the late nineties, maybe
when all the tech bros all decided to DeCamp and
they were going to go to the wilderness, and they
chose the desert, and they went into the desert and
they built this giant pile like bonfire type situation out
of sticks and whatnot, and it looked kind of like
a man, and they set it on fire. And the

(01:19:20):
whole thing was called burning Man. And I know a
lot of people in tech at that time that it
tended burning Man. Who said to me, and I'm quoting
here while not giving out any names for obvious reasons,
burning Man is just a chance for all the techies
to do a bunch of drugs and hang out. Okay,
not my scene, not my crowd. I hate Sand. I

(01:19:43):
don't want to go to anything in the desert. Like
I kind of want to go to sand Dune In's
National Park. But then I'm like, Mandy, you hate sand
Why do you want to go to sand? I just
want to say I did, okay, check that box. Whatever,
It's fine. By the way, I just responded with this
to Jesse's twe I'm not one of those God is
punishing you for your wicked behavior, and I meant to

(01:20:05):
put types what I forgot. But a dust storm destroying
the orgy tent is HELLI biblical. Don't you think what
is the orgy tent? You might be asking yourself. That
is the giant tent that is used for orgies in
the sand desert at Burning Man. Already, that's like, there's
so much hard stopping that for me. I'm like, nope, nope, nope, nobody, nope, nope, nope, nope.

(01:20:34):
You know, make it out with someone on the beach
and they always make it look so glamorous in the movies.

Speaker 3 (01:20:37):
It's not.

Speaker 5 (01:20:39):
There's nothing glamorous while rolling.

Speaker 3 (01:20:41):
Around in the beach.

Speaker 5 (01:20:41):
Then you get sand everywhere. Alah, but listen to this,
you guys. Novada is infamous Burning Man Festival, which has
been struck with bad luck in their twenty twenty five
runs so far, has updated fans that their Orgie Dome
was destroyed by a dust storm that hit the festival grounds.
On the Orgie domes official Instagram page, burning Man shared,

(01:21:05):
our build team works so hard this week to erect
our lovely space. Unfortunately, the winds yesterday undid all that
labor and wrecked our structure. We are still here and
thankfully safe. We hope to give the ply Us some
workshops and we'll keep you updated at Burning Man twenty
twenty five. I mean, I feel like there's a joke

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about the tent getting blown down here, But I'm on
the radio and I am a respectable adult with a
respectable family. So I'm just gonna let you make it
at home with your friends. Just there you go. There
you have it. Also on the blog. God, we have

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some great videos on the blog today, look really really good.

Speaker 3 (01:21:50):
Well.

Speaker 5 (01:21:50):
One of the big stories that we're not going to
talk about much because I mean a rod and I care,
but I don't know how many of you do. K
Pop Demon Hunters is officially become Neck's most popular original
film of all time. That's the part, right, I do
the yeah you know you get the reference. That's like
a modified that's like a K pop heisman post. Yes

(01:22:12):
it is whatever one they do. Yeah, yeah, I love
this for them.

Speaker 6 (01:22:17):
I am really happy that is doing this well because
there are sequels to come.

Speaker 5 (01:22:23):
There is Mandy. If not every video, every other.

Speaker 6 (01:22:27):
Video on my TikTok is k pop Keemen Hunter is related,
and I have no shame in loving every bit of it,
and I love this for them, like I am locked.
Did you know that each of the characters has a
speaking actor and a singing actor.

Speaker 7 (01:22:43):
What they are?

Speaker 5 (01:22:44):
Different people? Different people know that.

Speaker 6 (01:22:46):
So I'm like watching all of them, whether it be
the singing ones or the talking the speaking ones, like
go on these little like mini tours with fans and
just leaning in hard, like like Ken Jung who plays
their manager, right, they're they're group manager.

Speaker 5 (01:23:01):
He's loving all of the love the bad guy. Did
you watch Squid Game? I did not?

Speaker 6 (01:23:07):
Okay, Well, the villain from Squid Game plays Guema, the
big giant firemon.

Speaker 5 (01:23:10):
Yeah, Satan monster.

Speaker 6 (01:23:12):
He's leaning in and loving all of this lore like
they all are just loving all of this appreciation for this.
Really again, I told you ten out of ten film
on my ten out of ten perfect movie rating list.

Speaker 5 (01:23:26):
So I love that it's doing this well. It's so
so It's an enjoyable little movie, it really is, and
you should check it out and make me crazy how well.
I think that is a testament also to K pop fans, right,
I just think that that those fans and I have
to give it to the K pop artists in the
kpop industry. They have created the notion that is exemplified

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in the film, which is the fans power the music,
and the fans are like, heck.

Speaker 6 (01:23:52):
Yeah, I got you Boo and the Really Cool Part
two BTS and other really popular K pop groups are
leaning in and they love this, like they are performing
these songs in real, real concerts, like these made up songs,
which really I guess all songs are made up by
by a made up group. More so, are being performed

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by some of the world's top K pop real groups.
So they're leaning in and saying, this is part of
our culture. This fits the whole K pop genre. It's
not like them saying, oh, this is an americanized crap
verse whatever, Like these are real actors that are portraying
of the brand sense that are It's like real music

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from that genre and they're loving it and everyone's loving
If you haven't seen it, what the hell? Ryan Edwards
thank me the other day because I told him is
like your family, including your young kids, Yes, they're gonna
love it. He's like, yeah, we've watched it like two
to five times. Yeah you go, and we're obsessed. Like
here you go, You're welcome.

Speaker 5 (01:24:47):
We'll be right back. I was talking about my view
on immigration and Americans and and I said, I don't
I don't care about your background. I don't care what
color you are. I don't care where you're from. If
you want to come to the United States and you
want to be a part of the great American dream,
I want you to be here. And that, to me
is what makes American. And imagine my delight when I
flip on the ex machine, the Twitter machine, and I

(01:25:10):
see this from Teddy Roosevelt. It was an address to
the Knights of Columbus in New York City, October twelfth,
nineteen fifteen. Now you have to remember, at this time
there was a lot of Catholic and Irish American hatred
in this country. So he's speaking to the Knights of Columbus,
which is a Catholic organization, and he said this, there's

(01:25:32):
no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I
refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans.
Some of the very best Americans I have ever known
were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American
is not an American at all. This is just as
true of the man who puts Native before the hyphen

(01:25:54):
as of the man who puts German or Irish, or
English or French before the hyphen. Is a matter of
the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be
purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any
man who holds any other allegiance. But if he has
heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter
where he was born, he is just as good an

(01:26:16):
American as anyone else. The one absolute certain way of
bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of
its continuing to be a nation at all, would be
to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities,
an intricate not of German Americans, Irish Americans, English Americans,
French Americans, Scandinavian Americans, or Italian Americans, each preserving its

(01:26:41):
separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans
of that nationality than with the other citizens of the
American Republic. The men who do not become Americans and
nothing else are hyphenated Americans, and there ought to be
no room for them in this country. The man who
calls himself an American citizen, and who yet shows by

(01:27:01):
his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a
foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life
of our body politic. He has no place here, and
the sooner he returns to the land to which he
feels his real heart allegiance, the better it will be
for every good American. Right on, Teddy Roosevelt, that's on

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the blog today. I love that. I love that, But
at the same time, and maybe this is I don't
know if this is hypocritical or just conflicted. I also
love a good Italian American festival, right who puts on
the Oktoberfest? But the German American clubs? What about the
Greek Orthodox festivals? I love that too. I went to

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a Korean festival two years ago that I really enjoyed.
I like celebrating other cultures, but I like celebrating other
cultures by people who love this culture the most and
for the most part, since the beginning of our mass
waves of immigration, immigrants have loved the concept of America

(01:28:04):
more than some Americans, and over the last several decades
of constant indoctrination of America bad. I bet those numbers
are even higher today. Right on, Teddy Roosevelt, I got you.
When we get back, Senator Barbara Kirkmeyer is going to
join us. She just got done with the not so
special session and we're going to talk about that with her.
Right after this, let's talk to a woman who is

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part of the Joint Budget Committee. She is State Senator
Barb Kirkmeyer. Barb, you look well rested. You look like
you caught up on your sleep a little bit.

Speaker 8 (01:28:36):
A little bit.

Speaker 5 (01:28:37):
So what did the legislature inflict on Coloraden's What did
you guys?

Speaker 8 (01:28:42):
Do we increase this tax we increase taxes? Well I didn't.

Speaker 20 (01:28:49):
The Democrats in the legislature increased taxes. They took away
a fee that we pay small businesses retaillers who collect
our sales tax We took away that fee.

Speaker 8 (01:29:01):
That's the tune of twelve thousand dollars.

Speaker 20 (01:29:02):
It wasn't enough in the first place to pay them
to collect our sales taxes. Typically it costs them about
forty eight thousand dollars. We took away twelve.

Speaker 8 (01:29:10):
So now they're putting the bill themselves to collect our taxes.

Speaker 20 (01:29:13):
And we're selling two hundred and fifty million dollars worth
of tax credits for two hundred million dollars.

Speaker 8 (01:29:20):
So we're shortening ourselves fifty million dollars. And you know
that's it.

Speaker 20 (01:29:25):
We increase taxes by about two hundred and fifty million dollars,
we're shorten ourselves by fifty million dollars in the general
fund on the sale of tax credits, and we screwed
over small businesses yet again.

Speaker 5 (01:29:35):
Wait, but they're making sure that planned parent had to
gets more money.

Speaker 8 (01:29:39):
Right, Oh, well that's true. Yes, that was in there.

Speaker 5 (01:29:43):
Okay, So Barb, I mean we did.

Speaker 20 (01:29:45):
We did extend the AI bill, the deadline in AI
artificial intelligence.

Speaker 8 (01:29:51):
We extended that to June first, so of next year.
So that's a good thing. That was one good thing
that happened. So I actually voted for that.

Speaker 5 (01:29:57):
Let's talk about where we are budget wise right now.
Because the tax increases that you're talking about on small businesses,
there's a zero percent chance that we're not going to
see some kind of lawsuits against that. Michael Fields at
Advance Colorado has already said he's going to add it
to his lawsuit about other things that violate tabor. So
what does that mean. I mean, let's just say a

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judge puts an injunction on you know, collecting those taxes.
What does that mean for our budget right this second?

Speaker 20 (01:30:27):
It means we will be Right now, we are seven
hundred million dollars in the red to start the next
budget year. So we have to find that money to
start even in the next budget year because we have
to have balanced budgets.

Speaker 8 (01:30:39):
So to start off a.

Speaker 20 (01:30:40):
Budget, you've got to have a budget that you can
close out that's balanced as well, and those are that's
a constitutional mandate.

Speaker 8 (01:30:47):
So we had that already in play. That was in
June eighteenth. We already knew that.

Speaker 20 (01:30:51):
And then you know, with the passage of HR one,
which gave us federal tax relief, and because our state
tax code is tied to the federal tax code, essentially
when they make changes, it changes ours, we also got
one point two billion dollars worth of tax relief at
the state level. So what that ended up doing is
causing a seven hundred million dollars shortfall, a gap in

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this current fiscal year of tax revenues, tax collections, and
so we were trying to fill the gap.

Speaker 8 (01:31:22):
That's what we were supposed to be doing.

Speaker 20 (01:31:24):
Now, there was nothing in the call, which the governor
gets to set think of it as the agenda for
the special session. Nothing in there that said we could
carry any legislation, carry a bill to reduce spending. All
it was was to increase taxes, sell tax credits. And
like I said, screw small businesses out of that fee.

Speaker 5 (01:31:41):
So where we in you you already we've talked about
this before, but we're looking at a deficit for next year.
And was that deficit in place before HR one passed?
Because were we offered yeah, I mean, all of this
is yes, okay.

Speaker 20 (01:31:55):
So and then what HR one did is that impacted
our tax collections because our taxes are going down at
the state, so we're getting federal tax relief, we're getting
some state tax relief still to the tune of one
point two billion dollars. And what that did is it
increased our you know, they keep calling it revenues, is

(01:32:17):
tax collections. Our revenues equal taxes, So it's the taxes
you pay in are our revenues at the state. So
our tax collections went down as a result of the
tax breaks at the federal.

Speaker 8 (01:32:29):
Level and the Democrats are so upset.

Speaker 20 (01:32:31):
God, we had to have a special session just to
come back and increase some taxes back. So what they
did is they increased it back from what I was
trying to figure out. I mean, don't anybody go quote
me on this number, but it's about two hundred and
fifty two hundred and fifty three million dollars to try
and fill that gap. Well, the gap was seven hundred
million or more right somewhere in there. So now the

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discussion is going to be tomorrow. The Joint Budget Committee
is meeting with the governor and he has you know,
executive order privileges, and he's going to to reduce spending supposedly.

Speaker 8 (01:33:02):
And I hear he's going to reduce spending. This is
what I hear.

Speaker 7 (01:33:04):
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (01:33:05):
I mean, I'm a Republican. It's not like he comes
to talk to me about it and tells me.

Speaker 20 (01:33:09):
But what I'm hearing is he's going to reduce spending
by cutting Medicaid provider rates, which will effectively cut access
for over one point two billion people in our state.

Speaker 8 (01:33:21):
That are US citizens.

Speaker 20 (01:33:23):
And he's going to do that, and he's going to
cut higher ed and then what I'm hearing is well,
we will probably take a third of that. So he's
going to do those kind of cuts up to two
hundred and fifty million approximately, again my guess. And then
the last third of our gap, he's going to take
out the reserves, which I just have to tell you.

Speaker 8 (01:33:39):
I mean, I'm sure you can all hear the frustration
of my voice, because it is totally stupid to take
money out of the reserves. When we take money out
of the reserves in this current.

Speaker 20 (01:33:48):
Fiscal year, we have a statutory reserve requirement of fifteen percent.
We just have to replace it in this fiscal year.
It does nothing for us other than to say, yeah,
we're making it look good. But really, by the time
we get into March of twenty twenty six, you're gonna
have to replace that because we have to have a
balanced budget before I can before we can introduce the

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next budget.

Speaker 8 (01:34:11):
That's how crazy it is.

Speaker 20 (01:34:12):
And then on top of it all, they sold tax credits,
so instead of pausing the tax credits. You know, tax
credits are tax relief. So generally Republicans, myself included.

Speaker 8 (01:34:24):
We support a lot of tax credits, not all of them,
but we do support a lot of tax credits. So
tax credits are tax relief.

Speaker 20 (01:34:31):
Okay, well, we have over two billion dollars worth of
tax credits that we give out.

Speaker 8 (01:34:36):
We just fell below the tabor cap, which means we.

Speaker 20 (01:34:41):
Now have no surplus. There isn't going to be any
tabor refund because there is no surplus. So instead of
pausing tax credits, those goofballs down there said no, no, no,
We're going to sell two hundred and fifty million dollars
worth of tax credits for two hundred million so when

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they catch it in their tax credits sometime in the
future when we have surplus.

Speaker 8 (01:35:06):
There's a constant US fifty million bucks.

Speaker 5 (01:35:07):
Okay, let me clarify what Barb just said, because because Barkie,
we start talking about this and people are like, I
cannot keep up. But in order to eliminate tabor refunds,
this is just my take on this, and you can
correct me if I'm totally wrong, in order to eliminate
tabor refunds, so they could then argue with the ballot box,
the taber is useless anyway, so why do we even
have it. So then we would take any spending protections

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off of the legislature, they have reallocated all of our
table refunds using tax credits to other favored groups in
their minds, maybe it's an expanded earned income tax credit.
Maybe it's other kinds of tax credits that our table
refunds are going to go fund. What Barb is saying
is why not just do away with those tax credits
until we have a surplus again? Is that correct?

Speaker 7 (01:35:52):
Correct?

Speaker 8 (01:35:53):
And we didn't even have to get rid of all
the tax credits we have.

Speaker 20 (01:35:56):
I mean, you know some I mean I don't know
if I voted for their earned income TOX credit, but
I probably would. I mean, those are the least, you know,
people who can't afford things in our state, right, I mean,
they're the.

Speaker 8 (01:36:07):
Most vulnerable among us.

Speaker 20 (01:36:09):
I mean, they're below sixty thousand approximate LAYD dollars in
income that's coming in, and you know, I don't I mean,
they're probably not really paying that many taxes in the
first place.

Speaker 8 (01:36:18):
But let's give them a tax holiday.

Speaker 5 (01:36:20):
I'm okay with that.

Speaker 8 (01:36:22):
But you're right, they turned tax credits.

Speaker 20 (01:36:25):
They turned our TABOR refunds into tax credits for everyone else,
and we have over two billion of them. All they
need to do is pause seven hundred million dollars worth
of them.

Speaker 5 (01:36:34):
That's it. So somebody just hit the tax line Barb
and said, Mandy, does Barb Kirkmeyer have any comment on
the millions of dollars of state funded taxpayer grants to
legislator run nonprofits and NGOs run by people like Kavi
or Mabriy, Lorena Garcia or others. I just saw a
stat on X and I have not had a chance
to look into that stat but it showed how much

(01:36:56):
money was flowing to these NGOs, and that is a
concerning thing because that starts to feel like a slush fund.
And we've seen at the federal level that Democrats are
very unhappy when their NGOs stop getting money, not because
they're doing anything great, but because they're kind of, you know,
a circular way to circulate more money into Democrat pockets.

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Is there a chance that any of that is happening here?

Speaker 20 (01:37:21):
Absolutely, I've seen the same things out on X that
have been being posted.

Speaker 8 (01:37:27):
I'm just I'm not in session right now.

Speaker 20 (01:37:29):
And plus then we had to do the special session stuff.

Speaker 8 (01:37:32):
But I'm not in a regular session right But when
I get back into the Joint Budget committee.

Speaker 20 (01:37:36):
Come November, I'm going to start looking into that, and
so my email is very easy.

Speaker 8 (01:37:41):
It's capital S E N. Sen Kirkmeyer K I R
K M E y E R at gmail dot com.

Speaker 20 (01:37:48):
Send me the information you have so I don't have
to keep digging all by myself, and I'll start wherever
you left off and see what I can find out. Hi,
because not only sounds like a conflict of interest to me,
it sounds highly unethical that we are funding I saw
the stuff about Representative Garcia on online, and it sounds
highly unethical that we are funding a state legislator to

(01:38:11):
the tune of millions of dollars for her and her
family through what's called a non governmental organization, a nonprofit organization.

Speaker 5 (01:38:18):
Essentially.

Speaker 8 (01:38:19):
I don't know what that nonprofit.

Speaker 20 (01:38:20):
Organization is doing for us, but what I do know
is we need to start cutting in this state, and
maybe that's the first place we should start.

Speaker 5 (01:38:26):
Senator Barb Kirkmeyer, from your lips to the governor's ears,
we both know it's not going to go the way
we want it to, but I appreciate you and your
fellow Republicans trying. In a special session where the Democrats
did everything, but tell you to shut up and sit down.
It was oh no, they told us that too, of course. Basically,

(01:38:47):
let's talk again soon, okay, all right, thanks Barb. It
just didn't cut any spend. It couldn't find anywhere to
cut out of the budget. Amazing. You know what, small
businesses whose taxes are about to go up, You guys,
you're going to be able to find places to cut, right,
I mean, am I right? Running a small business is

(01:39:08):
a piece of cake. So easy. What's the problem? One
thing I wanted to I'm interested to find out because
if Barb is correct and the governor decides to cut
spending by reducing Medicaid reimmersements, that is going to be
devastating for people who are actually on Medicaid because if

(01:39:31):
you need a specialist, I mean, like you know, if
you find out you need a neurologist or a pediatric,
good luck, because specialists don't they just stop taking it
and go about their business. It reduces access for people
on Medicaid. I'd love to know if why he doesn't

(01:39:51):
cut the Omni Salute program or cover you know, cover Colorado,
where we're literally paying for illego immigrants to health insurance.
It's not Medicaid because that would be against federal governments. Sedics. Nope,
it's a totally different program and Coloraden's pay for it
with their tax dollars. But I'm sure is Barb gonna

(01:40:13):
run for governor? We need her?

Speaker 16 (01:40:15):
You know what.

Speaker 5 (01:40:15):
I do not know the answer to that question, but
I hope it's yes. I hope it's yes. What's funny
to me about Barb Kirkmeyer is that there is a
group of Republicans and they're the Rabbel Rouser Republicans that
call everybody a rhino. And you know, I mean to
the point where that name means nothing anymore, because at
any given moment they can decide you're great or you're

(01:40:36):
a rhino, whatever. It's fine. They think Barb is a
rhino because she's not able to stop what's going on
at the Capitol. They can't do math. Simple math would
show them that the Republicans are hopelessly, hopelessly outnumbered right now.
I mean, it is so incredibly ugly. I've got several
people asking very specific questions about how the tax credits

(01:40:58):
will affect conservation for farmers and ranchers. I'm just going
to say this. I've now read probably ten different stories,
some pretty in depth about what changes were made, and
I would not begin to trust myself or anyone else
in giving out specific tax information. If you don't work

(01:41:19):
with an accountant to do your taxes, and you are
in a situation where you're asking about conservation eastments and
stuff like that, you would do well to work with
an accountant going forward who understands what all of these
tax law changes actually mean. Hiring an accountant to do
my taxes was the best investment I have ever made
in my life. Never do your own taxes, people, unless

(01:41:40):
you're like in your twenties and you're living in an
apartment and you don't have write offs, It almost always
pays to have someone else do your taxes. And I
love my tax account never even met my tax accountant
in person. We just send them stuff, sends it back.
We chat on the phone every once in a while.
Been albright walking in looking FORX. I do my own taxes. Yeah,

(01:42:03):
but Ben, you're not normal. I mean I could try
and sugarcoat that. I could put that a million different ways.

Speaker 11 (01:42:10):
This morning.

Speaker 5 (01:42:11):
Yeah, you're not normal.

Speaker 3 (01:42:12):
No.

Speaker 5 (01:42:12):
I I always tell my when I when I was
in Louisville, and I got a tax account in Louisville,
and I would tell him this very statement. I'm like, look,
here's everything I think I can take a deduction on,
like I lay it all out for it. But if
there's any question about any of these deductions, err on
the side of a government, like, I don't want to
be that person that's like, no, I really want to

(01:42:32):
take the fifty bucks when that fifty bucks is going
to cost me ten rand on the other side, you
know what I mean. And I've had tax accounts come
back to me and say, you know, I've never had
someone be so cautious. I'm like, I'm a talk show
host in a liberal city, and I know it sounds crazy,
but I promise you I should worry about that. Right
after I had that conversation with him, the whole Lord
Lois Learner story broke where they were throttling the applications

(01:42:53):
of five O one S threes and he called me
and goes, I owe you an apology, and I was like,
sometimes just because you're paranoid, I mean, they're not out
to get you. Bud to be fair, When I had
my I had accountants do all my business stuff.

Speaker 7 (01:43:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:43:05):
My my personal finances are incredibly simple. So yeah, yeah,
mine or not. You know, got a little here, got
a little there, got a little this, got a little that.
I didn't realize that the more like financially successful you got,
you have to worry about a lot more moving pieces.
The worse it gets every time.

Speaker 21 (01:43:25):
Yeah, I'm until you get to a certain level, and
then it gets ridiculously easy once you put it all
the trust and then it's super simple.

Speaker 5 (01:43:30):
Offshore Swiss accounts. Yeah, I mean we don't talk about those.

Speaker 21 (01:43:34):
Oh no, just because I'm employed to to trust in
the Caymans doesn't mean that, you.

Speaker 5 (01:43:39):
Know, my favorite jobs have been trusting the Caymans. So
there you go, not talking about the Cayman drinks people.
I dated a guy from the Cabon Islands for achan
awhile yep, yep ye on our conversation, have you ever
been to the Cayan Islands? Yes?

Speaker 11 (01:43:52):
Set up trust?

Speaker 5 (01:43:53):
Is that the guy who gave more now literally went
there to set up the trust. That was not an
ar air joke. Yeah, okay, there you go. I was
gonna ask you something Ben, and I can't remember what
it was, but oh, did you see the cracker barrel
they're bringing back on colehersal.

Speaker 10 (01:44:10):
I did.

Speaker 5 (01:44:10):
I spitulated, And now all.

Speaker 21 (01:44:12):
They need is for all the people that were winding
about it to go, you know, a cracker barrel again.

Speaker 5 (01:44:18):
I'm going a steady fall for two and a half
years in a hotel outside where my kids live, just
next to a cracker barrel. For the reason that a
tracker I just can't, man, I just look at it.
I'm like, that is a heart attack on the plate
right there. But I do love their catfish. Anyway. Now
it's time for the most exciting segment on the radio.

(01:44:40):
I was goine e, oh very nice, nice mic movement,
face movement anyway, Yeah, there you go. What is our
dad joke of the day.

Speaker 6 (01:44:53):
You know, my friend is losing his mind over missing
a piece of his five thousand piece puzzle. If he
thinks that's bad, I'm missing four nine pieces.

Speaker 5 (01:45:05):
I've got one for you that somebody sent earlier. And
it was this guy goes to his boss and says, hey, man,
my wife just died. Can I have some time off? Bosses?
Oh my god? Absolutely, how much time do you need?
Five to ten to life? There you go, anyway, Thanks
you anyway, what's our what's our word of today? Please?

(01:45:26):
God zukery, god Zuker. That's gonna be something that's totally surprising,
like out of control, like that's goadzuger. No, no, you
don't think so. Okay.

Speaker 15 (01:45:38):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:45:38):
It has to do with over usage of old like archaic,
out of date phrases.

Speaker 6 (01:45:44):
The use or over use of period specific or archaic expression.

Speaker 5 (01:45:48):
These words in here seriously accurate. Okay, there's the question,
I know what this is. What is bruxism b r
u x I s M bruxism. Clue, Oh, I know roxism.
I I know this, but I don't know it my head.
It is the habit of grinding your teeth out nights

(01:46:09):
and I have it and my whole life. My mother's like,
that is the creepiest noise I've ever heard. No, No,
I did that noise, and I was like, whatever, I'm asleep.
My daughter does it, and the first time I heard it,
I was like, oh my god, that is the creepiest
noise ever.

Speaker 21 (01:46:24):
By the way, the Kadzooks thing, one of my first
jobs is working at a kadzooks the topics.

Speaker 6 (01:46:29):
What is the exact definition you're not highing yadzu anyway,
Like one day I looked it up and that was
that was the thing, all right?

Speaker 5 (01:46:36):
What is our category? Please, sir? Handy phrases handy I'm
guessing that the word hand and then yes, okay, a
garment passed on from an old what's a hand me down?
That's correct? I know about those two.

Speaker 6 (01:46:49):
Going back just to nineteen sixty nine, this hyphenated experience
originally meant learning computers using a keyboard?

Speaker 5 (01:47:01):
Learning computers using a keyboard? Yep, I have no idea.
An experience called what is hands on? Oh my gosh,
we're so dumb.

Speaker 3 (01:47:11):
Wow? You know?

Speaker 6 (01:47:12):
This phrase, meaning you've got complete control of someone, also
describes the activity of some petting zoo animals.

Speaker 5 (01:47:22):
The activity of some petting zoo animals. I mean, I
think I have a phrase for the first one, yeah,
but I don't for the second. I'm gonna try, Manny,
you've got a handle on it.

Speaker 16 (01:47:32):
No, dang it?

Speaker 5 (01:47:34):
What is mouth shut? Eating out of your hands? Ok?
Have you answered a question where I have answered, We're
tied at zero. Here we go.

Speaker 6 (01:47:43):
This forward phrase for a type of faith healing is
found in Hebrews six to.

Speaker 5 (01:47:47):
Two Mandy, what is lay hands on someone? Do I
give it to you? I mean, yeah, that's pretty much
what hand?

Speaker 10 (01:47:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:47:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah good enough. According to a William Ross poem,
this is the hand that rules the world. I haven't
heard this one. Good luck and that rules the world
that needs it. For the tie, I'm I'm sitting on
my one because I have no idea. I have no idea.
What is the hand that rocks the cradle? Well I

(01:48:18):
thought that I didn't seem right either. I don't know
that's what I Okay, Well, so we need to brush
up on everything. Then we're terrible one zero. I must
be a foot guy because apparently I get nothing. Don't
now weird out anyway? What's coming up on ut?

Speaker 21 (01:48:33):
Well, the Broncos going to finish their fifty three man
roster and they've got the practice squad pretty much settled. Uh,
so we'll get into some of that there that we're
particularly I mean, I think Karan Reid over Lavel Bailey,
but Bailey's back on the practice squad, so that not
really any any shocks just uh you know, you know,
business

Speaker 5 (01:48:49):
Is business, all right, that's all business coming up next
with the Broncos, right, after this,

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