08-29-25 FULL SHOW - Questions About A Racist DPS Contract, And A Dating Coach!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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was an old person mistakes. That's okay. Yeah, I know
it's tough.

Speaker 5 (00:59):
It's really Can I start the show today and I
would like to open up the floor today? Is a
anything goes on the Common Spirit health text line five
six six. I know it's an't ask me anything, but
I need to.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
Start the day with this.

Speaker 6 (01:12):
I need this.

Speaker 5 (01:14):
What is your most recent first world problem that's driving
you crazy? I'm going to share mine with you. We
hear at the iHeartMedia Studios, we have bathrooms on every
floor normally except the bathrooms on the fourth floor.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
Where where are we located a rod here in the studio?
What floor is the fourth floor? You're on the fourth floor.

Speaker 5 (01:33):
The fourth floor bathrooms are being remodeled, so you would think, Mandy,
shut up, just run down the stairs and use the
bathroom on the third floor. And I do accept the
card readers because everywhere you go in the Iront Media building,
and I have a card reader to get in and
out of the door, the card reader in the fourth
floor stairwell does not work, so you have to run

(01:54):
down the stairs use the bathroom. And now you have
to wait for the elevator to get back up to
the fourth floor, and God forbid, you have to pay
on a break. Okay, go Anthony.

Speaker 7 (02:07):
I want to let you get away with that one.
But I'm not going to what you get to go
during our commercial breaks.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
I know, I do know. Just now, though I tried.

Speaker 5 (02:19):
I was on with Ross at the very end, and
then I ran downstairs and I forgot about the card reader.
So I ran back up the stairs found out that
blankety blanket card reader is still broken.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
Huh so user error on forgetting the card reader.

Speaker 5 (02:32):
Well, see, here's the thing. I asked them to fix it,
and I thought they would have call me crazy.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
You're crazy, I know.

Speaker 5 (02:40):
Anyway, ran back downstairs. Wait if the elevator came up,
grabbed my stuff, came in here. It was just like
I said, first world problems, Anthony, No, that's worse than
first That's my first world problem right there. So so annoying.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
Mandy solution five gallon bucket no, or the Rick Lewis
strategy stop dehydrate now days. Yeah?

Speaker 1 (03:02):
I know.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
I mean he does it, but he also calls the
Broncos games once.

Speaker 5 (03:07):
He does it leading up to Sunday, not every day
when you do the program.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
Yeah, no way, guys.

Speaker 5 (03:15):
If you want to know the words to my theme song,
send me an email Mandy Connellmedia dot com.

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Rules the Day, Ruling the.

Speaker 5 (03:23):
Day, Ruling, Rolling Ruling the Day, or Laurel anyway, I'll
email you them.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
They're too far that I can't text them at greenstorm
or a green needle.

Speaker 5 (03:36):
Let's do the blog, shall we? Because I did a blog.
You know, yesterday we were preempted by baseball and today
we are not.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
So did a blog yesterday? Well, I did a blog
to say no blog. It's like saying in France, Jena, Papa,
I'll say, which means I don't speak French, but you've
spoken French to tell them. You don't speak French, so
it's a paradox. It's a problem, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (03:56):
My first word problem is trying to enable the microphone
on my phone to be able to work. Cord my
three year old granddaughter doing the airhorn for your show.
I've been training her how to do it and it's
absolutely adorable. But you better figure that out. A Roger
at iHeartMedia dot com. A Rod at iHeartMedia dot com.
Police in your airhorns.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
They have to record it though, that's the problem they're having.

Speaker 7 (04:15):
Well, okay, that part out a Rod at iHeartMedia dot com.
And that goes for every listener.

Speaker 5 (04:20):
Man saying first world problems makes it sound like we're
supposed to feel guilty for having high standards. No, it
means that we are such a developed nation that I
don't have to worry about having to go to the
bathroom outside in a giant pit of fetid sewage like
they are in some third world countries. Right now, we
are a developed nation and a first world nation. Therefore,

(04:43):
first world problems often include complaining about having to have
to go downstairs into a nice bathroom instead of going
out and finding a hole in the ground to pee in.
I don't feel guilty about any of that. I'm just
telling you how it is.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
It's like saying no offense butt and then saying something
very offensive. Yep, yeah, I said no offense. But yeah, yeah. Anyway, No,
I'm not doing a catheter, thank you.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
No.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
Adult diapers are not an option. Nope, not going to
do that. Don't get me wrong.

Speaker 5 (05:14):
If at some point in my future adult diapers are
a part of it, because I have to, that's one thing.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
But don't ask me to choose to because that's just gross.
Let me do the blog right now. Do it right now.

Speaker 5 (05:27):
Find it by going to mandy'sblog dot com. Look for
the headline that says eight twenty nine to twenty five
blog questions about a racist DPS contract and a dating coach.
Click on that and here are the headlines you will
find within an office.

Speaker 8 (05:40):
Half of American all with ships and clipmans.

Speaker 7 (05:42):
That's going to press.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
Today on the blog.

Speaker 5 (05:46):
It's a ask me anything kind of day. What are
there racial preferences in the DPS contract? I've heard the
dating world is a nightmare these days. Go see Jim
and Jimmy Sangenberger play.

Speaker 4 (05:57):
This weekend Polis Balances the budget on the back.

Speaker 5 (05:59):
So the poor Mayor Johnston says his homeless initiative failure
is Trump's fault.

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The Pueblo County Corner finally Pueblo Pueblo, Pueblo Pueblo.

Speaker 5 (06:09):
The Pueblo County Corner finally does the right thing. How
Aurora is enforcing the camping man. There were definitely red flags.
Denver closes for a four day weekend to save money.
Medicare is testing prior authorization with AI. That John Bolton
home raid isn't retribution. The tale of a political refugee.

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congrats to Travis Hunter and his wife, growing up with
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Speaker 4 (06:45):
Flying this Labor day?

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Can we talk about off with living for a minute, guys,
Junk food may be affecting your fertility. You don't need
no stinking scissors. A swan landing looks super fun. Jinks
is imprinted on me Fell's changing the.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
Rules for Tom Brady. A teacher talks about private parts.
Coach Prime calls out the.

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Wheat smell Belichick's gold Digger tries to copyright it, don't
use decorative pillows in a hotel, Top five toys at
high voltage, and it's time for the Sea dot Olympus
and one of the mast shooting morning side.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
Though those are the headlines on the blog at Andy's
blog dot com. I am lighthead of tech two.

Speaker 5 (07:30):
I didn't think so either, Nancy. As a matter of fact,
don't go look at the blog today. Yeah, one of
them died.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
Well, you know what, they had a good run.

Speaker 5 (07:41):
Porky's Chicken at Fifth and Federal is delicious. I think
the owner of Porky's Chicken listens to this show because
they're texting in. Uh Mandy, I just witnessed a lady
going number two in public. So welcome to Denver. That's
how we Colorado. Anyway, we have a lot of guests

(08:01):
coming up today. Aaron Lee with Protect Kids Colorado is
coming in. Initially I was having her come in to
talk about some of these stuff in the DPS new
contract that is extremely racially charged, specifically racial preferences and
training for specific races and really racist stuff, I mean, honestly.

(08:25):
But then DPS continues to deliver in the name of equity,
they converted a girl's restroom into an all gender facility,
and guests who paid attention the Trump administration. Did you
happen to see my cartoon on today's law on today's
post on my Facebook page, a rod go Look.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
I liked it.

Speaker 5 (08:45):
I had to change it though, because chat GBT told
me what I wanted it to say was against their
guidelines for image generation, and I had to go back
and tweak it a little bit. I'm having the best
time with chat GPT's illustrator on this.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
I love it. I think it's so much fun.

Speaker 5 (09:04):
So today's illustration on my Facebook or Twitter page to
show you where the blog is, which I'm creating every
day with the image generator on chat GBT, which I'm
now paying twenty bucks a month for, and you put
in a great prompt and then it spits out like
I use a cartoon like image because I think it's
more eye catching and I don't want people to think
I'm trying to put up real pictures, you know what
I mean. So I think this is the best way

(09:26):
to do it. So we're going to talk to Aaron
Lee about several things in Denver Public schools.

Speaker 4 (09:31):
And then I want to be clear about one thing.

Speaker 5 (09:35):
My one PM guest is in no way a reference
to the state of my own marriage.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
I have a dating coach coming on at one o'clock.

Speaker 5 (09:44):
His name is Tim Mulner, and I have heard nothing
but horror stories from people, especially people who find themselves
back in the dating scene fifty or above. Just horror
story after horror story. It's like we've all forgotten how
to act on a date. And younger people, they have
no idea how to act on it date. They really
no clue. They don't even know how to have a conversation,
most of them. It's just it's so sad we've we've

(10:07):
raised these these people that are that are completely socially crippled,
and they didn't do it to themselves.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
Okay, I'm not blaming them, but it's.

Speaker 5 (10:16):
Just sad to see young people who can't strike up
a conversation with someone who can't. It's just they're crippled
by it, absolutely crippled by it. I'm not going to
ask him about that, but we are going to talk
about how to put your best self out there while
you're dating. That's coming up at one o'clock and then
at twoint thirty, our friend Jimmy Sangenberger joins us his

(10:37):
column was not live on the Denver Gazette, and I
forgot to send him an email, and I just thought
about it right now. I'll see if it is. He's
got to call him in the gazette today. But he
also has some gigs this weekend. So if you've ever
wanted to see his band, and I've seen his at
least part of his band a few years ago at
the Seamboat Institute's Freedom Conference.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
They are outstanding, they.

Speaker 7 (10:55):
Call me referencing. I believe his new one comes out
on Sunday. Now, oh got it? The one I'm trump
to come out Tuesday week and talk about.

Speaker 4 (11:01):
Yeah, I got that. I had that on the blog
on Monday.

Speaker 5 (11:03):
So we'll talk about all that, and then you can
find out where you can go watch and play this
weekend for Labor Day weekend. What are your big plans
for Labor Day weekend?

Speaker 7 (11:09):
Anthony got a big wedding to go to. The parents
will be in town for a little bit, hanging out
for a while, that's right, Yeah, all right, it's a
little bit of our own wedding season. We got a
couple coming up in the next couple months.

Speaker 4 (11:20):
Are you buying your wedding gifts in bulk yet?

Speaker 2 (11:22):
Wedding gift?

Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah? What you don't buy wedding gifts?

Speaker 7 (11:25):
Well, technically I did get the groom something really cool
that I'll tell you off air.

Speaker 4 (11:29):
Okay, so it's a joint package.

Speaker 5 (11:32):
When I was like twenty five, I got invited in
one year to five weddings in one year, and I
bought everyone the same super nice toaster.

Speaker 7 (11:45):
You know what on Carls, I don't know. Uh, he's
the buddy I'm taking to Lincoln Park on Wednesday.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
Oh, very cool. Yes, yes, that's my wedding gift. That's yeah,
there you go. Yeah. Wait, he's getting married this week weekend.
I know he's they're not they're not doing immedia honeymoon.
That my first question.

Speaker 7 (12:00):
I was like, wait, I know you're getting married Sunday,
but the following Wednesday, are you still in town? And
they are doing their honeymoon in October, so he'll be
around and it's in the Springs, so it's not like
going far.

Speaker 4 (12:13):
Yeah, go open bar. Oh and you know what Sunday
Sunday and then good thing, we have Monday off, Mandy,
tell that listener to send a pick up the woman
going number two to Kyle Clark with the subject line
the most Colorado things seen today. There you go, gen
X raised these people. Yes we did. We course corrected,

(12:34):
we over corrected, and.

Speaker 5 (12:37):
It happened at the exact moment that technology rose up
and turned our children into little, you know, tech automatons.

Speaker 4 (12:44):
It's terrible, Mandy. Honestly, who cares about the all.

Speaker 5 (12:47):
Gender restroom unless people are changing. Here's the thing, you guys.
I don't want to walk into a restroom and see
a guy at a journal I don't want to do that.

Speaker 4 (12:56):
That is not a thing I want to do.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Now.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
Granted, these are probably all stalls. I was about to say, yeah,
they're probably all stalls. They have to be.

Speaker 5 (13:03):
They cannot have urinals in these bathrooms. So but I
don't like the entire concept. I don't know if you
guys remember middle school, high school.

Speaker 4 (13:11):
At my middle school, in high school, people had sex in.

Speaker 5 (13:14):
The bathroom, the single gender bathroom. So what do you
think is going to happen here? I just think this
is a recipe for disaster. And guess what, you guys,
some kids are too nervous to go to the bathroom
next to other people, and you put girls next to boys,
and you create a just absolute havoc.

Speaker 4 (13:30):
For some of those kids.

Speaker 7 (13:31):
Heck, most guys don't like going next to one another
with the urinals. Yeah, there's the urinal etiquette. You leave
a gap, or if it's too close of quarters, you
go in the stall.

Speaker 5 (13:41):
Now, I want you to think about fifteen year old
Anthony in high school. Okay, you have had some kind
of bad reaction to something you ate, and you are
having gastro intestinal distress. You walk into that all gender
bathroom and a girl you have a crush on is
in that bathroom.

Speaker 7 (13:56):
What happens I'm going in? God, I mean, if we're
talking like you're in you're in crisis. Sorry, lady, oh man,
bud me for who I am, or imagine, love me
for who I am.

Speaker 4 (14:10):
And then by the time the day is.

Speaker 5 (14:12):
Over, you're Anthony who took a huge dump in front
of whoever at the high school. For the rest of
your high school career, you are the guy who took
a huge dump.

Speaker 4 (14:20):
Why that's to you.

Speaker 5 (14:22):
A couple of girls and they are so disgusted they
may never eat again.

Speaker 7 (14:25):
Well, you know, it's better than being known as the
fat Kin High School like I was. But yeah, sounds
kind of better.

Speaker 4 (14:35):
Mandy. You'll never view the New York Times Square New
Year's Eve crowd ever, the same again. NYPD told us
everyone they're hours before midnight is wearing adult diapers. Because
there are no outhouses or reporter of potties, we opted
to do Central Park Midnight five K instead of Times Square.
I have never wanted to be in Times Square. It
looks miserable. Of all the things.

Speaker 7 (14:56):
That are highly touted on holidays in this country, I
will never go and do that. Yeah, it does not
sound like an ounce of fun.

Speaker 5 (15:06):
Yep, this person just said I can't pay in front
of my wife. I Chuck has never been in the
same room with me while I peede. No, that is
not a thing that's happening.

Speaker 4 (15:15):
Nope. Do you guys have a water closet.

Speaker 6 (15:17):
Nope.

Speaker 5 (15:17):
But we have a the way our bathroom and our
master is set up. There is a wall there, so
if in theory he's in there, I can see his knees.
But I turned her on a walk out like nope,
so no door, there's no door there. No, but you
close the main door. I mean, it's not a big deal.

Speaker 4 (15:33):
Our master bath has configured quite strangely, and we wanted
to add a much bigger number for number ones.

Speaker 5 (15:39):
I'm just saying, no, I'm not no number two things
things for he to remain a mystery, and that is
one of them. As a matter of fact, this is
another TMI about my historyctomy surgery.

Speaker 4 (15:51):
One of my friends is like, oh my.

Speaker 5 (15:52):
God, my husband had to take had to help me
stand up and sit down on the toilet for like
a week after her has direct me, And I was like, well,
that's not a thing that's gonna happen in our household.

Speaker 7 (16:01):
No is it?

Speaker 2 (16:03):
No, it's not.

Speaker 4 (16:04):
We did not help me. Oh okay, would you have wanted?

Speaker 1 (16:07):
That?

Speaker 3 (16:08):
Was it?

Speaker 5 (16:08):
I mean, I I if I needed the help, I guess. So, Mandy,
how do you know about sex in a school bathroom?
Because I walked in on a pair of students having
sex in our school bathroom and I reacted just like this, Anthony.

Speaker 4 (16:21):
Were they at least in the stall with the closed Nope,
they were right by the sink right as you walked
in the door, and there was like eight empty stalls
right over right over there where I could have been
over there.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
That was wrong.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
People. Ah, thanks for bringing up that horrible, scarring memory
text outre.

Speaker 7 (16:38):
That did not happen in our schools growing Oh oh no,
is it happening in schools again?

Speaker 4 (16:43):
Oh God. I don't think kids are having sex really anymore. Yeah,
I mean, but they're not.

Speaker 5 (16:49):
Statistically, young people, people under the age of twenty.

Speaker 4 (16:52):
Four are not having sex.

Speaker 5 (16:54):
Probably, I'll talk well, you know, I've said this for
a very long time that easy access to pornography, especially
for boys, is one of the reasons that people are
not dating and not getting together. Because when I was
in high school, and I think men will vouch for
me on this, boys dated girls because they were hoping

(17:14):
that they would eventually get to have sex. But now
if they can see and watch graphic sex and take
care of business themselves, doesn't really seem like that much
of a mystery for a lot of these young boys,
I think. Plus you add in all the concerns about
being accused of something or you know, having someone say
that you're a creeper if you ask them out. I mean,

(17:35):
the overreaction of young women to overtures by boys in
some cases has created a real problem for young boys.
They don't know how to act because the goalposts and
the lines keep getting moved, and I don't blame them.

Speaker 4 (17:48):
Where was teen pregnancy during your high school days? Uh?
It was not low.

Speaker 5 (17:52):
I mean I personally had friends that got pregnant in
high school and had babies in high school.

Speaker 4 (17:59):
Because we didn't have a lot. There were a few,
and very we had.

Speaker 5 (18:02):
I would say, Okay, so my high school had fifteen
hundred kids in it roughly, and we probably had ten
girls a year get pregnant across all grades, across all Yeah,
it was, it was. It was not uncommon. We had
a nursery at our school. Oh so young moms could
have their kids at the high school, and I think.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
We had that.

Speaker 4 (18:24):
I don't think we had. I can't even think we.

Speaker 5 (18:26):
Also had a smoking section a rod. So just to
let you know how things were back in the eighties.
Wild times people and wild times got crazy.

Speaker 4 (18:36):
They were fun. I loved high school. I didn't I
opened us, I didn't peak in.

Speaker 5 (18:41):
High school, but I really enjoyed it. I participated in everything,
I did, all the clubs, I did, all the things.

Speaker 4 (18:47):
I just I loved it.

Speaker 7 (18:48):
I really did, like enjoy choir. Oh yeah, one thing,
and I mean the one thing. Otherwise I despised all
of high school.

Speaker 4 (18:56):
Yeah, all of it. I peaked in college.

Speaker 7 (19:00):
It's not remotely in comparison, in comparison to the both
My high was college.

Speaker 5 (19:05):
But here's the thing, and this is you'll see this
over and over again and when your kids, you know,
and your friends' kids start getting older. There are some
kids that are terrible children, but they're great adults, right,
And for some people, just childhood sucks for a variety
of reasons. I mean, you could even have like super
nice parents and still be like I did not enjoy

(19:25):
that for a variety of reasons. Then you get into
adulthood and everything's awesome. There's just some people that for
childhood is not their peak time of life, not their
favorite time of life. But I'm just if you're in that,
you're one of those teens, trust me, you're gonna be fine.

Speaker 4 (19:39):
Oh I am. This is the part where I say.

Speaker 7 (19:44):
Those struggles shaped me today, so I wouldn't change a
damn thing.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (19:47):
It doesn't mean it didn't suck, yeah exactly, but it
shapes you there, you.

Speaker 7 (19:50):
Especially if you aren't like the good, good looking due
in high school and you're like, your personality has to
shine to make the most of the situation.

Speaker 4 (19:58):
Then you can have a glow up like I we did,
and you have it all. You've got the great.

Speaker 7 (20:03):
Personality you built through the down times. Then you glow
up physically and you're like, well, hey got it made now, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (20:09):
And look at you shine now, mister Anthony. She's always
fighting for Colorado kids and kids all over the country.
She was just a mom, just a mom hanging out
when she found out that her daughter was being asked
to join a club and then being told she was
trans and on and on, and we're going to get
to that in a second. With Aaron Lee with Protect
Kids Colorado. Aaron, good to see again.

Speaker 9 (20:30):
First of all, hey me any thanks for having me.

Speaker 5 (20:33):
So we have so much to talk about. We started
out on Monday communicating you were to conference. I'm like, oh,
we have to talk about what's in the DPS contract. Well,
since then, the DPS contract has been ratified by the teachers.
But what was so egregious about what was in that
contract that got the ire of not just Protect Kids
Colorado but other parental organizations.

Speaker 9 (20:54):
Yeah, well, I through defending education.

Speaker 8 (20:56):
We follow a formal letter asking them to remove all
of the mandated diversity, equity and inclusion. So, if you
were to do a word search on this bargaining agreement,
the number one.

Speaker 9 (21:05):
Used word is equity.

Speaker 8 (21:07):
It is throughout the entire thing, mandatory training for equity,
mandatory hiring standards which are very clearly biased and discriminatory,
mandating that you must hire a certain amount of people
of color. Really just forcing DEI into the classroom. And
this is a school district where less than thirty percent
of the kids can read and do mathic grade level.

(21:27):
Yet they're focusing all of their attention and money. Really,
our taxpayer dollars are going towards DEI rather than learning.

Speaker 5 (21:34):
In the contract, how much was about hiring teachers that
have a proven track record of success, like really excellent teachers,
or or accountability for teachers that may not be performing
at the highest level.

Speaker 4 (21:45):
How much of that is in there as I read it? Nothing?

Speaker 8 (21:49):
And as we're seeing school districts like DPS taking away
merit based ranking for students, they're also not worried about
merit and their hiring.

Speaker 9 (21:57):
Practices, just equity and DEI.

Speaker 5 (22:00):
One of the most frustrating thoughts that is so pervasive
among those who are just completely wedded to DEI is
that if you just get a teacher in front of
a student that looks like them, right, implying that brown
students can only learn from brown teachers, black students can
only learn from black teachers. Now, don't get me wrong,
I would love to have role models of every stripe

(22:21):
in every school. You know, upstanding people from all walks
of life. But the notion that a black or brown
kid can't learn from a great white teacher is just stupid.
It's just dumb, and it's insulting, and it's racist, frankly,
and it sounds like they just codified that all into
their contract.

Speaker 9 (22:38):
They did.

Speaker 8 (22:39):
Yeah, we specifically asked them to take out Article thirty one,
which was focused on equity hiring and training. They have
mandatory DEI training, mandatory DEI hiring requirements, and.

Speaker 9 (22:49):
We asked them to remove that. They did not.

Speaker 8 (22:51):
They went and ratified this agreement in with that still intact.
One thing they did do was replace references to race
and color with the term marginalized groups instead. So different,
it's semantics gate, you know, a game of semantics. But
the end result is the same.

Speaker 5 (23:05):
And this is not all the Denver Public Schools has
been up to. They have now found themselves in the
crosshairs of the Trump administration. You would think for everything
we just talked about the fact that the teachers union
contract is riddled with the word equity more than any
other word in the contract. But no, the Trump administration
is now paying closer attention because of bathrooms.

Speaker 4 (23:28):
Tell me what is going on there?

Speaker 8 (23:30):
Yeah, Well, one thing I should have mentioned is that, yes,
it's horrible that DEI is littered throughout, but they're breaking law.
It's unconstitutional for them to force DEI the way that
they are so DPS early on in the Trump administration,
back in January, actually back in winter break, they refurbished
their female bathroom at East High School into an all
gender bathroom, but left the male bathroom intact. So they

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eliminated the only single sex space for females and left
the male bathroom so males can use any bathroom, females
can only use one that'll also allows males in. And
so the Trump administration sent them a very strongly worded
letter and opened to Title nine investigation on Denver Public Schools,
and now yesterday. They have the findings of their investigation,

(24:15):
and they are, in no uncertain terms demanding that DPS
change these policies that allow males to use female single
sex spaces or else.

Speaker 4 (24:25):
So what I find remarkable erin is where are the
parents here? This is you know, I realized that a
lot of parents, especially single parents, they're working, they're doing
all of these things.

Speaker 5 (24:35):
But dang, make a phone call, like, pick up the phone.

Speaker 4 (24:38):
And say it's not okay. This should not be okay.
That girls now don't have an option to pee at
school if they're uncomfortable being in a bathroom with a boy.
That's ridiculous. And please, for that person who's about to
text me, why is he uncomfortable with that boy at
the back? I don't care why she's uncomfortable. She deserves
to have a space where she can go urinate without

(24:59):
feeling she is under attack, and like it or not,
that's just the way things are. Well, this is just
so stupid. So what is has the school districts responded
to your knowledge that?

Speaker 9 (25:11):
No, it seems like they're doubling down.

Speaker 8 (25:13):
It's my understanding they actually added another all gender bathroom
instead of backtracking on eliminating the female spaces. And it's
important to point out that, you know, I believe transgenderism
facilitates misogyny. They didn't eliminate the male bathroom, they eliminated
the female single sex space.

Speaker 9 (25:29):
And to your point, where are the dads like parents
in general?

Speaker 8 (25:33):
Yes, but why are these board meetings not packed out
with angry fathers wanting to protect their daughters. As we
saw in Loudon County, Virginia, the whole state election was
shifted by girls being raped in their bathroom by trans
identified males. So there clearly are real serious ramifications of
allowing males into these female spaces. We're not asking for

(25:54):
a whole lot, and it's not discriminatory to say that
title nine should be upheld.

Speaker 5 (26:00):
My guests with protect Kids Colorado now erin I want
to Aaron was just a mom whose daughter found herself
being invited to what was supposed to be an art
club meeting, turned out to be a gender identity situation
and created havoc for her daughter. And Aaron found herself
thrust into the spotlight a little bit. But boy, I
gotta say, you have really strapped on the battle armor

(26:22):
and rhetorically speaking, and I am just amazed at how.

Speaker 4 (26:26):
You continue to just engage and engage and engage.

Speaker 5 (26:29):
Let's talk about the fact that Aaron Lee is now
going to have a case heard at the Supreme Court.

Speaker 8 (26:36):
Hopefully we have filed our cert petition to the Supreme
Court for them to take up the case.

Speaker 9 (26:40):
There are four secret school transitions.

Speaker 8 (26:42):
That have been or will be filed, and so I
hope that ours is the one that's heard, or at
least there's a consolidation and we're considered. But I think
this issue will be decided at the Supreme Court, probably
in the spring session. They'll decide and fall whether or
not to hear them. But they've really taken a liking
to the transgender issue and recognize are such a great
area around parents' rights. And the basis of my lawsuit

(27:03):
is really common sense. It's do parents have the right
to direct the care, custody and control of their children
or does that right belong to the state, And as
we know, that is an inalienable right that belongs to parents.

Speaker 4 (27:16):
Well, I agree, Aaron. So when will you know if
they're taking up your case?

Speaker 8 (27:21):
So hopefully September or October when they call conference, they
will make that decision. But again, you know, it's a
big deal for it to be sitting there. Pi Bondi
actually was our lead attorney before she took another job.
So there's a lot of eyes on this.

Speaker 9 (27:35):
Issue and on this case.

Speaker 8 (27:36):
And it wouldn't just set precedent here in Colorado, that
would set precedent in the entire country that schools must
pass a policy that parents will be notified when their
child is transitioned.

Speaker 9 (27:45):
Like I wasn't.

Speaker 5 (27:46):
Yeah, I think for sure I realized that the people
who say, you know, we're protecting the kids, that is
an assumption that every parent is the kind of parent
who would react badly and abusively to a child, and
that assumption is flat out wrong. So I'm glad you
guys are fighting this. What else were we going to
talk about because I got to take a break.

Speaker 4 (28:05):
What was the other thing? Erin? We were stacking them
all up before we did this.

Speaker 8 (28:09):
Uh, well, our thirteenth twelve lawsuit, so defending EDCPAN and PKCEE,
we filed this letter to DPS, but we also filed
a federal lawsuit against house built thirteen twelve.

Speaker 5 (28:18):
Well, you know what we're going to talk about that
later when the lawsuit moves further along. We'll talk about
that later. But keep doing what you're doing. Protect kids.
Colorado is a wonderful organization. If you as a parent
or a grandparent, even if your kids are out of
the schools, you need to understand that some of the
stuff that's going on is absolutely crazy and they're helping
protect our kids.

Speaker 4 (28:39):
Erin, thanks so much for your time today.

Speaker 9 (28:42):
Thanks for having me.

Speaker 5 (28:43):
All Right, we'll be right back, Mandy. Our faculty bathrooms
male and female. No, they are not just the bathrooms
for children.

Speaker 4 (28:50):
Isn't that cool? Isn't that great?

Speaker 5 (28:55):
The girls should start using the restrooms that the female
teachers use.

Speaker 4 (28:58):
Then they would fix this problem. Except they can't, right,
because those are the faculty bathrooms. This textter said the girls.

Speaker 5 (29:05):
Should tell their teachers, I don't feel safe in my restroom,
so I'll use yours. I'd love to think that that
would be effective. That it won't, because you know, children,
they can do whatever they want. This text from earlier,
can I just want to make this comment In this
I was talking about girls getting pregnant in high school,
and this texter said, in high school, pregnant girls were

(29:26):
banned from school, even if they were married, but I'm
guessing the boys who knocked them up weren't. We've come
a long way, baby, Mandy. Are you excited for Rams
football on KOA? What we have buffs football on KOA?
We are not the CSU RAM station. Unfortunately, we can

(29:48):
only carry one and it which was CEU. Because how
long as have we been to CU? I mean we've
been the CU flagship station four forever, maybe literally forever.
I don't know if anybody else is a held that position,
so I'm not sure. But nonetheless, I've got a lot

(30:09):
of stuff on the blog today, but I want to
share just to follow up on what we were just
talking about with Aaron Lee. So, Education Secretary Linda McMahon
took to the upper ropes to put out this message
about Denver Public Schools, and it says today the US
Department of Education for Civil Rights found that Denver Public
Schools the district, violated Title nine of the Education Amendments

(30:33):
of nineteen seventy two and its implementing regulations. OCR concluded
that the district's conversion of sex separated multi stall restrooms
to all gender facilities, and its politics Wait a minute,
and its policies contained in the Denver Public Schools LGBTQ
plus Toolkit, which allows students to use intimate facilities corresponding

(30:55):
with their gender identity rather than biological sex, violate IDOL
Nines prohibition against sex discrimination. So that is what is
going to be happening now. And you know, the Democrats
in charge in Denver especially love to posture big time
against President Trump's administration because it gets them invited to

(31:17):
the right cocktail parties, you know, gets some the right
Christmas cards and all that good stuff for the right
kind of donations. But ultimately, at some point, I don't
want something bad to happen, you guys.

Speaker 4 (31:28):
I just I mean, kids are kids.

Speaker 5 (31:33):
Their prefrontal cortexes are not fully developed, their decision making
centers are well like little balls of mush. So I'm
afraid something bad is going to happen, and then it's
going to be reactionary, and then it's going to be
you know, unnecessary, and there's going to be lawsuits, and
it's going to be bad. But they love, you know,

(31:56):
Mayor Mike Johnson well made them at the at the
you know, the city limit with fifty thousand Highland Moms
that's what we're gonna do.

Speaker 4 (32:05):
It's just such bravado.

Speaker 5 (32:06):
And it's in this case bravado at the expense of
children who just want to be able to use a
bathroom that doesn't have someone from the opposite sex. And notice,
I am not just saying girls here. I want to
give boys the same difference. I want to give boys
the ability to be able to go in and use
the restroom and make really loud fart noises and not

(32:28):
be victimized if they come out and see a girl
that they didn't know was in there. I mean, come on,
this just should not be complicated, it should not be difficult.

Speaker 4 (32:39):
And yet here we are. When we get back.

Speaker 5 (32:42):
Oh boy, we got a lot of stuff. One o'clock today,
We've got Tim Moulner. He is a dating coach. Now,
let's you think that my marriage is in trouble and
I'm gonna be out there in the dating world. I
have no desire to ever date again. So it happens
to Chuck, I don't know if I go, I just
I'll be fine by myself. That being said, I do
have a lot of friends who are in the dating scene,

(33:04):
not as many as I used to. Many of them
have happy, happily coupled up. But all I hear's horror story.
So we're gonna get this guy on. We're gonna get
you some good advice. If you're in the dating world,
maybe we'll give you some tips that can help you
be a little more successful.

Speaker 4 (33:16):
We're doing that.

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Speaker 4 (33:44):
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Speaker 5 (33:53):
Never let it be said that I don't hear the
cries of my people in the audience. And so some
of you out there are in singlehood, and some of
you are very happy single, let's be clear about that.
But some of you write me and say, Mandy, where
can I find a man or a woman who's not
an idiot or whatever? And dating is horrible and it's
the worst thing ever and what are we even doing

(34:14):
this for? And so I'd like to welcome my next guest,
to the show. Timothy Molnar is a dating coach, he's
an author, he's a formal Fulbright teaching fellow, and he
helps use kind of a bigger understanding of behavioral science
to help people rethink the way they're going about their
dating lives. And if you've been on some lousy dates,

(34:34):
maybe you'll be able to get some tips on how
to be a better dater from Tim.

Speaker 4 (34:39):
Tim welcome the show. First of all, Hi Mandy, thanks
so much for having me on. So let's start.

Speaker 5 (34:45):
About how you got into the world of digging into
behavioral science to figure out dating.

Speaker 4 (34:52):
Let's start there.

Speaker 10 (34:55):
So there's a saying in the research world that our
research is is often mesearch, and so I think, like
like many of the listeners who are single out there,
I was single about eight years back and was wondering
if there was a smarter, more intentional.

Speaker 4 (35:15):
Way to go about this process.

Speaker 10 (35:17):
I was frustrated, feeling burnt out, and I had been
teaching sociology at the University of Colorado at the time
and was interested if any of these social science or
social psychology insights could help us do that in a
more intentional way. And so I ended up going through
and setting sort of a goal setting framework for myself

(35:39):
that ended up leading to the relationship that I've now
been in for over five years and ultimately launched my
work as a dating coach.

Speaker 5 (35:48):
So I want to I mean, I'm fifty six years old.
I grew up in the eighties. I was a teenager
in the eighties and a young adult in the nineties,
and dating kind of sucked, like we all thought it sucked, Right,
is how we met people as we went to bars,
we drank excessively, we danced with people, and if there
was any connections, somebody has swapped a phone number and
maybe they called, maybe they didn't, Right, I mean, that's

(36:10):
just the way it was. Now it actually seems worse.
Tim It seems worse to me. And I just thank
God for my husband every day.

Speaker 4 (36:16):
I truly do.

Speaker 5 (36:17):
I just can't even imagine. But it's so disconnected now.
You don't even have that sweaty bar contact anymore. So
how do people begin to if they're if they're over
forty and they're getting back into it, Like, what are
the big differences that you're helping people navigate?

Speaker 4 (36:37):
Yeah, I think that's super well put.

Speaker 10 (36:39):
And dating has certainly changed one of the things I'll
say is it's always been hard, it's always been scary.
It's an extremely vulnerable part of life. You're putting yourself
out there and you're basically asking someone to say yes
or no.

Speaker 4 (36:51):
It's his binary response. And so that really hasn't changed
over the years.

Speaker 10 (36:55):
What has changed is how people meet, just like you said,
and so today more than fifty percent of relationships start online.
And so now we're in this world where while that
is true, on the one hand, there's also some research
from Forbes that came out last May that said seventy
eight percent of people who are dating online right now

(37:15):
are burnt out. They're burnt out physically, they're burnt out mentally, emotionally,
and that's even higher for gen Z and millennial daters.
And so then I think the real question that you're
driving at here is, you know, what do we do
about that you mentioned folks who are over forty or
any age for that matter. How do we create sort
of a hybrid approach of keeping a healthy relationship with

(37:38):
dating apps, if for choosing to use those and at
the same time get out and get into person find
activities that really light us up. And I think the
big thing that I really try and encourage people to
do is try and be spending at least seventy five
percent of your time out in the real world doing
things that you enjoy doing. So maybe you like outdoorsy people,
and so you decide to volunteer for a Saturday morning

(38:00):
trail crew, and whether or not you end up meeting
a friend or having a nice conversation or just building
a new trail, you're going to have an enjoyable morning.
And maybe it just so happens that you come across
someone in a low pressure context to be able to
ask out, go on a date with have a casual
conversation that turns into something more.

Speaker 5 (38:21):
That is a great idea. And I want to tell
you a story of someone I know who did exactly
that thing. They signed up for a trail cleanup because
they liked being outside and they liked to hike, and
they figured that would be a way to go and
meet people. So I guess there was maybe thirty people
at this trail cleanup. At the end of the day,
I'm talking to this friend and the friend says, well,
I didn't really meet anybody.

Speaker 4 (38:39):
I said, well, did you talk to everybody, and.

Speaker 5 (38:41):
They said no, So, Tim, there are a lot of
people out there who can't even strike up a casual
conversation in that context, do you know where you're just saying, hey,
what brought you out today? Like they don't even know
how to begin those casuals. Are you seeing that in
your practice where people are just sort of communicatively stifled.

Speaker 10 (39:08):
I think there has been a bit of social atrophy
that has happened over the last number of years. Certainly
COVID didn't help, and we're in this digital first world
where we see people with noise canceling headphones on, we
swipe through self checkout, we have our groceries delivered via
door dash.

Speaker 4 (39:26):
All of these natural.

Speaker 10 (39:27):
Touch points that used to bring us face to face
with people have really been outsourced. And so I think
it is totally reasonable to ask ourselves, you know, how
do we bring this conversation piece back in?

Speaker 4 (39:39):
And what's interesting is people are hungrier for this.

Speaker 10 (39:42):
Than they've ever been, and so I think there's this
perception that if we're going up and talking to someone
that they really don't want to interact, and really the
research proves quite the opposite. And not only are we
happier talking with other people. Folks are happier when we
initiate conversation with them, and then sort of the most
interesting piece is those who are witnessing these interactions are

(40:04):
happier as well. And so this was not in a
romantic context, but just a couple of days ago. I
was out hiking and on the way down I ended
up chatting with a few guys and we ended up
chatting pretty much the whole way down, and there were
a few other people at the top who had overheard it,
and they came up and they're like, gosh, I just
like made our day to see how much you both
enjoyed interacting right there. And so if you're feeling nervous

(40:27):
to have that conversation, I think it's cliche and trite
to say don't. But one thing that I think can
help get over some of that social anxiety is there
are a lot of these events that are actually geared
towards normalizing conversation. One of the ones that I really
like is called skip the Small Talk, and it's a
number of people coming together and their intentional conversation cards

(40:49):
to say, great, let's jump right into things. We don't
need this to feel like a job interview doesn't need
to be you know, how many.

Speaker 4 (40:54):
Brothers and sisters do you have? Where did you grow up?

Speaker 10 (40:57):
It's diving into more substantive questions of you know, what
lights you up? What are you getting excited about right now?
What's something? What's a fear that caused you to stop
doing something that you really love? Something to allow you
to meet a stranger. And again, the idea here is
just to strike up, you know, platonic connection. Anything more
that grows from that is great, and I think a

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lot of the times we find that it does.

Speaker 5 (41:19):
My shorthand advice for people who are a little in
a bit nervous to get out of their box, ask
someone about themselves, Like, just ask them a question about themselves.
People like to talk about themselves and usually the first
question will lead to a follow up question will lead
you know, and it starts a conversation. But if you
don't know how to start that, you just ask someone
a question about themselves, even if it's something stupid like hey,

(41:41):
those are cool shoes?

Speaker 4 (41:43):
Are they comfortable? Do you like them?

Speaker 5 (41:44):
I mean, people like to talk about themselves. It just
shouldn't be that hard. Tim when you are trying to.
I don't know if you if you sort of help
people drill down on how they conduct their dating life,
do you help people kind of drill down on what
they're really looking for so they're not out there wasting
a bunch of time with with people that might not

(42:05):
be suitable or right for a long term relationship.

Speaker 10 (42:10):
Absolutely, that's really the first part is reverse engineering from
what that goal is, and so what are you looking
to bring into your life? And I think for a
lot of people, they use a romantic relationship as a
proxy for what they're actually looking for, which is social connection, right,
And so for a lot of people, it may be
just bringing more points of social touch into their life,

(42:33):
expanding that surface area and finding a lot more fulfillment
connection belonging within that. And then a lot of times
they're surprised me like, oh gosh, Like I was at
this dinner party because I just met a new friend
and turns out they brought someone along who is really
great who I hit it off with, and that.

Speaker 5 (42:50):
Just expanding your network of your friendship network is a
great way to expand your dating pool. I one hundred percent,
I can't even gosh, and my dating history it is
littered with so many friends of a friend that it's
not even funny. You know, my husband was a friend
of a friend now, so yeah, that's that's definitely true.
What are some of the things that people are dealing with?

(43:11):
I just got this text message on the Common Spirit
health text line. And by the way, you can text
us at five six six N I O. This texture
just said all the fake profiles on dating sites, many
many scam profiles other than volunteering or signing up for
a class.

Speaker 4 (43:25):
Are there other ways?

Speaker 5 (43:26):
Because it used to be you would meet people at school,
at church, at work, or through people in any of
those areas well, we've lost some of those touchstones. A
lot of people don't go to church anymore, working, you know,
working together, as you frowned upon in a big way
for good reason. But so, where is a place real
people can meet real people and not necessarily get caught

(43:50):
up on the dating sites as much?

Speaker 10 (43:54):
I think there are a lot of different avenues, and
so it really depends on what you personally are interested in.
But maybe it's that you, yeah, take a pottery class,
or join an intermural sports.

Speaker 4 (44:04):
League or pick up you know, pickleball or whatever.

Speaker 10 (44:09):
That might be, but I think it's it's really trying
to be creative about how you can mix up your routine.
And so maybe it's that you know, you go to
a yoga class, but you go to yoga every Tuesday
at five thirty, and then you're surprised when the people
who show up at five thirty yoga are the same
people you saw the week before. And so we can

(44:31):
be a little bit more proactive and say great, like
this week, I'm going to go to yoga class. Next week,
I'm going to try out orange theory. The following week
is going to be this spin class. And by putting
ourselves in different places, and you know, for a lot
of those who work from home, I think also getting
out to coffee shops, opting for the community table, switching
up where you're going, it just brings you into contact

(44:54):
with so many different people.

Speaker 4 (44:56):
The grocery store another great one. A lot of people
grocery shop.

Speaker 5 (44:59):
It turns out, I think remote work has been really
awful for people meeting other people. And I'm not just
talking about in the workplace, like you have so many
incidental I hate dictionary dot com for the following reason.
Tim and I feel like, I feel like online dating
is the same as the reason I hate dictionary dot com.
When I go into a physical dictionary. While I'm looking

(45:20):
up whatever word i'm looking up, right, I'm going to
see all these other cool words.

Speaker 4 (45:24):
When I was a kid.

Speaker 5 (45:25):
That is how I learned so many words that I
still use and know to this day. Online dating is
kind of the same thing. When you're out in the
real world. You may be going thinking you're going in
looking for this, but then all of a sudden, well,
look at this cool person over here that I would
not have seen had I not come here. It feels
like online dating is very aniseptic, and you may think that, Okay,

(45:47):
this is what I'm looking for, but in reality, you
gotta know someone. You got to meet someone face to face. God,
I never want to date again after this conversation.

Speaker 4 (45:55):
I'm not going to lie.

Speaker 3 (45:58):
No.

Speaker 4 (45:59):
I love the Dictionary analogy, and I think it's so
spot on.

Speaker 10 (46:02):
I think one of the things that we get trapped
into with dating apps is setting filters and thinking that
we have a very clear idea of what we want,
someone who's over six foot, someone who shares a religious background,
whatever it might be, and yet we end up creating
these preconceived notions of who someone is, where is what

(46:24):
you were talking about, you know, thirty years ago when
we were at work and you spent every day sitting
next to someone, and at first you thought they were
a little goofy, and over time you realize like, actually
they're super generous, and they're always the first one to
volunteer to take on extra work, and you know they
have this dry sense of humor that you really vibe with.
It wouldn't have come out, you know, on a first

(46:44):
date or in a dating profile. It's very hard to
take our three dimensional selves and boil them down into
this two dimensional profile and expect that we're able to
present our real self and then in response to that
also be able to accurately sit through whoever is on the.

Speaker 4 (47:01):
Other end of that. Tim Molnar is our guest right now.
He's a dating coach.

Speaker 5 (47:05):
He's not hitch right, Like, somebody just said, how can
you actually approach people at the grocery store?

Speaker 4 (47:10):
That seems weird? Do you actually help people work on
their sort of pitch out in the g And let
me just say this, I have been approached to the
grocery store badly and I've been approached to the grocery
store well. And the guy who approached me at the
grocery store well simply said, I need help picking this out?
Can you help me? It was an absolute ploy. I

(47:31):
knew it was a ploy. He knew it was a ploy.

Speaker 5 (47:33):
But I went over and helped him, like figure out
which avocados he wanted, and then we continued the conversation
and then he asked for my number, and I was like,
I'm super sorry.

Speaker 4 (47:42):
I'm married.

Speaker 5 (47:43):
So but it was nice to be flarted with for
a hot second. But I think there are ways to
do it and not seem creepy. You just have to
make sure that you're not being too much, don't you think.

Speaker 10 (47:56):
Yeah, what you're talking about is something that I love
because it's called the in the door approach, and there's
actually research on efficacy of this, and it turns out
that when we go with this small favor first approach, Hey,
can you help me pick out the avocados, We're five
times more likely to have a bigger favor accepted later.

Speaker 4 (48:14):
Hey, you had a really great energy, Mandy.

Speaker 10 (48:15):
I'd love to go out for a coffee sometime, right,
And so I think there are so many ways to
make that happen. In the grocery store, you know, you're
in line behind someone and you make a funny comment
about what they have on the conveyor belt. Hey, it
looks like you're you know, making watermelon breakfast tacos? Is
that what you're ha you know whatever, Like silly, stupid comment,
or like oh, I've never had those, you know, chicken

(48:35):
potstickers before.

Speaker 4 (48:36):
Are they good?

Speaker 10 (48:37):
It's that small favor of just, you know, a bid
for connection, and someone can choose to take it or not,
but you're going to have a pretty good feel if
someone you know responds very very shortly versus engages, And
if they engage, then I think it's a totally reasonable
thing to say, like, hey, you know, I've enjoyed this,
and the off chance that you did too, would you

(48:58):
want to go for a walk or grab dinner or something.

Speaker 4 (48:59):
So time I will say this, Tim, I do think
that I just lost my train of thought. It was
probably very clever. Any parting words, Oh, Tim has a
whole book about this, by the way, and he also
does coaching.

Speaker 5 (49:11):
I have a link on the blog to his website
to his book to buy this and Tim I want
to ask you a favorite. Where are you're in the
Are you in the Denver Metro?

Speaker 1 (49:20):
Now?

Speaker 10 (49:21):
Yes, yes, I'm in I'm in Boulder, and also work
with clients in Denver Metro. I mean I work with
clients all over all over the country, both you know,
in person and rerowly.

Speaker 5 (49:29):
But yes, I'm going to follow up with you and
you and I are going to put together our singles event, Okay,
and you can come and do like a mass coaching
event for all the singles and we can make them
play dumb games and we'll get all these people married
and it'll be fine. So let's make that happen in
the near future.

Speaker 4 (49:46):
I love that so much.

Speaker 10 (49:49):
And maybe the last thing that I would leave folks
with is I think we have a lot more agency
over our dating lives than we think. Yes, and in
so many areas of life, our career, our health, our finances,
were so intentional about taking steps towards that. And with dating,
there's I think this hollywoodization that's made us think that

(50:09):
this should just happen naturally. But we're really not born
knowing how to date. We need to get out, we
need to get our reps, we need to take little moments,
do intentional things, go out to a different coffee shop,
and these small actions compound over time into meaningful opportunities
for connection.

Speaker 5 (50:29):
Amen to that, Tim Malner, thank you so much for
your time today. I hope we can talk again soon.

Speaker 4 (50:34):
Thank you so much for having me all right, thank you. Yeah,
I never want to date again.

Speaker 5 (50:40):
Somebody just said this text, Nandy, if you knew he
was floating with you, then you were cheating. No, no,
indeedy and I can call my husband right now and
we can have this conversation on the air. My husband
and I know exactly where that line is. And having
some guy ask for help with avocados and helping him
is not cheating.

Speaker 4 (50:59):
Not in our world, no way, no how. We're Mary
not dead. And by the way, my husband's way more
of a flirt than I am, way more, way, way more.

Speaker 5 (51:10):
When someone laughs at the joke I just threw out,
they make the first cut, says this texter. And you
know what, guys and gals, that's the truth. The more
you engage, the more you strike up those random conversations,
the more you make that funny joke. And by the way,
I am always making jokes at the grocery store, and
I'm telling you seventy five percent of them. No one

(51:31):
around me gets it, and I am crushed with disappointment,
like that was a fantastic.

Speaker 4 (51:36):
Joke about crab with a K and everybody left me
hanging in the seafood department. So disappointing. The gas station. Also,
how do you like your Toyota truck? That's a good one.
I like it.

Speaker 5 (51:47):
Now, wait a minute, I actually ask people how they
like their vehicles because I like to know.

Speaker 4 (51:53):
Are they gonna think I'm hitting on them?

Speaker 1 (51:54):
No?

Speaker 7 (51:55):
No, gas station, you're running into the Are they looking
to scam? Is there someone behind me that they're trying
to steal something? While this person distracts me? Do you
get gas station?

Speaker 1 (52:05):
No? Oh?

Speaker 2 (52:06):
You know what?

Speaker 4 (52:06):
Yeah, I didn't think about any of that. Gas stations. See,
but you know why because.

Speaker 5 (52:10):
I am locked up tight when I get out to
get my gas up on by myself my cars, but
my driver's side door is locked.

Speaker 4 (52:16):
Everything. It's it's sketch. Someone walks up through the gas
station they want some well.

Speaker 5 (52:20):
Normally it's another person pumping gas right, and they're like, hey,
do you like that?

Speaker 2 (52:24):
Whatever?

Speaker 4 (52:24):
You like your car? Web? Whatever?

Speaker 7 (52:26):
I am a people person. I will talk to people
in ninety nine point nine percent of situations at a
gas station.

Speaker 4 (52:32):
Keep yourself yep na na, no thanks, yep per. It's weird, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (52:38):
The way you said thank you to him had the
same kind of tone as when you say can it
do you?

Speaker 2 (52:41):
Ah?

Speaker 5 (52:42):
Well, I am trying to make everything more festive. We'll
be right back on the common Spirit health text line, Mandy,
olive oil discussion would have crossed the line of cheating
olive oil. Do they think they mean the avocado discussion?

Speaker 4 (52:57):
I'm confused.

Speaker 5 (53:00):
They went on to say when a mask was required
at grocery stores, I bought a mask from the Cheyenne
Mountain Zoo that did garner responses.

Speaker 4 (53:06):
It was a mask with a penguin beak.

Speaker 5 (53:08):
The best reaction was in line when an infant in
the cart stared with me at fascination that kids probably
scarred for life, Like.

Speaker 4 (53:13):
It's all this giant penguin at the grocery store. What's
going on? It's an ask us anything.

Speaker 7 (53:18):
So I'm going to follow up on that text because
they literally just mentioned a place I had never been there.
We're thinking about going this weekend before our wedding on Sunday.
Is the Cheyenne Zoo worth it down in this sprint?

Speaker 4 (53:27):
Oh that's so funny because we were talking about going
to the zoo as well this week. Hey, it's great,
it's great. I've heard nothing but good things Chuck and
Q have been, but I've never been.

Speaker 2 (53:36):
Huh.

Speaker 4 (53:36):
So his cousin Dave and his wife are in town zoo.
We might do that this weekend. I'm gonna pull out
the curtain.

Speaker 7 (53:41):
We have a little problem though, because if you go
to Cheyenne Zoo you really can't obviously go in your
wedding attire, right, Okay, Well, Chef three, yeah you probably shouldn't.
You be off, sweaty and gross and that's not fine.
But the check in of our hotel is until four
and the wedding's at five, so that's not enough time
to get ready. So we needed early check in or
the Shayana Zoo just probably can't happen.

Speaker 5 (53:58):
Why don't you just call the host hell and say, look,
can you get us in there an hour today would help.

Speaker 2 (54:02):
Us so much.

Speaker 7 (54:02):
I didn't answer. I'm gonna try again, try again. I
will say, we just want to go to do in
the morning. And get in like an hour earlier so
that we get ready to spice up and look all
good for the wedding.

Speaker 4 (54:11):
But it checkings the hour before the wedding, that's kind
of pushing it. Just well, are you checking in tomorrow, Sunday?
Sunday the day well, the day before.

Speaker 5 (54:19):
Call Saturday the day before because they'll have a better
idea of what their bookings look like and how many
people are going to be staying and their staff and
all that stuff. So we are in one of the
blocks of perfect. It doesn't matter, that doesn't matter. Just
call the front desk and say, this would be a
huge for us if check in an hour early.

Speaker 4 (54:35):
What's it called the Shayan Mountain zoo Shan Mountains?

Speaker 1 (54:38):
Is it?

Speaker 4 (54:38):
Where going? Should I go? I mean, I've heard nothing
but good things? Anything better? Hey, Mandy, do you like
when the Rockies games are on? It preempts your show? Sometimes?

Speaker 1 (54:48):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (54:49):
Sometimes no, Like yesterday I went and I had lunch
with the folks at Running Creek Dentals, So that was
super cool. You know, there's some days when I'm like,
but then some days they preempt when there's so much
enough to talk about, and you're like, oh, so yeah,
sometimes yes, sometimes now, uh Mandy. I had a gal
randomly come up to me at the supermarket and tell me, wait,

(55:10):
where is it If I was with a guy like you,
I'd be pregnant every year. I said, My wife usually is, y'all.
I would not have the stones to do that. That
is not something I would ever do. Nope, no, wait
to do what A girl walked up to him at
the grocery store and said, if I was with a
guy like you, I'd be pregnant every year.

Speaker 4 (55:29):
Okay, that's weird. I mean that's you know, that's like
a little I don't know.

Speaker 5 (55:36):
Uh, Hi, Mandy, this is Roger listening in Ohio on
the Crystal Clear. iHeartRadio appp Roger as everyone can. I
used to listen to you when you're on WHAS.

Speaker 4 (55:45):
Did you see that?

Speaker 5 (55:46):
I heart media in seven hundred ww and WHS legend
Gary Burkhardt Burbank died yesterday.

Speaker 4 (55:53):
Wondering if you ever crossed paths with him.

Speaker 5 (55:55):
I did not, but I did another texter or send
me or another email or sent me that this morning.
But I never We were never in the same space
at the same time, So I don't know about that.
Mandy with Mandy's new Mercedes Bend partner. I bet she
has a new Mercedes in the next month.

Speaker 4 (56:11):
You guys, I like not.

Speaker 5 (56:14):
Having a car payment more than I like having a
new car that I will drive my car that I
have now. Until I reached the point where I spend
more in one year, the new car payments would be.

Speaker 2 (56:26):
I was you, I was you.

Speaker 7 (56:28):
Yeah, I wanted to have a car five years old
and get it new every five years. A five year
old car, and then all the car stuff happened that No,
God got that whole mentality.

Speaker 4 (56:37):
Do I give me a new car, no issues, no
problems involving car I purchased when it was two years old.

Speaker 5 (56:41):
I have all the maintenance records because they had it
serviced at a Mercedes dealer. And my car's in fantastic shape.
It's ten years old. Yeah, my cars are twenty fifteen
right now and it's in great shape. As a matter
of fact, I took it to Mercedes of Littleton to
get my service done.

Speaker 4 (56:56):
And do you know what they do there? A rod
This was like the coolest thing. They take a video camera.

Speaker 5 (57:01):
While your car's up on the rack and they literally
walk you around under your car and they're like, oh,
your break paths look great, your rotors look great.

Speaker 4 (57:07):
Everything.

Speaker 5 (57:08):
Of course, I had no idea what the guy was
talking about. He's like, yeah, your suspension looks I don't know.

Speaker 3 (57:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (57:13):
But but but Chuck was like, dude, that's the coolest
thing ever. And my car is in phenomenal shape. So
I did find a Mercedes that I would like. So
if anybody should I start to GoFundMe to raise them
one hundred and fifty eight thousand dollars.

Speaker 4 (57:25):
For this particular Mercedes. Probably not, you don't think so.
You don't think that's sympathetic enough. Buy me a Mercedes?

Speaker 7 (57:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (57:32):
Oh, lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes? Benz? My
friends all have come on. Nope, you don't know that. Lord,
won't you buy me a Mercedes? First World Problems kind
of song? My friends all have Porsches. I must make
a man's You've never heard that song.

Speaker 7 (57:50):
But I think you just found your new first world
problems thing. You were asking texters earlier, now.

Speaker 3 (57:56):
Why No?

Speaker 4 (57:56):
I told them, I said that it's aspirational for me.
That car is aspiration tears.

Speaker 5 (58:06):
No, the cars there a rod, The cars are like No,
I got in the car that I'm talking about, and
the leather is nicer than my leather furniture leather, and
it's just like butta, it's all, forget about it. It
was like a camel color with like a black accent camel.

Speaker 4 (58:25):
It's Cammel and caramel are the same. Camel like the
color of camel. Well, camel is a color that you
use like a fabric. Yeah, but not like that dirty
brown like it's caramel. It's the same color.

Speaker 5 (58:36):
Mandy Shyon mountain zooms so worth it. Also, occasionally you
ask a rod give me my computer?

Speaker 4 (58:42):
Does he not let you? Does he not trust you?

Speaker 5 (58:45):
That all the No, And here's why. And by the way,
he should not trust me because I have right now
on my computer in the studio, I have ten windows
open on my computer, and some of there were news sites.
And sometimes when I click on my blog to go
through to the news site, some news sites still have
an annoying.

Speaker 4 (59:04):
Auto start feature. Yeah, and so that's why you play
on the air. Well you don't know, and now our
textures will know.

Speaker 7 (59:10):
Is I have a cube button And often you don't
hear when you go to one of those pages, you
have audio blaring from your pages more than you know.

Speaker 4 (59:17):
I know, and I hear it every time. I'm like what,
every time I go, well, good thing, it's not up.

Speaker 5 (59:20):
Yeah, exactly, So no, it's perfectly fine. Don't just not
The system works. The system works, okay, so don't mess
with the system. The system is just fine. Yep, Mandy
just got a new jeep wrangler getting gas. A guy
asked if it was my boyfriend's. I was too busy
being offended, but he didn't think it was mine to
realize he was trying to see if I'm single. Yeah,

(59:43):
defensiveness is not the best posture, you guys.

Speaker 7 (59:46):
Dave Frasier just said, Chya mountains zoo. Yes, so I
need textures to tell me obviously. The key difference is
I've been to Denver Zoo a million times. Why is
the Chyenne Mountain Zoo that much better? And what does
it have that the Denver Zoo it is not, other
than being much larger.

Speaker 5 (01:00:00):
It is on the side of a mountain, as this
texter says, some of it is switchback walking up the side.

Speaker 4 (01:00:06):
Of the zoo.

Speaker 5 (01:00:07):
This one says, great zoo, feed the giraffes. My granddaughter
worked there in the Elephant Barn.

Speaker 4 (01:00:13):
That's cool. Yeah, yeah, so a lot of people. Yeah, wow, wow,
I can't Texter, who just sent me the shirt about
a shirt looking good on someone? I can't read that
on the air. I'm going to read it.

Speaker 5 (01:00:30):
Yeah, yeah, No, I can't say that on the air. Mandy,
did WHS signal go as far as KOA goes? You
just mentioned seven hundred WLW and I've picked up WLW
in western Montana. So this is a fun fact about
KOA and WHAS. I can't read that on the Airture.
It's funny though, it's funny, but it's I can't read
that on the air. So KOA was part back in

(01:00:52):
the early nineteen hundreds, was part of a group of
radio stations that covered the entire United States of America.
WLW in Cincinnati is one of them. WHS and Louisville
is one of them. KOA is one of them.

Speaker 4 (01:01:07):
What are the other ones?

Speaker 5 (01:01:08):
I don't know if KDKA in Pittsburgh is I can't
remember all of them. But they provided a network of
AM signals, and you have to understand there there's no FM, right,
so these AM signals go forever and they could cover
the entire country with information and programming and everything else.
So that is why KOA and WHAS and WLW are

(01:01:32):
fifty thousand watt stations. There are not newer AM stations
that have that kind of power because we're still considered
what's called a clear channel station, not capital clear capital
channel the company that we used to be, but clear channel,
meaning that there's nothing else on these frequencies. That's why
lower power AM stations that may exist around the country

(01:01:56):
on the eight fifty AM band have to power down
at night make room for our signal just in case.
This is why the conversation about AM radio and cars
it really does matter, you guys, because AM works when
FM can't, So it's kind of a big deal. There's
my geeky, nerdy explanation of KOA for you for the day.

Speaker 4 (01:02:17):
You're welcome.

Speaker 5 (01:02:18):
Which stations are actually clear channel stations, meaning that their
class A at least fifty thousand watts. Boy, there's a
lot of them, a lot more than I thought, including
KFI in Los Angeles. I'm looking for the ones people know,
WFAN and New York. You've got WLW in Cincinnati, Cairo,
in Seattle, wr in New York City, WGN in Chicago,

(01:02:41):
WSB and Atlanta, WJR and Detroit, WABC in New York,
WBBM in Chicago, WVAP and Fort Worth, KSFO, WHAS, WCCO, KOA,
WWL in New Orleans, WLS in Chicago, KDKA and Pittsburgh, WBZ,
WHO and Des Moines.

Speaker 4 (01:03:02):
These are just radio nerd people.

Speaker 5 (01:03:03):
W TAM in Cleveland, WBT and Charlotte, KMOX in Saint Louis, WRVA,
KSL and Salt Lake City RVAS in Richmond, Virginia. By
the way, offered a job in the hat it snatched
away from me.

Speaker 7 (01:03:17):
I will forget to dimension if I don't do it
right now, because it's a do whatever the hell we want,
and do whatever the hell we want and when we
want to do it.

Speaker 4 (01:03:22):
Friday, Yeah, I just played white Wedding there.

Speaker 7 (01:03:24):
I want to send a congratulations to my friends, our
friends Ray and Erica getting married this weekend.

Speaker 4 (01:03:30):
Oh we were talking about dating and all that stuff,
so love is in the air. Congratulations, congrats, many many many.

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
Oh.

Speaker 5 (01:03:37):
By the way, congratulations to one mister Travis Hunter or
should we call him Pops because he is now the
son of a bouncing baby boy. He and his wife
welcomed their first child together, and I hope they have many,
many years of happiness together in their new family. Congratulations,
but you got to schedule them to not happen during
football season.

Speaker 4 (01:03:56):
I'm just saying, gotta work on that.

Speaker 5 (01:03:59):
Paula's he has made some budget cuts. I don't know
if you heard him today on Ross's show. I've heard
part of the interview. I haven't heard the whole thing yet.
He cuts some Medicaid reimbursement rates and that only hurts
people on Medicaid. And one of my antagonists on my
Facebook page, this guy Tony. I actually have so much
fondness for Tony because he's just such consistently an antagonist,

(01:04:21):
but he's not a jerk about it. And Tony pointed
out that here I am saying I'm concerned about Medicaid
when I keep telling people to go get a job
and I have. If you're able bodied and you don't
have any dependents, should not be on Medicaid. Medicaid was
designed for children, for pregnant women, and for the elderly,

(01:04:41):
and in order to protect it for the people that
was initially intended for, I would like able bodied people
with no dependence to just.

Speaker 4 (01:04:49):
Go to work, right, go to work, figure it out.

Speaker 5 (01:04:54):
So he cuts some Medicaid reimbursements, which is going to
make it harder for people on Medicaid to find care.
He also signed into loss and cuts to higher ed
and then he is getting the rest out of the reserves,
which are statutorily statutorily required to be at fifteen percent.
He took us down to thirteen percent, which means before

(01:05:16):
they even begin to work on the next budget, they have.

Speaker 4 (01:05:19):
To fill that hole.

Speaker 5 (01:05:21):
So he has successfully kicked it down the road with
the help of Democrats who raise taxes on small business.
But I'm sure it'll be fine. Nothing to see here,
that's what happened. If you have a small business, you're
probably going to want to talk to wherever does your
taxes about what that means for you. Now, we've talked
a little bit about the Pueblo County Coroner, and I
don't want to spend a lot of time on this,

(01:05:42):
but yesterday I heard a news story on our station
about how much it was going to cost the people
of Pueblo to.

Speaker 4 (01:05:49):
Go ahead and do a recall on this guy who
is the owner.

Speaker 5 (01:05:52):
Of the latest mortuary in Colorado to just have stacks
and dead bodies piled up all over the place.

Speaker 4 (01:05:58):
Apparently it's a thing here. Maybe it's our dry air.
Maybe that's why they can get away with it, cause
I gotta tell you, in Florida, you leave a stack
of dead bodies.

Speaker 5 (01:06:08):
Wow, that is going to be right in a very
short period of time. Anyway, Mandy, I'm not sure if
you heard Ross's interview with Paulus, but it's obvious why
he only goes on his show.

Speaker 4 (01:06:21):
And I'm not going to read the last part of that, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (01:06:25):
I still can't grasp the magic of radio transmissions TV
broadcasting pictures through the air blows my mind, kind of
like teleportation.

Speaker 4 (01:06:34):
Think about it.

Speaker 5 (01:06:34):
Now, we can't teleport yet, but when we can. If
you're teleported, if you're somehow broken up into a billion little, tiny,
fractional pieces and then sent somewhere else over like a
laser beam or whatever that's going to look like, and
then they reassemble you back at the other side. Are
you still the same person or are you a carbon
copy of yourself? And if so, is it like you

(01:06:56):
know when you make too many copies of a key
and it no longer works works.

Speaker 4 (01:07:01):
These are the things I think about. I'm just letting
you know I think about this stuff so you don't
have to.

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Speaker 4 (01:07:33):
To the final hour of the show. Many of you
have already probably mentally checked out for the weekend. It
is Labor Day weekend, I believe is the office closed?

Speaker 1 (01:07:41):
Now?

Speaker 4 (01:07:43):
Was it early clothes today?

Speaker 5 (01:07:44):
We get these little things every once in a while
from Irot Media and they're like, oh, close the office
early to day at one o'clock and I'm like, so
does that I mean I get de leave?

Speaker 1 (01:07:53):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:07:53):
Not you?

Speaker 4 (01:07:54):
Sorry? You and Anthony can stay behind, hold down the
foot make sure that doesn't burn down.

Speaker 5 (01:08:01):
Speaking of burning down, can't we just have another shout
out for the Israeli military. I don't care what you
think about Israel, really, but if you cannot look at
the IDF and just go dang, I don't want to be.

Speaker 4 (01:08:14):
On their bad side. I don't know if I can
help you, because listen to this.

Speaker 5 (01:08:19):
Today, early this morning, before you were even awake, before
I was awake, the IDF launched a very specific strike
and in this strike, in one strike, they took out
the hoothy Defense Minister, the chief of Staff, and almost
the entire general staff and government commands.

Speaker 4 (01:08:41):
They were all in the building listening to.

Speaker 5 (01:08:45):
The Secretary of Defense or the Defense minister pontificate about
some nonsense, and Israel just blew them all to Kingdom.

Speaker 4 (01:08:54):
Come, why is this important?

Speaker 5 (01:08:56):
Because Israel has put all of these rogue states, the
hoho thies, hesblah hummas, on notice that they're done playing,
and in doing so, they have also put Iran on
notice that they're done playing because all of these little
offshoots I was going to use a different word, but
I chose to use a kinder word. All of these

(01:09:20):
offshoots are just back to one hundred percent by Iran.
And you know the one hundred and fifty billion dollars
that we let Iron take back, I mean, whatever, it's
funding attacks on our allies, that's fine. But the video
of this pretty spectacular, I mean pretty spectacular, And nothing
says FAOFO more than this, you know what I mean, like, Hey,

(01:09:43):
you're gonna fire missiles. That asks, well, we'll take care
of that.

Speaker 4 (01:09:46):
We will do that. We don't need to do that.

Speaker 5 (01:09:51):
Hey, Rod, you ever thought about living off the grid,
you know, like going full off the grid?

Speaker 4 (01:09:55):
Where absolutely, positively never Hell a Roth.

Speaker 5 (01:10:00):
Let me just say this, and this is not in
any way a slight It is just a matter of fact.
A Rod is a city kid, meaning I don't think
you have any desire to go out there and grow
your own vegetables and hunt your own meat and all
that stuff.

Speaker 7 (01:10:15):
That last part that sounds kind of cool. Oh god,
it's so much work, though, but permanent basis and.

Speaker 4 (01:10:20):
Too far off the grid. Hell no, I am a
city guy.

Speaker 5 (01:10:24):
I lived in a cabin on a river that was
forty five minutes from the nearest decent grocery store. We
did have a Dollar General that was about twenty minutes away,
so I did shop at the doll And don't laugh,
Dollar General had dollar rabbis and.

Speaker 4 (01:10:37):
They were not horrible.

Speaker 5 (01:10:38):
I don't think they were actually cow I'm not sure
what they actually were, but they were not bad.

Speaker 4 (01:10:44):
But after a few years, it's just like.

Speaker 5 (01:10:46):
Oh, now, there were times when I absolutely loved it,
Like no one else is around and it's perfectly quiet,
and all you hear is the bugs, and in Florida,
so many bugs, but it's just peaceful. When I first
moved to this cabin with my ex husband, who is
also a city kid, he could not sleep for like
a week and a half because the bug.

Speaker 4 (01:11:06):
Noises were so loud. It's this loud hum and I.

Speaker 5 (01:11:10):
Don't even think people here, like every once in a while,
you're here, like right now, there's a bunch of crickets
out right when I'm walking the dog.

Speaker 4 (01:11:16):
The crickets are everywhere, Like you'll hear a few crickets
doing their cricket thing. Magnify that times like a billion.

Speaker 5 (01:11:23):
And that's what it's like in the woods in Florida
in the summer especially, And I think a lot of
people sort of they romanticize what living off the grid
is really like. And then I'm like, have you watched
Life Below Zero? Have you ever seen the show Life
below Zero?

Speaker 8 (01:11:39):
A rod?

Speaker 4 (01:11:39):
I think it's on at Gio. It's about all these
people that live above the.

Speaker 5 (01:11:43):
Arctic Circle in Alaska, so they're like living and some
of them, you know, are you know, an hour and
a half snowmobile ride to the next closest person. You
have to be cut from a very specific cloth to
seek that out. And then you go to Alaska where
your growing season is so short. I mean no, no,

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thank you, no thank you. I want to be able
to be close enough to where I can go and
get whatever I want, not maybe whatever I want that
if I can't get it in the store near me,
then Amazon is going to deliver it to my house.

Speaker 4 (01:12:20):
Right. But I have this story off on from the
New York Post today.

Speaker 5 (01:12:26):
Listen to this off grid living, once the domain of
hippies and doomsday preppers, has been steadily winning over a
broader range of home buyers, from remote working young professionals
to families pursuing a back.

Speaker 4 (01:12:40):
To basics lifestyle.

Speaker 5 (01:12:42):
Enter the modern day homesteader, someone who embraces self sufficient
living in a rural setting. This kind of rustic living
typically involves producing at least some kind of your own food,
generating your own energy by harnessing solar, wind, or water
power instead of relying on the municipal electrical grid, reducing waste,
and incorporating sustainability into everyday life.

Speaker 4 (01:13:06):
And like I said, people have romanticized it.

Speaker 5 (01:13:07):
Now there's all these people who have these Instagram channels
where they're like, oh, I just went out with my
flowing dress to get eggs from my chickens. They don't
show you that time that, like, you know, a bobcat
gets into your chicken house and just swaters everything in there.

Speaker 4 (01:13:24):
They don't show you that. They don't show you when.

Speaker 5 (01:13:28):
Your cow has a breech berth and your cow and
the baby cow die, like, they don't tell you the
reality of some of this stuff. They just show you
the pretty like, look how simple and wonderful our lives are.
But guess what they're doing it to make money and
they are. Some of those influencers have millions of followers
who are now sitting in their you know, comfortable homes,

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thinking into cells. I could do that when clearly they
could not. There's a lot of people there are city
kids just like ay Rod. Like I said, it's not
a knock, it's just a matter of fact. And I
realized something the other day. I was driving home the
day of the show that I did the long list
of animals that I've been attacked by, and when I
was in my car on the way home, I.

Speaker 4 (01:14:10):
Was like, what the heck, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (01:14:13):
I don't think that's normal to have been attacked by
that many animals in your lifetime. I don't think other
people are attacked by animals with that kind of frequency.
And to be fair, I have not been attacked by
an animal in a really long time. I mean maybe
even like a couple decades. But I don't get out
as much, right I mean, there's always time and a

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big hike. I'm just kidding. I don't want to be
attacked by a mountain line. But I think that there
should be. And this is a business idea I'm given
out for free. Another great business idea, there should be
a working farm summer camp for families where you come
as a family and you live on one of these
off grid properties and you get to do all of

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the things all day long that you have to do
to survive. One of the reasons that we have flourished
as a society is because we have compartmentalized. If you've
never read the book, it's very short. It's I don't
want to say it's a pamphlet that it's a very
short book called Eye Pencil about the interconnectedness of everything

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and I'm just going to break it down for you.
The whole theme of eye pencil is that when you
pick up a pencil, you know how it works. Very
simple item. It's would, it's led, it's Rubbert, it's an eraser,
it's metal.

Speaker 4 (01:15:26):
Right, that's it. That's a whole pencil. Do you have
any idea how to make a pencil?

Speaker 5 (01:15:31):
I don't, And just that one simple item has so
many different people in supply chains involved, and that has
made our life better off the grid living means all
of it falls on you.

Speaker 4 (01:15:41):
Nowugh, no, no thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:15:44):
I mean, if I had to post apocalyptic world style,
I could totally get down. But as long as I
can just go to Amazon instead, no thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:15:52):
Mandy.

Speaker 5 (01:15:52):
Did the one Eyeribbi come one dollar Ribi come in
a box? I think I had it before, Yes, it did.
And I bought it one day the first time, and
I was like, okay, one dollar Rabbi, show me what
you got because I was gonna use it for fajitas,
so I figured how bad?

Speaker 4 (01:16:06):
You know, how bad can it be for fajitas? It
was a delight, And then I just kept buying him,
and then I was like, I don't know how this
can be a cow and be one dollar.

Speaker 5 (01:16:17):
I mean I realized it was a few years ago.
It was probably twenty five years ago, but still a dollar.

Speaker 4 (01:16:22):
How is that even a thing? I don't know, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (01:16:26):
We have a farm and have seriously thought about ad tourism.
Like you're suggesting. The thing that keeps us back is
farming is dangerous and we would have huge liability. Farming
is also expensive, and we can't afford to have equipment
damaged by the campers.

Speaker 4 (01:16:39):
Well, I think that you have to.

Speaker 5 (01:16:41):
Here's what I would do. You set off five acres
to the side, right, just five acres. You put a
smallish home, tiny home, maybe a two bedroom, one bath,
little tiny home kind of thing there.

Speaker 4 (01:16:52):
That's going to be your homestead.

Speaker 5 (01:16:53):
And you are going to have that five acres that
is just going to be taken care of and maintained
by the people who come into camp. Hopefully by the
end of the season there'll be something for them to harvest.
But you're not gonna give them access to your big, fancy,
you know, million dollar tractors.

Speaker 4 (01:17:07):
That's not how it's going.

Speaker 5 (01:17:08):
To work, because that's not what they're going to have
on their little homestead. You're gonna give them little John
Deere with a bad tick that has to have a
certain you know touch to turn it on, and you're
gonna show.

Speaker 4 (01:17:19):
Them what it's really like doing that.

Speaker 5 (01:17:21):
You're gonna have some chickens, You're gonna maybe have some
goats for them to milk, you know, but you're not
gonna allow them near your actual farming operation. This is
a side hustle project, but I think it would be really,
really interesting.

Speaker 7 (01:17:34):
Mandy.

Speaker 5 (01:17:35):
We bought fifty acres in the middle of nowhere, Wyoming,
nearest neighbor one mile away, twenty one years and loving it.

Speaker 4 (01:17:41):
You so crazy. I do think it works for some people.
It does not work for me, not at all.

Speaker 5 (01:17:47):
My friend Elizabeth, who moved to Florida a couple of
years ago, she said, we're having one of those years
with extra cicadas, and holy moley, are they allowed they are.
I'd love to know the decibels that you get at
night in the woods in Florida from the bugs. It's
got to be like fifty decibels. And I'm not kidding
you guys. It's loud, absolutely crazy loud. This person said,

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I'd rather see a cow die than a homeless person
shoot up. There is a medium between that. It's called
the suburbs. Just you know, just you don't have to
do that. Actually, here's an interesting story in light of
the fact that more and more people, even young people,
are having fertility issues, and people are trying to figure
out what's going on, what's disrupting the hormones, what's creating

(01:18:34):
this problem. And a new study has shown. This is
a study out of Denmark. In a three week trial
with forty three healthy men. The men that ate lots
of ultra processed foods rather than foods that were mostly
unprocessed gain more weight and body fat than when they

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ate mostly unprocessed foods, even even though the same calories
and macros were matched.

Speaker 4 (01:19:03):
Here's the other part.

Speaker 5 (01:19:05):
With equal calories, total cholesterol and the ldl hdo rest
that's bad cholesterol to good cholesterol went up on the
ultra process menu with extra calories, diastolic blood pressure rose
and in the extra calorie arm fights f H.

Speaker 4 (01:19:25):
Let me try that again.

Speaker 5 (01:19:26):
F s H, which is a hormone that's critical for fertility,
especially in men, actually dropped after being on the ultra
process menu. Sperm motility trended lower although that motility change
was not statistically significant, it just started to slope down
and that would obviously need to be a lot.

Speaker 4 (01:19:47):
More research about that.

Speaker 5 (01:19:49):
But if you are trying to get pregnant men or women,
a healthy diet of real food seems to be critical.
And if you just want to lead a longer, healthier life,
try a healthy diet. I mean, I know it sounds
crazy to get caught up in this diet and exercise thing,
I mean, this crazy scheme, but the reality is when
you eat real food, you're putting real food in your body,

(01:20:10):
and your body knows what to do with real food
made up food. If you hear a harmonica, that is
the call of the Jimmy Sengenberger. Sometimes you have the

(01:20:30):
bat signal where they shine Batman's image up on a cloud.
But we have a harmonica and whenever we play it,
poof Jimmy just appears out a thin m It's the
Jimmy Segenberger call call of the wild.

Speaker 4 (01:20:44):
Mm hmmm, Hello, my friend, Hello, my friend, good to
be with you. I'm gonna tell you right now, in
like three two and one, I'm gonna get a text
or an email from the guy who hates the harmonica.
There's always here's a guy is what do you think
I get the guy?

Speaker 5 (01:20:59):
Do you think think that the harmonica is really America's bagpipes?
Like kind of an acquired taste, and either you love them,
you love harmonica, or you hate it. There's like no
one's indifferent, no one's like I could take it early.

Speaker 6 (01:21:12):
Then I think not, because I think most people haven't
really experienced the harmonica as it can and should be played.
A lot of people that I play when I if
I meet someone or they see me play on stage
with say a rock band or a country band, sure
they'll often go, I never knew that you could play

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harmonica like that, like you specifically.

Speaker 5 (01:21:37):
You that it's I was like, that's kind of insulting,
Like Gi, Jimmy, I didn't know you had talents you have, Yeah,
somebody should have us in most.

Speaker 6 (01:21:49):
People they think of like their uncle Joe, who when
they were a kid would.

Speaker 4 (01:21:53):
Pull out the harmonica and.

Speaker 6 (01:21:56):
Exactly, I don't even know if you are my sunshine,
like here ago I learned it, I don't know it anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:22:03):
Only song I knew on the harmonica, and the harmonica
is yet another thing I've tried to play unsuccessfully.

Speaker 5 (01:22:09):
Okay, So I just don't have musical talent. My brain
does not work that way.

Speaker 4 (01:22:14):
It just doesn't.

Speaker 5 (01:22:14):
And I've come to terms with it now, even though
it was heart breaking for me for a long time.
But you're out about this weekend?

Speaker 4 (01:22:21):
Oh yeah? Did Junior Blues Band all over the PLA
has three gigs.

Speaker 6 (01:22:26):
One of them is at the same place twice. There's
a if you could think of it. Saint Elias Church
is an Eastern Orthodox or Greek Orthodox a church, Middle
Eastern primarily, and they have a Mediterranean food festival this
weekend and they're having.

Speaker 5 (01:22:46):
The church because I think I just might have driven
past this church recently in.

Speaker 6 (01:22:50):
Neravada on Puerce Street, seventy five eighty here, Nevada.

Speaker 4 (01:22:56):
So that's gonna be a lot of fun.

Speaker 6 (01:22:57):
That's on Sunday both Saturday, and we're playing from four
to six tomorrow and then three to five on Sunday.

Speaker 4 (01:23:04):
Well, that's cool and that'll be an absolute blast.

Speaker 6 (01:23:07):
And then on Monday the way we performed a month
ago at the Genesee Pub and Barbecue, which is a great,
great place, fun outdoor kind of woods atmosphere there in
the backdrop and everything, and we will be back there
from three to six on Monday to I think we're
capping off their blues festival Saturday Sunday Monday of local

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blues bands playing there all weekend and the Jimmy Junior
Blues Band will be performing. We'll have amazing keys player
Terry Schmidt joining us on Monday, and my sister Katie
will be joining us for a handful of songs to.

Speaker 4 (01:23:43):
Sing some tunes.

Speaker 6 (01:23:45):
So that'll be a Genesee Pub and barbecue from three
to six on Monday.

Speaker 5 (01:23:48):
Why don't they call themselves the Genesee Publicque, which is
what I would do. I mean, it almost builds its
own self, right, the publicque, because it covers everything.

Speaker 6 (01:23:57):
It makes it nice and simple, rolls off the tongue.
But hey, it's the Genesee Pub and Barbecue. What is
your what is your Sunday column about Sunday columns on transportation? Look, Mandy,
we all know that we're paying all kinds of fees
out the wazoo door dash. You buy an Amazon package,

(01:24:18):
you any number of things, and just don't forget the.

Speaker 5 (01:24:21):
Fees for licenses and registrations and all that stuff years
ago to fix the roads.

Speaker 4 (01:24:26):
And they don't go to roads almost entirely.

Speaker 6 (01:24:29):
They're going to transit, which is like light rail or
environmental mitigation, which is this very broad term. And so
we're spending all of this money that is not going
to what most Colorados need, which is better roads, because
we drive to get from A to B, whether that's to.

Speaker 4 (01:24:51):
Work or to the mountains or what have you.

Speaker 5 (01:24:53):
I've shared a column from Complete Colorado. One of their
fellowship program students had written this phenomenal breakdown of the
success of mass transit in Denver, Colorado, and in twenty
in two thousand when this study, when he was looking
back to that data, four percent of commuters used mass
transit fast forward, we have lightrail, we have all these

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other things. Four percent of commuters use mass transit. This
has been an abject failure, one of the most expensive
abject failures out there. And Jimmy, I believe, and from
talking to my futurist Thomas Fry, I strongly believe that
we're very close to moving to a system where driverless
cars will be taking over, which will solve a whole

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bunch of traffic problems. In terms of you know, we've
all had that experience on I twenty five where it's
tight but everything's moving right, you know, everybody's We're still
going fifty miles an hour, and all of a sudden,
one person hits the brakes and it just casca everything.

Speaker 4 (01:25:50):
Yes, I mean so driverless cars solve a lot of
those problems. I know that they do.

Speaker 5 (01:25:56):
They will, they will. Why do you think that because
of the way that they'll be configured to maintain speed.
Let me just use an example in Japan, not even
driverless cars, just because they have a different culture in Japan,
one that is not necessarily a culture where you feel.

Speaker 4 (01:26:11):
Like you have to be first. I experienced zero aggressive
drivers in Japan. So here's how it went. You're on
an extremely busy highway driving in and out of a city.
Traffic is moving at fifty miles an hour. Not a
single person changes lanes. Think about that for a moment,
just in terms of how it keeps traffic moving. So,
if you're in a driverless car, the urge to get around.

Speaker 5 (01:26:33):
This a hole that's you know, punching his brakes down
a case, that urge goes away.

Speaker 2 (01:26:39):
Right.

Speaker 5 (01:26:39):
You take that human emotion that makes people drive aggressively
or drive it away that's not as safe and creates
more problems. So driverless cars just taking that out of
the equation.

Speaker 4 (01:26:51):
And I'm guilty of it too. You guys, if I'm
behind someone that is.

Speaker 5 (01:26:53):
Annoying me, like I gotta get outside this guy, I mean,
we all do it or truck. Yeah, driverless cars take
care of that problem and they keep things moving, They
keep everybody.

Speaker 6 (01:27:03):
Americans have such a sense of independence that allowing giving
up the control of the drive. There are a lot
of reason we'll give to technology and say, Okay, help
me solve this.

Speaker 10 (01:27:13):
Or do this or what have you.

Speaker 4 (01:27:15):
But driving, my husband is not He will not do
this me.

Speaker 5 (01:27:20):
If I could like hire Weymo to come to my
car my house every day and pick me up and
bring me to work, one hundred percent.

Speaker 4 (01:27:25):
I would do.

Speaker 6 (01:27:26):
When I was in San Francisco last fall and they
have the waymos driving around and it was the weirdest thing. Actually,
I'll give you one example that stressed me the heck out.
We were my now fiance Victoria and I were going
to be turning into a park so that we could
we could park and we could go under where the
Golden Gate Bridge area and all this right, yeah, and

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I needed to turn left, but the parking lot had
a way mood car there right that. I was like,
I can't make eye contact. There's no person here. I
can't make eye contact. And I don't know when I
I waited longer because I felt so uncomfortable at that
or or I'm waiting, or I'm crossing the street and

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there's a weim there nobody in the car. Now I
have the passenger seat waiting for me to cross the street.

Speaker 4 (01:28:14):
And I'm freaking in it. Over we will adapt. This
is like this is I use myself again as an
example when when somebody when I first saw Apple pay,
I was like, oh no, there is no way I'm
doing that. Now, when I'm in a place and they
don't have touch to pay, I'm like, what what kind
of savagery that happened in like four months?

Speaker 6 (01:28:36):
But I don't know if I want to seed control
of my driving to the I'm not in their machine.

Speaker 4 (01:28:42):
I'm ready.

Speaker 5 (01:28:42):
I just see too many people doing too many dumb
things on the roadway, and I think to myself, we
need more people and driverless cars.

Speaker 4 (01:28:49):
But in the meantime, what we need is money to
actually go to our roads.

Speaker 6 (01:28:53):
Which is the real thrust of the column is I
break down a lot of the different issues and what
research is showing. I mean, Colorado, study after study after
study just this year showing how badly our roads are
where the Reason Foundation puts us at number forty three.

Speaker 4 (01:29:09):
We can't blame the mountains though, because Utah's number eight yep.

Speaker 6 (01:29:12):
And it drains economic resources when especially in mountain communities
where they lose out because of problems that happen on
I seventy, it is an economic drain. So there are
now before the title board, which is the first process
of getting stuff onto the ballot for voters for next year,
are a couple of initiatives to amend the constitution, the

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state constitution, to require that the funds that are being
collected for transportation from these fees and so forth, that
they actually go to roads, highways and bridges.

Speaker 4 (01:29:44):
God forbid, you.

Speaker 6 (01:29:45):
Actually no no new money, all existing money coming in, Yeah,
has to go to roads.

Speaker 4 (01:29:51):
That's the bottom line.

Speaker 5 (01:29:52):
I cannot wait to hear the demagogery about this. I
cannot wait to hear the opposition tell us that know,
the central planners who have letting our roads go to
hell in a handbasket.

Speaker 4 (01:30:03):
Are the ones that need to make these decisions.

Speaker 5 (01:30:05):
Yeah, And when I first heard about this, for some reason,
I thought it was a tax increase, And when Jimmy
walked in, I was like, oh, no, I know, I'm
not giving them another thin dime. But if it is
just forcing them to reallocate the money that they're already
getting into actual roads and bridges, one hundred percent on
behind that.

Speaker 6 (01:30:20):
And doing so in the constitution, which we constantly there's
so many amendments.

Speaker 4 (01:30:26):
That Colorado Colorado Constitution is dumb.

Speaker 6 (01:30:28):
But sometimes there's there's an appropriate guard rail, especially when
the legislators are already circumventing tabor by putting these fees
in in the first place without coming to a vote
of the people, and then they're deciding, oh, this money
is going to go towards you know, light rail that
hardly anybody uses.

Speaker 4 (01:30:47):
Or other things.

Speaker 6 (01:30:48):
And that's not to say that, you know, maybe there's
a purpose for light rail, maybe there's a purpose for
environmental mitigation. Like fair, this is Colorado, but you have
to get your priorities straight.

Speaker 4 (01:30:58):
And if this last so called special session.

Speaker 6 (01:31:01):
Of the legislature is any indication there's no prioritization for
the people of Colorado down there.

Speaker 5 (01:31:06):
The issue for me with mass transit is that they
keep telling us that we need to use it, but
they're not making it better.

Speaker 4 (01:31:13):
They're not making it more responsive.

Speaker 5 (01:31:15):
If they were, when you came out of a concert
at Ball Arena, there would be a train of ten
cars and there would be another one in fifteen minutes,
and there'd be another one in fifteen minutes.

Speaker 4 (01:31:25):
That's how you get people on light rail.

Speaker 5 (01:31:26):
But if you talk to people and I've had this
experience where you missed that first train, Oh sorry, the
next train doesn't come for an hour. For an hour,
I mean, it's not effective and they don't seem to
be addressing those issues.

Speaker 4 (01:31:39):
What I'd love to see happen this is, please do this. People.

Speaker 5 (01:31:43):
Pave over the rails. Just pave over the rails and
make those high speed bus routes. Because you can add
more buses. You can subtract buses easily cheaply. You can
still use the lanes that you already built. It would
cost a fraction of what we have now. That buses
aren't sexy, Jimmy, They're not like, look at our cool buses.
People like to have light rail because they think it,

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you know, makes them look big time until they get
on it and there's a guy smoking mess although apparently
that's down. Yeah, apparently that's the met's smoking on the
train falling way off.

Speaker 4 (01:32:15):
Which is good. That's some improvement. Hasn't been on the trains,
be all right, hasn't been on the trains apparently.

Speaker 6 (01:32:21):
So I don't I avoid the light rail for multiple reasons.
I just it is crazy to think about how much
they pour into these things and yet people don't use them.
And I think part of that goes and this is
part of the same argument for why I don't think
you'll have mass adoption of way moos by individuals, is

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that we want to have that, especially in Colorado, but
in America it's part of the culture. In Colorado, sometimes
it's necessity. We can't take the light rail to get
to the mountains.

Speaker 4 (01:32:52):
Again.

Speaker 6 (01:32:52):
Yeah, sure, there are some options that you can use
in terms of transit, and you can use buses to
go up and down I twenty five, and there's some
buses that help you with getting into the mountains and
so forth. But it's such a hassle and people like
being able to have that self control.

Speaker 5 (01:33:09):
So yesterday I was going to meet a client. We
were having dinner at one of the restaurants at the
Gaylord Hotel, and I checked traffic to see how long
is this going to take me to drive there? It
was going to take me about forty five minutes to
get there via traffic. So right next to it, you know,
on your Google app it has your transit how long
that would take? What do you think my forty five
minute drive from here in the Tech Center to get

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to the Gaylord Hotel using mass transit?

Speaker 4 (01:33:33):
How long would that have taken? Oh? Two hours?

Speaker 5 (01:33:36):
Two hours and thirty four minutes. Oh wow, And that,
my friends, is why RTD will never be a success. Yeah,
two hours and thirty four minutes. Like, normal people with
real jobs can't afford two hours and thirty four minutes
of sitting around for us to cocations for it.

Speaker 4 (01:33:51):
Even if we did have that time. My time is
too valuable. My time is extreme.

Speaker 5 (01:33:55):
In my own mind, it is critically valuable. Jimmy's got
a longer column coming out about that this weekend in
the Denver Gazette on Sunday. Yes, okay, but you can
also go see him this weekend let's go over what
kind of songs do you guys cover?

Speaker 6 (01:34:10):
Mandy.

Speaker 4 (01:34:10):
I have the set list right here for you to
look at some of the sets and there you go.

Speaker 6 (01:34:17):
The exclusive first look from someone outside of the band
is Mandy Connell live here on KOA the Jimmy Junior
Blues Band. And that's just you're looking at Genesee's, we
got Church and the others. But mostly I like the.

Speaker 5 (01:34:32):
Fact that you've got like the bluesiest songs by mainstream bands. Yes,
you got like Fleetwood Max songs, but the bluesiest Fleetwood
Max song. You got zz Top, which is always a
little bluesy, but you got the bluesiest of the bluesy songs.
So you kind of go with these bands that everybody's
heard of, but you choose the songs that they may
not be aware.

Speaker 6 (01:34:49):
There's a good mix of that. Yeah, we have some
good Junior Wells to what's your favorite song? Like play
oh song to play?

Speaker 4 (01:34:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:34:57):
Oh, I would have to say a good chance. I
just have a blast when we do this. Toune messing
with the kid by Junior Wells, who's Jimmy Junior. In
part comes from the fact that I'm a big fan
of Junior Wells. I'm also a junior and it's easier
to say Jimmy Junior Blues Band the Jimmy Sangeberger Blues Band.
But Junior Wells was phenomenal from from Chicago and his

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song Messing with the Kid as a blast.

Speaker 4 (01:35:21):
The Blues Brothers had covered that too back in the day.
But that's one.

Speaker 6 (01:35:26):
Another one that's a lot of fun to do is
another one that Junior Wells would cover, but originally by
Sonny Boy Williamson, one of the blues harmonica pioneers, Sonny
Boy Williamson. Two big story there for the one and two,
but called help Me. That's just that's just a blast.
And then we've got several originals.

Speaker 4 (01:35:42):
Very nice.

Speaker 5 (01:35:43):
That's all happening Saturday and Sunday at Saint Elias Church
in Arvada.

Speaker 6 (01:35:48):
Okay, And that's four to six on Saturday and three
to five on Sunday that we're playing.

Speaker 4 (01:35:53):
Okay, and then on Monday Genesee Public Que.

Speaker 6 (01:35:56):
The Genesee Pub and Barbecue public Que at the public
I'm sure they'd be okay with that.

Speaker 4 (01:36:01):
You let them known it flows if they want to leave,
very easily. I will take no commission for that. That's
a freebie.

Speaker 6 (01:36:08):
That idea totally free Genesee pubb and Barbecue on Monday
from three to six, and we're gonna have Terry Schmidt
on the keys.

Speaker 4 (01:36:16):
My sister Katie's singing several tunes.

Speaker 6 (01:36:18):
And you know what, last time we played there, we
had at least a dozen KOA listeners that came out
to the show, which is just an absolute blast.

Speaker 4 (01:36:27):
I love meeting everybody. Yay, that's fantastic, Jimmy Sangenberger.

Speaker 5 (01:36:31):
You can find out more at the Jimmy Junior Blues
Band Facebook page, which I linked on the blog today.
So if you want to check it out or your
driving make plans to go do something fun this weekend
on Labor Day.

Speaker 4 (01:36:42):
Don't labor Mandy.

Speaker 5 (01:36:44):
Central planners don't care about your personal time. They have
a climate to save.

Speaker 4 (01:36:48):
That's true.

Speaker 5 (01:36:49):
And on the other hand, I do care about my
personal time and don't care about the climate.

Speaker 4 (01:36:53):
So there see what I did there.

Speaker 5 (01:36:56):
Anyway, Ben Albright has dragged himself into the studio.

Speaker 4 (01:37:00):
It on you ready to This is like a they're
both doing it a three person you pay extra for
that vague Now, who's doing the yell? Stop it right now,
stop it yell. You ever done the yl in the world.
I don't think he's lacking. Wait wait, let's make him
sing the yell. Oh yeah, there you go, there you go.

Speaker 5 (01:37:21):
Yep, figure it out, because now's the time for the
most exciting segment on the radio.

Speaker 4 (01:37:27):
It's guide in the world of the day. You know
what creativity and it's finest right there. By the way.

Speaker 5 (01:37:37):
If you ever get a message on the Commons Pardheale
text line that says something like you are opted out.

Speaker 4 (01:37:42):
If it's just don't it's an auto response. It means nothing.
Don't worry about it. You swore at us one many
times you just use the word like stop or something.
It's it's or somewhere. I know it just sucks.

Speaker 5 (01:37:54):
You don't know, So I just don't worry about it. Kids,
It's all good, Okay. What is our dad joke of
the day?

Speaker 4 (01:37:59):
Please? I told my plants I love them. Now they're
rooting for me. Wow wow that that one?

Speaker 3 (01:38:10):
Ye?

Speaker 4 (01:38:13):
Yeah nice. Today's word of the day. An adjective adjective
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sidereal yes, oh don Ideria guess first, I have no idea, Sideria,

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really have no idea. It has to do with time.
It has to do with like, are you like, are
you observing time from on earth? For you?

Speaker 2 (01:38:43):
More wrong?

Speaker 4 (01:38:44):
What is it of or relating to the stars. It
has to do sidereal time has to do with Yeah,
at least you tried. We give you one thirty second
credit for that. Okay, so right, track just made it
way too complent, cad. So there you go. Everybody should
get this next one. Okay, I'm just gonna.

Speaker 5 (01:39:03):
Let you know which rock band released the two mega
successful albums, Toys in the Attic and Permanent Vacation, among others.

Speaker 4 (01:39:11):
Come thank you, yeah, upset. Toys in the Attic is
one of the great rock albums from the Terrible Well
albums aren't as big a deal in your generation. As
I had to visualize the cover, like the Toys in
the Attic has so many good songs on it, I
mean just really really good songs. Okay, then all right,

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Jimmy singing Burger? All right, what is our jeopardy category? Jimmy?
You know you have to shout your name and then
answer in the form of a question. Will today Jimmy,
probably not.

Speaker 7 (01:39:44):
Okay, we're gonna find out prepositional phrases out of this
color means totally unexpected.

Speaker 4 (01:39:53):
Oh, who's the other person with her?

Speaker 2 (01:39:54):
Just now?

Speaker 4 (01:39:55):
I was okay, the blue is correct. That's a secret.

Speaker 7 (01:40:01):
Keep it below one's deer stalker, or to put it
another way, this under your.

Speaker 4 (01:40:07):
This, Mandy, what is under your hat? It was like,
it's not under the belt.

Speaker 7 (01:40:12):
Using a forceful manner to attack a problem is to
do it this way, like a die hard film title, gross.

Speaker 4 (01:40:20):
Tired film title?

Speaker 2 (01:40:22):
Ben Ben?

Speaker 4 (01:40:23):
What is with a vengeance is correct? We've already started playing.

Speaker 7 (01:40:29):
Cleratan Gavis, Skinson and mid All are classified as this
type of drug.

Speaker 4 (01:40:37):
Clratan, Mandy? What is over the counter history? Somebody would
just having a period and an allergy attack. What's going
on right now? Is it three to one? It's two two?

Speaker 7 (01:40:50):
It's too too Splinters are an indication that you're standing
or plan planning, planning, planning?

Speaker 4 (01:40:57):
Would this way? What is against the mean? That is correct?
So bad? Awesome? Well, Jimmy, the more you play, the
better you get. It's it is true.

Speaker 5 (01:41:13):
That I am not going to be able to play
the harmonica, so I will just let that go. Go
see Jimmy Junior's blues band this weekend.

Speaker 4 (01:41:19):
What do you guys have coming up on K Ryan
Edwards is live down at Coursefield, where he will be
throwing the opening pitch for the second time in his career.
I called to give him some support. We all uah,
anything would help. Yeah, we all tried to throw him
off a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:41:33):
Well.

Speaker 5 (01:41:33):
I did tell him that I did make it to
the plate when I threw, so if he did, I
was just calling to give you some confidence.

Speaker 4 (01:41:41):
Ryan, Yes, and you know I mean if you don't
make it over the plate, you just look worse than
a girl.

Speaker 7 (01:41:46):
It's fine, that's right, that's right, fine, psychology of the Yeah,
the first psychology support, like you know, I mean I did.

Speaker 5 (01:41:54):
From pitching great Frank Miola before, I you know, did
Anyone's fine.

Speaker 4 (01:41:58):
I'm sure you're gonna be. I can't like to see
you tonight. Ryan will be watching for you, buddy. I
got a nice eye roll from Dave Logan that that
was my that was my inspiration. So you guys have fun.

Speaker 5 (01:42:08):
I'm gonna let your shows start now, okay, thank you?
All right, they'll be backed right after this.

Speaker 4 (01:42:12):
I will not