August 29, 2025 • 21 mins
GO SEE JIMMY SENGENBERGER PLAY THIS WEEKEND! The Jimmy Junior Blues Band is going to be out and about this weekend! Find out more about that here, and he joins me at 2:30 to chat about that and so much more.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
If you hear a harmonica, that is the call of
the Jimmy Segenberger. Sometimes you have the bat signal where
they shine Batman's image up on a cloud. But we
have a harmonica, and whenever we play it, poof Jimmy
disappears out of thin air. It's the Jimmy Segenberger call,
call of the wild. Mm hmmm, hello my friend, Hello, my.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Friend, to be with you.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
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.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
There's always that there's a guy there is what do
you think I get the guy?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Do you think that the harmonica is really America's bagpipes?
Like kind of an acquired taste, and either you love them,
you love a harmonica, or you hate it. There's like
no one's indifferent, no one's like I could take it
or leave it.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I think nah, 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.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You specifically you that it's I was like, that's kind
of insulting. Like Gi, Jimmy, I didn't know you had
talent you have. Yeah, somebody should have glued us in.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Most people they think of like their uncle Joe when
they were a kid would pull out the harmonica and
sunshine exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I don't even know if you sunshine. Like years ago
I learned it, I don't know it anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Only song I knew on the harmonica, and the harmonica
is yet another thing I've tried to play unsuccessfully. Okay,
So I just don't have musical talent. My brain does
not work that way. It just doesn't. 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? Oh yeah, Junior Blues Band has three gigs.
(02:12):
One of them is at the same place twice. There's
a if you could think of it.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
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 blues.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Where is the church? Because I think I just might
have driven past this church recently in Neravada on Pierce Street,
seventy five eighty, Nevada. So that's going to be a
lot of fun. That's on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Both Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
We're playing from four to six Tomorrow and then three
to five on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Well, that's cool and that'll be an absolute blast.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
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.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I think we're capping.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Off their blues festival Saturday, Sunday Monday of local 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 sing
some tunes. So that'll be a Genesee Pub and Barbecue
(03:32):
from three to six on Monday.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
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 2 (03:42):
It makes it nice and simple.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
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.
You buy an Amazon package any number of things, and
(04:05):
just don't forget the fees for licenses and registrations and
all that stuff that they transhed up years ago to
fix the roads.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
And they don't go to roads almost entirely. 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
(04:34):
to get from A to B, whether that's to work or.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
To the mountains or what have you.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
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 twenty in
two thousand when this study, when he was looking back
to that data, four percent of commuters used mass transit
(04:59):
fast forward, we have lightrail, we have all these 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 futureist 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 bunch of
(05:21):
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. Yes, I mean,
so driverless cars solve a lot of those problems.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I feel that they do. They will, they will. Why
do you think that.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
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
like you have to be first. I experienced zero aggress
of drivers in Japan.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
So here's how it went.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
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 this a hole that's you know, punching his
brakes down a case, that urge goes away.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
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. And I'm guilty of it too. You guys,
if I'm behind someone that is annoying me, I 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
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out a certain.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Notice its Americans have such a sense of independence that
allowing giving up the control of the drive there are
a lot of ris it will give to technology and
say okay, help me solve.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
This or do this or what hap you?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
But driving my husband is not he will not do
this me. If I could like hire Weaimo to come
to my car my house every day and pick me
up and bring me to work, one hundred percent I
would do.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
When I 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 I needed to turn left, but the parking lot
(07:34):
had a Waymo car there right that I was like,
I can't make eye contact.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
There's no person here.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I can't make eye contact. And I don't know when
I just I.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Waited longer because I felt so uncomfortable at that or
or I'm waiting. I'm crossing the street and there's a
WEIMO there nobody in the car, and now I have
the passenger seat waiting for me to cross the street
and I'm freaking in it.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Over we will adapt.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
This is like this is I use myself again as
an example when when I first saw Apple Bay, 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.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
That happened in like four months?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
But I don't know if I want to seed control
of my driving to the I'm not their machine.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I'm running. 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 3 (08:34):
But in the meantime, what we need is money to
actually go to our roads. 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 2 (08:54):
We can't blame the mountains though, because Utahs.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Number eight yep, and it drains economic resources when especially
in mountain communities where they lose out because of problems
that happen on I seventy.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
It is an economic drain.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
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 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
(09:29):
and bridges. God forbid, you actually no new money, all
existing money coming in.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, has to go to roads. That's the bottom line.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
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 are the ones that need to
make these decisions.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
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 rea allocate the money that they're
already getting into actual roads and bridges one percent on behind.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
That and doing so in the constitution, which we constantly,
there's so many amendments.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
The Colorado A Colorado Constitution is dumb.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
But I 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, or other things.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
And that's not to say that.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
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. And if
this last so called special session of the legislature is
any indication there's no prioritization for the people of Colorado
down there.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
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. They're not making it more
response 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. That's how
you get people on light rail. But if you talk
(11:12):
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. What
I'd love to see happen this is I please do this. People,
pave over the rails. Just pave over the rails and
make those high speed bus routes because you can add
(11:34):
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. But buses
aren't sexy, Jimmy. They're not like, look at our cool buses.
People like to have light rail because they think it
makes them look big time until they get on it
and there's a guy smoking meth. Although apparently that's down. Yeah,
(11:56):
apparently that's the mets smoking on the train falling way off.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Which is good. That's some improvement that.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Hasn't been on the trains. Be allbright hasn't been on
the trains apparently.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
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 weymos by individuals, is that
(12:28):
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 a cat like. 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
(12:48):
the mountains and so forth. But it's such a hassle
and people like being able to have that self control.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
So yesterday I was going to meet a client. We
were having dinner at one of the restaurants at the
Game 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
(13:16):
to the Gaylord Hotel using mass transit, how long would
that have taken?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Two hours, 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.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Around waiting for us to copations for it, even if
we did have that time.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
My time is too valuable. My time is extreme. 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 2 (13:55):
Mandy?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I have the set list right here for you to
look at. Some of this very go 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 as we got Church and
the others.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
But mostly I like the fact that.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
You've got like the bluesiest songs by mainstream bands.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yes, you got like Fleetwood Max.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
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 3 (14:34):
There's a good mix of that. Yeah, we have some
good Junior Wells to king, what's your favorite song?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Like? Play?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Oh song to play? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Oh, I would have to say, good chance.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
I just have a blast when we do this.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
To mess in 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.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah, Junior Wells.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Was phenomenal from from Chicago and his song Messing.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
With the Kid as a blast. The Blues Brothers had
covered that too back in the day. But that's one.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Another one that's a lot of fun to do is
another one that Junior Wells would cover, but originally by
Sunny 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.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
And then we've got several originals.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Very nice. That's all happening Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
At Saint Elias Church in Arvada.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Okay, And that's four to six on Saturday and three
to five on Sunday that we're playing, Okay, and.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Then on Monday Genesee Publicque.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
The Genesee Pub and Barbecue Publicque. I'm sure they'd be
okay with that. You let it flows off very easily.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
I will take no commission for that. That's a freebie.
That idea totally free.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Genesee Pub and Barbecue on Monday from three to six,
and we're gonna have Terry Schmidt on the keys, my
sister Katie's singing several tunes. 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 2 (16:13):
I love meeting everybody.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Yay, that's fantastic. Jimmy Sangenberger. 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. Don't labor Mandy.
Central planners don't care about your personal time. They have
a climate to save. That's true. And on the other hand,
(16:35):
I do care about my personal time and don't care
about the climate. So there see what I did there. Anyway,
Ben Albright has dragged himself into the studio. Go 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?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Stop it? Jimmy done the yell?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
You have ever done the yl in the world.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
I don't think you for laughing. Wait, wait, let's make
him sing the yells.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Oh yeah, there you go. There you go. Yep, figure
it out, because now's the time for the most exciting
segment on the radio.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
It's guide in the world.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Of the day. You know what creativity and it's finest
right there. By the way, If you ever get a
message on the commons paranheal text line that says something
like you are opted out. If it's just don't it's
an auto response. It means nothing. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
You swore at us one many times you just.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Use the word like stop or something.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
It's it's the letter or somewhere. I know. It just sucks.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
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? Please?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
I told my plants I loved them. Now they're rooting
for me.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Wow that that one.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Ye's word of the day.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
An adjective adjective Iberia, Siberia, Iberia diial.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Oh, sidereal yes, I d yeah real, siderial sidereal yes.
Oh I guess first, I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Siderially 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? More wrong?
What is it of or relating to the stars.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
It is to do sidereal time has to do with Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
At least you tried to give you.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
One thirty second credit for that. Okay, So right, track
just made it way too complicated.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Everybody should get this next one. Okay, I'm just gonna
let you know which rock band released the two mega
successful albums, Toys in the Attic and Permanent Vacation, among others.
Come on, thank you. Yeah, I was so upset. Its
Toys in the Attic is one of the great rock albums.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
From my terrible names.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Well, albums aren't as big a deal in.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Your generation as I had to visualize the cover, like the.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Toys in the Attic has so many good songs on it,
I mean, just really really good songs. Okay, Ben, all right,
Jimmy singing burger All right? What is our Jeopardy category?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Jimmy?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
You know you have to shout your name and then
answer in the form of a question.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Will the same and be burgering today?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Jimmy?
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Probably not. Okay, we're gonna find.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Out prepositional phrases. God, out of this color means totally unexpected.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Oh, who's the other person with her?
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Just now?
Speaker 2 (19:40):
I was, Okay, out of the blue is correct. That's
a secret.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Keep it below one's deer stalker, or to put it
another way, this under your.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
This man, what is under your hat?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I was like, it's not under the belt out.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Using a forceful manner to attack a problem is to
do it this way, like a die hard film title.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Gross tired film title? Ben, Ben, what is with a
vengeance is correct? Jimmy, we've already started playing. Cleraton, Gavis,
Skin and mit all are classified as this type.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Of drug.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Clraton mandy. What is over the counter history? Somebody would
just having a period and analogy attack. What's going on
right now?
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Is it three to one?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
It's two?
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Two to Splinters are an indication that you're standing or
plan planning, planning, planning?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Would this way?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
What is against the grain?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
That is correct? So bad? Awesome?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Well, Jimmy, the more you play, the better you get.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
It's it is true that.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I am not going to be able to play the harmonica,
so I will just let that go. Go see Jimmy
Jr's Blues band this weekend.
If you hear a harmonica, that is the call of
the Jimmy Segenberger. Sometimes you have the bat signal where
they shine Batman's image up on a cloud. But we
have a harmonica, and whenever we play it, poof Jimmy
disappears out of thin air. It's the Jimmy Segenberger call,
call of the wild. Mm hmmm, hello my friend, Hello, my.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Friend, to be with you.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
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.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
There's always that there's a guy there is what do
you think I get the guy?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Do you think that the harmonica is really America's bagpipes?
Like kind of an acquired taste, and either you love them,
you love a harmonica, or you hate it. There's like
no one's indifferent, no one's like I could take it
or leave it.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I think nah, 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.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You specifically you that it's I was like, that's kind
of insulting. Like Gi, Jimmy, I didn't know you had
talent you have. Yeah, somebody should have glued us in.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Most people they think of like their uncle Joe when
they were a kid would pull out the harmonica and
sunshine exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I don't even know if you sunshine. Like years ago
I learned it, I don't know it anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Only song I knew on the harmonica, and the harmonica
is yet another thing I've tried to play unsuccessfully. Okay,
So I just don't have musical talent. My brain does
not work that way. It just doesn't. 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? Oh yeah, Junior Blues Band has three gigs.
(02:12):
One of them is at the same place twice. There's
a if you could think of it.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
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 blues.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Where is the church? Because I think I just might
have driven past this church recently in Neravada on Pierce Street,
seventy five eighty, Nevada. So that's going to be a
lot of fun. That's on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Both Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
We're playing from four to six Tomorrow and then three
to five on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Well, that's cool and that'll be an absolute blast.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
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.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I think we're capping.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Off their blues festival Saturday, Sunday Monday of local 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 sing
some tunes. So that'll be a Genesee Pub and Barbecue
(03:32):
from three to six on Monday.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
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 2 (03:42):
It makes it nice and simple.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
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.
You buy an Amazon package any number of things, and
(04:05):
just don't forget the fees for licenses and registrations and
all that stuff that they transhed up years ago to
fix the roads.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
And they don't go to roads almost entirely. 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
(04:34):
to get from A to B, whether that's to work or.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
To the mountains or what have you.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
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 twenty in
two thousand when this study, when he was looking back
to that data, four percent of commuters used mass transit
(04:59):
fast forward, we have lightrail, we have all these 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 futureist 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 bunch of
(05:21):
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. Yes, I mean,
so driverless cars solve a lot of those problems.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I feel that they do. They will, they will. Why
do you think that.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
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
like you have to be first. I experienced zero aggress
of drivers in Japan.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
So here's how it went.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
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 this a hole that's you know, punching his
brakes down a case, that urge goes away.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
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. And I'm guilty of it too. You guys,
if I'm behind someone that is annoying me, I 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
(06:47):
out a certain.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Notice its Americans have such a sense of independence that
allowing giving up the control of the drive there are
a lot of ris it will give to technology and
say okay, help me solve.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
This or do this or what hap you?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
But driving my husband is not he will not do
this me. If I could like hire Weaimo to come
to my car my house every day and pick me
up and bring me to work, one hundred percent I
would do.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
When I 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 I needed to turn left, but the parking lot
(07:34):
had a Waymo car there right that I was like,
I can't make eye contact.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
There's no person here.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I can't make eye contact. And I don't know when
I just I.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Waited longer because I felt so uncomfortable at that or
or I'm waiting. I'm crossing the street and there's a
WEIMO there nobody in the car, and now I have
the passenger seat waiting for me to cross the street
and I'm freaking in it.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Over we will adapt.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
This is like this is I use myself again as
an example when when I first saw Apple Bay, 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.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
That happened in like four months?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
But I don't know if I want to seed control
of my driving to the I'm not their machine.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I'm running. 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 3 (08:34):
But in the meantime, what we need is money to
actually go to our roads. 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 2 (08:54):
We can't blame the mountains though, because Utahs.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Number eight yep, and it drains economic resources when especially
in mountain communities where they lose out because of problems
that happen on I seventy.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
It is an economic drain.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
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 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
(09:29):
and bridges. God forbid, you actually no new money, all
existing money coming in.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, has to go to roads. That's the bottom line.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
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 are the ones that need to
make these decisions.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
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 rea allocate the money that they're
already getting into actual roads and bridges one percent on behind.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
That and doing so in the constitution, which we constantly,
there's so many amendments.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
The Colorado A Colorado Constitution is dumb.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
But I 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, or other things.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
And that's not to say that.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
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. And if
this last so called special session of the legislature is
any indication there's no prioritization for the people of Colorado
down there.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
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. They're not making it more
response 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. That's how
you get people on light rail. But if you talk
(11:12):
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. What
I'd love to see happen this is I please do this. People,
pave over the rails. Just pave over the rails and
make those high speed bus routes because you can add
(11:34):
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. But buses
aren't sexy, Jimmy. They're not like, look at our cool buses.
People like to have light rail because they think it
makes them look big time until they get on it
and there's a guy smoking meth. Although apparently that's down. Yeah,
(11:56):
apparently that's the mets smoking on the train falling way off.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Which is good. That's some improvement that.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Hasn't been on the trains. Be allbright hasn't been on
the trains apparently.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
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 weymos by individuals, is that
(12:28):
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 a cat like. 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
(12:48):
the mountains and so forth. But it's such a hassle
and people like being able to have that self control.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
So yesterday I was going to meet a client. We
were having dinner at one of the restaurants at the
Game 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
(13:16):
to the Gaylord Hotel using mass transit, how long would
that have taken?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Two hours, 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.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Around waiting for us to copations for it, even if
we did have that time.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
My time is too valuable. My time is extreme. 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 2 (13:55):
Mandy?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I have the set list right here for you to
look at. Some of this very go 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 as we got Church and
the others.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
But mostly I like the fact that.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
You've got like the bluesiest songs by mainstream bands.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yes, you got like Fleetwood Max.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
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 3 (14:34):
There's a good mix of that. Yeah, we have some
good Junior Wells to king, what's your favorite song?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Like? Play?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Oh song to play? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Oh, I would have to say, good chance.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
I just have a blast when we do this.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
To mess in 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.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah, Junior Wells.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Was phenomenal from from Chicago and his song Messing.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
With the Kid as a blast. The Blues Brothers had
covered that too back in the day. But that's one.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Another one that's a lot of fun to do is
another one that Junior Wells would cover, but originally by
Sunny 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.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
And then we've got several originals.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Very nice. That's all happening Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
At Saint Elias Church in Arvada.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Okay, And that's four to six on Saturday and three
to five on Sunday that we're playing, Okay, and.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Then on Monday Genesee Publicque.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
The Genesee Pub and Barbecue Publicque. I'm sure they'd be
okay with that. You let it flows off very easily.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
I will take no commission for that. That's a freebie.
That idea totally free.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Genesee Pub and Barbecue on Monday from three to six,
and we're gonna have Terry Schmidt on the keys, my
sister Katie's singing several tunes. 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 2 (16:13):
I love meeting everybody.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Yay, that's fantastic. Jimmy Sangenberger. 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. Don't labor Mandy.
Central planners don't care about your personal time. They have
a climate to save. That's true. And on the other hand,
(16:35):
I do care about my personal time and don't care
about the climate. So there see what I did there. Anyway,
Ben Albright has dragged himself into the studio. Go 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?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Stop it? Jimmy done the yell?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
You have ever done the yl in the world.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
I don't think you for laughing. Wait, wait, let's make
him sing the yells.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Oh yeah, there you go. There you go. Yep, figure
it out, because now's the time for the most exciting
segment on the radio.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
It's guide in the world.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Of the day. You know what creativity and it's finest
right there. By the way, If you ever get a
message on the commons paranheal text line that says something
like you are opted out. If it's just don't it's
an auto response. It means nothing. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
You swore at us one many times you just.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Use the word like stop or something.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
It's it's the letter or somewhere. I know. It just sucks.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
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? Please?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
I told my plants I loved them. Now they're rooting
for me.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Wow that that one.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Ye's word of the day.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
An adjective adjective Iberia, Siberia, Iberia diial.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Oh, sidereal yes, I d yeah real, siderial sidereal yes.
Oh I guess first, I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Siderially 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? More wrong?
What is it of or relating to the stars.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
It is to do sidereal time has to do with Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
At least you tried to give you.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
One thirty second credit for that. Okay, So right, track
just made it way too complicated.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Everybody should get this next one. Okay, I'm just gonna
let you know which rock band released the two mega
successful albums, Toys in the Attic and Permanent Vacation, among others.
Come on, thank you. Yeah, I was so upset. Its
Toys in the Attic is one of the great rock albums.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
From my terrible names.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Well, albums aren't as big a deal in.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Your generation as I had to visualize the cover, like the.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Toys in the Attic has so many good songs on it,
I mean, just really really good songs. Okay, Ben, all right,
Jimmy singing burger All right? What is our Jeopardy category?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Jimmy?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
You know you have to shout your name and then
answer in the form of a question.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Will the same and be burgering today?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Jimmy?
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Probably not. Okay, we're gonna find.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Out prepositional phrases. God, out of this color means totally unexpected.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Oh, who's the other person with her?
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Just now?
Speaker 2 (19:40):
I was, Okay, out of the blue is correct. That's
a secret.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Keep it below one's deer stalker, or to put it
another way, this under your.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
This man, what is under your hat?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I was like, it's not under the belt out.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Using a forceful manner to attack a problem is to
do it this way, like a die hard film title.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Gross tired film title? Ben, Ben, what is with a
vengeance is correct? Jimmy, we've already started playing. Cleraton, Gavis,
Skin and mit all are classified as this type.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Of drug.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Clraton mandy. What is over the counter history? Somebody would
just having a period and analogy attack. What's going on
right now?
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Is it three to one?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
It's two?
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Two to Splinters are an indication that you're standing or
plan planning, planning, planning?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Would this way?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
What is against the grain?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
That is correct? So bad? Awesome?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Well, Jimmy, the more you play, the better you get.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
It's it is true that.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I am not going to be able to play the harmonica,
so I will just let that go. Go see Jimmy
Jr's Blues band this weekend.
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