09-03-25 FULL SHOW - The Impact Of Space Command Leaving, Plus Tax The Rich Is Up

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 4 (00:24):
Sad Bab. Welcome Local, Welcome to a Wednesday edition of
the show. I'm your host for the next three hours,
Mandy Connell and joining us finally after I don't even
want to know how long in traffic on I twenty five,
Anthony Rodriguez or as you can call it, not hot
not hot.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Oh I was I was hot rod getting here.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
I bet your I bet you were thanking me. Yeah,
so what was you said?

Speaker 3 (00:50):
There was a paver what some buggy thing whatever, turnover
at like four am this morning on I twenty five
and had Lane's clothes still going for eight hours, a
massive not cheap detour.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Thanks a lot for nothing.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
Yeah. I had to go up to Arvada this morning
to go to Region Revolution. I took the long way
because the long way was the fast way.

Speaker 5 (01:16):
Sometimes it is.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Allah most of the time it is usually I don't
have to do that in the afternoon, though, it's usually
after the show.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
I love uh, I love it. I love the express lane.
I love the express lane. You're welcome. I'm taking one
more car off the regular lanes because I'm just like,
I don't have to do it every day. Right when
you don't have to do it every day, you're like, oh,
I can treat myself to the express lane.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
I used to not have to do it every day.
Now I pretty much have to do it every Yeah,
it's great. We should get your you know what, we
need a rod. We need to get your drive to
and from work. Sponsored. No, just sponsored. Imagine if it
was sponsored by four seventy. Now see now we're cooking
with gas. Yeah, they don't stup ripping everything on air
exactly because you know, I exactly would have you know,

(02:04):
and be in favor of it, not hate everything.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
I don't mind the toll road if it's not crowded.
What I mind is a toll road that is crowded.
Right then I'm then I'm all cranky. I feel like
I paid to not have other cars on the road
with me.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
That's how I feel when a car going slows in
front of me in the express Excuse me, you are
taking dollars out of my YEP fund.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Here move. But I also give them.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Enjoy the fine out loud in my car when they
pass the double line.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Now, yep, because it's definitely going to cost.

Speaker 5 (02:36):
Yes, yes, it realistic.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Feels good.

Speaker 5 (02:39):
Car their for a second.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
I'm just going to get you get it all.

Speaker 4 (02:42):
Right, Let's do the blog because we've got a lot
of stuff on the blog today. We've got a couple
of guests coming up, and we've got things to do.
It's just kind of a crazy day all over the place.
So let's start at mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com.
Look for the headline in the latest post section that
says nine to three twenty five blog impact of Space
Command leaving plus text the rich is up. Click on

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that and here are the headlines you will find.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Within I needsing office half of American all with ships
and clipments of say that's going to press plant.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
Today. On the Blood Fox thirty Wednesday, Fraser joins at
twelve thirty futurist Thomas Friday day at one. What does
space Command leaving mean? Did the Dems do this with
their Trump antagonism? Jeff Crank says it's not all bad news.
Watch Trump's full press conference below. Is working hard still enough.
When quarter of Denver employees are taking leaves, we're getting

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way mow in Denver. Progressives are putting a progressive income
tax on the ballot when one point three billion is
only worth three hundred and forty five million. But did
this change the election? Free speech is dead in the UK.
The hat snatcher at the US Open has apologized the
Rockies lost their one hundredth game. Chirpaying at homeless people

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is now a thing, and if you love haunted houses,
could lithium be the cure for Alzheimer's? What did a
rod do to this gorilla? Congrats to Steve atwater More
on Space Command leaving John Oates says, no more haul
and Oates the Rockies had a brew haha. Scrolling worship
poses the three byte rule. Those are the headlines on

(04:17):
the blog at mandy'sblog dot com tech Toe a winner.

Speaker 5 (04:22):
Thanks Nancy.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
Your speeding isn't going to get you anywhere any faster,
says this text messager, Anthony.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
That's so weird because it does crazy how that works.

Speaker 4 (04:34):
You've got an invitation on the text line at That's
Common Spirit Health text line at five sixty six nine
out what someone texted this, Mandy, I'd like to invite
a Rod to a Nightmare on Strip Street, a new
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Speaker 5 (04:46):
That I am managing.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
I'm a fan of both, and I know air Rod
loves horror, so I thought I would invite him and
his wife Gratis. What we need you to do is
send an email to Mandycoddle at iHeartMedia dot com and
we can pass that along to Anthony as well.

Speaker 5 (05:00):
See what that's all about.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
Anyway, boyality, we got a lot of stuff to talk about,
not the least of which are the responses kind of
the fallout to the announcement yesterday by President Trump that
he was moving Space Command from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama.
Now there will still be multiple components of Space Force

(05:22):
in Colorado, but Space Command will be moving to Huntsville, Alabama.
Now what's interesting is to see how all of our
local media has glommbed on to the fact that Donald
Trump said, you know, they got that mail in balloting
in Colorado and I just is not secure it so
is you know, basically went off on mail in ballid.

(05:44):
That was before the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth stood
up at the lectern and said, hey, back when we
when we created Space Force. Remember Donald Trump is the
guy who created Space Force, only department of the Military's.
Back then, we commissioned the Air Force to find out
where the best place for Space Force is, and that

(06:06):
is Huntsville, Alabama. And the Biden administration chose to go
against the wishes of the Air Force and keep the
temporary headquarters then became the permanent headquarters in Colorado Springs.
So there is a financial incentive. Blah blah blah blah blah.
And I'm not making the argument for Huntsville. I'm making
a point. But our media is only reporting things like

(06:28):
Trump said he wasn't going to put it here because
he doesn't like mail in balloting. Now, I heard Ross
as I was driving in, and I got to say,
I agree with Ross one hundred percent on this, and
that is as the commander in chief of our military forces,
Donald Trump can put the military wherever he wants. Now,
I'm not saying Congress doesn't have a lot of power here,

(06:50):
but base closures have been a part of the military
for many, many years now. I mean many years, not
every year, not all the time, but we've had contractions
in the footprint of the military multiple times over the
last twenty five years, and every single time there's a
huge fight in Congress about where the bases are going
to stay and where they are going to go right,

(07:13):
because when they leave, it can devastate an economy, it
can devastate an area. It's really challenging for some places
to bounce back. Now, other places like Colorado, we bounce
back pretty quick because we're still a beautiful, desirable place
to live. Now, we're losing seventeen hundred actual hard connected

(07:35):
to Space Command jobs. They will be going to Huntsville, Alabama,
and thousands more jobs may be affected. There are a
lot of civilian contractors in our area. Many of them
already have an office in Huntsville, Alabama. Many smaller defense
contractors do not. But it seems to me, and I

(07:56):
have a link to a story on the Denver Gazette today,
it seems to me after reading it, the big news,
the big The big advantage of having an office here
in Colorado when Space Command is right down the road
is access to generals. So basically you can lobby on
a more regular basis to get the contracts or whatever,

(08:18):
and all of that process. You know, I'm oddly okay
with separating, you know, putting a little space between those
two things. I here, I thought, and call me crazy,
I thought you kind of bid on that stuff, and
whoever had the best idea at the lowest price was
going to be the one who got the contract, not
who took the general golfing on a regular basis. And

(08:38):
I don't know, I'm just speculating here based on what
I'm reading. So ultimately, this decision is political one hundred percent.
I'm just gonna I'm not even gonna present like it's not.
But instead of being purely political with absolutely no justification,
which is what the Democrats are trying to sell to you,

(08:59):
there is justification. And it's justification that happened during the
Biden administration. And nobody screamed when the Biden is well,
Alabama screamed when the Biden administration decided to keep it
in Colorado Springs. So it was politics when Biden left
it here. It's politics when Trump takes it out of here.
And when Biden left it here, what did Alabama do nothing?
Because they recognize that as the commander in chief, the

(09:22):
president can make these decisions and I think the same
is true now, like it or not, Trump has the
power to make these decisions. What's super interesting to me, though,
is what happened a little bit later in the press conference.
Can I have my computer please, Anthony. This is after
a question about what were the deciding factors? Why was

(09:42):
hunts Phil a better choice? And he said some things
before this in this answer, but let me just play
this one part for you of Donald Trump's answer out.

Speaker 6 (09:51):
Of states, five states. Really wanted it, but they wanted
it more. And I kid you not when I say that.
These people, they spoke to me a lot. That's all
they wanted to talk about. They didn't want to talk
about the weather. They only wanted to talk about moving
to this location, moving to Alabama, Huntsville in particular, So

(10:12):
we're honored to do it. They really wanted it badly
and they got it.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Peter.

Speaker 4 (10:15):
Now I want to stop there because I have not
heard anyone yet, and maybe these questions are being asked
and I'm just not watching the right news channels to
see them, but I have not heard from anyone about
what measures were taken by our delegation in Colorado to
make sure that Space Force state here. I mean, I
know that Jeff Crank lobbied for it to stay here

(10:37):
because that's in his district. As a matter of fact,
I'm hoping I can get Jeff on the show later
this week. I'm talking to a schedule now. But I
want to know what Diana de Guett did. I want
to know what Jason Crow did. I want to know
what Jonah Goose did. I want to know what all
of these people did. I want to know what Gabe
Evans did. Now, I just want to know. I think

(10:59):
that's a fair question because what we just heard from
Donald Trump is Alabama wanted it more. All they did
was lobby for this consistently, NonStop.

Speaker 5 (11:08):
That's all they wanted to talk about.

Speaker 7 (11:09):
Now.

Speaker 4 (11:09):
Of course some of that is just political bloviating, but
I think it's a very fair point to find out
more information about what our delegation did to keep Space
Force here. But I don't think there's any chances coming back.
Phil Wiser has filed yet another look at me, I'm
running for governor lawsuit. I just don't see how you

(11:29):
can not be cynical about every lawsuit that Phil Wiser
files at this point.

Speaker 5 (11:34):
I mean, if Trump Burp's too loud.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
Phil Wiser is going to file a lawsuit that he's
breaking some kind of noise regulations. It's absurd the number
of lawsuits that we are engaged in right now. Add
one more because now Phil Wiser's arguing that because Colorado
is damaged by this decision, we the state of Colorado,

(11:56):
should have the power to override the power of the
commander in chief. I mean, you guys, even if you're
a Democrat, you have to see how ridiculously.

Speaker 5 (12:06):
Feudal that is.

Speaker 4 (12:08):
I mean, you have to see it as the ploy
that is going to come down. I mean, the Democratic
primary is not going to be about a single thing
in Colorado. It's not gonna be about one single thing.
It is going to be about Orange Man bad and
I'm gonna fight, fight, fight, and whoever can demonstrate that
the most, because let's be real, who votes in the

(12:28):
Democratic primary the furthest left of the Democratic Party, just
like you know, who votes in the Republican primary the
farthest right of the Republicans. Just the way it is,
the rest of us can't be bothered because we're too
dumb to realize how important it is.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Pay attention in.

Speaker 5 (12:44):
The primaries people.

Speaker 4 (12:45):
I mean, think about the city of Denver, that primary
with Kelly Bruff. I mean, if more people have paid attention,
perhaps Denver would be in a much different place right now.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
Well, of course, you don't get to go redo reality.
As I once a therapist. He once said, go back
in your time machine and change at sugar. Yeah, okay, anyway, Texter,
Mandy Jason Crow was too busy harassing ice agents to
be doing anything with space force correct. This goes into
the category, says this text. Or you don't always know

(13:19):
what's right, but you always knows in charge. Yep yep
Mandy's smoke screen for the real problems Epstein files Epstein files.

Speaker 5 (13:27):
Now, Texter, I am confused.

Speaker 4 (13:30):
I'm confused as if you think the Epstein files are
a smoke screen for the real problem, or that the
Epstein files are the real problem. Your text could be
read either way. I think the Epstein files are a problem.

Speaker 7 (13:46):
Not.

Speaker 4 (13:48):
Specifically because of what's in them, but because of the
way they have been protected for many, many years, and
the way Epstein was protected for many many years, and
the fact that the only person in prison for all
of the crimes that allegedly occurred.

Speaker 5 (14:05):
Is a woman no offense?

Speaker 2 (14:08):
Dudes, I'm just.

Speaker 5 (14:08):
Saying, isn't that ironic? How ironic is that?

Speaker 4 (14:13):
Surely you can see it, Tokyo Rose much, Mandy. I
don't understand that either, Mandy. I can tell you for
certain the operating contracts at Rocky Flats were not about
bid or price. I worked there for twenty six years.
It was also not a political decision. Maybe today these
decisions have changed. Well, if it wasn't about bid or
price or politics, how was that decision made?

Speaker 5 (14:36):
I am confused.

Speaker 4 (14:39):
If anyone could find a way to blame the Democrats
for something like this, it's you, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (14:43):
I love it.

Speaker 4 (14:44):
They're also at fault for the disaster on I twenty
five today. Haha, they do run Sea Dot. I'm just saying, no,
you guys, I think it's fascinating to watch everybody thrash
about and talk about how this is horrible.

Speaker 5 (14:57):
We've lost seventeen jobs.

Speaker 4 (14:58):
We've lost countless jobs that are you know, kind of
support positions in this situation. But you know what, this morning,
I just I just looked it up. I asked a question,
and the question was a simple one. It was how
many oil and gas jobs have we lost in Colorado
since twenty nineteen when the Democrats took over everything. The

(15:21):
viewer of labor Statistics shows direct employment down from thirty
two thousand to seven hundred employees in twenty nineteen. Paul
As signed SB one eighty one in twenty twenty two,
and we're down less than twenty thousand jobs. So more
than twelve thousand, seven hundred jobs have been lost in
oil and gas. And that's just directly in the industry.

(15:43):
That's not all of the surrounding parts you know that
are impacted. Restaurants, mom and pop shops, grocery stores, corner
markets that are affected because of the loss of jobs.
And yet the same Democrats who are catterwauling right now
were the same ones who were like, learn to code,
bro Oh, the office of just Transitions will help you
find new work. It's not cool that people lose their jobs.

(16:07):
And please don't take what I'm saying here to be
flippant about any of this.

Speaker 5 (16:11):
I don't want people to lose their jobs, but.

Speaker 4 (16:14):
The hypocrisy of what's going on is just beyond the pale.
So yeah, here's why I think that space Force is
leaving Colorado. Number one, that's where Trump wanted it in
the first place. Hunts Fille, Alabama. Number two, that's where
the Air Force wants it. Number three we're looking at
saving about five hundred million dollars over the course of

(16:34):
fifteen years. And number four, Alabama loves Trump and Colorado.
Our leadership has not only voted against Trump, which is
you know it happens. I think if we'd just done that,
we could probably work something out, maybe have a shot
at lobbing for it. But the reality is since Trump,
before Trump became president, we have had nothing from Colorado

(16:58):
except giant middle finger from the Democratic leadership. We've had
lawsuit thirty six lawsuits against the Trump administration by our
attorney general. They doubled down on sanctuary laws to prevent
our law enforcement agencies from even being aware that ice
is in the area, and all of that stuff cumulatively

(17:19):
has only ensured that we've never stood a chance to
keep Space Command here. Ever, we never did because of
all of that. So if you can come up with
a better explanation for why we have the animosity from
Donald Trump, I mean, come on, if you're not that's
all that the Democrats talk about is how they're resisting

(17:41):
and overcoming. And look at us, We're gonna resist Trump.
We're gonna meet him at the city limits with fifty
thousand Highland moms. Oh you think they're Venezuela gangs here, No,
they're a figment of some woman's imagination. I mean, if
you listen to the show, you know about all that stuff.
Politics is about. Used to be I have to back

(18:03):
this up. Politics used to be about relationships. Used to
be about going and negotiating and working towards a conclusion
where everybody walked away a little unhappy, but everybody kind
of got something they wanted. No more in states like
ours where we have single party rule. And by the way,
here's the kicker. When you have single party rule at

(18:24):
the same numbers that we have democratic party rule, do
you know what happens there? It brings out the worst
in the Republican Party, just like it brings out the
worst in the Democratic Party here. Single party rule, monopoly rule,
you know what, let's call it monopoly rule. Monopoly rule
like we have here in Colorado, like the Republicans have
in Ohio, like the Republicans have in Florida. You guys

(18:46):
don't pay attention to Florida politics like the ins and
outs like I do because it's my home state. There
is so much infighting right now in the Republican Party.
It is wild. It's almost soap proper, like what's happening
in Florida. Ye, So here we are in Colorado, and
they decided that letting Trump know how wrong he was

(19:07):
about everything was more important than keeping jobs in Colorado Springs.
It's more important than getting money for our schools. It's
more important than anything road money. We don't need it.
So what did you think was gonna happen? And whose
fault is it? Whose fault is it? I mean, come on, Texta,
you can't be that dumb oh attempting to remove a

(19:30):
candidate for president from the ballot?

Speaker 5 (19:31):
Forgot that one. Thank you, Texter, Thank you very much.

Speaker 4 (19:36):
Mandy. I lost all fifteen of my oil and gas employees,
all of them making over one hundred thousand dollars a
year go for Colorado. Yep, yep, Mandy. Dems cheered in
twenty thirteen when Magpole was forced to move to Wyoming.
Do you know what's happening right now? They're running the industries,
they don't like out of the state because they were

(19:58):
counting on more government chops, right, and now that those
are gone, they have no idea what to do next.
Do you think our tax shortfall is bad now? And
by the way, it's not really a short fall, it's
a spinning problem.

Speaker 5 (20:10):
Just wait.

Speaker 4 (20:11):
The man who makes the weather, he cooks it up
right there at Fox thirty one studio and then unleashes
it on all of us. Dave Frazer, how you doing.

Speaker 8 (20:19):
It's my concuction contract contribution.

Speaker 4 (20:22):
There you go, there, you go. Okay, let me just
get this out of the way right now and ask
the question that inevitably will be asked, Dave, how much
longer do I have to water my lawn several times
a week?

Speaker 8 (20:33):
Did Anthony just wink at you? He asked me the
same question. He's struggling with moeing in the morning because
we have these cool Chris mornings and you got a
lot of doo on the grass and it's wet. Here's
what I told him. And you know, September is not
generally a wet month for us, So keep watering at
least through the middle of the month, maybe the sixteenth
or the twentieth because if we do get dry later

(20:54):
in the fall, we want to keep things going as
much as we can right now. So I wouldn't give
up on the watering. But yeah, if you're going to
mow mow in the afternoons after the morning, do kind
of drives off. But everything is still looking great. Let's
not shut things off just yet.

Speaker 4 (21:09):
I got to tell you, Dave, we went hiking down
in Castlewood Canyon State Park this past weekend and everything
is still green. Normally this time of year it's all
crunchy and brown. It was like lush down there. I
was kind of surprise. I'm not gonna lie, so you know, ahead,
go ahead.

Speaker 8 (21:26):
I'll not gonna say it's interesting because you know, I
get viewer emails all the time about you know, we're
on the air talking about you know, record setting rain
three times. It happened in August in Denver because the
rain officially hit the censor at the airport. And I'll
give you an email saying, well, you know, we must
be in a rain shadow because I'm not getting it
as much. And that's just the way it is. I mean,

(21:47):
the rain has not been uniform by any means. But
where we've had beneficial rain like Castlewood Canyon, the southern
parts of the Metro Denver in some areas, the Northern
Front Ranges had some decent shots. Really looks good, and
so we want to maintain that as much as we
can here for them, at least the next three to
four weeks.

Speaker 4 (22:06):
All right, So what do the next three to four
weeks look like? What are we looking at here?

Speaker 8 (22:11):
Same thing we talked about last Wednesday. It's the tale
of the first half versus second half. So the thirty
day outlook for the entire month of September, which again
doesn't tell you anything about the day to day weather.
It's when we're done, will it be above normal, below normal?
Will it be wetter or drier than normal? Right now,
that thirty day out looks stayed the same. It's showing
us being slightly warmer and slightly drier than normal. Now

(22:35):
we're only three days into the month. However, the first
eight to fourteen days, so that includes our seven day
forecast plus the next seven days takes us out to
the sixteenth of September, and that pattern for the first
half of the month shows us being wetter and cooler
than normal. So you would think we've got to flip
the script in the second half of the month end
up being drier and warmer.

Speaker 4 (22:56):
Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to tell you I've read this
past week. This week has been this is my favorite
with a. Ron and I both want to know, okay,
because I feel like I can't remember last fall. Did
we even have a fall? I mean, I don't remember fall,
but fall's my favorite season here, and I do feel
like we kind of get, you know, like janked out
of it every once in a while. What you've got

(23:16):
to dry September on deck? But are we seeing anything
in the you know that's going to indicate we're going
to have like a super early snow. Where is that
too far away to even begin to understand?

Speaker 8 (23:28):
Yeah, I mean the long range models for the three
months of September, October, November continue to lean to dry
and warm. We've been battling that all year, but we've
had some winning battles in there. For instance, like I said,
August at I think nine days of measurable rain. Three
of them were record setting. It was the third wettest
August on record, again with the point being at the airport.

(23:49):
For those totals of I think it was four point
one two inches. We have already had some dustings of
snow way up high. They resorts are all announcing their timeframe,
so they're looking at the pattern. What they're looking for
right now is to get those overnight lows down so
they can start thinking about running their snow guns and
starting to build a base. That's still not going to
happen for weeks, but the process is underway. And I

(24:09):
heard from somebody I wish I could remember the critter,
somebody that works for the forestry or something like that,
that said, there's some critter that's up high in the
mountains that tends to burrow itself and build its nest
for the winter. They started noticing. No, it wasn't the marmot,
it was something else. I wish I could remember it.
But whatever this little creature was, somebody had noticed that
they were starting to burrow and prepare for the winter

(24:32):
earlier than they had seen. And you know, we hear
about that folklore all the time. People are talking about
the leaves changing in the mountains. That's not necessarily a
sign of an early winter. That's more because of the
drought conditions that are out west. But overall, you know,
September is our first measurable months for snow, and it's
generally an inch. In Denver, we can get bigger snow
stumps in that we've certainly had them in our history.

(24:54):
And I looked at the records. The last time we
had one inch of snow in Denver was in twenty
twenty is exactly an inch. So for the last four
years September has been dry for us. But again it's
just the beginning of the snow season, if you will.
October can have wild swings, but I still think it's
one of my favorite months, September and October me too.

Speaker 4 (25:15):
I've got a weather question for you, Mandy. Please ask
what causes dirt devils when there is no wind?

Speaker 5 (25:21):
And to be clear, I want to make sure I
know what a dirt devil is.

Speaker 4 (25:23):
It's just like a little mini tornado of just dust, right,
I mean it just maybe they come up a few feet,
but they're not ever going to like go to the
sky kind of tornado, just like a little baby tornado.

Speaker 8 (25:35):
Yeah, so it's a dust level basically dirt double dust level.
I guess it depends how much shirt.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
Is in the air.

Speaker 8 (25:41):
But yeah, basically that doesn't have that doesn't come with
a wind across the planes or like that. That's tap heating,
so you have differential heating. So you've got a hot
spot on the ground and the air starts to rise. Obviously,
warm air rises, so you get the warm air rising
and as it rises, it starts to spin up a
little bit. They generally don't last long, but generally it's
going to be in pockets where there's hot air that's

(26:02):
building at the surface that wants to kind of release
itself and rise up.

Speaker 4 (26:06):
Could it be a peka? Is that the animal that
you are thinking of?

Speaker 2 (26:11):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (26:11):
No, they remain active all winter long, so that's not it.
And somebody just suggested that when should people close down
their pools?

Speaker 8 (26:18):
Dave, Well, that's for most hoas that's sailed over over
Labor Day weekend. You know, I always I'm always a
little frustrated the deck because we can have some great
September weekends. Yeah in the eighties and you want to
go to the pool. But I understand the financial costs
and everything like that, but what about people? Yeah, I
think Labor Day is kind of it. I mean, if

(26:39):
you want to keep it going for a few more weeks.
I don't think it's going to hurt. Obviously. What you
want to watch out for would be dealing with any
type of water, including your external types and all that
kind of stuff for your sprinkler systems. You got to
watch the overnight lows get high on the cold lows,
and if they start to get you start to see
our seven day popping up. With some temperatures in the
upper thirties, it's time. It's not to throw in the time,

(27:00):
but I still think if you have your own pool,
you can probably get a couple more weeks out of it.

Speaker 4 (27:04):
Well, you know what, after those two weeks of super
hot weather, My herb garden is going insane right now.
So this weekend I got to figure out how to
cut all this stuff back and dry it. So I've
done it before, but not real successfully. But I'm determined
this year to make the most of my hand I
just so you know, Dave Frasier, my BlackBerry harvest came

(27:28):
in yesterday and my big porch BlackBerry bush, and this
year's harvest was a whopping four blackberries, the world's most
expensive blackberries. My husband enjoyed all four of them in
one setting. But there you go. It's time to start,
you know, winding down the garden as well.

Speaker 8 (27:45):
Yeah, it is, it is. It's sad because you know,
we could potentially set a record we won't know for
another week or so of the earliest date of our
last ninety degree temperature. So once we hit a week
ago Friday, the rest of August was below average and
we actually averaged down. So all those hot nineties that

(28:08):
we had in the middle of the month, we were
averaging ahead, and we thought maybe we'd get into the
top twenty list for hottest August on record, and we
did not. The last ten days of the month we
had seventies and low eighties, and we averaged down. We
were only about to little less than the degree over
the average, and we didn't make the top twenty list.
And so, you know, those cool temperatures during the day,

(28:29):
those morning lows down into the fifties, it's really been fantastic.
Now I'm not going to stay I'm forecasting eighty eight tomorrow.
That's a little too close for me to be, you know,
copaciently saying we've seen our last ninety degree day, and
there could be some days next week where we'll be
knocking on that door. So I'm not going to say
we're completely done with ninety degrees, but ninety degrees in
September is not ninety degrees in August, real quick.

Speaker 5 (28:52):
Because we were out of time. When does the snoke
go away?

Speaker 4 (28:55):
Obviously things are still on fire on the west Slope.
I don't think it's been as bad this year. But
when do we see that wind shift?

Speaker 3 (29:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (29:04):
What we the last two days the wind's been more northwesternly,
been straight out of the west. So I just looked
at a clear satellite picture and I'm not noticing that
in the air going across Colorado. Right now we get
more of a westerly win. Some of that could transport
back to our way, but right now, for today tomorrow
at least, it's not going to be that case.

Speaker 4 (29:21):
All right.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (29:22):
Dave Frasier, our favorite meteorologist.

Speaker 4 (29:24):
You can see him and his colleagues gave out the
most accurate forecast.

Speaker 5 (29:27):
On Fox thirty one. Thanks man, I'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 8 (29:30):
Thanks Maddie.

Speaker 4 (29:31):
All right, by I reference the fact that I am
increasingly and I didn't say this before, but I'm saying
it now. I hate monopoly rule. I hate it I
don't like it when it's Democrats in charge, like it
is here where Republicans have been sidelined to the point
where they can stop or.

Speaker 5 (29:49):
Or do nothing.

Speaker 4 (29:49):
We just saw that happen again in the special session,
where they were essentially told to shut down and sit
or sit down and shut up. But it's not just
when Democrats are in control. And I said, look what's
happening Ohio and in Florida, where Republicans are solidly in
the majority. It's the same kind of giving into your
worst impulses. And somebody sent a text and said, what
are you talking about? So let me share with you

(30:11):
what I'm talking about. I pay attention to Ohio and
Florida because I'm a native Floridian and my kids live
in Ohio, and in all honesty, I'm probably about to
buy a house in Ohio in the next few years
as a place near my kids for when we retire.

Speaker 5 (30:26):
So I pay attention to these two states.

Speaker 4 (30:28):
Both of them have incredibly strong Republican majorities. Do you
think it would be heaven?

Speaker 3 (30:33):
But no.

Speaker 4 (30:35):
In Ohio, Republicans are facing two different things. Number one,
a jerrymandering challenge, and I hate jerrymandering.

Speaker 5 (30:43):
I think it's awful. I think it.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
Increases the nastiness in our political system because when you're
in what's called a safe district, why do you even
have to engage the other side. You don't you don't
even have to talk to them. Even so maybe maybe
forty percent of you or of your base is on the
you know, in your district is from the other team.

(31:07):
But if you're in a safe enough district, you don't
even have to pretend to pay attention to them. So
you can be the nastiest. You can cater to the
the you know, the hardcore wings of your party that
are going to show up in the primaries, and you
don't have to be a states person or a good
and decent person either. That's what jerry mandering does. I
hate it well. Now Republicans who have not completely jerrymandered

(31:31):
all their states the way that some of their friends
in the Democratic Party have successfully done in Democratic states,
but now they're trying to make up for lost time.
Oh Boy, and in Ohio they have been challenged in court.
The courts came back and said you can't do that.
By the way, that was a Republican Chief Justice joining majority,

(31:51):
and yet they've just doubled down. Right now, the maps
have been designed to give Republicans control of about seventy
percent of seats in Ohio. Ohio is not a hard
read state. It is still a reddish purple state. But
that's not all. And the next thing is what really
annoyed me, even though I understand the concept behind it.

(32:13):
In twenty twenty three, the Republicans pushed a ballot measure
to raise the threshold for constitutional amendments from fifty percent
to sixty percent. By the way, just as a point
of order, I believe it should be sixty percent to
pass a constitutional amendment. I think that amending the Constitution
is such a big deal that you should not be

(32:34):
able to do it on a simple majority. I think
you should have to get to that sixty percent threshold.
But in Ohio it was specifically done to block future
voter initiatives, including on abortion.

Speaker 5 (32:47):
Voters shot it down.

Speaker 4 (32:49):
And then in twenty twenty four, Republicans tried to put
some ballot language on the ballot for an anti gerrymandering
amendment that completely made it impossible to follow along with.

Speaker 5 (33:00):
But that's not all. That's not all. After Roe v
way was overturned.

Speaker 4 (33:06):
The people of Ohio added abortion rights to their constitution,
and now the Republican lawmakers are trying to undermine that.

Speaker 5 (33:19):
It's the exact same thing that the.

Speaker 4 (33:20):
Democratic lawmakers do here when we vote on a referendum
or an initiative or whatever, and then they do the
exact opposite. It's the exact same thing.

Speaker 5 (33:29):
It goes both ways.

Speaker 4 (33:31):
And I don't have time to get into all the
Florida stuff because they got Thomas Frye coming up next.
But basically Florida is also being accused of jerry mandering.
Florida is also trying to undermine the will of the
voters when it comes to abortion, and I understand that
they feel passionately about it, but when the voters speak
in a large majority, as they did in Ohio, pay attention.

(33:52):
You're not there to override the will of the voters.
You're there to represent the voters. And difficult as it
is to understand, you don't have all that political power.
So that is why I hate the one party monopoly
rule system, no matter who is in charge when we
get back.

Speaker 5 (34:08):
Have you ever heard of stable coin before.

Speaker 4 (34:10):
It's a kind of digital coin and honestly, Thomas Fry's
going to join me to tell me why it's awesome.
I still don't understand it. We'll learn together next many.
I think this is super interesting and we should talk
about it, which usually it is super interesting. And I
was like, okay, Thomas Frye, i'll bite. I'll read your
column that you sent me a called the stable Coin Revolution,
Twelve predictions that will Transform Money Forever. And I read

(34:32):
it and I still have no idea what stable coin is.
So Thomas Frye, let's start at the beginning. What is
stable coin? You don't define it. You don't even explain
it in the column you wrote it for people smarter
than me that already knew.

Speaker 7 (34:48):
Well, it's a type of cryptocurrency that's designed to have
the same value as like a national currency. So the
stable coin that we're talking about, with Tether as an example,
is actually peg to the US dollars, so it stays

(35:09):
exactly the same as the US dollar. So it's much
easier to transfer it overseas and across country lines than
it is to transfer regular money.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
Okay, so that gives it a huge advantage.

Speaker 4 (35:24):
Okay, so let me ask you this, are there any
stable coins out there peg to gold?

Speaker 5 (35:28):
Are there any on the gold standard?

Speaker 2 (35:31):
And none of them yet that are pegged to gold?

Speaker 6 (35:34):
No?

Speaker 4 (35:34):
See, okay, Thomas, And this is going to make me
sound like a what eye And I'm okay with that, okay,
because I've really been trying to understand bitcoin. I've been
trying to understand you know, cybercurrency. I've been trying to
understand all this stuff. But from where I see it,
all of this stuff is all fiat currency in one
way or another.

Speaker 5 (35:51):
It just has value because someone says it has value.
Is that wrong?

Speaker 2 (35:55):
Am I? Am?

Speaker 4 (35:56):
I seeing this so incorrectly? And if so, please make
me understand.

Speaker 7 (36:01):
So, as an example, Tether is backed by mostly UST bills,
so they have a huge amount of UST bills that
are stored to back up the tether, tether coin USDT
and our secretary of commerce, That's that's what his business was,

(36:25):
is backing up all the tether.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
So his company.

Speaker 7 (36:31):
Turned into a huge company just doing that, just managing
the tether.

Speaker 4 (36:36):
So are you saying that if I go to this
tether and say look, I'm gonna buy one hundred dollars
of the stable coin, that's actually me buying a US
Treasury bond. Is that what it is, that's what it's
backed by. Yes, okay, so we're buying debt.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
In some respect.

Speaker 5 (36:57):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 4 (36:58):
So let's explain why this is revolutionary. And first of all,
why is it different than cybercurrency? Why is it different
than bitcoin?

Speaker 7 (37:07):
This is different because it's it's based on a national currency,
which is more widely accepted than bitcoin is, as an example.
So this opens the door for lots of interesting things
like programmable money. So, as an example, when you go
to a store and you buy something and you pay

(37:29):
sales tax on it, usually they wait till the end
of the month, and the merchant then has to fill
out this this huge form and calculate out how much
sales tax he owes and sends it into the government.
With programmable money, they could actually make it so that

(37:50):
when the transaction happens, the amount of sales tax instantly
goes to the government and the merchant themselves don't have
to deal with all that form filling out and stuff,
which you make their job a whole lot easier.

Speaker 4 (38:04):
Okay, I would still hold that back till the end
of the month as a business and fill out the form,
just so I have the money in my hand, I
would not lie. Somebody just said, okay, so you're making
it easier to remit things to the government. Okay, you're
buying government bonds. This feels like government bitcoin.

Speaker 7 (38:25):
Yeah, well it's it's being managed in a way so
it's much easier to do things. See there, it's so
easy to send USD t which is Tether, across country
lines that the volume of Tether that's being spent right
now that's being sent around the world actually greatly exceeds

(38:50):
the volume that visen MasterCard is sending.

Speaker 4 (38:53):
So wait a minute, is Tether the coin or is
Tether the platform?

Speaker 5 (38:57):
I'm confused.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
Tether is a stable coin.

Speaker 4 (39:02):
Okay, so somebody else just said, I still don't know
what a stable coin is, and I think that we
should try and explain the basic differences between cybercurrency, which
seems to be connected in my mind to nothing, and
stable coin, which is at least connected to something real.
You have some sort of tangible asset that is connected
to stable coin instead of cybercurrency, which is extremely volatile,

(39:25):
which is why we're talking about will.

Speaker 5 (39:26):
Bitcoin go to two hundred thousand or whatever?

Speaker 4 (39:28):
It is, so is that the basic differences.

Speaker 7 (39:34):
Yeah, so if you back something on bitcoin or ethereum,
those can go up and down quite a bit compared
to the US dollar. If you back something to the
US dollar, then it stays exactly with the US dollar.
So that's what the Genius Act was that President Trump signed.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
Into law.

Speaker 7 (39:57):
To make it so that this we have this formal
system for how to create stable coin now, and it's
it's actually fairly conservative, but it's going to open the
door for lots of other opportunity.

Speaker 4 (40:12):
So essentially, in making the system easier to translate, meaning
once you know you have a stable coin that's back
by the dollar, to your point, it makes it easier
to trade around the world because you don't have to
worry about those massive fluctuations that may happen with cybercurrency.
So is it just about kind of flattening the payment
system to because we still use the dollar is the

(40:35):
reserve currency for most worldwide transactions, not all when you're
talking about China and Russia, but for the purposes of
this conversation, So is it just about streamlining that system.

Speaker 7 (40:49):
Yeah, Let's let's use a couple examples. So as an example,
if you're going to buy a house, to get a mortgage,
it takes a long time, and closing out of house
is usually a month month and a half away. That
could be reduced down to just minutes with stable coin

(41:13):
because it's so much easier to track where everything's at.

Speaker 2 (41:16):
At any given moment. Got it. You want to pay
your kits and.

Speaker 7 (41:21):
Allowance, but you only want them to spend the money
on certain things.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
You can program that money.

Speaker 4 (41:28):
So that's ah, so no junk food for you with
program money.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
No junk food or no porn magazines or whatever.

Speaker 4 (41:37):
Okay, ah, So it's allowing you or whoever to exert
a measure of control over where the money goes. Now,
on a practical level, we talk about things like you
can't use welfare benefits for junk food. So ostensibly, if
the government started distributing food benefits with stable coin, they
could exclude certain categories. They could exclude the ability to

(42:00):
transfer it to anybody else. There are ways to therefore
make that money less fungible in a way.

Speaker 7 (42:09):
Right right, Yeah, So you can build in restrictions, like
you can have a Starbucks coin that's a stable coin,
and they can make it so that it's just usable
in Starbucks and Uber could have their own stable coin
that's just usable in Uber, and then you run into

(42:33):
the issues. So what if somebody tries to use a
Starbucks coin in their Uber when they're trying to pay
for it, So then they have to have certain built
in restrictions and accommodations or whatever they want. But they'll
run into issues like that. So I think we're going
to have lots of like Amazon coins, We're going to

(42:55):
have Uber coins, We're going to have Tesla coins.

Speaker 4 (42:58):
I mean, you can kind of replace gift certificates like this,
right right, you know, I mean you just make them
specific to one industry that they have to use. There,
here's a good text message, Mandy. One of the reasons,
the whole reason for bitcoin is to keep the government
out of my business.

Speaker 5 (43:13):
Why would I want them to be able to monitor me?

Speaker 7 (43:16):
Now, Yeah, the government doesn't really monitor stable coin, although
it's probably possible. Yeah, the world gets much more complicated
when you have stable coin that's very fluid and very

(43:36):
flexible and able to do all these different things.

Speaker 4 (43:40):
So was there anything that would prevent someone from creating
a stable coin that is pegged to gold.

Speaker 7 (43:49):
No, that's that would be that would that's what's going
to be coming now with the Genius Act. We'll have
stable coins paid to go, We'll have peg to real estate,
We'll have them peg to oil, gas reserves and things
like that. So that opens the door for lots more

(44:12):
different kinds of stable coins than we've had in the past.

Speaker 4 (44:15):
I'm still not sure what what advantage there is to
stable coin over other forms of payment, other than it
might be a little bit easier. Like what problem are
they solving with this?

Speaker 2 (44:32):
I think it's just the fluidity of money.

Speaker 4 (44:36):
Okay, So it's just another way to pay.

Speaker 7 (44:39):
It's another way to pay, but it's another way to accumulate,
another form of wealth to accumulate.

Speaker 4 (44:49):
Okay, I see this is this is I know I'm
so old fashioned with this, but the same way I
will not invest in a company whose product I don't understand.

Speaker 7 (44:59):
I I don't.

Speaker 4 (45:00):
Understand any of this in the grand scheme of things.
I don't understand how it works. I still don't understand
crypto mining. And if I told you how much I
have read on this subject to still not understand it,
you would think I was the dumbest person on the planet.
But then I talk to other people that I think
are smart, and a vast majority of them are like,
oh yeah, I own bitcoin. I'm like, okay, can you

(45:21):
explain to me what it is? None of them have
any idea. They just bought it because everybody else did.
I'm reluctant because I truly don't understand, because it's so
different than everything we've done up to this.

Speaker 5 (45:32):
Point the way I see it.

Speaker 4 (45:34):
Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (45:38):
Right?

Speaker 7 (45:40):
Well, some of the advantages of stable coin is the
price stability. So I'm like Bitcoin and ethereum, it's going
to stay piked to the dollar or pig to the
Japanese yen. If you get a Japanese stable colin, you
can make faster transactions.

Speaker 2 (45:57):
It's lower cost in the transit actions. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (46:02):
One of my predictions was that stable coins are going
to run MasterCard and Visa out of business in the
next five to six years somewhere around there.

Speaker 4 (46:13):
Not as long as there are people like me Thomas,
who are like, I understand how MasterCard and Visa work.

Speaker 5 (46:17):
I get it.

Speaker 4 (46:18):
We have made a deal.

Speaker 5 (46:19):
I get that whole contract.

Speaker 4 (46:21):
I am not ready to make this leap, but then again,
I wasn't ready to make the leap to driverless cars,
and now I'm like, I can't buy one fast enough.
So we'll see how quickly people like me can adapt
to this. How widespread is this going to be? I mean,
will companies adopt it to the point where you were
making early You could have Starbucks stable coin, you could
have Uber stable coin, you could have all of these different.

Speaker 5 (46:42):
Kinds of stable cooin.

Speaker 4 (46:43):
Do you think every business is going to create their
own stable coin or is it going to be stable
coins that will be able to be personalized without creating
a separate entity altogether.

Speaker 7 (46:56):
There's going to be some barriers, so it'll have to
be a very wealthy corporation that could actually create their
own stable coin. So it won't be like the Mom
and pops shop down the street has their own stable coin.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
That's not going to happen.

Speaker 5 (47:11):
But Amazon or Meta, yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
Meta could have their own stable coin. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (47:19):
So, but does the process work that if I am
Uber or I'm Starbucks, I go to an existing teatherform
like Tether, I go to this this Tether platform and
I say, look, I want to be able to designate
for people that I'm giving you these dollars for Uber
so you can use them for Uber every single day,
but that's all you can use them for.

Speaker 5 (47:37):
How does that process work.

Speaker 4 (47:39):
How does a company go to some other stable coin
and say we want to be able to kind of
piggyback onto.

Speaker 5 (47:44):
What you're doing. That seems really complicated to me.

Speaker 7 (47:49):
Yeah, I'm not sure I could explain that to you
right now. Not because I don't want to, It's because
I don't know how to well.

Speaker 5 (47:57):
And see that's the problem.

Speaker 4 (47:58):
This is one of those times where I feel like
i'm I'm I have not been able to get to
the person that can make me understand this. And I
think maybe that's going to be the winning proposition. Whoever
can figure out how to dumb this down for the
masses in an easily digestible, consumable way is going to
win the cryptocurrency race.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
I think you're I think you're right that once, once
it's actually.

Speaker 7 (48:26):
Simple enough for first time users, I think that's when
it catches on a massive, huge way. I mean, right now,
there's huge volumes of money that are being shifted around
the world using tether. That has created a huge, massive
business for the people that are managing the tea bills

(48:49):
in the background, because there's a lot of a lot
of purchasing of tea bills and managing that whole operation
in the background to keep that stable. So that's that's
a lot trickier than you could initially imagine.

Speaker 5 (49:06):
Well, my fear is this.

Speaker 4 (49:08):
My fear is that this is another way for government
to keep overspending by promoting the use of stable coin,
buying treasury bills and therefore allowing the government to keep
spending at record rates of deficit. We saw what happened
when the FED lowered rates significantly during COVID and the
government went on a spending spree and it led to

(49:28):
high inflation. I mean, I just the part that concerns
me is that it's backed by treasury bills. That's the
part that actually concerns me the most. Like I would
rather be pegged to something that I consider to be
politically neutral, which is why I asked about gold.

Speaker 7 (49:43):
Yeah, And see, that's what the Genius Act does is
that opens the door for other things to be backing
the stable coin, Like you'll be able to back it
with real estate, back with.

Speaker 4 (49:58):
Other hard assets, other hard assets. But when we say
back it with that, what does that actually mean? But
that's the other thing I don't understand it's backed with this,
But what does that mean if I default on a debt?
Do I have to come up with real estate? Do
I have to come up with I don't understand. This
is see, this is just I never want to talk
about this again, Thomas. It makes my head hurt, It

(50:19):
makes my brain hurt. I'm just it makes me feel
like I'm a hundred years old, honestly, because I just,
for whatever reason, my brain will not wrap its head
around this and im and I'm trying, and I'm trying,
but it just doesn't make any sense to me. And
I realized that this is like the wave of the future.
But at the same time, I feel like, you know,

(50:40):
can I write a check? That's where I am right now.
I want to write a check and you're talking about
stable coin.

Speaker 2 (50:47):
Yeah. Do you remember back when you were writing a
check at.

Speaker 7 (50:50):
A kmart and all of a sudden you had to
come up with four farms of ideas.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
To get through the cashier.

Speaker 4 (50:57):
That never slowed my late Nana down. That woman would
write a check anywhere. She didn't care how many people
were in line behind her. She was writing a check.
Do stable coins make it easier to avoid government sanctions
i e. Russia.

Speaker 5 (51:10):
That's a question on the text line.

Speaker 4 (51:12):
But the other thing I thought of is does this
allow criminals to move money around with ease?

Speaker 2 (51:20):
Actually I don't.

Speaker 7 (51:21):
I think it's set up so that it's harder for
criminals to actually do business with this. But but they're
very ingenious. The criminals have a way of actually figuring
things out there.

Speaker 4 (51:37):
Yeah, Thomas, I'm dead serious. I never want to talk
about this again because I I just I can't do it.
And I read I read the article. Now that I
have a better understanding of what Stable Point actually is,
I'm going to go back and read the article again
and see if I can get more understanding, because I
obviously this is a thing that isn't going away, right,

(51:57):
you know, it's it's it's going to be a part
of the future. I just wish there was like basically
bitcoin for idiots or whatever we need to do, because
if we don't dumb this down, I don't see how
I don't trust the government enough. My skepticism of the
government is far too high to say, oh no, I'm
sure this is gonna be fine if you guys came

(52:17):
up with it.

Speaker 7 (52:19):
So so if you had You're able to get yourself
a tether card that replaced your visa card and it
only had a half a percent transaction fee.

Speaker 2 (52:32):
Would you use that? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (52:34):
Yeah, that Now you're talking.

Speaker 4 (52:36):
Now you're talking. You're cooking with gas here. But I
still don't know what that means. Like, if I don't
pay my credit card bill, they're gonna come after me.
I get it right, They're gonna they're gonna sue me
for the money or whatever. They're gonna kill my credit
So I understand that aspect of it. But what if
I use my tether card? Do I get a tether bill?

Speaker 3 (52:58):
What do.

Speaker 2 (53:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (53:02):
Probably, but it would be coming electronically, not in the mail.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
Oh god. See.

Speaker 4 (53:10):
Okay, Thomas, we're gonna pretend this conversation ever happened. We're
never gonna speak of this again, and I'm gonna go
to my grave not understanding what stable coin is. But
next time, let's talk about something more interesting. Okay, it's
something I can actually understand. Thomas is our futurist. You
can find him at my future a speaker dot or
just future speaker dot com. You can read this article.

(53:32):
I'll put a link on it. I'm gonna read it
again and try one more time. We'll see Thomas. I
appreciate you, man, I'll.

Speaker 5 (53:39):
Talk to you later.

Speaker 2 (53:40):
Thanksdy bye. God.

Speaker 4 (53:43):
That just makes me feel so stupid. Is there anything okay? Listeners?
I need you to make me feel better. Have you
tried to learn anything lately that just made you feel
really dumb? I'd like to know five six six nine
oh text the common Spirit heal text line, help us out,
Please somebody, anybody. This is a super dangerous story going forward,

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and you're gonna hear it and go dangerous seems like
a strong word, but hear me out. Faith in the
notion that hard work leads to economic gains has dropped
dramatically in the United States of America. And I have
a whole bunch of I have a whole bunch of
speculative reasons for why this is. And it's not all what's.

Speaker 2 (54:27):
The matter with kids today?

Speaker 4 (54:28):
There's a lot going on right now. Part of it
is kids today, part of it.

Speaker 5 (54:32):
Is not right. We'll get to that in a second. Well,
listen to these numbers.

Speaker 4 (54:37):
More than three quarters of people in a Wall Street
Journal nork Pole found that the people who say they
have a good chance of improving their standard of living
fell to twenty five percent. That's a record low in
surveys Bank dating back to nineteen eighty seven. More than
three quarters said they lack confidence that life for the

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next generation will be better than their own. Nearly seventy
percent said they believe the American dream that if you
work hard, you will get ahead no longer holds true
or never did, the highest level in nearly fifteen years
of surveys. Republicans were less pessimistic than Democrats. That kind
of holds whatever a party is in the White House.
Their party is more optimistic, but only fifty five percent

(55:23):
of Republicans hold a negative view of the prospects for
themselves and their children. That means a majority of Republicans
say the American Dream is dead. The discontent goes across
demographic lines. By large majorities. Both men and women held
a pessimistic view that combined questions, So did younger and

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older adults, those with and without a college degree.

Speaker 5 (55:48):
In respondence with more than one.

Speaker 4 (55:49):
Hundred thousand dollars an household income, as well as those
with less than that, A Paul found a somewhat brightening
view of the current economy. Some forty four percent the
economy is excellent or good. That's up from thirty eight
percent a year ago. That's still a smaller share than
the fifty six percent who now view the economy as
not good or poor. A vast majority of that comes

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from the price of everything. Income has not caught up
with inflation. The kind of inflation that we went through
during the Biden administration was significant. It raised prices over
twenty percent, and I'm guessing with the added almost three
percent that we're still seeing now, you're looking at prices
that are twenty five thirty percent higher than they were
several years ago, and incomes have not kept up with that.

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And that's what people feel right now. Now, Why is
this really bad news? This, actually, I think is why
Zoorn Mundani is doing so well in New York Because
when you believe that the economy is stacked against you,
the American dream is dead, there's no point in working hard.

Speaker 5 (56:55):
It all becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.

Speaker 4 (56:57):
By the way, if you convince yourself that it doesn't
matter what you do, so why work hard if there's
no chance of getting ahead, it absolutely will happen.

Speaker 5 (57:07):
Just like that. You will never get ahead.

Speaker 4 (57:10):
Now, there are a few things happening right now that
I think are significant, and we need to pay attention
to them and figure out if there's a way. And
I have several suggestions, of course, to sort of even
things out. One of them is housing costs. Are they
feel really unattainable for young people?

Speaker 2 (57:26):
Now?

Speaker 4 (57:27):
Part of the issue here is that I think young
people for some reason thought they were going to be
able to buy a house in their twenties. I'm just
going to say, as a gen X person, I did
not know a single person who bought a house in
their twenties that was not married with children. So they
kind of leapt ahead on the life skills thing. You know,
they got married really young, maybe right out of college.

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They decided to have kids right away, so then they
had a family, they needed a house. The rest of us.
I was a renter until well into my thirties, and
I was a renter with roommates. Ask young people today
if they have roommates. If they have roommates, they have one, y'all.
I lived in the house with five other people. Five

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other people, you know why, because.

Speaker 5 (58:12):
That's all we could afford.

Speaker 4 (58:15):
That, to my knowledge, doesn't really exist right now. I
mean my son when he lived here before he moved
to Ohio, he was like, I never want to have
another roommate again. I'm like, well, I didn't really want
to either, but that was what that's how you lived.
We also have younger people who have much different lifestyles
than we had when I was the same age. How

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many of you traveled overseas when you were in your twenties.
I traveled overseas because that was my job. That is
why I became a flight attendant to get those flight benefits.
But none of my friends could travel. And now I
see friends, you know, kids that are in their twenties
that are like, oh, we're gonna go to Amsterdam for

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a week and then we're going to Australia for two weeks.
And don't get me wrong, I love travel. It's one
of my favorite things in the whole world. It feeds
my soul like nobody else's, like nothing else does. But
I couldn't do it in my twenties. I wish I
could have. Wasn't a thing that was an option. So
it's like they're making different choices. And don't get me wrong,

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I know not every twenty something is traveling all over
the world. But there are a lot of different choices
that are being made. We just didn't have as many
choices that we had, you know, we didn't have as
many options available. Right when I was young, in my twenties,
in my thirties, I had a split telephone bill because
we only had a phone in the house. And then

(59:37):
when I was like, I don't know, twenty seven twenty eight,
I got my first cell phone and it was company
provided and it was that nifty Nokia, you know the
Nokia you all had, you know, the little dorky phone.

Speaker 5 (59:47):
Yep, that thing.

Speaker 4 (59:50):
And we split a cable bill that was like one
hundred bucks. Our power bill was reasonable, and we split
it among five people. And guess what. Two of the
people that I lived with actually decided they wanted to
buy a house in their twenties. They were single, two
roommates went in and bought a house together.

Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
There's all these.

Speaker 4 (01:00:11):
Different creative ways to do it, but it's like the
expectation seems to exist that not only are you going
to be able to afford a house in your twenties,
you're seeing all these influencers online that are living in
these palatial mansions like way nicer than my house, and
it's created an expectation that somehow your first house should
be your house.

Speaker 8 (01:00:31):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:00:31):
No, no, no, your first house should be your first house, small, manageable,
a payment you can afford, however, you need to do that,
and then you move up in the real estate game.
But I mean, you know, people buying their first home
spending seven hundred thousand dollars on a home when you
should be spending two hundred and fifty on a condo.

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There are ways to become a homeowner, but most people
don't want to do them. Buy yourself a condo in
an older condo complex. Costume is nothing, very low maintenance fees,
and you have it for a few years and then
you turn around and sell it to somebody else who
wants to buy their first place. The notion that somehow
this generation has it worse than any other generation is

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just silly. Every generation feels that way. Every generation has
their crosses to bear right, every generation has their challenges.
But frankly, life in the United States of America today
is better than it was in the eighties, and it
was better in the eighties than it was in the fifties.
It was better in the fifties than it was in
the twenties. Right, we all have our issues. We've got

(01:01:37):
to figure out something about housing. And for the most part,
especially in Colorado, the cost of housing new housing is
mostly tagged directly to government regulations on our housing industry. Now,
I don't want people to build unsafe houses, but we
need to look at every single economic impact of every
single regulation that has been passed in Colorado designed to

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save the environment or whatever crap they're talking about, and
we need to say, what can we take away and
still have people have safe homes, Not maybe the home
that is the perfectly carbon neutral house that we'd all
aspire to, but a house they can afford. And at
the same time, I am increasingly beginning to think that

(01:02:17):
there needs to be some kind of limitations put on
investment firms that are buying up private homes to use
as rental properties. I would not be opposed to putting
some kind of ownership limits. I am not comfortable at
all with housing being traded as an asset, even though
I probably have some of that in my retirement portfolio.

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I think it's creating a distortion in the market. That's significant,
and we've got to figure out some way to roll
that back.

Speaker 2 (01:02:44):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:02:44):
Should corporations be allowed to own rental properties, Absolutely they should.
Should they be able to own an entire neighborhood, No,
but I don't know how to do that. I don't
know how to make that work. And I'm never in
favor of more government regulation. But when you've got people,
and this has happened to a friend of mine in
a different market not here, their market is growing very

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very quickly. They put in like seven or eight bids
on different houses, and their price was right, but they
all had financing attached. You can't compete against a cash
offer in many of those situations unless you just throw
yourself on the mercy of the cellar and say, please,
don't sell your home to a soulless corporation that won't
care about it and love it like I do, which
is what they ended up doing, and they finally got

(01:03:27):
someone to accept their bed.

Speaker 5 (01:03:29):
I'm curious.

Speaker 4 (01:03:30):
I mean, what do you think your struggles were, no
matter what age you were, what do you think your
struggles were that this generation cannot even wrap their heads around.

Speaker 5 (01:03:37):
We'll do that next.

Speaker 4 (01:03:38):
Somebody just sent a textas said, it's getting really hard
to find a condo for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:03:43):
Y'all.

Speaker 4 (01:03:43):
I just found four one hundred and twenty two condos
for sale in the Denver metro on realtor dot com
under two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Now, are they
going to be the nicest places in the world with
all the amenities? No, but some of them are nice
little places that have been well updated. That would be
a great place to spend three, four or five years
while you build up your nest egg again and by

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the home that you really want. That's how it's supposed
to go. You know the thing about the American dream,
and I was talking about this in the last segment.
If you just joined us, that now only twenty five
percent of Americans think that the American dream is alive,
and that American dream is if you work hard and
you make good choices, you can succeed economically. Now, I

(01:04:26):
think part of this is also impatience. Most of us
don't hit our prick peak earning years until the mid forties,
and at that point you should be well into a
career where you have made an investment in yourself on
a regular basis, and I don't mean necessarily even a
financial investment, but you're always trying to get better, learn more,

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increase your skills. If you keep doing all those things,
you're going to have economic success. Now, there are always
going to be people that do the right thing and
some freak thing happens and takes the rugout from under him,
And I'm super sorry.

Speaker 5 (01:04:58):
For those people. But I'm just going to say this.

Speaker 4 (01:05:01):
The people that I've known at the age of fifty six,
the people that i've known for thirty years, the ones
that did a few things. Number one, graduated from high
school and got some kind of post high school training,
whether that's college, whether that is industrial or trade.

Speaker 5 (01:05:17):
They had some kind of training.

Speaker 4 (01:05:18):
Then they got married, then they had kids, and then
they started working. And some of them did not make
a lot of money, y'all. I made no money when
I decided to go from one low paying career, which
is being a flight attendant, to another low paying career,
which is getting started in radio. To say that I

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did not make a lot of money for a very
long period of time is a gross understatement. But I
knew what I wanted to do right I knew I
once I got into radio, I was like, well, that's
what I want to do. So what do I need
to do to support myself while I get that started?
So I bartended and I waited tables and I did
all of that stuff so I could continue to grow
in radio. And it was literally well over a decade

(01:06:00):
before I made what I would consider decent money, And
I wish I was kidding about that, but I'm not
well over a decade. So I guess what I'm trying
to say is trust the process. Just keep doing the
right thing, keep making smart decisions. Read Dave Ramsey books,
you know, don't stop trying. And the thing that concerns

(01:06:24):
me the most about this poll that says people don't
believe the American dream is a thing anymore, because that way,
when a politician shows up and says, you know what,
life is too hard and wouldn't it be cool if
your government could take care of everything cradle to grave.
We'll just tax the heck out of all these rich
people and pay for it. It's a very seductive message.

(01:06:47):
It's why Zoe run mom. Donnie won the Democratic or
you know he's going to be the next governor excuse me,
Mayor of New York, unless these other three clowns can
get their acts together and somebody drops out, because it's
appealing when you're struggling to have someone say I can
make your life better, I can help you out, I

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can get you the things that you desire, and when
you're struggling, the desire to look any further than those
empty promises is just not there. That's the part of
this survey. It concerns me not that I don't think
young people are going to be able to succeed, because
they can. They will. You look at the older millennials

(01:07:29):
right now and how they're doing. They're doing pretty dang good.
Not everybody's doing, but overall, the older millennials are doing
pretty dang good right now. You just got to trust
the process, and sometimes patience is the hardest thing to
come by, and I think that's part of what's going
on right now.

Speaker 5 (01:07:47):
When we get back.

Speaker 4 (01:07:49):
Oh boy, remember the cool Denver City how they opted
out of the family lead program. Well they've created their
own and they made it way more generous than the
state plan, and oh god, everybody's taking advantage of it.

Speaker 1 (01:08:02):
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Speaker 8 (01:08:30):
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Speaker 4 (01:08:31):
Third hour of the show. I'm your host, Mandy Connad
Deck got right over there abouts Anthony Rodriguez, and we
will take you right up until three o'clock when we'll
turn the station over to the sports.

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
Guys.

Speaker 4 (01:08:42):
Did I mention that Florida State beat Alabama this past week?
Did I get that in yesterday?

Speaker 5 (01:08:46):
Can't remember?

Speaker 2 (01:08:47):
You know?

Speaker 4 (01:08:48):
I mean, I just want to make sure that everybody
recogne one yep. I just want to make sure everybody
knew that. Okay, something you got going on there?

Speaker 3 (01:08:56):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:08:56):
I got a couple of things on the blog today.

Speaker 4 (01:08:57):
One this story. You guys, if you're driving, I might
need you to pull over because this is the most
shocking story of the day. Back when voters passed the
Family Leave Act that forced employees and employers to feed
into a fund that people could use to tap into

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if they had some kind of need, like a medical need,
they had to care for someone else. They had to
recover from a medical situation, whatever. It was just family leave.
You could use it for a variety of things, but
it had pretty strict rules. In One of the things
that this did was allow municipalities to say, no, no, no,
we are going to create our own leave program. We're

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going to opt out of the government's leave program, which
I find incredibly ironic, but whatever will come to. Well know,
we already talked about that a long time ago. So
let's talk about Denver. What the city of Denver did.
The City of Denver created the care Bank, kind of
like a care bear, only at cost taxpayers a lot
more money. So the care Bank program went into effect

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in Denver in twenty twenty four in that allowed city
workers to take up to eight weeks of paid leave
for a variety of reasons, including personal health issues, caring
for a child, or caring for a family member with
a serious health condition. Now here's the kicker. The program
costs nothing for city employees. It pays them one hundred

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percent of their salary. And guess what you, guys, when
you tell people that you can take eight weeks off
and get a full salary for nebulous reasons. It was
a very very popular program, so popular that in a
Denver Paramedic division, leave usage in twenty twenty four shot

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up three hundred and thirty four percent. That necessitated overtime
payments to employees to fill the positions vacated by other
employees utilizing the.

Speaker 5 (01:11:02):
Paid leaf program. But that's not all this year.

Speaker 4 (01:11:09):
The city estimates in twenty twenty five, care bank usage
will be even higher than last year, with two thousand,
four hundred and eighty four city employees taking the paid
leave getting one hundred percent of their salary for eight weeks.
That is about one quarter of the city's workforce. So

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now they're having to make some changes. The Denver Career
Service Board voted unanimously to make changes to the program,
saying the modifications were an effort to quote streamline the
program and have it aligned with federal programs. What did
they do.

Speaker 2 (01:11:51):
Well?

Speaker 4 (01:11:53):
After the Human Resources Agency, pushed by the Way, pushed
for the carebank benefit, they lauded the care bank generosity,
noting that it was far more generous than similar federal
and state programs that may not pay workers taking leave
or may have caps on how much of their salaries
they can earn. While on leave. Previously, city workers who

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were still on probation could receive the paid Denver Care
Bank leave, but one of the new changes says workers
have to have been at the city at least a
year to use their eight weeks of time off at
full pay. And this next one, I feel like is superpunitive.
The new rules also say grandparents will no longer be

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considered family members when it comes to employees using care
bank hours to care for family. So if you were
raised by your grandparents and now they need your help,
you can no longer qualify for the paid lead program.
This is a little bit ridiculous in what they should
have done was lower the amount of compensation dramatically from

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one hundred percent down to something more reasonable and also
put some more restrictions on how much you can use
at one time. I would like to know the total
amount that this program is costing the City of Denver
as they struggle to come up with a two hundred
and fifty million dollars shortfall. Well, what's absolutely incredible is

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the fact that anyone who works for the city is surprised, Like,
who knew people.

Speaker 5 (01:13:27):
Were gonna take advantage of this?

Speaker 2 (01:13:29):
Who knew?

Speaker 5 (01:13:30):
Goll Lee, nobody saw that coming.

Speaker 4 (01:13:33):
I should go back and see if those shows still exists,
where people like me literally said this was what was
going to happen, Like, Yeah, you guys are gonna make
it so generous that everybody's gonna take it, and then
you're not gonna have anybody to work, and then you're
gonna have to pay other people overtime. So not only
are you paying one hundred percent of the salary for
someone who isn't there, you are now also paying time

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and a half to someone else so they can do
the job of the person getting a hundred percent that
isn't there. Now, don't get me wrong, you guys. I
think that our system here in the United States, when
it comes to things like maternity leave, paid time off,
it's all super archaic, and I understand the reasons against it,
but there's got to be.

Speaker 5 (01:14:15):
Some balance, right, You've got to have.

Speaker 4 (01:14:18):
Some kind of balance where employees can have the ability
to take some time off to take care of a
significant issue without feeling like they're going to starve. But
it's also not right for state government, who, by the way,
doesn't earn a single dollar they spend. They take it
right out of the pockets of the taxpayers. They should

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never have a benefit more generous than what the taxpayers
have themselves. That should just be the rule, like they
should have the same benefits as the least generous program.
And I'm not trying to be a jerk. I'm not
anti city worker, but two people are living off of
my work, right my tax dollars, a Rod's tax dollars,

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your tax dollars. So I don't think they should have
some crazy generous benefit and then be surprised when people
take advantage of it, Because that, to me, I laughed
out loud when I saw that. I was like, oh, oh,
who saw that coming? Oh yeah, yeah, me, I saw
that coming. When we get back, I want to talk
about what's happening in Britain right now. And I know
you're saying to yourself, Mandy, I'm not going to Britain

(01:15:20):
anytime soon, but what's happening there when it comes to
free speech, or the lack thereof, is what I am
afraid will happen if free speech monitors get elected in
the higher office in the United States of America. We're
going to start with the story of a comedian who
was arrested.

Speaker 2 (01:15:40):
What did he do.

Speaker 4 (01:15:42):
He tweeted out support for real women while he was
in the United States, and when he landed in the UK, well,
the cops were there to meet him. I'll tell you
all about it next. This is kind of shocking to
me in a way. I don't know why. It never
occurred to me that the Brits would be even more
woke than we are, But here we are. Grand Linehan

(01:16:05):
is an Irish comedian co creator of very popular sitcoms
in the UK called Father Ted and The IT Crowd.
He's one of the most successful lottery or excuse me
comedy writers in the UK, but he was criticized for
a two thousand and eight episode of The It Crowd,
which activists called transphobic when it re aired years later.

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Then in twenty eighteen, Lenen was praised as heroes protesters
at wait let Me Try this Again. Then in twenty eighteen,
he praised as heroes protesters at London's Pride Parade who
had carried banners that read transactivism erases lesbians. Ever since,
he's been the target of a relentless campaign by trans activists.

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He's been sued, repeatedly, banned from X ostracized from the
show bized community, and last year he moved to the
United States of America. Last week, he hopped a flight
to go from Arizona to London. The minute he stepped
off the plane at he throw, five armed police officers
were waiting. They escorted him to a private area and

(01:17:14):
told him he was under arrest for three posts on
X posts he made by the way while he was
in the United States of America. Do you know what
these offending posts were? Let me read them to you.
If a trans identified male is in a female only space,
he is committing a violent, abusive act, make a scene,

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call the cops, and if all else fails, punch him
in the balls. That's tweet number one. Then he had
a protest, had a photograph of a protest from above
and it says a photo you can smell. And the
last one was I hate them misogynists and homophobes.

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
F them.

Speaker 4 (01:17:56):
These are the three tweets that just got him arrested.
This is not the first case of someone being arrested.
They've arrested a nurse, an older lady whose crime was
standing outside an abortion clinic and praying.

Speaker 5 (01:18:13):
She was arrested.

Speaker 4 (01:18:15):
British authorities now routinely question or arrest people for speech online.
According to the Times of London, police in the UK
now make more than thirty arrests a day for purportedly
offensive posts on social media. I mean, this is crazy.
But the problem is this is exactly what the people

(01:18:38):
in the United States of America who want to talk
about content moderation and hate speech and how free speech
our free speech protections in the United States have gone
too far. In a recent survey, over fifty percent of
the people who responded said our free speech protections go
too far. And what I always say to young people,

(01:18:58):
because young people have been steeped in this everything is bullying.
If you say something and someone else decides that it's upsetting,
well then you're a bully and there's nothing you can
do about it. They're the ones that say things like, yeah,
we should do something about hateschool. Well, who is going
to be the decider in this case, it's the British government.
And now you can be arrested for tweets that you

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post from another country.

Speaker 5 (01:19:22):
I mean, you, guys, this is nuts.

Speaker 4 (01:19:26):
There has been a woman arrested for praying in silence
outside an abortion clinic. A forty one year old mother
with PTSD sentenced to thirty one months in jail for
a post about immigrants that she quickly deleted. A Scottish
grandmother detained for standing outside an abortion clinic with a
sign that read coercion is a crime. Here to talk
only if you want. Now, I just want to point

(01:19:48):
out one more thing about the UK. The United Kingdom
overlooked a group of Pakistani men who were grooming and
raping girls like ten, eleven, twelve, hundreds of girls because
they didn't want to seem culturally insensitive. But if you

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post something that government finds offensive, they're going to arrest you.
The reason I bring this up is if you think
it can't happen here, you're just not paying attention. It's
stories that popped up this week that I didn't really
talk about because it's just yet another entitled jerk being
an entitled jerk. The US Open hat theft. We'll call

(01:20:30):
it hatgate for lack of a better way to put that.
Did you see this, Anthony, Oh you didn't see it?
Oh my gosh, it was everywhere. So it's at the
US Open and either after matches some of the players.

Speaker 5 (01:20:44):
Especially those who win.

Speaker 3 (01:20:45):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:20:45):
Yes, So this Polish.

Speaker 4 (01:20:48):
Tennis player whose name I'm not even going to marchek,
I think as honest say, is that name?

Speaker 5 (01:20:52):
I don't know? This Polish tennis.

Speaker 4 (01:20:55):
Player's timing autographs and there's an adorable little scamp, little
bit on tousled hair boy and he's.

Speaker 5 (01:21:02):
Getting an autograph.

Speaker 4 (01:21:03):
And as the tennis player goes to go and sign
the next autograph, he takes off his hat and he
hands it to the boy. There's no doubt that he
is handing it to the boy. And this grown ass
man standing next to the boy grabs the hat away
from the boy and shoves it in his wife's bag
because nothing says, oh, I thought you were giving it

(01:21:25):
to me more than immediately shoving it into a bag
to hide it. So, of course, the internet responded because
the tennis player, mister Marshchak marshcheck, I think so maybe
went online posted a video of it online said I
was trying to give this hat to this kid. Can
you guys help me find the kid so I can
give him a hat, And the tennis player was able

(01:21:46):
to connect with the kid's family, and then he later
posted photographs of him with the kid, giving the kid
a hat and a big shake. You know, everything was great,
the kid was happy and whatever. Well, the Internet was
not satisfied with that resolution. The Internet did what the
Internet did, and they tracked down this guy who stole
this hat from this little boy. So Pyotr sh okay.

Speaker 5 (01:22:12):
Arod, how do you say this name?

Speaker 4 (01:22:15):
Get a pen?

Speaker 2 (01:22:16):
Get a pen?

Speaker 4 (01:22:17):
Do you have a piece of paper over there when
you write it down? The last name? No, you're gonna
need to write this down. I'm not kidding you. No, no,
not the player. The guy's name, Pyotr s z c
z e r e k. How do you say that name?

(01:22:40):
I mean, other than can I please buy a vowel?

Speaker 2 (01:22:42):
Which is what I would go.

Speaker 4 (01:22:44):
Polish names are almost as bad as Hungarian names. Hungarian
names are just an abject nightmare. Oh a Rod, I
got a new game and I love it and I
forgot to tell you about it and it's so good.
It's a phone game and it just popped into my
head because this phone game it's called Geo Guesser. Have
you ever heard of this?

Speaker 2 (01:23:02):
Of course?

Speaker 4 (01:23:03):
Oh my god, I love this.

Speaker 2 (01:23:04):
It was s z e z e r e k.

Speaker 3 (01:23:07):
Yeah, how do you say that, Uh, howd pronounce dot
com says.

Speaker 2 (01:23:12):
Yeah, stthetic shredik.

Speaker 5 (01:23:15):
That makes absolutely no sense.

Speaker 4 (01:23:16):
What's however, that's someone drunk in Poland making something up.
Statistic sthetic stthetic Okay, so Pyotr Sthetic has now come
out and apologize. He posted an apology on social media
and he kind of just had to throw his self

(01:23:37):
on his sort he did a bad job.

Speaker 5 (01:23:38):
Listen to this apology.

Speaker 4 (01:23:40):
In connection with the incident that occurred during Camille Mazdrek's
match at the US Open, I would like to unequivocally
apologize to the young boy, his family, all the fans,
and the player himself. I take full responsibility for my
extremely poor judgment and hurtful actions. It was never my
intent to steal away a prized memento from the young fan.

Speaker 5 (01:24:01):
That's all ie.

Speaker 4 (01:24:02):
I became caught up in the heat of the moment
and the joy of the victory, and I believe made
Derek was handing a hat to me to give to
my sons who had previously asked for autographs. That's not
what happened. Regardless of what I believe was happening, the
actions I took her to the young boy and disappointed
the fans. I have sent the hat back to the
boy and extended my sincere apologies to his family. I hope,

(01:24:24):
at least to a small extent, I was able to
repair the harm. I caused, what do you want to
bet that this dude went and bought a new hat,
wore it to get it sweaty, and then sent that
hat to the kid.

Speaker 5 (01:24:36):
I'm just saying I don't trust this guy.

Speaker 4 (01:24:39):
I also want to stay clearly, neither neither I, nor
my wife, nor my sons commented on this situation on
social media or on any other platform. We did not
hire a law firm regarding this matter. All statements appearing
online accredited to us were false and were not authored
by us or our representatives. And then he talks about
my wife and I are involved in supporting young athletes,
blah blah law. Going forward, I will engage even more

(01:25:02):
actively in initiatives that support children in youth, and I
will take actions against violence and hate. I believe that
only through actions can I rebuild the trust that I
have lost. Again, I apologize to everyone I let down.
Please understand, for the sake of my family, I've decided
to disable the ability to comment on this post, and
that was the apology. It has been a bad summer

(01:25:25):
for CEOs and the internet. The problem is is that
when when you act like an entitled jerk, you should
be aware that acting like an entitled jerk is going
to be caught on film somewhere. I mean, there's no
expectation of privacy in any public space ever. Again, Like, seriously,

(01:25:50):
if you are in public and you do something where
you show you're behind, maybe not literally, just figuratively, someone
is going to film it, and that someone could turn
around and put it on the Internet. What is amazing
to me is how many of these insane white women
videos we keep seeing. I don't know if you guys
saw the latest insane white women Did you see the

(01:26:12):
insane white women in Seattle chasing the guy who had
two rottweilers screaming that he should have adopted and not
shop for his dogs and that he was the reason
that dogs were being murdered in shelters. And she's literally
screaming at him at the top of her voice as
he's saying, lady, go away, and she's like, I'm gonna
call the police, and it's like, how do you not

(01:26:32):
know that is going to appear on the internet somewhere,
or are you so crazy, so insane that you don't care.
I think part of it is you feel like you
will be affirmed by your social circle for that kind
of behavior. I'm in two different algorithm loops right now.
One of them is insane White women and the other

(01:26:54):
one is insane Black women. And the insane black women
ones are all traffic stops, and the insane white women
ones are all white women trying to inflict their value
system on whoever they're yelling at. Right, whatever you're doing wrong,
according to the white women, she's gonna let you know.
The black women just don't know how to do a
traffic stop. Traffic stops are easy, y'all. Cop walks up,

(01:27:17):
Can I see your license in registration and proof of insurance?
You hand them license and registration and proof of insurance
and say, hey, why'd you pull me over? And they
tell you why you pulled irver. They walk back to
the car, they run your license, they do all that stuff.
They either come back up, they give you a warning,
they give you a ticket, you drive away. That is
a traffic stop, y'all. That should not be complicated. In
Yet for some reason, my x feed is full of

(01:27:38):
black women just acting like idiots and ending up getting arrested.
That's the part. It's like they don't see these videos,
only I am seeing these videos. It's just not that hard.
It's not that hard not to be, you know, a
scumbag like this guy. I can't even imagine. Wouldn't you
be embarrassed? First of all, you're taking something away from

(01:28:00):
a child, like right there, right there. You got to
just be like, wow, am I a colossal a hole?
Look what I did? Dang, Mandy. I had a Polish
roommate in college. In three years, I never pronounced his
name correctly. Yeah, yeah, Hey, hey Rod. Question. This texture

(01:28:23):
is one of the twelve finalists in Ross's giveaway.

Speaker 5 (01:28:26):
What happens next?

Speaker 2 (01:28:27):
You will wait for us to announce it either the
end of this week or next week.

Speaker 5 (01:28:32):
Okay, that's a little anti climactic. I mean, do we
have a date?

Speaker 2 (01:28:35):
No, because we still have a couple more entrants.

Speaker 3 (01:28:39):
Oh okay, we have to get our time with flat
Irons fire To get that giveaway, I have to call them.

Speaker 4 (01:28:46):
I've got to do my fireplace before this fire season.
I don't think I don't know if I can just
replace the firebox, which needs to happen, so I need
to go check talk to them about that because I
gotta split in my firebox that's been sealed. But I'm
not super happy about that, Mandy. Roads are crazy out
there today. Road rage is real. Had a guy go

(01:29:09):
full Donald Duck today, couldn't understand a word and spitting everywhere.
Little bit of patience goes a long way. Still, don't
know what I did to upset the gentlemen except maybe
the good for you thumbs up. Yeah, people are.

Speaker 5 (01:29:21):
Just insane on the roadways.

Speaker 4 (01:29:23):
They really are. It's kind of sad, Mandy. What's up
with all the drama at the US Open this year?
Players acting like children, obnoxious fans, et cetera. But that's
part of the charm of the US Open where is Wimbledon.
And Wimbledon you must show up wearing all what and
if you act the food, if you misbehave, they will
remove you from Wimbledon.

Speaker 5 (01:29:43):
The US Open has always been like the party tournament.

Speaker 4 (01:29:47):
Many years ago. This is a not flattering story about myself,
but I'm gonna tell you an a cause it's kind
of funny.

Speaker 5 (01:29:55):
So how I got into radio.

Speaker 4 (01:29:58):
I've told that story before on the air, But I
was a flight attendant for Delta, and I met a
gentleman on the airplane that owned a chain at broadcasting schools,
and he offered me a scholarship to go to broadcasting school.
And I couldn't figure out how I was going to
do that and keep flying. Well, then Delta, who I
was working for, offered seven month leaves of absence, and
that was enough time for me to go to broadcasting school.
So I put in my leave, and I put in

(01:30:19):
a leave on the same day as a friend of mine,
and so we were Our last day was together. Now
at this point, I'm flying out of New York and
I don't have an apartment in New York, but I
have a crash pad in New York. At this hotel
in Queens, right, I think it was like a quality
in or something in Queens.

Speaker 5 (01:30:35):
I don't even remember what the hotel.

Speaker 4 (01:30:37):
Was, but there was literally twenty of us that permanently
rented this hotel room and there was bunk beds in it,
so at any given time you could get there and
if you had to spend the night, you could be
in there with like seven people you had never met
before in your life. They were all flight crew. It's
a great system. It was very effective. So because I
was still living in Orlando, I should say that I

(01:30:57):
was living in Orlando flying out of New York. So
the last day I'm flying is the Thursday before Labor Day.

Speaker 2 (01:31:06):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:31:07):
So Labor Day is the big final of the US Open.

Speaker 4 (01:31:09):
So we are all at the quality In or whatever
it is in Queens, New York, and we can't fly
out till the next day. So we all decide what
the hell We're going to go down to the bar
and the quality in and have some drinks. We all
have our uniforms on, and we go downstairs and begin
to drink at the bar at the quality In, and
we end up meeting all of these men that were

(01:31:31):
the camera crew for the US Open. Okay, so all
of the like, the directors, everybody, they were all staying
at this quality In in Queens, New York. We end
up drinking with them. First of all, they're like, do
you want tickets to the US Open. I'm like, abs
so freaking lootly, I want tickets to the US Open.

Speaker 5 (01:31:47):
So they get all of our information. They make a
phone call.

Speaker 4 (01:31:49):
They're like, you got tickets waiting for you, it will call,
They'll be there tomorrow. And we all proceed to drink
a lot and ended up this is We ended up
getting scissors from behind the bar and making cutoffs out
of our uniform pants. You can only imagine.

Speaker 5 (01:32:10):
Not like Daisy Dukes.

Speaker 4 (01:32:10):
They were respectable cutoffs.

Speaker 5 (01:32:12):
You know, there's no but che hanging out.

Speaker 4 (01:32:14):
But then we walked around in our cutoff flight attendant pants.

Speaker 2 (01:32:20):
It was.

Speaker 4 (01:32:20):
It was a long night, a very very long night.
We woke up the next day. I have not been
that hungover many many times in my life. And I
did not go to the US Open with my free
US Open tickets because I was too hungover. Not my
finest moment. I'm disappointed in my twenty six year old self. So, Mandy,

(01:32:40):
I was gonna taught you for not getting a journalism
degree from Missouri. Then I had to remind myself, I've
disowned those liberal mofos. You probably made the right move.
I never considered going to Missouri. I mean, when I
was in high school, I'm not even sure I knew
Missouri had a college. Just saying, Mandy, are the pilots
as bad as they say, by the way, like, are
they dogs?

Speaker 5 (01:33:01):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (01:33:02):
I want to be fair to the piloting community. A
vast majority of the pilots that I flew with over
the five and a half years that I worked for
Delta Airlines were wonderful people, great guys, happily married, They
were friendly, almost in a fatherly way, right. Great ten
percent absolute horn dogs who never stopped hitting on you,

(01:33:24):
married or not. So yeah, there was a there was
a solid chunk of the pilot community that was kind
of scumbaggery, but not an excessive amount.

Speaker 5 (01:33:31):
I would say.

Speaker 4 (01:33:32):
A vast majority of the pilots that I knew were
really stand up guys, and I love flying with some
of them, you know. But again, like in anything else,
there are scumbags in every profession. Benjamin Albright, I could
see you as an airline pilot like you could. You
could rock the swagger. I really thought you were going
to speak to the devil's scumbags. No, it's not going
to make any coin. I have nothing in our relationship

(01:33:54):
would make me say that about you.

Speaker 1 (01:33:56):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:33:56):
There may be a whole slew of other women that
would disagree with me on that, but in our friendships,
I have no reason to think.

Speaker 2 (01:34:02):
We've kept it strictly professional exactly. That's it.

Speaker 4 (01:34:09):
And Ben just sorted himself, didn't even share the works.

Speaker 1 (01:34:14):
I would say that your ratio is probably about correct.
I would have put it in eighty twenty, but ninety
ten is probably fine. Are you to have work for
American airlines? So I grew up around, Yeah, all those
guys you know, coming up and so that.

Speaker 4 (01:34:23):
I mean, some of them would flirt with you, but
in the most harmless kind of ways, like just the
sweet flirting back and forth with no agenda.

Speaker 2 (01:34:31):
And there was the guys.

Speaker 4 (01:34:33):
There were the guys with the agenda, and you knew,
like within the second year of flying, you're like, oh, okay,
you're one of those uh huh. That was the only
time I accidentally dated a married man.

Speaker 7 (01:34:42):
There you go.

Speaker 5 (01:34:43):
He withheld that fact for me. So yeah, not how
long did that?

Speaker 2 (01:34:47):
How long did he? How long did it was?

Speaker 4 (01:34:49):
It was one of those things where we flew together
multiple times over a month.

Speaker 5 (01:34:53):
We went out like on five dates.

Speaker 4 (01:34:55):
Everything was great, and then one night he opened his
wallet to pay in a restaurant.

Speaker 5 (01:34:59):
And there was a make sure of a woman and
two children, and I went who is that.

Speaker 4 (01:35:03):
And he didn't even he was just cop do it.
He's like, oh, that's my wife and kids. Oh oh,
So I just got up and left, and as I
had driven, I had the ability to do that. And
I never spoke to him again, never.

Speaker 2 (01:35:14):
Saw him again. Fair enough, you know, it's still.

Speaker 5 (01:35:17):
Mad about that.

Speaker 1 (01:35:18):
By the way, I grew up in Missouri, and I
think a lot of Missourians are unaware that the conomskin
stop it.

Speaker 2 (01:35:23):
I didn't go for I didn't go for journalism either, so.

Speaker 4 (01:35:26):
I journalism that would have been useful. Yeah, it's a
freaking theater major. Oh like, I mean, come on, you know,
I can project, I know how to string lights, I
know how to paint set so I know how to
do all those things that I do. Not use that
all that's role. I hardly did anything in college. No,

(01:35:47):
because I here's the thing I realized this, And what's
funny is my friend and co host of The Mandy
and dev Show, Deb Flora, and I have had very
similar paths in life. And I always tell people I
realize pretty early I was much better at saying my
own words than saying anybody else's. So when I was
in college, I didn't even try out for stuff, because

(01:36:08):
everybody at the School of Theater in Florida State was better.

Speaker 7 (01:36:10):
Than I was.

Speaker 5 (01:36:11):
And I'm not even being like, I'm not even trying
to I'm being dead serious.

Speaker 2 (01:36:15):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:36:15):
There were so many talented actors and actors there that
was it was stunning at the level of talent in
that School of Theater was so far beyond anything I
could have even approached. So I did tech most of
the time that I was there, which I loved.

Speaker 2 (01:36:27):
Well, if I mean that's what you loved part, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:36:30):
And then I dropped out, So here you go. How
many scumbags and stewardess is? That is a a far
high number.

Speaker 2 (01:36:35):
That's a high number.

Speaker 5 (01:36:38):
I'm just saying more.

Speaker 4 (01:36:39):
You know, there there were flight attendants that I flew
with that were married that were just looking for the upgrade.

Speaker 2 (01:36:44):
Oh wow.

Speaker 4 (01:36:45):
And I don't mean like seating, I mean husband. They
were looking for the upgrade. This is one of the
reasons I am suspicious of Lauren Sanchez because she has
successfully looked for the upgrade with every husband and now
there's nowhere else to go, so they'll be married forever.

Speaker 5 (01:36:58):
Well, she's on the she's on the peak of the
curve now anyway, it's all from there.

Speaker 4 (01:37:03):
As they say, Mandy, you were a big dater? Are
we talking double digits? Like what does that mean? Are
you asking my body count? Because that's none of your business.
I've been on the hundreds of.

Speaker 2 (01:37:11):
Dates, say like double digit dates as a lot, like dates.

Speaker 5 (01:37:15):
I mean dating till I was thirty. You know, it's like,
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:37:22):
I got a broadcast journalism agree from a zoo, went
into sports TV Immediately.

Speaker 5 (01:37:25):
I hate what the school has become though, So.

Speaker 3 (01:37:28):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (01:37:29):
All right, Na, it's time for the most exciting segment
on the radio. I was kind, I'm serious, like Ben
is bringing, he's bringing, He's not leaving anything on the
table in all those sports cliches.

Speaker 2 (01:37:48):
So there you go.

Speaker 5 (01:37:49):
What is our yeah, exactly, what is our dad joke? Today?

Speaker 8 (01:37:52):
Please?

Speaker 3 (01:37:52):
My boss arrived at work in a brand new Lamborghini.
I said, wow, that's an amazing car.

Speaker 2 (01:37:57):
He replied.

Speaker 3 (01:37:58):
If you work hard, but all your hours in and
strive for excellence, all get another one next year.

Speaker 4 (01:38:04):
Sad but true. Anyway, Today's word of the day please
is okayanash Oh. That's one that's like style. You have
sort of a flare about you, Panash.

Speaker 2 (01:38:15):
You know you've got a grand or flamboyant manner of style.

Speaker 5 (01:38:19):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (01:38:20):
Some people have said.

Speaker 1 (01:38:23):
You have a finash not when I come in here,
but when I'm out there doing the siline stuff jackets
and well.

Speaker 4 (01:38:27):
Yeah, I mean, you know you're a sport coat guy.
Then the today's trivia question. Human skin has three layers,
the epidermis, the dermis, and the hypodermis. In What layer
are sweat glands and hair follicles located?

Speaker 2 (01:38:42):
Dermis?

Speaker 4 (01:38:44):
Right, Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. The middle one, Yeah,
the dermist, and that is the outermost layer. Oh no, No,
of the epidermis. Basically, the epidermis is our waterproofing and
then the innermost layer, the hypodermis, is mostly fat and
tissue that connects skin to muscles.

Speaker 2 (01:39:00):
Are much of the top soil, and then everything else worked.

Speaker 4 (01:39:02):
Yeah, there you go. You got that going for you.
What is our jeopardy category?

Speaker 2 (01:39:05):
Please? Free parking free and this is on free free
is going to be answer? Might you might be right?

Speaker 3 (01:39:13):
Someone who lives shamelessly on someone else's It was.

Speaker 2 (01:39:17):
A free spirit? Yeah, what's a free loader? Floader?

Speaker 3 (01:39:24):
During the American Revolution, both the British and colonial armies
had traveling field lodges of this society.

Speaker 8 (01:39:35):
Free?

Speaker 4 (01:39:37):
What are the Freemasons?

Speaker 2 (01:39:38):
Thanks?

Speaker 3 (01:39:40):
So you didn't say who is You didn't ask the
question asking the forum question the first time around.

Speaker 2 (01:39:44):
That sounds no, I didn't.

Speaker 4 (01:39:45):
I said who are the Freemasons?

Speaker 3 (01:39:47):
You know the second time that the first time? Whatever,
you didn't give you the points. Okay, Thanks to this
Act of Congress, you can request and.

Speaker 2 (01:39:55):
Read the files.

Speaker 5 (01:39:57):
What what is the Freedom of Information Act?

Speaker 3 (01:40:00):
Interviewing everyone from diplomats to soldiers, families?

Speaker 4 (01:40:04):
What is freelance?

Speaker 1 (01:40:06):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:40:06):
Dang it, this person too quickly?

Speaker 3 (01:40:09):
Wait, I anchored CNN's coverage of this two thousand and
three US military operation. What interviewing everyone from diplomats to soldiers, families?
I anchored CNN's coverage of this two thousand and three
US military operation.

Speaker 2 (01:40:26):
Well, this would be operation or AQI Freedom. Yeah, that's
the answer, very correct.

Speaker 5 (01:40:31):
Okay, back to zero.

Speaker 3 (01:40:32):
It's the capital and largest city in the nation of
Sierra Leone, Golley, uh ben, what is I'm not guessing.

Speaker 5 (01:40:45):
I have no idea.

Speaker 2 (01:40:46):
What is freetown?

Speaker 6 (01:40:47):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:40:48):
And that's ironic because very little is actually free in
Sierra Leone, one of those countries where I'm like, you
ever want to go there? Nope, don't.

Speaker 5 (01:40:55):
I'm good, basically fine, don't have to do that.

Speaker 4 (01:40:58):
What do you guys have here? You was leading with
Florida State beating Alabama again. I mean, that's really the
big story of the week.

Speaker 1 (01:41:03):
My boy, Gus Malsa on the offensive coordator down there
in Florida State. You know Gus coached several times against
me when I was in high school.

Speaker 4 (01:41:10):
Well, I think he is doing a stellar job and
I am ready for the rest of Florist State season.
Is there other college football? No, there's not nothing important.
Just oh well, oh you lost their first game. Ohio University,
my husband's alma mater.

Speaker 2 (01:41:23):
Yes, that's also Grant was rooted for us. Yes, you know,
a big fan there.

Speaker 5 (01:41:27):
Both from Athenson.

Speaker 1 (01:41:29):
No. I mean, I wonder how long Kaitlyn de Bor
can hang on in the shadow of Nick stab and
when he's losing games like that.

Speaker 4 (01:41:36):
Okay, it's fine, it's.

Speaker 5 (01:41:38):
Not Florida State football. We won't talk about it.

Speaker 4 (01:41:39):
They'll talk about all kinds of stuff coming up on
KOE Sports.

Speaker 5 (01:41:42):
I'll be back tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (01:41:43):
Keep it on.

Speaker 2 (01:41:43):
Ka