09-10-25 FULL SHOW - Evergreen HS Shooting & Charlie Kirk Shot

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Welcome to a Wednesday edition of the show. I'm your
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Together, We're going to take you right up until three
pm when KOA Sports will take over.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
In the meantime, Boy, howdy do we have a show?
Do I have a show for you? People?

Speaker 5 (00:52):
Super excited about today, So let's jump in. You need
to go check out the blog. If you do check
out the blog, you will be rewarded with a higher
level of intelligence. I'm just gonna say it. You're going
to be more informed and dare I say, entertained by
my snappy commentary on the blog. You think the snappy
commentary on the air is good, ha ah, Some of

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my best snappy commentary happens on the blog every single day.
You can find the blog by going to mandy'sblog dot com.
Mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline that says nine
ten twenty five blog Barb Kirkmeyer for Governor is official
and about the drug war. Click on that and here
are the headlines you will find within.

Speaker 6 (01:32):
I think going with someone who office half of American
all with ships and clipments, say that's going to press.

Speaker 5 (01:36):
Plat day the blog Barb Kirkmeyer would make it an
excellent governor. About that dreg boat drug Let me try
that again? About that drug boat bombing? Scrolling scrolling?

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Are we headed for war with Russia? About that retractable
roof for the new stadium?

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (01:54):
If youre is your safeway shutting down? DPS celebrates its
participation trophy. Are non citizens voting in Colorado elections? September
is the deadliest month for motorcycle riders. Are we rehabbing revolutionaries?

Speaker 7 (02:08):
Now?

Speaker 5 (02:08):
Texas ban Sharia law? Do you want an AI podcaster?
Mental health issues increased dementia? Chances Cutter is at a
new crossroads. The Charlotte train killer speaks. The Jobs Revision
revises Biden's history. This seems extreme to avoid paying taxes
If you've dreamed of being telepathic. The Big Bang has

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big gaps. I never get to see the good flash mobs.
Can I see your physical license?

Speaker 4 (02:34):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Can I dang it? End Zone? You're up?

Speaker 6 (02:39):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Pretty useless?

Speaker 5 (02:41):
Life Acts, the Butterfly Pavilion is spreading its wings, and
Weld County Sheriff Steve Reems is running for county commissioner.
Those are the headlines on the blog read badly by
yours truly at mandy'sblog dot com tech two. Yeah, it wasn't, Nancy.
I feel the weight of your judgment and it's not.
I can't even argue. I can't even say you're wrong, right,

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I just I can't.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
I can't do it.

Speaker 5 (03:07):
No, can't do ay Ron, I have to ask you
a question at the very bottom of the blog. Now,
you guys may not know this, but Adrod is the
one who finds all of most of the videos that
are on the blog every single day, and God bless
him because I don't have time to do it. And
he always sends me a variety of things that are
entertaining or funny or useful or whatever. And you send
me a life hack one today. And I love the
Life Act videos because sometimes I learn something new or

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good today's life hacks all.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Were like lame life hacks. They were all life acts.
They were just life hacks that you would create because
you didn't prepare properly for actual life. It worked, what
was it? Most of them are dumb. I want to
see you put on the blog.

Speaker 5 (03:44):
Oh wait, and let me read my snarky commentary on
the blog pretty useless life hacks. I'm wondering why this
video is even a thing, But here we are. Watch
below if you want.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
To, or click here.

Speaker 7 (03:55):
But I can't recommend it. Every now and then I'll
throw in a little bit of a gotcha and they look.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
See if I'm gonna watch it? Is that what it is?

Speaker 6 (04:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (04:03):
You a little bit?

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Well, I gotta tell you. I sat at my desk
and I was like trying figure them out with Anthony.

Speaker 5 (04:10):
Yeah, I don't know what we're doing here, but it's
going on the blog just so I can ask you
on the air, what are we doing here?

Speaker 7 (04:15):
If I had to struggle to figure out what the
hell the hacks were, then I wanted you to also struggle,
and then our listeners to also struggle to see what
the hell the heck?

Speaker 5 (04:23):
When when the Q first had access to a phone,
and she started watching videos on YouTube kids.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
She would come in and go, Mom, I have this.
I got a life hack from YouTube kids. Listen to
this life hack.

Speaker 5 (04:35):
Inevitably, it was something that took something that was like
a three step process and made it a fourteen step process,
and they called it a life hack. And I'm like, okay,
and she and I had to talk. I said, you can't.
A life hack should make your life simpler and easier,
not more complex and more complicated.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
And so we finally now we're you don't you don't
like the homemade glue gun in the second one. The
homemade glue gun was actually the one that me this
really angry. Okay. I was like, if you have the
glue stick, why don't you have the glue gun. Rue
gun breaks, nobody's rushing it. A glue gun costs like
seven dollars. An if your home in your mid project, like, oh.

Speaker 5 (05:13):
My gosh, well then you're gonna rush right out to
Michael's is what you're gonna do, like the rest of us.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
The toilet paper wrapping around the toilet seat is not bad.

Speaker 8 (05:23):
I will say it's just a complete waste of toilet paper.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
It is, but I will say the game changing airport bathrooms.
I have you seen this?

Speaker 7 (05:31):
No, there is one that has machines, not a day machine,
machines looped.

Speaker 9 (05:38):
In with the.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yes that will auto goes around generate the next one.
What Oh, you're not even.

Speaker 5 (05:48):
Ready for Japanese toilets. Japanese public toilets are the day seats.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
They are heated. Do they have that auto machine? I
think clean feature.

Speaker 5 (06:00):
When we were in Switzerland, we went into one of
these auto cleaning bathrooms that we walk into this bathroom
and the floor is completely wet, and I'm like, what
is happening right now? Then I realize that when you
go in these bathrooms, it's unbelievable, Like after every person
uses them, they the toilet spins around so we can
be properly cleaned on the other side of the wall,
and they literally shower down the whole bathroom so it

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is cleaned for the next person.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
It's pretty amazing.

Speaker 7 (06:26):
That feels a little unnecessary, but it was clean every bathroom,
every hour, every person.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
Nope, every person and out. Nobody gets hurt or dirty.
First time kind of been icked hygiene. I'm just gonna
say it's too much.

Speaker 5 (06:40):
The toilets in the United States of America are the
worst toilets.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
Public toilets, not in your home. I'm not talking about
what's in your home. Public toilets in the.

Speaker 5 (06:48):
US are the worst public toilets in the developed world.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
I would like, you know, first world.

Speaker 7 (06:53):
I wish I could remember which, because it's the only
airport still where I had those on the toilets. I
want to fly if I had to do an on NonStop,
I want to fly through there just so you can
use the toilet because of that. Yeah, like amazing. Yeah, anyway,
you're welcome for these great hacks. Yeah, definitely. Everyone should
go to mandy'sblog dot com and check out each and

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every one of those hacks.

Speaker 5 (07:15):
Oh gosh, that's really funny. And I didn't notice Texter
Mandy fixed your blog.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
I think her name is Barb, not Bark.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
You are correct, are people now?

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Barb?

Speaker 5 (07:28):
No, Barb Kirkmeyer. And that's funny because I am just
such a huge fan of hers. And she's coming on
the show a little bit later today. She officially announced
her run for governor yesterday, and I will tell you
and here's the thing, you guys, I am not backing
any candidate, especially at this point because we haven't had
an opportunity to have all of the candidates on the show,

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and we will have every serious candidate on the program.
I am going to reserve the right to not speak
to people that I don't think can win. Okay, I'm
just gonna say I've always tried to be very judicious
and allowing as many people as possible, but frankly, I'm
just you know, there are certain candidates that are never
going to win, and yet they keep trying again and again,

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and I just I don't feel the need to platform
them as they say. So I'm going to be uh, yeah,
I fixed Barb. It should be fixed in just a moment. Yeah, byes,
you never made it to BUCkies. I didn't need to
go to BUCkies. A Rod went to BUCkies and then
John the cowboy from Wyoming brought me a billion dollars
at Bucky Snacks.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
I feel like I've been there anyway. Speaking of great bathrooms,
oh my god, I.

Speaker 5 (08:38):
Imagine the water being used in Sweden is disgusting. It
was Switzerland, and it was not. Nothing in Switzerland is disgusting.
I'm gonna straight up, you guys, nicest country I've ever
been to in terms of overall, there's no there's there's
nothing but perfection in Switzerland, which is why it cost
so damn much to live there anyway, And you have

(08:58):
two guests at two thirds, No, I don't. I just
you know what you editors need to send me an
email earlier. You're right, golly, what a disaster. I wasn't
even in a hurry this morning. Some days I'm in
a hurry and the blog is a mess, and I'm like, eh,
I was in a hurry.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
What are you gonna do?

Speaker 5 (09:16):
Reeve Swainston is our other guest. He is not coming
on at two thirty as Barb is. So I'm on
X the other day and I haven't really talked about
this because I honestly have been rolling this around in
my head thinking about this. You may have seen earlier
this month, and if you follow jd Vance on X,

(09:37):
you definitely saw it.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
The Trump administration earlier in the year.

Speaker 5 (09:43):
Decided to name the cartel's terrorist organizations, and at the
time I was like, okay, But this beginning of this
month there was a Venezuelan go fast boat.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Now, if do you know what go fast boat is?

Speaker 6 (10:01):
Ay?

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Right, have you ever heard that term?

Speaker 5 (10:02):
Okay, this is one of the benefits of growing up
in Florida during the nineteen eighties when the cocaine cowboys
ran Fort Lauderdale. So go fast boats are long cigarette boats.
They generally speaking, have had everything taken out of them
to make room for large quantities of drugs, and they
stuff these drugs or they stuffed these boats full of drugs.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
And these boats have like five two hundred.

Speaker 5 (10:25):
And fifty horsepower engines on the back, and they're called
go fast boats because they go very fast, like way
faster than any of our US Coastguard boats go. I
do think the Coastguard has faster boats now, but back
in the eighties, the Coast Guard could not catch these
go fast boats. They were just too fast. So the
video that was released was of a go fast ship,

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of a go fast boat going very fast, and it
appeared to have some people standing in the in the
the you know, in the area or in the boat,
and it was hauling you know what, the ocean, and
all of a sudden it was neutralized, as they say,
because we blew it up. And I saw this, and

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there was a lot of cheering, and I saw one
response to the video that I thought was very point
in and it was a guy who said, I buried
my niece yesterday who took a pill that had fentanyl
in it. I hope they kill everybody bringing this garbage
into our country.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
And I get that. I totally get that. I have
no love for drug dealers. I have no love for
any part of it.

Speaker 5 (11:30):
But I also have no love for what I consider
to be extra judicial killings, which means no due process
was given these drug dealers and we just.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Blew them out of the water. We're not.

Speaker 5 (11:43):
I mean, I'm assuming that we had some kind of
intelligence that showed us that it was only bad people
on this boat. I can only assume. I don't know,
but I was not comfortable with Obama blowing up an
American citizen in Syria. I'm not comfortable with our government
just randomly deciding we're just going to kill these people.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
But and this is another butt, But.

Speaker 5 (12:06):
Is is what we're doing treating the cartels as a
law enforcement issue?

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Is it working? So this is what I've been mulling
over for the past few days.

Speaker 5 (12:15):
Well, I saw a post by a guy named Reeve Swainston.
He is a marine, A former US attorney and a
prosecutor who's sent a lot of his career prosecuting cartel cases.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
And his post gave me pause. It gave me another
thing to think about.

Speaker 5 (12:30):
And it simply is, you know, the cartels are not
another random or or you know, another criminal enterprise, like
the sense of the criminal enterprises we fought in the
fast and in the past here in the United States
in the sense that the mafia and I love the mafia.
I don't love the mafia, but I love learning about
the mafia and learning how the operations were, you know,

(12:52):
set up. And ultimately, you guys, the mafia came about
because the Italians, some of them were mobsters. They came
over Italy, but a lot of Italians when they immigrated
here were shunned, right, Nobody wanted to hire Italians, and
everybody you know, made disparaging remarks about Italians and their work, ethic, whatever.
So it helped the mafia, at least the Italian mafia

(13:14):
kind of come together in a really powerful way because
you have people who have been completely unempowered, disempowered, whatever
that word might be, and then they come over and
they create a power structure that they worked within, and
that's what the mafia was. And the federal government has
been battling the mafia in one form or another since
the early nineteen hundreds. And the reason I bring that

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analogy up is even at their worst, right, even at
their worst, the mafia did not have the capabilities in
the reach that we see in the cartels in South
America Mexico, and they have armies, they have military equipment.
It is hard to argue that we should treat this

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as a law enforcement issue. But nonetheless, I'm gonna revon
I've never talked to this guy before. Could be the
worst guest in the history of guests, could be the
greatest guest in the history of guests. We're going to
talk to him at one o'clock about that because he
did sort of give me another way to look at it.
Even though I still am not comfortable with any American
president deciding someone should just be blown up, right, it

(14:20):
just doesn't set well with me as a small l libertarian.
So we'll talk to him at one o'clock. And then
we've got Barb Kirkmeyer coming up at two thirty, looking
forward to talking to her, and she's running for governor.
And then we have Weather Wednesday coming up in just
a few minutes with our friend Dave Fraser from Fox
thirty one. But after that, we've got a couple things
on the blog, a little more information coming out. Our

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interview yesterday with President Demani Leitch, I think had a
lot of great information.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
As a matter of fact, A Rod, will you do
me a favor?

Speaker 5 (14:49):
Will you throw that entire interview on my blog so
people can just go back and hear that one interview,
because I think there was a lot of good stuff
in there.

Speaker 10 (14:58):
Can you do that?

Speaker 2 (14:59):
At some point? It's like, I'm busy, No, he didn't
say that. That's not what he is that at all.
You can, though, I mean you can. There's a way
to do it. I just don't know, so I'm asking you.

Speaker 3 (15:09):
To do it.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Anyway.

Speaker 5 (15:13):
Wtf are you talking about? Says this texter. It was
the Coastguard. Cartels have been labeled terrorist organizations, so we
shouldn't kill terrorists.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
What a liberal point of view?

Speaker 3 (15:24):
You know what?

Speaker 5 (15:24):
I'm sorry. This guy text messages me all the time.
He is the one who always when I bring.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
Up Democrats, he says baby killers or whatever. That's just dumb.

Speaker 5 (15:35):
That's just dumb being concerned about the mechanisms that are
in place to prevent a president from deciding you text
are a terrorist organization and blowing.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Up your house.

Speaker 5 (15:45):
Yeah, you can't just look at So it's a very
narrow minded view you've got here. Sometimes you got to
think about the bigger things. You know, as much as
people love what Donald Trump is doing, would you be
just as happy with all of the things that he's
doing if they were being done by Joe? Like, ask
yourself that question, and if you genuinely say yes, I'm

(16:05):
gonna tell you you are lying, You're lying. We all
get apoplectic when a Democrat does something we feel like
oversteps the bounds. But boy, when our guy does it,
we're like, yeah, yay, team. I'm not saying it's something
that should never happen. I'm just saying it should happen
very very carefully, very very carefully. Mandy, Since when is
the Coast Guard considered law enforcement? By the way, the

(16:27):
Coastguard is the only military organization that is exempted from
the Posse Coommatatus Act, So yes, they often, very often
perform law enforcement duties. Why do you think the cocaine
cowboys of the nineteen eighties were finally stopped coming into Miami,
partly because of the Coastguard. Anyway, Um, we've got a

(16:49):
lot of stuff. You know what, I'm gonna do this.
I'm gonna hold this down because i got a lot
of stuff and I've got to fix one of these
things that is completely.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
Jacked up on my vlog for no fault to my own.

Speaker 5 (17:02):
But we've got some very interesting stories today, including one
that I want to get into a little bit later
about Qatar. Now you may have heard that Israel just
took out six Moss leaders in Qatar with a very
very precision strike and Qatar is all apoplectic about this.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
They are super mad.

Speaker 5 (17:21):
But Qatar has been playing an interesting game where they
have one of the biggest military bases that the US
has in the Middle East in Qatar, but they also
house the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. Great
article about how that entire house of cards is finally
falling apart as it should. But next we're going to
talk to Dave Fraser. We're going to get weather Wednesday
in and barrel through the rest of the show. Even

(17:44):
though it is Wednesday, it's time to bring our favorite
meteorologists from Vox thirty one and everywhere else.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
Dave Fraser, Hello, my friend.

Speaker 6 (17:53):
Hey, how aia those self self cleaning toilets. I wish
they could make them affordable for the house, don't you
ha A know, that.

Speaker 5 (18:00):
Would be fantastic, But you need for this one. It
actually rotates the toilets, so you have two toilets in
each bathroom, and while one of them is being used,
the other one is behind a wall being completely cleaned.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
It's amazing, so good.

Speaker 6 (18:14):
Love it, Yeah, love it?

Speaker 3 (18:15):
Oh fantastic.

Speaker 5 (18:16):
Can we just have more of this morning's weather because
that's glorious?

Speaker 2 (18:20):
Dave, what are we looking at here?

Speaker 6 (18:22):
Yeah? More of the same, honestly, so question asked, and
yes we can deliver. I had a nice little brief
shower early this morning, a little bit of cloud cover.
It didn't amount too much and settled the dust on
the deck and that was it. I think tomorrow kind
of brings the same thing where we're talking about low
range chances, but early and late. So tomorrow morning kind

(18:43):
of mostly cloudy. There could be some drizzle or a
few showers early. We'll pop some sunshine in the afternoon
and that will trigger a few scattered showers and thunderstorms.
What I like in the next few days is that
the humidity levels are going to start to come up.
We're going to tap into a little monsoon moisture, not
a huge push, not why spread rain, but the storms
instead of gusting the wind like they've done the last

(19:05):
few days, as they've been evaporating and not really producing
great rain. I think the next few days Thursday, Friday,
and Saturday all have a chance to give us some
nice wedding rain in a few areas, again not widespread.

Speaker 9 (19:16):
Right.

Speaker 5 (19:16):
So I had a really interesting conversation last Sunday. I
was at an event for my favorite realtor and I
met a woman who had moved to the Springs two
months ago, and I said, Oh, what do you think
of the spring. She goes, Oh, it's really pretty and
she said, but God, it rains every day.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
And I was like, that's not normal, That's not how
it normally is in the summer.

Speaker 5 (19:36):
So I said, the good news is everything is still green,
Like we're not used to seeing this much green this
late in the year, you know. So where are we
on our rain totals for the year? I mean, where
are we on our moisture.

Speaker 6 (19:49):
What do we look at that here, we're in good shape.
I think August really was a leg up for us,
as you know, is the third weddest August on record.
Now again some people will argue, now the airport got
hit with the four plusins. I think it was four
point one three inches of rain. There were other areas
that were not as beneficial when it came to the rain.
But I think the pattern that we're seeing with rain

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chances coming in every few days and not prolonged dry
stretches of hot temperatures has really helped. And the overnight
lows at this time of the year, as you get
laid into aug in September, you get those overnight loads,
which really the plants, the vegetation, the natural grasses, your
own lawn, they love that in the evenings, and so

(20:32):
all of a sudden, if you're lawn sometime, you know,
after a warm July starts to look a little brown
and a little bit like it's struggling, it may all
of a sudden kick back in and you're mowing more
now than you may have been six weeks ago because
of those overnight lows. You've got to do in the
morning sometimes. So I think the combination of that, staying
away from long, dry, hot stretches having the intervals of

(20:55):
rain has really made the difference and kept things going green. Well.

Speaker 5 (20:59):
I think it's kind of interesting because I don't remember,
and I've only been here thirteen years. I don't remember
a summer where I feel like we've had that much
consistency to your point, right, it feels like, you know,
we've had maybe a couple of weeks where it was
super hot, which is expected, but you know, every so often,
just when I think to myself, do I need to

(21:19):
water my trees, right, we get rain, And I don't
remember a summer where I haven't had to water my
trees really at all.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
They've been really good this whole summer.

Speaker 6 (21:29):
So it's like there's been a few in our past.
Twenty twenty during COVID was a very hot summer. We
had seventy three days at ninety degrees or higher. There
were some at one hundred and five. That was the
most ninety degree days we had seen in the summer.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
I think it was.

Speaker 6 (21:45):
It might have been seventy five days in twenty twenty,
and then the hottest summer on record was twenty twelve
for those who were here then you would have been
so abroughly about that timeframe. That was a really hot summer.
We had not only four days consecutively at ninety degrees
or higher, but in that stretch we had thirteen days

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at one hundred plus degrees. So that was a really hot,
baking summer and things were not looking good those summers.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, well, hopefully what is this spell?

Speaker 5 (22:16):
Okay, first of all, we should find out what the
Farmer's Almanac said this summer was going to be like,
and then we'll go back, what is this really forte
or fortel? Does it say anything about what we're going
to be expecting for fall, for early winter?

Speaker 6 (22:30):
You know it doesn't.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
It really doesn't.

Speaker 6 (22:33):
The seasonal average stuff that I look at, I always
pull it before I get on with you, because I
know sometimes viewers want to know. So we're still stuck
in this pattern with the outlooked for the month of
September and we're ten days in was for it to
be warm and dry, warmer than normal and drier than normal.
That can be a half a degree. It can be
a couple of extra rain drops or a few less

(22:53):
rain drops. It doesn't mean, it's going to be record
setting by any mean, But the eighth to fourteen day
outlooks so the next seven we've got rain chances Thursday, Frivay,
Saturday a break, and then those rain chances come back
starting on Wednesday of next week. And the outlook from
the seventeenth to the twenty third, which would be the
next seven day, is a below normal and above normal
for moisture, and quite a bit above normal for moisture.

(23:16):
So if the thirty day outlook is going to come true,
then we've got to go completely dry after the twenty third,
and I just don't see that. And what we start
to see in the computer models is we start to
look into the models and we run them forward in time,
and all the various models that we look at, and
you start to see hints of snow up over the peaks. Well,
for me, that's a sign that we're tapping into colder

(23:39):
air locks. We're not there yet, we haven't shut off
warm temperatures. But when we start to see computer models
kicking out, like I think it's next Wednesday, I can
see there being possibly accumulating snow on the peaks.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
Not just the dust.

Speaker 6 (23:52):
Name I'm not talking sea, but there could be because
we're looking to be a little wetter towards the end
of next week or the middle too, end of next week.

Speaker 5 (24:00):
All right, I have a couple questions from the text line,
sure you, David. One of them has already fallen off
the text line, so I'm just gonna.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
Have to do it for memory. And it essentially was, Hey, Dave,
why are we now calling the forecast the future cast
is forecast? Not enough, We've always called.

Speaker 6 (24:16):
Future cast future cast. It's been that way to my
memory for twenty years. So the forecast is the forecast,
the seven day forecast, the day park forecast, what you
should expect tonight and tomorrow. But the future cast is
the computer animation that we run for the next twenty
four hours, pinpointing exactly where storms and snow and rain
might be. And we stop at at intervals of time

(24:37):
to be able to say, hey, tomorrow morning at seven am,
that might be a brief shower at noon. Here's the
sunshine at five o'clock tomorrow. So yeah, it's just a
naming mechanism that we use for that one product. But
everything falls into the umbrella of a forecast.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
Okay, So really it's just a marketing thing.

Speaker 6 (24:56):
Yeah, it's just it's future cast. It's basically a computer
model that we run out. Sometimes we run the same
one day after day after day. Sometimes we'll change it
to a different model to give people a perspective. It's
just a tool for us to be able to say, hey,
here's what you should expect tomorrow, the future to look like.

Speaker 5 (25:12):
Okay, so this texture said, Please tell Dave I miss
him since we moved out of state. He was the
best this texter, says Mandy. Please ask Dave if the
weatherboard is a green screen or a bunch of monitors
acting in concert.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Isn't it both?

Speaker 3 (25:29):
It is both?

Speaker 6 (25:30):
And to that first view er, sorry you moved out
of state, and thank you for the compliments. Yes, it's both.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
It's both.

Speaker 6 (25:36):
I didn't want to let that one go by it man. Yeah,
I know, Yeah, it's both.

Speaker 9 (25:42):
You know, the.

Speaker 6 (25:42):
Technology has changed in the last five to eight years.
We've had sets. I think we've had two sets now,
no potential, you know, we've had three sets in about
eight years. And the technology, the large computers we use.
You'll see him online and everyone where. Those large monitors
we use are actually panels that when they can snap

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in and out, and when they're all snapped in together,
they look like one giant TV. So we use both.
The monitors are cool because you know, they're just these
big things and everything's displayed and larger than life, and
we can stand in front of them. I still enjoy
the green screen because the green screen allows us to
be interactive. We have a capability with our weather graphics

(26:24):
computers to be interactive. And what I mean by that
is like, if I wanted to, I could touch on
things and move them around with my finger. You can't
do that on the monitor wall. So during severe weather,
I like to be in the chromat because I can
stay there and I can manipulate the radar with my
finger and the tools that I have right there. I
don't have to leave and go anywhere, or on the
monitor wall, you can't do that. But the monitor walls

(26:46):
are great presentations and they're certainly the way of that
everybody's doing things these days.

Speaker 5 (26:50):
And the only problem with both of these is that
you can no longer wear your favorite color, which is green,
because you will just blend in with the.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
Rest of it.

Speaker 6 (26:57):
Dave Fraser, absolutely, I appreciate you.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
We'll talk to you next week, my friend.

Speaker 6 (27:01):
Enjoy the next few days and have a great weekend.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
We sure, well. That is weather Wednesday.

Speaker 5 (27:06):
Active shooter situation at Evergreen High School. I don't have
any more information. We will absolutely have every bit of
information that we can give you on that. And then
Charlie Kirk just got shot in Utah, the conservative founder
of Turning Point USA, who is quite the firebrand. Custodies

(27:27):
in or suspects in custody. Uh, no word on how
Charlie Kirk is doing. I guess I'm I'm looking right now.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
This is video posting on social media.

Speaker 5 (27:40):
Kirk beginning me seen getting struck while speaking and sitting
beneath a tent in the Utah Valley University courtyard.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
I'm guessing that. I mean, there's no.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
Video.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
I know, I just saw it. Oh yeah, does it
look bad? Yeah, it doesn't look good. Oh no, that's
not look great for Charlie. We don't want to assume anything.
We obviously I hope that's not the case.

Speaker 7 (28:09):
But I'm watching this in slow mo, and based on
where he reflexes right after it happens, it doesn't look great.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
Well, we shall see that's not the case.

Speaker 7 (28:24):
I'm you wonder honestly, with these I wonder because he
does these campus tours.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
We all seen the videos over the years. You have
to wonder if you wear his protection.

Speaker 5 (28:35):
No, he's got a T shirt on. You could clear
you could clearly see a vest under the T shirt
he has.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
On if he hadn't one on.

Speaker 7 (28:43):
God And again, mi amateur, I mean it's on X
right now. If you see the wreck as ship, you
see like what reflexes versus his chest?

Speaker 2 (28:54):
Well, I mean it looks like the lower part of
his neck is what happens?

Speaker 7 (29:00):
Like, yeah, because he looks like he goes to He's
not going like grabbing at his neck. No, but it's
a big crowd. But and I'm listening to the audio
of it because it sounds like the shot comes from Afar.
But also the video is being taken from Afar, so
maybe someone's pointing with him.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
I don't know. Holy COWI holy cow, you guys, what
the heck? But no way his body details on how.

Speaker 7 (29:24):
He is, the way his body contorts, it looks like
he got shot in the chest.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
That's my amateur understanding.

Speaker 5 (29:31):
Okay, So after he got hit on his shirt, I
just looked at it. There's nothing on his shirt, there's
nothing in the center mass. What I see is something
right here, a rod right where the neck meets the shoulder,
like in that area. If you look there, you can
see a dark spot that could very well be the
result of a shot. I mean, you know, a SHOT's
gonna rip his shirt and I don't see anything in

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this center mass section.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
But that doesn't really mean what the hell is going on? Understandably,
the entire crowd just goes to a panic disce. What
what is happening? This is just this is nuts. Okay,
we're gonna take a time out.

Speaker 5 (30:09):
We're gonna find out what we can find out about
the Evergreen High School situation, and please don't panic it.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
First reports are often completely wrong. Holy cow. We're supposed
to talk to a gentleman when we get back about
box News are saying he has been hospitalized. What, yeah,
that's the latest.

Speaker 5 (30:26):
We don't have anything, but I mean hospitalize, like in
critical condition or hospitalized because he.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
Has a flesh wound. I mean, that's that's a very
big deal.

Speaker 5 (30:34):
Now, when we get back, we're supposed to talk to Reeveswainston.
He's a former prosecutor and assuming that we don't have
like wall to wall breaking news on some of this stuff.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
We're gonna do that next.

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Speaker 11 (31:00):
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Speaker 2 (31:10):
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Speaker 5 (31:15):
I gotta tell you, guys, I just rescheduled our one
PM guest. Two things happening right now. One according to
my text line, and I'm talking to a lot of
people who are have kids at Evergreen High School. This
guy says, Mandy, Evergreen, My wife is locked in the
locker room. My son ran to a house. I'm an
hour and a half away from the school.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
So now I just wait.

Speaker 5 (31:35):
Charlie Kirk, I just saw someone sent me and I'd
never want to see this again. Somebody just sent me
a closer video of Charlie. You, guys, I don't know
how he survived that.

Speaker 7 (31:44):
I just told you off here before watching that. Normally
that stuff doesn't bother me. I really recommend no oning
going away.

Speaker 5 (31:49):
I literally am about to throw up right now. That
was really I don't know what I was expecting, not
based on the other picture. I didn't expect that. No,
but just to give you I'm going to tell you
what I saw that bothered. Charlie Kirk gets shot in
the bottom of the neck and just blood like everywhere,
like a horror movie.

Speaker 7 (32:08):
But I don't mean to be Yeah, I was gonna say,
I don't mean to be intensive, but literally like you
see in a horror movie.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
It was that rough. What is happening today? What is
going on?

Speaker 5 (32:17):
And I've got people sending text messages like this, Maga
people are the dangerous ones who just happen to keep
getting by shot by the peaceful ones.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
Now I think they're being sarcastic.

Speaker 5 (32:28):
Mandy Evergreen shooting CBS four has very little info. One
maybe two shot, possible one with CPR in progress. Here
we go again, Here we go again, Colorado, Here we
go again, now possibly three Transports says this Texter swat
is running into the school.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
What we've got to arm people in schools. We have
to arm people in schools. And I'm not trying to
politicize this.

Speaker 5 (32:57):
I am trying to say to you, there's a zero
person chance we can get all of the guns out
of society.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
We have to protect children. Good lord, Good Lord, if
you're the prayerful sort, drop to your knees and just
say a prayer, not just for Charlie Kirk, but for
all the people at Evergreen High School, for all the
people that are that are being targeted by violent people.

(33:25):
It's like our society is unraveling before our eyes, and it.

Speaker 5 (33:30):
Happens slowly before it happens quickly, right, I mean, isn't
that the old adage. Oh, it happens slow before it
happens quick. It's like we all got kind of angry
and cranky, and people were yelling and screaming in each
other's faces, and now they're bringing guns and they're targeting
little children. By the way, if you have a child
at Evergreen Elementary School, you are not to go or

(33:50):
Evergreen High School.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
Please don't go to the high school.

Speaker 5 (33:53):
They're directing you to an elementary school to be reunited
with your kids. So I'm gonna see if Keenan, do
you have any new news, Keenan, Because this is just
going to be We're going to bring you everything we've
got as fast as we can get it, all right,
So we do.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
Have an update on this.

Speaker 10 (34:09):
I just confirmed this with the Jefferson County Sheriff's office.
Their public information officer told me the shooting at Evergreen
High School not a potential shooting. It was a shooting
that happened. It was on campus. Two students were shot.
They are headed to the hospital. That's all we know
right now.

Speaker 5 (34:25):
Do we know nothing about who, who the perpetrator was,
what the deal was. My guess is if students were shot.
My wild speculation, which is unscientific and not news, is
that perhaps it is probably another student that would seem
the most logical. Again, no confirmation on any of this,
so please don't take this.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
To the bank. What I'm saying, I am speculating.

Speaker 10 (34:46):
Keenan is not Yes, so confirm two students in route
to the hospital right now. The shooting did happen on
campus today.

Speaker 5 (34:53):
Where are they telling Wilmot Elementary schools? Where they're telling
parents to go?

Speaker 3 (34:57):
Wilmont Elementary School by Evergreen right.

Speaker 5 (35:01):
Around the corner. It is right around the corner. So
if you have a kid at Evergreen, do not go
to the high school. You will be turned away by police.
You should go to Wilmot Elementary School, which by the
way is also on lockdown right now, out of an
abundance of caution.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
I'm not I got that from a texture. I got
that from a texter.

Speaker 5 (35:18):
So Wilmot is also locked down until the scene is
secure and taken care of.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
And wow, I just I can't even what is wrong?
What are we doing? What are we doing?

Speaker 5 (35:30):
I mean, this is the kind of stuff, you know,
what happens when a bunch of college students watch Charlie
Kirk get get shot by probably and again wild speculation.
They've already caught the shooter that shot Charlie Kirk, but

(35:51):
wild speculation. Probably someone on the left. I can't imagine
someone on the right is going to shoot at Charlie
Kirk because he's not a row you know. Right enough,
Mandy my son before he ran to the house, said
there were six shots fired. Mandy, metal detectors should be mandatory,
you guys. It's different. It's more than that. It's not

(36:14):
just metal detectors, because if a kid is coming in
not at the beginning of school or the end of school,
if they wait and then they walk into school because
they're a kid and knows that nobody's gonna stop a
kid when they come in and by the way, this
is all wild speculation. We know we have a shooting
at Evergreen High School. We know two students were shot.
That's all we know. They're being taken to the hospital,
which is good news. We know that Charlie Kirk was

(36:38):
shot at a college event in Utah. He has been
taken to the hospital, but we don't know his condition either.
I gotta tell you, after watching the video close up,
I am concerned about whether or not he survives. What
is happening in this world? We see a crazy, insane,
schizophrenic man who, by the way, has now come out

(36:59):
and said he doesn't even he doesn't even see himself
as the person who stabbed a young woman who was
just sitting on a train. The world you drive on
the roadways right now, everybody's angry all the time. Everybody's violent.
I mean, everybody's flipping everybody else off. Everybody's just mean
all the time. It's like we've all just decided that

(37:22):
we're just gonna end civilization by going after each other.

Speaker 6 (37:27):
We're gonna have.

Speaker 5 (37:28):
All of the information that we can have about the
Evergreen High School situation as it becomes available. We will
give you every single detail as it becomes available. How
to get rid of guns? Says this Texter band manufacturer
of no more military or police arm banned entirely, no
more in existence, not feasible, you say, now, I'm a text.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
I'm just gonna assume that you are not.

Speaker 5 (37:51):
Aware that there are over three hundred million guns in
circulation in the United States of America over okay, Now,
the only way to get all of those guns, all
of them, every single one of them turned in, is
to what send jack booted thugs to everyone's homes to
toss their home because right.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
Now they can't even get the guns away.

Speaker 5 (38:13):
From the criminals. And yet you're gonna ask law abiding citizens.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
Who have never shot or will never shoot.

Speaker 5 (38:20):
Anyone with their firearms to give up their guns so
we can leave the criminals that the police currently cannot
get the illegal firearms from, so they'll be the only
ones who are armed. It sounds really simple and really easy.
We just won't they can't even our guns, and then
we will have It's like Diana to get when talking
about a magazine band.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
She's like, well, once they use the magazine, then they
can't be used again. That's how ignorant people are.

Speaker 5 (38:46):
Uh, we can't fix that problem without so many, so
many clear, clear civil liberty violations.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
We cannot fix it. We cannot that genie back in
the bottle.

Speaker 5 (39:01):
So what do we do right now today to protect
children at Evergreen High School? At my daughter's high school,
at your kids elementary school? What do we do right
now today to protect those kids? That's what I want
to know. I don't want to hear some pie in
the sky situation. Oh, Texter just pointed out that was
their point exactly.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
Okay, thank you. Mandy.

Speaker 5 (39:24):
I'm at the Evergreen McDonald's and I've seen four ambulances
heading out of Evergreen. As I'm driving out, I'm seeing
a ton of police officers from neighboring districts driving very
reminiscent of Columbine. Mandy, you have to pass EHS to
get to Wilmot Elementary two lane Mountain Road. I'm sure
it would be very difficult to get to Wilmot. I
am merely relaying what the authorities are asking parents to do,

(39:48):
which is drived by Evergreen High School to Wilmot Elementary
where they can be reunited with their children. Mandy, I'm
thirty years retired in law enforcement. I work armed security
at a school district Colorado Springs, assistant head of security.
We can't get qualified retired law enforcement because the school
districts won't pay a living wage. I only do it

(40:09):
because I get a pension. And there's the problem, a problem, Mandy.
Thanks for bringing more hyperbolean speculation to this discussion.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
What am I supposed to do here?

Speaker 5 (40:23):
You guys, what do you what exactly would you would
you have me do? We have very little information about
what's going on. It's incredibly upsetting you guys.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
You think I sit here a news automaton. I have
a kid in school. I know people who live in Evergreen.

(40:57):
I'm wondering if their kids are okay.

Speaker 12 (41:00):
So sorry.

Speaker 5 (41:03):
If I engage in hyperbole in my concern, So sorry, Mandy.
Half the population is anti gun. We should make guns
illegal for them. I get it, But uh, Mandy, Trump
sets the mood for the country. That's what's going on.
But oddly Trump supporters haven't shot anyone, have they have?

Speaker 9 (41:23):
They?

Speaker 5 (41:24):
Trump supporters aren't the ones taking shots at the other side.
Bernie Sanders and AOC have not had one shot taken
at them. Elizabeth Warren walks around with her dumbass attitude.
Nobody takes a shot at her. And by the way,
I don't want anyone to take a shot at anyone.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
I would never support it.

Speaker 5 (41:43):
But you know what, there's already people on x saying, oh,
Charlie Kirk, pray for the bullet. That's what passes for
left wing dialogue right now. Anyway, Mandy armed veteran guards
at all schools. You know what, here's the thing, you guys.
There are school districts and the teachers' union that are
so anti allowing trained teachers to be armed in schools.

(42:07):
There is a program that is My friend Laura Carno
has been working with the Faster program for forever.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
Do you know what FASTER does. Listen to this horrible, awful,
terrible program.

Speaker 5 (42:17):
Faster goes into schools and says, hey, is there anybody
in your school, Maybe somebody who's in the military, maybe
somebody who is comfortable with firearms, maybe somebody who would
just want to learn more about protecting their children. And
if those people say yes, then they take them and
they train them with trained law enforcement officers. They go
through the same training that law enforcement officers go through

(42:39):
in that situation, and they teach them how to protect
those kids, and then if the school is lucky enough,
they get to hang a sign up outside that says
staff members in this building are armed and all measures
will be taken to protect our students.

Speaker 2 (42:54):
That is a deterrent. That is what we need to
have happen.

Speaker 5 (43:01):
Come on, just come on, Mandy, wonder if South Park
will make a statement about Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 2 (43:07):
I'm you know that's that is.

Speaker 5 (43:11):
Three transported secondary search of the school now from the textors.
These are all text messages, so I'm trying to get it.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
Get it there, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (43:22):
It just seems to have begun during and just after
COVID people driving without regard for others. I work in
the ski industry, and people on the hill ski and
ride with complete and absolute disregard for anybody else's safety.
I literally take my life in safety in my hands.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
Every day.

Speaker 5 (43:38):
I work like it's everybody has been redlined. Frankly, I
think social media has been one of the greatest contributors.
It fuels the me versus everybody, us versus them narrative.
I don't know how we return to a culture of
caring for each other. I mean, you guys, somebody just
sent this text and this is gonna sound so crazy,
but I swear to you I've had the exact same

(43:58):
thoughts and that is this obviously no proof, but I
believe the mRNA vaccine injection has started to change people's personalities.
What's weird is I didn't think about the vaccinations. I
thought about COVID. If you're the Chinese communist working in
a lab on biotech, on bioterror, what a better way

(44:20):
to destroy a culture than turn people against each other?
I mean, it's a Hollywood script, right, it's a Hollywood movie.
I think it was the first first Kingsman movie. Was
that the first or the second? With what's his face
doing the bad lisp?

Speaker 2 (44:34):
I think it was the first. That was literally the
plot of a movie. But what are we doing? How
is this stuff getting worse? And when does it get better?

Speaker 5 (44:44):
To the point, Texter that you were talking about, I
don't know, I really don't know, Mandy.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
We love you, thank you.

Speaker 5 (44:53):
As a Columbine grad, I joined the military almost entirely
to never be defenseless again.

Speaker 2 (44:59):
Good guy with guns is the.

Speaker 5 (45:01):
Only answer in a free society, exactly right, Mandy. The
left not the normal left leaning people, but the rabid
ones are giddy with excitement to push their crap, even
though it's their rhetoric and propaganda that is causing crap
to happen. You know, there's an increasing drumbeat from certain
sectors of the identity politics world. You see the trans

(45:23):
mafia people, the trans Tifa is what they call themselves,
where they're telling trans people to arm up and get
ready for the revolution. I mean, those people should be
taken seriously. Anybody who says we should arm up and
prepare for the revolution has to be taken seriously. From
this point forward. We can't just say if it's one
of our friends, ah, it's just crazy rantings. We have
to say, this person could be doing something terrible because

(45:48):
we just don't know anymore. We just have no idea.
So here's what we know about Evergreen High School. There
is an active shooting situation right now. Confirm at least
two students shot. They have been taken to the high
school or excuse me, the hospital and parents are asking
not authorities are asking parents not to go to the

(46:12):
high school, but to go to Wilmot Elementary School instead.
It is just past the high school. Everybody who goes
to that high school knows where it is. So yeah,
uh Mandy, communism one oh one. None of this is
by accident.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
But how have we gotten this far?

Speaker 5 (46:27):
I mean, I've talked for a long time about the
sort of lack of God in our society. It's one
of the reasons that I've started talking more openly on
the show about my relationship with God.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
Because the good news is is.

Speaker 5 (46:39):
That young people gen z is going to church more
than my generation, more than the millennials, more than anybody.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
They're turning back to God.

Speaker 5 (46:50):
I would imagine looking for answers, just like I feel
like I'm looking for answers right now. So here's the
update if you're just joining me and you have no
idea what I'd dump or fire is occurring right now.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
On the one hand, here locally, we have.

Speaker 5 (47:04):
Two students confirmed shot at a shooting at Evergreen High School.
That's from the Jeff Coo Sheriff's office. They have been
taken to a local hospital. No word yet on whether
or not the shooter has been arrested, neutralized, or whatever.
And then we also have the founder of Turning Point USA,
Charlie Kirk, who was doing one of his college events, which,

(47:25):
by the way, are fantastic and are probably never going
to happen again, where he sits and talks to college
kids and college kids show up in droves to see
him speak. He was shot at an event, and both
Aaron and I saw the video of him getting shot
close up, something I never want to see again.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
But I don't know how he survives that. Yeah, be
very careful.

Speaker 7 (47:45):
There are two videos circulating, one from a far distance
where we initially can't.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
Tell what's going on.

Speaker 7 (47:51):
Then you stick with that one with right in front
of it happening, and you don't want to it's bad,
It's really bad.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
Or speculating did he get an artery, because that's what
it looks like. It looks like it just hit his
carotid artery. But you just, I don't know how you
how you survive this?

Speaker 5 (48:09):
What I'm just I'm baffled, you, guys, I don't even
know what to say. I realize I'm the talk show host,
and people tune in. They're like, Mandy's gonna know what
to do, and she's gonna know what to say. I
feel like I've just been hit by all quarters here
and I honestly am stumped. I'm stemied. I mean, what
do we do here, Mandy? Try not to become overcome
by the extremists as a representation of the whole on

(48:31):
either side, And remember the overwhelming majority of people are good.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
Yes they are, I do believe it.

Speaker 5 (48:37):
But at the same time, I just feel like our
society has become nastier. It's become awful, like driving in Colorado.
Like everyone I don't I'm not a I'm not a
crazy driver. I'm not an aggressive driver. I'm the kind
of person that if I'm on I twenty five and
traffic is going forty five miles an hour, I'm gonna

(48:57):
choose elane. I'm gonna stay there, right, I'm not I'm
not to jumper around or in the traffic already, and
yet on a regular basis now I am flipped off
in traffic, and genuinely half the time, I'm like, I
have no idea why that.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
Just happened, No clue.

Speaker 5 (49:11):
People are angry all the time, people are nasty all
the time, and this is how it ends up.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
Ugh, We're going to have as soon as we have
any news.

Speaker 5 (49:23):
I'm assuming that the Jefferson County Sheriff's office or Jefferson
County is going to have some kind of press conference
at sometime, and we will run that press conference when
it happens. We will provide you all the information that
we can as soon as we get it. Randy, the
South Park guys went to Evergreen High School. I wonder

(49:44):
how they're going to spin it. Well, I certainly hope
spinning it is not what we're thinking about right now.
The man detained at Utah Valley University is an old.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
Dude like I would get at least sixty. They've got
him on the ground.

Speaker 5 (50:03):
I mean, what in the world does a sixty year
old man think he's going to accomplish by going to
a college campus and shooting at a conservative icon. I'm
gonna take a break. I'm gonna gather myself. I might
go take a little spin around the building, but I'm
gonna come back and hopefully have more information for you
about any of this crap.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
Good Lord.

Speaker 5 (50:24):
So in the studio, we have three giant televisions. To
my left, I have the breaking news with our friends
at Fox thirty one about the shooting that Keenan just
told you. Everything we know about. We're waiting to hear
more from the Jefferson County Sheriff's office. I'm getting text
messages from people that have either kids at the school
or this update from Lindsay dadco who has uh, she's

(50:46):
in Jefferson County. Update Evergreen High School active shooter. Kids
in hospitals, CPR happening, reports of two shots, three patients
transported to the hospital. Primary sweep of the school, clear,
secondary search underway. Now that is just report by Lindsay
dad Coo, who is dialed in and may have better
news than we do in terms of what's happening. And

(51:06):
then to my right on the television, I have repeating
video of Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA.
He is probably done more to bring young people to
the conservative movement than any other single individual. And he
does these events on college campuses where he goes and

(51:26):
he sits under a tent and he invites people to
come up to the microphone to debate him. And the
video from that stuff is just incredible in terms of
you can almost in some of those cases, you can
actually see the light bulb go on in the minds
of some of the college students that he's debating. But
it wasn't a college student that shot Charlie Kirk. According

(51:49):
to the video that I've seen, the man who has
been arrested for shooting Charlie Kirk is a boomer and
they show him kneeling down with his hands behind his
back saying, I have the right to remain silent.

Speaker 2 (51:59):
I have the right to me silent. So this is
where we are on the left.

Speaker 5 (52:06):
I've got people, by the way, reunification is happening now
at Bergen Meadow Elementary. So they now said Bergen Meadow
Elementary is where you need to go to be reunited
with your kids at Evergreen High School. And here we
are in Colorado, once again, the center of the high
school shooting universe. And we're gonna have a lot of

(52:26):
conversations about what we need to do and how can
we let this happen, and oh, we need to do this,
and we need to do that. In the meantime, when
we're deciding on the bigger issues, can we all just
say we've got to have we've got to have armed
people in school. We have to have well trained adults
in school, with signs outside the schools that say there
are arm staff in this building, and we will use
every method available to stop any attacks on our children.

(52:51):
That would be a dissuasion, that would be something that
would actually have an immediate impact. We have kids that
and I don't know who the shooter is in Evergreen
High school situation. We've been given no information Online they
say things like the shooter has been stopped or whatever
that means. So we have kids perhaps that are killing

(53:18):
other kids. I mean, I can't even imagine. I remember
being a kid.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
I remember being a teenager just like you do, and
all the stupid crap that goes along with being a teenager,
all those petty fights, maybe even a fist fight every
once in a while that went down as somebody stole
somebody's girlfriend, or somebody was rude or whatever the reason was.
But never once did someone say, you know what, I'm
gonna go kill somebody over that. What have we done

(53:46):
to these kids to make them think that's okay?

Speaker 5 (53:51):
Now we have textors say if Charlie dies, it's open
season on Democrats, And I'm here for it's never open
season on any one.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
It cannot the open season.

Speaker 6 (54:04):
Mandy.

Speaker 5 (54:05):
Our family had a text discussion just last month by
the way you can text in your thoughts to five
sixty six nine.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
Oh, that's the common Spirit health text line.

Speaker 5 (54:13):
This texer said, our family had a text discussion last
month just like this. He began with my husband saying
reading a post on Reddit, when did anger become the
drug of choice? One daughter said it was twenty twenty
an amenity, too much free time, fear. Another daughter said,
social media with no one seeing their face. I said
in twenty twenty, feeling alat with control and the inability
to suppress feelings exploded. Many of you are Mandy listening

(54:39):
in tobraskin.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
Around here, the.

Speaker 5 (54:40):
Boomers and elderly are always angry. And do that I
mean you talk about and if you're in the boomer class,
and I'm not talking about you because I'm not describing you,
please don't take offense because I'm talking about a generational
issue right now. But is there a generation alive right
now that has less reason to be angry than the boomers.

(55:01):
They have all the wealth, they have voted themselves to
treasury over and over and over again. They have homes
that they are still enjoying, and they're not moving out
of to make room for young people with families. The
boomers are the generation that should be the most fat
and happy because everything in the country financially, they're sitting

(55:24):
in the capbird seat.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
Why in the world should they be angry? And what
in the world makes a grown adult think, you know
what I'm gonna do.

Speaker 5 (55:32):
I'm gonna go out and I'm gonna take a long
gun because apparently a rod has said they believe the
shot came from about.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
What two hundred yards away? Is that what you're hearing?
So this guy sits up in a building and decides,
you know what I'm gonna do.

Speaker 5 (55:44):
You know it's gonna help things in the United States
of America. I Am going to shoot at Charlie Kirk
Keenan has an update. Let's go to the newsroom and
find out what is happening now at the Evergreen High
School shooting.

Speaker 10 (55:55):
What do you have for me, Keenan, Yeah, I just
got confirmation from the Jefferson County Sheriff's office that there
was a third person taken to the hospital. It appears
that that person was also a student at the school.
It's unclear still who the suspect is. If the suspect
is in custody, and some of those key details. We
do have a crew getting there within the next five

(56:15):
or ten minutes here, so we should have some updates
coming soon.

Speaker 3 (56:19):
There is also an update.

Speaker 10 (56:20):
On the parent student reunification point that's now happening at
bergen Meadow Elementary as opposed to Wilmot Elementary. That's on
nineteen twenty eight South High Wind Drive. So that's the
latest updates right now.

Speaker 5 (56:31):
All right, So have they given us any indication if
there will be a press conference anytime soon?

Speaker 2 (56:36):
Nothing like that has come out yet.

Speaker 3 (56:37):
We do know there is media staging area.

Speaker 10 (56:41):
They have kind of secured that area for media staging,
but we don't know when that update will come from them.

Speaker 3 (56:47):
We're still trying to figure those things out there.

Speaker 5 (56:48):
Okay, we will run that update. We will run that
press conference when it happens. We will absolutely play it
for you and make sure that you have all of
the latest information that you need on that horrific situation. Manny,
my friends and I all went to Evergreen group chat
with my buddies. One of my friend's niece goes there
and the reports that the shooter killed himself again, this
is from text messages. I'm here's the thing, you guys like,

(57:11):
I want to give out the information, but I don't
want to give out wrong information.

Speaker 2 (57:15):
And here's why.

Speaker 5 (57:17):
When people hear something for the first time, like they
just heard me read that text, right, it goes into
their brain as that's what happened. And then it gets
harder to correct the record later because for whatever reason,
our brains lock into that first thing that we say
and we.

Speaker 2 (57:33):
Hold on to it.

Speaker 5 (57:34):
So I'm trying to find out if we can give
out great information that is solid and it is going
to work or is going to be accurate.

Speaker 2 (57:42):
So if I.

Speaker 5 (57:43):
Read a text message, please take it as just a
text message that has not been confirmed until we confirm it. Okay,
Prayers now going for Evergreen High School. Prayers for Charlie Kirk.
By the way, I am jen X. This country is
teetering at the edge. The tender is set. Pray for
our republic.

Speaker 2 (58:00):
Amen to that. Amen to that. I don't even know.
I can't even add anything to that. So, by the way.

Speaker 5 (58:12):
Glenn Beck said, getting word that Charlie Kirk has been stabilized,
I got to tell you, guys, if he survives that shot,
I think it'll be okay to believe in miracles. Two
situations going on right now. We have a shooting at
Evergreen High School. We have three victims in critical condition.
According to Jefferson County Sheriff's office. They have been taken

(58:34):
to the hospital, but critical condition is not dead. So
say your prayers for those folks who have been involved
in that shooting. And then on my other TV to
my right, you know, I feel like a sportscaster on
your radio dial from left to right. Left, we have
Evergreen High School shooting. Right, we have Turning Point USA
founder Charlie Kirk, ho was shot at one of his

(58:54):
university events. And someone sent me the video and look,
I appreciate ate this center of this video wanting me
to be able to have all the information, but it's
incredibly gory and both a rod and I. If Charlie
Kirk survives, it will not be inappropriate to say it

(59:14):
is a miracle based on the video that we saw.
So the shots were fired from about two hundred yards
away an old leftist, and no, I shouldn't say that.

Speaker 2 (59:26):
I do not know that to be factual.

Speaker 5 (59:28):
An old man has been arrested for shooting him, and
all we know is that he and his denim shirt
and his shorts, kneeling on the ground, saying I have.

Speaker 2 (59:37):
The right to remain silent. I have the right to
remain silent. So it'll be very interesting now. I do
want to play this.

Speaker 5 (59:43):
This This is a little window into the world of
how hard it is to do breaking news coverage without
making an idiot out of yourself. A rod may have
my computer for a moment, please, but I want to
play this from MSNBC because you have to understand, and
this is not about me, but I want you to
understand what we're doing here behind the scenes. Behind the scenes,

(01:00:05):
We've got Keenan working on this. We've got Rob Dawson
calling people. We've got Connor Shreve on the way to
Evergoen High School, and as soon as he can get
to the staging area where the media is, we're going
to get him on the phone so we can bring
you all of the latest information. But I'm sitting here,
I don't have a lot of information to give you.
I'm trying to give you everything we've got, but I
want to play for you what occurred on MSNBC to

(01:00:27):
just give you an idea of how hard this is
to do this kind of coverage without making an idiot
out of yourself. And so if I sound like I'm
hedging or I'm, you know, trying to not say things,
I'm not.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
But here's why in which the shooting like this happens. Yeah,
and again emphasize what you just emphasize.

Speaker 13 (01:00:45):
We don't know any of the details of this that
we don't know if this was the supporter or shooting
your gun off in celebration or so, we have no
idea about it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
And he actually just said, we don't know if this
was a supporter of Charlie Kirk shooting his gun off
in celebration. That is how you make a fool out
of yourself on television.

Speaker 5 (01:01:09):
That's how you do it. Right there, there's gonna be
a lot to talk. Oh wait a minute, hey, uh ay, Rod,
Fox thirty one is running something. There's somebody up at microphones.
See if we can grab them real quick. We're gonna
join this if we can. I don't even know if
this is a press conference right now, is that going on?
Hang on a Rod's looking or are they just getting

(01:01:30):
Mike's ready? Hang on, We're gonna We're gonna join Fox
thirty one and see what's going on there. We can't
I can't tell. There is a person wearing a sheriff's
office you.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
Oh, here we go. Our microphone turned on. I believe.

Speaker 5 (01:01:44):
Oh, wait, we're getting ready. We're gonna go to that.
It looks like they're getting ready to do Wait. I
can't tell. I think, okay, they're getting ready to do
a press conference in Evergreen. We are gonna run with that.
As soon as we do, we will blow off the news.
We will join this press conference just to let you
know what's going on, and then we'll figure outur.

Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
News report on this.

Speaker 11 (01:02:04):
At Evergreen High School, the call came in at twelve
twenty four today that we had an active shooter at
the school. There are so many jurisdictions up here. I
can't name them, but it's like the metro area just responded.
We have three people who have been transported to the hospital.
Don't know conditions on any of them yet. Hopefully we'll

(01:02:25):
have that for you shortly. What's really important for us
to get out is reunification with parents and students. That's
happening at Bergen Meadow Elementary that's at one nine two
eight South High Wand Drive. I don't have a lot more.

Speaker 2 (01:02:42):
Please ask questions if you have them.

Speaker 6 (01:02:43):
Can you give me your name the title?

Speaker 11 (01:02:44):
Yes, Jackie Kelly, Jacki Kelly's k L E. Y PIO
for the Jeff Pucher Soffice.

Speaker 2 (01:02:50):
You see your art us.

Speaker 11 (01:02:52):
People that are injured are students.

Speaker 6 (01:02:55):
Yes, there's a huge emergencies response I know is coming
in it down. What are you telling people? We're seeing
that worrying right now.

Speaker 11 (01:03:02):
I understand the worry and the concern. Like I said that,
the entire Metro area came up here to help a
lot of them self deployed, and we sure appreciate it
because you don't know what you have until you get here.
But there there's got to be over one hundred for sure,
over one hundred, maybe a couple hundred cops here right now.
We're still in the process of clearing the school and
we're doing that with multiple teams inside room by room,

(01:03:24):
and that just takes time.

Speaker 3 (01:03:26):
I know this is an ongoing, but the shooting happened.

Speaker 11 (01:03:29):
Inside of the We believe it happened inside the school.
It definitely happened on school grounds that I don't have
clarification inside or out.

Speaker 2 (01:03:38):
You want people one person the Nie shooter.

Speaker 11 (01:03:42):
We're not we're not clear on that. We're not certain
how many shooters we have or where that shooter might be.
I'm hoping to get more information to you quickly, but
we can't. We can't air that yet.

Speaker 8 (01:03:53):
Kind you show that I've lived in the community, sir.

Speaker 11 (01:03:57):
Shelter place should you need? I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (01:04:00):
I don't think so.

Speaker 11 (01:04:03):
I don't I don't have any information on a caliber
of a weapon at all.

Speaker 2 (01:04:10):
Don't know that. We don't know who the shooter is.

Speaker 11 (01:04:13):
Hopefully the next time we meet shortly from now, we'll
have more of those answers. That's okay to do to
We have three people who have been transported to the hospital.

Speaker 6 (01:04:25):
We think they're all students.

Speaker 11 (01:04:27):
Don't know what their injuries are. Should everybody good? For now?

Speaker 6 (01:04:32):
The ya?

Speaker 1 (01:04:36):
All right?

Speaker 6 (01:04:37):
Was it just put it that made a call?

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
The great question.

Speaker 11 (01:04:40):
I don't know who made that first call, but I
can tell you we received a lot of calls very
quickly coming from the school, and obviously that pretty quickly
helps confirm that what one person is reporting, multiple people
started reporting in It just kind of amped up the
seriousness of this right away. Okay, thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
All right.

Speaker 5 (01:05:00):
That is what we've got for right now from the
Jefferson County Sheriff's Office. Any new updates, any new press conferences,
we will bring them to you here. You can stick
here and get all of the latest news at Evergreen
High School. It's also being reported in the other shooting
we're talking about, is that Charlie Kirk may be stabilized
at this point. And if that's the case, that is

(01:05:20):
a flat out miracle. We will be back right after this.

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Speaker 5 (01:05:50):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the third hour of the show.
If you just missed the news, you're just joining us
right now. We are in the midst of two completely
separate crises.

Speaker 2 (01:05:59):
And the first is local.

Speaker 5 (01:06:01):
As you just heard, three students have been shot at
Evergreen High School. Reunification for parents of students at Evergreen
High School is happening at bergen Meadow Elementary. Three students
have been taken to the hospital. We have not been
informed that anyone has died except rumors, and they are rumors.

Speaker 2 (01:06:20):
And I just got a text message from the guy
whose wife was locked in the school locker room.

Speaker 5 (01:06:26):
And again this is unconfirmed, unconfirmed, Mandy, they just let
my wife. Wait a minute, Mandy Evergreen, they finally let
my wife out of the school locker room.

Speaker 2 (01:06:38):
My son caught a ride with some of our friends.

Speaker 5 (01:06:41):
For what it's worth, I was told the shooter walked
out of a bathroom, shot two students, ran to the
upper parking lot by the rec center, shot a random woman,
then ran.

Speaker 2 (01:06:50):
Off into the woods and took his own life. That
is rumor.

Speaker 5 (01:06:53):
We don't know that, but a lot of people are saying,
what happened to the shooter? Where's the shooter? I'm giving
you the best information I have that is unconfirmed. What
I just told you, so do not take it to
the bank, do not bet on it, do not do
any of those things. And then there's the story of
Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, who, from
what I can tell you know you may not like

(01:07:15):
what Charlie has to say in the way he says it.
But Charlie Kirk's big crime seems to have been going
to college campuses and debating people who disagreed with him. Respectfully.
By the way, if you've ever seen a Charlie Kirk
video of him talking to these young leftists, he never
calls names, he never does any of that stuff. He
just uses facts and logic to make them understand how

(01:07:38):
flawed they're thinking is about whatever issue they bring to
the table.

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
And because of that, he was shot.

Speaker 5 (01:07:45):
The AP is reporting he's in critical condition. And I'm
just gonna say this, And somebody sent me the video
of Charlie Kirk being shot and from a very close angle,
and I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:07:56):
What I was thinking.

Speaker 5 (01:07:57):
I mean, I saw it from far away and it
didn't look that bad, right, it was like, oh, it
looked like a flesher moom kind of thing. So I
watched the video. Do not watch the video. And then
a Rod said send it to me. I'm like, dude,
it's bad, and he's like, no, I don't really get
gross out. I literally almost vomited. I don't do blood
at all. And ay, Rod, it was too much for
you as well. Yeah, I don't watch it. Do not

(01:08:20):
watch it, like think like it's like it clearly hits
the carotid artery. Yeah, I mean, it's yeah, horror movie.
Ask it's yeah, rough, it's extremely, extremely bad. And I'm
just going to give you one more piece of advice.
Do not watch in MSNBC today, Okay, just don't do it.

(01:08:41):
Don't turn it on, don't give them any ratings because
the garbage that they are spewing.

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
On that network is so bad.

Speaker 5 (01:08:50):
And and I I I don't even want to share
with you because it's so bad. Essentially, Charlie Cook says
mean things, so he deserves what comes to him. I mean,
that's not exactly what they said, but that's a exactly
what they said. I don't understand. I don't get it.
I don't understand people with such a lack of humanity,
with such a lack of.

Speaker 2 (01:09:10):
God, that celebrate the murder of other people.

Speaker 5 (01:09:13):
But this is what we do now, right, I mean,
a healthcare CEO gets gunned down in the.

Speaker 2 (01:09:18):
Street and he becomes a darling for some of that
political bent.

Speaker 5 (01:09:25):
Now we're celebrating people getting shot, people on ex praying
for the bullet. I don't know, you know, I don't
want people to get killed. I don't want people to
get shot even if I agree with him and think
they're stupid, I'd rather have the opportunity to demonstrate their
stupidity to them than shutting them down entirely. Charlie Kirk

(01:09:46):
is not a crisis on a regular basis. He promotes
hate towards others, sorrow. Sorry, zero sympathy for him. He's
also a father with two young daughters. Do you feel
bad for them?

Speaker 2 (01:09:55):
Texter?

Speaker 6 (01:09:56):
Who?

Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
So, wait a minute, I'm sure you disagree with me.
Do I deserve to be And that's a real question.

Speaker 5 (01:10:02):
Who, in your mind, Texter deserves to be shot? Who,
in your mind, because you disagree with the words that
come out of their mouth, deserves to be shot and killed?
I want a list.

Speaker 2 (01:10:13):
I want to know if I'm on it. Should I
be carrying my firearm at work?

Speaker 5 (01:10:19):
I just want to know where the line is because
if you, Texter, have decided this guy deserved it, who
else deserves it?

Speaker 2 (01:10:26):
Did you cheer?

Speaker 5 (01:10:26):
I'm sure you did cheer when Trump got shot too?
You were probably you probably had a freaking party. Because
you have embraced a culture of violence. You have chosen
to decide that other people's lives that you disagree with
are not worth living or not worth having? Are not
worth being allowed to continue? Did the kids at Evergreen

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High School?

Speaker 2 (01:10:49):
Deserve to get shot? Texter? I mean, if you're making
judgments like that, go ahead and make them all.

Speaker 5 (01:10:55):
Of course they didn't. Please, of course they didn't, just
like Charlie Kirk didn't deserve to get shot. I'm taking
a break shooting at Evergreen. We're gonna jump that in
right now.

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
Go ahead, a rod.

Speaker 13 (01:11:07):
Comunity and to all of our mountain communities to the
west of us up the I seventy quarridor being a
level when trauma center means having the ability to care
for the most acute, most severely injured patients that exists.

Speaker 2 (01:11:24):
So that's why we're here.

Speaker 13 (01:11:25):
Flight for Life Colorado has started at this hospitals the
oldest air medical program in the country. They they are
in there helping hands on right now. Our flight team
is helping as they always do when we have casualties
that come in from trauma situations.

Speaker 2 (01:11:43):
So everything is functioning exactly as it should, at least
for life.

Speaker 7 (01:11:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:11:49):
No, I believe these all came in via ground. However,
Flight for Life is more than the helicopters there. They
provide the ms for. We have ground, we have planes,
we have helicopters, any.

Speaker 2 (01:12:01):
Clearing from place. All of these patients are each of them,
all of them are shot.

Speaker 13 (01:12:07):
That's correct, Yes, each of the victims that we have
sustained gunshot rooms.

Speaker 2 (01:12:11):
How many times I don't know that information. You know,
families are here.

Speaker 13 (01:12:17):
There are some families that are here and that are
starting to come. And you can imagine for the rest
of the families at the school, they're trying to figure
out where do I need to be and is my
child okay? So all that's happening, we're trying to coordinate
between the Sheriff's office, the school district, and our team
here is.

Speaker 2 (01:12:34):
The hospital still working to get in touch with families.

Speaker 13 (01:12:37):
We're working to take care of the patients that are
here right now. These are not the only patients here, obviously,
we have hundreds of other patients in the building right now.
So that's our primary focus is to make sure we're
taking good care of the community. Of course, communicating with
the families and partnering with our communications team, our behavioral
health team, our outreach teams. All of those folks are

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chaplains are all there to help support the families as well. Kevin,
another clarifying question, I have said that you know, it's
all hands on deck in the hospital and trained.

Speaker 2 (01:13:08):
For these situations.

Speaker 6 (01:13:09):
Can you tell us of the three.

Speaker 8 (01:13:11):
Patients, are they all in the emergency and operating rooms
at the time?

Speaker 2 (01:13:16):
Is that at this time?

Speaker 13 (01:13:17):
Is that so they are all all three victims are
either in the emergency department or in the operating room
presently right now?

Speaker 2 (01:13:25):
Yes, I don't know that at this time.

Speaker 13 (01:13:32):
Thank you for now, Thank you appreciating all right, thank you?

Speaker 5 (01:13:35):
Yeah, okay, that was just on the hospital about taking
care of the three victims who have been shot at
Evergreen High School. We don't know anything yet about the shooter.
We don't know anything about the condition of the people
that have been taken to the hospital. We do know
that reunification has started with parents at a local elementary
school right around the corner. Officials are asking parents not

(01:13:56):
to go to Evergreen High School. You will be turned away,
You will not be allowed to go into the parking lot.
So please, if you are looking for your students, Bergen
Meadow Elementary School at nineteen twenty eight South Hihwan Drive
is where you go for reunification with your kids. We're
also covering the story of Charlie Kirk, who has been

(01:14:17):
shot at an event in Utah. And there is some
scuttle but that the video that Arod and I referenced earlier,
please don't watch it. It's incredibly gory and gruesome was Ai.
But I got to tell you, guys, that thing turned
on a dime and it was a different angle from
where we initially saw it, and I hope it was Ai.

Speaker 2 (01:14:41):
I hope it was Ai.

Speaker 5 (01:14:41):
But if it's not and he survived that, it's just
going to be a miracle, an absolute miracle. So covering
two horrible stories today, absolutely horrible. We have Connor Shreeve
on the scene though. As soon as any new information
about the Evergreen High School situation becomes.

Speaker 2 (01:14:57):
Available, we are going to get that to you.

Speaker 5 (01:15:00):
We will bring you every press conference through the rest
of the day until we have some kind of certainty
about what happened, what went down, and what sort of dangers.

Speaker 2 (01:15:07):
Do or do not remain.

Speaker 5 (01:15:09):
And ay Rod, listen to what this kid on the
news is saying right now. They're interviewing a student in Evergreen.
See if he's see if he's saying anything useful while
we're continuing, like.

Speaker 9 (01:15:19):
They've blocked off all the roads and all that.

Speaker 10 (01:15:22):
I'm so sorry and thank you so much.

Speaker 5 (01:15:24):
At the end of the interview, so if they if
they grab another student, yeah, ay, Roon's gonna see if
he can run back on that and see what the
student had to say. He looks incredibly visibly upset. Obviously,
students once again going.

Speaker 7 (01:15:38):
Through this.

Speaker 2 (01:15:40):
In Colorado.

Speaker 5 (01:15:41):
We sure are special here in Colorado luckily though. No,
I'm not going to make a political comment. I'm just
going to keep it to myself.

Speaker 2 (01:15:47):
One good thing.

Speaker 5 (01:15:48):
About live radio you never know what's going to happen today.
Good god, No, that's not a good thing about live radio.

Speaker 11 (01:15:55):
You just said that you have friends that go to
school there.

Speaker 9 (01:15:58):
Yeah, it's so it doesn't feel real because like this
never happened to me before, and like Alan move you
like a few months ago, and I didn't like think
this would happen like so soon, Like it shouldn't be
a thing that happens like nowadays in our society.

Speaker 2 (01:16:14):
It is, isn't right.

Speaker 9 (01:16:16):
Have you talked to any of your friends that know
they're I've I've done a contact with a couple of them,
and they all seem fine the middle school in the
high school.

Speaker 2 (01:16:24):
But it's just it's the fact that it happens that
this isn't right.

Speaker 5 (01:16:28):
Okay, So that was not a kid that went to
Ebreen High School. This is just trying to get the
news here. People were trying to get information out.

Speaker 2 (01:16:35):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:16:36):
Somebody just texted me Sean Hannity is reporting that Charlie
clirk Kirk is most likely not going to survive. I
gotta tell you, after watching the video, I was like,
if he survives, it's going to be a miracle.

Speaker 2 (01:16:46):
It was a bad shot.

Speaker 5 (01:16:48):
I've also seen video of them dragging, dragging the alleged
shooter away from the scene. He's an old man yelling
something as they're dragging him. Charlie Kirk was shot from
two hundred yards away from a building across from where
he was engaged with college students, which he does all
over the place, having respectful dialogue with people he disagreed with,

(01:17:11):
and for that someone decided he needed to be shot.

Speaker 2 (01:17:14):
What a day.

Speaker 5 (01:17:14):
We were going to have State Senator Barb Kirkmeyer on,
but in light of the gravity of the situation, she said, Mandy, let's.

Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
Just let the day play out. We'll regroup. We'll come
in have a conversation about it later.

Speaker 5 (01:17:27):
Just out of respect for the people in Evergreen and
the students there and the chaos that those parents must
be feeling. Again, you just heard Keenan give directions. If
you have a student at Evergreen High School, do not
go to the high school. They're doing reunification at bergen
Meadow Elementary. Bergen Meadow Elementary, that is where you should go.
We do know that three people were killed. We don't

(01:17:50):
know excuse me, whoa walk that back. Three people are
in the hospital. We have not had any confirmed deaths.
We don't know anything yet about the gunman. And in
the Charlie Kirk situation, we now know that the person
who was initially being shown as the gunman not the gunman.
They have no suspects in that case. And there's a

(01:18:10):
lot of information on x lot of speculation that Charlie
has passed. I'll be shocked if he survives, but we
don't have a confirmation from any authorities right that he
has passed away. So he was taken to a hospital
in Utah and the last we heard he was getting

(01:18:32):
blood transfusions.

Speaker 2 (01:18:33):
And it's just been it's chaos. It's chaos.

Speaker 5 (01:18:38):
It's chaos here in Colorado, it's chaos in Utah, where
Charlie Kirk was shot. It's just been a day, a
really horrible day. So I'm kind of at a loss
right now. I just I don't know why I read it.
See here's the thing, you guys about the text line.
Sometimes I start reading a text before i've read the
text because I don't have time to sit here and screen,

(01:18:59):
because it would sound like this, well, let me read
this text.

Speaker 2 (01:19:02):
Huh, okay, let me read this text. No, I can't
do that. So I end up reading these vile text
messages from hateful people who believe that disagreeing with someone
saying things that you don't like is reason that they
should get shot.

Speaker 5 (01:19:16):
If you're that person, if that's where you are right now,
if you're sitting there going, oh yeah, you know. Well,
and I got a text message from someone else who says,
let me see if I can find it. Let me
just see if I can find this one. Whenever you
say something like this, oh crap, now, m I cannot.

(01:19:37):
I can't find it now. It just scrolled down, Mandy.

Speaker 2 (01:19:43):
Oh dang it.

Speaker 5 (01:19:44):
I wish I could find it because it was really good.
They essentially, oh, here it is Mandy. While no one
deserves to be shot, you must admit our commander in
chief spews hate daily, calling women nasty, and talking about.

Speaker 2 (01:19:54):
Liberals in horrible ways.

Speaker 5 (01:19:56):
He also goes after his perceived adversary adversaries for retribute. Okay,
so he deserves to be shot. I don't care when
you say, well, well, no one deserves to be shot.
But have you ever heard an apology where someone goes,
I'm really sorry, but the butt negates everything else that
you just said.

Speaker 2 (01:20:14):
And in this case that well, no one deserves to
be shot. That you must admit. That's a butt. But
our commander, yeah, he says nasty things. But for a second,
for one second, you have forgotten all those years that
people on the left called George.

Speaker 5 (01:20:31):
Bush everything but a child of God. I mean, come on,
he has passed. We have confirmation. What do you got
a rod?

Speaker 2 (01:20:43):
Hey? I was reading hang on? Okay, God, you guys.

Speaker 5 (01:20:49):
If Charlie Kirk dies, you're about to see the red
pilling of college students that you have never seen before.
If they make Charlie Kirk a martyr for the young
conservative movement. This is going to be who is doing that?

Speaker 1 (01:21:05):
Ben?

Speaker 2 (01:21:05):
Who confirmed it?

Speaker 3 (01:21:08):
Wait?

Speaker 5 (01:21:09):
Wait, because I'm just a lot of people on com
come in here, Ben, trying to get information on that.

Speaker 2 (01:21:14):
Again.

Speaker 5 (01:21:15):
We're covering two stories. We've got three students shot, all
of them at the hospital. Charlie Kirk shot in Utah
and now a Rod.

Speaker 7 (01:21:22):
What is being reported at Real America's Voice, which is
is that is not not his platform, Real America's Voice.

Speaker 2 (01:21:28):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (01:21:29):
Okay, Well, at Real America's Voice has reported that he
has died. Ap is not yet At Real am Voice,
he is reporting that Charlie Kirk is passed.

Speaker 2 (01:21:41):
Okay. I'm looking at Talking Points USA to see if they.

Speaker 8 (01:21:45):
Have Real America's Voice, which airs Charlie Kirk's show. Okay,
has confirmed I sent you the screen grab. On television
has confirmed this isn't a Twitter or that kind of stuff.
On television has confirmed these past at the age of thirty.

Speaker 2 (01:21:56):
One, Holy cow, you guys, Holy cow?

Speaker 6 (01:22:03):
What the you know?

Speaker 2 (01:22:04):
What I really want to say.

Speaker 5 (01:22:05):
I want to just unleash a stream of expletives so
long and so hard that it will immediately get me fired,
because that's how I feel right now. I feel I
just I feel like I feel like the world is
out of control.

Speaker 2 (01:22:21):
There is a man hunt on for the shooter. The
person that they brought in was not the shooting suspect. Yeah,
I just said that. I mean.

Speaker 5 (01:22:28):
And this is what happens in breaking news. You get
information and some of it's good and some of it's not.
So I mean, And I am not going to be
on social media for the rest of the day because
the worst of the worst, the most vile people in
the world are now on social media and they are
celebrating while they say the same thing that that texter said.

(01:22:50):
You know, of course they didn't deserve to be shot.
That Have you heard what he says? He's so mean,
he's so mean when he looks at an obvious male
who's dressed like a one and says, you're clearly a man.

Speaker 8 (01:23:01):
So mean, Well, that would make you a I guess
a bully is at worst. It would not mean that
you deserve the death penalty with.

Speaker 2 (01:23:08):
No adjudication, mind you, right.

Speaker 1 (01:23:12):
Who is that?

Speaker 2 (01:23:13):
Who are you to determine? You know, who are you
to be the arbiter of who deserves to die?

Speaker 5 (01:23:17):
And that's that's the thing, you know, we have somebody
earlier who's like, yeah, of course, you know you spread hate,
this is what you get. And I'm like, well, judge
jury and execution Earl in one Fell Swoop person.

Speaker 2 (01:23:29):
Yeah, I spent a day.

Speaker 8 (01:23:30):
I was over there with doing some TV with Leland
Comway or good Buddy and really be and we had
to stop.

Speaker 2 (01:23:35):
We had to stop the episode.

Speaker 6 (01:23:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:23:36):
We just couldn't record anymore between this at Evergreen, so
I trust me, I didn't have the option. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:23:41):
I would have loved to just shut the mic off
and leave as soon as all this happened. But live
radio is different than recording. And by the way, that
show was amazing. It's called The Twisted View and you
can see it on Independence Institute's YouTube channel.

Speaker 2 (01:23:52):
Yeah, I certainly appreciate the plugger I it was.

Speaker 8 (01:23:55):
It's I mean, it's frustrating to watch some of the
real I missed days when we weren't so polemic. I
missed the days when we sat here quippling over marginal
tax rates, and instead it's gotten so amped up that
this this is the result.

Speaker 2 (01:24:10):
Whatever you's like a good idea for people.

Speaker 8 (01:24:12):
Whatever you think of whatever, Charlie Gray and honestly isn't
Charlie Kirk doing or doing what we all wanted?

Speaker 2 (01:24:18):
A grassroots campaign that that has created a dialogue, even.

Speaker 8 (01:24:24):
If they were not respectful conversations, created a dialogue.

Speaker 2 (01:24:27):
Isn't that what we wanted?

Speaker 5 (01:24:29):
Yeah, we did a long time ago. Gina Gondeck, our
crack Uh anchor from the Mornings. We've peeled her out
of her nap to send her to Evergreen.

Speaker 6 (01:24:37):
Gina.

Speaker 2 (01:24:37):
Now you are in the parent reunification area.

Speaker 12 (01:24:41):
Yeah, so, I'm currently near bergen Meadow Elementary School. This
is on South High Wind Drive. This is a pretty
gridlocks traffic right now. As a heads up for parents
who are coming here for the reunification process, you have
to be patient because it is really stop and go
traffic in this area. They're making everyone go to Bergen

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Meadow Elementary School, South High Wand Drive. Do not go
to Evergreen High School. It's completely blocked off.

Speaker 6 (01:25:09):
They will not let anybody in.

Speaker 12 (01:25:10):
There's a long line around the elementary and preschool Bergen
Metal right now with a white tent. It sounds like
they're not letting us go much closer. But it sounds
like parents have to respond at that tent and that
is where they're hoping to have the reunification process with
their kids. Apparently kids are coming from Evergreen High School
room by room. They're clearing out the school, according to reports,

(01:25:33):
and then that's when they're coming. All we know right
now three miners confirmed at the hospital. All three were
last listed in critical condition according to that press briefing.
Not confirmed if the shooter was one of them. There
are parents that are literally like running to try to
get there because right now it's just car to car,
bumper to bumper traffic, a lot of people parking across
the street like I did, to try to figure out

(01:25:54):
where to go because it is really difficult in a
challenging time right now of father and son holding hands
walking down the street right now. So there's a lot
of there's you know, it's it's technic. There's a lot
going on. But parents need to be patient because there's
a lot of people trying to get around the line.
There's a lot of people trying to run to get
to where they need to be. They need to understand
that they do need to come to burg Meadow Elementary

(01:26:16):
School and the reunification process will happen from there, all.

Speaker 2 (01:26:19):
Right, Gina, thank you. So much for the for keeping
us up to date.

Speaker 5 (01:26:22):
We will continue to check in with you and the
rest of our news team is on site with Connor
Shreeve as the day goes on. I appreciate your appreciate
you chatting with us, Gina, all right, thank you. Obviously
we're going to bringing you that news throughout the day.
I'm still not getting I mean, I guess the network
that that you know he was on would know, but

(01:26:43):
I'm still not seeing confirmation, confirmation from major news outlets
that Charlie has died. And like I said, after seeing
the video, I don't know how he would survive. The
question is what happens next, That's the question I have.

Speaker 2 (01:27:00):
I don't know. His wife and children were on the
campus with him. He is babies too, There's two of them.
He's babies. These are babies.

Speaker 5 (01:27:08):
Yeah, his dad just got shot for having an unpolitical,
unpopular political opinion.

Speaker 2 (01:27:13):
Yeah. I mean, good lord, people, I'm just fright.

Speaker 8 (01:27:16):
I mean, like even you know, and I'm not a
person who commonly agrees with with Charlie Kirk. I think
we're probably about seventy thirty opposite. I agree about a
third of what he has to say. But my goodness, like,
I can't even I'm in shock, and I shouldn't be.
I shouldn't be in shock at this. I shouldn't because
this is the natural inflection point of the rhetoric. We

(01:27:37):
keep ratcheting up at each other.

Speaker 5 (01:27:40):
I will say that I see people on the right,
and in all honesty, I have removed these people from
my circle when I see it, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:27:52):
I'm just I don't have any time for this.

Speaker 5 (01:27:54):
The people that are like, we need a civil war,
that's what we need, and I'm like, Okay, why don't
you talk to people in Syria about how fun civil
war is. Why do you talk about the reality of
what you're asking for, you fool. We don't want a
civil war. We need something that will bring us back together.

Speaker 2 (01:28:10):
You know, my husband has a.

Speaker 5 (01:28:11):
Theory after his time in the military that the only
time or the only thing that will truly bring the
United States of America back together is armed conflict on
our shores, not a nine to eleven style attack. Because
we saw that last for what ten minutes after nine
to eleven, we're like, ah, we're all together, Yay America.
And then that was like five minutes later, we're all
fractured again. But I got to tell you, I'm beginning

(01:28:32):
to think he's right.

Speaker 1 (01:28:34):
To me.

Speaker 8 (01:28:35):
Yeah, I mean it maybe dramatic examples shake people out
of apathy, but I like, we don't need a civil war.
We need civility. Yeah, you know, and that and that's
the problem. What in the world how And this is
the reason that we can't find common ground on anything
is because the rhetoric is so ratcheted up.

Speaker 2 (01:28:52):
And I'm seeing it from the right on X right now,
where they're like, you know, oh, it's fair game. Now
what do you got a run? Fox News is now
reporting Charlie Kirk has passed away Yang, you guys. Okay,
so I don't even know or with his family and
with his kids right now? I mean, what does he
have a thirty year old widow?

Speaker 4 (01:29:13):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:29:14):
Yeah, I mean, I.

Speaker 5 (01:29:15):
Mean, nobody expects to have two little kids and be
a thirty year old widow because your husband says unpopular things.
Somebody sent me a message and said, the National news
is not covering the shooting and Evergreen. You guys, we
now have two competing major stories here in Colorado. But
to the rest of the world, the Charlie Kirk story
is a bigger story. Don't read too much into that.

(01:29:36):
You know, there's not some grand conspiracy.

Speaker 2 (01:29:38):
To somehow not report shootings in Colorado, because it's just
there's a lot going on today, a lot going on
Foxy I did both reporting. Charlie Kirk has passed. Absolutely
this is just absolutely terrible. I don't even know what
to say. I really don't. Trump has posted on so

(01:30:00):
social media that he's passed as well, multiple reports. Yeah
thirty one say you saw the video, you had to know.
I mean, yeah, it wasn't that.

Speaker 5 (01:30:09):
He was shot because he has unpopular opinions. He has
an opinion. Some people may not like his opinion, but
it's horrific that anyone would be shot for their political opinion.
Exactly my point. Yes, I mean, we have to be
able to disagree with each other. We have to be
able to have conversations that might be difficult. We have
to be able to express opinions that might hurt someone

(01:30:30):
else's feelings without worrying about whether or not someone is
going to shoot us for it.

Speaker 2 (01:30:35):
Now, granted, I mean.

Speaker 5 (01:30:37):
We have no idea who shot Charlie Kirk, the guy
that was shown on social media as being dragged away,
not the shooter.

Speaker 8 (01:30:43):
Yeah, and that was I mean the shot comes from
about one hundred and fifty to two hundred yards out.

Speaker 2 (01:30:47):
Well, they said that's a skilled shot.

Speaker 8 (01:30:49):
Say, I was a very good shot in the army.
I'm not trying to brag or anything like that, but
I was a very good shot in the army. That
would have been a difficult shot for me. That's a
skilled shot. Somebody in the head from that from two
hundred yards.

Speaker 2 (01:31:00):
Shooting for center mass, they still did a damn good job, right,
that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 8 (01:31:03):
Even a center mash shot from two hundred yards is
a fairly difficult shot.

Speaker 2 (01:31:07):
That's just I you know, I don't know.

Speaker 8 (01:31:09):
And it didn't seem like the person who was sitting
in that video did not seem they did not appear
to be the type of person capable of making that
type of shot.

Speaker 6 (01:31:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:31:20):
Yeah, see now, this Texter, Next time I see a
leftists open their stupid mouth, I'm knocking them the blank out.

Speaker 2 (01:31:25):
Well, and that's not helpful. How about this guy who
keeps trying to blame me for this?

Speaker 8 (01:31:28):
Oh yes, it doesn't matter, no pot on the text
line trying to blame me for somebody else shooting.

Speaker 2 (01:31:34):
Completely on brand for that, Texter. My favorite thing is
not a liberal. I'm a libertarian. Completely on brand for that, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (01:31:41):
So when our school's going to have armed security, by
the way, I already secured Laura Carno for tomorrow. She
is one of the people who has been talking about
the Faster program here in Colorado that allows school districts
and teachers, administrators, anybody in the school who wants to
be trained at a very high level on how to
safely engage in a shooter situation like this with a firearm.

Speaker 2 (01:32:05):
She has been at the forefront of this.

Speaker 5 (01:32:07):
You guys, we can talk about gun control all you want,
but how do we protect kids today?

Speaker 2 (01:32:12):
How do we protect kids right now? That's all I
care about.

Speaker 5 (01:32:16):
What do we do to protect children at this moment
that is realistic that we can make happen today? And
you know what that answer is putting armed people at schools.

Speaker 2 (01:32:24):
There was a fascinating program.

Speaker 8 (01:32:26):
A lot of fathers, former veterans that were fathers, had
volunteered to just go stand outside.

Speaker 2 (01:32:32):
My husband did that at my daughter's charter school.

Speaker 5 (01:32:35):
They had a program where the dads just showed up
on a day off or whatever, and they just want
They just were on campus and it served two purposes.
One they engage with the kids to let an adults
here look out for you, right, just to make the
kids feel better, but also to keep their eyes open.
They were almost all former military, not all of them were.
Some of them were female that were moms out there too.

(01:32:57):
But there are people that can do it to a
US certain point, like they can volunteer sometime, but to
rely to have children's safety rely on volunteers.

Speaker 2 (01:33:06):
Is not acceptable. It's just not acceptable.

Speaker 5 (01:33:09):
And obviously what we're doing now in Colorado making it
freaking impossible to buy a firearm has not done a
damn thing. We haven't solved any issues. So let's have
a conversation tomorrow. Absolutely, Mandy, real talk to be vigilant
and alert. Now it seems like could happen to anyone,
so scary and sad. Yes, yes it does, it does, Mandy.

(01:33:35):
I wouldn't assume it's a leftist who shot Kirk. He
made plenty of enemies on the Q and on right
over Epstein.

Speaker 2 (01:33:41):
That is a fair point. That's a fair point. That's
why I just said, we don't know. We have no idea. Well,
I'm not gonna.

Speaker 8 (01:33:48):
I'm sure you saw what MSNBC had nonsense they were doing.
I'm not going to jump to any conclusions.

Speaker 2 (01:33:53):
But I'm certain to watch them. Don't watch them. Crack
Pottery was, oh my gosh, don't watch them today. Just
don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:34:02):
If you're watching a program and someone on that program
says someone I disagreed with deserve to die or deserve
what they got, or how are they surprised after what
they say, you are watching the wrong program. As a
matter of fact, I have retweeted on x a proposal
at elon Musk, Hey, elon Musk by MSNBC, just by SNBC.

Speaker 2 (01:34:27):
You know this texter said, it's funny.

Speaker 5 (01:34:30):
We know how to protect our courthouses, sporting events, and airports,
don't forget banks, but we don't know how to protect
our children.

Speaker 2 (01:34:36):
That's a fine point, as a very fair point for
those of us who just turned in.

Speaker 5 (01:34:41):
Can you clarify what happened because it sounds like there
was a school shooting or some.

Speaker 2 (01:34:45):
Other guy got shot.

Speaker 5 (01:34:46):
What happened, Well, both of those things happened today at
Evergreen High School. We know that three students have been
shot we don't know anything about the shooter. Although rumors
online or rumors that have been texted to me from
a parent said that the student it was a student
and they took their own lives, but we have not
had that confirmed yet, so we don't know. And then
Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, was at

(01:35:09):
one of his college events where he invites people who
disagree with him to calm down and have a conversation.
It's a respectful conversation where he makes his points, they
make their points. And someone shot him and killed him today,
thirty one years old. Two little kids. But I'm sure
all the people celebrating on X don't care about them
because he deserved it in their mind.

Speaker 8 (01:35:30):
I can't even begin to put myself in that mindset
that anyone would deserve to be shot for something that
they said.

Speaker 2 (01:35:36):
I can't I can't like how I can't. Well, Okay,
one we arrive at that one instance, I'm about to
shoot you would be a great thing to say right
before us evaluating.

Speaker 5 (01:35:48):
That's the only thing I can think of that someone
should be shot for saying.

Speaker 2 (01:35:51):
I'm just saying, okay, you know what I mean, Like
if someone's coming at me.

Speaker 8 (01:35:55):
Yeah, if it's a self, if they're pulling a gun
and saying I'm about to shoot it, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (01:35:58):
How much responsibility is to teachers union have for today's shooting?

Speaker 2 (01:36:01):
Zero? I want to be very clear.

Speaker 5 (01:36:05):
The people responsible for both of these shootings are the
people who pulled the trigger. We can talk about rhetoric,
we can talk about hatred, we can talk about all
of that stuff, but when you get right down to it,
the sole responsibility for these shootings lies on the shooters, period,
full stop. I understand how you know everyone's feeling. Trust me,

(01:36:29):
I get it one hundred percent. But I'm not going
to sit here and point fingers at a teacher's union
or even Democrat policies or whatever we're doing. Because the
people who pull the triggers are responsible, period, Mandy. They
should show the full video and its entirety on every
media outlet and force the left to confront their own
result of their rhetoric. No, you guys, the video almost
made me vomit. It almost made me throw up in

(01:36:50):
a garbage can on the studio.

Speaker 8 (01:36:51):
It was when I was talking about being down there
with Leland and Vie. We saw the video right then,
and there, and I gasped audibly. I was like, that
guy's dad, Now, no, that's what we said. You can
like that type of blood loss.

Speaker 5 (01:37:03):
Instant blood loss that did not stop after that video stopped. Yeah,
let's be real, Mandy.

Speaker 2 (01:37:09):
Imagine if Eli had.

Speaker 5 (01:37:10):
Not purchased Twitter. Imagine if Kamala Harris was president. I
don't think anybody would have gotten shot. As long as
you know, we'll see, we don't know who the shooters are.

Speaker 2 (01:37:19):
Keep that in mind.

Speaker 5 (01:37:19):
Okay, guys, I have never been happier to end a
show in my entire life than I am right now.
I'm going to go home and possibly cry, have a
giant Martini, and come back tomorrow, hopefully to talk about
students surviving Wronghow.

Speaker 2 (01:37:35):
Tomorrow morning. This is going to be yeah for rosm
oh yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:37:40):
I mean, pray for these kids, Pray for Charlie Kirk's family,
Pray for all those students who watch this happen live,
Pray for I mean, just get on your knees people.
We need it more than ever. CHAOI Sports coming up next,
but we will continue our coverage of the Evergreen situation
as the day goes on.

Speaker 2 (01:37:59):
Keep it on koa he