09-16-24 FULL SHOW - Another One Tries to Kill Trump, and the Real Kamala Shows Up

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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play producer roulette. So yeah, we're gonna take you right
up until three o'clock. And just in the interest of
full disclosure, your host. You know, you may love to
hate or just may love. I don't know. I am
a smitch bit grumpy today and I'll tell you why not. Okay, okay,
So the second shot at the president all that not

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about new This is like a personal grumpy and I'll explain.
So I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, last week
that I had torn my meniscus and I had torn
some cartilage in my knee under my knee cap, and
I was super excited. I was sure rech Out Revolution
was gonna be able to fix it. And then I
went and saw them and they're like, nope, it is

(01:19):
too bad for us to do with retaut with to medicine.
So now I have to go to the orthopedist. But
last week I was okay. I was kind of hobbling
along without a lot of pain. I don't know what
I did this weekend, but holy cow, does my knee hurt.
And that is making me grumpy. And I found out
even more than ever before. I am horrible at sitting

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around and doing nothing. Ah, it's awful, hate it. So
my knee hurts, and I realized that this is something
that's going to keep me off my feet for some time,
and that frustrates me. And chronic pain sucks, just sucks
the life out of you, you know. And so I

(02:01):
just wanted to let you know why I'm grumpy today.
But boy do we have a lot to talk about.
That being grumpy came in handy for Let me just
see that find the blog, which is not at all grumpy,
because I wasn't super grumpy because money felt a lot
better this morning than it does right now. So when
I was not grumpy, I did the blog and I
put it at mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com.

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You just have to look for the headline under the
latest posts that says nine sixteen twenty four blog. Another
one tries to kill Trump and the real Kamala shows up.
Click on that and here are the headlines you will
find within.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
I didn't it's missing office halpen ericon all with ships
and clipmas and saying that's going to press platt.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Terry on the blog. So did anything happen this weekend?
Scrolling scrolling Kamala did an interview? Scrolling ABC News admits
they were only going to fact check Trump. Aaron Lee
didn't set out to be a warrior on behalf of kids.
The trial about the Colorado GOP has been set a
reason Williams must go. The judge releases one of the

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paramedics sentenced in the Elijah McClain case. The blue Book
is lying about Amendment seventy nine. Scrolling a Colorado parent
evaluator is facing charges. The day the airport music died.
Bill Maher is done with never ending elections. Now I
have to go to Crested butte Oh, look another government
shutdown threat. Republican governor says enough with the Haitians eating

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cat stuff along my couple heads to off Broadway. The
Emmy Awards were last night. Remember when Wally is not
okay and people are outsourcing their own protection. Those are
the headlines on the blog on andy'sblog dot com. And
if you're having a bad day to day, you know
where you need to go to the blog because the video,

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the second to the last video on the blog, Wally
the Golden Retriever finds out that his parents are going
on vacation without him, and drama and so you've never
seen a sadder, more pathetic dog in the entire world
than Wally, who has to go stay with his grandparents.
Very upset. And that's the only thing that saved me

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from being grumpy the entire day. So let's do this. Uh, Mandy,
you probably have a floating piece of cartilage and that's
why it's coming and going levels of pain. Get it fixed.
The longer it chunk flops around, the more damnage it does.
Oh no, this will be fixed. This will be fixed asap.
Like I see, the orthopedis tomorrow afternoon after the show,

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and then hopefully we'll have something scheduled to take care
of this because this is not cool, and I don't
like to sit around and so this is not I'm
just getting old. Sucks. Coover, it sucks. How old are you?
You're like mid forties right fifty four? Oh no, you're
right behind me. I'm not saying the wheels fly off
at fifty five. But here we are, coover, here we are. Anyway,

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you can text us, by the way on that and
Spirit Health text line by texting five sixty six nine
zero and we will get your text message. Mandy, thanks
for ruining my entire weekend after watching the Kiffness video
on the blog nine thirteen in my brain on a
continuous loop, played over and over and even also saying
it out loud. They're eating the dogs, They're eating the cats.

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I fear I spread the condition to others as well.
Love the show, Scott scrolling Scott, Oh, good to see
you against Scott Hey that Kiffness thing. What I love
about the Kiffness video that was on Friday's blog is
how many of you sent it to me an email,
because you all know I love the kiftness. I do, absolutely.
I want to talk about something that happened. I don't

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know if you guys heard about it because it wasn't
that big a deal. No, Apparently, a Biden hairris supporter
set up with a rifle and a scope just off
one of the golf holes of one of Trump's golf
you know, is golf courses, and apparently, you know, I'm

(06:03):
guessing I'm just gonna I'm gonna go, I'm gonna spitball here.
I'm guessing that he was probably gonna take a shot
at Donald Trump, who's playing golf on that very course
that day, a last minute decision that not many people
knew about. So we'll get back to that later. In
any case, you wouldn't know it from the media coverage
that that someone a different person than the attempted assassin

(06:26):
from Pennsylvania, a different attempted assassin. You would think it
would be like we're in a third world country right now, Like,
of course, of course the opposition candidate got shot at.
I mean, come on, that's what we do in America,
right It happens all the time. That's the most upsetting
part of this for me is that there are people

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on the Internet that are honestly like brushing this off,
like it's no big deal that in the United States
of America presidential candidate from a major party has now
been shot at twice. Excuse me, shot at once, set
up to be shot at twice. Now, if Kamala Harris
and I do not want anyone to try and kill

(07:09):
Kamala Harris. I'm going to say that because there may
be some crazy person who will think what I'm saying
is some kind of coded message. No, there's no coded message.
I don't want anybody running for office to get shot at.
How about them apples? I think it's a bad idea
to shoot at the opposition. Terrible idea. But apparently in
our country now it's you know what, not that big

(07:32):
a deal. Nah, it's fine. The New York Times. This
is my favorite headline from this morning Live updates. Secret
Service faces scrutiny after a parent assassination attempt on Trump.
A parent is an interesting qualifier, isn't it. They found
the guy's rifle with a scope set up aimed at

(07:54):
the golf hole. There was just a few away from
where former President Donald Trump was playing golf. What did
they think he was doing? Shooting rabbits? You know, I mean,
what did they think was going to happen? And it's
just it's remarkable, absolutely remarkable. And I have the ridiculous,

(08:16):
absolutely ridiculous Lester Holt audio on the blog today where
I mean, you guys, you guys, hang on one second.
I guarantee you. I love it when Ryan works right
before me, he goes, hey, I left you some audio
right on your desktop. Let me have my computer there, Couver.
This is Lester Holt last night talking about the attempted

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assassination of Donald Trump. Well it started that way.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
Today's a parent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric
on the campaign trail itself. Mister Trump is running made JD.
Vans continue to make baseless claims about Haitian immigrants in Ohio.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Now, to be clear what we just heard, there was
this thing that used to be bad, and it was
called blaming the victim. That used to be the wrong
thing to do. I mean, Joni Foster actually made a
really really good movie about that entire concept being bad,
called The Accused. If you've never seen it, it's outstanding.

(09:19):
It takes on a sexual assault. You need to know
that going in. But it's been out for like thirty
years now, so you've had plenty of time. But now
apparently blaming the victim is perfectly fine, perfectly fine. There's
nothing wrong with looking at someone who has just you know,
survived yet again, someone trying to kill him, and you

(09:43):
look at him and say, you know what, pal, if
you hadn't been if you hadn't said those things, if
your skirt had just been longer.

Speaker 5 (09:53):
You know?

Speaker 2 (09:53):
Am I right? Sure? They hate him so much that
they can can't just take a beat, right, They can't
even divide the criticism into a new sentence. Now, they're
gonna have it all there altogether. Now, lest you think
for a second that they have sympathy for someone who

(10:15):
is so dangerous to people on the left who have
been told by people on the left that he is
literal hitler MSNBC. I mean, why wouldn't they think? And
this guy? What we know about this guy so far,
and I don't even it's a last name's Ruth. I
don't know anything else about him. But what I do

(10:35):
know is that he seems like a guy looking to
feel like he matters. He decided to put himself in
front of a bunch of media to get patriots to
come to Ukraine to fight in Ukraine, and it was
very successful in getting him in the public eye. So

(10:57):
this guy probably thinks he was doing in God's work
and God's work that would have him widely admired by
the people on the left. I mean, I'm just this
is little snippets that we know about this guy. But
doesn't it seem that way He's trying to drum up
people to go fight in Ukraine. He gets interviewed by

(11:18):
Newsweek and other outlets because of that, and maybe in
his twisted mind, he decides that the way to truly
become a hero is to take out the most existential
threat to the world ever, that Donald J. Trump. I mean,
this is not a crazy line of thinking. If we
already know we do know now he got there at
like two o'clock in the morning the night before. But

(11:41):
what I want to know, because I've seen reports that
the golfing was a last minute decision. How last minute?
I do know that they don't they don't release Donald
Trump's schedule like when he was president, they were released
a schedule. So there you go, there you go, Manny.
This is Stephen Firestone. I used to live in the

(12:02):
Palm Springs area back in the eighties, and you could
tell when the president was in town to where he
was by all the extra police undercover cars. So if
this guy was looking for the opportunity, it wouldn't be
hard to know he's at the golf course. Now, the
first attempt is a whole different story, except the guy
arrived there at the golf course at two am. That's
what I'm saying. I mean, unless he was just gonna

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lay there in the woods hoping, I mean, why not?
Why not? Mandy? Last night CNN kept stating Trump reported
he is okay in a fundraising email. Yeah, Mandy, Prince
Hip shot Archduke Ferdinand. The only thing to come from

(12:48):
that was the First World War. Yep, remember the bumper sticker.
Hate is not a family value. I guess it's okay
for families to hate Trump. Oh that's the other thing.
So they've talked to this guy's son, and his guy's
son lives in Hawaii and said, yeah, my dad hated Trump,
But what reasonable person doesn't I hate him too. Okay,

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then we're beginning to see a real shape up here.
He then went on to say he hadn't talked to
his dad, that they had drifted apart but then went
on to say his dad was a great dad. Okay,
do you have a great dad? Do you drift apart?
I mean it's you know, he golfs pretty much every day.
Prance's chances were pretty high. That's a reasonable assumption, Mandy.

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He drummed up other people, perhaps because they wouldn't let
him fight. Apparently he went to Ukraine at some point,
so I don't know. Yeah, if Butler Pa didn't happen,
Trump would probably be dead.

Speaker 5 (13:49):
Now.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
The CIA stepped up their game a bit and that
saved his life. CII think you mean the FBI or
the Secret Service anyway.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
So I just.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
I'm disappointed. I'm disappointed by people who are acting like
this is not an outrageous turn of events. I worry
about the United States of America. If this is not
an outrageous turn of events, why is this not wall
to wall coverage on every news station right now? Can

(14:23):
you imagine?

Speaker 1 (14:24):
Just?

Speaker 2 (14:25):
I mean it, And again, I'm not wanting anybody to
try and assassinate anyone, but imagine if Vice President Harris
had had two similar situations, one where she was struck
by a bullet in some manner, not serious, just grazed
and then at another event, someone is laying on the

(14:46):
ground waiting for her with a rifle. I mean, could
you imagine the difference in the conversation. It's a little
horrifying to me that this is not a big deal,
that this is just uh you know, I mean, he
ran his mouth off. He should have expected it, right, eh.

(15:09):
Can you really not see how the deterioration of the
political climate due to the insane rhetoric from Trump has
contributed to this. No assassination is acceptable, but are you
really that surprised that this is happening? We all got
to tone down. Let me just take that on for
one second. Because I lived through eight years of Obama,
when Republicans were called racists every day because we dared

(15:33):
to disagree with the policies of a black president. I
was called a xenophobe because I was concerned about the
southern border and didn't want immigration reform done until the
border was secure. I still feel that same way. I
was called an islamophobe when I said, you know what,
maybe we shouldn't be letting people into the country from
places that chant death to America on a regular basis.

(15:55):
I was called all kinds of names for eight years.
And then the reason Donald Trump got elected in twenty
sixteen was not because he started the rhetoric, but because
finally Republicans felt like they had somebody who was going
to fight back. You know, Mitt Romney. I still love
Mitt Romney. I voted for Mitt Romney in twenty twelve.
I voted for him in the primary, I voted for

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him in the general. I still think he's a good man.
And he got nothing. He did not get it done
and subjected us to four more years of Obama and
the name calling and telling us that we were horrible
people if we dared to disagree. And so then here
comes Donald Trump. He's the giant middle finger from the

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right to the left. He simply took the same tactics
and threw them back at the left, most of the
time better than they could do themselves. And so now
we're faced with people on the left side of the
aisle right now who have used these very same tactics
for years, who are now standing back and saying whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

(16:58):
When did this rhetoric gets so hated? And I'm not
here to let you forget that and let you off
the hook. I'd love to see the rhetoric tone down.
I'd love to see the complete cease of dehumanizing another
person because they disagree with you politically or you just
don't like them. I'd love to have spirited discussions on

(17:19):
policy issues. I'd love to have all of these things.
I'd love to be able to have a conversation about
politics where I am not dreading someone deciding that this
is you know, they're going to win at all costs
in the conversation. I'd love all of these things. But
I'm not going to let you sit back and say, oh,
you nasty Republicans, look what you elected, and you nasty

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Republicans are the reason we're here. Frankly, you guys started it,
and now when there's somebody bigger and mouthier and more
obnoxious that could potentially finish it, you don't like it
anymore and you want to change the rules once again.
I'm okay with changing the rules, but let's be clear

(18:05):
that you are no angels. There is no moral high ground,
you have no high horse. You beat it to death
between two thousand and eight and twenty sixteen. Sorry about
your luck. So there you go. Anyway, Mandy, in your
opinion from the text line, what do you think would
happen if they are successful in assassinating Donald Trump? Would

(18:26):
there be some kind of uprising?

Speaker 5 (18:28):
You know?

Speaker 2 (18:29):
Chuck asked me that the other day. He was like,
what happens if they actually aren't succeed Now, I honestly
don't know what would happen if Donald If anything happened
to Donald Trump and he was unable to continue, does
that mean JD Vance sort of gets elevated by default?

(18:50):
Now in terms of the election, I think if Donald
Trump gets assassinated, I think whoever the Republican Party puts
up wins in a landslide because the American people at
some point will make a statement that this is not okay,
and that statement has to be at the ballot box.
I think there's a lot of people out there that
are not even considering the real possibility that someone may succeed.

(19:18):
I mean this is two times, and by the way,
who was taking a shot at this guy? He's lying
on the ground in a prone position and they still
miss him. Like who's shooting? And what are you shooting with?
Like baby guns? What are you using? So many questions,
so so many questions. Yes, I said you started it?

(19:43):
Are you in fourth grade? Yes? In this issue, I
simply will not allow people on the left to change
the narrative to make themselves the hero in ratcheting back
the rhetoric in this country. You are as much a
part of the problem as people on the right who
do the same thing. So no, I'm not letting you
off the hook, and I have no problem with that.

Speaker 3 (20:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
Did you hear the New York congressman who said that
Trump missbe eliminated.

Speaker 6 (20:12):
No?

Speaker 2 (20:13):
I miss that one. Yeah, Mandy, I'm not sure why
you're not saying. Not enough coverage by the media this morning.
The Wall Street Journal has at least two articles on it. Yesterday,
the Broncos game was interrupted, as it should be announcing
the attempt. Seems to be everyone as it should be.
Is it really, though? Is it really? I ask you
to go to your cable news channels, you know, right

(20:36):
now and see what's wall to wall. CNN is doing
a story on it right now, because there's going to
be a briefing on it in just a few minutes.
But where's the outrage. Where are the people gobsmacked that
this can happen again? The mainstream media didn't waste a
second before turning around and talking about rhetoric to blame

(20:59):
Trump for having inspired someone to try and shoot at
him again, instead of saying, gee, what's wrong with our side?
The two wack of noodles in a row tried to
kill somebody. Huh. A man was positioned about I think
four hundred meters or four hundred yards is what I saw,
maybe less from a nice open shot at a putting

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green for one of the holes on Trump's golf course
where he was playing golf. He got there at two
am on Saturday night. According to phone records. He had
a rifle with a scope more than capable of making
that shot if he's any sort of shot. He had food,
He had ceramic plates that he had hung up, and
to the person who sent me that, I appreciate that.
On the text line, he had hung up ceramic plates

(21:46):
to kind of disguise him and protect him, which maybe
why when the law enforcement shot at him, he did
not get hit that we know of, and apparently was
apprehended about fifty miles north driving you know, normally no
big whoop, and the cops up there said they were
pretty sure he thought he got away.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
With it.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
Whatever it was, apparently one of the I don't know
if if it was Secret Service or if it was
local law enforcement saw the muzzle of the rifle sticking
out of the hedges. And here's a fun fact, guys.
You know how in movies the sniper always puts the
rifle outside the window. That's not how you do it.
You just put it even with whatever cover is there.

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But nonetheless, this guy didn't know that. Thankfully he was
fired upon he got away. Then he was arrested driving
up I ninety five from Florida back to I guess,
North Carolina, where he was supposed to be. The guy
is a I'm just gonna say from everything I do

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know that he tried to get people to go fight
over in Ukraine. He got some media coverage out of it.
He seems like a guy who needs a reason to
feel important to me, so he has a Biden Heros
sticker on the back of his car. He's an undebashed
Trump hater. His son hates Trump too. But as far
as what he was thinking, we don't know. Because it's

(23:13):
a very calculated plan. This isn't a spur of the moment.
I can't take it anymore. This guy has to go,
you know, crazed out reaction. This is a calculated plan.
So there you go. We'll figure it out. We will
figure that out. Anyway. I want to talk a little
bit about a few things.

Speaker 7 (23:36):
Now.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
I also have audio. Kamala Harris did an interview with
a local news media outlet.

Speaker 7 (23:44):
And it was.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
Very telling. Going to say that, it was a very
telling interview. We're going to get into that in the
next hour because it told a lot about Vice President
Harris and her ability to just regurgitate chalk talking points
even when not asked a single thing about those talking points.

(24:11):
It's very interesting and got a lot of play yesterday,
a lot of play yesterday. Let's just say I was
not dazzled or impressed. Now, I want to talk a
little bit about the Colorado GOP situation for a moment. Now,
I have spoken with the recognized Colorado chairman of the

(24:36):
Republican Party, and that's Eli Bremer. He was recognized by me.
I have recognized him as the rightful chairman of the
Colorado Republican Party. For good reason. The group that met
under the proper by laws and voted to remove David
Williams did so according to Republican Party by laws, and

(24:59):
he's out, and Eli Bremer was voted in. But of
course Dave Williams, who even though we can all tell
him he's dead, he still won't lie down. He is
now going to court to make the argument to a
judge that he is the rightful chairman of the Colorado GOP.
Now there's so much about this that is it's almost

(25:21):
like there's a sitcom about a political party trying to
lose on purpose. Right, That's how it feels, like, Hey,
let's do a sitcom, and there's a guy who decides
to become president or chairman of the Republican Party, so
they lose everything. Like his whole strategy is he's going
to help him lose everything. It would be funny if

(25:42):
it wasn't so serious. And I don't just mean serious
for Republicans. I strongly, strongly believe that Colorado must have
a functioning Republican Party if they are going to keep
from spiraling into the next California fascinating article over the weekend.
And I forgot about it until right now. I would

(26:03):
have grabbed it. And they were talking about high earning millennials.
So these are mostly your elder millennials. They are almost
all in financial services or the tech industry. They are not,
you know, working nine to five jobs and punch and
a clock. These are very high earning millennials. And they
looked at states that high earning millennials were leaving, and

(26:28):
they were leaving in California, they were leaving New York,
they were leaving Massachusetts, they were leaving New Jersey. And
guess where they were coming. They're coming here. We're getting
a lot of high earning millennials, which is fantastic, but
how long before we become what they're all running away from?
And we need a functioning Republican party for that in Colorado.

(26:50):
And I'm not Look, guys, I'm a realist. I think
this state has changed for the foreseeable future and I
mean a generation, and that we're going to be democratic
controlled for a while. And I'd love to have a
party that can make the case for smaller government and
more freedom and things like that, and currently we don't

(27:11):
really have that. So a trial will set October fourteenth,
and they will sort out over a couple of days
who is in charge of the Colorado GOP. Now, what's
going to be interesting about this is that Dave Williams
was able to get an injunction against the first meeting
that was called to oust him because he lied to

(27:33):
the judge about the bylaws of the Republican Party, and
when the judge heard the actual bylaws, he lifted the injunction.
So what exactly how I'm curious to know what has
changed in that argument, Very very curious to see. And
over the last few weeks, I'm about the opportunity to

(27:55):
talk to a lot of people like me, very disaffected Republicans.
Some have either left the party or they're thinking of
leaving the party because they're so frustrated because it's such
a clown show and they just are embarrassed to be
associated with it. And I'm coming away from it saying, look,
somebody has got to stick around and be the next
round of leaders, right, somebody's got to stick around and

(28:18):
work to fix the party. Because even if David Williams
is dethroned, if no normal people show up to the meetings,
then the same people are gonna take it over again,
and we're gonna be right back here again. So I
guess I'm talking to myself as much as I'm talking
to everybody else. This person said, you cannot afford to

(28:42):
live here off one income any longer. Truly sad. I now,
right now that I just read that text message, there
are people picking up their phones right now to say
my family lives off one income in this state, because
I get those text messages all the time. People living
on entry level job level salaries could not. But you know,

(29:07):
if you make it, if you make one hundred grand
a year, there are families living here on one income
for one hundred grand a year. They just live in
a manner that allows one of those parents to stay
home with their kids, so I know that to be true.
Thanks for the assassination shooting tips. Mandy got it even
with the window. However, I like a more personal approach.

(29:30):
Do you have any tips for someone who likes to
use a piano wire? No, that's a little sopranos for
my taste. Thanks, though, you know you got that going
for you, Mandy. What freedoms don't we have now? How
about the freedom to find out if our child decides
to change gender in the classroom? How about that? How

(29:52):
about the freedom to decide when our children start learning
about sexuality and gender identity in our school system. How
about that? About the freedom to do that? Let's you know,
how about the freedom to decide how my extra tax
dollars are going to be spent. That was the intent
of Taper, which has been undermined over and over and

(30:12):
over again since the Democrats took control of the legislature
in twenty nineteen. So now they've decided to give our
money to someone else without asking us and without our permission.
How about that freedom? Just just right off the top
of my head, you can text us at five sixty
six ' nine. Oh, what time is the broadcast to

(30:32):
Night of the Sporty Pickle with Big Alan Ryan. Well,
I'll tell you that. How about three o'clock right after
this program the old Sporty Pickle out there by the
training center, Roncos Training Center, This one, Mandy. A few notes.
A four hundred yard shot cannot be made by a
large number of people in the army. The longest most
soldiers have to shoot us three hundred meters. Second. Combat

(30:54):
siders will take the shot from inside the room or
back from the opening. Not rest the muzzle on the
edge of the window. I didn't mean to rest it
on the edge of the window make it flush well,
I guess that's right. It would be less than flush. Third.
The AK forty seven is considered less accurate than the
AR fifteen. I'm glad you brought this all up because
I don't think there's a chance in hell this guy
makes the shot, right. I just don't. I mean, knowing

(31:18):
what we know about him now, he's not some trained commando.
He's a dude who wants to feel like he's making
a difference. He's been on the earth and hasn't done
anything important enough, so in his mind, this is all
my dime store psychology. By the way, in his mind
he has to do something to be important. He started
with his Ukraine non says he's going to go fight

(31:38):
in the war in Ukraine, okay, And now he's decided
what he's going to kill the President. Doesn't mean he's
capable of doing it with that gun or any gun,
but I think his delusions of grandeur are strong enough
that it made him think, yeah, I probably can. There's
no indication so far that he was an active gun owner,

(32:01):
or you know, that he was someone who was out shooting.
We do know that the kid who tried the first
assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, had actually been out practicing
with his weapon and was a skilled shooter. Maybe not,
you know, four hundred yards, but there's I don't think
this guy would have maybe would have accidentally killed somebody else.

(32:23):
I don't know, but we have no idea. So it's
just one of those interesting things. By the way, the
point that I was trying to make earlier about when
did we become a country where this is like, eh,
no big deal. Let me share a letter to the
editor at the Cincinnati Inquirer. This is from a bright

(32:46):
bright ray of sunshine named Felicia Duncan from Sharonville, Ohio.
She says there's no place in politics for violence. That said,
the former president Donald Trump brings a lot of this
stuff on himself when he continues to push lies about
legal immigrants like the ones in Springfield, Ohio. When he

(33:09):
continues to insist he was not the loser of the
twenty twenty election, When he continues to spout how he
wants to use our military to round up and deport
immigrants who are not white from this country, he brings
the crazies out, and one of those crazies tries to
shoot him. One thing Trump can do to reduce the
chance that one of these crazies will attempt to assassinate

(33:31):
him is to stop charging the American people thousands of
dollars per night for his Secret Service protectors to stay
at his Trump owned properties, as reported by NPR and
other news outlets. I'm sure each agent has their own
room too. Those excess moneies can then be used, but
more Secret Service agents on his protection detail. Otherwise, why

(33:53):
should the American people continue to put out extra millions
for protection that is only needed because the four president
can't keep from lying and bringing those issues on himself.
Well done, Felicia, Thanks for making my point better than
I ever could have. If you think it's okay for

(34:15):
a sitting president, or excuse me, former president of the
United States who is now running for reelection, to be
the victim of not one, but two failed assassination attempts,
If you think that's okay, then we've lost the country.
We truly have. Truly so Trump's life was never in danger.

(34:41):
Try to move on. We can take a page from
Trump's book again. Thank you for making my point. Anyway,
there you go, I'm gonna move on. Because next hour.
As a matter of fact, coming up net next, I'm
going to talk to Aaron Lee. She's been on the

(35:02):
show before. She was just a mom minded her own
beeswax when she started to hear some really concerning things
about what kids were being taught in schools. So she
has since become a mom warrior working to protect kids,
and she is part of the incredible lineup at the
Stop the War on Children rally happening on October fifth

(35:22):
at ten am on the west steps of the Capitol.
You already heard from Lady Maga, who will also be there.
He was just outstanding. Aaron will join us next to
talk about all of that stuff right after this.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
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The Icy Three by Connell keeping sad thing. Welcome, Welcome,
Welcome to the second hour of the show. I'm your host,
Mandy Connell, joined by Michael Cooper in for Anthony Rodriguez.
And if you heard the show last week, you may
have heard a wonderful speaker who goes by the moniker

(36:15):
of Lady Maga when he is dressed in drag. He
is going to be in town for a stop the
War on Children rally that is happening Saturday, October fifth
at ten am. And there is a stellar lineup of
people speaking, and I mean stellar. One of them is
Aaron Lee, who was just a mom minding her own beeswax, like,

(36:38):
not trying to cause a problem, just you know, going
about life. And things started to She started to find
out things about stuff that was being kept from parents
by the school district and sort of the infiltration of
gender ideology to our kids. And it made aaronle a
warrior for kids. And Aaron joins me now to talk

(37:00):
about you know, Erin. I feel like saying, what are
you doing now, Erin? Because there's always something new, isn't there?

Speaker 8 (37:10):
Yeah, thanks for having me, Mandy.

Speaker 7 (37:12):
I'm down a rabbit hole that has no end with
what's going on in the public school district. I mean,
for me, it started with a personal story. I was
minding my own business like most parents, and they came
from my little girl, my twelve year old daughter in
a secret gender and sex club that they told her
was an art club, or they brought in outside predators
from our community who still harass my daughter today three

(37:35):
years later, and taught her things like if you're not
comfortable in your body, that means you're trands and if
you don't know who you're sexually attracted to, that means
you're queer.

Speaker 8 (37:43):
They taught her about Polly Amrie, how to.

Speaker 7 (37:45):
Access puberty blockers, and reiterated over and over that parents
aren't safe and we're one of the lucky families that
found out this was happening and was able to help
our daughter through the confusion, although it took about a
year to heal her from what they had done to her.
But that woke me up and as I started to
pay attention, Like I said, it's a rabbit hole that

(38:06):
has no end. I mean, they are very bad things
happening in our public schools. And so now I'm founding
the alarm and fighting back with law fair and you know,
by exposing other family stories who've been through what we have,
because it's a very pervasive issue.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
It's it's shocking to me when I hear stories like
the one of your daughter. I am still shocked because
I know so many public school teachers and I know
that for the ones that I know and the ones
that I've interacted with throughout my daughter's career. These are
people who went into teaching because they love kids, they
like being if, they like helping children, and things of

(38:44):
that nature. And to see the speed with which some
of those people with a helping heart have just turned
to inserting themselves in between students and parents is alarming
to me. And I'm not sure how you put that
back in the bottle.

Speaker 7 (39:03):
A lesser known fact about me, my undergrad is elementary education,
and I spent two years as a teacher. And when
this incident happened with my daughter, I should also mention
I was a liberal voter. I was a moderate, but
I voted for Polis, I voted for Biden. And then
this thing happened, and it became personal, and I started
to really dig into this ideology, and I firmly believe
that we've pandered to human kindness.

Speaker 8 (39:25):
That yes, most teachers are good people.

Speaker 7 (39:27):
But just as I was taught at university, that this
is the right kind thing to do, that if a
child tells you their identity, you embrace it.

Speaker 8 (39:36):
If they ask you to keep it a secret, you
keep secrets.

Speaker 7 (39:39):
This is what our teachers are being taught when they're
going to school to become teachers, and most of them
are not bad people. They're good people stuck in a very,
very broken system from the top down.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
So does that have to I'm glad you brought up
the colleges, the education colleges. They tend to be the
most liberal slash progressive in any university setting. You're going
to have a disproportionate number of women, and you will
have a very politically active sort of person that is
now going through the schools of education. Is that where

(40:10):
we need to start? And how do you even address that?

Speaker 7 (40:15):
Well, you know, as I dug in, we didn't get
here overnight. Our education system has been infiltrated for decades.
And yeah, we need to look at the university system.
I'm a huge advocate for not putting your kids in
traditional government schools. I mean, clearly, my rights were violated,
my child was harmed, and then I was vilified for speaking.

Speaker 2 (40:34):
Up about it.

Speaker 7 (40:35):
And like I said, as I dug in, I realized
it's a very broken system. I mean, I tell parents,
start with the fact that sixty percent of Colorado kids
cannot read or do math. Yep at grade level, and
we wonder why because we're focusing on mental health and
social emotional learning and comprehensive sex ed and all these
other areas that aren't helping them be successful academically. So

(40:56):
that should have been my first red flag as a parent,
that most are not even meeting grade level for basic studies.

Speaker 8 (41:04):
It's an issue.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
I might have a fifteen year old daughter and she's
in a public high school and she loves it and
she's doing really well there, but all of her friends
sent around, they sit around when they talk, they sit
around and diagnose everybody else's mental disorders, like we have
focused on mental health, where they think any bump in
the road is a diagnosis. You know what I'm saying, like,

(41:28):
Oh you're sad, that's a diagnosis. Oh you're angry, that's
a diagnosis. Oh that person is a jerk, there's a diagnosis.
And I'm thinking, what if we've done to these kids.
Arin We weren't thinking about that stuff when we were kids,
and now it's all these kids are talking about.

Speaker 8 (41:42):
It's crazy, and it's not just at the individual school level.

Speaker 7 (41:47):
So last year I fought against a bill ten oh
three that is now law that mandates mental health screenings
for all six through twelfth graders. The results go to
the school, not the parents, and if a child is
deemed high risk, they get sent to the state's mental
health counseling program I matter where all of the counselors
are LGBTQ affirming and sex work positive, as I found

(42:09):
out when I took the assessment myself and was deemed
high risk, which tells me everyone's deemed high risks.

Speaker 8 (42:14):
So we're these directives.

Speaker 7 (42:16):
Are being pushed down from the state level that's now
mandatory in all schools. And I don't know if you've
looked at the first grade curriculum that's now part of
the new Social studies standtuff, but we're teaching first.

Speaker 8 (42:26):
Graders about Harvey Milk and sex work.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
Now, well, what's interesting and when the sex work thing
is the one that got me in the first grade standards, right,
Because anybody that's ever had a first grader in their
life knows that when you say something like and they
know that trans because the portion of the first grade
social studies curriculum that we're talking about says that the

(42:49):
two men who were they were just drag queens. They
were not trans people. They were just drag queens. They
also ran a boy's sex out of their apartment because
they would find these confused gay kids on the street
and then they would exploit them. And in this first
grade social Studies unit, it says that they would take

(43:12):
these boys in because trans kids often turned to sex work. Now,
if you've ever had a six year old, you know
what's going to happen. Next. Question number one, what's a
trans kid? Question number two? What sex work? How do
you explain that to a six year old in an
age appropriate manner?

Speaker 4 (43:27):
How do you do that?

Speaker 8 (43:29):
My daughter in first grade wanted to be a unicorn.

Speaker 7 (43:32):
I mean, kids clearly at that age are not capable
of comprehending these concepts. And I'm a firm believer it's
not really the public school's business to be teaching any
child about sex work at any age, but it's.

Speaker 8 (43:44):
Certainly not appropriate for six and seven year olds.

Speaker 7 (43:47):
And you know, parents like me showed up at the
State Board of Ed and we tried to push these
standards up to fourth grade, where it seems more appropriate,
But the State Board of Ed voted to start them
in first grade, which is six and seven years old.

Speaker 8 (44:00):
And this is in his history in Civics class.

Speaker 7 (44:02):
Now, for example, there's a lesson about Jared Polis being
the first openly gay governor. Why wouldn't we talk about
Jared Poulis's accomplishments And it's okay to talk about his accomplishments,
but it's not appropriate to talk about his sexual orientation
with six year olds, their brains are just not fully
developed in a way that can comprehend these subjects the
way they're being presented. So now as a state mandate,

(44:23):
it's not optional.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (44:24):
Either.

Speaker 2 (44:25):
Aaron Lee is going to be part of the incredible
speakers lineup at the Stop the War on Children rally
put together by Gays against Groomers and so many other
organizations are now doing these all over the country, and
the speakers include Aaron She's going to speak, Janette Cooper
is going to share her thoughts on gender affirming care

(44:46):
and the industry behind it. Jennifer Say, who was also
on this show, is going to be speaking there along
with many other including Lady Maga, who we interviewed last week,
and he is dynamite. He is just so so so good.
It's all happening at ten am. What do you guys.
Hope you're participating, Aaron, what is your hope for this rally?

Speaker 8 (45:07):
Yeah, my hope is that it continues to bring people together.

Speaker 7 (45:10):
I so appreciate you platforming Gazic instagrumers. They are such
an amazing organization who has demonstrated real DEI right where
it doesn't matter what side of the political spectrum, or
your sexual orientation or your religion, we all agree that
a men aren't women, and that parents shouldn't be lied
to and children shouldn't be mutilated in the name of

(45:30):
gender ideology.

Speaker 8 (45:32):
These are not radical concepts.

Speaker 7 (45:34):
And what's so great about gag and about my organization
Protect Kids Colorado that I co founded, is that we
want to bring people together from all different areas and
backgrounds on these very common sense issues. So my hope
is that people from all sides of the spectrum will
come out to this event and see that you know,
we're all very different, but we are unified on these issues.

Speaker 2 (45:57):
Aaron Lee, I appreciate your time today. I appreciate you
just continuing to relentlessly do what you do because I
do think that more parents are starting to be aware
and are awake, but they still need a little more
courage in some respects. So your organization, this rally gaze
against groomers, I hope continues to give people the courage

(46:19):
to stand up and say these things are not real
and we cannot allow men in girls' bathrooms and boys
in girls sports and all of the craziness that is
supposed to be normalized in our society now. And I
just don't get it.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
Aaron.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
I appreciate your time today.

Speaker 8 (46:35):
Thanks Banby.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
All Right, that is Aaron Lee. Let's see no see
you guys. Somebody just asked does she feel guilty for
voting for all of this? And talking about the fact
that Aaron said, look, I used to be a democrat.
I don't know if she still is. But when someone
is coming to you and saying, I have had a

(46:56):
major revelation, a major revelation, and it's a revelation so
powerful that it has had me uproot my entire life
that I had going perfectly fine in ignorance. Ignorance is bliss,
perfectly fine, nothing to see here, And it uprooted that
entire life so dramatically that I had to take action,
and I'm continuing to take action to fight against these

(47:18):
very things Don't be like, oh yeah, so are you
started in the first place. Don't be that tool. I mean,
why why would you do that? Why when someone is
talking about a revelation, don't poo poo in there, you know,
don't poop in the punch bowl. My goodness, Wait, my
son is in first grade? Is it happening everywhere? This

(47:40):
is the approved social studies curriculum for first grade in Colorado.
I would advise parent of a first grader to go
talk to your son's teacher, remembering that teachers had nothing
to do with the adoption of these standards, and find
out when these standards will be taught. By the way,
as a parent, the Democrats in Colorado decide you cannot

(48:00):
opt out of any of this, no matter if you
think it's too graphic for your six year old to
learn about sex work. Come on, it's time for them
to grow up. Your six year old has been a
child long enough. They need to learn about hookers and
selling their bodies for money. Maybe they can get it
my OnlyFans page, OnlyFans kids. Ew, that's just gross that

(48:22):
I even said that. Ah ah, what's wrong with me?
Told Joe I was cranky today? Anyway, somebody just said
this text. Our former heterosexual Governor John Hickenlooper is now
a US Senator. Heterosexual Governor Bill Owens supported Taber exactly exactly, Mandy,

(48:45):
to some of this, none of this was a surprise
at all. In fact, a lot of us warned and
could see that this is the direction things were heading
when people like her voted in, people like Governor Polus. Again,
when you've got somebody who's actually working on your ostensible side,
best not to give them crap for what they did before. Okay,

(49:08):
let's rein that in what's wrong with you people? I
know you want to be an ally now, but pooh
on you, pooh who are you? David Williams texting the
show Andy. As a former Democrat myself, I don't feel
guilty for voting that in. I feel lied to and manipulated.
That's an excellent point. Excellent point. We've got a lot

(49:34):
of stuff on the blog today that I want to
get to that isn't necessarily directly political. Although this story,
I gotta tell you, I continue to feel a great
deal of sadness and sympathy for the family of Elijah MacLean.
He's the young man who was walking down the street

(49:56):
when someone called in the call of a suspicious person
because he was where ring a ski mask, even though
he had already gone to the corner store where he
often went and everybody seemed to know him, and he
bought himself a you who in some candy or whatever.
Was walking back to his house when Aurora police encountered him,
and in my opinion, after watching all of the body

(50:16):
camera footage that was released, they needlessly escalated the situation.
That is where I think the blame initially belongs. But
you cannot say we're going to convict the people of
murder or manslaughter because they escalated the situation. You can't
do that. The entire set of circumstances leading up to

(50:37):
his death was horrible and tragic, avoidable, but I don't
think it was any There was no malice. It wasn't
like these police officers and paramedics went out that night
and said, yeah, we're going to kill us a kid.
I don't think that happened at all. And one of
the paramedics that was convicted of criminally negligent homicide and

(50:58):
assault by drugging in that death has now been released
from prison. He was sentenced in March to five years
in prison. That was the mandatory minimum prison time required
under Colorado law for the assault conviction. But and I
don't know how to say his last name. I've never
said it right. I think it's Chetuniak. Peter Chetuniac's lawyer

(51:22):
asked the judge to reduce the length of the sentence
on the grounds that his case involves unusual and exceptional circumstances.
State law allowed the judge to reduce the mandatory minimum
after he had spent at least one hundred and nineteen
days in prison, and after the Colorado Departments of Corrections
assessed his risk level and reported back to the judge,

(51:43):
which both happened. So he has now had a sentence
modified and he is out of prison. And I don't
think this is the wrong thing for the judge to do.
To be clear, I think this was a series of
true magic, awful mistakes, bad training. Lots of stuff went

(52:05):
wrong here and someone died because of it. But I
also don't think that this paramedic maliciously intended to kill
anyone when he went to work that day. I've never
met a paramedic, and maybe there are some out there,
they could be crazy, but there could be people out
there who would become a paramedic, so they could kill people,
but you got to think they wouldn't last that long. Hey,

(52:27):
what's up with mom. Bob's never saved anyone. So this
is a fair outcome, I think, but it has to
be gut wrenching and horrible for the McClain family. This
has been going on and on and on and on
and on since twenty nineteen. And I know I already

(52:49):
know you guys. I know myself if something happened to
my daughter, I would be looking for someone to blame.
I would be looking for some sense of justice. I
would be looking for someone to suffer. So I understand it.
But this is just just an awful situation all the
way around. So that is on the blog, by the way.
I'm going to get through as much as I can
of the blog. We are going to take the press

(53:10):
conference about the latest assassination attempt on Donald Trump, as
we talked about in the first hour. That is coming
up at two ish at some point. And Grant, who
has now taken over for Michael Coover, is going to
keep monitoring ABC Radio and we will join them when
they do that press conference so you can hear that

(53:31):
as well. So I'm going to go on to another
case which is not worthy of a long conversation, but
holy cow, if you have had anything child custody in
the state of Colorado and you had any dealings with
Shannon McShane as a parental evaluator, you need to pay

(53:51):
attention to this story because she has now been charged
for eight counts of attempting to influence a public servant,
five counts of forgery, and one count of perjury, and
one count of retaliating against a victim or witness related
directly to her work as a parental evaluator for the
state of Colorado. Apparently she fought, she lied about having

(54:16):
a doctorate in psychology, and she should have never been
given a license to practice psychology in Colorado. What's even
worse is that there are judges in Colorado who refused
refused to let her give testa she she would not allow.

(54:37):
Magistrate Matthew Bailey Bradley, excuse me. Matthew Bradley, he presided
over court cases in six counties in northeast Colorado. He's
the one that asked for a criminal investigation and barred
her from conducting custody evaluations in his district because he
found her custody custody evaluation in one case so biased

(54:58):
and deficient that he did deemed her unfit to do
such work. So, you know, I just it's these people
have so much power, so much power. I think of this,
I think of the Robin Asita case where she filed

(55:18):
a false report against Danielle Durinsky. They wield incredible power
and they must be held to the highest standards. Mandy
McLean's family didn't teach him how to act with police either.
Elijah McLain apparently was on the developmental spectrum and he
had some developmental issues that may have led to his reaction.

(55:40):
But if you watch the bodycam video, trust me on this,
he was not dude, was not a threat. I mean,
didn't even just watch it and you'll see what I mean.
Terrible series of mistakes, absolutely terrible, Mandy, how could you
not say it was done with malice? If that kid
had been any other color, looking any other way, they

(56:01):
would not have put their hands on them in a
matter of seconds. They would not have done with a
what they would not have done with I don't those
paramedics should be rotting in prison right now, and you're wrong.
I love your show, I love hearing your opinion, but
on this you're absolutely hundred percent wrong. The problem is
is that none of these officers or paramedics had any
kind of history they would indicate that kind of rot

(56:22):
in their soul. And what you're doing is projecting feelings
and emotions into the paramedics that there was no evidence
that they held. I just think that the police escalated
way too soon, and maybe it was because the kid
was black, but there was black police officers on the scene,

(56:44):
so you know, you can assume that you can decide that.
But I've never been really good at looking into another
person's soul. I mean sometimes I struggled to do it
to myself. So you assigned a lot of feelings and
emotion and hatred there that they did not have the
proof for. Or if they did have the proof, then
this would be a much different situation and that guy
wouldn't be out of jail right now. So anyway, when

(57:08):
we get back the day the airport music died, Grant
coming up next, what's the jingle on the train? I
could have done it before I tried to do it
just now. I could hear it in my head. Yes, no,
I can hear it in my head. It is very
catchy and it was written by a man who has

(57:30):
now passed away. Jim Green wrote the jingle, and it's
kind of sad, you know, But now we can all
think of Jim every time we get on the train
at the airport and think, well done, Jim, well done.
It would be way better if they had spent some
money figuring out away for us to walk from terminal

(57:52):
to all the concourses. But whatever, good jingle is important,
and Jim was the man who made this one. He
was a I'm by time because I forgot to log
into the account. Sorry about that. My Denver is that
account that I pay for with my own money because
I think it's worth it. He was a jingle creator.

(58:13):
DA made the announcement of Green's passing via it's Instagram account,
saying Jim was a truly creative mind who added fun
and playfulness to den Does anybody call it den or
do we still all call it Dia? I mean, well,
I realized the city code is den d N. That
is the airport code for the Denver International Airport. And

(58:34):
I know that was one of the things that Mayor
Michael Hancock really tried to rebrand. But when I talk
to people, not a single person, says Den. They all go, yeah,
I gotta go out to DIA or I'm taking the
train to da or whatever they're doing it DIA. We're
never gonna let dead Indian Airport go never. So the
airport went on to say that Green initially created the

(58:57):
train Call in his home studio a variety of instruments,
early synthesizers, and even grant household objects. Yeah. The piece
was constructed from the traditional folks songs such as She'll
be Coming round the Mountain, with various chimes functioning as
melodic preludes to voice messages over the years, a rotating cat,

(59:17):
oh yeah, there we go, Oh there it.

Speaker 1 (59:19):
Is, Yeah, please keep clear hold on for departure to terminal. That.

Speaker 2 (59:25):
Of course, Alan Roach. One of the funniest things I've
ever heard Alan Roach say was when he told the
story of being on the train and someone blocked the doors,
and someone is blocking the doors and he looks over
at him and goes, they're talking to you about your show. Yeah,
So it was really really funny. So now we know

(59:46):
that the train call will live on, even as mister
Green has not lived on. Now I want to play
something for you guys. Let me have my audio on
my computer because I want to O do duh. I
opened this and now I can't find where I opened it.
Kamala Harris sat down with an interviewer, a local interviewer, local, uh,

(01:00:12):
you know, like an affiliate, and the dude asked some
decent questions like hey, you know what, how how let's
talk about your policies? Well you can. You can listen
and watch the whole eleven minute interview. I put it
on the blog today. I would love for you to
go watch it. It proves what a stunning lightweight Kamala

(01:00:33):
Harris is. But I want you to listen to this
clip from Fox News where they went and played back
to back clips of the debate and Kamala's first interview,
and just listen. Now you have to listen hard. You
have to really put your thinking ears on and listen hard,
because it's going to be really tough, really really tough

(01:00:56):
to understand why these two things are connected. But here
soundbites from Kamala at the first debate and Kamala in
her first real interview since the debate. It was kind
of remarkable how the answers were so similar, and I
want folks to just take a listener. I grew up
a middle class kid.

Speaker 9 (01:01:14):
I was raised as a middle class kid, focusing on
again the aspirations and the dreams. I believe in the ambition,
the aspirations, the dreams of the American people.

Speaker 2 (01:01:26):
I was a career prosecutor for most of my career.

Speaker 9 (01:01:29):
I started my career as a prosecutor in creating an
opportunity economy where it's about investing in areas that really
need a lot of work. I intend to create an
opportunity economy.

Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
Well, I'm obviously not Joe Biden. Clearly i am not
Joe Biden.

Speaker 9 (01:01:48):
That the vast majority of US as Americans have so
much more in common and what separates us.

Speaker 8 (01:01:52):
We all have so much more in common than what
separates us.

Speaker 2 (01:01:56):
I mean, you guys, that's yeah, that's I think. The
word I'm looking for is bad. It is a parent
that the Kamalabat two point zero has been programmed with responses.
Someone says, what are your policies? She responds with I
grew up a middle class kid. I grew up in

(01:02:19):
a neighborhood with parents who cared about their all that
blah blah blah, the whole regurgitation. And by the way,
let me go play the other just the beginning of
the actual interview to give you an idea of how
poorly she could answer the question asked by this reporter
in a very nice way.

Speaker 10 (01:02:36):
Just listen to this could decide the outcome of this
presidential election. You hear it more than I do. People
want to know more about you and about your specific plans.
Had the debate the other night, you talked about creating
an opportunity economy. What if you can drill down on
that a little bit when we talk about bringing down
prices and making life more affordable for people, one or

(01:02:58):
two specific things you have.

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
In life for that. Now, here's an opportunity for her
to talk about inflation reduction or whatever. He specifically asked,
how are you going to bring prices down? How are
you going to make it better for people in their
own personal economy? And this is what she said. Well,
I'll start with this.

Speaker 8 (01:03:15):
I grew up a middle class kid. My mother raised
my sister and me.

Speaker 2 (01:03:19):
She worked very hard.

Speaker 9 (01:03:21):
She was able to finally save up enough money to
buy our first house when I.

Speaker 2 (01:03:26):
Was a teenager.

Speaker 9 (01:03:28):
I grew up in a community of hardworking people, you know,
construction workers and nurses and teachers.

Speaker 8 (01:03:34):
And I try to explain to some people who may
not have had the same experience.

Speaker 10 (01:03:38):
You know, a lot of people will relate to this.

Speaker 8 (01:03:42):
You know, I grew up in a neighborhood of folks
who are.

Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
Now Still we're thirty seconds in. She has not said
word one about how to bring down inflation to make
things more affordable. But I'll let her continue because surely
it's coming right around the corner. Very proud of.

Speaker 8 (01:03:54):
Their lawn yam and.

Speaker 9 (01:04:00):
I was raised to believe and to know that all
people deserve dignity, and that.

Speaker 2 (01:04:10):
We as Americans have a beautiful character.

Speaker 9 (01:04:13):
You know, we have ambitions and aspirations and trains, but
not everyone necessarily has access to the resources that can help.

Speaker 8 (01:04:23):
Them feel those dreams and ambitions.

Speaker 9 (01:04:26):
So when I talk about building an opportunity economy, it
is still.

Speaker 2 (01:04:31):
Has she answered the question about how you're going to
bring prices down. I dozed off there for a second
because it was so repetitive from everything we've already heard
from her. This apparently threw the Komal about two point
zero into a tizzy. She had no idea what to
do next. Just this person is not ready for prime

(01:04:53):
time at all. And I fear that she is going
to be the next president of the United States. And
I'm being genuine. Trump is squandering so much goodwill he
squandered all over the debate. You saw him squander. That
was like a real live squandering, opportunity after opportunity after

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opportunity squandered because of his ego and this person. By
the way, I'm not going to play the rest. You
can watch it. It's all. It's ten minutes and forty
four seconds, because that's I guess all she can A
Kamala bought two point zero has to be rebooted after
ten minutes because then she's like, I cannot. I'm not
programmed to answer questions like that. Anyway, It's all on

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the blog today. Check it out. Yep. When we get back,
can we have one more comment about the disastrous debate
performance by ABC News. I'll share this next. I talked
about it a little on the show, but upon further reflection,
this is like a big deal and then I saw
a comedian talking about this, and I promise I will

(01:05:55):
get to I will get to this stuff that I'm
going to talk about about the debate. But this I realize, Okay,
I'm fifty five years old, Grant, this is your future.
By the way, this is your future. So I'm fifty
five years old. Now I am like a freshman old person.
And I saw a comedian do a whole bit on this,
like there should be old person orientation so when you

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get to your mid fifties, they're like, yeah, here's what's
gonna happen to you over the next ten years. And
I'm like a freshman old person. And this all hit
home because I went to see a band with some friends. Grant,
every single person dancing at this club, everybody had on
sensible shoes. You got a comfort first, and then I thought,
this is where I am in my life. No more

(01:06:35):
cute shoes at the club. Now I'm in sensible shoes
at the club time in my life, not that I
spend a lot of time at the club. And you
know what's funny. You know when you're young and you
see people that are in their fifties and you're like, God,
they don't do anything? Why how boring is their life?
You know why we don't do anything because we've already
done it like a billion times and now it just
feels like work.

Speaker 4 (01:06:56):
I think the older you get, the more you realize
how great it is to sit at home and have
nothing to do.

Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
Preach, preach that it really does come down to. And
I don't mean to sound like braggadocious when I say this,
but now there are concerts that will pop up and
I go, yeah, i'd really like to see that. Ooh,
red Rocks on a Tuesday. Yeah, that is not a
thing that is gonna happen for me. Do you know
where I lived?

Speaker 5 (01:07:22):
Man?

Speaker 2 (01:07:23):
That's like a commitment that happened to me.

Speaker 6 (01:07:24):
The other night, I was going to see the band.
I gave away tickets to one of Charlie Crockett.

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
He was so amazing.

Speaker 6 (01:07:30):
But I ended up going by myself because all my
friends were like, Thursday night, Red Rocks.

Speaker 2 (01:07:36):
Thursday. I just see it a Thursday at Red Rocks
to take my daughter to see Wallows, right, this this band,
and and I was like, Okay, you know what, Thursday
night I can do. Thursday night at Red Rocks, I
can do Monday Tuesday Wednesday. Not gonna happen. Don't schedule
any like old bands Monday Tuesday Wednesday, because that is
not happening at all.

Speaker 4 (01:07:55):
I'm going to see uh Usher on Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (01:07:58):
Now, where's that? That's not that? No, that's achable you know.

Speaker 4 (01:08:03):
And I went to Fiddler's Green last night after the
Broncos game.

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
Okay, let me just say this about Fiddler's Green. Easiest
in and out Fiddler's Green, nobody gets hurt. You go,
you watch a show, You're out of the parking lot
in like ten minutes, yep, and you're on the highway in.

Speaker 4 (01:08:16):
Forty five seconds, right, and then it all opens up once.

Speaker 7 (01:08:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:08:20):
I love Fiddler's Cres.

Speaker 4 (01:08:21):
It's grown up.

Speaker 2 (01:08:22):
It's a great venue. It's not ever going to be
Red Rocks because there's only one Red Rocks. The Fiddler's
is a great place to see a show. Have you
been to the new Ford Amphitheater in the Springs yet?

Speaker 4 (01:08:32):
No, but I've heard that as top not Well.

Speaker 2 (01:08:34):
This week, we've got a guest coming on the show.
He's one of the neighbors that have been kind of
subjected to the noise of Ford Amphitheater and I feel
really torn because truly, personally, I'm like, dude, a new
ampitheater and it's probably closer to my house in Red Rocks,
right thing number one. But then I'm like, oh, if
you already owned your house and then they open this,

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that's bad.

Speaker 6 (01:08:55):
I did hear there was some drama around that that
the city kind of pushed it through without we're really
listening to the people that already live there.

Speaker 2 (01:09:02):
So well, it's too late now. The genie's out of
the bottle. So anyway, I did not mean to go
off on that tangent, but I did. I realize I'm like,
I am, like am I am entering into older age
and there should be some kind of some kind of
like orientation, a guide book, some kind of handbook just saying, Mandy,

(01:09:24):
do you have bloupunks in your car? Best German car
stereeo Ever, No, I just have the regular whatever Mercedes
puts in their cars. But my goodness, and this is
the value of having a mom car because I have
I have like a crossover suv kind of looks like
a glorified station wagon. But the speaker placement throughout that car,

(01:09:44):
it just washes you in the sound It's glorious, absolutely glorious,
and thank you to the That song is how Soon
Is Now? By the Smiths. If you've ever wanted to
listen to music that kind of makes you want to
kill yourself at the end of it, that is the
Smith's entire catalog. And I love them. I love the Smiths. Okay,

(01:10:05):
am I wrong? Grant's laughing over there. I'm like, that's
the Smiths.

Speaker 1 (01:10:10):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:10:10):
I was just thinking.

Speaker 6 (01:10:11):
At the show last night, this guy named father John
Misty opened up for Casey Musgraves and I was like,
this is the most depressing song I've ever heard in
my life, but I kind of like it exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:10:22):
And you're right about the Smiths.

Speaker 2 (01:10:23):
Any song that makes you feel like, you know, when
watching an episode of Hoarders does we're like, dang, that's terrible,
but my house is cleaner. There you go anyway? Okay, yeah,
how Soon is Now? Excell's long? Was it six forty
one or six fourteen? I want to have you look
at that forty one?

Speaker 4 (01:10:41):
Yes, yep.

Speaker 2 (01:10:42):
I have not played that song in twenty five years
and I still remember how long it is. We'll be
right back and by the way, coming up there is
a press conference that is supposed to start at two o'clock,
but it is a federal, state, and local press conference,
so hurting all those kittens, I'm thinking it's going to
be late that either Keenan will throw to it during
his news or I will take you to it when
we get back. But that is coming up next.

Speaker 1 (01:11:05):
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Speaker 2 (01:11:09):
Well, no, it's Mandy Connell. Mannam got Sady the nicety
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(01:11:33):
third hour of the show. Now, at some point in
the near future, there will be a press conference with
updates about the second assassination attempt against Donald Trump's wife,
and it happened yesterday in Florida, and we will take
that press conference when it becomes a thing, hopefully. And
this is my fear grant. This is a federal, state, and.

Speaker 4 (01:11:55):
Local press conference, so I'll start about three o'clock.

Speaker 2 (01:12:00):
There's a lot of kittens to herd, as they say,
and in my experience it is. Now we're going to
hear from this guy who wants to make sure he
gets his camera time. Now we're going to make from
this guy, who's gonna Now what's going to be interesting
is I'd like to know if the Florida Buro of
Investigation is on site, because Governor Ron DeSantis has said

(01:12:21):
that the Florida euro of Investigation will be investigating this situation.
Part of it is because unfortunately, trust in the veracity
of an FBI investigation has been eroded by the FBI's
conduct in the Russian collusion investigation against Donald Trump. And

(01:12:44):
there are a lot of people, and I would put
myself on this list that is skeptical of the FBI's
ability to do a fair and unbiased job investigating who's
trying to kill someone that they actively tried to get
out of office for four years while he was president.
So Ron de Santeiss said, hey, you know what, we're
going to investigate this as well. And it was local

(01:13:07):
sheriffs that took this guy into custody, and so I
think we're probably going to see or hear from all
of them, and if it gets to be too cumbersome,
then we will ditch out of it. I just want
to know. I want to know as many details as
we can find. Right now, the guy's face is all
over all of the news media outlets. Now everybody's talking

(01:13:30):
about it, and I think it's kind of a big deal.
If you missed the beginning of the show, then you
probably missed my take, which is it's upsetting to me,
first of all, that we've now had two assassination attempts
against a major party candidate for president. And what's more
upsetting to me is that there's this sort of swath

(01:13:51):
of the left who immediately took to Twitter, by the way,
to say he's faking all these assassination attempts. He's faking them.
This particular want to be assassin is going to make
that particular line of reasoning a lot harder because dude

(01:14:11):
has a Biden Harris sticker on the back of his car.
He has been actively involved trying to get people to
go fight in Ukraine. I have said already that I
think this guy is he has delusions of grandeur and
trying to get people to fight in Ukraine. I think
he thought himself some kind of patriot. But when that

(01:14:33):
kind of petered out as an issue, because you know, Americans,
we have the attention span of Sannatz, right, We're like, oh, Ukraine,
what who what are we still do we? Oh is
that flag still supposed to be on my Twitter bio?
Oh crap, crap, I moved on different flag, different cause.
So we'll see. I want to hear a little bit

(01:14:53):
more about this attempted want to be assassin, because hey,
how's that investigation going Sylvania? I wish I had a
Cameron Great And he's like, oh no, no thumbs up, no,
no waving off the thumbs up, not the thumbs up,
anti thumbs up. He's listening to what's happening, and we're
going to go to it as soon as he tells
me that they are at the microphones in this and

(01:15:14):
all of that good stuff. Okay, here we go. Here's
the press conference about the latest attempt on Donald Trump's life. Okay,
because we're not going to hear anything more about the shooter.
That's what I'm getting from the rest of this press conference.
But what we just heard was the Secret Service doing
a cya so hard. Here's all the things that we've done.
And wasn't it nice that President Biden got a higher

(01:15:37):
level of protection for the guy he calls an existential
threat to the country. How nice of him. Let's go ahead,
jump out of this. I don't think any any new
news is going to be broken right now. We will
go and do the news, traffic, and weather, and then
come back. We'll listen to it during the break to
see if you're missing anything. But I want to know
about the shooter, and we're not going to get that today.
So here we go. Here's what we learned from the

(01:15:57):
press conference. We learned that all the basis were covered
correct grant, that they worked together, and that all of
the law enforcement was awesome, and that they succeeded bigly.
And there's nothing to see. And by the way, let's
all give a round to applause to Joe Biden for
just giving that extra Secret Service protection. Let's just you know,

(01:16:19):
what is there, everybody? Is there ever been a more
awesome president than Joe Biden. I'm just I'm being sarcastic
about the last part. I just thought that was interesting
that he pointed out the Biden administration, the same Biden
administration that also pulled protection from RFK Junior. Just throwing
that out there. I've got to get this story in
before and we had to move a break so we

(01:16:40):
could get that press conference. So we got to take
a break here in a second. But the La Times
did a profile on Lindsay Davis. Lindsay Davis was one
of the ABC News moderators of the debate, and in
it he admitted proudly, proudly and I'm just gonna read
this part. Davis, wearing pink glasses while speaking to The

(01:17:03):
Times over breakfast at the Ritz Carlton and Philadelphia, said
the decision to attempt to correct the candidates was in
response to the June twenty seventh CNN debate between Trump
and President Biden, whose poor performance led to his exit
from the race. And this is a quote. People were
concerned that statements were allowed to just hang and not

(01:17:25):
be disputed by the candidate Biden at the time or
the moderators. You guys, people in the news media have
this bastardized view of what a moderator does. A moderator
is a facilitator. A moderator is a catalyst. You are
there to drive things forward. You're not there to insert

(01:17:46):
yourself into the debate. But I think the really telling
part of this is that they were unchallenged by the
candidate Biden at the time, or the moderator. So here's
what happened. They watched Joe Biden lose the debate to
Donald Trump, and bye gosh, by golly, they weren't gonna

(01:18:08):
let their man go down like that on their watch,
no way. So uh, yeah, they sucked as moderators. And
you know, it'd be nice if they had the decency
to be embarrassed. And I don't know if the La
Times asked, why didn't you fact check Vice President Harris?

(01:18:30):
I think that's an easy question. Apparently they didn't see
the need to ask. I can't imagine why. Since the debate,
says The New York Post, both David Muir and Lindsey
Davis had been slammed by critics for appearing bias towards
Vice President Kamala Harris. The debate moderators fact checked Trump
five times and failed to correct Harris a single time.

(01:18:51):
On Tuesday evening we all saw it. Davis says that
our team intended to fact check both candidates throughout the
course of the night with co moderators. David Muir Davis
had studied hours of campaign rallies and interviews to prepare
for the much anticipated event at Philadelphia's National Constitution Center
and were ready to counter the candidate's most egregious statements. However,

(01:19:17):
Davis countered accusations of bias by stating that she and
Mure could not catch every misstatement just trumps. I handed
that last part elsewhere in the article. The outlet noted
how Davis simply ignored the criticism that she was helping Harris,
reporting that she shut off her social media accounts. Davis said,

(01:19:39):
there's a stereotype that I'm acutely aware of that I
can't be unbiased covering this moment and the anonymous Instagram
people serve as reminders every day. But you know what,
stereotypes exist for a reason. They may not be nice.
They may be nice. I can give you an example

(01:19:59):
of a nice stare that all Asians are good at math,
a stereotype, nonetheless, probably really challenging if you're an Asian
who is not good at math. But stereotypes like you
cannot be unbiased exist because you fact checked only one candidate,
and then you admitted that you fact checked that candidate

(01:20:19):
because you were mad that the other candidate didn't push
back hard enough in the first debate, so you decided
you were going to do that candidate's work for them
because you don't have enough confident confidence in Vice President
Harris to fact checked him herself. You never even gave
her a chance. And that is as biased as anyone

(01:20:41):
could possibly be. So sorry about your luck, Lindsay Davis,
but we all saw what we all saw. It wasn't
even hard to see. It wasn't like you know, sometimes
people send me a news article and they'll say things like, uh,
have you seen this story? It's so biased, and yeah,
there's some bias in there me, but it's not that bad.

(01:21:02):
This is slap you across the face kind of bias
that we saw at the debate. It is undeniable and
really ridiculous, completely ridiculous. All right. The other thing that
I feel is completely ridiculous for today is it guess
what you guys, guess what I know. You can feel

(01:21:22):
the tension rising, You can feel the stress and the
strain rising as the federal government lurches towards another government
shut down. Oh my god, say it ain't so we're
not gonna shut down the government again, are we? Well,
we probably will because the House of Representatives has squandered

(01:21:46):
an entire year where they had plenty of time to
pass twelve individual spending bills as is their actual freaking job,
and they didn't do it. So here's what we're working
on now. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is like, hey,
we gotta pass this. Continue doing resolution full of all
kinds of pork and crap, does nothing except explode the
deficit even further, and then we'll get to some kind

(01:22:07):
of omnibus built budget bill that has even more pork
and crap in it and does nothing to address the
budget deficits that we're facing today. And you know what,
I don't care. Shut it all down. Hey, Grant, can
you tell me how your life was negatively impacted the
last time the federal government to shut down? When did

(01:22:28):
it happen? Thank you? Because the scare tactics don't work anymore, because,
you know what, we've all lived through enough of these
now to be like, shut it down. I don't care.
I don't care one bit. And I realized there are
going to be people negatively affected by this, people work
for the government, et cetera, et cetera. But the reality

(01:22:48):
is simply that I don't care what Congress does not
do because they're not doing the budget. They're just exploding
the deficit, and Mike Johnson is failing miserably, absolutely miserably
at getting this done. Now, do I blame him entirely? No,
He's an extremely closely difided House of Representatives. But the

(01:23:11):
reality is, DoD Republicans have to stop behaving like this.
Republicans have to stop going going along with this because
this is gonna speed us towards fiscal irresponsibility even faster.
So yeah, shut it down. I don't care. Oh, Mitch McConnell,
I'll go on cruckdown. It is always a bad idea

(01:23:31):
at any time. Shut up, Mitch McConnell. Start for you
to go back to Kentucky and stay there anyway, we'll
take a quick time out. I'll be back to wrap
up the program right after this. Uh, let's do this.
We're gonna zip on over to the Sporty Pickle because
now it's time for the most exciting segment on the radio.

Speaker 8 (01:23:52):
Of its guide.

Speaker 2 (01:23:53):
Hit it right up it the Wow. He's not afraid
to yell at the Sporty Pickle. Sporty Pickle is where
the afternoon guys are going to be today for KOA Sports.
Where what is the address there? Over by the training
Center there? Uh uh, Ryan, we're on We're on Peoria
just south of U E.

Speaker 4 (01:24:11):
Four seventy, Okay, and I think I say, like eighty
six four.

Speaker 5 (01:24:14):
I you know, I don't know the exact address off
the top of my head, but I know we're just
it's it's right, you're a Peoria just south of four seventy.
It's it's great place since you're in Centennial And.

Speaker 4 (01:24:22):
Obviously if you're down in the tech center, should doun?

Speaker 3 (01:24:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:24:24):
Can you come listen? Can you learn how to play pickleball?

Speaker 5 (01:24:27):
There?

Speaker 2 (01:24:27):
Do they have? Like beginner day? We are eighty six
to forty south Peoria? That was right there.

Speaker 5 (01:24:34):
You know, learn is a strong word. I say, you
can play it. And now there are other people. I'm
watching people play pickles. Yeah, through the glass on the
other side, and it's pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (01:24:42):
I got to get rid of I gotta take care
of my knee issue and then we'll go from there.
All right, What is our dad joke of the day,
Please grant.

Speaker 6 (01:24:48):
Dad joke of the day. Why do ducks have feathers
on their tails? I don't know, Ryan, any guesses Nope,
to hide their butt quacks.

Speaker 1 (01:25:01):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (01:25:02):
I can't wait to tell my grandsons that one. All right,
here we go. What is our word of the day,
please grant.

Speaker 4 (01:25:07):
Word of the day is a noun?

Speaker 2 (01:25:08):
A noun?

Speaker 4 (01:25:09):
Nebula?

Speaker 2 (01:25:10):
Isn't that something to do with stars? Like there's a
nebula out there or something? Or a character from Guardians
of the Galaxy? Wasn't she never nice?

Speaker 4 (01:25:20):
A large cloud of interstellar gas or dust?

Speaker 1 (01:25:23):
All?

Speaker 2 (01:25:23):
Right, there you go today this trivia question. A statue
of a woman named Angela's Rodriguez Hidalgo can be found
in Madrid's Spain. What is Hidalgo's claim to fame is
that the race from the movie It is a race.
You guys are not going to guess this, but it's

(01:25:44):
so good. At age seventy, Hidalgo went to a heavy
metal concert with her grandson. She loved it so much
that she began regularly attending metal shows, becoming a fixture
of the metal scene at Madrid in the nineteen eighties.
She is remembered as La ble abela rockerra or the
rocker Grandma fantastic. I like that life goals. Now, that's

(01:26:07):
that's going on the list. Okay, what is our category? Please?

Speaker 6 (01:26:11):
Jeopardy category for today. Multiple meanings. Okay, Okay, here's the
first one to impede or a laundry receptacle.

Speaker 2 (01:26:21):
To impede or a laundry receptacle.

Speaker 4 (01:26:25):
I can see this is gonna go well, yeah, Ryan, Ryan,
what is hamper correct?

Speaker 7 (01:26:31):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:26:32):
That's so good, Ryan, Okay a little time.

Speaker 6 (01:26:35):
Yeah, you can do this with a fugitive and a
place of refuge, perhaps in the same named watery area.
You can do this, Mom, do this with a fugitive
and a place of refuge, perhaps in the same named
watery area.

Speaker 2 (01:26:55):
I have no idea the same named water Oh, Ryan, Ryan,
what is Harvard? Correct? God killing me today again? Twelve hour.

Speaker 6 (01:27:09):
Second?

Speaker 4 (01:27:09):
Get that brain clicking.

Speaker 6 (01:27:10):
Yeah, it's an animal. It's a Northeastern city. It's a
verb meaning to bully. It's an animal. It's a Northeastern city.
You guys want to furth Hence sure it is the
mascot of the CU college football team.

Speaker 4 (01:27:30):
Many, Mandy, what are what is the buffalo?

Speaker 2 (01:27:33):
Correct? Gollyo, Now I feel dumb for not getting it.

Speaker 4 (01:27:38):
The last happening now or the movement of the time?

Speaker 2 (01:27:42):
What is current correct?

Speaker 4 (01:27:45):
To last?

Speaker 6 (01:27:47):
One to abstain or elect not to do something like
not mentioning. It's another word for a song's chorus.

Speaker 2 (01:27:55):
Manny, what's refrained correct? Came out there late, finally managed
to pull it together. Okay, what kind of fun for
volity are you going to do out there today at
the Sporty Pickle Ryan Edwards.

Speaker 5 (01:28:06):
Oh, we're fired up for this. We're gonna be giving
away a pair of Broncos Raiders tickets every hour on
the show, So three o'clock hour, four o'clock hour, and
five o'clock hour.

Speaker 2 (01:28:16):
You just got to be listening to the show.

Speaker 5 (01:28:17):
But we do invite you to come down to the
Sporty Pickle Bar and grill because we're also entering people
for a chance to win a patz or Tan helmet
as well as they signed Javonte Williams Jersey, So there's
all sorts of good reasons to come down and say
hi to us.

Speaker 2 (01:28:29):
But at the other time, we just hey, just listen.

Speaker 5 (01:28:31):
We're gonna be breaking down obviously the Broncos and the
you bus beat down of my rams.

Speaker 2 (01:28:36):
Yeah, it was not good for your rams, but it'll
be fun to listen to you cry about it. Anyway.
We'll be back tomorrow. Keep it right here on Gay
Away and we'll see you tomorrow at noon, right here
on the radio.