09-17-25 FULL SHOW - A Halloween Burlesque Show, And When Will It Snow

I've got a fun Halloween Burlesque show, Dave Fraser on when we may see our first snow in the metro, and Democrats are doubling down on their violent hate speech.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
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Speaker 5 (00:21):
Andy Connell, Keith sad Bab Welcome Local, Welcome to a
Wednesday edition of the show. I'm your host for the
next three hours, Mandy Connell and I am joined by
my right hand man. We call him a rod but
you can call him Anthony Rodriguez. On today. We have

(00:42):
so much on our plate. I'm actually pretty excited about
our two thirty guest talk about something completely different, Anthony, just.

Speaker 6 (00:50):
A little bit.

Speaker 5 (00:50):
I don't think we've ever had burlesque performers on this program. Now,
I have had burlesque performers on my program in pre
markets because I'm fascinated by burlesque. Fascinated. It's like a
it's like a less dirty version of stripping, right, because
a lot of times burless performers do not go uh

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you know, naked, they go tastefully covered certain areas.

Speaker 6 (01:19):
I'm here for anything Halloween, That's what I'm here for.

Speaker 5 (01:22):
And AAR's not kidding. He's not saying I'm here for
the girls. He's saying I'm here for the Halloween because
they're doing a Halloween show that actually looks really amazing. Yes,
so we're going to talk to the burlesque group at
two thirty And why don't to do this? When I
to jump in and do the blog. You can find
the blog by going to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog

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dot com or Randy Cromwell dot com Randy Cromwell dot com.
Look for the latest post section. Then look for the
headline that says nine seventeen twenty five blog a Halloween
burlesque show and when will it snow? Click on that
and here are the headlines you will find within Office half.

Speaker 7 (02:02):
Of American, all with ships and clipments of seen that's
going to press plant.

Speaker 5 (02:06):
Today on the blug How about a little bird lesque
with your scares? When will we get snow in the metro?
I can't even with what's happening from the left. Still scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling.

Speaker 6 (02:21):
Good morrel, I know what.

Speaker 5 (02:22):
Yeah, scrolling. There's a vigil at CSU for Charlie Kirk
on Thursday. Format restaurant tours are finally being honest about
closings things. I hate about Donald Trump. Guys, it's gonna
be close, but the Rockies can tie a record. GP
Congress folks ask for a special session on crime. Stop
stealing from vulnerable people. That humble beginnings of Robert Redford.

(02:46):
Not every building needs saving. The sun is waking up again.
Fear of hormone replacement is based on bad science. AI
urges kids to suicide. Ben and Jerry find out you
can have money, you can't have money and an opinion,
and the FDA is coming for hymns and hers, And
now the perfect timeline cleanser. My people are allowed to

(03:07):
come here again. Don't make me turn this ship around.
The Daily Beast apologizes to Milania about that the world
hates us. Narrative scrolling blue Collar is gaining steam. That
old lefty who lied about shooting Kirk as a child
porn lover, about Melissa Workman's killer, Ay Rod's asking about
the Broncos d flying into Dia as one bumpy ride.

(03:30):
Oh look, Corey Booker's running for president again. I love
the Internet. Garrett Boles says, don't panic, It's going to
be okay. Those are the headlines on the lawn Yeatmandyslaw
Dot com I mean, ah, the band knows that they're
not going to be here for the Blessed Show, right,
I mean, they were there there, they can see themselves
out now.

Speaker 6 (03:51):
I thought they were getting VIP tickets to watching that
right here.

Speaker 5 (03:54):
I mean whatever, Nope, I mean, can you imagine them?
They're out of control? Theyir thirty drunk its twelve oh nine. Well,
you know you. I'm just saying. I got a lot
of stuff on the blog today, and a lot, a lot,
a lot, a lot a lot of stuff on the
blog about the vile nonsense that is continuing to swirl
around the killer of Charlie Kirk. And we're going to

(04:16):
get into that in a little bit. The first, I
want to talk about last night's event that I was
a co moderator for. I was invited by the just
phenomenal group of people who have created an organization called
Douglas County Citizenry, and though it is a right of
center organization, they welcome all and last night we did

(04:37):
a forum with the eight school board candidates that are
running in Douglas County. We have two slates of school
board candidates running together and the slate emerged gosh years
ago I mean they did slates back in you know,
when I was in Louisville, because the Teachers' Union, generally speaking,

(04:58):
would hand pick their candidates, and then the teachers Union
would spend a bunch of money to support those four
candidates all at one time. They would put them all
on the same mailer, they'd put them all on the
same billboard, and they would do that. Now now conservatives
have recognized that it's impossible to fundraise enough as an
individual candidate, so they have created slates as well. So

(05:20):
in Douglas County, we have a slate of conservative leaning candidates,
and we have a slate of people who excuse me,
who though the Teachers' Union has endorsed them. Last night,
we asked specifically about things like the collective Bargaining Agreement
and things of that nature, and some of them actually said,

(05:40):
I have not committed in any way, shape or form
to the collective Bargaining Agreement. And the only reason I
bring that up is, and I'm bringing this up at all,
was that the event was wonderful. It was respectful, We
heard different opinions from the candidates. Nobody was rude, no
one and was disparaging towards their opponent. We learned a lot,

(06:04):
We asked a bunch of questions. We had audience that
was respectful as well. I mean, they supported their candidates,
but they didn't get out of control, and nobody was
rude from the audience, and it was just it was great.
It was really, really great. I liked it. I learned
a lot. It's going to be put online. It will
be put online at some point, so we'll let you
know when it is up. I'll share it on the blog.

(06:25):
So if you live in Douglas County, you can do
the same. But the reason I bring it up on
this show when most of you don't live in Douglas County,
is that I would love for other people, other civic
minded people, to start to use this model of informed debate,
of civic conversation, and let's just get that going at
the grassroots, because we've lost control at the national level,

(06:49):
right our national politicians. And you know, I am not
going to both sides what happened to Charlie Kirk, Because
as much as the left has tried to tell me
it's both sides in this case, the political violence lately
has been all from the left and it's been dramatic
and it has been murderous, and it's not the same

(07:14):
as saying things that people disagree with, right, I mean,
it just isn't. But I'd love for us to at
the grassroots level, at the local level, create events where
I mean dep floor and I we spent like an
hour and a half on the phone on Saturday just
trying to craft questions that were open ended so we
could just ask the candidates like, here's the question, open

(07:37):
ended question, just answer the question in however you want.
We didn't want to create leading questions. We didn't want
to create questions that put anybody on their back feet.

Speaker 8 (07:46):
You know.

Speaker 5 (07:47):
We tried really hard to really make this a chance
for people to just hear from the candidates themselves what
they thought, what their vision was, and I think it
was a very successful event. So I would urge you to,
first of all, if you are in a different district,
if you're not in Douglas County, if you're in jeff Co.
And you're in Denver, or you're in any of these
other counties, maybe follow Douglas County Citizen read four ideas

(08:10):
on how to make this happen. If you do join
the private group and then cause problems, we will kick
you out. It is a private group on Facebook, but
we do have a public page as well. And the
whole point of this is to create dialogue and create
real dialogue where people can learn about things. So it
is going to hopefully you and I and real people

(08:35):
in our community can change the dialogue and change the narrative. Mandy,
why would you allow teachers union backed liberals. They deserve
nothing because they're running for office, because they have put
their hat in the ring. And some of them, by
the way, have really strong concerns and really strong ideas.

(08:56):
And I you know, after the debate last night, it
wasn't really a debate is more of a forum. And
after the forum last night, I thought to myself, you know,
I sure hope that the people up on that stage
that don't win, whoever it is, on either side, I
hope that they don't give up trying to bring their
ideas to the board. And I would hope that the
new board members would welcome those ideas even if they

(09:19):
aren't their ideas right, because there were some good ideas
laid out last night. So I want to hear from
everybody and in all honesty, you guys, When I have
candidates on the show that I disagree with, and I
may push back a little bit, but that's not why
I have a candidate for office on this program. It's
not so you can hear me argue with them. My

(09:41):
goal in having a candidate on the show, whether I
agree with them or disagree with them, is to ask
them questions so that you, the listener, can hear them
answer and you can hear straight from the horse's mouth
without a filter, without some kind of intermediary. You can
hear straight from the horse's mouth and you can make
up your own mind. And sometimes people are like, you

(10:03):
should have pushed them. No, they're a candidate for office.
I don't need to push them. You heard what they said.
It evoked a reaction. So therefore you can build your
vote on whether or not you liked that or you
did not like that. So when we're talking about candidates
for office, I want people to have the opportunity to
speak and for you guys, to use your own brains

(10:26):
to figure out whether or not they have earned your vote.
It's really that simple. Now, I saw the list. I
saw the list for Republican candidates for governor that have
already announced. Guys, there's a zero percent chance I'm going
to have all of those people on the show. Zero
There's so many people on this list, and many of

(10:48):
them will drop out. They'll never really form a real candidacy.
They just put their name in because they, you know,
they got a momentary thought where they thought, yeah, yeah,
I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna and they have no
infrastructure and they have no plan, and they have enough.
But there are numerous people on this list that are
going to be competitive and are going to be candidates.
But there are people that I probably won't have on

(11:10):
the show because you know, I'm just going to use
Greg Lopez as an example. I like Greg. I think
he's a nice guy. Greg is never going to win
the governor's race. It's not going to happen. He has tried,
He has tried multiple times to win multiple offices. For
whatever reason, people are not going to vote for Greg Lopez.
And I know Greg, and I can tell you exactly
what his positions are on everything. So yeah, I'm going

(11:33):
to be a little choosy about that stuff, but I
do I try to give the candidates both candidates. I
like candidates. I disagree with the opportunity to make their
case to you because I trust the audience that you
guys are not stupid. That's the reality, Mandy. Did you
see the trash ABC put out about how romantic the
text messages were from the Kirk killer to his roommate

(11:56):
lover about how and why he killed Kirk? Truly unbelievable
garbage from ABC News, fake news, despicable, and my friends,
this brings me back to a large chunk of the
blog today. I am trying to rise above and I
don't mean rise above the murder of Charlie Kirk, because

(12:17):
that I don't know if I'm going to get over
that anytime soon, if ever. What I'm trying to rise
above is my frustration that people on the left not
only have not dialed down the rhetoric, they are amping
it up, even right here in Colorado. And I gathered
up a few examples because here's the thing. You know,
I've gone through different cycles in my show. It's like,

(12:39):
do I amplify this because it's so horrible, and then
I'm just giving, you know, more publicity to someone horrible
who said something awful. But the reality is this our
silence has been mistaken as for approval.

Speaker 9 (12:55):
Right.

Speaker 5 (12:56):
I saw a girl last night on social media and
this I can't say girl. She was a woman, She
was a woman maybe late twenties, early thirties, and she's
talking to the camera and she said, what is it
about this Charlie Kirk assassination that has been such a
big deal. She's like, all of a sudden, people on

(13:17):
social media who never said anything about politics are saying things,
what is it? Why this thing? And she was genuinely confused,
like really had no idea why people were so upset,
and I just thought, I can't. I can't. I'm not

(13:39):
ready to rise above yet. I'm ready to fight back.
I'm ready to gently and politely, because that's who I am,
shut down the people that I know and that I
see in my life who are posting things that are,
in my mind a personal attack. And that's how this
feels for me. If you're gonna tell me what a

(13:59):
bad guy Charlie Kirk was, you are telling me that
I am a bad person as well, because I believe
a lot of the same things he believed. Not everything.
We didn't have the exact same lockstep views on everything,
but you know what, I agreed with a lot of it.
So when people say Charlie Kirk didn't deserve to die,
but after that point, after that, but you're talking about me,

(14:25):
and you're talking about me, what if I died, you
would be like, oh, she didn't deserve to die. But
it's all it's deeply personal. And the people on the
left that are celebrating, they don't understand that. What's been
really heartening is over the last twenty four hours, I
have seen so many videos, so many videos from not

(14:47):
just in the United States, people around the world who
are taking to the streets over the murder of Charlie Kirk.
What they have unleashed a movement and they're not ready
for it. They really aren't, Mandy. Have you seen Kyle
Clark and nine News post on Facebook? The comments of

(15:08):
their followers is something truly pathetic and sick, and Kyle
acts as if he isn't part of the problem. Hey,
you know what, let's talk about nine News for just
a moment. Nine News decided and I think probably tomorrow
I will send an email to the editor of the
program on nine News that made the decision to air

(15:31):
a story about a black pastor in Virginia who has
gone on a hate field rant. Oh geez, I linked
to the wrong thing. Did I do this back?

Speaker 10 (15:46):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (15:46):
I did?

Speaker 5 (15:47):
No, I did not do that. I have to fix this.
I linked to the wrong thing. So there was a
black pastor in Alexandria, Virginia, right who has gone viral. Yep,
they've gone viral because he is can in Charlie Kirk
from the pulpit. Now, why in the world would nine News, Hey,
ay Rod, didn't nine News move their offices to Virginia

(16:10):
that he says? No sore? Still are you sure there's
still based here? I mean I recently drove by their
big building downtown and it still had nine News on
the side. So I mean, I'm assuming they're still here
in Colorado. But yet they chose, out of every story
that has occurred, out of every ramp that has taken place,
out of everyone who's commented on the Charlie Kirk story,

(16:32):
they chose a black pastor who condemned Charlie Kirk from
his pulpit as the story to amplify. So is it
any wonder? Is it any wonder at all that their
followers would you know, take to their Facebook page to

(16:52):
also dance on the grave of Charlie Kirk. And here's
the thing, you, guys, if you are in any way,
shape or form excusing or celebrating, or in any way
commenting on what a horrible person Charlie Kirk was, you
are justifying political murder. Now, you can try and convince

(17:13):
yourself that it isn't. But what's happening on the left,
what's happening, with incredible clarity, is that the cognitive dissonance
on the left of people on the left who have
always assumed that their party was the party of moral
superiority are being faced with the fact that they are
not the good guys and that their party is the
party of death, and they can't handle it. They can't

(17:36):
handle it. So anything that would force them to come
to a reckoning with the rock that exists in their
party that led a young man to murder someone in
front of his wife and child and two thousand college students,
it's too much for them. So instead they'll go to
nine News's Facebook page and write nasty things about a
guy who's dead and about children who don't have a father.

(17:58):
Doesn't really seem like moral superior to me. But hey,
nine News, you do you? When we get back, Fox
thirty one's chief meteorologist Dave Fraser joins us, we're going
to pepper him with questions about when we are going
to get the first snowfall in Denver, the man who
controls the weather here in the Denver Metro. No, I'm kidding,
I'm kidding, Dave Fraser, Hi, buddy, welcome to the show.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
Hey there, I'm glad to be with you on this Wednesday.
I can't believe you're making a rod wait for burles
while we talk weather.

Speaker 5 (18:27):
Well we did at the end of the show, so
you know, we'll start with you and then we'll end
with you know, beautiful women doing Halloween burlesque here in
the studio. So we got a lot on our plate.
I already have two standard questions that we have to
ask every year at this time. First of all, Dave Frasier,
when are you blowing out your sprinklers?

Speaker 3 (18:49):
Not yet?

Speaker 7 (18:50):
Now yet?

Speaker 3 (18:50):
My lawn looks fantastic, as do a lot of lawns
that I see driving up.

Speaker 7 (18:54):
And down the front range, especially those that.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
Had benefited from rain. We had some decent showers last night,
so I always pay attention to the forecast lows, and
when I start to see those lows being a little
more consistent and closer to the freezing mark, I sometimes
will just drain the external.

Speaker 7 (19:10):
Pipe so that that doesn't freeze.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
And crack, which is an easy thing to do, but
may not blow them all out just yet. I'll wait
until I see something it's going to be a little
more permanent. Remember, the sprinklers are way down. The lines
are in the ground, so they're protected by the warm
temperatures in the ground. It takes a while for cold
to penetrate. But it's that external pipe that I'll keep
an eye out. If I see a thirty two, thirty three,
thirty four, I'll probably blow it out and maybe turn

(19:34):
them back on, because you know how we can ebb
and flow in September and October, going from freezing nights
to very warm stretches at times.

Speaker 5 (19:41):
So now let's ask question number two, which almost goes
with question number one, but not really, Dave, when will
the metro be getting our first measurable snowfall?

Speaker 3 (19:51):
Yeah, we get these kind of nips of fall in
the morning.

Speaker 5 (19:55):
Like this morning, lovely this morning.

Speaker 7 (19:58):
Yeah, we're going to.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
Have more of that by the way.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
Moving forward, we'll have a few showers around tonight. Not
a lot going on, but there will be some showers,
and then we kind of enter a dry period. We'll
have overnight lows right around forty eight to fifty, afternoon
temperatures close to eighty degrees, which is about average, a
couple of degrees above average. We've got a nice stretch
of weather coming for the next seven to ten days.
Really going to feel like fall and warm temperatures at

(20:20):
this time of the year. Seventy eight seventy nine, eighty degrees,
like a warm blanket. It's not really heap by any means.
You know, the question always comes up at the seventy.

Speaker 7 (20:28):
Year we start to look at the long range models.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
You know, Denver's average first snowfall measurable, which is a
tenth of an inch or more, is around the eighteenth
of October. We're not obviously there yet. Last year we
waited till November fifth before we got that first snowfall.
And then back in twenty twenty one we had the
latest first snowfall, which was December tenth. I think everybody
remembers that one was like where's the snow?

Speaker 7 (20:51):
But I will tell you, Mandy, looking at some of
the computer models and some.

Speaker 3 (20:54):
Of the prognostications of what might be coming. We've got
warm Pacific waters to the west, We've got colder waters
to the east, and what that does is kind of
open up Canada to and the Arctic to kind of
push cold air down our way.

Speaker 7 (21:09):
So we're thinking as we.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
Head into the winter that we may be Last year
we kind of ebbed and flow with snow. We came
up about eight to nine inches shy of the normal,
which is fifty six for Denver, and we had bouts
of snow, and then we had periods where it didn't snow.

Speaker 11 (21:24):
I think this year is going.

Speaker 7 (21:25):
To be a little more normal, and I do think
we're going to.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
Get bouts of cold air that clipped northeast Colorado. Whether
or not it backs into Denver, we'll see, but certainly
the northeast plains.

Speaker 12 (21:33):
And I think once that.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
Cold air breaks free, because you've opened up the gates
to the Arctic, it may stick around for long periods
of time. So maybe, you know, November, Thanksgiving to Christmas
and everything could be a cold period for us. So
I'm expecting ebbs and flows of cold blasts and maybe
an average season of snowfall, which would mean the heaviest
snow would come in.

Speaker 7 (21:54):
Like March, you know, February, March, and April.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
To get us to that fifty sixth.

Speaker 5 (21:58):
Well, look to me at the radar as I was
checking the radar as one of the storms was going
through in the last few days. Looks like the mountains
have been getting a little bit of snow. What kind
of the snowfall are they getting up there? I mean,
are we talking, you know, half an inch or a
inch or what are we looking at there?

Speaker 3 (22:16):
Yeah, I was on the air last night during our
nine to ten and I could see on our radar
colors the snow is blue and it was literally you
could see it on radar, was clipping the cond of Divie.
So I asked one of our producers to go ahead
and pull some cameras up near the Eisenhower Tunnel and
we found it and it was on the grass and
you're right, it was about a half an inch maybe
a little more. It did not stick to the roads.
Roads were just wet.

Speaker 7 (22:36):
Obviously we haven't gotten that.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
Cold blash yet, but yeah, mountains have seen several battles
of a sprinkling or a smattering of snow, and that's
going to continue. They'll get a little bit of that
tonight as we get some rain showers here, they'll get
a rain snow mixed, or maybe a little bit of snow.
I think Trail Ridge Road was closed this morning because
they had some icy conditions, so the moisture up there
kind of froze for a little bit. I don't know

(22:57):
if they've reopened, but that's typical for the time of
the year where they'll start to get a little bit
of that, and whether or not it sticks on the roads,
probably not. We got to wait a little bit for
the gold.

Speaker 5 (23:07):
All right, I've got this question from our text line.
Please ask Dave about the ever increasing Denver temperature records
as it relates to the perpetual move east of official
reporting sites, originally near the Platte River, then Stapleton Airport location,
and now even further into the high desert surrounding DIA.
Also the impact of an ever more sprawling metro area

(23:28):
of more asphalt and fewer trees. Thank you. So let's
take the first question first, because those are two very
different questions in my view, and the first question, I
mean how valid are those concerns because we all know,
like I live in Douglas County, Dave, and when I
look at the weather, like we were going to Golden
on Sunday to see a play. I check the weather
in Golden. It's like a completely different state, right than

(23:52):
my weather in Parker. So it feels like that's really significant,
and maybe there should be an asterisk on some of these,
like hottest temperatures. Ever since we moved out to DIA.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
There is on the National Weather Service website, and I
have brought this question up many times, and we get
this question a lot. Denver's official recording in its record
keeping since the late eighteen hundreds, that site has moved
four times twice downtown, once out at Stapleton and then
finally in the nineties out to Denver International. The temperatures

(24:28):
were measured at Denver International when they moved the stick.
The snow recordings lagged a little behobbling behind before it
went out there, and there is an image that shows
that the historical amounts of snow in a season is
higher over the Denver metro area points west and south
than it is as you migrate out to the airport
and you can see it. And so they kind of

(24:49):
mapped out the differences between.

Speaker 7 (24:51):
The sites downtown Denver, the.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
Stapleton area, which is just a little further east and north,
and then of course out at THEA and you can
see the progression that as you go to the north
and east, the snow totals are lower. And that would
also go into the part of the question about the temperatures.
Obviously Denver's footprint has sprawled, and that impact of the
heat island as we call it, the concrete, the buildings,
the expansion of the roadways and everything plays into a

(25:15):
warmer environment.

Speaker 7 (25:16):
So the question is valid, and I really don't have
an answer to. You know, how we compare records. We
argue amongst ourselves, as Meeta dolosers all the time. You know,
we hit a record.

Speaker 3 (25:26):
High, what record did we break?

Speaker 7 (25:28):
Well, we broke a record from the eighteen hundreds, Well,
how do we compare that when the censor for the
eighteen hundreds was so many miles to the west. So
it's a challenge and I always tell people it's just
it's just a barometer, It's just a comparison, right, It's
not a perfect record because it moved four times. But
it's a comparison to say, today was a record high day,

(25:51):
today was a record cold day, so there was a
record snowfall amount. It's a comparison to kind of put
the event in perspective, albeit not maybe exactly scientific, and
think about it.

Speaker 3 (26:02):
We will look at temperatures now, Mandy, in tenths of
a degree, right, there's some rounding going on when.

Speaker 7 (26:07):
It comes to whether or not we're at an average
or not.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
Right now, we're four tenths of.

Speaker 7 (26:11):
An inch behind for the average for the months of September.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
They weren't taking temperatures in the eighteen hundreds and early
nineteen hundreds and tenths of a degree.

Speaker 5 (26:20):
Well, I mean there was like a guy walking outside
putting his finger up and going, yep, it feels like
thirty two to me.

Speaker 7 (26:26):
I mean, you know, exactly exactly. So listen, take it,
take it as a comparison.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
But don't take it as a hard line.

Speaker 13 (26:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (26:34):
No, this is the hottest we've ever.

Speaker 5 (26:35):
Bet right, Okay, So I just want to continue. I
need you to continue to order up more weather like
today for the next you know, for the next couple
of months. Would be great if you could just whip
that up in your little cauldron, your little weatherman cauldron,
and make it happen. I sure what appreciated, Dave.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
Yeah, I am with you, guys, both you and a Rod.
I'm loving the morning lows in the forties.

Speaker 5 (27:00):
I love the.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
Afternoon seventy five to eighty. I love the sunny skies.
But a little bit of rain has been helpful.

Speaker 7 (27:06):
We'll get a little bit of that today.

Speaker 12 (27:08):
And if we do take that.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
Turn and we start to get the blast of cold
and the snow is not far behind, I'm okay with
that too. I love all four seasons, and that's why.

Speaker 6 (27:17):
I love living in Colorado.

Speaker 5 (27:18):
One last point for you. It's not really a question,
just a request. Can you please ask Dave to include
you Ray in his weather forecast. We really don't know
what the weather's going to be. The apps are always
wrong saying it's sunny when it's raining, snowing when it's clear.
So you Ray is asking for help, Dave, if you
could just throw that in.

Speaker 14 (27:35):
Yeah, we have on our map.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
Tell you right, we don't have you Ray.

Speaker 7 (27:37):
We get that from viewers all the time.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
Everybody wants their town on. We try and pick towns
that have sensors that we can rely on, right and
that have that we have spatial recognition, if you will.

Speaker 7 (27:47):
We have towns spaced out enough.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
On our maps that you can kind of get a
perspective of what things are going to be like. But
we get requests all the time to add certain towns,
and sometimes that town just doesn't have a sensor that
we can use. And other areas they're too crowded.

Speaker 8 (28:01):
I've got a group of cities that.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
Are on top of each other, and then you've got
Urray and Ridgeway and tell you Ride in the Southwest.

Speaker 7 (28:07):
And so we have tell you Ride. Unfortunately, I don't.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
Know if I'll be able to wedge your ray in
down there, but I understand the concern.

Speaker 5 (28:13):
All right, Dave Frasier, thanks so much. You can see
his very accurate forecast on Fox thirty one unless you're
in u Ray, and we'll talk to you next week,
my friend, have a.

Speaker 7 (28:23):
Good one day, have fun this afternoon. I'll be listening,
all right, thanks man.

Speaker 5 (28:27):
We'll be right back. To be clear, I have no
issue with any of the posts that nine News put
up there. Their news posts about Charlie Cook memorials and
things like that. They're very even keeled, very right down
the middle. But the responses show exactly who is listening
and watching to nine News. Now, I want to share
this text message really quick. So my team is evil

(28:48):
if I don't share your outrage about your person well team,
your team shot up kids in Evergreen High School last week,
and they shot up the CDC the week before that,
and they shot at a minnesot A state legislator and
her husband a couple months before that. I don't really
recall all of your outrage about your team when those
shootings happened. Actually, maybe these crazy people on on your

(29:09):
team or my team, Mandy, maybe they're just crazy people.
But for the record, I haven't really appreciated you calling
me personally evil this week because I'm not apoplectic about
your guy. To be clear, I don't find you evil
for not being apoplectic. What I find evil is people
trying to justify the murder of Charlie Kirk by putting

(29:31):
things up like he was a really bad guy and
then cherry picking stuff that he said. That's what I
find evil. If you like me, when someone on the
other side of the aisle that I disagree as strongly
dies just keep your opinion to yourself, which is what
decent people do. I don't think you're evil, but I
think there are a lot of people who have shown
exactly where their heart is, and it's not in a

(29:53):
good place. Now. Kevin reached out to me via text
and said, Hey, I got a longer question. Kevin, you
got one minute? Can you get it in?

Speaker 14 (30:01):
I hope so I want to get your take on this, Mandy.

Speaker 15 (30:05):
I tend to lean right on most things, but I've
been catching a lot of flak from my friends on
the right because I believe and I want your take
on it, all of the right leaning media seems to
be blaming the left for the shooting and for all
the hate. In my opinion, they're spreading hate themselves by

(30:29):
blaming the left. They shouldn't say the left had just
left did that? I believe it should be. Hey, we
need to cut this out. Trump did it the other
day in a press conference, you know, blaming the left.
What is your take on this? I mean, do you
feel it's the left or do you feel we all
need to just stop and calm down.

Speaker 5 (30:49):
Let me give you and Kevin, I'm gonna have to
start this answer before the break and then I'm gonna
have to finish it after the right because it's a
long answer and it's a valid criticism for me. Remember
after Trump got shot, we were all asking for togetherness,
we were all asking to, you know, lower the tone
of the rhetoric. Right, That's what we did after Trump
got shot. But killing Charlie Kirk is different. And when

(31:10):
we get back, I will tell you why. And I
very much appreciate the question, Kevin. We'll do this right
after this.

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Speaker 5 (31:43):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show.
A little bit later, we are talking about Halloween burlesque.
Oh yes, you heard me right. But right now, I
want to respond to a question that listener Kevin had
and it's a legitimate question. And Kevin said, look, I
lean right on a lot of stuff, but I'm being
getting a lot of crap from my friends on the

(32:04):
right for pointing out that by blaming the left for
Charlie Kirk's murder. You are engaging in the kind of
hateful rhetoric that you are accusing the left of engaging in.
And you, guys, that is a fair criticism. It is
one hundred percent accurate. But now I just said in

(32:25):
the last hour, anything that comes after the butt negates
anything I just said right there. You can't negate the
fact that he's making a solid point that we are
now engaging in the kind of rhetoric that we're worried about.
Except with one big exception, when I talk about people

(32:46):
on the left showing their dark souls by celebrating and
justifying the death of Charlie Kirk, not one single time
have I advocated any kind of vibelits have I said
these people are a threat to the United States of America.
Now other people have. Other people absolutely have, and I

(33:10):
think that's counterproductive, and I think in that case, Kevin
is one hundred percent correct. But the reality is this,
you guys, Charlie Kirk broke something in a lot of
people that otherwise have been going about their business keeping
their mouths shut, not getting into it with their liberal friends,
because the friendship is more important than you know, winning

(33:31):
an argument. They have now realized that not only not
only did someone on the left, inspired by left wing rhetoric,
by left wing conversations, decided that the answer was to
murder a man who was not a politician. He hadn't

(33:52):
been elected into office with a long history of you know,
disparaging or disappointing constituents. We're used to presidents getting shot.
We're used to politicians getting shot. I hate it, but
it's true. That's why people started to make the comparison
between Charlie Kirk's murder and Martin Luther King's murder because
Martin Luther King Junior was not a politician. He was

(34:14):
the leader of a movement. Now that movement had a
political bent. That Martin Luther King Junior wasn't running for president.
He was trying to change the country. Charlie Kirk wasn't
running for president. He was trying to change the country
and for a lot of people, people like me. When

(34:35):
I hear people on the left, and some of them
are people that I have cared deeply about for a
very very long time, when I hear them trying to
justify the murder of Charlie Kirk by saying well, you know,
he wasn't a good guy.

Speaker 8 (34:49):
Right.

Speaker 5 (34:51):
What they're saying is, hey, this guy that I disagree with,
that you happen to agree with a lot of things
that he believed, and that he said he's not a
good guy, so therefore you are not a good guy either.

Speaker 16 (35:05):
Right.

Speaker 5 (35:05):
Isn't that how you take it? That's how it feels
to me. It very much feels that way to me.
And even Jesus had a moment where he flipped the
tables and yelled at the money changers, and that's kind
of where I am. I'm ready to flip some tables.
I'm ready to push back because frankly, it's not about

(35:25):
urging violence. It's not about urging you know anything. It
is about holding them to account for their culpability in
creating an atmosphere where a twenty two year old man
decided that the quote was some hate can't be negotiated from.

Speaker 16 (35:43):
Right.

Speaker 5 (35:43):
That was a quote from his own text messages. Where
does that sound? Does that sound familiar at all? Well,
let me run through some of the quotes that I
just pulled up in the I don't know six minutes
between Kevin's call and now Representative Jasmine Crockett. She said,
I think that you punch. I think you punch. I

(36:04):
think you okay with punching. She also said Senator Ted
Cruz has to be knocked over the head, like hard, right,
like there's no niceties in him, like at all, you
go clean off on him. That's Jasmine Crockett. Governor Gavin Newsom,
he said, we're gonna punch these sons of bitches in
the mouth. Former Representative Veto O'Rourke said, instead of awaiting

(36:24):
the punch thrown by those would be fascist, we'll get
to the word fascist in just a moment to hit
us in the face and then respond, I want us
to punch first. I want us to punch harder. Representative
Maxine Waters. If you see anybody from that cabinet in
a restaurant, a department store, at a gasoline station, you
get out and you create a crowd and you push
back on them and you tell them they're not welcome

(36:47):
anymore anywhere. House Lead House Minority Leader Hi King jeffries,
we're gonna fight it legislatively, We're gonna fight it in
the courts, We're gonna fight it in the streets. That
kind of rhetoric along with the constant drumbeat of Republicans
or Nazis. Trump is a fascist. First of all, you
demean the atrocities that were perpetrated by actual Nazis and

(37:11):
actual fascists by saying that, because it is so detached
from reality, and for a very long time, people like me,
we just you know what, we're like, we'll agree to disagree,
and we took it and we're not taking it anymore.
So I am here to hold them accountable because there

(37:33):
is a huge level of denial going on right now.
Oh my goodness, when the text messages between this shooter
and his boyfriend were released yesterday already on X they're like,
oh my god, twenty year olds do not.

Speaker 17 (37:46):
Talk like that.

Speaker 5 (37:48):
Well, if they use voice to text, they do, because
if you use voice to text and just say a sentence,
that's what it texts. But by the way, the boyfriend
is cooperating completely because he sure as hell doesn't want
to go to jail. So we're in a position right

(38:08):
now where we can do exactly what you're saying. We
can rise above until the next time. Because what we've
seen on the left, and I'm not even talking about
from elected officials and I haven't even gotten to Joe
Biden and everything Joe Biden said. Do you remember Joe's
dark Joe Biden's speech where he literally said Donald Trump
and Maga Republicans are a threat to democracy and he

(38:31):
used that throughout the entire campaign. They are a threat
to democracy. They are trying to destroy the foundations of
this country. Is that productive political speech or is that
an incitement to violence for a crazy person who has
decided that this is the way to go.

Speaker 18 (38:53):
Now.

Speaker 5 (38:53):
I have my own opinions about this shooter. I think
he was a very very conflicted gay man from a
conservative family in a state where it's not okay to
be gay, and I think he had he thought this
was going to be some kind of grand, romantic gesture
that was not only going to show his beloved how
much he loved him, but was also going to man
him up right. None of that, None of that should

(39:17):
have happened, None of it. So I feel this very deeply.
And to see people that I thought were my friends
piling on using cherry picked quotes that demonstrate clearly that
not only they've never listened to a single thing Charlie
Kirk ever said by the way, I've watched more Charlie

(39:40):
Kirk content in the past five days than I have
watched in my entire life. Before he was shot. I
wasn't in his demo. He wasn't talking to me, right,
he was talking to college students. And that's the other thing.
This wasn't just an attack on Charlie Kirk, an attack
on people who think like I do. It was an

(40:01):
attack on free speech. Aren't we always told when Black
Lives Matter happened. Weren't we told we had to have
a conversation, we needed to have a national reckoning on race.
We were told that over and over and over again,
only to find out that the conversations were lectures from

(40:23):
racist who wanted to sit and tell a bunch of
white people that we were all inherently racist and there
was nothing we could do to get the racism out
of our soul, and therefore we needed to give them
money or something in order to get absolution from the
racism that we can't get out of our souls. We
were told we needed a conversation. Well, guess what Charlie
Kirk was having a conversation. He was trying to talk

(40:44):
to people he didn't agree with He gave them an
open microphone from which they were allowed to come up, pontificate,
share their views, and many times they shared them in
a very aggressive fashion, and he was never nasty. He
would push back, but he was never nasty even to
people who were nasty to him, because he knew he

(41:05):
could win the argument. He knew that the facts were
on his side, and that being so dangerous to people
on the left that they're celebrating the death of Charlie
Kirk because they disagreed with what he said. How does
that not feel like it puts you on notice? How
does not feel like you could be next? I mean,
maybe I feel this way. Maybe I feel a heightened

(41:25):
sense of this because of what I do for a living.
There's a real possibility of that that I just have
such a heightened sense of emotion here because it feels
very possible that this could be my fate because someone
disagrees with what I say. It is so completely antithetical
to the American ideals that I have long believed in.

(41:47):
You know, I say I am a free speech absolutist.
When Jimmy Seenberger was in here yesterday and we were
talking about these horrific websites and reddit, you know, subreddits
or whatever where people are watching murder and everything. As
you hear me say, they should be taken down. No,
I just said kids shouldn't be allowed to go there.
I think they're vile and disgusting, and I think that

(42:08):
I wish, I just wish that at white hat hackers
would go in and they would identify the people in
these chat rooms, so we will all know who to
look out for. That would be what I would like
to see happen. Oh, you want to watch videos of
school shootings. I want to know who you are, and
I'm keeping an eye on you from here on out.
But I don't know what I'm taken down. You can't

(42:30):
be a free speech absolutist and not believe that it
is not the government's role to curtail speech. But at
the same time, I ran it out a teacher in
Meet County who apparently a substitute, is now teaching her
class for her nasty comments. You know why, I'm not
the government, And I've been told for years now, for
years by people on the left, that there should be

(42:51):
accountability when you say things that upset people. Well, boy, howdy,
this went well beyond saying things that upset people. Now
I'm having my Jesus flipping the tables moment. I am
having the moment where I am so viscerally angry that
I am determined to never be silent again. When someone

(43:12):
I know and love and care about says some dumb
ass left wing thing, I can assure you that I
will gently and completely let them know just how dumb
what they just said was. Because they have this impression
that more people in the world agree with them than not.
They have this impression that they can go on the Internet,

(43:33):
which is a public forum, by the way, and they
can say the nastiest things that they can think of.
They can cheer and show videos of their children. Oh,
I didn't even talk about this yesterday. I'm gonna bring
this in here. I'm gonna bring this into this conversation,
so I hope Kevin begins to understand. Yesterday on the
blog Heaven, if you didn't see it, there was a
video that was filmed by a mother and then put

(43:59):
on line by the same mother. And in this video
you have two little children and the mom comes up
he goes, I have the best news ever, and I'm paraphrasing,
but I'm pretty close. I have the best news ever.
And one of the children says Donald Trump died, and
the mom laughs and it's like, no, that's not what happened.

(44:21):
And the other one goes, Jadie Vance died, and you
should see the hope in their faces for the death
of people that their parents disagree with politically. Be clear,
those kids learned that from their mother. So if calling
out that level of hate is hate speech, well sometimes

(44:44):
you got a punch a bully in the face. And
I don't mean that literally, I mean it rhetorically. The
other part of this whole thing is watching people on
the left cry crocodile tears over losing a job because
people rated them out because they said all horrible things
that showed absolutely no humanity, y'all. I am like stone

(45:04):
when I see these people crying. I don't care, because
in my twenty years of doing a talk show, I
have had at least four concerted, organized efforts by people
on the left to either get all of my advertisers
to cancel their contracts with me or to actively work
to get me fired. So I've already been through this

(45:25):
four separate occasions. I have had to file police reports
because of threats that I received at the radio station
on more than one occasion. So my sympathy is zero
because they did it to me. Now I realized that
at some point, we're all gonna have to rise above.
We're all gonna have to figure out a way to
bring the country back together. And guys, I want to

(45:46):
be a part of that. I really do. But I
also know they will never stop unless they pay some
kind of consequences for their lack of humanity. And the
government can't do it, but the people can. We can
use the exact same rule book that was written by
people on the left that has been deployed against people

(46:08):
on the right for decades. Now, if you ever listen
to Russia Limbaugh, you know that Rush Limbaugh was constantly
the subject of a group of people that would attack
all of his advertisers on every local station, and they
would say, I'm a dedicated customer and I'm never shopping
there again as long as you advertise on the Rush

(46:28):
Limbaugh Show. He talked about it openly on the air.
So we are now picking up the rule book that
the left laid down, and until they decide that the
rule book needs to go for everybody. We have no
choice because now they've gone from calling us Nazis, and
they've gone from calling us fascists, and they've gone from

(46:50):
comparing us to Joseph Kerbels on the floor of Congress.
They've gone from merely saying we need to be punched
in the face to now one of our people, a
young man with two small children and a wife, whose
crime was going on college campuses and getting young people
whose heads had been jammed full with so much just

(47:11):
mush from the left that run our universities, and making
them question their belief system. He never bludgeon them over
the head rhetorically and tried to force them to believe
what he believed. He asked them questions to make them
question the dumb ass things that they believe, and they
killed him.

Speaker 9 (47:32):
They murdered him.

Speaker 5 (47:35):
So I realized that it is a very contradictory feeling.
I don't like feeling this way. If you guys have
listened to the show, you know I'm not a name caller,
I'm not a pejorative slinger. Yeah, I am highly critical
of the Democrats in this state and the way they
run it, But I have never lobbed a personal attack.
I have never said go down to the Capitol and

(47:56):
punch someone in the face. I have never advocated for
violence in any way, shape or form, and I have
certain I have never celebrated an attack on a political opponent.

Speaker 16 (48:10):
Ever.

Speaker 5 (48:12):
And yet for me, is that enough to get me
shot and then have people here celebrate it? The people
on the nine news facebook page? Are they going to
celebrate my death too? This is different because it's different.
This is different because it will never stop until we

(48:36):
stop it. And I hate that this is where we are.
I hate it with a fire of a thousand sons.
I really do. I would much rather have substantial conversations
about policy decisions that are going to affect our lives
on a daily basis, as boring as that may be,
I would much prefer that. But this moment was thrust
upon us, and I'm tired of being nice. I'm tired

(49:01):
of feeling like I have to curtail my viewpoint because
someone on the other side is gonna call me a racist,
a homophobe, a fascist, a Nazi, a whatever. Frankly, I
don't care about any of that. Honestly, I just I
don't fight with people because I can't be bothered now
I'm bothered now it matters. So I hope Kevin, this

(49:23):
helps you understand. It's not going to excuse the point
that the dialogue on the right is now matching the
dialogue on the left. It's not gonna excuse that. But,
like I said, we have to stop this, and frankly,
I think the only way we stop it is by
using the exact same tactics that we learn from the

(49:44):
left on them, so they decide to not use them
on us anymore. Because it sucks, sucks for everybody. I
hate everybody right now, you guys, I really do. I
don't mean I hate it. I don't hate a rod.
I don't hate you guys listening to the audience, I
have no reason to hate ay right runs like, dude,
what did I do? No, Seriously, I hate the political discourse.

(50:04):
I hate the political dialogue. I hate what this country
is becoming. But I genuinely am starting to believe until
we get serious about shoving it back down their throats,
it will never ever end. Now, when we get back,
I'm going to open up the phone lines. I'm gonna
let you guys weigh in, and then We're not going
to talk about this in the two o'clock hour. I
have like a million other things that I want to

(50:25):
talk about. Okay, So when we get back from break,
phone lines open three O three seven to one, three
eighty five eighty five, will be right back. Are we
spreading hate speech? Are we doing what they say? You
know what we say they're doing. Are we now doing?

Speaker 16 (50:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (50:40):
We kind of are. And I wish we weren't. I
wish I didn't feel this way. I wish I didn't
believe that the only way to stop this is to
kind of give as good as we get. Three O
three seven one three eighty five eighty five. That's three
oh three seven one three eighty five eighty five. David
in Pueblo. On your mind, David.

Speaker 10 (51:02):
Mandy.

Speaker 19 (51:03):
I recently started to listening to you.

Speaker 12 (51:05):
I drive a truck and called out of.

Speaker 19 (51:10):
Four quick items and I'll be fast.

Speaker 12 (51:14):
I think I liked your reference.

Speaker 19 (51:15):
Is mandy spelt.

Speaker 14 (51:16):
Different than a stripper?

Speaker 19 (51:20):
Secondly, you talked about being a cheerer in high school
and being on the bottom of the pyramids and all that.
It's gonna ask you how tall you were, and you
never answered that question.

Speaker 5 (51:33):
I'm five ten, and I've been five to ten since
the ninth grade.

Speaker 11 (51:37):
But there you go.

Speaker 5 (51:38):
Y was funny.

Speaker 19 (51:42):
Thirdly, yeah, give as good as you can get. You
know what it's been on for years, kind of like
the frog and put it in the pot and turn
of the heat on.

Speaker 20 (51:52):
Ye.

Speaker 19 (51:53):
And the Democrats have abused this, the legacy media has
abused this. The education which I watched my children and
another state go through. The indoctrination is over the top.
I'll just leave that alone.

Speaker 5 (52:08):
But what really is the lead of all this?

Speaker 8 (52:10):
Mandy?

Speaker 19 (52:12):
And no one wants to deal with it. And I'm
finding people that are so scared. Yes there's been laws,
but they're not legit. All elections, their selections where Machin
needs need to go.

Speaker 10 (52:24):
And I mailed at work and I reach out to
poets all the time.

Speaker 19 (52:28):
To three Tina Peter's partner, because she's corruptly in jail.

Speaker 5 (52:34):
We'll agree to disagree about Tina Peters. Because Tina Peters
was tried by a Republican prosecutor in a district that
probably had a mostly Republican jury, and from what I
know from following the trials, she clearly violated the law clearly.
Now is ther sent and successive. Yeah, I think it is.

Speaker 8 (52:53):
I do.

Speaker 5 (52:53):
I think it's successive. But she clearly violated the law,
so we will agree to disagree on that, Dave. But
all the rest of your points are are you gratefully accepted?
I appreciate that, No problem.

Speaker 19 (53:08):
Well you might want to every want research on that
trial because she never really got a fair trial.

Speaker 5 (53:12):
Well, there's a lot of reasons for that as well.
But they were choices that she made. So it's like
when someone makes a bad choice about who they hire
as an attorney. That's the choice that they've made, and
she made that. Never mind, we'll go into that later. Jack,
you're on Koway What's on your Mind?

Speaker 8 (53:31):
By Mandy.

Speaker 11 (53:32):
I keep hearing public figures, some of them politicians, some
of them entertainers, most recently Jamie Curtis making references that are.

Speaker 8 (53:49):
Its hoowful? They are appropriate, yes, that regard, but who
simply say I couldn't disagree more with Charlie Kirk's ideas.
I don't hear anyone enumerate what those ideas are. I
don't even hear them say I disagree completely with Charlie
Kirk's approach or his technique and I'd like for someone

(54:13):
to tell me what those ideas are. Even the person
under arrest talked about some ideas can't be negotiated with.
Has anyone on that stand expressed what ideas I think?

Speaker 5 (54:31):
Well, I think there's a couple of things that work here.
And I'm glad you brought up Jamie Lee Curtis because
I'm a huge fan. She is on the left, openly
on the left. She has a trans daughter, and so
she gave what I thought were incredibly gracious comments about
Charlie Kirk. She is a person of faith. She is
a woman who says, look, I was saved by AA

(54:53):
and I have a great relationship with my creator. And
I thought her comments were very gracious. But people on
the left must qualify their comments because if they are
perceived by people on the left as being too sympathetic
to the death of Charlie Kirk, well then the knives
come out for them, right, And so I think that

(55:15):
there is a lot of that going on where they
feel like they have to say, well, I didn't agree
with anything he said, and I bet you a vast
majority of them could not clearly articulate a single thing
that Charlie Kirk said, but that's like the disclaimer, so
they don't get annihilated by their side while they're trying
to do something kind and express some sympathy. So, you know,

(55:36):
I think that's a fair question, Jack, But I don't
think the time is now to say, I'm going to
press you on this, right, like, let them at least
do the decent thing and say this man did not
deserve to die and condemn in no uncertain terms of
political violence. Because to your point, there have been people
on the left that have said that. But I think
that they have to give themselves cover or otherwise they

(55:58):
know their next right. And it's sad but true.

Speaker 8 (56:05):
Well, yeah, I don't quite know what to say in
response to that, other than until those ideas are articulated,
there's really no discussion that we can hit. But you
know what, miserating with the family.

Speaker 11 (56:25):
We agree on that with people like Jamie Lee Curtis.
But Jack, here's the thing that they have a compulsion
to tell us that they disagree. Why is that even
necessarily Well, part because.

Speaker 5 (56:39):
They have to they have to to give themselves cover
with their side. The reality is is that Jack, there
are such good things happening in the background right now.
They're a turning Point USA. The organization started by Charlie
Kirk has They said they had over forty two thousand
requests in the last week for students who wanted to

(57:00):
start a Turning Port chapter at their schools, whether it
was middle school or high school or their colleges. You
have all of these people, some of who had never
even heard of Charlie Kirk before consuming his content at
a very high level. And as soon as those people
understand and truly grasp what Charlie Kirk was about, those

(57:21):
are the people that are going to be going to
be fighting back. Those are the people that are going
to be doing exactly what you say you need and
I agree needs to happen. But I do think it's
been a week. There is still We're still early in
the grief curve and things are are happening behind the
scenes that will come to fruition later that I think
will provide you some satisfaction on this particular measure. Jack,

(57:43):
I appreciate the phone call. Let me get Mark. You
are on KOA from Golden What's on your mind?

Speaker 12 (57:50):
Hi? Mandy. An earlier show you were talking about no
More Cherry Creek School District, no more valid Victorians.

Speaker 5 (57:59):
Yes, that was yesterday.

Speaker 8 (58:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (58:01):
I was reading about the Colorado Teacher of the Year
and one of the finalists was a teacher from Cherry
Creek High School, So I think they should take that
away too.

Speaker 5 (58:21):
Mark, that is an excellent point that you just made.
If they're not going to let the kids have superlative,
surely they can't have a teacher get a superlative either. Hey, Mark,
you're in Golden Are you familiar with the Miners Alley
Theater there? The little theater right there off of the
main drag. It's so good. You should go see a
play there.

Speaker 12 (58:41):
Yeah, Myners Hardware thirty five years.

Speaker 5 (58:44):
Yes, ma'am, exactly. They do great work there. I just
saw my first show there on Sunday and absolutely loved it.
Stown Yep, I appreciate it.

Speaker 13 (58:53):
Man.

Speaker 5 (58:53):
That's a great point, Mark, A fine point, Isn't that funny? Mandy?
I think the the shooter's problem with Charlie that he
mentioned in the text exchange was probably his stance on homosexuality.
Sounds like this kid might have been gay, but everything
in his upbringing told him that was not good. And
my guess is was Charlie was not a fan. If

(59:14):
I'm a If I'm a I don't that's dude. Well,
here's the thing. There's a lot of content of Charlie
Kirk speaking directly to people who come up and say
I'm queer or I'm gay or whatever. And Charlie Kirk
was always very clear. He said, look, because of my faith,
I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.

(59:37):
But I also believe that gay people are welcome in
the conservative movement. And there's a video floating around yesterday.
I should probably grab it. I'll see if I can
find it of him actually pushing back on a student
who got up to a microphone and said basically like,
how can you welcome gay people if you say you're
a Christian? And Charlie Kirk pushed back really hard on

(59:58):
that and said, what would you do with these people?
Of course, of course they're welcome. So though he personally
believed that homosexuality was a sin, he never went out
and said you're wrong, you're going to hell, you're a
bad person, you're all of these things. He just said,
my beliefs are this. Shouldn't you be able to say that?

Speaker 18 (01:00:17):
Now?

Speaker 5 (01:00:18):
I disagree with it. Charlie Kirk and I disagree on homosexuality.
His is biblically informed and I understand that and appreciate it.
Mine is a little more loosey goosey. I kind of
feel like God made us all in this, you know,
in a way. So I disagreed with him all that,
But he was never nasty about it. He never said, hey,
you giant homo, sit down and shut up. That never happened.

(01:00:41):
So if this kid was radicalized because of that, And
I think it's a safe assertion to say that a
man in a relationship with another man who is trying
to become a woman but is still a man, you
are gay if you are in that relationship. If you
are a man in a relationship with another man with
a penis, you are in a gay relationship. And where
I sit, there's nothing wrong with that. Hey, Chris, what's

(01:01:03):
on your mind?

Speaker 14 (01:01:05):
Hey Mandy A longtime listener. I'm a construction worker. I
agree with you about you know, if you speak out,
I mean, what is this in nineteen forty two? Again?

Speaker 5 (01:01:16):
Yeah, it does feel that way that only they prove
narrative is allowed.

Speaker 14 (01:01:21):
Yeah, it's just it's unbelievable I don't you know. I
hope your station will give you some money to pay
for your security.

Speaker 5 (01:01:31):
We have talked about it, yes, yes, we have indeed
talked about it. So yeah, there are things work in there.

Speaker 18 (01:01:39):
You know.

Speaker 14 (01:01:39):
It's just absurd. I didn't think I'd ever live in
a country like this. It just bothers me away. I'm like,
come on, people, it's okay to talk to each other.

Speaker 5 (01:01:49):
As a matter of fact, it used to be encouraged,
but here we are, Chris. I appreciate the phone call man,
Thanks for listening as well. Hey David in Golden you're
on KOA.

Speaker 7 (01:02:00):
Hi Mandy, Hi David again, same same thing, long time listener.

Speaker 10 (01:02:05):
I absolutely love your show. God bless you for what
you do.

Speaker 15 (01:02:10):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:02:11):
I appreciate that.

Speaker 10 (01:02:13):
Uh, dang it. I just wish they'd bring battle Box back.

Speaker 7 (01:02:18):
Well.

Speaker 5 (01:02:18):
Battle Bots actually has an entire facility in Las Vegas now,
they have like a building in Las Vegas. So I'll
find out about that and I'll let you know if
battle Bots is making a comeback anytime soon.

Speaker 7 (01:02:31):
Oh that would be awesome.

Speaker 10 (01:02:33):
Maybe we could, you know, work out our differences on
with our battle box.

Speaker 5 (01:02:39):
That would be amazing to have one battle bot be
read one battle bot be blue. Then you have a
porcupine battle bot for the Libertarian Party and just duke
it out in the battle fock ring and let our
robots do the talking forest. That would be fantastic.

Speaker 10 (01:02:53):
Yeah, they only have a thing. Uh you know, I
watched the news this morning and they were talking about
the lack of funding for RSOs. I wonder if somebody
I wouldn't be able to do it, but I wonder
if somebody could put together a volunteer organization to supplement

(01:03:17):
the RSOs in the school district.

Speaker 5 (01:03:20):
Well, I do think this is going to get renewed
attention for a variety of reasons. I know that Douglas
County just had a big meeting last night about school
security and they have to change. They have to change
some stuff legislatively to be able to provide SROs for
every school. There's some things that has to happen. But
whatever community you're in, David, I would start to reach

(01:03:42):
out to the school board and say, what is the
situation on SROs. How can we get more SROs in
the schools? Because if they hear from people, if they
get phone calls and say this is important to me.
I want to make sure our kids have the best chance,
and I think SROs would be a big part of it.
It will make a difference. So I would urge you
and everybody listening to make that phone call to the

(01:04:02):
school board respectfully, politely ask them about increased security for
kids because we got to do something. I appreciate the
phone call David very much. I want to read one
email before we go to break. It's real short. It
just says, Mandy, please don't use my name. I work
in a newsroom. What you just said today inspired me
to push harder. It's been an uphill battle to get
conservative viewpoints heard and represented. You're vilified for expressing and

(01:04:26):
opposing viewpoint. You want to discuss coverage from a memorial
for Charlie Kirk and someone suggests doing a piece about
the difference between hate speech and political rhetoric. How about
a story regarding a human being who was about free speech.
I don't have to agree with what you say, but
I'm going to stand up for your right to say it.
I hate seeing where we are in a society today.
We cannot openly discuss opposing viewpoints in a peaceful manner

(01:04:48):
and maybe gain a better understanding. We'll be right back.

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Speaker 5 (01:05:18):
Welcome, Wellcot, Welcome to the third hour of the show.
I'm your host, Mandy Connell. I got Anthony Rodriguez was there.
We got the wine Yogi doing her airhorn. As a
matter of fact, I really would love for you guys
to go to the blog today. I had like a
whole show planned. I did not mean to spend the
entire show talking about the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk
assassination and the political discourse in this country. It's only

(01:05:41):
been a week. I'm still not over it. I did
not mean to go completely down this way today. But
there's a lot of people, based on the responses I'm
getting there sort of in the same position. So we
will continue this for a couple more phone calls and
then I've got other stuff on the blog at mandy'sblog
dot com that I really want to get to. But
I want to talk to Vicky and Greeley first, Vicky,
you're on kaway. What's on your mind?

Speaker 21 (01:06:03):
Hi, thank you for taking my call. Yes, just observations
from two years ago. Uh, during the whole George Floyd
and black lives matters, uproars and everything, the cops, the
police officers, the school resource officers were not wanted in
the schools. They were not welcome in the school, nor
were they welcome pretty much anywhere. But now, all of
a sudden you kind of almost get suggist that it

(01:06:26):
was almost the school resource officer's fault and Evergreen, And
I mean, it's just an observation that why the cops
were not welcome back then, but now it's all of
a sudden that they're needed and wanted everywhere. So it's
just the hypocrisy is driving me to drink, and it's
a little bit of a WTF allment.

Speaker 5 (01:06:44):
Well, you know, and I get to you, Vicky, and
I appreciate the phone call. I totally understand that feeling.
And it's when you say it's the SRO's fault. In Evergreen,
the s RO was on medical leave and there was
another SRO that was split between two schools, and so
there was no SRO in the schools at that time.
So that's kind of I think what Vicky was referring to.
But yeah, they're bad, they're good. The problem is is that,

(01:07:08):
just as people like me said when they defund the police,
movement really got rolling on the left. We all sat
here and we're like, you know, crime's gonna go up, right,
I mean, you do know criminals are going to fill
that void, right, And all of a sudden, everybody's like,
oh my gosh, we need an SRO because bad things

(01:07:30):
are gonna go Well, yeah, that's well. I'm just glad
they got there eventually. Vicky. I'm just glad they, you know,
figured it out. Just be grateful for that. Sharon and Thornton,
I'll let you have the last word. What's on your mind?

Speaker 13 (01:07:44):
Hi, it's Karen actually, but never mind. My granddaughters went
to Erie High School. They were in middle school when.

Speaker 7 (01:07:51):
Sandy Hook hit Yeah, and I had a thought.

Speaker 13 (01:07:53):
Then I talked to their school principal and supposedly, someone
who's gonna call me from the district and it never did.
And if somebody suggested, I'm sorry.

Speaker 7 (01:08:01):
But my thought was they could find a lot of retired.

Speaker 13 (01:08:05):
Grandparents parents who would gladly go to the school and
not have to pay them a plug nickel just to
keep the kids safe.

Speaker 5 (01:08:12):
Well, in some schools, like my daughter's charter school in
Douglas County had a program like that and they called
it Watchdogs. Yeah, they called it watchdogs, and they basically
were parents or grandparents that just were in the schools.
They would walk around the grounds and make sure that,
you know, everything looked fine, and they would kind of
keep an eye on things. And it really just takes

(01:08:33):
one family or one person coordinating the volunteer situation. I
don't know about a true traditional public school how welcoming
they would be, but our charter school loved it and
they encouraged it, and we had a great group of parents.
My husband was one of them that just was were

(01:08:54):
on campus. So to your point, that exists, but it
is usually, to your point, again, a volunteer organization. So
perhaps if you're listening to this right now and you're
one of those retired grandparents who would love to help out,
reach out and see if you can start a chapter
in the school near you. I appreciate the phone call.
Somebody just pointed out something and I am embarrassed that

(01:09:14):
I forgot about this. It is Constitution Day. How ironic
is that that the Constitution, which includes the Bill of Rights,
one of the greatest documents, in my view, ever to
create a system of government that was designed with one goal,
and that was to ensure that the people who lived
under that document could remain free, and that included the

(01:09:37):
right to free speech and just for fun. I want
you to all do this with me, because we all
learned it the same way. We all learned the Preamble
to the Constitution. If you're my age, if you're gen X,
you know where I'm going with this. Hey, Rod, can
you sing the preamble with me?

Speaker 11 (01:09:54):
Do you know it?

Speaker 5 (01:09:54):
Do you know the song? We the people in order
to form them more perfect, and establish justice and ensure
a domestic drink with let ee provide for the common defense,
promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of our
liberty to ourselves and our posterity to our dain, and

(01:10:15):
distablish this Constitution of the United States of americ I
guarantee you there's like everyone my age was singing that song.

Speaker 6 (01:10:27):
Ever heard of schoolhouse Rock?

Speaker 5 (01:10:29):
That's how we learned everything in Jai and I never
heard that one. Oh god, look it up right now,
Look up Schoolhouse rock preample of the Constitution. Phenomenal. All
the Schoolhouse rocks are amazing. I have them on DVD.

Speaker 17 (01:10:40):
They're so good.

Speaker 5 (01:10:42):
Today is Constitution Day. So let's not take that for granted,
shall we, Because this, all of this, the whole thing
we've been talking about for the show. It's all about
free speech and free speech. But you know, I see
this all the time on the show when people say,
you know, why do we have to have this, or
why do we have to have gun violence? Why do
we have the guys, we live ostensibly in a free nation,

(01:11:06):
and in a free nation, it's messy, it's not clean.
And Charlie Kirk made the point. Charlie Kirk made the
point about the Second Amendment. He started out, by the way,
if you've seen that little snippet from people saying he
wanted kids dead, die because of this, that's not at
all what he said. In the longer context of that clip,

(01:11:27):
he goes on to talk about things that we as
a society have decided are worth the trade off. He
uses the example of fifty thousand people die in car
accidents every year. Fifty thousand people die live, snuffed out
by car accidents. And yet we as a society are
not saying, well, we got to give up our cars,

(01:11:47):
We got to get that. That's it's it's inconvenient.

Speaker 4 (01:11:50):
Right.

Speaker 5 (01:11:51):
We've decided that fifty thousand deaths were willing to roll
the dice and hope we're not one of them. And
the point he was trying to make that in order
to allow us to push back against a tyrannical government,
we have to have arms, and there's no way that
we could fight back. I mean, you look at some

(01:12:12):
of these Look at the people in Venezuela. They're living
under a totalitarian who has destroyed their economy. People are
literally starving. They were eating zoo animals at one point,
and you know they don't have any way to fight back.
Same in Cuba, because as soon as these totalitarians get
into office, the first thing they do is disarm the population.
And if that doesn't give you pause, I don't know

(01:12:34):
if I can help you. Be kind about my singing
they preamble to the constitution. Several of you noticed that
it was a little off key. Whatever singing voice I
had went completely away after my vocal cord surgery, so
the fact that I even did that, it just shows
how much I love you and how much I love that.

(01:12:56):
It's Constitution Day today and many of you are hitting
up the text line with announcing I'm just a bill
or a conjunction junction, what's your function? And it's amazing
to me as a member of the gen X community.
Let me just tell the kids listening, and yeah, there's
some younger people listening.

Speaker 4 (01:13:12):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:13:12):
Back when we were kids, we didn't have cartoons all day.
We didn't have the cartoon Network. We got cartoons on
Saturday morning and we would get up and we would
pour a giant bowl of some kind of incredibly unhealthy cereal.
For me, Lucky Charms was my poison, and we would
eat this bowl of cereal while shoveling in just you know,

(01:13:34):
cartoons on Saturday morning, because you literally got three hours
of cartoons before, like news shows started, and schoolhouse Rock
taught us all so much stuff, Like there's so many
other good schoolhouse Rock videos, like the shot heard around
the world about the beginning of the American Revolution. You'd
be surprised how much of that when you remember. But
but what do kids consume now, you know, Like why

(01:13:59):
don't we have because Schoolhouse Rock was based really in
the foundation of the country and based in patriotism. This
is back in the nineteen seventies. We were coming up
to the bi centennial in nineteen seventy six, and people
were invested in learning about what made this country great.
And now we have kids in school where all they're
learning is everything we did wrong. We have to get

(01:14:19):
to a balance with what kids are learning. You absolutely
have to learn about the mistakes that have been made
in this country because we have never lived all the
way up to the ideals that we have put forth
in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. There's always
somebody getting the short end of the stick, right, So
it doesn't mean we shouldn't continue to try to live
up to those ideals, because I strongly believe that we

(01:14:41):
should continue to try to live up to those ideals.
But it's amazing how much that stuck, isn't it. I mean,
think about it. I can remember that, And what was
the other one? Remember the wagon wheel guy that used
to make snacks for after lunch, the guy with the
little cane and the hat, what was his name? All
these flashbacks from childhood are coming in now that I'm

(01:15:01):
talking about the Schoolhouse Rock and you've never seen Schoolhouse Rock,
you really should. When my daughter was really little, Oh god,
I forgot about this. So my daughter was really little
and I tried to like introduce Schoolhouse Rock to her
and she was like, oh, this isn't so boring because
we sat down to watch it all in a row, right.
But back in the day, they were just interspersed on

(01:15:24):
a commercial break. The networks literally took time out of
their programming to teach us about how a bill gets passed,
or the preamble of the Constitution, or what started the revolution.
I mean, come on, Mandy, I would have thought you'd
watch Bandstand or he Haw Saturday mornings. Well they came
on after he Haw. By the way, it was at

(01:15:45):
seven pm on Saturday night. I can also sing gloom, despair,
agony on me. Oh that spooky music indicates we're going
to talk about something Halloween related, But instead of blood
and guts and jump scares, we're talking about maybe some

(01:16:07):
feather boas. I don't know AC's we're talking about burlesque.
The show is called Nightmare on St.

Speaker 2 (01:16:15):
Strip.

Speaker 5 (01:16:15):
That's hard to say right on Strip Street. Kelly not
there on Strip Street.

Speaker 22 (01:16:22):
Say that about fourteen thousand times day. So, yes, it's
Nightmare on Strip Street here in Denver, of started in
July going through November.

Speaker 5 (01:16:33):
From wait, it's been going on since July? Yes, how
did I just hear about this? Is it just as
we're coming up to Halloween?

Speaker 9 (01:16:41):
I think that's the case.

Speaker 5 (01:16:42):
And I am out of the burlesque demo mostly, you.

Speaker 22 (01:16:45):
Know not you would be surprised when you come see
the show. If we can get you to come see
the show, you will be surprised by the variety of
ages that we have there. A lot of couples, of
couples come for date night or or what have you.
But yeah, this is a city that we're doing this
particular show in, right, and the production company is developing
it here.

Speaker 9 (01:17:06):
So we started in mid July through August.

Speaker 22 (01:17:08):
We sold out every show, so the producers decided to
extend us through November.

Speaker 5 (01:17:14):
Second, so let me ask this question for anybody listening,
because already I can feel the judge people and they're like,
maybe you're having strippers on that program and no, what
is the difference between burlesque In a more graphic form
of we called the shoe show.

Speaker 22 (01:17:30):
Here on the program that you the ladies are just
wearing shoes. What is the difference. The difference is that
this is burlesque. It is much more choreographed directed. This
is high level dancing. The dancers we have here today
and the dancers in our show are elite athletes.

Speaker 5 (01:17:46):
There.

Speaker 22 (01:17:47):
This is something you'll see in Vegas. This is not
what you'll see at Shotgun Willies. God bless everyone there.
But this is not somebody who decides to just get
up there and shake.

Speaker 5 (01:17:59):
Their hip right.

Speaker 22 (01:18:00):
This is highly choreographed, highly directed, highly elite dancing.

Speaker 5 (01:18:05):
Well, we have Jamie and Brandon in with us today
and I'm gonna start with Janie. Janie, when you were little,
were you like, God, I want to be a burlesque
dancer when I grow up. How did you get here?

Speaker 8 (01:18:16):
Not quite?

Speaker 18 (01:18:16):
Hi, No, I've I've always wanted to be a dancer,
but this sort of just like fell into my lap
this year. So this is my first time doing a
burlesque show. But it's a blast and I love it.

Speaker 5 (01:18:30):
Did you have reservations at all like the concept of burlesque?
What were your thoughts about it when when you found
out about it? Where did you have any reservations at all?

Speaker 18 (01:18:40):
Me personally, No, I'm a very open book though. I'm
a heels dancer, so I'm used to like the sexy
nature of the show.

Speaker 9 (01:18:49):
But yeah, not for me.

Speaker 5 (01:18:52):
How about now, Brandon, most people would not necessarily think
a dude in a burlesque show. So what do you
do in the show?

Speaker 23 (01:18:59):
So the show is because it's a parody burlesque show,
it has a comedy asset to it, right, So on
top of the comedy asset, there's a lot of i'm
gonna say, audience participation moments. Okay, and it's me and
another dude, okay, So we have a little skit where

(01:19:20):
it's I don't want to give anything away, but it's
an audience participation moment and it it's your blood flowing.
It makes things a little spicy, it guess. But just
as the ladies we have a little bit less moment.
We have, you know, a little bit of clothes taken off.
But it's the difference I would say with you know,

(01:19:40):
a ship called what you're talking about or is it's
more sensual instead of like overtly you know what I mean?
It's it's more like a classy way to like. It's
it's like a tease. It's not like a poem in
your face tea.

Speaker 5 (01:19:55):
And I have to say Didavon Tea is really I
think we'll just call her the godmother of modern burlesque
because she brought the art form back, yes, and has
had such stunning success and she every And I have
a few friends who are in burlesque troops in other
places and they're like, ah dita, you know so, but

(01:20:16):
it's taken off.

Speaker 22 (01:20:17):
It has there's a huge burlesque movement here in Denver.
If you don't know about that right now, there are
a lot of troops that are performing burlesque. Of course,
the Clockwork Cabaret, it does an amazing job there. Ophelia's
den had used to host the National Burlesque Competition. Denver

(01:20:37):
is really really kind of a before this type of
performance art right now.

Speaker 5 (01:20:42):
Do you think it's because it allows you to sort
of push the envelope without pushing it too far exactly?

Speaker 22 (01:20:48):
I mean, it's it's something that you can enjoy. You
can see the costumes, the spectacle.

Speaker 5 (01:20:54):
The spectacle is a line at the production. The little
snippets that are online and I was shocked at the
production value. Yes, I mean they're very impressive.

Speaker 4 (01:21:04):
They are.

Speaker 9 (01:21:05):
That's why I'm saying this is a Vegas style show.

Speaker 22 (01:21:07):
I mean we have I referenced to the splash zone
a little earlier, the very large champagne cup with a
dancer in it.

Speaker 5 (01:21:17):
You don't know, you have to understand, when I was
a kid, I always wanted to like the Honeymoon in
the Poconos, sure, because I wanted to be in the
champagne glass hot tubs. And there's just like some nostalgia
there with the champagne glass that I have to admit
to because that just always looks so cool.

Speaker 9 (01:21:31):
Yeah, the production values here are amazing.

Speaker 22 (01:21:33):
The costumes, the staging, the direction, the choreography, all of
that brings so much higher level to all of this.
Both of these these dancers are incredible. The heights that
Brandon gets to it is just amazing on this stage.
So I highly encourage anyone who is a little bit
hesitant because they're not sure about this type of situation.

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This is absolute a very very very highly wonderful show.
It's not you don't throw dollars on the stage, you
don't touch any.

Speaker 5 (01:22:14):
On the stage.

Speaker 2 (01:22:16):
What roles.

Speaker 5 (01:22:17):
Do you play in the show?

Speaker 18 (01:22:20):
I play several. I'm leatherface, I played Jason.

Speaker 5 (01:22:25):
Of course you were born to play I think so,
I think you.

Speaker 7 (01:22:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:22:33):
And do you have the Jason music? Please tell me
have the Jason music?

Speaker 20 (01:22:36):
I know?

Speaker 5 (01:22:37):
Is it copyrighted?

Speaker 22 (01:22:38):
It's actually our music for the show is a highly
curated special set of music that as the parody.

Speaker 9 (01:22:45):
It's so incredible, Okay, so incredible.

Speaker 18 (01:22:48):
I also am Jake saw.

Speaker 9 (01:22:50):
What else do I pay.

Speaker 5 (01:22:54):
This show?

Speaker 9 (01:22:54):
Are you still in the I'm a nun?

Speaker 13 (01:22:56):
Yes, pinhead?

Speaker 5 (01:22:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:22:59):
What else?

Speaker 3 (01:23:00):
Yes?

Speaker 9 (01:23:00):
I think that's all of them.

Speaker 5 (01:23:02):
How did you They just looked at you and like,
she can play everyone evil in this show? A fine job?
What can I say?

Speaker 8 (01:23:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:23:11):
Now, when you guys started working on this show, and
I'll ask all three of you this, like, at any
point did you say, well, this is kind of crazy, right,
I mean, we're making a Halloween show that's burlesque that's
also funny, but it almost feels like a throwback to
Vaudeville in a way, that kind of way you're describing
it a little bit where it encompasses everything.

Speaker 22 (01:23:31):
Yeah, I love burlesque personally, and I do a lot
of theater around town. And so the thing that happened though,
is that I worked with Empire Strips back when it
was here last year. We're going to talk about that
and much is our Star Wars burlesque show. I loved
it because I'm such a major Star Wars fan and
it was such a good show. So when they called
me to ask me to work this show, I said,

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this is the perfect follow up. This is just blow
my mind. I can't believe somebody thought of this. It's
really good.

Speaker 5 (01:23:59):
Now there's taking the show to other cities. Will you
guys be going Are they going to recast in other cities?
Or do you know how that word they're They're giving
me the look like we do not know the answer.
It's a way up there.

Speaker 22 (01:24:11):
There is another cast in San Francisco. San Francisco is
the next city this show is going to.

Speaker 9 (01:24:17):
In fact, it is in rehearsals right now.

Speaker 5 (01:24:19):
Okay, okay, So I mean when you went back Brandon
and you said to your friend, Oh, I just got
this cool job and I'm working in this burlesque show
about all of the serial like murderers in the horror movies.

Speaker 23 (01:24:32):
And what does your friends say, Well, I mean, I'm
originally from New York City, right, so this is kind
of normal.

Speaker 17 (01:24:39):
It's not really out of the ordinary.

Speaker 23 (01:24:41):
You know, I've been a professional dancer for like ten
fifteen years, so I've been You look.

Speaker 5 (01:24:48):
Like you're like fifteen years old.

Speaker 9 (01:24:50):
By the way, thank you.

Speaker 17 (01:24:50):
I just turned thirty one.

Speaker 5 (01:24:53):
Oh, congratulations to you. Whatever skincare regime you're doing that,
keep up that good work.

Speaker 17 (01:24:58):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 23 (01:24:58):
Yeah, I mean it's when I explain everything, like, because
if you explain it separately, you're gonna look at me like,
what right do you so? Halloween parody but also burlesque
at the same time, like it it doesn't seem like
it makes sense. And even when I like got hired
for it, I was kind of thinking like that too,

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you know, I'm like, how is this gonna how does
it work?

Speaker 11 (01:25:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:25:24):
How does it work?

Speaker 17 (01:25:24):
How is it gonna look? How's it gonna?

Speaker 11 (01:25:26):
Like?

Speaker 17 (01:25:26):
How are they gonna put everything together?

Speaker 23 (01:25:28):
But then, honestly, like once we finally started getting into
everything and like the show, after the first week of
the shows, we were like, oh, okay, but.

Speaker 5 (01:25:36):
Don't you love it when you see a plan come together?
Like I've always loved the creative process and working with
other people, especially when you kind of don't know how
it's gonna turn out, and then all of a sudden
you're part of it and you start to see it
all gel and it's it's a very powerful experience to
create an artistic endeavor from scratch.

Speaker 8 (01:25:54):
It just is.

Speaker 22 (01:25:55):
It's the best life, It really is. I've seen the
show fifty four times now, and.

Speaker 2 (01:26:01):
Well we are.

Speaker 22 (01:26:05):
And I love it every single time. It's amazing. And
you should see the ladies go nuts for ghost Face
and Mike Myers when Brandon and his compatriot even come out.

Speaker 5 (01:26:15):
It is crazy. Well, it's anything like women do at
a mail strip review. I got to tell you, I
am embarrassed for my gender when I see that kind
of behavior. Is just shocking to me.

Speaker 22 (01:26:25):
Mostly most of the time people behave themselves, but I
get to handle the.

Speaker 9 (01:26:29):
Ones who don't.

Speaker 5 (01:26:29):
So let me ask you, guys, because Kelly's talked extensively
about this is an athletic group of performers. What is
your athletic routine?

Speaker 12 (01:26:41):
What do you mean by that?

Speaker 5 (01:26:43):
You do just dance toward Don't get me wrong, they
just dance. If you're dancing eight hours a day. That
is a tremendous amount of exercise. But do you have
other things that you do to keep in shape?

Speaker 18 (01:26:53):
Oh yeah, I mean I'm a personal trainer, so I
strength train all the things.

Speaker 9 (01:26:58):
I also teach dance.

Speaker 17 (01:27:00):
You can speak on like gymnastics. Yeah, I go to
the gym every day. I look small, but licks of
deceiving you know.

Speaker 8 (01:27:10):
You mean?

Speaker 23 (01:27:13):
And uh, I'm a former gymnast that was a competitive
gymnast all the way up until I was sixteen seventeen.
So and also the other male dancer is a former
like huge competitive cheerleader.

Speaker 5 (01:27:25):
Weill still. Yeah, we tumble a.

Speaker 23 (01:27:28):
Lot in the show too, and we break dance and
we do all those type of things. So it's just
a lot of athletic dancing. Like and with this is
you think bur lesque, You think subtle movement, you soft?

Speaker 5 (01:27:42):
These these girls are full out.

Speaker 23 (01:27:45):
Yeah, Like they're dancing super full out with a giant
heavy mask on and not no.

Speaker 24 (01:27:50):
Vision is always fun. It has a question for you guys. Yes,
guys that are going burlesquesh. I can't wait to go
to bless. Even Dave Fraser was mocking iLiad's gonna helpen time. No, no, no,
now I'm the ten percent of guys that are here
for the amazing kickstart to my Halloween horror genre season.
So can you guys pitch to me how satisfying this

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will be in terms of the entire horror genre And
like you mentioned, all the different characters you play will
how satisfied will that be for me in that realm?

Speaker 22 (01:28:20):
Well, you will never see Freddie or Jason or Mike
Myers or ghost Face in the same way. Again, everyone
else you ever see dressed as those characters will seem
like complete posers. So not he's my eighties language there,
But yeah, Freddy is in the huge champagne cup. Oh

(01:28:43):
my god, that's incredible. Leather Face, which she referenced, is
pretty amazing. We have the slash streaked boys, do you perform?
Which is a highlight for me personally my favorite are
going to have to double back?

Speaker 6 (01:29:01):
Actually because I ask twice, not triple back? Splash Zone.

Speaker 16 (01:29:04):
These people, these people that are getting tickets, you're surely
be siting on VIP.

Speaker 3 (01:29:09):
What what are we?

Speaker 6 (01:29:09):
What are we talking about?

Speaker 3 (01:29:10):
Here?

Speaker 6 (01:29:10):
Was splash Zone.

Speaker 9 (01:29:12):
It's not a huge splash like you get at water World.

Speaker 22 (01:29:16):
Our dancer, we have two dancers that do that particular scene,
they will slop a little bit.

Speaker 9 (01:29:22):
Out of the cup. If you are in the front
row of.

Speaker 25 (01:29:25):
VIP champagne glass yass okay, So if you're in the
front row of the VIP uh, we usually tell our
customers to pull their drinks back a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:29:37):
We cover.

Speaker 5 (01:29:39):
I'm going to top on that the rest of.

Speaker 22 (01:29:42):
The theater that you're not going to get it. You're
just going to see those vi P people get a
little sprinkle.

Speaker 5 (01:29:47):
I just had someone on the text line ask what
ages are appropriate hair?

Speaker 22 (01:29:51):
It is an eighteen and overshow okay? We do We
do ask that only eighteen in upcome. We do have
a bar, so the bar will card you, but eighteen
and over up to gosh, I don't know. I had
a lady who was like celebrating her eighty six birthday.
Ye a lot of be like her when I grow
up to eighty six, wheeled in the wheelchair and she

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had the best time of that is.

Speaker 5 (01:30:15):
Well, you know what, in eighty six, you just don't
care anymore, do you. You're just like I got zero
blanks to give.

Speaker 6 (01:30:20):
I'm just gonna go.

Speaker 5 (01:30:23):
Person right there. So let's real quick before we run
out of time. Let's talk about Empire Strips Bashu, which
is coming next year. Next gonna be next year's performance
that I looked at a bunch of videos on that.
That is crazy. The accuracy of Java the hut alone
is incredible. So tell me a little bit about that one.

Speaker 22 (01:30:45):
Java is an amazing, amazing set piece that is worked
by several of our crew.

Speaker 9 (01:30:52):
He sings to Biggie.

Speaker 22 (01:30:54):
Well, Princess Leah dances in the gold bikini.

Speaker 5 (01:30:57):
Okay, so this is like every NERD's on the stage.
It's like, I'm totally seeing that next year.

Speaker 8 (01:31:04):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 22 (01:31:05):
And for the ladies, Hans Solo and Shubaka do some
really amazing means.

Speaker 5 (01:31:10):
I love that, you know, taking something like horror movies
or taking something like Star Wars and turning it into
something that's a little ridiculous and over the top, but
it sort of acknowledges like, Okay, nerds, we have this
for you now in a weird way. So are you
guys going to try and participate in that one as well?

Speaker 21 (01:31:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:31:34):
I mean, have you you're been a professional dancer for
fifteen years, what other roles? What other shows have you
done that you would put on par in terms of
how much you've enjoyed it. That's a good question. Yeah, yeah, really, Jane,
you can go well, he's thinking to say, I mean,

(01:31:58):
I can answer for my so please.

Speaker 18 (01:32:00):
In terms of enjoyment, this has been my favorite I
think show I've ever done. Just the cast, the crew,
the house, everyone there. We get along so well. It's
been such a good experience.

Speaker 5 (01:32:12):
I think it's kind of got to be hard to
be upset or angry or or anything other than kind
of joyful doing this kind of stuff, you know.

Speaker 8 (01:32:22):
What I mean.

Speaker 22 (01:32:23):
Yeahh that's absolutely the case. And so all our patrons
are so happy. They enjoy it so much, and there's
just nothing better in this world than given joy to people.

Speaker 5 (01:32:33):
I have put a link on the blog of where
you can go buy your tickets. It is running until
Wen Kelly November.

Speaker 9 (01:32:39):
Okay, Halloween week. Definitely.

Speaker 5 (01:32:41):
There you go, Q men slapping bubbly liquid all over me.
Take my money now.

Speaker 24 (01:32:47):
So that's the sister.

Speaker 5 (01:32:49):
So you got that going for you?

Speaker 4 (01:32:52):
There you go?

Speaker 2 (01:32:53):
Anyway.

Speaker 5 (01:32:55):
Okay, you guys have apparently agreed to play out of
the day. Do you know what you're getting into?

Speaker 8 (01:32:59):
Not?

Speaker 5 (01:33:00):
Okay, they do everyone time, So if you lose today.
Don't worry about it. You may not lose, but most
people lose on the first time. It goes like this,
we do we do five what is it?

Speaker 3 (01:33:12):
Five?

Speaker 5 (01:33:12):
We do dad Joke of the Day. You don't have
to do anything but laugh or grown. Then we do
a word of the Day where you have to guess,
usually badly, what the definition of a hard word is.
And then we do Trivia Question of the Day, Trivia question,
and then we do Jeopardy Category of the Day. Okay,
it starts like this, though, and now it's time for
the most exciting segment on the radio, gain in the world.

Speaker 9 (01:33:42):
Kelly knows.

Speaker 5 (01:33:43):
Okay, what is our dad joke of the day?

Speaker 16 (01:33:45):
Please, Anthony, respect people who wear glasses. They paid money
to see you.

Speaker 2 (01:33:50):
Ah, thank you, thank you. Word of the day.

Speaker 5 (01:33:55):
Please. We're going to pretend like that never happens.

Speaker 6 (01:33:57):
No, we can.

Speaker 5 (01:33:58):
It's a noun pickin pigeon, not the bird p I
D G I N pigeon.

Speaker 2 (01:34:05):
Does that?

Speaker 8 (01:34:05):
Does that?

Speaker 5 (01:34:06):
How you mean pigeonholes? Somebody? No, pigeon is a language
like pigeon is a mix of multiple languages in Hawaii?
Is that it putting something.

Speaker 16 (01:34:17):
Like slang in Hawaii a simplified language system used between
speakers of different languages.

Speaker 8 (01:34:22):
There you go.

Speaker 5 (01:34:23):
I'm just saying, speaking of Hawaii. Today's trivia question, what
is the official state fish of Hawaii?

Speaker 6 (01:34:30):
Oh, the long one. That's the crazy long one, that
long like thirty letter name.

Speaker 5 (01:34:35):
I don't know about that. I thought it was like
the ono or something.

Speaker 6 (01:34:38):
I think it's Oh, no, you are correct, right, yeah, yep,
let's hear it.

Speaker 5 (01:34:43):
It is the Huma Huma new ku kula power. Yeah,
it's of course the scientific name. Why can't have also
called the reef trigger fish? So there you go, a
trigger fans, Yes, yes, exactly. Okay, this is not works,
you guys. If you know the answer, shout out your

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name and then you have to answer in the form
of a question like they do on Jeopardy. Have you
ever seen Jeopardy? Janey's looking skeptical.

Speaker 9 (01:35:12):
Pat, I'm sorry, okay, no problem in my face.

Speaker 5 (01:35:15):
I wanted to I knew what was going on. Okay,
I am going to wait until the end of the question.

Speaker 13 (01:35:20):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (01:35:20):
I normally don't, but I am because you're new and
I want to be kind.

Speaker 16 (01:35:23):
So here we go.

Speaker 5 (01:35:24):
What is our jeopardy category?

Speaker 16 (01:35:25):
I would never ever cater a category to guess, absolutely never.
The category is at the end of the scary movie?
Oh oh, now, could you just name the movie? This
is Ripley Last Survivor, Kelly Mandy, Kelly.

Speaker 9 (01:35:39):
I said it too soon, Kelly, though alien correct?

Speaker 4 (01:35:42):
What is?

Speaker 5 (01:35:42):
But I'm going to tell you anyway? Yeh can use me.

Speaker 16 (01:35:44):
I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having
an old friend for dinner.

Speaker 8 (01:35:49):
Mayby.

Speaker 5 (01:35:50):
What is Silence of the Lands?

Speaker 4 (01:35:51):
Is?

Speaker 5 (01:35:51):
Correct? Yeah?

Speaker 11 (01:35:54):
One?

Speaker 13 (01:35:54):
Two?

Speaker 6 (01:35:55):
Freddy's coming for you? Brandon?

Speaker 17 (01:35:59):
What is the nightmare?

Speaker 5 (01:36:00):
I'm sure.

Speaker 6 (01:36:03):
I used to hate the water. I can't imagine why
I used.

Speaker 5 (01:36:07):
To hate the water. I can't imagine why. I have
no idea.

Speaker 3 (01:36:14):
I'm not a.

Speaker 5 (01:36:14):
Scary movie person, is Josh?

Speaker 11 (01:36:19):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:36:20):
I don't know why I was thinking.

Speaker 5 (01:36:24):
Shark. So there you go.

Speaker 6 (01:36:27):
This one's tough. Excuse me.

Speaker 16 (01:36:29):
I don't mean to bother you. But are you Paul Sheldon?
I just want to tell you I'm your number one fan.

Speaker 5 (01:36:39):
That is the movie with what's the score?

Speaker 6 (01:36:42):
Right now?

Speaker 5 (01:36:43):
We're tied one?

Speaker 8 (01:36:46):
Is that?

Speaker 7 (01:36:47):
Dang it?

Speaker 6 (01:36:48):
What is misery.

Speaker 5 (01:36:56):
To a tie breaker?

Speaker 16 (01:36:56):
Let's say breaker. Let's go with blah blah blah blah.
These are You're all terrible. Oh my gosh, these are awful. Okay,
let's go with alliteration. Okay, it's when a term paper
is supposed to be submitted or a baby is expected
to be born.

Speaker 5 (01:37:11):
Mandy, what is it duty? That is correct? And that Okay,
that is really really good effort, you guys, good effort. Okay,
thank you so much. Everybody, go see Nightmare on Strip Street.
I've put the information about how to buy have tickets
on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. We will be
back for a half hour tomorrow show. We're preempted by
baseball at twelve thirty, so tune in early if you

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want to hear anything. We'll be back then