09-19-24 FULL SHOW - Thanks to Kyle Clark! And Mortgage Rates are Trending Down

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
No, it's Mandy Connell.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Andy Conall, kam.

Speaker 4 (00:15):
God wait say any free many Connell Keith sadding Welcome, Welcome,
Welcome to a Thursday edition of the show.

Speaker 5 (00:30):
I'm your host for the next three hours. Mandy Connell,
joined of course by Hey Rod you can call him
Anthony Rodriguez, and we will take you right through a
fantastic program. I guarantee it, because that's what we do
here on The Mandy Connell Show. I'd just like to
say a very special welcome to any Kyle Clark ex
followers who are here to hate listen for the next

(00:52):
little bit hoping to get some kind of ammunition to
send back to Kyle and splash. You're gonna love the
show because we are awesome. Anyway, let's do the blog.
You can find the blog, and you know what's funny,
ad do I do? I forget to mention where you
can find the blog. That really is just a companion
piece to the program. So if you had any questions

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about what you heard on the show, you could just
go to the blog and unders have a better understanding
of what's you know going on?

Speaker 6 (01:20):
The show reflects the blog.

Speaker 7 (01:21):
The blog reflects the show every single day, tactically a
mirror a rod.

Speaker 5 (01:27):
All you have to do is go to Koa's page.
You can find that right through.

Speaker 6 (01:31):
You would know that every single day.

Speaker 5 (01:33):
You know what, if you ever had a question about
what was said on the show and what context what
was done, we actually post a full podcast of the
program right there at mandy'sblog dot com. You can just
go back and you can listen for yourself instead of
taking the word of someone else who well, I gotta
tell you guys what happened on Twitter yesterday. I'm just

(01:55):
gonna say it makes me feel like I'm winning, and
I'll explain. But first we're going to do the blog.
Let's just explain to those newcomers. We'll call them the
Casey newcomers, high newcomers, Hi, Cacy newcomers. You guys are awesome.
We're gonna do this for them. Go to mandy'sblog dot com.
No apostrophe in Mandy's even though grammatically we know that's incorrect.
You can't have an apostrophe in a URL, So save

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your angry email about that for someone else. Mandy'sblog dot com.
And then you scroll down look for latest posts. Look
for the headline that says nine to nineteen twenty four
blog thanks to Kyle Clark and mortgage rates are trending down.
Click on that and here are the headlines you will
find within anyone's listening office.

Speaker 6 (02:35):
Half of American all with ships and climbers A say
that's calling a press plant.

Speaker 5 (02:39):
Today on the blog. Thanks to Kyle Clark for the
clarification yesterday. Not all micro communities are the same. The
Fed cut rates by half a percentage point. Lebanon is
on edge scrolling. The Arabs are making fun of this too.
Frontier flight attendants vote to strike. How grades in school
are a racist? What real property tax reform would look like?

(03:02):
Kamalabat two point zero will only meet with friendly press.
The Teamsters don't endorse in the presidential race. CNN's new
comedy show falls in its face. Xcel is passing on
the savings. I wonder if this is real. Trump was
right about crime going up now, Black babies don't die
more with white doctors. Metallica is coming to empower field

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citizens and socialists. Utopia reduced to eating sugar water things
not to waste money on in your home. Gen Z
is not ready for the workplace. This video is from
a satirical account, and I know it's not real. Kyle
scrolling the HESBLA memes won't quit One sheriff is done
protecting your kids. The Colorado legend of the Tommy Knockers,

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How keys is made? Brits don't rinse their dishes. Those
are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. Now,
dear casey newcomers, here's how it works. You go to
the blog and you'll see the headline, and then you
can and if you see a highlighted portion underline a bold,
then you just click on that. I'll take you through

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to the story underneath, or you can just see whatever
you want to see there. And So yesterday or actually, no, yesterday,
we had baseball? So Wednesday? Wait Tuesday, eh, Tuesday. I
shared a video on the blog with the following headline
on the blog above the video, and the headline says, now,

(04:28):
gangs are shaking down truck drivers in Aurora. Question mark,
and then the story says, I have no idea if
this is accurate, but I sure as how, I hope
that your RPD is checking it out. Now that sentence
would indicate that we did not know that this was
a real thing or not. And by putting it on

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the blog, oftentimes, as does happen when you have a
really smart, intelligent listener base, you can't see newcomers will
fit right in. So what happened, he says, A listener
will send me clarification. That's why I do a lot
of stuff. As a matter of fact, if you did
see the SoundBite that Kyle Clark glombed onto, he pounced

(05:11):
on the SoundBite, It is me telling the story of
what is in the video and you can go watch
it on our Instagram page. Thanks for the views, Kyl,
big ups, So you can go look at it on
our Instagram page. And I am relaying what is being
relayed in the video. And then I said, and then
this guy says that another guy doesn't pay and all

(05:32):
of his tires are flat. And then I said, I've
been told that if you have one flat tire, that's
not an insurance claim, but if all of your tires
are flat, then that is an insurance claim. And I'd
like to know if that's true. That's why I did
the story on the air. I want to know that
if all of it, or if your tires get popped
all of them, is that an insurance claim? I still

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don't know. I still don't know. But rather than doing
any kind of deep rather than showing any kind of
intellectual curiosity, rather than sending me an email asking me
if I really believe that this was true, Kyle decided
to take the two minute clip. Because what we do
to promote the program is a rod takes little snippets

(06:16):
out of the show and then we put it on
Instagram in the hopes that it will inspire someone to
want to listen to hear what actually happened, right, That's
kind of what we do. So the podcast is available,
the blog is available, you could hear the entire show.
But yet, instead of doing any of that, Kyle puts
it out that I am essentially amplifying a story as
if it's true, and nothing like that occurred. Nothing. But

(06:41):
I've come to expect nothing less from Kyle. And the
reason I said earlier that I think I'm winning is
because now every opportunity he has to take one of
those tiny little sound bites and try to make it
seem as if something that it is not, He's going
to do it, and it's entirely predictable. So I saw
it last night. I started laughing. I just started laughing

(07:04):
because I probably could have called that. As a matter
of fact, remind me, Anthony, we need to make a
list things Kyle Clark will amplify and as they happen,
we'll be like, is this gonna be amplified or is
it not. It's entirely predictable and just really really funny.
And I didn't watch the next segment where we actually

(07:25):
name checked, because if he talked about me and didn't
give my name out, that's a real douche move. Yes,
so did he spell my name right? Okay, I don't know.
Well I have to see just I don't care what
you say about me, just spell my name right. And
as for the Twitter minions, they are just these people

(07:48):
are hysterical, absolutely hysterical. Talk about a group of people
TLDR like none of them have ever listened to this show.
They don't have the brain power. There was not actually
a couple of people that indicated they may have listened
to the show at some point, but a vast majority
of these people, they couldn't keep up with the program.
They can only take their thirty minutes of being spoon

(08:08):
fed exactly what they already believe. That's that's what they
can handle. So it was just it was it was ridiculous,
absolutely ridiculous. But I'm telling you guys, I'm winning. I
think I'm winning. Do you think I'm winning a rod?
Do you think I'm winning? And he's giving me the
dub right now? You guys, you can't see it, but
I got the dub. Five sixty six nine ozero is

(08:29):
the text line. I want to know am I winning
or not?

Speaker 6 (08:32):
Now?

Speaker 5 (08:32):
If I'm not winning, I need you to give me
some strategic points on how to win. In your view.
If this is not winning, I mean, come on free airtime.
I'll take it. I will take it. Five six six
nine oh is the text line Mandy. It's they said
Mandy or Mandy m A N D Y is how
you spell my name? Not I E at all. This

(08:56):
is when I've been an email war with Kyle Clark
for the Boulder King super shootings. He's a complete beep
and will not let anything go that he does not
believe is true. Mandy, you should try to bait Kyle
Clark with some outrageous fake stuff and then humiliate him.
I'm not looking to bait him. That's the thing. I
don't have to because he won't do any due diligence

(09:19):
to go and actually see what we were saying around
in that whole show. He acts like I do two
minutes on the radio and then I'm done. There's a
whole show here. It's amazing. So if you just like
to spend four seconds, four seconds doing just basic, basic checks,
he would just But he doesn't care any chance, any

(09:43):
chance because conservative women, he loves us. Oh, I love
this text message. You're winning so much you're gonna get
tired of winning. Nu uh never never. I'm not sure
you're winning or not. But I can tell you that
so far to you are sucking less than you did yesterday.
Is that all we can ask for? Yes, every day,

(10:06):
that's the mantra, just suck less than yesterday. God, I
love it when people just like that's such an old
school pull through. Thank you for that, Texter Bandy. You're
just jealous of Kyle's cuteness and intelligence. Lol. I am
jealous of his cuteness and he looks good in a
check you know what I mean. Not a lot of

(10:26):
people can wear a check blazer, but he rocks the plaid.
He looks good in a pattern. Not everybody can say
that anyway, all right, we are not going to talk
about this for the rest of the show because it
was just funny and I thought it was kind of hilarious,
So we got that going for us. But we do
have a lot of other stuff on the blog today,

(10:48):
which you can always find at Mandy's blog dot comment's
there all the time. I'm want to start with something
about Mayor Mike Johnston, is his House one thousand plan
and how it's going, and we haven't heard a lot.
I think the stories have kind of died down.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Though.

Speaker 5 (11:06):
If you follow Do Better Denver on any social platform,
you will stay up to date on pretty much everything
that's happening around the homeless hotels, around various homeless communities
because they are documenting it all in real time. But
that being said, it seems like we are not following
it as closely as we were in the media. But

(11:27):
we have a news story from the Denver Gazette today
which kind of is like a good news bad news
situation because out of three micro communities. Remember, we have
three tiny home micro communities across in different areas of
the metro, and the Denver Gazette pulled the nine to

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one one logs from the areas directly around these micro communities,
and the good news, the good news is is that
one of them seems to be pretty stable. And maybe
if you live around the one off Elotti Street in downtown,

(12:09):
I think that's it. Hang on one second, let me
get down to where I need to get down to.
Oh no, no, no, the Allotti Street is what is
a mess. The Wesley Avenue site, which is located in
the Overland Park neighborhood, has drawn one hundred and twenty
one calls since the beginning of the year. Now that
might sound like a lot, but that's a lot of months,

(12:31):
and that I don't I think that number is probably
not outside what was happening there before. Maybe a little elevated,
but not much. But the other two not so much.
The thirty eighth Avenue micro community in northeast Denver saw
six hundred and forty seven nine to one one calls
during the same period. And then this is where it

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gets really bad. Within one thousand feet of the Allotti Site.
Nine hundred and twenty four emergency nine to one one
calls were made between January first and August twenty eighth. Now,
the Mayor's office is insisting that the communities and surrounding
areas are perfectly safe and that the neighborhoods around all

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three micro communities have not seen elevated levels of crime
or calls for service. But I mean, almost two thousand
nine to one one call seems like a lot for
one thousand foot radius, you know, I mean that just
seems like a lot. Maybe it isn't any run. When

(13:36):
you worked for the nine to one one service, did you,
guys ever get the statistics or did you just know
where you were going to get a lot of calls from?
How did that work? Do you get calls from all
over the city? Well? I did?

Speaker 6 (13:46):
Why did the whole county? Boulder County? So it was everywhere, okay,
all over the place, all unincorporated Boulder County.

Speaker 5 (13:55):
So that I mean, did you just have hotspots that
you knew you were going to get it calls from?
Are you, as a nine to one one operator, aware
of where the areas with a higher level of calls
are going to.

Speaker 6 (14:06):
Be they're super long. But I started to kind of
see the patterns, see the patterns, but it really was everywhere.
Poler County is pretty big. Okay.

Speaker 5 (14:14):
So I'm just wondering because I don't have a perspective
of what those numbers should be. And perhaps the Denver
Gazette pulled those numbers from the year before, but I
don't know. Maybe they're working on that now. I have
no idea. So the micro community thing, here's the reason
I don't like the micro community thing is it creates

(14:35):
staffing issues. It makes it harder for organizations that are
capable of providing a high level of service to be
able to do so in an efficient fashion. This is
one of the reasons I like the Aurora campus, and
I love the fact that Arvada is trying to do
a similar navigation center. I just hate the fact they're
trying to put it in a neighborhood because like it

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or not, you're not dealing with a population. When you
are trying to help people who live on the streets.
You're not dealing with a population of stable, mentally healthy people.
These are traumatized people with sometimes multiple things that they
are dealing with. Whether it's post traumatic stress, whether it's
drug addiction, whether it is mental illness. There's a lot

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of issues.

Speaker 7 (15:19):
As you know.

Speaker 5 (15:20):
I don't want that in my neighborhood. I'm gonna be
perfectly honest, and any rational person with kids and everything
else does not want a bunch of homeless people walking
around their neighborhood. So are about it. Please just move it,
but keep doing what you're doing. This person said a
good point number of calls versus legit calls, So there

(15:41):
you go. I don't know the answer to that. What
makes it a legit call is that like when you
get there and there's an actual call there. What's the
different call? They said, number of calls versus legit calls?
Like some of them, well, would you have a hang
up or something? I mean, what would a none one?

Speaker 6 (15:57):
Specifically? Yeah, I would assume it could be a.

Speaker 7 (16:03):
Hang up or someone calls back and says like, I mean, honestly,
if it's a nine one one call, they can't like
call back and say never mind that they're gonna they're
gonna check on it, but do see something happen.

Speaker 5 (16:12):
This data does include what the call was about, and
some of them are welfare checks. Some of them are assault,
some of them are trespassing. I mean, it's it really
runs the gamut of what the actual accusations are in
the nine one one logs because I haven't seen these
logs specifically, but when you get a nine one one log,
it has the crime whatever it was. They have what

(16:33):
the call was for, so you could probably sort that
out pretty easily. Man A says this, Texter, And you
can always text us on the Common Spirit Health text
line at five six six nine zero, Mandy, if the
micro communities are perfectly safe, as the mayor says, will
he walk down and around them without his personal security detachment.
You know, I understand where you're coming from, Texter, but

(16:56):
it was going to hate things like that. I mean,
it's one of the reasons I admired what a war
a mayor Mike Kaufman did by going on vacation for
a week and living as a homeless veteran on the
street without telling anyone. That was his choice. But I
don't ever want to say to someone do something that
could put you in danger. And you know, I don't

(17:18):
know how people feel about the mayor, but good gravy,
we're living in an era where political violence is being condoned,
and so I just don't even like thinking about that.
Mandy just read an article in the Rocky Mountain Voice
about the town I work for in Fort Morgan, Colorado.
We're getting Denver homeless overflow and it's destroying our town. Well,

(17:39):
I would tell you to urge any community outside the
city of Denver, just as the city of Castle Rock
is looking at doing. I don't know if they're already
moving forward with it, but they're talking about suing the
city of Denver because their sanctuary policies brought a bunch
of immigrants here and now the surrounding communities like For

(18:00):
Morgan don't have the money to support the new influx
of people that have no means of supporting themselves. So yeah,
we'll see. I would tell them to call Castlewalk because
you know, I, well, the genie is already out of
the bottle and that's the problem. But maybe if all
the communities around Denver, they would be forced to change

(18:22):
the rules, Maybe the Colorado legislature would would have to
go back and change the sanctuary state rules. That would
be nice, that would be super nice, But they won't
because they want the votes. What about the Santa Fe
and Evans location. No data in this article on that location,
so I don't know. I have no clue. But like
I said, one of the sites, the Overland Park one,

(18:46):
seems to be doing okay. So I don't want to
I want to make sure that you know we're we're
getting a clear and accurate picture. But I believe, if
I am not mistaken, that that communityly is designed for women.
I'm trying to find this right now in looking for

(19:10):
because I think that community is specifically for women, and
so that wouldn't surprise me that that was maybe a
little more stable. I cannot find it. Sorry, guys. I
know it's in here somewhere. You can look at that
when you open the article after going to Mandy's blog
dot com. So, uh, I can't find what I'm looking for. Anyway,

(19:32):
when we get back, we have. Oh, the mayor was
on with the KAA Morning news and the city bought
the building and will barrel through. Anyway, this is not
the Arvada I grew up in. That's just that's really bad.
That's really bad. And guys, I mean if I went

(19:52):
to sell my house and I thought my property values
were going to be negatively affected because of that? Don't
you think you could to the city. I mean, I'm
just spitballing here because after talking to the gentleman who
joined us earlier talking about the way the ford Amphitheater
was shoved through much to the chagrin of the neighbors,

(20:13):
and now what they're dealing with. And you have to
think to yourself, if the city does something that negatively
affects your property values, should you be able to seek redress?
Should you be able to be should you be able
to sue them for that, especially if you fought it
and that I did not want this and they did
it to us anyway, I'm curious. Oh, Overland Park is
the one on Santa Fe Oh No, that one's fine.

(20:34):
That one's doing fine. So there you go. It's that
one's a okay, that's the one with the least trouble
around it. Okay, when we get back, we're going to
talk about the FED dropped interest rates yesterday. You did
it at the beginning of my half hour show. But
what does this really really mean? It could mean a
couple of things, And depending on where you are in

(20:56):
your home ownership home buying process, it could mean a
lot of different stuff. We're going to get into some
of that. Next. Welcome to all of you, Kyle Clark newcomers,
the CAC Newcomers Club. We might get you know what
we should do a rod We should get satin jackets
for the CAC newcomers. That'll really make them feel welcome.
So welcome. We'd love to have you guys. Anyway, let's

(21:19):
talk about the Federal Reserve. Yesterday they dropped interest rates
a half a point. You know what's interesting at Prather
and I were talking about this, my real estate guy,
and we were discussing this a week and a half ago,
and I said, look, you know, I think it's going
to be a quarter of a present point two five.
You know, I think that's reasonable. But if it is

(21:39):
point five, what does that mean for the average person? Right, so,
mortgage rates, which have already been coming down, are going
to come down even more. I don't know that it's
going to be a continual kind of downslope. I think
it's going to be an adjustment over the next few days,
and then I think they're going to stabilize for a while.

(22:01):
Because the Fed also indicated they're probably going to do
a couple more cuts by the end of the year.
Now you could immediately jump to some kind of theory
that the FED is working to help the Democrats stay
in office, because when people feel like the economy is better,

(22:21):
they don't necessarily want to change ships as quickly as
they do when their economy sucks. And right now, even
though everybody is going to tell you, look at the market,
look at the market, for most people, they always say,
look at your four one K. For most people, a
vast majority of people, your four O one k does

(22:44):
not matter until you get to retire, right because until
that it's just unrealized capital gains. Oh, by the way,
fun fact. Oh no, we'll get into Kamalist tax plan
tomorrow because I just got a whole I read about
kamalistplan for like an hour this morning, and what a
dumpster fire that is. We'll talk about that tomorrowow. And

(23:08):
the FED dropped interest rates a half a point. Now,
I don't necessarily believe that this is a political thing,
that there may be a political component to it, because
obviously the people on the FED board have political views.
But that being said, I am more concerned that the
Federal Reserve is looking at things like the jobs numbers

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and looking at things like slowing GDP and are more
concerned than they are letting on that they are going
to avoid the soft landing that they have been able
to manage up until this point. And that means that
they may think we're moving towards a recession. What's been
fascinating to watch right now? Has anybody else notice this?

(23:51):
First of all, I never watched TV with commercials. I
just don't do it. I watch everything on DVR, and
now now that all of my pay streaming channel of
added commercials a rod, this is how I watch the commercials. Now,
the commercial comes on and I'm like, I'm not watching you.
I Am not going to watch a commercial on a
platform that I'm paying for, just not going to do

(24:12):
It's like say with my games on my phone, it's like,
watch this commercial to get an extra turn. Oh I
hate it, And then I just I hold my hand out.
Just on principle, anyway, we got paid for more, Do
you get the ad free?

Speaker 4 (24:23):
No?

Speaker 5 (24:23):
I don't do that. I'm too cheap to pay for that.
That being said, this concerns me. And here's the thing,
like if I if I am strictly a political being
I'm like, ooh, a recession would be good for my team.
I would much rather have a booming and strong economy
that lifts people up than be able to score cheap

(24:45):
political points because people are suffering. That's probably would make
me a bad politician, but it makes me a good human.
And it would be nice if we incentivize good humans
who think like that to be in charge of things.
But here we go. The Fed has to on this. Now,
what does this mean for you specifically? Listener, if you're
looking to buy a home, A couple of things are

(25:07):
going to happen. Number one alone, just got a lot
cheaper as those interest rates ticked down. I just saw
a thing today that just the drop in the interest
rates between here and last year at this time. And
I don't have the actual uh numbers in my head,
so I apologize for that, but just the drop, and
it was not a big percentage right, maybe it was
half a percentage point. That drop is a difference of

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almost three thousand dollars in the cost of a three
hundred thousand dollars home per year. That's a lot of money.
So you're going to see people that have been ready
to buy a home maybe for three or four years.
They've been sitting, they're renting, they're waiting, they're you know,
trying to wait till interest rates get down to some
reasonable level because people are not dropping the prices on

(25:51):
their homes. They're just not they're sitting on them rather
than dropping the price to get the household. So you're
going to have a flood of buyers coming into the
market at about the same time we have Right now
in our real estate market, we have more houses on
the MLS than we've had in years, over ten thousand
homes on the MLS. I think I remember the number

(26:13):
of being like sixteen thousand is a normal real estate market,
and we've been about half that over the last couple
of years. Now we're over ten thousand. But buyers that
have been sitting on the sidelines waiting houses are sitting
on the market longer than they have been, and this
interest rate cut is going to be enough to get

(26:34):
those people in the market.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
Now.

Speaker 5 (26:37):
If you have high interest credit cards that you are
fully current on, no late payments, your record with them
is spotless, give it a week or two and then
call and starting it asking for an interest rate deduction
on your credit cards. You'd be shocked people how often
that works. Now, if you're in arrears, if you are
two months behind or whatever, they're going to tell you
to go pound sand. But if you are are like

(27:00):
a good customer of theirs, and you have a great
pain of history and nothing has gone wrong, call and
ask for an interest rate cut, because that'll be a
lagging indicator. But if you are aggressive about it, you
can get those interest rates down. All of this stuff
is going to make borrowing easier, which they're hoping is
going to juice the economy because orders for things like
large appliances have been down. Your big ticket items are down.

(27:23):
I don't know about car sales, Ay Rod, see if
you can find anything about car sales. Just do this
car sales twenty twenty to twenty twenty four US car
sales and see if it'll give you a graph so
we can see what that looks like. The things happen
slowing in the economy. A lot of people have pulled
back there spending. I was talking to someone the other

(27:44):
day about maybe I was talking to Chuck about this.
We used to spend probably double what we spend right now,
going out to eat easily and part of it is
because I'm trying to live a healthier lifestyle, and eating
out is not really conducive to a healthy lifestyle at

(28:06):
the level we were doing it before. But we're also
not going out because that's money that we need to
cover other stuff like groceries, you know, the stuff that
used to cost twenty percent less than it does now.
But what I was going to say that was so
interesting is I don't watch commercials, but last night, the
night before last, I'm watching Jeopardy right and I'm watching

(28:29):
it live, and there was commercial after commercial after commercial
for some either fast casual restaurant or a fast food
restaurant that was offering some crazy special for like five dollars,
where you get fifty things of food for five dollars.
Everybody is now cutting prices because supply chain issues are over.

(28:50):
Now they've lost market share because people, as their overall
budgets are being squeezed by inflation, they're cutting out things
like their trips to McDonald's or their pizza from Dominoes
or whatever it is. And now these fast casual and
fast food places are trying to make up that market share.
So prices are starting to come down and you know
what this is, you guys, The whole reason I brought

(29:11):
this all to this one point. This is how the
market works, right, This is how competition brings prices down.
We don't need some stupid, idiotic price gouging legislation that
will do nothing except and create another bureaucracy. We need

(29:32):
to let the market work and recognize that the market
doesn't work instantly, right the market. And we posted videos.
By the way, if you're part of the Casey Newcomers Club,
every day I do a blog at mandy'sblog dot com
and we post videos on there, and the last couple
of days we've posted some sheep hurting videos. And when
you watch these dogs, heard these sheep up the mountain,

(29:54):
it's absolutely stunning, just absolutely stunning. So, oh, no, why
I just brought this up. I have no idea where
I was going with that. What was I talking about
right before that? Yeah, seriously, cars, cars, sales, sales, I
don't know. In any case, whatever I was saying, I
was liking to get to the sheep dog because of
the way it's all moved. Oh, the markets, the markets,

(30:17):
the markets move like that, but they have to be
allowed to work and that's what's happening there, you go.
How about that? When we get back. Let's see here ooh,
we got to talk about Frontier flight attendants when we
get back. If you have tickets for the holidays booked
on Frontier, you're gonna want to hear this next story.
Somebody sent this to me. New car inventory has soared.

(30:41):
New car inventory in October of twenty twenty one sat
at eight hundred and eighty six thousand cars, December of
twenty twenty two one point eight million cars, January of
twenty twenty four two point six million cars. And that

(31:03):
means if you're in the market for a new car,
expect some good deals to become in your way. They
got to move these cars. I might find myself with
a new car now. I hate shopping for a new car. Okay,
So if you are flying Frontier over the holidays, I
would pay attention to this news story. I'm not saying
make other arrangements already, but I'm saying, pay attention to

(31:25):
this news story. Frontier flight attendants voted overwhelmingly in favor
of authorizing a strike. Now Frontier says this entire vote
was illegal because Frontier said the strike authorization is not legal.
Negotiations have not reached that point, Frontier said. The Association

(31:49):
of Flight Attendants knows this, but is resorting to tactics
designed to generate publicity and fuel fear at the expense
of the flying public. Frontier and the AFA are not
currently in supervised mediation and consequently a strike vote cannot
even be considered by the National Mediation Board. And Frontier
is right about this. This is why I say don't

(32:11):
change your plans, but pay attention to this story because
flight Flight the Frontier flight attendants are mad and they
have a very reasonable argument here. In my I believe
flight attendants don't get paid like you and I do. Like, say,
you have a trip that you have to report to
the airport at seven am, so you get to the

(32:33):
airport at seven am, that is hour and a half
before pushback, and that means you have to be at
the gate, and that means you have to go and
you have to prep the aircraft. When the aircraft comes in,
make sure everything is ready, get your catering done, and
then they board the passengers. And you are not getting
paid for any of that until the plane pushes back.
You make no money regardless of what time you have

(32:54):
to be the airport. So the flight attendants make a
lot of money on what's called your perdems, and your
per dim is from the minute you push back from
your home airport to the minute you get back to
that jetway. You are getting blank amount of dollars per
hour in per diem because you're away from home, which
means that overnight trips are worth more than what are

(33:15):
called out and back trips, where you are flying to
Detroit and then immediately flying back to Denver. Frontiers move
to a model with their flight attendants where they're doing
a bunch of mountain backs and the flight attendants are
not making very much money, and the flight attendants are
mad about it, and I think Frontier has to address this,
but I'm not sure that they're going to be able

(33:36):
to strike. But that being said, a mass stick out
around the holidays is always possible. So just pay attention
to the Frontier labor discussions that are going on now.
So I have a friend who works for United and
was talking about how they get so many applications from

(34:00):
Frontier flight attendants. People are just like, I don't want
to work for this airline. Anymore, And unfortunately, I would
imagine that shows you fly Frontier, don't you a roder?
Are you done? Are you one of those never again
Frontier people?

Speaker 1 (34:12):
Now?

Speaker 5 (34:13):
Have you had your Frontier experience?

Speaker 6 (34:15):
I mean I think we pretty much just do Southwest Yeah,
as much as we can.

Speaker 5 (34:18):
I'd like to know you guys can text us on
the Common Spirit health text line. How do you how
do you view the flight attendants in terms of their
friendliness on Frontier. I'm just curious, and then I'm going
to give you my friendliness standings when we get back
on airline flight attendants. And I have not flown every airline,
so this is not all encompassing. We'll do that when

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we get back. Keep it right here.

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Speaker 5 (35:08):
Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show. If
you're part of the Casey Newcomers Club, we really welcome you.
Of course, all the people have heard about the program
yesterday from Kyle Clark on Twitter. By the way, you
can see our response to it either on our Instagram
page or our Twitter page. Is it on Facebook as well?
A rod it will be at Koa, Colorado for most

(35:30):
of those, and you can just go see if you
missed the kerfuffle. It was magic, It was so good.
But luckily we've put it all in one place and
you can see it right there together. So make that
happen now. I asked a question before the break because
we were talking about the Frontier flight attendant story, and
I said, which flight attendants are the nicest? And then
I started thinking about it. I was like, do I

(35:51):
really want to open up this this window because during
COVID you really saw what airline personnel were like. Right
during COVID, when the mask mandate was going on, we
flew American and it was so bad. I never wanted
to fly American again. It was insane. That one flight attendant,

(36:14):
it was like it was like she was the prison
warden of the plane and she spent the entire flight
walking up and down the aisles, snapping her head back
and forth side to side, looking for mass scofflaws, people
that she could yell at to put their mask up.
It was insane. And when I say she walked up

(36:36):
and down the aisles multiple times. Holy macaroni. It was
the whole flight. And as a former flight attendant, casey newcomers,
you guys may not know it used to be a
flight attenant for Delta Airlines back in my early twenties,
saw the world on someone else's dime, highly recommend it,
so flight didn'ts still walk them down the aisle the

(36:57):
entire flight. Are you kidding me? No, that's not how
that works, especially if you're the one who wants to
refill on your beverage. You know that's not how that works. Anyway,
I decided I'm not going to name the nicest or
worst flight attendants except to tell you that one American
Airlines story, because generally speaking, I'm nice to flight attendants.

(37:17):
They're nice back, regardless of the airline, and I think
that's something we all need to understand. It's amazing what
happens when you were just nice to other people. Now
I got to talk about yesterday's situation in Lebanon, following
up on the day before situation in Lebanon.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (37:36):
We talked about the exploding pagers the day before, and
as I was doing the show on Wednesday, No, yesterday
it broke that walkie talkies had started exploding all over Lebanon,
and I tried to find an embedible version of the
video that I saw, so someone's shot. It's a long

(37:56):
camera shot of Beirut, like you know the TV stations
here have the long shots of downtown or whatever, and
so you can see it. It was one of those
shots of Beirut, only you could see explosions happening all
over different parts of the city as walkie talkies were
exploding after the pagers had exploded. And this I believe,

(38:19):
and I said this yesterday, This I believe is the
next step in Israel, widening the war and aggressively going
after Hesbola in Lebanon. Now, remember, Lebanon has been in
turmoil since former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton demanded that

(38:41):
Momar Kadafi be dethroned. There. No, don't get me wrong.
Momar Kadafi not a nice man, but he brought stability
to a region that had been quite unstable for a
very long time. And sometimes a dictator who can keep
things under control is better than what we have now,
and that is what's hap happening in Lebanon now. Now

(39:02):
what's interesting to me is that Hesbola is not extremely
popular in the Middle East. And as a matter of fact,
I went to you. There's a website that I look
at quite often called Memorymemari dot org. We see what
memory stands for, but it is a website that aggregates
all of these different Arab news outlets, so you can

(39:25):
go and it's in English, so you can go and
see what is being said or what is being promoted
in various Arab news outlets. So it kind of gives
you a window in the world of what's really happening
in the Middle East. And they actually published a story
about some of the best Arab based memes on Twitter
about these explosions, and they are not flattering, not flattering

(39:49):
at all, and most of them have to do with
the fact that now Hesbala is going to be doing
all of its planning using cups and string to communicate. Oh,
Kadaffie was Libya, thank you, thank you very much for
that correction. Anyway, we have lots of Arabs making fun

(40:11):
of this because you know that the Arab world is
divided into Sunni and Shia, and the Sunni and she
I don't like each other. And Iran is is one
and uh Iran is Shia, and and the Saudi Rabians
are Sunni and that's why they hate each other. But
some of these memes are hilarious, very hilarious. My favorite
is ay Ridis shows the side of a pager and

(40:33):
all it says is seventy two versions. That's who's calling.

Speaker 6 (40:38):
Yep, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yep.

Speaker 5 (40:41):
So you want to see that. That is linked on
Today's blog as well. But all of that being said,
Hesblo is now promising harsh revenge. Okay, how are you
gonna plan in your harsh revenge? Are you gonna? Are
you gonna write stuff down on a little noted piece
of paper and and then and then fold it into
footballs and flick it across the table at each other.

(41:06):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, this has been I would say,
a masterstroke because not only is Israel completely disrupted Hesbela's
ability to communicate, they have everyone terrified of using any

(41:30):
kind of electronic equipment. Oh by the way, Arod, that
was did you send me the video of the the
Hesbela's day?

Speaker 3 (41:36):
Now?

Speaker 5 (41:37):
Have you seen that? I mean, it's on Today's blook
Just so you know, A Rod just to be clear,
not real satire. They're making fun of it. Yeah, I
just wanted to be clear. I wanted to make sure. Yeah, disclaimer,
it's a satire anyway, No, Hesbela terrists this morning, and
it's it's in Arabic so you can't understand it, or
I would play it for you. But they're essentially like, hey,

(41:58):
you want to go turn on the kettle and the
guy looks over at the button and he's like, yeah, no,
let's just make coffee cold, and said, it's really funny,
really funny. But even the the oh gosh, the Lebanese
Foreign minister is saying, look, everybody's terrified, everybody's scared. And

(42:22):
of course Anthony Blincoln, our Secretary State, has already come
out and said, you know, we didn't know anything about this,
which to me indicates that Israel has stopped asking for permission.
They're going to execute this war the way they are
going to execute this war, because frankly, it is their
survival at stake, and I would fully expect Lebanon to

(42:44):
you know, the rockets are being fired. I guess wait,
let me double check. Here, let me see rockets into
here's the thing Lebanon has been firing rockets into Israel
since October seventh, and that has not stopped. Every day
they fire rockets in Israel every day and it has

(43:06):
not stopped. So the notion that somehow Israel is escalating
that is not accurate at all. Trying to see if
I saw it earlier. I saw a headline earlier Israel
striking targets in Lebanon after Hesbela pager attacks. The Israeli
military struck targets in Lebanon on Thursday, as the country

(43:27):
is reeling from deadly back to back attacks targeting the
electronic devices of Hesbela members that left dozens dead and
thousands of people injured. So oh, by the way, I
saw a very funny thing on the internet a rod
it was satire, just to issue that disclaimer. It was
a satire and it said Rashida to leave injured as

(43:47):
her pager explodes mysteriously. I thought that was funny, even
though I don't want anything on Rashida to leave to explode,
but I thought that satirical post was funny. The United
States says we don't want to see any party escalate
this conflict, but the Israeli Defense minister says it is

(44:10):
a new phase in the war. So right now. The
other thing that I forgot to put on the blog
today but I read it this morning, is that the discussions,
the negotiations that have all been rejected by Hamas. By
the way, every single every single peace offering has been
rejected by Hamas up to this point. Now Israel's like, look,

(44:33):
all this phased in crap, where you give us some
of our people, we give you some of your people,
you give us some of our people. That's not happening anymore.
We do a singular exchange, and in exchange, we will
allow Hamas to all leave the Gaza strip. We will
come in dismantle the rest of what Hamas has left behind,
and then a multinational force will come in and take

(44:56):
over ruling Gaza until another government can be put in place.
And that would be the best case scenario. But of
course the Moss will say no, because they say no
to everything, because they don't want peace with Israel. They
want the world to continue turning on Israel as they
embed themselves among civilians. So as Israel continues to fight

(45:19):
against terrorists, they accidentally kill civilians and uh yeah, that's
what Amas is hoping for more dead civilians. I guarantee
you that's not what Israel wants. There's nobody in Israel
saying no, we need more dead civilians. No way, don't
need that. Now, I want to ask a question. You
guys can respond on the common spirit health text line,

(45:44):
and that is this. Let's just say, let's speculate, let's
take this out to its logical conclusion, and that is
Israel now rolls into Lebanon, and if Israel is busy
defeating Hamas one arm of the Iranian government, and then
they go on and they take on Hesbela and have

(46:06):
success taking on Hesbel as well, another arm of the
Iranian government. The Iranian government has no choice in a
culture steeped in the notion of honor and you know,
doing the right thing. The Iran cannot be seen as
being soft, even though they have been up to this point.

(46:27):
Their response to Israel after Israel surgically killed people on
Iranian soldier has been well nothing. So, yeah, does Israel
forfeit its illegal settlements under this agreement? I don't know
the answer to that question.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
I do not know.

Speaker 5 (46:46):
Kepied All prize for anyone who could name the president
of Lebanon. No, no, Mandy, what the terrorists don't like
being terrorized? Correct? I listened to NPR for a perspective
from the other side, and you would think, as they
report it, that Israel gave pagers to innocent, hard working

(47:08):
citizens and blow them up just to be spiteful. NPR
forgot to mention it has our it, it has our
terrorists and have been firing at Israel since October seventh. Yes, correct,
they have been firing every day. Pager's text said from
the liver to the knee. Oh that's that's a texture
that said that. Yeah, yeah, Mandy, hasbala is gonna start

(47:35):
using carrier scarebs to plan their attack. That would be
a good way to move it. I mean, I don't
think you can train those beetles. Though I don't, I
don't believe. So now let me ask this question of
our text line five six six nine. Now, I when
I ask this, and I mean it when I'm asking
this question, this war could become a conflagration in the
Middle East, and what is the United States' responsibility? In

(47:59):
your mind, keep mind a couple of things. Number One,
Israel is the only democratically elected state in the Middle East.
They're far more socialist overall than the United States is
but ultimately they protect the freedoms of everyone who lives there,
except the people who want to murder them and say
death to Israel on a regular basis. You're gay in Israel,

(48:22):
no big deal. They have one of the biggest pride
celebrations in the world in Tel Aviv. You want to
live your life however you want, you can do it
in Israel. You want to be a Christian in Israel,
you can do that. You want to be a Muslim
in Israel, you can do that. You can't say that
about the Middle Eastern countries that surround Israel. So that's
thing number one. Thing number two. Iran especially is not

(48:44):
just satisfied with the destruction of Israel. They say death
to America, death to Israel, death to the West. All
three of those things are regular chants in Iran. And
when you get right down to it, Israel is the
stopping block because as long as they have to focus
on Israel and wiping Israel from the face of the earth,

(49:07):
they don't have a lot of time to focus on
the United States and wiping us from the face of
the earth. Not a lot of time to do either
of those things. So we got that. Yeah, uh, Mandy,
you can't get a more targeted attack. Only Hamas terrorists
had access to the pagers. They were Hesbala terrorists. But yes,

(49:27):
you are correct iran As Shia. But Hamas is Sunni,
Hamas is sunny. Is that accurate? Is this the enemy
of my enemy is my friend's situation? Gosh? I don't
know the answer to that. You might have you maybe

(49:48):
write text or I shall look that up on the break,
so I give you correct information. Yeah, Mandy, they are
I can't read that, Mandy. I say, we support Israel,
but keep our damn mouth shut and let them do

(50:08):
what they need to do. Amen, Amen, Amen. May maybe
has blissed you to take advice from Helen Keller and
not answered. That's not nice. I say, armed the Israelis
to the hilt, keep the US Navy in the area
to maintain shipping lanes, and no boots whatsoever on the ground.
I actually think that fighting in the area that we're

(50:31):
talking about fighting in I just don't see boots on
the ground being a thing that happens.

Speaker 2 (50:37):
Now.

Speaker 5 (50:37):
I could be wrong. I mean it depends on who's president,
because there's a zero percent chance that Joe Biden is
going to do anything aggressive. We have the Houthis in Yemen,
another arm of the Iranian government. They have been firing
on ships. They have disrupted shipping lanes. Now ships are
having to go all the way around Africa rather than
just go through the straits of Hormus and in you know,

(51:01):
into open water, and so now it's costing people and things.
And we still haven't managed to bring that to heal
and we're sending our navy over there. They just have
no deterrent effect because when you have a president that
has been wrong on every single thing when it comes
to foreign policy, nobody we're not a deterrent anymore. We're
not scary, we're not intimidating. There's no strength through power,

(51:24):
power through strength, none of that. Mandy. I wonder how
many of those Whomos terrorists were circumcised when those pagers
went off. And now that's funny Israeli style. Well, I mean,
we're some of them are not going to reproduce, some
of them have horrible injuries. But when you align yourselves
with the terror organization that fires rockets, NonStop across the

(51:48):
border at Israel. What do you think is gonna happen.
It's kind of like if you heard somebody who you
knew from high school that got involved with the mob,
and then you heard they got murdered, You'd be like, wow,
that sucks. But duty was in the wouldn't you. I mean,
at some point do you have to put some personal
responsibility on the people that are kind of starting things
is At last I saw it. Israel had not started

(52:10):
a war with Lebanon. Israel was perfectly fine with Lebanon
on its northern border. They're minding their own beeswax. The
Israelis are minding their own beeswax on their side of
the border. Everything's fine. And then Lebanon started firing rockets.
So yeah, I mean, this is what happens when you

(52:31):
are the aggressor. Even if the news media didn't cover it,
you're still the aggressor. Mandy, the Israeli stole at and
T's idea from decades ago. Reach out, reach out and
touch someone. You are correct, you are correct. It's going

(52:54):
to be very, very touch and go for the next
I think six weeks, and I for one, obviously, I
have an f you who is in Israel and he's
part of the military there. Obviously, I hope that everyone
in the region can find their way to settling down

(53:17):
and establishing some kind of peaceful coexistence with Israel. Unfortunately,
there is a section of the Islamis there, not all Muslims,
but the Islamis in the region. Then I don't think
we'll ever let that happen. And I think that's where
Israel is now. They've realized it. And what's the point
in having a ceasefire? What's the point in not completely

(53:39):
dismantling and exiling Hamas. What's the point in all of
this if you just go back to the same starting
position that you were in before all of this ginned
up in the first place. I think they're just done
and they're ready to finally say this is it. This
is our best opportunity to get this done. Mandy Biden

(54:04):
pulled NATO together to save Ukraine. Putin only attacked because
Trump splintered NATO. Trump didn't splinter NATO. Okay, let's talk
about this for a second. Trump didn't splinter NATO. What
Trump did was demand that all of the other NATO
nations start paying the commitments that they had already made

(54:27):
and never paid. So if that's splintering NATO, who exactly
left NATO? Which countries dropped out last? I checked NATO's
even stronger because countries are finally paying what they had
promised to pay towards their own defense. So how could
you say that's Trump splintered NATO? I would say, I

(54:49):
think the flag rolled in to Ukraine because Joe Biden
was president. See all of my earlier comments. Joe Biden
was a very known quant when it came to foreign policy,
and he was always wrong. So if you're a bad
actor looking to create a problem and roll into some
place that you don't belong, you're going to do it

(55:10):
while somebody else who is a terrible foreign policy person
is in charge. I do believe that. I think the
same thing about him rolling into Crimea and Obama doing nothing.
Obama probably did more good before he became president or
right after before, right before he won the Nobel Peace Prize,

(55:33):
and he started killing Americans judicially overseas. But I mean,
these two presidents have been an invitation for this kind
of aggression. And as I've said before, one of Trump's
weird strengths is that because everyone thinks he's crazy, they
don't do anything because they don't know how he's going
to react. Weird but true. You may not remember, but

(55:56):
we talked about it on this show. A study was
done back in twenty twenty that purported to show that
black newborns attended by a white physician suffer a mortality
penalty and are twice as likely to die. That study
was covered everywhere. There were headlines in USA Today, CNN,

(56:21):
Science News, NPR, The Washington Post. Supreme Court Justice Brown
Jackson cited this study in the High courts twenty twenty
three affirmative action case, in which the American Medical Association
and forty four other parties declared in their amicus brief
for high risk black newborns, having a black physician is

(56:42):
tantamount to a miracle drug will. A new study conducted
by a Harvard economist and a Manhattan Institute researcher has
now debunked that study, and this time researchers added in
a variable, a variable that twenty twenty researchers had overlooked,

(57:04):
and that was birth weight, specifically low birthweight babies. Once
they added in the correct corrections because babies that are
born at low birth weight tend to have high mortality rates,
and they tend to be treated by white doctors who

(57:25):
are more prevalent in nick u's and emergency care situations,
which babies of low birth weight tend to need that
kind of care. It's no exaggeration, says this article that
this level of scholarly error raises serious questions about the

(57:46):
hundreds of peer reviewed studies published in the past five
years that documented the so called prevalence of systemic racism
in the medical profession and implicit bias among white doctors.
I mean, could the research on those papers just have
not put in a variable that would go a long
way into explaining these numbers. They point out that it's

(58:08):
the peak of the nation's racial reckoning. Between the years
of twenty nineteen and twenty twenty one, the leading journals
of the anglosphere rushed to put out special issues and
contrite reflections on anti black racism and their journal's institutional
complicity in the brutal oppression of African Americans. Scientific Americans, Science, Nature,

(58:32):
Health Affairs, and others assumed that systemic racism and implicit
bias operate as natural laws, which give researchers carte blanche
to interpret all racial disparities as being governed by those laws.
But what we've seen here is that when you look
at the whole picture, other rational, reasonable explanations begin to emerge. Now,

(58:58):
what's happened since this study is that medical schools have
added lessons on critical race theory, intersectionality, identity, oppression, allyeship, colonialism, patriarchy,
fat phobia, power and privilege to their curriculum. Now, I
want to point out something. Do you guys know how
much time medical students spend on gerontology. Gerontology is the

(59:21):
study of older people and their various medical conditions. If
they do one rotation, that's a miracle. Many medical schools
do not spend any significant time on gerontology, even though
older people in the United States of America make up
a disproportionate number of people receiving medical care at any time,

(59:45):
and things like certain diseases, certain medical contraindications, they present
differently in elderly people than they do in younger people.
And yet instead of focusing on that, we now have
training a doctor's training to be doctors who are learning
about allyship colonialism, the patriarchy, fat phobia. That's the biggest

(01:00:08):
racket in the history known to man. By the way,
did I talk about Lizzo on the air? Oh my gosh,
I just have to talk about her for a second.
So Lizzo, the very very overweight singer who I believe
isn't she from Aurora? She was in the band in
Aurora or something. She went to high school. She has
a connection to Aurora.

Speaker 2 (01:00:29):
I know that.

Speaker 5 (01:00:31):
I love her music, but she had kind of become
like the poster queen of the fat positivity movement. But
over the last year, Lizzo has been out of the
public eye. She is exercising, she is eating right. She
has probably lost seventy five pounds. She looks strong, she
looks amazing.

Speaker 6 (01:00:51):
She said she spent a year in Aurora working out
of Kingsuoper's.

Speaker 5 (01:00:54):
Okay, there you go. I knew she had an Aura
connection because she came and went to one of the
high schools here and played flute with the band, which
I thought super cool. But she's taking control of her health,
She's taking control of just her overall well being. I'm
rooting for her so far, so hard. But instead of
talking to doctors about helping their their overweight and obeest

(01:01:14):
patients get some kind of help to lose the weight
and lay healthier lives. They're told that it's their problem
for being fat phobic. This is what's happening in medical school,
you guys. This study A Black Baby about Black babies
has been cited over and over and over and over
again in other studies. Ah yeah, yay, we interviewed a

(01:01:40):
guy maybe I don't even know how long ago year
or two years, whatever. It's all a blur the talked about.
Once a medical study is out there, getting it out
of the research sphere is damn near impossible because people
will see it cited in one study and they'll go
ahead and cite it in another study without realizing that

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it has been debunked. So it's a nightmare. But you know,
first of all, can we all just say, I'm glad
that there's another reason for the high, you know, proportion
of black babies that are dying. That is not racism.
But we got to find out why black babies are
being born under weight and fix that problem, because that

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seems to be where the problem is. If we're talking
about saving black babies, talking about racism and intersectionality obviously
is not going to get it done when they're being
born with low birth weight. That's what we need to address.
And instead of this clap trap that medical schools are
glomming onto, why not say, hey, let's assume that there's
a medical cause that we can address. Let's look at

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these babies, let's find out what's wrong with them, and
let's find out why they are not living. That would
be an excellent way to look at all this instead
of just assuming, well, obviously it's racism. Well no it's not.
But the good news is where there's nothing you can
do or I can do to fix someone's heart. If
you believe that someone is a racist, that is in

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their heart. It's part of who they are. I can't
fix that. I can't change that. I could talk to them,
I could counsel them, I could beg them, I could
do a lot of things, but I can't change their heart.
But what I can change is digging into the underlying
fact why black babies are born with lower birth weights
and those babies are dying. That's something that we can

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look at and that is good. We can address that, right,
I think that'd be the way to go. But what
do I know? What do I know?

Speaker 6 (01:03:44):
Now?

Speaker 5 (01:03:44):
I got a lot of stories on the blog today,
and I want to have a moment because I kind
of did this the other day. I had a story
about a jen Z flight attendant who had to quit
her dream job, and it was one of the first
times that I have ever said, come on, people, this

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generation is soft. But unfortunately there's some accuracy to that,
as shown by a recent survey of corporations when they
were asked specifically about gen Z and actions they've had
to take. And of course, if you're gen Z and
you're a hard worker and you got it going on,
and you can look people in the eye and communicate

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I am not talking about you, I'm talking about the
other people. You can hear that. Next, I'm gen X,
right like I am firmly gen X, raised like a
feral child, the whole nine yards. And I look back,
and I think everybody does this. You look back at
your childhood and you think, what if? What if my
parents had gotten divorced, what if we had not been

(01:04:46):
raised by wolves? What if? And you know, you do
that sometimes. I used to do it. I don't do
it anymore. And now it's just a useless exercise. That
being said, I look back and I can now appreciate
the other side of that. What if my parents had
been helicopter parents and constantly had to know where I
am like I am with my kids. What if I
wasn't allowed to ride my bike around the neighborhood for

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twelve hours a day on a Saturday and just had
to be home before the streetlights came out?

Speaker 6 (01:05:12):
Like what if?

Speaker 5 (01:05:13):
What would my life be? Who would I be right now?
If I grew up in today's society where parents are
incredible micromanagers of their children's lives. Well, we're seeing it
happen with Generation Z as they enter the workforce. We've
already had stories of hiring managers who have said, look,

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we have parents showing up with new graduates for their interviews.
That's no bueno. That is not not how to do it.
A recent survey by Intelligent dot Com found that one
in six companies are hesitant to hire recent college graduates,
citing concerns over their preparedness, communication skills, and professionalism. Stunning

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six in ten businesses said they had fired college grads
they hired in twenty twenty four, while one in seven
said they may refrain from hiring recent college grads next year.
Hiring managers and business leaders say gen Z employees often,
not always, often lack the motivation, charisma, and soft skills

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necessary to thrive in a professional environment. About seven percent
of the companies that were surveyed said some or all
of the recent college graduates they had hired this year
were unsatisfactory. And this is just sad. This is really sad. Now,
what I say to parents who have children in this

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generation is this, it's not too late, because if they're
a recent college graduate, they had the same experience that
I bet a lot of you had, and that is this,
when you graduate from high school, you are on top
of the world. There is nothing you don't know. You
are never more certain in life than when you are
newly graduated from high school facing the rest of your

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life in front of you. By the time you get
to four years of college, you realize you don't know anything,
You have no idea what's going on, and the panic
starts to set in. And unfortunately for these kids who
have been sheltered and have had so much done for them,
at the same time, they were then isolated for the
last few years of high school and the beginning of college,

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and now they're just social skills are gone. So we've
created this poor, toxic stew of a generation that doesn't
know how to do stuff. Parents, it is your responsibility
to make sure that your child, no matter what age,
understands how to communicate, understands basic professionalism, understands how to

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behave in the workforce. By the way, some of the
comments are they never showed up on time? How is
that even how is that even possible? I think, honest
to you guys, since I've had my own show in
two thousand and five, I have been late for work
where I did not where I was not in the
chair starting the show three times. It happened here one

(01:08:13):
time when I got caught in traffic. Do you remember that?
Were you on the board that day?

Speaker 6 (01:08:17):
Definitely don't forget that.

Speaker 5 (01:08:18):
Yeah, and Ross had to start the show. I'm on
the phone stuck in traffic on I twenty five. So
in twenty five years now, nineteen years Wait a minute,
what year is it? Twenty twenty four? Okay, nineteen years
that I've had my own show. I have been late
three times. And I used to do morning drive in
two different markets three times, and they're saying, these kids

(01:08:43):
don't show up on time. This is one of the
things that I tell my daughter. You know, she has
certain responsibilities at the house. They are her part of
contributing to the household. She cleans the kitchen, she helps
with laundry, she does things around the house. But I
always tell her when she does one of them, like,
how am I gonna let you go out and get
a job and work for someone else and inflict a

(01:09:06):
lack of attention to detail on someone else. Now, in
her defense, she has gotten so much more attention to
detail oriented. She's like turning into a young adult. It's
kind of crazy. I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 2 (01:09:20):
It's nice.

Speaker 5 (01:09:21):
Mandy. I work for Denver Public schools, and you would
not believe how many kids show up to school in
their pajamas carrying their blankie. Mandy is a non college graduate.
You can get hired in case you need a job. Well,
that's true. I got that going for me at this

(01:09:42):
stage in the game. If I had to go back
and get an entry level job, I would be a nightmare.
I would just be a nightmare. I would just be
the one that's like, yeah, could this meeting have been
an email now, Oh okay, my favorite in a meeting
that I don't need to be in. You know what,
I don't think I have anything to add here, so
I look forward to the you know the summary in
an email later. Thanks for playing. When we get back,

(01:10:05):
we're gonna do this two minute drill because I got
some stuff and we're also going to talk about, uh,
Trump was right about crime going up. I'll explain that next.

Speaker 1 (01:10:15):
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Speaker 2 (01:10:42):
The two minute drill at two. Hey, we're gonna go
with two minute warnings, rapid fire stories of the day
that we don't have more time for play. Let's call
this will take longer than two minutes.

Speaker 5 (01:10:53):
Are are you out?

Speaker 2 (01:10:54):
Here's Mandy Connall.

Speaker 5 (01:10:56):
All right, my friends, this is big news. We at
the RNC saw Teamsters president Sean O'Brien give an absolutely incredible,
insane speech demonizing big corporations. It was incredibly well received
at the RNC, and now we know the Teamsters are

(01:11:18):
not ready to commit to Donald Trump, but they are
not endorsing in this presidential election. This is a big
shock in Democratic circles and could be significant. The Teamsters
have about one point three million members and many of
them are in battleground states and could play an outsize

(01:11:40):
role in the election. It all happened after they did
an electronic member poll, and it looked like this. When
it was Joe Biden versus Trump, forty four percent of
Teamsters chose Biden and thirty six percent chose Trump, five
point six percent shows RFK, and one point six seven

(01:12:00):
percent chose Cornell West. Now that it became Harris Trump,
thirty four percent say Harris, fifty nine point six percent
say Trump. So obviously, Sean O'Brien, actually, I mean he
could have. He could have done what every union leader
did all those other times and just go against what

(01:12:20):
their members wanted. But he did not. He has simply
said for sitting this one out because his membership is divided,
and I think he's doing the right thing. That being said,
this is a huge, huge win for the Trump campaign.
We'll see how much it matters on election day. All
it too so Metallica is coming to Empower Field at

(01:12:44):
Mile High and Ayrod. Remember when I said no more
stadium shows for me? This one, Yeah, I'm gonna make
an exception for because I really want to see Metallica.
I've never seen him before. I am a casual Metallica fan.
I am not a I have every album. I only
head bang, but I do enjoy Metallica. So this concert

(01:13:05):
I would make an exception for. This is it because
there's gonna be Pyro. You know there's gonna be so
much Pyro.

Speaker 6 (01:13:10):
I'm telling you.

Speaker 7 (01:13:11):
For the recent videos I've seen of them online, they
still rage and put on a great Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:13:16):
And the show will be here June twenty seventh and
June twenty ninth. Yeah, I'm up twenty twenty five.

Speaker 6 (01:13:22):
I'm going to twenty ninth. You're going to the twenty
ninth while I try. Because the twenty seventh Limp Biscuit and.

Speaker 5 (01:13:29):
Pass Well Pantera and Suicidal Tendencies Terara would be awesome. Okay,
So I've seen Suicidal Tendencies. I can't even tell you
how many times I've seen this band because they first
were like raging when I was like fifteen years old.

Speaker 6 (01:13:41):
Yeah, I bet they're still good. Just let me know
when Lincoln Park's coming.

Speaker 5 (01:13:45):
Lincoln Parks, I want to know, are they coming for sure?

Speaker 6 (01:13:48):
They're not coming for sure.

Speaker 7 (01:13:49):
They haven't announced the tour yet, but people expect it
to come soon around, probably when they announce their when
they dropped their new album.

Speaker 5 (01:13:54):
All right, I'm trying to find out when the tickets
go on sale, But if you are a Metallica fan,
you're gonna get a chance to do that ahead of time.
Pre sale for fan club presale begins at ten a m.
On the twenty third, and you can go to Metallica's
website and sign up for a pre sale code, and
then there's other things after that. But honestly, you guys,
joining a fan club is the best way to get

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some of these tickets, because otherwise they're sold out before
they get to the general public. So there you go,
Metallica fans. Medanka, Yes, I will go to that stadium show.

Speaker 3 (01:14:26):
Too.

Speaker 5 (01:14:27):
You know, creating a socialist utopia is hard. We've seen
it fail now in Venezuela, and we have news from
Cuba which is really horrible. Subsidized food without which most
Cubans would not eat at all, is becoming more scarce
and expensive as the government cannot pay for imports. Breads

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are smaller, not even the size of an adult hand,
rice is rare, and oil and coffee are nowhere to
be found. One Cuban said, some go to bed without
eating anything, just water and sugar if they have it.
The store shelves are almost empty and people are surviving
on one piece of subsidized bread every day. The government

(01:15:12):
has reduced the weight of that from eighty to sixty grams.
That's two point eight ounces to two point one ounces.
This is how socialism inevitably ends, and that we're watching
it happen in real time, and people, real people are
suffering in Cuba. So before you decide to go there
and travel, just think about that. The people are suffering

(01:15:34):
and they're going to continue to suffer because a long
time ago, in the name of public safety, they gave
up their guns to the government that now is probably
starving them to death. Just food for thought.

Speaker 4 (01:15:47):
It too.

Speaker 5 (01:15:48):
And one last story a Volusia County share Felucia County
is Daytona beach in Florida. Mike Chitwood is fed up
with kids making threats to schools, so he just published
the photo of an eleven year old charged with making
a terroristic threat and in a barn burner of a
Twitter video which is not a satire. By the way,

(01:16:10):
Hey Rod, this video not a satire. It's not a satire.
Just letting you know, we know this is not satire.
He said, since parents don't want to raise their kids,
I'm gonna start raising them. Every time we make an arrest,
your kid's photo is going to be put out there.
And if I could do it, I would pur block
your kid so that everybody can see what your kid

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is up to. Basically shaming the kids by shaming the parents.
It's quite quite the tick. But is he wrong anyway? Mandy?
I saw you in studio, you and a Rod in
studio last month when I was on my way to
Metallica in Seattle. Guess I'll have to have another Denver
trip in June. That from Andrew. He's a guy that

(01:16:53):
was on no He was on Ross's trip and met Chuck,
and then I met Andrew and he went to the
Army Air Force game with US.

Speaker 4 (01:17:01):
AH.

Speaker 5 (01:17:02):
So yes, I had to that was a lot. Ralph says,
I fear my concert days are over. I can't walk
that far and my hearing is already shot. Well you
won't be missing anything then, Ralph, No way, Mandy, there
is no Pantero without Diebag. My son would agree, Mandy.
The report of the Team Stars was days ago. Why
are you reporting this so late? Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:17:24):
I do the best I can. My god, everybody's a critic.
I only saw it maybe yesterday and maybe the day before.

Speaker 5 (01:17:31):
Well, I'm gonna see when the WAPO published it. Let's see,
where's the date on this bad boy? September eighteenth? It
was yesterday at six twenty eight. They mosted this story.
I know, I mean, come on, I saw the speculation
that they would not endorse, but now we have confirmation.

(01:17:52):
So I just learned something about British people that concerns me,
and we're gonna talk about it right after this. That
would make a stadium exception for that show. And my
sister and brother in law. My brother in law is
from Detroit and he is a major Metallica fan and
they've flown all over the country to see them play,
So now they can come up here. I'm gonna call
her when I get done with the show, and so

(01:18:12):
get ready to buy your tickets. They're in the Metallica
fan club, so they will get their early tickets to
go from there. But I don't know if there's another
band that I would want to see in a stadium again,
I've kind of talked to I'm just like done with
stadium shows. So many people, you're relying on the weather,
all the lines for everything are so long.

Speaker 7 (01:18:31):
We saw read out Chili Peppers like a year or
two ago at in Power actually in the thunderstorm, and
it was really cool.

Speaker 5 (01:18:38):
I've seen them. I don't even know how many times
I've seen Redout Chili Peppers. And I've seen them in
festivals in small venues where I've been five feet away
from Anthony Keatus.

Speaker 6 (01:18:48):
You got to cut through the size of a stadium
to make it worth it.

Speaker 5 (01:18:54):
Well, they're really good because they're all over the places.
I mean, they're like jumping Bean.

Speaker 6 (01:18:58):
The weekend we saw Empowered.

Speaker 7 (01:19:00):
That was incredible, Like you got you gotta be it's
gotta be big, big, big time, like I'm never gonna see,
you know, probably someone in the rap genre at a stadium.

Speaker 6 (01:19:12):
Even country. Honestly, it's like hardcore rock and roll.

Speaker 5 (01:19:15):
See there's some country artists I mean, Garth Brooks could
command a stadium. He always could because he's such a
natural entertainer. It's kind of like Taylor Swift, Like, let's
be real about Taylor Swift music. Okay, and the Swifties
are gonna hate me for saying this, but it's not
like the most upbeat, raging music you're ever gonna hear. Right,
But when she's out on that stage, she has that

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natural magnetism that you.

Speaker 6 (01:19:38):
Want to watch her.

Speaker 5 (01:19:39):
And I think Red Hot Chili Peppers is a perfect example.
Rolling Stones another perfect example. Like you can't not watch
Mick Jagger if you're in a small venue or a
large venue. They just have that sort of thing. They
have it and they could transcend the stadium. You know,
there's I think it's hard to do that. And I
think Metallica will be one of those bands. Okay, I

(01:20:00):
just found out something disturbing about our friends across the pond,
and the method for washing dishes in the UK is
as such. See what's missing? Okay, Number one, put a
bowl in the sink. Number two, fill your washing up
bowl in the sink with water and washing up liquid

(01:20:21):
dish soap. For you Americans, yes.

Speaker 7 (01:20:23):
Real quick, at some point between now and the show,
we will have five paired giveaway and mentality.

Speaker 6 (01:20:27):
You don't know when you're k but at some point
I got yeah, anyay, you were saying.

Speaker 5 (01:20:31):
Okay, So you fill up your washing bowl with dish
soap number three, wash your dishes with a sponge or
cloth number four, place them to dry on the drying rack,
or the dry them with a tea towel. What's missing
from these steps? People? They don't rinse their dishes. And

(01:20:52):
I don't know what to do with this. I don't
I'm genuinely confused by this. I mean, but how what?
So do you are your dishes soapy? I have I
mentioned earlier. This is twice that my travel coffee mug's
making appearance in the show. So my husband despises the
smell of coffee. So even when I am at home,

(01:21:14):
I drink out of the travel mug just to like,
be considerate, be considerate wife. He hates the smell of coffee.

Speaker 4 (01:21:19):
I know.

Speaker 5 (01:21:19):
I don't know what's wrong with him. I don't know.
I can't explain it. But in any case, trying to
be a good spouse, I always use my travel mug
and sometimes when my daughter. She's gotten much better about this,
but she used to wash the travel mug and not
rinse the lid well enough. So first thing in the morning,
I make myself a cup of coffee, put the lid on,
I open it, Bam, there's a mouthful of soap bubbles.

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And so I know that if you don't rinse it properly,
you're gonna get a mouthful of soap bubbles. How do
they avoid this? What is wrong? What is happening? And
what are they eating? Uh eh, I don't know, but
it's gonna make me a lot more suspicious. If I

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ever get invited into someone's home for dinner in Britain,
I'm gonna be like, Okay, let's talk about the way
you actually wash your dishes. I kind of feel the
same way. When I am at at someone's house who
has a cat or cats, I was like to ask him, like,
how much of your cats up on the counter? Just
curious cause for those of us who are more dog people,

(01:22:29):
the cat on the counter thing is just kind of gross.
I mean, there's a little feet we're in a litter
box not too long ago. I'm just saying that gives
me cause for concern. Something to mull over when we
get back. Donald Trump was fact checked by ABC News
as David Muir when he said that crime had gone up,

(01:22:52):
and David Muir said, no, no, no, The FBI crime
statistics say that it's gone down. But there's a gigantic
hole in the those crime statistics. And as it turns out,
Donald Trump was right. We'll explain after this text line. Mandy,
growing up, I made the unforgivable mistake of washing the
guy's coffee mugs of the brown coating of their coffee

(01:23:15):
mugs at my dad's business caught Hell. Do you know
how long it took us to break in those coffee mugs?
Never washed them again. I had a very similar experience
at my dad's hunting camp when I was a kid.
I thought I was being helpful. Apparently all of those
many layers of disgustingness added something to the coffee. I

(01:23:37):
am not down with that. I washed my coffee mug
every single day, So gross, Mandy. My cat goes on
the counter where the window is. He does not go
on the food prep side or any tables or counters
where we eat. You can train cats, but you do
need to compromise because you can't always keep them on
the floor like a dog. Yep, there you go. You go, Mandy.

(01:24:01):
Long term campers actually understand this. Soap dishes. A half
hour or so after you scrub off the food, dip
the dish into soap water quickly gets most of the
soap off. Immediately, towel wipe removes the rest of the
soap our remaining food, then air dry. Heye, wow, Mandy, litterbox,

(01:24:22):
pause for concern. I see what you did there. I
didn't even mean to do that, but it's true. It's true, Mandy.
That's the kind of hybrow animal hygiene snobbery I would
expect only from Kyle Clark. True, Mandy, you live with
a dog drool everywhere in your words I do. We

(01:24:43):
call it Saint Bernard Glitter, though we've given it a
fun name. As a matter of fact, just this morning,
I am standing on one side of the kitchen island.
We don't have a fut full island. We have a
peninsula because of the way our kitchen is configured. She
was on the other side of the peninsula. Llah shook
her head and managed to flick flabber across the peninsula

(01:25:05):
and onto my arm.

Speaker 2 (01:25:07):
Talent.

Speaker 5 (01:25:07):
Luckily, it's easy to clean off, no big whoop, right,
just wipes right off, which is good. Let me get
into this Trump story because I think this is first
of all important and second of all another indictment of
the garbage job that the ABC News commentator did on
the night that Trump got himself flustered by Vice President

(01:25:30):
Kamala Harris and there was a fact check by ABC
News and Democrat David Muir. He asked for details on
how Trump would deal with the legal immigrants who had
been released into the country by the Biden Harris administration,
and he said he would target migrants who committed crimes,
noting that crime here is up and through the roof,

(01:25:52):
David Muir interjected himself in something he did not do
to Vice President Kamala Harris at all, to say, President Trump,
as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is
coming down in this country, to which Trump responded, the
FBI they were defrauding statements. They didn't include the worst cities,
they didn't include the cities with the worst crime. It

(01:26:14):
was a fraud, just like their number of eight hundred
and eighteen thousand jobs that they said they had created.
Turned out to be a fraud. Now, David Mure is
technically correct. The FBI data shows that violent crime is down. However,
Trump is also right. And here's why. The FBI gets

(01:26:39):
all of their crime information reported from cities around the country.
And when let me see here, let me get this here.
For decades, the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program and the
National Crime Victimizations Survey largely tracked each other. When crime

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went up in the FBI data, it also went up
in the Department of Justice data. But the Bureau of
Justice Statistics operates the National Crime Victimization Survey. It releases
new data every September, and it did so last week.
Trump was right because their survey showed that crime has

(01:27:21):
gone up. When did the trends diverge? President Joe Biden
took office and the FBI changed how local law enforcement
agencies report crime to the bureau. The process was made
more complicated and burdensome. As a result, the percentage of
agencies submitting data to the FBI fell, with some of

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the largest and most troublesome cities failing to report at all.
Those cities include Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City.
Now I would imagine that if you leave those out,
that is you know, going to be telling. The Department
of Justice, however, did not change its methodologies at all.

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It interviews two hundred and forty thousand respondents every year
to track crime rates. That's a huge sample, and they
showed crime is much higher during the Biden Harris administration
than it was during Trump's presidency. According to the latest
DOJ numbers, since Trump's last year in office, total violent
crime has risen thirty seven percent, assault has risen thirty

(01:28:28):
three percent, total property crime has risen eight percent, and
motor vehicle theft has risen forty one percent. No wonder,
seventy seven percent of voters and even fifty eight percent
of Democrats believe crime is higher than it was before.
So the fact check that came from half of the

(01:28:49):
duo that admitted they had no intention of fact checking
Vice President Harris. There you go. Now we know Trump
is right. Ew I want to get this we're in before,
we're gonna have Keenan in to Keenan Dixon, our new
news man. He's now had enough time to settle in,
so we're gonna get him in here. We're gonna do
a little get to know Keenan here in just a

(01:29:09):
few minutes. But as I constantly bust Excel Energy s
chops when they continue to ask for more and more
and more of your money, I want to let you
know that Excel has passed along an almost twelve percent
decrease for the rest of twenty twenty four because wholesale

(01:29:30):
energy prices are low. Now they're seeking another permanent rate
increase in February. So yeah, and again the PUC is
taking public comment, and I would love it if public
comment were overwhelmed with really, do they really need more
of our money?

Speaker 6 (01:29:49):
No, no, they shouldn't.

Speaker 5 (01:29:50):
But at least till the end of the month or yeah,
end of the year. Rather you are going to get
You're gonna get a little bit of a break on
your power now. Also on the blog, I've got a
great column by Joshua Scharf what real property tax reform
would look like? Great column out of College Fix Now
grades are racist, Yes they are, Grace I put that

(01:30:14):
on there. I really don't want you to read that
because just in reading it, your IQ is going to
drop like thirty points. And fun story from the New
York Times, Did I not oh, I didn't put the
link on here. I have to fix that. After the show,
the New York Times did a story about how inaccessible

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Kamala Harris has been in her brief run for the presidency.
This is what the New York Times had to say.
Even the press averse mister Biden took more questions in
the final two months of his campaign than Ms Harris
has in what is nearly the first two months of hers.
Her team says this is about to change, promising a
series of appearances across an array of media venues, including

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local and national outlets, podcasts, radio stations, and daytime talk shows.
You know what I'm reading right there? Ay, Rod, go
and reach out. Reach out to the Kamal Aeras campaign.
We understand you want to do radio interviews. We'd love
to have you. We love it. Mandy would love to

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hear those crime statistics broken down by years so we
can see if they are declining. The lockdown years made
a lot of people crazy, Yes, they did, made a
lot of people miserable, made them crazy. I don't know
that may be in the full report. I will go
and see if I can find the underlying data. I
just saw this in an editorial today, So I'll go

(01:31:41):
see if I can find the underlying data from the
DJ report. I have an Excel letter that says they
are raising rates to implement cost saving measures. What well,
what if that's what that says and someone wrote it
without irony? I think we really talk about this. Let
me guess they're making investments in future cost saving measures. Mandy,

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I have a great story about alex el Is screwing
over small businesses with their rebate program. If you're interested,
I'm always interested. Email that to Mandy Connell at ihurtmedia
dot com. Hey, for instance, if you see a snippet
of the show on our Instagram page like a rod
puts stuff up, you can always send me an email
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(01:32:31):
Or or I do this thing every single day mandy'sblog
dot com. It is what is it?

Speaker 1 (01:32:38):
A rod?

Speaker 5 (01:32:38):
We said earlier, A companion to the show, and the
show is a companion to the blog.

Speaker 7 (01:32:44):
Think of the blog as the show, and the show
is the blog rror one another. They go hand in
hand and they usually complete each other. Yes, so maybe
don't take little portions of snippet right out of context
and then try to look sad and do that.

Speaker 5 (01:32:58):
Don't do that. No, would we get you? Just you
email Mandy Connell at iHeartMedia dot com and I'll be happy,
happy to answer your questions. Happy hippity happity on that one.

Speaker 6 (01:33:12):
But it's not attack attack attack, pounce.

Speaker 5 (01:33:15):
Pounce pounced sees he seed. But if you are a
new case, newcomer, we're calling the pot blue learned about
us from Kyle Clark yesterday. If you've stuck around this
long for the show, first of all, I appreciate you
can't wait to hear what kind of criticisms you might
have going forward. I take all constructive criticism into account.

(01:33:38):
If you just send an asking email, I don't really
take that into account, and I might send I might
send an impertant email back. Sometimes I do, Sometimes I don't,
depends on how entertaining your insulting email is. Like, if
it's really entertaining, then I'll probably send you a response back.
But most of the time now because I can't be bothered.
Did you know that CNN has a new late night show?

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Did you know this who? Well, they decided to bring
a show called Have I Got News?

Speaker 1 (01:34:09):
For you.

Speaker 5 (01:34:10):
It is a British show, and it's a panel of
comedians each Saturday night weighing in on the latest headlines.
And they hired Michael Ian Black, Amber Ruffin, and Roy
Wood to anchor the weekly series, all of them aggressively
left wing. Aggressively left wing. So apparently it's not going well.

(01:34:33):
Everybody's trying to out Gutfeld Gutfeld, and I'm telling you
you can't out Gutfeld Gutfeld. He's too funny. Mandy. Why
can't a Rob sup for you when you're gone? Why can't?
I don't think he wants to. And Aaron has all
of these other things behind the scenes that are incredibly
important to us at the radio station. I mean when
I say Aaron has fifty hats that he wears, I'm

(01:34:54):
not exaggerating. Yeah, I'm not exaggerating at all. So he's
as much as he's here with me. He's also got
fifty other irons in the fire. But I mean, I
don't know, if you ever wanted to be fine, try it.

Speaker 6 (01:35:07):
I could do it.

Speaker 5 (01:35:08):
I think you and Grant in here should host the show.

Speaker 6 (01:35:11):
This just Dan for those that don't know, I've hosted
shows before. I know sports and news, oh kind stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:35:16):
Have you hosted a news shown? Yeah, but that was
not giving your opinion. You were playing a journalist. Journalists
don't give their opinions.

Speaker 2 (01:35:26):
It's true.

Speaker 5 (01:35:26):
So it's a whole different ballgame. Trust me. This is
way better, way better than being a journalist. Speaking of journalists,
look with the cat dragged in. Keenan Dixon is in
a studio our new news ban. Keenan, how are you doing?

Speaker 2 (01:35:38):
I'm doing great.

Speaker 5 (01:35:39):
Are you settled in yet?

Speaker 6 (01:35:41):
I think so.

Speaker 2 (01:35:42):
The weather has thrown me for a loop here.

Speaker 5 (01:35:44):
What's the wait? Where are you from? Let's start with it.

Speaker 8 (01:35:46):
I'm from Los Angeles, But no one ever talks about
Denver being hot all the time.

Speaker 5 (01:35:51):
Well, you moved here. You moved here at the tail
end of summer.

Speaker 6 (01:35:54):
That's true, second hotest summer.

Speaker 5 (01:35:56):
Yeah, it'll be hot. Here's the thing, like, next week
we'll start getting the real fall, and then we'll have
one more burst of heat that's fake summer, and then
we'll move into fall, and and if God is smiling
upon us, we will have a glorious Colorado fall, which
there is nothing perfect better than.

Speaker 8 (01:36:13):
Colorado in the fall, as long as the winter isn't
as bad as South Dakota. I spent the last two
winters there, and that's you'll be finekative, you will be
We don't get.

Speaker 5 (01:36:21):
A ton of snow in the city, right, You can
go into the mountains and at the snow. We just
don't get a ton of snow. We get like, what
do you say, like four or five big snow and
I say big, not not like feet like decent snowstorms
a year now solid three Yeah, yeah, it's three.

Speaker 6 (01:36:35):
We could get here and do the shows.

Speaker 5 (01:36:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:36:37):
I think that's important.

Speaker 5 (01:36:37):
Yeah, I mean that's generally speaking. I mean we have
not had no, we have not had We've had one
snowstorm where I was like, I'm working from home, but
we haven't had like a blizzard where we have feet
and feet feet of snow since I've been here and there.
Even if we do it most really fast so you
don't have big, slushy poss snow, it is it is

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really nice. A little about your path from Los Angeles
to South Dakota to Colorado, I've been all over.

Speaker 8 (01:37:05):
Uh, South Dakota was my most recent stop with the
Summit League, so I was, yeah, is that like the
Justice League kind of Yeah, you just with basketball and
soccer and cap college sports.

Speaker 2 (01:37:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:37:18):
Probably no capes, no capes, no capes. So you you're
your sweetheart brought you here, right she did?

Speaker 1 (01:37:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:37:25):
She works for Denver seven.

Speaker 5 (01:37:28):
Morning reporter. Oh, very nice. What's her name?

Speaker 6 (01:37:30):
Ali Janner John?

Speaker 5 (01:37:31):
Oh, so we'll look for Alli on Denver seven in
the morning.

Speaker 2 (01:37:34):
If you wake up at five in the morning.

Speaker 4 (01:37:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:37:36):
So what is your background. You've done a lot of sports, obviously.

Speaker 3 (01:37:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:37:39):
So I played football on college at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania. Uh,
and then matriculated to Syracuse University for grad school and
got my master's in broadcast journalism and did a couple
of years of local TV like our boy a right
over here, and uh, you know, kind of ended up
here in radio in Denver.

Speaker 5 (01:37:57):
Well, we're glad to have you. Great, very happy to
have you. Now you've been here long enough to have
heard the concept of the day. Yes, okay, Now I'm
just gonna give a little wait hang on, no yeah, band,
not yet, band, No, hang on, man. So here's the thing.
Unless you are incredibly spectacular, you're probably gonna lose your
first time out. I'm not starting to lay the ground

(01:38:18):
where and do some kind of psychological there's big time,
that's what. That was my point. I've been doing this
in two thousand and five, so I have some practice
of the day. And I made up the game, all right.
So unlike Ross Cominsky.

Speaker 6 (01:38:31):
Dot James Nasmith correct, So unlike ros.

Speaker 5 (01:38:34):
Kiminsky, who made up a game, he can't play well, I,
on the other hand, have I'm playing very very well.
And because now it's time for the most exciting segment
all the radio of its guide. And now you will
yell really loud in the world, in the world of
the day, I'll take that one. Okay, okay, all right,
now of course we do the Dad joke of the day.

(01:38:58):
I hang on one second, just got this text, Mandy,
journalists don't give their opinions. Lo o, l you are hilarious,
Kyle Clark. Anyway, go ahead.

Speaker 7 (01:39:07):
Sorry, I was gonna say, I was gonna go read
your Twitter bio, which, if you go look at at
Mandy Connell line says, not a journal A journalist.

Speaker 5 (01:39:15):
Want to well, you know what. People accuse me of
being a bad journalist, to which I respond probably, but
I'm not a journalist. So it's all good. Now, Dad,
joke me. Please.

Speaker 7 (01:39:23):
I was going to cook alligator for dinner, but I
realized I only had a crock pot.

Speaker 5 (01:39:29):
Oh, oh my god, I have to write that down.
That's a really funny one. All right, Today's word of
the day. Please.

Speaker 6 (01:39:35):
It is an adjective. Try to guess what the word means. Liminal,
not subliminal, just liminal l I M N A L
l I M I n l liminal liminal.

Speaker 5 (01:39:48):
So I'm going to say above the surface surface level.

Speaker 6 (01:39:51):
Okay, what do you think Let's say just blow in
terms of detail, but no.

Speaker 7 (01:40:00):
Liminal is a formal word, most often used to describe
an intermediate state, phase, or condition intermedia. It can also
describe something that is barely perceptible or barely capable of
eliciting a response.

Speaker 6 (01:40:16):
Okay, liminal.

Speaker 5 (01:40:18):
I'm gonna try really hard to read this trivia question,
but I'm just gonna cop to the fact right now
there's a lot of uh consonants and vowels in this
that I'm just gonna slaughter. So we're just gonna concede
that factor. A hill in New Zealand has one of
the longest place names in the world. This is the
place name. Are you ready tuomata wakatangi, hangu kawea o, tamatiya, torri, puka,

(01:40:44):
paki peki, mangu horro nuku poke wu. It's like that long.
It's three lines. Question mean mean, what does it mean?

Speaker 6 (01:40:55):
I want to go with the fish in Hawaii because
some fish in Hawaii have that long in the day.

Speaker 5 (01:41:01):
If you don't know what, you're not gonna guess it. Keenan.

Speaker 2 (01:41:03):
Let me just say that a really shallow hill.

Speaker 5 (01:41:06):
No, it means the place where Talmataeya, the man with
the big knees who slid, climbed and swallowed mountains known
as land eater, played his flute to his loved one.
Of course, I mean, why wouldn't you? But of course
that's of course, that's that's it. Yeah, okay, I'm got
ready to go. What's our now? Keenan for this, if
you want to answer the question, and you do not

(01:41:28):
have to wait till the end of the question. This
is a blood sport, Okay. You have to shout out keenan,
and then a ron will say yes, and you go
what is who is whatever form of a question just
like Jeopardy.

Speaker 7 (01:41:37):
Yes, but I'm also finding a new wrinkle. Well, guys,
I'm gonna do this for people that are first timers.
I'm gonna let him choose between two categories. Okay, jeopardy.

Speaker 5 (01:41:44):
If you get it wrong, if you get it right,
you get one point. If you get it wrong, you
get minus one.

Speaker 6 (01:41:49):
Two options. Kenan, you get to choose. Would you like
I'd like a drink as a category, or that's corny
with words that have corn in the word and the
answer that's corny, that's corny. Here we go.

Speaker 5 (01:42:01):
Pipe type, yes, pipe type? What is a corn called pipe?

Speaker 2 (01:42:06):
Correct?

Speaker 6 (01:42:07):
See that in oak tree wanna be as corn answer?

Speaker 5 (01:42:17):
Oak tree wanna be.

Speaker 7 (01:42:21):
Doesn't really make a lot of sense, and no idea
a big guy either? An acorn.

Speaker 5 (01:42:30):
Easy at the Yeah, I didn't think about that, dang it.

Speaker 6 (01:42:33):
This earth sign is rolled by Saturn Capricorn. One one.
That's your one pass.

Speaker 5 (01:42:42):
Ye'll we give you one chance to not answer correctly
that the next one counts.

Speaker 7 (01:42:46):
John with this last name means quiet series. John with
this last name means Booze personified.

Speaker 5 (01:42:56):
Booze personified. M hm hm Johnny with this last name,
John with this last name Booze personified.

Speaker 6 (01:43:08):
Is this John famous?

Speaker 1 (01:43:10):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:43:11):
Okay, I have no idea. I don't what is barley?

Speaker 6 (01:43:14):
Corn is? Zero?

Speaker 2 (01:43:16):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (01:43:17):
Nobody? Nobody got it wrong? One, he got one right.
I got one right. Nobody guessed.

Speaker 6 (01:43:23):
Guess those guests, so one one still. Yep, we're tired.
Despite that whole Yorktown debacle, he later fought in Asia
in Ireland with great success.

Speaker 5 (01:43:35):
Asia and Ireland Brocktown telling me, I have no idea.
Oh many, who was Cornwall?

Speaker 4 (01:43:44):
Wait?

Speaker 5 (01:43:44):
What cornwallis?

Speaker 6 (01:43:46):
You said?

Speaker 5 (01:43:46):
Cornwall? Cornwall is?

Speaker 7 (01:43:49):
How about we'll we'll call it even and go to
another type. How about that because we're gonna yeah, we're
gonna go to I'd like a drink, like we're going
to the other one.

Speaker 6 (01:43:57):
Here we go.

Speaker 7 (01:43:58):
Oh, let's go with the cocktail of whiskey, sweet vermuz
and a cherry.

Speaker 5 (01:44:03):
Sounds like what's in Manhattan.

Speaker 6 (01:44:04):
That is correct, and that is very good showing.

Speaker 5 (01:44:07):
Though very good showing. If you did a fine job.
A lot of people don't score for like the first
six or seven times they're on the show. So you
gotta come in and do this again. See it's easy.
Now you've done. Okay, let's make a room. We got
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