09-22-25 FULL SHOW - The House Minority Has A New Leader, And When Will You Die

Republicans have elected Jarvis Caldwell the new minority leader, now there's an app to tell you when you might die, and the Rockies blow it by winning.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Nice through three, Andy Connall, Keith sad thing. Well, we
welcome to a Monday edition of the show. I'm your
host for the next three hours, Mandy Connell, joined by
my right and man. We call him Anthony Rodriguez, you
can call him a rod. Today we will take you

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straight up through a Monday right until we hand the
station off in dramatic relay race fashion. There's a baton
and everything right to KOA Sports. Hey, Roger, you brought
the You brought the baton today, right?

Speaker 2 (00:53):
No, that was your job.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
No, dang it, I thought so. We talked about left
it on the kitchen counter. We're just gonna have to
go till midnight. JK, that's not happening anyway. Let's jump
right in. I love this texture. Who was just listening
to the end of the Roskaminsky Show. I'm glad Mandy
has those annoying home projects and shores and piles of
crap to get rid of too. We all do, but

(01:14):
sometimes yes, Ayrod, you guys haven't lived in your house
long enough to have an annoying pile of crap yet,
have you?

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Mandy? Really? Next month? Two months from now?

Speaker 4 (01:23):
No, next month? Five years already? Whoa in our first house?
I feel like you guys just moved in, I know.
I mean, yeah, we've got the garage.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Yeah, ours with things like there was just a random
pile of wood pieces from when we redid our deck
eleven years ago and they had to go, so they
they're gone.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
Ours is just an extra house crap sitting all piled
up in a guest room that we don't open the door.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
We don't talk about it. No, you cannot do that,
not yet.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
We've got a lot to do it. Yeah, Mandy, you
got time that I don't have. I'm just saying that
I can get in that room because baby steps. Yeah,
it was like mine started with a pile of lumber
that just needed to go. The rest of the house immaculate. Yeah,
that room we'll get to. It's not pressing. We don't
need it yet.

Speaker 5 (02:10):
You know what?

Speaker 6 (02:10):
That's that?

Speaker 3 (02:11):
That is a fair As long as your guest room,
you could be against. Oh you have no okay, everybody,
Yeah we have another one.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
Never mind. If we only had one, it would be
clear down problems again. Okay, we already have another one that.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Makes per I have no judgment at all to offer
you one way or the other. I'm just gonna you
go live your life, Bud, thank you, because we've all
been there.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Anyway, let's talk about the blog and where to find it.
You can go to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com.
Look for the headline in the latest post section that
says nine twenty two twenty five blog the House Minority
has a new leader and when will you Die? Click
on that and here are the headlines you will find within.

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If half of American all the ships and clippas say
that's going to press plat.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Today. I'm the blog. Jervis Caldwell is the new minority
leader in the House. When will you Die? Park around
find out welp, the Rockies won't tie for the worst ever.
Charlie Kirk's memorial service was lovely. The impact of Myaha
Stadium on business, It's bugling time at Rocky Mountain National Park,
about beneficial use of water, and the Kavanaugh sempted assassin

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is trans The Union loves to gin up trouble at Casabanita,
buy travel insurance. Young people are approaching marriage wrong. COVID
shots are voluntary? Now is there a card for Chapter
eleven bankruptcy? Gold and Silver continue their upward march about
raising social securities full retirement age. Democrats now say shutting

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down the government is good. How humans cause traffic jams
for no reason? Another unknown motive to left wingers another drug,
Late and go fast boat meets its maker. Gavin Newsom
treats masks like guns, The truth about Charlie Kirk's civil
rights comment a lawsuit to watch on bullying a gay man,
where Chat says you can retire on three grand a month.

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Von Miller reflects on Denver Thornton. You're getting a racetrack
miles now available for weddings. Nobody likes Russ anymore. Let's
talk about sex or the lack thereof. Those are the
headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com and attack two. Well,
thank you, Nancy. I'm feeling good today on a Monday.

(04:23):
Got a great night sleep last night, feeling pretty good
about everything, even though it was yesterday was the I
think the punctuation mark of the tragedy that took the
life of Charlie Kirk, when a young man, misguided in
his beliefs, believed that shooting the conservative activist was the

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way to do. I don't know something. I don't know.
I don't think he thought it out. He obviously didn't.
And if you didn't watch the memorial service last night
or yesterday, I didn't watch it yesterday. I got up
this morning and I put it on. I just listened
to it this morning, and I have to say it
was absolutely lovely and it was not a political event

(05:11):
other than a few political comments. One by Donald Trump
just couldn't stop. He just couldn't just not say it,
just couldn't not say the thing.

Speaker 7 (05:23):
You know.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
And now today a lot of the coverage is down
of champ said he hates his enemies. Well, they missed
a whole bunch of really beautiful commentary that came out
of yesterday's service from a variety of sources, not the
least of which was Erica Kirk. Now, I know, you guys,
remember when a young again, a young white man who

(05:43):
thought he was gonna do something by going into a
black church in South Carolina and murdered a bunch of
older African American people who had gone to church simply
to worship, and again with him. I don't know what
he thought he was going to accomplish with that, but
I'm going to tell you right now I have I
was so deeply moved when all of the survivors of

(06:05):
that horrific event, these elderly African American folks who had
just gone to church to worship, when they showed up
at court and they stood outside the courtroom and said,
we are here to let him know we forgive him,
because that's what Jesus tells us we need to do.
We have to forgive him. It is not our role
to judge him. And Erica Kirk did that yesterday and

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it was just incredibly, incredibly powerful. Guys, there are things
happening right now because of this. There are things, there
are bad things happening, and there are people saying still
horrible things that are that are coming from a place
of complete ignorance and a complete lack of desire for

(06:46):
the truth right the truth. For people who are still
celebrating Charlie Kirk's death based on some notion that he
was some you know, hardcore right wing hate Monger. If
I see one more person compare Charlie Kirk to Nick Fuentes,
I'm gonna lose my mind because that's just it's incredibly insulting.

(07:09):
But they're coming from a place of ignorance, and at
this point, it's will for ignorance. They're trying not to
inform themselves of what Charlie Kirk was actually about, and
that's okay. That's on them. That is their issue, that
is their problem, and it's up to people like me
to gently say, hey, you know what, that's inconsistent with

(07:29):
what I have seen in the now. I don't even
know how many hours I've watched of Charlie Kirk videos.
And that is how I'm pushing back, you guys. I'm
pushing back on people on Facebook in a very gentle
way and saying, you know what, I'd love for you
to show me the videos that you're consuming. I'd love
to know the where you're getting because it's hard for
me to believe that if there are all these instances

(07:53):
of Charlie Kirk engaging in all of this racist, misogynist activity,
they would be super easy to find, and yet I'm
not seeing them. Maybe I'm just in the wrong algorithm.
So I'm asking them, hey, you know what, show me
what you're seeing, show me what it is you're consuming.
In an effort to understand where they're coming from a
little bit better. I'm I'm channeling my inner Charlie Kirk.

(08:15):
I'm just asking them to show me here, help me
understand where you're coming from, and then leaving it up
to them. What's been fascinating, though, is to see people.
And this just popped up on my x feed. I
do not follow this woman at all. I've never heard
of this woman until I clicked on this today. Her

(08:35):
name is Sauna abrahamm A Abrahim. Sauna Abrahimi, a PhD
candidet passionate about politics. A retweet is not an endorsement.
Opinions are mine, and she had this to say about
Erica Kirk's speech. Specifically, she said, I listened to Erica

(08:57):
Kirk's full speech at the memorial, and I want to
share a few thoughts that came to me while live
streaming the event. This is not political. First, I should
say that I grew up as a Muslim in a
Muslim country. I don't know enough about Christianity to say
if what I witnessed is rooted in faith or culture.
But what struck me most was how, even though death

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is heavy and this was by nature a sad occasion,
the entire event carried a celebratory spirit that honored life.
That contrast hit me deeply. In Islam, even though we
believe that good people go to heaven, the relationship with
God is taught through fear. Funerals are overwhelmingly sad, often
filled with warnings of the terrifying first night in the grave.

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Growing up hearing that and then witnessing people celebrate life,
speak of God's love and remember someone through the impact
he had on others, it felt so refreshing, so positive. Second,
I was profoundly moved by Erica Kirk's words. I cannot
fathom the strength it takes to stand and deliver such
a me meaningful speech after losing the love of your life,

(10:03):
but even more than that, the grace it takes to
forgive the very person who destroyed your world. I cannot
imagine myself standing on a stage sending love to those
who cheered your husband's murder, or inviting others to spreads
god love in response, because, as she said, we do
not respond to hate with hate that is powerful beyond words. Again,

(10:25):
I am ignorant when it comes to Christianity, but if
this is what it truly embodies, then I am envious
of those who get to experience that feeling. I mean,
you guys, come on. That is and again I've never
see As a matter of fact, I'm gonna go follow
her right now just to see what else she has
to say in the future.

Speaker 8 (10:46):
But the.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
Butterfly effect of Charlie Kirk's death is changing people now.
I don't think this woman is going to run and
convert to Christianity, but it's giving people pause now in
my algorithm on X, I don't know about yours. I
have video after video after video of young black men who,

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having never heard of Charlie Kerr, never heard of this dude,
never once they started watching his videos to see just
how racist he was because their people were telling him, well,
that guy's are racist. You can't be upset. And you
know what they're coming away with. They're like, wait a minute,
he's preaching personal responsibility of taking care of your kids,

(11:34):
of going to school and getting married and having a family.
How in the world, How in the world is that racist?
And they're right, but that's why it's also dangerous. I mean,
this is everything sort of came to me in clarity
over the weekend. Not everything. I shouldn't sit here and
say I have it all figured out, that's just that's ridiculous.

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But I got some clarity on why, really, why this
is so terrifying people who are still continuing to say
horrible things even in the face of overwhelming, overwhelming evidence
that they're wrong, Because all of this is so incredibly
dangerous to the notion that there is no God and
that we are all just clumps of cells walking around

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meaningless on earth. That getting married isn't really necessary. You
can go ahead and have kids without a spouse that
you know, making good choices. You don't get ahead if
you make good choices, right, because you're just a victim.
If you don't get ahead, it's not because of anything
you did or didn't do. Because all of those things
that are being preached by politicians on the left are

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designed to keep people enslaved. And I realize that's a
very very loaded word, and I don't mean obviously in
the traditional sense of people being physically enslaved and living
on a plantation and having no choice. But if they
allow Charlie Kirk's message to be heard by people who
are consistently told you have no agency in your life,

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you are a permanent victim, and no matter what you do,
you will never get ahead because everything in the world
is stacked against you. What if those people found out
that was a lie. What if those people started to say,
you know what, I have skills, I have talents. I
live in a country where, yeah it's not perfect, but

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I have the best opportunity to succeed doing whatever it
is I want. I have the opportunity to take advantage
of an education system that, when one engages, can produce
really fine talent. We see it all over the place.
By the way, you guys, not every kid who goes
to a failing school fails. Not every kid who goes

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to a failing school doesn't learn how to read and write. Right,
There are kids in those schools that are learning how
to read and write. Why are they learning because somebody
is telling them you can do it. The entire Democratic
Party apparatus is built on a platform of convincing people
that no matter what they do, they are not going

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to succeed because someone is there to hold their ethnicity,
their gender, their sexuality, their race, whatever against them in
a way that they can't control. And then you have
a bunch of people who believe that they must have
the power of government to even that playing field, or

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that someone else owes them something because of this great injustice.
And if you believe that someone else owes you something
because of this great injustice, well then it's really easy
to get you to vote to take other people's property,
to increase taxes on other people that you perceive even
though they've never met, you don't know, you don't have

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anything to do with you, I've never been to your hometown.
You perceive them as somehow having what you'll instead of
perceiving them as having worked for it. And it really
it's a genius plan. Really, I mean it. Whenever you
can offload responsibility to someone else, especially in a way
that you can't control, you've given yourself a license to

(15:16):
be as bad or pathetic as you as you possibly can. Right,
it's not your fault, it's not your choices that you're making.
You know, everybody loves to use examples, and I'm gonna
use this example as a perfect example. Really, people on medicaid. Okay,
so poor people on medicaid smoke at much higher rates

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than people who don't, who are not on medicaid. Think
about that for a second. Knowing that in Colorado cigarettes
costs nine dollars a pack, nine dollars a pack, people
on medicaid smoke at a higher rate. Now you could
make the argument, and it's made by people on the left,
that the reason they smoke is to deal with the
inherent pressures that being poor in society have led them to.

(16:02):
Or you can look at it the way I do
and say, gosh, if they're smoking cigarettes spending what seven
eight bucks every day? Every two days? Oh wait, stop,
stop the presses. It is twelve nineteen September twenty second,
twelve nineteen. It is now fall. Yeah, autumnal fall has

(16:27):
now begun. Can we get a little earth wind and
fire September? Please, Anthony? We need a little musical interlude
hair going into the break, do you remember?

Speaker 5 (16:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (16:39):
But then I would have to take it out of
the podcast, and then people wouldn't be able to enjoy
it as much. Why don't we.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
Break down the song as an editorial content? No, anyone's
not wrong. If you guys knew the stupid rules we
have to deal with trying to just get this show
onto the podcast. It's unbelievable.

Speaker 9 (16:54):
Do you remember, well that was yesterday? Was yesterday though, no, no,
the song is twenty first, but it's the twenty second
and it's officially fall.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
Hell yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
Have on long sleeves, but there are ten long sleeves.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
Anyway, it's gonna be cool tomorrow. Happy fall.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
Yeah, happy fall, happy fall. So, after the last week
and a half of just being buried in you know, negativity, sadness, whatever,
I'm feeling good today. I'm feeling good because there are
things that are happening because of Charlie Kirk's murder that
are very very good. And by the way, that's not

(17:36):
to say, oh I'm glad Charlie Cook called murder.

Speaker 6 (17:38):
No no, no, no no.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
These are happening in spite of Charlie Kirk's murder. They're
happening because people like his wife and all of those
people that came to that memorial yesterday, they got the memo.
They were there to celebrate the very short life of
Charlie Kirk, and in doing so the way they did
for Erica Kirk, to get I can't Erica Kirk saying

(18:02):
that she forgives the man who killed her husband because
it guts me and I'm not gonna do that to
myself today. But if you have not heard it, I
put her entire comments on the blog today, just like
I was absolutely in awe of the African American church

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growers in South Carolina who showed up to tell that
man who certainly did not deserve their forgiveness, that they
forgived him, forgave him. To hear Erica Kirk say, I
forgive you because her husband was trying to save misguided
young men just like him. You can't save them all,

(18:44):
but you know what, I have to believe that in
doing so, in demonstrating true like absolute Christian charity in
a way, guys, I don't think I could do it.
I really don't. If you hurt my family, holy cow,

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I will wish every manner of hell, fire and vengeance
to come down on your head. And by the way,
be clear, forgiveness does not mean that she does not
want this young man to suffer the fullest consequences our
legal system allows. She didn't say that, but what she
said is as a Christian as Jesus said on the

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cross to his about his tormentors who were stabbing him
in the side after nailing through his hands and hanging
him on the cross. God forgive them, for they know
not what they do. That is, this is the Christian
ethos in its most pure sense. And if Christians continue

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to behave in that manner and continue to demonstrate to
all of these people, who, by the way, may have
laughed behind their hands at the Christian that they worked with,
or maybe rolled their eyes when some and said, Hey,
I'm gonna say a prayer before you know the meal.
Maybe some of those people are going to open their eyes,
and maybe some of those people are going to go,
you know what, that's the kind of love I'm missing

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in my life. That's the kind of peace that I want.
And maybe the good to come of this will continue
to spread and all of this will not.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
Be for naught.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
Mandy so Stephen Miller was lovely, No, I can. I
just I don't like Steven Miller. I think Steven Miller
comes across like a Bond villain. I'm just I don't
care for the guy. I don't care if we're we
agree on policy or whatever. I just I just don't
care for the guy. I actually didn't watch Steven Miller speak,
so I missed that one yesterday, Mandy, let me see here,

(20:55):
I cannot find the texts that I wanted to find,
so let's move on to something else. A lot of
people are talking about Cardinal Timothy Dolan who went and
I believe I had that on last week's blog. If
I didn't, I talked about it briefly on Friday. Who said,
you know, wow, after going back and watching, did you
fix it? As everybody back now? I'm so sorry streamers.

(21:18):
That was my fault anyway, Timothy or Cardinal Timothy Dolan
who It's kind of funny, you guys, because Timothy Dolan
is both embraced by the left because he's very pro immigration.
As a matter of fact, they just made a huge
change to I think Paul's Cathedral in New York where

(21:42):
they added I think it's beautiful. I think it's a
beautiful mural. They added a mural to the walls of
the entrance area of the cathedral and it focuses heavily
on a theme of immigration. It's a beautiful mural and
I think it's a lovely addition, but the Catholic Church
is very, very pro immigration. They don't care how it
happens because, and this is my view, though they couch

(22:06):
it in the terms of God says you should, you know,
be kind to your fellow man, which is truly the edict.
They ignore the fact that there are laws in place
that requires such things. And one of the reasons that
Jesus was born in a manger was because his parents
were required to learn return to their homeland by the
government for a census. Right, That's why they were in

(22:29):
Bethlehem in the first place. And the Catholic Church's strongest
areas of growth are from Central America and Africa and
South America. That is where they're getting the most growth
in the Catholic Church. So I don't mean to seem
skeptical of the Catholic Church, but I they're I tend
to look at Catholic Church leadership with a bit of

(22:51):
a hairy eyeball. I'm still not over the way they
handled the sex abuse scandal in the church. I still
think that was so incredibly vile, what they did to
little children. But that's neither here nor there. But Cardinal
Dole is widely embraced in left wing politics until he

(23:13):
had the nerve to say that he believed that Charlie
Kirk was like a modern day Paul, like a modern
day Apostle, and he said, Wow, I've gone back and
watched these videos and he really did sort of exemplify
you know, Christ's message and Christ's love. And now the
left they're all mad, They're like, you're a horrible person. Whatever, whatever,

(23:36):
it doesn't it just it is what it is. Mandy says,
this text or the left always changes the focus when
they are exposed. Wouldn't doubt the left starts to point
out that the Jews killed even Jesus. That is why
we see them as evil and don't deserve to exist.
Meaning that's how the left sees the Jews. I don't
know if that's the case, because a lot of Jews
in this country are left wing, and that goes deeply

(23:58):
into how their faith is designed. They have somehow conflated
doing good for their fellow man with using government to
do good for their fellow man. But we can have
that conversation at another time. But the reality of what's
going on right now, as you get to see the
fury and anger that the left was feeling left out about. See,

(24:20):
many on the left love to be angry. It's their
jois de vive. Their reason for living is to be
angry about something. And when everybody like me and like
you and other people that were so angry yesterday or
last week about what happened to Charlie Kirk, well they
needed a reason to be angry too. So they have
now martyred Jimmy Kimmel at the altar of free speech,

(24:43):
the same free speech that they were so cavalier in
dismissing the week before when we pointed out a Charlie
Kirk was just trying to engage in free speech, and
they're like, well, not that kind of speech, only speech
we agree with. And now we're supposed to be upset,
we're supposed to be at we're supposed to be all
of these things about the the image of the federal

(25:07):
government in the way of FCC Chair Brendan Carr stifling
the free speech of Jimmy Kimmel by threatening fines on
ABC or the networks that they aired this kind of
hateful speech. And I want to be clear about one thing.
I am not in favor of the government censoring speech
of anyone at all. It's why we talked about things

(25:30):
like the Twitter files when they came out that clearly
showed that though there were not orders given on what
posts to take down or to ban, it was clear
that the government interfered with the operation of social media
companies in order to stop the flow of what we
now know to be accurate information about COVID and things

(25:52):
like an unflattering story about Hunter Biden's laptop. We know
that the federal government reached out to social media company
that's not in dispute, and they basically were like, hey, guys,
we're going to need you to check on these tweets
because we feel that they are misinformation. So we sure
hate for something to happen if that kind of misinformation

(26:14):
got out there. And the social media companies were like, yes,
government agency, we're going to do what you want. But see,
the left was not upset about it then, because they
were out there saying things like if you didn't want
to get vaccinated, you should die, right remember that. I mean,
it wasn't that long ago. We were all there. So
the reality of the situation is is that now they
are going to try and elevate the firing of Jimmy Kimmel.

(26:38):
It will allow him to go home and spend more
time with his children. Unlike Charlie Kirk's kids, they get
to grow up with a dad. And here's the thing though,
in principle, I agree with the position that FCC chair
Brendan Carr did a really stupid thing by going in
a public forum and talking openly about the fact that

(27:01):
he felt like this was wrong, when in reality he
should have just had the people in his office send
a well placed message expressing concern about the message that
was sent and hey, could you please do something look
into this misinformation. I sure would hate it if something
that happened. If they'd just done that, it would have

(27:23):
been fine, right, I mean, that's right, isn't it? Aren't we?
I mean, what's really going on right now in the
country politically is that the left, who has created a
playbook on how to shut down conversation, on how to
shut down descent that they disagree with, they're mad that

(27:46):
the same exact things that they've been celebrating are now
being used on people they agree with. And it's unfortunate
that their inconsistency has led them to this place. But
I think I'm going to remain consistent. I can still
say that's a horrible idea. The FCC chair shouldn't have
done that. But at the same time, deep in my heart,

(28:08):
maintaining zero concern for Jimmy Kimmel and his family because
the worst thing that's going to happen to Jimmy Kimmel
and his family is there going to be able to
spend more time together. Yeah, that's it. That's as far
as my concern goes. I saw this yesterday on CBS

(28:28):
Sunday Morning, and I just loved it. I loved it.
I want to share this. This is by Rabbela Angelo Bookdahl.
She is the first Korean American woman to be become
a rabbi, and she's written a book about that and
how challenging it was. But I want you to hear
her speak about Rashashana, which is the Jewish New Year,

(28:50):
and what this is all about.

Speaker 7 (28:54):
At Russia Shana, we count the years since God created
the world, this year being the year where five thousand,
seven hundred and eighty six, give or take a few
billion years. While this is a season of joy and
community gathering, the new year also begins a season of atonement,
where we take an accounting of who.

Speaker 3 (29:14):
We are and how we can do better.

Speaker 7 (29:17):
We believe that with repentance, people and societies can change.
This idea of taking stock as we approach a new
year may sound familiar. Many Americans make New Year's resolutions
on January first, resolving to learn a new skill, lose
fifteen pounds, or call their mother. More often, this examination

(29:38):
happens on Russiashana too, but magnified Jews come together and
reflect for hours in synagogue, literally beating our chests as
we read through a scripted litany of ways we have
fallen short for spreading lies or hateful speech, for acting
callously towards others, for selfishness and greed.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
The list goes on.

Speaker 7 (30:02):
But importantly, we don't confess individually.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
We do it communally.

Speaker 7 (30:06):
We take responsibility for one another and hold each other accountable.
Sounds like it could be an unpleasant way to celebrate
a new year, but it's a fundamentally hopeful message. There
is joy in knowing we can change.

Speaker 5 (30:22):
This.

Speaker 7 (30:22):
Repentance in Hebrew is called tashuva, which literally means return.
What are we returning to? To our better selves? To
who we know we can be as human beings and
as a society. Now, imagine if we as a country
could make tashuva together, not pointing fingers to the other

(30:43):
side saying you're the problem, but collectively we have ignored
the vulnerable. We have normalized mass violence. We've celebrated the
death of opponents. We've rewarded outrage over understanding. We have
forgotten how to grieve and how to hope.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
Together.

Speaker 3 (31:05):
On the cusp of this.

Speaker 7 (31:06):
New year, I know we can return to the best
in ourselves, to the best in our country, to the goodness, compassion,
and generosity that this nation has shown me as an
immigrant Korean female rabbi wishing you Lisha Natova That, my.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
Friends, is a wonderful, wonderful way to go at the
New year, and it's actually made me think this year,
you know, I don't do New Year's resolutions. I hate them, right,
They're just they're so yeah, you know, they're just say, hey,
how fast can I break this? But this year, at
the end of the year and the end of my
new year, because I'm not Jewish, although I again wish
a happy New Year to all of our friends in
the tribe, wouldn't it be nice if we all said

(31:49):
what can we do better? Next year? What can we
do better? And boy, are we in a position right
now to say what can we do better? It's really easy.
As I did last week. Last week, I really struggled
with not being angry. I feel so much better this week,
not because anything significantly has changed, but because it's gotten
easier for me to say, yes, we can do better.

(32:10):
We can all figure out a way to be better.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
Now.

Speaker 3 (32:14):
I know not everybody's gonna do it, and already I
can hear those of you like, yeah, it sounds great.
And why is it always our side? It's not just
always our side, but because the fact is, if most
of us just tried, the world would be a lot
better place. It truly would. Now when we get back
talk about going in a different direction. So there is

(32:35):
a new app out there called death Clock. Air me
out and you put in a few questions, help, questions
and things of that nature, and it tells you like, Okay,
you don't do anything, you keep everything the way it
is right now, and boom, you're gonna die at this age.
I did it, and it said I was going to
die at eighty nine, which you know, good ride. But

(32:57):
if I you know what, if I ate more oatmeal,
I don't know it is. I'm just gonna be honest.
This This app then wants you to buy a bunch
of like training and suggestions on how to live forever.
The how to Live Forever movement is building steam and
in my mind it's another example of us trying to

(33:20):
play god, and frankly, that just doesn't work out very often,
does it. We'll be back more on that next.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
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Speaker 2 (33:32):
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Speaker 5 (33:41):
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Speaker 3 (33:42):
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Speaker 2 (33:48):
Pray Connell keeping is sad thing when there's news. Jolly Kirk.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
Bringing a piece of tape, I'm just putting it over
the button. I'll never hit it again. I don't know
what the blank is wrong with me today? Again, I'm
so sorry you guys. That's like a mental disorder. Now
let's become a thing like don't touch the stove because
the stove will burn you. But I keep touching the
dang stove anyway.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Good thing.

Speaker 3 (34:19):
The death clock guys on till one thirty. That's the
kind of day it is. It's a Monday. I have
no idea what's going on, even in a plan a
show that I plan myself. There's a couple of interesting
stories in the news that I want to get to
that I think are actually kind of positive news. And
you know, as much as we've been talking about Denver
lately not having great news and things just not going
as well as we would hope, good interesting story from Denver.

(34:43):
Seven Deadline is research ranks Denver among the top in
the country for local economic growth near Empower field. So
what are we talking about here. We're talking about the
area around Empower. The GoDaddy's Small Business Research Lab actually

(35:05):
did an analysis around stadiums all around the country and
they looked for the cities that have the largest numbers
of small entrepreneurs in the area around stadiums. And it
should be no surprise that most of those places where

(35:27):
there is a lot of locally owned business around the stadiums,
they are not the stadiums that use the Jerry World model.
And the Jerry World model is, of course, where you
build a stadium and then the team or the ownership
owns everything around it and they create an entertainment district
around it, which could very well have local businesses in it,

(35:48):
but maybe not. The top five cities and the GoDaddy
entrepreneurial power rankings in order were Miami. Now, if you've
ever been to the stadium in Miami, they built the
stadium in Davy, Florida. It's not even in Miami. It's
not even super close to Miami, but that's where the
Miami Dolphins play. And when they first built it, there
was nothing around the stadium, literally nothing. It was just

(36:12):
in the middle of nowhere. Las Vegas is the one
that surprised me because they visited Las Vegas right smack
in the middle of the strip and that one's there. Inglewood,
California is one of them. Glendale, Arizona is one of them,
and then Denver. And the reason they're doing this story is,
obviously we're getting a new stadium. They're moving the stadium

(36:34):
to an area called Burnham Yards where there's plenty of
space around it to create the entertainment district that ownership
loves now. But Denver seven actually went and spoke to
some of these smaller mom and pop shops that are
near the stadium and they said, look, so how important
is the stadium to your business, and I love the

(36:54):
fact that all of them were like, look, most of
the revenue comes from people that live within the neighborhood.
Now on game days we might see a big spike,
But how many games aroun What do you have? Eleven
games home games including preseason mostly isn't it eleven? You
got nine? Or is it eight to eight?

Speaker 2 (37:14):
I can't Every year it changes because now you have
seventeen games, so it switches each year.

Speaker 3 (37:17):
Okay, so roughly eleven games per year. Roughly we'll say
roughly eleven games. So a business cannot survive on eleven
football games. So it's nice to see these small businesses
saying yeah, I mean it helps, but it's not going
to be the death of us if this happens. But
it is going to be very interesting to see how
the area around what will become the new mile High evolves.

(37:42):
There was also a really good story on nine News.
I think it was last week and I may have
put it on the blog on Friday about maybe it
was over the weekend about young entrepreneurs who are now
moving onto the sixteenth Street what used to be them
all and is now just sixteenth Street, right, They're now
moving in and They want to bring back that kind

(38:04):
of funky, cool atmosphere that Denver had. Frankly, when I
moved here thirteen years ago, thirteen years ago, when you
went to Larimer Square, I think almost all of those
businesses and restaurants were locally owned and operating, meaning they
were not franchises. They were not you know, big large
corporate restaurant chains. They were small mom and pop chains

(38:25):
or mom and pop shops. The clothing stores were cool.
It was just a completely different vibe. And what's happened,
especially within Sixteenth Street as this never ending construction project
has just been going on and on and on, is
that small locally owned businesses they don't they can't spread
the losses, right, I mean, if you have, and I'm

(38:46):
gonna use olive Garden, I'm gonna pick on olive Garden
for a reason here, just for a second. They're everywhere.
That's why I'm picking on them. I have no beef
with olive Garden in any way, shape or form. I
don't remember the last time I ate in an olive garden.
But I'm not big on Italian restaurants, so take nothing
from that either. I'm just saying they're everywhere. You can
insert the gap into this as well, although I think
the gap has finally closed a lot of stores. But nonetheless,

(39:07):
let's just say an Olive Garden moves in into the
middle of construction in the sixteenth Street and no one
comes in and they're losing money hand over fist. Well,
all of Garden Corporate can kind of spread those losses
a little bit better than a mom and pop who
have invested everything their life savings that they've attached to
their home in order to start a business on the

(39:28):
sixteenth Street mall. So I am excited. Chuck and I
have been down to the Sixteenth Street Mall one time
since part of it reopened. I just wanted to check
it out. I have to say it was lovely the
part that was open. There wasn't a lot of activity
when we were down there, and I think maybe we're
going to make another field trip down there and talk

(39:48):
to some of these businesses, see if we can get
them on the show, because I don't want to go
anywhere where I'm walking into a situation where all I'm
gonna see is chains right by the way. I shop
at chain stores. I I you know, I eat at
chain restaurants. So I'm not one of those people that's
militantly anti chain, but when I'm especially when I'm on vacation,

(40:11):
right when I'm on vacation, I want to eat or
the locals eat. I want to eat in the mom
and pop diner. I want to shop from people who
live in that neighborhood. I want to go to the
places that create the fabric of wherever I am and
like it or not. A bunch of chain stores, eh
doesn't say anything. It just says we can't support local business.

(40:32):
So I'm courage.

Speaker 5 (40:33):
Do you know?

Speaker 3 (40:34):
You guys know you make fun of me every time
I do it. I'm rooting for downtown Denver. I am
rooting so hard, and yes to the text said, the
online version keeps going to commercial. That's my fault, one
hundred percent my fault, and a rod keeps fixing it
for me, and I keep screwing it up again. I
promise you I'm going to I'm now going to reach
across and turn my my microphone on with my right

(40:56):
hand so I don't accidentally mindlessly do what I did again. Yeah,
reaching across, Anthony, reaching across, Okay, we'll see. Anyway, I
have a texture on the line at texting me that
is truly apoplectic about and apoplectic. They're not angry, They're

(41:17):
not like coming at me, I mean, but they are
persistently trying to get me to pay a ton of
attention to what happened to Jimmy Kimmel. And I get it,
I totally get it. I'm not really interested in government
deciding what people can say and what they can't. But
the reality is this, in my world, I think it
is just as likely that ABC decided to shed the

(41:37):
expensive and money losing Jimmy Kimmel's show while they could
with CBS announcing the firing of Stephen Colbert and the
end of the CBS show that he has hosted, that
creates an opportunity for ABC. And if Stephen Colbert's show
was losing forty million a year, he had higher ratings

(41:58):
than Jimmy Kimmel did. And so if Colbert is losing
forty million a year, you have to figure that Kimmel
is losing a similar amount of money if you look
at Kimmel's ratings, and by the way, people have been
doing a deep dive into the ratings and they are
not pretty not at all. He's been shedding the demographic
that they want, which is eighteen to forty nine, and

(42:20):
he's been shedding them dramatically. On some nights, there were
more people in Arizona at the Jimmy or Charlie Kirk
memorial than there are in key demos watching the Jimmy
Kimmel program. So I'm inclined to believe that they look
for an opportunity. And by the way, if you notice
the silence from ABC and Disney on this ABC and Disney,

(42:44):
by the way, the stories are that they're trying to
figure out a way to allow Jimmy Kimmel to return,
But I'm guessing it would start with some kind of apology.
And as one who's been forced to apologize when I
didn't feel like I needed to, I can tell you
it won't do anything. The only time I've been forced
to apologize when I did not think that I needed

(43:04):
to apologize. And I think if you listen to the
show long enough, you know when I think I got
something wrong, I will be the first to tell you
I am sorry. Because my goal here is not just
to blow smoke out of my rear end. It's to
give you factual information to the best of my ability,
and when I get it wrong, I have no problem apologizing,
But when forced to apologize in a situation, and I've

(43:26):
told the story on the air, I was forced to
apologize to a Democratic congressman who is no longer in Congress.
Thanks be to God for that one, because I made
a snappy comment talking about gun control and I didn't
know he was Jewish. I had no idea, and he
was talking about gun registrations and how this is what
we need to do, and I said, why don't we
just make all the gun owners wear yellow stars on
their chests. It would make it so much easier for

(43:48):
the government to know. And his people demanded an apology,
and I was like, what for And they were like,
he's Jewish, and I was like, I had no idea,
no clue. But even if he was, how is when
I said, how is that the least bit offensive? Like
I I'm making the point when government decides to target

(44:10):
people because they do things that they disagree with, let's
just make it easy for them, right, I mean, anyway,
I digress. When I apologize, by the way, it sounded
like I'm sorry you got offended by my comment, which
is not an apology at all. So Jimmy Kimmeler on
ABC are going to figure this out and then people
can decide whether or not they want to watch Jimmy

(44:30):
Kimmeler or not. But the reason I'm so blase about
it is because all the times before, if you go
back and read the Twitter files, and if you haven't
read them all, I get it. But there are journalists
like Matt Tayibe, you have written extensively on the Twitter files,
and if you're like, what are the Twitter files? MANI

(44:51):
this kind of proves my point. The Twitter files came
out and they were a whole bunch of emails and
data about exactly how the government interfered with what was
happening on social media platforms. Now, the reason they got
away with it was because they never said if you

(45:12):
don't fire him or if you don't suppress this, well,
then bad things are going to happen. But they would
just send a friendly email over saying, wow, we have
concerns about this bit of misinformation. Can you look at this,
and without fail, without fail, the social media companies just
happened to pull down that tweet or happened to throttle

(45:32):
that post or happened to ban the United States of
America from using their platform, and the whole time, people
on the right side of the aisle were kind of
yelling about free speech. We were talking about the fact
that President Obama actually wiretapped journalist James Rosen, and that
Cheryl Atkinson still believes that her computer was somehow compromised

(45:58):
by the federal government and she was fighting still believes
to this fact right now today. So all of these
times when I was being apoplectic and I was upset
and I was all, you know, mad, I was told
that it was fine because they were the bad side
or something. I don't know why. I was told that

(46:19):
I was paying it too much attention. So I'm having
a hard time ginning up a lot of outrage on
the Jimmy Kimmel situation while still recognizing that it's wrong
for the federal government to decide what we can and
cannot hear, and say, I get it. But if you're
asking me to be outraged specifically about Jimmy Kimmel, eh,

(46:42):
you know, eh, I don't know. Anyway, this textter said,
nobody is allowed to make a point anymore without someone
getting offended. Apparently, it does seem to be that we
are now trading in a culture where who is the
most offended seems to elevate them at the top of

(47:03):
some kind of imaginary mountain.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
Right.

Speaker 3 (47:06):
It's kind of like the victim Olympics that are played
on the left. If you're the loudest person who checks
the most boxes, then you are given some kind of
moratal superiority. So if you're that angriest about Jimmy Kimmel,
you are given some kind of high status in the
pecking order. I just don't want to be on that
pecking order. So I hope you guys can understand. You

(47:28):
can believe two things at the same time. You can
believe that it's wrong for the government to censor people's
viewpoints and it's wrong for people to use the power
of government to get someone to say something or not
say something. And you can also not be that mad
about it, because well, I'm just not that mad about it.

(47:51):
I think when you watch someone get shot in the
neck for trying to have a conversation, it just it
hardens you a little. I mean, I know it's hard me, right, Mandy.
There are probably more people complaining about the iHeart problems
today than watching Kimmel. To be clear, the iHeart problems
are the Mandy Condell problems. Okay, I mean, don't get

(48:14):
me wrong. I'll throw my company under the bus should
I need to. But in this case, it is not
Iheart's fault. It is one hundred percent me Mandy. Why
is Kimmel and Colbert losing their audience? One word Gutfeld.
I don't necessarily think that people who would you would
normally watch Colbert and Kimmel are leaving them to go

(48:37):
to Gutfeld. I think that the entire notion of late
night television is dead in the way that it's been
done in prior years. And honestly, Colbert and Kimmel, they're
standing there with the axe in their hand, the acts
over the dead body of late night television. And if

(49:01):
you don't believe me, the Tonight's show reruns are available,
they're showing them like I think it's.

Speaker 4 (49:08):
A rod.

Speaker 3 (49:08):
Do you know what's the channel that only shows old
Is it me TV? That only shows old stuff? There's
a channel that only shows old There's several channels actually
that just show old television, which, by the way, is
a genius business model because they're not really paying anything
to air all these old repeats. Right, it's practically free TV,
and they're still selling advertising. Now, if you watch these channels,

(49:31):
you're immediately gonna know who the demo is because every
commercial is a drug commercial. I mean it's like, oh,
you're incontinent, Oh you can't have an erection. Oh oh
here here's some medicine for you. But that being said,
watch Johnny Carson to see what late night television used
to really be like and compare it to the relenting,

(49:52):
never never ending, unrelenting stream of political vitriol that passes
for late night television today. Now Gutfeld is on it.
I think he's on a ten here, so he's not
really I mean, I don't feel like that's I guess
on the West Coast, he's late night. But Guttfeld is
funny and Guttfeld is political. But Guttfeld is not pretending

(50:17):
to do what Johnny Carson did. What Johnny Carson did
sitting behind a desk welcoming people to come sit on
his couch, right, he was like, Hey, let's just have
a seat, let's chat. The one thing I will say
about Johnny Carson that makes him so incredibly good is
that when you went on the Johnny Carson Show, it

(50:38):
was never about Johnny Carson. Whoever the guest was, whether
it was, you know, an incredibly famous celebrity or it
was a woman who had a potato chip collection that
had images on each of the chips that look like
different things. He created them with the exact same level
of respect. And he wasn't talking to them trying to

(51:00):
set up his next joke. He was talking to them
because I really believe Johnny Carson had a genuine interest
in learning about whatever it was they were talking about.
And what they do now, what Colbert does, what Kimmel does.
I you know, I think Jimmy Fallon does a better
job just as a pure entertainer, because Jimmy Kimmel is

(51:22):
I mean, excuse me, Jimmy Fallon is a more talented
entertainer than kim will or Colbert just flat out, but
even Jimmy Fallon makes the show a lot about Jimmy Fallon,
more than I would have preferred. But Colbert and Kimmel
have taken a model where yes, O sensibly, people are
coming out and sitting on the couch and they're using

(51:45):
it to just kind of lecture their audience. When you
watch a monologue by Stephen Colbert or Jimmy Kimmel, one
thing jumps out. People don't laugh. They applaud like little like,
oh look what you said with but they don't laugh
because it's not funny, and they're there not so much
to laugh and be entertained as they are to listen

(52:07):
to someone's spoot feed them the same ideology that they
believe in. I mean, that's I don't know. So if
it's the death of Late Night, I don't think it's
because of the FCC. I don't think it's because of
ABC Disney. I don't think it's because of CBS. I
think it's because they've taken what used to be an

(52:28):
entertainment medium and turned it into a nagfest, and unfortunately
for them, they've run out of people that want to
hear the nagging. So, yeah, I know, Jimmy Kimmel being
you know, fired or whatever, bad. I get it. It's
so okay, it's bad. But I just just trying to

(52:50):
figure out why people are more angry about that than
they are about someone being murdered. That's the that's the disconnect.
Right now that I'm struggling with. By the way, thanks
for those of you who pointed out gut Fields on
at eight. I only watched gut Field like in snippets
the next day, so appreciate that he's on at ten,

(53:11):
so really not late night at all. And maybe that's
why he's winning. Maybe we're just all going to bed earlier.
Do you want to know when you're going to die?
And for the most part, it's a philosophical conversation. Right
Nobody gets to see the big the big calendar that's
written somewhere in the ether that's going to show us
our exact time of death. But there is a new

(53:32):
app that says, hey, you know what, give us a
little health information, give us a little lifestyle information, and
we're going to be able to give you a pretty
good ballpark of when you're going to die. And joining
me now, the founder and CEO of Death Clock, Brent Franzon,
joins me to talk about just that. First of all, Brent,
how did you get into the death business?

Speaker 10 (53:54):
So I was I've been intacked my whole career, but
I was very focused on helping people change their habits
to improve their health. And we realized that if we
were going to predict, if we use that information to
predict when somebody was going to die, it made them
more likely to change their behavior. And so we went
we just went full into the death prediction business with

(54:17):
death Clock.

Speaker 3 (54:18):
So, I mean everybody has seen it. Well, I'm fifty six,
so now I have I've lived long enough to have
those friends who have had some kind of medical incident, right,
maybe they had a minor heart attack, maybe they had
some kind of brush with cancer that they came out
on the other side. But boy, that'll snap them too.
They will get out there. You see them out there
working out and eat and write and changing their lives.

(54:39):
So is using that mentality sort of what you're doing here,
instead of saying, wait till you have a heart attack,
let's show you how likely you are to have a
heart attack.

Speaker 6 (54:51):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 10 (54:51):
I mean the heart attack that happens at sixty started
at thirty five or forty. And so our goal is
to shake people and say, look, we're all going to die,
but there is a question of when.

Speaker 6 (55:03):
And so we predict two things.

Speaker 10 (55:05):
We ask you twenty nine questions, and we predict the
day we think you're going to die based on your
current health, but we also predict the day we think
you're going to die based on optimal health as our
goal to try to get you there, but to kind
of let people know, look, there's a choice here and
if you want more time, the things you do today
they matter.

Speaker 3 (55:25):
Brett. One of the things we talk about on this
show a lot because it's important to me, is like,
I hate it when people say, oh, I want to
live to be one hundred, as if somehow living to
be one hundred if you spend the last ten years
decrepit in a wheelchair, not being able to enjoy any
activities of life is somehow desirable. So we talk about
health span a lot. In health span meaning I want

(55:49):
to live to be one hundred as long as I'm
healthy and active and my brain is still there, that's
I think a better conversation. How does that fit into
with what you guys are doing.

Speaker 10 (56:01):
Yeah, so you really think of a lifespan as health
span plus care span equals lifespan, and in the context
of preventative health, so you know, I'm in my mid forties,
you're in your mid fifties. If we start making the
changes today to be healthier to improve our biomarkers and
all the different things we can use to measure our health.

(56:22):
We're going to be extending our health span. The care
span tends to be extended by our healthcare systems. Our
healthcare system has done a really good job of figuring
out ways to get us all to help us all
live longer later in life when the quality is really low.
But if you start earlier, you tend to be extending

(56:43):
your health span. And you're right, it matters, matters much
more than lifespan.

Speaker 6 (56:47):
So how did you.

Speaker 3 (56:48):
Guys come up with this algorithm? How did you come
up with twenty nine questions? And how certain are you
that your information is good?

Speaker 10 (56:56):
So we have a clinical board, so it's a set
of doctors that way is in on everything that we do.
And we looked at what are the factors that matter most,
so sleep, diet, exercise, family history, the age of your grandparents,
blood pressure, things like that, and we trained the algorithm
on people who we have a lot of public information.

Speaker 6 (57:18):
About and have died. To be very accurate in predicting death.
We stuck that.

Speaker 10 (57:23):
We trained an AI on twelve hundred longevity studies, so
all of that sits on top of the AI and
all of the actuarial tables that are used by life
insurance companies and other things. So we do predict an
exact day, and we don't think the exact day is right,
but we think directionally we're very accurate in terms of
the life expectancy itself.

Speaker 3 (57:41):
I mean, you guys don't have like the inside track
to the Grim Reaper. It's like this is not written
in stone. What I think is interesting is that, honestly,
the death clock is sort of an entry level way
to get people to say, you guys offer a whole
range of products on the backside about this, what are
those products about?

Speaker 10 (58:00):
So in a post AI world, what we're really trying
to do is and we're trying to build this platform,
but everybody should be aware of this for themselves.

Speaker 6 (58:07):
Is you want to have all of your health data
and in one place. Number one.

Speaker 10 (58:11):
Number two is you want to have an AI that's
trained on that data that can help you understand the
reality of your health and make recommendations. Number two and
then number three you want to go execute on those
changes and try.

Speaker 6 (58:23):
To be healthier and live longer.

Speaker 10 (58:25):
So we're trying to basically have an AI private doctor
that'll help you live longer. You can do this on
your own, but that's our goal. We want to try
to help you, help people live live ten years longer,
not just scare you and predict predict when you're going
to die.

Speaker 3 (58:39):
I want to ask you a philosophical question, Brent, because
you're a tech guy, and the stuff that I'm seeing
come out of the tech bros who are trying to
live forever. Okay, you've got Brian whatever his name is,
who is literally trying to live forever. And it feels like,
for whatever reason, and I'm not saying this is what
you guys are doing, Okay, I'm really asking you if

(58:59):
you fall in this category, it's like, we're all going
to die. You started out by saying we're all going
to die. Why is this new focus? Why does it
seem to be so intense in such a way that
people really do seem to be trying to live forever.

Speaker 6 (59:15):
Well, I think there's two things going on. I think
one is we've all realized that our.

Speaker 10 (59:20):
Healthcare system is a sick care system and it's not
good at helping us prevent getting diseases in the first place.

Speaker 6 (59:27):
And so I think cats out of the bag on that.
And then two, I disagree with what people are doing.

Speaker 10 (59:32):
I think there's a lot of people saying, hey, maybe
we can live to one hundred and fifty or maybe
we're never going to die.

Speaker 6 (59:37):
I totally disagree with that.

Speaker 10 (59:39):
I would put myself in the camp of trying to
get what's called the incremental decade. There are things we
know we can do to get a ten, you know,
ten extra good years, and I want to help people
go do those things. But I don't want any part
of bleeding edge experimental things that we might be doing
or inferring and communicating that maybe we're not.

Speaker 6 (01:00:00):
Going to die. I think that's reckless.

Speaker 3 (01:00:02):
So who comes up or how did you guys develop
those back end things that we just mentioned.

Speaker 10 (01:00:08):
So it's a combination of just training an AI on
all of the top research around longevity and then reviewing
that with a clinical board. So on our clinical board,
we've got an oncologist, an endocrinologist, cardiologist, a neurologist.

Speaker 6 (01:00:25):
And then a primary care doc.

Speaker 10 (01:00:27):
And so it's training an AI and then reviewing it
with people who are actually at the top of their
field and practicing medicine.

Speaker 3 (01:00:34):
What sent you down this path personally. You said you've
always been invested in technology that helps people live a
better life. Was there a specific thing that made you go,
this is going to be my area of concentration.

Speaker 2 (01:00:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:00:47):
You know.

Speaker 10 (01:00:47):
I got misdiagnosed as bipolar when I was a teenager.

Speaker 6 (01:00:50):
There's nothing wrong with bipolar. I'm just I'm not bipolar.

Speaker 10 (01:00:53):
And I got put on an antipsychotic to help me sleep,
and I shouldn't have been on it, and I've had
problems sleeping since, and so I've long been suspicious of
the healthcare system. I think our healthcare system tends to
go too quickly to pills and procedures and isn't very
good at helping us with the basics. I was just

(01:01:14):
a very rebellious team who was hormonal and I was
getting a little wild. I should have never been on
that medication in the first place. So I've realized I'm
on my own and I want to build a tool
that helps me manage my own health. And then I'm
a technologist, I might as well, you know, we might
as well make it available in others well.

Speaker 3 (01:01:30):
I put a link on the blog to both the
Android App Store and the Apple App Store. If you
guys want to download it. By the way, Brian, I
did it our brand I did it and it said,
as of right now, changing nothing, I'm going to live
to be eighty nine, which I feel like is a
pretty good run. But obviously I'm not doing everything perfect.
As long as I'm good and healthy and keep doing

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the right things, I'm hoping that the death clock is
a little short in terms of we're but I very
much appreciate your time. It's a super interesting concept, it
really really is. And I'm guessing that for someone who
goes to your app and downloads it and ask the
questions and gets a number that is far closer to

(01:02:13):
where they are right now than they realize, this is
going to be an amazing tool. And I'm also guessing
that someone who finds themselves in that situation is open
to making those changes, because you're not going to download
the app unless you realize, HM, I could probably be
doing something better. Is that kind of what you guys find?

Speaker 6 (01:02:33):
Yeah, I mean it's not scary.

Speaker 10 (01:02:34):
We hear people are concerned about it on the front end,
and we never hear that on the back end, so
we've tried to lighten it up.

Speaker 6 (01:02:39):
But yeah, we're all going to die.

Speaker 10 (01:02:40):
It's good knowing where you might end up so you
can proactively make the decision.

Speaker 6 (01:02:46):
Is that long enough?

Speaker 10 (01:02:46):
Is eighty nine long enough for you? If it is, okay, fine,
if you want to live longer, then you know you
got to get on that now.

Speaker 3 (01:02:52):
Well, if fifty six it seems long enough. But talk
to me when I'm eighty five. Okay, We'll have a
follow up interview when I'm eighty five, Brent, can happen?
Brent Franson, his his app is death Clock. Super interesting
and hats off to you for just trying to help
people live a happier, healthier life and a longer life
if they if they really want to.

Speaker 4 (01:03:11):
Brent.

Speaker 3 (01:03:12):
I appreciate your time today.

Speaker 6 (01:03:14):
Thank you, Mandy.

Speaker 3 (01:03:15):
All right, thank you Brent Franson. Again, that's linked on
the blog. By the way, breaking news. What is our
breaking news? Wait, let me give you a sounder. Well,
there we go.

Speaker 4 (01:03:26):
Yes, we can talk about it more on the other time.
We just got a news bulletin and we were just
chatting about Jimmy Kimmel. He will be returning to the
show tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (01:03:36):
God, the Trump administration sucks at breaking the First Amendment.
If you're headed up to the mountains to do some
leaf peeping or hiking or whatever. All those signs along
the road that say no parking, they're for real. Oh yeah,
oh yeah. Nine News as a story a late summer

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hike on Gwinela Pass turned into an unexpect it's ordeal
for one family after they say their car was towed
with no warning over Labor Day weekend. That's a lie,
no warning, their signs everywhere. It happened as law enforcement
and clear Clik Creek and Park Counties announced a crackdown
on illegal parking ahead of the annual leaf peeping season

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on the pass. Clearkeek Clear Creek County Sheriff Matt Harris
said the crackdown comes after first responders struggled to reach
emergencies last year because of traffic backups caused by leaf peepers.
Sheriff said, let me be clear, if you're parked on
the roadway, we will tote. That morning came too late

(01:04:40):
for hiker Adam Dickerson and his parents. After returning from
their hike on August thirty, first, they found their car
was gone with no cell service on the pass. Dickerson
said his family had limited options. At one point, his
seventy one year old mother tried to flag down cars
and ask rangers for help. The family eventually hitched ride

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to Georgetown, then back up to Silver Plume, where their
car had been towed. Guys, if there are no parking signs,
don't park there. Unless it is a designated parking area,
don't park there. Just don't do it. I gotta tell you.

(01:05:20):
It's like, you know, a Ron, how often do you
go into the mountains for anything? I mean never?

Speaker 7 (01:05:25):
I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
Why you assume never?

Speaker 3 (01:05:29):
Well, because you don't ever talk about going to the mountains.
After I said how often you go to the mountains,
I'm like, I don't remember the last time Aaron said, Hey,
we're going to the mountains.

Speaker 2 (01:05:35):
Not often and not often enough.

Speaker 3 (01:05:37):
See, Chuck and I were talking about this when you
live in Florida, Like when we met, we were living
in the Fort Myers Naples area of Florida, where there
are some beautiful beaches. But when you live there, you
never go to the beach. You know why. Getting to
the dang beach in the summer takes like an hour
and a half, literally an hour, No excuse me, not
the summer in the winter, because you don't go to

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the beach in the summer because it's hotter than hell.
It's like a billion degrees and it's gonna rain as
soon as you get there anyway. So you're trying to
go to the beach when the weather's nice, and it
literally takes an hour and a half just to do
something that normally takes thirty five minutes, right, So you
just stop going. And one of the reasons I stopped
going is the last time we went up there and
just drove through the mountains. It was a nightmare because

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people are just pulling their cars everywhere. It's just, h
I'm a rule follower, you guys, I really am. I
am a rule follower, and I don't like it when
people don't follow the rules. You ever had your car toad? No, okay,
so I've had my car toad one time and it
went like this. I pull into a parking lot. This

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was in Daytona Beach, which may explain why I still
have some animosity towards Daytona Beach. But whenever it's fine,
I pull up to a parking space and there's a
guy standing in the head of the parking space. I
roll down my window. I go, are you holding this
parking space for somebody? He goes, oh, no, no, no,
I just came over here pee okay. So I was like, great,
I pulled my I get out of my car, I

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go in, I have dinner. I come out. My car
is gone. And it is at that point that I
see the clearly displayed sign that the man had been
standing directly in front of that said no parking, you
will be toad. So though I was frustrated, dang it,
that was on me completely. And now when I see

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a sign that says no parking or if you park here,
you will be toad, I take them at their word.
It's like, yeah, I don't have time to get towed
right now. So though I feel sorry that these people
didn't have a basic, rudimentary understanding of not parking where
they're not supposed to park, and that created a really
fun story for the rest of their family lore Hey, mom,

(01:07:44):
remember that time he had to flag cars down to
get us off Guanella Pass. Good times, Good times. At
the same time, A little short on sympathy for all
of this. When we get back. I have a million
stories on the blog today, but none more important than
this story about people not having sex. We're going to

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talk about that next.

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Speaker 3 (01:08:33):
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I'm Mandy. That's a rod and together. We'll get you
right through.

Speaker 5 (01:08:41):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:08:42):
President Trump is about to make an announcement about autism.
It is widely believed to be about a potential connection
between tail and al and autism and a new drug
that seems to be helping kids who are struggling the
most with UH with autism, children who are nonverbal, and

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things of that nature. When he starts to talk, we
will grab that. I don't know when that's going to start.
But in the meantime, we've got lots of stuff on
the blog to chat about, not the least of which
is this story that I got to tell you explains
a lot, a lot. Remember a week or so ago
when I was like, why is everyone so cranky all

(01:09:30):
the time? You drive on the roadways and Colorado, Chances
are somebody's gonna flip you off or honk at you,
even when you're not doing anything wrong. Guys, when I
do something dumb on the roadway, this is what I do.
I'm like, oh, that was me as they drive past
me up that, I pointed myself. Yeah, that was me.
I'm sorry, that was me.

Speaker 5 (01:09:48):
I own that.

Speaker 3 (01:09:49):
But lately the nastiness has just been insane. And now
I know from Spectator the decline of sex and the
alpha male. Not long ago, early in the morning in Washington,
d C. Says the story, I walked past a construction
site and a man in a yellow vess whistled at me.

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I laughed, But what really struck me was how rare
cat calling has become. Even construction workers. The cliche of
crude male attention have fallen silent, as it turns out
moans of passion in bedrooms across America. According to a
new research, Americans have lost their libido, and not by
a little. Only thirty seven percent of American adults reported

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having sex once a week or more, down from fifty
five percent in nineteen ninety. Across generations, the pattern holds
the same. Even within marriage, sex is increasingly confined to holidays.
Weekly sex rates for married couples have fallen from fifty
nine percent in the nineteen nineties to below forty nine

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percent today. Among the young adults, the story is even grimmer.
Nearly a quarter of a Mirea Ricans age eighteen to
twenty nine said they had no sex at all in
the past year, double the rate of a decade ago.
And then it goes on to talk about why this
could be, and one of them kind of leaps into

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what happened to men over this same time, and guy,
by the way, guys, they're just they're not blaming you. Okay,
don't think this is a man hater kind of article.
It really really isn't. Really really isn't. And I want
to share this part to prove that point. The crisis
isn't only in the statistics. It's visible in the disappearance

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of small, if imperfect, social rituals that once signaled desire
in public space, such as buying someone a drink at
the bar. The old moral codes are gone, but they're
being replaced with new ones. The parish priest is given
the way to hr sexual harassment trainings and viral tweets.
Rules have multiplied around sex from verbal consent protocol to

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workplace regulations. The result is that people grow afraid of
the consequences, and sex hardly feels casual any longer. The
Me Too movement, that started with a noble aim to
prevent sexual abuse, assault in discrimination against women, predictably overreached
into structuring desire. The courts of public opinion declare people

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guilty and turn them into enemies of the society without
giving them a fair trial. Some in America have forgotten
that everyone is innocent until proven guilty. If in the
Soviet Union, it was your neighbor who brought up your
careless word or unapproved behavior to authorities, now it can
be a girl you met at a party ten years
ago posting on X and then you can see where

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it's going from there. But the reason I brought this
up is very, very very simple, especially if you are
in a marriage. And don't get me wrong, you've all Hey, Ron,
did anybody say this to you before you and Jocelyn
got married. I'm just asking you because you're the most
newly married person on this show. Even though you how
long you guys have been married for? What? Six years?

Speaker 7 (01:13:04):
Five?

Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
Six?

Speaker 3 (01:13:06):
How long have you guys been married?

Speaker 2 (01:13:07):
Three?

Speaker 8 (01:13:08):
Now?

Speaker 3 (01:13:08):
Okay, so you bought your house before you got married. Yes,
we're going to talk about why that's the wrong order. Oh,
that's true. Were supposed to be two months right, that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:13:17):
We got the house two months later. Wedding Yeah, covid.

Speaker 3 (01:13:20):
Yeah, my apologies for casting his passions all the way.
You guys, did you guys have a marriage that I
think a lot of young people should aspire to. I'm
just gonna be honest. You genuinely care about each other.
You're super nice to each other, you share a lot
of the same interests. You both work your tails off
a lot about the a rod marriage to his beautiful
wife that is aspirational in my view.

Speaker 2 (01:13:40):
He am yep.

Speaker 3 (01:13:42):
But if you are married, guys gals, and your sex
life is non existent, you've got to work on that.
I mean, you just have to work on that.

Speaker 1 (01:13:55):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:13:55):
I realize as we get older, hormones change, things change,
But there's things you can do to still remain close
to your partner. And it's a good friend of mine
who has been a counselor for many, many years, said
that a vast majority of people live the last twenty
five years of their marriage as basically platonic roommates, and

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I am not gonna lie. I think that's incredibly sad.
And someone once told me, if a woman doesn't want
to have sex with her husband, it's not because she
doesn't want to have sex, it's because she doesn't want
to have sex with him. And I've also heard the
same from men. But what this article kind of leaves off,
or skips through, or whatever, is that these numbers coincide

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with the rise of online pornography easy access pornography. Back
when I was young, you had to work to find
your pornography. You couldn't just pick up your phone and
look at it. No, you had to go to some
shady video store and hope nobody saw you. All of
this stuff. It's all so damaging, But doesn't it start

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to explain why we're also cranky all of the time
When we get back. I'm not going to include a
rod and his wife in this, but I do want
to talk about young people are doing marriage wrong, and
I'll explain why and how and it's so easy to fix, Oh,
my goodness, is so easy to fix when we get back.
A couple things, Mandy, I'm confused as a why pornography

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is always spoken of as a negative. My husband and
I enjoy it together and it definitely spices up our
sex life, and in that way, it's perfectly fine. But
what we're seeing, especially with young people, is that they
have replaced actual human connection with pornography. And that's what
it becomes a huge problem. Mandy, what do you do
when your husband or boyfriend is old but keeps taking

(01:15:46):
all these hormones for men and all kinds of testosterone
treatments that you, the woman, doesn't. There's a difference between
the desires and that case. And this is a very
common problem, and I don't have a good answer for it.
All I can say is maybe you can try hormones.
I don't know that that is a communication issue as
much as anything else. Okay, So that's where you got

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to have those conversations, those difficult conversations that say, look,
you're seventy five, and I don't need to be running
around like a horny teenager. Drop the testosterone down a bit,
and that's a reasonable ask.

Speaker 1 (01:16:21):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:16:21):
This story originally from the Wall Street Journal, the headline
why marriage is increasingly for the affluent, and it talks
about the fact that many young couples are waiting to
get married. They're building a career or wealth before tying
the knot. And though this has some merits, right, like
you want to feel like you have your own life

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sort of sorted out before you enter into a marriage
with someone else. But I'm telling you, the struggle part
of marriage is sometimes the part that gets you through
the hard times. Now, hear me out when you first
get married to someone, and Chuck and I are in
this camp. Though we were already know a lot older.

(01:17:02):
We didn't get married until I was like late thirties.
We were a lot older. We still were not in
a great financial situation. And when we got married, we
have things in our past. We have a house that
we rented. We call it the Craptastic House because it
was so bad. It was so awful. But you find

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that person and you find out what their financial values are,
that's very important, and you say, look, here are the
goals that I have for my future. Would you like
to come along and build this together? And that is
the struggle. Years can cement a marriage as long as
you're both on the same page and as long as
you're both moving towards the same goals. And you have

(01:17:45):
a decided way that you're going to move forward with
your finances. Arguing about money is one of the biggest
causes for divorce, But I don't think when you look
right down into that argument, you're not arguing about money.
You're arguing about each person's perceptions of how the other

(01:18:08):
person is managing money. And that is incredibly difficult. And
this is why I tell people, if you're about to
get married, if you have not sat down and had
maybe a really hard conversation about how to handle your
finances and what you want your financial future to look like,
and how much money you're going to save versus how

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much money you're going to spend, and how many vacations
you're going to take, how you're going to pay cash
for stuff or not, how you're going to use credit
cards going forward. If you have not had that difficult conversation,
you do not need to be getting married. But if
you have had that conversation and you find out that
your value systems align and your goals for the future

(01:18:50):
for future you financially are are aligned together, it doesn't
matter if you don't have a pot to pee in
when you get married, because you can build it together. Now,
I'm not knocking you. I say they're doing it wrong,
and I understand the thinking behind it and it's not crazy.
But don't not get married because you don't perceive yourself

(01:19:11):
to be ready financially. Because here's a news flash, you're
never going to be ready financially to get married. You're
never going to be ready financially to have kids. Just
do it, but make sure those values align on both
of those things. That matters way more than how much
money you have in the bank when you actually get married.
When we get back, the new House Minority Leader, Jarvis

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Caldwell joins me after this. The House minority leader. He
represents District twenty, which covers parts of the Springs in
other areas, and now he joins me to talk about
his plans as the House minority leader. First of all, Jarvis, congratulations.

Speaker 5 (01:19:48):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (01:19:49):
Man.

Speaker 5 (01:19:50):
It's an honor to be on your show. I really
appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:19:52):
Well, I wasn't congratulating you for that. I was congratulating
you for me the next House Minority leader. Now you've
not been You're a young guy, I should say, mid thirties,
not that that should be a disqualify or anything. Do
you think that that helped you in running for the
leadership position. I don't know if it.

Speaker 5 (01:20:10):
Helped me run for the leadership position. I think what
it's going to help is the Republican case in the
wake of the tragic death of Charlie Kirk, because I've
just had so many church leaders, I've had so many
young people, college students reaching out saying, listen, this was
the straw that broke the camel's back. I'm tired of
just voting the right way. I'm ready to actually do something.

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And I'm just a few years older than what Charlie
was when he passed away, and so I think I
can really tap into that momentum there that's just sitting
there that everybody feels and we need to take that,
we need to carry it into the next election cycle.

Speaker 3 (01:20:47):
Well, I don't need to tell you that Republicans are
so outnumbered in both the House and the Senate. Some
progress was made in the last election cycle when it
came to the House. We've had Rose Peglici on the
ship many many times, and it was something she talked
about pretty endlessly, was how do we restore balance to
the Colorado legislature and give the people who are Republican

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in this state or significant there are significant numbers of Conservatives.
How do we give them that voice? Again, what is
your plan or your strategy going forward in this next
election cycle to hopefully pick up a few more House seats?

Speaker 5 (01:21:23):
Yeah? Absolutely, And first I want to say just I
have all the thanks to Rose because she was the
first minority leader I believe in like fourteen years to
flip seats like that. And so the number one goal
is to hold the seats that we won this last
election cycle and then to add more seats and flip
more seats. And so you know, we already have a
great team in place thanks to Rose and ty Winter

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and our other leaders. We have that team in place
already that was there with us last election cycle, and
that's not going to change. I mean, I'm changing, but
they're not changing. And so we're absolutely going to work together.
And the strategy that we use last time one of seats,
we're going to keep going forward with that. But I
think we're going to have a lot more people helping
us now after everything that's going on.

Speaker 3 (01:22:06):
Well, I hope you're right. I do think that you
know the phrase the silent majority. You're way too young
to remember the silent majority back in the Reagan years,
but it was true that there was a lot of
people out there who just kind of went through life
and you know, wanted to raise their families and do
their jobs and start their businesses without a lot of

(01:22:26):
a without a lot of to do right, just kind
of under the radar. And I do feel like a
lot of those people have sort of been awakened. And
what does that look like for you? In terms of
what you're going to ask from Republicans rank and fire
republicans across the state, what would you like to see
happen in a party that in recent years has been

(01:22:47):
a little fractured by some i'll call it sectarian violence
for lack of a better way to put it. How
do you bridge those gaps? Because they're significant?

Speaker 5 (01:22:57):
Yeah, yeah, that's a great question. So what I'm going
to ask of everybody, and this is people not just
in the Republican Caucus or Republicans in general. If you
want to help, I'm asking for one percent of your time.
So if you do the map on that, that's three
and a half days. We're going to round it up
before just give me four days a year. That's you know,
one day every few months to doorkock or sign a

(01:23:17):
wave or do something like just give me one percent
over the next fourteen months, and that's going to make
a huge difference. But you know, the first thing that
I did, the first thing that I did was just
within an hour or two after the minority leader election
Saturday morning, I was at a CSSA, the Colorado State
Shooting Association event, and I was there with Berta Horne,
or state Party chair. I was there with josh Son

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and bert the Colorado Young Republican Chair. And then later
that night at the CSSA event, I was over there
and hanging out with some Libertarians and I said, hey, guys, listen,
you know, I know we're opposition parties, but the reality
is is we need to work together and not against
each other if we really want to take things back.
And you know, they always say that party in power

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has a has a a bad off year election, and
so people would say, well, the Republicans are in power
in Congress, and so it's going to be a bad
year for Republicans. But my goal and my job and
duty is to reach out to the people of Colorado
and say no, there's only one party in power right
now in Colorado and that's the Democrat Party. Look, we
have ideas, we have better alternatives, and so give us

(01:24:23):
a chance, and you're going to see a difference here.

Speaker 3 (01:24:25):
I mean, I'm with you in that I do think
that there are Republican ideas that are outstanding ideas. One
of the things that I personally asked Rose off off
the air was a big issue that I think we
have to address, and we have to address it quickly,
and that is with some of the criminal justice reform
that was passed recently. We are now in a position
where we are releasing dangerous, violent people who are arrested

(01:24:51):
for violent crimes back into the community because they are
not They're not they're found not capable of standing trial.
I mean, please tell me the Republicans are working on
a real legislative fix for that issue.

Speaker 4 (01:25:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:25:06):
And so I don't want to I don't want to
get too far ahead of myself. This is a conversation
that I've been having and so I feel like in
the very near future I have a very good update
for you. But I just want to put it on
your ratear. This is something and you know, the numbers
are the numbers the Democrats. If we're going to pass it,
they have to come to the table, right, And so
those conversations are being had about the competency issue like

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that I believe that you're referring to. And so that
is something that is in talks. And again you have
to have both sides if you're going to get it passed,
at least if you're a Republican running it. And so
I just I just want to let your listeners know
that is a conversation happening, and to add to your concerns,
I actually ran a bill this year to prevent repeat

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violent of finners from getting out on pr bonds right
cash list bail, and I had bipartisan support on it,
I had a Democrat on it. But because of the
House you dis here committee, the makeup of it is
so horrible. Remember this is the same committee that was
trying to lower the penalties for attempted homicide, the old
the bad Shot bill that I believe I came on
your show and we talked about, right, you shoot into

(01:26:12):
a crowd, you miss somebody, well, and then they want
to lower the penalties for that. And so the judiciary
Committee is a problem here at the Capitol, and there's
a lot of actual bipartisan bills that would be law
right now if there wasn't this roadblock in this wall
and the Judiciary Committee. So I'm going to keep working
to expose that. That's not going to change. I won't
be on the committee now that I'm minority leader, but

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it is my number one call to expose that, at
least in the House.

Speaker 3 (01:26:37):
Let me that's a good personal question, and it really
has to do with the last you know, obviously we
have been dealing with some really serious stuff since Charlie
Kirk's assassination, and just a bigger conversation about rhetoric and dialogue.
What kind of Republican leader do you think you are

(01:26:57):
in terms of what do you bring to the table?
Are you gonna are you going to be the one
to say something that may be inflammatory or are you
going to lean towards a more even keeled kind of language.
What can we expect from Representative Jarvis Caldwell as the
House Minority leader.

Speaker 5 (01:27:15):
Yeah, that's a great question. So I kind of made
a little bit of a name for myself this past
session because I really took on House built thirteen twelve,
you know, the transgender Right Rights Bill, and so you know,
and I just everybody has their own style. My style
is to be passionate about the things that I care about,
which printal rights is like my number one issue, and

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so you know, I made a lot of headlines and
got a lot of attention on this bill, but I
didn't do it in a way where I had to
go down to the floor and call names or anything
like that. You know, I made the arguments and then
I use kind of the abilities I have outside the
building to message this and it caught national news and
you'd seet on libs of TikTok and things like that,
and so you know, I'm a former communications director for

(01:27:57):
the House Republicans for the very place where I'm now
the minority leader, and so I'm going to continue using
those abilities. And you know this is exclusive and breaking
news on your show, but it's it's certainly not public yet,
but you'll see it very soon. I did just sign
a letter to the Democrat majority calling out some of

(01:28:18):
their members who were what I would consider dancing on
the graves of Charlie Kirk. And so you're going to
see that if you follow the Colorado House Republican Twitter page.
Excuse me x page, You'll you'll see that very soon.
But I did sign a letter to them, and we
had our House Republicans sign on to it as well.
But you know, we just passed the resolution in the

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special session saying, you know, everybody's got to be better
and all this stuff. Well, you know, we're we're we're
trying to stick to that resolution, and some of your members,
i mean, within a month.

Speaker 3 (01:28:47):
Are violating that that That is something that I think
is super interesting. But I got to tell you, my
text line is lit up from people who want to
know if any attention will be given to rip it
of Lorraina Garcia and her very profitable nonprofit that has
flourished with taxpayer dollars since she got elected in a

(01:29:10):
way that is so dramatic that there's no way that
it can you know what I'm saying. It just looks really, really,
really bad. Is that something that you guys are going
to work to call attention to.

Speaker 5 (01:29:23):
Yeah, so you know, every member gets five bills, and
this is something I certainly looked at and you are
going to see something about it. From my understanding, from
one of our members. But yeah, if you're listeners who
are maybe listening who aren't aware of it, it's my
understanding that I think her nonprofits brought in like two
million dollars since she got elected, and her wife is

(01:29:44):
a paid employee, and that even her parents are a
paid employee. And you know, as a taxpayer myself, I'm going,
how in the world is this even legal that my
tax money is going to a nonprofit of an elected
representative who runs the nonprofit and then pays all their
family members. So I certainly, as a taxpayer, have issues

(01:30:07):
with it, and I know a lot of people have
issues with it. And I'm pretty certain I can't speak
on behalf of my members because technically our bills are secret,
but I have it down pretty good authority. You're going
to see something coming about that, and we're going to
make a very big deal about that.

Speaker 3 (01:30:19):
I hope. So, because that has been stuck in my
crow for some time, Representative Jarvis Caldwell, I hope that
you will visit the show as often as possible because
it is my intention to continue it, probably more aggressively
than before, because one of my big frustrations of the
talk show host is I have a lot of people
who say things like, well, what did the Republicans stop this?

(01:30:41):
Why didn't Republicans stop that? And I spend so much
time saying they're so hopelessly outnumbered that they can't stop anything.
So let's you and I decide to keep everybody up
to speed with what you're trying to do, even if
you're not successful, just because of the imbalance of power
that exists there right now.

Speaker 5 (01:30:59):
Absolutely, And you know, you have to define your wins
when you're in a minority like us. You know, there's
twenty two of us, there's forty three of them. You know,
the math is the math. We just don't have the
numbers right like the way we fought thirteen twelve. The
bill is still horrible. Polis still signed it, but the
reality is is it got way watered down from where
it started at. And that attempted homicide bill to lower penalties.

(01:31:20):
We actually got that bill killed in committee because there
was such backlash that we actually got a Democrat or
to who are I would consider more moderate, to basically
not support it, and then so the bill sponsors killed it.
But it's my understanding it's coming back. So you know,
this fight is just starting and I'm really happy to
leave the Republicans in this.

Speaker 3 (01:31:39):
Amen to that. Jarvis Caldwell, thanks so much, invest of luck.
You got a tough road to hoe, as they say,
tough road to hoe, and I hope you can handle it.
We'll talk again soon. Thank you, Matt all right, thank you?
That is represented. Oh Jarvis called. Well, there we go,
and one mister Ryan Edwards has made it in the
studio dressed for fall. It is flannel, that's fall colored today.

(01:32:02):
Did you have your PSL this morning?

Speaker 9 (01:32:04):
No, I have not.

Speaker 8 (01:32:05):
I probably should have. I had one yesterday, but no,
this is this is a you know, comfort like comfort foods.

Speaker 3 (01:32:13):
There you go, nothing wrong with that. Yeah, I got
to tell you a couple of things about yesterday's game.
Here's my take, and you can tell me if I
need a job in sports or not. Take number one.
That last touchdown play by the Chargers was so good
and everything broke their way. Our defense was right there.

(01:32:35):
I mean it just you can't even get mad about it,
right because it was such a But it leads me
to my second point, which is the difference between a
good team and a great team is being able to
get it done at the end and right now we
are not getting it done at the end. And three
Bonix I think is starting to question his decision making
and it's showing up in bad footwork, feet not being planted,

(01:32:57):
balls being overthrown. Is this just the sophomore?

Speaker 8 (01:33:03):
Well, Anthony agrees with everything that you said. I think
they're all great points. I mean the first one, yeah,
watching watching play even last night is one of those
you tip your calf because you just say and.

Speaker 3 (01:33:16):
You can't even get mad at our defense either, because
the right they were in it. It was just he
perfectly plays ball.

Speaker 8 (01:33:22):
He bent to the ball around Nick Benito while moving
to his left. Well, the receivers also covered in the
end zone. Justin Herbert is one of those guys, and
he's always had the talent. It's always kind of been
about some of the other things around him. The talent
around him is the coaching he's getting. But he's getting
the right coaching. They have the right they have the

(01:33:43):
right mixture of everything. They're actually pretty close to a
complete team. And I think that as we're discussing the
Broncos today and kind of going forward this week, there
needs to be a little bit of context on the
team you just played, because they are a very good team,
and I think the culture actually a really good team too.
And I said conversation I had this offseason, I said, hey, listen,
I know that people are making fun of the Colts

(01:34:03):
because they're going from Anthony Richardson to Daniel Jones, but
I think that actually makes them better. They are a
good team now and they're going to give the Broncos
some fits, and of course they ended up doing that.
The other thing is, you know, the frustration of losing
two last second field goal moments. Yeap also acknowledges how
close things are in the NFL every single weekend. You've
been watching for a long time as well. It really

(01:34:26):
is like that. And the Broncos could be three and
oh they could be as they are one and two.
Maybe they could be zero three, because that's just what
the league is in a lot of ways.

Speaker 4 (01:34:33):
So I'm not.

Speaker 8 (01:34:34):
Losing faith necessarily what they're doing. I think your point
about Bonix is a very good one.

Speaker 3 (01:34:39):
They're just so much less. It looks so much more unsure.
And last year, when expectations are zero because you're a
rookie in the league, when you don't have that pressure
on you. I do think it's really easy to play
fast and loose, and other teams didn't necessarily have a
beat on him that they have now. I'm not willing

(01:35:00):
to throw bow Nicks out. I think he is having
a sophomore slump. He's got a crisis of confidence happening.
You can see it on him a little bit. But
he'll get through it.

Speaker 2 (01:35:07):
They'll get through it.

Speaker 8 (01:35:08):
And I mean there's really no way to go but through.
I mean that there's not really another option. People even
last night were like, when you start talking about Jerisidom,
we're not even close to that. There was something interesting
that Sean Payton said today on his press conference phone
call that I thought about in terms of why Bo's
missing some of these throws the way he's doing it,
because they're always long, right, he's always off the fingertips.

(01:35:32):
And Sean said, well, it's better than him putting it
in a position where a team could possibly intercept it.
And I sort of wondered that a little bit about that's.

Speaker 3 (01:35:39):
Exactly what I'm talking about. That's a second guess, yes,
right at that moment when you don't have time to
second guess, and he's not mature enough to be able
to guess correctly.

Speaker 8 (01:35:48):
Yet he errs on the side of our coach will
be happy as long as this is long and not
in the possibility for an interception.

Speaker 2 (01:35:55):
So I'm not saying that's the thing.

Speaker 8 (01:35:57):
But when he said that as like the meat, me
retort my thought process win immediately too. Well, that's got
to be something in boat Nick's head as well. When
he's throwing these long passes. It's like, well, rare the
other air on the side of long. But that's also
not giving your receiver an opportunity to make a play
on the ball if it's going to be long every time.
So there's got to be somewhere they can find some

(01:36:19):
balance there, and sometimes the ball is going to be
put into risk and you're just gonna have to trust
your receiver to make a play.

Speaker 3 (01:36:24):
Exactly. They'll get there, he will.

Speaker 2 (01:36:30):
Very quickly.

Speaker 8 (01:36:30):
The schedule, I mean, they got they got this week
against the Bengals right on Monday Night football. They got
the Eagles after that, which is gonna be a tough game.

Speaker 3 (01:36:37):
But then after that, there's a lot of underachieving teams
across the board.

Speaker 8 (01:36:42):
Weaker defenses, weaker staffs, weaker quarterbacks, the Ruggles are about
to go on a run here. Okay, So whatever you
think about him today is certainly frustrated and maybe you
measuring stick stuff about the best teams in the AFC.

Speaker 3 (01:36:55):
They're about to go on a bit of run here
and now it's time for the most exciting the radio love.
It's gain is the world.

Speaker 5 (01:37:05):
Of that day?

Speaker 3 (01:37:07):
All right? What is our dad joke of the day?

Speaker 4 (01:37:10):
Place someone tried to sell me a coffin today?

Speaker 2 (01:37:15):
Listen, that's the last thing I need.

Speaker 3 (01:37:18):
That's that was a good one.

Speaker 2 (01:37:19):
All right.

Speaker 3 (01:37:20):
What's our word of the day?

Speaker 2 (01:37:21):
Please?

Speaker 4 (01:37:21):
Adverb adverb A main a m a I n a
m a I n amain main yeah a main yeah adverb.

Speaker 3 (01:37:32):
I am gonna just guess the obvious and say it's
something that's central to whatever you're.

Speaker 2 (01:37:37):
Talking adjacent to. It means with full force, am okay.

Speaker 3 (01:37:42):
That's good. Actor Mark Leonard was the first to portray
characters from three different alien races in the Star Trek franchise.
What three types of aliens did he play?

Speaker 8 (01:37:54):
Well?

Speaker 3 (01:37:54):
You got Klingons, this, you got Romulans. What are other
alien types?

Speaker 8 (01:37:58):
The uh the ones that control uh? Golly, I'm more
of a star Wars personally, thank.

Speaker 2 (01:38:03):
You, horns Down. I love doing this.

Speaker 5 (01:38:05):
What is that?

Speaker 8 (01:38:06):
What is that?

Speaker 2 (01:38:07):
It's the trecky but horns Down version.

Speaker 3 (01:38:09):
In the original series episode Balance of Terror, he played
a Romulin. Yes, Star Trek the Motion Picture he played
a Klingon, and in multiple Star Trek TV shows and
films he played a Vulcan.

Speaker 2 (01:38:21):
I know that was a lot easier than we made it.

Speaker 3 (01:38:23):
Yeah, I mean I never think of vulcans. Like, I
was like, oh, yeah, there you go. I was like,
I was like, those are the only two aliens that
I know the r Anyway, go ahead? What's our Jeopardy
category for American?

Speaker 2 (01:38:37):
Okay, every answer has American.

Speaker 4 (01:38:41):
Their publication include First Aid, Fast, and a Baby Sitter's Hand.

Speaker 3 (01:38:46):
What is the American Red Cross?

Speaker 2 (01:38:47):
That is correct? A gorilla named Coco learned to communicate?

Speaker 3 (01:38:51):
What is the American Sign Language? Correct?

Speaker 4 (01:38:54):
In two thousand and nine, this organization that maintains the
largest registry for pure bred dogs celebrate it's one hundred
and twenty fifth anniversary.

Speaker 3 (01:39:06):
Mandy, what is the American Kennel Association?

Speaker 1 (01:39:08):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:39:08):
Yes, No, dang it, I don't know. What is the
American Kennel Club? You ye? Had it right there, right there.

Speaker 8 (01:39:17):
Crap.

Speaker 4 (01:39:18):
When Iowa farmers and their wives first saw this nineteen
thirty painting of a farm couple, many of them were downright.

Speaker 3 (01:39:25):
What is American Gothic?

Speaker 2 (01:39:26):
That is correct?

Speaker 4 (01:39:28):
And in two thousand and nine, the US Mint issued
a quarter for this territory, featuring an able able apible,
a whisk, and a coconut tree.

Speaker 3 (01:39:39):
Mandy, what is American Samoa?

Speaker 2 (01:39:40):
That is correct?

Speaker 8 (01:39:41):
Doom?

Speaker 2 (01:39:42):
Nice work?

Speaker 3 (01:39:43):
Who America stuff?

Speaker 8 (01:39:45):
Coming up on sports, we're gonna have full with Nate
Jackson is Studio so former Braucus wide receiver tight end
and obviously, well we'll strip down the game, but we'll
try to find some positivity at the end of it,
because I know that Broncos fans are feeling pretty bummed
right now.

Speaker 3 (01:39:59):
I know, I know patience. Patience is a virtue people, patience.
We'll be back tomorrow