09-25-25 FULL SHOW - Let's Talk Gold, And A Troubled Man Is Arrested Again

We're talking gold and why it's having a run, a troubled man is arrested again, but for how long, and a bunch of new words make it into the dictionary.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
No, it's Mandy Connell and on KOLA.

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Ninety one am SA.

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Kevin Icy three by Connall, Keith sad Thing. Welcome, Welcome,
Welcome to a Thursday edition of the show. I'm your
host for the next three hours, Mandy Connell. Join my
right hand man and your favorite airhorn guy. He's Anthony Rodriguez,

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you can call him a roy. And today we are
going to We got a lot of stuff. And I
started out today when I woke up this morning and
I had one guest, and now I have two more
guests because there's some stuff that needs to be talked
about on this show. And let's get to it by
going to the blog. Find the by going to mandy'sblog

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dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline
that says nine to twenty five twenty five blog let's
stop gold and a troubled man is arrested again. Click
on that and here are the headlines you will find within.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
I think someone in office half American, all with ships
and clipments and seen that's going to press plant.

Speaker 5 (01:20):
Today.

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On the blog Lear Capitals.

Speaker 5 (01:22):
Johnhannizian joins me to talk about Gold's recent run. The
media learns nothing from the Kirk shooting. F from Debiza
is back behind bars for now. Denver Public Schools does
zero due diligence before hiring someone, but Denver can change
the board. Makeup your dad. Blod is now in the dictionary.

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Lots of former Bronco players.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
In round one of the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 5 (01:46):
We've got a ballot initiative to actually fund roads. Rent
prices in Denver are down. Ross Kaminski on free speech,
Nuclear is having a minute. The goz of flotilla is
getting funnier and funnier. Did you workers sabotage Donald Trump?
What's happened to Jennifer Garner's daughter? I'm here for the
James Comy Purpwalk. The Trump trolling continues. Disney Plus is

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hiking prices. Not everything is a lynching in douaacp.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
We are nearing peak leaf peeping.

Speaker 5 (02:18):
You mean that pot of gold thing was a lie?
That time Susie Wargen almost threw in a wedding proposal.
What the heck is going on at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan airport.
One great mom hacked two not so great ones. If
you need a takeoff song, this isn't real, is it?

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (02:35):
I'm glad the Rockies can laugh, stop mocking parents searching
for answers.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Kimmel gets a huge pop.

Speaker 5 (02:42):
Those are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com.

Speaker 6 (02:46):
And I know.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
She's just mad because I stepped on her. Isn't she
a long?

Speaker 7 (02:53):
Well?

Speaker 2 (02:53):
I went long because the blog is loned.

Speaker 5 (02:55):
I can't help it if there's a lot.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
Of information there needs a perfectly timed ninety dog.

Speaker 5 (03:00):
Just as she gets older, she is just becoming more
insufferable with her judgments.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Well, Nancy does say.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
She tells me that while it was ninety seconds of
headlines that went over time me, at least it means it.
It's a great blog because it took just ninety seconds
just to read the headlines.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Let alone goose through the blog exactly.

Speaker 5 (03:20):
And I did. I was, I was slowing my I
realized I try to go so fast that I run
out of air. And then it just it kind of
hurts me after that.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Nancy doesn't care.

Speaker 5 (03:29):
I know, I trust me, trust me, I know how
much Nancy doesn't care. Okay, uh, let's start at the
bottom of the blog. Jimmy Kimmel got a huge ratings
boozed from his first night back time six times six.
A little over six million people tuned in to watch
his monologue. Now, what I'd love to see is how

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many of them stuck around for the entire show. I'd
like to know. Now, I'm going to check back, Anthony.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
I put it in my.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
Calendar, even the more interesting one. Tonight's I mean yesterday.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
I'm gonna check back in two months. Oh, let's check
back in two months shorter.

Speaker 5 (04:04):
Because when Colbert announced, when they announced Colbert was being canceled,
he got a big pop for like the first couple
of weeks after that, and then it's just fallen back
into the basement where it was before. So this is
to be expected. But good for him, you got one.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
I think the better the better ones were, And we
would never see metrics on this those that that monologue
was the first time they ever watched the show and
at the end they.

Speaker 5 (04:25):
Go, oh yeah, well, And this is what I suspect
will happen is that people will find out it's it's
not all that funny, right, somebody sent me a text
yesterday and said, you know, like.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Like gut Field is just not funny.

Speaker 5 (04:38):
It's just not funny. I don't understand what conservatives can't
do comedy. Well, see, it's it's often not funny when
your ideology and point of view is the butt of every.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Joke, which it is on Gutfeld.

Speaker 5 (04:50):
Right. The problem is is that conservatives are used to
it because we essentially have to put up with because
we are constantly and continuously exposed to liberal culture. And dang,
I just remembered a story that I saw yesterday and
I was going to look for today, and I've forgotten.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
To write the second and I'm going to see if.

Speaker 5 (05:14):
I can find it though, so the blog would have
been even longer. Yes, oh wow, yes, indeed. Now we
have three guests coming up today at one o'clock. So
I had a meeting before I started working with Lyric
Capital as a client. I meet with everyone before I
start working with them as a client. I got to
meet the CEO of Lear Capital, and his name is
John Ohenzian and such an interesting guy, I mean really interesting.

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His background is fascinating. We're not going to go into
his background as an entrepreneur and how he's helped and
grow all these different businesses and just super interesting guy.
But we had a really interesting conversation about gold off
the air, and I realized that they are a client
and they are trying to sell you gold. But there
are so much interesting information about gold, and it's stuff
that I've known for a long time, but right now

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there are things happening in the gold market that are
that are definitely giving some signs of what the international
economies sort of are predicting in terms of central bank.
So I was like, John, you got to come on
the show and talk about this stuff with me. So
he's going to come on the show one and we're
going to talk a little bit about some of that stuff.

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I mean, it's just it's really geopolitical, cool stuff happening
right now around gold and silver. So and then my
friend David Strom, who writes for Hot Air. You've heard
him on the show before. He's joining us at two
thirty because he wrote a column you know yesterday if
you heard me on the show talking about not jumping
to conclusions after we found out that the young man

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who shot at an ice facility in Texas, and then
killed himself. The first thing we found out about this
kid was that his mom is a staunch anti gun advocate. Right,
so I said yesterday on the show, like, hey, don't
jump to any conclusions.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
Just wait.

Speaker 5 (07:00):
Did we not learn anything from the events of two
weeks ago? Well apparently not, because yesterday, when the news
broke about the shooting, MSNBC could not wait to tell
us that it was a neo Nazi. Now, this guy
could be a neo Nazi. We don't really know all
that much about him as of right now, except that

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his mom is a very liberal anti gun person. And
so David wrote a great column on hot air dot
com about just MSNBC politicians once again getting out ahead
of their skis to try and blame the other side.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
I have to say, did you see today's.

Speaker 5 (07:36):
Cartoon picture that goes along with my blog on social media?
I thoroughly enjoyed creating this one. I really I like
it a lot. I'm thinking about, Anthony, what would you
think if I come up with these cartoon things and.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
Some of them are actually good.

Speaker 5 (07:49):
Maybe at the end of the year next year, not
this year, obviously, because they just started doing this. We
could do like a calendar for charity where we could
gather up some of the best cartoon and people could
submit their cartoon and stuff to me because I now
that I know how to how to give the proper
cues to AI.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
You have to admit, that's a good one.

Speaker 5 (08:05):
Did you see it. That's a good one. Yeah, it's
a good one. If you follow me on social media,
you'll see it at Mandy Connell on X at Mandy
Calll I think it's at Yeah, it's at Mandy Connell
on Facebook as well, so check it out. I'm very
proud of myself. I'm enjoying these AI generators a lot.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
And I will tell you this, I.

Speaker 5 (08:23):
Don't see a single other person posting anything as a cartoon,
so mine jumps out at you when you see it,
So I'm pretty excited about that. But David Stram is
going to join me. He's actually got two columns today
at hot air dot com. They're just scorchers. I've got
the other one a little further down the blog now
coming up at twelve thirty. Wild County Sheriff Steve Reeams
is going to join me. Because you may remember, what

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was it last week, maybe ish, maybe.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
Two weeks ago.

Speaker 5 (08:50):
I'm telling you that Charlie Kirk shooting for me is
almost like a COVID moment where it's warped my sense
of time because I don't know what happened right before
and what happened right after.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
But Sheriff Reems was very.

Speaker 5 (09:03):
Open about the fact that he was extremely unhappy that
his department was forced to release a man who has
demonstrated a great capability for violent behavior. His name is
from Debisa, and Sheriff Reems went so far as to
release pictures of f from Dabisa and with the intent

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of saying, if you see this guy, you better be careful.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Why was he released?

Speaker 5 (09:28):
Because he was found unable to stand trial because of
mental defect.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
And so he's in jail right now. But for how long?
What is he in jail for? Well, I'm so glad
you asked.

Speaker 5 (09:43):
He's in jail because he showed up on the University
of Northern Colorado and he was in some campus adjacent
apartment building and he was waving around a gun. So
he's been arrested again and we don't know how long
he's going to se day in jail because we've already
established it in Colorado due to some really poorly written

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criminal justice reform, as the Democrats once again tried to
make crime easier in Colorado and make sure that all
of the criminals get the proper coddling.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Here, we now have a law.

Speaker 5 (10:17):
That says if someone can't participate in their defense because
of mental illness, then they cannot be held. Nobody really
thought that went out, even though a bunch of people
testified that this is exactly what would happen, because the
Democrats don't care in Colorado about reasonable people making reasonable
points because they're usually coming from the Republican Party, So

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they just put their fingers in their ears and sit
there and go la la la, la, la la la.
I mean, I'm just assuming. So we have a huge problem.
And Sheriff Steve Riham's still not happy about this. He's
spitting mad about this case. And we're going to talk
to him at twelve thirty about it. Now, I've got
a couple of things that I want to talk about.
We have school board elections coming up, you guys, and

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and a rod We are going to in the next
like three weeks going to be having some school board candidates.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
I'll tell you, I am going.

Speaker 5 (11:06):
To unilaterally decide that I'm probably not going to speak
to any candidates that are in any way, shape or
form endorsed by the teachers' unions. And today on the blog,
I have a story linked where you can find out
the union candidates that have been backed in Denver public schools.
Denver Public Schools is failing and they're failing students. And

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I don't mean failing like with an F. I mean
the school system is failing students. How do I know this? Well,
the most recent sea maass scors in Denver.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
Public schools look like this. All students and these.

Speaker 5 (11:40):
Are big percentages, right, All students in Denver public schools
are either.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
Who met or exceeded.

Speaker 5 (11:48):
Expectations in English Language arts ELA forty one point nine percent.
So less than fifty percent of Denver Public school students
can read.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
On grade level.

Speaker 5 (12:03):
In math, It's even worse in math, Denver Public schools
taught a whopping thirty two point nine percent of students
how to do math on grade level. It's even worse
for black and Hispanic students. Black students are reading meeting
or exceeding expectations in English at a rate of twenty

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seven point three percent. Math eighteen point four percent, Hispanic
Latino students even worse English language twenty five percent, math
sixteen point seven percent, and students in poverty kids that
are qualified for free and reduced lunch twenty four point

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six of them can read at or above grade level.
Seventeen percent of them can do math at or above
grade level. If this was a private industry, heck, if
this was a private school of business. But because government
decides that just warehousing bodies is enough to call itself

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a school district, we have this level of failure. We
have a superintendent who is in my mind, completely and
utterly incompetent, But don't say that to the school board
because he is a man of color, and therefore he.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Is beyond reproach.

Speaker 5 (13:25):
I have another story on the blog today that we're
going to get too shortly. It's actually no, I'll get
to it right now. So there was a member of
the Fountains City Council that was indicted recently because she
lied on documents. She hid her certain income in order
to get government benefits. And now she's been charged with
some form of fraud. And and in all honesty, I
had no idea that this woman was black, no clue,

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no idea until the Rocky Mountain ranch of the NAACP
decided to send out a press release saying that her
arrest for fraud, which, by the way, when the indictment
was laid out, she actually covered up her profession on
her check to imply that her part time job as

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a city councilor was her full time job. The part
time job pays three hundred dollars or some crazy amount
like that, and that's what she submitted his income. That's
all she submitted his income. This was a calculated move
to defraud the government by this woman, who, again, I
had no idea she was black until today. But the
Rocky Mountain NAACP is out saying this is a modern

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day political lynching. Just because someone is the right color
in your mind, doesn't mean they're good at their job,
and it doesn't mean that they are not corrupt and
trying to break the law. Now, if this woman goes
to trial and fountain and comes out and it comes
out that this has all been you know, some gindap
charges and she has a perfectly rational, logical explanation for

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everything she did, and she is declared innocent, they may
have a point, but we're not remotely there yet, and
you may want to keep your powder dry, as say,
until you know if you're actually backing a criminal. And
Alex Morero, the superintendent of Denver Public Schools who just
got a massive raise, massive race, all he wants to

(15:12):
talk about is graduation rates. That's it, you know why,
Because graduation rates are easy to fix. You just graduate
kids that don't deserve to be graduated.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
You just pass kids.

Speaker 5 (15:24):
Along right through high school when they can't read, or
write or do any of that stuff.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Well, that's easy to gain.

Speaker 5 (15:32):
So I would urge you if you live in the
Denver metro area and you're going to be voting in
the Denver Public Schools race, I want you to go
to this article about the union back candidates and just
make a note they are not getting your vote. I
think it's time for us to start talking about our
school districts as a crisis, because they are.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
How in the world can you.

Speaker 5 (15:57):
Be educating and I'm putting educating air quote here, How
can you be so poorly educating your students? And still
this is not What would it take for it to
be a crisis? How many students have to not know
how to read and write before we start talking about
it with crisis language. And at the same time, I
heard the story today in our news as I was

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driving in about Evergreen High School and they brought the
kids back today and they're not in class. They're just
kind of like letting them go into the building. And
I understand all of that, but something is happening right now,
and I just heard this in our forum in Douglas County.
I'm your lot of school board candidates focus on mental health.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
Guys, With all due respect to the schools.

Speaker 5 (16:39):
And all the people who care about our kids, the
kids' mental health is not.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
Your responsibility, nor should it be.

Speaker 5 (16:48):
It just shouldn't kids develop positive mental health when they
accomplish things, when they have high goals set for them
and they are able to achieve them, when they get
the support they need.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
In order to be able to achieve them.

Speaker 5 (17:02):
But all we're talking about in schools now is mental health.
And guess what it is My belief and people, you
can act me on this all you want. I'm a
big believer in therapy when you need it, one hundred percent.
I've been in therapy before. But what I'm not in
favor of is replacing teaching children what they need to
know with this gobblygook about mental health, because giving kids

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high goals, helping them achieve them, letting them have a
sense of accomplishment and a sense of growth, is the
best thing we can do for these kids. And the
second part of this is when all you focus on
is your mental health, guess what your mental health is
actually worse. When all you focus on is your anxiety,
how stress you, it all gets worse.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
So I don't know.

Speaker 5 (17:50):
We've got to have a conversation about that later when
we get back. We're going to talk to Sheriff Steve
Reems from Weld County about a dangerous man who's in
jail now. But for how long we'll talk about that.
Right after this a story that featured Sheriff Steve Reams
from Weld County expressing his displeasure about the fact that
his office had to release a man who's proven himself

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to be dangerous.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
Well, that man is back in jail. We don't know how.

Speaker 5 (18:14):
Long, but I've got Sheriff Steve Riams with me now
to talk about it. Sheriff, first of all, thanks for
making time today.

Speaker 8 (18:21):
Abette thanks for bringing this an issue to attention, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (18:24):
So, my first question, and just as a reminder for
my audience from Divisa, is the man's name. If you
could tell me how you encountered or have encountered mister
Divisa in the past, and what inspired you to sort
of make this public.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
What's going on?

Speaker 8 (18:42):
Sure, Well, he's a twenty one year old individual that
lives in the Weld County area really specifically most of
the time. He's a Tanzania national. He's a refugee in
this country. I believe he's been here for six or
seven years, maybe even longer. My interaction with him is
because he's been repeatedly brought to the Weld County Jail

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from numerous police agencies, and I believe he's been arrested
as of yesterday eleven times on some very serious charges.
But his last arrest was the most significant one, and
that was for attempted second degree murder. And my interaction
with that case was because I was I'm friends with
the victim's family, and so the victim in that particular incident,

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you know, he was beaten very severely by this individual,
and all the beating incident was filmed or videoed by
Debisa's friends, and so that video got posted to social media.
The victim in that incident, his family, shared that video
with me and said, you got to help us. You know,

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this guy's likely to be released because he's been found
incompetent to stand trial, and this just seems like travesty
of justice. And I agree with him, and so I
definitely leaned into that situation and tried to figure out
every possible scenario to keep this person from being released
from my facility. And unfortunately, the lodge just tied my

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hands and we were forced to release him just a
little over two weeks ago. But he was re arrested
yesterday on new criminal charges. Who could have guessed?

Speaker 5 (20:20):
So let's go back to that release the last time.
Governor Jared Polis released a rather snarky and terse tweet
about it, saying.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
Well, there's other laws in Colorado they.

Speaker 5 (20:31):
Could have used to commit him to a facility or
something along those lines. Did you look at every other
opportunity to get this guy off the streets?

Speaker 2 (20:40):
And if you did, why did that not work?

Speaker 8 (20:44):
Well? It might surprise you to hear this, but the
governor was just dead wrong. He made an assumption that
my county attorney and the district attorney up here had
not done their jobs in trying to figure out if
there was a different way that this person could be
handled other than release to the street. But that would
have required some kind of mental health commitment. And you know,

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right or wrong, this person does not have an underlying
mental health issue. Competency and mental health aren't necessarily tied together.
Sometimes they are. In this individual's case, his lack of
competency has nothing to do with an underlying mental illness.
So the governor was trying to point to provisions in
the statutes that allow for mental health holds to be

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placed and whatnot, but they're just not applicable with this guy.
He's just geared wrong. I believe he has an evil
mind and he has no intention of following the law.
But does he have an underlying mental health a diagnosed
mental health issue. No, he's not been on a mental
health plan at all while he's been in my facility,
and he probably won't be this time either.

Speaker 5 (21:48):
So wait a minute, how has he been declared unable
to stand trial if he doesn't have any diagnosed or
diagnosable mental conditions.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
I'm confused by that.

Speaker 8 (21:59):
Well, you and me. Basically, what it comes down to
is my understanding is he does not have the cognitive
ability and I say that in their quotes to understand
the gravity of his actions or the legal or the
criminal justice system as it pertains to those things. I
think it's a ruse. I think it's a game. I

(22:20):
just I think this guy is just flippant towards towards
any consequences. And because of that, you know, he's likely
he comes off to these professional persons that do his
evaluation as someone who's just you know, is incapable of
understanding the severity of what they're doing. Regardless even if

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they're correct. If that is the case, it still shows
another giant hole in our criminal justice system because if
he's if he's incapable of understanding the severity of what
he's done, then he's probably incapable of functioning in society
in a way that's not dangerous to folks. But again,
our laws.

Speaker 9 (23:00):
For lack of better terms, they suck.

Speaker 8 (23:02):
Right now when it deals with when you're dealing with
criminals and the laws are tilted to their side, and
this guy's taking firm advantage of it.

Speaker 5 (23:11):
So let me ask this, though he's a refugee, what
about his immigration status? Is there any opportunity you know?
And I realize you cannot coordinate with ICE because of
the stupid laws in Colorado, but I mean, would that
be an opportunity for ICE to maybe if they're listening
to just go, hey, this guy's in jail right now,
maybe we need to check this out.

Speaker 8 (23:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (23:31):
So you know, we've had some i'll just say.

Speaker 8 (23:33):
Hypothetical questions of ICE. And my understanding is that unless
he's unless this individual is charged and convicted of a serious.

Speaker 9 (23:45):
Of a violent crime or a felony, then.

Speaker 8 (23:47):
His refugee status cannot be revoked. Well, obviously he's not
getting convicted of any of these cases because he's being
found and competent to stand trial. So I pushed this
as far as I can, all the way up to hopefully.

Speaker 9 (24:00):
Tom Holman's desk to see if there's.

Speaker 8 (24:02):
A different viewpoint that can be taken with this individual.

Speaker 9 (24:06):
But you know, we're also exploring.

Speaker 8 (24:08):
If if federal charges might apply, especially in this most
recent case because of having a firearm on a college campus,
and so if that's the avenue to get him out
of a criminal justice system that is not as broken
as a Colorado's, then maybe that's the way that we
finally could get a conviction on him and get him

(24:28):
deported from the United States. But he doesn't deserve to
be here. He doesn't he doesn't add any value to
the United States or to this this state specifically, because
all he does is victimize people. He's he's a.

Speaker 9 (24:41):
Criminal, opportunist.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
He's a predator.

Speaker 8 (24:45):
He's a predator. Yeah, that's a that's a great.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
Way to put it.

Speaker 8 (24:48):
And he's taken advantage of the citizens in Well County
and specifically in the city of Greeley, and he creates
here and discontent pretty much wherever he goes. From what
I can tell, what you.

Speaker 5 (24:58):
Just told me about him being declared and competent, it
seems that he's in You know.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
I remember Vinnie the chin Jagante.

Speaker 5 (25:05):
You remember him walking around in his bathrobe to prove
to prosecutors in New York that he was crazy. That
was his whole stick, Like he was just going to
prove this to me. Seems like this guy has figured
out if he just acts like he cannot follow along
and does not understand the process, he's going to keep
getting out and is that what's going to happen this time.

Speaker 8 (25:25):
Well, that's very likely what could happen in this particular case.
I'm hoping that with enough attention on this case, we
get a professional person, qualified person that puts way more
effort into determining competency with this individual. I don't know
that that's probably a pie in the sky dream there,
but ultimately I think you hit the nail on the head.
He knows, you know, he's been trained through the system

(25:48):
that if he's just you know, if he just doesn't
care about the consequences, the null DEMI men competent, he'll
get released and he can go back to doing whatever
he wants to do. The interesting thing is, oftentimes when
he mist one of these acts, he has a crowd
around him where he has, you know, a friend with
him who's filming this stuff or taking pictures of him,
and so that he can turn around and post it

(26:10):
on social media as friends can. In fact, the attempted
second degree murder was all on video that was posted
to social media. I was given that that video from
the victim's family that's publicly available. It was so that
to me, does not speak of someone who doesn't understand
their actions. I just the system's broken, and I've.

Speaker 9 (26:33):
Called on Governor Polus with every one.

Speaker 8 (26:35):
Of these these reports to call a special session and
fix this. If nothing else, just repeal House Built twenty
four ten thirty four. That's the law that they changed
that really.

Speaker 9 (26:46):
Sped this process up and created.

Speaker 8 (26:48):
This bigger hole in the system than it ever been.

Speaker 9 (26:52):
So let's just start by repealing that. I mean, they
don't have to fix everything at once, but.

Speaker 8 (26:57):
Just undo what you've broken.

Speaker 9 (26:59):
And it's been well.

Speaker 5 (27:00):
That's because to admit that they have made crime too
easy and too available and too soft in Colorado would
be to admit that all of their efforts at criminal
justice reform have done nothing but in bolden criminals. But
that's just me share Steve Breams from Weld County. I
appreciate your time today, man, you bet, thank you for
having me on now, thanks for making.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
The time that is.

Speaker 5 (27:21):
Steve Reams will be right back now. If you don't
know what the Gaza flotilla is, let me bring you
up to speed. Young Greta Thunberg, the scourly young woman
from Sweden who got a really unfortunate haircut before she
and another group of activists hopped aboard a group of
boats that they were going to sail across and they
were going to go to Gaza and they were going

(27:42):
to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza in order to bust
the Gaza blockade. Well, the wheels are coming off, as
they say. First of all, the story broke yesterday that
multiple Hamas supporters, and be clear that people that are
trying to do this are supporting Hamas. They have quit.

(28:04):
Why did they quit because they found out there were
some gays in the flotilla?

Speaker 2 (28:10):
You heard me right.

Speaker 5 (28:13):
When self described queer activists Saif Ayadi joined the effort,
Khalid Boujema, a Tunisian coordinator for the flotilla, resigned in anger.
He said, we were lied to about the identity of
some of the participants at the forefront of the flotilla.
I accuse the organizers of hiding this aspect from us,

(28:37):
And then he went on Facebook to say, Palestine is
the issue of Muslims first and foremost and cannot be
separated from its spiritual and religious dimension. So why do
you involve suspicious activists in it who serve other agendas
that do not concern us and have no relation to
gaza such as homo sexuals. Somebody needs to ring up

(28:59):
queers for Palace and let them know. But that's not all.
That's not all my friends. Now they're posting messages on
their social media and just someone is using ABBA to
jam their radio.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
Signals for the gossip flutilla.

Speaker 5 (29:17):
I I you, guys, if you made a movie and
you said, we're gonna make a movie about these ragtag
misfits that decide to, you know, just go up against
all these world powers, and it just could not be
any funnier than what is happening right now. By the way,
Grenath Fumberg has also resigned from active leadership for some reason.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
I don't know. They're all in disarray.

Speaker 5 (29:41):
Yesterday I had a woman and she was one of
the women that was dancing on the.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
Decks of the boat.

Speaker 5 (29:46):
She took to her social media to complain about the terrible.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Conditions on this ship.

Speaker 5 (29:52):
She's like, I was told there was this aaw No,
she didn't say that. I don't know what she said.
She was in a foreign language. But it's just it's
wildly fun. By the way, Israel has already offered to
take the supplies which are pathetically small, take the supplies
and distribute them to people in Gaza, and the flotilla

(30:13):
said no, proving that this is not at all about
helping the Palestinian people. It's about posturing and trying to
get on TV. And I am laughing so hard about
all of this. It's not even funny. It's just it's
so comically bad. It's so comically dumb and so performative.

(30:34):
By the way, did you guys know, And I know
you don't know because I've got no coverage here in Israel.
They dropped a bunch of leaflets into the areas where
the Palestinian refugees are, and the leaflet said, if you
are trying to get to one of the aid points
and there is a moss checkpoint between you and the AID,
let us know and we'll.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
Blow it up for you.

Speaker 5 (30:55):
So they'll just go. And because what's happening is Hamas
is blocking people from getting aid. They're set up up
these fake checkpoints and either they are stopping people on
the way to get aid or they're stopping people on
the way back and stealing the aid. Israelis said, we
can take care of that for you.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
Just let us know.

Speaker 5 (31:11):
Ah fun. When we get back, we're gonna have a
conversation about gold with the CEO of Leer Capital, John Ohenisian.
Not only is he just a super interesting guy, there's
some very interesting things going on with gold right now.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
We're going to talk about that after this.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
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Speaker 2 (31:32):
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Speaker 5 (31:55):
The second hour of the show. And fairly recently I
had a chance to sit down with the CEO of
Lear Capital because we were talking about doing a partnership
which obviously, if you guys have heard the commercials, we
are doing that partnership. And one of the reasons that
I wanted to move forward that was my meeting with
John Ohanessian. He is the CEO of Lear Capital and

(32:16):
first of all, super cool dude, just straight across the board.
We had a wonderful time at dinner, but we also
had a great conversation about gold and silver. And I
know that you guys, especially if you are savvy investors
and you're up to speed on inflation, because we talk
about it all the time on the show. But there's
some things happening right now that are kind of like
in the news newsworthy about gold and silver that you

(32:39):
need to.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
Pay attention to.

Speaker 5 (32:40):
Now I'm going to allow you to make your own
investment advice, but it's like things that I see in
the news that I'm paying attention to are what's happening
with gold and silver. And I am now obsessed with
small nuclear reactors. We'll talk about that at another time,
but joining me now is John to talk about some
of that stuff that's going on.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
John, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 7 (32:58):
First of all, Mandy, thank you for having a pleasure
to be here.

Speaker 5 (33:04):
So I want to start talking about sort of the
news that it's out there if you're looking for it,
but it's kind of flying a little bit under the radar,
and that is what's happening with central banks around the world.
They are buying gold right now, and for me, that
says they know something I don't know that they are
continuing to worry about inflation and a falling dollar and

(33:26):
things of that nature.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
What is your take on that.

Speaker 7 (33:31):
I think you're spot on, but I think they know
what we see. We see a lot of turmoil around
the world. You have the Middle East crisis which has
been going on for a while now. You have Ukraine obviously,
and we also have you know, the South China Sea
with Taiwan potentially and China. But beyond that, you know, governments,
not just the US, the governments around the globe have

(33:53):
extreme debt. And since we are a dollar based global
currency society, if you will, what they're doing is you're
de risking their position. They want to take on currency,
in this case gold and also silver frankly, but gold
and silver, and they want to be positions so that
they are not as much at risk. The dollar this

(34:15):
year since January is down ten percent, and since one
year ago I was in I landed October third of
last year in France for a vacation. The dollars since
then is down eighteen percent. It was one till one
with the euro a year ago. So it's worthless. And
so not only are central banks, of course, as you

(34:35):
reference buying it up, you have consumers and that's what's
driving the two are driving the price. This year alone,
golds up forty one percent on Monday. This past Monday,
a couple of days ago, hit an all time high
of over thirty seven hundred dollars. Silver this year, as
I said, is up fifty percent. Is that a fourteen

(34:56):
year high. We believe, we think, based upon experts out
there in the marketplace, that silver could get to forty
percent more, maybe up to seventy dollars from its forty
five dollars today. And there were many other experts Goldman, Sachs, Morgan, Stanley,
JP Morgan and others who think gold this year, the
year's almost over, will get They thought thirty eight now

(35:18):
they think four thousand announce and next year some believe
it could get as high by year end next year
to five thousand announced. So a lot is going on,
as you said, globally, and that's was driving the price.
The last thing I want to mention quickly on that
point is if the fear of missing out, think back
for those that will in nineteen seventy nine when we

(35:40):
had the oil crisis, because what was going on in
Iran at the time, an inflation was off the chart
seventeen eighteen nineteen percent. Gold was only then at the
beginning of that year around low three hundreds. It got
up over five hundred dollars an ounce. That's over a
sixty percent move. So don't be so rise that if

(36:01):
you see goals and silver continue to make the moves
has been making not just the balance of this year,
but well into next year.

Speaker 5 (36:08):
Well, I mean, John, this goes to show that one
of the things I worry about, and this may be
like too big of a geopolitical question when it pertains
to gold, but one of the things that I think
about is, you know, there are moves with the brick nations.
You've got China and Russia and that group of nations together,
they are trying to undermine the dollars reserve status, right

(36:29):
because as it gets easier to trade electronically, the role
of the US dollar could be dramastically, drastically downgraded. And
that's honestly what concerns me is what happens if we
lose reserve currency status, or if that reserve currency status,
which honestly is probably.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
Propped up the dollar more than it deserves at this moment.

Speaker 7 (36:51):
What happens then, you know, but you're a spot on
that it has propped up a dollars value to reserve
currency status. You'll look at what Chinese doing. China, you
mentioned central banks, China's probably buying up more gold than
the hand of central bank around the globe because what
they want to do, they hope to do over the future,

(37:13):
sometimes over the future, is make the wand their currency
ultimately replacing the dollar as the reserve currency globally. And
that's the battle, and that's the fight. And you have
the bricks nations that you've referenced and more have come
together is probably nine or ten now it's part of bricks.
You mentioned the big ones China, Russia, South Africa, Brazil,
but there are others and they're in tentem trying to

(37:35):
make that happen. And China's aligning, you know, that's what's
part of the reason we have these trade issues and
these trade battles. We're trying to reposition China's standing so
that we have a more balanced playing field for the
US and for the dollar. But it's a fight, the fight, no,
without question, and as a result central banks buying up bold.

Speaker 5 (37:55):
Well and just I mean, China has pegged its currency artificially.
So there's like a whole other we'll have that whole
other set of conversations at a later date, John, But
let's talk about silver for a minute, because silver and
here's a question from our Common Spirit Health text line
at five sixty six, and I know if you have
a question you can text in.

Speaker 8 (38:13):
Hi.

Speaker 5 (38:13):
My question is about the value of silver. It seems
to be less than two percent. What gold is right now?
What has it been traditionally years past, and why is
it being suppressed so much if it is undervalue?

Speaker 2 (38:26):
Let's start with the.

Speaker 5 (38:27):
History of silver, because John and I were talking off
the air kind of about why silver is doing to
do it.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
Now, let's start a little bit with that history question.

Speaker 7 (38:34):
Okay, okay, So first off, typically, historically the relationship between
silver and gold is sixty five to one. Right now
it's ninety to one. So silver, just based upon that
theory alone, silver has another forty to forty five percent
to move up versus gold. Assuming gold stands still. Silver

(38:55):
is an industrial element. It is into a lot of
manufacturing globally, panels, vehicles, phones, and if you think about it,
for those who may not know, of all the minds
of all the mining in the world, of all the minds,
only twenty percent are dedicated to silver. The other eighty

(39:15):
percent are dedicated to other elements that they're mining out
of the ground, and so when they're pulling all out, Oh,
by the way, we got some silver too. Okay, So
there's not a big focus on but there needs to
be because of the industrial usage. And so when you
look at silver and gold, gold's always been the darling, right,
always been the darling. You hear it talk about most

(39:36):
often on news on financial markets. But silver's making a
run and people are going to have to take a
serious look at I think I shared with you. I
had someone call me this morning, a personal friend who
wants to buy more goals, and after we have the
conversation about that, I shared with him why he might
consider silver for the very reasons I deserve of are
articulated here, and he pivoted. He's, okay, No, you're right,

(39:59):
buy more silver. I'm not recommending that people go out
and buy silver versus goalser the other way around, but
they definitely need to consider it. It's a real opportunity.
Today it's forty five, almost forty five dollars an ounce.
There are many out there who believe it'll get the
seventy dollars an ounce in the next six months.

Speaker 5 (40:15):
You know, John, when I started doing your commercials, I
got an email from someone who said, Mandy, be careful
about giving someone investment advice. And I would never tell
anybody what stocks to buy or anything like that. But
in my view, gold and silver is a different kind
of investment because it's not one you're looking to buy
and you ride a quick wave and then sell.

Speaker 2 (40:34):
It is a long term situation. Correct.

Speaker 7 (40:39):
Absolutely, we recommend if you look at other thought leaders
out there, we recommend you're holding your goals and silver
purchases for at least three to five years, upwards of
five to ten years, because you're not going to make
a quick book. Typically you're holding it as a store
of value and a form of diversification. That's the key here, diversification.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
So if your.

Speaker 7 (41:02):
Portfolio has X in it, you really don't want more
than say fifteen twenty percent, although just last week Jeff
Gunnlof came out, a well known economist investment advisor and
said twenty five percent. I'm not going there, Okay, I'm
telling you what others are saying. We are a much
more expert than we are sometimes and you want to

(41:24):
use the long term, hold that question and you're diversifying.

Speaker 5 (41:27):
Well, John Owens, the end from Lear Capital is my
guest and John, before I let you go, I mean there.
They're one of the things that I actually had someone
email me. They're like, where am I going to put
gold in my house? And it's going to be safe?
And I was like, well, there's a lot of different
ways that you can invest in gold without having to
buy yourself a Fort Knox safe.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
Correct.

Speaker 7 (41:48):
Correct, So as a couple of different ways. If you
choose to buy the hard middle BRS coins, whatever might
be bully on and not put it at home, you
can put it in your safe depositive box. You canse depository.
There depositories around the country, very safe depositories where a
lot of our customers store their product. If you're gonna
have it at home, definitely have it in a fireproof

(42:09):
safe or your safe deposit, you know, a box at
your bank.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
So underneath my mattress not a good plan. It does
leave lost, John, yea, all those gold cars, I have
a mattress.

Speaker 5 (42:20):
John, I would strongly recommend if people have more questions,
Lear Capital. They know all of this stuff and they
can help you figure out what's going to work for you,
what's going to work for your portfolio, what's going to
work for diversification. I have a friend and I'm just
going to This is just an anecdotal story. So this
was two thousand and five or two thousand and six

(42:41):
and a young she was very young, she was in
her early twenties at the time, and she decided to
buy some gold coins and buy some gold bullion. And
a year later she was like, this stuff hasn't gone
up very much at all, and now fast forward to today,
she's very happy with that and that she still has.

(43:02):
So it's like a gold is a patient investment, but
it's also in terms of a solid investment, both literally
and figuratively. It's a good one, John Ohnesse, And thank
you for making time for me today.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
Thank you pleasure to be here.

Speaker 9 (43:17):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (43:17):
Guys. Find a link to lear Capital on my blog
at mandy'sblog dot com, or just give them a call
eight hundred and nine nine two fifty five. And uh,
I hope you guys get all the information that you
need because they do a really good job. It's just
some of the stuff that's happening right now. I've never
really been one to follow you know, markets like Ross.

(43:40):
Ross is like the market guy, right, and he is,
he follows all. But but what I started doing is
I started looking at news the g GEO political situation,
and then going and taking these news stories and looking
and seeing how markets are affected. It's why I've now
bought stock in multiple small nuclear reactor companies. And I'm

(44:00):
not going to share with you which small nuclear reactor
companies I am doing this with because I don't want
you to follow my investment advice.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
Because it could be terrible, it could be the worst
device ever.

Speaker 5 (44:10):
But what I know is we have data centers, we
have AI centers, we have all of this stuff that
is going to require a huge amount of energy. So yeah,
small modular reactors are probably going to be what creates
that energy. And in the case of gold and silver,

(44:30):
you're never going to buy gold and buy silver and
get rich four months down the road. It's not going
to happen. But it is a solid product to diversify
your portfolio that does not necessarily subject to the slings
and arrows of the market. So now we're getting very

(44:51):
specific questions, you guys, very specific questions. What ETF and
gold and silver would John recommend Lear Financial? I didn't
want to get into nuts and bolts questions like that,
then I'm getting this. Mandy long on silver. More than
ten percent of my portfolio is in it, up almost
forty percent since I bought in. Mandy a question, is

(45:12):
there a value in holding uncirculated silver coins? If not,
what should I change it to? All of these questions
just call Deer Capital. There people can help answer all
of these questions. This person says, Mandy, I'm very astute
on investing philosophies, and gold is not a good investment.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
I followed this podcast.

Speaker 5 (45:29):
It just happens. This podcast was released today. I highly
recommend you give it a listen. Over the long term,
gold is not a good investment. It depends on what
you're using it for. Right over the very long term,
the market is going to be cold. It has traditionally
very long term. But if you're looking for a safe
haven that is going to maintain its value for the

(45:50):
most part, gold is a good way to diversify your portfolio.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
And that's what John just said, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (45:56):
I'm seeing stories about women overdosing on tail and all
from taking too many to protest.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
Is this true?

Speaker 5 (46:02):
I would love to tell you that it's probably not,
but at this stage in the game, of course it
could be true. I talked about the tailand All Autism
thing yesterday, just briefly. Day before yesterday, just briefly, and
I touched on it briefly, and I have actually I
have to.

Speaker 2 (46:18):
Thank a ride for sending me this thing for the blog.

Speaker 5 (46:22):
And it is a woman who just posted this on
x about the story connecting Thailand All to autism, and
she said, for every person who discredits our story, for
every political joke I see, for every laugh at Thailand
All causes autism like it's some kind of punchline, I
see you. It's disheartening, especially when some of your friends

(46:44):
and family. This isn't a joke. For me, This isn't politics,
This is my child's life. What was said yesterday was
not Thailand All causes autism. What was said is that
autism can be triggered by multiple factors environmental, toxiclode, medical genetics, vulnerabilities.
That's what I've been silently screaming for years and no
one wanted to listen. Now, for the first time, an

(47:06):
administration is acknowledged out loud what so many parents like
me have lived, researched and fought to understand. Yet instead
of hearing the message, so many are quick to dismiss
it simply because of who it came from and how
it was delivered. And there's a little bit more going
on there. But I want to take it back to
this text message before we have to break. And the

(47:27):
reality is this, we don't know definitively what causes autism.
We do not have a clear picture of what causes
autism and if there is anything. And by the way,
there was a Harvard study that suggested there may be
a connection to women taking tailan al during pregnancy and
their children developing autism. Until we know for sure, I

(47:50):
would be perfectly happy putting thailanol in the same category
as deli meat, hot dogs, sushi, well done beef, or
other kinds of meat, because those are all things that
pregnant women are told to avoid, all of them.

Speaker 2 (48:07):
Why are they told to avoid them?

Speaker 5 (48:08):
Because potentially there might be some connection we don't know about.
By the way, the reason you're not supposed to eat
tuna fish is because of the mercury load, because they
think maybe, perhaps maybe mercury has something to do with autism,
but they don't know. But yet we warnt pregnant women
all the time. Hey, don't do these things during pregnancy.

(48:29):
Don't eat these things during pregnancy. And all of a sudden,
because it's RFK and Donald Trump, you have women apparently
that are pregnant and taking tylanol as some kind of
political statement. I can't tell you what a terrible, horrible, dumb, awful.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
Idea this is.

Speaker 5 (48:51):
We already know that tailan al can cause liver damage.
And I know this because I cannot take aspirin or enside.
So the only pain reliever I can take is Okay,
that's the only thing I can take, is my only option.
So I know a lot about the side effects of
tilanol and how much you can take, you how much
you can't take. So we already know it could hurt
your liver and cause problems. But thailanol themselves have recommended

(49:15):
against pregnant women taking their product during pregnancy because they
don't know. By the way, they didn't say that because
they thought it caused or it could be connected autism.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
That was not it at all.

Speaker 5 (49:28):
It was just had not been thoroughly tested or vetted
for women that are pregnant. Mandy people overdosing on tailanol
as a protest sounds like something an autistic person might do.
You don't give autistic people enough credit. Mandy heard this
today a pregnant woman who was fighting this recommendation took
so much she's now on a ventilator as it impacted

(49:49):
her liver.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Speaker 8 (49:55):
Just letting you know.

Speaker 5 (49:57):
Yeah, I hate to think people are that stupid, but
I I follow the news. I am fully aware that
there are people that are that stupid, sad but true, and.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
They walk among us, you guys.

Speaker 5 (50:12):
And the worst part is is that when you're that stupid,
you generally don't know how stupid you are, so you
may not even realize and you just walk around spread
and you're stupid everywhere, smeared it all over things.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
You know.

Speaker 2 (50:31):
I don't know. I'd love to think that that was
not a thing.

Speaker 5 (50:34):
But again, I I just I cannot cannot say, Ayron,
is this teaser.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
For nine one one real? Or is that ai?

Speaker 5 (50:42):
Is that a real story about the show nine to
one one, which I've never actually watched. No, it's not, No,
it's not you guys. Let me play this is my
audio up. Let me just play this promo for you
about nine one one.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
Over the past eight seasons, nine one has faced nearly
every emergency on Earth.

Speaker 6 (51:11):
So b Nato.

Speaker 2 (51:14):
Nado, they will go where no first responders have gone
before your emergency nine in space.

Speaker 4 (51:28):
You guys, go on, yep, let's just not gloss over
b Nato like Shark Nato did.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
Bees Bro.

Speaker 5 (51:40):
I realized that television shows have to kind of amp
up the action. But like we watched The Rookie. You
know that's have you ever watched The Rookie? It's it's
a very entertaining show. But you guys, if there were
that many gunfights in Los Angeles on a daily basis,
nobody would go there, nobody would live there. Ah yeah, yeah,
nothing says we've jumped the shark, like sending to space.

(52:00):
So here's a fun story. Denver Public Schools sent out
an email in May that Peter Castillo would be the
new interim principal at Denver.

Speaker 2 (52:12):
School of Arts.

Speaker 5 (52:15):
The problem was number one, he had not actually been hired,
and number two, mister Castillo is a convicted felon. Now
he's also a long time teacher and principal, so he
was known in the district. But unfortunately for mister Castillo,
he was involved in a very serious drunk driving crash.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
He was the drunk in the crash.

Speaker 5 (52:41):
The person that he crashed into going one hundred and
six miles per hour on four seventy was seriously injured
and therefore mister Castillo was charged with a felony in
that DUI case, which then led to the suspension of
his principal's license in the state of Colorado. So yeah,

(53:02):
parents say they trusted the Central Office to do its
due diligence and the omission and this is such a
subtle understatement. The omission has amplified concerns about leadership, judgment,
and accountability. Teresa Pania, who served eight years on the

(53:25):
Denver school Board for his president, said to me, it's
less about Pete and more about a failure of the system.
Good leaders always learn from mistakes. I don't think this
is about mister Castillo at all, other than the fact
that I mean was, how in the world could he
not be the one to bring up the fact that, oh, yeah, hey,

(53:47):
my principal's license was suspended when I nearly killed someone
driving drunk. That seems like a pretty big omission for him.
But how in the world did the district not know
about it? Because after the May second email, internet sleuths
used a thing called Google and discovered the Colorado State

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Board of Education had suspended mister Castio's license in twenty
twenty four, citing unethical behavior.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
But that wasn't enough to dissuade Denver Public Schools.

Speaker 5 (54:20):
A week later, a second email was sent to parents,
This one named Don Roy as interim principle. So far,
mister Roy does not seem to have any criminal history
that we should know about.

Speaker 9 (54:32):
Now.

Speaker 5 (54:33):
This is also an understatement from the Denver get. The
incident underscores broader concerns about the district's vetting process. Of course,
the district spokesperson is like, this is a personnel matter,
and we're not going to talk about it. No, we're
not talking about mister Castio. What we're talking about, and
what we'd like to know Denver Public Schools, is how

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in the world did you announce the hiring of someone
who had not yet been hired.

Speaker 2 (55:02):
Let's start with that. That's thing number one.

Speaker 5 (55:05):
No deal in place, no contract accepted, none of that
stuff had actually happened.

Speaker 2 (55:10):
That's thing number one.

Speaker 5 (55:11):
Number two, how were you unaware of this story when
he was already already a principal. Mister Castillo retired after
twenty seven years with the District thirteen as principal at
Konsmiller Creative Arts Academy in Southwest Denver. He resigned on
April twenty first of twenty twenty three. One of the

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reasons that he well resigned was that he had to
serve a one hundred and twenty day sentence in jail.
A week before that resignation, he pleaded guilty to felony
vehicular assault that seriously injured another driver and already told
you about that. He had to do one hundred and
twenty days in jail, four years of probation, sixty hours

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of community service, and ordered him to pay two thousand,
five hundred and forty seven dollars in restitution, and the
State Board saying that the felony conviction resulting from driving
under the influence of alcohol, speeding causing serious bodily injury
to another person, and endangering others is in the state
Board's judgment. Renders responded unfit to perform services authorized by

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his license, and they suspended it. So, yeah, he's still
on probation and yet Denver Public Schools had no idea
any of this was going on. Districts are required to
report to the state within ten days if an employee
leaves their job because of unlawful behavior involving a child.

Speaker 2 (56:43):
Which this did not. Districts must also notify CD.

Speaker 5 (56:47):
Of any felony conviction related to domestic violence, sexual offenses,
child abuse or exploitation, drug related crimes, as well as
assault and battery misdemeanors. Now, I would argue, is that
a dui is indeed a drug related crime. We love
to put alcohol in a different category, but it's really not.

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It is the same as drugs that have other psychoactive
effects on your brain. A DPS employee arrested for any
criminal offense, whether a misdemeanor or a felony, have five
days to notify their supervisor. Mister Castillo doesn't appear to
have done so. He refused to say whether or not

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he was doing this, and he continued to work for
the district for more than a year before fully retiring.
So this is just, you know, this is just a
really really really bad look. By the way, Castillo's license

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is active and was so at the time of the
DSA offer. In a book he wrote about his incarceration,
one hundred and twenty Days of You from the Top, Bunk,
Castillo said, it was not the first time I drove
after drinking.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
It was the first time I got caught. So yeah.

Speaker 5 (58:15):
By the way, he collected paid vacation and retirement benefits
from the district while he was in jail.

Speaker 2 (58:22):
God gotta love government jobs. You really do, you really
really do? Now? My question is.

Speaker 5 (58:32):
Now, I'm not even to ask that question. It's in
poor taste and I'm not going.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
To do this DPS.

Speaker 5 (58:37):
By the way, this is the latest in another string
of high profile controversies. They include using confidentiality agreements under
Superintendent Alex Mareno, in adequately training staff on safety procedures,
and the firings of former mcauleffe International Middle School principal
Kurt Dennis, who publicly disclosed that the district ignored his

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requests to remove a child who had been charged with
attempted murder. He's suing now, by the way, we'll find out. Well,
I don't know where that case is. Let' should check
in and see what the latest on that case is.
They're also facing lawsuits for meat high schools deans Eric
Sinclair and Wayne Mason. And this is just a long line,
but hey, guys, Denver, you guys have an opportunity to

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change the school board significantly. I have an article today
on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com that tells you
who the Union back to candidates are, so you can
run to any other candidate in your district other than them.
We're going to be getting some of these candidates on
the show because here's the thing, this is what I
want out of school board candidates. I want school board

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candidates who are focused like a laser on student achievement
and keeping politics out of the schools system and the classroom,
and ensuring that students have a safe environment when they
go to school, and doing everything we can, in my mind,
including armed you know, staff members in schools to keep
our kids safe. Those are the three things that I

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care about from a school board candidate. Anything else is
just noise and garbage. We'll be right back by the way,
Rod knows what an EPPO baby is. An EPO baby
is someone whose parents are famous and therefore they get
certain opportunities that other people do not. And yesterday or

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it was either yesterday or two days ago, I saw
this video of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner's daughter Violet.
Violet was giving a speech to the United Nations. While
giving the speech, Violet is wearing a K and ninety
five mask, okay, full you know, sitted medical mask. And

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every picture I've seen of this person for the last
couple of years, she's wearing a mask. Even though her
mother's walking next to her, not wearing a mask, she's
wearing a mask. And she testified in front of the
United Nations that we need to bring back mask mandates
permanently because we as human beings, have the right to

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filtered air. Now, when I first saw this, because you
can't see her face, I thought she was still a child,
and honestly, I was heartbroken for her, because what have
we done to this young person to make them think
that they need.

Speaker 2 (01:01:28):
To filter air for the rest of their lives in
order not to die.

Speaker 5 (01:01:32):
Let me think about that for a second. We broke
some of these people during COVID. We broke them, and
now she's testifying in front of the United Nations that
the entire world needs to walk around with their faces
covered until the end of time. But then I found
out she's nineteen years old. She is a grown ass woman,

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and she has chosen to put herself in the public sphere.
So now my tone has changed. My tone changes from
one of pity, although I do feel very sorry for
her that she has been so damaged about COVID that
she really believes that she needs to wear a mask
for the rest of her life. But now, as an

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adult woman to another adult woman, I have this to say,
Violet Affleck. First of all, I've called the un ass
when my daughter can speak, and they hung up on me. Whatever,
it's fine. Second of all, make your own choices in life.
And if you would like to wear a mask so
you get filtered air for the rest of your life,
more power to you.

Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
I support you in this.

Speaker 5 (01:02:38):
I will know exactly who to avoid when I see
you walking down the street, because anyone that detached from reality,
I don't necessarily want to be in their sphere. But
as soon as you go to the United Nations, which
I believe to be an absolute garbage organization anyway, and
advocate to representatives of nations around the world that we

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should all be for to do what you think we
should do. Now we have a problem and the entire
premise of her argument is just dumb.

Speaker 2 (01:03:08):
It's just stupid.

Speaker 5 (01:03:09):
If she's wearing a mask, why do I have to
wear a mask? If she gets filtered air, fine, great,
I don't want filtered air.

Speaker 2 (01:03:17):
I want air.

Speaker 5 (01:03:19):
As a matter of fact, I've taken her just licking
doorknobs to build up my immunity. I'm just kidding. I
don't actually do that. I think about it, but I
don't do it. Who you cannot go through life and
never get sick. No, there are people out there who
you feel like never gets sick. I worked with a woman. Actually,
when I was in high school, I had an English

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teacher named Francis Sarkle Roade and Francis Tarkle Road.

Speaker 2 (01:03:43):
She was like a character.

Speaker 5 (01:03:44):
She was so so good to have as an English teacher.

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
But she was a quirky lady.

Speaker 5 (01:03:48):
She had all these thousands of pairings of earrings, and
she would wear these different fun earrings, and she wore
horn rimmed, you know, kind of still had a beehive,
even though it was already the seventies. She was an
amazing teacher and gave us candy at home room. So
obviously Miss Harkleroad is near and dear to my heart.
Miss harkele Road when I had her, had been teaching
for like thirty two years and had never called in

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sick ever, not once. And I asked her one time.
I was like, Miss Harka, don't you ever get sick?
And she looked at me and said, I just will
illness away. I was like, all right, but I gotta
tell you, as an adult, as a busy adult, when
you don't have time to be sick, there are times

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that I am pretty sure I have willed sickness away.

Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
Just been like, I don't have dibe for you. I
don't have tibe for you right.

Speaker 5 (01:04:41):
As a matter of fact, earlier this week, I thought
I was getting sick. I even worked from home one
day because I was like, I feel like I'm getting sick.
And then that afternoon I was like, I don't have
time for this. I got too much stuff to do.
This has been an incredibly busy week. A lot of
off the show stuff that I've been taken care of,
will it away. But she had enough sickly banked as
a teacher that she could have take in one year

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off just using her sick leave, so yeah, Violet, good
luck to you.

Speaker 2 (01:05:07):
You want to wear a mask, knock yourself out.

Speaker 5 (01:05:09):
But the next time you try to force somebody else
to put one on my face, then we have a problem.

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Speaker 5 (01:05:39):
Welcome Local, Welcome to the third hour of the show.
I'm your host for the next hour. Mandy Connell joined
by Anthony Rodriguez right over there. Oh it's adorable. And
I just watched on X a nurse and here's the thing.
You cannot, like, I can't verify anything that this woman said, right,

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So that's I'm giving myself a little pause on that
because ultimately now people are telling anecdotal stories. I will
say this woman on X was quite convincing, and she
said that she works for a nurse hotline. Got a
call from a desperate husband whose wife, in a fit
of peak, in order to try and prove Trump wrong,

(01:06:23):
took a gobsmackingly large amount of tylanol. Now she is
in the hospital and her liver has completely failed and
they're trying to decide whether or not to deliver the
baby at twenty two or twenty three weeks because she
is not going to survive, and that kind of story
is absurd, absolutely crazy. There is nothing a politician on
the left could say that would get me to react

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in such a stupid fashion. Honestly, like, if a politician
on the left says something I don't like, I may
respond in snarky fashion on X, which is always fun.
But other than that, they're not going to direct any
sort of activity that is going to potentially harm my health.
But hey, whatever you guys do, whatever is you guys

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want to do. Someone sent me a text message or
an email rather that said, Mandy, I generally agree with
you about ninety percent of the time, but I need
to say not on this one. I really don't think
anything concerning Gaza Israel Hamas is at all funny right now,
to which I responded, thinking you can sail into a
war zone to drop off a couple of boxes to

(01:07:28):
supplies only to have people quit over the gaze on
board while someone jams the radios with ABBA is funny.
Even in war funny things happen, and the Gaza flotilla
is funny. I'm sorry, it's just really very entertaining. You
know what, else, I'm on record saying I don't like
Trump's trolling.

Speaker 2 (01:07:49):
It's one of the things I don't like about him.

Speaker 5 (01:07:54):
But when I saw this yesterday, I burst out laughing
like belly laugh laughing about the latest trolls. So Donald
Trump has unveiled a new display of presidential portraits on
the outside of the White House, facing what used to
be the Rose Garden, and it has all of the

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presidents from the very beginning in these lovely gilded gold frames.
They're very, very pretty, and as it gets closer to
the end of the president's obviously Donald Trump is going
to be there twice. Do you know what's in between
the two photos of Donald Trump where there should be

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this is I'm trying to rise above. I'm trying to
be a better person. Okay, rise above, Manny, rise above.
Between the first portrait of Donald Trump and the second
portrait of Donald Trump, where there should be a portrait.

Speaker 2 (01:08:53):
Of Joe Biden, they have put a picture of the
auto pen.

Speaker 5 (01:08:59):
And it made me.

Speaker 8 (01:09:03):
Laugh.

Speaker 5 (01:09:05):
But then I was like, Mandy, you're encouraging him. It's
like when your little kid says something really, really unintentionally
funny and you laugh. Chuck used to get so he
gets so mad at me because I would always laugh,
like she would be in like, first of all, you
know when you have a little little kid, and I'm
I'm just gonna give my kids some kudos right now.

(01:09:26):
Since about the age of seven or eight, my kid
has given me no reason to discipline her. I mean,
you know, here, corrections here and there, like what are
you doing that kind of but actual, actual physical, like
you're now being put She has given us no reasons
to punish her. But when she was really little and
just so stinking adorable, and she would do something and

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Chuck would be like, you know, giving her the business,
and I I would just start laughing, and he's he's
just given me rightfully. So you cannot a red little
parenting advice. You can't laugh when your kid drops an
an F bomb in the pediatrician's office. Don't laugh because
all of the other parents are gonna laugh. But you

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can't laugh.

Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
Oh we're both laughing.

Speaker 5 (01:10:14):
I'm telling you it's the wrong move, and it is
the wrong one at least after the fact. What you
do is you get all serious and you give them like,
oh what are you doing? And we're gonna have to
punish you now, and then you go around the corner
and you fall on the ground laughing.

Speaker 2 (01:10:26):
Oh sure, I like that.

Speaker 5 (01:10:27):
Yeah, that's I mean, there's appropriate times to laugh and inappropriate,
and I always choose the inappropriate. It's how I'm wired.
I don't know what's wrong with me. God made me
this way anyway, this this.

Speaker 8 (01:10:40):
This troll.

Speaker 5 (01:10:41):
I mean, are they gonna leave it there? That's that's
my question? Was it just to be funny temporarily? Are
you actually leaving a picture of the auto pen hanging
on the outside of the White House because it's funny
as a joke. But after that, I'm like, eh, you know,
I don't feel good about I mean, what are they
gonna slide into like a weekend at Bernie's picture next?

Speaker 2 (01:11:04):
What I mean weekend at Biden's?

Speaker 8 (01:11:06):
Come on?

Speaker 5 (01:11:07):
I mean, how much fun could you have with this
that no one can say they don't entertain themselves in
the White House?

Speaker 2 (01:11:13):
Right now? Hey, Rod, do you have Disney Plus?

Speaker 8 (01:11:16):
Yep?

Speaker 2 (01:11:17):
So did you see this? And a lot of the
streaming services are hiking prices again?

Speaker 5 (01:11:21):
Did you see this?

Speaker 4 (01:11:22):
Yeah, water is what Well, at what point is it
not worth it? I'll keep doing it. I'll keep paying
all of them. Yeah, I got them all.

Speaker 5 (01:11:31):
Well, see we do too, And Chuck and I are
in the process right now of like thinning the herd
on our budget. We're trying to slice and dice some
extra stuff. How many streaming services do do you have
cable or do you just have interview.

Speaker 2 (01:11:42):
YouTube TV, which I count as cable? Okay, and how
much is that? That's like eighty nine a month, hasn't.

Speaker 4 (01:11:47):
It continues to rise. I'm having the good old days
in the fifties per month.

Speaker 5 (01:11:50):
It's not cost effective to cut the court anymore, it
really isn't. So beginning October twenty first, the cost of
an ad free Disney Plus plan jumps from nine to
ninety nine a month to eleven.

Speaker 2 (01:12:02):
Oh no, excuse me.

Speaker 5 (01:12:03):
Ads support it, so you get commercials, So you're gonna
pay them eleven dollars in ninety nine cents to watch commercials.
The ad free plan goes up to eighteen ninety nine
a month. Now you can get a bundled plan that's
got Disney Plus and Hulu with ads. That's gonna be
twelve ninety nine a month. The ad free will be
nineteen ninety nine a month. And if you want to

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throw an ESPN, you're gonna go without ads because if
you're gonna pay for it, you don't want to watch ads, right.

Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
I take the ads. Yeah, well that's probably where you're
saving money. Yeah, that's hight I said the money.

Speaker 5 (01:12:36):
But if you if you do that, that's gonna be
thirty bucks a month just for Hulu, ESPN and Disney Plus.

Speaker 4 (01:12:42):
Yeah, I mean, I mean HBO Max is already like
eighteen I think a month. I've got them all I've
got Yeah, we have them, AULTI, Disney, Netflix, I don't
have Apple, have Apple. I don't have Apple.

Speaker 2 (01:12:55):
Have wink wink nod nod out as you have to
you have a password.

Speaker 5 (01:12:59):
Yeah, okay, we have Apple, we have Paramount Plus, we
have Netflix.

Speaker 2 (01:13:05):
We have Amazon.

Speaker 5 (01:13:06):
I'm never getting rid of Amazon because Amazon gives you more,
you know when you shop on Amazon. I believe we
have don't have I think we have Paramount plus two.

Speaker 8 (01:13:16):
Got it? Yeah, we know.

Speaker 2 (01:13:17):
The only one I don't have is Apple. I have
that mana you know. Yeah, actually, I'm of course I'm.

Speaker 5 (01:13:26):
Paying for it, like Chuck just was like, I'm going
to go through and see how much we're paying on
streaming service.

Speaker 4 (01:13:30):
The YouTube TV just continues to rise. But we love
it so much we use it every day, so it's
not going anywhere. I pay like an extra like five
dollars a month too for.

Speaker 2 (01:13:38):
Like four k. Right, yeah, so it's like eighty but
that replaces cable.

Speaker 8 (01:13:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:13:44):
So the first cable package I ever bought nineteen dollars Anthony,
and it had everything including HBO. Of course, HBO at
that time just stood for hey beast masters on the
late Great Charles Harrington Elster. And for those of you
who didn't know that Charles Harrington Elster passed away, he
passed away.

Speaker 2 (01:14:02):
Some years ago.

Speaker 5 (01:14:03):
He had suffered for years with cancer that started in
his spleen and moved all over his body, and he
did pass away. But in honor of this, let's take
a moment and check in on the Miriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary. Now,
this is the first time in over twenty years, only
the twelfth time ever that they have overhauled the Collegiate Dictionary. Now,

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the real issue here is that the Collegiate Dictionary is
no one's buying hard copies anymore, which I think is
so unfortunate because I love the incidental learning that happens
when you look up something in the dictionary, right you see.

Speaker 2 (01:14:42):
A bunch of other words that you'd never heard before,
and I was like, Wow, that's a cool word.

Speaker 7 (01:14:45):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:14:47):
Even though Miriam Webster's.

Speaker 5 (01:14:49):
Websites receive over a billion visits per year.

Speaker 2 (01:14:53):
People still love books.

Speaker 5 (01:14:54):
I love books, and they've taken the opportunity to kind
of overhaul health edition.

Speaker 2 (01:15:01):
It features over five thousand new.

Speaker 5 (01:15:04):
Words, one thousand new phrases and idioms, enhanced entries for
top lookups, and more than twenty thousand additional usage examples.

Speaker 2 (01:15:14):
It also offers a curated word list.

Speaker 5 (01:15:18):
One of the examples they give words from the nineteen
nineties and words for things that often go unnamed. They
have expanded usage guidance of fascinating word histories. For instance, Anthony,
did you know the word calculate comes from the Latin
for pebble because Romans use little stones. For edition and subtraction,

(01:15:42):
readers will also find classic line drawings from a friendly
looking ardvarc to a prickly ZOEA it's a free swimming
planktonic larval form of many decapod crustaceans. Since the previous
edition was published in two thousand and three, much has
changed in the world, and they have added a lot
of words that perhaps you would not have thought of

(01:16:05):
as going into the dictionary.

Speaker 2 (01:16:08):
Now, Anthony, when you have riz.

Speaker 5 (01:16:11):
If you don't know what that means, you can look
it up in the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary. Words like
cold brew, farm to table, and dad bod are among
the entries. That is two words, thank you for asking. Nope, nope, notated. No,
dad bod is one way I know I'm saying it
should be. No, it's two words, dad bod, dad bod.

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And we all know what the dad bod is. Is
there a commensurate term for a mom bod? I mean,
we don't use the word mom bod because that's you know,
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:16:46):
Okay, Well, how would you define a mom bid? Well,
let's define dad bod first. Well, that's the thing, dad bod.
You don't have to be a father, but no, but
dad bod is about the physical. You got a little
bit of a gut, you know, just like how dad
bod you don't have to be a dad to have
a dad bod. You have to be a mom to
have a mom bod.

Speaker 5 (01:17:04):
Oh, I don't think so. I think the I think
the dad bod thing is called a dad bod because
dads do display it more often than say single gentlemen
who are out on the you know scene, trying to
get women. But then once you get married and your
wife cooks for you, and you get busy with your kids,
you get you get a little spare tired around the middle.

Speaker 2 (01:17:23):
Well, I don't think most women would like to hear your.

Speaker 5 (01:17:27):
Version of mombod women either. Well, I mean, does have
guys just fully embraced the dad bod thing, you know
like it? Well, because women have embraced the dadbod thing.
Women don't mind a dad bod. I don't mind a dad.

Speaker 2 (01:17:40):
Bod, and dad bod can't be the whole bod.

Speaker 4 (01:17:42):
It's really just beer gut and like a little pudgy,
like like Patrick Mahomes, quarterback of the can say, I don't.

Speaker 5 (01:17:49):
Think he's fully a dad body yet. I don't think
he's just got some padding on his app. I think
you have to have a genuine pooch to be a
dad guy. I had the full on pooch, but he
just said it shouldn't be dadbod, it should be father figure.

Speaker 2 (01:18:04):
That's a fair point. This one said, mom bod equals milf.
What I mean. I need clarification on that texter.

Speaker 5 (01:18:14):
So basically, this texter said the new Dictionary has to
be dumbed down for younger generations. And you know why
I did this in honor of Charles harringtane Elster. One
of the things I learned from that man during our
many years of conversations is the English language is constantly evolving,
constantly evolving, and if Miriam Webster wants to remain current
and necessary, they must evolve with it, hence riz being

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in the dictionary. When we get back, my friend David
Strong from hot air dot com, we are going to
chat today about a couple of stories he's got, the
first of which has to do with the media and
politicians proved yesterday that they learned nothing from the Charlie
Kirk assassination about holding their father until they know more.

Speaker 2 (01:19:01):
We'll talk about that. Next.

Speaker 5 (01:19:02):
Prolific writer at hotair dot com and also a pretty
cool dude to boot. He's David Strom and not one
but two articles today at hot air dot com that
we're gonna chat about.

Speaker 2 (01:19:14):
First of all, welcome back to the program sir, Are
you kidding?

Speaker 6 (01:19:18):
Any day I get to be on the radio with you,
and actually we're zooming, so it's even better. I get
to see the lovely Candy Colline. I'm a happy camper.

Speaker 5 (01:19:29):
Well, I appreciate those kind words and keep them coming
and I'll keep sending the checks. Okay, a couple of
stories today at hot air dot com by you. Let's
start with the first one. And this is something literally
yesterday David, when when the story was breaking about the
Ice shooting and everything else, and then a story came
out to said, oh, this young man, his mother is

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this left wing anti gun person. I said on the
radio yesterday, hey guys, hold your fire, like, don't get out,
and say, obviously he was a left wing because his
mom was left wing, Like, just wait until we know more.
And as if on cue, the national news media blew
right by my advice and he immediately started to choose

(01:20:11):
e lane for the shooter. Tell me a little bit
about what MSNBC decided to do.

Speaker 6 (01:20:19):
Well, they did several different things. So they first indicated
that it was probably a right wing shooter. Another time
they had an FBI guy on who said, well, that
kill Ice thing was probably actually a joke because he's
a fortun person. Ken Klippenstein of The Intercept actually wrote

(01:20:42):
an entire article that he was an ironic edge lord,
nihilist and he's just starting to throw people off and
he had no political agenda at all, and it's all.
You know, when we were talking off the air, you
said the MSNBC has learned nothing. And I actually disagree

(01:21:04):
with you on that. We're looking at you know, when
you think that you're thinking in terms of them being
a news organization, Ah, they are not, y it is
a propaganda organization. And now we've had five or six
acts violent or close to violent, acts of aggression, let

(01:21:29):
us say, from the left over the past two weeks,
beginning with Charlie Kirk's murder, and then you've got the
attempted firebombing of the Fox News truck. You've got lots
of attacks on Charlie Kirk memorials. Of course, you had
the explosion of celebrations over the depth of Charlie Kirk.

(01:21:53):
And it just keeps going on and on and on
and so what they're doing in the media is trying
to muddy the message. You know, it's so obvious that
all of these violent attacks are coming from the left
and often from Antifa, and so they need to come

(01:22:18):
up with, I think, multiple narratives for different audiences. The
edge Lord mean jokester is for the sort of online
suburban moms. And then you've got the right wingers did it,
which really goes straight to, you know, the violent base,

(01:22:43):
and what they're trying to do is just throw a
whole bunch of fecal matter on the wall and hope
that no one can see through all of that to
what really went on.

Speaker 2 (01:22:54):
Well, the both sides, nes the both sides.

Speaker 5 (01:22:56):
The notion that political violence is both sides, both sides,
both sides, to your point, has been absolutely annihilated over
the past few weeks. And then when you go.

Speaker 2 (01:23:05):
Back a little bit further, we have had multiple.

Speaker 5 (01:23:08):
Shooters that have turned out to be trans people that
have either shot up schools or shot.

Speaker 2 (01:23:13):
Up you know, I cannot remember.

Speaker 5 (01:23:15):
Oh, the guy outside Breck Kavanaugh's house that was trying
to kill Bret Kavanaugh. We now know he is trans
now and is demanding to be addressed as a woman.
So there's all of these instances, and it's been fascinating
for me to watch. I saw a news story a
couple of weeks ago that said, going back to two
thousand and five, there have been way more incidents on

(01:23:36):
the right than there has been left. I'm like, okay,
but let's talk about now, right, Let's talk about where
we are at this moment in time, and the both
sides argument has fallen by the wayside. What I find remarkable, David,
is that there's no trying to think of the way
to say this. There doesn't seem to be any pause

(01:23:56):
to get to the truth, Like the truth just stopped mattering.
And for a supposed news organization like MSNBC, we all
know who they are, but they really seem to have
ended the charade completely and become full board propaganda. The
truth be damned.

Speaker 4 (01:24:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:24:16):
I mean, first of all, those statistics are complete bs
and there are a lot of different ways to demonstrate that.
For instance, most or at least a large fraction of
the incidents that they're talking about are actually gang related
things in prison where white supremacists and black Moslems are

(01:24:37):
douking it out, and they call that right wing violence.
That's not what people think about. The easiest thing to
do if you want to debunk this is name five
or six recent you know, left wing attacks, the transhooters,
all that, you know, the riots, the attacks on eyes,

(01:25:01):
Charlie Kirk, the latest shooting at eyes. And then ask
a liberal who was saying, well, most of the violence
is right wing, and I asked them, well, name five.

Speaker 5 (01:25:12):
And you know, I can think of one in recent
memory when it comes right to the mind, and that
is the murder of those African American church cowers in
South Carolina. And and that kid was a neo Nazi,
and we all knew it, and everybody on the right
we condemned it, David, we condemned.

Speaker 6 (01:25:30):
We didn't go to social media and celebrate it and
give lists of the next people who should be taken out.

Speaker 8 (01:25:40):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:25:40):
We don't have an equivalent of the John Brown gun Club,
which has thousands of members, where they're training people actually
for terrorist attacks.

Speaker 8 (01:25:52):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:25:52):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:25:53):
You don't find anything on X about you know, a
list of liberals who should be killed. You'd find leftists
on Blue Sky with the nice They tell us, this
is the calm, saying nice. Social media place where not
only are they celebrating it, they're making suggestions, and so yeah,

(01:26:19):
the bull sides argument is beyond complete.

Speaker 2 (01:26:23):
Pas.

Speaker 6 (01:26:23):
All you need to know actually is that the Democrats
have gone absolutely crazy defending Antifah.

Speaker 5 (01:26:30):
God, I think Donald Trump should come out and say
I love dogs, just so people on the left would
start like, we'd have videos of people kicking their dogs
or shooting their dogs. It's it's so reflexive that it
doesn't even matter what it is they are. As soon
as Trump comes down and says, you know, I love
babies and ice cream and and you know, and and peace,

(01:26:53):
love and harmony, they would.

Speaker 2 (01:26:54):
Come out against it.

Speaker 5 (01:26:55):
And it's it's reflexively stupid. It's reflexively obvious. And I
have to say I don't love Trump's tactics, although I
did admit to having a belly laugh about the Biden
auto pen on the Wall of Fame at the White
House like that. That one got me okay, But I'm
generally speaking, I don't like the petty, small tactics. But

(01:27:16):
the reality is Trump understands that. And how many times
now has Trump put the Democrats on the twenty percent
side of an eighty twenty issue and they fall for
it every single time, and you got it.

Speaker 9 (01:27:30):
What it's like.

Speaker 2 (01:27:30):
Do you guys not understand you're being played half the time?

Speaker 6 (01:27:35):
Well, I mean we saw this yesterday with the tiloent
Hall story where I mean, I don't think anyone knows
for sure the whether there's a link between tilt Hall
in pregnancy and autism. The research is all over the back,
but there are videos after videos of pregnant women taking

(01:27:59):
talent like tic TACs and their reports I don't know
whether they're true or not. You know a pregnant woman
who who got liver failure from taking til and Hall,
and you know their doctors. I saw several doctors you
know tweeting out you know, do not do this that

(01:28:20):
you know because of liver toxicity. I mean, forget the
autism thing. You could kill yourself and your baby just
by taking too much talent, and that's it can be
for some people. As few as four or six extra
strength talentols can kill you. The safe and effective range

(01:28:42):
for talent all I take talent, I'm not scared of it, right,
but the safe and effective range is tiny. Most drugs,
the overdose range is many times the therapeutic range. That's
not true with Tilenhol. If it were a proof today,
it would have a black box worring this can kill you.

Speaker 2 (01:29:04):
Wow. Uh okay, let me let me uh. I didn't
mean to cut you off right there.

Speaker 9 (01:29:11):
I just did not.

Speaker 5 (01:29:12):
I didn't realize about the black box warning because I'm
one of those people. I can't take aspern or in Saints,
so my only option is tailano, right, That's the only
thing I can take. And that's been that way my
entire life. I'm amazed I didn't destroy my liver during
my drinking days recovering from hangovers and just literally popping
tail and all like they were candy. Let me move
on to a different story before we run out of time,

(01:29:32):
because we have to talk about Trump's appearance at the UN.

Speaker 1 (01:29:36):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:29:36):
I already talked about yesterday.

Speaker 5 (01:29:38):
I loved that speech, like I've been waiting for decades
for someone to stand up to these sanctimonious you know
what's and tell him exactly what he told them yesterday.
But there were some issues getting into the UN. He
and Milania get on the escalator, it stops. He goes
to give his speech teleprompter down. Now, the these two

(01:30:00):
things could be attributed to mechanical failure, electrical blip, whatever,
except there was actually chatter by you and employees about
doing these exact same things.

Speaker 6 (01:30:12):
Oh absolutely, And apparently they also turned out the volume
of his speech in the actual General Assembly room. Yeah,
I mean, it clearly was sabotage. And Carolyn Levitt actually
put out a tweet about this, and no doubt people
are being tracked down, and you can rest assured that

(01:30:37):
if the people who did this are not American citizens,
they will be persona on Grada very quickly. And if
they are American citizens, I certainly hope that the United
States government goes to great lengths to make sure they're
never employed again in anything remotely connected to government or diplomacy.

Speaker 5 (01:31:00):
That idea, I mean, my idea is this, David Strom
from hot air dot com. My idea is tell the
un to take their headquarters somewhere else, take back that
gorgeous piece of real estate that they inhabit in New
York City, and get all these delegates who park all
over New York illegally and never have to pay a ticket,
and commit all kinds of crimes by the way, and

(01:31:21):
never have to pay the price.

Speaker 2 (01:31:22):
Tell them they can go somewhere else. Let them go
to one of the countries.

Speaker 5 (01:31:26):
On the Human Rights Watch or Human Rights Commissioned, like
Cuba or Angola or any of those others. Yeah, exactly,
those bastions of human rights at the UN. David, I
appreciate both columns, and I appreciate you man. It's good
to see you again.

Speaker 6 (01:31:41):
Always fun.

Speaker 5 (01:31:42):
All right, that's David Strom. Go read his stuff. I
linked to it today on the blog. He's at hot
air dot com. I want to respond to this text message, Uh, Mandy,
I love you, blah blah blah. We don't agree on
every I'm just going to go through the nice parts.
When he said all shootings are from the left, what
about two weeks ago in Evergreen, Okay, that kid was
right by chat groups that literally celebrate violence and school shootings.

(01:32:07):
There was not, as far as I know, a political
aspect to that. It was about violence. It was about
killing other kids. That's what he was about. Then they continue,
what about the shootings of the police in Pennsylvania. Alternate
right adult, I honestly don't know enough about that case,
so I can't weigh in the assassination of the representative
in Minnesota.

Speaker 2 (01:32:27):
Alt right, No, let me explain one more.

Speaker 5 (01:32:29):
Time about the horrific deaths of Melissa Hortman and her
husband and the wounding of two other people. The gentleman
that perpetrated those crimes, and I'm using the term gentlemen
with air quotes, was a registered Republican who had been
appointed to a board by Tim Walls. And the reason
he killed Melissa Hortman and her husband was because he

(01:32:49):
believed that Governor Tim Walls and Minnesota had given him
a hit list of politicians that needed to be killed
or Governor Tim Waltz was going to kill this guy
family obviously completely detached from reality, and because it happened
in the political sphere, it is a political situation, but
not necessarily motivated by politics, if that makes sense. So

(01:33:15):
the desire to both sides all of this stuff. You're
really making the point here. There has absolutely been right
wing political violence, but Oklahoma City bombings is a perfect
example of that. But in the last two years, overwhelmingly
these cases are coming from the left.

Speaker 2 (01:33:33):
And guess what.

Speaker 5 (01:33:35):
When Melissa Hartman and her husband were murdered in Minnesota,
every Republican in the House of Representatives voted to honor
her and her husband. Nobody took to social media to
celebrate it. We don't have polling data that shows twenty
five percent of eighteen to twenty nine year olds believe
that the world is a better place without Melissa Hortman.

Speaker 2 (01:33:54):
But we have that about Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 5 (01:33:56):
So both sides, no, no, both sides have been awful,
But lately it's definitely one side. Ben Olbright has dragged
his happy self into the studio.

Speaker 2 (01:34:06):
Not that guy with his deep cut v neck.

Speaker 8 (01:34:08):
That is.

Speaker 2 (01:34:11):
Me too, though, I mean I believe in a vena.

Speaker 5 (01:34:15):
This is round, but I'm a v neck person anyway.
And now it's time for the most exciting segment. Wait
a minute, let try that again.

Speaker 2 (01:34:23):
I'm not the one that messed it up this time.

Speaker 5 (01:34:24):
No, And now it's time for the most exciting segment
on the radio. I'm a gay now.

Speaker 8 (01:34:33):
Of the day.

Speaker 2 (01:34:34):
Believe me, not mess up in the podcast. Go here
we go anyway? Ready, go what is our dad joke
of today?

Speaker 6 (01:34:42):
Please?

Speaker 2 (01:34:43):
Well, it would be a new submission into my Hall
of Fame of dad jokes. Oh good, let's hear it.

Speaker 4 (01:34:47):
Scientists, I have successfully grown human vocal cords from stem
cells in the lab.

Speaker 2 (01:34:53):
The results speak for themselves. I hate you so much.

Speaker 5 (01:34:57):
Yeah, okay, I like that one.

Speaker 2 (01:34:58):
That's that's good. There, that's that's really good.

Speaker 8 (01:35:01):
Right there.

Speaker 5 (01:35:01):
What is our word of the day, please? There it
is y n M I t I hatred. You don't
hually hostility? Yes, you don't like somebody, that's correct.

Speaker 2 (01:35:14):
Okay. Today's trivia question.

Speaker 5 (01:35:16):
I I don't know the answer to this, and I'm
a little surprised, but I'm gonna I'm gonna guess what's
the difference between Scotch whiskey and bourbon whiskey.

Speaker 4 (01:35:26):
I'm getting new int whiskey, so I can't tell you
Bourbon's made Kentucky and Scotch has made Scotland.

Speaker 2 (01:35:31):
Well, I mean that's but isn't there more to it?

Speaker 9 (01:35:33):
Don't?

Speaker 4 (01:35:36):
As well as corn instead of grain, and then the
Scotch is uh in which which is old fashioned barley either.

Speaker 5 (01:35:44):
Yeah, scott is primarily made from malted barley, while Bourbon
is corn based. They also come from different places, Scotland,
as its name suggests, while Bourbon is made in the
United States, particularly Kentucky, although some of the best Scotch
makers in.

Speaker 2 (01:35:57):
The world are now in Japan. Which of those.

Speaker 9 (01:36:03):
Japanese.

Speaker 2 (01:36:04):
Yeah, Sanatory Japanese whiskey. So that makes pretty good, all right?
What is our Jeopardy category? Kiss my grits. If it's
about grits, I feel like, Oh you're from Arkansas.

Speaker 4 (01:36:20):
My cousin Vinnie. Category eaten for breakfast or as a
side dish? How many grits are made from this?

Speaker 2 (01:36:28):
That corn? That is correct? That simple? Okay?

Speaker 4 (01:36:32):
Developed in Louisiana. Freyline is a sweet traditionally made.

Speaker 2 (01:36:36):
What is pecans? Correct? Is it pecans or pecans? The
hip hop group that sings Let's Get It started shares,
it's what is the Black Eyed peas?

Speaker 4 (01:36:47):
It said that yapping dogs were fed these fried doubling puppies.

Speaker 2 (01:36:52):
Did you not hear you mark that off?

Speaker 6 (01:36:58):
I really didn't hear.

Speaker 5 (01:36:59):
Ben says you didn't get negative. You don't get a
point point off? It's two to one, Ben me.

Speaker 4 (01:37:04):
This colorful southern gravy is made from ham driving manny.

Speaker 2 (01:37:08):
What is red eye gravy? That is correct? Was time
yea tiber? Let's go with These are terrible. It's gonna blow, okay.

Speaker 4 (01:37:19):
This wind instrument evolved from the aura and the semphonium
of the eighteen twenties.

Speaker 2 (01:37:28):
Spell Aura, Ay, you are right, Oh yeah, I got nothing. Okay,
well that was the harmonica.

Speaker 4 (01:37:36):
Oh good friend. Brain helps this instrument produce. It's distinctive sound.

Speaker 5 (01:37:41):
Manny, what is the saxophone? Whoa, I'm just putting this
out of our misery.

Speaker 2 (01:37:44):
What is a kazoo? Ben wins by people, kazoo.

Speaker 5 (01:37:47):
There we go.

Speaker 2 (01:37:48):
Let's say the recorder side have been wrong. You are Sports.
I know, I know you have no idea what's coming
up on that show though, rhynd us, all that kind
of stuff. So you're just a pretty face.

Speaker 8 (01:37:58):
Nop.

Speaker 2 (01:37:58):
You just show up. You're the of the afternoon show. Yeah,
there you go. Zach Allen is.

Speaker 5 (01:38:05):
Going to start the show with koa Sports. We are
gonna be back tomorrow. I think I already have stuff
planned for tomorrow because it's Friday. I'm super excited. I
get to interview an author that I really like. His
name's Jim Butcher, and he writes a whole series about
a wizard detective that is so good. Yeah coming out,
yeah a huge. Well, then you can come in tomorrow
two thirty and you can talk to you. Yeah, and

(01:38:27):
then we're also going to have a conversation with Nick
Ferguson and one of my listeners, Steven Williams. When I
was talking about violence and black culture. Steven reached out
and said, Mandy, you're you're a white girl from the
suburbs and you're talking about black culture. And I said, well,
why don't you come on? So we're doing that tomorrow
as well, and then Rick Lewis coming on to talk
about a gige's doing.

Speaker 2 (01:38:45):
So it's gonna be a big show tomorrow. There, Saturday.
There you go, We will be back. Keep it right
here on Kowa