10-02-25 FULL SHOW - The Federal Shutdown May Be Just Want Trump Needed

Tickets are on sale for a 1940s style dance, the federal shutdown is not going well for Democrats, and why Israel is not the problem...again. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 4 (00:15):
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Welcome to a Thursday edition of the show. I'm your
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(00:36):
take you and We've got a lot of stuff to
talk about today. But I just kind of got a
little distracted by something that I saw on social media,
and of course.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome was a little town.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
Well, I just had a bunch of big thoughts right
right before the show started. Normally, my big thoughts after
big thinking, but I think this big thought that I
just had, I've been thinking about one particular subject when
it comes to the schools around here and a narrative,
a line of campaigning that I'm hearing that I am

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extremely concerned about, and I had a big thought about
it right before the show started. And I'm going to
talk about it for just one second and then we'll
do the blog in just a few minutes. So just
hang in If you're just waiting for the blog, it's
coming soon. There is a big push right now by
candidates that I'm seeing to talk about mental health in schools.

(01:37):
We did a candidate forum in Douglas County and there
are four candidates that are endorsed by the union, and
there are four candidates that are not.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
And the candidates that are.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
Endorsed by the union, I got to tell you, I
really liked a lot of their ideas. I was glad
to hear what they're bringing to the table. But as
soon as the union endorses them, because the union leaves
that they have the best chance of getting a collective
bargaining agreement redone in Douglas County. Douglas County does not
have a contract with the teachers union.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
They just don't do it.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
And at the same time, they are now the highest
performing district in the metro area, one of the highest
performing districts in the state, certainly the highest performing district
with the number of students that they cater to without
a teachers union. And the district is not perfect. There
is a lot of room for improvement, and in several
different areas that I'm very, very concerned about but one candidate,

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especially on the Union back slate, kept talking about how many,
what percentage of students have anxiety, and what percentage of
students need mental health support, And then I started to
see it everywhere. It's very insidious, but we've already seen
school districts endorse and affirm policies that were designed not

(02:57):
as an accidental end result, but they were designed to
put a wedge between children and their parents. We've seen
it happen with children when it comes to gender identity
and sexual orientation and things of that nature. The school
inserted themselves between the parents and the kids in that
one incredibly important area of a kid's life, right like

(03:21):
your sexuality, you're struggling with your gender.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
These are huge things.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
These are not I can't decide what pants I'm going
to wear, right, these are massive issues. And the schools
felt absolutely no problem barreling in and deciding in many
cases that they were going to hide their child struggle
with the parents. They have no problem doing that. So
now here we are and we have people and now,

(03:46):
by the way, I've seen it in other school district candidacies,
which is why I'm bringing this up. We see it
being talked about a lot from the left. What we've
got to worry about kids' mental health. We've got to
get more mental health providers. We've got to get more counselors,
We've got to get more people. Guys, your children's mental
health is your responsibility as parents, and sometimes it's really hard,

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and sometimes as a parent, you have to.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
Get that kid outside help. Right.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
I don't want any of us to remotely sound like
I am anti therapy or anti professional help. If you
need it, get it, But that is a decision to
be made with the family.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
Now.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
I realize there are families out there that are completely
dysfunctional and their parents are not going to do a
good job, and those kids are going to suffer, and
I am heartbroken for those children.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
But the reality is is.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
That a vast majority of us do our very best
raising our kids. We don't want to see our kids
suffer in a way, but it is our responsibility to
try and be there for our kids.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
And we're inserting again the school.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
District into a relationship between parents and children. This should
be one of the foundational relationships of your parenting child experience.
Your job as a parent is to help children learn
to manage things like anxiety and manage their emotions and
manage their feelings. And again, if you're in over your
head with this, then your family can make a decision

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to reach out and get professional help. And there's nothing
there's absolutely not one single thing wrong with that. But
I don't like the notion of schools deciding to make
mental health of students their priority when they would be
much better for kids if they put standards in place
that were high enough to challenge kids, if they put

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discipline in place that was strong enough so kids could
go to school and feel safe and learn in an
environment where they don't have to worry about being disrupted
by a couple kids who are out of control. That
is how you create a secure situation for your kids.
Give them something to strive for and achieve, give them
something to accomplish. That's what schools should be doing here.

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And by the way, I'm not saying, oh, we need
to get all counselors out of schools.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
That's not at all what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
So please don't even remotely read into that, because there
are times when you need somebody that can help a
kid at school work through some feelings about school. But
this is going way beyond that, way way beyond that,
and I think it's very concerning because this line of
rhetoric is going to appeal to people who vote with
their emotions.

Speaker 5 (06:24):
Right.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
It's the same way that they tried to try it
out social emotional learning, which really has some parts of
it that sound lovely. We're going to help kids learn
how to deal with their feelings better, and that's great,
But then you start to look at all the other
kind of crap that's in there, and you realize you've
let the camel's nose under the tent. Now the camels
standing in the middle of the room. I want schools

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to be focused on one thing, academics. That is what
I want schools to focus on. We have given teachers
way more than they need on their plate, way more. Now,
if you want to train a teacher to watch for
the signs of a kid in crisis so that parent
they can reach out to the parents or whoever they
need to reach out to and get that kid some help,

(07:09):
that's great. That's fine, But we cannot give them more
responsibilities for the mental health of our kids, because not
only does it put too much on the schools that.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
Is not their job.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
It takes more responsibility off of parents.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
And guys, I am seeing.

Speaker 4 (07:24):
Things with parenting that I think are indicative of a
much bigger problem, and that is the parents are not
doing their job. I it rested me a video the
other day of these life hacks, and the last one,
honest to God, almost made my head explode. It was
a woman who showed how to take a phone and
attach it to the wall in the bathtub using press

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and seal, so your child could sit in the bathtub
and stare at a screen like an automaton. And I
just thow, what We've really allowed an entire generation of
children to be raised by our phones. Parents have to
do a better job. Parents have to realize that all

(08:06):
of this stuff is gonna come back and bite them
in the butt when these kids are teenagers. I mean, man,
I'm old enough now to I mean, guys, I've had
some kids in my life that I'm now old enough
to know that my prediction that, yeah, that kid was
gonna end up in prison came true. So I don't know,
I'm wondering if that bothers anyone else. Has anyone else

(08:27):
noticed this new laser like focus from left wing school
board candidates.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
That happens to do with mental health. I don't know.
I just think this feels bad to me.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
You can text me on the Common Spirit Health text
line at five six six nine. Oh, let's do the blog,
shall we, Anthony. You can find the blog by going
to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
Go to the.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
Latest post section and look for the headline ten two
twenty five blog the Federals shutdown maybe just what Trump needed.
Click on that and here are the headline you will
find within the office.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
South American All with ships and clipments and plant.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
Today on the blood go back in time for a
dance from the Big Band era. This shutdown is hurting
the democrats demographic the most, and now Dems are having
to admit they want healthcare for illegals. But I'm sure
the polling data on the shutdown is good.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Right, one of the Evergreen.

Speaker 4 (09:23):
Victims is home Now? Why are churches under attack? Scrolling? Scrolling?
Democrats can't seem to run a budget. Why Denver is
broke to the Obamacare tax credits affect about three point
four percent of Coloradin's does a stranger on the Internet
ever touch your heart. Pay attention to the school board races,

(09:43):
scrolling Americans are not feeling good about the political climate.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
Denver got a lot of immigrants.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
Seer if Steve Reems tells the truth about speed cameras,
A nerdy water column on the Colorado River basin the
case for billionaires. A rod is down for spooky season.
Not sure what this is about, Please let this be true.
Netflix is in the hot seat, scrolling, scrolling coffee with
zero frills, scrolling nostril knowledge that is kind of life changing.

(10:13):
The Pope says, pro life extends to murderers. Schumer versus
Schumer on the shutdowns.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
Those are the headlines on the blog.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
At Mandy's blog, jacka tic tech toe a winner, Thanks Nancy,
so uh yeah, that is the blog. We've got a
lot of stuff on it today. We also have guests
coming up a little bit later in the show to
talk about the nineteen forties ball that's happening in Boulder
next year, tickets already on sale.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
That's where we're talking to her.

Speaker 4 (10:41):
And the big story of the day, of course, the shutdown.
More on that in the moment where we're gonna get
some stuff from the common spirit health text line five
six six N I know if you want to join in, Mandy,
My grandson goes to West jeff Middle School and it's
a mess. Last weekend he showed me videos of two
boys beating each other. No adult stepped in until after
one kid was concussed.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
And there.

Speaker 4 (11:03):
You want to know why kids are anxious? YEA, when
I was in high school? Okay, so I was in
high school in the mid eighties, from nineteen eighty five
four to nineteen eighty seven. I graduated in nineteen eighty seven.
If there was a fight at school, it lasted like
thirty seconds. Somebody's shirt got torn, somebody's hair got pulled.

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If it was a girl fight, you might see a
flash of a bra if it was a girl fight,
and that was it. We didn't have people getting their
heads slammed into the floor until they pass out. So
there's a new level of violence in the schools that
as a you know, I look back now and think
I can't even imagine this. You want to know why
kids saying have anxiety, Start there, school district. Start with

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what you can control. You know, I've been reading a
lot about stoics lately, and I knew about stoicism for
a long time, but I'm trying to adopt more stoic
principles in my life and really worrying about what you
control is the main one that I I'm trying to
deal with. And the school district should not, and absolutely
should not be the ones to work on a child's

(12:08):
mental health. I'm more and more convinced of this. Control
what you can control. Give kids a safe environment when
they go to school, make sure that they're held accountable
for their actions. If kids are wildly disruptive or violent,
throw them out. We have online school, get them a
computer and throw them.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
Out, y'all.

Speaker 4 (12:30):
It's time to recognize that some parents and some students
are not going to participate, and we cannot let the
not going to participate hold those who are trying to
participate back anymore.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
I hate to seem heartless, Hi, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (12:45):
Back in the sixties, Sister Mary Alice would have been like,
I got your mental health right here.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
Aimen to that unintended.

Speaker 4 (12:52):
See what I did, fellow Catholic school kid, Mandy. Parents
are hoping for a charter school placement, It really doesn't
matter if they're trying to get their kids out or not.
I mean, there's got to be somebody to agitate and
say this is not okay. Stephen Firestone says Mandy. We

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have a major laziness epidemic in this country, including parents,
and that is what's so profoundly disturbing to me.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
When I'm in the grocery store and I.

Speaker 4 (13:19):
See, you know, kids or parents with kids in carts
and the kids are just sitting there with you know,
glued to the phone. There are some cases where kids
who are neuro divergent and they need a distraction or
noise or music or something so they can you know,
maintain their composure in a grocery store.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
I get that, but that's not what we're talking about.

Speaker 4 (13:42):
We're talking about parents missing out on an opportunity to
teach their kids in the grocery store. My daughter learned
all of her letters and all of her numbers at
the grocery store. By the time she was like two,
she knew them all because I'd point them out and
say them on a cereal box or whatever. And I'm
not going to sit here and hold myself up as
the best parent ever. That's just one example, and it's

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all gonna come back and bite us in the butt,
and all these people are gonna be running are nursing homes.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
This is why I'm so concerned. Mandy.

Speaker 4 (14:12):
You are so right regarding mental health emphasis being a
big caution sign to those of us who see the
dangers of current mental health treatment of our children.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
Amen to that.

Speaker 4 (14:21):
During the Cold War, wasn't one of the biggest fears
instilled in us that the state would raise our children
for us if the Russians win. Now we seem to
be afraid the state isn't doing enough to raise our
children for us.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
That is so good, Texter, that's so good.

Speaker 4 (14:40):
I'm I'm going to I'm going to copy this and
send it to myself and I'm putting it on the
on the X. I'm doing it because that is so
perfectly stated from people begging the state to take their
children when they're three years old for pre K. So

(15:00):
now we have parents that are like, you know what,
my kids having anxiety fix it, fix it at school.
But they're probably the same parents who are like, well,
why haven't they done enough?

Speaker 3 (15:09):
I mean, what is going on? Anyway? I didn't mean
to go off on this tangent.

Speaker 4 (15:13):
I told you I had a big thought right before
the show, and now you've heard my big thought. Maybe
we'll come back to that late late or later or
rather anyway, Okay, let's talk about the shutdown for just
a few minutes, and it's going to be.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
A few minutes, because this thing.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
Is just getting more and more interesting by the day
because I'm not sure who the sacrificial lambs are going
to be that are going to.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
Vote to push this thing along.

Speaker 4 (15:41):
But I don't think that Chuck Schumer especially was ready
for the sort of coverage that this is getting this time,
the kind of discussions that are happening around this because
up until this point, at least in my lifetime, and
I don't even know how many government shutdowns I've been
through since I had my show. I mean, I feel

(16:03):
like it's been a million. I know it hasn't, but
feels like it's been a million. And they've always been
able to count on the media to give them fawning
coverage of how this is all the Republicans' fault and
all of these they're losing the narrative a bit.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
The Democratic Party is on this one.

Speaker 4 (16:23):
Because now they're sort of backed into a corner a
little bit as people have recognized that the bills that
they want past does include the repeal of the ban
on healthcare for illegal immigrants. And even though they tried,
and we had Michael Bennett saying that's a lie, that's
a lie, and he knows it's a lie, except it's

(16:46):
in the bill, and now that's circulating on social media.
Now you have reporters asking Democrats about it, and they're
forcing them on the record to have to admit, yeah,
it kind.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
Of does, Actually it does.

Speaker 4 (16:58):
They've lost the narrative on this one, and it's kind
of interesting to watch. And I don't understand exactly how
other than I think that and I don't hate this
next part.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
Just to be clear, I don't hate this.

Speaker 4 (17:11):
I think that there's a tremendous amount of pressure on
the news media, the network news especially to provide a
more balanced picture of life in America. And I'm sure
the threat is coming, you know, kind of a veiled
threat from the Trump administration, the FCC chair Brendan Carr

(17:31):
not making not so veiled threats. But if news media
organizations are going to their reporters and saying, we've got
to do a better job of covering the story, equally,
I don't hate that. I mean, I'm sorry that it
took the threat veiled or otherwise if it did. Indeed,
I'm speculating on all of this. I have absolutely no
proof to anything that I'm saying, So please don't run

(17:52):
around and tell it to your friends like it's factual.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
It's just me speculating.

Speaker 4 (17:56):
So, Mandy, the schools can't teach two plus two or
even the AB How can they even consider attempting psychology
when psychologists don't even know what they're doing, i e.
Sexual identity correct, Mandy, kids today are completely helpless without
their cell phones. They wouldn't even know how to find
their way to school. If I was that helpless, I

(18:16):
would have severe anxiety too. If the cell phone was
taken over the job of the parent. Why can't they
start to do other jobs, like those of teachers. We
don't need them or their stinking unions, Jared, I gotta
tell you, I love my daughters had some just absolutely
amazing teachers, just phenomenal teachers. She's also had some mediocre

(18:36):
at best teachers. Right, It's like any job, You're going
to have good ones and bad ones. So I don't
want to throw the baby out with the bathwater or
the teacher out with the teachers' union. I always try
to separate that because the teachers in the classroom, on
the front lines, they're the ones that every day are
looking at these little expectant faces. And they're in the

(18:56):
classroom with these kids. And they're not in there because
they're trying to get one over politically on anybody. They're
in there because they love kids and they want to teach.
I couldn't do it, but yeah, the teachers Union's no,
thank you. And this is one of the things I
wish that the common sense slate in Douglas County would
say more forcefully, and that is, why does Douglas County
need a teachers union when we are the highest performing

(19:19):
district in the metro area and we have the leanest
budget of any of the schools. We have the lowest
administrator to student ratio, we have the lowest administration to
employee ratio. I mean, it's just why do we need
the union?

Speaker 3 (19:34):
You should be able to make that force. We don't.

Speaker 4 (19:37):
We've done just fine without them. Okay, more on the
shutdown coming up next. I'm not talking about schools anymore.
I'm moving on the personal failing that I'm going to
share with you. Yesterday, after I got done speaking to
the South Metro Republican breakfast, which was lovely, I was
chatting with some folks all the way out, and a
gentleman asked me about how I felt about.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
The Trump means, and.

Speaker 4 (20:00):
If I'm honest, some of them make me laugh out loud, but.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
I would laugh harder.

Speaker 4 (20:09):
If someone else sent them out, because I truly think
that though, and this is all shut Down related, by
the way, though, I truly do think that the Hakeem
Jeffrey's wearing a sombrero next to Chuck Schumer fake AI
video where they're complaining because you know, Hispanics are not

(20:31):
voting for them as much as they used to is
very funny, and everybody said it's racist. It's kind of
the point is in my mind that that is how
Democrats see Hispanic people, right, I mean that's they look
at these different categories and they and they when they're like, oh,

(20:52):
we must communicate with the Hispanics. I know, get a
sombrero and a poncho. It's the same as John Hartwood's
text yesterday that said it sounds like Pete headseag My
focusing on a meritocracy doesn't want women or blacks in
the military. It's like, wait, so basically, you're saying that
that black people cannot achieve without an unfair advantage, and

(21:12):
that's incredibly racist. That's kind of when you divide everybody
up in their little categories. It is, and that's kind
of the point of the video. So the reason I
bring this up in the context of the shutdown is
that there's a very kind of funny column in the
Washington Examiner today and I didn't see it until after

(21:32):
the blog had been posted. Somebody sent it to me
and I saw it afterwards. So it's not on the
blog today, but it's about the presidential meaning, and this
author makes the case that we this proves that we
are winning when it comes to the shutdown situation Washington, DC,
meaning the Republicans are winning because the Democrats are out

(21:53):
there angry, trying to gin up all of this outrage,
and the Republicans are out there posting ridiculous memes. What
do you do when you know you're winning, You you're
relaxed watching the Democrats now have to go out and
defend a part of the bill that they want past

(22:14):
that would restore funding for illegal immigrant health care. That's
not a winning position and they were all trying to
deny it. As a matter of fact, Rob sent this
to me when he was he was at Michael Bennett's
press conference. So just this is Senator Michael Bennett responding
to a question.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
About about.

Speaker 6 (22:41):
Or s.

Speaker 7 (22:41):
Excuse me, Senator Congressman Gabe Evans on our air this morning,
claims that whatever proposal you have or Senate Democrats have,
wants to remove any restriction about illegal immigrants getting healthcare.
Where's the truth about healthcare and the legal immigrants with this?

Speaker 2 (23:02):
That's just a lie.

Speaker 8 (23:03):
I hate to say it, and I hate to use
that word, but he knows better than that. It's just
completely untrue, and the Republicans in the Senate know that's untrue.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
Thanks everybody. I hate to use that language.

Speaker 8 (23:24):
I hate to use that language, but I am using
that language because this is not funded games for the
American people. You know, they cannot The people in Colorado
are having a hard enough time affording their healthcare as
it is.

Speaker 4 (23:38):
I want to stop him right there, because he is correct.
Health insurance is going up in Colorado. But one of
the reasons that it's going up is because our state
government keeps mandating more things than it has to pay for,
including plastic surgery for men who want to look like women.
Are women who want to look like men. That is
one of the reasons that health insurance is going up.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
In our state.

Speaker 4 (23:59):
But he called Gabab a liar for saying it, right,
He flat out said that's a lie. Except let's go
to a section of the bill called Subtitle E other
Health Provisions. Let's see what's in Chapter one on Medicaid.
They want repealed alien Medicaid eligibility. That is meaning illegal

(24:22):
immigrants get It's in the bill. It's in the bill.
Their proposal explicitly repeals the one big Beautiful Bills per
reforms that banned taxpayer funded medicaid and shipped for illegals,
which saved about one hundred and eighty five billion and
removed one point four million ineligible en roll leees. And
that is what the Democrats want to do again. And

(24:46):
they tried to deny it. I mean, that's that was
a strong denial. And in this I had the question.
As a matter of fact, Anthony had the same question earlier.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
It's like did he not.

Speaker 4 (24:55):
Read the bill? Or are they hoping we don't have
the internet.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
That's the thing.

Speaker 4 (25:01):
I have video on the blog today of Chuck Schumer
versus Chuck Schumer, and these sorts of things are probably
out there for every politician if you look hard enough.
But listen to Chuck Schumer talking about the shutdowns.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
Just just listen to this.

Speaker 4 (25:20):
Hang on one second, let me let me do that
and this, and hang on, let me do this and
that and then this.

Speaker 3 (25:26):
I wasn't ready.

Speaker 4 (25:26):
I wasn't gonna play this yet, but I'm going to
play it because it fits in perfectly here Chuck Schumer
versus Chuck Schumer. Diagnetic working the internet's hard.

Speaker 3 (25:36):
Here we go the thing you've said about shutdowns in
the past.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
Let's listen.

Speaker 9 (25:39):
What if I persuaded my call is to say I'm
going to shut the government down. I am going to
not pay our bills unless I get my weight.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
This is twenty thirteen, by the way.

Speaker 9 (25:49):
It's a politics of idiocy, of confrontation, of paralysis, shutting
down twenty nineteen. I'm government over a policy difference is
self defeating. We can never hold you Manmerican workers hostage again.
While the Dr bill is very bad. The potential for
a shutdown has consequences for America that are much much worse.

Speaker 3 (26:13):
By the way this March thirteenth of this year.

Speaker 9 (26:17):
Therefore, I will vote to keep the government open and
not shut it down.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
That was you three times? That was good?

Speaker 3 (26:26):
What's yeah?

Speaker 9 (26:27):
That was in March, John before they had done these
horrible things to healthcare, before they had introduced these recisions
which would allow them to ignore the budget process. When
I was majority leader, we had thirteen times to vote
on a budget.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
Do you know why there was no shutdown.

Speaker 9 (26:44):
We sat and negotiated with the Republicans every time. They
got some things, we got some things. They did not
negotiate at all. Now that they've seen they can't bludgeon us,
they can't roll us. Hopefully they're going to sit down
and negotiate it.

Speaker 3 (26:58):
Except they're not. They're just not. They don't have to.

Speaker 4 (27:01):
The Republicans have the advantage, not just because they have
the majority, but because polling data not great on this
issue either.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
Nope, the American people.

Speaker 10 (27:11):
Are all like, yeah, yet.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
We're not popular. Shutting down the government not a great,
great idea. This is not going the way it's normally
gone right, It just hasn't normally. This is the point
where Republicans are panicking, trying to figure out which sacrificial
lambs are going to have to be the ones to
vote yes to move this bill forward so we can
all go about with our lives now. I did a

(27:34):
little looking One of the big issues, the big sticking
points is the extended Obamacare tax Credit. Meaning people before
COVID had a pretty strict income limit to be part
of the subsidy program for Obamacare, and during COVID they
expanded it dramatically up to one hundred and thirty eight

(27:57):
percent of the poverty level.

Speaker 3 (27:59):
And those people, some of.

Speaker 4 (28:00):
Those people are going to be losing the kind of
subsidies they saw before.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
But why why is it that group of people?

Speaker 4 (28:11):
Because in Colorado that's about one point four percent of
the population. And let's be real, you guys, the subsidies
in Obamacare. That means that you and me and a
Rod and everybody else that is a taxpayer is paying
for your health insurance. That's what a subsidy is. So
at some point, should you have to take on more responsibility?

(28:35):
I would think so, And I think this is part
of a bigger issue for Democrats, and that is what
Obamacare was designed to do from the very beginning, which
was to get us all dependent on the government so
they can move to single payer. We'll talk about that next.
It is really interesting to watch Trump do it in
such a focused manner as to inflict the most pain

(28:58):
on Democrats, specifically because when we went through shutdowns under
President Obama, he tried to make it as painful as
possible for the American people, the intention being that angry
people within flood the offices of Republicans with phone calls
telling them to capitulate and get the government back open will.
Trump is taking a completely different stance. First of all,

(29:22):
he's canceled eight billion dollars worth of climate change nonsense.
A lot of that was going to come here to
Colorado for various projects. The projects impacted are in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota,

(29:42):
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Vermont,
and Washington.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
Fourteen of those states.

Speaker 4 (29:50):
Are led by Democratic governors. He's also already canceled eighteen
billion dollars in infrastructure projects in New York City, concerned
about the unconstitutional DEI principles that are still being used
in New York. Donald Trump, more than any other president

(30:11):
in my lifetime, understands how to use the power of
the purse, and sometimes I don't like it. I have
not I don't have this on the blog today, but
we're going to talk about this deal that has been
cut with Pfizer. And on the one hand, Pfizer has
agreed to negotiate down drug prices for Medicaid. I believe

(30:32):
for Medicare, but I'm not sure absolutely, but they've done
so and at the behest of Donald Trump in a
way that makes me wildly uncomfortable. Not the Medicaid part,
but he's also gonna they're also gonna sell a bunch
of drugs, you know, at incredibly low prices via a
website that's going to be called Trump Rx, which I hate.

(30:52):
I hate that completely because are they just going to
change the name and they're gonna waste money on rebranding
when he leaves. So in any case, there's times when
Trump does stuff like that, I don't like it. I
don't like price fixing when the government does it, and
if it feels like price fixing, and it looks like
price fixing.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
Then I'm not happy about it.

Speaker 4 (31:10):
But I do like the way he sort of wields
the power of the purse when it comes to getting
states in line, and that's what he's doing here, and
he's doing it mostly to democratic states. Of course, New
York is home to Chuck Schumer, who's driving the bus
on a lot of this. He's also threatened to take
the opportunity of the government shut down to go ahead

(31:33):
and push through cuts in the size of the federal
workforce and not just lay people off timporarily, not just
furlow them, but actually lay them off permanently. Trump on
social media said, I can't believe the radical left Democrats
gave me this unprecedented opportunity. They are not stupid people,
So maybe this is their way of wanting to quietly

(31:54):
and quickly make America great again. I think every time
they think they're going to play Trump, he comes up
with a yeah. I mean, you can't play a player,
and they end up with a short end of the stick.
They just have not figured out a good response.

Speaker 3 (32:08):
The director or.

Speaker 4 (32:10):
The Office of Budget Management has been just slashing and
burning the budget in a multitude of ways. I got
an email from somebody who sends me, you know, pain
in that you know what emails so often, and he's like, oh,
you're so happy that people losing their jobs. I'm like, look,
I'm never happy when someone loses their job in the
sense that.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
I don't want other people to suffer.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
I don't want the now former GM of the Colorado Rockies,
Bill Schmidt to suffer. But boy, am I glad he's
out of that job. And as a small government conservative,
this is what that looks like.

Speaker 11 (32:42):
It is.

Speaker 4 (32:43):
But but here's my belief My belief system says that
when you stop sucking so much money out of the
private economy in the United States of America, and you
bring government back into some semblance of reality in terms
of what they're actually doing and what they're what they're
spending every year, then we unleash the private econ I mean,
all of these people that are suffering from a job

(33:03):
loss right now have better opportunities in the big bad
world where they're not just working in an organization.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
That doesn't produce anything or provide.

Speaker 4 (33:12):
A service that has value other than you know, paperwork,
and we grow the whole economy together.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
So yeah, I'm sorry that people are going to be
losing their jobs. I really am.

Speaker 4 (33:24):
But I honestly can't believe that the Democrats looked at
this and said, no, we're going to go here, We're
going to do this. We'll find out what happens on Friday.
I was looking up to try and figure out who
the sacrificial lambs were going to be. There's only two
Democrats in the Senate that are in states that have
ever been won by Trump, either in twenty sixteen or
twenty twenty four, that are not up for re election

(33:46):
for four more years. That's really your prime, really great.
That would be an amazing sacrificial lamb to vote to
move this thing through because.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
Voters will forget by then. It's just true. But now
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (33:58):
We'll have to see who the other ones are when
we get back. Have you ever seen something on the
Internet and you just you it touched your heart. I
gotta talk about this, kid read We'll do that next.

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into the other stuff I just mentioned.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
But I forgot that Kenzie George is coming on the show.

Speaker 4 (34:44):
Kenzie is the the creator, the woman behind the scenes
of a Really it just looks so fun. I just
told her off the air, this is one of those
things I have been dying to come to, but I'm
always out of town on the weekend of the nineteen
forties ball.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
But now we're.

Speaker 4 (35:00):
Getting ahead of it because we're talking about it. Tickets
are already on sale for next June. Kenzie, welcome to
the show.

Speaker 13 (35:06):
First of all, thank you so much, Mandy.

Speaker 10 (35:10):
It's such an honor to be here. Thank you for
having us.

Speaker 4 (35:12):
Now I have to ask you, See, I'm looking at
you right now. You are a young woman, and yet
you have taken it upon yourself to create or recreate
a nineteen forties World War Two kind of style ball,
complete with big band music and all that good stuff.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
How did this happen?

Speaker 10 (35:31):
Oh? Boy, so many years ago, eighteen years ago.

Speaker 13 (35:35):
Actually, I was working at the Boulder Airport at a
flight school and they had this amazing hanger and I'd
always wanted to do a fundraiser. I work with a
lot of nonprofits, and I wanted to do a fundraiser
in the hangar. And combining that with my childhood, I
grew up with my grandparents raising me, and they were

(35:57):
radio performers right in the nineteen four parties. They were
My grandmother was a singer and my grandfather was a
sports announcer at a radio station WCDL in Pennsylvania. And
they met at their radio station and they were very
into music and arts and culture growing up.

Speaker 10 (36:16):
And so they raised me around a.

Speaker 13 (36:17):
Lot of civic activities and around a lot of music
and a lot of parties at their house.

Speaker 10 (36:23):
And so I just grew to really love that environment,
and I.

Speaker 13 (36:28):
Really wanted to have a cool Christmas and nineteen forties
and fifties theme party in this hangar.

Speaker 10 (36:36):
And one thing led to another.

Speaker 13 (36:38):
I met a lot of people involved with different cultural activities,
vintage things and collectors of World War.

Speaker 10 (36:45):
Two vehicles and planes, and.

Speaker 13 (36:49):
Everything just sort of came together and we had our
first nineteen forties ball at that hanger eighteen years ago, and.

Speaker 4 (36:55):
Now it's like an annual thing, and I have to
tell it looks like from the pictures in the videos
that you can see online, it looks like the people
who are going.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
To the nineteen forties ball.

Speaker 4 (37:05):
They get the memo right, they understand the assignment, and
they come with appropriate hair and dresses and it just
looks so much fun.

Speaker 10 (37:14):
They are amazing the the tinies they come to this.

Speaker 13 (37:16):
I'm always gobsmacked by how authentic their costumes are and
their hair, because this is not an easy look to
put together get in comparison to you know, we can
find things a lot easier nowadays to be on trend,
but to get an authentic nineteen forties look, you have
to really search because the sizings.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
A little off.

Speaker 10 (37:38):
Yeah, yeah, so you have to really search.

Speaker 13 (37:42):
You have to find something that feels right and fits.
And this is not a short event. This is an
eight hour event. So people come in the middle of
the day in the summer, and we always tell people
to make sure to bring in a comfortable pair of
shoes because we are at an airport, right and the
gravel and all sorts of weird stuff out there at
the airport, and you know, we just we make sure

(38:04):
people are comfortable.

Speaker 10 (38:05):
But they do dress up.

Speaker 13 (38:06):
They wear these incredible outfits, and they put so much
time and attention into the details, like everything from a
gorgeous hat that's literally eighty years old, or that was
their grandmother's hat or their grandfather's uniform from World War Two.
And it's just amazing to see what folks put together
in the time they do.

Speaker 10 (38:24):
Put into it.

Speaker 4 (38:25):
What are some what are the age ranges here? Who
comes to this event in terms of the demographic, So.

Speaker 13 (38:30):
That's really interesting too, because when it first started, I
was going to like the Elks Club and like the
senior kind of places to be.

Speaker 10 (38:38):
Like, come to this ball, You'll have so much fun dancing.
I literally would goes it.

Speaker 13 (38:42):
At the dinners and invite people, and then the swing dancers,
of course, I'd go to the Mercury Cafe and put
little flyers on the cars of the swing dancers. So
it started out as really just swing dancers and sens
and then it started to get the words started to
get out, and the demographic really changed, and now I

(39:03):
would say the majority of people that attend are just
really nostalgic about their grandparents' era. They want a date
night out that's unique and has classic music or there
they love the romance of the era, or their husband
loves the historical aspects of the era. So I always
say it's a place where romantics and people who love

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history can unite.

Speaker 10 (39:27):
That is really what it is.

Speaker 4 (39:28):
It's a giant nerd party. It's a giant nerd party.
You can call it what they're just nerds.

Speaker 10 (39:35):
Is exactly what it is. I have my husband there
and he's a total nerd.

Speaker 4 (39:38):
Oh that's fantastic. That's wonderful. Well, we're having Kinsey on
today because you guys have already started selling tickets. Now,
I do know that this sells out most of the time,
so it's like, if you want to go, you may
as well just go ahead and buy your tickets. When
is the event next June?

Speaker 10 (39:54):
So it's it's on June twentieth.

Speaker 13 (39:56):
It's always Father's Day, the Saturday of Father's Day weekend,
and you're all on the twentieth of June.

Speaker 4 (40:01):
Okay, So how much your tickets and what exactly what
is the entire experience?

Speaker 3 (40:05):
Like, walk me through that.

Speaker 10 (40:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (40:08):
So when people arrive, we have everybody park right at
the airport on the lots around the airport. They walk
into the front gates and it's literally like walking into
another world, like taking a time machine and stepping into
a different era.

Speaker 10 (40:22):
I mean, we are purest to the.

Speaker 13 (40:25):
Details that we put into the authenticity of everything. We
have the World War two planes there that are on
point with the outfits, and we have these photo setups
where people can like pose with their husband or their
partner or their friends in front of these World War
two planes. And then we have a real authentic World

(40:47):
War two base camp with living history re enactors that
will tell you about what they were doing in World
War Two. We have the Tenth Mountain Division that's out
there and they bring artifacts that the gentlemen that we're
in World War two use to train up at the
Ville Resorts and they have their actual skis and they'll
tell people the history of the Colorado Ski Resorts and

(41:09):
how that was originally where these gentlemen trained for World
War Two.

Speaker 10 (41:14):
It's just the history there.

Speaker 13 (41:15):
Is absolutely fascinating. Planes are flying overhead. We actually have
World War two planes.

Speaker 10 (41:20):
We have a Mustang let. These guys love it.

Speaker 13 (41:22):
These guys who fly these planes and collect them, they
just they're excited to come out.

Speaker 10 (41:27):
We have a guy that brings the DC three Oh
my gosh.

Speaker 4 (41:31):
That is fantastic. So this isn't just hey, come and
dance and dine, and this is like immerse yourself. So
this is like, this is like World War two cosplay.
I mean, is that what we're talking about. To a
certain extent.

Speaker 10 (41:44):
That's one aspect of it.

Speaker 13 (41:46):
And it's interesting because I'm more My husband's the historian
and I'm the cultural person because of my grandparents, and
so I bring the musical element and the dancing element.

Speaker 10 (41:57):
I book all the bands, and we bring in the
Glenmill Orchestra from New York City and they they're.

Speaker 13 (42:02):
Absolutely the best big band of the era and they
still tour. I mean, they've been touring since the forties.
They're incredible. And so they're playing their music and the
songs that everyone knows in the mood is playing and
people are dancing, and the sun is setting with these
red and gold hues along the flat irons the rocky

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mountains in the background, because Boulder Airport has this amazing backdrop.

Speaker 10 (42:28):
It's absolutely gorgeous. So that's happening.

Speaker 13 (42:31):
You're dancing, you're hearing Glenville Orchestra, and you're surrounded by
these planes and.

Speaker 10 (42:36):
The space camp.

Speaker 13 (42:37):
There's actors portraying different movie stars from the era that
are around and they interact with guests and everybody's dressed
up and it's just it's really a magical night. Oh
and one of my favorite part is the lighting. My
husband's always saying that lighting makes an event. So we're
sticklers for the lighting. And we have these beautiful Vietnamese

(42:59):
lanterns that are all sorts of colors hanging over the
dance floor.

Speaker 10 (43:03):
And it looks just like a movie set.

Speaker 13 (43:04):
It's really really magical to hear and see and feel
all of that.

Speaker 4 (43:09):
This sounds I mean, do people if they just want
to wear like normal nice clothes, do they have to
lean into the vibe or can they just show up
in their Sunday best or whatever and you know, not
necessarily on theme.

Speaker 10 (43:20):
Well, we try to encourage people. We always send out
a little no before you go and give.

Speaker 13 (43:25):
People tips on how to dress, even if it's just
wear your modern dress with some with a hair flower
and some gloves or a fascinator, just to kind of
connect the dots with like here's here's something that will work,
because a lot of modern dresses work.

Speaker 10 (43:40):
It's all about the accessories.

Speaker 13 (43:41):
But no, we will never turn anybody away that wants
to wear their Sunday best and doesn't have any sort of.

Speaker 10 (43:47):
Accouterments that could work for the forties.

Speaker 4 (43:50):
Kensey George, I've put a link on the blog again.
The event isn't until next June, but the early bird
tickets are on sale, so if you really want to
make sure you're gonna go, because there have been a
couple times where I looked and it was already sold out,
so I was like, well, dangea, but you have a chance.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
Kenzie.

Speaker 4 (44:05):
This just sounds so so so incredibly good. And if
I am in this country in June of next year,
I am coming to this event, so fingers crossed.

Speaker 10 (44:15):
Can Mandy will give you the best seats in the house. Yah,
all right, I'd love to see you.

Speaker 4 (44:20):
Well, I think it's it just sounds like an absolute blast.
And we'll talk again before to remind people or maybe
as the event gets closer, because I just think this
is super cool.

Speaker 10 (44:30):
Thank you, Mandy.

Speaker 13 (44:31):
Yeah, I think I think you really enjoyed it, and
I hope lots of people come to at the tickets
usually sell out about a month or two in advance.

Speaker 10 (44:38):
That's why we get started really early.

Speaker 4 (44:39):
Got it all right, Kensey, George, thank you so much
for your time today.

Speaker 10 (44:43):
Thank you all right.

Speaker 3 (44:45):
You have a good one.

Speaker 4 (44:46):
That just sounds like so much fun, so much fun, Mandy.
This World War Two show sounds amazing. Also, how cool
would this be as an NFL halftime show? I think
it would be cool.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
You know what, I just realized, a rod.

Speaker 4 (45:00):
Next year's super Bowl, the twenty twenty sixth super Bowl,
is going to be in the same year as the Sesquintennial,
the two hundred and fifty anniversary of the United States
of America, And they went with a guy who doesn't
speak English.

Speaker 3 (45:14):
I don't know if that they didn't think that out.

Speaker 4 (45:17):
I hope that our our sessequentennial ends up being as
good as our bi centennial, which was amazing. I remember
being a kid in nineteen seventy six. It was fantastic,
absolutely fantastic. To the guy who said, bomber girls are hot, yep,
they are. I wonder if they have pinup girls at
this you know, cigarettes, cigarellos, the girls who walk around

(45:38):
with the little box, Well, I guess we're probably not
in Bolder.

Speaker 3 (45:40):
They're not getting out cigarettes anyway.

Speaker 4 (45:43):
Now, let's get back to what we were talking about before,
not the shutdown, because I have other things that I
want to talk about instead. There is, unfortunately, there seems
to be a significant uptick in attacks on churches over
the weekend or actually today. In the UK, there has

(46:03):
been a man who launched a terror attack outside of
synagogue on Yam Kapor, it's one of the important holidays
of the Jewish faith.

Speaker 8 (46:12):
And.

Speaker 4 (46:14):
Two were killed, and Kure Starmer, I generally don't weigh
in on the leadership of other nations unless you're a
straight up dictator, right unless you're like Kim Jong un,
in which case I feel like you're fair kid. But
if you're a duly elected president or prime minister or

(46:34):
whatever of another country, I have to assume that as
a non resident of that country, I'm going to have
to assume that the population made the best choice that
they could make, right that they Well, the prime minister's
role is a little bit different in the UK, and
so I feel like it's okay to criticize, especially when
they're doing a terrible job, and Kure Starmer is doing

(46:58):
a terrible, terrible job. Kir Starmer said they attacked Jews
because they were Jews. Okay, great, who attacked the Jews
who attacked them? Kure Stormer is one of the and
I'm putting air quotes leaders that decided to recognize the
Palestinian state. And here Stormers overseen some really sinister Well, no,

(47:24):
I take that back. He was in an office when
a lot of the stuff I'm about to reference happened.
The UK has been so hell bent on not appearing
to be racist at all that not only have they
given immigrants preferential treatment in the courts to the extent
of letting people get away with rape because culturally they

(47:48):
didn't know that they could force a woman to have
sex with them. Culturally, they've let rapists walk free for that.
They ignored a ton of evidence that there was a
ring of Pakistani men who were grooming and sexually abusing
young girls. And when I say girls, I mean dozens
and dozens and dozens and dozens of girls. So the

(48:13):
UK does not have a great track record when it
comes to standing up to immigrants who don't share their
value system. And so I would love to hear Kier
Stormer say they attack Jews because Islamist hate Jewish people.
They attack Jews because we've allowed people to chant globalize

(48:33):
the Intafada in the streets of the UK, just like
we have in the United States.

Speaker 3 (48:39):
That's what that means. By the way, all of these college.

Speaker 4 (48:42):
Students walking around chanting globalize the Intofada may not realize
that they're calling for attacks on Jews where Jews will die,
but that's exactly what.

Speaker 3 (48:51):
They're they're calling for. Go look it up, use the Google.
It's all there.

Speaker 4 (48:58):
And I'm talking about the actual Intovada is what they were,
what they're referencing when they say globalize the Intvada. They'll
try and tell you it's it's just resistance. But the
actual Intovadas were periods of violence where they sent Palestinian
suicide bombers into things like pizza parlors so they could
just blow up people who were just sitting and having dinner.

(49:19):
While we're on this subject, I want to bring in
a conversation between Barry Weiss of The Free Press and
Leland Vinnert of News Nation.

Speaker 3 (49:29):
Leland went to.

Speaker 4 (49:31):
Gaza to report on things in Gaza, and he had
an experience where he was looking to interview a Palestinian
woman whose life had been saved by Israeli doctors, which
happens all the time, by the way, and I want
to play this for you. It's three minutes and twenty
eight seconds long. I want you to hear what happened
twenty twelve.

Speaker 3 (49:49):
I'm a foreign correspondent for Foxton.

Speaker 6 (49:51):
You know, normally you're when you're based in Jerusalem, you're
covering suicide bombings, You're covering protests in the West Bank,
riots in the West Bank, on and on and on.
Because of the Arab Spring, I really hadn't spent that
much time in Israel, and the Palestine Israeli conflict was
not a thing in those years. There's been a couple
of Gaza skirmishes, but there was the Glad Shalite deal,
where there was an Israeli soldier who had been held

(50:12):
hostage and traded from Gaza to Israel for a thousand
gods and prisoners, including Sinhwar and including a woman named Waffa.
And Wafa had been a woman in the West Bank
or woman in Gaza. She had pulled a pot of
boiling water over herself when she was like five or
six years old. The Israelis treat most of the people

(50:34):
out of Gas who have really horrific burns, catastrophic medical injuries.
She goes back to Gaza after being treated for four
or five years in Israel, but has a pass to
get in and out of Israel, which very few people
in Gaza did at the time. So she gets recruited
to be a suicide bomber. This is in the second
into Fada, so mid two thousands, and there's the video

(50:59):
of her coming to the checkpoint to get into Israel
wearing her suicide vest. And she'd been given three target
options by the Alaskar Martyrs Brigade, a bus, a cafe,
or the hospital that had treated her and saved her life.
She chose the hospital that had treated her and saved
her life. She gets to the checkpoint, they discover that

(51:21):
she has a bomb, or they think she does. She
tries to detonate it, it doesn't go off. She gets thrown
in jail again. The Israeli's treat her, they help her
with her burns, they educate her, they give her a
college degree, and now in the Gladually deal, she goes
back to Gaza. So I go to Gaza to interview her,
thinking this is going to be a redemption story. It
was before Christmas, right that she is going to say,

(51:42):
perfect Christmas, I am going to be the one to
try and forge peace. And I believe in peace. And
I've seen that the Israelis are not evil, that I
don't want to kill them anymore. Fine, So I get
into Gaza and I bring with me an iPad that
has the video of her trying to blow herself up.
So we're sitting across from each other like this. She's
wearing a he job in a very junkie dozzen apartment.

(52:07):
It is an awful place in every sense of the word.
And I show her the video and I said, what
are you thinking watching this? She goes, oh, oh, oh,
has all this reaction and she goes oh, she goes,
I'm thinking, I almost tasted paradise. Okay, would you do

(52:31):
it again? Absolutely in a minute, this is my calling
in life.

Speaker 3 (52:38):
Said wait a second.

Speaker 6 (52:39):
These people treated you in all of your burns, they
saved your life. You tried to blow them up, they
still treated you, they educated you, and now you have
a chance at life back here in Gaza, and you'd
want to blow them up?

Speaker 4 (52:56):
And she goes, absolutely, that is Leland Vinnard and Barry
Wise talking about his experience and when I am talking
about the attacks on synagogues, it's time we start talking
about the reality of the mentality of the people in
Gaza and the mentality of the people who have immigrated

(53:19):
into places like Manchester in the UK, who have brought
this ideology with them. That's what globalized the Dafada looks like.
It's not just about attacking people, it's about sharing that
mentality and bringing that mentality with you.

Speaker 3 (53:36):
This is one of the reasons that I am in
full support.

Speaker 4 (53:39):
Of Secretary of State Marco Rubio kicking foreigners out of
the United States if they try to spread this kind
of vitriol and hatred and anti American sentiment, because targeting
someone because of their faith is one of the most
fundamentally Unamerican things that you can do. Religion was protected,

(53:59):
not in the second third fourth the First Amendment. The
right to practice your faith freely is protected in our constitution.

Speaker 3 (54:09):
And you may.

Speaker 4 (54:09):
Practice some wackadoodle faith that I think is stupid. You
may practice Christianity, you may practice Hinduism, you may practice Islam,
and I am going to protect your right and argue
for your right to continue to do so. As long
as you don't try to inflict it on anyone else,
and as long as you don't try to hurt other
people who don't share your viewpoints. So if you've not,

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by the way, that that interview is on the blog today,
and if you have anyone who's still out there running
around supporting Hamas, please send that to them. Because the
level of brainwashing that has gone on and the level
of hatred that the Gosins in the Palestinians feel for Israel,

(54:55):
It's not just because they had a bad day. It's
not just no, it's because it is steeped into every
part of their lives because of Hamas, and frankly because
of the UN.

Speaker 3 (55:05):
You guys, the UN runs.

Speaker 4 (55:07):
Their schools and allows this to be taught on a
daily basis. It's just it's gross. It is really, really gross.
Can we talk about people running cities that well, the
cities that seem to be in trouble have one thing
in common, and you can guess the party of their
leadership will do that next.

Speaker 3 (55:27):
So I got this.

Speaker 4 (55:28):
Text message after talking about that situation in Goza in Israel,
and you guys know how I feel. If you've listened
to the show for any length of time, and I
get this, well, now we know who pays Mandy Connell's checks,
to which I respond, that would be iHeart Media. Anyon
who signs your check?

Speaker 3 (55:44):
Would that be would that be Conall?

Speaker 5 (55:46):
No?

Speaker 4 (55:46):
Would that be Bob Pittman, our CEO. No, I mean
we don't actually get checks anymore. It's all electronically deposited.

Speaker 3 (55:52):
Come on, But I.

Speaker 4 (55:55):
Said back, that would be iHeart Media. And then I
get this. Play this clip on air, then see if
you're listeners are receptive to an alternative viewpoint.

Speaker 3 (56:02):
Otherwise can feel.

Speaker 4 (56:03):
Risk Wait a minute, otherwise it'll be a little too
obvious that you guys are owned by a foreign entity.

Speaker 3 (56:11):
So I thought I would break it down.

Speaker 4 (56:12):
The video that he sent me, by the way, is
a comedian at Turning Point USA talking about Israel and
condemning them for committing genocide against s Pealestinian people. And
here's the thing that this listener may not recognize, and
that is that this is my show and I can
present or not present whatever viewpoints.

Speaker 3 (56:32):
I want to present.

Speaker 4 (56:34):
And from my experience with talking to people who are
living in Israel right now, I think it is an.

Speaker 3 (56:41):
Horrible, awful terrible thing that civilians are being killed in Israel.
I think it's.

Speaker 4 (56:46):
Absolutely awful, But I also know that Israel has probably
done more to avoid civilian casualties than any war fighting
force in the world, to the extent that before or
they go into an area to try and get Hamas
out of their rat tunnels and disarm them and collect
the bodies of the dead hostages that hamas cannot even

(57:10):
release to Israel in the tunnels that are built underneath
hospitals and kindergartens and schools. Just to be clear where
I'm coming from, I believe that Israel in doing things
like telling the Palestinians who are getting attacked by Hamas
where they are either going to or leaving an AID station,

(57:31):
they drop leaflets on the civilian population saying, look, if
you are getting either assaulted on the way back from
an AID station or you're being prevented from going to
an AID station by Amas, let us know and we
will kill them and then you can come and get
AID unfettered. Horrible, horrible, horrible way to commit genocide. And
I am sick to death of being lectured by people

(57:53):
who've never been there, by people who aren't talking to
people like my nephew and his family raising three little
children in a war zone, just like a bunch of
other Israelis are a war they didn't choose, a war
they didn't start, but a war that they finally recognize
has to be finished once and for all, meaning Hamas
must be disarmed and Hamas must not lead the Gaza strip.

(58:15):
Those two things are not negotiable. By the way, Hamas
has effectively turned down the offer of a deal by
the Trump administration which would have required them to give
up their arms and to release the hostages. And let's
be real, little text, little texture person, right now, all

(58:36):
of this would stop right now today if Hamas released
the hostages.

Speaker 3 (58:41):
That's whose side you're on.

Speaker 4 (58:42):
You're on the side of people that use children and
women as human shields, that build bomb launching centers right
next to schools and other places where they know civilians
will be dead. Civilians for them, are not something to
cry over, a phenomenal pr tool that gets people like
you to believe the things that you believe, and you

(59:07):
fell for it. Don't get me wrong, I don't agree
with everything. I'm absolutely certain and will welcome Benjamin Netahu
being bounced out of office as soon as this.

Speaker 3 (59:17):
Is all over.

Speaker 4 (59:19):
But you know, I have a family member who's been
in Israel for about twenty five this years. He's been
at war almost the entire time. Not because Israel keeps
starting a war with Hamas, but because Hamas never stops
firing rockets at Israel. Never do you realize that every
single day, not in wartime, every single day rockets are

(59:42):
fired into part of Israel a Jews every day. You
probably didn't know that because you just started paying attention.
We're dealing with people who've been able to manipulate the media.
And by the way, did anybody else see the headlines
in the New York Times about Hamas turning down the deal? No,
it just disappeared into the ether. It's like, oh, yeah,

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we managed to work out the steal and all the
Arab states are in favor of it. Oh but Hamas,
Oh no, We're just gonna act like it never happened,
because that disrupts the narrative that Hamas wants peace. Ever,
they don't want peace. They want more dead babies. They
want more dead people that they can trot in front
of the cameras. And if they don't have dead people will,
they'll fake being dead. They don't call it Hamas would

(01:00:26):
for nothing. So yeah, I'll pass on trying to prove
something to you. The notion that somehow Israel controls I
art media is so beyond stupid that I'm almost embarrassed
that I have to address it. The notion that anybody
gives me any kind of talking points. Ever, I've had

(01:00:46):
my own show since I don't know, April of two
thousand and five, and the number of times that anyone
has walked into my studio and said anything about anything
that I was saying has been once one time, and
the topic was, well, it was a grocery store and
had let itself go, and that grocery store was owned

(01:01:09):
by Kroger, one of our largest clients. And when I
pointed out that they'd let this grocery store go considerably,
they were not appreciative of that.

Speaker 3 (01:01:17):
My general sales manager came in and.

Speaker 4 (01:01:19):
Said, please stop talking about our biggest client, to which
I responded, did they know that the store had gotten
so bad? If not tell them, I said, You're welcome,
that's how it goes. So then this is one of
my biggest frustrations that there are people in this listening
audience or around the world that think there's some talk
radio cabal where we're all just like like, I'm calling

(01:01:40):
up other people and I'm like, Okay, what's the message
for today?

Speaker 3 (01:01:43):
What are we talking about today? What am I supposed
to say about today?

Speaker 4 (01:01:47):
As if we're all incapable of independent thought that leads
us to the same conclusions because we have a similar
value system. Ugh, it's so so annoyed, so annoyed, that's
me right now, Mandy. Regarding Israel, let's not forget Islam
is a Semitic religion. Their roots are in the Jewish tradition. Oh,

(01:02:10):
they don't care. They don't care because they're victim ideology
and their desire to have an Islam at Califate that
covers the entire world far outstrips any rational thinking.

Speaker 3 (01:02:21):
So there you go.

Speaker 4 (01:02:22):
Now we're gonna get to you the budget really quickly.
There's two stories today, one about Boulder County and this
is from Denver seven.

Speaker 3 (01:02:33):
The headline multi million dollars budget short, false bucks.

Speaker 4 (01:02:37):
Concern among Boulder County community organizations. Denverse seven ask county
leaders how they plan to prioritize cuts as they look
to save thirty to forty million over the next three years. Now,
you guys, in the grand scheme of a city budget,
thirty to forty million over three years is not that
much money. It's a good chunk if you're just like, yeah,

(01:03:00):
I don't have forty million, But in the grand scheme
of a budget, it's not like a you know, it's
not a horrible situation to be in. But what this
story does, and maybe Denver seven has covered this in
a prior story and I did not see it, that's
altogether possible. But in this story they never say, why
do we have so much less revenue than we had before?

(01:03:23):
And the answer, I'm pretty sure is the same reason
that Denver is facing a budget shortfall. Because both of
those situations feel like they used money that was supposed
to be one time money, ARPA funds or whatever from
the federal government that they were assuming we're going to
be in all the time thing, and now that recisions

(01:03:44):
have cut that quote one time spending out of the
federal budget, both City of Boulder and the City of
Denver have overspent by committing money they did not have
as a secure income stream to things that require more funding.
That is my guess, and again maybe Denver. Denver seven
covered that in a prior story, they did not cover
it at all in this one when they oh lol,

(01:04:07):
there is a talk radio cabal, you angry lady, A
complete MSM cabal controlling the narrative, paid paid for by
you guess too. Okay, okay, you know what you got me?
Hey Rod, can you go ahead and scoop up my
big pile of Israeli gold and we'll just call it
a day. This guy's onto us. He knows, yeah, he knows,

(01:04:28):
he knows.

Speaker 3 (01:04:28):
What's up? You caught me, sir? Yep, yeah, that was mine.

Speaker 4 (01:04:34):
No more free bagels for us, hey Rod, this guy's
onto us.

Speaker 3 (01:04:38):
We're gonna have to pay our own freight. Dang it, Denver.

Speaker 4 (01:04:42):
Even broker in Boulder County, Oh yeah, And the Common
Sense Institute did a stellar analysis of this came out
in the mid September, and I missed it somehow, But
I won't let that happen again.

Speaker 3 (01:04:55):
Over the summer.

Speaker 4 (01:04:56):
It says the city of Denver has been a secondary
focus budget woes alongside the state of Colorado. The city
has projected a two year budget deficit between twenty twenty
five and twenty twenty six, amounting to two hundred and
fifty million dollars resulting in layoffs across city departments that
have yet to be announced. They have been announced now,
these accidents, these accidents, these actions proceeded a proposal from

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the city for a nine hundred and fifty million dollar
bond package, which was approved by the Denver City Council,
will be submitted to voters in November of this year.
So the Common Sense Institute did a deep dive and
they say, simply put, the City of Denver has been
spending more money in total and more money per person

(01:05:41):
than it has been collecting in taxes. As previous CSI
reporting has shown, Denver's taxable sales have been shrinking. Taxable
sales in twenty twenty four dollars adjusted for inflation and
population in Denver fell two point five percent from twenty
one point eight billion in twenty twenty three to twenty
one one point three billion in twenty twenty four. Now

(01:06:03):
that's a pretty significant difference, but that's not all the problem.

Speaker 3 (01:06:07):
Listen to this.

Speaker 4 (01:06:09):
Denver's real expenditures.

Speaker 3 (01:06:11):
Per resident.

Speaker 4 (01:06:14):
Grew wait for it, fifty one percent in the past decade.
At the same time, real revenue per person only grew
at thirty percent. The City of Denver's real spending rose
at a sixty seven percent faster rate than revenues. Between
twenty fifteen and twenty twenty four, real revenue rose forty percent,

(01:06:36):
real spending rose sixty percent. The number of jobs in
the City of Denver has risen twenty point six percent
between fourteen and twenty three. This tracks with non government jobs,
which rose twenty percent between fifteen and twenty four. Denver's
capital outlet expenditure surge over one thousand, one hundred and

(01:06:58):
seventy four percent. Airport construction and the renovation of the
sixteenth Street Mall, among other projects, were prioritized.

Speaker 3 (01:07:06):
During this time.

Speaker 4 (01:07:08):
Health spending grew from three percent of Denver spending to
six percent. Health costs grew two hundred percent, from eighty
two million to two hundred and forty six million. Denver
and Moulder and Colorado have a spending problem, not an
income problem. They should be able to manage this stuff

(01:07:30):
without the freak out and without having two hundred.

Speaker 3 (01:07:32):
And fifty million dollars short.

Speaker 4 (01:07:35):
We all know what's gone on in the city, and
we all know how much money was spent in the
city of Denver being a welcoming place. So what did
we get for that? Well, we got a huge chunk
of illegal immigrants.

Speaker 3 (01:07:48):
Oh yeah, tons, we're number.

Speaker 4 (01:07:51):
Four in the nation for where illegal immigrants went when
they came to the United States. Now, this is just
the people that had some kind of cost intact with
border enforcement, and we know there's probably way more than
that out there. But Colorado got a lot of immigrants.
You may remember we welcome divercrants. We're a welcoming city,

(01:08:13):
but nobody said we're a welcoming city. And oh, by
the way, are we going to spend two hundred and
fifty million dollars on homelessness and immigrants?

Speaker 3 (01:08:19):
Because that's what we did.

Speaker 4 (01:08:21):
Maybe not two hundred and fifty million dollars, that's that's
numbers too high. Salt Lake City, Denver and Fort Myers,
Miami was number one, by the way for immigrants coming
across the southern border.

Speaker 3 (01:08:37):
So Denver's did a great job spending money.

Speaker 4 (01:08:39):
They don't have spending it on initiatives that don't solve
the larger problem. But I'm sure with nine hundred and
fifty million more dollars in a bond. You're it's going
to be fine, you guys, Everything is going to be solved.
Everything's going to be okay. Don't worry about it.

Speaker 3 (01:08:58):
Just move along.

Speaker 4 (01:08:59):
They've got it. You don't need to pay attention. You
really do, you really, really really do. Although Denver has
expanded its population, the Common Sense Institute continues the increase
in spending cannot be attributed to population growth. Denver's population
grew six point eight percent from twenty fifteen to twenty
twenty four, but revenue grew thirty one percent, but spending

(01:09:25):
grew fifty percent. You're starting to see a trend, right,
We've got more people, but we're not bringing in enough money.
But we're continuing to spend more than we have. Spending
per resident is nine point three percent higher than revenue
per resident in the city of Denver. How do you
make that work long term? You don't, that's the trick.

(01:09:46):
But I do believe that a lot of these blue
state cities and states firmly believe that when Democrats take
control again, they're going to get a bailout, and so
they're just going to keep spending themselves into oblivion and
hoping someone else is there to pick up the pieces.

Speaker 3 (01:10:00):
I gotta tell you, I'm gonna vote no on that.

Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
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Speaker 4 (01:10:30):
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hand the station over to KOA Sports. In the meantime,
though a Rod, it's time to cancel your Netflix membership.

Speaker 3 (01:10:46):
It's truly no.

Speaker 4 (01:10:48):
Well, there's a big push right now. And I didn't
know what the kerfuffle was about. I saw some whatnot yesterday.
Yesterday I had one of those days. I had one
of your days. I had a day that started when
I left my house at like and I pulled back
into my driveway last night at like seven thirty.

Speaker 3 (01:11:04):
So I had an a Rod day. I had a
couple hours and you're right there. I did.

Speaker 4 (01:11:08):
I went and gave a speech yesterday morning, I came
here and did the show. Then I went to the
Independence Institute where we filmed two versions of the Mandy
and dev Show. You can find that ITV on YouTube.
And then I got home last night and I saw
some of the kerfuffle about Elon Musk is going after Netflix,
and I was like, what the heck did Netflix do
to Elon Musk? But Elon Musk has has gotten way

(01:11:30):
more vocal about things that have to do with teaching
little children about gender identity and gender ideology.

Speaker 3 (01:11:38):
And I had no idea.

Speaker 4 (01:11:41):
I mean, my daughter is older now, so we don't
watch the kids shows anymore on Netflix, but they have
several shows and they lips of TikTok actually grabbed this
particular sound bite. There's a scene from a movie on
Netflix called Strawberry Shortcake and the Beast of Berry bah
So what does this.

Speaker 3 (01:12:01):
Whole little scene say. Well, let's listen to it. It's
about thirty three seconds.

Speaker 4 (01:12:05):
Let's see what they're teaching little children with is adorable
animated special Strawberry Shortcake and the Beast of Berry Bog.
Here's what it sounds like.

Speaker 14 (01:12:15):
Oh it's time for for rifefull what a one? Welcome
to your crash course in holiday self repress.

Speaker 4 (01:12:25):
Now I'm gonna stop you here because what you can't
see is a little boy who has swirled around and
now appears in a dress. He's wearing a full get up,
kind of a little Audrey Hepburn looking number like a
leopard frint skirt, little black tops, some gloves, flats.

Speaker 3 (01:12:44):
But I'll let them continue.

Speaker 2 (01:12:46):
Look amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:12:48):
But what does this have to do with fright fall?
Hello for right ball costumes?

Speaker 14 (01:12:55):
Dressing up and your look doesn't need to be scary.
See honey, be lightly stressed for my bathe movie practice
at Mulberry's.

Speaker 3 (01:13:04):
It's perfect, It's lawless.

Speaker 4 (01:13:09):
So that is just a little snippet of what Netflix
is doing. And I have a response on the blog
today and I can't play it. I do think she
has like one curse word in here. So I follow
this woman, Becky Weise. I think Becky is a transman,
but I don't think Becky like makes a big issue
out of it. Very very masculine presenting female, That's what

(01:13:30):
I would say. And Becky is all about letting you
understand that if you don't want your kids to be
exposed to messaging about gender identity and orientation, you are
doing just fine, because we have no business talking to
little children about their sexual orientation or their gender identity.

(01:13:53):
I saw somebody on Twitter and it struck me this
is the most accurate way.

Speaker 3 (01:13:58):
To look at all of this stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:14:00):
Why are we talking to children who are waiting for
Santa Claus to come and telling them that they can
change their gender.

Speaker 3 (01:14:09):
I mean, we're talking to a vulneral.

Speaker 4 (01:14:11):
Population who are very capable of believing things that are
not true, and we are seeding them with information that
leads to me down a path that could be really,
really challenging and difficult for the rest of their lives.

Speaker 3 (01:14:26):
And I agree.

Speaker 4 (01:14:28):
I also think that it's ridiculous to ask children in
elementary school what their sexual orientation is. I mean, you guys, now,
we're just sexualizing kids. And that's the point Becky Weiss makes.
But Netflix is now allegedly facing a huge boycott. People
are posting on social media that they've canceled their Netflix account,

(01:14:49):
and I don't know if this is going to have
any real impact, but I do think it's kind of
sad that we're at a point now where we've gone
from children's shows that teach you about sharing and managing
your emotions and being kind into Hey, don't I look fabulous.

Speaker 3 (01:15:06):
In this dress? Fabulous in this dress?

Speaker 4 (01:15:09):
I mean, there are little boys who like to wear
girls costumes, and you know what, I don't care. When
my daughter was little, she wanted to be a ninja turtle.
I didn't say, Wow, you can't be a ninja turtle
because you're a girl. What I said is, you can
dress up as a ninja turtle.

Speaker 3 (01:15:23):
Let's go.

Speaker 4 (01:15:24):
But in expressly showing a little boy in a dress,
that is a message, and it's a purposeful message, and
it's an unnecessary message. It's not in the name of inclusivity.
It's very easy to teach kids how to be kind,
not just to gay people, not just to people who
present differently. You teach kids to be kind by telling them, Look,

(01:15:46):
if someone's different than you, that's no reason not to
be kind. And it doesn't matter if they're different than
you then because of their skin color, or maybe they
have a different accent, or maybe they eat different food,
or maybe they smell bad. Maybe that's why they're different
from you. But there's no reason to not be kind
to them. It costs you nothing. There's lots of ways

(01:16:07):
to teach inclusivity and kindness that don't involve sort of
pushing that subtle ideology that has gotten out of control.
I have long been a supporter of gay rights. One
like I have was a supporter of gay marriage when
it wasn't cool for me to be a supporter of
gay marriage on the radio. And I had listeners call
and say, Mandy, this is the beginning of a slippery slope.

Speaker 3 (01:16:29):
You have no idea what's coming next.

Speaker 4 (01:16:30):
And I said, look, if that's what's happening, I'm gonna
be the first one to try and sell the alarm.

Speaker 3 (01:16:35):
And I mean that, and this just it's too much.

Speaker 4 (01:16:40):
But but are we done with boycotts? Have we had
enough of the boycotting?

Speaker 3 (01:16:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:16:44):
I'm exhausted from it all. I'm gonna be perfectly honest, Mandy,
what do you call a group of trans female superheroes?

Speaker 3 (01:16:53):
AYERI did you hear that question? I did?

Speaker 4 (01:16:56):
X men?

Speaker 3 (01:16:57):
Stop? Wow, get out, that's a good one. Get out.
I like it, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (01:17:03):
All of this anti God, all of this is bad,
and that's why we live in the evil world today.

Speaker 3 (01:17:08):
These people need to wake up. Woke up?

Speaker 4 (01:17:11):
Why Yogi, says Becky Weiss, is a lesbian, not a
trans man. I honestly, at some point I thought she
said something about being trans in one of her videos,
but she just she's a very masculine presenting woman.

Speaker 3 (01:17:23):
But I like her.

Speaker 4 (01:17:25):
Mandy, haven't finished watching all of Wednesday yet, So watch
the rest of Wednesday and then, you know, can't. I've
gotten to the point where I kind of am if
you want to watch your Netflix I don't care.

Speaker 3 (01:17:37):
I really don't.

Speaker 5 (01:17:38):
I mean, isn't there something to be said for Oh,
I don't know the other ninety nine percent of the
projects on Netflix that have nothing to do with this show.
That's kind of where are you know? That are then
being impacted by you canceling? Like, yeah, come on, just
don't watch that show. Don't support that show. You don't
think they have numbers that show how many people stream
certain shows, you know how the chances of that show
being renewed or continuing our now probably pretty low. Yeah,

(01:18:02):
the other shows, the other actors, the other directors, the
other producers, the other cameramen. I'm sorry, don't need to
be impacted by this one show in their decision making.

Speaker 3 (01:18:11):
Amen to that.

Speaker 4 (01:18:12):
This texter said, do we really need to be nice
to people that smell bad. You can be kind even
as you back away breathing.

Speaker 3 (01:18:18):
Through your mouth.

Speaker 4 (01:18:19):
Have you ever seen something when you were scrolling through
the Internet or whatever, and it just struck your heart,
and all of a sudden, you find yourself following this
person you don't know, and you're wildly invested in whatever
it is they're doing. So I've got one of those now.
So there's this kid on Twitter or x.

Speaker 3 (01:18:37):
His name is Reid.

Speaker 4 (01:18:38):
I don't know how old he is, maybe early twenties
at the most. And when I started following him, he
had begun his weight loss journey. He started at five
hundred and sixty seven pounds. Aron, what was your max?
Since you're not there, I'm sure you won't mind sharing.

Speaker 3 (01:18:57):
Now three eighteen Now I'm mad.

Speaker 4 (01:19:00):
And adding on another two hundred and fifty pounds to that, No,
thank you. And this guy's not tall, so he's just massive.
He's massive, and I don't know what he's doing. I
don't care what he's doing. I know he's exercising and
he's eating better. I don't care if he had a
gastric bypass. I don't care if he's using weight loss drug.

(01:19:20):
I don't care, but I am so invested in his
weight loss journey now and right now so may have
twenty May, twenty second to now he's lost eighty four pounds,
so he's in the four hundreds now, you know. And
I was watching it this morning, and honestly, I feel
like he's like one of my own children for no

(01:19:42):
apparent reason. Again, I have no idea why this kid,
because he's so young. I think, you know, you see
someone that is so young and they're in that kind
of physical condition, and honestly, you look at someone like
this and you just see someone in emotional pain. So
I was, am I the only person that has done that?

(01:20:03):
Or if you too, find yourself in a situation where
you're now rooting for a stranger on social media, I'd
love to know because I want to follow them too.
I like to follow people who inspire me, people that
I can cheer for. You know, one of the reasons
I watched the show have you ever watched the show Intervention?

Speaker 5 (01:20:21):
Is that the one that's like the longest is like
super long running, like it's been around forever.

Speaker 4 (01:20:25):
It's been around for a good long bit. I don't
know exactly how long, maybe maybe ten years. So basically
they do this on a premise that they're talking to
people who have addictions, and most of these people are
so strung out on drugs and alcohol and they're just
in the throes of their addiction, and throughout the show,
then they bring the family in and they have an

(01:20:46):
actual intervention and they basically say to the addicts, you know,
you can go to treatment right now. Your whole family
is here to tell you how much they love you,
how much it would mean to them. You can choose
to go to rehab or not. And then there's people
that just say, no, I'm not It's heartbreaking. It's heartbreaking.

Speaker 3 (01:21:02):
But the reason I.

Speaker 4 (01:21:03):
Watch Intervention is because there are people that say, yeah,
I'll go, and then they do an update, and then
the update, I'm not gonna lie, you get your heart
broken again. Sometimes on the update it's like, after going
to rehab, Kevin checked himself out after three and a
half months and was last seen living under a bridge, and.

Speaker 3 (01:21:19):
You're like, no, Kevin, no, don't do it. But that's
how I feel like.

Speaker 4 (01:21:25):
I want this kid to succeed so badly. I love
I want him to get this done. I want the
people on intervention to stay sober.

Speaker 5 (01:21:34):
You're like me and this is not as serious. But
on Bar Rescue, oh oh when they rescue this amazing
and they do this amazing concept in this great new
bar and oh my god, the future and then they
do the slates at the end of the episode.

Speaker 3 (01:21:47):
It didn't work out.

Speaker 5 (01:21:49):
They lasted six months, it's all over, or they reverted
back to their old theme that sucked.

Speaker 3 (01:21:53):
Yaby closed, Yeah, game over.

Speaker 6 (01:21:56):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:21:56):
I look up all of those places online when I
watch Bar Rescue. They did one in my hometown that
has been opened for like twenty five years. It was
called fish Heads, then it was Fishtails, and.

Speaker 3 (01:22:06):
It was just like a It was like.

Speaker 4 (01:22:07):
A little fried seafood joint with beer and TVs.

Speaker 3 (01:22:11):
And stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (01:22:12):
No big woop, but the food was amazing. But it's
changed hands so many times, and I just looked up
and the reviews are not good, not good at all.
So yeah, I mean, but the change they absolutely play
on our emotions. They know that we're gonna be rooting
for this. Mandy at my biggest I was three twenty five.

(01:22:32):
I'm at two o seven as of this morning. Just
cut out sweets and start eating right A guy like this,
A guy like this kid.

Speaker 3 (01:22:40):
Read on on X.

Speaker 4 (01:22:42):
You do not get to five hundred and seventy six
pounds by just eating too much. You there is like
there's an emotional burden there. Something happened there that rarely right.
That food has become trauma in and of itself. And
I appreciate this, by the way, and I do think that.
You know, obviously, eating well and cutting out sugar is

(01:23:04):
a huge part of losing weight.

Speaker 3 (01:23:07):
Mandy, where's a rod at now?

Speaker 4 (01:23:09):
I was two forty four two years ago, and I
weigh and rite down my weight every morning. Oh my god,
I would never do that. And this morning I was
at one seventy three. Struggling with your weight sucks. And
I've seen that young man too, darn tutin.

Speaker 3 (01:23:25):
The last testture, I lost one hundred and I keep it.
I keep it off. So I like to float around
two fifteen.

Speaker 4 (01:23:29):
You you and your wife or you guys are on
top of things though, like you never you never not
pay attention, Oh yeah, all time. Yeah, And that's important, Mandy.
You have a whole audience invested in you.

Speaker 3 (01:23:40):
Lol.

Speaker 4 (01:23:41):
I mean in that state, people are rooting for me
like that, that would be amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:23:45):
I would love that.

Speaker 4 (01:23:48):
This texter reminds us Dragon you social media to hold
himself accountable for his weight loss. Dragon's whole weight loss
journey is incredible.

Speaker 5 (01:23:55):
Every single day across at least one of the social channels,
he posts a video of him working out.

Speaker 4 (01:24:00):
On his vacation Inaca. You guys, that's ridiculous. Wait a minute,
Wait a minute, a rod.

Speaker 2 (01:24:04):
They came in.

Speaker 4 (01:24:05):
He and his wife flew in on a different flight.
Their flight was delayed.

Speaker 3 (01:24:09):
They didn't get to the.

Speaker 4 (01:24:10):
Hotel after a twenty hour flight until like.

Speaker 3 (01:24:15):
Midnight. Wait a twenty hour flight.

Speaker 4 (01:24:17):
Yeah, it's too Korea. It's not a twenty hour flight,
but twenty hours of travel.

Speaker 5 (01:24:21):
Oh well, then twenty hours of travel. I was gonna say,
that's almost twenty four hours. He may not have gotten
workout video within twenty four hours.

Speaker 4 (01:24:27):
He did before he left his house boy, and then
the next morning when he got up in Korea, he
got up at like five o'clock in the morning, went
down to the gym in the hotel and worked out
so he could sign in at eight.

Speaker 5 (01:24:36):
With the restaurant. Break a breather, man. I know he mean,
we commend him, but Damn.

Speaker 3 (01:24:42):
I admire the.

Speaker 4 (01:24:42):
Heck out of his absolute dedication. I just I think
that's incredible. Anyway, send me who else I need to
follow if I want to be inspired this person. I
lost fifteen pounds by getting sober five months ago.

Speaker 3 (01:24:53):
Do you know what I found when I.

Speaker 4 (01:24:54):
Was in my twenties when I would quit drinking. It
wasn't necessarily the drinking. It was the whole pizza after
the drinking. That is the problem. Yeah, for me, it's
the drinking.

Speaker 1 (01:25:05):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:25:05):
But see for me, I drink beverages that have almost
no calories. I mean in the grand scheme of alcoholic beverages, right,
I started drinking martinis when I was like twenty three
years old.

Speaker 5 (01:25:15):
Yeah, but it's not just the calories though, the alcohol itself.
I have learned in the doses that sometimes I may
be partaking.

Speaker 3 (01:25:24):
Definitely will stall.

Speaker 5 (01:25:26):
Like if I go, let's say, you know, if it's
a Friday, Saturday out with friends, I'm not noticing anything again,
probably still that next like Wednesday or Thursday.

Speaker 3 (01:25:34):
Like that next Wednesday or Thursday.

Speaker 4 (01:25:35):
It knocks you out of fat burning for at least
three or four days, and you get bloated.

Speaker 3 (01:25:39):
It is all that stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:25:41):
So my figured this out because what day was that Saturday?
Friday or Saturday going into the Monday game. No, Sunday,
So it was the day before the biggest bloat thing
from a man.

Speaker 3 (01:25:55):
French fries, as much as I love them, yeah, it's
just a gateful of carbs and salt.

Speaker 5 (01:26:00):
I was just like, why the day before I had
to look my finest before a Broncos game?

Speaker 3 (01:26:05):
Did I have that many French fries?

Speaker 4 (01:26:07):
Okay, so several years ago, gosh, probably had a ten
or twelve years ago. Now, I was watching some reality
show and it was based in California, and one of
the girls on the reality show was a fitness model. Okay,
so she was going to do a fitness shoot and
she this woman had a just like a stone cold
fox fitness body.

Speaker 3 (01:26:27):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:26:28):
She her body was amazing and she was just an
attractive woman overall.

Speaker 3 (01:26:31):
But they showed her the days leading up.

Speaker 4 (01:26:34):
It made me go, well, I'm not ever gonna do
that job because she's literally like, Okay, I had four peanuts,
and I had eighteen glasses of water, and I had
like dry dry you know something, and a pile of
vegetables and that's all she ate for like three days.
So right after the fitness shoot, what do they do.
They walk down the street and she orders a mound

(01:26:54):
of French fries and ate all of them. And when
I say a mound, I mean like five orders of
friends tries and ate every single one of them. They're
one of the most perfect guilty pleasures, a great French fry.

Speaker 3 (01:27:05):
There's it's hard to beat that.

Speaker 5 (01:27:06):
As it be my favorite the wise, it had to
be one of the worst things you could have. I
just why what, Like the worst thing you can have
is a milkshake.

Speaker 4 (01:27:15):
That literally is one of the worst foods you can
put in your body health wise, because normally, when you
eat something sweet, it's gonna get to your stomach. The
stomach ass is gonna go at it. You're not gonna
absorb it until it hits your stomach, giving your body
a little more time to kind of adjust to that spike.

Speaker 3 (01:27:29):
In the insulin. Not a lot of time, but some.

Speaker 4 (01:27:32):
A milkshake is already melted, so it is being absorbed
before it even gets to your stomach, and that sugar
is just flowing into your bloodstream.

Speaker 3 (01:27:40):
So these fries don't do that. Top five any worst
things you can have, Mandy. Alcohol is sugar.

Speaker 4 (01:27:46):
A shot is like a milkshake, depends on what kind
of shots you get. Tequila is not like a milkshake.

Speaker 2 (01:27:51):
No, not at all.

Speaker 3 (01:27:52):
You can definitely definitely indulge, just not with a lot.

Speaker 4 (01:27:57):
You know, somebody told me I suck on the text, Fine, Mandy,
you suck. Okay, with two exclamation points not.

Speaker 5 (01:28:04):
Just feel like an extra exclamation point means it lovingly.

Speaker 4 (01:28:07):
Maybe I'm gonna take it leveling and yeah, I'm gonna
assume positive intent.

Speaker 3 (01:28:10):
Because if they thought you sucked, that they elaborate one
or maybe just one exclamation point.

Speaker 5 (01:28:15):
Or elaborate why you suck. People want to tell you
why people suck?

Speaker 4 (01:28:19):
Oh, trust me, and lots of people have told you,
Yeah why I feel like that's love. Confirm Please text
her this is a great text, Mandy. It's like creating
your own personalized reality show.

Speaker 3 (01:28:27):
And it is.

Speaker 4 (01:28:28):
It is what I don't like. And he's going back
to a conversation we had. If you're just joining with us,
I'm now obsessed with this kid on X. He's got
to be lateeen's early twenties started out weighing over five
hundred pounds and now he's down like four ninety one,
and I am I'm rooting so hard, like he's one
of my children. And one of the things I don't
like is when like women do this on Instagram. I

(01:28:51):
got into this algorithm for a while, and it's a
lot of women who I would almost guarantee you lost
a ton of weight with weight loss drugs, but they're
presenting them as not having used weight loss drugs at all.
And the only reason I think they're using weight loss
drugs is the speed with which they.

Speaker 3 (01:29:06):
Are losing weight.

Speaker 4 (01:29:08):
Even on Sota, which is an extremely structured, great program
where you lose weight very quickly, you're still looking for women.
If you're losing more than an average of three pounds
per week, I'm shocked. That's really where you know, kind
of an average guys, you're gonna lose five pounds, and
these people are losing thirty five pounds in a month,
and you just don't do that by following a diet plan,

(01:29:31):
even as one as good as Sota, right, So, and
now they're giving diet advice, and that's what I don't like.

Speaker 3 (01:29:37):
Now, if you want to come on and say, look.

Speaker 4 (01:29:38):
I've lost all this weight using weight loss drugs and
here's what I did. Then that would be great, that
would be fantastic. You could help other people on weight
loss drugs and you can do that. But that's not
what they're doing. They're I think, being very dishonest. Amanda,
you don't suck, and that's weight one, two, three, four, five,

(01:29:59):
six exclamation points.

Speaker 3 (01:30:01):
Hey, ron, So wait a minute.

Speaker 4 (01:30:02):
If we have two exclamation points for Mandy, you suck,
and then six exclamation points for Mandy, you don't suck,
does that mean that I three times more don't.

Speaker 3 (01:30:12):
Suck than I do suck.

Speaker 5 (01:30:14):
The capitalization of don't, I think, adds an extra couple
bonus points for not suck.

Speaker 4 (01:30:21):
So now we're like maybe ten times of not sucking sucking, right,
hopy this text respond to you swallow. That's not nice, Mandy,
Tequila is the healthiest alcohol. I'm just gonna say this.
I don't think any alcohol could be called healthy. I
know it's the least damaging calarie wise, which is why
when I was younger, when all of my friends were

(01:30:42):
drinking fruity cocktails or some nonsense like that, I was like,
serve me a martini. Let me tell you to be
twenty two and walk in with your friends who are
used to drinking, but like, no, y'all have a martini
and they're.

Speaker 5 (01:30:53):
All like what, Yeah, we've arrived with the problem that
your producer really likes the fruity drinks.

Speaker 3 (01:30:58):
Well, they're delicious, That's why they are. They're so good.

Speaker 5 (01:31:02):
They are, And I learned the hard way a few
weekends ago. You definitely can't have too many of the
seltzer that I like because holy bloat. Lord, Oh that's
just gas. Oh that hurts, so get some gas x
I Oh I did immediately. Yeah, night of Yeah, they
are so good. I was like, oh, I should not
have drinkn that many. Yeah, learn, Alie, Ali ouch and learn.

Speaker 4 (01:31:25):
Mandy, can you get the boy losing weight on your
show to show your support? I am. I'm gonna reach
out to him. I'm gonna let him get a little further.
I don't want to disrupt anything because he's on a
roll and I just want to let him get a
little further, and then I'm gonna have him on the show.
I don't want to. I don't want to jinx him.
I don't want to give him the yips, you know
what I mean? Hey, Mandy, I lost one hundred and

(01:31:45):
fifty pounds. I got divorced. Yeah, Mandy, you definitely don't suck.
Although your new Christmas light commercial makes me wish for
cards forgets commercials saying my friend dresser.

Speaker 3 (01:31:58):
It's just the very beginning of the commercial when you go, hi, bitch,
that's cold. The funny part.

Speaker 4 (01:32:05):
About this is I heard that commercial today and I
was like, Wow, I did that.

Speaker 3 (01:32:09):
I made that a commercial. I did it. It gets
your attention, though, doesn't it?

Speaker 4 (01:32:15):
Just letting you know, Mandy, every one of the GLP
one shots causes severe ed and men.

Speaker 3 (01:32:20):
I was on ozempic for eight months.

Speaker 4 (01:32:22):
Took one hundred milligrams of sildona phil to offset the ozempic. See,
that's what I hate about pharmaceuticals. Here's a drug to
do this thing. Oh but by the way, this drug
is going to create this problem. But here's another drug
to take care of the problem that the first drug created.
That you were taking to take care of another completely
unrelated problem.

Speaker 3 (01:32:42):
Mandy sucks.

Speaker 4 (01:32:43):
Martini's. That is correct, Although I haven't had a martini
in sometime. Sometimes you just want a martini. Sometimes I
go into a restaurant, We're going to have dinner and like,
tonight is a martini night. But I drink so infrequently
anymore that I haven't had one in a long time.

Speaker 5 (01:32:59):
Are not men any alcoholic beverages I despise martinis If
they're not espresso variety, which aren't martinis, then yeah, I'm
just gonna.

Speaker 3 (01:33:07):
Say, like, let's just be real.

Speaker 4 (01:33:09):
There's an old, old comedy special that, by the way,
still stands the test of time, Dennis Leary's No Cure
for Cancer, And in it he talks about the fact
that when we were young, a rod, when we were kids,
you had Scotch, gin, vodka, bourbon and tequila like you have,
and all of those individually taste terrible, right, They're all awful.

(01:33:31):
They're just horrible tasting by themselves. Well this is but
that's what we learned to drink. And now you've got
like schnops and you get all this other stuff and
all the fruity beverages that are out there, and you can,
you know, have that instead, and people do them really
really well well.

Speaker 3 (01:33:45):
Half the time years truly has been ordering an old fashion.

Speaker 4 (01:33:48):
So that's a classy beverage, Like that's a classy order.

Speaker 3 (01:33:51):
I'm coming around when you walk up and.

Speaker 4 (01:33:53):
Say I'll have a martini or I'll have an old fashion.
Immediately you're signaling I'm a classy guy.

Speaker 5 (01:33:58):
But yet, have I had the experience I've seen so
many others have in their old fashioned timing.

Speaker 3 (01:34:02):
I haven't had the smoke thing yet.

Speaker 4 (01:34:04):
Oh wow, next time you go to Vegas, do it there.
They are everywhere in Vegas. Of course, it'll cost you
thirty five.

Speaker 3 (01:34:09):
Dollars ready to spend. Well, it does.

Speaker 4 (01:34:11):
Look impressive when they bring the glass thing and then
it's all going in there and they pull it off.

Speaker 3 (01:34:15):
There it goes that orange.

Speaker 4 (01:34:17):
WHOA, Mandy, you suck it being your average talk show host.
I'm going to take that as a compliment and just assume,
because we love to assume positive intent on this show,
that you meant I'm better than the average talk show host.
There you go, Mandy, there's a fix for all the
drug problems that you get from having to take so many.

Speaker 3 (01:34:36):
Don't take them.

Speaker 4 (01:34:38):
You know, sometimes medications are necessary, they really are. I
don't hate, you know, all of the drugs. What I
hate is the notion that we have a medical system
that doesn't address the real underlying causes, which for the
most part are bad lifestyle choices for a lot of
this stuff, not all of it. I mean, if you
get cancer, that's you know, I mean lung cancer maybe,
But you know, I love bombay, sapphire straight or in

(01:35:01):
old fashioned with makers. I can do gin, not in
a martini. I have to do a vodka martini.

Speaker 3 (01:35:08):
No vermoves.

Speaker 4 (01:35:08):
I basically just want straight vodka in a glass with
some olive juice.

Speaker 3 (01:35:13):
That's what my martini looks like. Why the hell I
love it. It's so good. Gag, puke, It's so good.

Speaker 4 (01:35:21):
It's the salty to your sweet God, that's what it is.
Gin I can only do with like a Schwepes makes
this stuff that's very popular in Germany. It's called bitter lemon,
and it's like a sprite, only tangier and bitter lemon,
and gin is super good.

Speaker 5 (01:35:36):
There's only one thing I can think of that sounds
worse than that, and that is just straight mescal.

Speaker 4 (01:35:41):
Oh wow, in the bottom of the bottle of mescal
and eating the worm.

Speaker 3 (01:35:47):
I know, and I won't and no, thank you. Mescal
is the worst.

Speaker 4 (01:35:51):
No, I'm just gonna say this, Mescal. When you go
to Mexico and you go to the areas of Mexico
where they make mescal.

Speaker 3 (01:35:57):
They make mescal that is aged the.

Speaker 4 (01:35:59):
Same way bourbon is that you're enjoying in your old
fashion and it is smooth and it doesn't blast your
face off like cheap mescal does, and that is worth
a try at some point the future, just saying.

Speaker 3 (01:36:10):
Cool, cool, cool cool.

Speaker 5 (01:36:11):
Put that aside. What the hell is the tequila? What
is this garbage? No, thank you, that's because you've only
had cheap mescal.

Speaker 3 (01:36:17):
No, no, no, they've tried.

Speaker 5 (01:36:21):
Hekay, he'll say, father this, Suska, where's the tequila?

Speaker 3 (01:36:25):
Mandy?

Speaker 4 (01:36:26):
I had a smoked old fashion at the Broad.

Speaker 3 (01:36:27):
Moor seventy six bucks.

Speaker 5 (01:36:29):
Oh yeah, yeah, bringing on nom in old fashions.

Speaker 3 (01:36:34):
I want the really good ones, because I've had some
good ones.

Speaker 4 (01:36:37):
They have the smoked old fashion at Downtown, at the
Old Saint at the Highest Regency.

Speaker 3 (01:36:40):
There's something for you. Happy that, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (01:36:43):
I'm rooting for the boy, but being that young, I'd
imagine the parents have totally enabled him to get that heavy.
So unless they change their ways, the poor code probably
doesn't stand a chance. I hope I'm wrong, and you
are the best host. Ten exclamation points, so I don't
have to count.

Speaker 3 (01:36:56):
We believe in that guy. I love him. He's it.

Speaker 4 (01:36:58):
Read is my favorite. We're rooting for you, Read, We're
rooting you Mandy. One tequila, two tequila, three tequila floor
not wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:37:07):
I'm a choose my.

Speaker 4 (01:37:08):
Limit drinker now, I'm an choose my limit drinker. If
I drink more than two, I'm either going to embarrass
myself or possibly vomit.

Speaker 3 (01:37:16):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (01:37:18):
And I gotta tell you a rod as I say that,
I can feel the disapproval of twenty five year old
me right.

Speaker 3 (01:37:24):
Now as you should.

Speaker 4 (01:37:25):
I can feel how sad twenty five year old Mandy
is knowing that fifty six year old Mandy can only
have two alcoholic beverages before she almost vomits. I mean,
in my twenties, we were known for sayings like drink
through it, or you can sleep when you're dead, or
such things like that. My dad taught me to drink

(01:37:46):
a gin and bitter. I hope it's gin and bitter women.
That's why my dad taught me as well. Oh my gosh,
have you heard the subway announcements in Germany?

Speaker 3 (01:37:54):
Amazing? I have not.

Speaker 4 (01:37:56):
I mean, I've heard train announcements in Switzerland injured men,
But I have not Southern comfort old fashioned.

Speaker 3 (01:38:04):
Wow, you guys.

Speaker 4 (01:38:06):
I think everyone who's had a drinking history has some
kind of alcohol that they have such bad memories of because.

Speaker 3 (01:38:13):
It made them so violently ill at some point.

Speaker 4 (01:38:16):
Southern Comfort is number one on my list, followed quickly
by a CARDI rum, buzzball?

Speaker 3 (01:38:23):
What is a buzzball? Yeah? What is that?

Speaker 5 (01:38:25):
It's literally just a ball in the shape of a ball.
Sugar of death, terrible headaches, vomiting bad. Where do you
even get that?

Speaker 3 (01:38:36):
Any liquor store.

Speaker 4 (01:38:37):
And it comes in a ball like a Why would
I have a buzzball?

Speaker 5 (01:38:45):
There are small, mini ones and then they sell big ones.
People do like play hot potato with it. What alcohol
is it?

Speaker 3 (01:38:51):
Actually?

Speaker 1 (01:38:51):
Why would?

Speaker 3 (01:38:52):
Why? Why is that a thing I would? I would have.

Speaker 4 (01:38:53):
I am way past the point of drinking to get drunk,
and that feels like a drinking to get drunk thing.

Speaker 3 (01:39:00):
It's tequila. Oh what that's shocking, Mandy. I'm a whiskey
neat guy. Rum is the only liquor that doesn't give
me a hangover? Hello, pina coladas.

Speaker 4 (01:39:10):
My husband, my big, manly burly husband, he loves a
pina colada, and he's not afraid to order one to
be judged by everyone. He doesn't care what you think
about it, Springs Grant. If you're going to have a cocktail,
not a beer, a cocktail and tonic, just welgin no, okay,
because to judge you.

Speaker 3 (01:39:31):
Is probably my favorite.

Speaker 11 (01:39:32):
Yeah, greg or beef eater, Yeah, but yeah, just a
gen and tonic with a lime.

Speaker 3 (01:39:37):
Lately, I've been on a.

Speaker 11 (01:39:39):
Strawberry dacor if I'm not like at the beach.

Speaker 4 (01:39:41):
Or something, well, I mean, beach striks are totally different.

Speaker 3 (01:39:43):
I'm not a post strinks or not. You know.

Speaker 6 (01:39:46):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:39:46):
When I was in Puerto Rico recently, when we were
down there broadcasting from American Financing Space, they're spicy margaritas
at their beach bark like. I can taste it right now.
It was the best spicy margarita I have ever had anywhere,
and it made them.

Speaker 3 (01:40:01):
Show me how to make it.

Speaker 11 (01:40:02):
I had a huckleberry margarita the other weekend.

Speaker 4 (01:40:05):
And I don't even know what huckleberries taste like.

Speaker 11 (01:40:07):
I'm not sure either, but it was a little sour.
It was a little sour, and it was delicious. I
don't think I could have had more than two of
them because they were just a little too sweet. Yep,
but it was so good and my liquor or my
drink that I can never drink again, which this is
going to show the white trash in me, Mad Dog
twenty twenty.

Speaker 4 (01:40:24):
Oh yeah, well, Mad Dog didn't. Never booz Farm made
me sick. Strawberry Hill, I'm looking at you, but not
nearly as sick as Southern comfort, and not nearly as
sick as rum rum mixed with Tahitian treat soft drink.

Speaker 3 (01:40:39):
Just guess how old I was when that happened. You
know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (01:40:42):
It was that of my sophisticated drinking days when that happened.

Speaker 11 (01:40:45):
One of the first times I ever drank at a
friend's party. It was actually their parents' party. I had
a gold schlogger, oh straight, and I remember puking up
the golden gold.

Speaker 3 (01:40:57):
The next day. You're like, was I a strip club
last night? No, I just got golds and our crowd.

Speaker 5 (01:41:02):
Well, no, I just tried my first four loco the
other day.

Speaker 3 (01:41:05):
Man Al, he made me drink one.

Speaker 5 (01:41:06):
Of the first sip was actually not that bad, And
then I tried it kept trying.

Speaker 3 (01:41:10):
I'm like, yeah, this is awful. For like four hours,
You've got that taste in your alcohol away.

Speaker 5 (01:41:16):
It's like an alcoholic monster energy that sat open way
too long.

Speaker 11 (01:41:20):
They're not as They're not nearly as powerful as when
I was in college, did my day good? My day
four locos were legit. Now they just taste bad and
give you a headache.

Speaker 4 (01:41:30):
And now it's I've heard the most exciting segment on
the radio of.

Speaker 3 (01:41:33):
Its gun and the world of that day. All right.

Speaker 4 (01:41:39):
Oh, by the way, a run for your next trip
to Colorado Springs downtown because I know you love it
so much. At the Bloom Cocktail Lounge twenty five dollars
smoked old fashioned.

Speaker 3 (01:41:49):
That place is actually really cool.

Speaker 4 (01:41:50):
Yeah, brand Nose is not impressed with downtown Springs. Should
what is our dad joke of the day?

Speaker 3 (01:41:57):
Please? Why did the blind man fall into the well?

Speaker 5 (01:42:02):
I have no idea because he could not see that well.

Speaker 3 (01:42:10):
Yeah, what's the word of the day please? It's a
non good luck mozurka. Mazurka. Spell that amaz you are ka.

Speaker 11 (01:42:19):
This is actually Mescal's cousin also discussed a mazurka.

Speaker 4 (01:42:25):
My first thought was like a Maszusa because it is
a Jewish holiday, and maybe I thought there was a
coincidence there, But I don't know what a mazurka is.

Speaker 3 (01:42:31):
I have no idea. It was really obscure.

Speaker 5 (01:42:33):
I just want to have one that no one would know,
and you wouldn't a lively polish dance with a moderately
quick triple meter.

Speaker 4 (01:42:39):
That is so weird because I was just about to
ask Grant if he wanted a mazurka with me. Anyway,
we'll do the What is the origin of the word
cookie and I'm assuming they mean cookie on computer?

Speaker 5 (01:42:54):
Well I don't know, But why don't you bake bacon
in the opposite because it makes no sense?

Speaker 2 (01:42:59):
Well?

Speaker 4 (01:42:59):
No, it comes from the Dutch word cook ge, meaning
small cake. Cook G is the diminutive form of the
Dutch word cook or cake.

Speaker 3 (01:43:08):
So there you go. It was talking about actual cook
cook cookies, bake bacon. I'm just there.

Speaker 11 (01:43:12):
You go by the way of a great British bacoff.

Speaker 3 (01:43:15):
Oh there you go. Who's hosting? Now? Didn't one of
them leave?

Speaker 14 (01:43:21):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:43:22):
Well, one of the comedians left.

Speaker 3 (01:43:23):
Okay, that's what I know.

Speaker 11 (01:43:24):
It's this large black lady that's really funny.

Speaker 4 (01:43:27):
She's sassy, she is Okay, there you go, guys. What
is our Jeopardy category?

Speaker 3 (01:43:32):
Place? H Okay?

Speaker 5 (01:43:34):
Every answer starts with let's see h Q, a somewhat
formal word for a bedroom or the area of a
firearm that holds the ammunition.

Speaker 3 (01:43:44):
Mandy, what's the chamber? Correct?

Speaker 2 (01:43:46):
Gosh?

Speaker 5 (01:43:47):
The border between East and West Germany featured Alpha and
Bravo vs as well.

Speaker 3 (01:43:52):
What are checkpoints?

Speaker 5 (01:43:53):
Correct?

Speaker 3 (01:43:54):
Gosh?

Speaker 5 (01:43:55):
On her marriage to Prince Albert in eighteen forty, Queen
Victoria received a twelve hundred and fifty pound wheel of
cheese as a wedding gift.

Speaker 3 (01:44:05):
What was the question?

Speaker 12 (01:44:09):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:44:10):
What is cheddar? On the board of a cheddar?

Speaker 5 (01:44:13):
Rather than presidents, many universities have they what's a chancellor?
A veil or face scream called a yashmak is often
worn in public with this full length garment for Muslim women.

Speaker 3 (01:44:30):
I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 11 (01:44:32):
I'm gonna keep my point even though I'm gonna.

Speaker 3 (01:44:33):
What is a chador?

Speaker 11 (01:44:35):
Chad?

Speaker 3 (01:44:37):
Right?

Speaker 4 (01:44:38):
You never heard of it? Big win for Bandy, Thank
you grant a big win. It was a win. Everybody
went three one. Everyone is a big win when you want.

Speaker 3 (01:44:48):
It to be by the way.

Speaker 11 (01:44:49):
We've got Riley Moss in the first segment.

Speaker 3 (01:44:51):
Very nice, very very nice. That's all coming up next.

Speaker 4 (01:44:55):
We'll be back tomorrow, Big Friday show. I'm thinking we
might do an open line statue yok Day tomorrow, not
the whole show. Not the whole show, but I had
a request and it was so heartfelt and so sweet,
so I might have to honor exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:45:09):
So stick around for KOA Sports. We'll see tomorrow.