10-07-25 FULL SHOW - Two Years And Counting For Israel, And Futurist Thomas Frey

Two years of war started by Hamas two years ago, Futurist Thomas Frey is talking digital clones, and the Supreme Court hears arguments on conversion therapy.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Tuesday edition of the show.
I'm your host for the next three hours, Mandy Connell,
joined of course by my right hand man, Anthony Rodriguez.
He's right over there. And today we went ahead and
we're going to take you right up until three o'clock.
They let us have three hours on the radio station

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and we're going to take advantage of it. I appreciate
the texture who just said, Mandy, I'm reading the blog.
You're missing a headline between the segment on Ralphie five
and the loss of privileges in prison. I have just
made that correction. Texture, Thank you. I appreciate all of
my editors out there because you do uh help me,
because I just generally speaking, am going so fast in

(01:08):
the morning that I don't know if I often miss
stuffy Stop Anthony, stop it. I do I have a
hairball right now?

Speaker 5 (01:21):
Oh no, I'm talking about you always messing with the blog.

Speaker 6 (01:24):
Well, you know they can't all be winners, right, I
mean you're getting most of it.

Speaker 5 (01:28):
We'll find out today from Lance.

Speaker 6 (01:32):
Oh yeah, we'll see. Let's jump in. We'll see what
Nancy has to think about this blog. Find the blog
by going to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com.
Once you get there, head to the latest post section.
Look for the headline that says ten seven twenty five
blog two years in counting for Israel and futurist Thomas Frye.
Click on that and here are the headlines you will

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find within I office half of.

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American all with ships and clippers and say that's press.

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Today on the blog, it's the two year anniversary of
the terror attacks on Israel. I'm ready for a digital clone.
The Supreme Court is hearing Colorado's forced gender affirmation case.
Aurara's approach to homelessness is just getting started. The useless
three to one one program is cutting its hours. The
story on military standards is unnecessary. See you up security

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after nasty chance. Sure they can get in, but are
they college ready? ABS players stress their Bronco fandom. Denver rights.
Please watch this school board debate. Some background on Ralphie seven.
And then the thing that I just fixed is is
prison labor is still happening in Colorado. Ball Arena got
shamed into lowering lower into lowering prices. Nancy's I just

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already know what Nancy's gonna say right now? Okay, why
pride is easy to demonize? Dick Wadhams has some thoughts
on the Colorado GOP. The shutdown is affecting air travels.
CBS News employees are all gloom and doom. How many
friends does one really need? Virginia Democrats agree with Jay
Jones that time the Biden admin snooped on US senators.
What a crazy play to m last night's football game.

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Wacko left winger calls for ice infiltration. Mister beast is right,
the UFC is really going to the White House. Andrew
Cuomo swears he's not a creep anymore. Farts in space,
Newborn Parrot performance review about Candas Owen's Constantine Kissen on
Israel's war. Those are the headlines on the blog at

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Mandy's blog dot com tech Toe. I know, I know
it's a little bit all over the place, So sorry,
so sorry about that. If anybody else watched last night's game,
So I gotta tell you, I think Ben Albright didn't
Ben have the Chiefs going to the Super Bowl this year,

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didn't he?

Speaker 5 (03:54):
I think he did.

Speaker 7 (03:55):
I think he did.

Speaker 5 (03:56):
Text him, text him and find out picks. He always
puts it out.

Speaker 6 (03:59):
Find holy crap there. I mean, what a what a
disaster for the Kansas City Chiefs right now. And I'm
here for it, people, I am here for it. Last
night playing against the Jacksonville Jaguars, who I always will
have a warm spot in my heart. My father was
a Jags fan from their inception, and he was long
suffering with all the other Jags fans. But man, they

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are firing on all cylinders and it was so fun
to watch. And I put a video of what happened
at the end of the game. And the only reason
I'm putting this up here well two reasons. Number One,
what should have been a busted play ended up being
a winning touchdown. And whenever you want to make a
point about not giving up in the face of adversity,

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this kind of play is what you want to show kids,
right Like, look, he could have just banged his hand
on the ground when he fell, but he didn't. He
got up, stumbled again and ran across the finish line
for a touchdown. I mean, come on, people, he was
so good.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
Not have the the Chiefs winnings does he have in
the AFC? He has the bills and the NFC, he
has the Packers. I don't see his winner, but definitely
not the Chiefs.

Speaker 6 (05:08):
Okay, good, I was gonna I was gonna tease him
about that. But of course the great of been alright
would have not have gotten that wrong. Of course not.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (05:17):
We have to talk about By the way, our futurist,
Thomas Frye is on the show at one o'clock. Mandy
says this text or on the Common Spirit health text
line you can always text me at five sixty six,
And I know what exactly is a futurist. A futurist
is someone who studies where we are at this very moment,
and then studies where the sort of areas of study

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are going, and then makes predictions based on what's happening
right now. They're not fortune tellers. They are educated guest makers.
Does that make sense? Educated guest makers. I kind of
like that. And Thomas Frye is one of my favorites,
and today we're talking about something that as I get
older and Anthony will tell you my memory is going well.

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I would love to have a digital copy of my
life that I could refer to, that I could just
check back. Wait, what was I supposed to do? What
did I commit to in that meeting?

Speaker 1 (06:10):
What?

Speaker 6 (06:11):
And you just go in your little digital assistance like, oh, Mandy,
you committed to bringing food for a thousand people. Oh yeah,
that's what I did. That sounds like me. That sounds
like me anyway. So that is what a futurist does.

Speaker 4 (06:24):
He is a.

Speaker 6 (06:26):
Educated guesser of what is what is coming in the future. Now,
I got a couple of text messages because today is
the two year anniversary of the attacks of October seventh,
and I got a couple of text messages. One of
them says, I support the people of Israel, but I
hate Israel and f Net and Yahoo. And then I've
got another one right here. Is it okay to support

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the people of Israel but hate Benjamin Net and Yahoo
and hate that Israel is on our payroll? I don't
like Benjamin Nett Yah who I'm ready for his rain
to be over. I am ready for it to be over.
But for the person that says, I support the people
of Israel, but I hate Israel and f not in Yahoo.
You don't support the people of Israel. If you hate Israel,

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and I love the opportunity to have a chat with
you about why you hate Israel. Do you hate it
because it is an unabashedly Jewish nation. That's a fair criticism.
We live in a multi theological society where people have
the right to worship as they see fit, as they
do in Israel. Nobody is burning down or shutting down

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Christian churches or mosques or any of that stuff. In Israel,
none of that happens. They allow people to practice religion freely.
But if that is what's bothering you, and I'm just
guessing text or I'm just guessing if that bothers you,
then are you as upset about the many, many, many
Muslim nations that surround Israel who do not allow people

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to practice other faiths, who do burn down churches and
kill Christians and do all of those things that people
would do. So, you know, I mean, I'm just curious,
just curious, are those of the reasons. Are Are you
mad because Israel has one of the most dynamic pharmaceutical
research programs in the world, and that some of the

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greatest inventions are coming out of Israel. Or is that
what's upsetting you? Is it upsetting that the Jewish people
once again are finding themselves at odds with the rest
of the world, and having a Jewish nation makes it
easier for them to protect themselves. I'm genuinely curious. I'm
genuinely curious about what is the problem with Israel. So

(08:42):
I'm just curious about that. I don't like Benjamin yet
Netanyahu for a lot of reasons. I don't like the
way he tried to change the judiciary and cement his
power through that. I didn't like any of that. But
in all honesty, I'm kind of glad that he's got
the sort of backbone that he does fighting Amass. I'm

(09:05):
trying to they're not they're not texting me back. I'm
just I'm trying to wait for them to text me back,
and no, have not text me back with any kind
of clarification. Because if you just say I support the
people of Israel, but I hate Israel, what you're saying
is I support Jews and Arabs and everybody else who
lives in Israel. But I don't want a Jewish state,

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even though it's surrounded by Muslim nations. I'm just curious,
just curious. I'd love to know. So you hate teachers' unions,
but support teacher, says this Texter. He correct, absolutely, but
I don't. I don't hate the fact that they exist.
I hate what they've become. So I guess you could

(09:49):
make that argue an argument about Israel if you wanted to.
If you wanted to, it's fine. One of the reasons
that there are places in Israel where Christians can be
arrested for visiting, I believe those are the places run
by the Arabs. They are not places in Israel. And

(10:13):
trust me, I accidentally wandered into the temple, part of
the Wandering or of the Whaling Wall, the you know,
the Wall of David when I was there, and no
one arrested me. I do know that there are places
in Israel where Israeli Jews can't go, but we didn't
find any sort of stopping us when we were actually

(10:35):
in Israel. And the fact that I have been to
Israel is one of the reasons that I am so
passionate a defender of Israel. I've actually walked in the
same streets that Jesus fell carrying the cross. I've actually
seen these ancient things that are the foundation of Christianity,
which is the foundation of our nation. It's an incredibly

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important stuff when it comes to the crossroads of civilism.
And there's no doubt in my mind that if we
just left it to the Islamis, they would destroy every
holy site in Christianity, and there are so many of
them there. So I mean, I'm just curious. I'm really curious.
I haven't gotten a text back yet, so we'll see.

(11:20):
If they text me back, maybe I can get them
to think what they're doing. But anyway, anyway, I think
it's hard to say you support the people of Israel
and you don't support Israel. It just shows that you
have a kind of a kind of a huge misunderstanding

(11:42):
of what Israel is, what it represents to the people
who live there, and why it was necessary in the
first place. Let's be real, people, Israel exists because of
the Holocaust. And if you're going to text me back
and say you don't think that happened, oh my goodness,
I can't even with that, Holocaust deniers for me are
the peak. Wait, I want to think about this for

(12:05):
a second. I was good to say Holocaust and ires
are the peak of stupidity to me, But then I
thought about the birds aren't real people and the flat earthers. Nope,
people who deny the Holocaust still the height of stupidity,
because gosh knows, we have a lot of video of that,
don't we. We have movies people being liberated from death
camps where they were almost starved to death.

Speaker 4 (12:26):
Many were Yeah, those people can go to the Holocaust
Museum and then talk to us. Oh yeah, there you go,
there you go, there are There are also museums featuring
birds as well.

Speaker 6 (12:39):
There are also Anthony actual birds that you can actually
go to a pet store and buy a pet bird.

Speaker 4 (12:48):
Oh and uh, let's see how many millions of people
that are Jewish that had their families affected by Oh.

Speaker 6 (12:56):
No, those are all they're just making that up. Oh yeah,
all those people who had those numbers tattooed on their arms,
they were just making that up. They went and got
a tattoo down the road. So today on the blog,
for anyone who wants to know who they're supporting in
this conflict between the Hamas and the Palestinian people and
the Israelis. I linked to something on the blog. I

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was gonna embed it at first, but I don't like
stumbling upon horrific, disgusting things on my timeline, and I
didn't want you to have that experience. But I just
linked to a quick video that gives you a rundown
of what Hamas did to the Jews on October seventh.
And if you need to understand why Benjamin Nahu is

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not stopping and why he is relentlessly tracking down these people,
I would urge you to go watch it. I would
urge you to go and watch the things that they
live streamed so the whole world would know what they
were about. And I also want you to look at
the video that's right below that. I can't play it.
I mean I could, but it's in Arabic so you
wouldn't understand it. It is a conversation on a news

(14:02):
channel somewhere and the female speaker is asking what exactly
was do you consider the Aloxa flood to be a
victory or decee and let.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Me hang on.

Speaker 6 (14:17):
I'm not going to play the audio because there's no point.
But she says, do you consider the Aloxa flood to
be a victory or defeat? He said, it's definitely a victory.
Then he continues. Today, over fifty five percent of the
students at Harvard University hang on, I God to letting me.
Over sixty percent of young Americans support Hamas specifically against

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the Zionist entity. They do not support just the Palestinians,
but Hamas, she says, And he said, you could see
when they came back from the universities from their summer break,
they were out chanting. They did not go to class. Rather,
they went to the quads in order to demonstrate against
the Zionist entity. They demonstrated in the campuses, in order

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to raise the voice of the Palestinian child and the resistance,
chanting songs about Mohammad Dave Hamas and the Islamic Jihad.
They considered a victory because well, it created a whole
bunch of useful idiots. And that's no ma'am, says this Texter.

(15:22):
I just disliked the constant financial support the United States
continues to provide. I don't have a problem with Jews.
It's crazy. Any criticism of Israel is automatic you hate Jews. Well,
let me explain to you about Israeli foreign aid. And
maybe you don't know what Israeli foreign aid is used for.
Israeli foreign aid almost exclusively all of the dollars we
write a check. Let's say we write a check to

(15:44):
Israel for a billion dollars. Out of that billion dollars,
do you have any idea how much immediately comes back
to the United States in forms of defense equipment orders.
Most foreign aid for people like Israel and other nations
as well, not just Israel, is simply a third party
buyer for defense contracts here in the United States. So

(16:08):
all of this foreign aid is essentially propping up the
defense industry here in the United States of America. It's
something over ninety percent is committed to immediately be spent
here in the United States with our defense contractors to
buy things so they can defend themselves against Tamas. Does
that change the equation for you? I mean, I certainly

(16:33):
you could make the argument that Israel does not need
any more foreign age. That's perfectly fine. We could one
hundred percent do that, and then they could buy their
military equipment from wherever they wanted to buy it, they
could buy it from whoever they wanted to. But instead
they are one of our largest partners when it comes
to people buying our defense products. Now you've got when

(16:55):
you throw it in that way, it's not so much
that we're propping up Israel, because Israel just fine without
US four and eight one hundred percent. Look at their budget,
Look what they spend. Look how much money they make
every single year in their economy. And Israel is tiny.
Israel is so tiny it's not even funny. And yet

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they have created things. They've invented things. They're the leaders
in inventing Stephan pharmaceuticals right now. They do amazing things
with technology. If you use ways, you're using a Jewish product.
So they don't need our aid. That aid is a
slush fund for our defense contractors to keep selling more
weapons to Israel so they can protect ourselves. Look it up,

(17:37):
all wait, I mean, you know, Mandy, they can take
a trip to Munich straight from DIA and then uber
to dach Harold concentration camp, then get back to US. Yep, yep, yep, Mandy.
I noticed an interesting similarity between people who lie about

(17:59):
ur only Kirk's assassination and people who in my who
oh shoot in that Hamas is a death cult, same
type of delusion. I don't know what that That was
a little choppy, even for me. Normally I'm pretty good
at reading between the lines, but that one, that one
was a little choppy. Okay, let's see here we do this.

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Somebody sent me a link that says this is how
Christians are being Christians in Jerusalem faced restrictions and violence
among holy celebrations. You guys, what Okay? Police checkpoints and
permit systems now control access to key Christian sites, a

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tax on the community. Increased in twenty twenty four from
twenty twenty three, the year of the Hamas attacks on
October seventh and Israel's subsequent Gaza offensive, which several international
bodies have labeled genocide. By the way, that's just stupid.
Palestinian Christians, like many others in the West Bank, must
navigate a complex system of Israeli imposed movement restrictions to

(19:05):
access holy sites and basic You guys, they do this
because they're trying to make sure that the Church of
the Holy Sepulcher is not blown up by a Muslim terrorist.
Don't be stupid. I mean, don't be stupid. It's ridiculous.
It's like, come on, you guys, like somehow, after what

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seventy years of peaceful coexistence in Israel with Jews, all
of a sudden, they're just gonna do it to be inconvenient.
My goodness, my goodness, we'll be right back on the blog.
For those of you who are still thinking that Israel
isn't the good guy in this battle, I've got videos
of Hammas driving around with a dead body of a

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young woman they killed, celebrating. I've got bodies showing you
the dead bodies of young people that were slaughtered in
what they thought was a safe room. I really want
you to go look. I want you to go look.
And then if you still are like, we need to
do something more to step Israel, well then that's whose
side you're on. Choose your fighter, as they say, seems
like you've chosen the fighter who is vile, vile, disgusting,

(20:16):
depraved Israel. Just once it's hostages back, you guys, We'll
see what happens if Hamas actually gives the hostages back. Now,
if it were me, then I would go fully scorched storts.
But that's why I'm not in charge, okay at all, Mandy.
There's a lot of influencers on social media who are
pro Israel two years ago, but I turned into anti Israel,

(20:39):
no doubt. That's where some of the recent hate or
questioning support is coming from, especially from younger folks. I'm
just gonna say this, and I'm gonna try and be
nice about it. One of the hardest things about being
a talk show host is being consistent in your beliefs.
And the only way to be consistent in your beliefs
is to have those beliefs predicated on a value system.

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And my value system about Israel is very, very clear.
Not only is Israel the cradle of humanity in so
many ways and the cradle of what so many religious
people hold dear in Israel that I think it's important
just because of that, but more importantly, I have a
question for you guys. What do you think happens if

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the Islamists destroy Israel, if they get what they want,
if they get from the river to the sea, what
do you think happens next? Do you think they're going
to be content to have their little kingdom in the
Middle East?

Speaker 1 (21:34):
No?

Speaker 6 (21:35):
No, the same Islamists who want to destroy Israel want
a worldwide caliphate, and they're the same kind of Islamist
who flew planes into buildings in the United States of America.
Israel is our last best backstop to preventing more of
that from happening on a regular basis. That's kind of

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another reason I'm supporting Israel. So you can do what
you want. But the influencers who are now flip flopping around,
their initial stance wasn't based on anything in principle. Their
current stance isn't based on anything in prince or maybe
it is. I don't know. Maybe they did a deep
dive and really thought about what things are important to them.

(22:17):
Here are the things that drive my principles. Just to
let you know, it's really simple. Whenever I'm looking at
any situation, and I'll use Israel as an example. Does
Israel existing make people in the Middle East more free
or less free? In Israel and makes them much more free.
Israel is home to the largest pride celebration, well maybe
the only pride celebration in the Middle East, because in

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some Middle Eastern countries gay people still get murdered. We
saw what happened with the Gaza flotilla full of idiots.
They actually had a Muslim quit because there were gay
people in the flotilla. That just gives you an idea
of how not free those nations are. So if I
look at the world and say does this make the
world a better place or or a worse place? Let

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me ask you, guys, this, what invention that you use
every day came out of the Gaza strip And don't
tell me, Oh, they can't they're oppressed. It's like a prison,
you guys. Have you seen the pictures of Gaza before.
That was not a prison. If they had spent money
on things like building power plants and desalinization factories, and
if they'd spent money maintaining the greenhouses that were left

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behind instead of destroying them because they were left behind
by Jews, they could have a booming economy. But instead
Hamas took all of the foreign aid money and they
spent it building tunnels with the express purpose of killing Jews.
They're not even using those tunnels to allow their citizens
to be safe from bombing. They have enough tunnels for

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every single person in Gaza to be underground and not
be effacing the potential death from a bombing, but that's
not what they do. So is the world a better
place with the Palestinians in it? Or is the world
a better place with the Israelis in it. I'm gonna
say israelis.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
Now.

Speaker 6 (24:00):
That doesn't mean that I want the Palestinians to die
or to be wiped off the face of the earth.
I'm just saying, if you look at what is better
for the world and you still say the Palestinians, you
are anti Semitic because there's literally no data to back
that up. There's not one single positive thing that you

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can point to right now that has come out of
the Gaza strip under Hamas. Not a single thing. I mean,
look it up. Maybe there is. Maybe I'm just missing
all of these incredible achievements that are different than building
tunnels to murder Jews. Maybe I'm just missing all of that.
I'm just saying, Mandy, I know Hamas is evil, but
that doesn't necessarily make Israel good. It doesn't necessarily make

(24:44):
Israel good. The fact that Israel does as Israel does
is what makes Israel good. Israel has been bending over
backwards since the beginning of this war, trying not to
kill civilians that were hiding that Hamas was hiding the bah.
So yeah, in that case, Israel is good. Israel produces

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food for the region because they built greenhouses and they
do productive stuff. Israel is good. Israel allows people to
practice their faith. Israel allows gay people to live in
peace and have a pride parade. Israel is good. The
notion that somehow the state of Israel is the problem
is obscene. Talk about blaming the victim. Here, my God,

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I'm sad for all the people on my text line
right now that are trying to somehow justify aligning themselves
with people who, by the way, today in Gaza celebrated
the attacks of two years ago. So go watch the
videos on my blog today. Just go go watch them,

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Go watch go see what you're cheering for. Go see
whose team you're on. I would hope it would give
you pause. Maybe you're celebrating as well. I don't know.
I don't know, Mandy. I am pro Israel and totally
support them. I personally believe that Hamas is like Osama
bin Laden. When Vin Laden attacked America, America's went to
war until he was executed. Hamas attacked Israel and now

(26:14):
Israeli's are going full war mode until Hamas is dead.
I believe they have that right, no questions asked. On
a different note, I accidentally sent this message to my mom.
I can't wait to have this conversation with her about this.
She's a little bit more left leaning than I am.
This will be a fun day, So there you go.

(26:35):
Mandy mark Twain is credited with saying the truth has
no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.
Seems like this comment can apply to birds, the earth,
the Jews, and idiotic college students.

Speaker 5 (26:47):
Correct.

Speaker 6 (26:49):
Correct, Hi, Mandy. I think Mandy and John rush On
five sixty KLZ need to do what you are doing
now on education about Israel instead of just getting pissed
at folks on the or against Israel. Just lose the tone.
Some listeners are younger being indoctrinated by anti Israel teachers
and professors, But you, guys, lose the tone. I am

(27:10):
always one who wants to be convincing, but when something
is so dumb and dangerously dumb, I guess I get
the tone. I guess I do. I'll work for it.
I will work to figure that out anyway, Mandy. I'm
one hundred percent on Israel side, But where's the outrage

(27:32):
for Nigerian Christians. I'm gonna address that on the other
side of this break. So hang in there, we'll be
right back. Keep it on Koa. Hey, what about the
five hundred thousand Nigerian Christians? And this is something I've
been meaning to address because this is not accurate. Now
that's not to say that Nigeria doesn't have a real
problem with Islama's killing Christians, because they do. But this

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number came out of a story that was put forth
by I believe we the Vatican initially and it is
I'm just going to share this is from last year.
A new report has found that ethnic and religious violence
in Nigeria has claimed the lives of nearly fifty six
thousand people in the West African country over four years,

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and the victims were disproportionately Christian. The report, published by
the Observatory for Religious Freedom in Africa, found more than
eleven thousand incidents of extreme violence from October of twenty
nineteen through September of twenty twenty three. The violence left
over fifty five thousand people dead. In nine nine hundred
and seventy deadly attacks, as well as twenty one thousand,

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six hundred and twenty one people abducted. The total number
includes civilian deaths, terror group deaths, and Nigerian armed forces deaths.
Of the total deaths, thirty thousand, eight hundred and eighty
were civilians. Of the civilians, at least almost seventeen thousand
Christians were killed, sixty two hundred Muslims were killed, and
one hundred and fifty four adherents of Teal African religions

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were killed. Now, who's killing them? Voca Heron is killing them?
Remember when Michelle Obama was gonna stop this Islamis group
from kidnapping girls with a hashtag? Remember how that was
so effective hashtag bring back our girls. You know, that
is a perfect example of the futility of the virtue

(29:24):
signaling that the left loves to engage in. Oh yeah,
it happens all the time, all the time. It's the
same kind of virtue signaling that they like to engage
in when they put one of those dumb ass signs
in their front yard. In this house, we believe love
is love. We believe that if you're on the right violences,
well it's okay sometimes, but it's all just an effort

(29:48):
in futility. The idiotic Women's March were women knitted hats
that were allegedly looking like female genitalia. What did they
think that was going to do? Michelle Obama, who you
may have noticed was married to what was he doing?
Oh yeah, he was President of the United States of America.

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He thought putting a hashtag on Twitter was gonna save.
By the way, as far as I know, none of
those girls were ever saved. I mean, I just I
just did you hear about them being said?

Speaker 1 (30:20):
No?

Speaker 6 (30:21):
So this story has gotten just exaggerated to the point
where there is a lot of information. And I might
have retweeted this at one point, and if I did,
I'm sorry. I'll go back to find that on Twitter
if I did and erase it. But it has made
it five hundred thousand. It is not five hundred thousand.

(30:43):
According to open Door's World Watch List. In twenty twenty
four alone, though thirty one hundred Christians in Nigeria were
reed killed for faith related reasons. You know why we
don't hear about genocide in Nigeria because they're not Jewish, right,
I mean, you guys, is there another reason we're not

(31:06):
hearing about groups of people in a country trying to
annihilate other people because they are Christians. We went over
this yesterday. Israel's not trying to eliminate all of the
Palestinian people. They are trying to eliminate Hamas, and Hamas
keeps hiding behind the Palestinian people. So, you know, let's

(31:27):
talk about genocide. So Texter or I appreciate that I do,
but that is bad information, still bad that Christians are
being killed for in Nigeria for their faith. Like that's
a bad thing. But the number five hundred thousand is way, way,
way inflated and should not be used to sort of
do anything. Hashtag activism confusing activity with accomplishment. Yes, correct,

(31:53):
and me myself, I am a results oriented person. If
it doesn't get results, I'm doing something else. Right, Let's
try something else if it's not getting results, and hashtags please,
that's all about making Michelle Obama feel better, not saving
any girl in Nigeria from Boca Heron. You know, so, wait,

(32:18):
are we mad about Christians being slaughtered?

Speaker 8 (32:20):
Right?

Speaker 6 (32:20):
Sounds a lot like more than twelve hundred. Not to
play down. October seventh, No We're not mad about it
because they're Christians and the Nigerians are not Jewish. It's
only bad when Jews do it. It's only bad, right,
That's the thing you have to remember, no matter what
it is, it's only bad when Jews do it. That

(32:40):
is the stance of many, many, many many people. And yeah,
let's move on. Coming up next, our favorite futurist, Thomas Fry,
joins us. What if. What if just think about this
for a second. If you could have a digital clone
of yourself, it was like your little memory bank where

(33:03):
you could have it. Just call up whatever happened in
a meeting, you know, eight or nine months ago, and
it can whisper in your ear what you're forgetting. Sign
me up. I'm ready. I'm ready to do it right now.
We'll talk about that and space data centers when we
get back with Thomas Fry. Keep it right here on Kawa,
my friend Thomas Fry, and together we are going to
talk about the future.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Now.

Speaker 6 (33:24):
Thomas, you sent me a column today and immediately I
was like, can I go ahead and sign up for
that digital copy of my life? I mean, can we
go ahead and.

Speaker 5 (33:33):
Jump on that?

Speaker 6 (33:34):
Can I be a beta tester for the digital copy
of myself and my life. Let's start there. First of all,
good to see you again, my friend.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
Great to see you too. Yes, I think we're going
to have this very soon. Though.

Speaker 8 (33:47):
You can be wearing smart glasses and record everything that
you see, and it can also record everything that you hear,
and then with a few censors, you'll be able to
record everything that you taste, touch, and feel well, and
you can record your entire life, experience, sin and so
then you have a digital copy of you that you
stored in your personal cloud.

Speaker 6 (34:09):
So how do you this is what? Because I got
to tell you this would be a game changer in
marital arguments, right, because most marital arguments are because someone
heard something differently than the other person thought they said it.

Speaker 8 (34:23):
Right.

Speaker 6 (34:23):
So can you imagine being in a in a firm
discussion with your loved one and saying things like no,
that's not what I said, and you're like, digital Mandy,
what did I say? And then with digital man, like
in my world, Thomas, digital Mandy would shoot out a
hologram of me actually saying whatever it was that I said,

(34:44):
and therefore, boom, I win the argument. What I'm afraid
Actually what happened is that I find out I'm wrong
way more than I think I'm right. Right, So so
I mean, how far away from from we are some
of this stuff. We've already got the glasses, but being
able to sort of instantly data mine what's been recorded,

(35:04):
that is the challenging part, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
That'll be part of it too.

Speaker 8 (35:11):
I mean, once we record all of this and put
it into some personal cloud, then it's whatever interface we
come up with to interact.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
With that cloud, right.

Speaker 8 (35:23):
I mean the article talks about having a voice in
your ear, Well, what if it's just instantly you were
recalling it because you have that mind to mind interface,
That would be much more efficient.

Speaker 6 (35:37):
Mind to mind interface. Sounds like something has to be
implanted in my brain and I'm not sure I'm ready
for that yet. So Thomas Ai at this point, I'm
now looking at AI programs that can look at the
longer version of the YouTube show that I do with
my friend dev Flora and pull out snippets so I
can have them ready to go for social media. And

(35:57):
one of the most shocking things that one these programs
that I'm looking at, it can go through and it
says let me pick the best parts of your show,
and you're thinking to yourself, how does say I know
if it's if it's the best? The reality is it
does a pretty dang good job.

Speaker 7 (36:16):
So that.

Speaker 6 (36:18):
Now we're talking about AI being able to think about
whether something is a great point, or it's funny or
what makes I mean, the speed with which this stuff
happened is amazing, right, I mean, it's crazy what's happening now.

Speaker 8 (36:32):
This is ramping up at exponential pace, and so this
is giving us all these extra capabilities that we never
knew existed in the past. So the things that we
can accomplish in a single day are just going to
ramp up dramatically.

Speaker 3 (36:49):
That's that's what I find really interesting because.

Speaker 8 (36:55):
A lot of these things we never even knew we
could possibly consider in the past, and suddenly they're at
our doorstep ready to be unfolded.

Speaker 6 (37:05):
You know, there's a lot of fear right now. And
we've talked about this in terms of AI replacing jobs
and AI replacing people, and I think that some industries.
I actually have a video from mister Beast, who is
by far the most popular YouTuber in the world, and
in it he says AI is going to be the
death of the YouTube creator because people are no longer

(37:26):
going to have to fund the kind of videos that
he's been funding, and they can just use AI to
create them. But to your point, aren't we looking sort
of shortsightedly about what we don't know is going to
happen next? Does that make sense the way I just
asked that.

Speaker 3 (37:44):
Yeah, you're what you're really asking is do we still
need the human and the loop?

Speaker 2 (37:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (37:53):
And how can we do things impersonally? I think we'll
for a long time still know the difference if.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
As humans are involved or if they're not involved.

Speaker 8 (38:06):
Yeah, but I think we might cross that Turing test
threshold and not too distant future. But things are changing
just at an astronomical pace right now, and so it's
really tough keeping up and all this shifting.

Speaker 3 (38:23):
And changing going on.

Speaker 6 (38:25):
Well, let's go from this conversation about digital clones into
your three rules of exponential capabilities, because I feel like
that's kind of what we're talking about right This is
taking us in a direction that we can't wrap our
head around. Just like I'm guessing that people who lived
on a farm in the agricultural period of the world

(38:47):
before the Industrial Revolution probably had no way of understanding
what the Industrial Revolution was going to unleash on society.
Are we kind of at that same precipice?

Speaker 8 (38:57):
Now, yeah, I'll just mention one other thing about digital clones.
First to the digital clones will enable you to They
will go on a date for you to test out
the other person. So two digital clones will be testing
out dating.

Speaker 6 (39:16):
No, no, no, that is not a thing. We're not
going to do that. I'm not I show up for
coffee and someone's digital clones shows up, I am leaving
right away. I'm like, nope, no, not like that.

Speaker 3 (39:32):
But they can date each other online and you don't
have to be involved at all.

Speaker 8 (39:37):
So they date a thousand different people and pick the
very best two or three that you should test out personally.

Speaker 6 (39:44):
Oh wait, so it's all in the in the digital world.
They're all dating, right, do what can I get a
report from my digital clone? Like, oh, I see you
had a date with Bob. Tell me about it. Is
my digital clone going to be like girl?

Speaker 5 (39:56):
He is not for you?

Speaker 6 (39:58):
And here's why, I mean, like, what is that exchange
even gonna sound like you.

Speaker 3 (40:02):
Know, it'll sound just like that.

Speaker 6 (40:06):
Yeah, there you go. Girl, Bob was no. Bob is
a no. He's a hard pass on that one. Well,
that actually sounds okay, But then how does that get
used against you? Like if you're going for a job
and they're like, I'm sorry, your digital clone is going
to have to come in and do the work, you know,
for three days, and we'll just test out your digital
clone to see how it works. What if my digital

(40:26):
clone is an idiot? What if they have no idea
what they're doing and they prevent me from getting that job.

Speaker 8 (40:32):
Yeah, there's a lot of unexplored territories, so we will
have to test these things out to make sure they
all work right. And there's there's no end to all
the things that are going to go wrong between now
and then.

Speaker 6 (40:47):
Well, I did get this text message Mandy digital Mandy
needs rewind sound effects. That would be pretty cool, Like
I feel like that. This person asked a better question, though, Mandy.
Most of this new technology sounds fantastic, But how do
we power it and where does all the data go?
How secure will it be? Aren't we putting the cart
before the horse? And that is a genuine concern. I

(41:08):
don't need everybody having access to my entire life. I mean,
that's none of anybody. I don't need anybody to have
access to me flossing my teeth or standing there in
my underwear or any of the other millions of things
that I do every single day. So what does that
look like? And in terms of data storage, isn't that
kind of a problem that we're already running into.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
Yeah? I think you have to have your own personal
clone cloud storage.

Speaker 8 (41:34):
So it's your own personal cloud that you store all
of life details, and you guard and protect that and
you grant minimal access to whoever you want to.

Speaker 3 (41:46):
But it's very very much discretionary on your part.

Speaker 8 (41:51):
So it's not like the storage that we have nowadays
that gets when you store something on AI, everybody has
that access to it. That's that's not going to work.
We need we need a lot of protections in place.
And you're hitting on all the right the right pieces.

Speaker 6 (42:10):
I mean, it sounds like it would be one of
those things that you would want your own little dedicated
server for rather than offsourcing it to a server farm.

Speaker 8 (42:21):
Right right, Yeah, So you have to have that. It
might be in a server farm, but it's only accessible
by you.

Speaker 6 (42:30):
Right right, Okay, Now, now, we're talking. That sounds far
more reasonable to me. So I mean, are we on
the horizon in the next five years with stuff like
this or is it because just for yeah, I love you, I.

Speaker 3 (42:43):
Love you by twenty thirty? I think, oh wow, because.

Speaker 6 (42:47):
I love the thing in your article where you use
the example of you're in a business meeting with a
client and they said, yeah, in our last meeting six
months ago, remember we talked about and you have no
idea what they're talking about. Like, for me, that would
be a godsend. It's just be able to stay on
top of those little things in my life. So I'm
not kidding Thomas. Before you started coming on the show,
I was a complete ludite. I was like, I'll never

(43:08):
have a self driving car. Now I'm like, can I
have one?

Speaker 3 (43:10):
Now?

Speaker 1 (43:11):
Right?

Speaker 6 (43:11):
So you're turning me, Thomas, you're turning me. Let's talk
about the laws of exponential capabilities before we run out
of time there, because this is very interesting to me.

Speaker 8 (43:22):
The first law is, with automation, every exponential decrease and
effort creates an equal and opposite exponential increase in capabilities.

Speaker 6 (43:29):
What does that mean?

Speaker 8 (43:32):
So as things get easier to do you're just going
to do more of it, and you're going to be
much much more capable because you can get so many
more things done just because they become easier to do. Now,
I put these these together ten years ago, and it
seems like they all still hold up today.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
So I thought that was kind of it.

Speaker 6 (43:56):
Well, I mean using the example of now, you know,
five six years ago, if you were a person like
me with limited technoledge, you had to hire someone to
build a decent website. Well, now there are AI platforms
that can take an idiot like me and walk me
through the entire process, and AI handles all of the
little tricky coating things that I don't know how to do,

(44:16):
and you can build your own website. So is that
kind of an example of law number one?

Speaker 3 (44:21):
That's a great, great example.

Speaker 6 (44:23):
Okay, now let's go to law number two in this
As today's significant accomplishments become more common, mega accomplishments will
take their place. What are we talking about here, Well.

Speaker 8 (44:38):
Let's think about I've been joking around that the Crazy
Horse monument up in South Dakota.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
We'll be able to three D print it before they
ever finished the original one.

Speaker 6 (44:53):
And I love that monument. But that's funny. That is
really funny, Thomas. That's well done.

Speaker 8 (44:58):
So, but I see taking on massive, huge projects because
as we become much more capable, we just have to
set our sites higher, right, and we can get so
many more things done. So rather than making a statue
that's ten feet high, we make it a one hundred
feet higher, two hundred feet high, or even a thousand
foot high.

Speaker 3 (45:19):
Yeah, the.

Speaker 8 (45:21):
Buildings that we're going to start creating are going to
be massively intricate and complicated in ways that we can't
even imagine right now. They're not just going to be
square boxes that we said on a street corner.

Speaker 6 (45:34):
Well, I will tell you the best example of this
that I can think of is going back in time
to the first modem that Mandy Connell ever own. And
I remember, I remember this clearly, Thomas. The first day
I got fifty six K speed on my modem, I
thought I had literally gone to heaven. I had died

(45:54):
and gone to heaven. And now if an entire film
doesn't load on my phone in three minutes, I'm mad, right,
I'm like, so those kind of things that we were like,
our expectations were so low and now there on the
other side, it's like, if I can't get it instantly
in a mobile device that I hold in my hand,
what are you even doing? So our expectations have gone

(46:17):
from oh my gosh, I got fifty six K to
give me my film in three seconds. I think that's
a good example of that.

Speaker 8 (46:23):
Yeah, when you talk to your computer or to your
phone and it doesn't recognize what you're saying.

Speaker 6 (46:30):
Exactly, or when the voice to text puts in a
bunch of extra words and you're like, I didn't say that, Yeah, yeah,
we did.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
We do.

Speaker 6 (46:37):
Get Law number three is, as we raise the bar
for our achievements, we also reset the norm for our expectations.
That's kind of also what I was just talking about.
I mean, now we expect that kind of speed where
it was something to wonder at not that long ago.

Speaker 8 (46:53):
Yeah, so you're you know, you're suddenly at work, you're
getting ten times as much done as she used to
get done. Now suddenly the boss just normally expects you
to get ten times as much done.

Speaker 6 (47:06):
Correct. That's why I keep my output at work very
very low, Thomas. It's very low, even keeled low kind
of thing. Don't want to get too ahead of myself there.
So I got a couple of questions going back to
the personal digital clone, and one of them is where
does your personal cloud info go when you die? Who

(47:29):
gets that?

Speaker 3 (47:31):
Yeah? I think that's part of your will.

Speaker 6 (47:34):
Could you imagine? And your family would be like, oh God,
who has to take care of digital?

Speaker 2 (47:39):
Mom?

Speaker 6 (47:39):
Like this sucks, Like now somebody's got to be in
charge of the storage. We're never going to watch it again.
I don't know. I would actually put it into my
will that like, put it on a thumb drive and
smash it with a hammer, right Like. I don't want
all of that to go on beyond me. I think
that my time on earth will be well spent. But
after that, do I really matter the grand scheme of things?

(48:01):
And oddly I'm okay with the answer being no.

Speaker 8 (48:03):
So so if somebody goes to your cemetery site and
it's all built into your tombstone and they can talk
to you right there.

Speaker 6 (48:11):
Chuck my husband. He loves the idea of that, Thomas.
But I don't even want a headstone. I want to
be put in the ground, wrapped in a shroud, you know,
ashes to ashes, dust to dust, like keep it natural,
And if I do have a headstone, it will be
because my children demand it, not because I felt the
need to live on in some kind of digital fashion

(48:32):
like Mandy Headroom or something that's just you know, if
my family wanted it, then that's great. They could do it,
and more power to them. But I'm gonna be dead, right,
So I'm okay with that. How about this one? With
all of these advances in computing, will there be any
more room for Thomas Edison's meaning? What is left to discover?

Speaker 8 (48:53):
Right?

Speaker 6 (48:53):
What is left to invent? And I know that seems
like a silly question because there's always something, But is
it harder to cross that barrier or is it easier
now because of the technology.

Speaker 3 (49:05):
I actually think it'll be easier, and I think there's
going to be.

Speaker 8 (49:11):
It'll be up to people to actually cross the chasm
for what would exist today into what can tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (49:20):
So we'll we'll have to come up with that be
our imagination.

Speaker 8 (49:26):
So that's one of the barriers that AI has that
can only work with what's already existence, So to come
up with something new and original, it'll be strictly a
human thing.

Speaker 6 (49:37):
Well, yeah, because I mean Thomas, I have been using.
I've now officially hired chat gpt as my assistant and
I'm using it. But what an incredible tool it is.
Now it's not going to replace what I think about things,
but in terms of gathering up large sums of data
and creating a chart, oh my gosh, something that would
have taken me a half hour of my own personal

(49:58):
time now takes me ninety seconds. So that allows me
to do a whole bunch of other stuff that I
have time for because I'm not trying to dig up
the data that chat gpt can find in ninety seconds.

Speaker 8 (50:10):
Yeah, I'm using it to crush check everything that I'm doing.
Is this the best approach? What am I doing wrong?
What are the failures in this model? And it instantly
on that helps me all the wholes that I have,
So it's hugely valuable.

Speaker 6 (50:30):
Now let me ask you this question from a Texter,
and I'm going to glow up their question just a
little bit, even though it's a good question, and this
question is Mandy asked Thomas, if we have a digital clone,
could we not put fake quality qualities and misrepresent yourself
to get your job or get your date, Because let's
be real, there are times in every job interview where

(50:51):
they ask you a question that you don't know the
answer to, so you bluff your way through it. Is
our digital clone going to have those same I think,
fast on my feet, bluff my way through it. Thes
qualities that we have.

Speaker 8 (51:05):
Yeah, cosmetic surgery for your digital clon, Yes, I'm sure
somebody's going to come out with that that.

Speaker 3 (51:15):
Yeah, this whole drone enhancement strategy, I.

Speaker 6 (51:22):
Can just see it now. There's going to be a
whole cottage industry on how to glow up your digital
clone in such a way that's passable. Not obviously well
glowed up, but you could just throw it out there
to do all kinds of stuff, and then when the
real you shows up, they're like, wait a minute, that's
not at all one of us. This texter said, Mandy,
can you address water usage and AI? And I think

(51:42):
that's a bigger question about power usage water usage. Why
does AI take so much of both?

Speaker 8 (51:52):
It takes so much compute power just grinding away on
all of the things that it has access to. And
that brings up this whole topic of where our data
centers are going to be in the future, which is
Jeff Bezos says that we should be putting our data
centers in space because they have access to solar twenty

(52:14):
four to seven, and so that's naturally we can we
can do things much cheaper because we don't have the
energy costs involved.

Speaker 3 (52:25):
That's that's one of the roadblocks right now moving at
the speed we want to move at. So my thinking
is that both him and.

Speaker 8 (52:37):
Elon Musk are going to be shooting up rockets that
have digital centers on them into space, huge huge solar
panels on the side, collecting all that energy, and we
can we can shoot stuff back and forth into space
all the time, anytime we want to.

Speaker 3 (52:55):
It raises lots of interesting questions. So because who's who's
in control of things that are in space? I mean,
which law?

Speaker 8 (53:03):
Yeah, So if as an example, you have a US
patent on something and somebody has a business model running
on that satellite that is violating your patent, is that
in patent infringement or is that outside of the bounds
of Earth.

Speaker 6 (53:26):
That's a fine question one that I don't have the
answer to. But that's why we talked to Thomas Fry
because I need more things to keep you up at night.
Wondering the answers to because these are all problems that
we're going to have to solve. This text or asks
an interesting question. Will digital clones give off pheromones for
that dating scenario that you were talking about? Will they

(53:47):
have that intangible something that makes things work?

Speaker 3 (53:52):
Ah, that's a great question.

Speaker 8 (53:56):
I am certain somebody is going to be working on that,
but I don't have a good answer for that.

Speaker 6 (54:01):
Yeah, well, we'll find out about that at some other time.
Thomas fry is our futurist and you can find him
at Futurist Speaker. I've also put a link on the
blog as well to all of these articles so you
can continue to read. Good to say, my friend, We'll
see you next time.

Speaker 3 (54:16):
Thomas, all right, great to be on your show, Mandy.
All right.

Speaker 6 (54:20):
That is Thomas Frye our futurist, and let's do this.
We're gonna take a quick time out. We'll be right back.
Keep it on. KOA Colorado's forced gender affirmation hear me out.
In the state of Colorado, there was a bill passed
recently by the legislature that prohibits what they call conversion therapy,

(54:43):
now conversion therapy as it's long been known is usually
a religious based therapy that is inflicted on young gay
people in the hopes that it will turn their sexual orientation,
and that is not necessary really the problem just the
therapy part. But there's been a long, long, long history

(55:05):
in the conversion therapy industry of abusive behavior and damaging
outcomes that have been very bad for gay kids. But
in their zeal to make sure that they were limiting
whether or not you could talk to kids about gender identity,
it also banned so called conversion therapy when it comes

(55:26):
to gender dysphoria guys. This is essentially ordering a therapist
to affirm that a child is born in the wrong body.
That's their only option. Why is this bad? It's bad
because serious studies have shown that left to their own devices,

(55:47):
not affirming their chosen gender, a vast majority of kids,
like eighty percent of kids, will come to terms with
their biological gender and save themselves a lifetime of medical
trees treatments a vast majority of them that eighty percent
find out they're just gay. They're only gay, Okay. So

(56:09):
Alliance Defending Freedom has taken up the case of Christian
therapist Kaylee Childs. She says the law is a de
facto gag order that violates her First Amendment rights, and
she's right. This isn't the same as the gay conversion
therapy that was in the news for a long long time.
And I think they lumped it in with gay conversion
therapy because they knew that a lot of people were like, well,

(56:31):
that's just wrong. But the reality is is that most
kids who have gender dysphoria, when supported properly and taught
to work through that gender dysphoria, end up being okay
with who they are. Isn't that what we should want?
But that's not what we do in Colorado.

Speaker 8 (56:51):
Now.

Speaker 6 (56:51):
The law says you must affirm this gender dysphoria.

Speaker 5 (56:56):
You must.

Speaker 6 (57:00):
Those lawyers, the therapist lawyers say the band favors the
expression of some views over others by forbidding therapists from
encouraging youths with gender dysphoria from realigning their identity with
their birth sex, but allows support for a person transitioning
from his or her birth sex. Colorado says the law
is part of its broader regulation of licensed mental health professionals.

(57:21):
It argues there's no therapeutic need or ability to change
variations in gender identity, which are now recognized as part
of the normal spectrum of human diversity. Except it's not.
It's a lie. It's just a lie. And if adults
want to pursue gender transition using hormones and physical plastic

(57:46):
surgery to look more like the other gender, more power
to you, one hundred percent. I had just go right ahead,
just like that weird woman who had all that plastic
surgery to look like a cat, or those extreme body
modification people who put like horns in their head and
they have all the piercings and tattoos on their faces.
I think it's ridiculous, but I support your right to

(58:07):
do so because I believe in freedom. But we're talking
about children, and we're talking about children who are being
shoved down a path of permanent medical interventions that cannot
be undone at a time when they are too young
to sign a contract, get a credit card, or vote,
because we know they're not emotionally mature enough to make

(58:29):
any of those decisions, and they're certainly not mature enough
to decide whether or not at the age of I
don't know, seven or eight, if they ever want to
have children. And yet that's what we're doing in Colorado.
I can't wait for this case. I cannot wait for
this case to go through the Supreme Court. I'll be
shocked if they come back and say that this law

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can stand. Absolutely gobsmacked if they come back and say
it can stand, because it's clearly a violation of the
First Amendment rights. And as a parent, you should have
the right to choose a therapist who is going to
align with your views on this that hey, you know what,
my kid may be really confused right now, but I'm

(59:10):
going to get a therapist that is going to say, look,
let's try and bring all of these different parts of
you that you feel are so different together. I had
a conversation years ago with someone who was female but
presented very masculine. She was a lesbian, kind of a
scary lesbian. If I'm honest, like, some lesbians unnerve me

(59:31):
a little bit because they're just so masculine. I mean,
I'm just I'm telling you the truth. It's not like
they're bad people, but they And she was one of
these these lesbians who kind of unnerves me. And she
said that many years before she had, for a hot minute,
decided that she was a boy, and luckily she sat

(59:51):
down with her mom about it and said, Mom, I
think I'm a boy, And her mom said, I realize
that figuring out who you are is confusing, but there's
nothing with being a girl who loves to hunt, to fish,
to play sports, to lift weights, who like the mask
of There's nothing wrong with any of that, and none
of that makes you any less of a female. And

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I thought, Wow, that's really cool that your mom was
like that. She's like, my mom's amazing. But then I
thought to myself, what about some of these kids. If
we just said you don't have to be a certain
way to be a boy or a girl. You don't
have to present in a certain fashion to be a
male or a female. You just are a male or
a female. You just are and however you present yourself

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is entirely up to you. But you don't have to
have all these surgeries and medicalization that is going to
have permanent, lasting, irreversible impacts in order to be happy.
In my mind, that's the therapist I'm looking for if
I needed a therapist like this. You know, I was
a tomboy when I was a kid. I hunted it
with my dad. I fished with my dad. All the

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things my younger brother didn't do with my dad, I
did them all. Wonder if today somebody would try and
tell me I'm a boy because I just liked all
of those things. I still enjoy a lot of those things.
But luckily there wasn't this this weird desire to label
everyone and everything. I mean, I grew up in the

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seventies where we were all told, you know, hey, love everybody,
We're all the same color on the inside, all of
that stuff. Nobody was trying to say that we all
had these weird categories that we had to fit. In
this younger generation, my daughter's generation, Jen Alpha, Holy crap,
they need to have a label for everything. They must
label you. You must have every foible must be labeled

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with some kind of mental disorder instead of just being
quirky or weird. Everything has to have a label. And
if you don't fit what they think that label means,
even though there's no clear definition of the label, then
you are somehow in the wrong body, or you're the
wrong person or whatever. It's so insane. We have jumbled

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all of this stuff for these kids so badly that
they don't know who they are. They don't know what
they are. And I've got a story that I didn't
put on the blog today about suicide rates for this
group of people skyrocketing. Is it any wonder? Is it
any wonder when we have told them that everything is
a choice, nothing is certain, there is no morality, there's

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no right or wrong. How are you supposed to go
through life figuring that out, especially when you're young and
you don't have sort of the background to make it work.
So we're gonna be watching this case in the Supreme
Court and I will be giving you updates because this
is a big one, a really really big one. When
we get back. Have you ever called three one one

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in Denver to report a problem? It won't surprise you
to find out the three to one one sucks at
its job. But now I guess we're supposed to be
sad they're cutting hours. I'll give you all the details
about that after this on KOA. Oh my gosh, I
forgot to tell you, guys. I'll tell you after the
two o'clock hour. I had lunch with Matt the Dead
to be and uh this past weekend. I got to
give you an update on that. But in the meantime,

(01:03:05):
if you've ever called Denver's three to one one line
that is allegedly there to help you navigate the city
and its services, along with taking non emergency complaints about
things like homeless encampments in your neighborhood and you know

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RVs that have been abandoned on the side of the
road that have been there for months and months. Well,
I know enough about the three to one one program
to know that it doesn't work. I've spoken with people
who have said to me to my face, Mandy, I've
called three one one seventy five times and nothing happens.

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So I'm sure you're going to be terribly disappointed to
find out that Denver, as a part of its plug
to the two hundred million dollar hole that was blown
into its budget by bad spending by the mayor Will,
they have eliminated nine vacant and one filled three one
one customer service agent positions, So now you can only

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call three one one between seven am and five pm
and get a real person. But hey, there are they
really want you to go engage with the chatbot. The
chatbot's name is Sonny, and Sonny I'm sure will be
far more responsive than three to one one. Now unless
you are, I mean, you might be out there thinking, Mandy,

(01:04:29):
why are you being so hard on this? Of course
they they probably did much better than you're saying. No, no,
they didn't, they did not. A recent audit by Denver
auditor Timothy O'Brien highlights a disjointed relationship between Denver three
to one one and partner city agencies, leaving Denver rights

(01:04:49):
in the lurch when it comes to city services. It's
an ineffective system, and it's plage plaguing the service, and
it hasn't gotten any better. Sin it's the last audit
in twenty twelve. You heard me right, You heard me right.
Listen to this from the actual audit itself. When residents

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contact Denver three point one with a question or complaint,
they expect timely service. It's unfortunate the city still has
a few problems with efficiency and accountability for three one
to one request resolutions. After we identified this issue thirteen
years ago, thirty nine percent of messages related to solid

(01:05:32):
waste compost bin cases in fact did not pertain to
the topic at hand. They have a terrible record in
getting any complaints to the appropriate departments to take care
of it, and even if they do, there's no follow up,
so no one is even following up whether or not
these calls are being taken seriously. So this is yet

(01:05:53):
another like great idea that the government can point to
and say, oh my gosh, upset Denver. If you were
having problems with homeless encampments or something on your street,
just call three one one, call three one one, and
let us take care of it. But then it goes
into the three to one one black hole and nothing
ever happens. This entire program needs to be scrapped. It

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just needs to be scrapped, and they need to take
all of the money that they're spending on three one
one and invest in wait for it, an actual person
to answer phone calls and direct calls and complaints to
the right department. I remember we had people doing that

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job so many years ago, and a lot of the
times those people knew everything about how the city operated.
They knew exactly what department you were supposed to go to,
and you could talk directly to a person that could
maybe possibly help you with your problem. But that's not
what Denver's three one one is all about. Denvers three
one one is all about giving the mayor and out

(01:07:00):
another way to distract citizens from the lack of services
they're getting from a city who wants nine hundred million
more dollars from them in the form of the Vibrant
Denver bond. Spend the money you have more effectively and
more efficiently. And if you're going to start a program
like the Denver three to one one service, make it work.

(01:07:22):
Figure out a way to make accountability a part of
the system, because right now what we're doing now clearly
not working. And if we have a hole, a two
hundred million dollar hole, go ahead and just pull the
plug on the whole thing and reallocate that money to
something that would be more effective. I mean, that's my
idea anyway. But this is why I'm not in charge,

(01:07:42):
because they don't ever stop a government program even if
it's horrible and doesn't do what it was intended to do.
So three point one will be in existence forever until
people finally stop calling it and they can declare victory
on taking care of problems because no one's calling with
problems anymore. I'd love to know if any of you
have ever called three one one and did anything come

(01:08:04):
of it. That's my question. Did anything come of it? Hey, Mandy,
Denver's mayor Mike Johnston has got to be the worst
mayor Denver has ever had. I do believe that when
the annals of history are written, you may be right.
You just might be right, Mandy. Mandy, wake up, it's

(01:08:26):
time for school. You were just having that dream thinking
logically the government will work. Mandy, wake up, you're late
for school. Very funny, Texter, Very well done, Hi, Mandy.
Does Mandy pledge her allegiance to Israel before or after
the United States? Also, I wonder if she flies the
Israel flag above the American flag, since obviously we suck

(01:08:47):
at R and D and our inferior to Israel. Now
I'm glad that's what you heard, Texter, because it proves
that you're not a good listener. And I never said
anything remotely like that. But if it may makes you
feel better, if it makes you feel a little warmer
in your anti Israel feelings, than knock yourself out, because
I don't care what you think about that. When we

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get back, I had lunch with Matt the Dead to me,
and we've got a bunch of other stories that we're
going to get to including kind of an update on
Aurora's approach to homelessness that is just getting started. We'll
talk about all that after this. Keep it on KOA.

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Speaker 6 (01:09:51):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the third hour of the show.
I'm your host for one more hour, Mandy Connell. That
guy's Anthony Rodriguez together. Oh we'll take you right till
three o'clo. So I got a couple of things. First
of all, longtime listeners, remember Matt the Dead to Me intern,
one of my favorite interns of all time, hands down.

(01:10:11):
Matt Is was just one of the funniest, most ridiculous
people I ever met, incredibly smart. I just loved this kid,
and now he is out of the industry entirely, which
is sad because he's so good. But he's working on
becoming a bird watching influencer. Anthony, are you at the

(01:10:33):
bird watching stage of your life yet?

Speaker 8 (01:10:35):
Are you?

Speaker 6 (01:10:36):
Are you bird curious? Is that what you are?

Speaker 4 (01:10:39):
Not particularly humingbirds are a small exception, but no, that's
my parents.

Speaker 1 (01:10:44):
No.

Speaker 6 (01:10:45):
Well, and here's the thing, my friend Amy, I'm gonna
out her. She and her husband bought this beautiful house
out in the woods and she now has a bird
Sounds app. So if birds are singing, she'll pull out
her app and she'll tell us what kind of bird
that is based on the singing. That For me, that's
like a gateway step to becoming a full time burner.

(01:11:06):
I'm not ready yet, but that's what Matt's doing. Yeah,
blaze birding on Instagram, the laze. But he's doing really,
really well, and it was wonderful to see him. And
I miss having interns.

Speaker 3 (01:11:20):
I do.

Speaker 6 (01:11:20):
It's Ihart because of a lot of like legal stuff
that was not their fault, had to make having an
intern like the worst experience ever. Just they just had to.
It was just the way it is, right, So we
don't have interns anymore. And I miss Matt the Dead
to me Inn and he said, well, nobody's probably gonna remember.

(01:11:43):
I was like, oh, yeah, they remember. They remember Mandy
from the text line. I think if Mike Kaufman would
run for governor, he might have a chance thoughts. I
don't think he's running for governor in this go round,
I really don't. But what he's doing in Aurora is
it's very, very interesting to watch. There's a big story

(01:12:03):
in the Denver Gazette about the homeless initiative in Aurora.
Aurora is rejecting the failed housing first model, and I
do believe it is a failed housing first model, And
they are going at homelessness looking to solve the problem,
which is people have fallen out of society and they've

(01:12:26):
forgotten how to take care of themselves and be responsible
members of society. Right, so Aurora is trying to fix
the underlying issues by forcing the issue. One of the
things that I hear all the time is that even
when services are offered to homeless people, if there's no

(01:12:47):
reason for them to accept them, they're not accepting them
because I think at some point they convince themselves that
being on the streets is better than somehow being beholden
to someone else or something else, or or it's easier
in a way. And it's obviously not, I want to
be clear about that. It's obviously not. It's horrible, But

(01:13:07):
I think that in their minds they've gone, oh, well,
you know that comes with strings. And this article in
the Denver is that boy howdy. They talk to some
homeless folks and you should hear, Oh, it's so hard.
We just want to get services, but no one's offering
them to us. Guys, that's a load of crap. No
one's offering them in such a way that they feel

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like accepting them would be a good idea. Well that's
about to change in Aurora. Aurora has already started the
Heart the Heart Court, Housing, Employment, Addiction, Recovery and Teamwork
Court last April, and they are using that strictly for
people that violated the law. They have a camping band

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and they're enforcing it, or people that are you know,
doing these sort of petty theft life crimes to you know,
keep their heads above water. Well now they're they're going
to court. And the courts are literally saying, Okay, here's
the deal. You're gonna have to go get some mental
health treatment, some addiction treatment, you're gonna have to get
a job. You're gonna have to figure out how to

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support yourself again. And they don't love that, do not
love that at all, But I'm here for it. Aurora's
Navigation Center is opening soon, and that's really really great news.
One of the biggest issues in Aurora that we don't
really talk about because I think people have sort of
given up on the population there is Aurora schools. Aurora's

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schools are not doing a very good job. They're not.
And I say this because See You Denver has just
announced a partnership with Aurora Public Schools and they are
offering guaranteed admission to See You Denver to Aurora Public
school students that have at least a three point zero

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weighted GPA in their junior year. That sounds great, right,
It sounds so good, But the reality is much different
because what if these kids are not college ready. If
you're not college ready, then here's what happens. You get
into college, you find out you cannot pass the regular

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classes that people have to pass, so then you get
to go to remedial classes. When I was in college,
remedial classes were a point of shame. I love to
tell you anything different, but the reality was if you
went to college and you realized you could not pass
college algebra and you had to go to a remedial
math class, that was a point of shame, and not

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only that, it is a huge time waster because you
don't get college credit for remedial classes. And what I'm
afraid is gonna end up here. So you're gonna have
a bunch of students who are not college ready, who
are gonna go to college and take out a bunch
of loans to take remedial classes that they are not
prepared for, and they're gonna end up dropping out with
all of the debt and none of the degree. Why

(01:16:01):
do I think that because a Urora Public schools. This
is what passes for achievement. In Aurora public schools. In
grades three through eight, twenty four point eight percent of
children can meet or exceed the expectations for the c
mass twenty four point eight percent, and that's the highest number.

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In math, only eighteen point four percent of kids can
do math on grade level or above. And for science,
only ten point seven percent of students can do science
at or above grade level. And we're gonna get these
kids into college. Big problems, my friends, Big problems. We'll

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be right back after this. Keep it on KOA on
the text line. Since I was talking about math a
dead to me. Let me see here blah blah blah blah. Mandy,
who is the young lady that was an intern employee,
that was a reservist in the military, And what is
she up to now that Angie? Angie is doing fantastic.
She has a little baby girl and she and her husband.

(01:17:07):
I think Angie is working for another company that does
sort of similar connected radio stuff. But she's not on
the air. She's doing great. She's doing great, so we
shall find out. Anyway, somebody asked about Mike Kaufman today
running for governor, and I just saw something recently. There's

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a lot of people already on the Republican side for governor,
and one of them is Barb Kirkmeyer. Of course we've
talked to Barb. And then a gentleman, Oh gosh, what
is Victor's last name? Diaz? Victor Diaz? Is that right?
That sounds wrong, but it be right. Out of the
springs has now jumped into the race. He has a

(01:17:51):
lot of people excited about his candidacy. I don't know
anything about demand, so we're gonna have to get him
on the show. But then I saw something that said
somebody did some polling and I don't don't know who
did the polling, and I don't know where the polling
came from, and maybe somebody made this up on Twitter,
but they said something to the effect of it's George
Brockler's race to lose. And I like George. I this

(01:18:13):
would put me in a bit of a pickle because
I like Barb. I think she'd be an amazing governor.
I like George. I think he'd be an amazing governor.
I don't know this Victor character, but we're going to
get to know him, because a lot of people that
I respect are super excited about him. And then we
have all of these other people that have jumped into
the race. This I'm hoping will be a robust primary

(01:18:34):
for governor that will allow us to really sort through
and find the candidate that all the Republicans can get behind.
That would be amazing. But you know, I don't know.
I don't think Mi Kaufman is indicated in any way,
shape or form that he wants to jump into that race.
So we will see about that. A couple of stories

(01:18:55):
that I want to touch on very very quickly. There
is a school board debate tonight in Denver. So the
Denver school Board has a ton and I mean a
ton of candidates in this upcoming race. I am begging
all of you please pay attention to school board races. Please,

(01:19:16):
for the love of God, pay attention to school board races.
This is where all of it starts. Victor Marx, Thank you,
goll Lee, you guys, thank you Victor Marx. I could
I knew it was a four letter word Marx, not
a curse word. But it was a four letter last name.
Thank you Texter for that. I knew that too. It
was in my brain somewhere. I just couldn't pull it out.

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But I need all of you to pay attention to
school board races because some of these races are critical.
They are so important. Cherry Creek, you guys have a
school board race coming up, and your school board and
your superintendent is destroying your district, destroying it. I talked
to a former educator from Cherry Creek not too long ago,

(01:19:59):
like maybe a week ago, and she said, Mandy, teachers
are leaving Cherry Creek in droves droves because of what
they're doing to the district. So you've got to pay
attention to school board races. In Denver, there is a
debate tonight on CBS Denver's YouTube page at seven pm.
You can sit in the comfort of your own home.

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But we have got to get the lunatics off the
school board, period, period, Mandy. Victor Marx is known for
being the world's record holder for the fastest gun disarm,
his high risk humanitarian work rescuing abused in traffic, children
and women. His past is a former US marine and
high level martial artist with a seventh degree black belt,

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and as the founder of All Things Possible Ministries. Okay,
I will get Victor Marx on the show, so we'll
get a little something something there. We'll figure that out.
But I'm encouraged by some of the Republicans that are
running already and maybe there's an opportunity. I do think
whoever is going to run has to run an absolutely

(01:21:04):
flawless campaign. There can be no missteps or mistakes. There
can be nothing for Kyle Clark to glom onto. It
just needs to be a flawless campaign. So, oh, we
have somebody on the text line who's not a fan
of George Brockler. I can't read what they said because
then I would be in trouble and I'm not going

(01:21:25):
to do that. Mandy. I love Grant. He seems to
be doing great. He gives you credit for your advice
and guidance to get him where he is today. Grant
Smith is also one of my favorite interns of all time.
I don't think about Grant being an intern here because
now he's such an important part of the entire team
and he's not my intern anymore. I just think of
him as a coworker and colleague who is just outstanding.

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We've got a great group right now, that's for sure.
Another thing I wanted to talk about, very very quickly
is can we all agree and you guys, I'm not
going to pretend to be this diehard see Buffs fan.
I do watch the Buffs games because here we are,
we're the buff station. I like to know what's going on.
I think Deon Sanders has brought the school energy. But

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the biggest story of the year has to be Ralphie seven.
Ralphie six, the buffalo that used to well. Ralphie Six's
job was to run onto the field and get everybody excite,
and Ralphie six was like, Eh, more of a meander,
I'm more of a I'm more of a walker, slower

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type Buffalo will they replaced Ralphie six with Ralphie seven,
and Ralphie's seven. She is something. I mean, she is something.
And there's a cool story today on the blog about
the family who donated Ralphie seven to SeeU so they
can have a Ralphie that actually wanted to run, much

(01:22:52):
like the football team. By the way, as a side note,
my prayer warriors in the audience, I think that you
guys could say a few prayers for coach Dan Prime
dealing with more health issues and trying to continue to
coach at the same time. If you're the prayerful sort,
go ahead and say a little prayer about that. When
we get back, let's talk about Ballerina getting shamed into

(01:23:13):
lowering their prices. Oh yeah, oh yeah. And CBS News
employees are all gloom and doom and it just to
me says lots and lots of people need to be fired.
Just throwing that out there. We'll be right back. Keep
it on, Kowa. This one just popped onto my radar.

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After many years of Democrats being able to count on
Republicans being blamed for a government shut down, the shoe
is on the other foot. According to a new Harvard
Caps Harris Pole. Approximately two thirds of voters believe Democrats
should accept the continuing Resolution passed by Republicans that would

(01:23:57):
reopen the government, and within the you know, different demographics,
it looks like this. Thirty nine percent of Democrats say
they should accept the continued Resolution, ninety percent of Republicans
say they should, and sixty three percent of Independence say
they should. And it's that independent number that matters right now,

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sixty one percent of Democrats say that they should hold
out until they get additional funds for Obamacare, and only
ten percent of Republicans say that. Thirty seven percent of
Independence agree. Now, I just booked a guest from the
Paragon Institute. They do all kinds of really cool number

(01:24:42):
crunching when it comes to healthcare and stuff like that.
Brian Blaze is the guy we're going to be talking
to you on Thursday. He just posted some information about
Obamacare subsidies. Even as Obamacare premiums have risen dramatically, they're
not being paid by the people on Obamacare. They're being
paid increasingly by the government. And this just proves what

(01:25:08):
I already knew, and that is this Obamacare was never designed, ever, ever, ever,
not for a minute designed to lower health care costs
when they passed Obamacare, yours truly, who let's not forget,
at one point in my adult life was a licensed
insurance agent, so I have a kind of a better

(01:25:28):
working knowledge of how health insurance works than your average
talk show host. And back then, when I read the bill,
one of the first things I said is, this isn't
going to save anybody any money. There was nothing in
it to drive down costs. Nothing, not a single thing
in that bill was designed to bring down costs. What
it was designed to do was to get more people

(01:25:51):
on the government dole paying premiums for their health care
because it was meant to be a mid step on
the way to single payer health care. And that's exactly
what's going on. So we're going to talk to Brian
about how the government has been more and more on
the hook for Obamacare premiums, and now that we're asking
people who were never supposed to be on Obamacare in

(01:26:13):
the first place to go ahead and exit the stage,
people are freaking out and are upset and mad that
they're going to have to pay for all of their
healthcare costs like the rest of us already have to do.

Speaker 4 (01:26:23):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:26:24):
That's not where it ends about the shutdown. Fifty five
percent of Americans polled believe that Democrats are quote playing
games by keeping the government closed because they want to
please their base. Yikes, Fifty five percent of Americans say
they're pleasing their base. Sixty nine percent of Democrats say no, no, no,

(01:26:48):
we have good reasons to shut the government down. Only
the rest of us are not buying it. This is
super bad news for the Democrats, like way, super super
bad news, and very much erodes their position, their bargaining chip,
if you will. When they go in to talk to
the President or talk to Republican leaders, they're basically just

(01:27:09):
going to hold this poll up and say, you guys
are losing. You can lose harder, or you can get
on board and pass this Continuous Resolution, which contains a
whole crapload of spending that Democrats love, just not.

Speaker 5 (01:27:21):
Enough of it.

Speaker 6 (01:27:22):
And that's where we are today. So there you go.
I mentioned this earlier in the show, and I think
it's very very Oh no, I want to talk about
this first. Never mind, I wanted to all talk about
that if I have time, But there's a bigger story.
I want to talk about and you may have heard
this during the January sixth investigations, the Special Counsel Jacksmith's

(01:27:48):
office grabbed cell phone tolling data of US senators. That
means that they grab the information about who the senators called,
how long they spoke with whoever on that number, and
how long those calls last. Now, they didn't actually wired
tap the phone calls, but they gathered up data on

(01:28:11):
US senators, all of whom happened to be Republicans. Huh,
so weird, so weird. The document that was released recently
by the US Senators said FBI special agent conducted the
analysis for nine GOP lawmakers and speaking to the reporters,

(01:28:33):
Grassley Senator Chuck Grassley is alleging that the records violated
the privacy of Republican lawmakers. And no one seems to
be able to explain why this was done, what were
they hoping to get? And does anyone else think it's
kind of outrageous that a democratic administration was in any way,

(01:28:58):
shape or form gathering data on who Republicans were calling.
But the only reason I bring this up is because
the notion that somehow that Donald Trump has weaponized the
DOJ in a way that's never been done before. Is
just completely ridiculous and it's so dumb on its face.
You know, the big difference between the Biden administrations DOJ

(01:29:19):
and the Trump administration's DOJ. All the stuff the Biden
administration did was hidden from us. It was behind closed doors,
so we didn't get to see exactly who was being
targeted and why. With the Trump Department of Justice, they're
being very open about why people like James Comee are
being indicted. They're telling us exactly what they're investigating. Everything

(01:29:41):
is being done on the up and up, like, hey,
here's what we're doing. Like it or not, this is
what's going on. Does one feel more like weaponization than
the other? In my mind, if an administration is saying,
here's what we're doing, here's who we're pursuing, and we're
pursuing them because we believe they broke the law for
these reasons and now we're gonna have to prove it, right,
We're gonna have to prove it in court. Or a

(01:30:04):
Department of Justice that spied on us senators all of
the other party without really giving a reason for doing so,
at the same time that they were launching investigations that
they knew were based on false premises paid for by
a political campaign operative for the other team. I mean,
what feels more like weaponization. I mean, I know what,

(01:30:28):
I know how I feel about that.

Speaker 1 (01:30:31):
I do.

Speaker 6 (01:30:33):
So that that's a story you need to know about.
That's sort of going.

Speaker 1 (01:30:37):
You know.

Speaker 6 (01:30:38):
Yesterday we talked when Ross was on the show Ruining
My Show. We talked about the fact that Barry Weiss
has been named editor in chief of CBS News, and
I love Barry Weiss. I love this move. I would
love to see CBS News be restored to a trustworthy
news organization where people of any political stripe could tune

(01:30:59):
in and get the why, what, where, you know how,
all of that stuff and get the information that they
needed in a way that was just about presenting the
facts instead of presenting the bias of whoever's making the news.
But based on a Guardian article today, Barry wise has
a big uphill battle, like big, big, big uphill battle.

(01:31:24):
So CBS News staffers, according to the Guardian, are unhappy
with miss Weiss's situation. In conversations with The Guardian from
the Guardian, which is a left wing paper over in
the UK. In conversations with The Guardian, six current network

(01:31:44):
employees expressed a mixture of apprehension, skepticism, and frustration over
the appointment, though several stressed they wanted to wait to
see what it would really mean for their network and themselves. One,
particularly in CBS News employees said in a text message,
a throwing up emoji is not enough of a reflection

(01:32:06):
of the feelings in here. Another staffer said, it's utterly
depressing someone who has zero experienced in television news, or
even hard news for that matter. But with a clearly
defined political agenda, it's hard to see this as anything
more than an attempt to bend the knee completely. Isn't
it funny that they don't see their own clearly defined

(01:32:30):
political agenda? That just I mean, there's no cognitive dissonance there.
They've exempted themselves from having a clearly defined political agenda. Now,
some of the people quoted said, look, you know, I'm
interested to see what happens, But that same unnamed employees said,

(01:32:51):
it's early days and we don't know exactly how it's
going to pan out or what she will do with
her role. But she is the last person who should
be brought into c Based on that quote alone, I
would think that she's exactly the right person to be
brought into CBS News. It'll be interesting to see who
leaves and who gets fired from CBS. Funny there's no

(01:33:16):
January sixth cell phone information on the pipe. Bomber says
this Texter good point. Mandy Trump's comments about not paying
workers is wrong. Trump's comments about workers not getting back
pay is solely designed to put pressure on Democrats so
they will pass the Continuing Resolution. Okay, I'm a straight up.

(01:33:37):
That is a nakedly political move. So government workers will
call Democrats freaking out about not getting back pay like
they always have before, and those people will put pressure
on Democrats to pass the continuing Resolution. I would be
shocked if that happened, because you guys have to think.
You have to understand all of these federal workers that

(01:33:59):
are affected by this. These are the people that work
in DC every single day. These are the people that
the president sees every single day, right, so it's got
to be just more pressure. I'd be shocked if he
came out later and said, sorry, we're not doing that.
That would be punitive in a way that Donald Trump
has not necessarily shown himself to be punitive. He's fine

(01:34:23):
being punitive with political enemies. Fine, but I don't think
he've used federal workers as political enemies. I think right
now he's using them as a useful bargaining chip. That's
kind of the way I see it anyway. So again,
it sucks if you're a federal worker hearing that. But

(01:34:43):
the reality is I don't see that happening. I could
be wrong, but there's no upside in Donald Trump following
through with that threat. There's really no upside whatsoever, because
I think even American workers who were like I'm fine
with the shutdown like I am, would feel like that
was punishing the people who did nothing to actually shut

(01:35:03):
down the government. Would I'd be happier that he would
say is, hey, you're not going to pay Congress until
they get this taken care of. Just throwing that out there, Mandy.
That's why everyone over at Channel nine are throwing up,
including Kyle Clark, because they're afraid that if TEGNA takes ownership,

(01:35:23):
they're going to actually have to report unbiased news stories.
We'll see that would be that would be cool. You know,
nine News did a great story that I have today
on the blog and I want to see him. Hang on,
let me find it really quickly because I gave him credit.
Oh the story about ball Arena that I was going
to get to. So nine News is ing on. One second,

(01:35:48):
I've got a huge blog today and I can't get
to where I'm looking at. Okay. So Steve Steger at
nine News did a report comparing the cost of you know,
your your ballpark stuff, your your stadium food, your hot dogs,
your beers, and all that good stuff, and he found
out the ball Arena was the highest in the Metro

(01:36:08):
area when it came to concessions. And guess what happened.
The arena just rolled out the new fan friendly menu,
offering stadium staples for five dollars, including hot dogs previously
priced at seven fifty, pretzels previously priced at eight dollars,
and fountain sodas previously priced at six fifty. So now

(01:36:31):
you can get a hot dog, a pretzel, and a
drink for just five dollars. They even lowered the price
of their beers.

Speaker 5 (01:36:39):
You heard me right.

Speaker 6 (01:36:42):
The most dramatic change affects beer prices. Twenty ounces of
select domestic draft beer will now ten dollars sporting events only.
Why only sporting events? Why is that now for sporting
events only? They had the cheap domestic draft beer among
the major sports venues. So here's what you can get

(01:37:05):
at ball Arena now. Hot dogs five bucks, cheese, nachos
five bucks, popcorn five bucks, candy five bucks, fries five bucks,
jumbo pretzels five bucks. And that's because nine News did
a story on how we're all being gouged at all
these places, and we are. We're being gouged. They can
charge us whatever we want because we can't leave and
come back. Eh, you know, it is what it is.

(01:37:27):
It's their party. We're just showing up, just doing the
things that we need to do. A Rod who is
on deck to ay, Rod just gave me the finger,
not the middle finger. The hold on, Mandy, I'll answer
your question and a second finger. There's a video on
the blog today and I put it on the blog
because I want this person to understand that is diligently

(01:37:54):
as this gentleman, and I use the term gentleman loosely,
is working on making Pride a wonderful event for gay
people and their supporters. This video of this man screaming
at the top of his lungs, curse words and saying
Jesus wasn't really born. This is why people hate pride,

(01:38:16):
really all in one video. It could happen if they
just were, I mean, just trying to be nicer. Is
that Is that too much to ask anyone? Anyone?

Speaker 2 (01:38:34):
Man?

Speaker 6 (01:38:34):
I have so much good stuff on the blog today
that I didn't get to, including an entire story about
astronaut farts in space. You did not get my reference
when I read the blog foight it's space people my
age totally got that. That was a pigs in space
reference from the Muppet Show, and that's how they d

(01:38:56):
pigs it space. It was good. It was really good anyway, Muppets.
And now it's time for the most exciting segment all
the radio of its kind in the world.

Speaker 5 (01:39:16):
Of the day.

Speaker 6 (01:39:17):
Ryan Edward's tearing it up on the whatever he said,
it's all fine, fellow, Yeah, it's all good. What is
our dad joke of the day? Please?

Speaker 4 (01:39:25):
This is a good one. Makes you think for a
half second. Okay, I finally did it. I bought a
new pair of shoes with memory foam insoles. No more
forgetting why I walked into the kitchen. Yeah, oh, I
like that one because that's my life right now.

Speaker 6 (01:39:40):
Why did I just walk upstairs? Well, you know, when
you get older, I know it's happening. Anyway, let's talk
about our word of the day. Please.

Speaker 5 (01:39:49):
It is a verb verb premi eight? What premiate? Premi eight?
I know what permeate is pream per pre.

Speaker 6 (01:40:00):
Previate something that that precedes something else, something that goes
before something else. You premiate the next.

Speaker 4 (01:40:09):
Thing you're thinking, whelm of like premeditate, right, yes, but
that's all I got.

Speaker 5 (01:40:14):
That's all I got, Ryan, Yeah, I got nothing.

Speaker 3 (01:40:15):
I like this.

Speaker 4 (01:40:16):
Premiate to grants a prize or an award to Yeah,
it doesn't sound right, but.

Speaker 6 (01:40:23):
Nice, there you go, I mean, but okay, whatever, it's
all good anyway. Today's trivia question. Where in the world
can you find a mum No, where in the world
can you find a museum exclusively dedicated to watermelons?

Speaker 5 (01:40:41):
That's in the south.

Speaker 6 (01:40:44):
Where in the world I just looked at the answer,
so I can't.

Speaker 5 (01:40:47):
Protest Alabama, Arkansas.

Speaker 6 (01:40:50):
Where in the worlds Where in the world the US? Huh,
it's in the countryside just south of Beijing, China. An
area known for its water in production. The China Watermelon
Museum explores the history of watermelons, watermelon growing methods, in
the role that watermelons play in Chinese culture. What is
our Jeopardy category?

Speaker 7 (01:41:10):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:41:10):
I love this one, even though I don't know if
you two will movies by quote, they're really well known.

Speaker 5 (01:41:15):
No, so okay, even for the movie goers. I feel
the need. What is top gun?

Speaker 7 (01:41:22):
Can you finish it?

Speaker 4 (01:41:23):
I feel the need, the need for speed. That's an
extra point two zero out and I'm just skid all right,
here we go. Look at me, Look at me? I
am the captain now.

Speaker 5 (01:41:32):
Ryan, Brian? What is Captain Phillips? That is correct? It's
like that movie and affair to remember, She's gonna meet
him at.

Speaker 6 (01:41:41):
The top of the What is when Harry met Salad?

Speaker 1 (01:41:43):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:41:43):
No, no, no, Ryan, Ryan? What is sleeplessness?

Speaker 1 (01:41:49):
Dang it?

Speaker 4 (01:41:49):
If the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates
don't eat?

Speaker 5 (01:41:54):
What is Jurassic Park? The tourists correct.

Speaker 6 (01:41:57):
Well, Ryan's killing me and I don't even know this one.

Speaker 5 (01:42:00):
It's just for fun, so let me finish it. I
know who I am. I'm a dude playing the dude
this guys is another dude. Ryan was traffic. That is correct.

Speaker 6 (01:42:10):
Ryan gets the sweep today. That was a solid winter, Ryan,
I got nothing over here. No, I have minus one
over here.

Speaker 5 (01:42:17):
You did worse than this week?

Speaker 6 (01:42:19):
Yeah, okay, we could do that. You know what, they
can't all be winners.

Speaker 8 (01:42:22):
You know.

Speaker 7 (01:42:23):
It's one of those deals where I have a lot
of useless information and most of it has to do
with movies.

Speaker 5 (01:42:27):
That's really what There you go, Yeah, it was that's
your jam.

Speaker 6 (01:42:30):
What's coming up on KAA Sports?

Speaker 5 (01:42:31):
Oh, we're have some fun. We have your bowls from
London off the top of the show.

Speaker 7 (01:42:35):
What time is it there on ten o'clock? That's dedication, Yeah,
this is dedication. So he's gonna call in at ten
o'clock London time, Shelby Harris, who's back stateside. He was
in London over the weekend. And then we'll have Rod
Smith is Judy at five o'clock.

Speaker 5 (01:42:49):
So watch some fun.

Speaker 6 (01:42:50):
I that sounds awesome. That's all coming up on KAA
Sports tomorrow. We've got weather Wednesday and not a whole
bunch of other stuff planned. It could be a great show,
could be horrible' No, you're just gonna have to tune in,
find out until then, keep it right here on k
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