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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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No, it's Mandy Connell, Andy Condall on KOA, n FM.

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Got way say the ny three by Connell Keith.

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You really sad thing.

Speaker 4 (00:27):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Wednesday edition of the show.
Yes Wednesday. I'm your host, the befuddled Mandy Connell, joining
me the unbefuddled Anthony Rodriguez you can call him a rod.

Speaker 5 (00:43):
Together.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
We will take you right up until three p m.
When the geniuses of the Sports show take over. And
I wasn't even being that sarcastic when I said that,
I mean a little, but not a lot, not a lot.
They're all smart in their own way. Let's go straight
to the blog because we got a big show and
we got a lot of stuff to talk about. And wow,
it's it's been. It's it's a day out there. It's

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beautiful right now, beautiful. Find the blog by going to
mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. When you get there,
you can just go to the latest post section and
then look for the headline that says ten eight twenty
five blog Will Lamas take the Trump deal or chuse death.
Click on that and here are the headlines you will

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find within.

Speaker 5 (01:29):
I didn't do in office?

Speaker 6 (01:30):
Half American all with ships and clipmas a seen that's
going to press plant.

Speaker 5 (01:35):
Today on the blog. What a glorious day to talk weather? Whatever?

Speaker 4 (01:39):
Will Almas do?

Speaker 5 (01:40):
What happens when you make crime easier?

Speaker 7 (01:42):
Y'all?

Speaker 4 (01:43):
We've got to save Dolly blatant viewpoint discrimination? Hey, Denver,
here's your school board debate. Yes, organizations can be citizens.
Glenwood Springs is getting speed cameras. More on that Harvard poll.

Speaker 5 (01:55):
That's super fun. Scrolling, scrolling, scrolling.

Speaker 4 (02:02):
Representative Bob Marshall as beatable in Douglas County. That time
Bill Clinton explained that Hamas hides among citizens. Gen Z
isn't ready for the workplace. How China can take Taiwan
using the green energy scam? It's expensive to live in Denver,
Harvard degrees or crap? Now Crede Thumberg's scoldly mask slips

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you guys. This ai is scary good And now Jesus
plays for all the Yankees. Nope, still don't care about
Lebron James. This is why I'm investing in small modular
reactor companies. A Rod's super cute side hustle. How to
fully restore Broncos on the high Road. Garrett Bowles on
from London, The perfect song for Trevor Lawrence's touchdown. John Stewart,

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Ken Sucket, Jimmy Kimmel's boom was shorter than a good fart.
Those are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot
com tech Toe a winner, Yes it was, Nancy, Yes
it was. And the story the last story on the block.
Sometimes because I write all my own headlines. I know
you're shocked. You're like Mandy. You don't have your staff

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of Minions take care.

Speaker 5 (03:10):
Of the headline.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
No, I do it to all myself. I have no
staff of Minion. I have a Rod who's way better
than a Minion editor in chief. Yes, who doesn't actually read.

Speaker 5 (03:21):
The blog most days. That is not true.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
I did this headline.

Speaker 5 (03:24):
No, no, no, that is not true. Okay, because I
have to edit it all the time. Jimmy Kimmel's boom
was shorter than a good fart. That is my favorite
headline of the year.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
Anthony make a note so when we give out the
brand new annual Best Headlines of the Year awards, we'll
know exactly where to go. So I actually have in
my calendar on my phone. I have for like a
month and three weeks, two weeks check Jimmy Kimmel's ratings
because I was like, there's no way he's going to

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sustain this boom that he got.

Speaker 5 (03:59):
But I figured it would take longer than four days.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
I was wrong.

Speaker 8 (04:04):
I was wrong.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
On Thursday, October second, Jimmy Kimmel Live average just one
point nine million total viewers, down from the six point
five million who tuned in for his hotly anticipated comeback
among the coveted twenty five to fifty four demographics. The
hemorrhage was even worse, with Kimmel drawing only two hundred
and sixty five thousand viewers, an eighty five percent nosedive

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from the one point seven million he had scored just
days earlier.

Speaker 5 (04:37):
But he needed to be saved. He's so funny.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
A show is not saved on the ratings of one
night alone. This is hilarious. And here's why it's even
more hilarious. Now ABC is stuck with it. Now, ABC
can't fire Jimmy Kimmel because they're going to be a
accused of censorship of kneeling to the Trump administration. So

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God only knows how much they're losing on this show
every year. I mean really, I know that Jimmy Kimmel
is doing a lot of other stuff for ABC. They're
promoting all kinds of different little shows that they've got
with Jimmy Kimmel.

Speaker 5 (05:18):
But the late night show, eh, it's not doing well.
So now ABC is stuck with it.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
They're just stuck with it around their necks like an albatross,
and they deserve it anyway, moving on, that made me
that may see you know what, that's awful. Now I
feel guilty. That's terrible. I was engaging in shouting fraud.
I'm trying not to do that, and I know some
people it's like is shouting fraud out? Whatever, It's fine.
It's German nine spreknzy Deutsch. Okay, I say it how

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I say it. But that's not the blog as well.
At the very bottom, you can check out all those
statistics and I link to a story with even more
great news about the ratings of Jimmy Kimmel. It is funny, though,
those people who were so passionate about free speech, you
would think that they could find it in their hearts
to stick around for I don't know, seven days and

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really show how passionate they were about mister Kimmel. But
you know what, I have a feeling they realized Jimmy
Kimmel's just not entertaining.

Speaker 7 (06:20):
How many of those people that defended him do you
think actually watched the show for the first time and
we were like, oh, this is what We were.

Speaker 4 (06:26):
Like, that's probably fair. They no, they would never admit it.
You know what it is there, I'm gonna watch it tonight,
but then, you know what, I don't really stay up
for late night TVs. I'm I'm not really the demo.
So I'm just gonna stay up this night to make
a point and then I'm not gonna watch anymore because
I wasn't watching before, so we didn't. The sad thing is, Anthony,

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if you and I had the opportunity knowing that all
of a sudden, we were gonna have every ear ear
hole in Denver paying attention to this show. I'm not
saying we don't try every day people, but I can
assure you that Mandy Connell and Anthony Rodriguez would have
a show put together for the next month and a half.

Speaker 5 (07:09):
That would blow the doors off every day.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
It would be so good that all of those three
billion ear holes that I got for.

Speaker 5 (07:16):
That one moment would come back. And he can't do that.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
He's been completely unable to convert more unearned media than
has been given since the launch of Air America.

Speaker 7 (07:30):
After this reinvigoration, we're going to do this status quo exactly.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
He couldn't even figure out how to get him to
stick around, and that is a squandered opportunity and honestly,
such a sad and terrible commentary on that program.

Speaker 5 (07:48):
He's he's down.

Speaker 4 (07:50):
Below where he was before the kerfuffle. Holy cow, talk
about a wasted opportunity. Dummy. Anyway, up at twelve thirty,
we're going to talk to Fox thirty one chief meteorologist.
If you just look outside right now, it is lovely.
All of my flowers from the summer are blooming again.

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They think it's like, oh, it's spring, I'm supposed to
be doing my jam right now. My deck looks amazing,
although they're covered with leaves, but whatever, it's fine. Then
at two point thirty, we're going to talk to the
Foundation for the Defense of democracies. Cliff May, He's got
to call him in the Washington Times.

Speaker 5 (08:28):
And in it he does.

Speaker 4 (08:30):
Cliff does something really, really well that most people who
have conversations about what's going on in Israel and Gaza
don't do, and that is he provides the backstory that
so many people are missing. One of the reasons that
so many young people are anti Israel is because they
are being fed a narrative. And increasingly I am now

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seeing more and more information about the fact that cutter Qatar.
Qatar has done the China strategy in our university system.
Them They've donated billions of dollars to American universities. And
if you don't think billions of dollars buy you the
ability to spread a certain line of propaganda, you're not

(09:13):
paying attention. Why do you think colleges are hotbeds of
anti Semitism? More and more evidence coming out China has
been doing this for years through the Confucius Institutes, right,
and they have tamped down a lot of information about
China and about communism very successfully on college campuses. Well,
Qatar is well, they they're playing from the same playbook.

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American universities should only take money from foreign entities under
one circumstance that the check comes with nothing else. No
access to the president, no on campus, you know, offices,
none of that. If you want to donate money to

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make universities, great, great, donate money, but that's all it
gets you. Those a your limitations, and there's got to
be a hard wall that goes up between the university
and those nations. And even then, I'm skeptical, extremely skeptical. Anyway,
we're gonna talk to Cliff me about that at two thirty.
I want to jump into it. There's a couple things

(10:16):
that I want to just jump into. One of them
is on the blog today. I embedded the Denver school
board debate from last night. It's two hours long. There's
a ton of candidates and you guys, I I am
going to do something I have not done ever. I've
never done this before. I'm going to do a voter

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guide for school board races because we have got to
start paying closer attention to the people on the school board.
If you're in Jefferson County public schools, holy crap, people,
do you even know what's going on in your school
district right now? Do you have any clue how bad

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your superintendent is. Kerry Creek Schools, which used to be
the gold standard, the district everybody wanted to be in,
they are actually sliding backwards now because they have taken
their ball off the achievement prize, which is what every
school district should be focused on like a laser. Are
we helping students achieve at the highest level they can achieve?

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That should be the sole endeavor of every single school district.
And now it's we've got to do away with a
valedictorian and Cherry Creek Schools because it's gonna make.

Speaker 5 (11:29):
Kids feel bad.

Speaker 4 (11:31):
Well, if they didn't work their butt off hard enough
to become valedictorian, they deserve to feel bad. I only
feel bad for the kids that are right at the
top and just don't make the cut. I feel bad
for those kids. For the rest of them.

Speaker 5 (11:44):
No, so there are some very important school board races.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
The Denver Public Schools Board got some fresh blood in
the last election cycle, but we've only got two members
with any sense of sanity. Two members of the Denver
School Board are not insane or full of bad ideas.
I shouldn't call them all insane. I should just say
some of them are full of bad ideas. And here's

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the qualifier for this school board race in Denver. If
you don't look up anything else, look up how they
feel about the current superintendent and how he's doing his job.
If they are complimentary, if they indicate that they would
keep him, if they don't think he is doing a
terrible job and needs to be.

Speaker 5 (12:27):
Replaced, do not vote for them. Vote for the.

Speaker 4 (12:30):
People who say, you know what, he's not exactly living
up to the expectations. But he, of course he's living
up to the expectations because he set them, and he
set them so incredibly low that a caterpillar could get
over them with ease. So the school board elections set
the tone for everything. And I'm not exaggerating. Why do

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you think we have so much anti semitism because of
what schools are teaching, and it is in our school
systems and our districts and the priorities that they are
putting forth. Why do you think it is that kids
simply cannot read and write because we're putting other things
way less important in the grand scheme of things ahead
of reading and writing. You know, I mentioned the other

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day the Mississippi Miracle and if you haven't heard about this,
it is fascinating. It is so fascinating. And the Mississippi
miracle is that several years ago Mississippi, which was long
on the bottom of the educational heap, decided that they
were going to use evidence based curriculums to teach kids
how to read. What that means is they chose curriculums

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that included things like phonics and learning a word by
sounding it out, the same way we all learn how
to read, y'all. They don't teach it that way anymore.
Oh No, the way they teach it now is so stupid.
It's not even it's unbelievable. Hey, kids, look at the
pictures and just guess I'm not even kidding. That's an
actual thing anyway. So Mississippi has gone from the very

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very bottom. They're not at the top of the pack yet,
not at all, not even a little bit. They're in
the middle, but they're not at the bottom. And here's
what I want out of a Denver Public schools candidate.
I want a candidate who says it's not okay that
we have black and brown children that have fallen so
far behind, and we're going to figure out a way

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to teach them with their individual limitations being taken into account.
But we're going to figure out how to bring these
populations forward. That's what I want. I want somebody to
not just give platitudes about racism or some crap like that,
give me answers. There are people in other states that
are doing it, so why can't we? Because that is

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you know, that's all I want to hear from school
board candidates. And we've got some big, big, big school
board elections coming up, and these are the people that
are educating our kids. They are turning them into little
communists or they're not. You know, you pick pick your
fighter as they say, Oh my gosh, Arod, can we
talk about the video that you sent me of the
founding fathers? Well, Abe Lincoln isn't a founding father, but

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Abe Lincoln and George Washington wrestling?

Speaker 8 (15:10):
Where did you?

Speaker 5 (15:11):
This is the new Ai Sora. That's you, guys.

Speaker 9 (15:14):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (15:15):
Whatever you're doing unless you're driving. If you're driving, keep driving.
If you're not driving, if you're doing something else, stop.
Go to mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the latest postsection,
look for today's blog, and scroll down until you see
the video of the Founding Fathers, or a headline that
says this AI is insane.

Speaker 5 (15:33):
Because it is this AI is scary good.

Speaker 4 (15:36):
Click on that. So anybody can use this platform if
you've done stuff on Sora.

Speaker 5 (15:40):
No, because it costs money. How much does it cost?
I think it's more than Chad Gubt, But I don't
think it's too much.

Speaker 4 (15:47):
Sounds like twenty bucks. I mean, that's why I hired
Chat as my assistant. And they don't require any benefits whatsoever,
and they give me no lip, no lip from Chat.
So the video is of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln
in a professional wrestling match, and to say it's realistic

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is to really I mean, you guys, can you can
if you know you're looking for AI, you can tell
it's AI, right, But all I could think of was
we are very very close, and a Rod said some
version of this yesterday. We're very very close to seeing
a video of a world leader declaring war on the
rest of the world, and we're gonna see it quickly

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and it's wit past us and we're gonna think it's real.
That's how this feels. I mean, this is like crazy stuff,
really crazy stuff. And now I'm figuring out, like, how
do you you know? As a person in the media.
I don't want people making videos of me unless I
look really good in them and I seem super smart.

(16:52):
If they're flattering, I'll allow it. If they're insulting, I
will sue you. So I feel like, you know, I
should have a lawyer on retainer. I always love that.
I'll have my attorney call you on TV shows, like
everybody in the world has an attorney. Do you have
an attorney? I don't have an attorney. I've got contexts.

Speaker 5 (17:12):
Great now I'm the only one that doesn't have an attorney.

Speaker 9 (17:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (17:14):
Ever since my dad died, I don't have an attorney.

Speaker 4 (17:17):
He was always my attorney.

Speaker 5 (17:18):
He would give me the best advice and then tell
me to call a real attorney. Anyway, he was a
real attorney.

Speaker 4 (17:25):
When we get back from this break, coming up, I
want to talk about a column our friend Mike O'Donnell
wrote for the Rocky Mountain Voice. And there are so
many opportunities for Republicans in the state of Colorado right now,
based on nothing else other than the statistics in Colorado

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since Democrats took over. And Mike does a crunch on
crime statistics, and the numbers are horrifying, absolutely horrifying. And
what makes it even worse is that according to the FBI,
and this is that Mike did a deep dive on
the FBI's database. According to the FBI, violent crimes across

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the entire United States decrease twenty seven percent. In Colorado
violent crime increased by whopping fifty two percent. I mean,
that's kind of stunning, really really stunning. Anyway, we're gonna

(18:41):
talk about that. We're going to do a deep dive
on that in just a moment. As a matter of fact,
let me go ahead and take a break. When we
come back, we're going to do that. And I also
want to talk about the fact that this polling data
says Republicans have a chance.

Speaker 8 (18:54):
Now.

Speaker 4 (18:55):
I know a lot of you are registered Republicans that
listen to the show. I do have some Democrats, and
I welcome everyone, but there's all whole bunch of independence
that are in this mix. I also want to talk
about in the next half hour. Oh no, we's got
Dave Fraser coming up next day. We'll take you to
that in the one o'clock hour. Never mind, it's me
Mandy Connell and Dave Fraser from Fox thirty one.

Speaker 5 (19:12):
Hello, Dave, how are you?

Speaker 6 (19:15):
I'm good, I will say, you always make me laugh
a little bit. I'm listen. I always love to listen
to you before I jump on with you, just to
see what's going on. And we're doing this, and we're
doing this in the next half, we're going to talk
about Oh, don we got to talk.

Speaker 5 (19:27):
I know, we'll do that way to pump you up right.
I'm sorry about that.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
I do.

Speaker 5 (19:33):
I get excited.

Speaker 4 (19:34):
I can't help it.

Speaker 5 (19:34):
Only she had a calendar that would tell her upcoming.

Speaker 4 (19:37):
Oh oh wait, stop it, Dave. Today is a pretty
nice day outside, a little warm for me, but that's okay.

Speaker 8 (19:48):
Is this our last?

Speaker 5 (19:49):
Is this our last gasp of summer?

Speaker 6 (19:55):
You know, it's the way things have been going. I
don't want to confirm yes or no. I do think
the temperatures of the next few days, you know, getting
closer to eighty eighty one degrees tomorrow, Uh, probably going
to tone that down a little bit. But even next week,
you know, we're looking at upper sixties and low seventies.
So I still think it'll have that warm feeling to it.

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But I won't you know, it's not going to be
any summer heat coming our way. We're just going to
be right now. The average is about sixty seven sixty eight,
so it will be about that by three to five
degrees for several more days.

Speaker 5 (20:27):
That does not suck. It does not suck at all.

Speaker 4 (20:29):
I've got a couple of people asking, when are we
going let me see, when will we have below forty
degrees at night? I have hanging baskets of plants. They
do not like below forty degrees. Thanks, and a little
heart gave so she gave you a heart as well.

Speaker 6 (20:43):
Okay, you know right now the forecast is going to
keep the lows above forty degrees, not a lot. We're talking,
you know, forty four to forty five. We were at
forty one.

Speaker 8 (20:52):
This morning, and so you know we're there. I don't
think we're in a concern for you.

Speaker 6 (20:58):
Know, any temperatures coming up to the next seven to
potentially ten days that are going to be hard freeze
that kind of stuff. I'm not looking at thirties or
close to thirties. I'm seeing maybe late next week, maybe
we get into the upper thirties. But at this point
I think you're okay at least through the weekend early
next week, but always keep an eye on the forecast

(21:18):
for those overnight lows because at this time of the
year can change. And yesterday, October seventh is our average
date for a first freeze. We passed that, and I
don't think we're going to get there anytime.

Speaker 5 (21:29):
So my summer plants have started blooming again. They look great.

Speaker 4 (21:33):
I mean, they look really really fantastic, which all this
rain we've had has just been really really nice. Hey.
Rod asked the question that everybody wants the answer to.

Speaker 5 (21:41):
Yeah, well, some people, Dave.

Speaker 7 (21:42):
I'm not naming names, So some people might have some
outdoor portion of Halloween parties on Halloween that may or
may not be a minorly concerned about the weather.

Speaker 5 (21:50):
And are we going to get that first know that
day or not. That's pretty much what I want to know.

Speaker 6 (21:55):
Yeah, well, obviously obviously I know who's having the party.
That's way outside of a ten day forecast. You know,
this is a snow month for US. Four inches on
average is what we see. We've had many Octobers that
don't hold up to that average, and we've had other
ones that, you know, blast us early. I looked at

(22:15):
the long range outlook, and right now through the twenty
first twenty second the pattern continues to look warm and
a little bit wet. But I think there could be
a pattern shift somewhere around that twenty to twenty two.

Speaker 8 (22:30):
Date, a little too far out to get into any details.

Speaker 6 (22:33):
And by pattern shift, I'm not talking a hard right
turn into snow and cold, but maybe something that looks
a little more like fall, maybe a little bit of
a nipping in the thirties for overnight low. So we'll
keep an eye on that. But today's the eighth. You're
talking ten plus days out. No, I will put on

(22:54):
I will put on my calendar Halloween forecast specifically for
those that ask the question.

Speaker 4 (22:59):
Answer perfect, all right this Texter, Mandy, Can Dave use metric?

Speaker 5 (23:04):
Please?

Speaker 4 (23:04):
No, We're in America, we don't use metric. I answered
that for you, Dave. I'm just going to shut that
down right now, Mandy. I had a question for mister Fraser.
All the social media meteorologists are posting the euro model
for the crazy snow totals for winter.

Speaker 5 (23:21):
What are your thoughts? And I'm going to add to this, Dave.

Speaker 4 (23:24):
First of all, what is the euro model, and does
it say we're going to get a lot of snow?

Speaker 3 (23:28):
What is that?

Speaker 6 (23:31):
So there are a bunch of models that we look at.
There is the American model, the GFS, we have the
we have high resolution models that we look at. You
do have a European model that is run by the
European Union. You also have a Canadian model, and they
all give slight variations. They're designed with different algorithms, different
mathematical computations. What data they ingest to come up with

(23:55):
their output for forecast data. Again, I don't put a
lot of credibility and long range outlooks anymore than I
would the Farmer's Almanac for a winter season.

Speaker 9 (24:07):
I look at the you know, like the we talk about.

Speaker 6 (24:09):
La Nina and El Nino and whether that's a factor.
This looks like it could be leaning a little more
La Nina, which would put us about average in Denver.
And I do think my interpretation of the upcoming winter
last year we had big storms.

Speaker 8 (24:23):
And then long periods of nothing.

Speaker 6 (24:25):
If you're last November we got a twenty three inch snowstorm.
I think this year it won't be we won't be
seeing those wild swings. We'll be seeing maybe two and
four inch storms, and they're a little closer together so
that they're not spread out by long dry gaps. And
at the end of the season, which for us isn't
really until you know, April May, we'll probably end up

(24:46):
close to normal, which for Denver's about fifty six inches. Yeah,
we could come up a little shy of that. Last
year we ended up at forty eight. So I'm thinking
in that same ballpark, somewhere around fifty to fifty two
inches when it's all said and down. But again, I'm
standing back literally looking at some data, but not hanging
my hat on one computer model. You just can't do that.

(25:06):
If you write one computer model, generally it's gonna bust
on you at some point.

Speaker 5 (25:11):
One last question.

Speaker 4 (25:12):
We kind of talked about this a little bit earlier,
but let's just make it clear. Any sign on the
first frost so this person can get their sprinklers blown.

Speaker 6 (25:20):
Out, I wouldn't worry about your sprinklers for right now,
at least for the next seven to ten days. Enjoy it.
As Mandy said, if you look out and about, we're
getting some vibrant fall colors, even though we've had warm
days we've had enough moisture from time to time. The
trees know it's that time of the year. But the
grasses look good, the natural sage brushes look good. Some
of the plants in the pots look really, really good.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
I've got royal.

Speaker 6 (25:44):
Oaks in the back of my property, three of them tall.
They're big, fat green leaves, and they don't show.

Speaker 8 (25:49):
Any hint of fall, so I wouldn't be concerned.

Speaker 6 (25:52):
About sprinklers and blowing them out. Don't overrun them because
if you've mowed you lawng lately, you're not cutting a
lot off. You're just srming it. It's not growing as
much as it did during you know, say two or
three or four weeks ago. You still got to mow it,
but you're not getting that big growth, So don't overwater it.
But you know, don't blow your sprinkers out yet. You
want to keep watering those trees and plants.

Speaker 5 (26:11):
If we hit dry patches, do we have.

Speaker 4 (26:13):
Any big wind events, we might be looking forward to
blow down the rest of the pine needles that didn't
fall on my house this weekend, although I'm pretty sure
most of them did, and I'm fine with that, Like,
let's knock it out right, let's just deal with it
in one fell swoop.

Speaker 5 (26:26):
But what are the rest coming down? Anything on the horizon.

Speaker 6 (26:30):
No, As a matter of fact, we generally think of
this as a very windy season.

Speaker 9 (26:33):
To do exactly that.

Speaker 6 (26:34):
Knocked on the pine needles and knock.

Speaker 8 (26:35):
Down the leaves and just don't see any big wind.

Speaker 6 (26:38):
Events coming up.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
One of the things you'll.

Speaker 6 (26:40):
See in my forecast tonight is a slight change. We
added in a few late day showers Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
I had Sunday in but I had a Friday Saturday.
And that's because there's a tropical storm Priscilla. It's gonna
turn up through the Baja head towards Arizona, and some
of that moisture is gonna come our way. So we
do have some possible good moisture coming. It's not gonna
be widespread, it's not gonna be heavy, but some spotty
showers Friday, Saturday and Sunday which will go a long

(27:02):
way and keeping things looking the way they are.

Speaker 4 (27:04):
Amen to that Dave Fraser, you can watch him on
Fox thirty one. I strongly recommend their Pinpoint Weather app
as someone who has multiple weather apps, because I don't
trust any of you people. Dave. I do find you
guys to be the most accurate. I tell Chuck all
the time because he is. He has like four different
weather apps than I have, and I'm always like, no,
mine is more accurate than yours, and it generally is.

Speaker 5 (27:25):
So make that happen, Dave.

Speaker 4 (27:26):
Good to chat.

Speaker 5 (27:27):
Well to chat with you again next week.

Speaker 6 (27:30):
All right, I'm looking I'm gonna get ramped up for
your one o'clock hour.

Speaker 8 (27:33):
It's really interesting.

Speaker 4 (27:34):
Sounds like it's gonna be a blast, and that Dave
Fraser won't be holding us back anymore. All right, when
we get back, I don't want to get into the
FBI stuff just yet, the crime stats.

Speaker 6 (27:45):
But I do.

Speaker 4 (27:46):
What would you what do you call it when you're
a year away from something, like when you're a year
has something that's your first anniversary? So what if it
hasn't happened yet and it's happening in a year from today?
What is that? A? Is there a word for that? Anybody?

Speaker 5 (28:04):
I don't think so text me at five six six.

Speaker 4 (28:06):
I know if you know the word, I'm going to
see and I'll tell you what I'm talking about when
we get back. You're all sending in the best suggestions.

Speaker 5 (28:11):
I did look it up. I had my assistant chat
check it out.

Speaker 4 (28:13):
There is no word for the anticipation of something that
happens in a year, but this texter came right through, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (28:21):
It's anticip perversary. Yes, I like that, but I got
one way simpler. What just came up with it?

Speaker 9 (28:28):
Just now?

Speaker 5 (28:28):
What pre niversary?

Speaker 6 (28:30):
Ooh?

Speaker 4 (28:30):
Free aniversary is good?

Speaker 7 (28:32):
Happy one year preniversary? Yes sounds great, rolls off the top.

Speaker 5 (28:36):
Oh, I like that a lot. But anticiperversary is nice too.

Speaker 4 (28:39):
A little requires a little more action from your mouth
when you get it down this textor in the army,
when you wake up at less than a year, counted
down the days, so today you'll be three sixty five.

Speaker 5 (28:50):
In a wake up.

Speaker 4 (28:50):
We use that in our house when we're talking about vacation. Mandy,
the word you're looking for is vestibule. Wait, sorry, that's
inner ear you wanted in a year. Never mind. See
how great these textures are today. Mandy getting closer to
being elderly with four weather apps on her phone. Go
darn tutin. My dad loves looking at weather apps and

(29:12):
his ring cameras all day on. You know what, don't
hate me, because I like to have a really good
idea of what the weather's going to be like. Okay,
I'd just like to be prepared. One year from today,
me Chuck and the Queue in her last appearance on

(29:32):
a Mandy Cuttle Adventure, we'll be leaving for Europe and
you can go with us. Now, a little something something
about this trip next year. It is taking off Thursday,
October eighth, twenty twenty six, and we've already.

Speaker 5 (29:47):
Sold about half the trip.

Speaker 4 (29:48):
We actually had sold more than half the trip just
from prior travelers, and now we had to make it
a little bit bigger. So we made the trip a
little bit bigger and now we have some more space.
But next year, we're going to start off by flying
to Zurich, Switzerland, and that's gonna be quick, and then
we are going to drive from Zurich to Lucerne in Switzerland. Now,
you guys know, I love Switzerland a lot, a whole

(30:10):
bunch love, love, love Switzerland, and we're gonna say Lake Lucern,
which is absolutely gorgeous, and then we travel to Basel, Switzerland,
where we're going to go to the Lint, home of chocolate. Yes,
they have a whole museum. They have a giant lint
chocolate right in the front as you walk in. Then

(30:31):
we hop on a beautiful river cruise ship and we
are going to sail up the Rhine River. You heard
me right, We're going to sail right up there. And
we stop in so many cool places. We stop in Freeburg,
which is the heart of the Black Forest. The Black
Forest is, in my opinion, the most beautiful part of Germany.
It is stunning, I mean really really stunning.

Speaker 8 (30:55):
Then we go on to.

Speaker 4 (30:55):
Strasburg and Kiel Heidelberg or the home of heidelbol Cast.

Speaker 5 (31:00):
I've been to a lot of these places before.

Speaker 4 (31:02):
Cannot wait to go back and show Chuck and Cue
the Heidelberg Castle, which is absolutely stunning. Then we go
into Kobelan's. We go on to Cologne and Dusseldorf and
then end in Amsterdam and fly home from Amsterdam. You
need to go with us. These trips are so much fun,
so much fun, and some of my favorite travelers are
coming with us from prior trips. So if you've ever

(31:24):
wanted to hang out with a bunch of Mandy Connell adventures.
Oh and I think my mom is going on this
trip with us. Pretty sure my mom's going with us.
So you meet the whole fam. Go to Mandyconnell trip
dot com. Mandyconnell trip dot com. That was a year
a year from now, this text messager? That was perverse?

Speaker 5 (31:44):
What was perverse? I don't do perverse things? Perverted? No,
was something perverse?

Speaker 4 (31:52):
Hey, Rod? Now do you ever I'm looking this up
because now I've got perverse. I think I know what
it means, boy, but I'm not sure. Uh definition, Okay,
showing a deliberate and obstinate desire to behave in a
way that is unreasonable or acceptable, often in spite of

(32:14):
the consequences. I don't think I did anything perverse, did I.
I'm gonna go back and listen to the tape, No idea,
it's gonna be that kind of day. Good news you guys.
Dolly Partner was very worried about her earlier today. Dolly
Parton is a national treasure. Do you know anybody who
doesn't like Dolly Parton? And maybe they'll love her music?
I'm not talking about because country music isn't for everyone,

(32:37):
but everyone in the world loves Dolly Parton. If somebody
doesn't love Dolly Parton, we'd be like, what's wrong with you?

Speaker 7 (32:44):
How do you not like Dolly Parton? Well, and now
we have young Dolly Parton. What who's young Dolly Parton Carpenter?
Oh no, absolutely, no, absolutely, And I don't.

Speaker 4 (32:55):
Hate Sabriena Carpenter. To be clear, I like Sabrina Carpenter,
but she is not remotely where Doll is in my opinion,
in what way I'm talking about just the way she sounds,
the way she sounds, Yes, I could get That's that's
where I'm going. Dolly has always had a girl next door,
very sweet vibe to her, but she looked kind of
like her. The way she looked did not match her

(33:16):
music and personality. And and I just don't And again
I have nothing against the bringa Carpenter. I just don't
think Dolly's sister put out a things said, y'all pray
for my sister Dolly.

Speaker 5 (33:26):
She's just not feeling her best.

Speaker 4 (33:28):
So I did. I was like, God, we can't lose Dolly.
If we lose Dolly, it feels like the world's really
coming on glue. Old Dolly h seventy nine, But she
just lost her husband of sixty two years Carldeine. He
just passed away and sometimes people die really close because
of that. So I but Dolly posted a video saying, hey, y'all,
I'm good. Just having some health issues, but I'm fine. Thankfully,

(33:51):
say prayer does work.

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Speaker 5 (34:22):
I'm your host, Mandy Connell.

Speaker 4 (34:23):
That guy over there, he's Anthony Rodriguez, and together we'll
take you right up until three p m. When KOA
Sports will take over. I got to direct your attention
to a great column by Mike O'Donnell. I'm a big
fan of Mike's. You've heard him on the show before.
He is a numbers nerd. He just loves to dig
into statistics and report those things that he can using

(34:45):
those statistics.

Speaker 5 (34:46):
I want to jump into his column on The Rocky
Mountain Voice.

Speaker 4 (34:50):
It says the FBI recently released detailed data on more
than fourteen million criminal offenses from the calendar year twenty
twenty four reported to a uniform crime Reporting program by
participating law enforcement agencies. More than sixteen thousand state, county, city, university, college,
and tribal agencies covering around ninety five point six percent

(35:14):
of the population of the United States submitted data to
the UCR program through the National Incident Based Reporting System
and the Summary Reporting System. By overlaying Census Bureau population
estimates on the FBA DAATE FBI data for individual states
and territories, a curious party, he says, like his truly

(35:36):
can see how many violent or property crimes occur per
one hundred thousand people, and thus see how crime rates
vary between states.

Speaker 5 (35:47):
So just to go over real quickly what he did.

Speaker 4 (35:50):
He overlaid population estimates for different areas and then use
those population estimates to calculate the violent or property crimes
per one hundred thousand people. So you can have a
conversation that is apples to apples, right, because that you'll
have some places that have less than one hundred thousand,
you'll have some that have way more than one hundred thousand.
And that's just an easy way to compare with one metric. Right,

(36:14):
So he says, if you simply focus on totals, which
is how the media routinely tracks the sort of data.
The number of violent crimes reported in the US so
far this century has decreased from two thousand and one
to twenty twenty four by thirteen percent. Now, when you
read the column, he gives all of the numbers of

(36:34):
how many crimes. I'm not giving those big numbers. I'm
focusing on percentages. But they are all in this story.
It's just when you start giving out too many numbers,
it's too hard to follow on the radio. So between
two thousand and one and twenty twenty four, crime has
decreased thirteen percent. Violent crime and the number of property
crimes decreased dramatically by forty one percent between two thousand

(36:57):
and one and twenty twenty four. The FBI defines a
violent crime is one involving a homicide, rape, robbery, or
aggravated assault. Property crimes are the ones involving arson, burglary, larceny, theft, or.

Speaker 5 (37:10):
Motor vehicle theft. Okay, So it goes on to.

Speaker 4 (37:15):
Explain a little bit about the FBI's methodology. I'm not
going to get into that here. I want to just
give this to you in relative terms, overlaying population data
on top of the total FBI counts. Violent crimes across
the entire United States decreased twenty seven percent from two
thousand to twenty twenty four, and property crimes decreased fifty

(37:39):
one percent from two thousand and one to twenty twenty four,
although in Colorado's case, violent crime rates bucked the national
trend and increased by a whopping fifty two percent in
that same time period, property crimes decreased from twenty by
twenty six per The incidence of property crimes in Colorado

(38:06):
remains well above the average, So our property crimes did
go down, but we remain well above the national average
for property crimes. Colorado was ranked the sixth worst region
for violent crime, behind only Do you want to guess
which cities or states are above us in violent crime? Aaron,

(38:27):
He's like, no, I'm waving you off. We're behind only Washington,
d C, Alaska, New Mexico, Tennessee, and Arkansas in terms
of violent crime.

Speaker 5 (38:39):
In twenty twenty four, Colorado was.

Speaker 4 (38:40):
Ranked the third worst region for property crimes, behind only Washington,
d C.

Speaker 5 (38:46):
And New Mexico.

Speaker 4 (38:48):
By way of comparison, In two thousand and one, we
were ranked thirty first for violent crime and twenty first
for property crime. Now we of course sixth and the third.
So what's happened during that time to Colorado. Let's really think.
Let's put her to thinking caps. Everybody gets your thinking
cap on. I wear a jaunty thinking cap. It's quite

(39:11):
it's yeah, it's special. It goes right over my headphones.
Let's talk about what's happened in Colorado. After being a
state that was red then pretty purple for a long time,
it was taken over by Democrats solidly in twenty nineteen,
and at that point they began what they could not

(39:31):
wait to do, which was criminal justice reform. During the
Summer of Love, Democrats could not wait to virtue signal
by letting everyone know that they understood that it was
systemic racism that made people commit crimes, and it was
just racism that had so many people in prison, just racism.

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So they made it really easy to commit crime in Colorado.
I mean, they made stealing a car a misdemeanor if
you stole a crappy enough car.

Speaker 5 (40:01):
We have been Attorney General Phil Wiser.

Speaker 4 (40:04):
You know, once you still three four cars we're really
gonna come after you, the first first ones around us,
and it's just been an abject failure and absolute disaster.
We're still recovering from some of the highest car theft
rates in the country still. I mean, if you think
your car insurance isn't ridiculously expensive, go to one of

(40:24):
those car insurance Ay, Rod, do this project for me.
Go to whatever car What is the car insurance aggregator?
Hang on one second, let me find one car insurance aggregator.
A agregator. Oh wait a minute, I'll just ask chat.
Never mind, I keep forgetting My assistant can do all
of these things. I don't have to fake it anymore.

(40:48):
Hang on, can you tell me the average cost of
car insurance in Colorado versus.

Speaker 5 (40:53):
The other states? Period?

Speaker 4 (40:56):
Okay, Chat, I'll be done in a minute.

Speaker 5 (40:59):
We're still covering from that. And these are things we
all pay for sure.

Speaker 4 (41:02):
It's a hassle if you're the person whose car gets
stolen and you think to yourself, well, my car didn't
get stolen yet, but you're paying for it. You're paying
for it in the form of higher premiums. That is
just the way it is.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
Now.

Speaker 4 (41:17):
This is a true opportunity for the Republican Party, a
major opportunity for the Republican Party. And you don't have
to run as a you know, Rudy Giuliani cleaning up
New York tough guy. I put mobsters in prison. I'm
going to do the same for criminals in New York City.
Like it doesn't need to be that. But what we

(41:38):
need is someone to run for governor who will say,
I want color Reddens to feel safe in their state again.
I want color Reddens to be able to park their
car and have some expectation that it's going to be
there when they get back. I want color Reddins to
walk around downtown Denver, or downtown Colorado Springs, or downtown
anywhere and feel like they can do so safely anytime,

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day or night.

Speaker 5 (42:01):
And that requires a couple of things.

Speaker 4 (42:03):
Number one, making sure that law enforcement is properly supported
while they are also held accountable. Get the bad apples
out and celebrate the good apples who are doing a
good job.

Speaker 5 (42:14):
We need judges and das who.

Speaker 4 (42:16):
Are going to actually prosecute these crimes. It's not okay
to have a district attorney give a guy a probation
after he killed someone because he was a juvenile and
she didn't want to ruin his life.

Speaker 2 (42:32):
That's not okay.

Speaker 4 (42:34):
I want submit to be able to articulate that none
of these numbers should be okay to anyone who's lived
in Colorado for any length of time. I'm telling you,
the mantra for Republican candidates should be is this Colorado
good enough for you?

Speaker 8 (42:49):
Is it?

Speaker 4 (42:51):
Because we've given the entire operation over to Democrats for
six years? And what have they done? They made it
less safe, they made it more expensive. They've made it
harder than ever to buy a home. They've made it
harder than ever to build a home. They have decimated
our oil and gas industry. So now any budget shortfalls

(43:11):
will probably match up to the amount of taxes that
we're not getting from our previously you know, robust oil
and gas industry. This should be the selling point. You
got to take stuff like this and just say is
it all right? Are you cool with that? Are you
cool with being the third worst region for property crimes,

(43:31):
behind only Washington, d C. And New Mexico?

Speaker 5 (43:35):
Are you cool with that? Because I'm not.

Speaker 4 (43:37):
It's not okay. It's not okay, and it's not like
this everywhere else.

Speaker 5 (43:43):
That's the thing, the narrative, that is all I mean.

Speaker 4 (43:46):
I had Mayor Michael HANCOCKU I love. I had him saying, well,
you know it's every big city they're dealing with this.
Say no, they're not. They're not dealing with the same problems.
They're not dealing with them at the same rate that
we are. Not everybody can be number three in property crimes,
can they? We're doing something wrong and we are gonna
need new leadership, new direction, people who are willing to say.

Speaker 5 (44:09):
What we've done up to this point is not gonna
work going forward.

Speaker 4 (44:13):
It's not good enough for the taxpayers of Colorado, the
people that go to work every day and work their
tails off to have you know, tax dollars siphoned out
of their paycheck by the State of Colorado. Who is
delivering what in return? Health care for illegal immigrants. You
can't fill a freaking pothole. And we're giving health care
to illegal immigrants. We're buying hotels for homeless people. What

(44:35):
are we doing? None of this should be okay. So
if you look at that article, I would you know,
share it Mandy. Regarding crime statistics, isn't there an incomplete
reporting problem. Some jurisdictions don't report, and some jurisdictions under charge.
I'm glad you brought up the under charge thing because
this is kind of a big deal. So when I

(44:57):
moved from Florida to Louisville, Kentucky, their police chief was a.

Speaker 5 (45:03):
Guy named Chief Ron White.

Speaker 4 (45:06):
Now if that name sounds familiar, it's because shortly after
I got to Louisville, Chief Ron White was hired to
come to Denver. Now, in the years after Chief Ron
White left Louisville, he was always talking about how they
had dropped crime. They had reduced crime in Louisville was
amazing with all of their community policing. It was so effective,

(45:28):
and he had the stats to prove it. It could
point to the statistics look which was lowered. Except after
he was gone. I started talking to Louisville Metro Police
Department officers who said that was all a lie. They
just undercharged everything, meaning you would bring someone in that
you had caught stealing a car with a firearm. Now

(45:51):
that's a clear felony, clear felony, and they would drop
the gun charge, so it was just like a misdemeanor. Whatever.

Speaker 5 (45:58):
They were cooking the books.

Speaker 4 (46:01):
And this is why when you go downtown and I
don't know if I've read that email or if I
just got that email the other day from a couple
that used to live in Denver for a very very
long time and then they moved to Maine five years ago.
And now wait, hang on, let me see if I
can find it very very quickly, because I think it
goes to exactly this point when the statistics say that
the crime is going down, but you don't feel it.

(46:24):
You don't feel like you know anything is changing.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
And.

Speaker 4 (46:31):
Dang it, I cannot find that email. And that's a shame.
That is a shame anyway. But in essence, they said, look,
we lived in downtown Denver for years and we've been
gone for five years, and we came back.

Speaker 5 (46:44):
We didn't feel safe. We couldn't believe it.

Speaker 4 (46:47):
It's impossible to navigate and get around with all the
stupid bike lanes and the ballasts and everything else, and
there's homeless people everywhere. And we have been boiled in
Denver specifically, meaning for peace that either just moved here
or haven't been here that long. You think this is normal.

Speaker 5 (47:07):
And I sound like a native right now complaining about
well you.

Speaker 4 (47:10):
You transplants don't know anything, even though I'm truly a
transplant myself. I've been here for thirteen years in the
decline that I've seen has been astounding, really shocking. There's
so much to run on here, There's so many opportunities
for good candidates. I'm very afraid that the Republican brand
is so turnished in Colorado for a variety of reasons,

(47:33):
not the least of which is the Republican Party of Colorado,
that it's going to be impossible for a Republican to win.
John Caldera very much has been open about his thoughts
that it is just not going to happen. And the
best thing that conservatives can hope for is a right
leaning independent with no political baggage.

Speaker 5 (47:52):
Now, that would be a unicorn candidate.

Speaker 4 (47:54):
That would be amazing, somebody that people could just get behind, unabashably,
somebody that speaks to the independence. I mean, it's possible,
you guys. Yemi Mobilatti ran as an independent, is now
mayor of Colorado's Springs, of all places. So I just
things are not okay, and I'm you know, I'm It's
not that I'm trying to constantly be a negative Nelly.

(48:15):
But what we've got is we've got Mayor gaslight over
in Denver. He constantly is telling you how great everything is.
I got another email from someone who said, Mandy, we
went down to sixteenth Street last weekend and there wasn't
anybody down there, and.

Speaker 5 (48:32):
I was like, well, that's not good. That's not good
at all.

Speaker 4 (48:35):
We can't fix problems unless we clearly define what the
problems actually are, right, We.

Speaker 5 (48:42):
Cannot determine solutions that are going to.

Speaker 4 (48:45):
Be effective if we can't even have an honest conversation
about what the problems are. From the Common Spiritdealth text
line at five six six nine O Mandy, at least
if they gave all the illegal immigrants bicycles, we'd feel
better about the bike lines. Yeah, yeah, Mandy, Mandy, there's

(49:06):
the blueprint. Logan Davis recently wrote the red print. Enough,
how about the clear print. The blueprint, of course, is
the plan for very very very rich liberals to take
over Colorado and they did here, Yeah they.

Speaker 5 (49:23):
Did, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (49:24):
Thinking cap crime is down nationwide because nobody calls the
police anymore, because nothing is done to the criminals, case closed.
That is actually part of the problem. Part of the
problem is under reporting. Part of the problem is you
know that people have given up, right, It's kind of
like yesterday when we were talking about three to one one,

(49:46):
the useless hotline that people can call in Denver.

Speaker 5 (49:48):
Well, it's now the staffing's been cut. Is it really
going to matter.

Speaker 7 (49:51):
No, it's not.

Speaker 4 (49:53):
It's just not mandy, not violent crime. But my barber
just told me this morning they were down in downtown
Denver last weekend. The window on his f one pot
fifty was broken out while they were out to eat.

Speaker 2 (50:04):
Correct.

Speaker 4 (50:05):
I heard this from someone in law enforcement in another city,
and I'm wondering if it holds true in the Denver metros. So,
if I have any police officers listening, if you could
just let me know yes or no. I have a
police officer friend in another city that said right now,
in his town, almost exclusively, big trucks are being broken

(50:25):
into because they are more likely to have a firearm
in them, and criminals know this. If you have anything
gun related on your car, if you have a Second
Amendment sticker, if you have anything like that on your car,
you are putting a target on your car for criminals.
If you're in an urban area, and again, I'm not
sure if that's the way it was here in Denver,

(50:47):
but I'd love to know, Mandy. Conservatives should find Senator
or House seats that can be flipped. Hey, conservatives should
be worried about the school board. Conservatives should be worried
about county commissions in Callo. We have desperately, desperately got
to bring some ballance back to the legislature.

Speaker 5 (51:05):
I am not so ridiculously Pollyanna.

Speaker 4 (51:08):
To think that the Republicans will take the House or
the Senate, but we've got to give them a fighting chance.
We must incredibly important, Mandy. We don't need to give
the homeless bikes. They steal them anyway. We're number one
in the country for bike thefts two. It just doesn't
get any better than that. Oh hi, Mandy. The main

(51:28):
people had a letter to the editor in the Denver
Gazette loved the show, thank you, and I had it
on the blog. Just couldn't remember where it was coming from. Hey, Mandy,
are they using the same metrics from that time three
decades ago? And now that's another good question, but I
don't think there's any I mean, is there anyone in
this listening audience right now, who believes that Denver is

(51:49):
in a better position than it was ten years ago.
So ten years ago was before the old immigrants Welcome
banner was unfurled outside city. It was before the quote
summer of Love where people are allowed to deface and
destroy government property and businesses with impunity.

Speaker 5 (52:09):
It was before the homeless decided that they.

Speaker 4 (52:12):
Owned downtown Denver and took it over and killed city
parks and destroyed grass and just created all kinds of havoc.

Speaker 5 (52:18):
And we still haven't recovered.

Speaker 4 (52:20):
When I move here in twenty thirteen, one of the
things I used to tell my friends, and if you're
a newbie to the area, I hope you laugh at
this as well. They'd say, what is it about Denver?
And I'm like, first of all, it's cleanest big city
I've ever been to. And this was twenty thirteen, the
cleanest big city. I drive down twenty five now and
I drive under an overpass and it's like, oh, my goodness,

(52:43):
those days are behind us. And as a person who
sees litter as one of the first signs of the
decay of society, I have a whole rant on that
I don't know if I've done it in a long time.
I might have to do it again. But litter is
really the most base way of showing that people have
just given up on any sense of civic responsibility. It's

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not my problem, and somebody else will take care of it.
I went to college with a girl who grew up
in the Soviet Union, and she would drop her trash
on the ground and I would say, what are you
doing pick up your trash? And she go, they you
someone's job. Someone's jobis to pick up trash, and I'm like,
not here, that's not how this works.

Speaker 5 (53:26):
Here, we take care of stuff, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (53:29):
In the Fort Worth Stockyards, you don't park a big
truck at night anymore. At a recent concert at Billy Bob's,
no less than twenty five big trucks were broken into
there you go, related to Denver PD officer, Yes, trucks
are more if it looks like it has guns more likely, Yep, Mandy,
Colorado has the most awful abortion laws and the only

(53:51):
state to increase in violent crime. I'm shocked. That is
a really, really fair point. This last textra let them
out the final word. I was just in San Francisco
at Union Square, which has been a complete disaster for
the last few years. When I was there last week,
they had a police mobile command post set up and
beat cops everywhere, And you wouldn't believe what a difference

(54:13):
it made at Union Square. Why can't we do that
on the sixteenth Street mall. That's a really good question, Mandy.
This is I have no idea. This is a text
message breaking news. Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has announced
an extraordinary fifty million annual pledge to the Charlie Kirk
Memorial Fund, a foundation created by Erica Kirkin, loving memory
of her late husband. Don't know if that's.

Speaker 5 (54:34):
Actually true Jerry Jones and Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 4 (54:39):
Let's see.

Speaker 5 (54:41):
Uh yeah, I don't know. No, I don't think that's
a Facebook post. That's not yea, I don't That's not.

Speaker 4 (54:50):
Really a thing. You guys, don't believe everything you see
on Facebook. Don't believe you everything you see on the internet.
If you have not gone to the blog today at
mandy'sblog dot com for no other reason than to go
down and scroll and watch the uh, you know, important
presidents of the United States wrestle against each other in
a professional wrestling get up. You really should because AI
is doing things that.

Speaker 5 (55:11):
They share with you. I have been seeing Stephen Hawking
doing halfpipe.

Speaker 4 (55:17):
Stop it in his chair? No, stop?

Speaker 7 (55:22):
What is wrong with people? Yeah, leave Stephen Hawking alone.
I've seen and this is where the ones I'm not
going to share with you.

Speaker 5 (55:29):
I've seen variations of mlk's speech.

Speaker 7 (55:35):
And it's bad. No, they're bad. People are people are bad,
people are awful bad. Stop it special place in hell. Yeah,
it's kid gnarly. Every day it takes a step more
on my feed and I'm like, oh, oh, oh okay,

(55:55):
yeah that's not right.

Speaker 5 (55:57):
To the text through said no rush is this is
of the last twenty years.

Speaker 4 (56:01):
Russia has not had a hit or anything that's even
Oh gosh, yes they have, Yes they have. I love
all of you who are in the same position I
am who were like I have never heard of any
of these songs either.

Speaker 5 (56:13):
We're just say this. We're not in the demo. We're
just not in Rolling Stones's demo. Well, you know, says
last twenty years. Right, I will come over and cut.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
I will cut you.

Speaker 8 (56:24):
It was right.

Speaker 4 (56:24):
I will cut you, Anthony. Don't think that I won't.
Right there on the circum coming over right now, and
I'm cutting you. Nobody told me I could have my
wife do dirty things with groc Why would you do
that and why would you share that with me?

Speaker 1 (56:40):
Now?

Speaker 4 (56:40):
I know you're a weirdo a Texter. This Texter wants
to know a rod. If bad buddy performs at the
super Bowl, when I get a job at ICE, will
I get to go?

Speaker 9 (56:52):
Uh yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (56:53):
They did also admit.

Speaker 4 (56:54):
That they stole that joke from Bridget Fataisi, who is
funny on X.

Speaker 5 (56:59):
I'll be in the same room with that buddy at
that presser, so we'll see what happens. Oh yeah, super Bowl?

Speaker 4 (57:05):
What are you thinking about? You know, the Broncos have
given us a lot to think about in these first
few games, and we're not going to talk a bunch
about sports. But after last week's winner, you're like.

Speaker 5 (57:14):
Whoa, Maybe, I mean there's always a shot, right, You know?

Speaker 7 (57:22):
Things are shaping up pretty well because a few teams
are taking quite a big step back.

Speaker 5 (57:26):
The Ravens not looking good. Well, there's a couple like
the Chiefs have to be like.

Speaker 7 (57:33):
By the Lions, so they're going to fall back another game.
The Bill's defense is leaving a lot to desire, and
they just lost a big game, so they're not undefeated anymore.

Speaker 5 (57:40):
I gotta tell you, I love parody.

Speaker 7 (57:42):
The one thing you want is for no parody with
the Broncos. You want them to keep on winning and
have a chance at some home field. Well, that is
the only way. I'm telling you right now, that's the
only way. The only way it's even possible is if
you're play one, maybe two playoff games at home.

Speaker 5 (57:54):
Well, and I don't disagree with you.

Speaker 4 (57:55):
I'll our environment, for a variety of reasons, especially at
the end of the season, is very much in our favor.

Speaker 7 (58:02):
The path to play in San fran lies with first
and foremost winning the division.

Speaker 5 (58:06):
It's very possible.

Speaker 7 (58:08):
Chiefs are not looking good, the Chargers are fading quickly
with injuries.

Speaker 5 (58:11):
It's absolutely possible to win the division.

Speaker 4 (58:13):
Is it has turned into a much different season than
the season I anticipate.

Speaker 5 (58:17):
And when I say I love I love.

Speaker 4 (58:18):
Parody, it's not because I want everybody to be equally good.
It's like, but everybody's playing with the same set of
rules that mean things like who your head coach is
matters a lot, who your quarterback is matters a lot.
It's always mattered, but it matters a lot. But then
they're surrounding players. You really have to be choosy about
those support players because they.

Speaker 5 (58:39):
All have to be really really good.

Speaker 2 (58:40):
Now.

Speaker 7 (58:40):
Well, and the best part is this team believes. Even
Nick Benito said, you know a lot of people talk
to with us about how you know this is a
measuring state game. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (58:48):
No, they believe they could win that game.

Speaker 7 (58:50):
They did, And I told you a lot of common
semon is this is the biggest win in ten years,
because now you're thinking, Okay, this is the game everyone
thought we were gonna lose. Maybe we then go on
to run with the easy schedule after that. Now, okay,
the Broncos could be a contender. That was a big,
huge way.

Speaker 9 (59:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (59:07):
Obviously they're playing in London this week, and I understand
why the NFL does it.

Speaker 5 (59:13):
I don't like the international games.

Speaker 4 (59:14):
For the team. It's really hard to travel and have
time zones and all of that stuff. So it's going
to be very interesting to see how this week. Are
you gonna get up early and watch the game?

Speaker 5 (59:23):
I can recover it. Yeah, so I'll I'll be up
probably by five.

Speaker 4 (59:27):
It will be the only game that we don't have
seventy hours of pre game for on the station.

Speaker 5 (59:32):
Correct, four am, mister Ryan Edwards, all right, all of them? Yep,
is Ben gonna go to sleep from the night before.
Ben probably will just be up.

Speaker 4 (59:42):
Yeah, it'll make him even more punchy and entertaining.

Speaker 5 (59:45):
Absolutely need radio. Yeah wow, I didn't even think about that.
The Broncos hopefully win by three. What the game started?

Speaker 4 (59:51):
Seven thirty?

Speaker 5 (59:52):
Yes, seven thirty. Kick, I'll be up. I mean I
wake up that early. Anyway, Hopefully it is a boring
game in the sense the Broncos win by three.

Speaker 9 (59:59):
Touchdow.

Speaker 5 (01:00:00):
The Jets are really bad.

Speaker 9 (01:00:02):
It's not like.

Speaker 7 (01:00:03):
First of all, they are the only winless team. They
have no wins, the only team in the NFL without dangerous.

Speaker 5 (01:00:08):
It's dangerous to play the team with no wins.

Speaker 7 (01:00:10):
I normally agree with you. They are really bad. They
really suck the Broncos business. And I don't know they
want me to tell you. I think the Eagles look
past the Broncos a little bit. The Broncos are locked in.
Every single SoundBite I have heard, every player I have
talked to everything, they have their eyes on the prize.

(01:00:32):
They are so locked in they they believe. I mean,
that's why it's like when someone asks you, could it happen?
It's not crazy. Bo just continues to get better. The
offense gets better. The defense is one of the best
in the league. They've shown that now for a couple
of straight weeks, after a couple of bad games.

Speaker 5 (01:00:46):
Defensive Player of the Week.

Speaker 7 (01:00:47):
He is aiming towards the Broncos having a second straight
year with Defensive Player of the Year leads the NFL
in sacks. Yep, he is electric and that contract looks good.
He's the kind of game changer that von Miller.

Speaker 4 (01:00:59):
Used to be.

Speaker 5 (01:00:59):
That's exactly what I was about to say.

Speaker 4 (01:01:02):
Yep, very much. So it's it's a fun time to
be a broncos man who does a super fun time.
So yesterday I was giving you guys a few details
from the latest Harvard poll, and I focused exclusively yesterday
on how people feel about the shutdown and what bad
news it was for the Democrats, because Americans are like, yeah,
the Democrats are doing this for their base and they

(01:01:23):
need to just pass the continued Resolution so we can
all go about our business.

Speaker 5 (01:01:27):
It's not good news, but the bad news persists.

Speaker 4 (01:01:31):
I have some more of that polling data from that
Harvard Caps Harris Pole, And I got to tell you,
you know how when sanctimonious people on the left like
to look at you and.

Speaker 5 (01:01:42):
Be like, how could you vote for that man?

Speaker 4 (01:01:45):
How could you vote for that man? How could you
do it? When I tell you what's important to the
American people, it becomes very easy to understand how you
could vote for that man.

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Speaker 4 (01:02:25):
He's Anthony Rodriguez and together, yep, we'll let that air
horn and work its sof together, We'll get you right
till three pm. Coming up at two point thirty, my
friend Cliff May from the Foundation for the Defensive Democracies
is going to be honest. He's got a great call
on about the Mahas well Hamas having to make a choice,

(01:02:46):
make a deal with Israel or get your seventy two Virgins.

Speaker 5 (01:02:49):
We're gonna talk to him at two thirty.

Speaker 4 (01:02:50):
In the meantime, though, yesterday I gave you a little
bit of data from the Harvard Caps Harris poll that
has been making its way around and today. Yesterday we
just talked about the fact that, for I think the
first time in my adult life, the Democrats are being
blamed for the government shutdown. And that's not good. It's

(01:03:12):
not good at all. And the Democrats have shut down
the government over expanded healthcare premium support for Obamacare. Tomorrow
on the show, I have Brian Blaze from the Paragon
Institute on and he's going to talk specifically about how
Obamacare's promise is now coming to fruition. Obamacare's promise was

(01:03:35):
never to lower healthcare costs. It was to get more
people on the government doal so they would be easier
to force to vote Democrat in a step towards single payer.
That was the intention of Obamacare from the very beginning.
And I know because I read it. There was nothing
in it about controlling costs. So it's got to be
really disconcerting. When the Harvard Capps Harris Pole asked the

(01:03:59):
people in the poll a very simple question, do you
support or oppose each of these policies. And at the
very bottom, I mean very bottom. Oh wait a minute,
I'm looking at the wrong thing. Oh this is the
wrong slide. Dang it. They asked about the Obamacare subsidies

(01:04:19):
and people were like, yeah, I don't care about that.
I really don't care at all. Now here's a fun one.
This one is kind of fun. What percentage do you
think of Americans support using the US military to kill
drug traffickers in Latin America. What percentage of Americans do

(01:04:40):
you think are like, hey, yeah, let's blow up those
drug boats.

Speaker 5 (01:04:44):
What do you think it is, hey, rod, oh man,
I don't know. It's at least fifty to fifty. I
think nope. More seventy one percent of Americans are like,
blow them up, blow them up. We love watching those
boats get blown out of the water.

Speaker 4 (01:05:01):
Eighty nine percent of replica of Republicans say heck ya,
sixty seven percent of Independence hega. Even fifty six percent
of Democrats.

Speaker 5 (01:05:09):
Say heck ya. So what is important across the board?

Speaker 4 (01:05:15):
The things enjoying the highest level of support the policies
that people say yes, I support that policy. Number one,
lowering prescription drug prices for Medicare recipients and low income patients.
Eighty six percent of US are like, Yep, we'd like
to see that happen. Number two, deporting immigrants who are
here illegally and have committed crimes. Now I thought this

(01:05:37):
would be a lot closer, but it's not. Seventy eight
percent of Americans say, yeah, we support that. Undertaking a
full scale effort to find and eliminate fraud and waste
in government expenditures, Seventy five percent supported the work that
DOGE was put out to do. By the way, that's
all fallen by the wayside, and because Congress can't do

(01:05:58):
its job, we've continued to spread or spend like drunken monkeys.

Speaker 5 (01:06:03):
And that's where we are now.

Speaker 4 (01:06:07):
Closing the border with added security and policies that discourage
illegal crossings. Sixty eight percent of Americans and a majority
of Democrats support that policy.

Speaker 5 (01:06:17):
Democrats fifty one percent.

Speaker 4 (01:06:20):
Launch a government run website for consumers to buy drugs
directly for manufacturers that discounts a fifty percent or hire
sixty eight percent support that. Why not just allow the
manufacturers to do it? Why do we have to have
a new government website? Right now, Eli Lilly, I believe

(01:06:40):
it's Eli Lilly. There will go v at ozepic, which
is the same drug in a different formulation. And they
have created a direct to consumer pipeline for their drugs
where you talk to one of I guess their internet doctors,
I don't know, and then if you don't have insurance,
they're now selling those drugs for about five hundred bucks a.

Speaker 5 (01:06:59):
Month already doing that.

Speaker 4 (01:07:01):
You guys would not believe how many rules are in
place that prevent people from just selling things to consumers.

Speaker 5 (01:07:08):
Uh oh, a rod?

Speaker 4 (01:07:09):
Is this something I should know?

Speaker 6 (01:07:12):
A Rod?

Speaker 5 (01:07:12):
Just get a head slap?

Speaker 4 (01:07:13):
What? Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:07:14):
I'm just looking for more videos for your blog and
coming across another Sora AI, I'm going to hell even
for Helen Keller winning name WWE World Championship title.

Speaker 5 (01:07:26):
Stop stop it. This is getting out of hand. Who
thinks of that? Who?

Speaker 4 (01:07:33):
What person says? You know, what would be cool Helen
Keller in a World wrestling fight fighting stuff? Who even
what person says, Oh, that's that's great, that's great. By
the way, we have another.

Speaker 5 (01:07:46):
AI video on the blog today.

Speaker 7 (01:07:47):
Jesus as a Yankee, I gotta say the end of
that video, though, him, thanking himself.

Speaker 5 (01:07:54):
Yes, Yeah, that's couldn't have done it without me. Yeah,
out me, he said.

Speaker 4 (01:08:01):
Banning men who have undergone operations and hormones to become
women from girls' sports. Sixty five percent of Americans support that.
Just forty seven percent of Democrats do. Eliminating all preferences
by race and the hiring and awarding of government contracts.
Sixty three percent of Americans say enough. Affirmative action using

(01:08:21):
the US military to target cartel drug smugglers in Latin America.
Sixty three percent of US are like, hey, yeah, making
the twenty seventeen tax cuts permanent. Sixty two percent of
US say do it, keep it.

Speaker 8 (01:08:34):
We like it.

Speaker 4 (01:08:35):
Race fitness and readiness standards in the military on a
gender neutral basis, sixty one percent of Americans say yes,
declaring there are only two genders, male and female in
all government forms and programs. Sixty one percent of Americans
say yes. Only thirty eight percent of Democrats say yes.
Playing reciprocal tariffs on countries that have tariffs on US goods,

(01:08:58):
fifty nine percent of Americans say yes. Freezing and reevaluating
all four and eight and expenditures in the Department that
handles them.

Speaker 5 (01:09:06):
Fifty eight percent says yes.

Speaker 4 (01:09:09):
Deporting all illegal immigrants who are here illegally fifty six
percent of Americans say yes. Again, that's one of those
where thirty six percent of Democrats support it, so they're
on the wrong side again. Using the military to prevent
illegal immigration in the US fifty four percent say yes.
Ending bands on offshore drilling in Alaska and elsewhere. Fifty

(01:09:32):
four percent say yes. Ordering strikes on Iran to destroy
their nuclear capability. Fifty two percent say yes. Use the
National Guard in active duty police to police American cities
and stop crime and disorder. Fifty one percent say yes.
That one is carried over the threshold by Republicans by
the way. That and the ordering strikes on Iran to
destroy their nuclear capabilities.

Speaker 5 (01:09:53):
I'm not down for that. I'll let Israel handle that.

Speaker 4 (01:09:57):
Just kidding. Placing tariffs on goods from China, Mexico, and
Canada to encourage US manufacturing, that is fifty one percent
of Americans are not happy about that. So when you
look at the issues and you look at what Americans think,
there's a tremendous amount of opportunity here a I mean huge,

(01:10:19):
so huge, it's just when we get back, I want
to give you one one part of this, and the
question was, do you believe that the rhetoric of our
politicians has become too extreme? Or do you believe that
today's political rhetoric is appropriate. I'll give you the breakdown

(01:10:39):
on that when we get back. There's Capp's Harris poll
from Harvard, and one of the questions they asked was
do you believe that the rhetoric of our politicians has
become too extreme? Or do you believe that today's political
rhetoric is appropriate? Now, I thought this would have been closer.

(01:11:00):
Americans say it's two extreme, say it's appropriate. I want
to play a little video for you, a Rod, could
I have my audio please? I want to play a
little video for you, two and a half minutes of
one side of the political aisle. Well, I'll let you

(01:11:21):
listen to what they're doing.

Speaker 1 (01:11:23):
I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all
of the country, and maybe there will be.

Speaker 5 (01:11:28):
People need to start taking to the streets. This is
a dictator, you know. There needs to be unrest in
the streets. For as long as there's unrest in our lives.

Speaker 7 (01:11:36):
Enemies of the state show me where it says that
protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful.

Speaker 1 (01:11:42):
Do something about your dad's immigration practices effect less.

Speaker 2 (01:11:46):
Time they go low, we can't. How do you resist
the temptation to run.

Speaker 4 (01:11:49):
Up and bring her next?

Speaker 2 (01:11:50):
Biggest terror threat in this country is white men.

Speaker 4 (01:11:55):
Most of them radicalize right up to the right. I thought,
you know, I'm gonna stop it there wrapping thirty six
seconds in. You get the vibe, right, you get the feel.
This is why I'm no longer both sides and I
just know when I have a bunch of this on
the blog today. You can see it at mandy'sblog dot com.
Less than five months ago, Nicholas Decker, a young man
who was kind of held up by The New York Times,

(01:12:17):
is someone to talk about whether or not you know
our language, our rhetoric is too harsh. He wrote a
column called when must we kill them? Evil has come
to America. He was talking about people on the right,
by the way, not isis, not islamis no, none of that,
just people on the right. More good news from this
survey seventy five percent of Americans support Israel. But then

(01:12:41):
bad news from the survey of the twenty five percent
that support Hamas. In the eighteen to twenty four year
old category, forty five percent of those people polled supported Hamas,
almost half. This is just an indication of two things.

(01:13:02):
Number One, it's an indication of the blazing ignorance of
these young people of the history of Israel. And by
the way, we're going to get into a little bit
of that history at two thirty with my friend Cliff
May from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy. The
older you get, the longer your appreciation for history goes,
the more likely you are to overwhelmingly support Israel sixty

(01:13:23):
five plus support Israel eighty seven percent because they know
the history.

Speaker 5 (01:13:27):
They live through it.

Speaker 4 (01:13:28):
Right, young people think history started with them and by
young people. I'm talking about Jen Alpha, my daughter's generation.
No gen Z, I guess this is who I'm talking about.
For this next story, I've got a story on the
blog today about they surveyed hiring managers and guys hiring

(01:13:50):
managers are not having a lot of confidence in gen Z,
not even a little bit. They're so ill prepared for
the world. They've been poorly educated is We can see
from that last little bit of polling data only eight
percent of three hundred and fifty hiring managers believe that
gen Z is ready for the workplace. I'm actually you know,

(01:14:11):
a Rod, Now, we're just we've been talking about like
side hustles and stuff like that.

Speaker 5 (01:14:15):
Ayrod, what do you think about this?

Speaker 4 (01:14:16):
I'm thinking about starting a side hustle where I just
give classes for new high school and college graduates on
how to behave as an adult in the world.

Speaker 9 (01:14:27):
Good luck with that.

Speaker 4 (01:14:28):
And I'm just going to call it adulting one oh one,
and we're going to talk about everything how to behave
in the workforce, how to dress in the workplace, how
to perform at a high level in the workplace.

Speaker 5 (01:14:37):
Yeah, but how would that be received by the youth?
They would just if they can't.

Speaker 4 (01:14:41):
Get a job and they're really frustrated about not getting
a job. Those are the people that I want to target,
not the slackers who don't care about not having a jug.

Speaker 7 (01:14:49):
And let them graduate high school and go two plus
years let's say exactly twenty year olds for that course,
because they're after high school, they have two years.

Speaker 5 (01:14:57):
Of oh god, yeah, what have I done?

Speaker 4 (01:14:59):
Am I doing? And then steps in twenty year olds
exclusively MM hmm. I think it's a great idea. I
think I could do it. I'm working on it. I
want to read a real quick email before we make
room for Cliff May coming up next. Dear Mandy, my husband,
Colin Ratcliffe, not Colon like the intestines, listens to you
NonStop in the tractor. I know this is not your

(01:15:19):
typical conversation, but my husband loves to listen to you.
Just to shout out to my husband, please. He's a
hard working farmer and rancher in Flagner, Colorado, running fourteen
thousand acres of crops and eight hundred head of cattle.
He works eighty to one hundred hours a week without complaint,
yet still finds time to be an amazing husband and
dad do our three kids. He is my rock and
a shout out to brew his chocolate heeler and right

(01:15:41):
hand man who saved him from rattlesnakes. Works miles a
day moving and working cattle, and still comes home to
play dress up with our daughter. Colin is the heart
of our family, strong, humble, always giving it as all.
Thank you for letting me brag on him a little
with love, Allison. It is my pleasure to give that

(01:16:03):
shout out to your husband, Cliff May. Good to see
you again.

Speaker 9 (01:16:07):
Good to see you Mandy always.

Speaker 4 (01:16:09):
Well, you got to Colin in the Washington Times today
that we must chat about because I have been talking
about this obviously. We just passed the horrific anniversary of
October seventh, and as if on Q the pro Hamostikid,
you know, fans showed up to I don't know, celebrate
the rape and murder and pillaging of twelve hundred Israelis

(01:16:30):
and the continued keeping up the hostages and all of
that stuff that's beyond me, Like I can't even get
I can't wrap my head around that.

Speaker 5 (01:16:38):
I don't even want to talk about those people.

Speaker 10 (01:16:41):
That means, I'll just say it is astonishing. Yeah, there
are no crazy Japanese celebrating Pearl Harbor Day. There are
no crazy Nazis that I know that, you know, celebrate
the start of World War two or I mean, it
is really a sign.

Speaker 9 (01:16:56):
It's one.

Speaker 10 (01:16:56):
Look, I totally understand you feel bad for the Palestinium people.
I do too, it's awful, But if you're celebrating Hamas Hummas,
it is Humus that has caused all this suffering, not
just for the Israelis, not just for the Jews, but
for the Palestinians. Yep, their life was very different on
October six, two years ago.

Speaker 9 (01:17:18):
It was a decent life. We can talk with that
people so always in prison. No, it wasn't.

Speaker 10 (01:17:22):
You can find the pictures online of the restaurants along
the beach. It had such promise. We can talk about that.
I'll stop now.

Speaker 4 (01:17:30):
Only No, we don't even have to talk about promise.
We can talk about what it was when.

Speaker 5 (01:17:34):
The Jews lived there.

Speaker 4 (01:17:35):
I mean, respectfully, the Jews had created a thriving economy.
They had greenhouses, they were creating and building their own food.
I mean, we don't have to imagine what that would
look like. But let me jump to your column, because
you did a great job here. And I've been trying
to do this over the past couple days with the
anti Israel folks that I have in my audience, trying
to give them a little bit of the history. I

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had one young man say, Mandy, I'm just I'm sick
of Israel because we give them so much foreign ai
and I had to explain that foreign aid to Israel
is basically just a jobs program for the defense industry.
In the United States of America because so much of
that money just comes right back to our defense industry.
But if you could, you do a great job in
this column giving the backstory. And I think that the

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backstory is lost for a lot of younger people especially,
which is why we see even higher levels of support
for Hamas in people eighteen to twenty four years old.

Speaker 9 (01:18:27):
Yeah, you're absolutely right.

Speaker 3 (01:18:29):
Let me.

Speaker 10 (01:18:29):
I'll give a little bit of history if I can,
But I also want to just say this, our defense
industry needs to grow in this world, given that we're
in Cold War two point zero, and the US and
Israel worked very closely, and you have to get a
part in this in developing the weapons that war fighters
for America, warfighters.

Speaker 9 (01:18:48):
That both need. The Israelis are very good to do this.
They get it done very quickly.

Speaker 10 (01:18:53):
They're very inventive with a test American weapons, they use
American weapons, So you know, it was one of the
important things that's happened over the last couple of years
is the US and Israel combined have stopped the Islamic
Republic of Iran, which since nineteen seventy nine has been
chanting death to the Israel, death to America from developing
nuclear weapons. May it be permanent, but they're set back

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by eight years. That was done with American F thirty
five's flown by Israeli pilots that cleared the way, and
then a B two bomber stealth bomber could come from
America know that it would not be attacked. Not that
I think they'd hit it anyhow, but President Trump would
want to risk one and drop massive ordnance penetrators these

(01:19:36):
unbelievable American bombs and do severe damage to the Islamic
Republic of Iran's nuclear weapons program. Okay, enough on that,
but I just say, let me just say this. America
doesn't need dependents abroad. America needs partners abroad. And if
they are fighting, and if the America's partners are fighting

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common enemies, they are helping us. They are forced multi player.
We need more competent allies who contribute to the collective security,
not fewer. That's a whole other show, but I think
this is such an important point to make. Our defense
industry needs some do more. Anyhow, we can do with
some recent history and some real distance history. Recent history

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exist in two thousand and five, the Israelis withdrew from Gaza.
They withdrew every farmer, every soldier, every synagogue, every cemetery.
And they did that to test a proposition that there
was a possibility of a land for peace solution. If
you just got out of their hair, if you weren't
didn't have a Jews around the Palestinian Arabs and Gaza,

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everything would be called pathetic.

Speaker 9 (01:20:44):
Okay, they pulled back and left. They asked for nothing
in return.

Speaker 4 (01:20:48):
Let me interject something here, because I still remember seeing
the news stories. It's not like all the Jews voluntarily
got up and left right, No dragging.

Speaker 5 (01:20:56):
The government literally dragged.

Speaker 4 (01:20:59):
Jewish people out of homes that they had lived in
for decades. They forcibly removed Jews from the Gaza strip.
And I think that gets glossed over by a lot
of people who just ignore the fact that these are
these things that the Israeli government has done to its
own people in order to facilitate peace.

Speaker 10 (01:21:17):
But go ahead, that's absolutely right. These were Jewish villages.
They weren't hurting anybody. There weren't a lot of them.
They wanted a trade with their Arab neighbors. They were
glad to have Arab neighbors in a land gaza that
has long time jew a Jewish presence. How long anybody
remembers Samson and Elivah, that's how long we ago we

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go back there. But okay, they were going to get
but you're right. A lot of them had to be
dragged out, some because they said, this is my home.
I've made it here, I'm living here, I'm not doing
anybody any harm. Others said, if you do this, it's
a mistake and you're going to rule the day. And
of course it turns out they were right, and that
was two thousand and five. By two thousand and seven,
Hamas a terrorist group, a Muslim brotherhood group talked a

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little bit about them.

Speaker 9 (01:22:02):
Soon what did they do.

Speaker 10 (01:22:03):
They overthrew the Paliston in authority. I'm talking when I
say we're through, not in a nice way. Threw people
off rooftops, shot people, made chase them away, and said
we're taking over here.

Speaker 9 (01:22:14):
They took over.

Speaker 10 (01:22:14):
By two thousand and seven, huge amounts of money poured
in from what we call the international donor community.

Speaker 9 (01:22:20):
The UN came in with its.

Speaker 10 (01:22:22):
Agencies to provide services, education, healthcare. Hamas said, glad to
have you here, but you take your orders from us,
and you don't complain about it, right, And they said, yes, sir,
you got it.

Speaker 9 (01:22:32):
That's what we're going to do.

Speaker 5 (01:22:34):
Now.

Speaker 10 (01:22:35):
What could have even so, what could have happened is
you could have ended up with another thing, now land
for peaces and were a two state solution. Because you
have a proto state here, right, you have a population,
it's governed by Hamas. There are no Jews, there are
no Israelis. The Israelis think, you know, maybe we can help.
They provide humanitarian aid comes in from anywhere every day

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through various passes. They supply because there wasn't enough fresh water.
They supply electricity, wasn't enough electricity. They supply fuel for vehicles,
all that cars, Mercedes dealerships, all that existed in gods
and Hamas said, okay, that's great. All this is taken
care of. We will do what we want to do.
And what we're going to do is build a subterranean

(01:23:19):
fortress unlike anything you have ever seen, anything the world
has seen, from which we will fight a war. This
had of cost billions of dollars. They built it. The
Israeli should have known they were building it and what
they were doing why they were building it. Somehow they didn't.
October seventh, the Hamas and adjacent those adjacent to Thomas
break through the fences, very low tech way of doing it.

(01:23:43):
As you know, it's a a pogrom, it's a massacre,
it's a rape. Young girls who were at a and
men who are at a music festival didn't have enough guards.
They get killed, they get raped, they get hostages taken away.

Speaker 7 (01:23:57):
All that.

Speaker 9 (01:23:58):
But again Hamas could said we're going to normalize relations
with Israel and have a two state solution, and then
the same thing would have happened on what's called the
West Bank, which of course was called Judea and Samaria
until the Jordanian army occupied it in nineteen forty eight.
They were throwing it. And this is also important.

Speaker 10 (01:24:16):
There was never a Palestini Gaza from nineteen forty eight
to nineteen sixty seven was administered by Egypt. No one
said let's put a palace cent in state there. The
west Bank, actually called again Judaean Samaria was taken over
nineteen forty eight by Jordan. No one said let's put
a palis Thingian state there. That Jordanians were there, they
expelled all the Jews, they desecrated synagogues in graveyards in

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sixty seven.

Speaker 9 (01:24:42):
In that war, the Israelis took it back. So all
that one more thing in history I hate.

Speaker 10 (01:24:47):
I don't get too Tuwonkey and your listeners, but if
you understand Hamas, Hamas is not doesn't note want a
Palestinian state. They say that what they want is an
emirate of the coming Califate. What they believe is that
any land ever conquered by a Muslim army remains a
walk an endowment from all its and the Muslims, and
must be taken back through jihad. And again, the Israelis

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were the last indigenous people to have sovereignty in this land.
After that came the Romans. The Romans expelled a lot
of the Jews. They had various empires, the Arabs Muslim
Arabs from Arabia nearby, but not part of the same thing.

Speaker 9 (01:25:25):
They brilliant came out. That army in the seventh century,
went all the.

Speaker 10 (01:25:29):
Way across North Africa and up into Spain, went all
the way east to what is now Pakistan and beyond.

Speaker 9 (01:25:35):
It was a great conquest, but it's always empires.

Speaker 10 (01:25:38):
All the Jews have done in Israel Is decolonize it
and say we're going to have sovereignty in a.

Speaker 9 (01:25:44):
Little part of our ancient homeland.

Speaker 10 (01:25:48):
Amasque will not allow that, and that's why there's no
two states solution and there was no Land for Peace
solution in two thousand and five.

Speaker 4 (01:25:55):
So, Cliff, let's talk about Trump's strategy and the way
that he had as kind of blown up traditional diplomacy
in the sense that he looked around and said, who
can I get on my side that can pressure Hamas?
Because how many you've watched the same way I have.
You've seen all these stupid peace summits where Arafat shows

(01:26:16):
up with his little entourage and then walks away if
he even though he's being offered everything he asked for.
You know, Trump looked at this and said, obviously, we
can't pressure Hamas in a way that they need to
be pressured. So now he's brought in Turkey, he's brought
in Cutter, he's brought in all of these nations, the UAE.
He's not brought in all of these Arab states to
basically go to Hamas. Yeah, this is the best deal

(01:26:38):
you're gonna get, and you should take it. Has this
ever been tried, this particular strategy been tried in that
region before.

Speaker 9 (01:26:46):
I'm not sure it has been. You're right that it's
the secret sauce.

Speaker 10 (01:26:49):
You know.

Speaker 9 (01:26:50):
The after Occober seventh.

Speaker 10 (01:26:52):
When it was clear the Israelis we're going to do
a lot of damage to a Moss, people immediately said, well,
what's your plan for the day after, as if that's
their responsibility. But even so, any plan the Reelies that
come up with would have been dead on arrival throughout
the our world. And if Trump had just said I
got my plan by all by myself, people said, oh, well,
it's Trump's plant. What Trump did was to say, I

(01:27:14):
need backing from you guys, And he got backing from Egypt,
he got backing from Jordan, he got back into the studies,
got backing from the Amoradis, and even from the Turks
and the Qataris. I say even from because the Cirks
and the Qataris are long time fervent supporters of Hamas.
Right now, how much pressure they're putting on Hamas I
can't accept. I don't know, we don't know. I don't,

(01:27:35):
I don't I can't even tell you how it's going
exactly over there. I can update you from what I'm
seeing in the news, but I don't know. The Hamas
is not doesn't I want to give up the twenty
living hostages we believe that are living, and the twenty
five or so dead bodies of those that they've killed,
except for a lot, a lot of concessions, some of
which the Israelies probably are going to give, and Trump

(01:27:57):
may twist their arm to give a lot of concessions.
Among the concessions, we know about two hundred and fifty
convicted terrorists convicted of the serving life sentences for murder.

Speaker 9 (01:28:08):
They're going to be released, and they'll go back to
the g.

Speaker 10 (01:28:10):
Out against Israel, seventeen hundred Gosins who have been detained
since this war began two years ago. They're going to
be released. They'll go back to the GAD all that.
But the Hamas will be saying that's not quite enough.
We also want this this, and I don't know that
we can get all the all the hostage. That was
the other thing that Trump did, that's different. He said, no,

(01:28:31):
I want the hostages, all of them released first, then
everything else falls, not the other way around, because otherwise
will never happen. But Hamas will try to say, Hey,
I'm not giving up all my bargaining chips. I want
to continue to have them. How long any of these
twenty can survive in any case, tortured as they are,
Who knows, really.

Speaker 4 (01:28:52):
Cliff May is my guest. His calling about this is
super good. I don't know if you saw cal Thomas's piece.
We're essentially the entire column is it doesn't matter what
Hamas says. We can't trust them anyway. And I think
that's a very fair assessment. I mean, somebody said, do
you really think this peace deal is going to happen?
They asked me, and I said, I will believe it
when I see hostages walking free and anew in government

(01:29:15):
that doesn't include Hamas in charge of the Gaza strip
and Hamas is completely disarmed, that is when I will
believe that Hamas is going to do what Hamas says. Otherwise, realistically,
none of the paperwork is worth the paper that it's
written on until they follow through.

Speaker 10 (01:29:31):
And Hamas is part of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the
Muslim Brotherhood is going back to the nineteen twenties in
Egypt when it started, it started not long after the
collapse of the Ottoman Empire, which was the last caliphate,
and the idea was and remains we need to re
establish an Islamic caliphate and empire, and it must in

(01:29:52):
time come to dominate the world because that's what our
religion demands. We must have Sharia law everywhere. We have
to conquer Rome, we have to conquer Britain, we have
to conquer France. And by the way, they're not doing
a bad job at any of that.

Speaker 4 (01:30:07):
Well, yeah, I mean bad job. Good job will depend
on what I'm saying.

Speaker 10 (01:30:11):
They're making progress, Yeah, I making Listen, even in Denver,
as you say, you've got prohamas in Denver, they're not saying, hey,
all these people who have been saying this.

Speaker 9 (01:30:20):
A genocide going on, Oh my god, the humanity.

Speaker 10 (01:30:23):
If they think there's a genocide, then why aren't they
pressing for a deal a day that would end the
genocide today? Why do they say, no, let's let the
genocide go on a little longer because we want to
do more damage to Israel.

Speaker 9 (01:30:36):
Genocide's okay, We'll take the genocide. Of course. It's easier
for that.

Speaker 10 (01:30:40):
It's easier to say if you're living in Denver. Then
if you're somebody in Gaza who would just love to
see this war end, and I do believe many godsins
perhaps most would really like this conflict to end. I'm
not going to say they're gonna love the Israelis. I
am going to say they may believe mus has ruined
our lives for a generation.

Speaker 9 (01:30:58):
Do we have to continue to go? Can we not
get some life back for ourselves?

Speaker 4 (01:31:02):
Amen to that. Cliff Day from the Cliff May from
the Foundation for the Defensive Democracies. Good to see my
friend will talk.

Speaker 9 (01:31:08):
Again soon any time May always.

Speaker 4 (01:31:11):
Thanks Cliff, you know, fascinating conversation. And Cliff has now
been replaced by one mister Nick Ferguson. How you doing, Nick,
I'm great. That's a fancy hat you have on? Oh yes,
you get that little fancy logo. Where did you get that?
At Broncos logo? But it's all embroidered and stuff. Yeah,
I got this, believe it or not, two years ago,

(01:31:32):
So I can't count.

Speaker 5 (01:31:33):
No, you can't, I can't.

Speaker 4 (01:31:35):
Nope, dang it. There was a super cool hat at
spring training this year. But I'm not buying any Rockies
gear until significant changes are made. I really wanted it.

Speaker 5 (01:31:44):
I'm like, I'm not gonna be able to get the
cool hat now.

Speaker 4 (01:31:47):
No, most likely they're not going to resell the hat.
That's what I'm saying. That's why you buy when it's there.
I am on my own personal strike right now. Nick,
don't mess with me about that. After this season, hopefully
after the Sea, then I will be able to replenish
my Rockies merch. We'll have to the jury is out
for you, Okay. Trying to remain principled and strong in

(01:32:10):
my min I'm not. I'm trying.

Speaker 7 (01:32:13):
I'm not.

Speaker 4 (01:32:13):
I'm not doing it anyway. Now it's time for the
most exciting segment all the radio of its kind.

Speaker 5 (01:32:22):
The world. Oh jeezh oh boy, Oh yikes. Oh, trying
to get my calendar.

Speaker 4 (01:32:31):
It's fine, not going to see here, Texter said saw
Dolly partner in her theater and pigeon Ford.

Speaker 5 (01:32:37):
She said.

Speaker 4 (01:32:37):
The reason her feet are so small as things don't
grow in the shade, all right, that's why she is
a national treasure right there, right there.

Speaker 5 (01:32:47):
Okay, what's our dad joke?

Speaker 9 (01:32:48):
Please?

Speaker 7 (01:32:49):
Before I do get to the dad joke, I want
to say this of the day dedicated because I won't.

Speaker 5 (01:32:53):
Get a chance to before Friday.

Speaker 7 (01:32:55):
Dedicated to our friends Devin and Darien getting married this Friday.

Speaker 4 (01:32:59):
Oh are you off tomorrow and Friday?

Speaker 9 (01:33:02):
Or just half like half the day tomorrow and then
a Friday.

Speaker 4 (01:33:04):
So I'm leaving halfway through my show.

Speaker 5 (01:33:06):
That's all I care about.

Speaker 7 (01:33:07):
You're hoping yours truly doesn't drop the ball being their
MC for the reception.

Speaker 4 (01:33:11):
Let me just say this, if you guys want a
wedding MC that is going to plan it out perfectly
and do an amazing job, It's going to be one
mister Anthony.

Speaker 5 (01:33:18):
Right, Okay? What is our word of that joke?

Speaker 3 (01:33:22):
Is?

Speaker 7 (01:33:23):
Getting married is great because on one hand you get
to wear a ring and on the other hand you don't.

Speaker 5 (01:33:30):
Thank you on that thank you? What is our word
of the day to day? Do you know what a
minimony is?

Speaker 4 (01:33:37):
A mini moony? M I n I m O n
yn mini money alimony is marriage patrimony. I'm going to mini's.
It's the it's combining two tiny things.

Speaker 7 (01:33:55):
Is a smaller weddings, more intimate affair, A mini who
comes over time.

Speaker 4 (01:34:04):
People that don't want to spend a lot of money
on a wedding and they make it sound fancy by
giving it an mooney to stop it?

Speaker 5 (01:34:11):
Thrifty?

Speaker 4 (01:34:12):
Okay, cost effective, cost effective. Now we're now we're talking.
And what country did Jane Goodall conduct her groundbreaking studies
of chimpanzees? I believe it's no. I think it's Tanzania.
I'm almost positive Tanzania. Her work illuminated the intelligence and
emotional lives of chimpanzees, and she obviously just recently passed away.

(01:34:35):
So there you go, Perkuson, how can you not she's
hanging out with chimpanzees all the time.

Speaker 5 (01:34:40):
Seriously, Okay, what are we doing keeping the theme going
on your wedding day?

Speaker 4 (01:34:46):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (01:34:47):
Yes, a true MVP an unwed m o h.

Speaker 4 (01:34:52):
What is made of honor?

Speaker 9 (01:34:53):
That is correct?

Speaker 7 (01:34:55):
Martha Stewart dot com says, if you don't go for
tossing this item, man, what's the bouquet?

Speaker 5 (01:35:02):
Correct?

Speaker 7 (01:35:03):
Nick's presidential speech writer David Litt said, for a speech
by the guy with this title, keep things positive and
don't up stage.

Speaker 4 (01:35:13):
What is the best man?

Speaker 9 (01:35:15):
That is correct?

Speaker 5 (01:35:15):
Colleah, I'm struggling with that.

Speaker 7 (01:35:17):
Watch out if the small child with this two word
job of toading small items down the aisle.

Speaker 4 (01:35:23):
What's ring there?

Speaker 5 (01:35:24):
That is correct?

Speaker 4 (01:35:24):
Nick, You're so close, Like if you guys could see Nicky.

Speaker 5 (01:35:27):
He reacts physically, but no words come out of his mouth.

Speaker 9 (01:35:30):
That's the problem for the sweep.

Speaker 7 (01:35:32):
A page boy may carry this item trailing behind the bride,
but someone else flufs it at the altar.

Speaker 5 (01:35:39):
Nick is a That is correct?

Speaker 4 (01:35:41):
Yeah, very nice. Nick's on the board, looked too little?
Do sometimes that's what you really do?

Speaker 2 (01:35:50):
Well.

Speaker 4 (01:35:51):
I mean, you just have to make a noise because
Nick literally physically reacts. You can tell he's a man
who worked with his body as as a living. He
physically moves, but no words come out of his mouth.
So it's like, oh, he's ready to make the tackle,
but you gotta say tackle.

Speaker 9 (01:36:06):
You know, you have to actually perform.

Speaker 4 (01:36:08):
You do have to actually seal the deal and get
that done. I'll leave the tackling to you. We, on
the other hand, will be back tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (01:36:15):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:36:16):
It's kind of nice knowing that I have a full
show every single day. And as I said before, Brian
Blaze from the Paragon Institute's gonna join me all this kerfuffle.
The government's shutting down over extended Obamacare credits guys, we're
gonna break it down. Obamacare was never meant to save
you money. It was meant to move us to single

(01:36:37):
payer health care, and these Obamacare credits are a foundational
part of that process, which is why Democrats are fighting
so hard. We're gonna do all of that stuff tomorrow,
and a whole bunch of nonsense.

Speaker 5 (01:36:47):
Keep it right here on KOA