10-13-25 FULL SHOW - The Hostages Are Home, And School Board Candidates

The hostages are released in Israel, I've got some DougCo School Board Candidates, a bit on judicial independence, and why Trump shouldn't be buying businesses.

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Manna koam got sad, nicey.

Speaker 4 (00:22):
And Donald keeping your really sad bab Welcome uncle, come
to a Monday edition of the show. It's a joke
and do me Monday outside.

Speaker 5 (00:34):
I somehow missed the hey it's going to rain Mandy memo.
And not only did I not have a raincoat, I
had taken my umbrella out of my car in my
garage to do something that's on you. Yep, Oh, I'm
you see me placing blame. I'm I am taking the
blame wholeheartedly. But I'm sure I wasn't the only one unprepared.

(00:55):
But I'm of the I'm of the age when weather
is extremely important to me, knowing what the weather's going
to be, preparing properly for the weather, having the right
kind of jacket for the weather. If he did, you
are ye here, I am completely and totally unprepared for
the weather.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
Anyway.

Speaker 5 (01:14):
That's Anthony Rodriguez over there is we like to call
him the host with the most. Anthony went to, uh,
is this the last of your friends to get married?
I saw something to that effect.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yes it is.

Speaker 5 (01:28):
So, this is the end of the trail of weddings
for now, for now. No next comes the trail of
baby showers. That's how all this works. There you go,
But we all had a high time I hope you
guys had a high time this week. Let's just say
this right now about the World Coast game. We're just
not going to speak of it.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
No, we're just going.

Speaker 5 (01:50):
To have a W in the win column, and that
W shall remain a W no matter how unattractive that
game was.

Speaker 6 (01:57):
After ten seconds, how's the worst football game I have
ever watched?

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Worst football game?

Speaker 5 (02:03):
I have you now in your mind, briefly compare that
to the second half of the Eagles game.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
What team are we? Which team are we? You know?

Speaker 5 (02:14):
Which team are the Broncos. I think there's still a
lot of questions to answer. I think that became a
bar end yesterday. But hey, you know what, Anthony, how
does that W look in the win column?

Speaker 6 (02:24):
Well, I'm very glad we were playing the New York Jets,
not thirty one other football teams. Yes, thirty other football
team Yes, because we have lost most of those, Yes.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
That's okay.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
Yeah, because.

Speaker 5 (02:36):
Will remain a W until the end of the season,
when it will go into the record books as a W.
Nobody's going to be like W. But W asterisk just W.
It's better than a dang tie. We've decided, Chuck and
I have decided the NFL. Now the tie in the NFL,
it's just like kissing your sister. It's completely just like

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ah unsatisfying. Anyway, let's do this, shall we. Let's chimp
on the blog because we've got a lot of stuff
to talk about. We've got a lot of people coming
on the show Big News Today. I don't know if
you've heard this big news we are going to talk
about in Israel. But first let's go find the blog.
Find it by going to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog

(03:20):
dot com. Look for the headline that says ten thirteen
twenty five blog the hostages are home and school board candidates.
Click on that and here are the headlines you will
find within.

Speaker 7 (03:30):
Anybe's listing office, half of American Allerships and clipments of
teen that's going to press plat.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
Today on the.

Speaker 5 (03:36):
Blog why is the US government buy businesses? Pay attention
to the school board races?

Speaker 8 (03:42):
One.

Speaker 5 (03:42):
Jeffco Schools candidate has a troubled past about judicial independence.
All the hostages have been released from Gaza living. I
should have said there, don't expects Representative Jason Crowe to
give Trump any credit.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
Scrolling scrolling, Uh, scrolling a lot of scho There's a
lot of stuff.

Speaker 5 (04:01):
Meanwhile, in Portland, now the left to saying Antifa doesn't exist.
The GOP picks Ava Flanel. Diane Keaton has died. Our
weird summer weather has led to flooding? Is the green
energy fantasy going to drive business out of Colorado? More
scrolling copy? Indigenous Caprini Columbus day? Are we headed to

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the fall of the United States? Hot is a huge
problem in fatal crashes. Today is no broad Day? Could
lithium be the answer for Alzheimer's. It's time to focus
on boys for a change.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
An ugly wind is still a win.

Speaker 5 (04:36):
This AI is officially out of control. Jurassic Cat I
would beat my children to within an inch of their lives.
Trent Dilfer talks negativity turning point. USA is doing their
own halftime show. Michael Jackson is a Jedi. I like
this AI cover more than the original Alan Ben and
the Octagon. It might be bye bye Bill Belichick. Those

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are the headlines on the blow at mandy'sblog dot com
tech to.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
Really, Nancy? What was wrong with that one?

Speaker 3 (05:07):
Long?

Speaker 4 (05:08):
It's long because there's a lot of stuff.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
In the blog you had, so you didn't get the
sad horn.

Speaker 5 (05:15):
But no, God, Nancy's getting tough at her old age,
super tough. A couple of things from the Common Spirit
health text line number one. You may have just heard
Jimmy say that he's going to be filling in for
me Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
This texter said, Mandy, we're missing you already.

Speaker 5 (05:34):
Where are you going to be Wednesday, Thursday Friday? First
of all, thank you for missing me. Second of I'll
go to see my kids and grandkids. It is fall break.
It is so an opportunity for us to go see
the fam in Ohio. And as I was just telling
someone else, we're looking at buying a house while we're
there that we'll use as a short term rental until
we're ready to retire. You guys, real estate there is

(05:55):
insane lee low priced. Just if we get this house,
I will let you guys know all the details. But
I don't want to hex anything letting you know what's
going on. But holy cow, holy cow, Mandy, are you
brawls today? And as you will see on the blog,
today is National No broad Day. But as I said,

(06:18):
let me quote myself from the blog, but I will
not be participating in public because I'm a decent woman
raised in a good family.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
Okay, so I.

Speaker 5 (06:27):
Am properly undergarmented today on National No broad Day, Mandy
per the Broncos talk about your London fog, worst case
of jet lag. I've ever witnessed a team to have
never underestimate a wounded animal.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
So you guys, also this really in my mind.

Speaker 5 (06:44):
You know, next year they're playing regular season games in Australia.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
That's crazy.

Speaker 5 (06:51):
Australia is twenty four hours of flying.

Speaker 4 (06:54):
It only takes like.

Speaker 5 (06:56):
Nine hours, eight nine hours to get from here to
the European continent. Okay, twenty four hours to Australia and
you're gonna do that in the regular season.

Speaker 4 (07:04):
That is nuts.

Speaker 6 (07:06):
Yeah, but that wasn't this In this game. We have
an MVP candidate, Mandy. How if you knew that the
Denver Broncos had an MVP candidate. His name is Ben powers,
the left guard who is now out with torn biceps.

Speaker 9 (07:18):
Yep.

Speaker 6 (07:19):
His replacement, Matt Parrett, struggled mighty yeah, and we missed
him a lot.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Had the early turnover.

Speaker 6 (07:25):
It was just a weird vibe, a quirky game, played
kind of poopy, but the defense was amazing, thank god.
So it really was a win as a win because
that was a That was just a weird game. They
had minus ten net passing yards. Did you know that
I did not minus ten net passing yards?

Speaker 2 (07:42):
Mandy.

Speaker 6 (07:43):
We sacked justin fields for more yards than he had
yards passing. That is what net passing yards is. He
had minus ten net passing yards.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
We won the game.

Speaker 6 (07:53):
Whatever, whatever, amazing defensive performance, but puke vomit, throw up.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
That was the worst game I've ever watched. But hey,
I don't care when's win.

Speaker 5 (08:03):
It's still a W in the W column. Better way,
always stay in the W call you play like that.
Next week the Giants are gonna come in town to
beach you. So get it together, Texter, you just said
gonna make time for the Circleville Pumpkin Show. It's the
Circle Vote, Circle Pumpkin fet Oh, it is the Pumpkin Show.
I didn't know it was this week, and yes, yes
I will. Because we're driving down to Athens from Dayton.

(08:26):
I'm just as all Ohio talk and yeah, oh yeah,
we're gonna go to the Pumpkin Show. And that's not
like code for something sexual. It's an actual pumpkin festival.
So yeah, it's nothing sexy there going on at all.
But yeah, thank you for sending me that so I
can send it to my husband so we can know

(08:49):
what we're gonna do one of those days, because my
husband loves the pumpkin festival, loves it, absolutely loves it.
Hang on, I'm actually typing an email to my husband
right now. Okay, now that's done. So today on the
blog we got three different interviews. The first one coming
up at twelve thirty is a guy named Eric Rome

(09:09):
and he writes for Reason dot com, which is a
libertarian website, and he wrote this article last week and
I was like, uh uh, we got to talk about
this because as much as I am going to celebrate
Donald Trump's success in navigating a peace agreement that as
of right now is mostly being held up, I also

(09:34):
have to take him to task for doing things that
I really don't understand economically in one of those is
the US government is buying shares in companies that Donald
Trump has deemed, you know, national security necessary.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
Now, I'm all in favor.

Speaker 5 (09:49):
Of deeming some industries necessary to national security and then
using incentives and things like tax breaks to ensure that
we have a robust supply of whatever those things are.

Speaker 4 (10:01):
Now, I wouldn't.

Speaker 5 (10:02):
Necessarily want just the president to name something as national
security related. I would really want more of a Congress
type thing there, because I do think that there are
industries that are just incredibly vital to national security. One
of them is the oil and gas industry. And no
one's gonna like me saying that if they're an environmentalist

(10:23):
on the left, who are so keen to shut down
oil and gas.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
But the reality is, if we.

Speaker 5 (10:28):
Have war, we can't rely on external services, right, we
can't rely on imports from the Middle East.

Speaker 4 (10:37):
We can't do that.

Speaker 5 (10:39):
And I'm talking about a full blown world war here.
So there are things that are necessary for national security.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
I don't want the.

Speaker 5 (10:48):
Designation of necessary for national security to go beyond what
is strictly necessary for national security. But imagine our steel
industry in this company, in this country. If the United
States government said, Okay, you're necessary for national security. We're
going to make sure that your tax burden is such
that you can run and function in non war time

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so you are ready to go during wartime. I'd be
okay with that. I mean, ultimately be nice if we
all got all these tax breaks. But the reality is
what I do for a living. One could argue that
having the stick is important for national security. It's one
of the reasons why AM signals are still so important,
and why you should always have a battery operated radio

(11:31):
in your house, always forever and always. Don't just rely
on Wi Fi or whatever, just you should always have
a battery operated radio in case of emergencies.

Speaker 4 (11:43):
That being said, all of that long way around.

Speaker 5 (11:46):
I strongly disagree with the United States of America buying
any company for any amount at any time in any situation.
That is purely socialization, and I don't like it. So
we're going to talk to Eric about that at twelve
thirty at one o'clock. In my never ending quest to
make you guys pay attention to the school board races,

(12:08):
I've got two members of the Common Sense Slate from
Douglas County Matt Smith and Steve Vale. They're coming on
the show today to talk about what is working in
Douglas County. And I do this because Douglas County is
succeeding in some areas where other districts are not, and
they're succeeding at a high level. Now, the district is
not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but we

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are going to talk about specifically in Douglas County, there
is no collective bargaining agreement. They kicked the union out
in terms of bargaining partnership many years ago. So the
notion that somehow the unions are going to improve student achievement, well,
we've got some evidence that that's not necessarily.

Speaker 4 (12:47):
Going to happen.

Speaker 5 (12:48):
And if that's not the case, why would any district
negotiate with the unions. If you can't demonstrate how having
a teacher's union in your district has improved student achievement,
why in the world should we still be talking to them.
And that's my question and the reason I'm bringing Steven
Madden is they're running against four opponents who have been

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endorsed by the teachers Union. Because the teachers Union believes
that they are the best chance of getting a collective
bargaining agreement reinstated.

Speaker 4 (13:18):
So we're going to talk to them about that.

Speaker 5 (13:20):
We're also going to talk a little bit later in
the show about one of the Jeff cot Schools candidates
who's been endorsed by the Teachers' Union.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
He apparently has some kind of juvenile issue in his past.

Speaker 5 (13:37):
And everyone's trying to figure out what it is. I mean,
it's in this juvenile record, so it's sealed. But he's
running for school board and I have concerns. We already
know what happened in Denver when you hired a very young,
young young man in tay Anderson to be on the
school board and he was accused credibly by organizations and
young women saying he creeped on them on social media

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and creeped on that.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
I'm in person, so you know, I'm not.

Speaker 5 (14:03):
Interested in someone with a questionable judgment, even if they
were a kid. And Jeff Coo and Cherry Creek, you guys,
you need to fix your school boards because your school
districts are going in the wrong direction.

Speaker 4 (14:18):
You just are not moving in the right.

Speaker 5 (14:20):
Direction, and you are watching once great school districts, especially
in the case of Cherry Creek begin to have significant
problems when it comes to their progress, when it comes to.

Speaker 4 (14:30):
Their test results, and if you're not paying attention, you
need to. We also want to excuse me.

Speaker 5 (14:36):
Two thirty are going to talk to Justice O'Grady about
an event coming up at the University of Denver's drum
Sturm College of Law, and.

Speaker 4 (14:46):
It is put on about judicial.

Speaker 5 (14:49):
Independence, and from their press release, it says the discussion
will focus on the rising challenges facing the judiciary and
the importance of preserving judicial independence in a constitutional democracy.
So this is a nonpartisan event, and again we're going
to talk to jud Joe Grady. He's going to be
one of the people on the panel at that event,

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and I have some questions about the responsibilities of the
judiciary to remain independent.

Speaker 4 (15:16):
Of politics as well, So hopefully we'll have a very
rousing discussion about that. So that's all coming up on
the show.

Speaker 5 (15:23):
You can see that it has been a very busy
day already and we haven't even gotten started.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
But the biggest story of the day, without a doubt,
hands down, is the success and the magnitude of what's
going on in the Middle East. It has just been
a staggeringly good day. I told you guys last week.

Speaker 5 (15:48):
I will believe it when all of the hostages are
released and all twenty living hostages have been returned home.
And this morning the videos started hitting X of the
families reunited, and y'all, I can only watch like one
or two of them, because I knew that I would
ugly cry and that I would come to work and people.

Speaker 4 (16:07):
Would be like, are you okay?

Speaker 5 (16:08):
And I didn't want to do that, so I'll watch
them later. But oh my goodness, can you even imagine?

Speaker 4 (16:14):
Can you? If you are a parent, can you even.

Speaker 5 (16:18):
Imagine what it must be like after two years of
wondering and praying and waiting and wishing and hoping and
promising God a million things.

Speaker 4 (16:31):
Just bring my kid home.

Speaker 5 (16:33):
Can you even imagine what that must be like to
wrap your arms around your child after they have been
in captivity for over two years?

Speaker 4 (16:40):
I can't.

Speaker 5 (16:41):
I just I am filled with joy for those families
and filled with sorrow for the families of the hostages
who were not returned today. Now, in Hamasa's defense, even
though I hate to say it like that, in Hamasa's defense,
they did say that they may have trouble locating the

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bodies of some of the hostages, which shows you how
much care they took of the people that they had
taken on October seventh, two years ago.

Speaker 4 (17:13):
And so we did know that we weren't.

Speaker 5 (17:15):
Getting all of the bodies back today, but hopefully that
will be in the next couple of days. And the
most fascinating thing, and if you just listened to the
last half hour of Ross's show at Jimmy Singenberger, you
heard his excellent guest on this, the most fascinating thing
is already underway in Gaza, and that is Hamas is
dragging people that they view to be part of their

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now opposition into the streets and shooting them in the heads.
These are dead Palestinians.

Speaker 4 (17:42):
You guys. Where are the protests, Where are the marches?

Speaker 5 (17:49):
Where are Queers for Palestine taking to the streets to
protest the dead Palestinians murdered in cold blood by Hamas?
Where are the calls that Almas is connitting jenocide. Jason
Crowe decided to weigh in over the weekend, and when

(18:10):
the RNC Research Group posted a snippet of his appearance,
he got very snotty and called them dumb says, you know,
do you know the word? But Representative Jason Crowe is

(18:31):
just out there touting the talking points of the Democrats
because he is as reliable a Democratic mouthpiece as there is.
And when we get back from this break, well, no,
at twelve thirty, we're.

Speaker 4 (18:45):
Going to talk to uh dang it, I got too
much stuff to talk about today, too much, too many guys,
too much stuff.

Speaker 5 (18:51):
We're going to talk to Eric Rome Fromreason dot com
first about why the US government buying companies in the
United States is just a bad idea. It's just a
really bad idea. We'll do all of that next, and
then later in the show, I'll play you this audio
Representative Jason crow showing what's really important to the Democratic Party.

(19:13):
And if I am an Israeli Jew or a Democratic
donor who really cares about Israel, you're really gonna want
to pay attention to who they've decided they're going to
align themselves with, just so they don't have to give
Donald Trump any sort of credit. Joining me now to
talk about something completely different, Eric Bam writes for Reason

(19:33):
dot com, the libertarian site that does phenomenal stuff connect.

Speaker 4 (19:38):
Are you guys are still connected with Cato.

Speaker 8 (19:40):
Right, We're not affiliated in any way with Kato, but
I'm a big fan of people who work over there.

Speaker 10 (19:47):
I love.

Speaker 5 (19:48):
For some reason, I thought there was a connection there.
But nonetheless, last week, Eric he wrote a great column article,
whatever you want to call it, about this new thing
that Donald Trump is doing that I genuinely really really
really hate, and that is we're now apparently the US
government is buying steaks in private companies.

Speaker 4 (20:10):
Give me a little bit about that.

Speaker 8 (20:13):
Yeah, So the immediate well, first of all, thanks for
having me on. Wonderful to be with you here. The
immediate reason for writing that piece last week was this announcement.
I think it really flew out at the radar. Obviously
there's some bigger news.

Speaker 11 (20:25):
Out there in the past week, but that the.

Speaker 8 (20:28):
White House announced that they were going to basically take
a steak in this company.

Speaker 11 (20:33):
Called Trilogy Medals.

Speaker 8 (20:34):
There's a thirty five million dollar quote unquote investment being
made by the Trump administration and in return the company,
the federal government will now own ten percent of the company.
Trilogy Medals is not a company I'd ever heard of before.
It's not like US Steel, right, this is not a
big well established, well known company. They're a mining company

(20:54):
that operates in Alaska. They mine copper and cobalt and
some other They would like to mind more things in Alaska.
And so this deal is part of the Trump administration's
attempt to go after not just those rare earth materials
and metals that we hear about so much, but also
just like really critical materials like cobalt and copper that
go into you know, any sort of advanced electronics, batteries,

(21:17):
AI tech, all of that. So, you know, I think
we could debate the importance of the federal government having
a say, or making some influence or making some quote
unquote investment subsidies to companies like this, But I think
you really it becomes a whole different conversation when you
start talking about giving a company money in exchange for

(21:37):
the government actually owning a share of the company.

Speaker 11 (21:40):
And we've seen this now a few times, and like you,
I am alarmed by this.

Speaker 5 (21:44):
Well, I mean, Eric, let me just play Devil's advocate.
I'll put my devil's advocate voice. But Eric, who would
not want the advice of a machine that runs like
the US federal government in your business?

Speaker 4 (21:56):
They could absolutely.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yeah, right exactly.

Speaker 8 (21:58):
And this is the point I made in the is
that like, imagine, you know, the most efficient and effective
entity in the world coming in and saying we're going
to now run ten percent of your company, right. I mean,
we're in the middle of a government shutdown. The government
can't pass its own budget, the most basic thing you
the most basic thing that it has to do or
supposed to do every year, and it routinely fails to

(22:20):
do this.

Speaker 11 (22:21):
I think that even before.

Speaker 8 (22:23):
You get to some of the philosophical objections that a
libertarian like me might have to the government running a company,
before you even get to some of the economic or
historical examples of how this has gone very poorly in
the past, of which there are many, I think you
just have to ask the most basic practical question is like, well,
wait a minute, wouldn't Trilogy.

Speaker 11 (22:42):
Medals do a better job of doing the thing it's
supposed to do if it.

Speaker 8 (22:46):
Didn't have to also be concerned about what the government
wanted a government that, again at the moment, is not
even fully operating or fully functional. So yeah, I think
there's a lot of reasons to question the whiz of
a maneuver like this. Again, even if you're somebody who
and I mean I can agree with this on this point,

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that like.

Speaker 11 (23:07):
We should be mining more of these essential.

Speaker 8 (23:10):
Metals like that, that's a critical thing for the United
States to be able to do. But I think you
need to then ask the next question of is this
the best way to do it?

Speaker 11 (23:16):
And I think the answer is clearly no.

Speaker 4 (23:17):
Well, Eric, there's a couple different ways to do this.

Speaker 5 (23:20):
And I am I call myself a libreservative, right, I
probably lean a little more right than your average libertarian.
But ultimately, there are industries and rare earth metals is
increasingly becoming one of them, steal as one of them.

Speaker 4 (23:32):
Oil and gas production.

Speaker 5 (23:33):
These are necessary to go into a war footing, right,
They really are matters of national security. I was talking
the other day about the fact that if China rolls
into Taiwan, what does that do for the chip industry
that we rely on for all of our new next
gen weaponry. All of our next gen fighters have all
of this incredible technology in them. So I think you

(23:54):
could make the argument that there are industries that need
some sort of and I hate to say it protection,
and so they're on a war footing if we need
them on a war footing, right, but this isn't the
wrong way to do it, right, Do it through incentives,
Do it through like lowering tax I mean, how does
a more pure libertarian look at what I just said?

Speaker 4 (24:15):
How do you thread that needle?

Speaker 6 (24:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (24:18):
I mean I would say the first thing. And this
is actually something Trump has also done.

Speaker 8 (24:21):
So this is the part, you know, it's kind of
like a to his credit, to his detriment point here,
but to his credit. The other thing the administration announced
is that they were, you know, streamlining the permits. They
were going to move on some things that the Biden
administration had been really slow walking or holding up the
permits for this company to.

Speaker 11 (24:36):
Do the mining. That sounds to me like exactly what
we would want to do, Right.

Speaker 8 (24:40):
Who's who's the expert in getting materials out of the
ground so that we can use them in industry.

Speaker 11 (24:46):
Is it the federal government or is it a mining company?

Speaker 8 (24:48):
Well, it's obviously it's the mining company, right, So make
it easier for that company for all companies to do
the things they need to do to provide these materials
to American industry, to the American military, to whomever. Right,
That's the thing we should be focused on. And again Trump, yes,
doing some of that, moving these permits along, speeding up

(25:08):
some of the necessary paperwork to start building a road
and a part of really rural far flown Alaska, so
that we can have the infrastructure in place so that
the mining company can do the thing. It's good at
all of that, I think any libertarian would say, yes, yes, yes,
more of that. Please get the government out of the way,
let the business do what it does best.

Speaker 11 (25:25):
The thing then.

Speaker 8 (25:26):
That you have to come back to, is this, like, okay,
in exchange for those things, the Trump administration wants ten
percent stake in the company. And this is the same
playbook we've seen them run now with Intel, with US Steel,
and there's a few other examples too, And it's like
that cuts immediately against the benefits that you see from,
you know, getting from easing some of the regulations or

(25:47):
doing some of.

Speaker 11 (25:47):
The permitting reform that they've done.

Speaker 8 (25:49):
Once you start putting the government in charge, I think
the obvious question to ask is like, well, what happens
if there's a you know, a Biden type.

Speaker 11 (25:57):
Administration next right now?

Speaker 8 (25:59):
Not only can they throw up regulatory burdens or regulatory
hurdles or create permitting problems, but they can literally have
oversight to the company's board, Like, how does that change
the incentives for a business like this?

Speaker 11 (26:12):
Oh, going forward?

Speaker 8 (26:13):
And I think that's where this ten percent or the
government being involved in a business on any level becomes problematic,
because then the business has to be oriented towards what
does the current administration want me to do, as opposed
to what they should be oriented towards, which is how
do I most effectively and efficiently get stuff out of
the ground for other people to use.

Speaker 5 (26:34):
Oh, the way that this could be so easily politicized
in the sense that you you know, we already know
that the federal government and politicians use the tax code
to dole out favored status, Right, this will be the
next This will be like the American Express black card
for businesses with the admit, you know, with government, where
they're just gonna end up going to government and getting

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a chunk of money and then.

Speaker 4 (26:57):
What do we get back. I just this is so
so bad, it's so bad. And I love the way.

Speaker 5 (27:03):
Trump leverages that deal making with like Ukraine, right, like, Oh,
we're gonna come help you, but you're gonna give us
rare rare minerals.

Speaker 4 (27:11):
We're gonna this is our deal. I love that leverage.

Speaker 5 (27:14):
I don't like it when I feel like he's leveraging
it against the American people.

Speaker 4 (27:17):
And that's how this feels.

Speaker 11 (27:20):
Yeah, I think that's exactly right.

Speaker 8 (27:21):
When you're talking country versus country, obviously, that's a different
kind of relationship, right with the federal government the United States,
when it is negotiating with the government of Ukraine, or
the government of Israel, or the government of China, anybody
in the rest of the world. Right, that's obviously how
those types of arrangements have to work. It's all about leverage.
But when you're talking about versus a company that operates

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in the United States, that's.

Speaker 11 (27:44):
A very different dynamic.

Speaker 8 (27:45):
The federal government can kind of exert whatever pressure it
wants in that and that business now going forward has.

Speaker 11 (27:50):
To take that into account.

Speaker 8 (27:51):
There's another thing to think about here too, that I
think we should also talk about, which is, what if
this is a bad bet. What if Trilogy Medals isn't
the most efficient or the best mining company out the rate.

Speaker 11 (28:02):
They've now been given a huge advantage over all of
their competitors. And we'll wait a minute.

Speaker 8 (28:07):
What if one of their competitors is actually better at
this What if ten years from now we find out
that we maybe should have backed a different horse. And
that's why the government shouldn't be backing any horse at all.
The government should be creating a level playing field and
trying to reduce the taxes and regulations and permits and
difficulties that all businesses face and then let the best
competitor win in the marketplace.

Speaker 11 (28:28):
And that's again, that's not what we're seeing here.

Speaker 8 (28:29):
We're seeing the government picking winners and losers, in this case,
picking this one mining company.

Speaker 11 (28:35):
In Alaska, and that I don't know. I worry that
that's just not the right outcome because we can't know
the future well.

Speaker 5 (28:42):
And Eric, I'll add this before I let you go,
And that is it's more than that.

Speaker 4 (28:46):
In my mind.

Speaker 5 (28:47):
It is now, what if Trilogy Metals starts to go south,
are we now going to because right now.

Speaker 4 (28:52):
We have an ownership stake.

Speaker 5 (28:54):
Are we going to prop up a failing company that
otherwise would have just gone away?

Speaker 4 (28:57):
There's a lot of questions.

Speaker 8 (28:58):
You've seen that, Yeah, yeah, you've seen that time and
time again with government owned companies throughout history too.

Speaker 11 (29:02):
Like that's always the case. They throw more money after
them because they can't be allowed.

Speaker 4 (29:06):
To fail, right exactly.

Speaker 5 (29:07):
Ericbame Fromreason dot Com, thank you so much for your
time today.

Speaker 4 (29:11):
Super interesting article.

Speaker 5 (29:12):
I look forward to the longer article about this in
the next episode.

Speaker 4 (29:17):
Of the magazine.

Speaker 11 (29:18):
Yeah, thanks so much for having me.

Speaker 5 (29:20):
All right, that's Eric Bame with Reason dot Com. We
will be back right after this. I've got to play
this audio from Jason Crow. Can I have my computer?

Speaker 4 (29:28):
Please? Thank you, Anthony.

Speaker 5 (29:31):
This is Jason Crow on some CNN show. I have
no idea who the doll is talking to him.

Speaker 4 (29:37):
No clue, but here we go.

Speaker 12 (29:38):
I want to ask you about other news of day,
and that would be what's happening in the Middle East,
where a ceasefire is now an effect between Israel and Hamas.
All of the living hostages are expected to be return
in the coming days. It is so tenuous, but that
is the expectation. How much credit does President Trump deserve
for this remarkable agreement.

Speaker 11 (29:59):
Well, this does need.

Speaker 13 (30:00):
To end the terrible, terrible tragedy we've seen the last
couple of years.

Speaker 11 (30:04):
It's been awful.

Speaker 13 (30:05):
Over sixty thousand civilians have been killed or are starving
right now. This must in October seventh was a terrible disaster.
So the proof is going to be and how this
is executed. You know, I am cautiously optimistic that this
is going to get done. We need to return the hostages,
we need to end the fighting, We need to get

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food and aid into Gaza. Palestinian people stop starving, and
we need a solution that allows both parties, Israel and
the Palestinians to have peace, safety, security and self determination.

Speaker 11 (30:40):
And until they both.

Speaker 13 (30:41):
Have dignity and the right to exist in security, this
will never end.

Speaker 5 (30:46):
So now, to be clear, Israel does not have the
destruction of the Palestinian people in their charter Hamastas, but
I'll let them continue.

Speaker 13 (30:55):
That's what needs to happen. You know, I don't trust
Donald Trump. There's no reason to trust on Trump. I will,
of course work with any administration that wants to achieve
those things.

Speaker 12 (31:05):
You may not trust Donald Trump, but what has been
achieved here so far is something that was not achieved
by President Biden. With the potential end of the war
and all the hostages being turned over. So do you
give President Trump credit for that?

Speaker 13 (31:23):
Well, you know what I don't like I don't like
the fact that nearly seventy thousand women and children and
civilians have been killed in the last couple of years.

Speaker 5 (31:32):
That's a blatant lie. That is an absolute lie that
he is telling. And he knows it. That numbers come
from Thelmas Health Ministry, which is hilarious that they even
have something called the Health Ministry there. The reality is
is that those numbers include coat combat fighters. Right, So

(31:53):
he's just making up numbers. But wait, I want you
to hear it one more time, just so you can
hear the whole thing in its glory.

Speaker 13 (31:59):
I don't like the fact that nearly seventy thousand women
and children and civilians have been killed in the last
couple of years. Right, Do you think that's a success, Pamela,
do you think that that's okay?

Speaker 14 (32:10):
Wells right, yeah, she points out, Yeah, that's been over
both administrations, a vast majority that was under Joe Biden.

Speaker 4 (32:24):
Someone Jason Crow loes but I'll let him.

Speaker 13 (32:26):
Finish not yeah, exactly, and then the Biden administration bears
responsibility too.

Speaker 5 (32:33):
I went back on the interwebs and Representative Jason Crowe
served in a rock honorably, and I'm in no way lessening.

Speaker 4 (32:43):
The value of his service.

Speaker 5 (32:46):
But I asked the wayback machine in the Internet, how
many civilians were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan during those
conflicts via direct violence alone? Okay, direct violence only. In Iraq,
between one hundred and eighty thousand and two hundred thousand

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civilians were killed. In Afghanistan, over forty six thousand.

Speaker 4 (33:11):
Civilians were killed.

Speaker 5 (33:13):
So the total for both just direct violence, no aftermath,
no loss of medical care, no starving to any of
that stuff.

Speaker 4 (33:19):
We're not even looking at those.

Speaker 5 (33:21):
So we, the United States of America and our partners
killed between two hundred and thirty thousand and two hundred
and fifty thousand civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now I
am not in any way, shape or form meaning to
diminish those deaths. I am merely pointing out the hypocrisy
of Representative Jason Crowe being unable to just give the

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president credit.

Speaker 4 (33:45):
For a historic event. You can't do it.

Speaker 5 (33:49):
But these are the Democrat talking points. By the way,
this is what you're gonna hear over the next two days,
So get ready for it.

Speaker 4 (33:55):
And guess what. They're not going to work, not at all.

Speaker 5 (33:58):
When we get back Douglas count He is on the
verge of a big school board election. I've got a
few candidates coming up next to talk about why it's important.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
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Speaker 5 (34:37):
Met you on Monday edition of the show on Mandy Connell.
That guy over there is Anthony Rodriguez. And today we
have with us two candidates who are part of the
common sense slate for school board in Douglas County. I
am trying to beat you guys over the head and
let you know this school board race, no matter.

Speaker 4 (34:54):
Where you are, is critical.

Speaker 5 (34:58):
There's a few things that are happening in various districts
that really need special attention.

Speaker 4 (35:02):
In Douglas County is one of them. Number one, I
live there. Number two.

Speaker 5 (35:06):
There has been a push for many, many years, since
the first year that the Douglas County School Board simply
decided not to do a collective bargaining agreement with the
teachers union, that the unions have never given up they
have relentlessly tried to bring back the collective bargaining agreement
in Douglas County, and very recently, after D eleven in

(35:27):
the Springs decided not to negotiate with the teachers union
and do away with their collective bargaining agreement. There was
a one day strike in D eleven and they were
trying to get the Douglas County teachers to strike with them.

Speaker 4 (35:42):
To my knowledge, that did not happen.

Speaker 5 (35:44):
I don't know if any of you know anything about that,
but thanks to the teachers in Douglas County for not participating.
First of all, I appreciate that as a parent and
joining me now to talk about that and so much more.
Matt Smith is running in District B, Steve Vale is
running in District G, and they are part of the
Common Sense slate. First of all, I'm going to ask

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you to school board candidates. The first thing I ask
all school board candidates, why would you want the most thankless,
unpaid job in politics where at least half of your
constituents are going to hate your guts no matter what
you do.

Speaker 4 (36:22):
Matt, I'll start with you.

Speaker 7 (36:24):
Awesome, So I have a sign in the district and
this is for him and all the other kids in
the district as well. And I've seen what happens when
the school board does not listen to parents, and so
I want to make sure I step in and we
listen to parents who listen to the community. And I
feel like we can make a real difference how much
you steve. You know, my daughter asking me that all
the time. She's like, why did you do this? Five

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years ago?

Speaker 10 (36:44):
So my youngest just graduated from Chaparral and I saw
the benefit that we got from that school system, and
my wife and I moved to Douglas County specifically we too. Yeah,
and so even though my kids are out of school,
I want to do this for the next generation. I
want to make sure that we can take the great
momentum that the current Conservative board and that Aaron is doing,
and that we can just keep that momentum going.

Speaker 9 (37:05):
So I'm really doing this for the next generation.

Speaker 5 (37:07):
Well, what people need to understand is your slate of candidates.
And I'm going to take a little sidewinder here. The
reason that we're seeing slates of candidates is because many
years ago, the teachers unions started to get behind a
slate of candidates in order to be able to spend
more money more efficiently by promoting a number of candidates
that they were supporting instead of just one. And now

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people who are not backed by the unions are like,
you know what, not a bad strategy, So let's do
the same thing. And that is how slates like the
Common Sense slate are born. I want to start with
this question because I think it's a really big one, Matt.
We are the highest performing district in the Metro area, absolutely,
I think the highest performing district of our size in

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the state, correct with as many Okay, so what do
you think we are just crushing it on?

Speaker 4 (37:58):
What do you think we have room to improve?

Speaker 9 (38:01):
Awesome?

Speaker 7 (38:01):
Yeah, so we are definitely nailing it on academics. We're
number one in the Metro as you mentioned, ninety two
percent graduation rate. Things are going really well, and a
lot of this happened after the superintendent change, so with
with Aaron coming on board and just completely changing the cultures,
we are definitely crushing it on academics right now and
making sure that we're saying focused on student outcomes and
it's always going to be areas of improvement. You know,

(38:23):
I still think there's room in the district to clean
up things around, like the equity policy and things of
that nature. Just making sure we're focusing on academics and
we remove all the ideology.

Speaker 9 (38:34):
Out of the school.

Speaker 5 (38:35):
Is there a difference between focusing on academics and removing
the ideology and still making sure that kids who are
black or Hispanic or some other minority are feeling like
they're a part of the district as well.

Speaker 9 (38:50):
One hundred percent.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (38:51):
We all kids need to feel like they belong, they
need to feel a part of the community. And you know,
we're definitely not advocating against that. What we're what I'm
personally against is putting folks in boxes based on immutable
characteristics like race, you know, skin collar, of their background.
I think all students, you know, have the potential to
achieve the same thing, and so we just want to

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make sure that we're keeping the outcomes the same and
the standards the same for all students and not putting
folks in boxes.

Speaker 4 (39:18):
Steve, same question to you, why in the world would
you want this job? But what do we doing? I
already asked you that what are we doing right? What
would you like to see us improve?

Speaker 9 (39:26):
On. So again, we're number one in academics. The teachers
are as.

Speaker 10 (39:31):
We've talked about, are not necessarily the highest paid. They
just did get a raise with five A and five
B Y. But we're also not seeing this mass exodus
to other districts.

Speaker 5 (39:41):
I just start to a Cheery Creek teacher who said
they have lost a ton to Douglas County.

Speaker 10 (39:46):
Correct lower pay, Correct, because of that culture and because
of those student outcomes. I truly believe that teachers do
want the best for their students. Oh yeah, and so
we're building that culture and I think we're doing great there,
and that starts at the top. That's the with the administration,
the tools that we're giving them, and I think Douglas County,
while there's areas of improvement, is doing a great job
of keeping the politics mostly out of the schools.

Speaker 9 (40:09):
We're not, as you know, we're not.

Speaker 10 (40:10):
Some of the other districts are much more focused on
those equity outcomes, and we're really focused on and maybe
that's the wrong word, but we're focused on those students.

Speaker 5 (40:20):
You know, it's a perfect way to say it. And
I've been banging on Cherry Creek School district. They just
get away with valedictorians. Yeah, what nothing says we don't
care about achievement more than doing away with the biggest
prize that a kid can fight and compete for their
entire school career.

Speaker 4 (40:35):
That's what those valiedictorian kids do well.

Speaker 10 (40:38):
And I want those people. I want all of those
students to feel good and the self esteem. But we
need to teach them those life skills. And one of
those life skills is the day you graduate, you're immediately
judged on your abilities, right, So we need to teach
them that you will have to compete in the real world.
I mean, and when you get out and you're competing
in this job market, you can't just say, well, I'm
as good as everybody else. No, you have to say

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I'm better, right, do the skills that.

Speaker 4 (41:01):
I think I'm selling point, I'm the same as everyone. No,
I mean to your point.

Speaker 5 (41:05):
It kind of I hate to say it, but being
disappointed is also part of building character, right. It's like
if you everybody can't be the valedictorian. But you know,
if you, if you work really hard and you get close,
you learn one of those hard lessons in life, which
is sometimes you work hard and it's not enough, but
you have to bounce back and move on. That's part

(41:26):
of the process. Let me ask you guys some specific questions.
You mentioned Aaron Kane, who is our superintendent. I am
an unabashed Aaron Kane fan. I think she really has
an eye on things like AI and how they can
be utilized by teachers and schools that I don't hear
coming out of other districts.

Speaker 13 (41:45):
Right.

Speaker 5 (41:46):
Would you vote to retain her? Would you keep her
on as superintendent?

Speaker 9 (41:52):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (41:52):
I mean you have no None of us on the
slate have ever talked about making any of those changes.
I mean, obviously that's our role to make sure that
we have the best superintendent, but none of us have
any intention of making any change. I think she's doing
a great job. I mean you mentioned that. That's not
going to make everybody happy.

Speaker 4 (42:08):
Right, Oh no, yeah, I'm gonna get yelled for you know.

Speaker 5 (42:13):
I just think she's she's got a great vision and
because of her tech background, she's got an engineering background,
she's got a slightly different sort of view on where
the future might be for these students, and I think
that's really critical. We've seen some the coolest stuff, the
robotics stuff, that they're doing in Douglas County is crazy.

Speaker 9 (42:30):
Have you taken a note?

Speaker 11 (42:32):
And I should?

Speaker 5 (42:33):
I should, But I have friends who have sons who
are in that program and they love it.

Speaker 4 (42:38):
It is incredible.

Speaker 10 (42:40):
They they had to convince me to take this job
because again, as we've mentioned, it's for zero dollars exactly.
But when they were trying to recruit me and get this,
and again I wanted to do this. But one of
the things that they did that they knew would appeal
to me as a technology leader and an engineer. They
took me through that Legacy campus and we looked at
the botics Again I'm kind of stuffed up here, but

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thebotics lab, and they've got the flight simulator, and they've
got even just the automotive stuff, and then they've got
the cooking program and the chef that's right, he's a
personal friend.

Speaker 9 (43:17):
He was a neighbor of mine.

Speaker 10 (43:18):
And I just looked at all of this and I thought,
I've driven by that campus so many times and all
it says is legacy. I think we need to do
a better job of advertising that, because had I known
about that, I would have loved for my daughters to
have had that opportunity, right, because they're partnered with ACC.
They're partnered with CU for their nursing program. So see
you is still in the basement teaching nursing in that

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building ACC you can get there's opportunities that you can
go through that program for sixty five dollars a credit
instead of twenty.

Speaker 9 (43:47):
Six hundred dollars.

Speaker 5 (43:48):
You can just if you if you map it out.
My daughter refused to do this for my pocketbook. You
can map out you can graduate with like sixty college
credits if you take advantage of.

Speaker 10 (43:58):
The whole program, right, and you do two extra years.
I believe it is if you sign up for now.
There is a waiting list. So that's something that Douglas
County would love to see them expand that beyond the
Legacy campus, put that into more schools, because not everybody's
on the university path.

Speaker 3 (44:13):
Right.

Speaker 9 (44:13):
I'm a big believer in the university path, but that's
not for every family.

Speaker 10 (44:18):
And that opportunity and that cost savings and that life skill, Yeah,
we need to expand on that.

Speaker 4 (44:23):
So let's talk about some of the hot button issues.

Speaker 5 (44:25):
And this is an area where I think that there
are a lot more people who agree with my view,
and that is is that biological males after you know,
pre puberty, it's fine to have little co ed teams
after puberty, biological males do not need to be in
female spaces and they don't need to be in female sports.
That is a bone of contention because right now Colorado

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has different laws about it than the federal executive.

Speaker 4 (44:52):
Order from the Trump administration.

Speaker 5 (44:54):
I'd love to see the Department of Education make some
kind of like actual like take care of this right
But what is what? What do you think Douglas County's
role is? What do you think you'd like to see happen.

Speaker 7 (45:05):
Yeah, I think it's a great point to distinguish. It's
not about you know, necessarily co ed sports. This is
about you know, biological boys entering female only sports in
their spaces, and so we want to make sure that
we protect them. I think the role of the school
board is critical because our role number one is to
protect protect children, look out for their well being, and
so I think we have a role here and there

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are ways that we can implement, you know, certain policies
to make sure that girls' sports are reserved for girls
and that we can keep biological boys out of girls sports,
and then we also want to fight hard to keep
the biological boys out of their spaces because it really
makes women and girls uncomfortable to be forced into those spaces.

Speaker 5 (45:42):
Oh absolutely, I mean as a woman, I can assure
you about that, Mandy. This textter said number one in
student achievement, but it still sucks terribly, It really doesn't,
you guys, I mean there there, trust me. I would
love to see every kid in every school district achieving
at the highest level. But the reality is is that

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there are kids who have more struggles. They're going to
bring more struggles to work or.

Speaker 4 (46:07):
Excuse me, to school.

Speaker 5 (46:08):
And it's Douglas County is doing a great job getting
the majority of kids, well over the majority of kids.

Speaker 9 (46:16):
But I think a lot of.

Speaker 7 (46:17):
People are looking at the tests that they took when
they were in school, because I know that's I went
in like that, Steve, when we went in that day
and we actually learned these tests for reading and math
are not the same things that we took, so it's
much harder. There's actually you can go online and take
the test that a third grader would take, and I
hear it's a humbling experience.

Speaker 4 (46:36):
You know what now I'll be doing.

Speaker 2 (46:37):
That's the way to have a full report tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (46:39):
Let's talk about something that is on everybody's minds. There's
two things, and I think they're very much connected. The
first is school safety. The second is a cell phone policy.
So let's talk about school safety first, because I think
the perception in Colorado that is earned because of the
multiple instances that we have had in Colorado, that schools

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are not safe.

Speaker 4 (47:02):
So what can the board do? I know that part
of the bond that we.

Speaker 5 (47:07):
Passed in Douglas County is going to go towards security,
So what does that look like with the next board?

Speaker 4 (47:13):
What are your responsibilities? How do you see that going forward?

Speaker 10 (47:16):
So I'm a huge fan of the SROs. My father
was a police officer. My daughters were very close with
the SROs at Chaparral. I think that those are individuals
that understand the inner workings of the school. So we
really need to celebrate them and support them and make
sure that we've got that program. Beyond that, they can't

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be everywhere at all times, right, So we do need
to as a board. We need to understand how we
can manage or help Aaron right she's our singular employee.
But help her with programs where we could have I
don't know if it's for cameras, if it's electronic locks.
How can we make sure that those schools are state
of the art in terms of being able to respond

(47:59):
to instances like that, because right now we don't have
students can prop doors open in the back right, right,
Sometimes that's necessary, right if there air conditions out where
you want to be able to have that, But we
want to understand that that's happening, and so that there's
an awareness. So there's all sorts of modern technology that
we can help with as a board, help Aaron and

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her administration understand how do we make these schools safer
through technology? But it starts with that SRO. It starts
with that human understanding the students. Because a camera's not
going to necessarily see somebody come in. The camera's not
going to identify suspicious behavior. A human being is and
that SRO is the one that understands, and so I
really want to celebrate them and support them.

Speaker 5 (48:42):
I'm going to tell you I think the SROs go
well beyond that into they establish relationships with these kids
that establish a positive you know, feeling towards kids. And
you know when I was a kid, it was like,
if you got lost or you got you had trouble,
you look for the cop, right, you look for someone
in you.

Speaker 4 (49:01):
That is what I want these kids to have.

Speaker 5 (49:03):
I want them to feel like law enforcement is someone
they can trust, because overwhelmingly they are.

Speaker 4 (49:08):
I mean, that's that's the fact.

Speaker 9 (49:09):
That's so important.

Speaker 7 (49:11):
As a former deputy schriff, I can tell you know,
typical people are calling you on the worst day of
their life and so that or you're pulling them over
for something that's not pleasant. So being able to give
those kids positive experiences I think is crucial.

Speaker 10 (49:21):
Well, Matt, you've mentioned it before. The that SRO is
the God forbid. There's you know, that that active event,
that person it's minutes or seconds, and every second counts.
That on site person is going to be the first responder, right,
And they have to understand the vulnerabilities.

Speaker 9 (49:39):
They have to understand who's who they can trust, who
they can write.

Speaker 10 (49:42):
So again, I just I can't say enough about them
because you can make a phone call, but even the
closest cop is minutes away.

Speaker 7 (49:49):
Exactly, And I would go a different direction and make
sure that we address bullying head on, because I think
there's common themes with these with these kids that want
to do harm against their you know, their own school
or their peers, and I think a lot that boils
down to bullying, and I think that's something we could
have a direct impact on.

Speaker 4 (50:03):
I got to tell you, it's like my daughter.

Speaker 5 (50:05):
I've been in the school since she was in kindergarten
right volunteering in various capacities, and I feel like the
district overall has really made bullying a huge focus for
the kids, like they're constantly talked about bullying. But the
reality is is that I've talked to many students over

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those years who said I reported and nothing happened. So
I think from the district's perspective, there needs to be
more follow up and maybe a better strategy to how
to efficiently or effectively follow up on some of these
issues the kids are having because sometimes they're being dismissed
out of hand when I would have preferred as a
parent to have some questions asked and you know, maybe

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a conversation at least.

Speaker 9 (50:50):
Well, and as a girl.

Speaker 10 (50:51):
Dad, I would say I agree with that because I
think that the type of bullying. If it's a particular
class of bullying, it gets attention right, right, this this
class of student God bullied in. So we need to
prove guess what I can say, as raising two girls,
girls are mean?

Speaker 9 (51:07):
Right?

Speaker 4 (51:07):
Let me tell you something, as someone who used to
be a girl and someone who has a girl.

Speaker 5 (51:11):
Girls, girls have the capacity for evil, especially in middle school,
with no capacity for empathy or understanding. Right, So that
part of their brain advances faster than the part that says, God,
you're being a horrible person if you do this.

Speaker 4 (51:25):
So, yeah, we're saying to.

Speaker 10 (51:26):
Address all bully and not ignore it and say, oh, well,
you're just girls being No, they're just as mean and
they just don't get the visibility.

Speaker 9 (51:33):
So we need to have a bigger program.

Speaker 5 (51:35):
Let's let's talk about how that goes to cell phone policy.
We do, Matt, because I am one of those people that,
even with a mom in high school, I think cell
phone should be banned in school, a flat out I do.
I realize that's not a popular opinion, trust me. Every
time I bring it up, my text line lets me
know it's not a popular opinion. But I think schools
are a net negative for kids. Yeah, I mean, I
mean phones are a net negative for kids.

Speaker 4 (51:56):
What do you think?

Speaker 7 (51:57):
Yeah, no, I agree with you. The hard part is
parents want to be able to get hold of their kids.
I think you know, as as parents, we've become more
helicopter in this generation, so we always want to have
that lafeline to our kids. And that's sadly the argument
that we hear, what if something happens in school, they
need to report it. So I think there's a nice
balance where you could leave your phone, you know, in
a phone bank inside of each classroom. The problem we

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have in Douglas County is that every school handles it
differently right right now, So that's one of the biggest issues.

Speaker 4 (52:24):
There needs to be a policy.

Speaker 5 (52:25):
There needs to be a policy, and I think that
when you start looking at now, we have all these
districts all over the country that are banning phones, and
you know what the kids say, I'm happier, Oh yeah,
at school, I'm more focused, I'm concentrating, I'm not being
bullied as much. I mean, we've got to convinced parents
to put their own fears mine included my own fears aside,

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because this is not good for students. It's not good
for student mental health, it's not good for student learning,
it's not good for any of those things.

Speaker 7 (52:54):
So I've even gotten a ding here in my pocket,
and you know, in the back of my mind, I'm wondering,
you know who's texting me? Right, Well, that's going to
happen in school to kids as well. They're gonna be
They're not gonna be able to focus.

Speaker 10 (53:06):
I purposely like delay it. Yeah, and you can train
yourself because I used to carry a you know, a
page your back of a.

Speaker 9 (53:12):
Black in your page your game.

Speaker 4 (53:16):
I had one too, we all did.

Speaker 10 (53:17):
But like that, I would hear that tone and it
would turn my stomach because I knew it meant something
like that.

Speaker 9 (53:21):
And so you get conditioned. And same thing with phones.

Speaker 10 (53:24):
So now I purposely don't immediately because you can train yourself.
Not too right, because you you do feel this. It's
almost like high school, like are they looking at it?

Speaker 5 (53:33):
He's talking about me, He's talking about Okay, these guys
are part of the common sense slate of the school board.

Speaker 4 (53:39):
And I just want to make one more comment.

Speaker 5 (53:41):
The other four people I got to see uh during
a forum that we did for the Douglas County Citizenry Project.

Speaker 4 (53:47):
Lovely people.

Speaker 5 (53:48):
Some of them have some great ideas, But here are
the things that concerned me. Number one, the teachers union
has enthusiastically backed them all because they believe those four
candidates are the best chance to bring a collective bargaining agreement. Obviously,
I'm going to just assume you guys think this is
a bad.

Speaker 9 (54:05):
Idea, bad idea, bad idea. We are not vote for
a CBA.

Speaker 7 (54:08):
Why it's going to create an advisarial relationship between the
teachers and the administration in my opinion. But also the
teachers aren't even asking for it. Just to be very
clear about unions, we are not against, you know, teachers whatsoever.
We love and support teachers. This is about the union leadership. Typically,
I've seen it before in other industries, being in law
enforcement and things like that. You will end up looking

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out for yourself and this will not be about students
or outcomes. And that's and that's the number one reason
I'm against it, because it's not going to benefit students.

Speaker 5 (54:39):
Well, we certainly haven't appeared to any one up to
this point, Steve, I'll let you have the last word.

Speaker 9 (54:43):
Yeah, No, we want to.

Speaker 10 (54:44):
Make sure that the teachers have what they want and
a lot of them want the indemnification, they want the rights.

Speaker 9 (54:48):
So we want to work with the.

Speaker 10 (54:50):
Teachers and understand what is the benefits of the union
and are their alternatives for them that they can get
the best benefit of us.

Speaker 9 (54:58):
Nobody seems to be asking for this.

Speaker 10 (54:59):
Our teachers are People've got a close to eighty percent
approval rate from our teachers and we don't have all
the numbers, but the union membership currently in Douglas County
is pretty low. We believe it to be in the
mid twenties maybe, So nobody's asking for this. And if
they do need the things that the union is promising,
can we get them to those teachers at a lower
rate or at a higher quality without having the other

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disruptions that the union brings. Right, So keep those funds
and those benefits closer to the teachers.

Speaker 9 (55:27):
That's our goal.

Speaker 5 (55:27):
Matt Smith is running in District B, Steve Vale is
running in District G. They're part of the Common Sense slate.
And best of luck, guys, thanks for coming in making
time on the show.

Speaker 9 (55:37):
Thank you, thanks for having us all Right, when we.

Speaker 5 (55:39):
Get back, we have a billion other things that we
have to talk about on the blog today, not the
least of which is well, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (55:46):
I'm gonna have to look and see. Won't we get back?

Speaker 10 (55:48):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (55:49):
I got some stuff on the blog that's absolutely crazy. Oh,
we'll talk about Antifa, the organization that doesn't exist. That's
the new talking point.

Speaker 4 (55:56):
We'll do that next again. Pay intention to your.

Speaker 5 (55:59):
School elections, please please, please please, Now, I gotta play
this just because it's funny. You know, I have to
hand it to democrats in the left because either one
of two things is happening. Number One, they all get
talking points somehow, right, I'm always accused, like you're just

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reading off the right wing talking points. I'm like, is
there a place to get those? Do you sign up
for that newsletter? Because I don't get those, and I'm
just I mean, how do you make that happen?

Speaker 9 (56:30):
Right?

Speaker 5 (56:30):
But nonetheless, as I was just sharing with you a
while ago about Jason Crow, he is out there sort
of singing the democratic temic talking points about the massive day,
the hostages being released, living hostages being released in Israel,
and the left is going with, well, what about the
Palestinians left, which I fully expect that conversation to be

(56:54):
over very very soon, because Amasa is now murdering Palestinians
that they perceived on the other side of them. And
so I imagine that since Hamas is now murdering Palestinians,
we will not hear a peep about Palestinians from this
point forward.

Speaker 4 (57:11):
That is my prediction.

Speaker 5 (57:12):
But nonetheless, the talking points of the left have gone
out when it comes to Antifa.

Speaker 4 (57:19):
Now we all know what Antifa is. We're not stupid.

Speaker 5 (57:22):
They're the idiots with their black masks and their flat
jackets and they're running around cause playing you know, badasses,
when in reality they're just destructive little punks who mostly
have colored hair and have really nothing else going on
for them in their lives. So they've glombed together in
this ragtag group of misfits and they're gonna what overthrow

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the government or something. But if you just listen to
the ten talking heads that I am about to play
for the for you, and I would identify them, but
I don't care that much. You might recognize some of
the voices. Just listen to what the official talking points are.

Speaker 4 (58:01):
Now there's no Antifa.

Speaker 11 (58:03):
This is an entirely imaginary organization.

Speaker 9 (58:05):
There is not an.

Speaker 4 (58:06):
Antifa, Like, I don't even know what Antifa is.

Speaker 2 (58:08):
There is no group.

Speaker 4 (58:09):
It's not even like far right groups like the Proud
Boys and oath Keepers. Compared to right wing extremists, Antifa
linked violence is rare and limited.

Speaker 9 (58:16):
It isn't an organization. It is a it is a
in many ways mythology.

Speaker 4 (58:21):
It's not like the Proud.

Speaker 5 (58:22):
Boys or the oath Keepers, you know, the of defined
terrorist organizations with leadership that let that you know, leads violence.

Speaker 4 (58:32):
It's not a highly organized movement.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
It's a moniker.

Speaker 4 (58:35):
It's it's it's it's not a unified group like the
Proud Boys are.

Speaker 16 (58:39):
Things like Antifa are things that are thought up.

Speaker 4 (58:42):
It's all in the guise of going after Antifa, which
is nothing. There's no organization called the Antifa.

Speaker 13 (58:47):
Nobody's a number of Antifa because it doesn't exist.

Speaker 4 (58:51):
They are just declaring into existence something that doesn't exist.

Speaker 8 (58:55):
There is no Antifa organization, so uh, maybe that's good
for social media, but it really has is non existent.

Speaker 17 (59:05):
They exist on the Internet in chat rooms and in
four Chan and discord in places like that where they
run discussion boards, trade tactics, documents, things like that, but
none of them are called Antifa, got it?

Speaker 5 (59:22):
Those posters you see hanging up downtown on you know,
light posts, things like that, that's not real.

Speaker 4 (59:28):
You didn't see that.

Speaker 5 (59:30):
The videos from the quote Summer of Love with masked
people claiming to be Antifa trying to burn down.

Speaker 4 (59:36):
Federal buildings, you didn't see that that. You didn't see
any of that.

Speaker 5 (59:41):
As a matter of fact, the Left is here to
protect you from your own delusion. Guys, do they think
we don't have the Internet? I mean, one must wonder, right,
don't you have to wonder? What is it that they
think that we are missing? I actually I can answer
that question. The answer to that question is they're counting
on this stupidity of enough people to create a mob

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mentality movement.

Speaker 4 (01:00:05):
That's like, oh my god, and Diva is so oh
my god, that's so dumb. They don't even exist.

Speaker 5 (01:00:12):
I mean, well, they tried to burn down the federal
build No, that was the figment of your imagination. Don't
we know about figments of our imagination? Isn't it funny
that they're sort of using the same language as Shared
Police When he was trying to tell us that Venezuelan
gangs who were clearly operating in our state, were not
actually operating in our state. It's amazing, isn't it. I mean,

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it's really kind of amazing. They just drop right in lockstep.
Let's go, let's go, Mandy. I'm just amazed that jerkwad
Jimmy Kimmel was able to say it without crying. He
might have been cut off, you don't know, it could
have just burst into tears. Mandy, the injured journalist in
Portland followed her assailant to the Antifa headquarters.

Speaker 4 (01:00:58):
No such thing exist.

Speaker 5 (01:01:00):
Yes, And when reporter Andy now was trying to infiltrate
and had successfully infiltrated Antifa briefly, and they tried to
they poured concrete milkshakes over him and hurt him significantly.

Speaker 4 (01:01:15):
That too, was just a figment of his imagination.

Speaker 5 (01:01:21):
So obviously, we out here in you know what are
we gonna call it real world?

Speaker 4 (01:01:29):
We all know that Antifa is a thing. Are they?
I mean, do they have meetings at the Dennis? I
don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:01:35):
Do they have a big corporate overlord maybe, but what
they don't have are regular meetings or you know whatever.
So the Democrats, their new strategy is just to tell
you that what you know is completely wrong. From the
Common Spirit Health text line, you can always text me
at five six six nine, Oh, Mandy. From what I

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heard and have seen from those who have been reporting
on Antifa for years, their leadership have apparently fled the
US and are now in Europe after Trump labeled them
a terrorist group.

Speaker 4 (01:02:08):
Lol. I mean, how could you be worried about it?
If you don't exist? How could you even think it's
a thing.

Speaker 5 (01:02:21):
It obviously doesn't exist because all of these people said
it doesn't exist. Real quickly, before we go to break,
can we have a moment on Diane Keaton? And I
know that's like a Hercey jerkey way to go, but
I was actually really bummed when I found out that
Diane Keaton had died, partly because there was no indication

(01:02:44):
that she wasn't long for this world, and her family
and friends say, uh, she had made a remarkable decline
in recent months, and she was surrounded by loved ones,
all that good stuff, which is the way you really
want to go out right, surrounded by loved ones. But
this maybe because she was so active during my entire life,

(01:03:05):
and I've seen so much of her work. This is
one of those that it's like, man, that's a real loss,
and too bad we're not going to get to see
her act for many more years because she was just
always very very likable. Mandy, aren't they the droids being
looked for?

Speaker 4 (01:03:21):
Well played? Sort madam, well played?

Speaker 5 (01:03:25):
If you don't get that reference, well, I'm gonna have
to take your movie fan card away. I was just
wondering if any of you felt that little tinge when
you found out that Diane Keaton had died, And I
guess some of the age were my favorite people are
going to die at some point in my lifetime.

Speaker 4 (01:03:42):
And not for nothing.

Speaker 5 (01:03:43):
She was only seventy nine, And that is exactly what
I meant to say, only seventy nine, because as I
get older, seventy nine just does not seem to be
that old at all. Anyway, removing on when we get back,
we have a couple of things that I want to

(01:04:04):
get on in this hour. But the first of which, oh,
dag nab it, I forgot to link to the story
Cuba is collapsing. Guess what else is collapsing? Well, it's
something I've been waiting for since two thousand and five.
We'll talk about it next rather violent videos of Hamas
shooting Palestinians in the head, but I don't think they

(01:04:27):
count because they can't be used to make Israel look bad.
So sorry for all of those people that they're not
going to matter now because it's anyway. So back in
two thousand and five, I got my own show for
the first time, and that by the way, that blog
can be found at mandy'sblog dot com. And in two

(01:04:47):
thousand and five I had started watching very very carefully,
probably in two thousand the country of Venezuela. I started
watching it when Hugo Chavez started turning what was the
most prosperous country in South America into a socialist utopia
because I knew.

Speaker 4 (01:05:05):
I knew that it was going to end just the
same way.

Speaker 5 (01:05:07):
All socialists utopias end, and I just didn't think it
would take this long. But today at the Hill dot
com there is an article entitled Venezuela is collapsing and
don't look now, but so is Cuba. Listen to this, guys,
just listen to this one paragraph because they go through

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the article. Wait a minute, let me make sure that
that is not I've got a big old ad here
Papa bads that are as big as the patri are
just stupid.

Speaker 4 (01:05:41):
Listen to this.

Speaker 5 (01:05:43):
Fuel shipments from Venezuela, Havana's economic lifeline for two decades,
now fluctuate wildly, sometimes dropping below ten thousand barrels a
day before rebounding. Russia and Mexico have stepped in with
emergency cargoes, but neither offers stability. Without steady deliveries, plants
sputter and nights become suffocating. Over the past fourteen months,

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Cuba has suffered a dozen nationwide outages.

Speaker 4 (01:06:09):
Years of neglect and the burning.

Speaker 5 (01:06:10):
Of highsoul far crude have crippled the power stations. But
I want to get to this paragraph right here, because
this paragraph is a perfect paragraph to demonstrate how all
socialist economies end. In both countries, force has replaced persuasion.
Independent journalists are jailed, critics harassed, and citizens whisper their

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frustrations in private.

Speaker 4 (01:06:36):
Once proud social.

Speaker 5 (01:06:37):
Programs universal education and healthcare have decayed.

Speaker 4 (01:06:41):
And are now mere shells of what they once were.
All that remains are.

Speaker 5 (01:06:46):
Schools without teachers, hospitals without medicine, and clinics without electricity.
That's how it always ends. You guys always.

Speaker 4 (01:06:58):
Now when a paso.

Speaker 5 (01:07:02):
In Cuba or Venezuela, I think this is Cuba, pasos
are four hundred pasos to one dollar. The entire economy
is run on a dollar economy because pesos and Cuba
are worth nothing. So if you want to get anything
significant done.

Speaker 4 (01:07:21):
You better have dollars.

Speaker 5 (01:07:22):
This is why they were so keen to reopen their
tourism situation with United States, because they knew with the
United States, tourists would bring a ton of money. No
one in Cuba's bothered to ask why is that? Why
do American tourists have so much money to spend. I
have a lot of friends who as soon as Cuba
was opened up for travel, they went and visited, and

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I said, no, I'm not going. I don't want to
go because all of the money coming in is just
going to go to line the pockets of the leadership
in Cuba.

Speaker 4 (01:07:53):
And guess what.

Speaker 5 (01:07:54):
That's exactly what has happened. And now that they're having,
you know, nationwide blackouts because they can't keep the lights on,
what kind of tourism do you really think you're gonna
get there? I think you had a wave of Hey,
let's see what's going on in Cuba. I want to
see all those cool old American cars. The American cars
are sitting on the sidelines because they can't afford the
gasoline to make them go.

Speaker 4 (01:08:16):
Now, this is going to be a huge problem for
South Florida.

Speaker 5 (01:08:21):
South Florida is ninety miles across the Fleet of Straight
of Florida to Cuba, ninety miles from Key West. It
is not that much further to go from Cuba to
the islands off the west coast of Florida, which are
quite close.

Speaker 4 (01:08:38):
And there could very.

Speaker 5 (01:08:39):
Well be another influx of Cuban immigrants into South Florida.

Speaker 4 (01:08:43):
If Cuba continues down this path.

Speaker 5 (01:08:45):
But you know why the Cuban people can't fight, You
know why they can't elect new leadership because the first
thing Fidel Castro.

Speaker 4 (01:08:51):
Did was disarm the population. Huh so weird.

Speaker 5 (01:08:58):
I like to remind people of that because every time
you talk about the fact that we have the Second
Amendment in this country to protect us from a totalitarian government,
everybody who loves gun control loves to roll their eyes like, oh,
what are you gonna do against the government, And they're
at fifteen So I'm like, it's a numbers game. First
of all, there are three hundred and eighty million plus

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guns in the United States of America.

Speaker 4 (01:09:23):
There's not that many in the military. I'm just saying, by.

Speaker 5 (01:09:28):
The way, I don't expect to have to do that,
but you better be prepared. And the people of Cuba,
they were happy to give.

Speaker 4 (01:09:33):
Up their weapons. You know why they gave up their
weapons because they.

Speaker 5 (01:09:36):
Were told that an island without guns would be safe.
I wonder, how's see if they're feeling now.

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Speaker 4 (01:10:13):
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Speaker 5 (01:10:15):
I'm your host, Mandy Connell. That guy right over there
is Anthony Rodriguez. Together, we'll hit you right up until
three pm, where I am positive that the guys will
have some things to say about yesterday's Broncos game. Did
a lot of people show up to burn Down at
seven o'clock to see the game? I woke up kind
of early and I was like, I'll dry, No, I won't.

(01:10:37):
I was like, I'm not putting on pants for that
five thirty oo fah for that game.

Speaker 4 (01:10:45):
Wow, but what is it?

Speaker 5 (01:10:47):
What do we say earlier? A rod A W is
a W even if it's an ugly worst gamest W
in the history of W.

Speaker 6 (01:10:55):
Yeah, even if it's the worst game I've ever watched
in my football enjoying career.

Speaker 2 (01:10:59):
But hey, dub is a dove is a dove is
a dove is a dub is. And I've said that
to myself like.

Speaker 4 (01:11:03):
One hundred times last twenty there a I go, there,
you go, take the wind and move on.

Speaker 5 (01:11:07):
Anyway, Happy Indigenous Cabrini Columbus Day.

Speaker 4 (01:11:11):
I'm just I'm giving it a new name because today
is what was.

Speaker 5 (01:11:16):
In my childhood since the beginning of time, Columbus Day,
honoring Christopher Columbus, who for many many years we believed
was the first European to set forth on our continent. Well,
we found out later America Vespucci was your first. Whatever,
it's fine. Then we found out later that probably Vikings

(01:11:36):
were here earlier, and then we found out that people
walked across from the Siberia.

Speaker 4 (01:11:41):
Whatever it's fine.

Speaker 5 (01:11:42):
We were celebrating Christopher Columbus because that really began the
era of exploration that led to the founding of the
United States of America many many, many hundreds of years later.
Italians love Christopher Columbus. He is a wonderful we love
and in New York there's been Ristepher Columbus celebrations. But

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Christopher Columbuses coming to the New World also brought with
it lots of things like smallpox and slavery and the
general massacre of people that had already lived here. So
you know, the shine was off Christopher Columbus, and so
the left wing had to replace it with something. So

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they went all in on Indigenous Person Day. Yep, that's right,
Indigenous Person Day. Oh excuse me, peoples. And I'd like
to share with you US Representative Britney Peterson's post about
Indigenous People's Day. And I'd like to ask if we
have any Indigenous peoples in this listening audience.

Speaker 4 (01:12:44):
First of all, welcome, glad.

Speaker 5 (01:12:46):
To have you, But I'd like to ask if you
if this is how you want Indigenous peoples to be
thought of, she says, Today, on Indigenous People's Day, let's
join in honoring communities and acknowledging the true history of colonization, genocide,
and discrimination.

Speaker 4 (01:13:06):
In North America.

Speaker 5 (01:13:08):
As those communities continue to face attacks from Trump on
their sovereignty and sacred lands, it is more important than
ever that we stand united in honoring the deep history, resilience,
and contributions of Indigenous people in Colorado and continue to
uplift and protect their voices. But first, we're going to
make it all about us to talk about colonization, genocide,

(01:13:31):
and discrimination in North America. Seems to me that if
any political party would really like to give Indigenous people
something that they could really chew on, why don't we
give them full ownership of the reservations on which they live,
to say, here, now it's your private property.

Speaker 4 (01:13:50):
Do what you want. I mean, there's a certain amount
of that now.

Speaker 5 (01:13:53):
But did you know one of the reasons that Native
Americans still live in grinding poverty is that they cannot
inherit wealth. One of the things that we don't talk
about a lot in this country is that a lot
of people improve their stage in life because they inherit
money from their parents or their grandparents or whatever, who
have had longer to build up those assets, and then

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they're inherited. Native Americans cannot bequeathe land to their children.
Therefore they are still living in grinding poverty. What I
would think, And I'm sure there's all kinds of problems
with this that I don't know, and I'm okay on
not knowing that.

Speaker 4 (01:14:31):
So if you have more information, but then just say
to the tribes, you guys, do whatever you want, do
whatever you want with this land.

Speaker 5 (01:14:40):
Give them the same kind of you know, situation we
have now where they're essentially like a little mini sovereign
nation in a larger nation.

Speaker 4 (01:14:49):
But let them do what they will for their people.

Speaker 5 (01:14:53):
We have a very still to this day in twenty
twenty five, we treat Native Americans like they're too dumb
to run their own affairs. Now, are some Native American
tribes an absolute disaster?

Speaker 2 (01:15:06):
Yep?

Speaker 5 (01:15:06):
One hundred percent, one hundred percent. But shouldn't they be
allowed to get better? Shouldn't they be allowed to make
their own mistake? Shouldn't they be allowed?

Speaker 4 (01:15:16):
I mean, who knows.

Speaker 5 (01:15:16):
In one generation they may have sold the whole reservation
and moved on, but they may make a lot more
money and be happier. And who are we to judge.
That's for the tribe to decide. So all of this,
I'm so sick of land acknowledgements. You've noticed those that
kind of stop now. I mean they still go on
in college campuses, but it was.

Speaker 4 (01:15:35):
For a while there.

Speaker 5 (01:15:36):
It's like, we'd like to acknowledge that the land that
we've currently built this fabulous restaurant on was owned by
some tribe you've never heard of.

Speaker 4 (01:15:44):
We want to acknowledge it.

Speaker 5 (01:15:46):
We're not going to do anything like give them the
land back, but we just want to acknowledge it so
they know that we know that we took the land
away from them a long time ago and are not
giving it back now, but we want them to know
that we know that we took it away, probably unjustly,
but we just want them to know that we appreciate
the fact that we know that it was unjust not

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that we're giving it back or anything, but just we
wanted them to know.

Speaker 4 (01:16:12):
That's that's not as dumb as hashtag.

Speaker 5 (01:16:16):
Bring back our girls, but it's like close, it's really close,
And what are the Native American tribes gonna step up
and go and.

Speaker 8 (01:16:25):
And what are you so.

Speaker 4 (01:16:28):
Give it back?

Speaker 5 (01:16:31):
That would be cool if all of the universities were
just like, yeah, if you're gonna do it, a land,
acknowledge it. You have to give part of the land back.
You can't just say hey, we're sorry, but we're keeping it.
That's like you going to someone's house and stealing all
of their silverware and then standing out in front of
their house and saying.

Speaker 4 (01:16:52):
We would like to acknowledge that we just stole all
of their silverware. We're not giving it back.

Speaker 5 (01:17:00):
Just what acknowledge that we stole other sob aware? Okay,
just an acknowledgment. I mean, isn't any different, honestly, people,
it's the dumbest thing. It's the most performative thing that
you could possibly imagine. All Right, when we get back
today is no broad Day all of an update on
how that's going. Right after this, Today's the day that

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encourages wares to leave that bra at home to promote
cancer awareness.

Speaker 4 (01:17:27):
Aha, that's what it's designed to do.

Speaker 5 (01:17:30):
No Broaday also promotes breast cancer awareness to help raise
money for research they've made.

Speaker 4 (01:17:37):
No broad Day is a reminder for all women to
be screened for breast cancer.

Speaker 5 (01:17:45):
This seems like a clever ruse by some gentlemen. If
you ask me, hey, Rod is not in agreement as
I said that. Yeah, I mean, this has no offense. Guys,
this has your fingerprints all over it. Now I can
appreciate wanting to go get mammorrams. I have gotten my
mammogram this year, all clear. But I can assure you,

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as I say in the blog today, I'm a nice girl,
raised in a good family. So I'm wearing the proper
undergarments today, Mandy, no broad day. Tuck those into your
belt and let's go. We're not there yet. We are
not there quite.

Speaker 4 (01:18:22):
Yet, brawls.

Speaker 5 (01:18:24):
Women will always get men's support. Yes, indeedy this text
stopping from flopping.

Speaker 4 (01:18:30):
Over the shoulder boulder holder.

Speaker 8 (01:18:32):
See.

Speaker 5 (01:18:32):
You know what, when we start talking about bras, the
men in this audience revert back to their fifteen year
old selves when they were sneaking peaks at the Sears
catalog because.

Speaker 4 (01:18:43):
They had women wearing very sensible bras.

Speaker 2 (01:18:47):
Did you did you fully grasp the support one?

Speaker 11 (01:18:52):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:18:52):
I got it? The pun, Yeah I got oh.

Speaker 4 (01:18:53):
Trust me, I got it.

Speaker 5 (01:18:54):
It's because when my husband walks into our bedroom and
I'm changing and I'm without shirt or bra, the.

Speaker 4 (01:19:01):
First thing he'll say is do you need help with those?
I can help you with those. He's such a giver.

Speaker 5 (01:19:06):
I mean, my husband is just he's there to help
a rod. He's just there to assist me in whatever
way I need, as long as it involves boobs, right,
He's just like what, I'll take one for the team
and help you out on that one. But you know
what I found out about the National Day Calendar, Like

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anybody can make a day.

Speaker 4 (01:19:30):
Yep, yeah, you just have to pay. That's it much,
you just have to pay. I'm looking right now. Let
me see here. It does not have the NFO on
how to get your day name for you.

Speaker 6 (01:19:49):
I am seeing here the National Day Archives for a
standard one time listing ninety five dollars, A premium listing
with extra features, a more visibility and reserved naming twenty
five hundred dollars.

Speaker 4 (01:20:04):
That's crazy.

Speaker 5 (01:20:05):
This is the kind of racket that I'm trying to
come up with a ride to just separate people.

Speaker 4 (01:20:10):
From their money.

Speaker 6 (01:20:12):
Oh and then National Day Calendar twenty five thousand dollars
an annual commitment as well of twenty five hundred dollars.

Speaker 4 (01:20:20):
What well do you want to know all the things
that are Today's day? Today is? Are you ready?

Speaker 5 (01:20:27):
According to the National Day Calendar people, it's Native American Day,
It's National Online Bank Day, It's Navy's birth Oh the Navy.
Today is the Navy's Sesqui Centennial. They are two one
hundred and fifty years old. Happy birthday to my Navy
listeners and everyone attached to the Navy. It is also

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Columbus Day. It's National kick Butt Day. Wait a minute,
I thought that was every day.

Speaker 2 (01:20:53):
That is every day just for us.

Speaker 5 (01:20:55):
It's National Train your Brain Day, National no Broad Day,
Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day, and to cap it off,
National Yorkshire Pudding Day.

Speaker 4 (01:21:08):
Yorkshire pudding is not at all pudding.

Speaker 9 (01:21:10):
Did you know that?

Speaker 4 (01:21:11):
It's a lie. It's an absolute lie.

Speaker 9 (01:21:14):
I know what that is.

Speaker 4 (01:21:15):
Yorkshire pudding is like a it's a batter. You make
it like this.

Speaker 5 (01:21:19):
You you have it's like a roll almost, it's like
a puffy roll, and then it served with roast meat
and gravy and you use the gravy the drippings in
the batter of this.

Speaker 19 (01:21:32):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:21:33):
It's it's like a.

Speaker 2 (01:21:34):
Looks like overdone paulaflower, but it's bread.

Speaker 4 (01:21:38):
It's a bread thing.

Speaker 5 (01:21:40):
Anthony last night, Okay, so yeah, last week some listener
that I just want to give the biggest shout out
and dead of gratitude.

Speaker 2 (01:21:50):
Yes, yeah, I know. My mother told me about it.
I was like, Mom, I didn't work that show.

Speaker 4 (01:21:54):
The papricauh.

Speaker 9 (01:21:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:21:56):
So I made paprikasch this weekend because I haven't made
it in a while. And I told you when I
got on, like, I'm making paprikosh this weekend. And I
decided to try and make Hungarian spotsl which is called galushka,
and it's these little dough they're they kind of it's
not an impressive looking dish, but oh my god, it
was so good. So I had paprikash and galushka last night,

(01:22:20):
and then today I took the leftover paprikash gravy and
I need soup with just some chicken and some zucchini
that I had to.

Speaker 4 (01:22:27):
Get rid of because we're going to Ohio this week.
And oh so good. It was so good. Mandy, Why
don't men why don't women like man boobs? I mean,
I mean, do I need to even answer that question?

Speaker 2 (01:22:41):
Guys don't like them?

Speaker 5 (01:22:42):
But yeah, you know they're not. We're not We're not
wired the same way that guys are. Mandy, Chuck is
a good guy.

Speaker 4 (01:22:49):
My wife never offers to hold my testicles up.

Speaker 5 (01:22:52):
And I can assure you, oh boy, that when I
see my husband naked, that is not my first go
to either. Okay, let's be real like that whole that
whole situation is not nearly as attractive or entertaining as boobs.

Speaker 4 (01:23:07):
Okay, let's just and guys, let me just give you
a little piece of advice.

Speaker 5 (01:23:12):
If you have to pick something up off the floor
and you're already naked, turn your body around so nobody
needs to see the back view of you bending over
to pick something off the ground. Just please, just please,
just please, for the love of God, or at least

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warn people, avert your eyes.

Speaker 2 (01:23:35):
I'm bending over, so you're recommending a face.

Speaker 5 (01:23:38):
You and squab you're at face squatting is not even
just face bend over like. I don't care if I'm
not behind you, I don't care if you bend over
to pick something up. But if I am directly behind
you and you are naked, do not bend over and
pick up something off.

Speaker 4 (01:23:53):
The floor, chump.

Speaker 6 (01:23:54):
If you're somehow listening, please eye contact stare straight ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:24:00):
Why there you go, there you go, maintain full eye contact.
Make it worse the.

Speaker 4 (01:24:04):
Other way, Mandy walk the streets of Denver.

Speaker 5 (01:24:07):
It seems every day is no broad day, except for
some men. They look like they're wear bras. Oh my gosh,
you guys, you got to go to the blog.

Speaker 4 (01:24:14):
Today to see the protest of naked bicyclists in Portland.

Speaker 2 (01:24:19):
Oh was there a crash?

Speaker 15 (01:24:21):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:24:22):
No, well, just just your.

Speaker 5 (01:24:23):
Eyes, ay, Rod, there's not enough five bleach for what
you're gonna see. I did not embed that video on
the blog because it would have been a violation of
every iHeartMedia policy. So you're just gonna have to look
for the headline that mentions Portland. And good luck on
that one.

Speaker 11 (01:24:39):
We'll be right back.

Speaker 5 (01:24:40):
A gentleman who will be at the Storm College of
Law tomorrow at University of Denver. It's an event happening
at five point thirty pm and it is put on
by an organization called Keep Our Republic and it is
a panel discussion about judicial independence. And joining me now
to talk about it is Judge oak Ray. Judge, welcome

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to the show.

Speaker 4 (01:25:01):
First of all, all right, thank.

Speaker 16 (01:25:05):
You and thank you so much for agree to allow
to Keep our Republic and the Article three coalition some
time on your show today to talk about judicial independence
and our lecture and our town hall coming up tomorrow evening.

Speaker 4 (01:25:24):
Thank you, no my pleasure.

Speaker 5 (01:25:26):
Could you tell my audience a little bit about Keep
our Republic? What is the organization, what is the goal.

Speaker 16 (01:25:31):
Sure Keep Our Republic is an organ group that started,
you know, quite a few years ago, and it was
focused on ensuring voting rights were observed in beginning Pennsylvania
and in the Midwest, and they have, they tracked election

(01:25:56):
cycles and but they now we're a subset of the
Keep our Republican.

Speaker 11 (01:26:04):
Our group is called the Article three Coalition.

Speaker 16 (01:26:08):
It's made up of almost fifty judges federal judges who
are all retired, both district judges, trial judges, and circuit judges,
the Court of Appeals judges. About half of us were
nominated and placed in office by Republicans presidents and half

(01:26:30):
by Democratic presidents. So we're a very nonpartisan group that
is very concerned about our judicial independence, the erosion of
faith in decisions that judges are making, and the threats

(01:26:52):
that are being made to our former colleagues, which have
become pretty a service.

Speaker 1 (01:27:00):
And so.

Speaker 16 (01:27:03):
We're having this public forum tomorrow an attempt to educate
the public about what's going on and to answer questions
that they have about the role of the judiciary, of
the necessity in an independent judiciary, and any other matters
that they want to discuss during the town hall meeting.

Speaker 5 (01:27:26):
Well, Judge, and I think a vast majority of people
in this listening audience would agree that an independent judiciary
is a critical part of our three tiers of government,
the three planks.

Speaker 4 (01:27:38):
That we rely on.

Speaker 5 (01:27:39):
But how would you respond to a criticism from someone
who says, Look, Judge, I appreciate that there needs to
be an independent judiciary, but we have so much politicization
the appearance of politicization by judges themselves. And I have
to say, with the Trump administration specifically, we've had a
lot of federal judges or district judges even offering nationwide

(01:28:03):
injunctions and things of that nature. So how do you
balance the need and necessity of a an independent judiciary
with the with some politicization or the appearance of politicization
that people are perceiving.

Speaker 16 (01:28:21):
Uh, Mandy, the the overwhelming number of judges, UH don't
engage in any legitization uh of of their decisions. You know,
our code of conduct, Uh, you know, ask because I was,
you know, not to uh cliticize any of the decisions

(01:28:42):
that they have made.

Speaker 8 (01:28:45):
Uh.

Speaker 19 (01:28:45):
You know, we.

Speaker 16 (01:28:47):
Are uh it's we're supposed to speak through our opinions,
uh and otherwise be silent. And the perception that we
have politicized this it comes from I think the.

Speaker 11 (01:29:07):
Talk around the decisions.

Speaker 16 (01:29:09):
Themselves which people disagree with, and that's fine. Civic discourse
is how our nation got as far as we did
in the last two hundred and fifty years. You can
disagree with judge's decisions.

Speaker 9 (01:29:22):
And many have.

Speaker 16 (01:29:25):
Recently, and they've all been important decisions, as some of
the judges have been making. But our system is built
so that there's an appellate court and the Supreme Court
that looks at those decisions and determines have you know,
whether they're correct decisions or not. But the accusations against

(01:29:47):
district judges just because they have ruled in a way
that is unpopular does nothing but a road the confidence
of the public in the judiciary and also causes a
great potential harm to the judges themselves and their families,

(01:30:08):
which is just so problematic and never has been seen
before in this country and shouldn't be tolerated.

Speaker 5 (01:30:20):
I agree wholeheartedly that nothing along the lines of political violence.
Are protesting outside any judges or politicians home, I think.

Speaker 4 (01:30:28):
That's beyond the pale.

Speaker 5 (01:30:29):
But where does justifiable criticism of a judge come in?
Because your point of civic discourse is at the core
of it when you're talking about a decision. And I'm
going to use Colorado as an example. Our Colorado Supreme
Court keeps affirming idiotic laws, then we send it to
the Supreme Court and they get overturned. So if you
look at the decisions around specific issues in Colorado, whether

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it's being forced to make a cake you don't want
to bake, or make a website, or now we've got,
you know, type constraints on the First Amendment when it
comes to counseling people who may be struggling with their gender.
And yet our Colorado Supreme Court keeps getting overturned. So
people like me, I look at the Colorado Supreme Court
and say, what are they doing? What they keep getting overturned?

(01:31:15):
So where does criticism, where's criticism justified?

Speaker 4 (01:31:19):
And where is it?

Speaker 5 (01:31:20):
Obviously for calling for any kind of violence, that's well
beyond the pale. So what is justified in that situation.

Speaker 11 (01:31:28):
You know, the community should speak.

Speaker 16 (01:31:30):
That's why we're coming to Colorado and we're speaking tomorrow.
And the fact that our citizens disagree with the decisions
that have been made. Our judges base their rulings on
the facts and the laws as it exists today, and
it's up to the legislature, which unfortunately at the federal level,

(01:31:55):
is in a complete log jam and there's no you know,
expectation that they're going to get any better anytime soon, yeah,
which which has put added pressure on both the executive
and the judicial branches.

Speaker 4 (01:32:11):
But it's up to the people to speak and to
change the laws.

Speaker 16 (01:32:15):
I mean, it's not like the judges that are being
criticized have not used the facts of the case and
the law surrounding it to make their decisions. They may
be unpopular decisions, and they may be incorrect. They have
you know, our district judges have been reversed by a
Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court recently on some

(01:32:39):
important issues. And you know, that's that's how our system works.
So unless the laws are changed, the judges are in
a position where they are required to follow the law
even if they don't like it.

Speaker 5 (01:32:54):
So what happens what will be the starting point of
this conversation. Are you guys discuss using a specific question
or is there kind of a jumping off point for
tomorrow's event at the Sturm College of Law and the
University of Denver's campus.

Speaker 2 (01:33:10):
I think it's the.

Speaker 9 (01:33:13):
The fear now that are.

Speaker 16 (01:33:19):
The the erosion of people's trust in the judiciary. We
must have an independent judiciary. I mean that goes all
the way back to Alexander Hamilton saying that only if
we have an independent judiciary does our legislative and executive

(01:33:41):
branches operate properly. But so our starting off, jumping off
point is to talk about how the erosion has occurred
over quite.

Speaker 11 (01:33:55):
A number of years.

Speaker 16 (01:33:56):
This is nothing new, that we need an independent judiciary,
that the public should be educated about what the judges
do and what they don't do, and that is, you know,
they follow the rule of law, which of course you know,
means that we look at public laws that everyone is

(01:34:16):
aware of and we apply them equally to anyone without regard.

Speaker 9 (01:34:23):
To who they are or what their beliefs are, and
that you know, the the that rule of.

Speaker 4 (01:34:32):
Laws is followed.

Speaker 11 (01:34:34):
So you know, that's our that's our jumping off point.

Speaker 5 (01:34:39):
Judjo Grady is going to be part of the panel
discussion tomorrow at five thirty to five thirty to six
forty five at the Sturm College of Law in Room
one sixty five. And I have written all of this
on the blog today. If you're driving and you can't
get that information, it is on today's blog. Judjo Grady,
thank you so much for your time today and for
having this conversation. And you know, I agree we've got

(01:35:02):
to have an independent judiciary that people can trust or
otherwise the whole system falls apart. So thanks to you
for addressing this topic.

Speaker 11 (01:35:09):
All right, thank you so much. Mandy.

Speaker 4 (01:35:11):
All right, that is.

Speaker 5 (01:35:12):
Judge Oh Grady, you can gain go to that event
tomorrow night. You know, everybody wants to talk about like
the responsibilities of other people in the relationship. But I
think he hedged a little more that I'm comfortable with
about the part that there are judges out there who
are doing things that are not following the law, that

(01:35:34):
are very politically motivated.

Speaker 4 (01:35:38):
And I think that to say, well, you know, we
all do the right thing, that's just I'm not down
with that.

Speaker 5 (01:35:45):
And I have a lot of respect for the legal
system overall. And it does dishearten me to see how
many people have no confidence in the judicial system. But
when I look at the grand scheme of like the landscape,
it's very apparent that we have a two tiered system
of justice where if you're well connected and you have
enough money, you're never going to be held to the
same standards that an average schmo in the United States is.

Speaker 4 (01:36:07):
Going to be held to. If I light to Congress,
do you think I'm walking around?

Speaker 1 (01:36:11):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:36:12):
But if you're the former head of the you know, CIA, sure,
go ahead. We'll get up with you later, you know,
maybe after you die, we'll get right on it. Super frustrating,
very very frustrating. I would actually probably go to that, uh,
you know, and just listen to what they were saying.
By the way, you guys, I have so much stuff

(01:36:33):
on the blog today about what's happening in the Middle East,
including a giant billboard. Let me describe it to you.
On the left hand side a giant picture of Donald J.

Speaker 9 (01:36:43):
Trump.

Speaker 5 (01:36:45):
Underneath it Accounter. It says Nobel Peace Prize zero. On
the right side of the billboard, President Barack Obama, it
says Nobel Peace Prize one.

Speaker 4 (01:36:58):
But here's what's in between.

Speaker 5 (01:37:00):
On the left side, by Donald Trump, it says peace
agreements and ceasefires in nine months number one, Armenia, Azerbaijan,
number two, Cambodia and Thailand, number three, Israel and Iran,
number four, Congo and Rwanda number five, Indian Pakistan, number six,
Egypt and Ethiopia number seven, Serbian Kosovo number eight, Israel Hamas.

Speaker 4 (01:37:20):
And on the other side, by Obama.

Speaker 5 (01:37:23):
It says peace agreements and ceasefires in eight years zero.
That's a billboard in Israel right now, Stone cold, That's
what that is. Nick Ferguson's wandered into the studio. Did
you get your nine hundred pounds of Martinelli's from our
mutual friends at Mercedes Benz?

Speaker 9 (01:37:41):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:37:41):
Did you pick it up on my desk? I do
know I got it in here. I just slept That
thing weighed like ninety pounds.

Speaker 9 (01:37:47):
I guess you got your workout in for the day.

Speaker 18 (01:37:49):
I did.

Speaker 4 (01:37:49):
I counted it. I counted it as a farmer's carry
from my desk to the master control. Well, I have
to say thank you for doing that.

Speaker 19 (01:37:57):
And Friday night when I walked in, we actually cracked
the bottle open.

Speaker 5 (01:38:02):
Nice, and I would have a good martin Nelly's toast.
There's nothing wrong with a good Martinelli's toast.

Speaker 19 (01:38:07):
It's my beverage of choice because the night before we
did the Great American Beer Fest.

Speaker 4 (01:38:12):
Ah, did you have beer with a beer? Are you
a drinking? You're not a drink?

Speaker 3 (01:38:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:38:16):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:38:16):
And I think I mean when I brought up Martinelli's,
it's just like you should have seen their faces, like,
how dare you bring that up in here?

Speaker 5 (01:38:24):
My daughter always used to feel so fancy it is
on the holidays because we'd have wine glasses on the
table and she'd have her little Martinelli's in there, and
she was just like, oh, best day ever exactly. E'll see,
when I was a kid with my Hungarian grandparents, they
would just give us wine. I'm sorry, no, no, they
would give us wine because when you're a kid, wine
knocks you out, so they give it.

Speaker 4 (01:38:45):
We all have our little jelly jar. Seriously, we'd have
our little jelly jar, you know with the ones with
the coyote in the road, run around them, you know
what I'm talking about.

Speaker 5 (01:38:52):
We'd have a little jelly jar full of wine and
then we'd all pass out and the adults would stay
up and have a nice, nice.

Speaker 4 (01:38:58):
Time bottle wine or box wine.

Speaker 5 (01:39:01):
Oh no, bottles of wine back, Okay, not good wine
because good wine wasn't really in America back then. Yeah,
but yeah, I mean now it's like here's Mark Nellies.
My grandparents were like, have.

Speaker 4 (01:39:10):
Some scotch, it'll be fine, It's okay.

Speaker 5 (01:39:15):
Anyway, good attempt for you to try and get this
judge to admit that some judges are politicized. He wasn't
going to budge no, And that's what bothers me, because
you should be able to look at your own team
and say, yeah, we're not doing the great job there.
Speaking of not doing a great job, do we need
to talk about yesterday's Broncost game for a moment?

Speaker 4 (01:39:36):
Of course you do. Nick Ferguson, it was so ugly.
Here's what I'm thinking. What I'm thinking.

Speaker 2 (01:39:41):
Okay, Nick's not the first guy to say it was ugly.

Speaker 8 (01:39:44):
I know.

Speaker 5 (01:39:44):
We'll go back to the second half of the game
against the Eagles and then that trash yesterday against the Gets,
Like who are we?

Speaker 2 (01:39:54):
This is the part where Nick tells you how many yesterday.

Speaker 9 (01:39:58):
I'm a defensive guy?

Speaker 4 (01:40:00):
True, and it was a thing of beauty to me.

Speaker 5 (01:40:05):
Offensively ugly likes, but offensively not just meeting the offense.
It was offensive to watch that offense play yesterday.

Speaker 9 (01:40:13):
I see what you did.

Speaker 5 (01:40:14):
It was just whammy with offensively ugly because it truly was.

Speaker 19 (01:40:20):
But thanks to Vas Joseph and what I call the
mcgiver defense for coming through yet once again, like mcgiver often.

Speaker 5 (01:40:28):
Doesn't you think Vance Joseph gets another crack at the
head coaching after this year if we if our defense
continues to be what we have seen defensively already, I
think there's a zero percent chance he doesn't get tapped
somewhere else.

Speaker 19 (01:40:41):
Well, I mean, Brian Callahan was just fired after two
seasons in Tennessee, So that's that's available.

Speaker 5 (01:40:48):
Yeah, yeah, that'd be sad to see him go. And
he that he has had his redemption story here in Denver,
you know what I mean. He was saddled with a
team that didn't have.

Speaker 4 (01:40:58):
A lot of talent, let's be real, and he wasn't
given a lot of power. No, he has a head coach.

Speaker 5 (01:41:03):
Yeah, so he had a tough roe to ho here
and he has come back and just been like here
I am look at me and all of I'm accomplished
and I'm super happy.

Speaker 6 (01:41:15):
Miami's probably about to fire Mike McDaniel and j has
coached in Miami for he was the DC there like
a decade ago.

Speaker 4 (01:41:22):
Used to watch Miami football. Did you grow up a
Dolphins fan?

Speaker 2 (01:41:25):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:41:25):
Of course, yes, Okay, do you? I mean, my god?

Speaker 5 (01:41:29):
This season has been the most disappointing Dolphin season, and
there have been a lot of disappointing Dolphins seasons.

Speaker 9 (01:41:36):
Today now, he.

Speaker 19 (01:41:37):
Talked about the leadership. He questioned the team's leadership, Well, who.

Speaker 4 (01:41:42):
Is the leader? Isn't he supposed to be the leader? Yeah,
but but you could be an individual that's against the mob.

Speaker 6 (01:41:52):
He's saying the quiet parts out loud, the team spirit here,
Guys relate to meetings.

Speaker 2 (01:41:58):
Guys aren't coming to me. These aren't stuff you say
in press.

Speaker 4 (01:42:02):
Guys not coming to meetings and not getting fine.

Speaker 2 (01:42:03):
Maybe we should make a mandatory, is what he also said.

Speaker 4 (01:42:06):
They had a team meeting, like you know when things
that that goal.

Speaker 5 (01:42:10):
Always yell at each other, hash it out, hug it out,
and then you're good to go.

Speaker 4 (01:42:13):
And he say, guys, we're late for that, or his
word was not mine anyway, Yes, yes, and now it's
time for the most exciting segment all the radio of
It's gone of the day. All right, what is our

(01:42:34):
dad joke of the day? Please?

Speaker 6 (01:42:36):
Got that's from one of our textures today. Shout out
to the seven seven four to one. To whoever stole
my glasses, I will find you.

Speaker 2 (01:42:44):
I have context.

Speaker 9 (01:42:47):
I saw it earlier.

Speaker 4 (01:42:48):
That was well done, well done?

Speaker 9 (01:42:50):
All right?

Speaker 4 (01:42:50):
What is our our word of the day?

Speaker 11 (01:42:53):
Please?

Speaker 19 (01:42:55):
What drome?

Speaker 4 (01:43:00):
V the drome?

Speaker 11 (01:43:02):
Drome?

Speaker 4 (01:43:04):
Turn your mic on? Where's your mic off? Okay? It
was did you turn him on? Did you turn him down?

Speaker 6 (01:43:10):
Wodrome sounds like a sickness or disease, isn't it where
you ride bicycles or something.

Speaker 4 (01:43:15):
That's That's what I'm talking about.

Speaker 6 (01:43:18):
It you're in the ballpark is technically you're in the
arena because Villodrome is a sports arena equipped with a
track for cycling.

Speaker 4 (01:43:26):
Whoa, that's where you ride bicycles.

Speaker 5 (01:43:28):
I was talking about how much blood is in the
human body on average?

Speaker 4 (01:43:34):
How much blood percentage? Yeah, I know, how many how
many pints? Relieve there's pints or courts? I guess we
do pints.

Speaker 2 (01:43:44):
Forty four?

Speaker 5 (01:43:47):
Way too high between one point two and one point
five gallons of blood, and a body of scientists estimate
that blood makes up about seven percent of a human
body weight.

Speaker 4 (01:43:59):
I must have a lot of blood. That's what the
problem is on the scale. It's just my blood. I
have a lot of it, any of it.

Speaker 5 (01:44:05):
Await, well, I have donated in the past. Okay, many, many,
many times.

Speaker 4 (01:44:09):
Okay, ready, let's go.

Speaker 6 (01:44:10):
Animated films is our jeopardy category. Animated films from two
thousand and nine in jazz Age, New Orleans.

Speaker 2 (01:44:19):
Princess Tiana?

Speaker 4 (01:44:21):
What is the Princess and the Frog?

Speaker 2 (01:44:23):
What is the Princess and Prince? Princess random?

Speaker 4 (01:44:29):
I've got a list now because of my stupid will give.

Speaker 5 (01:44:32):
You the point to myself the point because I know
what I said.

Speaker 2 (01:44:35):
That's fine, Yes, you know, I'm fine.

Speaker 4 (01:44:36):
Go ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:44:37):
Two thousand and nine.

Speaker 6 (01:44:37):
Also Carl seventy eight ties thousands of balloons?

Speaker 4 (01:44:42):
What is up?

Speaker 9 (01:44:42):
That is correct?

Speaker 4 (01:44:43):
One of the best openings of any movie A time?

Speaker 2 (01:44:46):
Can not cry?

Speaker 4 (01:44:47):
You got it? The first five minutes? Have you ever
seen up?

Speaker 9 (01:44:51):
Yes, movies so good?

Speaker 4 (01:44:57):
Do you cry in the first five minutes? Tell the truth?

Speaker 15 (01:44:59):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:45:00):
Oh God, you heartless bastard. Your wife cries though, right, yes, Okay,
there you go.

Speaker 6 (01:45:04):
From two thousand and five, four Animals from the New
York City Zoo, Nick, Oh no, oh no, I end
up on a African island.

Speaker 4 (01:45:17):
What is Madagascar?

Speaker 8 (01:45:18):
That is correct?

Speaker 4 (01:45:19):
I get the kid, I'm like, what movie?

Speaker 6 (01:45:22):
Okay gets tougher here from two thousand and eight, A
dog thinks he has superpowers, but it's just the star
of a TV show off the set.

Speaker 2 (01:45:29):
He finally realizes the truth, Manny, what is Bolt?

Speaker 9 (01:45:31):
That is correct?

Speaker 2 (01:45:32):
And finally from two thousand and nine, I doubt either
of you have seen this one.

Speaker 10 (01:45:37):
I have.

Speaker 9 (01:45:37):
It's good.

Speaker 6 (01:45:37):
A meteorites turned Susan Murphy into Jormaa.

Speaker 2 (01:45:41):
The government imprisons her with other odd creatures.

Speaker 4 (01:45:44):
Manny, what is monsters versus Ada?

Speaker 1 (01:45:46):
You have?

Speaker 4 (01:45:46):
That is correct?

Speaker 5 (01:45:47):
N floury years because Q was little, so I've seen
all these les because she was so little.

Speaker 4 (01:45:52):
They are really really good.

Speaker 2 (01:45:53):
All right?

Speaker 4 (01:45:53):
You have any idea what's coming up on Kay sports there?
Nick Ferguson, Yeah, we're talking about how great this is?

Speaker 3 (01:46:00):
Does it? Win? Is a win?

Speaker 6 (01:46:00):
Is a win?

Speaker 4 (01:46:01):
Is a winner?

Speaker 5 (01:46:02):
Because the w will always look like this, no matter
how lookily the game is we'll be back tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (01:46:06):
Keep it right here on k