10-20-25 FULL SHOW - Go On Vacation With Me! Plus No Kings Brings .66% Of Voters

The next Mandy Connell Adventure to Europe is on sale now, No Kings brings a tiny fraction of voters out, and holy cow Broncos! 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Bill and Pollock
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
No, it's Mandy Connell and.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
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Speaker 4 (00:15):
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Speaker 5 (00:26):
Welcome, well, welcome to a Monday edition of the show.
On your hose for the next three hours. Mandy Connell
joined by that guy right over there, proudly wearing a
Denver Broncos. I'm sorry, Anthony, did you what is there?

Speaker 3 (00:39):
What is there?

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Reminders?

Speaker 5 (00:48):
Fantastic Broncos? Sitting at what record right now? What is
what's that?

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Records?

Speaker 6 (00:53):
Thanks to my favorite number in the fourth quarter, thirty
three point yes, five and two.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Fire that Dawson in the newsroom.

Speaker 6 (01:01):
I'm definitely not contract to Rob who's definitely singing New
York songs.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
In the.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
A little smack. No, I'm definitely gonna under the bus.

Speaker 7 (01:10):
Never.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
I would never do that.

Speaker 5 (01:11):
You know, it's funny because this show is on in
the newsroom. You know they can hear us when.

Speaker 6 (01:14):
We're talking, too, So I've definitely not kept telling you
every time he has to talk about the game every
half hour, keep spreading the news. E miserable today the
Giants blue the lead they had go Broncos.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Oh yeah, sorry Rob.

Speaker 5 (01:37):
Right now, Rob's up on his desk trying to figure
out how to unscrew the speaker wires.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Get stop, make it stop anyway.

Speaker 5 (01:45):
Uh, we are going to we gotta talk a little
bit about this, but Abron, I don't want to take
credit for the win. But yesterday, as I was watching
the game and we started the third quarter, and I.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
Was like, this is it.

Speaker 5 (01:58):
This is going to be the quarter we are gonna
show them what we're worth. And then there was that
unfortunate Keystone Cops like series, and I did the thing
that I do when my team needs me a rod.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
It goes like this. Wait here you, I'll show you.
It goes just like this.

Speaker 5 (02:13):
So I'm sitting right, I'm sitting huh, Chuck is next
to me, We're watching the game, and I stand up
and then you have to slap both lags like, well,
I'll leave this for you, and then you walk out
of the room with purpose.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
You can't just stroll, so has to be with purpose.

Speaker 6 (02:30):
Ross and Dragon just spent their last segment as well,
discussing the superstition that literally the Broncos are own too
when he doesn't listen to the game on Khichi and
oh everything about me, Mandy would suggest that I would
be a superstitious guy, but now really not. Actually, the
only thing I think I do is if the Broncos
really get shell ACKed, whatever shirt I'm wearing, I probably

(02:54):
decide to not wear that again. Like, there's a really Mandy,
I have a really nice, this new orange Bronco shirt
that I can't wear anymore this season. But because I'm
pretty sure it was the Colts game game winning field goal,
I I can't wear this for the entire rest of
the year.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
And that sucks because it's a great shirt.

Speaker 5 (03:12):
Anthony, as I did this stand up slap the legs, welp,
I'll leave this for you.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
I walk out of the room with purpose.

Speaker 5 (03:18):
I go upstairs. Our house is in disarray right now
because while we were gone for five days a plus
Hardwoods came in and redid our hardwood flooring. They refinished
them in Oh they're gorgeous. They are so pretty, but
nothing is where it's supposed to go. And we got
back from Ohio yesterday and we're like, ah, we're tired, sick, whatever,

(03:39):
didn't decide to do any of that.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
So there you go.

Speaker 5 (03:42):
We are everything's in disarray. So I got up and
I started putting things in array.

Speaker 6 (03:47):
Is that a thing?

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Do you put things in array?

Speaker 5 (03:50):
I'm looking after if it's in disarray and you need
to put it back, is that returning it to in array?

Speaker 3 (03:55):
I'm going with that.

Speaker 5 (03:56):
I'm putting things in array, and Chuck, after a certain
amount of time, calls and goes gim here, and I'm like,
oh no, oh no, and I go down just in
time to see the winning field goal. And so I
feel like I did my part as a fan. I
did go back and watch the fourth quarter. By the way,
in array is indeed the opposite of disarray.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Oh he was a thing. I'm going to place it
in array.

Speaker 6 (04:22):
I was placing things in array ninety one week after
the absolute worst football game I've ever watched. It was
the craziest game of football that I have ever watched.
It does amazing, It doesn't happen. Can we it doesn't happen?

Speaker 5 (04:33):
Have a minute, just for a second, just I need
to know the answer to this question, Anthony, Why can't
we get the offense to do that when we're not
down nineteen zero in.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
The fourth quarter?

Speaker 6 (04:46):
Because I've come to the conclusion, Mandy, that this is
just the Tebow year thirteen years later. It feels so
weird that it feels like that, because even the bo
Nick's touchdown then he ran in about the second one,
it looks so much like a Tebow running touchdown.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
Beautiful play.

Speaker 6 (05:05):
And on the day that they posthumously induct Damarius Thomas
into the Ring of Fame, the only thing missing this
game was going to overtime into being a first touch player,
first play touchdown. Yeah, it was just bonkers. And honestly,
I tweeted this last night. I said, you know what,
something feels funky in the way that this could be
a special year when a lot goes wrong in some

(05:27):
games where you you have these these these crazy, crazy comebacks,
these these wins that are so improbable, and a team
that at the really at the end of the day,
even really on both sides of ball at times is dysfunctional,
but it all comes together right at the end, and
they they just find ways where previous decade they found

(05:49):
ways to lose games like that, and really, and I'm
being spots to win games like that, they are now
winning those games.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
They're a team learning to win.

Speaker 6 (05:56):
And yesterday against a team that was kind of like
the Broncos in years where you find ways to lose
those games you can't hold on.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
Well, the Broncos are on the opposite side. They are
the team that wins those games.

Speaker 5 (06:04):
It was like a welcome to the NFL, Jackson Dart
that that heartbreak the Broncos.

Speaker 6 (06:10):
Issue sex I know we issue.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
They welcome to the NFL, and now it happens to
us exactly my point.

Speaker 5 (06:17):
We finally were dishing out what we have been taking
for years now and uh.

Speaker 6 (06:21):
And it happens in the same year where we were
having the conversation the first month of the season that
the Broncos can't win those games. Yet one month later
they flip the script and can now be the team
to win those games, which is again why I say
I echo that it feels like an oddly special year
reminiscent of the Tim Tebow season. It's starting to really

(06:43):
feel like that for me. And the best part is
this team is so much more well rounded and if
they get in the position of hosting a playoff game,
it will not just be a one and done.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
This team really shouldn't win.

Speaker 6 (06:56):
This is a good team, and if they get it
all together through all four cores, I'm telling you now,
this can be a super Bowl team. Especially right next
to that storyline is that it is so bleeping wide
open in the NFL right now, anything can happen any
given team. I told you in the media room last night,
I said, if you want an example, you never bet

(07:18):
on sports. It's games like this and what's happening across
the NFL. It's so stupidly wide open that anything can happen.
And if Broncos continue to do stuff like that, it's
not really something that you want to keep doing. So
it's not sustainable. Like my wife and I were talking
about last night, I was like, we have one boring game.
It's been three straight. For my heart, my heart can't
take it any longer. The palpatita are ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
It is very, very stressful. So it's all.

Speaker 5 (07:42):
I want to know from other Broncos fans who were
taking a little bit of the credit along with me
for our superstitions. What were your superstitions that you employed
yesterday to help the Broncos get over the finish line.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
You can text us on the Common.

Speaker 5 (07:57):
Spirit Health text line at five sixty six nine.

Speaker 6 (07:59):
Ers called in to react after I did, yes Da,
and he also said that it felt weirdly divine. Yeah,
Damarius Thomas was thirty three years old, Oh I know,
and thirty three points in the fourth quarter. Yeah. The
emotions were already high at the start of the game
because of how beautiful it was with DT's parents in
the house. They they were they were signing autographs before

(08:21):
the pillar unveiling before the game, uh, in the front
of the stadium, and they were emotional.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
You saw.

Speaker 6 (08:26):
You'll see the picture you're gonna talk about on the
block here in a second, where to Marius Thomas's mom
literally talks about how the last time she touched his
face was when she had to say goodbye, and she
got to touch she got to touch the pillar with
his with his with his face on it.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
So the emotions for the all the Broncos fans are
already high, and then you have a game like that.

Speaker 6 (08:44):
Yeah, it was such an unbelievably crazy day. The Broncos
fans will never forget. It was so special, it was
so cool for the first three quarters of just absolute
bad football across the board to the fourth quarter. After
after all that honoring the super Bowl fifty team. Also,
it's a great it was a great day.

Speaker 5 (09:03):
Well this says it's because I had my Lucky Blue
panties on. Thank you text this textor I'm with you.
I have a closet full of great Bronco shirts I
can no longer wear due to cirperstition. Mandy, once you
put things in a ray, it sounds like you were
once again gruntled. Yes, I was, and everything is still
in array. Gruntle just means happy.

Speaker 6 (09:23):
I know, a ray sounds okay. Gruntled sounds like it
still means disgruntled.

Speaker 5 (09:28):
Yeah, this texter said Mandy. To me, it's like watching
John Elway play.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
I mean, honestly Bo Nicks at times.

Speaker 6 (09:36):
When someone posted it yesterday, when a gun is to
this guy's head, it is unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
What the level he takes it too. And that's what
you want, but you need that earlier. Here's the funny thing.
Ninety percent of the time, many it's the opposite.

Speaker 6 (09:49):
We say always so good in the regular season, or
he's so goodness, but in the clutch moments. We stated
about quarterbacks all the time, where but in the big
moments they can't get it done. It's the opposite with
bon Nicks in the the biggest moments is when he
is one of the best quarter Sean pay You before
the season said that he could be a top five quarterback.
In the clutch moments, he always is.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
It seems like yeah, and that is awesome. And that's
the difference between winning and not winning.

Speaker 6 (10:11):
So they need to pretend in this Sunday as they
take on the Dallas Cowboys here at home.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
You're starting the game, you're down twenty one zero. You
gotta get going right on the start.

Speaker 5 (10:21):
Yeah, because let's just did you watch the Cowboys game
this weekend.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yeah, they're good. Their defense is the worst in the NFL.

Speaker 6 (10:28):
Though, So if you don't get it together on offense
against the Cowboys early in this game, yeah, we'll see.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (10:33):
Problem this is this is a descendant. I think the
Cowboys are on the way up.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
They also.

Speaker 6 (10:41):
Go through again who they played, But I mean they're
gonna play the best defense they've played this season.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
Wait to see it.

Speaker 5 (10:46):
Mandy, our dog wasn't wearing his Broncos T shirt, so
we put it on him and there you go.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
Fourth quarter, three quarters. This Texter said, oh god, these
are so good. You guys. I love you guys.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Mandy.

Speaker 5 (10:57):
My superstition I utilize was I stop after the third
low and behold they pulled it out. So you are
you like me?

Speaker 3 (11:04):
Texter?

Speaker 5 (11:04):
I took one for the team.

Speaker 6 (11:06):
Let me give you my favorite two stats I've heard
over and over in the last twelve hours. Yeah, the
Broncos thirty three points in the fourth are the most
by a team ever after being shut out in the
first three quarters and then the the other one. Their
comeback snapped a streak of one thousand, six hundred and
two straight games when a team had an eighteen point

(11:30):
lead in the final six minutes. One thousand, six hundred
and two game streak snapped.

Speaker 5 (11:36):
Mandy and Aron I listened to the TV broadcast for
the first three quarters and then listened to KOA radio
in the fourth quarter, and we won. So from here
on out, I'll listen for the entire game to the
KOA reporting on the game.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
Here's one.

Speaker 5 (11:48):
Oh my god, you sportsball people are so weird. Here's one. Mandy.
I took off my bow nixs jersey. I cannot wear
Broncos gear and expect them to win. Mandy is a
Raider fan. I was taking solace in the fact that
the Broncos were sucking.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
I spoke too soon. This one took off my Broncos socks. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (12:06):
One team gave up thirty one points yesterday in the
whole game and then scored nothing, and another team scored
thirty three points in the fourth Raiders lost thirty one.

Speaker 7 (12:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (12:14):
This texter said, how about two eight point scores DT
War eighty eight?

Speaker 3 (12:19):
Oh man, Yeah, thing about that one.

Speaker 5 (12:21):
I took off the commemorative Super Bowl bling necklace. That wait,
super Bowl necklace, give it away at the game, and
then the Broncos started coming back. Yes, it's because I
drank exactly thirteen Miller highlights at the bar. I always
watched Broncos at this texture. Was there with my sister
and brother in law. We split tickets. There's a single

(12:42):
seat right next to our season tickets. I bought it
for this game where my husband and I go and
sit in four. Yesterday I was in seat three. I
made my brother in law switch with me in the fourth.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
Hey, and they sound like they stayed because Mandy, the
amount of people that left. I saw that we were you.
You could see up in the up in the press box.

Speaker 6 (13:00):
A visual wave of people going up the aisles to leave.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
Even bo Nicks was like, I feel better for those left.

Speaker 5 (13:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
In the postgame interview was hilarious. Well, my son and
I left the.

Speaker 5 (13:13):
Game after the third quarter, So that's how we helped
the Broncos win.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
Mandy two weeks in a row.

Speaker 5 (13:18):
My heart was pounding out of my chest. I put
my PS two jersey on and that's when they started
playing Good Mandy.

Speaker 3 (13:23):
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (13:24):
Can we get just one chill game? It's been three
in a row. Been three in a row. I mean
technically it's been the entire season, because even the ones
we lost were game ending field goals outside the only
the chillest game was the opener. Since then, it's been NonStop.
What the hell can we It's that's why it feels

(13:44):
like the TVO year. Tell me I'm crazy. It feels
like the TVO year.

Speaker 5 (13:47):
Showy single game, it was okay, okay, let's get onto it.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
I just realized we haven't done the blog yet.

Speaker 5 (13:54):
We just jumped right in Anthony and oh, We've got
so much to talk about, so much to talk about.
Let's do this, shall we. Let's find the blog at
mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the
headline in the latest post section that says ten twenty
twenty five blog go on vacation with Me plus No
Kings brings sixty six percent. Well, excuse me, no Kings

(14:17):
brings point sixty six percent of voters. Click on that
Near the headlines you'll find within I didn't know.

Speaker 6 (14:23):
Where the missing office half of American all the ships
and clipments and say, let's going to press plus.

Speaker 5 (14:29):
Today on the blog. First off, Holy cow Broncos. Go
on vacation with Me No Kings was a pointless social event. Scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, screwing.
Everybody's a racist to Denver Public School Board, it's time
to flip that board.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
Bike activist gets nastyes, bike.

Speaker 5 (14:51):
Death rise, medicaid costs of skyrocket it is pre authorization
has declined. Bennett and Wiser bit raise big money. Hey transplant, do.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
You miss any of these chains?

Speaker 5 (15:01):
Aurora is making big strides in crime fighting, the science
of the jump scare. J Norvel is out at CSU
Get the leg out of your cinnamon thanks to Colorado
Baptist's disaster relief, Hamas Broke the ceasefire. Fox thirty one's
Kindly Burst is living a nightmare. This haunted house hits
too close to home. Scrolling the Utah Mammoths new mascot

(15:25):
is kind of terrifying. How to be an American? According
to Frank Sinatra, black people can't be racist.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
Last Day is a ske skecter.

Speaker 5 (15:34):
The sphere goes full zombie outbreak, DT gets into the
Ring of Fame. Those are the headlines on the blog
at mandy'sblog dot com.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
Tick Tech Toe winner.

Speaker 5 (15:47):
Anyway, any way, I obviously have a lot of stuff
on the blog today. Coming up at one o'clock. I'm super,
super super excited. I've mentioned it a couple of times,
but to the official, Hey, we're pushing this trip now,
so you should sign up. Period begins. It is the
next Mandy Connell adventure. And coming up at one o'clock,

(16:08):
I've got Doug from Cruise and Tour, of the travel
company that we've worked with now gosh for a decade.
We've done eleven trips with them. They're amazing.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
Cruise and Tour is gonna come on.

Speaker 5 (16:20):
The show and talk about that, and so we've got
all that stuff going on all of that stuff is
happening right now. And then a little bit later in
the show, we are going to talk with Jimmy Sangenberger.
He's got a great column in the Denver Gazette. Guys,
I know that I was gone for a few days,
but let me just say this again. Pay attention to
the school board races. I clapped for emphasis. I did

(16:43):
that thing that I hate when people do.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
Please, for the love of all, that's totally pay attention
to the school board races.

Speaker 5 (16:52):
The stuff that is happening in our schools is having
a negative and lasting impact on our children.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
The sharp focus.

Speaker 5 (16:59):
Away from academic achievement as the number one job of
schools into some kind of squishy you know, we need
to make sure all kids feel good about themselves, no
matter how idiotics they're acting. It's nonsense and it has
to stop. And it stops with school board elections. It

(17:19):
starts with people who say things like I think student
achievement is the number one goal.

Speaker 3 (17:24):
Of the school district. Oh oh, how nice?

Speaker 6 (17:26):
How nice?

Speaker 5 (17:28):
Please please pay attention to your school board races. If
you don't know who to ask, ask everybody, Ask your neighbors,
ask everyone. Here's what I would recommend against anyone back
by the teachers union. They care only about teachers, they
don't care about student achievement. Go look and see if
there's anything out there that teachers' unions have done. Nope,
nothing to focus on student achievement. Look for people that

(17:50):
are open to charter schools or school choice, people that
believe that the school district can maintain a good relationship
with teachers without a union.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
Woo.

Speaker 5 (17:59):
Imagine that I've got some of them for you. I
don't have all of them for you. You're gonna have
to find out for yourself.

Speaker 7 (18:04):
Today.

Speaker 5 (18:04):
We're going to talk about DPS with Jimmy a little
bit later in the show. But when we get back,
can we talk about the no Kings protests over the weekend, or,
as I like to call them, the world's biggest political
cocktail hour without booze, because everyone's doing dry October back
after this.

Speaker 6 (18:22):
Yep, oh, he's he's a good taste, so delicious, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (18:30):
Your AI picture on your blog today is not indicative
of you and how.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
You really look.

Speaker 5 (18:34):
You're not you know, Ubby, Wait a minute, I got
to j wait, did you then look at the word comments?

Speaker 2 (18:41):
Blow it?

Speaker 3 (18:42):
Let's see how Jack, Yeah you see. Okay.

Speaker 5 (18:44):
So for those of you don't listen to the show often,
first of all, welcome, We usually don't.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
Squander this much time. That looks like you.

Speaker 5 (18:49):
But I'm easing back in to from vacation. So the
uh AI this morning was not cooperating. It was not
well operating at all. So that was like, that was
like try number nine.

Speaker 4 (19:05):
I just gave up.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
I was like, here you go go ahead. AI.

Speaker 5 (19:08):
If you don't follow me on social media, you don't
know what I'm talking about. You don't see my daily
AI created cartoon.

Speaker 3 (19:14):
Do you drop the line don't change anything? No, I should?
I should? I learned you add the line don't change
anything other than blank.

Speaker 6 (19:22):
And then you also copy the original image and upload
it back to AI because then it'll edit that one specifically,
because they have a hard time with actual editing.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
They want to generate something completely. I found it's easier.

Speaker 5 (19:37):
It's easier to go take my original prompt yes, and
reput it in with whatever tweaks I want him to
make in that original prompt and have them start over
from scratch.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yes, and I say please, But at times they do
say do better and oh.

Speaker 5 (19:47):
No, Sometimes I say, are you kidding me? And Chad
always says no, no, what did I?

Speaker 3 (19:52):
And I'm like, no, dude, no, you gotta be a
little night. Yeah, are you kidding me?

Speaker 5 (19:56):
I'm just saying so to challenge. Great day for AI
at image generation. But you know, you get what you
pay for, and for whopping twenty dollars a month, Chat
is the best least expensive assistant I've ever had.

Speaker 6 (20:10):
So there you go.

Speaker 5 (20:11):
Yeah, not good at all, Mandy. Let's talk about No
King's Day for a moment, please, shall we? The New
King's Protest movement is a movement that estimates and I'm
always gonna say the high estimate because I want to.
I want to give them as much as they can get.
High estimates across the country are that seven million people
turned out on Saturday to protest. I guess that they

(20:39):
don't like Donald Trump. I mean, I'm a little unclear
on the message about what the message is other than
f Trump, which there was a lot of signs across
the country about that. Today I spent a little bit
of time in Getty images and I did not I
could have published as many images to back this up

(20:59):
as I as I wanted, but it would just clog
the blog, and I didn't want to do that. And
if you go around to city to city, a vast
majority of the people at these protests were old white liberals,
and it'll mean ancient.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
I'm talking a little bit older at my.

Speaker 5 (21:15):
Age fifties and up right a lot of gray hair
at these protests.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
And I do have some video on the blog today.
Some of it is just funny.

Speaker 5 (21:26):
And I got a credit Jeff Hunt, from our competitor
at k in US.

Speaker 3 (21:31):
He goes down to all of these things and he goes.

Speaker 5 (21:34):
Down with a mic sock from kN US, so they
know exactly who they're talking about, and he interviews people
and he's.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
Doing a great job with it. So one of his
interviews Edrod, can you give me a favor.

Speaker 5 (21:46):
Can you go grab the first young man and just
throw I need a beep or a drown out or
something of one word to make it really air appropriate.
But it's worth it because the rest of the twelve
seconds really has done a great job.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
Or listen to it and tell me if I need
a beep there at all.

Speaker 5 (22:02):
I'm just saying, And overwhelmingly it seems to just be
we don't like Donald Trump. We don't like Trump, no,
but can you can you bleep it for me?

Speaker 3 (22:15):
Can you make that happen? Hang on, anybody that's gonna
take care of it?

Speaker 5 (22:19):
In Denver, according to a post by Oh and mister
Kyle Clark, Denver speaker Joe Salazar, former Democratic state Rep.
Tells me they estimate twenty five to thirty thousand gathered
in Denver today, similar to the No King's.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
Protest earlier this year.

Speaker 5 (22:35):
This view is from photographer Cheney Or for the New
York Times, and it is a really impressive picture of
the Colorado Capitol and thousands of people in this photograph.
And I want to commend anyone who takes the time
out of their Saturday to go down and vent their
spleen in a peaceful manner. But let's be real, y'all.

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I mean, this was a social event as much it
was as much as it was more political theater. And
I say political theater because this is very reminiscent of
the Women's March, where women knitted hats that were supposed
to be representations of their private parts, their naughty bits,

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if you will, and showed up by the millions to
protest Donald Trump and there were people wearing those outfits
from the Handmaid's Tail, and they protested their little hearts out,
and the media covered it like it was, you know,
the Second Coming of Christ. If there was a parade
for that, I would assume a lot of people would

(23:45):
show up for that. Oh, let's hear from one of
the protesters from Saturdays No King's Day at downtown Denver,
where I think he really honestly captures what was going
on at this protest.

Speaker 3 (23:59):
Hit it a Rod trumpsh Why is that? I don't know,
we don't like him, that's the word around here.

Speaker 8 (24:06):
Any any particular reason why you don't like him, No
clue at all.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
I'm just going with everybody else saying.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Trumps him.

Speaker 9 (24:14):
So so there's that.

Speaker 5 (24:17):
I mean, that's you know, yeah, like I'm trying to
get laid man, get off me.

Speaker 8 (24:25):
It.

Speaker 5 (24:27):
In Denver it was, I will say this, Denver did
have more, far more young people then I saw. I mean,
there was a bunch of white haired people as well,
but there was far more young people in Denver than
there were at protests around the country. And that's one
of the reasons I spent like twenty minutes this morning
on Getty just putting in no kings and a city name,
no king's city name, just over and over, no.

Speaker 3 (24:49):
Just to see who was there. I'm ad venture.

Speaker 5 (24:51):
Most of these people are headed, are are nearing retirement,
and most of these people, well, uh just hate Donald Trump.
And here's the thing, you guys, I get it. I
totally get it. He took to social media to respond.
By the way I heard Ross talking about this is

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only Trump can respond. And it was an AI video
of him flying in a jet called King Trump wearing
a crown and then dropping poo on the protesters. That's
how the president of the United States responded to this protest.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
And here's the thing, you guys.

Speaker 5 (25:35):
When I was a kid, my little brother figured out
that if he could gross my sister out, he could
get her.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
Food, right.

Speaker 5 (25:43):
So eventually he would do this. He would come in
from outside playing whatever, and she would have a piece
of pizza or a burger or something that was good.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
That he wanted.

Speaker 5 (25:50):
He would lick his hand and then smack the food
and go, are you done with that, knowing that her
response would be and just you know, and he would
get whatever. This is exactly what Trump does to the left.
He licks his hand, he puts it on their food,
and he knows exactly how they're going to react, which
is why he put out this video.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
Which.

Speaker 5 (26:16):
I'm just gonna say this honestly in the interest of
full disclosure. If someone else had put out this video.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
It's funny.

Speaker 5 (26:25):
But the president of the United States put out this
video and it's just beneath the office. Once again, doesn't
he have people for this? Can you not assign someone
jays you're the president. I just want to be clear.
I am not disparaging anyone who took time out of
their Saturday to go vent their spleen at the government.

(26:46):
Back when I was throwing a tea party in Florida,
and I remember how I felt when Democrats called me
a white supremacist or a racist or told me I
should be grateful to Bay taxes.

Speaker 3 (26:58):
Yeah, I remember how that was.

Speaker 5 (27:00):
I'm not disparaging them personally, but I do ask a
significant question, and that is what was the point. It
was a giant social event all and you know, if
you wanted to remain in the n group, you had
to go, otherwise you would have been cast away.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
Maybe you're secretly maga. Maybe we don't know.

Speaker 5 (27:23):
There's a few things I want to point out though,
to the people who showed up for the No Kings protests,
not the least of which is.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
I would guess.

Speaker 5 (27:33):
Ninety five percent of the people at the No Kings
protest voted for Kamala Harris, someone who was not elected
in any way, shape or manner, I mean at all. Really,
when you get right down to it, they allowed a
small group of people they're betters, really, they're betters within
the party, decided to go ahead and ignore the vote

(27:53):
of the people and cast off the old dude in
a chance to rig the game and hopefully beat Donald Trump.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
Well we know how that worked out, so.

Speaker 5 (28:02):
They're okay with that, which is, I mean, technically Calmala
doesn't have the bloodline to be royalty, but when you
have a very small group, it's almost like choosing the pope, right,
So they'd be cool with that as well. Just want
to point that out. I have video on the blog
today that I do want to draw attention to a
couple videos.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
Number one, there's.

Speaker 5 (28:24):
A video of someone with a doll of Donald Trump
hanging in effigy and they're encouraging a little boy to
come up and stab it. Now, I don't know how
else to spin this that it isn't a negative. I mean,
maybe I'm missing something, Maybe I'm missing a learning opportunity

(28:45):
here that somehow this is good now. I was immediately
struck by a video that I saw some years ago
of a Hamas summer camp where they're raising little children
to grow up against the Jews, the next little generation
of martyrs.

Speaker 3 (29:03):
It's so cute.

Speaker 5 (29:05):
It all felt so familiar to seeing little children's Staba
Trump hanging in effigy. I mean, that's so cute. No
one's been able to tell me what the point of
it was. I also have another video of a guy
inciting people to kill Ice agents. I mean, I I

(29:29):
won't paraphrase, I'll just tell you what he said. You
gotta grab a gun. We gotta turn around the guns
on this fascist system. These Ice agents gotta get shot
and wiped out. The same machinery that's on full display
right there has to get wiped out. And yet the
media coverage has been nothing but fawning.

Speaker 10 (29:53):
Nothing but look at this. Look at the patriots taking
to the streets, Look at how it needs saying. These
brave people are coming out with their mouths over their faces,
waiting to.

Speaker 5 (30:06):
Have their voices heard against tyranny.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
What tyranny?

Speaker 5 (30:09):
They don't know?

Speaker 3 (30:10):
But when do they want to stop it? Today?

Speaker 2 (30:13):
Today?

Speaker 5 (30:16):
Now, there are certain areas of agreement, and I'm just
going to go on record right now and say that
if there is any real effort.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
To start an actual.

Speaker 5 (30:27):
Movement to change the constitutions so Donald Trump can run
in twenty twenty eight, I will be at that No
King's rally. Okay, I'm not interested in that. Don't give
me all your dumb reasons. I'm not interested in sending
that precedent for future democratic presidents. To be perfectly honest,
I like the system we have now. It works pretty
dang good, pretty dang good. But the reality is, I mean,

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you know what, Anthony, could you let our young friend
from the No King's Rally go ahead and sum up
the event for us, because I don't think I can
do it justice, I really don't, young man.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
Why are you here? Trumps?

Speaker 8 (31:03):
So?

Speaker 3 (31:04):
Why is that? I don't know, He's just we don't
like him, that's the word around here.

Speaker 8 (31:08):
Any any particular reason why you don't like him.

Speaker 3 (31:10):
No clue at all. I'm just going with everybody else
saying it seemed cool. Just go with what everybody else saying. Man, yeah,
I saw a crowd. They're walking this way.

Speaker 5 (31:18):
Lot chicks in there. I mean, man, it seemed high anyway.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
So that's why we're here.

Speaker 5 (31:25):
Okay, when we get back, let's talk about something fun.
Let's talk about adventure. Let's talk about excitement. Let's talk
about the next Mandy Connall adventure.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
My friend Doug Johnson from Cruising.

Speaker 5 (31:37):
Tours joining us to discuss what is surely going to
be one of the most amazing vacations we've ever had.
And dare I say it, it's the last one the
que will be joining with. Yep, she's graduating and going
to college and therefore.

Speaker 3 (31:53):
This will be the last one. We'll tell you all
about it next.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
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Speaker 2 (32:01):
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Speaker 1 (32:09):
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Speaker 5 (32:20):
Sad bab Well FOOTBALLCA welcomes the second hour of the show.
And it is that time again, you guys, the time
when we start thinking about vacation. Now, don't even give
me that you just got that from vacation. I went
to see family. That doesn't count as vacation, that's just
time spent with family. However, next fall in October, as

(32:45):
a matter of fact, you can spend time not with
just me, but also my family as the next Mandy
Connell Adventure takes off to fly from here to beautiful Zurich,
Switzerland and joining me now from my favorite cruise into
our company. Well they're the only cruise in tour company
that I would work with because well they're called Cruise
and Tour. Doug Johnson to talk about the Next Mandy

(33:06):
Connell Adventure. Doug, I'm very very very very very very
very very excited about this trip.

Speaker 7 (33:13):
I can tell that Mandy, that's spectacular to hear and
to see.

Speaker 5 (33:17):
Well, you know what's funny, though, is I've been to
a lot of the places that we're going to on
this trip, but Chuck has it, neither has my daughter
the queue and now my mom is going to and
she's not been to any of these places, and I
am so excited, So let's talk about it. Where are
we going?

Speaker 7 (33:34):
Yep, that's awesome that you're going to be able to
share some of that with some of your family and
a bunch of the KOA listeners. So you mentioned we'll
start off flying into Zurich and then actually staying in
a beautiful point town, Lucerne, Switzerland, which is right on
a lake, and you know, we'll do a walking tour there.
We'll visit Lynch Chocolate factory for some samplings, and then

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we'll board our ship in Basel, Switzerland and head on
down the Rhyan River, making some beautiful stops and our
way over to Amsterdam.

Speaker 5 (34:05):
I am super excited about this because, like I've already
been to Heidelberg, which is one of our stops, and
been to Heidelberg Castle many many times. But let's talk
about the actual cruise itself, because I think a lot
of people kind of have the misconception that if they've
been on an ocean cruise, then they understand cruising. So
let's start with what are the differences there? What can

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they expect from a river cruise?

Speaker 7 (34:29):
Yeah? Absolutely, if people haven't been on a river cruise,
it's a very different experience. These ships are smaller, they're
built differently because you know, going along these rivers in Europe,
there's bridges they need to get under, and the water's
not as deep obviously is out in the ocean. So
this particular ship will be on is only one hundred
and eighty passengers and total, so much more of an

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intimate feel. You know, you'll get to know everybody and
see everybody frequently. Very easy to get on and off
the ships because of the size, and you know, they
pull up and dock right in these small little towns
and villages along the river, so you're stepping off, you're
right near things. It's like you're taking shuttle buses hours
to get into a city, or we'll go and do

(35:14):
some shopping or hit a cafe or anything like that.
So it really a very intimate experience and people really
enjoy that. I think that's one of the reasons river
cruising has taken off so much.

Speaker 3 (35:25):
I love it.

Speaker 5 (35:25):
I mean, don't get me wrong, I love an ocean cruise,
but river cruising is a whole different beast, and the
size of the passenger list is often matched by the staff,
so there's an incredibly high level of service on these trips,
just like you will feel special.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
Trust me on that.

Speaker 5 (35:41):
And before we get back to the destinations, Doug, I
want to make one point. You know, we have a
lot of people already booked on this trip because they've
traveled with us previously, and I think that that is
kind of a testament to how cool and how good
these trips are.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
How many people do we have and how much space
do we have left right now?

Speaker 2 (35:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (35:58):
Absolutely, after after you all get back from Japan and
where it was out, we sold a good chunk of
it already, so we actually had gone back and gotten
some more cabins from the cruise line. So we've got
thirty five or thirty six people sold already, and I
think we've got room for sixty eight or so something
like that, so we're well on our way.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
I'm glad.

Speaker 7 (36:20):
I'm glad that there's such a lot of demand.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
In it so far.

Speaker 5 (36:23):
Let me ask the question about singles, because I've been
getting a lot of questions about single travelers. What kind
of single options, if any.

Speaker 3 (36:30):
Do we have left?

Speaker 7 (36:33):
I think we still have a couple. We're always a
little bit limited as to how many cabins we can
get for singles or even even hotel rooms for singles.
So if anyone is thinking of going as a single,
they definitely need to let us know that as soon
as possible and get signed up because it is limited,
but I think we can still accommodate a few more
singles if anyone is out there. I know we've got

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a couple already booked for sure.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
Okay, perfect, So Friday October.

Speaker 5 (36:58):
We actually leave Thursday, October eighth of next year, October
of twenty twenty six, so you got a full year
to get ready for this trip. We arrived in Zurich,
we're not there very long because we're gonna zip on
down to Lake Lucern, which is absolutely gorgeous. As Doug
just said. We went there on our trip to Switzerland previously,
and it is just like this little adorable town on

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this lake with this big giant bridge that everyone goes
to see and the history is fantastic. Then we're going
to go to Basil, Switzerland and and bark on the
Emerald down sailing first to the capital of the Black Forest,
as it's known, that's Freeburg. Now I think this is
where I bought a cuckoo clock many many years ago.
Is that kind of what you get in the Black Forest?

Speaker 7 (37:41):
Doug, Absolutely, that's one of the things that's known for
for sure. And you know that's really your touching on
something great here. Mandy that you know, you really get
immersed in the local cultures and what these areas are
all known for. So it's you know, it's cuckoo clocks
are duftely if people want to see them or possibly
purchase one. That's one of the things that the Black Forest.

Speaker 5 (38:03):
Area we love ours and this is one of those
things that this is one of those trips where you
can do a guided tour where you can do you know,
things with a big group. They also have a bike adventure.

Speaker 3 (38:14):
Chuck and I have.

Speaker 5 (38:15):
Ridden down the Danube River and I'm not sure I
could talk them into doing this one, but I'm going
to work on them to see what happens there. So
there's options on these trips that we often don't talk about.
Then we go to Keel or Strasburg. Tell me about
this because this is one area that I haven't been to.

Speaker 7 (38:31):
Yeah, this is you know an area of Strasburg is
very very quaint and beautiful, and you know also area
the Olsuths wine region is here as well, So you know,
there's in all these areas. You know a lot of
the folks like, oh there's German beer, which is certainly
there's plenty of German beer, but you know you'll get
to see some of the local wineries too. But Strasburgh

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is a beautiful spot that I think everyone will enjoy
as well.

Speaker 5 (38:57):
My favorite favorite sparkling wine of all time comes from
this region. I believe it's a Kremon Della sauce. So
I'm going to be dipping into the wine. Even then,
don't drink wine much anymore because it doesn't like me
as much as it used to be. Then we go
onto Heidelberg, which is absolutely beautiful. The Heidelberg Castle is
one of the excursions, and I'm going I've been three

(39:18):
or four times previously, I'm going back again. It just
makes you realize we just don't have that long history
here in the United States of America, Doug. It's one
of those things that you see and just go wow.
So tell me what am I missing in Heidelberg.

Speaker 7 (39:33):
No, well, you're touching on it for sure. The Heidelberg
Castle is fantastic, and you know, you've got these walled
medieval cities that have been there for centuries. And this
is one of the UNFCO World Heritage Sites that will
be along this cruise too, And that's something that you
know most of these river cruises touch on one or
two of them, but we have a couple of this

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one for sure, So it's a great thing that you
can get it to some of these very well preserved
and protected historical sites across Europe.

Speaker 5 (40:04):
Then we go to Kobeland's which is past another UNESCO
where World Heritage Site on this and that's the Upper
Middle Rhine Valley. One of the things about river cruising
that's wonderful is you always have scenery. What is the
scenery in the Upper Middle Rhine Valley.

Speaker 7 (40:19):
Yeah, it's beautiful. I mean there's vineyards, there's there's castles.
Even if people, you know, are tired one day and
they don't want to do much in a poor except
to walk off and maybe go get a coffee or something,
you're you're seeing the scenery as you're sitting, you know,
in your cabin or or in the lounge or something
like that. So it's it's spectacular scenery. And you know,

(40:41):
very much in the countryside. But but you'll see these
these old medieval towns and in cities up on the hillside,
and you know these rivers were or how people got
in and out of these places for years and years.

Speaker 3 (40:55):
Then we're off to Cologne and Dusseldorf.

Speaker 5 (40:56):
If I've not been to Cologne, but I have been
shopping in dusel Door, so I feel like I've got
half this one.

Speaker 7 (41:01):
Down, absolutely absolutely, And you know here you're starting to
get into more of that that German culture here for sure,
which people will enjoy.

Speaker 5 (41:10):
And we ended the trip in Amsterdam. We're going to
do a tour in Amsterdam, but then we have an
extra day there. It looks like or we dock in
the morning. Is that how that looks?

Speaker 7 (41:19):
Yep? Yep, so people actually, you know, we'll end up
flying out of Amsterdam, but the ship gets in and
we are docked, you know, overnight there, so we have
a full day as in Amsterdam. Uh and you know
the ship will still be serving as our hotel there.
So if people have not been to Amsterdam, they'll definitely
have time to you know, to see that beautiful city.

(41:40):
And you know there's all kinds of canals and little
boat cruise as you can do in Amsterdam, or a
very nice walkable city or as you mentioned, the nice
place for certainly a great pace to do some biking
if people are up for that.

Speaker 5 (41:51):
Well, I can't wait to see Amsterdam sober, Doug.

Speaker 3 (41:56):
So that'll be an.

Speaker 7 (41:56):
Exciting absolutely do it'll be a different perspective.

Speaker 5 (42:02):
One of the things I love about these trips, Doug,
is that you guys really take care of everything. So
if somebody wants a vacation where they don't have to
do anything but sign up, make sure their documents are
in order, like their passports and all that good stuff.
You get to the airport, you drop your bags and
everything is taken care of.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
That is what this trip is.

Speaker 7 (42:20):
So what is included here absolutely and you know on
the cruise ships of people having cruised, you know, meals
are included. We decided to include a drink package here
for people too, so they can have you know, wine
or beer or a drink come during the cruise. And
but we also don't want people to ever feel like
they're being nickeled and dives, so we always take care

(42:40):
of the gratuities for the staff. People are always confused
how much should I tip this person or that person.
Same thing with the drivers and the local guides, so
we've taken care of all that. We'll have a cruise
and tour person with your group from the start to
finish and they're taking care of as well. So as
you said, really, once people get to Denver Airport and

(43:00):
and get checked in for the flight, they don't have
anything to worry about till.

Speaker 3 (43:04):
Till they get back, all right.

Speaker 5 (43:05):
One thing I would say is that, as we said
earlier in the interview, there are already about half the
slots are taken by prior travelers. And if that's not
an endorsement of the Mandy Connell Adventure, I don't know
what is. Because these people that have signed up have
already been on one of our trips before and they're
coming back for more. So I would say go ahead.

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If you want to see more about the trip and
you want to see some images of the towns, of
the ship all that stuff, you can go to Mandyconnell
trip dot com and check it out. But I would
not spend a whole lot of time thinking this over
because we've kind of already maxed out the number of
cabins and things like that that we can get, so
when they're gone, they're gone. And I've had so many

(43:47):
people email me in the last two weeks about, Hey,
when are you going to announce another trip? I really
want to go, so today's day.

Speaker 7 (43:55):
Yeah, oh absolutely, Well then you know, as we said earlier,
were one hundred and eighty people. You know, we can't
take more than seventy. I know that for sure. So
and you know what they we didn't touch on the
weather this time. You're Mandy's ideal. I know that's one
of the Oh yes, you chose this time. You know,
very comfortable for people fifties, low sixties. So it's it's
great sight seeing weather and uh and very pretty in

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this region as well during the fall.

Speaker 5 (44:17):
I'm swore never to go to Europe for vacation in
the summer again. I just until they get hit with
the air conditioning. I'm good to go in October.

Speaker 3 (44:24):
All right.

Speaker 7 (44:25):
You can call Cruise in Tour.

Speaker 5 (44:26):
Yeah, call Cruising Tour directly today one eight hundred three
eight three thirty one thirty one. That's eight hundred three
eight three thirty one thirty one, or Mandyconnell Trip dot com.
That's Mandy Connell trip dot com. Go ahead and take
care of it, Doug. I cannot wait for this trip.
I'm so excited. I'm excited that my mom.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
And my daughter are going.

Speaker 5 (44:47):
The last trip that's a queue will go with on
with us with us because she'll be in college after this,
so she's gonna have to pay for her own vacations.

Speaker 7 (44:56):
Well that'll be extra special then, So thank thank you
very much for having me on the show.

Speaker 1 (44:59):
Mandy.

Speaker 5 (45:00):
All right, Doug, thanks so much, and for all you
guys do a cruise in tour. Thank you for everything.
And this trip's going to.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
Be so awesome you guys.

Speaker 5 (45:07):
Anyway, moving on, got a lot of stuff on the
blog today that has nothing to do with No Kings.
You guys were kind of cracking me up on the
text line. The phone number eight hundred three eight three
thirty one thirty one. The cruise line is Emerald Cruises.

Speaker 3 (45:23):
Go ahead and look it up. Get their reviews.

Speaker 5 (45:25):
Mandy the wine Yogi, she just went on this trip
on another cruise line. She said, loved Cologne. The cathedral
is stunning and you have to drink a coulsh there.
It can only be called coulsh if it is made
within the view.

Speaker 3 (45:39):
Of two spires.

Speaker 5 (45:41):
Man, that's fantastic. That is fantastic. Mandy. Going back to
the No King's comments, because some of them are quite funny.
Mandy seems with the Democrats say we want to talk,
it means give us what we want or else. In
doing so, they always hurt the folks they claim to
be helping. One of the things I will say that
No Kings accomplished is that they may extend this government

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shut down through Thanksgiving because democratic politicians are very scared
against going against the people that showed up at the
No King's Rally, older white, because they vote reliably, they're
always going to vote.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
So that's actually a fair point, Mandy.

Speaker 5 (46:27):
Many of the protesters are paid to be there and
no clue on the issues surrounding the protest. I think
we proved that with one young gentleman, Mandy. The easiest
place for a young man to get laid is at
a liberal protest. Go along with whatever the protest is,
make a few compliments like you're so brave or strong
and bada being you're in. I'd love to say I

(46:48):
think you're wrong. Moving on, Mandy, I don't get the
No King's rallies being pointed at a man that will
be there no more than three more years, while overlooking
all the people that been ruling for over three decades
with no intention to leave. Who are the real kings here?
And I assume you're talking about members of Congress who

(47:08):
have been in Congress since Congress was created. Mandy, if
there were king, protests would not be allowed. Fair point
text her, Mandy, what Trump is doing on social media
is what we call poking the pig or the parrot,
just to make them squeal or squeak. I will say this.
I have to give it to Donald Trump because the

(47:29):
story has gone with lightning speed from oh MG, look
at how many people came out to protest Donald Trump
to oh MG, did you see what Donald Trump put
out on social media? With one inappropriate video? He has
sucked the oxygen out of the room once again. I'd

(47:51):
love to be able to see inside Donald Trump's brain
for just like a day, just a day. I think
all of these people who think he's stupid have no
idea how many tabs are open in that mind at
any given time. It's really, I mean, it's given kind
of remarkable many Mandy. What let's see here, Mandy, guess

(48:15):
what don't care about the NFL or Broncos.

Speaker 11 (48:17):
Next?

Speaker 5 (48:18):
Gosh, no kings and Democrats can act like children and
attempt to assassinate the president elect and countless bs. I'm
good with the president's AI message and having fun get
over it. Lastly, elections are faulty in Colorado. That was
a lot in one tweet text. Rather, Mandy said, the
Democratic brain Trust told people to go out and protest

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against the government telling them what to do. Apparently, Mandy,
did someone tell them that we don't have a king
in the United States. Nah, this texture nailed it well
whenever they were out there, it obviously worked. Still no kings,
So to each his own. I guess that is well said,

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Absolutely well, said.

Speaker 3 (49:04):
Mandy.

Speaker 5 (49:04):
As far as the no kings, strange that these people
weren't bothered that that man buns sporting interns ran the
White House for the last four years. Mandy Kowa, thank
you for saying the queue has to pay for her
own vacations after she graduates from high school. People think
I'm horrible for holding that policy with.

Speaker 3 (49:22):
My own kids.

Speaker 5 (49:23):
Let me be clear. We do do trips where we
take all of the kids and the grandkids on a
family trip, but other than that, she's on her own
for vacations.

Speaker 3 (49:37):
Mandy, this no king stuff.

Speaker 5 (49:38):
Must be working. I went to bed before the rally
with no king, and I woke up with no king.
So maybe something's working here. Another fair point, Mandy, just
wanted to tell you that Jimmy sangen Berger Je had
an awesome job while you were gone.

Speaker 3 (49:54):
Yes, so awesome. And I said, Jimmy, my people might
miss you.

Speaker 5 (49:58):
Come on the show today at two thirty about your
call him in the Denver Gazette about the Denver Public School.

Speaker 3 (50:02):
Board and he was like, yeah, I can do that. Mandy,
that's great news.

Speaker 5 (50:07):
If the government has shut down a few more weeks,
Rocky Mountain National Park has free admission. Anybody want to
go for a horseback ride if you have horses in
your supplying Yes, I would thank you very much. Text
me or send me an email. Mandy Connell atiheartmedia dot com. Mandy,
where do I submit my mileage and expense reports for
no Kings? That would be lehooser dot com.

Speaker 3 (50:30):
Just kidding.

Speaker 5 (50:31):
I don't want to disparage people for exerting their constitutionally
guaranteed right, even if I think what they're doing is silly,
and I do, Mandy, I'm so glad the left did
their ritual to hold off King George the Third for
at least another three years. Mandy. We already have a
no King's Day. It's called fourth of July. I think

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that is the fairest point of them all and accurate.
So I've got a couple interesting stories that i want
to share. We're going to talk about the Democratic gubernatorial race,
and it'll explain why we're talking about the Democratic cubernatorial
race more than we're talking about the Republican gubernatorial race.

(51:14):
It is heating up and it has gotten really fascinating
to watch these two candidates. And for everybody like me
who basically went at Bill Wiser's dead in the water, well,
I need to walk that back because he is raising
a crap ton of money, But then again, so is
Michael Bennett, and they're both spoiling the fingers at the

(51:34):
other's campaign going.

Speaker 3 (51:36):
But it's out of state money, but it's out of state.

Speaker 5 (51:40):
Holding into that a little bit, and fascinating study out
of CU Boulder about the science of the jump scare
will be it's all coming up.

Speaker 6 (51:50):
I'm not just a jerk to be a jerk. I'll
pull back to her and it's old Rob Rob. I
worked a year in New England with Red Sox, Yankees, Giants,
Mets fans. My year at ESPN, I gotta get noxious
fans in the eye. I gotta get it into the
New Englanders when I can. Okay, I am not just
peeing a jerk. I'm getting pack.

Speaker 3 (52:12):
I get it.

Speaker 5 (52:13):
I don't even I'm not even mad about it. I'm
saying I just gotta get people context, not as an ass.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
I mean, well, toy. We don't know anyway.

Speaker 5 (52:23):
Today we've got a story about the gubernatorial race. Obviously
this race is just getting started, and there are two
contenders of note of merit of well, it's worth any
discussion on the Democratic side, and that is, of course,
the US Senator Michael Bennett and Colorado Attorney General Phil Wiser.

Speaker 6 (52:43):
They are.

Speaker 3 (52:46):
You guys.

Speaker 5 (52:46):
They got money coming in hand over fist. They just
they really do between them, this from the Denver Gazette.
Between them, they didn't. Wiser finish the three month period
that ended September thirtieth with more than four point six
million on hand, with Wiser holding the read holding the
lead at just under three million in the bank. Bennett

(53:07):
led the parent contributions for the quarter with about nine
hundred and forty eight thousand receipts to Wiser's roughly eight
hundred and forty seven thousand, though the three term senators
spent more than twice as much as his primary rival.
During the period. Bennett reported about seven hundred and twenty
one thousand in expenditures. Weiser shelled out just three hundred

(53:28):
and forty one thousand over.

Speaker 3 (53:29):
The same stretch.

Speaker 5 (53:30):
Wiser boast the lead in total fundraising since announcing his
run in early January, with more than three point seven
million in contributions. That's a record, by the way, for
funds raised by a Colorado gubernatorial candidate in the year
before the election. His campaign says he's gotten donations from
more than ten thousand contributors.

Speaker 3 (53:53):
Bennett did not jump into.

Speaker 5 (53:54):
The race until mid April, has raised more than two
point seven million from more than eleven thousand individual donors. Now,
let's talk about the Republican side for just a moment.
There are a handful, a good, solid handful of Republicans
that stand a chance of gaining the nomination, and the

(54:16):
top of those Senator Barb Kirkmeyer. You know I love Barb.
She sailed past the other candidates in fundraising. She raised
about one hundred and eighty nine thousand for the period,
spent just nine k and finished the quarter with one
hundred and eighty on hand after just announcing her campaign
for governor about three weeks before the end of the quarter.

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So that's actually, you know, three weeks not bad obviously,
being dwarfed by spending in the Democratic primaries, none of
the eighteen other GOP candidates cracked six figures. Now someone
chopped into this race at the last minute, and they
have not a Victor. Oh my gosh, why can I

(54:58):
not remember?

Speaker 3 (54:59):
Is it Victor Diaz?

Speaker 5 (55:00):
Please help me, you guys, why can't I remember Victor's
last name? So many of my friends are already enthusiastic
Victor supporters, and for some reason, my brain will not
retain this man's last name. Text me five six six
nine oher.

Speaker 3 (55:14):
With his name.

Speaker 5 (55:16):
So right now, the race to watch, obviously is between
Bennett and Wiser, because the chances, like straight up in
this state right now, of one of them being the
next governor are pretty good. I mean they're pretty dang good.
There's gonna have to be some significant shift in the
winds before we have an expectation of having a competitive

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Republican I'd like to believe we should have that expectation
because Ultimately, there are a lot of issues in this
state that I believe Republicans have better answers for, but
making sure our candidate can convey those better answers in
a way that resonates with voters who may be persuadable.
And honestly, I don't know what percentage of the voter

(56:00):
voting population of Independence is even persuadable. I'd love to
know the answer to that question. And I just thank you,
Victor Marx. Thank you Victor Marx. In my defense, I
went to high school with a guy named Victor Diaz,
and now it was just stuck.

Speaker 3 (56:13):
In my head.

Speaker 5 (56:15):
Victor Marx not related to Carl. That's how I'm going
to remember him from now on. Victor Marx jumped into
the race very late, so I don't think you reported
in this reporting period. And as I said, tons and
tons and tons of people are already in his camp
and in his campaign. So it's going to be a
very interesting thing to watch. And what I'm interested in,

(56:36):
just from a purely right leaning person in Colorado is
I want to know how much Wiser and Bennett are
going to have to spend against each other to get
through this Democratic primary, because on paper, they're very very similar,
very similar now on paper and a rod, did we

(56:58):
get a response from Wiser's camp at about getting him
on the show? Not yet, Okay, And then then it's
people we need to reach out to them as well, Well,
we're gonna have them both on the show because honestly,
like from a person on the rights perspective, I look
at their sort of accomplishments and the things that they

(57:19):
hang their hat on, and they're exactly the same. If
you want a governor who who is, you know, hellbent
on spending more time and energy suing Trump, then Wiser's
probably your guy. And genuinely, I'm not sure what Thenett's
selling proposition is that differentiates him from Phil Wiser on

(57:43):
policy positions. Right, I think that they're going to have
to spend quite a bit of money to differentiate themselves
from their opponent, and that could be incredibly beneficial to
the Republicans if they can resist the urge on their
side to turn it into a circus. And with this,
many candidates, and some of them are not serious candidates.

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Some of them are people who are you know, you've.

Speaker 3 (58:06):
Never heard of.

Speaker 5 (58:07):
They're not going to raise any money you're never going
to hear from them again until you get your ballot,
and you're gonna be able like who is this clown?

Speaker 3 (58:12):
And that's that's it.

Speaker 5 (58:13):
There's just going to be on the ballot. So it's
going to be interesting to see how this all plays
out and if the Republicans can find a way to
capitalize on this rather than giving into their worst instincts
and allowing a crowded Republican primary to turn into a

(58:38):
bloodbath that just becomes opposition research for the eventual Democratic candidate.

Speaker 3 (58:46):
And I get it, you guys. I mean what ends
up happening is this.

Speaker 5 (58:49):
There's going to be Republican candidates that don't really, according
to enough polling data, have a chance, right but because
they either are so convinced that their sycophantic people around
them are telling them the truth when the polls are
lying to them, and they'll stay in the race and
start slinging mud at the leaders of the race just

(59:13):
to try and you know, prove everybody wrong, and they're
going to turn into a cloud show. I mean, that's
that's kind of what I think is going to happen.
I hope not.

Speaker 3 (59:27):
I hope not.

Speaker 5 (59:28):
I just got a text from a friend of mine
who said, Victor Marx, I love him. I'm telling you
the people that know this guy, they absolutely love him.
Mandy Bennett cannot possibly manage the state without humor telling
him what he thinks why. I don't know the answer
to that question, but I look forward to having the
opportunity to speak with Senator Bennett and Attorney General Phil

(59:50):
Wiser about why people.

Speaker 3 (59:52):
Should vote for them, because they're going to have to
do something to stand out.

Speaker 5 (59:59):
And honestly, I'm not even trying to be a smarty
pants here. Can you guys tell me the difference policy wise?
What do compare and contrast their policy positions for Wiser
and Bennett, and where are the differences? And I think
you know, even if you're right leaning, and even if

(01:00:19):
you fervently work for the success of the Republican candidate,
you have to be aware that whoever comes out of
this Democratic primary is already the odds on favorite to
be the next governor, simply because of the makeup of
the state and the way we voted in the past
few years. So I'm just I'm curious, if you guys,
what is the difference? If you see one you can

(01:00:41):
text us on the common spirit health text line five
six six nine out.

Speaker 7 (01:00:46):
No.

Speaker 5 (01:00:46):
Great, we've talked about that for the day. We can
check that box and move on to something super interesting.
I've told you guys before, I do not like being startled.
I don't like jump scares. I hate haunted houses. I
will never put myself in that situation voluntarily. If you
see me at a haunted house, I can assure you
I am being held hostage. Okay, so call the cops,

(01:01:08):
get me out of there. But now see you. Boulder
is actually studying the science behind jump scares, and they
say they could be a net benefit for a certain
group of people who might need them. Talk about that next.
I hate being startled, I hate being scared. I don't
like it when people jump out at me.

Speaker 3 (01:01:29):
I don't like it at all.

Speaker 5 (01:01:30):
Would never voluntarily go to a haunted house. But here
we are. Science is now making me rethink my entire decision.
In a new study this from Denver, seven researchers at
the University of Colorado, Boulders say those same jump scares
could actually help unlock new treatments for anxiety and post

(01:01:50):
traumatic stress disorder. Brian Kopp, Senior general manager of the
thirteenth floor said, there's nothing like creating this environment where
you can scare people and give that well, that escape.
So here's the science behind it. A study from the
CU Department of Psychology and Neuroscience released an article exploring

(01:02:13):
jump scare science. The study examines how brain responds to fear.
Her lab studies the neural circuits behind fear responses and
how the brain learns to recognize when something that once
seemed dangerous is actually safe. To study that process, Molison,
our team built a mouse haunted house inside a shadow
passes overhead to mimic the approach of a predator while

(01:02:35):
scientists monitor brain activity. How do you think a mouse's
brain looks when it's going yes in ah, what does
that look like?

Speaker 3 (01:02:43):
Do you think?

Speaker 5 (01:02:45):
They discovered a small but important brain region called the
interpenduncular nucleus. Oh, the IPN. I was just talking about
this Saturday.

Speaker 3 (01:02:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:02:52):
It lights up when the brain senses danger, but quiets
down when the subject determines nothing bad will happen. So
for people with anxiety or post traumatic stress, that same
circuit may stay stuck on, giving them that heightened state
of fear even after the threat is gone. So there
is a theory that they can develop therapies that include

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you getting the crop scared out of you so you
can get over this effect. And essentially you're desensitizing yourself
to whatever it is.

Speaker 3 (01:03:23):
Right, that's all it is.

Speaker 6 (01:03:24):
That's why they need my brain, because I am one
thousand percent desensitized now to all that.

Speaker 3 (01:03:29):
Nothing, nothing at all.

Speaker 6 (01:03:31):
On a house, anything that isn't actually real scares me anymore. Well,
I'm there for the cool stuff like this awesome.

Speaker 5 (01:03:39):
I don't like being startled, I don't like the I
don't like any of it. And I wonder what that
says about my brain that I just I'm just like, nope,
I'm going to avoid that. So but I don't have
any kind of anxiety or posts. But this is kind
of interesting because it goes to the same brain science
that this tells us why kids today have so much anxiety.
We have protected them from all of life's little disappointments.

(01:04:01):
Right when I was a kid, and you would be
out raising hell for you all day long on a
Saturday with your friends. In that twelve hour period that
you were out riding bikes, there were at least like
five conflicts that had to be negotiated, there was a
stream that had to be jumped over. There were all
of these things that we did that were like little
tiny doses of danger. And by succeeding in those little

(01:04:24):
tiny doses of danger, we got more confident, we got
less anxious, we got more confident in our.

Speaker 3 (01:04:30):
Ability to solve a problem. And that's essentially what this is.

Speaker 5 (01:04:34):
Right, once you realize that this is not a scary
thing because you've been desensitized to it, well, then you
can move on.

Speaker 3 (01:04:42):
It's interest.

Speaker 5 (01:04:42):
I don't know if I would sign up for jump
scare therapy even if I had anxiety or if I
had BTS.

Speaker 3 (01:04:47):
I don't know if I.

Speaker 5 (01:04:47):
Would, if I would just be like, yes, please scare
the crap out of me.

Speaker 3 (01:04:50):
A few times I just.

Speaker 5 (01:04:52):
Startled sometimes walking into the kitchen at work, like I
come around that corner too fast and someone's back there.

Speaker 3 (01:04:57):
By the fridge, like that.

Speaker 6 (01:05:00):
I will do my service these next couple weeks and
just try to scare the crap out of you.

Speaker 3 (01:05:04):
It'll be therapeutic for you. No, No, that's a bad idea.
I'm just trying to I'm just trying to make you
a healthier person.

Speaker 7 (01:05:13):
That know.

Speaker 6 (01:05:14):
Now, every time I scare someone, including at the upcoming
Halloween party, I will just say, look, read this article.

Speaker 3 (01:05:20):
I am doing this for you, for your wealthy No,
that's the wrong.

Speaker 5 (01:05:24):
Answer, because I also have reflexes. So if I accidentally
punch you in the face on like the fifth scare,
third scare, second scarce scare.

Speaker 6 (01:05:33):
But Mandy, if a stranger does that to me, I
can say that was for your own good. Also, thank
you for everything you own, because I'm going to sue
you over all of it if they punched me in
the face.

Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
Bring it on, Mandy.

Speaker 3 (01:05:46):
What about the haunted mansion at Magic Kingdom, y'all? That
is not scary. That's not scary at all.

Speaker 5 (01:05:52):
I mean, even when the ghost appears in your car
with you at the end, it's still not scary.

Speaker 3 (01:05:56):
Mandy.

Speaker 5 (01:05:57):
Do you think somebody asked if I thought Victor Marx
was a vile candidate. Guys, like I said, I have
people that love Victor Marx as a candidate in the primary.
I think he's a very viable candidate in the general election.
I have concerns in our overly secular state of Colorado
that his strong religious faith that he is very open
about which is why some people absolutely love him. Will

(01:06:20):
be a bad thing, And another Texter said, do you
think the ck Christian wave has or will fade by
the election? I don't know the answer to that, but
I hope it's no. We will find out though, won't
we when we get back. I get all kinds of
stuff on the blog today that we haven't gotten to yet,
including a little update on Hamas breaking the ceasefire. Of
course they did. And I want to talk for a

(01:06:42):
second about Fox thirty one's Kylie Burst and what she's
going through this crazy story.

Speaker 1 (01:06:47):
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Speaker 3 (01:06:55):
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Speaker 4 (01:07:05):
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Speaker 5 (01:07:14):
The third hour of the show Man. It has been
a busy one and uh so much stuff left unspoken
about on the blog. A couple of things that I
want to mention really quickly. Okay, we've already talked about
the New King's rally and just all I want to
say is bless their hearts. So I support anyone going

(01:07:35):
out to peacefully protest the government. I truly do, I
really do, because I support my right to go out
and peacefully protest the government. I still don't know what
they were doing, but whatever, it's fine.

Speaker 3 (01:07:47):
It worked for them.

Speaker 5 (01:07:48):
They feel great about themselves today. They're gonna get invited
to write Christmas parties, you know, So there you go.
I want to talk about jump scares for just one
more second because I got this text, Messa, and it's
so so funny and it is uh, Mandy, I absolutely

(01:08:08):
love jump scares. I've told my grandkids that when I die,
I want them to make a sweet memorial video.

Speaker 3 (01:08:14):
But in bed a jump scare.

Speaker 5 (01:08:16):
Can you imagine being at a funeral and sitting there
and like there's a screen, maybe a video screen, and
you're like, and now, let's tell you about a nana.
She loved every one of you so very much. Look
at these gorgeous pictures.

Speaker 3 (01:08:31):
Of her as a child of her.

Speaker 6 (01:08:33):
Look, Mandy, I'm I am in favor for ninety nine
point nine point Yeah, No, that's too much.

Speaker 3 (01:08:44):
No, Nope.

Speaker 5 (01:08:46):
Apparently, by the way, a Rod's renegade mother b rod
Oh punch someone at Elitch's Haunted House. Now, was that
your dad's phone number. Throwing your mom under the bus,
or your mom throwing herself under the bus.

Speaker 3 (01:09:00):
I'm gonna look right now about halfway down stand by.

Speaker 5 (01:09:04):
Maybe not third of the way down. Six number six
on mine, so somewhere.

Speaker 4 (01:09:07):
That is.

Speaker 3 (01:09:09):
On your Okay, great, thank you? When did that happen?

Speaker 2 (01:09:12):
Just pre me.

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
You don't even need well now we need to know.
Call your mom, get her on the phone. Okay, call mom,
call me ride. Let's go. Let's do it.

Speaker 5 (01:09:23):
There's a couple of stories that I want to get
into really quickly. We're gonna talk to Jimmy Sangenberger at
two thirty about his column about the Denver Public Schools,
which turn an absolute mess. By the way, if you
go to a Denver Public Schools meeting and you're a
white person and you say anything that the board does
not like, or suggest any kind of changes to anything

(01:09:46):
that the board does not like, you will be called
a racist.

Speaker 3 (01:09:49):
It's kind of what they do.

Speaker 5 (01:09:52):
And we have a chance to make a significant impact
on that board in this next election cycle, So please
go ahead and and make that go.

Speaker 3 (01:10:01):
Mandy, how do you.

Speaker 5 (01:10:02):
Feel about Trump's video of himself and a crown flying
a plane blanking on the protesters.

Speaker 2 (01:10:07):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:10:07):
The video itself is funny. I wish someone else had
sent it out, not him. Now let's check in with
b Rod to get to the bottom of this story.
Now I understand Brod a Rod's mom, and I'm gonna
call you that for your own anonymity after telling the story.
You punch someone at Elitch's haunted house. What did you do?

Speaker 3 (01:10:25):
Did you?

Speaker 5 (01:10:26):
I don't see you doing this? What happened?

Speaker 7 (01:10:29):
My kids were with me, hamp was there.

Speaker 5 (01:10:33):
You don't remember your mom punching someone?

Speaker 3 (01:10:36):
Okay, so what happened?

Speaker 2 (01:10:37):
It was tottle to remember. Ah, it was near the
water park.

Speaker 7 (01:10:41):
They had a haunted house set up, and some guy.

Speaker 5 (01:10:45):
Jump scared me and I reacted and with a fish
to punch him in the face. And I to remember
him going.

Speaker 3 (01:10:51):
Hey, you don't do that. Did you get kicked out
or in trouble?

Speaker 8 (01:10:57):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:10:58):
And I got out.

Speaker 2 (01:10:59):
We got out of there quick.

Speaker 3 (01:11:00):
Twenty twenty five. You get kicked out?

Speaker 5 (01:11:02):
Well, And here's the thing, like, if I was with
my little kids, I may have had the same reaction, like,
don't jump scarre a mom with two kids, don't do that.

Speaker 11 (01:11:10):
Well, it was exactly when.

Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
You said it jump scare, Yeah, like somebody jump scared
you and you react, Yeah, haven't I had my fist.

Speaker 3 (01:11:19):
Do you do you go to hanted houses often?

Speaker 5 (01:11:21):
I mean, do you have to wear like those little
mits that they put on babies hands to remind you
not to punch people in the face.

Speaker 3 (01:11:28):
I guess so.

Speaker 7 (01:11:31):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:11:31):
Anthony used to chase people out of our haunted house
garage with a chainsaw.

Speaker 5 (01:11:36):
He's a psycho, he's a scacter, He's a scare acting heart.
That's what he is.

Speaker 7 (01:11:41):
His dad, his dad, His dad had removed the chain though.

Speaker 5 (01:11:45):
Well, of course we kind of remove the chain kill
somebody seriously, all right, So your whole family's like this,
And that was me, I told on myself.

Speaker 3 (01:11:53):
So wait a minute, So your whole family is like this.

Speaker 6 (01:11:56):
Uh yeah, we had a.

Speaker 5 (01:11:58):
Car garage haunted house one time with a lot of
see that's where the seeds were planting.

Speaker 3 (01:12:04):
So this is all your fault, be Rod.

Speaker 2 (01:12:06):
I can't handle it anymore.

Speaker 7 (01:12:07):
I took his younger brother to a haunted house and
he would not go in with me.

Speaker 2 (01:12:12):
He stood outside.

Speaker 7 (01:12:13):
So I made sure when I was in the haunted house,
I screamed the loudest and he could hear me screaming.

Speaker 5 (01:12:18):
And then he and then he met me at the exit.

Speaker 7 (01:12:21):
And just as we're coming out from the excess, a
guy with a chainsaw chases down the alley. So he
still got scared the crop out of it.

Speaker 5 (01:12:29):
There you go, scaring children one time.

Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
I'm not coming to Anthony's haunted houses.

Speaker 3 (01:12:34):
No, no, you're not, No way, No I'm not.

Speaker 7 (01:12:37):
I'm standing away.

Speaker 3 (01:12:39):
She raised this monster. She has nothing to doing. I
see now the monster's out of control.

Speaker 5 (01:12:43):
Basically, you're doctor Frankenstein and your monster is just ravaging
the countryside now, screaming at people. He had a wife,
than appreciate you for everything, making a rod for instance.
I appreciate that every day her fault, lave her for everything.

Speaker 3 (01:13:00):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 5 (01:13:01):
I mean, we can blame her for whatever we want.
She's off the phone, now make that happen. Mandy had
already did that one. It shocks me. Speaking of Victor
Marx a couple of comments. We were talking about the
coubernatorial candidates in the last hour and how much money's
being raised, and I mentioned that Victor Marx has joined
the race.

Speaker 3 (01:13:18):
After this last.

Speaker 5 (01:13:19):
Reporting period when the only Republican to have significant fundraising
was Barb Kirkmeyer.

Speaker 3 (01:13:23):
And a lot of people are like Victor.

Speaker 5 (01:13:25):
Marx, love him, and this textter said, Marx has zero
policy positions. It's all look at me, I'm strong and
talk about my faith. That is my concern with Victor
Marx is not that he doesn't have policy positions, because
I've heard him talk about it and he's saying, look,
we're listening to Republican voters right now. I would like
to know what your governmental ideals are. If you don't

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have policy positions, that's fine, but you better congeal around something.
But tell me, as a policy maker, what things drive
you other than your faith. I need to know your
decision making process. For me, it's easy, like if I
re charge, every decision would be does this make people
more free or less free?

Speaker 3 (01:14:05):
What does it do?

Speaker 5 (01:14:06):
And if the answer is less free, then you better
be You are going to have to convince me that
that is a policy that I want to pursue.

Speaker 3 (01:14:14):
So I don't. I'm I'm holding back. I absolutely adore
Barbara Kokmeyer.

Speaker 5 (01:14:19):
I would be thrilled if she were the candidate, but
I am not putting my weight behind any candidate soon
I want to learn about as many as I can.
You never know what could happen. The race is over
a year away, well the primary is not.

Speaker 3 (01:14:34):
But you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (01:14:36):
You know what I mean, very very quickly. A couple
of things that I want to point out. We have
a phenomenal story about Medicaid, and by phenomenal, I mean
one of those stories that if you have any at all,
any knowledge about economics, this is the least surprising story ever.

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Colorado's health agency that oversees Medicaid has to reinstate a
policy that was rescinded. In twenty twenty two.

Speaker 3 (01:15:06):
The state legislature adopted.

Speaker 5 (01:15:08):
A bill prohibiting health plans from requiring prior authorization from
psychotherapy sessions for Medicaid recipients. Now, what is a pre authorization?
A pre authorization does two things. One, it provides a
funnel from a primary care physician to a physician with
a higher level of specialism in some area of medicine.

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It could be a heart surgeon, whatever, It could be
a therapist. If your primary care physician believes that you
need to seek therapy or see a therapist, they can
make that happen. They did away with pre authorizations, and
it was designed to encourage people to get.

Speaker 3 (01:15:47):
Help for you know, mental issues.

Speaker 5 (01:15:52):
But the reality is is the pre authorization serves a
very important other thing, and that is acting as a
throttle as an access to care. Because sometimes people will
go in and say, look, my knee hurts, I need
to see an orthopedic surgeon. Well, you might not need
to see an orthopedic surgeon. You might just need you know,
seven or eight weeks of physical therapy and not an
orthopedic surgeon. You need someone to be able to say

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that's the case. Well, when we get back, I'll tell
you the entirely unsurprising result that has come from doing
away with pre authorizations. If you know anything about economics,
you won't be surprised. So in twenty twenty two, the
legislature adopted a bill prohibiting health plans for requiring prior
authorization for psychotherapy sessions for Medicaid recipients and they wanted

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to remove barriers to accessing mental health and treatment for
addiction for disabled and low income coloradins.

Speaker 3 (01:16:43):
Well, it increased the amount of.

Speaker 5 (01:16:45):
State was spending on Medicaid by nearly seventy five percent.
In an August meeting someone in charge, said, Medicaid spending
has gone up so sharply in the past half decade.
The state expanded its network from a about six thousand
providers to more than thirteen thousand, increased provider rates, and
added dental envision benefits. The state also received an eleven

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to fifteen waiver for addiction treatment in twenty twenty one,
which allows waiving certain Medicaid requirements to test new programs.
So now we have a this is the funny part.

Speaker 3 (01:17:21):
Wait, just listen to this sentence.

Speaker 5 (01:17:23):
Reflecting on the twenty twenty two Lawbates said that initially
the program expected to make things a little bit easier
by removing administrative burdens. Instead, the department found itself an
unexpected forty million dollar increase in Medicaid spending for behavioral
health and substance abuse. No way, no way. But here's

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the kicker. There are patients just hoovering up therapy twice
a week therapy. Now, the people running Medicaid say that
if someone is needing more than one therapy session per week,
it could indicate a need for a higher level of care,
a different form of treatment.

Speaker 3 (01:18:03):
You think.

Speaker 5 (01:18:05):
Another major cost driver is the state's Peer Service program,
which connects individuals struggling with substance abuse or mental health
issues to peers with similar experiences. The program has been
effective at preventing hospitalizations, but associated costs have increased by
ninety five percent each year since twenty twenty one. A

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key factor is the absence of limits on daily billable hours,
resulting in some clients billing up to eight hours of
peer services.

Speaker 3 (01:18:38):
Treatment each day.

Speaker 5 (01:18:41):
Now, in my mind, that looks like Medicaid fraud, and
this is one of those times where people talk about
Medicaid waste, fraud.

Speaker 3 (01:18:49):
And abuse.

Speaker 5 (01:18:50):
This is exactly what it looks like. So why are
we not aggressively going after that? In our medicaid spending?
The data seen a ninety eight percent increase in the
number of Medicaid patients receiving more than fifty six therapy
services a year.

Speaker 3 (01:19:08):
That's a lot, you guys, That is a lot. Not
to mention, they are.

Speaker 5 (01:19:12):
Taking up space where other people who might.

Speaker 3 (01:19:14):
Need help could be.

Speaker 5 (01:19:17):
To combat the excessive spending, over the summer, limits were
placed on which providers can administer peer services. The agency
is also collaborated with regional entities responsible for administering Medicaid
services at the regional level to educate and train providers
on Medicaid requirements.

Speaker 3 (01:19:34):
Seeing the need to cut more spending.

Speaker 5 (01:19:37):
The agency implemented a number of changes last month, including
prior authorization requirements.

Speaker 3 (01:19:42):
Now, I want to ask you two questions.

Speaker 5 (01:19:44):
Number one, is it unreasonable to ask someone in Medicaid
to go through the exact same process that I have
to go through with my insurer if I need to
see a therapist, which is getting a pre authorization?

Speaker 3 (01:19:59):
Is that a reasonable No, it's not.

Speaker 5 (01:20:02):
And thing number two, why isn't the local news media
reporting that Democrats cut Medicaid because Jared Polis just did
took a huge swipe out of Medicaid.

Speaker 3 (01:20:15):
Where are those where?

Speaker 5 (01:20:17):
Well, they just want Medicaid patients to die without mental
health treatment.

Speaker 3 (01:20:21):
Where are those stories?

Speaker 5 (01:20:23):
Just curious because every time there are any cuts to
Medicaid that can be blamed on Republicans, well that is
the end of the world, and they are responsible, they've
got blood on their hands. But when Democrats have to
oversee cuts to Medicaid, well it was just the fiscally responsible.

Speaker 3 (01:20:39):
Thing to do. Weird, huh, of course it's not weird.

Speaker 5 (01:20:43):
When we get back Jimmy Sengenbergo wrote a great column
in the Denver Is that yesterday about the Denver Public
School board race. This race matters so much, so so,
so much, so much. Please pay attention. We'll talk about
that next. It's the Jimmy Singenberger bet signal.

Speaker 3 (01:21:13):
It's the harmonica.

Speaker 5 (01:21:14):
I just play that and all of a sudden, Jimmy appears.
It's like magic. So I was waiting for Jimmy to
say that, Hi, Jimmy, welcome back.

Speaker 9 (01:21:28):
Oh you were well. Hello, long time, no c or
no air on KOA.

Speaker 3 (01:21:34):
Yeah, busy, busy.

Speaker 5 (01:21:35):
I got lots of compliments on your filling gig last.

Speaker 3 (01:21:37):
Week, so that was very very good.

Speaker 9 (01:21:39):
Somebody liked it.

Speaker 5 (01:21:40):
Oh stop stop it now. I called you today not
because I want to talk about your filling ability. It's
because they're excellent. I want to talk about this column
that you've written for the Denver Gazette on Denver Public schools.
And it's interesting because I don't know if you saw
the article also in the Denver Gazette about how well
everybody's racist when you come to the Denver Public schools

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if you are white and you say anything that they
don't want to hear or don't want to do.

Speaker 3 (01:22:09):
It's racism that's at.

Speaker 5 (01:22:11):
The heart of this. So let's talk for a second
about your column, But it really just goes to show
how bad the board is in the grand scheme of things.
This school board race is very important, and you kind
of lay out some of the reasons why in your column.

Speaker 11 (01:22:26):
We have in Denver Public Schools a superintendent who has
spent years failing upward. And I say failing upward because
earlier this year the school board voted five to two
to give them a swanky new contract extension with more
job protections before even doing his annual review. In fact,

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they just put new metrics in place in January. A
few months later they said, we don't need to worry
about those until this fall.

Speaker 9 (01:22:56):
Let's give them a contract extension. Anyway. Meanwhile, they have
a district attorney.

Speaker 11 (01:23:02):
And I don't mean the DA, I mean the attorney
for the school district, who has promoted and made it
possible for the district to consistently go behind closed doors
and flout laws that are all about shining light on
what happens.

Speaker 9 (01:23:17):
Open meetings laws.

Speaker 11 (01:23:18):
You have to be open to the public for meetings
accepted in express circumstances and following proper things.

Speaker 9 (01:23:25):
Well, those people of.

Speaker 11 (01:23:28):
Alex Morero and Aaron Thompson, the superintendent and attorney, respectively.

Speaker 9 (01:23:34):
Are just one small example of how bad this district is.

Speaker 11 (01:23:38):
Because the school board is what enables all the failures,
from school safety failures to educational quality. The outcomes is
are just terrible. And the list goes on for problems
in the district that are.

Speaker 9 (01:23:52):
Out of the feet of the school board. And four
of the seven seats are up for grabs in this election.

Speaker 5 (01:24:00):
I keep telling people, no matter where they are, pay
attention to the school board races. Pay attention to the
school board races. Jimmy, you like I. I mean, at
this point, following Denver Public Schools is almost like a sport.

Speaker 3 (01:24:12):
Right following what the board does. It's like, what fresh
hell can they unferral this week?

Speaker 5 (01:24:17):
I'm old enough to remember when Tay Anderson called Sochi
Gutana racist. So you know, going back to this article
the dysfunction of this board, and to your point about
going back and changing the parameters of Alex Morero's contract
for the sole purpose of tying the hands of the
next board before they even had a chance to get elected.

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It's just indicative of how little they care about student
achievement and how focused, like a laser they are with
racial metrics about the makeup of the board or the
makeup of the superintendent ethnically, rather than can kids read
and write? And if they can't, what are we doing
to make sure they can?

Speaker 11 (01:25:00):
It's important to note, since you mentioned our good buddy
Tay Anderson, that he's running the campaigns of two of
the candidates, Scott Esserman and Michelle Quadlebaum, who both hired
him in twenty twenty one when the investigation report into
allegations of sexual misconduct hadn't even come out. When it
did come out, he was still working for their campaign,

(01:25:23):
and they still voted him to be vice president, even
after it was determined that, among other things, he had
aggressively attempted to date pursued relationships with multiple underage schoolgirls,
among other things.

Speaker 9 (01:25:39):
And this is a guy who has no business involved
in the school board in any way, shape or form.

Speaker 11 (01:25:45):
But both Esserman and Quadlebaum, who were tight knit as
they could come when Tay was on the board, have
hired him to effectively be their campaign manager, and most
of the money for both of their campaigns that they
have spent so far has gone towards Kay Anderson's company
business called Good Trouble Consulting, and good Trouble is a

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term that the late Congressman John Lewis was known for
saying and using, especially in the Civil rights movement. And look,
I'm not a big John Lewis fan, but he's got
to be rolling over in his grave. Yeah, Kay Anderson
and his antics in the name of Good Trouble Consulting.
And by the way, neither Essermond nor Quadlebaum has the

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backing of the Teachers' Union because they're so bad not
even the union could support them.

Speaker 9 (01:26:35):
This time.

Speaker 5 (01:26:35):
There are union back candidates, and I am reflexively asking
people to vote for anyone, Like if there is a
dead body running against a union candidate, go ahead and
give Weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:26:46):
At Burners your vote.

Speaker 5 (01:26:47):
Okay, We've already proven that dead people can run big organizations.
We saw that in the White House for four years. Anyway,
in this race, like alec Maniana to Mia Jackson, Karen Black,
Marianna del Hiero, they are the four most reasonable candidates
that I can find.

Speaker 3 (01:27:06):
So that is who I am.

Speaker 5 (01:27:07):
I'm not endorsing any of them. This is who I
would vote for if I were in Denver, but I'm
not endorsing any of them because whoever I endorses loses, so.

Speaker 3 (01:27:14):
I'm not doing that.

Speaker 5 (01:27:17):
Is there a real possibility? Are you getting a sense
that people are fed up enough? After the last few
years of these garbage safety policies, We still don't have
a good safety plan for Denver public schools. The discipline
matrix is absurd, and I know that you probably know
more about the discipline matrix outside of the school district
than most So if you could, if I asked you

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in ninety seconds, Jimmy, can you encapsulate the district's discipline
policy when it comes to placing dangerously or students that
are potentially dangerous, who are facing crimes, including attempted murder
and murder back into the schools? What would that discipline
matrix look like?

Speaker 11 (01:28:00):
It will just quote the single word of one teacher
to me many months ago, when the so called revised
discipline of matrix was put in place, anemic.

Speaker 9 (01:28:13):
I definitely think that word captures it.

Speaker 11 (01:28:16):
I mean still to this day, you can have a
principle go to the district and say, hey, we have
a violent student who's been charged with this crime or
convicted of this crime. Can we find an alternative pathway
for them to make sure they still get their education
but they're not in the classroom with other students, and
the district we'll just say no, sorry, we're not going
to do that.

Speaker 9 (01:28:36):
And that ties in to the disciplined matrix.

Speaker 11 (01:28:38):
But I want to go to something you were saying
in terms of the union candidates and what potential there
could be for a change here, and I think we
could we could look at the union's contribution that is
the donation data from the Teachers' Union this cycle. So
four years ago when Scott Esserman, Michelle Quadebaum and Geyton,

(01:29:00):
who still has the union's endorsement, were elected and now
president Carrie Olsen was re elected, the teachers Union from
the state and the locals spent two hundred and forty
two thousand dollars on Denver public schools in direct and
non monetary contributions.

Speaker 9 (01:29:22):
That's astonishing.

Speaker 11 (01:29:23):
But this year, Mandy, so far on their four candidates,
they have only spent forty eight thousand dollars, which is
about a fifth of what they spent four years ago,
which to me suggests maybe they think it's possible they
might be throwing good money after bad and that a

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change is gonna come.

Speaker 9 (01:29:44):
I don't know who knows. This is Denver after all,
but we could see something positive here. And one final
thing I'll add, you can.

Speaker 11 (01:29:54):
Look at the union website for their endorse for candidates
not to vote for. Make sure you remember that Scott
Westerman and Michelle Quadobaum are also union candidates.

Speaker 3 (01:30:04):
They were just.

Speaker 11 (01:30:07):
Endorsed and backed and financed by the union the first time.
Between the two of them, they got about one hundred
and twenty thousand dollars from the union. So just because
they don't have union support anymore this time, at least officially,
doesn't mean they aren't union candidates.

Speaker 9 (01:30:21):
There are six of them in this race.

Speaker 3 (01:30:23):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:30:23):
So here's the thing about teachers unions against me, Jimmy,
Because in my mind, the discipline matrix could be one
of those areas where the teachers Union could take a
firm stand and say, look, we want to not only
protect students.

Speaker 3 (01:30:36):
We want to protect teachers.

Speaker 5 (01:30:38):
These are the people that we are supposed to represent,
and we want a discipline matrix. That a makes sense,
that discipline matrix is a mess. If you can figure
out easily what the proper response is for some of
this stuff, it's it's amazing how idiotic the entire thing is.

Speaker 3 (01:30:55):
But the teachers' unions don't do that.

Speaker 5 (01:30:58):
They don't do that because they don't necessarily care about
the discipline matrix. They just care about staying in favor
with the superintendent, whoever that is. And now they've got
Alex Morrero, who is beyond incompetent in my view and
way in over his head. And you can look at
the district's results on academics and know exactly what I'm
talking about. But why doesn't the union say, yeah, we
want security for our teachers and our students. At least

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find one area of commonality with parents on this right.

Speaker 3 (01:31:24):
But they don't do that.

Speaker 9 (01:31:27):
I think twofold reasons. One is ideological.

Speaker 11 (01:31:30):
They believe that it would exacerbate the so called school
to prison pipeline and probably would prefer the union bosses,
that is, which don't necessarily and tend not to actually
follow along with what rank and file teachers would want,
but they believe it. So there's an ideological black they
probably would prefer to not have school resource officers back

(01:31:53):
in schools, like was voted in a couple of years ago,
after two years before Tay Anderson led the charge to
get rid of them.

Speaker 9 (01:32:00):
I think the second reason isn't so much.

Speaker 11 (01:32:02):
About being in league with the superintendent as getting the
superintendent to be in league with him or with them rather,
and that means picking and choosing when you want to
criticize the superintendent. The only time was earlier this year
they had issues with their contract negotiations, and that's when
the teachers' union suddenly decided to speak out against the superintendent.

Speaker 9 (01:32:27):
Otherwise you don't hear a thing.

Speaker 11 (01:32:30):
They are zipped and unwilling to say a peep, and
I think that's because they want the status quo because
it serves the interests of the union bosses, even to
the detriment of teachers and students alike.

Speaker 5 (01:32:43):
Red Jimmy's column on the Denver Gazette, I linked to
it on the blog today along with the four names Manyana, Jackson, Blank,
and Delhierro. Those are the four candidates I would vote
for if I was in Denver. None of them are
perfect in my estimation, but some of them are quite good. Jimmy,
good to see you again, my friend. Thanks for doing
such a great.

Speaker 3 (01:33:02):
Job last week.

Speaker 9 (01:33:04):
Always thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:33:05):
All right, that is Jimmy Sangenberger again. Reada's column at
the Denver Gazette. Whoa, hey, please, I'm so vaid. That
is swanky. I mean, that is swanky joining me in
the studio right now. How long was Broncos react last night?

Speaker 2 (01:33:22):
Nine hours?

Speaker 3 (01:33:23):
It was?

Speaker 8 (01:33:23):
It was only three well three, I guess four. But
we could have gone, could have gone till midnight. You
would have been very easy. We had calls, we had texts.
It was It's pretty wild. It's pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (01:33:37):
I gotta tell you.

Speaker 5 (01:33:38):
First of all, I shared this at the beginning of
my show, but a lot of Broncos fans took one
for the team yesterday in various ways. We talked about
the superstitious things that people did. So here's my contribution. Okay, okay, Ryan,
third quarter? That what I'm just going to call the
Keystone Cops series with the Broncos offense.

Speaker 3 (01:33:58):
Just it was like I was playing. It was horrible.

Speaker 5 (01:34:02):
Well, I did my thing. I stood up, slapped my
legs and went, well, I'll leave this for you. And
I walked out of the room with purpose, and then
I walked back in to see them kick the field
with the.

Speaker 3 (01:34:13):
Game winning field goal. Yeah. See, I just took one
for the team. I'm here for the team.

Speaker 8 (01:34:17):
We had a lot of texts on that exact thing
last night. It's like they did I left the game early, yeah,
so we could win one.

Speaker 3 (01:34:23):
I rage washed his truck in the third quarter.

Speaker 5 (01:34:26):
So now in the third quarter of every Broncos game,
he's going to go rage wash his truck because obviously
these things worked right where they were all. It's only
stupid if it doesn't work. Okay, so we all know
what we had to do, and a bunch of us
were like, you know what, well, I'm going to leave
this for someone else. And that was that was my
contribution of crazy crazy game.

Speaker 3 (01:34:46):
Though.

Speaker 8 (01:34:46):
Yeah, I still and I rewatched this today and I
just I can't really put my finger on exactly how
it went down, though there felt like there was something
of inevitability in it once they got it within ten Yeah,
because that was the moment you're like, all right, it's
twenty six sixteen, and it's there's like five minutes and change.

Speaker 3 (01:35:08):
There's there's time there's a lot of time.

Speaker 5 (01:35:10):
See, I was rehanging pictures on my walls and stuff
because we had our hardwood floors redone, so we had
taken so I was putting everything back in a ray.
And when that disarray and when that was happening, yeah, yeah,
because I was doing my thing for the team, of course.

Speaker 3 (01:35:24):
No, No, I'm very grateful for that. All a Broncos country,
I think, well, and so many of us did it.
It was not just one, not just one or two.
It was it was really incredible. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:35:34):
I mean, we're all here for the Broncos, so we
do whatever it takes to make that happen.

Speaker 7 (01:35:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:35:40):
And the interesting sort of discussion that's happened on social
media today is this more of a Giant's collapse or
Broncos win?

Speaker 3 (01:35:47):
I think yes and yes, and I mean you did.

Speaker 5 (01:35:50):
I kind of felt at the end of the game
like that was almost like a welcome to the NFL,
Jackson Dart.

Speaker 3 (01:35:56):
This is how it goes.

Speaker 5 (01:35:57):
I mean, this is sometimes you're the windshields, sometimes to
the bug, and sometimes it's in the same game.

Speaker 3 (01:36:02):
That's what this game is about.

Speaker 5 (01:36:04):
But that being said, the big question for me is
why can't we turn on that offense until the fourth
quarter when we're down nineteen points.

Speaker 3 (01:36:11):
I mean, it's a great point.

Speaker 8 (01:36:12):
It's obviously the points that everybody was talking about in
social media yesterday while I was just sitting there just
watching Broncos fans laments life and melt down and want
to fire everybody, and you know, make all sorts of
broad declarations about Bonix not being this, Sir Sean Payton
not being that.

Speaker 3 (01:36:30):
And I will tell you I did not like to.

Speaker 5 (01:36:32):
Play calling in the first half of the game. I
just thought it was it was very timid, and it
was I was it was careful, that's the word. It
was almost like too careful. And I I feel like
in that fourth quarter. I did go back and watch
the fourth quarter. I feel like in the fourth quarter
when it was like all bets are off, We've got

(01:36:53):
to make this happen, there was a lot more freewheeling
going on there, and maybe a little more of that
needs to go into the first half instead of such cautious.

Speaker 3 (01:37:02):
We got some calls on Tebow last night which was hilarious.

Speaker 9 (01:37:05):
He was talking about.

Speaker 6 (01:37:08):
It is the weird, the quirkiness. It just feels special
and weird.

Speaker 5 (01:37:13):
Let's take special and weird over losing too many games.

Speaker 3 (01:37:16):
Ter kick the game.

Speaker 6 (01:37:16):
We feel the last night as far as I'm concerned,
So we just need to go to overtime. Have the
first place be a touchdown for DC. That missing t BO.

Speaker 5 (01:37:23):
Anyway, Now it's time for the most exciting segment on
the radio of its guy the world love that day?

Speaker 9 (01:37:33):
All right?

Speaker 3 (01:37:33):
What is our dad joke of the day? Please a
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What do we got at the airports?

Speaker 6 (01:37:40):
My friends suggested we disguise ourselves as luggage.

Speaker 3 (01:37:44):
I said, let's not get carried away. That's a good one. Dang,
I wish i'd have that.

Speaker 5 (01:37:49):
I just was in the airport. I could have made
my family grown while waiting. Yeah good anyway, Mandy, what Mandy?
I'm just saying my own name. What female rapper released
the twenty twenty album Good News, featuring songs like girls
in the Hood and Don't Stop. I have no idea

(01:38:09):
that would be Megan the Stallion.

Speaker 3 (01:38:11):
Oh Yeah, good News was her debut studio album. Is
an adjective.

Speaker 5 (01:38:17):
We're also white, veritable, veritablem golly, I know how to
use the word, do I know how to Veritable means verifiable?

Speaker 6 (01:38:29):
No, it means like I mean, like being in fact
the thing named and not false, unreal or imaginary.

Speaker 3 (01:38:37):
Okay, so being verifiable?

Speaker 5 (01:38:39):
Yeah, there you go. Okay, Yeah, I'm a little embarrassed
for us that we knew how to do.

Speaker 3 (01:38:45):
I heard yeah, but okay, I was like, I it's there.
That's what I know. Yep, that's all we know. Jeopardy
category is Farmville. Okay, arm bill. I've never played this
game before in my life. Luckily it's not about the game.

Speaker 5 (01:39:00):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:39:00):
Good on a farm? Who needs an alarm clock? When
you have this bird? What's a rooster? Correct?

Speaker 6 (01:39:06):
It's a four letter wired cage or enclosure for chickens,
though they may wish.

Speaker 3 (01:39:12):
To fly it and got free?

Speaker 6 (01:39:14):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:39:14):
What is a coop?

Speaker 2 (01:39:15):
You?

Speaker 9 (01:39:16):
Ryan? Hey?

Speaker 6 (01:39:17):
Usually the hey you use on a farm is tightly
compressed in this four letter Mandy, got it?

Speaker 3 (01:39:23):
What's the veil? Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:39:25):
Correct?

Speaker 6 (01:39:25):
The moon though it's the time when ripened crops are
gathered for the harvest.

Speaker 3 (01:39:32):
Harvest, that is correct.

Speaker 6 (01:39:34):
Important breeds of this on a farm include the brown,
Swiss and Holstein cows.

Speaker 3 (01:39:41):
That is correct.

Speaker 2 (01:39:41):
I not, there you go?

Speaker 3 (01:39:47):
We need longer so Ryan can make a monumental comeback.

Speaker 5 (01:39:50):
There we're doing no no comebacks for Ryan Edwards.

Speaker 8 (01:39:55):
But what is coming up on We're gonna obviously have
a lot of fun on a victory Monday.

Speaker 7 (01:40:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:40:01):
Now, there were some good games this weekend.

Speaker 5 (01:40:04):
There were also some massive blowouts, which were also good
games because Las Vegas was at the end of one
of them.

Speaker 3 (01:40:10):
That's right, you know.

Speaker 8 (01:40:11):
I mean, even though it's still in the Acus, right,
the Chiefs winning isn't like whatever, but it's like, yeah,
the Raiders' misery is always valuable. Yeah, so we'll talk
a little about the games. We had Nick Ferguson moving
in raping Ward at three thirty so to watch some fun.

Speaker 5 (01:40:23):
That is all coming up on KAA Sports now tomorrow
we do not have weather Wednesday, Dave Fraser off for
the day, and we do have Paul Payson, former chief
of Police, coming on from the Common Sense Institute. They've
done a study and I know you guys are going
to be shocked when you hear it, but apparently letting
criminals out of jail seems to correlate with higher crime rates.

Speaker 2 (01:40:47):
I know what.

Speaker 5 (01:40:50):
And don't forget the Mandy Connell Adventure is up and
for sale, and I'm telling you guys, this trip is
going to sell out. Go to Mandyconnell trip dot com,
Mandyconnell trip dot com. Do it today, call cruise into
our savior spot.

Speaker 3 (01:41:02):
Can't wait.

Speaker 5 (01:41:03):
It's go in next October. My old family, my mom,
my daughter, the last trip that the Key was going
on with us. I'm just saying that's not a selling point.

Speaker 3 (01:41:11):
I don't know what is. Stick around, can't wait. Sports
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