10-21-25 FULL SHOW - Colorado Let Criminals Out Of Jail, Crime Went Up

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock,
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
No, it's Mandy Connell and ninetem got the nice three
Connell Keith sadding Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Tuesday edition

(00:29):
of the show. Anthony Rodriguez. Should we barrel today? Let's barrel?
It's a ten barreling? We maril on Tuesday. We're barely
we're rolling like we're in a barrel down a hill.
Were literally means barreling. Barreling used to be a sport.
I'm not kidding.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
I don't know if there was competitive barreling leagues, but
literally getting in a barrel and rolling down a hill
was considered a way to spend some fun time when
you were a.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Kid rolling land exactly.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
And then I guess enough people got killed. Like jarts,
they banned it. Charts, Oh, you don't know what charts are.
This is one of those generational gaps. So back in
the nineteen seventies, when we had really dangerous toys like chemistry.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Sets with real chemicals. I played with these. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, they're stabby things that you threw and you tried
to throw them into a circle. That was lying on
the grass lawn darts jarts?

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Why not LARTs? I don't know. I didn't make the company.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
But in a very very very very freakish and unfortunate incident,
someone threw a jart, tried to throw it over a house.
There was a small child on the other side of
the house.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
She was killed. They're called arts because of javelin.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Oh, javelin darts. Well, that does make sense. That's actually
a good marketing thing there. And the family of the
little girl that was killed made it their mission to
get charts banned, and they did. And I, you know,
I can't say that I would not feel the same
if it was my daughter that was by a renegade chart.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
But here we are.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Anyway, let's do this. Let's find the blog because I
just realized I misspelled Colorado. It's just Colorado from now
on a rod Colorado. That's where we're gonna say it.
Go to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look
for the headline that says ten twenty one twenty five
blog Colorado Let Criminals out of Jail. Crime went up.

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Click on that and here are the headlines you will
find within a youth in office.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Half American, all with ships and clipments and seen that's
going to press plat.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Today on the blog go on vacation with me. Colorado
let too many criminals out of jail. It's not just Colorado.
Crime really is up. Has the Denver Post stop paying
its rent? Colorado politicians are still making rent more expensive.
Connect for health as management issues can weed users own guns?

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Nanny Bloomberg gives big to Bennett. Amazon is looking to
replace humans with robots. Why doesn't Polus get crapped for
Medicaid cuts?

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Be like Colorado? Or don't did the Broncos threaten to
kick out a guy in a Maga hat?

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Scrolling Drake Greenlaw gets one game suspension rush is coming
to Denver. Colorado's college degrees are not worth the money.
Why you should vote no on Prop LL and Prop MM. Yes,
we're getting table refunds this year. D fifty one schools
re elect your school board. Please, Cherry Creek Schools, please
inject some sanity back into that board. Jeff Goo's school voters,

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It's an easy choice. Scott Jennings says it best. I'm
ready for Christmas music. Give babies peanut butter best wishes
to Joe Biden. New name for social climbing men. Your
walk shows how you fight. Biggest takeaways for bo from
the game This pastor can go pound sand Kenny Loggins
isn't happy with Trump's video which.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
One is ai?

Speaker 3 (03:57):
And but do they hand dry at the Haunted guard?
And don't try with a cheap suitcase. Those are the
headlines on the blog Himandy's blog dot com pick tech
two stop it Nancy, So now she's adding sound effects
to her disapproval.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yep, I'm over your.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Lighthead and trying to get all those in. It was
a big blog today. Got a lot of stuff going
on on this blog today, a whole bunch of stuff. Ay, ride,
you're gonna have to do a field trick to the
Haunted car wash.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
You're gonna check it out. Yeah, I found out how
much it is you're paying for it? How much is it?
Forty nine dollars a car?

Speaker 4 (04:32):
What? Uh?

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Huh?

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Now?

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Okay, I will pay the forty nine dollars as long
as you promise how many people can your car hold?

Speaker 4 (04:39):
For?

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Four people and maybe a child? No, I need a child?

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Dang it?

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Why like fill your car? If you promise to take
four people. I will pay for your car wash.

Speaker 5 (04:51):
I can confirm I can probably get at least me
and two others for sure, and I'll do it this Friday.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Okay, I need to look at their availability. Let me,
let me, let me check this. I mean double that
seems absurd. Let's see.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Let's let's call them up on the show and have
and ask them if it's really forty nine dollars. And
here's the more important question. Do they hand dry at
the haunted car wash the Tunnel of jerror? Does the
mummy come out and just spin all over your car
and make sure it's nice and buffed out?

Speaker 5 (05:21):
Well, this isn't I wonder if this is the right one.
This one says Lewisville. I'm the one that's in a
roar because the one in Lewisville says it's only.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
This video that you sent me on the blog today
is from Lakewood. I thought, no hashtag Lakewood, straight out Lakewood. Okay,
there's another video on the blog that you need to
go watch today. I can't tell you, guys, I'm not
feeling great. All of a sudden, I was driving to
work and I'm like, I don't chuck sick.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Q said she was feeling it got bad news. What
wrong place, Lake, Colorado, California.

Speaker 4 (05:55):
There is one.

Speaker 5 (05:55):
There is one locally here though, and guess what what
it's uh Tunnel of terror yep. I this says twenty
twenty four, So I wonder if it's still going. But
if it is, it says only twenty dollars car.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
We'll find out. I gotta look.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
No, seriously, we're gonna get them on the show. There's
a video on the blog today that normally I wouldn't say, Yeah,
you guys must go watch this, but everyone must go
watch this video.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
And here's what it is.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
It is a comparison of two videos in the same screen. Right,
You've got one video on the top, one video on
the bottom. One of the videos is AI.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
One of them is not.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
Now you might feel pretty good about your ability is
to discern AI from real as I was before I
watch this video.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
It is.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
It's downright terrifying. And I'm not one to.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
Use that word like I'm not I'm not one of
those people. I'm just so terrified.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
That's not me.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
But holy crap, this AI video stuff has come along
so quickly. I wouldn't be surprised it's in the next
election cycle. We don't have some significant election situation because
someone releases an AI video and people cannot tell that
it is AI. I would not be surprised if that

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happened that that quickly found one.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
The one is at Gleam car wash in Aurora, twenty
dollars a car.

Speaker 5 (07:23):
Oh that's only three days. Only three days, the twenty fourth,
twenty fifth, and thirtieth, so this weekend.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Ooh hey, I also have did you see also on
the blog? Let's just start with this because I just
got a text message about it. Did you see the
video on the blog that appears to show two security
members at Mile High talking to a guy and basically
telling him he had to take off his maga hat.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
I gotta see this, did you?

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Go look? Because I used to do scarity a the
Broncos Games. Let's take a little whi.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yah, And I am sending you information for his sign
that I want you to call and find out because.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
I got to tell you.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
It's like I want to give the benefit of the doubt.
And this is just a tiny, tiny little video, right,
so you don't know what happened before, so it's hard
to say with certainty that what we're seeing.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Looks like what we're seeing.

Speaker 5 (08:18):
It very well could be that this guy is getting
kicked out for other reasons, maybe just being a jerk.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
Well, we now have a name that I just text you,
ay Rod, that is the guy's dad. So give him
a call. I just text you the information. Give a call,
see if we'll come on the show. I'd like to
know because I finally, you know, I hope you were
all doing the same thing.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
You guys. If you see something like this that.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
Appears to give an impression one way or the other
and then somebody posts it out with oh.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
My god, can you believe what the Broncos did?

Speaker 3 (08:50):
You need to find out what the rest of the
video is. And don't get me wrong, I mean it
could be exactly what this looks like, but find out
that the accurate truth in this before anything else. So,
like I said, I don't know what happened before or after,
but it you know, we will see. We're gonna reach
out to this guy's dad and see if we can.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
Get him on the show. It's gonna be this kind
of show today. Guys.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
I'm just saying, if you go to the bathroom and
you walk away from the radio and then you come
back and we're talking about some other bar andbuster story.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
I can't help you.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
I mean, you're gonna go back and listen to the podcast.
But yeah, there's a lot of stuff on the blog today,
and a lot of stories that are kind of really
consequential at big time consequential.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
And then some are just kind of gossipy.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
At one o'clock, we've got former police chief Paul Payson
on the show. He's with Common Sense Institute. Now they
just did a study and in the study, oh shoot,
I forgot to link to the study. It was embargoed
until eleven. I'll go back and add that on the break. Actually,
Paul's on at twelve thirty. They just did a study
that looked at a couple of things. One recidivism are

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well a few things, arrest rates, and then violent crime rates.
And I know you guys are going to be floored
when you hear that when you put fewer criminals in jail,
more crime happens. And I realized that this is I know,
it's tough to even wrap your head around.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
That because it's so who knew, right, who knew? Anyway?

Speaker 3 (10:23):
We've got Paul Payson coming up in half an hour
to talk about it, and some of the some of
the most stunning parts of this are are just how
obvious it seems.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
That's the thing.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
I read the study before I left for work, and
it's like, of course, these are what the statistics look like.
And the real irony is is that all of the
criminal justice reform laws that have created this situation where
we are letting violent criminals out of jail with either
very low bail or no bail, and violent criminals who
should stay in jail, we're not even rearresting them. We're

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just letting them go about their business as they commit
more crimes.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
And they passed all these.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
Criminal justice reform bills because they wanted to save money
on incarceration. And what this study shows, and we'll get
into it with former Chief Paul Payson at twelve thirty,
what this shows clearly is that it is actually costing
way more money to do it this way, and people
are getting harmed and hurt in the process. So we'll
talk to them at twelve thirty. That's part of what's

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on the blog today. I also have a story that
we're going to get into at one. There's a story
from CBS Denver about the building that the city of
Denver bought in twenty nineteen.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
It was the building that was.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
Owned by the Denver Post, and the Denver Post had
already moved a bunch of people out of the building,
although they still wanted a lease offices there, and that
was the justification used when the city paid I would
say overpaid based on today's market Nos.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
Twenty twenty four.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
Based on the market, they way overpaid for this building
at eighty nine million dollars. But through a city spokesman,
the newspaper and its parrot company moved out years ago
and had been subleasing the space largely to the city,
which has one hundred and forty five thousand square feet
across five floors.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
The post leaset will remain in place. As the building sells.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
The Post will pay about seven point eight million in
rent the first year.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
That was supposed to cover the cost of the building.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
And yet now, according to CBS four, the let's e
DP Media Network LLC stopped making its monthly rent payments
in August. Now I looked through this CBS four story
because usually they do really, really great work I think

(12:53):
Ryan Moss does excellent work, but it never connects dp
ME Network's LLC to the Denver Post. They refer to
the City of Denver buying the Denver Post building, but
they keep referring to DP Media Network or Network Media
and not making the connection.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
So I'm not sure that it's the same thing.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
But I did some basic I mean checking, and the
amount that they are in arrears these six hundred and
fifty thousand dollars a month, is exactly the same amount
that the Post was supposed to pay in rent the
first year to the City of Denver, So I guess
I'm looking for clarification here, But it certainly seems like

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the Denver Post is stop paying their rent, and you'd
think that would be kind of a big story.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
So maybe I'm wrong. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
I don't know why the Denver Posts would have stopped
paying their rent or that. I mean, that could signal
something significant. I don't know, But boy, this is another
example of why the city doesn't need to be in
the real estate business, because you know who has to
pay the cost on the building now the taxpayers, and
when the City of Denver finishes, it's you know, purchase

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of the Pavilions, and y'all don't take anything I'm about
to say is any kind of dislike.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
Or hate for the Pavilions themselves.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
I'd love to see them brought back to life and
be a vibrant place where people wanted to go and
hang out again. But I'd like to see it done
by a private company with a profit motive, because governments
do lousy jobs managing a vast majority of things that
they're in charge of already. I mean, is there any
government agency that you're like, you know what I want

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then in charge of planning my life?

Speaker 2 (14:41):
Any of them? The DMV. No offense to the DMV.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
I have had nothing but good experiences in Douglas County
at the DMV. I'm just saying you have a reputation.
So it's just it's amazing. This would seem to me
that's a pretty big story. And yet it's like, oh,
DP Media Networks or whatever. It's what, maybe I'm missing something.
You can if you have any more information, you can

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text me on the Common Spirit Health text line at
five six to six nine. Now this text already did
God bless you, Mandy. Nobody cares about the Denver Post, guys,
I actually do.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
And here's why.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
Sure, the Denver Post is mostly a left wing rag, Okay,
I get it, one hundred percent. I understand it, but
without any semblance of media because occasionally some journalists, that
even a left wing rag, will break out some journalism
and do something good. I would love to see a
more vibrant Denver Post. I would love to see newspapers

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somehow be able to adapt and overcome to the new
marketplace in such a way that allows them to thrive.
I think that's an incredibly important part of holding people accountable.
You know, I just wish there wasn't this in sort
of intractable that those of us on the right who
like to point out media bias are just making it up.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
I don't know if you guys saw the story.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
I've been following what's going on at CBS News under
new editor in chief Barry Weiss, very very closely, and
my favorite story to date is that in a meeting
with the editorial staff at sixty minutes, Barry Weiss asked
the question why do you think people think you are left?
Why you have left wing bias? And it apparently was

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like the dull stare of the dairy cow, just a
lot of big blinking eyeballs, And that to me shows
that they've done absolutely no introspection, that they've.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
Done, no navel gazing at all. No, hey, maybe they
might have a point, you know. So I'd love it
if that was actually happening.

Speaker 3 (16:51):
If maybe somebody at the Denver Post was like, Hey,
why do people think we have a left wing bias?
Ask the journalists there. Hell, if I was at the
Denver Post today, I would be asking people that question
just to see what people said.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
You know, I am not a journalist.

Speaker 3 (17:07):
I don't even play one on the radio. I am
a pundit. I am a talk show host. I am
paid to give my opinion. But that is not what
newspapers are supposed to do outside of the editorial page.
It is not what television stations are supposed to do
outside of their you know, news, outside of their news windows.

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So anyway, Mandy, I know it's hard to believe, but
I've had nothing but great experiences that the Adams County
DMV feels weird to say. Like I said, Douglas County DMV,
I got nothing but love for them, great experiences every
single time this text said I want to bring back
the Rocky Mountain News. Well, then subscribe to the Denver Gazette.
They're not the Rocky mount News. There will never be

(17:51):
another Rocky Mountain News. And by the way, I think
it's very very soon that we will never see another
newspaper and print again.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
And I'm just going to say it's about time that
ship has sailed.

Speaker 3 (18:01):
It is over so adapt in Overcomdenver Gazette dot com
better than anything else man going on right now when
we get back. Chief Paul Paisen with Common Sense Institute
joins me. Next, this text message about when I was
talking about just a moment ago about the Denver Post,
and it says DP Media LLC is the same entity

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as the Denver Post. The Post built that building in
two thousand and six. As the industry changed, the Post
sold the building but signed a very long lease back.
As the economics continued to go bad for newspapers, all
operations were eventually moved to the printing plant at fifty
eighth in Washington. The new building on West Colfax is
one hundred percent subleased most of it to the city
of Denver. I retired fifteen months ago, so I'm out

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of the loop. The post is owned by a very
large hedge fund called Alden Global. I can't even imagine
the direction of the post is being given by corporate ownership.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
Now we have on the other end of the line,
and just a moment after he's connected properly, we have
former police chief Paul Paysan, who is now with the
Common Sense Institute. Good to see it, paulp.

Speaker 4 (19:07):
Mandy, It's so good to see to you. You know.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
I got to tell you sometimes you do studies that
surprise me. Right, I see things the Common Sense does
and I think, wow, that is shocking. This is the
least shocking study I have read in my life. And
I want you to kind of give the thumbnail sketch
because my only beef is a little bit. The way
the study is laid out, the way you wrote it,
you kind of buried the lead. Right, You're like, oh, look,

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recidivism is down. So a person reading that could think,
oh my gosh, rehabilitation in prison is really working. But
the reality is we're just not arresting people. That's how
we're keeping recidivism down.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
What did this study?

Speaker 3 (19:44):
First of all, what did it study? And what did
you guys find.

Speaker 4 (19:49):
Well, Mandy, thanks again for having me. I love that
you laid it out perfectly there. There's common sense associated
with this and Sense Institute. It is not as shocker
that as individuals that commit crimes in our community are

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pushed out of prison, then all of a sudden crime
goes up. Really, figure number eight within the report shows
nearly one for one correlation that as we pushed folks
out in the reform paradox. That's exactly the meaning of
the title, that there was a lot of push to

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try to get folks out of prisons, whether that be
economically because it costs a lot of money to incarcerate folks,
or because we wanted to feel better about ourselves. However,
what the report shows is that it times with state
legislation that as these changes were made that essentially water

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down the laws, that you see increases in crime rate.
Also of note is figure number eleven and figure twelve,
where it's long been talked about with auto theft, Colorado
was at or below the national average for years and
years and years and years. Then we water down the laws.

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In twenty fourteen, it shoots straight up. We continue to
water down the laws in seventeen nineteen twenty twenty one,
and it just skyrockets when we decided to take it
seriously and give Aurora a lot of credit because they
enacted in an ordinance before the State of Colorado. You

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start to once the penalties are brought back, you start
to see decreases. So Aurora led the way. Then the
State of Colorado acted, they refelinized auto theft, and now
we are seeing drops. So really, the report points out
that the scales of justice are supposed to be blind.

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When you lean towards offenders, then public safety is negatively impacted,
and that's what's driving a lot of Colorado's crime rate.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
One thing that did shock me genuinely was, first of all,
the amount of money that has been quote saved by
these measures in terms of getting people out of prison
has been dwarfed. It's just been blown out of the
water by the amount of money that we're now spending
on violent crime and violent crime victims and prosecuting violent crime.

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So that argument that we're going to save money doing this,
that seems to me to be completely discredited by this report.

Speaker 4 (22:37):
You're exactly right. I'm so glad that you noted that
really the push was to reduce the burden, the budget
burden on the State of Colorado. Well, those costs are
then passed on to cities and counties who have to
bear the brunt of it. And that's just a dollar figure,
but it takes away from the real impact, and the

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real impact is on everyday Colorado's who are victims of
these crimes, serious crimes, that are harmed by these crimes.
And you know, the NIH did a study and shows
each criminal offense there's a dollar figure associated with that.
So in order to save money on incarceration rates for

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the State of Colorado, we're actually causing more budget impact
throughout the state in different areas, and our community members
are being harmed as results of it.

Speaker 3 (23:34):
That's the part that I don't think really gets captured
in this because this is all the graphs in this
study alone are worth your time.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
Okay, they are shocking the graphs that they put together.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
But these are numbers, but they're also people, right, There's
human beings that are being negatively impacted. There are human
beings who are being victimized. There are human beings whose
neighborhoods are being you know, turned into a hollow shell
of what they once were. So I mean, Paul, this
is really powerful stuff. What would you like to see happen?
And I'm asking former police chief Paul Payson. I'm not

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asking you to speak for common sense, but what do
we need to reverse first? What laws need to be
changed first? In your view to sort of start walking
some of this back into some measurable amount of control.

Speaker 4 (24:23):
Well, Mandy, again, this is why you're so great and
your show is so great. You get it, you understand it, right.
Those are charts, and those charts jump off the page
when you see these correlations. But it is people, It
is human beings. It's our fellow Coloradans that are being
harmed in their own community, and that cost is exorbitant.

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And so really, what this does is it outlines. I
talked about the auto theft and bad legislation led to
dramatic increases where we were the highest crime rate in
this state or in the entire country for auto theft,
also fentanyl or overdose poisonings. We were fairly level across

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the country. And then in twenty nineteen we passed the
legislation that defelainizestonal cocaine or excuse me, meth amphetamine and heroin,
and immediately you see a spike in overdose deaths poisonings.
And then they tightened the legislation in twenty twenty two
and you see a dip in people dying as a

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result of overdoses. So really the purpose of the report
is timed before the state legislature to be a mirror
on what the laws changes, this push to weaken the laws,
to water down the laws to side with offenders instead
of the community in public safety, and hopefully make some

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adjustments because when they made adjustments, as Aurora and the
state did with auto theft, then you see the decreases
in crime. Also of note, and I'm sorry I'm taking
a little bit of time, but there was ballid initiatives
last year that really should speak to the state legislature
that talked about the community members the Coloradin's being fed

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up with crime, and they didn't wait for the state
legislature to act. These passed overwhelmingly twenty eight and one
thirty that showed that Coloradins believe in safety. To try
to help a few, we've actually harmed the many, and
the many have stood up and said no, I want

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to be safe in my community.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
Amen to that, former sheep, Paul Paison, I very much
appreciate your work a common Sense. You guys are just
crushing it over there this study. If you don't even
read the dang study, just go look at the graphs
to see exactly what he's talking about. And this, I'm
hoping will be a big conversation as we go into
the gubernatorial race next year about what we're gonna do

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to make Colorado safe for all. We'll see what that
looks like. Chief, thanks for the time today.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
For having me, all right you.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
That is former police chief Paul Payson with the Common
Sense Institute. Back after this AI versus Real video, there's
a video on the Today's blog of its comparison between
AI videos and real videos. And the first ones are easy,
but they get a lot harder after that. This texter said,
AI versus real video. I was able to guess some
correctly by looking at the hands. I could do that

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in the beginning, but by the end one.

Speaker 5 (27:38):
No, it was the animation for me. I was able
to tell what was natural what wasn't. But also I've
been looking at these since the dawn of AI, so
that was pretty good.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
I don't think a man miss maybe one. But it
was also like a midnight last night. So yeah, this
Texter been busy the past couple of days, just checking.
Have we still managed to not have a king? Yes, sir,
those protests were successful. I finally watched the video. It is.

Speaker 5 (28:04):
It is pretty funny, but it's I'm just gonna say,
I mean, you put a crown on himself in the video.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
I don't know if he made the video or if
he just shared the video.

Speaker 5 (28:14):
Well, I think we all have for a reason, Mandy
in our bios, retweets are not endorsements, Yeah, endorsing it
essentially it's as bad as him making.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
It in my mind.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yeah, I mean that's a fair point. It is a
that is a rational assumption in the way that social
media work.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
Donald's got a crown in that thing. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:34):
It's pretty funny though, I mean it's pretty funny. It's
juvenile and that's where it was. So not that I
was gonna vote for Michael Bennett or Phil Wiser. I'm
just gonna And by the way, actually I actually enjoyed
our chat with Michael Bennett at the DNC. He was
very personable, he was very nice, he was genuinely like, hey,

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I hope we can do this again.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
I didn't feel like he was just blowing smoke. Okay,
I've had smoke blown at me by politicians.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
So many times that I know what it looks like.

Speaker 3 (29:07):
But that being said, politically, I can't vote for the
man's policies, which the only one that I know of, well,
I don't know of any actually, but I will tell
you this. I just found out Michael Bloomberg, he of
New York City fame, he of the nanny state fame,
he just donated five hundred thousand dollars to Michael Bennett
Super Pac And I'm like, you know what, No, No,

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I don't like Michael Bloomberg.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
I don't want him to meddle.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
I don't want him to have access to my governor
in any way, shape or form. I just don't want
the man in charge of me. And so I'm like,
you know, that's not something. And if I were Phil Wiser,
I would definitely tout it. But again I said it yesterday.
I can't tell these guys apart policy wise, there's.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
No daylight between the two of them. None. They both hate.

Speaker 6 (30:00):
And then.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Up, I got nothing after that, we're working to get
them on the show.

Speaker 3 (30:09):
I would like both of them to come on the
show because, more than likely, unless something absolutely remarkable happens
on the Republican side, we're probably gonna have one of
them as governor.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
You know, it is what it is, folks.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
It is the electorate. Like I said, I mean, I
think there's some great Republicans running. I am concerned about
some things that I'm already seeing and electability in our state.
But we'll get to that later anyway. So that is

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that from the common spirit health Texli.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
But it is not a slug. He's a person. He's
a human being.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
Ralph and black Forest bit it has a town hall
at one today. I will go to that and see
if he has the guts to answer the questions I submitted.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
I doubt it.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
Please do, Ralph, and I expect a full report.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
Mandy.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
I'm sorry, as a retired officer that served under Chief
Pays and he doesn't hold a lot of credibility with me.
He was a political appointee under my Mayor Hancock and
did his bidding. Crime rates began to soar under his watch,
and let's not forget the image of him walking hand
in hand, which words flowed protesters aka Antifa, another political
sellout who has now found a second win.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
You know what, here's the thing, you guys. If people
see the light, let them see the light them, let them.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
Move to the space where he is now. I'm perfectly
fine with that. I don't mind when someone moves towards
my position. I'm perfectly fine with that. Don't look down
on that so quickly. Just throwing that out there. Mandy
Bloomberg is also part of the anti Second Amendment funding
in Colorado. Oh, he's a big part of it. He's

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the nanny stator who wants to ban vapes in Denver.
He's funding that entire campaign, and now he's going to
give five hundred thousand dollars to Michael Bennett. I'm just like, nope,
I just don't know, Mandy, A joke for you. Mystery solved.
Two broke into louver sh It was Trump's sons to
get a crown for their dad. He doesn't need what

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He'll have one made. He doesn't need to steal crown jewels.
That's not what's going on here. By the way, something
I wanted to ask Chief Faison about is about the
undercharging of crimes, and the undercharging of crimes is significant.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
During last year. I'm gonna read this.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
This is a John Watt article from Real Clear Politics.
Oh dang it, I just realized what time it is.
When we get back, I'm gonna share some of this
column from Real Clear Politics about real crime rates in
the United States. They are a far cry from what's
actually happening on the ground.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
We'll be right back The.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
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Speaker 2 (33:03):
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Speaker 2 (33:22):
Sad bab Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of
the show. I'm Mandy Connell.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
That guy's Anthony Rodriguez, and we're going to take you
right up until three p m. And in the you
know what, and Ron, I've created a dish that I
have started calling human kibble because I make I annial
I batch prep on Sunday for lunches, because like I

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make dinner every night for the fam, but I don't
have time a lot of the times to make a
decent lunch that I try to do because of sota
you like, you know, with my veggies and my protein.
So I make a big batch of something that I
eat for lunch every day.

Speaker 5 (34:00):
Okay, well it's Halloween months. You have to clarify kibble
four humans not killed. Yes, kibble for humans I do
not eat people. Want to be clear about that. You know,
cannibalism on the Mandy Connell Show.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
All right, I'm just kidding. We frowned, we frown we
actively frown on cannibalism. I can tell you just kidding.
But this week I made a mix of ground turkey, breast, uh, broccoli, spinach, mushrooms,
and just like a little bit of like maybe a
handful of sweet potato. The mushroom I'm in.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
Well, yeah, I didn't have that many mushrooms. I'm like
four big mushrooms. I was kind of basically all of
the vegetables that were in my fridge that were about.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
To go bad are in this? Did you do a
smell test? Freaking No. You can look at vegetables and
tell if they're bad or not. Uh no, are you
talking about always cabbage? Well, cabbage smells like cabbage.

Speaker 5 (34:57):
Old No.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
Cabbage Now like when goes rotten, it's different. Okay, and
it goes bad so fast.

Speaker 5 (35:04):
Cabbage, well, like zucchini cabbage, like the like the chopped
up zucchini cabbage that I use for like instead of lettuce,
a little more filling in like a taco bowl.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
Those bads so fast. Zucchini cabbage chopped it's like it
it looks like cabbage, but it's like I think it's
more like zucchini.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
Well, zucchini does not last. Cabbage lasts forever. I find
out what it is you're talking about, because I have
no idea. Now I'm curious, Like cabbage is zucchini?

Speaker 2 (35:29):
What have we got? What has that been? Of magic?

Speaker 3 (35:32):
But this week's human or kibble for humans is delicious?

Speaker 2 (35:37):
I mean other people do that, right. Yeah, Anyway, Mandy.

Speaker 3 (35:39):
I heard that the Trump administration is giving our Gentina
a forty billion dollar bailout while our government is shut down.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
Here we go found it. Oh, what is it? It's
the market side.

Speaker 5 (35:48):
So the Walmart's super blend packaged fresh salad, Brussels sprouts.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
Oh now the cabbage, broccoli, carrots.

Speaker 3 (35:56):
And anything pre prepared is going to go south faster.

Speaker 2 (35:59):
I mean like in like four days. It's ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (36:02):
And you know what aroun when you start doing the
cost benefit analysis on that when here's what I do now,
And you guys feel free to recognize how cheap I am.
But I don't buy pre cut, pre bag to anything
so tasty. Wait wait, you can do it yourself in
like twenty minutes at home. You buy the ingredients, you
prep them out, you wash them really good. Do you
have a salad spinner. You gotta get all the moisture

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off the stuff. That's why I'm just saying, so cheap
you can make like you can make that for like
I don't know at this point.

Speaker 5 (36:29):
I just buy like four to six of them and
know that probably one scoop is all that's going to
be good the next time I go to well then
and that's not a good.

Speaker 3 (36:38):
Value if you're only getting one soop.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
Out of it, I'm just saying. And it's like it's
all the it's not even the smell before you'd open
the bag.

Speaker 5 (36:47):
You see the outside of the bag, like from the inside,
it's like all its fliny.

Speaker 3 (36:51):
Yeah, but that's why if you buy fresh vegetables, they
even if you buy fresh vegetables and then you drop
them up and you put them in your own bags,
which is what I do with my salad mix. They
lasts longer because they've just been cut up. What kind
of hearty meals does Mandy make for her family suffers?

Speaker 2 (37:06):
It depends.

Speaker 3 (37:06):
We've been doing these protein bowls a lot lately. You
got like with a little seasoning on there, and then
you've got some eta mommy, or what is it called
when it's out of the shell.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
You got some et a mommy.

Speaker 3 (37:17):
You know beans, You got some avocado, you got some
shredded cabbage, little seedless, those little mini cucumbers.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
Gotta love those.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
We've been on those a lot lately. But last night
my family wanted case it he is, So I made
myself a piece of salmon and it was delicious. Anyway,
sometimes you just got to give them what they want. Now,
let me get back to this story about crime stats,
because it's very interesting. We just had on former Chief
Paul Payson with a report from the Common Sense Institute

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about how much violent crime has risen in Colorado and
the reason I want to share part of this column
with you by John Lott. John Lott is probably I
think the best expert or you know, source when it
comes to guns in the United States, but also on

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crime statistics. And he starts out this story by saying,
during last year's presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris,
Trump said violent crime was rising. ABC moderator David Muir
immediately fact checked him, claiming, President Trump, as you know,
the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in
this country. Then he goes on to talk about how

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that was parroted by the media. But a new Bureau
of excuse me, I've got the hiccups. See if I
can work my way through this, all right, However, a
new Bureau of Justice Statistics report, which includes data through
twenty twenty.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
Four, please hickup on air? No, please, are you a
loud hiccup or I can be. It just depends. I
got a full of Yeah, hold your breath. Oh wait,
you guy talk. I want to talk. That's my problem.

Speaker 3 (38:57):
And to the person who said, someone asked an interesting
question of Argentina and you're talking about Lettuce, yes, bear
with me.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
I could scare you. It all comes full circle. I
could scare you. No, don't, they're gone to pick up.
They're gone. I'll be back. They're gone.

Speaker 3 (39:09):
However, a new Bureau of Justice Statistics report, which includes
data through twenty twenty four, shows that Trump was right
during the debate when he said crime here is up
and through the roof. The National Crime Victimization Survey shows
violent crime surge fifty nine percent, with rape and sexual
assault up sixty seven percent, robbery up thirty eight percent,

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and aggravated assault up sixty two percent.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
That is the largest four year.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
Increase in the survey's fifty two year history. The contrast
with Trump's first term is stark. The NCVS data shows
that between twenty seventeen and twenty twenty, violent crime fell
fifteen percent, including a six percent drop in robbery and
a twenty four percent decline in aggravated assault. Although rope

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and sexual assault rose slightly the the increase was less
than ten percent of what occurred under Biden. The federal
government tracks crime in two ways. The FBI's Uniform Crime
Reports that counts the number of offenses reported to police
each year. The Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization Survey,

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by contrast, annually asks about two hundred and forty thousand
people living in the United States whether they were crime victims.
The latter method captures both reported and unreported incidents. Last year,
the media focused almost entirely on the FBI data.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
Before twenty twenty, the FBI.

Speaker 3 (40:38):
And Bureau of Justice statistics trends generally moved in tandem.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
Since then, they've diverged sharply.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
The FBI reports fewer crimes, while more Americans saying they've
been victimized. Unreported crime was always a factor, and the
reasons for it vary. They range from people reluctant to
report being victimized by loved ones to a simple aversion
by undocumented people to involve themselves with a criminal justice system.
In recent years, however, another factor appears to have skewed

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the FBI data, the breakdown of law enforcement in this country.
When people don't believe the police will catch or prosecutors
won't punish criminals, they're simply less likely to report crimes.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
Between twenty ten and twenty.

Speaker 3 (41:25):
Nineteen, victims reported sixty three point three percent of violent
crimes to police. In the last three years, that number
plummeted to forty eight point eight percent.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
Arrests fell as well.

Speaker 3 (41:37):
From twenty six point five percent before COVID to just
sixteen point six percent afterward. Other factors also distort the
FBI data, and this is what I wanted to ask
former police Chief Payson about. Many big city police departments,
such as DC have reclassified serious defenses, apparently in an
effort to make the street seem safer than they are.

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Downgrading aggravated assaults to simple assaults removes them from the
FBI's violent crime statistics. For example, whether an attack counts
is aggravated often depends on whether a weapon was used,
but many progressive district attorneys now refuse to pursue weapons
charges that that difference matters because if the NCVS asks

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victims directly whether a weapon was involved, even if police
reports omit it. Progressive prosecutors in cities like New York, Chicago,
and Los Angeles have also made a habit of reducing
felony charges. In Manhattan, for example, the District Attorney's office
downgraded felonies sixty percent of the time, with eighty nine

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percent downgraded to misdemeanors and eleven percent to serious or
less serious felonies. Chicago has taken a labeling some murders
as death investigations instead of homicides. These practices appear to
be spreading and police may now be adjusting their own
reports to reflect prosecutors leniency.

Speaker 2 (43:04):
And that was the second part that I wanted to
bring up.

Speaker 3 (43:07):
When we talk about our crime statistics in Colorado, which
are terrible, absolutely gobsmackingly terrible. Now think about the part
that crime is actually being underreported because people don't have
any confidence that the cops are going to do anything. Amazing.
What happens when you make crime easier. It's almost like

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you get more of what you incentivize. Someone write that down.
Now back to the question Mandy Man, A rod needs
to get some rubber bait fresh works containers. Just open
the bag, dump in your veg with a paper towel
and they will last like two weeks.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
Ah everything really it just goes bad. It helps a little.
I will tell you this.

Speaker 3 (43:52):
I have now started buying, like, instead of buying three
or four zucchini at a time, I buy two.

Speaker 5 (43:57):
Yeah, you know, I more, but I don't. I don't
have a bunch of that that we're always out when
we need it. I'd rather buy one extra one and
it go bad than in not being there when I
need it.

Speaker 1 (44:07):
Eh.

Speaker 3 (44:08):
You know, I try to plan ahead. I do try
to plan ahead. Let's talk about forty million dollars in
aid to Argentina. As a general rule, I want to
know what I'm getting for my money. What am I
getting in return for this money we dole out for
an aid all around the world. I don't love it.
I don't love all of it. I think most of
it is pretty stupid.

Speaker 4 (44:27):
Right.

Speaker 3 (44:28):
We saw that with USAID and all the crap that
was in that budget. That was just nonsensical foolishness. So
what are we getting in Argentina. Are we getting the
opportunity to stabilize another economy in South America, to create
an ally ship there that is incredibly important?

Speaker 2 (44:45):
Yes we are.

Speaker 3 (44:45):
Why does that matter right now? It hasn't mattered a
lot in the past. But you guys, if you are
not following China's Belton Road initiative and China's outreaches in
South America, you really need to pay attention.

Speaker 2 (44:59):
China is our.

Speaker 3 (45:00):
Largest and most powerful geopolitical foe. I hope everybody can
agree on this, and yes, all this comes back to Argentina.

Speaker 2 (45:06):
Hear me out.

Speaker 3 (45:09):
They have been investing in South American countries by doing
big gestures that people love. For instance, and I've talked
about it many times. I was absolutely blown away by
the soccer stadium in San Jose, Costa Rica. It's huge,
it's gorgeous, and it was built entirely, not just by

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China paying for it. It was built entirely by Chinese labor.
They built a Chinese city in San Jose to house
the workers that worked on the stadiums. So it brought
no jobs to the stadium whatsoever, to Costa Rica whatsoever,
but they gave them this beautiful soccer stadium. They're doing
that stuff all over South America. We cannot afford to

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lose South America to China. So I look at this
in Argentina as a geopolitical investment in our southern border,
not just because of China, but also if we have
another economy goes south, we're going to have even more
refugees or immigrants or whatever trying to come up from
the south. It would be wonderful if Argentina's economy can

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get its footing, and I believe it will. I believe
all of the actions that are being taken by the
President are going to work, and once it gets its footing,
it is going to be a magnet for South American
immigrants who want to make something of themselves, and it
will take a tremendous amount of pressure off of our border.
So do I love the fact that the government is

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shut down. I don't think those two things have one
thing to do with the other. Actually, that to me
seems like what is one You know, if you want
to talk about the government shut down, then we can
absolutely talk about the Democrats shutting down the government.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
We can do that one hundred percent.

Speaker 3 (46:51):
So as far as that goes, by the way, A
very interesting thing happened in Bolivia yesterday. I think, and
I read this this morning, so have been thirty years.
I think it's twenty years, but it might have been
thirty years ago. Even moral as an indigenous Bolivian socialist,
was elected in Bolivia to set up a socialist government

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just like they had booming in Venezuela. Well we all
know how that went yesterday in Bolivia. It went the
same way. Not only did they kick out the socialist
out of power in Bolivia, they elected a guy who's like.

Speaker 2 (47:28):
Yeah, we're not doing that again.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
Socialism fails every single place it has been tried, and
yet those those idealistic numb schools on the left think
that it was just the wrong people in charge.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
That's the problem.

Speaker 3 (47:49):
I don't understand why someone can pursue a failed ideology
with such vigorousness as people on the left pursue communism
or socialism with any seriousness. You have to be so
willfully ignorant of everything in history about socialism to still
think it can work in any capacity unless you lobotomize

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the entire population.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
I've said this for the longest time.

Speaker 3 (48:16):
Socialism will never work as long as human beings have ego,
as long as human beings are self interested, which we
all are, you know what. As much as I care
about each and every one of you in this listening audience,
I don't care about you nearly as much as I
carry about my family and me.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
Just like as much as you might.

Speaker 3 (48:35):
Listen and you know, enjoy listening to me on the radio,
You're not gonna put me above your family and yourself.
You shouldn't, by the way, So anyway, China invested in
a high way in Jamaica. Now Jamaica can't get rid
of China exactly, Mandy. It's a currency swap with Argentina,
not a bailout.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
Let's be real.

Speaker 3 (48:55):
You can call it whatever you want to call it.
It's a bailout. I mean we we can doll it
up with fancy words. It's a bailout. And yet you
support dismantling USAID, which counters China.

Speaker 4 (49:09):
No.

Speaker 3 (49:10):
USAID lost the mission a long time ago. I mean
so long ago that it was absurd. The things that
we were paying for were ridiculous. And if you don't
think that, there was just probably billions of dollars in
griff from well connected people to USAID, I mean commaline.

(49:30):
Commaline anyway, uh Mandy, thanks to CBD oil and left
wing recidivism. I'm usually in a really good mood and
offended that you would call my crimes aggravated. There you
go Chipotle protein bowls and rice tends to shoot.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
Right through me. Oh okay, Rice.

Speaker 3 (49:50):
Rice is one of the great stopper uppers. You've heard
of the brat diet, haven't you a rod? Do you
know what the brat diet is?

Speaker 2 (49:57):
M sounds familiar? What is bananas? Rice? Apple, saw and toast?

Speaker 3 (50:00):
And when your kid has the runs, they're like giving
the brat diet until it clears up and you do
what it does.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
That's the way it goes. It might be the combination
of things. At that Chipotle bowl.

Speaker 3 (50:10):
I cannot remember the last time I had Chipotle, And
it's not I don't I don't have any eight. But honestly,
you guys, it's so easy to make a really good
burrito at home.

Speaker 2 (50:19):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (50:20):
Yeah, but I like if we like don't have the time,
like probably today, like yeah Doba.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
But if I'm going to go fast, like quick service,
because that's quick service, I am going to go like
Ramen or I'm gonna go poke a bowl or something
like that. I don't ever think about burritos. Well, no,
that's weird.

Speaker 5 (50:38):
Well, typically, like I said, we'll get the bowl, do
our low car tortillas at home, yeah, whether they want
big ones or small ones.

Speaker 2 (50:45):
But also the healthy bullet Panda I have not had that.
I when I was a flight attendant.

Speaker 3 (50:52):
Holy crap, did I eat a lot of Panda Express
because it's in all the airports, right, love Panda I cannot.
I just cannot darken the door. And again it's not
because it was bad, it's just because it's just I
ate so much of it. It's kind of like I
still can't eat packaged dramen, which is probably good because
it's horrible for you.

Speaker 5 (51:08):
But problem is, I just can't do the orange chicken
and the full thing of fried rice anymore because that's
a gajillion calories. And now it's yeah, the teraoki chicken
and the beef and broccoli, a little bit of the
super greens.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
Real good. Seventy eight hundred calories for a whole dinner.

Speaker 6 (51:22):
Yeah, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (51:26):
Anyway, I have a story on the blog today, or
maybe that was yesterday. Yeah, it was yesterday about chains
that we don't have here in Colorado, and I was
wondering my transplants or maybe a chain you had on
vacation somewhere Coloradin's you can participate too.

Speaker 7 (51:40):
Are there any chains you wish we had? In terms
of fast food? Guys Burger, Guys Burger, Guys guys Burger.
I had on a cruise ship. It's in Vegas. Oh
my god, the best hamburger.

Speaker 2 (51:51):
What mean? It's so good?

Speaker 5 (51:52):
I just it's just so tasty. It's the amazing smash burger.
It has all the right ingredients, it hits it's just
the best. Before that it was, which we have. But yeah, guys,
burger is the best. Burger is not close, not close,
It's not here and it makes me cry.

Speaker 3 (52:06):
Uh, Mandy, I need a constant supply of chapoltle Way.
I think that's a medicine. I don't know about, Mandy.
Will any country offer us to be all out? Oh no,
We're taking the whole world down with us.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
When the United States.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
Falls, everybody falls like dominoes.

Speaker 2 (52:22):
That's the kicker, you guys. We're we are literally the.

Speaker 3 (52:26):
Country too big to fail, and yet much like Lehman brothers,
we're going to continue to make dumb ass decisions that
are going to push us towards the point where we
take everybody down with us. So yeah, that's no one's
gonna give us a bail out. Bratt Diet and Pedialyte
Works had three kids, I hope not at the same

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time having three kids with the runs.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
That's not good, Mandy.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
Let's not forget China gets free soybeans. US farmers are
going bankrupt.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
All right, there we go, there we go.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
Now, let me talk about what is coming up next
the way. Wait, we got Argentina and it has been
a busy broadcast day. We already talked about the Denver
Post not paying its rent. Not sure there's more to
that story. I do talk when we get back. Okay,
you know how my friend Laura Carno read a great
book called Government Ruins Everything, and I have a perfect

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example of this in a story about how rents are
actually going down in the Metro area. There's a little
part at the end about how politicians have now made it.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
Well, they're going to make it more expensive in the future.

Speaker 3 (53:33):
Of course they are. Of course we'll find out next
what I'm talking about. Some of these Portillo's. I mean, seriously,
we just need one. Nando's Chicken would be awesome. Never
heard of it, Warburg, heard of that Roberto's Tacos.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
A couple people voting for Warburg.

Speaker 3 (53:52):
This person Mandy, we need a Bojangles here, Well, we
have the shell of a Bojangles and Pueblo. If you
want chicken tenders only, you can go to that boat
Jangles in a truck stop.

Speaker 2 (54:03):
I won't be darkening the doorstep.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
Mandy, Colorado needs Arctic Circle for ranch burgers. Never heard
of that best burger hog Back barbecue, Littleton. I know
that's not what I was asking. I miss bud Ruckers.
You know what, I miss it too. I miss being
able to put my own stuff on my burger. Dang,
that's so good. Uh man, Oh no, I won't uh

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oh no, I'm not going to read that about the
Chipotle way. I want Rubio's chain to come back in business.
Fish Tacos, Dion's from Albuquerque and runs from Nebraska as
it runs to that cabbage burger place.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
Isn't that a runs a burger? What do I have
that mixed up with? Anyway? And now I want to
get into this story because it's very interesting.

Speaker 3 (54:49):
It's actually a story about rental rates dropping in Denver.
Vacancy rates are higher, declining. Rents are going down because
all of those apartment complexes finally came online. The Colorado
Apartment or excuse me, the Apartment Association of Metro Denver
said that rents have hit their lowest levels since twenty

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twenty two. Both median and average rents have trended lower
over the past quarter as a bunch of those new
apartments have come online.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
And then it's a lot of blah blah blah, But
I want.

Speaker 3 (55:21):
To read you the last part Unintended Consequences is the
subhead that's above it. The Apartment Association cites an August
report by the research firm metro Site, which specializes in
urban labor, housing and real estate economics, that concludes such
regulations have numbers of unintended consequences that tend to increase

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housing prices. These regulatory factors, all active in the Denver market,
include requiring apartments to accept housing choice vouchers, limitings apartment
are operators, from screening rent to income ratios, and acquiring
compulsory lease renewals. Each of those, the study authors showed,

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are associated with substantial drops in new rental project investment.
We have all three, which makes it more difficult for
investment here the Apartment Association. Then they go on to
talk about that, here's what's going to happen. We got
all these new new apartments online, but demand is still
going to keep going up. So instead of building more

(56:29):
apartments or multifamily homes like condas or whatever, developers look
at our regulatory structure here and say that is not
a good investment, so they take their money elsewhere. The
stuff that Denver has decided to do to landlords is unbelievable.
It is so unbelievable on so many levels. And I

(56:51):
realized that people are there landloids are jerriks, because we've
all had one landlord that was a jerk. I mean,
if you've rented for any length of time, you've got
a landlord. But you know what else, I had phenomenal landlords.
I had landlords that worked with us when we needed help.
I mean, I've had great landlords, and I certainly couldn't
have afforded or nor did I want to own a
home at the time. So let's just say that when

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things get really expensive again, let's all remember this story.
Let's all remember the ways that Denver has made it
so miserable to be a landlord that nobody wants to
invest in our rental market. Some of these things, you guys,
not allowing apartment operators to screen rent to income ratios

(57:39):
is going to lead to people moving into apartments they
cannot afford, and that's going to lead to people being evicted.

Speaker 2 (57:46):
And if you're a landlord in Denver and you.

Speaker 3 (57:48):
Don't know how hard it is to evict someone right now.

Speaker 2 (57:50):
You really should look it up.

Speaker 3 (57:52):
But it's fifty fresh layers of hell if you try
to evict someone in Denver, you have to pay into
a fund that they get to use to pay for
their defense in the eviction. So you're paying for both
sides of the eviction. Oh yeah, oh yeah, it makes
so much sense. I can't imagine why people wouldn't want
to invest in that market. So stupid, Mandy. What's up
with no Gordon Ramsey restaurants in Denver? An If you

(58:15):
eaten a lot of these celebrity chef restaurants other than
Guy Fieri's Iberger Joint, I think, just guys, I've eaten
at three in my lifetime. I ate at Pauladine's restaurant
in Savannah. It was like, eh, okay. Maybe I just
thought it was okay because that's the same food I've
been eating my entire life, made by somebody's grandma in

(58:36):
the back of their kitchen.

Speaker 2 (58:39):
That was okay.

Speaker 3 (58:40):
I ate at Giata whatever Jiada is something something. I
ate one of her restaurants.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
It was fine. And then I ate at someone else's restaurant,
maybe a Emerald Lagasi restaurant a long time ago, and
it was just mediocre.

Speaker 3 (58:57):
So I'm just not dazzled by these celebrities chef restaurants
I'd much rather have a restaurant where the actual chef
is going to be in the restaurant every you know, often,
because I do think that you can get too far
away from the leadership in that way. Mandy, Denver can't
get out of their own way, says this texture. I

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sold my rental in Denver because of their dumb laws.
Took my money to doug Co, where we have good laws.

Speaker 2 (59:24):
Mandy.

Speaker 3 (59:24):
We need a Crystal Burger slider joint, Oh Texter, you
read my mind. The only fast food joint that I miss,
I mean I miss it like thinking about it right now,
my mouth is starting to water is Crystal Burgers. They're
the Southeast version of White Castle, and they are so
much better. And whenever I go home and the infrequent

(59:46):
times I visit my hometown, that is the first place
I go. And I am not even kidding. My brother
is the same way.

Speaker 2 (59:54):
My sister loves them, but not not as much as
we do. I mean, we really love the crystal Mandy.

Speaker 3 (01:00:02):
Runza also has chili and cinnamon oral cinnamon rolls.

Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
Runse is made right style burger. I don't know what
that is.

Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
There's one in Loveland, Mandy. We're getting a Patrillo's in
Lyttleton on Mineral next to Costco. They are building, all right, Mandy,
I object to your comment that police won't do anything
about it regarding crime as the mom of an officer,
nothing could be further from the truth. Cops would love
to be able to keep criminals incarcerated. It's the job

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of the DA's judges and attorneys who handle the offenders
that decide whether they are kept in jail, charged with
a certain defense, or released, and that is a source
of particular frustration. Please don't put the onus of crime
control solely on the cops. It takes a village and
they are just one element of that village.

Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
Thanks for listening.

Speaker 3 (01:00:50):
That was in reference to why people are not reporting
crimes at a high enough rate, right, so, so part
of this is also something that I'm going to be
talking to DA Michael Allen on Thursday at twelve thirty.

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
Part of it is the two police.

Speaker 3 (01:01:11):
Accountability bills that were passed in twenty seventeen and twenty
nineteen have made it far harder for cops to do
their jobs. I mean far harder for cops to do
their jobs. And they're shameful I think both of those
laws are shameful. I think there's a way to deal
with true police misconduct without putting an officer in a

(01:01:34):
position that will ruin the rest of their life. What
is the incentive to go do this job. We'll talk
with Michael Allen about that, But yeah, the perception exists
because we had a story on the blog yesterday. Actually
Fox thirty one's Kylie burse has a stalker and it's
a very serious situation. And when he showed up at
her house, do you know how long it appears that

(01:01:55):
it took the cops to get there an hour. It's
there's a lot going on, and there's a lot that's wrong,
and we need people elected into office.

Speaker 2 (01:02:10):
That are committed to fixing it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:12):
That should be one of the main questions for anyone
running for state office in Colorado should be how are
you going to fix these crime issues? And if they
can't have a good answer and quickly, they don't deserve
your vote. Love is Blind Anthony who's been watching it
with his gang of misfits over there watching the Love
Is Blind? So tomur Night's Grand Finale. First of all,

(01:02:35):
I feel like we should tell people who.

Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
Don't watch this show. What is the show? I know,
we've talked about it before.

Speaker 5 (01:02:40):
It is essentially a group of guys a group of girls.
They are in their separate rooms. This is a reality
TV and they do what's called going in the pods,
and they do not see each other.

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
It is love is blind. There is a wall between them.

Speaker 5 (01:02:54):
They do not get to see each other whatsoever, and
they have I think it's a I think ten days to.

Speaker 2 (01:03:02):
Date them through this wall.

Speaker 5 (01:03:03):
You only can talk to each other, no visuals whatsoever,
and you have to rely on just their personality, their voice,
who they are, not their looks to within ten days,
propose to them and then get to see them and
move on to getting married in just four weeks.

Speaker 2 (01:03:21):
So you have to propose to them through the wall.
Then you do the big reveal.

Speaker 5 (01:03:25):
Then they send them on a honeymoon for like a
couple days or so, and then they come back to
the real world where you have to see if this
person is your person and if love is truly blind.

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
Well, this is season nine. It is the season in Denver,
and all.

Speaker 5 (01:03:43):
Due respect to an individual by the name of Jordan
with my favorite cast member that we are probably gonna
have on the show here pretty soon here in the studio,
which is awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
I think he would probably even agree.

Speaker 5 (01:03:57):
Most people watching the show agree, Mandy, we've heard about
the dating scene here in Denver. This season is doing
Denver no favors. It is the worst cast in the
history of the show.

Speaker 3 (01:04:10):
I saw somebody on X say, whoever decided to put
Love Is Blind in Denver? Did Denver no favors? How
does the city look though? Are you seeing any of
the city of Denver?

Speaker 5 (01:04:19):
City is beautiful, but they're going to some of the
most bougie like restaurants and stores that I've never entered before.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
Half of them I haven't heard before.

Speaker 5 (01:04:27):
But let's just say part of our Love is Blind
drinking game where you have to drink when you recognize
a place. Let's just say those watching parties have gotten
a little bit lit because we notice everything and familiarize
ourselves with everything that we see. But man, this is
the most toxic, most just vile, most questionable.

Speaker 2 (01:04:46):
Cast this show has ever had.

Speaker 5 (01:04:48):
And of course it's Denver, so we're open have on Jordan,
my favorite castmember, really, the only person I like the
entire cast on the show here soon to talk about
his experience. I imagine that they have the embargo until
tomorrow's finale, but maybe later this week or next week,
we'll have mon to discuss this experience, because it's mind
boggling how crazy this season was.

Speaker 3 (01:05:07):
I just had my assistant chat look up and I
asked how many Love Is Blind contestants got married and
are still together?

Speaker 2 (01:05:14):
Yes, so this is season nine.

Speaker 3 (01:05:16):
So far, let's see, six couples out of the first
eight seasons have gotten married and stayed together.

Speaker 2 (01:05:25):
It has been very.

Speaker 5 (01:05:26):
Rare to have more than one or two couples get married. So,
so to making a better picture, there are about fifteen
males fifteen females in what's called the pods. Right, Usually
only five couples proposed and move on to the honeymoon phase. Right,
So we're going from fifteen cup fifteen potential couples to

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really only like average of like four or five make
it to proposal and honeymoon, and out of those five,
usually it's one or two couples getting married. Mandy, I'm
telling you, I'm pretty sure this could be the first
season where no, I think, I don't think there's ever
been a previous season.

Speaker 2 (01:06:02):
It could be wrong.

Speaker 5 (01:06:03):
You can ask chat, I don't think there's been a
season where no couples get married. This could be the
season Denver. Of course, Denver has a chance to be
the first or one of the few seasons where none
of these people get married.

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
It's been that bad. It's been that bad, and I
told you off air. I'll say it on air.

Speaker 5 (01:06:22):
I know some friends that are friends with some of
these cast members, and let's just say yeah, yeah, makes sense.

Speaker 3 (01:06:30):
Over the course of the show, eleven couples have gotten married,
so six are still married. So I just asked, has
there ever been a season where no one got married?

Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
Yes, there is a season really? Oh wait, no one
got married? Wait a minute.

Speaker 3 (01:06:45):
For season nine Denver spoilers suggests that none of the
three remaining couples go through with a wedding. We'll see
yeah up to season eight though, so this may be
the first one.

Speaker 2 (01:06:56):
You might be right.

Speaker 5 (01:06:56):
The premiere is in uh what ten hours, so I
hopefully no spoilers, but we'll see. The crazy thing is
that people don't realize about the show is this Denver season.

Speaker 2 (01:07:09):
Was filmed a year ago.

Speaker 5 (01:07:10):
They film they filmed far in advance, so much show
that Mandy next week is the one year reunion because
they filmed this a year ago. So all these people,
here's the thing, all these people, I follow them on Instagram,
all these cast members, they all look so different because
this was filmed the year ago. So whether these people
had been married or not been married, their experience is

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a year old. Yeah, so we're gonna have the one
year reunion one week after the finale of the Denver season.

Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
So it's crazy. It's an insane show.

Speaker 5 (01:07:40):
And of course, to reiterate, of course, Denver has the
worst season this show has had. And I hope we
get a chance to talk with Jordan maybe, hell, any
other cast members. We'll have them all on because it's
so crazy. It's that crazy that I want to hear
all their experiences because the first season was beautiful, it
was about love. It was really really great people. They're
casting to a phenomenal job. Let's just say today's casting.

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There have been rumblings and rumors that you have to
have a certain Instagram following, you have.

Speaker 2 (01:08:10):
To have a show this or that.

Speaker 5 (01:08:11):
If they only want the noise, they only want the
social media talk. It's not really about love anymore. It's
just reality slop. And that's what the show is, and
it has not gotten worse than the Denver season.

Speaker 3 (01:08:24):
Well this one says this texter said, Hi, Mandy married
at first Sight Denver a few years ago was a
total train wreck as well, really embarrassed the people of
Denver and Colorado. The scenery and the places they went
was pretty cool, but it was a train wreck.

Speaker 2 (01:08:37):
Can I just say this? I don't. Okay, we'll say
it when we get back because we got to take
a break.

Speaker 1 (01:08:41):
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Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
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Speaker 1 (01:08:50):
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Speaker 2 (01:08:59):
Ken Nicey Byron sad bab Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the
third hour of the show.

Speaker 3 (01:09:11):
I am Mandy Connell. That guy over there Anthony Rodriguez,
and we will take you all right straight through our
busy broadcast two pm hour.

Speaker 2 (01:09:22):
I got some updates.

Speaker 3 (01:09:23):
You just made me do a deep dive with my
assistant Anthony on reality dating shows. So who would you
Which dating show do you think has the best success
as far as dating shows go in marriage and how
many of those marriages are still together?

Speaker 2 (01:09:40):
Which one do you think? And I'll okay, Well near
at the bottom.

Speaker 3 (01:09:44):
Uh, we've got married at first sight, We've got ninety
day Fiance, We've got Love is Blind. They didn't throw
the Bachelor in here, but I'm guessing the Bachelor. Statistically,
it's pretty low because you only get one couple per season.
Right the top show ninety day Fion say, really, it
has had the greatest success rate of shows in its genre.

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The article cited thirty seven couples twenty eight still together
at one point.

Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
Second Love is Blind. So there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:10:16):
Yeah, and.

Speaker 2 (01:10:20):
So those two are the best, And there you go.
That's something you know now. You know you needed to
know it, but you now know it.

Speaker 3 (01:10:27):
Okay, let's talk for a second about two propositions, Prop
LL and prop MM.

Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
Prop LL. The first thing that Prop LL does.

Speaker 3 (01:10:39):
Is it expands the Healthy School Meals for All program,
a garbage program that was created by Democrats at the
height of the pandemic. Ironically, you know, when some skills
were still shut down because the teachers unions demanded it
prior to the Healthy School Meals for All program, which

(01:11:00):
uh provides free lunches at schools for every kid. So
as I'm sitting in the carpool line behind people driving
a hammer, a BMW alexis a Mercedes.

Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
That would be me and all of these other nice cars.

Speaker 3 (01:11:15):
I can take comfort in knowing that we're taxing people
to pay for their kids lunches.

Speaker 2 (01:11:19):
That's what we're doing now. Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:11:21):
So the program, of course was way underfunded and of
course ran way in the red. So here comes Proposition LLL.
Now I have to go back to something, and I'm
gonna share some of this column by Mike Rosen that's
in the Denver Gazette. They talk about the He talks

(01:11:43):
about the fact that Proposition FF created the Healthy Schools Meal,
the Healthy school Meals for All program, and it went
way beyond the HSMA. Mike says it was the camel's
nose under the tent for the first stage of the
democrats lie latest scheme to undermine TABOR. The Taxpayer Bill
of Rights LL and MM is the second stage. Prop

(01:12:10):
LL allows HSMA to retain excess revenues TABER would otherwise
refund to taxpayers. Before FF, Colorado used your federal taxable
income including the Federal standard deduction to calculate your state
income tax. FF circumvented TABER and raised income taxes on
earnings over three hundred thousand dollars. By denying the full

(01:12:33):
standard federal deduction, exposing more earnings to taxation, MM goes
much further they For example, the federal standard deduction for
joint filers is thirty three thousand, two hundred dollars in
twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (01:12:49):
Had MM been in effect this year, its standard deduction
would have been limited to a mere two thousand dollars,
exposing another thirty one thousand dollars of earnings to taxation.
Now here's the kicker.

Speaker 3 (01:13:01):
Before you sit there making sixty thousand dollars a year,
one hundred thousand dollars a year, two hundred thousand dollars
a year, thinking yeah, stick it to those people making.

Speaker 2 (01:13:10):
Three hundred k a year.

Speaker 3 (01:13:11):
This is not indexed for inflation, and it will inevitably
ensnare more taxpayers every single year.

Speaker 2 (01:13:19):
Every single year.

Speaker 3 (01:13:21):
Prop LL allows more politicians who set up a program
that was underfunded from the very start to take your
table refunds. Prop MM allows them to keep the refunds
and people over three hundred k for this same program. Now,
to be clear, guys, I want kids to that need
the help to have food at school I want kids

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to be able to eat if they need help. That's
why I support the free and reduced lunch program. But
paying for the lunches of every kid is just stupid.
It's a stupid waste of money, especially when our schools
can't teach kids how to read and write.

Speaker 2 (01:14:03):
The overarching thing here for me is that.

Speaker 3 (01:14:08):
This is another way to get entitlement mentality creep going
a little higher in the food chain. Democrats have known
since they started handing out entitlements that the easiest way
to keep a voter is to give them something they
didn't earn. And that's what entitlements are. You are getting
something you didn't earn, and this allows more people to

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get into that mentality.

Speaker 2 (01:14:36):
Well, I don't want to take away with my kids
free school lunches. I mean then I'd have to cut
back on my seven dollars lattes every day. I hate it.

Speaker 3 (01:14:46):
Please vote no on Prop LL and Prop MM. I
also have some information for Cherry Creek school Board voters,
for D eleven school board voters, for jeff Co's school
board voters tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:14:58):
Jeffco Kids First.

Speaker 3 (01:14:59):
Lindsay d at Co is going to join me on
the show to talk about some stuff they've found out
about one of the school board candidates backed by the
teachers' union. I have put the names of the two
candidates I would vote for if I were in Jefferson County.
Excuse me, the three candidates I would vote for in
Jefferson County, The two candidates I would vote for if
I were in Cherry Creek Schools and D eleven. You

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guys have a board that is making big strides. Don't
change anything. I'm trying to find out more information. There
are certain districts, like I believe Adams D twelve I
can't remember. Is it Adams D twelve, I can't remember.
But one of the Adams County districts only has people
running unopposed. There are no people running against them, so

(01:15:43):
the decisions have been made for you in that case.
By the way, Ralph from black Forest is checking in
after Michael Bennett's town hall. He said Bennett town hall
shut down, healthcare, goo bad severe TDS, page of no
we'll email only did softball questions send in Nothing like

(01:16:03):
the questions I sent him. More shutdown nonsense. Claimed Trump
made billions in the last ten months. It was a
waste of thirty minutes that would have been better spent
listening to you easily will of course, Ralph. But I
appreciate you taking one for the team, and I'm glad
I didn't miss anything because I was on the here
this text, Mandy, Please, where's the jeff Co school Board information?

(01:16:26):
I cannot find anything on the jeff Co Kids' First website.

Speaker 2 (01:16:31):
I have that on the blog.

Speaker 3 (01:16:32):
Today, and if you want me to go into a
tiny bit here, I can. The jeff Co school Board is,
in my view, one of the worst defenders when it
comes to injecting garbage, political clap trap and other nonsense
into the district. Their superintendent has to be replaced. In

(01:16:55):
my mind, there's like any candidate that does not say
I would be open to looking for her replacement immediately
should not even be considered.

Speaker 2 (01:17:03):
For your vote. So, jeff go schools. I've got three.

Speaker 3 (01:17:07):
Candidates, daneen et Scheveria Samuel Myront and Gloria Rascone. Gloria
goes by Terry and those are the three candidates. It's
all on the blog, mandy'sblog dot com. To the texture
who said, Mandy, it's my birthday today. I never thought

(01:17:30):
i'd live this long, especially how I've lived. Someone asked
this morning what I wanted to do. I said, listen
to all three hours of Mandy Connell. Now I'm not
saying that this is my favorite listener, but today, on
this birthday, my favorite listener.

Speaker 2 (01:17:45):
I texted back and said, how old are you? And
he said, my real age is forty seven.

Speaker 3 (01:17:48):
I tell everyone I'm thirty five, though, Now, how do
you live a hard life and pass for thirty five
when you're forty seven, sir or madam unless you're going
to reachen revolution and doing all the stuff to your
face ide to mine. Just throwing that out there, we
happy birthday. I hope you have many, many, many happy returns.

Speaker 2 (01:18:07):
Mandy. The two state wide ballots should.

Speaker 3 (01:18:09):
Be called please raise my taxes and Eat the rich,
As Ben Franklin and others said, when the citizens realize
they can vote themselves.

Speaker 2 (01:18:16):
Money, the republic is doomed. Yes, yes they are.

Speaker 3 (01:18:20):
You know what's funny is I saw I lurk on
several left wing political Facebook groups. I don't ever engage.
I just work to see what the other side is saying.

Speaker 2 (01:18:30):
This woman posted a post that essentially was like, I
don't know what the problem is. I mean, you know,
it's just not too.

Speaker 3 (01:18:37):
Much to expect our kids to have something like free lunches.
And I wanted to post like so basically, you're just
going to be looking at the person next to you
and going.

Speaker 2 (01:18:46):
Pay for my kid's lunch, because that's exactly what.

Speaker 3 (01:18:49):
You're doing if you're voting yes on Prop LL and
if you think they won't come for you, ladies and germs,
the attack on our flat tax here in Colorado is
going to be impressive because what they're trying to do
is create a progressive income tax, and they're going to
start it by saying, you know what, we need to
go over those rich bastards here in Colorado they don't

(01:19:09):
pay their fair share, when in reality, like Colorado, like
everywhere else, the rich pay an exorbitant percentage of the
total number of taxes that are collected.

Speaker 2 (01:19:18):
It just just it's factual. I mean, do the math.
We have a flat tax here in Colorado.

Speaker 3 (01:19:23):
What is four percent of twenty thousand dollars versus four
percent of three hundred thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:19:30):
Who pays more in taxes? Huh?

Speaker 3 (01:19:33):
Why aren't you people making fifty grand doing more for
the government. Nonetheless, that is how it will start. And
then pretty soon we'll be like, you know, now that
we've raised then we really can afford to raise the
rates on middle income workers too, and even you lower
income workers can pay a little bit more.

Speaker 2 (01:19:51):
Don't believe me.

Speaker 3 (01:19:53):
Look into the history of how the income tax came
to be in the United States of America.

Speaker 2 (01:19:57):
When they went after those evil rich people.

Speaker 3 (01:20:00):
But the problem is, back then they didn't index it
to inflation, just like they're not indexing this to inflation,
which means that his incomes rise.

Speaker 2 (01:20:09):
And you know what, guys, let me just say this.

Speaker 3 (01:20:11):
If you're young and you're listening to the show, you
can't imagine how true what I'm about.

Speaker 2 (01:20:15):
To say is. But it is true. Trust me on this,
and that is in forty years.

Speaker 3 (01:20:21):
From now, you will look back at whatever your income
is right now and you will think to yourself, holy crap,
how did I live on that compared to what I'm
making today. It's I mean, we talk about it all
the time. When I first started working, minimum wage was
three dollars and thirty five cents an hour. And that
wasn't in the eighteen hundreds, guys, that was in the

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late nineteen hundreds. So you just it sounds like you're
thinking of yourself. I'm never going to make three hundred
thousand dollars. You'd be surprised, really be surprised how quickly
that can happen. Now, we're going to take a very
quick time out and I have just a rapid fire
bunch of stories for you. Not the least of witches
you need to give babies, peanut butter. I want to

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give best wishes and sincere best wishes to our former
president Joe Biden and leave it to the sillennials to
think they came up with a new name for social
climbing and good news. Man, if you've ever wanted to
be more intimidating, well there's one thing you can change,
and you can absolutely change this.

Speaker 2 (01:21:26):
I'll tell you they answer to all of these.

Speaker 3 (01:21:28):
Coming up next a couple of text messages that I
want to hit on really quickly.

Speaker 2 (01:21:34):
Mandy. I am in the nutrition field. I have comments
about free lunch.

Speaker 3 (01:21:38):
Fifty percent of the food served in school lunch ends
up in the trash. Multiple studies show this. And we
don't have a hunger issue in Colorado. And our issue
now is that we're having more of an issue of
obesity and overweight in our children. And if you read
up on behavioral economics, you'll understand if you give people
free stuff they don't value, hence throwing out all the food.

Speaker 2 (01:22:00):
This is an excellent point made by another couple of textures.

Speaker 3 (01:22:03):
Actually, when I looked it up on the break to
find out exactly what the free lunch requirements are. So
let's go to my assistant chat and see what's required. Now,
when you are a kid and you are getting free lunch,
you are required to get the free lunch to take
X things on your plate. Hang on one second, I'm

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in food ways. Let's see here. You have to choose
a full meal, one that meets the proper components. If
the student only picks one entree and does not select
the required fruit, vegetable, milk, grain components, then it may
not count as a reimbursable meal.

Speaker 2 (01:22:42):
And the kids are getting charged.

Speaker 3 (01:22:44):
So what they're doing is they're getting all the components
of the free meal and throwing a vast majority of
it away.

Speaker 2 (01:22:50):
Now, any.

Speaker 3 (01:22:52):
This is so funny, and I'm going to tell you
this is gonna be one of the most relatable parrot things. Ever,
remember when you first started packing your kid's lunch, Like,
I don't know if they were in preschool or whatever.
For us it was preschool. In the first two weeks,
I packed the most gorgeous balanced, like, oh, here's a
little bit of fruit, here's some carrots, and I mean

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I went all out, and I would get it back
in the afternoon and there would literally be like a
carrot gone. That's all she would eat And I'm like,
what am I? And of course it's all destroyed in
the lunch box. She can't She's three, right, so you
can't put the little Oh god, now imagine that times. However,
many students we have getting free lunches that they're not

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eating because they have no incentive to not waste food
and they have no incentive to not take the free lunch,
especially if.

Speaker 2 (01:23:43):
They don't eat it.

Speaker 3 (01:23:45):
Mandy, I worked for Denver Public schools and I absolutely
concur with a texture, not to mention, crates and crates
full of milk in the dumpster.

Speaker 2 (01:23:54):
Yeah yeah, Mandy, I'm in the way one more time, Mandy.

Speaker 3 (01:24:03):
The free lunch program is absolute crap for the following
reason as well. The parents are being taxed to pay
for lunch that their own children won't even each because
it is the baked chicken, mashed potatoes.

Speaker 2 (01:24:14):
And vegetables plate.

Speaker 3 (01:24:16):
Most of my friends have some kids left in high
school still and they don't want to eat that at school.
They want to eat the snacks like crackers or cookies
or chips and a drink, which they then have to
pay for. So it infuriates the parents because they feel
like they're paying twice for the higher prices for the
snack and the food items and for a meal they
know their children will never eat correct across across the

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board correct so much. Now, imagine what if we were
actually using that money to help students learn. And, by
the way, ensuring that students who really needed the meal
free or reduced lunch is a very important thing. I'm
perfectly fine with that, but make sure that the kids
are getting it, are qualifying that their parents truly can't
afford to send them.

Speaker 2 (01:24:59):
To score with lunch.

Speaker 3 (01:25:01):
Nobody else should be paying for anybody else's lunch. Speaking
of lunch, wouldn't it be nice to be able to
send peanut butter back to schools again? Some sixty thousand
kids have avoided peanut allergies due to a twenty fifteen
study that said, hey, guys, if you don't want your
kids to be allergic to peanuts given peanut butter when
they're babies, all right, then since parents started introducing peanuts

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to their kids' diets very very early, the rate of
peanut allergies has dropped dramatically. Now, what's funny is the
reason we have so many peanut allergies is because the
advice before was to avoid peanuts and peanut butter until
the kids were three.

Speaker 2 (01:25:42):
But now we know. Now, we know that was the
wrong advice to give. I feel terrible for kids with
severe peanut allergies. It's just awful because I've heard other
kids make you know what here we have peanut butters
is stupid. I'm sitting over here.

Speaker 3 (01:25:56):
I've heard it all. I feel bad for him. Feed
your be's peanut butter, Mandy. My kids packed their own lunch,
which is usually better than I packed mine, only because
they can't stand mediocre school lunches that they won't eat
one hundred percent. Now here's the thing, any roun when
you were in school, because you were in school obviously
much later than I was, did they actually make the

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food from scratch in the cafeteria.

Speaker 2 (01:26:21):
I don't think so.

Speaker 3 (01:26:23):
So your lunch ladies weren't there at like six o'clock
in the morning cooking actual food.

Speaker 5 (01:26:27):
No, it seemed like it was always ready to go,
so maybe they were before I saw them doing it.

Speaker 3 (01:26:31):
I mean, you can tell the lunch that was not
prepared ahead of time.

Speaker 2 (01:26:36):
It was real food.

Speaker 3 (01:26:37):
Did you have like the brown gravy over the mashed
potatoes did you have that?

Speaker 2 (01:26:40):
I think so.

Speaker 4 (01:26:41):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:26:41):
Square pizza, yes, if you had spare pizza, you had
real food. You had real people cooking.

Speaker 2 (01:26:45):
It was a ali cart always available. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:26:48):
No, the spare pizza was only on Fridays a high school.
We had a salad bar in my high school. On
one side of the food line, you had a salad
bar and just hamburgers and French fries and milkshakes.

Speaker 2 (01:26:59):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (01:27:00):
That was one food line, salad bar, Hamburger's, French fries, milkshakes,
and then the other side was like normal food and
you could get a salad bar on the other side too,
because obviously you went and fix your own stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:27:11):
Mandy peanut butter story goes to show that a medical
consensus is not science correct. There you go.

Speaker 3 (01:27:21):
Kids in nineteen sixty eight didn't have lunch. They knew
dinner would be at home, and he used a canteen
across the street. Back in my day, we didn't even
eat meals.

Speaker 2 (01:27:31):
We just chewed on some shoe leather, kept us going
for the whole day.

Speaker 3 (01:27:36):
I'm just teasing you, Texter. Now there's a tremendous amount
of food waste. I mean just it's ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.
Now I've got a few more stories I want to
get to In the last ten minutes of the show,
I would like to wish a speedy recovery to former
President Joe Biden. He is just finished a round of

(01:27:57):
radiation therapy to treat his aggressive prostate cancer. His prostate
cancer has metastasized to his bones, which is not good,
and we'll find out if he has to have more
treatments at some point. But I think we can all
agree that a man in Joe Biden's sort of shape,

(01:28:19):
for lack of a better way to put it, probably
is going to have a tougher time at battling prostate cancer.
So if you are the prayerful sort, or if you
want to send good energy to the former president. I
think it would be a nice thing to do, and
I prayed for speedy healing and a full recovery. That
is all I'm saying about that. Moving on now, the
younger generations.

Speaker 2 (01:28:40):
Crack me up. They just cracked me.

Speaker 3 (01:28:43):
They feel like they've reinvented everything, like they have just
stumbled upon something that is so revolutionary they have to
give some clever name to it, and then we're all
supposed to be amazed, like, oh my god, look at
how clever those youngsters are. Listen to this story. You're
gonna I mean, I laughed out loud when I read

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it from USA today. Beware daters. Not everyone who says
they're looking for their king or queen has good intentions.
There's a new dating term called throning, which means dating
someone to raise your social status. The goal for throwners
is to land a partner with clout so their own image.

Speaker 2 (01:29:25):
Gets a boost by association.

Speaker 3 (01:29:27):
Unlike trekking, which involves dating down in the hopes that
the person will treat you better in return, throning involves
dating up for all the wrong reasons.

Speaker 2 (01:29:38):
Guys.

Speaker 3 (01:29:39):
This is called social climbing, and it is as old
as history. There's no new names to be given here. Now.
The clout they're chasing is a different kind of clout.
The clout they're chasing is Internet fame clout. You know what,
if I can get somebody with more followers than me,

(01:29:59):
and then I can use that to leverage theirs to
get more followers from me, then that would be amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:30:05):
It's social climbing.

Speaker 3 (01:30:08):
It's just like all the poor women from the wrong
side of the tracks who put on their Sunday best
and they went to the dance halls to land themselves
a rich husband, or the guy from the wrong side
of the tracks who decides to woo the unattractive daughter
of the wealthy landowners. It's like the theme of fifty
billion hours of soap operas. But hey, you know what,

(01:30:29):
gen Z sure you invented it. You you absolutely invented it.

Speaker 2 (01:30:37):
I just it's so cute. Listen to this.

Speaker 3 (01:30:40):
One TikToker explains in a video. Basically, the date is
a throne that is used to elevate the person who
is duning the throning. The scenario focus is solely on
social influence or status and not on building a real
emotional connection. This is what social climbing is. What can
you do for me? The good news about social climbing

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in general is that for a long time there was
more pressure on women to make sure they married well
because their own financial opportunities were so limited. Well, those
days have fallen by the wayside. So if you can
find someone that you want a date, that wants to
date you and they have a better social status, eh
oh this texter said, Mandy. We used to call it

(01:31:22):
marrying up. Heck, yeah we did. I mean I might
actually call it that now, Mandy. I'd like to know
what Joe Biden is really seeking treatment for, because we
all know that he cured cancer, so he couldn't be
suffering from that Jared sassy comment, the man has cancer,
or as they say in the South, the man has cancer.

(01:31:44):
You don't say the disease out loud, you whisper it
over the dinner table. You've heard, haven't and he has cancer, Mandy.
The peanut correction is still one step off. Food restrictions
in uterow have probably done more damage. Can I just
tell you nobody tells you this before you get pregnant.
At least sit and tell me when you go in here.

(01:32:04):
I am I'm thirty nine years old when I'm pregnant
with my daughter, which is absurd, and I'm going to
the doctor.

Speaker 2 (01:32:11):
I'm excited I'm pregnant.

Speaker 3 (01:32:13):
And the lady literally goes, okay, let's talk about your
dietary restrictions while you're pregnant. And I'm thinking, like, don't
gain too much wait whatever, which I blew that out
of the water, but.

Speaker 2 (01:32:23):
Don't gain no, no, no.

Speaker 3 (01:32:24):
It's like, oh, you can't eat rare to medium rare
or even medium steaks or hamburger. You can't eat red
meat that is not cooked to well done. Well, I'm
not eating well, I'm not eating meat for nine months.

Speaker 1 (01:32:36):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:32:36):
By the way, you cannot eat raw fish. And I
looked at the doctor and I said, well, what are
women in Japan e? They sushi all the time. And
she was like, uh, no one's ever asked me that
question before. I took that as a compliment. By the way,
launch meat off the table. It's like, what what is happening, Mandy?

(01:32:59):
How can I spell wrong side of the tracks on
a license plate?

Speaker 2 (01:33:03):
I don't know. Hmm. Let me think that over. I'll
see if I can figure that out. Mandy.

Speaker 3 (01:33:10):
Here's another one that they feel that they've reinvented. Gen
Z has invented micro retirement, where they take a week
or two off work to deal with mental health.

Speaker 2 (01:33:20):
Mandy. It's called a vacation. Yes, it is, it is.

Speaker 3 (01:33:26):
Ralph says, bone cancer is horrible. Not even Joe Biden
deserves that. Sadly, there is no recovery from this. Joe
Biden has cancer. Texter, another cancer texter who has that?

Speaker 2 (01:33:38):
Mandy?

Speaker 3 (01:33:39):
Maybe why don't they marry the government to get clout?
They want on the glory and none of the work.

Speaker 2 (01:33:44):
Good one.

Speaker 3 (01:33:46):
Mandy went to Catholic school in the sixties, none supervised.
What we threw away, students would be sent back to
finish everything on the lunch tray. Karmelita Nun's full habit,
Carmelita Nun, Mandy, So, feeding peanut butter to babies actually
prevents peanut allergies, and eating eggs does not cause high cholesterol,

(01:34:09):
and getting the COVID vaccines doesn't actually prevent getting COVID?
Is it any wonder the public's trust with the experts
is so low? Yep, Mandy, all men marry up women
are superior to men in almost every way. Every smart
man knows this. I did not write that text message.

(01:34:29):
I was talking to you guys. I couldn't have typed
that much at the same time, just want to let
you go. My mom's dad called cancer consumption. God rest
his soul, Hey, dad of the consumption? That sounds very
civil war like? Why did he die from the consumption?

Speaker 1 (01:34:49):
Hi?

Speaker 3 (01:34:49):
Mandy, sitting here listening to your discussion on school lunch
as I recently retired from managing a school lunch program
out of preschool through eighth grade parochial school. Our lunches
were made from scratch and our kids and parents loved
our lunches. Disappointing the public schools get free lunches and
breakfast serve processed packaged food and are encouraged to support
local farmers who can afford that at home much less.

(01:35:11):
School lunch budgets so much wasted money and food. Free
and reduced lunch qualifications should suffice.

Speaker 2 (01:35:18):
And if you vote no on Prop LL.

Speaker 3 (01:35:21):
Or Prop MM, kids on the free and reduced lunch
program will still get free lunches.

Speaker 2 (01:35:28):
It will still get it. It will still happen.

Speaker 3 (01:35:32):
Ooh, we've got a suggestion for the texter who wanted
to know how to get wrong side of the tracks
on a license plate.

Speaker 2 (01:35:41):
He has WRNNGRXR. That's not bad. I mean it requires
a little railroad knowledge to know what it means.

Speaker 3 (01:35:53):
Mandy, lunch meat has to be cooked for ulsters and
pregos because of Listeria monocytogens. I just want to take
a moment and everyone be dazzled on the fact that
I just correctly pronounced the Listeria monocytogens. Reading on the fly,
Listeria can grow at refrigerator temperature, says the texture urban
This texter said, urban farming trend.

Speaker 2 (01:36:14):
Yeah, that's gardening. Yeah it is.

Speaker 3 (01:36:17):
Just don't tell gen z. They like making up new
names for stuff, and y'all bless them.

Speaker 2 (01:36:23):
Bless them.

Speaker 3 (01:36:24):
Just if you really want to see their heads explode,
start using their lingo. I am making my daughter absolutely
crazy by hitting her with a six seven.

Speaker 2 (01:36:34):
She's like, Mom, you're not using that right. I go,
what does it mean? She's like nothing? I go, well,
then I can use it any way I want. Right,
what does six to seven mean?

Speaker 3 (01:36:41):
Nothing? It means whatever you want it to mean or nothing.
And this is what kids say. Pass for high conversation.

Speaker 2 (01:36:49):
I don't know. I have no idea.

Speaker 3 (01:36:53):
Man, we got so much stuff on the blog that
we did not get to, especially this. I might save
this story for tomorrow because a new study is shown
that the way men walk can actually project the way
they fight. And if you want to look like a
guy who knows how to fight, there is a specific

(01:37:14):
way that you.

Speaker 2 (01:37:15):
Can walk to make that happen.

Speaker 3 (01:37:17):
I just think that's kind of cool joining me in
the studio for that especial time of day. By the way,
Grant Smith walking in the studio, I got the best
picture of your mom, Me and your mom when I
was in Athens this past week, Grant, she sent me.

Speaker 2 (01:37:32):
I know, isn't a good picture.

Speaker 6 (01:37:34):
It's okay, I'm just kidding. My mom's owe you jacket.
I was like, damn, I'm one of those.

Speaker 3 (01:37:41):
Nazzy, super snazzy. We were just up there for the afternoon.

Speaker 2 (01:37:45):
I saw your mom.

Speaker 4 (01:37:45):
So there you go.

Speaker 3 (01:37:48):
Grant is walking in and sitting down. Mandy, government not
shut down. They're still taking taxes from my check. I
want a refund. Well you can get that starting January
thirty first of next year. Anyway, him, Mandy, Republicans should
refuse all vaccinations. Live your values. No, some vaccinations were
really smart and effective. But the COVID vaccinations are not vaccinations.

Speaker 2 (01:38:14):
They're just not.

Speaker 3 (01:38:15):
They're a preventive measure with significant side effects.

Speaker 2 (01:38:18):
So no, I'll pass on that one.

Speaker 3 (01:38:19):
But anyway, Mandy, you can marry more money in twenty
minutes than you can make in your whole life. But
then you have to be married to someone.

Speaker 2 (01:38:28):
Maybe that's.

Speaker 3 (01:38:30):
Not worth being married to for money. Now I'll pass.
But now it's time for the most exciting segment.

Speaker 2 (01:38:38):
All the Radio Out's guide is the world of the day.

Speaker 3 (01:38:45):
All right, what is our dad joke of the day please?

Speaker 5 (01:38:48):
Anthony, buddy of mine handing me two kayak paddles and
asked which one do you want?

Speaker 2 (01:38:54):
I said, I'll take either.

Speaker 3 (01:38:56):
Or that's a good one. I'm gonna use that one again.

Speaker 2 (01:39:01):
Thank yoush. What is our word of the day please?
It is an adjective sedentary. Oh, you don't move. You
just sit around like a big old lump, not physically active.
That is correct.

Speaker 4 (01:39:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:39:13):
Today's trivia question.

Speaker 3 (01:39:14):
In the classic Looney Tunes cartoons, what is the name
of the cat? The tweety bird is always out smarting Sylvester.
Of course, Sylvester suffering.

Speaker 2 (01:39:26):
That was pretty good. I'll do a good lateral lisp,
I do, I do. I will spit everywhere if I
do it the exactly. I spent my whole life trying
to get rid of my lisp. So you're a lisp.
I bet it was adorable. It was very cute.

Speaker 3 (01:39:40):
I was gonna say, little kid, lisp were so cute.
As an adult more challenging, yes, just say it, especially
in this business. Yeah, definitely. All right, what is our
jeopardy category?

Speaker 4 (01:39:49):
It? It? It? It?

Speaker 2 (01:39:52):
Does every word have it in it? Most of them? Okay,
most of that's not helpful. Just not the last one, okay, okay.
Something that provokes a desire to scratch the skin? Manny,
what's an itch? Correct? Okay? Worldwide?

Speaker 5 (01:40:07):
It's the native language of about sixty six million people.

Speaker 2 (01:40:11):
Manny, what's Italian? That is correct? My gosh? Used for emphasis?
They're printed letters that usually what are italics?

Speaker 1 (01:40:19):
Oh much.

Speaker 2 (01:40:21):
Glad I came here for this a list of places
to be visited? Manny, what's an itinerary?

Speaker 6 (01:40:26):
Good?

Speaker 2 (01:40:26):
Lord? Okay, and uh, this one doesn't start with it.
I'm guessing. What's the name of the clown in the
movie It Manny penny Wise.

Speaker 5 (01:40:35):
Oh my.

Speaker 2 (01:40:37):
Wow, that was fun. Bring out the proms.

Speaker 3 (01:40:42):
It's known in some circles as a big old fashioned
woman right there.

Speaker 2 (01:40:45):
Yeah, if I didn't, I guess I needed to be
humbled today. Well because that was a quick butt kicking
right there. Well, you know, no last minute stunner's here.
It's going to bring it out.

Speaker 6 (01:40:56):
Speaking of KOA Sports, we've got Garrett Bowles at three,
Rod Smith coming in studio at five o'clock. Can't wait
to hear what he has to say about the game
and the alumni weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:41:07):
Thank god they pulled that one out. You know what
I just I heard? We have a Actually it's on
the blog today.

Speaker 3 (01:41:12):
A sound bite of Dave Logan yesterday on KOA Sports,
just talking about b Nix being the comeback kid and
how to incorporate more of that free wheeling.

Speaker 2 (01:41:22):
We're down, we got to do something big earlier in
the game exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:41:27):
Yeah, but that was so much that happened was fun
because this time because we won, right, it's like horrible
when we don't win, all right, you guys Tomorrow Lindsey
Dad Co from Jeff co Kids First is gonna join
us because we are talking about the school board elections.
I'm gonna have more information and I'm gonna put together
an actual scoreboard guide for what I have now today.

Speaker 2 (01:41:48):
So that'll be out and we'll do all that tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (01:41:51):
But in the meantime, I know KOA Sports is in
the in the blocks and ready to go, so we'll
hand the station to them.

Speaker 2 (01:41:57):
Keep it on Koa