10-29-25 FULL SHOW - Weather Wednesday, And Gut Health Determines Health Aging

Fox 31's Dave Fraser joins for Weather Wednesday, why are their car washes on top of car washes, and a new study says gut health is the key to a healthy lifespan.

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.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
On KOA.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Ninem God.

Speaker 4 (00:17):
Says through three and Donald Keith Sada.

Speaker 5 (00:26):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Wednesday edition of the show.
I'm your host for the next three hours, Mandy Connell.
That guy over there, he's Anthony Rodriguez. And today we
will take you Oh sorry following, didn't mean to step
on you, boo. We'll take you right up until three
p m. And we've got big news here at the

(00:46):
KOA Radio. And if you did not hear earlier, we're
doing a little well. We're moving things around. We're rearranging
the furniture, Anthony. We're redecorating, if you will. And we're
just no demo read we're no demo renoing. We're just
moving everything around and it's gonna it's gonna be amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
We're expanding our color palette with a little brown. Oh
I like that.

Speaker 5 (01:10):
Oh well played. Starting on November tenth, you will hear
a slightly different lineup on KOA from five to six
Colorado's Morning News with Gina Gondeck, and then six to
nine Ross on the news, Ross Kamensky on the News
with Gina Gondeck. But if you say Ross on the news,
do you know what that would be as an acronym.

(01:32):
That would be rotten Rotten with Gina Goddeck from six
to nine. So Ros Kamensky moving on up to the
morning drive slot and nine to noon our pal our
Frindemie from K Howe. Michael Brown is going to be
right before me nine to noon. It will be so
much easier for his listeners to rat him out when

(01:54):
he says mean things about me. Yeah, you know, you
don't even have to change the dials just right.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
You know, his followers are called on his show, right.

Speaker 5 (02:02):
Brownies, no gooers, Oh great, goobers.

Speaker 6 (02:05):
Yeah, the goobers are on their way to the dial
of a fifty Yeah yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:10):
And then of course I will remain where I am
koa Sports Broncos Country tonight. So it just in the
first half of the day you will have some slight changes.
We're all very excited.

Speaker 6 (02:20):
Wait, let's make Brown really angry and come up with
it all also really cool nickname for our listeners today.

Speaker 5 (02:27):
Wait, we need oh what are what?

Speaker 1 (02:28):
What?

Speaker 7 (02:29):
Well?

Speaker 5 (02:30):
Well, I won't tell you what they were called in prior?

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Actually you want to is it bad?

Speaker 5 (02:36):
But I want to see what other people come up
with to see the pot. Okay, I will tell you.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
What it is.

Speaker 6 (02:41):
Is your Okay, don't spoil it? Is your name part
of the yes, okay, yeah, okay, And now I'm really intrigued. Okay, yeah,
all right, let's see what the listeners we need good nicknames?

Speaker 5 (02:51):
Five six for you all? Yeah, the common spiritual text
like we are now taking nomination.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Brownie really mad. You've got to call your your listener's
nickname too. I see you.

Speaker 5 (03:00):
I mean, if I had to guess, I would just
call mine employed. How about that? JK.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Gouber's real talk though. Love having Brownie over here?

Speaker 4 (03:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (03:10):
I get.

Speaker 6 (03:11):
Can I have ten seconds? I am so spoiled in
my history here at Kawa with awesome hosts. You you are, Brian,
Dave big Al Jojo Ben Nick. I'm gonna forget people
ross obviously when I get every now and then once
a blue moon usually actually like once a blue moon
every six months or so, I do get to go
over and work with Brownie on k How I love
Brownie for those that listen to him and understand that

(03:34):
he is a goofball on air.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
He's even more so off air. He's super fun to
work with his sense of humor.

Speaker 5 (03:40):
You wrecking his reputation rival well, because.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
I'm never going to do it to his face? Can
I tell you? Can I tell you what Brownie said
to me yesterday?

Speaker 5 (03:47):
You were ruining his reputation as a grumpy old man
is though, that's the funny thing with a sense of humor.

Speaker 6 (03:52):
So I told him, I said, we're super excited to
have you over here, and he said, I'm going to
read his text.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
I don't care.

Speaker 6 (03:58):
As much as I hate to admit it, I can't
wait to work with you. Of course, I'll still treat
you like bleep.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
But excited. Nonetheless, that's Michael brown People.

Speaker 5 (04:09):
Oh we got we got people, we got suggestions.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Oh what is so good? There's some good ones star
wars on.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (04:21):
Oh, somebody texted in Mandy Laurians. Oh my god, Oh
my god. That would make my heart happy.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Maniac is good.

Speaker 5 (04:32):
We're not gonna man. Mandy Pamby's sounds Mamby Pamby. And
that's not complimentary.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Mandy Axe is really good to Andy Laurians might already
be the one. Okay, I got it. That's it from
that right now?

Speaker 5 (04:46):
It is Mandy Axe.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
I like that one a lot.

Speaker 5 (04:49):
That one's actually really cool. And Mandy Laurians that's incredible.
Let's think about from a branding perspective, like what's gonna
look better on a T shirt? Anthony?

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Can you have Mandy Laurians? They nailed?

Speaker 6 (05:01):
Why?

Speaker 2 (05:01):
But we're gonna get nailed by Disney.

Speaker 5 (05:03):
Well not if we don't ape anything else.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah, you know not.

Speaker 5 (05:06):
As as long as we don't copy anything else, I
think we'll be fine. Although Disney is ruthless, mandits Mandykes
is the one that people used to say all the time,
and we still use it in our house. Man Chuck
will say she's a mandit. That's pretty about somebody who's
a big fan of the show.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Because we could.

Speaker 6 (05:22):
Avoid the Like you said, Disney will bring the hammer. Yes,
I don't know, Yes they would.

Speaker 5 (05:28):
It's a dream come true. Ross lost his show.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Dude, Ross got a promotion.

Speaker 5 (05:33):
Here's something you need to know about radio morning drive,
in afternoon drive, or when you have the most ears.
It doesn't matter what radio station you're listening to. That is,
when you have the most people, because that's when you
guys are in your cars. A ton of radio listening
still happens in automobiles. Tons so morning drive in afternoon
drive when more people are on the road. That is
actually like the sweet shift. That's the number one gig.

(05:57):
I've never wanted to work in either. I've worked in
morning drive, never worked in an afternoon drive.

Speaker 6 (06:02):
But there's a reason why every time I go over
and we're brown show that was previously now, okay, how
six to ten? I say, I always tell them, Brownie,
you're lucky. I love you, dude, every time, every time,
because I make no bones about it. I my brain
can't go to sleep, my brain won't shut up. I
cannot get up for early shift.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
I can't do it. I struggle, I admit it. I
know it's stupid, but it's hard.

Speaker 5 (06:26):
It's toysically a hard Okay, let's look at some of
these other ones, Hey, Rod, we've got more suggestions. Mandy's Marauders.
That sounds too evil. Mandaloons, man, I like Mandaloons, Mandy
Candy that sounds a little dirty.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Mandy Axe is incredible.

Speaker 5 (06:40):
I really like Mandy Acs a lot. Mandaloons. I also
like a lot.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
They are great textures.

Speaker 5 (06:46):
Hell yeah, yeah, anyway.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Mandits, I don't like man dates.

Speaker 6 (06:50):
I think my top three it's one in one A
right now because Mandylorians has me worried that Disney's going
to come down the hammer, But I also kind of
want them to come down with a ham. We have
to change it, and we get publicity, and we got publicity.
Many Acts is probably number two. Mandalons is like two
a right now. Uh.

Speaker 5 (07:08):
I consider myself a bleephead because I listened to you.

Speaker 6 (07:12):
Yeah, but we can't one but conists the wow conalism. Wow,
it's a movement conalism. That's that's incredible as well.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
But it goes with it.

Speaker 5 (07:30):
It sounds like a political and I'd like to register
as a connolist. Can I get you that coffee please?

Speaker 2 (07:36):
It's really good? I mean, yeah, wow, that might be
it too.

Speaker 6 (07:45):
Mandy Laurian.

Speaker 5 (07:46):
A lot of people are like Mandy Laurians. Yes, but
a lot of people like Mandy Acts. They like that
a lot too.

Speaker 8 (07:51):
Well.

Speaker 5 (07:52):
You know, after I take some suggestions, what I'll do
is I'll pole yeah, and we'll ask you guys, and
that'll be the new name. And and then our names
are going to be better than Goober.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
I'm just saying, I wonder how that started. We'll have
to ask him tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (08:05):
A lot of people were asking about Marty Lenz. He
was laid off. Is the last iHeart reduction in force.
So this is where we are. It's just where we
are people, it is the world we live in. We
haven't even done the blog yet. My god, we've already
wasted a tremendous amount of time right at the top
of the show letting everybody know about the new lineup
that all starts November tenth. I am not going anywhere.

(08:28):
I am intractable. They were like, do you want to
stop talking to me? No, I'm just kidding. They didn't
ask me anyway. Find the blog by going to mandy'sblog
dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. When you get there,
well looks for the latest post section. You may have
to scroll to the right to see the headline that

(08:48):
says ten twenty nine twenty five blog. That's today's date,
and it says blog, and then the headline weather Wednesday
and gut health determines Healthy Aging. Click on that and
here are the headlines you will find within.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
I didn't know where in office half of American all
with ships and clipments and say that's ConA press plat.

Speaker 5 (09:08):
Today on the blog whether Wednesday at twelve thirty, car
washes are sprouting like weeds. What's in your gut? Not
every criticism is racism. School Board races matters so much.
I've got suggestions below. Hey, Centennial, you've got some hot
races going on if you're looking for voter guides. Denver
wants more fines for landlords. Colorado is suing the Trump

(09:30):
headmin again. Speaking of the shutdown, Scrolling in is nine
News souring on the mayor. This as Denver City Council
tries to block the flock cameras Jamaica was hit hard.
The vibrant Denver bond is anything but no gay games
for Denver? Is the climate crisis over GOLP one seem

(09:52):
to lead to an obesity drop? The hysterical way the
media is covering Trump's health. Does a pottery shard confirm
a biblical story? Where did the idiotic six to seven
meme even come from? The Denver Chris Kendall market is moving.
They ain't afraid of no ghosts donuts, highly processed beacon
products may lead to depression. Jake Tapper shuts down a

(10:15):
criticism of DEI in the White House, who hasn't walked
a dog like this? Some more great Halloween costumes and
sorry Trump, that twenty second amendment is a thing. Those
are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com
tech Toe a winner. Yes, Nancy, I did.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
It for you.

Speaker 5 (10:35):
You see what I did there, though a rod. I
had to put all those Halloween costumes into one post
so I wouldn't have to read a bunch of headlines.
Those would have sent me right over the top. But man,
you ask if you want some super creative Halloween costumes.
They are on the blog today. They are really the
one for up. Stop it a rod, stop it right now.
That makes me want to have another baby just so

(10:56):
I can do that.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
No, it doesn't.

Speaker 5 (10:58):
I know you're right. It's not a thing I want
to do. That's done.

Speaker 6 (11:02):
God, these textures your initials, the hammers, shut up?

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Get you got your fire?

Speaker 5 (11:10):
Wow, that's going on the list. Wow see hammer. Oh
my god, that's fantastic.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
These textures are incredible.

Speaker 5 (11:20):
C S two right, I mean.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Again, I kind of want the attention.

Speaker 5 (11:24):
Yeah, I mean I'd rather go against him than Disney.

Speaker 6 (11:27):
Mandy's Minions is easy, and it would probably be a
good one if it wasn't for these other top cannons.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
I know exactly, Jimmy Crizity, if you're going to go.

Speaker 5 (11:34):
Do a pole you should go with the Mandy Candy suggestion.
And they smelled pole p o l e uh oh,
so I'm not sure if that's a pole dancing reference.
I don't know where the protests for the Koa layoffs.
Everybody who would have protested has already been laid off,
So never mind. A dream come true. I can eat
my fruit loops and listen to it at the same time.

(11:55):
There you go, Man Cohen's Yeah, okay, Mandalorians, if you
do merchandise. Oh, by the way, I'm doing merchandise with us.

Speaker 6 (12:04):
That's why I kind of want to go with Mandylorians
to get an official season to saist from Disney.

Speaker 5 (12:10):
Mandy Lupa's okay, no, like Dragon's staying by the way,
yes ai oh, Dragon's Abby gets to work of both
right here on this station. Mandets mandets mandeest. That sounds
too feminine. I want it to be.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
When some man.

Speaker 5 (12:31):
I'm gonna use that the next time I screw up
a guest.

Speaker 6 (12:33):
Name this person not even trying to be creative. Mandy strippers,
what Mandy's strippers? Mandy strippers?

Speaker 5 (12:39):
Okay, I mean, are we all taking I'm not taking
my clothes off for this show. If I was gonna
take my clothes off for a radio show, it would
have been years ago. It never happened. Then dirty mandis No, No,
that's not good bye, Bye Morning Drive. Noon visits will
continue as long as Mandy is there. How about man

(13:00):
these marvels. I mean, that's kind of you're really tooting
your own horn there.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
But yeah, mum, because we got a Rods air horns,
so I mean you know that's already.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (13:12):
Okay, we've got great suggest I'm not taking any more
suggestions because here are our suggestions that we're going to
vote on. Are you ready?

Speaker 3 (13:17):
Well?

Speaker 2 (13:18):
You got because I have six legitimates, six legitimate contentions.

Speaker 5 (13:24):
Okay, wait, I'm missing one then, because I only have
five Mandy Axes, Mandy Laurian, Yes, Mandaloons, condialists, MC hammers.
What am I missing?

Speaker 3 (13:33):
Well?

Speaker 6 (13:33):
I just for old time Sega put Mandys on it
for you. Yes, those are my six that's gonna be
a hard.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Top second.

Speaker 5 (13:39):
I think that's gonna be really rough.

Speaker 6 (13:44):
It's kind of come down to Mandylorians and Mandy Acx,
but connalists especially. I love that's really good because you like,
do you believe in condalism?

Speaker 5 (13:52):
You know what we should do? Okay, Yeah, we're gonna
have a poll. Let's make this a poll for what
we should call our listeners. We have a lot going
on on the show today. I don't know why we're
just dawdling through the first half hour. I apologize for that, No,
I don't.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
It's my show.

Speaker 5 (14:04):
We have weather Wednesday coming up at twelve thirty. I
gotta tell you, guys, I was so ready for this weather,
this gorgeous, cold, beautiful day. I clothes can come up
just to hair though I don't care. I don't. I
do not like summer. I realize that's blasphemy. I don't

(14:25):
like it. I don't enjoy It's like. The worst part
is is that the longest days. And I know that
I know the science behind this. Even as I say it,
I understand the science behind it. So you don't have
to send me a snarky text message or an email
telling me I'm stupid because I don't understand that it's
hotter because the days are longer and the sun is closer.
I do, but it would be cool if we had
this weather and a longer day, but we can't. We

(14:47):
get the shorter days in set.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
So here you go.

Speaker 5 (14:49):
Mandisa's mandise. That sounds a lot a little Latino, and
I'm definitely not a honky like full on honky.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
As your resident partial, I can agree with that.

Speaker 5 (15:00):
There you go. Yeah, And are you more Latino now
by marriage?

Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (15:06):
I mean I feel like I'm married. I mean our
kids will be this, you know, the pendulum swing back
get away.

Speaker 5 (15:12):
They'll be more Latino than you.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
So yeah, I think you did.

Speaker 5 (15:16):
Because Chuck says he's Southern by marriage, and I keep
telling him that's not a thing.

Speaker 6 (15:20):
All right.

Speaker 5 (15:20):
We also have another visit. Emily Barata was just on
the show to talk about the Haunted car wash, but
she reached back out to us and said, I am
having a problem, and the problem is she's got two
car washes and the great car wash Boom is underway.
And I mentioned this the other day on the show
as part of the Big Beautiful Bill. One of the
things that was codified in that bill was a depreciation

(15:43):
on equipment, and now you can take all of it
in one year. Now if you're have if you okay,
let me. I don't want to explain this badly, and
I'm probably going to. If you have a business and
you need to buy a new piece of equipment, I
have no problem with you buying that piece of equipment
and then being able to appreciate the cost of it
from your taxes because that spurs investment and frees up

(16:04):
money that otherwise would have had to be spread out
or made the purchase unavailable. That's what this tax benefit
is designed to do. It's designed to spur investment in
certain capital investments in business. That's the whole point. But
as a consequence, wealthy people who have lots of you know, CPAs,
who do nothing but scour the tax code and figure

(16:25):
out ways to utilize it to their best advantage to
mitigate their own tax burden, have found that two things
are incredibly incredibly easy to deduct a lot of money
off your taxes. One of them is private airplanes, sales
of those are off the charts, and car washes. Because
car washes are so equipment intensive, so I mentioned this

(16:48):
the other day, like, you cannot swing a dead cat
in Douglas County without hitting another car wash. And when
I read that, I was like, well, that's why it's happening.
We don't have way more cars on the road. It's
just a bunch of wealthy people buying and building car
washes so they can take the depreciation on the equipment.
I don't blame them. If I was super wealthy, I'd
do everything I could legally to avoid paying taxes. I

(17:11):
don't blame them. What did you find which has made
you a rod?

Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah, I'm not gonna say that went on there.

Speaker 5 (17:19):
Mandorkians. No, No, the one, the one above that.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
Uh, it's one of those.

Speaker 5 (17:24):
Yeah, he has a creative Mnentuckians. No, as a honkey.
I'm disappointed that you don't overemphasize a Latin accent when
you talk about a Rod Redleguez. Oh, I should do that,
but then I would be acting like a Democrat. Yeah, wellzy,

(17:46):
Oh no, I can roll myers. I have no moisture
in my mouth. This upper respiratory infection, I believe, Anthony.
I believe I had a man cold.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
It was rough.

Speaker 5 (17:54):
I barely survived. But now I'm super now I'm super dehydrated,
because you know, anyway, a lot of you making comments
not a fan of some of the lineup stuff. Ross
did not lose his spot. Ross is moving to morning Drive. Okay,
Ross is moving to morning Drive. Michael Brown going nine

(18:16):
to nude me saying right where I am, Amanda Rony's No, yeah, Mandy,
why would you be swinging a dead cat? That's just
a saying from a childhood that is stuck around. You
can't swing a dead cat without hitting a Baptist church
where I'm from, you know, I mean, but it gives
it gives you a visual, right, it's not very.

Speaker 6 (18:37):
Far, yeah, and it makes you pause too much to
understand and wait, why did why did we say this?

Speaker 5 (18:41):
Do you know how many times I said that as
a kid Before I even thought about what I was saying,
I just knew that that sentence went there and it
was appropriate. And then when I'm like nineteen, I said
it and I'm like, what am I even saying? You
just pick up these things when you're a kid into Mandy. No,
Mandy light full. I think we've got our six yep,

(19:04):
I feel like we've got our six.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
Well, you know, what we're fresh. Yeah, I think we
take away mandates be fresh.

Speaker 5 (19:09):
Okay, you know what I'm not. I am perfectly fine
with that done. I'm perfectly fine. We will welcome all
mandates into the new whatever the new name is.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
Embrace connaism, even if we go with another one.

Speaker 5 (19:22):
Well, conalism is when we're being fancy, right, like when
we're talking about something serious.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
I think it's we're creating a cult.

Speaker 5 (19:28):
Uh oh oh, you know what. That's a way to
separate people from their money. I'll be back after this
with Dave Fraser, Fox thirty one Weather Wednesday up next
time to check in with our favorite meteorologist. He is
Dave Fraser from Fox thirty one. Dave, I gotta tell
you this weather is my jam. I want this to
last for a long time, just like this.

Speaker 3 (19:51):
Don't change anything.

Speaker 5 (19:52):
Okay, I'm not moving, I'm not breathing. I'm not moving.
It's glorious. What are we looking at? And I looked
at your forecast out for the next week. It doesn't
look like we have anything on the horizon that's gonna
be a problem.

Speaker 3 (20:05):
We don't. But before we get to that, I gotta
chime in. I'm gonna give you my opinion on your
pole before maybe I can influence some of your goo.

Speaker 5 (20:11):
Please do because the pole is live at Mandy Connell
on Facebook.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
Picture a T shirt all right, says iHeart koa on
the top, picture of you and Anthony A Rod in
parachute pants saying MC hammers. And then underneath because of
your stay in your slot says can't touch this.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
Oh man.

Speaker 5 (20:34):
From the top rope. Dave Frasier, we're worried about in
frenchmen on that one.

Speaker 6 (20:41):
That's that's you know, go for it, go for it
the low risk we're gonna say. Dave Fraser told us
to do it, So send the season to says to
the Fox thirty one building.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
I just I could just picture it. It's a visual
in my.

Speaker 4 (20:55):
Well.

Speaker 5 (20:56):
You you will have the opportunity to buy your merchandise soon.
Just wait. It's kind of yeah, the merch line that
I just thought of in my head. Okay, So what
is happening?

Speaker 2 (21:06):
Nothing is happy?

Speaker 3 (21:07):
Yay, it's literally we do we call it a phone
it in forecast. You know, we haven't had much in
the way. Yep, We're just I got nothing for the
next seven to ten days. People keeps asking about the
first snow. The average date is October eighteenth, that's coming gone.
There was a storm a couple of days ago that
looked like it might pan out for our first snow

(21:29):
around the seventh of November, but that is no longer
in the model. So for right now through the eighth
of the month, I can guarantee you we're not going
to see snow here. We're just stuck in a pattern
where there's more active weather to our west and to
our east, and we're just kind of caught in between
with nothing going on.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
Now.

Speaker 5 (21:45):
On the good news side, we're having weather like this,
which is absolutely stunning and fabulous, but we already have
keystone and a basin open they're making snow. And someone
texted in this question, which I think is kind of
interesting weather Wenesday, how does you play into the ski
slopes ability to make snow? And then of course I
like Connallism. You can run on your own platform, and

(22:07):
so we've got to vote for Condadism. There by the way,
the poll is live on my Facebook page at Mandy
Connell if you want to vote on what we're going
to call our listeners. So, what does humidity have to
do with it, and is drier better or is a
little more damp better.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
I mean, humidity is always a good factor in the air.
But what we were dealing with, you know, Keystone has
made a lot of investments and millions of dollars in
getting more and more snowguns, so they've become more of
a conversation of late in the last few years when
it comes to first open. They were the first to
open in all of North America. They haven't done that
since nineteen ninety seven. We have a meteorological all the

(22:45):
meteorologists in Denver meet with the Colorado ski country representatives.
We had that lunch in last Thursday, and we were hinting,
you know, we were trying to get them to give
us an idea where they were, and of course they
didn't want to say anything Keystone and a Base and
and the rest of them because they're competitors. It was
funny we had that luncheon on Thursday talking about the
ski season ahead, what we thought as far as laminia

(23:06):
and snow totals and what the season might look like.
And then of course a basin drops on Saturday morning.
We're going to open on Sunday and I'm like, all
there you go. That's good, And within a few hours
keystone drops, we're opening this I know them. Yeah, it
was good. So you know, in the mountains, what they're
looking for is they're looking for the right conditions. It's

(23:27):
temperature combined with humidity or the due point as we
talk about, and then sunlight. You know, I mean, you've
got to be careful about you know, if we're gonna
spend expend all this water and turn it into snow,
but the next few days, the temperatures and the sun
and everything is going to work against us, and you
have to hold off. But these guys are magicians when
it comes to running those snow guns, getting that eighteen

(23:49):
inch base and getting at least a part of a
run open, maybe a full run top to bottom. I
know Lovelin's working on a top to bottom run. You'll
probably hear from them pretty soon. But it's always interesting
to me. No snow, no snow, no snow, Mother nature
sprinkles in a little bit and the next thing you know,
they're taking advantage of the cold nights. The guns are
running at boom, they're open.

Speaker 7 (24:08):
Right.

Speaker 5 (24:08):
So what did your little meeting have to say about
the upcoming ski sieson La Nina and all that.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
Yeah, the hope is, you know, La Nina was kind
of where we were last year, and we you know,
the mountains did great. And it's interesting because the tourism
associated with the skiing always seems to do better than
the year before, despite maybe not the best snow conditions.
But they're they're just like I said, they're wizards up
there and making snow and grooming it and moving it

(24:35):
around and keeping the conditions going so you can ski
in Colorado. Last year we had big snows. November was
a big month for the for the mountains, and then
it got a little better, you know, as we turned
into the start of the next year. So far, there's
there's been some snow in the mountains. We think a
similar pattern where there may be a couple of big events,
but then there may be long periods where it's quiet.

(24:57):
Denver ended up. I think about eight inches shy for
the year, and most of our snow, almost half of it,
came with that twenty three inch snowstorm that we had
in early November of last year. Right now, I don't
see that big storm coming, but you know, you can
flip a switch and all of a sudden things change, Yeah,
on a global scale. And next thing we know, we've

(25:18):
got a driving cold front straight out of Canada. We've
got the right ingredients and we're out shoveling snow. So
the hope is still there. I always say many never
give up on a season.

Speaker 5 (25:26):
Yeah it's slightlying and you know, you.

Speaker 3 (25:28):
Come in heavy at the beginning and maybe it drives
towards the end or vice versa. Never give up on
the whole season until it's done.

Speaker 5 (25:34):
So I just got this text and said, hey, Dave,
can you or Mandy, can you ask Dave about how
rare late October hailstorms are. Had one that dropped golf
ball sized stones along the Eastern Plains. This past Monday,
we had hail at our house too. It's the latest
most locals have ever recalled it by almost a month
maybe more. Is that your observation that from deer trails?

(25:57):
So is that accurate? I thought it was weird, Yes.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
Yes it was.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
It was.

Speaker 3 (26:02):
It was definitely what we had coming in. We had
a storm system coming in and the nature of that
storm it got convective, so it was acting like a
summertime period where it was generating showers and thunderstorms, and
because cold there was coming in Aloft, it was easy
for the storms to kind of lift the moisture high
enough to generate. Some of it was groppel, which is

(26:22):
that softer, some of it was sleep, and some of
it was hail. So it was kind of a combination
of all of that coming in. And it was a
cold storm that came in. That was the one that
came in on Monday and is now moving through the
southeast corner of the country, and that's the one responsible
for finally kicking Hurricane Melissa to move it northward. It
had stalled for so many days and so it's all

(26:44):
all of that is moving east. But yeah, that would
definitely late to be talking about that. And we got
two warnings on a storm south of Liman, out on
the eastern plains, where the radar was indicating the hail
was large enough about the size of a quarter to
be considered severe, and it triggered a couple of warnings.
And yes, no question about it, that's late in the

(27:04):
season to be dealing with hale.

Speaker 5 (27:05):
It's the first time that I had hail at my
house that I wasn't panicking over my plants outside because
it's the end of the season. Anyway, I am they
have beaten. I'm ad, No big deal, you know, is
not a problem?

Speaker 3 (27:15):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (27:16):
One last question before we have to let you go,
and this is kind of interesting. You actually just reference
how our weather affected Hurricane Melissa. This person said, Dave,
does a hurricane effect the US weather pattern?

Speaker 3 (27:27):
Yes? Yeah, So basically, the easiest way to describe it is,
the computer models take a long time to pick up
on a hurricane because the hurricanes are finicky when it
comes to their strength. Melissa was spinning and idle for
a long time. When a hurricane generally goes idle, it
will generally tap into it. It'll turn over the ocean
waters and eventually hit colder at water. And as we know,

(27:49):
warm water is the fuel for hurricanes, so when you
hit colder water, it shuts the hurricane down. In this case,
Melissa was spinning over deep warm water temperatures and it
kept it survived, kept it alive, and kept it strong
at Cat five you know, one hundred and eighty five
mile per hour winds. Basically, what happens is once the
computer models pick up on this, it slows down the

(28:09):
traffic of storm systems moving west to east. So, for instance,
on early this week, on Monday, we were forecasting a
high on Friday for a Halloween of like sixty sixty
two degrees because we were expecting the weekend warm up.
Well now we're only forecasting fifty two because the cooler
air that moved in Monday night is now slower to
progress east. So it backed up the traffic jam, if

(28:32):
you will. So we've got to now wait for Melissa
to do her thing, run up the East coast, get
into the Atlantic, and then the flow will start to
kick back in. We're still expecting a warm weekend sixty
two Saturday, seventy two seventy three Sunday, but it delayed things.
So yes, that does have an influence on backing things
up and movement.

Speaker 5 (28:50):
Okay, Dave Frasier, great to talk to you. Just keep
this beautiful weather happening and we'll remain best friends.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
All right, Happy Halloween, all your hammers out there, he
had to man.

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not too long ago talking about the haunted car wash.
But she reached out and said, hey, I have a

(31:34):
business issue, and it's a business issue that I happen
to learn something interesting about right like four days ago.
It has to do with a number of car washes
that are flooding the market. See what I did there.
We'll talk to her about that when we get back.

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Speaker 5 (33:24):
And in the meantime, we're gonna have a conversation with
a woman you heard fairly recently. She is the owner
of the Gleam Haunted car Wash. It's not haunted all
year long, It's only haunted for a couple of weekends
in October. But she is being haunted right now by
the prospect of a big car wash chain dropping in
right down the street from her. Lots of private money.

(33:46):
And I'm gonna explain where that private money is coming
from in the car wash industry in just a minute.
But this is creating a huge problem. So joining me again,
Emily Barrada, welcome back to the show. Oh man, thank
you for having me back. This show is so fun.

Speaker 8 (34:02):
You are so good.

Speaker 5 (34:03):
I appreciate it. Well, let's talk for a second. I mean,
how long have you owned your car washes? You have
one on East call Fax and one where's your other one?
I'm sorry, I don't know exactly where that is.

Speaker 9 (34:12):
So I've got the one on East call Fax is
two years old. The one in the Denver Highlands just
turned nine. Okay, so we have had a good, successful run.
We have a great little car wash, two great little
car washes.

Speaker 5 (34:24):
So what is happening now to threaten your existence? And
I don't mean to be dramatic, but this actually is
a threat to your existence.

Speaker 9 (34:31):
Actually, that's not being dramatic whatsoever. That's why I am here.
So I was very surprised to hear that Aurora Planning
Commission and a wor city council seems poised to basically
do nothing but facilitate the entrant of quick trips new
bubble bath car wash less than half a mile from
my brand new location. You know, I scraped together all

(34:52):
my money, all my friends' money, money from people from church, like,
we invested millions of dollars in this stretch along East
Call Fax. We put in my second location blood sweat, tears,
and it's it's been taken a while for it to stabilize,
but we put out a great car. It was a
conditional use, which is sort of a nerdy term. And

(35:14):
I didn't think that city council or planning would let like,
would let another competitor in that close because the big
guys they use a ton of water, they use a
ton of energy. It's a bad land use and they're
probably gonna put me out of business.

Speaker 5 (35:27):
So let me ask you. You said conditional use, what
does that mean?

Speaker 9 (35:31):
So it basically gives city council the authority to say
not this use, not.

Speaker 5 (35:36):
Here, not now.

Speaker 9 (35:38):
So city Council's job, as I understand it, in part,
is to look at allocation of resources which belong to
all of us and say, Okay, we do want water
used for this purpose, we do want land used for
this purpose, or we don't like this is not a
good use of this land. This is not like we
don't want to We don't want a car wash here
right now, because in the last three years we have

(35:59):
permitted fifth teen brand new car washes in area alone.

Speaker 5 (36:03):
And it's enough.

Speaker 9 (36:05):
We just we don't want them that close. We don't
want that many. We only have so much potal water.

Speaker 5 (36:09):
I don't know about you, Mandy.

Speaker 9 (36:11):
I my kids and I we started learning how to
ski a couple of years ago. The snowpack is low,
like drink up of water is a scarce resource. And
we shouldn't be letting in big chains who are gonna
put little guys out of business.

Speaker 5 (36:23):
No more haunted tunnels. Well, and it's more than that.
And this is kind of what I wanted to bring
up because I find this fascinating. Now, I am not
I'm not mad at people finding ways to use the
tax code to their advantage. Right as long as you
are legally using the tax code and you're mitigat I'm
all for that. However, people don't realize and maybe they've

(36:44):
noticed this in their communities. How many gas stations, car
washes have popped up all over the area. And there's
a big reason for it. Bonus depreciation is the is
what we're gonna do. This is gonna go so nerdy
and so hard. Just just bear with me, guys. Bonus
depreciation which allows businesses to depreciate or excuse me to,

(37:06):
to mark off on their taxes a certain amount for
business depreciation of equipment that they have purchased. And it's
a reasonable thing to allow people to depreciate the cost
of that equipment because they have to pay for it
over time and it decreases. There's a lot of reasons
for it, but it's not a dumb thing. So it
was expanded under Trump's twenty seventeen tax overhaul, which temporarily

(37:27):
allowed one hundred percent write offs on qualifying assets. The
perk begins shrinking by twenty percentage points each year after
twenty twenty two, meaning a ten million dollar And they
use private jets. That's another thing right now, is private jets.
A ten million dollar plane bought in twenty twenty three
could generate an eight million dollar deduction. Okay, because of

(37:48):
the way this is written, So a car wash is
one of those things that can actually give you that
massive deduction because it is so equipment intensive, especially to
open it up. So gas stations and car washes are incentivized.
And what you have now is you have large hedge funds,
you have venture capitalists, you have other ultra wealthy people

(38:10):
who are investing in car washes, gas stations, and private
planes as a means of writing things off on their taxes,
which I'm not mad at them about. But why is
Aroar letting it happen so close to an existing car wash?
That's the question I'd like an answer to.

Speaker 9 (38:26):
I would love an answer to that too, And I
would ask your listeners to call city council three o
three seven three nine seven oh one five, or they
can go to Glean car Wash backslash be smart, and
it'll give you all the links to your city council
and your mayor and you can say, hey, listen, we
love our little local car wash, which incidentally where women owned,

(38:47):
locally owned. We're the greenest car wash probably in the country,
and twenty percent of my staff is neurodiverse. I'm guessing
do you guys know.

Speaker 5 (38:55):
What that means? Yeah? It means that they may have
some uh maybe they're on the autism spectrum, or they
have a developmental delay that maybe would keep them from
succeeding at a more high tech job.

Speaker 9 (39:08):
Well, and I mean I have had people on the
spectrum start here and be nonverbal, and after like six
or twelve months, they're on a team. They're treated with respect,
they're paid according to like their skill set. Along with
everybody else. They boss me around. We have seen lives
and I'm not joking. We have transformed lives. And we
do this voluntarily. We don't get any tax breaks. We

(39:31):
just we started doing this. A friend of mine runs
a big nonprofit that only employs people on the spectrum,
and we found a place for them here. And so
not only well, not only will they put me out
of business by allowing Quick Trip to put in their
their bubble bath car wash, which will be another poorly
run water guzzling car wash, but they're potentially going to
put both my businesses out of.

Speaker 5 (39:51):
Out of business.

Speaker 9 (39:52):
That's fifty jobs, twenty percent go to people on the
autism spectrum or whoor neurodiverse we have, we have we
give back in every way that we possibly can it
seems like we are the sort of business that city
council and elected representatives should go out of their way
to help thrive, not just sit idly by while while
while we gasp for air and die, especially after investing

(40:14):
all this time, all this money, all this space, and
trying to help easetqual facts.

Speaker 5 (40:19):
Is this is this car wash attached to a Quick
Trip or is it a standalone Uh?

Speaker 9 (40:25):
My understanding is that it is. Oh, it's owned by
Quick Trip and i'd be immediately adjacent. So like you go,
you get gas, you get a discount on a car wash.
You never even have to leave their site.

Speaker 5 (40:35):
So you essentially they could approve the Quick Trip and
not approve the bubble thing.

Speaker 9 (40:40):
The Quick Trip convenience store and fueling station is already built.

Speaker 5 (40:45):
Okay, okay, fine, they don't need.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
This car wash.

Speaker 5 (40:48):
They just they just want a car wash, So yeah,
they can all the tax right off. Let's be real.
We just went over why the car washes are so
valuable for the companies that want to open them. And
again I'm not mad at the companies for wanting to
do that, but if you're going to come in, is
there any mechanism that you're aware of because it seems
to me that a planning commission should be around to say, hey,

(41:09):
we should do this a little further away.

Speaker 9 (41:11):
Yes, And in fact a lot of planning commissions and
city councils are doing this. Lakewood just did this. Boulder
has a version of this. This is happening in Texas.
This is not This is not a weird idea that
there are certain types of businesses that should be spaced
far enough apart for the betterment of all of us,
whether it is whether it's exhaust fumes, whether it's water use,

(41:33):
whether it's anti competitive and anti free market.

Speaker 5 (41:36):
Like, the people are moving.

Speaker 9 (41:39):
In this space to recognize that this isn't fair and
this isn't right right, and city councils, this is a
conditional use. Quick trip does not have a use by
right to put a car wash on that land. They
they need permission and a city council needs all it
up and say we're sorry, but not right now, just
not right now.

Speaker 5 (41:58):
I you know I I live in an area of
Douglas County where there's it's a running joke on next
door whenever there's something breakscor ground, it's like, oh, what
kind of car?

Speaker 4 (42:09):
Wash.

Speaker 5 (42:09):
Are we getting there? It's it's insane. So now that
I know the motive behind it, I am I understand it.
But at the same time, it's like, let's be smart
about this. If you want, if quick trip wants to
open a place, you know a couple miles away, knock
yourself out, But let's not put someone out of business,
an independent operator, because you're not going to be able
to compete on price. I'm guessing I can't compete on price.

Speaker 9 (42:32):
And these guys, as you mentioned earlier, these are ultra
wealthy organizations or people.

Speaker 5 (42:37):
I am not ultra wealthy.

Speaker 9 (42:38):
I have one little car wash in Denver, and I
opened a second car wash, and we scraped together the
money for a very significant investment where no one had
to put private dollars in that stretch of these colfecx
between Chambers and airport.

Speaker 5 (42:51):
In a long long time.

Speaker 9 (42:53):
And I did that, and I took a chance. And
now I'm wondering if if I should regret that.

Speaker 5 (43:00):
Yeah, I hate to think that you would be regretting that.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
But here we are.

Speaker 5 (43:05):
So what exactly you're asking people to call city council?
What are the next steps? Can this be stopped? It can't.

Speaker 9 (43:12):
City council needs, in my opinion, to do with their job.
So call city councilor go to glean car wash backslash
be smart. Council needs to call up the decision that
the Planning Commission made because Planning said, oh okay, fine,
we don't care like put another car wash in half
a mile from a brand new, locally owned car wash,
all for it. City Council needs to call up that

(43:32):
decision and approve the call up. And then the council
needs to say we have changed and they've done this
in the past. This is not novel, just doesn't happen
all the time. They need to say, nope, you know what,
We're going to reverse Planning Commission's decision. This is not
something that we want right now. So this conditional use
is denied and that's.

Speaker 5 (43:50):
That all right. I would urge people, I hope have
you reached out directly to any members of the city council.

Speaker 9 (43:57):
I have, and I do have some sympathetic I also
didn't hear anything back from some of them either, So
I mean call council like, yeah, and you vote, and
you want local businesses that give back to survive.

Speaker 5 (44:12):
Speaking don't want flight. Yeah, speaking of survive, you can
go to Glean this weekend and maybe, yes, maybe die
of fright. That's what she's she needs her help. The
call city council. But then she's gonna scare you to death.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
This we's gonna scare you to death, Ellie.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
What else? What else?

Speaker 5 (44:27):
To go ahead and tell people a little bit again,
remind him about the haunted car wash this weekend.

Speaker 9 (44:31):
Oh, we've got two haunted car washes. And actually we
decided to do Thursday, which is the day before Thanksgiving.

Speaker 5 (44:36):
So we have one day left Halloween for Halloween.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
One day, yes, one day left, seven to nine, nine thirty.

Speaker 9 (44:43):
If we've got a line, which we have had the
last two nights, and we want to give a shout
out to a rod He came to our first car
wash out in a Roi.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
He came for two hours.

Speaker 5 (44:53):
He was dressed up as a scary clown.

Speaker 9 (44:55):
He was amazing. It was super duper fun. So yeah,
everybody come out seven to nine. Both look patients this Thursday,
last night.

Speaker 5 (45:01):
Only you know what I'm just gonna say, Emily, perhaps
maybe somebody unscary could be there with a petition for
city council. Hey, yeah, I like this. Yeah, utilize the
right the people that are going to be in line
and ask them to support your car wash. I'm just
throwing that out there. Yeah, or maybe make one of
the scary things in the car wash big government. So

(45:22):
there you go, Emily Vern. I appreciate your time today
so much.

Speaker 9 (45:27):
All right, Minnie Connell, thank you for having me on
your show not once but twice and lending me a rod.
And I hope I get to do this again.

Speaker 5 (45:34):
I hope so too. Emily, thanks so much. We'll talk
to you and talk to you again soon. All right,
thank you, thank you. All right. That's you know that
that just the combination of things because I just learned
this thing about the car wash deductions and then Emily
reached out and was like, I'm about to get killed
because she cannot compete on price with this giant tunnel
car wash. I didn't know that that she has a

(45:55):
bunch of neurodivergent folks on staff as well.

Speaker 6 (45:57):
That's just super cool, an awesome, awesome team. So yeah,
gleancar wash dot com slash be smart. Seriously, they are
worth that effort a couple of minutes to make your
always be heard.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
Go check them out. Go check them out. They are
really really cool. I enjoy all of them.

Speaker 6 (46:12):
Emily's fantastic, her team's great. Definitely worth worth fighting for.

Speaker 5 (46:16):
Somebody just sent this to our Common Spiritdhealth text line
at five six six nine zero. Mandy, can Danielle Jorinsky
step up as a fellow woman business owner? I don't know,
but I'm gonna call her after the show so and
see if I can get her to get involved, because again,
she is a female business owner. Mandy. This is happening
in Greely too. I have never seen so many car

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washes in one city in my life, let alone within
a mile of each other. I have one half a
mile from my house, around the corner a mile from
the first one. Yes, there's another, and across the street
from the second one. Yep, another car wash. Exactly, Mandy.
It's very similar to breaking ground and like, oh look
another urgent care. Yes, the urgent care boom seems to

(46:56):
have settled down, Mandy. The wash lady had me listening
until she went all DEI and green. You guys, I
don't think there's anything wrong with promoting either of those.
I actually love businesses that try to help people who
struggle in the workforce, people with autism and neurodiversion, people
are unemployed at a very high rate, and some of them,

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given the right opportunities, can flourish in a work environment.
So and being green and Aurora, you guys, water is
a huge problem in Colorado, saying we are green and
that we use very little there. I have no issue
with any of that, none whatsoever, Mandy. I was just thinking,
what's likely to happen is this big company might come
in and buy your guest car wash or make an

(47:38):
offer for except they don't have to because they're using
it the way they want to use it.

Speaker 3 (47:44):
Now.

Speaker 5 (47:44):
By the way, I don't want to make it seem
like I am mad at quick Trip. I have nothing
against quick Trip. I like a good quick trip. Have
you been to the quick trip?

Speaker 2 (47:51):
If you stop buy one of them.

Speaker 5 (47:53):
They're relatively new to this area.

Speaker 2 (47:56):
I think I've seen that.

Speaker 5 (47:57):
Really they're what, They're spacious, they're delightful. Nothing against quick Trip,
but I do find it frustrating when you have a
city that doesn't seem to take any of these things
in compara like into consideration. And I do think it
should matter. I do think and it's not protectionist to say,
you know what, we're not sure we need another fourteen

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car washes in this area.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
I the way, if you need another endorsement.

Speaker 6 (48:21):
Jesse Thomas, executive producer of The Colorado Rocky says Gleam
on thirty eighth is my go to car wash, and
he seems like a guy to have a clean car. Absolutely, Mandy,
So Mandy. Even in Cheyenne, the running joke is car washes,
banks and coffee shops.

Speaker 10 (48:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (48:38):
Oh, my, same thing going down on here in Colorado Springs.
And this is why it's the tax break.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
You guys.

Speaker 5 (48:45):
Do they really think that all of a sudden demand
for car washes has skyrocket? I'll be perfectly frank. I
just want a car wash that works. I want a
car wash that I can drive through. There was a
car wash near my house that opened up and it
actually had human beings that at the end that dried
your car off. Oh it was glorious. That didn't last.
They sold the car wash to someone else after they

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took the tax break, and then they fired all the
people that worked there. It's like dag nab it. I'm
glad it's not the only thing I mean, I'm glad
I'm not the only one, Mandy. Car washes are traditionally
used by drug dealers, working girls and gangs as a cover.
Not anymore. Car washes and laundromats used to be used
to launder money quite a bit because they were cash businesses.

(49:28):
Right now it's all electronic, so it's not as easy
to break bad on that Manroid's spelled with a y.
We're listeners, not strippers.

Speaker 10 (49:42):
Dang it.

Speaker 5 (49:43):
Now we're already voting. We're voting at my Facebook page.
Kart and Boulder waited over an hour to get in
and said the Haunted car wash was a hoot. Yeah
he loved it.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
Oh yeah, it was a long line.

Speaker 5 (49:56):
It was so worth it, Mandy. For those of us
who are already goobers and Randy Cromwell listeners, I think
the general term for all of us is radio campers,
So feel free to show us a good time at camp.
That from Charity again as well, Mandy, I believe a
good name. Bad Bunny Crew aka b No Fuck. We

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are the East Wingers in Loveland. There's as many Chinese
massage parlors as there are car washes. Did they get
a tax break for those two. No, but there was
a really interesting story in the Free Press. I don't
share as much from the Free Press because I cannot
get around their paywall, and I hate sharing things on

(50:40):
the blog that are paywalled, and I have a way
to get around it for some stuff, but I cannot
get around their paywall. But they just did a really
interesting story about massage parlors like strip mall massage parlors,
and let's just call them what they are. They're happy
ending massage parlors, right, they're there. They'll give you a massage,
but it's especially in one part of your body, okay.

(51:04):
And those are all fronts for sex trafficking. And all
of those Asian women that work in those massage parlors
are women who have been trafficked here. They probably paid
a lot of money to get here illegally, and now
they are being told by the people they paid that
they have to work off the debt. It's really horrible,
really really horrible. So yeah, but they're trying. I guess

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in many, many states they're cracking down on them now.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
Many water is.

Speaker 5 (51:30):
A precious commodity, and I'm spraying thousands of gallons of
fresh water on a one thousand acre solar farm north
of Kiowa. Why why are you doing that? Why are
you spreading water? Mandy? If you listen to Cody Sanchez,
she talks about boring businesses like car washes. I know,
I know she does, but I'm telling you it's a
tax break, Mandy. I had a tree drop sap on

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my car and can't get it off.

Speaker 2 (51:59):
I don't know what to tell you.

Speaker 5 (52:01):
What gets tree sap off a car? I haven't had
to deal with that problem in a very long time.
I don't know what do you use? I mean, we
always use turpentine. Does that damage the the UH hood
of your car?

Speaker 2 (52:16):
I just try to scrape it off of my nail.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
I think. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (52:20):
I mean that seems like a bad idea.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (52:23):
Maybe somebody can answer that question on the text line
at five six six and I know. So here we go,
you guys, when we get back, I've got so much
stuff to talk about. We've just squawked and we didn't
squander it. But we've blown through an hour and a half.
When we get back, not every criticism is racism. And
if you went to open the uh, you know, look
at the blog or vote in our what should be

(52:45):
called the Mandy Connell listener poll at Mandy Cottle. You'll
see in my post I use chat GPT to make
a funny cartoon every day and it has a really
funny misspelling. But I left it because I'm talking about
Denver Public schools. I'll give you the deats when we
get back. Let's talk about this story because it's out
of Denver Public Schools and it's just it is so
indicative of why people of Denver need to vote this

(53:08):
board out. And there's not like some of the incumbents
are not running for reelection. But you guys need a
board that is unfettered by Teachers' union candidates. You need
a board that is unfettered by this notion that any
criticism of anyone who is not white is racism. What
am I talking about. I'm talking about in an investigation

(53:29):
demanded by the super sensitive Latino Superintendent Alex Marrero. You
guys know, I am not a fan. I don't think
he's doing a good job. I think he focuses on
the only statistic he can gain, which is graduation rates.
And when you keep just passing people along even though
they can't read it right on grade level. Your graduation

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rates look great. So he sent a letter to board
President Carrie Olsen some months ago in June, he demanded
that the district investigate allegations that he had brought forth
that claimed director John young Quist was vying for Morrero's job.

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Oh it gets better, he decided, mister Morrero, because John Youngquist,
who was a former principal at East High School, he
has long history in the district. He's very, very knowledgeable
about how the district works. Because mister young Quist had
the temerity to ask difficult questions and dare to respect

(54:36):
expect an answer about all sorts of things, especially about
the bad advice that the school board has gotten from
its in house council. The school board has been found
guilty of violating open records or not open records open
meeting law on the advice of this council. And when
John Youngquist said, you know, should we maybe get outside

(54:58):
council to help us with this? And he I mean,
I don't even think, he said, since we're obviously getting
garbage advice from our in house council. But because the
in house council is black, that criticism is seen by
Alex Morero, the Latino superintendent, as racist. Now Here is
what the eighty thousand dollars report found. You heard me right.

(55:21):
They spend eighty thousand dollars with a law firm to
investigate this idiocy. The report says, in reaching our conclusions,
we acknowledge and carefully consider the fact that the majority
of doctor Morrero's senior staff members are persons of color.
We recognize this creates a natural sque in the findings,

(55:43):
given there are few comparators toward whom mister Youngquist's conduct
can be analyzed. What does that even mean? We are
unable to reach a conclusion as to whether mister young
Quist deliberately acted in a biased manner towards district leaders
of color based on the available evidence. The report also

(56:05):
noted that the investigation did not uncover any evidence of
overt or intentionally biased conduct by mister Youngquist. Moreover, it
is conceivable that mister young Quist's conduct, in particular pushing
back on data and asking critical or repetitive questions, is
consistent with what he views to be his mission as

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a board member. Let me just share with you the
outrageous things that he was accused of In the letter,
mister Morero said, over the past year, mister Youngquist has
consistently demonstrated a pattern of hostility, policy violations, racial insensitivity,

(56:50):
and at unethical conduct that is created at toxic working environment,
undermine district leadership and distracted from our core mission of
deserving all students equatively. Most troubling, it is increasingly clear
that mister young Quist is not invested in the success
of Dead Republic schools. Instead, his behavior signals and intent

(57:13):
to cause harm in pursuit of personal ambition sounds horrible,
doesn't he horrible? Absolutely horrible? Do you want to hear?
Some of the highlighted excerpts from more than two dozen
interviews Morrero's allegations were things like a witness who said

(57:35):
that young quis called the district's graduation rate not good enough,
his failure to clap when Morrero was named Superintendent of
the year, refusing to shake a staff member's hand referencing
another employee's accent. I'm questioning the legal advice from an

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attorney representing the district. These are the racial crimes that
John young Quist has had to defend himself against. Let
me just break this down Number one, John young Quist
is correct when he says the district's graduation rate is
not good enough. Number two, Are we in North Korea

(58:19):
where if you don't clap for dear leader, you are
a well in North Korea, they would just kill him.
I guess it's better that it's just a big investigation.
Refusing to shake a staff member's hand. Why because last week,
when I wasn't feeling well, I would see people and being, hey,
you know what, I'm not shaking hands because I'm not
feeling well. Was it that I can't imagine him looking

(58:41):
at someone saying, no, I'm not going to shake your
hand peasant referencing another employee's accent. Was it a question like, oh,
I hear you have an accent? Where's that from? Which
I do all the time? You know why? Because then
people say, oh, I'm from Croatia, or I am from Columbia,
or I'm from Canada, and then we have a conversation.

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It's called an icebreaker. I don't know what these are,
but this is the most absurd, idiotic expense that the
Denver Public School System has spent in a long time.
And boy, they managed to spend money on dumb stuff
all the time. Completely. The long and short of this
story is this, if you are trying to do anything

(59:24):
significant in Denver Public Schools and you are white, as
mister young Quist, is any criticism that you make valid
or not is going to be termed racism by a
decent chunk of this board, some of whom are up
for reelection in this election cycle. Now I put on
the blog again today the school board races for the

(59:48):
four districts that I have enough information and that are competitive.
Denver Public Schools is one of them. None of these
candidates are as you know, exactly the way I'd want
them to be, But it's Denver Public Schools. Alex Mayanna,
Marianna Delhierro, Karen Blake, and Tamia Jackson. They're on the blog. Please,

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for the love of all that is holy, move decisively.
Vote these people in, decisively so we can start to
move that district in a direction that really focuses on
student achievement instead of playing stupid, idiotic racial games that
cost the district a small fortune just because Alex Morrero's

(01:00:29):
feelings got hurt. We're asking our listeners to name yourselves
because you know now that Michael Brown's going to be
on from nine to noon and Ross is moving to
six eight to nine. A Brownie already has a name
for his listeners. So we've come up with four suggestions. Mandyalorians, Mandyacs,
connilliss or Mandaloon's. I like them all right now, Yeah,

(01:00:53):
Mandalorians is far and away, far and away, running away.

Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
Yeah, so we will embrace conism regardless.

Speaker 5 (01:01:03):
Well, I'm a little concerned because like, I can't make
chat do anything with Mandylorian.

Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
No, nothing, can you.

Speaker 5 (01:01:09):
It's like, oh, it's too close to Mandalorian.

Speaker 3 (01:01:12):
You can't do that.

Speaker 5 (01:01:14):
Well, you know, we'll.

Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
See which Chelsea Mandy Acx would be pretty fun.

Speaker 5 (01:01:20):
Mandiacs because I love Animaniacs, right, so I'm glad you do. Yeah,
it's a little bit of a little bit of an
homage there, with with.

Speaker 6 (01:01:29):
The with with the with the show we have, there's
gotta be an honorable mention and lift up for connolists.

Speaker 5 (01:01:36):
I think if we do whenever you use the connolist word,
I think that I should use like a profile picture
where I'm wearing a monocle, you know, just the single
eye kind of thing.

Speaker 6 (01:01:45):
Maybe and maybe because we want to watch I mean
our listeners and textures and everyone already embraces this show
like a cult following, so like embracing conalism.

Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
That shirt right there. Oh, I could be pique.

Speaker 5 (01:01:58):
Yep, it's gonna be fantastic at Connallism. Mandy, can you
please plan a meet and greet shindig with a new
KOA lineup? I'd love to give you a kiss, shake
Michael's hand and fling poop at Ross from Jared and
Boulder can give me a kiss. I've met him many
times before. I will say this. How about this? You know,
we've been talking about doing this singles thing. So I
just did an event for the people that advertise with

(01:02:20):
me that I do endorsements for. I just try to
have something with them, you know, to thank them for
their support of the show. And we did it at
Thrashing Axes in Parker and it was so fine. And
then I was as I was there, I was like,
this would be perfect for our singles event. But would
you guys drive down to Parker for the singles event?
Is that too far? I was looking for something a
little more centrally located, but it's still going to be

(01:02:42):
in the southern.

Speaker 2 (01:02:42):
Part of Denver anyway, name of the event, mute your
future axes.

Speaker 5 (01:02:47):
Oh oh yeah, there you go.

Speaker 3 (01:02:49):
I like it.

Speaker 5 (01:02:50):
Oh, we want a future accents.

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
We want to embrace the potential for love, not just heartbreak.

Speaker 5 (01:02:56):
Okay, no, we're not going to call our listeners mandicaps.
That's not gonna We're not doing that. Oh boy, we're
not doing that anyway.

Speaker 6 (01:03:06):
I'm i'm I'm I'm leaning. I'm leaning towards conalists. Right now,
it sounds fancy, I'm not. I do think it sounds
kind of fancy.

Speaker 3 (01:03:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:03:16):
Also, in the blog today, you know, if you're looking
for voter guides, I just haven't done one, you guys.
I was sick this past weekend. I didn't feel like
doing anything when I was going to do it. But
our friends at Complete Colorado have a list of comprehensive
voter guides and most of them are from a right
leaning perspective. So if you're looking for help with your ballots,
go ahead and do that. I of course have given
you not only school board members on today's blog, but

(01:03:39):
in Centennial, you guys have a very hotly contested race
right now in Centennial, I have got city council and
mayor candidates that I would support if I lived in Centennial.
That's on today's blog. And guess what you guys in
news that I'm sure is going to just catapult Phil
Wiser right into the domination. Colorado has now joined twenty

(01:04:03):
two other Blue states to sue the federal government to
restore SNAP benefits yep, yep. Attorney General Phil Wiser announced
on Tuesday the Colorado is suing the USDA and Secretary
Brook Rawlins. Snap is part of the USDA, and the

(01:04:23):
USDA has a six billion dollar contingency fund that phil
Wiser says they could use for these SNAP benefits. But
the problem is is that contingency funds are not legally
available to cover regular benefits that according to the USDA.
So I'm guessing that this a judge will decide this,

(01:04:47):
but not before I'm hoping that the Democrats will cave.
Why do I think that? Well, can I have my audio?
I'm hoping this will work from here and we'll see
if it should work. It's a it's an X thing.
Let's make sure this works. This is Senator John Foon
on Fox News and this is what he had to
say about his doings with congressional Democrats that are not

(01:05:08):
in leadership.

Speaker 11 (01:05:09):
Who are near a role point here.

Speaker 12 (01:05:13):
Well, I think there are people who are sincerely want
to get this figured out.

Speaker 11 (01:05:17):
They're about ready, there are, And of course the challenge
is the Democrat leadership could care less about this, and
a Chuck Schumer they're in a box.

Speaker 12 (01:05:29):
I mean they, like I said, they are running scared
of the far left in this country right now, and
that characterizes a whole bunch of Senate Democrats too. But
there are some rank and file Democrats, I believe, and
we have had, as you said, back channel conversations have
been going on for some time that have intensified here
of late, and hopefully that will lead to a breakthrough.

Speaker 13 (01:05:48):
But that's what it's going to take.

Speaker 12 (01:05:49):
It's going to take rank and file Democrats who organically
come to the conclusion that this doesn't make sense for
them politically long.

Speaker 5 (01:05:56):
Term for them either.

Speaker 13 (01:05:57):
I don't think this is a winning issue, the.

Speaker 5 (01:06:00):
Bel Well, the fact is that the largest federal workers
union has now come out and asked the Democrats to
vote a yes on the continuing resolution. So there you go.
I will repeat the new lineup for this texture when
we get back. Keep it on KOA.

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Speaker 5 (01:06:44):
Welcome, Welcome to the third hour of the show. And
oh my goodness, what a day it's been coming up
in this hour. You know, one of my favorite things
to follow is nutrition information. And there is a school
of thought as old as time. As a matter of fact,
back in four hundred BCE, Hippocrates entire school of thought.

(01:07:06):
And you've heard of the Hippocratic oath. We name the
oath that doctors take after Hippocrates. And he said sort of,
He didn't never said it exactly because I looked it
up today. He's not an exact quote. But his way
of dealing with health was all health begins in the gut,
use food as medicine, and take care of your gut.
And now in twenty twenty five, we're coming full circle.

(01:07:30):
We've got a guy coming on at two thirty whose
company is investigating whether or not the use of human
milk as a model can actually help reverse some incredibly
significant diseases. So that is coming up at one thirty.
But in the meantime, I've got so much to talk about.
We just talked about the shutdown. Oh, I got to

(01:07:51):
talk about the lineup because I'm inted it in passing
two things. Number one, you can vote on what we're
calling Mandy Connell listeners at my Facebook page Mandy cal
So far Mandy Lourian is running away with it. We
have switched things up just a bit from starting on
November tenth, starting at five am, we will have Colorado's
Morning News with Gina Gondeck until six am, and then

(01:08:12):
at six am it will become the Ross on the
News Show with Gina Gondeck or is I'm just gonna
call it rotten with Gina Gondeck. And then at nine
we are bringing Michael Brown over from the sister station.
He'll be on nine to noon. I am on noon
to three, and then everything stays the same. So that
is happening November tenth, and I hope you will be

(01:08:34):
happy about that.

Speaker 6 (01:08:36):
Guys.

Speaker 5 (01:08:37):
I'm not sure that Mayor Mike Johnston has many friends left.
The city council is mad at him. They're super mad
they're trying to block the flock camera contract extension now,
and they're asking the city auditor not to sign it
because they have privacy concerns for illegal immigrants that they

(01:08:58):
want addressed. But now nine News is kind of I
don't know, like I and Arod. Can I have my audio?

Speaker 3 (01:09:08):
Please?

Speaker 5 (01:09:09):
Let me just play this story on nine News about
something the mayor said about the flock cameras and the
example he used. Let me just hit this for you. Well, nope,
don't do that. Turn it down. Yeah, okay, now hang
on one second. Didn't know there was another pre role
here waiting. I'm waiting, skiped. Okay, there we go. Are

(01:09:30):
you ready a rod?

Speaker 1 (01:09:31):
Now?

Speaker 5 (01:09:31):
I'm ready.

Speaker 7 (01:09:33):
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston is trying to sell Denver on
flock cameras as a crime fighting tool.

Speaker 14 (01:09:39):
Now, we had a trans woman who was kidnapped and murdered,
picked up in Denver, murdered in Lakewood. We solved that
crime because Denver and Lakewood could talk to each other
across a flock camera database.

Speaker 2 (01:09:50):
That's not true.

Speaker 5 (01:09:51):
He couldn't be talking about my daughter.

Speaker 2 (01:09:53):
Sherry gets talk.

Speaker 7 (01:09:54):
Canvass now knows the mayor was in fact talking about
her daughter Jack's Get Talk Jackson.

Speaker 5 (01:10:00):
Case is not solved.

Speaker 15 (01:10:01):
Block cameras had nothing to do with finding the perpetrators.

Speaker 5 (01:10:07):
Absolutely nothing.

Speaker 7 (01:10:08):
Nobody has been arrested in Jackson's case, where Jackson's body
was found by a business owner near his building months
after she was reported missing.

Speaker 15 (01:10:17):
I'm shocked and appalled that a public official would use
my daughter and claim that flock had anything to do
with her being found.

Speaker 7 (01:10:29):
The mayor's office is now offering an apology to Jacks's mom,
saying the Lakewood police case is ongoing and set in
part quote, we should have spoken with her family before
referencing the case. We offer our deepest apologies for any
additional stress this has caused.

Speaker 5 (01:10:46):
And then, but I want you to listen to the
tone here. First of all, when a Republican politician says
something like Donald Trump, it's Trump lied. But when it's
a Democratic politician who is something that's clearly not true,
well he misled, it wasn't accurate, it was you know.

(01:11:06):
Here's the kicker. I don't disagree that the mayor stepped
out here. I don't agree that the mayor I mean,
I don't disagree that the mayor used this particular case
because it seems super sympathetic because it's a trans person.
The problem is nothing he said about what was going
on was accurate. I notice he doesn't say in that apology, hey,
I got that wrong. Wouldn't it be nice if politicians

(01:11:30):
just had the nerve to say, yeah, I was wrong.
The problem is when you say, oh, I was wrong,
that is used as an opposition ad forever and ever
out of context. Right, So that's why they.

Speaker 6 (01:11:39):
Don't do it.

Speaker 5 (01:11:40):
I hate it, though I would love it if somebody
was just like, you know what, this is the way.
It's going to be. One of the things that I
think people love about Donald Trump if somebody sent me
an excellent column about this. Not too long ago was
that Donald Trump doesn't apologize. During the debates, when Meghan
Kelly asked him about the nasty names he called women,
he jokingly he said, instead of apologizing, he jokingly said

(01:12:02):
only about Rosie O'Donnell, and everyone died laughing. He doesn't
apologize for anything, but if so, mu's genuinely wrong. I
just wish they would say, you know what, I got
this one wrong, and I created a situation for the
family that I shouldn't have and I'm sorry about that.
Sorry about that. Nine News, though, has been more and

(01:12:23):
more critical of the mayor. At the same time, the
city council is very unhappy with the mayor. The Mayor's
running out of friends on his side. And what's funny
is right now I finally found something to agree with
Mayor Mike Johnston on He is recommending the same people
that I am, and he recommended a couple of people
for the board last time, like John young Quist, that

(01:12:45):
have turned into real rabble rousers that we need on
the Denver Public Schools board. He and I, Mike Johnston
and I are are in alliance on that issue that
we need fresh blood on the Denver Public School Board
that is detached from the unions. He is actually endorsing
people who are not endorsed by the teachers unions. So
I don't know, we'll see I would I really wouldn't

(01:13:06):
be surprised if there wasn't a primary challenge to the
mayor from left. I don't think that any conservative Democrat
is going to be able to beat him, but I
wouldn't be surprised if some whack a doodle Democrat was
able to beat him. Guys, have you seen a rod?
Have you seen the pictures coming out of Jamaica? Bad,

(01:13:27):
really really bad, and I Jamaica is going to be
out of commission for a very long time, very long time.
I have some of the video on the blog today
and it's just devastated that island. And now it's headed
to the Bahamas and it's headed to Bermuda. But by

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the time it gets to Bermuda, it should weaken just
because it's getting colder up there. We shall see God.
I don't miss hurricanes, don't miss stressing about him, don't
miss watching them, don't miss watching the track every single day.
Do we have anything like that here that we watched
that carefully? I mean during fire season, it's like, okay,
we got to be more vigilant. But it's almost like

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you get stalked by hurricanes. When you live in Florida,
you feel like hurricanes are stalking you. And I lived
in Florida during the years where we had multiple storms
come ashore in one year and it was horrible. There
was one year where people just didn't take down their
hurricane shutters. Now you have to understand a lot of
hurricane shutters block out all the light in the house right,

(01:14:32):
or they hang plywood over their windows and just left
it there the whole summer because there were so many
dang storms. God, I don't miss that, not at all.
When we come back, the vibrant Denver bond is a disaster.
I need you to vote no. And is the climate
crisis over? When one of the biggest climate crisis guys

(01:14:53):
is changing his tune. I'll tell you what Bill Gates said.
It's significant right after this climate change, you know, climate change,
you're all gonna die. So for a very long time,
people like me, and for a very long time, I
mean since I got my show twenty years ago. Wow,
I passed my twenty year anniversary this year. And I
have no idea when it was of getting my actual

(01:15:13):
first show. Dang it, I should have paid attention anyway.
So back in two thousand and five, when I was
talking about climate change and global warming and these things,
and I kept saying, we are engaging in a level
of hubris that is mind blowing, thinking that we somehow
can change the climate. Right back in two thousand and five,

(01:15:35):
and I would say, wouldn't it be better if we
spent more time figuring out how to mitigate climate change,
which has been going on since the beginning of time,
solve the problems that are going to be created by
climate change, you know, looking at things like more desalinization
and things of that nature, big infrastructure projects to bring
desalinated water, to do irrigation to the heartland of the

(01:15:57):
middle of our country, so we'd be able to prepare,
you know what I mean. And people like Bill Gates
were out there saying things like this, by twenty sixty
climate change could be just as deadly as COVID nineteen
and by twenty one hundred, five times is deadly.

Speaker 2 (01:16:18):
You guys.

Speaker 5 (01:16:19):
To even try to go out that far is absurd.
It has as much validity as some old cleric sitting
in the corner of the church making predictions about what's
going to happen in twenty one hundred. It's garbage. All
of the models have been shown to be demonstrably wrong

(01:16:40):
over and over and over and over and over again,
and yet we're supposed to believe that they have figured
it out up to twenty one hundred. He even said,
the closer you live to the equator, the worse the
effects of climate change will be. Fifty one billion tons
of greenouse gases are released. Zero is the number of
the planet needs to reach a Bill Gates he has

(01:17:02):
spent two billion dollars of his own money on green causes,
green investigations, green companies. He has invested heavily in small
modular reactors. By the way, nuclear his company is private,
but he is working very hard on small modular reactors.
So in his latest Gates Notes, which is the blog

(01:17:24):
he does, it was a bit surprising when Bill Gates
came out and said this in a few decades, cataclysmic
climate change will decimate civilization. The evidence is all around us.
Just look at all the heat waves and storms causing
by rose rising global temperatures. Nothing matters more than limiting
the rise in temperature, he continues. Fortunately, for all of us,

(01:17:49):
this view is wrong. Although climate change will have serious consequences,
particularly for people in the poorest countries, it will not
lead to humanity's demise. We'll be able to live and
thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future.
Emissions projections have gone down, and with the right policies
and investments, innovation will allow us to drive emissions down

(01:18:11):
much further.

Speaker 6 (01:18:13):
What what is this?

Speaker 5 (01:18:19):
So climate scientists have long viewed Bill Gates as an ally,
not just because he was out there saying the things
that they needed to be said, but he was also
given a crap ton of money.

Speaker 2 (01:18:29):
Man.

Speaker 5 (01:18:29):
When he put this out, the climate science industry turned
on him like a pack of jackals. According to doctor
Catherine Haho, climate scientists and professor at Texas Tech University,
she says, just give me a list of people's top
ten things to worry about, and I can tell you
how climate change is making every single What of those

(01:18:52):
top ten things works? What do I worry about? No,
none of them are affected by climate change. I'm just
throwing that out there. Mandy Gates has already funded NGOs
for climate change, and he's not pulling that money back this.
So this is really an easy pivot for him to

(01:19:14):
look better since the narrative is failing, but still has
money backing climate change stupidity. But is it climate change
stupidity that focuses on mitigating the results of climate change
or is it more good money after bad trying to
actually change the climate. That's what I want to know.

(01:19:35):
Either way, you guys, he's gone from a climate alarmist
to eh, it's manageable. It's a pretty big deal. Ever
since this Texter said, I was a physics undergraduate and
I graduated in nineteen seventy five, it has been climate doomsday.
It's the easiest way to control everything, you guys. You

(01:19:57):
want to control people, control their power, and that's what
they're doing. If you think that the electrification of society
is just about efficiency, you're simply not paying attention. I
find it fascinating that when you go to some nations,
they're solar panels everywhere because they've made them so affordable

(01:20:17):
because they don't do a huge markup, but they're also
not as reliant on those customers to feed more money
into the grid system. Our grid system is a huge problem.
Huge problem. We'll talk about that later though, because I
just realized what time it was, and when we come back,
all health begins in the gut, and what if using

(01:20:38):
the concept of human milk could solve some very serious diseases.
That's what my guest says. We're going to talk to
him next joining me now. He is the CEO and
the founder of a company called Intrinsic Medicine. And when
you hear what they do, I bet you your first
question is going to be the same as mine, which
is what Alex Martinez. Welcome to the show.

Speaker 2 (01:21:00):
Hey Mandy, thanks for having me.

Speaker 5 (01:21:02):
So what does intrinsic medicine? What are you guys investigating?

Speaker 8 (01:21:06):
Basically, we believe that nature has already provided the solutions
to some of our most pressing problems today, and really
what we're trying to do is bring that back and
make it accessible with the body of scientific evidence that
needs to be put into practice and put into real
use to help people improve their lives.

Speaker 5 (01:21:29):
Now, you guys focus on gut health, and this is
something I've talked about quite a bit, and back in
four hundred BCE, Hippocrates believe that all gut believe or
all health began on the gut. But you're specifically looking
at one thing in order to sort of heal the gut,
and that is human milk. Am I right here? What

(01:21:51):
is going on there?

Speaker 13 (01:21:53):
Correct?

Speaker 8 (01:21:53):
And let me riff off of you there, Becausehpocrates knew
what he was talking about, right, and he said, you know,
all diseases start in the gut.

Speaker 2 (01:22:07):
And he also said let food be thy medicine.

Speaker 8 (01:22:09):
Yeah as well, So that gets us along the line
of inquiry where wait, what was Okay, So food's medicine. Well,
what's the first human food? Oh, it's it's milk, milk
from our mothers.

Speaker 2 (01:22:24):
And what if we explore that? And and we we
look at it.

Speaker 8 (01:22:30):
As not just food, but we find components that are
non caloric and lo and behold we did, and there's
there's fat in human milk. There's there's lactose right freely
available energy. But then there's these compounds called human milk oligo, saccharides, sugars,

(01:22:54):
but they're they're not digestible by human being for clark energy,
So what are they doing? And and and that that
really is the line of inquiry that kind of led
to the programs that we're advancing for different purposes.

Speaker 5 (01:23:10):
So I could hear a lot of people in my
listening audience going ah, and honestly, there's sort of this
vision of you guys with this group of lactation women producing.
But that's not what this is at all. So tell
me about the actual substance that you guys are using.

Speaker 2 (01:23:26):
That's that's hilarious.

Speaker 8 (01:23:27):
And look, let's what's hilarious is when we look back,
every civilization but ours has used actual human milk this
scenario that you were describing for adult medicinal purposes. So
let's not forget that that history, let alone the bodybuilders
who buy gray market donor milk.

Speaker 5 (01:23:49):
Oh god, that's so weird, right, I don't know why.
That's just weird to me. But but I'm sorry I
didn't many interrupt. Let's continue, go ahead, No.

Speaker 8 (01:23:59):
But but right, but it still gives us a vector
that there's something to this. Right, And so like the
line that I want to put down is that milk
is for babies donor milk banks, that is for babies.

Speaker 2 (01:24:14):
That need it. You know, when when my when my
I know, among all.

Speaker 8 (01:24:20):
People, how important is a breastfeed and when my my
wife had issues with it, like we use donor milk,
and that was a blessing. And so that's a resource
that is for babies and should never be diverted. So
our compounds are produced with precision fermentation, so they are
nature identical. They do not take any milk away from

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any baby. They do not come from any abreast.

Speaker 2 (01:24:44):
There is there. They they are fermented.

Speaker 8 (01:24:48):
Uh you know, imagine you know, a brew pub, except
instead of alcohol, you're producing something that actually is foundational
to human health.

Speaker 5 (01:24:59):
Now, you guys are actually you have several sort of
pipeline things going on right now, and you're doing your
research in Australia. I'd like to kind of dip a
toe into why Australia makes it easier for you to
investigate some of these things, because in the case of this,
I'm guessing that your product, in even the limited sort
of research that you or the beginning of the pipeline

(01:25:20):
that you're in, probably doesn't have a lot of negative
side effects exactly.

Speaker 8 (01:25:25):
And that's where there's a bit of a paradox here
in the United States because these compounds are generally recognized
as safe to be included in infant formula already, right,
to make it closer to human milk and to provide
the comprehensive spectrum of benefits to babies. But the FDA

(01:25:47):
considers these new drugs right, that's like a big, long,
expensive pathway. Australia has a much more pragmatic one where
they literally look at the same body of evidence that
we're looking at that supported inclusion in infant formula, and
they're like, yeah, this thing is super safe, right, and
it's likely.

Speaker 2 (01:26:07):
To help these people.

Speaker 8 (01:26:08):
So they go through a local institutional ethics approval process.
So I mean these are this common sense. It's this fancy,
fancy way of saying. It's like looking at this in
a very pragmatic aspect and saying, this is much more
likely to help people than to harm them, and it

(01:26:29):
would be minimal at best.

Speaker 2 (01:26:31):
Let's try it out and move it forward and get
an answer.

Speaker 5 (01:26:34):
You have a study that seems to be the longest,
farthest along in the pipeline on Parkinson's disease. How are
you looking at different illnesses and positing that they could
be helped that specific illness? What would you say Parkinson's
may we may be able to do something here.

Speaker 2 (01:26:52):
This is a great question.

Speaker 8 (01:26:53):
Let's go back to the Hippocrates, you know quote right,
all diseases begin the gun, and so we need to
start reframing our thinking that what we call individual diseases
are really kind of manifestations of a common biological dysregulation.

(01:27:16):
And it's dys biosis in the gut and immune dysregulation, right,
And there's different permutations, and thus there are different manifestations
of what that looks like and how that impacts each
one of us as an individual.

Speaker 2 (01:27:31):
Right, that's our individualized dis ease.

Speaker 8 (01:27:37):
And so what we what we look for is we
look for like hardcore statistical correlations data and one of
the things in Parkinson's, So we already know these compounds
in adults can they work amazing for IBS?

Speaker 2 (01:27:56):
So I'm an IBS patient myself.

Speaker 8 (01:27:57):
Like when I started snroa it old bewel syndrome, my
philosophy was like, hey, you know what, we would have
awesome drugs if every CEO was required to be like
patient here, right, yeah, exactly, right, like right right, we
would have no side effects and everything would be amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:28:14):
Right.

Speaker 8 (01:28:15):
So I lived it, and I've been I've been taking
this for five years and I've constructively cured my IBS.
And that's like what gets me up in the morning
is saying, I can't be the only one benefiting from this,
and you know, and and there's a clinical study that.

Speaker 2 (01:28:33):
Actually supports all of that.

Speaker 8 (01:28:35):
But what we realized is because of the safety of
these compounds, that's that's that opportunity to get to people
in in diseases that typically no one thought you could prevent,
like parkinson Like how do you prevent Parkinson's? And they
have what's called prodromal symptoms. So these are the ones

(01:28:56):
that like happen like years sometimes decades be for the
nerds generative, like the cognitive stuff happened, right, And constipation
is the biggest one.

Speaker 2 (01:29:08):
If you have a prior history.

Speaker 8 (01:29:09):
And this was like there was a study it was
a couple of years ago, I think it was in
the British Medical Journal, and they looked like twenty four
thousand patients and if you had a prior history of
like chronic constipation or irtoll bow syndrome right consumption dominant,

(01:29:30):
your odds of getting Parkinson's were like four point one
one higher.

Speaker 5 (01:29:36):
Wow, that's significant, Yeah, like four hundred and yeah, that's
a lot. I mean, well, so let me ask you this,
how far away are we? And somebody asked on our
text line on the Common Spirit Health text line we
have here, Mandy, is this the same as colostrum cow's
milk now being sold for health benefits like cowboy colostrum?
Is this a similar thing? Obviously you're talking human sides

(01:30:00):
or human that's the wrong word.

Speaker 2 (01:30:02):
But yeah, this is a different component.

Speaker 8 (01:30:05):
And and and I know, like so colostrum has his proteins,
think about like those are proteins and those are like
soluble antibodies.

Speaker 2 (01:30:13):
Okay, okay, so far away.

Speaker 5 (01:30:16):
From we are we from having a product or a
drug that people can actually use that that you know,
if it does prove to be successful, what are we
looking at in years?

Speaker 3 (01:30:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:30:30):
So this is where I'm going to do something a
little bit different because I actually my patience is up.
I'm doing the formal drug development process, yes, but we're
we're starting a separate entity that actually can make these
available today.

Speaker 5 (01:30:50):
As a nutritional supplement.

Speaker 2 (01:30:51):
Yeah yeah, well yeah, yeah, I mean, I mean, I hate.

Speaker 5 (01:30:54):
To say it, but are we can have a whole
conversation Alex on our FDA and the way stuff is
approved in this country. I think that's kind of cool.
I'd love to have you back on because we're out
of time now. When you when you've got that out,
I got a lot of people saying, okay, I'm ready,
where can.

Speaker 3 (01:31:10):
I find this?

Speaker 5 (01:31:11):
So let's touch back when you have that going and
when it becomes a supplement that people can buy, Alex.

Speaker 8 (01:31:16):
Yeah, yeah, that'll be working on that like today. So
so this is this is a wonderful conversation. Thank you
for having me.

Speaker 5 (01:31:25):
It's fascinating. I mean, I long believe that food is
medicine and that you know, if you feed your body right,
you're gonna feel a million times better.

Speaker 2 (01:31:32):
So this tracks with that diverse fiber.

Speaker 8 (01:31:36):
Everyone, get it, Just eat it, like, get get your
you know, God and nature, be around children like, oh, to.

Speaker 5 (01:31:47):
Get your diseases, to get your germ hits.

Speaker 13 (01:31:50):
Is that what we're doing, to get your germ hits?

Speaker 8 (01:31:53):
But also to get your biffidobacteria right, because right, families
and people, their microbiomes converge, and so you have a
more youthful microbiome if you are around younger people.

Speaker 5 (01:32:06):
Oh, that's interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:32:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:32:08):
And then and then you feed it with healthy fibers
and you can nurture it. And again, just go out
look socially and you'll see it in action. You'll see
it in principle.

Speaker 5 (01:32:19):
Intrinsicmedicine dot com is their website. Alex Martinez, thanks for
your time today. I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:32:24):
All right, thank you, Mandy, All right, thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:32:27):
Let's do that super interesting stuff. It's fascinating me that
four hundred BC Hippocrates is talking about all disease begins
in the gut, and you know, what people are talking
about now. Alzheimer's disease begins in the gut. They're diseases
of inflammation. Saturated fat is back. Baby. Saturated fat has

(01:32:47):
been demonized for years. And do you know what we've
done over the years, We've told people not to eat meat,
not to eat eggs, not to eat saturated fat. You
know what's happened. Men's testosterone has dropped like a rock.
That's thing number one, and we've all gotten hell of
I do have a story that obesity numbers have dropped. Coincidentally,
I'm sure the use of GLP ones has risen at

(01:33:09):
almost the same rate as the Obesit has dropped, so
especially among groups that you don't necessarily think are going
to see a drop in obesity, and that's people over
the age of forty. Zach Ziegers, Look, oh, I don't
think a Rod turned your mic on and he just left?
Where did he go? Wait, Zach is going to go
turn on his own microphone?

Speaker 10 (01:33:30):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:33:30):
Did he turn that one on? Did you sit it
the wrong place? No he didn't. You didn't turn Zac's
mic up? A Rod's fixing it and they were getting
them on yet Well, I mean, he just came in
and sat down. I haven't seen him in a while,
so I thought I'd say, hell up, no, you never
have a second. It's the Mandy Connell Show. By the way,
I want to go one more time over our new lineup.

(01:33:53):
Starting November tenth, you will hear from five to six
a m. Colorado's Morning News, which unigone Deck and then
it's a m our friend. Ross Kominski joins her for
what they're calling Rosskominsky on the News with Gina Gondeck.
What I am just calling rotten with Gina Gondeck, Ross
on the News, that rotten. See how I'm a I'm

(01:34:14):
a marketing genius, that I'm an idea person. And then
after that, our pal Michael Brown, the curmudgeon you love
to hate, coming over nine to noon, and then everything
else stays the same. So I am changing up. I know,
that's what I thought.

Speaker 13 (01:34:28):
He's a really fun listening.

Speaker 5 (01:34:29):
He's salty, yes, and one of my favorite listeners here.
Ralph was like, I don't know about this Brago. Oh
you'll love him, you'll love him. Yeah, the taxpayer relief shops. Yeah,
he's cranky but funny. He's uh, he like he's been
you know what, He's been giving me crap from over there.
And I know that because every time he does it,
all of his listeners like send me an email. They're like,

(01:34:51):
you should have heard about Michael Brown was saying about you?
Did you hear what Michael Brown was saying about you?
I'm not even kidding. They're like little Cindy Brady's. They
run over to tattle on Michael as fast as they can.
As a matter of fact, Michael's going to join us
tomorrow at two thirty. Yeah, I mean, I bet he
strolls in here like he owns a joint gossips. The
Michael Brown audience they are, they're like little busy bodies.

(01:35:15):
And now they can just hang around and wait until
noon and just send me a text on the text
line and be like you should have heard what Michael
Brown was saying about you? Just saying, well, you can.

Speaker 13 (01:35:24):
Retort directly to them now that he's on the KO lineup.

Speaker 3 (01:35:26):
Oh I like that.

Speaker 5 (01:35:28):
I like it a lot. So, Zach, you've been doing
a little sports here and there. I hear you dipping
in doing some stuff that's kind of exciting, like.

Speaker 13 (01:35:36):
To wherever I can. Yeah, like some Broncos.

Speaker 5 (01:35:39):
Now, Zach, let me ask you your opinion. We are
trying because you know, Michael has named his listeners the Goobers,
so we wanted to get a name for our listeners.
So here are the four options that people can still
vote for at my Facebook page, the Mandy Connell Facebook page,
number one. I'm going from bottom to top. Mandaloon's okay.
Then there are the Conna lists, which I kind of like,

(01:36:00):
the Condelists. I think it sounds very serious, like we're
going to do some imperious, you know, serious kind of
policy stuff. And then there's the Mandy Axe, which I
also like. See that's that's good, but far and away
leading the pack right now. Mandylorians, that's pretty good.

Speaker 16 (01:36:16):
That's that's the st yeah, you know, and it has
the Mandy because the Mandalorians are kind of a.

Speaker 5 (01:36:25):
Mandy Laurians las. But we're worried, we well, okay, we're
worried or we're hoping for some kind of notice from Disney.
I'm just saying because I feel like if we got
noticed by Disney and they said one of those mean,
long seasoned assist letters that they love to send out
when they feel like anyone is encroaching at all on
any of their court trademark stuff. I kind of want one.

Speaker 6 (01:36:47):
Yeah, is that weird?

Speaker 3 (01:36:49):
No?

Speaker 16 (01:36:49):
I think that that would be exciting. You're a big
fan of puffery. Maybe you could get puffery in there.
Thank you for remembering acceptable marketing puffery. It's so important,
so important, and i'll so important. Is now it's time
for the most exciting segment.

Speaker 5 (01:37:03):
All the radio of its guy who.

Speaker 2 (01:37:07):
Of that day?

Speaker 5 (01:37:09):
All right, what is our dad joke of the day, please, Anthony?
What do you call a bundle of hay in a church?
A bundle of hay in a church? I don't know,
Christian Dale. Oh boy, oh boy, well boy, that was
not a whiz banger right there. What is our word

(01:37:31):
of the day please?

Speaker 10 (01:37:31):
It is a verb verb deliquest. What deliquest spell d
e l i q u E s c e deliquest.

Speaker 5 (01:37:44):
Deliques. I am going to say it's something very you
you handled something in a very delicate manner. I was
going to go with a kind of like delegate in
something like that, But that's.

Speaker 2 (01:37:57):
The e l E means to dissolve or melt away.

Speaker 5 (01:38:02):
Of course, deliquest whatever, it's fine. Today's trivia question. Meteorologists
break down clouds into many different types. What is an
ulto cumulus cloud? I think that's a thundercloud. It's really high.
They look like white or gray mounds dotting the sky
viewed from the ground. They're about the size of a

(01:38:23):
human thumb and revolve and resembles sheep's wool. Those little
puffy puffs, Oh yeah, the alto cumulus clouds are the
puffy puffs. All right, Zach seekers, All right, I'm ready.
What's our Jeopardy category? All the way, A way the way?

Speaker 6 (01:38:43):
This forward phrase that orders everyone available to help with
the problem.

Speaker 5 (01:38:47):
What's all hands on deck?

Speaker 2 (01:38:48):
That is correct? In the Shining Jack Nicholson's writers.

Speaker 5 (01:38:53):
What does all work and all all work and no
play makes Jack adult boy?

Speaker 2 (01:38:56):
That is correct?

Speaker 6 (01:38:58):
A lyric from Chicago go oh, she's gonna shimmy till
her garter's break in this phrase meaning et cetera, et cetera.

Speaker 2 (01:39:11):
Phrase at the end of that means et cetera.

Speaker 5 (01:39:14):
I mean, I kind of want to guess, but I
don't because I have the lead.

Speaker 2 (01:39:19):
And all that jazz.

Speaker 8 (01:39:22):
Jazz take it.

Speaker 2 (01:39:24):
It comes after we hold these truths to be self evident.

Speaker 5 (01:39:28):
What is all men are created equal.

Speaker 2 (01:39:30):
That is correct.

Speaker 6 (01:39:32):
This is the most common phrasing of a line from
Dante Aligi Allegary's poem The Inferno, where it is inscribed
all over the gates of Hell.

Speaker 5 (01:39:45):
When you say it, I know the first part of it.
I don't know the second part of it.

Speaker 2 (01:39:50):
What is abandon all hope?

Speaker 5 (01:39:54):
All I could remember was all ye who enter? So
I guess I knew the last part, not the first part.

Speaker 2 (01:40:00):
Art of that valiant effort.

Speaker 5 (01:40:02):
Are you are you producing Koe sports today?

Speaker 3 (01:40:04):
I am?

Speaker 5 (01:40:05):
I know that Grant was going skiing today.

Speaker 13 (01:40:08):
I'm happy for him. I just saw they opened up
the slopes.

Speaker 5 (01:40:10):
Are you are you a skier as well?

Speaker 6 (01:40:12):
Zach?

Speaker 4 (01:40:13):
I am.

Speaker 16 (01:40:14):
I'm way worse about prioritizing it than Grant is. You know,
I get a day off and there's like other things
I want to do than like drive up by seventy
and do a fell of traffic.

Speaker 5 (01:40:21):
But he always goes in the middle of a week
like this.

Speaker 2 (01:40:23):
Yeah, he's smart about a day all day.

Speaker 5 (01:40:26):
Yeah, ay day all day. We learned that from Grant yesterday. Well,
I'll tell you KA sports is coming up next. What
do you guys have coming in?

Speaker 3 (01:40:32):
Man?

Speaker 5 (01:40:33):
We got a whole lot.

Speaker 16 (01:40:33):
It's it's the trade deadline coming right around the corner,
and the Broncos seem to be, uh maybe one of
the more active teams potentially buying, making some big moves,
pushing their chips in around a pretty exciting six and
two teams, So I imagine the Fellows will be breaking
that down.

Speaker 5 (01:40:48):
All right, that is all coming up next. We will
be back tomorrow. I was pulling up my calendar to
see who we've got tomorrow tomorrow. Super excited. We are
going to talk to a Roora police Chief, Todd Chamberlain.
I've been wanting to get him on the show. I'm
super impressed by some of the things that he's doing.
And we're going to talk about a case in Wyoming
about a mom who faced some significant retaliation for asking

(01:41:12):
questions of government. Yeah, it's true. And then of course
Michael Brown will join us at two thirty, so we'll
be back then. Keep it on Kowa