11-05-24 FULL SHOW - Thank God It's Almost Over

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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, man ka ninem god.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Wait, can's free?

Speaker 4 (00:22):
Many Connell keeping Election Day? Well, welcome, well done. Two
Tuesday Election Day. It is almost Jova, almost Ova. Grant
Smith here with me, Mandy Connall, Well he Grant's over
there and I'm over here, and Grant, are you excited?
Are you excited that this is almost over?

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (00:44):
Man, I cannot wait.

Speaker 5 (00:46):
Even though it sounds like we're not going to know
results until Friday. I've done my part, and uh, I'm
just going to try and avoid it as much as possible.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
In the next couple of days. I will tell you
that something happened today for me that has never happened before.
For I got a text message from a friend of mine,
used to live here, now lives in Florida. He sent
me a picture of his ballot and he wrote me
in for president. So, Grant, I got an actual vote
for president and I didn't even campaign. Hey, that's pretty cool.

(01:17):
I thought it was very cool. Now, if I could
just you know, get a few more than I could
actually get a you know, an electoral College vote.

Speaker 6 (01:23):
That would be neat, that would be super neat.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
I think everybody, I don't know anybody unless they are
getting paid to campaign for something that is not looking
just for the end of this day, Like, can we
just fast forward?

Speaker 6 (01:37):
Can we just get to the end of this day?

Speaker 4 (01:40):
Today? I'm going to spend a little bit of time
telling you guys why it's going to be okay no
matter who wins.

Speaker 6 (01:47):
And I know that's not what you want to hear, but.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
The reality is is that no matter who wins today
or next week, or whenever they find get the election totals,
the United States of America is going to be okay.
And I just said this on Ross's show. If you
don't believe me, when was the last time you saw
our alleged president Joe Biden. He's stumbling through campaign appearances.

(02:15):
He's an absolute disaster. Does anyone believe that that man
is running the country?

Speaker 6 (02:19):
Of course he isn't.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
There's a bureaucracy that runs the country. And if Kamala
Harris wins, will have more of the same bureaucracy and
it'll suck and things will be more expensive because she
doesn't know where inflation comes from.

Speaker 6 (02:32):
But the world will go on if Donald Trump wins.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
The bureaucracy will work every second of every day to
stop everything that Donald Trump wants to do, as they
did the last time hashtag resistance.

Speaker 6 (02:44):
I don't want to seem flippant about it. I really don't.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
I do think that it matters who wins, but it's
not going to be the end of the world. So
all of this, like all of this hand ringing and
all of these I have a story on the blog
to wait. I'm getting ahead of myself. Let me just
I'm gonna do two things. Grant, may I have my
audio for just a second. I just wanna I want
to talk about this little bit of togetherness that came

(03:10):
out of the view recently from one of my favorites,
and that favorite was in giant sarcastic font Joy Bahar.
I just want to listen to the kind of togetherness
coming out of the view to really give you an
idea of how this.

Speaker 6 (03:22):
Day is gonna go.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
I mean, I don't know. I wouldn't even let him
give me a hi Heimlich maneuver. Yeah, that's how little
I would I feel about people.

Speaker 7 (03:29):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
She's talking about a magazine right now. I got it.
Tell Mega man, I'm not sleeping with you, know. So
Joey Bayhart says she would not allow let a MAGA
supporter give her the Heimlich maneuver. So what I learned
from this, ladies and gentlemen, is if you see joy
Bayhart choking, don't do anything. See togetherness. Joyce said that's

(03:55):
what she wanted, togetherness. So today we're going to look
for more ways to find togetherness. You guys can't see me,
but I'm actually interlocking my fingers over my head. My
friend Jessica, who's one of our vice presidents here, she said,
she was we have this giant glass wall now behind
us in the studio, and she said she walked behind
me and I was gesticulating so wildly. She was trying

(04:17):
to take a picture, but she didn't.

Speaker 6 (04:18):
Never phone with me.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
I was just locking my hands together over my head. Togetherness, togetherness, people,
We got to figure out how to be more together
like now. We can all start by agreeing that we
should go to mandy'sblog dot com every day to experience
the togetherness.

Speaker 6 (04:36):
Go to Mandy's blog.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
Look for the headline that says eleven five twenty four
blog thank god it's almost over. Yes, that is the
actual title of this blog. Click on that and here
are the headlines you will find within.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
Again.

Speaker 6 (04:52):
Okay, go ahead, grant new over.

Speaker 8 (04:53):
A youth with some in office, half of American all
with ships and clipmas, and say that's going to press plant.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
Today.

Speaker 6 (04:59):
I'm the block.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
Need help with your ballot? We're election days always like this.
Thomas Fry is on to talk about the future. What
to do on election day. We really don't know if
our voting system is secure. Yes, Big ALA's gone. Never
mind the nice things I said about Sarah parody, the real.

Speaker 6 (05:17):
Toll of cannabis.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
Stop feeling stressed about the election. TGI Fridays filed for bankruptcy.
Heidi Klum is the age discrimination warrior. We need want
cheap tickets for the winter park, Express wind phones help
people who are grieving. What voting in a rigged election
is really like the subtle signs of colon cancer, milk,
cookies and lego for ninety grand a year. Some big

(05:42):
names are coming to Ballerina next year. British kids try
on Halloween candy. What have you stopped buying because it's
too expensive? The fastest way to get to Oh wait
a minute, that's not supposed to never mind, the fastest
way to get dementia. Elon Musk was on Joe Rogan
how porn went maga to take that gold medal in boxing.

Speaker 6 (06:01):
Back Am I Racist?

Speaker 4 (06:03):
Is a documentary smash Top ten things to by at.

Speaker 6 (06:06):
Costco this November.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
Lily Tang Williams may go to the House and I'll
let Scott Jennings have the last word on the election.
Those are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com,
and I want to stop at the bottom because I'm
sure there are those of you in this listening audience
who remember when I had Lily Tang Williams on the show.
She is a Chinese immigrant who is passionate about liberty,

(06:31):
and she is running.

Speaker 6 (06:32):
In New Hampshire.

Speaker 4 (06:33):
She moved from Colorado to New Hampshire, where their state
motto is live free or die. But they lean Democratic,
which doesn't make any sense to me, but whatever, go
New Hampshire, do whatever you're gonna do. So Lily moved
to New Hampshire a few years ago and she's now
running in a house district that is leaning very much
towards the Democrat who is married to Jake Sullivan, who

(06:54):
was on Obama's National security team. She just had a
debate with this woman, and oh my goodness, Oh my goodness,
she went scorched to earth on this woman. And it
is a thing to see. I'm rooting so hard for Lily.
She's got an uphill battle. But we'll see what happens.

(07:15):
Maybe enough people in New Hampshire saw this and we're like,
you know what, She's right, because she is. If you
need help with your ballot today, you can always go
and find my voter guide. I have been very gratified
to hear from many of my listeners and my friends
that they used my voter guide and they appreciated the
simplicity with which I presented the issues. And so if

(07:37):
you're looking for just simple explanations of stuff that would
be in my voter guide, I linked to it right
there on the blog. But you can always just google
Bandy Connell voter Guide and it will come up.

Speaker 6 (07:47):
Okay, So you have two options there.

Speaker 4 (07:50):
I prefer you go to the blog so I get
credit for the web traffic, but whatever, do whatever you
want to do. So a couple of things. Thomas fry
Our futurist is coming on. And what's funny is I
never talk about politics with Thomas because we talk about
the future, right, We just talk about cool technology and
all this stuff that's happening. And so today he's got
a column about whether robots will replace children. And it's

(08:13):
weird that he sent that column out because I've been
thinking about this. Birth rates around the world have plummeted,
and I fear and I don't you know, I don't
have hard data on what I'm about to say, so
this is wild speculation on my part. But we do
know that the COVID vaccines had an impact on women's cycles.

(08:36):
Many many, many, thousands and thousands and thousands of women
of childbearing age said their cycles were disrupted because of
the COVID or after the COVID vaccine. They can't say because,
but they can say after. And I'm afraid we have
damaged our fertility across the world with vaccines. I don't know,
but birth rates are way down, and you guys, we

(08:58):
have to have enough warm bodies.

Speaker 6 (09:00):
To do the things that make the country run.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
But then I started thinking, wait a minute, we're on
the verge of a robot revolution, like terminator aside. Okay,
skynet aside. We're on the version of having robots that
will be capable of doing so many jobs, from caring
for our elderly patients, taking care of babies. Although I
would not I don't know if I would allow robots

(09:25):
to take care of my baby.

Speaker 6 (09:26):
I'm not there yet.

Speaker 4 (09:27):
I mean, I barely allow a human to take care
of my baby, so I don't know if I'm ready
to go robot taking care of the baby. I mean,
you never know. But we're gonna talk to Thomas about that.
And he said, well, maybe we could talk about robots deciding.

Speaker 6 (09:40):
Elections in the future.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
And I thought to myself, honestly, like, could they be
much worse than what we've got, which is an emotional
group of people voting on things that shouldn't be emotional.
So it's an interesting proposition.

Speaker 6 (09:58):
Mandy, what do you mean big al is gone?

Speaker 4 (10:01):
I got a lot of emails about this yesterday, and
I figured I would just address it. Alfred v Ka
and Michael Cooper were part of the country wide layoffs,
and they were not performance related. They just happen in
this industry. As a matter of fact. In my blog,
it even says, this is why you need to follow
me on social media, because if I'm not here someday,

(10:23):
that's how you're gonna be able to find me. Back
in the day, Grit, back when I started in radio,
if you got fired, there was no way to find
your host again. But now social media makes it so
you can keep in touch. So yeah, so I you know,
I talked to Alfred yesterday. He's in a good headspace
and just going to do some traveling and whatnot. So

(10:46):
thank you for all of you who are now texting
and saying that the blog or that you use the
voter guide.

Speaker 6 (10:54):
I appreciate that.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
This one said Jesus Mandy talk about tinfoil hat, vaccines
are sterilizing us. That's not what I said. We know
it is a medical fact that women of childbearing age
who had the COVID vaccine, tens of thousands of them,
had changes to their menstrual cycle. That is not speculation.
That's not tenfoil hat. That is a thing that happened,

(11:15):
and I am concerned that in the future it is
going to lead to some kind of fertility issues. I
did not say it was sterilizing us. But if you
look at birth rates right now, they're down all over
not all over the world, because in third world countries
people still multiply, like you know, crazy, because a lot
of their maybe their.

Speaker 6 (11:33):
Children, aren't going to survive.

Speaker 4 (11:34):
I mean, think about it back in eighteen hundred, right,
and I'm just choosing a year. It could be any
year back in time that's not now. But in eighteen hundred,
people would have seven to ten kids, but only like
six of them would survive to adulthood.

Speaker 6 (11:49):
So you kind of had to head.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
Your bet and you needed to have somebody, you.

Speaker 6 (11:53):
Know, work in the farm. You need to have warm.

Speaker 4 (11:56):
Bodies that could do labor and chores around the house
to help help things go.

Speaker 6 (12:00):
So yeah, I am concerned.

Speaker 4 (12:04):
Again I said, I don't have any data that is
hard data on this, but I'm concerned that that is
a problem. Cycles change, not fertility. Hey, dumbass, those things
are connected.

Speaker 6 (12:18):
I've had far too.

Speaker 4 (12:19):
Many friends have infertility issues to act like I don't
know what I'm talking about here, and you do text her.
Those things are very connected, and irregular period makes it
much harder to get pregnant. They are very very connected.
But thanks for playing, sir, Thanks for mansplaining menstrual cycles
to me, sir, thanks so much. Can't imagine why women

(12:43):
would be annoyed by that. Thanks for playing good gravy.
This says it's due to the cost of having a kid,
maybe in the United States, but not around the world.
And when I say fertility is down in the around
the world, I'm not exaggerating to the point where some
nations are very, very very including ours, are very close.

(13:03):
We might be below the replacement rate right now. So
you know what this guy is now further, man's playing
menstrual cycle. So I might just go. You know what
I'm gonna do, Grant, I'm gonna block them. Cross and
I were just talking about this, like we don't know. Goodbye.

(13:25):
We try, both us and I try not to block people,
like I try to use the text line as a
democratized thing.

Speaker 6 (13:30):
You know, I want to hear from you guys.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
But when you just become annoying and relentless and never
stop texting and then you start texting crap. I'm just
to the point now where I'm just gonna block you.

Speaker 6 (13:40):
So there you go.

Speaker 4 (13:41):
It'll make my life better. I've tried to be a giver, Grant.
I've tried to remain like, here's your soapbox, Texter, but
if you have used the soapbox, we're gonna throw you
out of the town square.

Speaker 6 (13:53):
So there you go, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (13:55):
First world countries also tend to put careers over kids now,
especially for women. That is absolutely right, And unfortunately a
lot of those women are buying into the lie that hey, you.

Speaker 6 (14:05):
Know what, just freeze your eggs.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
Just freeze your eggs, and then later when you decide
you want to have kids, you can just go and
use those eggs that you frozen and you can have
a baby. Except they don't say IVF doesn't work every
time IVF doesn't work. I don't know what the percentage
of successful IVF implantations are at this point. What is
the success rate of IVF.

Speaker 6 (14:30):
Let's see here, real quick.

Speaker 4 (14:31):
Fifty percent, fifty percent, it's successful fifty percent, And that's
a single healthy embryo has a successful pregnancy rate greater
than fifty percent, just barely over fifty percent. Now, if
you're in the other fifty percent and IVF doesn't work
for you, you're now forty years old with absolutely no

(14:52):
prospects of being able to have a child. And I
cannot tell you how many friends I have personally who
bought into the lie you can have a baby anytime.
They look at halle Berry who had a baby when
she was like forty five, and they're like, look at
that halle Berry.

Speaker 6 (15:05):
Had a baby.

Speaker 4 (15:06):
I'm like, do you look like halle Berry. No, that's
because you're not halle Berry. So there's a lot of
women who found out too late that it's a lie.
It's just a lie that you can absolutely have a
baby on your schedule. So anyway, Mandy, you want to
stay in an echo chamber. You don't like people to
challenge your views. Well, I just read that text message,

(15:29):
so I guess not text. I read text messages that
disagree with me all the time. But when you spend
three hours of the show relentlessly texting me nonsense over
and over and over again, I don't have to put
up with that. I mean, would you What would you do,
Texter if you got a neighbor who disagreed with something

(15:49):
about the way you were doing your yard, and all
day at your job, they were sending text message after
sex text message telling you how stupid you were, or
telling you were you wrong, or telling you that you're
an idiot, or tell you that your nipples are too large?
Which of these things would be okay with you? Because
I get all of that on the text line, all
of it, every bit of it. So any of those
things are okay with you. Just because I'm on the

(16:12):
radio doesn't mean that you have the right to be
abusive anyway. So there you go, Mandy, h I called
the Denver Clerk and Recorder Office early to clarify in
the Wait a minute, Okay, when you send two text
messages in a row, they don't come in order. That's
the other thing. Let's have text message one oh one.
Don't be a dill hole. Don't text over and over

(16:33):
and over again and being a dill hole. And if
you have two things to text, you either have to
put them in one giant text or you got to
text really fast because there's a bunch of other text
messages that come in between you. So there you go, Mandy.
I love your opinions and I love how you take
other people's opinions at the same time.

Speaker 6 (16:48):
Thank you very much. Appreciate that. Appreciate that.

Speaker 4 (16:52):
Mandy, my hairdresser, who had not had a period in
years and did not get the jab started having her
period again right after her clients receive the JAB. We've
seen lots of info on shedding, and she was very susceptible,
giving that she spends time touching her clients' heads and
is in very close proximity for thirty plus minutes. So
there you go, there you go. Boom, Mandy, You're freaking awesome.

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Funny how it feels like all the naysayers are out today? Yeah, yeah, Mandy,
My fifty one year old daughter in law had a
beautiful daughter last year via IVF. She's in the fifty percent,
she's in the fifty percent, But what about the other
fifty percent? And by the way, having a baby at

(17:36):
fifty one sounds honestly like the worst possible thing that
could ever happen to someone. I had my baby at forty.
Having babies is a young person's game, really, really, really
a young person's game.

Speaker 6 (17:50):
Anyway, all right, you.

Speaker 4 (17:51):
Guys, we've got stuff to talk about. But I want
to talk about something that's not on the blog because
I heard Ross talking about it and I think it's
a great topic. And honestly, I'm so burned out the
election stuff. I don't want to continue having that conversation.
I just don't, so let's talk about this instead. Apparently
all of these ferrets that have been released across the
West have in order to control the prairie dog population.

(18:15):
There are thousands of these ferrets have all descended from
seven ferrets that were captured in Wyoming or Montana. I
can't remember years ago, So every ferret in the West,
in the wild is descended from these seven ferrets. Got
me to thinking, if we had to repopulate the earth
starting at zero, which two humans should we use to

(18:39):
repopulate the earth? And why this is your question. I'm
gonna let you think on it and then grant you
know what. I'm feeling crazy. Let's open up the phone lines.
Let's do it. I'm gonna stop reading text messages. I'm
gonna start taking phone calls. How about that. We'll do
all that next. You know what, have you ever missed
an email and then you realize after you miss it,

(19:00):
you were like, oh, that was a bad one to
miss it. Hang on, I got to finish sitting this email.
Oh God, that's so disappointing. Anyway, moving on, I've got
stuff to talk about and I want to hear from you.
I'm tired of text messages today. So I'm asking a

(19:21):
very simple, stupid question. And yes, I realized it's a
stupid hypothetical question along the lines of, you know, Batman
versus Superman kind of stuff, monoy, personal favorites, what if.

Speaker 6 (19:33):
My color blue was your color red? Grant? What if
what if my red was your purple?

Speaker 4 (19:42):
And it just was confusing. We're all seeing different things differently.

Speaker 5 (19:47):
This sounds like someone who partook in some medicinal marijuana.

Speaker 6 (19:53):
Yeah I'm not.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
I'm not.

Speaker 4 (19:56):
Yeah, yeah, not no gonna anyway, So I want you
to know three O three seven one three eighty five
eighty five. That's three O three seven one three eighty
five eighty five. I'd like to know the answer to
this very simple question. Earlier, Ross was talking about a
story about the reintroduction of blackfooted ferrets, and the interesting

(20:18):
part of the story was is that they have cloned
a blackfooted ferret and it is an adult and it
just had babies. There was some question about whether or
not cloned animals would be able to reproduce, and now
we know they can. But in that conversation he also
mentioned that there are thousands of ferrets that have been
released in the West in order to control the prairie

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dog population because apparently ferrets eat baby prairie dogs, and
so it keeps the population under control of the natural way.
Yet all of these thousands of ferrets are all descended
from the same seven ferrets that were captured many years ago,
so all of them have the same genetic makeup. There's
no genetic what's the word I'm looking for. There's no genetic.

(21:07):
What's the word I'm looking for. I can't think of
it right now. Were you at diversity?

Speaker 6 (21:11):
Thank you?

Speaker 4 (21:11):
Genetic diversity in this population? And I thought it was
really interesting. And I thought, look, if we had to
repopulate the Earth, or even better, say we're going to
populate a colony on Mars, right, and we can only
send two people to Mars that they would be responsible
for repopulating or populating Mars. I mean, you'd have to
add in some people or would be weird and inbred
and whatever. But who would be the two people and

(21:34):
they have to be alive. Now, I had a couple
of people ask me for some clarifications. Who would be
the two people that you would want to use their
genetics to repopulate the earth. Now, in the case of
a woman that is outside of childbearing age, we'll just
we'll grandfather them in. Because men can have babies. I mean,
I think look up and see when Charlie Chaplin's last

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child was born.

Speaker 6 (21:58):
I want to say he was like eighty when he.

Speaker 4 (22:01):
Had his last child. Well, he didn't have the last child,
but he helped produce the last child. So men can,
you know, reproduce for a very long time.

Speaker 6 (22:10):
But I'm curious.

Speaker 4 (22:11):
I know who, I'd say, what seventy three years oldly at.

Speaker 6 (22:14):
Eight he followed a child? Like you guys, is that
fear of the kid?

Speaker 8 (22:21):
You know?

Speaker 4 (22:21):
I think the Rolling Stones all have small children and
they're like eighty. I just don't think that's fair of
the kid. Robert de Niro seventy nine. Yeah, he just
had a baby with his girlfriend, and let's just be
let's be real. In my mind, those women are doing
a money grab. I know you love him and everything,
but do you really want to have it? It's like,
I don't know, it would be like having a child

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with someone that you knew had a you know, a
disease that was going to kill them quickly. I mean,
I guess you could do that anyway, because you wanted
to have a child with that person and have a
little part of them. I you know, maybe I'll give
these women some slack, just a little bit, just a
teeny tiny bit. Jessica has called in on something else.

(23:05):
You can call in on that.

Speaker 6 (23:06):
Three oh three. Do you guys remember how to work
your phones?

Speaker 4 (23:09):
You open up the phone icon on your cell phone
and then you dial. There's numbers that will pop up
and you just style three oh three seven, one, three eight,
two five five, and then you'll hear a ringing noise
and then you'll hear grant pick it up, and then
you tell them what you want. It's I'll bring you
back to the phone. It's fine, uh, Jessica. What is
happening in your world?

Speaker 9 (23:31):
Okay?

Speaker 10 (23:32):
Mandy, I'm hoping that you were your voter or some
of your listeners can give some clarity. A Rarea put
out your real on Facebook today saying it's all about
voting and registration for students and down in Denver, and
on several times I said, all you need is your
student ided that's it. And the Denver Clark and re
Carder Paul Lopez is on there with the same information,

(23:56):
and that concerns me. So I call the Denver Clark
three Quarters office, who transfers me to Elections, to try
and take me back. And then after a couple back
and forth, I'm told that all they really need is
their idea that they should they should have a proof
of address. And I said, well, the information you have
on social media contradicts that. Do you think you guys

(24:19):
do qualified? And they basically blew me off. And then
I asked, how do you know with a student ID
if the person is even legally allowed to vote? And
they didn't have an answer for that. So to get
at a area with you know, a whole bunch of
the student vote, and you know, yay, I'm glad the
student voting. I just want to make sure that we're

(24:41):
concerned with election integrity and I don't know how Denver's
doing that given the information that they're telling these students.

Speaker 4 (24:48):
You know what, that would just be on brand at
this point for Democrats running elections. And I hate to
say it like that, and I'm sure that there are
Democrats doing an incredible job following the rules and the
la but right now, I think this election cycle, more
than any has shown us that aren't quote, gold standard
elections are an illusion from Jennet Griswold's blatant and absolute

(25:12):
incompetence to everything that has happened after that. I mean,
it's just it's not surprising. And of course they want
students to vote. Who are students going to vote for?
Kamala Harris and all of the democratic stuff that they
want to yes vote for. So yeah, I'm sure they're
looking the other way. I'm sure there's going to be
students that are not legally allowed to vote. They're going
to cast a ballot today that's going to be counted,

(25:32):
and there's really nothing we can do about it.

Speaker 10 (25:34):
But Jessica, give a metro in the area. I think
there'll be a lot of that.

Speaker 4 (25:38):
To be honest, Yeah, I would say you might be
right there, And Jessica, I appreciate you bringing it to
our attention. I just don't think there's anything we can
do about it, especially if the Clerk's office was cavalier
about whether or not they were getting that information out.

Speaker 10 (25:54):
Yeah, both the Clerk's office and the Secretary of State
office just didn't even want to didn't care.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
Yeah, well, you know what, maybe we'll follow up after
the election and see what we can find out.

Speaker 6 (26:05):
But you know, calling today isn't going to do anything great.
All right, all.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
Right, thanks Jessica, I appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (26:12):
Three O three seven one.

Speaker 4 (26:13):
Three eighty five eighty five. That is an interesting story.
We'll follow up on. But hopefully this caller wants to
talk about repopulating the earth with really smart people.

Speaker 6 (26:22):
By the way, if.

Speaker 4 (26:22):
You're sending them on text, I'm not going to read
the text messages out loud. I am only talking to
callers right now, the special people that still know how
to work the phone. No one's calling with my answer, Sherry,
you're on, you're on, Kowa, what's on your mind?

Speaker 9 (26:39):
I was at the courthouse yesterday in Denver for the
case against the Secretary of State and Sherry.

Speaker 4 (26:49):
What you're talking Wait what you're talking about? In case
people don't know, are you associated with the Libertarian Party?

Speaker 11 (26:55):
No?

Speaker 4 (26:56):
Okay, okay, Well let me let me explain real quick
people that did not hear about this. The Libertarian Party
is actually suing jannat Griswold because they have concerns about
the security of the voting machines, because their experts have
said that with the passwords that were leaked online for
three months could be used to affect voting security. And

(27:19):
as far as I know, has the judge ruled on
that yet, I have.

Speaker 9 (27:23):
Not heard anything. I've been kind of waiting, although we
all kind of had a feeling we knew which way
it was going to go. Yeah, so I yeah, it's
just too hard gone. I mean, her team, literal literally,
her team of attorneys just wear around in circles, especially

(27:47):
over the plaintiffs witnesses. Oh really had a very good
witness Oh yeah, just tuck circles around them. You know,
got a lot of objection sustained. Of course, it was
just like a It was like being in a fight

(28:07):
with five people against one.

Speaker 6 (28:11):
I can imagine.

Speaker 4 (28:12):
Oh, well, I've reached out, I have, I got the emails.
I'm going to have somebody from the Libertarian Party on.
I figured we gin them on tomorrow. I don't think
anything is going to happen to change this election. I'm
kind of with you that this judge is like, there's
no way I'm going to demand a handcount in all
of these counties. I just don't see this judge having
the bravery to do it. Although I think and there's

(28:33):
certainly enough evidence to suggest that is what should happen.

Speaker 9 (28:38):
Yeah, basically, they wrote the Secretary of State Attorneys pointed out, well,
nothing nessarious occurred from the leaked biof passwords.

Speaker 4 (28:56):
But did they also say that they couldn't tell if
anything nefarious had happened exactly.

Speaker 9 (29:02):
Yeah, they couldn't say one way or the other.

Speaker 6 (29:04):
Right, Well, that was their point, Cherry.

Speaker 4 (29:07):
I'm gonna reach out to the folks from the Libertarian Party,
so hopefully we'll have an update tomorrow.

Speaker 6 (29:11):
But I don't think anything changes. I think you're right
about that.

Speaker 9 (29:15):
Yeah, all right, it was frustrating, and I'm glad I
got so all right, I'm glad you went too.

Speaker 4 (29:21):
I appreciate the phone call. We're going to take a
quick time out. We got people calling with their names
about repopulating the work earth. I will talk about text
messages in the next hour for those of you who
just don't want to talk, Okay, just letting you know
I just missed phone calls, miss talking to people. I'll
be right back. Who needs to repopulate the world? What
do you got for me?

Speaker 12 (29:40):
Jay?

Speaker 13 (29:42):
Randy?

Speaker 4 (29:42):
Hello from your favorite retired police officer now living in
Las Vegas.

Speaker 7 (29:46):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (29:46):
I'm headed there tomorrow as a matter of fact, going
to go see my mom. I'll be broadcasting from the
Vegas studios, which I'm kind of excited about. That's exciting.

Speaker 3 (29:55):
Yeah, I was just down there.

Speaker 13 (29:56):
But anyway, back to my original I would pickl so
I full have your answer, and then I would go
with Condoleeza Rice for the other half.

Speaker 4 (30:05):
See. I like that, I like Kandy, I like Elon,
both super smart people. I like the fact that you
would begin the New World Order with mixed race people.
So maybe all of these sort of issues that we
have with tribalism and culture and stuff like that would
sort of fall by the wayside. I think that is
an excellent combination, and we could do a lot worse.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
That's true, we could.

Speaker 13 (30:27):
So I sent you a EMO.

Speaker 6 (30:28):
Have a great day, all right, man, have a good one.

Speaker 4 (30:31):
And Crystal, uh, Crystal, you're on KOA.

Speaker 6 (30:35):
What's on your mind?

Speaker 8 (30:37):
Hip?

Speaker 13 (30:37):
So the color thing, so if in our eyes we
have cones which help us see colors, right now, my
blue color code could end up being you're yellow and
you're thinking that the blue yellow you see is blue.
So there is a way that it actually could be
going on.

Speaker 4 (30:56):
So wait a minute, you're telling me all the stoner
conversations from college or at it.

Speaker 6 (31:01):
It can be Oh god, you just wrecked my world.

Speaker 4 (31:06):
Isn't that interesting?

Speaker 7 (31:07):
That?

Speaker 4 (31:07):
I mean because it would all be consistent in the
sense that we're calling the same color green, but what
we're actually seeing as green could be totally different. That's
that's what that's an actual thing now.

Speaker 13 (31:22):
It actually yes, but it's more like royal blue to you,
could be more like a regular blue to me. So
would you just different shades of colors? Not necessarily that drastic,
but yes, it actually happens, all.

Speaker 4 (31:37):
Right, you just blew my mind, Crystal, Thanks for that.

Speaker 6 (31:39):
Appreciates you.

Speaker 14 (31:41):
Yeah, dude, dude, I like the fact that Grant has
the bong sound effect ready to go, like right out
of the chuote like bam, let's go.

Speaker 6 (31:54):
What's wrong with white people? Ask this person. I'm just saying,
I I you know, I guess if they were all white.

Speaker 4 (32:01):
Yeah, I mean, I guess we could do that too,
just trying to be a little inclusive. I didn't even
think about the race thing until somebody said Condelli's Rice,
because I think she's brilliant. I would love to have
her on the show to just talk about football. She's
part of the ownership group for the Broncos. I know

(32:21):
many people don't know that, but I would love to
have a conversation with her. I have a tremendous amount
of admiration for her. Just at admiration. It's a nice
thing to feel, Mandy. On the subject of election integrity,
you might find this funny. When I lived in Massachusetts,
there was no ID requirement for state and federal elections.

(32:41):
You just walked up told an election worker your address.
But for town meetings municipal level, you had to show
official ID just to get into the auditorium.

Speaker 6 (32:50):
Few people ever saw the irony of that.

Speaker 4 (32:54):
I do want to point out to our caller who
called earlier, a different.

Speaker 6 (32:58):
Texter, before I could even google.

Speaker 4 (33:00):
She called and was concerned the students were being allowed
to vote with just their student ID. In Colorado, there
are a lot of different forms of ID that are available.
You can find them on the Secretary of State's office.
One of them is a valid student identification card with
a photograph of the eligible elector issued by an institute
of higher education in Colorado, as defined in Section twenty

(33:23):
three Dash three point one dash one oh two five crs,
so they can vote with just a student ID.

Speaker 6 (33:30):
So we don't need to worry about that. We're going
to get Oh, we.

Speaker 4 (33:33):
Got all kinds of people calling on all kinds of stuff. Okay,
David goes to the top of the list when we
get back. His combination of how to repopulate the earth
has to be one of the most entertaining that I
could ever imagine.

Speaker 6 (33:45):
We'll do that next.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
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Speaker 7 (34:20):
The architect of the future, the future is now.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
It's futurist Thomas Frye.

Speaker 4 (34:26):
At futurists speaker dot com if you'd like him to
come speak to your organization. I do want to give
a little payoff for those people who waited David who
was on hold with his two people to repopulate the earth.
I'm just going to tell you who they were, because
it was too funny not to, he said Chris Christy
and Simone Biles. I don't know the thinking behind that,
but it made me laugh out loud. So thank you

(34:47):
David for that. And we'll talk about that a little
bit later. But Thomas is on today to talk about robots,
and you've been you've been deep in the robot rabbit
hole for a little while. What is uh, what have
you been seeing in the world of robe Thomas?

Speaker 3 (35:03):
Well, they're going to start evolving very quickly here.

Speaker 8 (35:06):
I think we're going to start seeing robots with capabilities
we never imagined. But I recently wrote this column just
titled will robots replace the children that we're not having?

Speaker 3 (35:20):
Replace the kids we're not having? And it's interesting.

Speaker 8 (35:25):
Because there's benefits to having robots around it. I mean,
as soon as we ironically, as soon as we have
robots that can change a dirty diaper, it'll make it
much easier to actually have kids. So maybe robots will
actually increase the population rather than decrease it.

Speaker 4 (35:42):
Do you think there's going to be Because I got
to tell you, as a mom, like the thought of
handing over my little baby to a robot just does
not drive with me. Right now that that just does
not what kind of what kind of curve are we
looking at for robot acceptance? Now you're talking about development, right,
and I think some of the stuff is happening in
robot development is fascinating, really really fascinating. But when you're

(36:06):
talking about a new mom, especially of second mom, like
second kid, the mom will be like, take the baby,
it's fine, But first time moms, I mean, what is
that curve going to be looking like before we all
just accept that we have a robot made that is
in our house, or a robot taking care of our babies,
or a robot taking care of our older people.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
Yeah, we have to have robots that we're comfortable around.

Speaker 8 (36:35):
We have to have ones that have a soft touch
that we can have interactive conversations with that they feel
much more human than anything that we exist today.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
We still have a long ways to go up.

Speaker 8 (36:51):
And so there'll be many iterations of evolution on the
robot world before we get to that point. Yeah, I
think that having a robot that can walk to your
kids to school, that can actually go out and play
with the kids, I think people are going to love that.
And interestingly enough, you know, people are worried about too

(37:14):
much screen time for the kids today, Well, they might
be worried about too much robot time with the kids
in the future.

Speaker 4 (37:19):
I would think that that would be concerning to some parents.
I think other parents would be grateful that they don't
have to deal with that anymore. But you know some
parents who are very involved. I think my questions would
more be along the lines of, if my child asks
my robot nanny, we'll call it robot nanny, Okay, a question,

(37:41):
a philosophical question. As little children do they ask you
these questions throughout their childhood, all of these really deep,
meaningful questions. How do I program the sort of response
that I would want my robot to give? For instance,
I lean conservative politically, liberty and freedom are very important
to me. How do I, as a parent ensure that

(38:03):
my robot will reinforce those values that I'm trying to
instill in my kid.

Speaker 8 (38:11):
Yeah, they're not going to have little switches that say
Republican or Democratic on them.

Speaker 3 (38:16):
Yeah, they are.

Speaker 8 (38:20):
This this role I think these robots, I think will
evolve around the conversations that are currently being had around
for the family. I don't think that there's any hardcore
way of programming the robot. But I think that they
will be very adaptive and understand what what the conversations

(38:42):
are that are taking place currently and how to actually
feed on that. I see robots becoming much more human
like over the coming years, and to the to the
point where where they actually are hybrid and actually flesh

(39:02):
bots that are we actually have human like flesh that
grows on the outside of these things, and so the
touch that they have is going to be actually real
human touch. And of course there's going to be all
kinds of ups and downs with.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
A lot of a lot of weirdness that goes lining
with this.

Speaker 4 (39:23):
But okay, you just took me right to Star Trek
next Generation and Data. Okay, Data was a robot, but
he always looked like his skin had had been grown
in a lab to me. So I mean, is that
what you're talking about where they look humanoid but they
actually have a robot in our core?

Speaker 3 (39:44):
Right?

Speaker 2 (39:45):
Right?

Speaker 3 (39:48):
Yeah, we will see how this all takes place.

Speaker 8 (39:50):
And and there's there's lots of people that have talked
about downloading their their personnel, their their their essence of.

Speaker 3 (39:58):
Who they are into the Internet to live forever.

Speaker 8 (40:02):
But talking about downloading it into a robot that actually
has physical capabilities, so you can live forever as a robot.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
That's a whole different ballgame.

Speaker 8 (40:13):
And so that opens up another wide area of discussion
that we're currently not prepared to have.

Speaker 4 (40:21):
Well, it would be my look that only the irritating,
annoying people who text me relentlessly every day would find
a way to download their consciousness into a robot so
they would never die. It would only be the annoying people,
right that would do that. It wouldn't be the people
we actually wanted to do that. It would just be
people that are irritating and whatnot. So I don't know.

Speaker 6 (40:41):
I mean, I am, on the one end.

Speaker 4 (40:43):
I'm very excited about the future of what robots can
do and what they can accomplish and how game changing
they can be. And I guess the evolution of not
just the robots, but also how we interact with the
robots is going to be a much slower process, so

(41:04):
we'll have time to adapt, you know. I mean, it's
been kind of funny to me to see how quickly
people adapted to self driving cars in San Francisco, where
they're willing to get into a waygo that has no
driver and go ahead and let it take them around
San Francisco. I would have thought that would have been
a much longer curve, but it's not. People seem willing

(41:25):
to just like, let's do this. Is that surprising at all?
I guess.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (41:34):
I was reading some of the projections on humanoid robots
and how quickly this these things will grow, and how
many people are going to buy these things?

Speaker 3 (41:44):
And projections are by two and thirty five.

Speaker 8 (41:47):
One projection list that we'd have one and a half
million robots out there.

Speaker 4 (41:51):
Oh wow.

Speaker 3 (41:51):
And another projection.

Speaker 8 (41:54):
That was by two thousand and forty was that we
would have a billion of them out there. And so
somewhere in the middle I think is the real number.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
And so how popular will these things be? Well, it
depends on all their.

Speaker 8 (42:08):
Capabilities and how.

Speaker 3 (42:10):
Easy they are to work with and get along with.

Speaker 8 (42:14):
And certainly if they can take a lot of the
workload off of us, that will they'll make it much
more valuable in our own minds.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
So I see. I mean, if a robot.

Speaker 8 (42:30):
Can take care of our kids and take care of
the dogs and clean up the house for us, if
they can wash our dishes, well, we still need dishwashers.

Speaker 3 (42:39):
If they can cook our.

Speaker 8 (42:41):
Food for us, well, we still need we still be
inclined to go out to restaurants, or we'll be more
inclined to eat dinner at home and engage and bring
our friends over. And how long will it be before
a robot comedian is funnier than human comedians or talk show.

Speaker 4 (43:01):
Host I mean, I mean everybody likes to think, well,
my job's not replaceable, but realistically we're very quickly moving
to an arena where AI. There are radio stations right
now that have fully AI DJs, and it's not as
well recepted, I think, as they would have liked, because
people are a little turned off by that, I guess.

(43:23):
But ultimately, I mean, are we all replaceable? Are there
any Are there any fields where it would be safe
to say I could not be replaced because I don't
see it.

Speaker 3 (43:35):
Yeah, it's actually hard to.

Speaker 8 (43:40):
So some of the areas that I don't know how
we'd replaces.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
A robot will not start a business and will not know.

Speaker 8 (43:51):
How to take risks if there's no human involved. I
don't think a robot will be able to open a
bank account. Robots don't need clothing, they don't need food.
There's lots of needs that they don't have, So we
still need humans to generate our economy, but they can

(44:16):
replace a lot of the workload that we would normally have,
so it's hard to actually harse us out into yess
the work. And now that won't work because we're going
to figure out new ways to do things right robots
that we never mentioned.

Speaker 4 (44:32):
Somebody just asked this question. I think it's kind of interesting.
If a robot is a witness to a crime in
the house, how would this impact the accused and their rights?
I mean, I'm assuming that they have the capability of
at least a limited time playback that they could access,
and they might be an actual video tape of.

Speaker 6 (44:56):
What just happened.

Speaker 4 (44:57):
I mean, that would have to be sorted out because
I want my robot recording everything that happens in my house.

Speaker 3 (45:05):
Could your robot get subpoena in court?

Speaker 4 (45:07):
That's kind of I think what they're asking, like, what
do you know? Do you could the video be subpoena? Yes,
but could the robot testify?

Speaker 6 (45:15):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (45:16):
I mean, I don't know if that would be I
don't know if I'm on a jury and a robot
sits there and says this is what happened. Because they
can't swear on a bible. I mean they could, but
does it really mean anything?

Speaker 7 (45:28):
You know what?

Speaker 4 (45:28):
I mean, what's the ethical standards that robots have?

Speaker 13 (45:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (45:34):
What does a robot bible look like?

Speaker 4 (45:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (45:37):
Exactly, exactly, go ahead.

Speaker 8 (45:42):
Yeah, I think that we're going to all kinds of
legal issues that we never anticipated as well, having robot intruders.
A robot breaks into my house, Oh gosh, fault is it?

Speaker 4 (45:58):
I mean it would have to be the people that
program the robots to break into your house.

Speaker 6 (46:01):
I didn't even think about that, Thomas.

Speaker 4 (46:03):
That's a whole new worry because a robot could kick
in your door, come in, overpower you physically, and you
can't do anything to fight back against a robot. And
then what are you going to identify? Yeah, robot came
in my house, I'll give you a description. You know,
they all look the same kind of thing. That's a
little bit scary as well. So, I mean it's going
to be as soon as criminals get robots. What are

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criminals going to do with robots?

Speaker 2 (46:28):
Right?

Speaker 3 (46:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (46:31):
So I was thinking, if you want to buy groceries.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
Should probably want your robot to go to the grocery.

Speaker 8 (46:38):
Store and buy them for you, right, pick them up
and bring them home, But you don't want to give
the robot access to your main bank account.

Speaker 3 (46:48):
So would you set up a separate bank account for
your robot?

Speaker 6 (46:52):
I would?

Speaker 4 (46:53):
I mean I would because I have had situations where
someone else was doing my shopping for me, and I
set up a separate bank account just for them, and.

Speaker 6 (47:01):
That was a human.

Speaker 4 (47:02):
I'm not giving a human access to my bank account,
you know what I mean. I mean my husband, yes,
but not a general person, So that would make sense.
I mean yeah, I mean you just give them their
own little bank card.

Speaker 8 (47:16):
So then if somebody decides to hijack robot and steal
their money, what does that look like?

Speaker 3 (47:26):
Then? Who's going there's all these what if scenario?

Speaker 4 (47:30):
It was gonna say, how do you hijack a robot?
Are you talking about hacking in or standing there holding
you know, a gun at a robot saying give me
all your money or I'm gonna I'm gonna.

Speaker 8 (47:40):
Shoot you, Yeah, something like that. And should a robot
be allowed to defend itself? And to what extent should
it be able to disable the person that's trying to
harm it.

Speaker 4 (47:58):
I say yes, because ultimately, if a robot is there
to serve and protect you, then they should be able
to defend themselves, but only in a defensive posture, meaning
they could block someone from hitting them. They could neutralize
someone by you know, putting them in a hold, a

(48:19):
robot hold, so they can't move or do anything while
they're simultaneously calling the police on their little imaginary headset
that I just gave them inside their robot heads. I mean, yeah,
but it's the most challenging thing for me is that
I know that the military is working on making robot soldiers,
and how do you program a robot to kill certain

(48:43):
people but not others? And what's to prevent someone from
hacking into that set of robots and turning them on you.
That's this kind of stuff that I think about, Thomas.

Speaker 3 (48:55):
Right, there's a downside all of this.

Speaker 8 (49:00):
Yeah, if your robot suddenly calls the police to come
in and intervene, it would actually be a police bot
that shows up.

Speaker 3 (49:10):
That takes over.

Speaker 8 (49:12):
And so how does a police spot then take care
of this person that's giving problems?

Speaker 3 (49:19):
Does that police spot have more leeway in dealing with criminals.

Speaker 8 (49:26):
Yeah, that's it raises all kinds of interesting questions.

Speaker 3 (49:32):
Should they be allowed to use me, be allowed to
use tear gas?

Speaker 4 (49:37):
In theory, you would think that, like, let's talk about
RoboCop here for a second, not the movie, but an
actual RoboCop that we're building in my mind here, you
could make that robot pretty impenetrable. Like right now, when
a police officer engages with a criminal in a physical way,
there's a good chance that cop could also get hurt.
But if you had a robot cop that could then

(49:58):
sort of disable that person by holding them down or
getting them still because of their superior strength and they're
they're in their unlikelihood of getting hurt, I think that
we'd be all like, Yeah, if that robot grabbed you
and held you and then you hurt yourself because you're fighting,
that's your own.

Speaker 6 (50:14):
Fault, you know what I mean. I mean, I think
we'd be willing.

Speaker 4 (50:17):
To give them a little leeway because they can actually
get closer to the criminals than actual police officers can.

Speaker 8 (50:26):
Yeah, if we had a situation where somebody actually died
in the hands of a robot, what kind of feedback
would happen. Then what kind of backlash would occurs?

Speaker 3 (50:40):
Another George Floyd situation.

Speaker 8 (50:43):
Where we have overpowering robots that are demanding too much
of our people. It raises these ethical questions we've just
not had discussions about yet.

Speaker 3 (50:57):
I mean, this is all Virgin territory.

Speaker 6 (50:59):
And isn't the ethics kind of the hardest part of
this whole thing?

Speaker 13 (51:06):
Well?

Speaker 8 (51:06):
It is. Is there a regulations that should be in place?
I think so, but we don't know enough about these
things yet to know what the regulation should be.

Speaker 4 (51:16):
Well, a lot of my texters are giving you some
variation of this. Has anyone ever seen the movie Terminator
or Mandy? I've seen I Robot and Ex Machina. I'm
good on the robots. But ultimately, you know, we we've
been scared of things in the past. We used to
think lightning was the gods that were angry, right, So

(51:37):
as we as our knowledge has evolved, as we become
as we've traveled in space, we're less likely to believe that,
you know, we're gonna have the kind of aliens are
going to come down and kill us on Independence Day.
So I think as this stuff starts to roll out,
because it starts with a rumba, it starts with a
robotic law.

Speaker 6 (51:56):
One of my neighbors has one of these.

Speaker 4 (51:58):
It doesn't start with fully humanyed robots living in our
houses full time with skin that was grown in a lab.

Speaker 6 (52:04):
That's not how it gets started.

Speaker 4 (52:06):
So perhaps that will make the adoption a little bit easier.
But somebody did ask this, Thomas, and I think this
is an interesting question. They said, what happens when the
government hacks my robot and can see inside my house?

Speaker 6 (52:20):
Could you, in theory, tell your robot if.

Speaker 4 (52:24):
Anyone tries to change your programming or program you to
spy on me.

Speaker 6 (52:29):
I need you to let me know right away.

Speaker 4 (52:31):
Would that work with something that simple, in something that
is constructed to work within a framework, an ethical framework
that has to be created. With something like that works, say, look,
if anybody's.

Speaker 6 (52:44):
Trying to inspire on me, I need you to tell me.

Speaker 8 (52:48):
I think one of the core pieces of every one
of these robots is they need to be the guardian
of your privacy. They need to be your protector, that
they're watching out for you more than anybody else's interests.

Speaker 3 (53:06):
And so.

Speaker 8 (53:08):
If we don't have that, then I don't think that
I don't think they're going to sell many of these robots.
But if the robot is actually working for you, if
it's doing everything you wanted to do, then you can
rely on it. It's trustworthy, something that you can count
on to help you every day, then it becomes super

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valuable and.

Speaker 4 (53:30):
It would become I would think I would envision this
as being robots becoming a part of the family, at
least in the United States of America. In some other
cultures where they still have servants and things of that nature,
perhaps they would be treated like a servant. But I
could see Americans bringing these robots in and having them
become an extended part of their family.

Speaker 6 (53:51):
Don't you think, Yeah.

Speaker 8 (53:54):
These robots should be your buddy bot. They should be
your best friend, and you always wish you had something
that can actually finish your sentences for you and knows
what you're going to be saying next that you have
all these good conversations with. I think that's the kind
of robot people want, and I think the people that

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are designing robots are going to go on that path
and try to figure out, oh, yeah, this is narrow
spectrum of things that everybody wants let's try to include
all of that into this robot.

Speaker 4 (54:29):
Thomas Ry is our futurist. You can find him at
futurist speaker dot com, Thomas Great Conversation and al Lie
Awake at night waiting for the robot Uprising. Thanks so
much for that. All Right, all right, I have a
good day. We will be right back.

Speaker 6 (54:48):
Mandy.

Speaker 4 (54:48):
Watch Woody Allen's Sleeper for a peek into living with robots.
Grant is in for a rod today. Have you ever
seen the Sleeper by Woody Allen? No, have you ever
really watched Woody Allen movie? Because your age your age
group only knows Woody Allen for being creepy and marrying
his stepdaughter.

Speaker 5 (55:06):
Right, that's the only thing other than your former producer
Dave Lower.

Speaker 4 (55:11):
Oh yeah, well, his older movies are absolutely phenomenal. I
mean some of my favorite movies are old Woody Allen movies.
The Purple Rose of Cairo, Sleeper is a fantastic movie.
Zelig is another one. You've got to watch some of
those older movies, and they're all extremely different.

Speaker 6 (55:31):
I mean they have the kind of minshe you know.

Speaker 4 (55:35):
New York jew kind of movies like Annie Hall where
New York is as much a character as anything else.
But his older work is really incredible, just really really incredible.
And Sleeper such a good movie, so dumb and so
good at the same time. Do you know the spaceship
house up on the mountain up there? Yeah, I think

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that's in Sleeper? Oh? Really, maybe is that?

Speaker 6 (55:59):
Let me know what Colorado House? Sleeper, Let's see if
that's it.

Speaker 4 (56:06):
Sculptured House, also known as the Sleeper House, is the
house in Genesee. It was featured prominently in the nineteen
seventy three comedy Sleeper by Woody Allen. And that's where
the Orgasmatron is. And I'm just gonna let you watch
the movie to see what that's all about. Yeah, like what, Yeah, Oh,

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it's so funny. It's so, so, so funny. But yeah,
that would be a fun way to sort of introduce
yourself to robots.

Speaker 6 (56:33):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (56:34):
A couple of things that I want to get to.
I have a column on the blog today that I
just really liked. I follow this substack called the Liberal Patriot,
and the liberal patriot is people.

Speaker 6 (56:47):
On the left who have a very.

Speaker 4 (56:52):
Clear, a very clear vision from the left, and the
only way I can describe it is. They're really great
at having a sort of a third party vision. They
write very interesting critiques of the left, and they often
talk more about the left and what needs to happen
on the left than they do the right, because these

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are leftists that write these columns, but they're not like
crazy wackadoodle hardcore lefties that are out there, and they're
very good. And they wrote a column called Election Day
to do List, and the first one is remember to
thank your local poll workers and election officials. That should
be so easy, and then they go on to talk
about steer clear of partisan propaganda. I've been telling you

(57:34):
that for the last week. Anything that happens in the
seven days before the election, just turn it off. Turn
it off because it's probably a lie. Find a few
trustworthy voices on social media and other sites to follow
for confirmed information, actual vote results, and honest analysis.

Speaker 6 (57:52):
Now, can we talk about tonight for a moment.

Speaker 4 (57:54):
Tonight, we have a great team for our election coverage
starting at six pm. Ryan Dueling's going to be in,
Ben Albright's going to be in during election coverage. I
hate doing election coverage. I'm going to be perfectly honest
because results are usually only updated every half hour, so
you end up sitting here twiddling your thumbs for a
really long time. That being said, I do think we're

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going to get pretty quickly the information about the initiatives
and the amendments and all of those propositions.

Speaker 6 (58:22):
I think those are going to come in pretty quick.

Speaker 4 (58:25):
So if you want to listen up for a while,
hear what's happening in the state of Colorado, and then
I have a suggestion for you, And it's going to
sound really counterintuitive, but do what I do. Go to
bed at your normal time because you staying up until
midnight one o'clock two am waiting for these election results

(58:46):
is not going to change them. So I will be
on the show tonight. I'm going to be broadcasting from
my house, probably in my jammis. I don't know, maybe
you won't know either. I'll sound clothed, fully clothed. But
then I go to bed at a reasonable hour because
we're not gonna I mean, unless it is a landslide

(59:06):
in either direction, we're probably not going to know the
presidential results tonight. Now, if it's a landslide in either direction,
then then that would be fine. And is anybody else
hoping for a landslide. I'm hoping for a landslide in
either direction. Let me clarify that I don't want Kamil
a Heers to win. But if she wins, please God,

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don't let it be close. Please God, let it be
a landslide so we don't have to hear about cheating
and lying and all.

Speaker 6 (59:36):
Of that stuff.

Speaker 4 (59:37):
But if it's a landslide for Trump, oh my goodness,
you guys, some of the people in the media, if
it's a landslide for Trump, like, we're gonna need to
check on them tomorrow and make sure that they're not suicidal.
Because I made the terrible choice yesterday of turning on
MSNBC for like ten minutes. These people genuinely believe that

(59:58):
they are fighting Hitler, that if they don't convince their
people to vote Democratic, then on Wednesday or Thursday of
this week, all women are going to be required to
report to work wearing their handmade Tales costumes. I don't
even have one. For the record, I'm gonna have to
go out and buy one. Ooh, grant business idea. Let's

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make handmaid Tale costumes if all women are.

Speaker 6 (01:00:21):
Going to need them.

Speaker 4 (01:00:22):
I think we've got that may be a big money maker.
Let me think you think we're gonna make some money
off of that.

Speaker 6 (01:00:28):
You know what, why not?

Speaker 4 (01:00:29):
If I'm look, if the country's going to go on
a toilet, I want to find out how to make.

Speaker 6 (01:00:33):
As much money as possible. We'll exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:00:35):
I'm okay, I can get on board with that exactly.
So yeah, I mean I could only stand it for
like six or seven minutes, and then I was like,
I can't watch this. I read an article. I didn't
put it on the blog because it wasn't that interesting,
but it was sort of interesting and that this person,
and I think it was in the Free Press, went
and talked to a bunch of undecided voters who had

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previously been what they call politically homeless their independence. They
may be socially liberal but very conservative fiscally. And they
were asking these people who they were voting for. And
what was interesting was everybody that was voting for Kamala
Harris essentially was I can't vote for Trump, I'm voting
for her. The people that said I'm voting for Trump said,
I'm voting for Trump because I'm worried about the border.

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I don't want unfettered immigration. I need to work on inflation.
We've got to bring prices down. There were very specific
reasons for voting for Trump, and not specific reasons other
than not Trump for voting for Kamala Harris. Now is
that enough? Is that enough to bring people out? I
don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:01:38):
We shall see. Ross made a good point earlier.

Speaker 4 (01:01:41):
Do not get married to the early returns because depending
on how states count the ballots some state some states
count the mail in ballots early, right before the regular
Some states cannot start counting those until late. So depending
on who shows up with the polls who in their ballot,
that can shift dramatically, especially in swing state. So if

(01:02:04):
you go to bed tonight at nine o'clock and Republicans
are taking anything, don't get married to that.

Speaker 6 (01:02:09):
You could wake up in the morning and.

Speaker 4 (01:02:10):
It could just be that the ballots that were finally
counted came from Democratic strongholds and now they've taken the lead.
So don't get too caught up in the early returns.
Don't get too celebratory in the early returns.

Speaker 2 (01:02:22):
Just do what I.

Speaker 4 (01:02:23):
Did, Watch as long as you want, and then go
to bed, and when you wake up, maybe in the morning,
we'll have a new president. But guess what, regardless of
who it is, the United States.

Speaker 6 (01:02:34):
Of America will survive.

Speaker 4 (01:02:37):
That I am certain of, and I'm really not certain
of anything else in this election, Mandy, I'm hoping for
a Grover Cleveland repeat.

Speaker 2 (01:02:46):
Great.

Speaker 6 (01:02:46):
How much do you know about Grover Cleveland?

Speaker 4 (01:02:49):
Almost nothing? Two time president of the United States of America.

Speaker 6 (01:02:53):
Yeah, he did have a good mustache. Interesting guy.

Speaker 4 (01:02:59):
I've read a little bit about Grover Cleveland because he
was a money hawk.

Speaker 6 (01:03:03):
He was a Democrat, but he.

Speaker 4 (01:03:06):
Didn't like a lot of things that the Democrats were
doing at the time, and he was defeated by h B.
Bo Bo Bah William Henry Harrison Benjamin Harrison excuse me wrong, Harrison,
and then got back into office four years later because
Harrison got into office and did all these dumb things
that hurt the money supply and he was re elected.

Speaker 6 (01:03:29):
So yeah. By the way, the eighteen ninety.

Speaker 4 (01:03:33):
Two election was, according to Cleveland biographer Alan Nevins, the cleanest, quietest,
and most creditable in the memory of the post war generation.
That was because Harrison's wife was dying of tuberculosis.

Speaker 6 (01:03:47):
Harrison did not campaign at all, so listen to this.

Speaker 4 (01:03:53):
Could you imagine this happening now? Grant, listen to this.
Following Carolyn Harrison's death on October twenty fifth, to weeks
before the national election, Cleveland and all of the other
candidates stopped campaigning, thus making election day a somber and
quiet event for the whole country as well as the candidates. Wow,
people had respects.

Speaker 6 (01:04:12):
Yeah, can you imagine?

Speaker 4 (01:04:14):
What is that? I mean, gosh, they actually felt bad
for the guy when his wife died.

Speaker 5 (01:04:19):
You know, that does kind of remind me of the
moment and the VP debate when Tim Waltz was talking
about his kid being in the school shooting and Jajie
Vance actually took a moment to be human and be like, wow,
I never knew that.

Speaker 4 (01:04:31):
I'm sorry to hear about Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it turns
out that wasn't quite true, but whatever was right the
delement of it. Yeah, no, I get what you were saying.
I mean, the Jdvans Tim Wall's debate was full of
so much I agree with you. You know, it was almost shocking, shocking,
So thanks Texter. I'm now going to go read the
book on Grover Cleveland that has been taunting me for
my bookshelf for about four years. I believe Davey Intrepid

(01:04:53):
gave it to me, so I'll go back and check
that out. I had no idea, Mandy, I still love this.
When I die, I want to be buried in Chicago
so I can still vote there.

Speaker 7 (01:05:05):
You go.

Speaker 4 (01:05:06):
Uh, not sure if you know this, But I can't
get koa on iHeart pl up your iHeart app. Grant
see if we're working, sometimes you have to close the
app and start over. It just gets kind of buggy sometimes, Hi, man,
dagget to listen to you every once in a while.

Speaker 6 (01:05:20):
I'm out and about during the middle of the day.

Speaker 4 (01:05:22):
But grew up democratic lean more towards the middle and
into the right on certain things, but I'm also left
on some things. What you just sent the past seen
minutes to the past ten minutes is perfect.

Speaker 6 (01:05:33):
Do your normal things. We will all survive this.

Speaker 4 (01:05:36):
There needs to be more voices for the people in
the middle of the bell curve, not the extreme voices
you hear on the right and the left. I I
that is a sentiment that I agree with so wholeheartedly,
but I'm hopeless about it actually happening. Because if you
look on social media. Social media is exacerbated, and it's
not social media's fault. This is a human nature thing

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that is simply found a new vehicle to be awful. Right.
If you want to see people who are successful in
political social media, they are the flamethrowers. They're the ones
putting out content that is designed to make people angry,
that is designed.

Speaker 6 (01:06:13):
To fire people up. They love to argue, they love
to go back and.

Speaker 4 (01:06:16):
Forth, and all of those clicks and views and likes
and whatever, they're all monetizable. And that is we've now
monetized bad behavior. You know, before, when I was a kid,
if you acted the fool, you wouldn't make any money
because you were acting the full. Now people act the
full professionally, and they're making money hand over fist. You know,

(01:06:38):
any person in this country that thinks that we are
somehow going to get a handle on rampant pornography, you
need to understand there are people on OnlyFans making eight
hundred thousand.

Speaker 6 (01:06:47):
Dollars or more a month.

Speaker 5 (01:06:49):
I can't remember who it was, but I was reading
about this musician the other day who quit making music
and is only selling beat pictures and making ten times
as much more money.

Speaker 4 (01:06:58):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:07:00):
By the way, the iHeart app working just fine.

Speaker 6 (01:07:03):
Yep, it's going to be okay.

Speaker 4 (01:07:05):
Coming from someone who can afford groceries, yes, I can
afford groceries. But I'm here to tell you that, first
of all, economic issues are cyclical. That is just a fact.
Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. I have
been the bug. I have been the windshield. The windshield
is better, by the way. But what I'm saying is
all of these people who view this election as some

(01:07:26):
kind of existential crisis are wrong. They are wrong. I
believe in the people of the United States of America.
I believe in us. We're gonna be fine. It's all
gonna be okay when we get back. I've got I'm
gonna do the two minute drill today because i got
a lot of stuff on the blog, but I've also

(01:07:47):
got some really interesting stuff, including speaking of porn.

Speaker 6 (01:07:50):
Porn has gone full maga. I'll explain next.

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For play mark triple one. Let's call this will take
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Speaker 3 (01:08:32):
Are are you?

Speaker 2 (01:08:33):
Here's Mandy Condles All right, my friends.

Speaker 4 (01:08:36):
Christian Toto has a fantastic column about the Daily Wires
movie with Matt Walsh called Ami Racist. This little documentary
earned north of twelve million dollars in its theatrical debut.
The only fact based film Bears that scored higher in
nineteen twenty fourteen, was about Bears. Now, what this proofs,

(01:08:58):
according to Christian's column, is that conservatives.

Speaker 6 (01:09:01):
Do not need Hollywood.

Speaker 4 (01:09:02):
The Daily Wire went outside the structure of Hollywood to
make Ami racist, and they continue to make it as
it is still available by subscribers on the Daily Wire
dot com.

Speaker 6 (01:09:13):
Now you have to understand some of.

Speaker 4 (01:09:15):
The biggest documentary makers in the world are only making
one hundred and eight thousand dollars. That's from Rob Reiner
on God and Country, an anti Trump film. Now here's
the other thing. How did they promote Ami racist? They
didn't go on the Tonight Show or the Late Night
with Seth Myers. They went on The Megan Kelly Show,
the Joe Rogan Experience. Rogan actually said it was one

(01:09:38):
of the best comedies he's ever seen. This is good
news because we know that the capture of the Democratic
the Democratic Party of Hollywood is absolutely complete. Just look
at all the people that were at all the p
Diddies parties and are now endorsing Kamala Harris. Their decision
making is suspect. I'm just saying, great column by Christian

(01:10:00):
You should read it on the blog today. Hey, Grant,
remember that Algerian boxer that we were told we weren't
allowed to question whether or not he should be in
the ring with women. Yes, and because we were told
that he is a woman and he has woman parts
and we need to shut up the transphobe. But the
reality is Algerian boxer Iman Khalif is not a woman.

Speaker 6 (01:10:24):
A medical report revealed.

Speaker 4 (01:10:26):
That Khalif has testicles and a micro penis and guess
what xy chromosomes? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it gets even better.
Apparently there's a condition called five alpha reductaste deficiency, a
disorder of sexual development that is only found in biological males.
And if you guess that this boxer has that condition,

(01:10:47):
you guessed right now. What's interesting about this to me
is that this person should not have been boxing against
women in the first place. And I want to know
what the IOC is going to do now that we
know that this person was a bio logical male competing
against women. We must stop the madness in women's sports
before someone gets killed boxing an.

Speaker 6 (01:11:07):
Algerian guy in the ring.

Speaker 4 (01:11:10):
It too so a thirty one year old woman who
was recently diagnosed with colon cancer decided to talk about it.

Speaker 7 (01:11:17):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:11:17):
The headline here is a little I think, kind of dumb.
This thirty one year old woman shared the subtle signs
that she had colon cancer. Guys and gals, if you
consistently see blood in your stool, something is wrong. Go
see your doctor.

Speaker 6 (01:11:33):
The darker the blood, the worse it is.

Speaker 4 (01:11:35):
If it's bright red blood, it could be from something
as simple as a hemorrhoid. But if it is dark blood,
it is coming out of your body, and that is
a serious, serious sign that you need to go to
the doctor. She said. Over the last three years, she
was experiencing digestive issues that she thought were due to ibs,
but then she started to have really high anxiety and

(01:11:55):
felt really really tired. But it was the blood in
the stool that finally made her go to the doctor,
where she found out she has colon cancer. Colon cancer
has been seen in younger and younger people on a
regular basis. If you have a family history of colon cancer,
or you have any of the signs of colon cancer,
don't let a doctor tell you it's nothing. Get a

(01:12:16):
colonoscomy and find out for yourself.

Speaker 2 (01:12:19):
The drill it too great.

Speaker 4 (01:12:21):
You ever done the winter Park ski train? I know
you love to go up there and skiing, not half park,
but I think I'm going to this here. Well, you
can buy cheap tickets right now there as low as
nineteen dollars and they are running I think five days
a week and service starts on service begin.

Speaker 6 (01:12:37):
That can't be right.

Speaker 4 (01:12:38):
The service will begin five days a week on Thursday,
January nights twenty twenty five. That's not right.

Speaker 6 (01:12:43):
That is a that is not the right date. It
starts before that.

Speaker 4 (01:12:46):
There's expanded holiday service during the Christmas holiday, service continues
to March thirty first.

Speaker 6 (01:12:52):
Depending on when you want to go. You can buy.

Speaker 4 (01:12:54):
Tickets for as low as nineteen dollars. The train leaves
from Denver at seven am and gets to the resort
about nine and leaves winter Park at four thirty to
return to Denver at six forty.

Speaker 6 (01:13:05):
So there you go.

Speaker 4 (01:13:05):
All the info on the blog except for the right
start day, which I don't think I have.

Speaker 2 (01:13:11):
Rill it too, guys.

Speaker 4 (01:13:12):
I just want to give big ups to Heidi Klume.
Heidi Club is the ageist warrior all women needed.

Speaker 8 (01:13:19):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:13:20):
Granted we don't look like Heidi Klume.

Speaker 4 (01:13:22):
I don't have any illusions, but at fifty five, I
look remotely as good as Heidi Klume looks. But Heidi
Klume likes to show her body off. She likes to
go out and skippy outfit. She likes to go out topless,
not like in public, but like on beaches and stuff.
And she says, look, I'm not shy about my femininity.
I love dressing up where I have my cleavage, showing,
wearing mini skirts, high heels, gorgeous stockings. But that doesn't

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mean I want to go home with you. She continued,
sharing that it's just her personality. Why not I want
to have fun and show my body. But I do
have boundaries, as do all women. It should be okay
to wear a miniskirt if you're fifty one, if you
look good in a mini skirt when you're fifty one. Now, Grant,
I'm gonna save my last story on the two minute
drill to the other side because we're out of time

(01:14:05):
and I want to talk about this one. I'm not
gonna say you can go ahead and bring the music
down and hit the little last what whistles whatever that
last thing is. I don't know what that thing is
in there. Another restaurant chain is filed for bankruptcy. Grant,
you're young and enthusiastic, you out and do things. When
was the last time you set foot in a TGI Friday's.

Speaker 5 (01:14:26):
I poof, maybe like fifteen years ago.

Speaker 6 (01:14:31):
Well, it's your fault. They did serve bankruptcy the TGI Friday's.

Speaker 4 (01:14:35):
Out of all of those genres of restaurants, probably my
least favorite. We were an Applebee's family. Well, can I
just say, And then, honestly, I'm glad you brought up
Applebee's because when I saw this story about TGIF and
we're gonna get into this a little bit more after
the break. When I saw it, I thought, well, they
got to get a country singer to make a song
about them, because I genuinely believe that fancy like Applebee's. Yes,

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I think fancy like Applebee's help that chain recover because
they were They were like on the on the ropes
Applebee's were, and then all of a sudden, fancy like
Applebee's comes out and everybody's like, you know what, I'm
going to Applebee's. When people ask me where I'm from,
I always say, have you ever heard the song fancy
like Applebee's. That's where I'm from. Those are my people

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with the squeaky cooler in the back of the truck,
Those are my people. You know.

Speaker 6 (01:15:22):
They don't even really sell.

Speaker 4 (01:15:23):
Those squeaky coolers anymore.

Speaker 6 (01:15:25):
You have to buy cardboard coolers.

Speaker 13 (01:15:27):
What is that?

Speaker 4 (01:15:29):
What is a cardboard cooler.

Speaker 6 (01:15:30):
Supposed to accomplish?

Speaker 4 (01:15:32):
Wouldn't that just melt?

Speaker 8 (01:15:33):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:15:34):
I don't know. Apparently they figured something out. I've never
I'm not I am y the styrofoam squeaky coolers. I
haven't seen those in forever. They're bad for the environment.
Grant they're bad for the environment. They're good at beer
cool exactly, and they float. So if you're tubing down
a river, you got a styrofoam cooler, it just floats
right down the river with you. But if you've got

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a a cardboard cooler, what is that? The three little
pigs trying to come up with a way to keep
their beer cold.

Speaker 6 (01:16:03):
We'll be right back.

Speaker 4 (01:16:04):
We're going to continue the devastating story of the TGI
Friday bankruptcy right after this, We're going to get to.

Speaker 6 (01:16:10):
The TJA Friday's story.

Speaker 4 (01:16:11):
But I just saw something on the break that I have.

Speaker 6 (01:16:13):
To share with you.

Speaker 4 (01:16:15):
So someone went in and grabbed a bunch of clips
of CNN and MSNBC panelists, and they took ai and
replaced every mention of our democracy with our bureaucracy.

Speaker 6 (01:16:29):
And you've just got to hear this, great, Can I
have my computer?

Speaker 4 (01:16:33):
Thank you? If the Democrats fail, it might be the
end of American bureaucracy.

Speaker 8 (01:16:38):
Now, our bureaucracy really is in fundamental peril. The foundations
of American bureaucracy under attack.

Speaker 4 (01:16:44):
They want to destroy our bureaucracy. We are at bureaucracy
and danger.

Speaker 12 (01:16:48):
We're watching an election where people are on the ballot
openly advocating the end of bureaucracy. That's what Republicans are doing,
attacking bureaucracy, attempting to destroy bureaucracy, and they're doing it
with glee.

Speaker 15 (01:17:00):
This is the end of bureaucracy in America.

Speaker 8 (01:17:03):
When will America stop sleepwalking towards the end of bureaucracy.

Speaker 4 (01:17:08):
It's Democrats versus as Bill Crystal says, the end of bureaucracy.

Speaker 5 (01:17:12):
We are essentially, as Neil put it, one vote away
from the end of bureaucracy as we know it.

Speaker 8 (01:17:20):
I think our bureaucracy and the stability of that bureaucracy
is really the thing on the ballot and really so important.

Speaker 4 (01:17:28):
That my friends is so accurate it's scary. I would
love to vote for the end of the bureaucracy, wouldn't you?

Speaker 6 (01:17:36):
By the way, that put that on my Twitter feed.

Speaker 4 (01:17:37):
If you follow me on Twitter at Mandy Connell, and
remember my conversation from earlier, always follow your favorite talk
shows on social media just in case we're not here
one day. I'm just saying TGI Fridays has filed for
bankruptcy protection. It's looking for ways to ensure the long
term viability of the casual dining brand. He's already closed
a bunch of branches. And they said, look, the primary

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driver of our challenges resulted from COVID nineteen and our
capital structure.

Speaker 6 (01:18:06):
And here's the thing.

Speaker 4 (01:18:07):
We've got red Lobster in reorganization right now. We got
a lot of big restaurant chains really in trouble right now.
And I'm here to say, does anybody else still miss Bennigans?
Did you ever even go to a Benigans? Were they
still a thing when you were young?

Speaker 2 (01:18:23):
Grant?

Speaker 6 (01:18:23):
Did you have the experience where.

Speaker 4 (01:18:25):
The server walks up to your table and drops the
thirty pound menu in front of you.

Speaker 6 (01:18:29):
Yes, we are now flipping through the pages.

Speaker 4 (01:18:31):
It did not survive in our hometown. Oh God, I
miss Bennigans. It was so good. No matter what anybody
was in the mood for it, they had it at Bennigans.

Speaker 6 (01:18:41):
And they were the ones that made.

Speaker 4 (01:18:42):
The Monte Cristo sandwich famous. Hey, let's make a club
sandwich and then batter it and deep fry it, cut
it into four pieces, and serve it with ways Mary
jam Yes, please, we used to order that as an
appetizer for four of us. Everybody got a square.

Speaker 6 (01:18:56):
You can't eat the whole thing.

Speaker 4 (01:18:58):
If you ate a whole money, Cristo, you literally stood up,
had a heart attack and died right there. Nobody. I
just I miss it. I want it back. I heard
Steak and Ale was coming back too. I loved Steak
and Ale when I was young. It was oh my gosh,
oh my gosh, Steak and Ale.

Speaker 6 (01:19:14):
They all had a vibe grant.

Speaker 4 (01:19:16):
It was like they always had a big fireplace that
always had a fire and I lived in Florida. They
had a fireplace. It was magic. They had their fireplace
and everything was kind of dark, and they had like
those pewter mugs that you could.

Speaker 6 (01:19:27):
Get beer in.

Speaker 7 (01:19:28):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:19:28):
It was very ah huzzah kind of place, and the
food was really good, and it was just nice enough
so that like you could go there on a date
and you would tell your friends like, oh my god,
it took me to Steak and Ale. Wow. Yes, yeah,
I mean in college when a date was, hey, let's
go to free beer Thursday, like that was like a

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big deal. So some of these restaurant chains I have
so much fondness for. And I heard Denny's is in trouble.
That doesn't surprise me. O. My hammy remains one of
the greatest breakfast sandwiches ever created in the restaurant industry.
Moon's Over, My Moon's Over, My Hammi ham and cheese,
grilled cheese with scrambled eggs in it. Right, Yeah, perfect.

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There's never been a better breakfast sandwich in the history
of breakfast sandwiches for real. And now Danny's is in trouble.
But you know here's the thing. I don't really drink anymore,
So why am I going to go to Denny's. Yeah?
I mean the only time we ever went was it
like two am in Orlando. There was a Denny's right
near our house and at about two thirty the joint
was jumping, and I mean two thirty am, not two

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thirty pm, and.

Speaker 6 (01:20:36):
It was like wild.

Speaker 4 (01:20:37):
The club opened up.

Speaker 6 (01:20:38):
And everybody ended up at Denny's. It was oh so good,
so so good.

Speaker 12 (01:20:46):
So good.

Speaker 4 (01:20:48):
Mandy. I may have died three or four times after
eating the money Crystal on my twenties. No, you can
have it in your twenties when you're still young and vigorous.
Once you hit thirty, that hard atacks coming exactly. Death
by Chocolate, the best dessert ever At Bennigan's first date
with the wife was at ben Against back in the nineties.
They had all day Happy Hour two. I'm being reminded
of all this stuff from our texters. I'm not the

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only one I loved Bennigans. So anyway, we shall see.
Bubble thirty three in the Springs has an outstanding Monte Cristo. Huh,
all of you maniacs saying you ate the whole thing
the Monte Cristo, Like.

Speaker 6 (01:21:25):
How are you even still alive right now? Golly, it was.

Speaker 4 (01:21:30):
So good ben agin'st pretzel, bun ham and cheese. It
was all so good. Bring it back. Bring it back, everybody,
just bring it back.

Speaker 3 (01:21:40):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:21:41):
When I get back, I want to talk about a
couple of things. One, you need to go see the
blog today. I realize I haven't really talked about the election.
I'll explain why when I get back. Andy, who just
texted me the email of Benegans dot com. And I
just found out that there is a Bennigan's about a

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six hour drive away, and I will be making a
field trip. Luckily, my sister lives down in Amarillo, Texas,
and there's one just outside of Amarillo, and I'm going
they've got the Monte Cristo. They got Death by Chocolate.
Maybe we should be like, do you think we should
we should rent a bus, Grant, we should do like a.

Speaker 6 (01:22:22):
Full day venture. I'll drive where we get.

Speaker 4 (01:22:24):
No, we're gonna get a bus because that way we
can all have one of those Bennigans cocktails, you know
what I mean. And we'll just take a six hour
road trip to go down to Vanagins and then we'll
just come right back by morning Bennigans by me. Well done.

Speaker 6 (01:22:40):
I was a good one, Grant. That was a really,
really really good one.

Speaker 4 (01:22:44):
Okay, let's talk about election stress for the last segment
of the show.

Speaker 6 (01:22:50):
During the show.

Speaker 4 (01:22:50):
Today, I've gotten text messages from friends across the country,
from across the political spectrum, and.

Speaker 6 (01:22:58):
I mean, it's kind of funny.

Speaker 4 (01:22:59):
My friends on left are are far more like freaking out.
Just um about to have a panic attack, Please don't.
Seventy seven percent of US adults are feeling anxious about
the direction the country has headed. Sixty nine percent are
worried about the election that According to a new survey
from the American Psychological Association, this year has been even

(01:23:22):
more polarizing the previous years. As we spend more and
more time using smartphones and social media. Most of that anxiety,
and this is the point I want you to remember,
comes from the unknown.

Speaker 2 (01:23:36):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:23:37):
One of the things that I'm very good at, and
this is uh kind of my natural disposition, and it's
a stoic position. Now, if you have not studied stoicism
with any real uh, you know, enthusiasm, for me, it
breaks down to one simple principle, pretty much like you
can just pretty much stoic your way through this, and

(01:24:00):
that is, if you can't control it, don't worry about it.
I've already done my part. I cast my ballot. I
made sure that my friends and family voted.

Speaker 6 (01:24:10):
That's all I can do. Whoever wins or loses at.

Speaker 4 (01:24:13):
This point is completely out of my hands. It's a
very liberating way to look at it.

Speaker 13 (01:24:17):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:24:17):
So I was not kidding when I said tonight, I'm
gonna go bed. I'm gonna go to bed about the
same time I always go to bed, nine thirty ten.
Because we won't know the president, and we're not gonna
know them probably I don't even know.

Speaker 6 (01:24:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:24:31):
Depends on how quickly these democratic cities can get their
act together and actually count ballots. In a timely fashion
like the Republican cities can. I'm throwing shade there because
it's deserved. But I can't control who wins. I can't
control anything about it. I can sit on the radio
and tell you guys what I think can urge you
to vote the way I want you to vote, and

(01:24:53):
I don't.

Speaker 6 (01:24:53):
Even really do that.

Speaker 4 (01:24:54):
I just try to present the issues and why I
think one way makes more sense than the other. But
ultimately my e go does not lead me to believe
that I am more effective than I am, because I
honestly believe. I honestly believe no matter who wins, whether
it's Kamala Harris, whether it's Donald Trump, we're.

Speaker 6 (01:25:14):
Going to be okay.

Speaker 4 (01:25:17):
And let me tell you why if it's Kamala Harris
and Republicans keep the House or at least have a
large enough presence in the House and the Senate to
stop any really dumb ass ideas that she has. I
don't think that even Democrats think that Kamala Harris will
be in charge if she is president. And on the
other side, if you're worried about Trump getting elected and
running roughshod over all of our norms, the left wing

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capture of the bureaucracy of Washington, d C will never
allow that to happen. If Trump wins, I fully expect
Democrats to begin their new resistance movement. I'm sure they
will gin up a whole bunch of new fake accusations,
although they don't have the Clinton campaign to help them
without this time. And I'm sure we're gonna see more
gridlock going forward. And guys, gals, gridlock is good for

(01:26:05):
the American people. Gridlock where no team has an overarching
majority is good for the American people. So don't stress
about it. Stop feeling anxious about it. We're gonna be
okay tomorrow. When we get in your tomorrow morning, I'm
gonna get up, I'm gonna get ready for work. We're

(01:26:26):
gonna talk about the results of all the ballot initiatives.
Here's the kicker about this whole conversation, the ballot initiatives
that we voted on. No matter where you are, there
are so many ballot initiatives. All of those are far
more consequential in your life than who is president of
the United States. We should not be this invested in
who the president is. What we've allowed the federal government

(01:26:48):
to get so powerful that we believe, rightfully so that
who is leading the federal government is critically important to
our lives. Now, how's it gonna make a difference in
our daily lives. I'm interested to see if the economic
team around Donald Trump can get him to shy away
from embracing some of the stuff that he's talking about

(01:27:10):
that I think is going to be very detrimental to
the economy. Unfortunately, I'm left. I don't see many people
that are going to work on lowering spending.

Speaker 6 (01:27:22):
But currently.

Speaker 4 (01:27:25):
We're spending out of control like drunken monkeys no matter
who's in charge. Do any of you Trump supporters, like
hardcores I heard Trump supporters, do you still believe that
he cares about the deficit?

Speaker 6 (01:27:35):
Because in twenty sixteen, when I.

Speaker 4 (01:27:37):
Sat here and said, Donald Trump does not care about
the deficit and he will blow it up. And I've
been a deficit hawk my entire adult life. I got
that from my dad, because my dad spent a lot
of time explaining to me why deficit spending is bad,
not just now, but even worse in the future. And
he was right. And I had Trump supporters say, oh,
he's gonna tame the he's going to bring the dead

(01:27:58):
under control. And there was literally nothing that the man
said that would lead me to that conclusion. So in
terms of our government spending, I don't think it's six
of one, half dozen of another between these two candidates.
So tomorrow morning, when you wake up and you go
to get your kids ready, or you get ready to
go to work and you get in your car, who

(01:28:18):
is president isn't going to affect any of that. The
ballot initiatives you're voting on that's going to have a
far greater impact on people here in this state. So
you know, we're gonna watch those. I think all of
those will have those results tonight, most of them. There
might be a few outliers that are really close. Let's
stop stressing about this because you can't change it. You

(01:28:39):
can't fix it. You can participate, and you should. I
have a great column on the blog from the Free
Press today, and if you haven't subscribed to the Free
Press yet, you really should.

Speaker 6 (01:28:49):
They're doing great journalism.

Speaker 4 (01:28:51):
But this particular column was written by a woman who
grew up in Russia. She just became an American citizen,
so she gets to vote in her first election as
a US citizen, and I want you to read you
what she said, not the whole thing because it's long,
just a little snippet she said. I won't pretend to
be thrilled about the candidates in this race. Neither Kamala

(01:29:12):
Harris nor Donald Trump inspire particular enthusiasm as me as
the next leader of the free world. But as anyone
who's lived under an autocratic regime can tell you, there's
a world of difference between a poor choice and none
at all. Americans who complain about how long it takes
after the election to determine the winner should try learning
the results.

Speaker 6 (01:29:32):
Before reaching the voting booth.

Speaker 4 (01:29:34):
The fact that no one genuinely knows the next occupant
of the White House until after the ballots are counted
is a marvel of the American system. It means, on
the most fundamental level, that those ballots and the voices
behind them still count. Some may contend that those ballots
only count in a handful of swing states, and then
in deep blue states like New York, where I live.

(01:29:55):
A typical ballot holds as much power to change the
outcome as it would in Moscow. But a predictable outcome
does not mean a predetermined one. New York stays blue
because most New Yorkers vote blue, not because the results
are decided by others. And that's the point. An obvious
as it is underappreciated. The purpose of voting is not only,

(01:30:18):
or perhaps even primarily, to get your preferred candidate into office.
It's about the functioning of the system itself. We must participate.
The system isn't perfect. I'm hoping that this entire debacle
with Jennie Griswold is going to take us to a
place where we can have conversations about real election integrity

(01:30:40):
and real vote security. We have a story in Keenan
had it earlier in his news about an adult daycare
center where ballots were suspiciously returned where the signatures did
not match the person casting the ballot, and now the
DA is investigating. The only way to ensure, to the

(01:31:01):
best of our ability, there's always going to be people
who want to cheat. But the only way we can
ensure the prevention of mass cheating is in person voting
with photo ID. That's it. That's the only way we
can do it. Great, when was the last time you
signed a document other than your ballot?

Speaker 5 (01:31:24):
It's been a long time, because everything that you sign
now is all electronics.

Speaker 4 (01:31:27):
Thank you, So how long is it before none of
our signatures really matched the one on file with our
voter registration. I signed it this year and I was like,
I have no idea if that's my signature. I had
no idea it is mine. Doesn't even look like a signature.
It looks like somebody's pen ran out of ink and
we're using It's just outdated, it's archaic, it's it's not good.

(01:31:51):
It is not good at all. So maybe the debacle
will be something positive. And now I'm going to leave
you guys with a story that I think a vast
majority of you will be able to enjoy because you
are not paying ninety thousand dollars a year to send
your kid to Georgetown. If you are, I'm going to
advise you to just turn off the radio right now.

(01:32:13):
Thank you for coming and staying with us on the show.
But if you hear what your children are going to
be taught for ninety thousand dollars a year, you may
actually drive your car into a ditch. I don't want
you to do that, So just turn off the station.
If you're paying for Georgetown right now Georgetown students who
traditionally have often gone to great things, great roles.

Speaker 6 (01:32:36):
It's an Ivy League school. It's fantastic.

Speaker 4 (01:32:39):
The McCourt School of Public Policy, where many diplomats and
policymakers have been molded, is well if they're doing something special.
In an email to mccurt students, Jacqueline Clevenger, the school's
director of student Engagement, introduce the school's post election self
care Suite in recognition of these stressful times, She wrote,

(01:33:04):
all m clark community members are welcome to gather in
the third floor Commons to take a much needed break,
joining us for mindfulness activities.

Speaker 6 (01:33:13):
And snacks throughout the day.

Speaker 4 (01:33:15):
Now, if you want the agenda, here you go at
ten am. All of these are an hour long. By
the way, At ten am there will be tea, cocoa
and self care. Eleven am they're going to open up
the Legos station where you can play with legos to
get over yourself as you spend eighty nine thousand dollars

(01:33:36):
a year to go to college. At twelve pm there's
healthy treats and healthy habits. One pm coloring and mindfulness exercise,
two pm milk and cookies. Four PM, more legos and
more coloring, and at five PM snacks and.

Speaker 6 (01:33:57):
Self guided meditation.

Speaker 4 (01:34:00):
I burst out laughing when I saw this today, but
then it crystallized. I've been trying to write a book
for a really long time, and I figured it out today.

Speaker 6 (01:34:08):
I'm writing a book called gen X Rules Tips.

Speaker 4 (01:34:11):
For the Next Generation, because this is horsecrap. If you
are so disturbed by who won and who lost that
you need milk and cookies and legos and coloring, you
don't need to be in college.

Speaker 6 (01:34:25):
You need to be in kindergarten.

Speaker 4 (01:34:29):
This is what passes. And apparently see you SeeU election.
Let me see if that pops up. There's another story
about the CU election. They're doing similar things for the
students at CEU, and it's like, come on, guys, come on,
how are you supposed to go and do hard things.

(01:34:53):
How are you supposed to go in and meet with
a boss who is going to rip you to shreds
for your performance when you deserve it and still function
the rest of the day. How are you going to
make difficult decisions that are going to impact your family,
impact your your children when you can't even get over
an election without tea Coco and self care. Now, don't

(01:35:16):
get me wrong, I'm a big fan of self care, right,
I'm a big fan of people making sure that they're
in a good mental headspace. But what we've done with
our just insane focus on mental illness is we've made
every challenge on mental disorder. We've made everything that pops
up into something that needs therapy, when in reality, sometimes

(01:35:38):
you just got to suck it up, Buttercup, put on
your big girl panties and go about your day. Ryan
Edwards walked in on that one. I wasn't talking to
you per se, Ryan, because I picture you more as
a brief person, not a big girl panty type thing.

Speaker 7 (01:35:51):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:35:52):
Just saying for the record, I don't think Ryan wears
women's underwear much.

Speaker 15 (01:35:59):
I mean, that's not one of those things that I
would knock until I tried.

Speaker 6 (01:36:01):
But I mean, you know, nice work if you can
get it kind of thing.

Speaker 12 (01:36:04):
Yeah, I mean listen, you know, like I said, it
doesn't sound like something that would be interesting to.

Speaker 4 (01:36:09):
Me, But like I said, you know, hey tweet their own.
I guess when you were in college at CSU, how
much time did you spend engaging in legos and coloring
and milk and cookies after an election to make you
feel better, Ryan, because that's what's happening at Georgetown. I
saw that earlier. Thousand dollars a year, I saw that

(01:36:30):
earlier today. That's dumb, stupid, idiotic. Yes, all of those things. Listen,
I don't like grand a year.

Speaker 15 (01:36:40):
All right, you're on a roll here, so I'm just
gonna I'm just like.

Speaker 4 (01:36:43):
Cookies, Ryan, Yeah, like you can get milk and cookies
a lot cheaper than ninety grand a year.

Speaker 12 (01:36:49):
Come on, are you saying you don't like milk and cookies?
Are you an anti milkok cookies person?

Speaker 4 (01:36:53):
I love milk and cookies and as a matter of fact,
sometimes I have them at my house for free. Okay,
but I don't pay ninety grand a year to have
my kids coddled like this is ridiculous. Oh my President Loss,
we're going to douse some coloring to get through it.
What are they going to take the crayon and just
all over the page because get their rage? Out rage?

Speaker 6 (01:37:14):
Coloring? Is that a thing should be?

Speaker 4 (01:37:15):
It probably is?

Speaker 15 (01:37:17):
And if not, it's a million dollar idea on your part.

Speaker 4 (01:37:19):
You know what, We're already get to market. We're grant
and I are already working on a company to make
handmade sale outfits in case Trump wins, because we're obviously
all the women are gonna have to wear them.

Speaker 6 (01:37:29):
So I just want to get ahead of that.

Speaker 4 (01:37:31):
Oh, we want to get ahead.

Speaker 6 (01:37:33):
Yeah, you know, I'm sick of this election. I'm over
it that part.

Speaker 4 (01:37:38):
Actually, I'm with you.

Speaker 12 (01:37:39):
I don't know, we're on the same page and everything,
but I will say I'm on the page of being done.

Speaker 6 (01:37:44):
Yeah, we're all done.

Speaker 4 (01:37:45):
But now it's time for the most exciting segment on
the radio of its guy World.

Speaker 6 (01:37:53):
Of the Day. What is our dad joke at the day?

Speaker 4 (01:37:57):
Please, Dad joke of the day.

Speaker 5 (01:38:00):
With some snow coming to the mile house, what happens
when a snowman throws a tantrum?

Speaker 4 (01:38:08):
Where's that?

Speaker 2 (01:38:10):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:38:11):
He has a melt pound.

Speaker 6 (01:38:13):
That's a good one. Yeah, yeah, that's a good one.

Speaker 4 (01:38:16):
I like that. Yeah, all right.

Speaker 6 (01:38:19):
Today's word of the day, please.

Speaker 4 (01:38:20):
Word of the day.

Speaker 5 (01:38:22):
Seephology? What seaphology? P S E P H O l
O G Y. It is a noun god, I can't
remember what p S is? The synonym for think about
what's happening today? That's my elections?

Speaker 4 (01:38:38):
Correct? But I did not get that for rottery tickets. Yeah,
there you go. Today's trivia question. I don't know the answer,
but I'm kind of interested in finding out. What is
the angle of the tilt in degrees of the leaning
tower of pizza in Italy? But we're all.

Speaker 6 (01:38:57):
I'm going to eighteen degrees? Eighteen degrees?

Speaker 4 (01:39:01):
I was more like thirty something. Yeah, we're taking like
thirty five.

Speaker 2 (01:39:04):
Let's see. Let's see.

Speaker 4 (01:39:06):
Oh god, ours would have already fallen over these days.
It's approximately three point ninety nine degrees. It used to lean,
more of its stabilization work has been done to correct it,
and some of the tilts center.

Speaker 15 (01:39:19):
Okay, yeah, yeah, I'm thinking from the ground.

Speaker 4 (01:39:21):
Yeah, we're all wrong, though very wrong, wrong for a
different reason, but still wrong. Nonetheless, Well, let's get wrong
about something else.

Speaker 5 (01:39:31):
All right, let's se jeopardy category for today, Outside the house.
Outside the house, you put out this sign of hospitality,
A funny one.

Speaker 15 (01:39:41):
It is a welcome matt Wow, yeah hot today.

Speaker 4 (01:39:47):
Next one. Sailors have been known to use these to
sleep in, but.

Speaker 6 (01:39:51):
More familiar water hammocks.

Speaker 4 (01:39:53):
Correct.

Speaker 5 (01:39:55):
All right.

Speaker 4 (01:39:55):
One one.

Speaker 5 (01:39:56):
The USPS asked that you put this container six to hand.

Speaker 6 (01:40:00):
What's the mailbox?

Speaker 4 (01:40:01):
Correct?

Speaker 5 (01:40:03):
Like the knights who say I just.

Speaker 4 (01:40:08):
Hire this from my yard. Perhaps a mountain lore? What
a shrubbery?

Speaker 6 (01:40:12):
Have you done this category? No, that's from uh, that's
from the search for the Holy Grail.

Speaker 4 (01:40:16):
Okay, there you go.

Speaker 5 (01:40:21):
Okay, last one, some loans have access risers leading down
to these tanks that treat wastewaters.

Speaker 6 (01:40:27):
Manny, what's the septic tank?

Speaker 4 (01:40:28):
Correct?

Speaker 2 (01:40:29):
There you go. A little bit.

Speaker 6 (01:40:35):
Coming up one.

Speaker 4 (01:40:36):
We got a billion things to get to a few hours.

Speaker 12 (01:40:42):
To hit the ground run. It's a very big day
in our country. Obviously, I recommend you don't talk about it.

Speaker 6 (01:40:48):
That's what I just did for three hours.

Speaker 15 (01:40:49):
Well, I was going to talk about the NFL trade deadline.

Speaker 6 (01:40:52):
That is perfect, excellent. I see what you did there.

Speaker 4 (01:40:55):
You fooled me. Look at you, Look at you. You're
not about the Fanti's comment, and you fooled me like that.
I just weird to walk in. I you know, the
Browning trade. I was a little surprised by that.

Speaker 12 (01:41:09):
No, I see that was one of those that had
been rumored for a couple of weeks. His his snap
count had really kind of gone down, and.

Speaker 6 (01:41:16):
I didn't know he's going to be a Yeah, he.

Speaker 12 (01:41:18):
Was the final year, so they they drafted him and
Jonathan Cooper in the same draft and he was a
third rounder, and then Jonathan Cooper was the seventh rounder.
Jonathan Cooper's outperformed him, so he got a four year extension,
and Baron Browning got traded for a sixth round.

Speaker 6 (01:41:31):
Because player though, I mean he's you know, he had.

Speaker 12 (01:41:33):
Goal players and and then you just started to make
those difficult decisions.

Speaker 4 (01:41:36):
But I think this was one of those.

Speaker 12 (01:41:37):
They were going to get nothing for him in free agency,
and they they drafted a guy and Jonah Elson is
already producing for them. This is more snaps for the
young players.

Speaker 15 (01:41:45):
So rumored to Yeah, two o'clock is it?

Speaker 4 (01:41:50):
It wrapped? There, We're done.

Speaker 15 (01:41:52):
They made no other moves, and this is the this
is the roster, this is the team.

Speaker 12 (01:41:56):
But they're get some guys back this week from I
R and I feel like, again, we'll see what they do.

Speaker 4 (01:42:00):
They got the Chiefs this week, so it's tough. I'm
already I gonna I tell people this all the time,
like I am so as a Broncos fan, so happy
with the way things are going.

Speaker 6 (01:42:10):
Are they perfect?

Speaker 1 (01:42:11):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:42:11):
But I feel like we've got the right work. Every
week you see better things, you know what I mean.
You see somebody perform at a higher level. You see
a play that did work last week work this week.

Speaker 6 (01:42:21):
All in all, I'm good as a Broncos fan.

Speaker 4 (01:42:24):
And I know we gotta go, but very quickly.

Speaker 12 (01:42:26):
So that was interesting because that was a lot of
the reaction after a thirty one point loss.

Speaker 4 (01:42:30):
A lot of Broncos fans called.

Speaker 12 (01:42:31):
In the Broncos React run for six hours yep, and
said that exact same thing.

Speaker 4 (01:42:35):
The direction they're going. Yeah, it's it's all about the
whole season. It's not about one game. All right, we'll
turn it over to Kaoe Sports. We'll be back tomorrow
and guess what. Tomorrow, the sun will rise, just as
it does every day. We won't see it because it's
gonna be snowing, but it'll be there, trust me,