11-11-24 FULL SHOW - Gabe Evans Finally Wins, Plus Happy Veterans Day!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 4 (00:27):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Monday edition of the show.
It's Monday, everybody, and our entire world is not stopped
turning because Donald J. Trump is the president elect. We'll
get into that in a little bit. Not really, I mean,
I just wanted to point that out. Over the weekend,
I saw some stuff on theline that was I'm trying

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to be gracious, you guys. I'm trying to be gracious
about this because I don't want people to be scared, right,
I don't want people to be scared of what's going
to happen next. But some of the stuff that the
left is saying is beyond idiotic. It's just so dumb,
so incredibly dumb. And I don't even know. I don't

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know how to push back on a person who thinks
they're going to become a slave because Donald Trump is
going to be president. I mean, you guys, we've reached
a level where are these people getting this stuff? Where
is it coming from. That's what I want to know.
But I have a bunch of stuff on the blog
that has nothing to do with that. So let's jump
in and do that. First. Go find the blog at

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mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the
headline that says eleven eleven twenty four blog Gabe Evans
finally wins plus Happy Veterans Day. Click on that and
here are the headlines you will find within.

Speaker 5 (01:51):
I didn't's missing office out of American all with ships
and clippas and saying that's going to press plats.

Speaker 4 (01:57):
Today on the blog Happy Veterans Day. Can rats to
soon be Congressman Gabe Evans. Cuba's electrical grid is collapsing.
Will Trump follow through on his plan to dismantle the
deep state? Republicans may pick up three seats in the
state House Aspen and Snowmasks don't want Trump voters a
new treatment for PTSD from Israel. We're off to a

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good start for our snow totals. People need to stop
crying on the internet already. Bill Maher isn't buying the
Democratic blame game. Idiot pro HAAMAS protesters are supporting torture
of Palestinians. Scientific American needs new leadership. High alpine ice
skating is a thing. Trump is making moves already. Trump
won Colorado. Look for lights this holiday season. Here are

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holiday events in and around Denver. Mattel has some wicked issues.
Better collect those hotel shampoos while you can. When should
you take social security when someone comes for your mate?
Cancer research is on a tear right now? Why your
dog eats grass or poop? Finally a word for a
particular X an interesting strategy if you get dumped. This

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is one way to give a dog Dorito's if she's
not smart enough to use her other hand. Hey, work
the crowd. A good use for those screaming videos Dad
made a bad bet? Isn't this why we have snuggies?
And finally, an homage to Rigun in the NFL. Those
are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com.

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Now a text messager, just hit the common Spirit health
text line, which you can always use to communicate with
me at my texting five sixty six nine zero with
this statement, Mandy, too bad. We can can't generate electricity
from all the liberal tears. Now I know that's fun, Texter,
but I am trying to rise above. I feel bad

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for the people that have been told that the sky
is falling, that the end is near, that we are
all about to die. I saw. As a matter of fact,
I have a cam on the blog today and I
talked about this last week about people crying on the internet.
It's not okay, you guys. It's not okay. It's just not,

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not even a little bit. And there's a column on
from the Federalist dot com that we're going to get
to in a little bit that just gathered up a
bunch of videos of people crying, and they all have
one thing in common. They're young, and a vast majority
of them are women, of course, but there's a dude
or two in there as well. So it's not just

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that it is. It is more than that, and I
can't take it. I cannot take it. I'm trying to
be gracious and trying to have compassion for people who
are freaked out. I'm really trying, and it's just getting
dumber and dumber and dumber and dumber. So we're going

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to get into all that later, but I want to
start the show by talking about Veterans Day today is
Veterans Day, formerly Armiscist Day. Here's a little fun history
of Veterans Day. After World War One, which at the
time was the War to End All Wars, and we
all know how that turned out, but at the time
it was the World to End All wars, and at

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the end of it, they wanted to make a a
remembrance of the end of that war, and that war
was an armisist was declared on the eleventh day of
the eleventh month at the eleven hours, so at eleven
am that's when the armististe went into effect and the
war was over. Now here comes World War Two to

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kind of throw that War to End All war thing
right out the window, right, I mean, that just was
a whoop. There you go. Sorry, we didn't really mean that,
we were just kidding. So after World War Two they
decided to change it to Veterans Day to honor all
of the men and women who served during both wars. Right,
and then we go into Korea and then war wars

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and wary wary warri throughout the twentieth century. So now
the eleventh day of the eleventh month is a day
that we honor the men and women, many of whom
who volunteered to go serve, some who got drafted but
served honorably and did their duty when they didn't particularly
want to. And I get that, but for me, it

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was never really a big deal until I married my husband.
He was already a veteran when I met him, and
I had never been around the military. My father and
his brother had medical issues that kept them out of
the military, and so I did not come from a
military family, and I don't have a very big family
to begin with, so we didn't have a lot of options.
And here I marry my husband, who had already served

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in the army, and most of the men, all of
the older men, all of his father's brothers, everybody had
served in the military. His you know, his brothers, his
brother had served in the military. He has nephews that
are in the military. So very much a military family,
and I'm so grateful, not just for their service, which

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I am grateful. I'm grateful that I now have a
better understanding of what it really means to volunteer, to
sign up, or to be drafted, and to leave home
and go to war, maybe not go to war for some,
but to be a part of the military machine that

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is so critically important in protecting all of our other freedoms.
Because you know, we can argue about the election and
people can talk crazy stuff about what they think Trump
is going to do, but overall, I'm not particularly worried
about an invader from outside this country being able to

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bring us down. I'm really not. I actually am more
worried that we bring ourselves down because of the sort
of political vitriol that we're dealing with now. But we
have the greatest military in the world. We have the
greatest military hardware in the world, we have the greatest
defense complex in the world, and I don't really think

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about that, and that is a luxury that not every
person in the world has. Not every person in the
world can say I'm not worried about being invaded by
another country because it's still happening. You think in the
twenty first century, like, when are nations going to realize
this is a losing proposition. Well, if they did, Russia
would not be in Ukraine right now, But there they are.

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They're in Ukraine at this very minute.

Speaker 6 (08:28):
So it is.

Speaker 7 (08:29):
It is.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
It is.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
Incredibly important for us. Are those of us who did
not serve those of us who have enjoyed the protections
and the freedoms and that peace of mind that comes
from knowing that we don't have to worry about being invaded,
and that is something that I just want to say.
If you've served in the military, I appreciate you so

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very much, and so do a vast majority of our
listening audience. I would say, we probably have a couple
people who are not fans of the military whatever, and
I get it. But ultimately, we have the ability to
live the way we do because there are brave men
and women who sign up to protect our freedoms and
that is the reality of where we are, and today

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is the day to honor them. Today is not Memorial Day.
Memorial Day honors those who gave their lives in service
to the nation, so that is a different day. Today
is the day that you need to call up your friends,
your buddies, your family members and say, hey, thank you
for your service. I appreciate what you did, and maybe

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time to check in with a follow up question of
how you doing, how you're really doing. Maybe make some
plans if you know some single veterans out there, to
have them over for Thanksgiving. Invite them to the house,
have them over, check in on them, because the sad
truth about veterans at this stage is that too many

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of them are killing themselves because of the post traumatic
stress that they try to manage and then decide they
can't manage it anymore, and the overwhelming feelings of being alone.
And in Colorado, we are so lucky and we are
so blessed to have so many veterans organizations out there
whose mission is to reduce the number of veterans suicides.

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So if you are a veteran who's struggling, make today
the day you reach out and say, you know what
I need some help, You know what I need to
be around people who understand what I'm saying, what I'm
going through, and the way that I'm hurting. I have
a story on the blog today that's fascinating. It was
on CBS Sunday Morning, which I have stopped watching, and
that is so ugh. Maybe I'll pick it up again

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now that the election is over. I just couldn't before
the election, I just couldn't do it. It's gotten terrible. However,
great story on the blog today about how in Israel
they are using hyperbaric chambers and pure oxygen therapy to
stimulate neural growth in the brain in order to help

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people struggling with post traumatic stress actually heal. Because we've
got to do something right. I mean, we've got to
do something. We cannot continue to let people who have
volunteered to go and protect our country continue to suffer.
It's terrible. One of the things that I've been very
heartened by over the last few years is the focus

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on veteran homelessness because for a very long time, as
a group, veterans made up a large chunk of the
homeless homeless population, and there's just no need for it.
There's just no need for that to happen. So there's
been a very sharp concentration specifically on veteran homelessness, and

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it's making a dent. The last numbers I saw were
not nearly as depressing and disheartening as they were previously,
so we're making progress in that respect.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
Now.

Speaker 4 (11:59):
I wanted to give you guys a chance, and we're
gonna do this. Let's do this in the in the
one o'clock segment, Wait a minute, let me see what
time I got my guests coming on. Gabe Evans is
coming on at two thirty, we're gonna talk to him.
I'm excited about that. Okay, So at one o'clock and
two o'clock we are going to I'm gonna do veteran

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shout outs via the text line not right now, not
right now, So you can text in about the veteran
in your life, your grandfather, your grandmother, whoever served, and
we'll do a little shout out. But that's at one o'clock,
and that'll be at two o'clock. So at the beginning
of those hours one o'clock and two o'clock, we'll do
some veteran shout outs to maybe give them the opportunity
to hear their name on the radio and the appreciation

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that you guys have for veterans. Mandy as a VET.
As long as illegals are more important than us, vets
will continue to give up and take their own lives.
Please don't do that. Please don't do that. Don't get
me wrong. I'm furious about what's happening and the sort
of the sort of nonsense that has been happening at

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the southern border. And you guys don't even know how
furious I am, because oh wait, I should wait okay, no, okay.
Hopefully by the end of this week, I'm going to
be able to tell you guys the story of my
friend and her husband that she's been married to for

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twenty years. What has been going on over the last
three months as he has been trying to get permanent
status in the United States of America. He has a job,
he has legal status already, and when you hear what
has had to happen to make that happen, I'm lucky
that my head hasn't exploded multiple times. But sir madam

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whoever you are, do not think that because some other organization, group,
whatever is getting more attention, that you don't matter. The
problem is is that I am not impressed. I'm trying
to be kind with the Veterans Administration's efforts when it
comes to alternative treatments for post traumatic stress, because in

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my view, anything that shows any promise should be immediately
studied at the VA by the VA on veterans. Now,
I know that makes it sound like I want you
to be guinea pigs, But if you're suffering every day,
you're dealing with nightmares, you're dealing with all of these horrible,
terrible side effects of post traumatic stress. You should be

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able to say, you know what, I'll try the hyperbaric
chamber with the pure oxygen therapy. I'll try it. We're
not talking about giving people lobotomies and the VA won't
do it. We need more research, we need more information.
We're at a crisis. The VA should be like, Okay,
if it's not going to hurt somebody, let's throw it
against the wall and see if it sticks. Let's just see.

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Oh you think ketamine might help, Let's just see. Do
you think hallucinogens might help. Let's just see. But they're
not doing any of that. They should be leading the
research for post traumatic stress and they're doing nothing. And
that is what you should be frustrated about. Do not
assume that because people coming over the southern border are

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getting all these benefits, that that is any reflection of
what veterans need or the VA's just I'm not happy
with it. I'm interested to see who Trump is going
to point to the VA to that post, and I'm
hoping that they can get very serious, very quickly. And
remember last time Trump was president, he opened up the

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community the community medical system. I don't remember the actual name.
Sorry about that where if you couldn't get into the
VA in a timely fashion, you could see a doctor
in your community. That was huge, huge, because in areas
that don't have the VA that we have here that
is massive. It's sometimes really hard to get into see
a VA doctor. So I'm hoping, I'm hoping that we

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can get this done. Okay, somebody just sent a shout out,
but I can't. I'm gonna read this one, but I'm
not gonna read other ones, because here's what's gonna happen.
If you do your shout out now, it's it's gonna
be gone by the time I start doing these. Okay,
So one o'clock, one pm, two pm, we're gonna do
shout outs. But I'm gonna do this one, Mandy shout

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out from a proud husband, Deborah Mitchell, US Army colonel retired,
a thirty year veteran wife and mother. There you go,
There you go. So also on the blog today, we
got a couple of things. Gabe Evans finally won his
race this weekend. He is still ahead you. Derek Caraveo
has graciously conceded the election, so we're gonna have Gabe

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on it to thirty. It says twelve thirty on the blog,
but that's a type of efis in a second and
talk about, uh what what he plans on doing in Congress,
And also conveniently, I'll be able to wish him a
happy Veterans Day as well. So, uh, Mandy love the show.
I'm a US Marine Corps veteran and president of a
nonprofit working on military veteran housing affordability and sustainability and homelessness.

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May I please send you over our info? Yes, yes, indeed,
send it to Mandy Connell co N N E L
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it over and I will be happy to look at
that and spread the word as well. Anyway, So Gabe

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is coming on at two thirty and then at one thirty.
I don't know if you guys have been following along
with what's going on in Cuba. I I follow Cuba
not as closely as I used to follow Venezuela. I've
just given up following Venezuela. They're just an absolute dumpster
fire and now everyone's coming here, so it doesn't really
matter what they're doing in Venezuela. But Cuba is very

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very close to collapse. And I say that for a
couple of reasons. One, the power grid was off for
five days, seven days. They have no money to fix it.
They have no way to make sure that the lights
can stay on. Because the Cuban regime has been pouring
money into tourism in Cuba, hoping to build up that economy,

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which is a great idea. But I got to tell you, guys,
I'll travel all over the world, but I am not
going to give my money to hotels and restaurants owned
by the Cuban regime while Cuban people are sitting in
the dark without enough food to eat. I'm not going
to take food out of their mouths to put in
my mouth as a tourist. I'm not going to do that. Philosophically,

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I just think that is so wrong, even though I
see what you're saying. But tourism can help them act,
but it's all going to the regime. It's not going
to the people. And maybe if they collapse completely, maybe
we can they can rebuild something in Cuba. So I

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was talking to a young person about about Cuba. This
was about three weeks ago of maybe a month ago,
and they said something like why do the people take
it like well, if they don't have any way to fight.
Castro took away all their guns in the under the
guise of security. By the way, Castro took their guns
because he was going to do it away with crime.

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They were going to live in a perfectly safe society
where no one had guns. And when you don't have guns,
how do you fight against a tyrannical government? A Cuba
has now proved why the Second Amendment is so incredibly,
incredibly important. So we're going to talk to a woman
named Mayland Salabaria. She is a lawyer and a speaker

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with a Dissonant project. She was born in Cuba and
has been in the US since two thousand and one.
She wrote a column called Socialism Turn the Lights Off
in Cuba, and she joins me at one point thirty
to discuss it now when we get back. In March
of last year, Donald Trump made a video about his
plans to dismantle the deep state. And it's long, but

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I'm going to play it for you because I just
saw it last week, last Friday, and if he does
half of this, half of it, it just I'm I'm
very hopeful for our country. But on the flip side,
this video is exactly the kind of video that freaked

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out people on the left that I was talking about earlier.
Will use to prove that he's some kind of dictator.
We'll do all that. Next, this is Donald Trump's plan
from March of twenty twenty three to dismantle the deep state.
And oh, this is only three minutes and thirty seconds long.
We got plenty of time to play this and it

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it is really really interesting. So let's jump in and
hear what the president said he was president elect said
he was going to do versus Well, we'll have to
see if he actually does it.

Speaker 5 (21:15):
Here's my plan to dismantle the deep state and reclaim
our democracy from Washington corruption once and for all, and
corruption it is. First, I will immediately reissue my twenty
twenty executive Order restoring the President's authority to remove rogue bureaucrats,
and I will wield that power very aggressively. Second, we

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will clean out all of the corrupt actors and our
national security and intelligence apparatus, and there are plenty of them.
The departments and agencies that have been weaponized will be
completely overhauled so that faceless bureaucrats will never again be
able to target and persecute Conservatives, Christians, or the left's

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political enemies, which said doing now at a level that
nobody can believe even possible. Third, we will totally reform
piza courts, which are so corrupt that the judges seemingly
do not care when they are lied.

Speaker 4 (22:12):
To in warrant applications.

Speaker 5 (22:15):
So many judges have seen so many applications that they
know were wrong, or at least they must have known,
they do nothing about it.

Speaker 4 (22:24):
They're allied to.

Speaker 5 (22:25):
Fourth, to expose the hoaxes and abuses of power that
have been tearing our country apart. We will establish a
Truth and Reconciliation Commission to to classify and publish all
documents on deep state spying, censorship, and corruption, and there
are plenty of them. Fifth, we will launch a major

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crackdown on government leakers who collude with the fake news
to deliberately weave false narratives and to subvert our government
and our democracy. When possible, we will press criminal charges. Sixth,
we will make every Inspector General's office independent and physically

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separated from the departments they oversee, so they do not
become the protectors of the deep state. Seventh, I will
ask Congress to establish an independent auditing system to continually
monitor our intelligence agencies to ensure they are not spying
on our citizens or running disinformation campaigns against the American people,

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or that they are not spying on someone's campaign like
they spied on my campaign. Eighth, we will continue the
effort launched by the Trump administration to move parts of
the sprawling federal bureaucracy to new locations outside the Washington Swamp.
Just as I moved the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado,

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as many as one hundred thousand government positions could be
moved out, and I mean immediately of Washington to places
filled with patriots who love America, and they really do
love America. Ninth I will work to ban federal bureaucrats
from taking jobs that the companies they deal with and

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that they regulate. So they deal with these companies, and
they regulate these companies, and then they want to.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Take jobs with these companies.

Speaker 4 (24:20):
Doesn't work that way.

Speaker 5 (24:21):
Such a public display cannot go on, but it is
taking place all the time, like with big farmland. Finally,
I will appreciate constitutional amendment to a post term limits
on members of condoms. This is how I will shatter
the deep state and restore government that is controlled by

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the people.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
And for the people.

Speaker 4 (24:44):
Now, I got to tell you, when I saw this,
the only thing that made me go ooh was the name,
the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. I ate anything where the
government says we are going to decide that is true
or not, because we see how that worked out during
the last election side well, the twenty twenty election cycle.

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So I'd like to know if any of you have
any questions about this list, because today on the blog,
I actually have a story that demonstrates why this list
needs to happen. The Daily Wire reported on Friday that
there were officials working in Florida after Hurricane Milton, and

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they were going house to house to contact the people
living in the houses that are damaged, finding out if
they were worthy or capable of getting FEMA aid. And
apparently a FEMA official told them sickly not to stop
at houses of Trump supporters. If they saw Trump signs,

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they could just skip right over. A FEMA supervisor told
workers in a message to avoid homes advertising Trump as
a canvas. Lake Placid, Florida, to identify residents who could
qualify for federal aid. The supervisor, Marnie Washington, relayed this
message both verbally and in a group chat used by
the relief team. The government employees who got this chat

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told The Daily Wire that at least twenty homes with
Trump signs or flags were skipped from the end of
October and into November due to the guidance, meaning they
were not given the opportunity to qualify for FEMA assistants
in the message system that the government's workers use, they
would actually put the message into the system Trump sign

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no entry per leadership. This is why we have to
dismantle the deep state. This is why because you know,
I hate the phrase the deep state because it sounds conspiratorial,
but it's not inaccurate. You have a bureaucracy in Washington,
d c. That is incredibly entrenched and looking out for

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their own personal best interest. They want more money, they
want great retirement, and the Democrats, they believe, are more
likely to deliver that. Because when you're a big government party,
people who work in government love you. When you're a
small government party, then it gets a little more challenging.
Now I will tell you that the one that I

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think would be the most beneficial to dismantling the deep
state is also the one that I think is going
to be the most difficult, as we discovered when the
BLM was moved to Grand Junction and the workers in
those departments through an absolute fit, and I mean an

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absolute fit because they didn't want to leave DC. And
don't get me wrong, I get it. You don't want
to upreate your family, you don't want to upreate your life.
I absolutely get it, one hundred percent. But if we
move these departments closer to the people that they are
actually serving. And the reason that they moved the Bureau
of Land Management to Grand Junction was because like seventy

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eight percent of the land that is managed by the
federal government is west of the Mississippi, right. So these
are things that need to happen, I mean really need
to happen. A lot of you reacting on the text line.
I had the same reaction on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Now,
don't get me wrong, if he wants to release all

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of the documentation that showed the government colluding with various
social media outlets to censor information, hell, yes, I want that.
Just don't call it the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. That's
a little too ministry of truth for me. And I
don't like it. I do not like it, Mandy. This

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is a perfect way for the President elect to get
another assassination attempt. I gotta tell you, if I am
Big Pharma, I'm scared to death right now. If I
am the Department of Justice, I'm scared to death right
now now. If I work in the upper echelon of
the FBI, I'm scared to death right now. And you
know what I have to say, Good good. It's about

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time somebody started pushing back on the bureaucrats that are
running unfettered with their power. And it looks like Trump
said he was going to do it, But will he
do it now? I want to throw this out here.
One of the things that I think is going to
be much different about this Trump term than the first
one is that he is going to come in hot.

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He learned the last time that you can't roll things
out in you in a timely fashion. The only way
to defeat Democrat opposition is to throw everything at the
wall at the exact same time and let him fight
against everything at the same time, it's almost impossible. And
you know where he learned that. That's what the Democrats do.

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They throw so much stuff out there, so hard, so
fast that everybody's scrambling around trying to figure out what
to do, and that's how you get things done. I
would be super surprised if this Trump term, if the
first year wasn't dramatically different, and I mean dramatically Mandy.
Term limits should be on the list. Let's talk about

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term limits on the other side of this break. What
would have to happen, because I want to know if
you guys feel the way I do about this, and
if we can overcome the inherent challenges about this, which
are going to be state legislatures. We'll talk about that
right after this break. On KOA, it's Veterans Day. It's
the perfect day to nominate someone for our heroes. Thank

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you that Ben Albright and Broncos Country Tonight have done
for years. We are going to be giving away big
giant cardboard checks of twenty five hundred dollars plus a
real check you can actually cash to veterans who were nominated.
You nominate yourself though no one ever does, but you
can go to koa Colorado Forward slash content and that

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will take you right to a hero's welcome. So go
ahead and get that nomination done. So we're talking about
one of the things that Trump said is he is
going to get a term limits for Congress. And right now,
the latest polling data that I saw shows that eighty
one percent of Americans favor term limits for Congress. Now

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that's a non specific question, so we would have to
figure out, like what you know, how many limits in
Congress or or in the House, how many terms the
in the Senate. But in March of twenty twenty three,
eighty three percent of respondents favored a constitutional amendment to
establish congressional term limits. But here's the problem. This is

(31:44):
really hard to do. Now, it can be done, but
it is really hard to do. So here's what President
Trump would have to do when he gets back into office.
He is going to have to put forth a term
limit amendment, and then he has to get to thirds
of Congress to sign up for it. And then after
two thirds of Congress signs up for it or not,

(32:06):
they'd have to sign up for it. It goes to
the states, and two thirds of state legislatures have to
vote to pass it. Now, with something that is polling
this high right, something that is polling at this level,
it will be hard, but not impossible for politicians to

(32:26):
not support this. What I think is going to happen
is that you're going to see people in reliably safe
districts and they're going to be the ones that are
going to say, you know what. But then we'd end
up throwing out really great people as if we don't
already do this at the state level. So it is
a long slog, a very long slog, and it is

(32:49):
one that I think has to happen. So we'll see
again if Trump can actually pull this stuff off, because
I would love it. I think, you know, especially the FBI,
anybody that was involved with the Trump Russian collusion investigation
needs to be fired because they knew it was predicated
on a lie and they kept doing it. The people

(33:11):
who lied to the vice of courts need to be fired.
None of them were fired. None of them were fired.
They lied on legal documents to a judge so they
could spy on American citizens, and none of them were fired.
That's insane, absolutely insane. We have a bureaucratic class that
is running roughshod after normal Americans going all the way

(33:32):
back to Lewis Learner. The irs remember her. Do you
know what punishment befell Lewis Learner zero punishment which she
targeted right wing groups. We have people in the federal
government who colluded with social media in order to help
Joe Biden win the election in twenty twenty. Oh, I'm sorry.
Three quarters of state legislatures, thank you, Texter, I said

(33:54):
two thirds, but it is three quarters. You are correct,
it's two thirds of Congress. So it's going to be
long slog to get term limits done. But I got
to tell you, if he could pull that off, the
American people would be like, hell, yes, Now here's what
I would accept. Here's my version of term limits. Four
terms in the House of Representatives that's eight years, and

(34:14):
then two terms in the Senate. That's it. That is
twenty years in Congress. That is enough. You can go home.
We don't need you anymore after that, because if you're
thirty and you get elected into Congress, you should be
out by the time you're fifty, absolutely out. So we
will see Mandy. My two cents term limits on federal

(34:35):
legislators is an anti liberty concept that does nothing to
reduce the size and scope of government. The second part
of that, you're absolutely right. It does nothing to reduce
the size and scope of government, not a single thing.
So hey, ay, Rod is our guest at one o
one thirty? I thought one thirty one o'clock, Oh dang it. Well,

(34:57):
then I would have done my veterans shout out at
one dang it.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
Dang it.

Speaker 4 (35:03):
Anyway, Uh, Mandy, if you throw these bums out every
eight years, I would encourage them to actually have some
sort of mentorship for younger people in their political lane
and maybe people that can be held accountable for performing
while they are in office. Eh maybe maybe. I You know,
here's the thing. When somebody knew, like we're gonna talk

(35:24):
to Gabe Evans, he's going to Congress for the first time,
there will be people in an office. There will be
staffers that know everything. So term limits don't necessarily prevent
the size and scope of government from being as large
as it is, but it certainly makes it easier to
cut those government jobs when you don't have people in

(35:48):
Congress saying, well, I've known Martha for thirty years. Here,
we can't we can't cut her job because I see
her all the time. She's so pleasant. We need a
little more churn, in significant churn, and I'm here for it.
When we get back. The socialist utopia of Cuba is
in the dark, and my next guest we'll talk about

(36:10):
how they got there, and I need that. Literally. Keep
it right here on KOA.

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All right, here we go, And okay, guys, I know
I said I was going to do Veteran shout outs
at one o'clock, but that's because I thought my next
guest was going to be at one thirty. So we're
gonna do veterans shout outs at one thirty on Veterans Day.
Because now I am joined by a woman who was
born in Cuba, immigrated to the United States about twenty

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four years ago, twenty two twe three years ago, and
Meelan Salabaria is with me now to talk about a
column she just did about the lights in Cuba and Meelan.
First of all, welcome to the show.

Speaker 7 (37:14):
Thank you.

Speaker 8 (37:14):
It's a pleasure to be here with you and your audience.
Thank you for the invitation.

Speaker 4 (37:19):
So I want to kind of start with your life
story before we get into what's happening now in Cuba.
How old were you when you left Cuba and tell
me about that. How did you come to the United States.

Speaker 9 (37:30):
I came to the United States in two thousand and one,
So I left Cuba as a adult shortly after I
graduated from law school in the University in Havana. Literally
waited a couple of weeks to get the equivalent of
my transcripts and my diploma.

Speaker 8 (37:47):
Never registered with what would be the equivalent of the
war here in the United States.

Speaker 9 (37:52):
Otherwise I would have been setting a stone in a
government database and they will have.

Speaker 8 (37:57):
Never allowed me to leave.

Speaker 9 (37:59):
Back then, we still have the Cuban Adjustment Act, so
we could come as refugees and have a legal path
with certain requirements until I became an American citizen in
two thousand and nine. So yes, I was born and
raised in communist Cuba while field culture was still in power.

Speaker 8 (38:15):
So trust me, there is nothing about the wonders.

Speaker 9 (38:18):
Of socialism quote unquote that I have believed on my
own life personally, and I.

Speaker 4 (38:24):
Think one of the reasons that I'm happy you're coming
on to talk about this is because Cuba is currently
in a really bad situation. But this is the normal
end result of socialism. So tell me what is happening
on the island right now.

Speaker 8 (38:41):
It's very simple.

Speaker 9 (38:42):
It is this is like the last chapter of any
econ one on one book that you can read onto
why centralized economy, collectivism and socialism doesn't work. And yes,
you can have all the talking heads of the world
telling you that is the fault of the embargo or
whatever is the few restrictions of the helm Board and

(39:05):
Act that we still have in place.

Speaker 8 (39:08):
Which are not many. The reality is not that the Cuban.

Speaker 9 (39:12):
Government has been consistently receiving a lot of money from
other sources and trading and doing business with the rest
of the world. E said that with the United States
they have to pay in cash, and still they haven't
prioritized what really needs to be done in the infrastructure
of the country, and the collapse of the power grid
is just the.

Speaker 8 (39:31):
Latest example of a whole line of neglect.

Speaker 9 (39:36):
And mismanagement that again has the root costs in a
centralized economy that doesn't work. To go back into some
of the details that I at rest in that article
that you were mentioned earlier, this happened about two weeks ago.

Speaker 8 (39:49):
It was like a total collapse of the entire power
grid on the island.

Speaker 9 (39:53):
There is no amount of cheap crude oil from Venezuela
or chips the new president of Mexico and to Ciba
that is going to fix that. Why because the infrastructure
is crumbling and is crumbling because the Cuban government and
the Communist Party has made a deliberate decision to.

Speaker 8 (40:12):
Prioritize other things.

Speaker 9 (40:15):
For example, I don't know how familiar you are or
your audience is with the way that the tourism system
and industry works in Cuba. It's basically on and operated
by conglomerate, a government monopoly called Gaza, which is a
front company for the higher needs of a military. So
this is a company that is run and operated by

(40:37):
the Quban army. We are talking about that seventy percent
of the revenue that inter Cuba through.

Speaker 8 (40:44):
Tourism is controlled by this company. What are they doing
with the money they are.

Speaker 9 (40:50):
Reinvesting in hotels and spending in more tourist infrastructure being
demonstrated the low capacity instead of prioritizing critical infrastructure improvement
and development.

Speaker 8 (41:03):
Like the case of the power grid. All the power
plans operated in QE are thirty years or old, if
not more. They all have really all technology.

Speaker 9 (41:14):
They have a huge exodus of professionals that are supposed
to be.

Speaker 8 (41:18):
Working on that.

Speaker 9 (41:19):
So here you have like a critical point, like a
prefos storm of all their mistakes just meeting in the
same place it happened last about two weeks ago. They
kind of like stabilize it a little bit, and now
in the last three days they're collapsing again.

Speaker 8 (41:35):
When they tried to bring two of the powers into
the national grid. So we're back to the same position
as we were two weeks ago.

Speaker 4 (41:42):
And literally people have no internet, they have no power,
they none of the septic or none of the sewers working.
Oh so people have been thrust into the dark ages
and what should be a functioning economy. And I think
part of this, and I want to ask your opinion
about this, is this because has been being propped up
for decades now by Venezuela, by Russia. They send money,

(42:06):
they send oil, they send cheap goods and stuff like that. Well,
now Venezuela has collapsed inevitably as they were going to.
And now Russia is busy in redirecting all of their
energy and resources to the war in Ukraine. So is
this exacerbated? It made it worse.

Speaker 8 (42:21):
It is exactly what you are describing.

Speaker 9 (42:23):
You have to keep in mind that since Castro took over,
Cuba has never been a self sustainable economy. First it
was a direct pipeline from the Soviet Union and all
the communist countries in Eastern Europe.

Speaker 8 (42:36):
When that got caught.

Speaker 9 (42:37):
Off when the Berlin Wall fell, then they went into
latching into Venezuela where Chad's and Malua we're in there.
Now Venezuela has been following into the same disaster.

Speaker 8 (42:49):
That happened to Cuba a little bit faster. And now
that pipeline is also caught off. And then you have
like the little.

Speaker 9 (42:55):
Hears from China, a little here from Mexico, little here
from Russia.

Speaker 4 (42:59):
And still is not enough.

Speaker 9 (43:00):
Why because the foundation of the economy of the country
is in crumbles. Just to give you a quick example,
this is something that we learn through a dissident reporting
from Cuba about a year ago, and is that putting
and the Russian government has given the Cuban government a
very good term loan of clothes to one to put

(43:23):
to one point two billion euros, I believe, and it
was ear mark specifically for a power infrastructure improvement.

Speaker 8 (43:32):
And to build and rebuild and repair new power plants.

Speaker 9 (43:38):
The only condition that put input on the Cuban government
was that they needed to come up with ten percent
of that money as a down payment.

Speaker 8 (43:46):
They didn't do it. And the entire ideal through why
it fell through because the equivalent money that would have
matched that ten percent.

Speaker 9 (43:55):
Man did they decided to use it into They keep
building hotels, they keep building these tours, resources, all these tours.

Speaker 8 (44:04):
Infrastructure is still empty. And that's where they are.

Speaker 9 (44:07):
Prioritizing investing the little money that they're getting in the country.
That's why when I was writing that piece, I was
referring to, you know, the second twisted priorities. Somebody has
to pay for the rolicss that the Canels wears. Somebody
has to pay for the Gucci bags and the shoes
that his wife is touting all over the world, where

(44:28):
regular women and people in Cube are literally starving. So
and like you were saying before, the collapse of the
power grid includes a series of connecting effects that made
the daily life or the other Cuban even worse than
they are that they were before. You have to keep
in mind I left in two thousand and one and
living with the scheduled blackhouse was my normal life.

Speaker 8 (44:51):
For the twenty seven years that I was in Cuba,
so that has always been the quote unquote normal.

Speaker 9 (44:57):
So now you have these areas, especially in the rural areas,
they always try to prioritize the capitol. And still in
the last two days even the capital has been in
total blackout. Last news that I read this morning, some
neighborhoods in the outskirts of Havana have been without power
for ninety hours. So, like you were saying, you don't

(45:18):
have running water, the source system is collapsed, you don't
have internet. However, all the tourist hotels, resources, all the
buildings of the higher.

Speaker 8 (45:29):
Elite of the army.

Speaker 9 (45:32):
Body, you know, officials, the neighborhoods where the embassies.

Speaker 8 (45:36):
Are, all those peoples, they never know what a blackout is.

Speaker 9 (45:40):
So we have to see, you know, we have to
see the priorities like everybody is equal, but some people
are more equal than.

Speaker 4 (45:47):
Others exactly, and I was, oh, go ahead.

Speaker 9 (45:50):
And what happened that is a little bit different in
this last week and when the second round of this
collapse happened, is that it hit really bad these suburban
working class neighborhoods in Havana, and anyone that can go
to Twitter or ex can see how people I don't
know how they have been charging the phones or putting

(46:11):
out the little life out in the internet. People are
starting to bang in pots and pants as a form
of protest because of how many hours they have been
without power. Now to add insult to injury, you have
people in Cuba that have you know, they have gone
to the offices of the local municipalities, the local government,

(46:31):
to ask for an answer, what's happening, what's the plan?
When is this going to be solved? They're obviously being
given all this, you know which you watching responses. And
then you have the cannel, which is the un elected
you know, appointed here of the castrous plantation that is
now acting as a president, coming into the news yesterday
and saying, well, this is just like a hay campaign

(46:55):
and fake news being put out on the internet by.

Speaker 8 (46:58):
The evil junkies, people that.

Speaker 9 (47:01):
Hate us, and we are here where there are being
of revolutionaries and blah blah blah, not one sentence about Okay,
what are you doing to fix the power?

Speaker 8 (47:11):
Great problem?

Speaker 9 (47:12):
And on top of that, then they're sending out the
brown chers, the political police, the black wis, which is
what would be the equivalent of the swap teams in
the police here in the United States. They're sending them
now to those neighborhoods that have been without power for
ninety hours because people there to bang their pots and
pants as a form of protest.

Speaker 4 (47:32):
I was talking to a young person not so long ago,
and he said, I don't understand why the Cuban people
or in We started out talking about Venezuela, and then
it turned to the Cuban people. He said, I don't
understand why they don't you rise up? And I'm like, well,
they don't have any weapons. That's the first thing, because
Doc Castro, you know, in order to promote safety, took

(47:52):
away all the guns and now they're reduced to pots
and pans in the streets. I want to ask you, Maileen,
because I love to travel and a friend of mine
and was going to Cuba, and I said, I am
not going to give Cuba any of my money. And
you just confirmed what I have been told, and that
is while the hotels in the tourist district they have
full restaurants, they have everything they need. Regular Cuban people

(48:13):
can't get bell peppers, they can't get onions, they can't
get the basic staples to eat because they're bleeding them dry.
But I want to ask you this one question. Is
this like a last gasp attempt by the regime to
create any kind of economy. And if they did create
any kind of decent tourism economy, do you have any

(48:34):
confidence that the people of Cuba would benefit from that
in any significant way?

Speaker 8 (48:39):
Absolutely not, Absolutely not.

Speaker 9 (48:42):
What guy is on this military conglomery in Cuba have
been doing with tourists since they were leaning Wolf felled down.
It's not to improve the economy of the country. It's
for them to enrich themselves. That's why they leave, like
the pigs.

Speaker 8 (48:57):
In animal farm, That's why they have all their.

Speaker 9 (48:59):
Key it's buying properties abroad everywhere in Spain, in South America,
and that's why they're you know, laundering the money and
taking it out of Cuba. They have never given a
flying rat about you know, the economy of the country
or the welfare of the Cuban people.

Speaker 8 (49:15):
Otherwise they will.

Speaker 9 (49:16):
Have shown some acts or some you know, actual measurable
outcome after sixty five years. So I have absolutely no
confident in that that's the propaganda that they want to
put out for the rest of the WARLD Obviously and
clearly we have, like like they them self defined masses
of useful idiots, not only in the United States but

(49:39):
all over the work eating completely all that propaganda.

Speaker 8 (49:42):
But I have no confidence that they're doing that for
the Cuban people.

Speaker 9 (49:46):
They don't care about the country's economy, They don't care
about the other's Cuban They only care about themselves, how
they live, and how they keep lining their pockets.

Speaker 4 (49:54):
With more money nil. And every time something catastrophic happens
in Cuba, I think to myself, this could be the thing,
This could be the breaking point where the Cuban people
rise up and unarmed, rush the rush the capitol and
do something. Well, how bad does it have to get?
I mean, we see what happened in Venezuela, where people

(50:15):
were literally starving, and they still have the regime in
place in Venezuela. What has to happen do you think
before we get honest significant regime. I don't know.

Speaker 9 (50:24):
Yeah, honestly, I think it's gonna have it's I was
talking with a friend of mine, also Cuban American, and
he left.

Speaker 8 (50:32):
He's an older generation.

Speaker 9 (50:33):
That means obviously his parents took him out of Cuba
when he was younger.

Speaker 8 (50:38):
And he told me something that.

Speaker 9 (50:40):
God, you know, got stuck in my head because I
never thought about it from that angle, And is that
the generations of Cubans that had any fire.

Speaker 8 (50:49):
Left inside they're dead?

Speaker 4 (50:51):
Yeah, they're gone.

Speaker 9 (50:53):
I mean you have to understand by the time that
I was born, that Cuba that was before nineteen fifty nine,
Know that Cube of that first generation that is still
thought when they realized what Castle was really trying to impose,
is gone.

Speaker 8 (51:06):
That Cuba was already gone by the time that I
was born. So here we have another you.

Speaker 9 (51:12):
Know, political science and equal one on one lesson, And
what happens when now you're dealing with three or four
generations of Cubans born, raised and brainwashed under this system
that tells you that firearms are bad, that that is
case the one that is going to take care of you,
that everybody is equal again until you realize that some

(51:33):
people are more equal than others. So I think it's
going to take a longer process. It's going to take
a longer awaken it. That being said, there is a
lot of courageous people in Cuba, literally inside the monster,
speaking out, reporting the things in jail, protesting being made up,
you name it.

Speaker 8 (51:51):
But I think that the fact that it's now an entire.

Speaker 9 (51:55):
Society with several generations that don't know how it was before,
is gonna make that process harder. Like you mentioned the
fact that the first thing that Castro did when he
took over was, you know, taking away all the firearms
the island per se geographically speaking, it's a person.

Speaker 8 (52:13):
You don't have borders, you don't have a.

Speaker 9 (52:15):
Way to get help from anyone else unless someone consciously,
you know, it's really invested in helping the people inside. Clearly,
the change is gonna come from within, but I think
it's gonna take time, probably onto all this cloud elite
of the old you know, revolutionaries from those years.

Speaker 8 (52:35):
We feel that Castro dye and see what happens with
the new one.

Speaker 9 (52:39):
I mean, it would be a sweet irony if it
would be blackouts on the darkness. What definitely, finally, once
and for all, brings that tyranny down.

Speaker 4 (52:49):
I love Cuban culture, I love Cuban food, I love
Cuban music, I love Cuban people. I want that island
to be free because I'd like to be able to
go visit it in good conscience before I die. So
here's here's my little prayer that Cuba gets it gets
it together. Maelan Salabaria, thank you so much for your
time today and the great article of it. Yeah, that

(53:09):
everybody should share with their young people who think that
socialism is a viable system. Maylan, thank you so much.
We'll talk again in the future, I'm.

Speaker 8 (53:17):
Sure, Okay, thank you, all right, thank you.

Speaker 4 (53:20):
That is Maelan Salabaria. And you know, we are seeing
in real time, we are living through times when we
can show, beyond a shadow of a doubt, exactly the
failures of socialism in real time. We don't have to speculate,
we don't have to just you know. But then again,

(53:41):
they always, the socialists always say well, the wrong people
were doing it right.

Speaker 7 (53:45):
The wrong.

Speaker 4 (53:46):
It's like, did you guys know? And I had this
on the blog last week. Governor Jared Polis is pushing
these energy policies for Colorado that have driven up the
costs for everything when it comes to electricity. Everywhere they've
been tried, every single place they've done them, energy costs
have exploded. And yet Jared Polis really believes that he

(54:07):
is smart enough to be the person who does it
the quote right way. You know what, when you try
the same thing over and over again and expect a
different result because your ego tells you that you're the
person that can make it happen, that's what happens. That's
what you get in Cuba, that's what you get in Venezuela,

(54:28):
and that's what we're about to get in Colorado thanks
to our governor. So man man anyway, lots of people
saying great guests. I could listen to this woman all day.
Her accent makes me happy. Mandy, this guest is great
and has a great message. But I had to laugh
at give a flying rat. Yes, I liked that as well.

(54:49):
That was a good one, a really really good one.
Now when we get back, we are going to celebrate
veteran's day on the blog by doing and not on
the blog what am I saying on the text? By
doing veteran shout outs. We're gonna do those in just
a few minutes. So if you want to text your
veteran shout out to five six six nine zero, that

(55:11):
would be great. I would love for you to do
me one big favor. Please proofreed your text message before
you send it, because I want to make sure that
I get it right. Okay, I want to make sure
that I get it right, So make sure it's clear
who you're shouting out what they did. We're just going
to give some shout outs. If they accomplish something or

(55:31):
receive some award you want to talk about, then there
you get. There you go. Mandy is Tim Hernandez and
as Jacovia persona moved to Cuba yet well know, because
he wants to ruin here that's already ruined. So he's
he's he doesn't want to ruin that. Socialism works until
you don't have to look everyone else in the eye

(55:52):
exactly exactly. I saw a story this morning, but I
didn't grab it about the leadership of Hamas and how
much money they have money that of course, was given
to them for building power plants, which they never did,
for creating an economy in Gaza, which they never did,

(56:13):
and they just pocketed it instead. That's exactly what happens
in a dictatorial regime. It's exactly what's happened in Cuba.
It's exactly what's happened in Venezuela. They loot the country
and then when the population finally does pick up their
pots and pans and rush the capital, they simply leave
and go into exile in their beautiful, beautiful mansions. Comparing

(56:36):
Colorado to Cuba, Really no, I didn't compare Colorado to Cuba.
I compared our governor to people who think socialism is good,
who think that socialism would work if only the right
people did it. That's exactly what he said. He said
that about green energy. He's the guy that is going

(56:57):
to be able to be able to fit. It's it's
ridiculous and absurd. That was the comparison I made. We're
not Cuba, not yet, because we have a free economy
and we have guns. That is why we have the
Second Amendment. That is why not for hunting, not for
a sporting clayze. We have the Second Amendment, so we

(57:20):
will never be the people that are in Cuba unable
to fight back against the tyrannical dictatorship. Seems so crazy
and far away, but that's why we have it all right.
Veterans shout outs next text them right now five six, six, nine. Oh,
we're gonna do those right after this. Keep it on KOA.
You can also email me if you want to put
something longer in there, Mandy Connell at iHeartMedia dot com.

(57:43):
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(58:25):
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(58:46):
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Shout out to Mandy. I want to shout out to
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and daughter in law Montana active duty Navy. Illinois farm
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(59:30):
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seventy to nineteen ninety and a Vietnam veteran veterans. Shout
out to myself, Staff Sergeant ma Max Lemaire M one
A one Tank commander US Army June ninety five to

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September two thousand and four, two deployments Coast of two
thousand and one and a rock March third to April four.
Our March of three to April of four. Please give
a shout out to Bill Katzenmeier, my hero, for his
service in Vietnam and our community. He's an amazing husband
and father who makes our world a better place every day.

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He has greatly loved and appreciated. Shout out to Major
John feb retired from Wyoming Air National Guard, served during
Operation and during Freedom in two thousand and two. Shout
out to me accomplishment, honorably discharged with a functional liver.
Doctor Conrad Fits US Navy veteran Colorado Springs. Shout out

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to both my grandfathers served in the Army during World
War One. My father served during the Korean Conflict, hung
out of fighter planes taking pictures closer to me.

Speaker 5 (01:00:41):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:00:42):
My husband served in the Army. My oldest daughter just
retired as a major in the Army. My son in
law retired as an Army staff sergeant. My nephew was
in the Marines and was in the first deployment in Afghanistan.
My niece served in the Navy, All Army, my brother
in law, two nephews, and my husband's family. True and family.
Your family has given more than most Texter. Well done, Mandy.

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My dad, Sydney was a brave Marine who spent his
nineteenth birthday in a foxhole in Ewajima. I now watch
Black Sheep Squadron to see all he went through. I
sure miss him. Shout out to our son David Christopher Meyer,
Army staff sergeant stationed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky in the
one hundred and first six and a half years active duty.
Robert Prince, Private first Class Vietnam VET, multiple tours, sniper

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and gunner in a Huey helicopter. I'd like to shout
out my grandfather, Motor Machinist Mate third Class Joseph John Donneghey.
He worked in the engine room on a destroyer escort
for the US Coast Guard during World War Two. He
and his shipmate saved many souls from the water when
the ship next to them got torpedoed by a German plane.

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Rest in peace, Grandpa Joe. Hey Mandy, my veteran stay
shout out goes to George from Boulder. I wanted to
point out the horrors that are older veterans endured. George
grew up in Denver and enjoyed the Marines in World
War Two. He's now deceased. There were sixty young men
who joined the Marines from Denver in nineteen forty three.
He went through five beach landings in the South Pacific.

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Of those sixty men who served in the Marines, only
five returned home after the war. Hey, Mandy, please give
a big veteran shout out to my brother Bob Johnson
and Longmont. He listens to you every day. He's a
very smart man, that Bob Johnson from Longmont. He was
a Marine and in the late seventies and is still
a true patriot. Thanks Mandy, No, thanks Bob Johnson. My

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text just now about Bob Johnson. He won an award
for top marksmen in his boot camp class. Mandy honored
my partner and I's heroes at Fort Logan yesterday. George
Bruce Fortune Pearl Harbor, survivor on the USS, Nevada, Korea
and Vietnam. Decorated marine. That's grandfather Ralph P. Crawford, Tenth
Mountain Division trained. Opehang on there, coming in fast now?

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Are yes trained? Let me find this here? Tenth Mountain
Division trained at Campa Hale near Vale, Decorated World War
II survivor and won the Purple Heart Award, among others.
My partner, Brett's grandfather. We are restoring our mountain cabin
in his honor and preserving our family history. Shout out
to our loving grandmothers who stayed by their sides their
entire military careers. That from Jared in Boulder. My husband,

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Bill Dettwiler, joined the Navy in nineteen sixty three at
age seventeen, served in Vietnam abroad aircraft carrier bon Home
Richard Mandy. Shout out to my uncle, Captain Harvey Morgan,
US Marine Corps, who was the commander of I Company
official combat boots on the ground in Vietnam. The images
of his amphibious assault ship was featured on our Lee

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Emery's mail call, though not Memorial Day. I wanted to
honor him as he passed a few days ago and
I'm traveling to his services in Washington State. Shout outs
for my dad Jack Dwyer Korea. I knew a man
named Jim who served in Korea who's now deceased, but
one of my favorite people I've ever met in my life.
I wonder if you're related brothers Jeffrey Dwyer, David Dwyer,

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and Dan Dwyer. See he also had a big family.
I'm wondering if you're related to the Dwyers.

Speaker 5 (01:04:13):
That I know.

Speaker 4 (01:04:14):
Email me Texter at, Mandy Connell at iHeartMedia dot com.
Brother in law Joe Lucik in the Army, Mandy, shout
out to a great friend of mine, Arn't Bouquet Aren't
served in the Navy during the Vietnam War and was
on the Patriot helicopter patrolling the Mekong River Delta. Hey, Mandy,

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like to shout out my niece Brianna serving in the
Air Force in Germany right now. Nephews Grant Dwyer Ranger
Gavin Dwyer Special Forces. The Dwyer family also served a lot. Mandy,
my little brother's retired from the Air Force and our father,
retired from the Navy. Was a helicopter mechanic. Mandy, Shout
out to Mike mccernel, Air Force Colonel. I'm going to

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do a few more of these, so stop sending him now,
We're going to do more. At two o'clock, US Navy
new Engineer Edward S. Post US Alabama, USS Alabama currently serving. Mandy,
Shout out to my Charles Painter and my uncle Richard Painter,
United States Air Force. Shout out to Roskaminski's folks. Both
were US Navy doctors. His dad is a retired captain

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and his mom is a retired Rear Admiral. I'm a
retired enlisted Navy Hospital Corman twenty years nineteen ninety one,
twenty eleven. Shout out to my son active duty Air Force,
Tyndall Air Force Base. Thank you to my dad. Willis Creswell,
Junior deceased, who served in the Army two and a
half years in the European theater in World War Two.
He was awarded the Bronze store star, but he never

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told his family. And finally, a shout out to my
dad and uncles with one hundred and forty four years
of service, the most active duty hours for one family
and recognized by the President. I lied one more veterans
shout out to my dad, VET of World War Two.
Bet you didn't know the US helped supply Russian troops
defeat the Nazis and that was my dad's job in

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World War two. Hauly military supplies to the Russian front
from the Persian Gulf. He actually received a medal from
Russia in nineteen ninety three. We will be back after
this and we'll do more of these. At two o'clock,
we'll be right back. Keep it on, Kowa. There's so
much good stuff on the blog today, but I just
saw this story and I think that I want to
talk about it because it has annoyed me to no end.

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Now we're finding out that the celebrities who showed up
with Kamala Harris like the big town hall she did
with Oprah, those celebrities were paid by the campaign. In September,
at the Unite for America event in Michigan, Oprah Winfrey
led a rally that saw an array of Hollywood stars,

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including Jennifer Lopez, Meryl Street, Julia Roberts, Chris Rock, and
Ben Stiller. So she then or Harpo Productions, her company
got a one million dollar check, and the Washington Examiner
did a little digging and they say that the Harris

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campaign spent six figures on building a set for Harris's
appearance on Call Her Daddy with Alex Cooper. I mean, what,
how do you spend six figures building a set that
makes no sense whatsoever? None whatsoever? So who else was paid?

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This showed up for Kamala Harris? And how do you
get away with not disclosing that you got paid. That's
the stuff that really is super annoying to me. So
that's interesting. That's not on the blog. What is on
the blog is that we are off to a great
start with our snow totals. Hey, Rod, we needed the moisture.

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Oh by the way, how did your snowblower do last week?

Speaker 2 (01:07:55):
Ay?

Speaker 1 (01:07:55):
Right?

Speaker 4 (01:07:55):
I thought of you because you just got your snowblowered.
And did you guys get a lot of snow at
your house?

Speaker 10 (01:08:00):
Got the snow blower last year? Did get a lot
of snow at the house. But as I woke up
to get ready to uh snow blow, it was all
melting literally on Saturday morning, like the sidewalks were like.
I was like, oh, well, by midday, the sun's taking
care of this done. So I just had to shovel
a little off of the the steps towards the.

Speaker 2 (01:08:19):
Front door and that was it. Nothing, dude.

Speaker 4 (01:08:21):
We got We got almost four feet at my house.
Four Yeah. We were in the Palmer Divide, so we
and the way the way our house is situated, we
get drifting in the front and the back. Oh yeah,
when Chuck the garage door, it was it was insane,
absolutely insane. So I have like a wall of snow

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on either side of my driveway right now, a goodly
wall taller than it was, as tall as jinks when
it started. It's it's melted down quite a bit.

Speaker 2 (01:08:50):
Your area got rounded.

Speaker 4 (01:08:51):
Yeah, we did, We got we got a lot. But
good news, good news, everybody. We have far outseated the
average amount of snowfall for them. That means that we
are well ahead of our snowfall totals, which is always
good for our reservoirs are our water. You know, we'll
hopefully have some more snow in the winter. But we
got November's worth of snow in five days. During the

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average November, Denver gets about seven point three inches of snow,
and since Tuesday the airport got twenty inches of snow,
so three times what we normally get in November. We
are let's see, we are one of the snowiest Oh no,
we're not. We're on our way. November is the fifth

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snowiest month of the year for Denver. I don't think
that matters anymore. I do think that with climate changing
a little bit, we're gonna see like November not maybe
getting more snow or less. I don't know.

Speaker 11 (01:09:49):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:09:50):
But we're in a good start, you guys, we are
in a good start. So I thought i'd bring that
because you know what, when you live in Colorado, if
you just moved here and you're freaking out because we
got so much snow or whatever, you always supposed to
just say, but we need the moisture. That's your role,
that's your job. They should have told you that when
you got your driver's license. And if they didn't tell
you that, here I am to help you. When we

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get back. I'm gonna do some more veterans shout outs,
so you can start texting those in now, Mandy, six
figures for a podcast set that you can't do three
hours in Austin with Rogan. Okay, yep, yep, what if
it's just money laundering this person ass and the set
didn't really cost six figures. I would say that I

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could not imagine, I, in my wildest dreams, could not
figure out how to spend six figures building a set
for a podcast. I genuinely couldn't do it. I just
there's no way, absolutely no way. One more point before
I leave this segment. If you enjoy the blossom of
lights at the Denver Botanic Gardens every year, or you'd

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like to go, you better buy your tickets today. I
got mine this morning, and the Good Nights are gonna
sell out, and then you're gonna have to go to
the Fringe nights if you don't get tickets today. But
I put a link on the blog on how to
buy those tickets, so if you want to go to
either that the Chatfield Walk is not as not as
hot a ticket as the one at the York Street
Botanic Gardens. It is spectacular. Have you guys, ever done that, Aron,

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if you ever done the blossom of lights thing at
the Botanic Gardens?

Speaker 8 (01:11:22):
No, we're not.

Speaker 10 (01:11:23):
We're not super big on the Botanic Gardens. It means beautiful,
but not at our companies.

Speaker 4 (01:11:28):
I don't go unless it's the lights. You know what
I mean, And there's nothing blooming. The Botanic part of
it's not good, but the lights I spectacular.

Speaker 10 (01:11:38):
I'm gonna say, with all due respect to Botanic because
it's beautiful.

Speaker 2 (01:11:41):
The zoo lights at the.

Speaker 10 (01:11:44):
Denver Zoo are damn good and probably not as hard
to get tickets, probably cheaper quite a bit.

Speaker 2 (01:11:51):
So both are great. But for me, have you been
have you done zoo lights?

Speaker 1 (01:11:55):
I have not.

Speaker 4 (01:11:56):
It is maybe I'll us have to double dip this year.

Speaker 10 (01:11:58):
The lights there they do as a nominal job throughout
the entire zoo.

Speaker 2 (01:12:02):
It's beautiful.

Speaker 4 (01:12:04):
Well, you better get your tickets to the Botanic Garden
today if you want to go. When we get back,
more shout outs, text them to five sixty six nine. Oh,
that's five sixty six nine oh coming up next to
keep it on KOA.

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Speaker 4 (01:12:41):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the third hour of the show.
And I want to remind you on Veterans Day that
we are still taking nominations for heroes. Thank you. This
is a wonderful program that the guys from Broncos Country
Tonight put out. They take nominations for veterans who deserve
a twenty five hundred dollars check. Oh yeah, we're giving
him out around the holidays. You can what Yes, ay, Roy,

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I'm gonna say.

Speaker 10 (01:13:03):
Nick Ferguson's going to play out the day to day
and he'll come in a little early to talk about.

Speaker 4 (01:13:07):
Hero Speak excellent. All you have to do to find
it is go to Kowa Colorado dot com forward Slash
Contests and you can see it there. All right, we're
gonna do a bunch of shout outs for Veterans Day.
Here we go. I'm gonna get in as many as
I can, but there's a lot, so I'm gonna read
them quickly. Pay attention, Mandy. Shout out to Frederick Mann, Revolution,

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William Virtue, Civil War, Harrison Virtue, World War One, Richard
Mason World War II, Tom Virtue Vietnam. Tom Virtue's son
Rock James Mason, a rock at Afghanistan. So many other
family members that have helped protect our country that I
cannot recall at the moment. Thank you, Mandy. All I'm
doing is reading them off. President Bush. The first one,
Herbert Walker Bush, Thank you for your service. Mandy. Shout

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out to my dad Marshall Pocone, US Coast Guard. My
brother is Michael Mark, James, Anthony Mariano Pecone, US Navy, Vietnam,
and my Marry US Army. Shout out to all veterans,
thanks for your service. My stepfather, Ralph Leroy Graham, sat
in the Bay of Pigs waiting to invade also Vietnam RIP.
I was raised by a good Marine. Mandy. Shout out

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to my dad, Winford Hood Air Force at Plattsburgh Air
Force Base in upstate New York. He never thought his
job as a general's car driver was that special, but
I told him by doing that, it allowed someone else
to do a job they were more suited for. Sadly,
the base is nowhere there, replaced by a shopping mall.
Also Shout out to my step son Jake Smith. He
served in the US Army in Afghanistan. He had experiences

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he still can't talk about, Mandy. Shout out to Staff
Sergeant Joe Shelley, US Army nineteen eighty to nineteen eighty eight.
Shout out to my brother, Lieutenant Colonel soon to be
Colonel al Lemaine. Excuse me, al Lamaire Infantry twenty two
years now, two Iraq deployments, three Afghanistans, one purple heart husband,
father of three. Shout out to Jim Kepler to cease

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seagoing marine during the Cuban Missile Crime. Shout out to
my dad, Corporal Donald Waterman, US Marine Corps, fourth Marine Division,
World War two, Pacific Theater. Mandy, blah blah blah. Let
me see here. Shout out to two grandfathers and my
husband's grandfather who all served in World War Two. And
I have five Patriot grandfathers who served in the American Revolution.

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I am now a daughter of the American Revolution. To
pay homage to their service to this country. Shout out
to Staff Sergeant Joe already did that one.

Speaker 3 (01:15:27):
Ummmm.

Speaker 4 (01:15:30):
Shout out to the graduates of the Air Force Academy,
especially the True Blue Class of ninety two. Hey Mandy,
Shout out to my dad, Senior Master Sergeant with a
twenty two point fifty eighth Signal Construction Company, Normandy, France,
World War Two. Shout out to Colonel Harry shoop Oh
shout shalp rhymes with shout, World War Two veteran and
better known as the Santa Colonel. He began the tradition

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of Norrad tracking Santa in nineteen fifty five. Here's my dad,
John Raymond Frick as a seventeen year old radio man
in the US Coast Guard in nineteen eighty five. Five
generations of Eslex served William G. William A. Robert William, Gregory,
Neil Chase W. Presently serving. The traditions of family that

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are serving are amazing to me. Amazing. Let me see here,
let me get back up. I just had to regenerate.
Shout out to some of my friends dads in Applewood
who served. Tom Green fighter pilot Japan, Bill Jenkins, Take
Commander Korea, Doctor Ben Miller compat medic Battle of the Bulge,
Glenn Culver Interes Infantryman Battle of the Bulge, Tom Sangster

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served in Korea, the greatest generation of dads. Mandy Shout
out to Gabe Evans. Worked with Gabe at the Arvada
Police Department. He was a great officer and a great man.
We're going to be talking to him at two thirty.
All pass that along. Shout out for Captain W. B. Norman, MD,
US Army, World War Two, Fitzsimmons, Lieutenant Colonel Lieutenant C. B.

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Jackson Chaplin, US Army, World War II Airman CJ. Lure,
US Air Force Active Mandy. Shout out to my grandfather Korda,
US Army. He fought in World War One, received the
Purple Heart and the Silver Star. My father David, who
served in Korea on the USS Falgot. He served many escorts.
Wait a minute, I just mixed those up. Sorry about that,

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who served in Korea in the US Navy. Our daughter
Laura and her husband Robbie, who are currently serving in
the US Air Force, both as colonels. Shout out for
Ralph Kiever, Company C. One hundred and eighty seven Mountain Infantry,
tenth Mountain Division. Also Sergeant Vernon Stone, tenth Mountain Mandy,
Shout out to my deceased father, Vincent Labrio j Senior.

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He had listed in the Coastguard for the duration of
World War Two and served four years as a radio
man on the US Falgut. He served many escort missions
in the med and endured significant fire from German planes.
They were on their way to Japan to fight when
the Japanese surrendered and ended the war. He is my hero, Mandy.
Shout out to my dad and his two brothers. All
three served in the European theater in World War Two.

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Dad was shot and spent a year in a hospital,
but lived to be a healthy ninety eight. Shout out
to my son Evan eight years in the Marines, just
getting started in the army, and my son Jayden four
years in the Marines. And Jaden's best friend Bautista killed
in training. Sorry to hear about that. Shout out to
the family. First and foremost, my grandfather's brother, Guy Tana Romano,

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an Italian immigrant who came over on the boat in
the early nineteen hundreds. He so loved America that he
felt the need to serve before taking a wife. He
died in the Battle of Saint Michel. He was laid
to rest in Arlington. That is why we stand for
the National Anthem. I would like to mention Mike Foster,
seventh Group in Vietnam, my mentor. I'm going to answer

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the question about Dave Williams in just a minute. Thank
you to my uncle Lee Royal deceased. He was a
gunner on a BE twenty four and served in the
Army Air Corps in World War Two in Europe. His
entire squadron was shot down over the Baltic Sea, no survivors.
Shout out to my dad Dwayne Deep, who served in
the Marines and was in the Vietnam War. And to
my son Travis Abbott, who is currently serving in the
Marines and just returned from a six month deployment aboard

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the USS Somerset. We appreciate you both. Shout out to
my dad Claude hash US Army serving in Korea. Mandy's
short story I'm adopted. Found my birth mother just before COVID.
She told me who my birth dad was. Found his
family in Alabama. He was a helicopter pilot in Vietnam,
Franklin Bryan. He was killed in Vietnam in nineteen sixty nine,

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a year after I was born. Shout out to Uncle
Art Hansen Patten's third Army World War Two, Ludwig Rodolph Kervick,
survivor two sunken ships in World War Two, My grandfather
and hero. Shout out to Tim and Larry PLICKI shout
out to Don Gotzi. Shout out to my daughter specialist
Bridget Frigate pass eighty second Airborne and I think that's

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Bridget Dudley and Sam Hanson in Korea. Shout out to
members of Extortion seventeen members lost in afghanist Stan. Shout
out to first Lieutenant Air Force daughter Lindsay Didrickson serving
in Germany. Now my step son, Dustin eggles Engel. I
don't know how to say his last name. Sorry, Dustin,
who's the chief in the Namy. Now my veterans step

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son Jake who was in the Army, My dad Ralph Johnson,
who's retired Air Force. My most amazing husband Michael Ingelks,
I don't know how to say that last name, who
served in the Army many years ago. All right, you guys,
I think that is all I can get in right
now in this segment. Last one last shout out. Shout

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out to my uncle Ashra Coleman, staff sergeant, US Army
landed at Omaha Beach. Shout out to my dad, Claude
hash US Army serving in Korea. All right, those are
my shout outs when we get back. Somebody said, what
is the status of Dave Williams and the Colorado GOP.
I just saw a post on x that is the
most delusional thing I have ever seen in my life

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about Dave Williams, and I'm taking him down in the
next segment. We'll be right back. Keep it on KOA.
Apparently Dave Williams, the less than useless Colorado chairman of
the GOP who broke from one hundred years of tradition
and decided, under his leadership, to endorse a bunch of

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wackadodal candidates, including himself, in order to see if we
could make Colorado as maga and trumpy and election denying
as possible. Thankfully, voters saw through the idiocy and they
all lost, and so the people who actually got elected

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gave Evans, being one of them in a very very
close race. Gabe's coming up at two thirty to spend
some time with us and talk about what he's going
to do in Congress. Somehow those candidates that were not
endorsed by Dave Williams, that were not at all supported
by the Republican Party, that were worse to create their

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own ground game, their own field game. Gabe Williams or
gab Gabe Evans actually took money from the Arizona Republican
Party in the form of mailer support because the Colorado
Republican Party did absolutely nothing. And yet, and yet, I
just saw this tweet on x and it is a

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photograph that has been doctored of Dave Williams smiling and
flipping flipping the bird, and it says, here's a brain
scrambling truth. The Colorado GOP, under embattled chairman Representative Dave Williams,
managed to outperform the last several Republican chairpersons in terms
of actual gains at the polls. How do you like

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Dave now? Hmmm, So what has happened here? Just to
be clear, candidates that Dave Williams actively worked against in
the primary the ram their own campaigns, didn't get any
money from the Republican Party, didn't get any support from
the Republican Party. And now Dave Williams sends out an

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email that says this. Radical Democrats and even sell out
rhinos like Dick Wadhams said President Donald J. Trump was
gonna lose, hurt our party and down ballot nominees across
the country. They even tried to trick you into abandoning
your Christian conservative values just so they could justify their
failure and false claims. Thankfully, radical Democrats, the fake news

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and corrupt never Trump nuts like Dick Wadhams were dead wrong.
The fake news media, the leftist pundits, and rhinos like
Dick Wadhams will try to spend these results and downplay
everyone and everything to fit their lives. But here's the truth.
All the credit belongs to you and to President Trump,
who always kept fighting for you. Because of your faithfulness

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to our conservative American first values, Colorado in the nation
are now in a better spot. Remember, President Trump and
the mag of movement are the reason for these successes.
So don't let anyone else tell you otherwise. And now
they're trying to take credit. Are you freaking kidding me?
Right now, here's what I want to have appened. And

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I'm gonna ask gave Evans about this because I want
a commitment. We now have four Republicans that just got
elected to go to Congress. Our congressional delegation is now
split half and half, which is great news. I want
Gabe Williams, I want Jeff Hurd, I want Jeff Crank.
I want them all to show up at the meeting

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where Dave Williams is either up for reelection or some
of his minions will try and take over, and I
want them to explain to the people there how little
the Colorado Republican Party did to support them, how much
Dave Williams personally did to create problems in the primary
that they were able to overcome. To be clear, just

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to make this very crystal clear, we had victories in
the state of Colorado not because of Dave Williams and
the Colorado GOP. We had them in spite of Colorado
Republicans and Dave Williams. That is the truth. And I
dare any of these fools that are supporting this idiot

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to come on this program and try and explain to
me how that is not accurate, because it is. When
we get back, Gabe Evans is going to join us,
and we'll ask him about the support he got from
the Colorado GOP as well as congratulate him for his
amazing victory in a highly competitive district. We'll be right
back keep it on KOA. The Congressman elect from the

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eighth Congressional District, Gabe Evans, on the show yesterday. The
news broke that in a I mean, this is a
squeaker of an election, Gabe managed to defeat incumbent dar A.
Caraveo and we'll be going to Congress next January. Gabe,
first of all, Happy Veterans Day to you.

Speaker 6 (01:26:00):
Let's start there, Thank you so much, thanks for the
invitation to come on the show. And then, as you
said to all of the veterans listening, thank you so
much for your service to your families as well.

Speaker 7 (01:26:13):
I was in the army twelve years.

Speaker 6 (01:26:14):
My wife was with me every minute of those twelve years,
and so I know that families serve right alongside the veterans,
our current service members. And again, from the bottom of
our hearts, thank you so much for putting country before
self and for all of the sacrifices that you have
made and are continuing to make to keep us free.

Speaker 4 (01:26:31):
So how many gray hairs did the last five days
give you no.

Speaker 6 (01:26:37):
More than when I was deployed to the Middle East
for a year perspective.

Speaker 4 (01:26:41):
I guess, but man, I can't even imagine. Did you sleep?
How stressful was that? Just waiting and waiting and you
have no control over how long it takes to get
these votes in.

Speaker 6 (01:26:54):
Well, you know, one of the things, the most important
thing that kept me going through this whole campaign was
just my fate. So yeah, I actually, you know, there
were a couple of nights where I didn't sleep, perhaps
as great as I wanted to, but I actually slept okay.
And again that is I give credit to God for
giving me the strength and the courage and just the
calm to go through some of these really tense moments

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in the campaign over the last seventeen months, and then
of course from election night up until Sunday afternoon. And
so God God gets the credit for those. And then
I spent again twenty two years in the military law enforcement.
This isn't the first tense situation that I've been in,
and so just being able to fall back on that
training and those past experiences that I've been through, you know,

(01:27:39):
was really a big part of being able to keep
me calm, coupled with my wife. She's been my absolute
rock through all of this. She wrote it down so
that I wouldn't I wish, so that I would believe her.
July eighteenth of twenty twenty three, she wrote herself a
note that said Gabe's winning Congress, dated it, and then
pulled it out on Sunday afternoon, basically as.

Speaker 7 (01:28:00):
A like I told you so victory that.

Speaker 2 (01:28:03):
She's never once.

Speaker 6 (01:28:05):
Doubted that I was going to win this. So she
got her I told you so a moment yesterday. And
she's also been just fantastic, you know, in keeping the
call and making sure that everything that needed to happen happen.

Speaker 4 (01:28:16):
Now, I don't want to hex anything, but it looks
like you were going to be going to Congress with
Republican party holding the Senate, probably holding the House. We're
still waiting for several house races to be fully counted,
and a Republican president. This is a much different proposition
than Republicans have seen in the past. What are you

(01:28:37):
hoping that the first one hundred days looks like for Congress?
For the president? What do you want to see happen
right out of the shoot?

Speaker 6 (01:28:46):
Yeah, so previous times where we've had unified governments. You know, Republicans,
we are the party of independent thought, but that sometimes
means it also takes us a while to get organized,
and we squander the opportunity to actually get things done
that make life better for all of our constituents. So
being able to hit the ground running and fulfill all
of these promises that we talked about on the campaign,

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making sure that we have a secure border, making sure
that we fix the crime problem, making sure that we
fix the economy so that the cost of living goes
down and people can actually afford to live, to get jobs,
to invest in the dream of home ownership, and start
building equity. These are all of the things that we
need to fix, and so I'm just so excited to
roll up my sleeves and be a part of that.
I know that a lot of Republican leadership has been

(01:29:29):
working very diligently behind the scenes. You know, this credit
here goes to folks like Speaker Johnson for making sure
that this isn't just you know, cheap talking points, but
we actually have well thought out policy positions from which
to be able to craft this legislation, to be able
to work with the community, work with all of the
stakeholders to make sure.

Speaker 7 (01:29:48):
That we are passing good, thoughtful.

Speaker 6 (01:29:51):
Bills that are make people's lives better, that are making
the American dream more affordable, more attainable, and that aren't
having negative, unintended second third and flour of order effects.

Speaker 4 (01:30:03):
I think that you guys this next Congress are going
to be under a lot of pressure from President Trump
because one of the things I believe that he learned
from his first term in office was that you can't
roll things out slowly. You've got to bring everything at
the same time in order, honestly to confuse your opponents. Right,
if you throw everything against the wall at the exact

(01:30:24):
same time, that's going to put a lot of pressure
on you guys and and ladies to really get and
work efficiently. And to your point about the Republican Party
being full of independent minded thinkers, it is harder to
corral everybody you know and get everybody on the same page.
Are you ready to aggressively go after border enforcement in

(01:30:45):
those things as a member of this Congress, because I
think that's where it's going to start.

Speaker 2 (01:30:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:30:51):
I mean, that's my life story. Again, you've heard my
story before.

Speaker 6 (01:30:54):
I mean, I'm the grandson of an immigrant from Mexico,
and so I know that we have to make sure
that we have border security because you know, as as
a lot of the Hispanic community that I interact with
tells me, they say, look, Gabe, we did it the
right way, and then we turn around and we see cartels,
criminal organizations, you know, folks coming across the border, not
only doing it the wrong way, but literally taking advantage

(01:31:17):
of American society to continue to pedal drugs, commit crimes.
I mean, you know, we saw what happened in Aurora
with trendy Araguas, and we know it's not limited to Aurora.

Speaker 7 (01:31:26):
You can just go look at the news.

Speaker 6 (01:31:27):
They're busting up Aarbnb's and Evergreen, They're trying to take
over apartment complexes.

Speaker 7 (01:31:31):
And other places.

Speaker 6 (01:31:32):
And so being able to aggressively work to make sure
that the border is secure, that our territorial integrity is protected,
and that our homeland is safe from unwanted crossings or
illegal crossings is something that again, in the military for
twelve years, I'm a veteran of the Global War on Terror.
I didn't spend a year in a combat zone for

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terrrists to be able to roll across our unsecured borders.
As a cop, I didn't spend a decade working in
our community for these criminal organizations to be able to
run around with absolute impunity, and so being able to
aggressively work to solve these issues, to secure the border
and to get these criminals who are legally present in
our country out of our country is going to be

(01:32:13):
something that I think you're right, we're going to aggressively hit.

Speaker 4 (01:32:16):
On day one. Well, Gabe, I have experienced something with
our immigration system recently that is it's almost the most
absurd thing I've ever experienced in my life. A friend
is married to an irishman. They've been married for twenty years.
He already has some status here, but as he went
back to London to get an actual full time green

(01:32:36):
cards because he wants to be a citizen of the
United States. This is a man who has a job.
This is a man who has gainful employment. And if
I could, at some point, I will talk to you
privately and tell you the absolute ridiculous nature of what
they're doing to legal immigrants. And I said to me
one point, I said, you should just fly to Mexico
and walk across the southern border, you'd have a free apartment,

(01:32:57):
you'd have a computer, you'd have job training. I actually
think that that is to your point about legal immigrants
that are here saying that's not right. I think that's
a big reason that Donald Trump won and he had
such gains with Hispanics. To your point, So legal immigration
reform is something I'd like to see happen, but after
we secure the southern border. Not at the same time.

(01:33:19):
I want it to be after We've got to make
it easier for people who want to come here and
work and be productive members of society and contribute. We
have to make it easier for those people to get
into this country while making sure we are keeping people
out across the southern border. One other thing that I
want to ask you about is energy policy, because here
in Colorado, our governor has committed to destroying I think

(01:33:42):
oil and gas in Colorado, but Trump is indicated he
wants to drill, baby, drill. What are your thoughts on
where our energy policy needs to go and how would
you see that affecting Colorado when we have a state
governor who is invested in the exact opposite.

Speaker 6 (01:33:59):
Yeah, right, on two counts there. First of all, You're
absolutely right. We've got to secure the border. We've got
to fix the broken system for those legal immigrants. I
talk to a gentleman on the campaign trail, same situation.
He's been in the United States with legal status for
seventeen years, working to get his citizenship. He's originally from Brazil,
and he told me it's going to be at least
another four years before I get my citizenship.

Speaker 7 (01:34:19):
Twenty one years. This guy has spent trying to do
it the right way.

Speaker 6 (01:34:24):
And yet, as you said, if you just stroll across
the border, immediately you're rewarded. So we're rewarding the people
that do it the wrong way with all of these
taxpayer funded handouts, and the people that try to do
it the right way are spending two decades or more
trapped in a bureaucratic nightmare.

Speaker 7 (01:34:39):
That situation has to be reversed.

Speaker 6 (01:34:41):
We have to have a process that rewards the folks
like my grandfather, who earned his citizenship with two purple
hearts fighting in World War Two in Patten's Third Army,
wounded in September nineteen forty four.

Speaker 7 (01:34:51):
In April nineteen forty five.

Speaker 6 (01:34:53):
We have to reward folks like that who want to
come to this country, who are willing to spill their
own blood for their new home home with a more
functional immigration system.

Speaker 7 (01:35:03):
And then you know, of course we have to also
focus as.

Speaker 6 (01:35:07):
You said, you know, the primary goal has to be
the border security, but we've got to fix the broken
immigration system for those legal immigrants who are committed to.

Speaker 7 (01:35:16):
Doing it the right way.

Speaker 6 (01:35:18):
And then with regard to energy policy, I mean, we've
got one of the highest energy producing districts in the
nation right here in Colorado.

Speaker 7 (01:35:25):
And not only that, we produce some of the cleanest
energy anywhere on the planet.

Speaker 6 (01:35:29):
I've said repeatedly on the campaign trail down at the
state Capitol and to anyone who listens, natural gas produced
in Colorado is actually cleaner than our current power grid
is right now. So if you have the option to
run something off of natural gas, say an RTD bus
versus electricity an electric ARTD bus, you are actually polluting
less if you run it off of natural gas, because

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natural gas is cleaner than our power grid. So of
course we have to promote American energy. It's cleaner efficient,
we get the job benefits. We're surrounded by this thing
called an atmosphere, which means if we don't produce it
here and it's produced in other countries that do it
less clean or less efficiently, all that pollution is still

(01:36:11):
going to blow right back here. If we replaced American
natural gas in Europe with Russian natural gas, we could
save the world two hundred million tons worth of carbon
emissions every year because our natural gas is forty to
eighty percent cleaner than Russian natural gas. So we have
to empower the American energy economy. The world needs more energy,

(01:36:33):
not less energy.

Speaker 7 (01:36:34):
We do it better, we do it cleaner than anybody
else here in the United States. Here in Colorado.

Speaker 6 (01:36:39):
Again, we save the world two hundred million tons of
carbon emissions every year if we were able to replace
Russian natural gas going into Western Europe.

Speaker 7 (01:36:48):
With American natural gas.

Speaker 6 (01:36:50):
And so I am a huge supporter of our energy industry,
of course, making sure that we continue to have improvements
in how we protect our environment.

Speaker 7 (01:37:00):
But we've got to use technologies that are proven to work.

Speaker 6 (01:37:03):
And right now, again our energy is cleaner than really
any other energy produced in the world.

Speaker 4 (01:37:09):
Our congressmen, our new Congressman for the eighth Congressional District,
Gabe Evans, is joining me today, Gabe, how much help
did you get for your campaign from the Republican Party
Karon Colorado watch. I know that the Arizona Republican Party
did a mailire for you, which which was nice, but
didn't get a lot of help. I just wanted to

(01:37:30):
get that out there as victory laps are being taken
by leadership. I also want to ask you a weird question.
Is it weird watching football or whatever, sitting and watching
TV and seeing attack, AD attack, AD attack, AD attack,
AD against you against yourself? What is that like as
a candidate?

Speaker 7 (01:37:50):
Oh, I have no idea because I just sore off
TV for like the last three months.

Speaker 4 (01:37:54):
Trust me, we all did too, but because we saw
them all. But I mean, that's got to be hard
for your family.

Speaker 7 (01:38:00):
H Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:38:01):
Again, this is one of those things that you learn
in the military and law enforcement. You learn how to
protect yourself. And so I didn't watch a lot of
TV these last three months.

Speaker 7 (01:38:11):
Of course I saw that all of the mailers in
the mailbox, and yeah, it's it's it's difficult, you know,
to see the distortions and at times the outright lies
that come out.

Speaker 6 (01:38:20):
And it doesn't matter how many times you repeat yourself
and you know, try to set the narrative straight. You know,
folks that don't want you elected are going to continue
to push some of these false narratives. But you know,
at the end of the day, our message resonated. I
think folks saw, you know, saw me for who I was,
and and they cast their votes. I'm so honored and
privileged to have the trust of a majority of the

(01:38:42):
voters here in Colorado's eighth Congressional district.

Speaker 7 (01:38:44):
And again even for those folks who didn't vote.

Speaker 6 (01:38:46):
For me, just like just like when I was a cop,
my political party didn't matter, Your political party didn't matter.
What mattered is we were here to work together to
find that common ground to make things better for our community.
And everything that we've talked about safe communities, secure communities.

Speaker 7 (01:39:02):
Protecting the territorial integrity.

Speaker 6 (01:39:04):
Of the United States, making sure that we have a
functional economy, making sure that we take care of our
environment by actually following the science. Those are all things
that I think a vast majority of folks in this
district agree with, believe in its basic common sense, and
so I'm just looking forward to being able to work
with everyone in this district that's willing to have a

(01:39:25):
conversation to make sure that we can move the ball
forward and continue to protect and preserve the American dream
that we're so privileged to have.

Speaker 4 (01:39:31):
Congratulations Gabe. Our text line is full of people saying
I voted for you. I'm so happy one and we
are too. Can't wait to see what happens in this
next congress and I'm sure we'll talk to you on
a regular basis during that as well. Thanks for making
time for us today.

Speaker 7 (01:39:44):
Oh, I look forward to having those conversations and thanks
for the chat.

Speaker 2 (01:39:48):
All right.

Speaker 4 (01:39:48):
That is Gabe Evans and he is our new congressman
from the eighth Congressional District. Very exciting now, Nick, Nick
Ferguson has joined us in the studio because we're talking
about a Heroes Thank you the big program done by
Broncos Country tonight and they're wonderful sponsors and you can
nominate someone to win twenty five hundred bucks. Nick, was

(01:40:11):
last year the first time you got to go out
and give out checks.

Speaker 11 (01:40:15):
Yeah, it was the first time, and it was really
exciting for me because there are a lot of individuals
in my family who have served in the military. A
lot of my nieces and nephews currently serve, and I
have to tell you it's extraordinary campaign to be a
part of because just to see the look on the
family's faces when the cash, the big check comes out

(01:40:38):
and you give it to them, just emotion. It was
hard to fight back last year the tears and emotion,
but I look forward to being a part of again
this year.

Speaker 4 (01:40:48):
Well, if you want to nominate a veteran, it's very
very easy. Just go to Kawa Colorado Forward Slash Contests
and look for a Heroes. Thank you. Now, Nick, do
you know when you guys are going to start giving
these checks out?

Speaker 11 (01:41:01):
Well, we should have started to give out those checks
are pretty soon. But a lot of that is based
on the number of people who send in stories, because
that's the biggest part of it. We need people to
engage to send stories about the heroes that they're around.
They could be school teachers, crossing guards, someone who spent
some time in the military who they think is worthy

(01:41:22):
and fitting of this cause. To be totally honest, you know, Mandy,
I wish there was more that we can do for
more of our men and women who serve, because the
thing that bothers me is that there are two words
that should never become synonymous with one another, and that's
homeless vet. And we have a historic issue in this country.

(01:41:43):
But you know, through our sponsors common Sparit Health, Credit
Union eight Heating and air Conditioning, we're able to give
some checks out to needing families.

Speaker 4 (01:41:54):
Well, the deadline is December second, so people have a
good bit of time to get their entries in. And
I would urge you. You know, here's the thing, like
a lot of these veterans are like, well, you should
have given it to someone else. These are people who
don't think that they deserve anything special for their service.
I happen to think differently. Just don't nominate my husband

(01:42:15):
because he will be insufferable. And I would rather go to,
you know, someone who maybe needs a little help this year.
Maybe they've had a rough year financially, maybe they've had
a job situation, maybe they've had some you know, challenges.
It's a great way to just give them a little
joy for the holidays and get them something and then
Nick can go and try not to cry when they

(01:42:37):
give the checkout.

Speaker 2 (01:42:38):
So there you go.

Speaker 4 (01:42:39):
That's I want Nick to cry at every single one
of them. That's what I want. I want to get
Nick Ferguson is a softy and he cried it every
single one of them. So that's my goal.

Speaker 2 (01:42:47):
I'm gonna get close a video of it. Just just
be ready for that.

Speaker 4 (01:42:50):
Why would you want that?

Speaker 11 (01:42:51):
Because most people who know this beautiful knows that I
am not that emotional in that particular way.

Speaker 4 (01:42:57):
But man, reading these stories, if.

Speaker 11 (01:43:01):
Your heart doesn't go out and you don't share any
motion for these stories.

Speaker 2 (01:43:05):
You are not human.

Speaker 4 (01:43:06):
That's where you are now coming at all. Yeah, okay, Nick,
I have a question for you really quick about the
game yesterday. Yes Was that the kicker's fault or the
O line fault for that thing? Because I gotta tell
you it came off his fit. It looked like it
was low for a thirty five yard chip shot, you
know what I'm saying.

Speaker 11 (01:43:23):
First and foremost, you could try to blame it on
the kicker, but I'm never gonna do that because the
pressure came off the left side and his word scouting
is it's so critical you start watching guys and watching
guys with Tennessee's and if you catch you guys sitting
light and which I mean sitting back on his hill
all you gotta do is run with a lot of
authority and wait and push him and he's falling over.

(01:43:44):
And that's exactly what happened. You hate for a team
to have fought so hard to get back into the
game to lose that way.

Speaker 4 (01:43:51):
Yep, it was heart It was stunning. It was one
of those where you're watching it, you're like, that did
not happen, but it And here we are. But now
it's time for the most exciting segment on the radio.

Speaker 3 (01:44:04):
Of its kind.

Speaker 2 (01:44:07):
Whoa of the day? All right?

Speaker 4 (01:44:11):
What is our dad joke of the day, please, Anthony. Oh,
by the way, they have a great dad joke on
the blog today.

Speaker 2 (01:44:17):
That Oh is it the one with the turkeys?

Speaker 10 (01:44:20):
Yes, because now I get I get those turkeys like
every other video and TikTok so beautiful. Oh I love
those turkeys. Great dad jokes. Did you hear about the
cleaners who went to Space?

Speaker 5 (01:44:32):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:44:33):
Wait, you wouldn't have. They ended up scrubbing the mission. Oh.

Speaker 4 (01:44:36):
I thought there was gonna be a vacuum joke in there.
I thought, you know what I mean, I was going
with vacuum something. They were in a vacuum. I don't know. Anyway,
what's our word of the day.

Speaker 2 (01:44:45):
It is an armistice.

Speaker 4 (01:44:48):
Oh, that means a truth, a ceasing of hostilities.

Speaker 2 (01:44:53):
That's exactly right. Look at you?

Speaker 4 (01:44:55):
All right? Okay, I like this question. I don't know
the answer, but I'm gonna guess what percentage of cats
are affected? Are affected by catnip? Cats aren't affected by
cabinet sixty? I'm gonna go ninety two percent. Oh no,
we're all high. Fifty fifty to seventy five percent of cats.

(01:45:17):
Oh yeah, well I was close, and it's hereditary. By
the way, what kind of fifty to seventy difference?

Speaker 7 (01:45:25):
What the hell?

Speaker 11 (01:45:25):
The hell?

Speaker 4 (01:45:26):
That was just a bitballing?

Speaker 7 (01:45:28):
Is what that was?

Speaker 2 (01:45:30):
All right?

Speaker 4 (01:45:30):
What's our category?

Speaker 2 (01:45:31):
That was hair balling? Okay?

Speaker 10 (01:45:33):
The category is playing with your head? Yes, answer has
head in the answer.

Speaker 2 (01:45:40):
Okay. Clovis point is a Native American one.

Speaker 4 (01:45:44):
A Clovis point. I don't know what a Clovis point is.

Speaker 2 (01:45:49):
Well, think Native American and the word.

Speaker 4 (01:45:50):
Head, Mandy, what is a head dress?

Speaker 2 (01:45:53):
No, I don't know, nig I'm thinking like the head
of a spear. So, oh, you're so close. What is
specifically an arrowhead?

Speaker 7 (01:46:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:46:04):
You had it, but you didn't at the same time.
All right, you're both of minus one minus.

Speaker 10 (01:46:07):
One A devoted follower of Jerry Garcia's band, Mandy, Andy,
what is a dead head?

Speaker 2 (01:46:14):
They called themselves Canada's oldest independent brewery, Eh, Mandy, what
is anchor?

Speaker 4 (01:46:23):
No danga?

Speaker 2 (01:46:24):
Oh that's no, no, no, no, it's minus two?

Speaker 4 (01:46:26):
Nick, just minus one? I just got one ball, that's true?

Speaker 2 (01:46:30):
Yeah, okay, all right? What is a moose head?

Speaker 3 (01:46:35):
Do that?

Speaker 2 (01:46:36):
A monarch in title who has no real authority?

Speaker 4 (01:46:40):
Mandy? What is a figure heads? Back to zero?

Speaker 2 (01:46:44):
Nickname for a US marine? Perhaps from the stake? Andy?

Speaker 4 (01:46:49):
What's the jad?

Speaker 2 (01:46:50):
Is good?

Speaker 6 (01:46:52):
One?

Speaker 4 (01:46:52):
Not a great performance? I won with one point today,
Nick Ferguson. Good you guys got coming up later on today?
Nick for Broncos Country tonight.

Speaker 11 (01:47:02):
Well, I mean, first and foremost, we're gonna break down
this game. Obviously exciting game by the Nuggets.

Speaker 4 (01:47:10):
It was actually a very good game to watch until
the last play of the game.

Speaker 11 (01:47:15):
Well it is, and well you're just gonna break it
down for the fans and just kind of open it
up to let them know that, Hey, even though you
may be frustrated today, things are definitely looking up for
this team.

Speaker 4 (01:47:25):
Agree. One hundred percent agree. All right, friends, we will
be back tomorrow, but keep it for KOA Sports coming
up next than Broncos Country Tonight later, keep it right
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