11-19-24 FULL SHOW - Conservative Documentary Isn't Supposed To Win Awards

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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next three hours. Mandy Connall join.

Speaker 5 (00:33):
Of course.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
My mind right hand man, I call him Anthony Rodriguez.
You can call him a Rod. And in case you
thought the airhorn's name was a Rod, No, it's the
other guy that pushes the airhorn button. By the way,
I have proof of life from Susan Witkin. Just had
a little chit chat with her on the waiting Yes
she I'm sure she would say a big hello if

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we had gotten around to talking about the audience. But
she's living her best life. All is well, and uh,
I wanted to make sure she's okay, come back. I
don't know Keen's doing.

Speaker 5 (01:05):
A pre thank fantastic. Nothing is pretty much we do.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Well.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
You know what, I got to get her on the
show here, talk a little bit about what's going on
in the world.

Speaker 5 (01:14):
You know what we need to get the gang back together.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
Let's get David intrepid, Susan wickin, We'll like get everybody
on the show, Yes.

Speaker 6 (01:21):
All at once, Matt the Dead to Me Tournament of
the day with all of them against.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
You know what, I just I just set a name
on this station that longtime listeners all went, wow, I
wonder how Mad's to And and then people are like.

Speaker 5 (01:34):
Matt the what to me?

Speaker 4 (01:35):
If you're a newer listener. He was my first intern.
I got him from Mike Rosen. It was Mike Rosman's there.
I love You've never met Matt.

Speaker 6 (01:42):
How getting into that time where it's rare. I hear
a name I don't know, No, I don't know that.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
So Matt the Dead to me? I love this good
Matt Well. I found out he was a Patriots fan,
and I said, you were dead to me. So then
he was Matt the Dead to Me intern the entire time,
and just one of the funniest, the most ridiculous people I've.

Speaker 5 (02:01):
Ever met in my life.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
And and he made bets on the super Bowl, and
we tattooed with Hannah on his face and the back
of his hands. We tattooed the score on his forehead,
and he had to go to class like that at.

Speaker 5 (02:15):
Du It was. It was just brilliant.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
His mouth was constantly writing checks. His butt could not cash,
you know what I'm saying. Like he was always making
a bet doing the Oh god, I love that kid.
So he well he no, he would have been well, no,
that's a terrible stripper. No, awful, we do. I have
no idea where mad.

Speaker 5 (02:37):
Is now allowed.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
Well, it was really not so much about the Patriots.
We found out later it was Tom Brady. Tom Brady
was what he was. You know, well, I'm on the
conjure on the contrary then there you go. Oh, well,
you know it pains me to admit it, but he
is the greatest quarterback.

Speaker 5 (02:54):
Yeah, I'm just gonna go.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
Let's talk about what's on the blog, because he's not
on the blog. MEI there is any great sports heroes?
Well maybe there are. I don't remember now everything I
put on there. Find the blog by going to mandy'sblog
dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline
this is eleven, nineteen twenty four blog. Conservative documentary isn't
supposed to win awards. Click on that and here are

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the headlines you will find within a don't know.

Speaker 5 (03:22):
Whe's listing office?

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Half of American all with ships and clipments of state
that ConA press platch.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Today on the blog am I racist? Is campaigning for awards?
In Hollywood? Is unhappy? Jen x waited? It is it
morning in America? Park Duo scrolling? Is Denver really the
sixth most sinful city in the country? You can have
an adu in your yard in Denver. Now UPS is
going all in on automation. The budget is too big,

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but legislators act like we're broke. The city at Boulder
is named its Snowplows. Our unemployment rate is ticking up.
Could certain vaccines prevent Alzheimer's? Putin for nukes? Do your
fat cells remember being fat? Big food is conspiring to
make us fat? A powerful conversation about Palestinians. Details of
the House Ethics Committee are coming out. The earliest Jesus

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is God writings have been discovered.

Speaker 5 (04:15):
Democrats are told.

Speaker 4 (04:16):
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need to be for optimum health? House Stress messes with
your memories? Happy Birthday, super Fan Peggy, Next level Christmas Decorations,
Dolphin Player tosses his touchdown ball. These passengers are going
to be insufferable. Why didn't I know about this until now?

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Dogs can eat stuff like this on Thanksgiving. Those are
the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. Oh
my gosh from the common Spearit health text line you
can always text us at five six six nine zero.

Speaker 5 (04:51):
Wasn't Matt the Dead to me? In turn? The one
that said he could block von Miller? Yes he was,
Yes he was.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
I forgot about that bit of mea oh inappropriate. Angie's
doing well. She has the prettiest little baby you've ever
seen in your entire life, and she's just living her
best mom life.

Speaker 5 (05:09):
All is well there.

Speaker 4 (05:11):
Back in the olden days, there was barreling on Tuesdays.

Speaker 5 (05:14):
You know what?

Speaker 6 (05:14):
There was as we do we need to check on
out of that.

Speaker 5 (05:19):
Yeah, well, who was the kid who was here for
like two days? Kid who was here? No, you weren't
here yet days?

Speaker 4 (05:25):
Okay, this kid, young kid originally from Venezuela. He comes
in and he didn't understand his place on the show, right.
He didn't understand boundaries and he didn't understand that you
don't get to just jump in whenever you want when
you're the brand new intern.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (05:43):
So we had to work through that a little bit,
and then I took a day off. I don't know
if I can't tell this story in the air, I
can't do.

Speaker 6 (05:50):
Okay, well, all you think of that, Did Jared or
Big Sexy work on the show ever filling in for me?

Speaker 5 (05:54):
No?

Speaker 4 (05:55):
No, no, And it was it was still Dave. Dave
Blower was still in the let's just say well.

Speaker 5 (06:01):
To pull back the curtain.

Speaker 6 (06:03):
My current position used to be two people sometimes three, Yes,
used to be producer of the show, Dave Lower running
the board, which I did before I took over for Dave,
and my job Grant's run the board and produce some
and then sometimes you even have a third in, which
was which Grant Back in the.

Speaker 5 (06:20):
Day it used to be. There were always called used
to be three people. Is what I do now in
one person?

Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (06:27):
Yeah, go into radio. They said it'd be fun, they said, anyway,
I love my job. Anyway. Uh, let's just say that
that kid walked out in a snit because he didn't
like something that Mike Rosen said, just left, just left.

Speaker 5 (06:40):
Was employee, just your show intern.

Speaker 4 (06:43):
But at that time interns were paid, but was he
your was my intern?

Speaker 5 (06:49):
Your guy?

Speaker 7 (06:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (06:50):
Okay, and he just left in the middle of the
shows a long application process.

Speaker 4 (06:54):
Let's just say we made a bad choice. But that's
when we got Grant.

Speaker 6 (06:57):
Oh yeah, so you're saying without that guy walking out
the career, Well, I.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
Wanted Grant in the first place. I think the statute
of limitations has run out on this. But there was
a little there's a little hitch in the gidea up
with getting Grant to be here because Grant is the
daughter of one of my sister in law's very best
friends from Ohio. That's how I know Grit. He wasn't
still a student.

Speaker 5 (07:18):
So we had.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
To misrepresent a few things to make that happen. And
I regret nothing. I mean, yeah, I regret absolutely. Look damn, Now,
what about the world's oldest intern? Last I heard Richard
was working at KNUS across the street.

Speaker 5 (07:33):
I don't know about that.

Speaker 6 (07:34):
Good Lord forgot about this. How long has your show
been a thing in this building?

Speaker 7 (07:38):
Ten?

Speaker 4 (07:38):
Most stations combined ten years. Oh, when both stations combined?
Fourteen years? Wait ten years? KOA is since twenty thirteen,
eleven years? Holy half years now, I know. Yeah, the
fact that I've.

Speaker 5 (07:51):
Been in radio, have you always had this timeslot?

Speaker 8 (07:55):
No?

Speaker 5 (07:55):
Because it was mine?

Speaker 4 (07:56):
It was No, it was it was it wasn't noon,
it wasn't nine to noon. I would have never given
up that time slot. That's my favorite time slot. It's
what I would prefer to do. But Ross does that
before this one. It we just when Rush left, it
used to go ten to one. Wait a minute, it
used to go one to four. And then when Rush left,

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just drop back to noon more. You know, that was
a lot of thinking I had to do. Wasn't ready
for all that? Why don't you do interns?

Speaker 8 (08:23):
Now?

Speaker 4 (08:23):
That's a great story, And that story goes like this.
An intern in another market did her internship unpaid, as
did I with what was then.

Speaker 5 (08:32):
Clear Channel and our Heart Media.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
She did not get a job at the end of
the internship, something no one promised.

Speaker 5 (08:38):
When this happened.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
They always say, look at the end of your internship,
if there's anything available, you can apply. That's what they
tell every interne And if your good intern as I
was as a rod probably was, at the end of
your internship, someone's going to give you a job. A
crappy job put a job. Nonetheless, she did not get
a job. She sued and one in New York I

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think New York State. And so the iHeart framework for
interns as sent down by corporate, created by lawyers specifically
for this purpose, is so ridiculously arduous and time consuming
that no one wants to do the program, which is
a shame.

Speaker 5 (09:16):
Oh yeah, I mean it's.

Speaker 4 (09:18):
A terrible shame because it's everyone I know literally in
radio got their start as interning for free. And I
interned for free for a year. My internship was supposed
to be three months. I just kept showing up. They
didn't ask, I didn't tell, it was all fine. And
then finally I got a job in the building because I.

Speaker 5 (09:36):
Knew about it.

Speaker 6 (09:37):
I think most of my jobs and radio, outside of
getting into this building, actually we're all internships. I've worked
always every place in town, and most of them started
as an intern. One I will tell real quick, super fun.
When I was over at out Sude Sports Radio, when
the abs and Nuggets were split kind of from the
day to day shows, they were kind two different entities.

Speaker 8 (09:54):
Yep.

Speaker 6 (09:55):
Jesse Thomas, who was my advisor for our radio station
in college high hired me to be an intern for
the Abs and Nuggets broadcast. After one day and so
be an injury. He just hired me to the job.
There you go, So and then now Jess so Jesse
with me in college, Jesse there now Jesse here.

Speaker 5 (10:11):
Can never burn a bridge and radio because it.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Is such a small dude.

Speaker 5 (10:16):
Everyone, Yes, like everyone.

Speaker 4 (10:18):
Mandy, you had AM Drive when Boyles got canned. Yes,
when I first got Heroes on AM.

Speaker 5 (10:21):
Drive on listeners for giving us the exact Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 4 (10:24):
Yes, Antonius left to go pursue his restaurant dreams. Did
you just call Grant somebody's daughter? I might have, and
that might have been a mistake. Granted, no one's daughter
hits someone's son.

Speaker 5 (10:35):
Yes, Mandy. What about Friday food truck? That are we
don't have enough people in this building anymore.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
No, And it's sad but true, But I can't bring
a food truck here and just expect them to not
make any money on all. I mean, I guess I
could ask and just let them know. I don't know
how many we had. Friday has worked from home Friday
for iHeart, so it would have to be like on Wednesday.

Speaker 6 (10:58):
Was the last time we even had any guest like
in the front parking lot, that one giant donkey that
was a mayor of some town.

Speaker 5 (11:04):
Oh yeah, Clyde, Yeah, Clyde, the mayor of Divide.

Speaker 6 (11:06):
I think that was the last time we had any
guests like in the front lot as a big event
kind of thing.

Speaker 5 (11:10):
Yes, exactly.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
By the way, I want to remind you guys, tomorrow
is our annual food drive.

Speaker 5 (11:15):
We will be.

Speaker 4 (11:16):
Outside King Soupers at Yale and Colorado all day and
we'd love for you to stop by and drop off
some food, make a donation, say hello. We usually have
some stuff to give away down there, like we get
some tickets to concerts or whatever.

Speaker 5 (11:30):
But this is your chance to come.

Speaker 4 (11:31):
Down and say hello, Tomi, if you'd like to, are
you back here.

Speaker 5 (11:35):
I'll be there for a little bit because I'm running,
like see him in tomorrow morning.

Speaker 4 (11:39):
You're doing everything okay, So if you want to meet
a Rod, then you got.

Speaker 5 (11:41):
To come in there for a little bit.

Speaker 4 (11:42):
Mandy, when Rosen left, it took me a little while
to get used to you, but now I love you. You
know what I always tell people, And this is a
great analogy. I think having a new talk show host
is like dancing with a new partner. You have to
learn the nuances of your new partner, and I think
talk radio is very much that you have to And
my style is so much different than Mike's, just style wise,

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content wise. You know, we cover some of the same stuff,
but style wise were so different that had to have
been jarring, and I appreciate those of you who stuck
it out. Mandy, was the internship forty hours a week?
And did you work another job to make ends meet?
It was about I went in at like nine in
the morning and I worked there until two every day,

(12:26):
so it was probably five hours, and then I went
and bartended. I had another job, so I bartended at
a Longhorn steakhouse at night.

Speaker 6 (12:33):
And now in the biz, at least when I was
in college, what's twenty twenty four now ten years ago?

Speaker 5 (12:37):
Oh god.

Speaker 6 (12:39):
You basically try to have an internship that went in
line with your job in school, like with the media office,
like you would get paid like Stipeen work study something,
and then you try to get an internship on the side.

Speaker 5 (12:51):
In college. Yeah, we are the ones.

Speaker 4 (12:54):
I just that internship was my way of getting in
the door, and so I was just gonna stay and
I did for a very long time, a very long
time without being compensated.

Speaker 6 (13:03):
I DM a host of a show that I liked
at Mile High Sports Radio, Brandon Spano, and I DMed
him and say, can I just come on your show
and work a little intern a little and he DM.

Speaker 5 (13:13):
Me back, Bam, one thing, I do another. That's nice.
That's how it works. That's excellent.

Speaker 4 (13:18):
Weay, let's talk about what's going to actually be on
today's show. We do have some a little bit of everything,
which I'm glad that the news is back to normal.
We're going to talk to our friend Christian Toto today.
At two point thirty, the movie Am I Racist? Did
something so outrageous that Hollywood has been forced to respond forcefully,
and that is they submitted their documentary arguably one of

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the most successful documentaries of all time and extremely successful
in the theaters, made ten million dollars in the theater,
which never happens for documentaries, and they submitted their movie
for awards for awards season, like they want to submit
it for Oscar consideration.

Speaker 5 (14:00):
Hollywood is like.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
Uh no, no, no, We'll talk to Christian about that.
At two thirty. We're also going to talk to David
Stram of.

Speaker 5 (14:08):
Hot air dot com.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
I love hotair dot com and David is a great writer,
and he wrote this column about how gen X called
this election and how gen X is what pushed Trump
over the top.

Speaker 5 (14:20):
And I've been giving this.

Speaker 4 (14:21):
So much thought, so much thought about why why did
gen X just look and go, you know what, screw it.
I'm voting for Donald Trump. I think I have an answer,
at least I hope I have an answer. But we're
going to talk to David about that column at one o'clock.
So what did I say? Did I say Kroger? It's
King Soopers? You're right, my apologies, Mandy. I don't get

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off work until five. Could you stick around Kingsoopers until then?

Speaker 5 (14:46):
That is a hard no.

Speaker 4 (14:48):
I love you, I appreciate you, but no, a Rod,
can I.

Speaker 5 (14:51):
Come working intern with you?

Speaker 4 (14:53):
I wish see my earlier conversation about how difficult it
is having a fun work.

Speaker 5 (14:57):
Yeah, it's okay, that's okay. That's okay. Mandy.

Speaker 4 (15:01):
Invite us to food truck Friday Day and then come
down every once in a while and say hi to
your fans. We've kind of done that in the past,
but when I say there's not enough people in this
building on Friday, there's like literally maybe twelve I heart
employees tops at any given time.

Speaker 5 (15:19):
Yeah, yeah, on Friday.

Speaker 6 (15:21):
If you want to have some fun with those though,
even if I'm not there, how about this, because our
listeners are awesome, if you come around to forty five,
you have a pretty good chance to play up the
day tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (15:31):
How about that? That is person at the king Supers.
That is excellent, excellent, excellent. That's a great idea. So
if you want to play up the day, you're gonna
have to do it. I'm telling you.

Speaker 4 (15:39):
It's a lot harder when you're there in person. Although
we've kind of been stinking it up lately on the
Japanese stuff. Whoever I'm playing with. Yeah, the wins have been,
like you know, they've been like one to minus two.

Speaker 5 (15:50):
Ryan's halfway had your number a little, That's what I'm saying.
He was on a tear there for a little. Wives
followay out.

Speaker 6 (15:55):
He's proof in the pudding though, when when you play
often enough, you got a good chance. When you want off,
you're gonna get swept. Yes, yes, yes, Nick's getting better,
But you know.

Speaker 4 (16:05):
Let's do this, let's come back and do some stuff
that is actually on the blog because I have a question.
I saw it yesterday on Twitter, and I thought it
was such a good question that I basically stole it
for my blog and I'm going to share it with
you and we can discuss it. I'll share it with
you now and then we can get your opinion. You
can text us on the Common Spirit Health text line

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at five sixty six nine oher or you can email me.

Speaker 5 (16:29):
I don't care, whatever you want to do. So this
poster on x dot com posted the following. Someone told
me that.

Speaker 4 (16:37):
Ever since the election, it feels like America from the
nineteen eighties. Can someone confirm now? I was alive, but
I wasn't paying attention to politics right.

Speaker 5 (16:51):
I was born.

Speaker 4 (16:52):
I was like fifteen and nineteen eighty four, so halfway
through Reagan's term. But I do think they kind of
have a point here. And I've been mulling this over,
trying to figure out if it's just I'm so happy
that we don't have four years of President Harris, because
oh my goodness, you guys, I am so happy we

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don't have four years of President Harris. I just I
could not listen to that person the laugh.

Speaker 5 (17:21):
I can't do it for four years.

Speaker 4 (17:24):
I just feel like we would have been so damaged
by the end of her term in around the world.
I mean, I can only imagine what other nations are
saying about Joe Biden behind our back. I'm surprised no
one's tride a more direct attack on our interest right now.
But now that Donald Trump has gotten elected, I think

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people are hopeful. We're hopeful that we're going to get
some kind of meaningful release of hostages or their bodies
in Israel. We're hopeful that there's going to be some
kind of conclusion in Russia, which, by the way, Putin
has responded to the long range missiles we talked about yesterday,
and boy howdy it is uh it's a hum danger.
People are hopeful that the economy can come back. People

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are hopeful that they can just talk about things without
someone jumping down their throat for talking about something.

Speaker 5 (18:16):
So it kind of does feel that way.

Speaker 4 (18:19):
It kind of dare I say, Morning in America Part
two is upon us. We'll talk about that with David Strom.
We're gonna get into this a little bit as part
as far as it goes and then I'll get those
answers from you after we talk to David Strom from
Hodeer dot com right after this Keep It on KWA
column called jen X elected Donald Trump, and I got

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to tell you, for the generation that's been ignored since
our very birth, we are finally having our moment in
the sun where we as a generation decided to look
at the candidates and go, no, that one looks like
a big, old, bigger middle finger to us. And so
gen X pushes Trump over the finish line. And David
Strom wrote about it today, David, welcome back to the show.

Speaker 7 (19:06):
Well, thank you, Mandy. It's always fun to be with you.

Speaker 8 (19:09):
And I have to admit I wish I wear gen X,
but I just miss it.

Speaker 4 (19:16):
Well, you know, you and my husband were both born
in nineteen sixty four, which is technically the last year
of the boomers. But he is far more gen X
than he ever was boomer. So I just say he's
a Boomer on the cusp, right, So like in astrology,
when you're right on the edge, you're.

Speaker 5 (19:30):
Just your gen X on the cusp is what you are.
So I'll give you that title.

Speaker 8 (19:37):
Yeah, Well I am what a friend of mine calls
a member of a silent generation, because we don't quite
fit into either category. I watched the Vietnam War on
TV as a kid, but by the time I became
an adult, it was.

Speaker 7 (19:57):
In the rear view mirror. And you know, I wasn't
old enough to vote for Ronald Reagan at least the
first time.

Speaker 8 (20:08):
But I was too old to really say I grew
up in the Reagan era, which is what the gen
X people did.

Speaker 4 (20:15):
And we did, and so I'd love to know you've
got this great column. Justine Bateman created a firestorm, a
firestorm with a simple tweet that just expressed what so
many other people have felt. And that is just like
we can all exhale because finally sanity is beginning to

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prevail and all of a sudden, Justine Bateman is everywhere.

Speaker 8 (20:42):
Well and rightly so she really has been in a
very gen X way, even though she is basically my.

Speaker 7 (20:51):
Age, but in a very gen X way.

Speaker 8 (20:56):
Looking at what has happened, and I identified something really great,
which is gen X through its cynicism in a way,
it's lack of being overly idealistic, and it's lack of
being oversensitive.

Speaker 7 (21:16):
Looked at what was.

Speaker 8 (21:17):
Going on and said, look, this is nuts. It's ruining
our lives. I don't care if Donald Trump is crude
or anything else. I want my life to be better.
And so they voted for him in much larger numbers
than any other demographic group.

Speaker 4 (21:34):
I think that for myself, and I've been doing a
deep dive on gen X lately for a lot of
different reasons that I'll share with you guys later, But
one of the things that I feel is that we
tend to look at any situation in a very pragmatic way,
because when you don't have a lot of guidance from
your parents, and many of us in this generation raised

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ourselves to a certain extent, you have to figure that
out an early age.

Speaker 5 (22:00):
You just have to say, look, you know what what
is Let's take the emotion out of it.

Speaker 4 (22:04):
What's going to be the best for me going forward
and economically, just common sense wise. And one of the
things Justin Bateman goes on about is that is how
intolerable our society has gotten. Intolerable and intolerant our society
has gotten and she just wants to go back to
the days when people could have a political disagreement and

(22:24):
still be friends, which you say that, and you think,
of course that's how it should be, but not everybody
sees it that way. So in your view, what is
going forward?

Speaker 8 (22:38):
You know, I think it even goes beyond politics. It's
just that we've been living through a totalitarian moment, almost
a Maoist moment, where there was a cultural revolution out there,
and if you did not conform, not just politically, but
in any number of culture war issues, you were persona

(23:01):
on grata. I mean, they're they're really developed a cult
out there. You know, whether you call it woke or
alphabet ideology or whatever, it also boiled down to you
had to comply or else.

Speaker 5 (23:18):
And you know, the gen X, you.

Speaker 8 (23:22):
Know generation came up at a time where people realized that,
you know, they couldn't count on the government.

Speaker 7 (23:31):
Not everything was a great moral crusade.

Speaker 8 (23:35):
I mean they looked at the boomers, you know, who
were so proud of themselves for protesting.

Speaker 7 (23:41):
The Vietnam War and you know, patted themselves on the
back for it, and you know, the gen X people
looked at them and said, yeah, well you quit doing
that as soon as the draft went away. You know,
it was not anything.

Speaker 8 (23:55):
About you know, great moral crusades. And you know, we're
just tired of hearing all those moralistic bs. You know,
I have a take out on the government to give
us social security or anything else.

Speaker 7 (24:10):
So we're going to make our own world.

Speaker 4 (24:12):
And that as that's been sort of the trail that
we've blazed quite nicely. I just started kind of interesting
that that the swing from left to right was double
digits by a long shot for this group of people.
And I think that part of it is, first of all,
I'm I am five years intogen X and I'm fifty

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five years old.

Speaker 5 (24:34):
I'm looking at my retirement.

Speaker 4 (24:36):
I'm looking at my you know, what's going to be
there in my in my four to one k and
in my investment accounts or what's real estate going to
do because I'm now looking very closely at the time
of life when I want to be able to retire.
So when I'm choosing my candidate, I'm going to look
at the candidate whose policies are going to facilitate that.
And I think a lot of that happened in this election.

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You have you know, Kamala Harris running around talk about
giving loans to only black men and all of this
insane stuff that we all knew wouldn't do anything to
solve any problem, and we just went, no, we're not
going to do that. We just want some kind of
certainty with business and you know, taxes and lower regulation.

Speaker 5 (25:17):
We just want everything to work. And it's not working now.

Speaker 8 (25:22):
Well, and you know, if you think about it, Boomers really,
you know, they look at wokesoff and in a very
abstract way, understand that it's stupid. But it's gen X
who's at the sort at the top of their game
right now, their prime earning years, and what they're seeing

(25:43):
is they're being labeled people who have worked their butts off.
They're being labeled as the oppressors. They're being asked to,
you know, pay the loans of gender studies, people who
you know, have contributed next to nothing or worse to
our society. And you know, they I don't want to

(26:05):
say that gen X resented it, because I don't think
that gen X is a particularly resentful generation.

Speaker 7 (26:12):
They were just tired of the BS.

Speaker 4 (26:14):
That's an excellent point, really excellent point. My guest is
David Strong. You can read his column at hotair dot com.
I've linked to the one about gen X that we're
talking about right now. And you can see the shift
in gen x dramatic in some of the stuff that
he has embedded in here. David a great column, and
I appreciate you making time for.

Speaker 5 (26:33):
Me today.

Speaker 7 (26:36):
Always.

Speaker 5 (26:37):
All right.

Speaker 4 (26:37):
That is David Strong from hot air dot com.

Speaker 5 (26:41):
And I want.

Speaker 4 (26:42):
To throw this out really quick because I want to
get your take on it on the other side of
the break. Occasionally people who have a problem ask me
for advice, and I'm just going to say this, I
give really good advice, ay Ron. I give good advice,
don't I I think I do.

Speaker 5 (26:58):
Yeah, you do. I do.

Speaker 4 (26:59):
I give good advice. I never take my own advice,
but I do give really good advice. So this is
a question, and I'm not sure I have great advice
for this question. So maybe we'll get all of you
to sort of give me some ideas. This texter said Mandy,
My daughter is thirteen, and one of her best friends
just found out she has stage four cancer two weeks ago.

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We live in a small town in Nebraska, so it's
a very big deal. Today I found out she only
has a week left and can't breathe on her own
and is going blind. And our pastor just went to
Omaha to baptize her. Other than asking you for a prayer,
I'm wondering if you might know how I go about
helping my daughter through all of this.

Speaker 5 (27:42):
Thank you So. If you have an idea on how to.

Speaker 4 (27:48):
Help a thirteen year old girl through grief, now's the time.
Text it to five, six, six, nine. Oh, I have
some advice. I don't know if it's great advice text her,
but I have some advice. We get back, I will
just read it one more time. Mandy, my daughter is
thirteen and one of her best friends just found out
she has stage four cancer two weeks ago. We live

(28:08):
in a small town in Nebraska, so it's a very
big deal. Today I found out she only has a
week left and can't breathe on her own and is
going blind. Our pastor just went to Omaha to baptize her.
Other than asking you for a prayer, I'm wondering if
you might know how I go about helping my daughter
through all of this.

Speaker 5 (28:24):
Thank you So.

Speaker 4 (28:26):
Got a couple of people who have sent in really
good stuff. This Texter said, I lost my daughter when
she was seventeen. The mindset that got our family through
was don't mourn a death. Celebrate a life. And that
kind of goes to what the advice I would give you,
which is, you're obviously a person of faith if you

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have a pastor, and this is the time when you
teach your thirteen year old daughter what it means to
lean on God and to trust God, because when you're
thirteen and your best friend dies, that doesn't make any
sense whatsoever. You can't imagine how a justin good God
could let that happen. But you know, I think God
sends us here to learn things. You know, my favorite

(29:11):
adage is earth is a classroom, not a courtroom. And
she was put on this earth to only be here
for thirteen years. I don't know why God knows, and
if you are a believer, you have to believe that
she is a home with God, which frankly sounds like
a pretty cool place to me. So instead of thinking
about the fact that she's not here, one of the

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things my friend Kelly did after my dad died.

Speaker 5 (29:38):
So I'm still in the post.

Speaker 4 (29:39):
Death devastation phase of losing a parent, and she just said,
tell me a good story about your dad. Tell me
a fun story about your dad, And immediately in asking
that question, she took me from a place of focusing
on the fact he wasn't there anymore to thinking back
to something positive and remembering something good, good and wonderful.

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And let your daughter know that grief is not a
straight line, and that some days she's going to feel
like she's okay, and then some days she's going to
feel like she's been hit by a truck, and that's okay,
and that's normal. You just can't give in to the
days where you feel like you've been hit hit by
a truck.

Speaker 5 (30:17):
You still have to get up, you have to go
do your day.

Speaker 4 (30:20):
But if you're a believer, I would just focus on
the thought that this isn't the end for her and
at some point you'll be able to see her again.

Speaker 5 (30:29):
Mandy ummm.

Speaker 4 (30:33):
The daughter needs to identify something that is important to
her friend that is dying and then find ways to
bring that to the masses. Have her and some of
her friends get together and volunteer in the name of
the dying friend. Sitting around talking about the passing of
their friend and their feelings is fine for about a
hot minute, but then they need to go out and
do something in their friend's name and to have the

(30:54):
friend's name attached over time. Think legacy and what the
friend meant to them and the world, and how they
can share that with others. Sorry for the ramble. That's
a great ramble. Great advice, Mandy. I would encourage the
mom to reach out to the hospice in their area
for grief counseling and resources for her daughter who's grieving
and for her dying friend. I'm a mental health counselor

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that worked for a ust twenty years in hospice care,
and most hospices offer excellent grief counseling and grief programs
for both adults and kids and teens. Usually, you don't
have to have been a part of the hospice program
itself to ask access these grief services. That's good advice.
Number one, listen. Number two, don't be afraid to act

(31:35):
on the small stuff because asking the one who is
grieving to make a choice can be very overwhelming. Number three,
say their name. Don't be afraid to bring it up.
That's the other part. Don't be afraid to bring up
the fact that someone has lost someone important to them
because you think, oh, I'm gonna remind them. They have
not forgotten. They have not forgotten at all. So it's

(31:59):
you know, don't be afraid to say I'm so incredibly
sorry to hear about that, and then maybe say, do
you have a good story. I'd love to hear it,
because I'm telling you, that was a game changer for me, Mandy.
Truly only the belief that Jesus Christ is our savior.
If a friend believes that, that is the ultimate solace.
And why do bad things happen to good people? Not

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to be flippant, but years ago I realized the answer
is simple. This is not heaven that Jesus gives us
the way there, uh, Mandy, this is doing exercise and
not feeling sorry for themselves and instead how lucky they
are to have been a part of their friend's life
and how their lives affected their friend as well. That's
what I think you got to You got to urge
her to concentrate on the fact that she got the

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great privilege and joy of having this girl in her
life for as long.

Speaker 5 (32:47):
As she did. And that's that's really the thing.

Speaker 4 (32:50):
If you focus on the gratitude of having that person,
it will squish out the upset of not having them,
not completely, but it does make it a little bit
easier when you just say, you know what I got.
I got to know them, I got to know her,
we were best friends. I had that in my life,
and that is something that nobody can take away. So

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a lot of people recommending grief Share is a Christian
based ministry which deals with the loss of loved ones.
It's very good and content full, and they have groups
for teens and kids. So there's a lot of options
out there. But mom or dad, whoever sent this text,
all you have to do. One of the big things
you can do is you can look at your child
and say, you can always talk to me about this.

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You can always talk to me about her. I will
never get tired of hearing you talk about her. But
we're going to focus on the positives about that and
not the negatives, and then hold that promise. Sometimes kids
just need us to listen and not solve their problems,
to just listen. This might be one of those times.
We're going to take a very quick time out. When

(33:58):
we get back. Oh, oh goodness, gracious, we're going to
talk about is it morning in America again? For some
people it feels that way, for others not at all.
We'll talk about that after this on KOA.

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Speaker 4 (34:37):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show.
I'm your host, Mandy connells joined of course by my
right hand man, Anthony Rodriguez, you can call him a
rod And today I just went a little I saw
I talked to Susan wickin earlier today. She's alive and
well well do yep. Just thought I throw that out
there for those of.

Speaker 5 (34:54):
You who keep wondering.

Speaker 4 (34:57):
I saw this post on X the other day and
and I think it's a really good question. And after
looking at it and mulling it over a bit, I thought,
you know.

Speaker 5 (35:06):
What, I kind of feel it.

Speaker 4 (35:08):
But I know that there are those in the country
who are still terrified of what's coming next, people who
are trying to leave the country because they're so terrified
of what Donald Trump is going to do. As a
matter of fact, a coworker said, Mandy, I need your advice.
I'm going to see my parents and they are in

(35:28):
the sky is falling, the world is ending camp right
now because of the election. What can I say to
them to make them feel better? And this was literally
right before I came in to do the show, and
I'm still mulling it over in the back of my
head to give them the best advice I can give them.
But this is the same thing I believed it before
the election. I believe it now. The same institutions that

(35:52):
need a lot of healthy pruning by the Trump administration
because I do believe that there is a level of
corrupt in our agencies that is politically motivated that must stop.
It must be removed, it must be rooted out entirely.
The latest example of this is what's happening now with FEMA.

Speaker 5 (36:12):
I had the story on the blog.

Speaker 4 (36:14):
I don't even know if I ever really talked about
it because to me it seems so plausible and of course,
how do you not know this? But a FEMA employee
was outed for telling FEMA workers to skip houses with
Trump signs when they were going to offer FEMA help
for people who have been a victim of Hurricane Milton.
And now she has come out and said, oh, don't
you lay this on me that came straight.

Speaker 5 (36:35):
From the Biden administration.

Speaker 4 (36:39):
And if you're talking about not approaching people for government
aid that all taxpayers pay into because of their political affiliations,
that kind of corruption rot must be completely exterminated. But
at the same time, you look at our system of government.
We have the Supreme Court, we have the Congress, we

(37:01):
have the Presidency. The checks and balances system that the
founding fathers put together is pretty ingenious. And for everybody
who says, oh, by god, Trump got to appoint three
us the prepe cart justices, they don't always rule in
his favor, or Trump's just gonna get all the the
Senate's just gonna rubber step all of his cabinet positions.

(37:22):
There are already members of the Senate and they can't
afford to lose more than four votes, right, they can't
afford to lose more than four senators. And we already
have five or six Senators coming out specifically about Matt
Gates and saying, yeah, we want to know what happened
in the House Ethics and Investigation. They don't want to
vote to confirm Matt Gates. The Senate will assert its

(37:43):
own independence, as will the Supreme Court at some point,
because they all understand how important checks and balances are,
so do I. That's why I'm very against that nonsensical
thing that Trump was gonna appoint people in a recess. He
was going to abuse the recess appoint and clause, the
same way Obama abused the recess appointment clause and got
his handslapped by the Supreme Court, and by the way.

Speaker 5 (38:06):
The conservative justices of.

Speaker 4 (38:08):
Which there are now more, they wanted to go even
further with that ruling. You have to believe that our
system of government is strong enough that it is going
to prevent the worst excesses of a Trump administration.

Speaker 5 (38:22):
Now, some of the things.

Speaker 4 (38:23):
That I do think are going to happen in the
Trump administration. And these are the things that make me
feel like this tweet is accurate, and it just says
someone told me that ever since the election, it feels
like America from the nineteen eighties, Can someone confirm? And
the answers under this have been very, very interesting, some
of them very funny. No, because Deuran Duran isn't on

(38:44):
the radio all the time, there's a lot of truth
to that. My entire wall in middle school was posted
posters of Deuran Duran whole thing.

Speaker 5 (38:55):
Maybe so, because.

Speaker 4 (38:56):
The eighties was the last time America was really great.
A lot of maga ideals as eighties revival. That's an
interesting concept. But I'm just gonna say this from my perspective,
and I'm not one of those people who.

Speaker 5 (39:08):
Think the world is going to end.

Speaker 4 (39:09):
I just you know, I may not love Donald Trump,
but I voted for him because I think policy wise,
he's going to be able to do things in this
country that are incredibly important. And when I hear Elon
Muskin Viviak Ramaswami talking about the Department of Government efficiency,
y'all's that's almost.

Speaker 5 (39:27):
Like four play for me.

Speaker 4 (39:28):
Okay, it is because this is my dream. My dream
is to have people come in and slash the federal
budget because when all of that money either doesn't have
to be printed by the FED, creating inflation, or has
to be hoovered up from those of us who earn it,

(39:48):
it's not money that's in the economy creating jobs, creating products,
helping companies grow, the economy exploding. I am looking forward
to an economic explosion similar to the one that we
have after World War Two. Now, you guys may not
realize this. And I read a book about this. I'm
talking fifteen twenty years ago, and I'll be danged if
I can remember the name of the book. But it

(40:10):
was very interesting because when Eisenhower was saying, look, okay,
we've now eaten up so much of our GDP has
been government spending because of World War Two, and he
wanted to just go.

Speaker 5 (40:22):
In and cut it all back.

Speaker 4 (40:23):
And there were all these economists who ran around saying,
oh my god, you can't do that. You're gonna throw
us into the worst recession ever. We're all gonna die
if we just cut government spending. But Congress did it anyway,
and they cut it in a massive way, from war
spending to nought and you know what happened the nineteen fifties.

(40:44):
The nineteen fifties were more people moved into the middle class.
People were able to buy homes and an automobile and
a color TV on one salary. Those days are over
because the feminist movement. Never mind, I will go into
that right now. It's a whole different thing. But anyway,
we had the nineteen fifties one of the most glorious
decades ever, and.

Speaker 5 (41:05):
I fully expect that to happen.

Speaker 4 (41:07):
If we can slash government spending and rein in the
size of government with any real veracity, it's probably going
to cause a short term recession, but I would expect
that it is a sharp the recession, meaning going straight
down straight up quickly, rather than a U shaped recession,
which is what happens whenever government tries to fix a recession.

Speaker 5 (41:28):
So we shall see.

Speaker 4 (41:29):
But I'm wondering, does anybody else that I really want
you guys who were already adults in the nineteen eighties,
because I was still a child in the nineteen eighties
and the only time I paid attention to the news
was when my dad came home and made us turn
off zoom to watch the news, and let's just say
it wasn't my favorite part of the day. So I
really want to know, are we in morning in America?

Speaker 5 (41:50):
Part duo?

Speaker 4 (41:51):
And what's interesting about that is because if you're on
the left, maybe you're in mourning MO.

Speaker 5 (41:57):
You are n in a Maria.

Speaker 4 (42:01):
But I'm hoping that as you begin to see that
a lot of your most insane fears are not remotely
going to come true.

Speaker 5 (42:09):
And I promise this.

Speaker 4 (42:10):
Anybody comes after gay marriage with any real veracity. I'll
be there with my pitchfork and my torch with you,
side by side. If you're really worried about something dramatic
happening to your life, I hope that you quickly learn
that it won't.

Speaker 5 (42:24):
And here's the thing.

Speaker 4 (42:25):
If we can get the economy booming, it doesn't just
boom for Republicans, it booms for everyone. The eighties were
pretty amazing when it comes to the economy, Mandy. Do
not blame a president for nominating a justice of their
liking values. Blame the justice for not retiring during a
presidency of their values when they can assist in nominating.

Speaker 5 (42:45):
A like minded justice.

Speaker 4 (42:46):
Great point, but I don't really care about that, because
the people on the left look for ideology, the people
on the right look for adherence to the Constitution.

Speaker 5 (42:56):
And I'm okay with that second.

Speaker 4 (42:57):
Part, Mandy. Because of the unions, the nineteen fifties were good.
We did have a very strong union, we really did.
We don't anymore because they outlived their usefulness and then
they got greedy and pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered.

Speaker 5 (43:16):
They got slaughtered.

Speaker 4 (43:18):
Tell them that lewis Lerner is going to be coming
after them. Like what I had to go through growing
the Obama administration. No, no, no, no, no, We're not
doing that. We're not doing that.

Speaker 5 (43:29):
Mandy.

Speaker 4 (43:29):
What do you say to someone who's terrified of the
second Trump administration is why do you allow someone so
far removed from your life to have so much control
over it?

Speaker 5 (43:38):
Great question, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (43:42):
Why does the news on egg shortages not reference the
cage free law. I don't know the answer to that question, Mandy.
Tell them to turn off the TV, live their life
and give it six months.

Speaker 5 (43:51):
Yep, there you go, there you go. A lot of you.

Speaker 4 (43:56):
Are not responding to the whether or not you feel
like it's morning in America, and I'd like that specifically.

Speaker 5 (44:04):
It is one thing that I'd like to know. I
will tell you this.

Speaker 4 (44:07):
I am cautiously optimistic that we have turned the corner
on diversity, equity and inclusion as a line item in
anyone's budget, because that ideology has done more to destroy
American togetherness than Howard Zenn. And Howard zen was for

(44:28):
the longest time, the worst thing that ever happened to
America with his people's history of the United States, freaking
anti American scumbag. But yeah, this ideology is so toxic
and so horrible and so divisive that it has to go.
And when you see Alexandria A Cassio Cortez taking her
pronouns out.

Speaker 5 (44:48):
Of her bio on our.

Speaker 4 (44:50):
Social media platforms, that is a significant nod that that
part might be over. And if we can get past that,
we can get past anything. Yeah, I'm feeling hopeful about that.
I'm feeling hopeful that we can. We have this rising
movement of young female athletes that are saying it is
not okay for us to compete against men. It's not

(45:12):
they're rising up, They're doing what they have to do.
There is a movement happening, and that's just sane. Sanity
is making a comeback. Sanity is making a comeback. So
a text texts me earlier that said something about I

(45:35):
don't have the text in front of me, something to
the effect of, I hope you're going to blame Trump
when he throws the country into a recession, and I
set back. Well, we probably will have a recession briefly,
and I'm okay with that. But if they cut government,
we won't have inflation. Inflation is because government is too

(45:59):
big and in order to allow government to keep spending
with trillion dollar deficits. The Federal Reserve simply prints more
money so they can continue spending by selling treasury bonds.
And they keep doing this, and as they print more
money and put more money into the supply chain, then
that is inflation, because every dollar is worth less. That's inflation.

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If you cut government spending dramatically, inflation does not happen.
Those two things, they don't happen anyway. It's morning in America.
We just don't know how bad the hangover is.

Speaker 8 (46:35):
Yet.

Speaker 4 (46:36):
There you go, Mandy, the malaise is gone. So let
me see here, Let me see here. I might have
been using a word incorrectly. I have to look this up. Yeah, no,
I know, Okay, I had the word right, the word veracity, truthfulness.

Speaker 5 (47:00):
Did I just use it wrong. I don't know. I
have no idea.

Speaker 4 (47:03):
Rise and shine, Sunshine, says this texter. It's morning in America. Manby,
it's morning Joe and America again. He and Miko went
to mar A Lago groveling to Trump. Had that on
the blog yesterday. Nika and Joe, the cornerstone of a
network with no viewers. MSNBC had to suck it up
and go kiss the ring of Donald Trump at mar

(47:24):
A Lago, smoothing things over because I guess he used
to be on their show all the time. And then
as Joe and Joe got I mean, as Joe and
Mika got closer and closer, Joe ditched all of his
old friends for his new lady friend.

Speaker 5 (47:40):
She's the Megan Markle of MSNBC.

Speaker 4 (47:44):
But now, because they're getting absolutely destroyed in the ratings,
they figure they have to turn the corner and now
they're going to go make nice Y'all. Their listeners lost
their minds because this is the duo that's been saying
for two years now that Trump is a threat to democracy.
The Trump is going to put women back in chains.

(48:06):
And now they're going to turn around and tell their
listeners or their viewers, don't give him a chance. He's
all right, we were just kidding about that satan thing.

Speaker 5 (48:14):
Oh come on, he takes us seriously. Come on, what
are you guys doing.

Speaker 4 (48:19):
You can't see me right now, but I'm doing that
thing the talk show hosts on TV DOO where they
hold up a drink and like they're going to take
a sip, but then they keep.

Speaker 5 (48:25):
Continuing to talk.

Speaker 4 (48:26):
I just wonder you guys do know what you're missing
as I have a sip of coffee.

Speaker 5 (48:30):
One moment for me a Ron, she is definitely doing
what she just said she's doing. Why would I lie, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (48:38):
I'm more concerned with Biden's fueling the war in Ukraine scary.

Speaker 5 (48:41):
So a little bit of an update.

Speaker 4 (48:43):
Yesterday we talked about the fact that Joe Biden had
authorized Ukraine because honestly, the Biden administration is running this war.
When you are beholden to someone else for all of
your defense spending in weaponry, then they get to run
your war. And yesterday Joe Biden said, you know what,
you know what, President's whatever your name is. The funny

(49:06):
part about that is I just couldn't say the name
is Lensky, but I just decided to lean into it.

Speaker 5 (49:11):
President's Zelenski.

Speaker 4 (49:12):
You can go ahead and use those medium range missiles
that can reach well into Russia to strike their military targets.
And Ukraine was like, you got it, pops, and they're already,
you know, bombing military sites in Russia. Putin has responded
my saying the threshold for nuclear retaligation has been lowered

(49:33):
and we're entering into the world's biggest game of chicken.

Speaker 5 (49:39):
He says he will. We think he won't. Is he
crazy enough? Because if he does.

Speaker 4 (49:44):
Go nuclear in Ukraine, then that is kind of crossing
a rubicon that has never been crossed since World War Two,
when it's been done twice, two times to end World
War Two, definitively in the Eastern Front. I guess the
Western Front from here, Easter Front's Europe. I was looking

(50:04):
at it from the other perspective.

Speaker 5 (50:07):
So I don't know if he's crazy enough to do it,
but he might be.

Speaker 4 (50:11):
And I wonder if the Russian people are okay with
unleashing nuclear weapons on their neighbor where in theories some
of their family members could live.

Speaker 5 (50:22):
I don't know. I have no idea.

Speaker 4 (50:25):
Good morning, Yes, DEI did I hope the new Secretary
of Transportation. No, that wasn't it.

Speaker 5 (50:37):
It is?

Speaker 4 (50:38):
Oh no, the new chair of the FCC. I've got
it on the blog today. So the Federal Communications Commission.
That's the organization that oversees everything I do on the radio.
So I have a vested interest in knowing who my
FCC chair is.

Speaker 5 (50:49):
Well, I'll tell you one thing, about him.

Speaker 4 (50:51):
He has no interest none whatsoever in continuing the woke
dei policies of his predecessors. Brendan Carr is laying out
his vision for the FCC, and listen to this. Democrats
have been in charge of the administrative state the alphabet
soup of agencies in DC for at least twelve of
the last sixteen years. Over those twelve years, government control

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has increased, and your freedoms have decreased.

Speaker 5 (51:16):
It's time to flip the script.

Speaker 4 (51:18):
In Washington, broadcast media have had the privilege of using
a scarce and valuable public resource are airwaves. In return,
they are required by law to operate in the public interest.
Where the transition is complete, the FCC will enforce this
public interest obligation.

Speaker 5 (51:35):
But he's going after big tech.

Speaker 4 (51:39):
The FCC, he says, and this is a quote, must
dismantle the censorship cartel and restore free speech rights for
everyday Americans.

Speaker 5 (51:48):
He says.

Speaker 4 (51:48):
Companies like Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft play central roles
in the censorship cartel, and the misinformation monitoring firm NewsGuard
has helped to enforce one's side narratives.

Speaker 5 (52:01):
An immediate target of.

Speaker 4 (52:03):
This guy will be the FCC's diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
The agency's most recent budget request to Congress said that
promoting DEI was the agency's second highest strategic goal. Carr
says that will no longer be the case when he's
in charge. Starting next year, the FCC will end its

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promotion of DEI. So, you guys, what's going to happen here.
There's going to be a lot of fussing about this.
It's terrible, it's you're all racist.

Speaker 5 (52:36):
This is just necessary.

Speaker 4 (52:37):
But then once it goes away, it will never come
back because even people on the left hate it and
they think it's stupid, and they don't.

Speaker 5 (52:48):
Want to deal with it, and they don't want to.

Speaker 4 (52:50):
Have to sit through these insipid seminars where you hire
two people of color to come in and tell you
that you're a horrible person because you're white.

Speaker 5 (53:00):
You can go pound sand.

Speaker 6 (53:02):
You know.

Speaker 4 (53:02):
One of the things I'm just gonna say about iHeartMedia
because I've worked for iart Media throughout this entire rise
of wokeness.

Speaker 5 (53:09):
DEI bull crap a low.

Speaker 4 (53:10):
I mean, they have never not once ever tried to
force any of that crap on us.

Speaker 5 (53:17):
Now, they've done things you know that.

Speaker 4 (53:19):
Are designed to lift up employees of color. I don't care,
but nothing as blatant as we're now going to have
you sit through a seminar where we're gonna tell you you're
a horrible person because you're white. They're just not doing that, Mandy.
Will they please get rid of NPR? I would rather
they brought balance to NPR, and that they got a
commitment from NPR to make a concerted effort to get

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a diversity of viewpoints on NPR. I think some NPR
stations do a much better job than others at the
local level, but I would prefer I mean, I don't
mind that we have public broadcasting. What I mind is
that they only represent one side well, and it's not
side that I am generally on. So, Mandy, although Biden

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promised a peaceful transfer, I wonder if his administration will
make some major decisions in an attempt to sabotage the
start of Trump's presidency. Of course, of course, I think
that's fair, Mandy. How do we get this swamp Republicans
to work with our president? I have a really good

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idea and sell it effectively. I mean, that's been sorely
lacking in DC. DC is fully transactional. Right, what are
you gonna do for me?

Speaker 6 (54:34):
What do you?

Speaker 7 (54:35):
You know?

Speaker 4 (54:35):
What do you what is the put pro quote here?
But ultimately make a better argument, build enough support in
the rank and file for what you're doing, and then
everybody falls into line, because nobody wants to be the
one to stick their head up and get.

Speaker 5 (54:51):
It lopped off. You know, they just don't. When we get.

Speaker 4 (54:56):
Back, I've got some more of these than some of
these are really really good, good, really really good. Mandy,
November sixth I woke I woke up so refreshed wife,
and I said, good morning, what's the greatest feeling? Hopefully
with that will all be something that comes to pass.

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All right, let's do this. Let's take a quick time out.
When we get back. I have like fifty other things
on the blog today, including this one. Wallet hub has
judged the most sinful cities in the United States. Wait
until year where Denver lands and I'm genuinely confused.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
We'll do this next.

Speaker 4 (55:33):
There's a long video and it is you don't have
to watch the whole thing. I ended up watching the
whole thing after I watched the first part. It is
from a debate at UCLA, and in it you have
the leader of the UCLA encampment that is allegedly protesting
on behalf of Palestinians. He is on the left in

(55:55):
this video. In the center is an Israeli woman who
was captured in the October seventh attacks, and she is
going on and she doesn't give any graphic detail, but
she goes on in some great detail about her capture
and this guy is squirming, literally squirming in his chair

(56:20):
and it's almost uncomfortable to watch, but you can see
her start to wear him down. His arguments held no water.
And it's a fascinating conversation, very civil. There are times
when people start to get really frustrated, but it's a
very civil conversation. And at one point she said, I
wish we could talk with all of these people here,
just talk one on one.

Speaker 5 (56:41):
But man, it's good. And I guarantee you, if this
kid has.

Speaker 4 (56:46):
Any sort of intellectual honesty, he would probably rethink his
positions after this was over.

Speaker 5 (56:52):
That's on the blog today.

Speaker 4 (56:54):
We talked a little bit about Matt Gates yesterday and
the fact that I just I don't think that he
is going to get confirmed Ross and I were talking
about this at the end of his show and off
the air, I said, look, I still believe that Trump
is using Matt Gates to suck up all of the
energy and all of the negative energy and all that.

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And maybe he ends up dropping out of this withdrawing
his name from consideration before he goes to confirmation hearings.
But from all indications, they're going to drag every single
detail of this House Ethics investigation.

Speaker 5 (57:29):
Out because it is already leaking.

Speaker 4 (57:32):
Someone broke in and downloaded a copy of the evidence
against him. Included venmo transactions between Matt Gates and the
young women who say that he paid them for sex,
text messages about party favors, and vitamins which are code
for drugs exchanged with these women, one of whom was
seventeen years old when he had sex with her for money.

Speaker 5 (57:55):
I mean, I just don't think he comes out of
this alive.

Speaker 4 (57:58):
I did include Amalie Hemingway column because Molly Hemingway is
one of Matt Gates's staunches supporters, and I really like Molly.
She writes at The Federalist. I have a lot of
respect for her. I do think she is going to
end up regretting this, and I have advocated for people
that I regretted advocating for in the past on the radio,

(58:19):
and it's like when it all hits the fan. It's
terrible because you just feel so stupid. You feel like
you got taken. Eric, you want to hear my story.
This is actually a kind of an interesting story. So
I'm in southwest Florida. One of our congressmen was a
guy named Mark Foley, and his district had been jerrymandered

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across the state.

Speaker 5 (58:40):
It was the.

Speaker 4 (58:41):
Worst congressional district ever because it included Palm Beach and
West Palm Beach and then it cut across the very
middle of the southern part of the state that is
some of the poorest real estate in Florida, I mean
people living in grinding poverty. And then it kind of
shot over to the west coast in the Pentagora and
North Fork Myers area. So it just was jerrymander across

(59:02):
the state. Terrible district. But Mark Foley was the congressman.
And Mark was very, very, very funny. He used to
come on my show. He would do this Bill Clinton
impression that was spot on. He was hilarious. One of
my favorite guests of all time. So I was doing
a morning show at the time, and near the end
of my show one day, it's breaking news, breaking Mark

(59:23):
Fuley caught sending inappropriate text messages to pages and I
was like, that is not true, this is ridiculous. Match
is such a great guy, and I go on and
on and on, and then right at the end of
my show, Mark Foley is resigned from the House of
Representatives and it turns out he did send skeevie text

(59:44):
messages to mail pages that were over the age of eighteen,
but still gross, Like, stop hitting on the young people
that are coming to DC to try and learn about government.

Speaker 5 (59:57):
Stop doing that.

Speaker 4 (01:00:00):
And the next day I was like, yep, I got
that wrong.

Speaker 5 (01:00:02):
Sorry about that, you guys.

Speaker 4 (01:00:05):
I had no idea that Mark Foley, though really hilarious
and a super nice.

Speaker 5 (01:00:08):
Guy, was also a colossal coward.

Speaker 4 (01:00:11):
He left his staff in DC to deal with the
mess that he created. Was terrible, just terrible. This person
just texted I knew Mark Foley. I still love the guy.
I still think he's one of the best guests I've
ever had. He just really fantastic, But man, what a disappointment.
And I do think Molly Emingway is going to end
up feeling that way about Matt Gates, because I do

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believe that this guy is at best a scumbag, and
that's the best I believe. He went to parties where
they took drugs and they paid women for sex. I
believe all of those things happened, and I don't necessarily
want a person who displays that kind of judgment being
in a position of power where they could be compromised

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by a form of government. I mean, that's just where
we are. Anybody that does stuff outside the rules, you
have to think at some point someone is going to
try and use that against them and blackmail them with it.

Speaker 5 (01:01:10):
You have to think about that.

Speaker 4 (01:01:12):
Because stuff like that has happened over and over and
over again. How many times has it happened we don't
know about, So you know, it's one of those things
where I'll be shocked if he gets confirmed. But I
do think that there's going to be fighting about it.
That is going to take the spotlight off of all
of the other picks that Trump has made, and hopefully
they will sail through without too much trouble. As all

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the attention is focused on Matt Gates. Now I got
this story. I saw it, and honestly, I'm not buying
what walhub is selling. Wallethub dot com they love to
do a ranking because then we talk about wallethub. I
don't even know what wallehub actually does, like what their
actual gig is, but they always do these top ten lists.

Speaker 5 (01:01:54):
And they're super interesting.

Speaker 4 (01:01:56):
So they did one that is the most Sinful Cities
in America, the twenty twenty four version to identify the
darkest corners of America. They say they compared more than
one hundred and eighty US cities across thirty seven key
indicators of vices and illicit behavior. Their dataset ranges from

(01:02:18):
violent crimes per capita to excessive drinking and the number
of adult entertainment establishments per capita.

Speaker 5 (01:02:25):
And we came in sixth on this list. Sixth.

Speaker 4 (01:02:31):
How are we that high? We're pretty healthy, we take
care of ourselves, we exercise. My guess is car theft
is probably a big one. Let's see where we scored
the highest, so lust rank. Let's see what our lust
rank is. That's people who search tender or for adult

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entertainment on Google.

Speaker 5 (01:02:56):
So we're good at the Google, and therefore we're up.

Speaker 4 (01:03:00):
Uh, a Rod, what do you think the most sinful
city in the country is? And if you don't get this,
I'm gonna be so disappointed. The sin city it is.

Speaker 5 (01:03:08):
It is lost, Lost Ages, Nevada. Where's New Orleans on there?
It's not in the.

Speaker 4 (01:03:12):
Top ten, That's what I'm calling I'm kind of calling
bs on this whole list.

Speaker 5 (01:03:16):
Let's see, let's see where New Orleans is.

Speaker 4 (01:03:18):
Hang on, let me go back to the top and
do a quick control f you or uh, let's see
one three? That is oh, number eighteen. What Orlando is
higher than this is? North Las Vegas is also on

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this list, so obviously Las.

Speaker 5 (01:03:40):
Vegas and North Las Vegas. That's I you know.

Speaker 4 (01:03:43):
I just went to visit my mom and on Saturday night,
a friend of mine from New York was in town,
so we went down to the Strip and just kind
of walked around, and the whole time I was there,
I was like.

Speaker 5 (01:03:52):
This is so not for me.

Speaker 4 (01:03:53):
Ever again, I say that every time I go to
the Strip, I'm like, I am never coming here again.

Speaker 5 (01:03:58):
This is just not something that I think is fine.

Speaker 4 (01:04:01):
And A Rod thinks I'm insane, but this is a
stage of life thing for me. I'm just done with
being smushed and jostled about by large crowds. I don't
like any of that, and I realized part of it
is just because I'm getting crotchety as I get older.
But eh, can you cite your source for that, Darkest
Cities Research wallethub dot com. I put a link to

(01:04:22):
it on Today's blog, so there you go, Mandy. The
dudes in Congress have been hitting on the intern since
the beginning of time. It's considered part of their power perks.

Speaker 5 (01:04:31):
I know this.

Speaker 4 (01:04:33):
I worked for the Senate Sergeant at Arms office when
I was in college. I was the only female in
his office, the first woman to ever work for.

Speaker 5 (01:04:41):
The sergeant's office.

Speaker 4 (01:04:43):
And if I told you how many creepy ass old
men hit on me, it is not even funny. It
got to the point where I just looked at them
and was like, really, don't you have daughters my age?
Even then, I didn't suffer fools. But it's only gotten worse.

Speaker 5 (01:05:00):
Only guide horse, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (01:05:01):
If Gates did it, why didn't the Briden DOJ prosecute?
Because the DOJ was investigating whether or not Matt Gates
actively trafficked girls across state lines, which would make it
a federal crime having sex with a seventeen year old
actually in Florida. I don't even know if that's illegal, don't.
I don't know if the age spread made a difference,

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but that would be a state crime. And if they
didn't think he broke any federal laws, they would have
dropped it. But apparently the Ethics Commission has a different standard.

Speaker 5 (01:05:33):
We shall see. This person said, I would say Colorado
should be a four.

Speaker 4 (01:05:38):
I don't know, you guys, I don't know about that.
What New Orleans doesn't have any open container laws? Correct,
but only in certain parts of the city.

Speaker 5 (01:05:52):
Just letting you know.

Speaker 4 (01:05:53):
Okay, we're gonna take a quick time out. When we
get back, I have more nonsense and foofara, but we're
gonna talk about accessory dwelling units. If you want to
make a little extra income, I'm going to tell you
what you can do in your own yard to make
it happen.

Speaker 5 (01:06:06):
We're going to do that next.

Speaker 4 (01:06:07):
A emailer who has a completely different feeling about November sixth.

Speaker 5 (01:06:13):
This from William.

Speaker 4 (01:06:14):
When I got up on November sixth and turned on
the TV, I just sat there with dread in my heart.

Speaker 5 (01:06:19):
How can our country do this?

Speaker 4 (01:06:20):
It feels more like nineteen thirty eight in Germany to me,
this is what over half my fellow citizens voted for.
It's unbelievable. We elected a moral criminal to be our president.
We deserve all the hell coming to us now. We
can only hope our nation is strong enough to withstand this.
But after this election, I don't know. I really don't know.
You know who I blame for this. I blame the

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right wing conservative media industry, of which you are a
part of. I also blame Christians. Now that one really
blows my mind. I will never understand that one. And
Matt Gates for US Attorney General. That is more than scary.
Talk about the fox in the Henhouse, extremely dangerous if confirmed.
You're industry is very busy today trying to threaten any

(01:07:03):
Republican senator who doesn't go along with it. Sick by
the way, I like your theme song with the life
of me. I can only make out a few words.
Can you please send me the lyrics? William I sent
him the lyrics. But I want to address this because
this is what people who did not vote for Trump.
This is what they believe a lot of them. On
all of them, but a lot of them. They are

(01:07:26):
so blind to the fact that it has been the
left in this country that has shut down information, that
has tried to change speech, and if.

Speaker 5 (01:07:36):
You chose not to.

Speaker 4 (01:07:39):
Show your allegiance to their new speech patterns, you were
canceled from society. It was the left to shut down
discussion of anything that could be controversial in any way, like, hey,
maybe that virus originated.

Speaker 5 (01:07:52):
In China, or.

Speaker 4 (01:07:55):
Hey, maybe this vaccine doesn't keep people from getting or
spreading the virus're oliver boten. And that is not a
free society. So here you have Donald Trump, who has
surrounded himself with Elon Musk, the biggest free speech advocate
on the Internet right now. And I find it hilarious
that left wingers are fleeing for this, you know, bubble

(01:08:17):
called blue Sky, and they expect everybody to follow them.
And I'm like, no, you know what, I don't want
to live in a vacuum. It's why I started an
account on truth Social. And I don't think I've ever
posted anything on truth Social. I just started an account
so if it took off, then my name I would
have my name they're they're isolating themselves further rather than

(01:08:39):
leaning in and saying, how do we lose so badly?
Where do we get it so wrong? More importantly, if
they don't figure out where they got it so wrong,
they're going to become an opposition party that is then
cried wolf far too many times for anyone to listen
to them. It's it's kind of like when I tell people,
it's like when you call somebody a racist now or

(01:09:00):
a Nazi, or it means nothing because it's been harled
at so many people.

Speaker 5 (01:09:06):
Who didn't deserve it. You've watered down the accusations.

Speaker 4 (01:09:09):
So now, if Trump isn't hitler, what happens when a
real Hitler arises? Maybe from your side, William, everybody can't
be hitler.

Speaker 5 (01:09:21):
And I don't think Donald Trump is Hitler.

Speaker 4 (01:09:23):
What I think Donald Trump is going to do is
strip back the government where it needs to be stripped back.

Speaker 5 (01:09:27):
Oh please, let this be a thing.

Speaker 4 (01:09:29):
I'm counting on the Department of Government efficiency in a
way that I've never counted on anything in government. And
I know I feel a little like Charlie Brown standing
there in front of the football. In my heart, I
know I'm going to be disappointed, but I'm still going
to run up and kick as hard as I can
because that's what has to happen. And that's why people
voted for Trump. We didn't vote out of hatred. We
voted out of pragmatism. We voted because, quite frankly, most

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of us have lived through the Bill Clinton administration where
we were told repeatedly that the fact that.

Speaker 5 (01:09:58):
He got well up.

Speaker 4 (01:10:00):
Close and personal with an intern in the Oval office
was just a personal matter and we weren't.

Speaker 5 (01:10:05):
Supposed to pay attention to that.

Speaker 4 (01:10:06):
It had nothing to do with how Bill Clinton was
going to be president. Or how about all those stories
about John F. Kennedy Junior, all of these corrupted, moral
people that also had the capability of being great leaders.
That's what I'm hoping here, Because I know all about
the moral failings of Donald Trump. I'm hoping and praying
that he can get beyond that and have another great

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economic boom for the United States of America and possibly,
dare I say it, save the future of our country
by shrinking the size of its government.

Speaker 5 (01:10:37):
I hope that helps, William. If not, I hope you
enjoy the lyrics to the song.

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Speaker 4 (01:11:06):
Sad bab Welcome, welco, Welcome to the third hour of
the show. We're gonna take you right up until three
o'clock when KOA Sports takes over and Mandy call, like
Isaai Rod over there, it looks like David McCormick is
going to be the new Senator from this great state
of Pennsylvania.

Speaker 5 (01:11:22):
Ninety nine percent of.

Speaker 4 (01:11:24):
The votes are in and he holds a lead that
is insurmountable based on the number of ballots that are
still out.

Speaker 5 (01:11:31):
Now. This story, though, is so much more than that,
and I haven't talked about it while it's going on.

Speaker 4 (01:11:37):
I just wanted to talk about when it all was
said and done. Yesterday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court forbade counties
from counting misstated or incorrectly dated mail in ballots. There
are rules that have to be followed about which ballots
can be accepted, and every ballot that is mailed in

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has to have a signature. And there were Democrats in
certain counties that voted to count those ballots anyway, even
though they were incorrectly dated and they were sometimes missing
a signature. Now, obviously, the Republican Party sued and said no, no, no, no,

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you can't do this, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court weighed in,
and boy did they weigh in. They weighed in with
a ruling that I put on the blog today. You've
got to see it. They put things in giant bold letters.
Let me just read part of it. When I yell,
that's all taps in bold.

Speaker 5 (01:12:40):
Okay. The Court hereby.

Speaker 4 (01:12:43):
Assumes it's king bench authority over the instant application number
only to direct that all respondents, including the boards of
election in Bucks County, Montgomery County, and Philadelphia County.

Speaker 5 (01:12:56):
Shall comply with the prior rulings of.

Speaker 4 (01:12:59):
This Court, which we have clarified that mail in and
absentee ballots that failed to comply with the requirements of
the Pennsylvania Election Code shall not be counted for purposes
of the election held on November fifth, twenty twenty four.
The application is denied in all other respects, and that
goes on for there.

Speaker 5 (01:13:20):
So the AP I guess.

Speaker 4 (01:13:22):
Everyone has now called that race for David McCormick in Pennsylvania.

Speaker 5 (01:13:27):
That's really big news.

Speaker 4 (01:13:28):
But I will tell you that this story, more than
anything else, just confirms what people already thought, that Democrats
will do whatever they have to to win now luckily,
and I believe this.

Speaker 5 (01:13:40):
I said this earlier.

Speaker 4 (01:13:41):
I think that this election is probably the most watched
election in history, more poll watchers, more eyeballs, more attention
being paid to the way this election has been executed.
But is there any doubt in anyone's mind that if
that were not the case, those ballots would have been counted,

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because I.

Speaker 5 (01:14:02):
Believe they would have been.

Speaker 4 (01:14:06):
But that's why you need poll watchers, That's why they
do such an incredibly important job.

Speaker 5 (01:14:10):
That story is on the blog.

Speaker 4 (01:14:12):
But congratulations to Pennsylvania State Senator David McCormick. And there
you go. Now I want to talk about this Denver story.
We've got Christian Toto coming up at the bottom of
the hour, by the way, to talk about the fact
that Justine Bateman is now a hero to so many
and what's happening in Hollywood right now, which I think
could be significant. Well, first we're going to talk about this.

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If you've ever dreamed of having an income producing thing
on your property, while you live in the city of Denver.

Speaker 5 (01:14:39):
Now's your chance. Denver City Council last.

Speaker 4 (01:14:42):
Night authorized accessory dwelling units which are separate.

Speaker 5 (01:14:49):
Then the main house could be a basement.

Speaker 4 (01:14:51):
Where you can create a space for someone else to
rent that space from you, and it can become income producing.
This is something that Chuck and I talk about all
the time, because my goal is to build or buy
a piece of land that's large enough to put two
ADUs on the property to rent out to people. When
you know, I'm old and I need another stream of income.

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Put a little tiny house on there, a little small
place to prevent you know, fifteen people from moving in,
and then have a little income producing. And recently the
state of Colorado passed a law that I guess is
going to supersede local.

Speaker 5 (01:15:26):
Zoning, and now.

Speaker 4 (01:15:27):
Different municipalities are figuring out how to deal with it.

Speaker 5 (01:15:30):
Denbury's just said all in one. So now's your chance.

Speaker 4 (01:15:35):
And here's the thing, you guys, if you were thinking
about doing this, I would do it before people start
to sue and.

Speaker 5 (01:15:40):
It gets questionable.

Speaker 4 (01:15:41):
You know, I would go ahead and do it now,
because surely you'd be grandfathered in if anything went wrong.
Later and I realized that people are worried about Adu's
changing the character of the neighborhood and creating parking issues,
and those are valid concerns, extremely valid concerns.

Speaker 5 (01:15:59):
So there are concerns about it. But I also believe.

Speaker 4 (01:16:01):
In property rights and property rights meaning that you should
have the right to decide what to do with your
property as long as you're not negatively impacting someone else's
property rights. If you are a hoarder who has a
backyard full of rats that are now moving over into
your neighbor's yard, you've lost the ability to make a
choice about what happens in your backyard because now you're

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negatively affecting the people around you.

Speaker 5 (01:16:24):
But eighty us, you know you can do that.

Speaker 4 (01:16:29):
They did such a good job of counting votes in Pennsylvania.
They actually counted one hundred and seven points on Yeah,
I got it, I hear you. If you want to
know the lyrics to my theme song, you have to
email me Mandy Connell at iHeartMedia dot com. Two ends

(01:16:50):
two l's Mandyconnell, not two ends and Mandy two ends
in Connell Mandy spelled like the Barry Mane Low song.
Mandy Connell at iHeartMedia dot com. I'm glad I could
entertain you with the people with the yelling, But I
was just trying to give you the accurate depiction of
what was in that ruling. So I do want to
talk about this little story real quick because I'm just

(01:17:12):
gonna humble brag on myself. Ay, do you know your
resting heart rate? Does your watch track your resting heart rate?

Speaker 5 (01:17:19):
Yes, let's see what is it? See what it is?

Speaker 6 (01:17:22):
Stand by measuring measuring well five minutes ago seventy eight,
meaning your.

Speaker 4 (01:17:29):
Overall resting heart rate, like my watch would tell me
right now. No, that's high. That's that's not a resting
heart rate. That's not bad, all right, not as good
as mine resting heart I know.

Speaker 5 (01:17:43):
I'm just saying.

Speaker 4 (01:17:43):
Resting heart rate has long been considered a critical health
metric that can actually predict if you are vulnerable to
a heart attack, stroke, or lung disease. The lower the score,
the fitter you are. That means your heart is working
very efficiently.

Speaker 6 (01:17:57):
I one hundred high blood pressure before the weight low,
like I was told every time every.

Speaker 5 (01:18:01):
Time I look to the doctor, you need to work
on that.

Speaker 6 (01:18:04):
Well.

Speaker 4 (01:18:04):
The NHS, which I mean, you can take this with
a grain of salt. Because it's the national healthcare system.
The NHS suggests a resting heart rate between sixty and
one hundred beats per minute is normal for adults. But
if you want to live a longer, healthier life, then
you got it.

Speaker 5 (01:18:19):
Bring it down.

Speaker 4 (01:18:20):
One study showed that men in their fifties who had
a heart rate above seventy five beats per minute. And again,
this is your resting heart rate. This is your all day,
middle of the night, sleeping heart rate. Okay, so you
can't just take your pulse now and go that's my
heart rate. It doesn't work that way.

Speaker 5 (01:18:36):
But if they are.

Speaker 4 (01:18:37):
Above seventy five beats per minute, they were twice as
likely to die within the next twenty years compared to
those with fifty five beats per minute or less. Every
additional beat permitt it was linked to three percent higher
risk of death. Meanwhile, data from the US Centers for
Disease Prevention and Control suggested that optimum cardiac fitness meant

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having a BPM of below sixty roughly between forty seven
and fifty seven. Only ten percent of people fit into
this category, most of whom are professional athletes and me
because my resting heart rate is fifty eight beats per
minut it how did I do it? I'm certainly not
an athlete, an everyday walk, lifting weights, just getting regular exercise.

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It's amazing how fast that metric changes. Because when I
first started going on daily walks and working out with
the trainer a couple times a week minimum, my resting
heart rate was like seventy six. And then I realized
one day I was like, oh my goodness, my resting.

Speaker 5 (01:19:39):
Heart rate is sixty nine now.

Speaker 4 (01:19:41):
And then it became a thing, and I've gotten it
down to fifty five beats per minute because that's when
I'm getting a lot of exercise in the summer. In
the winter it slows down a little bit. But what
an easy metric to make better? Get yourself a cheap
walker fitness band that tracks your resting heart rate and
gets started.

Speaker 5 (01:20:00):
It's easy.

Speaker 4 (01:20:01):
If Jordan Borg had a resting heart rate of seventeen,
I feel like that.

Speaker 5 (01:20:06):
I mean, do you not die? At what point do
you die?

Speaker 6 (01:20:10):
But what is that?

Speaker 5 (01:20:12):
How do you die? Mandy? What is an ADU? I'm sorry?

Speaker 4 (01:20:16):
It is an alternative dwelling unit, usually like a little
tiny home, I detached garage. I lived in one that
was an old carriage house and they had converted it
to a studio apartment.

Speaker 5 (01:20:28):
It was awesome. I love that place. There was a
little old lady that lived in the big house and
I lived behind her. And she was like in the shoe?

Speaker 6 (01:20:35):
What was that?

Speaker 5 (01:20:37):
Not in a shoe, said little old lady. No, she
did not live in a shoe.

Speaker 4 (01:20:40):
She lived in a beautiful Victorian mansion in Orlando. Let's
take a quick time out. Forgot what time it was
and this was hour was here And I want to
know if you guys know your resting pulse rate or
if you even care five six six nine oho text it.
By the way, I just want to say, hats off
to all of you who are texting me your resting
pulse rate in the fifties. That makes me happy that

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I have a very healthy audience and you'll be around
a long time, so good job. And I'm not going
to read the one about the guys like, hey, I
don't do anything but my resting heart rates like fifty.
I'm like, okay, I'm not sharing that one's that's not.

Speaker 5 (01:21:15):
You just did though, sh No one was supposed to notice,
all right, this is going to be this story next story.
So depressing a rod yay, it is depressing yay. So
now they're doing.

Speaker 4 (01:21:27):
Research into actual fat cells themselves to find out more
about fat cells and why they plague us, and new
research on the epigenetics of fat cells is rather disheartening.
Epigenetics is the part of genetics that's based not on
the sequence of genetic building blocks that you're kind of

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born with, but on small characteristic chemical markers on those
building blocks. Those can change over time. Epigenetic markers. They
change because of environmental factors, our eating habits, the condition
of our body, like obesity. And unfortunately, these epigenetics can
remain stable for.

Speaker 5 (01:22:08):
A very long time. And this study showed that fat cells.

Speaker 4 (01:22:13):
In our body remember their overweight state and they want
to go back there. It's not just that it's you know,
you go back to your old eating abbits. Sometimes you
don't go back to your old eating abbots, and you
gain weight because your fat cells are like, you know,
we remember those days when we knew we were always

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gonna have food because there's so much extra of it
in our fat cells. And your fat cells are like, yes, please,
I'd like that back. And here's the really depressing part.
It takes about ten years to get rid of all
of those epigenetically changed fat cells because your body will
recycle every cell with every ten years roughly some much

(01:22:54):
faster like your skin's constantly getting renewed, so that that
is super pressing. So not only are you working and
have to work to keep the weight off, your fat
cells are actively working to put the weight back on.

Speaker 6 (01:23:08):
Yay, I know, I know.

Speaker 4 (01:23:11):
But if you make it to send years without putting
the weight on, maybe you get a new set point.
Your your new fat cells are like, we don't like
being fat. We don't like it at all, not one bit.
One more story from the blog today, and as a
matter of fact, Keenan had this in her in his
news earlier. Can we just talk about how cute the
video of Peggy the super fan at the Colorado Buffs game.

(01:23:34):
She is a super fan for the Colorado Buffaloes and
she was turning one hundred years old and she got
serenaded by the entire stadium and I cried, she looks
amazing for a hundred Yeah, she cried, I cried, We
all cried. What a wonderful gesture by University of Colorado.

Speaker 5 (01:23:54):
I mean, what a.

Speaker 4 (01:23:55):
Wonderful thing to do, and it obviously made her day.
I mean made her day.

Speaker 5 (01:24:02):
Bold game coming up for you, Peggy. Yeah, at least,
well I hope so, at least.

Speaker 4 (01:24:06):
I mean, if you're gonna get it done, make Peggy
your inspiration.

Speaker 5 (01:24:10):
Uh this text.

Speaker 4 (01:24:11):
My grandma's birthday is today, My mom's birthday is today.
My two year old daughter's birthday is today. Can I
get a triple birthday?

Speaker 5 (01:24:17):
Shout out to them? You absolutely can.

Speaker 4 (01:24:20):
Happy happy birthday, Grandma, daughter, Many happy returns for all
of you.

Speaker 5 (01:24:27):
We'll leave that on a birthday tip.

Speaker 4 (01:24:28):
When we get back, our friend Christian Toto is going
to join us. We're going to talk about all kinds
of stuff, including the nerve of Matt Walsh submitting his
wildly popular documentary Am I Racist?

Speaker 5 (01:24:42):
For awards? Hollywood is not having it. We'll do that next.

Speaker 4 (01:24:46):
Keep it right here on KOA with our favorite entertainment critic,
Christian Toto of Hollywood intoto dot Com and an excellent
podcast of the same name, which you can find on
all of your podcast platforms.

Speaker 5 (01:24:59):
Christian, Welcome back to the show, my friend. Good to
be back.

Speaker 4 (01:25:03):
So you've got three columns at Hollywood and Toto that
I want to talk about today, And the first one
is about I Am or Am I Racist, which is
the Matt Walsh documentary who I mean other than an
Inconvenient Truth, which has been the high watermark for a
long time. They made a crapload of money for a documentary,
and now they did something unheard of and scandalous. They

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submitted the film for Awards season. Hollywood is not responding kindly?
Are they Christian?

Speaker 1 (01:25:37):
No?

Speaker 9 (01:25:37):
And I say that because that's what Variety magazine, at
least that was their response to the submission. There was,
you know, like being exposed to garlic if you're a vampire,
or you know it just or truth if you're a journalist.
You know, they're freaking out, and in part because they
really want to keep Hollywood pure, and by pure, I
mean is sort of a progressive bastion of thought and

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ideas and stories, and anyone trying to kind of crash
that party, they don't take kindly to it. So I
think the reaction was fascinating, and you really have to
read the whole Variety up ed on the subject. It's
just mean spirited it's withering, it's snarky.

Speaker 5 (01:26:14):
It's sarcastic.

Speaker 9 (01:26:15):
But at the end of the day, it's a very
good documentary and it made a lot of money, and
it should be in the conversation in that regard, and
there's nothing wrong with that. So being snippy about it,
I think is revealing.

Speaker 4 (01:26:28):
Don't you think that Hollywood is starting And I say
starting because we're still in the year's long process of
making movies that are all woke and glamorizing all this nonsense.
We'll get to snow white at some point in this conversation,
But don't you think they're starting to get the message
that these films don't make money, they're giant losers, and
Americans just want to be entertained. So from that perspective,

(01:26:52):
wouldn't it go long way towards telling those people in
flyover Country that they've been ignoring for years or insulting
to directly for years. Hey, you know what, we know
you love this film, we think it's good. We're going
to put it in the running just to send a message.

Speaker 5 (01:27:07):
I guess.

Speaker 9 (01:27:11):
I think you're thinking logically and as a pragmatist, and
that doesn't really work with Hollywood. Sometimes now in Hollywood's defense,
I think the message has partially gotten through. I think
in recent months we've seen a lot of eight political
films which have been fun, exciting and it made big
money at the box office, like Deadpool and Wolverine, Bad Boys,
Ride or Die. Inside Out Too really wasn't woke at all.

(01:27:33):
So I do think the message is starting to filter
through that if you avoid these sort of incendiary topics,
if you get off your high horse, you actually can
make a lot of cash. And so I think that's important.
But there's still not all the way there yet, and
so they still see a right leaning project like Ami
Racist as a threat and they don't want conservatives at
the table. They want to keep them out. Matt Walsh

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had a great tweet about it, saying they wanted to
keep us in the ghetto in a sense, from the
kind of a separate, separate but equal, maybe you could
say from a creative point of view, Yeah, that's what
they want. I mean, it's the reason why Racist came out.
It was very popular, it was certainly incendiary in a way,
and the vast majority of film critics ignored it, aggressively

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ignored it. Just go to rotten Tomatoes, you'll see a
handful at best, but most platforms just said, we're not
going to even dain this of view. And I think
part of that was they sensed it was pretty good
and they didn't want to say so, and they didn't
want to admit it, and they didn't want to share
it with their readers. But that's another sign that the
Hollywood ecosystem, whether it's Variety magazine or film critics in general,

(01:28:39):
they just want to keep people out.

Speaker 5 (01:28:40):
It's just the way it is.

Speaker 4 (01:28:41):
To that point, Christian, it seems like these right wing
films are not able to tap into the normal distribution channels,
and what they're showing is that they can work outside
the distribution channels and still be very, very successful. So
I think maybe it's even more than just leaning ideology.
It's more this is a fundamental threat to the way

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our system is built. And if we allow outsiders to
have success and then we recognize them for that success,
then we are undermining everything about Hollywood.

Speaker 5 (01:29:16):
And I think there's a level of fear there, don't
you think.

Speaker 9 (01:29:21):
Yeah, fear is the operative word. I think fear has
been part and parcel of the Hollywood for decades. Even
more so now with all the cultural and digital upheaval.
But you're absolutely right. I mean what they did with
m I Racis is work around the system. You know,
Matt Walash didn't pop up on Stephen Colbert's couch on
the Late Show, he didn't do the traditional interviews, he

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wasn't featured in Vanity Fair. He worked around the system.
He went to a lot of different podcasts and new
media platforms and got the message out that way. And
there was a new company, a new distribution company that
came up just in weeks and they helped bring the
movie to theaters. So you have all these new tech knowledgies,
all these different new ways to get to the public,

(01:30:02):
and all these different companies are saying, hey, we could
buck the system and do it at a pretty good
price point and maybe make some cash along the way.

Speaker 5 (01:30:10):
And that's what we saw. Listen.

Speaker 9 (01:30:12):
I think it made about twelve million, which is not
huge in the traditional sense, but for documentaries, yeah, most
of them make a fraction of a fraction of a fraction.

Speaker 4 (01:30:20):
Yeah, I mean it's hard to make money. It's gotten better,
I think with the streaming platforms where you get a
little bit of play from Netflix or Amazon Prime or whatever. Yes,
but in the theaters it is unheard of for a
documentary to do as well as Ami Racists actually did,
which is why I think Hollywood is absolutely hating this
and will not necessarily give it a fair shake. But

(01:30:40):
way would be nice if it at least got nominated.
You know, just throw us a bone. That's how I
feel to see the Academy. I'm like, just throw us
a bone, give me something that says you care about
all of these people that don't necessarily subscribe to.

Speaker 5 (01:30:53):
Your same political views.

Speaker 4 (01:30:54):
So I also want to talk to you about a
couple other columns right now on the blog, not the
least of which is this one. The headline says it all. Now,
it's okay to mock President Biden's mental state. So I
don't watch the late night shows. You watch them for me, Christian,
what are you seeing on this front?

Speaker 9 (01:31:13):
Well, listen, we've spent about almost four years now with
comedians essentially ignoring Joe Biden. They would throw in the oh,
he's pretty old jokes, which are harmless and toothless and
don't really have much meaning because he is old and
being old is okay. But being old and having some
sort of impairment where he can't speak, he can't think,

(01:31:33):
he can't share his thoughts in a way that we've
seen over the last four years is another matter, you know,
and I often preface this whole conversation with I would
never make fun of a person with dementia.

Speaker 5 (01:31:43):
That's a cruel thing.

Speaker 9 (01:31:45):
But we're making fun of the fact that that he's
been told, that he's been presented as he's fine, he's
sharp as attack. The media and the Democratic gave us
that platform, gave us that brand of Joe Biden, and
it's false. So I always thought making fun of him, honestly,
was was on board. It was, it was agreeable. I mean,
I think the minute he says, listen, I'm not feeling well.

(01:32:06):
My doctor's say I need to step down from office,
I would say that's absolutely off limits. But it hasn't been,
but it has for late night TV. But now that
the election is over, and now that he's stepped aside,
now that he only has a few more months left
in office, suddenly we can notice the fact that he
goes to press conferences and wanders off like a I
don't know how to describe it.

Speaker 4 (01:32:25):
Are you talking about the Amazon rainforest, the Amazon Rainforest
press conference.

Speaker 9 (01:32:29):
Amazon rave. I mean, there have been other events, I'm sure,
but the Amazon Rainforest.

Speaker 4 (01:32:34):
I didn't put that on the blog because it just
fell too mean to pile on at this point. But
if you haven't seen that clip he gives he's having
as it's on Christians story, he's having a press conference
in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, which is already
weird because they have the presidential lectern there with a
seal on it and everything, and he's in the middle
of the rainforest.

Speaker 5 (01:32:53):
Then he gets done and instead.

Speaker 4 (01:32:55):
Of walking off like towards people, he just turns around
and walks into the rainforw was like, where are you going?

Speaker 5 (01:33:01):
What is happening? Somebody stopped the.

Speaker 4 (01:33:03):
Elderly man before he gets eaten by a boa constrictor
or something. It was just super weird in a long
line of weird, and I guess that was enough to
get Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon.

Speaker 5 (01:33:13):
To notice it.

Speaker 9 (01:33:16):
Yeah, by the way, the Telegraph said that he ambled
into Greener eg which I thought was rather say, yeah,
you know, but this is the same Jimmy Kimmel who
smirked about it last night. But just a few months ago,
Jimmy Kimmel was at a fundraiser for Biden, and Biden froze.
We all saw at the clip. He just froze and
had to have Barack Obama, the former president, come over

(01:33:36):
and gently lead him off. And Jimmy Kimmel lied to
everyone and said, no, that was he was perfectly fine.
There was nothing wrong, nothing happened, nothing was weird. That
wasn't what you thought you saw. That's what he was
doing several months ago when they were keeping up the
facade that he's fine, but he's not fine. And it's
really a dereliction of duty, especially for a satirist to
ignore that. I mean, Jimmy Kimmel should have been making

(01:33:58):
fun of mostly the media and partially Democratic Party for
putting this over on us well at president of the
United States, who he's not well, and they pretended he
was forever. And if he didn't malfunction during that June
twenty seventh debate, he might have lost the bi Trump,
or even one to Trump.

Speaker 5 (01:34:14):
We don't know. Yeah, but that's what comedy.

Speaker 9 (01:34:17):
Is supposed to do. That's what satire does, is speak truth.
To power and hold people accountable.

Speaker 5 (01:34:22):
I think it's interesting that it's cruel.

Speaker 4 (01:34:25):
To talk about someone who is rapidly losing their mental capabilities.
You can't do that, but you can still let him
run the country. You know what I'm saying, like's, if
he's good enough to be president of the United States,
then he should be good enough to take some ribbing.

Speaker 5 (01:34:40):
About his foibles.

Speaker 7 (01:34:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:34:44):
You know, it's funny whenever I meet someone who doubts
my argument that the media has corrupted, I said, just
look at the president. He's clearly not well, and there's
no investigative stories or journalists or any sort of effort
to say what's going on? How did they hide this?
Who's making the decisions behind the scenes. It's a real issue.

Speaker 5 (01:35:03):
It's serious.

Speaker 9 (01:35:04):
I mean, you know, push put away the late night stick.
This is our country, you know who's in charge?

Speaker 5 (01:35:09):
Yeah, these are these.

Speaker 9 (01:35:10):
Are the It's a fundamental question for every journalists in
the country who covers national politics and they're not interested.

Speaker 4 (01:35:17):
Uh this Texter just said, Mandy, maybe Uncle Joe's just
one of us. After all, Then over fifty need to
empty their bladder more often, and any of us good
old boys in the middle of a forest.

Speaker 5 (01:35:26):
That's just where you go.

Speaker 4 (01:35:27):
So maybe you just had to wander off and go potty.
I don't know, but we are not going to know
the answer to that question. One last story from hollywoodintoto
dot com, which is the uh, the the written version,
and you can also hear a Christian's podcast on all
of the podcast platforms. Hollywood in Toto is the name
of that as well. Can we just have one more
moment with Justin Bateman, who is now like this sort

(01:35:50):
of like gen x hero for saying the quiet part loud,
which is thank God the last four years are over
and I can exhale.

Speaker 5 (01:35:58):
But man, did she create firestorm of activity?

Speaker 6 (01:36:03):
She sure did.

Speaker 9 (01:36:03):
My eighties crush is coming up huge, and I think
I have an intellectual crush on her now in addition
to the to the old version. Yeah, listen, you know
she's not been as famous as she once was. She's
doing directing, she's doing other projects, so she's still active
as a creative voice. But she's come out in recent
weeks and just said, Hey, I think we can all
think again, we can all speak again, we can all

(01:36:24):
have a different approach to the culture. We can have conversations,
and for the last four years, she said, I felt
like I was walking eggshells, and I kind of want
to steer people to her Twitter feed to some of
the comments that she's written at length. She had a
great interview with the Free Press just a year or
two ago. And you know, she's not left, she's not right,
she's not conservative, she's not liberal. She's just a common

(01:36:46):
sense individual who is fascinating and smart and well worth
listening to. And what I mentioned on Twitter, I said,
you know, George Clooney and Tom Hanks and Meryl Street,
they haven't said a word or two about free speech
to be cancel culture, about this woke ideology. Now along
comes this ex sitcom star who's crushing it and God

(01:37:07):
bless her, and that tweet went bananas. I've got I
think a half a million views at this point, and
that was just yesterday.

Speaker 4 (01:37:13):
Just listen to this one part, this one tweet and
a long tweet thread. Everyone should be able to live
their life the way they want to without infringing on
somebody else's ability to freely live their life the way
they want And that's the whole thing.

Speaker 5 (01:37:25):
You follow that within a society and your Golden. You
know what I mean. You can't fail common sense?

Speaker 8 (01:37:32):
You do?

Speaker 5 (01:37:32):
You all do me?

Speaker 4 (01:37:33):
Yeah, we'll all live in happy you know, coexistence. That's
why we're doing here. So I just got a text
her who said, just wondering how Christian's review was for Wicked.
Have you had a chance to review this film yet?
Are you still embargoed? What's that situation? Because I got
to tell you, Christian, I really want to love this movie.

Speaker 5 (01:37:51):
I want to love it.

Speaker 4 (01:37:52):
But if they made it to Hollywood instead of Broadway
like they destroyed Le Miz, I don't know if I
can handle that.

Speaker 9 (01:38:01):
I saw it Sunday, I'm about to write my review
officially for the website. I can say that I thought
it was terrific. I'm not a musical person. I saw
the stage version of this a few years ago. I
enjoyed it immensely. I thought they mostly knocked us out
of the park. I think the two leads, their voices
are just spectacular, big and full of range. I thought

(01:38:23):
the colors, that the canvas, the performances, the humor. Again,
I'm not a musical person, so it's not my genre,
so it makes it a little harder for me to judge,
but I can't imagine how it could be better or
different or more evolved. There are a couple of minor hiccups.
They make Jeff Goldblum sing that's a bad idea, but
in every other way he's great, and I just thought
it was charming.

Speaker 2 (01:38:44):
That is just a quick one.

Speaker 9 (01:38:47):
This is part one and it's well over two hours,
so just.

Speaker 5 (01:38:51):
Know what's going in part one.

Speaker 4 (01:38:54):
Part one, so we just get to the fying gravity
and it ends on that note, like I have time
at the theater.

Speaker 5 (01:39:00):
It's unsatisfying.

Speaker 9 (01:39:01):
I'm not going to say where it ends, but I
want everyone to know that they're not really publicizing that directly.

Speaker 5 (01:39:05):
When does the second part come out? Good question.

Speaker 9 (01:39:10):
I'm not sure they may have a street date. It's
certainly not tomorrow or the next day or the next month.
I don't even know if it's gonna be twenty twenty
five or not, but it's not anytime very soon.

Speaker 4 (01:39:19):
Okay, now I'm annoyed. Now I'm super annoyed. This has
now made me super annoyed to see this movie. I'm
tempted not to see it until the second part comes out.

Speaker 5 (01:39:26):
I don't like waiting. I've been spoiled by Netflix streaming.
I mean, we all have.

Speaker 4 (01:39:30):
We don't like to wait for anything, and I live
through having to wait for the Star Wars movies for
three and a half years. Episode show exactly, exactly. All right, Christian,
are you going to stick around for of the day.

Speaker 9 (01:39:43):
I'm afraid I am. I will lose, but I will
lose gracefully.

Speaker 4 (01:39:46):
Sobody on the text line said Justine Bateman. Directorial tips
for the meltdown videos are priceless. I have to go
back and look at these. Apparently she's been getting these
videos where people are filming themselves crying and then putting
on the Internet as if that's an aspirational thing to do.
And I guess giving them direction on what they should
do with that, and that is the kind of passive aggressiveness.

(01:40:07):
I can get behind what other movies real quick. And
we have like a minute the half left. I want
to know what we should be looking for for Christmas?
Are you starting to see Christmas in Oscar movies coming
your way?

Speaker 6 (01:40:19):
Yeah? You know.

Speaker 5 (01:40:20):
I'm lucky up.

Speaker 9 (01:40:20):
I get screening links to a lot of movies. I'm
bombarred at this time of the year, so I'm just trying.

Speaker 2 (01:40:25):
To get through them.

Speaker 9 (01:40:25):
I'm going to watch too. Today, I'm watching Gladiator two.
Tonight I'm going to watch Juror number two probably in
an hour or two. So yeah, this is the season
where I just spend all my days watching movies.

Speaker 4 (01:40:35):
Gladiator two Majori's out on that one for me because
the first movie was so perfect in so many ways.
It was so good and so entertaining, great cast. I'm
just gonna have to see how this one turns out.
I'm just not sure about that, Mandy. They've been talking
about hiring more people of color in Hollywood for years now.
They make this wicked movie, pick a woman of color
for one of.

Speaker 5 (01:40:54):
The main characters, and then they paint her green?

Speaker 4 (01:40:57):
What's up with that? That is an integral part of
the story. She has to be green. That is a
huge part of the story. I'm just glad they hired
people that could sing, because if you go back and
look at the film version of Lem's Rob which is
a score by Andrew Lloyd Webber that is just absolutely incredible.
They hired a bunch of actors who can't sing, and

(01:41:19):
I'm like, what are you doing?

Speaker 5 (01:41:20):
That was my fear.

Speaker 4 (01:41:21):
But then when I saw Ariana Grande. I was like, Okay,
at least they got people who can sing, so we'll
check that. When does that movie come out?

Speaker 5 (01:41:27):
Yeah, she belts it out.

Speaker 9 (01:41:29):
That's out off Friday.

Speaker 5 (01:41:30):
Okay, so okay, good? Might I actually be able to
see that before we go?

Speaker 4 (01:41:33):
What now, it's time for the most exciting segment on
the radio.

Speaker 5 (01:41:38):
Of its kind in the world.

Speaker 8 (01:41:42):
Of the day.

Speaker 5 (01:41:43):
All right, what is our dad joke of the day, please? Anthony?

Speaker 6 (01:41:47):
Mandy Christian? Why are pigs bad drivers? Pigs bad drivers?

Speaker 5 (01:41:56):
I don't know, Christian, any idea?

Speaker 8 (01:42:00):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:42:00):
Please get nothing? They yeah, all right, yeah, what's our
word of the day? Please? Word of the day is
a verb fbi gn that.

Speaker 4 (01:42:11):
Means to fake something. You feinne hunger, you feinn passing.

Speaker 6 (01:42:17):
Out pretty much, saying something is to pretend to feel
or be affected by it.

Speaker 5 (01:42:21):
There you go, you feign concern.

Speaker 4 (01:42:24):
Uh oh, I know this one which Broadway musical dramatizes
the rise of the nineteen sixties rock and.

Speaker 5 (01:42:29):
Roll group The Four Seasons. Do you know, Christian? It's
so good.

Speaker 4 (01:42:34):
It's one of my Yes, Jersey Boys is correct, it's
one of my absolute favorite shows.

Speaker 5 (01:42:38):
You can't not have fun when.

Speaker 4 (01:42:39):
You go to that show unless they hire someone to
play Frankie Valley that can't sing. I've had that experience
once once. All right, what is our jeopardy category? And
I Christian have to wait until the end of the question,
and you can jump in anytime because you're on a
bit of a delay because you're on zoom.

Speaker 5 (01:42:57):
So here we go. What is our category?

Speaker 6 (01:43:00):
That's T B D, which means each correct response is
gonna begin with the letter T. It has a B
and a D that come later in the can. You'll
you'll catch on a horse of pure stock? Manny, what
is a thoroughbred? Direct a sensational five column wide newspaper,

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starts with a.

Speaker 5 (01:43:24):
T, has a mission, didn't have will give it considerable?

Speaker 6 (01:43:32):
Bryan's yelling saying, get that a Russian thistle bouncing down
an old West street.

Speaker 5 (01:43:40):
In the wind? Manny, what is a tumbleweed?

Speaker 2 (01:43:44):
Correct?

Speaker 5 (01:43:46):
All added up?

Speaker 6 (01:43:47):
It means arranged in a systematic form, starts with a T,
has a B in there, and ends with a D.

Speaker 5 (01:43:55):
Is the answer? Mandy? Mandy haabulated correct. Look at you, I.

Speaker 9 (01:44:03):
Finally say you didn't think it was right.

Speaker 6 (01:44:05):
This inn is found in the Canterbury tales and today
in Washington, d C. Where it's a favorite brunch spot.

Speaker 5 (01:44:15):
The blank in MM starts with the ta has it
been in there?

Speaker 4 (01:44:22):
And Mandy the old ebbotts grill wrong, dang it?

Speaker 5 (01:44:27):
Anything Christian because what's the score? Did you go back down? Okay?

Speaker 6 (01:44:31):
So mom, Christian, come on anything. He's got nothing, We
got nothing. It's it's the tabird in the what the
tabird Tabbird?

Speaker 5 (01:44:42):
I've never heard of that?

Speaker 6 (01:44:43):
Now you have?

Speaker 5 (01:44:44):
Well, now I have.

Speaker 4 (01:44:45):
I have a new place to put on my list
in Washington, d C. Christian, good to see you, my friend.
What does the next podcast come out?

Speaker 8 (01:44:50):
Now?

Speaker 5 (01:44:50):
You got on it? It comes back tomorrow.

Speaker 9 (01:44:55):
I should have actor Matthew Marsden, who's been in a
lot of great films, including Blackhawk Down. But you can
also check out right now, I've got a What Movie
Changed My Life video at the Hollywood and Total YouTube
channel and that'll be on iTunes as well later today.

Speaker 4 (01:45:08):
Oh, I can't wait to I don't know if a
ub has ever changed my life. I'm gonna have to
watch that to see if you spark anything in me.
Thank you, Christian Toto, good to see you, my friend.

Speaker 5 (01:45:18):
My pleasure all right.

Speaker 4 (01:45:19):
That is Christian Toto, and we are going to wrap
everything up today because we've got a really big show
tomorrow because we are going to be at King Supers
at Colorado and Yale doing our annual food drive. I
would love for you to stop by, and if you
stop by about two forty five, you may get the
chance to play of the Day with me. That is

(01:45:40):
tomorrow at the King Supers at Colorado and Yale. Stop
by and see us where your jacket. We're gonna be
freezing our took us off tomorrow. I just want to
throw that out there. But right now, we're gonna make
room because we've got Kaoi Sports coming up next, and
I'm sure they have stuff to talk about because we've
got a game coming up this weekend. We've got all
kinds of stuff going on. But I'm gonna get out
of here and keep it right here right now, out
on get away.