11-20-24 FULL SHOW - How Polis Wants To Change Your Commute

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Three hour show from outside of King Supers. What are
we doing here? Well, if the last thirty minutes is
an indication, we are taking donations for Food Bank of
the Rockies and people are delivering.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
We have a cart full of turkeys.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
We have a cart. We're calling it the Challenge Cart.
Is it on our social media? Anthony RODRIGUEZU is here
today as well.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Remember it's about to be.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
It's about to be, so we're going to have that.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
It's really important this year, and it's really been this
way over the last couple of years. But if you
look at the kind of help that people need, it
has gone up dramatically when it comes.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
To food security.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
So if you know of anyone that's getting help, I mean,
you know what, it's not uncommon at this point. So
we there's a there's a there's a theme.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
In the Bible. And I don't know.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
I'm not one of those people that can just spit
out Bible versus you know, chapter and verse. I can't
do that. But the notion is to those much as given,
much as expected, right. And I learned this a long
time ago from a woman who started a charitable organization
because she felt like her business had done really, really well,
and that she was a Fristian and she needed to

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exemplify those Christian ideals. So she started this charity and
she just said that is her mantra to those much
as given, much as expected. And that's not an exact quote,
I've looked it up, but that's the gist of the
entire situation.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
So if you can this year, if you can't.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Make it down to the corner of Colorado and Yale
where we are right now, then you can't actually go
to the blog at mandy'sblog dot com and I put
the link to the Food Bank of the Rockies and
if you can make a cash donation, that would be wonderful.
It actually gives them at more food when you make
a cash donation because they buy at negotiated lower rates

(01:43):
and it's just they can buy more for what they get. Oh, yes,
we've got our baskets on our social media on Twitter,
on Facebook. Go check those out. But I'd love for
you to help any way you can, because there are
more people this year than there were last year.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
There were more people last year than they're.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Worth a year before that need help this holiday season
and really throughout the year. This is the best chance
we have to help people get through the holidays in
a fun and infestive way. I mean, I can't imagine
what it's like, and I hope I never have to
experience this. What it's like to be a parent trying
to figure out how to do Thanksgiving for your kids
and not knowing how you're going to pull that off.

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And if what we do here today can help with
any of that, then it will be time well spent.
Sitting in the cold and it is little chilli. I
don't think it is as cold as it was last year.
I feel like last year we had wind too.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
Last year we got pretty lucky with the weather too.
It's been years prior to that.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
I think, maybe, yeah, maybe, maybe I'm conflating this an
opening day. This is a beautiful out here, but it's
a little nippy. So come see us at the corner
of Colorado and Yale. We'll be out here until three o'clock,
and as a matter of fact, Kaoa will be out
here until nine pm tonight. We're gonna make Nick and
Ben sit out here in the cold weather. Of course,
today's the day my computer decides to do an update.

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It's doing an.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Update that's an update.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Oh yeah, it's doing it updates. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
I bring my laptop, I hit it. It's like no,
it's self healing. Yeah, self healing right now, Rod, why
is that web?

Speaker 3 (03:10):
I look like a healthy update. There's something wrong there
now well.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Then good thing I have my phone because I can
still do the blog and you can find the blog.
I go into mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com.
Look for the headline in the latest post section that
says eleven twenty twenty four blog. Join us at King
Supers for our annual food drive. Click on that, and
here are.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
The headlines you will find within.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Today on the blog.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Help out someone who.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Needs it this holiday season. Jared Polus hates your car.
This story made me laugh Today met Yahoo unloads on Biden.
The chickens have come home to roost. With Colorado's budget,
Aurora is judging effectiveness before doling out funds.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Doug Coo arrest shoplifters.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Colorado pays the attorney fees for a woman they hassled.
Let's get some Ski updates. The NFL emerges from fog
of politics. Modern monetary theory may have won Trump the Whitehouse.
This feels insurrectiony to me. MGT threatens to throw everyone
under the bus. Oh wait a minute, she's MTG Is
I always get her initials backwards? Why is Gallups polling

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on guns always so wrong? The Democrats Civil War is
sort of fun to watch, and now the Union is
Matt at Dems Pueblo voted for Trump the right man
for the job.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Turkey trot maniacs.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Listen up, John Stewart te'se off on Democrats. There's a
pop Christmas pop up bar at DIA.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
How apps spy on you with social smarts?

Speaker 1 (04:37):
With Agnes, someone turned post election freak outs into a
metal song. This is not so Things not to do
on a cruise while trying.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
To be polite.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Those are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com,
and there was a lot of them. There's a whole
bunch of them today. So now we have a couple
of videos. Hey, Rod, did you look at the blog today?
I know you read it every single moment of every single.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
Being up since three third this morning. I've not yet
looked to the blog yet.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Whatever, don't worry about It's fine.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
But now I'll be fine what's on the blog.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Today, Well, you've got to see the video second from
the bottom. This guy who I guess does this with
other things on the internet, but he took some of
the people melting down and made it a metal song.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
I've seen so good.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
And even as I'm trying to rise above and be compassionate, right,
I'm still I still have a sense of humor that
I that I have in my heart and that that
is very very funny.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
That is very funny.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Another video from Agnes Social Smarts with Agnes y'all. I
have learned more from this woman in four videos about
the Internet that I've known my entire adult life. I'm
not even kidding.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Fascinating.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
They're made for kids, so any idiot can understand them,
even me. That's on the blog today. Now, today we are,
as we said, at the King's Soupers at Colorado and Yale,
collecting food for the Food Bank of the Rockies. Oh hey, candy,
he's got candy. No candy for me, real candy for me. No,
thank you, thank you very much, But no, you're a
bad influence, bad influence on us. Flow.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, he has a bad influence.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
So if you can come out and give us, help
us get some food for a food bank of the Rockies.
They have a little list you can shop from, or
you can just go to the link that I provided
on the blog and you can donate. It's very very easy.
Now I've got a lot of stuff on the blog
today and I was really kind of torn a rod
oh dag nab it. Now I'm trying to get back
to the blog on my computer.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Bear with me, people, bear with me.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
Technology. You know, when you get you do you start
to know.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, yeah, someone is, let's just say, skeptical of our
Thanksgiving push and they said, baja Thanksgiving blank. There are
countless people everywhere who can't figure out where food is
coming from in two to three days. That goes for
every week of the year. Yes it does. And all
of this food that we're collecting is not going to

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just be for Thanksgiving. It's going to be continuing, ongoing
for those people. So that's one of the reasons that
we're here right now. So but we can also help
them get a Thanksgiving meal. I think that would be fantastic.
All right, I want to talk about you know, remember
just the other day, Anthony, I know this is you
have to put on your way back machine hat to
remember this because.

Speaker 5 (07:17):
It was so long ago before I was born.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
When the governor was tweeting about freedom. Remember that, when
he was tweeting about freedom, that was what seven eight
days ago?

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Not long seven eight days?

Speaker 5 (07:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Well, I mean if you.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
Want to drive a car, yes, this is what's being.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Going to drive cars?

Speaker 1 (07:32):
You know what, a lot of people like to drive cars.
But the governor hates your car. He is unveiled.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
You know I hate my car too, So.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Stop saying bad things about it your post.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Sorry, I did rename it.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
What'd you rename it?

Speaker 4 (07:45):
From Loki to a master chief? Which is a nerdy
halo thing. You wouldn't understand it.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Is that a good thing? Is master chief?

Speaker 4 (07:51):
A good character, a bad character, fantastic, amazing? He doesn't
let you down, okay, most importantly.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
Okay, so maybe the rebrand might help. We'll see what
happens there anyway. So the governor made a big announcement
announcing a vision, a vision he dubbed it Vision twenty
thirty five, Walk Everywhere twenty thirty five. The plan focuses
primarily on the Front Range, where eighty five percent of
Coloradin's live with a nod to previously announce plans for

(08:20):
Mountain Rail to Steamboat Springs and Craig. Now, this is
my favorite part of this Denver Gazette article. I'm just
going to read it verbatim so you guys can enjoy
it too. When pressed, poll Us decline to put a
dollar figure on the vision, saying it's about how we
do more with the way we plan and build. And
it's also not clear how he's going to pay for

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the vision. Now, what is the vision? Is the vision
making sure that our roadways are pothole free and running
as smoothly as possible, making sure that the driving experience
is as good as it can get. Fat freaking chance.
That's what it's about, fat chance. It is about everything
they can do to make driving miserable, to force you

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into mass transit. The vision outlines a familiar approach to
urban planning embraced by Democrats, one that favors clusters of
housing near transit systems. Part of a larger push to
minimize the use of cars and curb emissions. They are
touting the uh turning car lanes into bike lanes. They

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want to do the fifteen minute city idea, which I
don't hate in practice, I mean in theory, I don't
hate it. I love being in a city where I
can go get something exactly what I need within a
fifteen minute walk. But the reality is is that even
in big, big cities that doesn't happen. So this is
yet another expression of trying to force you into a

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lifestyle that you may or may not want. Now, if
you're a person who listens to this and says, oh
my gosh, this would be amazing, it would be fantastic,
then great, your needs are being met. But the reality
is is that most of us. As I at the
King Supers at Colorado and Yale collecting food for the
Food Bank of the Rockies, I see all of these
people coming in their cars. You know why because maybe

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they only have a half hour and mass transit takes
an hour and a half.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
That's the reality of where we are now.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
He says. The state's aspiration is liveability, sustainability, and affordability.
The vision lays the tracks for expanding convenience, low cost
transit service, improving safety in their quality and transit options,
whether biking, walking, or using mass transit to get to
work or go shopping.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
Do you know what's missing from all this? Your car?

Speaker 1 (10:36):
What are people in the suburbs supposed to do here?

Speaker 2 (10:39):
I mean, this is what we're.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Supposed to move into a tiny house right next to
a transit center, because that's what the governor thinks we
should do. If I was at this press conference, I
would have asked one simple question. Before you became governor,
what percentage of transport transportation did you personally use?

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Is it for in Denver?

Speaker 1 (11:01):
I may? I want to know if you want to
make it happen, then give up your little protective detail,
or make him ride the train with you, make him
hop on the bus. See how absolutely convenient and wonderful
it is when you actually have to do it. Now
there is an afterthought. Cars are part of the plan.
Oh thank goodness, I don't have to get rid of
my Oh, but only electric vehicles. According to Polus, the

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governor noted that one in four.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
Cars sold in Colorado are electric.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
When people decide to drive, they can do so in
a way that reduces pollution.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
So if you choose, may I may, I may I
ask the idea?

Speaker 1 (11:35):
Go ahead?

Speaker 5 (11:36):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (11:37):
Governor, respectfully, have you looked into not just the monthly
payment of EV I am now learning the insurance.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Oh no, he's rich. He's rich, I know.

Speaker 4 (11:46):
But for for the lesser No, poor people are going
to be on mass transit.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
No, no, poor people just get on mass transit and
then he and his unwealthy friends get drive the electric
vehicles that he approves of.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
What about us, low to middles You're gonna have to aspire.
You're gonna have to aspire. He's aspirational.

Speaker 4 (12:03):
Can't take into consideration that not only is your car
payment in a double, Yeah, your insurance is going to
do well.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
That doesn't matter because he's wealthy. So he just wants
you to dry lowers your electric vehicle that he has
approved for you in the if you have one of
the approved state approved forms of transportation, Imagine how free
you're gonna feel under this system on master.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
Yeah we're going to go away.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
Yeah, it's all.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah, we're gonna feel the freest you've ever felt. Sitting
on a bus for an hour and a half to
go at you know a trip that used to take
you forty.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
Four or go or both. You go on a bus
because you're EV isn't.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
Charged, wow, or maybe your EV caught fire and Nick
arrojenburn your house down? Did you think about that? So
we're talking about the new Ross just stopped. Have you
heard about the freedom loving Jared Polus's new vision twenty
thirty five where we're all going to get out of
our cars and then and then we're all going to
take mass transit. But if you have an electric vehicle,

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he's cool with you, big ayes. I can feel the freedom,
I can feel it bubbling. I wish I had a
picture of Ross's face right now. Ross is dumping some
groceries into the cart. Anyway, at the heart, he says,
of the vision, And I'm reading for the Denver Gazette.
Here is an intersection of transit housing and multimodal transportation

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planning and policy to cooperation among local, regional, and state
transit agencies. Senator Faith Winter, who is.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
I hope she is well.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
She has completed her rehab and I don't know if
her behavior before that made her seem completely unhinged in
Wack a Doodle was because of her battle with alcohol.
And I'm not trying to cast as versions, but alcohol
changes someone's personality. Well, now she is post rehab, and
I don't know if we're seeing a new, kinder, gentler

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faith winter. But she's never heard a kaka made progressive
idea that she didn't wrap her arms around. So she's
at this press conference and I'm like, oh great, here
we go. She added that the vision will require planning
around the budget to ensure it can be funded, pointing
to fees Levy through Senate Bille twenty one two sixty
that law Levy's fees. Those are also taxes on rental cars.

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Another state law imposed taxes on oil and gas production
without asking us. The state also has access to multimodal
option funding through legislation passed in twenty eighteen. Do you
guys feel the freedom just bubbling up right now about
how you can drive?

Speaker 3 (14:34):
It's a warm and fuzzy it's warming me out here, Mandy.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
I have an EV and the biggest problem is finding
a place to charge. The thing is that?

Speaker 3 (14:41):
Is that a Colorado area cocase of So I don't
believe it?

Speaker 1 (14:44):
Uh seven one.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
Nine, yep, aren't they here everywhere? In call her?

Speaker 2 (14:46):
I don't no, oh gosh.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
No, no, no, Mandy. Like George Bush said, these are
all from our common Spirit health text line. By the way,
you can text us at five sixty six. I know, Mandy,
Like George Bush said Verrlain, I will always feed our family.
Hasn't always been easy, but with four our generations living
in our home, we are grateful. This is awesomeness what
Kaway is doing. Ross again had an amazing show. Listen
to you guys every day. You know what you are,

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smart person. Yes, hi, Mandy. I remember when he was
debating Heidi for governor. He said he doesn't want it,
doesn't have an electric vehicle. Remember we pay for his
gas in all the state cars and planes. I know,
I know how about rural.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
Colorado, says this Texter.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
We just keep driving on dangerous Powell written roads under
teetering bridges. Starting to feel like Paul, this is only
a governor for those who vote for him the front Range.
I have some data on the blog today about how
the state broke, how the state actually voted, and it's
from Colorado Politics, very very good article and they really
did a deep dive and eighty four percent of the

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votes in Colorado come from the front range. I mean
eighty four percent. If this isn't an argument for some
kind of electoral college for rural Colorado. I don't know
what is because they no politician that's running a state
wide race.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
Even needs to bother with that. You really don't.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
And with those kind of numbers, I mean, it's it's
definitely a challenging to see a path forward for the
next Republican to take office in a state wide race. Mandy.
The chargers are either full or broken. Twenty minute drive
to work, says this Texter. If I take the bus,
I have to walk a mile and it's two and
a half hours on two buses. Oh my gosh, Mandy,

(16:28):
I deal. Yeah, Mandy, my husband was at the tire
store last weekend when someone came in with a Tesla.
The guy said, I've had this less than two years.
When my tires are shot, what can I do to
make them last longer? The tire person said, that's about
how long you'll get on a new set of tires
with an EV. They weigh so much.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
Yeah, the car a tire.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
The car weighs so much, and it wears down the
tires which been faster.

Speaker 4 (16:49):
Which, by the way, for those curious, the reason why
I said EV insurance goes up so much, I think
it was you telling me that and in my research,
evs are so heavy. Okay, essentially, I don't know if
the insurancemans are accounting for fixing up in or replacing
your car, or or making up for the damage that
you do to other cars because of how much damage
you're gonna do with the you're going to total the car. Yeah,
EV's so heavy. Yeah, and so I didn't know that

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impacts of tires, So that's good to know.

Speaker 6 (17:12):
Well.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
And also they said, uh, they weighed so much.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
They're three times harder than a gas vehicle of a
similar size. So that is a hidden cost of owning
an EV that you should know, Mandy, I would not
want to negotiate a non automobile choice when leaving the
store with four or five bags of groceries. I guess
that's what's inflation for. Will only be able to afford
fewer bags.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
There are EV chargers at every home in Colorado.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
No home, no, no.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
No, not unless you're plugging into someone's and then you
have like one of those converts. Have you seen those
where there's like a converter box where you can plug
into an outlet and it takes like twelve hours or
something to get.

Speaker 4 (17:51):
Is I think the plug. Is it similar to like
a laundry unit. I believe that that weird plug. I
don't know, looking into it, but not doing it.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
The texture says Vision twenty thirty five, and Democrats were
screaming about Project twenty twenty five. I too thought that, Texter,
because we watched our governor at the DNC go up
lie his ass off about Project twenty twenty five book.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
That's when I left.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
That's when I was like, I am out DNC. I'm
not sitting here for this nonsense. I found that very
interesting as well. But everything he's doing is because he's
running for president in twenty twenty eight. He has to
be able to say on the campaign trail, I led
when it comes to renewable energy, I led on all
of these things. Regardless of what's left behind in the

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state of Colorado. It doesn't care. It's all about that
presidential run. We are going to take a quick time
out and then I have so much stuff on the
blog Live from King Super's at the corner of Colorado
and Yale. Come see us, buy some food or make
a donation for the Food Bank of the Rockies and
help make someone's family Thanksgiving special. This year.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
We will be right back. Keep it on KOA all right,
my friends, We are back in the corner.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
Of King Yale and Colorado, in front of King Supers
because it is our annual food drive to benefit the
Food Bank of the Rockies. We have already had so
much generosity from listeners. We have massive carts out here,
lots of stuff already, but we'd love to fill up
more shopping carts with turkeys with Thanksgiving goods. We have
lists for you. If you can't make it down here,

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then I put a link on the blog today for
the where you can donate directly to Food Bank of
the Rockies. A cash donation actually goes even further, but
we love the food donations as well. Now as she
is prone to do, look what the cat dragged in, everybody,
my friend Hazel Ramsbotham is stopped why her man Bill
brought her over to say hi, And I said, Hazel,
you got to sit down and talk to me.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
And so Hazel being.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
Hazel, she pulls out a copy of her book and
puts it in facing out in case someone comes by
and would like to buy a copy of her bestseller,
eighty eight Keys to Living a Long and purposeful life. Hazel,
how are you doing great? I never remember how old
you are, but it does matter because people are always shocked.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
How old are you?

Speaker 3 (20:05):
Man?

Speaker 2 (20:05):
Ninety four?

Speaker 1 (20:06):
Ninety four, ninety four?

Speaker 2 (20:07):
Where's your birthday? I need to pay my phone?

Speaker 7 (20:09):
April first, it is my birthday and I'll be ninety five,
so I'm I'm like a child now I'm almost You
know when they have a birthday, they're six. The next
day after they're six, they say, well, I'm almost seven.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
Does that happen?

Speaker 1 (20:24):
Because I think at some point we all go through
that where we don't want to be older, right beat
You're like, oh, I don't want to turn forty. I
want to turn this. So at what age do you
just go like, yes, I'm almost ninety five.

Speaker 7 (20:35):
When you're in your eighties, you start bragging.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
Okay, okay, So that's good to know. So I'm going
to look forward to Hazel whenever I have you on
and we talk about your life story, because you have
had a phenomenal not in a good way, just an
incredibly interesting life story. You've had some real challenges in
your life. Yes, you started out picking cotton when you
were six years old, and you started teaching piano when

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you were twelve.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
I'm fast warding people up who haven't heard you before.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
I was eleven when I started teaching eleven. My dad eleven,
which you remember so much. You remember so And Hazel
has just flourished, and she has grown children doing all
kinds of interesting things, and she still does all kinds
of stuff. She just made me this beautiful crochete doily
with my family name on it, and I'm so appreciative

(21:24):
of that. And in a recent visit I saw your
quilt collection. I mean, the reason I'm doing all this, Hazel,
is because you've packed a lot into a very short
ninety four years. Is there anything you wish that you
had done when you were younger that you didn't do?

Speaker 7 (21:40):
No, I can't think of anything. I have tried to
think of things, and I think no. I really have
just kind of taken life as it comes.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
Let me ask you this question.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
Do you think that because you have tremendous grit and determination?

Speaker 2 (21:57):
I know that about you.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
I tease you about your books, but I tease you
about always having a book to sell because I admire that.
I don't have that. I don't have that sense of
if somebody might want to buy a book about I'm
going to take it with me. It seems to be
really lacking in our kids today. They don't have grit
and determination. Where do you think that came from? For
you personally? Do you think you were born with it
or do you think it was developed? I fell probably

(22:21):
a little of both.

Speaker 7 (22:23):
But my father died when I was five years old
with double pneumonia, before penicillin had been discovered.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
And I remember the day that I.

Speaker 7 (22:33):
Realized that we didn't have anybody to make a living
for us. And I was sitting in the backseat of
the car and my mother said, we.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
Have to make it by ourselves.

Speaker 7 (22:45):
And I thought it felt like a knife sticking in
my right, in my gut.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
I thought, oh, what are we going to do?

Speaker 2 (22:54):
And this is when you're five years old.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
I was five years old, and here we are trying
to protect twenty year olds from any difficulty. And you're
five years old, and you felt the weight of your
father's death right that at five? Right? Then?

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (23:06):
So was it out of necessity? Out of necessity you became?
I think you got great in determination.

Speaker 7 (23:13):
I think yes, And I never expected anybody to take
care of us.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
We knew we were on our own.

Speaker 7 (23:19):
We had to do it on our own. I had
three older brothers. One I was five, one was seven,
one was eight, and.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
One was twelve, and we never ever.

Speaker 7 (23:28):
Asked for help at all, and we didn't get any
from any place. That was before social Security, so we
got nothing from the government, We got nothing from churches,
and we got nothing from family because they didn't have
anything anything either.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
So we knew we were on our own, and we
just made it. Looking back, now, do you ever think
about something that you worried about that maybe upon further reflection,
you don't need to worry about that as much.

Speaker 7 (24:01):
I don't worry about anything because I know that God
has promised he'll take care of us if we obey
him and do what he's So your faith is a
big part of this too, very definitely, Yes, very differently.
And I can look back in my life and say, oh,
this horrible thing happened, you know, And I look back

(24:21):
in my life and think, you know, that was really
the best, That was really for the best. I wouldn't
have asked for it, yeah, but it was would have
been nicer if it'd come around a little better.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
But you know, but so you look back at the
traumatic things that you've dealt with and you just go
that led me to a different place that.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
Was better, that's right, And it brought me here.

Speaker 7 (24:42):
This is the first place I ever lived that I
chose the place.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yeah, and I've lived.

Speaker 7 (24:47):
Here since I moved here in October of nineteen seventy nine,
and I've been in my house of forty three years,
to be forty four years January first. And that was
something that I hadn't you know, I had no dealings
in business because I had taught piano privately.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
Well I did.

Speaker 7 (25:10):
I did teach in the public school five years, putting
my husband through school through college. But as soon as
I finished getting him through college, I wanted to stay
at home and stay at home mom and teach piano
privately at home.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
So that's what I did. So I had no k
no fur one k no, yeah, you know, none of
that kind of thing.

Speaker 7 (25:31):
And I didn't know anything about business. But God just
seemed to provide for me even though I was ignorant.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
You know what, Hazel, what piece of advice would you
give a young person today? Like, what would you say
to someone in their twenties or maybe is you know,
maybe they're flailing around a little bit trying to figure
out what they want to do or figure out who
they want to be. What piece of advice do you
wish somebody had given you got that.

Speaker 7 (26:02):
I don't know what peace of advice I would like
for someone to give me, but I can give them
some advice by saying, you don't have to worry about
trying to find yourself. The best way to find yourself
is to lose yourself about helping others.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
Hazel, this is why I love you.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
First of all, you kind of make me feel like
a bad person because I don't love other people as
much as I should.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
But it's good advice.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
I mean, you know, Ross and I were talking about
I don't know if it was Rosser, it was a
Rod and I were talking about it earlier today, that
we're just everybody is in everybody else's business now, and
everybody wants to tell everybody else how to live, and
everybody wants to tell everybody else what to do. Instead
of just saying I may disagree with what you're doing,
but I love you anyway, That's why it should be.

(26:48):
Has it been like this before you've been around almost
one hundred years, so that means eighty years of politics roughly.
Has it been nasty between neighbors like this before in
your life? Not that I can ever remember.

Speaker 7 (27:00):
I just can't remember people being so so ugly overwrought, Yes,
over things that should not be you know, of course
we want.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
When it comes to the election, I just have to say,
you know.

Speaker 7 (27:21):
Unfortunately Jesus was not on the ballot. He's the only
person that ever lived perfectly, a perfect life. So we
have to vote for flawed people because people are flawed.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
That honestly should have been the Trump campaign slogan. Unfortunately
Jesus isn't on the ballot. Vote vote for Donald That's fantastic,
He's Look. Can I still send people to Amazon to
buy your book? Yes? Yes, yes, yes, Well what I'll
do is.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
I will put a link on the blog.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
This book makes a lovely gift for a young person
in your life who may be looking for a little
bit of guidance and maybe flailing a little bit. And
it's a very entertaining read. You can find out how
Hazel shot her first husband. We're just going to leave
it at that, and that's how you sell books. Hazel
that's how you sell books. Right there. Okay, it's great

(28:11):
to see you. I'm going to you stop by. Thank
you so much for having me.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
Oh right, appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
We'll be right back after this. I would love it
if y'all bought Hazel's book, because I love that woman.
She is so nice and honestly, if you saw her,
she doesn't look ninety four, does she? She does, I'm
not even remotely.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
Yeah, she's ninety four.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
Oh heyro just what ninety four? Yes, she doesn't move
like she's ninety four. She doesn't act like she's ninety four.
I made her go ziplining. I think she was ninety
one when I made her go Zipline in Costa Rica. Yeah. Anyway,
by her book, it's now, it's updated. It's on the blog,
so you can go find it right there.

Speaker 5 (28:53):
I want to talk for.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
A second about Benjamin Nette.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
Yaho was speaking at an event and he really said
some things about Joe Biden and his choices that are
less than flattering, and I mean less than flattering. So
he was speaking to the Kanesset on Monday and he said,

(29:20):
and I'm going to quote him here, he said, the
US had reservations and suggested we not enter Gaza. It
had reservations about entering Gaza City, Communists and most critically
strongly opposed entry into Rafa. Administration officials that publicly urged
Israel to calibrate its Rafa offensive to minimize civilian harm.

(29:41):
Netanyahu continued, President Biden told me that if we go in,
we will be alone. He also said he would stop
shipments of important weapons to us, and so he did.
A few days later, Blincoln appeared and repeated the same
things to the same things, and I told him we
will fight with our nails. So it appears it appears

(30:02):
that even Israel realizes what Robert Gates said so eloquently
some time ago, that Joe Biden has never been right
about foreign policy, not once. This is the most pointing
criticism from Netanyahu so far, and it's going to be
hard for Biden to sort of do any kind of
tiki tak response now, because everybody will know it'll just

(30:25):
be sort of retaliatory. We did see that the Biden
administration sent almost three hundred billion dollars to Ukraine. Because
I have a feeling he knows and everyone knows that
once Trump gets back into office that is going to
be sharply curtailed, and we'll stop funding both sides of
the war, which is kind of what's happening right now.
The West has continued to buy Russian oil, funding that

(30:47):
side of the war, and we are funding the Ukrainian side,
So we'll see what happens after that. At this point,
you know, we've all sort of moved on from Ukraine.
This is amazing to me. Americans, we just move on
from other people's wars, like we want to be there
at the beginning, but then when the fighting gets boring,
we're all like, yeah, you know what, I'm gonna go.
I got a thing, so I'm gonna I'm just gonna

(31:07):
go ahead and go over there to the thing that
I got because I'm you know, this is it's boring.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
But I have not moved on from Israel.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
I think most people feel more connected to Israel for
some reason, because it's a cradle of Christianity, and even
though people are not particularly church going Christians, we all
like the sense that, you know, we understand that it
all kind of went down there in the first place,
and it did. I'd love to know if any of you,
how are you feeling on Ukraine's let's do like finger

(31:37):
in the wind kind of thing. I want to know
what you want to see happen. If you voted for Trump,
perhaps you're like, pull all the money out of Ukraine.
I don't want to do that because I don't want
embolden Vladimir Putin. I just don't want to embolden that
kind of aggression, and he has to be checked. There
has to be some resolution where Russia doesn't get what
it wants, which is Ukraine obviously, But there has to

(31:59):
be some kind of situation that occurs where we can
extricate ourselves from this proxy war that I don't think
we have any part being in.

Speaker 5 (32:08):
Five six six nine oh is the text line?

Speaker 1 (32:10):
That's five six six nine oh, the Common Spirit Health
text line. Scott asked a question, and Scott, I don't
know the answer to this, but I'm gonna ask it
on the air and my boss can tell me. Mandy,
why does Kowa always use the same store for the
food drive they have one hundred and eighteen locations? Is
it because Ross knows where to find it from? Scott, Well,
I would assume you know, Ross may not seem clever
on the radio, but He's actually exceptionally clever in real life,

(32:34):
and I'm pretty sure he knows how to use GPS.
My guess is is it's the closest to the radio
station that would be part of it. But i gotta
tell you this location is good for us every single
year in terms of the number of donations that we
get for the Food Bank.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
Of the Rockies. We'll be here again until nine pm.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
By the way, I wanted to think our sponsors.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
We have a couple of sponsors, Redbird Farms, Colorado, Buig
GMC Dealers courtesy Akra and KOA. I'm going to be
talking with JB from Buick at some point here in
the near future, but I'd love for you to come
down and see us. We'll talk about everything when we
get back. I've got to talk about something that I
predicted years ago that is now happening. If you see

(33:18):
anything about the Colorado legislature, you're going to see that
they have a giant budget hole to fill. Unless you
think they are getting enough money, I can assure you
they are. This is not a money in problem. This
is a money out problem. And now they're squabbling with
the governor about how to spend the funds that they have,
and I already know what's coming and I'm going to

(33:39):
tell you what it.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
Is after this. Keep it on, Koa.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
We've got baskets of food, but not nearly enough, not
enough baskets of food for the Food Bank of the Rockies.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
Need is up this year and we want to get
stuff for.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
The holiday, absolutely frozen turkeys, hams, things like that, but
we also want to get things that can go beyond Thanksgiving.
We have a list if you need ideas, if you
want to do some shopping, or you can just go
to mandy'swog dot com and look for the link.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
To donate money.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
You can donate directly to Food Bank of the Rockies
and your dollars.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
Go very very far there.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
So if you have the ability and you have the
money this year, it would be a great way to
help families and meed and I sure hope you can
make it big. Thanks to our sponsor's Redbird Firms Colorado Buick,
GMC Dealers courtesy Accura, and of course KOA, which I
guess we're thanking us. A Rod's down here as well,
and we're going to be down here until four and

(34:37):
then excuse me three and then Kaawa Sports Stakes over
and then Ben and Nick are going to be here
for Broncos Country tonight at nine o'clock. Ay, Rob, come
here for a second. I need to know about what
happened with cake? So Nick Ferguson returns cakes? What? What
is happening? I got caught somehow in a story? So
what is Nick Ferguson? Who I adore? He returned a cake?

Speaker 4 (34:58):
What Let's see if I coul do Nick bro out
of my memory of this. Basically, Nick and his wife
bought a birthday cake for one of his daughters at
the table, after having already sung Happy Birthday, having the
cake being cut, no one still had tried and try
it yet. Nick's wife first took a first try of
it and said, oh, it was awful. Then said to Nick,

(35:21):
Nick tried this, both agree awful. Before it was it
was way way too sweet word sugar killed, overkill. Apparently
before the kids you were even giving an attempt to
see if they would like it, they said no, no, no,
put it all down.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
Take it. They took it too back to the store
without kids.

Speaker 4 (35:38):
Trying to see if it's good, and took it back
to the store and then wound up facetiming. I believe
one of the daughters can now pick out your replacement
one and the she wound up doing anything a fruit tart.
But the idea is that the big controversy here is
the parents didn't like it.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
Thought it was overkilled on sugar. I thought it was
too much.

Speaker 4 (35:55):
But they didn't even give his daughter and the kids
a chance to see if they would. They said it
was essentially a protect their taste, don't they didn't think
this would be good.

Speaker 3 (36:04):
Don't even bother kind of deal.

Speaker 1 (36:06):
When in reality, as a parent, I know what happened.
They're like, there's too much sugar in this. These kids
are going to be jacked up if they eat this,
and we are not going to let them let this
cross their lips because the kids, would you like, think
about it? Kids eat pixie sticks for crime, Sam, You know.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
The hello people are stopping by staying Hi.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
I just wanted to know because I got that came
up and I was like, who But if it was wrong,
I would return the cake.

Speaker 3 (36:32):
Would you give? Would you give the kid?

Speaker 1 (36:34):
I probably would. I liked it as a learning lesson.
I would say, try this that is way too sweet.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
Well, what if they said no, I think that's good.
Would you let them keep it?

Speaker 1 (36:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (36:44):
So this is this is the controversy. They didn't give
the kids a chance to try and potentially like the cake.
They said no, no, put it down, we're taking it back.
My thing is that it's about the taste of cake.
You had already cut it, you had already sung happy birthday,
You're in you're committment.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
Oh yeah, that is kind of like you probably should
let him have a little broba.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
Are we able to take cash here today?

Speaker 4 (37:02):
Somebody just asks on the text, we really prefer that
you do not Yeah, we do not want it.

Speaker 3 (37:06):
We will.

Speaker 4 (37:07):
We do have multiple ways though obviously we're taking all
these different items. When you have an item list here,
we have a QR code where people can scam and
donate virtually.

Speaker 1 (37:14):
You can also donate right on the website mandy'slog dot com.
You can donate directly without even coming by. But I'd
sure love for you to come by anyway, So uh,
come in and see if we're gonna be a jil Okay,
that wasn't as controversial as I thought. I thought maybe
somebody had bought nick a cake and he was like,
I don't like that kind of cake, so take it
back and get me, which would have been, you know,
a jerk move, because, as I tell my children, I

(37:37):
bet you, I bet you.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
Nick grew up the same one.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
Like if you somebody buys you something or gives you
something to eat, you are going to pretend to like it.
You are going to lie and pretend to like it.
I have eaten fruit before at someone's parents' house because
I was not going to sit there and not eat it.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
I didn't eat all of it. I ate enough, and
then I was like, ooh, I'm.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
Full, thank you so much, I can't possibly have another bite.

Speaker 3 (37:57):
Yeah, I agree, you know, I mean of.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
The polite bite, right, the courtesy bite.

Speaker 4 (38:03):
What if it's so bad you cannot mask it from
your face? Your poker face just isn't good enough to mask.
I mean, how were you with the fruit? I mean,
you really don't like that?

Speaker 1 (38:12):
It was cooked?

Speaker 2 (38:12):
Thank God it was cooked.

Speaker 3 (38:14):
Otherwise you could yeah that you really yet I.

Speaker 1 (38:16):
Would have had to get up from the table and
excuse myself.

Speaker 3 (38:19):
But it's in your mouth, excuse me.

Speaker 1 (38:23):
Trying to not feel No, I would not do that.
That's not your folk. It is weird. But I just
thought that was what Nick was doing, and that struck
me as out of character for him to be a
junk about it.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
Does it though?

Speaker 4 (38:35):
Because I like Nick and I love his takes because
normally he's actually kind of as crazy as I am
when it comes to food takes and the weird things
that he does.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
Him and I are more on lockstep Ryan's.

Speaker 4 (38:45):
Actually, I think Ryan's tarting to hate me a little
because he's getting satire to me sighting with Nick on
every debate that they have about food and sports are
outside of and food and everything, but your Nick's like
best friend, We're becoming very close.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
Mild, very much the exact anymore.

Speaker 4 (39:00):
To another quick example, they actually on the show, David
and Ryan were giving them some crap because he's another individual.
And I had a good excuse because I did it
on the diet a Sota wait Loss dot Com that
Nick brings items condiments to restaurants that he wants to
add to those things he doesn't have. So yesterday he
brought I believe it was honey to Sam's Umber three
to add to I think the tea that he was having, right,

(39:21):
But Dave and Ryan thought that it was weird that
you'd bring any any little thing, whether it be like
a condiment or like some additional things.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
I find that a little. I find that a little odd.
But there are certain breakfast restaurants where I bring my
own coffee.

Speaker 4 (39:34):
No for me, breakfast restaurants, Yeah, it's hot sauce they
all have or tabasco, and I can't stand either. I
always either bring franks or if a restaurant has top
of teo but but hot sauce, it's like, oh, the
hot sauce most of these restaurants have is not I.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
I do bring my own coffee into places that I
know have bad coffee but good food that is. And
then this is what this is what I say when
I said they're like, oh, if anybody ever says anything,
and no one ever does, I just say, I'm also
going to buy a club soda so you can charge
me for soda.

Speaker 3 (40:03):
What do you mean you bring your ow coffee? Like
I bring a.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
Coffee mug into the store. Into the restaurant, I bring
a travel mug of hole like ready to go right drink.
Only if the complice says bad coffee, and if they
ask me why, I just say, you don't have good coffee.

Speaker 4 (40:14):
That is, I want to eat here, but you have
terrible coffee, and that is so much worse. Is an insult,
that's a sloppy you won't you won't.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
You won't.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
Bad coffee at breakfast is offfee.

Speaker 4 (40:24):
You won't rip on some Well, first of all, most
places have good I'm paying.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
It doesn't matter breakfast.

Speaker 4 (40:28):
I am not as a slap in the fit.

Speaker 1 (40:31):
I want them to get better coffee.

Speaker 3 (40:33):
Just get better coffee, your own coffee. It's going to
encourage them to do better.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
If they ask me why I have my own coffee,
I say, because you're coffee. I can see the bottom
of the cup when it's full. If it's so weak,
I can see through the coffee. You have bad coffee.
That's just a bad cup of coffee.

Speaker 5 (40:48):
That is.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
No I like dark roast coffee.

Speaker 3 (40:51):
Don't just don't drink coffee.

Speaker 5 (40:52):
No.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
Coffee is the nectar of the gods, when done properly,
in an absolute disaster, when done.

Speaker 4 (40:57):
Literally, the nectar of the gods is fruit. But okay,
you know the thing you don't like contexture.

Speaker 3 (41:01):
You're an animal.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
I know, Mandy, your own coffee. This sexers and Mandy.
I think that you do a great job with commercial promos.
But when I hear a Koin commercial for the Black
Eyed Pa and it's not big I'll doing it, then
it's just not the same. I know. But you guys,
I'm the only upside there is that I love that
restaurant and I'm very happy to have them as my
client now, so go there for Thanksgiving, Mandy. I'm not

(41:26):
a fan of Nick Ferguson, says this person. During the
COVID area, I sent a text in suggesting that getting
the vaccine was a bad idea and I'm not going
to do it. He replied with a great, big text
message calling me a criminal and a bad person and
a bad influence on society. I don't think that was
called for. I saved the screenshot if you want to
see it. Let me just say this. I said things
during COVID then now, in hindsight, I wish I had

(41:47):
not said. And I've been really open about that, and
maybe you've never asked Nick to follow up. But COVID
was a very fraught time and we all know we
got that information and bad intel. So yeah, black coffee
veteran known I have had black rifle. It's a little
too a cynic for me. So I have my coffees
that I like, but I just like strong coffee. I

(42:08):
don't want to see the bottom of the cup when
you put it down. Okay, moving on from just superfluous stuff.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
I want you guys to get ready.

Speaker 1 (42:16):
And I say this to people all the time when
people ask like, are you and Chuck going to retire here?
I'm no, we're not, and not because we don't love
it here, because I do. But I think by the
time I fully retire, everything here is going to be
so prohibitively expensive that it's just not going to be the.

Speaker 2 (42:32):
Kind of retirement that I want to have.

Speaker 1 (42:34):
I don't want to have to.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
Worry about my bills. I want to be able to travel,
I want to.

Speaker 1 (42:37):
Be able to do all these things. But the things
that have happened in the last five years of the
democratically controlled state have now started to come do in
terms of how much we're going to be paying. This
editorial in the Denver Gazette headline a runaway payroll overruns
the state budget. It's about the budget fights that are
going on right now between the legislature's a budget planning committee.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
I'm the governor. So the governor sent.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
His his his budget over and it includes things like
two point four million dollars to build a ticket booth
at the state Fair, one point five million for landscaping
services at the governor's mansion, and five million for celebrating
the states one hundred and fiftieth anniversary in twenty twenty six.
And now they're talking about a hole in the budget

(43:23):
just overall about six hundred and thirty eight million dollars
in the state's fourteen.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
Billion dollar general fund. Now, how did we get here?

Speaker 1 (43:31):
We got here because we keep adding programs and we
don't keep adding streams to pay for them.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
We got here because we.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
Decided we were going to pay for important things with
syntaxes on marijuana, and now they're falling short. We got
here because they've added one thousand state workers every year
since Chared Police took office.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
Somebody has to staff.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
These new programs and departments and offices and everything else.
And now all of these bills are coming due. So
the editorial board of the Denver Gazette, I'm going to
read this one small part, but it seems neither side
got to the biggest problem. The elephant in the room
until the Budget Committee's Republican Senator Barbara Kirkmeyer of Brighton.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
Pointed it out in a meeting last week.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
She noted that since Police has been in office, the
state payroll has been growing by about one thousand positions
a year.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
Kirkmeyer questioned why Police.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
Isn't imposing a hiring freeze or requiring a much larger
across the board cut of ten percent. And she's right. Indeed,
as we noted here, just last spring, as lawmakers adopted
the state's current budget, twelve hundred and twelve hundred and
twenty positions were added to the state payroll for the
twenty twenty four to twenty twenty fifty twenty twenty five

(44:42):
fiscal year alone, and in the budget year before that,
more than one thousand full time state agency positions were
added to implement and run new policies and programs. So
we have exploded the size of government at the same time,
by the way, this is also mentioned in the editorial,
But at the same time time that we, or rather

(45:02):
I should say, the Democratic legislature made it easier for
public sector workers to unionize. So what do you think
that's going to do to the cost of employing all
these new people. And that's the sole reason we have
them all on here to feed the unions, which then
feed the Democrats in that perpetual campaign donation cycle. That's
what they do. It's just another funding stream for them.

(45:23):
Let the peasants, you know, figure it out for themselves.
Let them figure it out.

Speaker 5 (45:26):
It's fine.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
They add one last part. Here's the clincher. About three
hundred and fifty of the thousand plus jobs added to
the state payroll last year were requested by the state
Labor Department, in part to administer the state's collective bargaining
agreement with the Colorado.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
WINS State Employees Union.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
That's right, the state hired more employees so it can
hire yet more employees. Is it any wonder the state
budget is now in a bind. So this is the
chickens coming home to roost. And we're not even there yet.
I mean now, Governor Polis has this ridiculous Project Vision
twenty thirty five out where he's trying to pource us,

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force us all.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
Out of our cars.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
That's the goal. Oh well, unless you're rich enough to
own an ev If you're wealthy enough to have an
electric vehicle, then you're okay, and the governor will allow
you to drive. He will allow it. What's going to
be funny is what if everyone in Colorado does decide
to buy an electric vehicle and then they drive downtown
and there's nowhere to park them because they've taken all
the parking spaces to use for bike lanes that very
few people are actually using. Or they close down more

(46:33):
instances of roadways to make room for more mass trains
that like they're doing our Callfax and nobody else rides
the bus. I mean, I appreciate the initiative, I really
truly do, but it's so ambitious and so ridiculous at
a time when we're watching our roads and bridges under
the current c DOT regime degrade under our cars.

Speaker 2 (46:52):
I mean, it's it's it's bad. It's so bad. Mandy A.

Speaker 1 (46:56):
Rod was so spot on with the breakfast restaurant hot
sauce situation.

Speaker 2 (47:01):
Yeah, that's one, Mandy.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
I take my own pure maple syrup to the original
pancake house because it costs extra. Oh that's fantastic. Absolutely
agree with Mandy on the coffee. Many restaurants serve water
disguised as coffee, and Mandy you're right. Bad coffee will
ruin a breakfast. This is exactly why I take my
own coffee.

Speaker 2 (47:18):
And here's the thing, you guys.

Speaker 1 (47:19):
As long as you go like I always buy a
club soda, so like you're still gonna get an beverage
out of me, Like you're still gonna get the money
out of me.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
Let me bring my own coffee.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
And if you want me to buy coffee from you,
make better coffee. No offense to the older folks in
our crowd. I call it old people coffee. And it
is the coffee that is so weak.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
You're barely you're not even having it, You're just kidding.

Speaker 1 (47:38):
It's like the it's like the flavored Seltzer of water,
only they just dropped a coffee be near it, right,
It was just in the general vicinity. Terrible, absolutely terrible.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
All right, you guys.

Speaker 1 (47:49):
I got a ton of stuff on the blog today, Mandy.

Speaker 2 (47:56):
All of these news folks are on para, Yes they are.

Speaker 1 (47:59):
Yes they are. I was just being a guy buying
two cartons of cigarettes for two hundred and forty seven dollars.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
Yikes, how much of that are taxes?

Speaker 1 (48:07):
Wait?

Speaker 5 (48:07):
What?

Speaker 1 (48:09):
Two cartons of cigarettes for two hundred and forty seven dollars.
What is that is that? I mean, I haven't smoked
in so long, I don't. I'm literally pulling up my
calculator for this. Hang on one second, calculating, calculating, so
that is twenty packs. Wait a minute, let me do
that backwards. Let me find this number two forty seven,

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find it by twenty That is twelve dollars and thirty
five cents a pack. Is that legit?

Speaker 5 (48:35):
Now?

Speaker 1 (48:36):
Oh my goodness, you guys, you guys.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
That is a hobby you can no longer afford.

Speaker 1 (48:42):
Wow, when smoking was cheap and I was doing it,
and all the cool people were doing it, just kidding kids,
None of the cool people actually did it. We just
thought we were cool, and we weren't. They were three.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
Fifty a pack, and I just thought that was hyrae robbery.

Speaker 1 (48:55):
Good god, text er, that is not You cannot have
just paid twelve dollars and thirty five cents a pack.
How do you afford to be a smoker? And I
mean this legitimately, Like, how do you have.

Speaker 2 (49:06):
That as a hobby?

Speaker 1 (49:08):
You could almost pick up, like you could go shooting
without money every week, You could play golf at multiple
golf courses every week on that kind of money. Dang, wow,
just wow. Hi, Mandy, my mom takes her own bottle
of whipped cream when she goes and gets ice cream.
That is not true. She does not, and because she
takes the real cream, doesn't she? I bet does anybody

(49:29):
else take weird stuff to a restaurant? I need to know?
Five six, six nine. Oh, the Colfax area is terrible,
navigating the barrels as a challenge. Well, maybe if you
had an electric vehicle it'd be easier. I'm just kidding.
That's just what the governor would say to you, Mandy.
Not only the parking issues with EV, but the power
companies cannot support all the road growth necessary if everyone
suddenly wanted to plug in their cars. I read an

(49:50):
article this morning, and I didn't put it on the
blog because it wasn't that interesting. I mean, it was
kind of interesting, but not totally interesting. And it was
about these big data centers like Amazon, tried to kind
of special deal with a power company to basically buy
power off the grid, but not through the traditional means,

(50:11):
like they wanted a direct transmission line from a power
station to this ginormous data processing warehouse because there's so
many computers that run this stuff that they have to
take just a huge amount of power. They just hoover
up power, and the State of New York said, no,
we're not gonna let you do it.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
So here's my prediction.

Speaker 1 (50:28):
You're gonna start to see these companies because AI uses
a tremendous amount of energy, like an insane amount of energy.
You just thought like crypto mining used a lot of energy. No,
it's got nothing on AI. You're gonna begin to see
companies build private power stations. We're going to see this
very very soon. And you know what they're not gonna build.
They might put some solar panels on the roof, they

(50:50):
might put some wind you know, around somewhere, but they
are definitely gonna have something that is absolutely reliable twenty
four to seven. No matter what the sun is doing,
no matter what the wind is doing, they are going
to have reliable energy.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
Pay attention to what.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
They do, super just fascinating. The stuff that's going to
be happening, that has to happen to our grid to
make electrification happen, is going to be obscenely expensive. And
the notion that somehow Governor Polis is going to direct
all the agencies to electrify everything in a way that
doesn't make our power costs go up, even though every

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single place in the entire world that has gone to
green energy has the highest energy rates of all the
nations around them, and they're supplementing their green energy buying
dirty energy from right across the border. So if I'm Canada,
I'm gonna be like, Okay, America is all in on
net zero. Here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna line
the Canadian border with power plants, so we're just gonna

(51:44):
sell all of that dirty energy to the United States
when their energy doesn't work. That's what I would do,
kind of like right now, if you live if you
live in Wyoming and you haven't already looked into starting
an Amos shop right across the border, you're.

Speaker 2 (51:56):
Just not doing it right.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
Because let me tell you, you think fireworks a big thing,
wait until Ammo excise charges go in place here in Colorado.
It's going to be absolutely a madhouse as people rush
to buy their Ammo somewhere else. I mean, I know
I will every traveling to every trip in the car
will include a stop at the closest Cavella's or whatever
where can not I ammunition here? Let me know, because

(52:21):
I'm not buying in Colorado anymore, Mandy. Fifty percent tax
on all tobacco products. Whoa, whoa. And I hope this
person is kidding when they say I switched from smokes
to heroin it was cheaper, I mean, Mandy, Yes, I
take green tabasco to restaurants. I drink my Piztze coffee

(52:41):
before I go to breakfast, says this texture. Well, I
take my Pietz coffee.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
Withft me to breakfast.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
How about them apples, Mandy, I'm from Nebraska and coffee
is brown water. No, no, you got to show them whiniogi.
I have to bring non fructose corn syrup ketchup because
of my heavies allergies to corn. And I don't drink
black rifle because of the founders use on red flag
laws and other Second Amendment issues. But that's just me.
I now only drink water at breakfast. Just updated and

(53:10):
saved my coffee for at home. Even at breakfast, I
just take my coffee with me. Ten dollars for a
can of chees Ooh you guys, you guys, what is
the breaking point. I need to know if you are
still using tobacco products and you're paying ten dollars for
a can of Copenhagen, I need to know what it
has to go to for you to fully quit, because

(53:32):
I just can't even imagine. I cannot even imagine sitting
down because I used to be a pack and a smoker.
Let's just do the math on this real quick. So
if I were the same kind of smoke where I
was back when I was making dumb choices and wasting
money on dumb crap, that didn't matter. So what do
we say? Twelve fifty? Is that what it was? Twelve fifty? Okay,
twelve fifty times three sixty five that is four thousand,

(53:56):
five hundred and sixty two dollars and fifty cents.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
That's insane.

Speaker 1 (54:02):
If you put that money into a mutual fund, that
is a lot of money, I mean for something that's
gonna kill you. Holy cow, I can't even get around
I can't wrap my head around this. You were a
former smoker, aren't you. Oh you never smoked, Shannon. I
tell my daughter all the time, there's very few things
in life I regret. That is one thing I regret

(54:23):
the first time I started smoking. I should have been like,
what am I doing? And that is one of those
things that I look back now and I just think,
what an idiot you are. Just an idiot.

Speaker 6 (54:32):
On a trip to Vegas with some friends. I guess
maybe he was ninety three. We stopped in the ex
Caliber and they were smoking. They stopped at an automated
machine and it was three point fifty a pack.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
Oh yeah, and the guy at the take outrageous.

Speaker 1 (54:45):
This better be the pack that killed me. Fifty yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:50):
Wow. I know someone that spends six hundred dollars a
month on chew.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
Y'all.

Speaker 2 (54:56):
Y'all, that's like intervention time.

Speaker 1 (54:58):
Stop it.

Speaker 2 (54:59):
It's not worth it.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
Oh my gosh. Okay, when we get back, I have
so much other stuff on the blog that I want
to talk about today, including my favorite news story on
the blog. Someone is taken to adding some commentary to
speed limit signs and they're kind of my hero. I'll
tell you about it after this. Keep it on. Koa
of Colorado and Yale sitting outside King Soopers collecting food

(55:23):
and donations for the Food Bank of the Rockies.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
Big thanks to our sponsors.

Speaker 1 (55:27):
Today we got Redbird Farms, Colorado, u A GMC Dealers
courtesy Accura and KOA. You can donate by clicking a
QR code. When you're here, you can drop off food
that you've purchased. We have a little list of needs
if you need some help or information about what to get,
or you can just go to my blog at mandy'sblog
dot com. I've got a link to the Food Bank
of the Rockies where if you just make a cash donation,

(55:49):
cash actually goes really far because they're able to buy
in bulk, they're able to get wholesale pricing, so do
not be afraid there. The need for this is up
this year and it was up last year, and we'd
like to help them, not just with Thanksgiving, to get
them through to the other side.

Speaker 5 (56:05):
Now.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
Because we're outside and people can stop by and say hello.
A young man wandered up and we're like, we're sorry,
we're not at music station. It's giving away rock tickets
and he was like, no, I listened to KOA.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
But he doesn't just listen to KOA.

Speaker 1 (56:17):
He listens to Michael Brown in the morning, he listens
to Ross, he listens to me. So Jaden deserved a
spot in the seat next to me. Now, the only
other guest I've had on the show today was my
friend Hazel right, who's ninety four. Right, So how much
older than you is Hazel?

Speaker 5 (56:32):
Do the math, Jaden, She's seventy three years older than
I am.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
Twenty one, twenty one, twenty one.

Speaker 1 (56:37):
Yeah, so how did you start listening to talk radio?
Because honestly you're my hero right now, because you're a
twenty one year old who's got my brain in your head.

Speaker 5 (56:45):
Well, I started listening when my dad was listening to
talk radio in the car, right, and that was who
knows how old, I don't remember that, but ever since
then I picked up on it. I listen as I
like working on radios and TV sets. I would naturally
listen to you.

Speaker 2 (57:03):
So I love that. Of course naturally you had naturally.

Speaker 1 (57:06):
So how do you What do your friends say about
your radio habits? Like when they get in your car
and you've got KOA on, what is that? What do
they say?

Speaker 5 (57:14):
Turn turn into a music station, let me play something else?
But I typically decline and say no, we're listening to Mandy.

Speaker 1 (57:20):
Contin for Well.

Speaker 3 (57:21):
I love you, Jayden.

Speaker 2 (57:22):
You're the king, You're the King of the airway.

Speaker 1 (57:24):
So what are some of the things that you find
in your political views that might differ from some of
your peers because you listen to talk radio.

Speaker 5 (57:32):
Well, I guess a lot of my friends are pretty conservative,
but for the overall majority, I'm pretty very conservative.

Speaker 2 (57:41):
Right. So do you ever talk politics with your friends?

Speaker 5 (57:44):
Absolutely? Yeah, yep.

Speaker 1 (57:46):
Do you feel like you're better armed to argue about
stuff than they are?

Speaker 5 (57:50):
Yes? I would think so, because I try and seem informed,
like you know you do, and so when I listen
to you, I try, and that's how I stay on
top of things.

Speaker 1 (58:01):
So who I shouldn't ask you? You don't have to
say if you don't want you.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
But who'd you vote for.

Speaker 1 (58:05):
In the last election?

Speaker 5 (58:06):
Doland Trump?

Speaker 3 (58:07):
Easy?

Speaker 2 (58:07):
Did you tell your friends this?

Speaker 1 (58:08):
Did that be a conflict?

Speaker 5 (58:09):
Nope? Never created a conflict.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
Did your friends vote for Trump?

Speaker 1 (58:12):
Yes? Really? So you're a young man, you're twenty one
year old man, and your friends voted for Donald Trump?

Speaker 5 (58:18):
Yep?

Speaker 1 (58:19):
Why did they vote for him?

Speaker 5 (58:20):
Because they're tired of the crapola that is coming from Washington.
So time or change some things up. We already had
him elected into sixteen. But you know, the swamp just
got deeper in twenty twenty.

Speaker 1 (58:33):
I find it fascinating but not altogether surprising, because you
have a political party, in the Democratic Party, but has
been so invested in women's issues. But they've done so
not just to the exclusion of young men, but they're
blaming a lot on young men and men and things

(58:53):
like toxic masculinity and all this stuff.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
Do you think that played a role in it at all?

Speaker 5 (58:57):
Absolutely, because when you start pointing fingers, it only divides America.
And when you have a party that wants to try
and unite America, like not the whole majority of the
Republican Party, but at least Donald Trump in his campaign
wanted to That's the way that you kind of went
in an election. You think about Ronald Reagan. It's morning
in America. Do you try to unite America?

Speaker 1 (59:21):
And so it's funny that you bring up Ronald Reagan
because you're twenty one years old. Jaden is a listener
who stopped by, and I just thought, twenty one year
old listen, I'm putting him on the air. But I
was a kid during that time period. But if you
didn't know, and maybe you didn't know, he was despised
by half the country, and he was elected in nineteen

(59:42):
eighty and really worked against for the first couple of years.

Speaker 2 (59:46):
We went into a recession.

Speaker 1 (59:47):
Because they did some stuff that needed to be done,
and all of these things happened. I think it's fascinating
that you referenced him specifically. What are your thoughts about
Ronald Reagan? What you do know about him?

Speaker 5 (59:58):
Well? I think he was a really good president. You know,
of course he made some mistakes along the way, but
we all do, don't we. So he again did a
lot for America. He tried to think about the drug crisis,
try and better America, war against drugs, That's what it was.

(01:00:18):
And so I think he's really a good president.

Speaker 2 (01:00:22):
I agree, I agree, and I live through it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:23):
Let me ask you one more question, Jaye, before we
have to take a break. So are you are you
out on the dating scene at all? Do you are
you out there trying to date? Because I'm hearing some
things from young men that lean right that it is
getting more and more challenging. Yep, to find a woman
that will consider dating someone who is politically different than

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they are.

Speaker 2 (01:00:45):
Are you finding that to.

Speaker 5 (01:00:45):
Be absolutely, absolutely no doubt about that. Most women are
very you know, empathetic towards the liberal policies. You know,
I go to college too, and just a lot of
women think, oh, comp he's such a bad person because
he's a racist, or he's a so and so or

(01:01:07):
this or that, and I just think to myself, well,
you haven't ever listened to them. But and just in
the more of a demeanor. Really, they're liberal in that
sense as well. You know, they want to be is promiscuous?

Speaker 2 (01:01:22):
That is that is a word.

Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
They want to sample the goods.

Speaker 5 (01:01:25):
Yes, we'll just say it like that.

Speaker 1 (01:01:27):
That's the best the way to say it on the radio. Now,
I've been thinking about doing a listener event just for
single people to meet other people.

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
Now, Jaden, if you did come, you might end up
with a forty year.

Speaker 1 (01:01:36):
Old woman, because I'm not sure there'd be a bunch
of twenty one year old.

Speaker 5 (01:01:39):
Women that would show us that's right.

Speaker 1 (01:01:41):
Yeah, But I mean I think that's how frustrating is
that for you?

Speaker 5 (01:01:45):
It is very frustrating because you know, I was let's
see here, I was raising a middle class by family.

Speaker 1 (01:01:52):
You're proud of your lawn.

Speaker 5 (01:01:53):
I'm proud of my lawn. I am very proud of
my law. No, but I was raised a conservative, so
you know, when you try and find a woman, try
and find a conservative woman. It's just very difficult, and
I'm frustrated. Do you go to church? What do I
go on?

Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
Nobody at the church.

Speaker 5 (01:02:08):
Nobody at the church. No, not at least my age
church people younger, there's people a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:02:13):
So you're in the doughnut right, yeah, in between. Oh
that's so funny, mystery. You may want to change churches.
I'm just like, I know you like your church and everything. Well, Jade,
and I can't tell you how much I appreciate you
being a listener to the show.

Speaker 5 (01:02:25):
Well, thanks you for having me on.

Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
Everybody always talks about how you know, it's it's an
older audience, and it is primarily an audience over thirty five.
That's primarily who listens to the station. But whenever I
meet somebody like you, I think to myself, you know what,
maybe this next generation isn't as lost as I think
they're going to be.

Speaker 5 (01:02:41):
You know, yep, and I agree with that. You know,
I acquainked with all my friends. It's not that lost.
Hopefully die yet.

Speaker 1 (01:02:47):
I hope you're right, Jade, And I really appreciate you
coming down and saying hi, And I really appreciate you
listening and making your friends listen. That's as important part.
All Right, you guys, we're going to take a quick
time out. We will be back when we get back. Okay.
I asked you guys about smoking and tobacco products, and
you've blown my mind with some of the stuff that
you're saying on the text line about what people pay.

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I also have some statistics like who was doing this?
My mind is completely blown. We'll talk about this when
we get back.

Speaker 2 (01:03:17):
Keep it on, Kawa.

Speaker 1 (01:03:24):
We are going to be, like I said, out here
until nine o'clock now. So I got my mind blown
earlier when for some reason we started talking about the
price of cigarettes.

Speaker 2 (01:03:34):
And I'm a long ago smoker.

Speaker 1 (01:03:37):
I'm a three to fifty a pack smoker back in
those days, and I am absolutely gobsmacked that people still
smoke when cigarettes are seven to fifty a pack or more.
That blew my mind, absolutely blew my mind. How do
you afford that? Like I have given up expensive hobbies,
like I don't shoot nearly as much as I used

(01:03:59):
to because AMMO is expensive.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
You're like, how do you justify that?

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
How do you I gave up golf because golf is
incredibly expensive and time consuming. How do you just how
do you have a hobby that costs that much that's
also bad for you? So I asked the question, where
what's the price point? Where does it have to hit
before you as a smoker. And by the way, I'm
not picking on you. I'm not because again I'm a
former smoker myself, so it's not This is not a

(01:04:23):
judgment call. This is just me asking you, like, what
has to happen before you just say this is a hobby.

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
I can no longer afford. At one point, I was.

Speaker 1 (01:04:31):
In radio working as a news person and they paid
me so little that I was like, I'm sorry, this
job is a hobby I.

Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
Can no longer afford. And I'm just I'm just curious.

Speaker 1 (01:04:40):
So there is a lot of people commenting on Jaden
and that's good.

Speaker 5 (01:04:46):
So.

Speaker 1 (01:04:46):
Uh, somebody said, Mandy, two cartons is forty packs. A
carton of cigarettes is ten packs unless something has changed dramatically.

Speaker 2 (01:04:54):
Trust me, I used to purchase them that way, Mandy.

Speaker 1 (01:04:58):
Uh, let me see here, eleven dollars a carton. I
don't They're not eleven dollars a carton, Mandy, I roll
my own smokes with a filter. A one pound bag
of tobacco is twenty five bucks and amounts to about
three cartons.

Speaker 2 (01:05:12):
But then you have to be able to know how to.

Speaker 1 (01:05:14):
Roll your own cigarettes, which I cannot do, not that
I've ever tried. I mean maybe I haven't. Whatever, Mandy,
one hundred percent tobacco attacks in Summit County, fifteen dollars
for a can of chew. That is mind blowing to me,
absolutely mind blowing. But I do want to share this
because this is the one that really was like mm hmm, Mandy.

(01:05:36):
My mom has never worked and lived off welfare ever
since I was born in nineteen eighty. She is sixty
now and has always had an apartment and food paid
for and the government has always given her money which
supports her package a cigarette and drug habit. I blame
the government for enabling my mom's lifestyle. I really hope
the DOGE cracks down on people that take advantage of
the system. If it happened sooner, I might have had

(01:05:59):
a mom was actually a mom. That is a heartbreaking
text message. But I appreciate you sharing that because when
people talk about things like drug testing people who are
on government assistance. This is exactly the situation that they're
thinking of. And I don't want to make it embarrassing.
If someone needs assistance, I want to make it temporary.

(01:06:21):
I don't want anybody to have the ability to milk
the system since nineteen eighty and continue to have bad
habits while they have them. You know, there's a kind
of a funny meme, and I share it every time
I see it because I believe it, and that is
a lot of times four people are poor because they
make dumb decisions over and over and over again. And
there have been times in my life where I too,

(01:06:43):
made really really dumb decisions and learned from them and
started to make better decisions as I was going forward.
But when your current situation is subsidized and you're not
forced to make any smarter decisions because you're still going
to be able to maintain the lifestyle that you want
without really changing anything, a lot of people will just
drop into default mode, which is the path of least resistance,

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and that's unfortunate.

Speaker 2 (01:07:08):
I know a lot of people like this.

Speaker 1 (01:07:10):
I know people that and I was telling this to
a group that I just spoke to an organization. One
of the things that frustrates me most in life is
when I see someone that has so much potential and
they don't do anything to develop it. Wasted potential to
me feels almost criminal. People that have an incredible amount
of talent but no drive whatsoever. They don't want to

(01:07:32):
accomplish anything, They don't want to move forward. That is super,
super frustrating for me. And I know people that I
have known my entire life, that I've known since we
were children, and I know they're smart, and I know
they're capable, and I know that they have talents, and
I know they have abilities, but they just don't have
any motivation whatsoever. And to a person that came from

(01:07:53):
a situation where either their parents had a lot of
money or there was money in the family, so they've
never really had to strive and succeed, it's just it's
it's crazy, Mandy. I try to buy my cigarettes in
Texas with tax about six bucks a pack. I buy
as many packs as they will let me when I'm
in Texas, So I mean, but what about the rest
of the time, you know, I just I guess I'm

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shocked by this, and I don't want to pile on
I just when I heard that, I just think I
feel the same way about this in a weird way.

Speaker 2 (01:08:25):
Go with me, work with me on this analogy.

Speaker 1 (01:08:27):
When I found out that there are handbags that women
pay fifty thousand dollars for, that is literally the dumbest
thing I have ever heard in my entire life. That's
like a mortgage in some places. That's that's like two
new cars, you know, and they're spending that on a handbag.
I kind of feel this way, like for all the

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people that are still using tobacco and remain addicted, like
what are you doing?

Speaker 2 (01:08:53):
You're better than this, You're smarter than this.

Speaker 1 (01:08:55):
Years ago, when I was smoking, somebody asked me one time,
why did you.

Speaker 2 (01:08:57):
Finally quit smoking? Two things happen.

Speaker 1 (01:09:00):
Number one, I heard Neil Board's one of my favorite
radio hosts, and he's on his show and he said,
here's the thing. I know really smart people that smoke,
and I don't know why. And he said, so, if
you're a smart person that smokes, why do you do
something that you know is bad for you and is expensive?
And I was like, dang, I don't have a good
answer for that. He's kind of right. I think I'm smart,
and yet I'm making this same dumb choice. And then

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once I decided to have a kid, I was like,
I don't ever want to see I don't ever want
to see my kid see me doing something that could
lead them down a bad road. And I'm not a
perfect parent by any stretch of the imagination, but my
kid has never seen me with a cigarette in my hand,
and never will. That's kind of the choice. Milking the
system is a lifestyle for a lot of people. Most
people on welfare are abusing it. I don't know about

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most people, because though I know people that have been
milking the system, and you're right, that was a room
a Texter. I know people that have been milking the system.
I also know people who've gone through a really terrible
time in their life and they've utilized the system, and
then they have done something to improve themselves and improve
there were job skills and improve their lives, and they
came out of the system and it was there when

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they really needed it. I'm not anti a welfare system.
What I'm anti is a welfare state. Those two things
are very very different. We'll be right back, keep it
right here on Koa.

Speaker 2 (01:10:24):
And we're gonna be here for another hour.

Speaker 1 (01:10:26):
We are collecting donations for the Food Bank of the Rockies.

Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
Need is up this year.

Speaker 1 (01:10:31):
And as I said earlier today, you know, one of
my favorite concepts, and I'm not one of those people
that can quote things chapter and verse in the Bible
is too much who who too much is given?

Speaker 2 (01:10:40):
Much is expected.

Speaker 1 (01:10:42):
And if you have the available money, or you have
a little wiggle room, or maybe you've been showered with
blessings this year, perhaps share those blessings by making a
donation to the Food Bank of the Rockies. You can
do that if you can't make it down here today,
because we're gonna be down here, Kiowa is gonna be
down here until nine pm, so our shows are all
going to be live from here. But you can also
go to my today at mandy'sblog dot com and right

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at the top you can see help someone out who
needs it this holiday season. And I've got to link
you where you can donate directly to the Food Bank
of the Rockies if you can't make it down here today.
We appreciate our sponsors, Redbird Firms, gmc buick and courtesy
Acura and of course us here at KAA and thanks
to our partners at King Supers for having us today.

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So I promised this story earlier, and I forgot to
do it because I got so gobsmacked by the cigarette
conversation that I lost my train of thought. But do
you ever see something that's it's not right, Like you
know it's not the right thing to do, but at
the same time you see it and you're like, you
know what, I wish i'd thought of that. That's how
I felt when I saw this news story today about

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the traffic signs that were, let's just say they had
something added to them. Signs in Boulder at table Mesa
Drive in South Broadway, twenty eighth Street and J Road,
eighth Street and pallow Parkway and twenty eighth Street and
Diagonal Highway had some additional, well let's just say, signage
added to their speed signs, and one of them just

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said slow down blank. I can't tell you what the
blank was. I believe it was probably slow down a hole,
but the actual word one said, put the phone down blank,
and don't kill any kids today. The fourth sign listed
the speed limit as slow the blank down.

Speaker 2 (01:12:30):
Now I realized that in a polite society.

Speaker 1 (01:12:33):
Using curse words to make your point on a speed
limit sign is not the best way to do things.
But I got to tell you, I loved this.

Speaker 2 (01:12:40):
I loved it so much, so this is now a thing.

Speaker 1 (01:12:43):
We had one guy who in Denver, in order to
make a point, posted a bunch of fixed signs with
speed signs that were basically about people running across the
southern border.

Speaker 2 (01:12:55):
And now in Boulder we have this. And here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (01:12:58):
They're not covering the speed limit sign right so the
speed limit.

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
Signs at the top, and then they've just bolt it
right below.

Speaker 1 (01:13:04):
And these are signs that were made by somebody who
makes signs. These are professionally made metal signs.

Speaker 2 (01:13:11):
Someone spent some money to do this. But this to
me just seems like the.

Speaker 1 (01:13:14):
Frustration of a person who lives in this neighborhood, who
has probably almost been run over multiple times, and it's
just done with it, just done with it. I lived
in a neighborhood in Florida one time. This story is
so magnificent. So it was one of those extremely nondescript
neighborhoods where all the houses look the same, you know,
middle class families, lower middle class families, and this older

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gentleman bought a house at the very front of the complex,
and you came in the complex through one entrance.

Speaker 2 (01:13:43):
And then it immediately went off to like you know,
to the right.

Speaker 1 (01:13:46):
To the left, to straight and he bought the house
that was right on the other side of the main entrance,
and he would stand in his yard and yell at
people just slow down when they were coming through the neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
He was just that guy. He was the slow down guy.

Speaker 1 (01:13:59):
So I come home and there is a massive speed
bump coming into the complex. And when I say massive,
this thing was a good two and a half feet
off the ground. It was just this huge pile of asphalt,
so much so that I was like, I don't think
I've ever seen a speed bump that big. This is
like really incredible, massive speed bump. Don't know where this

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came from. Turns out the guy just got a bunch
of asphalt and dumped it on the road and made
his own speed bump. And I didn't even know that
was the thing you could do. And even though it
was a complete pain because I had a lower car
at the time and every time I went over it, it
scraped the front of my car off. I also admired
him because he wasn't a guy to sit around and
take things lightly. What ended up happening is he got

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in trouble with the city. The city came in, he
had to pay to have it removed, jacked up the
road in the process as they were removing it because
it was asphalt on asphalt, So they left a big
ditch where this was, and it served the exact same
purpose as a speed bump, because if you hit the
ditch going with any sort of speed, you were gonna
jack up your car, your alignment, and everything else. So

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even though the guy didn't get his way, he got
his way. And to this.

Speaker 2 (01:15:07):
Day, I want to find that guy. He's got to
be dead now because he was old then and this
was like thirty thirty plus years ago.

Speaker 1 (01:15:14):
God Lee, I hate it when I do that, Shannon,
When I think about how old I was when this
story happened, and then I think about and I do
the math, and I'm like, oh, that was thirty two
years ago. Oh okay, Yeah, that's okay, Yeah, nothing to
see here at all. And I was like an adult,
I was a near child thirty two years ago. Hate
it when I do that, Mandy. I think putting up

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random signs stating the obvious is a great idea, minus
the foul language, but definitely a good idea. I gotta
tell you, I love this. This person reminds me while
you talk about speeding down the HOV lane in passing lane.
First of all, I don't speed in the passing lane.
I just get frustrated when I can't pass in the
passing lane. Second of all, I don't speed in neighborhoods.

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I do not speed in school zone. I'm the person
going twenty miles an hour when the speed limit is
twenty miles an hour. I may want you to move
quickly in an HOV lane on the interstate.

Speaker 2 (01:16:08):
But that's on the interstate.

Speaker 1 (01:16:10):
So you can be a speedy driver in some places
and a very cautious driver another.

Speaker 2 (01:16:14):
And there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:16:15):
That's where I put your host right now. Oh, thank you, sir,
Thank you, sir, Mandy. And Reno speed bumps are pointed
out to drivers with a sign that says traffic calming ahead. No,
I don't feel any more calm when I go over
our speed bump, Mandy. I paid fourteen bucks a pack
of Lucky stripes, non filtered, been smoking for forty one

(01:16:35):
years smoker, if you just joined us, you don't know.
In the last hour, I found out how much cigarettes cost.
And I'm just gobsmacked. I mean, I am, I don't
even know what to do with that. And so now I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:16:46):
Asking smokers, like, what does it have to get to?

Speaker 1 (01:16:49):
And if you're committed, if you're forty one year smoker,
you're you're not gonna quit, And I'm not gonna ask
you to. One time, when I was sewing insurance to
old people, I met a couple. They had just come
from playing tennis. He was eight, she was eighty one.
They were just fit as a fiddle and they looked great,
and they were all ten. They looked fantastic. They'd been
married for like sixty one years or some crazy amount
like that. And I'm filling out the health form for

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them and I get to the park and that says
do you smoke? Yes or no? And I marked no
because they were eighty four and eighty three and they
look job so amazing and they just come playing for tennis.
And the woman said to me, very sheepishly, she said, well,
we do still smoke. And I was like, really, you
guys are an amazing healthy look great. She said, our
children are nagging us to quit. And I said, you know,

(01:17:32):
I got to tell you I would advise against that.
Net Nicotine could be holding you together at this point,
Like if you reach your eighties and you've smoked for
sixty years as they had, and you're still doing okay,
and you could breathe and it's not gonna get you.
That's not what's going to kill you. Some people, genetically
my late grandmother, my crazy Hungarian grandmother, she smoked more

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one twenty unfiltered cigarettes for like seventy five years and
she lived to be like a million. Some people are
just genetically lucky. But you don't get to know that.
And while you smoke, Mandy, what is the proper passing
lane speed? Express lane? Speed? Depends on how fast I
want to get where I'm going. That's a case by
case basis right there, I cannot give you that information

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with any voracity. My cousin's college campus says this texture
at speed limit signs like twelve miles per hour or
thirty four miles per hour, because they make you look twice.
There's a parking lot in Highland's Ranch. It is one
of those shopping centers where it has like restaurants and
stuff around it. They have a speed limit sign of
twelve and a half miles per hour, and I never

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knew what that was until right now. Texter, thank you
for clarifying that, because every time I see it, I
go twelve and a half. That's oddly specific. You know what,
if you're going twelve point six miles per hour, you're
gonna get a ticket. Is the copper gonna track it
out for that one? Mandy?

Speaker 2 (01:18:55):
There are so many choices in life.

Speaker 1 (01:18:56):
Choosing cigarettes over food seems problematic, but I guess cigarettes
aren't given out my charities, but food is.

Speaker 2 (01:19:02):
That is an excellent point.

Speaker 1 (01:19:04):
There's a sign in Los Angeles that was made by
an individual directing people to the five North. It's really
confusing interchange, and the state left to sign up because
it helps so much, so they just left the guys
sign up. That's actually kind of cool. Now I have
a new goal for my to do list after I retire,
create a road sign that is so helpful that if

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after I put it up illegally, they will just let
it stay. You got to have goals. People, you got
to have goals. We're going to take a quick time out,
be right back after this. Keep it on.

Speaker 2 (01:19:34):
Kawa got a couple of stories that we're gonna do.

Speaker 1 (01:19:42):
As we are broadcasting live from outside the King Supers
at Colorado and Yale. We'd love for you to come
by make a donation to the Food Bank of the
Rockies help out families who may be struggling this year,
and we've got a lot of food. We don't have
nearly as much as last year. I'm just throwing this
out here. Last year we had gets.

Speaker 2 (01:20:00):
And gobs of food.

Speaker 1 (01:20:01):
Do you remember, Shannon, It was like carts it every
So we got to get you guys to pick up
the base. I'm hoping that if you can't make it down,
you can go to the blog at mandy'sblog dot com
and click through to the Food Bank of the Rockies
and make a cash donation. Your cash donations go really
far because they have the ability to buy in bulk
and wholesale, So don't be afraid to just make a
cash donation. Whatever you can afford is really so. We're

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so grateful. So if it's five dollars, if it's fifty dollars,
if it's five hundred dollars whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:20:30):
We're just so grateful for that.

Speaker 1 (01:20:32):
You guys are sending me really funny stories now about
passive aggressive stuff. When it comes to signs, this one says,
when I was in the college band, we stole signs
to hang in the band building. One said caution, four
hundred children play here. One night, someone crossed out four
hundred and wrote three ninety nine.

Speaker 2 (01:20:49):
We had some sick people on that.

Speaker 1 (01:20:52):
Okay, hang on, We're about to kill Ross's a iPad here.
Ross was kind enough to leave it for me. I
want to do a story that is local, but I
just want to share this with you if you live
in other places where they are not doing this. I
recently had the opportunity to hear from law enforcement officials
in Douglas County, and they talked about the fact that

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in Douglas County, if someone comes to Douglas County to
steal and the store calls and says someone is stealing,
you know what happens in Douglas County that doesn't happen
in other places.

Speaker 2 (01:21:23):
The cops show up and they arrest.

Speaker 1 (01:21:25):
People, and not only that, they then send out a
press release to let people know if you come to
steal in Douglas County, we're going to arrest you. They
just announced that they got two shoplifting suspects accused of
trying to steal nearly two thousand dollars worth of groceries.
The suspects were arrested when the store did this thing
calling the police, and the police were there when the

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gentlemen decided they were going to leave. And the reason
I say calling the police is because one of the
things that these law enforcement agencies told us is that
their biggest problem right now is that stores are not
calling the police when people are stealing from them. This
is not going to get better unless we arrest the
people on a regular basis that are stealing. Because when

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someone steals from a store, you have to think about
it like this, dear listeners of mine. When someone steals
from the store, the store is then going to cost
the past those costs of those stolen items. They call
it shrinkage onto the rest of us. So if we
want to keep our prices as low as we can
keep them, we've got to keep the shrinkage as low
as the shrinkage could be. And I'm thrilled as a

(01:22:28):
resident of Douglas County to say, come to my county
and you're going to get arrested. I have twice been
either driving into Walmart or leaving Walmart and seen four
police cars arresting people who are obviously have giant bags
of laundry, detergent or whatever they're trying to steal. And
they're arresting them in the parking lot and I drive
by it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:46):
I give them little golf Club, give them little golf Club.

Speaker 1 (01:22:49):
Well done, Well done, coppers, well done. Shoplifting is not
a victimless crime. Shoplifting jacks up the prices for all
of us, and it is not okay, and it needs
to be treated as it's not okay. And I wonder,
by the way, one of the things that the law
of the law enforcement officials said is that a lot
of times when they arrest these people, they have warrants

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from multiple places for similar crimes. They have outstanding warrants
for other peony level crimes. So they're not just getting
a shoplifter off the street. They're getting someone who is
committing other crimes off the street at the same time.
So I say this, and if you are in law
enforcement in a different area, in a different county. I
would love for you to text me five six six

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nine zero if that's what you do in your county.

Speaker 2 (01:23:34):
If not, why not?

Speaker 1 (01:23:36):
My guess is is that most places, most other places
are so understaffed that they can't even imagine having the
time and manpower to go to every single call that
they're getting. But ultimately, I think publicizing stories like this
me talking about stories like this, that becomes a preventive

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measure as well, because why are you going to go
someplace when.

Speaker 2 (01:23:59):
You know you're going to be arrested? I don't think
I did the story from Aspen the.

Speaker 1 (01:24:03):
Other day that was so similar. So in Aspen, these
two guys roll into Aspen and they're walking around, And
if you've ever been to downtown Aspen and walked into
any of the shops, inevitably nothing has a price tag.

Speaker 2 (01:24:17):
On it in Aspen, Like I'm just straight up, you're
in a clothing store.

Speaker 1 (01:24:19):
Nothing has a price tag, so you have to ask
how much something costs. And these two gentlemen are basically
walking around like how much is this? How much is this?

Speaker 2 (01:24:26):
They were casing the joint. Now, in Aspen, there's.

Speaker 1 (01:24:29):
So little crime that when anybody looks suspicious, the entire
town springs into action and everybody keeps an eye.

Speaker 2 (01:24:34):
On the suspicious people.

Speaker 1 (01:24:36):
So in Aspen, you don't want to commit a crime
because they don't have any and if you do, they
are going to do nothing until they catch you. Same
thing in Douglas County. I'm just curious what everybody else
is doing. We'll be back after this.

Speaker 2 (01:24:49):
Keep it on Koa.

Speaker 1 (01:24:55):
We are taking donations for the Food Bank of the Rockies. Now,
if you pull up right now, you're not going to
see any food out here at all, because they just
put it in the big truck. But I promise you
people have been delivering food all day, stopping by picking
things up here.

Speaker 2 (01:25:08):
My friend Cindy actually had a great idea.

Speaker 1 (01:25:10):
She goes, I figured that everybody would be shopping at
this King Super, so she stopped at multiple King Soupers
all the way down.

Speaker 2 (01:25:17):
From her house. So she didn't, like, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:25:19):
Pick through everything, because she gave us a bunch of food.
So if you want to bring from other King Supers,
we'd love it. And it is such an important thing
to do around the holiday season.

Speaker 2 (01:25:29):
In just a few minutes, I'm going to talk to Mark.

Speaker 1 (01:25:31):
He's the director of food sourcing for the Food Bank
of the Rockies, and we'll get more information about that.
In the meantime, I have to tell you, guys, I
am one of those people. Do you ever, I can't
be the only person who does this. I am the
person who keeps signing up for a turkey trot and
then I don't show up. I have signed up for

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and not participated in more turkey trots than I could
possibly tell you here, Shannon, are you a turkey trot guy?
What do you like Thanksgiving morning? Are you a mimosa?
Or you a turkey trot person?

Speaker 7 (01:26:02):
Like?

Speaker 1 (01:26:02):
What do we I think you have to fall into
one of those camps or the other. And I'm trying
to become a turkey trot person. But I don't think
that I have turkey trot in my jeans.

Speaker 2 (01:26:12):
I just I don't think what's gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (01:26:14):
I would actually enjoy that.

Speaker 6 (01:26:15):
But the years I've been with CEU football, it's always.

Speaker 1 (01:26:19):
Been oh yeah, yep, and now you're gonna have to
work a little longer because of CU football. Now let
me ask you, like seriously, though, you would you sign
up for a turkey Trot if you weren't working with CU.

Speaker 6 (01:26:30):
Football, I don't understand the signing up. Yeah, the signing
supposed to just run randomly.

Speaker 1 (01:26:35):
Well no, I'm well, you know that they have these
little races and they go like some of them go
this weekend. There's a bunch of this weekend coming up,
and I have a link to all these on the
blog today. But I keep signing up for the Thanksgiving
Day turkey trot that's near me in Douglas County, and
then I keep not showing up for it. So I'm
consistent in the sense that I am going to sign

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up and then I'm not going to go.

Speaker 6 (01:26:58):
We've already had one healthy scre Mandy Conwell.

Speaker 2 (01:27:01):
Here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (01:27:02):
I keep trying to convince myself that this year is
going to be the year that I turkey trot, and
then inevitably I let myself and all the other turkey
trotters down. Now next year, next Thanksgiving, my kids are
all coming here and they have become turkey trot people
as adults. So I think next year is going to
be the year that I break my streak where I
sign up and then I.

Speaker 2 (01:27:23):
Actually go do the turkey trot.

Speaker 1 (01:27:25):
Which would be something new. I need advice from any
of our texters on how to be a turkey trot person,
because it's aspirational for me, like i'd like to do it.
I like the idea of a turkey trot. I just
don't like the actual doing of the turkey trot. So
i'd like your tips on that. I'd appreciate that. Joining
me now the director of food Sourcing, Mark Westler. He's
here picking up our loot that we've gathered up. Hopefully

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we're gonna gather up a whole bunch more because we're
gonna be here until nine o'clock. The guys will be
here at three and then Broncos Country tonight will be
here freezing. Their little took Us is off from six
to nine, so we hope you can stop by. Mark.
What do you I seeing this year in terms of
need overall?

Speaker 8 (01:28:03):
Well, as you might imagine, the need is incredible. I
think the statistic is a thirteen percent increase in the
rate of food and security. But as you know, with
just the rate of inflation across the board, whether it's
cost of living or you know what your rent costs,
your medical bills, grocery store prices, so absolutely, our lines

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and the lines of our over eight hundred.

Speaker 9 (01:28:26):
Hunger relief partners are unfortunately quite long.

Speaker 1 (01:28:29):
Are you seeing an impact in terms of donations people
that normally would have you know, because I got to
tell you last year. I feel like we've collected a
lot more food last year than we have this year.
Are you seeing people saying, look, I can't even afford
to put my own food on my table.

Speaker 2 (01:28:44):
So I can't donate this year. Is that a problem?

Speaker 1 (01:28:47):
No, we haven't seen.

Speaker 8 (01:28:48):
Fortunately, the kindness and generosity of the general public has
remained steady, which is wonderful. So we have seen a
reduction on the financial side. We've seen reduction in federal
funds year as we went into this year, so I
had to make some tough choices in that regard.

Speaker 9 (01:29:03):
So everything helps for what it's worth.

Speaker 8 (01:29:05):
If you donate one dollar, we can make three meals
out of one dollar.

Speaker 2 (01:29:09):
I said that earlier on the show. It's like, it's great.

Speaker 1 (01:29:11):
It's fun for people who want to come down and
they want to shop, and they want to feel like
that physical action of I am giving you a turkey
and someone is going to enjoy that. I get it,
but it really for you guys, a financial donation of
the same amount is far more valuable in the long run.

Speaker 8 (01:29:27):
Yeah, I mean we welcome donations in all shapes and sizes.
But you're right, so our buying power, we essentially operate
like a giant food distributor in many ways for our partners.
So we're buying full truckloads of.

Speaker 1 (01:29:38):
Food we buy at wholesale rates.

Speaker 5 (01:29:40):
Yeah, so we buy.

Speaker 8 (01:29:41):
We have about sixty vendors that we bid across the
country and we're bringing in about ten loads of food
a day. So yeah, we can make a dollar go
a lot further than you know you can at your
local store. But having said that, yeah, there is some
beauty to that.

Speaker 1 (01:29:56):
Just it feels like we're handing. Yeah, I have someone
wh needs it, something they need and it's a good.
Last year I shopped. This year, I'm going to make
a cash donation just because if that can go further.
But I enjoy that process of putting food in the
big basket and you know, dropping the turkeys and like,
I like that.

Speaker 2 (01:30:13):
But I'm also one of those people.

Speaker 1 (01:30:15):
That looks at effectiveness and I have decided for me
this year it's going to be a cash donation just
to be more effective. But I don't I don't begrudge
anyone who, however they want to do it.

Speaker 5 (01:30:23):
Yeah, and for what it's worth.

Speaker 8 (01:30:24):
I was here last year, so me and a couple
folks on our team were the ones making the trips
last year. I've been one v one making them this year,
and this is our second or third trip today. We'll
be making several more throughout the day. But it seems
like from my vantage point, it's actually more food.

Speaker 3 (01:30:40):
Okay, good, Ye're good.

Speaker 1 (01:30:41):
That's because I kind of challenged everybody because you know,
we had I guess we had it all right in
front of us last year, so it was maybe a
little more in my face. It's a little bit off
to the side this time, so I'm not seeing it
as much. Let me ask you a question that's not
just about the holidays, because we're here, we're getting turkeys,
we're getting Thanksgiving stuff, We're going what are some of
the things that are most appreciated by the people who
use the food Bank of the Rockies that you don't

(01:31:03):
get enough of, Like, what are some of those items?
Everybody buys tuna, everybody buys pasta, everybody buys you know
the staples that we think these are staples in my house,
But what are some of the special things that people
get excited about.

Speaker 9 (01:31:16):
It's a great question.

Speaker 8 (01:31:18):
I mean, in our world, it's fresh produce, it's frozen protein.
So what to be frozen ground by, frozen chicken, dairy
items or basically anything perishable right rights in high demand
and very very much appreciated. The other thing that we
pride ourselves on is having a culturally relevant food initiative

(01:31:40):
platform where we try to understand the communities that we
serve and then find those kinds of foods. So it's
really neat when you can provide foods to a community
that might be from a far away place and that
food is recognizable to them. So just that connection of
something that they're familiar with and they understand, because people
from different cultures might not know what peanut butter is.

Speaker 1 (01:32:02):
Right and right, so they watch tortillas and they want
ye to molly yes, they want to be able to
set what have you.

Speaker 8 (01:32:08):
So we we really pride ourselves on trying to understand
the community and deliver what they're looking for.

Speaker 1 (01:32:14):
I think I am probably not the only one who
was a little surprised to hear you say, like those
perishable items, because we always think what's going to be
shelf stable, what's not going to go bad? Do you
have a problem ever, with gallons of milk going bad
or cheese going bad or any of these things that
we're talking about.

Speaker 8 (01:32:31):
Well, in the part of my world is that I
call it the food rescue world. So as you might imagine,
everything's on a time clock and has a short shelf
life that we're capturing in terms of donations. But we
have tremendous scale, as I mentioned, We've got over eight
hundred partners.

Speaker 9 (01:32:48):
We've got a building here in Denver, we've got a
building in Grand Junction one up in Wyoming. So we
have the ability to move food rather quickly.

Speaker 5 (01:32:55):
So yeah, we we hardly.

Speaker 8 (01:32:57):
I think we run less than a two percent way
a rate, which for an entity of our size, that's
pretty good. And yeah, we were able to move perishble items,
you know, producing dairy at a pretty rapid pace. We
have a fresh delivery system that where we pushed the
produce out and time those deliveries to our partners on.

Speaker 9 (01:33:18):
A day when they're doing a distribution of the food.

Speaker 8 (01:33:21):
So yeah, we've sort of engineered the whole system to
be able to move with pace to get the food
out in time.

Speaker 1 (01:33:28):
How do you guys work with either restaurants or anything
to sort of work on food waste? Is that what
you were getting at, Like, that's part of what you do.

Speaker 9 (01:33:36):
Yeah, big part of my world.

Speaker 8 (01:33:38):
So I'm over sourcing, so it's purchased food and food rescue.
But yeah, we're working with pretty much anybody in the
food business as you might imagine. And yeah, we work
with some restaurants. There's some other entities in town that
also do some stuff with restaurants.

Speaker 9 (01:33:51):
Capturing prepared meals is what we call it.

Speaker 8 (01:33:55):
But yeah, almost anybody in the food business, we're working
with them some way, shape or form to capture their
surplus food.

Speaker 1 (01:34:02):
Well Mark Westler, he is the director a few food
sourcing for the Food Bank of the Rockies. I really
appreciate you making time and coming down here and picking
up our food. And I'm glad you made me feel
better by saying you feel like it was more than last.

Speaker 5 (01:34:14):
We appreciate you.

Speaker 9 (01:34:15):
And I love your shirt.

Speaker 1 (01:34:17):
Oh, thank you you guys. I'm wearing my Christmas shirt.
I bought this in January at a Marshall's about ten
years ago, and I wear it twice a year. One
of them is for this so and then I put
it back in the closet until next year.

Speaker 2 (01:34:29):
So it's got Christmas lights on that working.

Speaker 9 (01:34:31):
To inspire shoppers, and we appreciate it perfect.

Speaker 1 (01:34:33):
Mark.

Speaker 2 (01:34:34):
I appreciate thanks so much for taking time with you.

Speaker 1 (01:34:36):
I'm going to have you change places with that guy
right there because Chuck came down.

Speaker 2 (01:34:41):
Chuck is here. I was like, hey, Chuck, you want
to come down and play of the day.

Speaker 1 (01:34:45):
And he always says he wins when he's in his car,
and I want to beat him here in person. So Zach,
I hope you have the appropriate category. By the way,
I want to say a big shout out thank you Mark. No, no, no,
Zach has been doing a great job today. Zach is
our newest producer and we're happy to have him. And
I just wanted to say, Zach, it's doing a remote

(01:35:07):
when the first few times you've done the show is
like a new next level challenge and you're up for it.

Speaker 2 (01:35:11):
I appreciate all the hard work.

Speaker 3 (01:35:13):
Thank you for your kind words and your patients in general.

Speaker 10 (01:35:15):
As I get situated over here and I think I've
got a good category for you guys today.

Speaker 1 (01:35:20):
Okay, just make sure it's not sixties rock and roll,
because Chuck will beat me on that category.

Speaker 2 (01:35:24):
Just find a category where I could beat my.

Speaker 11 (01:35:25):
Husband, one category I could beat you in. Okay, That's
really what it comes down to.

Speaker 1 (01:35:30):
I want to read some of these text messages that
are that are very very interesting. Today says this texter
was my first cash donation. I usually get a bag
of food. But when you said that money goes further,
it does a lot of you were weighing in, Mandy,
if you had a singles event, I would attend single
female mid fifties. That is the number one question.

Speaker 2 (01:35:49):
That we talked about.

Speaker 1 (01:35:51):
Here's my fear about this because what you guys don't
know about Chuck is that he is like half husband,
half P. T.

Speaker 3 (01:35:58):
Barnum.

Speaker 1 (01:35:59):
So whenever I come up with these cockamany ideas, he
takes my cocamane idea and then just explodes it into
something even bigger. But when it comes to an event
for singles, I'm cautious because what if a psycho comes
to our event and something that happens like I would
feel terrible if someone ended up going with someone, going
out with someone who was.

Speaker 2 (01:36:18):
A horrible person.

Speaker 1 (01:36:18):
I would just feel kind of responsible for that.

Speaker 3 (01:36:20):
You can only have so much liability.

Speaker 5 (01:36:22):
I know it's not about me from no, I agree
with what you.

Speaker 1 (01:36:27):
Know how I feel about my listeners. I mean that
would make me feel too.

Speaker 11 (01:36:30):
Oh you know, we could have everybody submit earlier and
I could just do.

Speaker 1 (01:36:33):
A trust me.

Speaker 2 (01:36:35):
I thought about that.

Speaker 1 (01:36:36):
I'm like, Okay, what if we make the admission price
just enough to where we could do a background check
on everybody that's coming. At least we'd have some certainty
that they weren't psycho killers.

Speaker 11 (01:36:44):
And that'd be around seventy bucks. So that would also
say that they're dedicated to us.

Speaker 5 (01:36:48):
My clock died.

Speaker 2 (01:36:50):
Oh, my clock died. It's too hot.

Speaker 1 (01:36:52):
It's too hot out here. Everything is melting, and actually
it is very pleasant now. So, Mandy, we were talking
about Turkey. I was talking about Turkey trots, the fact
that we keep signing up for them and never.

Speaker 2 (01:37:03):
Actually noting them.

Speaker 9 (01:37:03):
Keep signing up.

Speaker 1 (01:37:05):
I was gonna thanks for throwing me.

Speaker 11 (01:37:06):
Alone under the bed, because yeah, we're doing one next year, That's.

Speaker 1 (01:37:10):
What I said. And I said, I need something like,
you know, inspiration so I actually, Mandy, turkey trot is fun,
especially with friends. This will be my family's second year
advice dress warm and arrive early to get good parking.
I someday I'm gonna do this year.

Speaker 9 (01:37:27):
We'll have the whole family here and they have requested it.

Speaker 1 (01:37:30):
Mandy. Well, the food Bank except expired can goods. They
do not accept expired can goods because of their liability,
so they have to make sure that it is still
in date.

Speaker 2 (01:37:39):
And I feel you on that.

Speaker 1 (01:37:41):
I've been trying to get rid of a can of
artichow carts for about seven years now, but they're still
in my cabinet.

Speaker 9 (01:37:47):
Pumpkin filler.

Speaker 2 (01:37:48):
Oh yeah, well that was for the dog.

Speaker 3 (01:37:50):
Yeah, but that's like twelve years old.

Speaker 1 (01:37:51):
Yeah, that is for the dog of course. The wine Yogi.
Anytime I do a turkey trot, if possible, I hit
up my favorite coffee shop and get myself an over
the top holiday coffee and past so my favorite gingerbread
latte plus gingerbread loaf. I focus on that while jogging,
since we have to drive downwards towards Trinidad. Again this year,
no trotting for me, although I do plan to get
up and get a forty five minute walk in before

(01:38:12):
we depart. And that is why the Winogi is a
type a former Air Force captain that's so on brand
for her.

Speaker 2 (01:38:18):
Right there, that's all you need to know, Mandy.

Speaker 1 (01:38:21):
You can always do both, like in the bear money
and tomato cans. Mandy, can we bring items from Safeway?

Speaker 2 (01:38:28):
Yes you can.

Speaker 1 (01:38:29):
You can bring items from anywhere, but King Soupers is
our partner and they're really nice to let us do
all this out here.

Speaker 2 (01:38:36):
So sh just don't say where you bought it.

Speaker 1 (01:38:39):
Just bring it. It's fine. It's fine anyway, Mandy. The
weather cannot be counted on to be good to do
a virtual turkey trot?

Speaker 5 (01:38:48):
What is the no?

Speaker 3 (01:38:49):
No, no no?

Speaker 1 (01:38:50):
What's a virtual turkey do? I just stand in my
house and jog in place? What am I doing there?

Speaker 11 (01:38:54):
The turkey trot one of the whole great things that
you're there freezing with everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:38:59):
Wait right, the one that would even fake sign up
for me? I sign up knowing I'm not going to
do it. You don't even.

Speaker 2 (01:39:04):
Sign up knowing you're not going to do it.

Speaker 1 (01:39:06):
So you know, if I had better support at home,
probably I would have turkey trited years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:39:10):
Sure, and then you got to cook all too.

Speaker 1 (01:39:14):
We would have got away with it. It wasn't for those
meddling kids, although she probably run faster than we would
from us. Love you, Chuck.

Speaker 2 (01:39:21):
I'd come to a singles event.

Speaker 9 (01:39:23):
So just to be clear, I am not single, So I.

Speaker 1 (01:39:26):
Know he's not saying he plays that on TV sometimes,
but he is not actually single. Hi, Mayby, I'll be
doing my forty second turkey trot at wash Park this year.
Although it gets harder and harder to motivate myself to
do this, it's so rewarding. Come on, come in time
to feast on the Thanksgiving Day meal.

Speaker 2 (01:39:43):
I love your show.

Speaker 7 (01:39:44):
Date.

Speaker 11 (01:39:44):
Well, I think the he's onto something. You just get
a Danish in your mind and you're good to go.

Speaker 2 (01:39:49):
It would have to be a really good Datish.

Speaker 5 (01:39:51):
That's that's the problem.

Speaker 1 (01:39:52):
There's no Danish that's danishy enough for me. So anyway,
let's do this. Here we go tomorrow on the program.
Let me get my calendar up. Let's see here.

Speaker 2 (01:40:07):
I am pulling this up.

Speaker 1 (01:40:08):
Everybody's texting me stuff to go tomorrow. I am so
excited because you guys might remember if you've listened to
the show for a very long time. You may remember
when I interviewed a guy named JP Spears who was
doing this kind of funny stuff on YouTube, but he
wasn't really he didn't have a lot of followers, and
I just thought he was really funny. Now he is

(01:40:28):
absolutely one of the biggest celebrities on YouTube, and he
is coming on the show tomorrow because he's at comedy
Works this weekend, so I'm super excited we kind of
update with him and find out what is going on now.
Also tomorrow we are talking to the advisor from the
Montreal Economic Institute.

Speaker 2 (01:40:46):
Why.

Speaker 1 (01:40:47):
She's talking about how Canada's laws, tax laws are choking,
absolutely choking in innovation and entrepreneurship in Canada. So that
is what's coming up tomorrow. But now it's time for
the most exciting segment on the radio of its kind
of the day that was scary and kind of weird.

(01:41:13):
All you gotta be ready, you gotta be ready, all right, Zach,
what is our dad joke of the day? Please?

Speaker 3 (01:41:20):
Dad Joke of the day.

Speaker 10 (01:41:22):
What do you call a kangaroos lazy joey?

Speaker 2 (01:41:27):
A kangaroos lazy joey A.

Speaker 1 (01:41:33):
I don't know pink walt a pouch potato. Oh, okay,
that's funny. I really like that. I can't wait to
tell that to my grandson's That's a good one, all right.
What is our word of the day, please?

Speaker 2 (01:41:46):
The word of the day for you?

Speaker 10 (01:41:48):
Here is snivel?

Speaker 1 (01:41:51):
Snivel? That Oh, I don't know how to define snivel.
I know what it is.

Speaker 5 (01:41:55):
Snivel is la and complain more snarl.

Speaker 1 (01:42:00):
Distaste, complaining, what is it? What is it? Zach?

Speaker 6 (01:42:07):
Here?

Speaker 10 (01:42:07):
We got to Snivel is to speak or act in
a whining, sniffling, tearful, or weakly emotional manner.

Speaker 1 (01:42:13):
Okay, Chuck gets credit for that, and then I that's
He's already up one and I'm in a bad way.
One of the most day's trivia question. One of the
most popular British pop groups of the nineteen eighties was
a duet called the Eurythmics, which two entertainers made up
this group. And I know this one because I love
them and they were married and then they weren't. I
know what, Yes, Lenox, say, Dave Stewart, that's it, Dave Stewart, Yes,

(01:42:39):
that is our trivia question of today. Okay, uh Zach,
this is where we're going to find out how much
you actually like me. What is our jeopardy category today, Chuck?
In order to answer the question correctly, you must say
your name and then answer it in the form of
a question twenty letting you know again, just so you
have no excuse for losing.

Speaker 2 (01:42:56):
Okay, go ahead, Zach. What's our category?

Speaker 10 (01:42:58):
The category today is pasta glossary first god. Okay, but
it seems like an even even one then yes, even
grow first one?

Speaker 3 (01:43:08):
Here?

Speaker 10 (01:43:09):
The basic type of pasta?

Speaker 1 (01:43:11):
The basic type of type of pasta?

Speaker 3 (01:43:15):
What is it?

Speaker 5 (01:43:15):
Go ahead?

Speaker 3 (01:43:16):
I did I'm sorry?

Speaker 5 (01:43:17):
Spaghetti?

Speaker 2 (01:43:18):
That's correct?

Speaker 3 (01:43:19):
What is what is spaghetti?

Speaker 1 (01:43:21):
I should not give you that?

Speaker 2 (01:43:23):
All right? Go ahead, Zach?

Speaker 3 (01:43:25):
All right.

Speaker 10 (01:43:26):
These long ribbons of pasta have a name meaning little tongues.
Long ribbons of pasta have a name, a little tongues. Yes, Mandy,
what is paperd incorrect?

Speaker 1 (01:43:44):
Take it?

Speaker 3 (01:43:45):
No idea linguini.

Speaker 2 (01:43:48):
I should have known that. That's so stupid, Manny.

Speaker 1 (01:43:54):
Winning You only have one on there R minus one
can Go ahead, Zach.

Speaker 10 (01:44:00):
Little discs or chieta are named for their resemblance to
these body parts.

Speaker 1 (01:44:05):
Anny, what are ears?

Speaker 3 (01:44:07):
That is correct?

Speaker 1 (01:44:09):
I'm back to zero, although I'm really not. I cheated.
She told me what the answer was. I'm keeping minus one.
I'm keeping my mind going. I can't cheat the books.

Speaker 3 (01:44:19):
Narrow flat noodles.

Speaker 10 (01:44:20):
Margarite means these white and yellow flowers, white yellow flowers.
Margarite means these white and yellow flowers.

Speaker 2 (01:44:30):
Mandy, what are miragolds?

Speaker 3 (01:44:33):
That's not right?

Speaker 1 (01:44:34):
Day it dag? What was my husband? He's just gonna
sit on the wind right now. If you smart, he
would just sit here quietly for the rest of the odds.

Speaker 2 (01:44:43):
Yeah, what is the What is the next one?

Speaker 3 (01:44:45):
Daisy?

Speaker 2 (01:44:46):
What is the answer?

Speaker 9 (01:44:48):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:44:50):
Last one for you? Here?

Speaker 10 (01:44:52):
The name of this totally tubular pasta is said to
handy little mustaches.

Speaker 2 (01:44:56):
Yes, Mandy, what is penny?

Speaker 1 (01:44:59):
Oh right, I'm sorry this has turned into a massacre.

Speaker 3 (01:45:03):
The answer I can just sit here.

Speaker 1 (01:45:06):
You've already won you want dramatically by keeping quiet.

Speaker 10 (01:45:10):
The names of this totally tubular pasta is said to
mean little mustaches.

Speaker 5 (01:45:19):
I know, I.

Speaker 1 (01:45:22):
Why don't you try macro?

Speaker 5 (01:45:23):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (01:45:23):
Yeah, okay, I was thinking of something else, but I
don't think it.

Speaker 9 (01:45:26):
She gave it to me.

Speaker 10 (01:45:27):
That's a good answer. It's uh.

Speaker 1 (01:45:30):
The mass must you, and we have a winner over
here who did not actually play, but she actually played
and beat both of us, so in fact, that was
a terrible category for me.

Speaker 11 (01:45:46):
I just want to have that.

Speaker 2 (01:45:49):
I know we're going to end on that note.

Speaker 1 (01:45:52):
We'll be back tomorrow. All the KA sports coming up next.
Sick Ferguson's already here. He's probably gonna exchange a cake
while he's here. I just heard that story today, Nick,
that was fan tactic. We'll be back tomorrow.